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^U»ye a candid statement to
Odt; tenners will be of value at
thte time.
Recent!;' I imlnted out tbat
most of the crops were bringing
parity prices, but that cotton was
at about eix cents below parity.
Further I suggested to the farm
ers that they had now the right
to apply for loans on their cot
ton to the Commodity Credit
Corporation. The legislative au
thority is in existence and the
Commodity Credit Corporation
has about 1400,000,000 on hand.
The Housing Bill now before
us carries $750,000,000 to be
spent in the larger cities to build
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STAR
BLADES
FOR CtM Aho EVER READy RAZORS
Star Blades Sold Locally By
HORTONS CUT-RATE
DRUG STORE
At Money-Saving Prices
liwite ■ thoM whe hate
ttrtng -la what ta called the
^nu.^The fund ^may provide
apartniwt residences 'with lights,
water, and other convwtiencss,
for perhaps a hundred thousand
people. This seems a large num
ber, but after all it is relatively
amall.
If tbe Government can put up
money to build homes for people,
I should think it could put up
money by way of loans on cot
ton. In the present instance, the
Govemmenti Is not only about
to build homes, but also to pay
a portion of the rent. If the Gov
ernment can pay rent for people
lu New York and Chicago, It can
pay rent for anybody else. I am
not favorable to this sort of leg
islation for the reason that I
know there Is no end to It. If wo
do these things for one, we must
do them for all and very clearly
tlhd Government doesn’t have the
money to do it for more than
five Or ten per cent of those who
are justly entitled to its aid on
this basis.
I beiieve the Government pol
icy of lending funds on crops in
evitably predicates control of
crop production. This means a
strict regimentation. Each farm
er must ibe told that he shall not
produce but so many bales, so
many pounds, so many bushels,
for it this should not be the rule,
then the farmers would be induc
ed by tihe Government policy to
produce ever increasing crops
with the consequence that the
Government would pay out hil-
liona of dollars and have the
crops on hand. The existence of
crops on hand would tend to de
press the price for the reason
that it would be necessary soon
er or later to sell. them. Other-
wIsl, the Government would go
broke.
If We have crop control, flbere
will be irresistible demand for
better provisions for email farm
ers than were had under the A.
A. A. When the Bankhead Act
was here, I offered an amend
ment requiring that there should
be no reduction in the crops of
the cotton farmers who had pro
duced in the base period an aver
age of ten bales or less. The
right of the little man to live is
a profound right. The new Con
trol System will provide for crop
reduction on a graduated scale—
the larger the farm, the greater
the percentage of reduction. It is
necessary so to provide in order
that the little farmers shall have
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"With my cigarette, anyone can
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after a strenuous diving exhibi
tion, to get a 'lift* in energy with
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TAKE THE NATIONAL WAY TO POSITIONS THAT PAY
'a*' ^aso» to' support ^ their
and ohlidnm. The same rule WlH;
apply to tobacco farmers. Tbe
small tobacco farmer must In
events 'be' allowed to produce e
sufficient poundage of tobacco to
maintain his faiiUy. I think th'»
D^artment of Agriculture la In*
cllniid to this same tIow now.
lot US understand that control
means reducing -very greatly the
allotments tol the larger farmers
so that living allotments may be
given to the smaller farmers
There ■will also be more strict
provisions In behalf of tenants
and croppers.
The President 1« saying that he
is unwilling to support the lend
ing of money on cotton unless we
put up a control program, i know
the difficulUes of control. I have
preferred at all times a voluntary
system to the compulsory sys
tem. The argument against the
voluntary system is that it may
not work The argument for the
compulsory system is that the
power of the Government can
make It work. But can the Fed
eral Government make control
work satisfactorily? It has been
tried and proved a fall'ire in
Brazil, in Cuba” in Greece, in the
Congo. It does not succeed -with
export crops.
I wish the farmers to consider
Chese matters. I have always de
sired to do the best thing tor
them. Let them look at this situ
ation candidly just as it is and
express their judgment one to
another. I shall be very glad to
have their views and I shall
give great weight to their ■adsies.
