50 Million Words
Written In Co-Op’s
7 Essay Contests
Raleigh—An imprinted sympo
sium of 50,000-000 words on farm
problems by 25,000 different writ
ers has resulted from the annual
essay contest which the North
Carolina Cotton Growers Coopera
tive Association inaugurated seven
years ago among high school boys
and girls in North Carolina.
For. as M« -G. ;Mann, secretary
treasurer. of the cooperative, will
tell you, entries in thd contest this
year will bring to more than 25,
000 the number of boys and girls
who have actually written essays
since the contest was started in
1928.
The essays average 2,000 words
each and, printed in book form,
the 2 5,000 essays would fill 625
average-sized volumes of 204 pages
each.
Nor all. but a large number of
these essays, are now packed away
in the offices of the cotton asso
ciation, a tangible challenge to any
accusation that the boy and girl
of today is not keenly interested in
timely farm problems.
And the subjects of the assay
contests have always been timely.
In 1930, for instance, more than
2.000 boys and girls wrote on
' How Can the Benefits of the
Agricultural Marketing Act be
Brought to the Farmer.”
This year the subject is "Educa-J
tion and Cooperation in the New
Deal for Agriculture’?—a subject
just as timely as the marketing act
was in 1930.
Other subjects have been: "Co- i
operative Marketing as it Affdcts
the Farmer.” "Cotton Cooperative ,
Marketing in North Carolina—Its i
Progress and Its Future,” "Cotton ;
Production in North, Carolina— i
How to Make it Profitable.” and
"Rural North Carolina’s Greatest j
Need.” <
Prizes are offered in the contest j
to stimulate interest. The State i
prize is a one-year college tuition (
scholarship. Smaller prizes are ;
given in county and district con
tests, thesd usually being donated <
by civic clubs and business men ;
who are interested in the farmer’s ,
welfare. i
Past winners of the contest are: t
Ruth Brown, Anson County, 1928; s
Howard Lee, Harnett County, <
1929; Hannah Heptinstall, Halifax i
County, 1950; Elizabeth Barring
ton, Wake County, 1951; John
Ousleiy, Harnett . County, 1952;
and GecalcK E. Motley, Harnett
County, 1933
"The success of the contest has
been possible through the coopera
tion of school authorities and the
newspapers of the State, said Mr.
Man, who has been in charge of the
contest since its beginning.
Repeal Brings
New Etiquette
New Y o r k—Etiquette h a s
changed completely since! repeal, j
That is the opinion of the authori
ties.
Lillian Eichler, author of a book;
on etiquettq that has sold more
than a million copies, is rewriting
it completely for republication be
cause th<2 old edition didn t touch
cn problems incidental to drinking.
Other etiquette authors, with the
expapion of Alice Leone-Moats,
are doing likewise. Alice antici
pated repeal and described 10 so
cially correct ways for young wom
en to handle young men who get
tight.
Ono of the things the new books
on etiqueitte will provide is a list
of excuses for not drinking. It
seems that there are persons who
don’t and pdrsons who are insist
ent that they do.
Etiquette has to cope with mod
ernism. Other subjects the eti
quette authors are taking into ac
coua in their revisions ar^ a'r'
plane travel and radio listening.
They’ve had numerous requests
from persons who want to know
how to get excused from a social
i affair long enough to listen to a
j favorite program.
MUST DIE
Lorance Brown, negro, of Marion,
about 3 8, was sentenced by Judge
Finley in McDowell county Superior
court to death in the electric chair
at state’s prison, Raleigh, Thursday,
August 2, 1934. Brown was tried
before a McDowell county jury
on a charge of murdering Emma
Carroll negro, at her home on the
airport road at the edge of Marion
on the night of April 4, 1934, and
was found guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Mountaineer In Quaint
Note Asks F.D.R.’s Aid
Political expediency and fait
play demand that in return for
political support the President of
the United States must look after
the family and financial affairs of
the voter, believes a 70-year-old
Haywood county farmer and father
of five children too small to work.
The North Carolina mountain
eer is going to have his needs
met as a result of writing a .direct
appeal to President Roosevelt for
aid. The letter, written crudely
but with the' purest examples of
Anglo-Saxon idioms, has been sent
by the White House to Mrs.
Thomas O’Berry of Raleigh, state
FERA administrator, for investi
gation and the filling of the needs
of the aged mountaineer.
