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THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, December 11, 1931
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE, ManaginK Editor
BION H. BUTLER, Editor
JAMES BOYD STKUTHERS BUKT
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no other steps that can be tak
en, will afford relief in the face
of a constantly increasing sur
plus of leaf.
The man who makes the
price of tobacco is the man who
buys the finished product. He
must not only pay for what he
through the town and escape.
Recently a deer ran into DeBois
and followed nearly a couple of
miles through the main streets
of the city, breaking a store win
dow in its endeavor to get out
of the crowd that struck terror
to it. Hunters up there now are
takes from the market, but he I sleeping on the ground, packing
must take the entire crop so that the hotels of the towns, buying
no surplus piles up or the price | supplies at the stores that brings
is bound to sag, and if sufficient I a great wave of business, over
surplus is held over the price! running the filling stations,
will go to nothing, for nobody j crowding the highways until I
member of the firm, and as the
law is a jealous mistress Talbot
tendered to the Knollwood cor
poration his resignation as man
aging director. He will contin
ue as a member of the, board
and vice-president of the corpor
ation, but aside from that and a
general relation to the corpora
tion it itJ his intention hence
forth to devote his efforts to the
law office and the business of its
clients.
r. e established law business
more than the value of taxes
claimed by the county against
it, and the county cannot go
very far in taking over delin
quent property without finding
itself without tax income from
much property that is default
ed.
GRAINS OF' SAND
$1.00 ^viii i^^.ep on paying any price fori traffic is almost impossible. | of Johnson & Johnson has been 1
Life is made up of doinjr what you proaches. There are so many serious
wanta do and doinp what you Kotta questions facing the nation today
do, with quite a lotta doin>f nothing’ ^ that it seems to use they should be
.‘pread in between. ^ taken up in order and settled. The
I press, that yreat medium of exchange
if we could all do only what we of ideas and the dissemination of in-
Three Months 50]thing of which he has a sur-] And the slaughter is one of the one of the conspicuous successes | dishes? | formation is ever ready to <b its part,
feit. The Kentucky tobacco far-1 most ghastly things known on [ of the community of the last j | and this Column of Contemporaneous
mer has made the price situa-|this continent since the days of: few years. But a more spectac- One of the things we'.ve ^I'own to | ‘s hereby declared open to
Additss all communications to The
Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C.
Entered at the Postoffice at Aber-. to imi)V
! tion impossible, and the only way 1 the buffalo hunts of fifty years! i*lar accomplishment has been j >»an’s estate without knowinK whichpublic on the .^ubject: “The
to imi)rove it is to lessen the! ago. i the remarkable creation of '"f^ prefer—or, if you wish, which wej''®®her vs. the Wiper.”
deen, X. C., as second-class mail mat
ter.
THK NEW C()N(;RESS
CONVENES
The seventy-second Congress
of the United Slates has con-
vened. The chief feature of it, as
far as this section is concerned
is that our entire delegation is
changed since the opening of
the Congress preceding. Cam
eron Morrison succeeds Over
man, J. W. Bailey follows Sim
mons, and Walter Lambeth
takes the place of Hammer.
North Carolina is not given to
swift successions in Congress.
Therefore that our entire dele-
crop to fit the ability of the buy-; It does not look attractiv'e to. Knolhvood and its ramification H'slike the more—is the washinjr lor!
ers to u«e the tobacco. The man-i North Carolina as a sport.
iifjictrn'vs are ?s helpless as I
the f I’mers exc pt that the | HOOVER’S l*LAN
manufacturers can stop buying! FOR NEW HOl^SES
leaf when t.;ey have all they can ■ The President proposes to the
handle. It is not what is bought' country a big house building
:<nd used that kills the market,' plan that more people in town
hut what hangs ovei' when all; and country mav become own-
the factories have in their ware
houses all they can see any out
let for. They can not put money
into stocks that will hang on
their hands for years.,If they
wanted to their creditors would
not provide the money for such
a dangerous procedure. Very
few things are a safe venture
on a purchase for a supply far
ahead of demand. Rubber in In-
gation, as far as Moore countv
is concerned, is a new one, is out |
of the ordinary. Actually not i
many men are living now who
voted for congressional repre
sentation that did not include
one of the three names that have
been dropped from the rolls in
the past two years.
