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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. AN INTERESTING TAX DISCLOSURE The Pilot has been pursuing a curious lead in tax affairs in the THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina_ Friday, October 24, 1930^ what needs to be done, and no doubt with a mind that is recep tive for what is to be demon strated as the inquiry proceeds. But for one thing he is not like ly to be any residuary legatee of the failures of the pa^. He will have no occasion to suffer from the grave mistakes made in the past, ai^d his slate will be clean as all that has been done is wiped off. The dead co-operative movement was foredoomed as it was con ceived. The new co-operative movement has the world before it, and all the (advantage of ex perience that the old one gained. These things Mr. Page will have as a long suit in his game, and there he starts out w’ith an ad vantage that the old association could not have until it had burn ed its fingers trying out the impossible and the fantastic. It is laltogether likely that Chris Page will propose some new ideas, and if they seem to be radical, all the better. He may loss of control of the car when the turns are made. Unfortu nately the careful driver at that point has no protection. The reckless driver comes around the turns and smashes into the man using the greatest care. If it is necessary to make fifty arrests at that point the work should b^gin right ^ow. Reckless driv ing has no excuse no matter how many speed fiends insist on to get their debts paid as fast as possible, and thus put in cir culation the money that should be in circulation, and then, after paying legitimate current ex penses, put as much money as possible in the savings fund or some legitimate investments. For every dollar put in savings funds is at once put in circula tion by those who use it for carrying on business, building their ability get away with fool I houses, expanding existing busi- ' ness institutions, and in simlar lines. Money saved is not with drawn from circulation. It is put into employment to make fur ther business and to stimulate further prosperity. Further, the man who has saved some money can fall back risks, and the sooner we start to make the roads safer than they are at such dangerous points the more we will cut down hospital and funeral bills, and until We do that the whole com munity is responsible for every death that takes place at such a death trap of devilishness reck lessness. THE CONTINtTED AUTOMOBILE SLAUGHTER on it when money is not comnig so abundantly, and by utilizing that recourse oan help to keep business on an even keel. Those men who have been prudefit in their expenditures and who are now able to pay as they go are doing business as usual. It is the men of thrifty habits who are carrying a large share of the burden of maintaining as muc'h business as, is going on. Thrift was never a vice, and profligacy was never a virtue. Business can not live on profligacy, but it un iversally gets into trouble where profligacy rules. The (Community that pays its way, pays its debts and saves some of its money rarely complains of empty belly aches. GRAINS OF" SAND county and the results that are disclosed are more or less sur-1 be bold enough to propose some prising and as equally interest- 'things that may seem autocratic, Sign^on stand near Saunders’ Ware- The Legislature to be elected house: “Best Roasted Peanuts in the United. States or Texas.” A lot of mothballs were dumped shortly and to convene in Ral eigh after the year should take on ifts hands the task of lessening ing. That the chief use of theiand^if so all the better. That ig |-he growing automobile slaught- , , , • , taxes collected is to maintain the: what made Frank Page the un-' The daily papers now are in out of overcoat pockets in a hurry schools is about as satisfactory: oualified success that he was in f featuring the daily kill in! Tuesday mormng when cold wmds as could be. More than half of j road building in North Carolina, the state and the papers of wid-|from the North hit the Sandhills. The the money collected bv the He accepted his big job as an enl ^r than state circulation tabu-: same winds brought snow to northern county-wide tax goes to the | gineering proposition and he ate time to time the ghast-: and middle western states the day schools, and besides that a large I fought it to the finish on that totals that are climbing up to-, before, and Havre, Montana, report- contribution is added separately: one basis. Chris Page will win if a thousand a week of: ed a temperature of 12 drgrees below by most all the districts, some he r.iakes his ,iob a pure and i'*^aths, and so nuany injuries and ,7.ero. even doubling the amount for: workable business proposition, ■‘'o P™P®i'ty d^ages. ^ . their districts for school pur- The Pilot is confident he will rec- i ‘'"f* hospital bills and sickness 1 Tne Aberdeen tobacco market is poses 'alone. ognize no favorites carry no ■ idleness from accident that' getting leaf from more distant pomts Another ’ interesting disclos-: dead 'wood, plav to no grand-1 suggests nothing else than a j than ever before in its history, due ure is that a few big taxpayers stand worship at the shrine of but effective war. jto the fact that prices here have av- pay so large a proportion of the no sentiment, carrv no chip on It looks now as though we wi!i; eraged better than on any Old or New - - ‘ ^ -n 1 ^ Saunders’ in Mon- The ly all candidates have a fair fighting chance. ' season is on. Speaking in Raleigh the other