The President’s correspondent
gave a country store at Clyde,
Haywood county, as his address.
The letter was addressed to "Mr.
R. D. Roosevelt.” It follows in
full:
"I thought I would call your
tinson to this in your reconds, I
hope you all I' could an gain you
lots of votes, an you could not get
them if it havent been for me, and
still reaim to you an do all I can
if you Run again, say I am gettin
old 70 years old an cain work much
But do all I can I am needin help
as l am old. so if it is your Honor
do so an write me at once I got 5
kids an arni Big miff to help me
an no income no other way so do
all you can for me an I will rember
you if you Run again.
"I got my Bread to Buy ain
got much away Buying it look for
a ansor Real soon,'”
And through the President’s in
terest and sympathy, the North
Carolina mountaineer will receive
an answer real soon, an answer in
the form of practical help with his
family burdens and financial trou
bles. ,
Ads Are Called
Trade Sjunbol
New York — Edgar Kobak.,
president of the Advertising Fed
eration of America, said much ol
the criticism of the advertising
business "is really directed against
our social system and advertising
gets the brunt of it because it hap
pens to be one of the most obvious
of modern American business.”
Addressing the annual meeting
of the federation, Kobak. a vice
president of the National Broad
casting company, said all fair-mind
ed advertising men and 'women
agree that there is much in adver
tising that can stand criticism, xxx
"However,” he continued, "the
professional critics x x x do not
confine their criticisms to actual
faults in advertising- They attack
the whole thing with violence and
cry out for the total abolition of
advertising in all its forms.”
Kobak said "we cannot close our
:yes to the fact that there is some
advertising which is so off color
sve must be the first to condemn
it. My estimate is that -not more
than S per cent of all types of pre
;ent-dav advertising seems to be
abjectionable in any way and me
rits* the criticism which Is now be
ing directed indiscriminately at all
advertising, x x x It is up to us to
do something about it, not to please
the critics but to protect the use
fulness of advertising.”
This "usefulness,” mentioned by
jKobak, found its echo in a letter of
'greeting to the advertising men
from President Roosevelt.
The President wrote:
"There are few groups which
can accept and fulfill the respon
sibility of properly educating the
public as well as the advetising
fraternity. You have rendered con
spicuous service thus far in present
ing sound interpreatio’ns of the pur
poses and objectives of the recovery
program..”
I The President recalled that in ar
adddess to the federation three year
!ago, he cited the importance of ad
Ivertising in publicising the func
tons of government addng:
j "The drastic economy and socia
i emergency required an unprece
dented degree of govenmental ac
tion and participation in function
not normally vested in the govern
ment.”
I_
RULERS CONFER
j Chancellor Adolph Hitler of
Germany and Premier Mussolini of
Italy. Europe’s most colorful lead
ers, have held a two-day confer
ence in Venice which may take an
iimportant place in world history.
'As a result of the "conversations,”
jit is expected that Germany will
j be invited to join the Italo-Austro
- Hungarian economic accord. As
| to disarmament, Hitler, it was re
ported, remained firm on what he
considers equal treatment.
»
The old Indians may have been
very barbarous, but they never
celebrated their victories by burn
ling up their building and putting
their children’s eyvJje out, same as
Jthe American people have many
j times dond on July Fourth.
Gorgeous Finery of a Queen of
5,000 Years Ago. What Queen
Shub-Ad of Ancient Ur of the
, Chaldees Looked Like and How
i She Dressed Revealed in a Page
of Colored Reproduction in The
i American Weekly, the Magazine
Which Corns On June 24 With
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The new system of making left
turns, which has recently been put
into practice on the Square, bids
fair to expedite traffic consider
ably :if understood by all drivers.
The method is very simple, just
follow the arrow and white line
"which points in the direction which
you desire to go, keeping, of course,
on -your right side of the line.
This eliminates the necessity of
cars, turning left at the same time,
going around each other in the
center of the square and possibly
having to ‘wait for each other. So
from now on just disregard the
'button in the center of the square
when making left turns and follow
the arrows.
