CI-AJtKNCE POE RE
PLIES TO ATTACK ON
GROUP SELLING
litter ArticU kjr Col. G. E.
W«fcfc Auwmdi Skowi
H»w Cwpif»th> Marbtki
Hm Bmm Successful h Dm
mark ud ia >v«nl Part*
at Tfcii Couatry ud Cauda
la the Winaton-Salem Sentinel ■
taw day! age appearud an attack on
c«-opera tivi marketing by Col. 0. C.
Webb. In the course of hi* arflcl.
Col. Webb criticlsea the motivea of
Dr. J. Y. Joyner, Dr. Clarence Pol
and Aaron Saplro aa follows:
"I want to tall Dr. Poo and other*
who in with him in thla bu*lna»»
(and bollova ma It la buainess with
Uim> that warahooMt and aaarketa
la North Carolina and Virginia an
going to kaop open for aalo of loaf
tohacoo at auction—and lot mo also
aajr that thoao who do not sign up thia
five-year contract will bo glad, and
thoao who do sign up will ho sorry. I
aaa writing this in a spirit of justice
S fairness to all concerned. All I
is that farmers investigate the
plan that is presented to them.
""Before I cloae this article I want
to say that no one with a graia of
fMjr Matter will deny that the men of
thla game axe not working for aoth
tof. I have been coming ia contact
directly with fanaere for almost 50
years, and I am ia the position to say
Nto* they know that the men who are
actively engaged In thia co-operative
market plan are not working for
gfary. They all know that Sapiro—
the Mews—from California will stake
hkl thousands—and they kahw that
•learner the ax-echool teacher and poll
♦yap. ia ia the game for what he can
get out of it—and that Poe, the
editor of the Progreeatre Farmer,
* newer works for nothing—and there
aa» others Including the Forsyth
county so-called fam demonstrator,
T*» or three fimm lum sent m
eopiee of your paper containing re
prints ol an article of Col. 0. E.
Webb attacking eo-operntive market
tag in general and my reoeot apeack
in Wine Ion-Salem.
I nottee that Col. Webb etarU out
by admitting bis entire die In Urea ted
aaae and winda op by intimating that
Dr. )• Y. Joyner, Mr. Sapiro and my
self kava eome linUter and diabolical
motive* back of our effort* to or
ganise the farmers hi the Bute to
"make themselves masters of their
own industry" through co-operative
marketing. It is not my custom to
engage in peraooalitiae, and if OoL
Webb can convince the farmers that
he is a suitable guardian for them
and Out the rent of us sr* actuated
by tome snister motive, ha is acting
within his right
Tfcs rani queeton, as I we it, how
ever, is not the gssdniss of Colonel
Webb nor the lack of this quality In
anybady also, but aimply the question
W*4 thlnT>fOT*thl" tobacM^^Mmen
of Narth Carolina to adopt
fortunately this pwMon does not
have to be settled ea a theoretical
hssis It Is suseeptMo of vary
prattles! proof. Let ma submit a
personal ebaervation as wall as from
the testimony of all other authorities
thai to proportion to the natural ad
vantages and the siss and. fertility of
their farms, the fsnaers of Denmark
an feebably the swot proeperoua on
the fees el the earth. In the last 40
vhtri f*rn»er* in making mo nay, I
don'l know h.
The United State* government
through Ita Canaua Bursa* haa just
iaauad a itatamant naming tha fifty
rlchaat agricultural countiaa in tha
Unted Stataa—tha fifty conntiea
I whara farmara ara • making moat
' money.
Tha vary rlchaat or richaat ona of
all wai ona of tha California coopera
tive countiaa. 80 waa tha aacond
rirheat. Tha fourth, seventh and
eighth richaat vara alao California
j cooperative marketing countie*.
In other word*, of tha eight richaat
'arming countiaa in America,- fiva
ware from California'* cooperative
marketing countiaa. And of tha an
tin I it of fifty richeat Amercan
farming countiaa, thirteen were from
California.
No wonder the California Bankers'
Association at ita recant meeting, re
cognizing how greatly cooperative
marketing ha« Incruaaed tha farmers'
bank depoiit*, officially declared
through ita agricultural committee.
