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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern t*iaea and Aberdeen, North Carolina S'riday, February 16, 1934, I them, and his figures would be j accurate to within a few inches. . Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Aber- ground water the absence of wa ter within reach of the roots is a grave situation. He says the THE PILOT Published every Friday by ' deen, Sariford and Carthage are I failure of rainfall and the capil- THE Piixxr, Incorporated, all tied in on this scheme. Con- j lary evaporation of under- Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. c. j necticut avenue out to Fayette- j ground water has left the soil -—;— 1 ville, all the points in the fort,; for several feet in such a dry NEi^ON c, HYDE, Manag:inK Editor \\ricker without going j condition that in many places BiON H. BUTLER, Editor I office, can give the ' unless ample rainfall comes fAMES BOYD STBUTHERS BURT j absolute location of much of the I within the next few weeks the Contributing Editors i Hoke-Moore county line as in- i outlook for starting young crops SubscriptioB Rates: | dicated by government work, I is not comforting. One Year $2.00 ! marke<l by government j With winter kill and lessen- six Months 1100 j monuments. He should be draft- j ing underground moisture con- Three Months 50 j yvork. | tent it is possible that the agri- —rri 7, „ 'TH»! i cultural oranizations which Address all communicauons to The . ^ t i xu ^ DR. RAND AND are trying to help the farmer TRIBULATIONS by lessening crop yields will Possibly Dr. Rand who talked 'have plenty of heJp from Nature, at the Jefferson Inn a couple of i Maybe we will need help to in weeks ago on the interpretation i crease the crop before we are of prophetic indications in the j through, big Egyptian pyramid will point Grains of Sand Correspondence Governor Ehringhaus says he had a fine Hme in Southern Pines, and it was a good time shared by more than 200 other persons, so the annual banquet of the Chamber of Commerce goes on the record as a real success. Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail matter. The CWA payroll in the state last week totalled $678,398, slightly high er than the previous week. Mrs. O’Berry reports 75,903 at work on projects during the week. CORPORATIONS men’s Compensation Act in North j Carolina, whereby insurance compan- Editor, 'The Pilot: , ies have realized six million dollars in Your editorial this week about j profits in one year. Premiums for Corporations ought to bring you | this insurance is taken off the la- some comment. You either don’t un-1 borer’s pay roll. It is common knowl- derstand the situation in North Car- edge that we pay an exorbitant rate olina in regard to corporations or | for electricity in this state. It has else you understand it, alas, too been ascertained that without raising well. It is common knowledge in these parts that corporations have named Governors of this State three or four years before their election. Cor porations have made it a rule for William T. Dowd of Sanford has n^any years to control the Legisla- been appointed United States Marshal for the Central District of North Carolina, which includes the Sand hills. tures in North Carolina, as near as the rate of electricity, the power companies and the tobacco interests could operate the public schools in North Carolina. I do not wish to as sume the attitude that corporations ought to be "soaked” or put out of business, because in truth and in they possibly could, and in the past fact they are an asset to the state, few years they have come pretty | but, if given an opportunity, capital to recent de\*elopment as evi dences of his correct predictions. France at least is stirring up things in shape to encourage a TO VERIFY NOBLESSE OBLIGE Govctrnor Bhring*haus will grind the face of labor with the greed of power. As long as corpora tions in this state try to control our has prophet who has war on his sche- ter and accomplishment since dule, while the peace pipes in j taking the executive chair that i some of the other sections of the I The Pilot takes the responsibil- shown such breadth of charac-i banquet last Friday night: It is currently rumored that the close to it. This is easily discernable I I by reading and studying some of the , Culled from the extra edition of, legislation that has been put over on j The Sandhills Daily News which ap- tjjg people. They spend thousands of Legislature, as long as they contin- peared at the Chamber of Commerce | dollars every year in lobbying activ- ue to spend thousands of dollars in ities in Raleigh. The Legislature of | lobbying activities around Raleigh, 1931 provided that no official of a ^ you will continue to hear abuse and bank could be indicted for stealing j political agitation. In