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Pasre Two THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, February 5, 1932. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor BION H. Bl'TLEH, Editor JAMES BOYD STKUTHEHS BUKT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Ithat are nominated on the tax j receipt, and whether that tax is '.laid on automobiles or ^iossed over with soothing syrup does !not change .the painful separa- I lion of Mr. Taxpayer from his iTitney. Of course if all taxes, jcintly and severally, were laid uH automobiles and nothing else, there are a few people who do not own the murderous things, . nd who in that way would es cape taxation. But they are so Subscription Hates: One Year $2,001 few, and they pay so little taxes Six Months $1-001 anyway, that it is not worth Three Months 50 sweating much blood over any effort to include them in the tax -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. scheme. It is the millions of us who have the gaswagons that lay the taxes, and don’t fool yourself thinking anything else. And as long as that unlimited tir^iip h"s the t;ixes to pay why net bunch t/.e levy and let it go one way as well as another? The Pilot is not given to ovei-i, tlieae .lays some cl'ear- , i headed man will suggest to cut BY WAY OF SUGGESTION much boasting, but as spring i out some of the taxation, but draws near possiblv it is per-! , • • • •! 1 4- as long as we msist on the pres- missible to call attention to a , , , n i.- u i few things that will do no harm;""' co lection what dif- hy being mentioned. The Pilot I " ■'eth?'- has grown in a tew years to a:**?® ? Ko"' . . 1 ipiece of hide in one place, or an prominent place amo g county ; , j ^ papers in this section ot North ^ Carolina, and to a right fair sta tus among the papers not only of the whole state, but of the nation. A silver cup award to the best country paper of the spots all over your anatomy? If the tax man is going to soak you for a hundred dollars what is the .difference whether he hits you one straight crack for j f.hundred or makes out a patch state and a diploma fion, the ^ f ' State Fail- for similar ecogm- „,he^,|ba„.ow, three dollars for tion of merit, as "ell as a lec- machine, five dol- ommendation from one universities of another state a»,..,,^ a paper worth studying by theijif,,. > » members of the class in journ- j ahsm, are among the credent,idsannoying items for other that ale , things to make up the amount, orrtlnaiy. But '[“lent a s mo e Tennessee fifty vears subs antial to the phil-sophei^vho are the dominating ^ to say he liked whisky just and the ad\ei IS life p plain whisky, no dum mixtries shown The ''•>'0 ■„ ^ |,^ • „ j aesiretorcach i sterntory. This year will be a rather un- alkehol in it usual year in politics in countj, that is what he figured as state and nation. The Pilot is un- der no circunistances a political taxes. Nominate the i)oison, paper, but it has its opinions rnaj<e it straight, and gimme the about public affairs, and those L>ottle. If we got to pay we got opinions are based wholly on to pay, and making an itemized what it regards as the public ijju (Jogj,; change the fact welfare. It makes no claims to that when it is all totaled up unusual wisdom m anything, but that total is what vou write on it finds a certain definite satis- the check faction in the knowledge that ^ . i ,, , the people l;Vh_o taowJhe Pilot' and'that'is to ll"en tL expense of government. That is sponsibilities, which is pretty certain indication that each will help the other more in the fu ture, and wit! a willingness that a better understanding has made possible. Clear-headed metn on both sides of the creek have e.s- tablished a greater intimacy with each other, and a common confidence in the integrity of purpose of both communities will dominate the days to come. West Southern Pines will not be that hoped-for example of a self-governed Negro community, l)ut it will in all likelihood be an t.xample of one of the best gov erned groups of colored folks in this country, with both races having a hearing in the govern^ ment, and with intelligent and wholesome results the outcome of this newer scheme. The town Council of Southern Pines and the leaders of the colored folks on the west side of the creek have done a good job in getting together on the new basis, and the patient intelligence that worked out this amalgation has .