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PAGE FOUR FOREST CITY COURIER Published Every Thursday in the interest of Forest City and Ruther £o»d County. Entered Aug. 22, 1918, at the post office at Forest City, N. C., as second class matter under act of Congress of March 3, 1879. C. E, ALCOCK Editor and Owner CLARENCE GRIFFIN—-News Editor IfRS.l f RS. C. E. ALCOCK Society Editor ARVAL ALCOCK .... Asst. Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year SI.OO Six Months -50 $1.50 per year outside of Rutheriord County. ADVERTISING RATES Display, per column inch 30c Beading Notices, per line— 10c Classified Column :1c per word THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1930 GOV. GARDNER'S MESSAGE TO FARMERS. Realizing that the farmers are the backbone of a self-supporting says an Associated Press dis patch summing up Governor Gard ner's' viewpoint on the. present un satisfactory condition of general business, the Governor recently talk-) •ed frankly to the farm and home a-j gents gathered in Raleigh. If the state is to get back to bed- J rock principles, said the Governor' the farmers must lead the way by | making themselves self-supporting • in 1931. The prosperity of the state ( lies in the prosperity of the farmer. j if he fail of success, the ill effects of his condition spread sooner or later to the cities and into the council rooms of the state's financial insti tutions. Such was the gist of the Gardner jnessage to the farmers and- to the rest of the population. There was more of the statement, in general application to North Car ina's situation as 1930 -comes to its end. It is imperative ti adjust expendi tures to income. And this, which vshould be taken to heart by every prospective legislator ;in the state and by the citizenship in general: "Weican not psiffes over this period by tKe aid of a narcotic or some other kind of momentary alleviation. The trend which we begin now will color *the: life- of this state for an other generation.'We are at the crosst. roads in taxation, agriculture and .A' social affairs."' The Governor thus concluded his address to the farm agents, in words j "whose spirit ishovfld be felt by the' state at large and incorporated into j action: "Do more for North Carolina than you have ever done before in your life. Plan the work for next year as early as you can. Keep hammering 1 on good farming. Cultivate a spirit of honor and integrity among our farm ers, so that they "will work in accord in reducing the acreage to cotton and tobacco, and the effect will be felt throughout the nation." —Ashe- ville Times. FINANCIAL SUCCESS OR HEALTH. Statistics show that tTiere has been 1 .a marked increase in illness and death caused by high blood pressure throughout America. Scientists, in an effort to explain this, assert that -we live on a plane of high nervous tention—that the struggle to accu mulate wealth, to keep up with the -Joneses, and to enjoy all' the social luxuries possible, is won only at the price of good health. The editor is familiar with many •cases that substantiate this argu ment. Countless numbers of men, and some women too, never pause in •the rush for material success to en joy life. They are eternally hustling, from one job to another and from me social activity to another, mak ing work out of play and chaos out if work. This is particularly evident in the -reat city where competitive strife and high social standards create this rtificial mode of life. Tt also exists in a community like Forest City to a limited extent, and for that rea son we would like to hvae our read ers pause and pondey on the problem ra bit. Is material success the sum total f the purpose of existence? Is mon v ?nd high business standing worth the loss c? friendships, the elimina tion of natural recreation, the ab sence of contented family life, and •he lack of good health? fiml y°urself caught in the swirl of high pressure living that seems to characterize our time, for a few moments and think upon the fundamental thing? of life. Ask yourself this question: "Am I here in this world to make money or to bring happiness to myself, my family, and my friends?" When you answer this question in the obviously intelligent way, you will at once withdraw yourself from the chaos and frenzy of the time that is taxing the health and temper the American people. JUDGE MACRAE GOING AFTER BANK GOSSIPS. Judge Cameron F. Macßae, open |ing the December term of criminal C(jurt at Asheville Monday, took particular pains to go after those unheeding ones who make derogatory rumors or statements about the sol- j vency of banks, and instructed the i ,grand jury to indict any person who violates this law. Notwithstanding the solvency of Rutherford county banks, there has not been an entire J absence of the rumor pests in this | county. This vile practice should be j immediately stopped and it is the! duty of all representative citizens to j report and have arrested any person j engaging in this dangerous practice, i Judge Macßae said he had reliable J information that eleven of the banks j closed recently in western North | Carolina were forced to quit business | by panic and not by insolvency. { Panic, he said, can be created in two j ways: first by actual insolvency and j second by the malicious circulation j of false rumors regarding the bank's i solvency. "If you know or have evidence of any person or persons breaking this law," Judge Macßae said, " it is your duty to indict them. This is a mat ter of grave importance for the community." Briefly stated, the