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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
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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<? nnH nnci fVii * man\ to be the haidest per- population of Moore county lives on an h.our out of Richmond last Sunday
hpffpy. nfilivo if T> ^ 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<om
countries where love, unless dull, be
comes available newspaper copy; a
glimpse under Mr. Waugh’s collo
quial and glamorous guidance, into
places w’here life is keyed to more
elemental, natural rhythms. These
rhythms form an ironically circular
pattern in which the author finds:
“Sophisticated and disenchanted
Northerners endeav.oring to recover a
simplicity they had lost, only to find
that the very people possessing that
simplicity were trying to create in
their withdraw^n paradise the precise
conditions they themselves had wear
ied of.”
We see the increaible, yet inevita
ble, results of machine-made plans of
life superimposed on native ways.
The movie-mad. Ford-loving Tahi-
tans, the French officer whose casual
affair with a Martiniquaise evoked a
magic far blacker than her skin, the
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