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-ThurSDAyT~SEPTEMBER 4, 1947
Star Program
State port, with WUmington favored
in proportion with Its resources, to In
clude public terminals, tobacco stora*e
warehouse*, ahif} repair facilitiea. near
by sites foT heavy industry and 35-foot
Cape Fear river channel.
City auditorium large enough to meet
needs for years to come.
Development of Southeastern North
Carolina agricultural and industria. re
sources through better markets and food
processing, pulp wood production and
•factories.
1 Emphasis on the region s recreation
- advantages and improvement o- resort
accommodations.
Improvement of Southeastern North
", Carolina s farm-to-market and primary
■oads, with a paved highway from Top
sail inlet to Bald Head island.
Continued effort through the City s In
dustrial Agency to attract more in
dustries. . .. , .
Proper utilization of Bluethenthal air
port for expanding air service.
Development of Southeastern North
; Carolina’s health faculties, especially in
r’ounties lacking hospitals, and .nclud
ns? a Negro Health center.
Encouragement of the growth of com
mercial fishing.
Consolidation of City and County gov
* eminent*.
I
GOOD MORNING
I have discovered the philosopher's
stone, that turns everything into gold: It
is, “Pay as you go.”—-John Randolph.
The School Bell Rings
Early estimates fix the number of
new students enrolled in New Hanover
county schools at 1,900. This is ap
proximately 400 more than last year.
The over-all estimate of enrollment in
all grades is 11,000, with 725 fresh
men entering the high school. Thus,
when the bell rings this morning, the
county school system will enter upon
a busier term, with added responsi
bilities, than in the recent past.
Among the major additional re
sponsibilities. is Wilmington college,
which enters the local educational pic
ture for the first time. While the col
lege conducted freshman classes last
year the arrangement was sponsored
practically by the University of North
Carolina. This year, second-year
courses have been added, and while the
state university is directly interested
in the college’s work, the job of operat
ing the college falls upon the Board
of Education.
Thus Wilmington acquires an educa
tional institution which has been long
sought. From 150 to 175 students will
be on hand today or tomorrow for the
first classes.
No vivid imagination is required to
see in this the start of a college which
will take its place among the leading
seats of higher learning just as the
New Hanover High school has made
its way to the top of the state’s schools
of that rating.
Britain’s Plight
Unpleasant as the tact may be to
Americans schooled in the British tradi
tion of liberty, the Labor government
is following the pattern of dictatorship
in every particular.
That pattern has become as fixed a?
a proposition in Euclid. It begins with
An enormous extension of foure&ucPAC'y
, which exerts complete control over al
industry, and binds the country fast ir
a maze of red tape. Private capital is
destroyed through taxation and expro
priation. The basic industries are ther
nationalized, on the grounds that fre<
enterprise is no longer capable of meet
ing the needs of the nation. The right:
of labor are restricted, and men ar<
forced into employment which they dc
not desire. Finally, in the long run
opposition is stifled and civil liberties
go the way of economic liberties.
Mr. Attlee and the other minister:
are not tyrants. But the Labor govern
ment has established the machines
which make* tyranny possible. That ii
the point which Winston Churchill has
been arguing with great force in his
opposition speeches. Well-meaning men
set the stage—and the dictators fol
low.
The Labor government has created
the super-state in the name of British
economic rehabilitation. But all the
evidence of history proves that socialism
is essentially non-productive. It de
stroys initiative, by refusing owners and
workers the fruits of their efforts.
Truman’s Bold Words
President Truman’s bold words at
Petropolis, during the closing session
of the Inter-American Conference, re
mind us of the battle flag carried by
some of the Colonials in the Revolu
tionary War, which displayed a coiled
rattle snake with the legend, “Don’t
tread on me.”
The United States, he declared, will
seek peace “with no less persistence
and no less determination than we ap
plied to the quest for military victory.”
