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I THE SAMPSON INDEPENDENT < Entered at the Postoffice at Clinton, N. C., as Second > Class Mall Matter. 1 flPBSCIPTION PRICE- - ■ -$2.00 per year. (Outside of North Carolina——$2.50 per year.) STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Published Every Thursday W. W. Casteel,-—--Editor and Publisher CLINTON, N. C., AUGUST 7, 1924 WAR DECLARED ON BOLL WEEVIL. The spread of the boll weevil over Sampson county is becoming general, according to all re ports this week. The pest, if not controlled, will ruin that part of a crop left by the bad weather of last month. However, the fight against the weevil is strengthening, and every day sees more effort in this line. This week a demonstration on the Honeycutt farm, on the Dunn highway, will show the methods found most satisfactory by the American Cotton association in eradicating the pest. It is urged that every cotton grower attend this demonstration. You owe it to your family and your community to do all that is possible toward the elimination of this agent of destruc tion. -0O0-— ‘‘All films should end happily," says a writer. We agree. And the sooner The better.—Punch. — -—0O0-— If Democratc could cast as many ballots at the polls as they do at conventions—good night G. O. P.-—Brooklyn Eagle. -0O0 JUDGE DANIELS ! ON PROHIBITION. Judge Frank A. Daniels, in his charge to the grand jury here Monday, spoke at length about the hypocritical churchmen who, to the world at large, denounce booze in all of its ramifications, yet who secretly trade with the dispenser of: illegal beverages. The judge held that, if all of I the men who are church members, should sud-| dely discontinue drinking in any form, bootleg-j ging would soon cease through lack of financial support. The judge also took a healthy swing at those j who, in their violation of the law by the manu facture of booze, contend that they are fighting for their liberty and freedom of action. The almighty dollar, the judge said, was the ruling element, and without a big profit moonshining would soon cease. The court room was packed with an overflow- j ing crowd, which left after the charge with a strong conviction that the Goldsboro judge will give Sampson an excellent term of court with wisdom, tolerance and justice well balanced. ■'———0O0——*-— V The easiest thing for an autoist to run into is debt.—Toledo Blade. •--0O0 The king of Bulgaria is learning to drive a railroad locomotive. Well, you never know.— j Punch (London) -——-0O0-— TAKING A BIG STEP FORWARD. Sampson’s biggest school for girls—Pineland, of Salemburg, is taking a big and laudable step forward this year in the addition of a junior collegiate course to its curriculum. Sampson is proud of Pineland, and no doubt will find the addition of the two year collegiate work a decided benefit to those seeking higher education. The addition of the collegiate course offers higher education to many who could not otherwise afford it. Founded and managed a school where an education may be obtained at a minimum cost, it will permit many young ladies taking collegiate work who otherwise would have to stop their schooling when they had finished the available high school courses. Built from the ground up on limited means and by hard work, Pineland is a glowing monu | ment to perserverance and i’etetrmination. With the hardest part behind, there is no reason why this institution can not continue its forward , march and become one of the greatest schools sin the south. Certainly Sampson county will help and f&vor such a program. sK-. ; Mr. LaFollette can provide the Bull if some body will furnish the Moose.—Columbia Record. ---■oOu--"- ■■ ■ftSjfr jfr m ——. Many a family budget has. fallen down be cause it provided for only one of them getting a hair cut.—Knoxville Sentinel. ,—4—-OOO ~ . ‘^German mathematicians lead the . world." But look at the practice they've had figuring out rates of exchange^*—Baltimore Sun. Every day the world's facilities improve foe emitting intelligence, but the intelligence doesn’t seem to keep gtae with the facilities.— Columbia Record* _ .■ . ■*** TEN YEARS AFTER. (Greensboro News) Tomorrow it will be ten years since Great Britain declared war and it became apparent that 1914 was not to be a repetition of 1870. To morrow it is possible that the German delegates will appear in London to sign the new agreement to put into effect the Dawes plan, the scheme worked out to make possible the payment by Germany of some part of the damage done by her armies in that war. In other words, it is almost ten years to the day from the declaration of war by the British to the resumption of peaceful relations that have some chance of enduring. Yesterday the Daily News published a sym posium gathered by the American Legion Weekly and consisting of the replies of men who are considered as among the world’s great est to this question: “What did the world gain by the World War? Among others who ans wered was John Maynard Keynes, admitted even by his enemies, to possess one of the keen est brains in the British empire. His answer is eloquent of the despair of many of those who have undertaken to repair the wreckage of the struggle. He said, “I don’t