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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, April 13. 1934
THE PILOT
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A CONTINUING
PLAY SCHEDULE
April farther north is an un
certain season. It is the breaking
point between winter and spring,
and where winter is as severe as
in most of the North April is
mixed up with raw weather,
muddy trails, %loppy gardens,
overshoes and umbrellas. Here
in the Sandhills April is a pleas
ing reality of spring time, and
a period when folks like to lin
ger and avoid the changes back
at their homes. That makes it
desirable to have just such a
s3ason of play and noveltj* as has
prevailed here this week, and
for that reason it is a good move
to make this spring festival a
permanent institution. So many
novel things that are conven
ient to produce appeal to the
northern friends and likewise to
the old inhabitants, for human
interest in things is not confin
ed to the stranger. Wherever a
crowd assembles so much devel
ops spontaneously that always
the general effect is worth the
effort.
The festival should be taken
as a going concern from now
on and organized on a continuing
plan so that it m.'iy be anticipat
ed each year and planned so far
in advance that the management
will have time to arrange their
programs and to secure their at
tractions. Probably Fort Bragg
can be counted as a fixed fea
ture, for it is so convenient tt)
Southern Pines that it gives the
.soldiers a practice march with
out being long enough to tire or
be monotonous. And always the
people like to see the spectacle
of active young men, big guns,
military accoutrement, and a
good band, which the Fort main
tains. Tne gathering together of
local and visiting clans, as the
people from various sections of
the Union comprises, is anoth
er positive feature, while spec
ial events can be contrived by an
ingenious management that will
always grow in attractiveness
and in its reputation as a pleas
ing diversion for the folks be
fore they begin to pack to go
back to their summer work and
home customs.
April in the Sandhills becomes
more attractive each season and
the forests brighten as the vil
lages take on more matured ap
pearance and as the roads and
drives are more aggressively
cared for by the folks in all di
rections. Next April the natur
al settings for the affair will be
more elaborate than now. and
year by year the opportunity is
greater. A permanent organiza^
tion is desirable.
THE NEW ENGLAND
TAR F'EEL SOLDIER
Judge Humber at the New
England gathering Tuesday
caught the perfect spirit of the
occasion when heb rought back
a memory of a rare old Yan
kee, and a real one in that well-
known Pennsylvania soldier of
the years gone by, Oapt. Asaph
M. Clarke. As the judge said,
Clarke was of New England, his
parents hailing from Connecti
cut by way of New York, and
they were probably as typical of
the early habit and custom and
thought of New England as any
migrants from that section. A.
M. Clarke was a Pennsylvanian
up to the fifteenth day of April,
1861, when at 15 years of age
he enlisted in the military com
pany that was forming in his
community in anticiption of the
coming war. He was refused be
cause of his youth, and he
promptly went around to anoth
er recruiting officer and enlisted
IS 18 years old and was sworn
n. When Captain Clarke was
nustered out in 1865 after serv-
ng his full term and veteraniz-
ng for another year he said he
ivas 21 years old and they ask-
^d him how he came to add only
.hree years to his age during
four years of war.
For four years he was a Vir
ginian, or at least he stayed
down that way. Then he went
back to Pennsylvania to teach
the home guards how to play
poker and some of the other
things he had learned in the
Virginia campaigns and then he
moved to Maryland, and then to
Texas, where the atmosphere
wa.>! a little warm for a federal
officer. He came back to Penn
sylvania for a bit of quiet and
then again to Maryland and then
to North Carolina about 1884,
where for a start they called
him the Yankee Radical. He was
properly named. But the New
England, Pennsylvania, Mary
land, Texas radical was a sol
dier, and the old time enemies
who had chased him in the val
ley of Virginia and run from
him in their own turn in their
proper places at their time liked
to gather in his shop and watch
him mend clocks and yammer
with him over the campaigns.
jThey liked him for he li'.ed them,
land the battles that were fought
I in his shop tightened the friend-
i ships that were deep and endur-
i ing. Radical republican in poli-
i tics he forgot politics when he
j went to the polls where an old
I soldier was a candidate,
i Clarke lived longer in North
j Carolina than any where else
' and became a New England,
I Pennsylvania, Maryland Tar
Heel, and lies on the hilltop of
' Mt. Hop. Judge Humber knew
I him well, and if the judge was
I to young to drink from the same
canteen with him they prob
ably drank from the same bottle
in those older days of more
freedom. The judge painted the
picture there among the New
p]nglan(ier folks of possibly the
most striking Connecticut Yan
kee that ever came into this sec
tion of North Carolina, for the
judge is an artist and he had a
supject who was not hard to
portray. The choice of the speak
er was a happy selection, and the
theme was a fitting illustration
»'f that amalgamation that
marks the basis of the Ameri
can commonwealth.
