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MEMBER OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS ASSOCIATION AND NATIONAL EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION COTTON FARMERS— The only hope for better prices for cotton in the United States next year seems to be in reduced acreage this spring and a better quality of staple. Carl Williams, representing the cot ton farmers on the Federal Farm Board, says that practically no governmental aid will be given the Dixie farmers in 1930 unless immediate steps are taken to reduce the yield of cotton. Last year 47,000.0000 acres were planted in cotton and 46.000.000 were harvested. If the yield had been as good as that of 1914. the cotton belt would have produced 22.000.000 bales last year. Dur ing the last three years the per acre yield has been below the 10 year average, and that is the only reason the present surplus is not larger than it is. Several years of low yield in succession are unusual, and if there is normal production per acre this year, the surplus will be beyond control. Forty million acres is considered the red line for cotton acreage in the United States, and anything beyond this year may mean disaster for southern farmers. The increase in consumption of cotton is not commensurate with the increase in production, and profitable returns cannot be expected so long as this is true. Consumption during the last six months of 1929 was much larger than that of the first, six months, and a larger percentage than usual of world consump tion was of foreign production. In times past this country has supplied 65 per cent of the world’s needs outside of the United States, but now it exports only 47 per cent. Cotton grown in India, while of the same quality as that grown here, sells for ■f'- two and half cents a pound lower than American cotton, and foreign manufacturers are purchasing Indian cotton. Russia now produces over a million bales, and it is rapidly increasing acreage. Russian cotton is grown from high quality seed pro duced in the United States, and will soon be grown in sufficient quantity to ofTcr American cotton serious competition in world markets. There are two things that southern farmers must do if they hope to make fanning profitable again. They must reduce cot ton acreage, and they must improve the quality of their staple. Now is the time to give these facts due consideration, and plan this year’s crop accordingly. THE COST OF CARIN'*; FOR THE POOR— Sixty-five of the one hundred counties in North Carolina have invested in county home plants, valued at $2,784,113.52. The 1.674 men, women and children in these county homes last year were housed at an additional cost of $440,182.25, or an av erage per capita cost of $262.95 per year. These figures are quoted in the January issue of "Public Wel fare Progress," a publication issued monthly by the North Car olina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, to show that counties could maintain their poor comfortably for a m u c li smaller amount. The idea is to care for the poor old man or wo man in the home of some relative or friend with assistance from the county. What would be lacking in the comfort of bigger, better buildings would be made up in the happiness of being among kinspeople or friends. Vance county is cited as an ex ample of a county caring for its poor in this manner, the county poor house having been replaced with a county hospital sharing in the Duke Endowment, which serves the entire community. Here, the few aged, sick who cannot be boarded out are cared for. Interesting facts are revealed in the Welfare publication con cerning the manner of operation of the county homes of the Slate. Of the sixty-five counties that have County poor houses, fifty-five have salaried keepers. In the other ten. the superin tendents are paid no salary, but are given the use of the farms and so much per head for the care of each inmate. The amount is usually small, as the paupers arc said to be let out to the lowest bidders. Johnston County is among the ten counties that pay the keeper no salary. In Johnston the inmates, averaging in num ber 35 per day the year round, are kept at. an annual cost of $4,745. or $11.29 per capita per month. WHO’S THE GUILTY PARTY? Agricultural conditions in North Carolina will never show an im provement until that type of farmer who refuses to diversify j his crops and follow the instruc tions of home demonstration .