- '. _2"?_ "*A 3P- w f|fl FMrm3% Wvl 1 /'Isf .-5v *&?? \*^aL.i}. v jt n ^ 18 H$r j Mm MM T w ? ^ m>. m m* mm f -.^ i ' -3 x l<M 'j? ?&. ml m I^^Er mSr- ~ ^^BL *BhM' * -? "*>-^j" a ffWaT^ Jt 11?^^ ' * ?' ? " ? V /''' ' ' ' yc^twptwy,;|c mnHSK fwn aft PITT COUNTY E TOBACCO HEAVY LIGHT ON FOOD ? i * i i Estimated Comity FeB Off $3,129,432 in Production of Food and Feed Stuff; Did Not Produce Enough to Feed Own Residents Pitt is North Carolina's premier to bacco producing county, bat the Pitt county farmers are so busy growing tobacco that they do not take tune or trouble to. produce enough of the sta pie foods and feeds to-meet their own requirements, let alone the nequire mnts of the total population of the county. A survey made by the extension service of North Carolina State Col lege in connection with Governor 0. u? "TJvb, At Home" pro -UOA VI4MW?v* w ? _ _ gram for 2930 reveals that only one .lera?I ish potatoes?was produced in 1928 by Pitt county farmers in quantities sufficient to supply the re quirements of the whole population of the county. All in all, the farmers of Pitt coun ty in 1928 fell short by farm produce worth $3,129,432 of producing suffi cient food and feed to meet the re quirements of the total population oi the county, and fell short by food and feed worth $1,994,037 <a producing enough for their own requirements. They sold their big tobacco crop of 39,234,430 pounds for $8,631,575 and paid store prices for food and feed which, they could have grown at home With tobacco bringing good prices this perhaps is wise procedure but ag ricultural experts this year are warn- ' ing that the nation is faced with a i serious overproduction of tobacco ' - ? Mt , next fall and that prices wui prcuau ly be unsatisfactory. This is a good reason why Pitt coun- < ty farmers at this time should in- i crease their production of food and < feed items while decreasing about ten J percent their tobacco acreage. In this manner they will be guarded against > a drastic slump in tobacco prices J which may fall down near the produc tion cost .The survey made by. the extension 1\ service shows farmers in Pitt in 1028 raised 352^65 too few bushels of corn f too few bushels of oats; 22*385 too few tons of hay; 35^)70 too few ouah- J els of sweet potatoes; 3,463,000 too few pounds of beef and veal; 260,000 too few pounds of mutton; 1,319,000 too few punds of pork; 5,131,000 too few gallns of milk; 271,000 too few pounds of poultry; and 271,000 too 1 few dozens of eggs. ^ However, the Pitt county farmers fcrodr.ced surpluses over and above < their own requirements in Irish and sweet potatoes, pork, poultry and ! eggs. Pitt county farmers am especially far behind the "demand in the produc tion of milk but increased their milk production steadily during the period 1 between 1920 and 1928 bringing pro duction up from about 200,000 gal lons to almost 800,000 gallons a year. They alao increased their production : of oats from 18,426 bushels to 93?00 bushels. Increased production of. Irish ' potatoes from 31,106 bushels to 226^ 967 bushels, increased pork produc tion simfst one million pounds, and increased egg production from about one-quarter million dozen to mere than half a million dozen. On the other hand daring the same period the production at corn felLfff from 1,029,957 bushels in 19201* $69, 561 bushels in 1928, hay production slumped from 8415 tans to 8445 tons, beef and veal production fell off si most three-quarter million pounds, mutton pfeadttdbn decreased one-half, 1?J ? "thousand JU1U UIC1T ??? mm ?. i ^ pounds slump hk poultry production, t Tobacco production In Pitt counu during this period was increased from 25,000,009 pounds to 3*&HfiQQ lbs. Cotton production declined from 2?r Oil bales te 16,888 bales. Peanut pro duction increased from 868,000 pounds to 2,000,000 pounds and toe production of soy beans was trebled. Total yahm of the money canto Pitt county in 1988 -was $10^5,7,386 and after toe estimated fertiliser cost and land i^.t, and farm food and feed deficiency 5* deducted these was a net remainder to tor JanBess from the major items of agriculture of pT^Si, 736. This amounted: to sppnarinutfely $207 per farmer lit Pitt county or $1,885 per farm family. ? i i% i ii ti*r i ? I JOKE ON KOB . ] . Jr-X * " 4. >7f Jtv J. .