MONDAY A BIG DAY FOR FARMERS
HORC TIMN A THOUSAND ATTEND COOPfRATIVf
NKTM6 AT D06S0N
W. H. Swaim, State Organiser, of iUUifk, AddrwM
Eatkiaiutic Gathering—Plans Rapidly Baing
Shaped for Handling 1922 Tobacco Crop
Under New System
ownship Directors Elected
nday will long be remembered by the farmers of th»t
county as a big occasion for them for on that day the largest
gathering of farmers seen at Dobson in years assembled there |
to further perfect plans for handling the 1922 tobacco crop
under the new system WTiich is intended to dispense with the |
old way of auctioneering; the tobacco off to the highest bidder
on a warehouse floor^^very section, nook and corner, of the
county was represent from the broad bottoms on the Yadkin
river to the narrow mountain coves up in Bryan township. The
day was a moat ideal one for farming, but notwithstanding the
lateness of many of the farmers in their work they laid down
their plows for this one day and made the trip to Dobson in the
interest of a cause that promises to break the leash of servi
tude that holds many to the soil.
Judge Harding adjourned court at noon in favor of this
meeting and the farmers immediately began to assemble. In a
few minutes every seat in the spacious auditorium was occupied
by some tiller of the soil, no standing room was left in the wide
aisles and the bar was closely packed with a standing multi
tude. It was apparent that there was present the largest
gathering of fanners seen in this county for years it being
.estimated that there were more than a thousand present,
The audience tu addresaed by W.
H. Sir*In, of liltifh, who has spent
ib hi* forme* talks in this county and
then proceeded to toll tham how thaaa
prcmiara dealing with the aaeeaaa of
thia in i naant wart beinr earriad oat.
Pint, he iaU, aoma had faarad that
the organisation would be unable to
secure (torare and handling facilities
owing to the hoatile attitude of many
of the warehouseman. This he told
them has already been accomplished
in most placea. At meeting* recently
held in various parts of the atato by
the Board of Directors, of which A. L.
Bunker of thia county la a member, he
stated that ample arrangements have
been made for the Successful handling
of the coming crop. In some large
centers the warehouse* have fought
thia movement with every ounce of
their energy refuaing to enter any
kind of meeting looking to a nucceaa
ful agreement and in these placea he
aaaursd the fanners the association
would proceed at once to erect build
ings of ita own and be independent of
the warehouse facilities in thoae
placea. In some counties there are
no placea available, citing 8tokea
county aa an inatyice, and in a case
like Stokes he said the aaaoeiation
would erect buildinga at aonte con
venient station on a railroad. In thia
county the associstion has leased a
large warehouae at Blkin for a period
-of yean and the business people of
thai-town are aaid to have entered
heartily in the movement and are
lending the leaders all the aasistaace
within their power. In )lount Airy
no definite arrangamenta have aa yet
been conaummsted, however the aaao
eiation has in view several propoai
tiona, and a committer will visit this
town within the next f, w weeks anl
make ample jv-ovislins for this sec
tion. It was stated that if suitable
quarters cannot be obtained at a
reasonable rental or purehaae a build
ing will be erected at some point on
the railroad by the aaaociatton. And
so, Mr. Swaim told hta hearer*, he felt
like thia first promise made t y him
months ago on the part of the aaao
eiation has been sueceaafully fulfilled
Aa to finances the speaker says the
leaders from the beginning have
known beyond any kind of a doubt
that there would be no embarrassment
la financing this cooperative move
ment aa they say that all cooperative
movementa all over thia nation have
ahrnys been heartily endorsed and
aided by the financial institutions of
Mr. Swaim aaid that ha had hoard a
great deal af talk akoat no ess
an *1
the tobacco uparti who handle it for
Um big tobacco corporation. And ha
buyer* and broker* in the south. Ho
told them that the matter of fatting
capable men to look after the handl
ing, grading and mangement of the
leaf department* has been the least
problem the association has had to
face.
And so theae three salient pointa—
warehouse facilities, financial back
ing, expert tobacco men—so neceasary
in the operation of this enterpriae, ha
told them, had been carried to a
successful completion.
