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VOL. TWENTY-FIVE FARMVILLE; PITT COUNTY, NOBTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 19M NUMBER TWENTY-SIX
THE ENTERPRISE ANNOUNCES EXPANSION CAMPAIGN TODAY
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Next Tuesday, Nov. 6, Election Day; Go To The Polls And Vote!
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Farmers To Hold Big Meeting In Farmville On Nov, 8th
$2,000 Offered To Those
Willing To Get To Work
Big Expansion Cam
paign Starts Monday,
Nov. 5, and Will Last
for Only a Few Weeks;
Get In Early And
Secure The Highest
Award for Your Ser
vices
Now, why does The Farmville En
terprise put up $2,000 in gifts? Why
does The Enterprise guarantee every
reader who is active in this elction
valuable prizes for his or her efforts ?
There are two reasons:
First, this is a friend-making elec
tion. Second, only by conducting a i
fair and liberal election with gifts of i
value to everyone who participates,
will it be possible for the Enterprise
to accomplish its aim.
And what is The Farmville Enter
prise's aim? How can the Farmville,!
Enterprise afford to give away abso- j
lutely free, without one cent of ex
pense to the contestants, $2,000.
In the election the Enterprise j
hopes to secure more subscriptions?
to enlarge an already large list. To
secure renewals. To make a good
paper we naturally need circulation.
In this election The Enterprise hopes
to add to its great family of friends.
This will be accomplished not only
by the addition of new subscribers,
by the renewal of subscriptions, but
by the manner in which this election
is conducted. Every reader who takes
part in this election will, when it is
over, be a living advertisement for
The Farmville Enterprise. That is
the aim.
Of course this election win not pay j
the Enterprise immediately in dollars
and cents. It would be unreasonable
to expect that. Then why, you may
ask, do you put up so much money
when you know in advance that you
can not get it back from the sub
scriptions received- And the answer.
Get More Than Money
There are things more valuable to
a 'newspaper than money. Subscrip
tions are more valuable. Subscrip
tions give a newspaper prestige, pow
er, and enhance the value of its ad
vertising columns,
The Farmville Enterprise is taking
its own medicine. It is advertising.
It is spending money to create sub
scriptions?spending money to add to
its advertising patronage and to
create a greater good will. It will
not pay The Enterprise in dollars
today. But the efforts of this elec-!
tion, the subscribers who will be
gained, the friends and inestimable
benefit. The Entezprise is simply
investing in its future, in building a
greater circulation in the trade terri
tory. Frankly, in the end, will profit
The Enterprise.
Circulation Necessary
Circulation is absolutely necessary
to a newspaper. But it is always an
expense. No newspaper ever made
money on its subscription list. Your
Enterprise costs the publisher more
each year to produce and deliver to
you than you pay.
However, if by the spending of
$2,000 will increase its subscription
list to the point where more adver
ers will use its columns at a higher
rate, to reach a greater number of
people then, in the years to come, this
. $2,000 will be returned time and
again to The Enterprise.
A Business Proposition
It is simply a business proposition.
No oae loses, not even The Enier
I prise. This paper will not realise the
I baidlti and cash in on them as soon
I as do oar readers who carry on with
as in this great gift distribution.
The equipment of The Enterprise
I is so complete that it can care for
I 3,000 readers each issue just as easi
ly as it can care for half that number.
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presented to friends and readers in
just a few weeks.
It's Fair and Square
The Farmville Enterprise's plan for
this great distribution is absolutely
fair and square. Friends and readers
of this paper are to determine to
whom the gifts are to go. Free votes
are the deciding factors.
All over the territory, in Farmville
j and outside, The Enterprise has hun
I dreds of friends?real friends, who
stand ready to help. Every reader
who would share in this great gift
giving will find the ground well brok
j en for him or her. The way is made
l easy. You will readily understand
| the whole plan once you read the
| Enterprise. "Everybody Wins Some
i thing" automobile and other gift dis
j tribution announcement elsewhere in
this issue.
Costs You Nothing
The Farmville Enterprise bears the
! expense. There is not one cent for
you to spend. Your time is your own.
You can win by simply devoting a I
part of your spare time. It will be
easy, you will find, to be the recipi
ent of a Enterprise gift
Everybody Wins Something
In The Farmville Enterprise's gift
distribution "Everybody Wins Some
thing." You win either the automo
bile or a purse of $200; $100; $50,
or the cash commissions. Everybody
wins either car or cash.
