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Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With rharacter. Aberdeen, North Cigdina Friday, June 12 THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina you like. The truth is that all wood is certainly available it can over Moore county today a lux- be procured and be on hand when ury prevails that a generation j it is needed, and that it will be ago would have set down as im- ^ seasoned and in shape for use comprehensible if such had.been when fall comes. The project is predicted. One day last week ob- one thiat will stand considering. NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager I ^Q^ed a group of some Wood is one of the best fuels BION H. BUTLER, Editor |25 airplanes flying across the jthat can be furnished for domes- JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT country near the Hoke county ! tic use. Its heating qualities are RALPH PAG^ line on their way from Fort | high as compared with anything Contributing Editors | Bragg to an Alabama point. A ! else, and it is cleaner than some sick woman was moved from | fuels. It burns with a friendly Southern Pines to Pennsylvania j fire, and it leaves no unsightly by air a few days ago, and an , ashes. Good oak, hickory or gum airport is now’ one of the famil-1 wood 'as found abundantly all iar sig-hts half a dozen miles |Over this section, with just a lit- from Vass. jtle fat pine to offer an occasion- Suppose w’e moved back j al stimulus to the fire, but not twenty-five years in Vass. It [ too much, covers the whole bill Subscription Rates: One Year Six Months Three Months .$2.00 .$1.00 . .50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. A GUESS AT THE FUTURE Always anybody can have a guess at any time, but at times the conditions help along in mak ing the guess. From what The Pi lot can gather from the papers, from people, from business au thorities and from various sources, the business outlook is improving and promising to im prove. Not that the evidence in dicates any swift return to the heights that prevailed in the re cent past, but rather that a mod est recovery is ahead, and a sub stantial progress is coming. The good dewberry crop is one of the assurances for this sec tion. What the prices are to be is yet to determine, and prob ably not the hig^hest, although the strawberry prices would signify that a fair return is like ly to come to the dewberry men. But whether high or low^ a cer tain amount of money will come, for the crop is a good one and in good shape. The peach outlook is good, the fruit coming out of the spring without damage from frosts and holding a healthy condition all through. The big crops of recent years are not to be duplicated this summer, which gives hope that prices may be fair. As a large share of the crop will go to market in bas kets instead of in the small packages that cost of harvest ing and forwarding will be less, so a smaller price will be more profitable than a similar small price would have been in the past. The outlook for a good re turn from peaches seems likely now. The grain crops, which appear to be about the biggest harvest ed in the county in years, are the most satisfactory in charac ter raised in a long time, which means relief in that quarter. By the time that all the things in sight are harvested and dis posed of tobacco will begin to claim attention. It is too soon to guess much at tobacco but enough will be made to help ma terially, and some cotton will be realized. Poultry will show re sults this summer. Along with the farm conditions other em ployment crops up here and there, and altogether the out look is not so bad as it might be. The signs generally are hope ful, and as people are manifest ing more thrift 'and ejcbnomy those who predict improvement are probably not far wrong. fibers. cotton would be much like moving out the back door. Or if the whole county moved back that length of time. In comparsion our pres ent situation would be regard ed as the height of opulence if it could have been forshadowed. To predict twenty-five years ago that nearly every farmer in the county would have a car, black and white alike, would have mov ed the old settlers of that day to hilarious laughter. Made in Moore county can chalk up a big picture when we turn back a little and visualize how far we are today, even with this presumed financial depres sion about us, and compare it with w’hat we looked on a quar ter of a century ago as fairly satisfactory prosperity and pro gress. The truth is that if by any magic we could be returned to the good old days we would stage an insurrection and insist on coming back to this depres sion pronto and emphatically. The Vass cotton show demon strates one thing, and that is that this old world is not in bad shape, and pinned onto that dis covery can very well be the pre diction that each year leads us farther toward a still better gen- of requirements. If properly bought wood is probably the cheapest fuel that the neig'hbor- hood uses. Dry wood is much better than green wood. Cut now and deliv ered in the yard it will be dry and in condition by fall. Provid ed now, the uncertain problem ; The farmer is asking if the weati, er man proposes to serve the w kind of a trick he did last year tT ground is getting seriously drv anrf the crops are suffering. ‘ with the mystery of making tasty clothing for the rural and the village family. Nothing ex pensive was seen at that show, nothing offensively elaborate! nothing straining to produce an effort, and the result was a household of women, of all ages, tastefully clad, at a cost