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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern IMnes and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 27, 1939 THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, IncoriK»rated, Southern 1*11108, N. C. NEI>1()N (. Editor CBARLES MACAfLEY DAN S. RAY Advrrtiiins C'inulatiun Helen K. Kutler, Camerun Smith, H. L. Kpp.H. AHMociates SiibNcriptinn R'ltes: One Year $2.00 | Six Months $1.00 1 Tnree Months .50 Elntered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. TRAVERSITIES AGALNST NATI RE October, the first fall month is about as near ideal as any thing on the entire calendar schedule, but in October and November we witness one of the greatest travesties ag'ainst Na ture. We human beings, very of ten creatures of destruction, will soon be responsible for dozens of smoke screens rising over our village as we set fire to the leaves. October usually brings a long spell of serene weather. We have recovered from the excessive heat of sum mer and the days are delight fully tempered. The trees are undergoing a chemical change and turning varied hues. It’s a great month. Then comes the tragedy. As soon as the leaves begin to drift downwards they are immediately raked into a pile and a match is applied. Ten thousand smokes will arise froni as many leaf piles, as North Clarolina sets out to destroy plant food by the ton- all over the state. That the leaf falls to the ground is not an accidental af fair. Nature so arranged it that all summer long it has been busy collecting carbon and hydrogen under the influence of sunshine. And now the empty cells at the base of the stem have fullfilled their mission and the leaf is sep arated from the branch, but not before a proportion of starchy matter has been salvaged and stored in the bark for future use. In the brown leaves we look on with so much annoyance, is that mysterious thing called protoplasm. In the dead mater ial is that organic matter so nec essary' to plant life known as humus. If left alone the plant would manufacture its ow’n liv ing material but man year after year interrupts one of the great est plans in creation and year by year the soil grows more im*' poverished and exhausted. Some farmers go as far as to say a ton of leaves is worth a ton of manure. We burn one and buy the other. Disposing of a heavy crop of leaves on a town lot might present a problem to some. A trench through the gar den anywhere would accommo date a surprising amount. De composition takes place quickly and next year a dark streak through your garden would be your reward. Humus holds sandy ground together in the loam we are so needful of and pre serves moisture. If the gardner could be per suaded to think twice before he strikes the next match we would see less of the tragic smoke piles. Burn your leaves and burn up your garden next summer should be a slogan we all ought to familiarize ourselves with. H. K. B. have been four schools of oia- tory. No. 1 is the Catchword, the Nifty Slogan School. This con gregation needs no principles, reasons or ideas. It conceives that any proposition under the sun can be fed and will be swal lowed by an eager public if it is only labelled a charm to “keep us out of war.” Whether in fact the package of ivhiet' I c tends to keep us out or get us in, oi‘ has no conceivable rela tion to the subject does not wor ry this calliope contingent. The volume of and rapidity of repe tition of one sacred screed is .^uppo.s.d to thiow the switch. | Bought in their settings c 1 'l' I I’o-English I jrreen the red berries of ?r in the Sandiiiiis. Day by day the sun shines bright in its sap phire dome, wnispeiing breeze: waft tha dying leaves of syca more, sassafras and oak in a ■scurry of gold, green, scarlet ■iiid sore browns. Through the soft haz?, blue tinted by the pines, the sunlighi ?a»ts pied sl alows, and daily limns changing hues in the fol- 'affc. gre^n and amber are the sycamores, scat let and orange the dogwoods, russet cardinal and green the oaks, cardinal and magenta the i)ersimmoi!s, gold and green the poplars and ruddy wine the sourwoods. of ei^AiNS €r sANr Charlotte Hilton Given for her book of the year, “Trees of the ;outh,‘ has ueen notii'icd that she is eligible for the Mayflower cup .w‘'aid and is one of the 35 resident authors of North