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— THE — Wallace Enterprise Published Every Thursday By THE WELLS - OSWALI) PUBLISHING CO. Wallace, N. C. W. G. WELLS.Editor H. L. OSWALD. Supt. Subscription Price $1.00 IVr Year In Advance Entered as Second Class Matter Jan uary 19, 1923, at the Postoffide at .Vallace, North Carolina, umler the Act of March 3, 1879. Thursday, February 21, 1935 Vital Statistics: There were 233,000 babies born to the 4, 000,000 families on relief last year. * * * The U. S. broke another re cord last year—had more peo ple killed by automobile acci dents than ever before. * * * This is the time of the year that citizens all over the land are attacked by what is called spring-gardening fever. * * * Patriots, ever ready to fol low the example of Geofge Washington, forget some of- the things that the Father of the Country did. ■ir # w A student of government says there are' too many coun ties in the United States. Ev ery county will agree that there are others which should he eliminated. * * * The banking system has been rebuilt and . about the only ev idence of the collapse in 1933 is the balances which haven’t been paid by the closed insti tutions. * * * Big business, as a rule wants government out of business un til it hears that there are fa vors to boost profits and then you can’t beat them out of the trough with a pole. ADVERTISING OUR TOWN There are citizens of our town who dismiss all talk of town boosting as a form of bunk. They profess, to believe thaht nobody means anything when praising his own home town and insist that its growth will come along as a matter of course. In this attitude they are mis taken. This is a day of adver tising what you have to offer. The biggest factor in business is correct advertising. If you don’t think that it will help a community you ought to see what California and Florida and way stations have accom plished through publicity. This does not mean, howev er, that every community must go after tourists, or even after industries. There are other ways to make a city great. Mere size is not the criterion of pro gress. To build up an excellent community spirit, to attract to a town decent citizens and to spread among the inhabitants of our town a friendlier feeling is worth while, even if no great material growth follows. ABOUT “BABY BONDS” It won’t be long now before the citizens of this county will have the opportunity to buy. the much-publicized “baby bonds,” which the Federal government plans to put on sale around the first of March. The president, it is said, will buy No. 1. and it is hoped that the people will take kindly to the offering. The bonds will be sold on a discount basis and a bond that will mature at $25 on a certain date will be sold for less than the sum, the dif ference being the interest it will earn during its lifetime. The idea seems to be large ly psychological. That people will be able to invest huge sums seems improbable but that every buyer of a “baby bond” will take more interest in the affairs of government. Moreover, holders of these se curities are not apt to be ad vocates of wild spending on the part of the government. WHY 36,000 PERSONS DIED IN 1934 Last year there were 36,000 persons killed and nearly a mil lion injured as a result of 882, 000 personal injury automobile collisions on the streets and highways of the nation. These are astounding figures but the kiUing and maiming of people by*automobi!e drivers has been going on so long that most of us take it for granted. Respite insistent demand for stricter regulation of drivers, more regorous enforcement of traffic regulations and ade quate inspection of vehicles the public apathy continues and officials take it easy. This laxity does not exist in small places alone but in the large cities as well.' To illus trate how one motorist can get by we cite the police record of One Stephen Smith, recently convicted of manslaughter, hit run driving and drunken driv ing and given five years in pri son at Philadelphia. What was Smith’s past re cord? Well, he had been arrest ed fourteen times, but made his first appearance in court after killing another man. He had been fined altogether, $11 although one of his previous charges involved a hit-run kill ing, three included injury of other persons, seven included collisions*, s everal involved drunkenness'‘'and two hit-run driving. No wonder the reckless driv ers, well aware of official laxi ty, continue to spread death, destruction and injury through out the land. NEWSPAPERS GET ADVER TISING DOLLARS Advertising is a big busi-j ness. In 1934 something like| $350,000,000 was used for this purpose, with newspapers get ting the largest share. The Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association reports that national advertisers spent $349,500,000 in 1934, with newspapers getting 46.7 per cent, magazines 32.5 per cent, chain broadcasts 12.2 per cent and outdoor 7.7 per cent. These figures apply to na tional advertisers. In regards to local advertising the percen tage in favor of newspapers is much higher. WashingtonNews For U. S. Farmers Public Land Withdrawn At Pre-War Price Levels Processing Payments To Enforce Crop Control Cattle Herds Culled Complete withdrawal of all public land -from settlement, location, sales or entry has been effected by a recent Pre sidential order, pending