As to the, measure of succeaa this
movement has attained he. told hi*
hearers he had only to refer them to
simitar movements in operation in
various sections of the United State*
He explained at some length the
movement started in Kentucky prior
to this one in our midst that has
practically done away with the selling
of tobacco by auction. He said that
86 per cent of the hurley tobacco pro
duced in Kentucky last year was sold
through the Cooperative Marketing
Association. Scattered about over
the state were fanners her* and there
who were doubtful about the success
of the plan and theae made up the 15
per cent who failed to come into the
movement. He told of the way' the
plan worked out there in regard tb the
selling of the tobacco to the companies
He said that the head buyer of Liggitt
A Myers one day noticed that their
supply of burley was running low and
they needed a large quantity to blend
with their brand*. This man alao
knew that 85 per cent of this particu
lar tobacco was pooled in one big
enterprise and that he could not buy
it on the auction floor. So not want
ing to take any chances of not getting
a sufficient quantity to supply their
needs for months to come, he wired a
representative located in the city
where the cooperative aaaociation had
offices to place an order for 22 million
pounds of burley tobacco and that he
would arrive on the first train and dis
cuss the price. The sum and tub
stance of the tranaaction waa that the
cooperative aaaociation named a
reasonable price both for farmer and
manufacturer and sold the entire 22
million pounds in 30 minute* at a
price nearly double what the same
grade brought the year brfore. Mr.
Swsim say* he figure* that for Ug
gitt A Myers to have gotje on the
warehouse floor* and bought this 22
million pound* at auction pile by pile
would have entailed the employment
of a large number of buyers and
■onthe of time at • coat of approxi
mately one-quarter ^aillie* doUara.
And Im Mid this one-quarter million
mi Mnd to tlM f»rm«r« who grew
this tobacco In t)M advance price they
received over that of the prsvtuaa
y«ar,
Ho donoanred aa untruthful tho
•tatomonta being made by thoaa op
poaod to tho MovoMont that tho manu
facturers now hava a two roar*'
aupply on band. At timoa Mr. Swalm
lapsed Into blttor donunciatlon of tho
methods ho says ara bolng uaad to
thwart thia effort to better the
farmer* lot, and ho had nt> apology to
make to any one who should toko
offenae at bla remark* addressed to
thoaa who wera guilty. Re InfpnMd
hla audience that the time has coma
when the aaaociation ia going to in
sert the same right that every other
cian. buaineaa or corporaion haa and
Ve that the perpetrators of thaaa
false rumor are brought to justice.
He aaya iaat aa the Cooperative
Marketing Aaaociation ia now a vast
corporation just llko a giant manufac
turing enterprise that it ia going to
aaaert ita rights and Invoke the strung
arm of the law on thoaa who peraiat in
trying to injure the work of the cor
poration aa It haa now become, just
the same aa in individual would whan
some one started a false and mlslead
ing report calculated to injure hla
buaineaa. He gave warning that the
aaaociation ia naming men in avaty
townahip in the three statoa whose
duty 1^ is to report to headquarters
the namaa of partiea who ara ctrcula
ing falae and mialaading statements
that are untrue and injurious to the
cause of the aaaociation.
Some montha ago Congreaa pasaad
a national law dealing with the co
operative movements and giving them
certain privilegea and conceaalona to
meet the conditions that aroae from
thee effort* that sprung up and ara
springing up all over the country.
One of thaaa provlaions ia that it la a
1600 penalty for any peraon, firm or
luct of a person who haa entered mto
a algned at raiment with a coopera
tive aaaociation. And Mr. Swalas
tave notice that no warehous swan in
the three eta tee—North Carolina,
South Carolina and Virginia—could
violate this law and claim ignorance
»f who were members of the aaaocia
tion for he says that they intond to
rurniah every warehouae and ware
housemen a I let of the members of
this aaaociation in these three atataa.
He aaya that the time haa coma for
the croaaing of the Rubicon and that
from henceforth on there la to be no
rampromiae or middle (round on the
part of the association with thoaa who
peraiat In doing all in their power to
dee troy or deter the operation of thia
movement.
