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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, July 6, 1934. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, That is what keeps the commis sioners sweating blood these (lays. Boyds Introduce Jeffersonian Serpentine Wall to the Sandhills ITHESOLITION Aberdeen tuid Southern Pines, N. OVERPRODUCTION ALL USED UP! NIXSON C\ HYDE, ManjiRin}; Kditor BION H. BUTLEK, F^litor JAMES BOYD STHl THEKS BL’KT C'ontributinf; Editors Sul»MTiption llates: , One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail natter. an INVITATION TO EVERYBODY .. The primary election has dis posed of the most important question that faces Moore coun ty just now, which is the per sonnel of the Board of Commis sioners for the ensuing term as well as the finish of the present one. The Pilot does not take much hand in political manipu lation, but it confesses that it said a kindly word when occa sion offered for the present board, and solely because they have done about the best they could under conditions they have to face. It was no favor to these men to w'ish this job on them. They have the most bur densome and thankless task this county could offer. So far as The Pilot is aware they did not covet the job, and some of them pro tested against assuming the re sponsibility for another term. But with the exception of Mr. Matheson, and he was one of the most valuable on the board, they will succeed themselves. The Pilot owes these men nothing. It made a bid for the county printing last year and failed to get it. But the com missioners had their reason for awarding the work elsewhere, and that has nothing to do with their fitness for their job. The Pilot’s job, and if this is pei’son- al it should be personal with every other citizen of the coun ty, is to stand by these men in the work, they have cut out for them, for it is a serious prop osition how they are to get the best resulti^ during this term and the one that will follow. Mr. McCrimmon, who succeeds Mr. Matheson, comes well rec ommended. He will be a much better man if he is encouraged by his constituency than if he is criticised and opposed all along the road. Mr. Matheson is to continue during the remainder of the present term, and has re sponsible work to do before re tiring, and even after that his counsel will be worth hearing. As a county we are not out of •the financial woods. The Board of Commissioners has all the old pi’oblems as well as some new ones to face, and the old ones are by no means solved. Some of them will carry over far be yond the administration of the men who will be elected in Nov ember for the ensuing term. We have a big debt, a big current expense account, a serious finan cial depression hanging over the county and the people, and we have to dig and economize and lend a hand at every turn to come out with our heads abov’e water. On the shoulders of these men the detail of the w'ork is laid. This is the day for boosters. The man who has a workable, sensi ble suggestion to offer will find it received with gratitude but it must not be handed in on the end of a club if it is to be wel comed. It m^>’ not be logical and the commissioners must be granted the right to accept or reject. They have looked into the county conditions farther and more earnestly than any of the rest of us. They are as hon est, as capable, as much concern ed, and they have the experience with county affairs. They hav’^e come through the election with a certificate of approval from the people, and that approval must be recognized. What is the best thing for them to do in many of the climaxes that will confront them will be hard to tell, and possibly they will make some mistakes. About the one thing the citi zens can do is to swear off ask ing the commissioners for fur ther appropriations for anything and encouraging them in the most rigid economy possible, for our worst trouble is the strug gle to get money out of empty pockets to meet the demands that are piled up on the county. This thing of too much of everything has bothered all creation during the last few years and many theories and remedies have been proposed, but the one that sounds logi cal and interesting comes from a British rriagazine that drifted this way a few days ago. The writer starts out with the far mer and says the farm will nev er be prosperous again because so much stuff is produced that prices are down. Therefore farm ing does not pay, and with so many farmers producing stuff farming never will pay again. And likewise with farming un profitable too many people will be doing other things and that will not pay, and following that line farther on it is easy to see that nothing will pay any more and that w'e will all have to stop all kinds of production, for nothing will equal the cost of production. Y'ou many not have figured it out this way, but it is easy to see. The more we make of everything the more over pro duction we fare, and the more ovei'production increases the more w’e face a world that does not pay to induce us to exert ourselves, and the more things do not pay the less incentive to do anything, and if we keep on piling up things until we can’t sell a thing we will be deluged with things that nobody can buy, and we will be swamped with abundance. Right there it might be a chance to interrupt the theory and ask why anybody should want to work and produce things if they are so abundant that we all dodge every time we turn around to avoid being loaded up t with things we already have in I oversupply. But it looks as if I there is a chance for some gen- ; ius who can see a way to coax folks to take a load or two of something that can be had for nothing and thus help to keep production in action even if j nothing is paid for anything. 