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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, August 22, 1941.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PUXiX, Incorporated,
Southern Pine*, N. 0.
JAMES BOVD, Publisher
CARL G. THOMPSON, JR., Editor
CHARLES MVCAULEY, Advertising
Btlen K. Butler. Virginia Creel, Bessie
Cameron Smith. Charles CuUingford.
Associates.
SubBcriptlon Rates:
One Tear $2.00
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Entered at the Postoffice at South
em Pines, N. C., aa second clsure mall
matter.
YOU CAN'T MILK
THESE MACHINES
This is the machine age. Ma
chines are doing labor of men
Machines are driving men off the
soil. Machines have nearly replac
ed the horse—but we hope it
won’t be in our lifetime when a
machine will be able to replace a
cow—a hog—a sheep—a chicken.
After all, you can’t get milk or
beefsteak, ham or pork chops,
wool or lamb chops, eggs or a
chicken breast—you can’t get
these from a machine—yet!
Furthermore, it will be a long
time before a machine is invent
ed that can replace a reliable,
strong mule on a farm. You
have to buy gas or oil for a ma
chine; you can raise fuel for a
mule.
GI2AINS €F SAND
The downpours of rain Tuesday
night and Wednesday were sucked up
thirstily by the sun-dried soil of
Moore' County and doubtless was a
welcome sight to the farmers of the
county.
Farmers in upper Moore County
looked hopefully at a big black
cloud hovering overhead early this
week, felt a few drops of light rain
fall upon their weather-tanned faces,
saw scattered specks of rain splatter
powdery dust, shook their heads and
continued to work on crops already
scorched by hot suns.
We were up above Hemp this week,
visiting some of these farmers whose
cash crops are food crops and whose
livestock and stock feed is just as
valuable, if not more so, than any
patch of tobacco and cotton.
No question about it, they said, this
heat and drought has hurt corn and
other feed crops, but there'll be a
good harvest just the same.
Among those we talked with were
Charlie C. Dunlap and Curtis Comer,
both of whom live out of Hemp on
route 1 Steeds- They were topping a
field of mighty fine looking corn,
despite the dry weather. A new road
is being built by Charlie Dunlap s
place, and the dust right now is
about as fine as talcum powder—
but not quite as nice smelling.
Water has become really a prob
The Annual Livestock Show of I D«nlap, who lives out on
the Moore County Breeders As
sociation has each year brought
increased interest, larger crowds
and better stock specimens to
the affair in ilemp. This year,
every indication points toward
the largest show of its kind. Gov
ernor Broughton, an advocate of
greater attention to foodstuffs
and livestock on farms, will de
liver the principal address, and,
while he may make no claims to
being a farmer, he was elected
Governor by a predominantly
rural State, and he knows the
problems of the farmers and
perhaps some of the solutions to
these problems.
It’s commendable that live
stock raisers in Moore County
have sufficient interest in this
integral pairt of farming the
land to bring their choice mules,
route 2 ilemp, said that it was the
fir-st time he had ever had his springs
go dry. He had to dig a ditch be
tween one of his stream.s to another
field, so as to get some water down
to his hogs.
Lewis Hussey was having similar
trouble. The deep well which sets
atop the hill where his house is built,
in the Smyrna section, is way down,
he said, and his crops are in bad
need of rain.
We found one of the patriarchs of
Sheffields township, sitting on his
front porch, watching his grandchild-
cost $380 per man while 29
camps on fixed-fee contracts
cost $684 per man. “In the last
war the contractor had to work
to make costs even more exce.s-
sive than they would otherwise
cows, horses and sheep to a cen- have been in order to get his
iral place to show th«ir neigh-j large fee, ’ the report comment-
bors and to compare with others, led. “In the present case we have
Long life to such a display of in- improved it so that now it can
terest and to this bu.siness of,be .said that the contractor need
breeding and raising good do nothing to get his fee.
