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Page Two THE PILOT. SoullMrB PinM. North Cvolina Friday, September 18, 1942 THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, IncorpoTated Southern Pinat. N. C. JAMES BOYD. Publithar CARL G. THOMPSON, JR.. Editor CHARLES MACAULEY AdrarHsing Dan 8. Kay, Mary Thompson, H«Uo K Butler, I)essi« CiimeroB Smith, Charl«t Culiingford, Associate Subscription Rates: One Year v $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Eiitered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. THE PILOT welcomes contribu- tions to its news columns, but ra- (arras }ha right to distinguuh ba- twaan new* snd advertising. Final deadUoa for nawa itamt and adyer- tisinjr is noCn Thundaf each jireak. Cards of thanks are pubiip Boti.'sat and, as such, will be charged for at regular adTartising rates. Ex- praations of opinion ar« also wel come, but each eoitthiunieation must be signed, although the writer's name will be withheld upon request. Letters should ba kept to 300 words or ba subject to editing. No anony- inoui contributions will ba considM- «d. To give personal items, other news, or for further information, tel- aphone 727L IF MEN ARE MEN ARE BOYS TO BE BOYS? Here’s a situation where a few young fellows, only one scarce ly over 21 and most of them much much younger, are haled into Re corder’s Court and Juvenile Court on charges of gambling. Many of them were convicted. The evidence, as far as it shows, is that the boys, some of them in high school, the others not long out, were playing a little black-jack for money, stakes not large, 5 and 10. They were playing in a school forms, bus which was not officially in use. They were also playing on a Sunday. They were also caught without any definite evidence that they were gambling, al though most of them admitted it. They were young boys. Later that same day there was wag ering on golf games in this sec tion. This is mere conjecture, based on the fact that there is al most always betting on golf games around here. During the same week, there had been play ing of punch boards in public places. Even after these boys had been taken in, and some of them Tound guilty, there were punch boards in operation at one or two places, although some of them had been taken down. Also, it is well known that at certain spots hereabouts it is possible to wag- «r at certain times almost any amount the heart and pocket- book desires at one whack. Now the question is, not whether gambling is proper— not whether any gambling should be condoned. The ques tion is: should a bunch of high school boys, engaging in and watching a game of cards for money, be prosecuted under the law when their elders are allow ed to go scot free, without men tion, without public notice, and without being seen by the law, although they are in plain sight. THE PILOT, in this issue, car ries the names of some of the drastic steps than taking them j before the county court. TAXATION IN A NUTSHELL Nearly everybody thinks he has some good ideas about taxa tion. He is taxed in some fashion or another and that in his opin ion makes him an authority. Actually nothing is more com plicated than the study of tax ation. The real tax experts are few and like most experts they frequently disagree. For in taxation you have first the money problem; where and how to get the money to run the government. Then you have the economic problem; how much a given group of taxpayers can bear without becoming impoverished and therefore unable to pay taxes. Then there Is the moral prob lem; is it fair to increase t3.x?s of | those who improve their prop erty rather than those }vho let it lie idle, holding it for Specula tion? Also there is the problem of who pays the tax in the end: if you tax radios for instance, the radio makers do not pay the tax out of their own pockets, they pass it on to the jobbers, the job bers to the retailers, the retail ers to the public. Since there is a tendency to raise the price by a lump sum, the government does not get all of the increased price the public pays. Then there is the cost of col lecting: how many people does it take to bring the money in? Finally there is the cost of pay ing: some taxes are so complicat ed that just working out the amount to be paid, filling out answering correspond ence, takes a good deal of a man or a firm’s time and money. A good tax ought to be simple, easy to collect, easy to pay; it would encourage prudence, in dustry and ability and penalize idleness, waste and incompe tence. It should be just enough to fi nance. largely on a pay-as-you- go