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Page Two THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, January 15, 1932 THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE riLOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDK. ManaginR Editor BION H. HUTLEK. Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHEKS 15UUT IIALI’H PAGE Contributing Editors Subscriplion Kates; One Y’ear $2.00 Six ilenths $1.00 Tiiree Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, X. C., as second-class mail mat ter.^ THE CHANCE FOR THE FARMER It hiif< been a debated ques tion whether Moore county of- fer.s the farmer a profitable op portunity or not. Probably on what is a profitable opportunity the whole thinj? rests. But this much may be assumed—a cer tain proportion of the popula tion of the county will depend on the farms, and that being the case the farm must provide the livelihood of those people. In the past the inhabitants of the county lived on the forest products and the farms, and they made what more recent residents inherited. North Car olina reached a fair prosperity on ten cent cotton, and ten or twelve cent tobacco. The eastern part of the state was a well-to- do section until in the last few years when the day of high prices came. Wants in this sec tion before the war were fewer than now, but few people suffer ed from the lack of necessities, and most of them were far more dependent on their own efforts, all is concerned. From which it soon be time to prepare for it; hogs, cattle, and poultry; all the things that he will need to eat in the next twelve months or more, and all the things his stock will need. Thus he will be certain that an empty meal sack will not drag him inte the Slougli of Despond. Then a lit tle cotton, or a little tobacco, or a little of something to bring ready cash beyond what eggs fiUd garden truck and such stuff will bring. And whether the stuff to sell brings high price or low price it is still something to the good, and if it is well made of good quality the price will as a rule be profitable. It takes work, but work is better than a hungry stomach. Men in some callings are hunting now for v.-crk, and glad to find it. They envy tl:e farmer, for he can al- v’o.ys have a job, and his job al ways brings him something, even if not great wealth. The farmer is in the final showdown the man who has the most posi tive footing of any one on earth, for he creates his living. Others must buy a living by working for some one else. A GOOD ENOUGH PLATFORM In a recent letter given to the papers Allen J. Maxwell, can didate for governor of North Carolina, sums up his ideas of the state’s financial policy in these words: “What we need i.s the courage to spend less rather than tax niore—the courage to readjust .our spending to meet these pro foundly changed conditions, rath er than the desperation to levy more taxes on our impoverished people.” Mr. Maxwell could have utter ed columns of argument con cerning the situation, but noth ing further than this is neces sary. What we need is the cour- and -ptssibly better served when; age to spend less ratner than is permissible to infer that ifjto tax more, the people will depend more | No matter what we may say again on their own resources | in the effort to delude ourselves they will be on the road to a i into believing that taxation can more certain moderate prosper- be shifted to some other source. haps at all. And still another ■hopeful brother figured that if he could not get to Florida for the races he could stop here and run down and back to Florida | when the weather is fair, and i — have just as much fun here as | p;jitor. The Pilot: PLEASED WITH I'lLOT any place. The point is that a jog from the North to Moore county is becoming an incident, and the fact that some thirty )flyera worked out this conclusion leaves it beyond further doubt. A lot of little features came to the surface in this mass event to clear the sky of many things that had not been widely known to amateur flyers. The next time a group of amateurs stars out on a trip of this sort, and they will probably be many in the days to come, the customs of dealing with weather and navi gation will be better known, just as everybody now can navigate an automobile and go in it any place. Things that were not widely known by the people gen erally about a flying machine last week have been talked so nuich this week that last week’s experience is set back like the early days of getting a car from here to Sanford. Now it is as ordinary an affair as w'alking. Twenty flying machines com ing to the Sandhills in one del egation will be an ordinary af fair at any time in the future. The novelty has been taken off, and it has been put on the prac tical list. And henceforth mass flying or any other kind is pass ed into the class of the common place around here. ity, if not toward definite wealth than they are now the whole burden of taxes rests on the mass of the people and It is likely that Moore county'from no other source. We may farmers if they are to thrive | shift it in all the ways we can must look to their own feed lots i devise, but it still comes only for their meat, their grain, their from the people, vegetables, the feed for their j The things we buy with our stock, and that they must depend I big taxes are nice to have, and more on the crops made for home!''ould be advisable if we could use than on those made for sale ^ afford them. But no individual, to buy things. The essentials ofino state and no nation can sur- farm supplies can be made on'vive the spendthrift policy that the farm. Some surplus hogs,' permit.s the piling up year by poultry products, garden stuff,! year of unpaid deficits, no mat- vegetables, etc., can be made for ter how gratifying may be the sale. So far this will not bring I things the debts procure. The much money, but it will save,chief trouble financially, in the expenditure of money. Then which this world finds itself, is some cotton, some tobacco, or that it has incurred debts that such cash crops as are favored j it professes to be unable to pay, can be made, but unless they i ^nd without a doubt the profes- iire the exception instead of thelsion is a fact in many cases. If rule hard-sledding is likely to be j we cannot live within our in- encountercd. Mighty little to come, individually, as a state, eat should be brought to the i a nation it is useless to farm, for the household or for , assume that we can within an- the stock. Much to eat should bei^ther year or so live within our made and fed on the farm toM^icomes