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V Page Two THE PILO T Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor BION H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 1 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 VSith t:haractcf, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 2, 1931^ ROOM FOR MORE GRASS SEED An Aberdeen man suggested recently that as other towns in the neighbor*hood are putting a lot of grass seed in the ground Aberdeen should not be behind in that respect. He says that a stranger coming down the high ways from Pinehur?it or South ern Pines with their elaborate scheme of planting and road adornment is not greatly im pressed with the lack of it as he comes to Aberdeen. The big im provement that has followed the planting not long ago of the bit of ground in the railroad Y be- ture is the immediate cause. the balances, which was the cor rect position among the stars two thousand years ago or more, when the equinox was used more in computing positions of the stars than now. But as the equi nox moves slowly backward among the constellations the sun on the evening of Septem ber 23 actually entered the con stellation of the Virgin and will not be in Libra until late in Oc tober. So the folks who go by the almanac ‘‘signs’^ either de liberately use the names know ing of the change, and that the equinox is a month late, or they are a month off in their calcu lations. The equinox comes Septem ber 23, but the star constellation that once was supposed to influ- fn^cs- t‘be weather at the equinoc tial period has gone past by 30 ^'’vs when the equinoctial date arrives now, so the equinoctial storm has its ears tied in hard knots, and astronomical observ ers say September 23 is no more storm period than any other date of that month or any other month. The unusual seren ity of the weather last Wednes day left the storm prophets out on the dry land, and with noth ing to tie to. Scientific men have not yet found out what makes the re currence of storms at their in definite periods, although they know that change in tempera- low the station shows what can be done by a little effort. That plot has come along in fine shape, and the work on it last week is evidence that the inter est in the improvement is not lost. In other sections of the town much has been done to put a better foot forward, but the suggestion of the man who wants more grass seed planted is also timely. Aberdeen is un fortunate in having laid out ,its streets before the day of the au tomobile, which means many of them are too narrow. That is hard to change now, but they can be made to look more at tractive in their narrowness if they are planted with grassy lawns and pleasing shrubbery plats. The same man also comment ed on the sidewalks along Route 50 throug*h the village. Foot traffic is thrown too largely on But they do not know yet, defi nitely, why the temperature changes as irregularly as it does. Certainly it does not follow dates of the week or month or year. Cold currents of air, generated by heat warming up the air and the surface of the seas and the lands, especially icy sections, change the temperature of mois ture in the air, and start storms. But when or why men are still at a loss to say in advance. The equinoctial storm is about as valuable as a 1st yer^s rcing ticket. TOBACCO PRICES AND OTHERS J. S. Dunn, of the Ellerbe neighborhood, tobacco planter who was on the warehouse floor last week, said he thought the main difficulty with the far- m.er is not wholly the low price the highway from the top of i of tobacco, but the high price of are going to come to him. Farm relief, borrowing money, all the sophisms that have been recom mended, are powerless, but the one of making prices to get tht trade is working. United States Steel and other big corporations are going after business with lower prices, and the lead will be followed by the rest of therh. The day of inflation is past. THE HIGHWAY MURDER PROBLEM In both Southern Pines and Aberdeen the problem of death and injury on the highways has been getting .iattenliion in the last two or three weeks. On the hill at Aberdeen large signs have been painted on the surface of Route 50, and in Southern Pines signs have been posted notifying drivers that on the main hig’hways the speed limit of 18 miles an hour will be en forced. Mayor Stutts says the situation in his town has be come so critical that some me thod of checking fast driving has to be attempted, and the town commissioners are trying to find out what will be effec tive. Steadily North Carolina, along with all the other states, is increasing its list of dead and injured on the highways, and equally as steadily the contempt for road laws appears to be growing. A large proportion of the people who drive the