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PAGE TEN PIBIlcll>MOl)»>lBOO»CTXXXX300oooqw(»oooooqooooogqoooqBgoqoiwwiwMwwogowwqiTOOooqoow»goo»qqe^^ DON’T FORGET L Mj | orrow is the Last Day /• • nr* l C' 1 || )f Our Big Tire Sale iving Tires away but we are offeering you some real Honest-to-Goodness Values | v 10 Per Cent. —but all fresh stock and everyone guaranteed. None after Saturday, the 19th; . Off wrice. .. ' N Qf rke & Wadswoth Co. H? I Union and Church Streets | | era, v Phone 30 I dyear Store The Goodyear Store <XX>OOOC>O<XKX>OCXX><XXXXXX)OOOOO<XXXXXX>OOOOOCXXX?OOOO^^ Art vs. Morals Question Raised in Dispute Over Decency of Jazz % OTTO 'WiZ'" a f W - „ Mi . ia / If ; Wm \W "Milkr -Mm If I||B - .til [Jt ,-M. '■ j pJjCTB IK fTWIIBI ■'# tL. ®|l I HI m H ■ m /> 14 I HI , ¥ jf wH [■■l - P||| I ' i®r "V V. I ■" A_G.<3UCBEAMSe« * VGMOS OF MHO I ■ CHICAGO—The same laws pro- I jMttttg public decency ought to be I poplied to jazz music as are ap (Wed to works of art depicting the I Inman form, declared A. G. Gul ■ jrsasen. piano manufacturer, hi I u address here. Mr. Gnlbransen I leak issue with Otto H. Kahn, I chairman of the Metropolitan I Oners Company of New York on l &hmncy of jazz by the New York I musical leader*. 1 Esfc 1> unfortunate that Mr. Bfltoha has given so much encour- I Btl- —- to jazs without suggest -1 ld| the restraints that should be i placed on tt,” said Mr. Gnlbransen. R9nr. Kahn is looked np to by the I pure musical world. His an- KHtifleineDt Is tairnn hr the ex | of the vulgarity of jazz to the door wide open. : the message only reached ■■ppM of culture and musical Hat Smasher Fined $lO and I ■b V a “It Was Worth It.” Sept. IT.—John Finn on- a street corner to he was busily demolishing tom* bats he had forcibly seized I men passengers on street cars conscience it would be very weiL but it will be taken as complete endorsement by people who are In capable of understanding a single idea that passes through Mr. Kahn’s mind. “Music, painting and sculpture are sister arts. The Venus of Milo, the art treasure of the agw. is e eiaaaio example of how free art may be when the right spirit animates it. But at the same time we protect public morals by rigid laws which prevent indecencies from being publicly exhibited. No such laws restrain the Indecen cies of jazz. If jazz were sur rounded with each safeguards, 1 would be willing to have it toow what ideas it could mimes nwh. proper restraint*. At present, 1 am afraid the fascination of Jane is to its frank bestiality, a bestial ity these to no tow to check." that stopped at the corner. He would put hie list through the crowns and hang the wrecks on a convenient <past. He had demolished 25 out-of-seaeon huts before a police mam arrived. He was fined $lO, paid it and said: “It was worth it.” Annual Farmers’ Field Day Williard. X. <\, Sept. 18.—<*>>— 1 '‘Diversification —wise and well-plan- I lied," is the farmer’s surest weapon : against unforseen calamities, such as < droughts and fioods, William A. (Ira- ] ham, commissioner of Agriculture. I told his hearers at the annual farm ers' field day and picnic at the Coastal Plain Test farm of the State Depart ment of Agriculture ■ here Thursday. “The one thing the South needs today ; in order to give it control over the market for its products." he declar ed. "is diversification. The one thing tlie South needs today to insure a home-grown supply of food for man and feed for stock is diversification. The one thing the South needs today to secure a continuous and year-round influx of money into the home treas ury is diversification.” Continuing and hammering home this point, the commissioner declared that “the one thing the South needs today to combat these droughts in the west and floods in the east is di versification.” O. Max Gardner, of Shelby, mem ber of the State Board of Agriculture from the Xintli district, urged his hearers not to be satisfied with the things “Pa’’ was satisfied with. He declared that farming should be car ried on in a bold, aggressive manner, if North Carolina is to cash in on its best resources. Congressman Charles L. Abemethy, of New Bern, Secretary Louis T. Moore, of the Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, and Mrs. Estelle Smith, of Goldsboro, district home demonstra tion agent, each brought messages of advice and optimism. ‘‘lt is the experience of all men whose knowledge of North Carolina is state-widt that the weather man frequently makes an unequal distribu tion of tire moisture conditions of the state,” said Commissioner Graham. “When you have an ideal season in the east, we have a drought in the middle and western parts of the state; and when we have enough rain in the west, you have your crops drowned out in the east. “I have just returned from an ex tended tour of the western part of the State where everything is so dry that, one hardly dares drop a burning match to the ground for fear of start ing a forest fire—where the usually green hills and verdant mountains, covered with succulent grass and fat cattle, have given place to parched, desert-like wastes with never a herd in sight and never a smile on the face of the owner . “The drought in the western part of the State this year,” continued the commissioner, describing conditions there, “is so bad that most of the small streams have already dried up and water in the larger streams is 1 lower than the oldest citizens can re • member ever to seen before, i The farmers, and, in some cases, the 1 townspeople, do not dare use enough . water to wash their clothes, for fear 1 they will not have enough to drink. “In the Piedmont counties I aaw THE CONCORD DAILY TRIBUNE i , . , i thousands of acres of cotton not over I a hand high, and with neither hio?