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THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, Norlii Carolina
Friday, July 9, 1937.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor
Ben Bowden. Kiitharine L. Boyd,
Helen K. Butler, Jean Edson, Charles
Blacauiey, O. D. l*ark, Oaii S. Ray,
Bessie Cameron Smith, Associates.
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ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
A HLMAMTARIAN
PASSES
The passing- of Dr. Jamie VV.
Dickie removes from the Sand
hills one of its builders. After
service with the medical corps
of the United State Navy dur
ing the World War, and two
years of intensive training in tu.
bercular work at Asheville, Dr.
Dickie came to Southern Pines
16 years ago and built up an in-
stitution destined to become na
tionally recognized for its work
in the rehabilitation of tubercu
lar patients.
In addition to his contribution
to the community in his medical
work, Dr. Dickie has played a
prominent part in its civic and
social life. He was one of the
charter members of the Kiwanis
Club and served for one year as
its president. He was a director
of the Moore County Education
al Foundation, an organization
which through its loan fund has
aided deserving youths of the
county in carrying on their edu
cation beyond high school
grades. He has taken a keen and
active interest in many enter
prises looking toward the well
being of Southern Pines.
The many friends of the lov
able doctor join a sorrowing
widow and two fine youngsters
in mourning his passing,
THE CASE FOR
TOM GIRDLER
The Pilot is in receipt of an
interesting communication in
answer to an editorial on the
subject of Tom Girdler and “Lit
tle Steel” written by K. L. B. and
published in this paper several
weeks ago. We are pleased to
give space to the views of the
author; Deac Martin, of Cleve
land, Ohio, who says:
Recently a friend living in your
community sent me a copy of “The
Pilot,” containing an article by you
(K. L. B.) on Republic Steel and the
S. W. O. C. This article contained
some statements which are raiher
far-afield from the facts and I am
taking the liberty of writing you in
the hope that my letter will clear up
some of the misunderstanding which
seems to exist in your mind on the
question. I am doing this because I
believe so strongly in the cause Mr.
Girdler has been leading, although I
do not know him personally and have
no connection with the company.
To many of us this cause com cm
close to being a crusade to save de
mocracy in this country, which is
being threatened by the John Lewis
dictatorship.
Your reference to the stretch-out
as being the only way that occurred
to Mr. Girdler for reducing costs is
somewhat besi ^e the point. To my |
certain knowledge the stretch-out j
never has been and is not now used I
in the steel industry. I understand |
that that is a practice applying in a j
number of other industries but not m I
steel, and Mr. Girdler cannot be ac-1
cused of introducing it into Repub- [
lie. I
You do not appear to agree with
Mr. Girdler’s conviction that he
should operate his business to make
profit. I think whether or not one
believes in the profit system is a
question of whether or not one be
lieves in the capitalistic system. With
out profits, the capitalistic system
would wither and collapse.
The chief point on which you are
misinformed is the picture you draw
of Tom Girdler’s employees on one
side demanding a signed contract and
Tom Girdler on the other, refusing
to grant such a request, with the re
sult that men are striking because of
that.
The facts are that Tom Girdler’s
employes have not asked for a signed
contract. The C. I. O. has asked foi
it. The C. I. O. claim to represent
some of Girdler’s employees. They
have never said how many or what
portion of the total. To date they
have declined to avail themselves of
their privilege of requesting the Na
tional Labor Relations Board to hold
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an election in plants, thus revealing
that they feel certain they do not
have the majority. Some light is
thrown on this by the fact that out
of the 53,000 wage earners in the
company, 23,000 have continued to
work all through the period of the
strike and that the instant pickets
.surrounding various plants m Ohio
were disarmed and law enforcement
began, practically all of the em
ployees have gone back to work and
the plants are resuming normal oper
ations.
It is unfair to Mr. Girdler to say
that his employees distrust him or
that he has become more and more
separated from them. As a matter of
fact, the fight that he has put up
for the rights of a man to work at a
job of his own choice, free from mo
lestation and coercion from a labor
organization, has endeared him to
thousands upon thousands of his em
ployees, as indicated by letters and
messages he has received from them
anU the enthusiastic manner in which
they have returned to work as soon
as they were able to get thiough the
C. I. O. picket lines.
SOMETHING NEW
IN RESORT ADVERTISING
This summer enterprising cit
izens of Maine are capitalizing
the political isolation of their
state, as temporarily fixed by
the national election returns.
