THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
CIUlISTlKAt TREES
Will lie Provided For 400 Children
II j Contributions of the Colony
They always have been. It is one of
the old and established pleasures of the
colony. The pickaninies in the schools
about look forward throughout the whole
year to. the celebrations in Taylor ville,
Eastwood, Jackson Hamlet, and Smoke,
which are provided by the fords heaped
high with gifts for everyone, and the
simple decorations, and candy boxes
which have come to convey to them the
whole spirit and understanding of Christ
mas. This happy work is done by the Rev.
T. A. Cheatham the neighbors come in
and make up the myriad packages with
the name of the child on every one.
They have it down to a system now
the packing of the candy boxes. A
Ford system. The boxes run down the
famous chain, and the goodies are put
in seriatim by experts.
But the colony contributes the expense
of the simple purchases. This year as
always . All of us. They may be left
at the Hotel office or handed to Rev. T.
A. Cheatham.
FIRST NAVIGATOI19 OF A I It
Cant. A ult Find Pinrhunt Experi
ment of Capital Importance
Last week the local press reported with
enthusiasm the invasion and the cap
ture of Pinehurst and the Sandhills by a
flying squadron from Langley Field, and
their adventures at the Gun Club, and
their wind swept calesthenics for the
diversion of the debutantes.
But in truth the report was about as
complete as that of the Indian sage
who first sighted Columbus, or the Es-
quimeau runner who gave the first
graphic account of the coming of Sfeph
anson. The discovery and adventure and
the deeper meaning to the scientific and
civilized world appeared not at all.
For in very fact the coming of this
flight of planes had a keen interest to
the entire world concerned with the fu
ture of the art of flying, and the practi
cal commercial use of the biplane.
Hitherto, even in the most delicate situa
tions of the Great War, an aeroplane
has found its way and proceeded on its
course just as an automobile does by
following natural objects, roads, streams,
cities mountains.
This process has its obvious disadvan
tages when one is five miles above land,
in a pitch black night, or. traversing a
thousand miles of desert or a limitless
forest or the great plains and partic
ularly when great flights start across
seas.
So the problem had to be tackled of
navigating a plane as ships are navi
gated by mathematics, sextant and
compass.
It was for the purpose of trying this
out that the five' machines we saw start
ed from Langley Field to Columbia,
S. C. And consequently, they were in
charge of the greatest navigator alive.
This was Captain J. P. Ault, of the
Carnegie Institute. . He. is the one great
master pilot, the man who recharted the
navigable waters of the world with a
non-magnetic ship, for the first time
locating the shores with true relation to
the magnetic North. His problem was
to sail the skies without reference to the
earth, making his destination by reading
the heavens, and using his compass, in
full flight. He did it. He got there,
and he came back. This marks the be
ginning of an essential part of the great
flights that are destined to be the com
monplaces of the next decade.
u IECOW1) TO IVOJVF1
Is in otto of Cavalry Cadet Platoon
Org-anlziug- at Pinehurst School
Captain R. A. Duckworth-Ford, Head
master of Pinehurst School, plans to
organize a small cavalry cadet platoon,
to begin training next' term. The pre
liminary strength of the platoon will be
small: three officer-instructors, one cadet
lieutenant, one cadet sergeant, one cadet
corporal, and ten cadet privates; but
as the school grows a fully equipped,
thoroughly trained troop will gradually
be developed.
To begin with the uniform will be of
the olive drab U. S. army pattern, with
special school collar and cap badges and
insignia of rank. The collar badges will
bo a monogram P. S. in bronze. The
cap badge will be a Pine Tree, with be
low the school motto: "Nvlli Secundus,"
(Second to None). The school colors
are black and green. They will be worn
on forage-cap and campaign hat.
The military instruction will be under
the supervision of Captain Ford who
has had some twenty years military ser
vice as a commissioned officer. He has
participated in campaigns in South
Africa, Nigeria, Philippines, and the
German Cameroons for which he was
awarded campaign medals. He served
as Captain, Eoyal Fusiliers, for nearly
three years of the late World-war. Cap
tain Ford will bo assisted by Captain
G. M. Hodge, U. S. E., Adjutant. Mr.
R. Clinton Piatt, Assistant Headmaster,
will fulfill the duties of Quartermaster
with the local rank of Captain and
Quartermaster.
Hay den Preston will be the first Cadet
Lieutenant, and James Tufts the first
Cadet Sergeant. Day scholars will be
permitted to join the platoon, but only
boarders will be eligible for promotion
to non-commissioned and commissioned
rank.
In addition to the unquestionable val
ue of the military training, a cadet
corps will be conducive to the develop
ment of leadership and initiative, a high
state of discipline, esprit de corps, and
smartness and poise in carriage and ad
dress. And when the corps reaches its
full growth, and becomes a fully equip
ped efficiently trained troop, it will be a
national asset. Universities, colleges,
and high grade public schools are the
obvious nurseries for the commissioned
personnel of a national army. WhileJ
the League of Nations will make war
difficult, there can be no surety that it
will make it impossible, and "Defence,
not Defiance,' ' will be a very good work
ing motto.
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Hull ad of thw Litll Horn
(Kindness of her trainer and Boswell)
And now came the Little Horn out of
the West,
Of yearlings and darlings she's none of
the best,
To retire in her dotage to Pinehurst she
came;
She looked like a camel, was sick, sore
and lame.
But the sand underfoot was so soft to
her feet
That she neighed in the sunshine and
grew very fleet.
Growing every day younger, she
wended her way
And entered the sweepstakes on Dump
lin Day.
And when she embarked they called her
a goat,
And a farmer remarked they were rid
ing his shoat.
But when she got off the bookies turned
pale ;
She stopped not for ditch and she
stopped not for rail;
She hurdled the club house, . she hur
dled the track,
And then she turned round and jumped
all the wayback.
And Wise, the great trainer, stood up in
amaze,
And turning to Hill, of the horses, he
says:
"By what art of the devil did this
come to pass?"
Says Hill in reply: "It's the climate,
you ass.
You could winter a bull frog, a mule or
a sheep,
A yak, or the lambkins of Little Bo
Peep
In this sunshine of Pinehurst, this
piney-wood clime,
And they'd all soon be beating the
.Roamer's best time."
The High Coil of Hunting:
We have heard divers facetious tales
of what a bob-white costs a banker.
But none that ever rivalled this tale of
the actual market price of the fruits of
the chase as quoted in Paris recently,
according to a dispatch received from
Paris.
"High prices for game followed the
recent opening of the hunting season
in France. In place of the usual large
crowds, only a few elderly sportsmen
left Paris on hunting trips.
"Cartridges for such uses cost six
times as much as they used to, and there
are heavy taxes to pay. Consequently,
the first lots of game offered at Paris
were sky-high.
"A consignment of ten partridges
was sold for $30. A brace of rabbits
cost $10.50, while pheasants brought $4
apiece.
After the war Europe will continue to
look to America for help; there will be no
crops raised overnight.
Food helped win the war. The next
duty and opportunity of food is to save
starving nations in Europe.