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at VOLUME XXV WARRENTON, WARREN COUNTY, N. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBEFTib, 192(T Nun nu - 73 JUST FOR FUN Heard in the Cotton-field Northerner "What's that white fluffy stuff you are picking?" That, sah, will be wool when yo' wear it next winter in the Noth." Life. Intermittent Laily (to applicant for position as gardner) " You are, of course, strict ly sober?" 'Applicant "Yes, mum, often." Blighty (London). The Difference e -What's the difference between a gown and a creation?" c;he "I couldn't tell the exact figures but it's a small fortune." Blighty (London). Heavenly Harmony The Rev. Mark Guy Pearse says that if there really are harps in heaven, he would rather have pianos. For our part, what we desire there is the German banned. London Opinion. Suggestive Art Purchaser (who is selecting a wed ding gift) "Yes, I rather like that. What is the title?" Picture Dealer " 'The Coming Storm' would make a splendid wed ding present." Blighty (London). Superfluity "You love my daughter?" said the old man. ."Love her," he exclaimed, passion ately. "Why I would die for her. For one soft glance from those sweet eyes I would hurl myself from yonder cliff and perish a bruised mass upon the rocks two hundred feet below." The old man shook his head. "I'm something of a liar myself," he said, "and one is enough for a small family like mine." London Tit-Bits. Cutting It Short "Don't be so long-winded in you reports as you have been in the past," said the manager of the "Wild West" railway to his overseer. "Just report the condition of the track as ye find it, and don't put in a. lot of needless words that ain't to the point. Write a business letter, not a love-letter." A few days later the railway line was badly flooded, and the overseer wrote his report to the manager in one line : "Sir Where the ralway was the river is. Yours faithfully, ." Blighty (London). News Letter From the Buffalo Section We had a very nice little shower Sunday which was much needed. Mr. J . L. Alston and family, of near Essex, visited their aunt Mrs. Lizzie Cheek Sunday. Messrs. Forest Cheek, Thomas Neal and Wilbur Davis made a short call here Friday night. Mr. Tom Davis gave a most de lightful watermelon party at his home ne night recently. ' - Mrs. T. E. White had a house full of company Sunday, Mr. White's parents and other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Clark and daughter, of Marmaduke, visited rel atives in Buffalo Sunday. Mr. pary Harton and Mr. John nite, of near Norlina called on Miss t annie Fern Davis Sunday. Miss Fannie F. Davis and Mr. Wil e Rbertson attended the picture ehw at Inez one day last week. Rlght many people attended the baptizing at both Inez and Marmaduke and also preaching at both places. it was a mistake about Mrs. Peter avs having twins; it was only her Wo younger children who went with ner to Essex. hisses Irene Davis and Agnes Cheek Mted relatives in Aspen last week inng back with them Miss Nell Uk, of Aspen. v-'. ls' - A. Cheek and her son Bobbie son daughter Mrs- w- A- Be" yShe also saw her daughter Mrs. c - A- Bpisitedv ryp-pfafafafafaggaa -Nwell, of Palmer Springs, Va. he-vfS IlGne Davis has returned t0 visit- in NewPrt News, Va., after BuffT her aunt Mrs- J- A. Cheek, of al0 for about two weeks. VIOLET. n rlylni i 1 tJIni inn 99v una m . . 'J "yjp,gp pro COTTON FARMERS TO MAKE STRONG EFFORT Meeting of Cotton Farmers, Bus iness and Profession Men Call ed for Saturday, September 8th in Court House Six Things to Do to Help Get Better Cotton Prices "What Did the Cotton Association Meeting at Montgomery Do?" "What Can I Do to Help Get Bet ter Prices?" These two questions are now being asked on every hand. Perhaps the best answer to both questions is given in the editorial review of the work of the Montgomery meeting and its plans given in The Progressive Farm er of September 11th, an advanced copy of which has been furnished us. Which is as follows: The Fight for Better Cotton Prices. Six Things You Can Do The great meeting of the Ameri can Cotton Association in Montgom ery, Ala., last, week, discussed a lot of things, but we believe the gist of the whole conference may be given in six definite things every cotton farm er in the South can do to help the fight for better prices: 1. First and foremost, hold your cotton. 'We must show the bear gamblers and their allies that they have absolutely mistaken the spirit and determination of the Southern people if they think we will sit idly by and be robbed of half the fruits of this year's labor. It has cost between 30 and 40 cents a pound to make this year's crop. The decision of the Montgomery meeting was that 40 cents should be a minimum price for middling. Net only must each man resolve to hold his own crop, but he must see his neighbors and insist on their holding. As J. A. Brown says, "We must shut up the market so tight that no man. can buy or beg a bale of cot ton at present prices so that the only way to get a bale of new-crop cotton until prices improve will be to steal it!" Mr. J. A. Todd, the distinguished English authority, who came to Mont gomery at President Wannamaker's request, sized up the present world situation somewhat as ollows: (1) The world will need eyery bale of cotton that is produced ' this year. There is no real overproduction. (2) Right now, however, there is practically no movement of cotton goods, a wholly abnormal temporary dullness in the business of cotton manufacturers, and of course they are not offering normal prices for cotton. Present prices are only fictitiuos prices based on a tem porarily demoralized market. Nevertheless if one-fourth of the cotton farmers of-the South are such fools as to accept this fictitious un dervaluation for 1920 cotton, prices on the whole crop will be lowered. We must keep anybody and everybody from selling at present prices. 