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'YOU AI ANDSE* ID S Youe the "Aucto" Men app You Will lBe Sorry Yourself AFFIDAVIT FROM KENTUCKY BECAUSE The affliant, W. T. Sebastian, states that he is a member of the Burley Tobacco Growers Co-opera- it costs less to handle tobacco under cooperative live Association; that he has been a tobacco raiser The.. Wa 4 for more than forty years, and that he believes that ' mar eting the plan of marketing by this Association is the best way to sell tobacco that he has ever known; that it aro e oac is the only time the farmer has had anything to do It costs less to sell tobacco under cooperative with sellizlg his tobacco; that he has already re ceived 32 cents per pound on his first two payments, marketing. and he thinks that the organization is the greatesti v e A ymnto t thing for the farmer that has ever been suggested, Bu can m and he heartily approves of the Association and i uyers can pay more for graded tobacco than workings, W. T. SEBASTIAN. for "auction" tobacco.ofSuhCrln Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 5th day of June, 1922. ETHYL WALTER, The members of the Tobacco Growers Cooper- Vh ro Notary Public, Garrard County, Ky. My com- . sla em r OG Smission expires Janpar4, 1926. ative Association get the benefit of all SaV ings in increased prices for their tobacco.C tive Association to beue"omk d the Biggest One in the U. S. and will handle More Toba ta Other Company in the World. "WAIT A ND SEE" MEA NS WA IT AND LOSE---SIGN NO W-IEFR YOU LOSE TOBACCO GROWERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIA'TION 75,000 MEMBERS WEEKLY NEWS NOTES is that 50 per cent o fthe immigrants 000 to recondition those ships or rainy spell and the farmer lets the is made by the specialists of the If the wind blows during this time, FROM WASHINGTON this country shall be transported build others, and then pay the owners time for poisoning pass while he United States Department of Agricul- much of it never settles where it is iAmerican vessels. Mr. Thomas H. approximately $750,000,000 in subsi- waits for fair weather. But that is ture who, at the Delta Laboratory a atdbtdit eodtecto Rossbottom, a representative of the dies and aids within the next 10 years. exactly the time when the weevil is Tallulah, La., worked out the calciut rs o the o (Special News Correspondent) Shipping Board, who testified at the In other words, we will be giving the busiest. The numbers are likely toarlunate La., of ot t ccis to. pted by to wid ptchs ot Washington, D. C., June. 27.--"One hearings, estimated that under the ships away and paying the recipients increase so rapidly that the control arsenate system of control. Succe of the most dangerous tendencies in present 3 per cent quota law this traf- over half a billion dollars to operate already gained is lost. In that depends, they point out, on getting always possible, of course, to get a our government is the evil growth of fic would give the transporting com- them for the next ten years, not to event, the weevil inflicts about as all the plant surfaces thoroughly perfectly calm atmosphere at the time bureaucracy and of officialism, and panies a gross income of $17,600,000 speak of the fact that they will pro- much damage as if no poisoning had covered with the fine particles of pi this Ship Subsidy Bill presents the per year, of which one-half, or $8,- bably be coming back at each suc- been clone and the farmer loses, in son edust. The (lust comes out of the dists uge tha t the most flagrant and tLrrogant Instance 800,000 should come to American own- ceeding Congress asking for more. addition, what he has spent in pois- machine in a cloud and hangs in the speali a tha teasee of it ever devised." So said Judge ers.' He further stated that one-half "As the American people revolted oning operations. 'The only way to air for some time before settli n t ind Davis of Tennessee, who brings one of this sum would be net profit- to such an extent as to prevent the prevent that sort of result is to let airforsome _time _before _settlingtion. of the finest judicial minds of the "It is important to note that this passage of the Hanna Ship Subsidy weather interfere as little as possible - country to his service in the House bill does not require the Shipping bill, which carried an estimated an- with poisoning operations. Stick to of Representatives. And there are Board to make any report or account- nual expenditure of only $3,222,268, the schedule, the department says, enough Republicans in the House who ing at any time to either the Presi- and later the Gallinger bill, which car- regardless of weather conditions. are willing to join hands with the dent or to Congress or to anybody ried an estimated annual expenditure The Department realizes, of course, Democrats to defeat this vicious else. Neither does it provide any ap- of $5,109,355, which the report on the that poisoning cannot be done in grab, but those who have seen how peal on any decision or action of the bill stated would be covered by ocean pouring rain but the farmer, the the thing is done are free to predict Shipping Board or any other tribunal. postage collected and the increased specialists urge, should take advant that before the bill comes to a vote Proponents of the bill also conceive tonnage taxes provided in the bill, it tage of the earliest opportunity to the President will have bullied or ca- that there would not be any recourse is hardly conceivable that the Ameri- get back into the field after the rain, joled enough members of his own in the courts. In other words the can people will tolerate this proposed