Mr. Swaim closed hi* remark* by
appealing to those who had not signed
np the contract* to do *o at once tn
urdcr that they should be able to
•hare in the pool of the tobacco thia
year. The time, he told th«m, is
rapidly coming when the association
will have to close its books for thia
year.
After the meeting the members
from the various , township* of the
rounty met together and elected a
board of county director* comfbaad of
»ne man from each township. The fol
lowing compose thia board:
Bryan township, W. L. Haynsa.
Dobaon township. F. T. Lewellyn.
Eldora township, W. L. Chilton.
Elkin township, John Cockerham.
Franklin township, Emmett Isaacs.
Long Hill township, Joe Samuels.
Marsh township, Allen Stanley.
Mount Airy township, J. M. Parker.
Pilot township, Frank Dodaon.
Rockford townaM*, H. C. Norman.
Shoals township, P. G. Scott
Si loam township, Harvey Norman.
Stewarta Creek townahip, Geo.
Arlington.
Westfield townahip, J. M. Chilton.
Beyond the Natural Order
'The Spring blew trumivta of color;
Her Green sang In n<- vrain—
I heard a blind man gi> .jing
Tap—tap' with Ma cane;
'I pitied him in his blindneaa;
But can I boast,'I see?'
Perhaps there walks a spirit
Close by who pitiea me—
•A sptrit who hears me tapping*
The five-sensed cane of mind
Amid such uwguasasd gloriea—
That I am worse than hUnd."
A certain wise and witty Ft—oh
in has written that affecSatfcm la a
tnater enemy to the face thaa
unaH-pox.—Mary Cecil Ray.
NOTED SP1AUI COMING
A community maw meeting in tfte
intareat of law enforcement will be
held in Central Methodist church
Monday May 1st at • p. m. Tha
thumc for diacnaaion la "A World
Crisis—Tha Duty of tha Hour." A
cordial invitation ia ax tan dad to the
public, all am welcome and adata
li on free.
Dr. Young ia a rifted platform
orator and hla apeech acintilatea with
wit and humor It la a rreat treit
to our citlsana to hear auch i man.
A flaf con tut will he conducted in
connection with this rally and every
adult who attends can cast one vote
for tha school room of his choice. Tha
room race I* in* the h if heat number of
votea will be preaented a really hand
some United Statee flat. Both men
and women :an vote.
RAILWAY MEETING IS A
SUCCESS
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Subscription To Stock To Car
roll Eloctrk Railway U Star
tod.
Carroll News, April SO.—Repreaen
"?»
It, to tem the prupcssd electric
railway to be built froaa mm point
on the Norfolk and Western Hallway,
through Hillsville and * the Snake
Creak country, rroaaiitg the Blue
Ridge Mountain to Mount Airy, N.
C. This meeting wan to have been
held Saturday, March >6 bat was post
poned on account of the influenza epi
demic.
W. D. Tompkins spoke of the co
operation necessary to build the rail
road and the sdrantages which it
would fits the people of Carroll.
Judge D. W. Bo ten made an inter
esting address, In which he outlined
what would be necessary in order to
insure the success of the railroad.
Pint the charter would hare "to be
secured, the right of way given, and
$100,000 subscription to stock raised.
The right of way, ho said, was prac
tically assured, the charter could he
sasily gotten and only the raising of
the 1100,000 would be left to be done.
SabscripUaa to Stock
Atty. B. P. Goad made an enthusi
astic talk in which he explained the
method of subscription to stock. The
first payment would not hare to be
paid until $100,000 was raised; 10 per
cant of the smount subscribed is to
be paid when surveying starts; 86 per
cent is to be paid when grading is be
gun; 25 per cent after five miles of
rnsd bed Is completed; the remaind
ing 40 per cent to be psid within sit
months sfter the first five miles of
the road be has been completed. He
rx plained how this proposition was
sntirsly sound and safe; and how that
the stock holders would be entirely
protected.
Mrs. Garland Howlett followed with
sn appropriate talk on how the rail
road would help the county, socially,
religiously and educationally; it would
t>ring people into the county and stim
ulate intercourse with the outside
world.
Over 100 shares were sold Satur
day, which waa considered a splen
did start. It is thought that the de
tired subscription will be raised with
out difficulty in a short while, as the
people are interested in the proposi
tion and enthusiasm is being decidedly
manifested.
