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THE DANBURY REPORTER |
N. E. AND E. P. PEPPER, Editors and Owners.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1929.
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Will The Co-Ops Come Back?
There is said to be a marked tendency to revive co-operative
marketing of tobacco in North Carolina since the prices on the
eastern markets have been so disappointing. Averages of ten
j.nd twelve cents have set the farmers to thinking again, and
with the assistance which the Federal Farm Board holds out,
there is a revival of protest in certain quarters which has lain
dormant since the dissolution of the co-operative organization.
A statement recently by President Hill of the American To
bacco Company that a purchase of 100 shares of his company's
stock at a par value of SIOO per share (total investment
$10,000) would have yielded the purchaser in ten years SB6.- 1
298-75. has been published with incendiary effect on thousand si,
of tobacco growers who realize that while they are working at
a great loss, the buyers of their product are reaping a great ,
profit. i.
A well informed tobacco grower made the statement h
Greensboro recently that if the great tobacco companies absorb ' j
this crop—which in the western belt is universally admitted to |
be the best in 8 years—at the unfair prices obtaining in the .
east, that insurrection will surely start in the Fifth district. ]
What this farmer meant by "insurrection" he did not explain,
but he added that great masses of people have been in the j
throes of want and bordering on suffering while growing this 'j
crop, and have been reading regularly of the orgy of specula-1 1
tion and the piling up of great fortunes at the expense of their;]
Ir.bors. and that a feeling is widespread throughout the tobacco r
districts of injustice and oppression.
We publish below excerpts from an interesting editorial in
the Greensboro News touching the tobacco situation:
"The Progressive Farmer is explaining the causes and signi- j c
licance of the great change in attitude of the eastern tobacco i:
growers on the subject of association for co-operative market-1 s
ing. The current price is the body blow; it jars the eyeteeth; n
anil the tobacco grower has been accustomed to shocks. Organ- j
ization. "modern and effective" marketing JIIKI salesmanship iT!
on the part of the tobacco companies, never produced such | a
sharply contrasting results with the lack of organization, lack 'i
cf effective marketing, of salesmanship, on the part of the h
growers ot the weed which is the symbol of low wage and littl'» | o
capital return lor them, a golden crop indeed for the manufac
i
turcr. "Little capital return." is not correct: there is no capital ]lt
return- It is progressive impoverishment of the productivity! a
t: the land, which is the farmer's capital- a
"The Progressive Farmer argues that under present condi- w
t.'ins they are not good reasons, the reasons whv one would s
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rave said in 1H26 that there would not be any more co-operatiw h
marketing ot tobacco in at least 2') years. It is now realizes S
that the growers had recogni'/.ed and corrected most of their s
M ricus mistakes. It is found that a five-year contract is not g
necessary. Not 50 per cent signed up is necessary for success; a
less than 10 per cent. gi\es the cotton co-operatives reasonable I s
success. j
The federal farm board has now come in. to guarantee e\-|e
pert supervision- The government has made the promotion i p
and success of co-operative marketing its supreme purpose. It'o
will permit no discrimination against co-operatives. "The whole j w
situation has been changed almost over night by the creation I)«
of the federal farm board." That is. after all. the main ex-in
planation why hundreds of leading growers of the Carolinas jtl
and \ irginia. assembled at Raleigh took steps, with high enthu-1
siasm. to have another try at co-operation."
Howdy, Folks. ,
Traveling men report trade coming back with a kick. Merch- t -l
ants are buying for th» first time in months. Stocks of drv | p ,
goods, shocks, notions, hardware, and everything are biing laid m
in for the good business coming with the sale of the crops. is
All of which is unction to the soul of everyone who is tired
of hard timus. Now the dear public is not supposed to know ai
who has bought attractive new goods and who has not, and is U
interested to learn what you have to offer. If you are willing hi
lor them to find out the best way they can, and not being ap- lo
prised, go and buy where wideawake traders are telling the ai
world—you are out of luck.
