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WARRENTON, WARREN COUNTY7NrcTTUESDAYTS HElEMjirTlMO HTfYVT VrmrHK-:--- ' - "Number 78 JUST FOR FUN flfl MUM (ft U 10 n i mi in if PEOFLE OF OUR TOW 11 mm mm n - ii tin n f Q) ii m WU3 M r Merry one "Cheer up, oia man: Why don't you drown your sorrow?" ga(j 0ne "She's bigger -than I am, an J besides it would be murder!" Ex. Expert at It '-Private Johnson' yelled the top kick on the returning transport as he discovered the recalcirant lying on his bunk during the fire drill, "didn't you hear me yell, 'Everybody inside out'?" "Yeah," groaned Private Johnson, th denths of gloom, "but what difference does hat make to me? I'v& been that way since this boat started." The armorous one "Did you ever Deep through the keyhole when I am itfin, in there with your sister?" Small brother (with a burst of can- dor) "Sometimes, when mother ain't there.' Selected. Visitor Are you at your work ? I am very particular about the way my J hair is cut" omces to make up for lost time. Village barber "Well, I'm reckon- Let us have done with such hypoc ed fairly decent, but if you like, I'll risy. - do one side of your head first so that you can ee lor yourseu. iL,x. A Salvation Army officer was taking up a collection in the street. One man was heard to say as he dropped in a dime, "Here's ten cents for the graft- ers." "You don't believe there's any graft in the Salvation Army," quickly re- joined the woman. "How do you know?" the man ask- ed her. "Because you wuld be n the Army yourself if you did," was the sharp re- ply. And the man had the grace and J the humor to laugh. Clipping. DIMPLED KNEE DISPLAYERS GREATLY OUTNUMBERED I will not sell my health. Not for A Philaelphia rabbi, preaching his all ihe money in the world T die New Year sermon a few days ago, let twenty years before my time,-as Har hunself out in lamentations against riman.did; nor spend my old age "the dangerous, death compelling drink hot water like John D. Rocke. clutch of modern, dimpled-kneed half feller. undressed vamp." According to the j 11 not sell my home T rabbi, who evidently has been seeing forget my busmess when I leave my things, the United States is a modern ofike My home shall be a place of Sampson, going the way that Babylon, rest and high thinking and peace Greece and Rome went. He sees the not a mere annex to my fact0ry or of nation on the downgrade, too much fice where the talk is nothing but nakedness leading it down. gains and loss. He blames the women. Men have T will not sell my honor I wiU not been blaming women a long time, engage in any business, no matter Adam set a bad example just before what the profit, that does not contrib he and the woman were driven from ute S3mething to the happiness and tne garden, and this Philadelphia ra M is a true son of Adam. "Think," be says, "of the young women who drive young men far out into the country at night, and who regale themselves with strong drink taken from their fathers' wine cellars." He does not ask you to think of the young men who went with the young women on the night drives, nor of the fathers who sinfully filled their win cellars. The woman's fault, as usual. Tbey take advantage of the young men, who would presumably be at- tandng church servces but for the at- tentions of the automobile driving vamps. And presumably the wine- cellared fathers are more sinned against than sinning, the victims of tae thirstiness of their daughters. Somehow Sampson has never been for ideal. He was a strong man, and hehad lived m the preSent age, would clean up in the prize ring, and nat is about all you can say for him. i course he was the victim of a no- i-t ivuu6 jtne ticicer. I ence, Sampson wasn't much of a fel- God" pity them the men with the ne didn't try hard to escape the yamp. He must not have had ttuch of jild on to fall so easily. The United ates-Sampson comparison is rather Poor one. If the nation was ever Sampson it wouii not have endured j s long, a comparatively short time nations. The vamps would have g0os long ago. : : thenv Usual view of preachers and eoiigians is to hold the women ro nsible. It is a heritage from the it 6l!m 01d Solomon, an Asiatic, did Her 7 6Ware of the womnn, my son. erall T lead down into heU" Gen" y she is led down there by a male. Wo 6 rothy knee-dimple showing the n .haven,t Sot much to do with F0r 6d States' risin or fallinS hUndV?y one of them, there are one trons iober virtuus girls and ma faBi T?6 latter snow no signs of to thf j 6Very youth sucPumbin Vdred1168 f the vamPs tnere are a viftuou Who worsniP some sober, woman Greensboro Eecord. MM- MONEY GOOD ADVICE OFFERED BY GREAT WRITER Money Making Is The Aim of All And to Say Less is Hypocrisy; But Don't Sell Your Soul To Get It He Urges. (By Bruce