VOLUME XXXI, NUMBER 49.
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Lumber Bridge Items
NOW EFFECTIVE
will be affected by the law with peg-I unusually good pageant and. we are
'sons affected running into the hun- sorry that some were kept away bn
dre'ds of thousands. Agricultural account of bad weather.
oi
account of bad weather.
her mother,
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The
i ■ ^tion in
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brother
arc not
been
has
and tail-
as well. A
fire to tax thi
There was
1929.
last
in Washington, D. C.
parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Roiert Mon ¬
alterni ting recognition of those who^e
has merited big
public
service :
are
will
of hi
who
E. Marley
Pinehurst
lit that
tease in
■ returns
Friday.
Mrs. C.
C. J., Jr.,
days last
Powers of
Mr. Frank Sikes of Washington,
D. C., arrived last Tuesday to spend
a few days with shis mother, Mrs.
Lucy Sike« in the home of Mr, and
Mrs. R. G. Dearen.
• Applicants must show that they;
have completed at least
coupe and three patrolmen on motor
cycles will go to each of the nine
day and spent a pleasant day.
Mrs. D. S. Currie of Parkton
D. Cobb and family left Friday
their home in. Dunn.
Compensation Act. Marriage Banns
Law and Road Patrol Become Ef-
erative.
RED SPRINGS,N. C.,THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1929.
but miscella
■ receipts $
$00,000.
Vivas d
■ 'fail
are paid $288 per annum with quar
ters, subsistence, laundry, and medi-
; form rate is th
i of this failure.”
, he
ratal deficits
A generous offering was made to
the cause.
at St. Eiizabeth’s Hospital offers a
three-year course leading to a dip
loma in nursing. Student nurses
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE $1^0 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
ternoon at the home
Mt Clarence Dunn,
sick recently
Mr. and Mrs. W
children motored to
Buie; and the Woman's Auxiliary
I by Miss Isabelle Buie. This was an
Mr. and Mrs W. A. Chason
on the Aick list. We hope they
soon be well again.
Mr. F. B. Dunn and family
visitors in Fayetteville Sunday
duties of the patrol are limited to
the enforcement of the state’s road
Alice Carroll, the cabarett perform
er is convicted on circumstantial
evidence of slaying her employer.
Her sentence of frtm five to fifteen
years is the result largely of a merci-
Washington.
Washington, D. C., June 30, ±92 ;I .
—There is urgent need for 50 stud-
in Scranton; S. C., Monday morning. ;
Mellon’s Statement Shows Excess in
Revenues of $185,000,000
NATION’S DIET SHIFTS TO
MORE COSTLY FOODS.
J. Ammon s . and children,
and Frances Spent a few
week with Mrs. S. A.
Ten Mile
conscientiousness carry him beyond
the pale of reason.
Mr. Jack Marley of Maxton visit-
ed his mother, Mrs A. J. Marley,
through the week-end. ’ ’
Mr. J. A Currie spent Monday in
Lumberton on business.
1 1 — for special
treatment if intangible property is
that it participates to a smaller de-
ent nurses at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital an d rapidly approaching the vanish
mg point.” J
‘The second reason
_ Mra. R. L. Felton left Thursday
for Fayetteville after spending sev-
era! days here with
Mrs. A. J. Marlev.
, ■ which j
n-om a Richard Harding Davis stor-
“Exiles.”
4- , „ -■•—-.. ,. om our ei-
Lrts to enforce uniform property
.. rate., against credits fo steadily
^ ^ ^, ouu Mrs. Cora Guy, wife of M,r. W. F.
He returned To Guy, who lives a few miles from
Mrs. Allan H. A. Lee and chil- less prosecution by an ambitious
dren, who have been visiting Mr. J , young district attorney, who lets his
property at the uni-
e increasing extent
honor.
“The good fruits of this policy
Government Ends
Fiscal Year With
L arge Surplus
Washington, June 30.—The govern
Linen finished its 1929 fiscal year to-
night with a surplus of $185,000,-
000 and the public debt cut to $16,-
931,000,000, the lowest point since
the World War,
This was attributable, Secretary
Mellon said in a statement to the
widespread prosperity of the nation.
••Total receipts for the year aggre-
,,gated $4,033,000,000) while expendi
tures amounted to $3^848,000,000.
The former were approximately $9,-
>000,000 less than collected last year,
while the expenditures showed an in-
creasfi of $204,000,000 over the pre-
J^ious twelve months.
