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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
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MORE READERS FOR
THE PILOT
This week The Pilot announces
a circulation campaign. We have
never liked circulation cam
paigns very much, but we are
living in an age of contests.
Everyone likes a contest, and
that seems to be the prescribed
way to increase circulation.
We want more circulation for
two '"easons. Firstly, if you will
read the slogan in our masthead
on the front page you will see
that The Pilot is Paper De-
THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, NorthQajrol^
Friday, November 7
as we should know. We are all
too long on ignorance and an
tagonism, and too short on real
information and sincere desire
to join in the intelligent move
ments that will really be of help
to the county. The first thing
to do politically is to get better
acquainted, each section of the
county with the other. The lower
townships do not know the river
sections as well as they should,
?nd the upper townships do not
know the Sandhills as well as
they should. A system of good
roads now connects every remote
corner of the county and every
interior neighborhood with
every other section. Each sep
arate n,eighbor*hood will find
the others highly interesting,
containing good people worth
knowing, bound up in historical
matters that are fascinating,
with scenery and topography
worth visiting, for people and
surroundings wherever you find
them are basic in the funda
mentals of life.
As a county we do not know
each other well enough, and we
do not know our neighbor com
munities well enough. These au
tumn days a drive over the hills
of the Deep River country, out
to the potteries^ to the villages
of the upper townships, around
the country that was active in
voted to the Upbuilding of the I years gone by, and that is
Sandhill Territory of North Car-1 coming" mto activity again, is
olina.’^ The more readers we i worth the time of the folks from
to know more about our countj’^
from every viewpoint. Then we
can all work together intelligent
ly and earnestly for the beat
that we can make of it, and that
will be a revelation if we go at
it right.
That is the political job The
Pilot hopes we can push a little
farther along. We are all alike
interested and concerned, and it
is the duty of every one of us to
join in vigorously and sincere
ly that the job may be well done
and as quickly underway as pos
sible.
THE FARMER’S SHARE
OF THE JOB
Chris Page has started the
work of establishing tjhe new
cooperative movement among
the tobacco growers, but if it is
to be in any degree successful
the farmer must prepare to do
the principal part of the job.
The tobacco market has shown
one thing, which is about the
sum of the law and the prophets
GRA.INS OF" SANP
The final figures show North Caro
lina’s population as 3,170,276 on April
1st, an increase of 611,153, or 23.9
per cent over 1920, the largest growth
the state has ever shown in any cen
sus period.
Ninety-five of the 100 counties of
the state showed increases. Twenty-
one cities and towns have a popula
tion of 10,000 or more. There are 498
incorporated cities or villages in the
state, the smallest of which is Dell-
view, with 10 inhabitants.
A copy of the first series popula
tion bulletin for North Carolina, giv
ing thj/s number of inhabitants in
each county, township, city, town and
village may be obtained by writing to
the Bureau of the Census, Washing
ton, D. C.
Some time ago The Pilot suggested
that it would be a good idea to make
Moore Central trains stop ,at the
i2^'Tobacc7The'clTsrof I f
j 1 11. • A T_ PT’on. thp mfremiPTicv of trains be-
tobacco this year in the Aber
deen market is good. It brings
a good price. Being good it goes
much farther in bringing a good
price than all the appeal and all .
the sophistry and everything ' ^
for motorists are so unaccustomed to
expecting the approach of a locomo
tive they forget all about the trac s.
Won’t it be nice to hear and read
i^bout something besides political is
sues for a while? We can even begin
to think about Christmas shopping.
Moore county ranks 17th among
the 100 counties of the state in tax
able wealth per inhabitant for the
year 1929. The total taxable wealth
of the county, as given in a table m
th^ University News-Letter, is $27,-
139,000; the amount per inhabitant
$1,027. The state average is $940.'
XHe Ark
Southern Pines
North Carolina
Country Day School for
Children with
Kindergarten Dept.
A limited number of boarders
received.
APPLY TO PRINCIPAL
The taxed value of all property in
the state is still slightly less than
three billion dollars, despite a gain
of around nine million over the pre
vious year.
eron, the infrequency of trains 'je-
irg so out of line with t-he automobile
traffic at that crossing. At that time
we did not know whether such a rule
practical or in use anywhere.
was
have the better job we can do in
this upbuilding. The larger the
congregation the more effective
the sermon.