■bility and sincerity enough to bring results that will be pro gressive and distinctly beneficial to all concerned. Grams oi Sand When times seem bad , And all is blue ] Just stop and think And thank your lucky star I That you ' Are not a Chink. R. meeting at the home of Mrs. W. C Mudgett in Southern Pines on Tues- , cay afternoon. Mrs. -Arthur Newcomb, Mrs. Mary i Downie and Mrs. Dune Morris.on spent I Monday morning in Jonesboro. Aberdeen Bion Butler’s had two fires at Val halla in the past three years. One more and he says he's going to change the name to Valhella. We are getting quite vice-pi'esiden- tial in the Sandhills. Mrs. Eustis, who i; occupying one of Louis Lachine’s houses on Weymouth Heights, is a daughter of the late Levi P. Morton, vice president of the United States under Benjamin Harrison. .Mrs. E. Webster Knight, 2d, who has a win ter residence near The I’addock on Eethesda Road, is a daughter of Vice President Charles Curtis. MRS. FRANCIS T. KE-VTING’S I GIFT TO SILVER FOILS ! Mrs. Francis T. Keating has gra- I tiously presented to the Silver Foils , new score cards for No. 1 and No. I 3 courses, made up according to the I latest ruling for woman’s par. I This gift will be very much appre ciated bv all Silver Foils members. Miss Alina Belle Thompson, who now has a secretarial position with Murdoch Johnson at (’amden, S. €., re turned home last week to spend a lew days with her parents here. She was accompanied by Henry Lewis and Eva Johnson, who visited relatives here. Mrs. Stewart W'eaver has been quite ill at her home on the Raeford road. Miss Daisy Condor, manager flf Mack’s Five and Ten store here was the fortunate winner in the Mazda Electric Bulb contest for this dis trict. Kmmwmmmmt ANNOUNCEMENT rate it as a paper that is not open to any conviction except • i. n- i. 1 1. i -1 trie issue in politics this vear, intelligent and honest evidence a t at n .haraM^.. r.f J. Maxwcll seems to be the man who has seen the star in the skv. of worth in the character of the candidate and soundness in his political principles as applied to the common good. In the cam- tLKAHINO I P .A paign The Pilot expects to keep tr,„:|{,,i;|) OfESTION its readers posted as to the de- rp, i • • i.- ^ velopment in state and county, saying a word if it feels that way, commenting on politics and p- " ‘^^6 Southein candidates as its inclinations I corporation is an prompt, and those who want to Zt f f keep up with this neighborhood ,u will probablv find The pHot ^ worth having in the house from week to week. \he negroes on ..L 1 • ft the creek in W ithout blushing It may claim fheir self-government was laud- to be a clean and conservative able, but for several reasons it country paper, covering Its field ,v..s not practical. The unit was (lependal.le in its statements and too small in contact with the repoits. A paper ot this t\pe has larger unit across the creek, foi more than ordinary value to the the white portion of the com advei tiseis \\ho \\ould do busi- rr.unity with its greater experi ness in the Sandhills.The adyer- ^nce and stronger financial po tiser who appears in The Pilot • • is in good company, for no oth sition was compelled in the , maintenance of its more advanc ers are admitted. The character standard to trv to hold the of a paper gives character to ^est side up to a higher level ol its advertisements. Look at the government and municipal de- names that are .seen in each i.s- \elopment than it could reach bv sue. From all points of view it it^ own efforts. !.«• logical to tie in with The Pi- yhe basis of the whole differ- lot tor the coming season. uice of opinion is that the two .,.... settlements are to« closely unit- OTHFR pprinu’ acting OlHtiK organization. Ties impossible to This tax business is as funny (lis.solve reach across the creek, as the time the boy feeding the Fach group depends on the .lob press got his hand in the (nher. It is essential to the white machinery and nearly ground man’s success that he bring the his fingers off. The anxiety felt colored man as well up to the now about the prospect of fed- white standards as po.ssible, era! ta.xation on automobiles on .'iiul it is vital to the Negro that top of the taxes the gas buggy he comes up as far to the white already pays, is distressing. But man’s standard of everything as it overlooks the one fact. No he can. To attain such an end matter how high the taxes pile both must work together with up on the automobile they don’t the same motives, affect the car at