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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, December 2, 1938
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor '
CHAKLES MACAULEY DAN S. RAY
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ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
THE PILOT’S
19TH BIRTHDAY
This issue of The Pilot is
Volume 19, No. 1. Which means
the start of our 19th year of
continuous publication as a
weekly newspaper jn Moore
county.
It has been a pleasure during
these 18 years to record the
happenings in our field of en
deavor. And if we have succeed
ed in aiding in “the Upbuilding
of the Sandhill Territory of
North Carolina.” to which The
Pilot dedicated itself in its first
issue in 1920 and has strived to
adhere to, we are particularly
happy on this, our 19th birth
day.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
THE
CUSTOM or
•drinking to ONfi
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•N MFPlCVAL
WHEN THE HOST
WA> BXPeCTEP to
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*7lNCE 1900, LABOR*^
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RECEIVE P Sy THE ^TfEL
INPU5TRV FROM 09
PROPUCTJ HA$ lNCRgA>eP
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A WAR
WE CAN WIN
The Christmas Seal Sale is
now on throughout the county.
No more worthy cause appeals
to the generosity and charity of
our people than this, for the
funds donated are used in a
PUCIC«.
CAN Fiy
At A
SPEEP Of
S9 MiieS M
HOUH/
7MERH WBR9 Il,l7f,<500 VACUUM
CLEANERS IN Uif IN THE U V LA'»T
YEAR COMPARED WITH 9.380.000 IN
19'Si aniincream or nearlv
'2.000,000/
« *Wny EARiy COlONiAl HOa^EV chuoren
WERf MOT AllOWEP TO «IT AT TfJE D1N1M6
BUT HAP TO stand 8VTHE SIPC
or -W8 -MBis During iHe entire
^ meal
Peach Men Organize
To Aid Merchandising
Eighty-Five Growers Gather at
Meeting at West End To
Map Future
SIXAINS €F S/4ND
A special cachet is to be sponsor.: during October representing an in_
ed by the Seaboard Railway com-1 crease of $200,000 over the previous
memorating its introduction of the month. This was also the largest
first all electric rail service between amount loaned during any month in
New York and Florida on December 1938.
. 1 . , . XT i. I line’s famed limited, the '
fight which IS being won. ot j orange Blossom Special., Mrs. Edna Thomas Gilchrist, Har.
many > ears ago U ercu OSIS was stamp collectors throughout the "ett county’s oldest citizen, rounded
United States and Canada should ' ^“t a century of life November 18th.
regarded as an unconquerable di
sease. Medical science has ad
vanced, and the malady today is
curable when discovered in its
early stages.
The work of the Moore Coun
ty Tuberculosis Committee is
devoted to discovery and prompt
treatment of positive cases. How
many lives have been saved no
one knows. We do know that tu
berculosis has been completely
stamped out in many localities,
that each year finds reductions
in numbers of the afflicted, that
in time, with constant and vig
ilant surveillance, Moore county
will be free.
Christmas Seals, which cost
a penny apiece, pay for this
wonderful work. Let us all do
our part.
NORTH CAROLINA
SUPERLATIVES
One of North Carolina’s sup
erlative writers, R. C. LawTence,
submitted a list of “North Caro
lina Superlatives” to Carl Goerch
for his November 26th The
State magazine, and invites
reader suggestions where ideas
differ. The first thing that
struck us about the list was the
absence of the name of Wal
ter Hines Page. However, Mr.
Lawrence listed no “Greatest
Diplomat” and undoubtedly
would have there listed Mr. Page
had this classification been in
cluded. Hera are v his other
choices:
Greatest Statesman, Zebulon
B. Vance of Buncombe county;
Greatest Governor, Charles B.
Aycock of Wayne; Greatest
Congressman, Claude Kitchen
of Halifax; Greatest State Leg
islator, R. A. Doughton of Al
leghany ; Greatest Preacher,
George W. Truett of Clay;
Greatest Educator, Charles D.
Mclver of Guilford; Greatest
Judge, Chief Justice Richmond
M. Pearson of Buncombe; Great
est Lawyer, W’illiam P. Bynam
of Guilford; Greatest Doctor,
Hubert A. Royster of Wake;
Philanthropist, James B. Duke
of Durham; Merchant, David
Pender of Edgecomb; Manufac
turer, Richard J. Reynolds, For
syth; Soldier, Maj. Gen. Robert
F. Hoke of Lincoln; Editor, Jo-
siah Turner of Orange, Joseph
P. Caldwell of Mecklenburg or
Josephus Daniels of Wake; Rail
road lExiecutive, Alexander B.
