Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With rharacter. Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 30, 193^^ THE PILOT ' 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: .$2.00 Months $1 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. 1 is frequently down in the pock- * et bringing out things. The hos- AN UNDERVALUED RESOURCE , As winter approaches the pital records are not so reticent, question of fuel supply is' prom-1 Humanity moves under some inent. Until the last few years 1 novel disguises at tim^ in car- this section depended on its ' rying out its errands of helpful- wood supply to carry through j ness, but in the case of the the cold weather. Later coal j Shriner^^ the disguise does not made a place for itself. But wood is so abundant in Moore county that it stilf affords a valuable resource and the means of gathering in a big amount cf I money if the wood can be made | interfere With the seriousness of the purpose. Something of this sort seems to be included ill Par son Stimson's analysis of the Kingdom of Heaven that he has been talking about in the Bap tist church in Southern Pines. the Governor’s Mansion, and since a school. The architecture will con firm to that of the State Capitol, at the other end of t he street. Plans are i to have it completed by next June, in time flor the next State Democratic convention. nt * * GRAINS OF" SAND If we are correctly informed, the Aberdeen High School football team” BUSINESS AND GOVERNMENT The probability is that busi ness over the country is begin ning to pick up, in spite of the many efforts of every imagin able influence to butt in. The cer tainty is that basic economic laws are active now as always, and that whatever comes will come not because of any impos sible dreams of help from legis lation or silver or any ,of the other impotent remedies so free ly suggested, but because things are adjusting themselves after our riot of unbusinesslike poli cies that always follow war or other grave disturbances. It is doubtful if we will ever in this generation see again such another wild runaway of business. Probably one of the most assuring indications is that the railroads have been given lit tle comfort in their request for rate increase. Not that they do not need an increase, which they do, but that they can go to the governm*ent and bargain for in creases is as absurd as if the man who sells shoes or flour or lumber or any other things fixes his rates by government fiat. Business will determine its rates in spite of statute law and gov ernment meddling, for govern ment cannot compel men to buy at any price that does not suit. If .the railroad rates are not sufficient, which seems to be the case, the roads must lower cost of operation or default on their bonds and lower their wages. And after all it is a mat ter in which the people are in terested more m these things than in rates. If rates are not More honor for lone of our contrib Struthers Burt’s “Fes the villages. An ample supply of | he had con- ball team. If we are correctly inform- tracted to do so, because he feared ed, a majority of the members of the the English censor might deem it eleven which played against Rocking- objectionable, has just been selected ham last Friday do not attend Aber- by the English Biook Society as its deen High School. School athletics choice for November. Hugh Walpole ' are beneficial. Every boy in school l\as included “^estival” among those | shiould have a chance to play on the books 'which he considers to be the ' schools team. The team should rep- p Tf lo Qca “best of the year.” “Festival” was pub- resent the best efforts of the school firp fnr a February by Charles Scrib- jto organize from its own student body, good or a S- 0 ner’s Sons and was the choice for that | Every purpose of schoiol athletics is permanent one, and as good month>f the Book League of Ameri-I defeated by organizing a team with a contmual fire as coal, for the ^ ‘‘ringers.” School pride, civic pride furnace supplied Wi pie. should frown upon this practice. One Year - m editors. Six Months $1.00 available to the householders O^i .. j » English publisher is n,ot an Aberdeen High School foot- the villages. An ample supply of' . ’ . s ... fat pine is still to be found in reasonabe distance of the towns, while the hard wood is of excel lent quality and exists in vast quantities in such area that if rightly handled transportation should not make the price un reasonably high. Wood is a ganization, under auspices ,of which the dinner is to be held. While plans are immature, it is ex pected to have several national fig. ures, such as Governor Franklin D Roosevelt, of New York; Newton D Baker and Owen D. Young, prospec tive Presidential candidates, as chief The only riffle to break the other- \ speakers, while other leading Demo- wise placid political waters for =3ome from this and other states may weeks is the announcement of David invited. Jouett Shouse, of the Xa- P. Dellinger, Gaston county, that he | tional Democratic Executive Com- will be a candidate for lieutenant! was