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Friday, March 21, 1930. PmgB Two THE ULOT. a Paper With Character. Alvrdeen. North Caroiina THE PILOT Published every Fitday by THE PILOT. Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina NELSON ( . HYDE, Mana ing Editor. BInN H. BUTLER. Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Unfortunately taxation is so broad a question that many theories are offered from all sides, and that is one thing that is destined to confuse and to create factional differences. Were it a matter that could be settled by any simple set of rules like the multiplication table or the application of a yard stick it would be easy. But too many peo ple will have tax theories of their own that will not square with the theories of others, and there is one of the big impedi ments in this campaign. We are likely to be flooded with impossi ble suggestions as well as with logical propositions, and in the confusion no body knows what may be brought up to plait the Advertising Rates on Application. ).air of the voter before he gets “ himself straight. It is no sim- Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months - 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. tie that supply the buyers of milk. Pinehurst and Southern Pines have for several years been or ganized under the authority of the State Health Department, and the purity of dairy products in these villages is assured by constant inspection of proper au thorities. In Southern Pines the public health department is in cluded with the authorities that attend to maintaining the char- i acter of the water supplied by ‘ the local water plant, and laws i^et the standard of all milk that is permitted to be offered for sale. The Pinehurst Dairy and the Olive Dairy at Southern Pines are the largest milk producers in this section, but the small dairies are likewise governed by the eame rigidness of laws and rules that pertain to the bigger insti tution. If any unsuitable milk is offered for sale in any part of the Sandhills it is done in spite of the state and local laws, and the buyer has but himself to blame for taking milk of the un- inspected quality, which is a rare practice. Dependable milk is one of the most essential things to be con sidered in any community. The Sandhills appear to be as near perfect in this respect as prob ably any neighborhood in the country. And if better methods of conducting dairies should de velop in the future those better methods will right certainly be adopted here. BOOK REVIEWS A SANE WARRIOR All Our Yesterdays H. M. Tomlinson Harper & Brothers. 1930 Entered at the Postoffice at >ber- session that is ahead. The deen, N. C., as second-class mail raa - ^vants lower tax on his I and there the whole mix- ' ! up will start, for the doctors will POLITIGS IN j prescribe everything, and what DEFINITE MOTION ^ . to agree on is the trouble. Can- The announcement of D. A. McLauchlin for the state sen ate and the appointment of Frank Buchan to be manager for Bailey and of Edwin McKeith- en for Simmons brings state and county politics into an organized movement that is pretty well de fined for the campaign. Both Buchan and McKeithen are right capable political w^orkers and both are of that type of men that the campaign can be expect ed to move on a plane that will be characterized by fairness all the way and by aggressiveness at didate and voter have a period of summer school ahead of them. PICKING UP COUNTRY PROPERTY Steadily the movement pro gress which diverts country property into the hands of in vestors who have in mind build ing up country homes, some on a big scale, and some on a smal ler basis, but all with the same end in mind of a rural establish ment that mav^ be made attrac- KATHARINE NEWLIN BURT Our F^rienas Bein? No. 14 in the Series of Articles Written for The Pilot by Sandhills Authors For a decade after the armistice the jublic was willing to forget the war, to b0 assured by their books and their plays that all was well. Soldiers wrote of their expeiiences but to an apathetic audience. Within the last few years however, the war has be come almost an official background for books great and small, for sincere plays and melodramatic films. The public has devoured the separate war impressions of many individuals from Remarque to Leonard; Tomlinson, however, has achieved greater signi ficance than these by showing the whole vista of the war from the polit ical manoeuvers of Bo^r war days through the final painful extacy of ar mistice day. He show5 the war from many angles through its effect on several characters—how it appeared from the trenches, from the London street?, from General headquarters, from Parliament house, and from the devastated regions. This does not im ply that Mr. Tomilinson has turned impressionistic and allows his per to leap incoherently from continent to continent or mind to mind. Those v,ho know his essays or his more re- ! cent “Gallions Reach” will have I faith in the underlying unity and pur- I pos3 of his writing whether it be the I evocation of a tropical scene or of a battle. Mr. Tomilson is a writer of English, the situations and charac ters which he brings forth are as sincere, as dignified, and as signifi- cart as the words with which he de scribes them. One can say at last that here is a writer who not only un derstands the significance and impli cations of the recent war, but one who can transmit this vision to th^ leader in terms which are as powerful as his emotions. ANN HYDE