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VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER Is a Pap?r Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company. VASS. N. C. FRIDAY, NOVENBER 9, 1923 SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 TONG ARM OF LAW HITS ^ 50 FARMERS Restrained From Selling Tobacco in 9 North Carolina Courts Big Deliveries Continue The Tobacco Growers* Co-operative Association has reached out to nine counties of North Carolina in protect ing its members against contract breakers during the past two weeks. More than fifty injunctions restrain- ine- members from delivering their to bacco to the auction floors have been continued by the courts recently. The courts have been increasingly severe in their punishment of farmers who have violated their injunctions as ev idenced in the latest contempt case against W. E. Rhodes, of Rockingham county who was fined $100 and costs bv Superior Court, Judge Thomas J. Shaw at Greensboro last week. The association also gained legal ground in Eastern North Carolina when Judge George W. Connor contin ued four injunctions and stated in open court that the fact that a man had a lien on his tobacco was not sufficient to excuse him from violat ing? his contract to pool it. That a lien on tobacco is not in itself a de- fpn«;e against the association's rights to demand its pooling, has been held by every judge before whom the question has arisen. Hijrh cash advances running to $32.50 on the best grades of tobacco which reached many co-operative floors, last week resulted in the re ceipt of close to eight million pounds by the association. Three loads brought into the association house at Townsville within two days contained tobacco of the highest grades and broug:ht average cash advances on 2500 pounds of better than $20 a hun dred, an average equalled on several association markets last week. The co-operative system of grades and loan values for all types of de liveries has been immediately benefi cial to members at various points as in the case of M. A. Westbrook, of Clinton, who sent his tenant to Golds boro with a load of tobacco which was carried by mistake to the auction mar ket and priced at $119.16. The ten ant when told of his mistake took tha tobacco to the association floor and received $142.80 cash from his first advance and the loan obtained on his participation receipt from a local bank. Richard R. Patterson, manager of the association’s leaf department, stated this week that he is making large sales of its green leaf at sat isfactory prices and that the organiz ed farmers have strengthened their organization by withholding a consid erable amount of the 1922 redried to bacco until the present time when the demand is becoming more active. S. D. FRISSELL. THE LITTLE BROWN HEN We’ve noticed within the past few years a j^rowing inclination on the part of residents of the Sandhills ter ritory to raise noultry, and the reas on for it is not hard to explain. Fig ures made public at the last meeting of the National Poultry Association at Chicago show that the egg indust ry alone in this country contributed more than a billion dollars to the na tional wealth last year. Production of poultry and eggs has, taken as a whole, come to be a great business, because there is money in it. No long er does the little brown hen roost on the end of a limb back of the wood shed. Today she has a clean room, with plenty of water and food, and she no longer has to depend on the garbage thrown from the kitchen, jrter owner knows she pays for her keep many times over during her lifetime and that, when old age creeps on and she is no longer a producer, sne is still worth something on the uinmor table. Don’t be afraid of get ting too many chickens around here, tor chickens and prosperity have grown to be side-partners. times have changed times have changed. We had commenced to suspect as much, but We looked out and saw a citizen or ^''0 still in the same old rut and still Rocking progress, and we doubted if have really changed. Then our iit on the following in an ex- Ciiange—and we immediately changed our mind, we realized things are dif- erent now from what they used to be. hf' editor of the paper referred to says: Gone are the happy days when we used to wear a katy, ride a safety, rive a rubber-tired buggy, carried a orch in a Bryan parade, ate free ^^oked Cremo cigars, danced ne two-step, went to a Chinese mag- Cr show and thought the ‘Black ^ racy burlesque show, e udn’t have much mazuma to but we were the bug’s n?? 1 have. And a Cfvel in those days had more rubber fAx would stretch farther than a o-bit piece will now. Yes, brother gone are the good old days.” NEW LOCOMOTIVE FOR A. & R. RAILROAD A Freight Type Locomotive With Automatic Appliances—To Do Principal Freight Work A new locomotive has been purchas ed by the Aberdeen & Rockfish rail road from the Georgia Car and Loco motive Company. It left Atlanta Monday morning, and by the time this goes to press will have made its maid en trip between Aberdeen and Fay etteville. The new locomotive will be known as No. 12 and because of the fact that it is much larger than any of the locomotives now