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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-07

Did you have any difficulty with
your French in Paris?" "No-but the
French people did. d."-Karikaturen
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-07

De worl don't stop fer you ter sad
die yo' troubles on it. Hits f1yin' so
fast dat hit leaves de slow Of GROWERS
all in de air, on de ragged edge OF
Nothing Atlanta Constitution.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-07
JUST FOLKS
by Edgar A. Guest
FoR THE COMMON coon.

Copyright 1873 by Edgar A. Gues'
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-07

If we should meet
The scoundrel WHO invented hash,
We don't know what we'd do.
But 'twould be something rash.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
Female Aviator
Falls to Death on
Her First Trial


Cleveland, Tenn, Oct. 14.-Dan-
Cling in mid-air, unable to climb
back to the airplane and afraid to
trust to drop into lake below,
Miss Eva Moss, Chattanooga, stunt
flyer, this afternoon was fatally
crushed when the aviator was fore
ed to descend.
Pooling the fact that the day was
Friday and the date the thirteenth,
Miss Moss went up for an exhibition
flight and had clambered out on to
the wing of the plane, then let her
self down the 25-foot rope ladder,
where she was suspended in mid-air
by her teeth.
When the time came for the young
woman to climb back to the airplane,
either by reason of exhaustion or
through becoming entangled in the
rope of the ladder she was unable to
do so. The pilot seeing her predica-
ment, flew out over lake and cir
cled about as low as possible, at the
same time calling and signalling for
her to jump into the water.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
'PALATKA BAND TO GIVE
CONCERT IN ST. AUGUSTINE

The Palatka band will play COM
plimentary concert in st. Augustine
under the direction Of it's leader, G.
M. Shearouse, Jr., on Sunday, Octo-
Der 20, at 2:30 o'clock p. M, in the
Plaza. This arrangement results
from an invitation extended on the
day of the cattlemen's barbecue at
Cowpen Branch by E. R. Croft, who
asked Mr.. Shearouse to bring his
band to st. Augustine. The leader
agreed, provided the city would pay
expenses. j. O. Miller, who was
present at the barbecue, offered to
furnish transportation and the pro-
prietor of Rector's Cafe, who was
also present, agreed to serve meals
in the occasion, while Manager Verne
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
Members fo Bert
Hodge Post Go to
Big Meet at N. 0,

Nine members of Bert Hodge post,
American Legion, with the wife OF
one of the members, left yesterday
afternoon a t6 o'clock for Jackson
vile, where they boarded the. special
train last night for New Orleans to
attend the annual convention of the
American Legion. In the party were
J. H. Randolph, Howard Rowton,
George Everson, Frank Fearnside,
B. H. Kendrick, Clarence Holden,
Herbert Dyer, H. N. Kirkman and
Mr.. and Mrs. B. C. Pearce.
The special train bearing the
Florida delegation will arrive at New
Orleans this afternoon at 6 o'clock,
and will have aboard about $50
Florida veterans. Florida expects
to make big showing at the con-
vention, several thousand dollars
having been contributed for adver-
Using purposes.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
Sunday Morning, Octobe,

are installed (which will be within
the next 80 days. their shop will be
one of the most modern in this Sec
ton of the state.
One of the much-needed machines
in this community, which is number
ed among their recent purchases, is a
milling machine, which will enable
individuals, garages and other manu-
featuring concerns to replace intri-
cate gears, tools and other articles
locally, and with little or no loss OF
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
Dock Warehouses
of De Montmollin
Ready for Tenants

The big dock warehouses erected
by H. M. de Montmollin on the river
just in the rear of his wholesale es-
tablishment, will be completed this
week and ready for occupancy. These
are erected on the site of the old
warehouse recently burned. There is
1900 feet of floor space in the
building and with accommodations
for four separate warehouses of rea-
sonable size.
These will be occupied by the de
Montmollin company, the Merryday
Grocery company and A. P. Carswell
jointly and the Palatka-J Jacksonville
Steamship company, with the fourth
one yet to be rented.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
FIND BRISK DEMAND FOR
SALMON FROM. JAPAN

Yokohama, Oct. 14.-The Japa-
nese salmon Gamers of Kamchatka,
who report 80 per cent increase in
their catch this year, are finding a
brisk demand in Europe whence they
are shipping direct from their can
neries. Early in August 10000
cases were shipped from Kamchatka
to London, the consignors being the
Japan-Russia and the Hokuyo Fish
cry companies. Salmon packed this
year by the two companies is esti-
mated at 100000 and 10000 cases.
respectively.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
HELPED HIS BACK.

