Yh^t Two THE PILOT, Sout)iern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, April 27, 1934. THE PILOT Published ever>’ Friday by THK PILOT, Incorijoratwl, Aberdeen and Southern N. C. HVUE, .'VlanaKiDgr Editor BM>N H. Bl’TLKK, Editor JAMl<>i BOYD SlKrTllERS Bl KT ('ontributioK Editors SiibMcription KateH: One Year $2.00 Six Months . . 5100 TTiree Months 50 we have been falling down in j making the things a banksweep- P»'cu s^erious because the alumnus i clear of perception..wevN-ill real-, any new thing that comes in I been properly trained before gradua- Address all comnuinications to The jg of little consequence | your head, and the Chamber of jtion: but the boy who doesn t go to , An.vh0W, one often hears PHot, Inc., Southern Pines, N, c. where we reach for the taxes if Commerce, or Frank Buchan orjcoiipge is badly handicappcd. ~ we get them. That is the test of for I that we Americans are a lawless peO” ' pie. Now that is a base slander. Be- Shields Cameron or Sam Rich-i The equipment necessary „ . . ardson, or The Pilot or any oth- Proper education, up to high school | ‘-ause we really do have more laws Entered at the Postoffice at South .successful S ’Stem beC'lUse ern Pines C., as second-class inail ^ i i., simple and inexpensive. Consist- sVstem that does not pro-' ht'Ip get the proposition before, ing of four walls, a roof and a stove; duce inbound to be discontinued., the proper folks who will take but the teaching force is quite anoth- Sales taxes produce the money Jit for what it may be worth. ,e. question and should be of the That settles that. Anti it might There is no limit to the things !as well, for as money is the pur-,of interest that may be conjured Those who should know tell me that and more fool laws—than all the rest of the Family of Nations put together. _ Further, it is charged that Amer icans *have no respect for law. But this too, is a base canard. Why, pass a law, of course: and then go home satisfied. None of our thorough-going re formers ever stops to ask whether a new law. can be enforced—or what has happened to last year’s laws. Most of the laws originally enacted to satisfy somebody’s urge for mor ality lie dead in the books—or are used only, like the unsavory Maon Act, as means of blackmail. T^, we are hearing today, even more than ever before, that absolute and ir responsible power ought to be given to -executive officials, because (a) they won’t use that power and (b) if they did, they can be trusted to do pose of taxation anything that i uP m jhis section for the Pleas- ; But to re,«ume: We Americans have ; JfffciaU wouM I wonder'if does not get the money is a fail- . ure of the residents who stay ure. Therefore we wili no doubt here all the time, for the visi- continue the sales tax along with for the folks of the county, anv others that will bring the <'f the state or any other place coin, for no pretty theory that ; "’ho may be disposed to come On the presumption that fjoes not brin^ money will iongitliis way when the e\ents take North Carolina E^mergency Re- exist. place. The main thing now is to to be what But this is to remember. We enthusiasm into the pro^ GE0R(;E ROSS A GOOD SELECTION schools, especially in the lower grades, has not improved in the past ten years. In fact the impression I get is that it is getting worse. I don’t know what is the matter with it, but have heard too many children per teacher spoken of most cflen. Others say poor supervision, jo:t and make a live issue from;short school term. ets. Most (not all) t.'.lis j.late until the end of the i seem to think the teachers are on larnival that is to be scheduled, h^e whole well trained and of a high j and having them printed in big yel-! tical attitude, and think just a lit- LABOR-SAVING .MACHINERY. Curious this business of la bor-saving machinery and the way some folks think they look at it. We have been told that the grade of intelligence and ability. If we are to spend money for edu cational purposes shouldn't we spend it on the education of the children instead of using our tax money to pay interest on bonds for fine school buildings ? Personally I prefer proper- 1 the things he mass, and tne rest oi our lives use oi so mucn oi mis t>pe oi, ^ believe! ..