PAGE FOUR , ifHK CONCORD DAILY tHBtJSI J. ?. SHERRILL, Editor and Publtsher I ¥ W. m. SHERRILL, lUaoclate Editor I «<- MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | ft v Tha Associated Press is exclurively entitled to the use I . for republicstion of all news credited td it or not other i| credited In this piper and also the local news pub- I tjutd herein. All mts of republic*tion of special dis -1 ht| *fo y fc ’’*»?***• ; j HptSlal Representative. FROST, LANDIS A KOHN j New York, Atlanta, St. Louis, Kansas City, •J San Francisco, Lot Angeles and Seattle Entered as seoo&d plae? tpail matter at the postoffice at Concord, N. C„ k tmder the Act of March 3, 1871). A— * ... SUBSCRIPTION RATES In th% Cify of Cbncord by Carrier ; One Y«*r 56,00' Six Months 8,00. j #hgee Months , 1.50 1 One Month fi .80. Outside of the State the Subscription is the same is in; the city Out of the city by mail in North Carolina the fol J lowing prices will prevail: One fear 55.00. . ’Six- Months * 2. 30: > ThJEe Months , , ; 1.25' I' Less Than Three Months, 60 Cents a Month |.j All Subscriptions Are Due in Advance DEPEND Olff NO ONE THING I. . ; 1 *“Are you raising cotton £t a net return of j $34.08 per acre?” j, “Are you raising tojoaccp at a net return of; j $91.70 per acre?" j '"“Are you raising poultry at a net return of j $616.00 per acre?” j These questions are asked by the develop ment department of the Seaboard Air Line J and are so pertinent that vve are passing them along for the benefit of the farmers, together with the following argument sent out by the rail company with the questions: “Do tji« above figures and comparisons startle you? Did you ever think of the per ; acre- return on poultry in comparison with that I bjf crops ? The figures shown above are | not just arranged there for convenience but } actually show*’|he comparative per acre value |«is gathered ifrdift Viable sources. “The United States department of agricul * ture in their 1926 Yearbook giv'es;'ss2.39 as the ——average per acre cost of producing cotton bn farms yielding 300 to, 566 pounds of list cotton ■yvith an average credit 0f*510.47 for cottonseed K the actual cost of production $41.92 per acre.! 'j.'he average price per pound receiv- by producers in 1925 was 10 cents. Using as a basis 400 pounds of lint cotton produced iji the per acre value of cotton would he $76.00 ' with a production cost of $41.92 making a net profit of $84.08 per acre. “In 1925 the state of North Carolina aver aged a per acre yield of 660 pounds of tobacco, for which they received an average of 23c per pound or $151.80 per acre, according to the 1925 Yearbook of the United States depart . 8 ment of agriculture. The production cost of || tobacco in 1925 was approximately $60.10 per t acre, which leaves a net profit of $91.70 per acre. [1 “The per acre return of poultry was ftp'- ll pished by no less an authority than Dr. B. F (Kaupp, head of the poultry department of the North Carolina State College of Agriculture under whose supervision several poultry test plants are operated in this state. In one of 15 these test farms were 800 birds of the Rhode (Island Red and White Leghorn breeds. They produced a net income of $4,7 70.00 with a feed cost of $2,300.00 making the net return of $2,470.00 for the flock or $3.08 per bird. From j* good authority, we understand that at least jg 200 birds can be kept on one acre of land with [| out fear of crowding and still furnishing |j; ample room for ranging. From the above it It would appear that the net return per were with I j poultry would be approximately $616.00. “The community carlot poirftry sales along ! the Seaboard Air Line railway for' the year tending June 30th, 1926, removed from bur ter ritory 875,830 pounds of poultry, for which the producers were paid $212,013.32 in cask- This ivas an increase of 13 per cent over list year’s poultry movement. If you did not secure your Share of this money, you are passing up one ; : of the best paying lines of agriculture eh -11 dcavor.” This should impress upon the farmer, we ■j think, the importance of not putting all his a eggs in one basket The fanner of today should | hot be dependent on any one thing, lie should fi have some cotton, some tobacco and some 11 other money crop all right, but he should have l Something else too. We must get away from j the idea that farms are for certain money crops ! and nothing else. t : * THE “HIT-AND-RUN” COWARD. I . To the lingo of the diamond we have gone to get an expression to describe the motorist; : who and drives on- He is called the *liit*and*iun” -specie and by the America!* I AytomohUe Association is chvacteri?ed as a | “coward.” The association wants iff organ- I i?