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Washington, August 34?The
South in general and the State of
Georgia in particular have become
the focus of attention here. In
GeoJrgia, the mo& clear-cut political
issue so far between the President
and the anti-New Deal Democrats
of the South has been brought to a
head by the President himself, in
his nublic declaration of opposition
XT
io Srnsator Walter F. George and
}# appeal to the voters to elect
Federal District Attorney Lawrence
Camp to the Senate.
The whole South has been pictured
as the most backward and ecoeco
nomic ally handicapped part of
the Nation in a sixty-page report by
,t,he Nat|i<onal Enjeigjency Council,
presented to the President on h?9
return from his Pacific fishing trip.
The Georgia political iasue is
foremost in the eyes pf the political
observers. Despite all the talk in
the past few weeks of Mr. Roosevelt's
plan to "purge'' the Democratic
party of Senators and Repre
sentatives who have not seen eye to
eve with him on major New Deal
policies, the party primaries so fai
have been won or lost maainly on
local or state issuds, which have
overshadowed in large meafsurc the
question q? personal loyalty to the
President.
In some instances the President's
supporters have been victorious, in
others they have been defeated. The
Senatorial conste^ up to late
August in which the issue between
the Democratic candidates has been
solely tbdt of unquestioning Myalty
to the New Deal was in Idaho,
where Senator Pope made his campaign
on no cither issue fhan hie
willingness to take orders ftrojm the
President, and wa-s defeated.
Presidential indorsement, doubtless
was a factor in the^ victory of
Senator Barkley in Kentucky,- but
conditions kocal to the State also
figured in the defeat of Governor
Chandler. Tn / the success df some
anti-New Deal candidates for the
House in Texas, and the defeat
others, local issues were the principal
factor.
The President's attack upon Sen
atexr George, in Georgia, and the
Scnaltor's acceptance of the challenge,
makes September 14, the
date of the Georgia primaries, one
to which every political observei
Jn Washington and felsefwhere is
lodking froward to with Ifhe most
intense interest.
Id his two speeches in Georgia
Mr. Roosevelt set forth in clear
language for the first time his ce>m
ception that by electing him twice
to the Presidency, the people of
the United States have ^given hifr
a mandate to1 take definite action
1.* rro/?t nil pponomic inequalijties
He said that Senators and Representatives
of the Democratic Parfy
who do not befceve in his objective
and will not /fighit wholeheartedly
for them, do not belong" in the party.
No such direct and personal attack
upon a Senator of his own
part}-' has ever been made by a
President, so far as the memories
of the oldest political correspondents
here go. If Senator George is
defeated at the September primaries,
it will be a clean-cut, personal
victory for the President.
If the Senator does win a renomination,
Washington observers do
not see how that result could be
interpreted as anything but a stunning
blow at Mr. Roosevelt's personal
prestige, and otne which
would still further widen the
breach between the two wings of
the Democratic party.
The indications are that the m<yre
conservative, traditional Democratic
leaders and newspapers of Georgia
are lining up behind Senator
f; wrm. acainst President
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Roosevelt on two, major grounds.
One is resentment of Presidential
interference in a. matter which oldfashioned
Democrats regard as the
concern of the people of the state
a^ne?the matter of whom they
should send to Washington to represent
them.
Hie either is the definite implication
in the President fi anti-George
speeches tbdt George and the rest
of the southern ?tates are incapable
of knproVing their economic conditions
and guarding ihe welfare of
their people, and * that therefore it
is the duty of the Federal government
itq step in nnd do for then
what they cannot do for themselves
To old-lino Southern Democrats
this seems like lit '.uvasion t.f slate
vi^htb, tfor which the party has
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TEIiCpXJNTY WPA PICNIC
The supervisors and foremen
and their wives~in Jackson county
gave an old fashioned picnic |to the
foremen and supervisors of Macon
and Swain counties, on August 19th,
at the Community House and swimming
pool, at Sylva.
The meeting was attended bf most
of the foremen and their families
|a*id most of the personnel of the
area office. The table was loaded with
with good trings to eat, and much
was carried home.