that is inconsiderable, in variety of ma terial and design that covered the range of ingenuity in con struction and harmony until it is hard to imagine a more inter esting p icture of human group ing. The cotton show at Vass ac complished its purpose. It im pressed everybody there .with the unlimited power of the pro ducers of cotton clothing to pro vide for the broad world an ar- | Suppose you are a summer tourist ray of apparel, astonishingly low j on a clear day, driving carefully, at in price, surprising in its many | moderate speed, in a good car, on a pleasing lappeals to the eye and: good road. to the comforts of the wearer, | Let us say under those favorable cir- and in every respect a textile as- |cumstances your chances of being __ set that is without comparison in I killed or injured that day are 1 in of fuel in the fall and winter is 'clothing, and they are helped out jits many qualities. That cotton- j 1,000. disposed of. Then comes that j^y ^^e designers, the dye chem- jprbed audience was as satisfy- | Did you ever stop to think how your ists, the manufacturers of weav- {ing a human exhibit as could be ! actions as a driver affect those ing machinery, and by a thous-1 desired, and not only because of |“odds”? and other contributors. And that i their clothing, but because it | The minute you cut out of the line unpretentious* leader, the 'home [ was a representative gathering | of traffic and weave in and out, sta- demonstration agent, the genius i '0>f intelligent and cordial and | tisticians say your chances of acci- who has spread a familiarity | wholesome people. tiveness and cheapness af wo- man^s garb. 'As the displays of goods were accompanied by a statement of prices it was amus ing to hear announced that a lit tle girl's dress cost tliirty-nine cents, or a small boy's raiment cut fifty-seven cents out of the family dollar, or that mother dug into the pocketbook to the tune of maybe a dollar and thirty- nine cents, or maybe for some simple thing not even that much. Compared with fifteen or twenty yards of goods that their moth ers used to call for at maybe a dollar or two a yard, with a lot more cost for the “findings” and the quarts of buttons and other trimmings and the cost of making, the women of today get through on almost the widow's mite. The cotton manufacturers have made it possible for the people in the most remote cor ner of the nation to vie with Sol omon in the character of their £931. tire cotton plant, lint, stalk, le^ all may some day go to the mill for a supply for the more /r^ cate yarns, for it is only the w quality of yarns that use the The cold nights since the tobacco crop has been set in the field have been favorable to cut worms, which have done a lot of damage in the to bacco fields. Evidently the worms think it is chewing tobacco instead of smoking. other motive—keeping men em ployed in the wood lot now when some of them are anxious to have profitable employment, buying a load of wood involves no charity, for you get the val ue of your money, and possibly by buying a few cords of wood now and piling it up you get it at a lower price than will be pos sible in the fall when wood is in active dem^and. No doubt you will have the pick of better wood, for in the fall you hesi tate about declining a load of not very good wood when you really need wood, for fear the next load may be no better. But now you will limit your buying if the quality is not up to your notion. It is a pretty good idea to get iri at least a part of your winter wood now when men want to eral condition of the whole hu- provide it for you. You will prob- A BRIEF LOOK BACKWARD Last week Vass had a sort of an experience meeting which it designated as a cotton show. One of the objects was to stress the use of cotton materials in any way that might broaden the call for cotton lint and cotton yarns, both made in the Vass area. A similar sentiment was noted over the entire county. But when the folks began to analyze the sit uation it began to appear that Moore county is in pretty fair shape. It is true that talk of fi nancial depression is heard, and in some cases in the communi ties conditions require some watching, but after a thorough investigation it looks as if all of Moore county is prospering if the test is by any yard stick of the past. Moore county people were never better clad, never had a more varied ration, or better houses to live in, or better roads to get about on, or more good neighbors, or as many good newspapers, or as many contacts with the outside world by radio, telephone, or as many electric lights, or as good medical ser vice, or as many automobiles, or go on with that list as long as you like, and then compare to day with twenty years ago, or man race, Moore county along with the rest. Look back once in a while instead of all the time holding your eyes to the little difficulties on the road at your feet. PASSING FROM THE JAZZ AGE Claude Hayes, who from his position as a book store man can catch the sentiment that moves the people, says the country is positively passing out of the jazz age. The froth of Vanity Fair is giving way to more substantial inclinations and tastes and a more serious outlook on life is supplanting the frivolous and the flippant. Charlie Picquet, who has an equally good point of view, says the same thing. He rejoices that a better type of pic ture is available, pictures that have some weight and purpose, and he says the objectionable is dropping from the market, and that it is mudh easier now than ever in the history of the screen to find a selection of films he can present to his patronage without an