"Cooperative marketing of farm
product! of all Mnda it undoubtedly
the ideal method. Banka can well af
ford to encourage any organlaation
I created for thia purpoae. Any bank
j er who ia agalnat cooperative market
, ing ia oppoaing one of the living
1 factor* of agriculture."
In California both bankara and buai
neai men iee how greatly coopera
tive marketing haa Increaaed the
farmers' proa parity and ara aa strong
. for co-operative marketing as tha
; farmers themselves. If anybody la
! inclined to doubt thia, let him write
to Dr. B. W. Kilgore, Director Agri
cultural Extension Service, Raleigh,
for a copy of hia bulletin or co-opera
tive marketing with the tastlasony of
scores of California buaineea men and
bankers.
But perhppa it may ne aaid that
granting that co-operative marketing
haa mad* Denmark one of tha moat
prosperous of agricultural States, still
California and Denmark ha I not
triad it out an tobaooo.
triad co-operative marketing of ta
"Co-oper»tW« marketing la the way
out for the firmer. With our Mary
land tobacco grown thia la bo
longer a ballaf but a practical accom
pliahed fact" So said Mr. B. Hr Carr
of Maryland, a prominent Maryland
farmer, landowner, and buatneaa ms
—ha uaed to be manager of Caroliaa
Light and Power Company, Raleigh—
in talking to me a law weak* ago.
"Did you have nock of a fight in
getting your organization going T" I
asked.
"Well, I should aay we did." Mr
Carr answered. "Baltimore la oar
great central market, and the buyara
and allied intaraat^ set oat to break
u« up right at the start. They had
an organisation called The Leaf To
bacco Association of Baltlasore. Every
buyer in Baltimore was a member of
It, and every commission house or
merchant who bought or sold tobacco
waa also a member, and they had a
by-law which strictly bound tbem not
to buy a pound from anybody who
waa not in thia 'Leaf Tobacco Associa
tion.' So they had a sort of mono
poly and seemed to have everybody
else frosea oat
"Cnnsnawfitly, whaa we want out
to organise tobacco farmers oar
ooeaiee tpld the growers, 'You cant
sail your tot as sal who ia going to bay
K,' But you may ha sore that the
buyers broke and ran aa soon aa they
•saw we meant boetnaci and wmiM |<|
61 per cant of oar growers signed up.
They repealed their old by-law.
"Now theaa big buyers whea they
have an order for t jbiwc* coaaa to the
co-operative marketing aa-ociUian
first of all. They come ta aa ha
cause they know oar big aaaociation,
representing I>00 af the State's
6,400 growera, has a larger aaeote
nant of tobacco than anybody elaa.
Bayers can got any quantity of any
|-grade they want—la rsaaon. And
this very fact insuraa better prtaaa
for co-operative growera."
Dr. Poo alao Included In his reply
a questionnaire showing the gnat
growois have ahtalnad through
hie reply, ha aaid:
|"My good friends, Colonel "Wahh
has the theory that woyawtlvt
' 1 ■ Mt work. The ia«ta
| will ant auk. The -fe«ta
from Denmark, California. Maryland,
*. bTJl
af the
ha graded or
SAYS MOREHEAD '
MACHINE TO FALL
j Pinfttirfitthi in IfpubltcM
R»nka in State) Fight m at
Hickory
Hickory, Jm. tl.—Prediction la
freely mad* in local Republican
circle* that the Morehoad political
machine, which at praaent la having
.• very thing It* awn way In tha dle
trlbutlon of offlcaa, ia riding for tha
hardeat fall tm experienced by an
i organisation In thla state. A wail
! known Hickory leader, who waa in
the fight to oust tha lata E. 0. Dun
< «n, iaid tha demolition at tha 1012
Kalvigk conv»nt»on would not ba a
circumstance to that w|Uch will ba
I attempted when the 0. O. P. boat aa
I -cmblaa again.
Diaaatiafaction, It ia said, obtalna
' over a large part of tha atata and
i Republicans hara are reading with
[ Interval report* from Washington. At
I 'Int there waa a diapoaition to minl
I miaa tbaaa, but direct word from
■ther pointa haa tended to impress
Seas that tha jiaplalnu ware real
and not imaginary.