Let me say another word a-
bout cotton. While we have been
reducing our crop by two million
bales, foreign countries have in
creased their output of cotton a-
bout seven million bales. This il
lustrates the weakness of efforts
to control world crops. The re
duction program in our country
did not decrease the world out
put, but caused the world output
to be rapidly increased. The
world crop last year was live
million bales more than it was
when the United States began its
crop reduction program. And the
price is down notwithstanding
increased domestic consumption
and rather small crop.
Cotton is a world crop. We
cannot control the crop. When
We put up the price here, we can
sell eight million bales to Amer
ican textile interests, but that
leaves us six million bales for
foreign consumption and this
six million bales is in direct and
unavoidable competlon with, the
cotton of Russia, China, India,
Egypt, Brazil, Mexico and forty
other countries. I have always
thought in view of this simple
fact, that we must sell at least
six million bales of cotton abroad
in order to provide for the out
put of our Southern cotton fann
ers. The only way to maintain
anything like a parity price is
the export bounty. It was known
ew years ago as the export
debenture. I believe inevitably
we are going to come to the ex
port bounty plan in which the
farmer will be paid as a bounty
for that portion of his crop which
is sold abroad the difference be-
t-ween the American parity price
and the world price. I introduc
ed a bill to bring this about ful
ly two years ago. I ask «he farm-
to consider this also. This
plan would not bring about the
great degree of control that the
present plan contemplates. It
would still allow for an annual
production of fourteen or fifteen
million bales of cotton.
If the farmers like thl.s plan,
they should make it known.
I do not think the plan so far
operated has been intelligent or
of any value as to cotton. The
small advance in the price of cot
ton is due to the devaluation of
the dollar. Our cotton policy has
reduced the American crop, tak
en away from us our world mar
ket, and brought about an in
crease of seven millioii bales in
the foreign crop. And the pur
chasing value of the price is a-
bout the same. If we go further
with it, we will come to the time
when the only market for
Southern cotton will .be in the
United States and this market
consumes only eigihit million hales
ai year. This means the end of
cotton production in North Car
olina. The only way to preserve
the market for fourteen or fif
teen million bales of cotton is
the export debenture plan, or in
simple language, the plan of pay
ing a bounty on exports.
The same thing applies to to
bacco. Sixty per cent of the to
bacco produced by North Caro
lina farmers is sold abroad. The
other nations will learn how to
produce tobacco. They are buy
ing our, seed and even sending
for our farmers. It may require
some years, but I am of the be
lief tfhat they ■will learn how to
produce tobacco like the tobac
co, we produce. We may proceed
for a little while on other plans,
but in tbe long run we must
come to the export debenture or
bounty -plan In order to main
tain a "WDrld market for North
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Washington," Ang. 21. (Adto*
caster)—The nomination xk Sen
ator- Hugo Lafayette Black of
Alabama to the Sapreme ‘ Court
bench to aucceed the retired Jus
tice Van Devanter Is looked up
on here as the Preeident’s reply
to the critics of the New Deal In
his own party". For Senator Black
is in his own person the very
embodiment of the principles and
policies initiated by Mr. Roose
velt wiMch have come to be
known collectively by the term
New Deal”: and the Democratic
revolt In Congress has bee» a-
gainst the political philosophy
which the New Deal symbolizes
more than against thei President
personally.
Senator Black has not been a
mere follower of the Administra
tion. He Is a sincere believer not
only in the objectives of the New
Deal but in its mebhods. He is
co-author of th® Black-Connery
bill for Federal regulation of
hours and wages of labor. He was
the original proponent of the 30-
hour work week. He has been the
ardent, aggressive advocate of
many measures which are consid
ered radical, and the supporter,
from conviction, of most of the
New Deal legislation which the
Supreme Court, of -wlhilch he now
becoimes a member, has held to
be beyond the Constitutional au
thority of Congress to enact.
It was "smart” politics on the
President’s part to nam® a Sen
ator for the Supreme Court va
cancy, for the tradition of “Sen
atorial courtesy" Insured his con
firmation, even though for once
the Senate did not act immedi
ately, but listened to protests by
its own members against the ele
vation of one of their own num
ber to the Supreme Court.
