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Pagre Two THE PILOT, a Paper With Character. Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, January 24, 1930. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT» Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina ! That is the case in North Car- I lina farmers cannot approach by olina where the factories have hand. Western com farmers I grown up on the drift from the have the edge on farmers on I farms. In the North wages are' small farms. The Southwest can said to be proportionately high-! make cotton at a lower cost than NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor. BION H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Subscription Ratt*s: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Thre€ Months - 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. lie welfare and the proper sub-; iect of restriction. A drunken driver of an automobile on the highway is a menace to society, and the proper subject of re drift seems equally pronounced, to deceive ourselves as to the One result is that what the far- 'prospects of the farm. The indus- mer buys is as a rule materially i try is undergoing a process of higher in price, while what | readjustment, and no matter he sells has made little gain to j what is done that readjustment balance his increased costs. He I is bound to 20 ahead. It is im- cannot pay wages to hired hands | p^ossible to buck the inevitable, and sell his stuff at the price of j Farming is not a dead industry, wages and the price of his pro- ;But beyond a doubt it is one that duct, for his wages to his hands I has to be harmonized with the are influenced by the wages | shift in all industrial affairs of paid by the factories and other the world, for the farmer is en- pl)ices" of competitive em,ploy- | gaged in an occupation that cov- ment. Diversification is offered i ers the globe from one side to Whiskey has no justificaton for Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mas ter. THE DECEMBER DEATH SYNOPSIS The Motor Vehicle Depart ment of North Carolina notes 68 automobile killings in December. The number for the year 1929 was 690, an increase of 14 over the year preceding. The last half of the year shows a de crease from the year before, and er than in the South, and the' North Carolina can. It is no use striction is of small consequence so it results in restriction. But whiskey oppose^, that re striction, and there the trouble comes, and there the battle is pitched. The railroads oppose whiskey because whiskey makes operation of the roads danger-1 ous. Industry opposes whiskey; for the same reason. Law op-1 poses whiskey from similar mo-1 tive. Then whiskey puts up a 1 fight against law, and whiskey; resorts to any extreme measure. ^ TTemperatuire--102 The Imbecilic Inventory of an Influenzaed Imasrination Being' the Seventh of a Series of Articles Written for The Pilot by Winter Residents of the Sandhills. as a solution, but diversification ] the other and in which every to cows will not give much relief ^ i-- -^1- with milk selling in the North for six cents a quart, which af fords a line of thought regard ing other farm stuff. Diversifi- other farmer is directly or indi rectly a competitor. Farm con ditions have to be reorganized and readjusted, and the quicker we realize the necessity and try shooting an officer because the; officer attempts to bring the bootlegger before the courts for j trial. Then man who is arrested' for trying to defraud his neigh bor in a land trade does not un- be intelligent. MR. STUART AND THE FARMER also shows another thing is that | ience and he is a man given to the highway patrol is getting thoughtful consideration of his into action. The classification of the kill ings tells that 12 were killed by reckless driving, eight by speed ing, eight by hit and run driv- cation may be wise, but it must to meet it, try to work with it; dertake to settle with a gun but I and try to shape our affairs with I goes to court and submits to I what has to be done, the less dif-1 process of law. The man who I ficulty will be met. This section ; commits various depredations has a field for a good agricultur- ^oes not pull a gun when he lal industry. But it must be the | gges an officer. Whiskey is the TViP onininiK! of Robert ‘ituart I ?5”‘^“'ture that fits lo-1 criminal that proceeds to shoot Ihe opinions ot Kobert ,„tuart, cal conditions. Farming is not when the officer appears. Whis- of Drowning creek, concerning | jead, but it needs some intell-, key puts up a fight against law „ ^ a o, con-suitation by doctors who | enforcement, and the fight is to know, and not too much advice j kjn. The fight is made not in the from the