Friday. April 10, 1931.
THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina
Goldsboro Banker New
Commissioner of Banks
iSfiite Represwitative Gumey P.
Hood Accepts Post Created
by Seawell Bill
P.
Sitate Representative Gumey
Hood, Goldsboro banker, has ac-
, epted the post of Commissioner i
Banks, tendered him last week"
oy Governor 0. Max Gardner. He
•viil assume his new duties after
the General Assembly adjourns. Word
Wood, Charlotte financier and
member of the new Advisory Bank
ing Commission, is acting as tem
porary Commissioner.
Hood is president of a chain of six
industrial banks with headquiarters
Legislators Too Busy Talking To Do
Any Thinking, Carl Groerch Maintains
Prom E^ter Sunday to Legislative Monday is Going from the
Sublime to the Ridiculous, He Says.—^Politicians Prefer
Detours to Paved Roads
MANLY
Mrs. M. H. Martin and two children,
Frances and Edward from Reading, i
Pa., who have been visiting her par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bergendahl |
returned to their home Friday, Mrs. -
j Bergendahl accompanying them home. '
Mrs.^. E. Patterson and daughters,!
By Carl Goerck
Talk about your contrasts!
One day we have Easter, with its Other nations had somewhat
beautiful anthems, gorgeous flowers, customs, as recent excavations ^®ith on Cameron Route 1.
inspiring thoughts, lofty ideals and revealed. I refer you specifically Clyde Thomas from Siler City vis-
sublime significance; the next day we Professor Whangdoodle^s recent
have the legislature again, with all of which was published in one
its foils and foibles. That’s moving scientific journals. I shall be
from one extreme to the other with to try and procure a copy
a vengeance. for you.”
® aV reason for Easter, but He bows gracefully and proceeds on
Goldsboro. His appointment must I ^ hard to find any justifiable reas- his way, happy with the thought he
he ’onfirmed by the Senate. I legislature still being in has done you a real service. As a mat-
The new Department of Banks was ^ When we sent the boys up ter of fact, you’re just as much at a
created by the recently passed Seaw- with thr; under- Joss for the correct time as you were
pII bill which removed banking super-
ision from the Corporation Conimis-
,ion.
‘‘I am higmy gratified that Mr.
Hood accepted the position,” said,
Governor Gardner. “No appointment i
: have made has been received more I the housetops that he
lavorably.” " would tear his shirt, his sox and his
Other members of the Advisory flannels in the effort to life the
Banking Commission are Col. John F. i fo™ the shoul- ^
Bruxon, Wilson, and lAgnew H. Bahn-j f °f farmers. And now look them at the outset to reduce taxes we 1 Dunn and Miss Alice
standing that there was only one
thing in the world that we were in
terested in, and that was a reduction
in property taxes. Prior to their elec-
tion as members of the General As- 7 prospects
1 X general as for raismg rhubarb or if we had re
built as monuments by certain phar-
aohs who wished to eternalize them- and Rebecca and Mr. and Mrs.
J. Ellis Maples spent Sunday with
ited relatives in town last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Maness and |
children spent Sunday with Mr. and;
Mrs. Dunk Monroe near Carthage.
Mr. Charles Gillis entertained a
number of friends at a dance Thurs
day evening.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McNeill and
Mrs. Jno. McMillan went to Society
Hill, S. C., last Friday to attend the
funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Margaret
Byrd.
Mr. and Mrs. James Sessoms and
children were Sunday guests of Mr.
FiieS“MothS“Dust
Screen out the Flies—We build screens with cypress.
Cedar closet lining to protect your Furs and Woolens.
Numetal weather strip on outside doors and windows
will keep the dust out.
M. H. FOIIEY LUMBER YARDS
Lumber, Millwork & Builders Supplies
Aberdeen, N. C. Phone 129
uiiituitxunutiuni
before.
That'S the way the legislature has
been acting. Maybe if weM ask ihem
to take up the Patagonian prospects
Report of the Condition of the
PAGE TRUST COMPANY
' and Mrs. Pearl Sessoms.
quested them to provide means for! Mrs. W. L. Parker who has ibeen
feeding the catfish in the Shantung spending the winter with relatives at
river, over in China, they would have Dunn, has returned to his home
tackled either job and wound up by j here.
reducing our taxes. But when we ask ! Miss Essie Parker who teaches at; XFotw'St^kr;;! Bo";:dl
son, Winston-Salem, who will serve i ^
•nth Attorney General Dennis G. | Perhaps we were at fault in mak-
Brunimit and Staite Treasurer Nathan 1 instructions too plain and
A. O’Berry, chairman of the Com-1 obvious. Politicians don’t like a di-
mis.sion. ! *’^ct course about anything. You take
Hood was tendered the appointment ! real, genuine, dyed-in-the-wool
last week just after he had left to ■ legislator and he’d a darn ^sight rath-
aitend a convention in Ohio. His ac- j drive over detours than stick to
reptance was delayed by his absence j paved highways. Start him on
and that of Governor Gardner who j ^’^th the idea in mind of buying a
spent three days in New York signing j ^^^t, and he’ll commence opera-
)onds. tions by going first to a hardware
Hood is serving his second term in ■ store and asking the price of stoves.
