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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 DAWNING NEW YEAR This issue of The Pilot greets the New Year, 1931. With all that is mystery tied up in the days that are now about to un fold one key to the future is reasonably certain; the story of yesterday, as long as the hu man race has lived, with few and slight basic variations, is the story of tomorrow. In the Greek mythology of ancient THE PILOT, a Paper WHh Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, January 2, 1931. ilization to develop and expand, and 1931 will be a better year than 1930 or 1830 or any other j much more rapidly than was an- year, because men are learning | ticipated. There is no quibble day by day, and comprehending which it was established and the transaction became popular it without regard for any politi cal gain that may accrue to any body. The people of North Car olina will not be deluded by any more clearly the divine purpose in creation. We will pile up still further material wealth, for that is’ a custom we like to play with. We will take deeper in terest in searching out the se crets of existence for an active mind delights in being employed. We will have a broader ihuman- ity, for that is one of the feat ures in which man is created in likeness to the image of his mak er. Remembering these things it is plain that tomorrow will be as yesterday, with a slight ad vance toward higher ideals and that we can look forward with confidence. The skill that built this world was that of a master who never bungles, and a com parison with the past is a defi nite guarantee that we are not going to the dogs, for such a complicated piece of machinery as creation can not be wasted in the junk lieap. about assessment, about valua-1 thing that is not absolutely tions or about anything else, for | straigiht, and these thmgs al- the wthole matter of levying the ways r^act in the long run. We tax is determined automatij^ally ; are entitleti as a state to all rep- by the buyer of gasoline. He | resentatives from this on. We knows how mudh Ihis proposition i should in tJhe name of honesty is, so many cents on the gallon, have 11 districts as nearly sim- and that is exactly every other man’s ratio, and the affair is perfectly balanced between all the people who have it to pay. ilar in population as can be ar ranged, giving each district any advantage that its growth and de velopment has indicated. No jus- PAYING THE FIDDLER There is no question but that we have had our little joy rids , , 1 j j X- and that we are now going to days the Fates »ruled the de^^ walk a while. This of man. With the Stoics reason j orovernment. to indus- held an influence in governing the accidental phenomena of life. To the Moslem the inexorable laws of Allah are fixed and their applies to government, to indus-1 tallize in action, try and to everything else. We have been running alhead, buy ing everything in sight, borrow ing money to pay the bills, and The man who has no car, who tification can warrant putting buys no gasoline and uses no j off the apportionment for that is roads can very well be overlook- only an attempt to ihold over the ed, for with few exceptions he right of each district to be creat- has little to pay with. i ed now rather than at some It is a fair guess that before; time when possibly its situation long sales taxes are going to be will give it less or more argu- more prominent in settling the! ment in its separate behalf, tax problem, for the success of The founders of this government this one sales tax is so satisfac- entered into a fair agreement as tory generally that further ex- to representation in Congress, periments witih the tax on other and it is only common honesty things can easily be imagined, i that we all stick by that agree- Further reports from the tax ^ ment, for to dheat any district commission will probably make for the benefit of another is as the ground clearer in this direc- reprehensible as to steal in a,ny tion, but it will be the legislature other manner, that initiates any definite steps. Honesty and fairness is the Next month will clear the sky only political policy that can materially regarding the tax j ever win. It is the only course scheme just ahead of us, for the that can win the real approval air is saturated with tax talk and support of the people, and and some cf it will have to crys- we might as well realize that tihe Democratic party at this juncture can easily commit some blunders that will require it to GAMMACK & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange Pittsburgh Stock Exchange Main Office 39 Broadway, New York City SOUTHERN PINES—NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE Telephones: Southern Pines 6751—Pinehurst 3821 n I a S I u S itmtmtzxtmitttttiutttttimmttxmiitttuu \ uttS resulte are positive. The niore, ourselves into the be- recent Calvinist with his doc-. would always be in- trine of predestination arrives at about the same point as all his predecessors. Certain underly ing laws govern all things, and while subject to momentary va riations they cannot be chang ed or ignored. We are cast in a mold that admits but little dif ference. Our habits of thought and of action are the here**ditary creasing our incomes to be able to meet increased buying obli gations. Then comes the pay day and the pocketbook is found to have a hole in it. We have eaten REDISTRICTING THE STATE One of the vital things that faces the new legislature is the task of creating new Congres sional districts to take care of the additional member that comes to North Carolina through the increase of population. Al ready a number of plans are the cake. Now we are asked to suggested, some to jockey the pay for it I situation so a fair representa- It is a little inconvenient but tion cannot be obtained. Many we will make the riffle all right. •ri. i? i. .