A gain in individual income tax
Wreeeipts due, the Treasury said, to
T general prosperity and almost speci-
i fically to the exceedingly active and
constantly rising securities market,
saved the government from a deficit
by iitcraasing by $220,000,00 and
swelling the total income tax col
lections to $2,330,000,000. The total
exceded the collections of 1928 by
• $156,000,000 but the amount receiv
ed from corporations was lower than
that of last year, because of a one
per cent decrease in the amount of
the tax.
Other Receipts
Customs duties duties yielded the
/government $602,000,000 an increase
of $33,000,000 over the previous year
“Peaches, peaches everywhere and
a plenty to eat.” The orchards in
our community have been yielding
a plentious supply of their delicious
fruit. ‘For the last two weeks
Messrs Balfour and Cobb have been
shipping peaches to northern mar
kets,. Car lot shipments will begin
this week. The market for peaches
is most’ favorable this year, and
better than in several years past
.The vibrating of Wedding bells
rung in South Carolina reached Lum
ber . Bridge when Mrs. Royce W.
Boatwright a recent June bride un
expectedly arrived at Mrs. Nina
Tolar’s. Mrs. Boatwright a niece of
Mrs. Tolars was formerly Miss
Marion Bruce, of Marion, S. C- After
spending severe days here Mr. and
Mrs Boatwright left for Marion, S.
C,, Monday.
The Christian Endeavor went on a
hay ride last Tuesday morning. The
young people met at the chuhch
I before, leoaving on the truck. In
I spite of the fast falling mist and
chilling winds a merry bunch left
town singing “Hail, hail the gangs
all here.” The singing did not cease
but continued along the route to
Rennert and Red Springs. A de
licious picnic supper was spread by
the girls at the springs in Red
Springs. On the way home the rain
began to fall heavier but the spirit
of the crowd rose with the . wind.
The hay ride was enjoyed by most
of the young people of Lumber
Bridge
Mrs. G’ Srott. Turner is visiting
her sister, Mrs. Jaser Cove o' White
Oak
Attends Rural Carriers
Meeting In New Bern
Mr. Graham Smith left Tuesday
for New Beth to attend the State
convention of the Sural Mail car
riers. Mr. Smith is president of
the Robeson County Carriers asso
ciation. and one of the oldest in the
county in point of years of service.
He was accmpanied by Mrs. Smith.
Other members of the Robeson
County Association attending the
Convention in New Bern are: Miss
Hattie Sinclair, of Rowland, and Mr.
George Klarpp of ,Shannon.
Madge Bellamy In
New Screen Vehicle
. Her work as Sally Quail in the
Fox Films picturization of the Edna
Ferber story, .‘Mother Kntiwg Best,”
still fresh in the minds of movie
goers, Madge Bellamy will return to
me screen of the Red Borings Thea
tre here next Monday and Tuesday
in a new starring vehicle which will
present the little Fox star in "a
totally different, but fully as inter
esting role. “Fugitives” is the name
of the picture.
HEAD DISCUSSES
PROPOSED BILL
Brother of Mrs.
Kay Dies In Atlanta
■
internal revenue
1,000 to $607,-
secretary said
repeal of the
reased ex
it tax which
7,000,000.
.almost
lerease
and
in the
. -Th^Fbe sec
among thing
" revenue was
from the sale
^ tax collections and
lie corporafion tax.
Increase fin the ex
. were-'caused by a ..
of $105,000,000, including $52,000,-
000 allowed railroads for retroactive
mail rate increases, greater naval ex
penditure s of $30,000,000, larger in
ternal revenue tax refunds of $42.-
000,000 flood relief expense of $30^-
000,000; the government contribution
to the civil service retirement fund
of $20,000,000 and increased Veter
ans’ Bureau expenses of $16,000,000.
The public debt was shown in the
secretary s statement to have been
reduced $673,000,000 in the year as
compared with $907,000,00$
year.
Mr. Humphrey’s
Mother Dies Friday
Friends of Mr. V. D. Humphrey,
°f the Red Springs Theatre,
sorr v to learn of the death
of his mother at Kingstree, S. C.,
last Friday. Mrs. Humphrey’s death
Was.very sudden and unexpected, she
^-^b®^’ in Mother Knows Best,”
Miss Bellamy was an actress, sb-
^stec^e a night club singer^
but at that point any suggestion'
a parallel in the portrayal ceases.
