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VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to niE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C. derby says unit PEACH PRODUCTION Thinks Crop Should be Held Down to What Market Takes Freely FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1924 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 jVfr Bion H. Butler, Southern Pines, N. C. I have just returned and read the article in the September 5th issue of The Pilot entitled “Is the Orchard Overdone?” in which you take issue with me on the question of produc tion of peaches. There are several points that I wciild like to clear up in this con nection and as I believe the whole rnal'er deserves the widest possible discussion in the local press I am very glad to write this open letter to you which I hope you will see fit to pub lish. I want to discuss the matter in perfect good humor on account of you and the pleasant rei^itions I have always had with you so that any lit tle pleasantries that I pass out should be taken in good part. We once ar gued in the public press the question of whether or not you deserved to be hung without a lynching taking place and as you escaped the gallows I ex pect my idea of a proper punishment for you was wrong. While we are discussing personalities I might say that in my opinion your vision and enthusiasm are and have been very valuable assets to this community and I am very glad that you were NOT hung. However it is possible for even a prophet and the Sage of the Sandhills to be sometimes wrong and when he is I want to assist in setting him rigth. It seems to me that the responsi bility of the press is a very ^eat one and that when a writer undertakes to advise such a community as this on a fundamental economic policy he should be very sure of his facts. This is especially true when one is dealing with farmers, for as a class they have less cohesion than any other class in our civilization and the development of public opinion among them is an extremely difficult matter. There fore I want to get down to the facts in this matter of production of peach es and stick to them, leaving general ities and sweeping prophesies as to the future alone. In the first place you start your ar ticle by misquoting me. I never have made the assertion that the Sandhills are producing too many peaches. What I have said is that the South was producing too many peaches and that the present acreage planted in this district will produce all we can hope to market at a profit and that this acreage should not be increased. I took this position two years ago and still maintain it and I believe that the experience of last summer has proved my position to be correct. Of course it is not a popular stand to take. Being a Cassandra never went dowTi very well in America but that happens to make no difference to me whatever. I would a good deal rather be rij^ht than insincere. You f>'o on in your article to say that the trouble is not with overpro duction but with an imperfect system of marketing and you lead your read ers to believe that in some way the community can improve this so that 50,000 cars of peaches can be sold as easily as we used to sell our 300 or 400 carloads. You compare our ^ to the marketing of beef which you say is as equally perisha- TK- peaches. Ihis comparison seems to me to be unworthy of your intelligence and in dicates that you are guessing about tne (juestion and not boring down af- ^er the cold hard facts. Beef is really a particularly perishable product, can be frozen and kept in cold stora^p indefinitely. It can be and is slauji’hiered whenever the occasion de- niani - If we could leave our peach- twelve months and when the market demand- 1 them and store them nor low temperatures for an indefi- ite period, then I would agree that r problem would be much simplified V, ’'Y-uld approach a comparison ^nh me beef industry. Mo; cover beef is a necessity in the the nation that really has no pff .f Meat has a stimulating so? ^ *^ost people believe is the of the energy and endurance vigorous people. But for there are dozens of substi- antf.^resh and preserved, that waH ' same purpose equally as 1q. ■ well known that canta- serious competitors of Peacnc and - thing about the peach business. Our ^esh fruit varieties such as Belle, Hiley and Elbertas are not suitable for canning. This is a well known tact which I am surprised that more people do not recognize. These varie ties do not hold their shapes when put up in cans but break down into a frayed, mushy mass that is not ac- ceptable to the public. I grant you tnat the flavor, when properly pre- pared, is superior to the ordinary hard meaty California canning peach but unfortunately the public will not ac- cept them. California went through this same experience years ago with the same varieties that we are growing here and nnaUy developed