“jce ited with, but he will be devoted to putting our , machinery has thrown men out: ^ per. „Lw, •n a basis where taxes on the other tellow. But | of employmiint. Now the truth , i ° ^ LEONARD TUFTS. lief Association is to oe wnai Kut this is jts name implies it is safe to say have the taxes to pay. and it is that the selection of George | of little consequence which pock- Ross to head the operation of et they come out of. Some hope- the project is a good job. George tul people think they can unload Ross has been the successful' their share of the tax burden head of some of the biggest farm onto the shoulders ot .'Jome one affairs of the state, an I wher-' else, but if a succes.sful method ever he has put his hand he has of doing that is ever discovered secured results of a character far this whole world will turn to above the ordinary. He has not that method in one gigantic only carried on the things he mass, and the rest of our lives has been associii has put them on . . , . th^y can move forward on a unfortunately he is an unloaiil-, is that it has increased employ- much broader basis than ever.'or just like the rest of us. and ‘ ment enormously, which is an- and vv'here they set an e.xample while we are unloaiiing on him j other story. th.v.nks di’E C'O.tf.MiTTEES for other establishments to find He will be unloading on us. There-1 But it is not the bloated, poK ff:stival sut'CEss profit in imitating. folly to think we are I(.oi-porations and employers that; Mr. Ross is a practical engi- going to unload on anyb(xly. |responsible for the use of! iContwind from page i) rieer and manager of rural pro- No successful and workable machinery, but the worker him- ' jects, who now before the whis- scheme to dodge the tax man has ' spif Years ago if we traveled p,.ench. Herbert Cameron, John tie blows where he is going to ever yet bsen devised and prob-, went down the road afoot ’pj^omas, N. c. Hyde. A. c. Alexander, land. His schemes are thought ably never will. ^nd happy. Today the individual w. o. Moss, J. c. Barron, Mrs. Carl out before they are applied and And no successful .scheme has , can’t go from the postoffice to Thompson, Truman Fowler. T. N. from a logical basis with the ever been hatched up to put the the drug store, without looking Bamsdall. H. f. Burns, j. Fred stim- forniula calculated anti the reas- taxes on the other fellow. around for his car. The garden yon. on plain for every .step. He has yo^i can box these two propo- h^s given place long ago Finance -P. F. Buchan. H. F. shown his ability to handle big sitions all around the cornpass mule and a lot of folks: things ar»i little ones, to plan circle and see if you can find a think that to follow a mule and| Draixiatics and Music f. Stanley, for his men as well as his speci- flaw in them. , j impossible and a trac- ! smith, A. B. Yeomans, c. wi^Picquet, i a tremendous respect for law. A re- ^jjy jjg trusted with spect .so intense that we pamper , ij-fesponsible power) — w'ho knows our laws, make company out of them, jjpfQ^e somebody and persistently refuse to put them I jgg j^b? Office-holders to work. change, but laws stay on the books. The real national game of these j A law that might be abused by any- United States is law-making. And the body, in any circumstances, is a bsid great national delusion is that some- law. how passing nice, shiny new laws | if we woukl all take a more prac- tle bit about the possible effects of lowish-brown covered books will have its effect.—What could possi- ' proposed laws before urg^ing their bly indicate a greater respect for enactment, we’d have fewer statutes. I law than our simple trust that every J Before approving any bill, no matter statute is self-enforcing? j how noble its purpose, we ought to I Why, Congress has passed a law .^®**' directing the Secretary of Agricul- Can it be enforced at all ? Who will nf 'n rmw'h nf tvnp I developed men and women or somebody, to bring back the i enforce it—and can he be trusted? ‘ I a„,i T 1926.—Nobody I Can all the men who comc after him ? exactly why 1926: at least, ^ (And there are bound to be some nobody has known until now. But I poor stjcks.) If it were enforced, will explain. It is because this act against you and me, would we like it? was written by a numerologist. If Too many laws are directed against you add the digits of 1926 they make the man- around the corner—like the 18, which is six times three. And it is well known, of course, that three is the luckiest of all lucky numbers. Obviously, six threes, or twice three times three, must give us all the luck there is. Setting aside as irrevalent trifles f the facts that the “price level” of 1926 wasn't much good anyhow, and that by doubling half the prices ad ded to make up the average, and halving the rest, we might restore i the ‘‘price level” without bringing fications. and he keeps before The only relief for taxation Is ' tor to ride is the ambition. Em-Uirs Edgar Chapman'Dr E L Priz-i^^^^'^ individual price to his eye all the time the purpose to cut down the expenditure ol ' pJoyes in everything insist on'e,.. ‘ ... finally -and I late and unlamented Volstead Act. I Any law ^bout which folks say, “I , don't nee^T it myself, of course: but Bill Jont3 does”—any such law is very, very bad. Because what folks j mean when they say that sort of thing is really: ‘‘I don't intend to pay any attention: but I’ll make Bill be good. " W'hat right have we to ask Bill Jones to respect a law which we don’t obey ?