In this election you can in your
spare time earn more in the next few
weeks than the average family man
earns in a whole year. You can earn
more than the average man saves in
many years. You absolutely increase
your earning power?and you do it
in your spare time.
Cash Your Prizes
f Perhaps you already have a car?
in your case you may cash your prize
and expend the money in travel or a
nucleus for an education, or for a
home of your own. Everybody has
use for cash. And that is not to be
passed up lightly.
; Now that is pretty good money to
add to your present income for your
| spare moments during the next few
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Roosevelt To Urge
Restoration of Pay
Cuts First of July
He Does Not Feel In
creases Will Be War
ranted by January 1
Washington, Oct. 31.?Foil restora
tion of the government's pay cute!
next July 1 will be recommended byl
President Roosevelt.
The President made the announce
ment today at his semi-weekly press
conference. -
This means a 5 per cent increase in
all government salaries which will
make them reach the 1932 level.
Mr. Roosevelt said the pay in
crease would be urged in expecta
tion of an increase in values and in
prices by July 1*
He does not feel the increase will
be warranted by January 1 but is
confident of- the upper trend by the
time the new government year be
gins in July.
Upon taking office the President
brought about a 15 per cent cut in
government pay. The last Congress
restored 10 per cent of this reduc
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Fonnulating his budget for next
year the President said today he
was reserving any estimates on forth
coming relief and public works ex
penditures Until at least the first Of
it .
the year.
r Meanwhile be said ae <na not nave
the slightest idea what figure* would
be recrmmended. ,v., -w-?: ^
Any tax legislation, he added,
ffrould hinge finally upon the relief
and public works expenditure^
Published reports of various pub
lic works programs being under con
sideration by the^tominhitration
'Everybody Wins Something' is
Slogan in Big Gift Distribution
This is to be a memorable event. It is to be a Friend-Making
!! Campaign. . , '?!!
In addition to the big automobile and the purses, The Farmville
Enterprise is making is possible for every man, woman, boy or giii
who takes part in this distribution to be a prize winner. "'Everybody
Wins" is the slogan. And everybody does win.
That everyone participating in this election may know in advance
that "Everybody Wins" The Farmville Enterprise has set aside a sum
of money to be paid in commissions. This is over and above the
capital prizes. " .
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
To every reader who participates and does not win the big
automobile or one of the big prizes, The Enterprise will pay a cash
commission of twenty per cent on all subscriptions turned in during
the event That means The Enterprise readers who actively partici
pate are guaranteed at the very least one dollar of every five dollars
received for subscriptions during the election.
Did you ever hear of anything more fair? No, and no one else
ever did. ' ? ?
Today the Enterprise inaugurates the most stupendous "Every
body Wins Something" one automobile-and-Cash gifts distributed.
Gifts totaling over $2,000.00 including one big, handsome, speedy
automobile, Terraplane, value $695.00 and three great bags of silver
(containing as high as $200) are to be distributed among the men
and women, boys and girls of Farmville and surrounding territory.
Tobacco is Leading the
South Back to Prosperty
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By H. A. STICH I
Tobacco Economist, Member of N.
Y. Tobacco Exchange
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The bulk of the flue-cured crop
was marketed in a very short time
this season, practically during the
past month, at the highest prices
since 1929. In the last three weeks,
prices reached a peak of 107.8 ac
cording to the Stich Tobacco Index,
which uses the 1926 average of 27
cents a pound prices as the basis, or
1000 per cent.
j The reasons for this phenomenal
rise in tobacco prices during the past
few weeks, in the face of decline in
other commodities, are as follows:
1. Smaller U. S. production, due
chiefly to AAA control measures;
2. Increased cigarette consump-1
tion;.
3. More active foreign and do
mestic demand for flue-cured tobac
co;
4. Canadian production sharply
reduced;
5. World consumption of U. S.
flue-cured leaf in excess of produc
tion.
The idicated total crop of all tpyee
in the United States, using figures
considered accurate by the crop re
porting board, for 1934, is 1,100,000,
000 pounds as compared to the 1983
total crop of 1,386,000,000 pounds;
the 1931 crop of 1,584,000,000 pounds;
the i930 crop of 1,648,000,000 pounds;,
the 1929 crop of 1,538,000,000 pounds;
the 1020 crop of 1,290,000,000 pounds
and the average of 1927 to 1981 crop
of 1,471,000,000 pounds.
Tgp average ]UWW1 jJfiUW.