- som nor boil, hundreds of acres of * corn with not a green blade from the s ground to the tassel. No signs of £ hay or forage for wintering livestock— f the worst drought in the history of 1 Western North Carolina. Here in * the romantic highland North Caro 1 Una that generally furnishes water to 1 generate hydro-electrio power to run 1 all the cotton mills, all the street tars, and all the electric lights in the state. ) is now, hardly enough water to wash - a dirty shirt. i "Only a few years ago i was ’ through this part of the state and * saw similar thousands of acres of cot- - ton not over hand high in fields eov- ; ered with water from week to week 1 till the crop was in a hopeless condi- •’ tion with no more prospect of a re- ' turn than in the drought-stricken west of today. ; “But 1 do not want to portray a , distressed condition without suggest ing a remedy, and the remedy that I will suggest in both cases is diversjti- . cation of crops.” After developing his plea for di- | versification, Commissioner Oral am declared : “It is, of course, impossible to p'a.n against unforseen calamity—one that may be expected to come once in 40 or 50 years. But, when each year, or when nine years out of every ten, : bring a disastrous drought in the Piedmont section and the western ' part of the state, we can, if we will, construct diversification plans that will bring some measure of relief. “And you, my friends of Pender, and the eastern part of the state gen erally, can do much to help yourselves when the floods overtake you. We of ♦he west are delighted That our brethren of the east have bountiful crops this year. But next year we may have an abundance i.f rain and your farms may be turned into frog ponds—giving you pleuty to drink but nothing to eat. “Now it would seem that your prob lem would be to find some crop that wi l ' grow on land too wet for cotton and tobacco in seasons when these crops give promise of failure. To be sure, no commercial crop can be grown in standing water, and fair drainage conditions are always presup posed. But with fair drainage condi tions. we should be able to select a comb’nation and adopt a rotation of crops that would assure us of a good average return each year. "One of the best wet land crops, I understand, is the soybean crop. And the soybean, like the proverbial bam boo of Japan, can be made serve al ■ most every purpose of the farm and i household. It is at once grain and i roughage for your stock, prime feed for hogs, and can be prepared and made palatable for man. And this ! crop can be grown on land too wet i for any other cultivated crop. There - are certain wet land hay crops that . can be grown and marketed as money ■ cropa. Some of you will titudt .of oth- er crops that can be grown in wet t \ears and in short seasons when you ate visited with haUstorins as some 1 parts of the state were this year. ] “If. then, we can si arrange onr i farming operations as to grow a few i acres of soybeans, a few acres of hay. I a few acres of truck, a few a-s-es of ( COtton, a few acres of tobac'o, a few I acres of corn, we are pretty sure not j < to he overloaded with iow-iwiced crop ' i on the one-hand or to be starved into i tiiertgaging our farms or our crops in i wet years on the other. 1 ( “The main objects of a branch ex-1' perlment station are." tli" cominis- ' sjeuer said ,“to study locil agriculture ' al conditions that cannot be studied or investigated at the central station 1 that is usually located at the State * Agricultural college; to investigate 1 any broad lines of agrieulutral pro- 1 I'uetion that may be peculiar to the j' retion where tbe branch is located. 11 For instance, this section was located , * here in the interests of the trucking 1 and grape-growing industries. The The station in Washington county \ was established to investigate ways ' and means for utilizing our fertile 1 -wamp lands of the coast counties. 