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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeeit, North Carolina
Friday, August 5, 1938.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. IIVDE
Editor
BEN nOWDKN
News Kditur
CHARLES MACAULEY
Advertiainff
JKAX C. EDSON
Buainens Manager
DAN S. KAY
Circulation
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ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
MURDER ON
THE HIGHWAY
The National Safety Council
reports traffic fatalities for the
first six months of 1938 as 22
per cent less than during the
same period last year. By heed
ing the plea to drive more care
fully, 3,670 lives w'ere saved
during the first half of 1938.
The council says if the percent
age of decline continues for the
balance of 1938 the year’s traf
fic toll vi^ill be the lowest in ten
years, and would represent a
saving of 8,700 lives.
If the entire population of the
town of Sanford was to be wip
ed out or half the city of Fay
etteville was to be wiped out
within the year, the entire
world would be agog and would
lend a hand in a strenuous ef
fort to save every life within
the town limits. But pestilence
and disease are attacked and
fought with greater fervor than
the murderer in the gas- buggy.
THE POCKETBOOK
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TROM 9UN TO SUN
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, WERE C^UEP TD WORK AT
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PVE5 which CAN BE
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SEARCH IN PARK WATER*
FOR FOOP/
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TO COSVERT waste SKIM MILK IM PAlRIEi
INTC AWTERIAL FOR A4AKIN6 5UTT0NJ
WA6ES
TAXES
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INPUiTRy—STEEL-WERe EOOAU
TO A yeAJf's /viy fok ioa.ooo
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CUP&OARPS’, ^OCKEP WITH FOOP
WERE popular APJUNCTS TO THE
WEU-FURNI5HEP BEO-ROO/A 'N
THE /S™CfNTURV -^CfONHhT-T/ME
COOIP6B WITHIN EA^y
UcACM IF we AWOK£ HUNdUy)
PINEHIJRST
Mr. and Mrs. Dalton Honored
Mrs. J. M. Hagood, Mrs. Joseph
I. O’Brien and Mrs. S. A. Hennessee
{entertained at Cards Monday evening
at the Community Club House.
Guests of honor were Mr. and Mrs.
I Frank Dalton. Others were, Mr. and
Mrs. Ralph Sutton, Mr. and Mrs. Flay-
mond Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Ed
Swaringen, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Keith,
Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Sledge, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas R. Cole, Mr. and Mrs.
Byron U. Richardson, Mr. and Mrs-
Banks Richardson, Karl Johnson,
Mrs. Blanche Wesc6tt, A. B. Sally,
Mrs. Colin McKenzie, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank L. DuPont, Mr. and Mrs. T.
Shelby Cullom, Mr. and Mrs. David
Coffey, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thomp
son, Mrs. Clarence Thomas, Mrs.
Jack Mulcahy, Mr. and Mrs. John F.
Taylor, Mrs. George Veno, Mrs. Alec
Innes, Gordon Cameron, and Mr. and
Mrs. «H. A. Campbell.
Mrs. Dalton was presented an at
tractive guest prize. High scores
were made by Mrs. Sledge and Byron
Richardson, Mrs. Thompson and Mr-
Taylor, Mrs. McKenzie and A. B.
Sally. Low score prizes went to Mrs.
Veno and Banks Richardson.
Realtors Have Opportunities
To Show Visitors Hospitality
Services Rendered Bear Fruit
In Assurance of Return
Visit To Section
*
HELP SELL LOCALITY
Sends pui/'‘common“ hare! I Tobacco Grading: SchooI
holders.
Total assets of the 150 com
panies were $42,000,000,000,
owned by 6,500,000 investors, in-
We Americans are criminally in-1 eluding duplicates, and the com-
different in our attitude toward panies had 3,000,000 employes.
the deadly and fatal malady^—
the automobile.
Eight thousand lives lost in
an epidemic would cause a na
tional uproar. Eight thousand
mowed down by automobiles are
not even front page news.
DEMOCRACIES’
BEST DEFENSE
The opinion is going the
rounds that the democracies’
best defense against the fascist
totalitarian states, is the lat-
ter’s astounding financial weak
ness.
The democracies, of course,
such as France, England and the
U. S„ have gone to great lengths
in monetary tinkering, taxing
and spending. But they aren’t
in the same class as the fascists.
