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Page Two THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Nwth Carolina Friday, September 7, 1934 THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Aberdeen and Southern Fines, N. O. NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor BION H. BUTLER, Editor lAMES BOYD STRUTHEKS BURT Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: Ona Year 52.00 Six Months Jl.OO Three Montha 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South- •m Pines, N. C., as second-class mail Viatter. THE STRIKE OF TEXTILE WORKERS Perhaps by the time this is printed the textile strike may be aborted. But whether or not it will not be settled, for the under lying influences are such that no surface arrangement can in short order reach the causes that are involved. It is impossi ble that any agreement between the labor board and the strikers and the manufacturers can set tle the matter, for that takes no account of the fourth factor which is the major one of the whole matter, and that is the buyer. The whole war so far has given no thought to the buyer, nor to the producer of cotton, who is another important ele ment in the encounter. The cotton manufacturer can pay no more wages than the sale of his manufactured product permits, and no force so far discovered can make the buyer come for ward and pay a price that does not suit him. If cotton goods prices are driven higher than the buyer will pay the worker and the manufacturer are both gnawing ihe 'husk of an impos sible harveti. Already the buyers of goods are beginning to protest against high prices, and that protest is certain to be definitely louder before the winter is gone. Pos sibly the textile worker does earn the wages he thinks he must have, but the buyer of tex tile goods is not moved by that plea, but rather by the philos ophy that he is interested in his owTi pocket rather than in that of the striker. And no argument changes the perspective of the buyer. It is not a pleasant mat ter to discuss for every party to the affair is looking out for himself. Since the buyer is the source of the money that pays the bill, he seems to have the long end of the stick, and he is not playing to the hand of the other parties in the affair. Therefore until the strike has been settled on such a basis that the buyer will buy it has not been settled at all. The first thing that should be considered by all concerned is how to interest the buyer in tak ing the product so that mills can run. It is right apparent that high price is not the appealing method. The striker seems to think his war is with the man ufacturer, but it is not, for both striker and manufacturer must go to the buyer for their mon ey if they are to have any. Un til striker and manufacturer can compose their differences and produce goods that will tempt the buyer into the mar ket it looks like a waste of time for either of them to make war on the other. The settle ment of the strike is to be de termined by w^hat the buyer will do, and nobody has heard him ask to have prices advanced. This thing will work itself out just as all others do, by the law that governs all economic relations, and because it can not work out any other way. Be cause no one knows how much people will pay for textile goods no one knows how the strike will result. Isaiah, but the fundamental re quirement now as then is that each of us shall provide for his own requirements, and Nature has made that the dominant urge with all living things. That it has changed any since the first day of creation is not apparent, and as war is merely the extreme aggression of a group of men rather than of a single man against othei’s there is not the faintest sign that the motive that brings war has les sened. We are in the midst of a novel revolution right now, far ther reaching than most of us permit ourselves to realize, and its influences are working in different directions. The Presi dent has started some experi ments, but while his e.xperi- ments are trying out their theo ries other experiments are work ing in other directions and in other sections. Groups of men are forming to pursue theories that are devel oping. Sinclair in California, the socialist, becomes the democrat ic candidate for governor. The trades unions are making a gen eral fight against existing so cial and industrial relations. Crime is broadening in a way that would be astounding were it not that we no longer show sur prise at any new and radical de velopment. The Liberty League is a portentious cloud over the horizon because it signifies that things that have wakened it are attracting attention. Old politi cal alignments are frazzled and weakening and uncertain. The fall campaign is already advanc ing and presenting new perplexi ties to the old politician. Prop erty rights are vanishing under the grasp of the tax collector. Industry is uncertain as to the wisdom of expansion or even of