GOOD ADVICE.
"Entertain honor with
humility, and poverty with
patience."
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keep, and I'll tell you what
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VOLUME XXVIL
WARRENTON, COUNTY OF WARREN, N. C, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922
NUMBER 5
YING AT HOME
AHE-CIGARETTE LEAGUE
ASKS 10,00,000 RECRUITS
T
UTCH OF SNOW STORM EASES
AFTER HEAVIEST GRIP IN YEARS.
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S001MTE MAY CROWD
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KEY TO PROGRESS
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Bankers and Time Men May
Help Reduce Acreage, Stu
dent of Farm Life, Says.
REDUCTION MEANS PROFIT.
By JOHN FIELDS
Editor Oklahoma Farmer.
It is a fact that those who control
land and credits largely determine
what farmers do. Whatever is th
matter with agriculture in the South
today, responsibility for most of it
rests with the landowner, bankers
and credit merchants of the South.
A study of reports of conventions
and conferences to consider the state
of Southern agriculture leads to the
conclusion that, hitherto, they have
been long on oratory and short on
operation. The end to be sougm
was never better expressed than by
Henry W. Grady when he said:
"When every farmer in the South
shall eat bread from his own fields
ant? meat from his own pastures and,
disturbed by no creditor and enslaved
by no debt, shall sit amid his teeming
gardens and orchcards and vineyards
and daries and barnyards, pitching
his crops in his own wisdom and
crowing them in independence, mak
ing cotton his clean surplus and sell
ing it in his own time and in his
chosen market and not at a master's
bidding getting his pay in cash and
not in a receipted mortgage that dis
charges his debt but does rot restore
his freedom then shall be the break
ing of the fulness of our day.'
Those sentments so beautifully ex
pressed are always applauded wher
ever quoted applauded and that is
all.
Dr. Seaman A. Knapp started the
agricultural demonstration work in
the South and laid the foundation for
its agricultural rejuvenation. Among
his Ten Commandments of Agricul
ture are these:
"Increase the farm stock to the ex
tent of utilizing all the waste pro
duets and idle lands of the farm."
"Produce all the food required foi
the men and animals on the farm."
On many occasions he reiterated
"One of the foundation principles of
our work is that the farmers should
raise the food for the family and for
the farm stock so that his principal
cash crop may be all profit."
Those who have been carrying on
the agricultural demonstration work
in the South have failed to obtain the
results for which Dr. Knapp- hope.
That cotton farmers generally have
noi been, influenced by agricultural
oratory and have not practiced these
sound precepts is clearly shown by
some recent reports of the Bureau of
the Census. This table shows the
number of farms in each 100 farms
m the cotton States, which raised no
calves and which raised no pigs in
1915).
Pet. calfless Pet. pigless
North Carolina 62.8 62.9
South Carolina ..... 63.0 62.7
Georgie 56.4 57.6
Alabama 46-2 US
Mississippi 47-9 525
Louisiana ..... 57.6 54.7
Texas 46.5 61.6
Arkansas 48.2 53.7
Tennessee . 35-4 45.4
Oklahoma 35i3 56.3
Oratory has been ineffective. Dem
onstration has failed to do the job.
The men who have controlled land and
credit in the cotton States have to a
large extent blocked the earnest work
which county agents and home dem
onstration agents have been doing.
Bankers and merchants have put up
money for calf clubs, pig clubs, and
poultry clubs because it has been
fashionable quite the thing to do.
It gave them good standing in agri
cultural society. They sought to buy
agricultural development and pros
perity. Yet in their daily work of
passing upon farmers' credits, these
same bankers and merchants have
continued putting emphasis on cotton
and numerous children to pick the
cotton without pay.
