^age Two
THE PILOT, Southern Pines and AberJecn, North Carolina
Friday, December 14, 1934:
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
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Aberdeen and Southern IMnes, N. C.
has to be settled one of these
days or it will settle itself in the
only way it can, and that is the
collapse of real estate as a
source of taxes.
Possibly we are not far from
that state now. Possibly prop
erty as a bearer of the tax bur
den is automatically being
crowded out from its past status,
and possibly we will have to
find other sources of taxation,
for pi'operty, unless it is in con
dition to earn something to pay
taxes, is simply consumetl by
the recurring annual assess
ment laid on it and more and
more is added to the defaulting
Entered at the Postoffice at South- does not strain any man’s
•m Pines, N. C., as second-class mail; faculties to predict that
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GIVE THEM
THEIR HEADS
in the days not very far ahead
production will become the
source from which taxes are
di’awn, for production must be
the ultimate source of all con-
In some four weeks j tributions to everv purpose that
recently elected members of the,
coming session ot the btate j Moreover it is needless to dis-
Legislature, Spence and C legg, j ourselves about what is to
will I’epair to Kaleigh to enter on, final outcome, for wheth-
what is likely to be the most im- aware of it or not it
portant session .since the recon- effort, nor
struction days following the Li\- philosophies nor our
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of the Vass stores on Monday morn- attractive Christmas doo-dads, per- ^
ing to get warm, this little lad of haps denoting a return to better ^
eleven years. And he needed warmth, times. The manufacturers and mer- ^
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1 M-i.- V ■ I 'f m rp tVian ' • i '•“‘tt | dead some eight or nine years, that Of course there's the visual prob-,
)l I les owau i s o | in spite ot the Legislature, the i he lived three miles away and had lem of originality in selecting gifts
million people, and our represen-,Congress, the new deal, the hog’s | walked in to get some beef from the
BROAD STREET
SOUTHERN PINES
. , I . 1 • timp ' ^..V-.. yv..,.., *’j wctiivtru in lu Aujtti me But thoi'e ai’G fcw ncw things
? • in- 11V pnn ' failure ot the comet tol relief. He explained that his mother about. Get there early and buy them ' |J
.. ,. , ciJiv iiitr itrr^L mtenaed commg. o
fhcting emotimis and opinions governing influences, the | he could .stand it
and interests. They ha\ e a task
ahead of them.
that is disturbed by many con-, .^^yYive, or any of the rest of, intended coming, but he thought that
it oeiter Lhan .she
a prettj’ long walk,”
power is capable of changing the jwe commented. The big brown eyes of
The main thing loi the folks tinal re.sults. The Pre.sbyterian this manly little fellow glowed as
at home is to give these men may be rig-ht or wrong in his j he proudly said;-Not for mei rd go
their own heads, tor they will. doctrine of fore-ordination, butja hundred mile.s to keep it off ot
be on the ground analyzing the j right or wrong it is pretty well I Mai"
conditions the state is facing, 1 realized by all thinking men that I
and in contact with the other | we are governed by certain un-'
before the other fellow. In short—
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Early.
One ofttimes wonders at the psy-
Yes-
A Sanford i>aper is conducting a
contest to determine what man in
Lee Countv has contributed most to H
*• • *•
the county’s growth, prosperity, and | ••
welfare during 1933. j ||
The local Kiwanis Club used to ' ”
give an annual loving cup to the man
§
ed two women walking in the mid
dle of the road. We blew the horn.
The one on the left made a quick dash
for the right side of the road,
one on the right just as mad a dash
for the left side. It looked like that
old criss-cross football play.
representatives from other sec- changeable influences that work ■ ^hoiogv of per.sons in fri ht
tions of the state, and they will I according to established econo-! Je^aunroach-1^loore county selected by a com-i||
know better than any of us : mic as well as certain other un-1 -. . ,. 1 mittep madP \in of rpnrpspntativpH ' I*
back in the sticks what is to be • changeable laws that still have
faced and what is to be done.; their absolute influences.