„. may be directed with intelli gence. It was T. R. Brown, di rector of the state department of vocational education and head of the department of education at State College, who was saying it to a luncheon club. The re mark is commonplace in that the T.vp sum illM __ though it is not of common ac ceptation in practice, j The interest here is that Pro fessor Brown said by implicatioi that some sort of compulsioi should be applied to tin; fartne who gives all time and alientioi j to growing the cash crap am hone to food supply; and In would have bankers and suppl: men “persuade” such farmers b; refusing them aid unless they di versified. And here a lot of folk I had been thinking, because as sertion is frequently made to that effect, that it is the lancfiort (and the bankers and supply men who demand all attention to the j cash crop. They fear that a di j vision of time with food crops j might leave them short at set uling time, as the story runs. Probably these people are being islandered. but that is being said j about them, more1 especially about | the landlords who tell the ten janl what he shall grow. But if jit is the farmer who is so con Jtrary, the people mentioned are j in position to “persuade” him iquite effectively, as Professor j Brown suggests. -— Greensboro Daily News. 1 he Way of Life jl B.V BRIX'E BARTON 'have vor seen a mira( le j Here is an important, clistine I Lion that many people overlook j God made the world: but Iii I floes not make your world. • | Hr provides the raw materials end out of them every man se jlrets what, he wants and builds an individual world for himself. The fool looks over the wealth of material provided, and selects a few plates of ham and eggs, a few pairs of trousers, a few dol I lar biils—and is satisfied. The wise man builds his world out. of wonderful sunsets, and thrilling experiences, and the song of the stars, and romances |and miracles. | Nothing wonderful ever hap Ipens in the life of the fool. ! An electric light is simply ail ielectric light; a. telephone is only ja telephone nothing unusual a; all. J Hut the wise man never ceases to wonder how a tiny speck of sicd. apparently dead and bur ied. can produce a beautiful yel low flower. Ho never lifts a tele phone receiver or switches on an electric light without a certain feeling of awe. And think what a miralce it is. this harnessing of electricity to the service of man! Who. unless his sense of awe had crown blunt through con stant familiarity, would believe it? Tiie sun. the center of our uni verse. goes down behind the wes tern horizon. I touch a but ion and presto! J have called it back —the room is flooded anew with light. The thunder that men once I called the voice of God rolls out, is mighty waves ol sound, and 'he sound carrier only a few ! xore miles, but, 1 puny speck upon the lace of the earth— I lilt i little iiirfrument: and. behok' i inv whisper is heard a thousand! miles away. < Do we Wjint heat? We press a | button: and lo. heat, invisible, si lent. all-pervasive, flows into our homes over a copper wire. Do we need power? We have but to press another switch, and giants come to us over the same slender^ roadway. Clothed in in visible garments, they cleanse our homes, wash our clothe.., crank our automobiles—do everything that once taxed the strength oi j men and hurried women into un lovely old age. Don’t let your life become a prosaic affair: don't let. familiar ity with the marvels about you breed thoughtlessness and con tempt. | If you had stood with Moses on ' the shore of the Red Sea. and, had seen it divide to lei the Children of Israel pass over, you would have had no cliflieuiiy m recognising that as a miracle. Hut every niglit when the sun goes down, u man sum* is m a rover house m your city and throws a switch, and instantly the .city and the country for miles around are flooded with sunshine, j And you say to yourself cas ually: “Oh. I see the lights are Ion.” Leave For Gastonia. i Mrs. W. J. Stallings and little 'daughter. Bet tie Wade, left Sun day for Gastonia, to spend some | time with the family of Mrs. 