ALLEN. , ... , live and satisfying either as a the saine time. Neither of these j home, or a permanent men will countenance anything j i-egjdence in a desirable neigh- that can be open to question, al-1 i^orhood. The industrial phase of though they will not fail to make movement is w^holly the summer fairly interesting. lacking. The farm and the or- As state politics in the county • chard have disappeared from the w^ll turn on the Federal sena- schemes of the well-to-do folks torial campaign so will the county battle hinge on the state senate. Three candidates are now^ in the field- Johnson, Cameron and McLauchlin, and it is to be from the North and now the pur pose is almost wholly home-mak ing. In some case investment is the motive, and that is going on her and there, yet beyond the in said of them that they are three i vestment idea usually lies the ex representative men, standing ^ pectation of one day cutting out high in their communities and in | least a portion of the pur- the county, and that either one; chase for a country home, or of them would be acceptable to, j.roviding locations for such pur- the people without contest were j pose for others whose ideas of any one of the three unopposed 1 rural life may be in harmony in the struggle. They will all! with those of the buyer, w^ho is have a following. But aside from i bent on making the Sandhills a theu’ personal rating in the coun-1 pleasant place to live, ty another thing enters the sit-1 utility has largely been sup- uation. The whole state is arous-1 pj^nted in this section by recrea- ed over the question of taxation, and especially the need of giving to the owners of land a fairer tion and pleasure as far as the use of the lands go. Peach or- . chards are retreating before the consideiation. Before this cam- [lomemakers who are pulling out paip goes very far it is quite | orchards a n d substituting certain that each of the candi- ^ates foi the senate is going to ijmfissgape gardening, artificiai be caheu on to definitely outline i.^es and other features that l,is Ideas of state and county tax- , to ation, and no matter what the The Watson develop- rest of the county t-.cket may be ^^e triangle between based on trie senatorial struggle pj^ehurst. Aberdeen and South- will be so wholly a campaign of example of the tax discussion that tne summer | ^ Watson is making he sturSTaxfor himself, but around : ‘ . i extensive border of several Taxation can not be dismiss- j miles that determine the bound ed with a wave of the hand, for | j-y of possession is a range it has grown to be one of the from which the whole communi- chief requirements of the income ty can see the paradise he is of the people, and in the rural. creating on the inside, and it is sections it has reached a point, as intersting to see the new cre- where it is rrettv nearly a throt- j ations here and there from the thng of individual effort at sue--outside as from the inside. Every cess. This is so well known thatj ^lew home or rural property out- no time need be taken to repeat j lined is a factor in the charm of it. The farmer may have his the community no matter who owns or occupies it. And there is the dominant idea. Attractive- own faults in the matter of his thrift, but no matter how thrif- ty, he must be an unusually gift-; ness is spreading all over'the money on his farm under the , townships as well as through the ed intellect If he can make | villages. Country property is j'lesent conditions, and to be tax-iadding to the fundamental devel- ed at the rroportion that he is, j opment of the Sandhills in the has brought him to bay. The] new field of action. farm will decide the election this ' year, and it will decide it with, tjxation one of the chief fea- „ lures of the decision. IJAIKY KtiiCOKD .Mr. Spence seems to have no Last week in an advertisement opposition for the legislature in The Pilot appeared a state- find a very strong man would be ment regarding the inspection of necessary to prove opposition to! the cattle at the dairy operated him. That, therefore leaves in-1near Southern Pines by the Olive terest in legislative matters to j Brothers, the inspection show- the senatorial campaign, and if | ing that of the herd of 67 cat- the thi-ee candidates in the field i tie everv one passed with an ab- prove up in their appeal to the i solutelv clean bill of health. This voters the issue will be energeti-; is important because a herd of cally presented by friends of all | cattle in a community like the of the trio. It is certain we will | Southern Pines neighborhood have a campaign of unusual in-' exerts a positive influence on terest, for the farmers are go- community health- It may be mg to ask some questions that said that North Carolina cows will have to be answered, and i come out of tests of this sort answered in a definite way and' with the highest type of records, not evasively, for this is a life j and that Moore county is free or death sentence for the far mer and he realizes it. Simmons from cattle diseases and is kept o by the regular tests made by and Bailey will represent a poli- the dairymen themselves and by tical contest. The state senator- the close observation of the lal campaign in the county will State Health department. The be an economic battle, and whol- Pinehurst Dairy has long been ly different in its basic motive, famed as a leader in maintaining It will be largely mfluenced by the health conditions of its cowc, the presumed effect on the farm but following along with this in- and the farmer’s