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VOL. TWENTY-TWO FAMVIU* PITT COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1981 NUMBER TWENTY
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Dark Clauds Scatter
As Stock Prices Go Up
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Wage Reductions Fail
to Throw Damper On
Stock Market Trend
New York, Sept 28.?Convalescent
Wall Street burled security prices up
ward today, as the doctors hinted
that the more important surgical op
erations upon the economic structure
may have been about completed.
Share prices registered one of the
widest advances of the year, but the
sweeping upturn of the normally
more dignified bond market was even
more spectacular. He cheerfulness
spread to commodities, and cotton,
silver and grains were higher.
Shares gained $1 to $15, the widest
advance since the war debt morato
rium rally of June. In bonds, there
were numerous upturns of $80 to $100
per bond of $1,000 par value, partic
ularly in the foreign issues and the
domestic rails. The average advance
was the widest in more than a year.
Trading was the most active for a
full session since last October.
The 10 per cent wage reduction an
nounced by United States Steel Cor
poration and followed by similar an
nouncements by several other large
concerns, was widely interpreted in
all Street as one of the final capitu
lations to the forces of deflation. It
was acknowledged that it will prob
ably have a retarding influence on
trade for a time, but Wall Street felt
that it removed one of the major ele
ments of uncertainty.
The London crisis had a decidedly
disturbing influence for several days,
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even before it broke, but witn traa-i
ing confidently resumed in the Lon
don stock exchange today, Wall
Street hoped that the British situation
had become definitely a thing of the!
past as a dominant influence here.
Financial quarters have been j
gravely concerned over the plight of!
the railroads, and have regarded it I
as one of the last vital problems to I
be dealt with. Speculative quarters I
were willing to credit rumors today]
that aid, either in the form of in-1
creased freight rates or reduced j
wages, or possibly both, was definite- j
ly being arranged. Railway shares]
led the advnace in stocks, and carrier I
bonds registered many of the more ]
impressive upwings in the market. j
With the resumption of trading in]
London, the-stock exchange lifted the
ban against short selling, in effect!
yesterday and Monday. A statement
by Richard Whitney, president, ex-j
plained that the ban had been ira-fl
posed as an .artificial restriction!
purely as a temporary expedient, and-]
was not a reverse of the exchange's
long established policy of maintain-d
ing a free market _ 3
lifting of the ban ~ against the]
bears was a signal for a hurried bear
retreat rather than a resumption of
bear onslaughts, for the action was]
interpreted as indicating that the ex
change officials felt that no more]
acutely unsettling situations were
hanging over the market The ex
change continued its requirement that
members furnish daily information
as to the identity of short sellers,
which tended to hold bears in re
straint
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? There was considWiWW UlUUBUB
of opinion in speculative quarters as
to how much weight should be given
the upturn in stocks for the share
I market had been under pressure long
enough to make a technical rally
I overdue, and the abrupt rebound was
not appreciably different from the
many that have marked the course
of the bear market.
I The wide gains m bonds, however,
were regarded as quite another mat
" ter. It was said in highest banking
circles that banks and underwriting
houses had decided that the drop in
bonds had been carried to extremes,
I and that they were^going into the
I market with plenty of eaah.
In bonds, the British 51-2 per cent
I issue came hack to par, hut slipped
hade a point from the top, dosing up
four pointa set The German and
Argentine lames were strong, and
tha ftalain governments, weak yea
I terday, recovered briskly.
I In railroad stocks, Norfolk and
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Four Days1
Celebration
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Yorktown To Be Nat
[ ional Shrine in Cde
I bration of Colonial Ar
my's Victory in Revo
lutionary Struggle
Washington, Sept. 24.?With the
heart of all America lifted Up in re
dedication to those principles upon
which our nation is founded, Friday,
October 16, will mark the beginning
of the four days' celebration of the
150th anniversary of the Surrender
of Yorktown, in which the President
of the United States will lead. The
arrangements have been under the
auspices of the United States York
town Sesquicentennial Commission,
of which Senator Claude A. Swanson,
of Virginia, is chairman.
