Henderson daily dispatch., 1933-10-18

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| with tobacco marketing i'll Henderson
| spoke on ~ 'parate subjects tlating to
tobacco as the chief feature of the
| program for the weekly luncheon
| meeting of the Rotary club Tuesday
| evening The meeting was at the Am
| 2rican Tourist Camp on the Ralelgl,
| Rad
| r. w. Mcfarland, sales supervisor
| for the Henderson market, and G.. w.
Knott, we'll known warehouseman
were the speakers. Mr.. Mcfarland
| talked of the position of the Hender-
son market in the tobacco growing
areas of the State, and pointed to
ways and means whereby the mar
| ket could be advanced to more i'm
| pOrtant rlece even than it now holds,
Mr.. Kiiott told of the origin Of
flue-cured. tobacco. He said a great
| uncle Of his, Fielding Knott, began
the curing of tobacco by the furnace
| method when he began growing the
! weed just after the Civil War He told
| of how the tobacco was taken to
| Washing on Dukes store near Dur
ham and there traded for fish and
other foocstuff brought by Eastern
| North Carolina people The tobacco
! thus traded to the Duke store was
stored i'll barrels, and it was, found
| that the process resulted in quantities
of it crumbling up, SO Mr.. Duke be-
| gan to make small sacks to save the
| "granulaIed" tobacco and sold it for
pipe smoking. It came to be known
| as Dukes Mixture and later the
idea of rolling it into paper for Gig
arettes gave rise to the cigarette busi-
|, , ness, followed by the use of machinery
| to do the rolling. From this humble
and crude beginning sprang one of the
worlds greatest industries today.
| Fielding Knott, citizen of Gran
| vile county, came to be worth more
! than a million dollars, which in those
| days was genuine fortune. He died
leaving a farm to each of his % chill
iren. eleven by his first and eleven
by his second wife.
"A Negro who was arraigned before
2 court for larceny, was asked by
the judge, Are you the defendant ?"
No SIR" replied the darkey, Use got
a lawyer to do my defenSing. I'm the
nan what done the stealing" While a
Supervisor of sales could never be ac-
cused of taking anything, for he
handles no money yet on many mar
kets, he's the man that does the ly-
'ng. in so far as estimating averages
is oncerned. But on the Henderson
market, even if 1 felt disposed to mis-
/ represent them, my good friend, Mr..
| Dennis, the brilliant and truthful
| editor of your local paper, would not
| stand for it. Right here ! want to
express my indebtedness to him and
! his staff for the many nice things
said about me and the splendid man
per in which he is handling the to-
bacco news that goes out from Hen
| derson., ::
II have been struck with the signs
in almost every business window. read
ing, Welcome Farmers 5'and the friend
ly and courteous attitude shown. those
who bring their tobacco here to- sell,
not only by the warehousemen-than
| whom there are no better-but BY
| every buyer of tobacco upon the Hem
|, , derson Market This spirit of kindly
welcome seems to fit you Henderson,
folks like a garment.
i 1.-The other day when l went into
one of your banks to open my in
Iisignificant personal account, Mr..
Hunt and others in his bank greeted
me so cordially that it made me feel
| like my little deposit had about half
! a dozen naughts added to the right
! hand side of it, and I stepped out of
{ the bank with head just as erect as
/ if I had been one of the great mil
! lionaire buying companies operating
| upon the Henderson tobacco market.
/ You have, gentlemen, a splendid
/ tobacco market and I have no ..criti-
! cisn to offer whatever upon the way
/ in which it is conducted. The only
! thing I have to say about it is the
| markets of the east, many of whom
are our strong competitors, have for
| years past, had a great advantage
/ over us in their from three to four
| weeks earlier openings. Some of these
| earlier opening markets, viz, Rocky
| Mount ard Wilson, are within two
! hours ride from Henderson and by
! reason of this they draw from our ter
ritory tobacco that rightfully belongs
! to Henderson.
| years ago in the days of OK carts
and tallow candles, the separation of
I the different belts We're made and
( they have not been adjusted to meet
! this age OF machinery and enlighten-
ment, when the farmer, like every
one else, needs money and wants to
| convert his tobacco into money just as