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THE PILOT
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Friday, April 8.
AS THE WATER
RUNS TO THE SEA
Probably nothing unless it
might be taxes has been more
discussed with definite disagree
ment than the doctrine of fore
ordination, and in the end the
situation is the same as at the
beginning. Those who insist that
the egg should be cracked at the
big end when eaten still crack it
at, that end, while those who
say it should be cracked at the
little end with reasonable logic
maintain their attitude. Never
theless we cannot get away from
the fundamental bases on which
creation was established, and to
day as in the day of Adam and
of Moses and of Abraham the
wiater runs down to the sea,
following the immutable p)rin-
ciples of creation, and dams
and canals, and obstructions and
all interferences merely hinder
in a modified way the course
that is pursued. So we may in
terfere with natural economic
laws, but in the end the water
runs down to the sea. We may
hamper business with artificial
rules, we may levy taxes here
and there to different temporal
effects, but always the water
runs down to the sea. It is not
very material whether we have
land taxes, or sales taxes or in
come taxes or luxury taxes, we
finally adiust our ways to the
arbitrary laws we adopt, and
then we hurry forward again on
our positive course.
Different schools of philosoph
ers argue and oppose and advo
cate different ways, but in the
end two and two make four, and
ff you take one from six you
have five, and if you add three
and four you have seven, and
all our sophistry and all our an
imosities. and calling of names
and preening of theories and be
littling other opinions than our
own, does not change the fun-
f^amental laws that are from the
beginning and enduring to the
end. We never had a wise tax
measure and never will, for hu
man narrowness and selfish
ness and ci^pidity and ignorance
preclude. We never had a tax
law that was fair, Tor we as a
nation will never agree on what
is fa’r. We go to war and kill
ourselves bv millions over differ
ences of opinion about trivial
things. How many folks today
c‘^n tell what it was that one out
of a hundred wars of the past
were fought over ? As this is,
written the new tax law is not
yet framed. But it will not be a !
good one. It will be the best pos
sible. under the circumstances
and it will be modified leter on,
and then again and indefinitely, [
but We will never have a good i
tax bill, just as we never did'
have, for as a people we are 1
not striving for the best tax bill |
possible, bpt for one that will;
soak the other fellow. We are'
struggling to make antiquated I
Ip ws fit in with a progress that i
moves forward every day, and |
to make our present socialistic
advancement strangle its ad
vances with the antiquarian cus
toms of yesterday and a thous
and years ago. Our country is
not what it was fifty years ago,
or ten years aero or a year ago,
nor what it will be a year hence
or fifty years hence. We are all
the time trying to make the
clothes of childhood fit the man
of thirty and they wiil not do it.
We advance in our material and
social habit faster than in our
habit of inquirino: into things |
and into the broad laws by which i
we must be governed. j
Therefore it is wise to accept
whatever tax law the Legisla
ture gives us, for these men
have been laboring desperately
to do the best that is possible
under the limitations that are
permitted them. The thing to re
member is that at the next ses
sion we will change the law made
this session, no matter what it
may be, and that from the inter
vening experiences we will learn
some wisdom. We get acquainted
with the hot stove by burning
our fingers. Some day the time
will come when we will forget
the poor man, the hell devils of
capital, the working man, the
farmer, and all the classes and
divisions, and be broad enough
to think about the whole people.
Then we may get a better tax
bill, but probably not la good
one, and at any event that time
is far into the future.
Old John Calvin may have
been a little wrong-shipped on
the fore-ordination doctrine, but
the basis of it is immutable and
not open to contradiction. It is
decreed that the waters run
down to the sea, and while we
may put obstacles in the way,
as we do all the time, the wa
ter goes around the obstruction
and fulfills its law of going
where it listeth, and it gets
there because the law that gov
erns it, like all the laws of na
ture, are fundamental. So be of
good cheer, for while things are
THE PILOT, a Paper With r.haracter, Aberdeen, North Carohna
hurst, for the entire list affected
by the Duke Foundation in this
state is around 60 establish
ments of the class in which the
Moore County Hospital is rank
ed. The fact disclosed is that no
other hospital in the state in a
community of so few people as
in Pinehurst is doing the char
ity work the Moore County Hos
pital is doing, even appr-oxinnate
ly.