stock! j Edward R Stettinius, director
I of priorities last year repeated-
VARIATIONS ON jly insisted that aluminum pro-
AN OLD THEME jduction was sufficient to meet
Because of their hate '
dread of any form of fascism, _ tacihties. Now the
the rank and file of American asked to contiibute
people have thrown their support T aluminum, chiefly in the
behind a gigantic national de-;J.°^"’ of pots and pans, for de
fense program which is having ‘ ‘ilso turns out
world-wide effects. It has beenlj^at the scrap aluminum can
easy for most Americans to ap-i ^ airpalnes, at all, but
prove the administration’s pol-l''’*”, be made into consumer
icy of all-out aid in the battle i is. pots and pans to
against Hitler because it hasi^’^Pl^^e those contributed,
been easy to recognize the threat I Some month.s ago Walter Reu-
of European fascism, especially ,^her of the United Automobile
in its w’orst form, German Nazi-i ^Vorkers submitted a plan to
ism. juse automobile factories for
It is apparent, also, to the pub-! manufacture of defense equip-
h'c that a determining period inj^ient. His plan was curtly turn-
this battle against Hitler was be-|ff^ aside. Now the jobs of 280,000
gun when the Soviet Union’s Red . automobile workers are threat-
ren play. John S. Hussey—still called
"Johnny,” despite his 76 years,—la
father of four of Sheffields’ good far
mers, including Charlie Hussey, pres
ident of the Moore County Breeders
Association. Charlie Hussey apparent
ly cornea by his interest in livestock
naturally. WJien his father stopped
active farming a short time ago, he
had raised 4^ mule colts—and had
never owned an automobile.
Pfter D. Spinks of route 2 Hemp is
more concerned with honey than he
is with water. One hive of his bees
swarmed recently while he was away,
and, when brought back to the hive,
instead of building their comb in the
hive, the bees started a honeycomb
under the hive. There it hangs, cover
ed with bees, dangling from the under
side of the hive, right out in the
open.
We don’t know what “Pete” is go
ing to do about it; but after taking
a look at the number of bees around,
we know what we’d do. We’d leave
well enough alone. As Dar. Dunlap
said, those bees don't sting; they just
.sit down on you, and then kick like—
BYNUM FAMILY
HOLDS REUNION
Descendants of Early Vass Set
tiers at Lakeview for Eighth
Annual Gathering
Variations Itt Weather Have
Different Effects On Crops
‘advises growing
MORE FARM FOOD
Crop Reporting Service Summar*
izes Present Situation on
Major Farm Produce
Miss Annie Wilson, FSA Home
Supervisor, Urges Year-
Round Food Planning
In Hayes’ Book Shop the other
night, Claude Hayes was analyzing
proper approaches to strange dogs.
"I don’t think it has ever been said
better than the way Weber and Field.s
used to say it on the stage," he re
called, speaking of the veteran vaude
ville team. ‘'It’s an old story, now,
tut still good.
“.'Vcting as salesmen, Weber and
Fields would approach a house
where there was a snarling, growling
dog.
‘Tm not going in there,’ Weber
said.
•• 'Now you know that barking dog.s
don't bite,’ Fields replied.
‘I know it,’ Weber retorted. ‘And
you know it. But the thing that
worries me i.s: Does that dog know
it?”’
I Extremes in weather conditions
Descendants of the late Joseph H. have not helped North Carolina farm
and Mary Stewart Bynum^ early set* crops this season, according to t e
tiers of the Vass community, held Crop Reporting Service of the U. S.
their eighth annual reunion at Lake-, ®nd State Departments of Agricu -
view Sunday with more than a hun-, ture-
dred members of the familly and sev-1 <-ool, late spnng, abrupt y hnv nil ihp fnrwf
eral visitors in attendance. I by summer temperatures in mid-Ap- ey <^an t a ^iet but thev
w, T „ 'ril followed by drought until mid-1 they need for a good diet, but they
Miss Joyce Bailey of Southern i“’ ''J , , I „„ tn omw it Miss Annie R.