* V? -\- -I % ^ ? Detroit?A mob of 850 petuotte shouted denunciations against toe Mexican Government bat toe joke was on the mob which gathered in front Msiican doStoStef** "C" AS IN SEI3& third tetter ef toe alphabet ? TrlX^1 T^yrin ^ What is & 111 in hi11 11 *'' '. M *.'; Pres. Baldwin, Whose Borne ? Was Wrecked, Bawk Out and Taking Pictures < - ?'??' - Marion, Feb). 18.?The immediate prospects of hundreds of jobless men, women and. children?the union fig ares it a thousand?being deprived of the free food supplied them since list August has caused a new Made cloud u> gather in the Marion sky. The dynamiting of MfH President ( - ? - ? ? - ? ? ??-i.?3? _;~w I dL W? Baldwins nome Mumuiy uigut ?the first flash of the impending storm?has not been followd by furth er disorder but there, axe many in Marion who fear, that is was the be ginning of another reign of terror. The feeling, however, is not the tense, electrical suspense that preceded the riots and fatal gun battles last fall 1 but is rather a heavy ,dull gloom that hangs over the community like a fog. Others think that the disorders of the mill village have run their course and that when the free food supply is stopped March V the strikers will dis perse and there will be no further trouble. * Beaten in all their strikes, six of their number killed when they sub stituted violence for peaceful picket' ing, the spirit of the unionists may have been broken, as many believe. But danger is seen in the fact that the majority of the ex-strikers who Left Marion to find other work were of the union's better element while among those who.remain are to lie found almost all of the trouble mak ers. ' ?. -' Though he suspects several strikers of the crime, Sheriff Oscar Adkins had not been able to gather enough " J ^ aVltTAMA +Va w V1UCUW W tuicov aa/vuv xvx. vuv aamiting of the Baldwin home. An in spection today showed that the house can be repaired for around a thous- 1 Enid dollars and Mr. Baldwin, Jfrett v (Continued on page 2) ' AFxri? IXTg ^BPttAM '* .VT." **:'?. ?''<? ?? ? ' : . ? $ Says He Represents by His Countenance Best Type of Senator Washington, Feb. 18?"To me he ^ typifies more Sam any other Sgnhtui " the picture we are apt to have of the ELoman,. toga-clad Senator?dignified, ; courtly courteous. He represents by lus very countenance the beat type of an American Senator of our age. ''Visitors to the gallery point hi* j jut as a man of distinguisded bearing , And ha has not only looked the part, I be ha. acted it. Every Senator feves ard e.:.cani* him as a friend, and al good firhter, too." ( in> you recognize that word pic ture t "urely if you read newspaper* \ yon have It.ig known him by name*. He has spent almost three decades in' che Senate. Yet he is still the junior Senator from Old Ndrth State, Lee "" 1? ? -* O-U.l VT Tu isuuer uvenmm ox oeuxsvuxy, ?viw Carolina. Walsh of Massachusetts, drew this kindly sketch at Overman when big burly genial Jim Watson of Indiana made one . of those fine gestures a cross ^ political aisle that he loves. It was his tribute to the twin gsfend old mot of North Carolina, Senators Simmons and Overman, on the seven ty-sixth anniversary of their birth. In age they are separated by only 17 days anicf in tile Senate service by only two years. . Looking bade across nearly thMf score years this is what Simmons snail c as he told it to the Senate intgivitt^, thanks for himself and his colleagues for the affectionate tributes poured out upon him: "There has been a remarkable pari alld in the lives, especially the politi-T cal Uvea, of my colleague and myself*!) We werebonr- in the same month ofj the same year. When we were in oaf teens we wait-to the same college at; the nine time, and both of us entered the law. Whdta we had grown int^ manhood m$*both entered public lifS| | We came