m V/yt4i a _ I ? . ... " ' 7"*:. ?>'. " ? - ' - ' ? m ^ A' -v- ' .;-?# ' | K B mmmm SB; '=2#?1 M I II ?'? IP^ I * ^ H .JH _.B B"^ 1- ???-M ?B ll^lL m oJL ??! JBi JBat ISp^t?8?* J[LJHLJK> ' W sSMRB?3?^?9^ JtKmmm mm'mmm -^Wtr^ jP^ "'? - - -- ?? I THB^iiDVRttaZRS | VOL. TWENTY 1 " I ..... I I Agricultural Extension FoDb Meet at State College sad \ Are Talrf ef Comiitiemr Raleigh, Jan. 6?Adjusting produc tion of crops and livestock to fans and home seeds, working oat local markets and marketing methods to handle surplus food and feed products and to have a nnifiad program of farm development he a county so that both farm and home agents and the commercial and hasfaees organiza tions might all loin in to make it successful are three things vital to the success of the present live-at home campaign in North Carolina, declared Dr. E. C. Brooks, presiddent of State College, in an address at tha AQmimf conference of the agri cultural extension workers at State College yesterday. Dr. Brooks said that past work done by the agents had been bene ficial. Production per acre has in creased. Individual farms and farm homes show decided improvement and are not in distress. Groups of farmers are profiting from co-oper ative buying and selling and new market outlets have been provided for some of the surplus products of the farm. This has been true to the extent that the college is not able now to supply the demand for county agents. "But conditions are different to day from what they were 25 years ago when farm demonstration work was begun,'' said Dr. Brooks. "We are asking farmers to change and we must change along with them. A new emphasis is necessary. Within a per iod of 25 years the total population of the state has increased 50 per cent The farm population has de clined about 20 per cent while the urban population has increased about 60 per cent Nearly one-half of our population is urban today, while less than 15 per cent was urban 25 years ago. Yet the occupational habits of a majority of farmers have changed but little, except that they make their land produce more. One-half of our population in North Carolina are po tential purchasers of food products rtearne&to orouer exchange. Dr. Brooks declared tHlt-wpx=-^ of the farm population is today pro ducing three times what the 100 per cent produced 25 years ago. A large part of this is in cotton and tobacco and in some instances there has ac tually been a decline in the food pro ducts grown by the individual farmer. The increased attention to money crops was given because a market existed for these while no suitable market existed for the surplus food and feedstuffs grown. Every county agent nmst now be gin to study the needs of his county from the basis of new information now available, said Dr. Brooks. He commented on the new figures se cured through the studies of C. A. Sheffield, assitant director of exten sion, and asked each agent to arm himself with these facta. There is a potential market for doable the food stuffs now being produced and the extension workers nmst continue to stimulate production economically through better seeds, better stocks and better methods of farming. The agents need, however, the cooperation of all available forces in *.eoun?y in cluding the vocational toshers, county councils, best farmers, bankers, mar chants, chambers of commerce and agents of the state department of agriculture. Dr. Brooks declared that anxious to help in this movement and would welcome suggestions from the home and farm agents as to mar kets for surplus food and feed pro ducts produced in the county. governor iranmer? ww uiouc dinner leads the way to a broader work by the borne agents in cooper ation with farm agents, and similar menus may be worked out for hotels and restaurants to acquaint all the people with home products. The president especially urged toe agents to .try to exchange products for he declared many merchants not getting what they wanted at home were sending thousands of miles away* in the same old trade channels for sack a supply. The same com modities might be nearby in the same county and owned by farmers who are unable to sell for lack of mar ket, he said. Dr. Brooks especially pleaded for one program between toe home and farm agents of a county. He asked them to be somewhat adventurous in trying this new program and said they must keep abreast of present changes in agriculture and habits oi the peeple. He dedarsd that tlx urenent tfaw> offered the best in thii to prove its leadership sod to built ;; ?" ^ ^rr'%^y^sf ?,"...- 'v;;- ~ ? : State School Facts Give In ^^eb^oft^Sate Raleigh, Jan. 7.?-There axe now 86] t public high schools in the State, at I least -ope in ?*ery county, offering , courses of instruction to all bojr? anc , girls who show themselves able tc i profit by them. Of this number 7? ; are provided for rural and 168 for city boys and girls. More than IK),DOC boys and girls are avaffing themrehwi of the opportunities stfaat in these schools, and over 13,000 are graduat ing annually from them. These facts are disclosed i& the current issue of State School ..Facts, official publica tion of the- State Superintendent of ! ? 1 ?