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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern »*ines and AberJeen, North Carolina Friday, January 4, 1935.. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, AJberdet n and Southern Pine«, N. O. NCLSON C. HYDE, Mana^ng Editor HION H. BUTLER, Editor IAME8 BOYD STRIJTHERS BURT Contributing £dltom SubM;ription Rates: One Year 12.00 Six Months 11.00 Hiree Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South- •m Pines, N. C., as second-class mall natter. THE SALES TAX AND OTHER THOUGHTS A fairly observant business man returning recently from the North, in answer to the ques tion as to how things impress him all over the country answer ed, “Good enough, and bad enough.” This man said a lot of our perturbation is emotional, and always will be. We have a foolish idea that human med dling can run affairs, but it can’t. It can only bungle them. Now take the sales tax in our own state. We have been up on our hind legs about it for a year or .so, but gradually Allen Maxwell and the governor have got us around to where we are liking the sales tax and asking for more. It isn’t because they had anything to do with it, but because it is the only thing that is left. Propei'ty has been tramped in the mud, as far as ability to pay taxes is concern ed. Thousands and thousands of real estate holdings are sold for taxes every year in North Car olina until we have reached the end of the tether. We can legis late all we want to, but legisla tion does not add any to the power of the land owner to scare up money to pay more taxes. A few years ago w'e talked a good deal about getting money where it is to pay taxes. The sales tax idea came along and with a tax of nearly thirty per cent on gas oline and showed where to get money. Tax on tobacco on var ious forms showed where. Then a three per cent tax on all sales showed where. Because the man who has money is the man you can squeeze it out of. Along that line this man con tinued to say that in his own case after he had paid his lit tle bit of income tax which wasn’t much and his little cor poration tax which isn’t much, and the tax on his house which isn’t much, he didn’t have much left to pay anything further in a lump sum. But if the state is content with three per cent of any dollar he gets to buy things with it seems to leave him 97 cents for his own uses, which is easier than any of the other taxes. And he argues that it is not a matter of what he wants to do and what the legislature proposes to do, but w“hat he can do that seems to be the thing that will be done. And he fur ther says that he applies that same rule to all the rest of our absurdly emotional problems. We can legislate all we w^ant to at Raleigh or Washington, but the solution of the whole busi ness will be the one that can solve, and not any of those that the theorists dig up from impos sible sources. His idea doesn’t make bad reading nor seem to be any more foolish than some of the others. And at the same time possibly more inclined to get results. THRIFTY FARM SETTLEMENT Out to the w'estward a few miles from Aberdeen is a farm community, known in a digni fied way as Roseland, but more specifically in the neighborhood as the Kirk settlement. By this latter name it is known favor ably for it is a rather ideal country vicinity. Its people come largely from Stanley county, which is a county of thrifty far mers, and it is no secret that Moore county would welcome more of that type. The Kirks originally came down this way to settle over in Hoke county, and when they were driven out by Fort Bragg they came over into Moore, The Kirk community inclines to diversified farming. Just now their ploughs are running and the small grains are getting into the ground. Wheat and rye and com make a leading feature on the Kirk farms. Fences con trol the live stock and pastur age is developed. As a side line the folks raise some cotton and tobacco and their supply store is located principally in the gar den, which adjoins the poultry yard and the hog lot. Possibly the character of the ground over there in the Deep ci'eek section is a little more substantial than that of some of the sandier sections. Yet possi bly, also the substantial char acter of the farmers has large ly to do with the results secur ed. It may be debatable as to how much of Moore county soil is suitable for plough cultiva tion. But the signs indicate that a considerable portion of the lands will respond to profitable tilth in the hands of farmers who know how to operate their farms. It may be that the farm which has for its one aim to raise cotton or