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THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North CaroliMa
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THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager
MON H. BUTLER, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
RALPH PAGE
Contributing Editors
wider knowledge by the tobac- completed, it stood blocking one
CO growers over the state. Mr. ^ side of the road holding up trav-
Hill says that the four principal | el during the lengthy period of
cigarette manufacturing com-1 repairs.
panies buy less than 35 per cent It becomes plain that heavy
of the tobacco grown in North traffic must be considered by
Carolina, which is important for states beA^re long, and proba-
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HOW WE CAN
DELUDE OURSELVES
In the last few days the pa
pers have been printing some
comment on the reduction of
dividends on United States Steel,
and the reduction of salaries of
employes. Comment has been
going with the tiding to the ef
fect that wages must not be re
duced. From Washington some
of the political.color assumes to
indicate that the President of
the United States has been com
mitting himself to the proposi
tion that wages must not be re
duced. Which you take with as
his a grain of salt as you like.
Other geniuses are saying that
wages must not be reduced. And
it would all be highly pleasing
were it not the fact that wages
are being reduced, and that no
^Dower on earth can prevent.
If such a thing as maintaining
wages could be at the power of
man it would be a nice thing for
the wage-earner. Unfortunately
he is subject to the same econ
omic laws as the man who pays
the wages, and we might as well
realize that fact. The factory
may decline to cut wages, but it
cannot make its sales depart
ment sell goods at prices that do
not suit the buyers of its prod
ucts, and that is the factor that
says what wages are to be.
When the buyer balks it is
either cut wages and costs of
production at all points and re-1 power can maintain a high
duce sellmg figures, or prices for leaf when the mar-
down the plant. Cold as that. jg overloaded with it, and
sounds no man has Y^t found j there is to the situa-
^ ^ tion, hard as it seems,
what has been gomg on in all
North Carolina growers to bear
in mind. These four companies
are working in the keenest kind
of competition, and no one of
the four i)uys as much as 15 per
cent of the North Carolina crop.
The portion of the crop not
bought by the four companies is
largely sold for shipment abroad,
and that 65 per cent makes the
price of leaf.
Three times as much bright
tobacco is raised as the Ameri
can companies can use. They
could not buy enough tobacco to
affect the price if they could find
a much bigger outlet for ciga
rettes, for a surplus of 65 pounds
for every 35 pounds needed is
wholly impossible to deal with.
If the tobacco farmer will real
ize this situation, and either ar
range to limit the production of
his crop of find a way to make
it for less cost that he may com
pete with the rest of the tobac
co growing world he will have
come closer to a solution of his
troubles than by deluding him
self in the belief that the ciga
rette manufacturers can affect
the price by any attempt they
might make to give the leaf a
higher market rating.
The amount of tobacco avail
able to the whole world that
uses tobacco and the eagerness
of the world to procure what is
offered in the .markets of the
entire globe, determine how
much tobacco will be taken and
how much will be refused. North
Carolina bright leaf tobacco that
goes abroad goes in competition
with the rest of the tobacco of
the other producing companies.
It is rather plain that the com
panies buying American tobac
co for export are not going to
pay more here than they will
pay elsewhere for what they
need. No matter how much we
would all like to see the export
ing buyers pay higher prices we
know they must buy at prices
which will permit them to com
pete with tobacco of other lands.
bly the initiative will come m
the Northern states where trav
el is much more congested than
in the South. But it is pretty
clear that no state is going to
permit this indiscriminate use
of its road for heavy traffic
much longer. In this state the
from California' brought east in
cans. Col. Harris also laments
that Sampson county huckleber
ries, plentiful to the Ijjnit, failed
to connect with his town of
Charlotte.
But our own George Ross
found a solution for one tangle
of this sort. In his farm relations
he comes in contact with farms
all over the state, and to an east
ern potato grower who complain
ed that he could not buy peaches
as he could not sell his spuds
George referred a Sandhill^
roads which have been built at! peach man who complained that
a cost that is as heavy as the I he could not buy potatoes be-
state can bear will have to be | cause he could not sell his
rebuilt. And where money would | peaches. George switched them
come from to rebuild when we together and the potato man
cannot pay off the road debt now
existing in the next thirty years
is a matter we will all be consid
traded a truck-load of potatoes
for a load of peaches and all are
happy. George found out how to
ering pretty soon. A very small | unra\ el that obstacle of ex
proportion of the roads of North | change of commodities that
Carolina, costly as they are,! holds off the entrance to mar-
have been built so substantially i kets, and brought thing^back to
as to stand the strain that is be-1 the primitive days when men
• _ J_ ! J_T^ ^ I t n • 1 1 _ _ J_T—. Z wv«T
ing put on them.
