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Page Two THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE. Managing Editor BM)N H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOYD STKUTHEKS 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. NOW TO TALK TURKEY The election is over. We have got off our chests the innumer able flood of talk that always goes with the selection of gov ernment officials. Now that the oratory and the bund are done it is time to think about some thing that is found on sense, and that pertains to the case. We are in a financial depres sion. It is not the first time al though it is the first serious case of its kind that the young er folks have encountered. But that makes no difference. When the next one comes, as it w’ill, those who are seeing this one for the first will remember it. We have mouthed over this situation from all hysterical and absurd angles, principally blam ing the difficulty on somebody easy to accuse, and looking to some one in the clouds for re lief. We have overlooked the one essential factor in both the trou ble and the remedy, and that is oufselves. We hav'e been vehe ment in asking or demanding re lief from some one else, but not very active in insisting that we shall do anything for ourselves. The government has been the foremost thought in hunting re lief, for the government in the mind of the average man is en dowed with all manner of pow ers. Wall Street ,the corpora tions, the railroads, the rich, or any other handy object, has been damned in plenty, and anything that has been suspected of hav ing a dollar has been the aim of the soaking theory that has been prevalent. It is wise to get it into our heads that all this monkey play is over now. Government is us helpless to bring us relief as it is to stop the sun in its course, for which we should all thank heaven most fervidly, for if men could shape the destiny, or even many of the trifling details, of existence we would have been a beautiful and comi)lete wreck far before the beginning of any history of which we have knowl edge. It IS now time for eacii man to begin to do something logi cal iiiid tangible for himseif. The world has more wealth today than ever in its history. By this is not meant more cash, which is valueless as far as wealth goes, nor gold, which is as val ueless as cash in any other form, nor bank balances, which are only figures on the ledger page, but all of those actual things which are the sole wealtn of mankind. Crops grow as bounti fully as ever. Mines and forests are contributing of their prod uct and Nature is as generous as far more than ma’s needs will ever require. But Nature is a wise okl mother. She (temands that we do something for our selves. She compels us to work. We have fallen down in our theory that to work we must de pend on some one other' than ourselves, so armies of men have left the farms where they could employ themselves to go to fac tories to tind employment at the hands of others. The factory has a limit. It stops when its prod uct piles up. The difference on the farm is that the worker can eat what he makes on the fann. He can’t eat furniture, or auto mobiles or calico, or radio out fits. Far too many men have left •the farm where they could make a living to go to the factory where they make tires and au tomatic refrigerators and other things they cannot eat, and which hav'e no Value until they can be leaded for something they can eat. W'e have come to depend too much on others for our daily bread. The farmer does not fly as high in his standards of living as the man who has gone to towTi, but lard times do not influence THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, November 11, 1932. the potato patc'h or the corn field. We have all stray ed too far fro mour real base of supplies and looked to some one else to slice the bread and dole out the pork and the molass6s. But the man who is coming through is the one who can de pend on himself, and who does not require an intermediary to provide his rations. Nature is generous to the man who will work for himself, but niggard ly to those who look to others for the daily bread. ed against future appropriations, :and later when we may need j something more than we do now, we will be told that our cake has been e'aten, and that nothing is in DEFENSE OF THE VETERAN |due us. Even that would not be Iso bad, but this must never be Editor, The Pilot: overlooked. North Carolina is one; xh^^ writer hasn’t the conceit to of the foremost taxpaying t,.y lefute the arguments of such states of the Union. Next to New '^^f, head the National Economy ' York our contribution of intern-j League, but this letter is a feeble ef- al revenue to the federal gov-]foit on behalf of both the veterans of ernment is the biggest of all the the A. E. F. and tho.se citizens who, states. The money that comes to|Y^r]^i|^ favorin? tax reduction, look Correspondence ness, the hunger, and the dis-illusion- ment of hourly facing sudden death, but were as certainly wounded as if struck by a bullet. Sooner or later the effect of these soul-harrowing experiences will “get” them.” It may be months or it may be years, but sometime the day will come when these men will need and Grains oi Sand Answering a seventh grade test question in Pinehurst school, “De scribe the Boston Tea Party,” a girl pupil said: “They didn’t play bridge^ but I think they danced. They served ice creani and cake and tea.” Deo volente, a handsome gentleman who talked to a large Sandhills crowd from the back platform of a railroad KIWANLS HOMECOMING The fraternal event of the week in the Sandhills Was the homecoming of the Kiwanis Club. The oldtimers were invited in to talk over things and awaken some interests on a w'ider hori zon. They talked of things that have been done in the Sandhills, of community effort instead of individual effort, of the broad er relation between the local points, and of general better ment on a substantial basis. It is doubtful if the members of the Kiwanis Club have ever fully realized the value of the work these earnest-minded men have been accomplishing, but they have been a power in the years they have wTought. Any thing that has been for the com mon benefit and uplift has been legitimate occupation for them, and they have given of time, of thoughts and of their means to work out the problems. With the separate neig*hborhoods joining together to make the one Ki wanis community the source from which to attract member ship has been a more fertile field than is available to most Kiwanis clubs, and one reason because that separate field or ori gins makes a more coherent unit when joined than when little areas are arrayed against each other. More team work in the Sandhills and less petty rivalry among restricted little groups h''as resulted in broader helpful- I'.ess. In this direction the Ki wanis Club of Aberdeen, which is Aberdeen only by , way of Aberdeen and several miles out into the country, has been un commonly fortunate in its ties of common ground. Through its efforts people are better ac- (lualnted with each other; they work together to better advan tage ; they accomplish more, and a broader human contact is es- t'.ihlished. Pi()l)al)!y more men of the district should be in the club than are there. The work t hat can be done is big enough for more hands. The rewards are l)ig enough to share among more substantial and wholesome fel lows. The things that have been accomplished are evidence of the \vis(iom of the organization and its undertakings. Its homecom ing checking up was a certifica tion that it has sawed the wood, which signifies the job is worth continuing. The big ’•'lue K is no bluff. deserve the help of their country. 'train i counle of if ii i US from the Federal govern- askance upon the personnel, the me-! Regardless of the question of bon-1 jnaueurated ^ Pr^i ^ ment, and than comes^ to thods and the arguments adopted by uses and compensation all the wealth United States *on March^Jth ne t ^ jus. North Carolina pays in. We that organization. of the- members of the League togeth- pay more than W'e get. or than! generally admitted that this er could not begin to pay one of we probably ever will get, while; headed and financial- ^>»ese men for five minutes spent in other states get far more than ,^ ,^^pp„,ted by moneyed men mil-1 that foul, filthy, lousy, gas-infected they pay, owing to the fact that | officials in large corporations hell. Call it mercenary if you wish, The Democratic-party enjoyed the greatest victory in its history on Tuesday. The voters left no doubt that they wanted a change in government. we pay an excess over the others. but remember; these men offered They gave Roosevelt a Demo- Every raid on the Federal tl’eas- ^ part, themselves as targets for the enemy, cratic Senate, a Democratic House, to ury is a raid on North Carolina - . , . _ . . xi.. w.. V.. ^ I KoikJjal Uovernment funds, thfeir blood is on the hands of aid him in leading America to recov- to help .some other state. Anil average citizen con-1‘hose whom they served. ery. It was a glorious victory of suf- we never get it back and never^ I Let the National Economy League ficient margin to give reason to look can. Money that is