deter mination of a nation-wide con servation program. The public domain includes: 165,695,000' acres, of which j about half will be permanent | livestock grazing areas Land \ not suited to profitable crops; will become forests, grazing! districts, game preserves and! bird refuges. It is doubtful if any of the; ■HI bmarginai. land will be far-; med as this would render use less the present program of buying up such lands. By Ju ly it is expected that about 7, 000,000 acres of this type of land will have been acquired. Price levels of fourteen ba-l sic agricultural commodities have about reached the pre war parity, says Louis H. Bean, economic adviser to the AAA, who attributed this to the drought and adjustment pay ments. He points out, however, that increased domestic demand is necessary if these prices are to be maintained this year when larger crops are antici pated. The price of the 14 commodities was only 52 per cent of the pre-war level in Feb., 1933, but advanced to 106 per cent by Jan. 15, 1935 and with adjustment payments add ed, 125 per cent. 'The commodities include wheat, cotton, field corn, hogs, tobacco, sugar, peanuts, rye, flax, barley, grain sorghum, cattle, rice and milk and its products. Processing taxes are levied on the first seven named. This does npt mean it should be understood that farm in come is up to pre-war levels. The short crops of 1934 are not to be compared with those of pre-war days. Farmers might get as much as half a billion dollars from the government this year in processing taxes, according to figures prepared by govern ment economists. Since May 2, 1933, when the program began, more than 10, Through CAPITAL Keyholes AUTO TAGS - It’s now recognized as a foregone conclusion that auto ! mobile license tags are going to bt cheaper when you decor ate the mahogany of the State Revenue Department next Jan uary. The Joint roads commit tee of House and Senate have already agreed upon reducing the rate per hundredweight ; from 55 cents to 40 cents with , a minimum tag costing $9 in i stead of $12.50. By the time you read this the bill may have become law by passage through the General Assembly. * * * LOW DOWN ! News is seeping down from Washington that the AAA is not so hot for legislation con | trolling the production of po tatoes. Tar Heels and other representatives of potato-pro ducing States put the bee on the AAA boys but it now ap pears that Secretary Wallace’s crowd put one over on the po tato men. They drafted a bill that bids fair to classify many potato farmers as criminals if they violate technical provi sions of the act. Congressman Lindsay Warren has promised to look after North Carolina potato men with the proper amendments before the bill becomes law. * * * NEEDED - The federal government is, getting ready to spend four billion dollars in relief work in cooperation with the 48 States. But the States must set up machinery to conform with federal regulations before sharing in the benefits. So far North Carolina has done no thing to get in line for its share in this gigantic program. It’s time the boys in the Legislature were up and doing. * * * NOT SO FAST People who would divert highway taxes to the support ' of various and sundry causes are not getting along so well with the present General As sembly. Probably that is be cause many members live on secondary roads that have cre ated a financial surplus by a maintenance deficit. At any rate the Legislature lost no time appropriating $3,000,000 for immediate repair and im provement of roads of the j State. SPEED - Representative R. Gregg Cherry of Gaston, chairman of the House finance committee, and Senator Harris Newman, | of New Hanover, chairman of j the Senate money group, sought I to speed committee considera ! tion of the biennial revenue • bill, but they ran into the same ! thing that has held other Gen | eral Assemblies in session ov | ertime—difference of opinion. | And you can’t rush a man away i from his own ideas, at least it : hasn’t been done in the finance ! committee. __ 1000,000 checks amounting to | $629,614,037 have been dis-| j tributed by the AAA. For 1935 j I Secretary Wallace makes tKS ! following estimate of benefit payments for five commodities: Wheat—$102,000,000. Cotton—$94,230,000. Corn-Hog—$165,000,000. Sugar—$47,000,000. Peanuts—$4,000,000. Incidentally, while the gov-1 i emment was paying the farm I ers the $629,000,000 under the ' various crop control plans the taxes levied and collected ag gregated $640,871,403. Proposed amendments to the Agricultural Adjustment Act would give the Secretary of Ag ! riculture power to limit the j marketing of basic commodi ties in excess of quotas and al lotments prescribed whenever two-thirds of the producers by number or quantity of produc tion agreed that such action was necessary. While such authority exists at present it has not been evok ed unless 80 per cent of the producers favored the agree ment and then did not apply to non - cooperating signers. The new agreements would bind minority producers. Another provision looks for j ward to the ‘ever normal gran ary’ plan by permitting the AAA to make benefit payments in kind as well as in cash and gives authority to use the pro cessing taxes to buy up cot-, ton and corn now stored un (Continued on Page 3) KNOWS SCHOOLS - Legislators are generally ag reed that Senator