?for above years were, for 1983, 12.9e;
for 1931, 8.2c; for 1930, 12.9c; for
for 1929, 18.6c; for 1926, 17.9c; and
for the average of 1927 to 1931, in
clusive, only 16.1c per pound. The
1934 average cents price per pound,
while impossible to predict accurate
ly because there axe many months of
tobacco marketing still ahead, should
run 50 to 75 per cent higher than
1933 if the high prices recorded up to
date this season do not take any
serious trun.
The increase in consumption of
cigarettes in recent months in 1934
over the same months of 1933 was
considerable. The September 1934
consumption of 10,296,000,900 was
767,000,000 cigarettes in excess of
September 1933, or an increase of
8.05 per cent. The tax income to the
Treasury Department for September
1934 from cigarettes was almost
*31,000,000 as against $28,500,000 for
September 1933. This large source of
income is exceeded only by the Capi
tal Stock tax collections for Septem
ber 1934 of *49,000,000 and the in
come tax collections ot *171,000,000.
The keen buying competition be
tween foreign anc^ domestic interests
in moet of the^ loose leaf spot mar
of policy. Its cigarette manufactur
ers recently reached an agreement
to return to former prices and have
gone back to better tobacco by buying
the American bright leaf -flue-cured
type in large quantities, after their
brief experience with poorer colonial
tobaccos from India, British African
possessions and Rhodesian-grown
Turkish tobacco.
The Canadian crop forcast was
about 25 per cent less than in 1933,
due partly to damage caused by heavy
storms.
Tobacco exports for the first eight
months of this year amounted to 57,
567,247 for tobacco and manufactur
ed products.
World consumption of U. S. flue
cured leaf is around 90,000,000 pounds
over the October 1st, 1934 crop re
ports, indicating 545,168,000 pounds
as the 1934 production. This year's
production will be about 26 per cent
below the average for 1927 to 1931,
and 21 per cent below the 1933 crop.
With about 90 per cent of the flue
cured crop already marketed, there
i? little likelihood of any serious
break in the price, especially when it
is considered that prices rose despite
the fact that offerings were below
the average in quality for the vari
ous grades on many of the markets.
The AAA payments to tobacco
growers up to August 31, 1934, to
talled $15,978,788 for rental and
-benefit payments. There will be
many millions more paid during ^he
next half year, all of which is help
ing to procure for the tobacco farm
ers of the South a much higher re
turn for their labors than they re
ceived for any one year since the
high peak of prices in 1919. With
the exception of September 1919,
September 1934 with an average price
for all flue-cured types of around- 26
cents a pound was the highest Sep
tember average on record. 12.2 cents
was the September 1933 average.
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vailing: on Market
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With good prices prevailing on the
local tobacco market this week,
growers had. been paid an official
average of $33.49 through Thurs
day, for 690,214 pounds of the weed
sold off the floors of Farmville's
three mamoth warehouses. Receipts
for these four selling dags of this,
the 11th week of the current .season,
aggregated $201,006.80 and increas
ed gross receipts above $5,238,000
00.
The quality of tobacco offered in
general has been ^?f considerably
for several days, though many of
the superior type|? continue to ap
pear on sales. '? -
The volume today, Friday, was
medium heavy and sales were ex
pected to be concluded by mid aft
ernoon. FWce trends are reported
District Governor
Speaks to TUe
Famine Boats
Ladies' Night Ohserv-1
ed; High School Facul- <
ty Special Guests; In
teresting Program
Enjoyed
Hotarians and their guests, Rotary
Anns and members of the high school
faculty, numbering seventy, had the
privilege of hearing District Gover
nor Tom Sykes, of High Point, speak
to them on the aim of international
service in Rotary, Tuesday evening
on the; happy occasion of their ob
servance of Ladies' night.
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The- District governor iouna ms
subject concisely stated in the sixth
object of Rotary; the encouragement
and fostering of the advancement of
understanding, good-will, and inter
national peace through a world fel
lowship of business and professional
men united in the ideal of service,
and pointed out the many ways in
which Rotarians and teachers might
cooperate in the instillation of these
ideals in the minds of the youth of
this country.
Alex Rouse, president of the local
club, presided and Mayor John B.
Lewis introduced the speaker. The
invocation was offered by Rev. C. B.
Mashburn, and the welcoming re
marks were made by Irvin Morgan,
toastmaster, with the response by
Miss Alice Coggins, home economics
teacher.