financial fu- ture of this choice of considera tion. dividual work the villages of the county are also alert to the con dition of the milk producing cat- Here is a game that hasn’t been made popular as yet. Try it on your friends. It is less painful that way. We discovered the game by trying it out on ourselves. (This is the first time I have ever had a chance to use the editorial “we” and I hope that the jealousy of other editors will not prevent my using it.) Once we were drawn into a con versation about Australia. We can’t imagine why we let it happen and, we {'ssure you, it has never happened to since. When Australia is mention ed now, we become a listener. (Or ought we to become “listeners”.) It is the safest thing to be, although not the most stimulating. So, if you want to do most of the talking your self, don’t experiment with the sug gestion that follows: (Men, of course, are better at facts, than women. Just dry facts. They seem to like them .... in fact they have invented most of them. And they seem to like to tell them to women. That is, ... . sometimes. And, of course, it is much easier, if you are the sort of woman that, sooner or la ter, men are going to tell facts to, to cultivate the condition revealed by this game. For then you won’t be so bored. It is much easier to listen to facts when you don’t know them al- itady or can quickly forget them. It is more convincing to the man too if }.ou really don’t know, not just have to pretend not to know. Easier to say, ^‘Really, how extraordinary!” Or, “1 never should have thought that!” Or “How did you ever happen . . . you know the sort of thing we mean.) It happened this way. We found ourselves suddenly talking about Australia. We felt like talking about it. Wo are that way. We were quite olert and interesting, as w'e remem- ler. We made all sorts of statements about Australian characteristics. You see, we knew an Australian once. Suddenly, and such a thing has never happened to us before, .... a still small voice said to us rather sharply, “What in h—” (the still small voice is curiously apt to put things forcefully) “do you know about Aus- tialia ?” It sipoiled our fun, of course. We stopped whatever we were saying about Australia and managed to turn the conversation into brighter chan nels. Later, when we were alone, we a^ked ourselves, less forcefully for v/e have a theory that people, espec ially women, when they are alone and t ot unduly excited, are almost stupid ly refined, “My good woman, what do you know about Australia?” Stung, we took pen and paper and this is what we wrote: 1. Kangaroos. 2. Rabbits. (And w’^e are not quite S'jire about them.) 3. A fine harbor at Sydney. 4. Bushmen. 5. Boomerangs. 6. Originally a criminal settlement. 7. No poverty. (I can’t imagine why!) 8. The smallest continent and the largest island. 9. Big, handsome, bony men with ! T.asal voices who don’t obey their of ficers. 10. Something albout direct pri maries. And that was absolutely all! In a condition of nervous terror, we tried ourselves out in the same way on other subjects. —5— The Stock Market. 1. It is safer to buy bonds than stocks because .... 2. Because . .well . . . one is risky nnd the other is safe because . . . . 3. Because . . well, if anything goes wrong they pay the bond interest first. 4. Margin .... is just too teiri- lle. You keep on putting it up ard putting it up and then . . . you lose it all. 5. Bulls do one thing and Bears do the other .... but I couldn’t swear in court as to which does which. r>. Seats on the Stock Exchange are more expensive than in the New York theatres and even harder to get. 7. Gilt-edged securities have no j^ilt edges. 8. You cut off coupons if you want to get your income regulaily, if at all. 9. Watered stock .... this I know a lot about because the name came from the habit of cattle-men stopping their steers in a stream and letting th^m drink several hundied pounds worth of water just before they were tc be weighed for selling 10. If you want to start something l;ig and haven’t enough money to do it, yon will probably end in creating something like the Stock Market. 11. Perhaps we know more than this but we can’t seem to think of iir.ything just now witTiout help from questions. The Kiwanis Club. 1. Why Kiwanis . . . . ? We don’’t know. 2. They meet once a week to talk about something 3. They are public-spirited. 4. We don’t know what they do. 5. They have lunches and make and listen to speeches. 6. They are very enthusiastic about all sorts of things. 7. Worthy things, we mean. 8. The other Kiwanians have us ually accepted with applause the sug gestions of the Kiwanian who is tell ing us about it. Or else they haven’t .... in which case they have not been as public-spirited as usual. 