Barton) Ifc is easy. to be hypocritical on the subJect of money. We have formed a naDlt 01 Pretending publicly to de- sPlse mney, while actually working our neaas OIt to get more of it. We make speeches to young men ad vising them to "seek the higher good," and hurry straightway to our We are all out to make money; nor is there anything reprehensible in that fact. Wise old Sam Johnson said: "There are few occupations in which men can be more harmlessly employed than in making money." It is not "money" that is the "root of all evil," as we often misquote, but "the love of money." How, much of yourself are you will- ing to sell for money? The answer to that question is none of my business. It is a personal question a question for you to ask yourself. But if you are the sort of person I think you are, your answer will be something like this: There are some things I am not willing to sell for money. pr0gress of the world. King. Midas, in a fit of covetousness, prayed that everything that he touch- ed might turn to gold. And his prayer was granted. The food he was lifting to his mouth turned to gold; his wife, if he had toucher her, would have turned to g0ld. There are too many King Midases loose in the worid. They do not have the Midas touch; they have the Midas look. They see nothing but money. A beautiful garden to them is merely something that "must have Cost a thousand dollars." They on their wives, and figure see not a home, but an expense of s0 much a month. Thek look on their wives, ad figure how much. ieSs it cost them to live when they lived alone. The universe, to them, is a balance- sheet; their minds are adding ma- cnines; their hearts beat in tune with Midas look! ; , Get money but stop once in a while to figure what it is costing you to get it. No man gets it without giving something in return. : The wise man gives his labor and ability. , -. The fool gives his life. Public Service Monthly. Back to Nature "Mandy," said the philanthropic vis itor as he put a two-dollar bill in a little black hand, "your little girl looks hungry, so Vm giving, her some money so that' she can get a niec chicken for your dinner"." "Mandy, Jr.," said her mother as the door closed behind him. "Yo gimmie dat two dollahs. Now yo' go get dat chicken like de kind gemmum told yo only yo' get it in de way what God meant yo to." God meant yo' to." Exchange. uu uuuu n LW IV n III I 111 IH-ff The First Step is Organization, Then a Bright Leaf Tobacco Holding Association Keep ing 30 Per Cent Off Maeket. "For every evil under the Sun ; There is a remedy, or there is none. For thisevil now upon the tobacco raisers of the Bright Tobacco belt there is a remedy., I take no credit for the suggestions of a remedy, for the outline of the following plan was given me by one of the most success ful business men of Warrenton and by a man who has bought and handled hundreds of thousands of pounds of tobacco. I believe this plan if follow ed will work out the salvation of the present crop from the hands of those men who are not paying cost of pro duction, giving the reason that the supply is greater than the demand. Under this Plan it is proposed to make the demand greater than the supply. THE PLAN 1st. Organized the "Bright Tobac co Holding Association." This Association will be composed of all farmers who raise tobacco and the Landlords who own tobacco made by tenants in the Bright Tobacco Belt of North Carolina and Virginia, and will be a corporation. ' 2nd. This Association will pledge itself not to place upon any ,Ware-i house floor tobacco which will sellor less than Five Dollars per hundred. It will cost a large per cent of $5.00 to grade and strip tobacco and haul it to market; so put this tobacco on your land as fertilizer ... 3rd. Pledge yourself in writing to deliver to the Association thirty per cent of your tobacco as placed upon the Warehouse floor thirty per cent of each grade. For instance: you bring a thousand pounds of several grades to the mar ket. The Association agent is pres ent and takes thirty per cent of each grade as delivered to the Warehouse floor, i. e., thirty pounds of each hun dred pounds brought to market. The farmer places the balance on.""" ur xxr a t,ol30 Per cent- brinS more money than the Warehouse floor, it brings the market price on that day. He re ceives his Account of Sales and his money. Pays his debt as far as that day's sales will allow and goes on' by the office of the Association and its agent looks over his sales, finds wha his net average on the 70 per cent, sale and issues him a certificate for the 30 per cent, that he receives at same average paid him for sale of the 70 per cent. sold. " Thine Is -t4r &sf mm if 4 " CO This paintfnir, which hnngs in . National Heanqnnrters of the