The United States is peace-loving, but
is determined to remain strong; its
aversion to violence must not be mis
interpreted as an invitation to others
to “take liberties with the foundations
of international peace.”
As his address becomes a new Tru
man doctrine, and gives clear warning
to Russia, though the Soviet Union is
not named, it is important, we think,
for Americans particularly, and for all
peoples to ponder carefully what is the
leit motif of his remarks. We quote:
“We do not believe that present in
ternational differences will have to be
resolved by armed conflict. The world
may depend upon it that we shall con
tinue to go far out of our way to avoid
anything that would increase the ten
sions of international life.
“But we are determined that there
shall be no misunderstanding in these
matters. Our aversion to violence must
not be misread as a lack of determina
tion on our part to live up to the obli
gations of the UN charter or as an in
vitation to others to take liberties with
the foundations of international peace.
Our military strength will be retained
as evidence of the seriousness with
which we view our obligations.
This sums up our position. It does
not indicate the President inclines to
shake the sabre. Probably no man in
the world is more anxious to see all
swords beaten into plowshares. But it
does serve notice upon Russia, or anv
other power, that the United States
proposes to have peace, if it has to fight
for it.
We may expect violent retorts from
Moscow. But we may also consider
that Russia, which is in no shape to
launch a war, may find that its best
policy lies in greater cooperation with
the United States, in its just demands,
and with all other members of the so
called western democracies, than has
characterized its course since the last
shooting war ended.
Mr. Truman’s address was partic
ularly timely and directed to a par
ticularly concerned audience. The dele
gates of the nineteen American repub
lics who heard him may find their
backs stiffened against possible foreign
aggression and their minds more willing
to accept and promote inter-American
cooperation than has always prevailed
in the past.
The Jackson Case
Judge J. Paul Frizzelle, sitting as
committing magistrate on instructions
from Governor Cherry, played his part
well when he held for trial the ring
leader of the kidnapers who forcibly
removed a young Negro mill worker
from the Jackson jail and the jailer
who failed to oppose their unlawful
entry.
As a result of his action, Joe Cun
ningham, the ringleader, and A. W.
Edwards, jail keeper, will have to an
swer for their crime, despite the fail
ure of a grand jury to indict either,
though Cunningham had confessed.
The miscarriage of justice resulting
from the grand jury’s inaction may
be rectified, so far as these two offen
ders are concerned.
Why the other six members of the
mob are to go free is probably to be
explained by the fact that the Negro,
who identified Cunningham, did not
identify them. At least evidence link
. ing them to the crime was not forth
coming and Judge Frizzelle had no al
! ternative to releasing them.
In the interest of justice further in
: quiry ought to be made into their con
! nection with the kidnaping and if pro
duced should be used to convict them
of their complicity. It is known that
; seven men were involved—not one
alone. No effort should be spared in
i uncovering evidence that links them to
. the crime.
r And at the same time, even though
i the grand jury failed to indict the
* /
Negro, he should be giveh a chance to
prove his innocence, if he was falsely
accused, or required to answer for the
crime with which he was originally
charged—attempted assault upon a
woman.
Judge Frizzelle performed his duty
in holding Cunningham and Edwards
for trial. But the Jackson case is not
yet satisfactorily settled.
The Cordon Recital
1 Announcement that Norman Cordon
is to give a recital in Wilmington on
September 18 is received with especial
pleasure in music circles. It ought also
to bring equal pleasure to friends of the
South Eastern North Carolina Beach
Association as the entire proceeds are
to go toward defraying the expenses
of the association.
Mr. Cordon has sung with the
Metropolitan Opera Company and is
now among the most popular of Broad
way’s musical comedy stars. His audi
ence, which should overflow whatever
hall is secured for the event, is assured
an evening of unexcelled musical enter
tainment.
An additional reason for gratifica
tion over his engagement is the fact
that the Junior Chamber of Commerce
is the sponsor. This group of young
business men thus offers one more il
lustration of their willingness to pro
mote worthwhile undertakings which
promise definite benefit to the com
munity.
