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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and AberJeen, North Carolina Friday, December, 21, 19S4. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Aberdeen and Southern Pines. N. O. NKLSON C. HYDE, Managing Kdltor mON H. BUTLER, Editor lAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT ContrlbuTlag £ditors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 ■tx Months Jl.OO Three Months 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 natter. ARE WE GOING FORWARD OR BACKWARD? Twenty-two years ago Robe son county, North Carolina, was the most productive farm coun ty of the United States, with Lancaster county, Pennsylvan ia, a close second. Robeson county was a leading cotton county of America. Our neigh bor county of Hoke, smaller, but aggressive, was on a plane like Robeson, producing cotton abundantly, getting about twelve cents a pound for the lint, feed ing its people, provid’mg for them, with the county thriving. Capital for cotton production was ample and easy to procure, and planters were in good con dition, as their tenants were also. The farms w’ere self-con tained to a large extent, the mule power was fed on oorn raised oti the farms, the plant ers at the end of the year met their bills and had money to pay for their farms and improve ments, and the tenants were working for themselves and their farm employers and living a sat isfactory life instead of living on government relief that comes in taxes from the country at large. It would be interesting to know w'hy. Capital was suffi cient then. Employment was not hard to find. Capital kept the farms and shops and other things going, but by the more liberal help of workers. Now capital has brought us improv ed farm machinery, automobiles, self-operating machines of all sorts, and employes have insist ed on labor-saving devices that they may ride on the job in stead of walk, that they may drive a truck to the gin with seed cotton instead of a mule, that they may opei'ate machines to do everything instead of muscle, and the Frankenstein has eaten its master. We have demanded machines until the farm mule no longer needs farm com. The village blacksmith gets his horseshoes at the ga rage and the country grist mill has moved to Minneapolis. The wood pile has moved to the Tex as oil fields, every thing is ma chine made, and we all, work er and everybody else, insist on more machines for everything. The man who used to saw your wood with a buck saw now uses a gas engine. Tw'enty years ago a darky, a mule and a sweep plow made the cotton crop, and everybody, in cluding the farmer, thrived. Today we all want to ride ma chines and the machines do the work, and the thriving is at the factory that makes the ma chines, the gasoline, and sells re pairs. The worker is stood to one side, the mule is a stranger on the roads and lessening in number in the fields, consum ing less of the farm com and hay, and idoing much less of the farm work to be paid with products of the farm. We have allowed the machine to set aside the worker and the worker has helped to drive the hand worker from the horizon of industry. Probably it is all right, but one thing that it means is that the machine shop has become a keen competitor of the farm. The farm has traded its birth right not for a mess of pottage which it could eat, but for a lot of junk, which is pulling up all over the county, until America is becoming a scrap pile for old iron. of information notes that the company during the last year or two, whilt it has been walk ing mighty close to the ground, has been making unusual effort to maintain its efficiency and keep equipment up with the re- quii’ements of good engineering progress. The tone of the infor mation is highly encouraging. This is a matter of consider able local interest in two w'ays. The first is that this company serves this community. And to pharaphrase the old song about Mrs. Riley who keeps the hotel, which says, “ that's Mrs. Ri ley, she keeps it darn well,” per mits the same thing to be said about the Carolina Power and Light Company. It provides an efficient service from a large and dependable series of plants, and its capability is one of the assets of this territory. The oth er reason why this intelligence is cheering lies in the fact that a large number of people in this region are holders of Carolina securities, which is a good thing all around. It gives the patrons I of the company an interest in I the company. It puts in their I pocketbooks a dividend from ' the earnings of this company, j It becomes a local institution I whichever way we look at it, go- I ing or coming. ! When the depressed condi- i tions compelled the company to I reduce the dividends some of ! the Doubting Thomases predict- i cd the downfall of the company, i But the longer-headed folk.s did not scare at the temporary in terruption. To refer to Jut ’ Way, this country has not gOnt to the dogs yet. We are not for some little time going to bed when