1 It is a kind of curious situa- ition that is indicated—that noth- I ing will pay any more because we have so much of everything ; more than we need that nobody ! will have anything more, but it I looks about as sensible as some ’ of the other perplexities that 1 some of the sages are springing jon us. It would be nice if some ' of the brain trusts would cipher : out what might become of us i when the final climax comes and (nothing pays any more and we I stop making everything because i we are so overloaded with every- j thing that we are tired of our ' superabundance. What a relief 1 scheme the world will face when jwe get over our heads in these I surpluses and everything has to 'stop. How will any of us get a j living then? That is something worth thinking about a while. It [is a real problem. AN INTERESTING CLIMAX The shut down of the Harri- man hosiery mill in Tennessee with the enforcing of idleness on a crew of 600 hands because the NRA blue eagle has been withdraw’n by the government is probably an occasion to find out more about the meaning of the new policy in its applica tion. It is probably as well that the climax has come, because un til this matter is determined it will be a source of contention. Many phases are involved, af fecting not only the mill and the employes, but likewise the entire nation with its relation of fac tory to worker and with all of the economic contacts in busi ness generally. The subject is not one that is merely on the surface of an edict. It involves the whole economic and busi ness horizon of this nation, and it is possible that out of this may come a decision that will be as basic as any of those funda mental but little things that have affected the whole status of the country. It may involve the reverse phase of the proposition and bring up the question of the right of the trade union to withdraw from a factory if the right of the factory to separate itself from its hands is denied. The entire question is one that is playing with a lot of dyna mite, and dynamite was never a safe thing to throw about pro miscuously, especially in times of anger and with reprisal in Old Fayetteville Brick Used Around Pool in Manner of Jefferson’s Monticello By Bion H. Butler Some years ago, when this section was newer than it is now, Aymar Embury, of New York, made a rath er striking impression by the intro duction of a style of achitecture that was called at the time the "Sandhill.” Tt was quite distinctive, and gave a certain character to the region. Mrs. Vale’s house on Weymouth, the bank and the school house in Southern Pines, the Mid Pines Club house and others are examples, and they added materially to the individuality of the community. A. B. Y’eomans gave a positive character to another type of attractive buildings, which has made a definite impression on the architec ture of the Sandhills. Then one day Talbot Johnson engineered a produc tion over at Knollwood which was a copy of the Byrd house at Westover, in Virginia, and that has had a fur ther influence in making Moore; county a neighborhood that to be' recognized by its own characteris tics, and which appeals by the har monies of its creations. Some months ago Reinecke & Co., of Southern Pines, bought the old Utley home in Fayetteville, a three- story brick building that stood at the foot of the hill near the railroad j station, and they brought some of j the brick over this way and built a well house for the George Turnure home in the Midlands section, using | the brick to give picturesque effect. | The bricks were over a hundred years , old, soft, aged in their color and appearance, but soimd and giving pleasing effect. The house at Fay-1 etteville was a large one and afford- I ed many thousand bricks. Now the. Reineckes are using a lot of them in the swimming pool job they are! building for James Boyd at Wey-' mouth, and with remarkable effect, j The use of the brick is in a serpentine wall some six feet high and sixty feet long near the pool, fashioned af ter the manner of the serpentine wall built by Thomas Jefferson when he established his home at Monticello in Virginia. Tne wall is laid up in a series of reverse curves, the aim be ing to give the great strength of the reverse ai'ches as well as to add to the architectural effect and the land scape achievement, both of which are successfully attained. New Feature for Sandhills This old Virginia note, with the ancient brick, introduces a feature in Sandhills harmony that is destined to have a further influence. Already the Reineckes have another application of the same principle. John M. Strat ton has obtained a tract of land close by the entrance to the Verner Reed home on Linden road, out from Pine- hurst, and he has secured some 60.- 000 of these old bricks from which the Reinecke company will create a country home that will be an out standing example of the older pat- tern of home building as it applied, in the Colonial period of North Car olina and Virginia. This job will be' taken up during the summer and is to be one of the interesting houses out the Linden road, which steadily consolidates that area into a closely developed home community, and with a type of homes that speaks emphat ically of the tastes of discriminating and cultured people of means. j With the stronghold this newer: type of architecture is gaining in the; Sandhills it is quite certain to have a more marked effect in the near fu ture, and being so positively Ameri can in its features it is adapted more than any other perhaps to these pine ridges. With half a dozen well-defined locations from Weymouth west to Sandy run, it is well-enough distri buted to influence the whole section,' and with enthusiasts like Boyd, j Beckwith, Reed, Tumure, Stratton j and folks of their appreciation of solid things and with Reinecke to be the prophet of the new cult, and a good old sage like Thomas Jeffer- son and the tidewater Virginians as the paternal basis for the theme the prospect is particularly pleasing and hopeful of another marked architec tural characteristic in tlie Sandhill region. Grains of Sand North Carolina's budget is balanced, for the first time in four years. Dur ing the past 12 months, ending Sat urday, June 30, end of the fiscal year, the State collected as much in reve nues as it spent, with a small balance on the right side of the ledger- -and in .spite of the fact that the inheri tance. income, I'ranchise and sales taxes did not reach the figure set by the budget and used as an estimate by the 1933 General Assembly. 