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Entered as Second Class Matter January 18, 1923, *t
the Postofflce at Wallace, North Carolina, under the Act
Of March 8, 1879.
Thursday, October 10, 1935
The weather continues to furnish conversa
tion for the saps.
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Civil service is fine for governmental em
ployes if they will only offer it to the public.
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If prosperity really arrives we guess the na
tion will have a fight to decide who i3 entitled
to the credit.
SUPPOSING
You have heard the story of the four little
boys, who played marbles, until one youngster
won all the marbles. The other three got to
gether and played with something else and the
marbles were useless. »
The United States has nearly half of the
world’s supply of gold, and,more of the yellow
metal is ^aoming here every day. What of it?
Suppose the .0*fcer nations get along without
gold, using something else for their game; of
commerce. The idea isn’t fantastic and it might
succeed and then what would we do with our
gold?
EDUCATION TAINTED
"One trouble with education in America to
day, says President-Emeritus Poteat of Wake
Forest College, “is that it is being tainted with
commercialism.”
Dr. Poteat declared that despite increased en
rollments in schools and colleges and other ed
ucational activities America as a whole was still
an ignorant country.
“Real culture such as we find in large meas
ures in Great Britain is still at a premium,”
said Dr. Poteat.
The advance of commercialism in the colleges
had resulted in the. introduction pf <murses
which hafce ho righfiul plaefe in higher education,
he said. “We have even got to the point where
you can buy scholarship.”
The complaint of Dr. Poteat may be justified
in part. When one sees the standing of a col
lege more affected by the footba'l team than the
scholarship of the faculty one wonders con
siderably, especially when nowadays whole foot
ball teams are sometimes imported into colleges
by coaches who want to make good.
The old formula of higher education was pro
bably devoted too much to the development of
the literary and cultural ,to the neglect of the
practical and useful subjects, which became*5 a
vailable with the advance of knowledge and
science.
In*all probability some institutions have de
serted the old cultural subjects too much and
gone entirely into the commercial or practical.
It is doubtless hard for an educator to maintain
an even.'baiance between the practical necessi
ties of a new age and the older cultural tradi
tions of the previous years.
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TO KEEP US OUT OF WAR
War between Italy and Ethiopia is now a cer
tainty. War between and Great Britain is very
piobable, with other nations of the League likely
become involved. The Italian leader, Mussolini,
evidently believes that he has so invigorated his
nation that it will respond heroically to any
emergency. In oppostion, the British have vital
imperial interests involved and no one who has
studied British history thinks for a minute that
the British can be scared out of the Mediter
ranean.
In case of war the nations involved will seek
to prohibit supplies and military material from
other counties. American munition manufac
turers would be flooded with orders from any
belligerent v ith cash or credit. Eventually the
war trade ir ght have a tendency to involve the
United Stat s. Under a recent law an automatic
embargo on the shipment of munitions goes into
effect- against nations at war.
, A Munitions Board has been created, consist
ing of five cabinet members, which has the pow
er to register manufacture of arms and muni
tions and to prescribe war articles the shipment
of which would be fobidden in case of war. This
includes all kinds of guns and equipment, shells
and projectiles, machinery to manufacture the
same, gun powder and explosives, including
mines and bombs, gases, scientific apparatus us
«d in war, air craft and war vessels,
f Secretary of State Hull is Chairman of the
Board and it is expected that the State Depart
ment will take every possible step to avoid
America becoming involved. It so turns out that
this authority will enable the Department of
State to indirectly cooperate with the League
of Nations should that inter-national organiza
ion decree an economic boycott of Italy.
"TTIAT MIGHT HAPPEN
1 e admires General Hugh S. John
son es what he says give him credit
for facing facts as he talks.
The other day he urged business and industry
to cope with, the unemployment problem, which
he says w... not be adequately handled by
WPA’s “demoralising process." The only way
out, says he, is normal private employment at
decent wages under proper conditions in useful
work.
To an audience in New York City, where there
are 1,300,000 persons dependent upon relief, he
declared that to cut off relief would mean “riot,
rebellion or revolution” within two weeks. More
over, he asserted that “neither you nor I nor
any other able-bodied specimen of the genus
homo would sit around and see his family starve
to death for the sake of the public peace.”
