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SURPLUSES . . . Now Actual
I think most of our present trou
bles can be traced to the fact that
the rest of the world is unable or
unwilling to buy the surplus of our
farms. I do not believe this export
market for our wheat cotton, tobac
co, live stock and other farm pro
ducts is ever going to come back. I
have seen myself how Italy is mak
ing itself independent of our tobac
co, cotton and wheat, and the other
nations are doing the same thing.
There has been no increase in the
average yield of wheat per acre; it
still stands for the whole nation at
14.4 bushels. But in the five years
from 1925 to 1930 the acreage sown
to wheat in America increased by
21.000,000 acres.
It is vet-y clear to me that the on
ly solution of the farm problem lies
in reducing the quantity and im
proving the quality of farm produc
tion.
MVRPHY .. . . Farmer-Editor
My friend, Frederick E. Murphy,
publisher of the Minneapolis Tribune
is a real farmer as well as a real
newspaper man. He has done more
than any other man to bring the
state of Minnesota up to the front
rank in agricultural prosperity. Mr.
Murphy has put forth a tangible,
workable plan of farm relief.
First, he would have the govern
ment induce the farmer to cut down
crop, acreage, by providing money^
^rewards for those who will do that.
Second, steps should be taken . to
protect dairy and livestock farmers
against imported oil and fats. Third,
he wants quick tariff action against
products of nations whose currency
is depreciated. Fourth on Mr. Mur
phy's program is readjustment of
.farm mortgages at reduced interest,
fifth, the reduction of farm taxes,
sixth, an early revision and settle
ment of the war debts, and seventh,
intensive rsearch looking to wider
industrial uses of farm products.
I think Mr. Murphy’s program will
work. My only doubt about it is
whether the politicians who run our
public affairs will see enough in. it
for themselves to adopt it.
ILLITERACY . . . Declines Here
There are still more than 4,000,
000 Americans over ten years old
who cannot read and write, the Na
tional Advisory Committee in Illiter
acy reports. That is 600,000 fewer
than ten years ago. Georgia has
more illiterates than any other state,
some 300,000, while Wyoming has
the fewest, only about 3,000.
Consider that at the beginning of
our national life hardly more than
one person in ten knew how to read
and write, that within my own mem
ory practically no Negro or Indian
could read or write, and that school
attendance was not compulsory any
where in America w’hen I was a boy,
it seems to me we have gone a long
way in raising the standard of edu
cation to the point where ninety
seven people out of every hundred
are able to read.
The important question, however,
is: “What do they read?” Having
taught ‘them to read, it seems to me
we might devote the next hundred
years to improving their tastes in
reading.
SCRIP .... The Stamp Idea
The latest thing in the form of
money is called “stamped scrip.’’
The idea originated in Germany and
has been adopted in a number of
American cities, to make money cir
culate faster.
In Evanston, Illinois, they work
the scheme this way: The local
retail merchants association put $5,
000 in a bank. Then it issued 5,000
scrip dollars, each one of them good
for a dollar at the bank if presented
within a week. But after one week
it was only good if it had a special
two-cent trading stamp pasted on it.
Nobody but the merchants had these
stamps. You have to spend the dol
lar at a store to make it good. The
next week another stamp has to be
put on it, and so on for a year.
This makes each of these scrip
dollars turn over fifty-two times a
year, -because anyone who holds one
of them has to pay two cents a week
for the privilege of holding it, or
lose bis original dollar.
Our principal money trouble is not
a shortage of money but the fact
that it is not moving fast enough.
This scrip plan is said to be working
well in the towns that have tried it.
PROSPERITY . . at Rowley, la.
I pass my compliments to the town
of Rowley, Iowa. Rowley has 205
population, living in sixty houses;
there are fifteen business institu
tions including a bank and three
churches. And it is the most 'pros
perous town in America, if not in
the world. ,
There is not a single delinquent
tax payer in the town. Not one resi
dent of the town is on the county
poor list. There has never been a
hank failure.