If, whan ye do well, and suffer for
It, ye take It patiently, this is ac
reptaWe with God.—1 Peter (:tt.
Whan we look into the long aveaue
of the future aad see the good ttere
la far each one sf us to As, ws rsallse,
to work, aad to Mi to te happy
TO WITHHOLD FUNDS
ir BONUS PASSES
III IIihImm Putting Senwi mm
lUptlUkMM WW. Kmk
iag U Ttghteat
Waahington, April bual
neae" u4 the overly rich are now
hammering away with ranri forse
in the fight which they haw Smo
making againat th* soldier bonua bill
froai th* inception of that legislation
And now they ara putting an tha
•crews where tha plnchiag la Ufa
tightaat for they ara threatening that
they will not cough up tha caah that
tha Republican National committer I*
i ailing for with which t" maat paat
due obligation!, and to finance tha
fortheoniing campaign. Whereat tha
Republicans in Congraaa ara altting
up and taking notion.
Nawa aa to thia attitude of In
fluantial Republican* of waalth comta
to Waahington from Now York whore
Chairman Adam*, of the Republican
National committee haa juat been on
a caah lifting campaign. "Boy* get
the money," waa hi* plea, aa he told
of deficits in the bank account of tha
Nation*! ronrtnittee and of the need
of raising more money to pay the
billa that will multiply during tha
election this year. A luncheon period
wa* nought aa the opportune time for
making the money plea, and Chair
man Adams irent to it. It ta aaid
that be called upon the wealthy
lunchaoaairea one by one aaking how
much could be raiaed in varioua *ec
tiana and that tha diapiriting anawer
from many waa: "We cant and wont
help If Congraaa paaaea the bonus."
That they wont contribute or
solicit a cent If Congraaa paaaea tha
*oldler bonua bill la reported to be the
general attitude of big buaineea in
general throughout tha country. It
fear* that there may be taxes in tha
bill that will go after the caah that it
holda tight. And it lata the Republi
cans know that If the bonua bill la
paaaed there may be aome soldier
vote aocured by it. but that big buai
neea will not give it* support with
thia done or aa tha peucraaa. Thia
atata of affaire adda fa, the ratcle
datale condition of Republican* in
Congreaa who ire seeking re election
in hotly contacted ilialiictr, ftir they
need money for the campaign and
they need votea. The attitude of big
buaineea give* them deep concern, and
there is alao deep concern aa to the
attitude of the soldier vote in case the
bonus ie not paaaed. "Wa are damned
if we da, and damned if we dont," ia
tha view that ia expraaaed in varioua
ways by various and aundry Republi
can member* of Congraaa. Will the'
soldier vote or the caah of big business
hold the trump card ?
im nit nude 01 Kepubilcana.oi the
Senate Finance Committee ffivea the
intimation that tha soldier vote will
win. That committee met today and
talked over the bill, aid determined
to report oat • bill very much Uka
the Hooae bill, bat with eome biff
except iona.
All liffna point to the belief that
Senator McCumber and the other
Republican! of finance committee are
coantinff otronffiy an there being
paid to America early next year large
luma by Great Britain on ita wari
debt Indication! are that before the
bonus bill ia passed the Republicans
will hare swung around to the Demo
cratic plan offered by Senator Sim
mons for bonus payments from the
interest and principal of foreign debt,
thoofffe there will be some frills pat
on to try to disguise this fact.
Fordaoa Tractor Sales liter——
Although the Ford Motor Company,
Detroit, has been increaahtff the out
put of Fordaons daily since the first
of the year, retail sales hare main
tained even a greater advance.
April requirements necessitate the
building of four hundred Fordaooe a
day, and production ia being farther
increased aa rapidly a% possible This
is the Ford Company's largeet out
put since 1919, and it ia expected that
production will have broken all pre
rioua records before the end of the
month.
The increased buying of Fordaona
indicates that the farmer's position
Is better and also ia tha farmer's en
dorsement of the Fordaon price-cat
which created considerable comment j
throughout the country.
