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THE PiLOT^, Southern Pines and Aberdc^, North Carolina
Friday, November 23, 1934.
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, IncorporatBd,
Aberdeen and Southern Fines, N. O.
MSLAON C. HYDE, Managing Editor
HION H. BUTLER, Editor
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THE FUTURE OF
SANDHILL LAND
A frequent subject of discus
sion these days is the probable
value of lands in the Sandhills
country. Naturally the subject
can not go very far beyond the
discussion, for where all is con
jecture nothing positive can fol
low. But an opinion that has a
logical tenor is to the effect that
lands in varying acreage in this
territory will continue to be in
demand, perhaps not at the
highest figures that have pre
vailed in the past, yet at such
prices as will be regarded with
favor.
The argument was that we
may not have as much buying
on a speculative basis as in the
past, but a larger activity in
buying for permanent posses
sion. And the way the evidence
was offered was to the effect
that all the attractions this re
gion ever ofered are still as
available as ever, and with the
constantly increasing accretions
in the way o development, of
wider knowledge of the Sandhills
advantages, of a better under
standing of what a winter hav
en in this latitude means to the
man of the North who wants a
long or short vacation in a mild
climate, with all of the satisfac
tory conditions of water, soil,
topography, forest surround
ings, accessibility, good neigh
bors, and that certain conserva
tive note that predominates
throughout this whole region.
From the earliest days the
founders of Southern Pines and
Pinonurst have maintained a
high character in everything
that has been presented as at
tractive features. Little of the
ballyhoo has entered the social
structure or the surrounding
horizon. It may be a pretty
broad claim to say that few re
sort communities anywhere are
developed on a more desirable
basis than those of this com
munity, for while a liberality of
policy is dominant, the senti
ment of the people is that life
has more in it than those things
that depend on questionable
amusements and questionable
occupations as a source of en
tertainment. That gives a high
er tone to the Sandhills than
suits some places, and that at
tracts a type of people that is
a further attraction to others
and as a result the quality of the
citizenship and of the winter in
habitants is one of the biggest
assets. For that reason it is to
be imagined more folks will pi*o-
vide themselves with a piece of
ground for a permanent winter
as the days go by. The type of
and perhaps all-the-year home
the people who are hei’e attracts
others of the same type, and they
bring others, and that means
that home sites and locations
will probably increase steadily
in the future as they have in the
past. Human desire has not
changed much, and where the
population has grown in the past
thirty years from very few to
several thousand the same in
ducements will probably see fur
ther increases in the days ahead.
That was the argument concern
ing Sandhills land.
paper training in such a school
learns the trade,
FVom there Struthers went to
Montana to a ranch and then to
writing books and as a master’s
degree he came to Southern
Pines and began to practice the
profession of making here the
most delectable roadsides in the
country along with helping to
lift the whole Sandhill region
to a higher horizon of pleasing
and profitable activity and at
tractiveness. Incidentally he
joined The Pilot staff, and, al
though he doesn’t work at it
much he is a valued member of
the staff, for you know every
body likes to be around where
the celebrities are. He lives in
one of the nicest homes on the
hill top in Southern Pines, goes
away in summer for a vacation
and comes back in the fall in
time to help in getting the high
ways in shape for the season,
the Chamber of Commerce, or
any other local function in shape
to do things, and from here he
makes side trips out over the
state to keep things stirred up.
He is bright, cordial, likable,
democratic, that is in his con
tact vdth folks, although wheth
er in politics or not has not been
investigated. It was a lucky find
for North Carolina when 'he came
this way, for if folks let him
alone he is likely to make the
roads of this state famous and
picturesque and a delight to the
j traveler. And if the Observer
I wants to know about anybody
else over this way we have a lot
of them that are worth asking
about.
Civic Loyalty Pays Big: Dividends
WHO IS
STRUTHERS BURT?
In a recent issue of the Char
lotte Observer in a department
that asks questions to 'have an
excuse in the next issue to an-
sv/er them, among the questions
is “WTio Is Struthers Burt?”
Now it maybe some folks do not
know, but to those who read
books it is right well known that
both Struthers Burt and his
wife are among the prominent
writers of this country. Struth
ers commenced his career by be
ing a Philadelphia newspaper
man and a good one on that
good old Philadelphia Times
founded by Col. A. K. McClure,
and the man who gets his news
GUN FIRE AT
FORT BRAGG
One of the picturesque fea
tures of life in the Sandhills is
the booming of cannons at Fort
Bragg. During the past week
the noisy echoes from that quar
ter have been one of the novel
ties for the visitors, for visitors,
except that limited number who
heard real hostilities of gun fire
during their experience in the
war, in this peaceful country
know little of the noise of big
guns. But here it is a common
salute, day after day and hour
after hour of the day, a soft,
impressive, dominating note,
farthest in the world from sig
nifying the damage and desola
tion that gun fire means when
it is carried on the contests of
war rather than in the practice
work of the training artillery.