*d campaign by wbtoK'stS against the of lawlessness‘and cowardice” that | hits and runs- ‘ S A If There should be a campaign all right but l wjjo is going to conduct it? It is commend able to censure anil condemn the man who find drives on but will the average mo |otist ttajkej eniiujah intferjsit; in the matter to We have drunken driv ers by the scores but it’s a rare thing that they 11 that drives an auto is a violator of the law", - more or less, and hesitates about having any other motorist arrested. About the only time • the average motorist troubles about having s the law enforced is when he has been made the victim of some violation. ‘ No one is more contemptiljle or more to be censured than the man who strikes with his - auto and hurries on, showing both utter con tempt for the law and humanity. In the news papers several days ago we read where ape ; destrian in eastern North Carolina was struck and killed by an auto whose driver did not \ stop despite the fact that his car dragged the victinv’s body some little distance. There should be some special punishment |i for such a man. There .is none under the law k we presume for the law puts the man who 1 stops and the man who drives on on the same ( footing, but there should be a difference. In many instances the man who stops is not I' wholly ‘to blame for the accident but it is safe 'to presume that the man who fears to stop knows that he was in the wrong. That’s one : of the results of law violation. We lose our standard of decency when we take the law into our own hands. We should get these hit-and-run people into courts and from there they should go to the efiain gang. In too many instances drunken drivers are not punished, and with these who hit and keep going it is much the same, in the rare instances where they are caught. PERSON TO FIGHT AtONE. Colonel \Y. Person did not find things as easy when he struck the cooperative cotton as sociation and he has had to start all over again. Some months ago he started the pro eedings which wrecked the cooperative to bacco association and several days ago started 1 drive against the cotton association. His first move failed and now we find him in the fight alone. ft is charged that Mr. Person approached -evcral Nash county farmers and asked or suggested that they become plaintiffs against ‘he co-ops. Four of them signed the petition later asked that they be allowed to get out ’aiming they had signed under misapprehen ion or.without full understanding of what hey were doing. They went before the Nash deik of court 5 a'ntAwithdrew from the suit, eaving Mr. Person a case without clients. Now comes the Colonel with the announce ment that he will name himself as plaintiff and fight the case. The result will be noted with keen interest, for the welfare of the association s a matter of much concern throughout the state. Colonel Person has always opposed he co-operative marketing plan and some rave suggested that lie has allowed this feeling ‘o dominate his judgement. Anyway Tie may fie counted on to bring to light certain charges and the public will have opportunity to deter mine whether they are true. The co-ops may mierge stronger than they were when the suit was started. WISECRACKS. | An Arcadia woman fed her baby daughter sausage so ] the could weiner.—Fostoria.' Ohio, Times. A doctor comes forth to claim that the Charleston is i cure for rheumatism, without giving his opinion as to which is the worst.—Mansfield, 0.. journal. Hunters Kill Dear—Headline. This is an unusual ; ige aud anything can happen. They usually shoot each ther, though.—Pensacola, Fla., News. Neighbors are always trying to outdo the other. Take lerrin aud Chicago for instance.—Durham, N. C., Sun. Veil, v'e gather that Vare doesn't know vcrc tic is ga ng.—Durham, N. C. Sun. . Any man will spend an hour or two nursing Ids car, aut try and get him to nurse the baby a few minutes- Try:—Bftn, Durham, N. €. A man is just as old as the back of his neck looks.— World-News, Roauoke. Ya. ’ HERRIN GIVES UP. Winston-Salem Sentinel. fi Tile forces of law and order have reached their nadir in Herrin, county seat of "bloody Williamson," and scene of tnass murders, private feuds, and municipal neompeteude. The better citizens of this southern ll ittofs town have tried everything from the Ku Klux Sinn to an itinerant evangelist. Nothing has worked .ay permanent good. The law still stands’ a joke. A tate of warfare exists between opposing clans that f would do honor to a gold diggings in the tift-ies. To Governor Leu Small, the mayor of Herrin writes is follows : ‘The gangs have reached such proportions that no sheriff refcnrdless of his efforts, can relieve the situa tion. The proscoutipn of outlaws is impossible because to citizen will risk his life to bear wi’tnbss against the hugs and no prosecutor could live who would attempt :o fulfill the oath of his office." Governor