roads are prudent, drive within reas onable speed, show regard for pedestrians and for other driv ers, but a limited number are indifferent maniacs, who have no consideration for anything. The strip of road reaching from Manly to below the creek at Aberdeen on Route 50 is a sort of sluice through which converg ing traffic uses the one road. That bit of highway runs though the heart of the two vil lages, it is crossed by streets and other roads 6n much of its extent, some of its turns are short and some of the route is hilly. But all of that signifies nothing to a certain type of drivers, who whip around cor ners, down the hills, past the road crossings, and cut in ahead of other drivers at any critical point. Probably the safety of travelers on Route 50 is the gravest problem that confronts the people of Southern Pines and Aberdeen, and it is a prob lem that the people of the two towns have to solve, for the mayors and the commissioners, no matter how hard they try, cannot settle it themselves. They must have the positive and ener getic backing of the whole peo ple, and even then the task is one of the most difficult that faces this community. Chambers of Commerce, individuals, civic clubs, citizens and all are con cerned, and it will take the unit ed work of e\^rybody to get re sults, a thing Mr. Stutts says he is undertaking to secure. He cer tainly deserves all the help pos sible. Funerals cost too much to be the plaything of the reckless fiends who cause them. whom they saved from a hojsrible madness, these and many others. Thus when filrijally Karin’s overporwering cesire for a “home of my own where I can gather the days of my love to gether” was granted, it was a veri table cavalcade which set forth across the Texas plains to the high lands of the brothers’ chosen dwelling place. Here for a time they led the busy fecund life of the frontier, they tam ed the wilderness, begot many chil dren and created a home. But with the death of Karin the brothers in evitably. set forth once more, bearing her body with them. Her last words had been “I am going ... to wait for you ... at that place . . . where you were born ...” From the great mesa which the two old men reached at the end of their life, we look back to the opening scene when: “They beheld each other with anx ious eyes, two men, two brothers, strong and alone in the wilderness, with bare heads and bare bodies, fac ing this thrust of death. Far off the great mesa, now a deep dark purple, hung beyond the horizon, sharp and grand in the upward glow of the vanished sun. It seemed in deed a rude mountain beyond the last curve of earth, where as on a throne sat death, aloof, serene, an^ potent, waiting for the brothers.” The author who undertakes such I a theme treads dangerous ground for I the real grandeur of the two broth I ers, symbolic of the potential strength I and reckless Utopia-driven dreams of I man, might, by a tinge of cant, lose jithe conviction of sincerity which dom- ; inates this book. Yet never for a moment do the brothers fail to be in- I dividuals of absorbing interest, and ! the details of their life as they ‘‘mov- ed thru wild countries wHh wander^ ing folk—followed the stars of chance” seem a remembered racial ex perience. They, indeed, gradually emerge in these clear pages as the prototype of humanitarian pioneers. But it is through the realistic details of their daily lives, and their vivid human relationship to one another and to their people that the spiritual values of this remarkable book emerge. It is strangely enough an added strength in this book that the time and place of the story is only generally indicated. The author gives us as much, and no more than we need to know. Once again the Harper prize has gone to a novel which is of genuine importance in contemporary litei-a< ture. All hail to Robert Reynolds and may his genuinely native voice be heard often. It seems to this review er to be memorable. —ANN HYDE ALLEN. *'iM!APITAL By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent GRAINS OF" SAND Next week is Fire Prevention Week. Carelessness causes a loc of fires in this section, and fall is the most dai: • gerous time of year. Be careful .vhere you throw your cigarette stubs and your matches. Hemp is one of Moore county’s most thriving towns. Its smokestacks are smoking, its men are employed, it’s licking Old Man Depression. If you don’t know Hemp, next week is a good time to get acquainted. The citizens are putting on a country fair. Run up to the upper end of tne county and look them over. Know your county. the hill clear through the town to the creek where the Pine- hurst road joins. Provision for stuff the farmer has to buy. Farm prices have come down in accordance with the general de- have jumped during the past month, and he looks for