2. Go to your county mass meeting next Saturday, September 18th. Every county in the South is asked to hold a mass meeting of its cotton farmers on this date, to make plans for hold ing, warehouses, cutting acreage and cooperative marketing. Go, and get your neighbors- to go, both landlord and tenant, black and white. We must educate everybody and all classes to the importance of this fight. And see to it that everybody makes some contribution for supporting the Cotton Association in its plans. A good method will be to deduct 10 to 25 cents a bale for the organization. Business men should subscribe liberal ly, for no one will be hurt more than they if the South's spending power and debt-paying power is cut in half. 3. Cut your cotton acreage next year by sowing a record-breaking grain crop this fall. Don't just talk about "cutting down acreage" a negative sort of program. Tell everybody to cut his cotton acreage by sowing more wheat, oats and rye, and by sowing more clover to enrich the land for corn next year. This is the only sensible way to reduce acreage. 4. Put your cotton in a warehouse, and organize a cooperative marketing as sociation. Remarkably important was the comprehensive report on co-operative marketing adopted at Montgom ery, the result of months of labor by Cotton Specialist Murph and others. PEOPLE OF OUR TOWN Nope, this isn't the Undertaker, but old Wliatsa Use promoting business for hi in by Hanging Crepe. He feels Bad and wants Company, but all he Gets is Meaa Looks, which Confirm his Opinion "that this is a Tuft: Old World. He hasn't Smiled since the Pigs Ate Will if and now he Can't be cause his; Face has Set. The report tells just how to start co operative selling with official grading or classing in your community. As for warehouses, if there is not sufficient warehouse room in your sec tion, it will pay to hurry up the con strution of buildings of a cheaper sort In next week's Progressive Farmer we expect to present some plans worked out by Mr. D. C. Walty, vice president and manager of the Arkan sas Cotton Association, whereby 1,000 bales may be taken care of in a structure costing only $1,500. We do not believe, of course, that every com munity should be content with such cheap and impermanent construction, but this at least indicates that no com munity need accept the ridiculous prices now offered by bear speculators on the ground that it can't house its crop. 5. Do all you can to help men who are in a tight place financially frojn; having to sacrifice their cotton. Make it a point to see the president or cashier of the bank you do business with. Tell him a large part of his bus iness comes from farmers and that farmers expect him to go the limit in helping them now. See your merchant and tell him he had better suffer some temporary inconvenience, better wait until he can wait no longer on his cotton customers, rather than force the South hack into the poverty and backwardness it formerly suffer ed. And if you have tenants or neighbors who insist on selling any how, buy their cotton if possible, and hold it out of the regular channels of trade. 6 Demand also a fair price for cot ton seed. This subject has already been discussed in previous issues of The Progressive Farmer. The decis ion of the Montgomery meeting was that farmers who can use cottonseed meal for feeding should exchange cot ton seed for an equal quantity of cotton-seed meal, or should sell seed when a ton of seed is selling for as much as a ton of meal. If this battle for better cotton prices is to' be won, the growers themselves must fight to the finish. Here are six definite thing every man can do. Check up yourself and see how many of them you are willing to do and spread the news ta your neighbors. Local Sc Personal Mr. J. W. King was a visitor here this week. Mr. A. A. Williams is in town for a few days. Mr. Van Alston is spending a few days in town. Miss Lottie Bell has' accepted a po sition with Allen Fleming & Co. Miss Edna Allen has accepted a po sition with Allen Fleming & Co. Messrs. R. B., Jr., and Graham Boyd returned yesterday from Rowland where Mr. Richard Boyd bought, to bacco. We are glad to welcome to our city Mr. L. G. Burrow, of Troy, N. C. Mr. Burrow has accepted a position with the J E. Miles Hardware Co. and is at present staying with his brother, Mr. S. J. Burrow. Outclassed Wifey "That Mrs. Brow must bt an awful gossip. I nevercan tell her anything but what she's heard it be fore' Blighty (London). News From Our Man son Correspondent. Miss Arnie Wilson is snendine- this ft : ----- fweek in Petersburg. Messrs. Charlie and William White left this week for A. and E. college. Mrs. Martha Hayes, of Middleburg spent several days of last week in town. . Mesdames J. B. Brack and Macon Rooker spent a day of this week in Raleigh. j Mrs. Macon Rooker, of Dewitt, has been visiting in town for the past sev eral days. ; Mr. Arthur Branan, of Clayton, spent a few days of last week with relatives here. