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OUR SLOGAN: Sell Johnston County Tobacco In Johnston” Welcome to Smithfield9 Mr. Tobacco Farmer Johniton County’• Oldest and Best Ne wip a per - - E stab 1 is h ed 1882 Smithfield want* a hotel —But it also wants to es tablish a Livestock Sta tion Yard. 1 the home newspaper SMITH FIELD, N. C\, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 2 G 1929 EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER 79 Big Parade Will Open Benson Fair D. W. Parrish Is Chief Mar ' Shall; Extensive Prepara tions Made For Exhibits of Livestock, Feeds and Seeds I Mr. D. W. Parrish, chief mar shall of the Livestock Exposition I to be held at Benson next week, I was in the city yesterday and ; jl^*ate<i that Benson was expecting, |5[ to put on the biggest parade next ! I Tuesday that has yet been had al I any Johnston county fair. Mr. i || Parrish is desirous of securing j | every automobile possible to help • In this monster parade. He re-11 | quests that all automobiles rate 1 on the school grounds prompt!} j at 9:45. He prefers that the au j tomcib’iles be decorated but if no: tie wants them anyway. Mr. Parrish believes that Gov ernor Gardner will be at Henson to open the fair. The governor has signified a desire to he pres ent to the secretary, J. B. Ben ton. Extensive preparations h'.ve been made for taking care of a !arge number of exhibits. Besides the regular exhibit of Jersey cows and other types in the vi | unity of Benson, Secretary Ben i ton states that a herd of liere ^i^rds will be on hand from the tamous Shelton farms near Tar turo, and also a herd of Guern seys from Bennettsville, S. C. A good showing of hogs and poudiy is expected to be entered. Another feature will be an exhibit of feeds and seeds. Besides the livestock show it self, the fair management has ar ranged for a number of free acts in addition to the Krause United Shows, for which admission will be charged. A fireworks display will be given every night. MRS. BETTIE B. M’KINNE IS CLAIMED BY DEATH LOUISBURG, Sept. 25— Mrs. Bettie Brothers McKinne, widow cf the late David E. McKinne, d Princeton, died today. She was the daughter of Francis Asoury and Charlotte Whitehurst Broth ‘ers and was born at Elixabelli City. She was 75 years of age Early in life she became the wfe of F. B. McKinne, of Princeton, prominent in business circle;, who held important public position;. She was a member of the Meth" dist church. Since the death id her husband in 191S Mis Mc Kinne had made her home w.th her children, Frank B. McKinne, of Goldsboro, David F. and Mal colm McKinne, of Louisbu'.g. and the late Mrs. Edgar L. Hart, of Wilmington. The funeral will be held at the Methodist chu'-h at Princeton at 10:110 a. m. Thurs day and the interment will- take place at noon Thursday in Willow Dale Cemetery, Goldsboro. Centenary Methodist Church Sunday school at »:30 a. m. T. C. Young superintendent Preaching services at U a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Morning subject: -God Still Lives.” F.venu.e sub ject: “The Blight of • areless ness.” . _ Midweek prayer service •:■>« P m„ each Wednesday, servicer Itm »ited to 45 minutes. Public cordially invited to ail these services. Revival Begins Progress. ] Rev. J. Alston Boyd of Towns ville is assisting Rev. Chester Alexander in a meeting *' P'ot! ress Presbyterian church r. Boon Hill township. The first service was held last night at 7.SO. The meeting will continue for ten days. T antalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith held or Johnston County, and to the one deciphering their same and presenting a copy of I thiB paper to the Herald ortice, we will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must be called for before the following isBu**. Joe Royall recognized ms name last issue, 'IUUAY> r 4 ' 'ALIZEK • jakaedmas OAT LIVES TO BE 18 OR 20 YEARS OK ACE I Mr. V. O. Hayes, who lives near |Four Oaks, was in the city Tues |tlay and gave our office a call. | While here Mr. Hayes told of a cat that lived to be eighteen or twenty years old and that died of old age one day this week. Mr. Hayes stated that when his -,,i. was eight or ten years of age the uo> s aunt gave him a little taiboy kitten. The kitten developed from a pet into a useful house cat that took his tol] from the mice ana rats to be found around the place. For eighteen or twenty years he was a good ‘mouser’ ai d just one week before he ‘gave ip the ghost’ he caught two rats. Mr. Hayes stated that the entire amily l'elt a sense of loss when j -his faithful cat died. [Town Tax Rate Is Five Cents Lower Sinithfield Board of Alderman Fixes Bate at $1.55; Oper ating Surplus Kesponsible I For t ut I Members of the town board met I in special session last week and j fixed the tax rate for the city of Smithfield at $1.55 un every hur. jdred dollars worth of property, or five cents lower than it was last year. The official audit of the city s books showed an operating' sur plus for the year ending Ap.