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page Two THE PILOT Thnrsday, September « I ha’ been happy thinking; But all the pleasures e'er I saw, Tho’ three times doubled fairly, lAifvnAWtA f Vll 'flu I waves dashing against the well-worn I had not seen in the JOHNSON S LETTER NO. 10 Tna Vks. a„d falUng back T^e Lre ^ irww.wv « semingly made tedy could wish, the slwps are ine the solid earth tremble under us. But finest we saw on our whole jaunt. My last leter was written from Cor- when we left the coast and plunged ^ onado, California, and I then promiserl into the heart of the great Southern ci^°- »tor<><5 and there to teke notes of the return journey by California Fruit Section, the wonders the great . way of the Canadian Rockies, and cast began to multiply. Orange groves, are many vUlv® for instenfe the these notes into letter form on my ar- Jemon groves, walnut groves, olive rival /K’. ,• • lud^^ rival home. But now that I am at groves, one after another in continu- Ba^ of Italy bui “ home, the very joy of being at home ous succession, all watered by irri- McConnell s office is Iw^^, is renders me unfit to write letters that gation, with an occasional forest of worth a half-day oi signt-see ^ would likely catch the interest of the oil derricks, is a concise description of time. . „ , public. Joyousness is not the proper the country we passed through. Judge McConnell tells ~ ' frame of mind for the production of in North Carolina, such evidences of lywood is regarded as a poke by the literature; but such literature as I wealth and opulence would at once city, but to me ® .f- y am able to produce must come from a raise the question of how we could would have more faith in the cuy of state of mind that is best described as control labor to carry on. This same Los Angeles if there was no Hmiy- a pensive longing,—homesickness, if question has been raised in California, wood. We spent several hours in Hol- you like it better. and they have answered the question Ijnvood, and saw most of the see-able It is true the great masters, like by inventing a machine to take the sights, and I am sorry to s^ tne Bums, are not tied down to these place of man-power. The I.'W. W.’s, impression it left on my mind was limits, and some of Bums* best and the labor unions have organized that the P^^ce is completely given thoughts are bom of the very exhu- and banded together against the own- over to the devil. Ihis, tne place l berance of joy. For instance he says: grg of wealth; and they have been met now refer to is Hollwood, not to the “I ha’ been blvthe wi’ comrades dear, with a new labor-saving machine at ; city of Los Angeles, wh^e tne mov- I ha’ been merry drinking, every turn. All the sabotage of the ing pictures are made. This is \\here I ha’ been joyful gathering gear, i w. W.’s, and all the strikes of the Mary Pickford is staged as the queen labor unions have had the effect to of the movies, and where other stars turn more men out of employment, have caused their names to circle the and it will continue to be so. The earth; where Fatty Arbuckle was in- fhat happy night was worth them a’ striking unions, and the destructive dieted for causing the death of a girl Amang the rigs o’ barley.” criminal organizations weld their in a drunken orgie; where the same It is good to travel by long jour- own chains every time they strike. Mary Pickford has brazenly caused neys, but it is also good to get back The only hope for success of the .7ork- her own life-sized statu^^e to be piac- home. It is good to be missed at home ingman is to make a common cause | ed on her own lawn, holding a torch, when we travel, but it is not good to with his employer. I lay no claims as if she were the light-giving model stay away till we are forgotten. One to being a philosopher, but this is as [for womanhood! I was told that at of the saddest tragedies in life is for true as anything Samuel Gompers has ' their drunken orgies, one of the a man to go away from home and re- ever said. i games they play after they are well t main till h^e is no longer missed; To We passed through the town of An- drunken, is to banter each other—men go back home and find a changed pop- aheim, the town where co-operative and women—as to which can snatch ulation: people scurrying hither and marketing has reached its pinnacle of off clothes till they are most nearly thither in their pursuits, and not even perfection in the United States. It j nude. Something terrible is sure to | looking towards you. And even those has reached the point where tvory | happen at Hollywood, and I pray that