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 G)ntribiiting 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. THE PILOT, a Paper With rhgracter. Aberdeen, North Carolina^ Friday, April ip. A. SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER It is somewhat ancient history, that first trip Leonard Tufts made in an automobile from Pinehurst to Raleigh. The first day he approached close enough to Sanford to get to a hotel and stay there all night. The second day he made a fair relay toward Raleigh, and by the help of a train reached a hotel somewhere along the line. And if the page of history is not too much for gotten he came to Raleigh along about the evening of the third day. But it is so long ago, and history fades to such an extent, that this tradition is now pass ed along about as it is remem bered by him that got it from Mr. Tufts, and handed it down ■ as history is saved. Yet the automobile is not as old as the hills which the Arkan sas hill billy told the traveler '‘was there when I come.'' Even now the flying machine is in no way as much of a curiosity as the automobile twenty years ago. Thenty years from now the plane will be tied up to every hitching post along the streets, and Henry Ford long ago took out his insurance policy by building a factory to build fly ing machines. When a small bunch of men a few years ago gathered in the town building in Southern Pines and hatched up a project to build an air port near the town it seemed about a? visionary as when old Cap tain Noah began to cut logs to build his famous ark. Today the airport, four or five miles north of town, is the port of entry for the Sandh'ills, and tomorrow the old Seals road and the old Pee- dee road will be among the main thoroughfares of lower Moore county. They will be roads to the chief terminal in this section, and one prophet as visionary as Noah himself is al ready proposing a landing place in his o'vn propertv closer to the town where he will have a place to drop down in his own small plane when he comes over from tl^e North or South in one of the bier through planes that will care for oreneral long-distance business. A bold gazer into the immediate future says that in a few years more every fhan who buvs a piece of ground will insist that it shall have an acre or so for a drop landing in one of these gyroscope small planes that can rise or descend on a .«mall space without a runway, end that a home without a land ing field will be as antiquated as a home without a garage is now. Some of you younger folks do not remember when Cyrus Field laid the Atlantic cable that con nected America and England by telegraph. The knowing ones .suggested that Field better hang himself wath his cable. But he was foolish enough to go ahead and start a movement that has covered the bottom of the seven seas with cables that reach from every corner of the globe to the other. Men are yet living who remember clearly when the cable was finally securely tied in and made to begin that wonderful work which has been one of the most remarkable agencies of uni versal tying together all man kind the world has ever known. All these things are things of the life-time of men yet living, 3^et they are not the end. They are only the suggestion. A little longer and the aiiiDort will be the site of the tenninal of a great traffic. It will be an agent that will be of incalculable influ- ^ ence in the further expansion of this section. Probably in anoth er half dozen years the Sand hills will be about a three or four hour journey from New York, and maybe nothing like that far. When old Lauchlin Bethune, sleeping the sleep of the faith ful in Bethesda church yard, made his journey to Washing ton to attend Congress, of which' he was a member from this dis trict, he put in weeks on the road. Possibly the man who goes there a dozen years from now will come home nights and go back in the morning. We are moving closer to all the universe every day. That is one of the most important things to re member in connection with the desirability of a home or loca tion in Moore county. And be cause the airport is the port of entry is why it must have the broadest recognition as a fac tor in the future fortunes of this developing community. ket in Manchester, England, sell ing under American prices, the ducts in 1927, the last year in which a previous census of man- significance of which is that be- ufacturers was taken. We did not fore the world war Russia im-1 complain of hard times in 1927, ported from the United States land if manufactures last year about 845,000 bales of cotton an-1 exceeded 1927 by 13 per cent nually. Four years ago the Unit-! the situation now cannot be so ed