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[6, 1926. I on the it those quality^ tlNES lonu- itock of lhand at pricM latest >y elae* ou iitmxxxu Is ii' N THE PILOT NUMBER 21 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company. VASS. N. C. H’QDEEN WRITES ON ffilAL TAX Woul4 Like; For Evejry Voter To Sit Down and Think About Question We wish it were possible to g-et every voter in Moore county to sit down and think about the question to be decided next Tuesday. A grreat deal has been said that has nothing to do with the question, and more has been said without full knowledge of the facts, and we want to submit a few statements that we consider facts for the voters to think about and investigate, and if they find them to be facts use them in reach ing their decision on the question at issue. The Tax The election does away with all special school taxes as they are now levied and substitutes a special school tax all over Moore county that can not exceed 50 cents on the hundred dollars for an eight months school term. The figures we have on the present costs of the schools show that the levy would only have to be for 44 cents on the hundred dollars, and while it might be less, it could not be more than 50 cents. To apply this levy to the individual multiply your property as listed for taxes by 50 cents on the hundred dollars and youl will see what you will have to pay for special school tax. If the maximum levy is made, Aberdeen and Southern Pines will pay the same rate, Jackson Springs and Vass slightly less, Cameron and Carthage consider ably less, and all the rest of the county more; the increase varying from 5 cents in one district to 50 cents where no special tax is now being paid and no great injustice any where. The Debt If the election carries, all the debts will be assumed by the county, and interest and sinking fund paid from this special tax levy, and the money provided for building in the north western part of the county. "V^Tien this is done there will be a remarkably even amount of debt ob ligation assumed for each district, considering the territory served and the taxable property in this terri tory, with two outstanding exceptions -Pinehurst will assume more than FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1926 Sanatorium Needs Invalid^s Chair Moore county has reecntly opened, ne^ar Carthage, a small tubercular sanatorium, where patients who for some reason can not be taken to the State Sanatorium, are being cared for. These patients are being made as comfortable as possible with the equipment that we have, but an invalid’s rolling chair is greatly needed. Contributions to a fund for the purchase of such a chair would be greatly appreciated and may be sent to Lticile M. Eifort, Supt. of Welfare, West nd, N. C. WELFARE AND RED CROSS ASSK MEET Meeting Held in Southern Pines Wednesday, April 7, at 2:30 P. M. TON NTHERSON BURe TUESDAY Had Lived in Florida Far Many Years. Was Member of Prominent Family Here (Mrs. J. McK. Harrington) H. P. McPherson, of Cameron, re ceived a message from Ocala, Fla., Sunday morning, conveying the sad message of the death of his only brotheir, Thomas Tyson McPherson, but lovingly known by his many friends as “Tom.’’ He was born and reared in Cameron community, but spent the past twenty years of his life in Florida, and was in the tur pentine and lumber business. He was (Mrs. M. C. McDonald) The Moore County Health and Wel fare association and the executive committee of the Moore County Chap ter of the American Red Cross, came together Wednesday, April 7, at 2:30, at the Southern Pines Civic club for their regular monthly meeting. The chairman presided. There are now chairmen in thirteen communities, but not all of these have their committees formed. Some few committees have raised more than their quota of the financial budget. Some have raised part, one community has contributed books and magazines to a school, others expect to raise their quota later. Those present were interested to hear that the Aberdeen people have been furnish ing* free lunches to thirty-five^ or forty school children. There is now, $1,483.70 in the treas ury. Mr. Hutcheson, of the Farm Life school, who is chairman of the Ways and Means committee, reported that he Beautifying The Old Bethesda _ Cemetery To the Friends of Bethesda Cem etery: It is the hope and intention of Bethesda Cemetery association to make our cemetery one of the most beautiful spots in Moore County. Most right thinking people believe that there is no nobler sentiment than that which prompts the desire that the rest ing Place for our friends and for ourselves should be a place of beauty. This sentiment has inspired SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 TOFTS URGES FOREST FIRE PREVENTION (rontimied on Pa^e 8> DR. J. L. ^CKEY AT KIWANIS NECT Talks of Resources of Moore County Which Are Vast Millions Lost Every Year Bum To Neglect and Care lessness $5.00; Aberdeen and Carthage, $2.50; Lakeview, Pinebluff and Vass, $75, each; Eagle Springs, Eureka, Jack- 1 J I. 1 J I son Springs, Cameron, Hemp and a popular man and much beloved by all who knew h:m. Genial m his man- Dr. J. L. Stuckey, state geologist was the speaker at the dinner of the Kiwanis club at the Carolina hotel in Pinehurst on Wednesday. Dr. Stuckey has been making a survey of Moore had apportioned the budget as fol-!