ONE THING
AHOUT sprim;
No matter what the weather
did in March you can’t stop
spring when the time comes for
it to arrive in the Sandhills.
And when the warm weather is
here, and the sun shines vigor
ously, and the ground is moist
and plant life feels the stimulus
this warm sand brings vegeta
tion forth with a bump. You go
to sleep on the last night of cold
weather and leave tti? fires
banked in the furnace and coir.^
down in the morning to stir
them up and you note that the
birds have settled around the
back porch to say hello and
howdy. You forget to poke up
the fire, for during the night a
soft air has swathed all Nature,
tnd you perceive that the spireas
and the forsythias, and all the
■ other pretty bushes with foreign
and fanciful names have sudden
ly picked up a load of color, and
along with the bushes you know
are those you don’t know. Down
'over the hill the arbutus has
I flashed into blossom during the
night, the apples and peach
trees are gay, and you wonder
where you left the garden hoe
and rake last fall, and you make
a mental note to get some onion
sets and turnip seed and other
j paraphernalia when you go to
jthe store, for the garden fever
. breaks out with the coming of
the mild days.
j Nature is a great worker. All
I winter long the preparation has
j been made to start business in
i the .spring, but Nature never
j calls for any high-speed gas. She
j takes her time until the time
I comes to move. Then like light-
jing a match or turning on the
I electric light the thing is done
I and spring is busy on the job. It
'does not make much difference
I just what elements combine to
I bring about this business of
j.spring. The main thing is that
I when the stage is set the play
I begins, and the pace is fast
enough to get things in work
ing order before we know what
is going on. Eight weeks from
now in some of the Northern
states memorial day will be call
ing for some flowers, and a few
apple blossoms and other flow-
jers that come along with them
will be scoured up here and
I there to serve. But here the
! bursting buds are ready in
! March and April for anything,
and from now on until Christ-
! m.is the field and garden will be
! alive with color. Spring has rung
the bell.
THE SMALL FARM PROBLEM
PLANT A
GENEROUS GARDEN
We are not yet out of the
woods and we will not be until
, wo sweat a little more, for we
j have not yet learned to what ex
tent we can depend on ourselves
! to put flour in the barrel. This
world needs to wear out its
tiousers at the knees more and
less in the seat, for the knees
t.et into action when we get down
in the garden and dowm to pray,
while sitting around wears lit
tle on the knees. Our fathers
knew the value of a garden and
they had few relief measures
and counted the unemployed by
the number who didn’t have the
sagacity to put themselves at
work with the spade and the hoe.
Time is worth nothing except
as we use it. If we can get a
few tomatoes and potatoes and
jears of corn and peas and such
I like junk for some work in the
I garden it is not necessary to fig-
lure whether we earn fifty cents
I an hour or five cents or any
j other cents, for the belly never
asks the figures how long it took
to hoe the watermelon or pick
the beans. At any rate it takes
I no longer than to loaf around
! the streets wondering about
when the price of side meat will
come down or the price of cut-
; ting logs will go up. Your stom
ach wants rations, and doesn't
care a fig how many hours you
put in at making your gaulen
iStuff. We will waste enough time
this spring pitying our fates to
make garden stuff enough to
I fatten the whole human race,
but we don’t seem to think work
ing for ourselves is worth while.
BAILEY LOSES
ON ( OTTON BILL
In the house conference in
Congress the Bailey amendment
to the Bankhead cotton bill
which would have allowed the
small farmer to plant cotton up
to six bales without the prohib
itive tax, was defeated, thus bar
ring the man who has not quali-
ti.d under the unmodified re
strictions. Some small farmers
who had hoped to plant a bale
or two to help maintain them
selves during the unfavorable
conditions but who had not plant
ed cotton last year or through
other causes were not admitted
under Jthe Bankhead measure
will not be eligible now, and the
situation is not pleasant for
them.
But the die seems to be cast,
tnd the disappointment will have
to be swallowed. The small man
who has been figuring on plant
ing a bale or two of cotton
should inform himself of his
standing under the law before
he puts any seed in the ground.
DISTRIBUTION
OF WEALTH
We hear a lot these days
about the more equitable distri
bution of wealth. But we don’t
read enough about Benjamin
P’ranklin, possibly the wisest
authority on wealth this country
has ever known. He was born
poor, but died ri^'h in material
possessions as well as in wis
dom. One day when a boy he had
a few cents and he was offered a
whistle for his pennies. He
bought the whistle, only to find
that it was not much of a
whistle, and all through life he
recalled the early experience
Where he paid too much for his
whistle.
