Page Two
THE PILOT, Aberdeen and Southern Pines. North Carolina
Friday, June 16, 1988.
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C
jeficiary of the taxation. The
I payer is not considered except
■as the source of the money.
(Those who are to profit by the
j expenditure of the taxes are all
the time held up as the purpose
; ; ;— of taxation. The payer is not
NELSON C. HYDE, Manasing Editor rights
BION H. BUTLER, Editor ^ except to ‘pay. But 'he should
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT barren privilege of
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.
knowing at least what his money
is to be spent for, and in the
smallest detail. Then he might
, be better satisfied with the out
lay. Or he might rise up and
I slaughter some of the needless
confiscation of his money. Ev-
' ery individual in this country j
is a stockholder in the big con-
i cerns of national, state and town ]
„ , J . - governments and entitled to a
Entered at the Postoffice «t Aber-; ^^om time to |
deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat- transaction the!
ifl: I big corporations undertake. But
these stockholders have the most
A ^^HIFF OF ' collosal ignorance of their pub-
INTELLIGENCE i lie affairs that can be imagined.
Julian Miller, of the Charlotte Not one citizen in a hundred can!
Observer, came over to Southern tell the income or expenses of |
Pines last week to talk at the towns, state county, nation, or:
graduating exercises of the. other unit of government. i
town schools. The program com- We are as ignorant of our big-,
mittee that picked Miller did a gest business as the cow is of the!
good job, for the newspaperman process of making her feed. Has I
is himself a graduate of a school i t*he taxpa^ver any rights ? He 1
of observation, and a close stu-'does not know. He does not know
dent in the post-graduate course a thing about his rights, nor ap-
he is pursuing in the newspap- parently does he care any more
er experience. Julian Miller has' than he knows. He talks a lot a-
the instinctive ability to see i)out his government but he
facts and along with that he has; takes no pains to have any in-
the newspaper training which formation about it as far as its
has for its foundation the fun- finances are concerned. And^
damental that the old editor'what is the result? He is never
gives to the young man when consulted regarding its costs of;
he starts in,'‘‘Don’t say any- operation, nor concerning the
thing today that tomorrow we money to carry on, except to be I
may have to confess is not so.” sold out unless he pays the a-1
Julian Miller is not alarmed mount that is set opposite hisi
over the possibility that the'name on the lists. He has no
world is going to the dogs. He rights except to be a jay, and
has a conviction that the en-^P^y when the fiddler plays. |
gineer who designed the scheme' '
of existence w*as capable, and THE LEASE OF
that the construction of the job THE CORRAL
was good. He is inclined to the ‘ Steadily the fame of the Sand-:
notion that we are not likely ^ hills spreads. The lease of the'
to get into deeper water than we Corral, adjoining The Paddock, |
can get out of and suggests' at the head of James Creek, by
that if we all spit on our hands William D. Sawyer, for a per-'
and dig in we will find more or manent home, tells the way the!
less comfort in making a sue- wind blows. Mr. Sawyer " and.
cess of our work, as well as family have become familiar,
profit in the outcome of the ef- with the attractive places around j
fort. jthe earth and they make a choice I
It is refreshing to have a man' of the pine-covered knobs ofi
like Miller take the wheel a few Moore County. '
minutes in an affair like that' It is just such testimony as i
at which he officiated. He is not this that s'hould stimulate every-'
fogged with superstitions, nor body in the Sandhills to firmer I
June 5, 1933
LOW PRICE CARS VS. CHEAP CARS
we do not build a low-price car: the cost to us of building cur car
is pretty high, * „
But we do sell a high jualjJ °”have built so far this year, has cost
Almost every p^ice was. As you buy then at only $490
BOre to manufacture ® ^ relume to make up the difference. _
to $610. we have to depend ™ ®,„„facturer who gives gcod value '
The reason for this is simp sells'because he cannot
must expect to lose money on the first
charge all his costs ;^o the^people^w^o^are ^ Q^nnot afford to lose
anytS:gra?ar^“T:::t1ii: “^0 from the first, and Keep
“ "T:rmi'IaL"ossible o^rcombinaticn of low prices and high cost
Volume Production
2. Taking only one profit ^ public on the basis
Of erlierwrlni: »rd^r to justify and
Tt^cir^: rc"ar:hfch i:"::uy Mgh-ocst to ma^e. is also
^°""?here'LTdlfferenoe between a cheag car and a low^s^iced high
^““crt'pJloes are e.lways fixed at a point which makes it profitable for a
Ind*’”sting business must produce profit to the buyer^
And of the two, the buyer's profit must be,
to the seller,
the larger one.
