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PAGE SIX AS • • * *** ' ■' 1 «*?- **/*$&?}-;■■#'■&***• ,4^ ?Jf:M. _ e> i.U/v /-.t»rrQrU7fl* - In talfeing with Mr. N. G. Bartlett, Secretary^lan ager of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce, receotto <the Editor asked Mr. Bartlett If he would write-an article for this paper, giving a brief sum-' mary. of the activities of the sec.tipual organization r from" its beginning, ApriMO, 1922 up to the present time, or a period of almost, 12 % years. Mr. Bartlett consented to do this, and w© take. pleasure in giving the readers of this paper the benefit of this informa-. f'- --t iv/j ■ *i,’* ’ x : - \vy -. v . . . • ... ; ’ <■ tion,. as .follows • <■ ?wr,;... ’ It aeems that t^^Qrnxptipn the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce grew; out of a desire on the part of a group of business • and-professional Meu o£ Eastern Carolina, to ha ye an organization that would serve the section as a whole, tEMs. agitation started hack4n 1021 in tbe fall of that"year. Afjer several meetings in' the fall and again in the new year of 192,2, gt a group meeting in Goldsboro, February 15, 1022,it was definitely decided to launch this sectional development movement and at this meeting the present secretary was elected Secretary Manager of the organization and has remained in that capacity from that day until this. The new secretary took active,charge of the organi zation, April 10th following. The late Dr. C. J. Ellen of-Greenville was the first President, and served from April 1922 to April 1923, when Mr. George C. Koyall of/Goldsboro was elected as,his successor, and he in tijrn served, from April 1923 to April 1924, when Mr. - .TjVfin d\’. Iiolmes, prominent business man of Farm ville, N. C., was elected as the. third President. Mr. Holmes served, the organization three years and was succeeded by Mr. J. It. Turnage of Ayden, prominent time merchant, and Chairman "of the Pitt. County Highway Commission, and active in the community life of Eastern Carolina.'^ Mr. Turnage was succeeded by the late Mr. 0. Felix Harvey, Jr., oi Kinston, woo prior to that time had served as District Governor of Kiwanis, and was active manager of the L. Harvey & Son Co., Kinston, N .C. Mr. Harvey was succeeded by A. &. Oliver, of Benson, another public-spirited, citizen of that section. Dr. Oliver was succeeded by Judge J. Paid Frizzelle of Snow Hill, who served the organization eighteen months, and wps succeeded by Guy V. Smith, prominent tobacconist of Greenville, K. C, Mr. Smith was succeeded... by the present in cumbent, Guy Klliott, April 1933. Judge Elliott is now serving his second.derm. ; The Organization’s First Objective. The first big thing that the organization tackled as an objective in 1922 was a campaign to put into ef fect in Eastern Carolina a better balanced program of ^armipg,: To this end^j^ campaign was launched im-; mediately to. put at least 100 heps, one cow, and one; propel sow on every farm in. Eastern Carolina, and pl.so to encourage commercial poultry raising as well, as better bred stock. This campaign took definite Sihape. ip the fall of .1922 when the organization brought from the North a mammoth 2400-egg incu-. -fcatof and placed it on exhibition at. the. Wayne County fair in Goldsboro with a view of demonstrat ing, to the prospective poultry raiser the value of com mercializing poultry in Eastern Carolina. This incu bator was purchased by a Wayne Comity farmer and. this was the beginning of the commercial, poultry, raising in Eastern-Carolina. At the present time it is conservatively estimated that the mammoth incu bators in Eastern Carolina will easily rate up into the six figures, - t Along with this campaign to improve the poultry flocks of Eastern Carolina went a campaign to bring. i,nto the section pura_ bred hogs. Four auction sales of pure bred liogs_was sponsored by the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce in Johnston County and in Goldsboro,-which resulted ip. placing on tho farms of dozens of farmers in Eastern Carolina pure bred hogs. A visit to the agriculture fairs in Samp son County or Waynes County, or. Johnston County, will easily prove tho^efE.ectiyeness of, this, campaign, as you will see the h,oga on exhibit that are the de scendants, of- the pure,;bre(p animals, that were sold at these spies. , 'XafPingtAgEiiusf iVVeevil. Another impogtanfc-gjpmpaign was one of education to forewafn the cotton growers,of.Eastern Carolina as to the damaging effects the invasion of the boll weevil ~ would have