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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 8, 1937,
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor
Ben Bowden, Helen K. Butler, Jean
XUbon, Charles Alaoauley, O. D. Park,
Dan S. Ray. Bessie Cameron Smith,
AsHOciates,
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Entered at the Postoffice at South
ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
IT’S CLEAN«-UP TIME
IN THE SANDHILLS
There’s a National Clean-Up
Week every year — we don’t
know offhand just when it is—j
but right now is Clean-Up time i
in the Sandhills. It’s the time
when our northern visitors be
gin to arrive for the winter sea-1
son and when w'e should give
serious thought to putting our j
best foot forw'ard. i
What we are getting at is
that problem of careless and in
discriminate throwing of gar
bage, old bottles, junk of all
all kinds around the outskirts
of our towns. The matter w’as
discussed at a citizens’ meeting
called by the Chamber of Com
merce last winter, at which time
the so-called “hunting crowd”
cited the practice a» the only
complaint it had to register. The
horsemen said they stumbled
upon all kinds of trash and un
sightly materials throughout
the woods and along the bridle
paths. Much of this litter was
dangerous to horses, broken
bottles, pieces of abandoned ma
chinery, things that horses can
step on and damage themselves.
This practice can do more to
hurt Southern Pines and vicin
ity with a very important part
of its clientele than all manner
of favorable publicity and ad
vertising can do good. It is un
necessary, The city provides a
public dumping ground for
those living within its limits.
Those outside can easily burn
their inflammable trash and
bury the rest.
One citizen told us this week
of finding a number of broken
bottles near one of the fences
used during the hunting season.
Horses could easily land on
them, with serious results. A
near-town farmer lost a valua
ble mule this summer because
it stepped on a broken bottle
and severed an artery.
A little thought, a few mo
ments extra effort, wijl remove
this Sandhills liability. Let’s
clean up now.
STATE POLICE
RADIR5 INAUGURATED
With the inauguration this
week of the State Police radio
broadcasting system. North Car
olina is taking a tremendous
step forward in the matter of
crime detection within its bor
ders.
For the past week a network
of five stations, including the
“key” station at Raleigh, locat
ed at strategic points so as to
provide complete coverage of
the state, have been testing
with State Highway Patrol ra-
die-equipped cars, and although
there are still rough spots to be
ironed out in the transmission
and reception of messages, it
won’t be long before we have
an efficient and smo«th-work-
ing, statewide police broadcast
ing system.
In the north, particularly in
Massachusetts, Michigan and
Pennsylvania, where the State
Police broadcasting systems are
acknowledged as models, radio
has long been in use as an aid
in the apprehension of crimi
nals, often with startlingly grat
ifying results.
On one occasion we were tun
ed in on the Michigan police
wave-length at a time when
their entire facilities were de
voted to running down a bandit
car the occupants of which had
robbed a bank an hour or so
before. The Michigan system in
cludes two-way communication
between broadcasting station
and pKjIice cars—a step that is in
prospect in North Carolina in
the not-too-distant future—and
with pursuing cars giving the
direction taken by the bandits
and the broadcasting station di-
I’ecting other cars to road heads
in advance of the fleeing car,
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• TH6 EWTORS OF CAftC'fiRAPWC* INVlT* YOOTO 8CN0 H« IMTeAeSTINO FACTJ ABOOT'
what was he doing on this August af
ternoon ?
Sitting in his office in the Senate
building, waiting for the debate on
his nominaton to end. That he knew
the Klan queston was a factor in
his case no one can doubt who reads
the record. That he suspected that
if the truth became known he would
be denied the nomination is the only
possible inference from his conduct
then and subsequently. The only way
he could be sure of the nomination
was by silently acquiescing in a
fraud. So Senator Black sat silent.
He let his friends unintentionally fal
sify the record in his behalf.
Here is the^ measure of the man:
When to join the Klan was a political
asset he Joined. When to admit mem-1
bership in the Klan would have i
meant political suicide he kept silent.;
Only when hounded by an entire na- i
tion did he reluctantly—and defiant- i
ly—admit the truth.
America has witnessed a number ;
of shocking political scandals. But i
never before has it seen a man elevat- |
ed to the position of justice of the
Supreme Court of the United Statej
through a wilful suppression of ma
terial facts bearing on his fitness.
—New York Herald Tribune.
M. H. FOLLEY
Lumber, Millwork and
Builders’ Supplies
Aberdeen
Hemp
Drs. Neal, Beard
and Wright
VETERINARIANS
Southern Pines Sanford
the police soon had the fugitives
hopelessly bottled up. So graph
ic was the picture as it came
over the air that one could al
most visualize the scene as the
police cars cut off the various
avenues of escape and gradual
ly tightened the circle around
the bandits.
