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THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 27, 1935,
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE, Editor
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT
WALTER LIPP>L\NN
Contributing Editors
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of the season which sees auto
mobile travel at its height here.
Yet nothing has been done
about the approaches to the
new overhead bridge at the
southern end of Southern Pines.
No sidewalks are provided
leading to and from the bridge,
that children may cross with
safety on their way to school.
No guard rails lead to and
from the bridge, that automo-
$2.00 biles may be protected from the
$1.00! possibility! of swerving from the
road and dropping onto the
Seaboard tracks.
7T—T"! It is time seme provision was
Entered at the Postoffice at Sou - safeguard the lives of
ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mall j children and to take precau-
itionary measures against au-
tomobile accidents at this dan-
JOE FULLER: ger spot.
MAN AMONG 3IEN i
It has been the unhappy lot of
The Pilot this summer to record
the loss of a number of its good
friends, the passing of men \vho
leave gaps in the Sandhill#
New DeaVs Trend Seen
In Crop Control Laws
THROUGH COACHES NOW ON
NEW YORK.FLORIDA LIMITED
Grains of Sand
By MARK Sl’LLIVAN
One gropes for ways to make clear
what Is happening, to make the coun.
try understand the path on which it
is being taken, the destination to
which it is being carried. One device
is to measure the distance the coun.
try has been carried. There ia just
now a convenience and striking mile
stone, a significant anniversary.
September 14, 1932, w’as almost
exactly three years ago. On that day
Mr. Roosevelt, then a candidate for
President, made a speech at Tope,
ka, Kan. It was his “farm program”
speech. In that speech and on that
day Mr. Roosevelt said:
“We must have, I assert with all
possible emphasis, national planning
in agriculture . . . The plan must
be, in so far a.s possible, voluntary.”
It will be observed there was a
There is so much optimism pre
which win be difficult if even'mailing over prospects for the winter qualification to Mr. Roosevelts
possible to bridge As* it must i season in the Sandhills there must be j assertion that the farm plan must
to all men Sh came this 1 In It. We have e,» found.be -volunt.ry," The qualification. -In
week to another of our beloved' a few of our confirmed pessimists i ^ possible,’ was noticed by
Tml esteemed Citizen? Joe Au-.predlctI a good winter, it l. true,very few. Practically nobody dream,
and esteemed Citizens, f tll ^ flo„Hsh.jeJ that farmers would ever be put
Toe Fuller was a nersonalitv' i business this summer, away I under legal compulsion. It is likely
Joe f uller was a pei^onauij. i S Roosevelt did not dream it him.
Raised in the great open spaces ahead of last year
of Montana, he grew to man-1 —
hood in the wayi', of western Miss Ruth Burr Sanboin of South.
youths, living in the saddle, rop- ' ern Pines, in addition to her new
distribution means ultimately univer.
sal price.fixing. Government price-
fixing means, later, government fix.
ing of wages of all kinds. The length j
of distance already gon-; is great.
But even more important is the direc.
tion and the momentum.
If the projected look at the fu.
ture seems fantastic, let the reader
throw his mind back to *. ree years
ago. Would he not have .sflid, on Sep.
tember 14, 1932, that compulsory
control of potatoes, as here described
and now on the statute books, was j
too fantastic to bother about?
(Copyright, 1935, for The Pilot)
DID NOT SIGN PETITION
Editor, The Pilot:
We have been informed there is a
report going around town we signed
the papers which requested the li,
quor store. The report is false. We
did not sign.
—MR. and MRS. J. S. REYNOLD.S
Southern Pines, September, 24, 1935.
The Air-conditioned P&B Cars and ^
coaches now operating between Wash. !
ington and Miami on “The New York
Florida Limited,” one of Seaboard’s |
fast completely air . conditioned I
operating between !
! New York, Philadelphia and other *
Eastern Points, the two Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida, effective with |
the first trip southbound from New |
York Monday, September 23rd and I
first trip northbound from Miami I
Wednesday, September 25th, will
operate between New York and Mia.
mi, it was announced by C. G. Ward,
Division Passenger Agent, in Ral. |
eigh this week. ^
This will give greatly improved j
service to coach passengers using
these trains between this territory
and the north, as it will eliminate the •
change of cars in Washington at an ,
unreasonable hour and coach passen.
gers using trese trains will not find it i
necessary to chanpo cars anywhere i
between New York and Miami.
Italian Rye Grass Seed costs nc
more than inferior seeds. Plant now.
Pinehurst Warehouses.
The Home School
and Playground
Under the Direction of
mss LAURA M. JENKS
Will re-open Oct. 8, 1935
K’g’n. First and Second Grades.
