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Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen. North Caroliiia Friday, July 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 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. A FORGOTTEN HERO OF JULY Saturday was the Fourth of July, an alleged day of outstand ing prominence in American his tory. Some of the banks and postoffices closed on July 4, some of the stores closed July 6, and we absolved ourselves of the responsibilities of tbe day. Rip Van Winkle says when we are dead how soon we are forgotten. Sixty-eight years ago last Sat urday North Carolinaians, many of them from Moore county, made a bit of history that will live forever while the language of this country is printed. Sixty- eight years ago Pickett's charge at Gettysburg, in which was Pet tigrew's brigade of North Car olina infantry, gave students of history ' something to consider to the end of time. Pettigrew’s brigade the first day at Gettys burg, lost one-third of its mem bers ; one regiment, the 26th lost in killed and wounded 584 out of 820, and in one company of 84 big hand in making North Car olina what it is today instead of what it was a quarter of a cen tury" ago. The Mellon interests at Badin have taken a useless stream and converted it into a powerful factor in progress and made Stanley county one of the most desirable, thrifty and pro gressive spots of the South. The Carolina Light and Power com pany has aided in the develop ment of the Sandhills and other sections of the state, and by the utilization of water that for ages until they took it in hand ran down the rivers to the sea with no return to the people. The crime of thse power companies is that they have made progress and comfort possible in their areas and that incidentally they have prospered themselves. Cer tainly nobody would want to go back where we were before these concerns developed the streams and harnessed the magic that their touch awakened. Senator Cam has staked out a new political claim, and possibly it is destined to prove a valuable one for him and his state as well. Certainly the power companies in North Carolina have not done a great deal of damage to the progress and prosperity of the state, and the prophet who points out their benefits to the state may find he has a follow ing bigger than has been con ceded by some folks. APPROVE JOHN WARREN WATSON ‘‘If there is a man in the Sand hills who deserves commenda tion Mr. John Warren Watson must be in that class,” remark ed a woman who had been visit ing the Watson lake and observ ing the folks who were there in the water. A large clean beach, men every one was hit, and the: things in appiCpie order, rigid officer who made the report of | that require everything to conditions did it with a bullet i attractive and to prevent anj^ through each leg. | thing that will interfere with Pettigrew was a native of pleasure of a visit to the North Carolina, born in Tyrell county. It was Pettigrew’s bri- place, and the utmost courtesy on the part of those who have gade that met Meredith’s ‘‘Iron premises ^ive a class Brigade,” of Federal troops on the Chambersburg pike and op ened the battle of Gettysburg, and the heart was cut out of the brigade on that first day of fighting. But the remnant fol lowed along in chasing the Fed eral troops into Gettysburg and joined Pickett as the left wing in that fierce charge of the af- ternoon of July 8, advancing far- to the Watson pond that puts it almost in a rank of its own. While admission is by card or personal permission the place is free, but with a string on the freedom. It is not open to any who should not be there, for Mr. Watson does not indicate in any way that it is a public resort. Those who go there go as his guests ^nd he invites none who ther up the hill than any other will not help him to maintain command, taking back with them circumspect relation to each a smaller number than any oth er, and in their terrible casual ty list lowering over North Car olina the most dreadful cloud of sorrow the state had ever known. On that day Pettigrew com manded the division. His bri gade was commanded by a ma jor, the only field officer left. Only 935 men were accounted other and to the place that is expected of any guest who is in vited to a private establish ment. John Warren Watson opens the park to his friends, those he knows personally and many he does not know, on the assump tion that they are his friends and will help to make the lake a for in the brigade when the bat- Pleasure spot to the folks of the tie ended. ! Sandhills, but at the same time The Confederate