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Friday, November 4, 1927.
THE PILOT
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dustries have to sell.
This man does not attempt to
go into the causes that bring
about an end s3 much to be de
sired, but ne notes the pronounc
ed advance that all lines of in
dustry are making in the county,
for which several causes are re
sponsible. The winter resort
business is bringing more people
to the territory every season,
and in doing that it calls for
much more of the farmer’s stuff,
as well as for much more of
everything else, labor included.
The increase of wages in the
county is tremendous, and any
one who wants to work these
days can find plenty to do at a
price that makes the wages of
ten years ago look pitifully
small. The farmer finds an out
let for great quantities of stuff
that he could not get rid of be
fore the war. We load more
cars of sand and stone now than
we loaded of lumber a few years
ago. The banks have many
times as much money. People
are improving their homes in
the country as well as in the
towns. In the last half dozen
years Moore has become a much
more pleasant place to live, and
a much eaiser place to live in.
Moore has actually climbed so
rapidly toward prosperity that
it is necessary to stop and look
backward carefully to realize at
all that Moore was ever a poor
county. It is no longer the loca
tion of the sand barrens for no
longer is there any such critter.
THE BUILDING AND
LOAN ASSOCIATIONS.
With the growth of the Sand
hills one factor that is helping
along with the advancement is
not appreciated as much as it
might be. Three or four build
ing and loan associations are in
operation, but they are not
backed by as many people as
vigorously as would be profitable
to everybody. It is possible that
a building and loan association
in a community is the safest
form of investment for small
sums of money that the com
munity affords, for failure is
rare among them. It is also
moderately profitable as an in
vestment, for while the interest
rate earned and paid is not as
great as in some occasional
things, it is as big as is consist
ent with the safety afforded.
Safe investments are not as a
rule big interest payers, but they
are better for they are good
principal repayers.
But the prime object of the
building association is not to
make money, but rather to af
ford a certain type of desirable
citizen a chance to procure
homes for themselves on small
payments covering a series of
, years. The people who build
with some show of enthusiasm I houvses through the building and
We can cut the murder hill down | loan are of a class that is whol-
to some semblance of gentleman- j ly useful in the community, and
ly proportions, but the present | anchoring them by their owner-
figures are hoggish. The good ship of property is one of the
old Bible tells us in the book of wisest things any community
Samuel that Amasa wallowed in i can do. Another "type of people
blood, but Amasa had nothing benefitted by the associations is
SOLVING A
SERIOUS PROBLEM.
R. A. Doughton, Commission
er of Revenue, is quoted as say
ing to a group of business men
at Rocky Mount recently that
since July 1 in 961 automobile
accidents 143 persons have been
killed and 1,170 injured. Mr.
Doughton says he does not know
the solution of the problem, but
that it calls for careful thought
and consideration.
There Mr. Doughton makes a
mistake. It does not call for
careful thought and considera
tion at all, but for decisive and
positive action. We have con
sidered this slaughter with all
the care it will stand, and if we
don’t pass the consideration
stage before much longer a fit
of desperation will waken the
folks some day and the whole
bloody automobile business will
be wiped off the race of the
earth.
The first thing to realize is
that there is no excuse for any
of these 961 wrecks, and the
only reason we tolerate them is
our absolute indifference to law
enforcement, and the compul
sion of safety. Every one of
these accidents was the result of
carelessness, and was inexcuse-
able. But as long as every driv
er is allowed to run his car in
any fool way he happens to adopt
at the time we will continue to
pile up the slaughter and the
hospital records.
It takes about two minutes'
consideration to see that the
thing to be done is to have some
laws that have a bite in them
and; some officers to enforce the
law^s. At the present time we
go on the theory that to go
farther than to tell a highway
criminal anything harsher than
that he is naughty is encroach
ing on personal rights, and we
step on the officer who makes an
arrest if the arrested offender
complains. The Kiwanis club
has taken up this thing, and if
it has the persistence to go to
the finish with it the problem
can be solved. But we seem to
have a great eagerness in this
State to start something and let
it finish itself by dying of inani
tion. If the State will join with
the Kiwanis club of Aberdeen
has never had an accident, and
never even lost a parcel of mail
or freight. In the last two years
the Ford air routes have carried
on regular daily schedules a
freight traffic on over 700,000
miles, or a thousand miles a day.
This is the experiment and
proof. Ford will not stop there.
He has more up his sleeve than
a new car.
NEAR EAST WORK
IN MOORE COUNTY
(Continued From Page One.)
in a terrible condition, have now
reached the years of from ten to 17
and 18, but they have not a penny to
pay for an education, and if ignor
ance is to be done away with largely
in the Near East something must be
done immediately. Every war, save
two, in the past hundred and fifty
years, including the great World
War, started in the Near East.
“This campaign is not to be an an
nual affair, just one campaign and
it is finished. North Carolina has
been asked to contribute only $100,-
000 towards this great work. In or
der to secure! this amount, we are
asking your county to contribute $1,-
000. You will not be asked to con
tribute again next year or any time
in the future.
“I am asking you to accept the
chairmanship of this, campaign and
I have the following suggestions in
regard to conducting the campaign
to make it easier for you.
“There are a number of people in
your county who are financially able
to contribute—the rest not able to
contribute. Therefore, the thing for
us to do is to separate those who can
from those who cannot. I would ask
that you make up a list of as many
people in the county as you know
who are able to contribute say $5.00
and over to the cause. Make up a
list, say from three to five hundred
names—the! larger counties will, of
course, have five hundred people or
more able to contribute $5.00 and
over, the smaller counties will have a
lesser number of those able to do
this. Then you send that list to me.