Vthe Senate only two yearsT friendship in college mui WMrti and intimate, and during morel than a quarter of a century we havrii nrerrijp. mqeeriuiB UBBI urterwH m or course, Dot 0U|j}pj)f must come igr man of independent thought te$ ^^-^mmmMMmm cSaer National Park r**ervatioo. *Wheti^ l?r^^dtffl?tec?i2 Gkwl I -If^w^jrtamai^with^arr^ t r 1 1 | " * * Don't Laugh Until You Finish! " The average North Carolina Farmer buys canned goods and I dried fruit,, likewise, canned and dried other goods. He gets up in H the morning at the alarm of a Connecticut dock, listens his Chica- x go suspenders to his Detroit overalls, washes his face with Cin cinnati soap, in a Pennsylvania pan, fits down to a Grand Rapids * table, and eats Indiana hominy, fried in St. Louis lard, on a Kalla- * mazoo cook stove. ^ Then he puts a Kansas City bridle on a Tennessee ?pie, fed <?n a ~ ~ _ Iv- t,-,. ? _ Hiftli m, Iowa corn, and plows a farm covered Dy a unicago jpornwsc, *"?? a a Chattonooga plow. ? " Jv J When bedtime comes, he reads a chapter from a bible printed in Chicago ami says a prayer written in U?*Wl8 e under a blanket made in New Jersey, onlyto be kljpt awake by a a North Carolina dog, which is about the oM^ home*raised product 1 on the place.?Ex. ? * DdN^t LAUCft YET. J Many a North Carolina housewife gets upatthe alarm of her a husbeiid's antomdbile leaving for his work three-blocks away, puts b on her Japeneese Kimona, bought from a chain store, owned by a si paid Souther^^^^^^should ti gpfufcufci fnfea4?t8^na. dress spun by worms in China, and hpse ? made in Japan; goes out to sell "All Silk Hosiery", artificial com- ? plexion compqoi\ds or perchance reducing soap in order to suppli- ? th*ib&y income. J When herday's work is ended she attends a Benefit party given 1{ by thegc^Wfee of the church to make up money for the orphans d of the man who went the suicide route because the chain organi- & zations and sweat shop manufacturers had made it impossible for a him to take care of his loved ones. u She then goes to sleep under her Chicago, spreads and dreams w of the favored few who can buy their groceries on a credit from a one of file chain stores only to be awakened by indigestion caused ? by eating inferior quality canned goods. She then &*fts a new day by driving five miles at a coat of, say fifty bents, fcn&ve three cents on the cost "df some canned goods ^ of uncertain quality?and less quantity. k REORGANIZATION RESULT W SreOY __ Changes in FieiS Artillery Due tol&foitto Get Most For Hie Dote ?li Hurt Tl Washington, Feb. 18.?Fort Bragg will fell the effects of an "economy" reorganization of the Field Artillery that will sacrifice the^beadqxMirtfHf and service batteries of the famous "Fighting Fifth" Field Artillery, now stationed at the North Carolina mili Thrlfcrfr tfepafftnent today announ ced desire to get thri<NWt:*hSe per dollar," this reorganization program, the most sweeping since the World War, would be put into effect at an party date. itzers will have Kbate stations at Fort aw n This reorganization is dxlated tc ' ANOTHER SCHOOL ? BOOKING BORNEO ? ? ? 0 Second Jacksonville Stmc- e< tore is Destroyed By Fire " Sunday Night '" ' "i 6' New Bern,. Feb. 18?Investigation a is being made by Onslow county au- a thorities into two mysterious fires ai which damaged the new high school ei ?building Friday night and completely a destroyed the old high school build- a ing Sunday night at Jacksonville. R Both are believed to have been of in- $ cendiary origin. P Following damage of about twelve 0: thousand dollars to the new building n Friday night, after-New Bern firemen w had assisted Jacksonville volunteers f< extinguish the blase, fire was discos- Vl bind test night in the other school ^ building, valued at $80,000. The aid u of the New Bern fire department was ndt astoei,'beeause the flames had ^ gained too great headway. The loss suffered*in the first fixe was covered * bylinaoxanee, but there was only $12, 000 insurance on the old building do- ~ ?A,:.r-M J* +*l i: a ; ?jiK/.fidf-" m stroyea last mgEXt* v: Offichilsare proceeding under the * theoty that both Urea were deliber- ? dtily set-tati that Is the opinion pre- * ^vailfng^tiww^HW^^ section. There * had been no fire in the old building * sine* Friday. >TWb'*oani of education ? k endeavorkg; to work out stone ? n#ans or?bntlfiuto| school worfctWK ? W*M& I M .the entire eld building- and three . rodtt -i*m de'-^fatrnctn*r ' -;?