\! 30, 1929 of $14,986.85, which rnn.’e it possible for the city fathers to reduce the tax rate. The net worth of the town’s permanen. 1 improvements inventoried $332,-, 116.75. The city management is cutting down each year the debt service, the indebtedness being re duced in the sum of $20,000 last j year. As the indebtedness is be- , ing paid off, the operating ex - | pense of the town remains about ! the same, another factor that e;i-1 ables the board of aldermen to ] fix a lower tax rate. The taxpayers will welcome this announcement of a five-cent re duction in the tax rate, especially since the rate for general admin istration of the county has go m up five cents. Those administering the affairs of city government are to be com mended for their business policy, which lies in the direction of low ered taxes. Those responsible for tht* town management are: mayor, J. D. Underwood; city clerk, W. L. Fuller; aldermen, K. P. Hold ing, W. H. Lassiter, W. F. Grime., W. D. Hood, H. L. Skinner, W. T. Holland and W. G. Glass. H O M E I) E M O N ST R A '1' 10 N SPECIALIST IN COUNTY Y*wo home demonstration spec ialists were present at the meet ing of the Pisgah club Tuesday. Miss Rokhar of Washington, I). C.f specialist in household man agement, and Miss Helen N. Estabrook of State College, add ed interest to the program which had been planned. These special ists were in the county in tne interest of the house furnishing booth which will be arranged a. the State Fair by Johnston coun ty club women and their agent, Miss Minnie Lee Garrison. The booth to be arranged by the Johnston county women will show a living room with homemade ami refinished furnishings. The Pis gah club will be responsible fni a combination radio and maga. aine stand. The Cleveland Hut is making a padded arm coair using a barrel foundation, 'l'hi Selma club is renovating a rat' ■■is chair. The Carter-Massey Hu! is to provide draperies and lamp j shades. Pillows fo rthe com ‘h and ; accessories will he furnished by the Pomona-Creech club. Miss Garrison, together with three other county agents, has been detailed to have charge of the house furnishing booths a I the state fair. j Presbyterian Services. Smithfield Sunday morning at 'll o’clock. No night service. Sun day school and Bible classes at 10 o’clock. Public cordially in vited. Warns Against Gin Cut Cotton > • B. Blalock Slates In Tele S'nm to .1. B. Slack Many Farmers Losing From §5 to lj'25 per Bale Mr. J. H. Slack, ecu 1 v farm agent for Johnston county, receiv ed a telegram yesterday morning jfrem IJ. B. Blalock, general man . ager of the North Carolina Cot ion irrowers uocperative Associ ation, asking him to give wide publicity to the seriousness of gin cut losses due to cotton being gin ned too wet and too green. He i stated that cotton c itirg I through the classing department 01 the association is snow my ai unusually heavy percentage of gi 1 cuts, “dinners,” he .-a.: "e\ dently are not giving; uu • cjiwid eration to increased production* in better staple lengths l>\ ririuc.hg their speed. The loss oin cut cotton runs from five to twenty five dollars per bale, all of which | can be avoided by propet ginr.irg methods. Our Carolina staples are showing up well this yew and all extra staple lengths should com mand good premiums ii properly ginned.” Mr. Slack in commentr.g upon the situation said: “With the low price s farmers are getting for tobacco and with heavy loss in cotton due to boll vveevl^ we need to make every pound <»• :hes.* products bring just os m i h as possible. Five to twenty-live djl iais per bale might mean '.he making or breaking of many far mers in Johnston con ty. * C. L. Sanders Dies With Heart Attack Funeral Will Be Held This Afternoon ui Residence In Cleveland Township;l*rom inent farmer Citizens of Smith field were shocked yesterday when *hev karned of the death of Mr. Claude L. Sanders, which occurred at his home in the Elizabeth sec tion early yesterday n.