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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. ROAD AND SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION The legislature is much dis turbed over the propositions ,the one to put the administration of road affairs in the bands of the state rather than to permit the counties to handle local roads, the other to give the state wid er jurisdiction over the schools instead of allowing the counties the management and the re sponsibility of paying the bills. Both sides of the question are debatable, but wholly on the ground of whether we want to go farther into state socicilism or stay within individual rule. Perhaps state management may be more efficient. Whether more economical is always an open question. State mianagement of the farm would probably be more efficient than private manage ment seems to indicate in many oases. But private management seems to be more satisfactory to the owner. State management buries individual initiative and self-dependence which must be the salvation of any popular government. State management heads directly to »a dictatorship whether we realize that fact or not. Russia is an example, Italy another. Possibly they may be heading toward more efficient government than an empire or kingdom or republic, but they have yet to prove the case. In the county road case the one question that stands most decisively in the front in Moore county at the present is the status of the county pris oners. Now they are work ed on the roads by county mamagement. They do the bulk of the work. Naturally the tax payer asks if we are to keep the prisoners in jail and instead pay two cents 'a gallon on gasoline to provide money to care for our county roads. If that be the stat us the question of feeding the prisoners in idleness will follow in addition to the extra gasoline tax. Maybe the state can give us la more efficient county road system, but our road expenses at the present are largely our road bond interest and our road bond sinking fund. We have that to pay whether the state oper- >ates the county roads or not. If the prisoners can do much of the work of the road wrk without further gasoline tax that leaves the question open for discussion. We may not as a county operate as efficiently but we probablj^ operate more within our own re sources than if we surrendered our county roads to the state. The state might work the con victs, but at the present it looks as if the state is to have a fight in the m<atter of working state convicts on state roads. As a rule we talk too much and think too little. Here is a point where it is well to think more and cut out a lot of the yammer. Do we want state control of our county roads and schools? Can we trust the whole state to have a hand in our local affairs? Is is possible a community can not take care of its individual problems? Is a popular governor a failure ? Must we centralize our authority, or are we capable of operating as individual communities ? Friday, February 6. i93j^ THE PILOT, a Paper With rharacten Aberdeen, North Carolina given the eggs, which would have the sama effect, but the eggs are destroyed. Elevators are overloaded with wheat, and folks in the cities are hungry throug*h lack of the wheat that is stored. But the owners refuse to sell because the price is not s'atisfactv>ry. We are overloaded with a great plenty of every thing but everywhere that plenty is hoarded rather than permit folks who would use it to have it. California breaks eggs to re duce the number—^never con sidering that eggs oaten by hun gry folks would afford the same reduction. But that is not the point. Cali fornia wants to keep up prices, not supply eggs. In our state we have a prison problem. More prisoners arrive lat the penitentiary now in a month than twenty years ago came in a year. We are paying enormous sums of money to feed I and care for these prisoners and j will not allow them to work be- I cause a clamor goes up to prevent them earning money which the workers say m.ust be paid to free men outside the prison. So we all work to earn money to keep the prisoners idle rather than let them work to feed themselves. The penitentiary threatens to be a tremendous burden ta the taxpayers, but insist that they may not work. Funny, but if they come out of prison and 'are free again they will be allowed to work. But while in prison they must be idle. As a world we are making so much of everything that we are in the throes of one of the big gest panics we ever knew. We are so tremendously rich that we cannot find a way to get rid of our great surpluses so we are finding folks practically starv ing because of this inordinate abundance. It does not seem to occur to us to arrange a way for better distribution. Instead we put barriers in the way. We put tariffs and anti-trust laws and laws concerning competition land laws aimed to hinder everything in every way across the roads of distribution and then wonder that we are not all living on E'asy street. A funny world. We have pro duced so much of everything that we are in the depths of pov erty and lacking in room to store the surplus. What <an aggrega tion of sublimated fools mankind is. have things looking as well as we like, and the way to get them that way is to with determined intent take up the job of com pelling the best possible success and working like thunder to achieve the purpose. Things are nothing like as bad as they might be, and they are not in such fix that we can't make them better if we try with sufficient vigor and determinla- tion. Crying about the situation does not help it. Planting good seed, caring for it intelligently and making the best