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THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 9, 1931^
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen, No^th Carolina
NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor
BION H. BUTLER, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
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INTO DEBT
From time to time projects
are offered as a means of re
lief from the present depressed
financial condition, but too many
of them propose to relieve the
situation by borrowing money
by the individual, the state or
the nation, to be paid later on.
As one of the main causes of
our present trouble is the inabil
ity to care for the debts owing,
and the burden of taxation that
those debts compels, it is the
climax of folly to pile up any
more debts to be paid along with
those we owe. Several years ago
when the government began to
make it easy for the farmer to
get into debt Col. J. R. Young, of
Raleigh, remarked that all he
could see that the government
was m^.king easy was a way for
the farmer to head to positive
destruction. Col. Young’s sus
picion proves to have been well-1 been friendly. Each has held the
founded. Far too many farms j confidence of the other,
are in the junk pile because they Not long ago an attempt was
have such a load of debt that; made to establish a separate po-
foreclosure proceedings or any j Htical entity in which the negro
other drastic methods cannot i undertook to carry on a govern-
pull any money from them as se-! ment of his community by his
curities for the debts on which
they have been sacrificed. Na
tion, state and county are bur-
or twelve million, brought to this
country against their (desire,
making the most of conditions
amid which they have been
reared, and presenting the most
remai .able example known to
civilization of an advance from
barbarism four of five genera
tions ago to a plane of civiliza
tion that no race had attained
prior to the arrival in the Amer
ican colonies of the first negro
slaves. The positive advance
ment of the negro in America is
without parallel in the history of
mankind within so short a per
iod.
But the path of progress has
been one of sorrow in spite of
the climax that has been reach
ed, and the end is not yet. How
ever, it is believable that the
days ahead ^^re brig-hter, and
that in the Sandhills of Moore
county an experiment is work
ing that is pregnant with good
results. When last week D. G.
Stutz, mayor of Southern Pines,
and the board of town commis
sioners, discussed with R. Mc-
Cants Andrews, attorney for a
movement that is under way in
the colored community on the
north side of the creek in South
ern Pines, the situation that con
fronts the town of Southern
Pines in the relation of the two
races, they opened the way for
a solution of the problem that
has been one of the major ques
tions all over the South, and is
coming to be a dominant ques
tion in the North—the political
and social relation of white man
and negro. In Southern Pines
the two raees have maintained
friendly contact from the day
the town was founded.
the negroes are. Lawyer An
drews appealed his case last
week, which was necessary pol-
vited and it is pretty sure that
more money has been lost by
holding for higher prices than
than ever was made in that man-
itics, but Lawyer Andrews and | by selling for lower prices, and
Mayor Stutz were practically in more has been lost in that way
• J J? 4- O Y1 _
agreement as to community 01
policy in their conference, and if
they are properly sustained by
the people it is believable that
they will lay the foundation here
ner.
Andrew Carnegie used to say
the time to sell is when you have
anything ready to sell, and An-
for a job that will be satisfac- drew sold a great deal of stuff
tory and broadly beneficial in i in his day, some at high prices,
every way. I some at low prices, but in the
■ I long run with a fair evidence
that his idea of selling time is
correct—^when you have stuff
ready to sell.
story of the Sandhills, well done by
one who has lived with us in our
prosperous days and our “between
times.” And enjoyed both.
ish Civil Service Examination.
A railway train was manned by
three men, named Smith, Jones and
Robinson, who were guard, firei-aan
and driver, but not respectively. On
The County Fair premium list of- j the train were three passengers Mr
f ers a prize for apple sauce. But our 1 Smith, Mr. J ones and Mr. Robinson!
best manufacturers of apple sauce Mr. Robinson lived at Leeds. The
won't exhibit this year. It’s not an guard lived halfway between Leeds
election year.
Grains of Sand
WELCOME
THE STRANGER
The arrival of the Rev. J. F.
Morrisey, of Toronto, Canada,
to be assistant pastor of the
Southern Pines Catholic Church,
brings a new face to the group of
clergy at work in this field.
Francis Dillon has made so many; Right on top of a complaint from
friends in the two communities George E. Wells of Pinebluff that The
of Pinehurst and Southern Pines | piiot occasionally incorrectly referred
to his town as Pine Bluff instead of
Pinebluff, we note that the library’s
new sign reads: PINE-BLVFF.
How come, George? How come?
that a man who comes here un
der his sponsoship is cetain to be
cordiall yreceived. Possibly a
Catholic clergyman coming to a
community in Which his flock is
so much in the minority as in
Moore county, is entitled to a lit
tle more warmth of reception
There are those who believe that if
Josephus runs for Governor, history
will repeat itself. More Daniels in the
lion’s den.
