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GRANTING OF CROP
PRODUCTION LOANS
BEGAN PAST WEEK
North Carolina Farmers
T o Receive Approxi
mately Two And One
Half Million Dollars
Through Growers Agri
cultural Credit Corpo
ration.
CORPORATION NOW
IN SECOND YEAR
OF ITS SERVICE
Present Paid In Capital Is
Around $12 5,000; Will
Probably Be Increased
Before Next Year.
According to J. F. Diggs, general
manager of the Growers Agricultural
Credit Corporation, approximately S2,
500,000 will be available to Norrh
Carolina farmers as crop production
' loans this season.
The loans are to be secured by first
liens on cotton, peanuts or tobacco.
Chattel mortgages on cattle will -also
be accepted. The loans will be made
for nine months and the maximum for
any individual will be $20,000.
All applications for loans should
first be submitted to and approved
by the county group after which they
will be sent to Raleigh for final ap
proval.
This is the second year the corpora
tion has served the farmers. It will dis
count its paper at the Federal Inter
mediate Bank at Columbia, S. C., and
in this way hopes to have ivailable
around $2,000,000 to $2,500,000 to
state farmers. The present paid in cap
ital is around $125,000 but this will
probably be increased before the year
is over.
Mr. Diggs stated that the farmers
are worse off financially and need
production credit worse than ever be
fore as banks are being slow in ad
vancing agricultural loans.
DECREASE NOTED
IN “GIN-CUT” AND
“TWO-SIDED” BALES
Raleigh—'Not only was North Car
olina cotton of better grade and long
er staple this past season than in the
year preceding, but there was also a
noticeable decrease in the number of
"gin-cut” and "two-sided” bales.
Benbury Haywood, head classer of
the North Carolina Cotton Growers
Cooperative Association, said that
where last summer the association re
worked 2,500 "gin-cut” and "two
sided” bales for its members it will
have considerably less- of this type to
re-work this season.
Mr. Haywood, who has been with
the association for nine years, attri
buted this decrease in "gin-cut” and
"two-sided” cotton to the use of bet
ter seed, the dry season last year and
the increased care farmers are taking
in ginning. "Gin-cut” staple may re
sult from ginning the cotton when it
is too wet or from improper operation
of the gin. "Two-sided” bales may re
sult from use of different varieties of
seed or from allowing cotton of one
variety to follow that of another with
out first cleaning the gin.
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BARBER GRANGE
NEWS
Barber Grange held its regular meet
ing Thursday night, March 17. The
meeting was well attended. Mr. W. G.
Yeager, farm agent, and Mr. J. H.
Barringer, deputy state master, were
visitors.
The Juvenile Grange gave the Lit
erary program. The topic was Spring
time and Easter. Ruth Watson, a Ju
venile member, was leader of the pro
gram. Miss Kathryn Thompson is ma
tron of the Juvenile Grange.
The quarterly meeting of the Row
an County. Pomona Grange will be
held with Barber Grange, March 30.
At this time the fifth degree will be
given by the degree team of Union
Grange. A large class of initiates is ex
pected.
Her Father—So you want to mar
ry my daughter, eh? Well, my answer
depends upon your financial position.
Suitor—What a coincidence—my fi
nancial position depends upon your an
swer!
Match King Dies
Ivar Krueger, head of the Swedish
match trust and reputed one of the
world’s wealthiest men, killed himself
after financial losses and failure to get
a loan from New York bankers.
(This column published weekly in the
interest of the Ex-service men of
Rowan County).
The headlines of the world’s great
daily papers have had a startling re
semblance to those same headlines that
flashed before the eyes of all nations
in 1914, these past few days. Once
again a world power is abrogating her
solemn treaties, and defying the bal
ance of the world to take any steps
to resent those actions. The only dif
ference is, China, in spite of her vast
population, tremendous resources, and
the indisputable fact that she has right
an her side, merely fights a defensive
action, and has not declared war as
lid little Belgium and mighty France.
Meither has Japan declared war, such
declaration would be a futile gesture
ander the circumstances, and might,
1 say might, cause the rest of the world
to intervene, however reluctantly.
From the vast silence that hangs over
the disarmament conference, the
League of Nations and the diplomat
ic centers of the world, one is lead to
believe that in the absence of a decla
ration of war, those mighty statesmen
don’t believe there is a war. And per
haps there isn’t, but those dead Chin
ese men and women, and little chil
dren, are just as dead as they would
be were war formally declared. And
we have a hunch that those beaten and
bruised diplomats of America, and
those teachers, could not be told that
war did not exist, with safety, we
fear the diplomats would forget to be
diplomatic, the teachers would not be
so meek.