This is why the hospital is
asking for a contribution from
people who can help to pay the
cost of this free operation, and
it is to be remembered that this
award by the Duke Foundation
of one dollar a day for a free bed
says that the free bed during
the year has been available 5,-
735 days during the period. The
Duke Foundation lacks a lot of
paying the cost of operating a
free bed with that dollar a day,
and leaves on the hands of the
hospital management the cost
of caring for patients occupying
those free beds 5,735 days in
never so rosy as
paints, neither are they ever so
gloomy as our fears anticipate.
NO YEAR TO
INCUR DEBT
This is no year for the far
mer to incur debt to make a crop
unless he can figure out a way
to get through with low tobac
co and low cotton. The exper
ience of the past is sufficient
warning. The farm that has to
buy its fertility, its corn, its hay,
its pork, its supp*lies of all kinds,
and has to borrow money from
the land banks or elsewhere to
pay the bill, has arrived at the
place where it is putting up its
tombstones if it goes any far
ther.
The day when the land banks
I opened their doors they chanted
a requiem over the' entire farm
area of the United States. Mak-
our fancy! year, which is a big figure. It
is financially impossible for the
hospital to carry that burden by
ilself, for it has a limited in
come from its paying patients,
and its power to care for pati
ents who have not sufficient
money to pay depends on the
help that comes from outside.
That record of 5,735 free days
to sufferers who could not have
been cared for without the free
treatment at the hospital is suf
ficient warrant to offer as gen
erously as you can in this mat
ter. This is a charity that de
serves to rank among the first
in your budget for humanity. If
a fellow ever needs help in his
life he needs it when he is sick.
THE WEEK IN VASS
, efit to many of this section. They are
I endeavoring to see that more garden^
are planted in our community than
Will Entertain ChiMre,; ^^George and Richard Cameron, ever before Persons who are not fi.
Members of the local Junior organ- | of Durham visited their Cameron rel- nancially ab e to provide seed and
ization will entertain the children of i atives here Sunday afternoon. fertilizer vnU he supplied by the
Z Vass-Lakeview community at an | Tyson Is a daughter of the late D. B. Brotherhood if sufficient funds come
Easter egg hunt on Monday aftemOon | Cameron. in. Five do ars ($ .00) will make pos-
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Simpson a»d sibe a garden of nice fresh vege-
little daughter, Leatrice, Miss Net- tables. All who are interested and
tie Gschwind and Miss Emily Laub- who desire to help in this constructive
seller visited at the home of Mr. and j program are invited to send five dol-
Mrs. Henry Simpson on Vass route lars (or more) to E. B. Keith, Pine-
2 Suncfay afternoon. hurst, N. C.
Miss Vivian Matthews of Durham ^ —
was greeting friends in town Friday.
Robert Leslie and Ai. Cockman of
immediately after school closes for
the day. The frolic will be held on
the school grounds, and all of the
little folks, wheher school children
or not, are invited to attend.
New Colored School
Work is now well under way on a
new school building for the Vass col-
ored school. The building will contain ' Rockingham visited Robert’s parents,
two regular class rooms and a small- i Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Leslie, Sunday.
er industrial room. It is to be so ar
ranged that the small room can be
converted into a stage and the other
part of the building into an auditor-
thus filling a long felt need
mm,
among the colored people, who have
been hampered by not having a suit
able place in which to stage their en
tertainments.
The building is loc^fcted near Allen’s
with the work.
Chapel, a short distance back from
the Union road on a lot containing end.
two or three acres. E. B. Thompson ^ Miss Neolia McCrummen enjoyed
has charge of the construction, with a trip to Greensboro during last week-
patrons of the school assisting him end.
R. G. Copelan of Burlington spent
the week-end at Hotel Charmella with
Mrs. Copelan.
Mrs. George W. Brooks, Mrs. Ber
tie L. Matthews and Franklin Mat
thews visited Dr. and Mrs. M. L.
Matthews at their home in Sanford
on Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. W. H. Keith spent Thursday
with Mrs. Mollie Graham and daught
ers at their home near Cameron.
Miss Gladys Monroe of Biscoe who
will be pleasantly remem^red as a ^t this season of the year ivory
former popular teacher in the Vass which this column helps to sun
school stopped over with Mrs. R. G. port is worn slick and smooth
Rosser for a brief visit on Thurs- ^s a result of its owner rubbing
. . J T. at frequent inter
Miss Jessie Mae Sugg visited her '
people in Ellerbe during the week- deavors to stimulate the mental
Organize B. Y. P. U.