Hsetdea the Ptrimi being aold <
for fans Me, many are being aold
in the cities aa power units for haul
ing. axaavating, grading and other
kinds of iadaaOial work.
Hn Mre to 4a good ia Ike moat
WOMAN CANDIDATE
AGAINST ML 9TEDMAN
Fifik District
la UiMimow.
Greensboro, April It.—The Repub
lican rongraealoaal aonventle# of tW
fifth dlatrtot ysaterday tn iiulu at
the Guilford courthouse noahiM
Mrs. Lindsay Patterson, of Winston
Salem, to oppoee Maj Chas M. 8U4
man, Democratic incumbent, Car tho
houae of repreeentotivee. Mrs. Pat.
teraon wlna tha distinction of betag
tho first North Carolina «vi>maa to ha
om mated for congress.
Chairman of tha eongrtvisioaal cofa
mittac, to succeed W. G. Bramham,
who waa alartod chairman of tha stato
executive committaa at tha itato aon
ventlon laat weak, will not ha eiectod
until tha committee has had an op
portunity to confer with Mrs. Pat.
teraon.
Por several week* tha name at
John A. Smith, of High Point, had
baan before tha aye* of local Repub
lican leader*, especially tha jrriung«i
element or the Roosevelt brand of Ra>
publican, aa a posaibility for the nam
inatioa. Mr. Smith y aa tarda y, when
interviewed following tha toatirtlot,
made a prophecy "that this la tha laat
convention, I mean the Winaton-Salam
convention the other day, that will ev
er be controlled In North Carolina bjr
a set of to-called Republicans, t&e old
office-holding horde who want to
keep tha party just big enough to fur
nish them tha offie^a and not let
them get scattered."
Bombards "Stand-Patters."
Mr. Smith issued a statement in
which ha unrelentingly bombarded tha
so-called stand-pattora. Ha entered
the convention ball Jut aa the dale
rates wore preparing to leave the aa
sembly hall.
Mra. Patterson waa not present at
the meeting and the following com
mittee was named by the convention,
chairman, A. E. Hoi ton. of Whuton
Salem, to notify her of the conven
tion's action: Charles A. Reynolda,
i. R. Joyce. A. H. W ife, M» Maty
Settle Sharpe and Mrs. Alice Joyeo
Nutt. The committee will probably
go to Winston-Salem Saturday to har
ry out its miaaion.
Mr. Reynolda, the old warrior of
the Twin City, nominated Mrs. Patter
son in a very eloquent speech. He
referred to her as one of the bright
est women in the state, oae who will
serve the state handsomely la con
rress. "She will do more," said he,
"to break the Democratic cruat tn tha
ritiea in the district than anyone elan."
Various delegatee followed tn rapid
succession with a second to the nom
ination. After the runners-up had
paid their respect*,to the Winston-Sa
lem woman, her nomination waa pro
claimed by acclamation.
The nomination of Mra. Patterson
will be learned with unusual interest
throughout the state, especially
among the women. Mrs. Patterson
is one of the foretnoet women in the
state. She is closely identified with
the Daughters of the American Rev
olution. Durinr the world war she
was one of the active workers here
end abroad.
Detroit Millionaire Convicted
In Court
Kalamazoo, Mich., April 30.—John
Duvall Dodge, Detroit millionaire, and
Rex Earl, an architect of ¥slsmsino.
were convicted in Circuit Court hate
yesterday on a charge of illegally poe
lessing, transporting and furnishing
liquor. Attorney* for the defendants
immediately gave notice of appeal and
Judge Weimer withheld sentsswe,
The charges against Dodge and
Earl resulted from an automobile rids
here on the night of March II, nhaa
they invited three young women into
Lheir car and drove them against thdr
protests into the country. Daring ths
ride, the three girls testified, they
were offered liquor.
Miss Emeline Kwakernatt, a West
>rn State Normal School stadsnt, be
coming alarmed, jumped from the ma
•hlw and was seriooaly injured. Ths
*her» were Ethel Clemens, a Nor
mal stadsnt, and Kims fltigsns
Dodge and Earl are liable to ssn
ence of one year imprisonment or
11,060 fins and oosts of ths trial er
x>th.