The Senate did, in a sense, in
vite tihe President to pick a Sen
ator for the Court vacanc.v, when
it “nominated” Senator Robin
son immediately after Justice
Van Devanter’s retirement. Sen
ator Robinson died, but the im
plication was clear that a Senator
■ivould be accepted by the Senate
when another man of the type
which the President desired to
have in the Supreme Court would
not be. Hence the nomination of
Senator Black, - . ,
Party Split Broadens
The criticism of Chls appoint
ment b y liemocratlc Senators'
gave further proof that the split
between the President and a con
siderable segment of his own par
ty is wide and deep, as the mem
bers of Congress start home to
have it out with their constitu
ents. The passage of time and
the things they Ihear from the
folks back home may change the
attitude of soime of those who
are at present hopping mad.
Those who are most seriously
concerned are the “old-line Dem
ocrats” from the South.
They are concerned about
numerous tendencies -wlhlch they
believe will handicap the pro
gress of the South and infringe
upon the rights of the Southern
States to look after problems
which they regard as peculiarly
their own. They are afraid of
Federal regulation of hours and
wages, believing that it will put
tihe South at a disadvantage in
its efforts to build up new in
dustries.
They, or many of them, were
enraged by the renewal, In the
last days of the session, to put
over the anti-lynching bill. They
have 'been behind the Adminis
tration. up, to this year, by rea
son of their ingrain^ tradition
of party loyalty, and they still
retain that loyalty to flhie Demo
cratic party, hut protest that it
is the New Deal which is disloyal,
not themselves.
Republicans Planning for 1940
A bitter fight for control of
the party at the 1940 Presiden
tial convention is shaping up.
Here the South is handicapped
by the abolition, at -the 1936
control will be much more gen
erous than it would be if we fol
low the plan of putting up the
domestic price without providing
the means of selling abroad. No
plan that takes atvay our foreign
market will 'be good for us.
I have all times sought to
maintain the foreign market for
cotton and toibacco because I
have known at all times that
North Carolina Is the chief export
agricultural State in the Union.
Wb export 'both cotton and tobac
co and in large quantities.
Attention Is called to the. d»-
velopment of production of Bur
ley tobacco in Wefctern North
Carolina. In any new system of
control, we must provide both
for our ■Western Burley produc
ers as well as our Eastern and
Central Bright producers.
1 am setting out these things
In order that our termers r iuy
cohslder them.and I vieh ih'Snt;
to consider them* fff thenuelvee.
jk)ok Ajtet over
»tand'^4n^ It through. ^
oosTsnUon, ot5,-tfii» ^roAUrds^
rule. It takes only s malority
tcHi hosr to nominate a Presfden-
tiia'' candidate. Under the two*
thlrdii.ruleSolid,Sodth 'held
ths^i^Sfleci ill Dotn^
’crs{^ n^onai conveintlbna.
R^nbUcans are laying ttedr
plans tor 1940, also. IWfc ot s
Coalition or Cohstltutlotml party,
to unite the conservative ele
ments of both partied' is vridely
beard, 'but ■with little'*^ evidMC©
so far that It has the support, ot
practical ■politicians of ■■'irftfiw
party to any extent.
The Republican national' or
ganization is'still ■ pretty.^'Srell
disorganised..The talk ot s
er convention to consider a pro
gram and definite Republican
policlee Is still mostly talk. Mr.
Hoover, Mr. Landon and Senator
Vandenberg are supposed to
have had some communications
on the subject, and somewhere
among thbs® three the future
leadership of the party lies. The
belief that Senator Vandenberg,
on his record In the Senate, is
tihe most available man in sight
now for the Republican Presi
dential nomination Is widely
held here.
Billion From Beer Tax
Uncle Sam Is paying the ex
penses of the Senators and Rep
resentatives back to their hotme
towns, at the rate of 20 cents a
mile. It cost this year $109,000,
and will cost as much to get them
back here in January. Most of the
members got checks j for the
round trip at the beginning of
the session. The largest check
was for $2,054.80 for Samuel
Wilder King, Territorial Dele
gate from Hawaii, who lives
more than 5,000 miles from
Washington.