Now, with Bill Payne, “Tick”
Proctor and Wash Turner at
large in North Carolina and en
gaged in bank robbery, kidnap
est total for any seven-day pe
riod since the week of Nov. 7,
1930.
Automobile pi'oduction for
1937 is expected to exceel 5,000,-
000 cars and trucks, according
to Alfred Reeves of the Auto
mobile Manufacturers’ Associa
tion.
Five hundred American man
ufacturers registered an in
crease of almost 14 per cent in
ales for August, 1937, over
From Other Papers
EASTERN STAR TO GIVE
BIRTHDAY PARTY ON FRmAY
»YOURS FOR GOOD SHOES
H. E. CONANT
PINEHURST
THE SHOE MAN
THE SENATOR SAT SILENT
ping and automobile thefts, ■ 1936, according to a
striking swiftly and stealthily I jji^de jointly by the Bu-
and escaping to undiscovered: Foreign and Domestic
hide-aways, the inauguration oi
the police broadcasting system is
a particularly heartening devel
opment for, advised of their
presence in any given area, po-i
lice cars can be despatched there ’
immediately and, even though i „ , j. xu * u u -i j
the fugitives are not immediate- Board reports that home build
Commerce of the Department
of Commerce and the National
Association of Credit Men. Sales
by wholesalers were up 6 per
cent.
The Federal Home Loan Bank
ly run to earth, their hide-away
areas can be isolated and a
planned search conducted at
more leisure. —B. B.
ing rose 5 per cent in August
over July.
The answer to our first para
graph question would appear to
be definitely “no.”
EDITORIAL
RAMBLINGS
Does the recent Stock Market
slump mean that business in the
country is skidding?
Estimated at 837,500 cars,
carloadings on American rail
roads for the week ending Sept.
The Duke and Duchess of
Windsor are coming to Ameri
ca for a visit. The Duchess has
friends in Southern Pines. As
Wallis Spencer (before she was
Wallie Simpson) she visited
here. Mayhap the Sandhills wiU
catch a glimpse of the former
25 apparently reached the high-1 King and his bride this winter
GRAINS €F SAND
‘‘There has never been at any time
one iota of evidence that Senator
Black was a member of the Klan.”
So spoke Senator Borah, of Idaho,
on the floor of the Senate on August
17, a half hour before the Alabaman’s
nomination to the Supreme Court was
confirmed.
“I did join the Klan.” So confess
ed Mr. Justice Black over a nation
wide hookup on the avening of Oc
tober 1.
Whoever will take the trouble to ,
read The Congressional Record for i
August 17 can have no doubt that s
it was on the strength of Senator i
Borah’s categorical denial of Mr. ■
Black’s Klan affiliations that those ;
Senators who had reported ugly rum
ors about Mr. Black and the Klan|
dropped the matter. In fact, it is no;
exaggeration to say that if the dis- ^
tinguished Senator from Idaho had
not staked his own reputation!
against these charges Mr. Blaclr |
probably would not have been con-1
firmed by the Senate. 1
And where was Mr. Black and |
Next Friday evening, October 15th,
following its regular meeting, Mag
nolia Chapter No. 26, Order of East
ern Star, will 'entertain its members
and visitors with a birthday party.
The contribution for the Birthday
Box will be received at this time. All
members and visiting members are
urged to be present.
Mrs. R. A. Chandler nad Mrs. Wal
ter Spaeth of the Orphanage com
mittee will have charge of the enter
tainment.
Will be in his office over the
old Post Office, Sanford, N. C.,
every Wednesday, from 10:00 a. m
to 3.00 p. m. Don’t fail to see him
if your eyes are weak.
Just call us or drop In any
time. We’U be glad to discuss
your printing problem^ with you.
Phone 7271, The Pilot, Kouthem
Pines.
MG A. Z I IS e: s
MAY I HAVE YOUR REN'EWALS? j
I can give you beat authorized rates. |
Please drop me a card. I
MRS. Z. V. BLUE J
Carthage, N. C.
Qumvl (DJredjm
24 HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE
PHONE 6161-SOUTHERN PINES
To serve those n ho caU apon tu
to the best of our ability and
with thoughtful faimem is tlie
basis upon which our organlzatloB
la formed.
H.
G. McELBOT
IManager
People and Spots in the Late News
"Special Delivery” on aa envelope
really means Special Delivery to one
postal employe in the Sar.dhills.
While driving his car to make such
a delivery the other day he had i
near collision with another car at a
street crossing. He jumped out to
apologize to the young lady in the
other car, recognized her, thrust his
hand in his pocket and said:
‘‘I have a spacial delivery letter
here for your.”