available, leaders of this moCe-i’'^''® even at the for a united nation in the fight for a might be spent to advantage on unenviable war records. I ‘he veteran, but let them return to prosperous days. Widening and impioving Route iheai their organization with men who No. 1, It will sooner or later " ^ f r ‘n i practiced the virtues they advo-i were no upsets locally. Moore ine«l help a..d the wise move. ,heseh‘' '<»■ »"">=• 1-'' »ili would be to get the work donej that these men were not the now when funds aro available,,'”''*''"' ■‘’[(rea^ry vaWers in 1917’ and 1918. for it is (louhtful if money will '*''''’'’ iwhen thoy were removed from the flow as freely at any time in the ”"i leir hj solden opportunities of eivil life, to be futlirc. Si’t to neulect the im- f sent; ritle in hand, ehoked .ith fear; portant and needed work now to, their lungs filled with noxious gases. build something that is wholly since that time, and especially with- unnece’^aV\'‘Teemrto The'piiot year these industries have not a prudent move. the tedral Government large sums, in the form of loan.s; ^ ^ ■ostensibly for the purpose of stimu- THt OPLMNG OI' lating industry. In most cases it is THE CAROLINA • known that instead of applying these With the elections ended and sums to that end, they have used them people free to make their plans to repay loans, and to buy in their for the winter The Carolina at own bonds at the depreciated prices Pinehurst is again under way. they now command. Already the winter visitors have The hope that some of this money begun to move in this direction, wotil,; percolate down to the man in As they come they will see the .-street has proven fallacious, and changes to interest them. Per- there is grave doubt that some of| haps the mo.st striking is the them particularly the railroads, will great progress made in planting be able to nay even the interest on the roadsides and the lawns with their loans. to crawl on their belly over a slimy stinking parapet into almost certain death. —RASSIE E. WICKER. Pinehurst, N. C., November 7, 1932. tinue to be guided by Democracy. THE PROPOSE!) ROAD Editor, The Pilot: It is with an element of alarm we view the opposition aroused by the proposal of the State Highwav Com mission to build a highway from j Southern Pines from U. S. Highway No. 1, on the east side of the S. A. L., to N. C. route 241 in Aberdeen. The The most startling—and promising: —thing that happened Tuesday was the casting in New York city of more than 135,000 votes for Joseph V. Mc Kee for mayor of that metropolis, despite the fact that Mr. McKec was not a candidate for the office. This slap in the face for Tammany Hall may mean an ultimate housecleaning of that demagogic institution, a liabil ity of the National Democratic party which it could well dispense with. We would like to congratulate our esteemed Congressman, Walter Lam- best, on the splendid vote he rolled up in this Eighth Congressional district. He won over his fellow townsmen, Ragan, Republican, 27,917 to 11,778. Kiwanians had a grand time at their reunion Wednesday, and decided to make “Old Home Day" an annual af fair. There were mare ex-members new grass and shrubbery. The Other corporations, such as the of this plan claim the non- double road from Pinehurst t.. American Merchant Marine, have 1'/^pLditurSs t^'owan^^^ at the meeting than there were active Southern Pines is showing the ceived and do receive vast sums from extr'ivaii-ince members. Six of the nine past presi- work that has been done on that a beneficient Government in the form i ‘ ’ ‘ . dents were on hand. park that runs the entire dis- of .'-ubsitUcs, but in spite of tht '*' e that there is no immediate ; tance. In a few weeks that will virtual gifts, continue to opeiate at pressing need for such a route. But Moore county’s distinguished mem- be one of the most ple;ising hits a loss. money has alieady LccP appro- ber of the federal Hoard of Tax Ap- of out-door embellishment to be The highly jmid heads of such cor- I’l'is^tod, and if we don t take it now ' poals was introduced as “.ludge Sea- seen in the whole state. House- porations as these, together with very improbable that we will bo well, of the ‘late’ Republican party,” holders are moving along in har- some others who have ami are receiv. to get it later. Can anyone be an,l took it .smiling, mony with this improv’ement, ing Fe'tral moiu-y in the form of ** pessimi.'^t as to believe we wili giving to the whole landscai)('th.e comj'enpation, or retirement pay, ai'c' ’'*-‘\ev need it.' It is either take it Murdoch .lohnsor denied the report. LO IIIU wiiuif uu‘ i in ii-itii-.mui (lii.v, nii- - d,.,* • ti, u , . ^ trim appearance that is due to the n.en who are new terming the ex- ^ilt or pay for it yourself ‘ r '.