THE NEWS AND OBSERVER.
SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 20. 1919-
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quently it i worked under the guise of morality
and piety.
A DOl BLK-ACTING TElBl'Tfe
Taa oaajreosin! daleapUaa that went 4o
big employer of lutior, and lb mere hand m
ployed the freiter th induatrial dispute.
fTSnulrtoirto tf"T dy-4h-f.teri antUiu,jto,
pand, and to take 0f n ever increasing number
of bands. It 1 natural therefor that th dis
agreement between employer and employe is more
frequent than i 4 h older day. But a, com
pared with th Korth tad Xew England ir are
proposition, wa ompead by number of big
military men, among 4b number General. Billiard,,
who broughfr iaek frwmr IVanre a commendable
uaaaixr f taw. Duriag th iaformat barbecue
dinner give at Loagtrt, ia the caxap bounaUry
Gen am I Bulla! wa asked tow a word to the
people who had guthored to diaeosa th camp ques-
lion. lie wa brief ahout it, but he took the time
to (ay that bit father was a Robeson county man
and he waa therefor interested in North Caro
lina, and that a far a making a lucres iu France
was coaeeraed, a remarked by th waster of eere-
onies, he had simply helped in accomplishing a
task that had been mad possible by the backing
lh boys hail give him th boy from North
Carolina, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and alt over
lie country.
It waa a cordial tribute thai Oencral BullarJ
paid to the boy, and one of them Prank Blue-
just home from Germany a few day, took ocea-J
sioa to tell General Buliard there ea the ground
that be was on of the boy who had followed him
for mouths at Chateau-Thierry, in the Argonne
md elsewhere, and that he appreciated that al
lusion to the boys, but that th boy followed
because thy had leader who wa worth fol-
owing.
But the One feature about it! all wa that Genernl
Buliard is a man o brg that he realize that the
soldier wa a rector, ana mat no matter now awe
he commander unless he has the material to com
nand his rase i hopeleu.
It is a pleasure to kaow tbat thi commander
one fro North Carolina atock, and that the
urth Carolina toek play fair in placing the
recognition of every man who took a hand In the
job. You ean t beat that kind of a combination.
Uf JCLE WALT MASON
TAXES.
lTeW 8am' a alirk a wai, and ae's la a claa
alone; when he aaka me for my taiea, I dig ap
without a groan; oh, I dig th hayl-earned money
pit It in a aark of gnnny, aad with amlle serene
and aunny, carry him th back aad boo. Aad
I'd da it st ill mure gayly If a did at wast It sa
aopl tell me, hourly, dally, that, our Vacle barn
Ike dough; he blows in the p'reclea roabla Ilk
a drunkard blowing bubbles, caring Utile) for the
troubles that their earning md u knew. It I
wrong, O t'nele Sammy, all our struggle to fur-
get; for th dollar, cold and clammy, w have
earaed in toll and aweat; you ar welcome, whoa
yea need em, la tk sacred cause of freedom, bat
yen really shouldn't feed 'em to the cows, already
yet. W bar earaed litem at the large, we have
earaed them altcblag bay; w have earaed Ike
digging corse la th hard, anyieldlag elayi w
kav erad Ibaai digging 'later, wo kav earned
theaa ateering freighters, and it ara a te oar
gaiters when you throw th arads away. Uncle, let
there be an ending to the carnival of waste; quit
tkte jamboree of spending, quit II all, with aeemly
haete; save fb taae and Ik wgee, e Iket o
the shining pages of the work of future sages,
year redemption mayb traced.
General Tershing is now officially returned from
France and ready to start sawing wood at the old
file.
Senator WaiUworth cnwplnln of the fighting In
i-uropi-. Well why no,t tlwlur p.ir and oe
what the League of Nation can do to e ; op the
rtusf
Wilson say America' one vot is us powerful
aa the sli of Britain. And at any rate America is
powerful enough that from now on no more cont
tail will be trailed for I'nrlc Bam to step on. Put
mark on tbat.