The sensible scientific method in disposing of merchandise h
is to advertise. Let people know something about your store, h
and extend them a welcome, show them you appreciate patron
age.
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In other words put your message in the Danbury Reporter e
if you want Stokes trade. Ten thousand Stokes county people a
will read it, if you do it. „
Now who will come and go with us—we're bound for the a
promise land of trade and traffic. t
Keep the Trash at Home. £
Farmers are requested to withold the sorry grades of tobacco u
from the market. Hauling 2-cent. tobacco to the warehouses is
a waste of time and gas. Better scatter it over the land. See e
County Demonstrator Trevathan's caution in this paper. ]i
The market is soon to open, and farmers are urged to help v
hold up the average, which trashy lugs hold down. ' b
THE DANBURY REPORTER
Atheism's Encroachment.
t Mr. Arthur Brisbane is one of the world's highest paid
j writers. One newspaper alone in New York we have been told
employs him at $75,000 a year- In addition, he regularly uses
j magazines, and now he furnishes a column to daily newspapers
1 all over the United States, if not in other countries. Thus his
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syndicated writings are appearing closer to the people. His
audience is numbered by the millions. In his daily comments
1 on matters of current interest—which are so replete with
wonderful information on all subjects—it is a great pity he
', does not let the people's faith alone, having nothing better to
' offer in its place. Atheism for a long time confined its ravages
to select audiences of circumscribed limits. Books or pamph
, :
lets, and magazine articles, were employed. Lectures or plat
form addresses marked its boundaries. But when it appears
i in the daily papers, it is getting close to the heart of the coun
try- Like all infidel writers, Brisbane seems to have a grudge j
;.t anything which smacks of Christianity. Abuse will not j
get you any who re. so they employ gibe, jeer and ridicule. They j
try to laugh the churches out of business, and cultured people
are expected to smile when a dig is made at anything sacred.
With our North Carolina tax-paid professors drilling mater
| ialism into the heads of our sons and daughters, with our
i liUrature seething with modernism, and now with the news
papers at our firesides making merry or speaking disparaging
ly of the faith of our fathers, how long will it be before our
government—like Bolshevistic Russia—puts a ban on religion,
j America has thus far got along with a belief in the Bible.
, The judgment of the centuries has justified the wisdom of this
course. Shall we now cut loose our old moorings—shall we
l egin now in the heyday of our greatness to drift with those
nations who have outlawed God?
Bishop Cannon Afield Again.
Bishop Cannon, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
| comes back into the limelight, loving its rays. His latest break
iV a diatribe against the crime of New York- The Bishop
! s eems to have an obsession for cleaning out Tammany Hall,
not being satisfied with the job of last fall.
W liile the Bishop is. we believe, a citizen ol Richmond, Vir
ginia, he evidently leels that his mission is away from home,
jj'iid so because the police commissioner of New York and its
| district attorney do not close up the speakeasies of Gotham,
lie wants these officials impeached and removed from their
, otlices.
I New ork is undoubtedly a very wicked city, with its boot-
I ie;. v : s and rum-runners, and its gay night life. New York is j
| ::No the seat of the most brazen gambling der on earth, and I
as gambling is among the flagrant sins of the catalog, we
wonder why the Bishop is silent on this evil Possibly his
silence may be attributed to a personal delicacy, because he
himself has lately been a victim of the bucket-shops of Wall
Street. The Bishop played the stock marled rather strong j
so'. Ie months ago, and dropped some thousands of good Vir
igmia cash to tin wolves of Wall Street. The country, who had.
| admired this matador's brave tussel with the Pope's bull last
! summer and fall, might not have been wise to his operations
( n the stock market, on the assumption that a Methodist preach
er is a poor man. The Good Book, whose precepts the Bishop
professes to follow, declares that one's sins will always find
(•nest It out, Imt for the stupid failure of the gambling firm
who handled the Bishop's money, the Bishop's friends and
followers, who thought him a regular Methodist preacher,
might never have known whether or not the Bishop shared in
the "fund to beat A 1 Smith."