„ Tiinp nnil excessive rains during July can afford to grow ii, miss Annie n.
Pines was in charge of registration | differ-1 Wilson, home management supervisor
the service reported. ;for the Farm Security Administration,
Situation on .Major Crops ' said in discu.ssing the part f.nrm fam-
Here is the situation on some of ilies have to play in the nation-wide
the major crops, as reported in Au-'drive to assure ample food supplies
gust; 'for the United States and other
l' Tobacco: The State tobacco crop.
^ estimated on August 1 at 479,035,000
■ pounds, is nine percent less than last
^year and five percent belcA’ prospects
• a month ago. Weather conditions re
duced the crop drastially in many
areas. Rapid growth and abnormiilly
last ripening of the crop produced
comparatively thin, light - weight
ers” was given by Robert Bailey of Warehousemen
Joyce Bailey
■as in charge c
and the morning was spent informal- j
ly in greeting relatives and friends. crops,
A picnic dinner was served following
an invocation by T. R. Moffitt of
Sanford. |
After dinner, a short program was
given with the president, J. Mur
phy McDonald, of Hamlet, presiding.
Mr. McDonald brought greetings and
introduced the speaker, the Rev. T.
D. Mullis of* Manly. The secretary
called the roll by families and the
group sang the Bynum clan song-
A beautiful tribute to “grandmoth-
Southern Pines, after which gifts
were presented to the four daughters
of the pioneer couple present ,a grand
child of each making the presenta
tions. Mrs. Gladys Cox Waddell of
Dunn presented the gift to Mrs. W.
J. Cameron of Vass; Miss Kdna Lou
Bailey of Southern Pines to Mrs
Catliarine Shaw of Southern Pines and
Sanford; “Colonel" McDonald of Rich
mond to Mrs. Lydia McDonald oi
Hamlet, and J. Kivey Thomas, Jr., of
indicated a larger proportion of the
crop will be of good cigarette qual
ity rather than average. Growers an
ticipate a yield of 941 pounds per
acre, which is 102 pounds or 10 per
cent less than the 1940 yield.
Corn; July weather was favorable
for corn and a record yield of 21 bu
shels per acre is indicated. Since the
first of August, deficient .soil moi.s-
ture and high temperatures have
hastened maturity of all coi n and fir-
Raleigh to Mrs. Florence Thomas of .^^, plantings. Kstimate.i at
Raleigh and Con^Uus. The remain-
Jimmy Woltz, Sanford tobacconist,
who’s auctioneering down in one of
Fairmont's warehouses this season,
was in town this week and predicted
a season of high steady prices for the
golden leaf this year.
“The crop is light and the demand
is good,” Jimmy said. ”1 believe that
prices are going to hold up through
the season.’’
All of which should be good news to
tobacco farmers.
ing two of the Bynum sisters, Mrs
Ida Bynum Patterson of Winston-Sa
lem and Mrs. Minnie Bynum Patter-
£on of Philadelphia, Miss., were un
able to be present.
The following officers were elect
ed for the coming year: E. B. Keith
is 11 percent above last year's,
j Wheat; July rains lowered quality
, and yield per acre of wheat shocked
or left standing. Record yield of 14.5
bushels indicated a month ago was
reduced to 14 bushels because of
weather. Production is now estimated
Sanford, president and J.Elvey Thom- ; 6,594,000 bushels compared with
6,132,000 bushels last year.
Two young girls—they were chil
dren—ran up to Gene Stevens in
front of the post office the other day.
"We want to hear the cuckoo,” they
exclaimed. “WTien does it cuckoo?”
W'ithout batting an eyelash—and
we expected worse than that—Gene
replied, “Oh, in about 15 minutes."
Before we went “cuckoo,” we
learned that the cuckoo clock in Ste-
vens' office has a great attraction
for children, and these youngsters,
Ann and Frances Pearson, daughters
of Mr. and Mrs. Harlow Pearson, are
two of the clock’s most regular fans.