a special peach for drying and canning. You wonder why we should not do the same. Well, that IS vvorth looking into but first we should determine whether we can ®*^ter this special line of agriculture with^ any hope of success. Raising canning peaches is a very different matter than raising fresh fruit. Col our, which is an essential for fresh fruit IS of no consequence in canned fruit. Th6 important considerations are the size oi the individual speci mens and the yield per tree. In Cal ifornia in the peach canning districts they get a very much larger yield ner tree ths^n we do here on account of the stronger land, and, in my opinion this IS the stumbling block that would prevent our hoping to compete with California in this line. At all events it would take years of experimenta tion and a great deal of special knowledge and investigation before we could enter the canning peach in dustry. I object to your sweeping and off hand assertion that to can our peaches is a solution of our difficulties. Now as to marketing. You again make a sweeping assertion to the ef fect that we should do something to improve it so that more peaches can be sold at a profit and one would in fer, from what you say, that our present methods are very inefficient. In this I totally disagree. It is utterly impossible for a district that has a product to market over a period of only three weeks in a year to build up an organization of its own to handle the business. This has been tried time and again by various dis tricts and has always proved a fail ure. Our own experience in this line should have taught us the lesson in conclusive fashion. For such a dis trict as ours the only solution is to employ a marketing organization that is constantly in the field and that has the connections and trained per- sonel to handle the job efficiently. This was done last year by the Ameri can Growers and the Federated Grow- (Continued on page 8) NcDONALD PUniNG ROADS IN SHAPE IS MORRISON BENT ON JOB IN SENATE? Red Powell Reviews the Port Measure Prom Political Side Routes of This Side of the Coun ty Up to the Stan dard in rr\\ixh^ I " -** this connection it Pearl point out that we dnv were very fo^tuiiate ® market gluts of the past' ^^^t the cantaloupe crop woulfi Otherwise we trnnc “^'^^.had an even more disas- experience than we had. lead your readers to te- leni solution of our prob- liev This he to can our product. common illusion among Pe who really don’t know any- Charlie McDonald, the manager of he county road system has been show ing the folks of the east side of the county what good roads look like. From Cameron to Carthage much of the road has been rebuilt during the summer, and while for a time when the heavy rains of September were making the road man’s life misera ble the main line was hard to travel, the fine weather that has followed during October gave the forces a chance, and from Cameron to Car thage is a good road all the way. Another road that has been rebuilt to the queen’s taste is the route up the county line from Cameron to the Underwood school house. As far as this road is the county line the two counties have rebuilt it. Moore coun ty doing the work, and there is an other example of good construction. This road gives the upper part of this county an outlet to the Sandhill sec tion, and opens a shorter route to the whole Deep River valley in the Car- bonton and Gulf area. The cost of construction was small, as the ma chinery now in use and the efficient handling of force and machinery are getting results. The road going out of Vass by way of Union Church is another piece that has come in for a lot of work, and a little more fair weather will make that one of the model stretches of construction in the east si'de of the county. Fills at the new bridges and wider surface with better grades and solider surface all contribute to the de sired end. ■ The road equipment of the county has been doing a good job m all sections this year, and has Other plans in view. (R. E. POWELL) Raleigh, N. C., Nov. 12, 1924. . Port bill opponents enjoying to the utmost their defeat of the administra tion measure at the late election, rear back with supreme satisfaction that Governor Morrison has been inter rupted in his march to the United States Senate. Whenever anybody says anything about the senate and Mr. Morrison ed itor Wade Harris of the Charlotte Ob server gets mad and says Governor Morrison is not going to run against Mr. Overman for the western seat in the greatest deliberative body oh earth. Governor Morrison has pledg ed Senator Overman not to get in the race against him and the paper editor says that ought to settle it. And it does so far as Mr. Overman is con cerned. But the trouble is elsewhere. Not even Governor Morrison expects Mr. Overman to hold on forever and when for any reason there may be a change, Mr. Morrison is going to be interested. There is