law makes it a misdemeanor for any person to cir culate rumors which might injure the financial standing of a bank. The offense is punishable by fine or im prisonment, or both. It was the second time this year that Judge Macßae had read this law to the grand jury. Last summer he read the same statute and gave -the same instructions to the investi gating body. Judge Macßae, in his brief ad dress to the grand jury Monday said : "For nearly a year, I have been giving these same instructions to grand juries wherever I have been • ■ t - holding court. As far as I know not f a single person has been presented or indicted so far." Here is the statute which Judge j Macßae read to the grand" jury: I "Any person who shall willfully and maliciously make, circulate orj transmit to another or others any statement rumor or suggestion, writ ten, printed or by word of mouth., which is directly or by influence derogatory to the financial condition or affects the solvency or financial condition of any bank, or who shall counsel, aid, procure or induce an other to state, transmit or circulate any such statement or rumor, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and .upon conviction thereof shall be fin ed or imprisoned or both in the dis cretion of the court." SAVING A CROP. ; Travelers over Highway No. 20 cannot fail to notice the wayside and railroad side building labeled "Farmers Federation Sweet Potato I Curing Warehouse," although "cure ing is spelled the way the farmers want it. There are three such ware houses in that part of the State and | they were established and largely I financed by the farmer's friend, Jim : McClure, Pennsylvania man come \ down into the mountains of North j Carolina some years ago and set ting himself up as a promotive agen cy for agriculture, grain, grass, stock and chickens. Mr. McClure also pub lishes a paper for the farmers of magazine appearance, which oper - ates as an inspirational agency, and the purpose these potato curing hou ses in farmer-benefit is 'indicated in a summary of results. 0. J. Hol ler, in detailing how a crop that was once lost is being saved, says | that despite the fact that the sea j son ot 1930 was one of the driest | for many years in this section the I farmers have now in storage in. the ! Farmers Federation houses at For i est City, Spindale and Ellenboro, around 15.000 bushels of sweet po tatoes. The variety is mostly Porto Rico. While this is comparatively a new : industry in this section, had we had a normal season even though with ; facilities for taking care of 25,000 bushels, the farmers have been so well pleased with the results of this THE FOREST CITY COURIER, FOREST CITY. N. j project since its undertaking, we I could not have taken care of the (crop this year. Since the Federation 'has made it possible to provide for 'the potato crop, the farmers are in creasing their acreage each year and ! find it one of the most profitabls j crops they can grow. This crop fits in well with a di versified system artd is a cash crop with which to | ment cotton to some extent 1 and is much easier and less 'expensive to produce. While we are 'not now producing enough to sup ' ply the demands in this section, the f indications are that within a short • time we will be shipping to the Noith lern markets, giving to them a prc | duct that is very valuable as a food. ( jon account of the very low price of cotton this year a few dollars from | this crop to each farmer will help | to tide him over or be like finding j lost money. The farmers are apply- j ing now for storage space for next j year for from one to 20 acies to the farm, which means that more stoi- ( age houses will have to be provided, j —Charlotte Observer. SWEET POTATO SOFT ROT CONTROLLED WITH HEAT Proper heating of the curing house is a simple and effective meth od of preventing the spread of the soft rot fungus and also does away with the dangerous practice of sort ing out after the potatoes have been stored . "When soft i*ot is observed as in dicated by the presence of sour flies, the heat in the curing house should immediately be increased to 90 de grees F. says Dr. K. F. Poole, plant pathologist at the Agricultural Ex periment Station. "This temperature should be maintained until all flies have disappeared arid the diseased potatoes have mummified. The house should be well ventilated during the heating period as this dries out the s.urface of the sweets adjacent to the infected potatoes and checks the spread of the fungus. After the diseased potatoes are thoroughly dried out they can be left among the healthy sweets for the rest of the storage period." Mr; Poole states that after the I potatoes are once> stored and the cur ing process begun, they should not be moved: for amy purpose except for immediate sale. When this is done the potatoes are bruised and, owing to the process of curing, the healing is very slow and the infec tion will spread! through this raw tissue. Due to the fungus growth within a few days after storage every potato, even in the best regu lated houses, wilF be exposed to a greater- infection Chan when first stored: and for this reason alone the sweets should never be handled after curing starts, he says. The early cool fall season togeth er with an abundajuee of moisture in some areas has greatly favored the parasite and in many cases the in fection has been carried into the (curing house on potatoes that were effected but did not show any signs of decay, says Dr. Poole. This infec tion cannot be helped but the spread of the fungus can be