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VOLUME XXXIX?NUMBER 91 Wilhamston, Martin County, North Carolina. Friday, November 13, 1936 ESTABLISHED 1894
URGES FARMERS
TO FINISH TASK
THAT IS THEIRS!
Review Rise of Agriculture
From Troublous Time in
1921 To Present Time
sy mnrn l baknbs
AfluUnl Martin County Farm Aft
Hie New Deal for Agriculture
waa not an accident On the con
tiary. it waa the result of a Ions,
peniatent determined sniffle by
Organized Agriculture for equality
The real fight began m the
twenties when the
tural income was reduced from 17'
h Ihnni in ISIS to nine biUioas
UH. This was a Mow tram which
agriculture has never recovered At
no time during the next twelve
K
slowly strangled by an
diWarity. but the process
slow and steady that they did no! j
realize what was tsting place Dur
ing the World War. European Na
ttada were anxious u> buy all the
mrphu cotton, tobacco, wheat, com
and hogs American farmers could
produce. Consequently, farm prices
soarad. After the war our European
cmUnni i had no money to pay fo<
our farm produce With foreign de
mand practically gone, our
markets soon hogged down in
pans The period 1*21 29 i
for industry. Factory!
But the,
lanso"i dollar cootinued to shrink |
The fanner was buying supplies
a tariff protected market and selling!
ha cisnmndilirs in an open market.
;ujt like buying at retail and selling
at wholesale Farm leaders warn
ed the nation that industrial pros-l
perily could not long continue wilh'
agriculture at a disadvantage
In order tor agriculture u> match
She advantage being enjoyed by in
dustry through tariff protection,
through consolidation and closer or
gaairation. farmers plainly saw that
they would have to organize. A far
organisation, starting in 1224.
led the fight for surplus control
legislation in the form of the Mc
Nary Haugrn Bill Although twice j
by Congress the bill wasj
vetoed ench time
Surpluses continued to pile high'
while buying power on the farm'
to dry up until the <
nation felt the effect At last, in
1222. the ruin at agriculture brought ]
ruin to the whole nation This:
country has paid dearly for Us neg
lect of agriculture
Every fanner still recalls how
agriculture touched bottom in 1932
when the total farm income for the
year was only five billions
pared with 17 billions in 1919 Far
men were losing their farms They j
couldn't even pay taxes
cent tobacco, 2-cent cotton,
peanuts and 2 1-2-cent hogs. Many |
were in destitution. Fa
aroused to a fighting pitch all over|
the country
r?
the AAA with itrj
crop control program, conceived by |
farmers, drawn up by farmers, and
operated by farmers and the Ex
tension service, with the help at tbe|
attempt at a critical time in give
the fanner control of his production
and to give him a chance to get out
tram under the dead weight at sur
upward so rapidly tnat by
1282 tana income was 2 1-2 billions
Martin Leads in Support
Of Democratic Ticket
Local Tobacco Market Closes
Current Season Next Tuesday
to had Mid iCMM
tor oBr
M toe raced ?d ml
New Soil Program Is
Nearing Completion
RED CROSS DRIVE 1
Getting as
1
iderway last Wad
aeaday. the Red Cram mask 11
ship drive hs
rem ep to no<
H A. Biggs
id aide Utile Prag
ue today. Chairman
exptaiaiag IL-' aa
favorable en
eather bad had
capped the canvassers ka thnr
?ark. bat that the eampaigm
would he active from now Ba
ll! Tkaatugtriag
kM were to npiil (tar
ia the ceual
y are expected te
they did las
t year. Mr Biggs
BROOKLYN BOY
ARRESTED FOR
THEFT OF CAS!