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! When you drive a car. practice
has taught you to always, keep to
the right in traffic. How many
■of ns have given the same consid
eration to the way we walk. In
our larger cities where pedestrian
traffic Is very congested, especial
ly during those times of the day
when employees are returning to
(their homes from their work, we
I find that, even though the crowds
are possibly dozens of times denser
■ than the people on our own Main
Street, movement is much easier
and quicker when walking. This
is due to the fact that the same
rule is practiced by the pedestrians
as when drivirig. The people on
the right half of the sidewalk all
move together in the same direction
and in that manner avoid confus
on. It may sound rather ambigu
ous but it is our opinion that this
policy could well be followed here
on some nights when the sidewalks
are crowded and a pedestrian has to
traverse the equivalent of about
i three blocks in order to get from
jlnnes to Fisher on Main.
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It is well for us to remember
when driving on Main Street when
traffic is heavy that the street car
can only run on that one track and
is unable to run around any autos
it meets on the rails. For the past
several Saturday nights the cars
have been compelled to fall short
several schedules during the course
’ of the evening, so let us all cooper -
. ate in this respect and keep the car
line clear.
The politicians no longer engage
1 in fist fights, but call each other
[ liars and thieves in a gentlemanly
. way.
.1 The World war was fought to
. end war, but it hasn’t ended much
of anything but peace so far.
Black-Draught For
Dizziness, Headache
Due To Constipation
“I have used Thedford’s Black
Draught several years and find
it splendid,” writes Mr. G. W. Hol
ley, of St. Paul, Va. "I take it for
dizziness or headache (due to con
stipation). I have never found
anything better. A short while
ago, we began giving our children
Syrup of Black-Draught as a laxa
tive for colds and little stomach
ailments, and have found it very
satisfactory.” ... Millions of pack
ages of Thedford’s Black-Draught
are required to satisfy the demand
for this popular, old reliable, purely
vegetable laxative. 251 a package.
-Children like the Syrup.”
Milling Engineers
Pay Visit To The
Piedmont Section
There seems to be a genuine
probability that his section will ex
perience a revival of mining activi
ties, and on a profitable basis at
that. The mine development con
ference committee of which E. W,
Stevens and J. J. Hedrick, Lexing
ton, B. V. Hedrick, of Salisbury,
and others are members is optimis
tic over prospects for a modern re
duction plant. Geological survey
engineers are combing Piedmotnt
workings, and the Stanly News and
Press of Albemarle, hears that pri
vately employed mining engineers
are also working in the region,
stating in a recent issue that:
"Gold mining activities in Stan
ly, Rowan, Davidson and Mont
gomery counties are attracting the
attention of some of the most pro
minent mining engineers in the
United States, as well as mining
agents of the government, accord
ing to W. L. Cotton, prominently
connected with mines in this ter
ntory. During the past tew days
three engineers from New York,
one from Charleston, S. C., and
two government surveyors have
called upon Mr. Cotton here rela
tive to their findings at the Silver
Hill mine in Davidson county, and
the Gold Hill property in Rowan.
"The Rich Cog mine in Mont
gomery county, abandoned some
years ago, is now being pumpec
out, and new owners have signifiec
their intention of working th<
mine, believing that the quality oi
the ore denotes gold in paying
quantities with modern minim
machinery.
"The Thompson mine, a gooc
producer, located near the Swifi
Island bridge in this county, wil
start up again this week after ;
lay-off of a few weeks.
" 'New machinery and method,
said Mr. Cotton, 'have revolution
ixed the mining of gold. Ore thai
formerly could not be worked at :
profit now yields good returns, anc
the prospect is good for the re
—
General Purpose
Loans Now <
Lead List
Columbia, S. C.,—Farmers of
Alexander, Catawba, Iredell and
Rowan Counties borrowfed a total
of $65,310 from January 1 to June
1 through the Statesville Prod
uction Credit Association, accord
ing to released by the F-’-rn C-J4it
Administration of Columbia. The
loans were made to a' total of 596
farmers, the average loan being
$109.58.
In the four states served by the
Farm Credit Administration of
Columbia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Floria, over
$7,000,000 was borrowed by 28,
120 farmers. An additional $450,
000 is being advanced to farmers
jwho are obtaining their loans in a
[series of installments during the
season
| The spring seasonal demand for
crop production loans has now pas
sed its peak and a larger proportion
of the farmers borrowing from the
[associations are obtaining loans for
[general agricultural purposes, such
as for purchasing work-stock, eq
uipment and machinery, and for
financing repairs and improve
ments. This trend towards general
'purpose loans is reflected in the
gradual increase in the size of the
1 average loan.
