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THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, August 21, 1931^
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager
BION H. BUTLER, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
RALPH PAGE
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THE COUNTY
TAX SITUATION
Last week the county commis
sioners heard the appeal of a
considerable number of people
who were not satisfied with
their rating on the tax books.
It may be thought that fixing
values of property is a simple
matter, but the man who listens
^ few minutes to the discussion
that follow an appeal will see
that it is one of the most com
plex things in the world. Prob
ably no two men would make
lists of property values in this
or any other county and have
them correspond at very many
points. And probably the fig
ures would not be any more ac
curate than any other figures
made by any other men, for
property values are temporary
at the best, up and down, and al
ways nothing more or less than
what some man will offer who
wants to buy, and worth noth
ing at that unless the man who
owns wants to sell. Equitable as
sessments df property are so
complex that it is only natural
that many differences of opin
ion should arise.
So the commissioners have
studied the situation carefully,
and they have undlertaken to
deal as justly as they know how
in encouraging equalizations.
Yet it must be remembered that
thev can not look over every
piece of property presented to
them, and that they must rely
greatly on fthe assesisodrs who
have given the matter person-
,al investigation and comparisons
of one holding with another.
Also it is to be remembered that
commissioners, assessors, own
ers, and everybody else are lack
ing in that profound wisdom that
Icnows everything. An equitable
assessment never was and nev
er will be made on anything.
However, it is safe to say that
assessors, tax commisioners, the
county commisioner and all con
cerned have undertaken to ar
rive at the most reasonable con
clusions in spite of the fact that
some of the conclusions strike
other folks as ludicrous. It is
reasonable to assume that when
the final report is completed it
will be about as equitable to
everybody in the county as the
limitation of human judgment
can arrive at. Taxes and death
have a way of paying little at
tention to individual ideas of fit
ness.
plow' down the third row this Senator Davis proposes to dis-
fall, and many would not. But tribute moving pictures that the
dents last year entailed
struction of oyer two billions of
why plow down cotton this fall people may be made more famil- ■ dollars’ worth of property and
and plant a lot more next year ? Mar with our unparallelled and | costs, to say nothing of the vast
It is simpler and less expensive
to harvest the third row and put
it in the bam and have it next
year rather than to ptot anoth
er crop next year.
In spite of anything meddlers
attempt to do prices will adjust
themselves to the world ‘crop.
If the American farmer plows
down his third row the Euro
pean, Asiatic and African farmer
will profit by the market if any
change is effected. The Ameri
can farmer will be the sacrificial
goat and the old world farmer
will get the benefit. Then next
unconsidered slaughter and
in-' costs that followed accidents of
jury through modem careless-
other t\T)es. If we could avoid
ness and indifference': We are the tremendous cost of automo-
killing now a larger average
daily by automobiles than was
bile accidents for eight years it
would pay off the entire nation-
killed during our engagement in al debt. The losses from automo-
the war with Germany, and our, bile accidents in two months
bloody re(^ord is mounting up i more would more than pay the
Carolina.
Wq are destroying our prosper
ity by our carelessness in acci-
day by day until right nov/ there | entire debt of North
is nothing in our history to com
pare with our present slaught
er except previous a\itomobile
dents, to say nothing of
our
record^. War has ceased to be I lives and the long list of hospi-
deadly enough to serve
as
a tal and surgical costs that are
comparison for our automobile entailed.
where, with a business jaufficient
a family livelihood.
His parole was recommended by
Executive Counsels, N. A. Townsend
and O. M. Mull and then by Tyre
Taylor, but Governor Gardner held
out f*or five years’ service, probably
as a sort of object lesson to bankers
generally. In fact, Wrenn’s servic4'
was beginning to look more like per
secution, since many believe he was
made the “goat” pf the bank organi
zation, and it was beginning to see,
that he was also becoming the “goat”
and example for all bankers of the
State.
issued. The price of these birds will be
figured at actual qost to the Depart
ment.”
