Pagre Two THE P I L0 T Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. 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 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 Cbaracter, Aberdeen, North Carolina ' Friday, November 6 1931. A GOOD TIME TO BUY LAND A common opinion is that the bottom has dropped out of the land market. Temporarily and as pertains to certain lands this is a fact. In a general way it is a positive delusion. From time to time parcels of land have been Thou&ands of honest persons know the stock market has brought about the catastrophe. Thousands of equally honest persons know the stock market hadn't a thing to do with it. In similar way practically every other thing that is suggested as a c^ause is as innocent as the birds in their nests. It may be interesting to analyze this one case. The stock market is a place where securities. are bought and sold. When business is good people buy stocks and bonds because they represent the ownership of productive property and the earnings of property mean interests and div idends. The better business is, the better returns and higher stocks go on the market where roople b’-'v thrm. But when bus- i.nessi g:ts bad, dividends are smaller ^nd not so many peo ple care to buy stocks. So prices of stocks and bonds go down. Every time another corporation announces a cut in its dividend rate its stock prices fall. When business picks up and dividends increase prices of the stocks will go up. It is quite apparent that the condition of business has Once More—A Bull Market sold under foreclosure with re- suits unsatisfactory to the own- raised Cain with the stock mar- er. But it will be realized by the! ket and that the stock market " VELL,- ILL BE DOG-GONED/ WHEB.E HAVE YOU BEEN ALL THESE YEARS ? MAKINS Ivs fbTB % From the State Press GAINFUL OCCUPATIONS GRAINS OF' SAND money involved, and that dan- ity of the matter and are trying obs^erthTverWm^^^^ noThin7to do wUh'businessJ ger in seen by some folks th^t to aclmgi the budget and pro^nde beiriold bfowners who are not I This is merely an example of I a further debt is piling up to be for the possibilities ahead. But under compulsion. People who: the fallacy of nine-tenths of all i faced by a lessened incorne, the it is certain they have some thin do not have to sell know very; the remedies proposed for the results of which is feared. The ice ahead of them, and no (me well that prices will come bnck I unsatisfastory financial situa- commissioners realize the grav- knows what the solution is to be. after the distress lands are out ^ tion. No doubt business^ is bet- of the way. I r than most people imagine Those who buy land at fore-' and no doubt it is getting on a closure sales are not as a rule t better footing every day. Quite men who want it. Such land is positively threewfoiirths of all j YMnr^y thin^? how concerned a Ral- time since McCulloh located his tw,0 generally bought as a salvagc3 the paten medicines propose O | newspaper is over our police hundred thousand acre-grant on the measure by those who hold cure the ailment are as useless j to urper Cape Fear two hundred years claims against it, and they will j quack remedies in everything i Capital’s best ago. undertake later to resell it for a else. About the only tmng we interested in our civ- Nevertheless The Pilot, being of higher price. But go out to look can O is O I ic affairs. What we don’t quite under- conservative temperament, is disposed for a piece of ground and you means, pay our debts, attend to | Southern to tone down a little that crop of find things different. Find some- pui WOl ^ an ®aw woo . O , pires to editorialize. The?e are hun- three thousand bushels reported from thing that you want and ap- j^^g e se is or a P Ugge cop villages all over the state .">ne farm, although it is a fact that proach the own^ and you wilLPei cen an you can C ew on ^ chiefs of police, vet every once thousands of bushels have been pick- find that he wants it too. Ex-, this as long as you want to. ceptions to this statement are met, as exceptions arise to THE CHANGING everything else, but in a general TAX SITUATION way, land is not offered for a year ago Moore county was sale at the marked down prices.' closing an election campaign in Depressed prices govern limit- which tax reduction was a vig JURY LIST CALLED FOR DECEMBER COURT TERM The jury list for the December term of Superior Court for the trial of civil cases is as follows: Joe W. Blue, Butler H. Ray, W. O. That North Carolina is predonii. nantly rural is shown by the occupa- tional distribution of gainful workers ^ f,or last year. The gainfully employed in this state in 1930 numbered 1,141 129, or almost exactly thirty-six per- cent of our total population. Those engaged in agriculture, fores try, and fishing are 44.7 percent of all gainfully employed. Only six statea have larger ratios of gainful em ployees in the above classification. One-fourth of all gainful employees in North Carolina are engaged in manufacturing and mechanical indus tries. We rank twelfth in industrial output, but ninettenth in ratio of pop, ulation working in factories, due mairfy to the mechanical nature of the tobacco industry. In the United States as a whole 9.1 percent of the gainfully employed are engaged in transp,ortation; in North Carolina only 4.7 percent, one-half of the national average. Only Mississ ippi and South Carolina have smaller ratios of all gainful employees en gaged in transportation. The percent of gainful workers en- gaged in trade is a good index of the place trading or merchandising oc cupies in the economic structure of the state. For the United States 15.4 per cent of gainful workers are engaged in