I left that you once knew with intimacy store, and every industrial establish- ! there may be “fifty righteous” in Los ; have grown away from you. Although ment in the town is,the property of Angeles, to save the city from the I have always made my home in the town. I was sorry I could not j doom of the city of the plains. ; Moore county, so narrow is the gain a more accurate knowledge of its | But for all this the people of Los i sphere of our personal influence, I workings, for it raises one of the vital j Angeles are the greatest boosters of never go to Cameron where my child- questions of the day the world over, their own city I have ever seen. The hood was spent, but I quote to myself and certainly this model town of An-j question that arises in my mind is: | those sad old lines: aheim is a point of vantage from How can this city continue to live? It i “Many a lad I loved was dead, which the problem should be studied. i isonly the inflow of surplus wealth ' And many a lass grown old.” xhe very essence of the future of the i that inflates the city now, and the his- j In Sir Walter Scott’s Chronicles of human race is intimately connected ; tory of the human race shows ns that | the Canongate, it is put into the with this question. all these things come to an end. mouth of Crystal Croftangry to ac- Co-operation may be right, and tha j I stated my opinions something like j count for the friends of his youth in correct idea, but it seems to me that! they are given here, to a lady who this w’-himsical manner: it destroys the principal of supply and lives in Los Angeles whom I met af- : “Some frequented public assemblies, demand. If it does this, it tends to- ter we had left there; but she held : and were pushed aside by younger wards Socialism; and we have but to up her hands in horror, and was sure : men; some bestrode a rocking-horse, look to Soviet Russia to determine j that despite all the terrible wicked- j and no matter how violent their ex- whether Socialism is right or wrong. | ness of Hollywood which was fully | ertions, never advanced a foot; some jg it right? Maybe it is. Some i recognized, the influence of the I went into devotion, as the French of my best friends say it is right to • churches of Los Angeles was a pow'- i term it, and others, I fear, went to co-operate, and I have great faith in ; er that overcame all, or much of this I the devil; a few found resources in their wisdom. But it is fair to say | evil. Next week we will see “Beau-i science and letters; one or two turn- that we ought to be sure of what co-; tiful Santa Barbara,” worthy of the ed philosophers in a small way; some operation will probably lead to. I name. J. McN. JOHNSON, took to reading, and I am one of am not a partisian on this subject;; them.* but the most ardent supporters of co- WEEKLY SCHEDULE OF CLUB MEETINGS Monday, September 10th, Big Oak, Girls Club—Basketry: 2 p. m. Tuesday, September 11th, 1:30 p. arraying a large class against a small m. West End Girls Club—Cooking. But all this piffle is beside the operation, if honest with their own I question, for I was gone from home common sense, will admit that the ! just seven weeks; and I must ask for-, principle of co-operation is arraying giveness for this burst of gar^lous- class against class; but they make ness. I just had to spin around a lit- the just claim that even at that, it is tie to get a running start. array We left Coronado, Califomia, on the class. So I cannot go on record as ‘ 3:30 p. m., Jackson Springs Girls morning of July 7th, on the auto bus condeming the principal, just yet; but and Women—Reed Basketry, for Los Angeles. Leslie went with us i shall not fear to do so if I find that Wednesday, September 12th, Hemp to the station, and saw us safely en- it is leading to something bad. : Girls Club, Mrs. Stewart’s, 2 p. m.— sconced just m the rear of the chauf- We arrived in Los Angeles about 1 Pickles. feur, there placed so we could ask four o’clock in the afternoon, and af- I Thursday, September 13th, Manley him questions on the way. ter we were dumped out, we paid a “ “ I must pause here to say a word dollar to be carried to our hotel, the a^ut the fine roads of California, and Savoy, a pleasant, and yet an inex- we two other Pacific coast states,- ' pensive hotel that had been selected Oregon and Washington. Most of my for us by my friend Judge S. P. Mc- readers have seen the beautiful as- Connell, who went to Los Angeles hurst—Scoring kitchens for the Kitch- halt streets in Southern Pines and from Carthage, and who treated us en Campaign. . courtesy. ^ NORA BRADFORD, Girls Club, 2 p. m.