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Pa£re Eight
THE PILOT, a Paper With rharacter, Aberdeen, North Carolina
F^y,, August 7
Interesting Figures
Shown in Report of
N. C. Tax Commission
Florida Newsboys Entertain Sandhills Crowd
Assessment Rolls Show Rail
roads and Corporations Bear
Brunt of Tax Burden in State
SOME LOCAL FIGURES
By Bion H. Butler
The report of the Tax Commission
of North Carolina submitted to the
recent session of the legislature, and
from which came the information that
was used largely as the foundation
of the new tax law, is an interesting
document. It shows that North Car
olina has property valued at above
two and three-quarter billion dollars,
and that of the total, lands, includ
ing town lots, constitute the big
item, exceeding two billions. Town
lots and city lands exceed in value the
rural lands, so that the farmer does
not carry the entire burden of taxa
tion in the state. The man in’town
pays more on his land and houses than
the farmer pays.
As a matter of curiosity the light
and power companies are assessed at
almost a hundred million dollars. In
1921 the railroads aiwi other corpor
ations were assessed $325,000,000, and
the railroads contested a part ox the
assessment. They lost and the next
year they were stood up for more. In
1929 corporation assessments the fig
ure had dropped slightly below $300,-
000,000. Corporations are assessed at
about a third of the value of the
lands of the state outside of the towns.
Railroads, electric companies and cot
ton mills are assessed at nearly four-
fifths of the value of rural lands. It
becomes evident that the town and
city resident, along with the rail
roads, electric light companies and
cotton mills, as well as other smaller
manufacturing lines in the state, pay
a fair proportion of the taxes. Appar
ently the town and city man, along
with the corporations, is carrying the
decidedly big end of government.
Expensive Decade
An interesting statement in the re
port is that between the years 1920
and 1928 the local governments, that
is county and town and city, issued
each year bonds in excess of an aver
age of $30,000,000, and the State add
ed to that tremendous piled-up debt
aij average of $20,000,000 a year for
the period. The combined total means
that State and subdivisions owe now
materially above half a billion dol
lars. To pay off the debts and ihe in
terest that will accrue by the time
the bonds are retired indicates, ac
cording to the report, over $616,856,-
000, which is a right tidy sum for
North Carolina. And here seems to be
the meat in the cocoanut .The state
ment says, “this tremendous spend
ing from borrowing increased the
amount available for spending any
where from 100 per cent down to 50
per cent above the taxes.
So this is what we have on our
shoulders. Instead of getting through
on the taxes we increased our spend
ing to nearly double the amount of
the taxes, and now we have the inter-
“sting little bill to pay. Instead of
getting through on our taxes we bor
rowed money enough to load us up
for the lifetime of most of us now liv
ing. Now we have to pay taxes enough
to carry on, and in addition enough
more to pay the debt and the interest
on the debt we have piled on our
shoulders. We are paying now for
what we did not pay for in the past
few years, and paying the penalty of
mortgaging the future. We thought
we could not pay for our expenditures
in the last ten years. Now we have
to pay for our current expenditures
find also to pay for those of the years
that are gone when we lived on bor
rowed money for our state and county
and city needs. Now we can live with
in our income for we have to, and we
can also live less than within it, for
the big end goes to pay for what we
would not pay for when we incurred
the debt ten years ago and since.
The County Debt
It is imporatnt for us all to under
stand the situation. We have eaten
our cake. Now we have it to pay for.
Fortunately Moore county has been
more prudent in some respects than
some of the counties. Our debt in pro
portion to our assessed valuation is
only .6 per cent. Some of the counties
have a debt four times as great pro
portionately. For the next ten years
sixty cents »f North Carolina’s tax
money goes to the debt service, and
the big share of that is interest. Be
cause we thought we could not pay
fifty cents as we went in the past
years we now pay a dollar, and more
than half of it goes to pay what we
would not pay then and interest on
the borrowed lot.