granny nurses and | iustness of the open court, but quacks- | before the case can be presented : court, and usually because THE TROUBLE the offense is usually pretty WITH BOOZE : well established. The shooting of a Moore The worst feature about county revenue officer working, whisky, probably, is that it is Attaining” fame is not so difficult— You advertise weekly columns by famous writers— Then write one yourself. (Who said “weakly?") -§- If astral bodies can ogle, trees can leap in the paths of motors. But despite the insinuations of one James (Drums) Boyd, our recent re tirement from public life was not due to any auto-arboreal arg“ument, but to Influenza. —§- Our influerza-induced discloses— ^ 1. We are not indispensable to our newspapers. They came but reg ularly. Disappointing. 2. We were absent from our reg ular haunts for days before being missed by our friends. to find him at the door of the fur nace with a shovelful of coal or at the linotype machine with a handful of copy. And he never gets the coal in the linotype machine nor the copy in the furnace. We never could have had the Flu if it wasn’t for Mr. Park. Nice Mr. Park. —§- 17. “Senator” Murdoch Johnson and Doc Charles in to call. Good Sam aritans and good scouts. Thoughtful. 18. A leaky hot water bottle is an abomination. —§— 19. Cigarettes don’t taste like ' much when you aren’t feeling well. inventory, and all brands taste alike. —§— 20. Bion Butler is a brick Especially when one is sick, For when your strength begins to taper He steps right in and fills the paper. the outlook for the farmer, are worth thinking over, for he is a man who has had long exper- 3. Jim Tufts missed us from Ki- wanis the second week—but he keeps the records. own problems, which are farm problems basically. That some farmers will be crowded out of farming by their inefficiency, or bv their lack of success from '4. \\ e missed Kiwanis. It is the weekly clearing hou^e of ideas, gos sip, news and friendliness. Miss a meeting and you miss a week. ers, six by intoxicated drivers, I whatever cause may determine I 1 uy iiiuuAn.au:: ,, ^ „ icase of w^hiskey. We are told that ed the autnority of the law and a man’s earing and drinking are' always resorted to violence or his own affair, and probably a duplicity or any other means five by cutting in and four by! the matter, is undoubtedly cor- passing on curves, every one of 1 rect, for in the tendency of the these 43 being criminal of-1 world to use machinery in great- fenses, which are amenable to i er proportions as compared with the work of the patrol. It is j hand work, farming can no more therefore reasonable to hope | remain a hand production than that these types of offenses will; other industry can. North be lessened‘^this year, for it is ■ Carolina has solved what would lot of truth is contained in that' not recognized by fair men, in statement. But the trouble is defending any policy it chooses that his drinking often extends to pursue. Any man’s right to over the boundary and becomes drink whiskpv is probably his the affair of society. How^ much own, but the minute he jeopar- plain that this kind of killing I have been a most grave phase! j’® ^ow drunk he may dizes ?ny other man it is the can be stopped by enforcement | of the far problem had factories ' much or how lit- . ight of .society to prevent that of the criminal automobile laws.!'’ot come, by the great expansion e conciu.ts himselt while .leopardy. and especially wh.en Drunks have no business on i of manufactures. Multiplying : 'h*® whiskey by its action claims tne the road at any time and no ex-i ni’Hs have drawn an armv of i it crosse.s the right to resort to all manner cuse will justify a drunken driv-1 people from Ihe farms and af-||'“ that involves his neighbor, of crime to ma-ntHn its attitude ov 'Wo eVirkiiirJ Ua on/i Vii'o ! foi'ded an income to them which j^hen it becomes a mattei of pub- of defiance of the law. has made North Carolina rela-' er. He should be pulled and his license taken away at once. The driver who passes on curves, and he who cuts in are entitled to lit tle toleration, for they show no consideration for the rest of the multitude using the highways. The hit and run fiend is an abomination, and he earns all that is coming to him if he is caught. The speed fiend and the tively prosperous as compared to j its past. And it may as well be 1 recognized that while the labor organizations are protesting; against the low w^ages of peo ple in the mills the mill wage has ! attracted the farmer in thous- i ands and enabled the people | thus attracted to the mills to | gain a greater income and to i reckless driver can offer no apol- i ^ &i*eater income and ffies. The fart flint thoir