that he should make every effort to party Into line to put through his Shipping Board is all powerful and all monstrous raid on the Treasury. get the cotton again dusted regularly, pet measure. "A bonus for the ship- supreme under the provisions of this The speaker quoted from a report even though fair weather does not owners, but none for the soldiers," most extraordinary hill. compiled by the Shipping Board on 'eerm certain. He can afford, they might well be insoribed on the Presi- "The $1,715,000 advertising "jn( aid given by the other countries in- say, to put on poison even in unset dent's shield, for that represents his being spent during the current year eluding Great Britain, Norway, Swed- tied weather. It may be washed oif attitude to a dot. Daily. the Wall by the Shipping Board is not being en, Denmark, The Netherlands, Ger- again shortly but, on the other hand, Street Journal boosts the one and spent in vain," he said, and called at- many, France, Italy and Japan, the the weather, even when it looks most knocks the other. Daily the president tention to the fact that while a state- final conclusion of said report being threatening, may stay fair long does the same. He has never been ment of disbursements from this fund that "astudy of the authorities on enough to allow weevil control to op for the soldier's bonu sand does not had been promised it had not been subsidies, taken into account the poli- Crate. Every farmer, it is pointed fr . even make good work of concealing filed. He even asserted that the so- cies adopted by various countries, out, must expect to lose some poison 4 - the fact. cial lobby had been overworked to fur- would seem to indicate that with the by rain but the operation is sufficient I quote some of the more pertinent ther this bill and exhibited expensive exception of Japan the policy has not ly profitable to justify it. paragraphs from Judge Davis' mast- propaganda which had been sent been important in the building up of - - H ow the B erly arraignment of the Ship Subsidy broadcast to the press and individuals the Merchant Marine." ATMOSPHERE IMI'ORTANT Bill: an dasserted that employes of the Judge Davis quoted from farm pub "One o fthe provisions of the bill Shipping Board were engaged in this lications and individuals to expose A calm atmosphere is the most im- the F work for weeks neglecting their regu- what he called "the falso and decep- portant thing to be considered when lar duties. He declared that the tive propaganda" that the farmers applying calcium arsenate to cotton You, the Farmer, are Almerica's greatest pro propaganda program was unseemly are for the President ship subsidy bill to control the boll weevil-more im- ducer of wealth. But before YOU re ' h and reprehensible and should be re- and also review in an unfavorable portant than ew or other moisture money for your crops mhy buked by Congress,. The Worst fea- light the operations of the Shipping on the cotton plants. This statement The crops must be SOWths fer lly elle. ture of it, he -aid, Is that the propa- Board under Chairman Lasker. __c____mutbeSo__,mutbefrtilid,_ille BATTERIES ganda isfull of false and deceptive --reaped and SOLD! statements. BOLL WEEVILS WORK WEATHErt e hehBan it to The pleasure of driving your "Our Government-owned mecatIN WET WEATHER __ar___y andoe te e car equipped with an Exide is tongeG hepopeaou erhn ca, the plesure that cornea from tont o h epeaoI 300-planting adprofiting sesn.I1erisyut a mnd relieved of the worry 000,000. It is estimated that we will If you expect to whip the boll Valuable Illustrated Book Sent Free purchase nd, prfting macn er mitfl you tt of "what's going to happen to i probably sell the ships for $200,000,- weevil in a fair fight, purchase seed, f streset macns oncei my battery next' 000.C. . you have got now thousands of oe by the aim to . Consequentlythe people will to show as much energy as he does- method of an eminent phrsiefan, have avoiled n imes ofn you and stand a loss by deflation of $2,800,- which means that though the opera- ade par to mthe omeouah many month. helps you weather the storm Godwin and Woodruff 000,000. Furthermoro, it is contemp- tion may be both difficult and un- explained ntherearkab it eda Are YOU getting all the benefits whichathe lated that either existing shipping pleasant, poisoning must be doeeen b" otherhood and the bank8oferschrmere Sumimerton, S. C. companies or companies to be 9rganlz- when the plants are wet and the do lefe and aftria boaby Ler howmecnheS?. s orfl ed, who buy the ships, will capitalize ground muddy, so says the United ae owe can the ships largely In excess of their States Department of Agriculture ut o et riand-" botMothra Frid information from our oIias Te wllb cost to them, and sell the. stock and with regard to poisoning the weevil of mothers, and sold pleased to tell you more about our service bonds to the American people-so that with calcium arsenate. The Depart- -Modtr soren Is e e0r the people will be standing the war in- ment has found that, during the criti- ,d tenany, Is - flation, the post-war deflation, and cal stage, the poisoning should be done site easer. natura cad. then the promotion Inflation. at intervals of about four days. Two rtment andd ildbirth. v tes uin en co e* and chldrthr Sat, un CiAR TO toA TPesdn "The people through their govern- or three applications, made in good - e. Kerggpuall m nh oa CHARLTON uAT'rfor - ment, will sell the shii for approxi- weather, may have got the weevils day, to BrI'd~ d r aq co.B g5. 1$^ T. M. WELLS, Cashier mately S200,000,000,, lend $125,-000,- under control. Then thero comes a $"stes. Sl Rni end" ata