many instances, depositors’ money unless such indict- 11 think, justly and rightly so. Peo- ment were recommended by Gurney P. Hood, or whoever might be Com missioner of Banks, and then it would name of the proposed Dogwood Fes tival here has been changed to Dog gone Festival. This being North Carolina and RASSIE WICKER , V .n ^ I globe are badly in need of smok-' ity of offering to him a sugges- Rassie vV icker asks why ii tne , ^ world is to be safe.' tion that would be in keeping county commissioners ^! The severe winter that ' as with his pronounced attitude in ^te the hne between Hoke ana North and lapped over | enforcing the law which called .North Carolina being what it is to-1 be the duty of the Governor top ro- Moore counties they cio , into this section for a couple of for automobile license tags on < day. Southern Pines is borrowing ceed to tell the Solicitor of the Dis- low the plan ot ttie i'eaerai go\- another thing that January I. Tne governor has j$42,ooo for extension of its water ^trict what to do. Although we spend might encourage a prophet of been criticised for fast driving, j mains. , thousands of dollars to pay Exam- grief if he wants to include such j and he confesses the act, but, l * * » Banking Department, in things in his list of tribulations, without trying the case, points ; The rumor is that Frank Buchan t^e instant case of the Bank ’ of ernment and survey the line on the basis of the Coast and Geo detic survey and the Geological survey which have made extend ed surveys through Moore and Hoke and given us positive base lines that tie in with everything Of course Mr. Guggenheimer, fact that the affair was; was the only one the Chamber of Vass it became necessary for the and those other lucky fellows i one of inadvertence rather than | Commerce could get to invite the depositors to pay out of their owti thur no in vvirn PVPrvTniriir "’^0 have been accumulating sil- intent to violate the law. |Governor here. The postmaster is the 'pocket, auditors, in order that a true T'nitPfl from the their mines to find I enough understood, | only merchant m town whose sales condition of this institution might be Tprnlt thP » profitable overlooked. But the gOVern-; require no tax. . ascertained and bill of indictment tlfo tn thP Julf ^ . . placed with the Grank Jury, if nec- 1 . ! call this a period of grave tl"ib-;^*^*^ Virtue of the old doctrine ot The Governor accepted the invita- essary. Who do you think made this „ Elsewhere Mi. \Vlckei s pi op- but we are not all in the, noblesse oblige by putting his : ^*on to speak here because this is the legislation possible, corporations or is the working hidden hand of spec- 0.Sltl0n IS expounded. It l^ so silver mine class, ^oot now on the universal hab- only town in the state where no one t^e individuals in ordinary run of cit- ial inljerests, generally represented valuable that the county ^9^" And may be the French outbreak of indifference in driving in arrested after January 1st for i^ens in this state? through large corporations with fa missioner.s should lo.se no time this state as well as in every i wearing 1933 license plates, in caiTying it out, and if the cost I the mercurial temperament'other state, and it is likely that * * » is too big it would pay the land- F'rench neonle who have ^ it' he will point out to his people Tho Albemarle police .say a driv- pie in this state arer tatxed to the breaking point. They cannot get any relief until there is a fundamental change. When a small group of men in Raleigh can dictate to a convict guard or a highway patrolman or some other employee of the state how he .shall vote, we cannot reach that point of good legislation and control which you so ardently urge in your editorial. The press of the state, gen erally, has not been fair to the tax payers and land owners. True condi tions have not been published. Behind practically every move in North Car olina. from a legislative .standpoint. owners within ten miles of the line to contribute a little to have the survey made on the same basis of precision that governs the coast and geological surveys. Another thing the commission ers could do with decided prof- tn stir nn thinirs in Paris pvprv- that fast driving is not onlv vio- o»ght to be able to control any once in a vrtile p„.ssil,le some if ‘he law. but one of the .car that h.s , good governor. As to taxation, it is true that cor- 1 names. You either do not porations pay large taxes in this the conditions in North Carolina, state, however, compared with the Inflow them too well. ‘‘First taxes paid by the farmer and the ' out the beam of thine own eye; it largely of the opera-bouffe disastroivs influences that cli- ! character for the delectation of *n the great death list on loc.al PoiLriiVMEN .at the visiting Americans who can I’oads and the vast army of ('odk .meeting in UALEUiii come home after it is over .md injured people as well as the entertain their friends with ■‘source of great financial destruc- Nine regional meetings to discu.ss man of the middle cla.ss life, their percentage is less. It often takes everything a farmer can produce on his land to pay his taxes. Corpora tions arc responsible for the Work- | Carthage, Feb and then shalt thou see slearly to cast out the mote of thy brother's eye.” H. F. SELAWELL, 10, 1934. JR. It woulrt be to add Rassie \\icker ' hair-raisinir experiences in ‘j’*”' could lead a m(jvemeiit the new code of fair competition with , cimantm»»iilimimn*c::TOiuaiu:K:;:mgnte:«uinnnmt:mKiii»iiw.