PAGE SIX SOFT Ml CM INOUSTR* Stand* Out As Bright Spot In Commercial Fiaherje* Os the State Raleigh, S*pt. 22(API —Among ths various branches of the cominer- i dal fisheries of North Carolina, moat of which have been affected adverse- j ly by depressed markets .the soft i shell crab industry stands out as a | bright spot during the biennium 1930- ■ 32. Capt. John A. Nelson, fisheries I commission, said today. Holding up better than any other branch of commercial fisheries. Cap tain Nelson pointed out that the pro duction for the last two-year period was 162.775 dozens valued at $162 755, compared with 81.204 dozens bring ing $101505 during the previous bien- i nium North Carolina, the commissioner! said occupies a unique position in tha soft-shell crab industry in that the i state enjovs what is virtually a mono- j poly on the crab maiket because of i Its earlier season than states further north along the seaboard. The season in North Carolina, he l continued, extends through March am! • April while the Vitginia and Mary- 1 land markets do not open until May 1. 4ftar sales begin in tne lattei ■Sates, the North Caionna markets I ' Carolina's crabbing industry. Captain i said, is the crab meat busi- l neae • Two factories for preparation of grpb meat are located at Belhaven. one at Marrteo one at Vandemere. and , one at Morshead City. Daring trie biennium just ended, the states crab meat output amounted to 178"000 gallons which sold for SB7 000 l EASTERN CAROLINA AS LIVESTOCK AREA I \ Dallr lli«|»at<-h ItnreMU, ■ ■ the Mr Walter Hetel. IV J C UASKHMt lI.L. Raleigh. Sept 22 Eastern North Carolina long renowned as the great I cash crop section of North Carolina j la destined to become a livestock • country with especial attention to 1 beef cattle and sheep along with the hags now being produced there, de clares L I. Case, beef cattle expert ; of- State College who visited this sec- j tier, last week in company with F. , Hi Jeter agricultural editor. Mr. Case has been working in this section for three years and is par ticularly impieased with the lower' coaatal plain or tidewater section as a home for beef cattle production. • The place of sheep, he says, will be a» small farm flocks and not in largo ranch holdings However, eastern Car olina can produce legume roughages and grass pastures much more econo mically than they may be produced elsewhere in the State and there arc great areas of wild grass reeds in the tidewater section on which cattle make substantial gains at practically no cost. Turtle farming on a large scale is carried on in Jap.n tr.J America. Critically 111 bbIB Hi ■jjjv 'it B lj| Wr Vnl wm With his life said.to be hanging k the balance, Hear Admiral Joel R. “ Pringle ' aoc Y.M RAMQ 'm-MM*rr -i jam Od mshmt lAMur&xrgVMaaiM 5 Mozzojg ■BBaESwHaMaaaMi ’ FORCES OF RELIEF LIKELY ACTIVE NOW (Continued lrom i*aga On*.) slumped badly. It was at that juncture that several great fortunes were founded, notably those of Potter Pal mer and Marshall Field. Those men. having ready money and foreseeing a tremendous inflation an commodity values, bought heavily and got the benefit of the Increase accompanying the outbreak of civil strife. “The crash of 1873 of course waa to have been expected as a result of. the post-war boom." “The ensuing depression,” continu ed my father, "was felt most in the east, for the simple reason that that was where business existed. The south - kitche y n^^p^mb I I I f COURSE we don't expect to tell you the exact number of law ■| f j dollars that may be saved in your particular case, but we t will say, without hesitation, that if your home is an average ■ 1 I home the savings you may effect by changing to an all- electric kitchen will go a long way toward off-setting the monthly pur . / HI chased electrical equipment with all sorts of misgivings . . . they v were ever skeptical, but after a few months on our Combination K Rate they became our biggest boosters. They didn't become en- // 4 thusiastic for no good reason at all—they did so because there was / S .