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Friday, March >i3, 19!H.
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I’HE COMING
OF THE BIRDS
Dr. Achorn made Southern
Pines prominent as a place
where birds are appreciated, for ,
while he lived, although he was
a habitant of Pinebluff. he en-
terested the whole Sandhill re
gion in the birds, native and
visiting, to be tound here at
various seasons of the yeai. ■
The movement he set on foot is
a continuing one. Southern
Pines having its club and ^ its
field for stud,v. the New Eng
land House being the center of
interest in the village.
The stud.v of birds is so sim
plified by the work that has
been done that a lover of birds
can go to sch(K>l with the Bin!
Club here and pick up an edu
cation concerning birds in short
time and with much pleasure,
for the Bird Club is a part of
the Sandhills entertainment.
Here birds are abundant, in
cluding the permanent residents
as well as those that stop here
in their migration, and few
oither stvtions of the country
see a greater variety of birds
or greater numbers under as
attractive conditions as in the
Sandhills. Moreover the Sand
hills Bird Book is a source ot
so much information that the
study of local V)irds is made as
easy' as it is interesting.
We have not yet made the
study of birds as extensive as is
justified although Sandhill folks
are pretty much interested in
this direction. It is worth while
to get better accjuainted with
the Bird Clul). which can be
done by dropping it at tile New
England House and asking for
information. Everybody is wel
comed, and practically every
body finds pleasure in the ac
quaintance with birds. Few
places have so full.v made the
acquaintace with l)irds as is
the case here in the Sandhills,
which means that those at all
interested can find bird triends
and bird information on all
sides, and the field otters a
chance for much outdoor enter-
tainmet that is not .so available
in manv other places. Everybody
is welcomed in the E>ird Club.
All that is necessary is to drop
in and say you would like to go
with the bunch.
A WORD FROM
ecclp:siastes
Sheriff Al. Blue is much of a
philosopher. He is a reader and
an analyst of what he reads. So
he is interesting when he has
something to say. The question
of new deals came up one after
noon on the sidewalk and the
sheriff remarked that—
“The thing that hath been, it
is that which shall be, and that
which is done is that which
shall be done, and there is no
new thing under the sun.”
He recalled a little more of
the words of the preacher son
of David, but it w’as all to the
effect that in the some thous
ands of years that men have
been threshing out these prob
lems of human relations they
have brought up the ancient
questioii with its ancient an
swer:: “Is there anything where
of it may be .said, See this is
new? it hath been already of
old tirrie which was before us.”
For as the s^heriff remarked,
other nations and other peoples
have the same human instincts
and desires and character that
we have, and the.y have been
over the road, and they have
fought wars over trifles, and
tried out methods, and builded
empires and recognized princi
ples of social and political econ
omies and governed themselves
ccording to the breadths and the
limitations of human desires, j
human selfishness, human kind
linesses and the same old hu
man incentives that actuate us
today.
It is his idea that individual
ism prompts the struggle for ex
istence in about the same man
ner that it did generations ago,
and that we look out for Num
ber One about as vigorously as
ever, and that if we did not no
body else would. The Golden rule
is old. It was the doctrine of
Confucius and it was the doc
trine of Moses, as it came la
ter to be the doc'trine of Hillel
and of Zoroaster, yet in all the
thousands of years it has been
the basis of religious faith and
incentive it has not made such
headway that it is yet establish
ed as a general rule of action
among men. Individualism pre
vails, nations build war ships
and cannon. Political parties
make war on each other. Guilds
and crafts and societies build up
for the gains of the members
and the pains of those they an
tagonize, and we all have our ,
knives in our boot legs in the
event that we may ])rofit by
transgressing on some one we
feel should l>e our prey. Indivi
dualism is individualism, now as
ilj wjij; long before Salomon's
day. and with all our new theor-
its we are still milling around
in the same old path generations
have trodden l)efore us. We are
introducing nothing new. Our
new experiments are as old as
history.
