Friday, October 2, 1931.
PILOT, a Paper With Ciiat^cter. Aberdeen, North CaroHnii
Page Seven
Tobacco Buyer Explains Why Good
Leaf Frequently Brings Poor Price
Companies Insist on Certain
Types; Representatives Must
Buy Only the Kind Wanted
By Bion H. Butler
It is unfortunate that crop prices
are as low as they are under present
conditions, but it is likely that all
things are trying to readjust them
selves to the governing conditions,
and it is quite certain that a balance
will be reached sooner or later, but
likely on a different plane, for there
is no doubt that a general working to
ward a lower basis for everything is
in progress. As far as can be gather
ed from leading business men of the
country the inflated conditions of the
last fifteen years are ended. The far
mer is the first man to be hit with
the downward slide in prices, but he
can not be alone long in that respect,
for the decline is general the world
over, and history is clear in the fact
that equilibrium is constantly estab
lishing itself in all things.
However as respects the tobacco
crop some conditions are local. In
talking with one of the buyers light
was shed on some factors that are
not clear to the tobacco grower. The
man would not care to have his iden
tity known, perhaps, so his name is
not mentioned. But the substance of
what he said will help folks to see
more clearly what influences some of
the prices. This man, like all other
buyers on the warehouse floors, has
his explicit instructions. He is to buy
detmite types of tobacco, and to pay warehouse floor is not one
a ixe^ piice or t ose types. He fi^werv beds of ease and ciiicken
Gold Prospecting On
Hard Times Revive Activity
in Moore and Other Counties,
State Geologist Reports
Prospectors scattered through
gold bearing areas of North Caro
lina, some panning by band and
others working with improved in
struments, offer evidence of ef
forts to wrest a livelihood from the
soil in these hard times. State
Geologist H. J. Bryson said on his
return from a trip.
“Probably none of these min
ers are recovering a great amount
of gold through these small scale
operations, but most of them are
being rewarded by at least a small
return, he said. “The prospectors
are at least helping to revive in
terest in the gold resources of
North Carolina, which we hope
may lead to still further and more
detailed investigation later on.
“According to information re
ceived at my office, there is some
form of activity in at least 18 gold
properties in the state,” he said,
adding that these activities are be:
ing conducted in Cherokee, Burke,
McDowell, Cabarrus, Montgomery,
Moore, Randolph, Mecklenburg and
Union counties.
Correct Bad Vision
Early, Says Symington
Children Suspected of Eye Trou
ble Should See Oculist For
Examination
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pointed to three or four piles in his
vicinity while he was talking and said
a farmer asked him why he did not
bid on a particular pile which seem
ed to be good tobacco. His reply was
that while it was much better tobacco
than much that he bought it was not
the type of tobacco his company used,
and he said it would he of no use to
his folks if it sold at a cent a pound.
He pointed to several piles that had
apparently been sacrificed, for they
looked like a right fair quality.
Types of Tobacco
“They are reasonably good tobacco,”
he said, “but of a peculiar character^
that no buyer here on this market
wants. I could not send that to our
companies, nor could any of these
other buyers. The farmer who made
that tobacco simply made what is
not called for. We have no choice in
the matter. While tobacco is tobacco
is must be remembered that mild
bright leaf is not heavy dark leaf, and
burley is not seed leaf, and Wisconsin
tobacco is not Pennsylvania cigar.
There are fashions in cigarettes. The
cigarette companies want a certain
amount of bright leaf for mixtures in
their product. They want what they
want, and they will not buy the types
they do not want. The buyers on chis
market are competitors only to a lim
ited extent. I do not buy what some
other buyer can use and he does not
buy what I want. We do not bid
against each other to any extent.
Another buyer may be willing to pay
fifteen cents for what I would not
pay anything. It is like going to a
saw mill to buy lumber. One man
will pay $20 a thousand for long leaf
timber. I w^ould not give five cents
a thousand for it, for what I w^-»nt
is some cedar shingles, which he v.ill
not consider as he is not in the ohin-
gle line.
