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Page Two Yhe piloF Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYUE. Managing Editor BION H. BUTLER. Editor JAiMES BOYD STRUTHEUS BURT R.\LPH PAGE Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: OiuB 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. AberdeCT and Southern Pin69^ Ndiiti Caro’linii Friday, July 8, 1932. AN INCREASE OF FIFTY PERCENT A cent ii! a small sum of money, but when on ever>' let ter you write now you pay one cent more in postage than you paid last week you pay an in crease of fifty per cent. The aim is to provide more money to the postoffice department vso that it may pay its way instead of calling on the general treasury to meet a deficit in postal opera tions. It is hard to imagine \yhy the postoffice should be fifty per cent more expensive now than it has been, just as it is hard to understand why the postoffice should not be put on a really business basis and made to pay its own way either by legitimate income or by cutting out the expenses that legitimate operation will not pay for. Nobody believes the postoffice is eh'iciently managed. Mighty few things operated by the gov ernment are or will be. But the postoffice carries a lot of use less dead weight that in any pri vate business would be certain failure. It is not failure in the case of the government, for draft on the people to pay short ages is the recourse in govern ment operation. Of course this is an old theme, and the people have heard it threshed over un til it is no longer of interest. But if we don’t want to pay taxe^ something has to be done to lower the cost of every fac tor of government, and the post- office with its fifty per cent in creases in postage is about as good as any place to start. ANOTHER WEYMOUTH MANSION One of the most cheering an- ' nouncements this week is that A. B. Yeomans is about to start work on the new house that George J. Jenks has arranged to build on the excellent location re cently purchased through Eu gene Stevens near the hitter’s home on Weymouth I’idge in Southern Pines. Highland road is the summit of the ridge, and the Jenks location is about the high spot of the summit. The property runs back over the hill to the telephone line which is the boun dary line of Southern Pines. It has an east and west dimension of over 400 feet, with a sweep of frontage in the east to give an outlook over wide range into the extended landscape. This will be another of the striking architec tural features of the Sandhills. The new house at this partic ular time is something else. It indicates that the world has not gone to the Devil. It is evidence that men are still considering home making and Moore county sandy ridges a proper place for permanent homes of character. It will serve to encourage the realization that work is to go on and that development is to con tinue and that men are as much interested in the advancement of the things that are worth while as they are in bemoaning their luck and in losing interest and putting on sackcloth and shedding tears. This new house almost com pletes the occupation of Wey mouth summit from the Travis and French homes in the Coun try club region to the Burt es tablishment on the north end of the ridge. Only a few vacant spots are left on the main roads through that entire range. That they will be taken with fair rap idity is a foregone conclusion. The dreams of what Highland road is to become are whatever we may care to make them, but no doubt can be entertained as to the ultimate delightfulness of that ridge and its immediate neighborhood. THE SALARIES OF COUNTY OFFICIALS At the meeting of the tax as sociation at Bensalem on Satur day afternoon it is likely that the salaries of county officers will be given critical discussion. Now it is not to be imagined that the affair will be one-sided ex clusively, unless those who fav or such officers as the home demonstration agent, the farm demonstration man, the health officers and such others fail to be there to take part in the de bate. While some folks are def initely wedded to dismissing some of these officers it is not because they are not valuable, but becau.se of the difficulty of providing the salaries. The main purpose is to reduce taxes, which leads to an effort to cut off from every quarter. One way to save the farm demonstrator and the home demonstrator and the health officers is to be at Ben salem and help to find some other ways whei*eby county ex penses may