I Reduction Campaign Benefits Work Only If A11 Cooperate ■Hu. blowing article on the cot tj jetton campaign is by F. H. ,p.,.r in nil page editor of The cl, . ,,tu Observer, and appeared paper on Monday. Cotton grosvt here who are perplexed f.h ut the campaign now under way &rf urged to read it. Mr. Jeter says: •■\Vliat about, the fellow who will f-itni the contract. What are planning to do with him? Can hr plant the same acreage of cot (o tha he has always planted and be ready to cash in on the reduc tion made by co-operating growers?” These are some of the questions which have been fired at me in re cent days. And the answers have not been prepared. Of course, pub iic opinion will force many selfish jpine. into the ranks of the sign The community should treat , h contempt any man who fails 4gn a reduction contract which s be n planned for the good of ! South as a whole and for winch liberal payments are being D i .ided by a sympathetic gove a Diellt. But say that public opinion does p,-.; react and there will be a larg . i .mb. r of growers who will not sign. Then, the purpose of the re duerion program will be defeated ?ml we will all go to the devil to cher next fall. Part of the good price we got for cotton last fall was based on the idea that the crop iki be reduced this season. Part 0; the good price now being of fered for cotton is based on the „.fi that growers co-operated to plow up 10.000.000 ceres of the -rowing crop last summer and the buying market felt that the farm ers would co-operate with their government again this year. If the cowers do not co-operate, they will -ct. only lose the benefit payments ro;n the government but will get i lew price again. Therefore public opinion should -ruse every grower to have a part h this coming campaign. It will damage some of us. It is going to nut me on my little place, but I ii&ve already signed a contract be ;■ v'-ns that it is only by the co-op ■ratiofl of every one that ’he ■.neatest benefits will be obtained text fall. I am not so concerned about the rental payments for they tre not anything to boast about. But I am concerned about what ■".non will sell for this fall and with a surplus of 13 million bales it existence, we must cut produc io;i if. we expect to get anything! Therefore, if any large number 'of growers fail to sign, the whole nurpose of the program will be de feated. What will happen to these ’folks?" The answer Is simple. The ' Atnculrural Adjustment act per rn’iis of a licensing system. It is r-ntirely within the power of the Secretary of Agriculture to prevent . noil-signer from selling his cot ter. on the market entirely or to permit him to sell only a given 1 amount. Therefore, if I were a non ri?ner, I would be a little disturb ed about what would happen t° si" cotton next fall. Particularly would I be dis turbed, under such a circumstance. ( after I had gone to the labor and expense of making the crop. It would be "iust too bad" to grow a . nice crop of cotton on a full acre age expecting to cash in on the re- 1 auction efforts of my fellow-citi zen and then be caught with the crop. And I believe this will hap pen. I spent all of last week in Washington assisting with the cot ton information program for thei nation. While there, I asked cer-;, tain questions of Mr. Cobb and others about what would happen to ] % non-signer. One of these men raid he would be afraid to risk his , money on producing a crop with- , Gw signing a contract. Bits have already been intro- ( dueed ln the Congress aimed at the non-coeperating grower. These biiis may not pass but whether they pass or not the Secretary of , Agriculture has been given author- ( ‘tj to make the necessary rulings , to secure a reduction in any basic ( ce: ’> crop. Cotton is such a crop ind we can depend on it that the , Secretary will see to it that the | crop is reduced. If this reduction j can lif t be secured by paying the j ?roAers the rental benefits of 3 1-2 , csn;s a pound on his average pro- , duetjon from 1928 to 1932 and , guaranteeing him one cent a pound , 011 to per cent of his production , hex; fall, then other and more , cm lie steps will be taken. T be- , licve of the two. I would rather j co-op>M!i lc and be paid for doing Hit-Pun Driver Kills Two Persons i -- 1 Wiiaon, Jan. 16.—Two pedestrians < "’ere killed by a hit-and-run auto- 1 “Qbiie on the Wilson-Smithfield - highway and despite an intensive t >'?8ri'' by officers no trace of the ] ^ ife ear had been found late to da; I victims were J. M. Best. 60- i Jcur-old Wayne county man. and ] baray May Marlowe, 25-year-old JKknan. Best’s skull was crushed and i e died almost instantly. Miss Mar- i zsv died shortly after being i to a hospital here. | _ 340 to Millions If you read it in a novel, you’d say the author had a highly-colored imagination, btit here it is under oath. Charles W. Deeds, treasurer of United Aircraft Transportation Co., tells Senate committee probing air mail contracts how he received $5,600,000 of aircraft stock with an initial outlay of $40. Ilis father is Colonel E. A. Deeds, war flier. Reading Of News Leads Diversions 5,002 Persons Ar/swering Question naire Prefer Newspaper And Magazine Reading. New York, Jan 18.