day Mrs. Palmer Jerman, president of the State Legislative Council of Women, said that there is no such thing as a so-called “women’s vote,” any more than there is such a thing as a “men’s vote.” Women divide on is sues just as men do, she declared. She bemoaned the fact that “the averag’e person, n'xa,n or woman, takes practi cally no interest in politics, and tlirns the job of running the government over to a relatively small group of men we call politicians. “And, I am ^orry to say,” she add ed, “that political interest seems to be lessening all the time.” However, there seems to be plf^r.ty of interest in the coming elections ai ound here. The trouble is, we should say, that the average person i^^ in terested orlv *iround election Rumor has it that Hemp is due for quite a boom in a change of owner ship of its silk mills, meaning in creased production and more labor. Democratic Congressional candi- rubber in Aberdeen this week. We ; dates Lambeth and James tried to saw numerous farmers leaving town; watch the football game between with new tires thrust in the back seat and the dealers report a brisk business. of the total burden of taxes. And help every man who can help tohundreds of thous-1 t>- v, .7 another is that 4:he development I win this case. But he cannot do Every day the papers havei , of the Sandhills has had such an I it alone. He must have the gen- .their recurring lists, until keep-1 Carolina opens Monday, ® » irfiuence in bringing Moore! nine backing of everybody i’*’/up with the automobile is one | county to the position it holds :whether farmer, merchant, bank-1 ft the regular .jobs of the doc-i ^««"try ^ Charton I. Becker today among the counties notler, beggarman or thiof, and it J®!"’ ^ cLptn '"nd Harry Yorke only of the state but of the en-1 must be more than perfunctory faker. And the whole, thing is so j / " • • • * ; ^ ^ sufficiently tire South barkine- He must have helD i^'^excusable, and so useless and |woild know, Jhe plans aie not a^^yet suit cientiy Before the man from the i SSf' tf en?me next vear I terrible. A little threat of an|"’|’«t goes on in the Sandhills this, definite for announcement, we are North began to come this way croD of tobacco of a oualitv that epidemic of disease and the en- j '-"’’ter, Harry bemg the efficient rep-; told, but what we have heard sounds to Sape his colder nation with all its pVohibi- --ntative of the Associated Press.; good for Hemp and Moore county. section was a region of little ac-; to be excused for its low price. ^aroused to check tobacco turned quickly into ' tivity and scant population, its because it is of a quality that | thmg. But the automobile is i A lot of tobacco turned quicu, vast resources almost wholly un- nothing can excuse. Chris Pagej utmost indif- suspected. Now th^t the change must be aided by beginning atwe have arrived at has been sufficient to show that the bottom of the whole process Ithe pomt of familiarity where we this sandy barren country is in of making a crop of tobacco 'and papers and note indif- realty a country of unlimited making stuff tbat a wooden man | f^rently the account of the charm more and more people are can sell. He must be given some- ^’^i^Snter and pass on to the next coming each year to live or to thing to show on the market, | i stay for a play spell, or for something that w’ill appeal to ., protest is heard against longer or shorter time, and the i buyers because of its value, and ^ P^^^ol- outcome is the building of a ; he can sell that. In fact any man! because of the cost. But a neighborhood that has brought'can. I moment s thought will see that the natural advantages of thej The success of this new ^ prevent killing sandy area into such use that it | operative movement is essential | cheaper than the incessant has become profitable and pro- i to the prosperity of this whole j funeral bills and hos- gressive. | tobacco belt, and if tobacco is! ^osts, and the weeks and The folks who come here and | redeemed the means that will re-j ? mability that follow make homes and pay taxes are i deem it can be applied to other tmngs, and the death of getting the value of their money, i things. All industry is grounded families depend- and they are affording a market j oti the same basic principles, for much stuff that is made by j and if the people will stand by the farms and encouraging em- ’ Chris Page and 'help him to pull ployment of large numbers of I tobacco’s feet out of the tar people whose employment adds I barrel this neighborhood, and to the comfoirt of the population. | all the rest of the country, can And in ways that have not been, see a new lease of a brighter life, fully realized, the development! Politics continue to be the main •subject of conversation hereabouts. There is much speculation over the ^ make-up of the next county commis- | Take down sion, so much, in fact, that apparent-| Burt is back. Aberdeen and Rockingham at Rock ing last Friday but were kept so busy shaking hands they missed most of the plays. A.berdeen won a good game, 12 to 0. The team has not been scored on this season. made for the change years are more extensive generally. The costs of outside auditing nor mally decrease with the improvements in the accounting methods used by the regular county accountants and will continue to be reduced with oth^r improvements, Mr. Johnson re ports. Moore county paid $600^.00 for its annual audit for the fiscal year 1929-30. The 1928-29 audit cost $1,- 200; that of 1927-28 cost $1,200, while the cost of the 1926-27 audit was $1,- 400, Mr. Johnson’s reports show. Trapping