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iHotmt %itri ffjftiy. ESTABLISHED I MO MOUNT AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA. THURSDAY JUNE 9th. 1921. 91.60 PER YEAR IN ADVANCS. FARMERS UNION IN NEBRASKA PAYS ■Mm, It N«w Hu • Mem bership of ISO,000—Pro *mmU Sold by (Im Coeparat Kw Pfea Omaha, Meb.—When tha hnun of Nebraska decided to firm a anion and •all their ova live atoak taalaad af marketing thru tha reguluar lira atoak «—miaaion man, four jraara ace, April 1. 1917, tka regulars predicted failure. But the fanners by starting at tka Omaha terminal markat tka only co operative Bailing agency on any Uvo atock markat, have found that tha plan has greatly Incraaaad tka numbar of dollar* In tholr pocketa. Tka Parm ara Union Lira Stock Commlaalon of Nebraska, in apita «t tha fact that It la ufardad aa an outlaw by Mm rata Ur oommlaalon Anna, has proved that cooperative Bailing la a paying van On the veoand floor of the Rlf live stock exchange building In South Omaha are two unpratantloua office room* where tha buainaaa of tha Fanwn Union la tranaacted. C. H. Watt* la general manager. Here busi ness sggregatlng millions of dollars In s year la done. In 1917, when the Fanners Union sst up Its commission office in South Omaha, C. H. Gu*taf son was its president. The new United States Grain Growers. Inc., recently elected him preaident. Mr. Gustafson's successor, C. J. Osborne of Sidney, Nebraaka, is said to be highly efficient. ai • mtrung 01 Domrpa 01 director* of ■ half doaen organisation, Includ ing the Farmer* Union, In Omaha April 21, a union of all the farmer*, ■oiling and buying organiiationa in Neferaaka for mutual coo p«ration waa la'inched. It waa then drcjded to maat in Omaha in May to formulata tha plan of union. Commiaaton men from the itart did not look kindly on the producer* get ting into the field and taking the beat trade away from them. Thejr have fought the union at every torn. b«* fetW^th* landing. the farmer* have gained. The agency at South Omrha operated at a loaa the flrat seven month* of ita exiatenee. In the eight* month there waa a Rata and by the end af the flrat year it waa poaaihlr to return to patron* 38 per cent of the commiaaion* paid. At the cloae of the third year 50 per cent wa* prorated to the member*. Having made ao much of a tucceaa of the office in South Omaha, a houae waa imtalled at the St. Joaeph, Miiaouri, dockyard* and another at Sioux City .Iowa. Today tha Fanner* Union ha* a membership of 126,000, im rarmers union report for 1920 shown that the total business handled by the three house* in 1920. including Omaha, Sioux City and St. Joseph, was 11,696 ears and /fl$6.000 head of live stock. This business handled by the union amounts to $40,000,000. It represents in the matter of commis sions $186,588.18 with expense* at $92,926.40, making a net saving of $9t.611.78, or nearly $100,000 saved to its members in 1920. The union bandied business for over 400 shipping association* in 1920. The business for the first three months of 1921 indi cates a steady growth. Total can handled in January, February and Mairh of 1921 at the three houses was 4618; commissions. $84,080.68; net savings, $^6,968.78. According to General Manager Watts the three house* are run on a , strictly cooperative plan. Savings are prorated to all cooperative live stock ahlpping associations, to members of the Farmers Union and members of any other state-wide farmers coopera tive organisation. "We retain," said Mr. Watts, "at each office, a aim equivalent to the charges made under . the rales of the Live Stock Exchange (known as 'commiasion charge*'), to defray operating expenses. The busi ness is conducted at actual cost, s!1 savings being prorated in January of each year to our patrons, according to the amount that wa* held for operat ing expenses." By having a direct contact between hiryer and seller, the cooperative *avee one commission. Patron* live in many states, tho\igh the Farmers Union is a Nebraska institution. Gen eral Manager Watts says-. "We don't aolidt business the wsy the oldline Arms do. Every time a commission Arm