continuation. Men of means are doubtful about investment in anything, and in our own state the voice that comes up in con nection with the adoption of a new constitution questions the wisdom of sriving the state a wider control of public affairs, and a strong note is heard ad vocating a return to the com munity control of local matters. It is even suggested in some quarters that any constitution is more or less of a mirage, and anarchy is still showing its head here and there in a not very ostentatious way. As from the beginning and as probably to the end, we all want anything we see the other fel low have, and we want to pos sess it with the least effort and the least possible I’eturn to him for parting with it. It is useless to try to analyze these things, for they are beyond any of us, but it is pretty certain they are all right, for the world has been moving on these same lines from the start, and it is inconceivable that the Creator made any mis takes. About all we can do is to wonder and watch and to be in terested in what is striking in its development. Nothing can go beyond the fundamental law. That law in cludes the effort of the indi vidual to provide for himself, whether the individual be a man, a nation or whatsoever or ganization we may consider, and individualism stops at neither individual right or national boundary. Laiter IsaiaJh says, “thy men shall fall by the swoi’d, and thy mighty in war,” and time has not yet changed the truth of his predictions. Human na ture has not changed because human requirements have not. Neither has Nature changed in any way in regard to life of any kind. An empty stomach still makes aggressive hands. revision is the attitude men ex hibit toward any political pro cess. To a great many people, who shall have access to the fleshpots and to the parceling of the vestments are more impor tant than the common welfare, for far too many people look on election day as a sort of grab bag festival. . Probably as civilization grows older we pay less attention to organic law, for we become more individualized, and we make laws for ourselves. It is more difficult to make a consti tution now' that fits into civili zation than it was in the day of Moses who wrote his universal constitution in ten. laws. We have them yet, and observe some of them mildly, but none of them vehemently. Yet with the problem of government be coming more complex an effi cient constitution is more im perative. But with the greater need for a definite organic law comes the greater difficulty in establishing a satisfactory one and in maintaining it. A consti tution will not enforce itself, yet it must have within itself the elements of rule or its fail ure defeats the purpose of gov ernment. The first essential in this re vision is to create something that will hold the interest of the citizen .so that he will give it at tention, for that is possibly the weakest spot in our government now. The fact is that govern ment has reached a spot where it can not govern, but must in duce. Laws do not any longer keep us in line. As a people we pay little attention to any legal restriction beyond that which suits us. If we are worrying about a new constitution it is high time to figure also on a state of mind that will back up any constitution, new or old, that we may establish. These things The Pilot has printed this week I'egarding the changes in the existing docu ment are recommended for care ful analysis by the voter, not because of some favor he might show to any body or an part or any political relations, but sole ly from his own viewpoint as a citizen of the state to be affect ed. All of us can consider what is proposed as printed today in another column, and weigh the suggestions for what they seem to be worth. And they are worth somethin'^ if an organic law is of any value whatsoever. It would be a pity for the election in this matter to go by default either way, for that shows a lack of interest in the citizen for his government and his country, which may not be commendable. May be this revision is the most important thing we have voted on in years. May be it is not. Possibly it involves things we may not clearly understand. Yet it is wise for all of us to try to clear the wa.v in our minds to assume an attitude to ward it one way or other, and a way founded on the most logical conclusions we can reach. AUGUST WEATHER Grains of Sand SWORDS ANT> PRUNLVG HOOKS Not yet. Isaiah’s fine story of nation not making war against nation is a pleasing dream, but the signs are that it is no near er fulfillment today than when the famed son of Amoz saw vis ions of Jerusalem in the days of Ahaz and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Because the emotions and sentiments of man have not changed. In these days, as in those, the underlying principle that prompts the individual to look out for himself is exactly the principle that prompted men then. As years are measured by our span of life