WHERE THE
MONEY (JOES
A good (leal is said about
t noi’mous prr)fits the tobacco
loniiianies get. and the small
amount that is left of the buy
er's dollar for the farmer. It is
fairly claimed that the farmer
gets the little end of the stick,
l)ut the annual report of the ten
big tobacco companies of this
countrv gives the farmers some
thing to think about. The ten
companies in earned a com-
i)ined i)i‘ofit of $66,899,000.
which is Just half of what they
earned the year l>ofore. and
about half of the average earn
ings of th»> three years previous.
Tnat looks like a lot of money,
and it is. Hut a generous govern-
lUeiit stepi)ed in and picked off
In7,78l).()00 f)efore the tobacco
comi)anies jrot their measly $66,-
takinjr six and a half
limes as much as was left for the
manufactiu’ers.
(;o\ei-nmeiit figures indicate
that the farmer gets about
$17-1.0()(),(MiO for his crop. The
tobacco companies manufacture
it. pa.v the taxes of $407,780,000,
ray the costs of manufacturing
and selling, earn for themselves
$66,899,000, pay $100,000,000 in
wages and other costs, but the
tax bill of more than a million
dollars a day knocks tile eye out
ot all the otJier expen.ses com-
bined. The government taxes
amount to more than twice the
amount the farmer gets for the
crop, and more than all the oth-
er.s concerned in producing the
manufactured product get.
Possil)ly the tobacco farmer
does not pay the tobacco tax.
Init he certainly provides the
commodity that does pay it. and
in providing it he seems to come
out ot the little end of the horn.
The employes of the tol)acco
companies jr^t but a fraction as
much as the government gets in
taxes. The companies get a
sixth ot what the government
gets and the big slice of the
melon goes for taxes.
If there is a moral to the
story it is to be found where the
tax collector does business,
j which is meant, where the pub-
i lie expenditure of money is to
' be founcl. What kills the tobacco
j tarmer is the hig*h cost of car-
jrying on state and national
j government, for both get a
whack at him.
made by April 1 the commis
sioners are required to fore
close on delinquent lands, which
is a practical impossibility, as
far as realizing any money of
consequence is concerned, and
such a step should not be com
pelled by the land owner.
Grains of Sand
SECOND OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES
FROM THE BACK SEAT
By DR. ERNEST M. POATE
“Funniest weather ’round here late
ly you ever see,” said Hank Hoople
the other day. “Only one way I can
. . tell what it’s going to be. If I put on jq expect—or rather, what not to i They're locked up somewhere, .sate.
The commissioners my red flannels in the morning, it’ll j expect--I shall make a few promises! yet it’s no harder to believe that
on their hands a task that is al- | go by noon, if I don’t it’ll stay i contents of this column. * straight line.s can turn into circles
most iUl unsolved problem, and . around 40 all day. Mighty nice weath-1 First, I promise never, never, never than to believe that parallel lines
what is to be the outcome de- for the doctors, though." j to call it a "Plinth” or a “Tower” or (can meet. Such statements just don’t
pends lalgelj on the delinquent “Post,” or to make any other silly
taxpayer. But this looks like a
way out ot the woods, and if the l nesday morning at exactly 2:28
people will meet the commission- o’clock and came in like a lamb
ers as proposed the trouble may
be simplified. If not, the Lord
himself can hardly guess what
But anyw .ay. Spring: arrived Wed-, p^n on the word column. I shall not
Many interesting old characters are
. , , being turned up by the committee in
is in sight. The time is short ,j,j,arge of Old slave Day next month,
and steps should be taken at
, . , , I That day should be a memorable one
once to comply with the com-1 p.„^3
missioners proposition, tor it
has the one ray of hope that is ; Margaret Dana had a very in- I ,,tuff
(le.sired. Tne commissioners have , month’s At. ’
no alternatne in the flatter, ^g^rg^^ret
Bloxham, who used to live here and
who married Trumbell Dana, a broth-
even spell it "colyum.” It’s just a
lot of talk, that’s all—the sort ot
stuff one might expect to come from
the b.,.ck seat.
