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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 A-ddress all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. Friday, January 9, 1935 rHE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Caroh^ the warning is logical. But the farmer who is going to try to beat the game this year may as well figure out how to reduce costs per pound as how to reduce acreage. Cotton is a competitive crop. The world lhas learned to make it, and to make it for less costs than our farmers are.tol erating. Possibly the American farmer thinks he cannot reduce costs, but if competition under sells him reduced acreage will not help much. The farmer is also wise" to re member this. Prices of every thing else are lowering, which means that a pound of ten cent cotton will buy more than a pound of ten cent cotton would when prices of other things were much higher. What the gets for his product is one thing, but what he has to pay for what he buys is equally important. With prices of commodities generally falling farm prices will not ad vance materially. Diversification is a good tiheory, but the farmer who di versifies from one thing to another enters into competition with other farmers established in that other field who have the inside track of him. The farmer milk on tihis awhile. The truth is money will not stay anywhere very long. It is like the water in the creek: use ful when it goes over the wheel. the only thing a man who has | other new neighborhood is to money can do with it. Now chew i provide accommodations for the people who are likely to want a place there to live. That such- people find the houses and se cure them is evidence that the place is wisely selected and that it is offering "what is wanted. wTth the sale of the Ross house GOOD SALE I attention will be drawn toward AT KNOLL WOOD ' | other houses in that section that The sale of- the Donald Ross house at Knollwood Heights to ‘ else should be for -sale W. C. Middleton is rather signif- °tjer icant. The Ross house is one of who regard the Knollwood com- the large and attractive houses n^unity wii,h favo . of the Knollwood section, well Every new home owner in the located, new and in all ways ap pealing. At this early season the sale indicates an interest in the Knollwood neighborhood that is Knollwood community goes far ther to put the project beyond the bounds of an experiment, and to add to the number who GAMMACK & CO. Membei*s 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 I s 1 I i i THE DRIFT TO SOCIALISM Italy under Mussolini, is drift ing either toward success or to failure in the socialist schemes that have brought that country into the public eye since the war. Russia is certainly starting a great development project on a big scale through the Soviet so cialism. We may as well accept Russia as ^ coming industrial | Who undertakes to have country, for the progress that | and butter for his own'uses, and socialism has started is bound plenty of them, pork for his own to advance into something en-1 household, who raises as much _ during, no matter what the of everything that he can use “ course it is yet to follow. In our at home as possible, and who own country- we decry socialism, buys as little as She must, may but we are following socialist not get rich farming, but he leaning, and more every day the will not look for a place in the free soup line. Poultry, pork, promising, actid likewise the con- are going to broaden the ohar- fidence that Knollwood Heights 1 acter of the developing village, is a good place, in spite of the With the number of excellent financial conditions ha have pre- folks already domiciled in Knoll- vailed to put some money and wood nobody has any longer any I to establish a winter home. Mr. doubt of the wisdom of making ^ Middleton's appreciation o f a location there. Knollwood has ' Knollwood will act as a stimulus come out of the speculative to others in that direction, for stage of its existence, and en- every new buyer sets the seal tered the field of permanent of approval on any new com- home and community creation, munity. And no better place can be found The purpose of building in the state, with all the facili- houses at Knollwood or in any ties it offers. imtmmttmxxximxxtttmxtixiiitttxtmttMitttttutxntttttstttmxttmmtttmtnttnttttnt THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. GRAINS OF' SAND A bank with relations all over the country that give the best contacts and a broad basis for all its business. A bank with its eggs not all in one basket, but carefully disposed in various safe places. A bank with ample resources, with business poli cies that ensure strength and safety. Start the new year right with an account in a bank that you can feel sure of, and so shape your econ omies that the year will be one of prosperity and sat isfaction. :: i jt s ♦♦ cry is to let the state do the job and care for the people. Perhaps | butter, milk, his own vegetables that is the wise policy, but be- and fruit and garden truck will fore North Carolina takes two steps that are this month to come before the legislature it is help him through without a great cash outlay, and a little cotton or tobacco or other stuff prudent to inquire into their; may get him through the year significance. j with a margin of profit. But he Are we ready to let go of pop- must avoid debt, keep down his ular government in state, county! costs of operation, work, and and township and turn the whole j have something about the place authority over to the state, or 1 to keep him busy every day in do we want to continue to have ^ the year. Probably better days^ a government of the people ? The are ahead for the farmer, but Moore county’s legislators left for I of our prosperity depends upon the Raleigh with the need for automo- continent to the south of us, *nd bile legislation fresh on their minds. , great effort is being expended by the One man was killed, another’s life I government to increase our export hangs in the balance, as the result | field there. of local accidents last week. The fa-' tality is said to be directly traceable ^re thoroly discouraged. We to the use of the highways by a ^ hoped that the new sized ball driver unfit, through liquor, to oper- ; ^o improve our game, but ate a car. The time has come after a , nothing of the kind. If record-breaking year of auto fatali- anything, we are worse. Can’t some- ties in the state to place on the invent a gyroscopic golf ball tim- Your account is invited by— THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. 