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Page Four ' — Purest FOOD at Lowest Prices With complete assurance that the Foods bought here are of first quality you’ll get further appreciation from the fact that the prices are right, too. SANITARY.CASH MARKET Aberdeen, South Street E. B. Maynard, Mgr. THE PILOT, a Paper With Charact^n Aberdeen^^orthggg^ Friday, January 23. Tobacco Co-operative Association Fast Rounding Into Shape Aim^and Policy of New Move ment Are Set Forth by Editor Butler ‘ P^fser^- CD»r^ JUST / PHOINE 6101 Southern Pines H The Family Laundry m«»ttnnnnn««nn««nn::n:«nnnt««n«tnmj CLEARANCE SALE Continues Only 8 More Days, Ends January 31st WILUAMS-BELK COMPANY Across the Street from old stand on Steele Street Sanford, N. C. In the New Store In the New Store XI I I! I Trade Days Beginning Saturday, January 24th, and continuing through the Spring Season, farmers and livestock own ers are invited to meet at Vass for the purpose of buy ing, selling or more evenly matching their teams. Trade Days last year were very beneficial to many farmers in more evenly matching their teams. Bring your livestock and meet with us. You will find a complete stock of fertilizers at our stores for the plant bed. LITTLE RIVER STORE COMPANY Vass', N. C. AA AA A.AA A A. AA AAAAAAAAA AAAA A A A A, A A A. A. A. A ANNOUNCEMENT Mr. Clyde Collier, repre senting’ Schloss Brothers & Company, will hold a tailoring opening with us January 26th and 27th (Monday and Tuesday). Now is the time to picl- / out that new spring suit. 0. B. FLINCHUM & SONS Aberdeen L\ t II XX By Bion H. Butler The appointment of J. R. Page to head the new cooperative tobacco movement in the state awakened the confidence of the farmers right gen erally, for Mr. Page is a business man, and with his business experience, and the experience which the old co operative association afforded the to bacco grower, it is the otpinion now that the new association has a decid ed chance to be of great use to agri culture generally. Not only the to bacco grower, but the grower of everything else will see a road to better conditions if the new tobacco organization can improve tobacco con ditions. Here are some of the things the organization hopes to do: Insure Better Handling. The co-op erative system of haiT31ing provides for careful and quick handling of to bacco from the farHier to the factory or re-drying plant, without damage due to being walked on or “hashed out” on warehouse floors—often the case under the present auction sys tem. Insure Fair Grading. Tobacco will be bought and sold strictly on basis of quality. Each grower will get the same price for the same grade of to bacco. Impartial, certified Federal graders will carefully inspect and grade each pile of tobacco under un iform light and conditions, according to the standard system of grades set up by the Federal Government and adopted by the association. Fit Production to Consumption. The associations can through their connec tion with the Federal Farm Board and other agricultural a^encie^ procure information as to world’s supply and needs, and can then advise the mem bership to increase or decrease acre age in order to fit production to con sumption. Secure Collective Bargaining Pow er. The associations will be able to sell tobacco to a better advantage than the individual, due to control of large volume of tobacco, a knowledge of grade values in keeping with world needs and concentrated manage ment and sale. This principle holds good in any business enterprise. Make Law of Supply and Demand Work. Mr. Jas. C. Stone, of the Fed eral Farm Board, says that “the most important thing in marketing farm products is to regulate the time, man ner and place of feeding the supply to the demand so that the producer will get a fair price under existing conditions. This co-operative market ing can do.” Will Stabilize Seasonal Prices. The associations will equalize prices on all grades of tobacco over the entire marketing period. This will enable the farmers to do outdoor fall work while the weather is open, instead of rushing tobacco to market before a drop in price. Tobacco can be prepar ed and sold in winter months at a big saving of time. It will help, too, to remedy the glut or block sale iprob- le^. Reduce Cost of Selling. By doing a big volume business and by the elim ination of buyers and others who are unnecessary in handling tobacco co operatively, overhead expenses can be cut and the membership will benefit by such savings. Minimize Speculation. Speculators, or those who buy tobacco only for re sale, performing no marketing service, would be eliminated by the associa tion’s method of handling tobacco, since most tobacco would be sold di rect to the companies. The profit that now goes to these men would then go to the grower under the co-opera tive marketing system. Provide Production Credit. The as sociations may set up subsidiary cred it organizations through which credit for production purposes can be ex tended to responsible members of tha marketing organization. This type of credit would mean much to the far mers of North Carolina on account of its low interest rate. Some things that must not be ex pected of the organizations are: The membership must not expect the associations to sell tobacco at ar bitrary prices out of keeping with supply andr demand. The associations can not sell to best advantage when there is over-produc tion. Members must cooperate with I the associations In fitting supply