John Burroughs wrote: "Where the
i cow is, there is Arcadia; so far as her
( influence prevails, there is content
j ment, humility, and sweet homely
I life." All of us join in campaigns to
1 induce city children to drink more
1 milk, but we give no thought to the
I fact that more than one-third of the
children living on the cotton farms of
i the South do not know what milk
tastes like they haven't tasted it
I since they were weaned. Instead of
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CHICAGO. The National Anti-
Cigarette League announces a
drive, to begin next week for
10,000,000 recruits to the clean life
movement of the league. Dr. D. H.
Kress, of Washington, is president
of the organization. An educational
and law enforcement campaign :is
planned.
"Visitors Would Cheer Heart:
of The Poor," Mrs. Pendle
ton Says In Open Letter.
PLANS CHURCH SERVICES.
being sustained and strengthened by
a drink of nutritious milk when weary
with chopping or picking cotton, the?;
are juiced up with a dose of chili
tonic and told to' hop to it.
Here are the plain facts of the
business:
If every farmer in the cotton States
had, in 1920 and 1921, fed and milkec
one cow; bred and fed one sow and
fattened and killed and cured the
meat from her litter; and made ful
use of what two dozen he-ns, assisted
by a rooster, would have produced,
things would be very different now.
If bankers and merchants had not
extended credit for the production of
cotton to any tenant farmer who did
not have at least one cow, one sow,
two dozen hens and a roostei', and a
rental contract under which the land
owner provided suitable shelter for
livestock and permitted the produc
tion. pCjfeed on,a haje-crop . basis,
few landowners, cotton farmers,
bankers and merchants would be in
trouble now.
Having gotten into a variety of dif
Acuities through financing cotton
farmers upon what has been proved
so conclusively to be the reverse of a
money-making basis, isn't it time to
insist that they put their farming on
a living-making basis first before
raising any cotton?
' I am sure that the time to do. this is
now. You can't buy your way out o
the present situation. You must work
your way out. As a starter, when
any farmer comes to you for credit
and confesses that he hasn't a cow, a
sow. and a flock of hens, you should
register amazement, astonishment,
surprise, apprehension, dismay, solic
itude and consternation; get red m
the face and pound the table at the
verv thought that any farmer who
has neglected to supply himself with
this minimum of family-feeding live
stock should think that he can get
from you credit on which to make a
cotton crop.
Then calm down and talk it over
with him and try to get him started
as cheaply as possible, with livestock
which mav be purchased locally, im
pressing him with the fact that reg
ular feeding: and care are as import
ant as breeding in getting profitable
returns. A cow, a sow, two dozen
hens and a rooster, properly cared
for. will nroduce more food before
next Fall than their present cost will
buy. If you have customers or ten
ants who must be fed until they make
a crop with which to pay interest on
the old notes and accounts, you can z
feed them more cheaply than by put
ting them in the way of feeding them
selves with the products of the live
stock which should be on every farm.
Farming should first of all be based
on Dlans which make of it a living
making cinch instead of merely s
money-making chance. Those who
rontrol credits in agricultural com
munities can not escape responsibility
for the disaster . which inevitably
comes from unsound farm practices.
o the Editor:
Should the County Home be
moved ?
This is a question of great import
ance not only to the present inmates
of the Home, but to inmates who will
be there for generations to come, for
He, who knoweth all things, has
said: ''Ye have the poor always with
you."
I have been visiting the County
home for more than thirty years.
When my son, who is now a Lt. Col
onel in the army was a lad scarcely in
his teens, I vould get him to drive
me in a spring wagon to the Home
to take the inmates Christmas din
ners, so I can speak with strong au
thority on the inconvenience of hav
ing the Home so far from town.
Were it nearer town, and on the
main road, many of our citizens when
taking pleasure drives, and those
who live in the country, when passing
would stop to speak a word of cheer
to these poor afflicted people. They
appreciate kindness, and have said to
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me, "Come to see us whether you
bring us anything or not.'5
I hope the people of our county
will see the advisability of moving
our County Home, and installing
some of the conveniences which are
peculiarly necessary for these help
less ones.
It would be of great convenience
to the Superintendent and his family.
Then the visiting physician would be
in closer touch with the inmates.