Lloyd Grif fin, of Chowan, knows his I schools. Senator Griffin was chairman of the Senate educa tion committee that drafted the first eight months school ma chinery law in 1933 and heads the same committee this ses sion. The manned in which he answers question regarding the State supported schools is a marvel to many interested law makers. * * * TUBERCULOSIS - There has been some doubt about whether the State should enlarge the present tubercular hospital in the Sand Hills or construct a new unit in the mountain section of the State. During debate on the matter it was brought out that no pri vate tubercular sanitorium in the world is as large as the present State unit. It was al so established that some pa tients recover in one climate and lose ground in another. As a result it now appears that if anything is done it probably will be authorization for con struction of a new hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis. * * * A SNAG - The McDonald-Lumpkin an ti-sales tax bloc was getting along swimmingly until the question of taxing individuals making over $1,000 annually was reached. That Class be ing rather large already paying numerouse taxes, considerable noise was raised. The final outcome is still uncertain. If you earn more than $1,000 gross income per year and do not pay schedule B. license taxes it might be well to look into the matter. * # * DICTATORS - Representatives Tam C. Bow ie, of Ashe, and United States i Page, of Bladen, have been i called “dictators” since the in ' troduction of several measures that other legislators say would put them in absolute political control in their respective counties. Mr. Bowie has been more successful than Mr. Page in getting his bills enacted in to law but both have experi enced difficulties in steering their propositions through the Legislature. * * * SENATOR - j Former Lieutenant Gover nor R. T. Fountain, of Rocky Mount, has announced that he intends to oppose Sen ator Josiah W. Bailey, of Ral ; eigh, in the primaries next year. Governor Ehringhaus has been speculated upon as a potential candidate but since the General Assembly has been in session he has been so busy with affairs of State that lit tle mention has been made of the possibility of his running. Nevertheless, many of his friends are still putting the pressure upon the Governor. * * * GOVERNOR - The guesses are still going around. Raleigh as to who will be a candidate for the Demo-; cratic nomination for Governor, next year. One week the news j is that Congressman R. L.j Doughton will run and the next j week the grapevine reports that he wiil not choose to be a can-j didate. But few people doubt that Clyde R. Hoey, Shelby Democrat silver tonguer. and Lieutenant Governor A. H. (Sandy) Graham are going to try for the honor. At all tdd3, a good time is likely to be had by one and all. * * * MODERN STEP - With old-age pensions and unemployment insurance as well as other social-security legislation coming along to re lieve old-fashioned county homes of much of their bur den, State Senator Julian Alls brook of Halifax, thinks it may be a good plan to turn over the county home buildings to the care of neglected children. Many counties in N. C. have modern buildings constructed as “poor houses” that will be vacant if the aged and unem ployed are supported by gov ernment money. Senator Alls brook is considering introduc ing proper legislation to carry out his idea. SUBJECT OF 8TH ESSAY CONTEST IS ANNOUNCED Raleigh, Feb. 18.—“What a Unified Program of Coopera tive Marketing and Cooperative Purchasing Can Mean to the Farmers of North Carolina” was announced today as the subject of the eighth annual cooperative essay contest. The subject was announced by M. G. Mann, general mana ger of the State Cotton Associ ation and the Farmers Cooper ative Exchange, the two organ izations sponsoring the essay contest. As in past year, first prize in the contest will be a one-year tuition scholarship to N. C. State College or the equivalent thereof: Prizes will also be given to the runners-up in the State contest as well as to con testants in the four district contests. More than 26,000 boys girts have written essays d ing the past seven years cotton association has bi sponsoring the contest amo: boys and girls in the run schools of the State’s cotto: producing counties. This yea the Farmers Cooperative Ex Change is joining hands wit" the cotton association in spo soring the contest and the co: petition will not be confined t students in the cotton countie; but will be open to boys an< girls all over the State. “We expect more interestl in the contest this year than| ever before,” said Mr. Man “The fact that fve are enlarg ing the territory of the contest should give us many more e tries.” “Our contest is educational in purpose. It has the support of the agricultural and educa tional forces of the State. Its purpose is to encourage the farm youth of North Carolina to think soundly upon vital problems that are confronting us today. In this way, we hope to contribute toward a more* lasting agricultural prosperi ty for our farmers.” The issue of the Carolina Co-operator contains an eight page section devoted to the es say contest and carrying rules and regulations as well as ma terial for contests to use in preparing their essays. 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