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Page Two THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, March 24, 1933. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. j $27,500,000 from the Finance ! corporation to carry on the work of providing electric equipment ■ for the road from New York to Philadelphia and Wilmington, [and as a result electric service NELSON C. HYDE. Managing Editor' inaupr^ed between BION H. BUTLER, Editor : ® .Points. The company JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT,''"*^* repay its loan to the Finance corporation, and meanwhile the money has been expended in em ploying labor and improving the Subscription Itates: facilities of the road, which is One Year $2.00 in better shape than ever to Six Months $L00‘serve the country. Under the un- Three Months 50 favorable conditions the road has ]—'-...'m-'..——I jbeen able to expend the $27,- Address all communications to The 000,000 for improvement, cover- Pilot. Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. | ing a distance of 120 miles, a step that will materially reduce Entered at the Postoffice at Aber- I the COSts of operation and in- deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat-; crea?e the power of the road to ter. RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors handle its traffic expeditiously. — = I Several things are made plain MONEY CROP by this brief statement, one be- AND DEBT ' that the money loaned the The old time question that has ^^6 Finance corporation perplexed the Carolina farmer was a good action by the govem- as long as he can remember is rnent, for it was one place where the money crop and debt to make employment was provided and it. “Money crop” is an expi'es- which the money is not a sion that falls curiously on the ^ loan, and it will come ear of a man from the North' back. It was wholly different when he first hears it, and “time f^om the free flour and free merchant” is another equally other things handed out by the novel. But it is these two things | government for which the tax- that have been largely the un- have to pay. Here the doing of the farmer of this state. I I'oad got its value in labor done Too many farmers are always be- ^^d paid its workers, and as the hind the game. They borrow nioney will be repaid to the gov- money to finance a crop, pay a ernment no burden is laid on the big interest, pay a big price for,taxpayers. But the introduction of electric haulage on the New stranger in the beer garden ask ed him how much beer he could drink and he answered that he had never filled up enough to tell how much more his capacity was good for. In spite of the prodigious abundance the gar dens of the country yield they have never yet done any harm to any household by providing too much subsistence. Their only damage has been in the negative, in not raising anywTiere near as much as they should. A lot of men and boys are wearing out shoe leather now who ought to be going around a few times with the hoe and the garden rake. The American garden could raise this year money enough to offset the annual installment on the national debt, and we could apply the product by put ting it on the table instead of living so entirely for the Flor ida and California and Shenan doah gardens. A really good Grains of Sand both the Friday and Saturday sessions | UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB of the State Teacher’s meeting which j POSTPONES CONCERT will be held in Raleigh on the 26 and; ! 27th. The University of North Carolina Ye editor was in Washington this i Glee Club, which was scheduled to week. It is remarkable the change ofPinehurst school i a performance at the Church of feeling there since March 4th. We, friends I Wide fellowship in Southern Pines didn’t hear a word of criticism of the Hartsville S C ! Sunday night has postponed it administration; there was an enthu-1 , , ^ on account of illness of some of the siasm over Mr. Roosevelt which! « niombers, until April 2, one week from prompted visitors to gather about the “f h,s brother E. S. Webb,^j^^ scheduled date. White House in the hope their Presi-I^^^ *he Hazelwood Club. j dent might reveal himself. There are i W. H. Stewart and young sons Billy REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS cheers whenever he does appear, i Eugene of Maxton, R. t. Stewart something unknown during the latter Miss Lena Stewart of Mossgiel following transfers of real es- years of Mr. Hoover’s