After all the discussion of th influenza it is
apparent that it is not certain that it will return
and it is not certain that it will not return, but it
I certain that it i a, good idea to be ready for
its retnra if it comes.
I
A policemen' strik is the equivalent of a
mutiny. But the fact impose a responsibility
. ob the public a well as on the police. The
guardians of the law in Washington, Boston and
'everywhere else ought to be paid a fair wage,
Hcnctor Sherman any that on a salary of seventy
five hundred dollar a year the' high cost of living
bothers him ia Washington. If that is true, the
iwlieemea. cannot be hating any easy time of it.
The sub-committee of the Houso Military Com
tnittce mad a hit at Loagstreet when Congress
man Anthony, of Kansas, and Crago, of Pennsyl
vania, declared ia decisive not that there is the
most suitable place for am artillery range, aad that
whatever is done ia th way f a camp or as camp
Juitics should be don th people whos land have
booa taken. North Carolina appreciate the eeati
meet of the eommitte and will always hold aa
open door foremen ef that sqnaranest of judgment.
Th South will never discharge lta debt to th
saca who fought for It ia th siitie. Those gal
lant mea are rapidly paasing away aad what is
to be don for theat nutt be dos quickly. There
enght to be a liberal respoas to th appeal that
1 being made la behalf of the fund' (9 send a
aumber of. tha weteraaa le Atlanta for the re
union. They are riehly worthy ef this bit of ap-
The' speaker wh have the faculty ct drawing
groat crowds at people bar a woaderful oppor
tunity. Last sight a treat crowd ef colored peo
ple, and not a few white, essenblad at th Audi
torium to bear the lev. Baiter McLdon. aad
be gave these advice that was helpful and that wi'.l
do good. lie reached them aad he reached them
ia a wajr that is effective. The prese ia powerful,
but truths thundered home through the living
Toice reach many who sever take time to reed
or perchance read the wrong things. Evangelist
McLendoa catches hi rabbit before be cooks him.
lie gets hi crowd and thea be tells it what ia what
The preachers and pubHa speaker generally who
cad lure the crowds unquestionably reach maay
h aesid not be reached ii any other way.
Hit remarkably free from -labor disturbance.
It h to be hoped that the who! country i eater
ing a new period ia which tb -unsatisfactory
method of adjusting' wages aad other differeaecs
that has been practised ia the past will be out
of favor for the future. We may hope that North
Carolina will not have the aeriou difficulties' that
the more strictly maeufaeturiug State hav, for
the largj number of people ia this (State who are
not engaged in factory work will help to maia
tain a mors evn keel. The farm population ii
mighty conservatipe aad (low to look -with toler
ation on exciting disturbance ef any sort, while
the large proportion of native population, a eom
pared with the large rati of foreign population ia
the North, make another difference. Workers
and employers ia this Stat ar better acquainted
with each other, and that counts for a lot is qucs
tion of difference ia wage or other actor of
working agreements.
With a smaller aumber of disturbance it ia rea
sonable to anticipate that th future i destined
to so n encountering fewer strikes , than the
other section of th country.
TIMI FOB A FRESH START.
The time ha com t wipe from the slate the
mass of figurss used in making freight rates, and
to regard North Carolina as aa important in
tegral par( f the railroad are of the United
State.
W started out as an agricultural State and
hav built up pur manufacturing and wholesale
appoint a "national finance ofliter" to pvene the
ipeaditur and cheek them.
What particularly arrt attention la all thi
li ' ttra-asy -mnuniptien thet-Uendmiaistratien.J
aad not Congress is responsible for th aituatien
described. Chairman Good ought te know better
and probably does knew better. H must know
that the President ka no power to create such aa
office or appoint such an officer as be demand.
