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Page Four THE PILOT Friday, September 17, 1926. THE PILOT Published every Friday by the PILOT PRINTING COMPANY Vass, North Carolina STACY BREWER, Owner Subscription Rates: One Year - $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Address all communications to The ffMlot Printing Co., Vass, N. C. Advertising Rates on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, N. C.. as second-class mail matter. THE PINEHURST ROAD When the highway commis sioners ordered the rebuilding of the two way road between South ern Pines and Pinehurst they did a good job, for it is doubtful if any other road has so much to do with the prosperity of the Sandhills and the whole of Moore county as that Main street of Pinehurst, Knoll wood Village and Southern Pines. And the reason is because that is the chief connection between the three places, and three places that are the principal industry of this territory. It is prob ably safe to say that a line drawn on either side of that road two miles from the road parall elling the road, and continued two miles beyond the ends of the road would outline strip of terri tory four miles wide and eight of nine miles long that would in clude half or maybe more of the taxable property of this county. It would include probably three- fourths of the travel of the county, and more than half of the productive industry of the county. It would include a great proportion of the prospec tive growth of the county for the immediate future. It would include the chief seat of build ing activity of the county, the greatest amount of fluid capital of the county, and a pretty big share of the potential resources of the county. Few so strictly rural sections of the state can offer such a statement as that region along side the two way road, and few roads have so much depending on them. That road is the real back bone of the community. It is the inlet and the outlet of the Avinter traffic, for while most of the travelers come to the winter resorts on the trains a great pro portion of them move back and forth between the points along that road, and thus the road en ters into their contact with the community. To neglect that highway would quickly have a vitally bad effect on the senti ment of the winter visitors. To make that road a model of easy travel will have an equally force ful influence, and for good. Peo ple who come to the Sandhills for recreation and rest want things attractive and comforta ble. A bad road can do more harm than can be balanced by fifty thousand dollars' worth of energetic advertising. No mat- t<^r what we say of the Sandhills if we meet strangers coming this w^ay with bad roads all that has been said reacts, for it is neces sary to deliver the goods if the advertising is to be effective. Paved streets in Southern Pines, the remodeled Holly Inn and the expanding Carolina at Pine hurst, a new hotel at Knollwood, and all the progress that can be made and all the advantages that can be offered count for nothing if the people who come here stick in the mud on a drive out in the country, and especial ly if that drive happens to be between two of the villages. The revenue that comes to this section through the winter re sorts probably amounts to more than comes from all other sources in the county. That means that the really important thing to consider in the county is the success of these resorts. Not only do the residents of the county profit by the business the resort villages make in the vil lages, but practically a big share of the income of the farm and the mill and the shops of the country comes from the resort villages. And that business is growing faster than any other line of industry. It is the one big thing that we all can unite to push forward, and which will reward everyone by its growing success. The good road will make the business of the resort villages much easier and much more cer tain to stick and expand. The patronage of a winter resort de pends wholly on the attractive ness of the place, and in these days good roads, not merely pretty good ones, but good ones, have a lot to do with that at tractiveness. And that is why the highway commissioners did a good job in ordering the road rebuilt. HOGS AND THE CORN CROP Last week the Little River Stores called attention to the re lative position between the price of hogs and corn. In the spring Richard Tufts laid stress on this situation, advising farmers to provide themselves with hogs to utilize the corn crop. Both these sources of information have spoken wisely, for the sit uation at the present time has not bee parallelled. Hogs are abnormally high. Com is ab normally low. Usually com and hogs maintain a rather def inite ratio toward each other, for it is figured that a definite amount of corn will make a def inite amount of pork, and that if corn is low hogs should go down, and that if com is high pork will be high. As this is written corn in Chicago is worth 75 cents, pork 14 cents. It takes almost nineteen bushels of corn to buy a hundred pounds of pork. The average ratio is about eleven bushels of com to buy a hundred pounds of pork. Pork has not been relatively so high, as far as figures can be ob tained at this writing, probably in the memory of any one, if ever. High corn allowed the hog crop to fall off, but that falling off has advanced the price of pork, and now that corn is abundant, and it appears to be a big crop all over the country, it is a question what it is to be fed to. The man who has hogs now has money in his hands if he