—If all of us had wel comed Prohibition for our own selves: if everybody had stopped drinking, I or buying liquor; if the man who drank had been treated by his friends er the Secretary of Agriculture nor of still less importance—that neith-1 “^e the man who stole—why. then Prohibition might have worked. I doubt if any law intended to reg- anybody else could possible bring of his operation, which is to ac- the money that taxes are col- labor saving devices that can be | sightseeing G. w. Case, H. a. complish results. lected tor. and that is just as operated by pushing a button.; Lewis. While he is setting out on a much of a task as any other that Put two men on a wood pile with ' New England Day H J Betteriey new sea. this one of creating an is involved in the whole taxing ^ cros.scut saw and they ask general chairman Maine Mrs Cari’ mat-1 uiate people’s private morals can ever emergency relief for the plight scheme, for everybody is clam- ^vhy you don’t send for the man; ton Wicker, rhainnan; Frank Rich- ‘ setting i be enfc..-ed: but I know perfecUy the rural region has slumped w'ing tor tax money to spend., \^-itji the wood-sawing machine, i ardson Jeff Han New HamDshire— into, it is not so new as it is un- As long as we insist on prodigal in all trades the worker wants 1 Ls. D. H. TurL, chairr^rnrH A. suspected. Nothing is new when waste of public money we wilh ia)joj..gaving machinery. How ] jackman, P. J. Waterman, Max Grey — it comes to primary facts, and have to toe the mark when the j men could you find wholH. A. Lewis H. H. Beckwith, John the so-called George Ross vv’ill go at his new tax man comes along until the ,-,vould carrv a hod up a ladder i Kitzgerald Vermont—Mrs R F who delibera job with an application of the time comes, perhaps and it may the.se days? They want the.potts, chairman; H. J. Betteriy B. j.' obvious facts, ^nd ignores impossi-i dismally amusing thing in the ordinary principles that govern not be tar away, when tax col- ,.;;tuff to come up on the elevator. ■ simonds Mrs H a. Gould Massa- ■ bilities. and stubbornly declares that I making laws for any thing, which is to hunt the kctions will be narrowed down To make a crop of wheat is .chusetts-George C. Moore chairman- thi.s or that “ought to be so.” And I“idealism’' trouble quickly and then apply because there will be no further , harrllv » farm inb at «11 anv' w. thot I which inspires people to suggest such all that aside, what is there left ? Not ^ well—and so do you, every last one very much. I’m afraid. , of you—that no law inteiided to <'or- oil ‘ •■cct Other people’s faults (but not Of all silly persons the silliest is .. ~ . our own) can ever be worth passing. Idealist. That is, one ^ ® . . , u * u * It is the saddest, and silliest, and deliberately shuts his eyes to ' ' quickly and then apply some remedies. And all the ram hardly a farm job at all any Garland Pierce. Albert Vittum Mr. niakes that declaration a reason for, ... . ^ n u W' -4 1111 f plowed with I and Mrs. Melvin Sanborn. Connecti- passing a law to make it so ' always the notion “I know edies for what we call hard times veritable deluge ot money that, a tractor, which employs men ' cut--George w. Case, chairman; Mrs sources from which to draw the and depre.ssion are the same, is now .swept into the public cof-; at the tractor shop. It is sowed! g W Case Dr G G Herr c P productive occupation that the ters. ^e only way to lessen ,vith a seeder which employs Everest, E. C. Loomis. Rhode island hungry n^an may with the pro-' taxes is to lessen spendi^^^^ at the implement factory. _„Miss Ruby Taft, chairman; Mr. and ductive power of his hands find e.xhaust the ability ot the peo-; it is harvested with a piece of'Mrs e w Moreii Pennsvivania-J something to put in his mouth pl« to pay The situation is be- machinery that goes into theiH, Schwart. Mr. M^ry Ross is a short-cut worker, ami coming extremely serious, and, fi^id and reaps the grain, . • a fair apprai.ser of economic unless we take a tack in our pol- threshes and sacks it. It is haul- conditions. Hence it is to be sup- icies we are going to meet some; to the elevator in trucks and posed that he will find some conditions that will not be pleas- from there to the railroad to place to put .his men and then ant. No relief appears in sight I the mill, to the port of s'hip- find the men to put in the places .yet. for our whole policy of gov-: ment and through the