Carolina in the preliminary list. Mrs. Green while a ri'Sident of Raleigh is known in the Sandhills and is the sister of Aleetah Hilton of Pint'hurst. I. c lool. Poi obvious reasons it | (dogwoods, the scarlet cones ot is unammou.s tor repeal. magnolias and the profus- Pio-Hitler 01’jinn of the cardinal berries of Perfidious Albion Brigade. It hhe hollies with their hint of considers the embargo equal to | holiday cheer. A royal month in a pleasant as so many of our cottagers realize as year by year they return ever earlier from their summer homes to en- the gospels The fourth school consists of' ^^^11 those who believe the only cn-1 terion of human action is a mor-1 al sanction. | These people argue whether natures happy mood* 1 is ng it 01 wiong to lift the sports permitted bv embargo on arms. delectable climate, the golf Senator Bob exemplifies the | the field and nifty pd the neo-moral schools I,hor.semen He IS against selling arms and , ammunition to the allies because., i turrri chanirino' the green clad The Pilot in its weekly travels Rets around over a lot of territory, and into some curious places Not long ago it picked up a bouquet for itself in a distant northern state. The Pilot went to Sunday school. Not that it is an unusual thing to find The Pilot aro\ind the chiu’ch, it has been scaled in more than one sup- •lorting cornerstone- But We heard the story in this manner. A friend wrote to a Southern Pines resident their impressions of an editorial of a recent i?sue. In fact they thought there was so much worth while in the article, it was worth a tiyout on the Sunday school clasa. As the letter was written after the affair was over no harmful results followed The Pilot's unintentional sermon. FINED SIIO()TIX(« ON' (’OlNTKV tU B (UtOrNDS For shooting on the giounds of the Southern Pines Country Cluo K is.-ell Mills landed in a peck of troub’e last week. He had been war it authf' i- ties state, once before, the {^■.ounds Lieuig posted against huntio^v VVh-en he repeated the offense, he was ar rested by Chief of Police Gargis and residence to the village n^et on the 1 tHkt*n before Magistrate Bailey who su’eet in front of the foi’mer Leavitt I fined him if5.00 and the costs, property now being demolished and I Later it was discovered that he mourned the loss of the old land-1 was also hunting without a license, mark. A man comes along with ham- : and for this he was fined five more nier and saw and puts up a nevv | dollars and the cost.s and given building. And this is progress. Anoth- a suspended sentence. It cost him er generation follows witji hammer $21.80 in all. and wrecking bar and tears down mean that a large proportion of peo ple from every section of the State have had a pleasant summer vaca tion. Two old-tiniei's who claim long in the hedgerows, on the hillsides and in liio D( ttom lands^ brilliant in their vivid coiv^ring and crim.son berries. The dogW(X>d tree, favorite denizen of the forest, surely must have been a preferred child of old Mother Na ture. Since t^'io Worlds Fair opened ing any chances that might in- ' h”'’l]ifi’''t scfvlpt is tbo ! last April, 29,000 North Carolinians volve us in another war.” signnl for the turn of the tidf' rms IS the use of the magic ^ur sea.W rigmarole. iV) matter what po-! jj^ests, and earlv flew the re- sition one had taken he could; France this year for their (and doubtless would) have 1 b^efui a full month aeo megaphoned the same fonmi-1 ' ments and reservations for th'^ registered at the Tarheel building, according to a report two weeks ago. When the final count is taken at the close of the year and the figures have mounted still higher, it will our antiquated structures and tne old-timers mourn the price of pro gress. The former telephone exchan.je is the last of the old buildings in the square to yield to rebirth. B«'fcre many months the empty gnp in the business block will be filled in, and w e of today will forget the old out-, Mecklenburg county boasts of a line as the modern one merge.s into rate of 88 cents for 1038 the new contour. The pair resurrect- ^ays out of 100 counties oiJy ed the picture of the block in their jg ^ lower rate than Mecl.lcn- earliest memory. They raw a gross ^urg. Four counties had rates of plot on the corner where Hart’s drug over S2 or over, with 71 listed be- store now stands and a pat’ cut t^-een $1 and $2, with only 25 coun- through to the Locey block on Penn- ties with ratings below the dollar sylvania avenue. They dug up a hotel, n,ai k. Moore county for 1938 had a the Pine Tree Tavein, somewhere j.