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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. THE UNITY OF THE SANDHILLS Last week at the meeting of the Kiwanis club Richard Tufts talked about the value of har mony of sentiment and action among the various units of the Sandhills 'community. Nothing more timely could have been chosen as the theme for one of these instructive Kiwanis talks, and no speaker could have been more suitable, for Richard Tufts is not only thoroughly familiar with the subject from all view points, but he is one of the most analytical and accurately observ ing members of the club. More over his interests are so mixed with the entire interest of *the territory embraced in the Sand hills that his incentives are with his observations. It is apparent to any one who is but even slightly acquainted with Moore county that not oi\ly we of the Sandhills must work in the broadest harmony for the best results, but it is becoming equally apparent that the whole county is bound together by cer tain influences and responsibil ities that must make us a fol lower of a common cause. The complexity of community and county developments, and our county development has been tremendous since county wide In fluence began to operate, com pels county mutuality and inter changes ability of effort and re sult. Each community has its in- di\idual tasks and resources and responsibilities, but they shade quickly into the joint burdens and opportunities of the whole county, and Pinehurst, as Mr. Tufts said, must depend more or less on Aberdeen, Southern Pines, and the rest of the sur rounding neighborhood, just as they must depend on Pinehurst, and while each community 'has its own jobs to look after we have the joint tasks, and we have also that task that some of us have not suspected, of not only help ing in the general scheme, but of not encroaching on the indiv iduality and burdens of each other. Mol'e clearly, perhaps, than it has ever been publicly stated before, Mr. Tufts declared the importance of Southern Pines as the central factor in the general dream, of progress. But without Pinehurst and Knollwood Southern Pines would drag her sled on as thin ice as Pinehurst would without South ern Pines and the facilities she offers the community. A one- legged man is at a disadvantage, and by mixing metaphors for a minute, it is permissible to say, even if the one-legged man is Pinehurst, Southern Pines, Knollwood or any other member of the Sandhills community. Richard Tufts has preached us all a sermon that is worth studying carefully in the soli tude of our own minds and fre quently and thoroughly. Indivi dualism is a great incentive and ambition, but it is always true and always has been, as Frank lin stated it in the early days, that we must all hang together or hang separately. Men and na tions and governments can not live singly. Mankind is mass play material, and can operate suc cessfully only by team work. THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolhm Friday, October 31, 1930. THE ONLY POSSIBLE FARM RELIEF For a long time The Pilot has entertained the notion that farm relief is a matter much deeper seated than taxation, or co-op erative marketing, or in fact that any of the superficial prop ositions that have been made to bring prosperity to the farm, €>nd has at times predicted that before we get relief we will have to dig down to some levels that will stir up the whole nation, and which will be as wide as the wide world. It has asserted that what the farmer wants is prices tor what he buys that are pro portionate to what he gets for the things he sells and that when that happy state is reached he will pay his taxes and pay no attention to them, for he gets re sults from his taxes, hard as it is to pay them. Last week Dr. D. F. Brown, of the State College, in an ad dress before a welfare confer ence at Clayton, stated that not overproduction, but unfair dis tribution of the wealth produc ed, is at the bottom of the trou bles of the farmer, and practi cally of everybody else around the world. “We are now on a rampage of production control and price fixing. The day of com- petion as a price fixing method is fast disappearing. Not reduc tion of the amount of goods we produce should be our goal, but more and cheaper goods for everybody,” Dr. Brown said. The 1 :lot? has been of this no tion for a long while. It has nev er believed in oveii>roduc{tion, for the basis from which it reas ons is that no cow was ever harmed by too much blue grass and clover in the pasture, no house was ever burdened by too much wood on the pile, nobody ever suffered by having plenty in the iarder. If too much could be hannful think of the tremen dous suffering that would come from so much oxygen in the air that we can not breath any in significant amount of it, and from too much light on a sunny day, so that all we can use of it is so small that no figures are little enough to determine the proportion of light we utilize. As Dr. Brown says in the dis tribution of the things produced is where we fall down. And it is not the distribut'on as between the ordinary run of us on one side and Andrew Mellon and the bankers and the manufacturers on the other, but as between all of us, man to man and woman to woman of all the nearly two bil lions of people on the globe. The most striking example is not shown by the difference between the farmer and the wealthy man of New York, for there are so few of the wealthy folks that they get but mdgthty little in the big division as compared with what the vast number of poorer folks get, and the rich men put their wealth into action as soon ar, they get it by multiplying factories and other industries. The unfair distribution is be tween the millions who get higher incomes thati the farmer and for services comparable to the work the farmer does for smaller reward. It is not taxes that make the trouble, for taxes are too small a sum in proportion to what the farmer should have. It ‘s what h3 has to pay for much of what he buys of everything as compared with whf^t he sells, but he pavs too much for everything he has to bay, and wh^n we get into the causes of his plight this is r.ne of the b'g things we w’ll have to face. FRANK BUCHAN’S BIBLE FORUM When Frank Buchan founded the Bible Forum in Southern Pines he did a much bigger job in the