Andrews of Wake; Author,
Thomas Dixon of Cleveland;
Playwright, Paul Green of
Sampson; Musician, Lamar
Stringfield of Wake; Poet, John
Charles McNeill; Greatest Build
er of the State, Governor John
M. Morehead of Guilford.
Canada
send their self.addressed and stamp, i Her friends and relatives gather,
ed letters to the Seaboard Railway’s i ed at the home of Mrs. Sion Knight.
New York office, 12 West 51st Street
where they will be rubber stamped
with the following description:
“First all.electric service between
New York and Florida. Seaboard
Railway’s East Coast Orange Bios,
som Special leaving New York City
Thursday, December 15, 1:25 p. m.
for Miami, Florida.”
The cachet will bear a drawing of
this de luxe train showing the giant
6,000_horsepower and 210 feet long
diesel.electric locomotive, the most
powerful and longest in the world.
The Post Office Department will of
ficially cancel all envelopes with the
starting time of the East Coast Or
ange Blossom Specicl and mail the
"achets to the people \vho send them
in for rubber stamping by the Sea.
boaid Railway.
Tobacco warehouses in North Car.
olina had sold 429,424,948 pounds of
producers’ tobacco at an average of
$23.36 per hundred pounds by Novem
ber 1, according to the warehouse
sales report released this month by
the State Department of Agriculture.
Last year 440,670,029 pounds had
been sold by November 1 at an aver
age of $15.43 per hundred pounds.
The prices received this yaar by pro
ducers are shown to be $2.07 per
hundred less than the average re.
ceived to November 1 last year.
only living daughter of Mrs. Gil
christ, with whom she lives for a
birthday party. The Knight home is
located seven miles from Broadway,
ibout three miles from Mrs. Gil.
Christ’s birthplace-
Mrs. Gilchrist’s family Bible shows
that she vvas born in Moore, now Lee
jounty on November 18, 1838, She
A'as the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Tillman Thomas and is the last sur.
viving member of a family of twelve.
She is the widow of Charles Gil.
Christ and is a great aunt of Mrs.
Lura Thomas McNair of Jonesboro,
yTell-known writer.
The day was spent in reminisc
ing and the renewing of family ties-
At the noon hour dinner weis served
from a long table which had for its
centerpiece a beautiful birthday cake.
Mrs. Gilchrist received many gifts.
Rotarians Entertain
at Inter-City Meeting
President and Mrs. Phillips of
SoutRern Pines Club Presented
1,000 Pieces of Glassware
A spectacular increase in loan ac.
tivity by the building, Savirigs and
Loan Associations during the monlh
of Octobsr as compared with Sep.
tember was noted in the report is.
sued this week by the North Carolina
Building and Loan League. John B.
Craven, Lexington, president of the
league, announced that more than
$2,000,000 in home loans were made
COMIC HEROES
IN EXILE
American youngsters must
have been rudely surprised the
other day, to llearn that twc
heroes of the comic strips and
animated cartoons haa been bar
red from a European dictator
country. What, they must have
asked, could be objectionable
about Mickey Mouse and Popeye
the Sailor?—the two comic
characters exiled by a dictator's
decree.
To these awed young Ameri
cans, the answer offered to
their question must have sound-
2d equally unreasonable. That
answer, by the Fascist Dictator,
was that his country must think
of the future in such a way that
the children of today will be
come the fighters of tomorrow;
that children should be trained
in the principles of “sleeping
with the head on a knapsack.”
But, young Americans may
counter, what better fighting
spirit could any man want than
that characterized in Mickey
Mouse and Popeye?
There, youngsters, is perhaps
the answer. Our comic heroes
are fighters for what is morally
right and just, and that doesn’t
fit in very well with the objec
tives of foreign isms.
More than one hundred Rotarians
enjoyed a turkey dinner Tuesday
night at the Southern Pines Country
Club where the local Rotary played
host to an inter.city group meeting
of Rotary clubs from Laurinburg,
Wades boro and 'T'roy.
A musical program furnished ex
cellent entertainment during the din
ner. Miss Kathryn Buchan and W. P.
Whitlock of Southern Pines sang
duets, “My Rosary” and "Sylvia.”
Miss Marian Burgess, soprano solo-
ist of Laurinburg sang "The World
Is Mine,’’ and Harold Gibson of Laur.
inburg, former member of tlie Duke
University band, played a saxophone
solo. Mrs. Carl Thompson provided
piano accompaniment for the Bari
tone songs^
Paul Hardin of Wadesboro rocked
his audience with laughter in a talk
which stressed the importance of get.
ting to know the other fellow.
President June Phillips qf the lo.
cal Rotary club, and Mrs. Phillips
were made the butt of a farcial
Ceremony when they were called to
the platform by Gene Reynolds, pres-
idnt of Troy’s Rotary club, to receive
a gift in recognition of their meri-
!.oriou3 work in Rotary. J. E. Hodges
of Troy gingerly carried the gift—
a tray of a dozen glass goblets—
the whole length of the dining hall.