Secondly, we want more read
ers for the benefit of our adver
tisers. W’hen Mr. Patch or Har
rison Stutts or A. L. Burney or
Walter Graham has a story to
the Seaboard section, and it is
equally worth while for the
folks from the outside country to
bring the children into Charlie
Picquet^s picture shows, or to
watch a golf game or to drift
around among the streets and
scenes of the villages down this
way, for the Sandhills are be-
ful spots of the United States.
In mixing up this way we will
find that we all have a common
interest in Moore county, and
tell about his merchandise, we | the^most v^nder-
want the whole county to hear "
it, and profit by it. It helps bus
iness and what helps business
helps each one of us. If money
is kept in circulation we all get
our share of it.
Then there is another impor- j the whole county, and in prol-
tant reason for The Pilot’s de-1 iting by the things we gain for
to reach out. The more we! the county,
read about our neighbors the I We have in the county two
better acquainted we get with | types of people, the one the sub-
them, the more we learn about j stantial Scotch stock, the Quak-
our county, the more community | er stock of the Deep River, the
\»here service is infrequent trains are
lequired to stop and be signalled
ahead by the conductor, just as in
. the old days when trolley car conduc-
Chris Page can t sell POOT to- j ^ere required to run ahead at
bacco for a high pnce. If he
else has been able to do for the
lower grades reported from the
markets elsewhere.
could he would be a crook if he
did. But he can help the farmer
to sell good tobacco for a good
f.gure, which is fair and ?ionest.
That is the first thing for the
farmer to get in his head and fix
there positively. His job is to
begin right now to make a good
type of leaf for next season’s
market. If he will not do that
he does not prepare his case so
Mr. Page or anybody else can
help him. The world dpes not
want punk stuff, and it is too
that we all ^^ve a work to do in 1punk that kills the mar-
i ket for good things.
« ^ ^ Another thing that Chris Page
can’t do is to make the farmer
prosperous by securing for him
a loan from the government or
from anybody else to be paid
back next year from a tobacco
crop that may be good, bad or
the Scotch-Irish, | a failure. The farther the farmer
crossings and see that the coast was
clear. There have been several fa
talities at the Moore Central cross
ing, despite the few trains. Or, more
probably, because of the few trains;
Next week the annual Red Cross
Roll Call starts, on Armistice Day,
quite properly. Every ^ American
should support this organization above
all others. It is there first in every
disaster—and the last to leave.
“The Red Cross is today the ex
pression of the national will, the na
tional sympathy, for all those over
taken by the catastrophe of storm, of
flood, of famine. Its call to charity to
meet these emergencies is mandatory
upon the heart of the Nation,” says
Herbert Hoover.
CLEAN COAL
Delivered Promptly
Phone 139
H. W. DOUB
ABERDEEN
Read the Red Cross Number of The
Pilot next week. Then join your local
chapter.
how many of the more transient
other better.
You’ll find all about the con
test on other pages of this
pride we build up. We want to i English and
increase the size of the family, | many of them from Pennsylvan-1 keeps from tying up his crop for T," ‘7*“
that s all. It s a nice family and j i.j and Maryland, and the more next year v.’ith debts to be paid j ^ ..otivom t
we want to get to know each recent newcomers w'ho have set-1 sfter the crop is sold the more f j? ^
tied around Pinehurst and I firmly the famer can stand on f
Southern Pines. Both these : his feet and say he will not selli* '*
mu • 4-1 older stock and the I his leaf for an unsatisfactory
\^eeks paper. There is an auto-. settlers, are of unusually | price. It is the distressed tobac-
mobile for the big winner^ and | desirable quality for making a I co and the distressed cotton that
a radio and various other ^ good comity. The folks more re-1 breaks the market. But the man
tives for you to get out and hne | cently from the North are bet-1 who has a debt around his neck,
up some more readers for The | g^ppjied with worldly accum-1 no matter if to the government
Pilot. The campaign 's^ll run un-. iLilations, but that does not makei or any other agency, is tied
til a few days before Christmas, j them a bit different except that | tight to disaster. Time pur-
and theie s a golden opportunity j they are more able to pay out i chases and debts to be paid naxt
t(. earn yourself a real pi^^sent, i^joney to help in the faster de- year have done more to kill the
THE LIBRARY IN PINEHURST , There are many publications con-
I cerning golf on the shelves as well as
Editor, The Pilot: | the recent magazines regarding golf
It is doubtful if every village the ! and other sports for which Pinehurst
size of Pinehurst has in its midst as ' nature lover, Bird
quiet a place of interest and advantage i accessible and there
are some interesting and instructive
and attractiveness as our village of- ^ volumes dealing with the flora
fers in its library. The year round * pi„ehurst and its vicinty.
