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a 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 EJditors Subscription Rates: One Year - $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .60 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. A LOGICAJ. TAX SUGGESTION From the grocers of Charlotte comes the most logical proposi tion regarding taxes that seems to have reached the surface in this blind-man’s bluff that has been for some time in progress. The grocery men propose a flat tax of one-twentieth of one per cent in sales at the point of whol- sale distribution, with an increas ing percentage as the volume of sales grows larger. That is the whole story. No assessments on anybody, no tax collections here and there in dribs or buck- etfulls, no nonsense, no favorit ism, just a percentage"tax at the fouintiain head of distribution, and there the whole ijhing stops. One-twentieth of one per cent THE PILOT, a Paper With f!haracter. Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, January 16, 1931 Frid above tftiat is the mandate to ap portion the state into districts that each district may have the representation to w^hich it is en titled in Congress, and t^hat no district shall be so placed that it is unfairly represented as compared with any other dis trict. Under the new census each 290,000 people of North Caro lina are entitled to a‘ Congress man. To continue the present districts, in some of which some- THE GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE Governor Gardner's message to the legislature is about What thinking men expected from a practical executive and adviser. It is free from store-box oratory, and in no way a play to the grahd stand, but on the contrary a dignified and studied state- . ment of the conditions confront- thing like 400,000 people have Carolina in the world one representative, while others of not much more than 'half that number have equal representa tion is an unfair deal. It was unfortunate that one member of the legislature re corded himself as saying that he is for i^he best interests of the Democratic party in this affair. A member of the legislature as well as every citizen of the state owes as his first duty a consideration of the best inter ests of the state. If the Demo cratic party is not in line with the best interests of the state, then it is time for the party to get there. It is party cowardice that is not excusable to try to make any political capital what soever of this situation, for if the plain mandate of the law is to be evaded in the hope of po litical advantage the Democratic party must be on mighty thin ice. But that is not the case. A party that 'has all the eleven members in Congress has no ex cuse for shenanegan in the ef fort to hold the political power of the state. Mr. Mull takes the would gather in a whale of a j fair stand, and he is not the lot of money on the sales in i least afraid of the cars. North Carolina, yet so trifing-j ly small on any one thing that THE DOMINIE it would not annoy anybody.! OF THE TRENCHER And it would permit and re quire every one of us alike to pay our honest proportion of the taxes required. If John Smith. | Today, as of yesterday, and as “Be seated all, draw up and then Fall to, like valiant trencher men. the millionaire sJhould buy a million dollars worth of stuff in the year he would pay his proportion of taxes on his pur chases just as the man who buys a box of crackers and a can of sardines would pay his share. The tears shed over the poor man’s percentage would be so few in number l^hat his taxes on his purchases would not pay for the salt in his tears. will be tomorrow, ‘‘men are only boys grown tall; hearts don’t change much after all.'' No hero of childhood ever clove to the cockles of youth more than that old Friar Tuck, who could make a venison pasty with any man, and say fhis orisons between times; and so good old Saint Andy Creamer spreads his ta bles and summons to a dinner the burghers and the layity and One of the troubles with a i the priests, that as men garnish sales tax when one is mention- j their spirits with bread and sav ed is that too many people be-1 ory meats they may think . of gin to figure a cent on each j the duties they owe the church, package of five-cent chewing ■ the great mother of civilization, gum., or eacfh bottle of soda; knowledge and progress. water, or on anything that can ' It is of more than passing | 'Veffislature 'and"" the v>o cnnrrr/icj'fckrj "Dn-i- 4-r\ fr«v n 1 ne legisiaLure anu tne be suggested. But to tax a five-1 consequence when men go out cent pacage so much as a cent of their way to espouse the cause wide transition from yesterday toward tomorrow. It is not mere ly that we have come through a war that presents us new prob lems. For years a steady trend toward new methods ’has pre vailed, and, as the governor says, we are at the cross-roads today. We are expanding from a rural state organization in which neighbors and friends in a mod est way carried on local and state government, the influences be ing of short range and the conse quences not very grave. But to day a state of over three million people with diversified motives highly industrialized, and tense ly engaged in efforts of many kinds, look witih more vital nec essity on the administration of state government, which is af ter all no more or less than the relations between man and man. Steadily we are heading to ward state socialism, although we do not admit the name. Indiv idual control and responsibility is giving way to state and fed eral domination into the remot est local affairs. It is a world-old fight and possibly is no nearer a solution today than in the days of the Pharaos. Nevertheless with the magnitude of our oper ations and the clamor for money and help from the state and fed eral treasuries it is a feature of government that is growing more conspicuous. The govern or takes cognizance of the situ ation, and offers his