But there are
530 Garners.
416 Franklins—and
While on the subject of mail, we
have had two postal cards from Con
gressman Walter Lambeth this
week. One, from Valencia in Spain,
was blacked out by the censors, even
the picture; only the words, "Re
gards from Spain—Walter Lambeth,”
were left. The second was from Rus
sia, postmarked Moscow, the pic
ture showing an escalator in opera
tion. When we showed it to the of
fice wit he asked what had become
of the Steppes of Russia.
Dogw’oed blossoms with red ber
ries on the same stems with leaves
turning to their fall coloring were
brought to the office this week by
Mrs. N. F, Sanborn of ‘‘Birdhaven. ’
Whether this means a bad winter or
a good winter or an early spring
or what we do not know, but any-
w'ay it's something unusual.
And Bill Harrington reports some
apple blossoms out his way.
The Smiths lead the Joneses in
North Carolina, if names o» file with
the Social Security and State Unem
ployment bureaus tell the truth.
There are 9,550 Smiths, five Smyths
and four Smythes, or more than 3,-
000 more than the 6,325 Joneses.
Then comes the Williams name with
6,270, ahead of the far-famed
Browns with 5,280.
These names all have more than
2,000 listed: Davig, Moore, Johnson,
WilsoM, Taylor, Harris, Miller, White,
Thomson, Walker, Martin, Allen, Hall
and Edwards, in that order.
There are more Annie Smiths than
any other kind—93. And the James
Smiths lead the John Smiths. We
don’t find any A1 Smiths, but there
are George Washington Smiths, Grov
er Cleveland Smiths and Woodrow
Wilson Smiths.
And there are a lot of Whites who
are black and Blacks who are white,
and if you want to go in for automo
biles, there are Fords, Franklins,
Gardners, Grahams and Pierces.
Ha, ha I What’s this? There are
210 Hoovers and not a Roosevelt.
COURSE IX .\NTHOLOGY OF
ART FOR MOORE TEACHERS
Catawba College of Salisbury is
offering to the teachers of Carthage
and vicinity an extension course in
Anthology of Art. Dr. Ernst Deren-
dinger, a native of Switzerland, will
be in charge of the class; he will
give a comprehensive interpretation
of the world’s masterpieces of art,
starting with the Pyramids of Egypt
and concluding witk the Rockefeller
Center.
Teachers may earn up to eight
semester hours of credit which can
be used to raise or renew a certifi
cate of any type. The North Carolina
State Department of Education has
endorsed the course.
It is planned to hold the first meet
ing on Wdnesday, October 13th, at
4:00 o’clock at the Carthage High
School. Non-teachers interested in the
clase will be admitted at a nominal
fee.
ASKS $5,000 AS RESULT
OF AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT
(ISP nadtoj
IN LEAGUE . . . Italy’s Dictator
Mussolini cements bond with Dic
tator Hitler by visit to Germany.
Both ridicule League of Nations
and democracy in speeches before
650,000 in Berlin, Mussolini de
claring that “the Europe of to
morrow will be Fascist.”
Miss Annah Lee McDonald of Lee
county has started an action in Moore
county Superior Court to recover
$5,000 from A. F. Jordan of Moore
county for alleged damages sustain
ed in an automobile accident which
she saya occurred in Sanford in Oc
tober, 1934 when the car in whicn
she was riding was struck by Jor
dan’s car, which, according to her
complaint, was being operated in a
careless manner.
(Wide M
Great
SERIES BIG GUNS
things are expected of Iron Horse
Lou Gehrig (above) of the Yan
kees, and Slugger Jim Ripple
(left) of the Giants, leading bat
ters of their respective teams, as
the subway World’s Series gets
under way in New York.
SLEEPING
BEAUTY DIES
... In a deep
sleep which
baffled . coun
try’s leading
physicians for
more than five
yea?s, 31-year-
old Patricia Ma
guire (left) of
Chicago, final
ly succumbs.
She died from
ijneumonia, her
system weak
ened by her
long sleep and
by an abdomi
nal tumor.
BEAUTY AND BRAINS—
Miss Dorothy .Roy, (right)
descendant of original
Acadian exiles, who' won
trip to New York, award
ed by Governor Richard
W. Leche for the slogan
best exemplifying Louisi
ana’s new indui
gram.
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DIVERSION . . . Presi
dent and Mrs. Roosevelt
pause i n YellowstoAe
Park on his “pulse tak
ing” trip through the
West while his grand
daughter, Sisti" Dali, feeds
a bear.'
iustKial pro-
LIVING MONUMENT—
In famous old Washington
walnut tree at Maple
wood, N. J., where first
president frequently hitch
ed horse during Revolu
tion, ^cial rubber blocks
compounded in the B. F.
Goodrich Company labor
atories, are bemg inserted
to stop decay and'save
historic landmiirk. *