*!/* '!! determine the final standing of soldier‘‘Treasury Raiders,” “Tramps." *“ter. The claim that even though the mus the Sandhills villages. In South- “('ommunists” and worse. This class I f'Overnment does built it, wt ‘ *■ u i ‘' IMI t III UI I I .'t tl IU» I •''t. . ^ 11 I.'' V. Ul ’ 4 , , • I II 1 *111* 1 will v'Vi‘ntV to fnv it i*^ tinio wtis ucXti fill, in a lai‘g:e nu'asurt* lospon.siblo toi j * t\tniuan> na\t lo pa> loi ii, i. age ern Pines the same aggressive i^ , ■ , • policy has been followed, and up the dlsgracel’ul situation in Washing- without nierit. But the “fly in the j imrea.se the wealth of our and (lown the roads the plans are ton last summer, when, accordin^r to*' ‘'‘''I’t Jit-’cep* it our unemployed to working. Chiel of Police (Jlassfoi'd. the Unitotrelsewhere and will Unless we are going to ;'0W. The improvement of No. 1 golf I^'ates Cavalry especially train- 't the same. br. expect to reap, conv.'e. (lone l:irgel,V by Mrs. ed before they were ..rdere.l out, with article in last weci. s Pi- Southern Pines and its envir.ms Keating, is another of the mark- <irawn saber and poison gas, against j iully explained this. ^ several projects that would ed forward ste])s. She has he- ^ handful of hungry men who four-^ -Not (.niy will such a'road not tlani- ave been of inestimable value to these lore had fated maehinf /^''-' over which it runs, anti bayonets to make Ameriia enhance the value oi ail for sueii men as now head thf l"<'perty it may touch. It will be a distinct asset to Southern Pines and Alnrdcen. Futui-e develoimients in gtni a work that will be as stim- *^en years b ulating as any other new idea that comes to the front in the ■ progress of this community. The National Economy League, possibilities in this field of im- ^'1*^- writer is not a rabid bonus ad , . . . , - - r, pro\'ement are without limit. voi.ate. .\t the one ami only opportun-iestate in this section ^^ill k> on there should have been only communities, except for thoughtles.s, nisdirectoil or misinfornie.i opposition. It .-eenis as though every public im provement vve have had offered us has created certain antagonisms Out the landen Road M has been carrying out Reed '*y •'<“ I'^d to express himself on this|*'"‘ sitle of the railroad along tiu (luestion, he voted “nay.” Yet, when ’ Lay rid^^e and Paint hill. Xothing most favorable reception. We hate to admit it, but wo have an element in A Ql’ESTION OF WHO PAYS i'he Pilot docs not enjoy <lis- cussion that might be interpret ed as a criticism of Dr. McKray- er. for he has 1)ef>r. too long one of the heli)ful and sagaciou-^ Vv'orkers and counselors of this state and section to question his attitude on any subject without due care as to what is .said. Yet it still appears to this somewhat niodt-st publication that the ar gument offered for a new road l)r-tween Aberdeen and Southern Pities is somewhat spacious. It would not be a douV>le road, iji'.t a new single road with traffic each way and with all the rlan- ger of a two-way traffic on ,-i (me-way track, which a real dc,u- hle road avoids by routing traf fic in but one direction on each track. It eannot l)e said with justifi cation that Route One is crowd ed. Probably ten times as much traffic i.s carried on man.v roads of the more populou.s sections of the North and in the crow'ded sections still much greater crowding is encountered. Far better open the present road at its congested section, especially in places like the heart of Aber deen, where a problem exists on both sides of the railroad, no mfatter how many more roads might be built. That we will get something for nothing is one of tho.se funny claim.s that still fool some peo ple, but does not alter the fact that North Carolina will pay through the nose every time she gets any of these doles. If we get the money that it is propos ed to apportion to us it is charg- transformations which I)roducc a 'he k'aders of any organization begin stimulate activity here as the Sandhills that is oppo.sed to paradis('. Mr. neckwith at Knoll- '<> throw around the epithet; “Treas-i . ^'00(1 is stfirtiny a hi^ projoct of naidt'rs/’ it behooves thc*iu to! llTioni ploy ment i!i the Sandhills is landscaping about his fine new t'irst look at their own dirty linen. ^ that must be faced. Wo nui.st home that will have an intluencc* -^Lmey obtained by bijj business b.v either give .he unemplojed a job and in that direction. On the hilltop private raids on the treasury is today ' them suppoit themselves, or we at Weymouth in Southern Pin(*s l>ein>. used to malign the veterans and support them without a job. The two elaborate new homes are un- their sympathizers. l-etleral Government is trying to help Many towns throughout the state ',lerv.