suggestions. W5iat action will be taken de pends on the attitude of the leg islature, but undoubtedly some thing will be set in motion that will have its influences far into t?ie future. The ultimate out come must be a new state con stitution, carefully written and on broad ground. That may be yet far in the future or close by, but it is the first decisive step, because it is basic. It will gov ern the others. The governor recommends, and in the main it seems, wisely. voices is robbery. It should be taxed a fraction so small that it could of righteousness and to throw toward the pulpit the influence from home will consider his rec ommendations. Out of all will come much intelligent consider- ! ation, and from that will come will be carefully discussed by the broader minds of the legis lature as well as by those more highty, and before it is dismiss ed with the close of the session it will have started many lines of thought th^t will be of use to the state. It deserves careful reading by every thoughtful cit izen. THE VIRTUE OF NECESSITY Th”e county commissioners have made some reductions in county expenditures. They have not yet attacked the big prob lem, for the items that Ihave been pruned so far are the small ones, and the saving of a few hundred dollars a year will not make a mark on the outlay of the nearly half a million dollars that this county is called on an nually to pay. An annual lopping off of $4,000 would reduce the tax rate only about one per cent from w<hat it is now, and much more cutting must come before that one per cent is reached. The commissioners have shown that they are anxious to reduce taxation and they are probably digging much deeper into iihe problem. We might as well make up our minds to a few things. The big costs of this county are in the bonds and their interest, the roads and the schools. The bonds are not sub ject to paring down. That leaves the sdhools and the economies must be sought, if any are to be found, there. If is safe to assume that the extend ed plan of road construction is not to be extensively continued. It is doubtful if much new road building will be favored right away. Probably some disappoint ment is to face t)he county in the matter of road expansion. Possi bly the commissioners may un dertake a closer scrutiny of school expenditures. Not that The Pilot is proposing such steps, for the attitude of the people, and their willingness to pay, are yet to be made known. But if the insistence on'tax re duction is carried much farther it is rather apparent that the two big items of cost will be the next attacked. The commission ers have no easy and no pleas ant task ahead of them. What they do will be done through a sense of the necessity of the case, and in whatever they do should have the approbation of the people. You can't scatter big gifts from, an empty pocket book. If as a county we -want things we must pay and if we don't umiiiiiiitnaiTrinnTUTTTmTTmmnnnmnmmTTnTTnTmTmTnmnnHiiniiiiiiuii^ 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 :: I I The longer a man goes without LIFE INSURANCE the more he needs it, the less chance he has of getting it, and the more it costs when he does get it. The time to take out Life Insurance is now. :: EUGENE C. STEVENS Representative, Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada Southern Pines, North Carolina tm. T. BARNDN, Inc. Insurance of All Kinds —At The— Citizens’ Bank Building ■ Southern Pines, N. C. action, some of it wise, want to pay we must be content bought I amp e of their occupations and ^ ^ j v,hat^e can get in return iCreamer, Joe Chappks revamped later on. The for ^.^hat we will pay. The com- ""t af-' apostle ot friend mess, a regis- ^^cument is not one that can missioners are confronted with be dismissed with an off-hand the job of determining what this a H and the counties would ask for. of the cloth, of the banner that The sales tax scares us because has led the hosts of men for near we have been figuring out how ! two thousand years in their opinion, for it is broader than shall be. Our job is to kick as, ^ that. It is a thought provoker, little as possible and to make 1 to be carefully and thoroughly the fewest possible demands on ^ race. Andrev/ Creamer we could put it on a few selected, climb toward a broader human- it'is not a command, them if we are not willing to yctims, allowing all the others, ity, inviting the multitude about is a suggestion, and as such pay. to escape, and that sort of ajhim to indicate the exalted sta- sales tax would be as iniquitous ■ tion in which the church is held as the present favoritism in | and to encourage it in its great- taxation >yhere the levies are est of all tasks, the uplift of the made against those who seem to be the easiest victims. tells the The Charlotte grocers _ who ] community that we all owe to propose a flat and universal the great moral and religious small percentage on everything | leader a backing and support sold have hit the idea and prob- j greater than we are giving it. ably a lot of merchants would j On the results of the work of find that such a tax would re- the church hangs the future of lieve them of a lot of the spec- the race and the nation, and on ial schemes now in vogue which the people, those out of the skin them here and there pro-1 church as well as those in the mis.cuously, but which under a church, turns the success of the general sales tax would be a- bolished. Tire only fatr tax is one that falls alike on everybody in proportion to ability to pa\% and nothing tells better the a- bility to pay than the ability to buy. The small buyer would be a sTtiall payer of tax. All the complicated schemes would end, and justice would come as near prevailing as it ever can in a motley organization like govern ment. STAND BY CHAIRMAN MULL 0. M. Mull, chairman of the Democratic executive committee of the .v rte, ex'^cuiiv(3 coun sel to the govtrnor, has declar ed emphatically in fav<>r of re- districting