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Page Two 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. THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, September 4 1931 back in the days of St. Matthew ham border'to the Hoke county] luge, and clear-headed old seer it is told that ‘‘Men do not light | line and to Drowning Creek, that he is he foretold what he, a candle and put it under a i That communi^ unity of effort bushel, but into a candle stick.^^ That ancient philosopher was aware that if you have anything^pplitical bone on which to chew public funds. to communicate to your neigh bors you give light to it. You see what the cigaret manufac turers are doing to sell their is what saws the wood. or any other man who cared to think at all, knew must be com- Correspondence As for making of the climax a | ing if we continued to bleed the AN EXPLANATION lature to face a deficit of or two. And the thing goes along the line where some of the r ^ of us are trying to find out meaning of that big word “moiatn lum. Hub Sykes says he kind , products, and the tire makers, | dangerous implement to fool I and other men in every active i with, and especially when intro- i line of business. They tell the! duced in community welfare j folks what they have and why j movements. I it is worth while to buy what ' they offer. That such a policy roTTON pays is apparent, for the adver-! Yghmfivt tisers would not continue a los- FOQLISHMENl. ing game. The mail order stores do not In hatred and warfare that is | Over a billion dollars to be i There appears to be a misunder- wholly unprofitable, and \ con- raised by the sale of bonds to re- standing on the part of a number of not get the county anywhere. A . plenish the treasurj^, the des- persons, of the import of the recent the idea of getting back to Bull Dur two-edged sword is a ' terribly 1 patches from Washington say. suggestion of the County Board of ham and roll your own, for a lot 0^ JIM McCALL ET SEQ. ET TODAY. Old timers recall the sonorous voice of Jim McCall as he came up the Seaboard platform in the early days of Southern Pines announcing, “Numbah Twe-e-e- ntyyy seven-n-n .^'And the old locomotive with her familiar toots around the bend puffed up the grade, blew off steam, slowed down, and for a brief period the vicinity vibrated with the high manifestations of life. Then she coughed down the hill and quiet fell over the town as the echoes floated back from the crooked streak of smoke down the hill. Now the same bit of excite ment prevails on a modern scale, and the golf bags rattle and the taxis grab the crowd and yester day is an amusing memory as today is actual. And so the Sea board folks come to play golf and look over the neighborhood that has grown to be one of the important points on their route and to load up with information that will permit them to go back to their offices in shape to help bring down the stream of peo ple that for many years have been the main item in estab lishing these Sandhills settle ments as places of consequence in the holiday schedule and as the permanent winter and sum mer home of many people. It is these reconnoissance forces the Seaboard that de termine the winter success. While they come to amuse them selves it may be assumed that un der their marching orders from the general office they carry in structions to spy out the land and to go back home loaded with knoavledge that will enable them to turn this way for the winter a substantial traffic that will help the Seaboard grease its wheels. It is a wise finesse that plays the game so as to make it easy for these men to be impressed with every virtue th(j(Sandhills can dis play. They want to see the good side of the winter play grounds and the cordialitv of the people and everything that w'e can of fer them as samples of the main invoice of our later stock. They come as visitors for a pleasant holiday, but they go away as our salesmen and as salesmen for t'heir company, and it is our business to know that when they go away they have fully apprais ed the stock. They come like a letter with money in it. When they go away let them know they had a real welcome. A CHANCE FOR THE ADVERTISERS. The growth of the circulation of The Pilot, especially at this season, when it will exceed 3.000, places within reach of the ad vertiser an opportunity that is worth embracing. Advertising is simply telling the prospective buyer what you have to offer him, and why you procured it that you might place it at his disposal. Buyers this fall are watching the dollar, and they are to be tempted with good ffoods at low prices, but they will inquire into everything before they buy. The man who informs his possible customers of what he has and why it is worth while to look over his possessions has made a start in selling his goods. In the present conditions it is to be remembered that all things come to him who hustles. The greatest competition lo cal dealers have to meet is the mail order store. Its whole suc cess comes from skillful adver tising. In the last two or three weeks catalogues from these stores have been pouring into the postoffices of the coun ty day by day, and that adver tising is going to take business from the dealer at home who thinks he does not need to