Afterward it took a pretty
good trader to get Benjamin to
distribute much of his wealth
for something he didn’t really
need. He learned right there not
to buy something that wasn’t
I worth the money to him. He set
a new standard of distribution of
; wealth. And there are others
(like him.
j Divide the wealth of the world
tomorrow and a large portion of
j the population will be down town
I promptly with their coin in
1 their pockets to distribute,
j Others a little more prudent
I will be on hand with open
hats to catch the w’ealth that is
tossed around here and there
promiscuously. And it the early
future the distribution will have
wound up, and some folks will
Editor, The Pilot:
W'e here in the Sandhills have been
for twenty years testing out the
theory now being advocated of try
ing to induce people to have homes
with enough land so that they could
raise the necessities of life. John R.
McQueen started it by suggesting that
we sell at reasonable prices small
blocks of land, these being large
enough to have vegetables and fruit
garden as well as enough land to
rai.se the corn and potatoes needed
by the family. After considerable dif
ficulty some of these were sold but
since then all but a few have been
cut up into house lots.
During the war they were used as
intended for patriotic reasons and
during the depression the same is
true, but normally we have found
those who prefer farming stay on
a farm and do not move on to an
enlarged house lot and those who
did don’t like it will not farm. Eco
nomically the idea is sound, but very
few people will, unless want or duty
requires it, do something that they
don't want to do in order to save a
little money when they have plenty
of money to pay for what, to them,
these disagreeable tasks would yield.
Later we enlarged the plan and
the lots on the Midland farm devel
opment were put up for sale but
nobody who bought as far as I know
ever farmed the land. The purchasers
simply saw a chance of buying
blocks of lot cheap and have either
cut them up or held to sell at a prof
it.
After the successful war gardens
were not needed. I know several of
the organizers thought that since
they had been so successful they
couJd and should be continued, but
they couldn’t get the people to do
this.
Now the Federal Government is, as
I understand it, to try it and it should
work until times are more nearly
normal, but after that they will be
abandoned or turned into night clubs
and “over night camps.”
If the government wants to try it
it had best supply the people with au
tomobiles or busses for transporta
tion from the city to the gardens,
rather than build houses. It will be
much cheaper.
LEONARD TUFTS.
Pinehurst, April 12, 1934.
KE.AL EST.ATE TH.ANSFERS
The following transfers of real es
tate have been recorded in the office
of the Register of Deeds of Moore
county;
The County Board of Education to
S. R. Hoyle: property in Carthage
township.
Wiley Davis and wife. Aaron Ken
nedy and wife and Martha Jane Gar
ner to Stephen Davis, property in
Sheffield township.
Wm. F. Junge and wife to Bertha
Porterwine, property in Southern
Pines.
James Boyd and wife and Jackson
Herr Boyd and wife to Catharine
Pierson, property in Southern Pines.
FIFTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES
FROM THE BACK SEAT
By DR. ERNEST M. POATE
MARRIAGE LICENSES
This week I will register another
; addition to my personal Index E3xpur-
gatorius. Namely:
In no circumstances, by whatever
overmastering temptation driven,
shall I ever, ever perpetrate a Diary
of Mister, Doctor, Colonel, Judge,
Professor, Gehelmrat or what-not,
Pepys, Jamais, never!
This is a type of vicarious exhibi
tionism with which I have no sym-
j pathy. If I am at any time moved by
I the urge to discuss intimate domestic
j affairs, (which Heaven forf end I) I
j shall do so in my own proper person,
{and in the first person singular and
I it will be singular. If I do. The im-
I moral Samuel (Yes, that’s what 1
i laid. On purpose. The scandalous old
I repropatei)—The immoral Samuel has
I served as clothes-horse for dirty lin
en in plenty: I shall not drape my
; washing upon him. This column shall
offer no Pepys.show to a public how-
I ever palpitant . . . But 1 never did
I promise not to make bad puns on
I occasion.
Having- thus leaded my resolution
. into the rocks, we might as well con
tinue.
i Mister William Wirt has recently
made and published a notable dis-
'covery: and I. also, have Revelations
j to make. Prepare to shudder. If you
I have flesh, let it creep,
I Now!—The daily newspapers of this
‘ fair land have degenerated something
shocking. Among the Tycoons of the
press, there is no longer any appre-
' ciation of Art, Genius goes imre-
i warded. If one spreads before the
' average editor such pearls of wis-
' dom as are herein so plentifully ocst-
tered, he merely tromps them into
his waste-basket, instead of the mire,
LAnd thereafter he doesn’t even dis-
I play enough interest to turn again
and rend me, I am ignored,
i All this is very painful, not for
' any personal reason (though one
I 'oes get into expensive habits, like
eating) but because of my esthetic
standards. I grieve to see the press
thus f.elf-stultified and blind to the
I Higher Things of Life. Raleigh, Char-
I lotte, Richmond. Baltimore. Wash-
I ington. New York and Boston pa
pers please copy. Also other points
north, west, up and down. (Rates on
request. Advt.l
Justice compels me, however, to
e.xempt from this blanket indictment
a choice and' literate remnant. It
there is hope for Literature in Amer
ica. it lies in the sane and balanced
judgment of certain editor.-^ of week
ly papers. I name no namts. lest I
appear indivious: but if you read
; these modest lines in any newspaper
(and if you rt'wd them at all. which
' is not too likely, you must read them
I in some newspaper: alas, not in
I many!)—when you read these lines,
you may by that token be assured
that the editor of that newspaper is
a Man with Good Taste. Would there
were more—and they more generous!
