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1926. 'OlfES Monu- write ^orks stock of hand at id pricet latest elec- one I conditon, >8, Aber- >v. 6 t£.) ice ten •isk ley is fes e tur d ►ur y ii ids Sldil :he md »N VOLUME 6 THE PILOT NUMBER 17 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company. VASS. n. a FRIDAY, MARCH 26,1926 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 f KEITHEN WRITES ON SPECIAL TAX LEVY With His Present Understanding It Doesn’t Strike Him Very Favorably Aberdeen, N. C. March 20, 1926. To the Editor: For the past two weeks your paper has carried an advertisement which calls for an election on April 27th in which election the electorate is to de cide whether the county commissioners shall have, or shall not have, author ity to levy a county wide tax of fifty cents per $100.00 property valuation, in addition to the now existing rate of sixty-three cents, for the purpose of increasing the terms of all the Bchools of the county to an eight months school term. As the bulk of our tax money now goes into the operation and maintenance of the public schools and as the schools are that part of county government which comes closer to us than any other, I think it is the duty of every citizen to acquaint himself thoroughly with the proposition before deciding how he shall vote. For that reason I submit such facts as I have been able to get from the County Superin- tendant of Schools and from the County Auditor: and at the same time ask some questions about matters I would like to be enligtened. The existing rate of sixty-three cents per one hundred dollars valua tion is now bringing in a revenue of about $156,900.00. The 21 special school districts in the county, having special tax levies ranging from ten cents to one dollar and ten cents (this number including the Southern Pines Echool which operates under the town goTeTTiment) raise $101,718.00, making a total of $258,617.00 collected in the county for school purposes. Under the proposed levy of fifty cents, there would be realized approximately $125,- 000.00. I understand that upon the Will this be done under the new levy? This county is largely agri cultural. Will the farmers allow the children to remain in school eight months when now they are attending only three-fourths of the time for six months. Is there not prevailing an opinion among both the farmers and the school authorities that the child's labor on the farm is absolutely nec essary during ce^rtain periods of the year which conflict with the school terms. It is impossible to legislate, and enforce that legislation, beyond public opinion. Then why tax one to provide something which will not be accepted. Personally I am in favor of every child attending school nine months each year but my wishes do not control the situation. The records in the office of the County Auditor show there is a bonded and floating indebtedness as listed below: Aberdeen, $131,000; Cameron, $66,- 000; Carthage, $75,000; Eureka, $32,- 725; Jackson Springs, $3,375; Mineral Springs, $75,000; Southern Pines, $66,- 000; Vass, $50,000; Moore County, $75,000; State loan to county, $105,- 690. Total $679,790. I have been told that under the new levy the county would assume this indebtedness, meet the payment of the bonds and interest on the bonds and issue new bonds to take care of the floating indebtedness. If this information is correct, is it fair for me, a citizen of Aberdeen, to vote for the tax-payer in Hemp to assume a part of this $131,000 which has been (Continued on Page 8) WANT^^W DEAL FOR CHILD OF‘STICKS’ A Reply to Siipt. AUen^s Article In Sandhill Citizen To the Editor: Under the head, “School Facts and passage of the proposed lejvy, the j Figures,” Supt. Allen, Southern Pines, special districts with their special I presents what are called facts but taxes will be wiped out. Is this in the last analysis his statements correct? If it is we would then un der the new levy raise $23,282.00 more than is secured under the present plan. This would be the law’s limit. What will this additional $23,282.00 be called upon to do? There are now 85 schools in the county of which, as stated before 21 are aided by local taxes. Of these specials, two run for nine months, twelve for eight months, two for seven months and five for six months, the remaining sixty- four which make no contribution to their own support run for a period of six months. In the special districts are fifty-eight per cent of the county enrollment, leaving forty-two per cent in these sixty- four schools. An I correct in assuming that it is the purpose of the County Board of Edu cation to extend with this additional $23,000.00 to terms of eight months are misleading. First of all Mr. Allen gets only an avision of Southern Pines, he can’t see beyond the boundary lines of his district. He cannot bring him self to the point wheire the County Board has to look at the interests of a whole county as well as Southern Pines. He reminds us of the good old deacon who prayed thus: “Good Lord, bless me, my wife and my son John, us three and no more.” In the second place he makes state ments that are misleading relative to the distribution of county school funds. He says that if this measure carries that distribution of county gchool funds by the board of education will be on the basis of “per capita pu pil attendance.” If Mr. Allen will give himself the trouble to consult the school law, he will find that the PINEHDRST REALH GETTINGJN ACTION Removal of Old Warehouses Bring New Devel opment the seventy-one schools having shorter law requires that the Board of Edu period terms ? Can an economy be ef fected by a central administration which will make possible such a great savings over the present plan? I do not believe this can be done. Un doubtedly there has been waste the public funds, but is there any reas on to believe there will be less when the expenditure is farther removed from those most interested. There are now, according to the school census, 8531 children of school age in Moore