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TOBACCO MARKETING Open Forum for Expres sions for or Against Co operative Marketing SIX THOUSAND MORE HAVE SIGNED TOBACCO ASSO. Six thousand new members-thirty million pounds more.of tobacco, added to the Tri-State Pool of the Tobacco Growers Co-operative Association luring the past three months prove the irresistible prgress of the move ment which now includes over 72,000 tobacco farmers of the Carolinas and Virginia. The directors of this largest to operative Morketing Association in America, who are tobacco farmers elected by their fellow growers of to bacco, predict that this recent in crease of members and pounds will be doubled before the warehouses open. When 175 warehouses of the or ganized growers open their doors, those who have failed to sign the con tract, must trust their crop to the auction warehouses for another year, according to the directors. The minority of growers in three States who are waiting to see what the auction system will do with their tobacco this year becomes smaller by hundreds every day. Since thousands of Eastern Caro lina growers heard the message of Aaron Sapiro and the doors of four big warehouses towns swung open in Eastern Carolina the campaign has taken on new life. Several Eastern North Carolina counties have now passed an 80 per cent sign-up and intense campaigning continues by warehousemen of the as sociation to bring the average sign-up of the Eastern Carolina counties to more than 75 per cent of their pro duction. Celebrating the successful sign-up of 85 per cent of Surry county to hacco, thousands of farmers from six counties staged a mammoth meeting at Elkin, N. C., last Saturday where Oliver J. Sands Executive Manager of the association assured the grow ers of the successful progress of each department of the marketing asso ciation. Hundreds of contracts from Virginia and South Carolina reaced Raleigh headquarters last week. SAPIRO'S CAMPAIGN We must confess that we are not impressed with the campaign of Mr. Aaron Sapiro, the California lawyer who is in this state seeking to line up the farmers for co-operative mar keting. He seeks to arouse the feel ings and prejudices of those in his audiences, against the warehousemen who dare to conduct their business as they have a right to (o under the law and the constitution, just as much as Mr. Sapiro has the right to organize the farmers to sell their to bacco in a pool. In other words it is nothing more or less than a business proposition and that is all there is to it, and it seems to us that Mr. Sapiro is rather hurting his causes when he criticises the warehousemen who dare open their warehouses and refuse to come into his pool, for we repeat who can honestly blame them for not being willing to give over a business in which they have spent their lives, to an uncertainty where there is no guarantee, and there can be no guarantce that they will even come out whole with their business intnct as it was before and their property free of encumbrances if they should accept the dlictunm of Mr. Sapiro and qluietly acquiesce in his plan. 13ut there is another reason wvhy The Times cannot sit idlly by and publish articles that the Co-operative Marketing- Association is sendling out bronadcast in quoting from Mr. Sapiro without eriticism- tor it reaches quite as deepl y the morale and the confIi d ance of the people* and their intel ligence. and sane development as the e'conom ic side of the situation in the stale of their tobacco, and it is this: What if the farimers of Eastern North Carolina take Mr. Sapiro at his wor'd and believe that the ware housemeni of Wilson and Eastern North (Carol ina who darec to sell their tobacco on the open* market are wvolves, hypocrites, and blind sheep? M~r. Sapiro may be able to any that and( get away with it because he will re(turnl to his home in California and the spaice (of ai continent will' dlide mmm~'~'. i~ty where he has dropal pod the seed of his meendliar'y doe trline and where he abides. But wha: of the' folks in eastern North <aretina, if they shall believe all that Mr i. Sapiro has pictured thenm?i The 'only thing in the wvorld worth while is eaiontidenc'e, on that our homes andl e'redtit are built, and imer ftrade and rely (on the word oif eac((h other, but if they are wolves how can they have any faith in each ot herb We ha v' noticedl that nearly every farmers move ment. generally ends in 'tn appeal to pr'ejudlice and paitison rathIr' thban reason. Why is this? Iit bau se the leaders oif these movemen1i't s lel iive the farmers are tools ant cannot, he aroulsed in any other way, or that they really feel that every business men who has anything to do with the farmers starts out with the sole intent