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Page Two THE IMLOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday, December 25, 1931. THE PILOT but the friendly motive that ' takes note of the fact that you are somebody’s friend. Published every Friday by Ab,,d!^rrs.Sn::::'N. c. NELSON C. HYDE, Manaj'inif Editor BION H. BUTLER. Editor JAMES BOYD STKUTHEHS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Tiie observant thinlting man views with no pleasu^'e the growing tide of communism that is sweeping this country. Not that fiddling little mouthy ef fort tlijat is encountered liere iind there in that type of men Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 some are pleased to call reds. Three Months 50 They are insignificant and in- ! effective. The great threat is Address all communications to The | in higher places and sustained Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C, | by a rapidly increased army of I have a following that i reaches from coast to coast. The recruiting agents are in con- Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. CIVILIZATION’S GREAT HOLIDAY Now comes the marvel holi day of the civilized world, Christmas, the assumed natal day of a character that is alone in its relation to the rest of hu man kind. Christmas began as a religious holy day. It gradual ly came to be a day for the chil dren, and in Central Europe it is yet the Chriatkindchen tree that bears the treasures to greet the little people, and it is Santa Claus, who was Klaus before he was Claus, and St. Nicholas, or any of the other variations of the Kriss Kindchen, or Kriss Kringle, or Bels Nichol, or child ish or grown-up modifications of the name and sentiment. Rut all the way along the sentiment has been one of gladness and good will for others, and that is probably what has carried the day to its lofty level among im portant periods in human life and experience. Christmas has been appro- press, in politics, in the dwell ing places of those w'ho have come to look on the government ciS thfc source from which all things are to be derived and who regard the federal treasury as a public benefactor and the pass ing of a law as the cure for all evils. It is the triumph of the fed eralist in the old fight that be gan with Jefferson as the cham pion of the individual and Ham ilton as the leader of those who Inok to Washington for all that is desired. This country i\vas created by individual action and backbone and industry. It has been turned over to public dom ination until we have sunk in dividual privilege in communis tic domination to almost the ex treme limit. The farmer com plains and he is given relief from the public treasury, but hun dreds of millions go out from the same treasury to build the Hoover Dam in Arizona to sup ply water to irrigate miles of territory to make new farms un der government rule, that are in direct competition with the ndividual farmer who is strug- serious. It will work its way out, but no one knows how\ If we , continue to cultivate the com- , munistic idea of government ! management and sustenance and control of everything we will in due time bump against the stone ' wall of chaos, just as all com munistic movements do. Then I we can undertake a recovery on the painful road that failure of j one thing lays down for anot'h- ! er attempt.“But it looks now as if our communistic experiment has to go much farther before we turn away from it. We do not as a people or nation appear to comprehend that to appro priate money from the federal treasury and then try to fill the treasury by taxing or borrow ing against the future w'hen w'e have passed the limit of taxa tion does not create anything. It simply wears out what we have by swapping it from one pocket book to another and charging interest and commission every time we swap. GRAINS OF' SAND priated by everything. It has been made tlie opportunity of a gling to keep his head above w'a- great commercial activity over j ter. Private industry builds rail- a certain quarter of the year of roads and the public funds build a certain industrial activity for roads to handle the traffic. All weeks of an especial endeavor on the part of salesmen and dis tributors, of inventive genius that devises new novelties, new toys, new surprises, and a large army of people depend for a considerable portion of their live lihood on this Christmas com over the country impossible wa ter ways are built at great cost and maintained at great cost to carry freight at lower price than trie railroads can handle it. The Muscle Shoals dam was built as a war measure and since it could not function under government merciahsm. Were it not for the 1 management it has been a per- deep-grounded influence Christ mas has on the large proportion of the world’s population that comes under its powers Christ mas would be an industrial func tion of the modern civilization and little else- But the singular strength of Christmas in the di rection of good will and thoughtfulness for oti.ers, and the distribution of g.fts and kindly greeting, ovcrshadow’s w'hat is the greatest single event in stimulating production merely for the climaxing of a sistent thorn in the attempt to j)ass it along to private hands to operate, and private hands will have no truck with government control of business. The govern ment gets into the business of providing relief funds for the farmer and ties a stone about the farmer’s neck and in due time the farmer, the banking system, business and everything else, collides in a stupendous crash of government. The theory is that the gov ernment can do everything, and I It didn’t take Aberdeen school au- ' thorities long to act when it was re- I ported' to them last week that a I school bus laden with pupils was driv- I tn across the Seaboard tracks in I Aberdeen w ith the bell ringing, warn ing of an'approaching train. The driv- I er was “fired” within an hour. i I Rufus Beck’s reinstatement as a I State Highway Patrol lieutenant was I i)leasing to his many friends in Aberdeen. He has had a splendid rec ord as an officer; one loss of tem per should not ruin his career. We all lose our tempers once in a while. or as Mrs. Boyd’s. His car had been parked