Backache, rheumatic pains, dizzi-
ness and blurred vision are sympo
toms of kidney trouble. "My husband
had a bad back" writes Mrs. NJ. Nc
Cullough, Easton, Pa. "When he sat
down he could hardly get up and then
he would be drawn over to one side,
He tried Foley Kidney Pills and they
cured hmi." Foley Kidney Pills
quickly relieve kidney and bladder
trouble.
Sold in Palatka by J. H. Haugh-
ton Drug Company.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
PHILIPPINES EXPORT 100000
TONS OF SUGAR

Manila, P. L., Oct. 14.-Approxi-
mately 100000 tons of all grades of
sugar were exported from the Phil
ippine islands between November l.,
1921, and June 10, 1922, according to
official figures just made public. Of
this amount the United States took
10000 tons, the remainder going to
China and Japan. The centrifugal
sugar (96 degreol, was all shipped to
the United States, with the exception
of 5000 tons, which went to China.
The muscovado sugar, amounting to
some 10000 tons, was all shipped to
China and Japan. The total value of
this exported sugar was approx
mately $15,750,0O0.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
RADIOPHONE TRIED IN JAPAN
(By Associated P-essl

Toxic, Oct. 14.-The first radio
phone trial in Japan has been held
before the representatives of the To-
kio press. One company has been
granted permission by the govern
ment to carry on this work in the
same way as the radio stations in the
United States and a regular daily
program of broadcasting news,
weather reports, stock exchange
prices and music has been started
The department of communications
has relaxed its former censorship.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
BARLOW EXCHANGE BURNS
INV Assnof0tad prasal

Barlow, Fla, Oct. 14.-Fire of un.
determined origin damaged the Bar.
tow exchange of the Peninsular Tel.
ephone company to the exetnt Of
$4,000 today and demoralized tele
phone service. 1t was hoped to re
store service by tomorrow morning
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
E. johnson, of the Jefferson Offered
to entertain the band in the evening
at the jefferson theater. The band
consists of twenty-five people.
LOCAL CONCERN PURCHASES
ADDITIONAL MACHINERY

Mathews & Allen, machinists, of
329 River street, recently placed an
order with the William E. Duff COM
pany, of York, Pa, for additional
machinery and tools, and when these
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
HIGH SCHOOL SCORES
nv AssOcia4ed PEesaD

Jacksonville, Oct. IA. - Barlow
High, in piling up 1O6 points against
Clearwater's failure to score at Bar
tow today, was believed to have es-
tablished high school football scor.
ing record for Florida. 1t was
Clearwater's debut in State High
School association football. Virtual.
ly all of todays games were played
on muddy fields. Among today's re.
suits were the following:
At Quincy 10, Pensacola Z.
At Dublin, Ga, 0, Duval 6.
At Kissimmee' 0, Lake City 6.
At Ocala 43, Palatka 0.
At Barlow 1O6, Clearwater 0.
At Gainesville So, Orlando 0.
At Hillsborough IL, Arcadia 0.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
RED CROSS RELIEF WORK FOR
A YEAR MILLION AND HALF
CONTINUED from Page ID


