THE PILOT
Friday, June 29. 1903
Page Four
THE PILOT
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THE NEW ROAD
LAW
In a few days comes in a new
road law. Everybody is to stop
at every railroad crossing and
see that no trains are ap
proaching before attempting to
proceed over the track. It is a
good law in its intent, being for
the good of the driver on the
road, and also for the good of the
railroad. It is stated that the
railroads are making every e-
fort to have signs up notifying
people on the roads that they
must stop and make sure. But
it is dollars to doughnuts that a
large percentage of the people
are not aware of the law. The
law is to be enforced it is said.
In some cases it will be. In some
it will not. Some people will
stop and look for approaching
trains. Some will not. North
Carolina has not enough officers
to police all railroad crossings in
the state, and for that reason
some violators of the law may be
apprehended and made to serve
as examples, while others will
not be caught if they undertake
to ignore the law.
For safety of the driver it is
advisable to stop. Deference to
the law says to stop. But as the
enforcement of the law is largely
in the hands of the people a
sense of proper regard for the
law should prompt obedience.
Other road laws are disregarded
in this state as in all other states
where sufficient police force is
not kept. to compel law obser
vance. Human kind believes
quite ganerally in enforcing the
law against other folks, but not
very profoundly in enforcing it
against themselves..
We ha^’e too manj^ laws in
this country, too many federal
laws and too many state laws,
for we have not the machinery
for enforcing one in ten of the
laws that have been adopted. If
congress and the state legisla
tures v/ould put in the next two
or three years in throwing out
surplus law^s instead of making |
more new ones we would be bet
ter off. But until we get our
criminal code down to where a
man can keep within the require
ments it is useless to expect that
people will enforce the laws
themselves on themselves. The
multiplicity of laws creates a
disregard for laws. It cannot be
otherwise. Spasmodically the
road laws are enforced in vari
ous sections, iDut the enforce
ment is unfair. Fifty offenders
go loose, and then a wave of en
forcement picks up violators
greedily for a little while after
neglect to enforce the laws has
encouraged everybody to violate
the laws, and then resentment
is felt. Everybody should obey
the laws.. But some will have
to be stimulated by the help of
an officer.
A BIT OF
POLITICS
The Pilot was asked recently
‘‘Who is your candidate for gov
ernor?” The answer is easy at
the present time, for so far but
two men have appeared in the
field, J. W. Bailey, of Raleigh,
and A. W. McLean of Lumber-
ton. These two men may be the
only candidates when the day of
the primary election comes, and
they may not. They are fairly
representative men, and possibly
one of them will be the next gov
ernor. But the truth is that
neither of them is sufficiently
known to the mass of the people
to warrant judging them now.
Mr. Bailey is a bright fellow,
with much ability, yet with con
siderable radicalism, which in
things is a mighty good attri
bute, and in some others is not.
Mr. McLean is more conserva
tive than Mr. Bailey, a business
man of broad experience, a man
right familiar with many intri
cacies of government, not much
of a ballyhoo, a believer in Davy
Crockett's doctrine of being
right before you put on too much
steam.
Now it might be said that
The Pilot should have a choice
and be positive about it. But
that would imply that one man
is in a marked way superior to
the other, or that one is perfec
tion, a case that does not exist.
In picking a governor or a pair
of shoes or an automobile or
anything else always some
things must be weighed against
others. Later both these men
will come more under public in
spection, and as the choice must
be made by the mass voters the
candidates would do well to be
broadening their personal ac
quaintance as fast as possible.
After that has been done more
extensively it will be easier to
pass in judgment on them.
Meantime it is well enough for
the citizen to ask himself what
we want in a governor, and what
we expect of one. Governor Mor
rison is highly commended by
some of the people, and sharply
criticised by others. Not be
cause he does any differently
at one time or another, but be
cause different folks want him
to act differently or approve of
what he is doing. Any gover
nor who has any initiative will
meet with the same reception
of approval or criticism. And
that is right, for a governor can
never be in touch with all the
people, nor can he be wise
anough to be alw^ays right him
self. And if he could be in touch
with all the people he could not
follow^ the wishes of all, for they
do not agree. To tell who will be
best man for governor is to tell
who would best conform to the
v/ishes of the most people, and
to be sure at the same time that
the majority 0 fthe people are
right, which sometimes they are
and sometim.es the yare ntt.
Under such circumstances The
Pilot has no candidate until the
two in the field make themselves
a little better known and with
themselves make their views and
principles better known. Unfor
tunately this is an expensive job,
and one that cannot in justice
be asked of the candidates, for
it does not pay them even if they
win, and besides, the laws do not
allow the expenditure of much
money in the campaign.
Which, being summed up tells
you that The Pilot does not know
a great deal so far about who
should be the next governor, and
probably no one else does.
for it, gives it the help needed to
make it, and when fall comes he
has something to show for the
time and money spent. He has
a good crop this year as he al
ways has and he expects to make
<?ood crops of cotton as long as
he lives and farms. He knows
that as long as men live they
want cotton, and as long as civi
lization progresses the world
wants more cotton. He knows
that men are intelligent and re
sourceful enough to beat the boll
weevil, or any other thing that
wants to antagonize human abil
ity, and he knows that the man
who stays with his legitimate
game is bound to win. So he
makes his cotton crop, sells it at
the mill, gets his money and is
happy in his success. That cot
ton crop has been w'orth study
ing for years. It is especially
worth studying this year when
the cotton planter is more than
ordinarily alatmod about th<i
outcome of cotton farming.
DR. C. D. DAWKINS
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Office in Thomas-Womack Building
CAMERON, N. C.
R. G. ROSSER, M. D.
Physician and Surgeon
Beasley Building, - VASS, N. C.
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THE NEBRASKA WAY
The state of Nebraska has taken a
very definite step toward curbing
landscape disfigurement along public
highways by the erection of unsightly
billboards, which prove a double nui
sance in many instances in that they
also shut off the view of motoriests
at danger points. Under a bill pass
ed by the legislature the Department
of Public Works is made the guardian
of the state’s beauty spots. The bill
not only provides for a permit fee
but empowers the department to re
move any sign it cares to remove
without giving cause.. Billboards give
all American towns a sameness when
viewed from a railroad train, and are
unsightly.. But that will no longer
be the case in Nebraska, and neither
will her highways be defaced by them.
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MAKING
COTTON
In all of this discussion of a
cotton crop it might be worth
v/hile to have a lov^k once in a
while at the <*oton field owned by
Mr. A. Cameron just east of the
of the town of Vass. Fpr years
Mr. Cameron has been making
cotton there, and last year he
harvested 756 pounds of lint cot
ton to the acre, as usual, on a
large area of ground. Mr. Cam
eron farms with the object of
making a good crop. He pays no
attention to the prophets of sor
row, but plants his crop, cares
r
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to the
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time, are on the road
to prosperity and
happiness.
And since it takes such a small amount to start a Savings Ac
count here there is no reason for delaying—then a little added
each week or month and you soon have a worth while balance
to your credit. We will be glad to talk this over with you at
your convenience.
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