^®"”^^ Moore county Board lows: Conservation and Development, Pinehurst, $8.00; Southern Pines, working in harmony with the State ner, kind hearted, big hearted, with a keen sense of humor that made him popular with his many friends and and acquaintances. Children loved him, and he was loved devotedly by his neices and nephews, who will miss his merry greetings, and generous gifts. He was in his fiftieth year, being forty nine years of age had he lived until April 21. Of his immediate family, he leaves a brother and sister, H. P. McPher son, and Miss Manda McPherson, a sister, Mrs. McDugald, who passed away several years ago. The body, accompanied by Jamei Smith, of Ocala, arrived in Cameron Tuesday, a. m. Mr. Smith had wired ahead, that the masonic order at nurse were both present and reported on their work. A motion was made and carried to pay some bills of our welfare officer, also to allow her fifteen dollars per month for incident als jintil more or less is needed. The Duke Fund wiuch will soon be available, makes provision for indi gent tubercular patients. This fund wliCTi it becomes available may be drawn upon for the expenses of a child recently carried to the State Sanator ium, otherwise his expenses will be paid from the Health and Welfare budget. Our Red Cross nurse is especially anxious for each school to have scales that the children may be weighed reg ularly. She wants a preventorium as has been explained before, also a baby Ocala, desired that the body be bur- _ _ ied with masonic honors, and the Car-1 clinic each month. h^rZrrin proportion to thage Lodge officiated. ' j Miss Ruth Goodheart, who is and Cameron less. Where they now have no debts nor school buildings they would be given their share of debt and the school buildings they need. The School Tax and Schfwl Term This tax will take care of the school debts, provide two high school buildings, and give every child in Moore county a chance at eight months school term, and employ the same number of teachers at the same salary as they are now getting. This statement is a mere matter of figures that any one can verify, but it seems hard for the people to accept. A few days ago a good man, en tirely ignorant of the facts, said to me, “I would be for the County Board proposition only I don’t believe the difference in what is now paid and what your plan will raise for schools will be enough to do what you need to do.” We had not gone two steps from where we held this conversation before a man stopped us and said, “There is something rotten in this school proposition, for if you can run six months’ school on a tax levy of 63 cents why do you have to have 44 cents to run two months?” The answer to the first statement is the figures as to the cost of the schools as run this year, plus the cost of two more months where they now have six months. The answer to the second proposition is that we do not run the schools six months on a 63 cent tax levy, but in all the spec ial tax districts and some of the others, additional teachers are em ployed and higher. salaries paid and other expenditures made that are not provided for in the law governing the six months term and these extra ex penses during the six months term in The funeral services were conduct- ; charge of athletics at Samarcand ed from the Presbyterian church, by | Manor, is chairman of the Life Saving Kev. M. D. McNi^ill, interment in | committee. Cameron cemetery by the side of his | From the report on the colored work parents. Last year, the correspond-. we learn that forty counties in the ent received a note, $5.00, from Tom,, state have supervision of colored requesting that the mor-oy be used | schools. for the up-keep of Cameron cemetery. | Motion was made and carried to Many friends of his boyhood days at-1 continue the support for another tended the funeral. Tom McPherson | month of the colored patient from Board and his work has reached such a stage that he was able to give a fair account of his progress. For more than a century geologists have been aware of the mineral resources of Moore county and for many years building stone, talc and other prod ucts have been quarried. Dr. Stuckey was emphatic in his assertion that we should make more use of home re sources and especially in Moore county which in its natural wealth is typical ly a North Carolina county. Moore county has an abundance of talc, coai, stone, shale, clay, sand and other building material. The county is divided into three belts, the central portion being in the triassic sandstone with its excellent building stone and nigh quality of shale for making brick and tile and other clay products. The northwest abounds in crystalline rocks of a type highly prized by architect's in the better class of building and the southwest has the crystalline rocks and an unlimited amount of sand which is now used extensively by builders, railroad and road construc tion. The conspicuous deposits of crystaline rocks available for use ire found at Hemp, Highfalis, Mill Greek, Chandler^s pond, Thaggards and elsewhere. The sandstones are the best in North Carolina. The andstones outcrop abundantly near Carthage on Killetts creek, McLen dons creek, Crawley