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THE PILOT Friday, June 8, I923 Page Twd TOBACCO GROWERS’ FIGHT FOR ASSOCIATION (Continued from first page) Carolina. Signed S. L. Dixon, coun ty chairman.” The organized growers of Caswell county on the same day at their coun ty meeting in Yanceyville registered their protest against the practice of landlords who are members of the marketing association allowing tobac co which is under contract to the as sociation to be marketed by non-mem ber growers. The Wake county growers likewise declared their com plete independence from the auction system on June 4, at their monthly county meeting in Raleigh. Indica tions are that the great majority of North Carolina farmers will back this policy of their association like the growers of Virginia where the courts have required its members to pay liquidated damages on tobacco which was raised by non-members. A sweeping victory was won by the tobacco association in Virginia this week when three cases came up for trial before Judge W. R. Barksdale at Halifax court house. The Vir ginia jury put a stop to the habit which some members have of hiding behind the skirts of their wives when a member who raised tobacco on land belonging to his wife who was a non member, was required to pay liqui dated damages for three-fourths of the tobacco that he raised as his wife’s tenant, at the rate of 5 cents per pound with the court cost and and attorney’s fees. In the opinion of the association attorneys this will put an effectual stop to many who endeavor to evade the obligations of their contract by growing or sell ing tobacco in the name of their wives. Two other defendants whose cases came u pthis week in the Halifax court agreed to all the terms of the suit brought against them rather than try their cases. This week’s cases of the tobacco co-operatives were added to a long list of legal victories for the association in Virginia where 2D suits filed in that state have been settled with defendants upon terms of the association. In Halifax county alone, thirteen out of thirteen units have resulted favorably for the co operative. In Pittsylvania county the association has already won eight out of nine of its suits and in North Car olina a large number of its suits brought against contract breakers have been settled on the association’s terms. yet use it to break the farm machin ery trust? High prices also tend in a large way to check extravagance and waste. People don’t throw money away when prices are hif^h, even though they have more money than when prices were lower. The report of every bank in this country will show that. Maybe we are wrong in our deductions. But we can’t refrain from arguing that so so long as everybody is working at good wages we ought not to expect prices to be back where they were when a man had to slave from sun up to sundown to earn as much as two dollars a day. There’s no poli tics in this argument—it’s just com mon horse-sense of the brand that anybody can understand. DATES SET SOME NEWSPAPER RULES A Texas editor recently issued the following rules, which explain them selves: “Fifty cents per line will be charg ed for all obituary notices of business men who get their job printing in another city; twenty-five cents per line will be charged for like notices to all business men who do not ad vertise, while all delinquent sub scribers will be charged fifteen cents per line on passing out to the new Jerusalem. Advertisers and cash sub scribers will receive the best there is in the shop free-gratis when they shuffle off. “Those who extend the paper no support whatsoever and go around knocking the editor, or the paper, or lambasting the community and its citizens, drop banana peelings on the sidewalks, spit like a dime or try to sell us a gold brick, will be given the truth, which won’t look good in print, when they give up the ghost.. “Better send in your orders for job printing and advertising, pay up your subscription, get to boosting this pa per and its editor and speak in glow ing terms of the town and its people, for an epidemic of hog cholera is said to be abroad in the community.” The directors of the Made-in-Caro- linas Association have designated September 24, to October 6th as the dates for the third annual Made-in- Carolinas Exposition to be held at Charlotte. Last year over eighty thousand people attended the Exposition, and the entire program met with the ap proval of those attending. Mr. John L. Dabbs, president of the Associa tion, states that plans have been made to surpass all previous efforts in re gard to exhibits, attendance and en tertainment. From the amount of in terest manifested by the Manufac turers of the two Carolinas in this year’s exposition, a display of exhib its is now assured beyond expecta tions. Already over twenty thous and square feet of space has been sold for exhibiting purposes. A number of Chambers of Commerce have already secured space for the purpose of exploiting their present manufacturing advantsages and as sets. The building in which the exposi tion will be held is new and fire proof, 100 feet wide and 300 feet long, con sisting of two floors, having an audi torium on the second floor with a seat ing capacity of three thousand peo ple, in which daily musical concerts will be held offering artists of the highest type. The building is in the heart of Charlotte and possesses ev ery convenience and railroad facility essential to a building of this nature. The Made-in-Carolinas