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I8t 7, 1925 Book 87 lSH, )N, Monday Trustee, Jon, Attya* s I VOLUNE THE PILOT NUMBER 38 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company, VASS. N. C. FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1925 SUBSCRIPTION 92.00 JIN JOHNSON IN BIG EXPERIMENT To Make Sand Spur a Good Grazing Plant for ^ttle J. McN. Johnson, the Aberdeen lawyer, philosopher and research man, has a job on his hands that he wants some younger man to take an interest in so that it can be carried to its logical and deserved finish, and it is such a useful scheme that he has gone so far with it that it is printed in the hope that some earnest young farmer will become interested, in the possibili ties of it and carry it to the logical end. Mr. Johnson presents his scheme to a friend as follows: “Lets figure a little; and since there is nobody here but us, suppose we make it chatty! “It is now pretty well demonstrated that our Sandhill section in preemi nently the Home of the Peach. The fact is it is our money crop. “In ancient times the Bosphorus was called The Golden Horn because of the rich cargoes of Red Mullets the Phoenician fishermen caught there: In 1849 the harbor at San Francisco won the name of Golden Gate because of the fabulous output of real gold shipped from that harbor to enrich the world. But the Golden Horn has become a mere roadstead for dirty, wooden Turkish ships, and the Golden Gate, —while it retains its dignity, as one of the world’s principal har bors, its present importance has no re lation to the precious metal that gave it its name in the mighty rush of ’49. “The question before us now is: Have we the wisdom and acumen to make our prosperity based on peaches, a permanent prosperity? ‘How much money did you get for your crop of peaches?’ ‘How much per crate did your peaches net you?’ These and similar questions all based on the money value of the crop are the queries we here discussed by every clump of men we pass on the street corners. There is great danger here. “Let us look at the case of Old Midas: In Grecian Mythology Midas was a successful man of business. He was a money-maker. As his wealth increased his desire for gold increased in geometrical ratio. One day he made a wish that everything he touched might turn to gold; and this wish was granted by the gods. Oh, what a happy man he was! He touched a chair, and the chair was turned into gold. He touched all the articles of furniture in his room, and they all turned to gold. There he sat supreme ly happy in the contemplation of his untold wealth. By and by he became aware that he was hungry and thirsty, and he called for his servant to bring him food and wine. He touched the wine and it became gold. He touched the food and it became gold; so the poor man perished with hunger and thirst, the poorest man in the world. “How is this old story applicable to our almost fabulous peach crop, and its cash profits? It is this: No country can long prosper from a ^HOOL TAX LEVY RAISED County Commissioners Hesitate To do the Job—But no Way Out money crop unless that country also produces a large part of what it eats. “No people can long thrive physical ly who do not have good, wholesome food to eat, including good meat, pre ferably beef, and when the supply of beef must be imported the whole structure has become artificial and un safe to depend upon. “No country can raise its own beef unless it produces a good meat-pro ducing grass. Now have we that grass ? Yes, we have, but it is a grass that is detested, despised, and fought as an unmitigated pest because of one objectional feature. “The grass referred to is the Sand Spur, a sprig of which I am mailing NON-HEHBERS ASK CHANCE TO SIGN First Advance By Co-ops. Al most Stops Another “SteaP of Crop Delivery of more than a million pounds of tobacco to cooperative warehouses in the South Carolina belt during the first few days after the season’s opening met a cash advance of sixty-five per cent of bankers’ valu ation on the 1925 crop and the re sult is that hundreds of non-members are appealing to the association for you today. I do not know its bo- an opportunity to “sign-up” before tanical name. This grass is not a | they put any more of the weed on the native here, but has been brought in I market, from the coast in crockery and other packing, and has gained quite a foot ing in most of our small Sandhill towns. It is an annual and grows in rich profusion in the most sterile sand banks; grows in sprangling stools, something like the crab grass, and in 10 days it grows 24 inches long, and is so sweet and luscious that a cow will hunt it out from among all other weeds and grasses; but when the seeds appear then there is trouble of a serious kind. Its seeds are imbed d,e d as you will see, in a pericarp all covered with sharp spines, 10 times sharper and wickeder, and more tena cious than the cockle burr. These spiny seeds cling to the legs of ani mals and to the clothing of men with such persistence as to cause this splen did gT&ss to be regarded a pest pure and simple. “Well, then, what are we going to do about it? I cannot answer that question, but I can tell you what I have done, and what I am trying to do. I have sent a stalk of this grass just seeding to Luther Burbank at Santa Rosa, California, and asked him to examine it, and give me his opinion, as to the feasibility of educating the wicked spurs off the seeds, and stated to him that if this could be done it would convert an unmitigated pest into a source of untold wealth to this peach growing section. “His reply is guarded and conser vative. He tells me how it ought to be undertaken, but says that the time required will depend upon how firmly (Continued on page 8) BOLL WEEVIL NOT SERIOUS IN HOORE Dr. Leiby Says Hot Dry Weather Has Held Pest in Check The Board of Commissioners of Moore County increased the tax levy for the year 1925 eight cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of tax able property. This increase was made upon the budget and request of the Board of Education of Moore County required by the school law and the levy was made solely for school purposes. The Board of Education pointed out that this increase was made necessary for the purpose of providing funds for the operation of trucks to haul children in consolidated school districts and for building school (Continued on page 8) The hot and dry weather has cer tainly checked the boll weevil this summer and the damage from Moore county northward has thus far been extremely light, says Dr. Leiby of the State’s insect laboratory at Aberdeen. He finds however that in Hoke, Scot land and Richmond counties the weevil has been present in numbers to justi fy poisoning and this is being car ried out with success. A unit of 3500 acres is being dusted with poison by airplane in Scotland and Richmond counties by the Huff- Deland Dusters corporation of Macon, Ga. This concern agrees to apply the calcium arsenate dust three times to the owners fields of cotton at such times as are designated by the ento mologist for the sum of $4.00 per acre. Subsequent applications are made if necessary for 75 cents per acre each. A field must be at least 25 acres in size before it can be included in an airplane unit. The dusting is done late in the evening or early in the morning preferrably when there is little or no breeze stirring. The planes are specially designed with a hopper holding 600 pounds of poison which is sufficient to dust 125 acres. A field of 100 acres can be poisoned by the airplane in 20 minutes. The plane flys as low as five feet over the cotton. Experiments in the dusting of peach orchards by airplane have been con- (Continued on page 8) Turning of tags on several auction floors during the past week was al most epidemic. The boasted average on the auction floors during the first three days the markets were opened has dwindled three to four cents in the light of figures compiled by ware housemen and made public in the Monday papers. It is not, however, the purpose of the association at this time to re-open the books. As is now generally known, the tenant farmer is enabled to deliver his tobacco to the associa tion under the provisions of the land lord’s contract. This procedure has been followed more during the open ing days of the season than ever be fore in the history of the association. Summing up the situation in the South Carolina belt a few days after the markets had opened, the Florence, (S. C.) News-Review had the follow ing to say: “One of the most encouraging fea tures of the opening of the South Carolina tobacco market was the strong pace set by the cooperative marketing association. In advanc ing to members 65 per cent UPON THE BASIS OF PRICES EQUALLY AS HIGH AS LAST YEAR, the asso ciation threw a bomb-shell into the tobacco camp. It was hailed with de light by members of the association and received as an indication of the strength of the organization.” The significant thing about the high advance made possible this year to association members is, in the opinion of everybody, the degree of confidence which the Federal govern ment and the great financial institu tions have in the tobacco association. The sixty-five per cent advance is the highest ever made by an agency of the government in assisting to finance the marketing of a crop of tobacco. Striking, also, is the readily per ceptible increase in the amount of the advance made on all grades of to bacco since the organization of the association, a factor which indicates to students of the marketing problem that the chances of another “steal” of a tobacco crop are gradually disap pearing. “The first advance made this year,” according to a statement just made at association headquarters in Raleigh “is a greater payment at the time of delivery of tobacco than the total payment OF ANY FIVE YEAR’S AVERAGE on the auction floor, ex cluding, of course, the war years.” “The association has made prog ress,” the statement adds. ‘'We are beginning the 1925 season under the most favorable circumstances. We have settled for the crops of 1922 and 1923 and we have paid to our members 75 per cent of bankers’ valuation on all grades received by the associa tion and we have made settlement on 14 grades of the 1924 crop. “This progress has been made, and this confidence of government agen cies and great banking institutions has been inspired, with only one- third of the tobacco. What will the association be able to do when the deliveries are increased, as they will be, to fifty per cent?” warrant the showing of the most cost ly productions of the new picture year? This question will be answered during the months of August and September of this year. The new year in the picture calen dar begins August first, and practical ly every year at this time, some of the biggest and best productions are re leased. This is especially true this year when the three greatest screen artists of America are offering their new productions. Douglas Fairbanks’ new production, “Don Q. Son of Zoro” is now in its eighth week at the Globe Theatre, New York, and already, our Sandhill folks know that it is absolute ly the best audience picture he has ever made. Charlie Chaplin’s new comedy masterpiece “The Gold Rush” opens in New York next week and already pages have been written by the critics lauding this as the greatest picture Chaplin ever made. It remains for the Sandhills, how ever, to have the first