Some twenty-five young people of
the Vass Baptist Church met on Sun
day for the purpose of organizing a
Baptist Young People’s Union. Her
man Parker was elected president, R.
L. Mayfield vice-president, and Miss
Moverine Crissman secretary-treas-
urer. The new organization expects
to give its first program at 6:45 next
Sunday evening.
Brotherhood Inaugurates Move
For Gardens For Unemployed
Revival Services
The Sandhills Brotherhood of Pine
hurst is making a serious effort to
meet the emergency calls for aid and
DECREASE IN TOBACCO
ACREAGE IS ONLY HOPE
(Continued from page 1)
The revival services, which have ! to provide work for those who are un-
been in progress each evening at the i c^ploy®*^* IVJore jobs are imperative
Vass Methodist Church since last Sun- are to be cared for during
day, have been well attended and the ^he summer months. Those who are
pastor, the Rev. W. C. Ball, has "<>t planning to have anything done,
brought some stirring messages which could find something which would
• ^ ^ JT I uiuugixt nuiiic iiicooagco wiiicii ^
mg u easy lor tne larmer or ^ absorb a piling up stock i have been heard with interest by the Si^e some man a chance to work are
for any other man to get mto | ^^bacco with no outlet of manu-
^bt made it easy for the sher- | factured goods in sight to utilize it.
I if to fmd a job as undertakei j aggressive advertising campaigns
I ^d officiater at the obsequies. 1 factories are making now to tiy
Borrowed money and earned
money are two different things.
Borrowed money has its heart
cut out the day it arrives. Earn
ed money is a bold as a hornet,
even though no bigger, and it
can never be attacked from be
hind. Earned money fights its
battles and succeeds because
that is the only way open to it.
Borrowed money promises to
pay. That's all. Some times it
pays.
to increase sales render it plain
people.
A beautiful spirit of cooperation is
manifest, and the week is expected to
be a season of great blessing.
There will be two services on Easter
requested to communicate with the
Brotherhood and they will see that
the job is well done.
One other thing which the Broth
erhood is doing will be of lasting ben-
pro-
cesses within, not even a pin-feather
remains to mar the surface of its
polished pate, which sparkles and
scintillates in the springtime Sand
hill sunshine like a sheet of smooth
est satin.
And here it is again, time for more
copy. What will it he? Oh yes, I
know, they had a tag-day in South
ern Pines recently for the benefit of
the hospital. It was a great success,
unlike the one they tell about in
Scotland. It is said a visitor in Edin
burgh, noticing that there were very
few people on the streets one day
asked a policeman the reason. He was
told it was tag-day for the hospital.
Three days later he found the same
streets packed with humanity. Meet
ing the same cop, he asked “Why the
crowd?” “Oh, tag-day was a failure
so we are having a house canvas,”
was the reply.
It’s always tag-day at the Bank of
Pinehurst. During banking hours you
will never fail to find someone on
hand to transact business promptly,
efficiently and satisfactorily.
BANK OF PINEHURST
Pinehurst, N. C.
enough to the man who will see thot, Sunday, one at the 11:00 o’clock
the factories are doing their best to hour and one at the regular evening
hour, 7:45. All are cordially invited to
attend each service.
sell the tobacco products. But they
can’t sweep the ocean tide back f
ever if it continues to pile up on
them.
Two things face the farmer. He
must lessen the amount of tobacco lo
be offered this fall, and he must
hold down the costs of makinsr his
_ crop, for he must get into his iiead
Sometimes the execu lor 1}.^^ fact that his crop is largely an ex-
port crop and that he has to face the
In far too
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Tyson and Mr.
and Mrs. W. D. McCraney and fam
ily attended services at White Hill
Sunday. Special music, which was
greatly enjoyed, w^as furnished by the
Swann Station choir.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Graham, Mrs.
itors to Durham and Raleigh last
week. Mr. Graham and Mr. Cox vis
ited the farmers’ produce exchange in
Durham, and were most favorably im
pressed with it.