know.” That answer was infinitely wiser than some of the longer and more facile ones. Tfhree great autocracies were destroyed, but is that worth all the sacrifice of blood and treasure? Is it so certain that what has replaced them is a gain? Ask the Baptists who are suffering fiendish persecution in the newly-enlarged kingdom oi Rumania; ask the Jews in Poland; ask the mid dle classes in Russia; ask the harried and op pressed minorities in Hungary; Czechoslovakia and Jugoslavia; ask the artists, scientists and professional men in Germany; ask anybody in starving Austria before you make your final answer. Russia, alone, is in position to over throw the new regime if she woud; but Russia alone, it seems, had an old system so unspeak ably and incredibly devilish that even her pres ent rule of homicidal maniacs is preferable to a return to old conditions. But Russia theoretically was arrayed on the winning side, so if she finds bolshevism a slight improvement upon czarism, credit that as one of the fruits of victory. What of the other al lies? France has gained a precarious security against German invasion, but she has been struggling frantically to keep it for five long years; and as part of that effort she is maintain ing an army that is bankrupting her. In Italy democracy has collapsed competely, and the former kingdom is now ruled by an absolute de spot, and a particularly brutal and bloodthristy one at that. Great Britain is in the best posi tion of all—always excepting our own—and even the former mistress of the seas has become a land of fierce and bitter poverty, her institutions crumbling under the stress of her economic burden, her great empire in imminent danger of dissolution. And the United States of America? Well this country has become immensely rich. It has more millionaires than ever before, and more thieves in high office. It is thoroughly cured of its ideaism. It sneers at international honor. It curses the memory of Woodrow Wilson. It scoffs at the notion that among the nations at whose side it fought honor and truth have any binding force, or that their solemn pledges of faith are more than so many scraps of paper. Money and synicism we have acquired by our participation in the great war—and monuments to a rich and cynical nation is doubtful. They commemorate the wrong thing. They are erect ed in memory of men who had neither of the gains that the great war has brought us, but went out and died for an ideal. We have lost them. Do our gains compensate us? -0O0——— Some of our presidential timber is mostly bark.—Nashville Banner. —-—oOo——— What times are these when the new Tam many boss got his start practicing at the bar instead of tending it?—Dallas News. -oOo— With wheat at. $1.23, keeping the “discontent ed farmer” discontented becomes more and more of a problem.—New York Herald Tribune. -—oOo Now we have it. John. W. Davis is to run for president in the east and Charles W. Bryan is to run for vice-president in the west—Toledo Blade. A Russian poet has just taken back seven trunks full of patent medicines with him. This seems to us to explain quite a lot of Russian lit' erature.—Punch. ■ > --—0O0 “Chauffeur* being too professional, the word smiths are looking for a term to designate a man who drives his own car.. It is safe to say that the terms used by pedestrians will not be ac cepted.—Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. > 0O0 ' ■!"* ■ We read in The International Book Review that in the past Mr. Coohdge’s political success was in no small part due to his winsome wife. In the future, it will in no small part be due toj his ability to winsome votes.—Norfolk Virgin ian Pilot . . ‘ V-'.*- '*■' jiff' -t ■• -.>. >v;. i -r > iSm - ..A* *W8F 7%. v.. HOVE SUKERS OR LOSE LANDS Coast Line Expert Points to Fallacy of Bleeding Strength from To bacco Lands By A. G. CARDWELL, Agricultural & Industrial Agent Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. While in conference with an official of one of the large tobacco buying and manufacturing companies a few days ago in Jiew York, the writer was forced to listen to some criticism of the southern tobacco farmers care lessness in leaving the stalks stand ing after harvesting the crop, thus robbing the soil of much needed plant food and providing a hotel for de structive insects. Imagine my pleasure upon looking the Progressive Farmer, issue of July 26th, to find an article entitled: “Keep Tobacco Stubble Busy,” which I am quoting in full: A lot of mischief may come from neglect of tobacco land when the crop has been harvested. If suckers are allowed to grow, then these will re move as much plant food in propor | tion to the size of the crop of suck i ers as did the crop we took off. I Further, when a tobacco field is al lowed to grow up after harvest, the tobacco suckers become feeding and breeding places for the multiplica tion of tobacco disease?. If stubble is destroyed promptly after harvest, then we get three good results: • 1. The sucker crop does not rob the soil of plant food and moisture. 2. Insect breeding and feeding places are destroyed. 