operated by the railroads, and because it is equip ped with automatic stokers and other automatic devices it will at once be come the pride of the Aberdeen & Rockfish railroad. The business of the A. & R. railroad has increased to such proportions of late that the road was compelled to get new motive power to pull the size trains necessary to handle this traf fic. This locomotive will pull a good string of cars and lessen the number of trains it would otherwise have been neccessary to run. Some of this bus iness coming to the Aberdeen & Rock fish is due to the general prosperity of the community, of course. The road goes through a cotton section and the prosperity of the cotton farm ers ^ is evidenced by the heavy hauling of in-freight merchandise. A good part of its business, though, comse to it purely on merits of ser vice the road aims to give. Here is just one instance: Colon Osborne of the Franklin Garage arranged for a shipment of Franklins, which he want ed to put on exhibition at the Sand hill Fair and these left Syracuse, N. Y., on the evening of the 23rd of Oc tober. They had just one week to get here. Colon had the choice of two routes from Richmond, the S. A. L. direct here or the A. C. L. to Fay etteville. The A. & R. official.^ as sured him that they would keep be hind the car from the moment that it left Syracuse to keep it rolling through. Promptly at 7:30 Tuesday night October 30th, the car rolled into Aberdeen and Mr. Osborne had his cars on display at the Fair the next morning. MRS. MARY A. BYNUM CREDIT WHER& IT IS DUE If the average woman was without a sense of the value of money the men folks would have a good deal less in the bank than they can now boast. It is only fair to give the housewives of this country the credit that is due them, and it is certainly due them to say that the average wo man is economical. Many a dollar ly ing in the bank and drawing interest is there because some houswife re fused to agree with her husband that they were able to spend it for a lux ury. The average man is a much swifter spender than the average wo man, and he would buy, very often, beyond his ability to pay were it not for the fact that a woman generally dreads debt. Go into any store in town and note with what care the woman who hap pens to be purchasing something is using in sleeting it. Notice how anxi ous she is to get full value for her money. Do this not once but a doz en times and you’ll soon conclude that when it comes to.“driving a bargain” and actually saving money we have to take off our hats to the women. The man of the family usually thinks he knows what he wants beforehand, and unless the price is away out of reason he takes the article without question, and without regard to its quality. We don’t believe there ever was a word of truth in the old statement that “two can live as cheaply as one.” But we’ve seen enough of the care used by women shoppers to warrant the belief that when it comes to sav ing money the fair sex makes the men folks look like amateurs. “Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me, And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea.” On October the 26th, in the sunset hour of Life’s day, Mrs. Mary A. By num, having heard the call, embarked on her last voyage, in full faith that she would meet her Pilot face to face, when she had crossed the bar. Mrs. Bynum, or Grandma Bynum, as she was lovingly called, was born February 11, 1833, in Harnett county. At the age of seventeen, she was mar ried to Joseph H. M. Bynum, and soon after, moved to what is now known as the Bynum place, one mile from Vass. It was there that their eleven children were reared and that ten of them grew up to manhood and wo manhood; and it was there that death claimed the husband and father, twenty-four years ago. Life was not always easy in those days, and per haps that is where the great degree of patience and gentleness was de veloped, which characterized her later life. For the last ten years, Mrs. Bynum made her home with her daughter, Mrs. W. J. Cameron, in Vass. After giving up the duties of housekeeping, she could not be content to spend her days in idleness, so she took up fancy work, and became so interested in em broidering that she spent a great part of her time with needle and thread, and few are the homes in this com munity that can not show a piece of her work. And she was wonderful ly blessed! At the age of ninety, she could thread her needle without the aid of glasses, had strength to go from place to place to visit her children, and a youthful disposition to enjoy life and to be interested in the things that were occupying the thoughts of the younger generations. Mrs. Bynum became sick on the seventh of October, but her condition was not at all alarming, and by the end of two weeks she seemed almost as well as usual and went back to.her needlework, but early Monday morn ing, the 22, she suddenly became worse. Realizing that the call had come, she expressed her thanks for all that had been done for her, and asked that they grieve not for her, as all was well. At-five o’clock she lapsed into unconsciousness, and all that a faithful physician and loving nurses 1 could