principal speaker at the governor. He has brioken the ice in 1 meeting, nearly t\^^o years ago this, race, although it has been accept- ' Raleigh, at which leading politi cal figures of the State were pres ent. ed for some time that A. H. (Sandy) Graham, of Hillsboro,, and D. F. (Fatty) Giles, Marion, will he can didates. Mr. Dellinger has represent ed Gaston county in the General As sembly. sufficiently large to burn slowly will keep a fire overnight as Speaking of books, R. W. Leiby con- An old Scotch neighbor dropped in well as coal will. In cost wood i tributed a glowing review of Kath- , , should be a more economical | Ripley’s “Sand in My Shoes,” I the other day about noon at an un- fuel for its actual heating val- ; Sunday’s Raleigh News and pretentious farm house where dinner ue as determined in the chemi- cal and physical laboratories is equal to that of coal in cost and convenience of handling in the home. But the farmer who still has a wood lot, or the man who has considerable forest area has to use more economy in supplying wood. No great profit can be found in the small jag of stuff hauled a long distance at the Observed. “All who have contacted was about ready and he was asked to the Sandhill section will find her book fascinating reading,” he says, “for her story is humorously, humanly and truthfully told. Those not acquainted personally with her characters will find her book a compelling story of sit down and have a piece of pone and some cowpeas and baked potatoes. Which he did, for they are good ra tions. He was called on to say grace, but previously he had been admon ished that they had no butter for the Charlotte is probably the only citv with a building with sufficient space for the diners, since the Raleigh aud itorium was burned, and, according to * * * : Mr. Taylor, has a good chance of 1 being the hos^ city. The date has not Frank D. Grist, candidate for U. S. been decided but the dinner will prob Senate, says that “Bob is all wet; ^ ^bly be in Jknuary or in March Cam will dry up; Tam will be an Extensive preparations are under also ran, believes A. L. Briooks, ■ ggttjng ready to cope with Greensboro, will get in the race and unemployment and distress relief that “I will be Senator. He reports problem of the State during the win unusual political lethargy, most peo- jgj. months. While the problem will be pie giving little or no thought to can- ■ primarily local. Governor Gardner’s didates. commission will head up and direct I sfc )|C V. V c ; the efforts fr,om Raleigh. Represen- Charlotte is making a strong bid— | tatives of several social and govern- and with fair chances |0f success—for mental agencies have met to consider the second annual Jackson Day Din- I methods of meeting what is expected ner, plans for which are beginning to j to be a pressing need in many com- get under way, according to Tyre C. munities this winter. The work is be- Taylor, chairman of the North Caro-. ing directed by R. W. Henninger, as lina Young People’s Democratic Or- [ executive secretary. life told in a way that the reader will, potatoes, and that a man from town might miss butter. But the philsoo- phic Scot recalled as nearly as he could the sentiment of his favorite enjoy. ■‘Amusing anecdotes are numerous and the tales of her trials during lean years are unfolded s,o that the reader bard and recited: price the buyer can pay in pref- | gains a sympathetic understanding j “Oh, Thou who kindly dost provide erence to coal. Wood should be | for authoress and her husband.” I F,or every creature’s want, delivered in loads of not less ! . We thank Thee, God of Nature wide, than half a cord, and a cord is i An airplane bearing license No. N. j For all Thy mercies lent. GOING AFTER TOURIST TRAFFIC eral Highway No. 1, which runs , through Henderson, Sanford, Southern The Piedmont Highway Associa- Pines, Aberdeen, Rockingham, Cheraw tion, organized for the prjomotion of Camden, met in Raleigh last week and prepared a budget of $12,000, better, and it should be regular |C. 249-H flew over Aberdeen at 11:37 in size and quality and of the A. M. last Friday at a dangerously t ype the buye^; can use to best, low altitude. With a dead stick it advantage. Moore county until | could not have avoided crashing inside a few years ago depended on its I the city limits. This is illegal fly- own fuel resources, and can do' it again if the people so elect. But the supply must be such as will meet the demand of the con sumer, for he has the last word in the choice of his fuel, and the price must be one that will com pete with coal hauled three or four hundred miles to this sec tion. Moore county can raise its own fuel indefinitely if it cares to cultivate its market. But the market must be one that satis-1 fies the buyer and gives a prof-, it to the producer. Both these' conditions are easily possible. And if it please Thee, Heavenly Guide, May never worse be sent; Yet if though granted or denied, Lord make us still content.” To which he added further, ing; the pilot is liable for the ftuspen- “Some hae meat, and canna eat, sion