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How long must the people contin
ue to div express companies a profit
of 40 per cent a year oo money that
is not invested in the express busi
ness, and that exists in blue nir only?
This is a Question that the people
desire to know, and one that they
are begining to become impatient
about judging from the ever In
creasing number of communications
on this subject that are being re
ceived by member of Congress.
"Express companies ought to be
permitted to make a good, liberal
rate of interest on money actually
invested,", writes anlownman to
his Congressman. "The thing that
arouses our disgust is that the gov
erment permits the express compa
nies to extort a profit of from 25 to
50 per cent on a capitalization that
is two-thirds water. I would like to
see a parcels post.. If, we cannot
have a complete system, why don t
we at least have a limit parcels post
to start with, effective only between
towns and cities and the surround
ing country? Such a limited sys
tem would help rather than injure
the business of the retailers. Think
it over." . ,- '
The Interstate Commerce Commis
sion's report shows that the net in
come from the express companies
operation is tll.OOO.OOO.and on their
own valuation of $27,000,000. their
profit Is to be approximately 40 per
cent It is known that the actual
value of the express companies'
equipment is less than one half 'of
what the? alleire. so that their profit
on money actually invested runs up
to nearly 100 per cent.-C H. Tav
enner. , , ' v .
- I We Hast Blaaae Oarselves.
The cotton farmers are in trouble
because thousands let the good price
of cotton make them lose their heads
and plant all the land possible in cot
ton. One would suppose that the
farmers of the South had enough
of that experience in the past. If
one-third the area had been planted
in cotton on a good farming basis,
and the same blir crop been made,
there would not have been anything
like the trouble there is because, the
cotton would have been grown at a
lower cost and other crops in the
rotation would made up the differ
ence and the farmers would be get
ting cash for oats, corn, ; hogs, and
rattle. The best plan is to make a
good rotation of crops and stick to it
and never let cotton run away witn
your land because is brings a good
price in any season. W. F. Massey,
in The Progressive Farmer,
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Q ravely 's Old Stand ,
Tobacco Farmers;
. If you have more tobacco, I wish to advise you to get it ready and market it
Prices are higher than they have been at any time, this season, and the thing
While They Axe High. Rocky Mount is the place to bring your . tobacco, as
have nroved we nav more for the same grades than any market in the State.
( . At Pitt's Warehouse things go with a rush, and prices reach their zenith. Remember; first t -sale,
last sale, or any other sale,- we guarantee to get you the most ; money for your tobacco:
Brin us your next load, and watch me make you money. A ll need to prove it is just one
trial! -So come along.'- Good pox stalls for your teams, and best sleeping accommodations
for both white and colored. ' . ,
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KASHVILLE, North Carolina, December 14, 191L
NOT PRACTICABLE,
SAYS FARMER.
New York Plan to Hold Cotton
Would Not Help.
A Sampson Ceae.tr Farmers Petals
Oat Its Effects aad Sars "My A,
vice te Cetton Farmers U to
' Beware ef anything That v
Has Ivea the Smell ef , ,
Wall Street Dpoa
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To the Editor I have read with
much interest what Dr. H. Q. Alex
ander has to say concerning the plan
proposed by the New York bankers
and Southern representatives to aid
the Southern farmers in holding cot
ton and I wish to give what he says
my unqualified endorsfnent. No
doubt these Southern representa
tives mean well and would do all in
their power to help the cotton grow
ers and we cotton growers would be
mighty glad of help at this lime, for
we need it and need it- badly. But
my advice to cotton growers at all
times is to beware of anything that
has even the "smell of Wall street
upon it" Their commodity is mon
ey. Ours is cotton. Therefore our
interests are diametrically opposed
to each other by nature, and always
will be, and whenever you see those
fellows up there bgeinning to shed
crocodile tears for the Southern cot
ton growers and offer help,' then be
ware. Their sympathy is only as
the Dutchman's sympathy for the
goose he stuffs and fattens, for. for
the day of execution. Now let's
look at this hlan of holding cotton
and if Dr. Alexander has judged
it incorrectly. First; It proposes a
loan of $25,000 a bale on the I ay
ment of a fee of $1.00 a bale, with
out interest for a limited time; this
limit being January, 1913; when the
contract must be closed regardless
of the prce of cotton. . Second:
That the cotton is not to be taken
from the channels of trade, but to be
placed to the best advantage. If the
first section here proposed were the
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enure cunirnci, it. wuuiu avau uio
cotton raisers but little, as by pre
sent methods the price is carried up
or down by the very men who gives
this loan, through machinery of
their own construction, "The . New
York Cotton Exchange."
But it provides further, and the sec
ond section would mean the cotton
growers' entire undoing.: It would
mean the taking of the only weapon
of defence(actual cotton) out of his
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hands and turning him over bound
hand and foot to this natural enemy.