Similar meetings will be held often
by the employees of Works Progress
Administration, and the next one is
' scheduled at Franklin, thte'latter part
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BALSAM *
(By Mrs. D. T. Knight)
One of the imost enjoyable affairs
qf the season was a "tacky party''
alt Balsam Mountain Springs Hotel
I^JaKurday evening. Miss Catherine
Richardson, of New Orleans, and
Miss Olover, of Rome, ;Ga.., were
winners of the second prizes. Dr.
i Pearson of Miami, Fia., and Mr
i Biliy Sellers, of De Funiak Springs
Fla., won first prizes.
The Home Demonstration Club met
with Mrs. W. S. Christy, Monday afi
ternoon.
i stood for general ions. Taken in
| connection withe I he report of the
, j National Emergency Council, which
' paints an unflattering picture of
, t conditions throughout the South, it
J is not overstating tne fact that
political /feeling in Geojgia has
been aroused to its highest pitch
since the Smith-Hoover campaign
of 1928.
According to the National Emer,
gency Council, the South presents
, a paradox in that, with its immense
store of natural wealth and its
high proportion of purei bred Amer
, icana, it? people as a whole are
the poorest in the country. Tne
average income in the South is
Stated to be $314 n year, compared
with $694 an the rest of the coun,!
itryj
the report declares, lies wjdh the
i ATM^'crm) svatem of cotton "cad to'
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bacco cultivation, tariff ai.d rail(
road rate djpcrijminatioiis against
, the South, failure to utilize the
abundant wajten-power, and abseu
k | tee Ownership of resources and int
' dustiry, among other things.
| The assumption here ip that the
President will use this report os a
. basis for proposalns to the next Congress
to help the South out of its
t P%ht.
Whejther that is contemplated or
not, observers here discern signs of
( a vigorous attempt to impress the
1 masses of southern voters with the
beneficent purposes of the New Deal,
in order td weaken the opposition
of the olcty-line, 'conservative Demo
crats in Congress and in the party
councils. I
International Relations j
The boundary dispute was so1
acute in the 1830's between Maine
and New Brunswick that the United
States and Great Britain invited the
1 King of the Netherlands, as an im1
partial arbitrator, to settle it. His
1 award of the disputed territory to
Maine aroused the people of New
* Brunswick so that they sent an
armed force to prevent Maine from
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taking possession 01 iv.
Maine countered by sending a
force of militia to the border, and
1 the two "armies" glowered at each
' other across the Madawaska River
for a couple of years, while Washington
announced its intention of
1 sending 50,000 soldiers, if necessary,
1 to enforce the award of the royal
arbitrator.
Before a third war with Great
1 Britain had actually been precipitated,
however, Daniel Webster, the
(American Secretary of State, and
, Lord Ashburton, the British Prime
Minfeter, succeeded in negotiating a
treaty in which the United States
gave up to Canada most of the land
which had been awarded to Maine
by the King of the Netherlands.
1 Taking this historical instance as
their guide, Washington gossips are
predicting that Canada will get and
the United States will give up the
block on the St. Francis River whose
residents want to become Canadian
subjects.
If there should develop any serious
controversy over the matter,
that outcome is regarded as certain;
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| for if there is one uung aouve au.
'others which the present Adminis-J
tration desires in its international;
relations, it is to cultivate and main- )
i tain at any reasonable cost the
^ friendship of the British fovern;
ment.
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SYLVA, NORTH CABOl
TENANTS CAN BOY
FARMS BY SEPT II
Jack son County has recently boon
<jf$ c? in Sylva for a Tenant Purchase
County and applications arc now being
received in the "County Agent's
cftW in "Sylpa for a Tenant Purchase
loan, through the Bankhead-t*ones
Tenant Purchase Act.
Kvery tenant, share cropper or
farm laborer is eligible to apply for
a t?nnijt purchase loan, for the jmrpose
of buying, stocking, and equipping
his own farm.