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deaths and accidents. War has
year everybody will plant more ceased to be a comparison
by
cotton, and the txouble will be which to measure the terrific
up again. If the farmer wants to destruction
of
property
and
The pity of it all, and the dif
ficulty is the calm indifference
of all the people to the situation.
If Secretary Davis can by the
work on thirds he can put away costs that result from automo- appropriation of a few thous-
a
third of his crop and have it bile slaughter and destruction.
Senator Davis- hopes that by
information
ready for next year rather than
plant again. But even that will I spreading picture
not work, for the farmer will do of this condition the inconceiv-
what he waixts to do any way. |able apathy of the American peo
ple to their ghastly record may
THE MEASURE OF
HARD TIMES
An old philosopher who makes
a practice of observing what he
sees was asked a few days ago
about the prospect of an end
of the hard times. ‘
be overcome to some extent and
the record lowered. Traffic acci-
and dollars bring the situation to
the minds of the people he will
do the hest job congress has
undertaken in many a year, bar
nothing, for anything that is a
bigger hell than war is fit game
for a big undertaking.
Sam P. Christy, paramour and co
defendant with the State’s most
noted w,oman prisoner, Ida Bell War
ren, like the woman, has been parol
ed, after serving about 15 years of
a life sentence, commuted from the
death penalty, for murder of the wo
man’s husband in Forsyth county.
Sentiment against exacting the death
penalty fr,om a woman saved his life,
as well as hers, and her parole sev-
eral months ago doubtless had its ef
fect on his release last week.
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then Heal Planning
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POULTRY CLUB MEMBERS
TO GET PUREBRED MALES
Never, was
his answer. And he suggested
“We ain’t so bad off with our cot-1 it and sell it for what it will bring.
that the old man Einstein, who ^"
talks about the relativity of I W>Hock. “When cotton was up to 15
things, had the idea of
times and other times.
hard gasoline was about thirty and
it took about two pounds |0f cotton to
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Look down the street,
said
buy a gallon of gas. Now it takes a
he, “and you can hardly see
end of the cars lined up against,
the curb. A few years ago that ‘ ‘
which we would hafta pay on sjome-
would have indicated a degree
Our cotton this year will * sell for
of prosperity that we
could not forty million dollars, not Qount-
have comprehended them.
ing the seed, which
will
sell
for
are paying more money now for “S'* ‘I*® ’’‘'1
gasoline than we used to pay for f aly>ut forty-six million dollars and
flour and meat and clothes and
I claim if a state can git enough for
chewing tobacco and a lot of
things that we still buy along doing so bad. How n the dickens
with our gasoline and silk neck-|T"’*^ didnt have
ties, and land only knows what.
the cotton?”
That money will help some to buy
the things the two other rows will
not have to be spent for.
The sun is falling into the qom-
mon habit with some of the rest of
the folks of not rising quite so soon
in the mioming.
When you can buy a big watermelon
for ten cents it is hardly justifiable
to kick too much about financial con
ditions.
People on the farms
have
more to eat than they ever had.
They raise a wider variety of
things, more good butter and
milk and better chickens
and
fruit, more good schools, good
roads, more of everything. The
whole thing is comparative. Ra
dios, picture shows, refrigera
tors, water in the kitchen
and
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electric lights, papers, maga-
This world is designed on a mighty
broad basis. In a short time we will
have so much complaint against the
frosty fall nights and the price of
coal that we will entirely :^rget all
we had to say about the heat of July
and August.
When business is quiet, advertise.
Perhaps its quiet because you’re not
They used to say that to g,o swim
ming in dog days would make you
sick, but folks around here are not
much afraid of dogs.
The use of better males to head up
the farm flocks is the outstanding
need of the poultry industry in North
Carolina. To offset this need, the
Poultry pepartment at State College
will distribute at cost, throHgh the
extension service, pedigreed males of
kn,own performance to 4-H club mem
bers who are conducting poultry pro
jects..
Let the Meat Decide
the Vegetables
“To be eligible to
secure
these
birds.
