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l*age Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen^ North Carolina Friday, September 14, 1934. THE PILOT Published every Friday by TH£ PILOT, Inoorporate«, Aberdeeu and Southern Pines, N. O. 2fZ3JSON C. HYDE, Managring Editor BION H. BUTLER, Editor IAME8 BOYD STRITTHERS BURT Contributing Editors Subscr^ttlon Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months fl.OO Three Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Elntered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mall natter. THE OPENING 1 OF THE SCHOOLS j Public schools are opening; again all over the state, and they | are becoming' every year more' striking subjects of discussion by the people and for several reasons. Possibly the first reas on is the general desire for edu cation, but close in general in terest is the mounting cost of fhe schools, followed in some sources by the question of tigating board to dig up facts and after combining everything favorable and everything unfav orable strikes a balance and makes a report. Every nev^' house on the hill tops of the villages of this section offers its evi dence of the attractiveness of the Pinewoods sandbelt. Every investment in a new home is a hostage of the good faith of the builder, and is a part of the cumulative opinion of the in creasing body of men who have checked up the advantages and placed their money on their j udgment. This fall indicates that the season just ahead is likely to be one of the most satisfactory ever known, for while in some things business conditions around the world are not of the best, general home-making con ditions in North Carolina are as perfect now as ever. AI’PLES. PEACHES AND “MR. MOSE.” In the show window at Bill McNeill’s feed store in Southern Pines has been displayed a bas ket of apples from the West End orchard of M. C. McDonald, who has a leaning toward fruit whether the schools are really i culture. “Mose” has not only one doing the best work that is pos-jof the biggest orchards of the sible. j finest apples grown in this sec- Few i)eople hesitate about the tion—and he boasts that other cost of the schools, but it is a | sections do not overshadow his fact that a considerable number j apples very much—but he is question whether the schools j also a peach man of enviable are doing the good work they place. But he is a careful rural might. It is conceded that if the engineer and ho farms with good schools are to accomplish the' old Scotch l)rains and judgment work they are assigned they are and industry, the most important task the j Mr. McDonald is about as people have set for themselves, | nearly that idealized type of and that task is to broaden the' Southern gentility as can be mind and the culture and the found on this broad earth, for cfharacter of the child to the his gentle contact with his greatest limit conditions permit, friends and neighbors is as se ll is always a fair question to rene as it is classical. lie rates ask anything whether it is do-' among the class A honor men, ing that or not, whether the in- among the kindly souls who are .strument in question be schools, founded on that Samaritan who government, church, society or illustrated in Scripture days the anything else. It is not doubted rneaning of neighbor. He takes that in some manner or other his hand in public affairs as well our civilization has been making as in neighborhood affairs and some slips of late. How' grave human relations, and his genial or how' slight is hard to deter- lecognition of anybody from top mine. The thing in mind at this to bottom of the social heap is point is that if such slips are to j one of the sunshiny phases of be corrected the public school Sandhill life, must be one of the chief agents' Moses McDonald has held by in finding the remedy and in ap- the home fires. His ancestors for plying it, for the remedy must generations have been Westend- be grouped around the mass of i ers, one of them having made human intelligence and thought i the mistake of following the Mc- that study and investigation di.s- Donalds into the battle of Moore’s close. The school being the edu- Creek bridge in the Revolution cational factor, is charged with and never coming back. But this task of putting the young that is of the past and Moses has folks on the right road. Whether | been a loyal adherent of the U. the charts are correct or not is; S. ever since it has been U. S. in some degree debated. And de-1 except perhaps for a brief per- bate is always legitimate, for iod tluring the sixties when sev- that is a privilege of the citizen | eral folks wandered outside of in the Republic always, and one the fold briefly. But as Mose was the school above all things only small frying size at that recognizes. Far too many boys time it is not held up against and girls are coming out of him by anybody. He is a fine old school today w'ith no clear con- citizen, friend and neighbor, as ception of 'how to face the world good as his apples, which is with a successful prospect of enough to say of any one. self-dependence and confidence ■ - - — in the future. The school is not' COLONLAL responsible for conditions, per-; HISTORY haps, but a huge task for the school is to help the boys and girls to be able to find them-i^^ -n il • R^'olu selves when the school life ends, I Iv, L community It is a tremendously big respon-! . .^.