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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina
Friday, August 17, 1934.
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorponitrd,
Aberde<‘n and Southern Finiw. N. O.
NELSON C. HVDE, Managing Editor
BION H. BUTLER, Editor
lAMES BOYD STKLTHEK8 BUKT
Contributing Editors
Subsi-ription Kateii:
One Year $2.00
^loreover men who have bus
iness ability do not care to bor
row money to put into business
until they can see that condi
tions indicate a probable demand
for things that might be man
ufactured and offered for sale.
Business men are afraid to take
chances on their own money or
on borrow’ed money, for business
is yet too uncertain. The compe
tition of government in business
in all directions does not en-
° I courage business men to ven-
Three Months .— 0 , beyond their pres-
Address all communications to The I ent boundaries, and especially as
puot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. c. government can procure money
1 to put into competitive business
Entered at the Postoffice at South-1 by the simple process of tax
•m Pines, N. C., as second-class mail I collecting. W'hile the business
Better. ' , man has to get his money from
; some source that will call for
THE PROPOSED i that money back. Competing
NE^V CONSTITTTION' ; with the tax collector scares
„ , ,. , . many men who would like to ven-
Fall elections come along in, business farther than
# they go at present, but no bus-
foiks of North Carolina will have, can borrow money and
in the proposed new constitution with government ven-
one of the most important prop-1 that merely send the tax
ositions th^ hav e faced in a | toUectov around and get money
long time. The main trouble is i-j.om the citizen with no return
not in making a change in the' - „ovmpnt
constitution of the state, but in | Business' does not care to,|
the that only the smaUest: until some
few of the people of North CarJ„^
j ministration to the limit for' mean that we should blindly support i
there is to be found the agency ' everything sponsored by this great ’
I that is entrusted with govern- ! system of education we now
ment and it must be sustained, have in this state.
by all patriotic and far-seeing
people. Neither is The Pilot a
Republican paper, but it is de-
I eidedly friendly to the work that
party assume^s to do, for it is
I the defender of the ideas that
are offered on the other side of
j the questions the Democratic
! advance. Between the tw’o par
Mr. Leonard Tufts was entirely
right about our achools being a djs-
grace to our state, only from my
observation and experience I think
the high schools are as bad or worse
than the grades. These high priced
buildings we erected a few years ago
will not last many years even if they
escape the fire hazard, and we all
olina know a thing about what
the existing constitution signi
fies or what the new* one has
to offer. In your outi case what
do you know of your constitu
tion ? How many of your acquai
tion ? How many of your acquain-
ed from the menacing position
they present to business all over
the country.
Plenty of money is in exist
ence to carry on more business
than is under way, but all the
philosophies and all the urging
j ties all that is substantial is know they will burn the same as the
' brought to the surface for studv, concrete bridges built by that other
'and all that is objectionable isjfeat (?) system that we are af-
1 also disclosed. It would be a ca-: fii'a^ed with.
Ilamity if either party were to I instead of further centralization
I be suppressed. Possibly it would schools, roads, etc., we should
I be beneficial if the tw’O were
more closely balanced. But things
' are as they are, and as far as
can be seen there is little to com
plain of.
Just now’ the school election
has brought before the county
the question of increasing the
bonded debt. Whether we want
to increase our taxes, whether
we can afford to add to our out- | we should remember what the pro
standing and far-extended debt,' phet Amos said about such. “They
whether we need the things the hate him that rebuketh in the gate,
proposed debt is to pay for, such | and they abhor him that speaketh
topics as these are the things uprightly.”
that now demand the thought of
the people of the county. It is
not who offers the proposition,
nor who backs either side of the
question, but the real meat of
the whole business is the status |
of Moore county. Every tax- j
payer, every citizen, every resi-
return to local contract of local is.
sues.