Further, I shall not perpetrate any
free verse. And certainly I don’t in
tend to pay for any verse. So there
probably wont be any verse here; or
if there is, it will be very, very poor
mean anything. From beginning to
end, mathematics, the “exact .science"
is just a lot of baloney. We begin by
saying “Let’s pretend that two and
two make four." All right. We go
on from there, figuring and figuring
and figuring, until we get up to Eu
clid. He .says, “Let’s pretend that
parallel lines meet.” And Einstein
says, “Let's pretend that straight
lines turn into circles after a while.
They are offering the one way
out, and to neglect it look.s like
immediate foreclosure steps.
er of Paul Dana of Pinehurst, is now
All right, let's. But let’s not kia
Again, I .shall never call myself our.solves by thinking that makes it
We.” I'm not built for it. “We” .so.
ought to be a large and chesty per
son, with a red face, who knows what
it’s all about and is always willing to
ST. PATRK'K WAS
A (JENTEE.MAN
While the groundhog played
it low down on us in the matter
ol weather there are others, and
on the editorial staff of the Curtis condescendingly. I don't know
Publishing Company in an advisory 1 jf j, about- if anything. And
■apacily. She is about to start a series j can't explain it, either. Which is
Ilf articles in The Country Gentleman. | something else again. Of course.
Ami speaking of Sandhills writers. ' the really editorial “We" is different.
Ralph Page has had some splendid ^ Any new.spaper must be collective,
lortunatel.V some of them are of articles in the Philadelphia Ledger | and its editor speaks not only for
a ditferent stripe. Saturilay was and other papers of late, mostly about himself but for the paper, which in-
St. Patrick's da.V, rest his soul, the affect of the New Deal in various eludes his staff, right down to the
and he did t.*'e noble thing in part.-; of the covmtry. newest inky preasboy who is still
the wa,\’ ot a line day. St. Pat- looking for type-lice. .So the editor's
rick has a lot to his credit. He is ; The Sandhills must be a good place VVE is justified.
said to have banished the snakes | to train race horses. Noel Laing has j^,,t I can speak only for myself.
Progress is a wonilerful thmg. I
get dizzy whenever I tjy to figure it
all out. For example, somebody in
vented ca.sh-registers. There had to
be some place to put the^i, so we
invented saloons. And then prohibi
tion. And the A. and P., and Mister
\^’ool\^ orth’s five and ten. All be
cause somebody invented ca.sh reg.
isters.
Take adding machines. Folks went
on very comfortably for a long, long
time, keeping double-entry books an-j
having a swell time, and maybe even
putting a little money into the sav-
troni ii'(‘laii(j, which Jiresuniab’y | been winning consistently since win-
makes it possible for an honest | tering his steeplechasers in Southern
son of tile old sod to take his b’ines. He is now building a track out
moi’ning today and rei)eat the Youngs Hoad for working his string
tiose a few times a day without next winter. Among horses tramed
tht' tear ot seeing snakes later here which won at Aiken last Satur-
in the aftei’noon or night. Any- day was Our Friend owned by Mrs.
wa\' Pat l ick was a gi’eat pioneer vvi ner z. Heed of Pinehui'st.
and educator as well as religious ,
leader and that his influence has
c.xtended so widely and main- next week, and it will bo a busy five
tained its following so techni- days in Pinehurst with these sharp-
cally and held such a control shooters vying for that $1,000 first
ovei' its people is to the ever- prize on Tuesday, Wednesday and
lasting creiUt ot the fine <.)f ex- Thursday and the Horse Show follow-
ampLu’ and guide. Of cotu'se in|ing on Friday and Saturday. Charlie
a Scotch Presbyterian neigh- ' Picquet reports a fine entry for the
borhood like this it is permissi- Horse Show.
iiigs bank. Then somebody invented
,\nd even then I'm liable to .say the adding machines.
