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PILOT, a Paper ith (^haracter, AOerdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 25, 193^
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THE PILOT
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
Contributing Editors
dined to encourage sales on any | that a policy of retrenchment in
other ba^is we are to be helped | public affairs is imperative, that
to get on our feet by cutting out j we must live within our ability
our debt-making improvidences. | to pay, not because we would not
Our high-standard of living | like to live higher than our abil-
sounds all right, but it is not go
ing to be an argument any lon
ger any farther than our ability
to pay backs it up. After the
of poor stuff. It’s just a tough break ! are annually close to March 21 and
for the poor downtrodden farmer. i September 21, respectively, with
' summer and winter solstices falling
ity permits, but because the in
ability to pay prevents us from
getting the things we \^uld
like to have. It is a question of
stock brokers, including Durfrey and
S. Wade Marr, charged with embe2,
zling funds of customers, will comp
up later.
The grand jury returned 10
dictments against Ed Hugh Lee, for!
war the whole effort was to I taxes, in both state and county
make it easy for everybody to as well as in the nation, and if
get into debt as far as his eyes,
but now that the bill collector
has been putting on the high
pressure instead of the salesman
Subscription Rates:
One Year ...$2.00 '
Six Months $1.00 1
Three Months oO ! s'hoe is On the other foot, i situation that faces all govern- , equinox arrived.
we can not produce the money
for taxes we are not going to
much longer have the things we
think we must have. That is the
Arch McKeithen tells us the Sep- near June 221 and December 21.
tember heat wave has been the worst The earth’s axis continually points
in his memory, that the temperature in the same direction. It it were per-
in the daytin^e during September hab , pendicular to the plane of the earth’s ' mer Raleigh tax collector, charo-in»
been below 85 but twice so far this orbit around the sun there would be embezzlement or misapplication* of
month. no change of seasons. Day and night 1 city funds ranging from $.‘^0,000 to
every where would be the same length. $40,000. He may not be tried at thi-
While the popular belief is that But the axis is tilted 23 degrees, term. ^
September 21 is the last day of sum- 27 minutes away from a perpendicu- * * *
Address all communications to The j
Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C.
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Entered at the Postoffice at Aber-,
deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat- j
ter. i
GARDNER DOES NOT j
LOSE HIS HEAD '
In the dance of folly which:
prompts some of the states to |
call special session of the Leg-j
islature to enact laws to attempt
to control the planting of cotton
Governor Gardner does not go
crazy along with the rest of
them. He realizes that if a man
wants to plant cotton or any
thing else, or to engage in any
business that is not harmful to
the people or the country it is
not an affair for the state or na
tion, and he also comprehends
that the basic laws that govern
industry and business are not
amenable‘to the fiat of legisla
tion.
It is so simple, if the farmers
want to reduce the acreage of
cotton, to reduce it. No man is
obliged to plant a big cotton crop
if 'he thinks it is unwise or un
profitable. The reduction of the
crop is in the hands of the in
dividual. But 'the time has not
yet come when any man may
say how much icotton or any
thing else any other man may
plant. On the day when any one
group, be they legislators or
anything else, can say what any
other group of men may do, pro
vided it is not interfering with
the rights of others, American
liberty is bnded, and bolshevism
is enthroned. The law that says
how much cotton may be planted
can say how many cai^ may
travel the road, and how many
shoes a man may wear, and how
much of anything he may do.
Nothing would more certainly
invite revolution and overthrow
of all government and all re
straint.
But if such a law could to any
extent be enforced it could re
sult only in immediate disaster.
The talk of idleness that we
hear from over the country and
unemployment is piffle alongside
of what would follow if Texas
should materially reduce its big
cotton crop. Might as well close
a certain proportion of the groc
eries in the towns to enable the
others to be able to raise prices,
and to bring better returns to
those that could be allowed to
survive. But it would mean
a lot of clerks walking the street
as stopping cotton would mean
an army of idle hands • on the
farms. Gardner does not care to
mix in with a lot of batty house
projects.
The job ahead of us, individual, i ment now, and schools will no
state and nation, is to get out | longer run on the installment
of debt, and the creditors are | plan.
going to help pull us out, pain- i ^
ful as the process may be in | ANOTHER YEAR
some quarters. The man who j aT PINEHURST
pays as he goes is not stopped j , f .
at evei-v turn by some one who ^ witn tne approac oi tne op
mer, autumn did not officially begin Reports that Sprague Silver, diief
the year until 7:04 o’clock on last , „ ^ 4. • ui. i of the N. C. motor vehicle
Wednesday, September 23, when the er is 1 a rig ang es drunk and tried to “hog” a meet-
11 equinox arrived. direction o nthe sun. In day representatives of five states
Periods of spring and fall equinoxes and night are equal the world over, in Chattanooga, Tenn., last week to
— — try to end the “truck tag war,” are
in part discounted. Commissioner of
Revenue A. J. Maxw’ell announced
that he would get to the bottom of
the matter before taking any action
regarding Silver.
vrnr^ey. He is the one
I ening of the hotels at Pinehurst
man who has the open road andjtl^.of are most familiar |
a welcome every where, and he the general conditions of
At the
By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent
is the man who will end the de
pression w^hen it is ended.
