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Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
WILL THE SOUTH
REDUCE ACREAGE?

(By Theo, H. Price, Editor, Commerce
and Finance, Prominent Financia
Magazine. !
''Is the South bluffing again or viii
1t really reduce its acreage as threat
ened this timer" is In effect the ques
ton that not a few cotton manufac
turers have been asking us during tn,
past week.
1t is realized, Of course, that IL thu
next crop Is not over nine million
bales and the Europsan demand II
1890 revives to anything like prevail
proportions that cotton would rise t.
a price that would compel the clos
ing Of many mills, but in contemplat
ing such a possibility one can never
forget the difficulties that have al
ways been encountered in, getting CO
operation among the six or seven mil
lion people who grow cotton in the
South.
Mr.. J. N. Carpenter, OF. Natchez
Miss, who is widely known and re.
spected in the cotton trade, writes us
under date Of February % as follows:
up to a week ago thought the re-
duction talk was like it was in 1895.
1899 and 1908, but now think that II
is sincere, for everyone I meet really
intends to follow the pledge that has
been given-T will make every tenant
on my plantation follow it to the let.
ter, as it is to my financial interest
that they should do so.
"My aim is to pick all my cotton
before the average frost date, Octo'
Der %. Do not pooh-pooh the acreage
reduction but put your ear to the
ground" These are the views Of a
man who is in much better posi-
ton to form sound opinion than we
are. For ourselves we should say
that the success of the reduction
movement will probably be in direct
proportion to the skepticism. with
which it is regarded.
If it comes to be generally believed
that the next crop will not exceed
Line million bales then prices will go
up and many will plant a larger acre.
age than they had earlier intended tc
cultivota
If, on the other hand, no one be.
lieves that the acreage will be re.
duced then many fearing lower prices
will by self-interest be induced to re.
strict their production. 1t seems tc
be case in which an advance now
would make for lower prices next
year while the present continuance
of tagging markets until after 1t is
too late 20 plant cotton might really
bring about cotton famine twelve
months from now.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
. Back in The Office Again.

After week or more absence
because of sickness l am again
at my work. | am sorry that so
many have been disappointed
when they went to my office.
But unless I have unforeseen
trouble, | will be in the office
every day from now on, and
those wishing me to do their
work will receive the same salts
factory service that | have rend-
cred heretofore. /: I'D, -
Remember that you get your
work done as we'll by me as you
can anywhere. Come and see
me and be convinced.
Yours for good service,
H. B. HUMPHREY
Over w. G. Lowry's, Rooms
5 and6.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

Il
General Assembly has enacted law max.
ing 1t mandatory for county commission
ers to levy an annual upkeep tax where
bonds have been issued for the construct.
ion of roads, This applies to every coun-
ty in the State and hereafter there will
be no excuse for any road in North Caro-
lima that it has built on bonds to be allow
ed to 60 to the bad. &
The Road Act passed by the General
Assembly for the purpose of meeting the
requirements for obtaining aid from the
Federal Government is not a perfect
piece of legislation. 1t does not represent
the views of any one member of the
General Assembly, but in the hands of a
wise and fair commission it can be made
their instrument of great good in the
State. The work of the Appropriation
Committee reflects great credit upon the
intelligence & patriotism of that commit
tee. 1t is well balanced appropriation
bill, and meets the requirements of our
educational and charitable institutions in
so far as they can be met in the pres
ent financial condition of the State.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
! \
WAREHOUSE BILL
Makes Warehoused Cotton receipts
Gilt Edge securltys--ProvIdes Re
voIvins Fund for Building New
Warehouses.

