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Page Two THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager BION H. BUTLER, Editor 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 Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. THK PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 10, 1930. I est folks, kindly and considerate, * intelligent, worth knowing much I better than most of us know each I other, and at a big gathering like the projected fair is a good place to bump up against friend and neighbor and to broaden our touch with the whole human brood. Then there is the fun and the relaxation, the games, the contests, not serious in them selves, but awakening the broad THE DEATH OF MR. MORRIS It was with a deep feeling of regret that The Pilot learned of the death of Joseph F. Mor ris, owner and editor of the Sandhill Citizen of Southern Pines, on Wednesday morning. Mr. Morris has been a potent factor in the upbuilding of this section. He has taken an active part in all those things whieh miake for community betterment, lending his personal energy and that of his nev/spaper for the common weal. His loss is a com munity loss as well as a deep personal loss to those of us who know him well, and the sincere sympathy of The Pilot staff goes out to his widow in her bereave ment. nance of roads, and the public schools of the County and towns. Considerable has been said about the money and high salaries paid County officers. But there are no such things as high salaries paid the County officers. The three County commissioners who carry on the business of the county, a business that totals half a million dollars during the year, get the enormous annual sense of humor and companion-1 wage of about $60 each. The THE FAIR AT CARTHAGE Beginning on Tuesday of next week, October 14, and con tinuing during five days, an agricultural fair is to be held at Carthage. For some years Car thage has had an ambition to carry on a fair, and when Pine- hurst ceased to be the site of an a'lmual fair Carthage renewed the ambition, and it is now about to reach its climax in the fact. Much is to be said in be half of this event. Carthage is the County seat of justice and government. It is an attractive village, with one of the most wonderful settings in the entire United States. The series of ridges on which the town has been built offer one of the most picturesque and fascinating spots in the eastern country, a wide landscape of rural life and broken forestry among such knobs and valleys as will long be remembered by the traveler who goes that way. The picture ivS mellowed by its gentleness, and adorned by the pleasant bomes and well kept gardens and lawns, by the big trees that line the streets, the variety of its surface, its country roads and approaches and its unpretentious harmony of country and village life. And Carthage has a lot of homey and cordial people, wel coming the outsider, and show ing him a type of cheer and greeting that is fitting with the appraisal of American country life that has become a part of our history and our 'habit. It is worth while to drop into Car thage once in a while, fair or no fair. But next week the occa^ sion will be a broader one. Moore county is a community of somewhat diversified inter ests and ambitions. No so much of a farming country, yet farm-! ing, aside from the entertain ment of winter visitors, is prob ably the chief dependence of the people. Not a farming commun ity as some of the striking spec ialized farm districts of the United States are rated, yet a farm country as concerns the subsistence of the inhabitants and the means of maintenance and the enjoyment of life. But after all our crude methods of farming are apparent in many directions, and if by means of the exhibits and the associations and the exchange of community shop talk about the farm some thing can be done in the way of broadening the farm horizon of Moore, then Carthage is to be highly commended for bringing together the folks from the dif ferent sections and making a week of holiday that has for its aim the advancement of farm | welfare in the territory. But, perhaps equally or more important is the opportunity af forded for all the people to get out and mingle with their neighbors and each other, and to make new acquaintances and lemake the old ones. Neighbors are the great thing in life. Moore ^ county has the type of people tr^t constitute good neighbors wholesome, unpretentious, hon- ship that such a crowd brings. Carthage today is only a lit tle run from everywhere. Twenty years ago a trip to the County seat was a day’s journey and an event. Now it is a few minutes jog in the flivver, and merely an incident as far as going av;ay from home is concerned, and that makes it possible and agreeable to get out and browse around with the rest of the crowd. It is good for the habit of existence to get out once in a while and mix with the folks and see what they do, and fresh en up with the contacts with others. You can talk about your neighbors and the weather and the fashions and the dire politi cal disasters that threaten this big country, and the absurdity of the fears we indulge in if things do not go as we predict and all that sort of aimless or serious bunk or wisdom, which ever we may classify it. May be the fair is aimless and of lit tle influence, but after all life is still a vague mystery, and may be as aimless as the small things that contribute to mak ing life whatever it is, and a get-together like this is a part of it, and that is why it is worth while. So it is good to be out and see the fun and the folks and the big pig, and any old thing that