on the cotton farmers of this section. More than $10,000 was. actually expended by the or ganization in putting on dgmoflsfctationa in carrying on an advertising, campaign^ ^rogghout the seetiqj^ At this stage, of thp gtun^ more than ten years after the caujpaigh. a retrospection h^uf reveala-the fact w^Pitcver protection ^cctx^. front this.. canppaigq, caipe through thp hnpwiedgg thaithe cottop growgra hM obtained through this, cahtpajgn before the. ag tpal, invasion of the weeyilj The program better balanced, fa^nifig-c^i^oi^ Pim & a «ipre or less extensive manner up to„.th& present' tun a,' turn tooK-tie lead m MW^e . s caroUnar peanut prices by the growers or „„ ... Immedibately after, Congress adjourned ^ ^ it was discovered that under the farmlegislattoU ih the past, marketing, agreements could; be ei#re mo by the manufacturers with the, Secretary -.*8 culture, for the purpose of handling peanuts, t^a^ the marketing agreement, the pastern . Chamber of Commerce steps to bring about this kind of program. dent Guy Elliott, Judge J, H. Matthew of "M.»ir, and Senator E. S. Ashen- of Bertie, CouW, together w°«h Secretary Bartlett, went- to tVaahlugton June 12, 1933 and with the help of Congressman John H Kerr secured an interview with Secretary Henry A,. Wallace- When the commit,tee Informed Secretary Wallace of their mission, he immediately said, that they had no time to devote to peanuts, that they were devoting their entire time and energies to cotton and wheat; hut after a little, persuasion pn the part of the committee, the Secretary agreed to refer them to My. Cheater C. Davis, the Director of the Production Di vision, with the suggestion' that whstever Uv- Dayis,, said would be satisfactory to. mm. me immediately called, on Mr. Davis and found a very responsive ear to its plea. June 12, 19£3 was t*e beginning moment vyhich resulted in a minimum price of 3V&c per pound for tbe farmers^peanuts, of North eastern North Carolina for 1933. It is very probable, that the 1934 crop will have the. same minimum price, though one year prior to 1933 the. crops spld, St lc. per pound. ?he 'organization was also very active, in the, csmpaign; in bettering the price of tobaccp ip 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, and again in 1933. During the past six months the Urbanization has brought to the attention of the department heifils in Washington the* wonderful advantages tp, be: offered here in the rehabilitation program U’hich the Federal Emergency Relief Association is planning to put into, effect The organization officials and committees also ipade several trips to Washington % hhS interest of securing several subsistence homestead projects for Eastern Carolina. It is quite probable that the Eastern part of the. State, wiU. secure its share of these new projects. In the matter of securing the appropriation for, the Morehead City terminal development, the Eastern' Carolina Chamber of Commerce played a ve^y impor tant part. Not only did tbe officials co-operate, in the.tabuJatipn of facts,and figures, tpat were submit ted to. the departments, at Washington, but through its personal contact with the powers at Washington in the latter stages of the campaign, much good was accomplished at the last meeting. Though it has not been made public yet,-it is a fact that a.bout three weeks befqre it wss made certain that, the appropria tion would be approved by the President, the officials in charge of the Morehead. City project, called into conference the President and. Secretary of the East ern, Carolina. Chamber of Commerce and very frankly, acknowledged that help w;as. needed and that they felt that this organization could render this help in a very opportune time. Immediately the wires were made busy with telegrams and communications to important persons close to the President, and the President himself; and immediately thereafter the results were announced. The organization, of course, does not claim full credit for securing this decision, but does feel that it had some part in determining a decision at least immeditaely. Much Publicity for Eastern Carolina. The publicity that the Eastern’ Carolina Chamber of Commerce has given Eastern Carolina in the past twelve years cannot be measured in dollars and cents. It is conservatively estimated that one-fourth Of a million pieces of, literature has been sent to the four corners of the earth by this sectional organiza tion, and-at the present time there is being prepared for publication its most recent booklet, whieh will have 25,000- circulation, which