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Page Two —y —• * - ou. THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aperaeen. i-nw i-ii v^a. THE PILOT I Published every Friday by I THE PILOT* Incorporated. i Aberdeen, North Carolina | NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor. BION H. BUTLER, Editor I JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 ' Six Months $1.00 Three Months - *50 Address all communications to The P?lot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. j Advertising Rates on Application. | Entered at the Postoffice at Aber-1 deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat- I ter. ! _ —~ I FUNNY THINGS | ABOUT THE WEATHER I A sage who keeps an eye on the weather and other things around this neighborhood says those Florida storms have their advantages when they work right. Whether he knows or not is perhaps a question, but he advances an interesting theory. On two or three occasions cold waves have set out from the Northwest this winter headed this way, and failed to arrive. At the same time a Florida storm blew up out of the West Indies and swept up the Atlan tic coast. He says the Florida warm gales met the western cold waves and mixed up with them to such wholesome extent that both were modified and where farther inland the bliz zard raged in its severity we on the Coastal Plain were surprised to find the temperature agree ably mild, and the storms lost. Also the rough stuff from the South Atlantic instead of driv ing a raging hurricane up this 'vvay, spent its energy in rebuff ing the winds from the west and the two coalesced in right de cent winter weather. It is pretty well realized that this bit of the Atlantic slope, sheltered by the mountains at the west end of the state and tempered by the constant warmth of the winter of the sea at the east, runs somewhat more uniformly in its mildness than other parts of the country not so situated. That has much to do with giving Central North Carolina its approved climate. But it is possible tl<at these stopis from the Southeast which bring rough warm weath er, blowing to the Northwest and meeting the storm? that blow rough weather an:! cold down from the Northwest may to some extent neutralize each other as they happen to meet in this vicinity and that we may Kve happily afterward. The theory may not be whol ly scientific, and perhaps may be more defective th.m it .^eems, but the fact remains that on two or three occasions during the winter blizzards that were blow ing in the upper west and which w^ere promised to give us a taste of rough stuff, collided with something before arriving and failed to exhibit the type of winter that had been anticipat ed. We may give Florida the credit for neighborliness even if not based on sound fact. hospital care, and even though the amount may not Be very large every person who goes to the hospital should deal square ly enough with it to pay what they can. Nobody is denied ad mission because of the lack of money. But money is as neces sary to run a hospital as to run any other institution. The subject is a delicate one, but it must be faced, and the more candidly and sincerely it is faced the better. That it is filled and is turning away patients shows the imperative need for the work the hospital is doing and that requires that it be sup ported by as large a proportion as possible of those who profit by its work. Incidentally this is no plea for the d«octors. They are contributing their services cheerfully. But they are not obliged to practice there if free work does not suit them. It is the hospital that has to carry on now that it is established, and it can not live indefinitely if the patients who do not pay are in too large a proportion with those who do pay. It is up to every patient to try to bear a share of the cost of his care, so that those who can not may not be faced by a closed door be cause of lack of funds to carry on. This is a community prob lem and one for all to think over. laid on luxuries. No objection arises as to taxing luxuries, but such a proposition seems unfair in that it still encourages the se lection of certain things for tax ation rather than attempting to put taxes where they fairly be long, and that is on all of us, whch means on everything. The great. trouble with our present system is that it does not cover a wide enough foundation. All of us should contribute our share of taxes in proportion to our ability, and the tax scheme should play no favorites,—rich, poor, good, bad, or any other. The gasoline tax is a tax willing ly received by the people be cause all of us have a hand in paying the bill, and it is not burdensome