North Carolina Newspapers

Page Two THE PILOT, a Paner*With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, May 22. 193^ THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. ed to the garden for the exer- a character that the whole Sand- cise we need from day to day , hill country is interested in self- when we have idle time on our defence. This is the artificial hands. We have not yet reached, breeding of quail and their in- the point where we have to pump j crease on the ranges. This fore- or drown, which is the climax , most of game birds is a native Abeideen, North Carolina NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager j ^ desperate situatkm. ’of the neighborhood, thriv^ing - . where all natural conditions are in its favor. But man has disturbed the natural equili brium, partly by indiscriminate BION H. BUTLER, Editor | this country we have 125,- JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT 1000,000 people, each with two RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors hands and only one stomach, to say nothing of a whale of a lot of machinery of various kinds to j slaughter of the birds, and part- help us make things. If, with j ly by killing the other creatures the Subscription Rates: One Year w....$2.00 ^ enormous surplus of equip-1 that have been protecting Six Months $1.00, ^ent and resources and some ^ quail by killing the things that Three Months M j^^ck bone still left in US, we prey on quail. And now it has can^t make the grade, Nature is I come to the point where men going to have a lot of waste ! must lend a hand in restoring when it dumps us overboard and j and protecting the flocks, and takes a new start. Happily, how- this the Johnson farm has un- Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. FROM THE CRADLE- TO SAMARCAND ever, it is when we stick in the mud that we really turn in to dig out. The human race can not exist under sunny skies and on flowery beds of ease and fat chicken on the plates alongside. A girl in Rowan county, still ^ ^ , in her early teens, didn't want to go to school. She liked to hang j under the hays task by the around the drug store and ride i way. We are dertaken on a scientific basis, employing capalble engineering talent to further the work, and drafting every authority that money and the welfare of the cause can get hold of. The Johnson plantation says the quail can be restored in ..xxc V.XC.6 . i-i, g'reat numbers and maintained, in boys’automobiles. There was, I the button if that will serve the I To do that requires providing at first, a lack of parental euid-! Purpose. But remember tms gupj, subsistence provisions as V— 4.1.. will maintain the flocks, such at- titude of men as will protect them, and legislation that will encourage the scientific men and the farmers in the attempt to restore this interesting crea ture to the numbers this section can maintain. It is now pretty certain that the quail is to be ance; then a lack of parental j biitton control. Things went from bad brmg home any sack of meal we are going down to the mill to get it rather than like the wild asses of Scripture to live on the west wind. Judge to worse until father and moth er threw up their hands, and the welfare officer had the case. This welfare officer tried the State’s school for delinquent iwind, and to do something girls at Samarcand. A girl in Alleghany county didn't want to go to school eith- than blow the suds from the soda water glass and the smoke from the cigarette. For we have counseling with the girl, tried I sufficient authority. W threats, tried all the facilities at | + hand; then passed the case along goi^& to husue presently, to ^ tlie next step. She was sent to I reestablished in the Sandhills, Big estates that will 'have suffi cient acreage to place safety re striction about the birds are be- coming numerous. Slaughter is to be taboo henceforth, and every policy followed that will increase the flocks and preserve them. Here is one of the most attractive quail retreats in the world, and here will be built up one of the finest 'hunting sec tions on earth if the people will stand by the men who are un dertaking this work, and help er. Neither did one in Randolph : county, nor one in Vance county,! mACJir rki? nor one in Guilford, nor Iredell I THE TASK OF nor Lincoln, nor Alamance. | They were young, uninstructed, | The assessors of the various misguided. They roamed and | townships of the county have they ranged—and they all ar- been trying to get at their work, rived at Samarcand. but they have been held up by There, perforce, they ran into discipline. Whether or not the are finely joined in their ma chine work. One thing that is worth studying from this fire is that some day it will be wise to hook up the water supply sys tems of the three towns that in event of a big fire every