Tha contaat her* had Us origin 111
tha local poatoWca fight, in which
I Raymond L Hefner, A. L. Deal and
Horace H. A bee war* tha three to
qualify for the appointment H. H.
Millar, another Hickory Republican
failed to got a rating, but at the In
atanca of aome leaders Wo, It is
(aid, the appointment of Hefner or
one of the other applicant* waa bald
up while two civil service man came
here to make another Investigation.
It ia freely predicted by Mr. Miller'*
friend* that he will land the Job, but
tha other* are not giving ap.
Hefner'e advocates aay he is un
doubtedly the choice of the patrons
| of the office, who ought to bo given
consideration, and they are going to
war later on the acora that tha More
head organisation Is a team-railing
over Kepublicana. Mr. Hefner klmaelf
baa taken no stock In new* pa per con
manner that cannot ba used against
him jtnd hi* friende
mmm c«mu ckw
Captor* Amnricm Htarto
Cobleni, Jan. Jl—Winsome Ger
■u girls continue to make Inroads
tn th« American force* in Germany
despite the • landing order iaeued
two jtmn ago that enlisted men who
married here would ha returned to
America with their wire* on the
next army transport
Every transport with return tn*
troope carries its quota of new'ywed,
and whenever a troope train leave*
Coblent for Antwerp, the fort of
embarkation, the flower shop* do a
splendid busineaa, their customers be
in( chiefly Germans who desire to
bestow flowers upon the departing
brides, full of anticipation and hope
for a wonderful existence in their
now homes acroas the Atlantic.
More than 1,000 American soldiers
hava married in Germany (hiring the
last two years and tea months, ac
cording to eottmatoe of American of
ficers and German civil officials.
Host of the naiM their wivae al
ready hava bera sent to the United
State*
Many soldiers who desired to marry
and remain in the service am this
side, took grant pains, officers say.
to keep the facta from 'becoming
known generally. Officers any soma
of the soldiers took their brlda* Into
unoccupied Germany, and wan marri
ed there, moat of these avaata having
taken place when America and Ger
many, technically, were atill at war.
Womsa Win Victory _
Washington, Jan. The nomina
tion of Hnriay V. Speelman of Mari
ette, Ohio, to to register of treasury
any wall ha npiM aa a victory for
the young white woman of that office,
for the vigorous protests of ttoae
woman, Republicans and Democrats,
from all sections of oonntry,
against the appointment of a negro
over than* Is said te have had an Im
portant bearing in aerating the aera
tion of Mr. flputoan. a white nu,
who haa been the aasiaUnt raster
for atany years. The nandtdatsa at
"Ltok" Jobteon. "who* was finally
knocked ont of mm by the Senate
tar the District of Oelnmbin. The
victory for whites, wto fought the ap
SLEEPY VILLAGE WAKES
UP
Following DbcoMry of OU a
Tontod City of SO,000 Atom
Ov.r Night
Mexia, Tuu, Jan. 19. Overnight
' ■ tMUd city ubh. From an ipptr
! ontly sleepy little town of I4>00 popu
, latlon in October 1921. where old set
tlers fanned tor a living and eked out
"a bar# existence from their landa;
where they rede cow horaea to "town"
' nnd hitched them to a hitching poet
and where even the town hall bell
had not U lied for year* becauae of the
cob web* and bird neeta—to a bustl
Ing city of SO,000 people, and all In •
! few monthi, thia la the recent record
j of Mexla, an old rime Texaa toyn,
I whrh la fetllng the effect* of olio of
j thy numeroua oil development* In the
South weet
The population now conalata of an
assortment of oil field followera and
| thouaanda of men and women aeek
j ing employment, leaving an old field
! for *he new, coming on traina from all
j part* of the United Statoa, or In wag
one, truck* or "horseback," *cm«
bringing their aaaortment of houaa
hold gooda and camping outflta and
finding from 10 to 100 men for every
job and no place available for (pend
ing the night
Consequently becauae of the exhor
bltant price* charged for a room, if
one were lucky enough to eacure one,
hundred* of men, favored by the long
continued mild winter are '.leaping on
the graaa along rr.ilroad ireeka,
public nart>*s2 placea and, la fact,
anywhere they could. Overnight a bed
In a tent marked "A place to flop,"
soared from 60 cento a night to |S- A
night In a crude plank structure where
one didnt know hla bed fellow or the
hundred* of other* In the alngle
room, coat 14. Price* charged the few
who ware lucky enough to get in one
of the few private dwelling* vary,
but aU ware Ugh enough to aatiafy
the moat faatidioua millionaire. Bat
man are glad to get • bed at any
Rail traffic Jumped hundred* of
per cent. There are two trunk linea
the Houaton A Texaa Central and the
Trinity and Braaoe Valley ludlng
through here and paaaenger traffic la
very heavy while freight traina are
frequently eeen running three abreaet
* heavy la the demand for oil machin
•ry. One road la laid to hare iftm
'<<00,000 in enlarging Ita facilitea.