3. Diseases have no place to mul tiply in while they lie in wait for the next crop. Best Laud on Farm The tobacco land is usually the best land on the place, the most heav ily fertilized and the cleanest of weeds, yet it is the tobacco land that is allowed to lie idle from harvest on. It is idle so far as producing what we want is concerned, but very active so far as producing future trouble is concerned. There are innumerable uses to j which this land may b« put. It can produce a profitable crop before frost —and improve while doing so—and can then be sowed to another crop for maturing next spring. It is a fact that our tobacco stubble offers us ex ceptional opportunities for widening our efforts at diversification for in creased production of food and feed, and for making the land better and richer. In the lower or “new” tobacco belt of North Carolina and in all of the commercial tobacco area of South Carolina, tobacco is harvested in time to plant a surprisingly long list of field and garden crops maturing in a month or two and releasing the land for other crops; or other crops occu pying the land until next spring or summer, or even several years as is the case with alfalfa, may be grown in tobacco land this summer or fall There is a very long list of crops that tobacco stubble land released In July and early August can be planted to such as second crop Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes from vine cuttings, turnips, tomatoes, corn, beans, winter cabbage and 15 or more other vege tables. Tobacco land can with but little effort be gotten ready for fall sowed small grain, legumes and pas ture mixtures. We who have suffered from rain and we who may yet suffer from boll weevils may find a measure, and a good measure, of relief from our to bacco fields by putting them to work at the time we usually force them to loaf. -a Strength of Farms It was Lord Chatham who said: “Trade increases the wealth and glory of a country; but its real strength and starqjna are to be looked for among the cultivators of the ’and.” Professor G. B. Williams, chief of the North Craolina experiment sta tions, says; “Our prosperity depends jklTCH! if HUNT’S GUARANTEED SKIN DISEASE REMEDIES (Hunt’s Sthr* and Soar), fail la the treatment of Itch. Besema, Ringworm, Tetter or other iteb Inc akin dJeeaeea. Try this treatment at our risk. COX DRUG CO. ■ — i—: - - —: ■ 11 - =:\ VIRGINIA CAN SEALERS Seals, Opens, Re-flanges and Re-seals both pint and quart cans, without solder or acid. For Sale By Clinton’s Big Grocery Store SMITH & DARDEN Fancy and Staple Groceries, Hay, Grain and Feed. Tur nip Seed and Seed Irish Potatoes upon the soils and in order to build up soil in the most economical way we roust use legumes like clover, vetch, peas and beans, and in order to grow these legumes it is necessary .to use lime in most cases.” No good business man will, from day to day and year to year, spend his capital. The protection of capital, is essential to business permanency. Likewise no good business man fa vors the expenditure or waste of his community's capital, which is nothing more nor less than its soil fertility. This is one of the principle reasons why bankers and business men every where should urge farmers to con serve soil fertility. It is much easier to conserve soil fertility then to build up the worn out soil, rendered un profitable by careless methods. Evary farmer is a manufacturer.' His farm is his factory and what he sells is his product Tears ago it made little difference what the pro duct was or how produced because costs were low and fertility of soil was virgin. But times have changed. Fertility of soil is going or gone, costs are higher and the wise farmer is looking ahead to see if there isn’t some hope for better times for him. Must Improve Lands Of course there is an answer to this soil fertility problem. Every farmer should adopt as his slogan— “I will look for richer lands by phst ing legumes and other soil improving crops,” and this should be put is practice on all lands before or after harvest. , , While not generally applied, gam- , ticularly in tobacco and cotton grow ing sections, it is well known thrt live stock, lime and legumes on the farm will return the exhausted soB to its original fertility, and maintain a high crop production, thus ptaeinr control of the cost of production al most entirely in the hands of ttm farmers. If he can materially in crease his yields per acre, withcmt in creasing his production cost pr pound bushel or ton he has inTiigrt his possible margin of profit. There has been a lot of talk abort soil building, and the importance af this question is generally recogateC I Everyone knows that the use of meth ods which will retain or Increase aafl fertility "are most desirable, but assy few farmers practice all they Kamr about such methods. Try aur iiiant I®* v UUR WANT ft** Tour father end grandfather knmm' and trusted Wintersmitha GW Tonic, just aa mother* and fatheraacF today knew and uaa it with aheolngm confidence. For young and ottit iaw. reliable anti-malaria made under one formula farSAjwm. tor malarial i _ alsoferta it tonic i The remedy for malaria fevers, including dengue: fiuenia and grip. Exoellen! any waeting illness. Ft _ >^60c: mammoth eise, $1. All drug I Wiat*t*mHh Chemical Ca* lac... 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