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Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With rharacter. Aberdeen. North Carol^ Friday, Ju„e 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 Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .501 tected without the written con sent of the owner unless accom- be formed, representing not less than 3,000 acres in each organi zation, and the land must be specified and ^accepted by the Department of Conservation as hunting grounds and come un der the law. This is for the pro tection of owner and of hunt er. Unlawful hunting will be pre vented by the authorities, hunt ers will have to pay for their privileges and be under the sur- veilance of a guide or war den recognized by the law. No one may 'hunt on ground so pro- 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. NO TIME TO SWAP HORSES The Pilot does ont apprehend that there is any likelihood of panied by the owner or a repre sentative of the owner. The law is a fair one to both parties. State aid will be provided in stocking and propogating game and in conserving wild life, and in making a success of this project. The scheme is workable in all sections of the county where the landowners will get together and undertake an or- 1 . 1 :ganization. Alex Fields at South- makiiig a change m t^ ern Pines is game warden, and The Seaboard m<ay go into the 'hands of a receiver and the Nor folk Southern face a deficit, but they must be governed by the order of government authority before they can say what their expense miay be or what they may charge for their services. Now any one knows that no business can long be carried on at a loss or that it can be car ried on in a way that gives sat isfactory service unless suffi cient money is earned to pay the operating costs. Railroads have no gold mines to draw against for their revenue. They would not spend their money that way if they could get it. However, it is not a question of the roads them a margin, and capital will not be interested in the purchase of railroad stocks or bonds for further improvement unless a re turn is possible. The life insur ance companies that hiave their reserves in railroad bonds and stocks, the savings banks that buy millions of railroad securi ties and the hundreds of thous ands of stockholders of railroad stocks, who include a large pro portion of the people, will be the sufferers as well as the indus trial world if railroads are to suf- salvation. Information from Rus- newspapers, father is letting things sMp. The country has gone to the dogs. Hoover is doing everything he can to sink us into the depths of distress. A1 Smith is gunning for the presidency again, and if gossip is to be relied on he is de termined to establish the pope and the gin milf in this country. Father has allowed conditions to become so desperate in the state that taxation is about to ruin us. The young folks are beyond fer a loss of their business or the ability to pay a profit on the operation of the roads. Mighty few of the people of this country but are concerned in life and their earnings and their I jnsur/ance solvency, savings profits. It is one that concerns banks solvency, railroad wa^ges, the whole countjry, for this from railroad United States is more dependent stocks and bonds. tax collector, for J. D. McLean has made a record of efficiency in collecting his taxes which is without rivalry in the state. lie stands out as a marvel, produc ing his revenue at less than one per cent for collection, where other counties run up in varying figure? to ten times that much To dismiss a man of that effi ciency would require some con vincing explanation to get it past the people. The Board of County Com.mis- sioners is a group of right clear headed thinking men who are not likely to dismiss a man who has made a record like McLean holds, in the hope of saving a thousand dollars or such an amount by putting in the office a new hand unfamiliar with the work, and expecting that saving to be made after the final ac counts are turned in at the end of the tax year and the tax money counted. It would be a bold candidate who would enter on such a dif- will help in >any way he can to start the ball rolling. Under this new law Moore county should be filled with quail in a short time, and be one of the most success ful hunting areas of the United States. A hundred thousand acres of land in this county could be opened for this purpose, with a revenue that would materially add to the income of the farm ers perpetually. This looks very much like another valuable string to the Sandhills bow. ENLARGING THE ROAD PATROL In the main The Pilot has con fidence that the recent legisla ture did many things of a whole some and progressive character. In all probability the new road measure will prove wide >and ef fective, as it is a tendency to ward more economical and effi- ient operation on a cooperative movement through the whole on the efficiency of railroad service than any other thing that is a factor in business. Let the roads lower their efficiency and then we will know what depres sion in business means. If the roads cannot earn money enough to carry on, and on an efficient basis, industry in this country is shot to pieces absolutely. The dewberry crop right now might as well be in the bottom