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Friday, March 27, 1936
Everyone Should Vote
Mr. John E. Edgerton, president of the Southern
Industrial Council, is very anxious for the two or
three million people in the South to qualify them
selves to vote in the coming election. He says this
is one of the most important elections America has
ever faced. We agree that it is an important elec
tion but not from the same standpoint, we fear, that
the council president views from. Mr. Edgerton is
an industrialist and seems to view things from the
standpoint of industralism.
The only thing he stresses in his argument is tax
ation which he apparently hates. He has been against
the government's efforts to effect needed business
regulations, one of the very things that has helped
stabilize business. Mr. Edgerton apparently wants
business to do all the regulating when it comes to
prices paid and hours worked. He is evidently try
ing to create an impression with labor that unless
industry handles business regulations famine Avill
be our end. Mr. Edgerton is not satisfied with the
Roosevelt government; he seems to want the Hoover
brand.
In many ways Mr. Edgerton is correct. The popu
lace should vote and require their official servants to
represent them properly.
II There Is To Be a Loss, Make It Small
Regardless of how much the government's soil
conservation program will help the farmer, and re
gardless of how the voluntary tobacco control pro
gram works out, the individual farmer is very much
the master of his own fate just now. With a world
of freedom about him, he is at liberty to plant un
numbered acres to tobacco, help lireak down mar
kets and suffer a loss on his investments and see long
hours of labor go to nought. A "sewed-up" control
pact of the several states is virtually out of the ques
tion for the present. Surely a compact perfectly ef
fected among the several states would have assured
fair tobacco prices next fall. Even a compact among
two or more of the states raising tobacco would have
tended to hold up prices, and no doubt control action
by North Carolina alone would have not been in vain
as far as boosting prices goes. It might be that the
voluntary movement might prove effective as a con
trol measure and result in fair prices being paid for
the 1936 tobacco crop.
'I he control plan is not at all certain just now, and
the farmer will do well to consider his individual
problem should the program fail to function. It will
I* far better for the individual famer to form a com
pact among his own family and refuse to plant ex
cessive acres to tobacco and lose money. In other
words it is better to lose money on three or four
acres of tobacco than it is to lose money on ten or
fdteen acres of tobacco.
Railroads and Trucks
The railroad-truck competition contest is ((row
ing hotter and hotter each day as the years pass.
The competition has almost reached the throat-cut
ting point. The railroads pursued the stiff-neck
policy so long that they almost reached the point of
starvation before they finally realized that the fel
low giving the best service would get the business.
So they rushed the bus business and took on a freight
delivery and collection service.
The public is enjoying the best freight and pas
senger service ever given in this country. It appears
to be better for the public to have both.the railroads
and busses and let them do the scrapping.
The Country Doctor?1936 Hero
Ntuhvillt Graphic.
In these modern times, when professional activities
offer little opportunity for heroism, one man still
stands to act the part when the circumstances arise?
the country doctor.
For a period of three weeks since Christmas, sec
ondary roads have been in a condition considered
"impassable" by the average observer. Schools have
closed. The rural mail has been delayed and in num
erous instances suspended, awaiting fair weather and
better traveling conditions.
But the medical profession?has that been sus
pended? No. Through every kind of road and In
the bitterest weather of years, country doctors have
coveted Nash County consistently and answered ey
try call, as far as reports would indicate.
Through rain and snow and slush, the country doc
tor has attended his patients without regard for the
wetaher or petsonal discomfort. It's a heroism ap
proaching the lasting glamour of the seaman's code.
Admitting the Truth, At Last
Well, the steel mills and cement factories are at
last coming out with the truth about business con
ditions. They say that Mr. Roosevelt's 1936 Janu
ary was 400 percent better than Mr. Hoover's last
January as president, a substantial advance one will
readily admit. The truth is if Hoover had con
tinued in office the entire country would have been
destroyed and on the rocks long before this time.
The thing to do is keep Hoover out and all people
who would have him back.
"None Can Fail To Recall"
Admitting all blunders and minimizing all accom
plishments, none can deny that Roosevelt led this
country out of chaos. At the end of his third year
in the White House, the average man and woman
cannot fail to recall that he freed the country from
despair and restored the faith of the people in all
walks of life. A great majority still firmly believe
that he is sincerely striving to make this a better
country. They know he has the courage and the in
telligence to battle with greedy special interests and
they love him for the enemies he has mad.?Washing
ton News.