1 The station in Granville county was I established in the interests of the to- 1 hacco farmers, and the station in I Buncombe in the interests of both the 1 truck growers and the fruit growers J "f the mountains. “In addition to the broad lines and ‘ regional problems that require the ' attention of the experimenter and the 1 investigator, such problems of vital , detail as the fertilizer requirements \ of both the plant and the soil; tbe ' adaptation of the crop to the natural 1 responsiveness of the soil, and so oil are worked out. “In order to carry out tne work as- , signed. to these stations much physi cal equipment is necessary. When first purchased they cost but a modest amount, but today they inventory quite well into the thousands. When ; this farm was purchased in 1905, it , cost but $4,435, but today it is val ued at $82,712.84, or nearly $340 an - acre. The other stations have a aim-1 liar history.” O. Max Gardner declared in his uddress that the principal need of! North Carolina agriculture today is good farming. “This statement,” he said, “is trite and commonplace, but' absolutely true. Good farming is nothing but good business. We have made more progress in every other science, business, occupation, and profession than we have in agricul ture. To be sure, there are many farmers in every community, in North Carolina who have lifted agri culture from the bondage of the one horn* plow, the poverty of the unfer tilized fields, and the slavery of one crop depodence, but far too many of our North Carolina farmers are stand patters. “The physician of today ministers! : to human ills with treatment entirely > different from that of a generation i ago. Yet the average farmer of today, . cultivates, fertilises, houses and mar kets his crops in the same indifferent manner as did his agricultural ances i t ■ .v&AtR-IL,-: J >■ -i . . j.&tbi'A tors. “ "Pa <lid it this way, and I am no hotter than Pa' is too universal in North Carolina agriculture. 'Pa' was a good man, but ‘Pa’ never saw an automobile. He never dreamed of a tractor. He never operated a riding cultivator. Pa's civilization wanted little, and Pa got it. His lot was that of isolation, remoteness, aloofness. His social consciousness was highly unde veloped. He may have loved his neighbors as himself, but his life was devoted to raw individualism. His vision, social and economic, was largely limited by the metes and bounds of the farm he cultivated. “We must continue to realize the' possibilities of agriculture in North Carolina, to light the fires of ambition and stimulate the machinery of com munity pride. This can never be ful ly accomplished until farming offers a profit. And it can never offer a uni form profit until into furming are di rected sound business principles com bined with fair prices for commodi ties for which the farmer and his fam ily labor. He can never receive a fair profit for his crops unless, as a first condition, he treats his land with generous care and cordial co-operation. One of the tragedies in America has been our barbarous and shameful abuse o ffarm and forest. We think too much in terms of ‘new ground.’ We soon bankrupt the new ground, and the result is that the new ground I of today is the abandoned old field of i tomorrow. “We boast that America is greatest I in everything, when as a matter of I fact we utilize only one-half of the arable lands.” At this point Mr. Gardner compar ed America with Europe in this re ed America with Europe‘in ibis re gard. Concluding, he declared: “The gratifying prospect for the future of farming in North Carolina is found in the pride, efficiency, intelli gence reflected in the boys’ and girls’ club work. I hope to see the day when every rural high school in North Carolina will be equipped with labor j atories for the study of soil analysis, I the food value of the growing plant, ; and the essential elements of nitro , gen, phosphorus, and potash.’’ The teachers at a certain school try ' to make the papers as up-to-date and interesting as possible. During a re cent examination one of the ques tions read thus: "If one horse can mn a mile in a minute and a half and another w able to do the same dis tance in two minutes, bod far ahead would the first horse be if the two ran a race of two miles at these respective speeds?” One pupil returned hie paper with the query unanswered, except that he bad written on the sheet: “I re fuse to have anything to do with horse I racing.” ' By closely watching the officials weather forecasts a firm of archi tects succeeded In constructing a large public building last winter in Groan Bay. Wis., a vary unusual per formance fee that climate. » FUTURIST KIMONO DESIGNED BY MLSS SWANSON FOR FILM . . / - f ‘/v are thttf no woman In w the entire world exercises such ■ Influence upon what other wom en wear, and how they Wear it, as loes Gloria Swanson. Mias Swansor. who, In addition to being thr reigning star of tho (notion picture, firmament, enjoys the additional distinctions of being a Marquise, a member 1 of the french Academy and one of the ten most iHarmwaad women in the world, posseasaa that rethailcable sixth sense—aktthes instinct—which all aomem envy. She has the uncanny kamck of taking the simplest crea- Our Penny ADS. Get Quick Results &L’ 5: \ . .. >.' ' Fridav. Sentemher IS, 1925 tion and giving It seme original twist which produces an affect WO distinctive and smart that shortly after Miss Swanson displays it on the screen thousands of women ara wearing it. It Is well known that Miss Swan son designs, or suggests, Ideas for i virtually all of the clothes she wears before the camera or In her i private life. In malting “The Coast of Folly,” her latest Paramount , starring photoplay, Miss Swanson . created an unusually striking ki -1 mono. It waa futuristic In design and color, and was most striking ■ with Miss Swanson’s type.
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