-uning about three o’clock. Mr. Sanders had an attack of acute indigos- 1 tion Tuesday night but was not considered seriously ’.11. Early Yesterday morning he suffered a heart attack and died in a short time. The funeral will be held this afternoon at three o’clock at his • residence, after which interment will be made in the family bury- ; ing ground. Mr. Sanders who vas fifty-* • nine years of age, was the young est son of the late Wi'b< H. and Lucinda Sanders. He is survived by one brother, Robert A. San ders of the Elizabeth section, and one sister, Mrs. A. M. Sanders of this city. He leave* several nieces and nephews, incljd »’„• Mr Edwin Sanders, a stud-nr at V. P. I., Blacksburg, Vo., win had made his home with the deceased for the past ten years. Mr. San ders never married, j Mr. Sanders was ‘.he largest landowner in Cleveland town ship and one of the ^ar" He had been a very successful farmer and was a leading citizen in his community. He was a member of Elizabeth Methodist 1 church and, in point of service. was the oldest member ct the ' board of stewards. Baptist Church. Sunday school 9:45. The pastor will preach at H. subject: “The Challenge of the Cross to Sacri fice.” At 7:30 Rev. W. p. Bos tick, of Wake Forest, Chinese missionary, will preach. He is one of the ablest missionaries in the |denomination, and a large congre gation should hear him. Monday at 7:30 he will give the closing address of the school of missions at which time the Senior B. Y, P. U. will be reorganized. Meeting especially for your.g people. I Cordial invitation t‘> the pub ANNOUNCE DIVIDEND I*Ok BANK AT BENSO> DUNN, Sept. 2(J. —The Comp trailer of the Currency has au thorized that a second dividem cf 10 per cent he paid to deposi tors in the defunct First Nation 1 Bank of Benson, according* to an nouncement by G. U. Dixon. *e eeiver. Cheeks for the dividend will be ready for distributin' within the next ten days oi two weeks. This will be the second dividend paid to the depositors of the di funct bank, the first dividend, of 30 per cent, having been pa;d early in the summer. The bank closed last December. Superior Court t’egan Wednesday School Matter Will Not He ! Heard Btl'ore Next Tues day; Case Started Wed nesday Not Vet Finished Superior court did not gvt un , dcr way Wednesday morning: ac Iwas scheduled, but at 2:30 in the afternoon, Judge F. A. Pa.iieb who had been detained in Canton , I was present and convened court, j which sits for the trial o? civil cases. The first case called for trial ! was J. H. Easton, administrator, I vs. Dr. J. H. Griffin, deceased j of Clayton. In this case which !tad 'octn pending for four or fvej years, the plaintiff. J. H. Fason,| charged the defendant wirh mai practice in the last illness of bis: wife, Nellie Barbour Eason The' defendant, Dr. Griffin, since the suit was instituted, died, but Mr. i Ea^n is suing his estate for the sum of $25,000. The* case got under way late Wedne day afternoon after a jury had been selected and impaneled. ]t required until yesterday aft ernoon to hear the evuie u-e m the trial, and about four o’clock the lawyers began their speeches; before the jury. Counsel for the plaintiff include S. W. Eason of Raleigh, and J. A. WeUcr.s. while Abell and Shepard are appealing for the defendant. Two of the lawyers spoke yesterday aftei - noon and the remaining two wil’ make their speeches this morn-. ing. | After the trial of the c?«e be gan Wednesday, one of the jur rs, J. E. Allen, became ill and was excused by the court. By agreement of the parties arid sanction of the court, the case went forward with the remaining eleven jurors. It was expected that the case which has to do with the cou.’ty school budget for the $ix moi-ths term wouM be heard yev.evua/, but the Eason-Griffin trial was not completed and as the school matter is to consume some litt.e time, the latter was postponed until next week. Tuesday is the day set for this hearing. Judge Clayton Moore, of Williamson, is scheduled to preside ov.*r the sec ond week of court. PINKY GROVE UNE IjEVEL, Route 1, Sept. 2b.—Mr. and Mrs. Telphafr At kinson, of Lucama, visited Mrs. Ellen Atkinson Sunday. , Miss Estelle Pittman spent Sat urday night with Miss Hulah Pittman. * Mr. J. F. Pittman visited • nis parents in Micro Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Pittmar and Mr. C. C. Johnson went to Wilson Saturday shopping. EASON VOCAL UNION AT YKLVINGTON’S GROVE j The Eason Vocal Union which meets somewhere in Johnston county every fifth Sunday, is schdeuled to meet with the church at Yelvington’s Grove, two miles east of Smithfield, next Sunday. The meeting will he called to or der at ten o’clock. Several choirs and a lot of good singing are expected. All classes are cordially invited. S. P. HONEYCUTT, President. C. B. THOMAS, Secretary. Dr. Mike Bradshaw ; Pleaches In Selma . Delivers Splendid Sermon At Quarterly Conference At j Methodist Church; List Of [■ Selma Teachers SELMA, Sept. 26.