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Memphis, Tenn , Fob. 4 —An in crease of 25 per cent in food feed and forage crops and a similar de crease in cotton acreage was urged by J. S. Wanamaker, president of the American Cotton Association, ar a program essential to the welfare of the Southern farmer and outlined a plan of campaign proposed to bring about a reduced cotton acreage dur ing the coming crop year. Mr. Wannamaker, delivering the keynote address at the opening ses sion today of the South-wide cotton acreage reduction convention here, told delegates to the convention that cotton acreage must be cut at least 25 per cent if the Southern farmer is to prosper. Under the plan outlined by Mr. Wanamaker campaigns to insure an increased food and feed crops and decrease in cotton acreage will be placed in the hands of the State com missioners of Agriculture, extension ; crVice officials, bankers committees and representatives of the American Cotton Association in the various States. “All who realize the paramount importance of this campaign to the cotton farmer and economic life of the entire South will co-operate and push the work to a successful con clusion,” Mr. Wanamaker said in urging that today cotton u selling below the cost of production. “We should immediately take steps to organize the cotton producing indus try of the entire South, so as to sta bilize profit:: along these lines. It i: only in this way that permanent prosperity can be brought to the South and the entire Nation benefit? tod. If thi i not done the cotton producer is doomed to sink to a low er standard of living.” Record of 30 years give proof, bn declared, that every effort on the rnii't of, the Southern cotton farmer to increase food, feed and forage out put, and other money crops be* • ides cotton have reunited in higher cotton prices. * We have been without a Nation al agricultural policy and agricult ure has been without adequate re presentation at the National Capita! practically since the War Between ' i ho States,” Mr. Wanamaker said in urging that the Southern farmer : houJd hetir himself to work put hi. own problems. He declared that relief through National legislation could dome onh through correlation of the South and the West. Control of food, feed, forage and cotton acreage under the supervision iff joint com mi-tees or boards—1:> be made possible by uniform legislation in the various cotton States—was of fered by Mr. Wanamaker as a mean to bring relief to the agricultural in terests in the South and urged a further move for the betterment o the farmer that the Government <-f each State within the cotton belt name a special cotton commission of six men to study the problem and jointly prepare uniform legislation. Such legislation he sa d, should create the necessary machinery for retiring such proportions of the cot ton crop as excess of demand, .the joint cotton commissions to decide each year the amount of cotton to be retired from time to time, the cotton to be warehoused and deb entures issued, against warehouse receipts, the debentures to be uch as could be sold in the open market. Self-sustaining farmers, extensive rotation and diversification of crops were emphasized by Mr. Wanamak ev as all-essential to til", success of the Southern planler. H-1 urge! to f uch a level to insure its silling at a profitable price. Piedmont Section Plans for Future l’ublicitv Board Meets at Gate City for Purpose of Perfecting Ad vertising Greensboro, Feb, 2.—The publicity board of the recently organized Pied mont association, formed at Salisbury to present to the world the advant ages of Piedmont North Carolina, met here Monday night to consider concrete plans. Object of the meeting was con sidered as successfully consummated and enthusiasm marked the gatrterine of the board, which is composed oi Col. Wade Harris, editor of The Charlotte Observer; John Paul Lucas and Clarence Keuster, also of C har lotte; W. C. Jerome, of Winston Salem; Jefferson Penn, of Heidv.lle. C. M. Ketchum and C. J. Balhett, of Greensboro. The resources opportunities and advantages of the Piedmont section will be laid before the nation in a comprehensive effective way. It was decided to cull a meeting for February 18 at the Yadkin hotel in Salisbury, Invitations will be sent to two hundred persons throughout the piedmont. All the members of t ie hoard were present tonight except Colonel Har ris. You can train almost any dog to stay at home, but not a jazzhound. ; -Men aren’t witter while drunk, they just seem that way to other drunks. , . i It isn’t so difficult to achoive uni que individualism. Just tell the un varnished truth. r (Charlotte News. > With much of what Judge Hard-! inir -aid to the Lions in his