Most of those who favor this in
crease in our obligations are those
who will handle this money or other
wise benefit directly by its expendi.
ture. •
Those of us who raise our voices
against these things will be accused
of being pessimists or knockers but
that IS unconstitutional under, argument will not
the document or under the
one? How many of us can give j,orrow-
, • K , i ed money, nor any other money
1‘f. i in business where fear occupies
Even though it is enough iust to
stay away. Let’s go to the polls and
make our disapproval emphatic,
—C. G. PRIEST.
Lakeview, N. C.
LIKED EDITOmAL.
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the
fundamental law of the state ?
And yet we are called on to
vote on the substitution of a new
basic law for the existing one.
Every man and woman who is
a voter in the state is asked to
take a hand in deciding whether
or not this shall be done. The
the place it does at the present ^
time. Money is in the banks be-.
cause the owners are afraid to ‘
take it out to put it any place
else. The banks are not profit-'
ing, for they cannot loan their
money. Borrowers will not as-
T,-, ■ 1 1 i. u 1 1 • ■ sume the risks of borrowing.!
^lot is as ed to help along in • Depositors are afraid to invest
this election, and it h^ answer- j^Q^ey so they put it in the
0d the committee candidly that: ^j^nks ,
This country has got to go to |
earning money by business andi
real production instead of by
taxation, and until we under- i
take that method business will [
go slow. We can not tax our-j
selves prosperous, nor borrow!
its attitude on the matter is to
favor the change, and chiefly be
cause the men who have writ
ten the new document and who
are urging its adoption have
looked into the questions involv
ed very carefully and favor the
dent is involved in settling this Editor, The Pilot:
matter in the most sensible way. | Your Editorial “Overlooking
The same course of action ap- i consumer” in the last issue of The
plies to every public step at this piiot is the clearest one I have read
time. The need for every indivi-1 on the subject and i have read
many. Most of the public cannot pay
high prices for the simple reason
most of the public do not have the
money with which to pay high prices.
The balance of the public are not go
ing to pay high prices for the very
good reason they are too wise, when
they know all they have to do is to
hold up the works and they can get!
what they want at their ow'n price.
There would doubtless be a great
amount of building and remodeling
if it were not for the high prices and
this has the most important of all
a standstill.
dual is that he shall give most
serious thought to the whole
government policy and admin
istration. And act in accordance
with what he really believes to
be the most practical thing.
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In spite of the repeal of the pro
hibition laws most of the country west
of the Missouri river is drier than
ever in history. It is wise to remem-1 industries practically at
her that man-made laws do not have
much effect on Nature’s schemes.
w;ork they have prepared.^ Prob-' urselves rich. Juk as soon as
abiy The Pilot ranks in intelli-
we realize that vve will start for;
gence and general information; ^ better financial and industrial
fairly well with the rest of the ^asis, and not a minute before
state. But it is no bouquet to'
toss at popular government when
it is said that the people who
are the government are so lit
tle interested in the constitution
Very truly yours,
—LEON HEWITT.
I Clayton, N. C.
With municipal improvement going j Use Pilot Want'^d’s to sell your
on from Knollwood to Weymouth I g^rpjug produce,
hilltop it is evident that the South
ern Pines section will be ready for
the boom when it strikes.
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NO TIME FOR
POLITICS
This county, this state and j
. V ^ J . , , this nation are in a political i
plight that is alarming only if i
we foozle our plays. If we keep
of popular government that
probably nine out of ten could
our heads and use some sense
not repeat ten words of t^he ex-, the integrity and intelligence of
isting constitution or of the pro-; ^he people will bring us through,
posed new one. And we are ask-^our state finances appear to be
ed to vote for a change of our satisfactory, our national
organic law on that basis of j^j^ing in rather sensa-
derstanding, and the \ote tional manner, our county fin-
nances in condition to be studied
The inference is that as a pec- ,j^| general conditions far better
pie we are indifferent to govern-', ^^an has been the case at times
ment. Our disregard for laws in
all forms is further evidence.