Moore county’s debt is over $2,000,-
000. Of this $23,875 is county debt for
schools, and $535,000 for other than
schools. Districts and townships have
a debt for schools of ^398,000. Towns
, and other minor divisions have a debt
of $850,463. Of this total debts owed
hy the county and subdivisions $671,-
NIAGARA
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Chatfield
visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Godd
at the Pine Meadow farm, left'
and
'eeks
ard
re-
son, who have spent several
Mrs. F. E. (
iadow farm, i
cently for their home in Browm.ni
Junction, Maine.
J. p. Turnley, postmaster at Cam
eron, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. L D T
ton the past week. '
s. W. Andrews, who is register o{
Fifty Piece Reporter-Star Newsboys’ Band of Orlando, Florida.
Peach Crop Moving at
Slightly Better Price
Thousandth Car Shipped from
North Carolina.—Good
Truck Demand
Local Landowners Plan Hunting
Preserve Under New State Law
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To Oi>en Up 5,000 Acres of Lit
tle River Section for Bird and
! Game Raising and Shooting
Peaches have been moving rapidly ! ——
all w^eek from the Sandhills belt, and , A few weeks ago The Pilot made
with the Georgia crop fairly well out I mention of the new measure from the
of the way there are indications of j legislature which provides for the or-
better prices for the North Carolina ' ganization of landowners for the pur-
grower. The prices stiffened here I pose of providing hunting reserva-
some this week, much of the fruit tions on which they may arrange for
bringing 60 cents instead of the pre-' bird and game raising and shooting,
vailing price of 50 cents up to now,; The matter has attracted considerable
and some brngng even better than attention, and a step has been taken
this. The thousandth carload lot was | out in the Little River section looking
shipped from North Carolina during [ toward the trial of the project. A
the week, and local railroads are re- group of owners, representing around
portisg heavy movements through 5,000 acres has signed an agrement
Aberdeen. There is also a steady truck looking to the creation of a reserve on
demand at the orchards. Local grow- the lands they own, the names includ-
ers are offering some of the best ing N. J. Patterson, A. D. McLauchlin,
looking fruit they have grown in Q. H. Stutts for the Daniel Hector
years. McNeill lands, F. W. Taylor, Daniel
McCrimmon, Dune McCrimmon and E.
D. Dunlap, with others interested.
They have taken up the matter with
J. W. Harrelson, Director of the De
partment of Conservation and Devel-
DR. SYMINGTON TELLS
OF MOSQUITO DANGERS
(Continued from Page 4)
Chicken Stew
Take 1 Qt. Liquor, Add 2 Stol
en Chickens and—^Work it
Out on the Roads
pleasant visitors here the past’ week
Mr. and Mrs. Will Lang and R 'W’’
Morgan of near Chapel Hill were vis-’
itors on Monday.
C. F. Bullard of St. Paul is spend-
ing a few days on a visit to relatives
in this section.
Miss Mary Olive Morgan,, ^vho has
spent the past month visiting friends
in Summerton, S. C., returned to her
home here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Monroe of Wil-
liamsburg, Va., spent a few days the
past week on a visit with his mother
Mrs. A. E. Monroe, of Niagara,
PYTHIANS TO ENTERTAIN
AT ABERDEEN HIGH SCHOOL
opment of North Carolina, who writes
charged with house waste, or sew- that he will send a representative
age. Slowly moving or stagnant wa
ter into which house sewers discharge
produce many more “Culex” per unit
i of water surface area than clean wa-
I ter. Also, when extensive “Culex”
I breeding areas of this nature are pro-
I duced. by man, we find the ‘‘Culex”
; range sometimes as far as two mile«
I from such a prolific source and fol-
; low us into our homes. Especially is
this true where the effluent of a
J
I town septic-tank empties into a small
stream near the edge of the to\\Ti.
} Under this condition sometimes the
I water is 'black with mosquito larvae
for a distance of two or three miles.
