Fag* Two
THE PILOT, a Paper With I .fcaracter. Aberdeen. North OaroMna
Friday, Febioary 21, 1930.
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT* Incorporated.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor.
BION H. BUTLER. Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
RALPH PAGE
Contributing Editors
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I amount of borrowing money to
make further big crops will do
anything else than make the
farm more deeply and hopelessly
in debt. To live at home is an
absolute necessity, not merely a
precaution, for cash to buy
things the farmers should raise
take anything it would bring.
To plant and work and harvest
inferior cotton costs as much and
takes as much land as to plant
good cotton. North Carolina
makes a big crop of cotton an
nually, and the income from this
crop is one of the large items of
will be hard to secure from the i the industrial life of the state,
sale of crops that may be too ] Good cotton will brmg the best
abundant when the harvest is' price that any cotton will pay,
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THE DANGER OF
OVERPLANTING
Lee county reports that farm-
mers up there are disgusted with
made. The Pilot is an optimist
but it never believed in joy
riding on an empty pocket.
Optimism says go out and get
something in the pocket first.
Chickens, hogs, corn and pota
toes, and things of that sort
made at home are as good as if
we don't have money from cot
ton to buy them with and can't
get them at all, and a full smoke
house can get along with an
empty pocket longer than notes
to pay at the bank can.
but poor cotton will always be a
disappointment. Therefore the
farmer should make sure that
before he puts a seed in the
ground he has chosen the most
productive type of seed that is
to be had. Then if cotton brings
any price he will be in the run
ning, and if the price is bad he
will at least be up with the best
of them.
Robert Stuart illustrated this
in the sale of cotton from his gin
last fall. The cotton from the
better type of seed that he had
of the deepest of human passions, tha
passion for yniformity, which has
been responsible for nearly all the rev
olutions and all of the religious wars
of history. Like any other animal in-
a survival value for the race, but
so have the instincts of ants, foir that
matter, and even the instincts of the
cochroach, most uniform insects, who
has survived unchanged for two hun-
stinct, the passion for uniformity has j dred thousand years.
THOSE CELLULOID STOVE LIDS
perts have been discussing the
cotton situation in the state, and
cotton and will plant more large- reconimendation is that far-
FOR PLANTING i been distributing in his neigh-
BETTER COTTON I borhood brought a cent or more
A group of agricultural ex- on the pound higher figure than
ly of tobaccco this season. In
York county. South Carolina, the
reports indicate the same thing.
Many farmers seem to figure
that diversification means giv
ing up a proportion of one crop
to turn to another. It is not
realized that practically all crops
are in the same predicament, and
that no single thing offers a new
field that is not already in
tensively farmed. A review from
the Federal Department of Agri
culture warns the farmers that
the probability of great returns
from any crop beyond the yield
and prices of the past few years i
do not seem likely. The situation I
seems to be that big yields have i
supplied in most cases as much j
as the demand could care for, and |
in many cases the production of
crops in the old world is increas- ^
ing. The American domination |
of the cotton crop has been lost. I
We no longer grow the big pro-!
portion of cotton we once pro-1
duced, and the old world is j
mers confine themselves to a
better type of cotton, and to a
much of the average gin run of
seed, and two or three cents
more than some of the inferior
stuff that was offered.
The time to select seed for
To The Editors:
You have been kind enough to give
publicity to my offer of a set of Cel
luloid Stove Lids for the best name
for the new social and golfing club.
This offer has aioused much raucous
jeering along Broad street, principal
ly because your reader’s doubted my
ability to make good on the prize.
Sir, the club has adopted a name.
The “Sand Pipers” have be^'n launch
ed in an enthussiastic manner. Mrs.
DeRees of the Hollywood, is the au
thor of this name and to her goes the
prize.
To prove the depth of my sincerity
and to silence these doubters, I am
today writing Mrs. DeRees that if
she will make her own selection (I
suit for grownup men; nor is it any
way to solve a problem.
There are a good many respected
and self-respecting citizens of Moore
County who agree "with me, and a
good many who don’t, and now is a
good time for them to say what they
think, as they will realize if they
have been following what has been
going on in Washington and numer
ous other parts of the country. Nor
need they have any fear. The time
has passed when a man need fear in
jury in any respect because he ex-
j pressed the truth as he sees it about
I this question.