rnnrcA' I’fach a higher plane of living than they had on the farm. North Carolina has sent an army gies. The fact that their course , results in death leaves no argu ment for their habits of driving. You can’t justify any smart tac- ;tics that kills your neighbor to gratify a conceit of driving. We have the highway patrol now, and if they can have the unflinching backing of the peo ple this coffin trade will slump in the coming vear. from the farms to the mills, and will send more, and it is not a question of labor encouragement or opposition that will settle the status of the North Carolina mills, but the condition on the farms, which are still able to provide other armies of hands to relieve farm labor surplus. Farming uses more machinery now than in the past, although otton farming is hampered by . . . XT Ar 1 1 i lack of some mechanical A farmei from New Yor^, who m'^ans of chopping and picking. comes to the Samlhills winter, cotton picker is on the alter winter, tells The Pilot that, way, and when it comes the cost condition? in his section of the | of making cotton will fall au- upper Hudson valley are | tomatically to an alarming ex- much similar to conditions in the | tent. Farming that entails too cotton and tobacco belt. “Many! much handwork will not pay farms are idle,” he said. ‘The j good returns except in those ownrrs have moved away, and 1 r ue cases that make a rare pro THE FARMER AND PRICES PEPSY COMPLAINS How can you expect me to write about Jim’s column? There’s r.o continuity. No theme. Let’s leturn to the good old days vvh^n Struthers, Katherine, Maud and Ernest used to write. I don’t think much of Jim any way. Or Jack. But on the whole, I prefer Jack, I think he has “it.” Or those. Jim and his Gallberries. PoohT PEPSY. COONSKIN COATS, ETC. I now, lying in the gutter, that’s one thing, but in the sewer--No, Thank you. * However these smacks at my dig nity would never have wrun^ a de nial from me. But only yesterday a , Great Rancher from the Open Space- * put the matter in a vastly different light as far as I am concerned. He i has been stalking about Southern I Pines threatening to horsewhip Ptpsy as soon as he is sure of his man. He , claims Pepsy ogled his wife,—Well, who wouldn’t?—but I don’t want to j be horsewhipped for it. My counsel tells me that of I course you are well aware of the ! identity of Pepsy and no doubt have b:en careful to allow him to say nothing which in any way could be construed as libelous. There may have been nothing libelous—I don’t know—but I don’t crave a horsewhip ping so please. Sir, publish this. —A. H . . . Y. Southern Pines, N. C., January 17, 1930. IRATE PARENT ANSWERED Dear Pilot; Now that you have extracted the truth from *‘Jim” Boyd, and we have had so many of our worries reh'eved we can probably turn our attention Editor, The Pilot: As is to be expected of any one who signs himself or herself AN IRATE PARENT in a letter in your issue of January 17th we find some 5. There is no grander picture in the world than a row of horses’ heads protruding fiom stable win dows. 6. Some dogs bark all night. ^ 7. Eggnogs between m-als are tasteless if legally made. Dr. Mud- gett prescribes them legally made. 8. Our house is far enough from town to escape Seaboard shriekings but near erough for peddlers, both legal and illegal. — 9. We cannot decide whether Ernest Hemingway’s “Farewell to Arms” is the best bad book or the v/orst good book we have read. 10. “Rome Haul” is a true and fascinating picture of life on the old Erie Canal. Born on its banks, we used to ride on the barges, towed by horses or mules, from one town to the next. c 11. Playing solitaire in bed soon rets monotonous. 12. There is no inter-relationship between disease and banking. Notes fall due regardless. S. _ 18. We know nothing about mules. J:sse Page has sent us ‘‘Mi^'nie” from Samarcand on approval. Minnie the Mule. Apt alliteiation’s artful ass. i Come live with me and be my mule, My very ultimest Ultima Thule. (Who is Pepsy, anyway?) 14. Some dogs bark all day and all night. —5— 15. Why do they make medical th£rmometers ?o hard to read? —§— 16. O. D. Park, superintendent of The Pilot plant, is a jack of all trades. He does everything except sleep. When the editor is ill, he turns ec'itor; when the janitor fails to ap pear, he sweeps out. You are likely -§- 21. Will never forget our first at- * tack of Flu. Aviation field, Mineola, October, 1918. Caught cold flying— no cabin planes in those days. Bitter cold mornings—used to fly at day break. In bed for weeks. Nearly died. Lots did. In bed when Armistice ' signed. Couldn’t celebrate. Rotten break. Best part of the war over j here, the fake Armistice celebration in New York. Rest all humdrum and trying in every conceivable way to get to France. Never flown a plane j since. Never seen France. Lousy war. 22. What, again, so soon? If you’d taste it or.ce you wouldn’t come around with it so often. Honest, Julia, it’s awful. And makes my head feel woozy. —§— 23. Jim Boyd’s column was damn ed funny. Sent him brant too. Good bait—sent out six brace 0’ brant— got five column. Almet Jenks missing. Trying to get Hugh Kahler now but all out o’ brant. May do it for the honor and glory of the neighborhood. Place next to ours. Wish he’d build. Other folks besides Judge Way need neighbors, Mr. Butler. How a|30ut getting ourselves some neighbors ? Minnie the Mule may get lonely.