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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, February 15, 1935.
THE PILOT
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INAI GI RATING
HI NT RACING
The steadily growing popular
ity of the Sandhills as a horse
center in winter has, quite nat
urally, culminated in the start
ing of hunt racing, with the first
of a series of meetings schedul
ed for the 16th of March. The
recently organized Sandhills
Steeplechase & Racing Associa
tion has selected an ideal site
for these jumping events mid
way between Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, and work is well
along on the development of the
property into a splendid course.
Wc have in this section the nu
cleus for as fine a race meeting
of this type as ‘any held in the
eajiv, huMt raring season. Many
famous horses are wintering
here; several leading owners.
We have here horses which have
;yon the leading hunt race events
in the country, such races as the
Carolina Cup at Camden, the
Meadowbrook on Long island,
the Maryland Hunt Cup, Amer
ica’s premier classic: the Billy
Barton Handicap, the New Jer
sey Cup and others, rittih^i evi
dence of this neck of the woods
as an ideal training center. Many
other leading stables winter at
Aiken and Camden, but short
distances away, and these will
without doubt be represented in
the Sandhills meeting just as
Sandhills horses compete in the
Camden and Aiken meetings.
This March 16th meeting,
which inaugurates an annual
event here, should become one
of the features of the winter sea
son in the section. At Camden
some 25,000 people gather on
Carolina Cup Day each year, and
the Sandhills meeting should
grow into as great an attraction.
And once the new steeplechase
course is completed and a per
manent fixture, there is no reas
on why other meetings should
not be held during the winter
months and w’hvj Southern
Pines, Pinehurst and the inter
vicinity should not develope into
one of the leading winter train
ing and racing sections in the
country.
N. C. FARMERS REAP
HARVEST OF DOLLARS
Figures announced Monday by
the Department of Agriculture
show that North Carolina fann
ers have benefitted greatly in
the past two years from govern
ment benefits and higher prices
for their products.
Two years ago, when there
were no benefit pajTnents,
North Carolina farmers re
ceived a total of $85,846,000
for their crops. In 1934, they
received $203,624,000 from the
sale of their crops and $12,579,-
000 in benefit payments—a gain
of about 152 percent over the
1932 figures, and a gain of 43
percent over the figures for
1933.
The South Atlantic states as
a group had a gain of about 69
percent over 1932 and about 32
percent over 1933,
Of the oLher states in this
group only Georgia and South
Carolina approached North Ca
rolina. These two states had a
gain of approximately 90 per
cent over 1932 as compared
with the 152 percent gain in this
state.
The South Atlantic states
with their gain of 32 percent
over 1933 were considerably
ahead of the South Central
states which had a gain of 13
percent over 1933.
In other words. North Caro
lina has benefitted more than
any other state in the southeast
from the government’s agricult
ural program. Farmers of this
state received last year $130,-
357,000 more for their crops
than they did in 1932-
Another set of figures in con
nection with this is the report
issued Monday by Gurney P.
Hood, state bank commissioner,
that bank deposits in North
Carolina increased $122,260,323
between June 30, 1933, and De
cember 31, 1934.
It is probably: safe to assume
that business in general in this
state has been very favorably
affected by this tremendous in
crease in the buying power of
the rural poulation,
BORROWING
OURSELVES RICH
Possibly the way to get rich
is to borrow more money. But
still in this countni are found
some old fossils w'ho agree with
Poor Richard that he who goes
borrowing goe.-? sorrowing- No
matter whether the proposition
comes from Washington or any
other source, the legislature will
do very well to scrutinize any
measure that would place a fur
ther bonded debt on state, coun
ty or municipality for anything
that is not positively necessary.
Heavens only knows when the
pile of debt that already hangs
over this state will be liquidated.
To some ears it is a pleasant
sound that tells us that what we
can’t pay today we can pay to
morrow along with a further in
creased debt. But the task of
paying the taxes now assessed is
rather an indication that more
debt and more taxes w’ill rest no
less heavily than the present bur
den. Borrowing ourselves rich is
an old experiment, and as far as
this paper is aware jt means no
more than digging deeper a pit
that is already overwhelming.
The Pilot would sav tO our i
Civic Loyalty Pays Big Dividends
LOVEJOY’S LOG CABIN
Southern Pines Telephone 7371
Luncheons—65c to $1.00
Teas—35c to 50c
Dinners—$1.00 to $1.50
Supper Dances every night except Sunday
No cover charge
THE BOSTONIANS PLAYING NIGHTLY
The Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
GEO. C, ABRAHAM, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t, Cashier
Sponsored by
THE FAMILY LAUNDRY
Try Your Home Town First
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A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK
Cl RAINS OF' SAND
Here, in brief, is the bill which, it
passed in Senate and House, will lead
to a referendum orf liquor control in
North Carolina:
“SB 155. To amend Ch. 1. Pub.
Laws 1923, so as to create N. C. Re
tail Alcohol Control Authority, allow
operation of i-etail stores for the
sale of the defined 'oeverages (to be! wired:
visions regarding administration lo
cation of stores, etc. It was sent to
Committee on Judiciary 2."
On receipt of word from The Pilot
on the death of Dr. Ernest M. Poate,
Struthers Burt, our contributing edi-
DEPOSITS INSURED
BY
The Federal Deposit iiisurance Corporation
i WASHtNGTON, D. C.
