Pa^e Six THE PILOT Friday, September 18, 1925 STATEMENT BY MR. PATTERSON (By S. D. Frissell) The statement issued by General Manager Richard R. Patterson, of the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Asso ciation, in Raleigh this week, as pub lished in the State papers, has stirred the bankers and business men of Eastern North Carolina to a realiza tion of a serious financial condition which, it is widely believed, would have been even more distressing but for the operation this year of the growers’ organization. Reports to association headquarters since Mr. Patterson and a committee of bankers’ experts visited the markets Eastern Carolina indicate that the receipts in strong auction territory have doubled during the past week. The receipts in South Carolina, it is now predicted, will be more than twice what they were in 1924. The associations price level has been main tained in the South Carolina and Eastern belts. Mr. Patterson^s statement: “I have been repeatedly asked since the to bacco markets opened in Eastern North Carolina what the Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association ex pects to do about the distressing con ditions which have followed the below- production-cost prices offered to the growers on the auction floor. “My reply is that the association now 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 canopy of Heaven can do anything about the low prices the growers are now re ceiving. “Two excuses are being offered by the dealers. One is that the Chinese revolution is to blame. The other is that the crop is of poor quality. “It is true that the Chinese boycott has practically forced the Export To bacco Company which usually buys one third or more of the bright leaf tobacco produced in four States off the market. We hope this condition may be only temporary but, the crop in the meantime is leaving the hands of the growers and falling into the hands of dealers. “The association does not want to rtin orderly marketing down the throat of anybody. What it will do depends upon what the business men and other opponents of cooperative marketing, in the past, do now. The association can take the tobacco, re dry it and sell it to the best advan tages of the grower. Unless this course is followed, the tobacco passes from his hands into the hands of dealers who had nothing on earth to do with making the crop and who will have everything to do with the profit in it. “As for the quality of the crop this year: It is far better than the average crop of tobacco I have seen in North Carolina for the past ten years. I believe I am a competent judge. “If I did not know for myself that it is the best crop produced in years, I certainly would have been so per suaded by the statements the dealers made in the newspapers prior to the opening on the markets. NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE “I know that eastern North Caro- ina is suffering from the low prices offered on auction floors. I know that the grower is broke again. They might as well give him ten cents as to give him twelve and fourteen. “The business man, the banker and the professional man in eastern North Carolina can remedy this situation now. It is up to them. When they whole-heartedly wish for better marketing conditions and improved prices, they can get them. “It is a historic fact that when Rome was burning down and the news was carried to Nero he sent back word that it was a case for the fire department. The deplorable, the pathetic condition in eastern North Carolina is a case for the merchant and banker of eastern North Caro lina.” RESULTS SHOW VALUE OF BEAN BEETLE WORK Observations made this summer by J. C. Crawford, field entomologist for the North Carolina Experiment Sta tion show that farmers who followed recommendations in the control of the Mexican Bean Beetle in western North Carolina secured good results, states Prof. Franklin Sherman of the Di vision of Entomology. Mr. Crawford is stationed at the Mountain Branch Station near Swan- nanoa and during the past month has the opportunity of studying the bean beetle situated in several mountain counties. He reports that the beetles appeared in young beans about May 20 this year which was earlier than in 1924. The beetles were more abundant this year than last but those plantings which were poisoned according to recommendations made by the Division of Entomology often outlived and outgrew the early injury by beetles. The dry weather aided in this somewhat as it allowed the poison to remain on the beans for a longer period of time. Some localities at higher altitudes had less damage than in 1924 even though no poisoning was done. The poisons recommended by Mr. Crawford were retested this year with success and many additional prepara- Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a certain mort gage deed executed by H. J. Kinlaw in favor of Knollwood, Incorporated, dated January 22, 1924 and recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds in Book 41 at Page 252; said mortgage having been duly assigned to Pine- hurst, Incorporated with right of fore closure; default having been nnade in the payment of the indebtedness se cured by said mortgage and the powers of sale therein contained hav- mg become operative, the said Pine- hurst, Incorporated