sends a man oat into the country to a shipper the farmer in the end haa to pay the expenses of the trip. We Ami MtofWn skippers whan they mass to tow* to get their business. We depend on the as sabers of the anion in different localities to get tfcatr neighbors to patroelae ear Im. We are doing I faJriy mi •quarsly. Wi art not In Um game to tear down the bualnaaa of tbo old-line houaaa. Wo have our own field, wo chart* the sams rmtoo of commission th*t tboy do, and wo live op to tbotTj ruloo aa promulgated by tho live stock HINDENBURG IS STILL A MUCH ADMIRED MAN TbU Wu M««i>-tod By tho Prolonged ApplaoM Gi*w Him At Ex-EmproM* Funncwl Potsdam, Germany, May «.—Tbo af f action and admiration which Gorman pooplo itlll ontertoln for floM Mar tha! Von Htndenbur* wu manl footed by tho throng* who gathered to attend tho funeral of tho Rmpreaa Augusta Victoria. Tho Gorman princoo paaaod virtual ly unnoticed through tbo crowds hat wherever tho popular field marshal wont tboro waa a murmur of admira tion which frequently awollod Into pro longed applauao. Evan tho communists who could bo distinguished by tholr remarks wors silent before Von Hln denburg, although they spoke loudly ahout "tin soldiers" aa other high of ficers paaaod. There was an amusing incident when the "hero of Tannerberit,, arriv ed before Wildpark station, where the services for the empreas were held. As he decended somewhat heavily from an automobile, the great string of medals about his nock was dlsarrang-1 ed. A siiK-naiwi, »mu wninKerea man and • policeman ruahed to rearrange them and met head-on. The (ilk hat waa dislodged and rolled upon the pavement, and the policeman etood in a dase. In the meantime a half doien of cera in full dreea of renerala had irathered about the "old man of the Masurian lake*" and carefully ar ranged the medala, while other* help ed the Field Marshal put on hi* high, taaaled cap, which he had been unable to wear to tbe MlOrn of dniri car. When Von Hindenburg appeared at the itation to depart, the itreeta for many Iquaree were packed with ex cited crowd* which ralaed a tumultu ous cheer and again and again, until the train waa out of eight, the "hoch*" resounded from thouaanda of throats. A ahort time previoua. Prince Auguat appeared on the atation plat form, and waa received with a few lifted hata, but without cheers. Governor Morrison's With For| Every N. C. F»mity Governor Morrison wants every North Carolina family to have a ear don. a few chickets and a cow. And this paper ia making bold to auk the Governor, before he distribute* hia chickens and gardens and cowa, to »ee to it that a "pic-tight andbull-strong" arrangement la made whereby the neighbora' chirkena will be kept out of the garden and off the premiaea of the neighbor*. Neighborhood row* without number have been promoted and feeling engendered that waa mean enough to reaort to murder and araon. by the habit of aome neighbors wan tonly. wilfully, and with malice afore thought, rearing chickena on other neighbor*' garden* and lawn*. If Mor-' riion can think up something to atop, that he will have won glory enough for one administration. But if he pro- [ pose* to distribute chicken* and gar-1 den* promiscuously, with nothing lo keep them apart, then ha is fixing to raise more—well, trouble, than he can quell with the *tate militia. The cow atable* on small lots may not be-. come a nuisance, breeders of flies and dl*ea*e. But chicken* and gardens without a separation that really separates wont do; and if the Gover nor doeant know that some of his friends should »ax him into a comer and have a few words of plain rpeech with him— Statewide Landmark. Reynold* Tobacco Company Reduces Wage* 20 Per Cent Winaton-Ralem, June 4.—The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco company announced today a reduction of approximately 20 per cent in the wage* of operative* in the various plant* her*. Action does not affect office employes. The com pany states that plants will be oper ated Ave days a week instead of four, and that many employe* will have the privilege of wording Ivi and a half day* if they wish. This i* the Brst re daction in wife* the company ha* made aiace th* beginning of the Euro pean war, M*| which several ad 10,000 MILL OPERATIVES ON STRIKE Charlotte, Co—rd ami Other Town* Affected Charlotte, June 1.