all. It is the “Jimtown” now has a legal fellow who owns the thing that status, and with the white man has the bill to pa.v. And he is the sharing the colored man’s bur- fellcw who has the taxes to pay, dens and responsibilities. The whether on his automobile or on estrangements that developed his watered stock or his live nd the conferences that *fol- stock or his cigarettes, or his lowed during the summer income or his legacies to his brought a much clearer under family or on his baby buggy or standing of the situation. Thev his coffin or any other old thing gave the colored folks a broad- that is not so long gone that er idea of what the white man the memory of the tax assessor can do for them, and they gave cannot recall it. the white man a better view of It doesn’t make an iota of dif- what he must do in a neighbor- ference what the taxes are lev- ly way to make easier .some of ied on, we the people, the big the problems of the black man. mass of one hundred and twenty Each has yielded something in five million American folks, his opinions, but both have gain, have to dig up the dingblats td. Both have taken on new re- THE DAY OF THE GROIINDHOG Why the groundhog should have one of the 365 days of the year to make weather this mod- jest family paper does not pre sume to say. But he has it, and i that’s all there is to that. What he makes this year in the way I of winter will not be of a great i deal of significance, for should ho even bring us another six I weeks of winter he will be be- 1 hind the schedule, for winter is alread.v six weeks short, and all the groundhogs in North Caro lina cannot make this winter an ' average winter no matter what , they do. I But up his sleeve the ground- I hog has a bigger card in its re lation to the welfare of the hu man race than any six weeks of cold weather, for on Ground hog day an international com mission meets in Geneva to un dertake to reduce the vast arma- inents and to make .some effort to stop wars, and the tremen dous outlay of money and the ; attendant crushing load of ta.x- sition that war entails, and en tails now in greater and more burdensome manner than ever ' in the history of mankind. Many causes have been offer ed as the explanation of the fi- j nancial depression novv encom passing the world, but observers know that it is war and its af termath and its threats for the future. It takes over four bil lion dollars a year now to provide for the military expenses of the nations, in spite of the fact that the world finished up a great war that was represented as a w^r to end war. But it certainly was not a war to end war costs. Today the world is at its rope’s t nd as far as money goes, but it is still appropriating four bil lions a year to meet the demand for defensive armament and preparation, an inconceivably ijigger sum than was necessary twenty .vears ago when we had not fought a war to end wars and had no notion of fighting any big war, and when this country had no more notion of any war than of submergence of the con tinent into the sea. No man lives today who will see the end of the debt pa.vment from expenses of the war to end wars, but we are still piling up billions of debts to prepare to defend {•gainst the next war, which folks say is not to come, yet which all nations are .jeopardiz ing thei*- last dollar to prepare for. In i913 the cost to this government of army and navv was $299,000,000. In 1930 it was $825,000,000, and last year it v.as much bigger. And these are days of peace. Going the rounds is the story of the I North Carolina farmer who, disgust- j ed with the price he is getting for his farm products, declared: j "I never aim to say “git-up’ to j F.’nuther mule unless he’s a-settin’ in ; my lap.” One wonders if he is the same one ' who carted a load of tobacco to the j market, sold it and found the total proceeds insufficient to pay warehouse • charges. Having no money, he told : the warehouseman he would bring him a nice fat hen the next time he came to market to make up for the deficit, to which arrangement the warehouseman’s appetite for hen readily persuaded him to agree. About a week later the bankrupt farmer crept int.j the warehouse car- lying two fat hens, one under each arm. ) “Why hello Jim,” the warehouseman I greeted—’“But you only owe me one chicken.” ' “Yes. I know,” Farmer Jim replied with a wiy smile. “But I’ve got I r.nothei' load of tobacco out here.” DOUB SUPPLY CO. ABERDEEN, N. C. I One particular institution that has weathered the storm of depression in unimpared shape is the building and loan association. No severer test of its stability and soundne.