DANBURY REPORTER
Volume 58.
EDITORIAL
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Cooperative Production Needed, Not Cooperative Marketing
Elect A Business Manager
"If we do not cut production, then I am absolutely convinced that the situation is hopeless." —Gov. Max Gardner, in his address at Raleigh ves
terday.
Gov. Gardner is right. Curtailment of supply is the only hope. The Daribury Reporter has been preachi mg this doctrine for years.
Let the tobacco farmers of the four bright tobacco States —Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia—unite and elect a Business
Manager. Ten thousand men can't do this thing, but ONE can. Give him a salary that will interest him, get the best man in the nation for the
job, don't stand back on the size of his salary, and let him have carte blanche. He will put tobacco on top, now it is on the bottom.
The Standard Oil Company covers the earth. Its organization functions m every village in America and Europe. It is highly organized and
eminently successful. Is the tobacco business of four Southern States so big or more complicated, or more difficult to handle than the oil t-ornora
tion? We don't think so. P
What is everybody's business is nobody's business. Put all the responsibility on one man, but let him be a SUPER-MAN. He will win out for
you. The farmer's day is to come, i f the right kind of sense is shown in this crisis.
TOBACCO PRICES
LOOKING UP
Davis Warehouse at Lumber
ton Averages $17.66 for .'{4 l,*
000 founds on Monday of
This Week—Farmers Satis
fied
Good news was received from
the Lumberton, N. C., tobacco
market this week when tho Re
porter had a telegram from E.
J. Davis and Son, warehouse
men, stating that they sold
sold on Monday, .'511,000 pounds
of the weed for an average
price of $17.66 per hundred
pounds. The telegram gave
1 the further intelligence that re
ceipts on the weed on that mar
ket were heavy and that not
a single farmer was dissatis
fied.
Dairy Specialist
Visits Stokes
Mr. F. R. Farnham, Exten-
sion Dairy Specialist, of State
College, was with the County
Atfent two days last week dur
ing which time a series of
eight meetings were held. Sev
eral farmers were visited per
sonally during this time. Mr.
Farnham stressed the import-
ance of balancing our crop
farming with livestock and em
phasizes the value of dairy
cows in this connection. He
stated that tobacco growers
would do well to keep five or
six good milk cows from which
to sell milk or cream on the
Winston market. In develop
ing a dairy enterprise it is most
practical to use a good regist
ered dairy bull out of a dam
.vith a known record of not less
than 500 pounds of butter fat
in one year. Mr. Farnham was
agreeably surprised to find so
many good Guernsey bulls and
about twenty-four cows and
heifers registered. More than
half of these have been brought
into Stokes county within th«:
past fourteen months as a re
sult of the activity of the Conn-
ty Agent.
Mr. Farnham emphasized the
fact that «)>» farmer could buv
high priced, ready mixed l'eer*
and make money on cows. He
stressed the importance of
growing good pastures, and i
minimum of soy or some
similar legume hay for each
k*ow kept. He recommended
mangels or stock beets as a
substitute for corn silage as a
aucculent for feeding the cows
.in winter.
J. E. TREVATHAN,
Established 1872.
MT. AIRY BIDS FOR |
MILITARY HOME!
Offers Government 250 to 500
Acres, One .Mile North of
City With Guarantee of All
Modern Conveniences.
The progressive city of Mt.
Airy is making a strong bid for
the National M.litarv Home for
soldiers. The following letter
h.vs just been received here
from the chairman of the com
mitte which is making an ef
fort to secure the home:
Danburv Reporter.
Danbury, N. C.
Dear Sirs:
The Congress of the
United States, at its recent ses
sion, enacted a law appropriat
ing $2,000,000.00 for the pur
'pose of erecting a National Mil
i itary Home in the South.
The town of Mount
'Airy, in connection with the Ki
wanis Club of Mount Airy, has
offered to the government K
I site for the said home# as fol
lows: Two hundred and fifty to
five hundred acres of land about
,a mile north of Mount Airv,
with a guarantee of a railroad
siding, and also guaranteeing
to furnish water, lights, power
and gas connections. This and
is on a state and national high-
way. making connections with
the northern points to the
Lakes and south to Florida,
This location is in a beautiful,
rolling, hilly section of Surry
county, North Carolina, eight
miles south of the Blue Ridge
Mountains and has plenty of
good water and an excellent
climate, free from exVeme hea;
and cold. We feel that this lo
cation is an ideal one for this
home.