regime. The ; visitors on Sunday a ter- recorded in the office general atmosphere is a happy one,! Stewart. | Register of Deeds of Moore and confident. j Miss Katheryn Matthews spent the County: I week-end with home folk at Wagram. ^ ^ It is good news that the national ‘ Mildred Laird of Gastonia was l. F. Comer, property in tennis body has decided to send candi- ^ guest for the week end of er sis- county. dates for America’s Davis Cup team j Miriam Laird . Thomas L. Campbell and wife, back to Pinehurst this year. The Mr. and Mrs. John D. Chapman Elizabeth Campbell to J. W. Goins and North & South tournament is always have returned to Pinehurst after a wife, Lotie Goins, property in Moore one of the most enjoyable events of two months stay in California. county. the spring season because of the en-; Miss Carol Hotchkiss has returned Interstate Trustee Corporation, ,, . 1 -1 , tries of the country’s leading players after a visit of several weeks with pme this summer and ready tON„^ ^he exhibition of tennis as it Miss Lillian Ross in New York. everything they buy on credit, buy a lot of stuff they should make on the farm instead of buy ing it from a western or other York to Washington line is a rather positive indication that the Pennsylvania system is fix- farm, and in the fall they turn to cut its costs of operation over to the holder of their notes I to a place where it will not be whatever of cash they can se-i stared much by competition. It cure. North Carolina will never is such policies that must be fol- be as prosperous as it can be un- lowed by all business and by gov- til it gets ahead of the farm ernment as well that will put game instead of behind it. When, the country on its feet. The one the farmer plants what he can Pei* cent dividend gives the finance, cuts his corners so he' stockholders some assurance can care for his own needs, and' that their property has not gone gets where he can pay cash for to the dogs, and to the hundred what he buys or arranges to buy ^ thousand women stockholders only what he can pay for he will, this will be comforting ihtelli- be in position to tell the world to! gence. Furthermore the road is go to thunder. But as long avS I one of the biggest taxpayers of he farms at the time store and the United States, carrying its eats from the corn field and hog 1 own load and helping to carry lots of Iowa and Kansas, paying' that of nation, states and coun costs of making the stuff there ties. It is one of the big employ- and freight haul and profits tojers of laboi, and one of the big- scveral different dealers his nose j &est buyers of iron and steel, will be on the grindstone. j machinery and industrial pro- We have one severe lesson to ^’Jcts. It is slightly disfigured, Trustee, to North Carolina Joint . . ^ , I C..U ,,..c iriiiiis ua 11. ■■■ Stock Land Bank of Durham, prop- egin now is ma ing gar en. | |jg played. These players will Mrs. Laura J. Beam spent last week erty in Sandhills tovmship. raiid oTZd it L r^mer'ev! prr tiiTiA PVAn if vnii ln«#i n lif reports, with the exception of and attended Dr. Morgan’s services at, U.se The Pilot “Want Ads” to sell , " j Ellsworth Vines, national chamrion, the Community Church. ' the little odds and ends. who is on the Pacific coast. Next week comes the annual Horse Show, another feature event of the HEGINNLV3 TO SEE THE LIGHT It looks as if the legislature and Congress are both begin-1 ning to see the situation thatljf''^ confronts the whole country,! ' '' ' en- o't Biagg and which is that the time has come j ^ to stop expenses rather than to! prowl about in hopeless quest i of further source of taxation. 1 | The people have finally become! ; i aroused, and when that point ’ golfing enthusiast, the is reached the question is pretty | ‘country’s leading professionals will be well settled. I North & South on Tues- If Congress and legislature I Wednesday next week. Big I do not pretty soon settle thei'^^® ^ ^ branches of sport, matter of tax reduction it will' settle itself and in a most posi-i Garrison’s “swapping board” is tive way. The people now are be-1 occupying a prominent place in ginning to think in terms of in-1 corrider of the court house dividualism instead of central- numerous cards are already post- j ized government, and if that Itelling of cows that the owners^ trend of thoug'ht should erer'"'°“*'^ exchange for grain or' get a vigorous lead the resultyo“- Good idea, say we. j would be definite anarchy. Thej — 1 question is likely to be