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Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, April 24. 193^ THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina ^ * NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager loUS than North Carolina. As debt as ours, no state has so large a debt for education, and no state so large as ours for wel fare institutions. Yet there are eleven other states more popu- BION H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors debt creator we rank among the first three. The only way debts are paid is by taxation. We have borrow ed and spent money that has to Subscription Rates: |be paid In addition we arc onp Year ' |2.00 levying taxes for more money Six Months “T ‘ f 1.00; to be spent to keep up our pro- ^ree Mrnths':;:....:.... - .50 gram of great expenditure. . ^— Now, beyond a doubt, it is Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. wise to spend money to get the things we should have, always Entered at the Postoffice at Ab«- provided, we can provide the deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. IMPRACTICAL SENATORIAL DISTRICTS As this is written five differ ent projects have been presented to the legislature for new sen atorial districts. It is unfortu nate that the districts <are cre ated for the reasons that usually determine them, our own dis trict being an example. We have had four counties in the district, which is open to no ob|ection as long as the population is fair as money and that it is to be spent judiciously. It is wise to^ spend money if we can afford it. The answer to whether we can af ford it may be found in the pro test against taxes. It may be found there, or it may be an un due alarm. That is for the peo ple to determine. We are spend ing a tremendous lot of money. We owe a tremendous lot. In ad dition to st/ate debt and state taxation we owe a great amount in county and town, and we spend a great total in those de partments las well as through state disbursements. The trouble with taxation is regards the other districts of 1. the state. The misfortune is that 1 that as a state, as in the four counties we have I a community, all of North Caro- been allotted two senators, and | lina is clamoring for money from through some mrious notion ' the public fund for this and "hat curious notion those senators are alternated, two given one pair of counties one session, and two to the other pair of counties at the next ses sion. Of course if the purpose of a senatorial district is to per- public and innumerable things. If we are to have what we demand we have also to see the tax collec tor. If we are to reduce we must quit holding out our hands for everything under the sun, and mit as many men as possible to j Quit insisting that we must huve occupy the senatorial seat the 1 everything that is held be^^ore scheme is effective. But if it is 1 ,, , , , at all for the purpose of use- | There is the whole story We ful and efficient legislation it is have to pay for what we have an absolute failure. This district bought with the money borrcw- is represented now by two men, ed. We will have to pay for all one being Murdoch Johnson, the other things we buy. We will who, thanks to a previous op- jhave to pay with taxes. We may portunity to know something of j lessen taxes a little by stopping legislation through a member- | some of our expenses, but not ship in South Carolina before coming here, is much better equipped than a new man for the work of the place. But no many people are calling for re duction of anything. We can’t lessen the taxes where debts are owned, for bonds have a way of sooner does the average senator j demanding money or repud la in a district like this acquire a 1 tion. Before we can settle tne knowledge of the fundamental tax situation we have to settle at the time as to its manner of conduct. Its purpose is a study of the Bible which is plenty broad enough to occupy an hour or so of a Sunday morning, and with a man like Mr. Waldie to lead the study many of the top ics that are presented send the attendants home with something to think about any time they want to think. Topic and talk er next Sunday are worth com ing out to hear. Open to all men who are interested. FEELING THEIR GROWING PAINS Much to the surprise of every body when the census man counted the folks in Southern Pines he found some three thous and souls. With the annexation of the colored settlement the number rises close tow;»rd four thousand, and in the winter sea son the population climbs up to ward five or six thousand, and becomes a definite and progres sive member of the group of smaller cities of North Carolina. One of the problems of life is for mother to keep little Willie in proper clothes, not because he wears them out so fast, but rather because he does not wear them out fast enough. Before he has thoroughly gone though the kne^s and the sit-down area of his trousers they will not reach from east to west or from north to south on his anatomy, and must be discarded for a larger equipment, to the dis may of the family exchequer. Towns are like boys. They out grow their facilites. Mr. Allen’s school population at present time in Southern Pines is much bigger than the things are included in the state and county and town budgets that have no business there, and many are included in the nation al budget. But unhappily nearly all of us are eager to have more things put there, overlooking the fact that taxation must pay all the expenses and outlays. The first needful thing to do with tax schemes is to look over the budget and get rid of use less expenses. Then we arrive at the point of providing for the things really justified. Any logical and fair system of taxation would consider an equal responsibility of every citizen in bearing the burden of govern ment. Here is encountered the most formidable obstacle. Near ly everybody wants the tax loads laid on shoulders other than his. Until we frame a tax measure that honestly calls on all of us for a fair proportion of only fair, but no other scheme can ever work out. If the small man dodges he is caught in some of the ramifications of taxa tion, and usually he is caught for more than his fair share. That