“One of the prime difficulties is
that the farmer does not know the
kind of tobacco we want, aiui does
not devote as much care to making it
as he should. It is possible there is
where the cooperative movement could
help. But it can never do any good by
merely trying to raise prices. Prices
vill raise themselves as far as they
can be raised by haying the type and
:iuality of leaf that the buyers can
fse. I see lots of good leaf on the
floor that I would be glad to buy if it
w^as the kind we could use. But it is
not. It is no more use to us than
ood seed corn is to the farmer who
is hunting for good seed wheat. I
have much sympathy for some of the
men who see their tobacco sold for
a small figure when the quality leads
them to expect better money, but I
an’t do anything for them. The buy-
V can not take their tobacco and
-end it to his company if it is not the
kind his factory uses, for it -would
have to be thrown out or disguised
= a mixture with other leaf, and in
hese days of keen competitio:i no
manufacturer wants to put anything
in his mixture that does not have a
place there because of its satisfac
tion to the consumer.
Buyer Are Limited
“The tobacco manufacturers are
spending millions of dollars to in
form their customers of the excel
lence of their products and they are
tiying every means to get the most
suitable and satisfactory quality and
type of leaf from 'vsjhich to make the
dinner all the time, for he hears from
the factory often enough about his
purchases. He cannot buy any but the
limited range of leaf that his com
pany uses, and he cannot pay any but
the prices fixed. His business is to
buy, not to make prices or to desig
nate types and qualfffy. And the final
arbiter is the man who buys the fin
ished product. If the tobacco we secure
for the factories suits them when
we have sent it in and it is made up
all is well. If not we are in hard
luck, factory, buyer and all of i*s as
well as the farmer.
“We want the tobacco that is suited
for our brands, and we buy that. We
pay the highest figure we are allow
ed to for the best quality of what we
want, aiLd what we don’t want we can
not buy at any price. Fortunately
other buyers can as they use other
types, and that lets most everything
past. But if the farmer would get
better acquainted with what can be
used he would get more money for
his crop.”
BOOK REVIEWERS HONOR
MEMORY OF MRS. HART
Frequently the parents, according
to the United States Public Health {§
Service, may suspect that the child
is suffering from some slight defect
in vision, and occasionally there may
be obvious visual disturbances which
should be corrected. Children with
such conditions should be taken to an
oculist as soon as there is evidence of
trouble. If glasses are required, it
will take some time for hte child to
become accustomed to wearing them,
and the habit of using them should be
acquired before the chid enters school.
However, the chief advantage of early
correction of visual defects is that it
usually requires less treatment; and
in some cases such early treatment
may cure the condition and secure
for the child normal vision which
might have been impossible had cor
rection been delayed.
Although we may have given our
children every attention, trained them
in habits of cleanliness and good per
sonal hygiene, fed them the proper
food, and corrected so far as possi
ble all physical defects, there yet
remains a very important m.atter to
be considered, namely, the prevention
of a possible attack of smallpox or
diphtheria. In this day and age it is
almost criminal neglect on our part
to fail to see that our children are
protected against these preventable
diseases. The best time to start their
immunization treatment is after the
child is six months of age. The reac
tion to the treatment is much milder
at this age, although it is just as
effective; but what is of more impor
tance, especially in the case of diph
theria, is that they are immune to
the infection at this time in life when
the disease is most serious. Statis
tics prove that the death rate from
diphtheria is much greater among
children attacked before they are five
years of age. There are very few
states in which children are admitted
to the public schools without evidence
of vaccination against smallpox, and
many are now requiring diphtheria
immunization. In fact, many commun
ities are now practically free from
diphtheria epidemics, due chiefly to
the fact that they require diphtheria
immunization of all school children.
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WELFARE CONFERENCE AT
GOLDSBORO OCTOBER 9
The Central District Welfare Con
ference will be held in Goldsboro Oc
tober 9 under the auspices of the
State Board of Charities and Public
Welfare and the North Carolina Asso-
I ciation of Superintendents of Pub- ||
The Carthage Book Reviewers held | elfare. R. H. Edwards, super-; H
their regular meeting on Thursday [ i^tendent of public welfare in Wayne j
evening with Mrs. L. C. Wallace as county, is district chairman and will,
preside over the one-day session. ; Xt
hostess.
