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Friday. Jaru^lS, 1931. a'J^APITAL THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspond^ \ reduction of 10 per cent in the wafi-es and fees of all em- lovcjs of the State and its divisions, the counties and the cities and the institutions maintained by them, ap> olviug' have not been cut that nuich since December, 1929, and exclusive of those receiving less than 350 a uionth, effective July 1, 1931, islators and citizens generally. In the main and by the majority, the law makers seem to be favorable to the program. In some instances and on some items, some of them hesitate to express themselves, while a few take issue with parts of the message. Gen erally s.peaking, it is Relieved that Practically all, if not all, of the ma- and for two years only, was asked by | jor items wil be enacted into law, on Governor Gardner in his message to : the ground of their reasonableness, the Legislature Friday last. j desirability and economic features in- Governor Gardner pointed out that | eluded, practically all citizens are now on | ♦ * ♦ reduced incomes, that the employes of | The General Assemtbly, as is the Page Three gardens are scenes of daily activities of many kinds, for people have swarmed there as they swarmed into Florida during the palmiest days of that section. The sparkle of the golden sunshine on the long leaf pines dims the glory of the rustling of sea breezes among the royal palms. And out in the open day after day, stroll ers take in the fascinating scenery of the Sandhills section and enjoy the bracing atmosphere, for at Pinehurst and Southern Pines are colonized people of literary fame, artists of Nation-wide reputation, capitalists and sportsmen, so that the Winter Gardens are alive with animation. One runs upon notables in unex pected way. The editor stumbled over a well-remembered personality in Joe Mitchell Chappie, editor of The Na tional Magazine and friend of kings and presidents, who had been called to Southern Pines to entertain the Chamber of Commerce. We found money and letters uncertain, but both pesky business. He quit writing years ago and put a chronic hiatus in state literature when he did. The same thing hap pened when Marse Henry Page and Congressman Bob decided to do bus iness and say nothing about it. Ralph Page is a nephew of the elder Pages and a son of Walter Hines Page. The streak persists. The banker who ap pears to have none of the financier’s timidity about money or anything else just cuts loose. He finds rather disquieting things about banking. The troubles are two: The folks who insist upon running banks and the other folks who depos it in them. The average man who puts his money into the Irnnk does not knew that it belongs to the depos itor, Mr. Page appears to think. Neith er does the legislature, which makes the laws governing the banker’s game. The result is the unwillingness of tmm of absorbing interest, for it dealt with the feathered inhabitants of the pines and swamps, to development of an amazing variety, all presented as they appear in their native haunts and in natural colors. CKkpple insisted on presenting The Observer with a copy of the book, which is one of a sort to delight the heart of the Audubon people and to surprise the Nation at the wealth and variety of bird life in this section. This book, “A Guide to the Winter Birds of the North Carolina Sand hills,” is declared by authorities to be one of the finest illustrated and accurate books on birds that has ever been published. Said Joe, in a burst of enthusiasm, “how the late President Roosevelt, or John Burroughs and all the eminent living lovers of bird life would have enjoyed this tete-a-tete with feathered friends in North Car- new district and wilT not Comment cn | Everyone loves birds, but few the line-up. A Congressman-at-large how-closely en- has no standing and would run into I the two senators if he tried to func-' fascination of birds is en- tion for the State as a whole or into one of the Congressmen if he sought to act for any pai-ticular section. Mr. Mull believes a new district can the State and its units get their pay | custom and to meet the requirement regularly and that 85 cents will buy | that it convene daily, will hold brief up to his ears in a bird book the statesman to make laws permitt- 35 much now as did $1 in 1928. He 1 sessions each Saturday, when only ' ectimatt^s that $4,000,000 annually wlil local bills will be introduced and no be saved and demands that this sav- State-wide measures will be consid- ing be reflected in the taxpayers’ ered, and on Monday nights, thus per- bill. imitting the Legislators to spend week- Some new and important changes, I ends at home, others expected, are included in the | ♦ ♦ ♦ recommendations made by Governor Calling attention to the law that Gardner. Some of the important ones requires that the General Assembly follow: I shall,” after each 10-year census. Abolishing the present Highway redistrict the State, when additional Commission as constituted by dig- representation is permitted, Odus M. tricts, making it a State-wide body Mull, chairman of the State Demo- of a chairman and four commission- cratic Executive Committee and Cov ers at large. 