® ^ •sibility, but it is one of the ma- ’ Southern Pines One of the jor responsibilities of the! topics to be discussed will be the schools, and one that admits no e\ents of Moore, Hoke excuse, for excuse confesses fail-i^” ^ lon^tgomerj- counties, which ure. This is one of the serious district of the local that will be worth the work. If something can be worked out that will give the Sandhills a better historical knowledge of the territory it will be worth the backing of everybody in this part of the state, for the days that are gone have been signifi cant in this famous old pine belt. A BIT OF SHOP TALK A newspaper shop is a curious port into which men and ideas and suggestions and complaints and approvals and everjthing else drift as continually as the w’aters of the rivers flow down ward to the sea, and that is one of the reasons why the publish ers of The Pilot publish The Pi lot, and pi’obably the reason why other publishers publish other papers. No where else in the world is the perspective of life so completely presented as where they gather to lick the editor or pat him on the back, or ask fav ors, or tell how to run the bloom ing thing, and so on. A newspaper man comes to realize early in the game that mighty little is so; also that pretty nearly evej’ything is a fact. A pessimistic brother shows beyond doubt that the world is going to the devil, anti an optimist as definitely shows that it can’t, or it would have been there a million years ago. Two men at the north pole ar gue about the route to the south pole, and they turn their backs to each other and fly away in oi>posite directions, and in the course of 12,000 miles flying they meet each other coming from different directions to the south pole, which is to say that conti’adictox’y statements agree in their reverse. So the newspa per man takes nothing seriously, for when it gets to the climax it crosses the dividing line from ])ositive to negative and day be comes night and night becomes day. The newspaper man sees life in all its phases and all its phil osophies, and like the doctor and the nreacher he finds folks coming to confessional fro mall quarters even though some of them bring a club when they come to enforce their confes sions. But it is all all right, for it is merely another angle on not only human character, but on the whole theory of existence, animate and inanimate. And people are not all that is worth while. Dogs and horses, and the ant hill, and the plant that can go down in the ground in the dark and bring up material to make the peach on t'he trees, or the color in the rose, or the per fume in the blossom, or all the rest of things that go to make existence the great adventure it is. If life has anything more de lectable to offer than the field that is found in the country newspaper shop the man who finds it should count himself a lucky fellow. PINEHUBST Grams of Sand society. Here is a theme that is of much importance, for with each year as the older folks drop out the old traditions gradually lose their definite contacts and conditions of the present day. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A NEW HOUSE Up on Weymouth hill, close by | we find authority for past events the Highland Pines Inn, in a , narrowing and harder to find of neighborhood of interesting to trace down, homes, Mr. Woolnough is pre-{ It would be nice if the society paring to create for himself a can stimulate this inquiry into new home that will entail the ] definite history of this section, outlay of a large sum. From va- j for much that is accepted as fact rious view points this is an in- concerning some things and teresting vision, for it will take i some persons is clouded with un- up some of that problem of em-j certainty, while things that ployment, it fixes permanently; ought to be known are not another excellent household, it j known. In this neighborhood presents the testimony that in j are men interested in local hi.s- the Sandhills is a desirable place \ tory. Edwin McKeithen is a stu- to establish a winter home, and dent of these things. Charley Charlie Picquet, who has alvvays j believed it paid to put up a good j front, has done it again. This time he I -says it in paint. The new front of his Carolina Theatre has added 100 I percent to our side of Broad Street, j Thanks, Charlie. We’re going to ] start saving right away for a little top dressing to our building. It’s hard to figure things out up north. We've just come back. Manu- facturerg, retailers and bankers were i blue as indig’o; summer resorts were I doing a big busine.ss. What the pros- I pects for the winter season here are, I after those conflicting reports, we will leave to you to fathom. The Pinehurst Parent-Teachers As sociation will hold the first meeting of the year next Wednesday after noon, September 19th at 3:15. All parents and friends of the school are urged to attend. Mrs. Herman Camp bell, president of the association this year, will announce her committees at this meeting and other important business will be taken up. A short program will be g^iven by members of the faculty. On Friday night the last meeting of the season was held by the Sum- mer Bridge Club at the little Com munity House. Forty members en joyed a buffet supper after which they played several rounds of bridge.”This was the White Elephant party and when prizes, including- lemons, fly swatters, huge sun hats and many other similar articles were drawn, merriment was at it.s height. Mrs. J. M. Hagood was unanimously elected as the Club's president for next year and upon her request the other of ficers serving this summer will suc ceed themselves. They are Bill Dun lop, vice president; Mrs. Alex Stew art, secretary and A. P. Thompson, treasurer. Mrs. Raymond Johnson, retiring president, was given a vote or thanks for