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THE PILOT
September 3, 1926.
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A CLEAR-HEADED
PREACHER
At the meeting of the Amer
ican legion at Hickoty ,a few
days ago the chaplain, a celrgy-
man who had been with the
army in France and knows his
men, talked about the great mis
take made in allowing whisky in
quaintities usually encountered
at conventions. The clergy
man deplored the drunkenness
he saw at the Hickory conven
tion, and urged local posts of the
legion to refuse to elect to the
state convention members who
would not agree to cut out
whisky while in attendaace
there.
If the Legion were the only
convention at which whisky cuts
too much figure it would not be
so bad, but anybody who has
occasion to attend any of the
ordinary gatherings of large
bodies of men, knows that
whisky is too abundant at prac
tically all of them, except, as the
preacher soldier said, that
church conventions are free.
Why a man can go to a church
convention without taking
whisky along and cannot go to
another convention without it is
one of the mild mysteries, but
the answer is probably that the
men who go to church conven
tions are outspoken enough to
refuse to permit whisky at such
meets as those of religious or
ganizations, while at other gath
erings no one seems interested
enough to lead in opposition.
What makes matters worse is
that at some conventions rep
resentatives of business estab
lishments that hope to do some
trade with the delegates appear
at the convention with contra
band liquor in their possession
and pass it along to prospective
customers. This is one of the
worst features of whisky at con
ventions. It is ^ defiance of
law by men who should be broad
enough to carry on their ordi
nary lines of work without boot
legging on a sort of protected
basis, for these same men would
despise to go out in the trade
lanes of bootlegging and traf
fic in liquor. But in fact to
sell their own goods they throw
in whisky, which is no more than
giving it as good measure for
their sales. Men who attend
conventions are as a rule repre
sentative men of the state. They
owe it to their state and people
to show decent respect for the
laws of the state, and to them
selves they owe the task of be
having decently. There is noth
ing funny about violating any
law. Nothing profitable comes
from questionable practices of
any kind at any convention. Dig
nified and lawful procedure at
any gathering is just as fruit
ful of satisfaction as drunken
ness and contempt for law, and
the clergyman at Hickory de
serves much credit for taking
the opportunity to ask the Le
gion to put its foot on any fur
ther course of this sort.
of the land to grow into commer
cial assets.
Frank Buchan not long ago
stated a basic truth when he said
that an acre of land planted to
pine trees is worth more than an
acre planted to peach trees be
cause in the course of a reas
onable time a buyer of an acre
of pine trees will pay for it a
price that is justified by the
acre as a desirable home site,
and a good home acre is worth
more than any other acre in the
Sandhills. Of course every acre
cannot be a pine-clad home site,
but Frank was right on the gen
eral principle that many an acre
that now has little or nothing
on it can be made a highly valu
able piece of ground by planting
it with pines that when it has a
chance to come into market it
will be forested with an attrac
tive grove'of young pines, and on
that account just such a piece
of land as might bring a good
price as a building site.
Yet there is another thing to
be remembered about land with
trees on it. Up at Hemp is an
object lesson. There a modem
mill is making textiles of a ma
terial called rayon, which is an
artificial imitation of silk, and
it is made from the pulp of small
trees. Rayon has already sur
passed real silk in its use for
textiles, and its use is yet only
new. Pulp and similar material,
made from wood of all kinds is
to be a great industry of the fu
ture, not counting paper which
is now already established as a
big industry. Moore county is
not very far now from finding
a market for pulp material in
big quantities, and it is not too
soon to beign the growth of
acres of forest that will be ser
viceable when pulp wood is call
ed for in the days ahead. Al
ready pulp mills are scouring the
country in many sections calling
for pulp wood, and day by day
the quest grows more impera
tive. It is to be a great oppor
tunity for this region. Forest
ed lands will bring profit to their
owners, who can begin now to
improve this chance.
THE CROP
OF FORESTRY
At a recent meeting of the
Kiwanis club Colin Spencer
showed the wide possibilities of
the forest crop of Moore county
as measured from the present
uses of timber products. His
exhibt and his description of
what this section will produce
in lumber was interesting, for it
was the announcement to the
club members that in the unused
acres is a great resource. But
while folks are interested in the
tangible things they can see, and
in timber if it is grown up to
be trees, or if it is likely to grow
up to be trees in a reasonable
THE TOBACCO
FIASCO
It seems that the tobacco co
operative movement has result
ed in a collapse that is a failure.
And it is hard to see where it
might have done anything else,
for it was the victim of several
conditions that could not be rec
ognized at the time they were
influential, and which probably
could not have been modified.
The big difficulty is that the far
mers do not have the organizing
instinct, and will not tie togeth
er and work together. The far
mer is an individualist, and no
doubt will remain so, for he has
never yet shown any real ten
dency to work in mass.
Although that was overcome
to a moderate extent the or
ganization was formed at a time
when high prices for everything
prevailed, and the management
of the association accepted the
high price as the basis for op
eration. High-priced employes,
and high-priced other things
formed the basis of the opera
tion, and these met troubles by
the gradual downward tendency
of prices. That discouraged
the members. Then some of
the doctrines were not sound. It
might as well be understood al
ways that it is impossible to ar
bitrarily fix prices unless the
product is an absolute monopoly,
and even then when prices get
too high the people refuse to
buy, and thus kill high prices.
Promoters of the association
led to the hope of prices that
would kill themselves, for it is an
axiom of industry that high
prices make low prices and low
prices make high prices. High
prices stimulate increased pro
duction, and it is not possible
to limit production of tobacco if
the crop sells for a high figure.
