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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
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SOME TIMES IT PAYS i
TO BE BLUFFED j
It may be that the other Eu-1
ropean powers were outbluffed j
by Mr. Hitler, as many seem to |
think.
But if they w’ere bluffed out
of another World War, it's all
right with us.
We have Just been reading
this despatch from The Asso
ciated Press:
“Diplomats striving to prevent
the world from being plunged
into another great war are
haunted by memories of the last
world conflict. Here is what it
cost in human lives and suffer
ing, according to War Depart
ment compilations:
“Killed and died, all powers—
8,538,315.
“Wounded—21,219,452.
“Prisoners and Missing—7,-
750,919.
“Total casualties — 37,494,-
186.” ’
We’ll be bluffed out of that
any day.
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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