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Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With riiaracter, Aberde«i, North Carolina Friday, Febiuary 27.1931 THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina* gested fhat the convict should be kept on the farms alone, where he would not come into . ELSO C. , j is now tending'. The growing in-1 matter of the offense than of BION H. BUTLER, Editor | horses, with the better | law. Law is all right in its in- JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT j knowledge of the suitability of tents in most ways, but in its RALPH PAGE j Sandhills for horses, is one fact it is not venerated as it Contributing Editors | certain forecasts of the once was. Subscription Rates: I future. Law is a human creation as Q y ^ * ^2.001 Twenty-two cars of people for 1 far as our statutes go, with the Months $1^001 community, coming in three j character of the offense deter- T^ee Months !so sections of one train, makes some 1 mined by the opinion of the men in other occupations? low down in the scale as some liberties and by common con- folks have suspected, and it will sent concluded to drop from the ^ be a big one if one or two of the list of crimes many of the acts , ^ * leading years are expected. It 1 that were years ago regarded as | competition with free ’^.bor. may stand close to a record if the ; severe infractions of law. To tell | Which provokes a smile. Why continued arrival of new folks; the truth law is no longer the should the convicts compete with holds out the way the movement | test of crime, but rather the the farm worker any more than any other worker? Why'is not' the farmer as much a member of the state’s industrial fabric as any other individual? Why should the farmer be made the victim of industrial competition | if sudh a thing is objectionable to any one any more than men 8 GAMMACK & CO. Members New York Stock Exchangre Pittsburgh Stock Exchange of us look again at the cards and Address all communications to The! see what the movement means. Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. TEN PER CENT THEATRE TAX The seriousness Evidently it is not the sign to awaken much alarm. THE OWNERS OF THIS COUNTRY When we are drawing a line who wrote the law. But now- Is it that the farmer has been adays we do not accept the old ; t?ie goat so long that custom has ideas of what law should cover! fixed the sign on his neck, and in the relation of man to man. | that when the melons are cut We recognize the rig»ht of the they are all given to some one law only so far as law pre-1 else than those who work on the scribes the transgression of one; farm ? Or is it the climax of a man on another. What is actual niarrowness that breaks out at transgression is ii^ these days times in all human procedure? between big business and the people it may be informative to! differently interpreted than it Probably the farmer is facing of some note that the people generally | was years ago. So court, judge, a keener competition than any things is humorous. The ten per | ^re big business. The Forbes cent tax proposed by the legisla- Magazine has been looking up ture on admissions to moving picture theatres is one of the funny tragedies. The theatre is set down as a luxury, therefore to be taxed. It is regarded as an the ownership of big corpora tions, and finds that 128 of the leading business concerns of the United States have over seven million, three hundred thous- institution that gets money easy, | ^nd stockholders. The much therefore to be taxed. damned Standard Oil company And the legislators go around with their heads in paper sacks deluding themselves and the peo- has over a hundred thousand stockholders, the Pennsylvania railroad 233,000, the Electric pie, or rather submitting to the | Bond and Share company that jury, individual—all of us, do not regard all things as criminal that once were so accepted. It is possible that the trouble with our criminal situation is that the popular sentiment is not with the idea of law that aims other occupation. His cotton is met at the port of exportation by the prices made by Egj^tian cotton, by cotton from India, by the increasing cotton crop from every place. But the employe of manufactured products finds di^’- to make men good. When wejferent conditions at the port ask of law that it confine itself: with incoming imports. A tariff to preventing one man from jg i^id there for protection. The transgressing on another, and wheat farm meets the competi- cease in its attempt to make ^ ^ion of foreign wheat, the Amer- men good according to varied; jean pork export trade is in thj Main Office | 39 Broadway, New York CHy | SOUTHERN PINES—NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE | Telephones: Southern Pines 6751—Pinehurst 3821 I Home for Sale in WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS Furnished 4 Master Bedrooms, 2 Baths; 2 Maids Bedrooms, 1 bath; Hall, Living room. Dining room. Pantry, Kitchen, Sun Terrace, Garage. Plenty of good closets. Over an Acre of Land. Near the Highland Pines Inn. EUGENE C. STEVENS Sole Agent Southern Pines, North Carolina people who have their heads in j ^e like to slash a bit once in a opinion, people will have more re-i (doldrums through the competi-, paper sacks, ^r many of the leg-1 ^-hile when we are complaining | gard for law. So will the courts ; tjon of foreign made things in islators see the'humor of the de-j of light charges, 108,000 stock- and the judges and the jurors I jtg line. The whole lusion. As much discussion has j holders, United States Steel is been indulged over the question | owned by 181,000 persons, Gen as to what is a luxury as over, eral Motors by 261,000, Ameri- the important proposition of | can Tel. 540,000, and so on. which end to crack the breakfast, Moreover the ownership of these egg, and it is only in the last | big corporations as well