of the sea if the Seaboard road should be crippled. Trucks move some of the crop, but if left to move all of it they would be as help less as children with toy wag ons. With the roads further ham- sia is to the effect that the Com munists are about to get us,, and that they will sell us wheat at prices lower than we can make wheat, and cotton lower than we can make cotton, and everything on the face o fthe earth so low that we will have to put up fences to prevent them from feeding us for nothing and keeping us fat and lazy and un productive, making life for us an idle paradise without effort on Another thing that will suffer if the railroads are crippled is the tax fund of state, county and nation. The railroads of the United States pay annually about | our part. half a billion in taxes. The roads | Nobody is doing what he area mainstay in every state. In i ought to .The new road system this state they carry a big share ; is going to raise Cain with all of the tax load, and Moore | county would miss their contri-1 bution as they are among the | big three or four contributors to | the county treasury. The rail-' roads and that other big payer, i Pinehurst, are the foremost fac-' tors in the contribution of taxes I to maintain the schools, the 26. 1931. uor customs, so the fniu iu® schools are to go tn and the good men are h ed from the administrat^l the Republicans are **''1 capture the state anrl publicans are to be defeat f'' the nation next fall a«ri church it is intimated devil IS to get all of us nti ever see such a hocusnA^ such a dolorous outlook every fellow on the n^k every other one? One ”• hope was Parson Stimsoii at Baptist church who preached serman Sunday mominl to ^ than ever to be right anci h right, and he believes thev ar succeeding more than ever Tf u IS right then father is pein' not doing so badly, but if the r?st iare right and everybody hf, serving the knocks that'seem t be handed out on all sides it j! tme for father to get into ac' tion and.head the whole race to ward the proper course or kill off some of the knockers and prophets of evil. GRAINS OF' SAND A new ball throwing game took pos session of one of the vacant stores in the Aberdeen Hotel building last Sat urday night, and the store has at- highways, and to pay the public I tracted the youth of the town pretty debt of the county and the other i regularly since. Not that the game Not that the pered the employes will be laid! operating expenses. 1® popular, but a very pulchritud- off, their wages will be reduced, I For that matter Moore county ; '"o"® miss from Albemarle is m the steel mills, the cotton mills, i is absolutely dependent on the ; charg-e. We don t blame the boys, the factories, of every sort, that j Seaboard railroad. The fruit, the | make supplies for the roads, will | industries ,the winter business j The only way to beat the heat wave be limited in their sales of goods | and every big thing in which the | is to stay under water and no one ’ has yet invented a way to bang state rather than separate oper- ficult job" with no experience in ^‘tions by different units haying the work, for only disaster could regard for each other. The be expected from the experi ment, and The Pilot has no no tion that the commissioners would for a moment entertain any such a risky proposition. For they are all men of suffi cient business experience to know that if they should make such a change at this juncture, and the experiment prove as dis astrous as it is entirely likely to do, the people would not look kindly on the risk taken. The tax situation this year is one that requires all the ability an experienced man can bring to the job. This is no time to break in new hands. The county is treading new paths that are go ing to be tiding at the best, and every one who has skill and fa miliarity with the routine is needed on the job, and energeti cally. If a new collector is to be con sidered it must be not from the point of a reduction in salary of a thousand dollars, but of a re duction in the percentage of cost on the money collected. A new collector must collect the money for ' less than one per cent. Should the commissioners ap point anybody who does not do better in that respect than Mc Lean they will have an angry multitude to face when the fig ures come in next year. And a new collector must collect as promptly and as completely. The Pilot does not believe any inex perienced new hand can equal McLean's record. and in the operation of their!county is concerned, thrives by plants. The United States simply! reason of the service the rail- cannot live and operate its indus-1 roads give. It is the service, 'and tries with the roads throttled | not the rate of service that fig- into inefficiency, and we might' ures, and that is the fact to bear as well have intelligence enough | in mind. yet invented a way to oang a typewriter under water. Or feed a printing press. to recognize this fact before the roads are choked and thrown on the junk pile. It has taken al most a century to build up the TO PROVIDE BETTER HUNTING Elsewhere this week is a copy of the new game law which pro vides for game reservations and public hunting grounds in the the old"one“ha7‘^rrleroU‘lt reorganization of the State road board resulted from careful con sideration of conditions, and the