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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pinea and Abwdeen, Nwtk Cardliia Friday, March 9, 1934. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Iiiiorporatwl, Aberdefn and Southern t'. til if you read the thing much your hair curls about like the I'work of the latest shops for the experiments that have been forced on the world are new and there are no rules to guide, and NEl.S()X C. HVOE, ManuKinK I<>Ut«r BIOX II. Bl TLEB. EUitor BO\ I) STKl THKK^i Bl K l' Contributing' Editors i Subcioription KatoK: One Year $2.00 j Six Months . 51.00' Three Months .50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N, C. Entered at the Postoffice at South- ' em Pines, N. C.. as second-class mail matter. HKJH-PKKEl) EXECITIVES Always the .'Salaries of oxih.^u- tive officials of big imlustries have been the sub.iecl of boumi- less criticism by those who think a man is worth to an organization about the same wage whether his place is that of fireman of the furnace or operating head of :he whole concern. But the fact is tha*^ an army in which every man is a major general is noth ing else than a mob, anti whol ly incompetent to accomplish anything. \Ve hug a lot of delusions to ^ur souls, among them the one, that the president of a big con-; cem gets his salary from the ■ earnings of the men under him. | 'fhe fact in the case is that the president makes the salaries of all his men a possibility. Sala ries come to all the force if they come at all, through the ability of the executive to carry on bus iness and make a profit from the operation. Thomas Edison made a lot of money, not only for him self, but for thousands of men t-mployed in things which he originated and headed. Until his day no one else had built up the projects that employed the army which he put on the pay rolls at a wage exceeding anything they had ever experienced. Heniy Ford has earned a big fortune and from it paid wages that have not been equalled by any thing else. But nobody else has built such a structure as Ford's. The Standard Oil Company for its executives picketl the ablest men it could find, and never questioned the salary jf the man showed the ability. That made the Standard the foremost thing of its kind on earth. The Penn.sylvania railroad has al ways paid its executives a good salary because it ha.s ahvays fig ured that the slight difference between a cheap man at a low s.ilary and the best obtainable man at the salary that must be paid to hold him was not to be con.sidered. A cheap man can be so expensive that no big con cern can afford such a man if he would work for the w’ages of the least paid man on the job. But these things settle them selves. As long as the number of most capable men is smaller than the jobs that need mental giants the big men will be of fered jobs with .salaries that will attract them from competitive concerns, and the big men viill follow' the bids. The concern that has not the sense to pay a big salary to the man who can earn it wiil not be troubled with paying any salary. Incompetence ' is the most costly thing any con cern can hire, while ability is the cheapest, no matter what the price in dollars, for ability de livers what it is paid to provide, i READING THE RECORD I Possibly no morning paper in i the worlcl has as much reputa-1 tion as the Congressional Rec-| ord. Some folks look on it as i wholly a joke and toss it aside | and smile when referred to it; j Some read a portion of it with | some interest and wave away j the rest of it with an indignant 1 hand. Some study it more or less, but the number is not large, for only a few folks can toler ate anything that is not one sided, which the Congressional Record is not. It is pushed around by the many orators and arg'uers and protesters and oth er actors in Congress until you can find in the Record almost any kihd of an opinion on any subject, and any form of any diverse view on the subjects un transforming the women into j no knowledge to fortify the men j the new pha.sen from time to | who would lead. Therefore we, time. ■ all have to sit patiently in the Vet the Record is not entitled ; |)oat and watch its progress, | to all the fun that is poked at it with this assurance—that if the by those who know it w'ell; cour.se is the right one we will i enough to laugh at it but not 1 niake ii safe landing, and that j well enough to appreciate it. | if it is wrong a big enough' Probal)ly if more folks read the i bunch will promptly jump over Record, not just the portion that ' the sides and fend the vessel conforms to their peculiar limit- away from the rocks and put it ed viewpoint, but fully enough on its safe way. to get a smattering of the opin-, Probably no Ih-esident ever ions of outstanding men of all'had a more general backing in views and all political align- any strenuous time than Roose- ment.