-uat:c; to the surveyinK foi-ce that is to|^^ ban'icacieV do the w.irk for he is an engi- o .li * ■ > neer of ?jch high order that he South America, Cuba. France,' would be valuable to any corps tht^ lestle^.sne.ss in Japan, oui This would be a gw>d time for pin, extension pouitrymen at state that has precise work to do, and ® iiniaiion witn a re^-on-, Ehringhaus to ask the , College. Local committeemen are to is .so well acquainted with ^loore , ^“ Uajon^ot gmein^^^^ people of North Carolini be elected to aid in seeing thatt he county - n ov, c Valuable aid „ - . . . . by astronomical verification at' that it is possible to pick up al- whatever el.se mav travel a meeting in Greensboro January 22, various points on the lines, and an\ in histor\ anct administering the code. to tie in with the triangulation that incites fast and ah persons engaged in the cus- ni’oipot'^ th'it tV\p (i6ol- I tioublcd Ht thcit pciiticulcir timt? i Y'dpHiio, v-\n4- fv» 4- ■ * & & project.s mat enabled tne L,eoi- ‘ ’feckless driving, but that in- tom hatching of chicks or who offer ogical .survey a few years ago places on the eaith. And difference to all law that char- more than 500 chicks for sale annual to make positive locations of i this is the comforting assurance. I acterizes nracticallv the whole I Tl T • 1 I u 1 i' I TrilinlMtinn is -a rnmmnn thincr uiacucaiij xne \\ noie ; ly will be compelled to operate un- pnncipal bench marks trom ! n i'JUiaiion is a common thing people all over the United States, der the code and it is imoortant that Hamlet to Sanford and Carthage "^ost ol the time in at least some xhe^e is no wav to correct the important that and Greensboro, covering the P^ace.s and by tne .aw of aver-^ grave situation in which the county in all directions. age.s it ma> be po.ssible that * itself but to take The govemment work has pro- »ow it is no more striking than ^ decisive stand^at correcting it' ® pouitrymen attend- vided the ba.sis for the local »’^o»t any other time if we look ^nd enlist the whole to ^ ^ ^ work, and now when a road is' the horizon over from one cor- foU . lead No man can bet ^ yester- projected along the county line , ner of the globe to the othtr. ter inaugurate such a move^^^^^^^ : is the time to locate that line, than a governor who has already with the precision that will per- F’ROVIDENCE HELPS shown that his sentiment is foV mit it to be the basis for all fu- AGRICULTURAL RELIEF enforcement of law, and no man , ture survey work on the whole, Maybe you had not thought would have a more appreciative r, east side of the county. Should about it, but in the past few following in such a course than „ Dwight n^Currie. youngest this be done Moore county from days you may have noticed the' our governor who has alreadv * Cume of Carthage, that might bring us all within poultry breeders ami hatchers are ' the law of the state and also of being held at as many places this common sense and humanity. week by C. F. Parrish and C. J. Mau- these, or others Interested, attend one of the meetings. DK. DWIGHT CL’RKIE WINS PHO.MOTION IN BALTIMORE has recently been appointed surgical i resident of the South Baltimore Gen-1 in Baltimore, the ap- I 11- Dr. Currie graduated in medicine the Seaboard railroad to the grain fields throughout., the; proved his case as being a lead- county line will be one of the’country. Under the .severe freez-> er of wholesome law enforce-i best defined pieces of county ing weather they have turned nient. An edict from Governor, work in the United States, for'from a brilliant green to a sick-:Ehringhaus that he and all who^^*^" ° effect on July every foot of ground in that ^ ly yellow, which indicates that i are subject to the laws of North bour.dary will be within two or terror of the farmer, winter' Carolina are to observe the laws three miles of a positive bench j kill. Nobody knows yet to what , of the road will save hundreds' University of Maryland in mark tied in with government; extent the winter grains have of live.s of North Carolina peo- * Maryland state Board accuracy. | been killed by the fatal freezing; pie, thousands of hospital bills i immediately, and is at One thing that