of his license. It s dangerious to And some wad eat that want it; himself, to the life and property of But we hae meat, and we can eat. others. If he has passed his flying And sae the Lord be thankit.” practically all of which is to be spent in advertising the route. The Fayetteville paper says the “Short R,oute” between New York and tourist traffic over United States Highway No. 29 between the . North and the South, came into being and became active none too soon. While it is boosting the highway through Florida is not getting the traffic it Charlotte, Greensboro, Danville and should have “because of the fact that Lynchburg, and striving to raise nec- ^ towns and cities along the highway essary funds for the purpose, it has are not advertising the route as it sharp and active competition in Unit- should be” and urges the raising of a , ^ A J -rn , 1 . J J .. ed States Highway No. 1, and the so-. healthy advertising fund. The route tests he knows better And If he hasn t For as he explained, Gude sweet ] Carolinas-Florida Short Route,' passed through Rocky Mount, Wilson, passed his flying tests, the charge is potatoes with nae butter beats nae Carolinas to ' Fayetteville, Lumbertoh, ;Howknd, the east of the Piedmont route. ^^d on through Florence, S. C. The Fayetteville Observer, seeking* The towns and cities along Route to arouse active interest on the part 29 might well take notice of what of the cities and towns through which those along Highway No. 1 are do- the “Florida Short Route” passes, ing and of what those along the more j calls attention to the fact that repre- eastern route are urged to do.—Char- sentatives of communities along Fed- lotte Observer. more serious. ! butter and nae sweet potatoes.” ^ife£APITAL By M. R. Dunnagan, The Pilot’s Raleigh Correspondent TO MEET AT SANFORD THE SHRINE CLUB AND THE CHILDREN Seqond of a long series of steps 800,000 in bridge bonds, to be repaid leading toward a rewriting of North from tolls cellected by the bridges. A glimpse at the records of Carolina’s antiquated Constitution was A special session of the General I the Moore County Hospital indi- j taken last week when the Consti- paid to permit high wages low | cate that a hundred and forty-; tutional Commission, provided by th. Assembly was urged upon Governor Gardner last week by two groups, one wjges must follow or receiver-j six children have been treated at 1931 General Assembly, met. organ- interested in tobacco acreage reduc-i^^^d slUps for the roads. ’ | that institution through the aid ized and laid plans for work during tion, headed by Senator W. G. Clark, prices. I't! nnf thp S^inHhill Shrine Club. HALLOWE’EN PARTY AT ' EUREKA SCHOOL SATURDAY The November meeting of the Al- The public is cordially invited to fred Moore Chapter of the Daughters attend a supper and hallowe’en party of American Revolution will be held at Eureka school Saturday evening, home of Mrs. J. R. Ingram in ^ , 01 rpT- -n u 1 J. J! Sanfo.d on November 3rd, at 2:30 p. October 31. There will be plenty of , „ , m. All members are urged to be pres ent. things to eat at reasonable The money goes to add some It is not the railroad that i Sandhill Shrine Club. , the next year. Chief Justice W. P. of Edgecombe, and the other, head- i much needed equipment to the school, carss, ^Ut the stockholder, the ] fCourt, ^d by E. G. Bartlett, secretary ,of the ] There will be fun for every one. bondholder, and the employe.' 'J-cal,- much of it dealing with is chairman, and Charles Brantley Eastern Carolina Chamber of Com- The bondholder is 'the first the tonsils, of orthopedic char-,Ayoock was employed as. secretary, merce, interested primarily in cotton power to consider, for he can; ^^ter and other deformities. The They meet again Niovember 27. acreage reduction legislation, foreclose and sell the roads on ; Shriners, with their funny little Governor Gardner, who named the While many are urging the session, Is the block. A railroad in bank- ; hats, their military outfit members, met with them and told others are just as insistent that the' H ruptcy is a mighty poor factor j their friendly cordiahty, them of the importance to the peo-, special session not be called, includ-1 § in the country’s work, for the | ^ave their serious side. They do ; pie of the state of the duties they ing the North Carolina merchants, i B life of the nation depends on the j than talk about antiquity ; have undertaken, in reworking the who say business and industry would jg railroad service. Trucks and au-1 ^ Constituti,on adopted by the “carpet- again be alm,ost strangled by anoth- load from some unfortunate that^ag” Legislature of 1866, when the er seige like the first five months of tney Cto not talk about a great, g^ate was almost entirely agricultural, this year. Josephus Daniels continues deal’ and it j and of the needs for changes to meet to urge legislation, suggesting cha^lS tion of theirs that thi^S bit of in-I the changed condition of the peo-j this state is “seceding” from the tormation gets out. Gloma and their activities, now bound , South, in not following