1 \ 1; \ \ ANI> THBN SKC SM6kED * CAMiL^ The State started tl»e fiscal year just ended with a deficit of slightly more than $4,000,000. Which was car ried by the highway fund. It ended the year by reducing this about in half, paying about $2,000,000 on the deficit. AFTER A TIRING GAME, enjoy a Camel. Thanks to the “energizing cflFcct” in Camels your “pep” soon returns! You can smoke as many Camels as you want . . . They never jangle the nerves. Gei a LlH with a Camel! The highway fund started the year with a balance of about $9,000,000. it had added about $2,000,000 to that, but this fund was tapped heavily the past week, to the tune of $4,757,- 752,50, of which $1,000,000 was the sum diverted to the general fund, $2,. 257,752.50 was in interest and $1,- 500,000 was in payment of bonds fall ing due July* 1. It will still have a balance that will probably run be tween $7,000,000 and $8,000,000 when figures are completed. The sales tax went slightly over Sfi,000,000 -it was short about $4,- 000 on Friday—but went over the top Saturday. This al.so pleases officials. It has been an 11-month year, as June sales are not collected on ur.*i.il July. Also all time sales at the first of the year and all time sales to farmers in the spring, to be paid when the crop is slathered, are not included. All of which causes officials to believe that the next year will show sales taxes of close to $8,000,000. since it will then be a full year’s operations. ^ DONT BE DUMB! All we ask is a comparison. We can match any competitor. Feature for Feature New Reduced Prices—Safety Steel Body Hydraulic Brakes EVERYTHING You owe it to Yourself and to your Family to at least Look These Cars Over. DODGE PLYMOUTH Ralph N. Caldwell Phone 131-W MOORE MOTOR CO. Aberdeen Struthers Burt of Southern Pines, chairman of the North Carolina high way beautification committee of the Carolina Motor Club, and Mrs. James R. Cain of Columbia, chairman of the South Carolina highway beauti fication committee of the club have received appointments to the board of directors of the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty. The National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty has been active for several years in working for the elimination of ‘‘eyesores’ along the highways and the promotion of plant ing programs. W. L. Lawton of New York City is president. The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAIIAHI, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONB'S, Ass’t. Cashier U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK WE SOLICIT AND APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS Deposits Guaran teed Up to $2,500. Safe Deposit Boxes and Storage Space All Departments Commercial Banking: tt H ♦♦ n “We have shown the world that democracy has within it the «le- ments necessary to its own salvation. Less hopeful countries where the ways of democracy are very new may revert to the autocracy of yes terday. The American people can be trusted to decide wisely upon the measures taken by the government to eliminate the abuses of the past and to proceed in the direction of the greater good for the greatest num ber,” (President’s Message to Con gress). NEW BANKING HOURS Mon. to Fri., 9 a. m. to 2 p. m Sat. 9 a. m. to 12 noon mind. The Pilot is not passing judgment on the subject, but rather merely remarking that the question is now before the house, and probably headed for the United States Supreme Court. THE MAN ON THE FARM The weather has not been most kindly this spring to the| man on the farm. Cold, late spring, dry hot summer start-! ing off, and a rainy interlude toj fill the cotton and tobacco fields with grass. Rain when the ^I'ain was ready to cut, and .some of it damaged. Gardens better in some places and hard hit in oth ers. One man who is considerable of a gardener and a worker re marked that he had driven all day from one place to anoth er and sold ninety cents’ worth of stuff. Some farmers and gardeners have right promising stuff. Some have discouraging outlook. Some indicate persistent work with satisfactory results. Some indi cate work enough but with un satisfactory results. Prices for things sold not very encourag ing, and for things bought high er in proportion, although not mudh is bought. Some farmers borrowing money to get farther into debt. Some figuring more on the haymobile in preference to gasoline. Some working in the relief employment. Here and there fair crops of grain. But great quantities of grain products freighted in from outside both for table use and feed for stock. The bulk -of meat raised elsewhere. Butter comes from Chicago. Milk in cans from the West. Potatoes at times come from Idaho and Maine. Canned vegetables from everywhere. Prof. Tugwell ,the new Agricultural official, might study efficiency some and help the farm in that respect. We are being told constantly of re. sulta merchants and dealers get from Pilot advertisements. Ask the man who runs one. I ■ I I Pinnacle Inn I BANNER ELK, N. C. ♦* —- ii The Summer Resort Owned and Operated « by Lees-McRae College II 4000 feet elevation > Under the shadow of Grandfather Mountain 1000 Acres of Beautiful Country For Your Pleasure. Wildcat Lake (12 acres). Trout Fishing, Tennis, Horseback Riding, Hik ing, Swimming in Lake and Heated Indoor Pool, Library. Included in the Inn property are The Forge of Daniel Boone, The Unique Wild Game Farm, and Interesting Crafts and In dustries operated by students in exchange for an education. Rates include room with a view and delicious board. $2.75 up 5 to 6 boars drive N. C. Highway 194 faMiiunHimHBWunnnmmmnttttmnmmffltnnHWtmmxKHmtwimwwiHu! For ettef' Vreserves" !>• sur* you us* good, FRESH >ug«z. Insist on youx gxocor supplying you with. DIXIE ^ \ CRYSTALS ' ha Sjuyeetest Sugar tver Said Advertise in The Pilot
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