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p I N I N | The MESSENGER PRINT SHOP Cotton Acreage Reduction a Success Washington, July 14. ? The plows on around 700,000 farms in 16 states next week will begin to turn back into the ground more than 9,000,000 acres of growing cotton as a result of the proclamation today by Secre tary Wallace of adoption of the cot ton acreage reduction program. From what appeared to be a poten tial crop of about 18,000,000 bales, Wallace estimated there would be subtracted by the administration's program around 3,500,000 bales. The agriculture secretary said he would accept most of the contract offers signed by growers to curtail their crop from 25 to 50 per cent in return for cash payments and options on 2,000,000 bales of goverment-held cotton. At the same time he announced ap proval by President Roosevelt of a tax of 4.2 cents a pound on all pro cessing of the staple beginning Auguat 1. He estimated the yield ol the levy at fiom $115,000,000 to $120? 000,000, to be used to finance the payments to farmers. No tax will be collected on the cotton exported ? normally about one-half of the Amer ican crop. At the same time a compensatory import tax equal to the processing tax will go into effect to put impor tations of cotton on the same basis as the domestic product. Texas will be levied also on the processing of com peting products, including rayon and silk and probably wool, linen and other materials, to prevent the cotton tax from providing a special handi cap to its sale and consumption. Hearings to determine the extent of the tax on products competing with cotton will be held in a few days. Processors Taxed. The tax on these, as will the tax on cotton, will be paid by the proces sors who handle them in their first stage of development from raw ma terial to finished goods. George N. Peek, chief administra tor of the act, sad that the processing tax should not, greatly, if at all, in crease present prices of cotton goods to consumers. He said that the prices of cotton goods had increased much faster in recent months than ths prices of raw cotton and attributed this to "anticipation" by spinners and dealers of the pfocalmation of the tax. At the same time that the process ing tax on cotton becomes effective, a tax on cotton goods held by man ufacturnig establishments and whole salers will go int oeffect, while retail dealers have 30 days in which to dis pose of the stocks of cotton goods now on their floors. In order to access these, Wallace," in his formal tax proclamation, fixed the conversion factor on finished pro ducts at 106.2 per cent of the tax on raw cotton, or 4.4184 cents per pound for finished or partly finished ma terials less allowances for the weight of buttons, sizing and other non-cot ton materials. This means that 100 pounds of cot ton cloth will be assessed a total tax of $4.4184. Meanwhile the census bureau re ported that consumption of cotton by mills during June had set a new rec ord, 696,472 bales being spun into cloth and thread by 26,540,504 whirl ing spindles. Consumption Increases. This was more than twice the con sumption of mills during June, alst year, when they used 322,706 bales and when 20,646,9666 spindles were active. It was the highest consumption in any mi nth since records had been kept, beginning in September, 1912. Prior to that, American mills were reported to have been lacking in facilities to consume the record amount of cotton. The highest total consumed in any previous month was in March 1927?693,081 bales. A noticeable element in the censut bureau's report was that consumption of cotton in Southern mills was at a record height. Mills in cotton-grow ing states required 565,644 bales dur ing the samo month last year. New England states used 112,681 bales in June compared with 37,133 bales dur ing the same month in 1932. Wallace and fanm administrators were jubilant over the response of cotton growers to the program, aimed to reduce the potential supply of cot ton in an effort to improve price leVels. There is a carryover of ap proximately 12,500,000 bales of American cotton from previous years; This year's increased acreage, about 41,000,000 acres on the basis of the July 1 government report, was rough ly estimated to indicate a crop of 18, 000,000 bales o rmore. j Wallace said the first acceptances of individual contracts signed byl Four States to Pass On Repeal This Week Washington, July 16. ? Three Southern states and another in the Far West will vote on prohibition re peal this week, bringing the contest over abolishing the 18th amendment to its most crucial state. Wet leaders hope the states ? Ala bama, Arkansas, Tennessee and Ore gon ? will