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IMPLIES TO HiOP MOURNERS W. A. PKTBEE REJOICES AT THE VICTOR* OF THE MIN ORITY GROWERS WHO PRE VENTED TOBACCO CONTROL —S AYS THIS: "DON'T TRY TO RESURRECT THE CONTROL PROGRAM, AS WE MIGHT GIVE A WORSE DOSE NEXT TIME." I W. R. Petree of Germanton pub lishes the following letter in thi Winston-Salem Journal: "In your paper, December 23 is sue, appeared a special report of a small band of mourners meeting for the purpose of paying their tribute of respect to the late la mented compulsory crop control, or to pledge their best efforts to ward resurrection of the corpse, which took its departure on De cember 10, 1938. "It appears that a former Stokes county citizen was selected to extol the many virtues of the de- i ceased and it also appears that this funeral oration, if we may be permitted to speak of it in this vain, had quite a visible effect upon the mourners, especially the chief sponsor of the program, who is a very large tobacco grower of Stokes county, and especially so under crop control. "Probably the entire proceeding went through without a hitch. The unfortunate part for these gentle men is the fact that it so happened that the same issue of the paper carrying a report of their meeting also carried a report of the chief statistician of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, in which we learn that the 1938 crop of tobacco, probably the best crop #»■ tAPfft^—miffti—■ iawiii iftgonor 'O™ l aoßor 10 | When Money Is Scarce and Trade Dull j J 11 Advertise 11 .: x I | Then when money comes back, the subconscious | I mind of the PEOPE will lead them to your square | 1 | ' deals and fair bargains. | | i | | j Danbury Reporter | I | Read Every Week By the home People of Slokes County. | Q lr» ~".r t^ft oywooooox»oooooooooooxx>oooooooooo«oooox>o»oooo •Sf jj w , 5 „^«A^~jsraig3o3:==iog3eg===3ocaoc=aioEaoc=^aoc3CS3oES3oEsssßoc3oiao of smoking tobacco ever produced in this state, sold for 23 1-2 mil lions of dollars less than last year's crop, a crop without com pulsory control. j "Just prior to the spring elec tion on crop control Mr. E. Y. Floyd reported that the 1936 to bacco crop of North Carolina av eraged 2 cents per pound more | than the 1935 crop, also the 1937 j crop averaged 3 cents more than !the 1935 crop. However the chief statistician referred to above, re ports the 1937 crop at an average price of 24 cents, 4 cents more than the 1935 crop. So we see that the trend of prices under the two years 1936 and 1937 when there was no compulsory control, was up, end yet our banker friends tell us we will be ruined without compulsory control. We prefer to take statistics. "We should tell these gentle men who want to have our farm ers managed by a bunch of politi cians in Washington city, who have practically bankrupted gov ernment, that we are not yet ready to sell our birthright, our blood-brought liberties, for an imaginary mess of pottage, j "William Jennings Bryan showed his true greatness by being able to ' take defeat, but how about these {crop-controllers? If these people 1 find it impossible to reduce their large acreage which they were I planting under the old AAA our newly elected congressman might be able to have Congress pass an j enabling act for their special benefit. "Don't disturb the corpse in his peaceful slumbers, for if you should succeed with your resur ' rection program we might give ftnft*" BATTftl—'tftF-TftT— ftgflnQES^-iQCSIQi—»OwO THE DANBURY REPORTER you a worse dose to take next time than we gave you on the 10t h of December. Brethren, allow us to persuade you not to secede. Let's keep the old "Imperial Fifth" in the Union. —W. R. PETItEE. "Germanton, N. C. "December 24, 1938." r- JWWUi THE PRESENT That Lasts A Year A SUBSCRIPTIOH TO /H0 The Home Newtpaper p World's Fair at Home and Abroac' » One of the Now York World's Fair's greatest attractions will be tbe spectacular illumination of the I'erispbere, one of the two build ings comprising the Theme Center. Lighting effects never before at tempted are now being devised by Fair engineers. Batteries of power ful projectors mounted on distant buildings will spot the globe with color, while other projectors will superimpose on this color, moving patterns of light which may take the form of clouds, geometric pat terns and moving panoramas, cre ating the optical illusion that the I'erlsphere itself Is sio'.vly rotating. Inside, the visitor will seam to be suspends.; in space on revolving platforms, gazing down on a vast panorama dramatizing the all-im portant role of cooperation in mod ern civilization, showing all the Auto Accident Clarence DeHart and Carlos Flinchum were in a serious auto mobile wreck near Walnut Cove last week. Flinchum is in a Win ston-Salem hospital, but DeHart was unhurt. The car was consid erably damaged. elements of society coordinated m a better World of Tomoriow. _ One phase of such cooperation will take definite form with tiio tour through the South starting In January of the World's Fair Pre view on Wheels and Southern Motorcade of "The Arcadian Grow er," sponsored by the distributors of Arcadian Nitrate, the American soda, and officially approved by the New York World's Fair 1823. The Motorcade, consisting ol a largo scale diorama of the Fair, anlmaird with light, color and movement, will show the famous theme sym bols, the Trylon and the I'erlsphere, together with state, national and International buildings. It will give a dramatic and vivid impression of how the Fair will appear to those who visit it. fc Oil From the Floor of the Sea I - . ■■■■■& Drilling selsmographic *hot holes from a barge In a bay along th; coast of Texas. ALONO with tbe Improvement in the technique of drilling in the bays and seas that has taken place during recent years, submerged lands along the coast* of Texas. Louisiana and California are assum ing Increased Importance as sources of additional petroleum supplies. With drilling rigs and other equip went floated ou barges to well loca tions. the oil companies are explor ing wide areas on all three coasts und are finding large, deep deposits of oil beneath tbe floor of the ocean. During the p;>.st six months ex ploratory crews working for The At lantic Refining Company bave been engaged In selsmographlc shooting along tbe coastal regions of Texas and Louisiana. From barges, shot holes have been drilled 15 to 20 feet beneath the floor of tbo tidal waters. The various sound waves, produced YOU CANT QUIT ADVERTISING YOU'RE TALKING TO A PARADE NOT A MASS MEETING ADVERTISE--IT PAYS THURSDAY, DEC. ». by the discharge of dynamite placed at the bottom cf tbe bole, have been recorded by selsmographlc instru ment] also handled from barges. A study of these records reveals a pic ture of the character, structure and depth of the formations beneath the water. Indicating whether these for mations are such as to be probable reservoirs for oil accumulations. (Jp to the present tl:ie all of the petroleum Industry's exploratory work and drilling has been done ID comparatively shallow water, but deep water prospecting may In the near future be practical. Crude petroleum bas been found on ocean water even beyond the three mile limit, whose source may have been seepajos from below the ocean floor, indicating the existence of petro leum reserves in tbe sedimentary rocks beneath the ocean. —-I
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