in front of the office too. j And, too, there was that Western | Union messenger who was riding his bicycle down the street in Aberdeen the other day, and while looking be hind him ran into a parked autonio-, l.ile and was unconscious for over an i hour. single date and Cnristmas comes! that Washington is the place to along with a hail and a joyous-! fro when anything is wanted, ness and a merry humor that (The fact is overlooked that gov- puts the materialism of it in thejtrnment can not create mater- backgi’ound. So the postoffice i ials, or values or wares, and can goes on its rounds hunting up | get money only from the tax- John Doe and Susie Roe, and | payers. The argument is that if Mary Hoe and Billy Poe and all ^ money is needed in the form of the rest of the millions of the j taxes we can go where money is multitude and scattering remem-'and get it. The result can onlv brances of great and little mo- ibe what it has been. In going af- ment, but all of them arousing ter the money where it is and a friendly contact, and bring-1 getting it we find it is not there ing the race into human touch ‘ when the tax collector goes next and joyous holiday greeting. i time. The income tax is a source It is a great event, this Christ-j of dtpendence for the general nias business is. Much or little,I government. This year business, it has its effect. The world is j has been flattened and there is a made when a man is born. Life; >-'tartling falling off of income.! and experience begin then. All The seed corn has been taken, i that follow's compares with the; and heaven only knows what is| first impressions. By that test'to be the outcome. But we still! one of the greatest Christmas , as a peo])le are going to the gov- festivals was that of 1864. War ^rnment for everything and pro. had left its mark on a little j posing bond issues with hardly household. Small children climb-1 any limit to provide funds for t‘d out to see what Santa Claus every thing, forgetful that the I'ad brought, and in the stock ing knit by the mother, of rolls spun by the mother, were tuck- TALKING SOME POLITICS This is the last visit of The Pilot in 1931. Next week the figure turns ahead to another year, and w’ith the coming year comes an election that is of im port to state, county and nation. Possibly you may not have thought seriously about the ad ministration of the past politi cal period, but a dispassionate analysis will show much better than some folks on first thought w'ould admit. In the county, which is the unit in which our local influence is most pronounc ed, the government has been on the whole of a high character. The general advance in business methods throughout the state under more modern legislation, has enabled a better business administration of county affairs, for the rules of the game in gov ernment as in everything else have much to do with the re sults. Regardless of a little tan gle concerning some of the county finances, due to a mat ter of financial depression com mon over the country, Moore county has been w’orking to ward a more logical business basis, and has set on foot a pro gressive drift that means still more satisfactory conditions in the future. The coming yeiir means a new slate in the county. With a business of over half a million dollars to conduct it is desira ble that the best men to be had shall be chosen to public office. Unfortunately the pay involved compels a sacrifice if the most skillful business men are to take up the cares of county adminis tration, which makes it difficult to secure always the ticket that w’ould be the most useful. The choice therefore is generally a limited one. It is wise for citi- j;en and political leader to be gin now to think about proper men to put on tickets, and their qualifications if we are to get the best governmental vesults in the county, must be business and dupendability, not siimply the desire to hold office. In a general way The Pilot believes pretty much in keeping in office, as in any job, a good man when one has been employed, for the man who know's the work is us ually better than a man who has to be taught the trade before he i^' familiar with the tasks. But men come and men go, and where vacancies are likely to oc cur it is well to have some one in mind. And that is the job this county should be considering now and until the next election. 89,00() PEOI*I.E BUSY LAUNCHING NEW CHEVROLET Governor Gardner has turned lit erary and broken into The Satur- i day Evening Post with an article I that will appear in the January 2 issue, on sale December 30. Govern or Gardner wrote on “New Wine in Old Bottles,” holding that new con ditions demand new remedies. Editor Lorimer has written him that the ar ticle is so timely, dealing with the reorfjanization .of State government, that he has changed the title to “One State Cleans House.” Electricity may have solved the problem. Burglars were finally foiled in an attempt to enter T. A. Hen drick’s much burglarized store in I Cameron the other night when they j ran amuck of the electric alarm sys- I tem Mr. Hendrick has installed. Some ; eighteen men are serving time for j robbing this store. I Mrs. James Boyd drove up to the office of the Town Clerk in Southern Pines in her Franklin car. On the seat of the car she left a number of books while she went in to talk to Howard Burns. When she went out .