If 208 people in one community
Y.W.CA. Girls in Homeland Costumes
Young Women’s Christian Association homes in cities throughout
the country are featuring “Nativeland Evenings” wherein girls
every 1°"^ don native costumes and tefl of home lands. Here are Elaine
Swanson, Finland, and Marioara Pabei of Rumania in native costumes at
a Detroit, (Mich.) Y. W. C. A. evening.__
Wants 1934 American Flight into Stratosphere
PAS
Professor Auguste Piccard, noted Belgian scientist who went ten miles
in the stratosphere, is now in America for a lecture tour. He thinks
TtaUoon ascension in his metal ball should be made at a northern latitude
of America daring 1934 because of oar nearness to the magnet* pole, thus
better able to study the cosmic ray. He says it wUl notbe -Decennary
for h«m to again make the trip, but only direct the work. Prof. Hteeard,
(left) was greeted at New York by Us twin brother, Jean Piccard, of
MmlnlMai. iVllwiwT _
can manage their affairs as well as
that, there seems to he no reason
why 205,000 people, or two million
people., or any number of people can
not do equally well.
The answer, of course, is politics.
Rowley has no large list of salaried
taxeaters. Its people run thefr own
affairs.
Plan Organization to
Promote Rural Life
Community organizations i n
which will be welded all the social
forces of the rural community in
co-operation with the Agricultural
Extension Service for the general im
provement of farming and rural life
will be attempted in North Carolina
during this year under the
guidance of home and farm agents,
vocational teachers, the Grange, and
other agencies now existing in most
counties.
The Extension Service of State
College is now working on plans for
a model community organization and
when these are completed a bulletin
on ‘‘Community Organization in
North Carolina” will be published.
The plan of organization is modeled
somewhat after those now in oper
:u idsuui i.
ation in Virginia anu
There will be a central executive
committee for the county with the
proper county officers and with com
mittees for each community in the
county. These committees will be
responsible for any program of work
to be attempted by the people wheth
er it be in home gardening, canning,
poultry raising, soil fertility, home
beautification or any other such
activity.
The county home and farm agents
will work with and through the
communities attending all the meet
ings and securing the necessary aid
and information where desired.
In announcing this, plan for a
more intense community effort. Dean
I. O. Schaub, director of the Exten
sion Service, says the time has
passed for the county agent to de
vote his or her whole time in at
tempting to work with individuals.
At the present time, the home agents
have well-organized demonstration
clubs welded into county federa
tions and guided by county councils
of farm women. The farm agents
also have boards of agriculture
which work with the agents in an
advisory capacity. There is need,
however, for a further welding of
community and county effort and
this will be attempted in the new
set-up which will be tried next year
in a number ,of selected counties as
a begianing. v
COUNTERFEIT COINS
Spurious 50-cent pieces, erudei im
itations of the official United States
coin, have been distributed in the
vicinity of Concord recently. Three
of the counterfeit coins, identical
except for the date, were accepted
by a filling station and turned ovei
to the police.
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BE OF JOY AND GOOD CHEER
Something more than a hundred
years ago a sermon was preached
in St. John’s Church, New York,
which dealt very severely with the
frailties of poor human nature, and
put forth, with unctuous assurance,
the promise of eternal punishment
for a large proportion of the race.
Among the worshipers was a gentle
man of unfortunate reputation but
keen mind, whose name lingers un
forgettably in our history. As he
left the church a lady spoke to him:
“What do you think of the ser
mon, Mr. Burr?” she asked.
“I think,” responded Aaron Burr,
“that God is better than most peo
ple suppose.”
That was the message of Jesus—
that God is supremely better than
anybody had ever dared to believe.
Not a petulant Creator, who had
lost control of his creation and, in
wrath, was determined to destroy it.
Not a stern judge dispensing im
personal justice. Not a vain King
who must be flattered and bribed
into concessions of mercy. Not a
rigid Accountant, checking up the
sins against the penances and strik
ing a cold hard balance. Not any
of these . . . nothing like these . . .
but a great Companion, a wonderful
Friend, a kindly indulgent, joy-lov
ing father ...