tell the people what he has. Away Many of the folks who are of fering plans about cotton plant- cut down their advertising now j ing next year, legal limitations that sales are harder to encour- j of the acreage to be planted, Over a billion dollars in time Education to relieve the rural school the fellows that never leain,^d to of peace. A culmination of raids taxing Districts of their annual debt roll for theyselves can’t touch him on the government treasury that installments by assuming the pay- for a smoke, are without parallel, and in the ^lent of same through the general face of it many people are still county school fund. Some seem to have poi'e couldn’t ults are evident- where from a few bales to eight millions, everybody buy a bale, thought about the one simple proposition that will have to settle the question, and that is ly £atisfyii:g or the advertising would stop. The Pilot pretty completely covers Moore coun ty and the immediate surround ing territory. Folks who read it will be coming to the tobacco markets the rest of the fall, and they will be buying things. To get your share of the business | himself whether you can with profit tell the read- plant any more ers of The Pilot what you have to interest them. This country has not gone to the dogs. But it is going to those who whistle for it. government purchase of any- clamoring for money from the government for almost anything that can be mentioned. And so we pay taxes, hun dreds of millions of dollars on the cigarettes made from the. no the proposal confused with the , fertilizer, so I planted peas and county wide plan of school organiza-' ^^^oes, and gaiden stuff and coin and' tion, voted upon in the county several soja beans,” saia Wailaby years ago, which they think, if adopt ed, would ab(?ii6h the charter districts and impair efficiency in the rural special taxing districts. This impres- The farmer’s tobacco, which is the . . , object of profourid concern by. entirely false, me proposi- the thinking men Of this coun-not change the try Tariffs and taxes on a long district ^ nothing fer it than I ever had. Sold and all the rest of the impossible! Ugt of things we buy from na-,it of j a tew chickens, and a few eggs, and dreams, seem not yet to have j-jong to which we sell our prod- current operating machinery! made a httle terbacker myself, an “an’ then the filling station shut down on gas an’ anyway my old tub o-Qt so iL wouldn’t run, so I don’t need^o more gas so I don’t need no more money for that, an’ by jackie I more to eat and don’t have to pay THE PROBLEM OF THE COMMISSIONERS Next Monday the County Com missioners have some difficult questions to settle, and however these questions are settled some criticism is bound to follow. The first is probably the matter of in cluding the whole county under the general school law, assum ing all the district debts, taking over the entire responsibility of all the schools and terminating township and district individu ality. While the decision of the county authorities cannot be guessed out at this juncture some of the guessing school graduates predict that Southeni Pines and Pinehurst will be al lowed to continue ‘^on their own,’’ and that the rest of the county will pass under the ope ration of the general county unit direction. for every famer to judge for, ^he money can be dug up. he wants toj man delude himself cotton. Evi-1 belief that he does not ucts. Millions . in taxes on one on exactly as now; it would thing or another, for it is only; m every dis- from the people who must pay rict; would guarantee to all local school district boards, both charter and rural, more adequate resources for the operation of their extended dently we have all the cotton we 1 pay his full share of all these, ^"sure a continuation need. What, then, is the use to | taxes, for not a thing that he buy a lot of it by the govern-, makes use of from the cradle to ment, so the farmers can plant a lot more next year and con tinue to have more than we want. For the government to buy all the cotton i nthe world does not lessen the amount in sur plus. For farmers to plant a lot more while we have the vast carry over ahead of us does not show any sense at all. But the day will never come when legis lation will determine the amount of cotton to be planted, and if it could such a policy would kill the cotton industry in this coun- the grave can dodge the excise and income and tariff and other taxes that drag out money for this riot of wild expenditures that follow appropriations from the government. We have in structed anybodv who wanted money to take the bill to Uncle Sam for his indorsement, and now Uncle Sam notifies us, all of us, that he wants us to pay. Only a blind man man could fail to see what we had been piling up for ourselves. A billion dollars of a deficit in ! time of peace was never before of the same degree of local self gov ernment and authority as these boards now enjoy. It is extremely unfortu nate that the facts of the proposition have not been made clear at all times. Neither board has as yet taken any they wouldn’t let me owe nothin’ so by grab if I ain't got nothin,’ that’s more’n I had when I was rich enough to get into debt every fall. Don’t see how it works, but they’s peas on the vines an’ shotes in the lot an’ taters in the gyarden.” Wise teacher telling his class that Jupiter, the bright morning star will be visible in the eastern sky before sunrise. Sophisticated boy in class tells teacher, We most always go to action on the matter. The question | b^d before the sun is up.” has merely been under investigation ‘ and study. The Board of Education | To add to the other troubles the will make its decision on next Friday | nian with a load of wood is beginning afternoon, Sept. 4th. Signed, —H. LEE THOMAS, County Superintendent Grains of Sand to drop around to tell you how to get rid of some more of your income. CHANGE IN HOURS OF SOUTHERN PINES LIBRARY try absolutely. Suppose Amer-1 Qf nation or the, , ican farmers were to stop plant-i globe, and this is not for our i, — ing cotton next year. It needs! expenditures. It is simply to! activity of the highway patrol no glass eye to see that foreign make up what our income lacks I officers suggests that we are to have cotton planters would proceed to | of meeting the year’s expendi- take our cotton production from j tures, and is to be paid from us right there. If we ever drop, another year’s collections. We out of the competition the world | ^re still living on our debts and will profit by any advance in i giving away. It is a fool’s para- prices, and will plant a foreign, digg ^re inhabit, but the string acreage that will make the cot-1 is nearly at its end. Old Andrew ton world run wild. And the , Mellon is not the fool he seemed more safety on the public roads and also that it will be cheaper and more satisfactory to do w'hat they say than to pay the bill for the sake of being allowed to argue. Things is catchin.’ Now that the Federal government has confessed result will be a foreign cotton to be, as we can now more easilv that it requiies a billion dollars to For the benefit of the school child ren w’ho cannot go to the library in the morning, and beginning on the date of the opening of the Southern Pines Public Schools, the Library will be open Monday, Wednesdays and Friday afternoons from two o’clock until five o’clock and Tuesday, Thurs day and Saturday evenings from seven o’clock until nine o’clock. This sche dule w^ill hold until the Library goes on its regular winter schedule which w’ill be about November 1st. , , - . Mr. and Mrs. Sammie Mathews of It i^ not hard to see that the i growing industry that we can . see. Here’s W’hat has made our meet the deficits a clamor arises for j Sanford are guests of their parents different sections of the county • never again overcome. j hard times. an extra session of the state legis- i this week. view the situation from different points, and it is not hard to see the right of the different sec tions to back up their views. But that does not alter the new But that is not going to hap pen. What is happening is solv- ' ing the problem. Cotton is down. ^ The man not suited with the low price can settle the matter for Lining Attic with Insulation Cuts Fuel Costs law in the case, which is what j himself whether he wants to the school board and the com missioners are obliged to accept as their govering authority. The new law would be less of a stumbling block in the county plant more cotton for such low prices or do something else. He will conclude in sufficient num-' g bers to cut out cotton until the « price induces him to come back H but for the fact that the local i to growing cotton. But the gov- H tax districts owe money that is | ^rnor, or the legislature, or the || to be paid, and they have school I congress that thinks it can stopjH houses as the result of the debt, j from planting what they | S The districts not owing for | want to plant gets another guess.; it school houses and having no | And if one farmer stops plant-! H school houses of the modern j cotton two ^ more will con- II type protest against sharing in; elude that the time has come to H the debt of the districts that,i the game. They will S have the modern buildings, al-1 they have a perfect | *♦ though many of the children r^g’ht to do. j ■ It is not the low prices of cot- ■ H from those districts go to the schools carried on in the houses that are still burdened will be built in the districts that have no houses is the salve offered in extenuation. The commissioners have these things to weigh next week, and also the proposition to postpone the tax sales, which is debated by different people from differ ent sides. No more serious climax has been faced by the board of commissioners in many years, and their decision will not suit everybody. But The Pilot feels i confident that the board is cap able of dealing with the ques tions as wisely as conditions per mit, and that the thing to do is for the people to tell them to use their best judgment for the com mon good of the county, and then for all of us to stand by and help make the schools the best that can be made all over the county. Complaint and antagonism can not do any good. The leeway of these men is limited by State law and county conditions. The thing We are all interested in is ton that have raised the devil-,':: ment, but the high prices a few | H years ago that led everybody to | \\ plant cotton until the worfd is 11| drowned in it. Now the deluge | ^ has