address I laws in the one have! Monday concerning the traffic <tf the State, vie find oursclve agreement. ( hainnan Frank Page said other day speaking to another of the, civic clubs here,, that We 1’° biany traffic laws that even the ^ most law-abiding people of the State' do not pretend to observe them, j They are more honored in the breach j than in the observance. Judge Harding was making the1 same point and making it pointedly, I but in whatever revision of these re-1 gulations which may he sensible and i necessary, let us. not conclude that we need to abandon the limit at which a ear, can go on the highways altogether. The law now allows an automobile t(i run •’"> miles .and that's fast I enough, too fast, in fact, for many of the drivers of today, and fast enough for anybody who has any re-, , spect. !-->'r the.r o-.vn limbs and lives. ; To abolish the law relating to, j speed on the highway:- altogether j would be to do a silly thing in the I i judgement of this newspaper. It would - open w le the gates for un-l l controlled recklessness' . on these road-. Giving everybody the legal; right to open up their cars and d* ive 1 ithc-m a* whatever speed th v can j make ivould turn the highways into [ : a ''.noble speedway, the r :.-ui| of vvhi-.h wo Would-be forced to reckon . in :'a- ;s of hi: o ! aid tears. Of ut-rre. with the law at 35 mile: ; • v b ur. it violated, but the wr,. hat lite limit is there serves as i act a bank's to many. and 35 miles is , fast enough to -travel over any of the '•■pad: that pas through ncciions'tlir. ; erf at a!! po,pious, 1 - We ihappe ad to <*:> no later .than i Monday on. one of the highways of t: fount y a motorcycle rider rac ing p ong th? fin? bird-surfaced thc | .e.sghfare, stopping at no probable ’ point of peril, but maintaining a i .-peed that must have been not under 90 miles an hour over tin? strait--hi , stretches and around th ■ curves. Tie 1 darted bv st store around which were ..nserr.blcd r. half dozen automob i-.s at the same speed and, fortunate! .' A i half hundred i t bool children who | usually mount and dismount a truck just at this point hud disappeared. Otherwise, what might have hap pened is too ghastly to contemplate. , This' man violated' .the law, ot j course, but while he was dbregard ; fid of it, seor; of others held it in recollection and tiiu prevented the ; conversion of this highway, and all ‘the other highways, into a speedway along which they can roar their nsa ' chines at any rate they arc capable of making. i It is necessary of course to make some revi don or the traffic laws, but ' if is still essential to fix a limit t« the rate at which cars can be driven until at least, we have a lot fewer fools than we have now. Call of the Movies Draws Its Milhous a few years ago nobody went to ie movies; there were no movies to > to. Now 150.000,000 go every eek; there are not that many people the country; but some of the re ilars are on duty nearly every gh.t, which lets some of the rest of ; take a night off to seek other di ■rsiona, says the Syracuse Post andard. To seat and shelter this vast throng a picture people have provided 20, ,9 movie theatres. All of which eans that we have become not mo c mad, but pretty generally given er to the movie habit, sufficiently rta'n to constitute us a thoroughly mpetent court to pass upon the erits of the individual productions they pass in quick succession. A motion picture magazine has un rtaken to find out what movie the ■ople like best every year. There is idence of public taste in the s*!ec made for the years immedi ely preceding 1925 which include 'oi’ablc David,” “Humorsque,” “Ro ll Hood" and “The Covered Wa in.’ These as a group show the long vance that has been made in a „rt time. Will 1920 go to some ing better? SHELBY MAN RELATES OF FIRST BREACHES (Charlotte Observer) “If you keep your ears and eyes open you will learn something new every day,” said a Shelby man. in town for a short time yesterday. “The thing I have learned today, said he, "is the name of the first Methodist remhe in America. Do you know it? It was Phillip Em bury. He came here in 1766, I am told He had been in the Irish Metho- j dist church. He found a number of Irish Methodists in New York divid ed UP into small congregations that, met in his house. He was an earnest good man. ’ It isn’t necessary to have an auto mobile to run down one’s neighbors. —Judge, er. “Oh, no doubt. But there isn’t any other way out, so I’ll pay you what you demand.’’American Legion. RUIN 10 FARMER Mr. Ford Com mends Message To Farmer.