Axton Points OutBenefitsof Proposed
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and Wages To the Farmers and Workers
That modest high-quality smoke?
the 10-oervt cigarette?came into the
nation's market in 1932 and pulled the
cigarette business out of a deep slump
In doing this it put thousands of to
bacco factory workers back on pay
rolls, gave hundreds of thousands of
farmers s better market for their crop
than they had enjoyed before, and
restored some badly1 shrunken govern
ment revenues.
So speaks Colonel Wood F. Arton.
president of Axton-Fisher Tobacco
Company, in urging the people of
twelve southeastern states produc
ing cigarette tobacco to prevail upon
Congress to put into effect a gradu
Atfarf tAx on ci2arettes at this session*
This graduated tax, proportioned
to the retail price of cigarettes, will
enable the 10-cent cigarette manu
facturer to continue helpingthef arm
er to get better prices for bis crop, to
continue paying the tooacco factory
worker a decent Hying wage, to con
tinue boosting government revevues,
and for himself, to earn^a very modest
profit.
"Putting a graduated tax on cigar
ettes?in place of the present flat-rate
tax of 6 cents a package regardless of
retail price?would not be a depart
ure from precedent," Colonel Axton
declares. "There is already a gradu
ated tax on oigars. It runs from J2 a
thousand on cigars retailing at 5
cents, to $!3 a thousand on the high
est-priced cigars of the same weight
and size.
Paying Biggest Tax
"The hv-^ent cigarette today is pay
ing the biggest percentage of tax of
any article in America that I know of I
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at 10 cents.
"What's the reason for the 10-cent
cigarette? In 1931 and 1932 when every
thing was down and practically 97
per cent of the business was In the
hands of four big companies, the
price on cigarettes was re ised 45 cents
a thousand, less 10 and 2 per cent.
"This raise was equivalent to 10 to
12 cents a pound on leaf tobacco, but
the 1931 crop sold at possibly the low
est price, quality considered, in thirty
years. The reduction almost, equalled
the raise ou the price of cigarettes.
Produccion of cigarettes began to
drop.
"A few of us, knowing the consumer
h3d to have cigarettes at a price he
could afford, put on the market a 10
cent cigarette, allowing ourselves a
very modest profit, but enough.
"As a result cigarette sales jumped.
The government collected more taxes
fiscal year 1933-1963, although
- * ere the poorest business years
i Gantry has had in the recolleo
ttou of man.
"In order to drive the 10-cent cigar
ette out of the market manufacturers
of 15-cent higa.ettes early In 1933 cut
the price of their product to 10 oents
and 11 cents. The report was circu
lated that the price of tobacco would
be raised, so that makers of 10-cent
cigarettes could not stay In business
with their product.
"But when the price of . hurley to
bacco was sold at a price to average
the farmer 4cents a pound more than
he had received in the preceding year,
we found we could still make a good
cigarette to sell at 10 cents and still
make our modest profit.
"In the fall of 1933 the N.R.A. ad
Justed tobacco workers' wages up
ward in many plants?which should
have been done long ago?and we
shortened wage earners' hours. Price
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put up our cost of doing business.
"Then to carry outfits welfare pro
gram, the government put a parity
price on all tobaccos, applying a pro
cessing tax. This tax, I want to make
plain, is a just tax,because if anybody
is entitled to better conditions it is
the American farmer:
MUUoaa for Growers
"Of course all these items slashed
our profits right to^the bone?but we
are still selling cigarettes at 10 cents
-a-package. ???
"Now I honestly believe this com
petition- on- ifr- cent- cigarettes pro
duced many millions of dollars for the
grower, and will continue to produce
millions of dollars for the grower as
! time goes oh. ,<r
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tobacco prices we njust have a slight
I difference in the taxes' on cigarettes
retailing for 10 cents and those re
i tailing at two packs for 25 cents or
at 15 cents a package.
"If the tax on 10-cent cigarettes is
cut 10 per cent; the government's re
turn will be 1 |er cent less, provided
110-cent cigarettes compose.10 per cent
of all cigarette* made. The govern
; merit's return will be 2 per cent less
if 20 per cent of all cigarettes made are
10-centers. And the government's re
turn will be-3 per cent less if 30 per
cent of all cigarettes made are 10
centers.
"?But this Is a fact: the cut in the
government's return will be offset
many timefs bytheincreased consump
tion of cigarettes over what they
would be if all cigarettes are forced
?to a higher price tftan 10 cents.
"The farmer of course would fare
much better because he would have
real, genuine competition among buy
ers'when he marketed his crop. The
farmer will recall that,' when the
four big companies cut their prices in
January and February, 1988, and
I whenmakers or 10-centers found they
bad more tobacco than they could
well use and dropped out of the mar
ket?the price of bur ley went down at.
once on the markets.