The new representation gives
promise of being a substantial
group. Cameron Morrison, the
first of the trio to reach Wash
ington. is a man of a great deal
of ability, of courage that was
meant to make him a warrior,
and of plenty of sense. He has a
bit of ethyl pas in him, which I
I sugar in Cuba, wheat and cot
ton in the United States, all
show where the country lands
that tries to buy a surplus crop
and hold it for a rise. The rise
never comes, for long before the
surplus can be marketed +he
next crop is along, piles up on
top of the surplus that has been
ers of houses and be fortified
with a place to live without the
uncertainty or paying rent. Bas
ically the idea is a good one. We
are becoming a country of tene-
which as long as the present | " iplnfr. Most people, we’ve found i Wh.v men always sinp when shav-
generation remains will be a ' our experience, prefer wipinp, but in>? is another unsolved problem fac-
signpost of the creative genius | there is much to be said for washing, iny the country with the inooming of
of T?.lbot Johnson. Arthur New
comb, long associated with him.
said several years ago that Tal-
Ijot Johnson was the most able
real estate man this section had
ever known, and the rise of the
Knollwood community from the
wire grass and sand of the ridge
al)ove Me Deed’s creek be'rirs its
testimony. Nobody knows how
In washing dishes the hot water and 1S*32, but we have Riven this a great
soap do most of the work; in wiping deal of thought and believe that at
you have to use elbow j^rease. And last we know.
you never quite kmw when the dish, To think that we shall go down in
i; dry. Not that you care, but just hi.story as the one who made the
as sure as you slide over one, the' ‘ i?covery. Never have we dreamed
'.vife or the hostess, as the case may | what P'ate had in store for us. It
le, is bound to catch you. j only shows how fortunate some peo-
And there comes one of those em-1 pie aie. Little did Horace (Ireeley think
i arrassing moments when you feel the lit would be famous because he sim-
ment dwellei's and of flitters; the influence is to go ulti-1 ‘ ply told some young men to “Go
and practically'’ vagabonds. Mr. i^^tely in making this neigh-j washing .'he cant say that, if est. Thousands have ordered other
Hoover
ital th
architect . ,
niic tiiid intclli^^^nt lines cind fiimilitir with tht* story of > iittle oii^inality a,lid recammcndod
nance the buildings so that per-i the movement from the time i Gianted, there is nothing that the West, instead of the usual speci-
sons of modest means mav pro-! Henry Page sold the property toj<'‘'‘‘j« and fied d;>stination. And Greeley lives,
cure homes on moderate periodi-1 the Knollwood interests knows than water whiih is 20 per cent It
cal payments is sound as far as, that Talbot Johnson has been a !-“p and 20 per cent grea.e. Butwor
it goes. If it can be made to work I of advancement and de-
out and more people ultimately!'‘^lopmeiit. Depression has dull-
provided with homes of their \ things a little over that way
own the value of it Ls beyond ! temporarily, but presently things
measure. I "’iH brighten, and then the work
However it must not be for- j "’il' forward, and on the
stored, and the price goes down gotten that in our habit of shift-that has been established ^ It is really an interesting subject
into the cellar as is the case: ing employment it is not always i there will be a mpnument worth Uo discuss as the New Year ap-
with our own venture in wheat desirable "that men shall put' while to every man who has had '
!<nd cotton relief. The relief that their monev into installment ^ hand in its erection, and Tal-
ractically^ vagalumds Mr i ”l«tely in making tins neigh-i »n wasmng sne can 1 say mat. n >vusi. mousanus nave oraerea otner
r’s plan^f combined cap-j ^'orhood that desirable place to !‘he plate isn’t exactly clean, the rins- thousands to g,o elsewhere, but their
lat can employ competent I live that is the dream of the supp.osed to take care of it, and names have not gone down to poster-
ects and build on econo- folks around here, but every- always fall back on that ex- ity. Greeley just happened to use a
tlan the wiper—there are alv.ays
those few minutes while you’re trying
tc get the grease off that you have
the laugh .on the other fellow.
