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. |
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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.
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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." •
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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- !
<on out of the ferttlbser mixtures til* |
together.
Program Announced
For Baptist Church
Thr Rev Clarence V. Martin. pas*
i«r of the Second Baptist church,
utnounrni the following program
for Sunday t
n.'i.i a m Bible school. 11:00 pub*
Ho worship. Sermon by the pastor
on the subject: "Inventing Widely."
too p> 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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