unless we make it so. The great difficulty that will arise with, a sales tax is in try ing to collect that tax from many articles where the sales are not big enough to pay the cost of collection. But on the main staples of commerce the tax should be laid as equally all the way around as can possibly be done, and that will permit all of us to pay our proper pro-1 portion of the public expenses, j and no great burden should rest, on any shoulders. ! But as Mr. Johnson says we ^ must also look after the ex-1 penses. If we are not satisfied | with high taxes we must quit i going to Carthage every time the commissioners meet to ask them for an appropriation. You can’t have appropriations with out taxes, and the man who makes our taxes is the man who insists on something from the| public crib, county, state or na- | tional. Bear in mind the effect; of that thing as well as the dis-! tribution of taxation. i Oy F»EF»SY “—and OtHers” In which Pepsy Thanks The Pilot for Launching Her Upon a Much I Sought for Literary Career. OOOK REVIEWS REALISM WITHOUT DEPRESSION The Good Companions By J. B. Priestley Harper & Brothers New York, 1929. THE HOSPITAL’S GRAVE PROBLEM The new hospital at Pine- hurst is turning away patients day after day, which sounds highly encouraging in one re spect. It is evident the institu tion has found a field that needed a hospital. Apparently more rooms would be filled were there more. But one grave feat ure presents itself. The propor tion of patients who do not pay is so large that the board of managers is seriously perplex ed. The hospital finds itself in the class with the old woman who established a small grocer3^ and on being asked how she was doing remarked that her trade was big. “I sell so low that I bring business. I lose a little on every sale, but I Fell so much tliat that saves me.’’ The bald fact is that the hos pital is running behind every day, and no institution can run behind very heavily every day and continue to carry on indef- mitely. Open handed generosity can not carry too big a load, so It becomes necessary for Moore county to take a serious look at this situation. There pre actually only a few people who are unable to pay something for THE ADVANCE OF PROHIBITION W’hether it be Mr. Hoover and his decided note in favor of the prohibition law, or public senti- rnent which is still not inclined to violation of the law, or to the extended use of intoxicants, or big business, which can no longer be carried on with men irrespon sible through the use of liquor, or the grave menace of liquor on the highways, or many of these and other influences, it seems right apparent that the wav^o hf influence is toward a sharper en forcement of all the laws that have to do with prohibition as well as with other things. Far too much extreme crime, crime of the highest grade of offen siveness, is associated with li- viuor, and a reaction is begin)iing to show itself against that un wholesome factor of American life. Gun play and hired thugs are becoming an abomination. The opinion is spreading that crime is no longer to be tolerat ed as it has been in its highly flushed state. Moreover we are getting away from the notion that the prohi bition law is moral law, and that the enforcement of it is an at tempt to enforce morality. Mor ality is a matter of opinion. Therefore it is debatable, and therefore it is conceded to have two sides, and therefore it is not easy to impress the people with the enforcement of the so- called moral laws. But prohibi tion is taking a new slant. It is beginning to demand that li quor stop inflicting damage on others. As soon as w^e reach the point where we hold the whisky influences responsible for the damage they do w’e have start ed on the road to lessen those damages. Business has decided that whisky should not be allow ed to interfere with other men’s affairs. Sentiment is reaching that point. Because a man is drunk is no longer a sufficient justification for killing his neighbor either with an automo bile or any thing else. Being <^h'unk may be his own affair. Killing his neighbor is the neigh bor’s affair, also the affair of so ciety generally, and there is the greatest power that is arising to defend the prohibition law and amendment. It is not the lack of morality that is sentencing li quor. It is the bloody criminal record that goes hand in hand with whisky that is lighting the fiery cross on the hill tops. Ann Hyde Allen “The Good Companions” is Mr. Priestley's fourth and most signifi cant flight into fiction. Known un til recently as essayist of great charm and a critic of distinction, the author has now gained a worthy po sition among English