The Warehouse Bill Just enacted
is one of the most constructive pieces
Of legislation passed at the present
session. The bill as passed is essen
TALLY the same as that introduced
early in the session by Senator w. B
Cooper except that it taxes all cotton
ginned for the next two years twenty
five cents per bale to provide a guar.
antee and revolving building fund.
Under the terms of the Act the Board
Of Agriculture can loan 500 OF the
needed money for constructing ware.
houses where there are no facilities.
Among the benefits expected from
the bill are the following:
1st. It will Immediately improve
storage facilities for North Carolina
cotton and thereby insure more gradu-
ated marketing of the staple-a re.
form for which the present crisis
shows the imperative need. This will
benefit every man who grows cotton
no matter whether he stores a pound
or not. AS providing the facilities for
othrs who do store, will cause the
market to be steadied and advanced
for every man who sells without stor
ing.
End. The receipts of every ware
house will be good at any bank any.
where and enable us to borrow
wherever money is cheapest.
The bill makes provision for the su.
perintendent to borrow for others in
New York or elsewhere.
3rd. It is believed that it will
greatly reduce the cost of storage
through a reduction in insurance
charges and rates. The insurance
rate on cotton stored in State Ware
houses in South Carolina is only about
one-third the present rate in this
state.
4th. All cotton stored in the ware.
houses is to be graded and stapled by
State or Federal experts and the su.
perintendent is authorized to act as
broker for those having cotton stored
when so requested. It lie expected
that a record of the grade and staple
OF every bale stored will be kept at a
central office and that mills and large
exporters will endeavor to locate cot
ton that they desire and make pur
chases through the superintendent
Taken all together there appears to
ne great possibilities for the benefit OF
cotton growers in the bill and the
Cotton Association at Raleigh hopes
to see them made available at an
early date. ....
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

institutions that viii make it impossible
for incurable Iunatics and imbeeiles i
multiply and repientish the earth. Tn
law carefully safeguards the patients an,
these operations can be performed onl,
when in the judgment of the medica
staff they will rebound to the benefit O
the patients This law is thevery essenc.
of humanity in so far as it affects the in
dividual patient and is the only way tt
bring about a gradual decrease in thu
number of these unfortunate people.
The Act that calls for the regular ex
animation of every child who attends q
public school in order to ascertain the
existance of either physical or mental de,
fects and the appropriations of $4,000
per annum to correct these defects in
INDECENT children breaks new ground in
this field of legislation. This law is bot
toned on the sound principal that a
Christian civilization cannot allow a child
to stagger through life under the handi-
cap of durable physical or mental de-
feet simply because the parents of that
child may be stricken with poverty.
The law making it mandatory to
maintain in all towns and thickly settled
communities sanitary closets in accord
ance with plans and specifications pre-
pared by the State Board of Health,
means the saving of nearly thousand
lives in year, the prevention of ten
thousand cases of sickness, together with
all the suffering and expense incident to
sickness and death.
North Carolina has for several years
been the leading State in the Union in
the development of rural health work.
The appropriation for this work was prac-
tically doubled, and this means increased
activity and efficiency in thisgreat field.
A series of acts was passed for the pur-
pose of cooperating with the Federal
Government in the suppression of vice
and the prevention of diseases incident to
vice. These measures are as follows.
The education of the public by suitable
means regarding the cause and prevent.
ion of unhygienic sex life and venereal
diseases. The furnishing of free salvar.
san, the specific for syphilis, for the
treatment of all syphilitics of the State,
and making provision throughout the
State for free treatment of persons dis
eased with gonorrhoea, and syphilis, in |
order that these diseases may not bel
transmitted to others. Making prostitute |
ion dangerous practice in North Caro- |
lima by enacting laws that will reach the
prostitute, and providing the necessary
Jaw enforcing agents to see that the laws
are properly applied.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
2nd class SIS to $50. 1st class SIS