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Cham pion, August 21, a fine little daugh ter Elsie May. Mr. J. W. Champion, of Cedar RocA visited in the home of Mr. J. Champion Sunday. Miss Nannie Macon Hicks, of Oine, is visiting her sister Mrs. Osborn Clark of this place. The people of this section are nearly through curing tobacco and have been very successful with their cures. Mr. C. L. Hayes and family visited in the home of Mr. Horton Hawks at Norlina Tuesday night of last week. Mr. W. B. Brack lost a fine barn of tobacco last Friday morning by fire. We sympathize with him in his loss. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Kimball have entertained quite a number of guests from different points in their home recently. Misses Myrtle Hayes, of Norlina, and Ella Mae Chelly, of Cress, Va., visited in the home ofMr. C. L. Hayes last week. We are glad to, say that Mrs. J. D. Champion who has been quite ill for the last several months is much im proved. Miss Agnes Adams returned to her home in Richmond Tuesday after a pleasant visit of a few days to rela tives here. Misses Mamie Brack and Agnes Adams and Messrs. Albert Paschall and Alfred Biack spent Sunday at Panacea Springs. Misses Clara and Kathleen Paschall, of Drewery, were in town Thursday afternoon of last week and delighted us with some of their fine music. Mrs. Martha Fleming has returned from Baltimore where she has been taking treatment in .a hospital. We hope she will soon be much improved. WHAT DOES HARDING THINK ABOUT in The following from the editorial col umns of the New York World seems to be a good pen picture of Senator Hardings mind. He seems to be all things to all men. Johnson is pleas ed that he is against the League; Taft knows he favors the League. Let the World speak: "And what does the Republican can didate think ought to- be done abouv it? Ratify the treaty? Put the politi cal, economic and moral force of the United States back of the League of Nations? Join with the other civiliz ed countries in a policy of disarma ment ? Try to stabilize the peace that has been won with such a colossal e penditure of blood and treasure? Not at all. "The main thing to do, of course, is to revise the tariff upward, in order that American industries shall not have to compete with the labor of 10, 000,000 dead men in Europe.- But the farmers of the corn bt't, for example, are already threatened with unfair competition from the Argentine." The Argentine hogs are presumably pau per hogs and fatten much quicker on the pauper corn of that country than do the rich and independent hogs that are fed on the free-born American corn of Kansas and Nebraska. This upsets the hog market and compels the Chicago packers, who skin the pro ducer and consumer with the strictest impartiality and who contribute reg ularly to Republican campaign funds, to make frequent adjustments in prices in order to keep the public in general from deriving any advantage from Argentine competition. "In the mean time, however, we have found a key to the Harding mind. We know why it works the way it works. The explanation will be found in the Republican Campaign Text book just issued, under the heading 'Suggestions for Speakers:' "(a) Avoid Gov. Cox's fallacious contention that the chief desideratum is definiteness in the obligations to be assumed by the United States. If the MICKIE SAYS: 5S AViD AfcE. IAD "TO CiCT-CUCVAj I BUT fcE-ftOVi TU ClUMTO.-9A. ) OWCE si ANQUVVE. AKloVW ad aur mou3, &vavx -tw &amI snwuo's ova -vu" coa vj anM (onc ovrr, tcr. us -rue. &qhJ p O.ST UUE -CVAKC UU RACE tUM &nti& P ill ) --5 e tbt f "'' h l - obligations are in their nature unde sirable the greater the definiteness the greater the risk. "(b) Avoid Mr. Franklin Roosevelt's superficial assumption that the United States without the use of -force could have kept the peace of Europe by merely joining a league founded on force. (c) Insist that no general commit ment shall at any time be made which deprives the United States of freedom of decision and action whenever inter natonal political questions present themselves. Senator Harding might have written those directions himself. Avoid every thing. Dodge every .obligation. Sneak out of every responsibility. Boost the tariff. Boys, Get the Money!" . Progressive business firms are con tinually on the look out for new methods and devices that will perfect and increase the output of their con-: cerns as well as" develop smoothly working organizations. The type writer, up-to-date filing systems, mim eographing and addressing machines have done much to promote office ef ficiency while numerous inventions for doing the work formerly done by hand have revolutionized modern industry. Wide awak business "men realize that improvements and conveniences in their.firms not only are of tremendous value in dollars and cents but the in direct benefits are equally as great or even greater. Healthy, well trained -and contented workmen are secured and retained in such establishments. People like to work in the healthful at mosphere of a modern concern and well trained workers stay with the firm which has