the money trust. They are doing
mischief enough now by selling pa
per contracts on the exchange with
the bare hope of delivery but, with
the actual cotton in their bends of
putting it more midly with "cotton
in the channels of trade," they
would tav( I may have done
some foolish things in my life, but I
will not be simple enough to agree
to this proposition, I will keep my
cotton under my shelter as long as I
can and when l am forced to have
help, I will go to my nearest banker
or moneyed friend and place my cot
ton up, but it will not go into the
"channels of trade" until such time
as seems best to me. If every f ar
mer would do tihs and then back
this resolution up with determina
tion to live an home ond board at
the samn place, our troubles about
cotton price would end. There are
two classes of men who are entirely
responsible for the cotton farmers
present predicament. Firs, the fel
low who grows nil cotton r practi
cally so, and those who eat up their
crop before they make it; These
men I saddle with our trouble and
each of these buy their rations and
the bulk of it on time.' I will guar
antee that if every cotton raiser will
make up his mind to grow even suffi
cient food stuffs next year that the
cotton areage will be encroached
upon to such an extent that a' bum
per crop and low pi-ices will not be
heard of any more'.; This resolution
if put into effect will save the re
mainder of this crop - and keep us
saved. ' There is so other way known
whereby we may be saved. I have
always tried to practice this doctrine
as well as preach it. lhave never
planted an acre in cotton'pet with
out planting a corresponding acre in
foodstuffs. Consequently by geU
ting plenty of humus in my soil it is
growing more productive all of the
time, and men like myself who grow
plenty of food stuffs would not now
be in sack-cloth and ashes about their
cotton, if it had not been for the
unbusinesslike way of those fellows
who grow all cotton, and those who
eat up their crop before they make
it. S. H. Hobbs in the News and
Observer.
. Ever notice how much time you
waste trying to do something that
isn't worth while after it is done?
How many time have you thought
you could doliver a better lecture
than the one you just heard?
' What a lot of motion has been
lost reaching for a match and bring
ing up a toothpick. .
of their Label and, If In Arrears,
GINNING FIGURES
TO DATE
Cotton Ginned By florlh Carolina
; More Than Ever Grown Before.
With The IsceptloB of ArKantaf,
. HistUilpp), Teaaeii ee and OKIa
. homa, Every Cotton-Growing ,
vState Has Already Glased
- More Cettoa Thaa Was
Crewa Last Tear. .
Washington, D. C, Dec. 8.-Geor-gia,
North Carolina and South Caro
lina have ginned thus far this year
more cotton than ever before was
grown within their borders.
Every cotton-growing State, ex
cept Arkansas, Mississippi, Oklaho
ma and Tennessee, already have
ginned more cotton than was grown
in these States last year or the year
before, according to the "' Census
Bureau's cotton report issued today
showing the ginning prior to De
cember 1.
To that date there had been gin
ned in the United States a total of
12,810,832 bales, exceeding the total
season's ginning of every year ex
cept in 1904, 1906 and 1908, and
coming within 637,000 bales of - the
total ginned in 1904 the record
year.' . '
During the period between Nov.
14, and Dec. 1, and average of 107,
256 bales of cotton was ginned on
every working day. ' - . .,
The total to Dec. 1, included, 1 87,
567 round bales, and 87,457 bales of
Sea Islarid. , .
Ginning by Stages: Alabama, J, -436,155;
Arkansas, 682,049; Florida,
74,018; Georgia, 2,337,770; Louisiana
313,614; Mississippi, 893,288;, North
Carolina, 829,150; Oklahoma, 783,
741, South Carolina, 1.310,613; ' Ten
nessee, 819,763; Texas, 3.745,930; all
other States, 88,741. : v ; v '
Distribution of Sea Island by
States; Florida, 32,359; . Georgia,
51,288; South Carolina, 3,819. r
Bay Less Eertillzer.
The Farmers' Union recommends
to the farmers to make fertilizer
payments for 1912 in three, equal in
stallmemts: the first not earlier than
on December 1, and the remaining
two at intervals of not less than 30
days. - . .., . ... : ,, .'. (
. The State Secretary-Treasures was
instructed to send his recommend
ation down to the local union,' and
through the press to ask, that all far-
Rocky
The
Convicts Oa The Rcadt.
The people of North Carolina are
aroused on the matter of good roads
and are united in demanding that
the State go out of the farming
business (except to give employ
ment to feeble convicts and those
who must be confined) and use the
able-bodied convicts on the public
roads. This sentiment was express
ed yesterday by the State Board of
Agriculture which passed . the fol
lowing resolution, offered by Mr.
Scott, of Alamance:
"Resolved, That the State Board
of Agriculture, realizing the mean
ing of good roads to the farming
interests of the State, believes in
and endores the policy of building,
working and keeping up the roads
of the Slate with convict labor."
The day of working convicts in
growing cotton and peanuts and
building railroads has ' passed.
Henceforth the wise policy ia utiliz
ing them in making good public
roads. News and Observer.
What Kind ef Bond Have Toot
Aft.T nil there ere just two kinds
of ro uts the kind that help a com
munity and the kind that tax a com
munity. It has been shown that to
carry a ton one mile by sea costs
one-tenth of a cent; by railroad,
one cent! To haul a ton over good
roads costs seven cents a mile; over
ordinary roads, 25 cents a mile; The
mud tax, the excess cost you pay bad
road, there, amounts to 18 cents a
mile per ton.
-This matter is especially -timely
ju3t now, for the winter is coming
on, when all hauling must be done
under maximum difficulties. Which
kind of road have you in your neigh
borhood, the kind the taxes a com
munity, or the kind that helps? And
if you have only the kind that taxes,,
whose fault it? The Progres
sive Farmer.' . . '
mors insist upon such terms. This,
was the action of. the country busi
ness agent of the Union at the recent
meeting in Columbia, advising our
people to buy no fertilizers, except
at substantial reduction from prices
now prevailing, and to be very con
servative in their purchases, re
gardless of the prices that may be
offered, is regarded by thoughtful
men in the order and business men
and bankers as being a long step to
ward preventing sacrifice sales of
cotton that we so often see to meet
the obligations incurred to pay for
excessive fertilizer bills.
Mount, N.
as .fast as possible.
to do is to bell
sales this season
Renew. At Once,
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M. W. LINCKE, Editor
NO. 50.
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