Anti-U. S. Propaganda
By ANNE O’HARE McCORMICK
Between Aug. 17 and Aug. 26 this news
paper published sixteen comments on Ameri
can policy from Soviet sources. Three were
uttered by Mr. Gromyko at the Security Coun
cil, all variations of the charge that in offer
ing to mediate in the Netherlands-lndonesian
dispute the United States was attempting to
by-pass the United Nations and force the In
donesian Republic to accept arbitration. One
was a Moscow broadcast quoting a letter from
Mr. Molotov to Secretary Marshall accusing
United States authorities in South Korea of
subjecting parties supporting the Moscow de
cision for trusteeship to “the most stringent
retrieiions and heavy persecution.”
With the exception of a prior blast from
General Shtikov, making the Molotov charges
in stronger language, the other comments are
not from official spokesmen. But all, of
course, are official. They come from the Mos
cow radio, the Tass news agency, from So
viet Army newspapers or other directly in
spired sources.
The inter-American conference in Brazil is
described as a move to impose “the military
political supremacy of the United States on
the whole Western Hemisphere.” A Tass dis
patch from Rome said Italy is selling out
to us for the cancellation of $1,000,000,000 war
obligations and getting nothing. Another de
clared that our military loan to Turkey covers
a desire to appropriate all Turkish industry.
The Soviet Embassy Bulletin in Teheran pub
lished an attack on American “exploitation
of the Balkans and Iran.” Pravda interpreted
General Wedemeyer’s mission to China as a
prelude to an American - aided offensive
against the Communists.
In Vienna, the Red Army newspaper of
Aug. 21 reported that the Viennese are afraid
to walk the streets at night because of the
robberies and violence of American soldiers.
Four days before the same newspaper ac
cused the United States of preparing to di
vide Austria, because delivery of American
relief shipments to the Russian zone is halted
until the Congressional requirement of per
mitting inspection of delivery is fulfilled. In
Germany, the Communist press continued to
print stories that German youth in the Ameri
can zone are being recruited to fight the
guerrillas in Greece. Communist papers in
Rumania scored Dr. Maniu, the imprisoned
leader of the Peasant party, as a tool of
“his big bosses,” Vandenberg, Dulles, Taft
and Acheson, in an anti-Soviet campaign
This is only a thin skimming of the daily
stream of anti-American progranda being
poured on the world. It isn’t merely the regu
lar pabulum of the people in Russia and the
Soviet orbit. By means of the radio and an
immense network of Communist newspapers
it is spread through western Europe to an
extent beyond the conception ol those who
measure Communist influence by the limited
appeal of the party-line press in this country.
Mote, the propaganda takes. The constant
iteration of words like “imperialist” and “dol
lar domination” applied to the United States
leaves echoes in the minds of people who
are embittered, anyway, because they are de
pendent on American help. The American
traveling in Western Europe often finds him
self defending America against Russian ideas
of rur motives, even among those who look
to the United States as the one bulwark
again£+ the sweep of an aggressive totali
tarianism.
Some of the comments on the Marshall plan
in England and France are unconsciously
colored by Moscow’s denunciation of it as a
scheme to save America from an imminent
crash. "We always know what Russia is do
ing or trying to do by what she accuses us
of doing.” remarked a member of the Allied
Control Commission in Berlin. This trick, ex
emplified in such charges against the United
Stales as the recruitment of “foreign legions”
to fight in Greece, moves to “divide” Germa
ny, Austria, or Europe, buying or coercing
gov-rnments, etc., may not convince, but. it
adds to the confusion between truth and false
hood and fosters that darkness of the mind
in which dictatorships operate.
To be the target of such a campaign is
new and bewildering to Americans. We are
a people expecting and accustomed to be
liked by other people. Perhaps nothing Rus
sia has done since the war has alienated the
rank-and-file American more than the attempt
to hold us up to the world as a greedy
imperialism, driven only by the profit motive.