Farmers borrowing -from thes<$
'newly organized, short-term credit
| institutions partis^y owned and
[operated by the borrowers, are ef
fecting a considerable saving on
interest charges, which are now at
thi^ rate of 5 per cent a year, charg
ed on an annual basis and collected
at maturity of the loan. Thus, a
farmer borrowing $500 for a year
would pay $25 interest on a loan
opening of many mines which have
been closed down, some of them
for many years. Ther is plenty of
gold in these counties—plenty in
: Stanly county, and I believe that
eventually mining will be one of
our most productive and profitable
industries.’
Bill Cummings
Plans Active
Racing Season
Fresh from his victory in "the
500’’ at thi^ Indianapolis Speedway,
Bill Cummings is already busy with
plans for carrying out a strenuous
program of racing for the balance
of the season at the various tracks.
For nothing dims ardor of this
youthful veteran for the motor
racing game!
Discussing his victory after the
race, Cummings said, "thirty three
drivers started the Indianapolis
Classic this year—scording the
bricks over that 2 1-2 mile track.
For 200 grueling laps—nearly 5
hours of it—we kept up the blis
tering pace!. I had to average 104.
863 miles an hour, the new world’ls
record for ’the 500’—sometimes
hitting it up to over 2 miles a
min'utd—to win. 4 hours and 46
mintues of this wrings the vitali
ty out of a man and you can bet
that I felt prety well played out at
the end of the racd.”
Cummings’ first request aftefl
the race was for a Camel. "Any
time I’m ’all in’,” h* explained, I
"Camels give me a ’liftf in energy.
I smoke them steadily.”
i In view of thq known prefer
ence for Camels of champions in
various fields of sport, such as
Cummings, Ellsworth Vines, Jr.,
Bill Horn, winner of the Gold Cup
Speedboat event, Miss Helene Ma
dison, Olympic champion swimmer
and holder of many world swim
ming records, and others whose
endurance and energy is constan
cy tasted to the limit, Camel ad
vertising now stresses the "energ
izing effect” in Camels which ras
baan experiencd by millions of
smokers, and recently confirmed
by scientific studies carried out in
a famous New York research lab
oratory.
for 12 months, while a farmer bor
rowing thie same amount for six
months would pay only $12.SO in
terest, or if the loan was for three
months, $6.25.
NOTICE OF SALE OF VALU
ABLE PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of an order
of the Superior Court of Rowan
County, made in a special proceed
ing entitled 'E. L. Weber, admin
istrator of Pearl V. Canup, vs. Rox
ie V- Canup, John Canup, et aiv”,
the undersigned Commissioner will
sell on Saturday, July 21, 1934. at
12:00 o’clock Noon, at the Court
House door in Salisbury, N. C., to
the highest bidder, the following
described real estate lying and be
ing in the Town of East Spencer,
N. C. and more particularly des
cribed as follows:
(1st) BEGINNING at a stake
on the S. Street,
Harris corner, and runs North 56
deg, 45’ East with Railroad Street,
5 0 feet to a stake, corner of Lot
No. 20; thence with the line of
Lot No. 20, South 32 deg. 15’ East
170 feet to a stake on an alley,
corner to Lot No. 20; thence with
the alley. South 5 6 deg. 45 West
50 fet to a stake on the alley. Har
ris corner; thence with Harris Line
North 32 deg. 15’ West, 170 feet
to the BEGINNING, and being
Lot No. 19 on the A. S. Heilig and
Company Plat of the Verble Land
in the Town of East Spencer. For
back title see Deed Book No. 191,
page 599, in the Register of Deed’s
office for Rowan County.
(2nd) BEGINNING at the
corner of Lot No. 19, on the S. E.
side of Railroad Avenue and runs
thence, with said Avenue, North
50 deg. 45’ East, 50 feet to the
corner of Henderson’s Lot No. 21;
thence with the line of Lot No. 21,
South 32 deg. 15’ East, 170 feet to
an alley; thence with the alley.
South 50 deg. 45’ West, 50 feet to
the corner of Faggot's Lot No. 19;
thence with the line of Lot No. 19,
North 32 deg. 15’ West, 170 feet
to the BEGINNING, and being
Lot No. 20 on Heilig’s Plat of the
Verble Land in East Spencer. For
back title to both of the tracts of
land, see Deed Book No. 199, page
371, in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Rowan County.
Terms of sale: CASH.
This, the 21st day of June, 1934.
W. T. BURJ^E, Commissioner.
Geo. R. Uzzelf, Attorney.
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