the state. His stand is so logical that he deserves the emphatic backing of every citizen. Mr. Mull says there is no place for a Congressman-at- large, for he represents nothing, no district, no state, for the state has its two Senators and the several districts have their own individual representatives. So such a general Congressman is an abstract nonentity. But far work the dhurch stands for and urges. It is of much importance that the business world in sucn emphatic manner impresses on the community the fact that the church aims and the churdh ef forts must be sustained by all of us, for we are all the beneficiar ies of all that is good no matter what the origin. Possibly Cream er, this domine of the table is functioning as successfully in lighting a lamp of rig^hteousness as the man who in'his pulpit is holding the front line of attack on evil. For Creamer is recruit ing in a new field and bringing up the reserves. He is defond- ‘ng the flanks and he knows the character of the enemy he en counters there. Aiding and abetting Friar Creamer was another missionary in this novel field of home work, Tom Kelley, the Chantey-man of the occasion, with choruses and canticles, a worker like Creamer, another unattached disciple, steeped in human kind- ness and riding herd on the m.av- erlcks and doing good on many occasions where other influences do not reach. GRAINS OF' SAND The Governor’s message is construc- | You can almost set your watch by tive and pretty complete, BUT— i-Tom Sparrow. Tom wanders into the Where is our pet mania ? Bryan Drug store each morning at the . same hour, sits down at a table with What good will the enactment of; ^ morning paper and proceeds to do all of his recommendations into law i crossword puzzle. do if none of us are here to enjoy! the benefits ? AND— j All records in the history of organ- j ized protection were broken in North We aren’t going to be here if Tom, | ^^^®hna last year with a total of 3,- Dick and Harry, Minnie, Mabel and ^ forest fires reported from the 45 Maude, without regard for compa-i during the ten tency, sobriety or sanity, are per-1 *^®^ths ending October 31. The total mitted to operate motor vehicles on | area was 278,057 acres; esti- the highways of North Carolina with-1 damages, $514,741. The rec ord drought of the year, which re^ suited in an average deficiency of 13 inches of rain in the state, was re sponsible. Be careful of your cigarettes and matches when in the woods. Don’t throw them carelessly from your au tomobile. Successors To PAUL T. BARNUM S. B. RICHARDSON, INC. THE PAGE TRUST COMPAOT, ABERDEENr N. C. She was a widow. She made two mistakes. When she bought her lot and built her house she neglected to have her deed recorded. She kept her deed in her house. Both these mistakes were fatal. The house burned down. The man she bought the lot from died. The lesson from the pitiful tragedy is to record your deed the day you get it, and then as soon as it comes back from the recorder’s office put it in a' safe deposit box. Safe boxes at small cost are available at the— THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. H out a license. The automobile death rate increases each year. Last year it "broke all pre vious records. But there isn’t a word in the Gov ernor’s message advocating an oper ator’s license law, or increase in the State Highway Patrol. U Radio sets in use in North Carolina ^ ^ ^ ^ ' ! July 1st, 1930 numbered approximate- 0 tempera, 0 mores, Oh Governor ,y 92,000; in the country, about l3,- Gardner! Are we to sit by and watch 470 roa a ruthless slaughter on the roads of j ’ your commonwealth for another yearj our next Congresman, J. Walter without lifting a fmger?. j Lambeth, thinks President ! needs a vacation. Hoover He saw him in We have just learned of a smaller | Washington and gained the impres daily newspaper than our Sandhills sion that the President is breaking Daily News. It is called the Torres Straits Daily Pilot, is published on physically under the cares of office, ‘‘and that it would be best for him Thursday Island in the south Pacific, :tnd for the country if he should take wh^fere lives a. population of 2,000 ' a thirty days vacation. The President aouls. The staff consists of one man,] is an overworked man and refuses to who is compositor, linotype operator, | spare himself in the many burdens printer, reporter, editor and business manager. The paper is three columns in width, eleven inches long, costs 25 cents a week or twelve cents a copy. that fall upon the chief executive.” And Congress, particularly the Senate, isn’t making life any easier for him as the days roll along. ♦♦ Weymouth Heights ■ Southern Pines More horses coming, more folks locat ing on Weymouth Ridge. More people look ing out for rural holdings in the country adjacent to the expanding Weymouth com munity. No more land being made but more folks wanting a slice of what is already provided. You don’t go through the filling sta tion district to get to Weymouth Heights. Out Massachusetts avenue, out Penn sylvania avenue, out Connecticut avenue lihrough the best home section of Southern Pines and through Weymouth pine forests clear to Fort Bragg. s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate PATCH BUILDING Southern Pines. North Carolina A salai ploy< the insti' plyir that excli $50 and ; Gove the I Go praci redui the i regu! as nr estim be Si ing bill. So other recor Gard folio‘s Ab Conn tricts of a ers a Inc cents addit voted State maim Re( refle( the c Es\ agen< stitut predi Int apply thus ant < Audii and S tion 1 Ma ihe 1( count comrr depai Enj tional iform inatiJ trict agen( Co: foum Comj Re. o5 h( dustr age, 14 ai the s ed to Sul the q al C( in 19 Po of p] ing, f aus€ tus. Go Gene new is ca L Tr (’OUTI day ('d d depa f’liti bran the omc 1’ ede 'bse Md the • icti J elie ■>us J^'ove lacTci 'Pon I he pern eling from the g quat< tion. Th perm ^‘ailr( ^ield.
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