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p««« Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, May 7, 1937. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, SoutJiem Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE Editor DAN S. BAY Advertising Manager Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months 11.00 Three Months .50 CARO-GRAPHIC S — by Murray JonbsJr Entered at the Postoffice at South- Pines, N. C., as second.class mail Matter. NOW THEY CAN TALK IT OVER Struthers Burt, a week or so ago, bemoaned the fact that all elements in Southern Pines were not working in unison for the good of the town. It is barely possible that this week’s elec tion may provide the remedy. It is w'ell known that for some time there has been an under current of friction between the Board of Commissioners and the Chamber of Commerce. The Pi lot does not know why, unless it has been that the suggestions of one have been considered un reasonable by the other. Natur ally, a Chamber of Commerce works for a community’s bet terment, but it does not have the responsibility of the purse strings. The Board of Commis sioners, just as Interested in the town’s welfare, has. It is but natural that there should be a difference of opinion about the impo(rtance, the necessity of various projects recommended by the Chamber. There has to be a “watchdog of the treas- ur>\” Well, the election results show this: the placing on the city’s governing body of the president and the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Now the two factions will sit beside each other ait the council table and thresh it out shoulder to shoulder and eye to eye, instead of by committee visitations and writing pretty letters back and forth. It looks to us as if things had shaped up pretty w’ell for the next t''70 years. DO YOU KNOW YOUR STAT£? i JOHN BIAIR m 5£NT TO N.C. FROM fNGlAND AfAMi5fl0NARYINI704 MDYOUKIMnrm ABOUT $9,(HH>0(»0F NORM (AROlWAQOlDWMCOINfDAT PHIlAPflPHIAMWIttl860? •WinVAJONlYAJHAllPART OFTriEGOlDTAKEMFROMW MINB I IN TriF UCI51ATURE0F1876, A BIU WA( lHTROPUaP*TO PROTfCTTrif PfOPlE OF NORTH CAROIINA AGAliilfr POCTOM* THE FIR5T (iOVfRMOR OF NORTH CARO' .IINAWA^SWORN INHERE MDYOUKNOIVr.)Ar JOJfPH HOqHEf.OFtPfN- TONWAJTilEFIWTPfRfON TD BRING BfFORFTriE COH- TlNENTAlCOHGIUJ^.TriE PROPOJITlOH OF INPERFH* PENCr ? • THB EDITORS OF CARO'CftAPHIC* INVlT« YOO TO SEND IN lNT«e«TIHO WW ABOUT VOoa COMMUNITY ^ April Weather Mercury Fluctuated Between High of 89 and Low of 30 During Month C’ONTEST FOR COUNTRY NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS A succession of cold mornings, the' thermometer dropping to a low of i 30 on the 11th and 12th, with the wind continuing in a northerly quad- lant for a number of days, offset the high temperatures of the after noon hours so that the average tem perature for April was 1.25 degrees lower than normal, and 3.25 degrees below that^of last April. j Sixteen days of the month were all i clear, five part cloudy, six cloudy, and seven with more or less rain. Twenty three days had a maximum temperature of 70 or above. A high of 89 was reached on the 25th. A total of 5.97 inches of rain fell, 2.51 in ches on the 5th. This precipitation was a little over two and one-half in ches more than normal for the month, and increases the rainfall for the first four months of the year to a total of 20.60 inches. Long time Max. Average _ 73.6 1936 68.05 1937 74.96 Min. 48.9 43.57 44.25 Aver. 61.3 55.8 59.05 There are sample layettes on exhi bition which can be given away when there is need; educational pamphlets are available; every ef fort is made to teach the patient what she needs to know and guard against, and to impress upon her the need for care and good sense dur ing her pregnancy and afterwards. Above all, the parents are urged to keep on coming to the clinics and, wherever possible, to get in touch with a physician and arrange for his care at the time of delivery. Be tween clinics, the maternity nurse calls on patients who are not well, hunts up others who need help, and takes cases to physicians where there is need for further examina tion or treatment. The number who attended clin ics totals one hundred and forty. Eighty-eight of these patients have had their babies; twenty-seven were delivered by physicians and sixty- one by mid-wives. Five of the clinic patients were taken to the hospital on account of serious complications. These emergency cases were deliver ed there and all five survived. Miss McQueen has, of course, ei^AINS €F SAND The students in the class of biol ogy have been making a collection of cultivated and wild flowers. Some of the industrious ones who are in terested in the work have over 200 varieties of pressed specimens in their display. A familiarity with 200 flowers isn’t a bad beginning. The youngsters have dug up positive proof of our great wealth of flowers. | i For a number of years sightseers | flocked into the peach belt during the j blossoming season to see the trees when out in full bloom. EJvidently it was worth the effort as they re turned time after time. Just now we have the orchards equivalent in the dewberry fields, out in snowy white ness, heavy with a fragrance the peach flower does not have. Those who appreciate the floral show of the dewberry will find acres and acres of them now at their best by j traveling over some of the roads i that touch near the Lakeview, Vass' and Cameron neighborhoods and east* as far as the Lobelia and Bear Creek affairs or your own, never fails to bring an agreeable surprise we all ^ like to experience. j Cars passing Swinnerton’s stable j last Friday between the fashionable ^ hours of four and six stopped out of j curiosity when they saw so many | people crowded about the door. Au- j tomobiles for more than half a block