creek, around has passed on to the land of the im mortals, leaving on earth a host of Aberdeen, who is at the State Sana- Jackson Springs and various place and torium. (Continued on Page 8) North Carolina is on the verge of a great development in livestock pro- have been paid out of the special tax | duction, thinks Prof. R. S. Curtis of as well as the two months extra term | g^^^e College, and carrying and paying the school like the crystaline rocks are in unlim ited abundance. The shales suitable for brick and tile are found through out the red sand district and like the (Continued on Page 3) debts. As we leave the tax phase of the question remember that the tax cannot be over 50 cents on the hund red dollars; that it is just, being lev ied on everybody alike all over the county; and will give money enough in each section to take care of its own schools, because the districts now paying special tax will have their money to run their schools and pay their debts, and where they now hare no tax they will pay enough to have the eight months school and provide high school buildings. Next we want to notice the tffect the flection will have on the schools. The State of North Carolina re quires a six months school term for all the children of school age in the state, and at the same time it makes the regulations controlling the schools. It says that the County Commissioners must levy sufficient tax for the school term, provided no teacher receives more salary than the State salary schedule allows for the certificate held by that teacher, and also provided no (Continued on Page 8) OASIS TEMPLE CHORUS Oasis Temple Chorus wWch will take part in the Shrine ceremonial at Pinehurst, May 13 and 14. To The Pilot:— Vass, N. C. Dear Sirs: I have been appointed a member of the North Carolina Committee of American Forest Week ind have been asked to give publicity to this great movement throughout our section. Much information has come to wiy desk on this subject and you would be astounded both at tJie extent of the interest shown and at the overwhelm ing nature of the facts arguments in favor of universal refora^tration of our lands. I have long appreciated the great importan'*e of replacing our forests at a rate somewhere nearly equivalent to the race at which they are being consumed but have nevtr before appreciated the extreme economic importance of doing this. We who talk of beautifying our Sand hills may comprehend in a small way the scenic importance of our pines but eJven this is of slight consequence when compared to their economic val ue. It is to be regretted that space for bids me to give you more than & feir of the facts that I am in possession of, but I shall present the case of Amer- ocan Forest to you as clearly and as briefly as possible. Wood is directly or indirectly an es sential part of practically every phase of human endeavors. It is the prin cipal constituent of the houses in which we live and there is hardly an article which we touch in our daily lives that is not partially constituted of wood. It forms a part of eveiy industry and without it our hillside* would become a desolate uninhabitable desert, washed and gulleyed by rains or parched and sere^ by drought. And yet these forest which are our great est necessity are being consumed at four times the rate at which they are replacing themselves. This is the appalling situation which we today face. Forest fires are the greatest men ace to our present or to our future forests and a great majority of these are due either to carlessness or pre ventable causes. A long leaf pine takes many years to mature and when fires race across the dry wiregrass of our Sandhills they may not only de stroy ten to fifteen years of nature work but by repeated burning of the vegetable matter present not only greatly decreases the value of the land but also make proper reforest- ring almost impossible. No greater servant and no greater enemy of man has ever been created than fire. Should fire destroy your home the loss brings you universal sympathy but should forest fires roam over your property, though the actual loss is j greater, it is a matter of no great concern to the majority. A young* pine tree is just as much a crop as a young cotton plant and a much more valuable one. Men who would' ict fear of eternal damnation revolt at the thought of destroying their neigh bors corn crop think Igihtly of allow ing fires to get out of their control and ravage their neighbors wood lands. The appreciation that a tree is not merely an ornament or a covering for the land but that it rep resents a real living asset, a cn>p in the making which will someday har vest into a most necessary commodity is the one thought that it is mo'^t important for us to learn. If y m can teach this lesson to your neigh bor you will have done your share of the work for American Forests during American Forest Week. As for the rest, it is our duty to see that our idle lands are given the proper opportunity to refor«’51 them selves. That destructive harvesting: of wooded areas is not practiced in our neighborhood. That sach per nicious habits as that of “Topping” the young pines along our roadsides are stopped. That public parks and 'i ^: ;1: (Continued on Page 8)
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