*) i ' ' ???? ?? ?- -? >; ?? f'.fj-' ..n-'K.i . j. -??'i.?*. ?*? ?? VttWhTVVti Si -tilLmJI tjw I |9iV 13 11*1^ I SlITj MW-ll W IB? i? ? 1' II^^KHOK^B^kX^^E ; i'-tffiw**'1VV-"? Zf* r*4 V; \ a Pittsburgh and watched four great MP time explaintnjr just what they vere doing and why. *hi*e,ee*e lecturers were at that .,. < 1_ g?j.tk ??'?? i-V- fin. It, merit in England, the fourth was SW hundred mfleeaway, to Seheaee toft audience got a dearer riew of tfp experimeit of Sir Oliver v?<M ?# WtmhA RnihAfftwd. air "7.7.V "3 ??* ? ? iVilliam Bragg and Dr. Irving' Lan rmulr, that;, they could have had if bese men bad been physically present a the Jectaraball They did not have ? crane their necks or strain their >yes to see what was going on. Ap >aratus which was too small to be ken clearly at * distance of a few bet was magnified until it was plain s' visible across the room. Effects rhich in an ordinary laboratory can * obferved only through a micro cope wtri projected on the screen sol hat hundreds could follow them clear y at one time. And the lecturer* them elves were plainly visible and their vices clear and easily understood. You have guessed already that this rat a demonstration of talking mo Ion pictures as appHed to education. Lnd if you stop to think about it you d!T realise, as these educators in that whence did, that the schools of the ? uture will depend more and more pon the "talkies" and upon the radio ) or the instruction of their pupils. Today it is entirely possible for a . oraplete educational course, including , 11 of the^asfential elementary stiB ects mid all the way gp into the ' igher mathematics, ianguarges, sci ??" Wa*?*t ami uMruwnlM (a hfl nnfc 1 HW| IfWVtl mffsm vyy.y,.-rv rWT- r 9 by means of the motion picture, 1 nd radio programs aJ ready being roadcast cculd be used to supplement { uch a course, so that it is conceivable ( rat a group of children living in tint, tost remote rural district could be arten to postgraduate , univetaifcy wit, without ever leaving their home auntiea. An# with the aid of travel Sins they would fcnow pore about the wid they live in tipn nine-tenths of * university graduates of today ever tarn,while the works of the great ramatists, presented by competent j ctors on the screen, would give them } cultural appreciation such as many j niversity students never acquire.., ] There Is no rpom for doubt that the j ihool of the future will learn more | nd more heavily upon the inventions > f today and tomorrow to bring into , re olftS8room the very best teaching < tat is available anywhere in the ?? ? - ?* ^ ?si* ?x ?i.. orio. And tne result wiu uuv amy stter schools which will cost so much i8s than the best schools cost today ' lat no community will have any px- ! ise for giving its children anything * !8s than this best Already it is, as I J ave pointed out, possible to cover * [most the whole field of education < y means of the motion picture and '? ie radio. The only essential part of 1 location which cannot be carried out ' i this ufcy is the training of the 1 ;nse of touch. There are certain things which ; eeryone has to learn for himself if. ] e is to be able to call himself edu- j ited. We learn through our fingers \ i well as through our eyes and our j jra. TCe underlying purpose of nor- j tal training closes Is not to make rtfsans out of school-boys but to mod .out their education by teaching rem how things feel. To the eye a ' iece of pine wood and a piece of ' Ik. look very much alike. But the * >?