The Treasury is happy over the
cash returns from the beer tax.
Since the sale of beer was legaliz
ed on April 7, 1933, the Ameri
can people have drunk 2C0 mil-
Iloni barrels of it, or almost a
barrel a year per family, and
have paid a Federal tax of $5 a
barrel, wfoich summed up early
this month to a round billion
dollars, which is more than the
most ardent advocates of repeal
predicted. The “hard liquor”
and wine taxes have not yielded
so much.
Congress in its closing hours
gave a new stimulus to the Ger
man Zeppelin company by pass
ing a law authorizing the sale of
helium gas in non-military quan
tities to foreign concerns. The
advocates of heavler-than-aJr air
craft are hdpeful of getting an
appropriation next session for
another experimental ship of the
Zeppelin type for our Navy.
Pioneer Resided Retmns
airayiSrfrom
After 42 yean
|hMlk:-"\VlIlM$tboro, the teWM^of
irhlch' be .
ilforth IVIIkertmTO
’fc-. Uoon to rraenr
' .pr.^jdaBhioi^ fli^t.;.couijQ. to^. jmin fa'ho we^^>ei|(H
H* MTS '
hit roMS co'mo^
CaroUua. ^
■*Yt waa a real ik and
Ud Mr. 'Ohidiloa io rotuna
for a
koue to lenenr acoualnttete# .'
Oaahfon'o tetim-, came to
IftfrUl'R^'eabotetho.foifif
vpas la Rs Infaiic^ aad lived for
sevenl years, then, la 1892,'
znovod from haca to-Tyior, Tm.
as, wibore ho began to raise roo-
00 for a livelihood. Today ho and
his three aons have oeroral hun-
shaklnK hands with " hli
who are still llvtac
frlondo w*om he koaw
North Wllkeehoro 'was, as
said “a baby,” ho
to note the groyth aad io
mrate that have ‘bMIH)
“tbe baby” baa gmrm. thro
dred acres of; roooa'of all kinds, the yeard, sinew hJa; depaito^ '
OASOUNI OR OKTRK POWIR
Pine Beetles Ravage
Many Valuable Trees
'Southern pine beetles have
been ravaging valuable pine trees
over North Carolina this sum
mer, according to Rufus H. Page,
Jr., assistant extension forester
at State College.
Beetles are most often found
where pine debris has been left
on the ground to give them a
breeding place, be stated.
To 'breed in sufficient numbers
to successfully attack and enter
healthy trees, the beetles must
first enter diseased or damaged
trees or freshly cut pine stumps
or pine debris. .
Delaying pine cutting until the
middle of September will check
beetle attacks. Page continued.
But if pines are being cut before
that time, a number of precau
tions can be exercised to protect
the living trees.
Remove all the trunk and
limbs of felled pines that are
more than two Inches in diamet
er. Lop smaller limbs and brush
and scatter well so they will be
exposed to wind and sunshine.
Peel all higiW, freshly cut pine
stumps to ground level and burn
or otherwise remove bark from
the stand. *
Clean away pines that display
a yellowish-green foliage and a-
round whose base is found red
dish sawdust-like material. “S-
shaped” galleries in the inner
bark are a sure sign of pine 'beet
les.
Remove from the stand all
trees that are badly diseased,
damaged, or otherwise weaken
ed. Many infestations start from
a single, weakened tree.
Cooperation, among land-own
ers is necessary, as little good
can be accomplished iby cleaning
one area if timber in adjacent
areas serves ae a source of in
festation, Page warned.
• Prices of crops aad livestock have
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S. V. TOMLINSON
North WUkesboro, N. C.
Tit Maytag gasoline MuUi-Motor
it interxhangeahU mth the electric
motor by removing only Jour bolts.
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Lespedeza on the farm of W.
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erphosphate had been applied at
the rate of 150 pounds per acre.
On a check plot the _ lespedexa
was only 5 inches-,high.
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After you hove used 50 kilowatt hours per
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should use for ordinary lighting, ironing,
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I operate the electric refrigerator at on overage
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I cook your food on on electric range for on
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I furnish you light from a 300-wott fomp for ^
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