So we had a boom. And the New
Kra. And the stock maiket. Becau.se
we had to use those machines. So we
used them to add our paper profits
for a while; and then needed sub
tracting machines to figure out our
how much it costs to do business, and
got so scared that they begin charg
ing us four cents foi' taking our mon
ey, and fifty cents for not leaving it
with them. And so on. Without add
ing machines, like as not they’d have
gone on paying dividends, and nev
er wori'ied about the cost of takine
l)Ie at times to have a neighljor-
ly .jest with St. Patrick, but be
yond a doubt the old mission
ary and pioneer in C'hristian doc
trine and practice has had a
remarkable hand in putting civ
ilization on the bload tooting it Carolina presided over vho U. S. .Sen-
nou occupies and the high J)lane ate for a short while on Tuesday,
ot morality and human consider-
Jition of man for man.
St. Patrick was a gentleman.
U is not the intention t>f this
thesis to enter into the religious
phase of his character and ac
tion for we all form our own
oi)inioiis on
l)ut it is ooen tor anni
past. It is a refreshing moment
wherein we can turn our backs
wrong thing. .So if you don't like
it, write a letter to the editor. And
he will agree with you, like as not.
Last of all—for this time I'm not
trying to be funny. What I mean, 1
don't work at it. If 1 am funny, it's
just a natural gift, and .sometimes 1 jo.sses, that weren't paper at all. And
K- . V, . Ihe banks u.sed them to figure out
All the big golf pros will be heie f„Uts do say I'm funniest then. Any
how. I’m not going to strain every
nerve, trying to make wise-cracks.
Vou may think I am, sometimes: but
it’s not so at all. 1 am a serious
minded person and I mean what I
.«ay quite often.
So let's talk about matnematics.
i We all have a notion that anything in money so long as they got enough
you can prove with figures must be of it to show a profit,
so. Figures don't lie. Vet, as I point- Then somebody had to invent check
ed out the other day, nobody can writing machines. And now we have
prove that two and two make four the CWA. And .so on, while the al-
or why, if they do. phabet holds out.
Back when I went to school, folks Inventions are dangerous. You
still thought rather well of Euclid, never know what they'll start. Some-
Even today, they teach geomutry in body invented calculating machine-.,
but he didn t have anything moie high schools; and Euclid invented that you can feed hoises into, or ap-
to do than take a nap. Senator Fess tha* the book used to say—and pies, or Ford V-eights, or wooden
of Ohio was making a lon.-j air mail yet, I suppose that "parallel legs, or the number of unemployed,
speech and evoiy member ot the jjnes meet at infinity.” and then turn a crank, and out comes
Senate except the speaker and the Now that's nonsense. Parallel lines a fascinating chart with wavy, jig-
piesiding fifficer left the cliambei. can't meet anywhere, or they couldn't jag lines on it, to prove anything
Noith Caiolinas other U. S. Sena- be parallel. Because that means you hapiien to want proved. Or dis.
same distance approved.
This is known as a “comnuKlity m-
•y taking 192(i as the ba.se-
13, or the average I. y.
mules and college grad-
get the number of hound
ing about “relativity”—whatever that dogs a family has to keep before
is. If anything. He says this is a it’s really poor. Or the price ot gold
straight line in dollars, francs, pengoes and keeno.
Are you all prepared for Easter’/
If not the local shops are full of
good looking clothes.