• ij .. , In doing it we are going to for- , morning of creation | some of our fanciful airs ! on what it will do in the way of and get out our working harness I to the political parties po- arguments are put forth, and far too many of them are-based when ‘‘Of earth’s first clay they did the last man knead. And there of the last harvest sowed the seed.” Tomorrow will be yesterday when it has passed, and yester- again. That high standard of living will be set aside as a fet ish and living will be the game rather without the trimmings. State, nation, county, munici pality and individual now face day tells the tale of tomorrow! paying off the scores and at the when it comes. We will grope our way into the New Year ex cept as we follow the old year that is gone, and the slight changes that we think we may same time keeping the pot boil- litical advantage over their op ponents. The representatives from Moore county should not tolerate such tactics, and for several reasons. The first is that they are not square, and dishon esty in politics cannot be justi fied any more than dishonesty in note have been noted by count-1 port of the state tax commis less generations from the day! sion. We have been rolling high when that first Adam awoke in I and calling on the tax payer to his mental vision to look on life foot the bills. The taxpayer has ing, and all the glamour of debt anything else. Moore county is showing a naked offensive-1 gained a political advance in ness ' November by coming clean po- The thing comes up in the re-! Htically with the people, trying ' no trickery, and putting the ‘ cards on the table. The decisive and to consider it. When we knock down the pine in the al ley a boy sets them up again majority, and at a time when circumstances might have giv en different results, leaves no doubt that Ihonest politics can be pay through the nose. For sev enty years it has been the vic tim of conditions that have com pelled it to suck the hind teat, and with the exception of the victory ef Tilden \^ich it lost, it has not won a national victory except through accident. Noth ing is accomplished by saying the Republican party is worse, for where two men are accusing each otlier of trickery the ar gument appeals to no one. No po litical party can ever triumph by means of the iniquity of its op ponents. But honesty and fair ness in politics can appeal to a substantial following just as in other lines of human action, for the morals of the American peo ple as a mass are not yet so de praved that they will follow the black flag of piracy, or rejoice over the capture or division of stolen goods. North Carolina Democracy can afford to be fair when it has the whole state in its hands. It can never afford to be unfair at any time. It can not win the approbation of its people by anything but, a square deal, and every member of the legislature can perceive very easily w!hat a square deal is. Nothing pays so well as a fair deal in any line, and I when dealing with the whole THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. The Page Trust Company enters the New Year with a highly gratified record made during the year just departed. Established now as one of the prominent banking institutions of the state, with a broadening history that is pne of the striking features of financial progress in the recent past the Page Trust Company not only wishes every body a Happy New Year, but con fidentially feels that it is in position to 'help in making that New Year more prosperous in all its field. THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. H found that note in the pocket and the tax commission inti mates that we must cut our ap- ^ore eff^tive and certainly far and We start another volley of | propriations and start now to j lasting, than crooked shen- balls in the game. A new group' live within our. means. It will . of players comes and the old have a shoddy feel for a little i. state is Democratic. It j people in politics the policy of a one goes, and we walk our little. while until we see that it will' the Democratic party to | square deal will bring a better path from infancy to senility , not be fatal, and then we will ^ strictly fair apportion- return than anything else under and the tale is told. Possibly a get our feet under us and start ^^^t of the districts, and to do the sun. perceptible margin of differ- on a more rational line, and out ence in the joys and sorrows, in of it will come a type of thrift the abundance or the limitation:^, and prosperity that will be real, of a few of the things we some | not the kind that is founded r.n times rate as important, but in blown up bladders filled with air.; the real gifts of the great Jeho-^ The tax commission, from its yah, in the things that are with- advance reports appears to have , in the provinces of mental con- taken a sensible and courageous I ^ , ception, the range is about bal- look at the situation and fairly i ^ ran's well up m the anced by the capacity for en- diagnosed the ailment and the | T population. Un- joying or suffering, and who ■ remedy. \^'e are going to have a i ^ popula- shall say that there is much f lesson in cutting our coats ac- i ^ ^ ^ 'Places in the change. Even Vanity Fair is | cording to our cloth and not I inon about as it has been. i many-people are going to beL^^^^^ over of 06.7, giving u;^ Financially we think we are j fooled this trip. Economies are | ^ in .hard luck: Yet what a marvel certain because they are com- '^^00! - accumulation of material pulsory. And it will be so in na- i If" r" * Aberdeen, Cam, tional affairs and in the COmn^’ Carthage, Hemp Pmebluff, munities. The public treasuries | are about to cease to be grab- GRAINS OF' SAND Happy and Prosperous New Year to door by a little girl. “Where is your daddy?” ha asked. “I thinly he’s gove to hell/’ the child answered. The startled neighbor asked why such a remarkable opinion. “Well,” said the child, “that’s where mamma told him to go when he went out this morn- H mg. of wealth we have added year by year without once slippng back ward in the entire story since Columbus caught the first i bags whether we want them to glimpse of the new world. But we ! or not. The taxpayer has been cannot see. We measure every-1 heard and that is the voice of thing material by the daily rate necessity. It is not as pretty as of progression. What was splendor ten years ago is con temptible poverty today. Who wants a 1^20 car or radio? Who is content witli the things that elated our fathers and moth ers ?