the delightful way the club was managed this aummer. The Rev. A. V. Gibson, pastor of the Presbyterian church in Sanford made a splendid talk to the young people at their regular Sunday night service at the Community Church on Sunday. Mr. Gibson is deeply inter ested in the work of this group in our church, and at the time gave those who were leaving for school many good things to remember. A number of the girls and boys attend ed the district conference for the ; young people of the church held at Eureka Wednesday night of this : week. ! Miss Catherine Cole entertained at , her home Saturday night for some j of those leavmg for school. I Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Sledge and their i daughter, Cathei'inc Sledge left ear- I ly Monday morning for Maysville, ^ Kentucky where they will visit Mr. and Mrs. J. VV. McNeill, and in com pany with them will visit Chicago and the W'orld's Fair. Miss Sarah Stew art accompanied them as far as Greensboro where she will be a stu dent at the Woman’s college this year. Among others leaving for school this week are Miss Dorothy McKen zie to Milligan College, Johnston City, Tenn., Miss Margaret Morton, David- Lipscomb, Tenn.; Miss Dorothy Ehr- hardt. Queens-Chicora, Charlotte; Mi.ss Mervelle McDonald, Womans College, Greensboro: Miss V'irginia Hensley, Meredith College, Raleigh; Donald Stewart, Davidson Coliege, Leonard and Stanley Lacks to Duke University. Miss Fannie B. Gray returned Sat urday from Malden, Mass., where she I visited relatives and friends for two ! months. I Mrs. True P. Cheney and her two I young daughters returned from the ‘ north last week in time for the open- ! ing of school on Monday. Mr. Chen- I ey will join them here early next month. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Campbell and Nancy and Frances Campbell were week-end guests of Mrs. Wade Hiatt at her home in High Point. Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Tufts re turned this week from their summer home in Meredith, N. H, Miss A. H. Hilton has returned from a vacation spent in the north and Roaring Gap. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Tufts and family have returned after a stay at their cottage in Roaring Gap. Miss Margaret Kelly has as her guest this week, her mother, Mrs. M. McL. Kelly of Carthage. Miss Estelle McKenzie visited friends in Greensboro the past week end. Mrs. A. B. Sally went to High Point Wednesday and was a guest for the day of her sister. Tobacco and Cotton Farmers an(i All Home Owners Remember, the McLean Furniture Company, in Southern Pines is head quarters for all kinds of household furnishings. We carry a complete stock, and sell at the lowest possible prices. Terms given if desired. McLEAN FURNITURE CO. SOUTHERN PINES The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Pres, ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t. Cashier U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK DEPOSITS INSURED BY The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation WASHINGTON, D. C. Cfinnn maximum insurance ci^nnn ^ jUUU for each depositor ^□UUU COKijRESF>ONDENCE SEF.S Ml.V PROC.KKSS above all else it adds to the ag- jrressive factor of development iinot'her recruit. The whole social and econo- Macauley has always been a careful research worker, and Dr. Alex Bethune is a local Herodo tus. While such men are 'here to mic horizon epands with this! be drawn into work of this step. Yet the most significant j character it is a valuable help to thing probably is that another man has examined the Sandhills country and, like the Creator at the beginning, saw that it was i;ood. A conclusion like this by a man of inquiring and analyti cal habit of thought and defi nite business action is the equiv- the community and to general history in a way to engage them as far as they can find time and allow themselves to be interest ed. It is men like these who have devoted time and work to solv ing the colonial story that we must look for information, for a Despite Dr. Herr’s glowing disser tation on the NRA, in another column of this week’s Pilot, we failed upon frequent interrogation of merchants in Pennsylvania, New York, Con necticut and Massachusetts, to find one favorable to its results to date. It was a great surprise to us. alent of an inquisition into con-1 man who works for tlie joy 'he ditions and prospects that hu- j gets from accumulation of fac- man custom in many things ac-, tual knowledge is liable to be complishes by forming an inves- able to contribute 'information Apparently Maine voters think we are headed in the right direction. They re-elect a Democratic governor, elected two Democratic Congress men to one Republican, greatly cut Republican Senator Hale’s plurality in this week's election. This is Anniversary W^eek with the A. & P. stores. They didn’t quite get their new Southern Pines store ready for the celebration, but will be all moved in another w'eek. getting the store next door ready for the r£>v rots Togg'ery, to be oper ated by Mrs. George Moore and Miss Katherine Wiley this winter, and the Carolina Hotel and other Pinehurst buildings are enjoying new coats of paint. The new Razook building is also nearing completion, very hand some. Not to mention a handsome new electric sign installed during the past week at the Thrower Pharmacy here. Children have been busy all week getting their arms adjusted to car rying books instead of bathing suits, tennis rackets, etc. Speaking of improvements around, Mrs. Welch is doing things to her shop on Broad street, Mr. Welch is Moore county has 674 textile work