And remember I am not talking
i sbout Prohibition, pro or con, as a
! theory; I am talknig about its prac-
I tical application as you see it all
I about you, here, there and every-
I where. In short, I am talking about
“The Advance of Prohibition” a?
the proposal as they had a majority
of votes in the committee.
If there is an avowed candidate
for North Carolina’s votes at the next
Democratic National Convention this
far in advance I am not aware of
it. Therefore, it appears to me an ex
cellent time to start a movement to
secure a Presidential preferential pri
mary for the 1932 Presidential year.
It is to be hoped that the many
candidates for the State Senate and
House of Representatives will not seek
to dodge and minimize the Presiden-
tial primary issue. A large majority
of the voters favor the primary so
let it be taken for granted that the
candidates who refuse to commit
themselves for or against the Pres
idential primary are its foes and I be
lieve that the next General Assembly
win enact the much needed Presiden
tial . preferential primary.
PENCIL.
SAVE THE PRIMARY
decidedly few varieties. It has! the coming crop is about here, i" The Pilot. Do you think it’.
been well known that the cotton | for spring days run around fast,
of this state has been deterior- The farmer who has not already
ating, both in type of cotton and secured a good type of seed can
in length of staple. To little at- get what he wants from some of
tention has been paid to what, the men who make a practice of
the mills will buy and pay a fair selecting their seed at the gin
price for, and the result is that from the best cotton that is pro-
the crop has been received in the' (luced, and nothing will add more
markets with reluctance bv the to the success of the cotton crop
buyers, and far too much of it than in making that seed certain
has been off grades that had to right now.
chants) of the best and most expensive , . • ^
Celluloid Stove Lids to be found, and | ^ ii ^
render me a receipted bill for the ^
T ‘11 1.1 1 1 1 ' —b 1KU1 xirLKo
same, I will promptly hand her a cer- |
BURT.
rified
bill.
BY WALTER GILKYSON
F'ascism for .A.merica
Being the 11th of a Series of Aiticle? written for The Pilot by Sandhills
Authors.
check for the amount of the
—THE “SAND PIPERS”
John W. Bloxham, Sec.
REARING BOYS
Southern Pines,
Feb. 21, 1930.
THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
Every now and then I encounter a
beetle-browed corpulent gentleman
with wide respouv'sibilities and small
imagination, and even less political
gaining on our production. We j ^^ense, who tells me that “what this
are not holding our markets for country needs is a Mussolini!’’
the same big export trade in
corn and corn products that was
once our good fortune, and the
tobacco situation is not so good
as it has been at times. Other
countries are learning to use
American machinery and to
grow’ bigger crops, and our
foreign market will have to be
held henceforth by tactics that
will bring customers our way
in the face of keen competition, j
Capt. Nathan O’Berry, state
treasurer, says North Carolina
has been joy riding and must
take time to cool down a little.
He might add of course that the
whole country has been joy
riding, for that is the case, and
we have the bills yet to pay for I
I have lived for two years in a coun
try that needs a Mussolini, and has
one. While admirable in its way, that
country is different from the United
States. Instead of being old it is ex
tremely young, so young that it still
believes in Santa Claus, and likes to
be told what a big boy it is, and even
°njoys being frightened now and then.
All of which is quite proper, and, I
i -uppose, a by no means unsatisfactory
way of bringing up a political child.
But unlike Italy the United States
is not a political child, and to take
a big sprawling noisy youth and
thiust him back into the crib would
be absurd. It would only break down
monsters, intolerable to the rest of
the world and extremely uncomforta
ble to ourselves.
It couldn’t happen; the American is
not by nature theatiical, and he has a
keen sense of ridicule. After a snell
of hysteria he grins and puts I’is ton-
']'o The Pilot:
I note V ith great interest a re-
c(-nt article in your publication rela
tive to the rearing of boys of today,
which subject is very dear to my
heait as I am the possessor of a boy
myself, to whom I expect to devote
mv energy and best skill to ap;?ly the
principles laid down.
It goes without saying that it is
the mother who molds the character
and destiny of the child as to the ex
teriors, therefore I believe that calm
ness, peace, affection and firmness
should rule her conduct toward her
children. It is generally known that
Jiildren are great imitators, and
To The Editor:
The approaching Dimocratic pri
mary to be held June 7th will be the
last opportunity for the Democrats to
ihoose their nominees for the Gener
al Assembly which will convene the
fust of Ja'uary, 1931. That will be
To The Pilot:
I regret very much to see your pro
gressive and independent thought and
paper committed to the proposition of
asking any man to retire from a pri
mary fight.