army on the ^1^1^ regard for all the restric- night of July 3 moved out from Gettysburg to the South, follow ed by Meade’s forces. On July 14 in a skirmish with Federal calvary Pettigrew was wound ed at Falling Water, W. Va., and July 17 he died at Bunker Hill. tions which are necessary in maintaining the interesting in stitution he has created for his own enjoyment. He does this simply because he is big enough tq want to share with others the fine park he has created. Every- North Carolina might emphasize understands the fine op- poitunity he has provided. But to appreciate what he has done it is necessary for everybody to be as particular as they know how in observing Mr. Watson’s rights in the place, in helping in every way to leave the lake and the beaches and the approaches and everything on the territory the stirring events of early July more than it does. A NEW KIND OF POLITICIAN Perhaps it is not correct to say that Senator Cameron Mor rison is a new kind of politician. for he is so fairly well establish- . . ed in his ways that his outspok- the same excellent condition to en utterances are not surprising. Yet when he says before the Ki- wanis club of Charlotte that he takes an attitude that politicians have not leaned toward, that of standing by a thing that serves commendation even though it may not be the com mon custom in a vote getting contest to take such a stand, he is out of the ordinary, at least in politics. Senator Morrison does not believe in crucifying the power companies because it is possible to make political that way. His reason is that the pow- which he has lifted it, and to give no annoyance and trouble to anyone there, or to those who have it in charge. Mr. Watson has done a big thing for the , Sandhills. It is up to all of us to ’' tote fair with him in every way. THE COST OF INSURANCE The new law which on July 1 placed a responsibility on own ers and drivers of automobiles, requiring insurance or bond for damages or the possible revok ing of license in case of darn er companies have created in' ages, has aroused some criticism. North Carolina a vast force that along with criticism of the tax has set the state on a broad in- on insurance policies. Leaving dustrial basis, built mills and' out reference to a tax on insur- factories that put the state in a | ance policies, which in some re- first position in the industrial | spects resembles robbing the South, employs armies of men | grave, the whole matter of in- and women, and' creates vast | surance on automobiles is Jarge- wealth by its efforts. He is not | ly in the hands of the drivers, in favor of assaulting the pow-! That the rates as established er companies as a sport, or as a ' are high goes without saying, but a glance at the figures in volved will tell why the rates are high. Lloyd Gardner is au thority for the statement that in 1930 the number of lives lost in automobile inishaps was 33,000 and the property damage esti mated at ‘$900,000,000. With so many people killed and so much economic loss the insurance com panies cannot make the rates that people would like. It is not what the rates ought to be that the companies can deal with, but what actual loss compels them to be. Now The Pilot has no partic ular interest in defending rates for the insurance' companies, but it has in reducing rates for the people, and in safeguarding the people from this tremendous loss. Just one way offers to re duce insurance rates and to les sen the number of deaths and the enormous property loss, and that is for everybody to help to lessen the mishaps on the roads. Two courses are open. One is for each individual to be careful, and the other is for the careful driver to get o nthe neck of the reckless or drunken or objec tionable driver who is the cause of disasters. Insurance will nev er be reduced as long as the losses are up to their present high figures. The only way to reduce insurance costs is to re duce the inexcusable losses on the roads and that can be done by no one except the drivers of cars. This new law puts the mat ter squarely before every driver. We are now obliged to face this responsibility, and if we want the insurance companies to carry the risk at low cost we have to make the risk less expensive for the companies. The whole affair is in the hands of drivers, and can be settled by no one else. Moreover the law will stay and we have to comply with it, for it is a logical and protective ure that should have been adopt ed long ago. THE FOLLY OF BANK F.ilLURES Not long ago some sections of North Carolina and Tennessee had a series of bank failures. Now many of those banks