THE PILOT
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Vass, North Carolina
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GOVERNOR McLEAN’S
BUSINESS POLICIES
When A. W. McLean was a
candidate in the primaries for
governor The Pilot stood by his
cause because he was an out
spoken advocate of business
policies in the government of the
state. Good business manage
ment is a far more important
factor in local, state or national
government than politics, for
good public business is the only
lawful purpose or legitimate ex
cuse for politics or for party
organization.
McLean was elected on a busi
ness platform, and by such a ma
jority that the election of last
fall emphasized the importance
of good business methods in gov
ernment. The example was in
fectious and all over the state,
in this county as well, better
business practices have been in
troduced. One of the first things
the new governor insisted on was
attention to the cost of opera
tion, and making the income
match up with the expenses.
The fight over that matter need
not be referred to. The final out
come was a fixed budget, with
definite amounts appropriated to
specific purposes, and a tax laid
to meet the expenses. The state
was warned that it would have
to pay certain amounts in taxa
tion, and that it must not at
tempt to spend any more money
than it paid in taxes.
In our old indifferent way we
went forward on the presump
tion that law is law and that
actual practice consists in evad
ing or ignoring the law wherever
it is desirable to do either. The
amount of tax to be laid was un
derstood in the legislature.
That defines the amount of in
come the state is to have, and it
can get no more. But many
people and many members of the
legislature thought to appropri
ate more money than the state
income from taxes would amount
to and trust to luck for the ex
cess which would be an excess of
debt. Gov. McLean emphatical
ly put his foot on this, foolish
policy, and notified the depart
ments that they must not exceed
the sums allotted them, for he
does not propose to go any
further into debt. He argues
most|sensibly that what we can
not j^ay for from this year’s in
come we do not care to try to
pay for from another year’s in
come when the other year has
its own burdens. He has
planned to have a clean slate at
the end of the year. That is
business. We will live within
our income.
It is fine to go on broadening
out in our public affairs, spend
ing money for one thing or
another, but Gov. McLean’s in
telligent business plan says
broaden as far as we can pay,
and then have sense enough to
stop. If we can’t find the money
to pay when we are levying the
taxes it is useless to say we will
find it a little later when we have
to face the bill collector. It
sounds nice to say we should do
so and so and spend more money
for desirable things. But the
main thing to remember is that
when we run out of money it is
dishonest to incur debts that we
know will be as hard to pay in
the future as to pay now. Be-
f o r e we consider spending
another dollar the only course is
to find where another dollar is to
come from. And as the legisla
ture went to the limit in laying
taxes last January we must rea
lize that unless we want to pile
up more taxes no more dollars
can come. The better course is
t o inaugurate a n energetic
economy in all state affairs, and
that is what Gov, McLean is
doing. The people who pay the
taxes want lots of things they
cannot get. The state must be
conducted on the same basis. It
must get along with what it can
pay for, and realize that it can't
have money to pay for every
thing because the income of the
state is limited.
Gov. McLean has introduced a
new idea into government and he
is standing by it, and The Pilot
is confident he has the nerve to
stand by to the finish. And on
the success of his administration
on that basis will rest the future
of the state for a long time, for
if once established on a sound
financial principle the people will
keep North Carolina on that
sound basis.
A TOUCH OF
THE HUMANITIES
Over along the Midland road,
just above the Mid-Pines club at
Knollwood village is a pleasant
modern cottage, and above the
house is a greenhouse filled with
flowers of various kinds. Man
lives there who came down from
Pittsburg a few years ago and
made himself a home there.
Nice wife, pleasant surround
ings, jimmy pipe, seems to stand
in well enough with the bankers
to have a Buick or a Packard or
something like that, but rides
about in his truck considerable.
Sizeable bald spot, pretty well
put up, apparently free from
many blemishes, fairly good
hand at a smile and having been
for years a judge of a Pittsburg
court he has acquired the fash
ion of drawing down his eye
brows when he talks as if he was
serious.
Over at a hospital the other
day two visitors had dropped in
to talk a minute with two young
women who are hanging round
there waiting for the time to
come when they can be sent back
home again with recovered
health. On their tables was a
stack of posies, some of them of
rare varieties, and all of them of
exceptional vigor and type.
Women 'somehow take to bou
quets, and when they happen to
be sick, and have to stay in the
hospital, and visitors are in only
occasionally, and the hours drag
by with heavy feet, a bunch of
posies looks about as friendly as
any time in the world. Natural
ly these girls had a word to say
about the bouquets. Anybody
would feel a bit proud over such
a display. When you have ar
rived at the point in the hospital
where the world begins to take
on a brighter hue, and you have
passed the apprehensive stages,
and the sun has been able to
attract attention once more, it
is not so hard to appreciate a big
bouquet of choice greenhouse
offerings.
So they talked about the con
tribution. And it seems that
from that greenhouse flowers go
out many a time in many a di
rection. It seems to be a bit of
common gossip here and there
that the old codger who lives in
that house above the Mid-Pines
club has a fashion of cutting
posies and shedding them around
among people he never saw or
heard of. Just has that way
about him. Pittsburg folks who
know him say the old tyke was
always that way.
And listen, brothers. Don’t
think stunts like that get by
without the Recording Angel
making a jot on his big book
once in a while alongside of that
baldheaded geezer’s name.