\\\ an actual money difference in their favor after the operat- In addition to what you can actually slice off your // S J In ST costs were paid present fuel bills there are savings which will effect \\\\\ Remember, we are assuming that your home is an entire household budget Less food spoilage with / S/ v M *1 * i electric refrigerator! Quantity buvincr at barfifain f f \\ X. x\. average home. If it is not, we can show you a par- prices; and the use of est overs Less \\\V\ allel caße th »‘ «'7. e y«“ some >dea as to what in meats roasted electrically and more palatablt // S// \\ X. \\ “Ve"* 8 I ? reallzed “ l oat Particular case. foods resulting in less waste. Greater effi // X// * reduction cannot be made over your ciency in water heating—all the heat units / \\\\\ P«“ nt costs wo will be honest go into the water and not all over the // / // \\ W\ enough to tell you so. house. Such savings as the- - ' //X X/ to evon more than the difference in actual oper- / f SJr \\ \\ ating costs. t —7 X / mean even more to the average housewife that cannot be reckoned jj ■p= in dollars and cents. Less time in the kitchen; m less energy required to perform the same tasks; H r s§ ' *B IH preservation of youth and beauty; no smoke, |H— Hi B| " - I rST !■ fumes or ashes to contend with and consequent mm ml j —|H ly fewer wall and draperies to have redone or II ■ replaced each spring; and a savincr in pm- Hvl —■ |j \ barrassment when a neighbor enters by the / | ■I \ baok door or insists upon visiting with you in f IHlil ■ the kitchen. Such savings as these are apprr / V Hj| 1 &11-Eleetric " \VO\ zX/V/ When Is The Home Operation \W\V . Right Time To Buy? The installation of an Electric Range entitles q uest i°n might better be answered by ask* you to the first step of the low combination-rate. \\\\i f • • . . Bcarquna Power cLiomt Odmiany HENDERSON, (N. C. J DAILY DISPATCH. THURSDAY, SBPTEMBE R 22,1932 \ natumlly wtu* proetmt«, b«t not In the een.se that the trailing and. for that generation, industrial eastern states were hit. Tkte country west of the Mississippi was only bapinninp to be settled or was not settled at all. Where there war nothing but un broken prairie, it goes without say ing that there was no depression." “The depression of 1898," said my father, "w.'s broader than depres sion 1878. It afflicted the west, which had bean overdone, and it afflicted the east, which had tied up its resources in western* ventures from which it could hope for no dividends for sev eral years. Even European investors were quite badly nipped—especially In l Hollund, which had plunged exten sively in American securities. How ever, no such proportion of their cap ital was involved as was the case in the Near Bogie nd and other eoetem states. “After an interval, the natural pro cesses of absolution began to reassert themselves. This would have meant a gradual return to prosperity in any event. It was hastened by the Span ish-American war's outbreak, just at the psychological moment, small af fair as it was." "The panic of 1M9,” said my father, "as everyone can see. ares the burst ing of the poet-World war boom, just as the panic of 18T3 was the bursting of the post-Ctvil war boom. “It waa a worse crash In proportion as the World war was a greater war than the Civil war. “The' depression correspondingly Is a worse depression. “It may be that the mechanization of industry and the fact that the country is filled up as it never was filled up before will retard recovery or prevent complete recovery, but it does not certainty follow. While tha country was stilt in tha grip of the depression of* 1871 and 1888, no one realised that the foreee of relief were automatically at work. Perhaps they are at work. now. “If they are. I believe they will work gradually, in their own way, and In their own time. If recovery is ahead, I am convinced that artificial stimulation can only delay improve ment.’’ * STATE GRADUATE IS RECIPIENT OF HONOR Raleigh, Sept. 22.—One or the most valuable university research fellow- I ships in North America was awarded to Everett G. Cough of Darlington. S. C., a graduate of the State College Engineering School. The fellowships calling for one year ‘of research for the Canadian govern ment at the University of Toronto, carries with it a stipned of SI2OO and the opportunity for a Rill year of graduate credit work. STATE FEELS LOSS OF CHARLES W. GOLD Raleigh, Sept. 22—That North Carolina in general and State College in particular will keenly feel the loss of Charles W. Gold, of Greensboro who was accidentally killed yesterday morning while hunting in Randolph county, Is the general consensus of opinion on the Stat,. and in Raleigh. wh*i. V*** «-H.. known. * * . . Governor O. Max Gaid, Mr- Gold was for many * bw of ths State Coliec. I ' ‘ ■* r . tees, safct: "T •trustees at State C 0,, .» Gold for many year* '' W "* l H. man. an intelligent. w ‘j.* t r.’ patrietic citizen, i lt> . .7 ’.c* hi* untimely paasin ■ r* URQUHART PRinud, ••“■U.v...