of fur-bearing animals in ir» western North Carolina counties has been prohibited for two years, by order of the Department of Con servation and Development, following petitions from these counties, which are seeking to greatly increase the number ,of animals and later reestab lish the fur industry on a large scale. The counties included are Bun combe, Clay Cherokee, Graham, Swain, Jackson, Haywood, Madison ^ Yancey, Henderson, Transylvania, I’olk, Macon, McDowell and Mitchell, ♦ ♦ ♦ Value of Governor Gardner’s “live- at-home” program, inaugurated last year and stressed unceasingly, was admirably demonstrated in the ex hibits at the State Fair last week. The judges of agricultural products report marked improvement was no- ticbale in the quality of products dis played this year and in all exhibits the improvement in seeds and sires was marked. While the prices of cotton, tobacco and peanuts, principal cash crops, are low, thus reducing very much the amounts of money received by the growers, the food and feed crops were increased the past season, the State- Federal crop reporting service esti mating the increase in value at fully $16,000,000 in the state. This, it is pointed out, is the salvation of the North Carolina farmers, saving for them the $16,000,000 which they do not have to spend for food and feed Hi the amount of home-grown prod ucts. Because the movement has thus proved its value. Governor Gardner believes that North Carplina farmers, and those"~in other states as well, will grow next year an increased amount of food and feed products, increasing the yield by fully 10 per cent through improved seeds without a correspond ing increase in production costs. your signs. Struthers THE LIBRARY INCOME of the winter resorts has been of the greatest consequence to the entire county and its sur rounding neighborhood. THE CURVES OF DEATH The compound curve south of Vass where the State Highway, cnt on them. But wh^t is essen tion is more drastic enforcement of the laws, and a determined at titude of the law and the courts toward the speed fiends, the careless, the drunk, the incapa ble, and any other drivers that make the highways dangerous. No bigger task faces the legisla ture this year than that of mak ing the world safe for la man who wants to travel on the high way. That need overshadows the old doctrine of making it safe If from the study of the tax j Route 50, passes under the Sea- situation the composite popula- board Railroad, is a curve of i ^ tion of the county can be death and disaster. When the i 'J brought to 'appreciate more and!road was built the engine^ fig-ik thousands and more all the time thp various nvoH 4-Viof fVm by the hundreds of elements that compose it the time spent in unearthing the facts will not have been wasted. iPinehurst and Southern Pines are doing more for this section than merely to bring visitors to the Sandhills in winter. They are imking of Moore one of the most desirable counties of North Carolina. CHRIS PAGE AND TOBACCO When Prank Page was named as a possible head of the tobac- Qo co-operative movement The Pilot was much pleased, and re gretted that his business affairs compelled him to. decline the work, for work it certainly is destine4 to be. But in the selec tion of Chris Page another piece of cloth is tom from the same web. Chris Page was trained in the same school, work, contact with industrial, agricultural, fi nancial conditions, and he has the same heritage of sense and clear-thinking, and with all a character that is free from taint. So Chris Page comes to the job. He has that power of analy sis thiat will lead him to inquire into the work that is assigned to him, and without muddling the situation he will proceed to dig for the causes of the trouble that have made his drafting into the task necessary. No doubt he comes with some opinions as to curve was sufficient to carry traffic safely around the pro ject ends oif the railroad grade, and they were correct, for with any reasonable degree of care cars can negotiate the curves with absolute safety if drivers approaching from the other way Considei*able*advice these days will use the same care. But no tells the mian who is earning driver is safe on those curves | money to be free in spending it, on the theory that spending thousands every year. And democracy has somewhat of a defensive habit, while the auto mobile victims are powerless. PROSPERITY AND SAVINGS I Editor, The Pilot— Will you kindly^orrect a mistake made in last week’s Pilot, in regard to the income of the Page Memorial Library? I know you copied your fig ures from the Library Bulletin, but it was a tremendous mistake, neverthe less. The income of the Library is $150.00 a year. The Town contributes $100.00 and for several years the Thursday Afternoon Book Club has contributed $50.00 annually. Unless some friend adds something to this, the total income is only $150.0.'). —Member, Executive Committee. ^ii£APITAL By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent when an irresponsible driver comes whipping around the curves at a gait that prevents him from holding his car on his track when he makes the turns. One day last week two m.en took time to observe the action of drivers at tho‘=?e curves, and it seemed that so little attention was paid to keeping on the right side of the middle white line as to justify the waste of paint in making a line there at all. On both curves , coming or going either way, the drivers straddled or crossed the lines as freely as though the whole width of the road had been assigned to driv ers going either way. A