checked by { proper heating and ventilation, and \ the exercise of proper precaution in 1 handling, he says. Low Farm Income Dooms Tenant System j The antiquated cropper system >f farming, as practised in North Car olina- and the South, is doomed. •'This is no- new revelatfon," says R. H. Rogers, farm management economist at State college. "The system has been doomed since its inception, as it is not logical to expect a year's living: from a half year's work. Neither is it likely that | slip-shod operations and manage— j ment in any business will long sup- j port one family let alone two or more." . The day of reckoning will be hastened, says. Mr. Rogers, by six; things and these are the expansion of cotton growing towards the west, the increased use of rayon and other cotton substitutes, the continued heavy boll weevil infestation, mount- : ing cash expenses including i the expansion of the tobacco acre- ' age which has resulted in over-pro- j duction, and more recently a cur tailed domestic buying power. Mr. Rogers says the unprofitable ness of the tenant system is not new. However, in former days it would provide the landowner with enough cash to pa > his taxes and to arrange i for the next season's production. At the same time it would give the ten-1 ant some kind of living. Now the' TO SHOW GREAT MOVIE SUNDAY Carolina Theatre at Spindale Will Present "King of Kings" Sunday Afternoon for Charity Purposes. Spindale, Dec. 16. —Mr. L. E. Sipe. manager of the Carolina theatre, an nounces that he will show "King of Kings", a Biblical' picture, next Sun day foi* charity purposes. Two shows will be given Sunday afternoon, one at two o'clock and another at four o'clock. All proceeds from the show will be turned over to the local church Committees to relieve the needy in Spindale. This picture, while filmed for the J silent screen, has the musical score with it, and in several places a male chorus of over a thousand voices sing Christmas hymns. Over five- thousand I people appear in the pictui-e. "King of Kings" is conceded to be c one of the greatest, pictures on the • movie screen. It was produced at a j cost of one and a half million dol-1 lars. No set admission fee will be j charged, but everyone attending is; expected to make as liberal dona tion at the door as possible. The en tire proceeds will be turned over by Mi\ Sipe to the Charity Committee, sponsored by the local churches, who will use it in connection with their work in relieving the destitute in Spindale. TO REACH POOR CHILDREN IN ISOLATED SPOTS Elsewhere in this paper wll be found outlined the plan of Mrs. Fan nie Cantrell, welfare officer, who proposes to look after the poor chil dren of the outlying districts who will not be reached by the various community workers. Mr. E. F. Dardine, manager of the Romina Theatre here, has generously donated the use of his theatre for a show to be put on at 10:30 Sat urday morning, at which time the price of admission will be a toy or silver offering. The donations are to be given the children in those places not covered by the community work ers—the little tots in the isolated sections of the county, who other tenant gets a living and' there is nothing left for the landowner. This makes it imperative that a- change be brought about. The live-at-home program nnnst be intensified. This will Eelease ten ants who must find other farms or) go into the over-crowded ranks of labor. At any rate,, the landowner cannot continue to feed and care for tenants who return? him no pro fit. Alert farmers are now changing says Mr. Rogers, antf others will soon be forced to. change through bankruptcy or curtaithrerrt c«f credit. In the future more work must he done with modern machinery caus ing small farms ts>s be- thrown to gether for economical operations and extra labor needed 1 ' will be hired on I a cash bsais, sathe economist. Jf- BT: w* >jy .*» H a xejfcr 'ti.' > $> v o v m \ a%* „\e , x?~ v\. e v v .-•: 5k '\ * e>» v *. r#c. vV' , c° mn \ 4 «v V v> 5®552555!8c03 wise might not have anything at alt for Christmas. It i-s a wonderful spirit exhibited by. both Mrs. Cantrell and Mr. Dar dine and the pubfic should respond to their generous offer. Remember, a good full show will be given Sat urday morning and the admission will be a toy or silver offering—and to go to the poor children. Come out and help this worthy enterprise. Mr. Dardine also has purchased a lot of candy, which he will per sonally donate to Mrs. Cantrell'.s plan. Automobile glass replaced while wait. Farmers Hardware Co. LASTING CHRISTMAS PRESENT You probably have been waiting till Christmas spirit would loosen those purse strings for something and one thing every family has an ambition to own. Santa Claus has cut the strings on: 2 Four-Door 4-Cylinder Sedans 1 Coupe, 4-Cylinder. 1 Four-Door 6-Cylinder Sedan Whippet. Easiest to drive, cheapest fueled and the safest getter back on the road. Prices way down for Christmas. Call on W. L. Horn Motor Co. for good Oils good gas and good service. W. L. Horn FOREST CITY, N. C. BUY AT Penders' And Save Money Special Low Prices For the Christmas Holidays Thursday, December u Letters urging manufaciZT" merchants to co-operate r . , a North Carolina-made gootN to the public during the- ru! shopping season have been *1 by the Department. It takes 27 days for r. .. make its circuit around but we have moonshine in the year. Among the other fadi: is the one that two can h\> ... ~n ly as one after there ar, dozen. Subscribe to The Courier
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