-J, this would be a far bot- velt ha.s now, and there are no tn- informed nation and perhaps ,-igns that he will meet with any a far more intelligent one. Lots protiouncul o])position as long of half-baked stuff comes up to ; s ho follows a course that the Record, but it always finds'holds the confidence of the peo- a foot big enough to step on it ])le. But all the time this is to be in a .semi-kindly but effectual remembered, if Iloosevelt makes way, for the member who cuts good on one will ever think a gash in another member's of his critics. If he does not no hack is obliged by parliamen- one will ever think of them. For tary courtesy to ilo it in a gen- it is on the soundness of his tlemanly way, and to clean up ])oli.'ie.s“ that he will win or lose, the i)lood that is spattert'd and and if he wins the country will not muss up the congressional win with him and if he loses the floors or leave any dead bodies country will lose with him. This lying aroiuid to make work for is no factional situation we are the janitors. And the member in. It is liational. and homogene- who objects to having his tots ous. We are all alike in the same trampetl on must remember not mixture and all alike earnestly to stick them out in the way ,'!i'siring the fullest measure of where other members with i)ig success that can be gained. It feet are going by. is in no way a personal matter. The Record is a great place to It involves every man alike, and see the gods stuffed with fresh, any political phase of it is mere- clean straw and also to see the !y an incident, hell hounds of the oppos^ition come up and pull the straw out and scatter it all over the floor, for you can do an awful lot in the Record if you remember to always call the other fellow a i gtntleman all the time, and also; remember if you want to put Grains of Sand With Stiuthers Burt. Hugh McNair Kahler and Almet Jenks all supply ing articles for the Saturday Even ing Post in the last four or five week-s, it looks as if the Post fig- ONE OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES FROM THE BACK SEAT By ERNEST M. POATE Every month for the longest time ■ thing, I chose FROM THE BACK [ have been getting nasty green SEAT. Because that’s where I am. ures the Sandhills a good section to i ^ mean, it isn't witty, or profound. look for authors of ability. Flocks of robins marked the break ing of the cold spell in the Sandhills. One flock of over f>00 used the great holly tree on the old Sou them Pines hotel grounds for forage. send out to remind you that you or anything; it’s just so. And when haven't got fifty dollars left, so please the house is crowded, why, somebody chip up four bits. (And so you won’t has to sit in the back seats, away up Ike Whample says this in what has been laughingly called Negro Paradise, while everybody else eats peanuts and throws the shucks about. And you can see the show from up there without being distracted by too much notice, l>e- cause nobody ever looks at you. Or, if you're taking a ride, or being tak. en voi a ride, as the rase may be, aod forget, they have taken it out al ready.,! And so, before my checks be gin to come back all smu(4ged up I with NOT SUFF’ICIENT FUNDS and please pay $1.50 protest fees. I de- weather cided it was time for a new racket, business keeps him going. As soon as ' it was either that or go to work, you don't have to go out in the | This put me in much the same fix morning to see how cold it is you | as the Unjust Stewai t of Scripture; have to go out along about noon to ! but a good deal worse off. Like him, you sit in the back seat, and some- see how hot it is. i cannot dig. Unlike him, I'm not thing goe.^ wrong, you've just got particularly ashamed to bog: but on to take it. 'I'hafs all. Fairley Ray was up from Wa- , looking around I found all the good qj- you may holler. Hence gram over Sunday. He says he killed j pitches taken by bank-presidents. { L'ohinin. This is my personal yip. several hogs during the cold snap And as for calling on the boss's debt- | Oliver never pays any at- and has so much lard and so many ors why, 1 have no job, and there- tention unle.ss he gets into a jam; hams and other plunder that he is ■ tore no ooss. AnCt if I had had a then he ‘turns around and tells not worried about the grocery bill, ■ job, it would be my luck tt) have the yjj.j j[ was all your fault, and if you’d for all he needs at the store is a! kind of bo.ss that never would lead only kept quiet i Because he saw little .sugar and coffee, and the hens anybody anything, or I d have bor- tjjat truck all the time. And besides, pay that bill with eggs. Cows and rowed my wages for ten years in vvasn't going six inches more than advance, and then resigned. ■So that was out, too. I couldn't around asking folks to take their bill!? and write quickly fifty for a pigs and chickens are on his pay roll that is they pay the bills and work for their board and don't ask about NRA hour.«. Cows and pigs and chkkens make good farm hands, he hundred. Besides, the Government figures. beat mo to it by writing off every- uody’s debts at the rate of 59.06 a The buds are coming out in a way hundred (to make it easier figuring that makes you wonder if the shrub- expert.s ajid who cares about fi-oni where I sit. After all. there are twenty-five, and he had the , right of way, and everything. While you ?>il there with a wheel around your neck picking bit.s of engine out ,if year hair, without one word to .'jay for yourself. So I aim to talk while I can. And tell everybody just how things look BAILEY’S SOUND ECONOMIC DOCTHINE In discussing the proposition to establish in Virginia a gov ernment factory to make furni ture for the postoffices of the country Senator J. W. Bailev, of bery has forgotten about the raw, school children doing problems in weather of a couple of weeks ago. those extra cut it out of .