do was of no avail. On Friday afternoon, surrounded by many of her loved ones, she breathed her last. On Saturday afternoon at the Pres byterian church she loved so well, and of which she was a faithful member, her funeral was conducted by the pas tor, Rev. M. D. McNeill, assisted by Rev. F. B. Noblitt, of the Methodist church. Six of her grandsons acted as 0x11 bearers and a number of grand daughters carried the flowers. Mrs. Bynum was laid to rest by the side of her husband in Johnson’s Grove cemetery, and both mounds were cov ered with beautiful flowers. Surviving are eight daughters, one son, fifty grandchildren, eighty-four great-grandchildren and one great- great-grandchild. Grandmother By num will be greatly missed, but countless numbers will be blessed by the memory of the glorious life that she lived. FORD GASOLINE It’s all right to “bring up a child the way he should go,” but the best plan is to set him a good example. It’s about time for Henry Ford to get some more publicity, so the news papers of the country are giving it to him. This time it comes as a re sult of his announcement that he may go into the oil and gasoline business, and that announcement is sufficient to create national interest. Were like a lot of other people in the Sandhills, in that we believe Uncle Henry can make a go of most any thing he t-irns his hand to, and when he says he can sell gasoline at 16c a gallon and make money we’re go ing to believe it. There is said to be ample ground for believing that it can be retailed profitably at that fig- gure, or even lower, by applying scientific methods. The present cost The Carolina Theatre, Pinehurst, takes pleasure in announcing the engagement of the CAROLINA PLAYMAKERS, of the University of North Caroiinia, Chapel Hill, for TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, at 8:15 P. M. Details of the engagement, prices, etc., will be announced in next week’s issue of this paper MARLBORO FARM GETS FEEDERS Two Car Loads Received Monday- Wili Fatten These and Ship to Market Last year Marlboro Orchards tried out the experiment of bringing in yearlings to consume the immense quantity of pea-vine hay, harvested from between the rows of its large peach orchard, planted there primari ly for fertilization. They supplement ed this hay with a corn and molasses ration, and the experiment proved so successful that they went into the venture even stronger this year. Last Monday they unloaded two car loads of Herford yearling steers at Aberdeen which they had bought off the Texas ranges. There were ex actly eighty-four in number. When these have been sufficiently fattened they will be shipped to a Richmond packing house for slaughter. CARE IN ADDRESSING MAIL Because of tl^e increasing number of pieces of mail which are insufii- ciently, incorrectly, and illegibly ad dressed, this notice is posted in the postoffice as a caution to mailers to exercise greater care in this particu lar. During the year 1922 there were 200,000,000 pieces of such mail depos ited in the postoffices of the country, of which about 17,000,000 pieces reached the Dead Letter Office, and in this Dead Letter mail thus poorly or insufficiently addressed were found more than $100,000 in cash. In preparing any matter for mail ing, the following directions should be observed: 1. Print or write legibly the com plete name, postoffice, state, street and number. In lieu of street and number the address may be a post office box or a rural route. In any event write the most complete ad dress available. 2. Avoid abbreviations which may be confusing or misleading, such as “Cal.,” often mistaken for “Col.”; “Miss.,” often mistaken for “Minn.” or “Mass.”; “Va.,” often mistaken for “Pa.,” etc. 3. The sender should write or print his name and address in the upper left corner. 4. If a complete address is not ob- fainable, the best address available should be used, with any descriptive words which will aid in delivery, such as “merchant,” “clerk,” “mechanic,” “teacher,” or in care of some person or concern. 5. If the addressee is a “transient,” indicate that fact by the words “Gen eral Delivery” or “Transient.” 6. In short, affix an address which will enable the postal clerks and car riers readily to deliver the mail. HARRY S. NEW, Postmaster General. of manufacture is said to average about ten cents a gallon. Ford, with his own oil wells and refineries, might produce it for less than that. There .3 no question but he could market the fuel efficiently in his own service sta ions, for it’s almost as easy to find a Ford service stetion now as it is to find a filling station. It is a very ple^ising prospect for automobile owners, and there are also thousands of farmers and small manu facturers using gasoline engines who would be benefitted by cheaper gas. Of course there would be the gigantic Standard Oil Company to buck. But when we look back over the big things that Henry Ford has done in an in dustrial way we can’t help but feel that if he did go into the gasoline business the Standard would know for the first time what competition really means, and their old game of “crush ing out the little fellow,” a game they have played with greater suc