In Jackson county, I?r. K. F. Moo
A I Ml l' !_ A. - 1a.
wignc win oe in T,ne vouniy iAijcn.t a
office on Mondays and Fridays af
each week} to receive applicaV.c is
to answer questions and to mike explanation
of any problem that may
arise.
All applications must be in the
County Agent's office in Sylva before
September 10 1938.
DISEASE STRIKES
STATE WORKSTOOE
An intensive sur\ey is now being
made to determine the extent of a
highly fatal disease of horws and
mules which hafs already appeared In
leu- North Carolina cotanttyf. Dr,
Will i a in Moore, chief vct4rinncia
for the State Department Of Agri
culture, has announced.
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The disease infectious equine en
ecphalomyelitis, has been the following
counties: Cumberland, Samp
son Lenoir, Jones Craven; Bar
Cmritnck,, Cnmden, Pasquoiav.n
and Perquimans's.
The disease* is alarming workStock
owners*\ Dr. Moore *a:d,
r.roinisinsr "every possiblte aid l.uv
i*y toward defection and eraser
tic.ii of the disease.
Explaining the effects of the dia
ease. the State veterinarian sa'd thai
the first symptoms may escape the
notice of a workstock owner ''?incc
the disease causes only a mild in lis
position on the animal, generally accompanied
by a rise frrtemperatun
followed by nervous symptoms, Ios?
Otf appetite, inability to eat,'drowsiJWSS*
Cupidity, eventual-iparalysif
and dea?th within a few hours to i
few days.
Dr. Moore said that a veterinarin
should be consulted when any ani
mal is suspected of the disease.
Neither state nor federal vetcrin
arians recommend promiscuous vac
cinaftion against the disease, "bui
they 'do believe that vaccine shouic
be used in areas where the dise:iS4
. has been found, but only under tin
supervision and direction of a quali>
i fied vefceri?rian,M Dr. Moore added.
| THE PRIMARY?NOT ELECTION
o??i Tnmnlrins
Djr van m. winy......
, President Roosevelt, and the course
I ?T events have focused the attentior
of the people upon the direct pri
jnary.
The primary, heralded a fev
j y? ws ago as a Teal pollt cal i form
j is coming more and motre into disrepute,
thrughout the country. Charges
of fraud, manipuIation,~"cfcercion and
the lake are heard from North, South
East and West. Wijth the dwindling
1 hopes of -the minority party greatly
increasing its representation in the
House or the Senate, it is reported
far and yide, and even in North Carolina,
that great numbers'Of men and
women of the political party that is
not in the majority, have swarmed
I to the polls and deliberately fcaken
Parl in the nomination of candidates,
not of their political party.
Some of Jthdse, perhaps many of
them, have actually changed their
political1 affiliations, and expect to
vote for the nominees in November.
But it is openly charged that the par
ticipation of Republicans in Democratic
primaries, in many of the
states, was a deliberate attempt to
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deteat m<j wisuco VI VMV ? w
of the members of the Democratu
party.
That the primajy will have either
to be reformed or abandoned is selfevident.
It has many advantages, and
many disadvantages; not the least of
which are the prohibitive cost to
would be candidates, and the con|
fusion that a^?se? in the minds of
some people, so that they seem to
think that a primaiy is an election;
when, as a matter of fact, it is but
thle members of a political patty us
ing this meaps of choosing their
I candidates for election. Of course,
I every person who participates in a
primiy is thereby morally bound to
support every candidate nominated
in that primary, whether Ee be the
me that is the che'ee of that person
or not.
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LINA, AUGUST 25, 1938
A0TO VICTIM BURED
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Funeral and interment for Ben
; Davis were conducted at Loves'
Chapel, Tuesday morning, by Rev.
G. A: Hovia, the preacher in charge
of Webster Circuit, of the Miejtrodist
church.
The body of Mr. Davis'was found
a short; distance from his overturned
automobile, near jGainesville,' Ga..