happens to be there. Tallow up your shoes and clean your nose and brings the folks and turn out and be one of the big family of the County, and have a holiday and be glad. THE GOVERNMENT OF MOORE COUNTY The Pilot has been looking cas ually into the administration of government in Moore county, and as far as has been observed the disclosure seem to be decid edly favorable to the men who have been at the head of affairs. The first fact encountered is that Moore county is not a political entity in itself, but a minor member of the State govern ment, and most of the responsi bility and authority under which I we function is in the Legislature which makes certain laws, ap points many of our officers, des ignates what may be done, and in various ways circumscribes the range in which County gov ernment may move. With the much-emphasized inclination of the people of the South for state's rights, the North and the New England states go much farther in individual right and privilege in government, for in the North the old town meeting system, and the township unit of government is more in evi dence. But here the conditions are fixed, and as the State laws direct, Moore county must pro ceed, so it is to be seen that County officials do not have much leeway in doing what they do. Therefore they are not to be credited with all of the good that is accomplished nor charg ed with all the dissatisfaction that arises from the administra tion of County affairs, if credit or charge seem applicable. Yet it is to be said that the State laws that govern counties appear to be quite acceptable and work able, and the officers of the County have in a general way been chosen executives. In re cent years old-style methods next responsible body is the highway commission at a pay rate of not so much and they don’t collect at that. The tax collector gets $250 a month, the sheriff $3,500 a year, the head of the school system $2,500, the auditor’s department $4,200 and the health and welfare and agricultural departments pay a proportionate share of the of ficers employed, the State pay ing the balance. Possibly the salaries of the whole force will reach- $25,000 a year, possibly more, hardly less. The point is that the salary list is about five dollars of every hundred collect ed for taxes and applied to county government. And for that expenditure of the five dollars we get what looks like pretty fair service in the administration of the hundred dollars. The thing to remember is that our money goes, not for salaries, but for roads and schools. Under the State constitution we are al lowed to go to a certain limit of taxation for ordinary expenses of the County, and that in Moore is 15 cents on the dollars of as sessed valuation. But we have voted extra taxes on ourselves for roads and schools until the total taxes collected will run more than a hundred cents on the assessed values. It is use less to argue about taxation and try to put our finger o(n the sore spot at any other place. It is w'aste of time to befuddle ourselves with anything else than that one plain proposition, that the roads and the schools have put us where we are, and that as we have a considerable bonded debt which we can not escape, and a school and road system that need to be kept up, the possibility of relief from our taxes is not promising. Taxes are high all over the country and all over the world. But here in Moore county, for v/hat we get our taxes are not high enough to complain of on the whole. The chief trouble is that the farm is loaded with a burden that seems almost hope less. Although the bulk of the taxes is carried by the railroads, the corporations, and by the “three Sandhills townships, the burden on the farms is a grave problem, and one that is not satisfactory to anybody, far mer or no farmer, for unless the farm is in some way permitted to lighten its burden serious conditions threaten that may in volve much more than the farm. It is not merely a farm problem but a national problem, involv ing every form of industry and of prosperity and human happi ness and progress. It is not County government that gives rise to this unsatisfactory sit uation, but something far deep er. The farmers who are dig- ding into the trouble are moving wisely, but they will do well to dig intelligently, and to hunt where the causes are rather than to attribute the causes to agen cies where they cannot be found. This movement has just started. If it is to succeed it must be carried on and carried far. Its discoveries will surprise many folks, for tracks are leading in many directions. to it, but guess we’ll have to drive up and back the same day. In only three states is the per cap ita cost of State government less than in North Carolina. The U. S. Department of Commerce shows that in 1918 we paid $6.83 apiece for the support of the State. Nevada pays most $34.81., Georgia pays least $5.11. Ohio, Illinois and Georgia are the only ones paying less than we. Arrests are being made for huntin’g CR the Fort Bragg military reserva tion. Several are in the toils of the law as the result of deer slaying on Uncle Sam’s preserve. Now air planes, military police and game war dens are on the watch for violators of the law. Uncle Sam will get you if you don’t watch out. AN APPRECIATION Editor, The Pilot, Aberdeen, North Carolina. Dear Sir: Generally when a newspaper writes something that the people don’t like it gets flayed. When it writes some thing extra good, it’s never mention ed. Your last I'week’s editorial on politics hit the nail on the head and split open the board of ignorance, pathy for our family. I also want to express gratitude to the Congression