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Page Two THE PILOT Published each Friday by THK I'lLOT, Infor|)orat«(i, Southern IMiies, N. C. j NEI-SOX I. IIVUE r Etlltor CHARLRS MACAl'tnT DAS S. U4Y AdvertiaiiiK Cirrulaliun Helen K. Rutlrr. Itrsnir rmnrrnn Smith, H. L. KppH. AMoriatri Subscription R'ltes: One Year $2.00 glx Months $1.0( Three Months 50 «^''rn Pinos and Aberdeen. North Carolina Friday, November 24, 1939 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mai! matter. , THANKSr.IVING DAY Because Thanksgiving Day for many years has been on the last Thursnlay in November, when the President changcd the date this year it did seem to up set old traditions and caused many to look up old records to see when Thanksgiving Day had been observed in other years. The first Thanksgiving Day was kept by the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth in 1621. Once it was observed on July 30th and another time in February. Then for many years there was no general celebrr.tion of the day. George Washington proclaimed as a day of Thanksgiving May 7, 1778 and again in 1789 he appointed such a day after the adoption of the Constitution. At one time or another the day was celebrated in every calendar month before 1800; and- “Be lieve it or Not>” North Carolina celebrated two days in 1758 and again in 1783. In the early part of the 19th Century Josepha Hale, editor of “Godey’s Lady’s Book” began working for a fixed and perma nent Thanksgiving Day. She worked for 47 yeaJrs on the idea without results, and in 1863 she wrote an editorial about it in her magazine. This editorial reached the desk of Abraham Lincoln and in 1864 he proclaim ed Thanksgiving Day on the last Thursday in November and so each President has done the same ever since. Our calendar, as we have it today, was worked out by Pope Gregory in 1582 and adopted by Britain in 1751. If this calen dar is changed in the next few years to make the months more even in length, no doubt the date of Thanksgiving Day will be changed again. Astrolo gers say that the second Thurs day is the proper day for it. At the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in 1785 the first Thursday was set apart to be observed by the Church as “a day of thanksgiv ing to Almighty God for the fruits of the earth and all other blessings of a merciful Provi dence.” In 1789 the Church for mally recognized the civil gov ernment’s authority to appoint such a feast and the Prayer Books says, “The first Thurs day in November (or, if any other day be appointed by the Civil Authority, then such' a day) shall be observed as a Day of Thanksgiving,” etc. It is interesting to note that Texas and Colorado are cele brating both the 23rd and the 30th, New York. New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary land. Virginia, West Virginia, P ith Carolina, Georgia. Miss- i.ssippi- Louisiana- Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois- Missouri, North Dakota, Montana, Wyom ing, Washington, Oregon, Cali fornia and Utah are celebrating the 23rd. and Maine, New Hamp shire. Vermont, Massacusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken tucky. Florida-* Alabama, Arkan sas. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska. Kan sas, Oklahoma. Idaho, Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico will celebrate the 30th. —Lu)la Cox. (niE^POCKETBOOK /nf^KNOWLEDGC^ THt Mvnou Of A FAcrony iNDUSrarS iNCREASfO WORT TO •AFMUARO ITS WORKERS.... Wft MOUNT SKNT BY IT mtOfCAL CAW HAt wo MM SHoesi >•00,000 iM ntTAIlSAlK sao C*Rt AMO cnvicts tOBTXSM Wood of thi uMBReiiA TREe, USED ey AUSTRAL!AH FAAMCDS foa FENCI •>OSTS. SMELLS LIKE t/AM.' th8 rkhest man in THB 'ftORLD, THE N12 AM OP KyoERABAO,OF IHOIA, WORTM fi,*i-oo,ooaooo £A7S WITH HIS F/Nde^Sl n time to get away the following week to join kinsfolk in an adjoin, ing southern state for the repetition' of the affair. Whisking over more than one state for moi^ than one Thanksgiv-, ing would have left grandmotl’er in^ ’ complete state of bewilderment, as she, sainted soul, would have reallz. Thanksgiving isn’t what it used 'o be. SATURDAY SPECIALS Incidentally the Wall Street crowd •ubbed the President's Thanksgiv- day "Franksgiving." The Motor Vehicle Bureau mailed ‘o North Carolinians Monday aoout 7.5,030 application cards for 1910 au-^ ^omo^■Ie licAsc plates with around ] ■)2.5.000 more to follow. The 1940 tagsj A ill po on sale December 1st, glv-, ng; the Department of Revenue an ipportunity to hit the checkbook be- fore Santa Claus puts a serious ■'rimp in it. IN l9l6 TmCRE WtRE 