—Charlotte, Cm cord and Kanna polls an tha aantera »f tha textile atrlka movement orig inated this morning at X0 o'clock whan It la satlmsted that mora than 10,000 mill operatives In theee thraa center* left thalr loom* and spindlaa and tn •tltnted tha strike which for weak* has been Impandlng. In Charlotte, tha mllla notably af Facted are thoaa ownad bjr tha Chad ■rlck-Hoakln* company, a atrtng of live mjlls, four bar* and one In Ptne rllle; tha Johnston Manufacturing company and the Highland Park Manufacturing company, the milts >wned by C, W. Johnston and aeeocl itee. Tha Cannon milla in Coneord and Kannapolla are under the ownerahip u»n management of J. W. Cannon. Three or four thousand operatives •re Idle in Charlotte and Immediate ricinity. Concord reports that the itrlke In that town and In Kannapolla involvee more than 6,000 employee.1 [teuton county mills, nearly 100 of Lhem, are unelfected, and so are those in Cleveland, Lincoln and Union coun ties. WW A.I A. it _ » *s S ll u-avily upon Charlotte, Concord and1 Kannapolia and no I illy upon other mill center* in the b.tte la explained Mcaune of the atrength of the United TYxtile Worker* of America in the hre* first named rommunitiea. The jnion is not on all foura in Qanton sounty where ita ranca, it la aald, have Mcoiqe seriously aerried by condition* prevailing in the textile induatry dur ng the paat 12 montha. The aame is the situation with the Cleveland mill*. Union *trMifft|i In thoa* eitahjiah nenta la so outweighad by non-union 'orcea that the strike could not be put >n there. Where the local union of the United Textile Worker* of America repreaent* • maximum strength of the working force* in the textile mills, ihe itrike waa instituted; ta tbaaa tther centers sihere non-union itrength prevaila, the atrike waa not >rdered for obvioua reaaona. The atrike of textile workers in the Charlotte district is in connection with the nation-wide proteat againat wag* reduction began Wednesday morning »t 10 o'clock. Employe* of the Chad wic^-Honkm* *y*tem and the High arid Park syatem were the first to walk out. Search Is To Be Made For Lost River Of Cold Edmonton. Alta.. June 1.—Search for a lo»t river—a river of gold—will lie undertaken this year by seven! prtwpertora, Including old timer* from the Yukon ami Alaska, who are here low outflting for the long Journey. Itii* lost river bed, where the Peace river once flowed, is somewhere in the t>ig bend of the Peace, bisected by a line drawn from Fort St. John to the mouth of the Battle river. Some yean ago an Indian brought into Fort St. John a fair-sized gold nugget which, according to the tale told by old-timen of the north, he dis covered in a stream in the country to (he northeast of the post. Soon after this an old trapper, a white man. who made Fort St. John his headquarten, came into the Fort with a quantity of coarse gold which lie had washed from some stream in i similar direction to that from which the Indian hailed. He never visited the tnp lines after this, living on the fat of the land In arefree idleness at the post He often disappeared, whenever his supplies of. necessaries nn tow, and would be| »way for a few days, always return ing with a fresh supply of gold. This aged trapper lived in this man ner for a number of yean. He died, as many tnppen and north countrymen, have, on the tnll. His body was found | froten. With him went his secret, he never hsving told to anyone the loca-j lion of his find. The books of the Hud-! ton Ray Company still contain a large credit account in the name of the old tnpper. Northmen, who tell the story of the mystic El Dorado north of the P««ce, declare that the gold was only avail sble after • heavy fall of snow, with which the old fellow apparently wash Mi his minenl. From an analysis of the circumstances genenlly. It la thought that the place from which the rold was taken was some old river ned where the Peace once flowed, hut whether the story is correct or not remains to be proved ^ Pmspecton, however, an putting up good money to teat the truth of the theory that the peetieus Metal 4m •slat suasselisis to the north of Clear Hills to large nnliMil GERMAN TRIALS MERIT CONFIDENCE British Solicitor-Cmaral Sajn Public Cu H.y» Faith hi AlUgad War CrimiaaU1 Trial* London, Eng.