As chairman of the
committee appointed to present
this matter to the proper au
thorities, 1 write this letter to
you to solicit your co-operation
with us in securing this site fo.-
this home. li' you feel willing
to co-operate with us and will
write a letter addressed to (Jon
era! (ieorge 11. Wood, Pres
ident of the Board of Managers
of the National Military Home,
Washington, 1). C.. you will
ple.ii.se forward that letter to
me.
The citizens of the
entire county of Surry are
heartily in favor of this move
ment and would greatly ap
preciate a letter from you ap
proving the site.
Yours very truly,
J. B. SPARGER
Danbury, N. C., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 1930.
WANT FARMERS
TO REDUCE CROP
I Producers Will Be Asked To
Sign Pledge That They Will
Not Grow More Than .HO Per
Cent, of This Year's Crop.
Rocky Mount, Sept. 10.—The
Eastern Carolina Warehouse
men's association, with repre
sentatives from each of the 18
markets in the bright tobacco
belt, today is on record as fav
oring a move to reduce tobac
co acreage in the four bright
tobacco states ana warehouse -
j men have pledged their efforts
; to bring about crop reduction,
i President W. E. Fenner, of
the Farmer's Bright Belt To
bacco association, last nighi
I outlined the action of the Nash
county meeting last Saturday
j to the warehousemen in Wilson,
I and unanimous approval fol
; lowed.
They approved the contract
j between farmers and the assooi-
I ation assuring a 20 per cent.
| reduction in acreage and at th"
j same time pledged co-operation
j with farmed*, time merchants
and business men in obtaining
the reduction.
"Prices Should Improve"
, "When tobacco companies art'
; assured that the crop next yea ■
| will be cut 20 per cent, and thai
j higher prices will be demanded
I
for all tobacco sold, prices
should improve," one leading
warehouseman said.
A committee of 10 ware
housemen named to meet with
time merchants in Raleigh to
morrow morning to urge mer
chants to work for acreage re
duction.
When President Fenner pre
sentli the contract to the Ra-
Weigh gathering he will have tli"
, organized support of the war>'-
i housemen to aid him it is un
l
! derstcod. Mr. Fenner calte.l
i
j the meeting in Nashville last
'Saturday and has taken the
('lead to cut acreage.
A committee of Nash farnt-j
I ess and lawyers drafted the
j contract which was approved bv
! the Nash directors at a meel
, iug here today,
j The contract fellows:
"This contract, made and en
tered in between Farm er s
Bright Belt Tobacco associa-,
tion, an organization of tobac- j
I
co growers throughout the;
states of Virginia, North Car
olina, South Carolina and
Georgia, party of the first part,
and the undersigned growers,
(Continued on page 7.)
STOKES IS IN THE
DROUGHT AREA
Farmers Will Be Able To Gei
IV.'d and Hay at Half Reg
ular Freight Rates in Car
Load Lots.
I have just received 'notice
from Raleigh and also from
Washington that Stokes county
has been designated as coining
within the drouth area, and
that Stokes county farmers af
fected may order hay and feed
in car-load lots, at one-half
the regular local freight rate.
All shipments coming under
this ruling must be approved
by the County Agent and must
- be shipped on or before October
31. 19:50. Farmers interested
i in taking advantage of this
■ fre'ght rate on hay and feed,
, should pool their orders for
feed within the next few weeks
j and secure permission from the
/County Agent to have the .ship
ment made at one-half freight
rate.
J. E. TREVATHAN,
County Agent.
STOKES GETS
ONLY $3,000
! Money for Paying Teachers
I Dur'ng First Quarter
School Year—Cnion County
i Gels $.'5:5.000. Roberson s2(i.-
000. Etc.—Stokes in Poor
Luck.
I
Union county gets $.'5:5.000
from the $1,141,000 State funds
appropriated to the schools of
North Carolina for the first
quarter ot the school year,
while Stokes gets only $.'5,000.
Roberson county gets $20,000,
Alamance $24,000. Ashe $lB.-
000, Catawba $20,000, Colum
bus $21,000, Harnett 818,000,
Iredell $20,000. Pitt $17,000.
Stanley $20,000. Wayne $17.-
000. Alamance $24,000. Mooiv
$1.'5.000. Cleveland $2:5,000.