Untenable Attitude for the Senior Senator.
A beautiful story comes out of Raleigh to the effect that
the senior Senator is to be given another nomination and re
election, then he is to resign and let Governor Gardner ap
point Joseph us Daniels. Thus pomebody is playing a stroke of
major strategy in the interest of party harmony, and Simmons |,
is to do the martyr act and save the State from the Republicans. j
If these weren't such serious times, so that a very dignified j
and sedate physiognomy is becoming to everybody, we shou!d;l
beg the indulgence of our kind readers while we emitted a horse 
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laugh. The idea of Simmons resigning is so unique, so ridicu-!
lous, so preposterous and unthinkable, so entirely
and so grotesquely absurd, withal, dear friends, it is so ex- ,
cruciatingly funny, that we want to know who thought up thisjj
beautiful Raleigh idea. He must be crowned as the master'*
humorist of the State. j,
When our most embarassing party asset crosses over the!]
great divide and enters that bourne from whence no politician! l
ever returned, he will have left behind him some notable'!
achievements, but resignations will not be among them- The i'
official teat which the Senator has sucked tso long and so profit-1 
ably tastes with a flavor too sweet to the senatorial palate for,
the Senator to do anything so foolish as to turn loose until his
hold is rudely broken. If even the fate of the dear State should ',
conflict with such an abhorrent situation as that, then "to hell
with the State."
He will be known to fame, though, as the prince coacher of'
cohorts in party loyalty—unless it were when his ambitions
lay the other way. And he will be remembered as the man
who coined the definition of Democrat, then melted the mould, 1
because it didn't meet his measures- 1
Schools Begin. 
I j This week 45 per cent, of the school children of Stokes coun-
II ty are attending long term schools, as follows: Pinnacle, King,
4 Germanton, Walnut Cove, Pine Hall and Meadows. Meadows,,
s j which formerly paid 30 cents special tax and had a 7-month
s .school now pays 25 cents special and enjoys an 8-month school.
* This by virtue of the State's million and a quarter dollar?.
 | tqualzing fund.
i j At this rate, the people of Lawsonville and Francisco can af
; ; lord to have accredited high schools as soon as their buildings
, are completed, now assured, in spite of the act of the last legis
i j lature forbidding any more bond issues.
Have You a Relative or Friend Who Has Left
North Carolina,
Every North Carolinian, man or woman, who ha l " left the
State is to be invited to return to his old State and home coun
ty for the week of October 12-19—North Carolina's first great
; "State Home-Coming Week."
Governor Gardner asks you to write in the space below the
j name of any former Tar Heel now living outside North Caro
lina you would like to have invited to "come home" for this
State and county welcome. An official invitation will be sent
him or her, signed by the Governor and other State leaders, and
;■ upplemented by news and data about the old home common- '
wealth. Let every reader of this paper send a name!
R °- , N. C., 1 1929.
•State Department of Conservation and Development, Raleigh, N. C.
Gentlemen: In accordance with Governor Gardner's request, I giv>
below the name and address of a former North Carolinian I should like
to have invited to come back to his old home State and county for the
"STATE HOME-COMING WEEK," October 12-10.
(Signed)
N'nn»e of former Tar Ileel
li s or her full address is
Native county is Occupation
Theie will be a community a. J. Frv of Chicago, was
singers are cordially invited. J >o '' cernan John P. Devine, of
Singing begins at 2 i\ M. whom he was jealous.
For More Money
SELL YOUR TOBACCO WITH
HARRY TURNER AND
CHARLIE MARION
AT
I FARMERS
WAREHOUSE
MARTINSVILLE, VA.
Market opens Tuesday October 1.
Bring us your first load. You stay
with us and we will stay with you,
and we will all work for eich other
all the way through. Come to see us
one and all.
Your friends,
Turner & Marion,
MARTINSVILLE, VA.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, 1929