*> tpkn n> *. hov learned how to ' hittle, saw or drive nails into dif- * srent kinds of wood growsup with a 1 ^ real knowledge of the deference ? stween them. All of the modern sys- < one of education begin by training ' ie hands of the very little children* < he whole kindergarten system and 1 ie developments Of the Montessbri I hool start with giving children of \ (Continued on page 2) . < l.i 'j-i' i * i * . ????.. i .i i < . ? . ? . ? ' .. - > ? '. ? 1' ' ? *????*? **?? *- * * * * .* * 1 ATTEND SHOW AND ? < HELP CHARITY * i ?' * < The Lions club has leased the ? 1 Trio theatre for Thoreday and ? < FHday nights, at which time they * J are showfag George Bancroft in * < its this Shi? trill ge htto ?J the Charity fund ?i the dak At T * the present time the organisation * i to^^a needy ^ jj Syw I p Raleigh, Feb. 20?The annual state Wide meeting in the fotefeest of mu ch: appreciation in the public schools wiUj? heldtt the Woman's Club in Raleigh on Saturday. April 26, itjp announced at the state departme|f of ' public instruction today. This is the sixth contest off this sort which tea been held 1n th^ ele mentary and high sdicofo of tfcejtate. It is sponsored jointly by the Wom an's clubs of Raleigh and W state department of public instnKkm. All rnml an& town schools conduct ing a regular course of six weeks or more in music appreciation may -par ticipate in this state contest and send representatives to Raleigh- Each, of the schools selects a pupil from-the sixth or seventh grade and one from < the high school upon the basis of the < work accomplished by them in music i appreciation. These pupils will come 4 to Baleigh in April to contest with ' pupils chosen in like manner from 1 other schools. Certificates of Award \ will be presented to the'winners of t the contest by State Superintendent ! A. T. Allen. \ It iB estimated by state department offMals that several hundred ele- i mentary and high school boys and ] girls and public school music teachers i will take part in the state meeting < hers on April 26, and that several I thousand will take part in the local < content* In-addition to the contests between 1 the bays and girls participating in < the state contest* each contestant who 1 comes to Raleigh will have an oppor- i ttmity to hear a program on differ- ? ent phases of music appreciation pre- 1 seated by artists in this field. 1 mm rmiPiR 'i ?? y?w?; wv? ???? j ? ni in ii 1 Mysterious Circumstances I Noted in Connection wifli a Grneeome Tragedy , ? c Winston-Salem, Feb. 17.?The bod- t :es of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Lawson j were found practically cremated last v night in the ruins of their burned s borne hear Danbury, Stokes county, iccoiding to messages received here t today. The fire was discovered about t 7:30 Sunday evening by Mrs. Law- . soil's father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. c Sam Rierson. One puzzling feature of the case }; is that all buckets, pans, tubs and v ither utensils that might have been f ised in carrying water to extinguish r :? -r M9 M 3 AI . L.AX .J Jie lire, were iouna in tne wnam ox e i well, located about 100 yards from t he house. As investigation into the rffair by Sheriff Taylor led to the n letennination by a coroner's jury that j ;he' two came to their death as the a result of burns from a fire of unde- t ;ertnlned origin. Mr., and Mrs. Lawson, aged 20 and t 18 jyears respectively,, were found E yirig in the midst of their biasing g iome, one near the front door and' a he other hear the back door within ? 10 minutes after they had left the ?me of Mr. and Mrs. Rierson. . .A1 Mr. and Mrs. Lawson had spent e he' day with the Rierson family. c \bout seven o'clock they left for their \ iome, but a short- distance away say- a ng that they would straighten up a a >it and go to bed early. Mary Rier- t ion, 8-year-old sister of Mrs. Lew- a son, who had been living with them, a Bd not accompany them home, de- g ficifag to remain with her mother. a fcbdut 7:80 o'clock. Mrs. Rierson no iced a light in the vicinity of the c [jawson home. She said she thought it first it was an automobile, but in* restdgated and saw thattfcebouse was ^ >n fire. Mr. Rierson ran to tile house g ?ailing for Mr. and Mrs. Lawson, vhenbe received no answer hb Wished >pen tiie front doOr. The interior was 1 n a b?us but be saw, the body of Ms. latter lying on tiifc&oor about six feetifroa the door. Finding it impos lible to reach her an aceoimt of the names he rushed around to the back . ioor and paihedjfcopWfThert W t jaw the body of tawson lring or. the r floor but he c^ild not rehdh it. s neighbors gathered but the ?