cess than any other American monop oly, would forever be at an end. LISTEN TO THIS There was a convention of the Mas ter Horseshoer, Association in St. Louis the other day. Right at a time when all of us had commenced to be lieve that horseshoeing was almost a lost art. But, just think of it a mo ment—a national convention of black smiths in an age when millions of Americans supposed the automobile had put all of them out of that busi ness and into the garage business. But the membership rolls of the or ganization show that there are 5,000 blacksmiths affiliated with it, and re ports show their business is increas ing. The horseshoers of Philadelphia reported 22 per cent more last year than the year before. How is it ac counted for? We’ll give it up. The blacksmith shops of this country are now few and far between as compar ed with auto service stations, yet they must be here, according: to reports made at this convention. And if horseshoers are busier than ever, and making money, then there must still be as many horses to shoe. But it’s too deep for us—you’ll have to figure it out for yourself. NEW FARM CREDIT BANK IS FORMED Will Aid the Farmers in Purchases- Moore County Man is Director Working in conjunction with the lo cal banks throughout the State, the North Carolina A^icultural Credit Corporation will assist the farmers in obtaining the neccessary cash with which to produce a crop, thus enabl ing the farmers to pay cash for sup plies and for fertilizer. The method will directly benefit the fertilizer deal ers and the local merchants it Is con tended, because the burden of carry ing a large amount of credit business will be removed from them, and v/ill enable them to place their business on a cash basis. The loans obtained for the farmers will come due at intervals thus en abling them to pay off a part of the loan out of the advances made on cotton and tobacco by the co-operative associations, and yet have some cash on hand each time for expenses. These loans will be obtained at a low rate of interest and the farmer will again be benefitted. Local banks throughout the State will be invited to take stock in the corporation and a representative of the bank will act as the local agent of the corporation, passing on all appli cations for loans. It is the purpose of the corporation to work for the benefit of members of the North Car olina Cotton Growers’ Co-operative Association and the Tobacco Co-oper ative Association and loans will be obtained for the members of those two organizations. The organization was perfected Tuesday by the election of the follow ing board of directors. Chairman of the Board, G. A. Norwood, Goldsboro; John H. Boushall, Raleigh; W. M. Sanders, Smithfield; M. G. Mann, Tar- boro; and J. R. McQueen, Lakeview. Six additional directors are to be chosen at the first meeting of the stockholders, thus giving the corpora tion a board of eleven men. Officers were chosen as follows: President, John H. Boushall; secretary and treas urer, A. E. Bing; attorneys, Burgess & Joyner. With a capital stock of $2,000,000, the North Carolina Agricultural Cred it Corporation, through the Intermed iate Credit Bank can obtain loans for the farmers, to be used in the produc tion of crops, amounting to $20,000,- 000. The Corporation will begin bus iness with a capital of $100,000, and will thus be enabled to obtain SI,000,- 000 fo^ the farmers immediately; but proposes to increase the capital stock as soon as possible in order to pro vide still more credit for the farmers to use in crop-production. THE WALL-FLOWER GIRL The wall-flower girl, she sits in a chair And listens to the music quite de bonair. She hears all the gossip, she hears all the news; She knows who is happy and who has the blues. She knows all the joy, she knows all the strife; She knows every man who is mean to his wife. She is there at times w’hen we are out with the boys. And she hears the excuse each fel low e'Tiploys. She knows some woman behind her rouge veil Would start silly gossip, story or tale. At time^ one man more kind than the rest Invites her to dance, her ability to test. Five fee*^ nine she rises from her chair, T.ooks in his eyes with a baby stare. Her complexion is ruddy, her eyes are brown. Thick rosy lips either smile or frown. If the wall-flower girl should tell all she knows It would turn our friends into bitter est foes. She could sow a small wind that would soon be a gale, Engnlf us in trouble and land us in jail. She could let go a story withoutg* gaining force That would cause our wives to sue for divorce, Get all the chaperones mixed in the fight, Turn all our days into darkest night. In fact, she could get the whole crowd in a stew If she told a tenth part of the things she knev7. Now doesn’t it put your head in a whirl When you see or think of the wall flower girl? —W. W. Why is it that the man who does the most preaching about “back to the farm” isn’t going there himself. Now that the big cold storage plants have been filled up with eggs the price has been slipped up a few notches. It’s our guess that noting is going to save more fuel this winter than the price of it.
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