be lowered, for thi.s effort to reduce government ex penses is a determined one, and the signs are that the demand will not be satisfied until re ductions are made in some man ner. The usefulness of all the of ficers is rather generally con ceded. One group of ardent re ducers is on record as saying that they do not want to dismiss •’ny of the county employes, but GO want to reduce salaries. This group will be favorable to the continuation of the officers in question if somebody will point out a way to provide the money to pay such employes, but at the same time permit of reductions in taxes in any acceptable man ner. Bensalem is a pleasant bit of the county to visit. The occasion makes it worth while for a large number of people to turn out and w’atch the development of affairs at the meeting. All are welcome, no matter w'here from, and the subject under considera tion is one all are interested in, especially those who appreciate the auxiliary officers of tlTe county, for their services need to be explained to those who are in favor of dismissing those helpful workers. FIVE OF THEM WISE AND FIVE FOOLISH You have probably read the stoi’y. The wise virgins had oil for their ’rmps when it was time to light up. The other five had failed to provide for the oc- ! casion. It is the story of human I experience. The brief stor.v of I the ten virgins fails to tell how ■ the forgetting ones overcame the : difficulty, and tbs^i- is the situa- ' tion we are in now. The philoso phers are trying to cipher out the way to make the neglects of I yesterday balance out with the n^eds of today, but the answer i is what it was two thousands years ago. “Verily I .say unto I you. I know you not.” I When war swept over Europe an inten.se demands for cotton to make munitions for the guns ; sprang up, and America fatten ed on the great wealth that came , from suppling the demand. I .-\long before the war the price I of cotton ranged around ten to twelve cents, and North Carolina was growing rapidly in wealth from its production. Seven or eight hundred thousand bales would i)ring around sixty mil lion dollars and everybod^j' i thought that was a good busi- ; ness. Then when war began to call for cotton the crop increas- j ed, the price went up and toward ; the end of the war the return to North Carolina was double what it hail been for its cotton just before the war. The world ; was combed for cotton, and even when the war closed the supply was so short that the industrial demand was clamoring for ti big ger yield to fill the gaps in the mills and factories. The return for the cro]) along about 192 was three times as much money to North Carolina as before the war. Then it was found the supply was catching up. But the acreage in cotton continued to inci'ease. The inevi- j table followed. With the demand jfor guncotton stopped the de mand for other cotton could not take care of the supply. But the I farmer continued to make more, j Then came the deluge. Today the world is drowned in cotton I for which it can not find a use, and the farmer is at his wit’s end to know 'how to live. W'hen he had the returns from a big crop at mure than double the ordinary price of before the war he forgot all about the wed ding to which he had been bid- i den, and now he finds that 'he lhas no oil in the vessels of his j lamps. He has not held on to the money he received from his big {crop at a bio figure. Prices have [gone down cellar. The world is still drowned in surplus cotton, land the end is not yet in sight and will not be until the sur plus is reduced. Making more cotton than is needed and try ing to keep up the price is not helping and will not. Presently when the amount of cotton pro duced corresponds with the amount demanded things will change. But all the visionary propositions that are offered to raise prices while too much cot ton is on 'hand will meet with but one response from actual facts, “I know you not.” It is impos sible to buck the general princi- Iples of economic law, and no matter what we may say and do in any other way the only hope lies in a crop that will fit jthe price. Otherwise the virgins who have not provided oil for I their lamps from the plenty of jthe day of abundance will sit in jthe ashes of hunger. I I THE CLOSE OF ; HOSTILITIES j With Saturday’s primary and the wind-up of the Chicago con vention a semblance of peace cnce more falls over the country and the community. It is true we had not much notion of what the fight was all about, and