Instead of the rise to glory of an
aspiring girl, aided and abetted by
as indefatigable mother, as in the
i^aFerber story. Miss Bellamy in
^J^^tiwes is, at the outset, a beau
tiful young woman who finds herself
in a plight, from which there would
seem to be no means of extricating
herself.
A. J, Maxwell, Commissioner of Rev
enue and Chairman of Tax Com
mission Talks on Tax Classifica
tion Before Banker’s Association.
Adoption of the tax classification
amendment to be voted upon by the
electorate of the state next year and
the working put by the next Gener
al Assembly of a real adjustment of
an equitable and fair support of the
public schools were urged at Ash>-
vijje, Thursday morning by A. J.
Maxwell, Commissioner of Revenue
and Ctfairn an of the Tax , ’.inmL-
siion, speaking before the North Caro-
Ima Bankers’ Association.
“Intangibu. property, by which is
meant bonds, stocks, notes, bank dc-
1 rajA, fitc., is entitled to special
treatment,” said Mr. Maxwell, “for
two reasos.”
“First, the law limits the rate of
income earned by these classes of
i property while tax rates—formerly
i moderate—mount higher and higher
l and absorb every year an increasing
I proportion of their legal fixed in-
1 come. This state limits the interest
■ -ate to 6 per cent, while the general
I property tax absorbs in taxes from
12 to 4 per cent when the law is
I complied with. It goes without say-
j mg, though,” said Mr. Maxwell,
/’that t.ie law is enforced only
I agairis$ the unadvised and the unfor-
i tunate,’”
North Carolinians awoke Monday
to find three of the most far-reach
ing pieces of statewide legislation
enacted in recent years effective for
the first time. At the stroke of mid
night last night the new workmen’s
compensation act, the new marriage
banns law and the act making ef
fective the highway patrol were op
erative for the first time.
Perhaps' the most far-reaching of
the three new laws is the compen
sation act. This is applicable to em
ployes and employers of firms or
individuals that work five c,r more
persiohs. The state itself, counties,
cities, towns, factories, contractors,
offices and stores and even churches
that ^employ as many people as five
—including choir singers—are af
fected by the new act and their em
ployers protected and limited by it.
THOUSA NDS AFFECTED
The industrial commission, charg
ed with the administration of the
compensation act, has estimated that
there are 16,000 employers and em
ploying firms in the state which
and domestic labor is exempt.
The act provides for a payment of
60 per cent of wages, up to $18 per
week, to workmen disabled in line
of duty, regardless of whose negli
gence is responsible. Total payment
for permanent disability or for death
is limited to- $5,500.
The highway patrol of 37 men,
created by the general assembly af
ter various efforts for a patrol of
from 125 to 250 men had failed of
passage, wall be sworn in at Raleigh.
Then a lieutenant in an automobile
, gree in the benefits cf government.
I Most of the expedit-ures of our gov-
| erments is for purposes which en-
i fiance the value of real property and
tangible property. All expenditures
for schools and for roads give in
creased value to home.^ located with-
I a j their reach ’ but no «e of' them
nr'VT^ 0 t he . Umited income -
pi to the fixed principal of a ri- te ” i mgbway districts of the state.
•Perhaps the strogest argumenti" "
i 011 the practical side,” said Mr. Max-
I well, is the universal failure of the
: eff ort to tax intangible property in
he same way as tangible property,
Alice escapes from prison, however
and makes her way to Africa, living
unhappily ip a colony of exiles until
eV Tt ually ’ the real Mier confesses
land her prosecutor sets out to make i -
i amends. How he succeeds in doing ,.. " c fej7 t in ^^ 8 ate ’ but i n tb e cith-
! so. 'and the climax which such a sit- ® x jS^Tumen states which h.
nation brings 'about, combine to form A'®' ; ^oP^ classification. a g well. A
i a tense orama that gives full swav to, ^Ilenging feature of our own fail-'
and L ““ L s^ws lull sway to
lun- ‘fie. ern °ti°nal powers of Miss Bel-
i lanly. who, setting a. new mark fail
i in “Mother Knows Best/’ has
mother, Mrs. W. J Currie of Max-) “^ve^ ” in an admirable way
£ ^ w ’ R Mar ^ H ' WiDi^eaudine directed this
Miss Margaret Williford of Red' ?ewest Bellamy vehicle
Springs spent the week-end with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wil
liford.