—I)/. Mik : Bradshaw, presiding elder f* r th I Raleigh district, held the fourt Quarterly conference at Edgertoi Memorial Methodist church Sun day evening and preached i (splendid seimon using as his te\ Matt. -6:40, “And he cometh untc '‘‘he disciples and findeth then 'asleep. What! could ye tut wade! with me one hour?" Watch a . work are the key words to most jof Chrit’s parables, said l)r Bradshaw. Add to these the third I word, "pray," and you have ar mament sufficient to meet the battles of life. The saddest days of all time is when the churches of Ciod fall into lethargy and stu pidity. Nothing happens! Then* is plenty going on around us alt the rime to keep us wide awake and busy. The present turbulent era is one of the most important in the history of the churches. There must be a rebirth of governments, nations and individuals. Our /uk today is the courage and the fi delity of our forefathers who with out our splendid equipment rev- 1 olutionized the world. Materia! ' things shut out our vision of j spiritual values. The desire for! gold will smother the very soul out of Christianity. Strike a go: 1 ■ hard, honest blow at the spiv:.; of intolerance which is abroad in I the land today. John Wesley’J motto was “We think and we let ! think.” We have no time for con troversies. The tendency is to ] build walls against everything1 end everybody who does not think as we do rather than fight agi.lnn the forces of evil. Christ is the1 first, last and crowning need of every man, woman and child. Without him everything is chaos, I confusion and spiritual death. Our ( home altars are left unguarded * while the fires are kept burning in the pleasure resorts and.place-•* of amusement, taking our boys ;'d girls away from the things' of God. List of Selma Teachers. The following1 are the names of I the teachers in Selma high am* elementary schools and where tnev. are located in Selma: High School: Mrs. H. Bueck at! home on North Raeford stree+‘. ! Miss Holiek and Miss Ernestine' Shippe, at the home of Mrs. W. I IT. Poole; H, Bueck, at home on North Raeford street; Mrs. R. D. ! Blackburn, at home on North Sumner street; Miss Ethel Conn, I at home of Mrs. J. Peedin. Elementary School. First Grade: Misses Dorothy Adams and Annie Laurie Smith at Mrs. C. A. Jacob’s, and Miss Marguerite Winn at Mrs. J. Peed in’s. Second Grade: Mrs. W. D. Per kins at home on North Pollock . street, and Miss Roberta Spiers at E. V. Deans’. Third Grade: Mrs. C. A. Bailey at home on North Pollock street and Miss Mary Martin at Dr Johnson’s. Miss Frances Ebbs, at Brick Hotel, has a section in both the second and third grades. fourth Grade: Misses Mary N. Clement and Lucile Robertson at Mrs. McMillan’s. Miss Dorothy. Le? j.t Mrs. W. H. Poole’s has sec* tions in both the fourth and fifth Fifth Grade: Miss Isabella Blacklock at F. M. Waters’ and Miss Charlotte Nixon at E. V. Sixth Grade: Miss Margaret Harrison at Miss Blanche Mitch- | iner’s, and Miss Edith P. Harris at Mrs. Kornegay’s on Massey i street. Ungraded room: Miss A. Spi-! jvey at Mrs. J. Peedin’s. j Seventh Grade: Miss Elizabeth j Whitaker at Mrs. Bernice L. Tai ton’s, and Miss Annaibelle Jones at Mrs. H. McMillan’s. I Mr. Mose Winston Godwin left last week for Chicago where he has accepted a position with Mar 1 shall Fields and company. Notable Speakers Here This Week Prominent Ministers Make Interesting Addresses At School ol Missions lieing Held at Hnptist Church I!.v REV S. I.. MOlUiAN Hie school nf missions begun in tin' Baptist chutch hare last -Sun day with two addresses by Dr W. I., Pot eat of Wake Forest, has continued with (food attend I -nee anil interest. Besides Mrs. • M- >•• ..‘ Chapel Hill, Chi-i • i- missionary, win is a leading j n» mher of the fneulty ,[ni-injf 1 ho I Wee I;. st rony addresses were male Monday and Tuesday mailt.- V, Kt'V. fi. viiihson Davis, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist church, Krl e’ifth, who spoke on Consecration, and by Key. !