It pays us to
sell the Ford V-8 because it pays you to buy it.
eliminating two or three teachers, I ter from the British crown as part of
THE SCHOOL TERM
may say their classes will have to j the Connecticut Western Reserve,
be jammed into roovis already crowd-^ The land ultimately 'brought on the
ec!, resulting in serious confusion and war between the Connecticut and the
greatly hampering the proper teach-^ Pennsylvania settlers, both claiming
ing of these children. I, personally, the territory under charters from the
. made my first trip to a school room crown, and one of the most serious
afraid of the cars. He is a de- ^ determination to do those things i offender, but not many of
ciple of Paul who believes in ' that should be done to make of hunting out the right and
proving all things and holding this neighborhood the most hunting out the basic cause for
while, but he does not expect the pleasant place to live that can the offense. Our jails and peni-
heavens to fall as long as a hun- ’ be made. (Jonditions Ihere are tentiaries and prisons are one
dred and thirty million people in wholly suitable. The main thing great problems and they
this country are ready to hold that we need more than anything crowded to perplexity and Editor, The Pilot:
them up and especially as the else is OV'erflowing confidence ?I*OWing steadily worse. We do j read with much interest the let-'*®®^ winter and I found that many phases of the Revolutionary war was
heavens are pretty well anchor- j in what nature has done for us. inquire much into the cause ter to the Sandhills Citizen from Mr., greatly overcrowded, ev- the outcome.
ed anyway from the beginning, and the willingness to do all we of crime, but we punish some of Van Camp, in regard to having more then, and to think of adding sev- In the affair Mr. York was cap-
The Charlotte Observer made can to help nature. j criminals, and because we i,ght tiirown on our local school prob-|®*®’ childem to each room con-'tuied and taken to Canada and later
no mistake vvhen it annexed this| Depression has had its influ-' "O P^ace for the rest of lem. He asks that the paper print that I would certainly not died. His family was left in difficult
man, for while he is a valuable ences here as well as elsewhere,' them, and because imposing the fun details as to the situation which to be in charge of that room. As straits, and the mother, w tihehr
factor in the success of the Ob- but also elsewhere as well as Penalties has ceased to be inter- now confronts our community. i ^ matter of fact, I do not believe it straits and the mother, with her eight
more than that. here. That is always to be kept Gsting, we let the rest of them^ Sandhill to squeeze any more desks in children set out to walk to her fath
XI , • , . . .... . some of the rooms.