that failed are coming back and mak ing good by paying off the de positors. Not wholly making good, for nothing will ever make good the inconvenience that fol lows the closing of a bank, and especially if it happens to be the one bank in the small commun ity where many of the disasters were located. Those banks that are opening again show conclusively that no legitimate reason existed for closing. The moving cause was the scare that followed the withdrawal of money on deposit, started by some persons w^ho al lowed their fear to get the bet ter of their judgment. No doubt after the assets and liabilities of a large proportion of the closed banks had been carefully exam ined they showed ^^uffieient funds and proper business con tacts to carry on without any serious prospect of failure. But when a scare is raised regarding a bank it has to be quick on its feet to prevent trouble. Banks do not carry their money in their cash drawers. They loan a large portion of it, as that is the only way they can earn a return on their funds, and the chief way in which they can serve their communities. Their loans are so 'adjusted that their money is coming in all the time, and also it is going out all the time to new loans.* Enough is carried in the drawers and in reserve banks to take care of daily with drawals by check or in loans, but to serve its community a bank needs to have as much as possible of its cash in the hands of borrowers that they may be using the money. A bank loans for definite per iods—thirty, sixty, ninety days, and in some cases for longer time, and it can hardly call its sixty-day paper in in less than sixty days or its ninety-day pa per in less than its time to run, or any other loans except on the dates when due. So it cannot al ways hurry its loaned resources ed, and trouble is the common fate. The reopening of the banks here and there tells how foolish it was to force them to close. Fortunately the hysteria that led to the closing of the banks has apparently run its course, and recovery is going on, now, but the pity is that the people lost their heads and with it their money. 1^31. Grains of Sand In The Pilot last week N. J. Muse of Carthage, says The Pilot is far from facts in its statement of the cost of collecting taxes in Moore. He mentions postage, clerical assistance, bond for tax collectors, and other minor items that bring the total cost of the office up to nearly $1.28 on each hundred dollars collected. But these items would have to be includ ed in the expenses of any collector. From the figures submitted by Mr. Muse ^r. McLean’s cost to the county last year was $3,000 and the amount collected was $386,925.22, making his percentage of cost less than 80 cents on each hundred dollars collected. The Pilot appreciates Mr. Muse’s elucidation, but still thinks its own statement correct, and especially as Mr. Muse makes plain that Mr. Mc Lean for a salary of $3,000 last year collected $386,925.22. Bond, postage, advertising, and the other incidentals are not part of Mr. McLean’s costs but the fixed costs of the office, which are determined by the number : of accounts that are to be collected, and cannot be changed no matter who is the collector. FISHERMEN It was announced that the privately owned Lake Dunlop few years ago had been stocked with 7,000 bass was open to th ^ lie at 50c a fisherman. ^ Some said “lake too small,’^ others “too full of weeds cover H bugs.” Ask Dan Horner of Southern Pines who caught an 18-in 1 Charles Field of Pinehurst who talks about the sport he had t land a bass that finally broke a line guaranteed to hold Ask others who have fished a number of times in the lake tell you that they have not only seen fish jump but have caught^th^^^^ Leave the 50c at Mr. Dunlop’s house on the way to the lake. ‘ LAKE DUNLOP East of Highway 50—Just Nforth oif Southern Pines SALES SERVICE n Three Model A Trucks Passenger Cars in all Models It will pay you to see our stock befor buying- H. A. PAGE, JR. a Aberdeen, North Carolina Doctor called in to see a little girl. A day of two later called again. Girl | better. Gave some advice about case, and left some medicine. Then as he j was about to depart he called the wo- j man of the house aside and instruct- ^ ed her to get the child a dog. “What j kind of a dog?’