Avery $1(5,000. etc. But Stoke*
j gets ( illy 8:5.000.
Death of Good Woman
j Mrs. James Lawst.n, of tin-
Meadows community, passed
away at her home last Sunday
at an advanced age. The de
ceased was an excellent Christ
j ian lady and will be greatly
ni'ssed in her community.
Pilot Mountain high school
will open Sept. 15th, with Ar
thur Smith, of Peabody Col
lege, Nashville, Tenn., as prin
cipal.
MAJOR STEDMAN
HAS STROKE
\ eteran Congressman From
North Carolina Is Seriously
111 in Washington.
Washington. Sept. 11. Ma
jor ( buries M. Stedman, of
Greensboro, Confederate sol
dier, thrice wounded, an ti
statesman, for nearly 20 veai
member of the house from
the Fifth congressional district,
suffered an appoplectic stroke
yesterday afternoon, but au
thorities at the Mount Alto Na
\al Hospital, where he was im
mediately taken, informed rel
atives this afternoon that there
was a chance ot his recover v.
During the early part of thw
day hospital attendants refer
red to the condition of Major
Stedman as serious, or critical,
but an improvement was noted
as the day advanced, and justi
fication was found for the feel
ing for hopefulness that was
not at any time abandoned by
(those who know the aged house
I member best; they believed the
j doctors at St. Alto had some
| thing to learn about their pa
[ tient's will power, and his pow
j ers of resistance., even to a
| stroke.
Major Stedman. who has long
held the esteem and affection
ot the entire house member
ship, lives at the Gei-rge Wash
ington Inn. near the house of
fice building, as dues his daugh
ter. Mrs. Katherine Palmer,
who has been aiding him in the
office work. Yesterday Major
Stedman was heard to call out
and Mrs. Palmer, going into
the next room, found her father
on the floor unconscious, lie
was shortly thereafter removed
tit the hospital, where it was
found his right side was af
fected. the Major having little
use of his right leg and arm.
Ed Ray Loses
His Car by Fire
Ed Ray had the mist", rtun
to lose his almost new Chevro-
let by fire Sundav nftern. o;i
when he lost control of it and
the car ran down a steep em
bankment near l.awsonville.
Mr. Ray escaped without in-
Buenos Aires student shot a
professor who flunked him.
Mow we understand why mod
ern teachers must know so
Brazilian rubber trees plant
ed experimentally in Florida are
thriving, some having reached
a height of 15 feet.
Number 3641
SHOOTS HIMSELF
AND HIS GIRL
Love Affair Is Lnded When
Laurel J. Sams, of Stokes
( ounty. Shouts Miss Bernice
McCaskill and Himself in
j Greensboro.
Laurel Jackfcon Sams, a na
tive Stokes county boy, who
i had been employed at Revolu
j tion Cotton Mills, in Greens-
I boro for some time, on last
j Sunday afternoon fatally shot
Miss Bernice McCaskill and
' then turned the weapon cn
hirrjself, both dying in a hos
-1 pital atterward. The evidence
i is that the young people had a
love affair and had quarreled.
Sams was 22 and the girl was
jpnly 15 years of age. A .32
caliber revolver was used and
the girl was shot through the
right temple, wh i 1 e Sams
also shot himself through the
temple.
Young Sams, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Sams, formerly of
Stokes county but now of Rev
olution. died almost instantly
.from the shot, while Miss Mc-
Caskill. daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John L. McCaskill. of 28
'Poplar street. Greensboro,
lived, in agony, almost two
hours after the shot had passed
through her right temple,
piercing through the head near
the left ear.
Funeral services for young
Sams were held at Quaker Gap
Baptist Church in Stokes coun
ty. yesterday.
He is survived by his mother
and tather, three brothers and
lour sisters, several of whom
reside in Stokds county.
Home-Coming At
Westfield Church
Special home-coming serv
ices will lie celebrated at the
Friends Church hi WestfielJ
on Sunday, Sept. 21. Uev. Mc-
Farland, of High Point, will
preach and Mrs. J. S. Taylor,
of Danbury. will make a talk
on her recent travels in the
Holy Land. There will be
special music for the services,
and dinner will be Served on
the grounds.
Ice is prevented from; form
ing on airplane wings by a new
device which coats their sur
face with oil.
Accusing the police of using
the "third degree," Alex Muir,
of Glasgow, declared that need
les were stuck in him to mak?
him confess a theft.