CRonn maximum insurance ccnnn
^UUUU FOR EACH DEPOSITOR ^uUUu
consumed off the premises) and to i
submit the question to vote at a spec- ■
ial election, to be held the first Tues- j
day following the 45th day after the
adjournment of the present General I
Assembly. The bill provides for a i
Deeply sad i,u receive your tele
gram about death of Dr. Poate.' ^
Southern Pines and, indeed, North ||
Caroline have lost one of their most
distinguished citizens, distinguished
in many ways a fine author, a tine ;
neurologist, and a fine man. Mass'
10 percent tax on the retail price and
members of the legislature to be | revenue over reserves, etc, to j courage a falrjy pomnion thing;
extremel}) wary about favoring ;be pro-rated to the counties and towns . moral courage rarer; the lonely fight
any increases of bonded debt un- i on a population basis, to be used f6r! of the individual against ill fortune,
til we find some way of lower- i public welfare, relief, old age secur- j whether it be ill health or some-!
ing the tax load that already
burdens the people of state,
county and town. Our job should
be to clear up our debt, reduce
public expenses and lighten the
load on the shoulders of the tax!
payers, which is now heavier!
than a great many can carry, j
' as the tax sales lists continual-1
ly show, :
ity, and employment service. Purchas- j thing else, so rare as to be heart
ers must make application, and no bev- ; stirring. Dr. Poate was one of the
erage to be sold to a person under 21 i bravest men I have ever met. He
years of age. Contains numerous pro-' laughed at death and carried on.
II
SEAWELL
AND SPENTE
Possibly t'hirty-five or forty
i years ago in a small office dow'n
n^ar Monti’s house where Capt,
Clarke’s Alpha theater stood
then a card hung on the front of
a small office announcing Doug
las and Spence, attorneys.
That was some time ago. La
ter Spence turned up in Carth
age. Today he is of North Caro
lina, Spence has grow’n from the
little room in the very primitive
Southern Pines of a generation
ago to be a pretty big man in a
pretty big state.
Moore Farmers Get
$44,477 in Benefits
Average Per County Received
from AAA Since 1933 is
$131,420
Moore county received $44,477.57 of
the $13,141,978.98 North Carolina far
mers have received in rental and ben
efit payments from the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration from the
time these payments started in 1933
up to December 31, 1934, Dean I. O.
Schaub of State College announces.
This is an average of $131,419.79 per
county. More of the money due this
state in 1934 crop adjustment pro
grams is to come.
Cotton growers received $7 090,-
603.18, tobacco growers $5,658,055.92,
corn-hog producers $332,125.01, and
NcLean Furniture Co.
COMPLETE HOME
FURNISHERS
C.VSH OR CREDIT
SOUTHERN PINES
It Pays to Advertise in The Pilot.
Pinehurst BERKSHIRE Sausage
Product of Pinehurst Farms
This Fresh, Pure Pork Sausage Sold Only
V
in the Sandhills.
Ask for this High Grade Product at
Your Market or Hotel
You’re Missing Something if You Haven’t
Tried It.
wheat growers $70,195.79. Wages of
o n • .-u • e county and community committeemen,
Seawell is another offering of _ ^ ^ ^ ^
‘ farmers named to help admmister the
crop adjustment programs, received
most of the administrative expendi
tures of $1,089,915.28. The adminis
tration cost was about 7.6 per cent
of the total og $14,231,894.24 dis
bursed, Dean Schaub said.
Three counties are not lusted as
participants in the funds, Dare, Gra
ham and Swain, while five received
less than $1,000 .Avery, Cherokkee,
Jackson, McDowell and Macon. Rob-
the sticks who has followed a
similar road until he has develop
ed an ability and a reputation in
which the people of this com-
munit:» find satisfaction, for
Seaw-^ell is also a Moore county
name.
These two pineyw'oods repre
sentatives come over to talk to
the people in an instructive man
ner on the friendly occasion of
a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce at Southern Pines. I ^^on received the largest amount.
They both come to talk sound j $929,640.
sense and constructive policies, I
Both of them come with the har- j benefit bridge partv
vest of wide experience in the I
major lines of human progress j Mrs. w. c. Mudgett and Mrs. Em-
within the state. Both are men {ilie Wilson will be joint hostesses at
of observation, of judgment and a bridge party for the benefit of St.
contact with those advances Anthony’s Catholic Church here to-
North Carolina has made in the night, Friday, at the civic ciub at
last forty/ years which compares 8:30 o’clock. The price of each tick-
extremely favorably wnth the et is 50c.
progress of any state of the Un
ion or of an section of the globe.
Both of these men by their oc
cupation have had somewhat to
d(- with our political advance
ment. Both of them have been
big enough that instead of be
ing followers of the political
movement thej* have been lead
ers and s'hapers of public poli
cies and students of the founda
tions and operations of the gov
ernment, It is not often that a
community like ours can bring
before the representative peo-
)le two home grown philosophers
and leaders like Spence and
Seawell, which is a matter for
considerable local pardonable
pride.
LET’S USE RELIEF
FUNDS WISELY
Millions in federal funds are
soon to be available for employ
ment projects in North Carolina,
according to advices from Wash
ington and Raleigh, This means
that it will again become neces
sary for local commmunities to
originate projects, and whether
or not these funds are to be
properhv utilized and to make
W permanent benefit to com
munities entirely depends upon
the projects selected.
Civic organizations in the
Sandhills should give deep con
sideration to this subject at once.
In all probability the money will
be allotted to such communities
as offer projects (and have them
approved) in order of receipt at
the proper headquarters. We
should not be backward. There
are many unemployed in Moore
county, and there are many
things for unemployed hands to
do, things of lasting benefit.
Let the Chambers of Commerce,
the Kiwanis Club, women’s or
ganizations, church groups and
others set their minds on the
paramount needs of the section
and cooperate in the wise expen
diture of these funds for the
most good of all concerned.
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