Misses Jessie Duncan and Ila Mc
Neil of Lumberton were guests of
1 Mrs. A. L. Usher Friday.
M~. and Mrs. Lennon Marley and
little son, Jimmie, left Monday for
Laris, S. C., to visit Mrs. Marley’s
parents, Mr. and Mr"„ D. J. Butler.
They will also spend "sometime at the
beach
Mis s Margaret Brown of Wallace
is visiting Miss Elizabeth Williford.
Mr. and M,rs. P. P. Hall and chil
dren, Robert aBd Probert, of Rocky
Mount, spent the week-end with their
having suffered a heart attack only a roe
few hours earlier. Up to Friday
morning Mrs. Humphrey had been i
her usual good health.
Jr. Bullock’s Father
L Dies At Henderson
Mr: W. A. Bollock way called to
Henderson last Friday owing to the
death of his fattier there. The de-
wh ° was in bis 85th- yeag,
had been in failing health for sev
eral months, yet his death came as
a shock to friends of the family as
his condition had not been consid-
erect serious.
H. D. Club Meets
With Mrs. Odom
The Home Demonstration Club
metfon the lawn of Mrs. J. T. Odom
on Friday afternoon from 3:30 to
6 o clock. The purpose of this meet
ing was to make tea carts. There
were twelve present and mute n bit
? S derived from this world
Mrs J A. Parsons was the first to
present a complete cart.
After the business ice tea and
W . a { e rs were served. Then a group
picture of the club was made.
At the next meeting canning and
vegetable cooking will be demon-
. by Miss Prather.
C. CONGRESSMAN IN FIGHT
ON CIGARETTES
Representative McSwain, of South
Carolina, and Senator Frazier, of
North Dakota, were among the
(speakers at a demonstration of the
Anti-Cigarette Alliance in Washing
ton, a few days ago. More than 2,-
persons attended to protest, as
they said, “against the spread of na-
tisnal decay and degeneracy through
the cigarette habit.”
Miss Mary Baggett, niece of Mrs.
M. L. Ma,rley, ileft Friday for South-
port and Wrightsville-, where she
spent the week-end. She returned
to Mrs. Marley’s Sunday afternoon.
■ Mr. and Mrs. Worth Covington of;
Greensboro were guests of Mr. W.
H. Chason and family for the week-
end. Mr. Covington is a brother of
Mrs. Chasn
Mr. John Edwin Clifton, who has
been in Washington, D. C., for the
past four months arrived home Sun
day afternoon and will be at' the
home of his parents., Mr. and Mrs. J.
Ei Cliftt/n for several {lays. His many
friends were glad to see him.
Mir. and Mrs. D. G. Malloy and
children, James, Duncan, Misses Les-
sie May and Margie of Quitman, Ga.
arrived Wednesday afternoon and
will spend several days with rela
tives and friends. Mr. Malloy and
family and Mrs. Annie B. Smith
will go to Richmond and Washing
ton to spend the Fourth and the
following week-end.
Mesdameq D. I. and E. D. Mc-
Gougan were Fayetteville visitors bn
Mr. S. Toornton Cobb arrived
home Sunday night from Weldon
where he has been for several weeks.
He left Monday afternoon for
Winnsboro, S. C. "
Miss. Jessie Marlev returned from
Reidsville Sunday. Miss Marley has
been with her sister, Mrs. .D, C.
Adams, who has been quite sick for
several weeks. ,
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Mohler arid
and automobile laws.
