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Pmfe Tw« THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, January 17, 1941. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pinea, N. C. Helen Cftmeron K£LSON C. HYDE Editor DAN a. RAY General Manager CHARLES >L\CArLEY Advertisini; Manager K. Butler, Virginia Creel. Beaale Smith. Charles Cullinitford, Associates. Subscription Rates; One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Ifonths 50 THE POCKETBOOK (/KNOWLEDGE ESitered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. BOIIQI ETS FOR OUR SIDE The backbone of American community life is to be found in the small town newspapers, ac cording to Arthur Robb, Execu tive Editor of Editor and Pub lisher. Mr_ Robb explained the trend toward one-newspaper towTis, and he recited some of the tremendous obstables of small city newspapers in facing competition of the metropolitan press. He said that there are more than 1,000 cities out of a total 1,400 in which there is no competition. Editor and Publish er reports the transfer of many newspapers from daily to week ly issues in communities where “no local newspaper or radio competition exists.” Mr_ Robb spoke strongly in opposition to methods in business and in eco nomic affairs that were thinning out the rank.s of the country press. He added, “In the hands of the country pres.s, it .seems to me, the future of our civiliza tion largely lies.” comNseieD Huus—Ofxe A 'MAsre MiamuL —now foRMTtt MSK OF A MCWiy-MAli/UFACWIXP flfHc i TUeMACHINe TbOL v^Pusmv-oMvmK mmTHMLfxmse Acmny MCXatSlP Pf!0D<K7)0H >600 PeHCTNT JN B vaifS'riMt ABCUT 3SO SyNTHFTV RUBBEH COMPDOWOS FOR OlFreREUT wpusrewL uses have pcvBix>pro IT'S ILLfffAL TO -mPOWAN Onion at anyone. accoroims To A PCINCCTOvW.TEXAS law Lppoams or ANfiENT T/ANA, iivep ijg )/BARe/ MS PifP w 9$ 4 Cl GI^AINS er SAND BUSY DAYS AHEAD FOR MR. POOLE Moore county’s representative in the State Legislature will have to be a pretty versatile fel low this session if he keeps Moore county had no fatal indus trial accidents during the fiscal yea 1938-39, the biennial report of th State Industrial Commission showf It had six "permanent partial” acci dents, 60 "temporary total,” and 17C medical only cases. Compensatior paid totaled $4,067. During: the fiscal year 1939-40, there was one fatal accident in the county, one permanent partial, 57 temporary total, and 176 medical only rases, with $9,021 paid out in com pensation. Chalked on a London sidewalk; abreast of the work of all the | "Gather ye rosebugs while ye may, committees to which he’s been ^or time brings only sorrow, assigned. He’s going to have to The girls you might have kissed know about agriculture (which* he does anyway), about conser- gas-masks tomorrow.” vation and development, drain age, engrossed bills, finance,, game, higher education, military affairs, penal institutions and unemployment compensation, for he’s been named t/) the com mittees of the lower house that handle all these matters. We don’t exactly envy Mr. J. Haw ley Poole of West End. Howsomever, Mr. Poole’s com-. 1'\ear 1940 mittee assijpments, announced . this week, fit in very well with the interests of his constituency. They offer him the potentiali ties for a lot of good work for Moore countj’’ and the Sandhills. Agriculture is important here. Conservation and Development covers the State advertising “Aid to Britain” was the subject of a talk made before University of North Carolina alumni in Durham Wednesday night by Struthers Hurt, Southern Pines author. Here’s bad news for some of us. The First Revenue Act of 1940 pro vides. among other things, that ef fective with returns for the calendar the personal exemption for income tax purposes in the case of single persons shall be $800 in stead of $1,000 as heretofore, and in the case of married persons living to- ether, $2,000 instead of $2,500 as eretofore. The Act further provides lat the gross and not the net in- ome shall be the determining fac- or with respect to the liability for he filing of income tax returns. George Pottle wishes it were real, the $29,900 he won in last Sunday’s "Bet-a-Million” golf tournament of the Sandpipers Club, played at the Southern Pines Country Club. So does “Buck” Tarlton who copped $18,300 second “money”, and Roy Grinnell, who could use, he says, his $16,300. Though the money was counterfeit, the boys did get some real prizes for their prowess on the links. significant light on the public’s thinking in regard to measures ^ vitally important to the nation’s fund’s disbursements, vital to Southern Pines, Pinehurst and! 69 per cent of those question- Knollwood. We are naturally in-led believe that it would speed up terested in finance, and with'defense if strikes were prohibit- three of the few nine-month ed by law in industries produc- high schools in North Carolina[ing defense goods; about 10 per located here, w’e are happy to be cent thought it would retard represented on the Committee on Higher Education. Military Af fairs is an important committee at this time. The State will un dergo a vital home defense pro gram during the year. such production, and the rest either felt it would make no dif ference or had no opinion. A total of 57 per cent held that regular factory working hours in national defense indus- All in all, it would appear to tries should be increased to The Pilot that Mr. Poole has j more than 40 a week for the been assigned to just the com-1 sake of defense efficiency. 12 mittees we of the county would i per cent thought this would re in the tenth annual Winter Show of the Academy of Allied Arts in New York City, Lucille Mudgett’s exhib its of the water colors were adjudged Bmong the best, according to the New York Sun. Lucille Mudgett, who j is Mrs. Henry M. Dingley, Jr. of j Auburn, Maine, is the talented dau-1 ghter of Dr. and Mrs. Wiliam C. Mudgett of Southern Pines. If the boys in the legislative halls in Raleigh don’t do something, the State will have its record budget dur ing the two years beginning July 1st. The Advisory Budget Commission has put in for $176,266,176, as against the $160,744,618 during the current bien nium. Can we stand a $15,000,000 in crease at this time? Classes in national defense work, for young men not in school, are be ing organized in various paits of the county. The government provides the necessary funds, we understand. There are many young men in and around Southern Pines who would-be