Business For All
. "In urging this graduated tax on
cigarettes we are not trying to put
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? WltJ UlttliUi IfU1 y Ul itrvcuvvio v?*v
of business, or'hurt them. Anybody
in the industry can make 10-cent cig
arettes, But if he does, he must be
satisfied with very much smaller prof
its than have heretofore been made in
the business. The principal makers
of 10-centers are today employing or
ganized labor at wages agreed upon
by the Tobacco Workers' Internation
al Union,
"When they tried to stop manu
facture of 10-cent cigarettes, the four
hig companies cut the price of their
products CI. 19 a thousand.This meant
they took more than C100,000,000 less
money for their cigarettes than they
had taken the previous year.
"One of their spokesmen admitted
at a hearing in Washington that they
cut prices to drive out of business the
10-cent product and get rid of this
?competition. Ii they were willing to
spend that huge sum?$100,000,000 in
a single year?for that purpose, as
admitted, certainly the cigurette con
sumer and the farmer need the 10
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center to compete wim me i^-uuiaoi.
Evils of Monopolies
"I believe sincerely that monopolies,
and people doing business by com
binations in restraint ot trade, have
had more to do with bringing on the
great depression than anything else
we have had to centend with. Monop
oly stif.es competition and raises pric
es tcv consumers and lowers prices to
producers until they can no longer
bear the load that presses down on
their backs."
Colonel Axton clearly shows, in his
statement, that10-cent cigarette man
ufacture had benefitted tobacco
farmers arid workers and will con
tinue to do so. What benefits the
farmers and workers in the cigarette
tobacco producing states likewise
benefits the butcher, the baker, th<.
candle-stick maker in that large ter
ritory. I
The graduated tax on cigarettes in
place of the present flat-rate tax will
make, possible continued production
of 10-cent cigarettes. The people
should, for their own welfare, rally to
the cause of the farmer, the tobacco
worker, the 10-cent cigarette maker.
They can do this to best effect by
writing to their Congressmen at once
and urge them to vote for the gradu
ated tax. Immediate action is nec
essary."
Sees Good Results
From Cotton Reduction
In adapting North Carolina fann
ing to 1934 conditions and acreage
adjustments, farm people should look
to a more abundant living, said Dean
I. 0. Schacb, director of the Agricul
tural Extension Service of State Col
lege.
"Fewer acres in cotton should mean
more food in our smc&ehouses and
pantries and on our tables," he said.
"It should also mean that our hens
and cattle and hogs, and work stock
will be better fed.
"And, perhaps of most importance
in the long win, it shuold mean that
we will devote more time and atten
tion to enriching our soils."
He called attention to the section"
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of the cotton contract providing max
rented acres shall be used only for
food and feed crops for home use or
for soil building and erosion-prevent
ing crops. "This is the most import
ant section of the contract," he de
clared. ?
' "More food, more feed, more soii
building?and in places the greatest
of these is soil-building, for the soils
of some sections need to be greatly
improved before it can produce suf
ficient feed and food to supply home
demands or to make farming profita
ble."
To improve soil, the dean advocates
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terracing1 ana noerai use 01 com sum
mer and winter legumes.
Some Timely Farm j
Questions Answered
At State College
QUESTION:?What variety of
cabbage and peas are best for early
spring planting in Eastern Carolina?
ANSWER:?The Early Jersey
Wakefield or Charleston Wakefield
varieties of cabbages have given best
results. Frost proof.plants of these
, varieties may be planted ft* the open
as early as February 15 tas far west
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till IWCimpiani) UllUlUlU, uvnowt
Lincoln and Gaston counties. For
SMS, the smooth-seeded varieties
such as the Alaska are best as those
varieties with wrinkled seeds will not
germinate in very cold soil.
QUESTION:?What treatment is
recommended for Irish potato seed
before planting1?
ANSWER:?AH potatoes showing
' M J AfMite KUrnj.' *0 ?honM he
discarded before any treatment is
gin* If the potatcaa hare:, small,
Mack, hard bodier the surface or
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black areas and soft spots all such
potatoes for 1 to. 1% hours. Dry t
the potatoes immediately after soak- t
ing. Where potatoes are in a healthy t
condition they should be soaked in a ]
formaldehyde solution (one pint for- $
maldehyde to 30 gallons of water) c
for one to one and one-half hours, j
Always treat potatoes and wash and t
dry before cutting. : t
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Steady Continuance In j
Prices Of Commodities \
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Washington, Feb. 8;?^Capital ob- j
servers believe the'reeorded improve- t
ment in the price level of commodi
ties has been-the prime factor in the
increased optimism reflected in all
of the end of January commercial J
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ind industrial reports. A compilation
>y the National Fertilizer! Associa
ion, whose index is marked "excel
ent" by the Federal Reserve Board,
ihows that textiles were up 62.9 par
ent from the last week of January
.932. In like manner foods other
han fats and oils were up 26.9 per
ent, grain feeds and livestock had
tdvanced 41.1 percent, and fuel was
m 22.fi nereentl The entire index,
vhich is based on 476 individual com
nodities, was up 22.1 percent from
ixactly a year ago, to a level 69.5
jercent of the 1926-1928 average for
ill commodities.