^he found no books in the car. Hurry ing back she reported the loss of the books and Town Clerk Burns put the police on the trail. Mrs. Boyd drove off. It wasn’t long before she was back hgain. She looked a little sheepish. “I’m sorry,” she said. ‘‘That wasn’t my car I drove off in. My car is still out there with the books in it.” E. H. Lorenson has a Franklin of the same model and vintage and col- The mythical spirits who dwell at Valhalla Farm, east of Southern Pines, in accordance with financial conditions this year prepared for a limited circle of friends a home-made Christmas card drawn on a piece of linoleum by Helen Butler, daughter of the household, engraved with a chi.'sel, a jack-knife and a pin, for a pinhole makes a good star, from a pencil sketch made by the chief Bushy-pine, from a computation of the stars as they were to be around the house at V^alhalla on the night of December 24 at midnight. As the old chief is endow'ed w'ith certain mystic powers, and had access to the Nauti cal Almanac the map of the heavens drawn a month or so in advance is as accurate as the card is novel, as any one can see who will look at the sky Thursday night. But it w'ill not fit any other night of the year,, owing to the constant changing of the position of the moon and stars. To all readers of The Pilot, Merry Christmas. “Did you have w'ords?” ask ed the j udge of a man who back ed his Ford into a Packard occu pied by a w’oman. “Yes, plenty” was the reply, “but I got no chance to use them.” I Here are some words about I words. Of the 600,000 in our lan- I guages, the longest is said to be antidisestablishmentari a n i s m I with 28 letters, though, to be I sure, smiles has a mile between 1 the first letter and the last, while beleaguer has a league be tween its first and last sylla bles. And there is one word that is made shorter by adding a syl lable. If you don’t know what it is, try short. Strength is probably the lon gest word with only one vowel, while facetiously has all the vowels in their proper order. Indiscrimination is composed of six words, in, disc, rim, in, at, ion. Tremendous, stupendous, haz ardous and palladous are the only four which end in dous. Notwithstanding the common pronunciation of oleomargarine, g is soft before a in only one English word, and that’s an old one. If you want to find it, go to gaol. Skiing is said to be the only common noun having two i’s to gether. This may be a slip, but let it slide. And now for the last word in banking; BANK OF PINEHURST Pinehurst, N. C. CHRISTMAS at the Village Court Show Room oft e Pii,3 iK'i Wareouses . . . money to pay must come from the taxpayer and that the tax payer is falling down in his pay ed an apple, from the orchard, i ments, and sacrificing his prop- a .stick of candy from the cross-1 erty to the collector in lieu of roads grocery, some nuts from i the money that is demanded, the chestnut trees on the ridge] The grave danger of our com munistic tendency is that for every dollar that goes out of the treasury a dollar must be taxed into it, along W’ith all the cost of getting the dollar and paying it out. Already the people and business are carrying a load un der which they are falling down. Money is not going to continue in business that is taxed toi death. Funds will not be found; for new ventures that are spot-1 ted for plunder by the taxing | system the minute the new ven-' ture is established. Government 1 cannot run business with any ef-| ficiency, for political connivanvel and business mbnagemqtnt are two wholly different things. j The situation that faces us isi and the butternut trees down by the creek, a pair of home-knitted n;ittens, and a w’onderful crea tion, a jumping jack, bought at lavish expenditure, probably ten cents, W'hen an uncle had been over to the county seat where they had such things. Many a Christmas has come and gone since then, but never such anoth er w'onderful affair, for never do you see again a thing that impresses you as deeply as the first time that you can recall. It is not the amount of stuff the factories work months to make, and that the stores ad- \ ertise by the page to sell, and that the mails and express trains flood the country with today; More than 89,000 people are back at work as a result of the introduc tion of new 1932 Chevrolets, and ?20,- 000,000 worth of new cars or parts had already been built at the time of the public announcement, according to a statement released by W. S. Knud- sen, president and general manager of the company. j “The Company’s policy during the last year has been to retain as near an equal number of men on the pay roll as possible and vary the hours according to the demand for cars; in addition, during the short remand periods, inventory has been built up to increase the weekly hours to the greatest possible number. “The result has been that the num ber of employees in any month dur ing the year, except the shut-down month of October, has not varied more than 7 per cent on a total of 34,000 men, and the hours have aver aged close to forty per week; 39 1-2 to be exact. Christmas might be much more practical in its offering than it is many ways. A dollar can buy a substantial dollar’s worth as w^ell as a dollar’s worth of something made only to pay a Christmas debt. The Show Room in the Village Court exhibits things that are as appropriate for Christmas as intelligence can design, but likewise possessing permanent value and endurance along with their mer it of design and artistic construction. When you send a friend something to indicate a Christmas re gard send something that can be appreciated, and which will prove an appreciation of that friend’s taste, and be w'orthy of a w’elcome for its merit as well as for its sentiment. When you choose a Gift Lamp from the Warehouses you know it is a gift that speaks for its own value. Occjisional Chairs that are worthy to appear any place. Tables, especially some novel ties in Biickgammon Tables. Easy Chairs that are easy to sit in and easy to look at. Rugs and Draperies that your friends will rejoice in. Don’t buy Christmas presents in a way that gets the job off of your hands, but show your real friendship by sending your friends something that will be a perpetual remind er of your real feeling, and that will stand the test of analysis of friendship, a selection made with all regard for the pleasure of the recipient. Buy your Christmas presents with the same care as if you were buying something for yourself, and to secure enduring pleasure while the article lasts. That’s the way to show your friendship. Bear in mind Pinehurst Warehouse wares are not “made to sell,” but to endure and to satisfy and to serve. They are offered on their merit, and expected to stand the test. Inexpensive gifts, and the more costly ones, but all of them worth the money, and worth sending to your friends and of a quality to hold you r friend’s grateful remembrance and regard VILLAGE COURT SHOW ROOM OK THE PINEHURST WAREHOUSES PINEHURST, N. C.
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