will sell at public auction at the Courthouse door in the town of Carthage, N. C., at the hour of noon, on the 24th day of September, 1925, the following described real estate, to-wit: Lying and being in Moor^ County, State aforesaid, in McNeill’s township. Being Lot No. 16, in Block G and 7 as shown on map made by Francis Deaton, North Carolina Registered Engineer, in January 1924. Map filed in the office of Knollwood, Incorporated at Pinehurst, N. C., and in the Register of Deeds office of Moore County. N. C. in Book 92 at Page 608. Said lot having its comers designated and marked with iron pipes PLACE 0^* SALE: Carthage, N. C., Courthouse Door. TIME OF SALE: Hour of noon, September 24, 1925. TERMS OF SALE: Cash. PINEHURST, INCORPORATED Per Johnson & Johnson, Attys. (Sept 25) ^ ■VMM i'" ■ ym .1 I mwrniu the LhhlOLOkO CA^> ALWAYS I^AISE YOUR. REMT^BOrSonETfflES you CAK)T. r. Now is the time to start build ing that new home. Get our Free Plans and learn how you can finance it, nearly as easy as you can pay rent. It won’t cost you anything to investigate. We furnish everything in lumber you’ll need to build a home of your own. Call up the office to day. Pm Interested in: ( ) “Bill Ding” Plan Book ( ) Garages ( ) Easy Payments Name Address Pinehurst Lumber Yards Phone 161 The Lumber nmnber Pinehurst, N. C. tions were tried out in an experimental way. The Mexican Bean Beetle has been in North Carolina only a few years, having spread northward from Ala bama and invading Cherokee County in 1921. Since that time it has spread throughout the mountains and moved eastward to a line through Charlotte, Statesville and Mount Airy. The pest seems to prefer the higher and cooler elevations and it is not known now whether it will invade the great soy bean sections of eastern Carolina. Mr. Crawford also studied a number of other insect pests in the mountain territory this summer and found that most of them could be controlled with the usual poisons recommended. Subscribe to THE PILOT. 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 I Subscribe to THE PILOT. PREACHING SERVICES —OF—. Union, Vass, Lalceview Presbyterian Churches D. McD. Monroe, Pastor Union—11 A. M. 1st and 3rd Sun days. Vass—8 P. M. 2nd; 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. 4th Sundays. Lakeview—8 P. M. 1st; 11 A. M. 2nd, 8 P. M. 3rd Sundays. GET YOUR PRESSING Done With Our Up-to-Dato SANITARY STEAM PRESSER We have a modern Steam Presser in our Pressing and Cleaning Depart* ment, and do the very best work, on ladies’ as well as gentlemen’s clothes. Vass Barber Shop Beasley Building VASS. N. C. Subscribe to The Pilot. THE LITTLE RIVER STORES Vass, Lakeview, Southern Pines Snoe I Some marked changes in shoe styles this fall make it worth while to look into the new arrivals that are coming in every week. Plain Toes and Low Heels and Cubans are some of the features. We will have new selections every few days, and have varieties and stock now that are intresting. OUR WOMEN’S HAT DEPARTMENT Is one of the most satisfying factors in the Little River Stores. We sell more hats than we would have believed possible, and we are continually stocking up on them. A new shipment comes in, but before we know it they have slipped out and a new lot has ar rived, and they seem to make a continued hit. Women’s Hats this fall are unusually attractive, which probably accounts for the large number we are handling. Then the prices are on a legitimate basis, instead of being inflated as hat prices some times are in some places. INCIDENTALLY WE HAVE A LOT OF THAT CREPE Which you will need for Coats BARGAIN COUNTERS FOR SATURDAY From day to day we find certain lines getting broken, and running short and in such shape that we have to replace them with new assortments. To move out the broken lots or the short lines we are establishing a Saturday Bargain counter. Possibly you may not find there what you want, but probably you will strike some thing that will be valuable, and the price is a bargain counter price. Keep this in mind for Saturdays. We want to move all the broken lots.all the time. It is your chance. THINGS TO EAT In the Grocery Department remember we have the things to eat. Our meat department is a thoroughly modern equipment, and it is stocked with real meats of all sorts. Groceries, canned goods, vegetables whenever the farmers have any, and good ones at that, potatoes, cow peas, look ’em over in time for dinner. I THE LITTLE RIVER STORES Vass, Lakeview, Southern Pines fnimiinii iiiiiiiiiiiiiinff^ Friday, At th 20th: Sa * tage at by Rev. Prayer Ives resi At the Sabbath ing by R Praise s meeting p. m. Rev. J. the Bapt 6:30 p. m Rev. R Methodis Rev. a week fro Fort, in “ he preach terian co beautiful Word G. S. Pa able to r few week Mr. an ville, N. Southwor rived in t where th pass on t three hou Petersbur Mrs. T. and Robe her father morning ful summe land, N. Y The sch( lar trips t they are v much comi Mrs. Va some time returned. The gra has begun Baptist ch Mrs. Gm of boarder! hotel is pr new carpel 15, and tl Kittell’s an Born to ] girl. Little H a rattle sna in the cotto the home ( and Mrs. C Little Mi her aunt, week-end i Sabbath sc Neiderer of Mrs. Ho home after ptuxximxm Bi Ori( 75 an-j On it tou\ gain! 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