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Page Four THE PILOT Friday, April 1. 1927 THE PILOT Published every Friday by the PILOT PRINTING COMPANY Vass, North Carolina STACY BREWER, Owner Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 oix Months $1.00 Address all communications to The Pilot Printing Co., Vass, N. C. Advertising Rates on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Vass. N. C., as second-class mall matter. PREDICTS A SALES TAX The Secretary of the Mer chants Association, Mr. Leo nard, warns his organization that within the next ten years the likelihood of a sales tax is right apparent, and while the association is against such a tax, it is probable that it will come if a logical method of col lecting the tax can be devised. It has worked so well with the gasoline tax that it is destined to increase in popularity, and aside from its successful work ing in the case of gasoline it has so much to recommend it that it will have much serious consider ation in the immediate future as Mr. Leonard says. One thing that would justify the sales tax is that it enables everybody to assume his share of the burden of government, while the present tax system does not. A big share of the people of this United States does not pay its fair share of taxes because a large number of people have but a limited amount of taxable property and thus do not come under the head of taxables. Not but what they ultimately pay their share of indirect taxes, but the direct taxes they escape. Take two men who have an income of two thousand dollars a year. One puts some of his money into taxable property, like a home, or other tangibles. The other day as he earns it. The one lets his money go from day to pays taxes. The other ex- cayes, and those who escape get all the advantages that taxes pay for, and that crowd of es capers is large. If wp >iad a sales tax every body who buys would pay the same share of taxes just as all pay in the gasoline tax if they use the roads. Property does not build the roads and there is the fairness of the road prop osition in North Carolina. The folks who use the roads settle the bill. And it would be the same with a sales tax on other things. All would help to pay the bills. The big difficulty is in a method that would collect the tax, and that is no doubt the main reason why sales tax has been considered long ago But that can be remedied when the situation becomes more desper ate as seems likely, and we may confidently look for a sales tax in the near future The punk about taking the poor man's to bacco or the poor girFs face powder or the poor anybody’s anything else will not hold any more than taking the poor far mer’s farm or the poor other man’s house or cow or hand saw- That poor business has about run its course. MOORE COUNTY’S SCHOOL RATING The state department of pub lic instruction publishes some figures showing attendance in school, and in that list of fig ures Moore county stands six tieth among the counties in the attendance of whites and sixty- fourth in the attendance of ne groes. Seventy-four of the en rolled white children go to school, and sixty-six of the ne gro children to the hundred. However not all children are en rolled. The complete facti^ show that only about 85 per cent of all the children are en rolled. So while we should have 3,300, and many of them are on the short term. There is the shameful satis faction in reading that we have a better record than Lee, Hoke, Chatham, Randolph, Richmond or Scotland, if the exhibit is not one that we are too backward to confess, but that our neigh bors are worse does not make our rating any better. We never get forward by emulating those who are behind us, or by excus ing our standing because theirs is still less creditable. The con victing fact stands out that Moore county school children are not getting what they should have, and no glossing over the figures and no comparisons will make the plight any better. In this day of schools and books and printed pages there is no reason why every child of ordinary intelligence should not have sufficient knowledge of books to be able to read gener ously of the things that are go ing on in the world and to gather up a single knowledge of practically all the elementary sciences. There are few mys teries now any more if people will leam to read and then have access to the multitude of cheap books and papers that flood the mails, the postoffices and the book stores. To deny any child this privilege is a crime against the child and it is about as near a ^crime against the state and nation as anything that can be conceived. To raise a popula tion of ignorant men and wo men is a waste of the greatest asset we have, which is human intelligence. Any child is worth more to the state, the nation and the community in propor tion to its education and intel ligence, and no costs of educa tion as it is available in these days excuses the ignorance we still have in North Carolina. Possibly we have come forward fairly well in the last few years, but we have never reached the stopping place when we have yet so far to go. A NEEDED BIT OF ROAD With the construction of roads through the Pine Needles property a fine opportunity has arisen to shorten the distance from Southern Pines region to Carthage by nearly a mile through the construction of a short bit of road, possibly 1,200 feet from one of the new roads to a point on the Carthage road on the hill above the water works. Tho road on the hotel property is broad, direct, clay ed and firm, of easy grade and an excellent road in every way- At the property line a direct continuation of the road