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THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, August 31, 1934.
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THG PILOT, Incorporated,
Aberdeen and Southern Pine8. N. C.
NELSON C. HYU£, Managing Editor
BION H. BUTLER, Editor
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THE LESSON OF
THE SCHOOL ELECTIOxN
Now that the school election is
over with a failure to carr>% it
is a good idea to consider its sig
nificance, for this same thing is
to be faced in county affairs
again in other things. The trou
ble with the movement was that
it did not give the people aj
chance to consider the need of|
further bonding of the county,
or of the schools proposed, and
it did not give them a chance to
discuss for themselves the wis
dom of the whole matter involv
ed. We proclaim ourselves a gov
ernment of the people, but that
is not always a fact in actual
working out of the plans.
If we need more schools or!
different schools or anything j
else in the way of change the!
first thing to do is to lay thej
proposition before the people as
a proposition and not as a final'
jonclusion. Then it is their right
to discuss the thing, and to de-1
cide whether increased debt is
desired and increased facilities.
In effect this county as well as
this state and this nation are at
the crossing of the road. We have:
to decide whether we are a gov
ernment of the people or by rep-!
resentatives to w'hom is delegat
ed practically an absolute au
thority, wherein popular voice
has no action except to say yes
or no when the vote is called
and where popular information
is practically lacking.
Whether the measure defeat
ed was wise or not few people of
the county know’. But they do
know that they do not approve
any more debt until they under
stand more clearly the need of
what it will bring. The whole
trouble is that the matter was'
not submitted long enough be
fore hand for the people to
study the question, and in that
case they simply took the safe
course and swept the whole
thing aside. It is a valuable les
son if it can be understood. The
people want to know more about
public affairs before they open
the purse.
GETTING TO THE
MAIN QUESTION
Last week Rassie Wicker pre
sented a new phase of the pro
posed constitution, and in doing
it he opened a problem that cov
ers about the whole point of is
sue in every direction at the
present time. That is the ques
tion of whether we are to be a
government of the people or of
a limited group.
Of late. North Carolina has
been swinging emphatically to
the doctrine of a central govern
ment. It has been argued so
cleverly that many people are
persuaded that county and town
ship units should be abolished
and state authority vested in
boards and commissions should
be the sole authority.
It is pretty vigorously con
tended, for instance, that local
units have not the power and
range to act with authority and
power to stop crime, or to oper
ate schools, or to build and main
tain roads, or to do anything else
that can be done on a general
scale. Possibly that is a fact to
a certain extent. Yet there is
the other side of the question,
and we have been realizing here
in this county as well as in every
other county and town, that, as
the railroad man said w’hen the
superintendent asked him why
he didn’t make better time on
his freight run, “The caboose is
too far from the locomotive,”
meaning that he had a bigger
train load than the facilities
could handle.
Whether our state system is
better than our county system
is yet to be demonstrated. But
most folks realize that the vot
er in Moore as well as in all
the other counties, has less to
say about his county affairs.
Perhaps long range government
accomplishes some things. And
perhaps individual interest and
close contact might be better
than long range and lack of per
sonal and local interest. That is,
the whole thing whittles down to
whether the associated power
and close relation and commun
ity intelligence and energy is the
equal of the more mechanical
and impersonal and machine-
patterned administration by a
distant supervisor in everything.
May be this people needs a
king. May be it is qualified to
rule over itself. May be indivi
dualism is not wholly set aside
in its uses as a factor in gov
ernment. It is to be remember
ed that all of life was set in mo
tion on the basis of individual
ism, and all the rules that gov
ern existence are the rules of in
dividualism. None of them has
ever been modified. None has
ever been superseded. It may be
said that ants and bees have a
sort of social structure, but we
do not know enough about its
w’orkings or principles to attach
much significance to it as an
example. Nothing has shown yet
that individualism is surpassed
by anything forceful enough to
carry on the scheme of existence.
It is not the new things of to
day that have brought this na
tion to where it is, but the work
ings of the things of yesterday.
On the other hand individualism
fails to show’ sufficient foi'ce at
times to do things, as suppress
ing crime and lawlessness. The
question is a live one, and grow
ing more so.