Judge Allen, when this matter was
brought before him, said he thought
these people ought to have religious
advantages, and of course they
ought.
Manv years' ago, Mrs, l-h-nvy A.
Bovd and i went before the County
Commissioners, and asked for an ap
propriation for a chapel at the
home, and they gave it to us. With
that, and some other help, we had a
neat building erected; then we pur
chased an organ. For several years
there was an occasional preaching
service which was well attended. But
there is none at all held there now.
I have talked to some of our best
men, and this is the plan that I pro
pose in order that "the poor have the
gospel preached to them:" The min
isters in the town have the Sundays
fully employed, so I earnestly appeal
to the laymen of this Christian com
munity to hold a religious service at
the County Home in the afternoon of
the first and third Sundays of every
month, beginning with March. j
There are men in all of our j
churches, accustomed to holding pub
lic religious meetings, who can at
tend to these services. The first
Sunday in March, I would suggest
that Mr. Henry A. Boyd go himself,
or appoint someone to take his place,
and take ladies to lead in the sing
ing. The third Sunday in March Mr.
Eugene Allen will go, or appoint
some one to take his place. The
first Sunday in April, Mr. Walter
Rogers will go, or appoint some one,
and the" third Sunday in April Mr.
Skilman will conduct the services.
This appears to me to be a very feas
ible plan, but if any one can suggest
a better, we would be glad to hear
from it.
V. L. PENDLETON.
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E. E. Giliam Brings Mail To Warrenton After Hours of Battling
With 20-Inch Snow; School Interrupted For One Day;
Several Business Houses Did Not Open Friday.
FOUR CHIMNEYS SWEPT FROM ELLIS HOWE. CO. ROOF.
Snow still hinders today the normal business and social life of
Warren. The cold blanket, which covered the county with 20
inches of fleezy whiteness Thursday night, Friday and Saturday, is
slowly melting:, and the highways are being opened to travel
and txade.
Telephone and telegraph communication was not interrupted
m the least here. Mail service could not be maintained Friday
morning by T. W. Hight whose Fprd refused to buck the snow
banks to Norlina. E. E. Giliam, local Ford dealer, plowed through
the road in a Fordson tractor and returned to Warrenton Friday
afternoon near 5o'clock with the first
BUR LEY WAREHOUSES
NOW IN OPERATION.
Farmers Get More In Advance
Than For Whole Crops
Last Season.
It -was tor Charles Garland's
$1,000,000 fiat Lillian Ccnrad,
pretty Bostcp Art student (above)
was looking whcjn she announced
her willmgr.is to share his home.4
as a soul nite, era though his
wife and bay (below) might net
vacate-- At ' time young' Gar-iand-hao
reined to accept the for
Uu;c left" byihis father last year.
Now, - howeyr, since Lillian 'Jlras
come into hi? life, h? says he wnl
claim the rnO'ey. He says he will
sacrmce evening baby, if need be.
for the new mate.
Lexington, Ky., Jan. 30. Four
million pounds of tobacco were de
livered to the warehouses of the
Burley Tobacco Growers Co-operative
Marketing Association when
those outside Lexington were open
ed today for the first time this sea
son, it was announced a,t headquar
ters tonight. As vvs the case when
the houses, here opened last week, it
was said that growers received more
money in advance for their crops this
year than they sold them for last sea
son. No reports of dissatisfied grow
ers were received.
Tobacco buyers tonight contrasted
conditions as they existed today with
those of the opening day for market
ing the 1920 crop. Low prices paid
for the weed then caused so much
dissatisfaction that in .several cases
the warehouses were closed for a
time.
"Am I the first girl you ever kiss-
led?"
"No, deraest, I was in the movies
for six years." The Kablegram.
MAYOR LPPOINTS
IELIE1 WORKERS.