But all these things and others
worked together for the disas
ter that overtook the association,
among the others being the fight
brought against the association
by that type of individuals who
are always ready to fight any
thing that does not walk behind
their banner.
Tobacco is back again where
into the laws that govern indus
try and commerce, and have a
better understanding of general
principles of economic influ
ences. But we start in again un
der the full control of supply and
demand, of quality, quantity and
consumptive demands, and the
market will make the price.
It is unfortunate that the as
sociation could not have made
more of a success, but the
chances are invariably against
anything that involves the har
monious working of a large body
of men where conformity to dis
cipline and law of the organiza
tion is essential to success. Too
many men want to run the ma
chine regardless of their ability
or of its laws, and they invite de
struction from the beginning.
Some mighty capable men tried
to make this thing work, but it
was too big a task, and too much
against it. Few men can see
for enough beyond their noses
to co-operate successfully.
CONCERNING THE
SLAUGHTER
The Pilot has referred recent
ly right frequently to the bloody
record of the state on the high
way, and from week to week
the ghastly record makes it
timely to continue to remark
this shameful pouring out of hu
man life and the long list of in
juries on the roads. This pa
per has no particular notions of
what should be done in the effort
to stop the daily murders and
mutilations, but it does realize
that thorough police enforce
ment of the highway law is one
of the first and most essential
steps. As a people we are al-
jmost without regard for the
I laws of the state, not only as
i applied to the highways, but as
I well as to practically everything
;else. We will not obey laws
because they are founded on the
principle of right toward each
other, and the only way to bring
j about law observance is to put
I teeth in the laws.
Drunkenness, reckless driving,
; speeding and incompetence on
I the part of drivers are four
causes stated by the statisti
cians who investigated the acci
dents as the causes of the great
er proportion of the cases report
ed. A driver's license is one
thing necessary for safety. We
require the doctor* the lawyer.
the dentist, the great number of
men who do anything that in
volves risk to others, to have a
license, and to pass an examina
tion. But the automobile, which
is the most persistent wrecker
of life and property of anything
in the state, is allowed to run
wild without the slightest re
straint or responsibility. There
is the first step necessary to
make the highway safe. Re
quire of every driver a license,
and make accident the subject
of a recall of the licenses. A
dangerous man of the road has
no business to be there, no mat
ter what his argument. He will
not be tolerated on a railroad
train, nor in any other place
where risks are taken by the pa-
Itrons of the industry. Nor
should he be tolerated on the
highhways which are now con
tinued streams of trpeling hu
manity subject to his reckless
ness and incompetency. And to
make travel safe and to keep*
the incompetent or the reckless
driver under control we need a
state highway police.
The detail of that police sys
tem is of small consequence if
we do not fool around and make
it a political bit of cowardice
and emasculate the measure by
destroying the power of the of
ficers and weakening the plain
laws that should govern the
movement. Few requirements
are called for. Simply have a
good force in the hands of a
capable superintendent who has
the authority to enforce the law
and the courage to see that it is
done regardless of who is involv
ed.
That's all. No red tape, no
great number of whereases, re-
solveds, or exemptions, or pro-
videds in the bill. Simply a
brief law and the observation of
it, and a penalty for every viola
tion regardless.
ticed a sentiment that indicates a
southward movement of big dimen
sions for the winter, and in fact al
ready he says the exodus has set
in. Others who have been north tell
of the big movement of travel on the
roads, while the count of tourist cars
moving through the state shows that
a big wave of winter business is shap..
ing up.
One of the encouraging signs is the
good work Virginia has been doing
on the highways, for in places where
construction was going on last year
completed hard top road is the re
sult this fall, and Virginia is no long
er any interference with southbound
traffic. Virginia is getting a road
system that is a credit to herself and
to the entire nation.
The Seaboard is far better equipped
this fall to handle big business than
at previous times, for the automotic
signal system installed a few months
ago moves trains with far less delay
at passing points, and a great deal
more traffic can be moved in twenty-
four hours in that single track zone
between Hamlet and Norlina, which
has always been the difficulty with
the road.
WINTER SIGNS
OF BUSINESS
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titv can make anything:.
Mr. Sledge says the indications are
that Pinehurst and Mid-Pines will
have a good season, and one thing that
stimulates his optimism is that he
was north a short time ago and while
running around up in the land from
which winter business comes he no
Farmers of Wake County who usal
magnesium limestone on their tobac
co find that it has greatly improved
the quality of leaf reports County
Agent John C. Anderson.
NOTICE OF SALE OF DRUG
STORE
Under and by virtue of a DEED OF
ASSIGNMENT executed and deliver,
ed to the undersigned L. B. McKeith-
en, as assignee, by E. L. Ray, trad
ing as Crabtree & Co., on the 19th
day of April, 1926, and recorded in
the office of Register of Deeds of
Moore County in Book No. 99, page
287, the said undersigned L. B. Mc-
Keithen, assignee aforesaid, will, on
Tuesday September 14, 1926, at 12
o’clock, noon, sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, for cash, at
the front door of the Crabtree & Co.
drug store, in Cameron, N. C., Wo
mack & Thomas Building, the follow
ing personal property, to-wit:
Ail and singrular the stock in trade
stock of drugs, drug sundries,
medicines, goods, wares, merchandise,
store fixtures and furniture, soda
fountain, and all other personal prop
erty and effects of every nature and
kind, except books, accounts and
choses in action, now in the store and
place of business of Crabtree & Co.,
in the Womack & Thomas Building, in
Cameron, Moore County, N. C. Said
property will be sold as a whole and
as a going concern.
This August 21, 1926.
L. B. McKEITHEN,
Assignee.
R. L. Burns,
Attorney. 27-3-10 Sept.
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