*- * ' U -LtJ. {a jtamtiwi I rUDUC liUJtrucwuix, wxuvw 1W WM.W. ! to the high school phase f the State's public school system. - ^ Over a period of five years, this paper shows that there las been 'a great increase in the several high school grades, especially in the rural schools. In 1928-29 there were 12,762 more white hoys and girls In the eighth grade, or first year high school, than there were in 1928-24. In the ninth grade there were 10,787 mare than in 1923-24, an increase of 68.8 per cent In the tenth grade there was an in crease of 7>96? over 1928-24, or 67 per cent; and in the eleventh grade 6,487 more, or a 75 per cent increase. A total of 37,955 more pupils were in attendance at the public high school in 1928-29 than in 1923-24. Within the same period, the publi cation further shows, the number of graduates from public high school has increased 74.3 per cent In 1923-24 there were approximately 7,000 high school graduates, whereas in 1928-29 a total of 12,745 white and 1,262 col ored boys and girls finished these public institutions, a grand total of 13,407. The greatest increase in num ber of graduates has been in the rural schools, more than 4,000 against only 1,000 in city schools. TAFT FORCED TO TAKE BEST CURE L?art P*MT??*"? II' Hf-'P K " "P!??.-? WW [Chief Justice Going to Hos WasMngton, Jan. 7.?Chief Justice Taft has decided to direct ail his ef forts toward the recuperation of his strength during the next few weeks. He is in a weakened physical con dition, due to a recurrence of the bladder trouble for which he was treated several years ago. With much protest, he finally yield ed to the importunities of his family, his physician and his associates of the Supreme court, and will go into Garfield hospital here for treatment. It is expected that within a week he will be sufficiently relieved to go to AsheyiHe, North Carolina, where he will rest Last June, in a weakened condition, caused by the high tension under which he had been pushing the work of the Supreme court, he went to Cin cinnati to visit Ms brother, Charles P. Taft, who died last week. He over taxed his strength on the trip, and was forced to undergo hospital treat ment before starting for Murray Bay,. Canada, for the summer. He was wheeled to his train in a chair after taking hospital treatment and was hopeful that a summer's rest would restore his strength. In that, however, he was disappointed. He suffered a slight accident while at Mur-ay Bay which aggravated an already weakening nervous condition. He came to Washington to attend the conference of circuit judges early in October to accelerate the clearing up of business in Federal courts through I ?l iv-. iVn be took up his UUtr NIC ??i i I ' . own co.irt work. Although Mr. Taft gradually grew weak? he refused to take a rest -^md attended every ses sion of tbeoourt until it went into a recess early in December. Last week he insisted on attending his brother's funeral in Cincinnati, against the advice of his i>hysidaa and the urgent requests of his asso ciate on tto SMrMBr strength vap further taxed because of the eleee 1 VH'fd't'd Ndefw them When the Chief Justice returned to Washington on Saturday he went directly from the station to the con j faience room of the court and for | ' lar court session today, and wfflw l main free from court work in the I A fV6f\1a1T7' ? m my B^. ?#M'-ji!-m>; ; fm MJ ?a, ~- m Bfc ?? ??i.J"'~ I wYw ANATOLIA I New York, Jan. 6?Thirty thousand ?j Christians who make up the last of ?[the non-Moslem minority in Turkey 1J have began an eaodqs over the sou '] titers border, according to advices fpmeived at natianol headquarters of J the Near Bast Relief, officials stated r| Hie vanguard of the migration, 2, 1150a Armenians, principally women [and children have crossed into French j Mandate territory and have reached [Aleppo, it was said. | Frank .A. March, .manager of the [Near East Relief work in that area, [ informed his headquarters that the [high commission of the League of [Nation's refugee settlement work in [ Syria had met to consider this ad ditional emergency burden and has 'annealed to the League for special assistance to relieve -winter distress. Near East Relief has been asked by the Commission to dispatch med ical aid, and. an American nurse and supplies will leave New York January 10 to supplement the staff available on the field, relief executives said. Miss Annie Earle Slack, an American Bed Cross veteran had already been selected to install ah itinerant med ical service among the refugees set tled in remote villages of northern and central Syria. Miss Slack's de parture will be hastened by several weeks in order that she may arrange whatever medical work is necessary among the new arrivals. The serious aspect of. the situation is that the incoming Christians add to the 33,000 war time.refugees still awaiting settlement in the camps of; Beirut and Aleppo, relief' officials stated. The Syrian camps, after the great evacuation of 1922-1923 which in creased Greece's population by a mil lion and a quarter, held some 80,000 of these "refugees. More than half these people have emigrated or have been settled in urban or rural com munities by the