States sold the Soviets half a million bales. Since then Rus sian sales of American cotton bad a& it might be if we were down as low as 1927. The totals paid in wages have gone into the dumps. Rus-1 amounted to almost $200,000,- sia is making cotton for her I 000, which is also more than in LEETTING GO OF OUR BOOTSTRAPS The project of the Farm Re lief Board to relieve the farmer by buying wheat at an abnor mal or fiat price and hold it in the hope of stabilizing prices above the figure the market will make has flopped. The board has announced that it wall buy no more wheat. It has learned itsjport next year, lesson by the simple process of burned fingers, which is the way the children discover that the stove is hot. It was supposed by the older folks that the exper ience with coffee had taught Brazil that valorization will bum fingers, and that rubber in its vagaries had taught the British that jugg'ling with I prices in the face of natural laws will burn fingers, and that Cuba in its contacts with ’the su gar market, and the attempt to make artificial prices in the face mills, raising a surplus to sell other Eu;'opean countries, and from her cotton mills is selling finished products to other coun tries. This year Russia is plant ing 4,400,000 acres of cotton, as against 2,700,000 last year. Pro duction has increased from 41,- 000 bales in 1921 to 1,900,000 bales last year with the expecta tion of a crop of 43,500,000 bales this year and a bigger one next year. Russia needs about 2,000,- 000 bales for her home uses, so will have for export in one form or another 1,500,000 bales this year, with a probably bigger ex- 1927, when we did not complain much. Materials cost $590,000,- 000 much of the supply coming from local sources^ as cotton, lumber, etc., while fuel and electric current originating in the state contributed still more to state income. Railroad men earned money haulng the prod ucts, and various lines of indus try were occupied. While we assume that indus try has been given a jolt by the conditions that have existed the fact seems to be that if we com- talk in praise of “athletics” they are using the old Greek word “athletikos” meaning “a combatant for a prize** one who participated in contests employed “to test endurance and strength with an especial regard to war.' These old Olympic contests, dating from 776 B. C., were not held for the amusement of the spectators but were highly organized forms of military training, employing implements of war, for the building of sturdy bodie. and the development of manly vir tues.—Charlotte Observer. B ^ s %% GAMMACK & CO. I H Members New York Stock Exchansre Pittsburg^h Stock Exchange Main Office 39 Broadway, New York City SOUTHERN PINES—NEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE Telephones: Southern Pines 6751—Pinehurst 3821 Russia is nationalizing farm ing in a large way, building mod em farm machinery with which to operate the farms, and build- pare things with any year more; g than two or three years back j of us the present activity is | much to be appreciated. The ! S farm is hit the hardest, and it | g has slipped back more than the | g factory in the recent past. Yet i g -• in /. /»• — - • I ing the most complete factories . when the farm figures are gr.^in ; g in which to build the machinery. | out by the census department :t i g is likely that the total value of i H farm products will compare fav-1 S orably with nearly every year|« that has gone by. |g Possibly if we forget about I g making uses of the modern | our increased wants and try to j g methods and will have its share | bear in mind that it is not alto- i g of the world trade. The North | gether our lack of production in | g The Russian farm is in the world field of production with a wheat and cotton crop that must be watched by the American far mer in the future, for Russia is Carolina farmer can figure out of a great production beyond j his own policy n regard to cot- what people would buy at ab- nbrmal prices would permit folks with the assumed intelli gence of American business men, to know that fire will burn fin- j gers. But we had to put our 1 hands on the hot stove, just like ! the others, and see for ourselves. I ' I Now' w^e know. We have found 1 that we cannot lift ourselves by our boot straps and a disgusted ton, and now is the time to fig ure for this year, for next fall may be too late. ARE WE IN HARD LUCK? sufficient quantity, but our de- j H sire to be able to buy the things : |j that three or four or five years | g ago did not figure at all in our | g needs we will find that we are ^ not in such a fierce plight after all. Like enough we are going to once more adjust our needs to H our