The water aituation la not alto
jether what qpuld be daelred.
The water waa procured from a
spring a abort distance from town,
and although good water it waa near
' ly aa high in price a* gaaoline. Some
->U man, however, came along, and
drilled an oil well right aide by aid*
with the ipring, "tapping" the water
supply *o badly that lately it haa been
entirely stopped. Water 4agon* have
been requisitioned and although they
are buay all day and night hauling
water to homea, raetauranta and im
proviaed "bunking" houaaa, they are
not luffkient to oover the field.
Consequently the town haa been de
clared "very unsanitary" by cHiaeoa
in heated argwnaota at the meeting*
of the City Council, which la ffctog
every effort to rea*edy the attmtfen
Mayor Kiddle informed the into dU
*en* that thia "oonld not he done over
night"
. tuinf • NU mti m quia m w
parience, if Indeed wt • task. The
old aayiaf, "If you waat to do mm
thing bi*—wash v> elephant," o*r
tainly Km found a parallel in MasU.
This luxury nmy be found, outaide the
woodland creaks, only in a downtown
barber stop. The bath borne U a
■toll in a wooden floored, planked in
enclosure. Jost plain pins planks sps
slippery, bat the proprietors of the
house have found that tt is not naoaa
sary to maintain first aid kite baeauaa
the board floor* an warped enough
to allow the bather a foothold. "Clean
Unaes, after all, is next to godltasas,"
bat a bath in Maria is next to ha
Bat as for ail. Than an • salid sis
miles of n*jr derricks, drillers outfit*,
MM*. womMa buildings and people
when mf» than was the a pen pcaMs
OLD MASONIC DOCU
MENTS GIVEN TO PUBLIC
T*t of AMnm W WmIcoom
ot liiir Guios and Kmiknu#
of Ceorg* Washington lad
Ami to Lattor'* Vlall to Nm
Barn 130 Yttfi Ago.
New Barn, Jh. *1.—Document* of
unuNil IntereA were given to tte
public again during tte celebration
here Thursday of tte founding of gt
John's Masonic lodge and commem
oration of tte visit of George Wash
ington
Judg* Owen H. Gulon, who** great
•r rand-fa the r, Isaac Gulon, welo.ri'l
President Washington to New Bern,
read again tte welcome address, and
I :»l. P. M Pearaall, who played tte
role of "Patter of Our Country," re
' pea ted the reeponse of tte Great
American in tte exact words as ttejr
Were recorded on May 5, 1791.
Howard's Cemeleelea
Another Interacting document was
that read by Judge Francis D. Wins
ton, of Windsor, It being tte eommls
. sion of Martin Howard from Joseph
Montfort, "Provincial Grand Master
of Americs with authority and power
to make Masons and to constitute
lodges," to constitute the New Bern
lodge.
The address of welcome of Isaac
Gulon, who was Master of tte New
Bern lodge when George Washington
made his visit 190 years ago, together
with the response of tte President,
are taken from tte minute book of
the year 1791. The priceless volume
is kept in the vault of St. John's.