Znd Class Sfo 70 $9U, ISL class $oS
to 500. 7., 1890
Among the bills killed was the
Everett bill that would have
given the women the right to
vote in town and city elections.
The bill for a prohibition mar
shall was killed, and so the en-
forcement of the prohibition law
will fall upon the county and
Federal officers.
The Legislature provided for
the removal of the States Prison
from Raleigh to the Caledonia
farm in Halifax county. The
present penitentiary building in
Raleigh will be used by the
State Hospital to take care of
additional inmates of that insti-
tuition and to also care for GER
tain inmates from the Caswell
Training School at Kinston.
Still another bill passed was
one that provides for a return to
the original code system by
which process is returnable at
any time before tine Clerk of
Court and pleadings are made in
his office.
The following resume of the
work performed IN the fields of
Taxation, Education, Health,
Social Welfare and Good Roads
was written by Governor T. W..
Beckett, and Post-Dispatch read
ers will do we'll to read this sum-
mary carefully:
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
$40 Reward for Tires.

$40 reward offered for return
of the following tires that were
stolen from my truck shed, back
of Barrett's store, Monday night:
l plain tread 3Ox3 IL Goodyear;
l chain tread 3Ox3 Goodyear
w. E. McNair.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
An Inspiring Record.

40
The record of the General AS
sembly just closed is an inspiring
one, and the Post-Dispatch car
have no better editorial leader
this week than a rough abstract
of some of the bills passed. We
shall from time to time go further
into the work of this Legislature,
and the acts passed.
Our Legislature enjoys the
noble distinction of being the
first in the Union to petition the
Ameican Peace Commissioners
in Paris to incorporate in the
Treaty of Peace a League of
Nations that will deliver the
world forever from the burdens
and horrors of war.
The Legislature very promptly
ratified the Federal Prohibition
Amendment, thus aiding in cut
ting out of our lives the most
fruitful source of poverty, d.
sease and crime.
Two amendments to the Conf
stitution will be voted upon at
the next election: one being to
change the Constitution as to
taxing incomes, and the other
lowering the period of residence
to one year in the State as re-
quisite for voting.
A Statewide dog law was pass
ed. 1t provides that the head of
a household in which a dog is
owned must pay each year a tax
of 81 for all male dogs over six
months old, and 81 for all female
dogs over six months old. Any
person coming in possession of
a dog after listing time shall
Immediately ascertain whether
such dog has been listed for
taxes or not, and if said dog is
not listed, then it is up to him to
list the animal at once. TheI
law also provides a heavy penalty |
for any person allowing his dog
to run at large between shutdown
and sunup unaccompanied by the
owner or by some member of the
owners family, or some other
person by the owners permis-
sion. The Post-Dispatch intends
within the next month to publish
this law in full.
Another law of much interest,
and a good one,is that tightening
restrictions on the sale of pistols,
knucks, bowie knives etc. The
new law provides that a purchas,
er must secure a license from
the Clerk of Court before anyj
store or individual can sell him
said pistol etc. The Clerk of
Court must keep an open record
Of all to whom he issues permits,
and every dealer or store must
keep a record of those to whom
they sell, upon presentation of
his certificate. The certificate
costs fifty cents.
The pensions to Confederate
veterans and widows were in
for the 18th class from :
'45 to $50, 3rd class SIS to $40. /
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Pocketbook Found.

Found, in Rockingham this
week a pocketbook. Owner can
get same by identifying it and
paying for this notice. Billy"
Odom.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Social Welfare.