HELPING FARMERS
AND EVERYBODY
traded with each other in what
they make. If we could have a
syptem of exchange in state
products that would enable the
people who make things in North
Carolina to swap with others
who make things, so that we do
not have to wear out all our
Commenting on the big peach
crop in the Sandhills the Char
lotte Observer deplores the fact
that in Charlotte and likewise | state prodiucts dragging them
probably most other places ir\ all over the United States and
reach of the Sandhills it is prac-1 back again we would probably
tically impossible to get a piece | find more farm relief than in
of peach pie in the restaurants | borrowing money when we al-
or hotels, or, if possible, the i ready owe more than we can
peach is liable to be a hard peach i ever pay.
GRAINS OF" SAND
Here it is Orgust and we can eat
oysters again.
We know Fall is approaching. The
papas and mammas are beginning to
wonder which teachers are coming
back. And hoping for the best.
Wonder if it would 'be possible to
get up a boys’ band around here. It
would be good for the boys and good
advertising for the Sandhills.
had 21 houses, valued at $56,140, or
an average of $2,673 for each 'build
ing and an average of $35.11 for each
pupil enrolled.
“Tired, Sally,?” the mistress ^ of
the house asked her colored assist
ant after a busy afternoon in the
canning department.
“Tired, ma’am? Laws I’se always
tired. I stays tired so I won’t git tir
ed.”
directions, and will go on fur
ther before the recovery becomes
very strong and definite. The!
mill cannot run unless it can sell'
its goods, and the matter of
wages is of secondary import
ance in enabling it to run. In a
situation like this it can sell its
products only by the closest par
ing of every cost, for now Ihe
buyer, after his high flight of
indifference, is once more ask
ing the price before he says to
wrap up the purchase. If the
price does not suit he does some
shopping. And that is what fixes
wages and all the other costs of
HIGHWAYS AND
RAILROADS
A curious and interesting sit
uation, which has been fore
shadowed for a considerable
time, has moved to the front at
once in three d^ifferent quarters.
In Pennsylvania the highways
are preparing plans for higher
rates for big vehicles, some of
which will not be permitted on
the roads except under special
license for the trip indicated,
and the outlook is a fixed maxi
mum of weight and size of vehi
cle because of the crowded con-
These local baseball games are at-j Sanford’s new and handsome
tracting good crowds and much in-' County Hospital will be formally op-
terest. Southern Pines and Carthage | ened on August 18. This, like our
have teams; Aberdeen none this year, j own Moore County Hospital, is a Duke
There have been some good games j endowed institution.
with teams from other towns. In j
Southern Pines there is talk of a bet
ter ball field, possibly a grandstand.
The team is getting good support.
Baseballs for use this season have
been donated by the Highland Hard
ware House, and other business men
ara lending substantial aid. We
should like to see a league of Sand
hills towns next season.
The sub-rosa liquor making indus
try of Dare county is glowingly de
scribed by our own Ben Dixon Mac-
“I was very much interested to see
the other day that plant patent num
ber one had been issued by the Fed
eral Government,’^ Dr. R. W. Leiby,
entomologist for the State Depart
ment of Agriculture, whose hobby is
gardening, observed last week.
“You know the United States Gov
ernment decided to patent unusual
plants which had been developed, giv
ing to jthe holder of the patent ex
clusive sales privileges,” he continued.
“Number one patent was issued on a
is denouncing about the state the | beautiful; commending the St
leadership of his party and describ- that soil erosion be studied-^^^
the work of the overwhelming * ■’ ' •
mg
Democratic legislature as “indefensi
ble,” instead of his usual policy of
rallying to the support of his party—
the party which, some have the cour
age to say, raised him from a “pro
vincial” editor’s desk to a mighty seat
in the councils of the nation. Some are
asking if he is trying to bring about
a repudiation of the Gardner admin
istration, the defeat of aU members
of the 1931 Legislature who may come
up for re-election, or is seeking to
foment discord in the ranks of the
party which has honored him. That, it
is asserted, is a role more suitable to
a dashing actor like Marion Butler.
This apparent change in policy is
apparently calling for a motive, an
explanation as to the objective. Some
profess to see in it a desire of Mr.
Daniels to become Governor, his
“don’t choose” statement to the con
trary, notwithstanding. They are con
fident he would not offer for the of
fice unless he was certain in his own
mind of attaining it, but they claim
mg the work at State
economics and rural
r
soci ^
marketing activities,
gratitude to Dr. Carl C.
cently dropped from the Sf!. ’
lege staff. ^ Col,
State general fund collecti
July amounted to $1,388
compared with $1,088,409.0
oils for
06.