For three years Jesus wameu up
and down the shores of his lake and
through the streets of towns and
cities, trying to make them under
stand. Then came the end, and al
most before his fine firm flesh was
cold, the distortion began. He had
cared rothing for ceremonies and
forms was made the idol of formal
ism. Men hid themselves in monas
teries; they lashed themselves with
whips; they tortured their skins with
harsh garments and cried out that
they were followers of Him of Him
who loved the crowd, who gathered
children about him wherever he
went, who celebrated the calling of
a newr disciple with a feast in which
all the neighborhood joined.
His last supper with his disciples
was an hour of solemn memories.
Their minds were heavy with fore
boding. He talked earnestly, but
the whole purpose of his talk was to
lift up their hearts, to make them
think nobly of themselves, to fill
their spiri*s with a conquering faith.
“My joy I leave w’ith you,” he
exclaimed.
“Be of good cheer,” he exclaimed.
Joy . . . cheer . . . these are the
words by which he wished to be re
membered. But down through the
ages has come the wicked falsehood
that Jesus never laughed.
TIME FOR EVERYTHING
The disciples had many worries.
They wanted to get it clear as to
their relative positions in the new
Kingdom; they were concerned be
cause outsiders, not properly initia
ted Into the organization, were
claiming to be followers of Jesus
and doing miracles in his name.
They fretted because there waB so
much work to be done and the days
too short for doing it.
But Jesus towered magnifioently
above it all. Wherever he went the
children flocked. Pomp and circum
stances mean nothing to them. Their
instinct cuts through all outward
semblance with a keen swjft edge.
So they swarmed around, tugging at
his garments, climbing on his knees,
begging to hear more of his stories.
It was all highly improper and
wasteful in the disciples’ eyes. But
Jesus would have none of it. “Suf
fer little children to come unto
me!” he commanded. And he added
one of those sayings which should
make so clear the message of his
gospel. “They are the very essenc3
of the Kingdom of Heaven,” he said,
“unless you become like them you
shall in no wise enter in.” Like
them . . . like children . . . laughing
. . . joyous ... unaffected . . . trust
ing implicitly . . . with time to be
kind.
To be sure Jesus was not always
in the crowd. He had his long
hours of withdrawal when, in com
munion with his Father, he refilled
the deep reservoirs of his strength
and love. Toward the end he was
more preoccupied. He knew months
in advance that if he made another
journey to Jerusalem his fate would
be sealed; yet he never wavered in
his decision to make that journey.
Starting out on it, his mind filled
with the approaching conflict, his
Bhoulders burdened with the whole
world’s need, he heard his name
called out from the roadside in shrill
unfamiliar tones. “Jesus . . . Jesus
... . thou son of David . . . have
mercy on me.”
It was the voice of a useless blind
beggar.
Jesus stopped.
"Who called my name?”
“ “Nobody, Master . . . only a
blind beggar ... a worthless fellow
. . . Bartimaeus . . . nobody at all
. . . we’ll tend to him,”- said the dis
ciples.
' “Bring him here.”
Trembling with hope he was
guided forward. The deep eyss of
the Master looked into those sight
less eyes. The mind which had been
buried in the greatest problem with
which a mind ever wrestled, gave it
self unreservedly to the problem of
one forlorn human life. Here was
need: and He had time.The
man was healed.
THREE HURT IN CRASH
Three persons were seriously in
jured in Winston-Salem Sunday
when an airplane crashed in a va
cant lot on the outskirts of the city.
The injured were: George Pope,
piiot, lacerations; William Hill, bro
ken leg. and Stokes Swain, dislo
cated hip.
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix
of the estate of R. H. Hackler, de
ceased, notice is hereby given to all
persons holding claims against the
estate to present them to the under
signed within twelve months from
this date or this notice will be plead
in bar of recovery. All persons in
debted to the estate are notified to
make immediate settlement.
This January 25, 1933.
MRS. LURA HACKLER,
3_3 Administratrix.
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