possible crops will settle the trouble, and nothing else will. A FAMILIAR FACE GONE The death of Miss Jackman, at Southern Pines, removes one of the most familiar faces in the Sandhills. For a number of years she has lived in the com munity, much of the time asso ciated with the restaurant which her brother carried on in a manner that gave it a name for not only a place <at which to eat, but likewise where cordial ity and friendliness prevailed. The pair of them, Miss Jackman and her brother, made friends. Everybody felt free to drop in ar Jack’s whether he wanted to eat or to ask the weather, or to see w^hat time it might be, or just like you do any place where the air is genial and the surround ings pleasant. Miss Jackman was found much of the time at the cashier’s desk, where everybody greeted her, and where she had a greeting for those Who came and went. She gave the place that home air that rests about a good Ameri can womian of whom has seen a fair proportion of the population grow up about her from the primer grade to a hand in bus iness affairs and in the house, and Who has sustained relations with them that give her a soi*t of adopted relationship. Never obtrusie, nor effusive, just a word or two in cordial fashion, the suggestion of a mother about the place at meal time, some body to give that brief welcome in a genial way that impresses I its humanity. ‘ If we could know before hand I it would seem kind of nice to so ' live that when we go folks would ! call to mind that the world had 1 been something of a pleasanter place for the influence we have exerted. Perhaps Miss Jackman never suspected that she made the place much more than <a bus iness venture. In her cordiality it was the meeting place of friends, and she was one of them. 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 GRAINS OF' SAND n ♦♦ ♦♦ 25 acres of the finest land for an Estate in this section. Located on the outskirts of Southern Pines, near Private School and the hunting country. This tract, sloping to wards the Sunset and overlooking a large area of beau tiful country. For particulars, see EUGENE C. STEVENS S Southern Pines, North CaroKna | A CLIMAX OF FOOLISHNESS Men have gone crazy over prices. We have let go the sub stance in the wild desire to grasp the shadow, and this na tion 'has arrived at the period where it might well set up a Jackasses fair. Out in Califor nia the price of eggs went down, and to make the price go higher an egg war was staged. Men in crowds threw eggs at each other until their adoration idiocv was satisfied. It is funny that while thousands of folks would be glad to eat the eggs and thus reduce the number they are not SPRING AND THE TOBACCO CROP Beyond peradventure the far mer stands before a problem that he does not know exactly how to solve. But he must make 'j try at it, and the only thing to do is to proceed in the direc tion that he knows he must travel. He can from his land grow a livelihood, even though it may be as elaborate as the last ten or fifteen years produced in some seasons. But he can’t turn his back on his farm and his es tablishment, for few other things offer any more promis ing outlet or any greater certain ty of reward. The first thing is to resolute ly, and in the most economical manner possible arrange for crops that will feed the family and the farm stock. Then with equal resolution it is wise to proceed to m'ake his cash crops, cotton, tobacco or whatever it may be. Tobacco has not sold as high this year as some years, but nothing is selling as high, 'ind it looks now as if nothing is going to high prices right away again, if ever in the life of the present generation. The outlook is that everything is to be pro duced at lower costs, which means that the things the far mer will have to buy will be ob tainable at lower figures. That will be a decided relief, for the farmer’s troubles among other things, have included an abnor- mially high cost of the things he has to buy. The price of most things he buys now are down, not yet pro portionately to the prices of the things he sells, but the balance is more pleasing than if farm prices alone were in the slough of despondency. Tobacco land cotton will bring a price, and if the crops are made at cost that do not involve too much outlay they should bring the farmer what he needs in the way of cash to buy the things he can not make at home. He should buy mighty little of anything else. The prospect may not look encouraging, but it is as well to face the music. We can’t always We often wonder how much tha public knows of the ramifications of the work of the local Kiwanis Club. We were deeply impressed at a meet ing- we attended a w^eek ago. It was the first meeting of the month, when the club transacts its business. At its other weekly meetin^^s it enjoys a program, either listening to a speak er or musical numbers or some pre arranged stunt. Reports of committees were in or der at this business meeting. We anti cipated the usual dry reports of list less committees which in so many or ganizations function in a half-hearted way. Not so here. Richard Tufts, the club’s new president, has inculcated a spirit of community usefulness into his committees. He called for the re port of the School Attendance com mittee. That committee, it seems, has for its job the improvement of the at tendance in the schools of the county. The Pilot ran a, story recently, by Superintendent of Schools H. Lee Thomas, on the tremendous waste of public funds through the “repeaters” in the schools each year. So many children do not pass their grades, and one of the chief reasons is their non-regularity of attendance. The Ki wanis Club some time ago offered