incomes and find that the! g A report from the Census Bu-1 world is not gone to the dogs i H reau gives the value of man ufac-1 even in doing it. It is hard to jg tures in this state for 1930, the | break a great institution like i g NOT IN YEARS HAVE WE SEEN SUCH SILK DRESSES $11.75 A Low Price For Such Smartness Ev^ery woman who knows the high priced charac teristics of chic, taste and good quality will be thrilled to find these dresses. For you never saw anything quite as good lookng, as utterly smart as the dresses in this low priced group. Styles For Everybody LADIES’ STYLE SHOP Aberdeen, ' North Carolina Pinehurst, North Carolina April 3, 1931 total reaching $1,301,319,00, farm board tosses the whole ab-1 which is 13 per cent more than surdity into the junk pile. The; the value of manufactured pro- scraps will dot the road side i with the rest of the accumula tion that progressive humanity ; throws out from ‘ day to day in ; its cut and try policies and w^e ! will tackle some other chimeri cal schemes, for that is the way we have all learned since we first began to lean on a chair to walk. your Uncle Sam’s factories and; g farms if we all dig in and have g the nerve to carry through. ^ GRAINS OF" SAND I ♦♦ I I ♦♦ I ^ - i ^ The boys at Raleigh are seriously crop. Prices last year wero profita- ^ ! considering adoption of the old slo- ble generally. The plants have made gan, “Out of the trenches by Christ- a right good growth, and as the mas.” weather has been propitious the ex- pectation is for a yield and quality ! g A lot of them who drove their should bring good prices. Paul Dana announces the removal of his offices to Second Floor of the new Village Court Building, Pine hurst, North Carolina. A fireproof vault for the safe keeping of valuable records and files is provided, also other improved fa cilities for rendering Auditing, Accounting and Gen eral Tax Services. Telephone PINEHURST- -2331 n a very positive way about deal-1 t’’® Capitol have got to walk abundant crop set If ^ ing with a pegged market i home. They had to sell the fliv- abundant crop set. If tiosts do i tl^e ri”4, of wheat arfrunnin^ I *>«• ,tne rners ol w neat are running temperature the peach men look for i over their banks he stands bv i „ , 1 1 ^ >ield as large as the trees can com- iand with his peck measure he. Fifty thousand braved last Satur- fortablv carrv ! catches what he W^ants W^here he | day night’s rain to attend the Mora- ‘ ' ’ I can get it with the least outlay. | van services in the old cemetery at I World supply makes world | Salem. “Worst night for the services prices, W’hile world supply of in my memory, and I’ve attended for other things that may be sub- ■ many long years,” former Mayor stituted helps along to play into “Jim Hanes” of W'instor Salem told tV.e hand of the man that buys, j us. The skeletons of those geniuses i who have tried at times to cor ner the wheat market lie too!. Notary Public Public Stenographer The folks who own land out near Fort Bragg where the fire burned over the country a week ago Sun day say they are glad the thing is ! g over. They argue that sooner or later 1 ’ the accumulating rubbish on the I tt ground was certain to catch fire, and i H We learned on the best authority with the wind favorable when it; u Con.«pkuou.si7along“the roadlo^'" other day the fire swept over j H indicate thk wheat or any'•'.smg smce the b.g $.50,000 the unsettled land and did little or » Other thing can be cornered. launched. But what a no damage. The pine trees do notjg even by a farm board with all' contestants are more anxious seem to have suffered any and with |» the power of the federal treas-Ithe. $50,000? the gi-ass g<,ne next fall will see a|H ury. Always the individual con-! sumer, the buyer, has the last' good field for the hunt. Homes and Lots For Sale I have a very fine selection of various properties in and around Southern Pines for sale. Now is the time to buy or build. EUGENE C. STEVENS Southern Pines, North Carolina tt Dewberry folks are sufficiently en- word in price fixing, and he uses ' ^^uraged by the outlook to be tying Sim Pogle says now that Easter is it, even in the case of a short- | vines and making ready for over he isn't saying a word to any age of production. He cannot be j they so far hope will be a good of his hens that want to set. crowded, for he has the alterna- i tive of reducing his needs and his consumption of commodities. That is the trouble with all attempts at inflation of prices in anything. The buyer is a free | lance, subject to no rules^ of de- Every new development concern- sire on the part of the price fix- ing operation of the Duke Endow- er, and he is a murderous factor ment