What would happen? “He would put a short
section of lead pipe in his pocket and go out
and get it where it was to be got.” Just notv
bhe "ugly problem” is out of sight but the Fed
eral government can’t go on “pouring out $5,
000,000,000 a year in soothing syrup to keep the
unemployment imp from raising hell all over
this nation.”
Strong words, perhaps, but in our opinion
justified. The government that permits its peo
ple to starve will not last any longer than it will
take the people to get together and destroy it.
The opportunity must be offered able-bodied
persons to work for their living and the care of
their families. If private enterprise, embodied
in huge business undertakings, cannot do this
then the nation Expects its government to do
it.
--oOo
Washington News
For U. S. 'Farmers
FARM VALUES INCREASE.
MORTGAGE CHARGES DOWN,
THE FORD INQUIRY.
WHEAT CROP SHORT.
AAA NOT AN ISSUE.
American farms are increasing in value and
will continue to move upwards if there are addi
tional gains in agricultural income.
This is the point revealed in a study of the
value of American farms for the years 1930-34
when there was a deccease of 3- per cent. Dur
ing the same period the farm income showed
practically the same fluctuations.
In 1930 the value of our farms was $47,879,
838,358, according to the agricultural census but
in 1934, although there were half a million more
farms and 68,400,000 additional acres in culti
vation, the farm value dropped to $32,884,342,
378.
The bottom was reached in 1932 when farm
income was lowest. Since then, as agriculture
has received increased income, values have gone
up and the logic is inevitable that new gains in
income will mean new gains in the value of
farm lands. It is the business of all farmers to
see that there are new gains in the income of
agriculture and that not one whit of present ad
vances be surrendered. v
This drop in land values was the largest in the
nation’s bread-basket where eight of the Middle
Western producing States showed decreases of
more than 30 per cent, with the result that mort
gages, in some cases, actually exceeded the sale
values of the land covered. This condition, how
ever, existed in other sections as well and at the
bottom of the depression there was almost no
market for farm lands at any reasonable price.
Recent figures also show that the farm mort
gage debt has been reduced, after making a ra
pid Climb from $3,320,470,000 in 1910 to the peak
of $9,468,526,000 in 1928. A slight reduction
was recorded in 1930 but since that year it is
estimated that the farm mortgage debt has been
cut to around $8,000,000,000. Moreover, more
than $1,800,000,000 has., been loaned to farmers
by the Farm Credit Administration since May,
1933.
The Federal Trade Commission has been au
thorized to use $75,000 of its funds to investi
gate the rising costs of food. While Congress
wanted such an inquiry funds for the purpose
were killed by the Long filibuster.
The scope of the work will embrace a study
of the decrease in agricultural income in recent
years and a comparison of such income with
that of manufacturers and processors. It will
try to find out how much of the consumers' pay
ments goes to the farmer and how much to the
manufacturers and distributors. Also includ
ed for study are monopolistic or unfair prac
tics, the development of cooperatives and me
thods used in other countries to protect the in
terests of farmers and consumers.
The work began last week when two investi
gators went to Detroit, scene of recent food
strikes, centering in the Polish section, where
housewives were incensed over pork prices,
which Secretary Wallace insists have been due
to the drought rather than to the AAA program.
The world wheat crop is expected to be the
shortest in thirteen years, being estimated at
330,000,000 bushels less than the short crop of
1934, and will reduce the world carry-over by
nearly 500,000 bushels, pulling it down almost
to the normal pre-1928 carry-over.
The wheat crop in this country is expected to
be about 747,000,000 bushels or about 125,000,
000 bushels above the usual domestic consump
tion although increased consumption is looked
for. Prices here will probably be above the ex
port basis.
The President’s spirited defense of the ag
ricultural adjustment program at Fremont, Ne
braska, emphasized the contrast existing be
tween conditions three years ago and today and
pointed with pride to an increase of more than
five billion dollars in farm income over what the
farmers would have received if the 1932 level
had been continued.
Apparently, the AAA will not be a campaign
issue inasmuch as leading Republicans have
strongly warned the national organization not to
make it a test and Senator Capper, of Kansas,
calls the program o “Godsend to farmers.”
CARDWELL’S
OLUMN
GUT A. CARDWELL,
Agricnltaral * Industrial A|t,
A. C. L. Railroad Co.
SWEET POTATOES STILL
FREE
There is no over production
of sweet potatoes suitable for
the commercial market, hence
this crop may be disposed of
without formality or restric
tion as long as the sweet pota
toes are good to look at and of
a good flavor.