In a setting representing a pictur
esque Colonial Fair and Harvest Fes
tival, to which will be added histori
cal exhibit^ loaned by the army and
the navy, together with priceless an
tiques, there will be enacted pageants
depicting the colonial life and the
principal events in Yorktown's his
tory. The French and American
fleets will stand by in the York River
with the frigate Constitution (Old
Ironsides) occupying the place of
honor, when at the opening of the
celebration, soldiers and sailors
dressed in colonial uniforms, will
raise the U. S. fag of 1781, and then
the French and the British flags, and
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will Doom saiuws. i
Through the cooperation of the
army and the navy, there will be
magnificent displays of fireworks,
and continuous band concerts. There
will be colonial dances and games on
the green, and marionettes and
Punch and Judy shows against the
backgrounds of other days.
Virginia will do the honors on Fri
day, with Governor John Garland
Pollard presiding. In the mossing
the Virginia State Commission will
dedicate a memorial to General Lord
Cornwallis and the; valor of the
British soldiers at Yorktown. The
Colonial National Monument will al
so be dedicated by the National Park
Service of the Department of the
Interior in commemoration of James
town, Colonial Williamsburg and
Battle of Yorktown. At the exercis
es in the afternoon, Governor Pollard
will deliver an address of welcome.
The program will also be a chorus by
1,000 children, and a colonial pageant.
Saturday has been set apart as
Revolutionary Day, and the exercises
will be participated in by the various
patriotic societies, among them the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, the Sons of the American Rev
olution and many others. A feature
of the program will be the presenta
tion of the descendants of LaFayette,
Rochambeau, Comte de Grasse, Count
Tulaski, Baron Von Steuben and oth
er great leaders of the Revolution.
A historical and military pageant,
with maneuvers by the United States
navy will also be featured, and will
be followed by a military and naval
ball to be given by the United States
Commission at the New Chamberlain
Hotel at Old Point Comfort, Va. ^
Religious services will be held both
in the morning and the evening on
Sunday, with sacred concerts the
massed band* During the afternoon
there will be pilgrimages to the va
rious historical shrines.
The program on Monday morning,
the tenth anniversary of the Battle
of YorktOwn, will be opened by the
unveflihg of the two tablets to be
placed' at Yorkto\yn by the National
Society of the. Daughters of the
American Revolution, One of these
is kv'memory of the French and the
other of the American heroes, who
made the supreme sacrifice. Mrs.
Lowell Fletcher Hobart, President
General, wiE make the adcbgess. ..
He official exercises, at which
Sepator .Clauds A. Swanson, chair
man of the United States Yorktown
.n?nii|| iiiitwiuiiil Gmmdadm will.
13 States, with their staffs, followed
tion, and those in charge of public A
and private schools, 20,000,410 school 1
children are expected to assemble at 3
1:45 the President's
address over the radio and to partid- .
pate in the celebration. The Presi- j
dent will speak to them at 1:50, and <
at one minute before 2 o'clock, eas
tern ^standard time, he will ask these
studnitA to stand,- sahtte the Ameri
can fiafi: and sizur America*
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| Michigan Peach Queen Visits HooveT~l j
<^^35^He^!!o!e!^u5lg?S^e3^3va^^3l^^!3uTr?
jcnted two choice baskets of the fruit to the President >
Farmer's Club [i
Organized Bert
Jno. T. Thome Presi- )
dent; Organization To
Stress Diversification
of Crops
A number 4f enthusiastic farmers,
outstanding and representative of the <
agricultural vocation in this commun- I
ity, met Thursday evening in the mu-!?
nicipal building here and perfected 1
the organization of a Farmer's Club, i
which had been under discussion for
some weeks. 1
John T. Thome was elected presi- <
dent, and J. W. Holmes vice presi- <
dent The dub is to be congratulated t
at having these men serve as officers 1
of the group, as they are not only i
planters of note but are financiers, 1
substantial ritizens and leaders in the
various circles of community life and 1
in state affairs as well; Mr. Thome <
being president of the State Cotton 1
Cooperative Association, and Mr. 1
Holmes one of the outstanding legis- i
lators sent from Pitt county last; year. <
The president addressed the dub, 1
making a plea for further dlverifi- *
cation of crops, and E. F. Arnold, 1
county farm agent, spoke on the val- 1
ue of farmers' organizations and of '
the success of various dubs which
had come under his observation in J
Tennessee and Western Carolina, giv- 1
ing as an example of profound inter- <
est the Mill River Club in Henderson <
county, which holds an ' attendance '
record of many years. Brief talks
relative to the success of the club 1
were given by members. 1
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PROF. KANE OUT ON BOND . -
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Hampton, Va., Sept 19.?Elisha 1
Kent Kane, charged with drowning i
his wife in Chesapeake Bay, was re
leased from Hampton jail this after- 1
.noon after a $15,000 cash bond had '
been delivered to the court by his '
attorneys. |
The young University of Tennessee '
professor was wearing a gray suit
and no hat as he left the jail where
he has been confined since last Sun- 1
day when arrested shortly after his j
iwjfte's burial.