It is well for us to keep in mind the
fact that we are very frequently re-
i sponsible for the prevalence of this
i kind of mosquito, because we allow
' water containers to be exposed to
the rains, and allow polluted water to
exist in and near our homes and com
munities, which conditions favor a
rapid production of this pestiferous
■ insect.
1
j In large numbers of communities
these conditions favorable to mos-
quito production make it essential to
I screen the homes, and in many in-
, stances the cost of screening is great
ly in excess of the cost of removal or
control of the breeding places of the
“Culex” mosquito,
j In order to bring about the reduc-
I tion of the mosquito nuisance, many
i towns have adopted the standard mos-
; quito ordinance, which makes it a mis-
j demeanor for any property owner or
j tenant to allow mosquitoes to breed
i on his premises. Copies of this ordi-
j nance may be obtained from your
j State health department or from the
Public Health Service at Washing
ton, D. C.
A r^ort has recently reached this
office regarding half a block of land
near the center of a town where tin
cans and rubbish are being dumped
and where mosquitoes are breeding.
This is undoubtedly a question for
the above town commissioners. But it
is up to all of us to see that breeding
places of mosquitoes are eradicated
around our homes in town or country.
Paul Dana of Pinehurst was elect
ed a vice-commander of the North
Carolina department, American Le
gion, at the aiinlual convention
Morehead City.
in
875 is for school purposes. The rest
is for roads, streets, water, sewers and
various things. According to the fig
ures the bonded indebtedness of the
towns of Moore is as follows: Aber
deen—streets, $36,000; water,f $74,-
000.-Carthage—water, $59,000. Pine-
bluff—water, $41,200. Vass—^water,
$35,000. Southern Pines—water, $129,-
000; public improvements, $44,000;
funding, $8,000. Some of these fig
ures have changed since the report
was prepared, hut they are -^hat they
were at the time of gathering the sta
tistics by the tax commission. They
are near enough to indicate the sit
uation.
from the department as soon as prac
tical to look over the area to be in
cluded and to hold a conference with
the persons who own the lands with
in the proposed section. The terri
tory involved lies on the east side of
the highway between Vass and South
ern Pines, extending down toward
James Creek and its junction with Lit
tle River, close by the Fort Bragg
boundary, which is looked on as a
good feature as the fort region is
wild land and fertile in its develop
ment of wild life. Most of the land is
wooded, with but a few small clear
ings, with a fair number of stream
heads for refuges for wild creatures,
and plenty of cover.
State Shows Interest
As this is a new idea in furthering
the hunting possibilities of the state,
the plans are not worked out any
where else in this section so far, and
the coming of a representative from
the State Conservation Department
will be of considerable interest in
showing what can be done and how,
and the state game laws will cooper
ate and advise. Under the law the
land owners after their organization
may lease lands for hunting, or may
permit hunters for a fee that is fixed
by the law, to hunt on the lands, and
the possibilities are believed to be
large in the direction of creating
breeding territories and feeding
grounds in which birds should become
plentiful. Expressions of a»pproval
have been forthcoming from men who
are interested in hunting, v/ith the as
surance that an organization proper
ly planned and carried on would meet
the encouragement of hunters from
distant points who like to come to the
Sandhills in winter for a little shoot
ing. The low grounds on the property
under discussion offer frequent chance
at a deer, and foxes, turkey, and other
things are of common occurrence.
Mr. Harrelson, of the Department
of Conservation, in his letter says he
cannot understand why other land
owners in the vicinity do not join in
the movement as he says, “there is
no expense attached, no lease requir
ed, and the owners of the lands \^ith-
ing public shooting grounds may dis
band and cancel their agreement with
the "Department at any time they
wish. All revenue collected for hunt
ing privilege go to the landowners.