—Thst ths Lslpsk Court, where tho prosecution of Gor man war criminal* la progressing, li ono in which tho British public cm havs tho fullest confidence Is ths visa •xpresssd bjr Sir Ernest Pollock, K. C Solicitor-General, who has bssn ti rhanre of Uts prosecution and has now returned to London, (savin* Sir Ellta Hume William* In shargs of ths Brit ish csss. Ths Oermsn court Is on* of great authority and Uts equivalent Is position to ths Privy Council. Th« president Is s msn, Sir Ernest said, bf striking fores of character and dl mark«d Impartiality, who was very ■tern on occasions toward ths Germar accused. The British witnesses were given full opportunity of stating their caas, and were examined with fairness, while their evidence waa exceedingly well Interpreted by a German whe had taken his degree at Aberdeen Uni versity. With regard to the sentence on Sergeant Hrinr of 10 months' tin nrisonment, Sir Km»«t added: "You may take It that It will be carried out, and It dates from Monday I ait week. It la equivalent to a aentence of im prisonment with hard labor and in volves dishonor." A Scotland yard inspector, in charge of the witnesses, who was present at the trial, said he thought the sentence was fair having regard to the fact that a number of the gravest charge* made were not proven, and that In nome cases there appeared to havs been a certain amount of provocation. These views will In alt probability sllay public indignation In Britain at what has been called the inadequacy at the sentence passed on German war triminals at Lripak, which found ex preaatM is the news panel!, and was also raised last night in th< House of Commons, where Sir Gordon Hewart the Attorney-General stated for Alls part, that what was proved and pifev sd per contra he did not know, vat for himself he proposed to wait till hp had full information. T*ft Must Wait For Chief Juitice'i Po»t Washington, May 31.—President Harding will probably rnme former President William Howard Taft chief lustice of the United StaUs Supreme court. although the apooi-^ment may be deferred for twe or three Vfarrt. Senator* have Informed the Pres ident that there would be much oppo sition to the appointment of Mr. Taft »t this time. Thia would not be mani fested in the vote, which so far a* the Republicans are concerned would prob ably be unanimously in favor of the former President. Some of the sena tor* have disliked articlea written by Mr. Taft and others do not approve tome of hia decisions on the war labor board. Mr. Harding ia quoted as having told callers at the White House that he intended to promote Associate Justice Day to be chief juatice and to name George Sutherland, former sen ator from Utah, associate justice. The arrangement was to be that justice Day should retire in about two yean sfteT which Mr. Taft would be offered the place. It wn* hinted today that Mr. Taft was receiving much attention for im mediate appointment, the inference be ing that the President Is weighing the two plana. Protest Ob Physical Examination Rule Asheville, N. C.—Protest has been mud* to the board of city commission ers againpt the practice of public physical examination of pupila at the Asheville High school. As a result, pupils in the future will Only be ex amined by city school physicians, in the presence of their parents or a member of the Parent-Teacher asso ciation, according to an announcement of A. J. Hutchinm principal of the school. City Commissioner Sherill said that the law had been in effect for some years, hut that he did not think it was compulsory, and that th* parents. If they so desired, could have their children examined by their family physicians. The pretest which brought action was AM by B. B. Stan berry, who has his children In school. RACK RIOT IK OKLAHOMA TOWN Tula* Sin W hriwn Out Woli >0 or Mors Dtad Talaa, OkU., J una 1.