trained them. The home is just as much a place of business as the office, factory, or store. This is particularly true of the farm home. The .business and home life of the farmer and his family are so closely associated that it is impossible to tell where one leaves off and the other commences. The farm is the big work shop of nature and it is up to every farmer to put aside a certain percentage of his income each year to improve the living and working condi tions of his business. Modern machin ery and electric service guarantee ef ficient work and are? paying invest ments. Labor-saving, profit produc ing 'devices should be regarded as so much currency with which to buy ef ficiency. Electricity in the home makes housekeeping light house keeping while electric help in the dairy and barns is invaluable. Hired help of the best sort is also attracted and' retained on the up-to-date farm. . This is an age of efficiency and riv alry and a farmer who is not prepar ed to compete with his neighbor who has every modern appliance to assist in growing and harvesting large crops, in raising better cattle and in having better dairy products will soon find out that he has not only failed as a business man, but, handicapped with incompetent or insufficient hired help, inadequate machinery and no modern conveniences, he may even be forced to struggle for his very existence. A. N., in the University News Letter. The ship had left Havana some miles behind, when a gentleman who had been going while the going was good tottered up to the captain. "Cap'n," he said thickly, "woncha rock the ship a little so's to make things ,look level to me?" Selected. legion mm NUMBER OF SERVICE MEN -AND VISITORS PRESENT Barbecue Prepared Under Direc tion of Mr. Ollie Shell Speech by Commander Gibbs and Mr. B.B.Williams The local members of Limer Post American Legion tendered a delight ful barbecue to members of the Post on Thursday afternoon at the beauti ful grove of Mrs. Lola Bennett. ' Quite a number of the members of the Post and several invited guests were present. Commander Frank H. Gibbs addressed the membership pres ent, setting forth the purpose of thw organization. He stated that there might be the idea in the minds of the service men' that the purpose of the organization was that of military service, but that such was far from the fact. The purpose 'was purely that to inculcate patriotism and lov for one's fellow man and country. Commander Gibbs made a strong ap peal for organization. He was followed by Mr. B. B. YfiU Hams, who was onnected with the War Board of the County as legal adviser. He stated the difficulties of his posi tion and how he was blamed for things ever which he had no choice. He did what the law directed him to do, and though that seemed often a hardship to the man indicted into ser vice, yet he was quite sure that these same men now realized that he was simply doing the duty which the Gov ernment directed him to do. After Mr. Williams closed hia re marks Mr. Howard F. Jones was ask ed to "say something;" but as the hour was late and the crowd hungry, Mr. Jones simlpy said, "Let's eat," which short speech brought forth much ap plause. The barbecue was prepared by Petar Collins andTeter Johnson under th direction of the "Master Cue Cooker," the Honorable Ollie'Shell, which assur ed its being prepared and seasoned to the "Queen's taste." The affair was much enjoyed by all present. Goldsboro Looking For Better Prices Goldsboro, Eept. 7. Goldsboro to bacco market opened today with a million pounds of the weed on the floors. Prices were below the expec tation of the farmers, but figures compiled 'by the Chamber of Com merce show the Goldsboro marketf selling well in the average of the Eas tern Carolina tobacco belt. As the sales progress prices are advancing, and when independent buyers are in structed to buy, a substantial increase in prices is assured. Scores of wag ons and trucks are yet to be unload ed. The Goldsboro market opened with all five warehouses filled almost to ca pacity, it being estimated that the closing of the market found a mil lion pounds on the floors. Only two warehouses finished their sales, the prevailing price and conditions forc ing most of the farmers to turn their tags and refuse to sell at all. The condition and quality of the tobacco offered on the floors today J was greatly INFERIOR to last year'a crop with prices running much lower on account of what was said to be a greatly inflated market. The drop in common to medium grades -was the more pronounced, it seemed to be the desire of the buyers to obtain the better grade, which held its own in better proportion than did the cheaper kind. In conversation with several of the buyers it was stated by them that they were uninstructed by their houses, and were, therefore, unable to properly handle the enormous amount of tobacco suddenly thrown on the Goldsboro market. The highest price paid on this mar ket today was 59 cents. Other prices ranging from 10 to 47 cents with 20 cents as the average. It is the general opinion of war house men and buyers that if the farmer will hold his tobacco for a few weeks, conditions will greatly improve 1 competition will be keener and he will j be able to cemmand a higher price for his tobacco. News and Observer.
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