Mr. and Mrs. George Tyson and
STRENOTH
RITY
f . C. J. Temple and R. H. Cox were vis-
lO\\ed monej IS a way to put ^ his export tobacco goes mto the other locf
oil the evil day, but in many I countries. A large proportion of,
cases it is a way to invite that North Carolina tobacco goes abroad, j
day. Easy borrowing has made The notion that it is all used in this '
low tobacco and low cotton. Easy country is far from correct. Th*^ to-
borrowing made too much cot- bacco crop must find an outlet in ^
ton and tobacco, and low prices foreign lands, and unfortunately we i
followed. Good seed, good farm- have succeeded by our high tariff on j
ing, hard work, and making foreign imports in awaking <r feel- '
every dollar laid out for farm ing of antagonism on the part of the
nee^ds bring back the utmost that old countries against much of our
a aollar can bring, is the policy products. What the price of brighr to-1
the farmer must pursue. It is bacco will be next October )0 man |
the policy of the successful in- can guess, but no signs indfcat<* that !
dustries of all lines. The Stand- it will be high. The probability is that
^rd Oil company, the Reynolds if the crop should be cut in two tiie
Tobacco company ,the Carolina stocks on hand would be enough to
Power company, the United meet the world’s requirement for the
States steel company, required , coming year and until the crop of
their books to balance every ^ next year could be put in the drying
night to the cent, not to the dol- plants. No man in touch with the
lar or the thousand dollars but farm situation is bold enough to pre-
to the cent. Every cent spent has | diet high prices for any farm stuff
to be accounted for, and every ! in the next few years, and few pro-
cent received. Wastes are cut ! phets are holding out hope for high
out mercilessly, and nothing gets | prices for anything. Fisher’s Index,
by unless it pays. The depart- 1 the best authority on prices in this
ment tnat does not pay is either ! country, notes lower prices ^han
v-Ut out or remedied promptly. ! last year on average of all cofnmodi-
must be on the farm. I ties of at least 16 per cent, and last
Rigid economy, positive returns year was lower than years preceding.
Few observing men look for high
prices again for many a year on any
thing, while not a few predict even
further price recessions on almost
every commodity. Individual, commun
ity, state and nation have gone far
too deeply into debt to take another
wild ride on inflated prices. Debt
H
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for every dollar spent, produc
tion of the best possible product
at the lowest possible cost are
the only dependable hopes of
success.
DUKE AND THE MOORE
COUNTY HOSPITAL
on miiated prices.
The announcement of money I paying, economy and work are ahead
awarded the various institu- I now. We might as well face these
tions by the Duke Foundation! things. Thfe struggle for tjaxies at
shows the efficiency of the ! Raleigh is one of the signs that tell
Moore County Hospital at Pine- j the story. Incidentally cotton is in the
hurst in caring for those worthy , same class with tobacco.
poor who ned its services. This |
hospital was given $5,735, a sum i FAMOUS CHOIR TO SING
Aberdeen
Albemarle
Apex
Carthage
Hamlet
Liberty
Raeford
Raleigh
Ramseur
Sanford
Siler City
Thomasville
Troy
based on the number of days
Qfiyen charity patients free.
Eighteen other hospitals in the
state were awarded an equal or
greater sum, nearly all of the 18
in the big cities of the state, and
HERE ON SUNDAY NIGHT
The Guilford College Capella
Choir will give a concert at the Plat
form Hour Sunday night, April 5th
Statement of Condition
AT CLOSE OF BUSINESS, MARCH 25, 1931
(As Condensed From Report to North Carolina
Corporation Commission)
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $4,112,744.63
Other Stocks and Bonds 173,542.00
Banking Houses, Furniture and Fixtures 102,758.75
U. S. Gov’t, and N. C.
State Bonds .„.$289,872.G8
Municipal and Listed
Securities 365,971.49
Gash in Vaults and in Banks 805,627.46 1,461,471.03
$5,750,516.41
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 400,000.00
Surplus 125,000.00
Undivided Profits and Reserves 63,504.70
Reserves for Current Interest and Taxes 22,201.20
Bills payable NONE
Deposits 5,139,810.51
$5,750,516.41
ac 7:30 at the Church of Wide Fel-
only one at Banner Elk, in one 1 lowship. This choir is called the
of the small places, among which | “Souths Foremost Choir.” There are
Pinehurst must be classed. Inj 47 voices. It is under the direction of
other words, the Pinehurst insti- | Max Noak and whenever it has ap- I
tution is^ doing a work that com- j peared has received high commenda- 1
pares with the hospitals of the 1 tion as a choral group. The follow- i
cities of the state, and far sur- j ing Sunday night this choir will sing j
passing many hospitals in totims j ^t the White House. Doors open here (
several times larger than Pine- at 7:30.
PAGETRUSTCOMPM
NORTH CAROIJNA
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