Maine has not ceased to be an
attractive summer resort be
cause she happened to monopo
lize a little comer of the 1937
electoral map along with Ver
mont. So wide-awake habitants
of the Pine Tree State are mak
ing the most of its new distinc
tion by expanding their adver
tising acti\ities.
For example, we are told that
a camp owner in Maine’s Range-
ley Lake region is making a
first-rate bid for publicity. He
is circulating something that is
probably unique in the way of
advertising folders. It is in the
form of a passport, authorizing
the holder to travel to the camp,
and is labeled as valid during
July, August and September.
There is space for amendments
and extensions, and a visa good
for all the privileges and pleas
ures of the camp. Other drives
for Maine’s summer benefit are
reported, but this will answer
the purpose of a good specimen.
The camp-owner is doubtless a
never-say-tlie Republican. But
he is obviously too hospitable to
discriminate against unregencr-
ate Democrats and even New
Dealers in distributing his pass
ports.
NEW LAWS PRESENT
BUDGET PROBLEMS
If you meet up with one of
the County Commissioners and
he seems a bit more preoccupied
than usual, or you note deeper
furrows in his brow than you
knew were there, you may attri
bute it to budget-making time.
Just about the hardest job the
commissioners have is to give
the people of the county all of
the improvements they want and
still keep the tax rate down to
a figure that will be pleasing to
them when they get ready to pay
their taxes.
This year, as Chairman Wil
bur H. Currie now sees it, there
will of necessity be an increase in
the rate, which was 79 cents or
the $100 valuation. The county’s
part of the expenditure for the
aged and the blind and the wel
fare administrative cost will be
around $19,000, according to the
budget figures sent to Moore
county, and this must be provid
ed for in the budget.
The schools, too, are clamor
ing for funds, and the courts re
quire considerable financial
backing, but the Commissioners
are determined to keep expenses
as low as they feel is consistent
with the best interests of the
county.
JVROBS DRAWN FOB AUGUST , $70,000 REDUCTIONS IN
TERM OF CRIMINAL. COURT
The jury list for the August term
of Superior Court for the trial of
criminal cases is as follows: L. M.
Hartsell, D. A. McDonald, Jr., Qllie
Hussey, J. J. Check, O. D. Phillips,
K. E. Peele, L. J. Boyte, O. C. Ad-
cox, F. L. Burns, Lacy Williams, R.
B. Bailey, W. E. Phillips, Fred Han
non, J. J. Dowdy, D. Mclnnis, J. R.
Gainer, J, R. Key, E. C. Matheson,
E. C. Calloway, D. T. Maples, D, E.
Dennis, J. M. Tyson, G. H. Purvis, Ar
thur Wicker, J. F. Smith, J. A. Dun
lop, Carl F. Johnson, W. B. Way, Al
bert Cameron, D. M. Smith, W. H.
Chriscoe, G. M. McDermott, J. C.
Blue, W’alter M. Wicker, Will J. Ca
gle and E. O. Freeman.
VALUATIONS ALLOWED
During the two days last week
when the Board of County Commis
sioners sat as a Board of Equaliza
tion and Review to make adjustments
on the valuation of property in the
various townships, reductions aggre
gating approximately $70,000 were
allowed and a much smaller amount
was ordered listed correctly.
Reductions were requested because
of the removal of houses or timber
from the lands, for double listing in
a case or two, and for various other
reasons, and ranged In size from $40
to $10,000.
226 TEACHERS ALLOTTED
MOORE COUNTY SCHOOLS
C.4RD OF TH.ANKS
We wish to thank our friends for!
their many deeds of kindness and ex- i
pressions of sympathy during the ill- j
ness and death of our brother, John i
A. Wicker.
—MRS. CHARLIE WILLIAMS
—MRS. JOHN SCARBORO
—MRS. FRANK MAPLES
—MRS. WALTEJl MAPLES.
The State School Commission this
week announced its allotment of
teachers for the various counties and
the city units. Moore county, outside
of Southern Pines and Plnehurst, is
given 41 high school teachers and
126 elementary school teachers. Pine-
hurst and Southern Pines come under
the city unit heading, and their allot
ments are: Pinehurst, seven high
school and 19 elementary school
teachers; Southern Pines, 11 high
school and 22 elementary.
ei^AiNS er sand
With nearly everybody away or get
ting ready to go, its kind of nice
to see Mars and Jupiter back in the
Southern skies. The two planets have
joined the summer stars and will be
with us until long after the fol.j« are
back.