8 ummnttmnmmtjmmnmnnmmmmttmmmnmmtnmtnmttmtmmtntmttn xxxxxtxtxtmntt proposition to make the schools a state unit is one thing that will stand a lot of discussion. To make the roads a state unit is another that should be careful- they will not come through high- priced cotton or tobacco, but through low-priced stuff that he makes for his own household needs, and the lower prices that ly thought out before county»he will meet when ihe buys the administration is surrendered to the state. Right here we are at the crossing of the road that de ed to stay on the course? statute books an operators’ license law, with teeth in it, a law which permits officers to take aw'ay licenses where drivers show signs of incompe- Our contributing editor, Struthers tence or recklessness. Burt, has a new novel in the .publish- ers hands, to be released the latter Just as We were beginning to fear P^^t of this month. It will be review- we were not to receive one, the Pilot by Bernice Kenyon Page Trust Company se<nt over a handsome calendar for 1931. The pic ture, in glorious colors^ is of “Ven ice the Golden.” Thanks, Dan. Gilkyson immediately upon release. stuff he must have. We are not going into another frenzied ex- \ perience like we have emerged Edward Tomlinson is worth hear- Gordon Cameron tells us that this is the biggest “horse year” weVe had down here, that the demand for saddle horses on the part of guests termines wQiether we are to be; from, farmer or anybody else, a democratic government or a ’ ing. The famous explorer is'going^ at Pinehurst has, on a good many to talk about South America in the days, exceeded the supply. The bridle Platform Hour of the Church of Wide paths have almost reached the point Fellowship in Southern Pines on Sun- of requiring a traffic officer. It’s the day night. South America is of partic- same over in Southern Pines, the sta- ular interest these days because much , ble men tell us. A NOTABLE BIRD BOOK The Pilot: representative government with its gradually increasing central-1 THE MONEY ization. Possibly a state system: OF THE RICH of schools, embracing everything | j to the cross road may be better, occasionally on the than what we have But It has i ^^jtorial table remarked last the one drawback to consider j jjj j , that while county administra- that the rich haVe the money of tion may not be the most effi- ^he world is about as logical as I cient, ,t is yet to be shown that ^ | state government is efficient or carr>' water to a fire. Editor that national government is effi-I ovmiori ' cient. Few men will argue that or^fhpr mnnpv jinH hqp it I many and the United States government, ' rCvrW K,r u I the Sandhills country ern Pines Bird Club, of which he was are the birds. To leave the frozen ' a member, has made this monumen- north and see and hear springtime tal bird book his perpetuating mem- birds in January is an extraordinary ory. pleasure. They seem even closer to “A Guide to the Winter Birds of one during these winter days in the North Carolina Sandhills” is de- Southern Pines than in the good old dared by authorities to be one of the summer time in the north. They are ^ finest illustrated and accurate books evidently discussing their summer ! on birds that has ever been publish- tours and preparing for the plumage ed. Begun by Dr. Charles C. Adams of a gay season. when Director of the Roosevelt Wild How the late President Roosevelt Life Station at Syracuse, N. Y., Pro found interest in birds and organized during his late years many bird clubs after retiring from the practice diversified of medicine in the north. The South- „ .. ^ but in order to profit by it he with all Its power of money, of go.*^Therefore the men and of authority, can run,^ that the ric'h man gets is a railroad half as efficiently as; q^j^^ly passed on to some one ,, ■ else, and the rich man can be t has author-, regarded only as the man who ity of law but it has not and, assembles money and puts it to never can have any authority 011 management that is worth con sidering in a business way. It has no business head, and can not have any responsible busi ness administrator. Too innum erably many bosses are to be heard from, and too many influ ences come before business re sponsibility. Economy in govern ment is as scarce as powder in perdition. Neither state or na tion can economize, for the whole population has a voice in awarding money from the treas ury regardless of whether it is justified or not, and the multi tude of voices clamoring for favors makes it impossible for state or nation to carry on bus iness in a manner to be called business even thoug^h politeness. The principle of big business is sound. But a state will never al low a capable business executive to carry on because the state has too many influences demand ing a hearing. May be we think the state can do a better job with county roads or county schools than the smaller district can. Or perhaps we think