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says Proffessor R. S. Dear-
styne, head of the Poultry Depart
ment, “club members must have kept
records on their flocks for at least
one year and must agree to keep rec
ords for two years after the male is
Here is an idea or two:
T.anib and Peas
Pork and Green Beans
Ham and Spinach
Beef and Beets
Sanitary Cash Market
E. B. NayHard, Pnp.
SOUTH ST.
ABERDEEN
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CAREFUL GARAGE SERVICE
until the world. is revel- *o offer.
zmes,
ing in abundance. But we com
pare everything with two years
ago when we hit the highest
mark the universe ever saw. If
you want to know when I think
will hit that clip again I would
say may be never in my life
time, or may be we will in yours.
So far nobody has suggested that
instea.d of plowing down the third
row ,of cotton it would be wise to pick
In the gO|Od old days we hear about
folks when Orgust came along went
to camp meetings. Now we go to
bridge parties and necking parties
and to moonlight sonatas |OUt along
the road. While the camp meeting af
forded considerable action these days
of a seventy-mile speed limit want
more variety apparently.
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Men who are trained to take care of your machine with
skill and caution are the men employed by this Garage.
In their hands you can trust your car at all times.
SALES
SERVICE
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One Sandhills salesman won a prize
H. A. PAGE, JR.
last week for exceeding his
sales
Aberdeen,
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qu,ota for July. He says “Pilot adver
tising helped me win.
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You don’t have these
big
climaxes very often or in very
close succession. But if by hard
times you mean anything as
hard as we came out of a few
years ago I don’t think we will
ever go back to that condiiion.
We may flounder around a little
Another
Malic Triumph!
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By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent
The State Corporation Commission $6,378,955.37
to
$5,814,067.34,
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has issued an order calling on all $565,888.03 for the same peri,od.
A HELPLESS
PROPOSITION
The suggestion to the farmer
to plaw down his third row of
cotton and pick the other two is
so funnv that it
more laugh
able than pathetic. It
the
would say may be never in my | public seWice corporations ,operating
life time, or may be we will in, electric, artificial
getting our feet and adjusting
ourselves to things as they are
shaping up now. May be take six
months, a year, two years, five
years to get accustomed to the
change, but it is all depending
Of the automobiles to August 1
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gas or telephone; this year, 5.48 per cent had
been
property in the State to file, under bought since January 1, while 5.83
oath, on or before September 30, per cent of those registered at the
copies ,of all written contracts and | same date last year had been bought
statements in full of all agreements, in the corresponding seven months.
arrangements, understanding
and
New cars bought this year number
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max of the impressive philoso
phy that the world works for the I Parative.
sake of work.
No doubt the whole world has
made more cotton this
things by two years ago, ten
years ago or twenty years ago.
We will go forward on a surpris
ing scale, and things will look
good in a year or so because
we will make real progress, and
also because next year we will
compare with this which
look
two
practices in effect during 1930 and 22,184, as c^ompared with 25,777 for
on how much we can compare the first half of 1931 with all holding, the
same period last year. However,
managing or operating companies or new cars bought last July numbered
those engaged in the selling of service 4,815, as compared with 4,161 bought
of any kind.
in July, 1930, an increase of 554 for
will
better than compared with
years ago but it’s all com-
year
than is to be needed. We have
been
doing
that for several
Probably he is correct.
The order is under authjority of an | the past month,
act passed by the 1931 General As
sembly, giving the commission pow
er in its discretion, to call for this
information, the object being to make
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Revoking the commission of C. W.