The North Carolinian who stays in
the state for the entire year has the
equal of about anything else on earth
offered him In the line of diversified
vacation. He has hundreds of miles
of coastal border, in fact one of the
longest of the eastern seaboard, for
bathing, boating or fishing—and with
in easy reach. He has on the opposite
side of the state a great mountain
barrier with its high peaks exceeding
anything else in eastern North Amer
ica, opening up tremendous depths
and a sweep of magnificent scenery.
An ai'tlole In the July Woman’s
Home Companion tells a story of the
Appalachian trail, the “Longest Path
In the World.” It Is called a "Master
trail, six feet wide, 2,050 miles long,
from Mt. Katahdin, Maine, to Mt
Oglethorpe, Georgia, the longest
m.arked path in the worlo, the great
est single recreational project ever
attempted and carried through chief
ly with amateur labor.” The trail
leads through the Unaka and Mount
Pisgah national forests and dow'n into
the Great Smokies. A few Sandhillers
have traveled over parts of the moun
tain country on foot. Some day
there will be more as the path be
comes better known. It will be a fine
outlet for the ones who always feel
more secure on foot than on wheels
and can have their soaring altitudes
without the feeling of a dropping ele
vator.
It might be worthwhile to look
over some of North Carolina before
going too far away in search of sun
burn and blistered heels.
A small girl not long ago was
about to set forth on a long jouraey
that would take her clear across the
continent. It was quite an event in
the family and one that aroused In
terest in every member of the house
hold, af.d that of course Included the
faithful ebony cook whose interest be
gan in the young girl when she was
much more a youngster than now. So
out of the family funds she cachea
a dollar and handed it to the young
missy with the stern admonition she
wanted to be bearin’ fum ’er and she
was to write dat out. Her white
charge could provide a heap of bearin’
with all that money.
Now a hundred postal cards are a
heap of cards, whether you are young
or old, especially if you are seeing
new worlds for the first time. So an
Ingenious youngster used telegraph
wires and the situation at home waa
satisfactory.
The German nurse and the English
tutor and the French governess all
have their value, but none of them
can take the place of the old fashion
ed negroes whose kindly but unyield
ing authority has been Instrumental
in fashioning the character of many
a white child of the South. When
Becky Neal gets back, more than her
white folks will be glad to see her.
for many an offensive bullet. The
squirrels take the food put out for the
birds, Is one complaint. One resident
suggests then that more food be put
out for the birds and let them share
with the squirrels, rather than elimi
nate one to save the other.
One of the interesting things about
the State Capitol are the number of
tame squirrels that live on the
grounds. Hugh oaks harbor the little
animals. Numerous benches are scat
tered about under the oaks. There Is
£ilways an Interesting audience oc
cupying these benches whether It be
a visitor from out of town who has
dropped down to enjoy the restful at
mosphere, or the people whose homes
are In the town. The tame squirrels
that come up for nuts or to look the
srtanger over make the park about
the Capitol one of the pleasant fea
tures in the fine old city square. The
squirrels In our own village are an
entertaining bit of wild life. Guns
should be discouraged by all w’ho are
Inclined to destroy them.
M.VRRIAGE I.ICENSES
Marriage licenses have been Issued
from the office of the Register of
Deeds of Moore county to the follow
ing: Claude Wallace and Anna Mae
Maness, both of Carthage Route 1;
Bennie Maness of Carthage Route 1
and Maida Williams, Hemp; Herman
McNeill and Jessie Mashburn, both
of Glendon.
F'or Sale Clneeip
#5 Room, (partly furnished) Tobin Cottage on U. S. Highway No. 1.
Price $1,800—part on mortgage.
9 In good repair. 92 ft. frontage. Includes 2 car garage.
# Second floor apartment rents for $12.00. This $12.00 monthly in
come will pay your mortgage charges. Thus you get your own
rent occupancy about free of charge.
C. p. PCTTX
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Cost of tours includes all neces-
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travel in safety—free from liigh-
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Unfortunately the friendly little
squirrel that creeps shyly to the doors
of gome of our homes arrives a.i
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