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The Trading Public Liberally Patroaiz Merchant Who Bid For Tb Trad - i . ' Watch For The Bidders IN ASH VILLE, North Carolina, March J3th, 1919. NO. lh In A Red Triangle Dug-Out Overseai (jjjjl THEY FOUGHT TO A FINISH .' - v ' II - ' II V.e tn' i ;:iy i fi h :t a L.. '"A we t. i:.: L.Ly r.t, N. C -Si st Tor Saving- ., .. , . Ml PI"' tr ROCILY MOUNT, IV C. Cc; it "1 end Surplus ." 5 2C D,C C 0.C0 , , , Compounded Quarterly. On .. , , - bavins. - ;.. Your H::sincss Solicited ' Tbos. II. Dattle, President.' R. II Ricks, - : Vice President A. P. Thorpe. . Vice-President L. Suiter, . .Cashier, W. G. Rollins,. - Asst. Ca-hter. N. S. Dennett, ," . Asst. Cashier Vis!.:;: Fro LT::!.vi!k When in Roc In i in Rocliy UoztX "top s,t the : - y-y J. HOTEL For Lad'c3 and Gentlemen, Encpean Plan. - home cooking:: x v : GOOD SERVICE.' J. , 213 S. Mam StX ; .:' . ' Central Location. Steam Heat and Running Water in Every Room. RIGHT! Lc Dressed Up At All CIcJ 1 1 Ha 2 Yc c: ' t! : 1 T 1 :C! if Hi. :tai'cn, rivp'r. - -- - n. c. J At TBI "3 I.zch - -, Th Booth i confronted with a dla- aater unless tba crop of 1811 h r- icrd and th balance of th crop of oa protected and held until mar ket conditlona Justify IU Bale To an. able all people In tha South Intara.t.n i in cotton, aad nearly all are. to adopt airect and Intelligent method of meeting tha altuatioo, tbia Convention earnestly recommend that tha . fol lowing plan be adopted:- (1) That the crop of 1M ba re duced at lent SJ 1-S par cent in acre are, and that tha fertilizer on tha two third area.be not Increased; but this noes not apply to any farm of less I man are acrea to tha bona: Provld- a. mai in carrylnf out thla recom mendatlon the- following ch.dul of reduction ahall ba obaerrad: - " , Any man planting lira acrea or lea to the hone to make no reduction t-7 acrei, reduce one acre .to the hone; g-l acrea, reduce two acrea to tha horae; 10-11-12 13 acrea, . reduce threa acres; 14, reduce four acres: 15-H, reduce Are acres; 17-18. raduce atx acrea. . Under no circumstance will any . fanner plant mora than 1. acrea to the horsa. , . (2) That on all tha cotton land lef ant and on the balance of tba farm ample supplies of food, feed and oth crops ba planted.. ;v" ' (2) Wa bailer that tha existing at' nation justifies the holding-of erer bale of cotton now In the bands o our Southern people, and w urg ou farmers not to sell th balance of th present crop for less than thirty cent per pound, baala middling... (4) That to carry out thla purposf w call upon th. bankers and box neaa. man of the Stat for their haart eo-oparatlon. . . ,(5) Wa recommend that etery own r of cotton' Immediately put hit cot ton tinder shelter, or in a warehouse and will not permit It to leare tin ware house until th owner shall, ao apeclfy. v : . y () We arneatly warn tha farme that if he buys high-priced fertilizer and a large acreag of cotton la made ha must pay next fall with cheap cot ton for the high-priced fertilizer and other supplies. . - , (7) W recommend to the farmer that he leare uncultirated In cotto' rery acre that he cannot reasonable expect to make enough cotton to yieli1 a profit at reasonable prices. We do ot bellere that an acre that produce-' less than two-thlrda of a' bale wll' yield a profit to the grower, and etrT auch acre should not be planted In cotton. . . , ; ' - '.- ; (8) For the purpose of securing the' united co-operation of all. financial in terests, and to put this plan into ef fect, the merchants, bankers, land lords, fertiliser dealers and other business men are askel to extend credit and to finance farming on the basts of a aafe program. Including full production of food and feed, rather than the production of cotton alone. (8) It la recognized that the world need for cotton when conditions be come anything approaching normal without doubt, be exceedingly -at, and it la therefore important t tho j who can hold their cotton t t at time, and that, m the " i the situation be held In 1 I i. t trol of future production. (!,") ' racor nend that the pres t ( s of t e United States en- i t t t a bin coTermg tne cnar- a ' r c cofton daliverable upon cot- t - ' t'S- '' ' ' ' : ( I) .e recommend that the legl 1 f i i adequate warehouse ? '. f r ! t : " i of North Carolina. ( ) " ; . :.d that the tax- sal taxpayer ( j t a commit- tit.. i : :'i t;.e rii.' ; i ( ? the E ato 1 r to h nil,-' sate a i to t t' e i . t t . h i to r . t i . i 1 s -i f '1 an''iorlty 1 1 i i . s i H c ry o- t I j i rm ' s. ' ' . ' t- t'---:; it :, i- i i i ' . : v5 ( : t 1 ail ' t I ?0ti t-f i -1 be cJ7k?. iTTTTI 9 1 Tf ' fit, td mJ Tl ; I "'.'v' 1 ' '" v - " V ! .