—Newspaper and magazine reading was found to be the most popular diversion in die leisure hours of H.002 persons answering a questi nfnairs of the National Recreation society. Returns on the questionnaire, listing 94 activities, showed the 10 in which most persons participated n orders were reading newspapers md magazines, attending movies visiting or entertaining others, ■ending fiction books, motoring, swimming, letter vrrting, reading non-fiction books and coavetsaiiow rhe survey covered 29 cities. There were 3.977 listing newspa per and magazine reading and 2, 35 listing conversation. Tire same recreations were the mes engaged in mot:: often. Orders )f popularity differed with the ex ception of reading. Things people wanted to do prin cipally, in order of preference, were ennis, swimming, boating, playing roll', camping, caring for flower gardens, playing musical instru ments, motoring, theater-going and ,ce skating. I Time Is Now Up For Tax Returns Revenue Department Busily Cheek ing Over Statements to See Who Has Obeyed Law. Raleigh, Jan. 17.—With the time taving expired for tiling of tax ,'c x>rts by every retail merchant in he state, the State department of ■evenue today was busily engaged n checking over the filed state nents and ascertaining if any nerehants have not complied with he law. Time for filing reports expired on lanuary 15. Every retail merchant in the tate was required to file by that late a statement of his status in egard to the sales tax of three per eut. Today A. J. Maxwell, commis ioner of revenue, released an opin on from the office of Dennis G. Irummitt, attorney general, giving he revenue department the power mder the sales tax law to not only ■xamine the books and accounts of etail merchants to see If they are omplying with the law but also -iving the department power to ixamine accounts and books of wholesalers and distributors who lave made sales to the merchants. A. A. P. Seawell, assistant attor ley general wrote the opinion. Commenting on it. Maxwell said in i. statement: "Under this ruling the depart nent of revenue wil1 have access lot only to the books and records if the retail merchant, but will lave access to the records of all wholesalers and distributors to nable them to check the source of uircha.se by retail merchants. This section of the sales ta< aw, together with the ruling of the lepartment, will furnish the de lartment of revenue with every ivailable assistance in collecting he sales tax revenues and in check r.g against merchants making re urns as well as the,'1' who fall to nuke returns." • -1 Quality Cotton Should Be Goal Of Farmer* Now Cabarrus Farm Agent Urge* Fann ers To Concentrate On Quality. Concord, Jan. 18 -Now that cot ton growers plan to reduce their tcreage by 40 per cent this season, it will be wise to bend every effort to. (trow quality cotton on the land they do cultivate, according to R. T> Goodman, county farm agent. To secure the best results with various soils of the state, he advo cates the following fertiliser mix tures : An application of 500 to 600 lbs per acre on sandy, loam, or sandy loarn soils on the coastal plain a mixture of 4 per cent nitrogen. 8 percent available phosphoric add, and 4 iter cent potash. About 15 *o , 20 per cent of the nitrogen should Ik- derived from cottonseed meat, . fish scrap, dried blood, or .slaughter- | house tankage. The remainder I should come from ..uch materials ns I sulphate of ammonia or nitrite of 1 soda. Average soils in the Piedmont sec- i Won should have 500 to 000 pounds ! to the acre of a mixture containing I 4 per cent nitrogen, to per cent i phosphoric acid, and 4 per cent pot* ' ash. Blnekjack soils, however, i should (rave n mixture of 4 per cent : nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid, : ***.*■ iiul U )ter cent potash. Soils of Uie i tfnckjack type require heavy pot* j uili applications to prevent cotton! uat. All soils high In organic matter ihoultl reeelvc fertiliser with 113 to i0 per cent reductions In the nitro ren content. Highly organic soils are hose on which soybeans, cowpeas. •lover and such like have been .timed under. There ate also soils taturally high In organic content, inch as the Portsmouth and the llftden sol ta. The farmers ran determine for .hemselves, In » getctr! way, wheth er tint full ration of nitrogen I; needed, Goodman said. Where the growth is too tall and rank, the sot (ras contained plenty of nitrogen Where the growth has been execs dvr, It, may be well to leave nltro- ! in. Il.Y.P.U. l oo song and prayer service: 7:30 sermon by the pastor on the subject, "Mm. lot." 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