—Basketry. Friday, September 14th, 2:30 p. m., Pinehurst Girls Club, Mrs. R. Pyron’s —Sewing. Saturday, September loth, Pine- P be it said to the honor of Moore coun ty folks, instead of ugly jealousy, there is universal pride that our good a town of Southern Pines has these r n beautiful streets. But t^ierie is a gave the town some passing notice, j^gt as soon and so far as we put road just like these Southern Pines ' notice l was not too com- : j^to all our schools more humane ed- streets, that extends from the Mexi- P“”^e*^5^ry, and 1 promised to amend ucation and foster the spirit of jus- can border to Canada, more than two ^ .f ^ better . tice and kindness toward the lower thousand miles in length; and this | creatures, just so soon and so far shall bus line runs in relays the whole dis- ^ maeea, see more t^e city, reach the roots not only of cruelty, tance. ! many pleasant things tnat hut of crime.—Our Dumb Animals. We are to bear in mind that they — — Home Demonstration Agent. have no hot weather on the Pacific coast,—indeed it was almost too cold for comfort, notwithstanding the lati tude we are now in is much lower than that of North Carolina. W'hen we left home we thought more of car rying a palm leaf fan than overcoats and wraps; but we had reckoned with out our host. So I had to purchase a wool coat for Mrs. Johnson, besides borrowing a fur something for her neck. As for myself, being proof against both cold and heat, I content ed myself with a walking cane that was “gifted” to me, and which I sport ed with great dignity, being far from home, and no one to laugh at me. We started out from San Diego at 10 o’clock in the morning, on the great old road that the old Spanish monks called the King’s Highway, that runs by Ramona’s Marriage Place, mentioned in a previous let ter, and this part of the great paved road is more than three hundred years old, but the asphalt paving is less than a decade old. As we traversed the great Imperial Valley, at nearly every farm we passed, there would be a wo man, or a girl, sometimes an old man, by a booth by the roadside selling products of the farm, such as green com (roasting ears), cherries, pota toes, artichokes (not our Jerusalem Artichokes, but quite a different thing that grows on the top of the plant), and the like. I am not a stickler on price, but I c«uld not help noticing that the prices asked for the products at these ranch booths was about twice as high as the prices for the same things in the city markets. I suppose they figured that a traveler who would buy at all would buy as readilly at a high price as at a low one. I once heard a Jewish merchant excusing himself for asking an exorbitant price for a certain article by saying, quite innocently: “You see, the dif ference is my profit!” For the first fifty miles or so, the country was rather uninteresting, ex- cept when we were in sight of the wild and wasteful ocean,” with its I j j i I The Charlotte Observer Ranks as the biggest newspaper published between Washington and At lanta, and its news service ranks second to none. It is connect ed with all the principal news center of the State, the Nation and the World, by three leased wires of the Associated Press, and receives the full night and day double trunk wire service of that greatest of all news gathering agencies. Also it has a corps of correspondents covering the news of the Carolinas by telegraph, telephone and mail, supplementing the work of its own staff and The Associated Press. Its market news and sports de partments compare favorably with those of the big metropolitan papers. lin addition to furnishing all the news that is worth printing, The Observer, daily and Sunday, carries a variety of features second to none in the Carolinas, numerous special articles by famous writers, women’s features, comics and pictures, and is the only paper in the Carolinas that carries a section devoted to the interests of all Fraternal Orders. SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY MAIL 1 mo. 3 mos. 6 mos. 1 yr. Daily and Sunday 75c $2.25 $4.50 $9.00 Daily without Sunday 65c 1.75 3.50 7.00 Sunday Only 40c 1.00 1.75 3.00 Sport Flats Vass Millinery Just received new fall goods, Ratine, Ginghams and Crepes. RIBBONS at REDUCTION Special—2 doz. boxes Silkateen thread at 5c a ball MISS FLORENCE LESLIE VASS, NORTH CAROLINA I I I Aberdeen, N. C. Big or Little Job Of Lumber, Framing Stuff, Finishing Stuff; of Paint, inside or outside, Varnish or Stain; of Cement, Brick,' Plaster, Lime; of Hardware, Nails, Glass, Tools. Of any thing in the line of supplies