Reckless Races ?
Chicago Tribune.
A motorist is rolling along the highway at per
haps a reasonable rate of sf?eed when suddenly the
railway crossing signal ahead of him commences to
swing. Lights Hash and a bell rings. He is in no par
ticular hurry, but a spirit of rivalry flares up, be
cause glancing to his left he can see the approaching
train, which, in his judgment, is easily a mile away
from the crossing.
"I can make it" is the resolve as he steps up to
sixty-five. "I can do ninety in a pinch."
The train, however, appears to be shortening the
distance with extraordinary rapidity and a flash of
doubt enters the motorist's mind. Can he make it
at sixty-five? Better be safe?and he steps up to
ninety. He only then realizes that he has misjudged
both distance and speed. He can't stop now and his
only chance is to plunge wildly ahead.
But what of the other driver? From his lofty perch
the railway engineer has been watching that cross
ing?and the racing motorist. "Will that fool never
stop for the signal?" He nervously fingers the throt
tle. He will shut off steam to give the racer the best
possible chance?if he really wants to race. Then his
hand travels to the air brake; but what will be the
consequences of an application? Any number of the
hundred odd passengers in the cars behind may be
walking the aisles and in danger of injury from an
emergency stop. Surely the automobile will not risk
the crossing. Then he realizes that there is nothing
that can be done about it. The motorist has delib
erately taken his life in his own hands.
Newspa|ier stories record that one mangled body,
its hands still clutching a part of the broken steer
ing wheel, was found in an adjacent field. 'I"he other
occupants of the automobile were found strewn
along the right-of-way with the wreckage. There is
no report, however, that a totally unmanned engineer
arrived at the next terminal to "book sick." To the
public the grim locomotive has claimed three more
lives, but that is all. No thought is given to the
fact that a human being, with all the sympathies that
the phrase implies, was also driving the locomotive;
and for days, and possibly weeks sleepless eyes will
refuse to blot out the horror of that moment of im
pact.
Still Good Advice
Sampson Independent.
"I mutt again plead with North Carolina farmers
to use good judgment in planning their cash crop
acreage this season and I urge that every family grow
a liberal supply of food and feed. Tobacco growers
ought to keep their acreage within seventy percent
of their base under the old adjustment contracts and
cotton farmers should not plant over sixty percent of
their base."
The above appeal comes from Dean I. O. Schaub,
who was in charge of the AAA program in North
Carolina when it was in force, and who has made a
close study of supply and demand. And, though old
advice, it is still timely and should be heeded by the
farmers of the State.
Following the death of the AAA, farm leaders set
about to find a substitute for acreage and production
control. And while a substitute, of a voluntary na
ture, is in the making, it is doubted that It will be
come effective in time to govern this year's planting
of the so-called money crops?tobacco and cotton.
l'lanting time is almost here, and plans and prep
arations for planting, including the acreage to the
various crops, usually are made far in advance of
planting time. Even If the new farm program be
comes effective at once, it will provide no mandatory
ruM for acreage control, but rather will leave the
maMrr to the better judgment of the farmers.
We Supreme Court nor any other agency as for
that matter, can take away from the farmers the
right to use common sense and good judgment in
deciding upon the number of acres to be planted to
the various crops. And, too, it should be remember
ed that the most pounds of cotton and tobacco do
not always bring the producer the most dollars. That
after all, is the most important thing.
We join with Mr. Schaub in urging our farmer
readers to be sure that plenty of acres are planted
in food and feed crops to take care of home needs,
and then some. That will go a long way toward
controlling the acreage devoted to the major gash
crops, as well as the amount produced.
Says Lespedeza Crop
Is Among The Most
Valuable For Lands
Soon Will Be Time To Sow
Lespedeza Farmers In
State Are Reminded
?
It will won be time to ww les
pedeza, E. C. Blair, extension agro
nomist at State College, reminds
North Carolina farmers.
Lespedeza is one of the most valu
able crous that can be grown on the
farm, he stated, and it can be grown
under a wide variety of climatic and
soil conditions.
Lespedeza makes a good hay that
.,s relished by stock end is high in
proteins and carbohydrates. It al
so makes good grazing in the hot
summer and fall months when other
pasturage is dormant.