To a people accepting international responsi
bility with the utmost reluctance, desiring if
we could to mind nothing but our own busi
ness, this unreal charge is a boomerang. Ex
asperation at what is said of us is intensified
by the fact we cannot anwer back with any
assurance that the Russian people will hear.
We report their criticism of our nolicy but
they don’t report our criticism of theirs. But
when all is said, propaganda does hot pre
vail over facts. The broadsides that go out
of the Soviet sphere do not draw people in.
So many German workers try to escape from
the Russian to the American zone that our
military authorities have had to take the
harshest measures to keep them out. The DP
problem is mainly a problem of people who
refuse to go back to Soviet rule. Observers
who have watched the tide of refugees in
China and Korea say that it moves °in one
direction—away from the Communist areas
Russia hangs on to her satellites only by
setting up minority governments with contro1
of the police force. All the traffic is one
way ideas move out and cannot move in
and if people can move at «iey coma (rur
way.—New York Tunea.
SEPTEMBER NIGHTMARE
: Dawn will come too early,
And bring another term.
He’ll take along an apple,
But he’ll hope it has a worm.
Be brave, reluctant scholar,
Don’t heave that dreamy sigh.
True, vacation days are over—
But think of next July!
The Situation At Dix Hill
By BILL WORKMAN
KANNAPOLIS, — North Caro
ina is making a feeble effort to
lelp its mentally-sick. and
he frightening thing about
:he problem is that a mere hand
ful of doctors and nurses and the
•elatives and closest friends of the
ictims seem to care.
Dix Hill — the hospital that
;prawls over many acres of pret
y land at Raleigh — is nerve
vrecking evidence of this un
houghtful and careless attitude.
This hospital is actually a little
city. It has i4s own power plant,
lakery, sewing room, laundry,
:arpentry shop, two big farms,
md some pretty cottages for staff
nembers
But into the old, worn-out build
ngs provided for the patients have
ieen jammed 2,400 men, women
md children.
Dr. R. G. Blackwelder, the su
lerintendent, and his small staff
ire doing the best they can, know
ng as well as anybody else their
lest is far from good enough.
All citizens are invited to go to
Dix Hill and see just \yhat is going
in.
A guide can show certain sec
;ions that will make Dix Hill look
ike the finest mental institution
n the country. He can show other
sections that will not.
All departments of the hospital
are jammed.
Council and Kirby buildings in
the epileptic colony were designed
to accommodate 197 patients each.
When Maxine Smith of Kannap
olis was admitted to the Council
hall, the female population there
stood at 256. At Kirby were 258
men.
And, 175 epileptics in the state
are awaiting admittance to the
Colony.
The mental division is bulging.
As of Wednesday, 918 women were
crowded into one wing, and 19
seniles were housed in a section
already condemned as a fire trap.
On the other end of the main
building were 889 men.
Caring for these 2,407 patients
were six doctors, including the su
perintendent; 19 graduate nurses;
212 attendants; 20 students.
The mental division also has a
long waiting list. As of August 11,
there were 385 applications on file.
Dr. Blackwelder says. Some
of these mentally-sick persons are
being held in county jails, for their
safety and protection of others.
“We cannot tell exactly
how many persons are in jaile,”
the superintendent said. “One day
a man may be violent and have
to be confined, and the next day
he may be all right. I certainly
Silver Tongues
BY DOUGLAS LARSEN
WASHINGTON, —John L.
Lewis, according to the latest poll,
should be the first choice for the
Republican presidential nominee
in 1948.
This poll was based on the re
lent suggestion of Rrep. George H.
Bender of Ohio that a good radio
voice is vital to the success of
my presidential candidate. It was
made by taking a consensus of
the opinions of Washington’s ra
dio experts, who have handled
oroadcasts for almost all the lead
ing political figures.