Texas, caused the greatest property
loss, $6,000,000, and the heaviest ia
talities, 100. Among the unusual
disasters was that reported from
China, where, last May, the American
Red Cross chapter at Picking went
to the relief of non-combatants
wounded during the fighting at
Chang Hsin Ten.
"Most of them" the report dryly
added, were hit by bits of flying
pottery shot up by the contending
forces"
KnickerbOcker Disaster.
In Red Cross disaster records there
will probably remain as chapter by
itself the details of one calamity
which touched nearly every state
with a sense of horror. This was
the collapse of the roof of the Knick-
erbocker theater in Washington, D.
c., which resulted in almost 100
deaths and 1875 persons injured. Lo-
Gated in the section of the national
capital containing fine homes and
great apartment houses, this motion
picture theater was patronized by
many persons of prominence in the
official and civil life of the city,
persons whose connections radiated
over the entire country The hor-
ror was intensified by blizzard,
which, though it retarded, did not
block the Red Cross relief efforts.
The crash and destruction by fire
of the U. S. army dirigible Roma in
Virginia, last February, with the
loss of a score of officers and en-
listed men, was the first disaster of
its kind in this country to call for
Red Cross relief. The suddenness of
the accident tested the readiness of
the, organization and of the chapter
at Hampton, Va, but the response
was immediate. Not only was relief
furnished the survivors, according to
the report, but funds were provided
to bring relatives of the dead to the
Scene from long distances.
Help in Philippines.
In the years record of aid rendered
overseas by the American Red Cross
are two fires in the Philippine ISL
ands, one in Manila which destroy
ed 1000 homes with loss of $780,
600 and 5000 persons rendered home
less, the other at Tonic, which drove
5000 from. their homes. In medical
relief that was quick and effective
the smallpox epidemic a tSap Domin-
-,go, with a total of $4,000 cases and
Fps deaths in "a single day, tried the
: S6grces and preparedness of the
cross for action in epidemics.
Al sz1.y~leane in San Domingo and
Salvador also tried
"a e sfsources, but refu-
cared for and
.eved.
=. dSfurther per-
f5badministra-
-1fo0ssld, it was
81 the ne- may be
oaSo cost $500 cOmplish-
,lrofi IS 1892 sa SIS is ap-
ar4s<s renewal of
eannual roll
Quoted between
MEMBER IL, and
November 30,
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
time in their plants

CIIIre m tHeIr plants,
1t is hoped that v0,t
ture will be placed ,o,',
latka may continue fl !
trially. 10y
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15

TheStudebaker Light Six Coupe
Roadster seatstwo passengers; has
side coach lamps; rain visor and
Windshield wiper; eight-day clock.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15
PAINS SO BAD
WOULD co TO BED
Two Women Tell How Lydia Z.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Stopped Their Suffering
Iron Mountain, Mich. r"I had terri
BILE pains every month and at times had

to go TO bea on ac-
count Of them. l saw
your advertisement
and took LYDIA E.
Pinkham's Vegeta-
bic Compound with
very good results l
can work all day lbng
now atmS sick time.
You may use these
facts as a testimoniA
and l ah rec ON
mending| the Vege-
table (DmnOund to
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15

=, The three-passenger Roadster has cowl
lights; storm curtains opening with the
doors; large plate-glass window in rear cur
tain, and inside and outside door handles,
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-10-15

Both models are upholstered N I! K,
leather; have ample space unaa st;. n
deck for luggage ignition ana t ....
transmission locks, and cow VIZ
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-02-08

Ai'oAS SlouSS VI IODiCCO anu Cnelr aD-
proxlmatc value than any man in the
buying end. can prove this
think, tfe average buyer knows his
own grades, the warehouseman tries
to know all the various grades of to-
bacco and their approximate value.
His limits are the skies. He has no
company to please or satisfy His
business is to stand between seller
and buyer and give them "HelP.
The so-called Cooperative System
of selling tobacco, has for it's aim the
uplift of the down-trodden farmer.
lt is being cussed and discussed all
up and down tobaccodom today.
| kno wthis is big subject for one
little layman, farmer an notorious to-
bacco warehouseman to tackle single
handed and alone. have not Cali
fornia Corporation lawyer to advise
me and if l needed one i have not the
amount of, "Kale", handy to retain
him.
/ said I would tell why I was op-
posed to the Cooperative System Of
selling tobacco. am believer in
cooperation of the right kind.
believe it possible to sell cotton and
many other crops comparatively. Cot
ton can be handled without so much
expense to the grower This product
has staple grades. Most every other
crop we grow can be stapelized, but
tobacco in this country cannot be
successfully handled through a chan
mel Of this kind. There is not a man
living today that can properly grade
tobacco, there is not man living to-
day that can properly price tobacco
III the true sense of the word. But
G Uc s,,,rronfton1 l.
bacco men knew tobacco" they know
what grades their respective com
panies want, and the price is based
on conditions, on world conditions, on
the law Of supply and demand. The
prices Of tobacco vary and fuctuate
according to the demand, like cotton
or other commodities. Who can price
cotton? Imagine a tobacco grader
sitting down in tobacco storage
house waiting for purchasers to come
along to purchase his holdings, imag-
inc him suggesting to the various ex-
porters and manufacturers, that he
has in storage certain grades Of to-
baccO, and they are quoted at so and
so, the latest market report is thus
and so. Why, reader, one with com
mon grey matter, if he has any know
ledge Of the tobacco industry, knows
the buyers would do their own grad
ing based on their respective wants,
and the price would be based accor-
dinghy. Tobacco cannot be success
fully handled through this system,
unless it is first graded, redried and
put in hogsheads. This is objection.
able and especially to US in the Caro-
linas, because we have not the redry-
ing facilities. But says Mr.. Cooper
ative advocate, we can get the various
companies to buy before they redry.
How do you know thatyou can? You
have no guarantee when you will sell
this tobacco, and in the meantime lots
of tobacco will spoil, especially in
Eastern North Carolina and South
Carolina where we have damp cli-
mate. The Cooperative System Is OBJ
jectionable on the grounds that stor-
age houses will become congested and
you cannot show tobacco to any ad-
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-02-08