asked any PINEHURST I day as to why # the individual j shall be assessed annually a lot; on Friday of last week, Mrs. H.' of money for things he has n0| Dingley and Mrs. E. M. Statler en-^ ^^1 -Providing, tnany of j tertained about fifty guests at a lun- which he has no interest m, and cheon and bridge at the Carolina Ho-' much of which IS an open ques-1 tel. Guests included Mrs. Warren tionastoits valuetohim Pres-'Bicknell, Mrs. Ralph King, Mrs. H. sed too far the entire question of. c. Buckminster, Mrs. T. A. Cheatham. ... , governnient is likely to be queS-jMrs. c. A. Chandler, Mrs Frank T. learn yet which is that the gov-i^“t it is still in the ring, and S0|ti0ned for some radical think- Ea.,ton, Mrs. Eberhard Faber, Mrs. ernment can not fix farm prices the rest of this United Statesjers are all the time offering that Hg^man Gifford, Mrs. G. M. Howard,! or any other prices. As long asP^s®® the facts and I Question, and the more it is re-i ^ g Gjip^^n, Mrs. W. D. Hvatt, the farms pile up cotton and to-'^^t out some of the ballyhoo. iPeated the more impression it, Johnson, Mrs. E. C. Keat- bacco and such stuff far beyond I ^p^^s. Men will ask themselves ^ jj g Emery, Mrs the wants of the buyer the buyer! PUTTERING ’ROUND 'i' t wwld we are to be, pj^zgerald, Mrs. T. C. Morr is going to allow the grower to THE GARDEN |burdened with an impossible' hold the bag. To make more Back to the lixci, u«>a ux me; 4. + , states and the general govern Congratulations and Best Wishes To the Citizens Bank & Trust Company OF SOUTHERN PINES We also wish to sincerely thank the dozen public spirited men who made the opening of our bank possible. BROAD STREET PHARMACY R. L. Hart, Prop SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. tt GRANDIv^OTHER'S SLICID lARGE LOAF 5c QUAKER MAID BEANS 6 Cant 25c Clara Pushee, Mr.s. Graham Jchn- ' ston, Mrs. George Wilson and Mrs. W. O. Huske, Fayetteville and Mrs. F. D. j Gordon of Auburn, Me. I On Saturday afternoon, Mrs. S. R. E. G. ison, Mrs. — i J ^ i J. 1 £ • T.i. I Marr, Mrs. J. F. Newton, Mrs. | Back to the first days of life S forty-eight „ p j stuff while a surtjlus is on the goes the legend of the gar-' the general govern-1 p ^ Powdrell, Mrs. Cott, Mrs. market is the culmination of fol- den. Adam was given a start C. H. Pray, Mrs Percy Thompson, Mrs.| ly, no matter what a punk-head-, where he could see things growyear when not one j ed government may undertake to'and look after them, and up to't!; “Lit W. H. B. Ward, Mrs E. L. Scofield,! do in the impossible way of fix- the day when Cain with one fell 1 . !Mrs. C. S. Waterhouse, Miss Marion ing prices. The way to raise the; swoop wiped out'a fourth of Rood, Mrs. W. H. Watts, Mrs. Mar- price of cotton is to cut f^own ' the population the entire human Phillips, Mrs. Wills, Mrs. J. P. production until people can use race were given to gardening, i i v. Vu u -j- 7 Williamson, Mrs. Emmet French, what is made. The same with to-: Cain Jitl a 1m,I iob wLn he it ’,V'“ “n *•- W- -'I™- Tl.oma, -Me baeco, corn, wheat an.l any oth- trortuced the hot ,.pot in E<len, i “^rbv wLt rteht and Sn^ “™"- "■ er thing. Tne farmer is the only Yet in spite of his lapse in ther„ nf i/pn in ^ mm in the world who can fix the i practice of ethics the garden 1 m,fv X L oJs ?rl the neo ! price of the stuff he makes and habit has never deserted man-l^i take billions fiom the peo-1 fho nnUr wQir Vio it 1 ‘L T,!" ' ' ple and why men in Raleigh and capitals take him- ml™l Tb» the canned stuff that ,,r„|s „f million,s from the peo- mand The tactoij ha.s >ense:was grown close by the shadow ^ .u innumerable annro-i enough to stop making things of their own vine and fig tree, ‘HafinncT entertained a large group of when the market is drugged with and men, sadly tried by the in-ip„„ for pvprvfhina contract and tea at Pine- it.s product. When the farmer roads of the neighbors’ hens,; ‘whi'lp fViP npnnip hac] winners in bridge; gets to that understanding he continue to plant beans and rad- 'they stood for all these tax loads, j | ll ishes and spaghetti and water- ^^e situation is I ^ ^ Marion :H melons the various things that changed the burden is chafing i Herman intei'est those who are not golf thp iTi<?nrrPf’tinn i<5 hnilino- I t^ampbell and Mrs. J. A. Mills. Other people before him had no other addicts or given to bridge and q^,j. situation is a grave A. O. Blackburn, | way. But he cannot live on ra- penny ante. A garden pts you ^ ^he whole ‘ popular; E. s. Blodgett, Mrs. Gordon