Just how John L,s name crept
into the questioning isn’t quite
:lear. Rut it did, despite the fact
that Mr. Lewis had never before
been mentioned very seriously as
a candidate. It was unanimously
agreed by the voice experts that
Lewis’ voice and showmanship, if
not his popularity would be a valu
able asset to the Republican ’48
ticket.
“Hammy, but very effective, ’
was one description of Lewis on
the radio. “A radio personality
that is tops.” was another.
None of the experts would let
their names be used for direct
quotation. They apparently feared
what might happen if they criti
cized one of the men and thpn had
to handle another of his programs
Taking the voice alone, aside
from personality considerations,
the experts unanimously agree
that Tom Dewey’s is tops. He
enunciates most clearly, modu
lates his voice best and is easier
to understand than almost an>
other man in public life, they say.
In these respects, it is said that
Dewey’s voice is almost on a par
with that of radio commentator
Lowell Thomas. It is reported that
Thomas gave Dewey many speak
ing lessons, in fact.
“The most cultured and perfect
voice for radio among any of to
day’s politicians,” a network an
nouncer says.
After Dewey, the poll revealed
that Sen. Jonn Bricker from Ohio
has about the best radio voice
“Very effective,” “forceful.” and
“sincere” were some of the de
scriptions of Bricker on the radio
There was much controversy
over the effectiveness of Senator
Taft on the radio. One radio en
gineer claimed that the rasping
qualities of Taft’s voice made it
irritating to audiences. Another
expert, however, said the
mid-western nasal twang in the
Ohioan’s voice gave it a sort of
distinctive appeal. He said you
were convinced of Taft’s sincerity
when you listened to him. They
almost all agreed that Taft was
one of the best ad-libbers on the
air. It is difficult to tell, they say
when he is reading a tcript and
when he isn’t.
Far better than average, accord
ing to the consensus, is the voice
of Harold Stassen. ' One network
program director described it this
way:
‘‘Stassen’s voice is good, all
right. But I think it has a tenden
cy to appeal more to the higl*
I Q. audiences. It’s impossible t?
explain just why, however.”
Another • announcer said that
Stassen was more effective over
the radio than in person because
his voice didn’t quite match his
stature and appearance, and face
to-face audiences felt a little let
down when he started speaking
Vandenberg’s personality on the
air was ranked close 'o the top.
His voice is '‘fort.hritrhtM
“forceful,” the experts claim. He,
too, is another expert on talking
without a script.
Only three of the experts polled
had heard enough of General Mac
Arthur’s voice to make an ap
praisal. One said it wa3 “too melo
dramatic” for sophisticated Amer
ican audiences. Another said his
diction was good but his delivery
too slow for radio. The other said
if was “just average. ’
Outside the Republican party
ranks there was pretty genera^
agreement about the best Demo
cratic voices. Senator Pepper’s
voice and that of Secretary of
Agriculture Clinton Anderson
were rated excellent. Of President
Truman, they all said that it was
amazing how much his radio tech
nique had improved since he had
become President.
Based on this survey, it certain
ly appears that the radio end of
the ’48 presidential campaign
should be entertaining to Ameri
can audiences.
dislike the thought of anybody be
ing jailed because he is sick.”
The staff is small, but if it were
full-istrength it would still be in
adequate: 12 doctors, including the
superintendent: 26 graduate
nurses; 222 attendants; and stu
dents.
Low pay is probably the big rea
son for the personnel shortage.
Graduate nurses get from $150 to
$180 a month, the highest salaries
going to those who fill supervisory
positions. Maids earn $78. and at
tendants receive from $90 to $113
a month. All these wages are in
addition to maintenance, which in
cludes room, board and laundry.
Good living conditions help at
tract workers. The Nurses home
is fine, and pretty cottages are
provided many staff members who
have families. When quarters are
not furnished, an employe receives
an extra $10 a month to help pay
his rent.
The old buildings are well-kept.