ers, 40 in the cotton textile industry, 79 in hosiery and 55.5 in silk. Vass, Cartha^^e and Hemp, respectively. The state has 147,188 employees working in all forms of the textile industry, we hear from a recent survey. Editor, The Pilot: We hear criticism of the NRA and it.s effect upon the people and the bus iness of the country. Strange to say those who disagree have no sugges tions to make as to what should be done as a substitute. Some of the statements made, including former President Hoover’s article in the Sat urday Evening Post are decidedly amusing to say the least. Mr. Hoover was not alive t» actual conditions as they existed during the terrible years of the depression. He was in a somno lent state of mind and is still gJum- bering on peacefully in California. He never was aware of the desperate condition our country was in and still does not know what it is all about. I do not believe the publishers of the Saturday Evening Post have any sense of humor or they would split their sides with laughter. Eighteen— or about 18 months ago the Post car ried about ten pages of advertising; today 60 pages of advertising, highly paid for, iill the Post. Does this look like failure for the NRA? Who would go back to that terri- ble period preceding the advent of Franklin Roosevelt into the Presi dency ? Fear ruled, banks were crash ing, business was at a standstill, grass was beginning to grow in the streets, the nation was in the grip of a fearful castastrophe, nothing was being done and we were told over and over that “Prosperity was around the corner.” Only the intervention of Dame Providence in the person of Frank lin Roosevelt saved the nation. The fault-finding we hear at present some times is justified. President Roose velt expected some mistakes would be made. But action is what the peo ple wanted and they are getting it and mistakes are being corrected with the result that our nation again has con fidence, fear has been dissipated, the gougers are being shown up and the gouged are being offered an oppor tunity to live decently. The day of the sweat-shop is gone. Labor is being accorded the respect which is its due and the working man and woman are going to get a fair share of the prof its which formerly poured into the laps of the capitalist and industrialist. Starvation wages are a thing of the past. The man who works has a right to expect to be able to provide his family with wholesome food, shoes, clothing, descent quarters to live in, something to pay the doctor with and something with which to provide for the future. Would those who disagree with the expenditures for relief ob ject so strenuously if we were at war with a first class power and deny support to our army and navy? We spent twenty five billions in one year in the World War. Is our need now not greater in caring for our people? The NRA and the Blue Eagle have made men feel free; serfdom is past. It has made men walk erect and the liberty of all has been assured, and insufed. except those selfish indivi duals who would gouge. The Blue Eagle stands as a s}nnbol of a mighty effort and not a noble experiment. Hu- mainty now has hope. It is also a reminder that American genius is still alive and resourceful. I Says Donald Richberg of the NRA I Executive Council: j “The money expended in these great constructive efforts is, of ' course, far less than the coct of one year of participation in the World ! War, with its vast destruction of life j and property,” the report says. “It j has been a small price to pay for such a gain. Surely you may take pro found satisfaction in your leadership and in the achievements of your ad ministration.” j The final report deals specifically I with “advance in public services," ^ “administrative services,” and “pro motion of foreign trade.” There is so much to say m support of the NRA and President Roosevelt achievements that I leave off with these few facts. —GEORGE G. HERR, Chairman, N. R. A., Southern Pines. MRS. rOSPER, F’OKMERLV OF SOUTHERN PINES, WEDS Announcement has been made of the marriage on August 20, in Alex- j andria, Virginia, of Mrs. Pearl S. Cosper, of Miami, Florida and Charles K. Weaver of Easton. Pa. Mrs. Weav- ■ er is the widow of Dr. Harry Hobart Cosper, who was killed in an automo- i bile accident in Miami in 1926. She I formerly resided in Southern Pines where she has numerous friends. Mr. Weaver has been a seasonal visitor here frequently. Mr. and Mr.s. Weaver will spend their winters at Mrs. Weaver’s winter home in Miami and at present are at home at the Weaver summer place, Rockwood, in Scott’s Mountain, N. J. Mr. Weaver is the senior member of the W. S. Weaver Hardware Com pany of Easton. MRS. NL'BY PURVIS DIES .\FTEB LINGERING ILLNESS Mrs. Edna Reynolds Purvis, aged 41, wife of Nuby Purvis, of Carth age, died at the Moore County Hos pital last Monday following a linger ing illness. Funeral services were held at Beulah Church on Wednesday af ternoon. Mrs. Purvis was a native of Moore county. She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George Re.ynolda. Surviving are her widower; two small sons, Melvin and Raymond, an in fant, and 12 sisters and one broth er. Mrs. Catherine McNeill of Lake- view is spending two weeks in the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Sledge. After spending the summer in the north. Mrs. Harold Calloway and her two nieces have returned to Pine hurst for the winter^ season. James W. Tufts has returned to Pinehurst after spending much of the summer in the north. Many a house has been rented by a Want 4^.
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