Small reads, ponders, and washes his bands >f the whole business. He will not set up the military court asked tdr by the lhayor. This is a jjoverntheut of, by, and for the people, suys the Governor. If the peo ple. of Herriu want the laws enforced, it ! s up to them. Here matters at and and will probably stand until ■ome grave outbreak in Williamson county arouses the nation again and sets in motion federal machinery of jus tice. t, , In the meantime other comtnunitks, battling aga'nst ; organized erhtne in ’their midst, can find in Herrin’s woes the evil fruitage of complkcenc/'in the face of law : id sen ess, There Was a tithe whth Herrin could have attended to fte pwh proWewe, J&JW. Ae good eUizens (five tip, wove out or waR tbt Riev’taMe and final cat > agtropbe. ■ ps. mcge<\ckey~ steaks out by war If all jjbapel Mtßlster* instead of upologiziug lor wag or to explain tvhut they would do in ease of war, as some eo called spokesmen for (be Prince of I’cacc arc • inclined, to do. would speak out on the subject tike Dr. , A. /A. MdGegehy of Charlotte, jS’„ U. there would be go . US* "**• The annies of the nations would be only for pohee purpokes. The Churloftc pastor, a Scotchman apd 1 a Tresßjfteriau, tdp’JMW to end Wgr, listen to liitri' lu him in these ringing words: Ts war’ threatens again let us who are chrhittens strite ;the first lick, get in our ■ lair'before the (*4d|aud» #ets COAL ill produce a mental and II C-J rr THE BEST BY TEST Cravens Coal The Candy Os Quality ' Bonbons Bk Chocolates yv Bonbonnieres | i . j M«t*thalel*ot - jly In 1. 2. 3 aud 3 pound • \ packages. One dollar to / T BFX. | two dollars per pound. * yJj Drug Co. I Although it is s not revealed when actual construction will be started, it is believed by some of the news f papers that it will be a matter of only a few weeks or months before a beginning is made. If there are tb~ intentions of the officials the effect will boon make itself felt. With the start of actual construc tion employment will be given to - •ores and probably hundreds ot workmen, turning, hundreds of thou sand* of dollars into the channels of trade, reflecting, its benefits im mediately along tbs rout of the lines and other sections surrounding. Os great importance to transporta tion will be tHe connection* that the construction of the proposed line wtll make between .tome of the largest railway systems of the South, thus affording quicker transportation be tween severa’ sections -of the State and adjoining state*. A meeting of the stockholders of tiie company has been called at Creenville. S. I\. oil Wednesday De cember S. at which time the pro posal will be brought up for definite a.-tipn. This meeting will be followed with great interest,' since officers 'and directors arc quoted as haring (lefinite'.y committed themselves to | ward the task in a resolution. ! Extension of the electric rai’wav j will be the realization of a vision of i the late James B. Duke, who with i his associates organized the Piel | mmit and Northern Itailway Com l pany. Credit for the master plan is given by the board of directors in its j resolution to the late capitalist and > hilanthropist. America as to happenings in Mexi co. On the 2nd of September, IOC."), the morning of the day foljmving the opening of the Bank of Mexico, “El Democrats", a paper then publishing in Mexico City, published the same picture of the inauguration of the new bank that “Liberty", fie maga zine oWned by t'ie Chicago Tribune I ricked a portion of the American public into be.ieving was a picture i of something entire'} 1 different. It may interest the editors of North America to know this was not the only “faked"’ picture in these ar ticles. A United States engineer operating mines in Mexico. E. It. Torg'er, of Cleveland, Ohio, had li let ter in tiie New York Tipies of No vember 14fa, charging that a picture which “Liberty" (- aimed depicted the hanging of peons in Na.varit as a re sult of a religious riot was in reality a hanging of bandits two years be fore and that lie hud bad in this pos session for over a year the identical photograph that “Liberty" had claimed was a picture of a recent happening. As fae consul-general of Aicxico, I take the only means open to me to reach the people of this country ill an attempt to expose such sinister.: methods to place Mexico in a fulse light before the great American peo ple. And 1 know that the vast ma jority of editors will resent this out rageous violation of fair play as strongly as myself. Yours sincerely, AKTI'BO M. ELIAS, Consul General of Mexico. QUITE A HEU> > D’ORSAY BOUQUET ODEUR OF FLOWERS OF FRANCE | 1 . Gathered from the gar dens of France and blended in this delightful creation. A perfume of rare sweetness and daintiness. 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