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I THE WEEKLY PILOT Published every Friday morning by the Pilot Printing Company. STACY BREWER, Manager Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, N. C., as second-class mail matter FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1922 THE WATER SITUATION Mr. Beadle, the Pennsylvania man who has been investigating the conditions around Vass with the idea of building a water supply plant for the community, is still looking into the matter. Some of the water that was sent up to him for analysis did not prove satisfactory and he is get ting further samples from which he will have further tests made, and he has by no means lost interest in the prospect- It is not a bad idea for the people of Vass who would be served by a good water plant to get together and see how much water from a plant of this kind would be wanted in the com munity. Before anybody under takes to build here a thing of this sort the question will come presently as to what will be the demand of the town for the pro duct to be supplied. Everybody realizesi that before long Vass is coming to face the question, and if private capital will pro vide the plant it can be realized sooner than if the town feels able to build a public plant and pay the bill for it. Mr. Beadle is in the business of building and operating town water plants up in Pennsylvania, and is familiar enough with it to know what is needed and how to go about the work in the most economical and satisfying man ner. If he can find in Vass a field that interests him the peo ple should be ready when he asks something about the amount of water that can be used here to tell him how many houses will care to connect up with the water pipe lines. and it is believed that cotton and tobacco will bring good prices throughout the year. An other thing that helps the situa tion is that the labor of the county is employed. Taking it all around the moving of the fruit crop comes along just in time to help in what looks like a decided recovery in business all over Moore county, and one that has arrived to stay. THE FRUIT CROPS MOVING The dewberries and early peaches are feoing out now in considerable quantities, with prices encouraging. The dew berry men are about to get into their campaign, but the peach crop will not be in evidence in its magnitude for some weeks yet. The season has been favor able for both crops, and the mar ket will bring a lot of money in to the Sandhills section, the dewberry especially conferring its gains on this particular sec tion. But gradually the peach crop is sharing with the Lake- view neighborhood its reward, and both dewberries and peaches will continue to increase their returns to the farmer, for more orcha;rds are going out every year, and the belt widens in this direction. More or less money is floating in now from the sale of cotton, the advajncie in price recently having brought out a fair amount of the stock that has been in storage at home or in the’ warehouses. In a general way the business conditions of the country are getting better, THE TOBACCO MARKET The Pilot has a lengthy letter from Oliver J. Sands, manager of the Tobacco Growers' Asso ciation, of which the dominant tone is an expression of senti ment from a large number of bankers in the Kentucky and Tennessee tobacco territory. These men are representative of the tobacco industry out there, and they are so pronounced in their approval of the working of the co-operative movement which has had its test in their section that it must be encour aging to the tobacco men of North Carolina who have joined in with the association plans. It is evident that the associa tion has appealed to the planters. The number who have joined is probably greater than the pro moters of the organization ex pected. It is enough so that the scheme of associated marketing is to have a complete test. It would be a little premature to make a prediction as to the final result, for this is a departure in the farm life of the Atlantic Coast section that may be af fected by things not now anti cipated. The farmers will stick to the association for they have signed up for five years, and five years is long enough to make the scheme work. The farmers are in in good faith, and the plan as laid down looks like an effective one. It is the application of the trades union system so extremely developed in other industries. No doubt it is open to the same dangers that hang over the unions or anything else that undertakes to control production, price and movement of commodities. Never yet has been found any thing that will improve on that ancient and well-worn law of supply and demand, for the buy er in the long run is the man of final authority. He will pay the price up to a certain some what flexible point, but beyond that he stops, and when he stops the end has come. Forty cent cotton brought the strike of the buyers. High priced automo biles had to put in the knife and slash prices to keep the buyer calling for the cars. High priced sugar broke many a man who thought he could keep running up the price. So it is possible for organization to defeat its one purpose. It is hardly to be anticipated that such a fate is ahead of the tobacco association, for the farmers outside of the organiza tion are assured a market in the auction sales warehouses, and that will have its influence. The association will tend to hold the price firmer, but the planters out of the association will multiply if prices go high enough to be unusually attractive. On the whole the signs are favorable to the success of the association, and also indicate that there is no great danger of unreasonable figures for leaf tobacco. Possib ly the planters will have a job getting prices where they should be, and to the level the consum er will be willing to pay, for the whole world thinks the farmer is an easy man who has no call for a return for his work that compares with what men in other callings get. If this or ganization of the tobacco men opens the way for the farmer to see how he may improve his condition even in a general way it will be worth what it has cost. The farmer has something due him from other occupations, and it is time for him to begin to collect. POLITICS This week closes the political campaign in the newspapers. An unusual amount of interest has been shown, at least by the candidates, and as the newspa pers are the agencies by which the candidates under the pres ent primary laws reach the peo ple, the papers had to give up considerable room to allow the candidates to tell their stories. This campaign will tell more about the success of the primary election law, for it involves so many candidates that it tests the principal objection urged against the law which is that of making a choice without so much difficulty for the voters^ and for the candidates as well/ Many have been heard to lament that the old delegate system could not pass in judgment on the present situation, but while the delegates would dispose of the large number of candidates more easily than the primary election does, the fact remains that the delegate system is not a manifestation of popular senti ment. Perhaps it may secure better officials, but beyond all that is the fact that this govern ment of the people, while a gov ernment by delegates is not- And that is what brought the pri mary into use in practically all of the country. i Yet it cannot be said that the primary election is permanently established. Too many people do not take an interest in the nominating campaign any more than they do in the general elec tion, and it has to be recognized as a fact that many men who would be desirable in public ser vice are averse to the task of making a campaign. Not many men are well enough acquainted with all the people to make it possible for an intelligent choice to be made -very often. Ac quaintance and friendship have an influence on the locality of the candidate, and where many candidates present themselves the campaign becomes too often a local affair, with each locality against the other. But the primary is too new yet to criticise it overmuch, and it will probably in the course of time adjust some of its short comings. And it will no doubt produce a good ticket when the votes are counted. It is the ex pression of the people and if it is a weak system it must be largely because it admits.to the choice many who are not the most skilled in the selection of the most capable einployes. Be that the case or not the people have the right to say what they want, and that is enough. Some men seem to think that a friend is always the fellow who cusses the same men they do. When temptation shows a charming pair of ankles, a man’s only chance is to show a clean pair of heels. The early bird doesn’t always get the worm. Sometimes the lawn mower beats him to it. The man who thinks talk is cheap has never said: “Darling will you be mme. Another drawback about being a bachelor is he doesn’t have a wife he can blame things on. We heard a man say yesterday that his idea of hell is a place where speed ers eternally eat the dust of cars they are not permitted to pass. Mr. Edison has invented some more questions. The market was flooded al ready. What the world needs is answers. The greatest thing about some gar dens is the men who make them ac tually grow to believe they know how to farm. 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True sympathy is knows how to truly sym disappointments, their fail in their joys, ambitions. Soon after Scotland farmer, had shown such d( judgment in personal and| Deeds of the county. Sti afterwards became a sti under Prof. S. F. Mordec returned to Laurinburg w dren of the masses and m send their children to a child is entitled to a chaj of the Public Schools of practically non-remuneratj service to the task of ii Under his administration quickened. Inadequate an tricts were formed for t his administration there public schools as can be trustee of the Laurinbur; area outside the town, pleted and bonds sold for approximately $15,0001 as splendid school facilitil the performance of his d{ suiting the mothers of tl believed to be the best p( For 12 years I have to that time he was assol him as I do few men. T] unselfish. His sobriety ai known by all men who the time of his youth do^ The defeat o£ Prohibition] Wito an everlasting and sobriety and personal eif(
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