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THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberaeen, i^iortn ciaroima
Jnday, August 28. 193^
SANDHILL CITIZEN
HAS NEW OWNERS
The Sandhill Citizen at
Southern Pines has passed from
the ownership of Foss & Morris
into the hands of a corporation
in which John Beasley of Car
thage and R. E. Denny of Pine-
hurst are the chief factors. The
paper is to remain under the
management of Hiram West
brook, which is a wise course, as
Mr. Westbrook has for many
years been the active foi’ce in
the concern and has a sound
working knowledge of the com
munity and the relation of the
paper to its ten’itory. The Citi
zen has been an aggressive agent
in furthering the fortunes of
the Sandhills in the period of its
existence. The Pilot has always
regarded the Citizen as about
the cleanest and most commend
able country paper in North Car
olina, w’ith possibly one excep
tion that modesty forbids men
tioning just now% and with the
assurance that the same policies
will be carried out in the future
that have been dominant in the
past ths people of the Sandhills
can be well pleased with the out
come.
Mr. Beasley needs no introduc
tion to the people of this end of
the county as he is already in
the newspaper game at Carth
age, and he comes from a news
paper stock that has long been
prominent in the state. Mr.
Denny is an attorney who has
made a place for himself in Pine-
hurst since he established there.
The Citizen announces that its
old force will be continued on
the job, which is also a bit of
satisfying intelligence as they
are a bunch of good neighbors.
THE NEW ROAD
MANAGEMENT
Some complaints have been
made about the roads since the
new management took them
over, but the complaints are
premature. In the last few
weeks unusually heayy rains
have been washing the roads all
over the county, a condition that
would have happened under the
old management as well as un
der the new. Therefore nothing
that has arisen yet is sufficient
to either invite favorable or un
favorable comment. The rainfall
in the last three weeks has been
the greatest in the same length
of time for several years, and it
could not be otherwise than that
the roads would suffer, no mat
ter who is in authority. The
work on the state roads in the
Cameron and Hemp sections has
also had an effect in compelling
the use of detours. But the pav
ing jobs are winding up, and
that will give some relief. The
new management is also facing
a financial situation that is not
yet fully ironed out, and must be
given every encouragement while
it is getting in working shape
under the new laws and difficul
ties.
it pays the government one dol
lar. For every pound of the far
mer’s tobacco that he sells to the
factory for cigarettes, and for
which he gets, say, an average
of fifteen cents, the government
charges a dollar tax.
There is an item that has to
do with the price of leaf. The
farmer may think what would
happen if every pound of grain
sold, or every pound of pork or
every pound of cotton or any
other thing that comes from the
farm, had to meet a tax of sev
eral times its value before it
could pass into the hands of the
consumer, or what would occur
if every pound of cotton cloth
had to pay a tax several times
the cost of the cotton entering
it, or if every board from the
sp.w miill h*"d to pay several
times as much in taxes as the
cost of the lumber! Before the
factory can sell the farmer’s to
bacco it has to pay a tax about
seven times the amount of the
price paid for the tobacco.
Well, that’s that. The govern
ment must have the money.
Also the State must have money,
so it also taxes the tobacco some
more. It taxes the factory, and
the dealer, and anybody who
touches the stuff in a commer
cial way. Every week the tobac
co factories of North Carolina
pay the Federal government
alone about five million dollars
in taxes, money that is taken
from the crop between the time
it leaves the farmer and reaches
the buyer in shape to use. The
Pilot does not know how to in
crease the price of tobacco un
less we can decrease the trem
endous tax laid against it, and
the only way to reduce the tax is
I to reduce the demands of the
government for money. And the
only way to reduce the demands
of the government for money is
to stop going to the Federal
treasury for everything that is
w^anted. We have come to think
in this country that the public
treasury is a well into which we
can dip for everything. The next
Congress will be met by hands
from all quarters asking gifts
and reliefs and donations for all
imaginable schemes. The last
Congress created a deficit that
calls for bonds to be issued
I against the future, and heaven
1 only know’s what the next Con-
I gress will do with the quarter of
I a billion dollars North Carolina
I'tobacco manufacturers will pay,
and many other quarter billions
dollars taken here and there
from industry that has to dig in
like thunder to produce the
money.
If the North Carolina farmer
will study this lesson he will see
that the $256,000,000 taken by
; the government from the North
Carolina tobacco manufacturers
is one of the many burdens on
the shoulders of the tobacco
grower. No product can be lav
ish with its money in payment
for raw material that is bled to
the bone in this manner. It is not
the tobacco company that is pay
ing the bill. It is the farmer, and
the only way to head off this gi
gantic load is to stop it at the
X)utlet. The most important task,
in front of the North Carolina
farmer if he wants better prices
for anything is to notify Con
gress and the legislature that
profligate spending of public
money must be stopped, and that
no man who comes to the pub
lic crip to ask for contributions
shall be given anything unless
he needs it as much as the far
mer who pays it needs the
money, or unless it is for genu
ine government uses and not for
gifts and doles and other uses,
the recipient of which is equally
as able to take care of himself
as the farmer who unwillingly is
hel^with his nose to the grind
stone and made to produce from
his meager income.
j year be improved, but the gen-
I eral assemblage of leaf on the
i floor can be benefitted by throw-
1 ing out from a good pile any of
the low grade stuff, which if it
is to be offered at all, should be
separated into piles where it
will not spoil anything else.