had taken up the available parking; space. Dogs were arriving and de- ’ parting in many directions. Dr. Neal, the popular veterinary, was staging a sort of afternoon at home for a lot of his friends and many recogniz ed their cordial host. Members of the canine ti’ibe were strutting out with shiney new jewelry attached to their collars saying they had been inoculated for rabies. j Some of the unsuspecting visitors | arrived in expensive cars with uni- i formed chauffeurs, some rolled up i in the ordinary automobile that ac commodated the whole family, and others like Sarah Maud in the Bird's The Southern Pines High School baseball team will end their season with a dance at the Civic Club to night at 8 oclock. The admission price will be 35c. Christmas Carol, found it “sech a pleasant evenin’ ’n’ sech a short walk that they left their hats to home” and walked or were led by a string. The pup proud of lineage, and the scrub w’as there. The invi tation was extended to all alike. It was not only a democratic affair but one where diplomacy figured also. All those inclined to argue were held back from the center of activitiy and like a lot, of other social gath erings a fow had to be suppressed now and then so peace was main tained. The number attending was much larger than first anticipated with over a hundred registered, and from all signs, it was a successful afte<- ■noon for all of those who paid their respects to Dr. Neal. The third annual contest to find the champion country newspaper corres pondent of the United States was an nounced this week by Wheeler Mc- Millen, editor of the Country Home Magazine, a national farm publica tion. Prizes totalling $400 will be awarded by the magazine, and the winner also will get a trip to New York and Washington, as in previous years. In announcing this year’s contest Mr. McMillen stated the belief that ‘‘throug:hout the country there are hundreds of men and women who do a fine Job of writing and reporting In their local newspapers, as good a job in their own field as do many fa mous reporters on the big city dailies. Our annual Country Correspondent* Contest is an opportunity for these able rural correspondents to gain wid er recognition." Entries for the 1936-37 awards should be sent to the magazine by June 15th. The contest is open to country correspondents in cities of 10,000 population or less. Entries may be submitted by the editors, the writers themselves, or by readers, and the awards will be made by a committee of eminent journalists. SEWELL D. WALKER DIKS AT HOME IN CAMERON Sewell D. Walker, 83, formerly of Boston, died at his home at Cameron Sunday night from a stroke of par alysis. Mr. Walker, a retired land scape gardener, came to Moore coun ty a number of years ago. He lived for several years in Niagara. He had been in good health until five days ago, when he suffered an attack of paralysis. Funeral services were held at the Baptist church in Cameron Wednes day afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, with the Rev. Mr. McNeil officiating, fol lowed with burial at Mt. Hope Ceme tery, Southern Pines, later in the afternoon. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nobel Thompson Walker of Cameron, and three daughters, Mrs. Philip Butler of Auburndale, Mass., Miss Carrie E. Walker of Norridgewock, IhIc and Mrs. Burt Stanion of Niagarn. • SUBSCRIBE TO THE PILOT # MOORE COUNTY’S MATERNITY ASSOCIATION This Sunday is Mother’s Day. As a rule we fight shy of these “Days,” believing that the sen timental ballyhoo w'hich attends their celebration adds little to, if it does not indeed detract from, the dignity and beauty of the subject. But if there must be a day set aside in honor of motherhood, at least there is one most appropriate way in which it can be observed. It is by encouraging and supporting the work started last year by a group of Moore county women to improve the health condi tions of the mothers of the county. Moore county is a big coun ty; there are many people in it who live far from a doctor. The conditions in some of the homes are almost primitive and the knowledge of health measures is very meagre. For some time the staite health department has issued, educational pamphlets about pre-natal care and the care and feeding of babies, but it is doubtful if they were ever read. Most of the women are ignor ant of the dangers of pregnancy and the mid-wives on whom many depend for care are as ig norant las their patients. The record of mortality and invalid ism due to poor care during and tifter childbirth has been a bad on?. V7:th this situation in mind, a group of women under the leadership of Mrs. Wilbur Cur rie, formed the Moore County Maternity Association Commit tee last spring. Miss Margaret McQueen was engaged to start the work. Six pre-natal clinics were organized, and have been held every month in different parts of the county. Each clinic is conducted by a doctor who is paid five dollars for his services. He is assisted by Miss McQueen. Volunteer aids brings the patients to the clinics, take histor ies and help in other ways. Two of the clinics are held in doctors’ of fices, and the others in community centers. The mothers who come to the clin ics are given a physical examina tion including the various necessary tests. They are then told how to take care of themselves and how to prepare for the care of the baby. worked under the County Health section. Department whose head, Dr. Sym- Many travelers in their search fo» ington, has given unfailingly of his ^ beauty pass through the dewberry time and energy to this work. It world unfortunately, without reali^:- has also had the support of the phy- ing what an exhibit they offer, sians of the county, with only a few exceptions. Dr. Mudgett and Dr. Mrs. Mary Jones has been, serious- Monroe