study of plans for more concen trated action. The appointment of E. B. Jeffress of Greensboro, a newspaper man, to head the new commission, appears to be wise, for while newspaper men have no particular familiarity with roads, more than other men have, Mr. Jeffress seems to have a practical idea of things, and he looks at his new job from its various angles rather than as a political plum. His new board, which takes up the job July 1, announces the increase of patrolmen on the highways, the increase being from 37 to 60 men. The increase will be made possible by concentrating the work of the men in smaller dis tricts, cutting out much of the constant travel and permitting | them to stay at home nights in stead of at different places every night at high expense. This will give a much more complete control of the roads. As each man is to be confined to a limited field it will give him an acquaintance with his smaller territory ,and he will cover his range more frequently, with the consequent increase of efficien-1 cy. The road patrol as developed under the retiring highway board has demonstrated its val ue to the state, and laid the foundation for the broader work the new patrol will undertake with all the experience of the old one. With the new road law bringing all the main roads un der the control of the board, and with the new board granted an increased range of operation and more or less freedom from the big burden of construction that THE JOB FOR FATHER Sunday was Father’s Day. transportation system the coun- i How, or with what responsibility try enjoys, and it takes each : on father’s shoulders, does not year many millions to continue | appear. But no doubt Father’s to expand and improve the sys- | Day is somewhat needed. Father tem to handle the increasing bus- has evidently been negligent in iness. But the roads cannot han-1 some things, for if we are to be- dle the traffic unless it pays | lieve the current gossip and the Mrs. James Swett has a letter from a kinsman in Fall River, Massachu setts, Francis Allen, who says in the South we know nothing of financial depression. Mr. Allen is principal of a business college in Fall River and conspicuous in the Chamber of Com merce work in that city, so he has close touch with conditions. He says the schools have dropped 160 teachers, and that city employes have suffered a reduction of twenty percent in wages, and that the city is not spend ing any money for anything not ab solutely necessary. Fall River is a large cotton cen ter of the North, some of its grief coming, from the competition that it has encountered in the rapidly devel- oping textile industry of North Car olina and the rest of the South. Its worst prospect is perhaps in the fact that cotton manufacturing in this state seems destined to be a perma nent thorn in the flesh of Massachu setts, and without the present general depression all over the country the New England textile centers would have troubles enough any way. KIWANIS CLUB MEETING The Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen will meet next Wednesday, uly 1st, at the Pinehurst Community Church, Pine hurst. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our friends, white and colored, for their help and ex pressions of sympathy during the ill ness and death of our loved one. —T. J. SMITH and Family. state. It looks like a measure to encourage the multiplication of game and the utilization of the opportunities to make of the Sandhills Section one of the best hunting regions of the whole United Stated. Provision is af forded the landowner in protect ing his land 'against lawless hunters, and with the fees that are provided an ‘encouragement is held out that can make the wild lands profitable to the own er and reward him for protecting game, and at the same time create in the neighborhood such a hunting condition that will at tract hunters in greater num bers and with the reasonable as surance that they may find something to reward them for their time and money. The bill as presented is clear and definite. To carry it out or ganizations of landowners must IS reasonable to expect that Mr. Jeffress’ organization is begin ning a piece of work that will be as constructive as the old board has accomplished to its everlast ing credit. North Carolina’s road board has an outstanding record of accomplishment, and the signs are under its new as signment it will make anoth er record that will be equallv favorable. INCREASE IN RAILROAD RATES? The railroads are asking for an increase of rates. Their rates are fixed by the government, and cannot be changed without per mission from the Interstate Commerce Commission. No mat ter how much their expenses overreach their income the roads have no power to raise riaues without government permission. THE NEW FORD STANDARD SEDAN L A beautiful five-passenger car, with longer, wider body, and attractive, comfortable intenor. The slanting windshield is made of Triplex safety plate glass. You can now have the new Ford delivered with safety glass in all windows and doors at slight additional cost. The price of the new Ford Standard Sedan is $590, f o. b. Detroit. F,O.B. Detroit, plus freight and delivery. Bumpers and spare tire «# i . ^ . . Auihorized Ford Finance pZ. of cZ'ZT’
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