and purpose >f skinning him. WVe are thankful to say that the W.L. I 60ES9 H OME VLA' SWEET HOME FOt-KS W/ANT TO GE At.ONE~ av farmers of Wilson county have, learned in the sad school of expe rience that every one Who comes along with such talk is not to be relied on, and whonever'they do, they take what is said with a grain of salt ami they should. The whole truth of the matter is that the farm ers have a right to pool their tobacco if they feel it is to their interest, and on the other hand the farmer who does not care to pool his tobacco and sell it on the open market has an equal right to do so, and the ware houseman has just as much right to open his warehouse and sell tobacco as the warehouseman who so desires has the right to place his in a pool. We are simply writing this edito rial to say that any campaign that seeks to array one class of people against another .is not. properly con ducted. The Times has always sought to keep our people together that they might cooperate in the best sense of the word, they cannot co operate with their hearts full of bit terness towards each other. We feel that we must condemn such tactics whenever they appear. The appeal should be to reason and not to pas sion. Time will tell whether selling to bacco on the open market and the pooling is the best. It will be the better demonstrated on account of the competition between the two sys tems. If the Co-operative marketing system has secured al lthe territory except Wilson as they say they have, they certainly have sufficient to as certain whether their system will be G better of the two. Let's keep cool while we wait and see.-Editorial taken from the Daily Times, (Wilson, N. C.,) of June 2, 1922. STORM HITS FERRIS WHEEL; SIX DEAD, FORTY INJURED New York, June 12.-The fury of the electric storm that swept New York late today dehtroying prop erty and life, broke suddenly over a little amusement park at Clason's Point, the Bronx, lashed into a Fer ris wheel crowded with young peo ple, crushed it to the ground and passed on leaving six (lead and more than forty injured. Shrieks of mirth broke from the steel cars of the wheel as it car ried its cargo of youth high up into the breezes. Then the storm and maddened cries of fear and agony as the upper half broke away and was catapulted by the winds into the shallow waters of Long Island Sound. The lower half buckled and fell a twisted mass of steel, wooden girders and human bodies. The hundreds of men, wo men children in the rester were thrown into a panic. Amid the lightning flashes, the thunder's roar and the rain torrents, women faint ed, and men fought and children were brushed aside in frantic ef forts to reach shelter and to lose sight of the ghastly pile that so shortly before had been a wheel of HERE's No Charges No Delivery No Approvals I s The Greatesi slaughtered i Ready-Wear while it is hc SALE IS 1' Look for the l merriment. But marty rushed to' the wreck and worked madly to extricate 'the bodies of the living and the dying and the dead. Efforts were made to telephone 'for ambulances and physicians but the storm had .taken the wires. Men in commandeered au tomobiles were sent to nearest hos pitals two miles away 'and seen corps of physicians, surgeons and nurses were at the pork, Four 'am bulances responded and they worked in relays removing the injured. Many of the frail buildings of the concessionaires in the park were blown away or badly damaged. As the bodies were taken from the wreckage of the wheel they were placed on the bathing pier. After an hour, more than forty persons had been extricated. Five were dead and a number of others were said to be dying. Members of 'the crew operating the wheel declared the storm broke so suddenly that it was impossible to remove the passengers.' They said about sixty persons were in the cars when the storm struclk. Night feel asa half hundred men were set to work tearing apart the wreckage an dthe removal of the victims progressed slowly. nU der one huge piece of steel, in a depression in the ground, lay a boy of fourteen and .his ten-year-old sister. As the steel was removed they stood up unhurt and ran to the arms of their sobbing parents. The boy said they were in a car that had just left the ground gyhen something happened, he did not know that he was stunned for a moment and the next thing he know; that he was stunned for a him by the arm and asked: "Are we in a tunnel, bubbie?" The dead were taken from the cars that were thrown into the sound. A wheel 1.00 feet in diam eter was constructed only recently, park ,officials srtd, and was con sidered one of tne best in construc tion. "DUST EXPLOSIONS" SUMS UP 7 YEARS OF INVESTIGATION Dust Explosions, a back containing the results of 7 years of investiga tion by the United States Department of Agriculture, is soon to be issued by the National Fire Protection As sociation, Boston, Mass., in the inter est of reducing fire and explosion loss es. The book was prepared by David J. Price and Harold H. 