Borrows Father's Car And
Was Traveling South
When Stopped Here
Stanley Martin. 18 year-old boy
of 364 East 24th Street, Brooklyn. |
?a? arrested early yesterday morn
ing in front of the hnal pnlirr tU
lion for stealing gasoline from the |
car of Garland Woo lard in front of
the Woo lard home on HasJcU Street |
the evening before The youth
bong detained in the county |atl.{
w rule the sheriff's office investigates
the unusual story told by Marti
Action in the case in connection
with the gasoline theft will be d
la>ed until ownership of the car a
be definitely determined, it w
said
Determined to go to Florida Mar
tin said he left his father's home on
Tuesday against the advice of his
parent However, he claimed hs
father allowed him the use of the
car. a 1932 Ford roadster, and a
vanced turn a small amount oi ma
cy with the understanding that aij
call was to be made on him for ad
ditional money if the youngster gat
into trouble, a condition the father
freely predicted And as the offi
cers went about their investigation
the young boy still pleaded with
them not to notify his father
Beaching Cape Charles. Malta
packed up Jacob Downs, a young
man traveling by the thumb route
fiucn Philadelphia to Florida The
car driver sold a spare tire from
the car for money to pay ferry
charges, and was carried over the
the Norfolk ferry at a reduced fare
the travelers reaching Portsmouth
broke
Arriving here about 5 o'clock an
Wednesday afternoon. Downs start
led looking for a place to sleep. Mar
tui explaining that he had a coat
and would sleep m the
car The two were to meet early
the following morning and continue
About 7:30 o'<
transferring gasoline from the Wool
aid car to the tank on his car. le
BarahiU, a neighbor of the
Wools ids, happened along and Mar
| tin ran. leaving the car The young
man wandered around all night and
by the sheriff about
daybreak yesterday morning after
the gas thief had returned k> the
Woolard neighborhood looking ler
on his way on foot far Florida i
police of Brooklyn, the sherdTs af
e learned that the youa* man s
me was Stanley Harmitr, that he
Applications To Be
Received for Bene6t
Checks Next Week
llore Than 1.500 Farmers
. Expected To Apply for
Conservation Money
BinkniM lite preparation ol blank*
I cnsnpleuon. Ute county agent's ol
bee m til surt receiving applications
(ire Martin farmers the middle 01
latter part at next week tor tod
cumervatioo payments, Mr T B
Slade announced today The soil
(uiaiiaUoo program in this county
jeovcrs about IJW individual farm,
and the agent's office u making
plana to handle the applications in
|a* duel a ume as b possible. Mr
Slate pmniing out that a rapid re
mise mould make for earlier pay
nils No tune when the payments
muld be expected after all applica
tor* are in was mentioned
Applications will be received in
the districts at Jamesville. Kober
sonville. Hamilton, and Oak City,
and at the cuinly agent's office tot
fjntf.nr Williams. Williamston.
Cium Baati and Poplar IVjuiI, the
agr..idturai authorities stating that
the faraners would be notified di
rectly when and where to apply foi
the jid conservation payments
Payments to farmers in other sec
lams at the country under the soil
rcmemtai program have already
The first million dollars going l<
farmers for shifting land from ma
jor crops to soil building growth t
only a mall start in the flow o
HiliHjMt payments under thl
year's pngnn
A total at ?.<M0.000 farm owner
1 and operators are expected to re
i reive decks for the 1!I36 payment:
Kern Deal leaders, an aulhocits
, tire source said, have already dt
caked on one change they will as
' Congress to make in the prese:
farm act The existing law contera
.plates that by 1536 the states wtl
[ have act up ~46 bttle AAA's" to lak
. over utnunxtration of the progran
But New Dealers hope to have thi
i ptovmon scrapped, and the pla
kept intact under Federal agenric
I n was saal by informed leaders.
Telephone Company Pays
Employees Here a Bonus
A hi ran equalling one month's
salary, was paid its employees by
the Carolina Telephone and Tele
Cianpanj here today The
srheriule of the company will
e altered, it is believed How
beginning probably the first of
of operators will
inn 56 to 40 each week.
today
will
add at least two operators
force at the local office
ChArolct
Recovered Here This Week
" in Norfolk
near here,
yesterday to the uarn
Siate Highway Patrol
abandoned
believing they
way to Laimberton to
jail then
Armistice Day Celebration
At Aboskie Wednesday
posng forward witti
Armistice Day was
No
MRS. HELENS.
RHODES DIES
AT HOME HERE
Funeral Service at Home of
Son. Dr. J. S. Rhodes.
This Afternoon
Mrs llden Slade Rhodes, mem
ber of one of Eastern North Cm*
aim's first families, and a duel
descendant of Wdliamslon's found
er. Colonel Willams. died at the
home of her son. Dr. James S
Rhodes, here shortly after ? o'clock
l?e evening She would have been
90 years old next April Mrs. Rhodes
despite ber advanced ace. was fairly
aclne until a tew months ago. when
she was forced to her bed
The daughter of the late William j
and Penelope Slade. Mrs Rhodes
was born on ihe old Slade Planta
tion. near WilUamston. on April 8.