tions raised in the W est and out into the open, and if you Government structure because ' i spend his time making crops he | happen to know the combination i j-hg point has arrived where the' ^Jordon Cameron, Mrs. i cannot use himself and hope toJt gets you some rations in ex- np^nlp are antrrv nvpr dpmandq' Cheney, Mrs. Eva Dunlop, make money selling those crops | change for a little of the sweat ^.hgn they have none. ^rs. Willard Dunlop, Mrs. E. G. Fitz- to an overcrowded market that j that was allotted when the fu’st; pQj-tunately Mr. Roosevelt in ■‘?erald, Mrs. J. E. Harrington, Mrs. already has a surplus in that | garden was trailed across Ad- Washington and Mr Ehringhausi Innes, Mrs. Raymond Johnson, line. :am’s path. That is a different i Raleigh are seeing t h e' j kind than the sweat that jou jjght and trving to stop the de— > Mrs. H. A. Lewis, ^Irs. Hobert AN ASSURING ■ experience after a .session in the luge' But the legislature and Montgomery, Mrs. Eric Nelson, Mrs. STATEMENT j ,'^tock market or on similar oc- Congress must go with them, or McNab, Mrs. H. Norris, Mrs. The P(?nnsylvania Railroad, in|Casions, and as a rule it ha?^ no \ye invite a catastrophe that may' Mary H. Pinkerton of Baltimore a statement to its stockholders, backfiring : t i Mi-e v r. PinWprtnn Mi.= .Tnmpc IONA FLOUR 24 Bag 53c 98 Bag *2.00 SUNNYFIEIjD FLOOR 24 60c 98 b*!:, *2.30 FIXE GKANUIiATED SUGAR 10^^. 42c 25 M.05 COMPOUND 4 pounds 25c DEL MONTE PEACHES 3 No. I cans 25c SWIFT’S JEWEL SHORTENING 8 47c WraTEHOrSE will be on better footing. He is the one man who can live on his own product if he will, for his MILK small O tall or ^ cans Lge. I’kR BANANAS Golden Ripe POPCL.^U BUAXD CIGARETTES lOC Carton 7 lbs. 25c Fresh Fruits and Vegetables throw.s a lot of light on the fi-| But with all the funny re- be incomprehensible. J Mrs. F. C. Pinkerton, Mrs. James I Quale, Mrs. N. P. Ray, Mrs. Charles nancial situation in fact instead j marks made about the garden' two plays TO HE PRESENTED Uadler, Mrs. I. C Sledjre, Mrs. Alex of in bunko. The gro.ss revenue, it is pretty much the dependence uy SCHOOL DRAMATIC CLUB i Lenora KiRgan, Mi.s.s for 1932 decreased 26 per cent i of mankind, as well as the neigh- Pat Lumpkin, Miss MarKuerite Woolf as compared with the previous | bors’ hens and if we would pay The Southern Pines High School and Miss Edith Woolf, year and 42 per cent as compar- as much attention to the garden Dramatic Club will present two one- j Mr. and Mrs. Hueh W. Carter re ed with two years before. Operat-1 as we do to some of the other | act plays on next Monday evening,'turned early this week from a three Xf:P9St?3aDapsasU9dxaSui I things that are common fads; March 27, at 8:1.5. The play, “The, weeks’ .stay at Palm Beach, Miami AllLANlfnC & IPACIIIFIKC below 1931. Net income decreas-jwe would not be as knee deep in, f’lattering Word,” by George Kelly ed 32 per cent. The net income I the Slough of Despond as is the I and Paul Green’s ‘“No ’Count Boy” was just above two per cent on situation just now, the capital .stock allowing a div idend of one per cent to the .stockholders. During the year the company reduced its bond ed debt and trust equipment ob ligations by $6,500,000. It has no bank loans or other short term loans outstanding, but it obtained a three-year loan of will be presented. The first of these and other places of interest. I :: W. Allen Taft has returnd to his home here after a short stay in Bos- The time we waste complain-1 will represent the City Schools of this ton. ing of high tariffs and German: section in the State Dramatic Contest Mrs. S. R. Jellison, Mrs. Ruttrey and reparations would serve to make ’ at the University of North Carolina. Mrs. Brindell were puests for lunch- enough stuff in the garden to i This contest will be held on Wed- eon and bridge of Mrs. W. S. Love- enable Uo to tell the tariff to go nesday, March 29th. I joy at Pinebluff Inn on Wednesday, out and get a reputation, and The proceeds from these plays will; W. P. Morton, superintendent of the probably enough more to pay off be used to help defray the expenses j Pinehurst schools has announced that the German debt, for a garden' of the contest. The price of admission, this Friday will be given as a holiday is like the Dutchman when a will be 15 and 25 cents. in order that the teachers niav attend Oetter F*rices FRUTTS and VEGETABLES Fresh Daily SANITARY CASH MARKET Aberdeen, North Carolina
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