He mast know that Congress alone eaa do thia.
and he should :b aware That "President -Wiisow
ha asked Congress, a President Taft did before
him,- te create an eieeutive bureau of estimates
o work with a centralised appropriation com
mittee of Congress ia placing tiie fiscal affair of
ta aatioa upon a systematized footing.
in responsibility ties with Congress. This at
tempt to shift it ever to the Kieeutir is ridicu
lous on iu faee. Congress holds the Durse-strimts
oi in wnoi government. They ar loot or tight
a congress determines. Th executive power
cannot spend a dollar save oa th expret author
ity of Congress. If more War taxes or war loans
lis abesd things ar now going, the Dower ia
with Congres to intervene, and particularly with
Ihe House ind Mr. Good's committee in th House.
it t'liuirmun tioed s outcry ia not a eonfessioa
that the Bepublieaa House is aa incapable of per-
minim us junruous a me senate, wnat la It T
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Th Horror ef War.
Lieut. John M. Utkison, ia Leslie'.
I don t think I need to tell you about that trin
by tugboat to Corfu thirty hours or so of sailing
over a pleasant sea with the mountains of Al
baaia over to our left. Two thinge I learned about
Corfu: Kaiser Bill had a wonderful castle on the
island, the most southern of his outpost of-cul-ture
; and it was here that 4he starving remnant
of the Herbjan army were shipped at th end of
1015 and the beginning of 1916 to be fed. clothed
sod turned into a fighting fore one more. There
they told ma about seven thousand boy under the
righting ago who were the survivor of thirty thou
sand. When., the Germans, Austrian and Bul
garians squeezed the Berbiaa army out of the
country and drove what wa left aeros Montene
gro and Albania to the sea, these boys were shooed
out also. They crossed 'the border of Serbia, oa
the-way to the sea, thirty thousand atrona-. without'
food.. Fifteen 'thousand died of starvation ind jM .
isg will sot b uadertaken. The men, he lay,
will go fishing. '
It will not be a bad idea. The men are leaving
their jobs because the wage do not satisfy th
which i their right. If there i ao picketing
is reasonable to hope there may b no rioting.
th striker stay away from ta mills they cannot
get into any disputes with tho mill worker. The
scene of a strik i not a good plart at any tim
for visitor. Everybody know that a tension
existing tbare, aad that th taaaioa ha frequently
resulted is serious trouble. That tension is always
i possible danger. The outsiders and the enrious
have no buaiaeae about th etrike xone. Their
presence la In Itself an aggravation. They add
to th confusion aad excitement, and frequently
meddle in something which they ar better ont
off. They lose nothing if they stay away.
The picketer argues thst he is bent oa a peace'
t'ui mission that of doing miaaionary work for h
cause. II ne ean keep tn peace wane doing thct
it i probably a right h baj to meet and talk
with other men oa a- subject ia which be i in
tereitcd, provided h doe aot fore hi eovrsa
tioa a uawilliag litaers, er max hie argumeat
offensive. A a eertaia number of persons cannot
srguo calmly the danger from promiscuous picket'
ng ia that argument leada to quarreling, and from
there it ia an easy step to violence.
If Chairman Fitxpatriek is right ia hia predietiea
hut the atrikera will go fishing, and they
stay fishing, the expected strike will b conducted
on a more logical economie basis than ha been
tho custom in the immediate past, and it will be
a test of legitimate strength, and a struggle that
lU-'be watched by the people with more" of
sense of fair play than has characterized moat
strike of late for the people do not like violence
and rioting.
A SERIOUS SITUATION.
Much has been said about th pay of the teacher,
but not enough, and it haa not been inclusive
enough, for it should take in sa well th preacher
with the teacher, and with other teachers should
nclude the college instructor, for all alike are
paying the penalty of a ahort salary.
We may look ea it a more or less of a' tern
porary condition. It is not. It is a situation that
threatens the future more than the present.
thoughtful clergyman talking to the New and Ob
server recently on the eubjeet deplored the fact
that young men are not taking to the ministry
The inducement held out are so Insufficient that
few men are willing to consider th pulpit aa a
calling because It entails too many hardships.
Then th custom seem to be growing more and
more to dismiss th older man, or to pass him for
a younger one ia selecting a pastor for a vacancy,
The. teacher ia taking up ether Work. Young
women are going to school to fit for ether call
ing. Th college mea ar taking job with bnsi
ness concerns that giv mor monty. Th church
ad th chool ar losing ia their competition
and. we are not to realise the damage that ia being
done until we come to count up a year or ao
from aow. Then we will Dad that we have been
loaiag those that we had, and bar aot been
training a new crop to take their places oaMo adJ
to the conatantly increasing need.