■!. McNeill 1‘oU-at. who lately came from China t i Ihi' pastorate of Pullen Memorial Baptist church In Raleigh. To niffht Kcv. II. I,. Braun of l.'hopel Hill, will show stereopticon ule ('I uni to page three) Accidental Shot injures 2 Persons | - Mrs Hunter Hamilton of Elizabeth Section Is Shot in Knee; Young Sister in Law Loses Sight of One Eye A painful accident took place : hi the Elizabeth section Monday | afternoon when a gun accidentally |discharged which injured two per sons, Mrs. Hunter Hamilton and little Bessie Ruth Hamilton. Mr. Hamilton was standing in the kitchen door talking to his wife when he placed his loaded gun on the doorstep against the house in order to hand her somethin,, from his pocket. The gun slip ped and the hammer struck the doorstep. The load of shot ente* ed one knee of Mrs. Hamilton, shooting away a part of the bone. One shot glanced and struck the little sister of Mr. Hamilton who was also in the kitchen, the ball entering one eye and lodging in the back of her head. Mrs. Hamilton was rushed 1C the Johnston County Hospital where her wound was dressed and where she is now resting as com foit&ibly as could be expeefed. The little girl was taken to the office of Dr, J. H. Fitzgerald. A i X-ray revealed the bullet in the back of her head. The sight in the injured eye is destroyed but sue. passed a very comfortable night and is apparently recovering nice | BENSON, Route 2, Sept. 20.— j I Miss Mabel W. Johnson has re | turned to her school in Toav.o,! . Ya. j Mr. Bias B. Johnson has re-' I turned home after a visit to • James ville. He was accompanied I home by Mr. and Mrs. W. J. H , liday. Rev. Mr. Baine filled his regu jlar appointment at Beulah Bap tist church Sunday, j Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Flowers and I children spent the week end in .Wilmington the* guests ot Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Sanderson. I I Miss Minnie Lee Garrison will meet with us on Wednesday. Oc- . itcber 2 at the club room' and we ‘ I hope to have a large numbei ! present. j Mr. Joel (i. Hudson passed away, at his home this afternoon after! drinking acid. It was a shock to the community. SPECIAL PKOCKAM AT M. E. Sl'NDAY SCHOOL I Little Misses Florine ami Ruby« I Braxton of Whiteville, aged two I |and four, will be on the open-} , ing worship program of the [Young People-Adult department of the Methodist Sunday schoo’! I Sunday morning. Sunday school (opens at 9:30. These little girls broadcasted from WPTF about two |months ago. Members of the de partment are asked to be on time. CHILI) DIES AFTER EATING ASPIRIN TABLETS MICRO, Sept. 26.—The 21 inonths-ol(| child of Mr, and Mrs. .1. Toni Creech of near Micro died at the Johnston County Hospital at Smithfiejd last Thursday as a result of eating a number of aspirin tablets Wednesday. It is not known just how many tab lets the child ate but the bot tle when new contained fifty and Mrs. Creech said that not more than ten of the tablets hud been used and when the child was found it had al ready eaten the contents of the bottle, which must have been at least forty tablets '1 he child was brought to l)r. M. Hinnant in this city about two hours alter it ate the tablets. Thursday it began having fits and was brought back to the doctor but they rushed it. to the hospital where death resulted about three hours later. Interment was made in the Creech cemetery near Pine Level Friday. Cancer Clinic To; Be Held Oct. 7th County-Wide Clinic Is In l.ine With Nation-Wide Program For Prevention and Treatment of Cancer A committee from the Johnston County Medical Society is bead ; ;ng its efforts along with similar | medical organizations to call to the attention of the public the seriousness of the problem • f cancer. In cooperation with the American Medical Society for the 'Control of Cancer and the North Carolina Soiety for the Control Cancer, the Johnston County Med ical Society through a spechd committee will conduct a county wide clinic open for anyone for a free examination beginning Monday, October 7. The place of the clinic will be announced at a later date. This clinic will be in line w:th a nation-wide program to interest the public generally in the beet means of prevention and treat ment of all forms of cancer. Since the beginning of the his tory of medicine, cancer has caused a large number of deaths each year. Judging by the figures at hand the death rate from cancer during the last few yea’s has shown an increase. As a cause of death, cancer ranks ahead of all infectious diseases, except tuberculosis. In 1921 it caused the death of 103,000 per sons in the United States ->e. America. Cancer of the skin is permitted to develop in plain sight of the victim for months and even years, to the extent that 3000 persons die an mally of this disease in the Unite i States. In Johnston county it ha ; killed an average of 20 people per year for the last five years People will continue to suffer this distressing toll until they I look at the problem squarely and adopt a rational attitude toward it. Cancer can be