will utilize his chance and make use of the hog and the available corn, and it is a mat ter that the Sandhill farmer can give attention to with profit. In this section corn is not so largely a chief unit of hog-feed- ing as in some other parts of the country, and should not be. Yet corn is a highly valuable factor in making pork or beef, either, for that matter. And with the nrospect that hogs will bring more money than at any time for many years the importance of carrying as many hogs as possi ble and filling them constantly with corn, is a farm possibility that deserves watching closely. might be imagined, for no possi ble conception of anything the farmer might do for himself in creating such an extended mar ket can be awakened in any one’s mind. To. make that market what it is the manufacturers have spent millions of dollars in advertising, in factory construc tion, in driving trade into new territory, and in devious ways to find outlets for the increased to bacco crop. It is solely this persistent work on the part of the factories to find further out let for tobacco that gives the farmer any hope that this big crop with its high prices is not a death warrant, for under ordi nary conditions a high price for any big crop is pretty sure evi dence that more farmers will rush into the industry next year and give prices a black eye. That may be the case next year, for high prices always increase the acreage of any crop, and low prices decrease it. But it is possible that the manufacturers are buying for the expanding outlet for their wares, and that next season they will need more leaf than this year. It is ironical that with tobac co showing up so well the co-op eratives are in their unpleasant plight, for it will incline some folks to decry the sincere at tempt the co-operatives made to strengthen the price of tobacco in the leaf. They deserved a better fate than has overtaken them, and had they been able to work better together they might have seei a market even better than it is. But that is one of the results of war. When they entered their fight they faced de feat as well as victory. One thing is worth remember ing while the tobacco money is coming in. The lean days that have preceded the prospective distribution of returns from the crop should leave an impression that money when it is acquired is worth caring for, for another lean period is likely at any time to overtake tobacco as well as every other crop or business. A few dollars plastered tight in the bank is a good thing to contem plate after the dry weather. and Miami, Fla. Steadman Ballard spent Sunday at his home in Lillington. A party from Pinehurst entertain ed at a picnic here in honor of the teachers of Pinehurst high school and the guests of Miss Fannie Grey, Tues day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Woodruff, who are the owners of the new home on the Mineral Springs road, arrived here this week from Greensboro, Ver mont. We hope they will like us here and in that we hope to keep them with us. We welcome them sincere ly. Mrs. C. W. Spears and children, Misses Nora Burch and Ruth McNeill, were Sanford shoppers Tuesday. Jesse Gardner left Wednesday morning for Saluda, N. C., where he will join Mr. Randolph Craig. W. F. Wood, of Sanford, was a visitor here Tuesday. Dunk Morrison and family spent Sunday in Broadway. Miss Johnsye Eastwood, who has entered school at Eureka, spent last week-end at home. L. D. Guins and Steadman Ballard, enjoyed a week at and around Wrightsville Beach, last week. Miss Frances Blue is suffering from an infected foot. We hope she will soon be able to take up her position at the Vass graded school. Miss Grace Gardner is leaving this week for Raleigh, where she will en ter King’s Business college. 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Leam how little it really costs to own a truck on which you will be proud to have your name appear! D. I. ALLRED ABERDEEN, • N. C. Lowest Pticed Geat*shift Ttods tmttm Beautiful Winter Lawns TOBACCO OUTLOOK PROMISING Tobacco is going rapidly into the curing barns, and where it has come out to the market the advance sales lead to the belief that prices are to be good. The basing prices for the types that are going on the floors appears to range around twenty-six cents, which is more than en couraging. If that is to be taken as a guage of the future of the market tobacco is quite sure to be a life-saver. The vield this season is good, and it is reasonable to expect about ^150 an acre for anything like an average crop. The reports are that the con sumption of cigarettes is increas ing about as rapidly now as at any time, and that the present oroduction is around ninety bil lions annually, which is almost three times as much as prior to the war, which gave the ciga rette its great prominence. Where the production of cigar ettes will ultimately go to is any- hodv's sTuess. but the signs are that the limit has by no means been reached yet. The tobacco farmer finds a certain satisfaction in express ing his opinion of the manufac turer of tobacco, but if he would think the matter over for about a minute he would probably con clude that manufacturing con- cems that have broadened a market from thirty to ninety bil- cigarettes in about ten or fifteen years have not been so hard on the tobacco grower as Use Italian Rye Or Pinehurst Special Mixture And n ** n n ti X n xt Fertilizers of Proven Worth Write us for suggestions Pinehurst Warehouses, Inc. 0. H. Stutts, Mgr. Pinehurst, N. C. tt ## :: ^
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