325.38
as
crease of nearly $20C,000, whl?
way fund collections were
266.63, as compared with $1,212 siltV
an increase of $329,629.85, over t ,
of last year. Commissioner of P
nue A. J. Maxwell reports. Ihmm-'
in almost every division of th'
is due almost entirely to higher
although some items showed a s® JJ
mcrease otherwise.
* *
What the Governor of North C
olina said to the Governor of Xg'
was that if Texas and other South
or of Texas
Southeni
states had reduced cotton acreage 1
the past two years as much as Nortii
Carolina has “we would have gune
it is his method of preparing the soil i long way toward inviting the ^
for that kind of harvest. ! of prosperity in the South.”
In a recent discussion of the possi-
'ble elimination of present prospective
candidates before primary time comes
around ,the belief was expressed that
the two remaining then wouW-be A.
J. Maxwell and R. T. Fountain. To
which one close to Mr. Daniels re
marked : “In that
Governor Gardner told
Governor
Ross S. Sterling in a message tha*
North Carolina had reduced%otton
acreage 28 per cent since 1929, in re.
ply to an invitation to Austin, Texas'
to attend a cotton reduction meeting
Texas governors have a habit of
Fountain | heading acreage reduction movements
but Texas, by far the largest cotton
growing State, does not reduce acre,
age, seemingly desiring reduction in
other states to .benefit Texas. Govern.
More than 1,400 farm men and wo- of
J i Agriculture W. A. Graham decided
not to send a representative.
case,
would be forced to withdraw, Mr.
Daniels would become a candidate and
beat the h out of Maxwell.”
men were registered at the conven
tion held at State College last week,
many expressing" the belief that they
will be better and better housekeep
ers as a result of the training and in
struction received. While politics was
Governor 0. Max Gardner plans to
spend most of the month of August
away from Raleigh on a vacation. He
1 4. J 4. 4.1, I. 1 J I’® Shelby this week for presen.
relegated to the background, the con- ... » . i
f. , J . .... . 1 J ' tation of a portrait of his fathe>'-in.
vention heard men m politics, includ- *
production. In a narrow market ^ ^ highways and the
the factory that can get its costs ' roads when travers-
the lowest sells the goods. It' ^ ^ and cars.^
may not sound pleasing, but if • North Carolina is tangling up
anybody has found any other '!'*h South Car
way to fix prices in the final i ?„
showdown than by the costs of: across the
production he has a cinch on his j and a few days ago came
business that others would give i .squabble on the
much money to find out. Wages | ^ ^ Virginia protestmg
have been going down and wagi\s ' through bus travel on
are certain to continue to go ^ without
Neill in last Sunday’s New York Tri- new climbing rose named ^New Dawn.’
bune Magazine. eBn Dixon is writing It is without thorns, and, unlike other
regularly for this magazine of late, climbing roses which 'bloom but once
and his stories are good stuff. a season, blooms several times dur-
ing the summer.”
North Carolina had 5,825 school- Heretofore, he explained, when
houses valued at $110,421,315 during some nursery developed a superior
the school year 1929-30, of which 3,- plant such as the “TrJisman” rose, it
460 houses were for white children, was customary for the nursery to keep
valued at $98,946,273, and 2,365 were the matter secret for several years
for colored children, valued at $1,474,- while a stock of around 50,000 plants
042, the July issue of School Facts, was being developed. When the rose
just issued from the office of the was put on the market the nursery
ing Senators Josiah W. Bailey and
Cameron Morrison.
Noting that four of its five res
olutions last year, including the State
taking over the schools and the roads,
improving the 'banking laws and giv
ing the County Government Advis
ory Commission more power, had
been enacted by the 1931 General As
sembly and a fifth, relief from land
taxation, was partially achieved, the
convention last week adopted 16 res
olutions, having to do with further
tax relief, full support of schools by
the State, and 14 others about all
calling for expenditures of money, as
follows: continuing county agents in
each county and without salary cuts
deeper than other county officers;
continue vocational agriculture in the
high schools; that agricultural in
struction, research and extension be
paramounted in the greater univer
sity; that full,facilities of the Farm
Board and cooperatives be used by the
farmers; that forests be protected
from fire; commending crop improve
ment work; that local Granges be sup- .
ported; that the State be made more
law, the late Judge James L. Webb,
by the family to the Superior Court
of Cleveland county. Clyde R. Hoey
will make the presentation and Judge
Wilson Warlick accept the portrait.
