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THE PILOT
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TfiE PILOT, a Paper With Charactw. Yaaa^ NwUt-CaiioHiia.
A.ugsat 3, 1928.
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THE POSITION OF
SENATOR SIMMONS.
Senator Simmons announces
his resignation from the Demo
cratic National committee, with
out any comment or explanation.
Neither comment nor explana
tion at the present juncture is
highly essential, for the whole
country recognizes that the mo
tives that impel this step are the
signs of a grave situation that
is wider than the bounds of
North Carolina, and Senator
Simmons, having courage to
stand for what he regards as
the right, has, come to the forks
of the road, and he has been
obliged to part from some of his
associates who travel a direction
that does not lead where he
elects to go.
When a man who has been as
long in the public services as
Senator Simmons, and as prom
inently, finds it necessary to
draw new lines that define his
political attitude, something
more than a mere passing note
of the causes are highly import
ant. The Senator is not man
times more coiild be grown and
turned into cash the cash would
look good.
One difficulty in marketing
stuff in the neighborhood seems
to be the cost of distribution.
Many chickens are bought
throughout the Sandhills, and
men who make a business of
bringing numbers at a time and
selling them out appear to do a
business that is satisfactory to
them, while the farmer who
brings in a few at a time is not
so enthusiastic over that source
of obtaining* money. The cost of
distribution seems to be a big
factor in all the marketing the
farmer has to encounter. No sat
isfactory solution of this prob
lem has been offered but it is
not interested in going further
and bringing it into use in add
ing to the social and industrial
activity of the villages.
AN EXAMPLE
OF EFFICIENCY. Imade.
When the name of A. Cam-
to inquire into his ways of deal- make the convention a success,
ing with hi» farm we might The, o|^ei:s have annpunced that
have b^tOT cotton crops and again this year a pennant will ha
more profit on the farms, for presenj^d to the Sunday School hav»
something can be learned by ing in the convention the largest num.
everybody if proper effort is her of representatives, 16 years of
' age and over, according to the num
ber of miles traveled, and from all
eron is mentioned as an illustra-1 ANNUAL COUNTY S. S.
tion of efficiency it may be in- j CONVENTION TO BE
troduced from various points of HELD AT UNION CHURCH
view, but the point in mind at i
the present is the efficiency of j Officers of the Moore County Sun-
the man as a farmer, especially | day School Association announce that | cates from State College last week
in the cotton field. One day last j the Annual County Sunday School for having attended four short cour^
week two men were driving past' Convention will be held on Saturday ses for rural housekeepers.
reports there will be much friendly
competition from Sunday Schools of
the county.
Four farm women received certifi.
one of Mr. Cameron^S cotton i and Sunday, September 1 and 2, with
fields and the long record of ex- the Union Presbyterian church, seven
cellent cotton he has made was 1 miles west of Cameron, N. C.
a subject of discussion. No mat- Outside speakers helping in the
ter what the conditions Mr. Cam- | convention will be Miss Flora Davis,
• J i. u eron has always the cotton crop Raleigh, acting general superintend-
pretty clearly recognized to be a j commands the attention of i ent of the North Carolina Sunday
fact. The consumer pays enou^ j ^j^Qg0 who know his fields. I School Association, and Miss Pattie
for farm products. The prob-1 Jg chance. All the fa- i Lee Coghill, Henderson, director of
lem of the peach man is a furth- ciUtigg for making cotton in his field work in the Sothem District of
er illustration. Orchards are ^re at the command of oth-
hauling out good peaches and gj. farmers, with one exception,
dumping them m the woods now, ^nd that is the man himself. He
while vast numbers of people m j^nows his mutton. When he sets
the State and in other states will | make cotton he has that
not see a peach worth while all | Qf
summer. It is not that we have | tells him how to proceed. He
too many peaches, but that our | makes no halfway attempts but
system of distnbution is inef- addresses himself to the job of
fectiye just as it is witti niost of results from his ground,
our farm products. We do not f^Yie se^ planted, from the
have too many chickens. Poul-, fertilizer used, from the work
try is one of the cheapest and qjj ^jje crop, and in every de
best forms of meat supply if we i ^-^ii he jg alert to what he is af-
could get the chickens to the i ter.
people. The no solu- j ^ every
tion to offer. If it did it oul ; farmer can make cotton like Mr.
grow wealthy worlang out ^at | Cameron, for that is not possi-
solution instead of runmng a jjie any more than every man
country printing office, but in
other Peaces • ^®at leaders, or sing like some
chickens and sell May be ^he prominent musicians, or
ant. The Senator is not k man George Ross could tell us why
of impulses, and he has known I we don't grow more chickens in j «
the Christian church.
Also helping on the program will
be several of the best known Sunday
School workers in the county. The
convention is interdenominational,
and workers from all Sunday Schools
in the county are invited to partici
pate in the work.