educational line than he anticipated. Some days the at tendance is not as big as it might be and some days it is right satisfactory. But all the time the instructor. Rev. J. Fred Stimson, tackles his work with an enthusiasm that is good to see, and he interests his bunch with the things he brings out, and which invite discussion from every one present and without restrictions. At the present time the study of the Bible has reach ed the transition stage from the Triests and the judges to the prophets and the kings cf Isreal, pnd Mr. Stimson has led his forum to the discovery that science is the basis of the Bibli cal narrative and religion, and that Moses was one of the great est of scientific men. The climax of the study so far is the clear conception of Moses of the one God, and the impression of that discovery on a people who had gods innumerable, of all types and character, and the realiza tion by many of his people in the breadth and power and influ- unce of that basic authority that created heaven and earth and laid the entire foundations for human existence, proerre^-’'? and civilization. Mr. Stimson figures that the discovery that one head and one authority for this gi gantic industry and business of existence is the first really great discovery that men have made, nnd that the discovery of the fundamental principles^ of law, I and that the violation of funda- ' mental principles brings its own ' penalty, was another vital prop osition that Moses, the great scientist, laid before men in a way that they could comprehend. The Bible Forum is going after some of these old-fashioned things in a way that is new, but none the less impressive, for a zest has been awakened that has prompted discussion and investi gation and study in a manner that is not altogether as com mon as it might wuth these basic utilities, but for the ma chinery that shapes the finished product, distributes it and util izes it. It is doubtful if North Caro- Ima had ever before within its gates a body of men who go so nearly to the bottom of the re- ouirements of modern progress and prosperity, or that ha/e so much to do with the advance of civilization from the crudeness of the cave man to the present high position of mankind in their domination of nature. things. The Forum should have Modern discovery and modern scientific advancement are start ling in their accomplishment, but always the step that is tak- many more attendants. Not that it is concerned in numbers, but because a lot more men could find interesting suggestions and information in taking part in what goes on there. Sunday morning at 10 o’clock sharp in the basement of the Baptist church are the time and place, but the Forum is not sectarian, and confines itself to the Bible study and nothing else. frowned upon by every guod citizen of the county is the fact that our schools are being used for the dis semination of political advertising. This evil has perhaps been limited, but I lam informed that it has been practiced to some extent in our schools at Aberdeen, whether with the knowledge of the authorities I cannot say. Recently a political meeting (Democratic, of course) was ivnnounced in the grammar school at Aberdeen, and the little children were instructed to carry the information to their parents. On the very face of it this is an odious thing, and by all en is with the advancing foot on j means should be nipped in the bud, a muck bar or a piece of pig iron. These men who are here this week are the leaders of iron de- owes to another of a different politi- ^ North Carolina is at last doubtful in cal faith or affiliation. I politics; coinsequently each' side is Another matter which should be ; making a desperate effort to win the fcr it can have but'one effect if al lowed to continue, namely, to under mine and destroy the very principles upon which our public school system was founded and the ultimate failure of our efforts toward true educ ation. people's votes. North Carolina ha.3 now got the whole world guessing, and it is to be greatly hoped that she continues in this desirable position. In order to insure good governr/ient anywhere, it is first necessary to buii i up two strong political parties that will serve as a check on each other. The present condition of our county government should cause the people of Moore county to take cognizance of this fact. Before we can ever obtain good government in Moore county, we must keep one party from monopol izing all of the county offices all of the time. We shall never secure relief from our high taxes and unjust dis crimination in our county until we vote our common sense instead of our prejudices. Then, too, we people of Moore county should take advantage of every opportunity to get outside recogni- velopment and production, some of them captains of the indus- _____ _ trial • movement, some of them! Thank God, this country is yet a tion for our county and our fellow- those marvelous geniuses who j democracy, let us ah be charitable i citizens. We now have a most excel- are just as steadily today dig-J enough to accord the other fellow the ging down into the secrets of'right to his own views and be cour- irons and steel chemistry as | teous about it. The Republicans of THE IRON AND STEEL MEN The convention this week of | they have been doing for ages, | Moore County and of North Carolina the iron and steel men at Pine- and nowhere are the pioneers of I want only a fair deal and they are 1 ■ ^ J! j-1_ _ ; -I 1 ^ 4-'Un4- -r»ocrciT'mp<?