7/, OSS PATBur AlWLlCATlONi IH the o S a WAS CAUISD rut tfonmCfJt TO CHOP TO r 'K i 'HUttJ PfACt CAMS IN 1^19, I-- TO ao -, F«e OSES keithea MiKiPe MRK HOR SPOON- B' xH f^Oft SOUP.' — J W)TH all his weal* ► ; £• rS.’S IN A BCD ■f.i H NOSP.VNiCf good idea that some one presents,' that will be one of the ambitions of the institution. These excerpts are from Vol ume 1, No. 1 of The Pilot, dat ed Vass, N. C., Friday, Novem ber 26, 1920. In shoit, this issue marks the end of 19 years of weekly pub lication. The Pilot starts Vol ume 20 next week. We are grateful for the gen erous support accorded the pa per during these years. And if we have beej of some service in the growth and betterment of the Sandhills section, we are thankful. Grains of Sand MARRLAGE UCENSES THE PILOT HAS A BIRTHDAY * The Pilot will be an ordinary vil lage newspaper, not very pretentious, paying attention to its field, which is the country around Vass, and with the ambition to help in the stim. ulation of further development and progress,in this community If the paper can help the people to greater community effort for com- ra’-'iity welfare and the people can he.p the paper to carry forward any Marriage licenses have been isSued •from the office of the Register of | ©eeds of Moore county to Arthur Le- ■ 'Roy Hendricks of Cameron and Pau- nine Ellizabeth Stone of West End; George Maness of Carthage and 'Bonnie Fry of Carthage Route 4. Thanksgiving, like a lot of oth er things isn’t what it used to be. No longer do people fill the sleigh with foot warmers and buffalo robes and load the family in for a dash to grandmothers for a bountiful feust^ celebrating in serious modo the great annual harvest, and the mercies of a closing year. Today we shout ourselves hoarse at a football game and aren’t given to very much rejoicing in praise and prayer. The swift moving sleigh of grandmother’s day has been stepped up to a still swifter twelve-cylinder automobile. The day of the Harvest Jestival is no longer the last Thurs day in November. We now have two different week.s of celebration. A pair left the Sandhills early in the week to attend a dinnp>r witli relatives in a northern state who gather together a week in advance for the holiday. They hope, to return From reports from .Southern Pines students at their different col leges and universities it se«ms many talents and abilities have come to light as we hear of activities inj ■Tiany new fields. Over at Salem, Sarah Barnum has been elected to the Student council, and Becky Neal at Greensboro has hrid a similar honor. Nancy Wrenn has not only been active in tennis at Duke University but was recent. ly made Treasurer of the Freshman class. Catherine Hildrman was cast for a prominent part in the Play- Ijikers of the Women’s College at Greensboro. Dick DuRant was the nrtist who provided the picture for 111? Blue Devil’s x'ooLball magazine, .Tnd so the reports come in. highly =ptisfactorv to parents^ enthusiastic fiienda and former Southern Pines teachers. SKIRTS JACKETS SWEATERS HATS Mrs. Hayes’ Shop This week Fayetteville staged a celebration commemorating the 200th year of settlement. As history was; enacted. Gov. Samuel John.ston and. Col. John Sevier lived again the rev-j olutionary days when the Cape Fear, counties were being formed. j For those who did not drive down in the rain the entertainment came into the house by radio. Listening to the dialogues we were encouraged, to pick up the threads of colonial ^ history, dropping back to these stir ring days as only we could imagine it. We would have held our gfi'^iund and made more headway in flounder-i mg around in 1740 if an occasional toot of a 1939 automobile horn or the hum of flying planes had been nosed out. MRS. HELEN WINTERS CARE OF THE SKIN SCIENTIFIC FACIAL TREATMENTS BODY MASSAGE By Appointment or at Your Home Telephone 5381 75 South Ashe Street ^ Southern Pines fOU FRIGIDAIRE Electric Refngeralor*£leetric Range Full 6 cu.ft. Genuine FRIGIDAIRE^ With all these Features: Double-Easy Qulckube Trayi Stainless Pornelain Hy- drator, Automatic Interior Li'^t, Open* Shut Freezer Door,Famous Meter-Miser, .«ii-Steel Cabinet, Acid-Resistinc Force- liiln In food compartment, and many others. • This special Chriitmas model Frigidaire sets a new high fot refrig- eratot values. Full 6 mbic foot capacity -with same finest construction fea tures as Frigidaire models costing up to $100 more! This year, give her Frigidaire-the refrigerator she’s al ways wanted. You can buy on small down pavnn^*'—save! 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