The war ha been responsible for the aituatioa
to a large extent, for ia additioa to calling for
aiere hand la Other line war haa awakened the
whole country to a bigger activity. The teacher
it aot satisfied with a job that taxes only
limited aumber of months a year. A aew idea
of otinued work i abroad.
It I a serious matUr. A thortag of teachers
aad preacher is a eoaditioa that the country haa
war cotmplated, and that H is aot pleasant
to think about. But it em a certainty; aad w
ar doing nothing to prevent.' Vher 1 thi likely
t lead aa W may all giv it a littl tudy. Th
worst feature ia that a logical remedy ugget
Itself.
STRIKES, .-..y
North Carolina i aot unduly beset by strikes.
W thiak th aumber Is maay because ia th past
they hav bea remarkably few. But th differ
ence I plain. The State is eaaergiag froaa in
significance ia manufacturing te prominence.. The
number of hand employed increases very day at
phenomenal atride. Mea bow operating mill
remember vthea th total asaaufactured product
of the Stat reached a boot fifty aailliea dollar.
Now it 1 shout fir hundred million. Industrially
th etat hat aprong from nothing to b one f th
coata to th carrier of actual transportation for
equal distances. It takes the same' amount of
eoal, ear, rolling tock, te., and the same ex
pense for train crews. The roads should aot be
permitted to nmke haul to the favored point at
lost or for insufficient profit, and recoup oa the
intermediate point or on short haul beyond.
Any fair competition should be encouraged, but
only when the carrier is' in a positioa to meet
it at its own coat. Otherwise, it is the taxing
of the people of a locality unfavored by the pres
ent system for the benefit of th carrier snd the
people of another locality peculiarly favored,
Our manufacturing and wholesalev bnslne Is
burdened with thi tax la a field which should be
made fair for all competition. It is wrapped up
ia the price, of commodities paid by the eou-
sunters, whether the good ar directly bought
from our ewa buiines enterprise r indirectly
from thoee of other and more fortunate localities
It Is there, whether visible or invisible to the
eoasnmer. Should u b accessary to have basi
point for rate-making, why should we pot have
a aumber of them la North Carolina, placed upon
an equality with those ia our sister 8taes with
fair and just rat t local points t
aam applied te
from Bartboldi's
1 Hell Gat is
New York Barber
itatueLiberty" to th conjunction
betweea tk Last and North River,
r Christi Mathewsoa i a famous
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I . . ,, . i. . .v. -ilnortaule baa-WiilBssaHsa
I joiiB-xiizparwicB, cbutms in committee oil- -.-. , rT'"m f iirrnrx -mri ynr itthti m iiniuli iiTt4n.n.
fr'asiB transportation. Albania to Avion and went into camp while wait. '
I their intention of a etrike en Monday, flys pirht- Competitive and water points' caTngr
baseball pitcher, bow a member ef the
New York Giant.
J Chariot Evaa Hughes, a N
York attorney, a Republican, wh wa
a caadulat for President i 1916.
4 A jiax i th slang xprioa for
niafortun or ill luck
6 Aa isthmus is as aarrow aeck ef
laad separating two large., bodies ef
water.
-Charles Diakens wrot "Pickwick
Papers.''
7 Madame. Da Barry was the mis
tress of Kiug Louis the Sixteenth, aad
during her period, a certain style of
architecture obtained and exist ta thi
day.
8 Havre is a port ia France, epn
spicuou because all British bot. sail
ing from Dover, mak that port.
0 The completed sentence i "As
white at. a (beet.
10 A diplomat Is a termepplied to
a government official who i accredited
aa a representative. A diplomat ia so
called because of the entente necessary
to preserve between the nation of the
world.
New Questions.
1 What ia a cathedral t
2 What is propaganda t
S Who is Carri Chapman Cattf
4 Where i Westminster Abbey f
5 What is "The double ring cere-
Bsony"!