<3 Or hurst is one of the important events of the winter, for here are assembled the foremost cap tains of the foremost industry of the world, for reference to statistics from the Federal cen sus shows that iron and steel manufacturers directly or indi rectly account for nearly twenty per cent of the industry and bus iness of the United States. But, at that, in a more indirect way, they are the basis of practical ly all industry of the country, for without the product of the furnace and the rolling mill no other industry could carry on. Iron is the king of manufactur ing, and the absolute and gener al supply house for every line, for not only the raw material for all advanced manufacture depends on iron and steel for its lent opportunity of S'BCuring this nec essary outside recognition and help for our county in the candidacy of cur able and worthy fellow-citizen, Mr. Colin G. Spencer, for Congress. Most of us are well acquainted with knowledge working more ir dus- ' willing that all others, regardless cf triously and with more effect their political views, be treated like- | this progressive business man and than in iron at the present time, wise, but as a citizen I resent the I statesman, and we know^that he is a It is flattering to have a con vention of men like this in the Sandhills. They are men of the broadest vision, of the soundest judgment and the keenest obser vation, and it is to be presumed they will go away with an in terested memory of what they have found here and a kindly recollection of the values of Na ture's heritage which they have encountered. More of them will in due time be joining the effort to make of the Sandhills a pleasant place to live, and more of them will be coming back again to share in the pleasures of the place as it is expandmg. It was a good day when they came here. unfair attack of Mr. Graham, and the ; man of the people. Through Mr. apparent advantage being taken in our public schools as cited in the para graph next above. —J. F. DEATON. Aberdeen, N. C., October 3C>, 1930. INDEPENDENCE IN POLITICS TO THE DEMOCRATIC VOTERS OF THE SANDHILLS AND MOORE COUNTY: he considers his party in need of votes and is willing to resort to such tac tics to get them, although it is quite unethical for one in his position to It will be recalled that I was an- engage in political maneuvers, to say riounced as a candidate in the recent, nothing of the common courtesy one Democratic Primary, for County Com missioner, and that on account of my iibsence from the State I inadvertent ly overlooked filing my pledge as such and was therefore disqualified to make the race. For fear that there might be some dissatisfaction by reason of lack of representation from this section on the Board, I am writing to say that, while I regret I neglected to file my pledge, I am perfectly satisfied that rhe interests of Moore County and of ^ the Sandhills section will be eminent- | p ly well taken care of by Messrs. Cur- * lie, Mattheson and Shaw, the Demo- ratic nominees, and I earnestly hope that every Democratic voter in Moore ^•(•■urty will cast his or her vote for hese three gentlemen. Miay I express my deep apprecia tion for the many cordial promises of support received by me from every section of Moore County, when my candidacy was announced. From statements made to me by citizens all over the county, I had every reason to believe that I would have received practically the united su;pport of all sections, *and a sense of gratitude for the spirit in which my candidacy was leceived by the sections of the county other than the Sandhills, prompts me to bespeak for these Democratic nom inees your wholehearted support. —G. C. SEYMOUR. We are now approaching a very important election and a crucial point in the history of North Carolina. The people of this state are to decide next Tuesday whether or not they are to continue their freedom of choice at the pools without being hampered by party or prejudice. In 1928 the people of North Carolina demonstrated their determination to exercise the free dom of their own personal judgment at the polls regardless of the vile threats of party bosses and political bosses and political whips around the ballot boxes. As a result of her independence in thinking and voting. North Carolina has received recently more national recognition than at any other time in her history since the Civil W’ar. Both parties halve found out that Spencer’s able representation in Con gress, Moore county and all of cen tral North Carolina would be great ly benefited and honored. All cf us should forget our little parties and our trivial prejudices and rally be hind our youthful leader, and elect Moore county’s candidate for Con gress. I have great faith in the people of Moore county, and I know that in their voting next Tuesday, they will again put aside party and prejudice and demonstrate once more their in dependence in voting which shall pro vide Moore county, North Carolina, and the United, States with a govern ment founded on justice, supported^ by equity, and nourished by the will of the people. —JOHN A. LANG, Chapel Hill, N. C., October 28, 1930. RECOMMENDED AS COOK, Ethel Gilmore, Hoffman, N. C., and housemaid, Mary Dell Everett, Route 1, Box 40, Biscoe, N. C., for family of moderate requirements. Mrs. Walter MacNeill, Pinebluff. H H n IS THIS POLITICS? At a mass meeting in the aud itorium of the Aberdeen High School building Tuesday ev<ening, O'ctoher 27, 1930, for the purpose of nominat ing candidates to fill vacancies on the local school board, Mr. J. W. Graham, a member of the Moore County Board cf Education, presumed to speak with reference to taxes, liquor and Repub licans, a talk evidently designed as a political speech. In the course of his remarks, he stated that he had canvassed the entire county in the cause of education, and referred to a visit he had that day made to “a section in the upper part of the county where they make Republicans and li- guor by the wholesale.” He also men tioned the fact that the schools in chat section are inadequately provided for, but no plan of relief was offered. For many years I have vvi messed extreme intolerance on the part of Democrats toward Republicans; I have become accustomed to unjust attacks, but frankly, I am not prepared to be catalogued with the liquor element by anyone, especially a man of Mr. Graham’s high calibre. Quite obviously Notice of Bankruptcy Sale On and by virtue of an order of H. F. Seawall, Jr., United States Referee in Bankruptcy, the undersized Trustee will on Thursday, November 6th, 1930, at twelve o’clock M. at the old business stand of the Franklin Sales Company, Incorporated, in Aberdeen, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash all the per sonal property of the said Franklin Sales Company, In- corpofated, consisting' of automobile parts, mechanics tools, second hand automobiles, office furniture, garage equipment, stock in Charlotte Austin Automobile Com pany, stock in Lorenson-Harbottle, Incorporated, Aber deen, North Carolina, and other things and articles of personal property too numerous to mention. This October 24th, 1930. J. V. HEALY, Trustee in Banfauptcy. a It
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