Our system of electing our rep-: We would do much better to
resentatives and officials is 1 study more about the funda-
up of representatives ,
from all leading civic organizations, j
No award has been made, however, j It
for seveial years. Those honored | j|
while the practice was carried on in-1
eluded John R. McQueen of Lake- j U
view, Leonard Tufts, and Simeon B. j
Chapin of Pinehurst, Bion H. Butler'
and P. Frank Buchan of Southern
It seems to us the shops this year j Pines.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
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the ballot box closes at sun- no way change than to tear our j
down on election night it is time ■ shirts trying to devise new ways j
for politics to be laid aside and, to beat the unbeatable primary j
the one motive of the common: principles that govern all life
public good to come uppermost, and action. And one way to dis-
Mr. Spence and Mr. Clegg go pose of this ta.\ business is to
to Raleigh as the selected rep- j stop demanding so much in
resentatives ;!rom this section taxes rather than to sweat over
to a meeting of the agents of the method of getting th'e need- , , .
the whole state in the study of' ed money, for in the long run nothmg is | ward fallen wamors. Although other
the grave questions that con- it is as easy to defeat the W'hole powerful than an idea which has influences helped to crystallize senti-
front them, and they should be ' scheme by killing the goose that human behavior,, ment for such a movement, the origi-
held absolutely unfettered. They I lays the golden egg as to kill habits, activities, originally sprang nal aims and purposes of the Red
go to Raleigh for‘something' any other goose. Meantime we ideas. The world revolves Cross sprang from Dunant’s emo-
more than to get a finger in any ; never will be able to reconstruct i them. Often they serve no ^ tions and from a sympathetic reac-
local fleshpots or to serve any . any of the immutable laws, and discarded, but the fit- ■ tion which his writings captured. j;
biased motive of any sort. They, it is as well to remember that in i survive. Prior to its inception in this coun-
are the agents of the w'hole pop- ! the W'orkings of the principles of I Springing from a desire to render try, in the work of Florence Night- i;
ulation with the one motive of' existence everything comes out | service to humanity, the ingale during the Crimean war was
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est number, county and state our helps or our hindrances
alike, and they have a man’s!
job ahead of them (SENATOR BAILE\’S
State and nation at the pres
ent time are in a state of tra-
POLITICAL ATTITUDE
In Senator J. W. BailA' North
merely an idea - but one which had
! found its time. Soon it took root,
flourished, and in half a century
spread around the world. Today the
Red Cross is recognized as a vital
ing. Thousands of lives were saved on
the battlefields" when she and her de
voted followers nursed many back
to recovery and brought order and
sanitary practices out of chaos and ■ i
a re-
European leaders set abo\it to cor-;
rect this wartime evil a few years af- j
ter the Crimean and Solferino en- 1
gagements and in 1863 assembled a ‘
vail that is not entirely certain i Carolina has its political official; of community life throughout gross neglect,
as to its outcome, and the un- who has climbed rapidly to prom-.