Germany, for example, absorbs
over one-third of its national in
come in taxes, and ptill can’t
make both ends meet. Italy,
faced with poor crops and an in
creasingly unfavorabte balance
of trade, is hard pressed for
money. And Japan, as everyone
knows, is spending beyond its
means at an incredible rate, and
is giving something like half
of all its government revenues
to the maintenance and expan-
'»ion of its military machine.
First econoniie collapse, many
think, will come in Germany.
Germany has long been financ
ing herself by an amazing tech
nique. Any company, working
for the government—and all im
portant com]»anies in a totali*
.tarian state do thjit most of the
time—has been paid in so called
“work yills,” which matured in
a year or two. The company took
these to banks and discounted
them for cash. When the banks
got too many on hand for the
government to buy back on the
due date, the government re
funded them. Later still, an
"‘improvement” was
Total taxes paid in 1937
arnounted to $1,630,000,000,
more than twice the amount
paid in 1932—$291 per common
shareholder, $514 per employe.
For 124 of these companies, this
amounted to an increase of 109
per cent.
Where are we headed? How
long can private industry main
tain such a high cost of gbvern-
ment? Will workmen and indus
tries maintain such a high cost
of government? Will workmen
and industries soon be drafted
by government and eliminated
as free agents? Witness Ger
many, Spain, Russia and Italy.
THE PRICE OF
SHORT SIGHTEDNESS
During the first five months
of 1938, railroad net operating
income in this country totaled
$45,000,000, as compared with
$240,000,000 last year, a decline
of 80 per cent, leaving an an
nual return of but .54 per cent
on the industry’s investment.
In considering this critical
situation, a statement by H. A.
Enochs, Chainpan of the Car
riers’ Joint Conference Commit
tee, who used to be a brakeman
himself, is of exceptional inter
est. He said: “We of the Car
riers’ Joint Conference Commit
tee think we know the railroad
men of this couHtry pretty well.
Most of us have served with
them in one branch or another
of milroading, and some of us,
in our time, represented employe
organizations in dealing with
management. The iflajority of us
served last' year on a similar
committee which agreed to the
employes’ request for an in
crease in wages, at a time when
conditions were quite different
from what they are today.
*We have confidence in the
In County on Augrust 6
Two Meetings, One at Carthage
at 9:30 A. M. Other at
West End at 2:00 P. M.
fairness and common sense of
devised I our railroad men. When they
whereby the governmemt gave have all the facts before them,
companies treasury bills which j they will recognize, we believe,
could not Ue discounted. AH of | how different is the situation
these companies tlttn gat stuck
with non-negotiabl^^paper, and
couldn’t get cash to carry on
their business. Recently they
had to sell stock for this pur
pose—and the result was a
crash in the government-donai-
nated German stock market.
There hasn’t been mi^h audi
ble complaint—it doesn’t pay in
Germany, wkere nejv concen
tration camps are being bulk
M the existing ones have proven
inadequate to hoW Hitler’s en
emies. But German foreign
credit is reaching the non-exis
tent point, and cqiditions are, wage rates.”
today from that of a year ago
when they sought and secured
an increase in the rates of pay,
“While men regularly employ
ed on the railroads now are re
ceiving the highest avera^re
wages in history, thou^nds of
their fellows are laid off, and
the investors are receiving next
to nothing as a return on the
savings they have put into rail
road plant and equipment. We
hope and believe that tiiese
facts will cause railroad men to
realize the justice and necessity
of the proposed reduction in
getting worse. One columnist, in
describing GemMmy^j impend
ing collai»e, says, “The pievail-
ing opinion in Washingtrti is
that it won’t be long now.”
IT CAN’T HAPPEN
HERE.—OR CAN IT?
An analysis of reports of 150
representative companies shows' talk in the world can’t hide these
that taxes paid by them in 1937facts. No industry can loBg pay
No one makes wage reductions
from choice—but in this in
stance they are a matter^f dire
necessity* There is only one way
they can be escaped if the rail
roads are to be kept SiDlvent—
and that is to permit the lines
rate increases that permit them
to earn a “living wage.” All the
By E. H. Garrison, Jr.,
County Agent
News came out in the Raleigh pa
per last week that we were to have
a tobacco grading school in Moore
County on Saturday, July 30th, but
we did not have time to get notices
out to producers so the school was
postponed imtil |Saturday, August
6th, at which time it will be held.