Limited Accommodations
Moderate Rates
A carload of Italian Rye Grass
Seed at the Pinehurst Warehouses.
/».
Will be in hia office orer tba
Poat Office, Sanford, N. C., every
Wedneaday, fpom 10:00 «. m. to
8:00 p. m. Don’t fail to bm hia tf
roar eyaa are weak.
self.
The universal assumption was that
Mr. Roosevelt’s farm plan would be
ing bronchoes, rounding up cat-j mystery novel. “Murder on the Aph. voluntary. If any one foiesaw other,
tie, sleeping beneath the .stars rodite,” has a story appearing in the Professor
and grubbing W'here opportun- ! forthcoming issue of the Saturday j Tugwell may have helped Mr. Roose.
itv offered. M;ining interesteti Evening Post. compose that farm speech, and
him, and he made a study of j respon.sibie for the
this. But the romance of the i Linville Gorge, rugged scenic at. j safeguarding weasel phrase in so
road, the call of the wild, pre- traction in Western North Carolina possible. Farming is the part
dominated his early years, and j and a wonder of eastern America, is
he drifted into Canada. His ear- finally to be owned publicly, an offi.
ly cowboy training and his lovejcial of the U. s. Forest Service an.
of the horse led him to the Roy-' nounclng the authorized purchase of
al Canadian Mounted Police, 125,522 acres as an addition to the
that glamoi’ous body of men who , 38,000 acres of the Pisgah National
patrol the dominion and “get Forest, it does not include the falls,
their man,” and he became a which may be acquired later. The
“mountie.” 'gorge stretches for 16 miles to the
At the outbreak of the Boer
War Lord Strathcona called for
volunteers among the Canadian
Mounted to “join up” for the
South African campaign, and
Joe was among the 600 to of
fer. That they fought the fight,
the fact that but 200 of the 600
returned, is evidence. And Joe
B'uller was the sole survivor of
those 200 w'hen he was called
away this w'eek. They are no
more.
He fought in the World Vvar
joining an engineering regiment
for service in France
mouth of the Linville River, describ.
ed as the roughest and most pictur.
esque stream in the Southern Appal,
achians. The gorge in places is 2,000
feet deep and in a 20.mile course the
river falls 2,400 feet, and has been
described as “a region unsurpa.ssed
in scenic beauty and interest in all
Eastern America.”
wounded, gassed; returned in
poor health. It was then that
friends prevailed upon him to
come to the Sandhills and build
himself up. With the return of
his strength he entered whole
heartedly into affairs here. And
Joe, it soon came to be, was the
man called upon to do a job
w’hen no one else could do it.
And it turned from a task im
possible to a job well done,
Joe Fuller’s passing leaves a
void. A friend has left us, and
a man.
Ground was broken Monday for
erection of a new Rex Hospital in
Raleigh on St. Mary’s street with a
PWA loan of 5387,000 to the City of
Raleigh. The first $100,000 has been
He was received. The building is to be fin.
ished in 360 days. The plann for a
new hospital have been under way for
two years.
Book Reviews
Ruth Burr Sanborn’s new mystery
novel, “Murder on the Aphrodite,”
well is most concerned with, and no
one can read Professor Tugwell’s
books without concluding that he
prefers the Russian system of coHec.
tivist farming to the American sys.
tem of individual ownership and con.
trol. And Professor Tugwell is fa.
miliar enough with the technique of
revolution to know that the first step
compels the second, and the second
compels the third. Professor Tug.
well may have understood in advance
that the voluntary farm plan would
soon become compulsory.
But all this is beside the point.
The point is that practically nobody
thought the farm program would be
other than voluntary. I am quite cer.
tain Mr. Roosevelt did not think it.
But Mr. Roosevelt’s inability to see
the future result.s or first steps, or
to give thought to future conse.
quences, amounts almost to a kind
of color.blindness.
Suppose Mr. Roosevelt, on that
day in Topeka three years ago, had
I said this:
I “Almost exactly three years from
I now, August 24, 1935, I w'ill sign a
; bill which requires every farmer rais. ,
; ing potatoes to get a government
permit; which requires him to raise
only so much as the government die.
tates; which puls a punitive and pro.
wins high praise in the New York ■ hibitive tax of 45 cents a bushel on
Herald.Tribune’s Sunday Book Re. | any excess he raises; which requires
view section. Will Cuppy, the re. j that all potatoes he sells be in clos.
ed containers prescribed by the gov.
ernment; which requires every pack.
view’er, writes:
“This recommended item introduces
a Grade A. baffler to the field. Be.
age to contain a government stamp;
lieve it or not. Miss Sanborn arrives which makes it a crime for the far.