>^ome paper or mag azine and ask leave to print it in the Record with credit to the ' N'orth Cm-Olina. sa.vs he pretests against the entrance of govern ment into private business. A .1. Liic XVV.VWIW ..it.. report of his statement he is paper it comes trom. That, ike , . , . ,.r „ • rpi (pioted as saying: I ar charity, cover.s many sins. Ihe Recoril is a mighty interesting, educational and useful publica tion. although it takes a lot of i , 1 , government. I think we might as t me to read it caretullv through 7 ^ • , • we come to this issue now as If the circulation manager of the Congressional Record were on to his . . . ... , c. ji- M *• write quickly and this is it. As for job he might work the Sandhills tor •. _ percentage, with all places to point off ?) So, to get to the point at last, 1 had to take paper for myself, and am not for a socialist conception of govern- nunt. and I resist e\ery step in the direction of socialism in our subscriptions, for many of the per- , sonal paragraphs pertain to folk.'* who are at Pinehurst and Southern Pines at this season. Last week was tough on every-1 body. Lots of us had the flu and we all got a code. bills, 111 send them to the editor. In fact, when you read this —if you ever do read it. Dear Reader, I shall have sent my bill already, and col lected it, too. You’re darned right— or you never will read this. So if you can't, you’ll know why you didn’t, 1 body pays me any mind Because he didn't. (And who could [ So let’s begin, blame him ?) Having decided, therefore, to be come a Columnist, just like that, it plenty of us who can't afford even the fifth row in the balcony, to say nothing of the dress circle. And finally, I don’t know what it's all about, and that certainly ought to entitle me to speak my mind. Plenty of others are in the same fix, and it doesn’t keep them quiet. An’ if nobody listens to me, and I should happen to be right, I can always sa> "I told you .so.” And if I’m WTong, it won’t matter either as long as no- everv day. later. There is not a doubt about t vi-kiv/’ »V' rrui.’ that the way things are ADMLMblRATION i willing to meet The Pilot has been criticised it today. There is nothing here mildly for “not standing by the | to ju.stify any further expan- administratioii.” This mu.«t be Lsion of the activities of the a misunderstanding, for The Pi- government by way of encroach- lot has been registered time af- ^ ing upon private enterprise, and ter time as being decisively “for if any one take.s the view that the ring,” as the party in author- that is the way to solve our ity is locally called, or to inter- problem of unemployment I am pret more explicitly, as endors- here to tell him that is also the ing those who are in authority. ^ way to destroy the American re- not essentially because they are . j)iiblic. \Vc have to make our certain to be right, but because :-hoice. I can conceive of noth- when you hire a man or a set ng more dreadful, nothin^ worse ot men to do a job the logical for the people of this country policy is to give them their than for the collector of the heads and require proper re- ta.xes of the people to go into suits. That has been the attitude , competition with them through of this paper from the day the'the expenditure of those taxes, first coi)y was printed, not be-. That represents a hopeless sit- cause the administration, local-. uation.” l.v, state or nation has always i It is to be said in behalf of been right, but because it is the, Senator Bailey that he has right oni.v authority that can be eith-j clear perception of the elemon- ei' right or vvrong. which means, tary principles of political ex- the only active agent for any-' onomy and with that a degree of courage that is an enormous as- But it is to be hoped the time,set at this time. When it comes will never come when this or any , tr> a showdown he stands out as other paper will not have views ^ ])lainly as the moon on a clear of things that it retains for it-Miight^ and if on a serene .sum- self. and with it the right oflmer afternoon when everything thinking and expressing what it j is on even keel and affairs are letls disposed to (lo, for it is j running as smoothly as a quort trom the multiplicity of voices I of oil he may be suspected of a that the final sentiment of the | faint diletaiiteism, those who whole people is formed, and as know him are fully aware that long a.s every man has a differ-! when the clouds gather he has ent opinion than any other mao 1 ft^tjt firmly on the ground has, open speech is the only way and his faculties about him with that the common voice van be 1 a stayin^r quality that backs his uttered. ! sound sen.se to the last round of Mr. Roosevelt started his f.d-1 the encounter, m.inistration by saying that he I The whole nation is fortunate And first, just to clear the ground, lets point out that nobody really knows anything, or can know any thing, anyhow. We’re all guessing, a name for my column. Something j They talk about the “exact sciences," snappy, and different. Something j real high.chlnned and haughty- aoa If business is not picking up stead- j that leaps to the eye, as all good ad- , there aren’t any. Take arithmetic, ily then, as David said years ago, all \ vcrtising should. (My style of writ-' Let's don’t bother with higher math- One comfort is that when winter hangs on it dues not take spring so necessary, of course, to invent long to get started. men are liars, for the universal report i ing is peculiarly vivid: notice