NAIL STRIPPERS—
A SUGGESTION
Last week the Pinehurst
Warehouses in a small adver
tisement notified the peach men
that a supply of nail strippers
had arrived ready for the sea
son’s business. A nail stripper
may not be well known to the
ordinary individual, but it is an
important factor in packing
peaches, and it is also a sugges
tion of the difference between
modem ways and those of the
older time. A nail stripper is
simply a contrivance to assemble
nails in a strip of metal, heads
all up, so that when a crate
builder reaches out for nails he
can take a dozen or so between
thumb and finger the points all
down and ready to be hammered
into the job. He holds his strip
of nails so one is in position for
the board he is nailing on the
THE PILOT
crate, taps the nail with the
hammer to start it to place, and
then hits it another crack with
his hand removed and the nail
is driven home. That operation
is repeated at the different
places needing nails, and as fast
as he can hit two strokes he
drives a nail in each place. He
can build crates so fast that it
is wonderfully interesting to
watch the operation.
Peach packing is systematized
in that way all through. The
packer makes every box of fruit
a systematic thing. If he is
packing a certain size that size
alone is put in the box. Bigger
or smaller sizes go in another
package. The packer knows at
the beginning how many peaches
will be needed to fill the package
and that many go in to it. Each
goes in its place. The peaches
are siorted in sizes before they
reach him so packing peaches is
simply a job of putting so many
in each row and so many rows.
No time is lost hunting anything
to fit out a row, nor to make the
proper number of rows. The
crates at each particular table
in the pack house will have a
known number of peaches in
each crate, for the crate holds
just so many of a certain size,
and the table packs that size.
The nail stripper calls up the
fact that peach growing is a
systematic operation. O r d i-
narily a man nailing crates
would hunt up a nail, hit it three
or four times to drive it to place,
and fool around hunting another
one. The stripper gives him
enough nails to nail up his crate
at once, and expedites the job.
A man with a nail stripper can
make two or three crates while
a man without it makes one.
Peach packing wastes no move
ments and no time. Could the
farms all the way through follow
the example of the peach men
twice the work would be done,
for the farm wastes a lot of
motion in every thing that is
done. The farmer puts in long
hours at low wages, and does a
great deal of hard work. If he
could hunt up something that
would do more like the nail
stripper, which cuts out wasted
effort, farming would be a more
enviable (occupation.
The nail stripper is a pretty
good thing for folks to watch a
little in its time and effort sav
ing work. It is only a small
machine, but it is big in its sug
gestions as to the value of tak
ing a short cut in doing things.
ACKNOWLEDGING A
JUST OBLIGATION
The Pilot has always enjoyed
a reputation as a fairly well
printed paper. A couple of years
ago an advertiser wrote that he
would be glad if other papers in
which his advertisements ap
peared would get up the material
in the same tasty style The Pilot
always reached. Commercial
printing commanded the ap
proval of patrons, who freely
commented on the taste shown
in printing^ of all sorts. Much
of the credit of the satisfactory
work done at this office is to be
laid to the account of George W.
Baker, who died last week at
Carthage. Baker was an oldtime
printer. He had a sincere liking
for his work, and no patience
with stupid handling of a job, or
shiftless or indifferent typo
graphy. Every piece of print
ing that came into his hands was
designed in his head or on paper
before a letter was set in the
type. He figured on the charac
ter of the letters to be used, and
the proportion of the printed
page, and the balance of the
lines. He had the ambition and
the honesty of an artist, for no
matter what a man’s work may
be it gives ample field for artistic
handling if there is one inch of
room for creative construction.
Baker had the initiative. He
had the judgement and intelli
gence to arrange his types har
moniously, and the enthusiasm
to struggle always for the best
effects.
Many advertisements that
were printed in The Pilot and in
other papers in the state were
set by Baker and proofs from
his work sent to the others that
his judgement and skill could be
followed. In that way he set a
good example over a rather wide
range. And so he left a good in
fluence. The old printer was a
reader and a philosopher, and
always keeping a little ahead of
yesterday. He liked to look over
what other progressive printers
were doing, so that he could
gather the new ideas that came
up, and he had the faculty of
adapting and utilizing the new
things. He tried to make good
printers of the boys who worked
in the office with him. In spite
of his impatient disposition the
boys profited much by his in
struction, his criticism, and
some by his somewhat severe
notes at times. The boy who
passed through Baker’s hands
gained by it, even though at
times the road had some rough
spots. He did a good job, and
his influence will last a long time
in Central North Carolina. An
honest, intelligent, industrious
printer hangs his work up before
the world, and it is seen of many
men, and has a powerful effect.
Friday, May 22, 1925.
J. VANCE ROWE
Attorney and Counselor at Law
ABERDEEN, N. C.
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Dr. F. H. Underwood
DENTIST
Carthage, N. C.
Office next to Jennings Motor Co.
NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified
as Administrator of the estate of
Sam W. Robbards, deceased. This is
to give notice that all persons having
claims against said estate to present
the same to the undersigned at Pine
hurst, N. C., duly itemized and veri
fied on or before the 7th day of April
1926 or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery. Any person
indebted to said estate will please
make immediate settlement.
This April 7th 1925.
J. A. WICKER,
Administrator of Sam W. Robbards.
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Fords For Sale
Roadsters, Touring Cars, Trucks
and Coupes
Are you one of the lucky ones?
There were several last month.
Why not you?
I have just the Car you want and the price and
terms are right. No cars driven over three months. Some
only thirty days.
Write for Demonstration.
Ralph Caldwell
Care Carolina Discount Corporation
ABERDEEN, N. C.
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