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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, July 12, 1935.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Fines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
WALTER LIPP^LVNN
Contributing Editors
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THE SPREAD OF
THE SALES TAX
If we of North Carolina do not
like the sales tax, at least we
have plenty; of company in our
misery. Whatever may be said
for or against it, it is making
an impressive headway in the
states. A week ago New Jersey
entered the ranks as the latest
recruit, which makes a total of
twenty-five states collecting
this form of direct lax, more
than half the Union.
A recent survey of sales tax
assessments made by the Na
tional Industrial Conference
Board shows considerable diver
sity of methods. Some states
place a tax on retail sales, as
here. Others tax general sales,
and still others gross receipts.
Rates of taxation vary from one-
half of one percent in Missouri
to three percent in North Caro
lina, Kentucky, Michigan and
Ohio.
I The tax rates indicated are not
very enlightening as to the vol
ume of the returns, because of
the differing inclusions and ex
clusions. To illustrate, some
states tax purchases of person
al property only, and others tax
receipts from utility service,
communications, advertising and
amusements. Apparently the
range of sales tax levies com
pares in variety with state di
vorce laws.
Most, if not all, of these state
imposts, were urged and adopt
ed on the gi’ound of financial
necessity.
It is evident in this state that
the next gubernatorial campaign
wiJJ be wagged with the sales tax
as the principal issue. At least
two candidates have announced
themselves as favoring the abol
ition of the tax, the substituting
of a liquor law to provide the
necessary revenue. With about
one fifth of the counties of the
state voting favorably on con
trolled liquor sales within the
past few weeks there would ap
pear to be evidence that a state
wide, or local option, liquor law
might produce the revenue nec-
essar\« to supplant the sales tax
fund, in w'hich event the cry of
soaking the poor for the necessi
ties of life would be done away
with.
eral relief funds to investigate
distribution of federal relief in
Moore county. Seek out those
who can work but won’t, and
I take them off the "dole.” Those
[are appalling figures the Indus-
1 trial Conference Board gives us,
I in the face of nine billions of
dollars spent to relieve unem
ployment in two years. But eas-
I ily explained if in all parts of
the country men and women are
refusing work because they pre
fer to sit on their haunches and
let Uncle Sam support them.
Civic Loyalty Pays Big Dividends
WHEREIN TED FRYE
SCOOPS THE PILOT
The Pik)t was “scooped” last
week by its esteemed contem
porary, the Moore County News.
Usually, when this happens,
there’s H. to p. in this office. We
get the staff together and raise
Cain because someone didn’t get
the story the News had.
This time it was different. We
were delighted to be ^cooped.
We have always looked upon
Ted Frye as a good newspaper
man. Ted went and got himself
married on June 26th, and
though we should like to have
carried that bit of news in our
last week’s issue, it seems right
and proper that it should be an
exclusive Moore County News
story. Ted is the managing edi
tor of that journal.
The ranks of Benedictdom, if
there is such a word, welcome
Ted to its fold. The Pilot con
gratulates its buddy in amis and
felicitates the former Miss Bes
sie Loui§e Reynolds, the attrac
tive bride. Our best wishes to
both.
LIVE AND
LET LIVE
!j]!l
and loved him. 0,riginally a newspa
per reporter, editor and correspondent,
he took up collection of historical
items, articles and the like about
North Carolina as a hobby and serv
ed as collector of the Hall of History,
recently given his name, for many
years without remuneration. He was
later allowed a nominal salary. In
his many active years he collected
probably 35,000 items for the hall,
and for many years has served as
guide to visitors to Raleigh, prob-
i ably directing 300,000 people, largely
school children, to places of interest.
For two years his health had been
I failing and for six months he had
been in a stupor, apparently unable to
recognize anyone or realize anything.
He will be sadly missed and deeply
mourned by many thousands.
DR. MAX RONES
EYE SIGHT SPECLVLIST
OF HIGH POINT, N. C.
W^ill be at V. F. Tarlton’s old
stand in Aberdeen.
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GRAINS OF' SAND
Correspondence
COVP DE GRACE
Editor, The Pilot:
I Some there'll be who shall miss his,
I ‘Woof, Woof.’ and only a few shall
^ mourn. To those of us. who see in the
I big brown eyes of his dog a soul, far
I bigger, more sincere than when he
' gazes into the eyes of a friend, just
' can’t help but feel that these faith-
; ful creatures should not pass, “un-
. heralded and unsung.”
I So Old Arno, not unlike a timber
wolf in looks, yet as gentle as a
i lamb in disposition, passed on to the
'great beyond. Another of God’s dumb
creatures asking so little and giving
; so much. And. I feel. If the woman
who mourns his love and devotion; the
little boy who misses his companicn-
ship; and an all but sightless man,
the feel of a dog’s nose on his hand,
will lend their ear some night when
the moon is high, they'll hear the
woof, woof, of their faithful friend,
Arno.
MARIE ARNOLD.
Southern Pines, N. C„
July 5, 1935.