For the first time in the history of the
State we have the machinery for a unfit
ed State and county system of social well
fare work. The State Board of Charities
and Public Welfare which has oversight
over the States Charitable and Penal
Institutions has been given the right to
appoint three persons in each county to
act as local welfare board and to advise
with the local authorities on all matters
pertaining to local conditions In addit.
ion to this the legislature made it the
duty of the board of education and the
county commissioners in each county to
elect, not later than July 18th next a
county superintendent of Public Welfare
who shall be an officer trained in all mat
tiers pertaining to constructive social
work. This officer will be the chief
school attendance officer and the chief
probation officer of the county, charged
especially with the duty of looking after
delinquent and neglected children. His
position is made to fit in with the com.
pulsory attendance law and the new
juvenile court law.
The juvenile court law marks the most
wholesome advance in child welfare leg.
islation ever accomplished in this State at
one stroke. 1t provides that all children
under sixteen years of age who may be
intractors of the laws shall not be treated
as criminals, but as wayward children
needing parental control, education and
discipline, which must be supplied by the
State since it has not been provided by
natural guardians. The law provides
that every Clerk of the Superior Court in
the State shall be juvenile court Judge
and shall have exclusive jurisdiction over
children of less than sixteen years. Every
city of more than ten thousand populat.
ion must establish a juvenile court or
make provision for combining with the
county court. Any towns of five thous.
and population which are not county seat
towns, and therefore not of easy access
to the county clerk, may provide courts
if they choose. The design is to guaran.
tee that every child be within the iuris.
diction of a juvenile court, no matter
whether he lives in town or country. The
law provided the manner of procedure
for carrying out the juvenile court nrinci.
pies as it is known in the most modern
legislation of the country and is not be.
hind any State in the Union. This law
was perfected and carried through at the
earnest solicitation of the Commissioner
Of Public Welfare and the State Board
and the plans are to afford every help in
working out the practical operation of
Inc law in the several towns and counties.
Good Roads.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

WHY does the sailor call his
boat a wagon, and why does
the motorist call his car a 'boat?"
Is it in each case a longing tor
"the for-off, unattainedland dim?'
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Eggs For Sale.

For sale, pure-bred S. c. Rhode
Island Red eggs for Matching,
from prize winning stock. $1.50
per setting of Is. u. Gus Coving-
ton, Route a.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Coffee zoe LIB.

Special price on coffee for this
and next week: good ground
coffee at zoe per pound at Glib
son Bros, next door to Williams
meat market.)
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Good Roads.

The General Assembly did good work
IN public road legislation:--
A bill OF vital importance was passed
SO quietly that it was scarcely mentioned
in the press, and yet it is essential to the
very existence Of good roads. The sin in
North Carolina has not been our failure
TO build good roads but our criminal neg
ligence in failing to keep them up. The
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Gladiolus Bulbs For Sale.

For sale, mixed Gladiolus
bulbs; 1st size 81 per doz; End
size 75c per doz. Mrs. c. P.
Stewart, Pee Dee, N. c. At
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

EXQUISITE spring days which
will bring poetry into our lives
are at hand. Look up the floor
wax and the scrubbing brush
and last years fy-swatter.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Odds For Sale.

For sale, an Oldsmobile tour
ing car. See me quick. w.
Conev Steele.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
White Leghorn Eggs.

For Matching, White Leghorn
eggs: setting Q9 $3.50; Is, $3.50.
--Robt. S. Phillips, phone 3O6-J.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Organ For Sale.

For sale, a Kornish organ in
splendid condition. Will sell
cheap. $50 will get it.-C. E.
Bethune, Rt. 3.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Norton Yam Potatoes.

For sale, Norton Yam seed
potatoes. Jacob Lampley, Route
4, Box 10. ct
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Milch Cow for Sale.

For sale, fresh Jersey mich
cows; a bargain E. Cros-
land, Route l.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

Received by express today 500
Columbia records.-W.. E. Nc
Nair.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Mare for Sale.

For sale, a good sorrel mare
w. E. McNair.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
j. Buick For Sale.

For sale, a 5-passenger Buick,
in splendid condition; new cord
tires: bargain to quick buyer
w. Coney Steele.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Ginning Notice.

The Hinson gin will be operated
on Friday and Saturday of this
week. Bring your cotton.-Dock-
ery-Allen Co.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Ford For Sale.

For sale, a Ford touring car,
in flrst-class condition.-Dr. w.
P. Webb.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Wyandotte Eggs.

For sale, Supreme Silver Lace
Wyandotte eggs, $2.25 for IS
Miss Nina Bowden, Cameron,
N. c. Ct
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

25c mems Isle thread hose. 14c
at Arenson's.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Pigs For Sale.