interested in learning about electric ity, sheet metal work, mechanics, etc. We recommend it to the atten tion of the School Board. have selected for him. And we believe he is capable of able representation thereon. THE PUBLIC SPEAKS UP ON DEFENSE A short time ago, the Elmo Roper Organization, which con dutts the extremely accurate election polls for Fortune Maga zine, asked a number of ques tions on defense subjects, and the answers given by a cross- section of the American public have now been released by the National Association of Manu facturers. The Roper Organization sought to find out if the publio thought that certain possible ac tions would speed up or slow down the defense program, whether or not those questioned actually favored the measures or not. Most of the answers throw a lard production One more particularly impor tant thought turned up in an swer to a question as to whether t-he N?.tional Defense Commis sion snould be given more pow er This move w’as favored by 54 per cent of those questioned, while only 6 per cent were defi nitely of the opinion that this would have the opposing effect. These public attitudes on vital defense questions show that Americans everywhere are eager (o see the program made more effective, and that the majority of them recognize definite steps in that direction. But \hey also indicate a large group who are undecided or hold no opinion at all, and it is only reasonable to hope that, in these grave times, this group will become more ac tively interested in the national welfare and the measures that will make our industries even stronger and more productive. "Southern Pines went away over the top in the Stal Sale for tubercu losis." Mrs. Clarabelle Pushee, local chairman, announced this week. She asked The Pilot to express her appre- cittion of the efforts of the workers whose cooperation made it possible. Congratulations to C. T. Patch on the 44th anniversary of his start in business in Southern Pines. Mr. Patch has operated a store here since the village was only about ten years old. Telephone 6161 J. N. Powell, Inc. Funeral Home 24 hour Ambulance Service D. AL Blue, Jr. Manager Southern Pines DOES FORD PAY GOOD WACES? Here are some facts about Ford Labor. During the year ended November .^Oth, 19<0, the Ford Payroll throughout the United States averaged 113,628 hourly wage earners, not including office em ployes, students, or executives. They were paid $185,105,639.12. On this basis, the average annual wage was $1,629.05. According to the latest available govern ment figures, the annual average wage of all workers in employment covered by old age insurance law was $841.00. If the 45,000,000 workers of this country received the same average wage as Ford employes, they would have had additional wages of more than $35,000,000,000, thus increasing the national income about 50%. Think what such an increase would mean to the workers of this country and to the American farmer, whose prices are based on the national income. Wage scales in the Ford Rouge plants are divided into three classifications: Unskilled , . . Minimum hiring wage . 75c per hour Semi-skilled . . . Minimum hiring wage . 80c per hour Skilled . . . Minimum hiring wage . 90c per hour Higher wages are in consideration of ability and years of service. Minimum w-age scales for unskilled labor at the Rouge plant are the highest in the industry. Top wages for skilled labor compare favorably with, or are higher than, wages in other automobile plants. Now some facts on Ford labor conditions: Not only are sanitation and other health conditions the best in the industry, but Ford also leads in safety devices for the protection of employes. Proof of this is found in the following com parison of compensation insurance costs: The national average rate in automotive manufacturing plants as computed by the National Association of Underwriters is in excess of $1.50 premium on each SKW payroll. The Ford cost of workmen s compensation is less than 50c. This indicates that the chance of injury in a Ford plant is much less than in the average automobile plant. The Ford Motor Company has no age limit for labor, and in fact deliberately attempts to keep older workers working. The average age of Ford workers at the Rouge and nearby plants is 38.7. A recent check-up shows that nearly one- half the workers at these Ford plants were 40 or over, falling into these age groups: 25,819 between 40 and 50 14,731 between 50 and 60 3,377 between 60 and 70 417 between 70 and 80 12 between 80 and 90 In addition to the so-called regular em ployes, the Ford Motor Company has hired, and now has on the payroll, at the same regular hourly wage, thousands of workers ^'ho are blind, crippled or other wise incapacitated for normal pnxluctive work. They are not selected for their ability to build cars or to maintain the plant. They are on the payroll because of Henry Ford’s belief that the responsibility of a large company to labor goes be yond the point at which the unfortunate worker can no longer produce profitably. The above are facts. They are open to anyone who really wants to deal in facts. Anyone who wants to get a job .. . buy a car ... or place a national defense con tract on the basis of fair labor treat ment must place Ford at the top of his eligible list. ¥ O It II >1 <1 T O II CO M V A Y iinuiaitixmrtixmixaxtm Many Bargains in Real Estate have been purchased here during the past few months for investment and personal usage- Dwelling's, commercial buildings and vacant properties —those w^hich are actually for sale—are priced at fig ures so low they are most attractive. Recent sales of H. 0. L. C. houses indicate that a few people are far sighted enough to see a bargain. I still have some houses, both large and small, that are truly low priced when compared to values, some va cant property well located and reasonable enough in price to make a solid investment for holding or using. In other words, this is the time to acquire Real Es tate in Southern Pines, especially in view of the clearly defined opportunities now at hand and in the near fu ture. Whether you are retired and want a home or wheth er you are a builder, developer or investor, I have some thing of interest for you, I am sure. Come in and let us talk it over. 4 Eugene C. Stevens Phone 5121 Southern Pines, N. C. i tmtmmmmmmmmmtmmimmmmmmmmmmmmm ttmmmmmmmmmmmommmmmtt
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