Association is not a money-making organization, but was organized for the purpose of “Telling the World About Carolina Products” and to sell the Carolinas to Carolina people. The directors of the Association is composed of sixty of the leading business men of North Carolina. Before You Look Farther Try This Oxford THE EDITOR’S MAIL ABOUT HIGH PRICES Now that we are in a period of high prices, and probably will be for a long time to come, there is noth ing more interesting than to hear dis cussions as to whether or not such a period is desirable. Personally, we believe high prices simply mean that labor and the products of labor are in demand. When people can no longer pay higher prices you can rest assured prices will begin to tumble. They are unpleasant when we have to pay them, but we should try to look on them as something that will help the masses of the people. You remember the story of the man who said that he once had a chance to buy a well-stocked farm for $50, and when asked why he didn’t take it re plied that he couldn’t raise the $50. The best thing about the whole sit uation in this country today is that no matter what may come later on, everybody is working now. Labor creates the wealth of the world, and when labor is busy we know wealth is piling up. The Rockefellers can’t take their millions with them and Henry Ford can’t spend that $160,- 000,000 surplus he has on hand with out putting it to work so it will help others. And who knows but he may It’s a joy to open the morning’s mail if for no other reason than to see what kind of a crop of optimists a night has brought forth. An opti mist is a fellow who still thinks a weekly newspaper editor will fall for petty graft that may be hatched in I the mind of the press agent. ' What’s this? A check? No. Just ! a fe wone-cent postage stamps with the following note: “Dear feditor, find enclosed a short article for your next issue. Enclosed find stamps for extra copies of your .paper.” The editor then proceeds to look over the short article (?) and finds it will take just two columns and a half to run it. Then comes several letters from the highway and agricultural departments, the U. S. deparement of health,, the Methodist temperance board, the war department, thenp^^ the civil service commission V|^9|p county agent, the internal reve^^^- partment, three different movie out fits, two concerns trying to float radio stock, some clip sheets from a univer sity dispensing a course in agricul ture and a request that space be given to an appeal for the down-trodden of Poland. Each has but one object— each breathes but one prayer—and that prayer can be summed up in these words: “Give Us This Day Our Daily Graft of Free Space.” This morning’s mail was light. The requests were modest as compared with those received in some morn ing’s mail. If we granted all of the requests that came in today it would have cost us only $12.50 worth of space. And as we look at the over flowing waste basket we can ask but j one question: I SCRAP I And many a man spends almost an entire day getting out of one ; morning’s work. England has a new Premier. They change cabinet heads over there al most as often as we change socks over here. The boy who thinks his girl looks good enough to eat will find that she is good enough to eat—if he’ll buy the eats. It’s one of the best fitting styles we have ever had in the store. And you may have your choice of either Black or the new shade of Tan. We have priced this Oxford exceptionally low, but we are sure that the excelent serlvice it will give will mak us many new customers. STOP IN AND SLIP A PAIR ON Gunter’s Store VASS, NORTH CAROLINA ! Buy Light Clover Mixed hay—the kind your cow likes as well as your horse. McKeilhan & Company. •> NORMAN KLINE CARTHAGE, N. C. I General Contractor ! All kinds of Building Works New Dress Goods yard 2SctoS0c Oxfords That will please you and the price is right Come to see us for your GROCERIES. NcDONAlD BROTHERS CAMERON, N. C. The Southern Pines Warehouses, j i Near the Freight Station ( I INCORPORATED i I SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. I I i Your Summer Home Needs All Sizes OIL STOVES and OVENS SCREEN DOORS and WINDOWS REFRIGERATORS — ICE CHESTS ICE CREAM FREEZERS ICE TEA GLASSES BorneyHardwareCo. 1 Aberdeen, North Carolina A PLEASURE TO SHOW YOU The first thing in building is to know where to get vour material at a point convenient. This is cared for at the SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES. The next point is to know that you can get the right quality of stuff, for when you build you build for years, and your material must have durability. The policy of the SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES is to get such things as have stood the test of use. A few cents saved on the eement and lime in your foundations may ruin the buildings. Slight savings in lumber and roofing may be as fatal. Price is a mighty important factor, but price in building always comes after you have determined quality. Price is determined by buy ing m quantity and from as near the source f production as possible. The SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES buy in car lots and get the closest figures. The SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES, he. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. For the present at Stuart^s Stand. In a few weeks at the new location near the ice plant.
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