A group of lively songs, with rol
licking melodies, were rendered by
Miss Mary K. Jerome, voice instruc
tor of the school, John D. Holmes
was song leader and the accompanists
of the musical program were Mrs. J.
W. Joyner and Mrs. Arthur F. Joy
ner. Entertaining stunts were put
on by "Bill" Smith and John T.
Thome.
The Rotary dining room was ela
borately decorated in the Hallowe'en
colors and motifs, and plate decora
tions, used in the three course turkey
dinner were also suggestive of the
season. Misses Edna Foust and
Vivian Parker Harris, Evelyn Hor
ton, Natalie Vought, Frances Joyner,
Mary Louise Rumley and Martha
Cobb assisted in serving.
Tyson-May Reunion
To Be Hold Nov. 10
Community Invited To
Join In and Make The
Occasion a Gala Event
The following invitations have
been issued this week; "You are
cordially invited to attend the Ty
son-May Reunion, which will beheld
Saturday, November 10, 1984, at
10:30 o'clock, in the Farmville High
School auditorium, Farmville, N. C.
Basket lunch. Dr. J. Y. Joyner, pre
sident, Mrs. E. N. Warren, secre
tary,"
These invitations have been sent
in anticipation of the first reunion
to be held by the Tyson-May fami
lies, since the official welding at the
last reunion, of the two, already one
by ties of blood, into a reunion or
ganization.
The meeting will be presided over
by the newly elected president, Dr. J.
Y. Joyner, highly esteemed and ven
erated educator of the State, and
promoter of recent measures rela
tive to the tobacco situation, who is
at present making his home in Da
Grange.
Mrs. S. C. Carroll, of Winterville,
formerly Miss Ellen May Lewis, is
1st vice president, C. A. Tyson is
2nd vice president, and Mrs. E. N.
Warren, secretary-treasurer of the
organisation.
The complete program, together
with the speaker, who ia to be a man j
of note, and who will speak to the
reunion on importent happenings of
mficE! I
Following instruction issued by
the chairman of the Pitt County
Board of Elections to the regis
trar of Farmville precinct, all
bona fide electors, who registered
during the recent registration
period, or prior thereto, are eligi
ble to vote and will be permitted
to vote in the election of Novem
ber 6th, 1934.
lines Big Vote
la Each County
Largest Possible Vote
In Every County Urg
ed by Winborne
Raleigh, Oct. 31.?"Get out the
largest possible vote in every county,
even theough there may be no local
contests" is the admonition of State
Chairman J. Wallace Winboorne on
the eve of the election next Tuesday.
"Remember," Mr. Winborne urges,
"that aside from your local county
and district candidates, there are to
be elected by a State-wide majority
vote, three justices of the North
Carolina Supreme Court, Chief Just
ice W. P. Stacy, and Associates
Heriot Clarkson and Micheal Sche
nck; the State Treasurer, Charles M.
Johnson, and the State Utilities Com
missioner, Stanley Winborne, in ad
dition to two Superior Court judges
who have opposition, Julius A. Rous
seau, of the 17th district, and J. Will
Pless, Jr., of the 18th district.
"Even in the counties and districts
where there are no contests, it is ex
ceedingly important that large Dem
ocratic majorities be given these
State-wide candidates, as well as the
Congressional candidates. By so do
ing the Democrats of the State are
giving their endorsement of the ad
ministrations of President Roosevelt
in the nation and Governor Ehring
haus in the State.
"Important, too, Till be the result
of a huge Democratic majority all
along the line in sweeping from un
der the Republicans the beginning of
a basis they have been preparing for
the campaign in 1936, which will be
the crucial testing time of President
Roosevelt and his New Deal I urge
that every Democrat do his full duty
from now until the votes have been
counted and recorded."
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DANGER IN SCRAP
Raleigh, Nov, 1.?Illegal sales of
scrap tobacco are endangering num
erous , crop adjustment contracts in
North Carolina, E. Y. Floyd, of State
College, announced yesterday.
Growers caught selling their scrap
illegally, he said, will be forced to
cancel their contracts, return all
benefit payments received, and pay
the 25 per cent tax on all their to
bacco sold this year.
If court action is necessary to re
cover the benefit payments and the
tax due, he added, tie growers will J
be required to bear the cost of such )
litigation.
The only legal way to sell scrap
tobacco to another grower, or any
other person who may wish to buy,
ib to have the sale marked on the
tax-exemption card by a field as
sistant of the tobacco program in
the county, Floyd said.