the sun goes down and we are not for a long time likely to see any other source of light and power administered with the same satisfaction and suc cess. All signs point to the con tinued expansion of the Caro lina Power and Light company, i continued efficiency of service and continued solidity as a fi nancial concern. Along with all i the I’est it has a mighty good personnel in its offices in this down. section, from Ralph Chandler A PROPHET IN NINEVEH In his speech before the Ki- wanis Club last week Senator { Bailey was not wholly analagous I to Jonah and his experience at Nineveh, yet there is considera ble similarity. It was through no shortcoming of his own that Senator Bailey’s foot slipped 1 with some of the powers at i Washington, so unlike Jonah he i was not dumped overboard nor i led to take up friendly relations i with the sociable whole. Sena- I tor Bailey made direct for Nine- i veh and has preached there ! since. 1 His text at the Kiwanis Club j was “Has America the Capacity i to Carry On Under a Constitu- ; tional Democracy in the Face of ; the Problems Confronting Her?” i His answer was, “I can give no I assurance, only hope that we can ! meet the situation, the conse- ; quences and responsibility are I the peoples.” The Senator does j not foreshadow the destruction of our modei’n Nineveh, but he does present a question there that gives studious people some thing to think over. So Jonah went to Nineveh and preached and the people believed and im proved their habits and Jeho- Civic Loyalty Pays Big Dividends Sponsored by SOUTHERN PINES WAREHOUSES, INC. Try Your Home Town First which the scripture says was an exceeding great city. The question Senator Bailey asked is highly prophetic. The answer that it depends on the people is absolute in its truth. Few public utterances in regard to our present plight give this American people more occasion for serious thought. “Has America the capacity to carrv on?” And he answers it Grains o! Sand Moore county is ranked 18th among counties in a table showing per cap ita wealth as listed for taxation in the state in 1933. The first five on the list are Forsyth, Durham, Graham, New Hanover and Guilford. Meckk- i lenburg, home of the largest city, Charlotte, is .seventh. Hereabouts, when he says, “I do not know, I : Lee is 31st, Scotland 40th, Hoke 53d. can only hope. It depends on the | At the bottom of the list. No. lOO, is to for (T^rlstmas Try Your Booli Store Books for all ages, most of the new ones, and the best of the old ones. R. C. A. Victor Radios $32.50 and up Parker Pens, $1.00 and up Typewriters $22.50 and up The best social stationery, nicely boxed Leather diaries, address books, bill folds and pass cases. Supplies for the desk and office HAYES’ SANDHILL BOOK SHOP BROAD STREET SOUTHERN PINES people.” THE EARLY OPENING OF THE HOLLY INN The unusually early opening of the Holly Inn at Pinehurst is rather a decisive sign of the turn of the winter. This would indicate that the prophets of hope have been justified in their predictions. When the arrivals begin to crowd the hotels and boarding houses no question re mains as to the inclination of people to have a winter outing or as to their ability to pay the bills. Along with the announce ment of the opening of the Inn are numerous other signs of similar tenor. It looks as if the Seaboard Airline Railway is making an unusual move to stim ulate traffic. Improved travel ing facilities on the road seem Ashe county. Moore figures reveal taxablj wealth in 1929 as $27,139,000; in 1933. !?20,096,000. The per capita wealtii in 1933 is shown as $712. The Moore County tax rate in 1933 was 70 cents. The amount of taxes levied can be calculated by ,multiplying assessed valuations by rates. The figures, supplied by the State Tax Commissioner, Phow that on the tax books North Carolina was poorer in 1933 than in 1929 by almost ex actly $900,000,000. *:’he bulk of the decline in taxable wealth was the re sult of revaluation of property in 1933. An unusual will, made by the late John T. Wilds, postor of the Sev enth Presbyterian Church of Jesus Christ in New York City, has been filed for probate in the Clerk’s of- Pinehurst BERKSHIRE Sausage Product of Pinehurst Farms This Fresh, Pure Pork Sausage Sold Only in the Sandhills. Ask for this High Grade Product at Your Market or Hotel You’re Missing Something if You Haven’t Tried It. fice in Moore county, the deceased to be recovering passenger bus- having been the holder of some prop- iness that had been sandbagged | gj.