a full.blown mystery.monger, already | mer to sell any potatoes not thus
THE COMING
OF AUTUMN
September is passing. The ' ^ dangerous rival to all but a few j packaged and stamped, punishable i
golden haze is lifting to reveal! revered clan in the way of 1 by a fine of $1,000 and for a sec. |
the misty blue of the distant j ® better thanjond offense a year in jail; which,
pines and far off hill' Dps, and I ^ writer. You’re not likely to j makes it equally a crime for any ;
Icflviri^ for I out on her, onc6 you fibsorb p6rson to buy potatoes not tlius
a little w'hile to linger in the
fields and woodlands the blos
soms tinted with her amber
brush. As a rising tide flood-
the first chapter, in which there’s a
sweet young girl with a secret
aboard a luxurious house.boat off
I Bowsprit Island, Me.; a vampirish
fabulous jewels, a well assorted
group of potential killers and by.
standers, and Toombs, the butler.
Toombs seems tame enough, but
what about Varro, the foreign slicker;
Ewell Choate, who’s interested in
the gems; Professor Dante Gabriel
Burge, Lne psychologist, and such?
Among the exciting scenes one may
ing the brown fields the glowing ] hostess with a bag crammed with
golden rod, and in smaller
groups the golden hues of the
brown eyed susans, coreopsis,
asters and Carolina jessamine,
and in the green thickets ting
ing sycamore, walnut and the
climbing grape.
Contrasting with this field
and woodland forecast of Au
tumn, the evergreen foliage
massed along our parkways and
about our homes, due to the
copious and rather unusual rains
of the earlier days of the month,
show’s a shining brilliance ac
centuated by the scarlet berries
of the dogwoods and magnolia
cones, with here and there a be
lated white blossom of the lat
ter, oddly out of season.
Ploughs, spades and har
rows turning up sere brown
earth in preparation for the
seeding that will bring forth
the green grass of our southern
winter. The sound of hammer
and saw echoing througih the
clear air, and the sightly trans
formation of store and dwelling
glistening from the application
of the painter’s brush all mark
the end of dull summer and the
advent of the season. —C. M.
PROTECT CHILDREN,
SAFEGUARD MOTORISTS
The school ytear has opened
and we are upon the threshold
packaged and stamped; which re.
quires every farmer to keep records
as prescribed by the Federal gov.
ernment, and makes failure to do so
a crime punishable by a year in
prison.”
Had Mr, Roosevelt said that in his
Topeka speech on /September 14,
1932, the country would have thought
him fantastic. Yet that law, the po.
tato control statute, was signed by
Mr. Roosevelt last month.
Mr. Roosevelt himself would have
thought it fantastic three years ago. j
mention the psychological seances at . The distance he has gone, the dis.
dinner, where somebody gets croak, tance he has taken the country, sug.
ed and the jools disappear; closc .ups gests there was shrewdness in the i i
of Jane and Bill and the final dis. I remark Dr. Wirt attributed to some,
covery. It looks at first as though | ^f the radicals in the Administration, j
Constable Amasa Loose is the only
sleuth aboard, but don’t bank ru
that. Why did Varro try to buy An.
nie Budd’s quilt? What has Jane
on her mind ? Who killed Christine ?
And why does Professor Budge wear
magenta pajamas? We promise you
that Miss Sanborn displays vast
cleverness in winding up her plot and
then unwinding it, with the pop in
the proper place. Things gets a lit
tle lurid toward the end, but that’s
the kind of a tale it Is.”
Miss Sanborn, who lives in
Southern Pines, was born In Woods.
ville, N. H. She moved at the end
of three weeks, and since then has
lived in twenty.four houses, in twelve
cities, and in five states. She tes
tifies “I like dogs and horses, some
people and some books. I do not like
railroads, rattlesnakes, hot weather,
nor people who want me to write
their stories and divide the proceeds.”
"We have the President out in a |
swift.running stream, and he cannot j
turn back.” j
Let no one suppose this a concern
of the farmers only. The movement ^
into which the country has been tak. I
en must ultimately include every |
area of life. To make compulsory.
control of farm crops effective, there \
must be, and to some extent already
is, compulsory control of manufac
tured goods which compete with the
products of farm crops. There is al
ready compulsory control of some
forms of paper and jute which com
pete with cotton. Later, unless the
process is stopped, there must be
compulsory control of linen and rayon j
and silk.
Nor can the process with mere
control of the quantity of crops or
goods produced To make control of
production effective there must be
control of distribution. C^Dntrol of
DISPLAY
SATURDAY
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a
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A. S, Ruggles, President
P. F. Buchan, Vice-President
R. L. Chandler, Secretary-Treasurer