the state will stand the costs and save the county, forgetting that we pay the taxes wheher for sate or county or nation. May be the state or nation can do bet ter than the people in the smal ler subdivision and may be not. These are things to think about for they are coming up. THE CONTINUOUS CIRQLE Once again the farmers are The argument offered was il lustrated by the action of John Doe, who comes to the Sand hills with a credit of ten thous- or John Burroughs and all the emi- with feathered friends in North Carolina! Everyone loves birds, but few of us know or realize how closely entwin ed are their airy lives with our own. The fascination of birds is enhanc ed the more we know about them and see them is one thing—but to know about them is a thrilling revelation of ourselves. This has all been provided for vis itors to the Sandhills in a beautiful ly illustrated book entitled “A Guide to the Winter Birds of the North Carolina Sandhills.” The book was dedicated to the late Dr. John War ren Achom who had a life-long pro- and dollars at his bank. He I^ent living lovers of bird life would pves that ten thousand dollars ^ave enjoyed this tete-a-tete to some one for a tract of land. .Then John Doe proceeds to hifnt up some other man and give him some money to make house plans. He arranges with a con tractor to build a house, and in doing it scatters out fifty thous and dollars to Betterly, to Elsie Keith, to the Pinehurst Ware houses, to the saw mills, to a lot of carpenters and builders and painters, and to pretty rear everybody who wants money until the house is built. Then John gives up some more money for furniture, and for carpets and for groceries and for house servants and for gasoline, and by and by Duncan McLean sends John Doe a bill for taxes, and so it goes all along the line. He gets money and passes it along, but he does not have money, for the man who has money, the philosopher says, is a dum fool. To be any good to him he has to pass it along and get some thing for it, for he would starve to death on money. He couldn’t eat a ten dollar bill or patch his pants with it. The rich man gets money, but everybody gets, it away from him pronto. And you bet they work on him just as soon as he gets any. It is the dollars the rich man gets that keep the wheels of industry moving, for the whole world is standing by to take his money fessqrs Alvin G. Whitney and Milton P. Skinner were important in pre senting this romantic story of bird life. The field, work was thoroughly covered by Professor Skinner who Sfpent portions of two winters here in days and weeks of field work. The committee authorized the sale of “A Guide to the Winter Birds of the North Carolina Sandhills” at $2.00, although the original publish ers price was $4.00 the copy. The book is sold exclusively at the Sandhills Book Shop, Southern Pines. It will be one of the valued volumes for your home library and serves a pur pose wherever birds come with their songs of joy and happiness. —SANDHILLS VISITOR. Onlv ONE Weymouth Heights the outgrowth of forty years of development No place for another one if we had time to make it. No need for another one wihile room re mains on Weymouth to build more homes. But some day the man w!ho does not now secure his location will regret that he did not fortify himself while sites were plentiful for the choosing. Weymouth HeigOits will be for many years the dream of the home-makers of the heart of the Sandhills. And in that time it will be the joy of those who are prudent enough to find a homesite and to occupy it. s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate PATCH BUILDING t; ♦♦ 3 Southern Pines. North Carolina ii n ♦♦ ♦♦ » #♦ n ♦♦ PAE T. BARNDH, Inc. ♦♦ ♦ ♦ Insurance of All Kinds —^At The— Citizens’ Bank Building^ Southern Pines, N. C. n PRESBYTERIAN MEN TO GATHER AT GREENSBORO warned to reduce their acreaore nf -n Ml I xxio ixivncj wm speats. twice in auQition. rne cotton and tobacco. Possibly j as he fiddles it out, which is | names of the Rev. W. L. Lingle, D. One thousand Presbyterian men are expected at Greensiboro from all parts of the synod of North Carolina and her nine presbyteries to atten-d a one day conference which opens at 11 a. m., January 22nd, at the First Pres byterian Church of that- city, under the auspices of the men's work com mittee of this synod, of which the Rev. N. H. McDiarmid, of Shelby is chairman. Although complete details of the program are not available at this time it is known that the Rev. Wm. An derson, Jr., D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas, Texas, will deliver tbe opening address and will speak twice in addition. The D., president of Davidson College, the R'Sv. J. L. Mauze, D. D., of Kansas City, Mo., and W. M. Everett, prom inent Presbyterian Layman of At lanta, Ga., also appear on the pro gram. The purpose of the conference as dietermined by the men’s work com mittee is to bring the men of this de nomination into a closer contact with the work th|it thjGir church is doing and to show that the program of their de nomination has a place for every man. Prominet laymen of the synod have been invited to preside and direct the conference to this end. Successors To PAUL T. BARNUM S. B. RICHARDSON, INC. Albert Clark, a former eF'ploye of Page Trust Company, now" .vith the Guaranty Trust Co., in New York City, was in Aberdeen last week, re cuperating from a tonsil operation. LIFE INSURANCE Ordinary—Endowment—Term EUGENE C. STEVENS Representative, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Southern Pines, North Carolina ## ♦f ♦ ♦ u #♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ #» ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ ♦♦ . tt :: ♦♦
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