-.ij.:!-iT'VH-.', w -' ' ' t l i'ttf MlA Mi - t r in rii ' " Y. M. C. A. men ftved wn AnwMttm m,uu ii.: a ' . - SOIIICI AVIATOR 1 COS FROM PRISON Oalle "Y" Werk In Oerman Prleon ' Camp "Life Saver, While Con. fined At Vllllngsn. Hew York, Feb. ..Lieutenant George Puryear, f of, Memphis, Tenn.; an ariator, waa one of a trio of hardy Aznerioan adventurer! who were auc- eessful In a wild dash for liberty from (fee Vllllngen prison camp on October . Mxteen men made the attempt but only Puryear, Lieutenant Harold Willis of Boston, and Naval Ueuteif ant . Isaacs of Portsmouth,..' Va., got away. . Word has just , been received at T. M. C. A. headquarters here con cernlng their . almost hopeless esca pade. " The men broughtback remarkable accounts of Y. M. 0. A. work even al Vllllngea. ' f - The 'Y eent ua books of all kind and even sporting goods,"! aid Lieut Puryear. -"We "played basketball and volley ball incessantlyour apace was too email for baseball and football tell you. those games vrere life savers to us, and they kept ua In fair physl cai condition'' ' - ,,x t ,"'- It is reported that Puryear and hi? comrades Slipped otlt of the camp tnrough a tunnel under the wire, All but the three named were headed off before.. they reached the river Rhine, but the Intrepid trio. swam the river a terrible feat in Itself and ' made their way VUo Holland. . ; " . i.::;:ey sent i:o:.:e CEO B!3 CATTLE Doughboys "Cleaned Pockets", for Home Folks, When Return From Fight Wis Uncertain. V. M. C, A Has . Delivered Millions of Dollars For" Amex. '. . Paris, Feb. The steady unsel fbhnesa of the American soldier. ehown by the way he "cleaned hie pocl:pts''of money before going Into ua, to be sent home If he didn'l c I rk, is told by W. J. Baker ol rori Chester,. N. Y., who served eleven Wi)ii!!5 ps a Y. M. C. A. worker with the i;.h r!vtlon. His particular cliarge was the t'.hd battalion of the 103rd Infantry. La joined that unit en the St. Mllii.'i f.-o.-t, wont with t.em' to Chateau Thierry, end lutei p in the famous St. j;:hhl c' i rp 1 f'-e drive before Verdun. v-.s J" t before that 8'''' n te- i " - ' ' ' ' r, '' t I !w f f c v. j ' ,'sm 1 t'- i . it! 1. ) ' -. : t the 1 , 1 t ' !i '.' I v l . f - fed SOUTHERN "Y" MAN . BLINDED IN SERVICE Saya It Will Take Tim For Public T Realize Value Of The Red Trlanflle 8ervlc T American FlQhter, - - f -1 v ; - i "v 'wi''.- 4 i - , - ' """1 J J l DeRoy R. Fonville. - New 'York, Feb. . .. So unusual was the service rendered by DeRoy R. Fon ville ot Burlington. N. C, in his Y. M. C. A. work overseas that Major Gen eral L: S." Upton has written him a personal letter In appreciation of his efforts": , . . ; Mr, Fonville has returned to " hla home after ten months service with the Y. M. C A. He was with the Fifth and Sixth Marines and Ninth and Twen ty-third infantry at Chateau Thierry, Soisspns and St. Mihlel. It was while he was In. a trench waiting to serve j tne. Marines wneo tney "pusnea off," that a high explosive shell blew par ticles of rock into his eye, blinding it The same .shellfire killed James A. Blrchby, a Y. M. C. JL secretary from rasaaena, uai., ana wounaea anoxner Red Triangle worker, Thomas W. -Wll- but, Jr., ''of New Britain, Conn.