increases public admiration for developing National character, when he is crowded to the j that institution. One important fact idea is that even if unbroken peace ropes. The buyer has everything just come out is that the hospitals * ' ~ in the two Carolinas are now treating FROM THE STATE PRESS WONDER THAT GROWS declaration of Assistant Secretary of War Payne, to the effect that mili tary training is essential in times of peace for the particular purpose of His in his hands, and the only bait that gets his money is good goods and fair price as compar ed with prices prevailing else where in open market. OUR SOVIET COMPETITORS It is easy to laugh at things we do not know well enough to appreciate. In this class has been the Soviet development in Rus sia. But from time to time re liable information comes out of Russia which is persuading the observing people that Russia is were assured, the United States would need the military training considerably more than 1,000 charity school “more than ever.” He main- patients a day in excess of the num-j tained that if we were-assured that ber treated during 1924, a disclos-, this earth of ours'' had been trans- ure that must impress the public with ' formed over-night from a competi- the progressive growth of this mag- tive to a non-competitive world were nificent benevolence. It is to be re- we thus assured of unbroken peace membered, also, that when aid from j we would still need the military school the Duke Endowment became avail- in this country today more than ever able to all of the hospitals in North ! before in our history. Thousands of Carolina and South Carolina for both parents show their appreciaion of this white and colored, they are ‘'not op- fact by sending their sons to mili- erated for private gain.” Analysis tary schools in ever-increasing num- of the figures of the Hospital Sec- bers. tion makes a further interesting dis- They want their boys educated in closure. It is to the effect i:hat dur- all the primary elements of their be- to be reckoned with in the fu- ing the past year as many as 714,453 ings. By this he meant the heart, body ture, and beginning right now. days of “free treatment” wera given mind and soul. If anyone holds that Hei e in North Carolina we are in the hospitals of the two States, as the body is not a primary element erf Obliged to face a Sltuaton that is compared with 606,049 days of free the human being he should try doing strikingly pertinent, for Russia, treatment during the year 1929. The without it for a time. The military is not only well e^ablished in I wonder of the Duke Endowment grows school educates this element, the body 1 year's disclosures.—Char- for example, through military drill’ Great Britain in its export mar- lotte Observer. and other physical exercises, kets, but It IS now entering South Those who throw up their hand, in w S proaucers nave | seasons’ tickets to the field. But to bring the I Davidson and other colleges that. support football and other athletics i Rus-; maintain a system of “military train- at some college, he rebuked, are, to ^ xc s . abhshing a cotton mar- mg ’ must be encouraged by the recent ^ say the least, inconsistent. Then they Repoj-t of the Condition of the BANK OF PINEHURST at Pinehurst, North Carolina, to the Corporation Commission At the Close of Business on the 25th Day of March, 1931. RESOURCESE Loans and Discounts : $625,401.13 Overdrafts 117.01 United States Bonds 150.00 All Other Stocks and Bonds 110,500.00 Banking House - 75,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures 8,850.00 Cash in Vault and Amounts Due from Approved Depository Banks 205,961.08 Checks for Clearing and Transit Items - 10.00 Other Real Estate 1,013.09 Total - - - ....$927,002.31 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid In 100,000.00 Surplus Fund 33,000.00 Undivided Profits (Net Amount) 8,957.91 Other Deposits Subject to Check 507,365.27 Other Deposits Secured by a Pledge of Assets or Depository Bond 20,356.48 Cashiers Checks Outstanding ..1 853.05 Time Certificates of Deposit (Due on or After 30 Days) 2.100.00 Savings Deposits (Due on or After 30 Days) 254,369.60 Total . 927,022.31 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF MOORE. B. U. Richardson, Cashier, O. H. Stutts, Director, and F. W. Von Cannon, Diiector of the Bank of Pinehurst, each personally appeared before me this day, and, being duly sworn, each for himself, says that the foregoing report is true to the best of his knowledge and belief. Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 7th day of April, 1931. Cashier. ARTHUR S. NEWCOMB, ^ STUTTS, N f P KT Director. My commi.,sio„ expires December Tmi. VONOANNON, * Director.