prevented if proper steps are taken in time. Therefore, it has been classed as one of the most important of ■modern public health problems. Shower For Princeton Bride. Princeton, Route 2, Sept. 24. Vlrsi A. L. Worley was hostess Saturday evening at her home i». compliment to her sister, Mrs. A Eton Hinton, a recent bride, for merly Miss Louise Edwards. The crowd began to gather about eight o'clock and after all had arrived, several piano selec tions were played by Miss Annie Louise Sugg. Soon Mrs. Hinton was called to the living room door and found the old colored wash woman there with a little red wagon loaded .with many useful gifts for the bride. The affair was quite a surprise to the honoree. The hostess served tea and cake. | About forty were present on jthis delightful occasion. | Three pure bred Jersey bulls ifrom high producing dams were purchased by Chatham county Tobacco Meeting To Boost Prices --. ‘ • '■ Conference Will Be Held In Washington, D. C., Oct 1; North Carolina Delegation Expects Relief ; --- „ The North Carolina delegation j which went to Washington City in the interest of higher pri.es for the present tobacco crop ccn j ferred Tuesday in the office c£ Senator Simmons, and it was de cided tc hold a general confer ence in Washington on next Tues day, October 1, at ten o’clock. A: this meeting it is expected that representatives of the growers, the manufacturing and buying ir terests, as well as members jf congress representing the south eastern states, will participate. In addition to the senators pres ent at the conference Tuesday Representatives Pou, Hammer, Doughton, Clark and Abernelhy w«re there. It seemed to be * foregone conclusion that the soil ing anti buying season this year has progressed too far to perr.t of relief measures by congress or I the Farm Board, but the idea was expressed that pitiless uu!j lieity and moral suasion may be factors in obtaining higher prices even this season. Some believe that the agitation for higher pri ces has already had a good ef fect. A Washington dispatch makes the following comment in regard to the meeting to be held on October 1 and also concerning the conference held last Tuesday: When the manufacturing ail buying concerns are notified of the meeting to be held in tl..s city it will be something more | than an invitation; tha -gentle men will respectfully he reques. ed to attend. The spokesman of one buying corporation who claims that his company has been paying fair prices for their limited pur chases throughout the season, was told today that if the tobacco companies went through the son as they have started, paying abnormally low prices, the com panies might expect to reap the whirlwind of popular disapproba tion, such as once visited upon the railroads a few years ago when it was impossible for the carriers to get a favorable vei diet from a jury in a damage suit# The buying companies, the rep resentative in question wins warn ed, are certain to reap a harvest of ill will if, in the exercise of their giant strength, they tak i this year’s crop of tobacco at prices which take little account of the needs of the growers a«.-l as little account of all construc tions of justice. Trend Downward. When the season opened prices approximated fairness in Georgia, such prices started on the down grade in South Carolina and ~ap idly reached a point which could only mean disaster and distress for the growers in North Caro lina. No good and valid economic reason has thus far been brought forward by the buying interest.; for the slump in prices. If there has been over-production this yea:, or if there are abnormal stocki on hand in the warehouse, it i*t I noted by the friends of the far mers that the companies are nev ertneiess buying tne tobacco an.i it is therefore assukned that they want and need it. Some growers of tobacco, ths owners of sound minds, and rich soil, have written to their rep resentatives in Congress that con ditions that now obtain in the to jbacco growing sections of the state, must lead, at worst, to insurrection or, at best, to s>> cialism, because the people un derstand fully that the rich to- > bacco companies are steadily growing richer while the produc ers are growing poorer. A state ment from American company of ficials to their stockholders ha* revealed the fact that a man in vesting less than $15,000 in i American company stock 10 years ago has realized an increased increment of $11,000 a year, while i the growers of tobacco have haa i I to worry along without tiic ne r I (TURN TO PAGE THREE>
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