In charge of the arrangements for
the convention are F. M. Dwight and
Miss Bessie McCaskill, president and
secretary of the County Sunday School
Association. These officers are re
questing the co-operation of all pas
tors, superintendents and other Sun
day School leaders in the effort to
The Four-H Club Sbort Course will
be held at State College during the
week of July 30 to August 4.
E. L. Winfield, of Pantego in Beau-
fort county, has kept his daughter at
the North Carolina College for Wom
en during the past two sessions with
profits derived from his hog feeding
work.
DR. OLIVE
CHIHOPRACTOR
Southern Pines.
9 to 12 A. M.
IF ITS TOMBSTONE?
OR MONUMENTS
See or Write
D. CARL FRY
Carthage, N.’ C*
for some time the seriousness of
the position he has taken. He
has realized that a crisis con-
skilled mechanics. There is a
this section and get the money _ hu^ian factor always in doing
' any piece of work that requires
fronts not only himself, but alljTpiip mAN WHO intelligence and
of uq for thp forrpq that havp \sMl and some of us do not have
froS’ht him toSefiniL * LAND. I the peculiar attributes that
reach out to embrace the whole It is a mistake, and a grave; make capable farmers. All men
country. This has been no easy. one, to look on the man who buys | are not created equal no matter
thing for Senator Simmons to land in the Sandhills as a source! what Mr. Jeflferaon may say, and
do and were it not that he i<?' of revenue through his purchase, a** nien are not capable of mak-
moved by a profound conviction for while he temporarily gives >ng cotton crops like Mr. Came-
of the righteousness of his iup a little money for what he ron se^s to make every ye^.
course he would never have tak- the transaction has to that all wno plant cotton might
en the position he has, for the extent been of no creative infiu-
man who is actuated by the de- ^ ^^^e. It is what he will do after
sire to be right when to follow buys the land that is the only
what he thinks is right brings’act of significant importance,
him in adverse contact with the ‘ Florida has worked that land
associates of a lifetime under- selling scheme to the unhappy
takes a work that requires cour- and it will be years before
age and fortitude and convic
tion, and the willingness to
Florida recovers from that mis
taken folly.
throw in the fires of the past Say a man buys a piece of
much of the friendly accomplish-1 Sandhill land and pays five thou-
inent and association that he has i sand dollars for it. If it has been
given his life time in building., wisely bought that should mean
But the old warrior never: a development of a home project,
flinches. And it is that courage and that development would
and confidence in the righteous
ness of his cause that warrants
all of us to carefully consider
what he is doing and why. It
takes grave conditions to move
a man like Senator Simmons, and
we may well face this situation
with concern, for it is broader
and deeper than merely tempor
ary politics. It is an epochal
moment in the history of this
country, and its gravity is suffi
cient to make us all think se
riously, without bias and with
the welfare of the State and Na
tion above all other considera-
Mm
tions.
THE FARMER
AND POULTRY.
A Sandhiller rambling around
in the temtory farther north or
in the adjoining counties can not
help but notice the size of the
flocks of chickens on the 'falhns
as compared with the more mod
erate numbers on the farms in
our own section. To be sure
there is a reason why the far
mer of the other community
^ises more poultry, although
iiie Pilot does not know the rea
son, but possibly the man who
does not raise so much cotton
finds some reason for raising
more fowls. But whatever it is
the presumption is tfiat in the
oandhills more chickens might
be msfed with profit. Of course
that may be open for debate, for
the farmer usually knows more
about the profits of his various
lines than the man who watches
him from the other side of the
fence. It is true that many
^ickens are marketed from
Moore County now, but if many
probably indicate the outlay of
fifteen to thirty thousand dol
lars, much of it in the employ
ment of local men, which is cre
ative, and some more of it in the
perpetuation of a permanent
home and the embellishment of
the home creating features of
this section. Such an adventure
has contributed to the continued
attraction of the Sandhills as a
place of residence for still more
people, and the ultimate end
must be the continuation of the
aim of this community, which is
to make here a still more popu
lar and populous and interesting
neighborhood.
When that has been done the
surrounding territory finds in
the home development a market
for an increasing number of
things produced in the vic^nitv,
for this home-making tendency
brings to the immediate «^h-
borhood a sustaining market,
and that market is of far more
value to the community than all
the values from the simple sale
of lands. The more we can bring
Northern consumers to the Sand
hills to use their supplies here in
the neighborhood the less we
need to send away in search of
a market, and the more the mar
gin of pi^fit. By cFeating here
a good group of buyers in
dustry ia established that is de
pendable, a source of much em
ployment of people, and no mar
ket is so good as that which is
at the door. For that reason the
one puai)ose of selling land
should be to add to the popula
tion, b»t not to unload acreage
on some one who merely has
money enough to buy it but is
improve their returns if they
would give more attention to
Mr. Cameron’s methods, for af
ter all the things he does are not
hedged about by any secrets.
He plants and tills and works his
crop in the open where all may
see if they will study what he
does.
And possibly were more folks
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