as the few hundred years that progres- smaller ones is swiftly spread- sive folks have come to realize out among more people every that either end will let the egg year. The number of stockhold- out of the shell. A few folks have begun to realize that the line between necessity and luxury was never yet defined and never will be. And a still smaller num ber has gained a faint glimpse of the more important fact that the difference when one is found will be of absolutely no conse quence. The funny part of the whole American and the witnesses and the peo- | export trade of the farm is pie. Then the desire to look out i caught with its feet in the tar for the people who are in the | barrel meshes of the law will not, « prompt so much mterestmg man-, » eouvermg to get out from under j, ^ tv. the mandates of the law, which is one of the troubles now. ers in twelve of the largest cor^ I WHO SPEAKS I porations of the country increas- | FOR THE FARMER ed from 1,300,000 in 1928 to 2,- 611.000 in 1930—doubling in t«vo years. Electric Bond and Share company had in 1928 only 38.000 stockholders. Last year the number had grown to 108,- 000. General Motors in that same two years increased from 71.000 stockholders to 199,000. he may not work in competition with anybody but the farmer, and so far this paper has not heard a farmer complain at the discrimination against him and the convict. The long-suffering, A protest now goes up be-1 short-changed, over - burdened cause the state prison is employ-1 man of meek submission. Sure, ing convicts to produce rock for Soak him, but let the rest of the use on the roads, and it is sug-1 fellows go unscathed. rAE T. BARNDH, Inc. Insurance of All Kinds —At The— Citizens’ Bank Building Southern Pines, N. C. Successors To PAUL T. BARNUM S. B. RICHARDSON, INC. business is that whether the; Standard Oil almost doubled the theater is a luxury or not is of j number of its stockholders in a no consequence whatever, espec- similar period ially as far as paying tax is con- i The fact seems to be that peo GRAINS OF' SAND i ffer submit to carelessness, reckless- I ness, inexperience on th highways of I North Carolina ? One of the sure signs of coming spring is the lively chirping of the incubator chicks that make the post- offices lively after the trains come in. Uncle Sam is a big factor in the poul try field. Under the heading, “Struthers Burt Located,” the Charlotte Observer ed itorialized on Wednesday as follows: The Book League of America is not inclined to sit by and allow the liter ary genius of The Chicago News to I and laws. Therefore we need not i secretarial staff fully cognizant Taking the total wealth in North \ among the country’s population. Great Carolina and dividing it by the 100 i reductions in casualties have been counties, Moore is found to he the ! shown in all states adopting an oper- cerned. Some day perhaps a wise! pie'arelvWeiy “In vesting” “their per i ator’s license law. Why should we lon- man may find a way to gather | money in the industries of the I ^ taxes without callmg on the peo-1 nation, and that the American pie to pay. That day is so far m , people are the owners of the big I T T the distance that no one yet can | industries. If 128 corporations almost equals that of the 40 less imagine its coming. Whether the , alone have over 7,300,000 stock- . • theatre is a luxu^ or not is of | holders it is evident that the en- j, J*!'’'*®"" loo counties contain no concern, but it is fact that, tire corporate holdings of the I"**"® any tax levied against it is paid j industries of the United States, i ^ % the people if it is paid at all | which numbers thousands of bigl^”*'^’ Gu.lford Buncombe, Wake, Dur- The theaters have no more j corporations, must inplude a I Hanover, Rowan, money than a polar bear. Their vast proportion of the adult pop-! Rockingrham, Alamance whole source of revenue is the ulation having any money saved ' Cabarrus. Nine of the 13 are m people, and while a tax may be,The inference is that the peoplei. laid and collected from the thea-' generally are becoming the own- i analysis of wealth and buying ters it will be paid by the people, ers of the industries and that' based on six factors: The in fer it can come from no other one of those days baiting bi^- population, or number of white source Of course the people business will cease to be a thriif- oW: may not come to the theater if jnp* sport i personal income returns, higher taxes make higher ad- j Jt is not thporv nr nr ^^”^t)er of these whose incomes ex- Struthers Burt away from mission fees, but in that event anv of the hqllnpinatinnQ A„^ ' ceed $5,000; number of passenger au- Southern Pines. That paper, in referr- the tax will not be paid, for ten.gj^g destined to shanp hie* bn«;i-; value added by manu- Burt’s latest book, “Festival,” per cent of nothing is nothing, ness but the natural economic ^ circulation of three already attained the ‘‘best sellers list,” But the point is that whatever is developments that are taking' magazines, paid the people will have to pay, place. The people are finding it | ana il they don t pay the thea-; worth while to be the owners of i Thad Page has had a long vacation ters will be closed and the ten per i industry, and they are buying ^^®m Capitol Hill at Washington. Ho cent tax will be ten per cent of j the stocks. These things work j Congressman Bob’s secretary nothing. [themselves out, and they ar§ i ago, so goes to^his governed by natural conditions I as head of Senator-elect Bail- THE TEST OF THE PUDDING | worry about what transpires. When the Seaboard morning Popular clamor and hullabaloo train last Saturday pulled into has no dhance against popular Southern Pines with 22 cars quiet regard for economic laws, loaded with people for Pine- which govern all industry and fi- hurst and Southern Pines, mak- nancial relations regardless of ing a record for ordinary sche- ! any attempt