With the Observer as his plat- in mind. Also to be remembered ' Citizen and also in the issue of The rooms. ' er’s home in Connecticut, which she
form from which to reach the is the fact that depression does! hold up our hands and ^ j believe he and all ^^en it comes to the financial as- accomplished after a struggle of sev-
people he has a school before him not interruupt the growth of the | want a place in Paradise. Then interested will find a very com- matter, we are assured eral months, much of the time in the
that under his touch will have a pine tree, the folk of the excel- throw stones at those we I illunAiating ai-ticle school winter. After the close of hostilities
wholesome influence on the lent water that supplies the com- of. We build more on the proposed changes in our school returend to Pennsylvania and
whole people of the state. i munity, the excellence of climat- fast as we can get more gyg^g^ explained by Mrs. Gilkyson. cent cut, perhaps more, hived some thirty years and to see
ic conditionft, ithe nearness to nioney and fill them with a new j Gilkyson’s facts fie- continue our nine months school ■ her children prosper and prominent
the rest of the world, the char-; ^^®P^, smners. But we^ leave conclusions and I believe *t seems that it is possible members of the community. In Oc-
HAS THE TAXPAYER , ana 1 d neve
ANY RIGHTS? | acter of the people who ai’e ^9** parson the task of plug- arrived at tL proper course addition get as taxpayers an tober, 1818 she was buried at the
Legislatures and Congress neighbors, nor of anything else ^^p® that make cnmi- for the citizens of Southern school tax, which'age of 88 years in the cemetery at
have been in session. The county! that is worth considering. ^nals, and the job is so burden- is over 37 per cent in this item, | W>”alusing, and the tablet erected
commissioners are making their! To the same extent that fi- *^®^® that his grip is slipping. Pmes is perhaps th o t ^ believe this matter will be brought was in addition to the stone that had
To the same extent that fi- some that his grip is slipping. _
budget. The school districts are nancial conditions ease up in oth-i So we dam the Morgans and • to an election, or to a vote early this 'parked the grave for more than a
talking about special taxes to er sections they will ease up the Mellons and everybody ^ , summer and I trust that the citizens, century.
provide longer school tei’ms than here. Always the natural .^ur- whose name comes on the front prided ourselves on its c o th school district will see fit to Mrs. Tracy’s grandmother was one
the state has cared for. A clamor roundings here will be ju.>^t as Page, we clamor for more laws, cjea,iii„egg municipal n'^d ’ ® months school. I do of the Yorks. The family figured
has been going up for lower they were when these hills and and we ask for a place on the schools churches and evervtvi* believe that now is the time to go prominently in the development of the
taxes. In the shift to lower tax-'forests were laid down on the ^ight (hand for ourselves, and make ud the f twenty or thirty years ago, es- Wyoming valley and the Revolution-
es it looks as if some of the tax- great plan of creation. Always feel that we have done the whole town not onlv in thi Tt "hen general financial con- ary and Indian wars.
68 have been low’ered and other! the natural advantages will con- Job. One thief on the cross was .u ® ditions all over the country appear —Subscriber
taxes have been laid to offset the! tinue, and as wealth increases a sport. He said, “we receive the , ^ ,, iift to be improving. By Fall all of us Southern Pines, June 13.
lowering and possibly instead of! throughout the land further de- ^i«t rewaj-d for our deeds.’’ How pre-emmlnence has been thati^°®^ '*’®tter than they]
lowering the totals will be big-! velopment of the advantages of ^any of the rest of as will take „ ofthe countrv havp onmpi®*’® now and I think it would
this section will be carried for- the gaff that way? But we nre J . ““S 1“ hoTes and "»• »“ ™-
warc^ This is a pretty good time willing to give it to the other fei- .
ger in nation, state, town and
county than before. The govern
ment has talked in increased ex
penses of billions. The amounts
are fo great that no man can
perceive the meaning. The argu
ment is that money is needed for
public affairs, and the tax pay
er is the only source from which
to draw.