trade, in North Carolina 8.7 per cent are so engaged. Only three I er in a while this ecitor singles us out ed in the country round about. Har- to honor. Oh well, mebbe some time, vesting the pea crop has brought con- some place he’s met our chief, and siderable money to workers at a time was impressed by him. when employment has been desirable. Farmers are tellin? of corn houses •Do your Christmas shopping early! filled to the roof and a surplus lof j • • j* X* - I Christmas shopping this year should I stowed w'herever room ed acijage in various directions, orouslv debated subject. Mur- include not only the family and inti- ' could be found. The hay yield far ex- but the bulk of the lands are doch Johnson and U. L. Spence still held by hands strong were sent to the legislature lad- mate friends. It should involve look- i ceeds barn room, with the result that ing over the old clothes—that old hat, people are talking about live Caddell, J. W. Y.ow, E. O. Jenkins, W. L. Wallace, J. I. Lineberry, B. C. Bar ber, J. p. Swett, J. M. Garner, J. W. Hunsucker, Howard Phillips, W. G. Maxwell, J. R. Brewer, H. B. McDuf fie, H. C. Graham, G. B. Williams, W. H. Chriscoe and C. E. Scott. enough to ask fair prices before en with instruction to reduce l pair of shoes you never wear, the than in the past. The sweet po- semng. As a result ot this ele- county taxation. A new board of: ^^e unbe- tato cr,op fell down. Fall ga lens have ®re an commissioners was chosen \^ ith | dress—and laying: them aside ' been as frood as they mighty ow- there growing from the propor- the later addition of two extra I j jj, .j, wondeiine how weather, tionately small number of forced men and the air was heavv with ! T ! V v, T cjoloo 4- u Iiieii, aiiu Lilt; ^11 wa&ucctvy gomg to get through the sales, opportunities to buy may i the demand for a reduction of i ^vinter be found. Where they are found taxation. It was impossible to they are worth following up. reduce the rate for 1930 taxes Carefully selected lands bought go that the delinquent list sold at the figures that may be had out on Monday, or rather assum- every community now ed by the county for the year, hold out some of the best in- ^ot benefit by the reduc- v^estment opportunities in this tion. The new board of commis-, sioners however po??tponed the i Moore county has learned j This man Brummitt is an original There’ll be a relief organization to | fellow. While about every other poli- fTN l the needy cases. There’ll be re- | tician in the state has announced his lief headquarters for the collection ; candidacy for some high office, the and distribution of clothes and sup- attorney general comes out and an- plies. The public’s part is to provide I n.ounces he “will not be a candidate the relief. for j^:overnor in the Democratic pH- Do y.our Chiistmas shopping early mary of 1932.” Let’s see, how many —in the rhops, and in the attic. does that leave in the race? learncfl final collection of last year s, turm in^ thp through vvhat is thought . Porty-Seven and 64-lOOth of the The SeaU.ard had the air for half vear ^ depi ession in this county, according to the 1930 census. : night, and featured resorts served by l-etter utilize its resources. Ihe while the pronounced reduction re -anks 28th amon^ the eoun- its lines. Pinehurst and Southern Pines came in for a large share of the boosting. next movement up grade will be in the c?eneral conntv rate from ' resnect With a total non a more efficient t)ne. After we of l;^^t vear hps aiven a mif r^4-i ^ ^ a elation of 28,215, 8.94 per cent is thpr vah.r T ^'OPefulneS? to the whole people 43.33 pe,. cent lives in the her land values are going to of a lowering of the burden to country thoue-h not ene-ae-ed in farm .strengthen, and the man who where it can be borne Deferring not engaged m fa.m- ^ * J? 1 1 ^ t. J. Cl 1II1^ ^ j 47.64 IS the farm population. \MSely chooses a piece of land the collection of 1931 taxes has New Hanover countv has the smallest now, suitable for the uses he ?>lso sriven an opportunity to j? if • fv, f f q cn u ,,*11 £'4. u n. , , farm population in the state, 3.80 per ma> have foi it, will profit by profit by the time gained on the ^ent while Caswell has the greatest its acQuisition. What makes land part of the payer Along with f • if ni ci To • • r, . A farming population, 91.81 percent. \alues IS the steady increase in this the commissioners have! the growth of population. When been makinor marked reductions ■ • j i 1 J u J? ^ iimiivcu xcuuctlun^ Either this is a wonderful season horlv iTl® expenditures. Presum- jcrops or this is a wonde.fullv pro- ® ™ake still others. , ^uctive territory or it is a community of the most remarkable liars on the face of the earth. Whatever it is started early in the game. Reports began to come in of great wheat crops, and oat crops and hay crops and corn crops. But probably the topper of the whole business is the cowpea crop. There is no doubt that more cowpeas have been made this year in this sec tion of the state than possibly any isn t enough to go around pr’ce ^ We are entering a new finan- increases as the number of peo-:cijl period which nobodv can pie increase to want it.' Depres- foreshadow. Some very well in- sion or no depression men want formed men say that the few land because of their necessities | years immediately ahead of us as well as of their de‘=sires. If you are to be years of economy, of nave a good piece of land it is a paving our debts 5^nd living good thing to hano: on to. If you j within our means. That senti- hayen t, it is a erood thing to ac-, ment seems to be pretty widely Quire. Land is always a specula-; accepted in the county and as the live proposition, but the specu-1 present