-o The letter of appreciation that -was seni to nir, fonviiie. oy uenerai ui'ion-. read as follows: "I have observed ?ur work as Y. M. C. A." representative of the Ninth infantry for some time and wish to convey to you my appreciation of the uncomplaining and soldler-llke. manner in which you have undergone all without the glory that Is attached to the profession of arms. The work which you have done had added great ly to the contentment of th men and thus to the -efficiency of the - com- '..'j experienco gave me aa appree- n of American men and what they can to through," said Mr. Fonville. "Our c" i a was a shock unit . It never v.t-; t v.. wcy out nrwara. our division aloite c ;-'i're.l 12,006 prison ers. . The-- 1 i r "i the Y. It. C. A. and uu,'. I i'TScuI V It had to eentevi i ia getting ' s v? to the frost. I h'e no t r about 1 i t is v r the it .t I : i GIHS -T' HELPED DOUGHBOY Corporal Irvlna- Ah rah nma nt YdYk has Just returned from Prnr Just because the Y. M. C. A. men overseas had gone out of their way lo treat him well, he took the trouble to make his way to the Headouarten Building of the National War Work Council, r, M. C. A, New York City, and found some one oa the Jth floor at Headquarters to tell how much he ap predated the service of the Red Trian gle, This is Just a part of what he aald: "l returned from France on the 27th of January. Have been wounded Ihree times. Am feeling fine, but the first time when we landed over in r ranee in April, 1917. we took th position up on Chateau Thierrv and the Y. M. C. A. was right with us and the nmet,- Conventions were held brought up on the firing line chocc- m Memphis and elsewhere to reduce late, cigarettes, aid also pears, bis- acre8- Solemn oaths were signed, cult and done the best and all he could 1)111 alwaT" ih result was the same, Just to please the boys. ; u increase of acreage, because each "And In August whep we drqve th nt home with the same determina- Germans back he came up under 'on to mcraM his own acreage as heavy shell fire and brought us the ne D"evel al" neighbor was going same chocolate, cigarettes, and, if the decf- Jjoye didn't have any money h woqld Buon articles as these, full of mis give U to us just the same. statements of facts, are calculated to "And up on the. Argonne Forest he hav I"8' te opposite effect in the went under . heavy shell fire and South from that intended by the au- prought up all the -candy and ohooo- late, and also spoke to the boys to send our money to our mothers and which we did, and also he told us to send our money home and he will do all he fan for us, and also th boys of tne Third Division is very well pleas ed of the Y. M. C. A. and" also thank them ever so much; and also when we -got relieved from the Argons woods the Y. M. C. A. entertained us, gav us a grand time,, and we thank the Y, M. C. A. with our full heart and we shall never forget them.; , : 9 I don't see why the fellows are coming back from Franc and kicking we y.; M. C. A., and I can Speak to anybody and ask them why they ar knocking th Y. M. C. A." - . Red TrianglfiL Man Tells Of Serving At Chateau Thierry ; The Y. M. C. A. has been criticised because It waa said that it had no on at the fighting in the reeion of rha. teau Thierry. The other day, Ernest a Brd well, a New York man, cam back from Franc, broken in health because of W strenuous work inhibit region.' ; Mr. Bardwell waa one of a nart i y. m. C. A. men who entered Cha. teau Thierry Tillage with supplies at 10 o'clock on th morning of July SI .ana woriea an aay and far Into th night serving the boys who were beat Ing back th German counter-attacks. Th last German prisoners, he aald, were taken out of Chateau Thierry a I: JO o'clock on th aam, niornin,' ; THi V. M. C. A. IN FAR IA8T : The work of the Y. M C. A. ta Mace donia is rapidly extending over th newly-opened areas, and la the present j state of flux heavy responsibilities de volve upon C. W. Bates, th secretary In charge at Salonica, Centres hav .been opened in Serbia at Vranja, ifh, Monastir and other towns, and n' t ie capital city, T-' ade, th Y, M. C. A. is now e; ' ' 1 la good VuilUing. . Pereivil ..-..ey, son ol the deputy speaker of the -I'.lsb llo'j-e of Commons, is developer j th Hoycacct, is Spreading Like W2d-Bre AH Oyer The Cotton Belt lUport received at state head Wartera, Raleigh, ot the North Caro lina Cotton Association during the paet few day Indicate that the move meat inaugurated at the recent coun tjr conventions held In practically ev aaw am..h s il t u me state last week to old the unsold balance of the pres eat crop and to reduce the acreace tor th coming crop by one-third nE compared with 1918 Is spreading like wild-fire In all parts of North CVro Una. .The bankers. I farmers who attended these cunve-! Uona last week let no rrass r.rov under their feet upon their rt,.m i their homes. The