The address of welcome and response
are as follows:
"To the President of tte United
State,
"Right Worshipful Sir:
"We the Master, officers and meat*
hers of St. John1* Lodge, No. S, of
Nsw Bern, teg leave to hall you with
tte mystic numbers. We approach
you not with tte language of sdula.
tion, but sincere fraternal affection,
jlNBUSUTttStt
skillful and expert craftsman, tte
just and upright man. But tte powers
of eloquence an too weak to expseas
with sufficient energy tte cordial
warmth with which our boaoms glow
toward r*U
"We, therefore, moat fervently
wish, most ardently and devoutly pray
that tte Providence of tte Moot
High may strengthen, eetabllsh and
protect you in your walk through
this life, and when you on called off
from your terras tlal labors by com
mand of our Divine Grand Master and
your operations sealed with tte mark
of Hie approbation may your soul be
everlastingly refreshed with tte
streams of living water that flowed
at the right hand of God.
"And when tte Supreme Architect
of all worlds shall collect His moot
precious )*wels as oraama«ts of tte
Celestial Jerusalem, may you ever
lastingly shin* among thooo of tte
lirighteat lustre.
"(Signed^ Isaac Guion, master;
Samwl'Chapman, 8. W.; William
Johnston, J. W.
"Solomon Hailing, Edward Patten,
Jama* Camay, Pranci* Lowthrop,
tionately eppreved by ■ fraternity
who** aaMcimtion i* fowiii on jm
tic* and honrrohnc*
charter to Martin Howard as ditectwl
waa read by Judge Winata* aa tot
taw*:
Meat/act's D»mt
"Honorable Sir and Brslhsr Martto J
Howard:
"HI. Grace Henry Somerset, Ma
of Beaufort, Marquis and Earl of
Worcester, Earl of Glamorgan, Via
count Oroabwnt, Baron Herbert, LaNI
of Borland, Chepetuw A Cower, Bar
on Baaofort of Oaldacot Castle, and
Grand Maatar of the i..e»t Ancient
and Honorabla Sociaty of Free urf
Accepted Masons of tba Grand Lodge
at England, bath graciously plaaaad
(by pa tan t dited tha 14th day of
' .nuary, to tha yaar of Light 6T71),
to conatltuta ma provincial Grand
'aatar of America with authority
ind power to raaka Maaona and to
onstttute Lodges.
"By auch authority it la now my
will and pleasure, you having humbly
etltioned therefor, that you and
hose aaaociatad with you, be, and ym
nd they are, haraby coaatitutad into
i regular Lodge of f(M and Accepted
Maaona to ha opened at thla place by
ha name of Naw Ban Saint Joha'a
'vodga.
"! name you Right Worshipful Mar.
'in Howard aa Maatar of this Lodge
<nd asaoclate with you Worshipful
seph Leaah, to ba Senigr Wsrdesi;
>nd Worshipful Richard Cogdell to ba
nnlor Warden. The brethren will
•bey you and thaaa accordingly.. Aa
\ further evidence of your authority
t now place in your keeping and to
he keeping of all tboae who an to
follow you In your office of Maatar,
he Charter of New Bern Saint John1*
Lodge Guard It walll"
Tka Killing of a Wkhlwr
Greenaboro Nlffl
Tb« sooner whiskey runnara lam
that raaiatance to officera of the lav
mean* they ara inviting tnatant, t)»
lent death, the aooner the practice of
taking pot-abota at policaaMB will ha
abandoned. The affair near Relda
viUe ahould be, aad no doubt will ha,
taveatigated vigoroa«ly, bat If the
offlean can a how that they ware fM
upon from the automobile la whiah
the whiekty runnera were riding, then
the inveatigafion ahould bo allowed ta
drop right there. Nobody, with the
poaalble exception of wild fanattna
balievee that as officer ia juatified to
kllng a whiakay ranaar who la dalag
no mora than trying to aacapa; tat
there la no aanaa in allowing merer
engaged la the liquor traffic, but ara
ready to commit murder ta avoid be
ing caught.
Moat Graaaahoro people incline ta
the belief that the courae of areata
following the killing of a aiwabir of
a gaag of gunman by a Greenaboro
the activity of such deeparadoaa. The
Greenaboro officer waa promptly
charged with murder, aad it waa pro
poaad to try him for hia life la thfc
same county of Itockingham, and aaa
timant waa ao plainly agaiaat Mas
there that the court ordered a chaage