1 ernor Gardner’s Executive Counsel, Increasing the gasoline tax to six j has come out stiong for redistricting cents, two cents of which, with an I hy the present General Assembly and additional $500,000 a year, to be de- j not electing a Congressman-at-large, voted to county roads, which the as has been suggested. State commission should take over While Mr. Mull has gone into the maintenance. alignment of counties for the new and Reduction of taxes on property to remaining districts, he is interested reflect the appropriations made to now primarily in provision for the the counties by the State. Establish a central purchasing agency for all State departments, in stitution and agencies, saving, he predicts. 8400,000 a year. Introduction of “short ballots” to apply to all offices created by statute thus leaving the Governor, Lieuten ant Governor, Secretary of State, be formed, largely from the largest Auditor. Treasurer, Attorney Grener.^1 Imperial Fifth, which will provide not and Sui-erintendent of Public Instruc- more than a variation of 25,000 peo- tion to be elected by the people. pie from the average of 288,000 pop- 3Iandatory consolidation of some of ulation for the 11-district division, the 100 counties and an act permitting “This General Assembly looks good ro ing flexibility in interest rates. The other trouble is the depositors’ plac ing money in a bank which his repre sentative has hogtied before the coin gets into the coffers. Of course Mr. Page’s shrewd ap peal for a more elastic interest-bear ing rate will bring rebukes from the “trybunes of the pee-e-e-p-u-1-”, but it is hot stuff on .a subject of pres ent interest. The Page Trust Com pany which has been picking up busted banks all over the state, has one in Raleigh and it has been liqui dating another. The Pages have found out something about banking as she is banked. The rollicking Ralph tells the world about it. Whether it will move anybody to offer yet again a change in the in terest rates, is not certain. There are numerous bankers in the state; but when the populistic-republican gener al assembly of 1895 cut the interest rate from 8 to 6 per cent, it wrought something that even the cantankerous Democracy of 1899 would not touch, hanced the more we know about them nor has any successor put hand upon and see them. To see them is one that sacrosanct.—Greensboro Daily thing,—but to know about them is a News. thrilling revelation of ourselves.” Then there’s Bion Butler writing S. BRYANT BURIED HERE | - j his remiscences of the Sandhills in AFTER DEATH IN RICHMOND the classy publication known as The Stanhope Bryant, 65, formerly sup- Pinehurst Outlook, which will prove erintendent of a cotton mill at Ran- entertaining contribution of these dleman, died in Richmond, Va., Sun- former barren wastes into the Winter afternoon in the home of Mrs. counties to consolidate in operation of me as a proper body for making the 1 p^rdens, which development has, Herbert McMinn, a sister, and was common jails, county homes, health division,” said Mr. Mull, referring to 1 become t e mai\e o buried Monda^ at Southern e- departments and convict camps. the 163 Democrats and seven Repub-! >^’»'-thern people, though taken as a side his wife, the forn.er Lillian Dicks, Enact the bill dra^^-n bv the Educa- Means composing it. Mr. Mull also i matter-of-fact by our home foUs.- „f Randleman, who died there ten tional Commission, providing for a un- favors redistricting as to State sen- j Editorial in The Charlotte Observer. , yeais ago. Following his wife s death, iform eight months school term, elini- ators and representatives on the basis' ®ryant moved to Winston- a em, mating expensive and arbitrary di.»- of the last census. I RALPH P.AGE’S .\RT1CLE I engaging in business there for a time, trict line.s and decreasing spending « ♦ » j I He then mo\ed to Atlanta enteriiio asrencies from nearly 1,400 to 129. With only 18 full-fledged farmers in ' ails banking in North Caro-, the insurance business. He returned to Correct anv equalities that may he both houses of the body, the average i Hna is the subject of an interview Richmond three years ago in failing found to exist in the Workmen’s member of the present General As- "ith Ralph W. Page, of Aberdeen, health and had since made his home Compensation Law. sembly is seen as a lawyer, an alum- banker and literanian who finds> i there. Reduction of 60-hour work week to nus of the State University and a 55 hours, prohibit night work in in- Methodist, while probably 10 others dustry for women under 18 years of combine farming with manufacturing, age, ar.d require children ibetween merchandising, banking or other vo- 14 and 15 years of age to complete cation. the sixth grade before being permilt- The Senate has 35 lawyers out of ed to work. the 50, the House 58 out of 120. The Submit to voters at next election University has 34 alumni in the Sen- the question of calling a Constitution- ate and 39 in the House. In the Scn- al Convention, to be held some time : ate are 20 Methodists, 12 Episcopal- in 1933, to revise the Constitution. , ians, eight Baptists, five Presbyter- Postpone quadriennial assessmeiit ians, two Christians, one Methodist of property for taxation, now start- Protestant; in the House are 36 Meth- ing, until the beginning of 1933, be- odists, 25 Baptists, 18 Presbyterians, cause of the unsettled land value sta- 14 Episcopalians, two Lutherans and tus. one each o^ Christians, Methodist * * * Protestants, Maravians and Jews. Governor Gardner’s message to the