'Stallings' brother, Mr. Wade H. | Sanders. WHAT IS Tin: REMEDY? What is North Carolina la do with her prison population problem? We ha\V made fine nmpfpss with limhvvnvs infill* ' try and schools, but unfortunate ly we have not made progress in meeting the serious problem of increased prison population. •The problem is serious from a fi nancial standpoint, but still more important is it from the stand* ; point of citizenship and good gov ! eminent • What Is to be done in a mmmmmag* 1 1 mtmmmmrn. - when that stock turns in increas ing numbers to lives of crime? From Die Winston-Salem Jour I'nal we learn that on January ;» : • 1880. I hen- were 2!j7 convicis n Die stale .s pj Ison. Since tli ijulution at that time was 1. ::.or;,750, there was one state pris : oner for each 5.000 people. Tie prison rate tlvn was about 21.2: per 11iO 000. By January, in?o (he population of the state hat grown to 2.777.000 and the num her of convicts to 720. or out u> every 2.000 people, or a iv of 20 79 per 100.000. : On Jamiary 1. 193c, there \vm ‘-•33 > convicts winch with an (.mated population of 3,000.000 nidi, liter that one in every 1 fjr0 i People in the state is in. the state |prison. This is at the rate so ’■ ’''fOOO. While the star,-, population was increasing fifty vCA Lcllt 1 slate prison popula tio?i was increasing 800 per cent. Three hundred per cent of this 111. reuse has taken place in the last ton years. "Here." says The Journal. - at 'east is one item in which Die state is by no .means mailing progress. Ins-mad. it is retro,.. mg ana at an alarming raic. ' I! is a Situation that offers sharp challenge to Uie whit propie of the state. In 1880 oul of 807 convicts were while. I I 1H:i0 111,1 poison population : P'-;s:v nearly equally divided b 'wren the Uvo races —1.064 whm ;<; 1.173 negroes. "T!>f pri.sun population it in creasing . fast. Every pubic ■milted citizen should give thi, alarming situation car”f:i hough*. There is something cie-f :ji!te-Iy wrong when opportune;, land the prison population r n mereuaing at the same time ' j iLvery citizen tlic state is vie ally interested in this mattei whether he realizes it. or not P's n populations cost a rv. |nieiKious sum of money eacli ■ mi a"‘l Lh,-V have an unwholesmu influence. When crime, as npre sented by the prison population .increases six timer, as fast as population in a ten-year period, | ■omething drastic needs to be j 'lane.- Concord Times. NIGHT SCHOOLS. I Over 6,000 North Carolina f.,r we tioinj 10 school this winter. These fanners, located in 155 different communities, are attending the evening classes at H'.etl lui al locational aenee.i (ral h, "h n uopls for till- porn ,,I studying better methods of farni iiig. acenrd >ig to llnv If. Thomas. mte Supervisor of Aimmltt.m’i Educat ion. Tiir courses, said Mr. Thomas, consist of from ten to Unity les ■ons on certain farm problems and practices concern:’!:: which he fanners want intorsicrion In one community the farmer* ’are! meeting t wo nights r. a opt for i. e weeks to study tin unproved methods ol feeding i,,, This Group of r. rmers is law, ec-in, u hi.- Joes of legs to be mar keted cooperatively in il, spring, in another conununiiv :.ity far mer arc learning how ■ . ;r,. !hri1' •' ;-lo.s uom com ml., a t.urd locality twenw, women are meeting three time, week t0 rind out how to car. tor the i ionic i lento: >i Paul - . 1 - - a,i.. ,:i t he fa roiers rung” ;oni . t: to 6.1 years, t'b aver;:;' • being 32. Tw".-thirds o! ihoso eii rolk'll niT* f;-irrn rui:n«.. ,, t, ;i.» r»,„ •i.hor.i iii" tenants ; hired! lflpers. Mr. Thomas i.-.•mteci out. The evening aOTiciu.urul class ’s are organised nttd conducted by 1 '’si i. ae.ier; e: ucauonal nrlcuUure. The r: ri.-tion does tot cm! with the in mays. Kacb aimer m putting nu practice m his home farm ,,p:p 0f the ■ hinits learned from tin course. Mr. Thomas explamc-d. tine fa amr. m aitimdance ai evening class, said: 'What I aave learned from ihc evening •lass 11: true I ini w.u enable me i" make Iwo hundred dollars noi'v* mi my farming operations this year.”—News lud observer. Rose & Woodall Funeral Directors Ambulance Service Anywhere —Any time. Day Phone 36. Night Phone 34 HENSON, N. C. RELIEVED . QUICKLY APJW5| Tii. rUie!> Vegetable PiU “ QUliL'y starts the bile Mowing, gently mover the bowels,— ;he poisons pass av. ay. the sour and icld stomach swoolens, and bilious ness vanishes. Sick I!< ailaehe. Indi gestion, Bad Breath and Complexion Improve by the gentle action of these tiny vegetable laxative pills. All Druggists 2do and 75c red pkgs. CARTF.ITS 11™ PF¥ f «i lll^PKl) 15V VINOL “I conscientiously can recoiv mend Vintd to anyone,” says N II. Humphreys, of the Herald, “ii lias helped me wonderfully.” scribed Vinol because it cousins important mineral elements of iron, calcium and cod liver pen* tone. The very FIRST bottle brings sound sleep and a BIG appetite. Nervous, wornout peo ple are surprised how quick Vinol aiaa^iav.. !Kq ..ami. meOMsI ■ THE FUTURE OF COTTON I’RICE' RALEIGH, Jan. 17.