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a XV vv v y Cl ) uicic LO V-T11V UU^IR
on a black horizon for America and
Americans. Our noble Congress hesi
tates to blythely vote to scrap a few
more ships, junk a few more guns, and
fire a few thousand soldiers and sail
ors to swell the throng of unemploy
ed. If the situation has actually caus
ed those august solons to think, it has
done a day’s work, heretofore they
have merely listened to the blandish
ments of those fools and reformers
who control the votes. Being beyond
redemption, and past the point in life
where I desire to live fdrever, I have
nothing against reformers personally.
But it does seem a bit highhanded for
aged imbeciles to place a mortgage on
the lives of unborn infants, sell the
bodies of the juvenile generation now
wearing rompers, to salve an ego that
bursts with the desire to become world
famous. Germany’s population was
well nigh exterminated because of an
ego that avowed the intention to rule j
the world. Americans bids fair to be
exterminated because of an avowed de
sire to establish an Elyseium where
only chaos exists. Perhaps though, if
some solon has actually had a thought,
the inevitable will be postponed long
enough for we who were sold, to reach
the age limit that will allow us to
draw twenty dollars a day, walking
around with a saw and hammer, build
ing measle and menengitis incubators
for those who have yet to be sold.
You Polar Bears will naturally won
der if Russia, really is mobilizing on
the Manchurian border, so do we, but
only Stalin knows, and if so why, it
is difficult to believe that the Bol
shie really desire any of what Japan
has to give them, but one never can
tell, stranger things have happened,
and Russia, after all, may shame the
rest of the so-called civilized world.
No, gentle reader, we are not advo
cating war, but, we are color blind
when it comes to human beings, and
we do love a good scrap.
The Lance Corporal.
LABOR NEWS
By
F. T. CORNELIUS, Secretary
Salisbury-Spencer Central Labor Union
Collapse of Voluntary Relief
The Employment Committee of the
District of Columbia voted 23 to 8
last week to ask Congress-for public
funds to continue unemployment re
lief. The collapse of private charity as
a cure for present distress could not
have a better illustration.
Uncle Sam is the chief employer in
Washington. That makes unemploy
ment small in the Capitol compared
to what it is in industrial cities; for
in spite of drives for economy govern
ment workers have not had their wag
es cut, but those workers were dra
gooned in merciless fashion to contri
bute to charitable relief. Word was
passed that the Federal employes who
did not contribute three days pay to
the Community Chest would find pro
motion slow and working conditions
unpleasant.
Employes of at least $ome of the big
corporations in Washington were as
sessed in the same fashion. Washing
ton was to show the country that a
Government dole was not necessary,
but the expected contributions from
the rich did not come and unemploy
ment, though mild compared to what
it is in some places rose to unlooked
for proportions. We are dickering with
the lives of men and women declared
an outspoken clergy; and the Com
mittee voted for public relief. Two
thirds of the country needs public
funds even worse than Washington
does. Will people be allowed to starve
or will the Costigan-LaFollette l ill he
revived that the Federal Government
may do its duty by its people?
Not Endorsed
In response to numerous inquiries
as to the validity of the claim that the
"Railroad Employes National Pension
Association” had the endorsement of
some of the Standard Railway Labor
Organizations, the following letter un
der date of March 1st, 1932, and now
in possession of a local Labor Union is
quoted as information:
"This will acknowledge receipt of
your letter of February 26th, received
here the 29th, to which you attach
copy of the Railway Pension Review.
Note you ask if this organization has
the endorsement of any of the twenty -
one Standard Railway Organizations.
"In reply wish to advise the Rail
way Labor Executives Association
composed of the twenty-one Standard
Railway Organization Executives, has
taken action as a body urging the
membership of the organizations to re
frain from affiliating with this Pen
sion Plan Association. Trusting this
is the information desired, I am, with
best wishes
(Signed) "B. M. Jewell, President
"Railways Employees Department.”
Mistakes
Mistakes are dangerous when they
become habits. It is a mistake to spend
money earned under union conditions
for non-union labor or its products.
Demand the label, card and button.
Return From Washington
A committee composed of D. J.
Butler, Vice President of the State
Federation of Labor, G. V. Kite, Sec
retary-Treasurer State Federation of
Labor, and C. A. Fink, President of
the State Federation of Labor, has re
turned from a conference held in
Washington with President William
Green of the American Federation of
Labor. This committee reports a very
successful meeting the results of which
are expected to be of great value to
the workers of this State.
Changed Policy
Notice has been received that the
Hamilton-Carhartt Company of De
troit, Michigan; Dallas, Texas; Atlan
Oiow to play Bridge
AUCTION w
CONTRACT
hy Wynne Ferguson
Author of "PRAOricAi. auction diudos* *1 •
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Copyright, 1931, by Hoyle, Jr.