bring the total voting fo1 repeal to 20, while the drys count up on them to stop tho anti-prohibition tide, which has swept all the com monewalths in which a decision has been registered thus far. Alabama and Arkansas vote Tues day; Tennessee, Thursday; Oregon, Friday. The first 16 to vote all were wet. Dry advocates are counting on Ala bama and Arkansas to give the first anti-repeal majorities. Some Forecasts. They counted that by carrying these states they can throw the ques tion of repeal into 1934, when they hope to win enough victories to block repeal. Only 13 dry states are needed to prevent repeal. The administration and repea! woikers hope to carry all four of the states this week. Repealists are pre dicting that Tennessee will 50 wet by 50,000 majority and that Alabama and Arkansas also will vote against prohibition. The three have been \ traditionally dry. President Roosevelt and the post master general, Farley, chairman of the Democratic national committee, both have urged Democrats to vote for repeal on the ground the party is pledged to that action. July 11 Oklahoma gave approxi mately a 100,000 majority in favor of legalizing 3.2 beer. Since then the state legislature has authorized a vote on repeal, ordering conventions to select delegates from each con gressional district December 5 to run at large in an eleofc*?*j^the date of which will be set by tn^-governor. Should the governor fail to call a special election, the vote would come at the 193^ general election. Wets Count on Oregon. The wets base their hopes of carry ing Oregon this week on the fact that that state ast year repealed its state enforcement 9tatue by a vote of 206. 619 to 139,776. With Alabama,. Arkansas, Tenne* ssee and Oregon out of the way, both sides will turn their attention to the other 15 states that have set dates for elections this year. Arizona will vote August 8; Mis souri, August 19; Texas, August 26; Washington, August 29; Vermont, September 5; Maine, September 11; Maryland and Minnesota, September 12; Idaho and New Mexico, Septem ber 19; Florida, October 10; North Carolina,, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina, November 7. Besides writing letters urging gov ernors to call elections and directing Democratic governors' attention to the party repeal plank, Farley spoke last night in Memphis against pro hibition. farmers would begin next Wednesday and would be forwarded to the farm ers. They are then required to destroy the portion of their crop covered by the contract. When proof of this destruction has been forwarded here, checks will be sent with about $100,000,000 sche duled for distribution in the South during the next six weeks. Possibility Greater. Thero is a possibility that when all offers have been received, they will -exceed 10,000,000 acres and that the potential crop will be reduced al most 4,000,000 bales. A final report tabulating offers of farmers will not be available until next week. A force of more than 900 persons, working three shifts a day, is tabulating the reports. The average payment fy>r each acre destroyed will bo about $9.r>0, admin istrators said. They estimated that about 60 per cent of the growers making offers had elected to receive their benefits in the combination cash and option plan. Under this they were offered a cash payment for each acre based on its estimated yield. In addition, they were offered a noption on govern ment-held cotton at d cents a pound, or from 4 to 5 cents under the market price recent days. They are au thorized to take up these options at any time. Thufl, a farmer whose contract to take out of production acreage capa ble o fproducing five baels of cotton is accepted, can order the sale of these at market price after he has re ceived his contract and can pocket the difference between six cents a pound and the market price at the ttm he exerdge* his option. ...NO TIME TO WAIT- I SoMBQilM ii M .. .jtt the doc*oc>ut >?? no Hum to W#k . . . that fa when you inat a telephone. You want to talk with a friiad acroea town or ha another city and thst*ii whwi thi ttHpboM mttm you wii. A?Ur Ufa fa made up of major -audi? ac inckfauta like thaae whaa you need to apeak to www, or <i?T want to caM you. If you try to determine the value of telephone service, a good way k mi?ht be maaeured fa by ita pro tection in emergeociee when a awift aommona muet be sent to the doctor, the poUoe, the fire department. Or ita value may be summed op in the many Httfe errands h rtms for you every day. 