Senator Bod Reynoids of Noith
. ; • ■ , y-* -vvMj ,^iorth Carolina s other U. S. Sena- be parallel. Because
leilglOUS sutj.iects, tor. Mr. Bailey, has just returned to they're always the
-^n tor ani)!’'"-"'
Hepublican candidates. Herbert K
Seawell, Si'., ran for Governor
on the gn.undhog and his . 1^28. Colin Spencer ran for Congress closed univer.se
I its and enjov the genialitv of Herbert will run into itself after a while, and (I do think pengo is a lovely word
the sunshine of Si Patrick’s d iv ^ circle. And somebody said Better than pieces of eight. Oi
a da.V that does ‘i creilit to the • Congress this fall. that only twelve men in all the world moidores. And I'll bet seven Pengoes
old patriarch "m/is good for the understand Einstein. you don't know what it is. Or I.i
* ^ ^ ‘ .iiv C’l TO H\VK i -
sold ot sinful mankind. lenten li'nc'HEon >iak<’h •»»'
WHERE THE STATE , _
iMONF'Y CiOFS ' Thursday, March 29 at 12:30
I o'clock a Lenten Luncheon will be
As a rule too man.v people talk served the members of the Civic
to(i much without sufficient Club. Past, present and prospective
jknowledge of their sid)jects. Phis 1 members and those who feel that
is illustrated by a statement some day they would like to become
ll’om (lovernor Ehringhaus as to members of an active, progressive or-
the expenditures of state mon- ganization are invited to attend. Mrs,
e.v. He sa.V’s that ot ever.v dollar ii. Monroe of Hamlet, chairman of
collected in taxes by the State . this- district of the Federated Clubs,
lorty cents goes for schools. It; is expected to be present and tell ol
is worth while to emphasize that the advantages of being federated
when criticism ot the schools is ■ with the other clubs. There will also
heard and when complaint is ’ be an interesting and attractive diiv
made of the disposal of public , play of gems and jewelry dear to the
funds. If we want schools we j feminine heart and if possible a talk
on the correct jewelry you should
wear to reflect your individual per
sonality.
During the luncheon suggestions
will be welcomed as to how the club
can best assist in making the Spring
Festival week a success.
AN OPPORTUNITY
II A modern 6-room dwelling in fine condition with every
I convenience for living,
I $2,500 Cash
« And small B. & L. mortgage
Ii C. J. care Pilot Office
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STRAIGHTENING OUT
UHE BACK TAXES
The County Commissioners
announce that they will finance
the back taxes due since 1927,
by the acceptance of a note
from the delinquent owner of
property, the circumstances of
which are explained in an ad
vertisement in The Pilot. The
matter is to be accomplished by
a note payable in several annual
installments, and should afford
a way that can be accomplished.
What is to be done must be done
by the first of April, and delin
quents should see the commis
sioners at once.
If the arrangements are not
have to pay, and with the in
sistent demand for school facil-
I ities this project is an answer to
I itself. The next big item of ex-
j pen.se to the state is debt serv
ice. That takes thirty cents from
each dollar. When we hold out
our hands for more money from
the state treasury, it is discreet
to consider whether we want to
j add to that expense of thirty
1 cents on each dollar of state
I money by increasing state bor-
I rowing. It is the taxpayer who
j has these things to think about.
Highways come next with sev-
j enteen cents out of each dollar
I collected. Prisons and charita
ble institution.s take two and a
half cents out of each dollar, all
government offices take anoth
er two cents, and the remaining
five cents maintains the courts,
the confederate pensions, and a
niscellaneous list of small thigna
which are insignificant in the
proportion of money they ask
iiE.XI. EST.ATE tk.vnsfebs
The following transfer of real es
tate has been recorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds of Moore
county; T. L. Howard and Montie L.
Howard to A. B. Maness: property in
Sheffields township.
Highland Pines Inn
and Oottages
(WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS) SOUTHERN PINES
SEASON DECEMBER TO MAY
Highland Pines Inn with it.s Splendid Dining Room Service and its
Cheerful Homelike Atmosphere Caters to the Requirements of those
Occupying Winter Homes in the Pine Tree Section. The Hotel i» Sit
uated on Weymouth Heights (Massachusetts Avenue) Amid Delight
ful Surroundings. Good Parking Space is Available for Motorists. All
Features of First Class Hotels are Included at Highland IMnes Inn.
(THE INN, CHARLEVOIX, THE BEAVTIFUI..)
M. H. TURNER, W. E. FLFNN,
Managing Director Resident Manager
KUSXta
The Hollywood Hotel
Corner Federal Highway No. 1 and New York Avenue
for. Thus it is seen that schools,
roads and debt service take 87
cents out of each dollar collected
for state expenditure, leaving 13
cents for the actual outlay for
purely state government expen
ses. It is worth thinking over,
and maybe thinking about it will
mean less absurd criticism.
Rooms are Large,
Verandas Sunny.
Rates Moderate.
Call, write or
wire
J. L. Pottle & Son,
SOUTHERN PINES,
NORTH CAROLINA