HAULING THE CHILDREN
TO SCHOOL
The question of bringing
country children to school in the
villages of central points has
called forth certain rulings at
Raleigh, which is^ now the exe
cutive headquarters of the State
school system, and the fiat has
been issued that funds will not
be provided for transportation
of children more than a mile and
a half. Much argument is offer
ed on both sides of this ques
tion, the advocates of shorter
haul pointing out two which are
of weight, one being the dan
ger to children on roads travel
ed by many cars, and the other
the discomfort in rough weath
er. The danger on the roads is
probably the most convincing,
for we have built roads for au
tomobiles, which 'has destroyed
their value as anything else. The j across the fence.
business over the country Iook
for The beginning of a good year., ^ full-fledged row is on between
The Carolina opens officially on j Maxwell, Commissioner of Rev-
October 26, little more than four candidate for Governor, and
weeks off, but in fact it opens school folks, or a school man,
Opfnhpr 9^ to parp for thp Ki- ^upt. R. H. Latham, of the Winston-
wanis convention which will oc- j schools, which gives promise
cupv the intervening time. The extending to the entire school
period from now until then is Maxwell had a good word
for the new school law, Mr. Latham
The Kiwanis convention will i'>"swered and criticised it in a pub-
bring a houseful of excellent, add'ess,^"^* Mr. Maxwell respond-
people, for the organization is! ci’ticismg Mr. Latham. •
one of picked men from the var-' The subject matter of the contro
Correspondence
APPROVES YEOMAN’S
PROPOSAL
rests, will call the legislators togeth
er.
North Carolina has 275 chain store
systems operating 1,645 stores, on!
which a tax of $70,852.50 was paid, Editor of The Pilot,
under protest, for the year ended Aberdeen, N. C.
May 31, 1931. An appeal from the Mr. Yeoman’s proposal in The
tax is now pending before the United , Pilot that more thought be given to
States Supreme Court, on the ground harmonious planting schemes in the
of unconstitutionality. ^ Sandhills is a valuable one, and sug-
* * ^ I gests other needs that an organiza-
Following a conference with might serve.
ers of various forms of industrial and
How to plant with a view to fu-
ious communities of the states, | '"^rsy is not important, but the row agricultural activities here Friday, *"7 development of the garden plan
Lent on a work of helpfulness,: on in the open now, as it has been Governor Gardner stated that he ^ ‘-'e >mmediate ef-
and pursuing those aims that ] smouldering for some time. School:
name a commission of five or ^ ways un erstood.
are uplifting and broadening. ! folks generally seem to have the idea week as a special unem
Along with their seriousness i that Mr. Maxwell is after them, and
they have the inclination toward break with Mr. Latham, a
a share of the pleasures that an
outing in the Sandhills affords.
member of the State teacher body’s
legislative committee, seems to indi-
These men will start the sea- that the war is on. Almost as
son with an enthusiasm, for in! ^ oody, it is believed that the teach-
a way they include friends and oppose Mr. Maxwell’s ambi
neighbors from not too far
away. The housewarming will be
by folks who drop in from
merciless butchery of the auto
mobile is one of the astonish
ing tolerations of our present
day civilization and practices.
Last year 320,712 persons were
injured and 14,924 were killed
by automobiles while walking on
the roads and streets in this
country. Over 3,500 children un
der 15 years of age were killed
by cars while on the roads and
streets. But, we have made all
our roads dangerous for every
body on foot on any public thor
oughfare, whether children go
ing to school, or anybody going
any place afoot. The foot pas
senger is flirting with the grave
yard.