at control. dule traffic, it presented evi-1 dence that the Sandhills have : COURTS'AND not been ovprlooked by the folks • THE CRIMINAL in the North who are seeking a | Much talk has been common playground and winter retreat, j lately concerning the multiplica- This is still February, and win-1 tion of crime, and everything' There are 11,500 country weeklies ter does not end for some little i has been cited as the cause. The | America. The American Press As- time in the North. But here it | courts have been criticised, the sociation has gone care^lly over these has not made much of a show j jails, the penitentiaries, society papers to get a boiled-down list of since the Christmas holidays. as a whole, the home influences, '“^^ooo which it. calls the BETTER So the folks come south. But; the greater freedom that man-1 COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS. This list it is not winter alone that sends kind steadily'ft^umes. But in the' recommends to national advertis- ■ them here in droves. The attrac-1 end we get nowhere and crime ' ers. tions, the horses, the golf, the multiplies. The penitentiary is | "^he Pilot has just received word various opportunities to get out ^ daily complaining about its i of its selection as one of the BET- in the pleasant sun and open air, : growing population. The courts ITER COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS. act as the big influences. Moore ^ are perplexed in their efforts to | J criminals. But we | The gossip in Raleigh is that the u progress. | legislators seem favorable to passage been goins: toward | The sorrowful observer re-|of a bill to establish an adequate li- rlno« i censing system for automobile driv- r, + Florida probably , should, and points good the old j ers in North Carolina. The bill ap- tion if pi 1 days when we burned witches, | proved by the Carolina Motor Club Rnf tv, ^ • il travel. I and had a long string of crimes j has been favorably reported bv the travel finds* herp , punishable with death, and when; committee to which the bill was re- ->nrl Z • t T ""ants I people submitted to austere and l ferred. We can see no reason why it! and convenient enough to reach | harsh restrictions that they will | should not pass. ^ tion irieekrwhen I "°“olerate now. One thing that | Automobile accidents, measured by ThiL vear^v r^^ more common is | the records of the past two years, matoT. • J. ^ record j that we have vastly more peo- i have claimed in each of those vear<< Sonrl>iilI= til® I pie now than ever before, and ! the life of one person in each 3 96S- ' Sandhills, but It Will not be so we have advanced our individual i and injurL ’ ’' THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. An institution that will help you to accumulate and save your money. That will afford you safe custody for your deeds, insurance policies, valuable papers of all sorts and other articles of worth. That will provide you with traveling checks if you are going on a journey. That will transfer credits to any place w<here you do business. That will help you about your investments, or that will aid in any way that you may expect of a bank, and possibly in ways that you do not. Your business is invited. THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. of his duties. In the interim the sal- a’-y of Senatorial and House secre taries has more than doubled. Con grats, Thad. Thad is one appointee from North Carolina who doesn’t have to go through a Senatorial investigation be fore “taking his seat.” He has it on Judge Parker, McNinch ajid Charley Jonas. having been made the February choice of the Book League, professes to be “filled with gloom,” for it takes it for granted that Struthers will go back to his villa at Hyeres, on the Riviera, “and send us picture post cards of life on the Mediterranean.” The League advances the information no reports of Struth ers Burt on the Riviera, for “South ern Pines seems to be an acceptable substitute.” “The Supreme Authcrity** WEBSTER’S NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY ^ Here?s the WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS SOUTHERN PINES EVIDENCE Hundreds of Supreme Court Judges concur in highest praise of the work as their authority. The Presidents and De partment Heads of all leading Universities and Colleges give their in dorsement. The Government Print ing Office at Washington usts the New Interna tional as the standard au thority. High Officials in all branches of the Gov- cvnment indorse it. The Colleges voted overwhelmingly in favor of Webster as standard of pronunciation in answer to questions submitted by the Chicago Woman’s Club. one person in each 125 Library ist one VgSU2I£8 Equivalent in type matter to a 15 - volume encyclopedia, 2,700 page?; 452.000 entries, including thousands of NEWWORDS; 12.000 biosirciph- ical entries; 32.000 Reograph- ic subjects; ever 6,000 illustrations. America’s Great Question- Answercr. Get The At Your Bookseller, cr send fcr free illus^ Lraud bock Let. G. & C. r.'ERi>!AM COMPANY Springfield, Mass. When Webster Knight, familiar with the country all over the continent, looked about for a winter home where he mig*ht es tablish his stables and enjoy the sport of coaching and riding, he selected the Sand hills. When he investigated the various locations for his projected scheme he hesitated no time at all in the choice of Weymoutii Heights. Just east of the ridge summit he is rebuild ing the house and bam on the Walter Maples place, which he has bought, and there is another influence to make Wey mouth still more attractive. Southern Pines has crossed the Bethesda road, and now extends down to the east ern boundaries of the Paddock. Fine building sites on Weymouth and clear to Bethesda road. s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate PATCH BUILDING Southern Pines. North Carolina mm:
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