disturbed attention of every i ^^^nce and who is entitled to i That the Red Cross is the pioneer
member of the coming session : more credit and recognition than | field is shown in
is needed for the work ahead : of his constituents are en-| of its ongm and development
of them. It is not only patriotic ; give. The Pilot is by | Gloved by th»-horrors of the Bat- committee at Geneva to study the
but wise also to remember that means a biased Bailey follow-| tie °f Sol erino in 1859, Hemy un- problem of neutralizing aid to the
if these men are to do the best' ^'^ther favoring Simmons in 1 Swiss idea.1st. an a solution
they can they must not be sad-! ^^eir political campaign, but the | villagers he had sum- Geneva
died with all the plunder jobs bailey has com-j Slaved the danger o gun- which was ratified by twelve nations
and grab basket tactics that ^ P^Hed his recognition. He has ^ determined effort to give ^
constitutional usually pile on ! ^ Congress which succor to the victims of countries are banded together
the backs of their members in been criticised on the i ferocious encounter. Later Dun-
the capital. It is wise to back grounds that he has antagoniz- wiote a s irnng vo ume on t e international Red Cross Society with
them to the limit and to let | the administration at times. , barbanc practices among nations to- headquarters in Paris. It is headed by
them alone, as they \vill be on i think about such a charge j ■ John Barton Payne, American Red
the firing line where they will j “ understand; ojiiy at the sacrifice of the Cross Chairman,
know more about what is going j '^’ho takes such a, principles he believes in. Gen- The United states, although ob-iJ^
on than the rest of us can tell: tairly entitled to be|ej.aj Lee, at the outbreak of the serving the formation of the Geneva
them. They have more to do , he man who stands by j War, was offered the com- group, was extremely backward in | i
than riot in the trough for hun- views rarely has any rnand of the Federal army. He becoming affiliated with the move-ij
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TAXES AND SOME
OTHER THINGS
Herbert Seawell, Jr., w’ho as
a candidate for the Legislature
vi^as brought before the people in
the discussion of public matters, i man who takes the chance of
has given his attention to the | crucifixion if he does not lick
subject of taxes, and in a recent | all creation is one of the most
paper he calls attention to the j valiant heroes in the world. He
mounting number of real estate j can have no possible purpose ex
sales for taxes. He argues logi-1 cept to be of honest service. And
cally that we are tending to-1 that kind of a man has the hard-
ward a condition where we will i est kind of a row to hoe of any
p’eat backing from the major
ity of people. He realizes that if
he starts out to back some new
ideas he meets with the opposi
tion of the conservative major
ity and that by the strength of
his own logic and truth of his
policies he must win single-hand
ed or be trampled in the mud. A
have to modify our tax sales
policy or the county will become
the owner of so much real es-
in the field
Politically it is impossible that
Senator Bailey can hope for any
tate that the remaining proper- personal advantage unless he
ty will be unable to maintain wins. If he wins, his victory
the expenses of government. It 1 must be for the common wel-
is not the purpose of The Pilot
to predict the outcome of this
piling up annually of about 2,-
500 new pieces of property on
the hands of the county as de
faulted taxation, for that thing
fare in w'hich his share of the
gain is the same as every other
man’s. If he lo^o" he is a political
victim. Bi f, while he might by
pursuing different policies find
declined and led a lost cau.se. ment. Not until Clara Barton had
But one of the greatest factors spent many years of tireless effort to
in his record is that he was true the founding of the Red Cross in the U
to his convictions and was will- United states did the government ji
ing to make the sacrifice for finally recognize the widespread need
wii«t he believed was right. Sen- for such a society,
acor Bailey may be pulling down surrounded by less than fifty for-
on his own head the roof of his ward-looking citizens, Miss Barton
political temple, tut if that be W’as selected as the organization’s
the case the only verdict can be ; first president when the Red Cross i
that he would not stultify his came into being after receiving gov-
sincere beliefs to any personal Urnmental sanction in 1881. Today |
benefits. This nation is big 1 there are nearly four million Senior j i
enough for men of all opinions 1 memberships and seven million Jun-
and for the candid considera-1 ior enrollments.
tion of all views. It is an unpar
donable waste of our most val
uable assets when we attempt
to slaughter a man whose opin
ions we do not agree with, es
pecially when we need the opin
ion of every intelligent leader
as much as we do now. Even if
Senator Bailey should not sur
vive the next political campaign,
his fearless lead in the insist
ence of free speech and free
opinions will have an. influence
easier political sailing, it could j in this republic indefinitely.
Accomplishments of the Red Cross \
during and since the World War are
well known. Its peace-time program,
reaching into practically every coun
ty in the United States, has kept alive
the organization’s vo^ntary spirit to
ward mankind.
A noble and powerful idea which
found its time, lives on!
—Sheridan, Wyoming, Press.
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