right now in the circles of regularity much senator- ship talk. It so happens that Messrs. Simmons and Overman are the same age. Overman was born January 3, 1854 and Mr. Simmons two weeks later. They are beyond three score years and ten. There is right much feeling here that one of these days there is going to be some senatorial appointment. Virtually all politics these days revolves about these hon ors. And when Governor Morrison de cided to go to the county capitals and principal cities for a discussion of this port business, everybody seemed to think about the senate. Consequently, this fight has had an important bearing on the iienatoiship. Clyde Hoey is a known aspirant. In fact, it is believed by many people that the Shelby man will oppose Mr. Overman two years hence. He is un der no pledge to stay 'rut. I.^ any thing should happen to take Senator Overman from the race again there would be Hoey and Morrison. In the late campaign for port terminals Mr. Morrison often reminded certain fel lows htat if they aspired t.> the sen ate they might get right on this is sue. But the election v/a*^ held and Governor Morrison lost. What dam age has been done to his future can not be told. But it has been extensive. His with him whereas Hoey and his friends were lucky with their fight. Hoey and Gardner carried Cleveland, Arthur Dixon pulled Gaston, Lune prestige has received a serious blow. He failed to carry his own counties Long and Halifax worked the down fall of the measure in Halifax, John Dawson and Kitfston in Lenoir coun ty did much dafnage to the measure by simply'being a^ain^ it without activity of any ".or* and in Harnett Nat Townsend did the work of an ex ecutioner. Lindsay Warren in Beau fort got eveh with a a old enemy, the governor,* and in Catawba Alex Shu- ford paid back something. In North hampton Sunitier Buri^wyn hit Mr. Morrison over the head and in Hay wood Lenior smacked his excel lency good and hard Wherever there was a good Gardner man m a county there was a killing for the port bill. It means nothing else than that the opposition to Morrison caiught him on the outgoing tide and fixed him for a long time. While the Morrison advo cacy was worth much, it worked an other way in solidifying the opposi tion to him. The governor raved at the republicans for not sticking to him but republican counties generally did better than democratic. The anti- Morrison strength came out—that was all. When he discovered that he was beaten Governor Morrison threatened Max Gardner and Winston-vSalem with harsh punishment four years hence, but that may pass. The fight revealed one thing. It showed that the election laws are written for the manipulators. Both port advocates and the antis made lib eral use of accusation. They charge each other with stealing votes. Doubt less both advocates did pilfer many, for it is evident that there is no limi tation upon the power to take. The only thing that restricts is the incli nation. In some quarter? the port advocates had the county organiza tions and in others the organizations had the port people. The rule work ed well. If port advocates found it profitable to get votes any old way they got votes any old way. The law (Continued on page 5) CO-OPERATIVES GET HIGHEST FIGURES And the Advances are Steadily Strens^thening on New Sales CHARLIE NASON’S STORY TO KIWANIS Started at Boston, and Winds Up in the Sandhills of North Carolina Charlie Mason told his story to the Kiwanis Club at their Wednesday din ner at Aberdeen, and it commenced with his birth at Brooklyn, which he said was about the only joke to it, and wound up with the Sandhills, and he says he doesn’t care to go beyond this section. He commenced young to ramble, and covered a lot of territory before he dropped off the train one day in Pinehurst and bought some twenty-dollar land and some peach trees and set out on the road for wealth, and about the time the good fairy was ready to bring him wealth Kaiser Wilhelm mussed up the show, and Charlie went to Boston and join ed Boston’s famous oldest military or ganization in this country and head ed for the furse. He got over in time to find a job assembling Ford ambu lances and then was promoted to a place on the firing line where he put in about as near full time as the law allowed in going from one hot spot to another, finishing his active career the night before the peace was sign ed. He came back home, took up his peach orchard and the real estate (Continued on page 8) WONDERFUL WEEK OF ENTERTAINHENT At the Carolina Theatres Next Wijek, Including Russiati Symphonic Choir j At a mee ing of the tobacco and ! •’o ton men last Saturday reports ! brought out that the auction mai ket^ I were not paying as good prices as the I'o-operative sales are bringing, and i tha^ as the sea=;on ages the advances I OT the new sales are better for those in the association. A speaker, W. A. Shackleford, thoroughly