The only requirement so far as ex
pense is concerned is that the appli
cants for the establishment of a pub
lic shooting ground must buy from
the department posters for marking
the ground. The department is requir
ed to sell the posters at cost, and this
is done to insure a uniform size, col
or and wording of posters.^^
In effect the organization, once un
dertaken, becomes an establishment
under the law, supervised to an ex
tent by the game wardens, yet man
aged wholly by the owners under the
aw, within certain restrictions, and
open for shooting to any admitted by
the owners on payment-of the fees
provided, but at all times under the
Harmon Brewer, Jasper Williamson
and Ira Morgan, white, of the upper
part of the county were in court on
Monday, all on account of their having
been led astray by their appetites.
Williamson, it is said, supplied him
self with a quart of liquor and went
to Brewer’s home, where Ira Mor
gan was spending the night. He and
his host mB.de merry for a while,
then waked Morgan at about one
o’clock in the morning to give him a
drink. Williamson then suggested that
they prepare a chicken stew, so the
three started for the nearby premises
of a widow to visit the poultry
house. Morgan, who had imbibed
rather freely, dropped out along the
way, but the other two proceeded and
got several chickens, two of which
they converted into a “stew” which
was ready to serve by around five
o’clock.
The woman missed her chickens, but
soon located the ones that were still
on foot and the officers located the
carousers. Morgan was taxed with
the cost^ and required to pay for the
chicken?;; Williamson was given 61
days or. the roads, and Brewer will
serve tlie county for thirty days,|
working at the county home.
Clyde Tew and Roy Ward, impli
cated by John Jernigan in a forgery
case, were before the court, but no
probable cause was found as to either
of the two and they were discharged.
Jernigan had heretofore been tried
and was bound to the Superior court.
Willie Cole, colored, was found
guilty of violating the prohibition
laws and was fined $10 and the costs.
He was found with a small amount of
liquor.
Upon payment of the costs, prayer
for judgment was continued in an
assault - with - deadly - weapon case
against Cicero Barrett, colored.
Winfred Cassidy was given four
months and Von Stricklin three
months for disturbing a meeting at a
colored church on the fourtli of July.
Cassidy was found guilty of carrying
a concealed weapon, along with dis
turbing the assemblage.
2,000 HEAR FLORIDA NEWSBOY
BAND IN SOUTHERN PINES
Comedy laid on thick is the promise
of -the management of the Carolina
Theatre who is offering Charlie Rug-
gles in “The Girl Habit” as the main
feature of the program for this Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday. “The Girl
Habit” is Ruggles’ first starring pic-
ture. As such it grives him a chance to | Hillsboro, Orans-p“
display fully all his clever talents for I daughter, Miss
making folks laugh right out loud. • -
Since he is the main personality in
this picture, audience can depend upon
it that the performance will be even
funnier than the earlier films in which
Ruggles was a mere featured play
er, such as “Gentlemen Of The Press,
“Young Man of Manhattan,” and
“Her Wedding Night.” “The Girl
Habit” was written by Owen Davis
and Gertrude Purcell. A competent
cast of Broadway favorites supports
Ruggles.
“The Girl Habit” presents Charlie
as a wealthy young bachelor who, al
though already engaged to marry one
sweet young thing, just can’t seem to
keep out of the clutches of every con
niving female he meets. An ad^ed at
traction which will please lovers of
good music is a group of songs by
the famous opera star, Martinelli.
At last a picture that isn’t “sexy;”
a picture that appeals to the emo
tions; a picture that even our grand
parents would approve. This picture
is “Sporting Blood,” which is based on
the famous story, “Horseflesh,” by
Frederick Hazlitt, and which is com
ing to the Carolina Theatre Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. When pre
view audience stamp their feet, whis
tle and yell, it would seem that pic
tures are getting back to the good old
days of movies that move people.
That was the unusual greeting
“Sporting Blood” got a preview show
ing in California. “Skippy” is the only
other picture that ever brought such
applause. How people do love these
salt-of-the-earth pictures about dogs
and horses and their ennobling effect
upon human beings! Clark Gable and
Madge Evans will receive well-deserv
ed plaudits; so will Ernest Torrence,
Lew Cody and Marie Prevost, but
you will all take off your hat to the
sterling work of John Larkin, who
carried the famous thoroughbred.