showing in America of Mary Pickford’s new, big comedy, “Little Annie Rooney,” and here is our Mary in just the type of picture that made her “America’s Sweetheart” and in which everybody wants to see her. All children be tween the ages of six and ninety-six are going to have a great time with “Little Annie Rooney.” This pro duction has its first New York show ing sometime this fall. Because these pictures are all big productions and because they are all so new, they are costly. In fact, they cost more than twice as much as any other picture ever shown in the Sand hills in the summer. There is not sufficient seating capacity in both Theatres to allow an even break at the regular admission prices, so a slight increase will be asked for cer tain seats in the Theatres. These prices will run from 40c for children to 50, 65 and 75 cents for adults. Mr. Picquet says he thinks the folks would prefer to see one big pro duction a week for the remainder of the summer, at a slight increase of admission, than two ordinary pictures a week at the regular prices and he is going to try it out. If “Little Annie Rooney” gets sufficient patronage, “Don Q. Son of Zoro” will follow on August 28, 29, and Charlie Chaplin’s “Gold Rush” will come on September 11th and 12th, with other big new productions in be tween. “Little Annie Rooney” is here Fri day and Saturday and all patrons are urged to be in their seats at 8:20 as the production is ten reels in length, which will permit of but one short pre liminary subject. Reserved seats for Southern Pines only are on sale at the Broad Street Pharmacy. STATE MEETING OF CO. CONNISSIONERS At Blowing Rock This Week- Govemor McLean Can’t Be There The State meeting of the County Commissioners of the State met in Blowing Rock, Wednesday. Moore County will be represented. Below is (Governor McLean’s letter to the meeting which our readers wiU find very interesting: TO THE CHAIRMAN AND MEM- BERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OP COUNTY COMMISSIONERS: “Because of the pressing matters of State business that engage my atten tion in Raleigh, I regret that it is im possible for me to appear before this body in person. I deem it a privilege, however, as well as a pleasure to ac cept the invitation to address this message to your association. At the outset I desire to express to each member of the Association my appre ciation of the earnest efforts being made in a number of counties to im prove local government by increasing the value of the service to the people. The work you have done in your county stands out as a conspicuous example. An antiquated system of county government, as in State gov ernment, is largely responsible for the defects in administration which exist in many counties. Due to constantly increasing activities and services which county government is now called upon to perform, I am sure you will agree with me that the present system has become in a large measure inadequate and unadapted to present day needs. In many instances it lacks organized unity under definite and re sponsible executive headship. There is sometimes duplication of effort and overlapping duties, and an absence of proper fiscal control. Such a con dition is not the fault of the officials^ most of whom are competent ana faithful. It is the fault of a system that at one time was fairly adequate for the needs of the day, but which now, under the changed conditions, has become inadequate because of its failure to meet the demands made upon it. Those who now hold county offices, as well as those of us who hold state office, have inherited this inade quate system. I think all of us will agree that county government, no less than state government, must be made adequate for present day needs. The confidence of the people in local government must be maintained. I believe that our future progress is de pendent, to a large extent at least, upon the confidence which our citizen ship has in government, and this confi dence will be secure only when the people realize that public funds are used in such a way that every dollar is accounted for and expended wisely in purchasing needed service for all the people. Our efforts have been di rected of late to the task of placing the State government on a sound business basis, and it is not too much to say that good results have already been accomplished. The state govern ment is a large unit, composed of the smaller units—the counties. The strength of the state then, in a large measure, rests upon the successful (Continued on page 8) Taxes Collected for Last Nonth Sheriff Fry Reports Over $316,000 to August First Report on the FubUc Taxes for the Month of July 1925 Subjects A WORLD’S PREMIERE SHOW IN MID-SUMMER Will the Sandhills patronize the Carolina Theatres in the middle of the summer in sufficient numbers to Ad Valorem and Polls Sheriff’s Discoveries & Unlisted Schedule B, Nos TOTAL TAXES - - - Reliefs or Abatements Collected (Down) - TOTAL - - - - Balance, Receipt on Hand— CASH Collected (as above) - Deposited County Treasurer - Commissions Retained Balance, Cash on Hand Last Report .$348,547.70 . 13,887.28 858.63 ....$363,293.61 1,843.55 312,213.01 ...$314,056.56 49,237.05 This Month .$ 856.43 To Date ..$348,547.70 .. 14,743.71 858.68 .$ 856.431....$364,150.04 124.79 .... 1,968.34 7,691.41 7,816.20 319,904.42 ....$321,972.76 ....$312,213.01 299,750.00 8,901.84 3,561.17 42,177.28 .$7,691.41 7,000.00 200.00 ....$319,904.42 .... 306,750.00 .... 9,101.84 4,052.58 I hereby certify that the above is a true account of the public taxes charged to me and returned by me, and that the return is a full and truo record of all unlisted taxes collected. R. G. FRY, Sheriff.
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