—Baa* rtata to day nwl>«< to tha daath of M or mora paraona, Including olna whitoa, and tha injury of aaoraa, according to aatiautaa by tha poliaa, and In tha da ■truetlao of 10 hlarka at town la tha nagro quartan. Daapita tha placing of tha city undar aiatial law today, daatil i tory ft ring oantinuad darter tha after noon, bat tha city thia avaning waa cuaiparatlvaly qalat. Pour oompanlaa ' of tha aattonal guard undar Adjuntont i Oanaral Barratt ara on daty. Tha raported daath Mat graw all day. At noon tha chlaf af poliaa notlflad Oorarnor Rohartaon, at Oklahona City, that tha total waa 71. In ona Ktatamant, Major Chariaa W. Dalay, | of tha poliaa dapartmant, put tha flg ; ura at 17#, laying ha ballarad nagroaa | had baan hurnad to daath la thair hoaMa. r Later this awning, police hradquar ! tin had report* that eontnntln **-' ' timataa of the iU ad would be about , 25 whit* parnoiia and M negroes. The trouble ta declared to have I atartfed la*t night from tha arreat of a mtgro charged with attacking a white ' girl, and auhaequent attempts of na- j groes to rearue the arrested man. Comparative quite prevailed In tha later hours of the night but at day break a group of negroe houses were 1 »et afire and tha city firemen were prevented from fighting the flame*. Armed white men then formed a circle about the negro sections. For several hours during the morn ing parties of negroes and whites fac ed each other acroa* railroad track*, on which could be saan a number of slain negroes With the arrival of Adjuntant Gen eral Barrett and a machine gun com pany from Oklahoma City a semblance of order was restored. Several thou sand negroes wars aaaembled Mulder guard Convention hall, tha kaaikall park and the police station. Order* were Issued for the diaarating of all persons not belonging to the guard or especially deputised. Detachments of the National Guard were scattered about the city at strat egic points, eapecially about the negro quarter, where 10,000 to 13,000 negro es, It is estimated, reside. Nearly half that number are under guard. Dick Rowland, the negro whose ar reat led to the diaturbance. waa re moved from the city to an unnamd deatination. Officer* declared he wou'd I be given an early trial. Prompt medical attention wa* given to the wounded. Civic organisation* and citizens who volunteered their services cared for the negro refugee* to whom ice water and aandwiehee were served through out the day. Special care wa* given to the aged and infirm and a call was sent to nearby towns for available nurses. After the firing of the first shot last night, at Sixth and Boulder streets, the fighting spread to various parts of the city, including the business sec tion. At one time 2,000 armed white men were reported to have engaged the negroes. Railroad1 stations were the scene* of several encounters, and a number of casualties resulted when train* were fired upon. Women and children huddled together in the stations, seek ing safety behind marble wainscoting. In addition to the negroes under guard at Convention hall and elsewhere, 24 negro riot prisoners were in the city | ' Ends Perfumed Kiw Elimination of the "perfumed Mm" ' ii the latest result of prohibition. It ha* been blacklisted by the dry j chiefs who warn maidens against i scenting their lips with violst or rose flavors. Those familiar with the kiss ! say that hereafter it will be followed [ by a chemical reaction. Two things will put the jinx on the' "perfumed kiss." Dijnethoys^nchntae i : is one. The other is brucine sulphate. These are two chemicals which; government efllcials have ruled must go into all perfumes and toilet waters ! to render them unfit for beverage pur poses. Perfumed Hps bearing a dose of either of these drugs will give a "kick", second only to that of strych nine, said oAeials.—Louisville Coor | ier-Journal. 1 Miners searching for gold along a river In Britiah New Guinea sneonnt ered a bluish-gray flaktah substance which they discarded. This mints— was oemlridtam, a member of ths plat inum metals and one of the hsrfcst metals known to seism. It li wectk POTATOES RAISED IN MICHIGAN AT LOIS Sim Dollar Sood mm* W-a-Dmj Labor Loft No Mv|ia «# * Pro&t la Saloa Cropa Aa* Offorod at 30 Coat* a ImM Detroit, Mich.