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Page Two THE PILOT, Southiern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, June 11, 1937. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pinea. N. C. NELSON C. HYDE Editor Ben Bowden, Katharine L. Boyd, Helen K. Butler, Jean Edson, diaries Macauley, O. D. Park, Oai S. Ray, Bessie Cameron Smith, Associates. Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Bantered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. REPUBLIC STEEL AN THE S. W. 0. C. In the old days they used to say of certain types of men; “That man’s word is as good as his bond.” One hardly ever hears the phrase any more. Whether the reason is because life, and business life particularly, has become so complicated that the average agreement involves too many factors to be covered by one man’s word, or whether per sonal morality is not as high as formerly—or whether, perhaps, in the vast enterprises now car ried on, the men at the top lose their personality so that how ever highly moral they may be in private life, in their official or business c'haracter they be come transformed into other men,—whatever the reason, the phrase “his word is as good as his bond” has gone out of fash ion. It has been chucked away into the attic with the horsehide trunk, the congress boots, and umbrella stand of a past gener ation. The slickness of modem life with its hurry, its glitter, its eternal emphasis on money making, lays a premium on fool ing the other fellow, on out smarting him into doing some thing to your advantage and often to his hurt until it is no won der that the old sense of personal honor has disappeared and the sig nature on the dotted line, witnessed and attested, has taken its place. In the trouble between the steel workers of the C. I. O. and Repub lic Steel Corporation the main stumbling block to negotiations comes from the fact that Mr. Gird- ler refuses to sign the agreement to bargain as to wages and hours. The Union, on the other hand, argues that if the testator is unwilling to sign it means that he is unwilling to carry out the agreement made. Do we see Mr. Girdler drawing back in righteous indignation with a: "Sir, when has my word not been aa good as my bond?” Well, no, we do not. It is a fair guess that if such a phrase were introduced into the dis cussion both sides would veer away in dark suspicion of such a particu larly inappropriate wisecrack. Why should a signature mean more than the spoken word. I suppose be cause you can’t lie about it. The Wagner Labor Relations Act, though rpxjpi I'VH?” Air it requires collective bargaining,! U C Ur says nothing about the signing of 1 THE SMALL TOWN contracts. The Republic Steel offi-1 Every SO often some pessimis- cials claim that collective bargaining, ggul rises up to predict the years, in which he brought Republic' Steel through the depression and started it on the upward climb, was a fine piece of executive manage ment, but it was made at a cost which may prove destructive. The bill for depreciation which will have to be met some day is a high one and the stretch-out which seemed to Mr. Girdler to be the only way^in which he could reduce costs and stay in competition has lost him the sup port of his employees. The theory of business held with honest conviction by men such as Tom Girdler is first and foremost to make a profit. Then, they' argue, business can expand, more men cat. be hired, greater prosperity will re sult for one and all. It seems a sound theory, but in the present con ditions of cut-throat competition I believe that in order to work it calls for a quality of leadership and an un derstanding of men which few of our big business men possess, or at least use. In Mr. Girdler's case he has de voted his every energy to building up a great and thrilling enterprise and yet it seems as if he had neglected the most vital element in it. Instead of having the confidence of the men who were making that enterprise pos sible he wsLB becoming more and more separated from them until the time came when he, on his side, refused to £ign his name to an agreement with them and they, on their's, refus ed to take his word and sang “We’ll hang Tom Girdler to a sour apple tree.” There is something grotesque in this scene, something stupid and trag ic. It makes one wonder that men distrusting each other have been able to do so much, and how much more they might do working in full faith together. —K. L. B. A GOOD JOB OF FIRE FIGHTING There is an art to extinguish ing fires just as to all things. Firemen can dash into burning buildings, brandish their axes, hurl water on everything in sight, put out a blaze and leave with about as much damage done as if they’d stayed at home and let the place bum itself out. The art comes in the knowl edge of putting out a fire with a minimum of damage. It seems to The Pilot that on many occa sions the Southern Pines De partment of Volunteers has demonstrated its ability to do just that. One example was this week’s blaze at the Baker groc ery store here. It w«s not an easy fire to fight, and it was a fire frought with heavy poten tial loss. It could easily have gotten away from the boys, as the saying goes; could have easily have spread to other build ings. Not only did the local fight ers have it under control in prompt manner, but they did it with seemingly as little diamage by water and tearing asunder as possible. We believe we have here a fine body of firemen de serving of the praise and con gratulation of the citizenry. encouraged him to elaborate further in hopes I might get him to advance his reasons which as yet he hasn’t done. I think I did tell him that there would always be country villages just as long as there are cities and that if everybody elected to live in the cities in time there would be no cities because city folk raise but few po tatoes. I have quite a number of friends who