Included under this category of
laws are speeding, careless, reckless
and incompetent driving; automo
biles not displaying the--fegel re
quirements in headlights
■lights; automobiles with inadequate
brakes; drivers without proper' li
censes and various oth
, . rules and
regulations. An important duty of
the patrol will be to check against
overloading of trucks operated on
tile states roadways. To enforce
this law each lieittenant will carp-v
"' Ivent credits were 7.5
h i cent of our total listed property,
i gradual decline in
un and percentage every year 1 —“ “—-“““m >»1.'1 ^a.j,’y
101 several years, and in 1928 solvent 1 - D ■ Car a seb ^ scales for weigh-
crecuts were only 4.4 oer cent o y . “S tae trucks, and any found over-
total. Actual revenue from on- ,£ | 1Caded , w ip be unloaded there to the
legal limit, and the. freight left by
the roadside until it can be legally
removed. ‘
1 Mr Maxwell thinks that the pro-
, tw o ,years' Posed amendment to the conrtito
? ^ a ch ° 01 ’ must be in g ! '°d; *««- granting the General Assembly
wealth, and must nave reached their j authority to make a reasonable Hah
eighteenth but not their thirtieth I silication of pr-nrirtv ww^
“S**; . . i^ K ' d ^ • Mi ™j.^^S
The Training School for - Nurses general election after a
” “ ‘ ' lpa l? n devoted almost exclusiv^to
whi 10 ^ 1 than state issues a^
sabmitte d in broader
scope to the electorate in 4930
stands . an excellent chance of adop
tion, provided the public is sanely in-
ormed as to our inability under the
present system of uniformity to
make intangible property bear it^
property late a share Of the tax ^ on
p perty, and a s to our ability se-
ture more total revenue at lower and
X^S^ rate3 under ^
cal attention. Those who complete
the course are automatically pro
moted to -the grade of nurse at
$1,620 per annum. Further promo
tion depends upon the occurrence of
vacancies and the employee's effi
ciency. .!;....
little daughter, Estelle Clifton, aT-
rived Sunday afternoon and are
with Mrs. Mohlers parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. E.. Clifton.
Mrs. Henry W. John and daugh
ter, Miss Margaret, spent a few
days recently in Pleasant Garden
with Mrs.' John’s son-in-law, Mr.
Kirkman, and children. They re
turned Sunday bringing the triplets
home with them
Mr. Langdon C. Hubbard, Jr., 'of
Fayetteville is , out at Mr. N. H.
iG. Balfour’s helping him harvest his
peach crop. ”
Miss Patt Johnson left Tuesday
evening for Columbia, S. C., where
she will visit her sister, Mrs.
Brooks Sloan.
Mrs. Neill Shaw and grandchil
dren, Audrey and Neill Shaw Bal
four, who have been visiting the
family of Mr. L. C. Hubbard in Fay
etteville returned home Saturday
morning.
Miss Bettie McNeill returned
home Saturday after spending sev
eral days with homefolks near St.
Pauls.
town died Monday night, July 1st.
She is survived, by her husband and
several children.
Mr. David Livingston of Colum
bia, S. C., is visiting his mother, Mrs.
George Lvingston.
Mrs. Anne Sinclair, who has been
visiting her children here, returned
to her home in Reidsville Wednesday.
Mrs. Sinclair is a former resident of
cur town and has many friends who
are always glad to see her.
^Speaking of the need for a better
tabl^T" 1 ° f f be question of equi-
k fa i r . support of the public'
schems, Mr. Maxwell said in part:
+ ^“P^ careful observer
° f « vents in North
Carolina, I have the profound con-
the^ that gravest menace to
K f^ ce and -P r °g r ess of the state
is the biennial deadlock that has come
to occur at each session of the Gen-
^T¥ y “ to tbe basis of
support of the public schools of the
^h session convenes
-ts membership i s organized into op-
posmg groups on the question of thp
extent to which revenue shall be col
lected by the state and distributed
b ? C L. t0 the . counti cs for the support’
'of the public schools. These oppos
ing groups spend most'of the sixty
days of th e legislative session in bit
ter and recriminating deadlock, to
the neglect and almost exclusion of
patient eKinsideration of other im
portant legislation, which is rapidly
developing a class consciousness and
an array of the interest of different
sections of the state against each
other.”
“If we were to review the politi
cal and industrial history of the
state, for these last thirty years 1
believe we would set down as one of
the primary reasons for itc marvel
ous progress its almost Complete
freedom from the blighting effect-of
sectional or class consciousness. We
have known no east or west, save in
The marriage banns law, while not
as strict as the original bill intro
duced in the last legislature, is aim
ed at curtailing the number of run
away, . “wild party” and inadvised
marriages among minors. It will
not apply to persons whose ages are
21 or over. If a minor is a party
to the proposed marriage, five days
notice, including the names of the
contracting parties and their par
ents, must be filed with the register
of deeds. When notice of the mar
riage has been published in a news
paper at least five .days before the
act doe s not apply. The clerk of
superior court is given the power to
allow issuan.ee. of licenses without
five days’ notice “upon 'satisfactory
evidence being presented to him, or
upon the request of the parent or
parents or guardian, if any, of the
contracting' parties.”
The new appropriation act also
became effective, being featured' on
the whole by careful economy. One
t-f its minor features is the provi
sion that all state employes who use
an automobile in the service of the
state will be allowed eight cents a
mile, which is lesis than many for
merly received.