residents and those fortunate people ,
who are able to return to our health- themselves of tne
ful and beautiful town during the ^ V ®
months we call our “season,” are fa-
r>:iliar with this delightful spot, but
zmes.
Recently there has been a review
ing of the old books and the placing
is hoped that others, who have not
known about its fine collection of
books and periodicals in the past, will
become subscribers this season.
Gifts of book, some of them rare
editions^ and others, both modern fic
tion and non-fiction, are frequently
donated to the library by its friends
and such gifts are greatly appreciat
ed by those interested in tho welfare
DR. E. D. HARBOUR
OPTOMETRIST
at Tarlton’s Jewelry Store
every first Tuesday in each
month.
The YELLOW
PENCIL
DBAND
of many new ones on the shelves and growth of the library and in mak-
the library now lists well over three usefulness as far reaching as
and have a good time doing it.
GETTING BACK
TO POLITICS
velopment of the neighborhood,
j and every time one of them
builds a new house or improves
I a bit of county landscape he
and i pays the bills and all of us can
The elections are over.
The Pilot for one is heartily I look at what he has done and en-
glad of it, for the American peo
ple, North Carolina aluiig with
tho rest of them, make them-
joy it. The well-to-do-folks from
the North have transformed
Moore county and made it one
selves extremely foolish over ol the most delightful spots in
elections. It is a fact that can the world in which to live, and in
doing it they have invested
money which enables them to
not be disputed that North Car
olina as a state and Moore as a
county have an excellent popu- pay the bulk of our taxes, and to
lation, of adni’rable character,
honorable, upright, kindly and
helpful of each other, of clean
record, and constituting excel
lent neighborhoods and com
munities. But if we were to be
lieve what we hear in the elec-
thus keep up the roads and the
schools, and the community af
fairs, and they do it willingly
for they find here ample justi
fication for spending theibr
money. They are fine neighbors,
leaders in communitv advance-
tfon period we would be certain ment, corjdial felldwls to meet
the entire people are undepend-: and talk to, and men of sound
able, crooked, ignorant, to \be! ideas in local government as
.-shunned at all points. jwell as in the common affairs
And so wr conduct ourselves of the county in every way.
when the elections are in prog
ress. Then \v<^ forgive and for-
The first thing we need to
know, therefore, is each other.
(ret when the votes are counted. We are all going to live here to-
and all becon.e friends once rriore
until another ^lection. We pur
sue our politics emotionally and
not with enough dispassionate
excitement, and as a result we
forget the ival issues, and in the
effort to sustain argument we
befog our facts and distort all
our figures. And v/her the elec
tion is ove’’ we get out of poli
tics until another election comes.
That is a grave mistake, for af-
\^Y election, when our heads are
tool, is the time to undertake
political disc^.i^-uons ard investi
gation and to hunt out the facts.
And that is what The Pilot pro
poses to do now.
In its pursuit after some in
formation as to taxes this paper
dug up some conditions it had
Lot suspected, and in doing it
fell into the notion that a lot
more can be sought out with
benefit, for the bald truth is that
mighty few of us know any
thing like as much of our countv
gether, for it is such a delight
ful bit of country that the new
comers will drift in in larger
numbers while the older set
tlers will stick to that which is
proving so agreeable as a home
place, and with all working to
gether and knowing each other
better it is impossible to fore
tell what is going to be done.
It is also good for Republican
.ind Democrat to get it into their
heads that most of the foilks
r-.re not a bad lot, no matter what
their politics, nor what time of
the year, nor how near or far
election day may be, and that
Mr. Cameron, Mr. Matheson, Mr.
Reynolds Mr. Spence, Mr. John
son, Mr. Wallace, are all pretty
good neighbors, and are not of
the type that would wreck the
government if they could, and
' that they couldn’t if they w^ould.