a good winter for newspapers and magazines. We hope he is right. Sweet Music it will be, by Heck, to read your words, “Enclosed find check.” Pharmacist Bryan has this couplet pasted on his cash register. Pardon us if we suggest a second verse some thing like this: ’Twill put us in a merry mood Provided that the check is good. foot travelers and especially for | flation now going on, but many children going to and from | things the farmer buys have not school is needed. Route 50 is so j yet followed. An example w'as generally given up to vehicle cited in some of the package traffic that those on foot are al-1 goods in the stores. A complaint most overlooked. Probably it is | was m.ade that while wheat and a job somewhat in the future but | corn are selling for less than Aberdeen and Southern Pines 1 half a dollar a bushel some of some of these davs will need a the cereal package goods are ccntinuous sidev/alk the entire j selling for fifty cents a pound, distance between the two towns. | or more tlrjin the 'price of a Possibly the entire main high-j bushel of the grain from the way system of the state will ul-! things made, timately have to come to a move-1 These things work out them- ment of th at sort to lessen the! selves, and the buyer 'has it in loss of life th?t results from i his hands to balance the value foot travel on the highways. I of what he sells with what he Meanw'hile a sidev/alk along | buys, and that is what will in the course of time happen. When buyers begin to curtail buying, prices go down always. That is the trouble now with tobacco. Buyers pass the piles on the floor if the prices they offer are not satisfactory. When the farmer passes the thing of fered to him at a price that does not suit him, as he is doing fre quently, that price will go down. The trouble today in Great Bri tain is largely the result of the determination of the coal min ers to refuse to dig coal at a ijrice that British coal could be sold over the world, as it has been for generations in the his tory of British industry. Custo mers refused to buy British coal at the high prices, British mines shut down, British industry sickened, British exchange flunked, and New York has this week practically become the fi nancial capital of the v/orld be cause the American dollar has mvrintained its par value in gold. Farm products ?re not likely to go verj^ hig*h right away as com- r'lred with recent years, but the American buyer is quite cen(?airi to bring other things to the farm basis of selling. It will not be done by legislation, or by 'cooperation or by anything else than the operation of sconomic lav/s. That may be slow or it may be rapid, but we may as well look in that direction. The There is quite a bit of talk about a consolidated high school, in some j centrally located site convenien*, to j Aberdeen, Pinehurst and Southern 1 Pines. Purposes: To serve the three j j towns, provide additional room for j j granimar school students in present | buildings, cut down overhead. | There is said to be some conges- I tion in present schools, too much sup- erv^isory expense. Transportation : would seem to be the chief objection- ' able feature to the sch'>me. But a'ly proposition which may mean a sav- inje: in taxes is worthy of serious con- sideiation at this time. a Route 50 all the way through Aberdeen is a thing to be think ing about. THE EQUINOX AND ITS STORM Last week, to be precise, Wed nesday, September 23 at 7:24 p. m., occurred the astronomical event the almanac sets down as the autumn equinox. The equi nox is a simple thing, but hing ed about by many mysteries and fe^^rs and superstitions. Its dur ation is the fragment of a sec ond, and then it is over, for the whole process is the passage by the sun of an imaginary point in the heaven, and the time is Flif^htly different each succeed in'? year, and it is about as ex citing as the passage of an au tomobile at a point on the coun try road, and about as long in its duration. As an astronomical event it is the beginning of the year, for as the sun enters the group of stars known ^as the Fishes, spring begins. The sun at that minute is on a point in the heav ens immediately vertical above an imaginary line passing around the earth midway from the north and south poles, and called the equator. On March 23 comes the spring equinox, and the sun seems to rise higher in the sky until June 22 when it ' “The motion picture industry in all j its branches is organizing and mobil- I izing on a nation-wide scale for coop- ! eration with the proper authorized lo cal relief agencies in the matter of unemployment relief,” Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Pro- duceis and Distributors of America and former U. S. Postmaster Gener al writes Charlie Picquet, and goes on to name the Sandhills