The new barber’s license law, also
scheduled* to! become effective Mon
day, will not be effective‘until mid
night, July 10, the state board of
barber examiners has announced.
should quicken our perception to re
cognize the evil consequences of . a
departure from if.”
“I am endeavoring to bring this
question before the public view in
the conviction that no other one
thing -within our power to do at this
time would be worth more to the
future progress and security of the
state than to reach a sound settle
ment of this disturbing question on
a basis so early fair to all sections
that it could be incorporated in the
constitution of the state as a per
manent settlement.
Th e question may reasonably be
asked if I have a formula to pre
sent. A formula may be found for
it s solution if—-and only if—we can
establish an approach to the prob
lem that is Comprehensive, that vi
sualizes the demand for adequate
public schools throughout the state,
and both the. obligations and the
limitations of the state, on the one
hand, and of the local communities
throughout the state, on the other.”
Friends of Mrs. W. P. Kay will
be sorry to learn of the death of her
brother. Dr. H. O. Byrd, of Atlanta,
Georgia. ‘
Although Dr. Byrd had been ill
for some time he was only 41 years
of age and his death comes as a
great shriek to his relatives and many
friends. '
Funeral services were conducted in
Atlanta Sunday, and the burial was
Woman’s Auxiliary
Has Nice Party
A delightful entertainment was
the birthday party of the Woman’s ,
Auxiliary of the Presbyterian '
chur-h held last Wednesday evening
at the hut. A bountiful supper was
spread and punch was served by
Mrs. J. H. Townsend.
Immediately following the supper
devotional services were conducted in
the church by Rev. J. B. Black, after
which a pageant, “Our Neighbor’s
Need,” was presented. The Virgin
Mary was represented by Miss Flora
McKinnon; Mexico, by Miss Anne
Presbyterian Picnic
To Be Held Wednesday
At White Lake
The annual Presbyterian Sunday
School picnic will be held Wednes
day, July 10, at Crystal Beach, at
White Lake. This picnic will be
given not only for the members of
the Sunday School but for every
member of the congregation and it
is hoped that every member who pos-
sobly can will be there.
All those who do not have ways to
go are asked to be at the church .
by 8:30 a. m. where plenty of ways
will ba provided.
Hoover May Visit N.
C. Home of Ancestors
President Hoover and “The First
Lady cf the Land” are giving seri
ous consideration to an invitation to
visit Asheboro, near High Point, N.
iC., next fall.
I Headed by Representative Ham
mer, a /delegation of residents of the
Old North State called at the White
Hi-Jage a few days ago and invited
the chief executive to visit Ashe
boro, home of Andrew Hoover, one
of the president’s pre-Revolutionary
ancestors.
President Hoover manifested a
keen interest in the invitation and
told., the delegation that if business
affairs permitted nothing would give
him greater pleasure than to accept.
He isaid he had heard and read much
about his North Carolina ancestors
and also had a warm spot in his
heart for the state which give him
its electoral votes last November.^
Wheat bread, which to many na
tions i s a luxury, has held a place
of lesser importance in the diet of
American people since the World
War. Consumption of corn for hu
man food has decreased also, par
ticularly under the influence of a
rising standard of living in the
south, where the use of wheat flour
and other food by both negroes and
whites has increased. * -
Per capita consumption of the
more expensive foods has increased,
and of the less expensive has de
creased. The nation’s diet from
1922 to 1926, says the United States
Department of " Agriculture, was
much more expensive in character
than at any previous period since
the beginning of the century and was
probably more expensive than in any
previous, peri od in the nation’s his -
tory. . The term “more expensive!’
in this connection implies a shift
from less costly to more costly foods.;
It does not refer to prices. This
more expensive diet has required a
larger farm acreage than would
otherwise have been necessary. A
reversed trend to less meat and milk
and more cereal foods, if produced
by a decline in the prosperity of the
non-farm people, w'auld soon be fol
lowed by a reduction of the crop
acreage.
By planting it to to tr . farm
land in the south that is ujiffit for culti
ration can be chang f irom a lia .
bility to an asset, ,y s the Forest
the southern pines growW
rapidly and at an fly age vio14
^ WMd J saw lo * s J /A other
-able products, say fedeUj f oresters _
They say there is a constantly in
creasing demand far tim r
south and a stand of younU southern
pines should be an excellent
m ent. A vesl "