we have come a long way since the time of THE NEW CONSTITUTION The Pilot this week presents an article on the revised consti tution, or rather some state ments taken from the publica tion by a committee on public ity for the new doc ument. This is done that the voters may have the power to judge for them selves as to their attitude on the revision of the document. It is apparent that much of the old document is not subject to change, and some of the changes proposed will meet with slight objection. On the other hand some of the subjects will awaken much discussion and some opposition. Possibly the old habit of conservative thinking and action will have an influ ence against change of any kind, while indifference will also have its weight in determining the outcome of the election. One of the gravest obstacles to the success of the proposed With a monthly average tempera ture of 78.3 two and one half de grees higher than the record for Au gust of 1933 noted for a low of 75.8, the figure is a trifle lower than the long time normai. While 16 days of the month recorded 90 or above, the highest temperature, 96 coming on the 20th, we were spared anything above that figure. From this high of 96 the thermometer dropped to a low of 51 on the last day of the month. The rainfall was disappointing only 3.20 inches falling, of which over one and three-quarters inches fel Ion the 8th, the deficiency for the month be ing 2.83 inches reducing the average of over normal to one-third of an inch shortage for the 8 months of Long time Max. Min. Aver, the year. average 89-3 67-7 78-5 1933 87 - 66.4 75-8 1934 88-1 68-5 78-3 MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriage licenses have been issued from the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore county to thfe follow ing: Herbert Duncan Mclnnis of Lakeview and Frances Kate Hunter of Cameron; Malon Sheffield and Ocia Sheffield, both of Hemp. RE.AL ESTATE TRANSFERS William Van Treuren to Cornelia K. Fitch, property in Southern Pines. William B. Calkins to Daniel O. Pierce, property in Pinehurst. Daniel O. Fierce and wife to Wil liam B. Calkins, property in Pine hurst. J. B. Ritter and wife to D. F. Rit ter, property in Sheffield township. Nelson C. Hyde will return from his trip north next week. He has been devoting much of his time up there improving his skill as a mandolin player. He plans to try out for the well-known Sandhills orchestra com posed of Mrs. Helen Vail, Herbie Vail, Bob Page and Liv. Biddle. TWO SMALL FIRES Both Pinehurst and Southern Pines are enjoying quite a stir in real es tate activity lately. Poultrymen say the hens are com plaining about the high prices of feed. High feed, high eggs, is their protest to the household. But the farmer who has no eggs to sell at 35 cents finds he gets less money than when he had eggs to sell at 25c and got the money for them. Labor day started off in reverse. No labor was the sign on the ban ner shoved up over the breastworks. The Southern Fines firemen were called to Manly about five oclock Sunday afternoon where a brush fire threatening the home of L. L. Wool ley was quickly extinguished. Shortly after noon of the Friday preceeding an alarm was turned in for the frame dwelling adjoining the Civic Club on Ashe street. The firemen responded promptly attended by most every one else in town only to find their as sistance unneeded. Baseball may be approaching the ■ end of the season in the big league, | but here in the Sandhills it seems to i be making more of a daily occur- | rence than earlier in the season. This j glorious climate, you know. j That fire tower on cemetery hlU makes some of us wonder if fire is not too suggestive for the future. Sanitation I Sweet, clean, odorless clothes cost so little. Above all else clothing is your most intimate possession. It should be pro tected by every means of san itation, and this we guaran tee. Laundry does it b(sst THE FAMILY LAUNDRY, INC. Telephme 6101 Southern Pines The w’orst feature about this sec tion is that along this time of the year you cant go out on the hills and hunt chestnuts. Information from Raleigh says the state highway debt has been reduc- j ed materially during the year. Folks | living on the cross roads intimate ! that the roads agree with the infor mation. Whether or not busines.s is pick- ' ing up in this state the sale of gas- ; oline is increasing, so what’s the use j of worrying ? i The prodigals are beginning to head homeward, and the fatted calf has that uneasy feeling again. Grade school dictionaries, 28c; New ^ 1934 High School dictionaries, 88c, at ' Hayes. The New Remington-Rand Noise- ■ less portable typewriters at Hayes.’ ; The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t. Cashitr U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK DEPOSITS INSURED BY The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation i WASHINGTON, D. 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