1047 On November 30. i860, she
mart ied Frank A Rhodes, who del
in the early eighties When a youngj
girl she attended college in Greens- j
Iboro outing the Civil War. and ?
when the school was burned there
she entered Salem Academy in
I Winston-Salem A member <gf a
j lanuly that was a pioneer in relig
ious worship and advancement in
> section. Mrs Rhodes added to
the record She was a member ol
the local Methodist church for 70
years, and for nearly 10 years she
taugt.i a clam in the Sunday s hoot
taking a grew! interest ui the activ
ities of young people Her home
was always open to children, and it
was the recognized community cen
ter for many years
Follow ing the death of her daugn
tcT, Mrs Bessie Maultsby. in Mont
gurnety. in 1909. Mrs Rhodes went
to the Alabama city as mother to
lite thiee children She remained
there until about two years ago.
when she returned to her old Iwme
here
Three sons Dr J S Rhodes of
WiUiamstun. and Messrs Will
Rhodes, of Hamilton, and Frank
Rhodes of Montgomery Ala. sui
vive She also leaves one sister.
Miss Fannie Penelope Slade. of
[Hamilton; and nine grandchildren.
Mrs Janet Waller Mrs Bessie Mil
jrheil Frank, jr . Ethel William, and
iSpears Rhodes, of Montgomery. Ala
and Jun Rhodes, jr .' of Witllaniston
funeral services are being coo
ducted at Ihe home this afternoon
at 3 oc|ock by Rev R K Grant. ?'
the local Methodist church, and Rev
i_ F. Muse ley. Episcopal minister
lnteirr.ent will tolk.w in the family
> plot on Ihe old home plantation,
'near tare on the Hamilton road.
I *
I
(loiuity Prisoner
(^oes on Rampage
Sentenced to the Industrial Col-1
ooy. K n .si on, for two years by
Judge II O Peel in the Martin Coun
ty Recruiters Coun last June on a
disorderly conduct and assault
charge. Iojcy Whiletuirst was report
ed to hare gone on a rampage in
the institution this week. Auti.enli -
reports coukl not he had, but. ac
cording to informatHei received here
tlie jursoner lore out of a lempurary
celi and wrecked property to the ex
tent of several hundred dollars
She was removed U> a jail in Wil
son. Maiicn officers receiving notice
to go and get the woman Tuesday
afternoon the siarifTs office stated
it it mi out want the yoman back
Just what will be done with the
, prisoner could not be learned today
1 ' ?
Rev. J. H. Smith To Hold
Meeting At Jamesville
Beginning next Monday evening
.at 7 3z o'clock. Rev. Jas H Smith,
iocal Baptist minister, will conduct
a aeries of revival services in the
Junes wile Baptist Church, it was
announced today by Rev W B
Hari.j.gion pastor there^ \
Hrgul? en?i?r
I nQJui ?? '
' the church There Sunday at thej
usual hours, 11 o'clock m the morn i
tng and 7:39 m the evening The
public is invited
NEW JUDGE
A not her Hearing on Disputed
Boundary Set for Wednesday
A special committee and countS I
Iivrorauuvei will a(uii tackle thv
Beaufort- Martin boundary line dts
pote next Wednesday in an effort
to effect a settlement, action m the
matter having been postponed for
one reason or another for more than
a year Messrs. H. G. Horton. rep
lesentuig ttus county, W. B Hod
man. representing Beaulort. and
Attorney lobe Connor, of Wilson,
and a disinterested party on I
committee, are to hear evidence to
be offered by Martin representatives
and then v tsit the actual scene ot
the controversy.
' It ts likely that a greater part of
next Wednesday will be used in
hearing documentary evidence to be
ottered by Attorney E. S. Peek who
is representing Martin in the contro
ls crsy. H?*n n fort offered oral tcsli |
niony and introduced several maps,
in defending its claim to a sizeable ^
drip of land along the border in
Uiuluii and Jamesville Townships
When the oral testimony is complet
ed. the committee county represen
tatives and surveyors are scheduled
to take to the "dismal" and locate
boundary Une markers, if they can
The visit into uie woods will hardly
be made before Thursday the l*lh
Weli'are Workers Will
Meet Here Next Week
Social Security Plan
Will Be Discussed at
District Convention
Program Carries Names of
Prominent State And
Federal Speakers
Pians arc neartng--completion for
the annual conference of northeast
ern district welfare workers and oth
crs interested in welfare activities
here next Friday. Miss Mary Taylor
supennendent of Martin County
Welfare and president of the dts
tiict conference, said today Center
ing around the theme. "Next Steps
Toward Social Security in North
Carolina." the conference is expect
< d to attract considerable interest
among welfare leaders and extend
*?? the general public linla large way.
Several hundred are expected heie
for the two sessions, the first begin
ning at 9 30 in the Baptist churcn
Kai n)??rning Lunch wil lite served
m the -high school gymnasium ac
cording to present plans, and inter
esting discussions by welfare heads
will follow an address
vinia Eagle, pf the Educational Di
vision. Society Security Board.
