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VOL. TWENTY
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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
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: 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
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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
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[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
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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.
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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*'
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domT^TOned in the ^S-o^trS^bwjTcbc^of the trees in the.Capitol
Park after a recent heavy storm Hi Wasbingixx). ? - .
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COMMUNIST UNION
ROUNDLYSCORED
'
Two Mill Workers Joined
Did Hot like Tenets ind
So Polled Oot
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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
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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 <hot himself
in the bwast The-hall phased jhst
over the heart An ambulance. was
STATE SHARES IN
DEPARTMENT BILL
Rivers and Harbors and
Other Items in War De
partment Supply Bill
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Washington, Jan. 7.?North Caro
lina-has a vital interest in the War '
Department appropriations biUtoday :
as ill river and harbor improvements 1
are .included under the '65 million dol- .
lairs appropriated for the purpose, but -
the actual allocation is made by the
Corps of Engineers, and has already
been outlined in its report, which was
made public some weeks ago. v; *
Snpffifir annronriation of $7,500 is
made for tying down Kill Devils Hill, 1
at Kitty Hawk, where a monument Is *
to be erected to Orville and Wilbur '
Wright. This appropriation will be .
immediately available upon passage
tion has already been made for that
purpose. .
The bill also curies an appropria
tion of $8,300 for. the maintenance of
Guilford battleground national mili
tary park at Greensboro and of $8,- 1
980 for the same purpose at Moore's <
Creek national military park. An item '
og $800,000 for housing construction '
at Fort Bragg is included in the hous- -
ing program of the War Department <
and is provided in this bill as is the 1
maintenance of Fort Bragg. It also
carries appropriations for the Nation- ]
al Guard, citizens military training 1
camp, etc. <
Hie construction of a $100,000 hos- i
pital at Fort Bragg has priority over i
other buildings there. A $60,000 ]
nurses' quarters is next on the build
ing program. Six hundred thousand ,
dollars is for construction of quarters ]
there. ' t
LAWSON BRAIN j
TO BE EXAMINED
1
. 1
John Hopkins Specialists to i
Start Work Photograph- 1
ing and Dissecting }
Baltimore, Md, Jan. 7.?The brain !
of Charles B. Lawson, who recently }
killed Ms wife and six children and
then ended his own life in Stokes
County, N. C., was brought to Balti
more for examination by Dr. Spots- (
wood Taylor, of the pathology depart
ment of the John. Hpkins University, ^
when he returned from North Caro
lina last night. |
Work of. photographing and dis- (
secting the brain of the North Caro- (
Una farmer was started today and ]
the examination will be as complete .
as it is possible to make, it is said. ?,
When the study has been completed
leading pathologists will be asked to (
consider its implications. J
Valuable data upon the nature of
the insanity which attacked Lawson '
may be forthcoming, as a result of ,
i brats, it was said at the Johns \
Hopkins hospital tonight,
A complete report will be supplied ?
to the North Carolina authorities who j
are anxious to learn whether Law
son's condition could be attributed to ?
a blow on the head which he had sus
- tained. ?
: BASING THE BLLOW
. Erta-Dad, you are a lucky man.
pc rtwlr and the
Generally ?&??
He WSB Wait For State-j
ment by Bailey. ,
Washington, Jan 7.?Senator Sim
mona was silent in seven languages ,
today regarding the recent announce- j
ment of Josiah William Bailey of
Raleigh, Newspaper myi were not
expecting a statement, as . he refused |
to comment at his home in N?* Bern 1
last week. It was generally regarded (
that he woqld await a formal state
ment from Bailey as to his platform, j
The silence maintained by Senator '
Simmons was likewise observed by
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.Democratic iperaoen; 01 tne piann
Carolina delegation in the House.
Naturally, they were very much inter- s
ested in the announcement, but were 1
not talldng for publicatkm. Only three *
members came in from their homes *
for the reconvening of Congress. The "
arrivals were Representatives Wal^ *
ren, Hammer and Doughton. Repre
sentative Pou and Major Stedraan t
were already here. Representatives c
Clark and Kerr are expected later in t
the week. <
Representatives Jonas and Pritch- t
ard, the Republican members from f
North Carolina, were on hand *or the t
opening session. t
Senator Overman, who did not go *
home for the holidays, was in his seat
In the Senate today. He has recover- 1
ed from a recent cold. He was at his *
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office each day during the Christmas <
recess except on Christmas day. <
i
Both North Carolina Senators were j
warmly greeted by their colleagues a
apon the reconvening of the Senate. ^
Acreage If They Expeetto 8
Get Federal Aid 1
8
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?v aoiuug tun, u. \j.9 uau. V?-lu <x
berse warning to cotton farmers to
cut their acreage this spring if they ?
Apect the government to help mar
ket the 1930 crop, the Federal Farm 1
Board took its first decisive step to- v
lay to force a minimum agricultural v
surplus. T
C. C. Teague, a member of the
Board, said the warning applied to ^
-vheat as well as cotton, and to any ^
ether commodity in which producers
made a deliberate attempt to expand
their acreage in the face of over- e
production. ?
Some cotton farmers think that be- ^
cause the federal farm board has
t>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 ]
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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 ' "
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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
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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.' "
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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. '
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