The women’s division is nice, hav
ing been re-opened about a year
ago after extensive re - modeling.
Over in the men’s wing, which
has been almost untouched since
1926, the floors r-e bad. the plas
ter is cracked, and it is impossible
to keep it sanitary. All the sleep
ing quarters are jammed.
V.UUUUU ana isjroy nans in the
Epileptic colony are neat. Floors
are scrubbed several times each
day, and even the cracks in the
floor are cleaned. Mrs. Marvin T.
Johnson, a graduate nurse, is in
charge. She 'has one graduate
working with her, Mrs. Sally
0 Neil, who is now on vacation.
Also on her staff are 11 attend
ant*. eight on day duty and three
working at. night; two student
nurses; four cooks; one sewing
room supervisor who looks a'ter
mending for three buildings.
Some patients are a-reigned
chores, which help keep their
minds off their troubles and add
to the cleanliness.
Mrs. Effie Parker is the head
nurse in the mental division. She
has 15 graduate nurses looking aft
er the 1,807 patients in this de
partment, including three on the
male side. Helping are 15 students
m the women’s wing and two on
the men’s side.
The women’s division has 86 at
tendants, 66 working day hours, 20
on duty at night. Ninety attend
Diphtheria
Is Dangerou,
B^ILSA m.i,
3 home, all the chilriL°Ut ^
adults should receive in'
diphtheria toxoid. in «
boceter dose of toxoi^l m!Cs’1
given to children -vh0 k°u1li kt
recently been immunized a>e t,!
Diphtheria is still a . '
disease, as deaths conhc,.. 1"»
suit from strangling ea‘v ,to ft
course of illness or sudd7 *“ Ht
in convalescence. Dip& ^
curs in all parts of the *
the number of infection, ^
with colder weather ~ lncre>"t
The incubation period 0,
theria ls from one dav ,
week. Diphtheria 0f 0Jt
St3u,te 3 simple hsaa cold ^
a bloody discharge while «.**
diphtheria symptoms va„ttro,:
the extent of infection tv-I,,"’*
of the larynx occurs in
of every four patients arV'f
more common in children 11
Outlook for a patient
'i-eria is always questionable
though there is less likeliW *
fatality if antitoxin h ft ■”
tered early. The total
needed should be administers
the first injection. Children shoji
be given adult doses as the T
ease is more severe in their *
Diphtheria can occur amo»»n
immunized, through their hi
to develop enough resistant
throw off the germs or ,f V
immunization was ’ perfor4
some time ago. Diphtheria ,n
the non-immunized !0 times m '
frequently than the immuniw
and severe infection is practical
unknown in those who have •
ceived some protection. ‘ ' t'
Two injections of toxoid .hod/
be given at six months o' -»
or soon thereafter. While feu,
cases of diphtheria are noted u,
day, the disease is just as virtil..
as ever. Until all children are fo
munized at six months of r,g0 8,j
again when they start to scW
diphtheria will continue to ca»„
preventable deaths.
ants are on the men’s side, fl {•
daytime, 19 at night.
Five vacancies exist on the tor*
ing staff and Mrs. Parker hocei
to have them filled in Septemb-'*
when a class graduates.
Five doctors are active is th
treatment of patients. Dr. V. f
Lascara, the assistant n
perintendent, and Dr. R. E. Knox
a staff psychiatrist, devote JtS
attention to the female patients a
the mental division. Two psych;*
trists, Dr. Felix Irmen and &
G. E. Wolfe, work with the me
Dr. Julian W. Ashbfy, former r<
perintendent of the hospital, heafi
the Epileptic Colony. Donald |
Carter, a former New York nei>
paperman, is the chief psyehol*
gist.
Dr. Blackwelder’s time is take
up by administrative work.
Relief for the crowded hospitil
ie coming slowly.