They were trying to catch the noon
cuckooing of the cuckoo.
Army prov’ed the fk'.«t immov
able object encountered by the
ened by a curtailment of ma
chine production without ade-
l.itherto iiTesistible force of'^uate plans for using the man
Hitler’s army. The American and machine power thu.s to be
i>eople supported immediately .available.
all-out aid to the Red Army’s ef-| Also, reports from 0PM show
forts, on the one hand, and, on j that nearly one-third of the to-
the other, cooperation with moreltal dollar volume of defense or-
aggre.ssive efforts on Britain’si Hers has gone to only six com
part Ipanies while only 56 firms in the
The battle on the homefront,j country had 73 percent of the
however, has not always been as
clear-cut. Little more than six
months ago the American peo-
I-le were assured that there
would be no profiteering in de
fense efforts, that there was
ample production capacity in
such goods as aluminum and
steel, and thait, all was agoing
well in the construction of army
centers.
But the record so far does not
live up to the promises. Here are
some revealing facts:
A Senate investigating com
mittee reveals that the total
cost of all army camps will be
around $730,290,703, or $626 per
man, as compared with a cost of
$216 per man during the World
War and $320 per man as origi-
inally estimated. The report also
shows that 17 camps constructed
on a lump sum form of contract
orders.
Topping all thi.s, thp public
has been afflicted with an ap
parently unjustified rise in
prices, a curtailment of credit
and sharp reduction in consumer
goods, due, apparently, to lack of
adequate planning of production,
while 250 of large companies re
porting profits for the second
quarter of this year show a net
profit increase of 23 per cent.
Rumors are now prevalent
that the President is considering
another revision of the defense
administrative offices—those of
production, price control, civilian
supply, and priorities planning.
On the basis of the record so
far, the American public can
well hope that the little man and
his wants and needs will be given
greater consideration than be
fore.
FARMERS’ CLUB
O. U. Alexander Elected Presi
dent at Annual Picnic Meet
ing Near Airport
The Moore County Farmers' Club
held its annual picnic on Friday even
ing of last week at P, S- P. Randolph’s
lake near the airport, and the occa
sion proved most dalightful for the
60 to 75 in attendance.
The Rev. Mr. Barfield of Hemp
made a talk on "Cooperation’’ which
called forth much favorable comment.
In the absence of the president, J.
C. Stewart of Samarcand, who was
away on vacation, W. G. Caldwell of
Carthage presided over the business
session. O. U. Alexander of Carthage
was elected president for the com
ing year and Dan Patterson of West
End, vice president.
Heretofore the organization has
been operating in a more or less in
formal way, "but it was decided to
appoint a program committee and an
entertainbient committee at the next
meeting, which is to be held at West
End, as the club is showing a healthy
growth in membership and interest.
Full justice was done to the fine
picnic supper and all present enjoyed
lemonade and watermelons provided
by Mr. Randolph.
Louisville Slugger Base Ball and
Soft Ball Bats at Hayes.’
IHlot Want Adt Pay-
as, Raleigh, vice-president. Mrs. S. R.
Smith of Vass is permanent secre-, Yu-ias of
tary, Robert Bailey of Southern Pines,exceptionally
Linwood Keith of Vass and Mrs, H. |
M. Patterson of Sanford were > brought. August 1 yicM oai
pointed a program committee 6,300,000 bushels corn-
next year’s reunion. pared with 5,952.000 last year; rye
Music by members of the McDon-] production at 504,000 bushels com-
ald family from Hamlet, Richmond 1 pgrpji 510,000 in 1940; and barley
and Charlotte, and Mrs. J. U- Throw- production 440,000 bushels, consider-
er of Rockingham was an enjoyable
feature of the program.