basis, an economically admin istered government, leaving the people as free as possible to en joy the fruits of their labors. To get such a tax, let alone a complete system of such taxes, you would have to secure the ap proval of the tax experts. That would be difficult as we have seen. But even if you did, there would be no remote possibility of getting the system enacted into law. The reason is that, the system being simple, it would be appar ent who was being taxed and how much. This would destroy the voter’s fond hope that some body else was going to be soak ed: not him. Furthermore if it was a system designed to raise a definite amount which, in turn, was gear ed to a budget, there would be no escape from the unpleasant con GI2AINS er S>4ND FROM UP AT MARTHA’S VINE-1 yard where he and Mrs. Stevens spent the last two weeks, ‘Gene Ste-1 vens sent us (this was before they returned) a copy of the Vineyard Ga zette, a country paper made famous by the book, “Country Editor,” writ- ^ ten by its publisher and owner, | Henry B. Hough. Martha’s Vineyard being a summer resdrt, you might expect a paper something like THE PILOT, but there was considerable difference. Among other things, the Gazette’s front page is graced at the bottom of the page with a few adver- The Passing Years BY CHARLES MACAULEY Third Week of September 1941 Application for $25,000 in Federal PWA defense funds was made this week by the Southern Pines School ! to supplement promised county three grades, 16 pupils. Miss F M. Pendleton. Room Two, three grades, 23 pupils, Miss Anna P. Huntington. Room Three, three grades, 11 pupils, Miss C. E. Austin. Room Four, tliree grades, 13 pupils. W. F. Allen, prin cipal. , Miss Agnes Vougt, D. S. C. is in Atlanta where she was called on an important case. 1907 tisements. We don’t have trouble | [^^^ds for building a new school plant keeping them off the front of THEi"*^^^- PILOT—our trouble comes in getting I f, ^ them on the inside pages. THE SLATE ROOF FOR THE new addition to THE PILOT office has been the pride and joy of R. F, (Buck) Tarlton, ever since he began construction of the building for Reinecke-Dillehay. “Folks will talk about that roof.” Buck “just wait ’till we get it on.” Hardly had the last nail been driv en in the last slate shingle from the front of the roof, when J. W. Csusey dropped down to the office from O’Callaghan’s place. He took a look at the roof. “That sure is a beautiful roof,” he said. “I wish I had found some slat# like that when I built my house.” Buck felt mighty pleased. 1 Dorothy of Bradford, Vt., are spend ing a few days here with Mrs. Esther McDaniel. Mrs. John Ramsbottom, who has been spending the summer in Sayles- ville, R. I., returned to her home here Thursday. Her sister. Miss Lilie Oldfield, came with her. THE ROOF IS DISTINCTIVE. The slate came from an old house down below Fayetteville, where it had weathered storms for well over a century. It has many delicate shades of color which blend nicely into each other. “All it needs now is a good rain,” commented Buck, “and those colors will really stand out.” TEN YEARS AGO, ACCORDING to a column in the Sanford Herald: “First bale of cotton to be ginned by T. N. Catnpbell and Son of Jones boro was ginned last Friday for T. C. McFarland of route 3 Jonesboro.” Today. T. C. McFarland lives in Southern Pines and operates one of the taxis we see about town, as well as doing a little farming and gardening at his place out on the southwest edge of Southern Pines. And on his front porch are several sacks of new picked cotton. THE TASTE OF OUR FANCY free experimenters in nomenclature, as borne on the Army jeeps and wag ons, as noted this week, runs from ichthyology and ornithology to the aboreal; from majestic dignity to the comic. The list includes Astor, Bob Cat, Blue Eyes, Best, Beech, Collins, Cupid, Caius Tacitus, Derna Junior, Kremlin. Lady Lou, Manassass, Man iac, O Gee, Olaf, Odette. Pee Wee, Sot, Shorty, Sherman, Tarpon. Wag tail, 1937 Melvin's new store opens on East Broad street. Buttry’s Market opens. R. W. Tate and son to open ne\i' hardware store on East Broad street. John Willis Thompson, colored, of Niagara arrested after firing at Chief of Police J. A. Gargis. Robert Henderson elected Fellow ship Forum head. Mrs. Ruth Skinner dies. 1932 A 71 cent tax rate adopted by the Moore County Board of Commission ers. Rate reduced two cents. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Risner and family have returned to Southern Pines and opened their home on Con necticut avenue. Miss Ethel Jones, who has been passing a summer vacation in Pittsburgh has returned to her duties as assistant cashier, of the Citizen’s Bank and Trust Co. Mrs. J. L. Chilcott dies. 1927 The faculty of the Southern Pines school will be as follows: W. F. Al len, Superintendent; High School, F. E. Gibbons, Mrs. R. S. Montgomery, Miss Marion Harkins, Miss Ruth M. Field, Miss Elinor M. Brennan. Grad ed school, Misses Isabel Wicker, Ruth Davenport, Mamie Kimball, Laura Davis, Emily Hilliard, Pauline Miller, Ann Huntington. E. C. Stevens and A. B. Yeomans win over Sugg and Poe in tennis tournament. The Misses Katherine and Lenora Riggan. Genevieve Marks and Glen nie Dodge departed for Salem Col lege this week. Chandler’s new building on West Broad street is nearly completed, and the two stores will be occupuied by Mack’s 5-10-25c store and Pat-^ terson’s Market. 1 The public schools began the la.'t term in their old quarters, on Mon day. Professor Allen and Miss H. E. Calhoun are back in their old places Miss Helen Woodhull, of Poland, N. Y., is in charge of the classes taught last year b^ Mrs. Weeks. Miss Edna Brandebury, of Cleveland, Ohio, will join the teaching force next year. Mrs. J. E. Judd has been in town for some days. She is having the! Judd building repaired and put in fine condition to sell or rent. Messrs. Powell, Richardson and Hines and Dr. Swett spent Wednes day night at Thagards in an attempt to beat the fishing record. Marriage licenses have been issued from the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore County to the fol lowing; William Eugene Flaherty of Knollwood Field, Southern Pines, and Katharine Ferguson of Southern Pines; Hurley Clarence Yarboro of Star and Mamie Ester Williams of Eagle Sprfngs; Wilbert Jones of Bennett and Mildred Maness of Car thage R.F.D.; Arpad William Barko' of Fort Bragg and Mary P. Delaney of Detroit, Mich. Everett, Zane & Muse Certified Public Accountants AUDITS — TAXES — SYSTEMS Masonic Temple Building' San/ord, X. C. Pbone 461 FJVESTAR W »2.15 FULL QUART FULL PINT M FWOf ’ # ' ■ "■■■ ^ AOOI>CDIHAM tt WORTS tlMITED, PEORIA, II.L1N0IS n it 1922 I J. D. Davis, the Reo truck deal- i er, has accepted plans for a brick ga rage and service station to be erect-' ed on the corner of Connecticut ave nue and East Broad street. Mrs. J. M. Windham and son, Len nox, *re home from Rocky River RENEWING THE PILOT DISCUS- sion of last week, mainly concerning our newcomers. Captain and Mrs. Gordon W. Pilot, we have since learned from Captain Pilot that his late father, H. W. Pilot, ran a week ly in Lorain, Ohio, back about 1908, t .. / , u- 11 j iMmeral Sprmgs for the wmter for several years, which was called ® THE PILOT, making that paper so much older than our own, that it was out of existence before Stacy Brewer started this paper in Vass in 1920. ALL OF WHICH BRINGS UP 1 the interesting question—how did elusion that you get only what you pay for. This would destroy | THE PILOT of Moore County get its the belief based on perennial!”®"'®^ Why, here in the Sandhills, campaign promises that it is pos- i " .. 1 J „ / ' newsweekly named THE PILOT. Ac- hiph school app and sliffhtlv old- taxes and m- | cording to its founder and christener, S S > S y j crease government services in-. stacy Brewer, the answer is simple ^ ^1.0 definitely. | and not at all fascinating, really. It is therefore foolish to expect i Late in 1920, Stacy was ready to a good tax plan in a democracy, | start his paper at Vass, with the since the people who elect the help of the late A. M. Cameron, and rulers prefer a system of bam-' had about everything needed except boozlement. Good tax system,; | the name. One evening, as he was will only be found in totalitar-1 taking off his shoes, he glanced down ian states where the people do^ not have to be consulted. But the taxes in such states 1912 The question used to be “Will we have a hotel to take the place of the old Piney Woods Inn?” Still lat er it was “When are we going to get that new hotel?” Now the query is ( “Will the contractors be able to finish the Highland Pines Inn by November 15th? Southern Pines school. Room On<’, er, offenders, merely because they were brought up in court. THE PILOT has been asked to keep these cases out of the pa per. In line with our policy of printing court news, we cannot do this. But we can, and do, pro test that these cases should make court news when the major cases do not. We do not propose, that all major cases of wagering and betting be brought to court. We only propose that the law should at least treat all alike. Many of the boys involved in the case were considered the up and coming