Blair also pointed out its value as
a wil builder when plowed under
at maturity. Even when the crop is
cut for hay, he added, the roots and
the lower part of the plant that is
left in the Held will improve the soil
to some extent.
Eight tests with lespedeza showed
that on an average, where corn was
producing 21.3 bushels to the acre
without lespedeza, the same land
would produce 44.1 bushels to the
acre after a growth of lespedeza had
been turned under.
Similiar effects have been noted
on small grains, cotton, soybeans and
even weeds.
Lespedeza grows best on medium
to heavy bottom land3, but on most
uplands satisfactory yields can be
obtained.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the au
thority contained in that certain
deed of trust executed by Isaac
Hopkins and wife, Susan Hopkins,
on the 19th day of January, 1935, to
John Hill Paylor, trustee, and re
corded in the office of the Register
of Deeds for Martin County in book
M-3, at page 340, default having
been made in the payment of said
deed of trust, the undersigned trus
tee will, on Monday, April SO, 1830,
at IS o'clock noon, at the court
house door of Martin County in Wil
liamston, North Carolina, offer lor
public sale to the highest bidder,
for' cash, the following described
real estate:
Lying and being in the town of
Robersonville. county of Martin,
State of North Carolina, being sit
uated on Academy Street (former
ly Outterbridge Street), adjoining
the lands of Spencer Williams, Lela
White James, Outterbridge Street,
now Academy Street, and ditch, and
being the same house and lot in
the said town of Robersonville, for
merly owned by Lucy Thompson
Briley and the same premises occu
pied by the said Lucy Thompson
Briley at the time of her death. Be
ing the identical property conveyed
December 23rd, 1928, by Lucy
Thompson Briley to Susan Hopkins,
deed duly recorded in book A-3,
page 298, Martin County Registry.
Said tract of land containing one
lialf acre,- more or less.
This the 16th day of March; 1936.
JOHN HILL PAYLOR,
mr20 4tw Trustee.
SALUE OF VALUABLE FARM
PROPERTY
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon us in a deed
of trust executed by H. W. Barber
and wife, Annie Barber, on the 23d
day of July, 1920. and recorded in
Book X-2, page 347, we will, on Sat
urday, the 28th day of March, 1938,
12 o'clock noon, at the courthouse
door in Martin County, Wilhamston,
N. C., sell at public auction for cash
to the highest bidder the following
land, to wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of
land lying and being in Jamesville
Township, Martin County, and State
of N C., containing 580 acres, more
or less, bounded on the N. by the
lands of J. T. Simpson, L. M. Bar
ber. H. W. Barber^and the Modlin
land, cm the E. by the Land* of W.
C. Manning and Roanoke R. R. and
Lumber Co., on the S. by the Mill
Road, and on the W. by the lands
of Vance Price and the Dennis Sim
mon Lumber Co., and more partic
ularly described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the corner of this land
and the Mod tin li
land and the lands
of W. C. Maning, thence S 1 W.
191 poles, thence N. 92 W 100 poles,
thence S. 10 W. 14 and 2-S poles,
thence N. 67 W. 334 poles, thence
N. 22 E 227 poles, thence S. 45 E.
10 poles; N 56 1-2 E. 6 and 3-5 poles,
S. 32 E. 10 poles; S. 41 E. 6 poles,
N 88 E. 24 poles, S. 64 E. 40 poles,
S. 54 E. 97 poles, N. 12.40 E. 68
a map of same made by A. Corey,
poles to the beginning, as shown by
surveyor; this is same tract of land
conveyed by Farmeri and Mer
chant* Bank to H. W Barber by
dated dated July t, 1830. and re
corded in bok WI, page 303. Reg
ister of Deeds office. Martin County
1311* land is sold subject to all
unpaid taxes.
This sale is made by reason of the
failure of H. W. Barber and wife,
Annie Barber, to pay off and dis
charge the indebtedness secured by
said deed of trust.
A deposit of 10 per cent will be
required from the purchaser at the
sale.
This the 17th day of February,
1030.
INTERSTATE TRUSTEE
CORPORATION,
mrfl 4t Substituted Trustee.
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Camels along/' says William LaVarre. "They
make any meal digest easier." Mrs. LaVarre
(right) adds: "Camels help my digestion, in
the jungle or in New York."
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Cecilia Parker in
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