The assistant will write the neces
sary tax warrant, stating the amount
and price of the weed sold, and
legalise the sale.: - \
TWO MEN HELD UP
BY MASKED , BANDITS
Wilson, N. C., Nov. 1.?Hallowe'en
brought' two masked men to the
boose of Shack Bass, 60, and his
brother of the same age Wednesday
night in Black Creek. They depriv
ed the brothers of $210 in cash and
disappeared into the night. They
Farmers Demand Action
Concerning Tobacco Crop
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Tobacco Growers And
Warehousemen Call
Meeting- At Farmville
Next Thursday
Demanding immediate action on
continuation of an adequate tobacco
control plan, 50 representatives
growers and warehousemen yester
day arranged for a mass meeting of
growers here at 2:30-p. m. on Thurs
day, November 8.
Leaders said that more than 5,000
growers, dissatisfied with delays of
the AAA and the State agricultural
extension service in arranging to
sign-up growers for long period
control plan, were expected to at
tend the meeting.
The committee went on record as
favoring imposition of the maximum
50 per cent penalty for excess pro
duction as provided by the Keir
Act, and an immediate sign-up for
at least three years after the expira
tion of the present contracts next
year.
The resolutions will be submitted
to the full meeting next Thursday
for approval, at which time ware
housemen will offer the services of
1,500 employees up to January 1 for
a sign-up.
Want No Increase.
Growers and warehousemen both
showed alarm over reports that J.
B. Hutson, head of the AAA tobacco
section, favored permitting a 20 per
cent increase in the crop next year,
and that manufacturers were con
tending that a 7,000,000,000 crop in
1935 would not be too large.
Release of these reports prior to
the Kerr Act referndum was
blamed for some softening of to
bacco prices as the selling season
approaches its end in the eastern
markets.
Information from Washington is
that the AAA now plans to conduct
the sign-up between January and
planting time.
Prominent tobacco men say that
now is the psychological time when
memories of high prices are not to"o
far removed from memories of
starvation prices prevailing with
unrestricted production prior to last
year.
The reduction contracts this year
called for a 30 per cent reduction.
The figures next year will be fixed
by the AAA and announced around
the first of the year.
Growers attending the meeting
here yesterday were:
Growers Representatives.
Dr. J. Y. ioyner, LaGrange; I. J.
Sanderlin, Beulaville; Thomas Mew
borr, Jr., Kinston; Dr. B. M. Nichol
son, Enfield; Thad Yelverton, Eu
reka._ Carl T. Hicks, Walstonburg;
Dr. Carl T. Sutton, Richland; Ham
mond Koonce, Richland; Joe. . E.
Eagles, Macclesfield; L. R. Jones,
Eureka; E. J. Harper, Snow Hill;
R. A. Fountain, Fountain; J. H.
Lane, Stantonsburg; M. P. Frizzelle,
Ayden, and J. L. Skinner, Tuscarora.
Also, Ben LangK Farmville; J. A.
Ormond, Dover; Furney (Watson,
Claries; T. J. Hines, Tuscarora; S.
T. Lewis, Farmville; B. M. Lewis,
Farmville;. W. D. Spence, Clinton;
C. A. Davenport, Clinton; EX H.
bollock, Trenton; J. W. Whitaker,
Enfield; S. L. Pittman, Clarks; 9.
E. Stewart, Tuscarora; H. C. Mc
Keel, Clarks; W. A. Nobles, Dover;
C. P. Banks, Trenton; G. H, Pitt
man, Falkland; W. R. Eagles, Mac
clesfield; R. D. Hodges, Kinston; F.
Brock, Trenton; T. Y. Moseley,
Kinston; N. T. Weeks, Tuscarora;
W. H. Ormond, Dover; L L. Heath,
Cove City; B. W. Ormond, Dover;
L DL Simpson, Tuscarora; W. 0.
White, Dover; G. O. Mallard, Tren
ton; W, W. Cook, Tuacarora; F. W.
Stewart, Tuscarora; Newt Jones,
Clarks; S. W. Gresham, Beulaville.
Warehousemen here induded J.
C. Eagles, president of the East
Carolina Warehousemen's Associa
tion; E. V. Webb, former president; ??.' ;
W. E. Fenner, Rocky Mount; B. B.
Suggs and W. V. Moton, Greenville; ' h
J. Y. Monk, R. H. Knott, J. M.
Hobgood, Farmville.
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