New Orleans. K i;s ton, Galveston. Dallas. Me mi,', Montgomery, Atlanta. Little r Charleston, Savannah anH Hi-'i'n- hiam newspapers have been publish m dally reports of county and S( A meetings held in these States to r i fv and put Into practical effect the wnr outllned by the general convention re cenuy neia In New Orleans. In f url it would seem as if everv Snnfh,-, State and every county in tho cMtor, nu were vlelng with one another to see which will make the best reeor l in the matter of reducing the cottov. acreage in 1919 and holding the cnt ton now on hand for remunerative prices. Alarmed over this movement, whlrh threatens to break the strantfe-liold which the spinning Interests of the country, aided and abetted by the hear I speculators In the New York market. naTe na1 08 th cotton market for ,0me weeks Dast- tne Northern press ,s 'Wempting to throw ridicule on the m0Tement and to belittle it. A typical taitance ' this bear propaganda to onset the cotton acreage reduction movement is furnished by an article published In a recent issue of the Journal of Commerce. Some suppos ed correspondent from the South is quoted In that Journal, which has al ways been very friendly to the New England spinning Interests, as saying: "I take little stock in resolutions to decrease acreage, as such attempts at reduction are economic heresy. Too well do many of us remember the da5r " "our an" Ave cent eotton in thora. Much water, In an economic waT- ns passed under the mill since tnB early nineties. The cotton grow- era of the South have learned by sad experience that a small crop with good prices pays better than a large crop with low prices. If they had any doubt on this score Secretary Hes ter's annual reports, showing the total value of the various crops produced by the South, 'state the facts only too plainly. The ' Journal of Commerce statement to the contrary, no signed pledges were required by the cotton convention previously held in the South, and it was this very lack ot signed pledges 'that, foredoomed the acreage production movements of pre vious years to practical failure. There never waa a year in which a convene tlon of this sort was held that the acreage was not materially decreased, although the cut in acreage did not always com up to what the conven tion bad planned. Lack of proper or ganizations by States .and .counties, the failure to get signed pledges to carry out the object of the conven tlon and-the fact that no subsequent convention waa held later in the sea son to receive report; as to the prog ress made by the different . eotton- growing Statea in effecting a reduc tlon in "acreage were some of the rea sons that the former conventions proved a failure in so far aa accom plishment went All these loopholes hav been closed by the recent con vention, and, in addition, a resolution waa adopted by - tha aonventlnn ' to brand any man ia the eotton belt who refuses to eperate as "so lacking in public spirit aa to forfeit th confi dence of the community in which he lives." ' Th "economic heresy" of reducing the cotton acreage,. to which - the Journal of Commerce refers, is a flne soundlng phrase, but cotton men aay it will not deceive anybody in the South who stops to think. The Nw England and Southern mills, when they find a stock ot goods accumulat ing and no buyers coming -into th dry goods market at once take steps to reduce their output It ia argued, therefore, that it it is a good thing for the mills to reduce their output of I the- manufactured goods, in order -to stimuTate demand, why should it not f'no be a fiod thing for tte cotfon I fvt In t' --a f wjb-who x ' U e and never wavered-the sol diers and sailors who de fended our honor. We must not minimize their ef forts by failing to complete Our particular job the financing of the next Liberty Loan. Leop your dollars on the "wait inj; list," ready for a prompt answer when the call Loan. Deposit them in a Savings Account here. Planters Nation'l Bank Rocky Mount, N. C. oeficers: J. C. BRASWELL. President Vlce-Prw. VI(.IV.. Cashier. Tell, r Teller. I, M. SHEIlUoll M. C BUAMVEf.r. M 'I.LAlllJ F. JONES . A L. CAVANAI UH, -W. F. MARKWOOU. . Farmers & Merchants Bank. Rocky mount. 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