Duroc-J Jersey Tamworth pigs
for sale, 8 weeks old. F.
Thomas, Rt A, Box 70. ct
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

$500 mems three-piece silk
lined Griffon suits at $22.5O.-
Arenson.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Taxation.

The Income Tax Amendment to the
Constitution will enable the State to de-
rive a reasonable revenue from sources
well able to pay it, and will wipe out the
discrimination now practiced against the
man who earns small income in favor
OF the man who collects a large one, and
will make it possible for a succeeding
General Assembly to write model tax
law under which it will be unnecessary
for the State to levy any ad valorem tax
on real or personal property, but can
leave all Of this to the counties and
towns.
The Retaliation Machinery Act marks
the high tide in sane and progressive tax
legislation in North Carolina. tits COM
plete abandonment of standard, hoary
with age and iniquity, and the establish
ment OF new standard of truth and
justice. am we'll within the bounds of
conservative statement in saying that the
fixed purpose Of the General Assembly to
make all men come clean to the tax
books will add more to the moral and
material welfare of our people than all
the tax laws that have been written in
North Carolina since Virginia Dare first
saw the light on Roanoke Island.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20

E. B. Terry is offering bargains
in dresses for Friday and Satur-
day. They arrived this morning
by express. Look his advertise
inert up and read the prices.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Health.

The General Assembly made tremend.
GUS strides in health legislation. The
steps taken for the protection of the
health of this and future generations in
themselves abundantly justify tn. exist.
Assembly. y a
IN my opinion the most important and
the most advanced step taken in the do
main Of Eealth lawsis the statute that
gives authority to the medical stats of
our penal and charitable institutions to
perform operations on inmates Of these
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1919-03-20
Education.

1t was monumental achievement te
get the people of North Carolina to in
sert IN the organic law of the State z
mandate that every child shall have 3
chance to go to school six months in the
year. But it was more difficult task to
frame wise and just law to carry on,
this constitutional mandate. This task
has been accomplished so we'll that when
the measure was fully explained many
who came to scott remained to pray" In
the beginning there seemed to be hope.
less division Of opinion, but when the
light was turned these differences dissap.
peared and practically all men of all part.
les now confess that the law as written is
the very best that can be devised under
the conditions that obain.
Last year the average teacher received
salary of $45.o0 per month, and was
employed four months in the year. In.
der minimum wage law enacted by this
General Assembly the average teacher
will receive approximately S65OO per
month for minimum term of s;x
months.
The law requiring every child under
fourteen years of age go to school dur
ing the entire term of the public school
in the district in which the child resides
and providing for the rigid enforcement
OF this law through system of juvenile
courts, gives to North Carolina compul.
sorry school law that ranks with that of
any State in the Union.
The act appropriating $4,000 to pro.
vide teacher training through series of
county summer schools conducted in
every county in the State is most vital
and valuable departure.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-08-08
WANTED TO FIGHT
BUT ALSO TO VOTE
Marine Corps Call and John
ston's Candidacy Conflict
With Mississippians.

Whether ones first duty is to his
home, state or nation, proved almost
too p%erplexing a problem to be solved
by two stalwart Mississipplans and
but for the timely suggestion Of an
| interested friend doubtless would have
remained ~unsolved. That was the first
problem facing the two men.
The two have been life long friends
and constant companions. They failed
to get into Uncle Sans fighting forces
during the war their draft boards de-
c,aring that their services were more
necessary raising foodstuffs than dig
ging trenches. This didn't exactly suit
the two Mississippi boys and they
wanted to see some Of the world, so
with the signing Of the peace treaty
they decided to take a hitch in the
Marine corps.
The two, John r. Browne, age %
| years and Robert l.. Jackson, % years
were born and reared near Postum
neck, Miss. Their postmaster furnished
them with cards of application for en-
| listment in the Marine corps and they
were given a rather vague physical ex-
animation by their own physician. Both
men are near six feet tall and both