young men. Not only was there nothing against them, but they had much to bespeak them as outstanding young citizens. If there is a man who has not taken a chance— either in a game of cards, on the stock market, in a business ven ture, on the golf course, around the roulette w'heel, on the out come of a sports game, over a news event, or in a game of skill, then he cannot understand this editorial. But anyone else will understand this. Also the women who play bridge for a quarter a corner or a twentieth of a cent a point—will get the point. Boys will be boys and men will be men and ladies will play bridge like all get out to win a prize at the Thistle Club. The boys deserved rebuke and punishment. There is no ques tion of that. They had broken the law and had been caught. But greater objective than punish ment is correction. This could have been achieved with less vertisement of the Pilot Life Insur i ance companv of Greensboro. Stand- since tne taxes m such states, jj,g out of the ad, as Stacy saw it, are used for the enslavement and were the words THE PILOT, And he destruction of the people, it is of | decided that would be a good name no particular advantage to have i for his paper—which he hoped would them scientifically collected. | help to pilot the ways and activities So v/e had better make the besti of the county. ^ and be satisfied j what will I come back to? that at least we mherit a coun-1 \vhat am I working for? ^or old try where we are entitled by law ^ young women to hold to raise a squawk and that some times our squawks produce re sults. WINNING THE WAR IS PARTLY WINNING PEACE There has been occasionally raised in certain parts of the press the question whether post war problems should be consid ered at this time. Our belief that this is a most important part of our problem of morale was strengthened during this past week. It came from a young fel low who is about to embark for duty in the war zone. He was not complaining. He was not trying to welch. He merely was wondering: What will I come back to. Old men are taking my job in the steel mills. Women are 'taking other jobs which I might hold. These mills were idle during the early ’thir ties. Now they are working in w'ar contracts. When the war is my job? For me to have no job at' all? He was wondering these ques tions. We who are left here at home should assure him of an an swer. We should be able to say: We are interested in what comes after this war when we win— for with you and your fellows at the front, we shall win. We are trying to plan now that you will have a job and a good living and a family and that American way of life you have heard talk about. While you are off at War we are trying to protect your interests at home. We are trying to make sure that those free doms—of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and those things which make them possible —are yours when you come home. Yes, we agree, that win ning the war is important; but when the war ends, we must be ready to have the peace already won. Stonybrook Stables NOW BEING OPERATED BY CAPT. M. J. HANTON Leasing from Owners, Now in Armed Service Sadde Horses Riding Instruction Horses and Buggies for Sale and Rent Horses Boarded Special Rates to Members of the Armed Forces and their Families Telephone 6.502 Southern Pines, One-half Mile on Young’s Road (Turn East off U. S. Highway No. 1, going North. W’atch for Sign) “...A ENEMY SHARP ATTACK WAS REPULSED DURING THE NIGHT...” Today’s war commtiniqaes have a familiar ring to the men of your electric company. For years, they’ve been fighting cyclones, sleet, snow, lightning, and other natural enemies, aU around the clock and calendar, ■When real war came, they were ready. Ready for day and night duty. Ready to keep the lines hot with the precious elec tricity that powers America’s war industries. Tank, plane and ship produc tion schedules that seemed fan tastic a few months ago are being surpassed today — partly because these men knew their job so well. They knew the job because they learned it the hard way—the American way—from the ground up. Experienced business man agement, built upon the savings of millions of Americans, has given this country by far the most and the best electric ser- yice in the world. It’s the rea son why the average American home enjoys cold milk and hot coffee, clean rugs and clean ^ clothes, accurate time and accu rate news electrieaUy—mU for a dime a day! Only a free people codd have accomplished that. CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
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