In order to take care of the crowd
we have decided to hold one of these
meetings in the school building at
Carthage. This one will be held be
ginning at 9:30 Saturday morning.
The other meeting will be held in the
old school building at West End, Sat
urday afternoon July 6th, beginning
at 2:00 o’clock. I hope that as many
as possible will attend these meet
ings. This work will be carried on by
L. T. Weeks, from Mr. Floyd’s of-
lice, and one of the government men.
I feel that a (;reat lunount of good
may be derives from a school of this
kind. No doubt these men will be able
to Rhow us a go.d bit about the dif.
ferent grades and other things of in
terest. We will attempt to get up a
good bit of tobacco here so that as
nearly as possible the grading will be
of most interest to us. Please do not
forget the places and the dates.
Carthage, Saturday morning at
0:30 a. m.
West End, .Saturday afternoon at
2:00 p. m.
S. MANNING DIES
OF HEART ATTACK
Per.sonal.s
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley R- Viall mo
tored to Lexington Sunday to bring
home their sons, Bill and Bobby,
who have been attending Camp Wil
loughby for the past six weeks.
Mrs. A. B. Sally has returned from
I Charlotte where she has been in a
1 hospital recuperating from a tonsil-
ectomy.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. McKenzie have
' returned from a motor trip through
I the Great Smokies and several days
I stay at Myrtle Beach.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dalton and
children, Joan and Frank, Jr., of
Bridgeport, Conn., are the guests of
Mr. Dalton’s sister, Mrs. S. A. Hen
nessee and famUy.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph W. Sutton and
daughter, Betsy, have returned from
a three weeks vacation spent at Day
tona Beach, Fla., Savannah, Char
leston and Carolina Beach. ‘
Mrs. I. C. Sledge entertained her
bridge club Friday at her home. Mrs.
David Coffey made high score for the
afternoon.
Mrs. Blanche Wescott and daugh-
ter, Dorothy, spent the week-end
with Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Haw
ley in Durham.
Kay and Helen Boyette and Ann
Wall of Carthage are the guests of
their aunt. Miss Margaret Kelly.
Mr. and Mrs. Meredith Henidon
have gone to Myrtle Beach where
they have a cottage.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis G. Kelly have
returned from visiting relatives at
their home in Connecticut and Cape
Cod.
The afternoon circle of the Com
munity Church Woman’s Auxiliary
met at the home of Mrs. Charlie
Fields Tuesday afternoon with 12
members attending.
Mrs. Martin McLeod has return
ed to her home in Norman after visit
ing her mother, Mrs. Annie Kelly,
who continues ill.
Mr. and Mrs. John F- Taylor en
tertained at their home Friday eve
ning with four tables of bridge.
Prizes were won' by Mrs. I. C.
Sledge, Mias Catherine Cagle, Tom
Black and B. U. Richardson. Mrs.
Banks Richardson was presented
dainty handkerchiefs as guest of
honor. Delicious refreshments in two
courses wera served following the
game.
(Continued from pag« one)
and Louisa Hall Manning, and
descended from famous barris'
tcrs and Jurl&.o. His father was dean
of the University of North Carolina
law school after whom Manning Hall
at Chapel Hill is named. His great
grandfather was John Hall, a Su
preme Court justice in 1819.
Educated in private schools in
Pittsboro, Judge Manning attended
the University of North Carolina and
there studied law, after which he be
gan practice in Durham, where ktt
was city attorney. He represented
Durham County in the House of Rep
resentatives in 1907 and the 14th dis
trict In the Senate in 1909, the year
he was appointed Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court, on which he
served unfcll 1910.
In 1914 he went to Raleigh and
joined former Governor W. W. Kit
chen in a law partnership there and
in 1916 was elected Attorney General
for North Car<^lna, x^hich capacity
he held until 1924. Since then, he has
been practicing law with hi* son im-
der the firm name of Mamiing- and
Manning.