This is not a catch. It is ^ real
problem that was set in a recent Brit-
and Sheffield. Mr. Jones earned
100 pounds per annum. The guard’s
nearest neighbor, a passenger, earns
exactly three times as much as the
guard. The guard’s namesake lived at
Sheffield. Smith beat the fireman at
billiards. What was the name of the
driver ?
This can be solved by logic.
PAUL T.BARNUM, INC
Insurance of Ali Kinds
—At The—
We are fearful of another squabble
between a couple of our contributing
editors. Last winter Struthers Burt at.
than a fellow worker in the oth- ! tacked Ralph Page for the atrocious
er denominations that are large,
for the man whose field is more
limited has less of that encour
agement of numbers, Which has
something to do with the latent
enthusiasm that a clergyman
looking Page Trust Company signs at
the entrance to Raeford and Sanford.
Whereupon Ralph agreed to take them
down. Now we note that a new Page
Trust Company sign has appeared
ou":side Raeford. Ralph apparently
Citizens’ Bank Building
Southern Pines, N. C.
Successors To
PAUL T. BARNUM and S. R. RICHARDSON, INC.
must carry with him in his work, i agreed to take his signs down, but
It is fortunate that much of j said nothing about not putting any
the old time antagonism between
H
Directors
man and black man have grown
up in a neighborhood that has
creeds and congregations is dy
ing out, for however much we
may differ from each other in
our views on religion or any
White other theme, the fact is still up-
more up.
Just wait till Struthers gets back.
permost that we all need the aid
of every other influence to gain
the greatest good that all are
struggling for. Maybe some of
us do not accept the minor doc
trines of the Roman Catholic
church, but this we all have to
remember, that on the founda
tions of the old church, and for
This seems to be the vital question
of the day in Moore county: When is
a deputy sheriff not a deputy sher
iff?
s
I. C, Sledge
Walker Taylor, Jr.
0. H. Stutts
H. D. Vail •
R. S. Tufts
Walker Taylor
A. p. Thompson
J. F. Taylor
Quite an interest appears to be de
veloping on the part of city residents
in farm land. Inquiries have been com
ing into the Sandhlls from the north
lately, from men who believe the way
to weather the depression is to go
::
unaided effort. As government
is complex, involving financing
of public matters, maintaining
dened with bonds and the people' law, order, public schools, sani-1 over a struggling faith, and un-
are digging into pockets with 1 tary measures, and all the big j til some 500 years ago with no
holes in the bottom after the land little responsibilities, the‘aid from outside source held it
dollar that has flown, in the | town of Southern Pines did not
hope of finding some tax money achieve the success that both
to pay interest and principal, | white and colored people hoped
and default is beginning to show I for, and because the two towns
in bonds given by communities. ^ are neighbors the prosperity of
It makes no difference what one required the prosperity of
we may assume the value of the other. The legislature an-
Droperty to be if that property! nexed West Southern Pines to
*has to be foreclosed and nobody Southern Pines, extinguishing
has money to buy it or cares to i the smaller government, and
buy it at a price that was I through failure to understand
thought certain when the debt the wisdom of the movement dis-
was made. Every national debt, I agreement arose that culminat-
every state debt,^ every town led in the court case at Wades-
and county debt, is a mortgage boro last week. But along with
0T1 the property of the individual that arrival in court came the
who lives within the boundary, conference of the attorney for I will recall as one that is hard to
involved. The farm or home, or the colored folks with the mayor | scare with trivialties.
other property that is owned in and town commissioners of |
a town that is mortgaged, in a Southern Pines, and from the! THE TIME
county that is mortgaged, :n a ^ conference have arisen some I TO SELL
state that is mortgaged in this propositions that look like a
nation that is mortgaged by its i happy and satisfactory outcome
bonds, is subject to all that py- ] that will bring the best results
ramid of legal claims, and must i to both places,
help to pay them and the in-: conference was predicated
on the assumption that the suc
cess of the colored neighborhood
is essential to the succes of the
white community, and that the
white must lend the necessary
back to the land and grow your own.
1,500 years after its establish-j if this idea grows, we may profit by n
ment, the Catholic hierarchy | the plight of the rest of the country, **
held aloft the sign of the cross for surely there is no more ideal
place to settle down, raise your own
food and live peacefully and inexpen
sively than here in Moore county.
by its own efforts against many
antagonisms and difficulties.
The new man that comes to
this section, backed by the tra
dition and achievement of the
2,000 years of persistent work
for the uplift of mankind, will
not fail to receive a cordial hand
of fellowship. And if it may be
allowable to draw that sinister
bend which separates the church
militant from the warfare of the
roped arena the name of Mor
rissey has an aggressiveness
about it that old-timers, espec
ially the New England element.
ti
Which prompts the hint: Read
“Sand in My Shoes,” by Katharine
Ripley, just published. It’s the real
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terest as long as they survive.