familiar with tobacco told the members that the fi nances of the association are getting in better shape as the tobacco that is sold proves its superiority in its grad ing, for the big companies are begin ning to understand that tobacco bought from the association is grad ed and up to a standard and can be bought for exactly what it purports to be. This is making a feeling of con fidence between buyers and sellers that will help all future transactions. The 1922 crop is nearly all sold, and would all be but it was not so well graded at the start, and is not of the same quality as tobacco of recent crops on this account. But now the buyer knows what he is getting be cause the graders at the warehouses are knowing better how to grade to the standards. One of the interesting features of the talk was the reference to fertili zers and their wastes in many ways of using. The speaker ridiculed the use of 8-3-3, for with fertilizer so low in fading in^edients for the plants the' large proportion of filler compels th^ farmer to pay freight on thous'- ands of tons of useless sand and to haul it to the field and scatter it, and solely to allow him to'hold to his su perstitious reverence for tHat formu la. An 8-3-3 mixture means eight, three and three pounds of phosphoric (Continued on page 8) A flood of good things are coming to the Sandhills next week in the way of entertainment as a refutation of the complaint that the early fall sea son is dull in Pinehurst and SOtitheirn Pines, and in spite* of th6 fact thst there are supposed to be but few folks who want the best in entertahtnient. It seems to have been the cu^oonfi to hold all the good things up until Feb ruary and March and jam them in so thick and fast that it is impbssiWe for folks to see them all. It is to com bat the impression that the SancHiills is a poor place to come to for enter tainment in the earty season and to do its part toward the enfertafnmerit of the early tourists' and those' wha live in the Sandhills the yeai ’rotroi that the Carolina Theatres are offer ing the best that is obtainable even in face of the supposition that these high class attractions would be better pa tronized later in the season. The management believes that the home folks are entitled to as good attrac tions as the visitors and believes they will get the support they deserve. It is with a great deal of pleasure, therefore, that we announce “The Sea Hawk” for Monday and Tuesday; “Abraham Lincoln” for Wednesday and Thursday and the great Russian Symphonic Choir for Saturday, No vember 22nd, at Pinehurst. “The Sea Hawk It isn’t necessary to say much about the spectacular and thrilling picture which has been made from Rafael Sa- batini’s stirring novel of Barbary Cor sairs. Nearly all of our readers know that “The Sea Hawk” is the crown ing achievement of a season of bril liant screen dramas, a play that reg isters its magnitude in every scene and with such force that it is not like ly that local screen followers will cease to talk about it very soon. “The Sea Hawk” had a great run in New York followed by runs in the larger cities and is destined to break all rec ords throughout the country, as well as in Europe. As an evidence of this we are quoting from the London Press upon the shovnng at the Royal Albert in that city. “Presentation of the "Sea Hawk’ at the Royal Albert Hall was an unpre cedented triumph. An audience of 6,000 from all parts of the United Kingdom greeted it. This magnifi cent picture is the talk of London. It received a Galli-Curci reception.” “Abraham Lincoln” We are proud of the opportunity of bringing the life of this great man be fore you—to show him from early youth, rising, fighting, plugging with soul of iron, to the top! No life gives such romance, drama, humor and thrill as the unforgettable man of the ages. The charm and enchantment of the old South in the days before the de vastation of the war came upon it— the days of Washington, Jefferson and the heroes of the Revolution; the days of Jackson and Clay, Calhoun, the Lees and their contemporaries; when plantations were fat with abundance and gentle folks held court at count- le«^s manors, are called to life again in all their grace, romance and chivalry in the greatest of all films, “Abraham Lincoln.” In “Abraham Lincoln” signal honor has been done the history, chivalry, the immortal heroes and the wonder ful women of the South,'for the pic ture is an authentic historical docu ment. Robert Edward Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis, and others who wrote their names high in the annals of the South’s history, come again in living, breathing forms to thrill the hearts of tHdse who adore their memory. A nation acclaims it as the great American Drama and the world will never forget' it. Don’t miss it. Life is just sewing on one button’ after another.
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