now that it is quieted down a little vNono of the animosity may be forgotten, for but few people imagine any great tribulation is to come out of the election or de feat of any particular set of can didates for public office. Govern ment is a big machine that can not be affected much, because it is a routine affair and our meth od of politics is such that the most of our accomplishment is mixed with bungle all the ’*'ay along the line. The patriot maki\s a lot of noise and pushes on the lines, while the crowds outside the breastworks make a lot of noise and shoo the wagon off to one side if they can. We will be told of the incompetence of the ins by the outs, and of the outs by the ins, and Congress will struggle over appropriations and various matters as it always does, and accomplish about the same results. In the county the Democratic ticket, which will most likely be elected, is a right acceptable group of men. Modern methods of handling county government will probably give us a good ad ministration. The incident of the Bensalem tax demands will have an influence, and the attitude of the commissioners on the Bensa- 1cm proposition will be helpful. Instead of being a political war that matter has resolved itself into an inquiry, and the commis sioners. the Kiwanis club and the people are all undertaking to work in harmony for the pur pose of getting taxes down to the lowest possible TIasis tliat will serve the needs of the coun- ' ty. i In State affairs the situation I may encounter a little slumber- I ing of the embers for a time, but j the probability is that the ticket ! as named will lie favorably re- Iceived in November, although I some shifting of affiliation is j possible. The prohibition situa tion introduces some new align- I ments, but nobody can, so far ahead, tel] what. In the presiden- I tial battle a sentiment seems to i prevail that the Democratic platform is in many ways com mendable, and as a fact a strong- ' ci element than the nominee. The passing of the two national conventions will most likely give the country more confidence in the days that are ahead, for both parties took conservative and I logical grounds on the chief mat- |ters before the voters and busi- I ness this fall. From either plat- ; form, if carried out. beneficial [results should follow. When Con- Igress convenes again the new ! government will have been elect- I ed. and the windy gu3ts of I mouth work will be quieted j down. Then something will be I none for the good of the country rather than for the election of the candidates, and the set-up seems favorable. But the next legislature and the next Con gress will be active. Here in this section we under-' rule of precision. It may be wise, take to beautify our secondary but it certainly is not in accord- roads and encourage trees and ance with the desire of the peo- shrubbery. But the order has I pie who made these roads and gone forth from Raleigh that | are trying to make them as at- roads must be cut out to certain tractive as they are designed to widths, and the road crews 'have be useful. no authority except to cut. j It is one of the penaltie s of The Bethesda road, the exten-! centralized government. Local sion of the Connecticut avenue' self-government in this country road out toward Fort Bragg from Southern Pines, and the other rural roads in the Bethes da and Southern Pines territory have been trimmed up by the seems to be a dead bird in the pit. We are becoming a lot of wooden images in the puppet show, with the strings pulle^d at Washington and Raleigh. ' GRAINS OF' SAND Someone put a five dollar bill in I yers for the same high places. Jake the collection at the ball game at ‘ Newell, Senatorial candidate, is a Southern Pines Monday afternoon. Charlotte attorney; Clifford Frazier, But don’t get excited. The depression G. O. P. choice for governor, a law- ia not over. It was a Confederate bill, yer in Greensboro. They’ve started packing and ship-; Daniels ought to be sit- ping peaches in earnest now, and that I Franklin Roosevelt was means ready cash in the Sandhills., secretary of the navy when Business with the merchants ought to i publisher was secretary: ; they are great friends, and Daniels begin to pick up. Too many lawyers in politics is a cry one hears every time an election year draws nigh. Yet the North Car olina electorate has just chosen two for the highest offices in it.s power to confer, Blucher Ehringhaus, an has supported Frank through thick and thin. A Roosevelt victory may send Josephus back to Washington next year. Another Wilson cabinet officer Elizabeth City attorney, and bob ought to about have his choice of Reynolds, fiery legal light of .