The Governor expects to spend a part
of his vacation traveling ovei the
Great Smoky Mountain National
Park.
CARD OF THANKS
To our many friends and neighbors
we wish to express our sincere thanks
and appreciation for the many deeds
of kindness and of demonstrated sym
pathy during the long illness and
the recent death of our beloved hus
band, father and brother.
MRS. SARA C. STEWART,
and Family.
Vass, N. C.,
PUNCTUAUTT
PROMPTNESS
PRECISION
some
State Superintendent of
struction, shows.
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Public
In-
Moore county, in its white school
system, has 26 houses, the total prop-
which had developed the plant cashed
in on its stock, but this was the only
reward possible.
H
Ohio the question of surrender
ing the highways to the bus
lines from travel to New York
is vigorously protested because
it is argued that the heavy traf
fic is making congested roads
more dangerous, more difficult
for the light vehicles, and entail
ing costs of road maintenance
never contemplated when the
highways were built. One con
cern is mentioned which on a
capital stock of $20,000 is under
taking to use the highways of
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
Jersey and a through route for
traffic on a wholesale basis, and
An exhibit in the Charles Drug
is a wierd looking
of $16,763 for each building and an | vegetable called a quail melon. It
average of $139.42 for each pupil en- was grown on the McFarland farm by
rolled. In the negro system, the county! Alex Blue, and weighs 18 1-2 pounds.
down, and the sooner we dis- i state treasury.^ In erty value being $435,830, an average store in Aberdeen
count the certainties of the near
future and attempt to put our
affairs on the best possible bas
is to fit the changing conditions
the quicker the recoverj’ will be
here. If anybody imagines foi* a
minute that the great industry
of farming can be so complete
ly shot to pieces as it is without
industries feeling the effect of
the slaughter, that deluded in
dividual needs to take another
look at his hand. Agriculture
has been walking behind in the
dust until the farmer has ceas
ed to be able to buy the product
of the other industries. Those
^i^APITAL
11 « fl I ad
ft
By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent
Democratic leaders in many parts | ings at the point of the Daniels pen-
other industries are now chew-1 vigorously object
ing the hard cud of idleness andi keeping up
infrequent pay checks. Harsh as i their highways to serve as the
it seems it is the fact, and how for the big freight and pas-
soon it is all to be adjusted again business the concerns
nobody can tell you. But it is a
safe bet the adiustment will not' , Carolina the
take place at the high point in i tendency is toward bigger vehi-
’ ' cles, and especially during the
fruit season that danger has be
come notable. Some of the large
trucks pretty well crowd small
drivers of fthe roads. Not long
ago a case was mentioned where
of North Carolina are beginning to
wonder and to ask questions as to
how much longer and to what fur
ther end will extend the attacks of
Josephus Daniels, both on the public
platform and through his Raleigh pa
per, upon the Gardner administration
cil. In every General Assembly for
many years that same pencil has ex
pressed the views of its pusher on the
acts 01 the members of the two
houses and the programme of the
Governors.
the clouds from which we have
fallen.
A LITTLE
ENLIGHTENMENT
A recent letter from G. W. | alleavily laden truck had trouble
Hill, president of the American I and stepped to fix its machinery.
Tobaccq company, to the leaf
buyers as they prepare for the
coming buying campaign, gives
some information that is worth
It was afraid to go off the pave
ment as it possibly might not
have been able to get back on,
and there, until repairs were
, ,, , But the leaders are raising ques-
and the acts of the 1931 General As-| tions as to why the extension of the
sembly, which in large measure con- ; attacks on the 1931 General Assem-
s 1 u e the record of the Democratic bly and the Gardner program, most
GOLF
The Graystone
AT
party in the state.
These leade^rs are not surprised at
the attacks upon the Gardner regime.
They recall the “Asleep at the
Switch” editorials in the News and
Observer directed at Governor Kitch
en; they are mindful of the “Come
Home, Governor” call to Governor
Morrison, and memory is fresh as to
the numerous thrusts at Governor Mc
Lean. Senator Simmons and later Sen
ator Bailey have receive dtheir roast-
of which received the general approv
al of Mr. Daniels. at the time, even
thoug^K there were divergences on
methods. Heretofore, they say, he has
criticised while there is still time for
changes, but when the General As
sembly had adjourned and its policies
sealed, he would accept its acts as
those pf the Democratic party and
'bow to its will.
^ Now it is pointed out, long after
the General Assembly adjourned, he
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