Growers in Northeastern
North Carolina counties and
growers on the Eastern Shore
of Virginia, Maryland, Dela
ware and New Jersey are now
sending sweet potatoes of the
Jersey types to market in vol
ume and at this time the de
mand is fair^and the prices on
the New York market range
fxom 75 cents to $1.90 per bu
shel basket.
North and, South Carolina
growers of Porto Ricans who
made carlot shipments during
the past winter and spring from
the crop of 1934 fared very well
and shipments were wejl in ex
cess of the year before. The
demand was strong and remain
ed so until tjhe entire commer
cial crop was cleaned out.
I am showing below some of
the things to be done to improve
the growers chance of getting
top prices for his potatoes:
Sweet potatoes should be
harvested wfien mature and be
fore the vines are killed by
frost. If the vines are killed
by frost they Should be cut from
the stems immediately and the
potatoes harvested as soon as
possible.
Potatoes should be harvested
in such a way as to prevent
bruising which renders them
subject to rot and lowers the
market quality. The implement
used to dig sweet potatoes
should be one that does not cut
or bruise the roots. One of the
best types of diggers is a plow
with rolling colters on the beam
to cut the vines and with rods
attached to the moldboard to
free the roots from the soil and
vines. A middle buster is also
a good implement for digging
sweet potatoes. After the roots
are dug they should be scratch
ed out by hand and allowed to
remain exposed long enough to
dry. They should never be
thrown from one row to an
other, thrown loos 3 'into a wa
gon body or put lr.to bags. The
digging should be done, if pos
sible, when the weather is
bright and the soil dry.
The storage house is the most
efficient means for storing
sweet potatoes. However, many
farmers successfully use to
bacco barns in which to cure
WISE AND
OTHERWISE
Appropriate
The last book written by
Lawrence of Arabia, entitled
“The Mint,” is priced at $500,
000 a copy. At that price nO
title could be more appropriate.
—Ohio State Journal.
It Is
China, having built a nation
al textile mill, orders the girls
to wear more clothes. It’s the
old-fashioned new deal, girls,
in a kimono.—Richmond Times
Dispatch.
' Strange
It is strange, as certain Eu
ropean diplomaniacs are dis
covering, how an olive branch
can smart when it is waved
firmly enough in the right di
rection.—Kansas City Star.
Another Sign
Another sign of the change
of the seasons is that the gloo
my looking fellow you see on
the streets isn’t a business
man; he’s a football coach.—
Omaha World-Herald.
Independent
An American isn’t going to
let anybody deprive him of the
right to say what he pleases,
even tho he’s afraid to do it
most of the time.—Atlanta
Journal.
Another Reason
Engineers say it would re
quire a 145 mile wind to blow
down the •? Washington Monu
ment, which is another reason
for Congress to meet indoors.
—Louisville Times.
and store sweet potatoes. I
Potatoes from Black Rot in*
fected soils should not be stor
ed. ' All diseased potatoes j
should be destroyed at harvest
time and not placed in storage.
Before sweet potatoes are plac
ed in the house, it should be
cleared of all decayed sweet po
tatoes or other debris and swept
clean. Then it should be dis
infected by one of several me
thods, any one of which will be
satisfactory if properly carried
out. It is essential that the
cleaning and disinfection be
done thoroughly- if they, are to
be effective in helping to con
trol storage losses. -Among the
several methods of disinfection
are the following:
Spray the entire interior of
the house with a solution of
copper sulphate (Bluestone),
made in the proportions of 2
pounds of copper sulphate to 50
gallons of water. All bins or
other containers previously us
ed should be treated also.
Apply, thoroughly, a coat of
ordinary whitewash to the en
tire interior.
BRIEF;
VERY BRIEF
Roosevelt pledges navy to
maintain treaty ratio. |
Roosevelt letter to clergy like
one ^a Follette wrote in March.
Federal Grand jury to inves
tigate Associated Gas system.
Johnson attacks WPA as
wasteful form of relief.
Coal strike settled with $37,
000,000 wage increase.
Food-price inquiry by Trade
Board is ordered by Roosevelt.