Which reminds me (and you may
trace the logical connection for your
t ow’n self) that somebody has organ
ized a League of Unemployed Writ
ers, and is besieging the Federal Ad
ministration, demanding minimum
pay of $35.00 a week.
Now. setting aside for the mo
ment the question of what said pay
is to be for: and if they aie to be
paid for not writing, as farmers are
for not planting wheat and cotton,
I’m for it: a more instant problem
arises.
What is an Unemplayed Writer,
anyhow ? I contend that this is a con
tradiction in terms. A writer is one
who writes. You can’t stop him—
though many would like to, if they
could. He who stops writing, merely
because he can't sell what he write.s,
is no writer at all. He is a lusus na
turae. (Naturally loose, that is. Or,
in free translation, balmy.)
However, the organizer of this lea
gue, whoever he is, has the germ of
an excellent idea. In fact, it beat.*
the NRA, AAA, CWA and so on
down to XYZ&c. The Depression
might easily bo conquered by such
means.
As thus.
Let all writers be registered. This
in itself would furnish employment
for thousands: it would mean a cen
sus of the entire nation. Because
every honest garbage icollectjor.
street-car conductor, dental techni-
clan and ceramic expert -even some
newspaper reporters everyone ha.-,,
in the trunk, the attic, the bottom
drawer of that old bureau out in the
barn; somewhere, at least one five-
act play, a movie scenario (suggested
as a vehicle for Miss Garbo) and
reams of verse. Besides short stories.
And essays. And things
So, register them all first. Then,
guarantee publication. Under bond
At one cent a word, say this being
relief work to be paid by the proud
author. Everybody would instantly
get to work and raise money enough
I to have his gems published. There's
I billions in it.
j Then subsidize all newspapers . . .
: No. not newspapers: at least, the>'
should be compelled to publish my
stuff first. If there was any space
left, it might be used, of course. But
' subsidize all magazines, book-publish-
eis, job-printing shops and the Sat-
evepost, and set them to work. Why
' as the vista broadens, one is simply
astounded by its possibilities.
Think of the linotypers, proof-read
ers, printers, manufacturers of pulp-
wood paper, expressmen my gra-
I cious I B^ditors, natiirally. would be
superfluous; but I should advise keep
ing them on: they could feature my
own work. The wheels of industrj
would spin madly, we'd all be pros
perous and there'd be no more talk
I of thirty-hours weeks, either. Who
wouldn't be willing to write sixty,
seventy, a hundred hours a week
, if he could publish F’verything? The
! only possible flaw in the plan is this
I Would the paper-ruakers and lino-
! typers and newsboys and judges and
I such have time to make paper or tap
I keys or sell papers or render leam-
' ed opinions ? They might be too busy
writing Masterpieces.
I But thmk of the stimulus to the
I building trades. For libraries would
be needed. By the cubic mile. Glor-
I lous. ---Or is it ?
Marriage licenses have been issued
from the office of the Register of i
Deeds of Moore county to A. B. Ma.
, ness. McConnell Route 1 and Stroudie ■
Hussey, Spies Route 1; J. Harris:
'Smith of Carthage Route 1 and Maida ]
j Brown, Carthage.
The Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONES Ass t. Cashier if
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have wealth and some will have
a bad taste in the mouth that
comes the morning afte.»\ You
can’t distribute wealth anu keep
it distributed until some geniu.s
invents a distributor that will
have strickers on it to make
wealth stick to the fingers that
get it.
There are two kinds of folks
in the world. One kind allows
peopl^e to sell to them almost any
thing.. The other kind buys what
it wants. That kind will ulti
mately get the money, for it will
not buy what it does not want
because it haJf money that is
burning holes in the pocketbook.
If we ever have general pros
perity in this or any other coun
try it will be when folks learn
that after wealth is distributed
it will have to be looked after,
or it will *all be huddling again
in a few piles. Coal Oil Johnn.v
had a lively time while it lasted,
but after the spending was over
he had a long time in which to
figure out the Httle song: “If
I’m so soon completely done for,
then what the dickens was I
begun for?” Accumulation of a
little wealth has as many virtues
as distributing wealth, and it
lasts longer.
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