6 In mythologies! parlance, who wa
Cireet ,
7 What is a "blind-pig". .
8 How many natious ar there ia
the continent in riouta America f
LIFrS SALESMANSHIP.
Th war lil it Jmt aa jsjghty stor s
Where all that mea are looking for
la stored, upoa its range ef shelves,
And we r aiesma of ourselves.
Kach of us, as he walks along,
Would wit the faver of th throng,
And each ef ut, ia various ways.
Strive t delerv toother' praise.
Since what" is false men will aot buy,
No ansa should ever tell a lie;
Men aoara th cunning of th cheat
And apura the practice of deceit.
In life today It is well known
Thnt h who ia must liv alone, '
While ia it market honor bring
Reward above all ether things.
Who aeeka for popularity
t'prigut and manly here must be.
However great may be his skill
He must be kind and geatl (till,
And must not, though he weir a crown
t'pon hi fellow man look dowaj
Men eheer anility s success,
But hat bad manner none the less.
Youth sell yourself, but not for gold
ur treasures which your hands cae
hold, .
The highest price for which maa spendi
His days of life, is love of friends.
Go forth Into the markets, here
And carry kindly words of e!ieer.
Be gentle, honest, staunch aad trus,
And men shall give their love to von.
(Copyright. 1919, by Edgar A. Gocsi.)
ships came,. there wftre Only nine thousand to take
nnd when th ship got to tho Island of Vidu
where the refugee camp was, they landed only
seven thousand. And then, because tlrtre were uo
beds, no nurses and not enough food tt th camp,
tney uegan to di it th rat of a hundred a day
They say ther wa a apecial shio brousrht to tin
island just to carry away their bodie for burial
in th tea; it steamed into th harbor every mora
ing, and orderlies carried th bodie dawa on
stretcher,- from a pile that had accumulated dur
ing the lost twenty-four hours, and dumped them
on the deck. Then the ship stemd out to tea
aui'. the waters elosed over those poor kid who had
refused to stay and surrender to th Germans.
Th ship wa named St. Fraflri d Asiisi.
THE CONQUEROR.
rvmi w ar paying attention to th con
qucring general and their troop who hav come
hark from th war it may not b too trivial
giv a thought to a bit of newspaper information
that tell of th penalty another of the victors has
paid. General Foe a haa recently aaked th Bel
gian officials to mak a search for something tha
will help bim find th grave of hia bob, who was
killed early ia the war, la all of th long struggle
although th younger man was killed early in the
hostilities, the father haa kept hia burden to him
self, and few have heard him mention hia be
reavement. Xow that all 1 ever he trici to fin
the ple of Mpultur.
While war ruled, and the country and the world
needed the' effort ef th soldier, a soldier ha was,
and h Ignored hit owe afflictions because his was
only one among the multitude of sacrifice and
tribulation of a sorrowing humanity. Now that
it is vr h find thtt his work Is don snd .he
esn turn away from th public service and devote
hit time and anergic to things that ar pr
sonal.
War play no favorite, except in caaes like that
of the Hohenaollera family, which produced ho
heroes and no leaden and bo great nesa. There
waa a commander who wa willing to sacrifice
eouatlesa million, but not bit own. Ther were
son who maneuvered other into the danger line
but kept themeelve la af places. The world
ewea them nothing, for they earned nothing.
With Foeh it ia different. H took hi ehabce
with th rest. He paid the great reckoning. He
paid aad said nothing, but kept oa with hi one
tusk of defeating the enemy. Thea he wound up
hi work, and goea out t hunt for hi boy. Just
a Fershing fought valiantly through hi house
hold treasure had been th victim of dimeter
equally a terrible ae war.
tt eacrifices, and today it a day of sackcloth.
But it it aot a day of flight from th task that
had to be done. With all the load of torrow tbat
war lay on.th ahoulder of mankind th task
wa punned to it victorlou finish. And if there
are ae 'dead Hoheaaollera neither ar ther any
who ar victorlou ef that fanyly,
Beaalay aay thr is nothing th matter with
the juvenil eourU.-and it it ia rdor to add that
ther it aethiag the matter with Beaaley. If
there are any ' today wh d aot appreciate the
work thi maa ia doing for North. Carolina they
will appreciate it a little farther along a the
result how mora emphatically.