Then I will write as strong a letter
as I can to each person whose name
you have given me, giving them in
formation regarding our work. I will
then send some literature to each,
person.”
North Carolina needs 427,000 cows
of the quality now in the State to per
mit a per capita consumption of milk,
butter, cheese and ice cream equal to
that of the average for the United
States.
A group of Alamance county farm
ers co-operated to order eight cars
of limestone recently.
on the modern automobile.
FINANCIAL CONDITIONS
IMPROVE IN MOORE
A Moore county banker tells
The Pilot that financial condi-
that one which could save a lit
tle money if the chance afforded
to put by a few dollars from
week to week, and nothing gives
a better chance to accumulate
and to cultivate a saving habit
than the building and loan reg-
tions are improving. He says i
that where farmers in previous weekly payments.
prev
years came to his bank to bor
row a thousand they come for
half that much, and some of
One of the good jobs the Ki
wanis club did was in getting a
number of boys affiliated with
them come to deposit money i asswiations as deposi-
rather than to borrow. More other folks can work
buying for cash appears to bei^^ with
the rule, and less for that in-! !?oney coming right easy, and
pany was throwing away the
old car and preparing to build
a new one. No doubt that is one
reason. But The Pilot has a
guess that the new vehicle the
Fords are getting ready to
bring out will have wings as the
main.factor of locomotion, and
that while a new car, and possi
bly tw^o or more new cars may
be in the near future, the big
thing will not be for highway
travel, but for air.
The Ford company has been
working for a long time on fly
ing machines, and with the big
gest institution for building
gasoline machines Henry Ford
is equipped to do with flying
machines what he has done with
automobiles. He has led the
world in highway vehicles, pro
ducing probably as many as all
others combined, and he has a
plant that is as near self-depend
ent as anything on earth. He
has a wonderful organization, a
wonderful business and engi
neering intelligence, and capital
for all needs. He has gone into
commercial flying as far as any
one and he has had unbounded
faith in the future of the flying
machine.
Probably the Ford company
will soon bring out a good, new,
cheap car, and when that is done
it is a guess that that car will
be only one of the aims of the
establishment. The air is just
as big a field for travel now as
the highway was when Henry
Ford built his first car, and Ford
has the backbone to stand by his
sight into the future. He has
no need to call on any one else
for capital, machinery, investi
gation, or anything else con
cerning the production of flying
machines, for he has all that
within his organiaztion, and it
is not hard to believe that a
cheap and simple flying machine
is as likely to be announced from
the Ford factories any day as
a new type of car.
This much can be taken as a
certainty. The air is soon to be
made the highway for an enorm
ous amount of traffic, passen
ger, freight, mail and every
thing that is to be moved. A
good illifBtration is the route
from BaranquUla t6 Bogata, in
the South American Republic
of Colombia, where air traffic
has been going on for six years,
and in that time the company
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The Carolina Theatres
Pinehurst Southern Pines
PRESENT
Presenting
The Sandhills' favorite
screen comedienne
BEBE DANIELS
in
“SHE’S
A
SHEIK.’’
with
Richard Arlen.
BANK OF PINEHURST
PINEHURST, N. C.
It is not what we earn but what we save that makes
us thrifty, Poor Richard says, and he was one cf the rich
est men in his day.
The way to save money is to put it some place where
itching fingers will not send it rolling down| the road
every time something comes along that can be bought
whether you need it or not.
The place to put money to save and accumulate it is
in the bank until you get enough for an investment, and
then get it into some good investment that will stand the
test.
The bank to save your money in is the
BANK OF PINEHURST
A big, safe, strong bank of the neighb:rhood you live in,
with its banking house protected by one of the most com
plete electrical burglar-defying systems that can be made.
BANK OF PINEHURST
PINEHURST, N. C.
SERVICE, SAFETY, STRENGTH.
definite and difficult factor of
credit. This man interprets con
ditions as signifying that the
people are doing two things,
trimming down their lines of
credit, and curtailing their pur
chases to correspond more close
ly with their power to pay for
what they buy. He says the far
mers are better off, and that in
spite of the abundant complaint
the relation of farm product to
ward the products of other in
dustries is gradually drawing
more nearly toward the line that
prevailed before the war. The
farmer’s dollar will buy more
than it has been doing for sev
eral years, and what he has to
sell brings a better average price
as compared with what all in-
the active season of the year at
hand, the building associations
should have a big accession to
their numbers. Every building
and loan house make one more
home in the Sandhills, besides
teaching thrift to both borrower
and lender, and few other things
do so much in so many ways to
help the community.
HENRY FORD’S NEW
GASOLINE BUGGY.
When Henry Ford shut down
his factory and stopped the pro
duction of the greatest indus
try in the vehicle line he under
took a revolutionary step that
is without parallel in industrial
history. The reason passing as
current was that the Ford Com-
’NUF SED!
Also Edward Everett Hor
ton in a Two Part Comedy,
‘‘Find the King,” an Ink
well Cartoon and the new
est News.
At Pinehurst
Friday, Nov. 4th.
At Southern Pines
Saturday, Nov. 5th.
8:15
Also Charlie Chase in “The
Way of All Pants,” the
Fables and a Metro UFA
Oddity.
At Pinehurst
Monday, Nov. 7th.
At Southern Pines
Tuesday, Nov. 8th.
8:15
wIAQION DAVIES and CONC^
WVQEL in -QUALITy STQE^
Also Dorothy Devore in
“Up in Arms,” and Felix in
‘The Non-Stop Fright.”
At Pinehurst
Wednesday, Nov. 9.
At Southern Pines
Thursday, Nov. 10.
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