overwhelmed us, and the only j g thing to do is for each planter to 11| plant according to his desire. If! g he wants low cotton he can raise i:l it. But he cannot with- any sense 1 or ope of success ask the people as a nation to buy the stuff they do not want any more than the i railroads have justification toj ask people to ride on the cars if i they do not want to, or the steel I" mills to ask the government to 1 buy surplus steel to permit the | price to go higher to the buyers and to take the overloaded pro- i duction. But no one need worry j about tKfese things. The economic i laws that govern business rela-^ tions are providing for a reduced j cotton crop, and those laws do! not fail. Low price is a master reducer, and it is about to ef- '| feet its aims. One or two more > § big crops and no bluff of gov-'S ernment compulsion will be § the best possible schools all over j needed to lessen the crop. It will § the county. Each section of the lessen itself, county is represented on the I s S-«> •I.+ f ^ m % t- * right-hand corner illustrates the part insulation plays in cuttinir heating jvteiiiai-vv*» w 1 * a i_ J ^ TLT a. Larchinonty IN'* Y., was finished off with cane fiber insulating board to make an extra bedroom. Naturally this prevented heat from escapinir through that ^c?ured° ^ ^ continued to filter through the remainder, melting the snow with the result A FTER a snowstorm, watch the ^ ^ roof of your home—it will tell IS represented on board by a capable man, and not one of them could be brought to do anything that would put an unfair burden on any other sec tion of the county whether his own or any other. Whatever is done will be done, and the way out of the difficult situation is to take the methods the coaling meeting of the board prescribes and all work together to make Moore County schools a general uplift for good from the Chat- THE GHASTLY REALIZATION For a couple of years we have, g had our little fun assuring Sec-iH retary Mellon that his alarm i S over any effect on the public i n treasury by the unlimited drafts ; H everybody was demanding for IH everything was the fears of the H timid child. Mr. Mellon has been ■ courageously insisting that wei|: were saving for ourselves a de-! 5 your home—it will tell you a story. If the snow melts faster there than it does on trees and ground, you’re losing money! R.apidly melting snow on any roof is a sure sign of heat leakage. Such roofs are “heat sieves.” They allow furnace heat, generated by fuel paid for with hard cash, to escape into the greg,t outdoors where it does no good. These heat leaking roofs are often responsible for “cold houses,” the kind that are hard to heat, espe cially in the morning after windows have been open all night and in se vere weather. Insulation Solves Problem The solution of the heat-leaking- roof problem is, of course, good build ing insulation, and the best way to obtain it is to line the attic with in sulation board. (Most new, well-con structed homes are insulated, not only to save fuel, but to insure the comfort and health of the occu pants.) Figures, based on computa tions approved by the American So ciety of Heating and Ventilating Engineers, show that attics lined with Celotex cane fiber insulation yield annual dividends in fuel saving ranging from 35 per cent to 124 per cent of the job’s cost. Figures on Savings The actual fuel saving resulting from lining the attic of a particular home with insulation board depends on the house’s construction and local weather conditions. In an average home, with an asphalt-shingled, wood-sheathed roof, 2,000 square feet in area, insulation of the attic by nailing seven-sixteenths inch cane fiber insulation board to the under side of the rafters will result in ap proximately the following annual savings for three types of fuel: coal, $42.48; oil, $38.00; gas, $136.00. The cost of the insulation installed would be about $110.00, and the annual re turn on this investment would be 39 per cent for coal, 35 per cent for oil, and 124 per cent for gas! These fig ures apply to climates simUar to that of Minneapolis. For other sections country they naturally vary Even larger fuel savings are ob tainable if insulation board is also applied to the top of the attic floor joists. If this is done in a house v/lth 2,000 square feet of roof, the follow ing approximate fuel savings should result: coal, $64.20; oil, $57.40; gas, $206.00. The cost of insulation ap plied to both rafters and top floor joists in this size house would be approximately $200.00. Extra Room Possible The insulation of attic space not only means a substantial reduction in fuel bills, but also opens the pos sibility of adding to the home a spare bedroom, sewing room or playroom for adults, children or both. Insula tion efifectively wards off the sun’s rays in .summer and will make the attic room livable the year ’round. Lumber dealers are always glad co discuss the attic insulation prcb?em. They will refer you to a reliable con tractor who will gladly estimate tne cost of insulating your attic and, It you desire, converting some of the space into a pleasant extra room. CELOTEX PRODUCTS ALWAYS IN STOCK AT THE Pinehurst, PINEHURST LUMBER YARDS North Carolina
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