Tommy Boy, from a mud puddle on to
his spell-binding derby finish. Added
attractions are another of the “Mag
ic Carpet” series, showing the pro
cess of diamond making from the
mines to the finished product, anoth
er of those famous “Silly Symphony”
Cartoons, entitled “Birds of a Feath-
and the second of the series of
The Pythian Home Entertainment
Class of Clayton will be at the High
School auditorium next Wednesday
night, August 12th, at 8:30 o’clock to
entertain the Knights of Pythias and
their friends of this section.
"Want .A.ds
All classified Ads in The Pilot are^
at the rate of 2 cents per word. Count
the words in your ad and send cash
or stamps with order.
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER — Apply
Mrs. C. C. Bethune, Gichner John*
son Building, Aberdeen.
FOR SALE—Refrigerator. 50 lb. ice
capacity. Excellent condition. Apply
Page Corporation, Aberdeen.
FOR SALE—Used 'bicycle, excellent
condition. Very reasonable. Apply
box 278, Aberdeen.
er
organ numbers by Lew White, the
well known broadcasting organist.
KIWANIS DIRECTORS’ MEETING
Officers and directors of the Ki-
wanis Club of Aberdeen will meet at
7 o’clock this, Friday, evening at the
Park View Hotel in Southern Pines.
MIDDLE AGE SINGLE WHITE
man, experienced in tobacco and
small fruit wants job to help house
cure and grade crop of tobacco, or
work on fruit farm at moderate
monthly wage, address Tobacco,
care Pilot.
ROOMS FOR RENT—At The Teach-
erage in Aberdeen, large bedrooms
for the summer months. Reasonable
rates. Apply at The Teacherage.
FOR RENT—Five room cottage at
Roaring Gap. Apply M. H. Fol-
ley, Aberdeen.
LOST—Black wallet containing pa
pers belonging to B. W. Earl. Re
ward if returned to B. W. Linder-
man. Box 1432. Southern Pines.
CAROLINA
(Continued from page one)
making a success of the occasion, the
Country Club and John Powell for
chairs for the band. Mayor Stutts and
the commissioners for cleaning and
cornmealing the street. Bakers’ Food
Shop and the Little River Store Com
pany for the cornmeal, the Highland
Hardware House for electric equip
ment, the many who took in the boys
for meals and the night, and volun
teers who aided in stringing lights
and doing the little odd jobs which oc
casion demanded.
“We want to come again next year.
This is 'some town’,” the boys said.
And Director Ball said they’d come if
invited. They’re invited already.
FIRST COTTON SELLS FOR
12 CENTS IN SO. CAR.
TH e a tr e
SoutHem F^iixes
CHARLIE
RUGGLES
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A. A. Richardson, state game war
den, sold the first bale of cotton gin
ned in South Carolina this year for
12 cents a pound at an auction at Co
lumbia Wednesday. The Joseph Walk
er company, cotton brokers,^as high
est bidder. This is the sixth year that
Mr. Richardson has ginned the year’s
first bale in the state.
The new road from Carthage to
Biscoe is reported opened for traf
fic.
guidance and supervision of the guides
appointed. No hunting may be under
taken on the lands except with con
sent of the owners, who have aibsolute
jurisdiction over their property.
Thu., Fri., and Sat., Aug^ust 6, 7, 8.—8:20 P. M. |
Matinee Saturday at 3:00 P. M. i
(Coolest Spot In The Sandhills) I
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Presenting |
An All-Star Cast, including, Clark Gable, |
Madge Evens, Ernest Torrence, Lew Cody, I
Marie Prevost and John Larkin, |
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“SPORTING BLOOD” I
adapted from the famous story, |
“Horseflesh,” I
by I
Frederick Hazlitt a
Mon., Tue., and Wed., August 10,11,12—8:20 |
Matinee Tuesday at 3:00 P. M.
(Coolest Spot In The Sandhills)
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