^y ju ^.his state. The estate is vai- away from them by the automo- | ued at several thousand dollars, bile .It need not surprise any-! The will reads: body if the highway traffic has I -Vl^here Love is There Is God: For God Is Love.” “When I wedded my wife, Anna Henri Wilds, I vowed ai the altar and sealed the vow with a ring upon her finger, “With all my worldly goods I thee endow.” And such is my will and testament, my desire and purpose, and such it has always been. At the altar I made my will and such it is now. To my wife all I have I do bequeath.” Mr. Wilds is survived by a number of relatives, among them being a sis ter, Mrs. Kate Wilds Wilson of West End. reached the state where it is doomed to give up some of its travel to the steam cars. Lower rates have one influence, but the comforts, the lack of responsibil ity, the safety and the roominess of a railroad car are beginning to count again. It is also believable that some of the new attractions in the Sandhills are beginning to have an influence. More horses com ing bring more people and wider acquaintance among those who will come later. The idea of a dogwood festival in the spring promises to stimulate talk dur ing the winter. Other new things have their influence. Summed up, everything points to one of the best winters in a long time. NEW BUICK CARS NOW ON DISPLAY IN ABERDEEN Four lines of motor cars are an nounced by the Buick Motor Company for 193.5, covering the broad range from the low medium to the high medium price fields and offering the largest of body types in the history of the Buick organization. The new cars, keyed to modern re- ACCREDITED SCHOOLS AT COLLEGE There is no doubt that the _ school system in North Carolina ^ qulrements of style, comfort and per is destined to awaken some formance, are being displayed simul- problems. How to gather money taneousiy throughout the United for the school expenses will be _-_i_ _ „ _ ^ _ 1 i T * J ^11 11 QGalcrs atio distriDUtors. triG ■■ P d the citj. Incidentally ; one problem, for in spite of at- factory in full production on the 1935 the repentance and salvation of: tempts to curtail costs and the models, adequate stocks are now in Nineveh upset Jonah’s predic- | difficulty of pulling out such dealers’ hands and representative tions to some extent, but Sen- j taxes as are thought necessarv the complete line are on nS ;rs”Sve£ ive a prophet as Jonah. The Sen- been pointed out jet that tells ; Buick here is handled Martin ator confesses that whether our ’ ' ’ . .. ■ modern Nineveh is upset or not is also largely in the hands of the people as was largely the case of the Nineveh of Jonah’s days. the tax payer where to get the Motor Co., in Aberdeen. money. The tax payer protests ^ that he is as much a subject for tion as to fitness, for those who consideration and relief as the are far enough advanced mere teachers and as the school chil- ly prove the fact by an exami- , tli’en, and possibly something nation. However that is but a Senator Bailey asks a ques-imore positive than arguments minor matter, which will adjust tion. He candidly confesses he | will have to be the factor of the itself like everything else does. CAROLINA POWER RESTORES DIVIDENDS Careful observer and opti mists, which is w'hat we all should be, will not be surprised at the information coming out from Raleigh that on January 2, the Carolina Power and Light Company will restore its six and seven per cent dividends on its preferred stock. The same source does not know the answer, and that is because he does not know what the people will do. But those who have read the story of mankind during the per iod from Jonah to Josiah Wil liam Bailey have observed that many great civilizations have been so broken and upheaved that in some cases even their story is extremely vague. The great city of Nineve'h lay bur ied for thousands of ears until about a century ago, Layard, the English archaeologist, with a force of workmen, removed the earthern cover and disclosed marvelous buildings, statuary, records, showing what a great ruin had been made of the city final settlement. At any rate Possibly the mere fear of such this difference of opinion is not i a condition may stimulate the going to be disposed of today, | schools to greater effort. Per nor next week nor at any other haps the schools are in 'hard early period, until state finan ces are more definitely where they can be counted. Another question that is also under discussion is the accred- plight, like everything else. Perhaps also they are not much worse off than all the rest of the institutions operated by mankkind. And possibly if every ited high school. When 'high ^body, schools along with the rest, schools here and there over the will tighten up their belts a lit- state were under certain condi- tie and dig in a little and fig- tions granted a rating that per-| ure on how to get the job done, mitted their graduates to enter I even if it does take a little more colleges without examinations it i sweating blood the whole glom- was hailed as an important gain.! eration of disasters that seem to Probably it was. Yet there are those who claim that no child aspiring to enter college s'hould hesitate to stand an examina- beset us may be swept up. Other things at the present time will get this world farther than shedding tears. The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Pres.- ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t. Cashier U. s. 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