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THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 20, 1935.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Ptnes, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRVTHERS BURT
WALTER LIPP>L4NN
Contributing Editors
Subscription Rates:
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Three Months -50
Entered at the Postoffice at South
ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail
matter.
THE PASSING OF
WADE H. HARRIS
The Sandhills has had no bet
ter friend than Wade H. Harris.
The late editor of The Charlotte
Observer watched the growth of
this section with as much inter
est as though it were a develop
ment of his own. He editoi’ializ-
ed our glories, our climate, our
sports, and no move for the
seeming betterment or advance
ment of this community ever es
caped his thoughtful pen.
Bion Butler and Wade Har
ris were close friends and great
admirers of one another. They
had in common their rise in the
ranks of journalism, from prin
ters’ devils to editors. And they
had in common an abounding
love for and abiding faith in
Noi'th Carolina. The passing of
these two within the year re
moves from the newspaper pro
fession two men who, in their
quiet, unassuming way, have
done as much to spread the gos.
pel of the State’s attractions as
any paid press agents could have
done, and so much more worth
ily.
In an editorial in The Pilot
at the time of Wade Harris’
completion of fifty years of ser
vice with The Observer, Mr.
Butler wrote:
A recent issue of The Charlotte
Observer made mention of half a cen.
tury of service given by Col. Wade
H. Harris, the editor. Fortunately
for the people of North Carolina
Wade Harris has been a broad and
upright man, for in the capacity of
editor of a great newspaper, a man
who lacks in those traits could do a
lot of harm. But Wade Harris has
been a leader of the most valued
type, for he is a man of perception,
of courage, and of integrity. With
these qualities he has had for his
field a large part of North Carolina
along with the outside regions into
which more or less of the circulation
of the Observer goes, and he has been
a power for good throughout hi.i
whole life.
Jo Caldwell had set the Observer
on a high plane when his death put
Wade Harris into domination of the
paper’s policy, and Harris followed
closely along Caldwell's course, for
Caldwell was another broad and
courageous editor. In that way the
Observer has held for a long time
a prominence in Southern newspa.
per circles, and no man can con_
ceive of the worth of such an in.
stitution. The church and the school
house would have a limited field
were it not that the newspapers ex.
tend that field with the help of the
printed page which goes to a far
wider circle than any other institu.
tion for the spread of information.
Wade Harris has alwaj’s lived up to
his opportunities, and in his work
he has been able to see to the deep,
er levels of most subjects and broad
enough to put into intelligent print
what he has seen. He has been a
backer of his state and community,
standing for the things that count
in the struggle of men for a clearer
civilization and a greater measure
of ‘ happiness and wholesome life.
One of his most fortunate gifts is
that in all his newspaper career, as
long as The Pilot can recall, he has
never sacrificed intelligent argument
for the tricks of the demagog. Wade
Harris has held mighty close to evi.
dent truths, or at least where he
has varied at any time or degree it
has been because what he said was
what he saw. And as none of us has
a monopoly on wisdom it is likely that
once in a while he has shinnied on
the wrong side. But not with ran.
cor, or the tricks of the mountebank,
but with the sincerity of the man who
believes and who is honest.
North Carolina owes this man a
great debt, probably more than will
ever be paid, but doubtLess (that
does not worry him, for he has
made in his lifetime a boundless
army of friends.
The Pilot, in its recent loss of
Mr. Butler, speaks feelingly in
extending to The Charlotte Ob
server its deep sypipathy.
DISCOURAGING
TOBACCO PRICES
Though pretty discouraged at
opening prices throughout the
Aliddle Belt, farmers have been
carrying much tobacco to the
Aberdeen market this first
week of the season and appear
pleased with their reception
and treatment at the hands of
the local warehousemen. The
slump in prices over last year is
general and not confined to this
belt or this market, which even
those growers who turn their
tickets in refusal of offers must
realize in spite of their discour
agement. They must also real
ize that the crop is greater than
last jvar, and contains much
!“sorry” tobacco.
I Efforts are being made to
bring AAA aid to the growers.
Farmers have been registering
their protests in mass meetings
and in telegrams and letters to
agricultural leaders, their Con
gressmen and others. Something
may come of the general dis
content, though that old law of
supply and demand determines
prices in the long run, whatso
ever Uncle Sam may do tempor
arily to remedyi grief. It is to
be hoped, of course, that prices
will jump up. The more the far
mer can make the more money
he puts into local circulation.