On the other 'hand the ques
tion of the cost of transporta
tion is one that will not be
By that time many of the
tion to be Governor. Mr. Maxwell
apparently does not fear them. He
may figure he will get more votes
from the people who are with him on
reduction of governmental costs, in-
winter colony will have arrived, i eluding schools, than he will lose from
Already the familiar faces be-! teachers.
gin to show up. Four more will! * * *
increase the arrivals to consid
erable proportions. Highway
travel is more attractive this
fall than ever, for within the
A flurry was caused last week by
the Charlotte Observer story from a
former State official that Josephus
Daniels expects to be a candidate for
past year considerable new work | Governor and would make his an
on the roads has increased th-e
hard surface. A choice of routes
from the Sandhills to Washing:-
ton, to Hagerstown, and to the
nouncement Sunday, or some Sunday
soon. He declined to comment on the
story. People here believe he would
prefer to continue as a crusading edi-
SOUth is available, in some direc- i tor, free to attack or approve, to be-
tions three or four or half a ing a State official himself,
dozen different good roads ♦ * ♦
tempting the traveller. The m ^ i .
railroads have been improving! "'T ^
their service so that excellent j ^new h.s platform, but
facilities will await the pilgrims f
whocomethis way. Withafav-|‘^" q^adnenn.al revaluation; ful
orable growing summer shrub-! ^
term, w^ith no ad valorem tax; against
the short ballot, favoring centraliza
tion only so far as needed to assure
efficiency; and against all sales taxes.
The selection of suitable plant ma-
ployment relief commission, directed amateur.
to handle relief in the State this win-! ^
ter. Reuf'rts from leaders in activi-I e regu ar year y expense
. Oi. i. J u ' ot upkeep is frequently overlooked,
ties m the State were made by sev- ^ ^ j-
eral of the 25 persons called to the
conference.
The commission will make a study
The question of the best winter and
summer effects should be considered
also. Some of us are here in winter
only. Others remain most of the year
and need not only warm, windless,
evergreen enclosures but also cool
breeze-swept spaces under high-arch
ed shade to refresh our hottest days.
Another side of the planting ques
tion is its suitability for birds. Other
advantages being equal, the prefer-
and seeks methods of relieving dis
tress in the State as a result of econ
omic depression and the resultant
lack of employment. R. W. Hennin-
ger, who was in charge of the work of
the unemployment commission last
winter, has been named as director.
The task will be much greater this , i
year, Commissioner of Labor Frank
D. Grist estimating that about 22 per
cent of the working population, or
approximately 100,000, are out of
work and another 100,000 are work
ing on part time. . __ __
' ganization Mr. Yeomans proposes
* * * i might place in our public libraries
Carey K. Dufrey, Raleigh broker, reference books and current periodi-
has been found guilty by a Wake j cals on garden making and keeping a
county jury of embezzling fimds en- j wide range of the newest seed and
trusted to him as executor of the | plant catalogues, a file of up-to-
estate of the late Mrs. Florence P. | date federal and state bulletins, and
Tucker. Judge Walter Small, presid-1 a standard encyclopedia of horticul-
supply them with food and protect
them from danger with a view to in
creasing their numbers.
In addition to offering information
on these and similar problems the or-
ing, announced he would impose sen
tence this week. The penalty on the
tw’o counts, 10 others having been
ture.
The people of the Sandhills always
have been quick to take advantage of
swept aside, and not because bery and trees have grown re
people are eager to sacrifice markably all over the neighbor-
their children to any parsimon- hood, and the Sandhills were
'ous prompting, but because a never more interesting. The,, , ., , , , , i
fa ir proportion of the people do highways and homes are ex-1 the’^^7 the les- -
not have the means to pay the tending their park appearances ^®^” ® enoug now. g
costs of the high expenditures year by year, while the builder J’® , i«
that schools of the modem sys-: continues to broaden the home! B™mm.tt has been busy mak-1«
withdrawn, is a maximum of 10 years j opportunities for enhancing the at-
each in State’s Prison, Durfrey offer- ; tractions of their community and they
ed no evidence. j will doubtless appreciate the possi-
* * * I bilities of this new idea.
The case of Durfrey and Marr, I —MARION C. MacNEILLE.
HOW TO GET OUT
OF THE DEPRESSION
This financial depression is
largely an individual matter. It
can be remedied by individuals,
as it will be, and by paying our
debts before we spend very
much money for a wide range
of new^ purchases or by going
deeper into debt. Fortunately for
all of us, individually, state, na
tion, creditors are no longer en
couraging unlimited buying on
time, and we are now studying
how to cut expenses rather than
how to borrow more money.
The trouble is not overproduc
tion, but overloading of every
body with a lot of stuff that
was not needed, and which was
urged on buyers who could not
pay 9s well as on those who
could pav, and now the whole
world is in debt to its neck, and
lacking money to get out. We
have a neriod of debt paying
ahead of us, and the sooner we
get them to the ground and pay
until it takes the skin off the
sooner we will reach the point
wher? we will have money to
buy. Money paid on debts cir
culates just as freely as money
spent for new purchases, and
puts lots more ginger into bus
iness than money circulated in
anv other way.