Prior to the study progi'am of the
evening, the club paid personal trib
ute to the memory of Mrs. Augusta
McKeithen Hart, whose sudden death
Counties making up the Central j H
District are: Caswell, erson, Granville, 1
Vance, Warren, Northampton, Hali-1 ♦♦
fax, Nash, Franklin, Durham. Orange, ♦♦
on August 30th deprived thy club of Chatham, Wake, Johnston, Wayne,
ore of the most loved members. Upon
motion unanimously passed, the club
set apart the meeting of October 15th
to be designated as a memorial meet
ing to Mrs. Hart at which time a
book shelf of fifteen books for child
ren of the second grade will be placed
in the classroom of the second grade
at the graded school building, the
classroom where for a number of
years Mrs. Hart was a teacher. The
proposed shelf is to carry a small | meetings as the program will be ar-
bronze plate bearing the name Au-1 ranged so as to interest all concern-
gusta McKeithen Hart and the name! ed with the public welfare. Unem-
Book Reviewers and the year 1931. ; ployment relief will be discussed at
The study for the evening was on;G2,ch meeting, in addition to other
modem poetry. Miss Judith Wainer | problems of timely interest,
gave an interesting talk on the poetry (
of Emily Dickerson, and Mrs. O. B.! T. L. RIDDLE OF SANFORD
Welch read a paper on the life and [ HONORED BY JR. O. U. A. M.
poetry of Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Harnett, Lee Moore, and Hoke.
This will be the second in a series
of conferences being held over the
state. The first meeting will be held j ||
in Wilmington October 8. The last of i H
the three eastern conferences is sche-! ||
duled for Edenton October 10. The' *
three western conferences will be
held October 20, 21 and 22, in High
Point, Gastonia and Rutherfordton.
The public is invited to attend the
Listed Below Are a Few Sales Hade at the
Aberdeen Warehouse
TAPP and FULLER, TIMBERLAND, N. C.
152 Pounds @14 c
140 Pounds @ 12%c
176 Pounds @23 c
50 Pounds @26 c
R. L. DIXON, RAEPORD, N. C.
308 Pounds @26 c
340 Pounds @25 c
256 Pounds & lO^^c
TOMMIE UPCHURCH, RAEFORD, SOLD 4,000 POUNDS FOR
ABOVE 18c AVERAGE
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HODGES & STEPHENS, ST. PAULS, N. C.
116 Pounds @27 c
44 Pounds @25 c
14 Pounds @27 c
20 Pounds @30 c
HORNE & ROBESON, CUMBERLAND COUNTY
20 Pounds @ 26 c
120 Pounds @25 c
56 Pounds @ 26%c
Our Sales Monday Averaged $13.06 Per Hundred
Edwards, Lewis & Williams
Aberdeen - - - North Carolina
The Country
HEIVIF*. N. C
The hostess was assisted by Mrs.
O. B. Welch.
PLAN INTERESTING MEETING
FOR WOMEN OF COUNTY
The appointment of T. L. Riddle of
Sanford as district deputy state coun- ||
cilor of the Jr. O. U. A. M. has been h
announced by S. F. Nicks, state coun- H
cilor. Mr. Riddle will serve as execu- ' H
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tive of the l7th district, which is , tX
A meeting which bids fair to be one | composed of Lee, Moore and Mont- H
fn wnmPTi of gomery counties. His term of office | g
of unusual interest to the women of
the county is planned for Wednes
day, October 7, at 10:00 o’clock, at
which time Miss Willie Hunter, cloth
ing specialist frona State College,
will meet with the home demonstra
tion club women and any others who
care to attend in the office of Mrs.
W. L. Ryals in Carthage to discuss
clothing problems. Miss Hunter will
give a forecast of the fall and winter
styles in materials, clothing, hats and
accessories.
In the afternoon, as many of the
women as can do so will go to Hemp
to attend the Hemp fair and especial
ly to see the exhibit of old textiles
and hand-woven materials. Those who
go to the clothing meeting and ex
pect to take the trip to Hemp will
please carry their lunch.
is to run parallel with that of the ; ^
present state councilor. | H
Mr. Riddle’s appointment to this | ^
position of high honor in Junior cir- g
cles has been met with commendation ^ g
on the part of his brother Juniors and H
friends. He has been very active in H
the Jr. 0. U. A. M. for a number of g
years and his splendid services have H
been rewarded with many testations ■ g
of approval, including several high i H
offices. ! II
CAUGHT FISH AND RED BUGS , H
Paul T. Barnum, W. H. Coffey,
Dave Coffey and Norfleet P. Ray have H
returned from a fishing trip to
Sneeds Ferry. They report fish and
Ted bugs plentiful in those parts.
STARTS MONDAY
October 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
e Big Days - 6 Big Nights
A Collection of Old Antiques never
before shown to the public. Some
thing different.
Balloon Ascension Every Afternoon.
Gloth Greater Shows offer you the
biggest and best collection of rides,
shows and concessions ever to
visit this part of the country.
Come! You Will Be Sm'prised and Pleased with Yoiir Visit to This Thriving Town!
Fair Grounds^open at 10 a. m. Daily