But if artificial stimulus is the
sole remedy, all of us, including
the farmer, will pay the ultimate
bill, for only taxation can fill up
the gap where supply* and de
mand fail to meet.
Grains of Sand
Dr. Julian S. Miller, successor to
the late Wade H. Harris as editor
of The Charlotte Observer, is well
known and much admired in the
Sandhills. He has been a frequent
visitor here, and a few years ago was
the graduation speaker at the South,
ern Pines High School commence,
ment. The Observer is to be congrat.
ulated.
diers spotted him and started shoot,
ing, but he jumped behind this tree,
thus saving his life. The writer thinks
the tree, now often visited, should
be marked. Many others of all kinds
are coming in.
HISTORICAL SURVEY OF
north C.AROLIN.4 PROPOSED
There was a reason for that big
bright full moon the other night. It
seems the moon was not only full,
but in its perigree at the same time,
making it 20 to 25 per cent bright,
er than usual. The moon is in its
perigree each month when it is near,
est to the earth, and in the Septem.
ber perigree It is closer than in any
other month. This month for the first
time in something like 50 years, it
was both full and in its perigree at
the same time.
S. R. Jellison, down from Bethle.
hem, N. H., for a few days, reports
that the White Mountains resorts
have been having an excellent sum.
mer business. He predicts a fine
season for the Sandhills.
A project calling for an archival
and historical survey of North Caro,
lina under direction of Dr. C. C.
I Crittenden, secretary of the N. C.
Historical Commission has been sub.
mitted to Director George W. Coan,
Jr., of the State WPPA. If approved
I the project will employ 270 people,
I largely of the "white collar” type for
two months. The group would check
, up and list records in county and
State offices, list historical manu.
scripts in various collections, Index
' about 300,000 original marriage bonds
^ prior to 1868, now held by the His.
i torical Commission, and record all
tombstone records in city and rural
graveyards, prior to 1909 in cities and
1914 in rural areas. After those dates
vital statistics were kept. Most of
the counties would have one unskilled
and one intermediate worker at these
tasks, and pay a minimum of $92
for the two months. Larger counties
would have more w'orkers.
Director Harry Hopkins and Secre.
tary Ickes. That was straightened
out by President Roosevelt last week
and work is expected to get started
soon. North Carolina has several pro.
jects which may get started thla
week.
EUREKA
Fred Underwood. Mesdames Lizzie
and Katie Underwood and Mrs.
Flora Anne Wadsworth of near Eu.
phronia visited Mrs. Nannie McCas.
kill Sunday afternoon.
Misses Myrtle and Bessie Me.
Caskill spent the week.end with Mr.
and Mrs. Hobson Johnson of Ashe,
boro.
Misses Mable and Mary Ruth Fish,
er of White Hill visited their aunt,
Mrs. R. s. Bogar during the week,
end.
Mrs. F. W. Von Canon and child,
ren and Miss Louise Sinclair of
West End were guests of Mrs. Nan.
nie McCaskill Sunday afternoon.
J. B. McLeod have left for State
College and R. A. Bagon for Chapel
Hill.
Will Thomas and Clarence Harring.
ton of Sanford Route 5, were guests
of Mrs. Nannie McCaskill Saturday.
Miss Lucille McLeod left Sunday
to take up her work a.s teacher in
West End School and Miss Mary
Kelly left Tuesday to teach in Star.
Miss Carolina Rankin of Greens
boro is visiting her sister, Mrs. Z.
V. Blue.
MISS PIERSON MOVES
Miss Catherine Pierson has moved
her interior decorating headquarters
from the Welch Arcade Building on
West Broad street to the offices in
the Citizens Bank & Trust Company
Building recently vacated by E. W,
Relnecke.
CORRECTION
1 In the announcement of the wed_
i ding of Mrs. Lillian Miller in The Pi_
lot last week it was stated that Mrs.
Miller owned the house next door to
her residence Ion. Vermont avenue.
This was incorrect, Mrs. Miller hav_
ing sold the property some yeara
ago to O, E. Williams, its present
I occupant.
