The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1921-04-08
MEET WILL
BRING BIG MEN HERE
Federal Farm Loan Board Interstate Comn1erca
Commission, u. S. Public Health Service.
All To Be Represented By Men Of
National Prominence

National Pror1ainel1ce,

Hon. A. F. Lever himself, of
the Federal Farm Loan Board,
and author of the famous Lever
Act, will be one of the principal
speakers at the conversion of the
North Carolina Drainage Asso-
citation which meets in Elizabeth
City next Tuesday and Wednes-
day, April II and Is. The COM
ing Of Mr. Lever is expected to
bring hundreds of farmers to the
convention, because he will talk
not so much upon drainage as
upon the question of federal loans
for farmers. It takes money to
finance even drainage project
and the subject uppermost in the
minds of the agricultural classes
at this time is money. Mr.. Lever
speaks Tuesday morning, shortly
after the opening of the conven-
tion- The farmers of the nation
will listen thru the press to hear
what he has to say in Elizabeth
City.
A cordial invitation to the
farmers of this section to hear
Mr.. Lever and attend the ses-
sions of the convention is ex-
tended by the Chamber of Com
meFce.
The Drainage Convention which holds
it's sessions here next week will bring
to Elizabeth City the greatest gathering
of eminent statesmen, engineers, capt.
talists and agricultural experts ever as
sembled in Elizabeth City. Big men are
on the program of every session of that
convention. -
s Mark w Potter Of the Interstate
Commerce Commission and owner of the
Potter Farms, will be here to tell about
the dairying possibilities of eastern
North Carolina and of the successful de-
velopment of a large scale thorobred
live stock industry on the Potter Farms.
+ DR.. T. II. D. Grifits of the q. s.
Public Health Service; s. 81. McCrory.
drainage engineer of the q. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture; DR.. Joseph HYDE
Pratt, director of the North CaroIna
Geological and Geodetic Survey; CIar-
ence Poe of the Progress Farmer; w.
A. McGirt, manager of the N. G. Land
owners Association and member of the
State Highway Commission; Major w. A.
Graham, Commissioned of Agriculture:
H. M. Lynde, F. P. Bartel, W.P. Pate
and others from the Department of Ag-
riculture. And Josephus Daniels is ex-
pected to be here.
A Working Convention.
Hon. John FL. Small, president of the
Association, and DR.. Joseph Hyde
Pratt, secretary, were in Elizabeth City
this week in conference with Secretary
r. G. Job of the Elizabeth City Cham
Der of Commerce. The convention will
be held in the Chamber of Commerce
rooms and the Chamber of Commerce
will look after the comfort and enter
tainment of visitors.
The proposed trip to the delegates
has been abandoned. This convention
is coming to Elizabeth City on big busi-
ness and the visitors want it understood
that they are more Interested In the con-
vention than in sights seeing trips. They
will not have time for a trip te the Dis
NAL Swamps,, the Potter Farms, the
Moyock Drainage District or elsewhere.
They will cake a short steamer trip
banquet to be given them by the Cham
Der of Commerce Tuesday night. The
banquet will be at the Southern Hotel
and music and other forms of enter
tafnment will accompany the feast.
This newspaper gives considerable
space to the Drainage Convention this
week because it, is an event of immense
interest and of special value to the agri-
cultural interests of this section Since
this drainage association was organized
more than $50 drainage projects have
been put. thru and more than 100000
acres of desert and inundated lands re-
claimed. There are hundreds of thous-
ands of other acres to be reclaimed and
drainage is yet to be employed ;exten-
sively in improving millions of acres
of lands already in cultivation. In fact
the convention next week Z will deal
largely with the question of making
drainage serve the needs of that larger
class of farmers whose cultivated lands
are Aot properly drained and can never
drained by ditching, which carries the
water off one farm to put it on another
Great areas like the New1and section of
Pasquotank, for instance, need drainage
canals miles in length to carry off heavy
rainfalls which literally drown them out
every three or four years.
More about the convention AMI the
work of. the. Drainage !. Association will
be found IN a special Illustrated article
oD the subject prepared especially for