THINGS WE KNOW AND
THAT WE DON’T KNOW
What probably gets us into
more troubles than anything
else is that abominable notion
that nearly every man and w’o-
man persists in of thinking their
attitudes and assertions are
right and everything contrary to
their opinions wrong. The fact
is that all of us are wrong about
as often as we are right and may
be much oftenor, for as a rule
w’e don’t try to be right, but to
maintain the view's we hold. This
is correct regarding nearly all
human creatures except a few
scientific students and research
men who hunt for facts rather
than for evidence to bolster a
theory.
Another misfortune is that
most folks are not inclined to
hear the opinion of the other fel
low, but would suppress him,
boycott his business and drive
him out of the community. One
of the great tasks of the whole
w’orld is missionary effort to
convert people over to new’ opin
ions, even in spite of their own
desire to stay with their ow'n
views. In practically all our in
tercourse with each other we do
not try to find out the truths
that arise, but how to maintain
our own opinions and smother
the confounded truth if it gets
in the way.
The most valuable thing we
can get from each other in this
world is the accumulation of
knowledge that others are gath
ering. To protest against any
man’s freedom to express his
opinions is no particulrr hard
ship to him, but it does shut
off what may be the most valued
source of thought in the com
munity, Ignorance and error do
not triumph. Sooner or later the
truth comes uppermost, for it is
the one thing that is bound to
survive because it is right. If
some man tells you you are an
addle-pated idiot it is better to
go home and study out what it
is he sees in you that leads him
to give you that low rating and
it is never wise to want to fight
him, for that will net remedy the
short comings that he probably
sees in you which makes him al
lude to them. When a man’s
opinions differ from yours possi
bly yours can be benefitted by
studying your short comings.
Don’t be conceited enough to
think you know it all and every
one else knows nothing.
SEABOARD RAILROAD
REVENUES IMPROVE
A financial paragraph says
Seaboard income from passen
ger traffic has improved forty-
one per cent over a period of last
year covering the same months,
which is not only satisfactory to
the railroad but is highly impor
tant to the territory it serves.
Presumably the reduction in
fares has to do with the increase
of passenger income, for people
realize that at the rate of a cent
and a half a mile that is the
cheapest method of going any
place the trains go.
The automobiles and the pub
lic busses have cut into the rail
road traffic until its passenger
The Struggle
V)
BUREAU
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NM San Prantuc* Ch.-vnicu
birds can feed this fall and winter,
and folks who roam the woods say
birds were never more plentiful.
“Our town is only ten years old,”
said a visiting brother from Indiana
to a resident of Podunkville, a mill
town up in the wire grass region ‘‘and
she is coming right along. Increased
fifteen per cent in population last
year.”
“Same class with our new cemetery
j in Podunkville,” said Pod Dinks, a
Podunkville booster. “It increased its
population last year by more than
that for the new highway has a nice
cui’ve just below it and we got a
right smart lot of new settlers from
that one direction alone. Stop and
see us a while. We like folks who are
expanding,”
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
The way the farmers talk it is ap-
parent that the Sandhills country is
more of a wheat region than some
folks were aware.
business was badly affected.
Then the road took the bull by
the 'horns and cut rates to a
point where no other vehicle can
make better rates and the ex
perience of several months would
point to a recovery of passenger
business if the roads keep up;
the practice of lower rates. j
Another thing that has to do
with the return of railroad bus-!
iness is the greater safety. Rail
roads kill so few passengers that
you can not recall a case in a
long time. But automobiles scat
ter the road with killed and in
jured until travelers are becom
ing alarmed. The signs are that
the automobile is not paying
much attention to reduction of
the casualties on the highway,
and one significant I'esult is the
raise in the price of insurance to
many drivers who do not make a
good safety record on the roads.
Another thing that is turning
people to the railroads is the an
noyance and danger of the big
trucks that crowd the highways
and make traffic increasingly
difficult.
Certainly the railroads must
have some way to improve their
incomes, or the outlook for them
is not good. In spite of its in
crease in passenger revenues the
Seaboard announces a big deficit
for the first six months of this
year, and no concern can pile up
a deficit continuously and live.