League on an easy payment loan plan outlined by Near East Belief in 1924, to which the or ganisation contributed $440,000. ? ??? ffltrattan from Turkey (hiring the past year, but this exodu* ft Is feared, will be jwift ttpj will couse [conP^^KHLjBJaertng in the coast towns of Syria when housing al ready is inadequate. Mr. March advises, however, that he does not believe the new comers are in desperate want, and that they have been able to sell their effects before leaving. Our reports indicate that these minority people are not asked to leave Turkey. They an tendered passports for Syria bearing a t.ima I limitation, although not visaed by the Syrian authorities for admission to Syria, Mr. March informs us. They are crossing the border in most cases secretly, evanding the guards. When they appear in Syria it is, of coarse, impossible to send them hack because Turkey will not accept them. RADIO SET TURNS OUT TO BE LIQUOR Case Contaliang 100 Quarts of Whjskey Is Seized at Henderson. Henderson, Jan. 7.*?Following up a tip they had received, Deputy Sher iffs J. L. Cash and K. P. Davis today seised a case of what they said was bottled in bond liquor at a local ex press office, and an holding it for Instructions from Solicitor R. Hunt Parker, of this, district who arrived here- today to proeeeute the criminal docket in Vance Superior Court The case |s estimated tocontain from 75 to 100 quarts, of liquor of the Johnny Walker brand, and said by the labels to-be 12 years old. '?v.'-- ? * 'A The shipment originated at Lake worth, Florida, and the sender was - -vr J I named as L C. Andrews, ox b? a. Drive Street. It was addressed to A. L. Snowden, Care Cliff Dwellers Inn, "Henderson. Both names are believed to be fktitbns,.No one is known.here as A. L. Snowden, nor is there such a ; place in Henderson as Cliff. Dwellers Inn. It was said the shipment, which , was designated as a radio set and whose value was given at/$250 ha"d & ?3E"*ceH" *"*for*' I '' ? ? " r- v '? domT^TOned in the ^S-o^trS^bwjTcbc^of the trees in the.Capitol Park after a recent heavy storm Hi Wasbingixx). ? - . ? ?? 118 ? : COMMUNIST UNION ROUNDLYSCORED ' Two Mill Workers Joined Did Hot like Tenets ind So Polled Oot - Lumberton, Jan. 7.?Ho* two tex tile workers at the Mansfield cotton mills in East Lumberton were fooled into joining the. National -Tiljlt' Workers Union, Communist contjpofli ed organisation, later saw and heard more of the policies for which tfceor der stood and realised they had made a great mistake is told izt^igniedgitste ments of H. B. Grainger and N; H. Lewis. ?; x Both men say their ea^ were fill ed oat and sent in as AM^Seatwia for membership by Fred Totherow, broth er of Elbert Totherow, whose alleged headquarters of the onion and there saw enough and beard enough to con vince him that he was with the wrong crowd. Whites and Negroes ate at the same table, both spoke at meetings -held there, and the Negroes were especially asked to join the union so thatithej white mill men could not em ploy them if the white mill workers walked out, he said. Hie heard Fred Totherow say something about' over throwing the government; it was too | much for him. He came bade to East (Lumbexton, confessed his sins and jacked to be reinstated into the mill village. His opinion of the union fs that "It ain't nothing in the world." Lewis joined here before Christ I mas. At a meeting the following night I he says, Fred Totherow stated; "We ! aint got no backing. The government is against us. To join the^ union means to overthrow thegovern ment. It means bloody war." He too, saw he was aligned with the wrong group. When the mill started back to work after Christmas, he found him self out of a job, and he walked blisters on his feet trying to get work to provide for his wife and five child ren. Everywhere he went he was told; that no one from the Lumberton mills could be taken. The fact that he is ouC of a job had nothing to do with his statements, however, he declared. His statement is that he has "learnt it's a rotten mess," and he wants to warn everybody not to have anything to.do with it. ? KILLS HIMSELF GIVES NO REASON Wilson Man Picks UpPistM and Sends Bullet Into His Own Chest $3 -? Wilson, aJtt. 6.?Brooding over ill health, James Privette, well known local white man, after bidding his brother good by* ^proceeded to the filling station at London' Church Sun clock and reaching in a snow case picked up ? pistol/and een lending to cooperatives at an iverage of 17 cents a pound of the Q 1929 crop, the board means to see to ^ t that the price will be at least' that ^ nuch.for the crop of 1980. This is not so. The federal farm eoard cannot protect farmers when hey deliberately over-plant What llie joard will do to help in marketing next year's crop will depend open vhafe farmers do at planting time. Teflgue would not say whether the' y joard meant to imply that it would 6 iiscontinue loans or refuse to assist 1 in marketing if cotton farmers ig- f lored tlje warning and a serious sur- ^ plus resulted. He turned the question rather; the ^ problem of creating a profitable price >n an over-crowded market The advances we have made on cotton and wheat this