That is why we don’t want any
more relief that plasters on a
mortgage. This country has been
relieved so copiously that it is
dangerous to be relieved any j help to the colored folks in what-
ore in that way. The only way ^gver way the maintenance of law,
u now is to pay some of the | sanitary masures, procedure and
^ heads above | other factors require, allowing
10 ^ ^ T\yr negroes such range of ac-
Tinif 1 ^ people* jy^ore debts ^ demonstrate
^ on y urry the finish more j their ability to use with wis-
rapi y. I (jom, and helping them where
. A Ithey are lacking. It is believed
I that out of this proposition can
I KOBLEM I eome ^ much improved commun
Recently advice has been of
fered to the producer of farm
stuff to withdraw from the mar
ket and sell nothing until prices
go up. The motive is no doubt
sincere, but the advice would re
sult in the most magnificent cat
astrophe possible if it could be
made effective. Suppose sellers
should withdraw their products
from the market, or that the
market for other reasons should
be closed. What would immed
iately happen? The owners of
the various products would hr.ve
on their hands their products,
and no possible way to convert
them into cash and other things
which producers hope to obtain
from their work and production.
With that immediate disaster
From the day when Joseph j -ty on the side of the creek i facing the producer his obliga-
was brought down into Egypt | v/here the colored folks live, that
and sold to Potiphar, and farth-! whites and blacks working to-
fr back in history than man i aether can make a model com-
knows at the present time, one! inanity over there and remove
man has been assuming author-1 most of the obstacles that both
ity over another. The day on | I'aces are anxious to have over-
which two strains of humanity i come.
come in contact with each other | The government of Southern
that racial jealousy and compe-1 Pines appears to be going at the
tition begins which has covered!task in intelligent manner, and is
the e?rth with rancor and blood I entitled to the backing of all the
and sorrow in every quarter. So 1 people, black and white alike, for
slavery has presented its com-1 without harmouions work of the
plications in the United States | two races failure is the prospect,
as ever\^where else, and today we I This is no time for animosity on
Ftill have the frsquent antago- either side of the creek, but for
nisnis that are the residuary leg- energetic attempt to carry
I out the measures proposed and
Slavery on a large scale was j ordered by the law, ironing out
abolished in 1863, and curiously | any seeming difficulties around
enough the United States was; the council table, and with faith
the last of the great nations to | and fairness in all the dealings,
take the step, Russia having end-, West Southern Pines canbemade
ed ^eifdom m 1861. In 1822, 352' one of the most ideal negro com-
sips, according to reports to munities in the country, with
the <-ongress of Verona, were substantial backing b ythe white
trade. And i people who are desperately in-
o ^ States comes to terestd in attaining that end for
e negro population of ten their own good, just as much as
tions would also immediately be
gin to overwhelm him, for every
creditor would at once move to
procure any money possible that
could be salvaged out of the
ruin. Business in all directions
would promptly collapse, and it
would collapse for an indefinite
period for a supply of everything
saleable would be on hand, and
no one would dare to produce
anything further, for it would
only add to the surplus without
a market, and industry and com
merce would be choas.
One great trouble now is that
we have drawn from the markets
kets too much of a surplus of
wheat and cotton and other
things instead of selling that
stuff, ^nd the surplus hangs
over the head of business like
the sword of Damocles, suspend
ed by a thread that any trifling
thing might break. The attempt
to hold too many things for high-
:^r price has piled up a vast store
of many things to break over us
’f the collapse should ever be in-
Morth Carolina's Greater
STATE FAIR
Klorse Racing
Poultry Show
Cattle Exhibit
Hog Show
Six Days—Six Nights
Raleigh, October
12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 17
Industry
Farm Life
Free Acts
Dog Show
BERNARDI’S MONSTER MIDWAY AHRACTiONS
Note to Parents and Teachers:
School children admitted FREE
on Friday, October 16th when ac
companied by parents or teaclT-
ers. Bring your family or class.
ITS YOUR FAIR
BE THERE
Admission
Adults:
Day 75c; Night 50c
Children under 12:
Day 35c; Night 25c
BROADWAY REVUE
THE SENSATIOns OF 1931.
The greatest show of its kind away
from Broadway. Special scenery*
32 Beautiful Live Dancing Girls.
NIGHTLY IN FRONT OF THE
GRANDSTAND.
The Fourth Annual
N. C. State Fair
DOG SHOW
A. K. C. License
Wednesday land Thursday
The largest Dog Show to be held in
the Sout hthis Fall.