Camp Bragg is interesting. It
not only affords a local social
and novel feature in its dif-
erences from peace projects and
the spectacular that big guns
and soldier clothes and batter
ies and bugles and parapherna
lia of war suggests, but it is
somewhat deeper than that. It
is the school of the guardians of
the nation, and whether we like
to believe it or not that institu
tion is a necessary protection.
Nobody wants to get into war,
but most of us want to keep out
by expecting other countries to
let us do what we want to- do,
although we are not crazy about
letting other countries do what
they want to. So when the big
dogs at Camp Bragg begin to
bark these pleasant autumn
mornings it does not mean they
aim to bite. It does mean that
they propose to be able to bite
if it becomes a part of the pro
gram of national relations. And
as that word is written the re
port of a cannon clinches the
statement jthat the guns are
ready.
However, it is not the pros
pect of being ready when war
comes again, as war has always,
done, but the romance of the
guns as they bark out their con
fident assui’ance that, the artil
lery will be handy, and that in
days of peace the guns sing a
deep-voiced assurance of saf
ety and rural novelty that is of
a type of entertainment com
mon to but few regions of the
country. Fort Bragg guns are
romantic.
ARE WE AS
BAD AS THAT? .
In the morning mail comes a
letter asking The Pilot to print
some paragraphs from a clip
ping that holds to the idea that
the present depression is due to
the sinfulness of the people, and
proposes injproved religious
practices if we are to hope for
relief. “The primary cause of
conditions is sin,” the clipping
says, and continues, “the hard
times are caused by the sin of
God’.s people more than any oth
ers." The remedy is to turn from
sinful ways. Probably there is
more truth than some might
imagine in the charge, and es
THE BUSINESS
of this town is
foiiiiM on
Men’s Wallets, Bill Folds—in the
finest leather at Hayes.’
Parker Pens are the best—Hayes.'
Remington Rand Noiseless Type
writers at Hayes.’
McLEAN FURNITURE CO.
Complete Home Furnishers
SOUTHERN PINES
Sponsored by
SOUTHERN PINES BUILDING & LOAN ASS’N.
Try Your Home Town First
pecially in the intimation that it
is not wholl> the wicked v;ho are
doing all the damage, for the
minute w’e begin to accept re
sponsibility in a general way for
our shortcomings we begin to
realize that it is not simply the
select and outstanding sinners
who are the mass of guilty of
fenders, but the whole popula
tion of us.
It may not be the wicked rail
roads and the bankers and the
power companies and the em
ployers and the rest of the op-
press.)r«, but the list may in
clude the whole mixture of hu
man kind, and perhaps it is well
enough for all of us to take
stock of our general conduct and
see if W’e can’t improve condi
tions somewhat by our own ef
forts rather than to call too
much on some other influences.
It has been an adage for many
a long age that the gods help
them that help themselves, and
possibly the thing has yet some
truth in it. If our plight cornes
from wickedness, as the clip
ping says, and if recovery is to
come from lifting the race to
a higher moral plane, which may
be a fact, it may also be a fact
that if we all lend a hand in the
lifting it will be an easier job and
more likely to be accomplished
than if too many of us stand
back accusing the limited minor
ity which does not seem to be
making great headw'ay while the
rest of us sinners do nothing
but look on and kick.
I Probably the world is not as
I bad as might be, yet no doubt
I no harm would be done if most
j of us perked up a little and, as
Sam Jones used to say, quit our
meanness. Possibly rno.^^t of us
try too hard to hog the loaf
most of the time. We might be
better without doing any great
harm to any thing, and in be
ing better maybe things would
come around to more desirable
shape. It doesn’t cost much to
try, except the sacrifice of some
of our own conceit and selfish
ness.
RECOGNIZING A
BENEFACTOR
A year or two or three or
whatever it may be ago G. C.
Seymour, formerly county com
missioner, business man of Aber
deen, public character in gener
al, and benefactor specifically
in one respect, issued a little ad
vertisement, in the form of a
pencil sharpener, one of the old
kind that you put on the end of
your pencil and turn around.
Whether the little trick ever
served Seymour as an adver
tisement or not this deponent
sayeth not, not being famililar
with the case. But one thing is
certain, that pencil sharpen
er is a life saver on many occa
sions. Two of them happened to
come into possession of the pres
ent historian and they have been
kept on the altar of the utilities
of the historical department.
When your blooming pencil
has worn down to a broad flat
end and will make a mark as
broad as your hand, compara
tively speaking, or no mark at
all until some of the w'ood is
whitted off, it is a joy to reach
up on the window sill where the
pencil sharpener is religiously
kept, and put a point on the pen
cil that will bring results.
Seymour is a pretty good cit
izen, doing his share of the com
mon jobs, but in addition he is
entitled to a vote of thanks
everytime you reach for a pen
cil and find that the thing is
too dull to do any good. It is a
pleasant occupation on a lazy
afternoon to dig up your pencil
and take a sharp knife and
whittle a pretty and mathemat
ically accurate point on it. But
by the time you want to use
it again some one else has bor-
row'ed it and w’orn off the
point and you are where you
started before you did your job
of whittling. Then to be able to
reach up to the window sill and
get hold of the Seymour sharpen
er is like a quart jar of heart’s
delight that the man brings in
from the Little River flats along
in the evening when the rest of
the folks are not looking. A good
dinner is a continual feast.