the rich pay the taxes is one of the most positive delus ions. Rich and poor alike get their money from others. And it is the others Who provide the money to pay the taxes and everything else. We may think we can dodge taxes, but if we do not pay one way we pay another, and in paying through the nose we pay in the most expensive way. So we will never have a satis factory or a fair tax system un til we make a schedule that will tax every citizen in accord with his ability to pay, his abilty resting on his earnings, in no matter what form. No matter what the bill accepted by this the expenses of government we legislature the next one vnll have are building a tax law that can ’ a tax job on hand. Too many not survive. It is fair to all that | conflicting opinions are calling the man of limited means pay for different things in the mix- his great proportion.. It is not ture. GFiAINS OF" SAND of blame as well as opportunity are all in it. ‘ ^ “Are we getting think so.” S-nywhere ? New York as a whole is prettv gloomy. It was, therefore, somethin of a silver lining to the cloud to bear the head of one of the world’s lar est corporations sound a note of 00^ fidence in the future. Frederick W Ecker, president of the largest finan cial institution in the world, the Metroipolitan Life Insurance Company also voiced optimism in a talk be' fore company agents while we were north. “We are six months ahead of where we think we are,” he said “just as we were six months worse off than we thought we were when this wave of depression hit.” Among North Carolinians we saw at the Associated Press meeting were John Park of the Raleigh Times, Jo- sephus Daniels, Jr., of the Raleigh News and Observer, and Talbot Pa- trick of the Gioldsboro News-Argus. New York is about the same. ■ the metropolis. Ernest would quickly : acquire a stiff neck. Of course they’ll never get it fin- 1 ished, and we don’t see how they’ll ^ .Li. j xi. i V, , We went up to attend the annual ever solve the traffic ,problem or how . - j -«rr 1 ,, , XT. • T. 1.1.1. •i.i. n 4.1, meetmg of the Associated Press. Wal- they keep their health with all the ^ , -j j. a -J i-i- u XI- 4? tei* S. Gifford, president of the Amer- carbon monoxide they breathe from , r,, , , « rr, 1 ^ the exhausts of motor vehicles, but y- that-s their look-out. We only run up 7" the prme.pal speaker at the lun- T, , . J 4. J -J. cheon. He seemed optimistic of the about twice a year and can stand it , ^ , for a few days. That new Empire State Building, country’s ability to recover from the present economic depression if we will all keep our heads, resort to no The weather in New York was fine the girls as pretty a? ever, the taxi cabs run faster than ever, and all in all it’s a pretty good place to come back from. —N. C. H. From the State Press LINGERING IN THE SANDHILLS tallest in the world, is worth a trip sensationalism, avoid hysteria. ‘I believe in the common sense and to see. A1 Smith is president of the entire population, adults, babies, | company that built it on the site of I ability of the American people,” and school children and every thing j the famous old Waldorf-Astoria Ho- I have, therefore, no fears of the else when Allen was first given | tel, and it looks as if it would hold present or the future. The immediate practices of legislation than he is set aside by our peculiar cus tom to permit a newcomer to take up the work at the next session. There is one of the great dif- whether we are to spend less money. If we are not the tax burden is perpetual, and we, the whole people, have it to carry. Some hopeful philosophers think it can be shifted, but it car’t. ficulties North Carolina enconn- That has been tried for ages by ters, and that all the states con- ^ all people, but never with suc- tinually face, and that makes ^ess. We can’t dodge the tax col our federal Congress much less i Sector, no matter what scheme efficient than it ought to be. | you think you have found. When a good m'an gets into leg-1 i.«^lative work he should be i- ! EDUCATION AND there. Not that it is a desir ible HOME LIFE job, for it is not. But as long as Last Sunday was not avery a good man will stay in le^isla-1 ^ay for folks to get out ture or Congr^'ss thp peoole are j religious missions, which re- the better <=5erved for having i suited in a small number attend- him there. Johnson and Spence, | B>ble Forum in South- by reason of their experience in * Pines. T. C. Waldie had been previous sessions, have been of j "the Forum far greater use to the state this some educational influences winter at Raleigh than is often 2^ ancient Jewish life, but be- TDossible for a new m*an. The ex- charge of the schools of the as piring village. When he came to the community not a school house in the county could com pare with the colored school in Southern Pines at present. Steadily the school population is encroaching on the room, and teaching force, and financiall provision to carry on. It costs more money to build the side walks of Southern Pines now ^ _ _ fore he got underway the meet- perience thev have gained this i seemed to develop a sort of winter should be available for | Question and answer session, the county and state welfare at; there it stay^ until ad- the coming two years from now. time. But not until Rotation in office is a delusion. was dated for next If a man is not fit to be trained i ^ , sarne subject, for service longer than sixty i appeared to be of more davs he is not fit to have the ordinary interest to those job at all. If he is worth train ing it is an economic waste to who were present. It is said of Mr. Waldie that train him even sixty days and! experience then let him get awav. If our! ?P^cialized fields and that state was a business organiza-' ^ thinker pd student who tion Johnson anrl Soence would, something to say to others be in the next le?i.«!lature if they current prob- could be drafted there. Two'!