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Page Two ’ THE PILOT Published evSry 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. REALIZING THE JOB AHEAD The planning that is going on in connection with the territory between Pinehurst, Knollwood and Southern Pines, and the improvement in the landscape projects along the State High way No. 50 through Southern Pines, foreshadow a big revolu tion in the conception of the peo ple toward the appearance of the Sandhills country. In two ways this bold attack on the pro blem of making this country a more pleasant place to live, keep ing in mind all the time Struth- ers Burt and Jack Boyd, is com mendable. One is from the al truistic view point, and the other is the material side. We are com plaining of taxes in town and county and state. But if we m?ke here the pleasant place to live that the apostles of more at tractive outdoor life advocate we are encompassing that other dream of caring for our taxes and public expenditures and our material community advance'^ One of the chief occupations of this neighborhood is taking care of winter visitors and residents, and nothing could be more in teresting, for those people take an active hand in doing the main thing the community wants done, which is to further im prove the conditions that create that more pleasant feature. newcomers are improvers. They employ skilled architects and landscape engineers to add to the delight of the country and town home. They join in the b'lr- den of public affairs of all sorts, taxes included, and the truth shows that they are among the leaders in the payment of taxes and other funds that go for the public good. Most of the new comers are people of good ideas in community advancement. Practically the development of the Sandhills has rested on the shoulders of the folks who have come here to make their homes. This brings up a duty that is owed the newcomers and pros pective newcomers, as they are to be considered from every view point that can add to their enjoyment and profit. In this limited territory around the vil lages is no longer a vast acreage open for settlement. Therefor^e what is to be had should be a matter of much study, and of adaptability to the conditions that will get the best results in the best hands. The »sale of any piece of ground merely as a sale of something for a price should not be a dominant motive. Every acre that is bought by any new comer should be an acre that will best serve his needs, no mat ter who may want to sell. Above all no man should be urged into buying anything that is not likely to permit the development that he has in mind or would like to accomplish. Merely to get any man’s money is the poorest policy possible. The matter ot wisdom is not to get his money, but to get his help as a com munity maker on the broad basis of making this still more a pleas ant place to live. To do this he must be placed to the best and most satisfactory advantage, and received into a cordial, fellow ship, and his counsel and ener gies invited in the work that will be pleasing to him as well as useful, and at the same time useful to all of us. A lot of good folks are com ing this way in the near future, and they will be a help and salva tion in the tasks that have been laid out for Sandhills develop ment. But they must be given the best that is possible in every way that they get the value for their money and effort and that they may be encouraged and re paid for what they do. A dozen or a hundred or two or three hundred good neighbors here and there around us would be a THE PILOT, a Paper With Character. Aberdeen, North Caroliiia Friday, February fi. xggj wonderfully valuable asset in carrying out the dreams enter tained for the Sandhills. But dis satisfied newcomers or anybody who has been exploited is a lia bility. THE DEATH OF MILTON BREWER The death of Milton Brewer at his home in Vass takes away one of the original members of The Pilot force, as he had been with the paper from its start un til his health reached such a con dition that he had to give up act ive work. In his connection with the paper as well as during his lifetime in the county he estab lished a circle of friends that was one of the most valuable as sets a man can gather about him, for that friendship recog nized him as a man of unusual character, and dealt with him ac cordingly. Milton Brewer was sound in his integrity, consider ate, kindly, steadfast in his work and his loyalty wherever he owed allegiance, and through these qualities he made a name wherever he was known. For years he had been the vic tim of affected health, which made his work more of a task for him than it would have been for a man of nomal vigor. But he could always be depended on to carry out what was allotted him, and with his assignment he added a little for good meas ure from his own inclination and sense of fairness. He kept pretty closely in touch with the things that moved in this county, and had wide acquaintance over the entire district, which was valu able because it w^as the acquaint ance of a man w^ho was regard ed by the people with trust and confidence. In his younger days he had been about the country some, and as he was a reader and a philosopher he was an in teresting companion anywhere. He was a good type of that sound rural life that sees things with a clear vision, weighs af fairs with an eye that is capa ble of judging accurately, and deals with neighbors in accord ance with that law of fairness that is known as the golden rule. A good citizen, a good neighbor and a good friend. oline tax, and the poor man pays it, is ten times as much as a half cent tax on other sales, and the poor man does not seem to fall over dead when he pays that five cents tax on his gas. Why would he worry over a half cent tax? That is not as much as the difference in prices in any two stores in any place. WHAT IS A DEMOCRAT A correspondent signing his name “A Perplexed Democrat,” writes The Pilot to ask what is a Democrat, and then