tobacco to ob tain money to buy the farm sub sistence from the village groc ery has a difficult problem on its hands. But the Kirk settle ment is pretty fair evidence that the farmer who plans his opera tions to include his own acres as his source of supply and who will pay attention to his place and his operations has a reas onably fair outlook. At any rate ! that is the interpretation in the Kirk community. Comfortable homes, clean fields, chui'ch and school, good neighbors, thrifty live stock, full barns and seem ingly contented people. And that is the basis of a large fac tor in life. MAKING WAR A I’MVERSAL JOB I The American Legion an nounces that it will present to I Congress at the coming session I a proposition which will prob- 1 ably meet with popular approv al. The plan will be offered along I with that movement already dis- I cussed, which is to take the I profits out of war. The Legion I is offering no altruistic argu- I ment, but throws its hat posi- : tiv’ely into th . ring when it says I that when another war comes I the whole population of the I United States available for ser- ! vice of any kind shall be draft- j ed in one complete mass. From I that mass it is proposed to se- i lect some men for infantry work, I some for artillery, some for the I navy, some for the shops, some j for the shipyards, some for the I commissaries, some for trans- I portation, some for every other task that this nation will face. I The man who stays at home and works in t'he shop will be paid as high a salary as the man who takes his gun and goes to the trenches, although the latter, to be truthful about it, because of the risk of the work, ought to have a larger salary. But, if the Legion has its way, the man who stays at home to make the guns will not get ten dollars a day, while the man w'ho goes out to face the bul lets of the enemy gets thirty dollars a month. If any group of men present ing anything to Congress at the next session has a case, it is the Legion. W'hy the man at home surrounded by all the comforts of life, protected by the man at the front, should be free to those his own vocation, his hours of work and his rate of pay and the man who joins the, hag should surrender his free dom of action, risk his life amid the most unpleasant surround ings for the compaVative pit tance paid soldiers always, is a situation that permits mighty little logical debate. Just now when we are trying to regiment everything, to tell the farmer how much cotton he must plant and the worker how many hours he may work, and the employer what wages he must pay, the Legion has the strongest talking point it can present. If farmer and worker and other classes are to have all industry planned for their in dividual welfare, nobody can deny the soldier the equal priv ilege of standing on a footing with all the rest. To draft the whole male population of the United States, to make the rate of wages the same for all men of equal ability, put them all where they will best fit the re quirements is the simplest and fairest thing in the worlds—and the Legion does a good job in offering the proposition. HIGHWAYS AND ~ GASOLINE TAXES Much argument has been of fered concerning the high rate of gasoline taxes in this state. It is difficult to see why the ob- Civic Loyalty Pays Bigr Dividends CHAS. J. SADLER, Mer Out-of-town buying hurts your towfx Sponsored by B. & M. SHOE SHOP Tr^ Your Home Town First GRAIIVS OF' SAND Though North Carolina is away down in the list, 40th among th3 states, to be exact, in per capita wealth, she ranks tenth in payment of gasoline taxes, according to last year's figures. V\'e paid §17,000,000 in gas taxes during 1933. There are two reasons: First, we have one of the highest per gallon taxes to pay of all the states; sec ond, you have to ririve quite a W'ays to get places in North Carolina. We are sparsely settled, our urban com munities are comparatively small. Think of this; North Carolina ranks 12th in population in the United States, yet hasn’t a city with 85,000 people in it. , that if newspapers made the same kind of charges to the banks that the banks make to the newspapers, a typical statement would read some thing like this: To advertising, one month .30 ' Setting ad .15 Going after ad .15 Waiting on ad .25 I Rewriting ad _ .15 Entering ad on book .20 Opening new account .15 Pioofing ad ... .10 Press run .05 Ink .03 Penalty for not advertising more per month .50 Overhead .12 The horse races got off to a good start, considering the short time the new a.ssociation had to prepare for the opening meet. It only learned that the ponies were on their way here a week before