Italy confident she can carry
on despite League sanctions.
Roosevelt, at Boulder Dam,
gives industry job task.
Fats, meats and fruits are
scarce in Germany.
Associated, Gas stockholders
file new suit to question Hop
son.
Kenansville News
Misses Ruth Ingram and Bet-;
ty Jenkins accompanied Mrs.
P. D. May to Goldsboro Satur
day.
Mrs. F. W. McGowan accom
panied Mrs. John A. Gavin to
Salemburg on last Wednesday
afternoon where they were the
guests at the Junior Woman’s
Club Meeting there.
Misses Niece dndCraig of the
local school faculty accompan
ied Mrs. G. V. Gooding and
daughter Theresa to Goldsboro
on Saturday.
Miss Ruth Ingram left Mon
day for Selma, where she will
teach the 12th grade again this
year.
Mrs. H. D. Williams and Miss
Lula Hinson accompanied Mrs.
W. M. Brinson to Warsaw on
last Wednesday afternoon to
the matinee.
Miss Betsy Garrison and her
niece, Miss Louise Campbell
have been visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Albert Outlaw. They re
turned to Pelzer, S. C. on Mon
day of this week.
Mi*s Jayme Martin Duplin
County’d new Home • Demon
stration Agent, accompanied
Mrs. John A. Gavin, Chairman
of the 11th District of N. C. F.
W. C., to Wallace last Friday
night where they were special
guests at the banquet given by
the Wallace Woman’s Club.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Jerritt
made a business trip to Wil
mington one day this week.
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against road injuries
and defects — in
writing.
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SIZES IN PROPORTION
SIZE PRICE
4.4q-2i $5.20
4.50-21 5.70
4.75-19 6.05
SIZE PRICE
4.50-20 $5.50
5.00-19 6.50
5.25-18 7.20
■UDJWI IU CU»IIK«
State sales tax additional.
CAVANAUGH
rKpvrnlpl Co- Inc.
Mrs. Wilbur Adams has re
turned to her home in Angier
after a visit here with her par
ents. / . : I
Mrs. John A. Gavin attend
ed the Council meeting of the
N.„ C. F. W. C. held at New
Bern on Tuesday and Wednes
day of this week. She was ac
companied there by Mrs. E. R.
Penny, who visited her daugh
ter, Mrs. “Shorty” Kafer.
Wilmington Presbytery to Meet
(Wilmington Presbytery will
meet in. the Topsail Presbyter
ian Churoli October 15th; at
11:00 and will continue through
the following day. Delegates
from each one of the churches
of the presbytery together with
the ministers will be in atten
dance. 4
Little Robert Franklin Wil
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lUmson, son of Sheriff
Mrs. D. S. Williamson,
tained a number of his fr
on last Thursday afterna
3:80 in celebration of hi*
birthday. Little tot’a
were played by the little
in the yard and on the spaci
veranda of the attractive'
liamson home. They were an
ervised by Misses Hasel
Lois Williamson. Later
guests were invited into
dning room where the w«
birthday cake, bearing fo
lighted, pink candles, was
and served with lemon
cream. Mrs. Williamson
assisted in serving the lit
folks by Mesdames O. P. Jo
son and. I. C. Burch.
Mrs. Andy Penny was
to the K^nansville Kont
Club on last Wednesday
noon from 3;30 to 6:00 o’clc
Every member was present ;
a good time was had by all.
ter several progressions, sdot
were tallied and it was four
that Mrs; Robert Carroll Y
held high, for which' she
presented a china bon-bon <
Low score, a dainty hand
chief, was presented to
Oliver. Stokes, Delicious
freshments in two. cour
were served by the hostess as
sisted by her mother, Mrs,
Bradshaw. Refreshments
sisted of chicken satajd, pick
olives and crackers with
coffee followed by syllabub at
pound cake.
Rally Day will be observed !
Grove Presbyterian. Church
Sunday,'morning, October 18
1936, at 10:00 o’clock, the
gular S. S. hour, Mrs. Robe
Garroll Wells is chairman
the program committee. She
being assisted by Mrs. Not
wood Boney and Miss Ant
Kate Craig. They are very
■xious to have all pupils
parents take part in the
gram. Friends are cordially
viced to come worship with
also, at this special servict
The theme for the program
year is “Growth in Christ”.
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