. The day that is ahead of us
IS a day of trying once more to
withm our income, indivi
dual, state and nation, and be
cause our are not in-
tem call for. It is not the desire horizon, even though not as
that leads people to call for rapidly this year as in some
lower costs, but the inability to years that have gone. Yet, taken
pay, and when your pocket is in all, the Sandhills were never
empty it is useless to insist that more to be appreciatd than this
ing speeches recently, but has said i S
nothing about his possibly and ex
pected entry for the governorship.
Willis Smith is back in Raleigh,
GRAINS OF' SAND
Whew, but it’s hot!
Southern Pines believes in killing
two birds with one stone. She is solv
ing unemployment by getting her win
ter planting done, and everybody is
benefitted, including those who gave
the funds to aid the unemployed. For
it is with these funds the work of
cleaning up and beautifying the park
ways is being done.
Arthur Newcomb says the State
Motor Vehicle Bureau must have de
cided to adopt the gold standard, it’s
gotten rid of Silver.
you must dig up money from it.: fall. And the signs are promis-1 with scars of the automobile accident
Few people have any doubt now I ing for a good winter. j near Charlotte a few week? ago, but
~ I apparently as well as ever. He waxes
eloquent in praise of the hospitality
of Charlotte people, but says not a
word about his prospective candi
dacy. J. C. B. Ehrinhaus, already an
nounced is visiting and speaking in
first one part of the 'State, then
another. The stage the past week has
been held by Maxwell, because of his
platform.
4c *
Governor Gardner is not being
stampeded into calling a special ses
sion of the General Assembly by res
idents of other states, or the few'
calls of North Carolinians, to place a
legal ban on planting cotton next
year. He takes the view that this
State raises such a small part of the
cotton that it is wise to wait for ac
tion of other states growing larger
quantities. He asserts that cotton land
From all we hear, that fair at Hemp in this State is “doped” with fertiliz-
the week of October 5th is going to er to such an extent that it will not
be worth going miles to see. And the j ^ow without commercial fertilizer
week after comes the County fair at j and that the people of the State will
Carthage. j unable to buy enough fertilizer
“ next year to raise 500,000 bales.
Those Samarcana girls have fin- North Carolina cannot compete
ally been moved from “Death Row”! with Texas rich lands in cotton rais-
One Tar Heel youth has been nam
ed on the All-American baseball team,
stars selected from among American
league players by the sports writers.
He is Wes Ferrell, of Guilford.
The Sandhills towns are left out of
The long felt need of reviving the the itinerary of the Raleigh State
Boy Scout troop in this section is Fair boosters this year. They are go
about to be met. It was a shame that ing to tour the state, but not via the
the troop ever surrendered its char- Sandhills,
ter, but the man who gave his time
to making a success of it, Max Back
er, of Southern Pines, reached a
point where he didn’t have the time
to give to it longer, and the troop
died. Now George Moore returns from
the North and spurs the Chamber of
Commerce to action, and it is hoped
to get Max back and reinst'^ite the
troop. No community should be with
out a Boy Scout troop. No boy should
grow to manhood without Boy Scout
training. There is no more worthy i ^ ^ ^ t
„ • ' •'if housed in more inflammable sec
tions of the institution.
A MODERN DRUG STORE WITH THE
GOOD OLD-FASHIONED SERVICE
We invite you to visit our
place for anything’ a drug
store carries.
CHARLES DRUG COMPANY
G. A. Charles, Prop. Aberdeen, N. C.
Market you tobacco on the Aberdeen Market
in the State’s prison at Raleigh, where
they were kept for some time for
fear they might set fire to the prison
And now someone should start a
Girl Scout movement.
The farmers don’t like some of the
/prices offered for their tobacco, but
ing and will gradually shift from
cotton, he believes.
Opinion is expressed here that Jo
sephus Daniels, Raleigh editor, is
preparing to try to force an extra
session to deal with cotton, probably
with the hope of getting his pet lux
ury tax adopted, maybe holding out
that the $100,000 bottlers tax error
the buyers don’t like their tobacco. ^ ,
The fhes must be pretty bad here- The good leaf is bringing good prices, j may be rectified by the session. But
a outs. Someone stole a bunch of The weather this summer was tough | a greater need than is apparent will
screens irom the rapidly diminishing on the tobacco grower, but the com-! have to develop before Governor
-^011 ern ines Hotel. , panies can use only a certain amount i Gardner in whoco r»ower' the calling
McLean Furniture Co.
Looking Forward to the
Biggest Season Ever
Some of our fall and winter merchandise
is already here and more is arriving daily.
We are the most complete home furnish
ers in this part of the state, and sell for
at least 50 per cent below the average
price.
«
All we ask is a visit to our store and
you will be convinced.
McLEAN FURNITURE CO.
The Store That Appreciates Your Trade
South Street Aberdeen
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