movie mogul a member of the National Commit tee,” the members of which will be used for consultation, advice and in dividual cooperation in connection with the general effort both national ly and locally.” Moore county had 144 service sta tions and automobile accessory deal ers paying license taxes to do busi ness during the last tax year, end ed May 31, of the 12,269 in the state, all paying taxes of $178,896.50 for the privilege of operating, records in the office of Commissioner of Reve nue A. J. Maxwell show. The motor vehicle business paid in license taxes a total of $267,703.50, in addition to the big gasoline tax. Guilford led in filling stations with ~66, Mecklenburg had 451, Forji-. th 411, Wake 372, Buncombe 294 Gi-a- ham had 15, Clay 20, Tyrrell 24 and Dare 25. All the professional people paid li cense taxes of $129,255, doctors tak ing the lead with 1,980, followed closely by lawyers with 1,943. The 19,011 bottled drink places and 1,322 soda fountains paid the state $121,- 917.75. The 221,280 tobacco dealers and jobbers paid $156,889, and the automobile and truck for hire folks paid $156,856.11. Total license tix collections for the year were $1,701,- 320.78, with |3,236.79 in penalties for bad checks. Attorney General Brummitt spoke to the Kiwanians Wednesday. If all gubernatorial and senatorial candi dates address the Kiwanians between now and next election, their weekly programs will be well filled. R. F. Potts, publisher of Baseball When the heat wave did bust, rt Magazine, is just back from the busted higher ’n a kite. A feller hard- north after a busy summer. He tells ly knows these mornings whether to The Pilot he thinks the worst of the ^ put on white ducks or red flannels. depression is over, that things look better. Sales of his own magazine Got your coal supply in yet ? BOOK REVIEW BROTHERS IN THE WEST By Robert Reynolds Harper & Brothers. New York. 1931. $2.50 turns southward and on Septem ber 23 crosses the equator on its | farmer is at the gate todav, but southward journey at the au- he is looking toward a better tumn equmox The astronomer relation toward the things he talkmg ^hout the position of the buys. He cannot pay the high equinox prices he has been paying, and locates It in the “sign” Libra, '-at is all there is to it. Prices In a superbly imaginative novel Robert Reynolds has built a theme ut terly American in conception and realization, yet universal in implica tion. Imaginative though it is in the best sense, it is yet a realistic legend that tells of the wandering of two powerful pioneer brothers, . Charles and David, whose strength drawn from the earth is increased many fold by their complete love for one another. This fraternal bond is tried and even strengthened by their en folding love for Karin, whom they both kidnap with Lochinvarian gusto. Sha belongs to David. The three were wanderers throughout the west, in constant search for the spot where the mystical brothers were born; “They would know it at once by the wonderful peace they would feel.” Whether snowbound in a hut of rushes or sleeping by a mountain stream, the perfection of their com panionship made them always at home. Like one powerful magnet these brothers gradually and naturally drew to themselves stray individuals who had lost their bearings, either physical or spiritual. In the elemen tary frontier life nostalgic strays clung to the strength and universal “at-homeness” of Charles and David: the puny Frenchman from whom they stole Karin, a Mexican senorita who glued herself to Charles, Donald North Carolina sprang into nation al prominence the past week as the result of Governor Gardner’s Live- at-Home program through a nation al survey conducted by the Associated Press to show how the states of the nation are preparing for what is ex pected to be one of the hardest win ters within the memory of man. The third paragraph of the story, written in New York, is devoted to the North Carolina program and Governor Gardner, the only Govern or mentioned, is given credit for the movement which resulted in an in crease from 1,250,000 to 4,600,000 containers this year filled with fruits and vegetables by the rural club wo men in the state, in addition to can ning done by city and town women. Also, Governor Gardner pointed out, North Carolina farmers raised $16,- 500,000 more in food and feed crops last year than in 1929, and the U. S. govemmeint estimates $25,000,000 more in such crops this year than in 1929. “This $25,000,000 which would oth erwise have gone for food and feed will now stay in North Carolina, at a time when it would be hard to get, with cotton selling for six cents and tobacco low,” Governor Gardner said. He also spoke of the increased acre age planted in cane and the large sup'ply of molasses that will result. Afl