^te of 89 cents and for the year along the line^ and a little white „f 1939 has reduced the price one stole wilh a porch across the front. showing Moore county in a kno\^ n as the Wells jewelry store ; j-jght favorable comparison in regard and they btought the old bank build- other sections of the state. \ ing up fn>m Bennett street and lo- - cated it on the corner of the Patch! For those who might be interested block. They did some more sleight in events that transpire in the heav- make fathers and mothers more His second reason is that ‘I ^.,,,5 pace with ! ^he importance of us- l ' the rentals reported bv the agen-,the best possible methods m of benefit to the Lnited States ; indicat-i training of their of America regardless ot the et- k..+ ; children, and to acquaint them ^ .ing not onlv a good season, but feet that such neutrality maV|„ Sandhill., have on any other nation in the pm world.” I This IS a stand which involves |resPONSIBFLITV soiTiG QUGstionHuiG nssumptioris* * FOK dTI7E^^IfII* if i Oovernor' Oly'dc R. Hoev if aknMnme th t h ' *''® Carolina to of i" observinir total tli 1**' week as Better Parenthood total disregard for other people i t i j i i i is praiseworthy and helpful. h! ht It is at this point thai the'?^"'f' 5' ."I Senator enters the moral phase | ,15 p” it’'''] of the discussion and mount.s! ,, ! VVeek Committee, Governor the pulpit to clarify the con science of the people. The statement that we know nothing and care less about any one’s interest but our own is ■ „ i i t n very popular with the filibusters ! Tif.f and is supposed to be a knock out. with the many sources of help and information available to them in handling their family problems; (2) To promote more cooperative understanding be tween parents and teachers and between the school and the com munity at large; (3) To lend active support to all community efforts for better schools, child health, recreational facilities, vo cational guidance and the pre vention of delinquency; (4) To cncourage the formation of Hoev said • i ^or the study and discus- “The week from October oo,Jsion of child rearing problems to 29th has been designated ' throughout the nation as Better of hand work. We couldn't follow it dogwood is known far and wide for ciated the old-timers feelings ag they parted after a debauch in nostalgic revelry. It isnt every tree that becomes a en an eclipse of the moon is sche duled for Friday night, October 27. The eclipse is the only one scheduled for this year that will be visible in the United States and while it lacks .8 of one per cent being total, or ac cording to the a.'^tronomer, a frac- showy spectacle twice a year. The tion under the purity of a well dogwood is known far and 'vide for | known brand of soap, it will not its loveliness in the spring and when ! touch the beauty of a total eclipse, fall arrives its capacity for inspir- j The first noticeable sign will ap ing admiration has not lessened in I pear about 11:54 p. m., eastern stan- the slightest degree. At any season | ard time when the northeastern of the year, as both trees and shrub, I edge of the moon touches the earth’s the dogwood is still the same strik- j shadow. The climax will come at 1:36 ing object, never outclas.sed by other! and will end as the last contact with dwellers of the woods. Its habit of i the shadow is made at 3:18. As its producing flow'ers and leaves in flat! doutatfvii if many will remain in the branching arrangement not only gives it a delicacy of outline but shows off the snowy blossoms and foliage to greatest advantage. Now^ audience until the show i.s over here in the Sandhills^ the small percent age dropped out of the earth’s shad ow won t have any disappointing ef- in the autumn sunshine they stand feet on the sleepy observed. the people of North Carolina to give due observance to this per- Nevertheless it is suggested i^»"thenng the piirpo.so that it is dramatically opposed |aims of Parenthood Week, to the, doctrine of the brother-j, I.