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THE pilot' a Paper with Tharacter, Aberdeen, North CaroUna
Friday, May 15_
THE PILOT
property. Much difference of, building and rebuilding has ac- world, ^ rinrinff
opinion as to values is express- icomplished. ! mg of American cotton ^
ed, depending on the conditions] There is now a considerable the last eignt montns tnan a -
as they affect the man who i list of them. McKinney, the Du- ing a similar period tor many
gives the opinion. But the abso- | Fonts just below him on Drown- years, and not much to encou
lute fact about land is that its | ing creek, Johnson on the Moore ' age the expectation oi improve-
GRAINS OF- SAND
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager -g always comparative. In | county side a little farther up,ment. Exports have fallen off
BION H. BUTLER, Editor itself it is of mighty little value, | the creek, Watson, Verner Reed, badly, American mills nave
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT ’ in spite of the fact that it is White, Tompkins and The Pad-^ bouglit decidedly smaller
RALPH PAGE practically necessary for human i dock crowd in the vicinit}^ of | tities, stocks on hand are nign.
Contributing Editors existence. Yet the main value we Southern Pines,/-Gallery, the |and while the sales at the pres-
put on lands is purely specula- | group out beyond Pinehurst, up !ent time are just a trme
Subscription Rates:
im-
Extra! The legislature is still in ses- ' ned Wood, Jr., has bsen here
sion. Or, to be more exact, the legis- On the Canadian team are \y •
lature is in session. ; and Rainville, both of whnm
1 ed’ in last month’s Pinehurst
Talking about the wind and hail
storm of last Saturday, Jesse Page of Dollar Days in Southern Pines M
up Candor way told Howard Harri- ^ day and Tuesday proved successfud^^”
son of a twister once which lifted a the merchants co-operating ^
small pond right out of its place one
tive, which is no actual value at | the West End way, and else- ■ proved the future is not one to , ^ deposited it in
One Year $2.00, pQj. purposes of assessment | where, building country homei^ warrant a big crop.
Six Months $1.00
Three Months 50
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THE PLIGHT OF
STATE AND NATION
The Pilot has not been as vo
ciferous about the legislature;
and its tax problems as some i proportion.
it is of no consequence whatever | and embellishing the country | That the sale of mules
what the values arrived at are, j landscape. Clear to the Chatham i throughout the whole United
because on a low value a high | county line in the Deep River States at the public stock yards
is barely fifty per cent of the
normal sales tells that the far-
tax rate is required while on a j country the leaven is working
high value a low rate gives the and on a definite basis of posi- r. • i
same amount of money, and the j tive rebuilding of the neighboi’- j mer is not keeping up his plow
amounts of money is the esson- j hood and the introduction of , stock, which forecasts a reduc-
tial thing in computing and j new influences to reach that ,| tion of the acreage in plowed
levying taxes. If all lands are as- I ideal whi<ih has beeix distin- | crops, of which cotton is one
sess d at the same proportionate • ^ ^ ^
ratio it makes no difference if
the assessment is high or low.
We pay our taxes on the same
another the opposite side.
“That must have been the same
storm which blew those sheep up
against the side of a barn and held
them there until they starved' to
death,” Howard countered.
bargain offerings, and they
others throughout the
months. Watch for their
ments.
in
the
plan
^nnounce-
The main values attaching to
land in this county are the
speculative values given by the
attractiveness of the land as
home sites or the possibility of
folks might have thought time
ly. But the reason is plain
enough. The legislature has been
struggling with a task that is
broader in its range than sim
ply writing a tax law and dis
missing the subject there. We as . . . i
a people have to face a big debt | cannot rate high, as it is not
which has been piled up during | highly productive. But its possi-
the period of easy money follow- bilties as a community where
ing the great laxity that follow
ed the war. We now are con
fronted by that debt and by the
prodigal habit of expenses that
came with the war. But unhap
pily we have passed the day
when money came so easy that
anyone who wanted more had
merely to borrow. Borrowing has
encountered the logical stage
that ,any unrestricted outgo is
certain to meet sooner or later,
and the source has been dried
guished by the proposition of jof the most prominent. Fertiliz- overhead.”
making here the most pleasant; er sales also point to reduced
and entertaining place to live ■ acreage of cotton, a^ well as
that can be achieved with the | other field crops that are culti-
abundant means at hand. j vated.