It came to us like a flash as we
putting a new blade in the old
Army Gillette.
Why, we said to ourself, as we had
been saying for years, d.o men sing
as they shave?
We looked at the blade.
Sharp and Flat!
Of course. It’s so easy.
will come will come from a les
sened crop, and the law that
will bring that les.sened crop is
makes him somewhat quick statute, but ^
action at times hut thp nrosnect 1 effect of modern in-i^^i^nt.
is that he is going to be a high-^farrner: dustrial development. Where a|
ownership of homes, for so bot Johnson will be remember-1
many changes of location fol-' ed as an architect and builder of !
low changes of iobs that rents | one of the most important feat-1
have entered the equation as an! ures of the Sandhill develop
iv useful member of the national observe that law for him-] family is certain to stay in one' 1'HE VALUE
government, for if he mav be I through any process of: place a home is undoubtedly thel^^l*' FARM LANDS
a little quick on the trigger he' anchor, provided that the' - --
is also gifted with a quick eve. I can’t be forced up by law | changing financial conditions of
and he generally has looked^^®'^^’^*® power has yet been|the family do not prompt the
where he is pointing before he i compel a man to buy i change to a better or not so good
shoots. J. W. Bailey is another I Beyond a doubt every
man of recognized ability and
wide acquaintace with state and
national affairs, also a little mer
curial, but with a right fair bal
ance wheel, not so familiar with
administrative goveniment as
Morrison, but a student of af-
or at a price that is higher than young man should try to acquire
On Monday before the Com
missioners at Carthage came a
matter that perplexed the wise
men who direct county affairs.
A widow with a small farm and
eview
y
A NEW GALSWORTHY
•Maid iri Waiting.
By John Galsworthy.
Chai-les Scribners & Sons.
$2.50. 1931.
Reviewed by Ann Hyde Allen
It is unfair to ask whether one
he is willing to pay. He will look; a roof of his own. This is helpeil i children had failed to pay her
somewhere else or go without, j in a broad way by the building 1928 taxes In i)rocess of time amount of in-
i and loan associations. No doubt , , , ’1 , Ti 1 j terest were “.Maid in Waiting” by
'Mr. Hoover’s broader pro])osition
the land had been sold, and for
FROM SPORT TO ,
SLAUGHTER HOI rsE is a workable suggestion. Yet it'of any other bidder the
Once in a while men who un- to be remembered that even! county took the land. The tax
fairs, and more than the ordi- dertake to point out the huntinglaudable a work as buying a! bill amounted to some $30. \\’ith
nary is expected of him. He will liossibilities of North Carolina should be approached with ^ a mar rin of time for redemption
the woman sold her chickens and
.'-ome others things about the
John Doe. Of course, one would not.
h might (perish the thought) e\en
seem incorseciuential and awkward.
The story is a pleasant one of mod-
trn England. Its characters belong
to that class whicli forms the un-
The story is not so much that of
Hubert as of the rallying of the
(.Ian around him; his father Sir Con
way the retired general, two attrac
tive sisters, his uncles, Adrian the an
thropologist, Lionel the Judge, Hil
ary the minister, Lawrence the Mem-
_,ber of Parliament, and the impulsive
kopardess Jean Tasburg who mar
ries him in the midst of his tr.oubles.
We arc again confronted by the
Englishman’s never failing melodra
matic presentation of an American;
crudp, naive, but kind-hearted with
al. We suspect that Galsworthy still
I looks upon us through the eyes of
* Fenimore Cooper.