Washington City Miss Engle's ad
dress v 11 deal with the social se
curity act \ihich is now being set
up throughout the nation
Other features on the unusually
interesting program will be an ad
j-iiess by Mrs W. T Bust. state com
nussMMier of public welfare Mrs.
I Host will have for her address topic.
J "The State's Ke*>ponsibility in So
cial Legislation " Dr Howard Odum.
a pioneer in sociology and one of the
|great leaders in that work in the
InaUon. will not be able U* .alUMMf]
the conference, it was learned this
week However, a prominent speak
er will take Dr. Odum's place on th?
program and explain "Next Steps
Toward Social Security in Nortn
i Carolina ** j
The interest of social workers
throughout the state is centered on
this and tive other annual district
welfare conferences which are spon
sored b\ the coopeiative effort of
the State Board of Chanties and
Public Welfare and the Stale Asso
ciation of County Superintendents
of Pubbc Welfare Increasing em
phasis has been placed on the con
ies er?ces as an effective means of in
forming the public of the social
piobletns in the state and in enlist
ing ihe support and cooperation of
organizations and agencies interest
ed in ways and means of solving
these problems
| The general public is cordially in
vited to attend the conferences and
. icany county people plan to hoar the
speakers
Three Stills Are
Seized intnunly
Raiding in Martin County Wed
nesday local and federal officers
wrecked three illegal liquor plants
Land destroyed several thousand (a I
.ens of beer and about 20 gallons of
liquor Two of the plants were cold
and the operators at the other one
heard signals and escaped
a recked a lbO gallon capacity cop
per kettle and destroyed 24 barrels
of beer and 20 gallons of liquor.
An 80-galkm still was wrecked
and 200 gallons of beer were poured
out at the second plant, the opera
tors escaping with a pan of the
equipment just before the officers
reached the scene.
The third plant, consisting of a
snail steam still and 350 gallons of
beer, was destroyed
Federal Officers Lancaster. Ben
nett. and Mallard, and Deputy Roe
[ TOWN TAX SALE 1
U UliunsUu's town delinquent
tax wit went begging for but
nv this week when a lone piece
of property was sold to one in
dividual. The town bought in
the remainder of the more than
loo accounts.
"sale certificates will be drawn
shortly, and the sales recorded
ia the county register of deed s
oil ice Within the next two
years suits will be brought
attains! all the property where
t?\es. penalty, costs and inter
est are not paid, and deeds will
pass to the town.
O.NLA TEN CASES
TRIED Ii\ COUNTY
COURT TUESDAY
Docket Is Unusually Light;
Solicitor Coburn Able
To Resume Duties
Ten cases were handled in the
enmity c ?ui t Tuesday hy Juduc 11
O- Pt.iL the dttcket hfinp innisiiilf?
light since the court had handled no
cases in tw,? weeks Solicitor W I!
Coburn. absent from his duties dur
jM. the past several weeks pp ac
count of illness, was present and
prosecuted the docket
The case-s handle,! ironi
Charged with assault with a dead
ly weapon. Redden Tyre was found
not guilty.
Defendants in a case charging
them with obstructing an officer in
the perfoi inance of his duty. J 6
Whittield. T. E Johnson, LeRoy
Put. Hackney High and Gar tar. ?
Baker w ere adjudged not gurtfy.
The ease was non suited as to PiU.
Harry S Peel, charged w ith being
drunk ^ahd disorderly, assault and
lesi.ting arrest, was lined $25 and
taxed with the cost.
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of the cost in the case
charging James Johnson with as
sault.
Henry Thomas, charged with lar
ceny and receiving, was found not
guilty
The action against H Aubrey and
lit)the Pierce in the case charging
them with disorderly conduct was
dismissed
Judgment was suspended upon
i?i)inent of the cost in the case
chaiging them with disorderly con
duct was dismissed
Judgment was suspended upon
payment of Uie cost in the case
chaiging William Gray, colored,
with assault.
Charged with bctng drunk and dis]
?fdtrly, Pat Wynn was found guilty
of simple assault, the court suspend
ing judgment upon payment of the
CObt.
The case charging W E Early
With assault was nol prnss^rf
Lewis Cuthrelb Hyde County mar
was lined $50 and taxed with Ui
cost for drunken automobile driv
Hu license to operate a mc
tor vehicle was revoked for on
year
.Sixteen Added To
Janiesville Church
Last Sunday was a great day with
the Methodists at Jamesville. The
Sunday school was larger than usu
al The congregations, both morn
ing and night, were unusually good
The Communion service was the
largest ever known in that church.