^ the woman asked. “Any dumb kind of dog at all, so it's | a dog,” said Doc. When he called again a day or two later he was shown the dog. “Now the kid’ll get all right,” said Sawbones. Some doctors know some things some doctors don’t know. The kid is all right. So is old Alex. tt Fourth of July is making headway. The fuss that started the July holi- i g day shed its first blood at Concord | S and Lexington. Forty-nine Americans § were killed in the battle. Saturday, the n observation of the holiday, chalked up H over 86 killings by the automobiles i 8 alone, the best fourth of July record i g we have ever made. We are coming all i H right. IH Folks around here are willing enough to see tobacco go up in price while it is in the leaf, but when it gets into cigarettes price advance is another matter. The offender who goes before Judge Humber’s »court these days might as well be caught for a sheep as for a lamb, for he either has to pay cash or be resigned to sixty days. Thirty days is them good old times we read about. The rains of the last few days did a lot toward making Max Gardner’s garden scheme work out in this sec tion. Bystanders in the Clerk’s office got a hearty laugh recently when a pros ecuting witness entered to prove his ticket. Upon being asked if he were a State’s witness he replied: “No, girls of the three churches here, sang During 1930, according to the Na tional Safety Council, America’s acci dental death toll reached a total of 99,000 lives—the highest annual fig ure on record. The motor vehicle toll—33,000 lives —was highest, closely followed by 30,- 000 deaths in homes. It is said that three billion dollars is a modest es timate of the direct cost of accidents for the year. The United States has the highest accident toll of any country in the world—principally due to automobiles. Carelessness an dignorance are gen uine menaces to the health and happi ness of the nation. Only in the case of school children in to meet unusual demands. The definite accident reduction been man who scares and starts to " " " - — ♦♦ n draw his money on his scare starts something from which the whole community suffers, and in most cases without the slight est reason. One of the troubles made. Safety education in schools has not only precented current accidents, but it instills a safety message that is carried through life. During a per iod when accidental deaths to persons of all ages increased 28 per cent, vote-getting occupation and he has the courage to stand on the platform and say so. The Duke interests have had a with a bank scarp if ' deaths among children under 15_drop- bank closes its doors it7entire p®'' 2.3 per cent, line of loans is doomed. Instead of benig renewable for another period at the discretion of the bank they become due, and it frequently happens the debtors are not able to make payment at j Mrs. W. R. Clegg and Mrs. Dan the time^ of maturity. The whole ! Carter spent Thursday in Aberdeen community becomes disarrang- with Mrs. Ralph Caldwell. Every person has the power to pre vent accidents—and unless he uses that power, nothing in the world can stop the toll from rising. Weymouth Heights Southern Pines, N. C. When James Tufts some forty years ago sought for a neighborhood to locate his colony that had for its pur pose finding where healthful conditions might prevail ^he asked the authorities at Washington where to put his finger on the place. He was advised to look over the North Carolina Sandhills. When the government sent Col. King to find the best spot on the continent for a great military reserva tion he whittled everything down to the North Carolina Sandhills, and the military board c6nfirmed his selec tion and Congress established Fort Bragg. When the Seaboard Railroad undertook to create a winter playground in the near South the Sandhill coun try was chosen. And so it goes. Authorities pick the Sandhills—^for reasons. And Weymouth is located on the summit of these Sandhills. s. B. RICHARDSON Real Estate | Southern Pines. North Carolina I a Special Sale of USED GARS NOW ON The Pinehurst Garag'e offers until Au gust 1st the following- real barg-airs in thoroug-hly reconditioned used cars. These cars have all been overhauled in our shop and are fully up to the usual standard maintained by us. Every car in the list is a real barg-ain—vou will be surprised at the excellent appear ance and performance of many of teem. 1928 Ford Coupe $323.00 1930 Essex Coupe 550.00 1929 Ford Touring 1.” .1”.." .'.1"..”.." 350!00 1928 Essex Coach 225.00 1928 Essex Sedan ’ 250 00 1925 Dodge Sedan ’ loo.OO 1927 Franklin Sedan 400.00 1927 Packard Sedan 650.00 1929 Hudson Sedan '' 350*00 1929 Essex Coach 1..." 400.00 1927 Hudson Coach 250.00 For those wanting an exceptionally good car at a bar gain price we recommend that they take a iook at the Franklin and Packard in the above list. PINEHURST GARAGE CO. PINEHURST, N. C. a a tt a a a a a a I
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