Group of Local Girls
Attend Bragg Dance
Last Friday evening’s dancc at the
Main Service Club at Fort Bragg,
given for the enlisted men, was well
attended by girls from the Sandhills.
Those attending were Misses Bar
bara Betterley, Helen and Catherine
Hilderman, Leone Currie, Loui.se
Blue, Sue Milliken, Priscilla Coleman,
Virginia and Patty Broom, Dorothy
Dorn, Deal Utley, Mary Blount Rum-
ley, Ann Cameron, Millie Montesanti,
Jane Mann, Betsey Backer, Betsey
Barnum, Clarice Dickerson, Edith
Matthews, Becky Neal, Frances Sch
wartz, Iris and Mary Alice Tate, all
ol Southern Pines; Olive Hennessee
of Pinehurst; Bernice Clontz, Clara-
bel Graham, Beulah Harrington, Ca
milla Johnson and Mary Curlee, nurses
from the Moore County .Hospital;
Dorothy Doub and her guest, Rosa
Moore of Charleston, S. C., Jean Bat
chelor and her guest, Carhe Aycock |
of Fremont, and Catherine Page of
Aberdeen.
Chaperones and persons furnishing
cars were Mrs. Clarence Edson, Mrs.
Otis L. Broom, Mrs. Emmett Golden,
Mrs. Elizabeth Hardison, Max H.
Backer and W. L. Batchelor.
ably larger than the 308,000-b’i.she'
crop of 1940.
Hayi« Show Increase
Hays: W'ith a one percent increase
in acreage. North Carolina farmers
are expecting a seven percent larger
j hay crop. On August 1, hay crop was
indicated to be 1,044,000 tons as
against 975,000 tons last year.
Soybeans and cowpeas: All indica
tions point toward a better than aver
age crop. Condition of soybean crops
on August 1 was 87 percent of nor
mal, or five percent better than last
year at this time; and the cowpea
crop was 82 percent or six percent
above last year.
Sweet potatoes; The State's sweet
countrie.s resisting aggression.
"Fact is.” Miss Wilson said, “They
can't afford not to maintain cows to
furnish a year-round supply of milk,
cream, and butter; to raise enough
chickens to provide meat and eggs all
year, instead of just a few months
in the spring, and to produce a variety
of animals for the other kinds of
meat, including pork, beef, and lamb. ’
“Farm families in Moore county be
ing a.ssi.stt'd in their farm and home
operations by this agency of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture are
learning that they can have more food
and better food for less money by
raising bigger gardens, increasing
their poultry flocks, and feeding a
few livestock for home consumption,"
Mi.ss Wilson deiJared.
Miss Wil.son said that although
borniwer.s of the F.'>.\ have always
followed !i live-at-home plan and
grown most of their fond and feed on
the farm, a majority of them are
planning to pmduce more than ever
this year They expect to take full
advantage of the opportunity to re-
liuce thoir own living expenses, im
prove diet, and at the .same time pro
duce additional quantities to meet the
national needs for greater supplies.
The home super\isor believes that
FSA borrowers in this county are in
, full accord with a recent statement
made by Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard in which he‘ announced a na
tion-wide drive to produce every pos
sible egg from present laying flcKks
this spring and summer.
This effort is a part of the na
tion's determination to assure amble
fo.-d supplies for this and other coun
tries during the present emergency.
It should .according to Department
officials, increase egg production for
the whole country in the next fifteen
months by about six per cent.
bu.shels of 16 percent greater than
in 1940, the increase being attributed
to eight percent greater acreage for
harvest and an indicated yield of 103
bushels compared with 96 bushels in
1940. Prospective yield per acre de
clined two bushels from July 1 to
August 1.
Stibscribe to The Pilot, Moore
potato crop is estimated at 8,240,000 ’ Co«nfi/’a Leading News-Weekly.
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CAROLINA GARDENS
M. G. Backer, Prop.
Freshly Cut Gladioli and Dahlias
S. Bennett St. Phone 8261 Southern Pines, N. C.
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