The primary in North Carolina was
inaugurated by the democratic party.
Your distinguished townsman, Henry
A. Page, when representing Moore
county in the Legislature, wrote sev
eral parts of the bill that was enacted.
It is the only institution within our
state through which you can collect
and catalogue the temper of our polit
ical ideals.
We do not need less but rather more
primaries. Had we had a state legal
ized presidential primary two years
ago, our democratic organization in
North Carolina would have been sav
ed much embarrassment.
In our little county primary scuf
fles many have predicted that the
heat would follow into the election.
the last meetin^-? of the General As
sembly prior to the 1932 piesidential j And when Kitchen defeated Craig af-
campaign. Therefore, I believe it to] ter a convention fight that lasted days
be altogether fitting and p’oper to and nights, some thought we would be
deman'" of the canc’idate for the Sen-, defeated in the fall election. When
ate an:’ for the House of Represen-, Simmons dared to oppose an old Con-
tatives their approval or disapprov- j federate soldier, Carr, many thought
al of a Piesidential preferential pri
mary to be held the same day that the
geneial primary is held.
Now is the time for the people to
we were ruined, especially the repub
licans hoped so.
Then when Bob Page defeated Blair
in the Monroe congressional conven-
2ue in his cheek. He’s not much for ^vhether they have scoldings or peace i law-making assembly at Raleigh who
the outward forms of greatne>«; his |}.gy learn from the ex-i not favor letting the rank and
political history began with a sly si^c-1 before them. This does not! the voters have a say in se-
long glance at kings. Too much fuss ; however, relieve the father of his • Meeting the candidate for whom North
always makes him tired; what h« real-j in the responsibilities of rear-! Carolina’s delegates shall vote. There
ly wants is to make some money and j ^ Tvionir > i« in«t. as mnrh r.ppd nf a Prpsirlpn-
be let alone. The state can take ca>'e !
of itself, so long as it doesn’t take \
resolve not to send anyone to our | tion by one-half vote and went to
Congress on it, the republicans said
care of him.
The coipulent beetle-browed gentle
man is therefore wrong when he says
that “what this country needs is a
Mussolini r”^ Wrong from every stand-
;~oint: political, social, economic and
spirituaL
Politically, the essential value of
America lies in her democracy; in her
ing a child, for many men tremble | i^st as much need of a Presiden
as- they cross the threshold of the! ^ial preferential primary as there is
duty and responsibility that becomes i having a primary to name our
theirs. | governor and other officials.
To my mind there is nothing quite | Duiing the spring of 1928 when the
Hull and Smith forces were at war
so valuable for the mechanically in
clined boy as the home workshop
I which enables him to turn leisure ' ’*c*tes for their respectively candidates.
the damn democrats were like two
lawyers that they never meant any
thing they said about each other.
The republicans never did like this
democratic primary because so many
of their best men and women would
participate in some division of it and
being honorable would support the
nominee. And when we got really
“worked up” and hit the second heat
hours into work which developes the
mir.d, strengthens the muscles and
aids generally in the making of a
trying to win North Carolina’s 24 j of the Morrison-Gardner-Page pri
mary for Governor and Henry Page
Zeb Vance said some thing's in the school house
Democratic that could not have been repeated at
the Hull forces led by
Turlington asked the
State Executive committee to meet ; chapel exercises; and Union Spence
the crib. 1 hrave attempt to begin with the in-
Fascism, in spite of its philosophical ! dividual, anti never lose sight of
better boy which is sure to have a de- i ^or the purpose of having a Presiden-
cided effect upon him at manhood.
Children hunger perpetually for new
much of the rides. Until we have' ^^s garment of shining | him, notwithstanding the folds of
paid our bills, and set our houses * ^ system of govem-
in order it is going to be im-1 encouragement. It is
possible to hold the clip we have ^ ^ greatest
been going. No doubt the farm | Europe. There are times
is hit harder than anv other'
industry, for the farni has no ^ ^
power of organizanizing its pro
duction and marketing on a basis
that controls either. The farm
does not know this year what to
plant nor how much to plant any
more than it ever did, and that
was nothing at all.