American American wouiaahood as mobilized for service in the World VVar by this reduced to a minin im, for your As--rnnizatlon. It is the collaborative scientific and art creation of "Major soeiation will be handling millions of r j CrOSS,- VVaSIlinglOI!, uepitlo iuc . Joseph Gray Kitchell, late of the General Star., U. S. A., and F. Luis Mora, j of the New York School of Art. The face of the central figure Is a composite J of the features of a thousand Red Cross ' workers selected ror the purposo. . , EWlii I o or nr Ml The farmer (member of the Associa tion) takes that .cr-tificate and places it away as carefully as he would that jnuch money, for it is a receipt for jthat much money, which should bring more money than it would be worth fhat day. v If his Time Merchant or Bank will not. hold over and wait on him . for twelve months and let him keep hit certificate, then he can turn over to said Bank or Time Merchant that Certificate at its face value. How- ever, if he believes that his tobacco will bring a larger sum than it did on the day it was sold, he can use that Certificate as collateral and borrow money from a friend and pay the Bank or Merchant. I believe, how- ever, that the banks and Time Mer- chants will carry over any customer who will pay seventy per cent of his tobacco money on his debt, for they realize that the 70 per cent, means more money under this plaiv than the sale of 100 per cent, on sale day. WHY A PROFIT This tobacco delivered to the Asso ciation on the market will be redried graded and packed in hogsheads and Kept at, ieast weive montns. in tne mean time, the Buyers need more than seventy per cent of this crop. They will receive orders to "go after it,', for the supply will be less than thg demand. Therefore, the seventy per cent sold will bring more money than if you had sold all you made the one hundred per cent. Next Spring, the farmer goes to pitch" his tobacco crop, and feels in his pocket his Certificate. He, like the Prodigal Son, "comes to him- self' and says: "I will not be such a fool as to plant a full crop of tobacco, when I have in my pocket 30 per cent. of a crop already planted, cured and redried and in Hogsheads I'll plant a a full crop and at half the expense and worry." THE SELLING END The farmer turns over to the As sociation this third of crop from tne I warehouse noor with instructions printed in the oertin'cate to hold tor not less than twelve months, but to 11 i i.1 j. 1.1 j. i n ' acuM uum. tun at sucn uure as,,. holdin- and selW. Give would bring a profat. The .Buyers, representing theManufacturers, will the Glory 99 t'-r : :-i?5:-wi3ev,- uwiuogc ui niuemn s iiiiiiiig uicu t.w i ''v fit Observe, Young Feller, what a Life time of Saving will do to you ! The Hard Saver has Nothing But dollars and he's grown So Used to Clinging to Them that he can't even Loosen Up for a Few Comforts of Life In his Old Age. But his Heirs will sooa take the Old Man's Dollars out and Give them the Air. for it in a large holdings packed and need this tobacco, and will pay more graded by one plan, rather than a dozen different plans. If the Spring of 1921 shows a half, crop planted, then this third of a crop will bring more than the entire crop of 1920 (the present crop) will bring if placed on the market this Season. Each farmer will be interested in seeing-that he nor his neighbor plants more than a half crop next year, for pfh fnrmpr will alrpndv Tinvp. a third of a crop on hand The situation is in the farmers kfln(js rwa' and dnn't. eell a nmim1 11Tlt:i voll organize and makB vm fnr TPf1rviT1,. no tioti rh mArw and arrange for some experienced man to handle your" 30 per cent of a crop if arrangements canTlf)t be madG bv vour-Warehouse- aiAnv von on ,,r mark' than spll vnnr towco nn suen market as the Warehousemen will aid vou in se- curing this redrying and grading fa- cilitie. I believe that -Warrenton, as well as other Warehousemen of the Golden Belt will take pleasure in furnishine' or aidine the farmers in holding and eradinff the thirty ner cent of -this crop; I believe the Time men and the Banks will give consent for this thirty per cent (even when mortgaged) to go into the Pool, and if they will not aid in this effort to save the farmer, and all of us who stand dependent on the farmer. Organize the "BRIGHT TOBACCO HOLDING ASSOCIATIONS' h - n on vnr wtifieate that the tobacco for which ms s ft recd t has been pooled irrevocably for. a period of not less than twelve months. Plant not more than fifty per cent of a crop next s year. Appoint an "In specting Committee" with power to Act, that will see that each member keeps his promise as to acreage, and your battle is won. QUERY: -If a Manufacturer can make his tobacco sweeter and better and claim that it is -.better Tby