(Editor’s Note: This is another in
the series of articles by local offi
cials and civic leaders which The Pi
lot is publishing in cooperation with
the Governor’s Hosptality Commit
tee of Moore County emphasizing the
need for hospitality to visitors.)
By Eugene C. Steven.s
Perhaps no group of persons have
more opportunity to show hospital
ity to visitors than the realtors. Af
ter a visit to the Chamber of Com
merce, tourists usually seek the real
estate offices for more information
along many lines. More than any oth
er professional group, the realtors are
prepared to give detailed informa
tion to those seeking it. The tour-
ist is interested in homes, climate,
cabins, country guest houses, water,
neighboring towns, scenic trips and
places to go, and many other things
related to happy living conditions-
Any service we render a visitor bears
much fruit in the assurance of a re
turn visit, and often leads to the
purchase of a home and the securing
of a good citizen.
Realtors wno have made contacts
with visitors know that they P.re in
terested in city government, tax rate,
valuation of property, educational and
social advantages, natural attractions,
and scenic beauties. In such contacts
the real estate dealers have great
opportunity to sell their town and
state to outsiders. Upon such service
we build cities and in the building
realtors play a big part.
We are row enterirg upon a cam-
paign to know our state and our sec
tion better. We want to sell them
to all who come within our borders.
No state has more to offer than
North Carolina. Our local real es
tate dealers are taking a forward
step in iining up with the hospitl.
ity campaign- Little courtesies count
tremendously and pay large divi
dends.
The Governor’s Hospitality Com
mittee of Moore County appreciates
deeply the service the real estate
dealers are rendering in carrying out
Governor Hoey’s advertising and hos-
pitality campaign for North Caro
lina- The local realtors are enthu
siastic over the campaign to create
a greater friendliness to visitors and
see in it an unprecedented privilege
to sell Moore county to them and
thus help in the building of a great
er Old North State.
Improved agricultural methods have
done much toward increasing yields
per acre of crops in North Carolina,,
reports Chief Statistician W. H.
Rhodes, of the State Department of
Agriculture. For example, the aver,
age yield of com from 1870-1879 was
12 bushels per acre, compared with
18 bushels per acre from 1927-1936.
GCAINS.Cr SAND
We received a letter the other day
from our vacationing boss, Nelson
C- Hyde, written from New York
State. He scrivens as follows:
Skaneateles, N. Y-, July 30-
Cur North Carolina adveitising
must be serving one good purpose: it
appears to have kept North Carolin
ians home this summer. We’ve been
touring about northern states for a
month now and have seen only two
N- C. license plates-
“Jim” Boyd is no one-sport fellow,
we’ve just found out. You may think
0/ him as exclusively a foxhunter,
but he forgets all that in summer
and goes in just as strenuously for
sailing- In fact he’s commodore or
something of the yacht club up at
Sorrento, Maine. He trips lightly
from halters to halyards and back to
halters as the seasons change.
Incidentally we’ve heard from him
that the Satevepoat has changed ita
schedade and is going to start his
new novel running in October, fin
ishing it in December in time for pub
lication in book form by Scribner’s in
January. It is atill untitled, Jim
writes.
MARINE CORPS TO RECRUIT
IN CHARLOTTE AUG. 8 to 17
out more money than it earns,
anti survive—and no industry
can continue to pay high wages
when it is forced by law and
regulatipn to seS its product at
“below cost” levels.
Sergeants Charles L. Arndt and
Charles T- White of the United States
Marine Corpe Kecruitlng Service,
will be in Charlotte, N. C, from Au-
guest 8 to August 17, inclasiye, at
the Post Office Building, for the pur
pose of interviewing prospective ap
plicants for enlistment in the U. S.
Marine Corps.
Applicant must be single, white,
eighth grade or above in education, 18
to 25 years of age, in good physi-
eal condition and of good moral
character.
Yomg men selected will be furn
ished transportation tx) Savannah for
final examination and enlistment
Those enlisted will be transferred to
the large Marine training station at
Parris Island, S. C, for the usual
training preparatory to assignment
to some service school, ship or ma
rine barracks for duty.
SMILING RANGERS IN PERSON
The Smiling Rangers, who are
heard regularly over Station WPTP
in Raleigh, will appear In person at
the Pinehu/st School auditorium on
Monday night, August 8th, at 8:00
o’clock. The program will be spon
sored by the Home Demonstration
Club ariS an ertjoyable program Is
guct'anteed-
Received en tour: a most incon
sistent posrtal card from one of the
office force. It starts off: “No pool.”