al Committee for tendering me the nomination as successor to my hus band. For business and personal reas ons and for the best interest of De mocracy in our district, as I saw it, I declined the honor so much appre ciated and so generously conferred, this, of course, being a token of ap preciation of my husband. He loved Thanksgiving’s most here. They had turkey at the Kiwanis luhcheon Wed nesday. Yum-yum! Many a furnace fire was started this week, and many an electric fan packed a>\"ay for the winter. Mosqui toes have stopped biting and more folks are stepping off the morning train from the north. Must be about winter time. Tobacco averaged nearly 20 cents on the Aberdeen market last Thurs day, with nearly 100,000 pounds sold. That is the best average figure we have seen for any market this seasor. The buyers says the price here is up because the quality has been up. Keep it up, both of you, say we. From the State Press have seen the light are making more money than those who have refused to see it. Their example will gradual ly be followed by others. It is to be sincerely hoped that the light will break rapidly for those who have not yet seen it, because the greater pros perity of the whole State is involved. —Charlotte Observer. SEPTEMBER WEATHER In common with all the preceding months of the year except July, Sep tember’s weather report showed a falling average of rainfall in th'e Sandhills, precipitation for the month being only 1.70 inches as against 2.07 inches for September, 1929. The gen eral average for the month was 3.58 inches, all these averages sharply contrasting with the tremendous rain fall of 19.50 inches of September, 1928. While the prevailing dry spell made the torrid temperature seem worse than usual averages did not vary so greatly. The Sandhills nor mal, maximum temperature, 84-5; minimum, 62-3; general average, 73-3, was varied by the month’s rec ord of a maximum of 87-1; minimum 61-1 and average of 74-2. The figures for 1929 were maximum, 81; mini- niuni, 61-3, and average 71-1. Aver age temperature for September, 1928 was 67-1; 1927, 75; 192*, 77; and 1925, 78-9. The hottest day came on the 3rd with 98 degrees recorded, and the coldest on the 28th with 45 degrees. Twenty-five days were clear, six partly cloudy, and four with rain, one and three one-hundreths of an inch falling on the 5th. Meet us at the Moore County Fair, Oijtober 14 to 18. THE LITTLE MAN’S RIGHT so to speak. I do not know who wrote j the people of the district, rejoiced this editorial but its sincerity and with them in their successes and sym- truth overshadows anything that has pathized with them in afflictions. He been written in your paper in a long j loved Democracy, so do I, and I am time. The balleyhoo of politics is quite j now appealing to the citizenship of distressing to those of us who love our district to stand by the nominees, the tinith, and the article in last j JVIr. Hinton James, of Laurinburg, for week’s issue should not go the even | the short term and Mr. Walter Lam- tenor of its way unhonored and un- | beth, of Thomasville, for the long sung. term. Both excellent men and well qualified to serve this the largest and best Congressional district in the State faithfully and well. To the wo manhood I make an especial appeal, realizing that much depends upon her loyal support. Assuring everyone who -H. F. SEAWELL, JR. FROM MRS. HAMMER li’ditor, The Pilot, Aberdeen, N. C. Dear Mr. Editor: Through the columns of your paper 1 reads these lines that the loyal sup- I want to express gratitude to the | port and sympathy which has been ac- people of Moore county who have so | corded our family is deeply appre- generously extended many kindnesses i ciated, I am to my lamented husband, Hon. Willis^m —MRS. WM. C. HAMMER. C. Hammer, and who have since his I Ashtboro, N. C., death shown respect to him and sym- ! Oct. 6, 1930. Governor Gardner has everywhere been commended for declaring that the big question that will not down is: “Has the little man the right to live?” The little man who grows tobacco sees this right denied whene* every $6 paid for cigarettes is divided thus: Uncle Sam $3.00 Milinufacturer 2.55 Farmer 45 Just as long as such conditions exist, the right of “the little man to live” is put in peril. He may eke out an existence by the “live-at-home” policy, but it is, as the poet says, “as a poor dying rat.” —Raleigh News & Observer. WHERE OUR ST^VTE FiAILS PUNCTUALITY PROMPTNESS PRECISION Dr. J. I. Neal Veterinarian Mondays—^at Southern Pines at Swinerton’s Stable Thursday—at Pinehurst at Pinehurst Dairy GRAINS OF" SAND See you at the Carthage Fair Tues day. Just as a lot of merchants agreed to take down their signs along the highway between Southern Pines and Aberdeen someone has started erect ing a great big one. This in unfair to those who agreed to take theirs down, but there isn’t much anyone can do about it. However, these signs sometimes act have given way under State ! as a boomerang, from an advertising laws to more modern rules and action, which has vastly improv ed the efficiency of County gov ernment as applied to the pres ent days when conditions are wholly different, and the com parison is striking. Yet it is also true that many unsatisfactory conditions are still met, and standpoint. We know a concern which has ceased purchasing anything in Sanford because of the horrible sign board menace outside the town. This company used to spend upwards of $2,000 a year in Sanford. That’« $2,- 000 worth of business per year ad vertising signs have cost that town. We know of other people who will not American Revolution for the Kings Mountain celebration, says among