«s could have been developed than durin;? the e.xperiences of depression when bank failures have been the order of the , cay, with the foundation of the build ing and loan association unshaken. O. K. LaRoque, chief of the Building end I.oan Bureau at Raleigh, is mov- |ed to declaration of this kind: “When factories and warehouses are closed, I homes deserted, churches lose their influence, the doors of the school fail to .open to the .vouth of our lanu, , when the Government fails, and weeds grow in the streets of our cities, then will the stock in building and loan associations in North Carolina lose its j I value.” He knows of “no material in vestment based on more s.olid founda tion.” Thus read an editorial in The es- tetme«i Charlotte Observer. Finam- cial statcMnents of building and loan associations of the Sandhills section have bt^n tijiijcaring in The Pilot the I ast few weeks. They all reflect a healthy condition, add their evidence to the “stability and soundness” Ed itor W'ade Harris mentions. | || We -have accepted the agency at Aberdeen for the H well known East Coast Fish Fertilizers, and will at \\ all times keep in stock a complete line of fertilizers H for all farm and garden crops. We are prepared to serve you at once with plant :i bed and garden fertilizers at prices in line with legiti- :| mate competition. Our meal mixture for tobacco can't H be beat- ♦♦ :: ‘ I GAMMACK & CO. \\ Members |i New York Stock Exchange li Pittsburgh Stock Exchange ]\lain Office H 39 Broadway. New York City Ij PINEHrUST—VILLAGE COURT \\ Telephones: Pinehurst 3821—Southern Pines 6751 Chock-full LAKEVIEW (IRANI) .11 RY FINDS COUNTY HOME AN!) JAIL SATISFACTORY Ir its \isits to the county home, the jail and the road camp last week, the tiiand Jury found satisfactory con ditions prevailing, according to its re- poi-t. The jui-y recommends that the county home be supplied with a wash- in_- machine and that more seats be added to the waiting room for white ladies on the first floor of the court house. It also recommended that the fire chief make frequent visits to the basement of the court house and see that no fire hazards are left there. The offices in the court house were reported as being well kept. Attractive bridge score pads with your name on each sheet. Ideal for gifts or for your own tables. To be had from The Pilot, Aberdeen. Wade Coffey was in town Monday, having run up from Greeleyville, S. C., for the week end. Mrs. R. B. Bird and sons, Bobbie and Richard Holt, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Gardner and family. •Mr. and Mrs. Bascom Caviness of -\sheboro, spent Sunday witi. Mr. and Mrs. John Caviness. Miss Mary Oldham, sister of Mrs. ( aviness, is making an extended visit with the Caviness household. Mr. and Mrs. Uunc Morrison and children visited .Mr. Morrison’s fath er at the Highsmith Hospital in Fay etteville Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Gardner and •Miss Rebe;.?a Gardner were guests lor the day Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Gibson in Fayetteville. Mrs. Loula Taylor has returned irom Sanford where she took care f Mrs. James Flemming for a week f' llovving an operation for appendi citis. •Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Warner spent Monday afternoon in Raleigh. Mr. and Mrs. H. N Butler, of Coal ttlen, visited friends in Lakeview on Sunday evening. -Mrs. A. II. Williams, Mrs. Raymond Howe, Mrs. F. W. Briscoe and Mrs. Price Briscoe made a t,iip to Cole’s Pottery on Thursday. Mrs. John McQueen spent Tuesday in Greensboro in coirpany with Mrs. I. C. Sledge and Mn. Alex Stewart of Pinehurst. Miss Sarah Worthy Stewart, of Pinehurst, was the week end guest of Mr. and Mrs. \V. H. McNeill. Mrs. Alfred Williams and Mrs. Raymond Howe attended the D. A. OF GOOD TASTE AND HEALTHFUL REFRESHMENT THIS PURE DRINK OF NATURAL FLAVORS Drink COCA-COT-A BOTTLING COMPANY ABERDEEN, N .C. DELICIOUS AND REFR.ESHIIVG MODERN PLUMBING HEATING AND" REFRIGERATION ELECTROL OIL BURNERS The Outstanding Oil Burner Value Priced W’ithin Reach of All IKIGIDAIRE Guaranteed for 3 years. A General Motors Value—Lifetime Porcelain Inside and Out. You Will Bo Surprised How Very Inexpensive W« Are LV.O’CALLAGHAN Telephone 5341 Southern Pines, N. C.
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