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Exports For December
Broke 20-Year Record
Washington, Feb. 8.?For the first
time in 20 years, American exports
in December were larger than in the
proceeding month, according to an
nouncement of the United States De
partment of Commerce. December
1938 exports were valued at .192
million dollars, an increase of 4 per
cent over November. Ordinarily a
decline of 8 percent Js registered.
At the same time imports were
valued at 133 million dollars, a gain
of 4 percent instead of the usual 1
percent drop. This gain resulted en
tirely from liquor imports, In the
first 6 months of 1933, exports
slumped 20 percent under the first 3
months ? of 1932, with similar drop in
imports. The last 6 months of 1933
showed a complete reversal. Ex
ports jumped 30.4 percent over the
last 6 months of 1932, and imports
for that period increased 48.8 per
cent. Between the first and last
half of 1938 the value of exports ad
vanced 50.3 percent and the value
of imports 44.8 percent. Expansion
was laid to the rising level of busir
ness activity at home attributable to
NRA and by depreciation of dollar,
exchange.
E. Y. Floyd, tobacco specialist, rec
ommends scattering about 30 pounds
of clean oat, wheat or rye straw over
each 100 yards of tobacco bed. The
straw seems to have a beneficial ef
fect in controlling downy mildew.
Lincoln County farmers "are paying
their 1933 taxes with wheat rental
checks and payments on their option
cotton. During the past week about
$18,000 in cash has been received by
farmers of the county.
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NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE
Under and by virtue of the power
of sole contained in that section 2688
of the Consolidated Statutes of North
Carolina, the town of Fannville will
on March 3, 1934 at 12 o'clock noon j
sell to the highest bidder (bidding to
begin at fifteen hundred ($1500.00)
dollars) for cash the following describ
ed real property:
Lying and being in the. town of
Farmville, the county of Pitt and the
State of North Carolina on the South
western corner of the intersection of
Griramersburg and Contentnea Sts.,
beginning at said intersection and
running westerly along Contentnea
St. 196.5 feet to Mrs. Lula Joyner's j
line; thence in a southerly direction j
along Mrs. Lula Joyner's line 80 feet'
to the northwestern corner of W. A.
McAdams lot; thence :n a easterly
iirection along line of W. A. Mo
Adams 194 feet to Contentnea St.;
Thence in a northerly direction along
Contentnea St. 80 feet to the begin
ning, being a part of the W. H.
Moore property acquired by the town
of Farmvillf by deed from R. T. Mar
tin, Commissioner, of record in Book
D-19 page 229 of the Pitt County
Registry .
This the Slut day of January, 1984.
THE TOWN OF FARMVTLLE.
John B. Lewis, Attorney. 4t
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Iwt bee . highly regarded for a
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People are fcuytef everything more
carefully today. They count every
penny of the In buying
Black-Draught, thfey get the most '
tor their money. ifc ? good, effec
tire, msy to talrti made
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Cotton growers planting five acres
or less may reduce their crop by two
acres or grow no cotton at all this
year and receive rental and parity
payments for the reduction.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix'
of the estate of H. C. Cobb, deceased,
late of Pitt County, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate of said de
ceased to exhibit them to t-he under
on or before January 12, 1935, or this
signed at Farmville, North Carolina,
notice will be pleaded in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make immedi
ate payment
This the 10th day of January, 1934.
MRS, PEPITA COBB,
Administratrix of
Estete of H. C. Cobb.
John Hill Paylor, Attorney. 6wks
NOTICE OF RE-SALE i
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Under and by virtue of an order '
of the Superior Court of Pitt County, (
made in the exparte proceeding en
titled J. W. Redick, Admr., Estate ;
Susan L. Smith, deceased, and others,
exparte, the undersigned Commission- j'
er will on
Saturday, February 17, 1934,
at 12 o'clock Noon,
at the courthouse door in Greenville,
N. C., offer for sale to the highest ,
bidder for Cash, (bidding to begin at
$1,580.25), that certain tract or par- (
eel of lard, lying and being in the ,
Town ef Farmville, County of Pitt, j,
State of North Carolina, and describ
ed as follows:? * I
Beginning at the intersection of |
Church Street and Contentnea Street,
and running in a Southerly direction
205 feet more or less, to line of Reide
Lang Monk, thence in a Westerly di
rection 100 feet more or less, to line
if J. M. Hobgood, thence with line of
J. M. Hobgood, in a Northerly direc
tion 205 feet more or less to Church
Street, thence with Church Street
Easterly direction 100 feet more or
less to the beginning. Reference is
made to deed from Henry Joyner and
wife Alice Joyner to Christiana Moore
dated December 10th, 1868 and duly
in D/wriofmr nf Pl'ff 11 n f T,
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in Book A-19 page 110. Being that
portion of said lot remaining after
conveyance from A. T. Smith and
wife Sue Smith to J. M. Hobgood,
dated December 12th, 1919, and re
corded in Book S-12 page 565 Pitt
County Registry.
The bidder will be required to
make a deposit of ten percent of his
bid.
This the 2nd day of February, 1934.
JOHN HILL PAYLOR,
Commissioner.
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