have given advice and en- ^ ly jji at her home in Southern Pines couragement, while, conducting the and an interest somewnp.. out of the clinics, have been Doctors Stutz of ordinary is shown in her welfare. Southern Pines, Bovnnan and Bowen Mrs. Jones established her own rat- of Aberdeen, Rosser of Vass, Eck- ing- jn the village years ago among erson of Cameron, McDuffie of Hemp, the older neighbors and at the same Davis Glendon, Blue and Felton j time encourag^ed a friendship in the of Carthage, and Willcox of West j children that has held through a End. The county owes a debt of gratifying period. She taught a boy’s gratitude to these busy men. It is class in one of the local churches, only another instance of the public result is that today young spirited generosity of our doctors, men remember a fine old character There is another branch of this whether they hail from Kingsport, work which has only been touched on; Kushequa or Lillington. Her Christ- the question of the mid-wives. At mas mail for years brought cards of present it is easier to get a license remembrance that ranged pretty to practice mid-wifery in Moore well through the alphabet of names, county than it is to get one to run * and when the older boys and girls ^^iS^lRDH'IUJOR a car. All that is needed is to send an application and a dollar to Ral eigh. With the license comes a two- page leaflet of rules to be followed, including a list of required supplies. get back for an occasional visit they continue the friendly contact. ‘‘Maytime" and “Romeo and Ju liet.” two unusually fine pictures fill- Once a year the supplies are supposed ed the Southern Pines theater to ca- to be checked by a doctor or nurse. I pacity during their engagements Last year forty-eight mid-wives here. Manager Picquet said he were known to be practicing in the turned away enough on the last county. Only sixteen were register- night of "Maytime” to fill the house ed. A few of these women are intel- again if it could have been held over ligent and able, but the majority are, for another showing. Some fans were through age, mental or physical dis- not content with one entertainment ability, or disease, unfit to perform ijut saw it several times. this exacting and critically important j . _ service. It is highly necessary that if any North Carolinian thinks he those who are able among them be has reason to be concerned over con- taught and the unfit eliminated from ditions of the State he might feel practice. Plans are under way for better when he looks over the re- the development of this branch of port from the State's treasury show- the work. jng a cash balance on hand of over Last year the County lost eight twenty-seven million dollars, the fig- mothers who died at childbirth. This ure given for the end of March, year, so far, the slate is clean. Of the highest balance for years. The course this is undoubtedly due large- State’s bonded debt was also at its ly to luck or circumstance, but who lowest level for a long period, can say that there might not have ‘ A high balance in anything. State been five marks on the slate already — if those five clinic patients had not humility and a full realization of the been taken to the hospital. And if task ahead. The work is begun; it there had been no clinics for them * can only go on if the people of to attend, if Miss McQueen had not j Moore County are behind it. Funds known of their poor health, of the are needed to buy medicine, baby need for keeping in close touch with, clothes, tonics, in some cases food; IP you know a leader when you meet one, you’ll see the moment you try this spar* kling Buick why it’s called the out>in*front car of the year. You’ll go for the way it goes few- you— serene, steady, gallant as the figurehead on a buoyant ship—you’re in for a thrill every time you put it into action. You handle a wheel that turns as easy as the pages of a book. You press the treadle —and sink inches deep back in the soft cushions with the swoop of its take-off. You click off miles by the score, the hun dred—and no matter how far you range or what gait you travel, you can’t get a whine out of that softly whispering engine! The answer is you’ve got a car that was Som to go places the way you want to go- smoother, safer, steadier than any car you’ve known. Power in diis flashing Buick is the power of ei^t straight valve-in-head cylinders. Its gait is the level gait of a car built close to earth with enough bulk to hold it there. Its maneuverability is the quick mobility o£ a charger. Yet the crowning touch of its creators was none of these but the figures they succeeded in writing on its price tag. The hard-to-real- ize fact is that this great straight eight can be bought fcM* less than some of today’s sixes! TTiere’s just one way to get the true picture of Ruick’s standout value, and that’s to drive it yourself. See us soon and get your order in, and you’H enjoy a summer like you’ve dreamed of! LOWEST PRICE EVER ON A BUICK 4-DOOR SEDAN I GtNIRAL MOTOKS TERMS TO SUIT YOUR LIKINO them; if they had not been seen when they were seen, it is almost certain that if they had reached a hospital at all it would have been too late to save them. Such a record of achievement is offered in a plea for the help of all the people of this county. It is offer ed with thankfulness and also with to pay the doctors who hold the clinics, to buy equipment. Is there any better way to celebrate Moth er’s Day than to contribute towards this work for the Mothers of Moore County ? Contributions may be sent to Mrs. Walter MacNeille, Pinebluff, or to Mrs. James Boyd, Southern Knes. 1837 'I I 1. YOIM MONIY OOfS rAXTHfR IN A OINIRAl MOTOiS CAR • MARTIN MOTOR COMPANY, - Aberdeen SMITH’S GARAGE .... Rockingham
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