Two wings in the Epiieptii
colony are under constructs
One was condemned last Septa
ber, because of the wooden flora
and the breaking plaster. The oth
er was ordered out of use a tot
weeks later. The patients — 80 ii
all — were transferred to the oth
er wards, which were al
ready bulging.
Construction is slow. Nobody
can say definitely when it will hi
finished. Mrs. Johnson says M
weeks pass and she can notiti
little progress, if any.
Meanwhile, beds are bein|
jammed into the sleeping root!!
and 30me patients are apendiil
their nights on mattresses on tin
floor.
Camp Butner promises re’id
but Dr. Black welder says he do*
not know when it will be put it)
wide u*>e. It provides accomu*
dations for 3,000 mental patients
but at present only 500 are then
with one doctor to treat then.
Staff seems to be the biggest p:»
lem.
Camp Burner is scneauieu
take patients from Dix Hill &
the hospital at Morganton, wtt
serves the western part of Nob
Carolina.
Dix Hill is not the onl / ®
in the system that is overt <w4
Dr. Blackweldtr understands B
the hospital at Morgan' n
Caswell Training School i
Kinston are bulging.
The Negro hospital at Golds®;
is overloaded, with no relie- -
sight- ... n,
Speaking for Dix Hill, »
Blackwelder has, through j
David Young. comniissiotf
of mental hygiene, made •
the needs to the governor and -
legislature. ..
The attitudes of these otM
has been good, he says, «.
than I expected.” However '
believes that these official
realize to need for space and-*-'
ties as it really exists.
The attitude of the officials®
been good, he says. “better ^
I expected.” However, he beJ»
that these official? '‘dor; •
the need for space and fa-1'
as it really existsn”_
To Stabilize Markets
An Editorial From the Winston-Salem Journal
In a meeting at Raleigh called
by the North Carolina Farm Bu
reau Federation, tobacco growers
of the State this week approved
a resolution petitioning the Secre
tary of Agriculture to issue early
announcement of a sharply de
1948Sed tobacco acreage quota for
The step taken by the North
Carolina tobacco farmers was m
recognition of uncertain and risky
market conditions created by the
threat of drastic curtailment of to
ba'C° exp0/ts . t0 Great Britain
ana other foreign countries. The
growers at the Raleigh meeting,
n view of this uncertainty, de
clared themselves in favor of a
than11™948 all0t™nts of "not ,ess
30 ner ant* ae much as
30 P,er cent, if required to keeD
S wllh
The grower, naturally are inter
csted in maintaining weed prices
on a reasonably high level. But
£rgePr0tPh0atedthCUt in aCrea*e
rge that the average grower
hardly could hope to secure
?„larger income in 1948
than he will receive this year.
18 ?lear that h°Pe for
immediate gain was not the pre
dominating factor influencJ^
farm group in seeking a '‘‘"'/.m
duction in allotted “ ^
Rather, the growers '-'e 5
to the future in endea ^
adapt production quotas ^
culiar circumstances
vail in the world tobacco ^
With global .economic* i- ,t
out state of chin =■ ■ £
quisife that a certain ds^^
Government c-ntiol lie 0rf
certa-n spheres - Arn€?c"'2ravelf
auction. The situation1 1 * tf
aggravated by ’he on't.c *- s
rounding dolU r esc
foreign market? at:d th®
ty of other countries to 0 •a;(
cm goods in .-ei-one.
unless these conditions a ‘
up. tv e full an! free •^ »
of the old law of supP-.
mand hardly can obtai : indu*
Of vital concern ,0. '.... prof
tria. Upper Ple-imon; P
perity of the tobacco a ve,i
economic status ’oear-’ ,0 tfi
ciose and direct f\‘^*_"and ^
prci-i ority of our -'!'fl0t ^ ^
tries. His abil,;y to a^"j9Mce» '
ruction of bright !,oa' alget
the prevailing wo- 1 refo.-e. '
eiUs1* is a ]ias a"''
which the whole area
portan-t stake.