—With th ■ present low price of cotton, th . niu- lo.n among: farmers i whether lo hold or sell their cot u,n- What to do can only be de toi mine! by a study of figure: r. iietive to the supply and do .“VVl,iIe the demand is uncei. tarn, the chances are that price, have reached the low point l'or this year and a gradual improvement "lay he anticipated," says Dr. G. W. Forster, agricultural econonv j-St a: State College. “Whelhei tnis improvement will warrm; i holding the cotton is a matter tui individual farmer to docueji A carry .over of 1,31)0,000 haws together with an estimated j-ru "urll,:i\ °f 13.000.000 bales, gives av«ilable supply of 19,500,000 otis - of American cotton says Dr ! " ter. I his is approximately the same amount as was availal le ust year. The estimated consume t;on for this vrat- 0.1 r.rin hah i,:i!l’s ®«d from lhe.se figures it '.'(lees 1V.I seem that the law price r';:,on ‘-''‘I ht- 1 raced In supply, ; \ he states. ’ Since nlw.ut sixty per cent rf "U" cut!mi is shipped to Kan,pear . "‘“fines, the economic conditions nhc-re naturally aftlm-i the prices ■ ; n ceived for the staple. An in ; in d, nialid for e,,tjo,, <"tton h'ornls is reported from ;’11, aically oil these markets "'lth :l sliftrht increase in tiis : Kreat Britain demand. In the Japanese and Chinese market*, importations of Ameri can cotton have fallen off to a considerable extent. Stocks of raw l"::un in these markets declined I n^i- 1«".000 bales during S I'nil.er un,| American cotton alone fill off 41,000 bales. itii the depleted supply ip foreign markets and a gradual , improvement in demand. prices 1 Sir American cotton should ;:o up ■ hot fanners who plan to hold tin ir , iric.on should watch closely the information given by Federal and : State governments as to foreign and domestic coml.iion.-," says Dr, - I,' S;vi VT.I. INCOMES PREDICTED tot: THE YEAR OV 1930 Smaller incomes even Ilian in 1921) arc in store for the farmers Each Year More Mothers Treat Colds Externally The Dangers oi “Dosing” Colds Now Avoided by Use of Pdodern Vaporizing Ointment When Vicks VapoRub was intro duced, mothers especially were quick to appreciate it, because it ia just rubbed on and cannot upset children’s delicate stomachs, as "dos ing” is so apt to do. Today, the whole trend of modern medicine is away from needless "dosing.” As more and more mothers adopt ed this modern external treatment, the tame of Vick.; spread until todkv it is the standby for colds—adults’ as well as children’s—in over (JO Just rubbed on throat and chest, Vicks acts through the skin like a plaster; and, at the same time its implicated vapors, released by the body heat, are inhaled direct to the intiamed air-passages, loosening the phlegm and easing the diflicult breathing. Ever-increasing demand for this better method of treating colds is shown in the familiar Vick slogan. Made famous when Vicks reached “17 Million Jars Used Yearly"— later raised to “21 Million"—there arc now "Over 26 Million Jars Used Yearly.” 'When Food Sours Lota of folks who tbi/ik they havi "indigestion” h.no only an acid con dition which could bo corrected ir five or ton minutes. An effective anti-acid like Phillips Milk of Mag aesin soon restores digestion to normal Phillips does away with all that sourness and gas right after meals, it prevents the distress so apt to oc cur two hours after eating. What a pleasant preparation to take! And | how good it is for tho system! Un i. like a burning dose of soda—which ia but tein{>orary relief at best—Phillips ******* *** m uvi auu.o tiroes its volume in acid. Next time a hearty meal, or too rich a diet lias brought on tliQ least liscomiort, try— of North Carolina in 1930, Dr. C 5 W. Forster. Jhead of the depart > ment of agricultural economic * at North Carolina State College . cautions in an article on tile farn outlook for 1930. appearing n North Carolina Farm Business, « publication of the State Col leg, 1 Extension Service. Big carryovers from last yea: ;in cotton, tobacco and peanut' make acreage reduction in to bacco and peanuts and no fur ther increase in cotton acreage necessary this season, says Dr