Mayor Frank p. Gibbs yesterday
appointed H. AJfoseley, P. Frieden
berg, Rev. E. VBaxter, J. Willie
White, M. Perm Saul Kaplon and
Or. R. S. Booth V-ommittee to raise
S350 Jewish Relf Week, Feb. 6-12.
A telegram fn State Chairman
Lionel Weil reqted that this ac
tion be taken.
"Frank H. Gibbslayor
"Warrenton, N. 6
"May I ask youj appoint a strong
committee to undVake raising of
funds for relief amiilion ' of help
less and homelessiIdren, destitute
old men and won! now on the
verge of starvatioin war-ravaged
Eu-ope. They loito Americans'
generosity to savewn. Feb. 6-12
has been proclaim by Governor
Morrison as JewisfRelief Week
whan an appeal for Ur immediate
relief shall be made.1 ;::
"Yarrenton's quofi is $350. I
fee'; sure that Warren wiu gen-
Biwoi,)' mc v pi. xime is
short and the need mrc."
; Myry Texas Sn Dies.
Mary Texas Smileyfant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. :rew J. Smile---'
died Thursday Fvrnirov TV.Q
' . w- a jiv
sympathy cf friends xtended to
th-3 bereaved parents relatives.
CHIMNEY BLAZE MAKES
CROWD HUSTLE TO MODLIN S
JOKE ON THE BANK
Clanging of he fire bell Saturday
evening at dusk brought; numbers of
persons from the postoffice and oth
ers from their home. A chimney
ablaze at the Raymond Modlin home
caused the alarm. Persons, excited
by the bell, crashed through the
snow. The advanced guard of spec
ators turned others back when they
reported that "only the chimney -had
been on fire.''
The Warrenton Fire Company re
turned to the firehouse from Dam
eron corner. They had made good
time with the hose and reel until one
returning from the Modlin home
stopped the struggle through the
snow with the declaration, "the fire
is out."
HREE TOBACCO WAREHOUSES
AT DANVILLE WRECKED.
DANVILLE, Va., Jan. i8.Three
tobacco warehouses' root's-and that oi
a motor company cayvd 11,; here today
as a result of. the heavy snow. All
warehouses have been- ordered closed.
The snow, began to fall Thursday
night am? has: fallen without inter
ruption sirteec. then. No streets cars
are running and many automobiles
have ben. abandoned in the streets of
the business section.
BOX CAR BRINGS WOMAN
TO TOWN DURING SNOW.
Half of the student body in the
medical department of the University
of Warsaw is composed of women.
OASES.
Whatever else may happen sinee our
pnnntrv has ffone dry,
The sailor still will have his port and
the farmer have his rye,
The cotton man will have his gin,
nnrl sea coast have its bar,
And each of us will have a bier no
matter where we are.
WARREN HAWOT
1 REACHED QQTA.I
The Woodrow Wilsorlniflfion
ward will be open for irij.ions
Woman's limited , knowledge of
banking and money matters has long
been the subject for jokes on the
stage and elsewhere. The story ot
the woman who believed that because
she still had blank checks in her
check book she still had plenty of
money in the bank, is an old one.
But the other day an Indianapolis
woman was notified' that her account
had been overdrawn and instead of
accepting the bank's sterotyped invi
tation to "come at your earliest con
veience ,and attend to the matter,"
she chose a new method of procedure.
The bank received the following letter
from the woman: "Please find enclos
ed a check for $13.72 to settle my ac
count." Exchange.
r several r.iore aajs, vi v puiy..
Brodie Jones sai
nan vV
tester! a. v.
Ike purpose of the Foulionjis tQ
perpetuate the spirit of 4fiQ which
tie War President incul4
; interest upon tne ray Maj,
fjnd is to be awarded y tor. that
rersons who makes the 4:estt coA
tribution to enuuring ecv anJi
through understanding. u
"Warren County has nL. "com
pleted its quota. The gifte;0 be
'ree-will and no one will bvassefj
directly. It is brought to tten
sion of the people of WL - with
the feeling that appreciat0jMri
Vvilson will guarantee. aesp(;nse
greater than the quota ined" by
Ilrs. Josepheus r'aniels, chair
man," Mr. Jones conclude :
Freigh car and side-door pull
mans have been looked upon as
the haven of the hobo not again
here. The snow this week: brought
freight car passenger . service into
the elite class on the Warrenton
Railroad.