He mounted the platform and stood
nolding the tray while Frank Rich,
ardson, also of the Troy Club, made
a touching speech of presentation- He
fumbled his hold in a feigned ner
vous gesture, as he turned to take
the tray from Hodge, which resulted
in the dozen goblets crashing to
the floor and breaking into a thous.
and pieces.
President Hawley Cobb of Wades,
boro’s Rotary, Otis Moore of Laurin.
hurpf, and B. T. Reynolds of Troy,
By F. H. Jeter
Faced with increased plantings of
trees in North Carolina and in the
adjacent states of South Carolina and
Georgia, peacsh growers of this sec.
tion meeting Monday at West End
took positive steps toward the or.
ganization of the North Carolina Co.
operative Peach Growers’ Society and
will cooperate with similar organiza.
tions in other states.
A committee of ten growers known
as the "Inrorporating Committee”
was appointed after the assembled
growers had heard from R. B. Eth,
eredge of the State Department of
Agriculture and Professor M. E.
Gardner, head of the Horticultural
depa»-tment at State College. T. H.
Cribb of Spartanburg, S. C., describ
ed the type of organization being set
up by the growers of his state and
said the members were ready to
complete their work and begin a
campaign to promote the interests of
the peach growers in the Southeast
as soon as similar organizations were
set up in North Carolina and Geor.
gia. The Georgia growers are to dis
cuss the question, he said, at a meet,
ing in Macon tomorrow.
The North Carolina committee se.
lected to begin the work of organ
izing peach growers in this State is
composed of M. G. McDonald of
West End, T. Ashley Haywood of
Rockingham, Edwin Pate of Laurel
Hill, Howard Harrison of Eagle
Springs, D. M. Buchanan of Rock,
ngham, J. Hawley Poole of West
End, Walter L. Currie of Candor, C.
D. Matthews of Hamlet and Raleigh,
N. P. Gilchrist of Laurinburg and
Fred B. Mills of Wadesboro. These
men were selected to do the ground
work looking to the formation of the
new cooperative.
85 Growers Attend
The meeting was held in the aud.
'torium of the West End High School
with about 85 growers representing
the principal acreage in the Sand,
hills. Growers from other parts of
the state also were represented.
C. D. Matthews was elected chair
man of the meeting and J. Claude
Epting of Hamlet, secretary. Mr. Mat
thews described the history of a
movement by the industry commit,
tee of the growers to secure better
prices for North Carolina peaches
and then outlined the purpose of the
meeting. Mr. Etheredge described the
benefits of organization and told
something of the results secured by
the growers of early irish potatoes.
M. E. Gardner po>itea out the
need for scientific research to pro-
mote the peach industry and stated
that an organization is needed not
i only to promote the peach industry
but to work with other groups of
farmers in the State to promote the
upbuilding of agriculture. He gave
figures showing the decline in State
support for research and compared
this with the more liberal support
by other states in their research pro
gram.
Following a turkey dinner served
in the community building by the
ladies of the West End Presbyterian
Church the group met under the
chairmanship of Fred P. Abbott to
hear talks from Moses Richter, a
commission merchant handling Sand,
hill peaches; Earl R. French, nation,
al promotional director; T H. Cribb,
manager of the South Carolina Peach
Growers Cooperative; W. H. Stall,
worth, county agent of Spartanburg
County, S. C.; Porter R. Taylor of
the Agricultural Adjustment Admin,
istration, and Hon. W. Kerr Scott,
Commissioner of Agriculture for
North Carolina,
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BOY SCOUT COURT OF
HONOK here TOMIUHT
A Boy Scout Court of Honor will
be held in the Southern Pines public
school this evening, Friday. James
E. Steere of Charlotte, Scout Elxecu.
tive of the Central North Carolina
Council, will attend. John N. How.
arth, newly elected chairman of the
Court of Honor to succeed the late
Dr, E. L. Prizer, will preside. This
Court of Honor will be for the six
troops of the county; Aberdeen, Car.
thage, Pinehurst, West End and the
two troops of Southern Pines. A large
number of Scouts are expected to
come up for awards at this time and
a special program of entertainment
is to be provided by one of the
troops.
SOUTHERN PINES
NORTH CAROLINA
COUNTRY DAY AND BOARDING SCHOOL
for GIRLS and BOYS
Successful preparation for leading Schools.
Music (Pianoforte and Violin)
Art
Handicrafts
Dancing ^
Tennis
Riding
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KINDERGARTEN, SUB-PRIMARY, GRADES I—VIII
SEASON OPENS OCTOBER 4TH
Mrs. MUllcent Hayes, PrlnclpaL
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headed their respective delegations.
The members present from Laurin
The members present from Laurin.
burg far outnumbered those from the
other three clubs.
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at Hayes.’
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