being "aged in wood," why can't the farm- ers' tobacco be better and sweeter when "aged in wood? - If a Speculator can hold and make money, with no control of production, why can't a farmer hold, and control production? It is simply a question of organiza tion. And there should be no trouble to organize the Bright Tobacco farm ers. The above is an outline of the .Plan. Of course a charter must be taken out with a capital stock of say Fifty Mil lions. This Pooling Company will have headquarters in Richmond, Dur- ham, or Wilson or . some other Tobac co town. This Company will have a buyer (who does not buy, but only acts as your" Agent m receiving and issuing the Company's Certificates and in propeily and promptly handling your thirty per cent of tobacco); The cost will be less than the cost of making sale of that much tobacco on the floor, for-you save all charge, I . 1. J xt . &'"6 vuoi vj. poumjs ' (Continued on Second Page) M -a la I J vlJ TOBACCO GROWERS HELD GREAT MEETING" 25TH Crowd Estimated at 400 Gather ed in Court Room Saturday. Elected Permanet Officers. Crop To Be Held Was Vote Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock the tobacco growers of Warren met in the Courthouse here. The court room was crowded with a gathering estimat ed to be near four hundred which in cluded many colored tobacco farmers. Determination was stamped upon the faces of those farmers present and it was plainly evident that they mean business. The meeting was called to order by Mr. John H. lFeming, temporary chair man, and upon motion of Mr. Fleming, Mr. J. M; Coleman, of Macon, wa3 made permanent chairman. Mr. C. W. King was elected vice-president, and Mr. J. H. Fleming, of Norlina, was elected secty-treasurer. - Mr. Coleman made a short talk of great interest, declaring that this was a time of great unrest and that the downward trend of prices was a mat ter deserving serious thought as to cause and effect. He streesed the fact that the tobacco growers in particula and the farmers generally were facing a condition that call for organization and above all cool heads. The minutes of previous meeting were read as follows: "Warrenton, N. C, Sept. 18, 1920 " The Warren County Tobacco grow ers Association was called to order by A. E. Paschall. John H. Fleming was elected chairman, and N. II. Gholson secty. W. B. Boyd made a good talk in which he advised the holding of the tobacco market as long as possible and plan to cut the 1921 crop. W. G. Rogers and others of Warren County made remarks rela tive to the tobacco situation. C. G. Stokes and Satterwhite, of Vance county also addressed the meeting. A motion was carried that we adopt the Warren County Resolutions. The following were appointed as an Executive Committee: Warrenton Township, J. E. Frazier Hawtree Township . . . J. R. Thompson Smithcreek B. H. Hawks River A. L. Pope Sandy Creek W. J. Pinnell Six Pound W. H. Palmer Nutbush.. A. E. Paschall Fishing Creek M. T. Duke Judkins Fletcher Bobbitt Shocco, .Peter Feltz Norlina Precinct .G. W. Hester "It was moved and carried that John H. Fleming go to Raleigh as a Delegate Wednesday, September 22nd. N. H. GHOLSON, Secty. It was moved, seconded and carried that the executive committee appoint ed Saturday, September 18th, be the permanent Executive committee. The names of this committee are given above in minutes of last meeting. Encouraging reports from State meeting were given by W. H. Palmer, T. H. Strickland, J. E. Trevathan, A. E. Paschall and John H. Fleming. Mr. Strickland read a paper in which he recommended that appraisers price the tobacco ahead of the buyers. It was decided that no positive step would be taken until State Associa tion ordered; for to obtain results, the organization must act as a whole. For the same reason it was thought best that no constitution or by-laws be passed until State headquarters were heard from; conflict must be avoided. Mr. Tasker Polk was called upon for a speech. He made an interesting talk showing how prices were govern ed by supply and demand, stating that the only way high prices could be se cured was through the control of de mand. And that this, was possible only through the farmers organizing. He recommended that a committee of three farmers; in each township be ap pointed to work up a good organiza tion in their, township. - Mr. B. B. Williams made a good and encouraging talk, suggesting that each township must have an organization which would form a link in a strong chain controlled from headquarters. Judge Kerr followed the above gen tlemen with a -good, talk in which he insisted that the manufacturers could pay a living price for tobacco. He -said that he was raised on a farm in (Continued on Fourth Page)
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