Saturday night, and it was presumed
theft he was the victim of an automobile
accident. He was alone in his
3 ear at the time, and was errroute to
Sylva to meet his daughter, who had
been visiting in Asheville. '
i Mr. Davis, who was 39 years of
age, was a son bf lithe late Isaac
' Davis of Sylva. He reajiddd in At
lanta, where he was connected with
? the Eimpley Coal Cmpany.
The young man is survived by his
widow, a sob, Ben Lee Davis, of
Speedwell, a daughter, Masy Beth
Davis of Atlanta, two slaters, Mrfc.
R. L. Knight, of Speedwell and Mrs.
Frank Henson, of Sylva, one brother,
! Tyre Davis, of Sylva, and by his
. imother, Mrs. Isaac Davik
' Tbe pallbearers were Dougals, Don
1 Whit, Chrififc and, Troy Davis, and
Jack Henson.
i
t WILL MAKE SURVEY OF CITY
GOVERNMENT BY WPA UNIT
Sylva will be one of more than 300
> cities participating in the \VfA suf
l vey of municipal government, spon>
sored by the North Caroling League
of Municipalities and the Local Gov
- emment Commission, Mayor H. Gib
i son announce'i1, yesterday.
The Mayor fs a member of . a state
wide committee of municipal officials
who will assist in the survey, add is
chahman of the local adindnistratibc
' committee. City eletrk M. D. Cowan
' i8 secretaiy of the committee, and the
L other members are Leonard Golden
1 and Dan K. Motore.
Ti e research workers -wilt transfer
1 information from city records ai.d
will cover every phase of municipal
' government. The project's experts
S :-*ill-anslyze, digogbmadfthm all 4he
1 data obtained by the' survey and
X' U mAni. a /irtYYvrvrnTiPrVssive mil
IIVIII It pt tjji t* VVIU|/A
1 nicip&l reference book fqfr city officials.
A college text book and a righ
scrooi text book will be based upon
" the facts revealed by the survey.
I NEWS SUMMARY IF
: JULY EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE ACTIVITY
Slight Decrease Shown In
Placements For July
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Raleigh, August 22?Job placements,
which have been mounting
steadily since last January suffered
a slight decline in July, according to
' | R. Mayne Albright, Director of the
1 State Employment Service. The
' 6569 placements made by the 45 of1
firers of the State Service represent
> i ed a drop of 9 percent from the previous
month.
The regular increase during Janu'
ary-June when placement records
' were, January 3362, February 4020,
^ March 5903, April 6595, May 7192 and
1 June 7222, charted the course of business
pickup throughout the State.
1 The slight decline in July may be at>
tributed more to seasonal factors than
to any cessation in the stady improvement
of business conditions.
With 16,733 new registrations of
1 job-seekers during the past month
' and 11,938 renewals of the applica'
tions of persons already registered,
the active file of job-seekers totalled
i 170,584 as of July 31 as compared to
' a total of 79,267 as of July 31, 1937.
8OURCE8 OF UNEMPLOYMENT
Since January 1938 each month has
shown manufacturing to be the chief
source of unemployment as reflected
by Employment Service registering
of new applicants, accounting
in some instances for as many as
1 90 percent of the applications.
While manufacturing is still the
chief source of applications, agricul>
ture follows it a close second. During
July 8,648 of 30 percent of all aplications
were last employed in some
type of maunfacturing; the largest
Al_*.
number 3,963 representing ICAIUWt
represented 23 percent of the applications
received.
DI8TRICT SUMMARIES
A comparison of June and July
registrations by local areas would
be misleading since die July figure
includes renewals as Well as new ap
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TOMORROW
1 ( By Prmk ^kir Stock bridge)
HELIUM . \ I. . advantages
By the aid of helium new records o
x?r deep-sea diving were set in July.
. ThiA gas, ywAjBinHti airships to *
soar, also enables human beings tP ^
go deeper in the ocean then anyone
has ever gqne before. . S
, The triek is to pomp a mixture of f
hefum and oxygpn into the diver's s
helmet while hej is submerged. Wit- *
Ham Baddars, Master Diver of the.
tTnitdd. Btdtes way? went' down *401 I
feet frt^m the U. S. S. Falcon and re I
m&ined submerged at that depth for 1
haHf an bourn, with no ilT effects. . <
The greatest fdanger to deep sea J
is the necessity of keeping the <
air pressure inside the diving suits J
as great ah that exerted by the se&v J
water from outside, which increases
?"*!? +l?n ilai#)) TTndrtr mp.h hicrh.