Forster. Indications point to fair condi tions for early Irish potatoes bu* for a very heavy yield and small prices for potatoes in general. Only for the production of hogs and strawberries do the con ditions seem more than normally favorable. If the acreage changes sug gested by this outlook report a;o adopted,” declares Dr. Forster ”a curtailment in the acreage of cotton, tobacco, potatoes and pea nuts will result. On land thus re leased. additional hay, pasture and feed grains may be grown’ Such feed can then be utilized by hogs, poultry and dairy cows that v.'ill more nearly supply the do mancl in the farm home and the nearby locality. "Two important benefits would result: first, a better balanced diet would be available for the farm family: and second, mure satisfactory prices would proba bly be received. file lino outlook may appear a gloomy one, but. to North Car olinians who are working for greater prosperity and better times for our farm population, u may be advantageous." Dr. Forster praises Governor ■u.udners "live-at-home" mu ram and advocates a “farm dan that, will furnish more of be household and animal feed •cquiremenls. iVe Pay Eight Profits When We fuy Western Corn, Meat, and Itay : In spite of the genera! ac mowlcrigement of the wisdom of ive-ai-home farming, one still! uns across a man now and then : ■ ho says: "The Northern and Western armors can raise corn. hay. and aits.. L. H. Hauss Iras returned from Philadelphia where she ■ i aided the Hair Dressers A urial on and style show. Let her *■11 you about the «.•«• hamiress it tire Dorothy Beamy .shoppe. 666 Tablets Relieves a Headache or Neuralgia in SO minutes, checks a Cold the iirst day. and checks Malaria in three days, _bob also in I.iquid . meat more cheaply than the ■; South: plainly, therefore. we 5 should buy those things instead of • trying to grow them.” The answer is that even if the , West can grow corn and meat ‘ and some hays more cheaply than we can. the man who ad vises buying these things forgets ' 'hat when we pay the Western farmer his cost of production for hay, corn, and meat, we have only just started the round of payments. Besides cost of pro duction to the farmer there are seven and possibly eight other costs we must pay as follows: j 1. The Western farmer’s cost of ; negotiating sales. 2. Cost of packing, sacking, or baling the product. 3. Cost of hauling to Western farmer’s depot. 4. Expenses and profits of mid dleman buying from Western farmer. i 5 Expenses and profit for wholesaler selling to Southern; merchant. 6. Expenses of a nearly 1,000-1 mile freight haul with a big ’ profit for the railroad. 7. Expense of hauling from merchant’s store. 8. Extra charges by merchant, I when bought “on time,” to cover risk, interest, and collections.— Progressive Farmer. One Cumberland county farmer never goes to Fayetteville but that he carries vegetables, poultry, eggs or cured meats for sale. He grows tobacco and cotton for his main cash crops but never fails to have money throughout the year. T. L. Shelton of Madison coun ty reports a yield of 864 pounds of high quality burley tobacco from one-half acre of ground fertilizer with 400 pounds of a 12-4-6 mixture. The first cooperative car of do lomitic limestone for use under tobacco in Caswell county this season was recently ordered by eight growers. LOST MONDAY near courthouse black handbag with chamois rag pinned inside. Chamois bag He/ i ?bU bill, one $20 bill; '■ niece, a $2,2 gold riece. and some silver. Several loilar bills were loose in the landbag. Also receipt for $40 from A. A. Corbett. Liberal re vard if returned to Mrs. N. F. iawkins Worley. Princeton. N. If.. Route 1. WHY TAKE CH>HCES? When You Can Phone Us 267 ! CITY DRY CLEANING CO. t “Smithfield's Leading Oeaners and Hatters” Beauty of flue and 4Hit»taiuliii^perform ance make the new Ford a "value far above liie price" The new Ford is a particularly good choice because it brings you everything you want or need in a motor car. It leads in SALES because it eads in VALUE. Features of the New Fore beautiful new streamlines ciiomje of colors FOUR HOUDAILLE DOUBLE-ACTING HYDRAULIC SHOCK ABSORBERS FULLY ENCLOSED FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES TRIPLEX SHATTER-PROOF GLASS .WINDSHIELD BRIGHT RUSTLESS STEEL FOR EXPOSED METAL PARTS UNUSUALLY-LARGE NUMBER OF BALL AND ROLLER BEARINGS SMOOTHNESS. 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