The book’s m.ost memorable situa-
obtrusive backbone of the Empire;
lilace and came to Carthage to I landholding families who have'
pay the claim. But it had Kl'own j''^P*‘esontatives in all the services; tion, however, has nothin*? to do with
be an outstanding member of refer to the game development' caution when it is tied up
the Senate in due season. Wal- of Northern Pennsylvania, es-i}'*th a debt over a lengthy per-
ter Lambeth is not so well known pecially in that section of which > time. The cause of much
as the senators, but he comes DuBois, a citv of about ifi.OOO the farm distress at the pres- ,
with a good name for sound , iieople, is a gatewav. North of' <?fit time is the case with which a , through co.sts here and the^'e un-1'lie the church, the foreign Huberts predicament. 1 here the ac
sense, business ability and high DuBois is the great pine wilder-' government en- til the money she brought was j the law. (That of medicine, tors merely deport themselves m
integrity, enjoying the confi- ness. Some v(;ars ago the game ^bled the farmers of the country inadecju.ite to liquidate. Her re-!'”®y interpolate, is never counted every resiject as English gentlemen
dence of the people in the'belief ' ad been practically killed out. to btii'v themsejves in debt from sources had reached the end of than an unpleasant neces- deplorable circumstances. But
that he will fairly fill the politi- Then v , ^ . . . ^
cal shoes some time ago worn in
Washington by our own R. N.
Page. Not many other conges-
sional districts in the United
States can show a more promis-'
ing delegation in the opening,
Congress. ;
Fortunately these three men i
are all business men. and men i
of means, for in spite of the
Pi
more that of a state slaughter,
house than of desirable hunting t.oat may be desired. | than the value of the farm.
'conditions. The Courier, the I Hoovers proposition. And there started a discus-
morning paper printed in Du-'^‘-'^ made workable it should , sion among a small grf^ujj of
Bois. notes the opening of the, have as one of its ironclad first | men. If the farm would not' ^^hurwell s mismanagement In his iiuiet and flowing style Gals-
hunting season this week. The i *’^^!t”!^ites that no man is encour-: bring the amount of the taxes in | natives. He beat a cruel mul- worthy emUUms his special layer of
beaded by an American scientist. The are as vivid, brutal, and sym-
lailurt of the expedition is later on ' I f'thetic a picture of borderline in-
ilamed, in Frofess.or Halloi'sen’s sai ity as we have seen.
i sale evideiftly it was not worth
any more than the amount of the
taxes. In that event the assess
ment had been too high, and
many times too high, for if the
tax claim is to be the full val
ue of the properly the whole
l)rocess of taxation is positive
confiscation. The argument of-
t'irst day of the hunt thousands ! to go into debt farther than
popular hocuspocus about men of of hunters went into the woods, j prospects imlicate safety, for
wealth in public affairs, it is oming in scjlid train loads from cr^ough high finance has swept
that kind of men who should Pittsburgh, from the Philadel- o' ^’this country to serve us for
be there. A man who can handle ) hia way. from as far as New,‘' t.me. It is not more credit
his own iHisiness well enough York. M'chigan, Wisconsin. Ker-^ need now. but more paying
that he is successful in business ^ tucky. Virginia, and everywhere. ‘ what we owe, and rnore reduc-
is more likely to be an able man The highways were crowded 1 t-or* of credit to a bpis where it
in public business than one who with cars like they are on thej^'*"^ handled. Biting off what
ca?;not prosper in his own occu- -*reets of the big" cities, and!"’® ’^ot chew has given a na-; i'ered by one sage was that if the
pation. This district may sale- when the hunters in the even-|t>onal bellyache of so grave a farm is not worth more than the
ly expect much from >Iorrison, ‘ ;r!.T of the first day began to i tvpe that no one yet is bold taxes claimed the tax rate is
Bailey and Lambeth. ' 'ome out of the woods through I‘^J^^tigh to say what is to be the many times too high, and .‘should
