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Page Two THE PILOT Friday, September 18, 1925 FOREST LAND OWNERS MEET IN FAYETTEVILLE Association Formed for Protec tion of Forest Land From Fire (By K. E. Kimball) On August 25 a meeting of land owners and timber operators was held at the Prince Charles Hotel in Fay etteville for the purpose of forming an association for the protection of for est land from fire and for better pri vate co-operation with the State For est Service. A very large acreage of land in Southeastern North Carolina was represented either by owners or their agents or by letters pledging support. Among these was the Hugh Mac Rae interests, the Camp Manu facturing Company, the Overhills Land Co., the Butters Lumber Co., the Beaufort Lumber Co., the D. L. Gore Estate, the Council Tools Co., and a considerable number of smaller owners. A temporary organization was effected with G. A. Cardwell of th^ A. C. L. R. R. as chairman and Hugh McCormick, a local land owner, as secretary. The designation Timber Owners Forest Protective Association was adopted as the tenative name of the association. A form of contrast presented by the State Forest Service to be signed by owners listing their land with the association was ap proved. It was decided that when the land so listed totals 100,000 acres a call shall be issued for the forming of a permanent organization. Membership in the Association is set at one cent per for the land listed. The funds so secured will be matched by a like sum of Federal funds al lotted to the counties in proportion to the listed land in the county. Already some $3,000 are in sight from this source. This money will supplement the State and County funds already available and will greatly faciliate the advance of forest protection in this part of the State. The success of the association is practically assured as considerable more than the required 100,000 acres has been tenatively pledged. As a direct result of the coopera tion on the part of land owners on a cent an acre basis, the first fire look out tower in North Carolina built primarily for that purpose, is about to be erected on Cameron Hill in Harnett County near Pineview. This tower, with the forty or more miles of telephone line which will tie it in to the forest warden organization, will greatly increase the protection given to the forest lands of Western Harnett County. The tower will overlook a large part of the Fort Bragg Reser vation besides parts of Lee, Hoke and Cumberland Counties. The action taken at Fayetteville by the land owners and the State For estry officials is a long step in ad vance in forest protection and heralds the day when North Carolina timber land will produce forest wealth in as much security as agricultural lands and factories produce their products. virtual monopoly. Competition would only result in requiring users to pay money for two or more equipments instead of one. “The New England company, alone, requires new capital to the extent of $20,000,000 a year for the next three or four years to meet the public de mand. It would be grossly unfair to present users of telephones were they to be charged rates that would enable the company to get that amount of money annually from current earn ings. The problem is to get new capi tal from investors and not from present users of telephones. The investor is always looking for a safe return on his investment and safety of the investment itself, and that means the financial strength of the company.” TWENTY-YEAR CRUSADE If the public whose life and property is at stake would try one-half as hard as do fire insurance companies to pre vent fires, our annual fire loss of over $500,000,000 would be enormously re duced and a great saving made for home owners and industry. It has been said by the misinformed that no one is concerned in reducing the hugh fire toll and that it con tinues to pile up with apparently in creasing momentum partly because of this fact. Nothing could be further from the truth, says W. E. Mallalieu, General Manager of the National Board of Fire Underwriters. For the last twenty years this organization, sup ported by a majority of the stock fire insurance companies operating in this country, has been spending increasing sums in fighting fire from every con ceivable engineering and educational angle. The program of furthering fire avoidance is not a matter of narrow self-interest, but developed years ago from the recognition by fire under writers of the following . principles: (1) That every person and every or ganization owes more to the general welfare than mere industry and obedience to the law, and (2) That those whose commercial activities re sult from the existence of any given condition cannot avoid the responsi bility of seeking to limit its public menace. All efforts having the effect of pre venting or retarding fire rebound to the benefit of the public, a fact which has been demonstrated in New York and other cities by reducing the cost of insurance protection and by con serving life and property. It is not too much to say that if it were not for the continuing efforts mentioned, the fire tax long before this would have become to the Ameri can people an intorerable burden. blighted the hopes of politicians who exploit hard luck and discontent, and conditions improve steadily this year, leaving little material on which those politicians may work. If the farmer goes on as he has begun under the sage leadership of Secretary Jardine, he will solve his own problems. being shipped into the State in large quantities, find poultry workers at State College. GOOD TABLE POULTRY SCARCE IN MARKETS Pick up and burn all fallen pecan twigs, advise workers of the State College division of entomology. These twigs are breeding places for the twig-girdler an dshould be destroyed as soon as possible to protect the trees from next year’s crop of the pests. The better grade of table poultry is MICKIE SAYS: ru OF 00009 'OOKU ikO V9 UVfiB IC\UL EVJEPNXAWtS BCVCU., (Continued from page 1) towns where the farmer can bring his poulty and eggs and get the highest prices for them. These houses were established by farmers and they are exactly what the North Carolina farmer needs and should have in practically every county. It takes the farmer to do this, however, as he must organize for his particular purpose, raise money to do the job right, and must produce more of the first class product than he is now doing.