General Assembly, having also been ! the average man what time it
a member of the House during the ' he’ll pull out his watch, glance
929 session. i ^t it, and announce; “Half past five,”
’ or whatever the hour may be. Ask a
politician and he’ll smile at you be
nignly, pull out his watch with a
flourish, stare at it fixedly, clear
his throat impressively and then un
burden himself as follows:
“Time varies with the longitudinal
position which you may occupy on
the earth’s surface, in accordance
ought to know blamed well that we’re spent the week-end at their home I „ T 1
going to get everything but reduced ■ here. umiture and Fixtures
taxes. !
ACTIVE WEEK AHEAD
OF THE THISTLE CLUB
The Thistle Club will grive a lunch-
6->n bridge next Wednesday at the
^"them Pines Country Club for
members and their guests. The qual-
They’re still discussing ways and
means of financing the provisions ofi
the MacLean bill. The outcome is
still in doubt.
A new banking commission has been
appointed at a time when most of us
have absolutely nothing to put into'
the banks.
Most of the past week has been de
voted to making speeches. In one re
spect, the present session of the leg
islature is outstanding. Most of the
members can say more things that
sound well and mean absolutely noth
ing than any other group of men I’ve
ever seen. '
I was in the senate last Friday, lis-
NIAGARA
1 Robeit Smith, Jr., went to Raleigh
j Sunday to accept a position for a
; few months.
j Roy Smith of East Hebron, New
j Hampshire arrived Tuesday night to
! visit Mr. and Mrs. G. S. Smith.
I Miss Nettie Williams and Miss
I Pierson are spending the week on a
i tour in and about Charleston, S. C.
I Mr. and Mrs D. P. Ordway of Bos-
at Aberdeen, North Carolina, to the Corporation Commission.
‘At the Close of Business on the 25th Day of March, 1931.
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts $4,100,709.99
Overdrafts 12,034.64
United States Bonds 88,005.98
North Carolina Bonds — |201,866.10
County and Municipal Bonds 163,500.00
- T V I 73,542.00
Houses .. 81,171.61
- - - 80,348.38
Cash in Vault and Amounts Due from Approved Depository Banks 760,591.16
Checks for Clearing and Transit Items - |21,715.09
Due from Banks (Not Approved Depositories) [6,493.15
Cash Items (Items Held Over 24 Hours) 16,828.06
Listed Securities 202,471.49
fying round for the club golf cham
pionship will be played next Tues- ‘ ^'ith the principles first announced by
day. when players will play eigh- Arestes, ancient Egyptian philosopher, quired. “Don’t bother me now
tening to the flow of speeche3, when
a certain senator from the eastern j visited Mr. and Mrs. J. y. Snipes on
part of the State—a good friend of | Wednesday.
mine—passed by. “What do you think ; Mrs. E. B. Franklin left the first
of the sales tax proposition?” I in- of the week for a visit to relatives in
North Carolina Birthrate on
Gradual Decline Since Year 1924
*een holes to qualify in flights of ^ ^'ho lived long before the days of the responded. “I’ve got to talk. This is no
. to continue at match play on , pyramids. These pyramids were time to think.”
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, I
when the club championship will be
rdJed.
-several members of the club will
<-0 Charlotte on the 24th of this
rncn:h to play in the one day in
vitation tournament given by the
harlotte Country Club.
The annual picnic of the club will
r-ld in a few weeks and will be an
](1 fashioned picnic,” to be in charge
! Mrs. William Allen.
Total $5,809,277.65
I LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid In 400,000.00
Surplus Fund 125,000.00
Undivided Profits (Net Amount) 33,404.70
^ Reserved for Interest 48,496.03
j Reserved for Taxes 2,100.00
. i. XV ^ 1 'Reserved for Depreciation 58.761.24
ton, Mass., were guests the past week i tt j t ^ ^
^ tt • X [Unearned Interest 1.70517
of Miss Harriet Gay. . i
T A/r 1 J J Demand Deposits Due Banks 46.425.71
Mrs. Jane Morgan left Wednesday'^., ta
.. ... IX- • T. Other Deposits Subject to Check 2.695 785 36
tor a visit among relatives in Durham ^ ox x xr ^
and Chanel Hill Deposits Due State of North Carolina and Any Official Thereof:
n A a ’ ’ * nu X Secured $309,832.75 . 309,832.75
Grady Snipes of Chatham county xo ji. ^iix ” 0\fVy00£.,i0
Other Deposits Secured by a Pledge of Assets or Depository
Bond 5,000.00
Demand Certificates of Deposit (Due in Less Than 30 Days) 79,263.03
Cashier’s Checljs Outstanding 30,939.63
Certified Checks Outstanding ' .. 25,263.88
Time Certificates of Deposit (Due or or After 30 Days) 383,587.88
Saviii?? Deposits (Due on or After 3C Days) 1,563,964.19
Expense Vouchers Outstanding 148.08
Negro Rate in Moore County
More Than Double White, but
Death Rate Greater
-a>-' -
hicago has reclaimed more than
a res of land from Lake Mich-
in the last 15 years for boule-
and parkways.
i F ,ors day has gone past;
'he biggest fool at last. ^
Ider, down a tree,
- a oiji’ger fool than me.”
e good old New England
'5^ys, this was a common re-
a moninus of the victim of an
Fool joke perpetrated on any
’ ^he first of April,
hy April Fool, anyway? Like
L:-ly adopted customs, this has
/Ui'ied in the deep dark past,
M^n observed in India from
niemorial. There, on the last
rjarch it is common practice
r 1 people on fool’s er-
■ . t why, nobody knows.