The fierce increase of infraction
of law is another sign, as is the
multiplying of prison population
week by week. The Pilot favors
the new constitution, as has
in the hi.story of the nation. But
we need to bear in mind that all
is not w'ell because the political
ins say so, or all wrong because
the political outs say so. The
legitimate business of the coun-
i try is not to elect men to office.
Now that the peach season has
been a good one the talk of more'or-
chards is in the air. That’s the way
we do things. Plow down when we
have too much and plant when we
reduce, but we don't hit the medium
very often.
If the big trucks keep on taking the
highways it will soon be time to
think of building some roads for the
passenger automobiles.
With the state prison camps in
the upper part of the county consid
ering the development of a coal mine
to keep the prisoners warm crime
becomes still more promising as a
career. At least the convict need have
no fear about cold weather while the
rest of us on the outside of jail shi
ver through the winter.
been said, because the men who ^ut the purpose of electing men
prepared it recommended it and,i, serve the country,
they are capable men But un-' a two-partv
til we get over some of our emo- iiti,^l prob-
tional ideas of everything we ^he most satisfactory ar-
have anything to do wi h that can be conceiv-
might as well take the old con- ^ ^he same polit-
stitution, pamt some yellow ; ^Hbunal that is provided bv ^
stripes on it, and tie a pink rib-, ^he court of law, an official ad-i
of both sides of all propo-1
the job. The levision oi govern-^ sitions that come up, with an of-j
ment this vvhole countp" needs fidal opponent. Between the two!
Fairly Ray, from down the Wa-
gram way, who was in Southern
Pines this week, says his wheat crop
^uns around 28 bushels to the acre.
The average yield in the United
States is not half that much. Fairly
learned to farm on the old Ray farm
on Piney Bottoms in this section, but
it looks as if he learned too well
how to make an acre work in these
days when we are all trying to pro-
luce the least possible.
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is a revision of the interest in
groups of thought the whole
good government and in some^^tter that comes before the'
f- action in; jj, completely discussed!
that dir^tion. Meanwhile analyzed, permitting the
^ ^ voter to back the principles that
i most strongly appeal to him. i
I County, state and nation at the
i pre.sent time are upholding Dem-
I ocratic doctrines. That compels
probably a wise act.
WHY BANKS ARE
FI LL OF MONEY
A few things we might think j that party to be the leader in
about these days of w^aiting for ■ all government affairs down to
the fall weather and the time' the township unit. But it also
to fill the wood house. One is I compels the opponents to be alert
the accumulation of money in: to see that nothing is put over
the banks and the difficulty in j that is not sound and public-spir-
getting it out. Folks may imag-lited and capable of permanent
ine that if a bank has a liberal welfare. It is well for Democrat
supply of money it should pour 1 and Republican to thoroughly
out that money to any who ap-; maul each other around the floor
plj*. But that day has gone for j on every theme that comes up,
a while. It was that pouring out | but it must be remembered that
Labor day soon due. But it should j
remember that six hours is a day j
these times, and overtime -should not.
be allowed. |
F.VVOItS CONTROL
of money that got the country’s
money tied up in such a way
the purpose is to bring out the
truth of all principles and hold
that most of it is not in condi-; government on the most logical
tion to untie. Banks will not lend j basis, and that to get certain
.money now except on proper se- j men into office and certain
curity, and what is more on
propositions tbat. are business
like and headed by men of
knowTi business ability and able
to pay.
hands in the pork barrel is not
the honest aim of government.
The Pilot is not a Democratic
paper, but it is vitally interested
in helping the Democratic ad-
Editor The Pilot:
There seems to be one thing that |
the depression has so far failed to
kill. That is the urge that a lot of
us have to spend money that we
haven’t, instead of trying to pay our
debts and live within our meagre in
come as we should.
It is the wrong time to increase
our bonded indebtedness by $340,000
as it is proposed to do. Taxes are so
high now that many of our homes
have been sold, and many more will
be sold unless there is a reduction in
stead of an increasp.
The question of schools is of the
utmost importance and we should do
nothing to cripple them or reduce
their usefulness, but that does not
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