*’ According to Dr. Raupp, a hen can be fed for $2.40 a year; that is, if all the feed has to be bought, which is hardly ever the case, and the hen s-hould lay ten dozen eggs a year. This will return a profit at North Carolina egg prices, but a greater production and the application of busi ness methods will greatly increase PUBLIC AGENCIES FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE REAL FARMERS WANT NO PETTING The Springfield, Massachusetts, Union, in commenting upon a decision of the Public Utilities Commission of j poor, has shown that in 1924 the far- Massachusetts, which awarded rate j mer made a profit on the principal Any cause in the present condition of agriculture for the belief that it needs relief from distress, actual or impending, at the hands of the govern ment is hard to find. Index numbers of the bureau of labor statistics show the price of farm products as a class to be up to the level of commodities in general. A survey by the agricul tural department of results on repre sentative farms, good, medium and to the New England Telephone Company sufficient to assure its financial stability, said: “As a public utility, the telephone business is in a class by itself. In the interests of the public it has to be a staple crops. Real farmers want to be left alone, as Secretary Jardine says, to solve their own problems with the facilities that the government has given them. Improved conditions last year We Have Installed Equipment for Re boring Your Cylin der Block. We carry a complete stock of the various over size pistons and pins to do your job in a workmanlike manner. Our machine is accurate to the thousandth part of an inch. We have already turned out a number of satis factory jobs. Let us overhaul your car for less, and insure you service. We also recharge your magneto and carry a complete stock of genuine Ford parts. hartsell’s garage CAMERON, N. C. No AcivenisQp 'VidteTiiai ^ooin this profit, which, after all, is what the farmer wants. . Our tailor from the Globe Tailoring Co., will be here at our store on Sept. 23 and 24, for the purpose of taking your measure for suits, overcoats, etc. —Little River Store Co. Adv 1 Have yonr Eyes Examined by an Expert. Cost is No More DR. J. C. MANN, Eyesight Special- ist and Optician will be at Cheats Jewelry Store, Sanford, N. C., every Wednesday in each week. Headachc relieved when caused by Eyestrain. Office equipped with the latest exam ining instruments. When he fits you with glasses you have the satisfac tion of knowing that they are correct. Weak eyes of children should receive expert attention; take your child to him. Remember that he is in Sanford Every Wednesday from 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. Carolina Theatres Pinehurst — Southern Pines PRESENT The screen’s greatest lovers in the greatest modern love story of all time! NORMA TALMAGE —And— EUGENE O’BRIEN IN “GRAUSTARK” A glorious modem ro mance of a Princess' love for an American, set in ma jestic grandeur and packed with the kind of thrill and love scenes that only Nor ma can give. It's one of Norma’s great est pictures—the kind the whole world loves—t h e kind she loves to make.— That's why it's great! ALSO; A zippy two part Coipedy and a Fables. Pinehurst FRIDAY, SEPT. 18th (Regular Admission Prices) Southern Pines SATURDAY, SEPT. 19th (Regular Admission Prices) “The Advance Will Not be Cut- The Grade Will Not be Changed!” if This is General Manager Richard R. Patterson’s | pledge to the members of the Tobacco Grow ers Co-operative Association Last week Mr. Patterson, with the bankers’ valuation experts, made a survey of the markets in Eastern North Carolina and from them he received assurance that the Federal Intermediate Credit Banks will continue its support of the Association to hold the price of tobacco up. Growers who will receive full value this season have pooled their tobacco. Conditions responsible for low prices on auction floors are bound to adjust later. The tobacco which is marketed in an orderly way will be the tobacco which will show a profit when this adjustment comes. WHAT IS THE ASSOCIATION GOING TO DO? READ MR. PATTERSON’S REPLY TO THIS QUESTION: The Association is going to do just what it has done since organization: Provide for the grower a service corporation which will enable him to market his tobacco in an orderly way. UNLESS AND UNTIL THE GROWER AND THE BUSINESS MAN AVAIL THEMSELVES OF THIS SERVICE, NO POWER BENEATH THE BLUE CAN OPY OF HEAVEN CAN DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE LOW PRICES THE GROWERS ARE NOW RECEIVING.” THE TOBACCO GROWERS COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION The p the two the Pre tionly interesti W. G. P who wer training during t the close Kennedy is a me League, of Rev. the chil Mrs. Ho . member Cameron early glr a visit to cities, sh visit to h the house Mrs. N is here o Mrs. E. Tally, of Archib and rear vicinity, early ma Texas, w of his lif his nativ mother. Mrs. A1 ing some Mrs. Ri a caller a M. D. Me Mr. He and Miss visitors at and Mrs. John C. Columbia, will teach After wJ heat, and d enjoyed a night. Mr. Do farmer on Friday. Dr. D. d and Mr. callers Sun Misses Cri Mr. M. Raleigh on Mr. and Mocksville and Mrs. J Misses D ingham, w home of M Mr. H. ]V sition with niture com Miss Evi spent Sund Miss Bei for Broadw While on home town Holmes of tion of $5. Methodist schools, in Sunday sch of her child Mrs. Holme highly cultu character. Miss Lucj tives in Mo] The Bapti lighted to morning, Mi of Alabama, ing and helj Mrs. Anni Turkey, are parents, Mr. Two weels Cameron in paid a visi niother, Mrs Lemon Sprii Cut Y 0]> buying g to rebi use on Panco Half S ^ing Foot .. Korry Krome ^ite Oak Tz ^^ole Soles ! Ladies Half S I^ubber Heels Harness Le ^ips, welts other work. Satisfa VASS ELE( Itp.
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