: ators believe April Fool’s
" It' to Europe and thence to
World through France in a
(■'uliar and interesting man-
...H'ested change in the calen-
r>Uvays opposed by a large
'■ “stand-putters.’ So, when
1% decreed the year should
■anuary 1st instead of April
U r tom of making calls and
■ e.^ents on New Years Day
' d back to January. But many
'I the practice on April 1st,
■ct were ridiculed by their
fogressive fellows ^by being
recepients of mock pres-
,ent on fruitless errands on
‘har (Ja ,
^ In France, an April fool is called a
d’avir’ (which means April
Pr- sumably because in the spring
*sh S7 young and easily caught.
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!Tloro
The recent annual report of the
Bureau of Vital Statistics, North Car
olina State Board of Health, contains
a vast amount of interesting data on
births, deaths and sickness in North
Carolina, The following observations
from this report of 257 pages cover
ing the year 1929 W'ere draw'n by the
University of North Caix>lina New's-
Letter.
The birth rate of North Carolina
appears t^ be pn the decline. For
many years w^e have held first place
in the United States In birth rates.
TVe year 1924 was our record year
With 87,023 births, or a rate of 31.9
per thousand population. The rate has
declined every year since 1924 and in
1929 w^as 25.9 per thousand popula
tion. Fewer people were born in 1929
than in any other year during the
last decade.
The death rate has changed little
or none during the last decade and a
half, and varies very little from one
year to another, hovering around 12
deaths annually per thousand popula
tion.
The birth and death rates by coun
ties and by races vary considerably. In
fact it is difficult to understand why
the birth rate in one county is so
much higher than in another, and the
same with death rates. For instance
Scotland has a white birth rate of
37.8 per thousand white inhabitants,
and Hoke a rate of only 11.9, or lesfe
than one-third as high. Tyrrell has
the highest Negro birth rate, 41.3 per
thousand Negroes, Yancey the low
est with only four briths per thous
and Negroes. Contrary to the general
impression, white and Negro birth
rates in North Carolina are not far
apart.
Moore county figures for 1929, art
Who is Healthiest?
he Vir^nia.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Turnley, Mr. and
I Mrs. Ben Gulledge, Mr. and Mrs.
; J. R Loving and daughter. Miss Lu-
j cile, also Ira Turnley of Cameron
j W'ere dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
j C. L. Dutton on Monday.
! Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Blake and Mrs.
i Carl Thompson motored to Fayette
ville on Tuesday,
Total
...$5,809,277.65
Elimination Contest Planned
To Determine Moore
County Champion
Dr Symington and Miss Sea-
gi’oves have completed their work
)f examing the 4-H club girls pf
the county, and Mrs. Ryals has an
nounced the health champions of
the various communities. They are
as follow\s: Eureka, Mary Wicker;
V^ass, Catharine McMillan; Cam
eron, Ila Oakley; West End, Ber
tie Smith; Hemp, Mabel Morgan;
High Falls^ Frances Hussey.
Some time soon an elimination
pontest will be held to’ select one
from thl^ group to be county cham
pions will compete for district
honors, and at the State short
course in Raleigh next summer,
the state health queen will be
chosen from among the district
winners and crowned with appro
priate ceremonies.
Agnes Dorothy’s Beauty Shoppe
All Branches of Beauty Work
Also Carry a Full Line of
GALVE PREPARATIONS
Over Broad Street Pharmacy
Phone 5131 Southern Pines, N. C.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF MOORE.
Robert N. Page, President, Ralph W. Page, Director of the Page Tjust
Company each personally appeared before me this day, and being duly swoni,
each for himself, says that the foregoing report is true to the best of his
Icnowledge and belief.
Swnin to and subscribed before me this the
,tii dcy of April, 1931.
FRANCIS PLEASANTS,
Notary Public.
. y .’o-riniisi^ion expires Feb. 1, 1932.
ROBERT N. PAGE,
President.
RALPH W. PAGE,
Director,
H. A. PAGE, JR.,
Director.
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as follows: Birth rate per 1,000 in
habitants: White—15.7; Negro—33.4.
Death rate per 1,000 inhabitants;
White — 8.3; Negro — 14.4. Infant
death rate per 1,000 live births, both
races: 56.6.
vou will never be made an Ap-
Fool or “poisson d’avil” at the
of Pin^hurht. There are no
fool’s errands” th^re.
bank OF PINEHURST
Pinehurst, N. C.
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