for building. Remember the SOUTHERN FINES WAREHOUSES Are the Outfitting Headquarters Car lots or wheelbarrow lots, it is all the same. Ev erything is bought in large quantities, and sold in the quantity you want. Prices are made on the prices we pay when buying in big lots. Stocks always bigi and varied. Warehouses right around the comer near the freight station. Southern Pines Warehouses INCORPORATED Near the Freight Station SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. We build the house if you want us to. Seaboard Air Line Railway Company INFORMATION BULLETIN Special Excursion Fares Atlantic City: Tickets on sale June 27; July 5, 11, 17, 25, 31; August 8, 14, 22, 28; September 5, 11. Limited 18 days. Round trip fare from Southern Pines $19.30. Niagara Falls: Dates of sale June 20th; July 4, 18, 25; August 1, 15, 29; Sept. 12, 26; Oct. 10. Limited 18 days. Fare from Southern Pines $29.15. Portsmouth-Norfolk: Every Friday and Saturday. Limited midnight following Tuesday. Fare from Vass $10.15. Lakeview: On sale every day. Limited to date of sale. For reservations and information ask your nearest SEABOARD ticket agent, or write JOHN T. WEST, Div. Passenger Apt.. Raleigh* N. C. A Seriovis Accident Probably there is a serious accident just ahead of you that you might avoid if your brakes were good. Have us to reline them with THERMOID LINING. We now have a Thermoid Machine for Relining Brakes that insures you the best of service and at the smallest cost. Tire Special, TROUBLENDER l^UBE PATCH, Neverleak Radiator Compound, Blackat Storage Batteries. GENUINE FORD PARTS ACCESORIES Remember our Generator and Starter Department. PAY CASH CASH PAYS YOURS TO SERVE, HARTSELL’S GARAGE Cameron, N. C. We Keep a Complete Line of HARDWARE, CUTLERY, KITCHEN UTENSILS, STOVES and RANGES FAINTS AND OILS We have anticipated your Fall needs. Drop in now and see what we have to offer. NORTH CAROLINA HARDWARE CO. I I Thursday, Septei HOW THE BOj ” CONQf What Dr. Leiby ai in Our Own Neil Made ar The boll weevil jy and profitably six applications which was duste< night hy specml states Dr. R. W. J. A. Harris, is various lines in c( Richmond, and Ml effort to find out of holding- the ri in check. Both th entomologists andl the N. C. Agri(' Station and Stf maintain a labora] which they studj; weevil in speciall: also they conduc] ments, find out I: weevils lay each e-rubs and pupae and bolls, and a ] on the biology of edge of which thel fighting the insec/ The most extej ments are being| Buchan plantatic Here Mr. Robert some 60 acres atj entomologists, screen cages scat of the cotton fiel| explains contain weevils. The plai been treated witl mixtures, pure a other poisons, anj amined daily to j poisoning gives tl field on the Buc) divided into four the field have beei each with sweetei out the season, a treated only foi fourth part has r( whatever. Dr. Lij of the field was other and that a] were badly infej This field experij sively that poiso| value in controllir are no blooms 1( weevil having pi squares so that th| blooms. In all pai of the bolls were! much more than ton will be secur< Leiby pointed out I poison and molasi put on these plant| tracted from the and there would if nothing had bel Alongside this! sweetened poison( of cotton of the fertilizer. Two acl received no poisoi ever, while the has been poisone< poison being api the dew is on t| two mule drawn three rows at a the poison. Th| made at intervals Dr. Leiby’s assi| counts of the pi bolls while the These examinati< and according to| squares and aboi in the untreated! tured by the weJ ton has been di percent of the s( ble percent of th^ One thing was writer, and that] top blooms on thj and the abundai dusted 16 acres] biooms on lour oned and unpois field made a wee) showed 1718 blo< in the poisoned blooms on the ui Leiby says the acre of cotton nine donars. H< least 4U0 pound] acre over the ui at 22 cents per $20.00 an acre r< poisoning work. Mr. Robert St of his cotton w| He is convinced trols the weevil work is not as might prove to| iHiaKe nearly oi ^cre where he ton. He has dusting machinj row mule back Other places conducting expei are the Carl Bl dor, the J. C. T| jVorthy Johnson] ford, the T. D. ] erdeen and thel of Sam Richards In these places cations is varie( method of appl\ der to find out tl poison on the circtftnstances, cotton, time of places a part oi treated so that poisoning work] carefully deteri When asked north of Aberdi ^e weevil so ( Dr. Leiby said not present in i extending from Hie and eastwj ritory south of
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