Tha trouble with Mr. Lodge aad bit ewa -way ia
that it i not n that 1 regarded aa a very good
ae. : -' " : '-r1'-"
SPIRIT OlvTHE PRESS
Aa lacaaahto Caagi. - -
ew Tork World.
Chairmaa Good, of the House Appropriations
Committee, find that aa ""orgy f pending" pre
vail 4a Washington. He figure ap a deficit for
th current fiscal year of $3,591,000,000 at things
ar bow going. This mesa either another great
public loan or radical addition to war taxea al
ready intolerably high. He aay tbat the cost of
living cannot be materially reduced under these
eireumstaae, and demand that th President
Mr. WUsoa'a Danish Critic
Columbia Suite.
Ueorg Brandt ranks, we believe, aa about th
urst among European critics, and very high as
maa of letters. It is all tha mor remarkable,
therefore, to find him bitterly assailing President
Wilson in a manner and style suitabl to th lowest
order of political harangue. It i still mor re
markabie to find that Brandc make the een
sure of the President, not in a Danish or Bean
dinaviaa Journal, but in th Berlin Tajreblatt.
To give a tast of Bra odes' sryl w quote tha
following which is, we tab it, translated from hia
article in the Uermaa organ:
"There waa once upon a time aa excellent North
American professor in a little university ii a little
provincial town of about 5,000 inhabitant. He
gave up aeienee and took a plunge into nolitiea
he became Governor ef New Jersey, and ia 1913,
ia hia 57th year, he rose to the pinnacle of Dower
aa 28th President of the United State. Them
Woodrow Wilson waa la a wis inferior to hi
predecessor, Taft, ia talent; to hi predeeor.
.M.rviniey, in character; n cared for th limelight
ratuer less than hi predecessor, Booaevelt; ia a
word, he wss fully equal to hia position. H be
came the author of the best fourteen point known
to history, it is a pity they were never carried
out." . "
One might expect such twaddl from a Borah or
a Lodge, but hardly from the foremoot eritie of
Europe.
The cheap sneer about the "best fowrteea nolnta
known to history," and the atateraent that "it i a
pity they were aever carried out," ar ailly aad
fake. Th fourteen point, whatever may be said
of them, actually formed the baaia of th de
nizations and peace negotiation, led Germany
to pauae in her mid ruah upoa the wetter world.
ana lormcd th basia of both armistice aad treaty.
That, surely, wa enough to make them "the best
fourteen, ' or any other number of "point known
to history." It alsowhows that they were car-
rica out, at least their principles- wer carried
into tne treaty and covenant.
It comes in peculiarly bad grac. euch utterly
taise and malevolent criticism as thi,'- from the
citizen of a atate, Denmark, that owe A much tt
the principle of th fourteen point. They wrested
from the hands of Germany part of the territory
tnat tne Muns had atoiea from the Dane.
And to imagine a patriotic Dan leading to a
German Organ such a diatribe upon th mta who,
more than any other man, ha befrieaded Sea
mark. -
WOMEN ASK SENATE'S ATTENTION.
(Letter in New York Tinje from a Woman.)
Ia a recent letter i your oplumns "A Woman
ask for torn plan by which th "hundred of
thoueaads of obscure but tingle-minded American
whom Congres i now blindly mltraprateatinc
could find a way ope far expressing their eon
vietiona,' TJier ar many of u yearning for
torn uh plan. It it bard for us to initiate metli
oda. A few of ua writ In Senator, but it la
But they are only two. The world hat offertitrange how few have th idea of doing that. W
do talk, but not many are good teatroveraialiate,
although we belhjve from th bottom of our heart.
Wa are bewildered that those alae Republican
committeemen enould be able to da a ther wish)
and w would tura them out if w Anew how.
ana w ougnt to M am te a to. They ar wik
ing u deadly injury. .