-, Appealing For More Food Crops and Less Cotton. To The Editor of The Star: I have just read with quite a lot of interest the full page letter ad dressed to the Farmers of Cleveland County contained in your Wednes day’s issue of The Star and signed 1*1’ our banking institutions and sev er:’! of our prominent and influential citizens. To my mind this is one of the most important articles that we readers of The Star have had the privilege of reading for some time. And it comet, right at the time when its import can not tie emphasized and stressed too much. Our farmers are just preparing to launch out upon the task of produc ing another crop, or I might fay sev eral crops, and the putting into prai tiec the tilings advocated in the let ter to which I have just referred means the very salvation of our good and outstanding county To turn a deaf ear to this appeal, and to con tinue our present method of farming is to say the least dangerous and de structive, and one more real short crop year means a “busted” county. These gentlemen practically tell us t'rib in their letter--they just say it in a different way, I don’t think I am unduly excited over the si* nation, but lam intensely interested in the pro gre and welfare of our county. I behove in the citizenship of our coun 1”. 1 can', help but believe our farm its are above the average when if conies, to thrift and progressiveness, ni the county’s past record will bear mo out. in this contention. But th. time has come as I see it '.vbi’n cur farmers must.change their taffies. As a county we cannot afford to continue to raise ail cotton at the expense and neglect of other products that are erscntial in the advance ment of our county, and can be so easily and profitably produced at ho;- e. 1 don’t mean -hat we ought riot to grow cotton extensively, for we nil know our soil is very adaptable to the Fucccsaful growth of cotton, and v.e must continue to grow it in a 1 ige way. but not at tne sacrifice of all the other necessities of life. Ouv soils are just about as adaptable ic the growth of these necessities an the sections are from whence we get them. If there is any one class of people 1 i m particularly interested in it is the farmers, and of course in a way this is selfishness. Abut 90 per cen* of all our business dealings is with the farmers, and when he prosper md makes money, we necessarily share with him a portion of this prosperity. Farmers come into our place near ly e very day complaining of the fact that they have made very little if any money out of their crops for the part' two years. Not-with-standing the fact that they have produced mors cotton in this county in the last twe years than was ever produced in any two consecutive years in the history of the county. And the evident rea son for this is the farmer has beer forced to buy practically all his sup plies. including, hay oats, corn and flour at a high price, instead of rais ing them at home and putting the difference in his pocket or better still in the bant. Selling hay and feeds to the farm ers is a part of our business, and you might wonder why I am advising against the buying of these commo dities whop wo -make a little profit cn them. We also carry in stock for sale- to the farmers dusting ma chines Tor boll weevils, but we thank our Maker that wo have never had occasion to sell one in Cleveland county, and we hope we never will and I am hoping and praying that the day will soon come when there will not be a hale of hay or a bag of feed of any kind shipped into Cleve land county, but instead our farm ers will have a surplus of these things including produce of all kinds to be furnished to those who rre not so fortunate in having soils that will successfully and profitably grown these things. Now 1 don’t know what I have bad to say in this letter will add anv weight to what has already been said about diversification but. if it doesn’t and you see fit to publish this letter I will certainly have had the satis faction of expressing my sincere sentiments to a good many folks with ti e hope that our farmers might ‘Stop, Look and Listen.” The letter addressed the farmers of Cleveland county ought to appeal to our farniers because of the sound sensible advice contained in it, and because of the fifle brotherly and helpful spirit manifested in same, and because it is signed by men who arc in nosit’on to know what they are talking about, and these men in clude some of our biggest ar.d best farmers, lawyers, business men and bankers. TIIAD C. FORD. If you aren’t bright and covet a reputation for brilliance, just learn to deride. Among those who seem unable to solve the problem of distribution is the weather man. Ill fares the land where the impres sion grows that the penitentiary is for pikers. No man can hope to astonish the world; but he can avoid jail and as tonish the old home town. To the warning ('Top ; Crossing;. Cautiously” there should