Page Two THE PILOT. Southern f*ines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, September 23, 193S. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, InooriMiratod, Southern I’iiies, N. C. NELSON C’. Hvi)K Editor rTttE'PiOCKETBOOK ^KNOWLEDGE TO&S BEN BOWDKN New« Kditor CHARLES MACAULEY Advertising JEAN C. KDSON Bu:iineflii ManAflr<‘r DAN S. KAY rirculation Helen K. Kutler- BeHsie Cnmeron Smith, H. L. Epps, Associates MembIME>>E> tHE "9EVCN- ’ COLOREP* FARlitoTi, ’ or SOUTH AMERICA * SiCfP HANGtNd Uf^'Me-POWNJ i.OOO 7,500 fV-O lO.SOO 20.000 ,t PINEHLUFF UNPER FARLV BA'ifBALl RULCi TWtRE WERE NO CALLED AALU ANP A PiTCHKR, HAO TO Throw the b*'.l until the batter OtClDtC? To MlT IT / A EARNINS ^500 A yeAR. PAVJ ASOUT^PO or /2% OF Hii fO PEPERAL, iTATE, ,^.MP LOCAL Ta» COLLEcTOk* SOUTHERN PINES TAX RATE We live in Southern Pines be cause we like it here. Most of us have come from other cities and towns, and have stayed here because we prefer it to them. Naturally, when there’s a raise in tax rate, we don’t like ‘ it much. We could, of course, go back to Atlantic City or Boston or No one now In the Sandhills has to hunt up a calendar to tell him what time of the year it is. We may define our own date with a fairly ac curate guess when we see the feed store window filled with grass seed, lawns spaded into lumpy clodg, high grass and weeds mowed down in neighboring yards, and boarded up windows and doors of silent houses shedding their protective covering; the school bus brought into activity, and the smell of the scuppernong fills the evening air with an odor such as only a scuppernong is capable of. Then your guess is correct, the mid dle of September. The Charlotte Observer runs a feature called "North Carolina Per- ChicagO or New Orleans or ponalitles” accompanied by draw- wherever W’e came from. | ings. John Blue, North Carolina rail- But let’s see: Atlantic City’s road builder figured recently in one tax rate is $4.99. Boston’s is of the sketches. $3.87, Chicago s $3.52 and New j john Blue came to be one of the Orleans $3.45. . , , county’s most prominent men before Southern Pines rate, with the 15 cant increase tacked on this ^ year, is $2.80, a rate well below si^Plic*ty ot a clumsy sword or the average of cities and towns loading flintlock. We have whi(j|i have much less to offer. ' thods of fighting m over a cen tury and a half, although little or no progress towards peace. —H. K. B. PROGRESS IN WAR IF NOT IN PEACE Away back about one hundred and fifty years ago, a British ^ WESSON FROM arrny officer with tour hundred PENNSYLVANIA and fifty men took possession of Wilmington and the country ly- he died, as he was responsible for much of the devlopment of the Rock- fish valley territory. Young Blue came home from the war in 1865 when but a boy of around twenty. With a brother, Neil S- Blue, the pair annexed a large acreage of timber- land from which a lumber and tur pentine industry grew. With no means of getting their wares out of the country without long burdensome hauls they built the Aberdeen and Rockfish railroad which linked the territory between Aberdeen and Fay etteville. John Blue with his brother not only opened a field of produc tive industry but was respon.siMe for creating a certain amount of prosperity that came to Moore, Hoke and Cumberland counties. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Troutman anti Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Troutman •spi-nt Thursday in Charlotte. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hudson of Greensboro were visitors in town Wedne.^rJay. Mrs. Eutice Mills spent Thursday in Fayetteville. Mr. and Mrs. Phil Cranford of Mt. Aiiy were guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Suttenfield Tuestiay and Wed nesday. Miss Victoria Troutman returned to Queens Chicora College Thursday to enter her Sophomore year. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lampley and cons and Mr- and Mrs. Earl Lampley and daughter spent Sundi^ at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lawton Fou- shee in Sanford. Mrs. F. F. Krugg of Long Branch, N. J., arrived in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Douglas David and children and Mrs. Mary David and Marion Hilt spent Sunday in Ben- nettsville, S. C. Mr. nad Mrs. J. R. Lampley at tended the funeral of Wilber Harding in Chester, S- C., Thursday. Mrs. Jacob and daughters and Mrs. Smith and daughters of Greens boro were guests of Mrs. Mary Mein- hardt last week. Mrs. Sadie McFarland returned to her home here Tuesday after spend ing the summer in Massachusetts. Mrs. Mary Meinhardt left Sunday for Greensboro to spend several weeks- Mr. and Mrs. Alton Pool of Rock ingham were visitors of Mrs. Mary Eldredge Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Melvlnu Livingston of Laurel Hill were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Belton Fletcher Sunday af ternoon. Edmund William Pavenstedt of Wash ington, D’. C., formerly of Southern Pines, will be married October 15 to MISS ANNP] CHILI) WEDS I School in 1936. She made her de- IN NEW YORK OCTOBER 15!l>ut in the winter of 1936 and Is a ‘member of the Junior Lea,gue of Miss Anne Child, daughter of Mrs. Washington. Her father was the late Richard Washburn Child, one-time American Ambassador to Italy. Mr. Dick attended St. Paul’s School and was graduated from Princeton last Charles Barstow Wright Dick, son June. He is a member of the Colon- of Mr. and Mrs. Langhoi’ne Bullitt' Club. Dick, of Chestnut Hill, Pa. The cer-j Mias Phyllis Lovering of Jackson emony will take place in St. Barthol- Springs will be a bridesmaid at the omew’s Church, New York, and there wedding. will be a reception at the Cosmopol-1 itan Club. William I. Forbes. Jr. i IN K.VLEKJH IIOSPIT.AL will be best man. Miss Child attended Miss Nightin- The wife of Asa Strickland, trusted _ employe of Hayes Book Shop, is In gale’s School, New York, and was St. Agnes Hospital in Raleigh recup- graduated from the Ethel Walker erating after an operation. ‘UNCLE PETE” COMING TO V.\SS-LAKEVIEW SCHOOL A Pennsylvanian returned ing to the north between the from his native land said there Cape Fear and Yadkin rivers, was one state where automobile Today around 200 American of-^ driving was now something of ficers with 2,000 men have seiz- a pleasure and not a nightmare, ed a wide scope of the same The Pennsylvanian spoke with country. Piney Bottom was the emphasis in behalf of the fifty scene of a bloody massacre mile speed limit and the effect aJong in the 1780’s when civil of driving under such conditions, war brought lawless Tories and It has done many things towards lawless Whigs together in bit- lessening the pressure of auto- ter conflict. Piney Bottom hears mobile driving. Cars whipped again the guns of war. If the around curves and over hill tops practice gunfire should awak- with less energy, minimizing the Lessie Brown’s re. en the half dozen ghosts who danger of rolling over if side-: getting a bit lost their lives in the revenge- swiped. There has been no bluff “finicky” about the commodities that ful massacre of those stirring about the Keystone state’s en-. being given them from the re- Revolutionary days and they forcement of speed laws. State the courthouse- could assemble at Piney Bottom, police have a way of appearing i p”® pe»sw wrote the welfare super- they would have difficulty in un-1 out of the nowhere when a car. intendent that she need not send anw derstanding warfare such as it is climbs over the fifty mark, and “them rices” unless she sent carried on by our crack anti-air- ^ as the policeman travels in all I sugar along. Another refused craft outfRs of 1938. The great kinds of rolling .stock, you are ^ supply of flour when she The Scotchman was. born with a momadic foot, proof of which was seen when members of the clan gath ered at Bethesda for its 148th home coming last Sunday- One drifted in from far and away Mississippi and others from distant points. Ances tral roots penetrated to substantial depths in the soil about the old shrine, hence the desire in later genera tions to return. When the first Presbytery was