Twenty-seven Senators have ha.i General Assembly, containing some previous legislative experience, as »e\v and unexpected recommendations, have 60, or half of the present House is causing varied comment from Leg- members. PINEHURST LUMBER YARDS Pinehurst, N. C. May be you are not doing much in the i| way of building, but you are from time to time doing a little repairing, or enlarging, or alteration. Always when you want'material for such purposes you find the Pinehurst I Lumber Yards Ready. When you figure on your new job, or want to plan for the future we can help you on estimates of costs with informa tion as to qualities. In addition to the things other dealers have we usually have those other rare things that most others do not have. The demands of this community call for a wid er assortment, and higher character in many building lines. That is the reason why you find a difference at— PINEHURST LUMBER YARDS Pinehurst, N. C. THE NEW FORD Everything yon want or need in a motor ear FROM THE STATE PRESS r OCAL FEDERAL RESERVE ^ olina has been publicly advised, in the realm of motor transportation ^ Uie capital of Montgomery control. Yet it seems but simple jus- • oiifiiy was without a bank just a tice. If another railroad is not al- ■'lay. It c;ole financial institution clos-^owed to enter a certain territory be- {“d d-.,ois one day, for ‘protection of cause that section already has what '*ep" t r.-,” and next day banking fa- are judged to be adequate transpor- Wf-io arranged for by the tation facilities, why should bus oi i rust Company, opening , a i truck lines, which offer just as ef- here. Around that section of fective competition, be permitted to the Page bankers operate start operations? - in the nature of a local The Florida court, touching upon ' Reserve system.—Charlotte the inconsistency of such a situation, predicts that “if the railroads are — ■ , serving adequately when motor truck \ UAILROAD VICTORY lines apply for permits the time will come when all passenger and freight. FESTIVAL A Most Excellent New Novel by STRUTHERS BURT Will be on Sale in the SANDHLLS BOOK SHOP SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. I January 23rd, A. D., 1931 n Pa.L ■ hra-:r Th.- ;• th Vi; 11' bn S'*■■ H H mmm Ko- lack ww n S n ing interest in the plight of except heavy, balky, low-grade, basic ' oads and «the growing con- commodities will pass from the rai - ^ that they must be given some roads, which own property and .pay « >m the drain of increasing taxes; to motor lines which operate i truck competition, in which over highways built and maintained >ent regulation is patiently ' by the public for public use. ur- , -serves to focus attention ; ther, the decision suggests that the ^ipon a development in Florida where I law be so construed that permits o Supreme court has quashed a truck lines would be granted only to a motor truck line j)arall- where the public was elin^ Iho Seaboard Air Line railway I quately served by established car- Tallahassee to Jacksonville on I riers, whether rail or motor vehicles, g’^oands that the railroad was ade- | —Greensboro Dally News. ^ua ly serving the territory in ques-; tion. court’s action, invalidating a previously issued *by the state ^^ilroad commission, opens a new '^Id, at least so far as North Car- GOLDEN HOURS It is no longer the Sandhills, for that region has developed into the Winter Gardens of the South and the Highland Pines Inn and Cottages (WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS) SOUTHERN PINES SEASON NOVEMBER TO MAY Highland Pines Inn with its Splendid Dining Room Service and its Cheerful Homelike Atmosphere Cat«rs to the Require ments of those Occupying Winter Homes in the Pine Tree Sec tion. The Hotel is Situated on Weymouth Heights (Massachu setts Avenue) Amid Delightful Surroundings. Grood Parkimg Space is Available for Motorists. All Features of First Class Hotels are Included at Highland Pines Inn. Best of Everything. Summer Hotiel: THE INN, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful, Miehififan. CREAMER & TURNER, Proprietors The more you see of the new Ford, the more you realize that it brings you everything you want or need in a motor car. • • . And at an unusually low price. Its substantial beauty of line and color is ap parent at a glance. Long, continuous service em phasizes the value of its simplicity of design and the high quality that has been built into every part. The new Ford accelerates quickly and it will do 55 to 65 miles an hour. It is an easy-riding car because of its specially designed springs and four Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorb ers. It has fuUy enclosed four-wheel brakes and the added safety of a Triplex shatter-proof glass windshield. Operation and up-keep costs are low and it has the stamina and reliability that mean thousands of miles of uninterrupted service. See the nearest dealer and have him give you a demonstration ride in the new Ford. Check up every point that goes to make a good automobile and you will know it is a value far above the price. The New Ford Tudor Sedan I.OW PRICES OF FORD CARS »435 to *660 F. O. B. Detroit, plus freight and delivery. Bumpert and apare tire e*trm at amall cost. You can purchase a Ford on economical term* through the Authoriaed Ford Fimance Plan* of the Vtuvertal Credit Company. a
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