ho added “Meet Motors Carefully'' and Cass Pedestrians Prudently.” Cop (to speeder): Do you know the law? Driver: I'm a judge. Cop Answer my c|uesti<m. How wonderful to he o young. ' says Ike Griffin, that flivver coupe ! contain.ng five isn't crowded! “Speak gently, it is hotter far," to j thus reply when a traffic policeman bawl: you out. \Yt nan's Broadening Dominions While wait'ng for two ladies to get hair cuts and r. third to get a j h**ek shave this week a Shelby man took a punctured tire to the garage and found the garage man busy vul canizing u rubber reducing corset. You've heard of a lot of wealth on I paper, hut Wm. Linebergor says a lot | of Ann yican wealth is on wheel:. Stop, Look Listen j lie was speeding in his flivver, 'Bushing eastward by the river, ( He was giving lurching lizzie all The gas he could give iter; (Till he jammed upon the brake, Making lizzie snort and shake, But tlte train came roaring on him; | He had made h.s last mistake. i He got stalled upon the track; ; Hadn’t time to start or bad;. So ho made heroic efforts to j Abandon his old hack, AH too soon he breathed hi la=t, ' For. the train war much toe fan; ; He war, greeting old St. Peter by I The time three coaches p:i red. Never more 1; '.'”11 speed a is flivver, Urge t eastward by the river; Never more will lie give lizzie all The gas that he con give her; | After he was struck that <! iy. ! He soon STOPPED, but people say | That he’ll never LOOK- and LISTEN ’Cause, lie’s too darne l far uvuy. j. There seems to be no such thing I as a noiseless truck. Some trucks are more noisy than others, if pos s.ble. That’s all. Surgeon—(to patient - who has just (been hit by aft automobile): ’’Til sew j up that scalp wound for $25.” Patient: “Qee, Doc. 1 want just : plain sewing—not hemstitching.” i --— A. man who has attended 1,-~ i School of Hard Knocks, says G. V. ! Hawkins would feel perfectly at home | in a flivver. | Mrs. O’Nagg—“What are you driv | ing the car so fast for?” Mr. O’Nagg—“You want to go tc Bluffport, don’t you?” Mrs. O’Nagg—Yes, of course,” Mr. O’Nagg—“Well, I ani trying to get there before vou change your mind.” “Your friend, Mr. Umph, has had iiis machine in our garage for over a month. I think it’s perfectly out rageous.” “Well, I'll admit it is uncalled for.” The stop signals on the averue lending into Main sir set always rt> !mind us of a girl we used to know before we were married. Is It The Jobs? Don’t know who is at fault in the contentions that have arifcen as to the division of the state for a new kourt district. But if the new court s a real need., as seems to be con- j ceded, those who are considering j their personal interests, who have private ends to serve rather than tiiei public good, and whose obstinacy | may obstruct justice by delaying the administration of the law, deserve to have something bad happen to them. In some sections of the state when they work up a feud about the loca tion of a school house the disappoint- i ed proceed to dynamite or burn the i building. If they can't have it where they want it there will be no school, j Washington report indicates the i same spirit as to the now court dis trict. If they can’t have the lines run B3 desired there may be no addition al court. If it is a matter as to who gets the jobs, then it could be honed that all who have more private than public concern will get left, —Clark’s comment in Greensboro News. Fidel i i Class Notice Arc you a member of the Fidelia class of the First Bapt.st church, Shelby ? The teacher, and officers of this class, arc anxious to have every mem ber present Sunday. Come at 9:45 and bring a friend. We need you. ad. Progress: Man dies for a principle, ten years later men decide the prim ciple is wrong. What’s the use? No sooner was prison life made attractive than jur ies began to block the way to it. TOT'aSff'SS u\i Why not invest your savings—those hard earned savings—in something solid, something substantia!—in other words, an interest in your community? By doing so you acquire security and dignified position—a right to raise your family amid surroundings they are entitled to. HOME OWNING MADE EASY THROUGH BUILDING & LOAN. There’s A Plan To Suit Every Need! —25c A Share— Invested. Weekly Matures $100 in About 6 1-2 Years! -—50c A Share— Invested Weekly Matures $100 in About 3 1-2 Years! INSTALLMENT STOCK EARNS S£% NET. And You Can Borrow On Yowr Stock While You Are Saving! BUY SOME PAID UP SHARES NOW! Our New Series Open Saturday, February Gih. Paid-Up Stock $72.50 Cash Per Share; Pays $100 in 331 Weeks. NEW SERIES OPENS FEBRUARY 6TH—SUBSCRIPTION BOOKS OPEN NOW—JOIN! Shelby Building & Loan Asso. J. F. ROBERTS, Secretary-Treasurer.
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