novelists. His- book is one of the increasing num ber of long novels. It covers six hun dred and forty pages and the reader can open it with the calm satisfac tion of knowing that the characters will not blow up and float away as soon as he has caught hold of them. ‘‘The Good Companions” is a ro mantic novel of modern En^lj^nd. The comedy (and we use the word in its largest sense) is inher^'nt in the common human basis of agree ment between various widely differ ing but equally well drawn cbaiac- ters. Indeed it is. in this field of a humanity common to us all, tl.at Mr. Priestly as all able novelists should do, enables us to participate with him la a memorable adventure into ex perience. A Yorkshire artisan, a young university graduate, and the impec cable and provincial dauj^:hter-of-a- Colonel follow convergent paths which brings them together at the? meeting’ place of a disorganized group of vau deville actors. These atoms are d'ry- stallized into a band of playc**s, “The Good Companions.” The essential spirit of this tale of traveling play ers on the stage of life is expressefi in Mr. Priestley’s essay “Talking.” “There is for the time beine- no part of ourselves, as it were, left over; we are completely ourselves and every succeeding moment finds us blossom ing. Our companions blossom and ex pand with us, so that we know thtm as we never know thme before.” This explains the warm glow that pervades the whole group through disasters as well as successes—a temperature no ticeably absent before their paths crossed. This is why the impeccable Miss Trant confides in the heretofore dour Mr. Oakroyd of Yorkshire: why Ingo Jollifant, schoolmater, late of Cambridge, can feel utterly happy wildly improvising on the piano while a “lifer” of the vaudeville strums his banjo. Conventions are no where, con versation and flow of soul everywhere, each man is known for himself, and they live by the rules, which work.” The book begins at a beginning, has a climax, and comes to a logical end, most readers will gladly learn. The hero is not left dangling from the ceiling while the harrassed render is left to imagine, accoicing to his tem perament, rescue or strangulation. Mp. Priestley treats his characters fairly and lets each one move ac cording to the human motives which would undoubtedly hav'e moved that individual. This, to-day, is praise in deed for any author. Mr. Piiestly, we feel sure, is certainly entitled to more careful praise that We can well fit into this column.. Preface The fault is yours, dear friends and readers of The Pilot. I had snap ped down the lid cvi my typtwriter an I rad intended to lado away into \]ie ohn past. Yrur letters have on C'»jrr^ed me into bursting foith into prin^ once again Be it on your own h^ads. I am not the first one, nor the last, to have my hea 1 turned by printers’ ink. Foreward I frankly admit I don’t know the difference between a Preface and a Forew'ord but I notice that no good novel has ever been published with out one or the other and if I put in both, it ought to make my col umn far, far superior to all others. That is my ambirion. To •vrite a column that satisfies. Not Ion;? but ^to the point. Now ^o ahead, Editor, raise the curtain and show them the worst. The Column My morning paper. The Sandhills Daily, regularly prints an advertise ment of The Pilot, in v/hich it an nounces that columns will appear each week, w^ritten by the following: Struthers Burt, Katherine Newlin Burt, James Boyd. Harriet Ogden, Maud Parker, Almet Jenks, Ernest - Poate and others. Who are these others ? Why don’t their names ever appear f Have you ever given a thought to the people w’^ho are classed as “and others.” T belong to that particular species and have suffered to such an extent that I would like to appeal to the sympathy of the public in their behalf. You, who are famous either socially, sportily or intellectually can hardly know how we feel. In my childhood I attempted to join in the usual games, such as base ball, football, jumping and running raies with the result that when Field ])<ty came around, the teachev would an nounce the various contestants and then wind up with the followins^r “and the others will hold the ta/res, serve tea to the parents and make them selves generally useful.” Later I attempted to be a social light and can honestly say th'^t I invited to a number of parties?, ifun- grily I would scan the papers for a mention of my name. This wa- alwaw the result:: Mr. and Mrs. Goldleaf entertainei at a charming dance last night, and among the guests w^ere Mr, and Mrs Smeltz, Mr. Bastedo, the beautiful Miss Stoocker from Montreal. Mr. and Mrs. Frytie and others. Never, never a word about me. Those dastardly Journalists who ca ter to the great without a tho ipi^t of my plight. I tried theatricals. Amateur and otherwise. I had a fairly nice voice not a bad figure and yet there was something Iacking>. 