Texas and two Ch«,rles is secretary and treasur- j cown by restrictions ,of the organic other states in reduction of acreage er of the club and a quiet source | law. • •: by legislation, while Louisiana and fu ^ Constitiitional Commission idea South Carolina enacted laws prohib- that JS earned on, but he has the : Constitutional iting cotton planting. Miss Janette Leach is visiting in Atlanta, Ga., this week. EVERY PHILCO A SUPERHETERODYNE tomobiles and airplanes can han dle the trimmings but the rail roads are necessary to do the hulk of the job. Railroad bonds ere held largely by savings banks and life insurance companies as investments for their money re ceived from depositors and from insured patrons. If railroad bonds and stocks are depressed; help and backing of his whole, convention plan. This kind of ^ - . , . .. . . , I xiiia iviiiu Ui a com- Governor Gardner heard the groups they knock the props from un-, unique outtit, and it is a good only 'and told them he would do what, in ^^'r the savings banks and in-■ ^dea if at times when the Shrme !. , , ’ , ^ u;. n Right: Ordinary radio Left: Philco radio surance c^panies, and there is the greatest menace at the pres ent time. For that reason it is not h'kelv th?»t the people will pe rmit the roads to face disas- t^->r. But the adjustments Will be nade by the roads and the pa trons of the roads, just as prices in every direction will be made by the buyer and the seller, and not by fiat of law or any other f^ttempted interference. Business adjusts itself to conditions, which is a thing worth remem bering, and all laws are power- has on its hands project, some ball or other plan for gathering a few dimes for i welfare work, that other .folks th.an the Shriners should reach down and dig up a few kopecs. A hundred and forty-six chil dren is a right sizable bunch when it comes to counting the relief that is afforded that that many individuals as a to tal, but it is especially a big number when it is known that that many have been the bene ficiary of a quiet body of kind- “ — V— I part of the suggested changed were , his judgment, is best for all the peo-1 SO e re le j The present group will go into ! of the state. He said he had talk- the entire problem and may com- j*ed with governors of the other states ' H pletely rewrite or amend the Con- Yorktown the week before, and i stitution. Its w.ork will be presented I have ideas of calling special ses-! S to the 1933 General Assembly for ^ions. Although piessure is great submission to the people. from some sections, Governor Gard- The Copfimission is composed of! known to be against calling Chief Justice Stacy, Judge John J. I legislature to meet at this time, Parker, of the U. S. Circuit Court * results, and seeing no solu- Ies« as against equitable and sat- i ly-disposed citizens who without isfactory adjustments. This ap- any fuss in the public plies as much to farm stuff as places have gone into the high- to other stuff, and includes all'^^y^ and byways and brought thir»Qrg, The most assuring feature of the present situation is that im provement is in sight, and the certainty that out of all tangles, no matter how, much we knot the threads the ultimate readjust ments come of themselves and are logical and beneficial. Tomor row is the day of economy, of in- in the ailing little people and overcome their difficulties and put them on their way to health and to comfort. This world is full of men who follow the Scriptural admonition of not telling their left hands what their‘right hands may be doing. The Shriners have an out side attitude which is seen when ^ustry and of the rule of the I they appear in pubic with their immutable laws of economics in- holiday attire. But that does not stead of the imaginary rule of human dreams and fantasies. say anything about the doing of the right hand, nor why it iOf Appefils, Fourth District; Super ior Court Judge Michael Schenck, Hendersonville; Major George Butler, Clinton; Revenue Commissioner A. J. Maxwell, Raleigh; Burton ^Craige, Winston-Salem; J. O. Carr, Wilming ton; Congressman Lindsey Warren, Washington, and Dr. Clarence Poe. Raleigh. \ ♦ * ♦ I % North Carolina’s general fund show ed a cash balance of $875,500.32, as of September 30, while the highway funds showed a balance of $7,387,- 553.99, the combined statement of the Auditor and Treasurer, issued by Governor Gardner, shows. The State’s total debt is shown as $179,611,371, including $2,502,371 in temporary loans and a funded debt of $177,109,000, of which $109,237,000 is in highway bonds, to be paid by au tomobile and gasoline taxes, and $1,- tion of the problem. Critics wh,o accuse him of retract ing from his position as shown in his message to Governor Sterling of Texas, for unified “legislation” are reminded tliat he suggested “uniform actiion,” not legislation, and points out that while three states have adopted the Texas plan, two have adopted Louisiana’s plan, and others have done nothing, showing lack of “uniform action,” while Egypt’s suggestion of international action, called by Gard ner, has been turned d