unwilling feeling on his part. More and more he finds the producers bringing out the things that appeal to the sense of clean humor, and to the ap proval of the folks w^ho like a clean melodrama or a romance that does not consist so largely of the offensive as 'has been too common with much of the screen .stuff. Mr. Picquet says that since Will Hays has come to the rescue of the screen he has been of great value in cleaning out the influence that for a time threatened to wreck ^the indus try, and that the producers are finding that decent stuff will meet with a more cordial recep tion by the people generally than the flavor of filth that has char acterized too much of the mater ial that has been common in the last few years. The people who appreciate the value of the picture show in the community can help in this matter if they will occasionally let Mr. Picquet know that the ’ better type of stuff is desired. The better type of picture shows are doing all they can to clean up, and, Mr. Picquet says, with gratifying success. The people can help a lot by showing their approval. ably mske money by the deal and be ready for fall when it comes. CLOTHING THE WOMEN The observers at the Vass Cotton Show staged last week by the Woman's Club of that progressive and -homey village has spread before them in amaz ing fa;shion one fact—the attrac- GRAINS OF" SAND One of our good advertisers told us the tie-up man cut in. “Balaam, you ‘ percentages are: I dent are multiplied ,by 50—you then thave 50 chances in 1000 of being in- volved in an accident—you have in creased the personal accident hazard 5000 percent. Some of the other increased hazard the other day that business wtih him was good, just as good so far this year as for the first five months of last year. Another merchant told us business was rotten. But he’s not an advertiser. Ralph Chandler says these are great nights for sleep. A cotton grower told us these were bad days and nights for cotton. Richard Tufts went up north and suffered from the heat and went from there to Myrtle Beach and had to wear a sweater. So it goes. talk too much with your mouth. A fellow can go over to the Moore County Hospital and get spare parts that has been cut off and throwed out and make a dangsite better man than any of all your folks.” Balaam’s feelings were hurt and he walked out. a curve, Driving over 40 miles per hours, 2, 500 percent. Passing another car on 1,000 percent. Passing another car going up hill, 1000 percent. Failure to signal, 500 percent. “Uncle Sam will spend $415,000,000 on federal building projects and there is in realty available a total of $504,- 000,000,” declared John W. Philp, fourth assistant postmaster general, Balaam Good, of the Turkeyrun section, was in town Monday. He pounded his fist on the counter two Don Blue appeared at the Vass Cot ton Show wearing a rayon necktie, and some of the folks were dispos ed to question his choice of apparel until it was discovered that the high er grades of rayon are made of cot- | at the meeting of postmaster in Char ton linters and lint, and then it was j lotte Monday, realized that he was strictly in line, for he was emphasizing another out let for cotton products. It looks as if the near future will see a lot of cot- or three times in telling what a | ton turned over to the rayon mills hardboiled man he was until the man who weighs out stuff and ties up packages stopped a minute to look at him. Balaam insisted again, “I’m the best man on Turkeyrun head,” and for manufacture into that finer tex tile, and that rayon and cotton are likely to go hand in hand as products of the farm and material for cloth ing. It is even predicted that the en- “Of this amount, $6,830,000 will be spent in North Carolina,” said he, adding that 15 projects have already been appropriated for and have been completed or are in some stage of completion. Fourteen places are allocated to be appropriated for in some subsequent session of congress, he said. This list includes Southern Pines. Ford cars are now equipped with safety glass in all doors and windows at a small extra charge $”| C? for the Coupe, De Luxe Coupe, Sport J- (3 Coupe or Convertible Cabriolet the Tudor Sedan, Standard Sedan, mtdxJ De Luxe Sedan, Town Sedan or Victoria PROVIDING FOR EMPLOYMENT A day or so ago a colored man proposed to a villager to lay in at least a part of his winter wood now. The negro's interest was in having an outlet for his wood at the present time that 'he might be busy in cutting and hauling - , - ft. His argument to the prospec- oi*ty years ago, or any time^tive buyer was that now when The Triplex safety glass windshield has always been an outstanding feature of the Model A Ford. By reducing the dangers of flying glass, it has saved many lives and prevented countless injuries in automobile collisions. Now comes a further assurance of safety to every Ford owner . . • polished plate safety glass in ALL DOORS AND WINDOWS tU slight additional cost. The charge for this- extra protection is unusually low because of large production and the development of new methods of manufacture. Simply tell the dealer when you buy the Ford that you want ‘‘safety plate glass in all doors and windows” and the car will be factory-equipped for you in that manner. Today, as before, the safety glass windshield is furnished as standard equip* ment on all Ford cars without extra charge. FORp OWNERS This announcement refers only to NEW CARS. Ford dealers are not in a pwition to install safety gfass in the windows of your present Ford at the above prices. the ford _J
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