Horses have been introduced i General reports are to the ef-
James Boyd is back from Europe
and says business conditions are much
better over there, that everything is
I much cheaper which fosters the buy.
“There’s one thing about the storm ing spirit. Now if we can only fin,j
which took the roofs off my farm a way of getting over,
buildings,” Ralph Page said the other
to such extent that they are i feet that the farmers are ar-
known to be a factor that is go- jranging for a much more gener-
ing to chase closely after golf ^al production of the things that
as an entertainment. But also j can be used at home rather than
the creation of country estates, now is coming into prominense ; the cash crops that have been
As farm land Moore county land the repopulation of the Sand- , grown to buy such supplies, and
hills with wild life that the hun-, that foreshadows a return to a
ter shall have an interest in the | solid basis for the farm wher-
outdoor life in the sand. Fish - j ever it is followed. The farm
ing and boating are to be reviv-1 that makes its own subsistence
_ ed and on a basis never thought j will be hard to starve out, even
lative value that is worth enter- 'of in the past. Dams planned and I if it does not have much cash
taining. It is doubtful if any | built by engineers are part of i income, and the farm that can
All but one of the young tennis
stars chosen for the American Davis
Cup team to play Canada have been
seen in action at Pinehurst, two of
them, Frank Shields and Clifford
Sutter, last month. Gregory Mangin
played here a year ago, hut we do not
recall that the fourth member, Sid-
Retuming Kiwanis delegates re-
port they dashed over to Cuba from
Florida and found conditions there
pretty liquid. They did not go into
detail.
Did you win
money?
any of that Camel
Neither did we.
more and more new people will
create homes gives it a specu-
From the State Press
COWS BETTER THAN GIRLS
Samarcand Manor, a six-year-old,
which produced 2,120 pounds milk'
62.33 pounds of butter fat.
—Charlotte Observer.
Moore county land is too high in
its speculative value, although
that value may not materialize
right away. Probably some of
the sales recently noted are too
low, yet because they are made
because of necessity they estab
lished a price which is logical,
for prices are made only when
the new schemes. Big farms that not be starved out is in shape to
up. Now it is to pay, not to bor-1 buyer and seller get together
row more. 1 and fix a figure that both can
So the legislators are asked to j agree on.
get blood from the turnip patch, ! The man who must sell, and
and it seems they have difficulty
will raise feed for birds and
by the help of protected estab
lishments shielded from ene
mies and from hunger, artificial
hatching and rearing, all the
comforts of bird life. And the
most pleasant of rural homes
get its feet on the solid ground
that leads to a renewed prosper
ity, even though the recovery
may be slow. Fortunately the
rains this spring have been seas
onable, frequent, and fairly
abundant since the growing per-
that can be created. The army is | iod commenced, and at the pres-
recruiting for this work, and the j ent time the moisture in the
doing it. Those conjure doctors
who believe they can make a
few passes and produce anything
who cannot find a buyer who
will pay a high price, has to sell
at a low price. But because nec-
future of the Sandhills is
dream.
