Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-08-12
WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT?

While propagandists are filling
the state with their products i'll con-
domination of the Virginia Pilots As
ISOLATION, and while political forces,
pro and con, are preparing to wage
n mortal combat in the next Gen
eral Assembly over the issue which
the "antis" declare to be of para
mount Importance to all Virgnians,
it may be timely to venture the sim
pie question: "What's it all about
anyway ?"
The attack on the Virginia Pilots
Association looms up on the eve OF
each session of the General Assem-
bly,. With the regularity of the rent
collector it rings the front door bell
of Mr.. Virginian and with loud de-
claiming and much waving of arms
declares the state is going to the
bow vows unless something is done
about the Virginia pilots and that
unbelievable condition which should
make every Virginian's blood run
cold and his hair stand on end"
Much has been said. and still more
written to claim space OH costly
white paper concerning the enormous
salaries which fail to the good lot
of the members of the Virginia Pi-
lots Association for their services i'll
bringing in ships from sea and guild
ing them back again through hazard
Gus channels, fogs and storms. And
the propagandists declare this mon
ey, or a part of it, should be turned
into the treasury of the state.
But, as matter of fact, isn't it
possible that some of these PROP
agandists have an eye on their share
OF the swag which is now, they say,
vulgarly rolled in by the members OF
the Pilots organization Isn't is poss-
ible that some of the politicians who
so loudly decry the practices of the
members of that Association hav.
their eye OH something which is not
set forth clearly in the propaganda
being scattered throughout the state ?
Isn't it possible that, while they
are spreading propaganda condemn.
ing the pilots, they have overlooked
some of the fine points on the other
side of the question? Isn't is poss-
lble, still further, that someone il
making a terrible hullabaloo over
the fear that the growth of Hamp:
ton Roads is being retarded by the
operation of the Virginia Pilots AS
sociatlon when, as a matter of re-
cord, no person who lives more thai,
ten miles from Hampton Roads has
ever turned over his hand to helm
the growth Of that port since the
upon the shores of the Old Dominion
hrst day John Smith set his foot
"A little light on the subject from
real, unprecedented angle might ii,
great deal toward clarifying In,
situation, and toward answering ill.,,
question propounded above: "What,.
1t all about, anyway"
There are other issues which III,
Virginia solons might do well to pr..
pare themselves for considering wher
they go to Richmond next January
They might keep in mind the fac
That Virginia is at the bottom of tb.
iist' SO far as good roads are ron.
cerned. They might remember Il
they care to brush their memorie.
up with government statistics. tina,
health conditions in all parts r.
virginia are not what they might be-
or what they are in many otbc,
states of the Union. And they might
Keep uttermost in their minds tb,
fact that Virginia is admittedly mo-
keeping pace with her sister stote
IN industry, education, and the 9th
er prerequisites to great and great
er commonwealth. A cessation of th,
pilotage propaganda, on behalf o.
other and more important issues
might give wholesome touch +,
the general situation in these ninine
days of financial depression and zen.
eral discomfort.