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Two. rHE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, September 13, 1929 The Cigarette Age Per Capita Consumption is 856 a Year, or 43 Packages for Each Inhabitant The per capita consumption of cigarettes in the United States last year was 856, or almost 43 packs of 20 cigarettes each for every inhabi tant, the Commerce Department re vealed. The total compares with a per capita consumption <of 820 in 1927. Total consumption for the year amounted to 102,765,000,000, by far the greatest of any country in the world, although Cuba, according to unofficial estimates, still holds the record per capita with 1,432. The United Kingdom is believed to rank next to the United States, its factories consuming 138,150,127 pounds of tobacco for all purposes in 1927, as against 290,464,000 pounds for the United States. In Germany and Japan the annual consumption of cigarettes amounted to 32,000,000,000 and 28,000,000,000, respectively, and in Czechoslovakia and Italy each about 1,000,000,000. Farmer s 20-Cent Pound o£ Tobacco Reaches Ultimate Consumer at $2.00 Pound When Various Taxes Have Been Added to Man ufacturing and Marketing Costs, Price Bears Little Resemblance to Grower’s Return SELLS ABOUT 10 TIMES FIRST COST SPEND $63,000 IMPROVING STATE FAIR GROUNDS By Bion H. Butler So much has been said about the price of tobacco, and the cut the to bacco manufacturers take, and the various other things that enter into the cost of getting the crop from the farmer to the consumer that I have been asking folks some impudent questions about their affairs, and looking up some figures here and there and here are some of the an swers I get. North Carolina bright leaf tobacco is looked upon as a cigarette tobacco and some of it is. Some is used for plug manufacture, some for wrappers and WE KNOW HOW PARTICULAR YOU ARE ABOUT PILLOWS But send one or two along in your next bundle and see how clean and downy they come back. We wash them in their ticks—under special sunlight drying methods that preserve their lovely appearance. The price is only $1.00 per pair, a service fee that many women are gladly pay ing to be freed from this toil and worry. You, too, will appreciate the service of our courteous driver. Curtains and Drapes Too— are laundered here by the most improved methods. We first measure your curtains. Then we wash them and put them on stretchers set to the original size of the curtains. They are returned to you fresh, clean and un shrunk. THE F"AMIL.Y LAUNDRY Southern Pines, North Carolina The Woman of Today Lets Modern Science Do the Lo- bor of the Woman of Yesterday. ♦♦ n n n ♦♦ n H ti ♦♦ ♦♦ n ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ tt ♦♦ ♦♦ n tt It tt SP£ SOAP PRODUCTS This Certificate good for / Get Your Premiums at HOUSE Abierdeen Coupons Read Carefully Coupon saving is easy. There are six Octagon Soap Prod ucts, each of which has a premium cou pon. Every tinie you need soap of aay kind, simply ask your deal er for "Octagon." Before you know it you’ll have a lot of coupons — besides the enjoyment of using the best of soaps, ^gin your coupon savlag today. FREEMAN'S FURNITURE Furniture—Stoveg—Radio—Records Thu special offer is for a limited time only. ■iHiniMIMllMlliiliJ SCRUBS scmi»i I COUPOM BUY FOR OU/ILITY SAVE FOR PREI%1ltJIV1$ some for pipe smoking, but as this state is a cigarette state, and our product is almost exclusively bright leaf the best I could do in the way of information is to deal with cig arettes and to base the information gathered on cigarettes, even though it may not apply entirely. The crop last year totaled 484,000,- 000 pounds of leaf, and sold for an average over the state of about 19 cents, bringing almost a hundred mil lion dollars. The year before it sold for slightly less, for while the crop was smaller the price was a little larger. So I will use the figures of a hundred million dollars as that is an easy unit from which to work. The average price of all leaf sold in the state for the two years is just above 20 cents, so for ease of figuring we may say the crop of the two seasons was passed along to the buyers for that price. It is near enough for the deductions to be drawn. Twenty cents | a pound is not a hard figure to keep j in mind. ' ( Marketing Costs | Cigarettes sell in the market in this j community for twelve and a half to 1 fifteen cents a package for the ordi- | nary types, depending on where you i buy them. The package has marked | on its cover ten ounces as the net weight of the contents. That means that a pound which is sixteen ounces sells in cigarettes for from $1.92 to j $2.40, or from nine and a half to j twelve times as much as is paid the j farmer for growing the crop and de- | livering it to the warehouse floors, j Dealers in tobacco say they pay $1.08 | to $1.14 for ten packages of ciga-1 rettes, depending on the method of | buying, which means the profit runs j from 11 cents to 36 cents on the pound | of tobacco, depending also on how; the stock is bought and how it is ' sold. I don’t know much about buying and selling goods but a margin of 11 cents on $1.08 or $1.14 does not look very big to me. The higher fig ure of 36 cents may sound more al luring to the retailer. But he has to pay license taxes on selling tobacco, and it seems that pretty nearly every time anybody having