a ground is better than it has been
jat this season very often in the
I past ten or twelve years. Early
i grains are heading up, and will
Isoon be coloring, while other
The bad girls at Samarcand have
given that institution a sufficiency of
advertising of a kind, and now the
Samarcand cows come forward to off-
GREENWOOD TRIO AT
YATES-THAGARD CHURCH
Next Sunday, May 17, at 11:00
o’clock, Yates-Thagard Church will
set it in another direction. The Sam- have as special guests the Rev. Law-
AN EXCHANGE
OF PULPITS
On Sunday the Rev. Murdoch 1 ftuff is showiner a good start in
essity drives that does not say j j^^^Leod of the Pinehurst Com.- ’ ground. All around it looks
froni 7 hat are'insisting on cer“ ithat prices later will not be more | ’ church one of the the most hopeful outlook the
tain sleight-of-hand, but it does : satisfactory. Distress sales of | youngish ministers of the Pres- farmer has seen for a number
not seem to work, and in conse- | anything do not fix a permanent | faith, will exchange ^ of years, even though cotton and
quence the legislature is at its ' Pi'jce. They are incidents, not tne | somewhat in
wits’ end in finding a place to rules that govern One of these, Stimson of the Bap-'the dumps But this is offset by
gather the money required for;days vhe distressed lands will be,Church at Southern Pi''es. |^^her strings to the agricultural
our debt interest, the sinking > disposed of. Then the man who , Exchanging pulpits is not out of , t> k iw t- ■
fund, the current expense andi^ants to buy will find that I’® ^he ordinarv these days, but it is bow. Probably Moore county is
the upkeep of many things on ■ to pay a price for what he i more significant when these on a more positive footing now
the high level that has been es-and the man who will pa-comparatively young prcach- than for half a dozen years.
tablished in the last fifteen : tiently hold what he has will.g^g the Calvinist faith,'
years. To make matters worse discover that his speculative the older days was
that short-sighted fashion so P^ce is m his favor If you must | infley,.
common to the human race of fll some land under pre^ure,.., j^^/the other a Baptist,
charging as crooked, or igno- try to sell as little as possible j carrying the reputation of
rant, or unfit those who do not, and hold the rest for a later buy-| relations and tradi-
agree with them has broken out,®*'. It js not likely that this f'- itiojjg without hesitation or any
with more or less of the people,; "ancial depression will last in- i contrary, talk each
and we are not acting in intelli-' defimtelj. If it does this whole , other’s congregation,
gent harmony i n seeking out world is licked for the life of i
in one of his
methods and applying proposi- this generation, which is not, ggggj^^g with the Bible Forum
tions. We show to many signs of conceivable. It is safe to assume . o^ythern Pines C. T. Waktie,
fighting it out, forgetful that that lands are to bring a price i ^ principal of an ad-
our opponents are just as anx- before ong, and that Moore school in Philadelphia,
ious as we are to get a solution county lands are worth holding . intolerance, not partic-
of the difficulty just as likely ve^ reUgious intolerance, but
„ general intolerance m al
most every horizon of life and
which makes so much of the
arcand Manor owns a herd of 26
Ayershires, and the Ayershire Breed
ers Association, at Brandon, Vermont,
is giving the record of this herd to
the dairying world. These 26 cows,
so the report gO€s, secured the high
productive average of 782 pounds of
3.48 per cent milk, 27.22 pounds of
butter. Every cow in the herd that
had once freshened was included in
computing this average, regardless of
age or stage of lactation. Individual
honors in the herd for production
were won by Naota, of Beech Hill
Farm, a six-year-old, which cow pro
duced 2,288 pounds of milk, 69.78
pounds of butter fat; Libbiehel, of
Beech Hill Farm, a six-year-old,
which produced 2,142 pounds milk,
65.55 pounds butter fat; Zenda, of
Beech Hill Farm, a seven-year-old,
which produced 2,248 pounds milk,
64.29 pounds of butter fat; Effie, of
rence B. Greenwood of Boston,
Mass., and Mr. and Mrs. Clifton A.
Plummer of Augusta, Maine. Mr,
Greenwood will deliver the sermon and
the three will render special music.
The trio have made themselves
popular in this section by their en
tertaining programs. Last fall Mr.
Greenwood held meetings at Aberdeen
and Carthage, as well as several in
spirational meetings at Southern
Pines during the fall. He is loved and
greatly admired by all who have had
the pleasure of hearing him preach.
Mr. and Mrs. Plummer have also
won for themselves many friend.j in
this section. Their music is an in
spiration to all who heard it. Besides
singing well Mrs. Plummer plays the
saxaphone, Mr. Plummer the trom
bone, and Mr. Greenwood the organ.
Everybody is invited and urged to
attend this special service.