*? had f ^W^ation of the 1 ^rwn them.bat^hey a v-I7rXf l~^. ? -V*?k IflWCTtVZ>\ ArT (il ' , ? , - I- " ; < > - waa"peached, fixed th^j)os?ibility to Fon^AconsuSR developments caused thflf to fret during a day at ' almost complete inactivity: First, the conference Was practically at a standstill pending the formation of a new cabinet in France. The ma- J rine minister, after telling jtiba con ference chairman Harnsay MacDonald, that the French delegates were pow erless to act at present, left Paris, leaving the, ambassador as the attly^ * accredited delegate oh tbg acme. Second, ,there was littta hope that the French would recede from thai* demand ior 720,000 tons of warships unless thay were granted some guar antee of security in treaty form. The 724,000 figure has caused Britain to ?? ? ? H H ? ? ?? ' ? - mux oi Duncung, wmcn in tare would force the United States to construct new tonnage and complicate matters ?Q around. Amendment of the Kel logg Anti-War pact to please France was suggested as a way out. -Third, neither side had yielded aa nch on the Japanese demand for 16 aer cent of the A nerican strength in i-inch cruisers. The United States 4 lelegates expressed hope that eome iow the issue would be settled* bet hey had no idea of the method Fourth, foreign minister Uino . Srandi had prepared a memorandum >f Italy's position which was likely jo cause further readjustment and plashing of teeth. Although Grandi lid not make his memorandum pub ic, the United Press was reliably in-, formed of its contents. The memorandum will specify that Italy favors a battleship holiday and a prepared to ah&lish submarines if til other powers do . and if all eapltsi .U-. . .-V; Sfures, though deploring they Were lot lower, and will emphasise that tally must hare ike right to build a imilar fleet if she wishes. The memorandum will say that in ase battleships and submarines axe tot abolished, Italy still favors the loot resolutions virtually barring the ise of submarines as commerce de troyers. Grand! is highly unlikely to men ion Italy's own minimum tonnage ?equirements, on the ground that it s sufficient to state that I tally ac epts the French figures instead. The nemo^andum, however, probably will ndude a number of figures dealing rfth the comparative strength of the ive powers' present fleets as com tared with 1914. It likely will an-, wer certain political references con ained in the French memorandum. Italy's insistence on the right to a iaVy equal to France's has made the $ Americans and British all the more mtious to cut down the French to ri.' There is a growing feeling among he; American delegates that amend aenta to the Kellogg treaty might ?ive France the security she wishes nd so induce her to reduce her de oaftds. The Hoover administration long has elt that the pact needed some ma hinrey by which the signatories could onfiult in case war was threatened. Vhiether the French would accept uch a "consultative'' arrangement s putting sufficient "teeth" in the reaty is not known. If they do iqtd reiwilling to cut their naval program ccdrdingly, it is believed the Unitod Jtates senate might consent to mendment Everybody is moving slowly cad autiously. This is regarded as the eost critical period of the coafer nce, when one tactless step might ring serious complications and pes ible failure. " ION. J. PAUL FRBZBLLE ADDRESSES LIONS CLSfl AT REGULAR LUNCHEON The Lions dab held its regular leeting on Wedneeday night, at which t?- HWL.J ?- 1J iL.u ? HMI UOH ? ?? W ^"v Ion. J. Paul FriieDe of Snow Bill. thorjjyWjgfcjnort intewotii* Itfta- M ^gove^or ^

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