he answers his question with a multitude of entangling statements that leave no doubt of his perplexity. He appears to be a man of some age, or at least of considerable study of the earlier histor>^ of the country as well as of other governments, for he compres the Democratic theories of anti-civ- il w^ar days with the conditions of today which he refers to as definitely socialistic inclinations, with much progress directly into the socialist camps. He asks, “What could be more positive socialism than the step taken by the present legislature in plac ing the school system in the hands of the state government, or the proposition to put i;he roads there likewise? And what is it but socialism that gives the state, and the nation behind it, control of health, of the chari ties, such as farm relief, drouth relief, and such other things that in the past were left to in dividual initiative and action?” I He points to the farm board, the tariff, which While a repub- ! ican form of worship of mater- i ialism is strictly a socialist ef- I fort to extend the power of gov ernment to bulk human ^forts. He argues that this slough of I high taxation in which we find ; ourselves is socialism carried to an extreme and not government j at all, for the actual need of : money for government consti- ' tutes but a very limited demand on the people for taxes. In state and nation he says billions are collected for taxes that are ap plied to social purposes wholly, and in many cases, as in the sale I of lands for taxes, property is i confiscated to procure money for j socialist ends. Unfortunately The Pilot is unable to answer his question as to what is a Democrat, refeiTing ‘ of course to the present signifi cation of the word as to party t affiliation, for Democrat and Re publican are so closely allied in their standing that one is prac tically interchangeable with the ■ other in that the purpose of their existence seems to be to j secure office, and that the polit- i ical principles of the parties are indistinguishable one from the other. The man’s questions :'.re worth thinking about, especially by those who are pronounced in their protests of extreme loyal ty to their parties. What is a Democrat these days, and wherein does one differ from anything else in political align ment, and especially where is a Democrat different from a so cialist? GAMMACK & CO. Members New York Stock Exchange Pittsburgh Stock Exchange Main Office 39 Broadway, New York CHy SOUTHERN PINES—NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE Telephones: Southern Pines 6751—Pinehurst 3821 ! I i GRAINS OF" SAND WHERE WILL YOU GET THE MONEY When a Charlotte man read that the legislature had enacted a bill to take the schools of North Car olina from the counties and un dertake to be responsible for a six-months’ school term he ask ed, “Where will you get the money ?” That is a question that now is discussed. One aim was to reduce county taxes on lands. But it is now proposed to levy a state tax of twenty cents on the hundred dollars value of land, making the state the tax col lector from the land owner in stead of the county, and making the state the operator of the schools instead of the county. Now let that proposition soak into the heads of the Moore county land-owners who have asked for reduction of their land taxes, but not for a possible reduction on one hand and a pos itive additional assessment in the form of state tax on the other. When that thing is nois ed about this county it will be interesting to listen to the howi th^t will arise. The trouble comes from the attempt to shift taxation from one group to another, and with out that sufficient fair distribu tion of taxation among all per sons able to pay, which is the only legitimate method of taxa tion. A sales tax has been much talked about, but, against it is that mistaken plea that the poor man would have to pay it. The poor man pays but little of any thing, for he has little to pay with. The man of means does the paying in all cases. But it is easy to figure the simple effoct of a sales tax if we don't fog our eyes trying to shift every thing to some one else. Th^’s state has a production of man ufactures, farm products, fisher ies, etc., of about a billion and a half or a billion and three quarter dollars. That is our in come as a people. Half a cent on each dollar of that income would afford over seven millions dol lars for the schools, and would hurt no one. It would be one cent tax on each two dollars we buy. It is not necessary to cloud the situation by any entanglem_ents with other conditions. Just put n tax of half a cent on the things we all buy, and collect it at the source as the g*is tax is collected, and nobody will protest. The gas Country weeklies are, as a rule, pretty dull, says Sherwood Anderson, noted author who entered the weekly newspaper field in Virginia a few years ago. They need new blood and offer a rare opportunity to young men and women with imagination and abil ity. So strongly does the novelist believe this that he is going out to talk about it to young collegians who have a “hunch” they can write. “In all our colleges are these young sters who object to becoming cogs in huge organizations,“ he says. “I’m arranging a series of college lectures for next winter and Pm going to talK to them about the counti*y weekly which, if rightly run, isn’t a news paper at all in the daily sense.” “The colorful young fellows with a writing hunch who once became coun try editors are now drifting to the cities. Frequently they enter news- ipaper work but they seldom write what they want. I think they are miss ing more than they gain.” One principal reason is that the readers of these small town papers seem satisfied with what they get They are so vitally interested in their communities and their neighbors’ do ings they think if their paper is tell ing them that Mrs. Jones entertained the school teacher at supper and Jim Smith killed a hog it is serving its purpose. 