organized in 1706 by a group of sev en men, two from Scotland, four from Ireland and one from New Eng land, Bethesda had its beginning, as only ten years later the Synod was formed in the Carolinas and Virginia. The traveling missionary who brought 1 Presbyterianism into North Carolina | was a Pennsylvania Scotchman by | the name of Hugh McAuden, who made his first trip on horseback in the summer of 1775. Efficient as his task, the primitive influences of the organtzation spread until today Bethesda stands out as one of the influential and prominent churches of North Carolina. The Old Home Town players from WI»TF in Raleigh will present a play, “Uncle Pete,” in the Vass-Lake- view School auditorium next Thurs day evening, September 29, at 8:00 o’clock, sponsored by the Vass Wo man’s Club. The Woman’s Club urges the people of the Vass-Lakeview School district to attend as the club’s part of the proceeds will be used in paying for cans used in put ting up supplies from the WPA gar den for the school lunch room. FOR YOUR WINTER LAWNS WOODS Italian Rye Grass SEED We are offering again this season the liigh quality seed that grows into the beautiful lawns of the Sandhills. We are ready to fill your orders for any quantity. McNEILL & COMPANY FEED.and SEED STORE Southern Pines Phone6244 It’s Time to LOW LANT AINT ATCH For the Winter In short, We have to put the place in order, all the essentials— beams of light sweeping the never sure of his ^'hereabouts highlander’s heaven might cast until stopped and requested to a chill upon the ghostly invader pni] over to the side of the road, as he returns to oblivion, per- unlike our situation where we haps satisfied to have fought I spot the familiar roadsters some his fight. ! distance away, and frequently Moore county people living in regulate the speed to fit the sit- learned that it was not self-rising. the vicinity of the F'ort Bragg reservation have watched the night maneuvers of the aerial invasion with considerable in terest. The airship swings out in a starlit sky trailing a tar get on a cable nearly a quarter of a mile long. The powerful beam of light picks up the plane, a flash of fire, as the guns sta tioned at strategic points take aim and fire. Brilliant flares, high in the air, and the rumble that returns later, repeats the story of the explosion. We have gone a long way in a' hundred and fifty years. Trucks stationed at Piney Bot tom with their “listening ears»” their electrical units and all their complicated paraphernalia make a great comparison with the uation Pennsylvania is not only sav ing the lives of her people, but making motor travel more com fortable for everybody who moves over her highways. North Carolina might ponder over an important lesson in physics. The first law of motion is that a moving body tends to continue in uniform motion i» a straight line. At twenty five miles an hour, you can make a fairly sharp turn. At fifty, one fourth of the tum you could at 25, and at 75 your ability to turn has been cut to one-ninth that when proceeding at 25. We might do well to pattern after Pennsylvania, if only to save wear and tear on the ner vous system. Dr. C. Rexford Raymond writes from New Yorit to deny a report pub lished in The Pilot that he and Mrs- Raymond are going to ''make their home in Connecticut.” He says:; "My house on Rhode Island avenue is rented for the Peason because of our temporary absentee- We hope to con tinue to make our home in Southern Pines.” Dr. Raymnd is at present affiliat ed with the General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, and his address is Hotel Le Marquis, 18 East 31st street. New York. MARUIAGE LICENSES Marriage licenses have been issued from the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore County to the fol lowing: Maurice Craig Pickier of Pinebluff and Iris Nell Godsey of Norfolk; Charles Frederick Tucker of Pembroke and Floyd Richardson of Jackson Springs. Hardware, Mowers, Tools, Sherwin-Williams Paints, Johns - Manville Roofings. Stutts Supply Company Pinehurst We Deliver Telephone 3412