One of the serious influences
that help to continue the depres
sion over the country is the in-1
ability of the roads to buy rails!
and material and keep the steel ';
mills running. The mills are run-]
ning about 20 per cent of capac-:
ity now, and no hope ahead.]
That cuts into employment and j
labor enormously. The demand |
for railroad material is not much 1
above nothing. The roads can’t
buy if they don’t earn anything.
LOCAL BUILDING AND
lOAN ASSOCIATIONS
The secretary of a local
building and Loan associa
tion, informs The Pilot of
a project which the associa
tions of Aberdeen, Pinehurst
and Southern Pines are enter
taining, having for the object to
make these societies better
known to the people w’ho may be
interested in the w’ork they are
doing. It is doubtful if any other
project has been carried on in
the county that is more benefi
cial in its field of home build
ing and money saving than that
of the building and loan socie
ties, a fact that is recognized
not only in this section, but all
over the United States. The man
who w’ants to get himself a
home and who has energy and
determination, is hardly likely
to obtain a safer and more help
ful aid than that which is pro
vided by these organizations, for
the first thing the building .so
ciety does is to inquire into the
standing of the applicant for
money and see if his intention of
building a house is based on a
footing that he can carry out.
He is discouraged from getting
into anything that is not with
in his power to accomplish, and
when he has taken on the work
of building he is encouraged in
every w’ay to keep up with thej
work until his job is paid for. He'
is kept on a safe footing, on a'
basis that is within reach and
all the way along he has the ad
vice and watchfulne.ss of the in
vesting board of the society.
This not only makes the asso
ciation a wise counselor and
backer for the builder, but it
provides a good investment for
people who want to invest small
amounts of money in one of the
safest securities that this coun
try affords. It is not often that
a building and loan account in
this county is foreclosed, or
that the investor is concerned
about his money in one of the
societies, or that the home build
er is disturbed because of falling
behind with his payments. They
are doing a great work, and are
worth becoming better acquaint
ed with.
Probably the greatest fundamental
question involved in the revised con-
stitution proposed for North Carolina
is that of individualism as opposed to
communism. Shall we start with the
governor as head and allow the dele
gation of power to come down from
that source: or, shall we start with
the town meeting and let the delega
tion of authority proceed from the
people themselves ?
Complete new line Funk & Wag-
nall's Dictionaries at Hayes.
The following transfers of real es
tate have been recorded in the of
fice of the Register of Deeds of
Moore county:
J. L, Cagle and wife to W. B. Lam*
bert and wife, property in Carthage
township.
' E. G. Mclver and wife and others
to State Highway and Public Works
Commission, property in Deep River
township.
S. J. Hinsdale, Receiver, Southern
Securities and Guaranty Company, to
Mrs. Nannie M. Williamson, proper
ty in Carthage,
Luther H. McIntosh and wife to Al-
lie McIntosh, property in Bensalem
township.
Mrs. Ruth Sutphin and K. L. Sut.
phin to Elizabeth VonCanon, proper
ty in Mineral Springs township,
J. Abner Thomas and wife to Lora
Mae Thomas, property in Greenwood
township.
Brief Cases, $1.75 and up at Hayea.’
Mrs. Claude Hafer
Private and Class
Lessons on Piano
Studio in McBrayer Building
Southern Pines
Grains of Sand
Rentals and. Sales
It Is Homecoming Time In The Sandhills
We have listed a number of desirable properties to lease for
the season, or for sale at attractive prices.
R. F'. F»OTTS
REAL ESTATE ' BUILDER
Carolina Theatre Building, Southern Fines, N. C.
With the whole state canning sour
kraut and cabbage and Uncle Sam
going into the canned beef business
what a time Mrs. Jiggs could have
with corned beef and cabbage in
North Carolina this winter if she
will come this way and forget her
antagonism to the diet she was rais
ed on.
The hills were never better filled '
with wild seed crops on which the,
9 till—
PRE-SEASON DANCE
ABERDEEN
Wednesday, September 5
Sleepy Rhodes and His Orchestra
y Script $1.25
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