™®' However he may t^kle years from now we will need in- IPi’OKram next Sunday is of telligent and trained men in Ral- io K ‘^®*’|sequence, for his last eigh as much as we need them. | now. Firing the experienc^ shows that he has it like the hand is baby play. the trouble WITH TAXATION mariner hias his compass, so that he can box it coming or go ng. An especial point that should be of interest at this period of restless life is Mr. Waldie's em phasis on the importance of home life that the Jews of Bibli cal days encouraged and which, among the Jews, holds good to According to fisrures from the recent ipsue of the New York World Almanac. North Carolina has a bonded debt of $165,000,- 000. This ’ does not include | this day. county and municipal debt, I The Bible Forum is a proper which niles np enormously be-1 place for Mr. Waldie's talk, for sides. Two other states, Illinois! it permits discussion of the sub- with $201,000,000, and Newjject at any point by anyone York with $250,000,000, have a | who feels disposed, and when a bigger bonded debt than North ! man like Mr. Waldie presents Carolina. New York is four times !a new idea he is usually called as populous as North Carolina, | on to elaborate on any phase of Illinois two and a half times as | it that excites question or com- large as this state. Pennsylvan-; ment. The Forum is held in the ia, the second state in the union. I basement of the Southern Pines has a debt of $91,000,000, Ohio Baptist Church at 10 o’clock $8,750,000, and our neighbor, Sunday morning. It is a sort of V irginia has a debt of $25,000,-! go-as-you-please affair without 000, or little more than a sev- i much rule or regulation, depend- enth of ours. Illinois is the only ] ing on the judgement of those state that has so big a road who constitute the 'assemblage all the people who voted for A1 a present, statisticians of the telephone couple of years ago. We want Ernest company tell me, shows signs of im- Woodward of Southern Pines to run provement. How fast that improve- up and look at it, and we want to be ^^ent will be, measured in weeks or there when he do§s. Ernest told us ”ionths, I don't know. But in the tel- a while back that the last time he ephone company we have every con- was in New York the dome of the fidence in the future—not only con- New York World building topped all i fidence, but the keenest interest in metropolitan -structures. The World the possibilities ahad of us. building today is hardly distinguish- ' “Whose depression is this,” he able among its neighbor skyscrapers. ! asked. “If, as has been said, a fun- . . . . . nearly as tall as buildings in damental cause of it is greed, who than it did to build and maintain i Charlotte and Winston-Salem. There are they that did not add their part the streets a few years ago. The lare prabably 1,000 taller buildings in to the picture? This is a democracy water question, the sewers, the j police, the various things in a ! growing town, call for money. | And of equal importance they | call for capable supervision, j They call for policing, and for | court administration, and for a i thousand things that few people know of. You can’t grow and have the same trousers serve you. South ern Pines grows at more than ordnary gait, hence its growing pains are more severe. Some of the folks make the mistake of ( thinking that a few individuals i are responsible for these grow ing pains, for the cost of the new clothes, for the policies that are pursued, for all the unex pected problems that follow. That is a misfortune. The man who lends a hand in the admin istration of affairs in a growing town needs to be as wise as the serpents of Biblical day, as tact ical as a commanding general, as untiring as a waterfall, and as diplomatic as a prime minister. For there is only one thing he can do, and that is to buy Willie a new pair of pants when his feet stick down too far through the old ones. Southern Pines is like Mr. Reilly, who kept the ho tel. He kept it dam well. But the town has its growing pains and they cannot be stopped. No matter who rules Willie must have his pants according to his growth. What has been known as “the Winter season” in the resort towns of the Sandhills has been gradually lengthened in recent years so that it now extends well into the Summer. The “peak,” or “height” has been ex tended a few weeks longer with ^^ach rrecurring season and the hotels that were usually closed at this time of the year are yet humming with ac tivity, with the golf links, polo grounds, rate tracks, archery grounds and all out - of doors looking like cir cus day. More than that, the number of homes built by Winter tourists, but converted into all-the-year- around residences, has been multi plied to material increase of the per manent population. This is particu larly true of Southern Pines, which has been built up largely by home owners attracted by the advantages offered in climate and civic beauty, for the original population made it a (Please Turn to Page Three.) Midland Farms Home Sites TOO MANY COOKS SPOIL THE BROTH Much of the excitement of the peopte over the tax measure be fore the legislature is needless. It is not very material which of the many bills proposed becomes the tax law, for neither of them is sufficiently near perfection to be permanent. We are in the midst of a gigantic experiment, which will be nothing more pos itive than an experiment when , it is put in practice, for it is a i makeshift at the best, and a compromise, which is the name for a thing that never-yet work ed. Only a few people have given to taxation enough thought to have a clear understanding of its principles. Yet th«y should be simple enough. They are grounded on the need of money to carry on the public affairs. First of all considered should be the limit of public demand. Some It is plain as the nose on your face that all the work of planning for new home sites in the Midland area is not to stop at the engineering- stage. Folks who come to the Sandhills for a winter residence or for more temporary stay will be interested in the advance ment that each new step suggests. Ten years ago the Midland section was almost an undiscovered country. Ten years from now can be estimated by the ten years that have gone. Midland Farm home sites‘will be in the heart of all of it in the next few years. tion. Now is a good time to secure a loca- MIDLAND FARMS, Inc. Pinehurst, N. C. or accredited Real Estate agents in Pinehurst or Southern Pines. 3
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