in the shape of expense that he has
never dreamed of.
The farmers have already built
warehouses, redrying plants, storage
houses and various other plants for
the handling Of tobacco. Do you want
to be taxed to buy all this stuff over
again?
You are now going into business
for yourself. You are now, in one
sense OF the word, going to buy your
own product as | see it, this is what
IL Will amount to. You, are really
gong into buying and selling tobacco
strictly on speculation without orders
and without money except what you
borrow. Can you afford to borrow
money at time like this, and launch
out upon sea Of high finance?
The class Of farmers | represent do
not believe they can afford to tamper
with wildcat speculation at IL time
like this.
| know there are those that will
differ with me. There are those that
will probably become indignant. But
represent thousands of bony hand
ed sons of toll in Eastern South Caro-
lima and in the other tobacco produc-
ing states, that have just as much
right to have their side championcd
as the opposing side has.
We are now willing to sell our
bIrthright for mess of pottage. We
are not ready to appoint our admins
traitors and assigns. And if we do
appoint them, we do not want them
to function until we shake our mortal
coil
All the propaganda used by the Co
operative advocates cannot and will
not change the present system Of SELL
ing tobacco at auction. The move
ment may decrease the amount that
will be sold this way. BIT it will
after all work out for the best inter-
est fthe growers who continue to
be their own guardians in the sales
manship Of the product they have
grown by the sweat of their brow.
You have heard much said about
the way fruit is sold in California,
how Cooperative selling proved a
great success to the grower of same.
Some 0 four farmers are foolish
enough after growing and handling
tobacco all their lives, to believe that
tobacco could be sold the same way.
There is no analogy whatever in the
TWO products. If | owned citrus
fruit farm, vineyard or orange grove,
they are Modifying about, | would be
wealthy to start out with. Have you
ever heard of the fruit growers of the
little corner in California making q
failure in a crop of fruit? Did you
ever consider that fruit is a necessity
and tobacco a luxury? Fruit is sold
every day in the year to everybody
from the poorest man that walks the
face Of the earth lD to the multi
millionaire.
Tobacco in its raw state has only a
few buyers, 80 what is the use to
argue this question?
How did all this movement come
about that is so prevalent all over
the world today? The Bolsheviki
Communistic, Socialistic ideas that
are running rampant in Europe today
have made their appearance and foot
prints upon the soil of Free America.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-02-08