a cup to the school maintaining the best average attendance in the county during the year. The committee looks after the contest. cultural Committee. This committee has for some time been promoting a Master Farmer contest annually in ■ the county. Records of the farmers , entering the contest are kept, and at I the end of the year prizes in the sub stantial form of gold are awarded the^ i winners. This year, the committee i^e- ! ported, it proposed to change the ' scheme a little, to follow along the line of Governor Gardner’s Live-at- Home program. It is going to stimu- i late the home garden, endeavor to en- ; list all the farmers of the county in ’ raising their own table foods. Letters are to go forward to these farmers, ' with offers of aid in the form of rec ommendations for the growing of all manner of garden truck. Gordan Cameron is chairman of this commit tee—a hard worker—and he has as a valuable aid the County Farm Agent, E. H. Garrison, a member of the club. Moore county will be living- at-home and self-sustaining if this committee’s plans do not miscarry. PAE T. BARNDH, Inc. But this particular committee does more, judging from the report. It hadn’t just written to the teachers asking for their reports. It had per sonally visited .practically every school in the county. Its chairman, Frank Taylor, had personally address ed the children in each of these schools. It had procured from each school a list of children delinquent in attendance, and it purposes to inves tigate these cases. Where home con ditions are the cause, and these condi tions are due to unemployment or ill ness, the School Attendance Commit tee will pass the word along to the Committee on Underprivileged Chil dren and Relief, and this committee will start to function just as efficient ly as the other. Then came a report from the Agri- We cannot begin to enumerate the activities, all for the betterment of the community, the Kiwanis Culb sponsors and, what is more, carries I through. It fathered the Moore County Educational Foundation, through which worthy young high school graduates of the county, finan cially unable to continue their educa tion beyond the public schools, are i enabled to go off to collesre through loans payable when they have begnn to cash in on their education. Some 1 fifteen Moore county youths are now pursuing higher education through the efforts of this Kiwanis enterprise. Meanwhile the club is endeavoring to I raise additional funds that more young j men and women may be launched on ! similar careers next fall, j With Kiwanis helning the youth, the farmer, the underprivileged, the poor and needy; promoting the beautifica tion of the Sandhills through its planting committees, watching need ful legislation as affecting this sec tion through its legislative commit tees, and serving as a community chamber commerce to see that the Sandhills grows systematically and integrally instead of helter skelter,— with Kiwanis keeping its weather eye on all these and more, we should worry. 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, ABERDEEN, N. C. The Page Trust company is more than a village bank on a small scale. It is a concern that operates in more than a dozen towns and cities of North Carolina, with a capital that indicates strength and service and se curity. It extends service in tall lines of banking, safe de posit, transfers of credits, the custody of savings, etc. Your business in invited. THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. S I :: ♦4 H ♦♦ n iXtttttttiiti WANTS HIGHWAY MARKED Editor of The Pilot, Aberdeen, N. C. Dear Sir: I notice in your account of fire last week you located it on the “Bethesda Road. Now as the State has built this road had been laid off and finished by the State of N. C., to be named in honor I of her very distinguished son, who j served his country and the world as our embassador to England during the j war. I regard him as a martyr to his cause as was also his chief, President Wilson himself. Both were slain by anxiety and overwork in their loved country’s cause. Now is the State has built this road leading to his tomb to be called by his name why cannot our citizens mark it so that all passing hy may see it and so foster their own State pride and patriotism? Truly “A Prophet is not without honor, save in his own coun try and among his own kin.” Let’s have an arch over the entrance to this road with the name in gold, “Walter Hines Page Road.” Respectfully, o MRS. J. H. WITHERS, Box 66, Aberdeen, N. C. February 9, 1931. EXECUTIVE MEETING OF SANDHILL POST FRIDAY There will be an executive meeting of the Sandhills Post, American Le gion, Friday, February 13, at the Pinehurst Country Club at 12:1.5 o’clock sharp. It is very important that all officers and committeemen and women be present as we have some very important business. —T. L. BLACK, Commander. WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS FOR HORSES When Webster Knight, II, picks a location for the headquarters for his new coaching establishment a knob on the Knollwood Heig'hts affords the desired conditions. Out from Bethesda road, in all directions, go good sand!-clay roads and bridle paths •and hunting trials. There on the eastern slope of Weymouth ridge are the homes of a lot of excellent neighbors and good folks. Weymouth is convenient to everything, as more people 'are discovering every day and with the new diversion of tallyho coaching Weymouth will have another attraction. Building locations on Weymouth may be procured from— s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate PATCH BUILDING Southern Pines. North Carolina :: H
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