BELOW ARE JUST A FEW OF THE MANY 19c SPECIAL VALUES
CSTABLISHEO
I8S9
WHERE ECONOMY KlUS
to have a sensible plan, just as ^reat^ asset they have in their
apt to have as much sense in the
matter as we are, and no more
likely to be bought by the hell
hounds or the apostates of dark
ness, or in any other way worse
than we are.
We have grown aw^ay from the
fundamental facts, which are
that the State is obliged to pay
a certain sum of money annual-
peculiar properties incident to
their location puts them in a
class alone. Moore county land is j^^stility that arises among men.
a good thing to hold_if you have | ^ churches as intol-
CHEESE
Fine Flavor
19€
some, and a good thing to get if
you get it at a reasonable figure.
To buy land now is wiser than
to sell it. But always anything
must be bought with judgment.
Men speak
erant of creeds other than their |
own, and of practices in and out j
of churches, but probably the
cordiality that exists among |
churchmen, although as Burns |
on occasion remarked that even ^
“ministers hae been kenned in i
holy rapture, a rousing whid at |
times to vend, and nail it wi’
now or any time. Moore county
ly, which^risVpertarns “to" the 'and properly selected and at the
nation, the countv, the town, "^^t price is a good investment.
and that we who are the whole Unwisely selected or at a price ^
people, are the forces that must f ! scripture,’’ the fraternity among
provide the money. That we can ? ” - is to preachers, the support one
shift our load to some one else'^® ™“ch keener yet <*an it is
sounds pleasing, perhaps, but it ^ bit of it i^ good to
never worked and never will. If
have in the family—if properly ■ human life
we will instruct our representa- , ^^^8“ht at the right price,
tives at all times to figure that '
all of us are entitled to do our
share, and no more than our
share we will have arrived at the
foundation of what we must do
to get a fair and reasonable tax
measure. But if we think we are
THE RECRUITS
STILL COME
Across ^the border in Rich
mond county John McPherson is
building for Glenn Ford McKin-
going to get away with anything ney, a cluster of buildings that
that will make some one else | will be the seat of a country de-
tiarry our individual loads we velopment, not pretentious, but
will know better before we get typical of that movement that
through. We can’t do it, even if is indicating a revolution in
it were right, which it is not. Sandhill life. Mr. McKinney is
and the most of our trouble one of the old stock of Pennsyl-
comes from trying to do the vania oil men, his father be-
thing that is impossible. The tax fore him having entered the
bill that tries to play favorites game soon after Col. Drake drill-
can not work, as containual ex- ed the first well at Titusville in
p^ience has shown, and that is 1859, and the younger man has
why we have trouble now as we ^ had the odor of oil in his nos-
1 does not trils from the first discoveries
look for a sensible tax measure | there. The oil country makes for
right away. Too many of us do ' good fellowship and that is w'hat
not wjant that kind, but rather, Glenn McKinney stands for, and
one that the other fellow will what prompts his establishnient
nave to pay. | in the edge of Richmond county,
he is joining that army of
' recruits that is beginning the
Li AND VALUES ! great game of making this a rur-
Moore county is deliberating al paradise in the favored area
over a new assessment of landed , that creation in its years of
and the
broad influence they all exert
for good, still stands as a shin
ing example to those who are
out of the church and at times
inclined to jest at the intoler
ance of the cloth.
Perhaps in the enthusiasm of
their devotion and the energy
of the attempts to influence men
to better things an ardent dom
inie allows hist* exjcess steam
pressure of welfare for his fel
lows to limit his field of toler
ation for some of the things he
classes as in need of righteous
fire, but the clergy of the Sand
hills show more eagerness to |
join in pack to hunt down that |
old common adversary than to |
set a lance in rest for each I
other. Not long ago Dr. Cheat- |
ham of the Episcopal church i
had as his dinner guest at Ki- '
wanis Father Dillon of the,
Catholic church, and both Me- ,
Leod and Stimson are members
of Kiwanis. Not so much intol
erance as to do much damage.
THE WORLD
COTTON PROSPECT
Government reports for April
tell of the cotton situation of the
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