JecI ~ III our present system. l have
heard much talk Of the variation of
prices or tobacco. Many seem to
stumble here and not be able to un-
derstand why this occurs. This very
thing is one of the strongest reasons
why we should still maintain our pre.
sent system of buying. Well, here
goes. AS I have already stated there
is not man on earth that can al
ways properly grade tobacco. But
says Mr.. Cooperative, II thought to-
baccomen were experts" l will now
give you the definition of an expert:
He is n being that knows about one
third of what he is talking about, and
a Hell of long ways from home.
Now If trained men make mistakes
under the best lights in the world to
show up tobacco, skylights in a we'll
lighted tobacco warehouse, how much
more will grader make mistakes
when he tries to grade for various
companies. We certainly cannot af-
ford to have around one hundred
graders to cover the various grades
of tobacco, one or two men would have
to do all the grading. l know there
are mistakes made in every line Of
business but there are not any more
made in the tobacco grading and sell
ing than in the grading and selling or
buying of cotton. You do not catch
the mistakes that are made in the
grading of cotton because you do not
know the grades and the same applies
largely to tobacco. The same buyers
that vary in their judgment in their
buying of tobacco that pay more for
pile of tobacco moved from one row
to another, get caught often in the
buying. Many has been the time that
| have taken piles Of tobacco off the
hands of some buyer that had bought
ii too high for his Companys order,
a kick from the Company that might
have hurt my market. And my clients
would have been injured as consc-
quence. OF course, the average far
mer that has observed the other side,
the variation Of prices Of piles tof to-
bacco does not know that this rule
works both ways, but every tobacco
warehouscman and buyer will bear
me out in this statement.
No, Mr.. Cooperative, there are no
perfect tobaccomen. Good st. Peter
associates with those kind in Heaven.
Probaly Enoch of Old, was tobac-
conist. He walked with God and was
not, for God took him to be with the
Holy Angels.
believe that tobacco buyer and
Warehousemen as a class, are as
honest and upright as any people that
walk the afce Of the earth. would
be willing to take stock any time
with any other legitimate business.
1t is said that tobacco-mcn are
highly paid, this is not true. The
average travelling salesman gets &
larger salary than the average salar-
led tobacco buyer.
Some Co-opertive advocates think
the present system Of handling tobac-
co too expensive. 1t certainly is not
as expensive as the proposed new sys-
TEN will be. do not care the rap of
my finger what they tell or promise
you, they do not know what the ex-
pense will be. But the farmer that
has gone into this one-sided affair
will have knowledge impaired to him
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1922-02-08
COOPERATIVE MARKETING
OF LEAF TOBACCO
An Independent View Of Ralph D.
Cothran of Manning, S. c., at
Present Located at TarborO,
North Carolina.

Let me state in the outset, before
trying to9write on this important sub
ject, that I am North Carolinian by
birth, hail from Person County. I
went to the Palmetto State many
years ago when the tobacco industry
in that State was in it's infancy. I
am @ great lover of North Carolina.
I love her people and cherish her ira
ditions. I have been twice married
in this good old leader Of Southern
States and count my friends by the
score. / have been a lifelong Demo-
crat, and I have been strengthened
whose memory I shall always revere; !;
the late Governor C. B. Aycock, r. B.
Glenn and Governor Beckett These
were leaders that have passed off the
stage of action in this State, but they
have left footprints upon the sands
of time that shall forever lead others
to emulate their examples, that shall
forever cause North Carolnians to
perpetuate their, memories. / am a
concrete believer in Woodrow Wilson,
the greatest Democrat living today,
when pause to think am con-
strained to believe that language is
inadequate that would give this great
leader and lover Of humanity justice.
believe in equal rights to all and
special privileges to none. believe in
government for the people, by the
people. \ ] believe in one having indi-
viduality, initiative, and free think
ing.
For the last twenty-five years I
have been engaged in the production
of tobacco. I have also been engaged
in the buying, handling and operating
.Nf frh
ed to the so-called Cooperative Mar
keting System. And wish to make
it plain in the outset, that in this
am not selfish, unless my readers shall
term one selfish that believes in cer-
tain things from principle. shall
try to show you before am through
with this article, why am opposed to
this, system.
AS l have already stated, for the
last quarter Of a century, have been
: engaged in the tobacco industry. Dur
ing these long years, / have observed
many things pertaining to the to-
bacco business.
have been thoroughly convinced
that Abraham Lincoln was right when
he said, "There is no easy road to
success, or royal road to learning"
The tobacco warehouseman is to
the farmer what the rudder is to the
ship. Many times he has to combat
tempestuous seas. I have studied to-
bacco, it's grades ETC., from every
angle, And I find many new things
representing themselves each year. I
believe know the grades Of tobacco
as well as the average warehouseman.
If did not would not be competent
Of conducting sales for my clients.
The tobacco warehousemen knows
+ -s-..~