TV Al/U VUV UV^Jjwui w a?wv? ^
pressures the nitrogen of the air
pumped in penetrates the bloodvessels
and causes a paralysis which ]
1 is often fatal after the diver has been
1 hauled up. With he$um substituted j
for nitrogen that danger in eliminated.
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TREASURE ? . . recovery <
Fdr nearly 150 yean efforts have
been going on to recover 10 million
dollars' worth of gold bars which f
were sunt when the ship "Lutine" I
was wrecked off the coast of Hoi- *
land in 1790. About a million dol- a
Ilalrs have been salvaged. Only a few
weeks ago divers brought up an* a
other bar worth about ten" thousand n
dollars. , n
; Off the colast 'of Portugal divers
have recovered nearly half of the r
4 million dollars of gold which went c
down witli the ship ^ "
a few years ago. The ^Lufiitania"
carried two or three million in gold
when she was torpedoed by a Ger- jj
man submarine in 1915. The wreck ^
has been located off the Irish coast, r
an(^ sooner or later that gold will be j
brought np. v la
AH along the Atlantic coast of the L
United States are wrecks of ships
thpft carried gold or silver, but which a
fl* too deep'to be l^acHed by ortfinaryt
means. There is a million dollars.or E
so in copper bars in the hnll of the
"Pontiac" 300 feet deep at the bOt- *
of Lake Huron. Improved diving ap- 1
paratus will make the recovery of *
the most of such sunken treasure pos # 1
sible. . \i i(
SUNSPOTS . . . predictions (
Whenever astronomers see through 1
their telescopes an inft-ease * in the *
number and violence of magnetic J
' storms on the surface of the sun, they ((
which so far have come true. TEcv 1
predict that there will be serious *
drotugUte over a period of years, and 1
that in that period there will be eij- c
cessive static interference with radio ^
signals. 1
Suflspot cycles run about eleven (
years; five or six years of activity. (
then an equal period of ruiescencc. *
The present cycle began in 1931, and
until 1937 there was an almost con I
stant succession of drought years. n
Now, astronomers say, the magnetic n
storms on the sun are subsiding. c
Thtre have been only two flare ups c
since last Summer, the latest in c
April this year. Simultaneously, He e
'past yew has been marked by the t]
heaviest and most wide y, dispersed C
rainfall in years. In the finf, half of j
3938 the average rain and snow was *
12 percent above normal' for the j i)
whole United States. The "dust v
bowl" is green once more and the 1
largest crape in years are' growing o
in the wheat and corn country4 ii
ed by its coffee crop; the Central a
MILK .... refrgeration h
It must have occurred to everybody
at one time or another that it w
would foe a grand thing icf milk could a
f<
plications. However, a comparison ai
of placements and present active tl
file will retain its significance. c<
ASHEVTLLE DISTRICT: Place- t
ments in the Asheville District during p
July, 791, represented a drop of 4 per- p
cent, placing it fourth in the number
of placements for the month. The ac- b:
tive file increased 13.4 percent and
stands at 28,151. ai
Asheville, Placements: Private;334; ai
Public; 68; Registrations 867. \
Bryson City, Placements: Private; n
28; Public, 74; Registrations 701. d
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Hendersonviiie, Jr'iacemenxs, rnvdic, A
9; Public; 49; Registrations, 371. fl
Marion, Placements, Private; 4 ,Public n
69; Registrations, 624. 4
I Murphy, Placements, Privatje;34; 8
Public, 2; Registrations, 296. fc
Rutherfordton, Placements, Private; *
10; Public, 92; Registrations, 494. j f
Waynesville, Placements, Private; 66 8
Public, 1; Registrations, 267, x j t
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Sylva and Dillshoro schools wiU j
pen far the tall term cm tfwlaj ']
f next week, August 28.