It is doubtful if tobacco prices
will ever again in many years
reach the high figure of a few
years ago. High prices have
stimulated the whole world to
make tobacco, and North Caro
lina bright leaf growers are in
the keenest competition with
European and Oriental growers,
for a large proportion of North
Caralina tobacco goes abroad.
Therefore it is necessary that
the leaf be put in the'best possi
ble shape to meet that competi
tion, but also that prices not
too high may be accepted. Cur
ing and sorting are the two
things open to the farmer yet
before his crop is put on the
warehouse floors, and it will pay
him to exert every effort to im
prove it at those two points. The
farmer not well versed in these
features would gain by having
advice and help in securing the
best results in this direction.
Bringing his tobacco to the
warehouse in the best possible
shape to meet the approval of I
the buyers is the chief hope of
the farmer for getting the price
he seeks. The buyer has his lim-!
itations. He is instructed to keep
within a certain range of prices |
because his company must meet
the price's of tobacco from all
over the world, and if he pays'
too much for what he buys his
company will have difficulty in
meeting competition in its sales.
This the farmer might as well
recognize. Buyers will pay all
they can for good leaf. They will
pay no more than is absolutely
safe to pay for the inferior stuff,
and under present world condi
tions that will not be much. The
main point is to see that the leaf
already made shall be brought to i
ithe warehouse in condition to ap-1
peal to the buyer so that he may
be justified in going as high in
his bid as he would like to, for
it must be remembered that if
he buys too much at a price that
his company cannot get out of it
he will be relieved of his job
I just like any other man.
GRAINS OF" SAND
At last Capital and Labor have a.
complaint in common. Neither of them ^
is profitably employed. |
The last we heard of the newsboys’
band which entertained us in South
ern Pines recently, it was in James
town, New York. The boys still have
a month to go before their return to
Orlando, Florida.
We are in receipt of a postal card
of a handsome church in Freiburg,
Germany, sent us by Dr. I. M. Med-
lin of Aberdeen, but Dr. Medlin fails
to -state whether he was inside the
church or just bought the picture of
it. “We are now in Germany going
through battlefields. Back to Paris
Friday, then to Brussels, Amsterdam,
four days in London and back to
New York and Aberdeen. Feeling
fine and having a wonderful trip,”
he writes.
We don’t know how he did it, but
we’ve gotta hand it to Brother Paiu
of the Raleigh Times for the picture
on his front page the other night I-
was a group taken at the Dare couiitv
celebration, and how he ever got thb
gang on the same film we don’t kno
but there they were right on the
front page and reading from left to
right as always:
Josephus Daniels, A. J. Maxwell
Senator Bailey, Senator Morrison'
Congressman Lindsey Warren and J
C. B. Ehringhaus.
We are glad Dr. Medlin is happy.
The last time we saw him he was
feeling down in the mouth. And it
was our mouth.
It seems to be the privilejje 0^
tourists to try to shock small town«
a little. But the pretty girl who got
off a large foreign car parked in
front of the drug store the other dav
entered the store clad in pajamas
and bought a package of cigarettes,
succeeded in giving the old town a
thrill.
—Sanford Herald.
Come down to the city some dav.
Our girls wear them frequently—and
gracefully.
WHERE YOUR FURNITURE D OLLAR DOES DOUBLE DUTY
Overstuffed
3-Piece
Living Room
Suits
$37.50
3-Piece
Living Room
Suits
$24.75
WE CARRY THE MOST COMPLETE LINE IN THIS PART OF THE STATE
i
3-Piece
BED-ROOM SUITS
$24.75
Ten-Piece
WALNUT DINING ROOM SUIT
*79.SO
SOMETHING TO
THINK ABOUT
On the evening of August 8 S.
Clay Williams, president of the
Reynolds Tobacco Company, de
livered an address to the radio
audiences of North Carolina,
having for the theme the tobac
co situation in the state. He said
many things that should be
much more widely known than
they are. But among the others
a reference to taxation stood out
with great plainness. Mr. Wil
liams said that it is not general
ly known that of the 12 l-2c at
which a package of_ cigarettes
leaves the hand of .the manufac
turers six cents goes to the gov
ernment as tax, which means
"^at for every pound of tobacco
^ factory puts into cigarettes
THE TEST OF
THE PUDDING
Tobacco farmers are now cur
ing their leaf and preparing for
the opening of the markets. Tid
ings from the border markets
seem rather favorable as this is
written. But regardless of the
anticipated conditions the far
mer has much in his own hands
regarding the price he will get
for his prospect. One thing that
hurts the tobacco market is the
indifferent manner in which
much of the crop comes to mar
ket. Some producers have the
knowledge and the knack of
grading their leaf so a pile of
normally good leaf does not kill
itself by the presence of inferior
stuff. Poor tobacco is a problem
that cannot at this time of the
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Gold Seal
Congoleum
Yard Goods
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45c Yd.
Buq at Lolu Price Time
STOVES
Ardsley
Axminster Rugs
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$23.50
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50 lb. All Cotton
Mattress
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Chests
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Stoves as low as—$7.50
Porcelain Ranges—$24.75
ZJandlewick Bed Spreads-$1.95
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We have the most complete line of Mirrors and Pictures in the Sandhills.
Pictures, $3.00 and $4.00 Values—Only 95c
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