Claude Hayes is a rejuvenator if
he has a little time to talk about
Dan Voorhees and the banks of
the Wabash. The nineteenth
hole is an interesting juncture
in golf. The November sunshine
in the Sandhills is refreshing to
the soul. But one of Seymour’s
pencil sharpener ’- when nothing
else of the kind is in sight and
you need first aid mighty bad,
is supreme above most of the
other joys, as has been proven
in preparing this psalm of re
joicing, for *;harp pencils is what
this shop usually has everything
but.
NOTARY PUBLIC
MANUSCRIPTS
PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER
Doris Ruggles
Southern Pines
Phone 5721
Broad Street
WEST END
Among those attending the Dulie-
Carolina football game Saturday in
Chapel Hill were Mr. a.ud Mrs. Paul
Von Canon, Biliy Johnson, Billy Kl-
liott, Lee Mauney, Guy Stewart, D. D.
ICifort, E. F. Hinson, Miss Maxine
Lewis and Clyde Auman.
Mrs. J, B. Von Canon, Mrs. E. P.
Hinson and Mrs. W. A. Johnson and
Billy shopped in Greensboro last
week.
Mrs. H. G. Fletcher and Mrs. Lacy
W’illiams made a trip to Fayetteville
Saturday.
Glenn Auman, Woodrow Mclnnis,
Lee Hartsell and North Lewis, who
are in school in Elon, were home tor
the week-end.
Mrs. F. B. Monroe was hostess to
the M. E. Missionary Society Mon
day night.
The Rev. W. F. Elliott left Tues
day night for Washington, N. C.,
where he will attend conference.
Mr. and Mrs. M. H. Tucker and
Miss Pauline Barber visited in South
Carolina last Sunday.
Mrs. G. A. Smith entertained ti.e
Red Cross workers at her home Tues.
day afternoon.
A number of people from thi com
munity enjoyed the benefit dance
given at the Country Club in Pine-
hurst last Friday night.
Earl Auman has returned from
the Moore County Hospital where he
underwent an operation for appendi
citis.
A. R. Mimms was called to Dur
ham Monday to attend the fuenral
of his brother, George Mims.
Mrs. B. U. Richardson shopped in
Fayetteville Saturday.
Miss Hazel Williams was home from
Rockingham for the week-end.
Mrs. David Wilson and Mrs. Fred
Von Canon snoppea in High Point
Saturday.
Harry Russell visited in town over
the week-end.
RELIEF OFFICE NOTES
Moore county is receiving, as sur
plus commodities, 100 mattresses
from Greensboro for relief use and
820 yards of 45-inch sheeting to be
made into pillow cases in the sew
ing rooms.
Peach Growers!
WILL YOU DISREGARD THE TYPE OF TREE YOU ABE GET
TING AND BUY’ ON PRICE ALONE OR WILL YOU TRY AND
SECURE A WELL GROWN THRIFTY TRETE AT A FAIR PRICE?
The kind of tree you start with can mean the ultimate success or fail
ure of your new orchard. THE AMOUNT OF PEACH TREES AVAIL
ABLE THIS YEAR IS FAR BELOW THE AVERAGE SUPPLY AND
BECAUSE OF GENER.4L CONDITIONS MUCH INFERIOR STOCK
JVI.4Y BE OFFERED, We have kept up our production of trees and are
fortunate in having a normal growing season so that our trees are
as fine as it is possible to produce. WE H.AV'E ABOUT 250,000 PEACH
TREES IN .\LL GRADES AND VARIETIES THIS YE.AR, including
the—
GOL.DEN JUBILEE
WHICH BIDS FAIR TO BECOME THE LE.4DING E.4RLY PEACH
OF THE SOUTH. Our personal supervision has enabled us to bring
the varieties to their highest state of perfection by bud selection from
large bearing orchards. WE KNOW OUR TREES ARE TRUE TO
N.4IVIE AND FREE FROM ANY INJURIOUS DISEASES. We
OFFER THE BENT IT IS POSSIBLE TO GROW AT A FAIR
PRICE. Remember that a poorly grown, cheap tree is expensive at any
price. WE HAVE A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF ALL CLASSES
OF FRUIT TREES, BERRY PLANTS AND ORNAMENT.XLS. SEND
FOR FREE C.VT.ALOGUE AND SUBMIT YOUR LIST FOR QUOTA
TIONS.
Bountiful Ridge Nurseries, Box P, Princess Anne, Nd.
The Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
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OILS
Fifty-three head of relief cattle
from Moore county have been sent
to Hamlet to be slaughtered. Those
selected were the oldest and the fat
test from the herds.
Moore will receive 4000 pounds of
fresh meat from the slaughter house
on Saturday of this week, and ap.
proximately the same amount per
week thereafter.
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