Uaa't th 50 prominent people wb ar de
manding ratification get at th hundred t thou
sand who also ar demandlag it in their heart I
We ar waiting for guidaac, lik sheep without
nepoera. '
A MOTHER APPEALS FOR RATIFICATION.
- - (Mr, it. d Hyd in New York Tim.)
A th mother of a ion who ha tervtd almost
eighteen month with the American expeditionary
force ia France, one who ha been a tadat
of history for mny year, as on wha hat read
and closely observed the Stat paper ef most
importance teased by all tk great cowers con
cerned in thi greatest world war, at on who hat
followed wit vital interest th development f
the League e( Nation and treaty ef peace with
Germany ia th Peac Conference at Versailles, -aa
on wb haa anxiously examined the debate aad
report! ef the Foreign Relation Committee of the
Senat on the treaty and Leans of Nation, and
aa on of th sovereign naita (with vote) af
theee Unite Statea, permit me, through Th Nw
York Time, most earnestly ts beeeech th repre
sentatives of th overeiga people the United
State Senate to ratify the treaty of peac with
Germany aad the League of Natioot without de
lay, and without amendment-er reservation, o
tht thia war-worn world may be revivified ia th
anneal of peac.
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Boy "Please, mister. I just fell out
COTTONSEED PRICES
Says Farmefs Oaa't Feel Bight
Towards Mill Men Till Va-.
riation Is Explained
To the Editor: I have a wiah to
be unfair ia aay way to the eottoa oil
interests of North Carolina. If there
has recently been such a slump in
prices as is said to hav occurred sine (
th recent Alabama and couth Caro
lina agreement wr made, the eottoa
oil mUIa should welcome the publica
tion of the facts by inch aa iaveati
gating authority or eommitte aa I
thlak ahould be aimed.
Th publi ha a . right to kaew
whether th (lump ia eottoaaeed prieee
hat been relatively greator than th
tlump in th price of th material
mad from them.
The farmer alto hav beea unfavor
ably affected by the fact that the de
cline ia prie of raw cottonseed aeem
to have had ao effect pa th prie of
cottonseed meal when offered at retail.
I am alto informed that ia towna OBly
a short dittaae apart ther i a varia
tion of ZOO pouada la th amount ef
oettonseed meal offered in return for
a ton of aeed.
I am aaxieu only to get th truth
and to get each a atandardixation ef
price as will be fair both to tha far
mer and to tha oil mill. It occurred
to me that euch a result might b reach
ed ia a frank and friendly conference,
ueh a waa bald la bouth Carolina aad
Alabama.
There ha long beea aa inexcusably
wide variation ia the prie naid far
men lor cottonseed, and It ia impoe-
aibl for the' farmen to feel right to
ward the mill mea natil thia aituatioa
1 remedied. 81 x er aevea yr ago.
for example, whea th prie of avery.
thing waa, or court, much lower thaa
bow, I aaked our Progressive Farmer
reader to report the price ther re
ceived (or cottonseed on a certain day,
ana th answer ranged all tha way
from filfi to $33 per to.
Many or our North Caroliaa farmen
knew of tha xtriea aareed aa hv tha
mill themselves ia Alabama aad South
Carolina; and hav naturally felt re
bellious toward the exittiag price i ta
ction in thi State. - .
Ther i need for torn imnartial au
thority to mak it clear whether the
slump fully justifies th difference be
twee the $70 or $7$ a tea recently of
fered ia Alabama snd South Carolina
and th $57 bow offered here.
Aad even if the oil mill ahould Drove
thi to be th cate, ther ia need for
aa irrquiry a to whether thi eoaditioa
may not soon b remedied, aad if far
mer ahould not hold all cottonseed
potaibl until th mill ar in a posi
tioa to pay th fanner th better nrieea
to which lie ia entitled. Present labor
cost would make thee bettor price
imperaUv even if we had a full eron
ef cotton. With th prent , ditas-
troaly short rp, it em ineoncoiv-
able tbat farmen by holding ahonld
not get eerier price.
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