other things: Mrs. Charles R. Whitaker of South ern Pines, State Regent, is respon sible for much of the Kings Moun tain success. Tuesday was the big day at the new State Park when President Hoover addressed the multitude gathered there for the occasion. These have been hard afternoons to concentrate on work with the World’s Series baseball games on. Baseball, football and politics com prise 90 per cent of the conversation on the street cornei.s and in the drug s'ores these days. ev ery complaint comes to a com- trade in Aberdeen because of the nUm- mon base, which resolves it- erous si^-ns at th? northern approach self into taxation. What is lack ing in the administration of lo cal government is due to the lack of money, and what is done that should not be done is probably because money is not available to do something better. The income of the County is from taxation. The money se cured by taxation is used to pay certain types of expenses, among the others being the operation of the courts, the collection and dis bursements of the tax money, the construction and mainte- to town. In fact we’ll wager that billboards do more harm than good. Mrs. Hammer was probably wiser than some of her friends, says the Raleigh News & Observer. She is well qualified for any station, but she can serve her generation better as an editor than by going to Congress. And she has proved she can do it. Mrs. Hammer is editor of the Ashe- boro Courier. The Charlotte Observer, in an ed itorial lauding the Daughters of the We saw “Whoopee,” starring Eddie Cantor, in Charlotte and take it from us, it’s a scream. It’s coming to the Carolina in Southern Pines next week. Don'’t miss it. There appears to be a collusion be tween the Seaboard railroad and Ral eigh hotel men. We wrote the divis ion passenger agent asking him if the road wasn’t going to provide some way for us to go and come from Ral eigh the same day during the State Fair, and he writes: “We would like people from your section to spend a night at one of our local hotels, returning the following afternoon.” Of course the Pair is worth the trip if one has the two days to give The per capita wealth in North Carolina is $682. The per capita wealth in Wisconsin is $4,162—and th'^ wealth in Wisconsin is probably more equally distributed than in North Carolina. The explanation for this dif ference is simple. In both Wisconsin and North Carolina a large majority of the people depend upon some line of agriculture for their livelihood. In North Carolina our farmers depend principally upon cotton or tobacco for their cash income. Both of these crops are very expensive to raise and han dle, requiring heavy fertilization and a great deal of labor. One man can tend a comparatively few acres, es pecially- with the sort of farming equipment which the cotton and tobao co farmers use. Both of these crops draw heavily upon the soil. And on the other hand th© Wiscon sin farmer derives the bulk of his in come from dairy products. He gro /s many acres of feed stuffs and pas tures instead of a few acres of a so-called cash crop. He manufactures his own manures and a relatively small quantity of fertilizer in any form leaves his farm. There is prac tically no drain upon his land. His labor cost per acre is very low. His gross income per acre is actually less than the gross income of the aver age North Carolina farmer, but his net income is a great deal more. North Carolina is helping to make Wisconsin rich. Not only our city pop ulation, but many of our farmers themselves hire Winconsin farmers to grow their dairy products for them. Likewise we are hiring other farmers ir other states to produce our meal, cur wheat, even a part of the feed stuffs which we feed to our lairi6nt- ably small number of livestock. Of course many of our farmers are seeing the light. Many of our busi ness men are interesting themselves to spread the live-at-home gospel. There are many evidences of a con stantly increasing interest in the production at home of all the things which can profitably be grown here for the consumption, not only of our rural population, but of our urban population. And there are increasing evidences of the dis] osition upon the part of our merchants and consumers to give preference, as they should, to the home-grown article when it com pares in quality and price with the imported article. The farmers who EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Will be in his office over the Po«t Office, Sanford, N. C., every Wednesday, from 10:00 a. m. to 3:00 p. m. Don’t fail to see him if your eyes are weak. eYEUjOW PENCIL >viih the DBANO i W. C. ROUNTREE, M. D. PELLAGRA A SPECIALTX If you have many of the following symptoms, I have the remedy, no mat ter what your trouble has been diag nosed: Nervousness, stomach trouble, *®S8 of weight, loss of sleep, sore mouth, huiting ia back of head, shoulders or back, peculiar swimming in head, frothy-like phlegm in throat, passing of mucous from the bowels (especially after taking purgative), burning feet, yellow or brown skin, burning or itch ing skin, rash on hands, face and arms resembling sunburn, chronic constipa tion, (sometimes alternating with di arrhoea), copper or metallic taste, skin sensitive, to sun heat, forgetfulness, despondency, thoughts that you might lose your mind, gums red and falling away from the teeth, general weakness, loss of energy, and look older than you are. If you have many of these symp toms, have taken all kinds of medicine, and are still sick, I especially want YOU to write for my FREE booklet, ques tionnaire, and diagnosis. W. C. Rountree, M. 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