town will be safer in having the sur plus of the other two to draw against in an emergency, as they can now draw in machine and man power. THE HIGHLAND PINES EXPERIMENT Earlier in the spring Creamer & Turner announced that they would break the ice this summer on an experiment in pushing the season later into the year ,and that the Highland Pines Inn would not close until June. The movement is working success fully. This week Mr. Creamer says the hotel has guests enough to justify the deferred closing date, and that it looks now as if the venture will be profitable to the end of May. It at least shows the possibiHties, and it is the hope that by carrying the exper iment further the winter seas on can be pushed so far for ward that the closing period of not borne out by the facts. With the tourist industry in the Sand- j that in mind the move to length- hills can be reduced to a few ! en the tourist season in this sec- weeks instead of to several ; tion is not illogkal, and if noth- months. If it can be carried ; ing more can be done than to add a month jor two to the open period the gain will be pronounc ed. something over three months. July and August are the only two months in which the weath er is warm enough to make a visit to this part of North Car olina at all open to question on account of the heat. When folks come to know that the highest extreme in the Sandhills is never as high as the extremes that have been recorded in those states that border on the Cana dian frontier, that Michigan, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Wy oming, and the rest of the fron tier states, see the mercury higher at its excessive figures than we do here in the sand, they will not sneer at summer in the Sandhills. However, comparisons do not tell the story. In this section we have some warm weather dur ing an occasional few days in summer, but never the discom fort that comes from the humid ity of the air in most northorn centers in the summer, for it is the moisture content in the air that makes the northern sum mer disagreeable when it is really warm up there. That old notion that in the South the summer heat is oppressive is profitably up to June and then resumed in September the idle period will be whittled down to Optimistic Notes Judge Way has just received at hi« orchid greenhouses at Knollwood sev^ eral hundred new plants direct from a famous breeder in Sussex, England the Stuart Low Company, of Jarvi&^ brook. The shipment includes nianv new crosses produced by the Stuan Lows, some of them right young plants and others big enough to be* gin to blossom before long. Judge Way not only develops new varieties himself in numbers but he constant ly adds other new things from fore most growers, and he is close to the front in orchid production. In the shipment was included a sprinklino- of botanical novelties in orchids, and w’-hich add to the interest of the Knollwood establishment. Orchids are in steady demand now at the plant, shipments going out abun dantly to all quarters of the country. Laurinburg is to have a new textile plant and work began last week on the excavations for a moderi new mill building at East Laurinburg. The new mill will be built by the McNair Investment Company and will be leas ed to the Morgan Cotton Mills, Incor porated, Ediwin Morgan president. The new mill will manufacture twines, laundry bags, and spun and wovon specialties. LAKEVIEW the uncertainty at Raleigh, and have made but little headway, proper discipline is beyond the They have announced that the by their observance of rules and point here, but they found re- time for making the valuations necessary policies to save the straint. Restraint, possibly— has been extended, and the whole quail, and to follow the counsel yes, probably—for the first | matter is complicated by the un time in their lives. And they re- certainty wTiich will not be clean ed up without more or less diffi- fonnation when the work is ac tually systematically started. belled. Each little rebellion- tearing out window screens, sassing teachers, running away —led to further punishment. And the snowball rolled bigger For this reason the people should and bigger until— I be as helpful to the assessors as Sixteen incorrigible young j possible, for they "have no bed of misses faced charges of arson roses until they have finished in the courts of North Carolina. They had set fire to their school, burned State property. Acknowl edged it, many of them. They the quail growers offer for this end. This can be made a hun ter's paradise if we all join with culty in getting out the final in- | the men who are taking on their ■ ‘ shoulders the big job of restor-' ation. This is a community re sponsibility. their tasks. It is right apparent that the inflated land values of a few years ago' is not a real valuation of property. The ten- were