— “Nice looking mule,” Jessie Page said. There’s imagination. Or is there such a thingi^ as a nice looking mule? We wouldn’t know.—That medicine has certainly got something in it.— You should see Minnie. We’re going to saddle her one of these days and get Julia Butterfield to ride her. Julia will ride anything with withers. Has disembarking down to a science. Rid ing a horse is just like flying. There’s no danger while you’re up. It’s the lancing you have to watch. 9Q .io. I’ll bet it’s 103, where’s the thermometer? 24. Pinehurst Mother Goose— One-two, Guess who— Three-four, Zat the door? Five-six, Helen Hicks. Seven-eight, That’s great. (Serial rights reserved by Knoll- wood, Inc., or any accredited real estate agent in Southern Pines or Pinehurst.) 25. The dog’s stopped barking. Nice dog. Put out the light, Julia. W'e’ll try to sleep it off. —N. C. H. neighborhoods are abandoned as ■ Huct. Machinery is too cheap for p. that • v ^1,,^4-? 1 1 u i. /-I (harlie Picquet for our neglect of rather obscure reasonmg. Your cor- ‘ ^ ^ ^ - 'I- ^ ^ labol to COmj^te- Consump- movies cannot prosecute under j respondent labels an ogler as a man Ci\e C.emand will find a cheaper'the Sherman anti-trust law, nor can j of the lowest type. Now an ogler is way or a substitute for the hand the gTeat and sovereign state oflonlv one who casts amorous or co ma C-e product. cerred. Twenty dollars an acre will buy a good farm, with ex cellent building?, good soil, fruit trees, and farms that were i^rof-1 table under their former own ers, but are now almost impossi ble. Milk sells for five to six cents a quart. Milk is the chief st-.ple up there. Milk calls for work, and work seems to be the thin.o: that is to be shunned if possible. The young folks are go ing to the towns, where they get cash wages, and the farms are in a perilous plight.” The farm is in perilous plight make his crop at a lower cost. The inferior farmer must be placed in some other occupation, ?nd many of the better farmers will go to other callings as the state becomes more industraliz- North Carolina fine us for riot or quettish glances designed to attract, Mr. Stuart savs the successful I-^*^htion; that the coonskin coats is I notice or invite advances. It is our ^ firmer must be a better ' far-]“W party .confused 'and why don t he mention Mary | an ogler with an ogre—or is it that! mer, and the better farmer will Dell’s). And that the Court House | having a 46-year old daughter he no! cost $300,000. Some one lied to us j longer succeeds in attracting notice i and said it only cost $65,000. And, of | when he or she attempts amorous ; course, we are sorry he did not tell | glances ? . . . . and hence condemns us more about those hounds and the | what he may not enjoy. j moonlight; that lapse, slight as it | As to the propriety of certain of, v/as, into the poetic left us suspend-: this Pepsy’s statements we are not ‘ ed, shall we say between the dogs | here concerned nor do we care to i ed. The cotton mills in Moore! and the moon? judge their morals. But! What a por- county are not very large, but | And J. Vance Rowe suggests the nographic collector an Irate Par- they have relieved farming of l Co’’nty forego our taxes for five years ent must be if in one letter he or she? ' not only in the cotton and to- I ^ considerable number of people, ' that’s fine, and now if J. Vance will (privately we believe the author to bacco belt, but everywhere, and the two things complained of are prices and work. Six cents is the price of milk in the upper Hudcon valley, and that milk goes to the cities and to the con densed milk factories and all over the country. Right here in the Sandhills condensed milk is a staple article of merchandise beaause it is an excellent article, and also because it is cheaper than fresh milk from the dairy. Butter in the Sandhills comes trom Wisconsin or other distant points, because butter making IS a trade up there, and it is made at the mnimum of cost and with a minimum of labor. while the resort development has i ^ moratorium