New Year’s Day, leaving little time to plan the inaug uration 'event. More horses will be coming from now on, and it will be pretty exciting and pretty colorful when the weekly cards offer bigger fields. Phil Randolph has gotton off to a good start, and the Sandhills welcome the return of the “sport of kings.” Total $2.25 Park View Hotel FINE LOCATION GOOD ROOMS EXCELLENT CUISINE RATES MODERATE Pinehurst BERKSHIRE Sausage Product of Pinehurst Farms This Fresh, Pure Pork Sausage Sold Only in the Sandhills. Ask for this High Grade Product at Your Market or Hotel You’re Missing Something if You Haven’t Tried It. The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C, ABRAHAM, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t. Cashitr U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK ALET Cleaners and Pressers For the Sandhills Tel. 5651 Southern Pines DEPOSITS INSURED BY The Federal Deposit insurance Corporation WASHINGTON, D. C. c^nnn maximum insurance r cnnn ^UUUv FOR EACH DEPOSITOR ^UUUU A newspaper publisher sviggests to the Florida State Press Association jection should be raised. The gasoline taxes are lusec! to pay the debt incurred in building highways and the upkeep of the roads. Perhaps the gasoline tax is levied on a particular class, which is those who buy gasoline. A rather logical argument is that the fellow who doesn’t buy gasoline doesn’t use the roads, and is but slightly concerned in their welfare, and that the man who v’oes use the roads has no occasion to call on the man who does not use them to help pay their cost and their upkeep. To a fellow with one blind eye the present layout does not seem open to objection, so long as the money is used for the purpose originally intended. The whole question resolves down to one thing and that is W'ho shall pay the taxes, and whether we shall pay our taxes on gasoline or property or on every breath we draw, and the general effort on the part of all of us is to have the tax made so that every other fellow' will have to pay the bill and that it will not apply to us. You can turn that proposition inside out, split it up and down the middle, cut off the ends, paint it yellow and it is still the same old sixpence—how to make the other fellow pay the taxes. We have piled up an enormous road debt. It is too late now to weep over that. The debt has to be paid with interest. That knocks the eye out of a large propor tion of the tax money already paid and will continue to be the big hog at the trough. Along with it are other things, but no one so bothersome and impera tive as the funded debt. Our tobacco tax is a considerable factor, but as the big tobacco companies axe strategically held up it is passed along to the buy er and included in retail prices. So it elicits no kick from the consumer. It doesn’t hurt so much to be rubbed if you don’t know it. The profanity engen dered by the sales tax has jeop ardized many unfortunate souls, but the signs are that until we get thoroughly accustomed to this tax we will keep on cussing. Might as well. For we kick no matter how the taxes are col lected, and kick just as much. A NEW DAY B YOU CAN ALWAYS SAVE AT THROWER’S ■ RING OUT THE OLD RING IN THE NEW and NEW PRICES at THROWER’S NEW YEAR Remember you can always shop to advantage at your Store 50c Ipana Tooth Paste 39c 50c Pepsodent Tooth Paste 39c 50c Milk Magnesia Tooth Paste 39c 50c Prophylactic Tooth Brushes 39c 50c Dr. West’s Tooth Brushes 39c 25c Tooth Brushes 19c 75c Listerine, Large Size 59c 50c Phillips Milk Magnesia 39c $1.25 Glyco Thymoline 98c $1.25 Absorbine, Jr. 98c Coty Face F’owder 79c $1.10 Yardley Face Powder ... 89c 65c Pond’s Cream 43c COUPON SPECIAL Saturday, Jan. 5th One Pint Delicious Biltmore Ice Cream 15c With This Coupon at Our Fountain Our Ice Cream Sodas are delicious lOc $1.50 Agarol, IQ Plain or Compound^ $2.50 Pipes $1.50 100 Bayers Aspirin Tablets 59c $1.00 Wampoles Preparation 79c $1.00 Cardui 82c 60c Sal Hepatica 43c 40c Fletchers Castoria . 29c 75c Squibbs Chocolate Vitavose 49c $1.00 Squibbs Oil, with Agarol 79c $1.50 Hot Water Bottles 98f, $1.00 Lysol 82c $1.18 Prince Albert Tobacco 79c All mail orders include 3% N. C- Sales Tax and postage. Rubbing Alcohol Pint 19c $1.00 Pure Cod Liver Oil, vitamin tested 49c $1.25 Caroid and Bile Salt^ 98c 30c Laxative Bromo 0/4/» Quinine $1.00 Nujol 82c Kleenex, 500 tissues 39c 25c Kotex 19c One price only and that to 85c Glovers everybody. Remedy This ad carries only a few of the items we can save you money on ■■■■■■ YOU CANT ALWAYS SAVE AT THROWER’S 67c YOU CAN ALWAYS SAVE AT THROWER’S
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