25 acres of the finest land for an Estate in this section. Located on the outskirts of Southeni Pines, near Private School and the huhting country. This tract, sloping to wards the Sunset and overlooking a large area of beau tiful country. For particulars, see EUGENE C. STEVENS Southern Pines, North Carolina tttn tsnmittmxu PAE T. BARim, Inc. Anderson believes the country w^eek- ly offers opportunity of escape frcm the illusion of bigness for talented persons, with ambition to write, who enter newspaper work to get a start. “Individualism, now v;anishing in the daily press, has a distinct place in the small-town weekly. To men with courage, imagination and love of life the job offers an intimate toucn with life, a chance to study people and a great deal of pleasure.” A country weekly should be a lead er, not just a recorder. It should sug gest, stimulate, promote; it should have ideas of its own; it should raise the tone of the community, show up the evils, laud the good deeds. It I should give its readers “something to j chew' on” in each issue. I The very fact that Mrs. Jones wants I to read about Mrs. Smith provides the greatest opportunity for beneficial ! community service that exists in America. If in reading about Mrs. Smith Mrs. Jones finds in her country weekly something constructive to think about, something educational, entertaining, uplifting, she is becom ing, each week, a better citizen. And the country editor is doing his job «ts it should be done. U tx t: n ♦♦ H a ♦♦ n S 8 ♦* H ♦♦ n Insurance of All Kinds —At The— Citizens’ Bank Building Southern Pines, N. C. Successors To PAUL T. BARNUM S. B. RICHARDSON, INC. THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, We agree with Fellow-editor An derson on the need for new blood and new ideas in most country weeklies. Most of those we receive from var ious parts of the country are just thrown together, with no editing or make-up. Sherwood Anderson bought tw^o weeklies in Virginia a few years ago, the Marion Democrat ar.d the Smyth County News. He deserted the liter ary colony of New York, moved to Marion, set out to run his papers. His shop, like the traditional comer dru^ store, is a community center. There is a ping-pong table, a free circu lating library, and almost always a free-for-all discussion. ABERDEEN, N. C. Spring time means the time to get your deeds, insurance policies, valuable papers and documents of every sort into a safe deposit box in the Page Trust Com pany vaults. Don't take any chances with fire, theft or loss by keeping such things around the house. In arranging your banking relations your account is invited by one of the strongest institutions in this section with a record of senice, safety and wide contact with business. THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. And one of the strangest things about his papers is: One is rapid Re publican, one virulently Democratic. Each has its own political editorial writer. More Salaries Pruned by County Commission At the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners held on Mon day of this week, further steps were taken to reduce the expenses of the county by cutting the salaries of two more of the public servants. The offi cial record is in the following words: “Upon motion of W. H. Currie, sec onded by E. C. Matheson and duly carried, it is ordered that the report of the committee composed of W. H. Currie, chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, John W. Gra ham, chairman *of the County Board of Education, and L. L. Marion, chair- j man o fthe County Board of Road j Commissioners, cutting the salary of j the officers hereinafter named be and the same is hereby ratified and adopt ed and it is ordered that the salary of Miss Maida Jenkins, County Auditor, be reduced from $50 per month to $35 per month and John C. Muse, an nual audit expense, be reduced from S200 per month to $125 per month, these reductions to begin as of Feb ruary 1, 1931.” It was ordered that Henry Muse ^e exempted from paying poll tax for the year 1930 on account of to tal disability, that Pete Goins’ fam- I ! ily be allowed $10. per month for sup port, that Martin Barber be allow^ed $15 per month for support, and that Charlie Phillips be allowed $10 for the month of February on account of ' total disability. It was ordered that i Charlie Jeters be admitted to the * county home. JANUARY WEATHER January averaged just a little cold- I er in the Sandhills than normal, the month’s record showing an average temperature of 43-8 against the nor mal mean of 44 and the 45.5 of Jan uary, 1930. Against the thirty-five year averages, maximum 54-6; min imum 33-2, average of 44 for a com parison, January of 1931 gave us tem peratures of 57-5 maximum, 30-2 minimum and an average of 43-8, the maximum being above the average and the minimum below. The record for January, 1930 showed maximum 32-9 and average 45-5. Rainfall for the month was 3.7 inches, .28-100 abovi normal and above the record of 1930, 1.20 inches falling on the 5th and 1.05 inches o nthe 12th with 2 inches of snow on the 14th. Our warmest day. the 29th, registered 71, and the cold- the 5th, 15. Seventy days were clear, nine partly cloudy and five days I more or less rainy. n :: n :: n n !« ♦♦ ON Wepiouth Heights Southern Pines A Territory Already Planted to Trees The movement to set pine trees all over the Sandhills is one of the best things I ever inaugurated. Fortunately, however, for Weymouth Heights, Nature has been on that job up there from the morning of creation. On Weymouth Heights are still hun dreds of the original long-leaf pine never touched by an axe. Small pines are coming everywhere on Weymouth. Dogwoods whiten the spring with their blossoms, and a variety of other hard wood trees are abundant. The Weymouth roads are the most de lightful that can be imagined. Weymouth Heights for Home Locations. s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate PATCH BUILDING Southern Pines. North Carolina
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