County. Of these 7,- 314, eighty-six per cent, are enrolled in the school. The daily average attendance is 5,649, sixty-five per cent of the census and seventy-six per cent of the enrollment. This means that one child in every seven is not attending school at all and that of those attending practically one week of every four is spent away from the school room. It means, too, that neither the child nor the parent is interested enough to take advantage of the facilities offered. This brings to mind the fact that the law of the State says that all children between the ages of seven and fourteen shall attend the schools for six months. This law is not being enforced nor is ma chinery for its enforcement provided. cation must take into consideration the needs of a school and the grade of work to be done in making distribu tion of all school funds and make the distribution to schools on the basis of tke salary schedule of teachers. This means that Southern Pines would be come a standard school and share alike with other schools of its class. This would be equitable and just and no community, if its citizens are fair minded would demand more. The intention of this proposition is to give Moore County a uniform, just and equitable system of schools, and there is no other system which the board can use that is just and equit able. Without casting any reflection upon any public official, the present system of distribution of school funds, is unjust to the last degree, and Mr. Allen implys so much ir. his state ments. Southern Pines along with some other schools are getting school funds that justly, rightfully, and equitably belong to the whole county. Let us see how this happens? The law gives Southern Pines the priv ilege of levying a special tax, and from this source Southern Pines the The removal of the old Warehouses at Pinehurst and of the railroad sta tion has permitted a new real estate development in the (Section of the village where those buildings stood, and on the ground between the old railroad and the new location of the tracks, and this territory has been platted, planted and prepared for mar ket. Its excellent location made it desirable as soon as the plan was announced and already the lot sales in that section have been many. In a general way real estate activities in Pinehurst have been much more active to date than at any time in the last six years. Sales are being made every day and the best selling season has not yet been reached. In the new development, made pos sible by the moving of the old sta tion, five lots have recently been sold. John W. Watson has bought the lot directly in back of his mother’s prop erty, having in mind building there at some later date. J. H. Andrews has purchased two lots adjoining his property and states that he has pur chased them “for residential pur poses.” George T. Dunlap has bought a lot and a half connecting with his property and has indicated that he hopes to build on one of these lots. C. M. Rudel of Canada has purchased a very attractive lot lo cated near where the old Pinehurst Warehouse building stood and is maknig plans to build next winter. This is the highest priced residential lot that Pinehurst has ^ even sold, though sales by private* parties In Pinehurst have made considerably in excess of this. It is interesting to note that the sale of this acre of land was made at four-fifths of the price originally paid for the 5000 acres which is now Pinehurst It is also interesting to note that the ma jority of these sales, in this new sec tion were made to old Pinehurst res idents and that all of them are plan ning to erect houses on them at some time Certainly no one is in better position to appjreciate the value of Pinehurst real estate than those who have owned property and lived there for some time. The Catholic church has purchased a lot adjoining their property and have in mind putting a Rectory on this. Mrs Frederick A Parkhurst has purchased a lot on Linden Road and is making plans to build this sum mer. William Wilson has purchased a lot on Midland Road and will build this summer. The other sales have just been re ported but definite announcement cannot yet be made. Both of these sales are for improved property ag gregating $70,000, and one of them was made to a devotee of Bellair, Florida, while three inches of snow was on the ground. One real estate party in Pinehurst has reported sales for this season to date of nearly $114,000. There can be no question but what Pinehurst is on the verge of a substantial development. There are also to date a large number of negotiations for purchases which will soon be closed. two hours was presented to an ap preciative audience. Better English week was observed in the high school last week. The teachers of each grade devoted ten minutes each day to discussing better English. A record was kept of the grammatical errors made during the week. At the end of the week, those who had murdered the King’s Eng lish on the King’s highway were ar rested. They were tried before a jury and a judge in the regular man ner. They were found guilty, but were pardoned on the condition that they would not commit the offense again. The school took lots of inter est in the trial, and it is believed that they will make them take more care with their English in the fu ture. The high school collected funds last week for the Near East Relief. Cards were given to the pupils to be filled with dimes. The pupil getting the most money was John Robert Mc- Innis, who collecte^d $1.65. The jim- iors collected more than any other grade, $2.95. The total collected by the school was $10.65. The high school and grammar grades have a contest each month, known as the triangle contest. The rooms are graded each week and the rooms having the highest grades in average attendance, neatness of the rooms, and number on the honor roll, for a month gets a half day holiday. The eleventh grade has the honor of getting the holiday for the last three months. The fifth grade gets the (Continued on Page 8) J. R. N’QDEEN