It b believed that fthe enrollment I
F^?lfctajto is thq principal of i
There are but tyree change in the j I
lenonnel of the teachers . Claude LI
lamiltokvand W, A* Hatfield, M *
? al? !- ** * ..UaaI mm> JB
tte lip |
sancy caused by tie resignation of J
*ias Leah NieWa^now^Mrs. O'lWI 1
Bankhead, in the eLanenlary acbeoi. |
BALSAM * |f|
Dr. G. A- Cox, of Dellg?h)de, Ha., |
las purchased Balsata Lodge. Ha |
expect* to remodel it and he and
tfrs. Cox will operate iit neatt year. /
Mr. Hoy Dundan and family, oh |
Hade Springs, Va., arrived Surv- j
lay, and are visiting Mrs Duncan'a J J
3mothidn, Mrs. W. S* Christy.
Mr. Claud Thorne of Phoenix
Lj izona is visiting fa&s brothers, Mr.
Robert Thorne and Mf. John Thorne, II
nd bis sistorsT^ffisTtfyr^e Thome J J
nd Mrs. Stanley. 3 1
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Giessler of Hew fl
ik, N. J., are occupying their sum 2 9
mr home here vfhich has been
amed 4'Ft. Oeissler." 4. j
Many Balsamites are attending tho
evdval at Mt. Pleasant Baptist
bur eh, near Willits.
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New Fun program
The 1939 farm program, as out-'
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nect oy use AgncuAUinu nujuBmicui n
administration, is similar in most H
espects to the 1938 program, says I
L Y. Floyd, AAA executive oflfeer fl
t State Collage.
Cattle owners of Beaufort County I
re cooperating satisfactorily with the ; ?
Jangs disease. .
>e kept sweel and pore indefinitely, I
vithoi^t refrigeration. Weil, that *9 I
lappened. Out of on? of the largest: I
jheraical research laboratories has I
some a process, which has been patented,
for preserving whojj? tmitk ak
oom temperatures for as long as
hree or four months.
The ithing is done by adding by- I
Irogyeu peroxide , and potassium
iodide to the freteh milk and then I
leafing it to 13l degrees for fifteen
ninutes to an hour. As iitthe
Lrcfps of peroxide and a third of *. |
Irop of the iodide to a gallon of I
nilk so treated are said to bt
enough to kill all the bacteria which
;ause milk to sour, more effectively I
han pasteurization does it.
According to the Ubqr^tory re- I
lofts the taste of the milk retains
unimpaired for weeks, and
o trace of the hydrogen peroxide
an be found in it by the mdst deliate
chemical tests. The slighte trace
>f iodine makes tre milk ben- Ul
ficial, especially in regions where
he wafer-supply is lacking in iodine
HOPS . . . . pile ::1
Nothing is more certain in the long
an to starve the farmers who grow H
b than a high-paying crop soiled
o a particular area, for which. .11
here is a brisk demand. That is one
f )the paradoxes of agriculture* and
a it lies the reasota. for much of the
gricultural distress of which we
ave heard so mneh in recenft years.
A single "big money" crop is ally's
a temptatiQft. to farmers to
Danaon everyrajng exug iu use
ort to get rilh quick. But as soon
s it haa been demonstrated thak?^
here are bag profits to be mad<\
smpetdtian becomes so vigorous
hat prices fall below the cost of
roduetion and the farmer who has
ut his land and his capital into a
peculative one-crt(p vemture goes
rake.
Cotton is America's classic eg*
rrfple, but citrus fruits, tobacco
ad many others have rained communities
into which they poured
wealth when trey were first intranced.
Brazil has been all but rainmerican
republics which once I
ou risked by growing bananas are I
ow impoverished to the point
[where they have to impost food
applies, so many & their farmers II
ave neglected everything else to
prow bananas. Like abotumxa gold
nine, the How of wtattfc fr4* % I]
ingle-crop fanning system is tarn*
o peter amt in tine. H