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Farmville High
Opened Honday
Enrollment Shows In
crease Each Day; 185
in High School; 459 in
Elementary School
The Farmville Higll School opened
m Monday with an 'enrollment of
344; 469 pupils being enrolled in the
deraentary school and 186 in the
ugh school. This number is increas
ng each day.
All necessary arz|ingemente for
die opening had been ; completed by
Superintendent R. E. Bpyd and his
amps of workers, inehriibg the Jnegia-.,
nation of high school students, and
rapils were able to adjust themselves
? the proposed schedules and work
vas begun with little confusion.
Formal assemblies have not been
ield so far this week, the first chap
d exercises being scheduled for 9:45
Friday morning. No changes have
aeen mad in thr. program of these pe
riods, Mondays, Tuesdays and Thurs
iays being assigned to the elemen
tary grades and Fridays to the high
school. Constructive programs will
>e continued and the large attend
ance of parents, which is customary,
is expected.
The faculty is composed of 22
nembers as in previous years, and
he system of engaging as many lo
:al teachers as practicable, which was
established last year, was followed
igain this session.
A total enrollment of 763 made a
record for attendance last yea? as did
he 21 graduates, being the largest
dass in the history of the school.
Athletics, which are supervised by R.
3. Cason, have a prominent place in
he school and plans are being made
to make this season the best in years.
Slight changes in the schedule as
mnounced by Superintendent Boyd
include: The last bell for the morn
ing session will sound at 8:40; lunch
tiotir, 12:10 to 12:60, and the hour
yf dismissal* will be 3:30.
Well, it's about time for the pros
perity boys to begin telling us better
times are around the corner.
Farmers who want to receive at
tention from politicians should fol
low the example of labor and orga
nise.
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What's become of the fellow who
used to tell about how much hexnade
on the marketV daily advanes?
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The difference between a politician
and a statesman is that a statesman
stands for something besides his job.
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Farmville, n. c.
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Doctrine Which He Has
Taught in India to Se
: cure,' Nationalist De
li mands from Britain
(Mahaama Gandhi, who is attend- J
Ing the sessions of the federal struc
tures committee in London which is!
formulating a more liberal constitu
tion for India, May wrote for the
Associated Press an explanation ofl
the doctrine of non-violence whichl
he has followed in India as a means!
for securing nationalist demands.) J
By MOHANDAS KARACHAND
GANDHI
London, Sept 20.?Consciously or!
unconsciously, we are acting non vio-1
lently toward one another in' every-1
day life. All well-constructed socie
ties are based upop the law of non-j
violence . .
I have found that life persists in!
the midst of destruction. Therefore,!
there must be a higher law than thgt i
of destruction . Only under that law!
would well-ordered society be Intel-1
ligible and life-worth living.
If that is the law of life, we must
work it out in daily existence.., Wher- J
ever there are wars, wherever .ybnr
are confronted with an opponent,!
conquor him with love. I have found I
that thti jaw of love Has answered in |
my own life as the law of destruc- j
tion has never done.
Has Penetrated.
In India, we have had an ocular
demonstration of the operation of
this law on the wildest scale possible.
I don't claim that non-violence nec
essarily has penetrated the 360,000,
000 people in India, but I do claim it
has penetrated deeper than any other
doctrine in an increditably short time.
It takes "fairly strenuous course
of training to attain a mental state
of non-violence. ' It is a disciplined
life, like the jife of. a soldier. The
reached only when
the mind, body, and speech am in
proper coordination. Every prob
lem would lend itself to solution, if
we determined to make the law of
truth and non-violence - the law of
life.