bad as the depression has been, Governor Gardner has said, it has been the greatest possible ally to his live at home program. “As bad as condit^rons are in North Carolina, we will be better able to stand this inter than any other state in the union,” Governor Gard ner said. “I have been having a sur vey made in every section of hte state to get all possible information rela tive to unemployment and am pre paring to make all forces and the conscience of the state prepare for feeding the hungry this winter,” said Governor Gardner. . Although criticised for saying a year ago that the state is facing the most critical period since the Civil War, his critics are now beginning to agree with him. Also, all agree that his Uve-at-home program, launched with a dinner at the Executive Man sion, with the newspaper folks as guests, will in reality be the salva tion of the state. Calls for mass meetings of grow ers in more than 100 communities to adopt resolutions petitioning Govern or Gardner to call a special session of the General Assembly to take action on cotton acreage reduction, and also on tobacco, were issued by N. G. Bart- lette, secretary of the Eastern Caro lina Chamber of Commerce. Governor Gardner’s home county of Cleveland, largest cotton growing county in the state, refused a resolu tion calling for a special session and instead adopted one against the ses sion as “expensive and useless.” Three persons are reported to have attend ed the meetings at Laurinburg, Scot land county, and at Windsor, Bertie county. Dunn, with 200 or 300 far mers present, approved the session but differed on the plan. At Smith- field, U. Benton Blalock, president of the American Cotton Cooperative As sociation, expressed personal prefer ence of the Texas plan. Resolutions for the session were adopted at St. Pauls, Maxton, Enfield, Mt. Olive, Tarboro, Greenville and Smithfield. Meetings failed to materialize at Goldsboro and Henderson. « * ♦ Secretary Bartlett has announced that he had reports that 50 meetings were held, out of 145 called, and that all but one, in Cleveland county, reso lutions calling for a special session were adopted, most of these favoring apparently the Texas plan of reduc tion. Attendance figures were not giv- en. The collapse of the South Carolina legislative effort, following that of Louisiana, seeking a complete cotton growing holiday, probably had its ef fect on the North Carolina move ment. Growers are thinking more of I Governor Gardner’s earlier suggestion i of national action w^hich might have I resulted in a uniform plan in this country, with the treaty power of the U. S. government back of it to come to terms with other cotton-growing countries. If the South gives up its monopolistic cotton growing even for a year, it would be notice to the for eign countries, growing it at a much lower cost, to increase production, thus robbing this country of its lead ership in a commodity of which it manufactures less than half of its crop, the other going to world mar kets. 1 ♦ * * 1 North Carolina members of the American Legion and citizens gener ally are making extensive plans to do honor to Henry L. Stevens, Jr., of Warsaw, who was last week elected national commander of that organiza tion of more than a million former World War soldiers. The young War saw lawyer, 35 years old, has brought to the state a great honor, one which it appeared at two different conven tions would be brought by General I Albert L. Cox, of Raleigh. Raleigh is planning a great State wide celebration on the return of Commander Stevens, probably some time this week, at which Governoi* Gardner will speak. Charlotte is also planning a big honor gathering. Win ston-Salem and Greensboro have in dicated they will also do honor to th2 i new commander. ! The commandership is a full-ti’-iis I post, carrying a salary of $10,000 a ' year, with $15,000 allowance for ex penses. Commander Stevens will in Indianapolis, Ind., and will be on the go much of the time, visitine the departments of the 48 states, the return of Democrats to power m the nation next year, Commander Stevens would be in line for impor tant national political honor. » » * Dr. James M. Parrott, State health officer, is calling upon the people of the state to plant liberally such veG- etables as turnips, rape, mustard, kale, onions and. other cold-resistm? plants at this time, in order that the citizens may fortify themsei\e.-’ against such disease^ as pellag’-^* rickets and other diseases more ily contracted when body resistance is lowered. Dr. Parrott urges prepa ' ation for more fresh meat and chickens, eggs and butter, ?ayin., “there is nothing better for heaUh, except possible proper ventilatio^l* than green vegetables, fruits, meat and milk.”
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