What we need is to get our poli
tics on a bigger, more whole
some and neighborly footing, and
farmer than all the manufactur
ers, railroads, Mellons, Hoovers,
or any other bugaboos that are
constantly held up as the far
mer’s undoing.
The farmer who is going to
help Chris Page make a profit
able market for tobaceo is go
ing to begin now, for it is time
to be preparing for his next
year’s crop. He is going to get
out of debt, arrange to make a
crop of the best possible leaf, to
make it at the lowest possible
cost, for a crop made at low
cost can sell at a profit much un
der the crop made at a high
price. You hear frequent com
plaint of prices that do not equal
cost of production, but what is
absolutely essential is that the
farmer can come to market with
his crop next year and say that
production has been held down
below the price the crop com
mands. High cost of production
kills more farmers than low price
of sales. These things must be
done to help Chris Page, and if
they are done, h^ will be able to
help so much that his success
will be a surprise. And now is the
time to begin.
thousand volumes. Among these are
the old favorites of many years ago
and an equal number of more recent
date. In addition new books hiave
been purchased and are already filed
and may be drawn and more are to
come soon. Among these are the lat
est publications, bothj fiction and
non-fiction: many worthwhile books
that will attract the real book lover.
On the tables, among other maga
zines, are Harpers, World Work, The
Nation, The Atlantic, Scribner, The
American, Good Housekeeping.
possible.
The library, now that the season
has begun, is open each week day
fiom two to five o’clock, p. m.
—APPRECIATIVE VISITOR.
Pinehurst, N. C.,
Nov. 5, 1930.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Th:>mas, Mrs.
H. W. Doub. Mrs. H. A. Gunter and
Miss Lois Barkley attended the Quar
terly Conference of the Meljhodist
Church held at Vass last Sunday.
SPECIAL LOW
ROUND TRIP FARES
To Raleigh
Account Kiwanis Convention
Nov. 6-7-8
From Hamlet $5.22
From Aberdeen $3.90
From Southern Pines $3.68
From Sanford $2.30
....Tickets on sale Nov. 5 to 7...
Limited Nov 10
Also fares from all N. C. points.
H. E. Pleasants, D. P. A.
Raleigh, N. C.
Seaiboaiid
Bakers’ Food Store
“Everything Good to Eat”
West Broad Street Southern Pines, N. C.
A Home Store for Home People.
Pure Coffee, our special,
lb 15c
Maxwell House Coffee,
lb. 35c
Hams, half or whole,
Swift Premiums,
lb 25c
Presh Eg-grs, guaranteed,
per doz. 29c
Bradford McLean, Celand AIcKeith-
en and' William Carter. Jr., came
home last week-end from Davidson
College.
Dr. J. I. Neal
Veterinarian
Mondays—^at Southern Pines
at Swinerton’s Stable
Thursday—at Pinehurst
at Pinehurst Dairy
tYESICHTSfEClAUST
Will be in his office over the
Post Office, Sanford, N. C., every
Wednesday, from 10:00 a. m. to 3:0C
p. m. Don’t fail to see him if your
eyes are weak.
MARKET SPECIALS
Lamb Legs, lb. 29c
Lamb Chops (Ribs), lb. 39c
Lamb Chops (loins), lb. 49c
Stew Beef, lb.
Pork Liver, lb. ' 15c
Brookfield Creamery Butter, (Sat
urday only), lb- 43c
Pure Pork Sausage, lb. 21c
Nut Butter, none better, Special,
lb .17c
Fresh Milk and Cream received
daily:
FRUIT SPECIALS
Oranges, Florida, doz. 23c
Apples, (good eating), doz. 10c
Bananas, doz. 20c
Grapefruit, 3 for 25c
Celery, large stalk 9c
Coconuts, 3 for 25c
Tomatoes, lb.
New York Potatoes, lb. .3c
Corn Flakes, 2 pkgs. 15c
Campbells Tomato Soup, 3 for. .25c
Pork and Beans, 3 for __25c
12 lb. Bag—39c
FLOUR—Plain and Self-Rising:
Compare Our Prices with the World
24 lb. Bag, 70c
Meal per pk.—29c.
48 lb. Bag $1.40