To me, truth and non-violence are
faces of the same coin. Whether
mankind will consciously follow the
law of love, I do not know, but that
need not perturb us. That law will
work just as the law of gravitation
will work, whether we accept it or
not.. Just as a scientist will work
wonders out of vsridus applications
of the laws of nature, a man who
applies the laws of love with scien
tific precision will work greater won
ders.
For non-violence is infinitely more
wonderful and subtle than force of
nature like, for instance, electricity.
The man who gave us the law of
love was a far greater scientist than
any of our modern scientists. The
more I work out the law of love, the
more I feel delighted with life and
the scheme of this universe. It gives
me a piece and a meaning of the
mysteries of nature that I have no
power to describe.
DR. JORDAN IS DEAD
Stanford, University, Cali., Sept. Id.
Dir. David Starr Jordan, 80-year
old chancellor-emeritus of Stanford
University, died here today of a com
plication of aiiments from which hie
has suffered for several months. "
Dr. Jordan, noted pence advocate,
became unconscious as a result of his
fifth stroke of paralysis yesterday.
He died at Serra house, his Stanford
campus home, about 9:45 o'clock this
morning.
With Dr. Jordan at his death were
Mrs. Jessie Knight Jordan, Jxis_ wife,
Knight Jordan, a son, Mrs. Eric Jor
dan, a daughter-in-law and two phy
sicians and ttfo nurses.
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M Hack Worry
For Tb'e Farner
Youttgsville Man Shows
How to Make His 1931
Farm Pay
Youngsville, Sept. 22.?On his
220 acres of and, most of it pur
chased when prices were at their
peak, William Thomas Moss supplies
an example of progressive farming
that ia in several ways unique. Al
though owning a tractor and mak
ing much use of it, Mr. Moss does
most of his field work with horses,
hondsome percherons which he raises
for himself and also for sale. He goea
in strongly for hogs but sells most
of his surplus in the form of pigs
seven to eight weeks old. He grows
cotton but puts his main reliance
on grain and legumes. Of every
thing he raises he endeavors to pro
duce enough to have some for sale.
He kills five or si^c fattened hogs
every yea* for his own use.
"We don't need that much meat,"
says he. "But we like ham; so I
kill enough hogs to give me all the
hams we needd." '
He has ho tenants, employs day
labor, and 6ith four hired men he
keeps ten horses and a tractor go
ing. He does most of his plowing
and all of his cultivating with rid
J I...
ing implements urawu uy teowa ux
two to three big percherons.
"If I had money needing invest
ment, I'd put it in cheap land
right now," says he. And he would
make of the land a sort of crop,
by working it with the view solely
of building it up and selling it when
land prices rise, as he is sure they
will do.
He finds that there is a good mar
ket for all the percherons he has I
for sale. One city ice company want
edjbo buy eight from him last spring.
a year, titough he has sold as many
as ten, most of them poung colts,
in a year. Other farmers buy most
of those he sells.
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Texas Plan Gets
Sudden Support
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South Carolina Assem
bly Starts Acreage Re
duction Bill Toward Its
Passage
- Colombia, Sept. 23.?A movement
for the South Carolina general as
sembly, for days on the verge of a
sine die adjournment of the special
session, to enact a cotton acreage
curtailment program similar to that
of Texas, gathered force today.
mt? ti?,Avrwinfn/]lTr fkiQ mOTTl
J. IK? UUUOC uuCA|ivwwu*jr .
ing revived the measure and gave it
passage on second reading by an
overwhelming oral vote. Senate sup
porters of the measure hoped to pass
a similar bill there tonight, amend it
to some bill already passed by the
house and return the "bob-tailed" bill
for house action tomorrow and then
adjournment. Other senators favor
ed sine die adjournment tonight
Under amendments adopted by the
house, the acreage curtailment bill
would reduce the cotton crop in 1932
and 1933 by 70 per cent of acreage
planted in 1931. It would be effective
only if the total prohibition law fails
to become operative.
This was made law this morning
when Governor Blackwood signed the
bill prohibiting cotton planting in
1932. Honse supporters of the cur
tailment bill asserted the Long plan
was "dead" and that the legislature
wil have Jone nothing for the cotton
farmer unless it enacts the reduction
program.
The original bill is a copy of that
passed by the Texas legislature, its
Introducer, Representative Tigert, of
Greenville, Dantzler of Orangeburg,
and Bush of Aiken, said.