mill it is he fiiiu« for them. Cfcorge iS|ernment at the present time i hardly touched bv human hands, something of a politician on the seems to be to pour out continued ; xhe machine shoD does the farm side, but he is the kind of poli- {floods of money, aiii that simply j work and all ocher work, and tician that succeeds in politics' means to pull in great floods of' the worker insists that he'must because he does isomething that, money, for it can not be paid out have shop machinery to do the appeals to the people and thereby | until it comes in. We can con-1 work. The machine shop is gains a backing that encourages tinue piling up debt, but that j operated in the same way. The him to do what is needed. His'only means the greater the de- rnachines do the work and the appointment at this time is a luge when it comes and unhap ^ machinist looks on and turns a wise act. pily the spending orgy shows no. lever. He does not want to be jSign of decreasing nr of even , bothered with any of the tasks. THE QUESTION * holding down to its present prod-1 Men don’t want to be anything OF TAXATION igiility. These are some of the but machine tenders so they in- Derhaos i voter to think | gjgt on machines. That is what about, and they are not comfort-, makes this a machine age. The To some extent, greater, perhaps les.s, the sales ta“wi i enter the campa gnThi, II workers demand the machines summer iustLgeZJ ta "a-^ '»I that save the worl ' • ’ ' tion is engrossing the attention 1! and the backbone, of Congress, and just as taxa tion on a broad principle is pressing this whole country in every corner for a solution, and with no solution in sight. To be gin with we all have a dream that we can shift taxation to other shoulders than our own, and possibly men always will 'next season. By practically unan STARTING ON THE NEXT FESTIVAL The Chamber of Commerce of Southern Pines left no grass to! grow under its feet in the mat- > ter of the spring festival for Correspondence FESTIV.AL entertain that delusion. That be ing the case all manner of schemes will always arise to bring about that shifting, and imous movement the scheme for next year was launched and not only launched but given a bless ing that will be one of the most always it will fail because taxes jinfestious things thi.s part of the can come from only one source j state has ever known. The cham- and that is where the money is. ber noted that the first effort The sales tax has already been firmly fastened on the state and nation and largely because other sources of taxation have been to some extent exhaustetd. Re course was had to the gasoline sales tax in this state because was so emphatically a success that to fail to utilize the momen tum of the start would be crim inal. So a beginning Is made on the spring festival of next year and it is open for all hands to join in Dear Editor: Just read your issue of April 20th in which you outline ideas past and future in the matter of "Festival i” Congratulations! it went over in a fine way for the first time. I know of no community in America that so well lends itself to that sort of thing. Cordially yours, —J. MACK WILUAMS. Chapel Hill, N. C. STATE SCHOOLS Editor, The Pilot: In .this state we should be very Mrs. Frederick Way. West Virginia —Frank Goodwill, chairman; Mrs. W. S. Bushby. Delaware--Mr. and Mrs. Robert Skinner. New York -J. B. Gifford chairman; F. W. Van Camp, N. C. Hyde, Mrs. Carl Thomp son, Miss Catherine Pierson. Festival Chorus—-Chas. W. Picqu'ei. Legion Committees Sandhill Post 1S4 Program J. F. Sinclair, chairman; Paul Dana, R. E. Denny, H. Lee Thomas, L. L. Wooley, J. Fred Stim- son, A. L. Bumey. Reception Entertainment—R. E. Denny, chairman; John Hemmer, C. J. McDonald, Max Backer, Struthers Burt, L. V. O’Callaghan, C. F. Bras- ington, John F. Taylor. Dance—R. L. Hart, chairman; J. V. Healy, H. McC. Blue, A. C. Alexan der, Omer Williams, F. W. Dwight, Dr. C. R. Monroe. Parade—H. J. Betteriy, chairman; Frank Shamburger, Alex Fields, C. P. Everest, C. J. McDonald, Gordon Camion, W. E. Blue, Col. G. P Hawes. Baybecue — L. V. O’Callaghan, chairman; John Stephenson, Joe Ful. ler, Carleton Wicker, William Milam. L. C. Buckingham, C. B. Fields. Mar vin Davis, Make Pleasants, Harry Brower, Harry Zirkle, E. B. Keith. Music—F. M. Dwight, chairman; Dr. Frank Pinkerton, Dr. J. W. Dick ie, Colin Osborne, J. D. McLean. Publicity — Raymond Kennedy, chairman; N. C. Hyde, John Beasley. John Hemmer, 'F. L. Dupont. Legion Streets Park—J. C. Clarke, chairman; Tom Wilson, Bill Steen, W. E. Andrews. Lalson—J. Vance Rowe, chairman; C. B. Welch, I. C. Sledge, W. B. War ner. I what’s best for you all. darn you. 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