for the in- afforded employment for many more. Industralization is going on, and that will afford further terest on our old home we’ll go out and buy a speed boat for the lake. “STARN ALL.’’ 1. J. 1 • 1 i T Southern Pines, N. C., relief, and mdustrahzation will January 18 1930. also afford a market for an in- j ' creasing amount of miscella neous farm stuff as fast as far mers learn to make and mar- NOT PEPSY ket it. But beyond a doubt the Editor: drift from the farm is one that Torn between conflicting emotions will have to continue for the ^ address myself to you on the sub- farms are overmanned in this Pepsy. At first when machinery age, and we might as M*' ^’®“ered me by well recognize that situation that I was the Author I be a nasty old man) speaks of Pepsy! as ^‘polluting your columns’^ and then' naively and fatuously confesses that he—or she—clips Pepsy for HIS ' MEMORY BOOK! Pity not An Irate Parent but his j pure wife and 46-year-old daughter, i It is unnecessary to comment on I the dastardly innuendos about a j Marine. Your readers and all the wide | world know that the marines are “first to fight for freedom and to j keep their honor clean.” I SEMPER FIDELIS. I PRISCILLA SHOCKED suggesting . . 1 quite bucked, and strutted and Another thing to recognize in, swelled about like a great gobbler. thinking about farming is that' great to be considered an Origi- specialization is fast making a' Reference to government siir- combin^^f^^o-^flprp^^o^ Imagine the blow to my pride when! pleasure with rest.' When it has not ’ ■ 1 ^s “PEPSI-COLA” by | been raining or sleeting and I have i ^ /I ’ 4-1, aoiing tne Kan-| our local entrepreneur. Nothing but been able to avoid the sportsmen of i sas and ot er western farmers j a soft drink—not so good. This week! the neighborhood and their dull mon- to make at a cost North Caro- j Pepsy is found in the sewer. Well 1 ologues about jumps, the dogs and My organization in Boston has ai lowed me a few weeks’ vacation but rather than lay off snooping alto gether I have thought to combine my wonderful .runs I have managed to rest up quite a bit. As is to be expected in any arty or literary colony there is plenty of snooping to be done right here in the Sandhills, Why authors cannot con- rregate without conversing about bath rooms or sex. I for one do not know why, but such is Life—or Art. Your letter headed “Psychic Ogling” by one who signs herself “Pepsy’s “Latest Victim” is typical of what I have in mind. If I have ever read a piece more reeking with sex and redolent with suggestions than this manifests I cannot recall it. This victim does not object to psychic og ling per se but apparently only to the unfortunate personality of the ogler. Should the author of the smirk come forward I am afraid that “vic tim” would jo>-fully sing on with the ogling, let PsycTie be unconfined. If there are many parties of the type that I attended here in the Sand hills to usher in the New Year and incidentally, watch the arty cavort, I think “victim” had a suggestion about dark spectacles that might be utilized. Before any of the middle-men and, or, originators of literature are to disrobe in public, Charles or some other benefactor pass a pair of dark spectacles, not glasses, God forbid, to the guests, or to the ladies pres ent at least. PRISCILLA SNEDELSER. Agent 491 W. L. W. Society. TEN BEST SELLERS Compiled for the United Press by the Baker & Taylor Co. FICTION 1 The Black, by Edgar Wallace. Crime Club. $£00. 2. The End of the Avenue. By Pamela Wynne. Doubleday-Doran. $2.00. 3. Y'cung Man of Manhattan. By Katherine Brush. Fariai and Rinehart. $2.00. 4. All Quiet on the Western Front. By Erich M. Remarque. Little-Brown. $2.50. 5. Sincerity. By John Erskine. Bobbs-Merrill. $2.50. GENERAL 1. The Specialist. By Ciiic Sale. (Specialist Pub. Co.) $1.00. 2. Goodbye To All That. By Robert Graves. Cape and Smith. $3.00. 3. Caught Short. By Eddie Cantor. Simon and Schuster. $1.00. 4. The Art of Thinking. By Ernest Dimmet. Simon and Schu ster. $2.50. 5. Contract Bridge For All. By Milton C. Work. Winston. $2.00. vey bulletins discloses that many people leave the farms to go to towns because of higher wages. John Capps, Jr., of Charlotte, is spending a few days in town with friends. John will be remembered as having made Aberdeen his home when a small hoy. I ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED ! Mr. and Mrs. Arch Sterne an- 1 nounce the engagement of their j daughter, Elizabeth, to Mr. Samuel I Frederick Evans of Camden, S. C. I The wedding to take place the lat- 1 ter part o# February. I B. H. Revell of Fayetteville was an Aberdeen business visitor on last Mon- ' day.
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