?f It provides that "upon the sworn
complaint of any citizen of this state
that any part of this act is being
'violated' or upon the request of any
magistrate of any county in this
state, or of the commissioner of ag
riculture," circuit and county solici
tors shall institute injunction pro
ceedings. Violations would subject
this grower to a fine of $25 for each
acre planted against the law.
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Mr. Littleton?What's the idea?
These shirts are three sizes too big
for me. You know my size.
Mrs. Littleton?Weil, the big sizes
don't cost any more^ than the little
Farmville Tab. Market
Has Satisfactory Week
First Block Sale v\f Sea
son Monday Averaged
$11.32; Block Cleared'
Tuesday
The fourth week of the Farmville
Tobacco Market began on )Monday
with the heaviest sale of the season,
and the first block. Total poundage
of 688,714 was sold before 5 o'clock,
and a sensational jump in prices
brought the average to $11.32, the
peak of the season so far. The block
was cleared on Tuesday without dif
ficulty, the sale being much lighter
on that day, as has almost been made
the general rule for Tuesdays.
there, has been a noticeable incline
in prices on the better grades this
week, but the lower grades seem to
have ilttle market value, though
Farmville continues buying it at
prices above some of the neighboring
markets. The gain in prices has held
up and the local market's average
has been above $10 each day this
week.
Prevailing prices of the weed are
to be regretted, but the warehouse
proprietors, instead of being blamed
or censored, deserve the gTatitude of
the farmers, and ar.? receiving it this
year, especially those of this market,
all of whom are laboring aui striv
ing hard to get the highest dollar
possible for the fanner, who is their
best friend after all.
The warehousemen here: J. Y.
Mc.ik, L. R. Bell, J. M. Hobgooci, R.
H. Knott and G. H. Webb, are expe
rienced heads in every phase of the
buying and selling tobacco game, and
are exceptionally qualified for the
high position of \ rust and confidence
which they hold in the hearts of the
thousands of planters throughout
Eastern Carolina.
A funny story on the warehouse
men of another town, which shows
the grim humor of the farmer under
any situation, though it may be
mythical, is as follows: "A certain
farmer sold his tobacco on one of
the eastern markets and when ha
to get his nitnssy ire found that
not only did he not draw anything;
but there was actually 50 cents
charges against him. 4I can't pay you
now,' he said, 1>ut if I go to heaven
when, I die I'll send it to you; If I
go to hell, I'll just hand it to you.'"
A good set of -buyers is the beet
possibe -asset for a tobacco market,
and F&rmville is fortunate in the per
sonnel of her two sets, which repre
sent all of the foreign and domestic
manufacturers and dealers of the
world today. They are behind the
Farmville market and are doing all
they can for it.
The merchants and citizens of the
town are directly interested- in the
selling of tobacco, their own and the
other fellow's, and their best efforts
are being put forth to make this
market outstanding and keep it in a
foremost position in the Eastern belt
Total poundage for the week was
I,671,276, which brought growers
$178,708.96, an average of $10.70.
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Legionnaires
To Present Play
"Oh Doctor"
Three-Act Musical Com
edy to Be Presented in
Perkins Hall Friday
Night, Oct 2
Coming ss it does with excellent
recommendations and highest praise,
the musical comedy, "Oh, Doctor!"
which is to be presented on Friday
evening, October 2, at 8 o'clock in
Perkins hall and sponsored by the
local American Legion Post, promises
to be one of the best entertainments
ever given here.
The story re vol ves^ around a tonic
called "Nervo." Based on this for
mula theme, the plot is convincing
ly developed by means of thriMtog
scenes, full of excitement and ?4r
prises and by witty apd sparkling
dialogue. Colorful charier bits add
much to the charm, entertainment
and rich human appeal of the play.
The well chosen group of principals
include 15 of Farmvilte's most talent
ed young men and women, augment
ed by eight snappy and stunningly
costumed choruses with 16 musical
^umbers, all tending towards the
making up of one of the most spark
ling and enjoyable musical comedies
of the day. There are 80 people in
the entire cast.
Every one should see "Oh, Doctor!"
It is the kind of a show which makes
"playgoing" a pleasure and a privil
ege, for it is not only funny in a re
freshing way, but it has a dash of ro
mance thai completes the ingredients
necessary for a perfect plot
The, clever and efficient director is
| Jade Spioer, of Columbus, Ohio.
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