it? 1 is that things are improving in all to.ss off striking and original phrases direction.s, and in decided degree. f every once in so often. Is it my fault if somebody else has beaten me ematics, because I don’t know any thing about them. Take arithrrietic. Three times two is six, and seven times eight is . Well, aryhow, two Everybody is asked to be especial- to it ? I’d have thought of it first, and two make four. ly careful in throwing away lighted if I'd thought of it first.) cigarettes and matches during these So 1 thought maybe I’d call windy March days. THE WELL. Because wells are deep And because wisdom is said to be s Do they? Of course. everyt>ody it knov.'s that. But do they ? Two black Duroc pigs and tw'o apples—what do they make? Or even two guinnea . ,, , ,; fountain, which is a sort of well. And pigs. Like as not they’ll make twen- abroad "giving him^^T'vaLaWe'ty-four, give them time. Anyway, how . I, ,, ‘ ■ a well; and if truth can lie anywhere, are you going to prove that two and colitiict «-ell as the onv.able „ ^ ^ gains that come from mingling . ^ refreshmg, ■ Ih. Th.ro Isn’t any way, Ifs \ , nian> peop e v\ o <uc t o.ng intoxicating, and—. Oh, for Jusl becau!ie they do: why everybody t hmg,s in this world, ami along ^ know, that l In eLctly the same way' With tne.se evneripnces i.s his' j own mental eauinment fhit is sometimes dry. And at oth. a few hundred years ago everybody » + J. \ I times may be all wet. I could go knew that the sun moved around the one of the greate,,t assets an.v|„„ (ommLinit,\ can command when didn’t seem quite lair, l [.robably lot.s of folks did sail oyer it enlists its members in public, , ■ 1 ,1 .u . • Tv, ■ . . , » , . XT- 1. 1 mean, to sparkle like that. Dazzling, the edge, and drop off into infinity. ."TL'1 « »*“ Why not? You can't prove they didaV ■ ^ ^^ ^ ^ and over, it didn’t seem ao very aw- If two and two make four because in tncir conii(l6nc0, ^ n * ^ , , , , , , I . I lully, terribly funny and amusmg any- everybody knows jt, then whatever >\ ith the le-elGCtion of the how. else everybody knows—or believes; had under consideration much experimenting, and that if some moves proved unsatisfactory he would change his policies and proceed to .something else. That seemed to meet the approval of the people to an extent that has been unknown in American his-i ('(')VTivijp tory, and most of the folks are 1 going along with the game, al-1 The re-election of M. G. Sich- lowing the captain to steer thej'-l-'^ as head of the Southern ship. Candor requires the ad-1 Pines Country Club is gratify- in the fact that Nctrth Carolina has furnished Mr. Bailey to the Federal senate in thi.s day of the kten need of capable men in na tional councils. NICHOLS TO mission that diversity of opinion exists as to where we are go ing to get off. The attitude The Pilot takes is that it does not make a great deal of difference, for much of this cut and try is to find the way, and if is prob ably the only method. When the President finds himself on the right road it is to be believed that he will continue in that di rection, and when he finds that he is wrong he will take a dif ferent course. The truth is that we are in unkiiovm waters, and ing, for Mr. Nichols is a busi ness man of broad experience and judgment as well as .the possessor of social qualities that are valuable for a place of this kind. It is unfortunate that he has been sick for a few weeks and not able to be aa active as his inclinations would prompt. But he has improved and as old John L. Sullivan or some of the other warriors of the past, said, Nichols has a lot of good fights in him yet. He has a wide acquaintance president a substantial board of directors has been named, and from the body is to be expected an intalligent aggressive management of affairs on the club jfiTounds. With a new' hor izon opening for Southern Pines all the signs point to a period of recovery and a new advance in the development and expansion of the community, W'hich must portend an active influence in H behalf of the club and its func-|H tions as well as a stimu'ant by j|, the club and what it accom-'- lilishes. ■ The Country Club has had l.some hills to climb as it travel led the road that has led it to i its present position. It has some {task:s in front of it yet, but it .also has this to consider—that it is organized and established with two eighteen-hole courses, its club house, and its equip- , ment and organized community surrotmding its development. Mr. Nichols and his board have the going concern on their hands, and while a lot of work is in front of them they are in far better .shape than Dr. Swett, Bob Page, John Powell and the other folks were when they started the project some year ago w'ith not much in sight but a few acres of sand and a lot of nerve. This new board with its equipment is going to make good, and be one of the forceful fac-. tors of the Sandhills. Kui: it must have the backing of ti’e town, for no army can do much unless the file stands by [the leaders. So I thought up a lot of other per- ; it's the same thing—is true, also, fectly dandy ideas. And then, at last, And for the same reason. This is in a flash of pure genius, or acme- very profound. AN OPPORTUNITY | A modern 6-room dwelling in fine condition with every » convenience for living, 8 $2,500 Cash | And small B. & L. mortgage S C. 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