live in the cities and some of them seldom get beyond the city line unless they go for a ride on a holiday or over a week-end. Few of them know but little about the business that is transacted in villages, that there is less distress of all kinds in villages than in cities, that village folk are as a rule more thrifty than city folk. Having been born and liv ed in a village all of my life and hav ing had opportunity to study city life at some extent I am always amused at the concern that Is expressed about what Js to become of rural America, the farms, villages and towns. Rural America will continue to grow and prosper as long as civilization endures. A greater pro portion of people own their own homes in rural America and there is far less poverty in rural America. The size of a place really means nothing. Rather, what is more im portant is the character of the peo ple, their will to work and their de termination to move foi’ward. In the next 100 years, rural towns will prob ably make greater progress than the larger centers, as future generations elect to establish themselves out where the skies are blue and where the grass is green, away from the crowd, which in the final analysis is often the opposite from what it ap pears. Grains of Said North Carolina’.s birthrate dropped from 33.5 in 1915, when it stood at the top of the list of states, to 22.2 in 1936, the records of the State Board of Health show. We are now in a tie for fourth with West Virginia, New Mexico leads with a rate of 31.3, with Utah second and Mississippi third. An occasional Southern Pines win ter resident, Tom Girdler, president of the Republic Steel Corporation, was recently elected head of the Steel Institute, the recognized governing body of the steel industry. At the moment Mr. Girdler is having his hands full with strikes in his and other steel plants. Tennis is having such a boom in Southern Pines at present the play ers have to await turns at the courts. The swimming season at Watson’s Lake bide fair to be a short one Report has it that Mr. Watson plans to let the water out soon, in order to remove the submarine growth which has sprung up since he completed his dam and let in the water. Garden Notes for June BY E. H. U.4RRI^N, JR.. county AGENT Plant late cabbages, crowder peas, cucumbers, pumpkins, brussel sprouts, squash, mellons, and sweet com to have vegetables for late sum mer. Tomato plants set this time of the year should be placed deep in the ground. Plants with long stems should be laid in a deep furrow with the entire stem covered leaving only the terminal set of leaves above the g:round. The home gardener will have bet ter tomato plants if the plants are supported by a trellis or stakes and pruned to two or three main branches. The asparagus bed should have a liberal application of stable manure and acid phosphate or five pounds per 100 foot row of 5-7-5 fertilizer. If asparagus beetles are present, spray with Arsenate of Lead at the rate of ten level tablespoonfuls to one gallon of water. Look out for the bean beetle, cab bage worms and aphids. Magnesium arsenate (dust or spray mixtures) or a dust mixture containing Rotenone will control the beetles and worms. Spray plants infested with aphids with nicotine sulphate 40 percent, one teaspoonful to a gallon of soapy water. Dusts mixture containing Ro tenone may give iiontrol. Rotenone is highly recommended as a spray or dust for Bean Beetles. Results from last year show that It was very ef fective. This dust is not a poison and it will not burn plants of any kind. The fact that it is not a poison and does not burn makes it a remedy which we have been looking for a long time. Review the strawberry bed after crop is harvested. Bar off the straw berry rows, leaving a narrow strip of plants six inches wide. Thin out plants in row to 18 to 24 inches apart. As soon as beds are worked out, side dress the row of plants with a mixture containing one half of Ni trate of Soda and one half cotton seed meal at the rate of two pounds per 100 feet of row. Bunch grapes can be kept from black rot disease by frequent spray ing with Bordeaux mixture. Commer cial prepared Bordeaux dusts or pasts may be used. Brown rot of peaches may be con trolled by spraying with commercial prepared wettable sulphurs which may be secured from seed dealers. Spraying tomatoes every two weeks with Bordeaux mixture will keep vines growing longer. This week I noticed that Anthrac- nose is beginning to show up on ths watermelon crop. An application of Bordeaux spray or dust should be applied at once to these. The most practicable method of reducing the damage done by anthracnose is to spray the watermelon vines with 4-4-50 Bordeaux mixture. If Anth- tacnose spores are carried to healthy melon vines, they will become diseas ed unless protected by a coating of spray mixture, which prevents the germination of these spores and the development of the fungus. Thorough applications of Bordeaux mixture will prevent the spread of anthrac nose and will help to control other diseases of the crop. One must remember the spraying is a preventive, not a cure, and that it is effective only to the extent that the surface of the healthy plant is kept covered with a thin coating of the spray solution. Knowing this and the fact that the disease spreads rap idly during and immediately after rainy weather, the farmer must choose the proper time for the appli cation. The following schedule will serve as a guide for making this se lection: Make the first application when the vines begin to run. Spray the second time about one week after the first melons have "set” on the vines. Make a third application about two weeks after the second. If anthracnose appears and the above schedule has not been used, try these emergency measures: Spray with Bordeaux mixture immediately and repeat the operation about 10 days later. If rains are frequent at this