year, he said,, represent what we feel to be a safe f margin guaranteed-by present prices, current stock, supply and demand. Wo ? io not know that we could offer as * much, less or more, next year. Ad- _ ranees undoubtedly will vary from time to time, depending on the eco nomic trend. Sudden expansion in any commodity producing a.surplus g might make it impossible to obtain a prifittfble price." In no event, Teague said, would the t (am board guarantee a price level t for a crop in advance of planting. g The board based its warning on ^ its statement that last year's cotton g acreage was too large. It was the . largest planted in any year in history excepting 1925 and 1926. Nothing but crop tailure in Texas in 1929, the < board said, prevented a total yield 1 of 16,000,000 bale??more American J cotton that the world would take at j a fair price. j ? *l*vge cotton crops," the board said, "sell .for less than small :ones. Ten million bales in, 1923 sold for * more than eighteen million bales in 1926. . ? i their own food and feed and in ad- I ditib&raise. so far as the'climate and I soil will let them, the food that the ] i-MfiL yifl ft W% 1^ jBu I^IV 4 .1 : ??' ?. '? - ft |^A 8 ', . bC[ HTV' v '^h . /k* *EV V V' -^BS. 1 i ftjlw^ Iif Few Days Washington, Jan. 6?Its eyes direc ted to the elections next November the second session of the aeventy first congress returned to: Capitol Bill today to find- the London Natal inference rivaling the tariff, prohi bition and other domestic issues for Its attention. V The recess over; the holiday season iad failed to darky the complex ait lation confrontnig it and in one re spect, the problems haul been mtdti died by the unheralded flare tip over jLi La ' a ? ' ?Wlfr .n? wee sua ry issue wxuen wan iiu aated on Christmas Eve by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, a stalwart n the ranks of the drys. * The first at hand today found the jehte ready to proceed with the ariif bill which just one year j^go omorrow had its birth in the ways ad means committee of the house, rhe controversial wool schednle 'was ;he exact subject at hand. In the house miscellaneous bills on he calendar had the legislative right it way but interest also was directed o the report of the appropriations lommittee of the annual army supply neasure, carrying funds for the reg ilar army and the host of noA-mitt* ary activities, such , as the rivers ind harbor and flood control projects hat come within the jurisdiction' ?f he war department. Beyond these questions, however, ay the forthcoming elections, in rhich all of the house and one-third the senate must be ohosen. The flections will get underway heftw nany months with primary cam taigns jn several states and .these Jways serve as a lively prelude to he campaigns ..to come in the late - . ummer and early talk - The London naval conference, for rhieh members of the American de1 gatipn will leave in a few days, has aroused interest at bath sides of tha ' " -i * ??J*', ind, fix appropriations or the curtailf . nent of funds already authorized hould become involved, the house rill be called upon for action. Senate leaders have decided the tar- - ff will have preference in that charri er and this is expected to occupy much time. Once the measure ia acted ipon it must be returned to the house ?hich body will ask for the appoint ment of a conference committee aud his group, as it has in the case of ireviuos tariff legislation, must hraah over the rates ia controversy etween the two houses. While the prohibition question is zpected to arouse much discussion ,t both ends of the capitol, the ques :on of house approval of the admin tdxation'S request for a joint com f the dry law enforcement machin ry looked upon aa the first prospect if action. Approval of the creation of his commission, already sanctioned ' iy the senate, is regarded aa a fore rone conclusion. SLIGHTLY HINDERED Jones Smith telle about the sad iredicament of the friend he knows ?ho, upon being asked if he was ver tempted to sell his automobile eplied: "The temptation is strong aough, but there are too many 'points nvolved. You know I mortgaged my touse in order to buy the machine. Veil, I mortgaged the machine to uild the garage, then I mortgaged he garage to bay gasoline. A young widow went to. select a monument for her recently deceased . lusband. After due consideration die ticked out a stone and ordered the ollowing inscription placed-upon it: . . ] My grief is more than I can bear-" "he man who was to erect the mon -? ? - A j s -a.-3 it mem was a urae way m wutg uvs cork, and in the meantime, thp widow ?>< emarried. This fact worried him not ; J i little, that he might have to change he inscription, so he called upon the \ ady and told her after some heaita ion that he was now ready to do he work, and asked her if she de fend to change the inscription in any cay. She replied politely. "No, just is I gave it, only add at the end of t the word 'Alone.' " ? ? ? * ? ? ' Mother?Fighting tgain?dont you mow that well-behaved children do tot hit anyone. Boy?Yes, I thought Jack was well 3* >ehavod and I hit him?hot he was 11-behated. ' jpmto'jrorifc.yw ipetog ^ ajith a^pltllJBJT