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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.
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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.
But whatever the yardetiek, moat folks agree the
value of telephone service fa so great and the coat ao
seasonable that It leuBj doesn't pey to try to do with
out it. |
SOttfHGRN 0EU.
TcUpjiOM mkJ TcUgtapk Company
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Regular communication
this lodge Is held on the
first Tuesday in each month
it 8 p. m. Visiting Brethren are
welcomed. N. R. GOODALE, JR., |
J. W. WILSON, Worshipful Master;
Secretary.
WE HAVE A CARLOAD OF NI- j
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Sulphate of Ammonia. Kainit, Acid
and Cottonseed, all of which we are
offering at attractive prices. Tho
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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.
Onljr ttOe for a (all 80 <1<?y frpntrnont, At
your ?r writ* (I. V. Willi*, Inc.,
Atlanta. ?J<w>r*U.? ?(a<1v.)