Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1936-03-10

| an aggressive lead. For, with North
| Carolina the producer of five-sevenths
| of all the flue-cured tobacco grown
| 1T should be taking the lead in the
state pact tobacco control plan, in
stead Of hanging back and waiting for
South Carolina, Virginia and Con-
| gress to act first, members of this
group maintain. They insist that if
Governor Ehringhaus had called a
special session a week or two ago ana
at the same time had made vigorous
efforts to get Virginia and South
Carolina to enact similar laws that
would become operative this year
without Georgia, there would have
been no difficulty in getting these
state pact laws enacted or in getting
Congress to pass the necessary acl
validating state pacts of this sort.
They further maintain that there is
still time for this action if Governor
Ehringhaus would make a vigorous
effort in that direction.
Fear Wallace's Anger.
Those in agreement with the posi-
ton taken by the governor with re-
gard to a special session, maintain
that if he had taken the leadership
IN this present movement for a State
pact law that the Department of Ag-
riculture in Washington, already re
sentful towards him because of the
manner in which he went to- the mat
with Secretary Wallace in 1888, would
undoubtedly have been even still
more so and blocked the possibility
of any action by Congress to permit
the formation of State pact for to-
bacco control. They further contend
that it would probably have tended to
make both Virginia and South Caro-
lima resentful or suspicious and take
the position that North Carolina, be-
cause it produced five-sevenths of the
flue cured tobacco, was trying to put
something over on them. In fact, It
was learned from a reliable source
here today that last Saturday Cover
nor Ehringhaus talked with Governor
Peery, of Virginia, in an effort to get
the Virginia legislature to remove the
clause from it's tobacco compact law
which prevents it from going into eff
feet without some voluntary coopera-
ton from Georgia, but that this eff
fort met with little success.
0cHClAI1CIIC OEOWRuSs
There is no doubt, however, that
sentiment is growing steadily in the
tobacco growing counties in favor of
a special session and in the belief that
such a session would remedy the sit
uation and remove the spectre of an
uncontrolled tobacco crop this fall.
This spectre of an uncontrolled to-
bacco crop and tobacco selling at 10
cents a pound or less, is also giving
and business men general
ly the filters in those sections of the
State which are largely dependent up
on tobacco, which is almost the whole
State. The prospect of a decrease of
$75,00O,00O in buying power in the to-
bacco counties this fall isn't helping
them sleep at night. So many of these
and business men are now
joining with the tobacco farmers in
demanding a special session.
Has Political Angle.
In addition to this demand from the
tobacco farmers and business men, is
q very strong demand from various
political factions which think a spe-
cial session would help certain can
didates at this time and make it pos
sible to present other than tobacco
control legislation. Both DR.. Ralph w.
Mcdonald, of Winston-Salem, and
Lieutenant. Governor A. H. Graham,
both candidates for the Democratic
nomination for governor, have been
raising their voices in demanding a
special session for the primary pur
pose of helping the tobacco farmers,
but hoping to drag other things in as
well, such as the sales tax and liquor
question So the talk goes round and
round, but where it will come out,
here or there, no one knows. That, in
cidentally, is one reason the governor
doesn't want to call one.