and pay more debts in- .stock to sell or for stock prod-i stirred to make up the deficits, ucts for success. Live stock To borrow money sounds pret- farming means something toi^J'- To pay it back under pres eat through the year. The far-l^^^t conditions is another mat- mcr who keeps out of debt and! that is the one to think works, even though he has a W'hat we need is the cour- narrow livelihood and has toi^^® spend less rather than work, will not be in the plight of: more, and the man who is the town man out of a job out ^^e next governor of North Car- of rations, for the man on the^^^^^,^ should be elected on that farm has his roof over him, i hasis. Otherwise perdition things to eat, fuel on the wood | in front of us. lot and a job. | ——— Farms are not going to buy I THE BAD many fanciful things, such WEATHER seem to be necessary in the | It is always hard to tell what towns. But it remains to be seen i the good and the bad of any- whether the towns are to buy j thing may work into until the those things in the future. A "’hole show is over. Last week settlement of financial condi tions has not yet been made. Nobody knows how much gaso line is to be bought this year of 3932, nor how many license tags, nor how much installment plan buying is to be paid for in the years ahead. We have been coming through an experiment that has been called a high stan dard of living. Nobody know’s how permanent that is to be, or whether it is going into reverse gear, or what. But it is pretty well known that the farmer who pays attention to his knitting will know where his bread and 1 meat are coming from this year. It may be the mule will be seen on the roads again, and that we will learn more about foot lo comotion. But the farmer will have hens in the barn yard and milk in the cellar and vegetables in the garden. The thing for the farmer to consider is a garden, and it will f; large group of flyers came to the Knollwood Airport on their way to Florida, intending to stop over night and take a look at the Sandhills. The weather gummed up the work, and some of the folks stayed several days instead of a few hours. They .stayed with the desire for good weather before they attempted to move on, but they found that they could entertain themselves in the Sandhills as well as any place else. One young woman remarked that if they could not get to Florida in time to see the races they were going down to take in they could see the place where the races were scheduled, and that would cover most of the adventure anyway. Another wise flyer remarked that he had discovered one basic truth about air travel—when you start some place you never know whether you will get there before or af ter you expect to arrive, or per- Grains of Sand i purchased a copy pf your last edition of The Pilot and I liked it so much, especially the editorials and the article by Mr. lialph Page that I am enclosing ijil.OO for six months |, subscription. —.MRS. N. S. DONXELL. Southern, Pines. (TIAHIJE PiaiL’ET My NURSE Editor, The Pilot: At the last meeting of the Sand hills Post, American Legion, official notice was taken of the unfailing kindness, generosity and si'ii’it pf co operation t^hown by Mr. Charles Pic- ((uet, manager of the Pinehurst and and Carolina Theatres, toward the Sandhill Post and the Legion gener ally, and resolutions to that effect were passed. As historian of the Legion, how- h ever, I was asked to write to the local H papers more infprmally, and to Mr. Picquet, as this informcjity \.ljuld fi show Mr. Picquet more clearly, al- H though he certainly does not need to H be shown, what a very high place he holds not only in the affections of the || post but in those of the community h generally. The Sandhill Post jowes *| him much and I am glad that I was II selected to toll him so. || —STRUTHERS BURT. A THIRST AND SUFFER? TRY THIS HEALTHFUL REFRESHMENT AND UP SMILING 9 COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY ABERDEEN, N .C. DELICIOUS AND REFRESHING COME That rumble you heard the other day was grandmother turning over in her grave. The authorities at Nprth Carolina College for Women at ‘Greensboi-o had just announced that hereafter the students may smoke in their rooms. “I am a Democrat, expect to vote the Democratic ticket in 1932 as I have V;Oted it for 25 years, but I have no illusions; I know that I am going to vote for a candidate who j was agreed upon by my invisible ! bosses many months ago; and I know that the platform to be adopted by *iiy convention will contain nothing startlingly new pr hopeful,” says W.' O. Saunders, editor of The Elizabeth City Independent. Dr. A. P. Bok of Philadelphia pick- i ed up a hitch-hiking youth near Wil-1 mington, Del. Shortly after a broken I steering rod caused the overturn of i the car. The youth was killed. Dr.' Bok may be held liable, pay dearly' for befriending a stranger.' ■ Hitch-hiking is bad business, fori driver and hiker. The driver assumes : a needless responsibility. The hiker' cheats organized facilities for trans portation. I XiOw is the time to advertise, says ' Roger Babson, noted business chartist. Advertise on the upturn, and reap the harvest of reviving prosperity. Beat | the other fellow to it. That’s Babson’s ' idea, and it sounds 0. K. to us. | “We do not agree with John J. Ras- | kob on dryness, but warmly welcome 1 him as a landowner in North Caro lina,” says a News & Observer edi-. torial. “He is a wise investor as is ^ seen by becoming the owner of 1,- ^ (iOO acres of land in Moore county. He | plans to erect a log lodge, in the Deep River section.” N. W. Crain picked sc Me roses from his garden at May street and Indiana avenue. Southern Pines, Tuesday morning. i Now that the Unemployment Re lief committee in Southern Pines has the '.and opposite the postoffice clear ed of unsightly buildings and rub bish, some “public spii’ited” citizen ' has begun to use it t,o dump garbage on. Civic pride is an unknown quality > in the make-up of some people. Wonder if the story is true that a I local police officer tempted a colored j i man to get him some liquor, then ar-! rested him when he complied. In any '; event, the negro is in jail. If the story' j is true, the officer pught to be in an adjoining cell. North Carolinians bought 28,088 new automobiles in 1932, or 6,670 less then in 1930, and 6,827 new trucks, 344 more than in 1930, the Motor Ve hicle Bureau reports. At an aver age of $500 each, these cars and trucks cost more than $17,000,000 in 1931. Pinehurst Warehouses, Inc. PINEHURST, N. C. 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