county government was lation IS on the prospect of pop-1 elected on that notion v,*e can ulation continuing to increase. Route 241, the new State highway from Aberdeen to Laurinburg, has been completed and thrown open to traffic. This is a fine stretch of con crete through picturesque country, and worth the hour or so it takes to drive from here to Laurinburg and back. Blythe Brothers, contractors, completed the final stretch between Aberdeen and the Lumbee River early last week, and celebrated the occa-- sion by asking several hundred citi zens of this section to an oyster roast last Friday night. More than 150 from Aberdeen and the Sandhills en joyed the occasion at Reddy’s Camp. Black, B. T. Thomasson, Walter W’ick- , A. R. Reynolds, W. M. Davis, J. S.! ®*atcs, namely South Carolina, Ala- ’ bama, and Mississippi, have smaller ratios employed in trade. A very interesting fact is that of our total farm population in North Carolina only 31 percent are gairful- ly employed, while of the uniform population forty percent are gainfully employed. This is due to the excessive San Francisco girl who made the ^^^^ber of children to the excessive irreparable mistake of living in Lon- ^^^ber of children in our farm pop- don by her Californian code; all illus- a high ratio of people in trate the perplexing impossibility of i productive years in the towns and putting out roots w^here the plant is ^f the state, not indigenous. Letter. The book is without formal pattern.! A chapter may be in story form, a j IN MEMORY OF “TOBE” HENSLEY reminiscence, or informal notes for j a supposed novel. There is a delicious ; Stalwart as the hills from whence he essay on the reputation of English- ; came, men as poor lovers, due, Mr. Waugh Gentle as the slopes he chose to demonstrates, to their “resolute re- j trod, spect for the necessity of discretion.” | A man with a friendly view and aim, The most objective chapter is the Patterned in the image of a god. most powerful. One shudders to re member the insanely repressed terror Moved was he by honesty &o rare, of an Englishman in Siam who be- I Less hearty men feared his iron lieves he has contracted leprosy. word. There are wise generalizations But those who his honesty could share, throughout the book which show the Speak of it when ere his name is author’s familiarity with love and its ‘ heard. foible-5. Reluctantly I break this news to the ladies—while Mr. Waugh finds Thus he walked among us as a mam, “the women of no other country as Ne\er could we think of him as fascinating as the American—he is frail, afraid to marry one.” For, as so many God Almighty saw and made a plan, Englishmen wonder, “where does the ! Ever will it live and never fail, husband come in?” “Most Women” is at once spright- . Never shall his stride become infirm, •y and w'ise. It is sincerely romantic ! Never shall he meet with par* and regretfully cynical. “One regrets ! and fear, that one has eaten of the forbidden Thru-out the remainder of our term, fruit—and acquired the worldliness : We shall hold his precious mem- that must stand with a diawn sword i ory dear, at the Gate of Eden/’" We are grate- —R. E. DENNY, ful to Mr. Waugh for letting us slip i Pinehurst, Nov. 2, 1931. under the sword into the labyrinth of ! garden. The twenty woodcuts of Lyn Ward both supplement and enhance the at mosphere and personalities which they so convincingly portray. Mrs. M. M. Johnson ana children spent the week-end visiting relatives at Blackville, S. C. They wer? accom panied by Mrs. G. A. Charles and daughter. Miss Kathryn, Wftcr Save a dollar for the Red Cross. The 50th Anniversary Roll Call starts next Wednesday. expect further effort toward the balancing of the budget on a basis ‘held pretty close to the marrow. If The Pilot can inter- PROSPERITY BY CONJURING The Pilot has never taken the jpret the feeling of the people present business depression over the county it believes that seriously. The reason is because, a more hopeful general air pre certain principles govern econ- vails and that the climax which omics as well as everything else, passed on Monday points to more Those economic laws got us into satisfactory days ahead of us. It this thing and are going to get may be safe to argue that out us out. All that man can do will of the turmoil of legislation in help but mighty little, because Haleigh last winter and spring! men will not work harmonious- has come improvement in state iv along gnv intelligent lino to and county conditions, and that iind the difficultv or to correct while in the county we are it if they find it. Every man has I chewing the cud of adversity we some different theory as to the have set our heads in the right cause of the trouble and persist-1 direction and are making prog- ently opposes the theory of ress even though it may be slow BOOK REVIEW WOMEN AROUND THE WORLD Reviewed by Ann Hyde Allen Most Women. By Alex Waugh. Farrar & Rinehart. New York, 1931. $3.00. 323 pages. Whereas in “Hot Countries” Mr. ‘Waugh distilled the essential indiv iduality of each tropical island through which he wandered, in this complementary sequel he shows the manifestations of love in different , , , . ~ — J settings. He recreates many of the i Meantime the | towards a condition more prom-1 f^xotic islands before displayed and nsj ni^o ^ gojisingthan the past has ever | further traces his them.e. through natural laws of economics ahead in their courses regard- i known. say or do. ■ I The grave feature that has (•ho amusing example presented itself, is that the the stock market may be cited, county is out of the use of the Penang, Siam, across America, to a halting place in a small Riviera town. It is an enjoyable excursion fr