anything to do with tobacco turns around he has to pay a special tax of some sort. There I reached the end of my string as far as reliable figures are concerned for I have no contact with jobbers and distributors of manufac tured tobacco, and they want a prof it, and have taxes to pay on handling tobacco. Then comes the freight rates, and the distribution costs all along the line. Then we get to the factory. It is assumed that the to bacco factories earn enormous for tunes. Probably they do right well. 1 do not follow the industrial figures, but I notice that American Tobacco stocks sell around $200.00 and pay eight per cent on a par of $100, or four per cent on the investment. The Reynolds company sells for about $60, with a dividend rate of $2.40. These stocks can be bought by anybody who wants to share in the gains of the companies. I am not recommending the purchase of stocks in anything. Stocks are much like the Duke of York, who with ten thousand men, marched up the hill and then march ed down again. License Taxes The tobacco companies pay big li cense taxes to the state. The rates for making cigarettes is from $70 up to $75,000. Every dealer is taxed from five to ten dollars. Warehouses pay from $25 to $500. And thin comss your good Uncle Sam who takes away a couple of hundred million dol lars from the North Carolina manu facturers of tobacco, and by the time all the tax is paid the pound of tobac-1 CO that the farmer sold for twenty j cents a pound has a bill piled up on it | that makes it look as if frogeye had hit it early in the season and stayed with it all through the year and into the curing barn. Afer all is said about the manufac turers I suspect that both manufac turer and farmer as well as the deal ers in tobacco, wholesale and retail, have little occasion to quarrel with each other. It looks to me as if they ought to get together and hunt out that common burden of taxation, which takes such a tremendous toll of the crop from the time it has been harvested until it has passed into the hands of the final consumer. Any in dustry in which the taxes are sever al times higher than the first cost of the product necessarily bears with in sufferable severity on the producer. The gang of convicts which has been engaged in top soiling the State Fair grounds, and sowing grass in prepar ation for the crowds which are ex pected there from October 14 to 19, has now begun putting the race track in condition for the five-day program of horse racing from Monday through Friday of fair week. Over 100 horses are already enter ed in the races, and the purses will total $7,200, $400 more than Hast year purses. Because of the better condition of the track, better records i are expected to be made than were | made last year. The work on the fair grounds in cluded grading, laying drainage tile and covering the entire grounds with a four inch layer of rock crushing, sand, top soil and gravel. Over $63,- 000 has been spent (putting the grounds in condition. W. C. ROUNTREE, M. D. If you have these s^ymptoms and have taken all kinds of medicine and still sick, I especially want you to write for my booklet. Mrs. J. D. Collett, Route No. 4, High Poin^N. C., whose picture appears here, writes: ^During the winter of 1927-28 I took your treatments, and lam glad to say that my family doctor says I have no symptoms now. I look, feel, and am a different person altogether. I cannot thank you and your medicine enough”. FOR FREE DIAGNOSIS AND LITERATURE WRITE; W. C. Rountree, M. D., Austin, Texas. If you have any of the following symptoms I have the remedy no matter what your trouble has been diagnosed: Nervousness, stomach trouile, loss of weight, loss of sleep, sore moiith, pains in^ the back and shoulders, peculiar swimming in the head frothy like Ehlegm in throat, passing mucous from the owcls, especially after taking purgative, bum- ing feet, brown, rough or yellow skin, burning or itching skin, rash on the hands, face and arms resembling sunburn, habitual constipation, (sometimes alternating with diarrhoea) copper or metallic taste, skin sensative to sunheat, forget fulness, despondency and thoughts that you might lose your mind, gums a fiery red and faliini' away from the teeth, general weakness with loss of energy. MRS. h D. COLLETT H :: Save on the Budget Plan— H Ask any man who has made a financial suc cess in life how he accomplished it. His answer will be, ‘‘By Saving.” He did not spend every cent he made, but built up a fund which was available when he needed it for different purposes. He is no different than you, except that you must learn the saving habit. Save on the budget plan—a certain amount each week going into your savings account. You will be surprised how it will grow and earn more money for you. Interest 4 per cent, compounded quarterly. 'The Bank of U :: It tt ♦♦ tt tt H s Vass, N. C COPELAND ELECTRIC Refrigerators We have in stock two Copeland Electric Refrigerators, used but in g-ood condition, and one ' rand new one. These are offered at substantial reductions, and ws guarantee their mechanical con dition. The new one is a nine-cubic foot size. The corresponding size in a new Frigidaire sells for about $425. We offer this NEW Copeland at $300 tt One of the used Copelands is a five cubic foot refrigerator. It cost $195 new. 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