A SUGGESTION^
FOR MR. TUFTS
In October, 1933, the number
of unemployed in the country
was estimated by the National
Industrial Conference Board as
9.645.000. Since that time the
New Deal has spent in direct or
indirect efforts to increase em-
plc.lmient more than $9,000,-
000,000. Now the same board es-
timaies the number of unem
ployed, as of May 19, as 9,-
711.000.
This week an Aberdeen busi
ness man, needing labor, set out
in the county^ to procure some
colored men. He visited the us
ual haunts of those desiring
jobs. He offered good wages to
twelve unemployed negroes. Not
one accepted.
On the same day a Southern
Pines housewife went forth in
her car to find a colored woman
to work for a few day/;, possibly
through the summer. She was
willing to pay good wages. She
visited the homes of some ten
families. In these she found
about twenty unemployed wo
men. Not one would accept work.
Is there a relationship be
tween the figures of the Nation
al Industrial Conference Board
and these local incidents ? Is fed
eral relief despoiling the labor
market? In the case of the col
ored race locally there would ap
pear to be evidence in the af
firmative. Those interviewed by
Mr. Business Man and Mrs.
Housewife are being" fed bji the
government, directly or indirect
ly, without work. And they pre
fer it.
The Pilot suggests a project
for Mr. Tufts’ Planning Board.
Use some of the available fed-
IXCONSISTEXCY
Editor, The Pilot:
One of the biggest inconsistencies
I have ever heard of is the action of
the health authorities In stopping
the children from attending Sunday
school and church and other meetings,
and at the same time they are hold
ing typhoid vaccination clinics In hot.
unventilated rooms with no semblance
of order or discipline.
In Aberdeen t^e vaccinating is
done In an empty store room with no
ventilation except an open front door,
and several hundred men, women and
children are expected to squeeze into
this room and get vaccinated within
one hour. The result is that every
one crowds and pushes and jams into
the room and all around the vacci
nating officer, who allows anybody,
who can hold a brush, to paint the
arms of the applicants at any place
he or she happens to hit. It is verita
bly a push and shove game, and the
rudest an’d hardest pusher gets first
service.
I have never seen a better place
nor a finer opportunity for the germ
carrier to spread the Infantile Para
lysis germ or other contagious di
seases germs. Evidently the health
officers are not really serious when
they issue warnings about allowing
children to attend public meetings,
otherwise they wouldn’t allow them
to crowd and jam so close together
in these clinics.
I would suggest the holding of these
vaccination clinics in the open air and
in the shade of a big tree, when the
weather is favorable, and I would
also suggest that the doctor allow
himself more than one hour in which
to vaccinate the hundreds of people
who want this service at a place
like Aberdeen. Again I would recom
mend that those applying for the vac
clnation service be lined up and pass
by the health officer and his assist
ants in an orderly manner.
J. VANCE ROWE.
Aberdeen, July 10, 1935.
With the exception of last year the
United States has the smallest cot
ton acreage this year since 1905, ac
cording to the U. S. Department of
Agriculture. The acreage Is 4.6 per
cent over 1934, however.
Eight boys from Moore county have
been accepted for the Citizens’ Mili
tary Tr;ming Corps camp at Fort
Bragg in August. A month of military
training, athletics and some study is
in store for them, and those boys
who have been sent to these camps
in the past say they are "great stuff.”
Uncle Sam provides everything. It is
not too late for a few more Moore
county boys to make application for
this summer’s camp. Write the C.
M. T. C. Officer at Fort Bragg
In each of the packhouses during the
selling season, a caravan of buyers
going from packhouse to packhouse,
carrying the auctioneer along with
them.
That the Fourth went off quietly
In Moore county Is evidenced by the
fact that only four people were lodg
ed In the county jail that day. These
were jailed for fighting and carrying
pistols.
Buy at the Curb Market Satur
days and save money.
Guaranteed Investments
(Retirement Income and Annuities)
ASSURE
Life and Accident Protection
through
Carl G. Thompson
Phone Southern Pines 7363
Representing
The Travelers Insurance Co
(Life-Accldent and Group Dept.)
Hartford, Conn.
Cakes of all kinds, freshly baked,
for sale at the Curb Market in
Southern Pines.
The departure of Garrett & Com-
! pany, wine makers, comes as a great |
j blow to Aberdeen. The company start-
leu tc lebulld Its plant there after pas-
I sage of a wine law w’hlch appeared
' to lend protection to North Carolina
manufacturers. Now the Garretts
; claim that “highly fortified” wines
I are coming into the state from Cal-
j Ifornla and no effort made to prevent
I it. They make only legal wines and
' say they cannot compete with the
! other.
Death of Col. Fred A. Olds, 81, one
The dewberry growers were first j of the most colorful, beloved and dy-
to follow the tobacco men into the | namlc figures in the state in a gen-
selling of their crop by auction. Now I eration. at State Hospital in Raleigh
we hear that the peach men are to! last week, is mourned by thousands
follow suit. There'll be daily auctions of residents of the state who knew
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