The pastor. Rev. C. T. Thrift, re
ceived the largest class ever receiv
ed into the membership of that
church There were 10 received on
profession of faith and < by certifl
WILL DISTRIBUTE
SOCIAL SECURITY
FORMS MONDAY
Employers Are Urged To
Cooperate with Post
Offke Here
Th? huge task of setting up -nil
r? ?' *?Hinta for the National
Secur't> Board gets underway ,j|
,?**r the country- next Monday - hen
! Poit Office Department, coop
erafng w?h the Security Board, de
err: forms (or recei ving employ
LJ>Pkr'1 f?r identification
numbers Postma.ter L. T. Fowde.i
?L?r!!erCd haJf ***"??? ot the
|?2 known M SS-< and then- dfc.
^ *"Ui ? by , e of
*r~en .?* and rural
carriers to every individual, flrn..
Partnership,
tion. corporation, joint-stock con.
">?urance compau, with
who^ar *? ?' ,hC l0Cil ^'ce
... on* ur ">?r* persons leu
?ban*S year, of age actually ,n iU
employ on next Monday
Employers of the follow mg damn.
? workers w,:t ^ reqlmed (<)
"I" out and i urn ,he forms, it
underwood U> S If-em. y.nent,
ca^T'l?* ru'"*ds la
Uxiryj act; <3i domes
?ce in private homes. (4) ju,|.
-hura. tabor casual Ubor^t
?n the course of ,he employer', trade
m a?"T' (6' Service Panned
M an officer or member of the crew
Of a vessel; t7. urv.oe performed
,hr ?"Plu> of the U S govern
mentla ? an instrumentality "f
be United States. (8) service ?~r
tolled u, ih employ of . sum
political subdivision theieof, o. i
^tr'?"? :ul.iv of-one or n. ,
state, or poLo al subdivisions
-eivue per'-, med m the employ 0
a corporation, community cl.e
fund. ?r foundation, organized aid
operated exclusively f?r religious
charitable, scientific, literary. or ed
ucalional purposes. or for the pre
vention of cruelty to children or an
mials. no par, ?f the ne, earm
Of which inures to the benefit of any
private shareholder or indiv idual
The forms for identification num
ber> are to be returned to the local
i r* saturday
I'1'i|.i niUi, h,'. mUKld",^^
employees. the P?s, Otfu:e Depart
* then pij^ to ^ ^ ^
r""l<,ye"w,u make -p
?ttons for account numbers, the
,?r?r.?y board being anxious to get
?be propei forms to every employes
Connng umnr. ihe scope of theold
age benetii provisions of ,he ^n,.
-ecin ||y a(t
.None of the application forms ha.
been received by the local office,
but Postmaste. Fowden is expect..,*
he necessary .ape,, in I,me to start
the distribution next Monday. Al.
employers of Ubor no, included .
^be nine exert ption da.^, are urc
j o fttl in the forms prop- ,iy a,
return the,,. a: soon as possible to
|lw pOit office
The social Purity *1,
|?round 2.000 page. lls aeJ^
f'rm. u quite complicated, no doubt.
'[ " Ptovisi.ms arc not generally
n..?n m detail, but roughly speak
UU? the ?c, plans to tax the e,r.
m J*' tent of bis salary ani
the employer the same amount to
off w.th. lhMt lhuse ^ ^
C?' ?' Whe" 'hey reach
age of 65 years The system is far
rwnoved from the plan advanced by
Dr Townscnd and which attracted
wd "h\eZ'Un " 'he "?*d- C1 'PP'ed
and blind to this county J?
y~r? Despite the httle s?d
crmnl Town!*nd plan and the
complications of the system, old age
purity is m the making, and the
0< *cUlP "P 'be millions of
?founfa wrU read, emplnvers of
ST ^ themselves
within the next few days
Postmaster Fowden and other cm
ployees in the local office w,ll ,P.
Pbt ...e lTNi|iot alion and aid ol~
^tro*rg ret""^ Prepare the
,QrTni in aetting up the
neo for the security system.
\Little Change Noted In
Peanut Market Recently
Little change aas been noted in
the peanut market during the pa
few ?Uy?tanJjpricM holding around
3 TT? 3 3 4 Extra quality
jumbos, m one or two did
"Pnunbuff a pnee as high as four
?nu on Wednesday, but sale, that
h??h are rare Weather condition,
bave delayed picking operation
week and offerings have bean
oimperatively small
No definite resulta have been an
~~~?d fbUowmg conferences of
farm leaders with agricultural an.
thonties in Washington this week.
but regardless of sny policy og\he
fnrernment' indications are that the
"? *.who1* are watting lor