ARTICLE No. 10
Contract, as the name implies, allows
the player to score towards game only
the number of tricks he has bid. For
example, if a player bids two spades
and makes four, he can only score two,
the number bid, and the remaining
two tricks are scored in his honor
column at 50 per trick. This rule makes
it necessary for players to bid for game
on every hand, whether their opponents
overbid or not, provided, of course,
these hands warrant a try for game.
As a result, there are no “dead”
hands at Contract where one player,
for example, bids one heart and all pass
as occurs very frequently at Auction.
When one side holds all the cards there
is bound to be plenty of action whether
opponents bid or not. The lucky side
must bid for game if they want it and
once they feel sure of game, they have
the still further incentive of trying for
“slams.” At Contract a little slam, if
bid and made, scores 500 points if not
vulnerable and 750 points if vulnerable
and a big slam, if bid and made, scores
1000 points if not vulnerable and 1500
points if vulnerable. As a result of these
large premiums, the effort to bid and
make slams offers one of the exciting
features of Contract.
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Ill Lllc icguidi ^amc ui nutuuu /uu
may take a chance now and then with
a weak bid. It costs very little but in
Contract you’ll find it very expensive.
For instance, in Contract you bid one
no trump with just an ordinary thin
no trumper. What will happen? If
second hand passes, your partner may
have good help for a good no trumper.
Your partner will of course bid you up;
he may be justified in bidding three
no trumps. Think of the wallop you’ll
get if it’s doubled. You have no place
to go, and oh, boy, wallops in Contract
count heavily against you.
It’s the ambition of all Auction and
Contract players to become experts,
but it is really surprising how little real
work they are willing to do to accom
plish this result. There are probably
ten million people in the country today
who play Auction or Contract and yet
not five per cent of them ever buy a
book on either game and, if they do, it
usually is placed carefully in the book
case and never opened.
But if you will not read a book on
the game, you will derive much benefit
from a study of the various bands that
are analyzed in these articles and, if
you keep at it, you are bound to im
prove your game; and if you learn to
play a little better than your associates,
you will win, even without the aCes
and kings. As one player described the
game of a well-known expert: “The
boy certainly knows how to play ’em.
He doesn’t get much to work with, but
he can sure make sevens and eights
act like kings and queens.”
We cannot all be experts but we can
certainly improve our game; and one
of the best ways to do so is to study
over the analysis of the test hands
given in these articles. Every one of
such hands will bring up points of play
or bidding that, if properly understood,
will be invaluable. These hands have
all been submitted to the writer for
analysis and came up in actual play.
Study them over and make up your
mind as to the correct bid or play in
each instance. When the analysis is
given, compare your opinion with the
writer’s and, if there is any difference,
think it over and then adapt yourself
and your game accordingly. Handled
in this way, test hands will prove
invaluable.
There is one point in the play of a
hand that some of the good players
don’t always follow, and yet is gener
ally a consistent winner. When the
declarer has won the declaration at a
suit and you have four or more trumps,
open your long suit. With four or more
trumps, there is always a possibility of
being able to estabish your long suit
and break up the declarer's hand by
forcing him to trump your established
suit. For example, hearts are trumps
and your holding is as follows:
Hearts — Q, 9, 6, 5
Clubs — A, K, 7, 6, 5
Diamonds — Q, 6, 2
Spades — 10
With such a hand, it is much better
to open the club suit than to lead the
singleton spade. Suppose you have bid
clubs and your partner has supported
the bid. You lead the suit and the
declarer is forced to trump. Even if
he has six hearts, he can only lead two
rounds of trumps. If he leads three
rounds, you can win the third round
with the queen and force him to trump
again.
Then it takes his last trump to draw
yours and, if your partner can take a
trick in the other suits, the declarer
cannot score game. If the declarer has
only five trumps but great strength in
your singleton suit, the lead of your
strong suit would beat him, but the
lead of your singleton up to his strong
suit would give him an advantage that
would enable him to score game. The
singleton lead is always a gamble and
is seldom a winning play, unless holding
three trumps. With a strong suit and
four trumps, the long suit lead is much
the better. Watch this play and, when
you understand the theory of it, you
will be a much better player.
Problem
Hearts — A, 7, 6, 5
Clubs — A, Q, 10
Diamonds — K, 5
Spades—none
Hearts — K, Q, J, 10, 9 -Hearts — 4, 3
Clubs — K, J, 9 : Y : Clubs —none
Diamonds — none : A B : Diamonds — Q, 10,9,8,7,0
Spades — 9 : Z : Spades —10
Hearts — 2
Clubs— 5, 4, 3, 2
Diamonds — J, 3
Spades — J, 8
If spades are trumps and Z is in the lead, how can Y Z win eight of the nine
tricks against any defense?
Solution in the next article.
Here’s Action!
Parker Shelby, Los Angeles athlete, snapped just as he touched the bar at
16 feet 6 inches. He cleared it at that height the next tr"
ta, Georgia, and Irvin, Kentucky, has
decided effective March 1st, 1932,
to discontinue contractual relations
with its employees and operate its sev
eral plants on a non-union basis at cut
rate wages.