to ; demand. The associations cannot guarantee to all growers cost of production pl’js a profit. There are always some inef ficient producers who cannot expect to make profits. The associations can not sell poor quality tobacco at higli prices. It can not be done. Much more leniency of member ship in the new association than in the old one ts a plan that will prob-- ably appeal to farmers, for the teeth in the old contract are pretty nearly drawn in the new one. The things re quired of him are not so many, and easy to comply with. New ideas of procedure are the result of the ex periences of the old association. Broad Partiiiership In talking of his new job Mr. Page says it is a big one, and that to make it successful he must have the help of everybody. He does not look on it as a declaration of war against the tobacco manufacturers, but a inove that shall take them into a broad part nership eventually, for they must be in the final move the selling agents of the tobacco growers, and he is of the notion that the sooner the grow- eis and the manufacturers get to gether, and the manufacturers deliv er a set of specifications as to what tobacco they want, how much, and with all the detail as to what they can use and what they can’t use un der any circumstances, the sooner the grower can intelligently under take to produce that kind of tobacco, in the amount that can be used, and of the quality, and get a good price for it. “When we were cutting lumber,” said Mr. Page, “we tried to find out what our customers wanted, and we endeavored to make that kind of lum ber, and the quantity they wanted, and they bought it and paid for it, and we had no great quarrel over prices. But if we had sent them a lit tle of everything we had in the yard and twice as many cars as they had ordered, and in that overshipment practically but little of what they wanted, we would have received mighty small checks in return.” And he thinks that one of the things his association will do is to make a dick er with the manufacturers as to how much tobacco they can use, and when that is decided the next thing will be to make the crop to fit."* Then the quality of the crop will have to be harmonized with the price to be paid, and it is likely that a small crop, carefully made and graded and held up to good quality, will bring mdre money than a big crop of miscella-, neous junk. Another thing that Mr. Page sug- gescs is that everybody in the state is financially interested in the tobac co crop for it is the source of a big part of the state income. The mer chant, the banker,* the town folks, all depend more or less on the prosperity of the farmer. Much difference of opinion has existed concerning the co-operative method of selling tobac co, but if it is a good method, if it brings more prosperity to the far mer, it certainly will bring more pros perity to those the farmer deals with. And Mr. Page figures that unless something brings a bigger share of prosperity to the farmer a lot of other folks are going to feel the pinch of adversity along with the farmer in another year or two. An Appeal To All In places where he has been pre senting the case of the new organiza tion Mr. Page hag been going to the leading business men of the town and offering his proposition to them, and insisting that it is their affair even more directly than the affair of the individual farmer, for every business in nearly every town in the state is more or less dependent for its life on the ability of the farm to carry on. One thing he impresses on every body is that the co-operative move ment is not antagonistic to anybody or any institution. It will not try to drive the farmer intd its raiiks, nor to interfere with the auction sales ■warehouses or to set up any rivalries in any direction, for its aim is to help instead of to hinder. Mr. Page has been pushing out along the lines of action. He has been before the ^arm board in Washington, in conference with some of the big bankers and big farmers iwho work many tenants, th^> big time merchants, and with leading meii in many callings, and when he presents his case he meets with their friendly cordiality, for big men are as much interested in getting the farmer out of his plight as the small er men are. Moore county farmers can learn more of the organization hy calling on Mr. Page dt Aberdeen, Dr on almost any tobacco farmer or Mr. Garrison at Carthage, or on many of the business men at any place in the county, for this movement is gain ing ground and has missionaries in every direction. II ww H CARD OF THANKS We want to express our thanks and gratitude to the firemen of Aberdeen and Southern Pines, also to the j^it- izens of Aberdeen and the Ladies Mis sionary Society of Bethesda Church, for their kindness tj use in our loss by fire on January 1st, 1931. MR. and MRS. D. D. CAMERON. Wl arer Gcner/%is Wherever you go •. on high - way or crowded boulevard^ no matter what the speed.. 25 miles an hour or * sixty— with doubtful tires, danger lurks on every side. There’s only a split-second from road to wreck! I Today’s low prices make General’s extra safety and Top-Quality a real bargain. Put them on today. Experi-^ ence^ new security on any road, at any speed, in any weather. Safer Generals run at the lowest pressure ever known all the way of'their big mileage—^with softer, easier riding that challenges any comparison. Skid-safe, too! And their cost per mile is actually less. 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