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Biblical Play* Halleck, In his "Kngllsh Literature," says that "a miracle play Is the dra mattc representation of the life of a saint and of the miracles connected with him. A mystery piny deals with Gospel events which are concerned with any phase of the life of Christ, or with any Hlhlical event that re motely foreshadows Christ or Indicates the necessity of a redeemer." DISTRESS AFTER MEALS Relieved By Black-Draught "I had uour stomach and gaa," writes Mr. Jess Hlgglns, of Daw sonvllle, Qa., /'and often I would have billons spells. I read about Thedford's Black-Draught and be gan to take It. It relieved me of thin trouble. I keep It all tho tlmo now. I constdor It a fine medicine. I take a pinch of Black-Draught aftor mealB when I need It. It hclpH to prevent nick headache and to keep the Hyntem in good order." Get a package at the storo. Try It I Novo i/ou oan pet Blaok-Draupht in thi form of a SYRUP, for Chilurbm. About 40 per cent of the growers elected to receive cash payments. These are a higher rate and are in proportion to estimated yield. Administrators said they had as certained from a checkup of con tracts received here so far that the estimated yields of the acreage of fred wiuld be higher than the aver age per acre yield of the ootton belt ? one-third of a bale. Peek said this was in part the result of the refusal of administrators to receive contracts to remove from production lands with an estimated yield of less than 100 pounds to the acre. ? The State. PRICES ARE GOING UP Everyorre knows that prices are going up. A penny here, a nickel there, dollars more in the case of higher-priced articles. Things are going to cost still more, too, and we can get more now for our dollar than we will be able to later on. Washington wants to see millions of men go back to work, and wants r.o one to work for less than a living wage. Industries are getting together to make these things possible, but as wages go up, prices have to go up, too, of course. Take the household washer as a familiar example, because it is used in 9,000,000 electrified homes, and in half of all the farm houses. Practi cally everything that goes into the making of it has been advanced. Makers of the parts and of the fin ished machine .know improved wage scales wil help thei rown employes; give more buying power. This is going on everywhere and it is design ed to help everyone. The factory hand in the washer factory will be I able to buy the carpet he wants and j the worker in the carpet mill will be able to buy the washer he wants. As for the farmer, his "wages" in the form of higher commodity prices give him better buying power, too. I This explains why washers and other labor-saving equipment proba bly never again will be as cheap as they are now. But it also explains why such a state of general affairs will be better for all of us. ROAD LIGHTING URGED Electric lighting of country high ways to increase their efficiency, re duce accidents and aid night flying is urged in a proposal by Louis J. Brooks, prominent Missouri farmer and first president of the state's hard road association. The idea is said to have been fav orably received by Federal, state and county highway officials, many of whom feel that the lighting of roads is a logical forward step in the de velopment of the nation's highway system. Electrical engineers recommend powerful roadway lamps placed at intervals of 100 yards, which it is estimated would add about five per cent to the average cost of paved highways. Special legislation would bo re quired to permit lighting to be in cluded in expenditures for roads, it is said, but already three states, New York, New Jersey and Georgia have laws authorizing such expenditures in the more populous counties. Detroit claims to have already 345 miles of lighted rural highways in its vicinity. It seems that road lighting would fit in admirably with the general program of rural electrification | which is now gointf forward rapidly in many states. A New Deal For . Liver Sufferers Don't ho mhy any longer. Oalo mipI, nalt*, oil*, mineral water*, fi?xa ive pill*, herb te*a, powder*, etr., mve no effect whatever on the llrer. There are only two generally recog nised anbatancea which actually cau?e n *luggl*h liver to Increaae it* pro duction of bile. Hargon floft Mean I'ill* contain both of them. 'Too can't feel well and at rone ?n l*w ytw liver farnlnbea plenty of frMli Mk ?Niy liqr. WluMt bUe food doenn't dlgent properly ? It Jiwt ferment* nnd deenyn ? CottHtlpfttlon, gnn, nour dtomnoli, hendnehen ?uid nervoufmona follow. IJnlefm you linve fried Hnrjcon floft Mum PIIIb yo?i onn linve no i<lon of tholr effort ? You fool ?t longer, healthier, happier? life nnd rolor r?v ttirn to faded eye? and cheeka ? 'appe tite and distention Improve rapidly. 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