Passengers at the Plains were
anTdous to ccme to: Warrenton.
The train was. there for freight and
express. The passenger coach was
at the other. end of the road. Au-thorities-
told the dozen or more
patrons, that they might try the
box cr- if they had rather not
wait for a second trip.
Conductor Will Price, 20 min
utes later, opened the car door in
Warrenton. A lady stepped to the
freight platform.
ood morning!" said Price.
There was astonishment in his?
voice.
"You know," he said yesterday.
I didn't expect to find a woman ire
a box car,"
mail of the day. Patrons of the local
post office, anxious for news as to the
extent and damage of the snow else
where and eager for amusement
around firesides, sought old clothes
and leggings to stumble downtown
for the mail.
Several business firms did not open
at all. The drug stores housed num
bers of business men who stood aim
lessly around, commenting upon the
"biggest snow since 1889" and taking
occasional cokes as thev Queried.
"wonder what time Giliam will get
back? Heard he stripped low gear
and can't make it."
This story had been repeated ever
so often until night's mantle of dark
ness drew in upon the fleece of Moth
er Goose and E. E. Giliam encased in
a white overcoat and with his face
ruddy with cold, halted before the
postoffice with the day's first mail.
' "Any trouble, Ed?"
"No, except ran out of gas and
kerosene and had to make two trips
by foot to houses for fuel."
"One o'clock. Took me four hours
to make it. A tough pull, all right."
Undaunted by the hardships of the
days below, Giliam left Saturday for
Norlina. He battled through again
to return ' iri the afternoon with the
mail. The second day's run was an
all-day struggle with a slippery road
bed, but the tractor pulled the mail
cart through the drifts. Warrenton
persons again found mail near night
at the postoffice.
Sleighs were story book creations
until A. J. Ellington clamped runners
to a buggy. He drove to Norlina.
Saturday morning in thirty minutes,,
he said. "I had to push my team
hard to make the train with Mr.
Dameron."
Mr. C. E. Rodwell and Mr. Elling
ton gave several friend?, rides up and
down main street and; were often tar
gets for snowball- from the curbs.
This was the only large sleigh here.
Many children made merry with
smaller unes but the snow was too
deep for sleighing.
A , few pupils plung;ed through to
the Warrenton State High School
Friday morning but found that there
would be no school for the day.
School was resumed with fair attend
ance Monday.
The tobacco buyers have had a;
sale tvery day except Tuesday of
ji i mi l l 1
i-nis weeK. xne saies nave Deen.
small, however.
The snow caused Mr. Afpheus
Jones to drive a horse and buggy to
Norlina Saturday to meet. Mrs. Nan
nie Jones, returning from Louisville.
It took one, "hour and a half to make
the driy-j. Dr. Rodders forced his
machvte. through to Norlina Friday
but remained there Sor the night.
Several persons rode horseback or
drove into town for medicine and
practioners were unable to make pro
fessional calls out of town Friday.
The Warrenton Railroad Co. train
traveled to Warren Plains Friday
and returned with express. The
Company has maintained daily serv
ice since and the public has traveled
the road in trip too and from War
renton. Four chimneys atop the Ellis
Hardware Co. were nipped at the
roof by frn avalanche of snow Sun
day m- jrning. Excessive weight
tumble the top of the storage house
at th e Winston property adjoining
the " Warrenton Grocery Co.
T iee-Rresident J. M. Gardner of
t'.ae Citiaens Bank and President of
the Warrenton Railroad Company
said that the snow measured 20
inches, without drifts.
The road forces are clearing the
highways add the county is shaking
the grip of ;the worst snow storm in
years.