time a third spraying will prob ably be required. Cases have been known where it was necessary to spray during the loading period in order to secure a profit from the crop. For further information on this, get in touch with the office of the County Agent in Carthage. EUREKA Miss Mary Ray returned from West End last week after a weeks visit with her sister, Mrs. Hobson Tucker. Mrs. A. L. Blue and Mrs. I>cripb Blue visited Mrs. Nannie and Miss Annie McCaskill Tuesday. Miss Mary Kelly has returned from Roxboro where she spent two weeks with friends. Calvin Blue visited his grandpar ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. E^vans of Vass this week. Lawrence McLeod of Raleigh vis ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M McLeod Sunday. Miss Margaret Kelly left Monday for Boone where she is attending Summer School. Little Miss Anna Pearl Blue is on a two weeks visit with her aunt, Mrs. Tom Bailey of near Vass. Mrs. Jennie McKenzie is spending some time in Pinehurst with her daughter. Miss Estelle McKenzie. Mrs. C. B. Blue underwent an ap pendicitis operation at Moore Coun ty Hospital and is getting along nice ly. Miss Carolyn McCaskill of Durham is spending the summer with her grandfather, H. M. McCaskill. Mrs. D. A. Blue spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. D. L. Mc Caskill. Dr. Robert W. Winston of Chapel Hill, a frequent winter visitor in Southern Pines, was honored with was in process when the strike was called. The Steel Workers Organiz ing Committee denies this and de mands that a contract agreeing to bargain collectively be drawn up and signed before the strike is halted. Something is clearly wrong here. If Mr. Girdler, head of Republic Steel, is willing to bargain he loses noth ing by signing a contract; if, on the other hand, he will not bargain, the S. W. O. C. should refer the matter under the Wagner Act which can compel him to do so. Logically there seems to be no defense for the action of either side, and when such is the case one knows instinctly that the matter has progressed into those realms where reason and Intelligence are cast aside and hatred and suspi cion rule the board. The S. W. O. C. wants Mr. Girdler's signature be cause it doesn’t trust him. Why? Well, for one thing, Mr. Girdler has said recently that he would shut up shop before he would deal with any labor Union. A remark in Fortune, a magazine dedicated to the glorifica tion of Big Business, affords further enlightment. “Republic Steel,” says Fortune, "has the reputation of driv ing Its men.” Tom Girdler, who is now pilloried in the placards of the men picket ing his factories, might be called a self-made man. He did not come from the poorer levels of society, however, but was a farmer’s son who went to college, became an engineer, turned salesman, went Into the steel busi ness and worked his way up. His career during the last eight eventual extinction of the small towTi. Walter B. Saunders, edi tor of a w'ell known country weekly, the Nunda, (N. Y.) News, ran into one the other day w'hich resulted in his pen ning the following: He lives in a nearby city where he is at the head of a sizable store. I have only met him twice but both times he has asked me, "What is go ing to become of the country villages after the present generation is gone?” Of course, I might ask him the same question about the cities, but I haven’t. He seems obsessed with the idea country villages are doom ed but as yet has advanced no ar guments to support his views. Appar ently he gets outside his own city only occasionally and then to drive to some nearby lake or perhaps Let- chwark park. When I told him the other day that country merchants had modern stores, modem display windows, carried nationally advertis ed goods, and that most country towns are in as good shape as the cities, he expressed astonishment and said he was surprised to hear it. A man with such views is to be pitied and I hope he reads this paragraph, as he probably will. I could have told him many things about the city he lives in, the vast number of unem ployed, the huge expenditure for re lief and of the thousands who have their noses on the grindstone year in and year out, not to mention the dis tress of hundi'eds of home owners and the overburdened overhead of much of the city realty, but instead I have ' the degree of Doctor of Laws at the ! graduation exercises at Duke Unlver- I slty in Durham this week. Pr. Win ston, author and historian, received the award with this citation: “He has lived through and lived to Interpret in their many applica tions the historic fall and inspiring rise of his native South.” LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF BANKRUPT SALE Under and by virtue of the author ity vested in the undersigned as Trustee in Bankruptcy for Wallace 5-10 and 25c Stores, and pursuant to an order of Hon. H. F. Seawell, Jr., Referee in Bankruptcy, I will offer for sale, for cash, the complete stock of merchandise located in the two stores heretofore operated under the name of Wallace 5-10 and 25c stores, one located in the Market Square Building in Pinehurst, N. C., and the other in the Sinclair Building in Carthage, N. C. The sale of the stock of goods in Pinehurst will be held in the store at 11 o’clock A. M., on June 17, 1937, and the sale of the stock of goods in Carthage will be held in the store at 12 o’clock Noon, on June 17, 1937. Both sales will be made subject to confirmation by the court. Arrange ments can be made for advance in spection and examination of these j stocks by bona fide prospective pur chasers. This 8th day of June, 1937. J. TALBOT JOHNSON, Trustee in Bankruptcy Wallace 5-10 and 25c Stores. Fill THE TANK ONCE and drive FORD “60” OWNERS REPORT 22-27 MILES PER GALLON The 60-horsepower Ford V-8 is vvriting remark* able mileage records on American roads. 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