The workl will take a certain
amount of things and pay a price
for them. It will not take anyj
more, and the higher the price
the more of those things will be
raised. But big crops make low
prices, just as is the case with
everything, and when the farmer
makes big crops they fire on
hand to slaughter the market
until they are sold. This is best
illustrated in the Brazillian cof
fee crop. Tne Brazillians deter
mined to hold their coffee to
compel high prices, and the thing
v/orked. High prices induced in
creased planting until at the
present Brazil is making about
twice as much coffee as the
world calls for, and the price has
gone to the bottom. If Brazil
should not harvest a pound of
coffee this year probably the
market would be supplied from
what is in storage. The rubber
crop is in similar fix. Tires have
gone down from tw^enty dollars
to five or six, and rubber is
piling up. Cotton, tobacco, corn,
and other crops will not sell
for high prices until the
world supply has lessened, and
the warning comes now that
butter has swamped the market,
and farmers are advised not to
go very far into dairying until
the sky clears.
It is unfortunate that no
remedy is offered, but the fact
IS that the only hope is in the
reduction of production, to bal
ance the world needs, and no
k-eps them together on the road. If
vve’ve had a bad time we need praise,
even if we have to administer it our
selves. And for centuiies Italy has
bad a bad time, caused by foreign
masters, by the separate life of her
"uchies and kingdoms, and by an al-
government which may be laid upon
his defenseless head. But fascism
'oesr/t consider the individual at all.
He exists for the state instead of the
state existing for him.
As a social unit—the individual in
his daily habit of life—the good Fas
cist must be prepared to su'^cnder
everything to the state. It is the
followe'd in the court house with some
bombastic language, the prophets de
clared we were in the worst shape
ever.
I submit to you that the democratic
party has always been strengthened
state that tells him where he shall
iive, whom he shall employ, and how I answer their many questions,
many children he ought to have. To j they proceed from an implanted
be sure it doesn't prescribe his drink, I t^'Culty which every true man should
tial preferential primary on June 5,
the same day the general primary for
ideas, they will learn with pleasure | the purpose of giving the rank and
from the lips of parents what they! of the Democrats a chance to
deem drudgery to leain from books, j’^^i^ter their choice for President,
and even if they are deprived of the _ Dennis G. Brummitt, Attomey-Gen-1 by a scrap within its own ranks and
many educational -advaintages they I eral and their chairman of the Dem- | I hope that you will not attempt to
will grow up to be intelligent if they | c-cratic State Executive committee | sacrifice principles for pensonali-
enjoy in childhood the privilege of ^ Promptly issued a call for the com-i ties. Support Simmons or Bailey or a
listening to the conversation of in-i mittee to meet in Raleigh. The meet-1 third man if you will, but forever de-
telligent people. Let them have many, ing wa« held and the Smith crowd ! fend the selection of party leaders by
opportunities of learning in this way,! realizing that the Democracy of North
and don’t think it below your dig- Carolina was strongly against their
srdir’ate overwhelmingly defeated
the individual ballot.
Sincerely yours,
GEO. R. ROSS.
iiost heaven-born distaste on the part I but that is our own misfortune and i ^ delight in gratifying.
^f the individual for any form of re-
tiaint. As a consequence those who
like the Italians believe in P^'ascism
for Italy, and are delighted to see
them learning the art of becoming a
nation, even if it costs sometning in
the way of laughter and a readiness
"o catch pennies in a hat; whiic those
who don’t really like the Italians are
^•o'ry—they miss the old Italy of
Italy’s advantage. i ^ ■ RAYMOND JOHNSON.
Considered as an economic svstem i N. C.
GRAINS OF' SAND
nothing could be worse for a highly i
i dustrialized country than Fascism.’
The blunt hand of the state destroys
rather than restores the fine tissues
of busines and finance. Where indus
trial organization is relatively sim
ple, as in Italy, the state’s irterfer-
ence with the economic life of the
ADVANCING?
■ This is about the time of the year
' when the prophet of sorrow takes in
his sign before the March crowds
The Pilot: i The w^ay people are
I like Bion Butlei- and I admire hirni ’’'J,'"® Sandhills these days
-leatly. In most respects I think him old-time circus days,
an exceedingly wise man. I also like!
noonlight and mandolins and African | country is not so dangerous. By na-
manners. j Italians are an agricultural
Blit the American has never been I race; in all that has to do with the
(rieatly given to singing with instru-!growing earth their genius is supreme,
If Lord Cornwallis could come back
... ^nd see the red coats riding these hills
Nelson Hyde and admire him great-;, ^'^^akens the | he would suspect that perhaps some
The chain store seems to have start
ed something that will attract as much
attention as the Bailey-Simmons cam
paign.
ments at night; possibly'not enough
given to such a light and harmless
amusement. The American isn’t in
need of governmental ei’^couragement,
nor any loud shouting to keep him at
v/ork and develop his dignity. He
works hard enough as it is and he ob
jects to having his dignity over devel
oped. He likes to sit around in his
mental shirt-sleeves and criticise
everything, including himself.