-ay, with a prospect of fur- *-et these self-appointed leaders iiu; "V producing jobs through imolic already received from the Fed- ther work in that line. thei,- own hou-e in order. Let them ;"e accept thi gift from heaven or let it go else most any plan for public benefit, which they themselves are not the sponsors of. Their general plea is one of economy. Economy is what has al ready choked business almost to Rentals are encouraging the j iVners of houses, at lower prices iishington; reorganize the govern-j ■' owners or houses, at lower pr than in the palmy days, but in- sensible lines; stop the The supposition that money is eral (lovernnient their. appropriation>- I for new post offices. Southern Pines seeins to have been lost in the shuf fle. quiries and actual closing of “'''ans” to dea.l and dying corpora-y-'hen used on projects not im-1 The Wat.son development in the tri- transactions are all of an encour- t'ons. and give the veterans a thir! ; ^ use u is open to dtnaa'. fell through simply by near aging nature. With the noi.se of ’hey "ever wasted when >t is opposition. And so did sev- the election out of the way it is " long^-r be dogged by the t^iet lum o exc arige. . an niore we could name, believ'ed business will get on a <” ommunists." ^ energy on , Southern Pines and Aberdeen beinjr firmer footing with a gradual "ho leads the League in neighbors, they should work to- ' improvement. A hopeful senti- Carolina, says it is not their, >^elf or others, but not money. Today interests are almost in- ment seems to hold the country i'^'pose to neglect the veteran who ''""if'thmg; l>ke e.e-en million men a»'e now as compared with the air of disability to military "er- tmie I —DR. L. M. DANIELS, unccrtaintv that has prevailed. "ould ex- Taking all' things the outlook is perhaps seventy-five percent of not as bad as some would think, ‘leservmg compensation, which and possi>)ly as good as the hope- probably what the League already ful av’e anticipating. ' knows. Hi.; stat.'inent that the soldier came out of the army in better shape than ing the roads and streets of the U. S. A. It takes as much to feed and 1 POORLY .ADVEKTISPM) clothe an unemployed person as it I ir,ijt„,, jhe Pilot- does one in useful occupation. Any j Carolina has secured tw, f job or project that will give these distributing agen- POMONA (;R \XGE MEETING The men a chance to use their energies, will not only add to their own enjoy- when he went in, is open to question. i ™^”t and self respect, but to the ^ I Possibly it applies to those in do-1 weal*h of the state. No money is nev- j mestic training and S. O. S. troops. wasted, but men’s energies are. Pomona Grange will with Eureka .Subordinate on Saturdav, ] x. ^ • i j t i ^ X. u 'It certainly does not apply to those Nov. 12. The business session will be i , ,4.. u u n j u , , rr.1. ui- • J- 1 who went through the hell and horror held at 11 A. M. The public is cordial- - . u 4. t 1 ..u .... .... , . ,of actual combat. I make the positive ly invited to join the members at j well filled basket cies, at Winston-Salem and at Ral eigh. This is a tremendous “cash’' advertisement for the state, but what (Please turn to page G) I noon time with j for a picnic dinner. In the afternoon j an open session will be held at which I time a mutual exchange and planting of shrubbery will be discussed by able speakers. PAHENT-TEACHER MEETING The Parent-’reacher .Association of the Aberdeen-Pinebluff Schools will meet at the Community House in Aberdeen next Wednesday afternoon, November IGth at 3:30 o’clock. A full attendance is requl.';ted. statement that no one who exper ienced the days and night of horror of trench warfare; who daily saw what that unforgettable look of dumb agony and surprise in fast glazing eyes, jerk spasmodically and become still—or to behold what was the mo ment before a normal, rational being, suddenly throw up his hands and go stark, raving mad from the utter horror of his surroundings—shell shock—yet, brain-shock—the 'incap ability of the mind to longer bear what his eyes beheld—I say that none who went through that sort of thing; the filth, the dirt, the hopeless- What about the question of your fuel for the Winter? The Answer is Carolina Anthracite Mined in Moore County CLEAN SMOKELESS LONG BURNING DOUB SUPPLY COMPANY Phone 139 Aberdeen
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