'DuBois f>n their wav homeward ^ ^ outcome. But certainly bit-' not be more than a dollar and
T'l'u-' ni' ■ that a stream of deer; more is not the remedy. ji few cc'nts on the hundred of
^ I ^ veraging tl rer* a minute were i ^t may sound, the \ aluation for 1928. It the sale i
LOW lOB.ACC O I moving southv/ai'd through that I ^^^t is that our next job is to value of the place is ai"ound'
The daily papers tell of nn ul-lone gateway alone. It is esti-1 ot'-r debts. Making it easy to; thirty dollars the assessment is
timatum by the Kentucky to-] mated that a hunflred thousand j more is to invite positive | luirdensomo if it is above thirty i
bacc-o growers to the warehouse ■ ("unters were in the woods the i ^^^‘’truction. j ciollars, and the taxes .should not
teer whom he later shot in self-
liefense. Thi' iharge causes (lues-
tions to be asked in rarliament; Hu
bert’s career is threatened; his hon-
or-as-an-officer-and-a-gontleinan, the
honor of the I'amiiy is at stake. The
crisis comes when Bolivia demands
Knglishmen, the Empire-servers shall
We say. much as Kipling did the Em-
pire-builders. There are no flying
flags nor martial music, but Gals
worthy cheers John Bull with equal,
if less strident, ardor. In other words,
bis extiariitL)n on a charge of mur- the lion purrs instead of just roar-
oer.
ing.
men, with the demand that | first day. and many cars that
]irices be higher or the ware
houses shut their doors. Burley
prices have been ranging arounu
an average of four or five cents
according to reports. At the
same times comes a bulletin from
came out brought three or four
deer each. The total of the kill
w’ill probably not be known, and
that slaughter is to go on for
‘everal days. The bombardment
is said to have sounded like a
W'ashington which says the bur- battle, and the paper published
ley supply for 1931 indicates ait)^p morning after the first day
total of 905,000.000 pounds
which is the greatest ever
know’n, and which is accounted
for largely by the increased
burley acreage planted last
spring. The Tennessee and Ken
tucky firecured crop is also lar
ger, and against the enlarged
crop is a falling export trade,
which further exaggerates the
situation. No matter what the
tobacco farmer in Kentucky may
say about prices no protest, no
closing of the warehouses and
of hunting said that five men
had been shot, and that hunters
reported falling on the ground
as a matter of safety time after
time as they heard the rattle of
guns becoming too promiscuous.
In the city of Kane, a place of
some six or eight thousand peo
ple, game came so close in that
it could not be shot. Five bears
came into the city and because
of the danger of shooting at
them in the streets they were
permitted to go on their way
be more than thirty-odd cents.
Maybe this is a reduction ad
itbsurdum, but the fact is there.
The county could not sell the
farm for the amount of the
taxes. Therefore the taxes are
more than the farm will bring.
Absurd as this may seem th?
AN ESTABLISHED
SIC,^' POST
When Talbot Johnson came
home from law school a firm was
established that bore the name
of Johnson & Johnson, not a
very prominent firm at the be
ginning in its little rooms up j county is confronted with a fair
stairs in one of Aberdeen’s new 1 number of properties that will
buildings, but one with a viril- not selj^ for enough to pa.v the
ity and knowledge of the com
munity that en.sured success.
Murdoch Johnson came later
from South Carolina, the firm
grew, and made a place in legal
life. Then the finger of Time
laid its claim on the father and
Murdoch felt the heimweh that
calls the wanderer back to the
ancestral community, and he is
preparing to return to South
Carolina. That leaves a single
taxes. That is a condition that is
not absurd, but a fact, and a
startling one. The question arose
then as to how long the county
can be a bidder on delinquent
properties until it has more
property on its hands than it
can square itself with, and
which -cease to be taxpayers and
producers. No illusions are going
to give any value to any default
ed property if it will not bring
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