Then it goes on to tell us it rains
every day, “waterbuga swim in
streets, everybody all wet, bullfrogs
on roque courts, turtles on tennis
courts.”
Must be pools for a’ that.
We were parked against the curb
in the busiaess section of Syracuse
the other day when a man, spotting
our license plate, stopped and asked
where we lived.
“Southern Pines.”
"Ok yes,” he Said. “That’s the
town I always remember when I
drive south winters. It’s like getting
into Central Park In New York af
ter passing through the slumsi I’m go-
ing to stop and sp^d a few days
there next season, it’s such a beau
tiful spot.”
Made us pretty gk|(} we’d passed
the Civic Center bond issue.
—N. C. H.
Ruth Burr Sanborn is fast becom
ing one of the prvlific writers of the
SarMhills. Her short stories are find
ing pvpiflarity and demand from the
Saturday Evening Post to the Amer
ican. The last named publication pre
sents ‘To Meet My Wife” and
“Matchmaker’s Holiday” in the July
and August issues.
The weekly survey of current mag
azines reveals a Southern Pines man
in public print. Dr. Neal, popular
veterinary and friend ol the &nimal
kingdom from rare horse to hound
dog. Is pictured in "Life." The scene
is the ball room of the Pennsylvania
hotel in New York. Dr. Neal sits
behind a photographer in a group
of doctors who are witnessing an
operation where a direct transfvsion
takes place between two horses at
the Amerlcfo Veterinary Medical As
sociation. The horses wore rubber
shoes into the hotel where the af
fair was publicly performed.
Dr. Neal is probably the first Sou
thern Pines person to look -out from
the pages of Life and his neighbors
are busy asking him questions. We
are begiiming to wonder how long
it will be before his fan mail will
unload upon him a crate of aoudads-
from southern Asia, ptarmigans fron»
the artic or siamangs from Sumatra.
“Life” may have its drawbacks af-
tep all.
Automobiles generally carry their
passengers in such speedy night
that little time is devoted to scen
ery along the roadside, but no mat-
ter what swiftly moving v/h?els do
to landscapes, the crepe m.^rtles
blooming along the highway are
commanding attention from all but
the absent-minded motorist.
The president cf the Provincia!
Government of the Confederacy has
been forgotten, or at least has drift
ed out of the memory of all but a
limited few. Today Jeff Davis has
been resurrected through the How-
ers that bfcize out in a mass of bril
liant color along the road that bears
his name. When the U. D. C. plant
ed the shrubs that are now a delight
to every traveler, regardless of
whether he hails from North, South,
East or West, they not only paid
homage to their leader, but showed
the confidence retained by the ma
jority of the southern people.
When the crepe myrtles restore
the spirit of Jefferson Davis, they no
longer bring to mind the antagonis
tic song conceminig a sour apple tree,
but leave an interesting picture of a
Secretary of War, a s^tcsian, a
soldier and the president of U»e Con
federate states of America.
With fruits and vegetables to be
had in abundant supply in stores and
gardens, the canning season is at
hand. If any person has problems or
questions they would like to have
solved pertaining to that subject, the
State college Ebctension Service will
come to their rescue by offering a
buUetin on “Canning Fruits and Veg.
etable*.” TWs publication will give
valuable infonnati<>n and should pro
mote successful canning. It may be
had by- any- resident of the Staite
who applies to tbfi agriculture «di.
toe of Sta^ College and rotuests Clr.
eular- No. 223. '
The underpass just south of Vass
has been completed and can are go
ing ttaxmgfi. Work on the shoulders
of the road between Manley and
Vass will soon be under way and the
highway wm be closed during this
construction period. When opened
for through tmffic the road should
be safer than at. any time in previous
history, as the curve at the under
pass has been greatly improved. Ac
cidents occuring at that particular
spot were due to flast driving and
cars getting out of control. A decided
curve is stUl in evidence at the un
derpass, and autojnobiles win contin.
ue to do damaige if no restraint is
put on the throttle when negotiating
the bend trf the I'oad.