MAKES STATEMENT Says AH Questions Will Be Freely and Frankly Answered Before Special Election SELLING TRACTORS IN CAR LOAD LOTS Pinehurst Warehouses Bring Big Shipment From Chicago The Pinehurst Warehouses staked an interesting sensation a few days ago when they brought out of Chic ago four train loads of tractors, each car bearing a sign saying the car was loaded with International Trac tor for the Pinehurst Warehouses at Pinehurst, N. C. And the sensation was not lessened when two of those cars were dispatched with the seal unbroken to two individual customers, each of these customers taking the full car load. One load, of six tractors, went to Jesse Page up at Eagle Springs, and the other to D. M. Buchanan ( at Mars- ton, for the Farm Development com pany. Both these buyers are big orchard men, and they are; farming on an extensive and intensive scale, I* ' and have found that they cannot carry on with the old methods of farming and orchard operation, and that they cannot handle their big orchards with one or two tractors. So they have Ibought at one throw a full car of tractors for each farm, a thing so far as The Pilot is aware, unknown in farm practice in North Carolina, if not in the South. A dozen years ago a tractor was looked on in this part of the country as a doubtful experiment. Then an occasional steam tractor was trying to hook itself up to some farm work on big places, but with doubtful suc cess. The gasoline engine finally jumped into the field, and after a few years of effort and much failure the tractor has become a common machine in farm practice, and practically every All the readers of our county papers have noticed the Special election or dered for the purpose of voting a county wide tax for sdhools. This election was ordered by the Board of County Commissioners at the re quest of the Board of Education, ac companying a petition from a number of qualified voters in the county. The expressed intention of the Board of Education in requesting the Commissioners to call the election was to give the people in the county full and accurate information in reference to the condition of the schools for the county, and also the effort the success of this election would have on the schools. The board of education is supposed to act for all the school children in the county, and we think fully realizes that their opinion about the schools does not necessarily agree with a great many others in the county, but the fact that they occupy this posi tion it seems to us should make the thoughtful people in the county give this question serious consideration in the matter. It is a long time be- and not reach a decision too quickly fore election day, and every one can rest assured that no effort will be made to put anything over on any body, and all questions will be fully and frankly answered. Because of sickness in the offce force we have not been able to give the figures as rapidly as we intended, but as stated above, there is abun dant time yet. J. R. McQUEEN JACKSON SPRINGS HIGH SCHOOL NEWS (C!k>ntinued •n S) The jimiors and seniors of the high school gave their operetta under the direction of Miss Ella Walton, entitled Love Dreams of Japan, on the night of March 12. Miss Juanita Briton took the part of the heroine and Neill McDuffie took the part of the hero, both played their parts in a talented way. The minor parts were played by Miss Walter Frye, Messrs. Ray mond Seawell, Boswell Bethune, Fred Frye, Claude Smith, and Grady Thomas. The chorus consisted of Japanese grirls, American boys and girls, who rendered their songs beau tifully. The programme lasting about MASONIC NOTICE The Central Carolina Scottish Rite Club of Sanford, N. C., will observe the beautiful, impressive and ancient ceremonies of Maunday Thursday on April 1st, 1926 at 8 o’clock p. m. in the Masonic Temple, at Sanford. All members of Eastern Star, all Master Masons, including both York and Scot tish Rite are cordially invited. Brother C. B. Newcomb, 33 degree, of Wilmington, will delivw the ad dress on this occasion. He needs no introduction to the Masons of this section. All Knights Rose Croix are espec ially urged to be present to fulfill (Continued on page 6) TEACHERS MEET AT PINEHURST t The Elementary Teachers of Moore, county met at Pinehurst, Saturday, March 13. Although there was a heavy snow storm, the following were present: ' ' i Supt. A. B. Cameron, Prof. W. P. Morton, Prof. Hutcheson, P. H. Steph enson, Misses Meta Leiles, Loula Lov ing, Minnie Muse, Mrs. Fannie Shields, Miss Bozella McCallum, Jeanette ^acRae, Maimie Arnold, Mrs.. Bertha Freeman, Annie McFadyen, Flossie McLean, Misses Harris, Mary’ McLeod, Elizabeth Wadsworth, Myr tle McCaskill, Minerva Thompson, Annies Clegg, Wiles Endine Mead ows, Strawdie Hare. The meeting was called to order by the president, Miss Meta Liles Prof. W. P. Morton conducted the devotional exercise. Mr. Morton made interesting and helpful sugges tions on chapel exercises in school. The president. Misses Minnie Muse and Rozelle McCallum appointed a program committee for the April* meeting. The following program was then* carried out. The lessons were indeed model lessons in every respect. Model lesson in English, second grade, taught by Miss Meta Liles. Model lesson in Arithmetic, fifth grade, taught by Mrs. Bertha Free man. Model lesson in Arithme^tic, fourth grade, taught by Miss Rozella Mc- Callum. Address: Commencement exercise* by Supt. A. B. Cameron. Supervised play with two groups of boys, by R. E. Stephenson. After all these good things, more good things were in store. A most delightful and bountiful lunch was served to all. Miss Jeanette Mac- Rae speaking for the association, ex pressed their appreciation to tiie Kne- hurst teachers and people for their, experssive and warm reception. onei of the highest obligations they owe to the sacred order. B. E. STANFIELD, President. J. w. marks; SecretMry. ■ •1% i ■i ' - H ■ .*i| " - 'I t 1 -ft' 11- if! ; I , « t ■i ^ :) ■#.! it:: ;■*
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