_We clamor for a new color in the suds that top the frothy drink in Vanity Fair, and by that test we measure our suc cess and our apparent happi ness. In 1931 we will go on building new houses, and buying new toys in the way of flying ma chines, and any other ingenious invention that will catch the momentary fancy. We will pos sibly grow more lawless or pos sibly more lawabiding. We will dance to the jig time if our no tion inclines that way, or we will languor along to the dirge or the other slow measures. Yet Vanity Fair does not rule. It is only a symptom, and at the bot tom of all is that sincerity of cJiaracter, that honest integrity of purpose, that fairness toward each other that has enabled civ- it looks but we are going to pay some now whether we buy now or not. THE PROPOSED GASOLINE TAX It looks as if the proposition to increase the gasoline tax, and at the same time to increase the state authority over more roads of the counties, will be received with more or less favor in many quarters, and chiefly because it is a form of taxation that will widely distribute itself, and rest upon those shoulders able to pay and benefittin^ by its oper ation. One objection to the sales tax is** that many people regard it as a tax on special things or on a special class which is presumed to be the folks who sell. But in the case of the already existing gasoline tax it is found that no tax more fairly reaches the whole population than the gaso line tax, and everybody sees the directness of the application of North Carolina is one of the rapid ly urbanizing states of the The North Carolina Ice Cream Manufacturers hold their annual con vention at Pinehurst next week and little Sadie rises to ask if they are coming here because we have so many con-es. union. + J J XU • I It is good news that the Kiwanis During the past decade the incorpor- pi„u 1 . , % 4.U 4. ^ U Aberdeen plans to make per- ated places of the state have grown 1 -i.*. i- « « , J.T J. ! ^^anent its committee for relief of the poor and needy in the county. As a more rapidly than during any pr^ vious decade, the University News- • 1 ... . , ,. r „ A 1 XU- -XU X 1 i county-wide organization of leading Letter tells us. And this without loss - - ^ citizens, there is no better instrumen- on the part of the population living f„i,-x„ • x- x- , x-j T-x i- -XX u tality for the investigation and dis- outside corporaee limits, for it too has 4? t j? .. , ^ , semination of relief measures. Con- grown. though not nearly so great „xix- x r ^ ^ x x u x X 1 1 gratulations to Frank Buchan for a in proportion. The state has a total i j - ... ^ . J! • X J X J *x* I foundation to the incomino* Ki- of 498 incorporated towns and cities, x n- i ’ ranging from Charlotte with its 82,: ! oA ’ f I 675 to Dellview, with just ten inhab- i ZTf T /y t :x__x_ living conditions among the poor of the county one o fthe dab’s chief pol icies for 1931. The Time to Buy a Weymouth Heights Location at Southern Pines The minute the financial sky clears folks will be buying more home sites in the Sandhills, and the minute the movement attains any magnitude prices will advance through the competition of buyers for se lected places. Land values halt some times during a panic, but they always shoot up after the panic. This is the time to buy, and because Weymouth Heights will always be the de sirable place it is this is the time to buy a Weymouth home site. s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate PATCH BUILDING Southern Pines. North Carolina ww H H ♦♦ n ♦♦ ♦♦ :: :: ntmtx tisntuxttu itants. Basing their conclusions upon mor- tality statistics of 19,000,000 indus- The Pinehurst Outlook begins th^s trial policy holders, the Metropolitan „eek publication of the personal rec- i Ollections of Bion H. Butler, editor of year 1930 the record health year of ; The Pilot, starting from his arrival all time for the .people of the United i„ the Sandhills some third of a cen- States and Canada.” It says tbe year has been free from widespread preva lence of any contagious or infectious disease, and that tbs influenza death rate will 'be lower than for many years past. ALL WINTER COATS Reduced ON SALE THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Just a few coats left and they must be sold very quckly and fo do so we have marked them cheap. tury ago. Mr. Butler has been so close to the upbuilding of this section that his story IS the story of the Sand hills, and written in his inimitable friendly style should be a valuable and interesting contribution to local SEE WINDOW DISPLAY WILLIAMS-BELK CO. history. Cyrus Butler, who was home from ; Kingsport, Tsnnessee, during the hoi- , More than 22,000 square miles were idays, brings with him a yarn. A topographically surveyed tbe last ' K X. . . ^ , neighbor over there went to the ^ fiscal year by the geological lU that tax to the purpose for j house of a friend and. was met at the vey. . | P ^ i«««««»»» In the New Store (Wilkins-Ricks Stand Sanford, N. C. u H ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ n ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ #♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ mu ♦♦♦♦♦♦
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