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One of the numerous tables shows that in this country there are now about 21,000 manufacturing plants in which combustible dust is an unavoid able by-product. These factories, al ways under the menace of loss through dust' explosions, annually turn out products to the value.of near ly 7 billion dollars. That there is widespread danger has been proved by the occurrence of d isastrous ex plosions of dusts' of aluminum coal, cork, cottonseed flour, grain, leather malt phonograph records, rice rubber, sawdust, spices, starch, auger, and sul phur. The authors have Investigated every notable dust explosion in the United States and Canada many of' which are discussed in the new publi cation. Chapters are devoted to nature and theory of dust explosions, industries producing dust and their extent, eli mination of sources of ignition, pre vention of explosions by control of ex plosive mixtures phenomena of ex plosions, dust collection and removal, static electricity, explosions in grain thrashing machines, plant 'construc tion, cotton gin fires, coal dust ex plosions, and review of explosions. EFFORTS MADE TO INTRODUCE WILT-RESISTANT TOMATOES Most of the work with wilt-resistant tomatoes in the South, where Fusar ium wilt is prevalent, has been suc cessful, and further effort is being made by the United States 'Depart ment of agriculture working in co operation with State agricultural -col leges through county. agents to im prove the varieties of tomatoes grown and introduce the wiltless varieties into new communities. All the 5 resistant varieties, mar vel, Norton, Qolumbia, Arlington, and Norduke, sent t9 boys' and girls' club members have been grown aucce fully in many localities where regular commercial varieties 'failed because of wilt. Although these varieties are not immune, they possess enough re sistance to insure a good crop if oth er conditions are favorable. A few reports of failure have been receiv ed, but the real cause in all such cases investigated was root-knot, bac terial wilt, or blight. It therefore seems wise to urge the general in troduction of these and other wilt resistant varieties wherever Fusarium wilt is prevalent, says the department. From the 3 years' work already ac complished it seems that these variet ies will have to be tested repeatedly to determine which is best adapted to the local needs and conditions of any TO ECOI TION .... 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NEW DEVICE TESTS POWER OF SOIL TO SUPPORT ROAD An instrument for testing soils on which roads are to be built has been devised by the Bureau of Public Roads of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. It consist of a metal disk resting on the soil and supporting a cylinder into which shot can be poured. The apparatus is held in position vertically by means of a tripod at the top of which is mounted a small dial that tells to one-thousand th of an inch how far the disk sinks into the soil as shot is poured into the cylinder. By means of the instru ment it is possible to get information as to how the soil will act in wet I VOMYFC E Thousands of arti worth of Shoes, Dry mposition settlemnen ~te. BA T A SStes tires! l from the hard labor of vhy don't you? n now as the weather Is. you will. 1920 1922 -.Sale Price Price Price 24.60 $ 9.00 85.85 18.0 26.75 $ 19.15 12.77 87.40 2540 16.94 89.25 26.75 17.94 40.t - - 27.85 18.18 58.25 ' 06.80 24.20 Tread, all fully guaran ire Company. COLLUM SUMTER, S. C. encil No.174 Made in five grades sCIL WITH THE RED BAND NIKADO V!PANY, NEW YORK weather. The kind of soil beneath a road sur face has a great deal to do with 'how it will stand up under modern trail., and engineers look upon this as an im portant consideration in determining the kind of road to be built,. This is confirmed .by a number of instanoe where twohections o fthe same road have been built in exactly the same manner- nnui subjected to the same traffic but on different types of soil. One section has lasted wel lwhile the other has broken up in a manner that A can only be explained by a lack of supporting power of the. soil beneath the road. The bureau has fo} some time been investigating this question along var ious lines both in the field and in the laboratory, studying the characteris tics of different soils and experiment ing with means to keep down the moisture content of the soil and thus increase its bearing power. 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