particularly appeals to the tourist travel* of the world. - Among Other things th-e organisation during- the twelve years held the first peanut exposition ever held in America in Windsor* N, 0., in. December of 1026, which proved, to. be very helpful to, the peanut industry at that time. O&e organization, held an-, aualiy for eight years, the pastern Carolina Exposi tion* which proved, to be so popular with the people of the section. I&ask Astwitiess. - It .mush not. be forgotten that along with the reguc lar program of development, the organization hag ask wm <mm*e t^an, on^ o^asipn. Aft a n^ter. <#, fact? the chaxto* t^ftorjgftajBat^n gi^ % authority tV ifo-uk <8fe^%%-Wrqfecjfe q$-nji kinds. BhSt 0#- tM ^ SS3& soring' this year hr the operation of six agricultural and. livestock fairs in Eastern Carolina and Virginia. It is the hope of the Officials that by the operation of these fairs, interest in livestock and poultry and better’farming trill be stimulated again after a eessa tion of fairs for five years id the Bast. The present officers of the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Com merce are as follows : Judge Guy Elliott,'Kinston, President; Hk M. Tyler, Dunn, First Vice-President;’ ,C. J. Shields, Scotland Neck, Second Vice-President; C, P. Hsrper, Selma, Third Vice-President; ]). p’ Wooten, Treasurer, Kinstpn; N. O. Bartlett, Kinston, Secretary-Manager, The organization has about 1700 members in more than thirty-five-counties in Eastern Carolina and hopes. to increase its membership con siderably' in the coming twelve months. To sum up the program, the Eastern Carolina Chamber of Commerce is one organization in the East that represents all interests in an impartial and un biased manner. It stays clear of any intra-sectional quarrels but is ever on the alert to defend Eastern Carolina from outside enemies. These and many other projects have been handled and are still being handled by the sectional organization. The head quarters of the organization has been in Kinston for the last eleven years. TK,\Y?LEI^ PKOTECTI\h: iiS^IATICN ... - ' Qf AJM^CA, S3\ I4QVIS, m, Cangitau, Becesmtfr, SI, 19S?, , Shawn Iff - Balance from Previous Yea?-------*---—$ 445.189,52 Income—From Miscellaneous $17,20^.23,; T^tal—.— 1,032,055.98 disbursement^—To Mejffhess, $§71,887.97; Miscellaneous, $ic?8,5i?8,81; — 1,040,413.78 Business written, during year<—:Number of ‘ policies, 4*308j; _ Accident Only Business ijn force at end of yeaft^upiber ' of Policies, ' Value of R$ai. Estate (leas. ajr}p»nt of encumbrances} --••——$ 99,432.99 Value of Rpnds and Stocks _—.—- 285,071.10 Deposited in Trust (lompanies and Banks not pn interest —-———-—— 30,477.63 Deposited in. Trust (Jomjjanies and EaQks on interest_--—---—-—-—- ' 20,000.00 Interest and Rents due and accrued—- 6,445.74 Ajd other- Assets as detailed, in statement 60,339.61 Total — —-$ 507,767.07 Less Assets not admitted—- 41,628.55 Total admitted^. Assets--—466,138.52: UARIMTHS& Death Claims resisted---—$ 38,902.75 Death Claims reported, but not yet adjusted--—----- 86,750.00 Si,ck and Accident Claims —-- 61.428.54 Borrowed Money_ 65,000.00 Advance assessments-,_- 8,099.50 AH other Liabilities, as detailed in statement --.—-1- 413.# Total Liabilities_-____$ 261,194.28 BUSINESS- IN NOi&TH CAROLINA DURING 1933 Policies or Geritficates in force December 31st of previous year,. - - Number 4,694; ________ _ Accident Insurance Only Policies or Certificates issued1 during the year, - - Number 176; _ _ Accident Insurance Only Policies or Certificates in force December 31, 1933, Number 3,476 ; _ Accident Insurance Only Losses and Claims unpaid December 31st of previous year, _ Number 70;_$ 13,530.00 Losses and Claims.: incurrjeft during the year, _ _ Number 28% -~_._ 37,312.47 Losses and Claims paid during the. year, Number 300; __ 41,412.47 tosses an# hupai# Dficejajhey 31, 1933, - - Nunib^p 43;. ___ 7,930.00 Premiums an# Assessments collected, dur ing the yeac in Nnrtb Carolina,—- 58,982.00 vtf&. B. WESWJMAN; president. . T„ '4. XXXS^, Secretary-Treasurer. ?pxne. Offioe-r 3^, t^adall St- ^9uis' 5 AttQpji^ fnj S^i^* Insurance Commission^ Bjge^h, hL.C, • Mftttage$; fo$ Npstfe CaroJiha- HO|“e Office. . S^A^ Q$ ^oat^fitCA^/bVV O^ai), ■ J>prAR3JJP>NT, g^leigh, July 9th, 1931, J* 9- 1^^, : ^issionw, # tha& t|$i %fcSSFl% is, % tF& aftd correct *zm&<$ Of thg,^at^|8»t ^ 4fif.0^atei?a Protective of 4%^ £ F^uaj: Of#^, ot St ^ tN« Ktft; G^ditiqft q£^ %gtsr*3ft,1te $U& of, ^cem^h m m- W #. <#<*&; V§& the aay- *& %3m i
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