Imagine what the United States
would be like if w’e were told con-
■^tantly by the newspapers that we
were the greatest people on earth!
We might come to assert the belief
publicly instead of keeping it decent
ly out of sight. Imagine our state of
mind if we were never allowed to
forget for one moment the supreme
fact 6f our immortal destiny! As it
is we have quite enough self-confi
dence, based on good fortune and our
incredible economic success. If we
had more, if we were obliged to or
ganize nationaUy into a sort of Los
Angeles Boosters’ Club, we’d become
and the growing earth, provided it
isn’t neglected, seems singularly un
conscious of the people on it. But
industry, conceived in a region very
far from the soil, is always aware of
its creators. Its delicate complica
tions change with each chango in the
national habit of thought. As a sys
tem our industrialism rests upon
science and upon individual freedom,
and Fascism is neither scientific nor
free.
And spiritually what could America
gain from Fascism? Would the Amer
ican character grow or diminish by a
still further subordination of the in
dividual to the state, by a still wider
uniformity of habit and thought? Al
ready we have too many sumptuary
laws, and are too often coerced by hot
eyed fanatics into beliefs which are
not our own, and into a furtive and
rather shame-faced enjoyment of our
natural rights. And this, not to meet
an emergency, not to prevent bolshe
vism, not to weld a dis.parate people
into a whole, but merely to indulge one
Iv. I think between them these two |
men are running about as good a I
weekly paper as I have ever seen.!
Therefore it is with the more aston-1
ishment that I pick up The Pilot and |
read such an editorial as the one of i
last week headed, “The Advance of
Prohibition.
What in the world does The Pilot
mean? Do its readers aoctually think
Prohibition is advancing, or that
there is even ten per cent of enforce
ment? If they do, then they can’t
lead any other paper except The Pi
lot and they can’t move very freely
about the country. They can’t even
move very freely about Aberdeen,
Carthage, Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst. But this is uribelieveable, so
just what do they mean?
In the name of heaven let’s have
some common sense about this situa
tion, and if we can’t say something
sensible, then let’s not say anything.
In the words of Mr. Cleveland we
are facing a condition, not a theory.
Even the confirmed Prohibitionists
are beginning to admit that. Mr.
Hoover admitted it long ago. This
’^ilaying ostrich may be good fun for
children but it is an undignified pur-
hope that the coal and light bills have, one els*? had put over over this con
done their woist for a while. ; try a job he could not accomplish.
Optimists Are In the Lead
Fiom w'hat can be gathered con- horses is far ahead of anything in
cerning the coming spring season a the past.
general air of optimism seems spread- Builders tell of plans under dis
ing oyer the Sandhills. W’’hile always ' cussion, and improvement of iniral
the lions in the way are apparent properties are on significant scale,
to many of the Faintheart family, with more under discussion. The Wat-
talks with people in different lines in- son development is probably the most
dicate a determination to dig in and pronounced just now, but the improve-
attempt to make 1930 a year of sue-j ments at the Reed place, at the
cesses. Some of the cotton farmers Drowning creek farms of Mossgie.
are planning an aggressive summer, and Eldridge Johnson the Almet Jenk
V/ith better seed, more energetic op- new home out near Healy’s, and th
eration, closer economies and a more expansion at the Paddock have al’
definite intent to win by making a shown a decided influence,
crop that will cost less and invite ( Patching together the gossip ar ’
more returns by a better quality of
lint. Some of the bigger business in
terests note better collections and an
increased volume of business. The re
sort business appears to be running
close to a record again, but it will
the facts that have already product"
tangible evidence by activ'e comm -
cement of operation, shows a bo] -
ful outlook for the balance of th
spring and summer. From cn=
newspaper estimates the opt-n
a/'
at least not fall far below the high
est record ever made if it is not a rec- have the vote, and
crd breaker again. On the tracks and’ Parent sentiment is one of
in the hunt clubs the number of dence.