Fjoster as justice of the
peace
of
Guilford county because of substantia-
certain such QjOmpanies are not pay- + u u j j
• j • • tion of charges that he had made
ing to holding or service companies -racket” of his office, brings
a
years, basing our hopes on the
delusion that high prices set in
war days were to be permanent,
and forgetting that high prices
are invariably followed by low
prices because men want to
share in the high figures. So
around the globe as well as in
this country folks planted more
cotton, and more cotton released
the urgent call for cotton and
prices fell. They will fall and
stay down until less cotton is
planted and then they will go
up again to induce another in-
THE COST OF
CARELESSNESS
In a radio address last Friday
Senator James J. Davis told of a
proposition to introduce in the
next congress a measure to pro
vide a small fund of $50,000 for
the purpose of impressing on the
people of this country by print
ed matter and especially by mov
ing pictures the fierce destruc
tion of life through accidents of
various kinds. He mentions that
the entire war of the American
revolution resulted in the death
of 1,856 soldiers and the wound-
in.cr of 4,227 in the five and
half years of the struggle. But
an undue proportion of the revenues,
thus depriving the State of its just
amount in taxes imposed.
Companies are required
statements of all fees, commissions
or other compensation paid or pay
able by the companies operating in
this State, to aiiy h,olding, managing,
operating, constructing, engineering-,
financing, purchasing
to file licitors check
company
or
crease m production. It is use- on Fourth of July this year, in
less to attempt to control price the one day that is set aside to
agency, including subsidiary and af
filiated companies, for services or
property during the 18 months, with
the character of such services and the
basis of payment.
intima
tion that Governor Gardner will have
practices ,of the justices looked into a
little closer generally, and have so
up on those named by
the Governor, elected by the people,
or appointed by the General Assem
bly.
Fjoster, it was charged, and in part
admitted, in company with a deputy
sheriff, would snoop around side
streets, and secluded parking places
watching for petting parties. Finding
one, he would agree "'to receiving cer
tain supposed fines and costs with,out
bringing the couple to trial
Here is genuine Oil-O-Matic great sacrifice in heating effi-
heating for smaller homes, with dcncy. This new perfonnance
one of the greatest advance- is known as Hushbd Hbat.
ments ever made in oil burner
design, yet lower in price than
any Oil-O-Matic in history!
Every feature that has made
Oil-O-Matic the most widely
used oil heating in the world is
Low cost fuel oil is burned
cleanly in mid-air, without
soot or carbon. This lower
priced and better fuel will save
you hundreds of dollars.
Williams Oil-O-Matic heats
war
in any commodity of easy pro- commemorate that great
duction, for the price is the in- and its victory, the (Jeath toll
centive to produce
not to pr- was 483 and the injured 2,408, a
duce. The present low price will record of half
effectively plow down the third
as many injured
as m all the years of the war.
Farmers now and more than a fourth as many
that a large crop will not | killed. At that rate three or four
celebrations of the victory will
is I show greater disaster than the
sell. That is the whole condi
tion and the only one that
workable. Some farmers might
SIX years war.
and
avoiding publicity. It worked well,
first time this year, l^Gcause of the dislike of the couples
showed an increase in number of mo- caught for publicity. Greensbor,o,
tor vehicles and an increase in li
cense plate receipts over July of last
year, Sprague Silver, supervisor of
the Motor Vehicle Bureau, reports.
found in this new low priced more than 100,000 homes. The
Moiiel K. New Williams de- Williams Budget Payment Plan
velopments, notably a new makes it very easy to have this
t5Tpe of Flame Proj ector, make matchless comfort—especially
possible a degree of quietness at the new record low price,
never before achieved without Telephone today for details.
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Vehicles increased from
16,886
in
July 1930, t,o 24,953 Ikst July, the
license plate fee
mcreasmg
from
from $135,278 to $19*^,544.26 for the
two months.
Motor vehicles dropped from 425,-
144 for the first seven months ,of last
year to 379,516 for the same period
this year, a decrease of 37,561. Fees
for the license plates dropped from
it is predicted will be a safe petting
party place, for a time.
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Clem Wrenn, serving a sentence for
embezzlement and other irregularities
as president of the Bank of Wilkes,
Wilkesboro, had his sentence commut
ed by Governor Gardner to five and a
half years, and has been released.
Wrenn had charge of the State's
Prison print shop and made a splen
did Fuccess of it, otherwise proving
himself a model prisoner. He hopes to
settle down with a little sh,op some-
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