—The itory of tfco ' potato la MleUcaa in 1M1 hi a aad on*. Ma-dollar Mad, planted by ft-o dajr help, to ground worth »800 par am Uat rammer raiaad ona af the rreateet crop* in tba hUtory af tka potato bait of tba central part of tbe Mat*. Today tba fanaen would gladly ■ell their iropa at M cant* a baabel.. but faw arc Andlnr cMtomm 1h» •anda of buabala will ba takaa froaa pita and ettawn broadtiaat aa fertfllaar. Aa a reault of tMa condition there will ba a ftfnall crop plantod la 1MI. Another reault la addad hnpetaa to tba attempt to form a potato irawaia' exrhanre. • ' WtilU stories that farmers wer* ot tering their crop* to any who might com* and take them away an largely exsfrgerStlon, the situation la clearly explained by John Carrot her* of Owosao, who operate* the largest potato farm in Shiawaasee county, the renter of the induatry, aa follow*: I rannot afford te give them away, for the reaaon that if I did thoee who came after them would not have the tool* to ret them out of the pita, and I would hare to furniah them, aa well a* riving my time and that of my men to oterseeing the removal at the pota to**." Mr. Carruther* now ia (hipping w»/' era) carload* of potatoes to the eaat aa 28 rents per bushel; this will just cbout cover the cost of tacking and. leading them. Laat spring Mr. Carnrthars planted I'M acres of hia farm, of several hua Jred acres, to potatoes. He used 1# bushels to the act* for aeed, or 1000 buahela In all. He used hia own seed, for which he was offered K a bushel by a seed bouse. That waa mm hit ment«of W.OOO. It took several men snd teams many days to At the land snd plant the potatoes, and it required sn enormous amount of labor to take rare of them until it was time to dig them. The early potatoes brought a Pair price, but before the late potatoea were dug the price had dropped to a point where Mr. Carruthers could not r*t hi* money out Qf tifom. Ha hang »n, and the price continued to slip until they reached what apparently ia the bottom price, 2$ cents . Up to a few weeks ago Mr. Car ruthers had between 12.000 and 15,000 bushels in his pits, snd when he Alls his present order he will have at least 6 000 bushels left. They will be used »s fertiliser. This story is true of nearly every potato raiser in this county, only on s smaller scale. All have failed to get even the price of their seed back, without pay for their labor and the use of their ground. As a result moat at them have decided to raise this year only what potatoes they will need for themselves They declare there is too much hard work entailed in raising potatoes to do it for nothing. Mr. Carruthera, howevei, will not sbandon the crop. He believes that this year will be the best year to raise them, because other farmers are cat ting down their acreage. He will plant about 75 ams. he says. County agenta about the state are tdviaing farmer* to raiae the crop sgaln this year. They attribute the present low price* to an under con sumption rather than an over-supply, pointing to statistics which show that the crop as a whole in the United States waa not enough larger to war rant the preaent low priccs. They be lieve that had tV consumption been norms!, the price would hrve been ft i bushel. Otizanabip Drnmd To Draft E*«d«n Chicago, in.—Denial of the applica tion* of several men for citiienahlp r*« made by Judjje Xeneaaw Moan tain Landia because of their reeortf taring the war. "Any man who in tha Fall of 1917 claimed exemption from :he draft beeauae It happened he had tot been naturalised cant come to thia »urt now and expect to become a -ititen of the nation he wouldn't fight 'nr." Mid Jodga Laxdia. The caae which flrat caused the ludge to fnaniant waa that of Jacob Rothatein, employed la the Mm i ho pa, who admitted that ha hai a In the Aaatrtaa amy. "Ajfllr nfuaad." aald Judge Uaia Tm eannot have the I mill f **■ 7wMU« Mi ftgiti Mi pM
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