^'^gard the home as the hood of man, the Sermon '"/''J "•'^^^^^^tion the Mount and any good neigh-responsibihty for good cit- bor conception. Moreover it is * »^e"«hip rests upon the parents Southern Pines contrary to generally accepted Children must be taught obed- ideas of how to make friends im ■ • - ' early period of their lives. They a and influence people or even how to sell a carton of chewing definitely spoiled before i|j <rum or how to keep from being ""I ” bitten by a dog ' taught discipline The climax was also typical of' to realize they must the high moral plane and sens;- i >*6^gnize authority tive con,science school. I These early days are the most “I will not” he says “be a ‘ frequently more partv to placing, instruments ofl^^^”. persuasion and ad- death in the hands of anyone monitions — a good switching “WHAT IS THE IDEA” Senator Robert R. Reynolds has finally given the world North Carolina’s verdict upon the embargo. And there is not the slight est doubt that what he told the world is the exact reverse of the opinions of three out of four inhabitants of the state. This of itself might be a vir tue. Edmund Burke has been fa mous for telling his angry con stituents that he was elected by them a.s a pillar of the British constitution and not as a weath ercock on the top of an edifice. And Henry Page used to change his opinions when he found they were popular on the theory that a majority of his neighbors could not be right. ' here for the purpose of killing his fellow men, be they combatants or non-combatants.” This has the noble ring of a new revelation or an eleventh commandment. But this principle would not only forbid the sale, but - the manufacture of any deadly wea pon. It would not only forbid their sale to burglars but to po licemen. It would deny their use to innocent victims of any at tempt to murder—even if it was properly and wisely administer ed! goes a long way tc*ward im pressing upon the child’s mind the necessity of obeying par ents. Corrections of this kind in childhood frequently save the child punishment in p^nal and correctional instiutions later in life. This modern day makes a great mistake in seeking to abolish the rod altogether. There are so many children who require just that, and parents who fail to control their children Country Club Announces advertised in advance. It v/ould ^ reasonable and sensible way ccrtainly limit the equipment of the marines to paddles and the wardens of the jails to switches. Of course there do exist iron- hearted pacifists ready to face persecution rather than hurt a soul under any circumstances. And there are holy men in In dia that wouldn’t use a tooth- oick to save themselves or any one else from the fangs of a cobra. If Senator Bob has become a Brahmin or a genuine conscien tious objector, his fortitude, if not his political insight, is en titled to respect. But if not, what is the idea behind this procession of beatif ic w'ords? R. W. P. AUTUMN IN THE SANDHILLS Bright October month of the “Leaf Fall Moon,” favorite of Autumn, glows in a pageant of natural beauty for the dwell-, are inviting for them serious chastisement from the society of which they will later become a nart.” The United States Children’s Bureau is cooperating with the Better Parenthood Week Com mittee and Katharine Lenroot. Chief of the Bureau in endorsing this national project writes that: “It seems to me this is «n excellent time to call to the attention of the country in this special way the opportunities open to parents for more ade quate facilities for the care and nrotection of children, through the cooperation of many dif- *’prent "ronos and organizations. The job of parenthood is con cerned not only with providing the best possible conditions in *-he child’s own home, but also teacher, out into the community, the State, and the Nation.” The purpose of Better Parent hood Week, as stated bv Mr. Hecht, is fourfold: (1) To the Opening- of the Grass Greens on the Number 1 Course FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27th Daily Rates—$2.00 Also Attracftivo Seasonal and Weekly Rates Try your g'ame on these new greens Now Open The Grill I under the Manag-ement of Mrs. A. EL Murphy of The Avalon, Virginia Beach for Teas and Dinners For Reservations Telephone Southern Pines 5551 ROY GRINNELL Professional LiimiiiiiiiiittiiiiimiTTmtfttiniTnrTnmimTmTTTTTtTtitiiTmmTiTir
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