on trial this week at the | dency is to lower values, but Moore county court house at ’ the reduction of values must be Carthage. Guilty in the eyes of | attended by raising tax levies, the law, without peradventure 1 for it is not the value of the of doubt. I land that counts, but ^ the | of gasoline vehicles that the But is this the story? Were |amount of money that is to |three towns are practically one these girls on trial for touching be gathered in taxes. We as a ^ when need arises, and with the matches to curtains and scrap j county have so much to pay, and 'joint equipment they are capa- baskets and inflammables in the ‘ no one but ourselves to pay it. ble of putting a decisive quantity school at Samarcand, or was the ; The assessors are a, fairly in- of water on any building that so school on trial, or were the wel-; telligent and reliable bunch of , far is encountered in the terri- fare officers in Rowan and Alle-1 men. They are trying to arrive 1 tory. Some eight streams were ghany and Vance and Guilford ' at fair values of property. They on the fire at the Southern Pines and Iredell and Lincoln and Ala- i are weighing the relative valu^ ^ house, the efficiency of which is mance, or were the parents of real estate by comparing the | shown by the suppression of the on trial, or the State of North ' various individual holdings with . fire with the walls yet standing, Carolina or society or the age 1 the others in the neighborhood, and the outer shell of the build- in which we live? iThey seem to be discussing val- ^ing remaining to mark the fire Weren’t we all on trial, for'ues with the people, and giving at which the firemen gained the permitting conditions to exist' proper recognition to all intelli- , supremacy over what was one whidh culminate in sixteen' gent suggestions. This is all ] of the most threatening fires youthful members of society, they can do. To The Pilot’s way 1 ever known in this part of the our neighbors* children if not of thinking these men charged | state. The house was built of our own, facing charges for com- ■ with this responsible task, are | that fine old long-leaf heart mitting a capital offense against, trying to make as fair a rating pine, full of turpentine, inflam mable to a degree, one of the most difficult things to save from the ravages of fire. Yet GRAINS OF* SAND There’s one crtJp which does not ’ seem to have any blight this year. It’s been our observation that the crop' of sweet girl graduates in Moore county schools is about 100 percent* Judge Way says the country is not going to the demnition bow-wows. Where there^s a Way, there^s a will. New York has a new state law as sessing an billboards from $5 to $2o per square foot of space. TTie assess ment is against the property on' which the board is erected’. The legisTatore continues sion. There are 16,579 Indians in North; Carolina, mainly in Robesonr county. Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Swaringcn moved to Aberdeen from Carthage re cently, thereby increasing Aberdeen's population by two. Now theyVe in creased it by two more. Twins arriv ed at the Moore County Hospital Sat urday, a boy aird a girL Mother and children dbing^ well, amJ Aberdeen growing.. EFFICIENT FIRE-SERVICE The serious fire that destroy ed the Southern Pines Hotel served one purpose. It demon-^ strated to the people of the com munity that the fire-fighting service of the villages is effec-- tive. Pinehurst and Aberdeen are near enough in these days 'We missed an impo^ant feature in; our last week’s story about the opset of Ralph Page’s bam. It seems that though the wind took it amf com pletely turned it upside down; Kot a window was broken. James Swett loquitor: . Win Sewardffe soff driving- aiong tne road near Niagara. Snake crossing road. Was about to hit the snake. Before he coufd properly ruw over, it saw a flash in front of wheels. Hit something. Got out to see w'hat had happened. Hawfe rambnh;^ >along^ that way saw snake about the same time the' boy did. Hawk slid for base. Hawk fir^ to arrive. Car aTrived just in: time to get both. Well, that isn't all tfie story. Jim does not know whether this part is* [ j a scientific farct or not, but as it Caitvincinf testimony on behalf of goes it seems the boy had heard that driv^ licenses is presented: by the ^^ ^ snnke i'ar thorougftly warmed up> National Safety Council. Ten states : 0^5^^ ^ fire^ it will put its feet out., with strong drivers' license laws | goy warmed snake OTer fire of pine showed an average decrease of 1.5 n'rfwdlies. Snafee stuck: erat its four f<3et per cent in automnbile fatalitiie last ‘ jygj. ^ lizard. Whites comprise 70 per cent North Carolina’s population.. of I year. States without such laws had an increase of 8.3 pKT cent. If the 'en tire country had done as well ais the ten' license-law states, jaJbout 1,700' lives would have been saved; says World’s Work.. The automobile has killed 264,4:49» people in the United States since the.