1 wasn’t eveai lumped with the chorus. It wa'; writ- ten on the programme: “Follie- i beauties, men of the chorus, girls of I the chorus, stage hands, electricians I and others.” I Finally I found the man I could ; love. He was kind to me, danv -d -,vith ' me, took me to the theatres and how ' my heart beat with tremulous joy! Then one evening, he turned to me and ! said. “I have the greatest little in- I vestment in mind that you ever I heard of. I have been talking to all my friends about it and John Zipski, i Florence Risso and Dave Sopsop are I putting money into it. Nov/ if only I all you others would come in—.” I I needn’t go on any farther. You al ready have guessed how I went to bed that night, cried my eyes out and didn’t sleep a wink. This lengthy history^ fs n.crely to enable me to come to the point of my article. For here, in the state of North Carolina, county of Moore, town of Southern Pines, I have at last found recognition. I am Pepsy to you and am always called by my name and am even frequently men tioned. It is with tears in my eyes I that I rhank you for your kindness, I your intelligence and your uni’ailin? I syn>pathy. ‘Dogrgerair How loudly in the early morn After a sleepless night, The guttural speaks of a hound is borne On Pegasun? wings m flight, — Dyspepsia. GRAINS OF^ SAND DON’T BE SO FTNICKT, CHARLIE Mr. Hoover has been president al most a year now, and the bootleggers are beginning to find it out. tion of do-ing: a g-ood businesi- prett.v soon. The groundhog made a hit on his weather guess, according to Purley Snook, for Purley says that while he does not remember whether the g'. h. did or did not see hfs shadow, we have had good enough weather for a dog so far. Sambuke Wankey says he thinks it was a jrood idea to make February a short month, and if he had his way the other winter months would be short also. His notion is that the time for long" months is spring' and fall, w'hen you can find something' to Ivie for, especially the strawberry season. Mr. Pilot—Tell Shields and Mur doch and Dan to get in the back room and stay there and settle that sen ator business, and not to come out I'ntil they get it done. No use to fight all summer about it when they can fix it just as well the other wav. —B'. McW. p: Lige Biggs has more trouble, “Soon as you get done cutting^ your winter wood in tho spring' you gotta go to setting hens and plow the i^ar- den.”' A Stanley county man w'ho was rriving through the other day says he has always been a Democrat, but if the Democrats cut the tariff on aluminum he is going to be a Repub lican after this. The aluminum mills at Badin in that county give another slant to protected industries. The farm- hen wears a look of hopefulness, for she says that with the approach of easter she shares with the millinery store the expetca- Thp hundred and twenty million American people are working up once more to that enthusiasm -which makes the garden seed market lively again and enables the hardware stores to unload their stock of hose and rakes and spring fertilizer. It seems a lit tle more virulent this spring than U3ual but it never proves harmful. Having several hours to wait in New York before train tim^ a few days ago, I went to the Paramauirt Theatre to see Norma Talmadge in her new' picture, “New York Nights.” As everyone know^s the Paramount Theatre is a work of art from the gor geous gold and crystal decorated lob by to the enormous and perfectly ap pointed stage, and since it is used to portray to one of the most discrimi nating audiences, pictures produced by the same conrpany that owns and operates the theatre, it is, or should be “super-equipped’’’ meefranically. You will notice I did not say the most dis criminating audience. We, in this sec tion are so used to excellent first run movies that we have any New York audience backed to the wall when it comes to being particular and critical about our memi> Be that as ft may, I settleff into my seat and’ whispered to myself (have you ever noticed how many peo ple whisper to themselves in New York), “Do your stuff. Paramount.” As if they had heard me the silken draperies parted and Paramonnt’s lat est offering' flashed on the screen. So far, so> good. I read the title, the names of the director, author, theme From the State Press song composer, cameraman, sound ex- pert and just had started on the ‘‘^cast'’ when all of a sudden, crash-bang- boom, the works went haywire and it sounded