would cross to the Carthage road, with no grades, no culverts, little grubbing, and little cost of con struction. Probably three or four hundred dollars would build and clay the short piece. At the present time the trip from Southern Fines to Car thage necessitates the negotia tion of the angle at the top of the hill at Knollwood. The new road would cut across the tri angle, and in much less distance and on an equally good road provide a quicker route from Southern Fines to Carthage, and at the same time give the Pine Needles territory an outlet. While the road force is in the neighborhood this bit of road should be cut through. It could be done in a few days, and that it is a logical road now is evidenced by the fact that from the first days of road building a road in that neighborhood has been discussed. A ruler laid on the map shows that it would make an almost straight line to Chandler’s dam from Southern Pines, and with such short dis tance to build to secure the cut off there is no reason why the job should not be undertaken at once. Then it would relieve some of the traffic between Southern Pines and Knollwood on the Pinehurst road, as it would leave the Midland road at the bridge at the creek crossing. While the Kiwanis club is looking after road improvement in this part of the county it might not be a bad plan for the club to put this short cut on its working schedule and try to have the work done while Mr. Jackson with his force is in the neighborhood. HARRY LEWIS’S SANDHILL HAMS. In these days when folks are talking about diversification on the farms, and of the low price of cotton one thing that might be cultivated much more than it is in North Carolina is the ham. This is brought to mind by the exhibit last week in the windows at the Lewis store in Southern Pines, where Sandhill hams fill ed the whole window front on one side of the big store. Harry Lewis knows how to make a ham- He knows how to select the piece of pork from which to make it, and if he and the far mers could get together on the basis of supplying him with the type of pork that he can use to make these superior hams he would find an outlet for a large amount of the farmer’s offering. It is unfortunate but not every hog is suited to make the kind of hams Lewis offers his trade. But that is no reason why the farmers should not niake the kind desired. And that kind will always bring the price and find the market, while the kinds that do not fill the bill will not return a very ^eat profit, Lewis knows what his trade will buy and pay for, and he does not make hams of anything that will not meet the market de mand. Some hogs are too big, some are too old, some too much fat, some too much lean, some are not of the ham type in any way, and such do not make the hams the buyers want. The farmers might profit if they would confer more with Harry Lewis and see what he can use, for he can use a lot of hams of the right kind, but it is useless to offer him anything else, for the people who want his kind of hams will not buy the indifferent stuff. And there is one thing that must be kept constantly in mind in any scheme of diversification tl|at may be conceived. What can be "sold to the best advantage must be made on the farms, and when that is done men like Lew is will help to sell the stuff and at a price that will be the best possible to obtain. CARTHAGE Mrs. W. W. Whiting, of Raleigh, is visiting her mother, Mrs. W. M. Kitett. Mr and Mrs. Claude Woltz, of Gastonia, spent the week-end with Mrs. Woltz’s mother, Mrs. W. H. Mc Neill. Mrs. D. I. Dunn, of Star, spent Sunday in town visiting relatives. Miss Martha McLeod, of Sanford, who is a student of Flora MacDon- College, was in town Sunday visit ing Mrs. Mollie Person. Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wallace spent Sunday in Rowland, guests of Mrs. Charlie Cox, sister of Mrs. Wallace^s. Francis Montague, of Belmont, was in town Sunday. Rev. Williams and daughter. Miss Mildred were in Raleigh Saturday. U. L. Spence spent Friday in Ral eigh. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Eaton and chil dren, of Charlotte, were visitors at Mrs. Mollie Personas Sunday. Miss Carry Petty, of Raleigh is visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Em ma Petty. The Ladies* Auxiliary of the Pres byterian church conducted the Sun day services at the County Home. The services being in charge of Miss Janie McLeon. Mrs. C. E. Calrk, Mrs. W. T. Overman, and Mrs. James Davis at tended the picture show, ‘*Ben Hur ” at Sanford. * Sam Jackson, of Charlotte spent Sunday with his brother, W. K. Jackson. Stacy Brewer, of Vass was in town Saturday. Mr.! and Mrs. Harry Ward are spending several days with Mrs Wal ter Branson. Miss Jeane Leavitt, Gilbert Blue Arch McLeod and W. R. Sugg at tended the Christian Endeavor meet ing at Laurel Hill Sunday. Sam Hoyle and H. F. Seawell at tended court in Rockingham last week. Mrs. James Anderson, of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting Miss Cath erine Shields. Misses Allie Blue, Jimmie Cooper and Clinton Williams, were delegates to the Christian Endeavor Conven tion at Laurel Hill last week. Misses Nellie and Nannie Hoyle spent several days in Charlotte last week. Jessie Page, of Eagle Springs re ports a good prospect of peaches this season. Mrs. Sam Miller and Mrs. Goorge Carter spent Tuesday in Greensboro. Thomas Tyson left Wednesday for Troy, New York. The Alfred Moore chapter D. A. R. will be represented at the state convention in Wilmington this week (Please turn to page 7) •\r ( \'b i*' *v/ .A * J- R.1, Louisburg, N. 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