qualifies Mr. i weather, but unless the western thousands of dollars of damages', * assistant surgical resident of Wicker as a help in a matter of , states have been freely covered and will give to its promulga-! above-named hospital. this sort is that he has copies with snow to protect the winter tor a regard by the people of — of maps and sketches that in-, wheat it is likely that later re- the state that would be almost wakben-hewitt elude all the possible data that, ports will show a serious killing universal. Here is an opportun-; Elizabeth Hewitt announces would be necessary in a work 'of all winter small grains. Last , ity that is rarely equalled in its i Emma of establishing and identifying; fall some of the Chicago wheat power for the general public i Christian, to Paul Warren of South- this line. He has the sketches of ; men were predicting a shortage good, and if once set in motion i®™ Pines, the ceremony taking place the vast triangulation .system ; of wheat for this year. If their it would be imitated all over the I Bennettsvilie, s. c. The young that covers North Carolina from predictions were correct, and United States, with credit to making their home with those w'heat men usually know author, the Gov^ernor of North' bride’s mother for the present, pretty fairly what the pro.spects Carolina, for the man who stbps i are, this added damage to the'the automobile death and'injury I crop'by winter killing, will help | rate will be a hero of the high-' to bear out the forecasts they • est order. have been making. | Another thing that offers ' C- cotton men ' .some ground for speculation as sign to reduce .acre.age Tennessee to Norfolk, and from Virginia down into South Caro lina, with the triangulation points, the distance lines and an gles, he has the sketch maps of the triangulation of Mootre county, from Greensboro through Sanford and Carthage FligKlandl Pines Inn and Oottages (WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS) SOUTHERN PINES SEASON DECEMBER TO MAY Highland Pines Inn with its Splendid Dining Room Service and its Cheerful Homelike .\tmo.«phere Caters to the Requirements of those Occupying Winter Homes in the Pine Tree Sectiontion. Th Hotel is Situated on Weymouth Heights (Massachusetts Avenue) Amid De lightful Surroundings. Good Parking Space is .Available for *Motorists» All Features of First Cla.'^s Hotels are Included at Highland iPnes Inn. Best of Eveiything. M. H. TURNER, W. E. FLi’NN, Managing Director ^ Resident Manager Fertilizer Time for your Plant Beds and Garden Seed DEPENDABLE FERTILIZERS MAKE GOOD CROPS This year—insure your work with ACNE The best Fertilizer for the Sandhills. Now is the time to figure on your spring needs, McNEILL & COMPANY ' SOUTHERN PINES and the extension to Wilming-; to the crops of this state is the i ton, the maps and data of all the , effect of the low rainfall of the triangulation work done around i past year or two. Howard N. Southern Pines and also date Butler, who is a mining engineer of that work done on the j and driller of wells all over the Southern Pines quadrangle j state, remarked this week that reaching out into the Approximately 1,200,000 acres of I North Carolina cotton land have been j placed under reduction contracts, it j was estimated yesterday. ^ Charles A. Sheffield of State Col- j Fort j he has not in a long time seen ' ^’rector of the sign-up in North i Bragg reservation, and the as- i the level of the underground wa- reported to Washington | tronomical location with latitude ter as low as it is at the present 1 that some so.ooo growers { and longitude and elevation of time. Gradually for some time it signed to date, hundreds of government bench ' has been going lower, and Where 10,000 more signatures are j marks in Moore, Hoke and the a few years ago the drill would > before the campaign closes! other counties through which encounter moist earth almost at j P'ebruary 15. * the government surveys pass. 1 the surface the experience now " The Amazing- New DODGE F*L.YMOUTH Have Everything Comfort Safety All steel body HvdrauUc brakes Doubje acting Shock Absorbers Floating Cushion Wheels Economy Six cylinder engine Floating power With his date he can compute ' is that in many places the hole within a few minutes the dis- i is sunk several feet before tance from his garden gate in ; enough dampness is encountered Pinehurst to any astronomical j to indicate any moisture supply observatory on the globe, for j for crop roots. As crops grow he has the positions of most of i through the solvency of the MARRIAGE LICENSE A laarriage license has been issued from the office of the Register of Deeds of Jdoore county to John Wil lard and Mary Purvis, both of Glen- don. We invite comparison M. CAL.DWEL.L. MOORE MOTOR COMF^ANY Phone 131 W. Aberdeen
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