\she- i jobs. William Gibbs McAdoo’s gift of ville, for governor and U. S. Senator, the California and Texas delegates to r Roosevelt puts him in a whip-hand .\nd the Republicans nominated law- j position. CARTHAGE N. R. Hoyle and son, Billy of New- liort News, Va.. spent last week with S. R. Hoyle and Misses Nellie and Nannie Hoyle. Ml? Charles Barringer and jchild- ren were at home for the week-end. Paul Blue of Southern Pines is spending a few days with Jame.s Stutts. F’rank Cole of Pittsburgh, Pa., is PINEBLUFF rented the Backus cottage on Phil-' adelphia avenue for the summer. The date of the play given by the* Epworth League has been changed from Friday to Saturday night, July 9th, at Firemans Hall. J. W. Pickier and sons, Ei*hman,i Reece and Craig, who are working irt Wilmington were home over Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Albert Austin of Gastonia was a caller in town Sunday. On old custom was revived at Sil ver Springs on the 4th in the cooking and serving of a barbecue dinner. J. V. Adams of Pinebluff, who is skilled in the art of barbecuing, cooked the barbecue which was served to over fifty residents of Silver Springs, Ad- dor and Pinebluff. Last Saturday evening David Park was host to 16 of his friends at his home, it being the occasion of his birthday. A delicious chicken stew dinner was served on the lawn after which the evening was spent out of doors playing games and stunts. Lieut. R. H. Beck of Marion was a caller at H. L. Howie’s Sunday. Miss Mae Jacobs of Greensboro is a visitor at the home of Mrs. Mein- hart. The Home Demonstration meeting conducted by Mrs. Ryals will be held at the Hall Thursday, July 14 at 2:30 p. m. Mrs. Anna McGlachlin was gracious hostess to two tables of bridge last Wednesday evening. Those enjoying the evening were Mr. and Mrs. Ce cil Farrel, Mr. and Mrs. I. G. Wiley, Mrs. Harold Paget. Miss Ella Back us, Miss Gertrude Little and Mrs. Kazel Allison. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Paget spent Wednesday in Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach. Mrs. Cecil Farrel, Mrs. H, Paget and Miss Gertrude Little were in Ral eigh one day last week. Mrs. William Carpenter was host ess Thursday night at a most delight ful party given at her home in hon or of her fruest, Miss Louise Helms of Sanford and Miss Burr Burnett of Canton. The evening was spent play ing games and other amusements af ter which refreshments were served. Those enjoying, the evening were Hel en Fiddner, Elizabeth and Alberta Fletcher, Hazel Palmer, Edith Howie, jf’*ank en route to their home in Hunt- spending his vacation ^here with his Lampley, Hazel Adcox, Mar- inpton, We.st Virginia. DeYoe, James Gailey, Lacy John Blue and family of High Po’nt •Adcox, John .Adcox, Earl Lampley, jhome of W. K. Mc- Gus Rose, David and Meredith Park, Donald gver the week-end. Morrison Howie and Junior Johnson. ^^^s. Register and small daughter NIAGARA Mr. and Mrs. Roy Adams and son Jack, returning from Georgia and Ala bama, called on Mr and Mrs. J. W. INDIVIDUALISM AND PATERNALIS.M The ancient war between in dividual rule and paternal gov ernment in which the individual is submerged by the central au thority is illu.strated in the van dalism shown in the cutting of trees along some of the rural roads of this section. With our road system a centralized affair, with Raleigh in absolute control of every item from the sea to the mountains, we are the sub jects of a standardized policy. parents. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Cole. Misses Mary Fowler Spencer, Eliz abeth Ann Spencer and Mary Worthy Spence left P'riday for Blowing Rock where they arc attending camp Yon- aholowsse. Miss Nannie Hoyle, who has been in Moore County Hospital for treat ment returned home Sunday. Mrs. J. M. Gardner has returned from a visit to Richmond. Dr. and Mrs. Larkin and children of Washington, N. C., have returned home after visiting Mrs. Larkin’s sister, Mrs. R. G. Wallace. Dr. and Mrs. Jackson of High Point spent the week-end in Carthage with Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Grier. 0. B. Welch and brother, Frank Wood are on a fishing trip in Eastern Carolina. Miss Steed and Alf Thompson of Durham are visiting Miss Lena Du pree. Mrs. Lena Sinclair, Miss France^ Smith and Mr. McNeill of Dunn spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Mor ton, Mrs. Mollie Person and Mrs. E. P. Billups are spending a few days in Benson with the Rev. and Mrs. Jim Frozelle. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mohr of New York City are visiting Mrs. Mohr’s mother, Mrs. R. L. Burns. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Shields of Fort Wayne, Indiana are visiting Mrs. Mamie Shields. Dr. and ISIrs. R. L. Felton spent Sunday in Durham. Miss Mary Underwood of Sanford was in Carthage Sunday visiting friends. Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Carter spent the week-end in .Aberdeen with Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Caldwell. Miss Dorothy .lennings is visiting friends in Richmond, V'a. Kiff Earrftt of Washington, D. C., spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. John Beasley. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kirkman, S. H. Miller, L. R. Sugg, Mrs. O. B. Welch and .Mrs. Frank Blue spent Mondf-v at W'hite Lake. Miss Montie Muse, who is attend ing summer school at the University spent the week-end in Carthage with her parents. Mrs. Thompson of Elizabeth City is visiting her sister, Mrs. 0. D. Wal lace. Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Cole of Jackson ville, Fla., spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Barlow. Mr. and Mrs. Lee S. Jones, Mrs. A. W. Teague and Dr. Gilmore of San ford spent Thur.<»day with the Rev. and Mrs. W^ S. Golden. Mrs. R. W. Pleasants spent a few days in Richmond last week. Mrs. M. G. Dalrymple entertained her contract club^ Thursday evening. Special guests included Mesdames R. W. Pleasants, Jim Davis, Ernest Lar kin, Jack Lane and Miss Johnsie Red ding. The club prize went to Mrs. L. W. Barlow, guest prize to Miss John sie Redding. The Rev. and Mrs. J. J. Woods of Ocrocoke and J. C. Johnson were guests of the Rev. and Mrs. Wade Thompson Thursday and Friday. Mrs. John H. Lotz arrived last week from New York City and will spend the month of July at her cottage here. Those who remember her son, John H. Lotz, who has spent several win ters here, will be interested to know that he is serving as interne in a hos pital in Waterbury, Conn. At the com pletion of his duties there he expects to take up the practice of medicine in New York City. Douglas Warner of Springfield, N. J., drove Mrs. Lotz’s car down and will spend the month with his family here. Mrs. Ariel Woods of Niagara spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wil son. Mrs. Nelson and daughter, who have been visiting her mother, Mrs. Meinhardt, has returned to her home in Hampton, Va. Clarence McCaskill, who is working in Washington, D. C. visited his par ents Sunday. Mrs. Laura Warren and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wilson spent the Fourth in Dunn and Fayetteville. Charles Hooper, who has spent sev eral weeks in Titusville, Pa., )-eturn- ed Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Adcox and Doug las David spent Sunday and Monday at Carolina Beach. Henry Butner spent the week-end at White Lake and Atlantic Beach. Mr. and Mrs. Lott of Florida have of Four Oaks are visiting Mrs. Reg ister’s daughter, Mrs. Monroe. Mrs. I). S. Ray, Sr., and daughter have moved into Miss Warren’s house on Virginia avenue. Jesse Smith is spending the week with his family. Bargain Fares August 6th ABERDEEN TO Atlanta No. Days Tickets Limited .'j $ 8.25 Chattanooga 6 10.25 Birmingham fi 10.25 New Orlean.s 10 23.25 Savannah 8.50 Jacksonville 10 12.50 Tampa 10 20.00 Miami 10 22.50 Havana . 19 47.25 And Return Rates to Many Other Florida and Gulf Points Attractive Optional Routes In Florida For Information See Tickel Agent H. E. Pleasants, D. P. A. .50.5 Odd Fellows Building Seaboaid /UK LINE BMLWAy Oargain Ooach Flares ABERDEEN TO PORTSMOUTH-NORFOLK AND RETURN—$2.50 Dates of Sale June July August Sept. 3 10 17 25 1 1 8 15 22 29 5 12 19 26 2 23 For all Trns. 4 11 18 25 1 2 9 16 23 30 6 13 20 27 .3.24 Morn. Trns J- 5 12 19 26 | 3 10 17 24 31 7 14 21 28 4.25 RICHMOND AND RETURN Dates of Sale June July August Sept. For All Trains 10 24 1 22 12 26 2 23 11 25 2 23 13 27 3 24 Morning Trains 12 26 3 24 00 4 25 ALL TICKETS LIMITED RETURNING PRIOR TO MIDNIGHT FOLLOWING TUESDAY CHILDREN FIVE AND UNDER TWELVE—HALF FARE VISIT VIRGINIA BEACH AND OCEAN VIEW HISTORIC AND ROMANTIC HAMPTON ROADS FOR INFORMATION SEE TICKET'AGENT Seaboaird Air I_iine R. R.
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