. This decision of this firm comes af
ter many years of successful co-op
erative effort upon which credit must
be given to the thousands of workers
who made this success possible by the
purchase of these products in recogni
tion of the fair policies in dealing
with its employees. The labor move
ment of this vicinity will receive this
information with regret and with the
hope that matters may be adjusted, but
on the other hand will insist that if
our former patronage is expected that
the former policy of this company
must be continued.
-PATTERSON ITEMS:
Patterson Grange met Saturday
night at the Grange hall with a large
crowd in attendance. The refreshment
committee served ice cream, which
was enjoyed by all present.
We are sorry to learn of the death
of Mr. Adolphus Overcash, who has
been ill for several months.
The men of Thyatira Presbyterian
church met Monday and seeded the
cemetery in blue grass.
Ren. C. R. Patterson of St. Mark,
E. L. church, China Grove, preached
at Grace E. L. church last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Harrison of
Mill Bridge are receiving congratula
tions upon the arrival of a son.
We are sorry to learn of the death
of the mother of Mr. C. R. Bost, Mrs.
Jane Bost of Concordia.
ST. PAULS ITEMS
There will be an Easter pageant
given at St. Pauls church Easter Sun
day night at 7:30. The public is wel
come.
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Goodman wish
to announce the birth of a daughter
March 12.
Mr. and Mrs. Charley Yost also
wish to announce the birth of a daugh
ter March 3.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Goodman, Mr.
and Mrs. S. H. Goodman, Mrs. Mary
L. Goodman and Mr. Will Patterson
were visitors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Goodman Sunday, March
20ch.
FARMER KILLS SELF
Charlotte—For the second time
within three days the waters of West
Lake pond claimed a victim in suicide.
Robert E. Todd, 73-year-old retired
farmer, took his life by jumping into
the lake and drowning. F. B. Smith,
a hardware merchant, drowned him
self there Wednesday.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE!
Motorcycles Now Employed Many Important Jobs
(Above) New Motorcycles for Oak
land, Cal., Police. (Below) Pennsyl
vania’s Motorcycle Honor Guard.
Fast Machines Necessary
In City Police Work
By J. Alexander Young
AS our traffic gets faster and faster
and our millions of cars become
still more numerous, the motorcycle
becomes more important and its
place in our automotive picture
more definite.
On account of its tremendous
economy, its uncanny maneuverabil
ity, its speed and its long life despite
abuse, prominent motoring and po
lice officials are stating publicly that
nothing can take the place of the
fast two-wheeled vehicle for traffic,
police work, service station opera
tion in the pick-up and delivery of
customers’ cars and in certain phases
of military work.
According to officials of the Indi
an Motocycle Company, the leading
producers of moforcycles, from
whom I requested facts and figures,
these statements are amply borne
out by the presence on our highways
of approximately 20,000 police and
military motorcycles and 35,000
commercial machines.
There are also about 90,000 sport
rider? in the United States and 100
motorcycle polo teams, the Indian peo
ple tell me.
. Captain Wilson C. Price, Congres
sional Medal of Honor man, and
superintendent of the Pennsylvania
Highway Patrol, one of the most
efficient police organizations in the
world, which uses 250 Indians and in
1930 made more, than 34,000 arrests,
has some definite ideas about the
utility of the motorcycle. He told
me recently:
“The. most logical combination
for police patrol is a motorcycle and
a trained policeman. The motor
cycle because of its small size, mo
bility, high speed for emergencies
and low cost of upkeep.
‘Yes,. I mean motorcycles for
patrol m crowded cities, big and
little, as well as state highways. One
trouble with large cities is they have
too many policemen. One motor
cycle officer can do the work of at
least five foot policemen and show
better results. The only work a
dismounted uniformed policeman
should do in a big city is traffic duty
at crowded intersections.
“A motorcycle policeman chasing
a bandit car should not shoot at it
in city streets, not while he is in mo
tion. He should follow the car at a
safe distance, blowing his siren con
tinually to attract attention to his
quarry, never losing sight of it Cap
ture is inevitable.”
Although it is true that motorcycle
officers sometimes pursue a car to the
outskirts of a large city without
shooting at it, on the other hand
there are countless heroic episodes
involving expert marksmanship and
riding ability by motorcycle officers,
where bandits come to a halt by ef
fective shots into gas tanks, tires
or other vital parts of the car, which
have disabled it, enabling the motor
cycle officer to ride up alongside and
hold the occupants at bay.
One of the reasons why the par
ticular motorcycle mentioned above
is used by Pennsylvania State High
way Patrol is that it has left-hand
throttle control as standard equip
ment, enabling the officer to control
the speed of his mount with the left
hand, while signalling or using his
gun with the right hand.