9. Kiwanians are optimistic. They have to be. 10. We owe a great deal to the Kiwanis Clubs of America. -§~ For a short and painful period af ter our Australian experience we got into the habit of trying this experi ment on ourselves. After a while we gave it up. We found it just as de- ‘ pressing as golf. We were beginning | to feel that we didn’t know a single * fact about anything. | That's why we would like to make fv game out of it. We’d like to be put out of our suspense. We want to know—no matter how much it may hurt us—how many people, if any, are in our class. IS YOUR CHILD GIFTED? I have had for years a curiosity to know what percentage of school chil- ’ren will show their greate&t ability in art work, and this winter an op- poitunitv came my way to make some intelligence tests in drawing that tell an interestirg story. I gave the tests in the Sanchills high schools at Aber deen, Southern Pines, Pinehurst and Vass. Five degrees of ability were considered in the scoring: very su- peiior ability, superior ability, aveage jibility, inferior abilit.v and very in terior ability. Of all the pupils tested 32 1-2 per cent scored as superior, or very su perior ability in dawing and of these 71 percent were estimated as of only aveiage ability or less, in other school wo I k. This means that about 23 per cent of the pupils in these four schools will find their greatest success and useful- ress in some form of life work that lequires a knowledge of drawing and color. Are these children getting a -quare deal when the authorities de cide that it costs too much to pay for a teacher to look after their es pecial educational needs? Why are they not entitled to the same con sideration and to the same special educational advantages as are pro vided for pupils whose greatest abil- tiies lie in- mathematics, science, for eign languages or English? A great American has said, “f stand for the square deal. But when I say I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the oame, but that I stand for having these rules changed so as to work for more substantial equality of oppor tunity. “Equality of opportunity for al citizens, when we achieve it, will have great results. First—every man will have a fair chance to make of himself the vest that in his lies, to reach th-? highest point to which his capacities can carry him. Second—equality of opportunity means that the common wealth will get from every citizen the highest service of which he is capable.” Among these children who are de prived of the opportunity to culti vate and develop the special ability God has given to them, may be one or several endowed with the sacred gift of genius. But what life work is before these talented children unless the state, the town or the county sees its responsibility and give them a quare deal? Is it right, or, what is more practical, is it economy to bury genms EFFIE ELLEN BUTLER. REPUBLICAN CONVENTION There will be a meeting of the Re publicans of Moore County on Thurs day, April lOth, at 3:00 o’^clock p. m. This meeting is called for the pur pose of naming delegates and alter nates to the Republican State Con vention in Charlotte on April ITth. ATI Republicans are requested to be present. The meeting will be held in the courthouse in Carthage. COLIN G. SPENCER, Chairman. By: HENRY SEAWELL, Actinjg Secretary. POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT who died in the City of Baltimore a few days ago. Resolved, by the Sabbath School of the Page Memorial Church our high appreciation of him and the services he rendered hete. We shall sadly mis^s his presence and help. I hereby announce myself a candi date for nomination for the State Sen ate from this district, subject to the action of the Democratic primary. Matters of unusual and vital im portance are to be determined by our representatives. If nominated and elected I shall endeavor to render just and conscientious service. D. A. McLAUCHLIN. SUCCESS OF SHOPPING GUIDE BOOKLET ASSURED We are advised by Mr. Noel of the Noel Press, who is preparing a tour ist and shopping guide for Southern Pines for the coming season, that the success of this Tittle publication is as sured. Mr. Noel, who is giving this matter his personal attention, will be here another week. He will then go to Aiken where he expects to prepare a similar publication for that resort LEGAL NOTICES NOTICK OF LOST CERTIFICATE OF STOCK RESOLUTION Whereas it has pleased the Father tc call unto himself ouar Co-Worker ' in this Sabbath School, John Chilcott, ’ GRAIINS OF' SAND Notice is hereby given that Certi ficate No. 10, for one share of the Common Capital Stock of Aberdeen Warehouse, Incorporated, issued to W. T. Bobbitt, has been lost or de stroyed, and upon failure to recover said certificate within thirty days from this date the undersigned will apply to the proper officers of sain Aberdeen Warehouses, Incorporated for a new certificate in lieu thereof. W. T. BOBBITT. Aberdeen, North Carolina, Mar. 18, 190. Mar21 Folks who go abroad this summer and happen to be in Jerusalem will not find themselves lacking in oppor tunity to buy familiar r-eading mat ter. Grossett & Dunlap, those two Pinehurst neighbors who publish books in New York, have an outlet for their books in the city of David, and th-e Moore county wanderer who happens along in that territory and wants something to read will be obliged to do nothing more than stop in the bazaar and ask for the Grossett & Dunlap list. melting out lead. Since the gun club moved to the new location at lot of lead has been taken up at the site which has been abandoned. It was a bad summer for mining lead owing to too much rain, but a large amount has been recovered anyway. To date three or four cars have been secured and shipped away. The lead mine at Pinehurst is still Tests in Europe of international telephone conversations have sbown that Italian is the most intellig*ble language but that French conveys a given number of ideas in the shortest time. Welding Outfits Complete Stock Welding Machines Welding Rod for Bronze, Cast Iron Wrought Iron and Brass, also Flux. We have a stock of repairs for Welding and Cutting machine. Special Price to Shops and Garages BURNEY HARDWARE CO. Aberdeen, Phone 30 North Carolina
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