state pa trolman should be stationed at those curves long enough to put the fear of God into the hearts of reckless drivers, and then a sign with emphatic language should be erected at either end. One sign should caution about speed there, for many of the ac cidents are distinctly the result of excessive speed in appiroach- ing the curves, and the result is North Carolina’s crop yield per acre as indicated on October 1, aver aged 99.6 per cent of the past 10-year yield, with a 5.3 per cent general im provement during September, while for the entire nation the yield was 9.7 per cent below the 10-year aver- age. The State-Federal crop repoiiing service shows. This state was less affected by money makes business. Possibly i', , , it 'has its place, but a single! drouffht conditions of the early summer than the average, but an thoug^ht will show that spending money merely to make business is putting the task of maintain ing business on the man who has been able to • siave gome money, and that as soon as he has relieved himself of his money the other fellow has it and he may have none himself. Business is not charity and nev er oan be, and no successful bus iness, big or little, local or na tional, can ever be sustained on a charitable basis. It is highly probable that one of the leading causes in the pres ent financial upheaval comes from spending too much money before it was earned, (and that scarcity of money in business comes from the tying up in cred its of money that has been spent, but which was, obtained on the debt of future paymeht, and which now cannot be paid. Far more essential advice to men who are earning some money is mcrease in crop yield and total pro- ducti(^ was shown in less than half the main crops, including corn, tobac co, potatoes, 'peaches, grapes, oats and sorghum syrup. The production indicated as of Oc tober 1 in 16 main crops follows: corn, 49,240 bushels; oats, 6,632,000 bushels; barley, 858,000 bushels; buckwheat 100,000 bushels; peanuts, 175.725.000 pounds; tame hay, 711,000 tons; alfalfa, 17,000^ tons; apples, agricultural, 2,555,000 bushels; com mercial, 128,000 barrels; peaches, 1.665.000 bushels; pears, 108,000 I bushels; grapes, 5396 tons, potatoes, 8.494.000 bushels; sweet potatoes, 8,- 460.000 bushels; tobacco, 529,095,000 pounds; sorghum syrup, 1,936,000 gal lons. « * * The second installment of the State school equalizing fund amounting to $1,330,500, will be sent to the 93 par ticipating counties October 28, the first installment of $1,141,000 having been sent September 10. The total of the two installments, $2,471,500, is a little less than half of the almost $5,000,000 allotted from the $5,250,- 000 equalizing fund by the board. Moore county’s first installment was $13,000, and the second, to go out October 28, will be $14,000, a total of S27,000 of the year’s total of $55,710.- 01 allotted to the county. The balance will go out in two installments, one before and the other after the Christ mas holidays. ♦ ♦ * Auditing costs for outside audits of county government operations in North Carolina counties were great ly reduced last year, as compared with previous years, due to improve ments made in county accounting methods under the new laws, Charles M. Johnson, secretary of the County Government Advisory Commission, an nounces, following reports from the couhties. The total costs for the 75 counties making audits for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, exclusive of leports of three small counties, was $75,763.65, as compared with costs of $164,868.49 for two years before. The costs of audits for a year ago amounted to $203,878.79, as compar ed with $204,581.92 for three years ago. Two-year comparisons are made because in many of the counties membership of hoards of county com missioners diange land the audits The much-heralded Nye committee^ investigating Senatorial campaign ex penditures, came to North Carolina, spent about 24 hours delving into the cost of the Bailey campaign and quickly moved on to other states, where, apparently, more cause for in vestigating exists than the members found in this state. In fact, they al most gave North Carolina a clean bill of health. They were not able to find 'anything appearing to indicate exces sive expenditures, )and, while say ing they had little more delving to do, apparent^ were satisfied that tPiey had been mislead into coming to North Carolina. Democrats, naturally, are charging that the Pritchard-Jones Republican forces are responsible, apparently as suming' that if/they could get even a little hud sling on Mr. Bailey, they would be able to hold it up to dis gruntled Democrats and cause them to refuse to vote for Mr. Bailey, if not really vote for Pritchard. There is little or no evidence to indicate that Senator Simmons or his friends had anything to do with instigating the investigation, although there are those who think some of them may have welcomed the inquiry. The result, contrary to the prob able expectatio-n, apparently will be of political value to the Bailey cam paign in that it removes all intima tion that large sums of outside money were used in his behalf and seemingly belies the charge that in some places the absentee ballot was used excessively and unlawfully. Dr. J. I. Neal Veterinarian Mondays—at Southern Pines at Swinerton’s Stable Thursday—at Pinehurst at Pinehurst Dairy lo'w fares ABERDEEN TO WASHINGTON, D. C. And Return $9.00 Friday, October 31,1930 Limited Nov. 5 H. E. Pleasants, D. P. A. Baleigh, N. C. Seaboaid AIIL LINE BAILWAY
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