Only 105 communities in North
Carolina have local ordinances to en.
force sanitary rules governing milk
supply. In this country Pinehurst and
Southern Pines are the only ones
listed by the State Board of Health.
CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRACY
“Share our wealth” was one
of the slogans which the late
Huey Long used to allure follow
ers. It sounds like a Christian
ideal, for the Church in its best
moments has always proclaim
ed brotherhood as its goal. But
there i.** this difference: Com
munists propose to take from
the rich and equalize wealth by
force. To “soak the rich” and
penalize thrift byi taxation is
not “sharing our wealth:” it is
taking wealth by force. It is a
Christian ideal to share our
wealth. When Christianity be- j
comes truly Christian, those
who have will share with those
who need. So says C. Rexford
Raymond in a contributed edi
torial.
Political communism and all
the “share-the-wealth” prog
rams of the Huey» Long type
have this in common. They rule
by a bureaucracy which destroy.<
liberty. Control by a dictator or
a majority released from control
by a constitution is essential for
the proposed revolution. Denial
of free speech and a free press
for the minority is always the
program of those who propose
to produce equality by/ law. A
constitution like ours is the only
defense for minorities. If the
minority has no rights which
the majority must respect, then
the rapacity of an inflamed ma-
jorit.’c has no limits. The ruth
less violence in Russia is the
natural fruit of an unrestrain
ed majority. Sherwood Eddy
savs that over a million
persons perished in the man-
made famine of 1922-23 in the
Ukraine and the Caucasus. A
planned economy in production
and distribution may> easily be
come absolute tyranny.
Christian democi’acy will not
arrive by control from the top
by dictator or despot. The pro
gress of social justice must go
' forward by^ the orderly pro
cesses of intelligent good will.
Under constitutional safeguards
we can legislate for social secur
ity only as fast as we are con
vinced of the divine reason for
brotherhood. Education is a
slow process; but law that runs
ahead of enlightened public
opinion will fail. Just as slavery
has vanished and free public
schciols have been opened for
all, so child-labor will be abol
ished, a living wage w’ill be es
tablished, the perils of unem
ployment and old age will be
averted, and the madness of
war will be destroyed, not by
legislation which robs a help-
le.ss minority but by the convic
tion that men are brothers. If
one class suffers, all classes suf
fer. If one nation suffers, all
nations suffer. Christianity is
not a mere sentiment and vision
ary wishful thinking. It is really
only intelligent good will applied
to human society. God being
the Father of all men, then all
men must work together with
Him for the common wealth of
our common humanity.
Get your grass seed planted this
month. Pinehurst Warehouses.
North Carolinians are becoming
“historical spot minded” and are
finding and giving notice of numer.
ous spots having historical interest
for marking in the program which is
expected to result in placing mark,
ers at 200 or 300 within a year. Dr.
C. C. Crittenden, secretary of the
N. C. Historical Commission and the
marker group, has a letter suggest,
ing an old oak tree, probably 150
years old. which saved the life of
General Matt Ransom of the Con.
federate Army, who was the first
ambassador to Mexico. Northern soL
S88,000,(»00 IN PRO.IECTS
APPRO\ED BY ST.\TE WP.\
About 1900 projects costing about
$88,000,000 have been approved for
North Carolina under the WPA pro.
gram and sent into W'a.«hington for
fii'.a! action ’ly George W. Coan, Jr.,
State WPA director. The projects got
in before the deadline and many of
them are expected to be approved.
Governor Ehringhaus, Senator Bailey
ar.d Congressman R. L. Doughton
I called on Washington officials last
jweek to protest against apparent
’ discrimination in approval of pro.
jects for North Carolina. They were
assured this State would get all con.
^sideration possible with no discrimi.
nation. The trouble seems to have
been jealousy between two agencies.
rHERES A certain
DELICACY OF FLAVOR
IN CAMELS THAT
APPEALS TO WOMEN.
CAMELS ARE SO MILO
THAT THEV DO NOT
AFFEa MY WIND
I SMOKE THE
SAME CIGARETTE
THE CHAMPIONS
00-CAMELS. THEY
NEVER INTERFERE
WITH HEALTHY
NERVED and THEIR
flavor IS
MARVELOUS
HELEN HICKS
Famous Woman Golfer
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