* World War, fiire times as many as; we lost in the? war. Jim is IboKng up comparative anat omy so he may kntjw how far to go with this Mt of history. As far as tfie evidence is in the snake has mt ftad any legs since the earth some millionH of^ years ago was in the Cre^ tacedus age, and a study of the or dinary snake skefeton does not seem to show a place to put Tegs. B?Qt if they sl^w up when the snake is. heat ed on a prine staraw fir® that’s^ that. FROM THE STATE PRESS the laws of our state? 'of values as is humanly possi- And what are we going to do ble, but they are well aware about it ? ! that if the assessed value is be- THE GUESS OF AN OPTIMIST The philosophic poet w'ho pre-' offset the land reduction. Al- sides at the fountain whence The ways the necessity of procuring Pilot derives its chief visions of , money enough for county affairs the future is Judge Wav, whose is facing the officials and the persistent assurance that the tax payers. So it resolves itself world is not going to the dogs to one of two courses. These are is highly reassuring and logical, ^^e reduction of expenses of the low a certain necessary figure ! the machines were so dependable the commissioners will have to | and the work of the firemen so put the tax levy high enough to ! intelligent and persistent that the ^reat pile of fat pine lumber The main argument and inspir ation is found in that line of ev idence which shows that in the thousands or millions of years, (depending on whether you are a funnymentalist or a modern- county, or the same amount of money as in the past. If the State pays some of the road and was not permitted to bum to the finish or to scatter fire to any adjoining structure. It is re markable that at no time did the fire crews allow any great heat to get through the walls at any place or to break out in vol ume through the roof. The great danger of the collapse of the school expenses the county as a^structure with the attendant eruption of fierce heat and roll- unit will not have that to worry about. But if the State does it ist) it is no nearer the dogs ' advaiorem tax on prop- than when it started, and so far erty we will be where we start- as can be seen is not yet looking | 'I'he only thing the asseHH- toward them. Two schools of 1 can do is to try to make th(j thought wrangle in the store- j assessment proportionate anionjf box debating club meetings, one ‘ all the property ownerH, and the insisting that we are not yet at best way to accompliHh that, (-.nd if for every owner to ditfil candidly as possible with ihtt hk- sessors, that fairneHM may bo attained. the bottom of the financial slump, while the other claims to have visions of early recovery and deep grass pastures in the symbolic river bottoms before snow flies again. Possibly we are i A SANDHILL to wear our old clothes a little NEW INDUSTRY closer to the shiny stages than At the Eldridge Johnson plan- we have done in the recent past, tation on Drowning Creek, a new but things have not yet become so desperate that we have set the old gas buggy in the shed and taken up the hoes and turn- industry is in the experimental stages, but backed by so much intelligence and capital that it gives promise of success of such ing flamft whh prevented by a copiouH flow of water applied whcr(» n<L<<td was greatest at thf? Huy progress of the fire? HrteTn<'!<i imminent. Another thlnjf to bear in mind wH’h or less of comfort is that th(* two !)ig tanks on the hill above Southern Pines held a large water supply for such a contingency, and that down at the water works on Mill Creek from which thie reserve supply comes, two big pumps, one elec tric and the other gas-driven, were able to hold that supply in the tanks up to the needs of the occasion, and to reenforce the amount in the street mains, ^vith a pressure behind it to help control the fire. The three towns One hundred years ago-,, the amraal death rate from tubercntlosis im the United States was neariy 400 erery 100,000 of population. Now there are; 76 deaths yearly for every 100^000 per sons. As late as fifty years »go, tit~ berculosis ranked first as a cause of death. Now it is seventh. Cancer,, XDKi ELXMUfATION OF’ T.. Bl Loufeiana, one of tl»e few tobacco>- chewing conqwtitors, Ciani in t&e? Semt, has no such rating. He is known as ai “short shooter^*' This hah»t has (^ubtless somewhat broadened Cam’s Tarheeltan bro^e^ hot it does not haimper his oratory. It probably lends a roundaess and rich ness to a mellaw voice which rings with the rhythm of the ald-time pneumonia, nephritis, apoplexy xDKi Southern orato-ry when he addresses accidents precede it in this order as i his feUow Tariteels as “My Cowntry- cause of death. The greatest problem | men.’” It is a voice loaded with ele^ri- of medical men now is to check T. B. in boys and girls between 15 and 24. —Boston News Bureau. CAM AND CHBWIN* In North Carolina it still remains a virtue to chew tobacco. For tobacco is one of the chief products of that noble commonwealth, and it must be consumed in one way or another in order to keep up the good roads ‘and general prosperity. So, living up to the best Tarheel- ian traditions, Cameron Morrison, the senior Senator from the Old North State, has brought back to the Sen ate the good old-fashioned habit of | olina, in the State Convention to send fying emotion which moves a crowd. It is a voice which appears des tined to be heard often in the Senate so long as Cam stay^ there. He had scarcely hung up his hat than his voice was ringing in the chamber in defense of Frank R. McNinch, one of the leaders of the anti-Smith forces in North Carolina, when he was appointed to the Federal Power Commission. And Cam was on the other side of the fence in the cam paign o€ 1928. This stocky, white-haired man, with a fighting squint in his blue eyes, battled and lost to Senator Simmons^ the master strategist of North Car- The Contract Club met last Friday at “The Dell” as guests of Mrs. N. L. Gibbon, enjoying the newly adopt ed informal picnic lunch arrangement and the usual two tables of cards. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Warner and little son, Billy, paid a visit to the family of J. G. Woods, Mrs. Warner’s brother, at Lamar, S. C., last Sun day. A party of young people from Lake- view, Leon Westcott, Atlas Eastwood, Hiram Mclnnis and Alton Matthews, Misses Lillian and Alma Mclnnis, motored to Myrtle Beach for the day Sunday. The neighborhood is just now de prived of the bright face of little Va leria Miller as she is suffering with a rather serious case of measles. Mrs. Eugene F. Pough, after a two weeks*^ visit to the family of Mrs. A. H, Williams, left Wednesday for her home at Jersey City. Miss Pearl McNeill is expected to arrive Saturday for a visit of sev eral days with relatives in Lakeview and Pinehurst following a delightful trip to Sea Island Beach, where she attended a convention of New Vork Life Insurance company workers, Palm Beach and Miami, Fla., and Ha vana, Cuba. Mrs. Ralph Gibson, who has be^n with her family in the P. L. Gardner household for the past two or three I weeks, returned to her home in Fay etteville during the past week. Holt Gardner, with Miss Madelinf^ Wright, of Piatrick, S. C., spert Sun day with his family here. Kmwr Carroll and family, return ing to his home at Patrick, S. C,, af ter a visit to his mother, Mrs. Simp kins who is quite iTT at her home in Angier, stopped over on Sunday af ternoon to see friends and relatives in Lakeview. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Causi^y visit ed Mrs. Causey’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Caddell, at Carthage on S^day. Mr. and Mrs.. Cornelias Priest and family went to Laurinburg Sunday to spend the day with the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Cook, who fo'-merly lived in Lakeview. Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Ballard, of Lil- lington, visited Lakeview relatives on Sunday and took back with them Mrs. J. N. Ballard, who ha.^ been on a little visit to the families of her sons and daughter here. Miss Johnsye Eastwood spent Fri day in Raleigh. T. K. Gunter, Jr., wHo recently suffered a broken arm, was unfortu nate enough to break the same arm again a day or so ago—both bones this time—and is now in the Moore County Hospital for care of his in jury. Mr. and Mrs. M. P. Causey, Mrs. S. J. Gardner and Mrs. W. E. Gard ner visited Sidney Dyer in the Ham let Hospital Sunday. The report is that Sidney is convalescing but is e:c- pected to he in the hospital two or three weeks longer. using “eating’ ” tobacco. According to all reports. Cam can “chaw a quid” about the size of the next one and spit mighty nigh as anti-Smith delegates to Houston. Sim mons lost in the end when he was de feated for re-election because he bolt ed the Democratic ticket. Now Cam FIREMEN DRILLING 'fur.” He is reputed to be a dead- is on top of the political heap. shot at a knothole at 10 paces, w'hich is not so bad considering his amateur standing. Senator Eddie Broussard of Cam is given credit, while Govern or, for building up the magnificent North Carolina highway system, mod- The Southern Pines Fire Company is holding drills on West Broad street every evening in anticipation of send ing a select crew to compete in the meet of the Sandhills Firemen’s As sociation to be held in Lumberton June 2nd. ernizing the State University and re- placing the little red school house with modem fireproof building?. ^ This once poor country boy millions like water. And he’s a Scctcn- man at that.—Universal Service.