like hell broke loose behind the screen. Just as suddenly every thing was quiet and dark. What to do. W'e, the rest of the audience and I, sat there about ten mintites before anjiihing- else happened. Then some body backstage decided to play with the house lights and he showed us every color in the spectrum, backwards and forwards. This lasted at least five minutes. The crowd gx)t tired of this though and vented their boredom by booing and Hissing. In the meantime the manager must have coaxed the organist out of the pinochle game for immediately after the aurora borealis display we were kept from talking to our neighbors for about fifteen min utes by organ music. While this was groin^ on the movie operator tried to sreak his picture onto the screen, but had no sooner gotten it on than he took it off again for the same reason he took it dff in the* first place. More lights. More “organizations.” Then finally exactly thirty five min- rtes after the machine quit cold on ^em originally they shoved off to a new start and we saw a picture that, to my mind, is not in a class with those w’e see here in the Sandhills. All in all my last visit to the Para mount was a flop. It did, however, s r\'e to impress upon m\» the fact that here in- the Sandhills we are be ing shown the very best of pictures through the medium of the most near ly perfect mechanical equipment it is posrsible to acquire. IRVING JOHNSON. GOOD PLATFORM THE PERTINENT QUESTION Last week two writers in The Pilot, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Rowe referred to the subject of taxation, and both are strongly in favor of something that will modify conditions that now pre serve for us an antiquated tax system that is wholly unsuited to the progressive day in which we live. The rapid and pronounc ed changes in industry and the creation of wealth have brought the country squarely against new necessities of taxation, and they must be met or they will revolutionize things in some drastic manner. One thing in Mr. Rowe’s ex cellent article The Pilot would modify, and that is the sugges tion that a sales tax could be Moore County appears minded to make response to Gardner^s call for high-type legislators. Mr. Shields Cameron of Southern Pines and Mr. Murdoch Johnson, of Aberdeen, are in the field for the State Senate. The former has not divulged his plat form, but Johnson projects himself full-panoplied. He makes general re view of situations in the State, and he definitely pledges his efforts, if elected, to “the solution of some of the problems which confront the far mer, particularly with regard to taxes, and also promises to lend his assistance to the movement to curb reckless use of the highways by au tomobile drivers.” In elaboration, Mr. Johnson knows what the people know, as well, that the whole remedy for the tax situa tion does not lie with the law-making body, but—“if each county will se lect commissioners who will hold the expenditures in their counties to the very minimum and will see to it that the tax valuations put upon real property are in keeping with the ac tual value, instead of being two or three times as much as the property would bring, as now obtains in many cases, and if they will send to the Senate and the House of Represen tatives only those men who are hon estly and earnestly committed to a program of the strictest economy and to easing, as much as possible, of the burden of taxation from the back of the farmer, some relief may be ex pected—and certainly, some relief must come if the farmer is to sur vive.” And this is the Moore County can^ didate’s concludljng declaration:: “While I am a thorough believer in good roads and good schools, I d:o not believe that we ought to bank rupt the people to get them, and if there ever was a time to call a halt, it is now.” Johnson has proclaimed a platform that ought to serve as a pattern for all seeking- legislative hon ors.—Charlotte Observer. SIMMONS VS. BAILEY The Aberdeen Pilot urges Bailey to withdraw in behalf of harmony. The retort may be by Bailey supporters that Simmons should withdraw for the same reason. The Charlotte Ob server, fearing The Pilot’s plea for harmony has come too late, thinks “perhaps if the statesmen to be gath ered at the Jackson Day dinner at Raleigh might be minded to smooth out the situation, there might be some accomplishment in the direc tion of “saving the State.”—Raleigh News & Observer. LEEP BY SAVING.. ♦♦ ti I ^ lie aw^e worrying about your money when it s safe in the Bank. The Bank of Vass deposi- iwV carefree, their dollars earn- the^^^eep* annum while THE BANK OF VASS I VASS, N. C. , §
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