THE WEEKLY PILOT
Published every Friday morning by the
Pilot Printing Company.
STACY BREWER, Manager.
FRIDAY, DEC. 10, 1920~
ROAD WORK.
The road commissioners are
attempting to get the caunty
.roads into better shape as fast
as they can, but it cannot be
done faster than the money is
available. D. J. Blue, who has
been made superintendent of
^he county road system, is mak
ing arrangements all over the
county for maintenance work,
and ‘ if the weather continues
fit he will have each township
doing such repairs as will put
the main roads in fair shape
and hold them there untl
sprin will allow a better sched
ule.
All of the townships have a
big road mileage, and as the
income for road work has not
been very big the money has
had to be spread over a wide
territory and with the high cost
of everything, mules, labor
and supplies, it has been im
possible to keep the roads
where they should be. A little
:more money is available now
from the taxes coming in, and
the tendency is for costs to go
down some, so it is probably
we will have better road pro-
pects from now on.
COTTON PROSPECTS
The increase in exports of
cotton has encouraged the cot
ton market a little, but not
enough that the spinners have
been warranted yet in return
ing to the war time activity at
the mills. But the situation
:seems to show a slight improve
ment, with the hope that after
the holidays the mills will be
gin to run Bgain and afford
employment and call for cot
ton. It is not to be expected
that cotton will bring the high
prices, for that period has gone
and it is hardly to be supposed
that we will see thirty cent
cotton Jn fifty years. Nor is it
logical to expect that wages
will stay up where the excite
ment of war put them. In many
places reductions have already
taken place, and if the low
prices for goods are to prevail
it will bB at the expense of
cotton, wages and profits. Farm
er, worker, and .mill ow^ner all
will see their incomes lessening
in proportion to the lessening
of prices for goods. It is not
a bad situation, and it has the
advantage of being more stable
for the high prices 1:hat we have
come through were recognized
by everybody to be only temp
orary and unsatisfactory.
THE FARM SITUATION
Outside ^ of this mills, which
are operated Ay the limited
number of the-people of .Vass
territory, farming is the chief
occupation. But this year the
farm got its jolt, although other
lines have felt it the same way.
That the farm has had a dis
couraging experience is not
fatal. We are getting back
again to normal prices and that
is all there is to it. In getting
back the process has been pain
ful, but we will recover because
we have to recover and be
cause the farm is the basic in
dustry of the world.
The country around Vass is
not damaged any in its ability
to make farm crops. The soil
has the same fertility and the
climate is unchanged. The only
thing to do is to plai right
now for the next season's
operation, and to look to the
future for a continued intensive
campaign. Cotton will still be
a profitable crop and so will
tobacco. But along with them
we need to make the other
crops that are needed on the
farm and in the community,
and above all other things we
need to raise more of eggs,
poultry, milk and butter for
home use, and for the com
munity supply.
We need to take the farm
seriously, and to get better
acquainted with the new farm
demonstration agent, Mr. Wall,
who has recently been appoint
ed and who has an office in the
court house. We need to make
our farming more aggressive,
and get more to the acre and
more to the man and the mule.
The old plan of walking over
two or three acres to get a bale
of cotton or forty bushels of
corn should give place to walk
ing over one acre to get the
same amount. We wear out
too much shoe leather and too
many mule shoes in the old
fashion of long distance farm
ing. We ought to plant fewer
acres and fertilize them and
make big returns from every
acre. The country on all sides
of Vass will make crops of
the best kind and in the great
est abundance if we handle the
ground right.
Then we need a lot more
neighbors all over this section
to give us more populous and
thrifty community. Land en
ough is here for a thousand
more families and a neighbor
hood like that would be more
pleasant and profitable to live
in. The fact is that Vass is
just coming out of the woods,
and a lot is to be done to make
her the settled and thrifty and
homey community it can be if
we want to make it such. But
it is worth the effort.
The I. W. W. organization of the United
States, better known as the I Wont Work
aggregation have a branch located in Vass
and they recently held a meeting one
night in the rear of Gunter’s store, to trans
act considerable important business, rela
tive to several of their members, that have
been seen at work, which is positively
against its rules. The meeting was called
to order by one of the Weary Willies, and
the first man up was the Pilot man, he
wasn’t allowed to make an excuse for
going to work and was literally kicked out
of the camp. The next man brought
before the tin-plate brigade was Stacy
Brewer. He was seen carrying a bucket
of water. He stated that water was a
necessity for drinking purposes and not to
wash in, and he was placed on probation
with a warning. The next culprit that
was hauled before tHe tomato can bar was
Henry Matthews. He was charged with
working on an automobtle. In fact caught
right under the machine working. He
gave as an excuse that he had two ladies
in the automobile and they had to be
taken to their homes or walk. The blear-
eyed Willies held a war dance and they
too placed him on a* months probation.
They were seen by young Gunter who in
vited them into his store to get warm.
They swiped coffee and with some sody
crackers, and the balance of Henry Matt
hews Thanksgiving dinner they all had a
good feast, and when they left the store
the stove was a mess, covered from top to
bottom with cigarette stumps and tobacco
juice. The next meeting of the bam
stormers will be held in the woods in the
rear of the school house.
WILLI
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Edmonds, who left
their home, Williamsport, Pa., about six
weeks ago for Orlando, Florida, to spend
the winter, but fnding the place over
crowded and board sky-high left that place
several days ago and passed through Vass
Wednesday afternoon. They stated they
had to pay $50 a month for a room.
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