The tax payer is the man who
MAY WEATHER
remarkable growth is not attributed
to any one feature but it is the re
sult of a happy com'bination of sev
eral. Among these advantages our
owns the property and the pro
ductive power to pay. The va- j land is a good possession,
rious governments have an ab
to be sure to own and improve ^^w. And in doing it we overlook
a bit of Sandhill land, much or the important question of what
little, according to your abilitv, t;he matter? Why are the
but it is also a good time to ob- too full, why the many
tain a little if vou do not alreadv things we all complain of, why ,
have Zr mSe S>™ by thlth^ complaisance we feel tUU
Corral and The Paddock and immaculate standing
over Weymouth hills and have a I-*’ time to find out what is i [ ^ ^
, , nave a . , tha can do so by a certificate. If
look, and think the matter over.. accept tne res- on ^
Much or little some Sjtndliill Ponsibility and rectify the situ-' ® reduced to an eight months
I I atinn school term, this certificate privilege
the 'privileges offered to LJZr - the -hool, to! ".nth p^^^^
handicap and reduce ourselves to the' warmest May s experienced in
confining limits of an eight months Sandhills for many a long years
solute lien in everything any in- THE CHURCH
dividual or corporation owns or AND THE JAIL
can earn, so the payer is as help-| It is written that James and
less as a kitten as long as he by j John came to the Master and ap
his vote sanctions the policies | pealed for a place at his hand in
of continued and increasing tax-Ithe Kingdom, but it was the fel-
ation, rather than to build more stnooi lerm, tms cemticate privilege
jails and make more laws. 1''•thdrawn and we drop back into
j a lower classification. This I believe
SEABOARD TRAINS I ® calamity.
I The money we have been receiving
for a six months term will be spread
A total of 96.7 per cent jf the 2,-. out over an eight months term and
442 passenger trains operated by the'the teachers, therefore, wil^Teceive a
The average temperature for May,
1932 was 67-2, and the long time nor
mal is given as 70-4, while the tem
perature for the past month rose to
a high of 74-2, 3.8 degrees above the
normal, and 7 degrees over that of
May, 1932, that month registering
o*’® on another.
® ® ■ May of this year gave us eleven days
The Wyalusing Rocket, printed at j with temperatures at 90 or above,
Wyalusing, Pa., has a story in a re-"^ and a high of 98 on the 25th.
term.
—Eugene ^tevens
Southern Pines, June 12,
MRS. TRACY’S FOREBEARS
HONORED
cent issue that is of interest to Mrs.
E. A. Tracey, of Southern Pines, for
it refers to the dedication of a tablet
in the local cemetery there commem
orating the experience of the York
For May, 1933 the maximum tem
perature was 86-9; for May, 1932,
79-3, and long time average 82-8.
Minimum figures are 61-6 for May,
1933; 55-1 for last May, and 58 long
taxes until a crisis comes and
the whole thing ends in an ex
plosion.
The whole theory of taxation
is planned in behalf of the ben-
Seaboard Air Line Railway during the very substantial cut in their salaries, i family” of which Mrs. Tracey is a de^ average" *Generairev7"aeersgahur
J- and two or three teachers wf” ’ . . . .
I to be eliminated. Of course it
ed place. Life Is that way. We '^’sion Passenger Agents, announces. ^ ery body is having his or her mcome
ation. But the voter is too larg^ lows by'his side in the crisis later "'^''th of May arrived at their desti-Und' two or three teachers will have cedent alone with Mrs Charles ”p «vpr«~ rr,^rrr'''*
a body to organize and to formu- on, who were awarded the covet; "«twns on time, H. E Pleasants, Di- L be eliminated. Of course most ev- Everest and her two children Lucretia fir thi Mav 67 2 fnrT f M® 1
late a working plan to lessen pH nlarp T.ifp is fhnt wnv W<» vision Passenger Agents, announces.' ^..,r ;» i,„„:— : for this May, 67-2 for last May and
are inclined to expend our vir
tues in asking the big rewards,
Cotton requires the use of 700,000
but we are economical of our | square miles of land in its production
efforts in curtailing evil, lan area equal to the combined areas
It is a big army that denounc- of France, Spain, Germany and Italy.
reduced and I suppose a teacher’s cut
is inevitable, but I want to bring to
your attention the fact that teachers
here, as elsewehere, have never been
Miner, born in Stonington, Conn., in
1730, married Amos York and her
father gave the young folks a large
tract of land in the Wyoming valley
in Pennsylvania a portion of the land
paid their worth. As to the result of that Connecticut held under the char-
70-4 long average. Rainfall for the
month was 3.51 inches as against a
normal of 4..17 and 8.14 inches last
May, this giving us 15.55 inches for
the year, 3.37 inches less than the
normal fall.