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THE PILOT. Southern Pinea and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, January 19, 1940.
TH E PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern l*ines, N. C.
NEI^SON t . HVUK
Editor
DAN S. Kay,
General Manag;or
CHARLES SIACAIXEY
Advertising- >Ian;iger
■•len K. Butirr, i'ameron Smith.
Asaoriatet
Subscription R'lten:
One Year $2.00
■Ix Months $1.00
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Elntered at the Postoffice at South-
bTO Pines, N. C., as second class mail
Baatter.
FIRE COMES
HOME TO YOU
By this time, most of your
New Year’s resolutions have
probably been broken. It's time
to maite a new and perhaps
more sensible set. And here’s
one that none of us should miss:
“I resolve to do my part to help
prevent fire during this and
every other year.”
Tf every American would
make and keep that resolution,
some half billion dollars worth
of property w’ould be saved
from destruction. Indirect fire
loss estimated at several times
that figure would be prevented.
Infinitely more important, about
ten thousand people would be
saved from the most jrhastly of
deaths. And the legion of jobs
and opportunities which fire de
stroys when it strikes at bus
inesses, w'ould be preserved.
Fire isn’t somebody else’s
business. It’s your business. Y'ou
and other people like you,
whether you know it or not, are
responsible for fire. You bene
fit every time a fire is prevent
ed. Human ignorance, human
carelessness, human failures—
these are the things that keep
our annual fire losg at an inex
cusable level. Probably not one
fire in ten can honestly be class
ed as unaivoidable. Practically
all fires, great and small, can be
traced to the human element.
As 1939 came to a close, fire
loss in this country was tend
ing upward, by coipparison w^ith
the same months in other re
cent years. That means that
more of us have been taking
chances, and refusing to put into
effect the simple precautions
that will prevent most fires.
And that means also that it’s
time to take action. Don’t for
get that the prevention of fire
may save your home from ruin
—as w’ell as your life.
THE POCKETBOOK
KNOWLEDGE
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WAR/
THE PASSING
YEARS
Third Week of January
BY C'HAKI,ES \L\CAl LEY
lAST y^AQ THE
SAKtNd iNOUSTflV
CALUeO UPON
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The use op mamupactured
9000S IN THIS COUNTRy
ROSB SOOPBRCMNT IH TH|
LAST GENERATtOM WHII.E THB
POPULATtOH WAS iNCQCASlHa
OMW V ^enceNT.
CIVILIZING
AGENT
The up-to-date marketing co
operative does more than just
sell the products of its mem
bers. As “Producer Co-ops in
Action” points out, “It keeps
abreast of the latest scientific
methods of raising better crops
and healthier livestock, setting
the pace in providing constant
ly improving food products for
the nation’s grocerj^ basket.
Further than that, the coopera
tive, through its interchange of
ideas and frequent membership
contacts, is an educational as
set of great importance in the
agricultural community; it is, in
fact’ a vital part of the produc
er’s way of life.”
Much marketing cooperative
energy is directed to showing
the farmer how he can get more
from his farm, and at a lower
production cost. The individual
farmer, working alone, can do
little in this direction—one man
can’t learn it all. The coopera
tives hire experts, and work
with research organizations.
They are the first to learn of
anything new that will help the
farmer. The marketing coopera
tive, in short, is a civilizing
agent, as well as an economic
and social force.
RATIONALIZING
TRANSPORTATION
In almost any line of busi
ness, legitimate competition is
the most effective instrument
for improving service to the
public. jQenerally speaking, that
fact is accepted as a matter of
course—but, so far as the
transportation business is con
cerned, we have to a large ex
tent thrown it overboard.
R. V. Fletcher of the Associa
tion of American Railroads,
covered the problem tersely
w'hen he said: “Say to any foim
of transportation that to it. by
government fiat, is given the
exclusive privilege of carrying,
and you immediately dull the
edge of industry by taking away
the incentive to energy. No one,
by the exercise of authority,
can select a predetermined
sphere of activity. This must
be ascertained by the play of
economic principles governed by
questions of costs, in the light
of public demands as to certain
ty, speed and safety ...”
Our existing transportation
legislation makes normal com
petition virtually impossible.
One kind of carrier is subsidiz
ed by the taxpayer, and another
is tax penalized. One kind is
regulated, while another is half
regulated and still another is
hardly regulated at all. There is
no equality in the present laws
—and the result is detrimental
not only to the carriers, but to
all those who use transporta
tion service.
Now pending in Congress is a
long considered, exhaustive bill
w’hose principal purpose is to
rationalize transportation, and
to put all carriers on an even
footing. This bill aside from
minor differences, has passed
both branches by heavy mapor-
ities. Those differences are now
beincr ironed out—and Congress
can do the nation no greater
•service than to give the bill ear
ly approval.
PRIVATE UTILITIES
PROGRESSIVE
The Chamber of Commerce of
the United States recently pub
lished a thorough-going sur
vey of America’s electric power
need. At the end. the survey
says this: The long established
record of private utilities for
being progressive, adjustable
and mobile in the face of chang
ing social and economic condi
tions, gives American industry
the feeling of security in its
power supply for tomorrow. Un
der the American system of pri
vate initiative, private industry
can meet, most effectively, na
tional emergencies as they arise,
whether the need be for steel
or munitions or transportation
or power.”
Keep that in mind next time
you hear it argued that it is
necessary for the government to
soend more billions for power
development and distribution.
No industry is more eager to
go ahead. ,«pend, develop and
employ, than power—all that
has stood in the way has been
political persecution. The whole
record of private electrical de
velopment since the earliest
days in this country has been
rtne of aggressive progress, rap
id expansion and swiftly drop-
ning rates to the home, farmer
and commert:iaI consumer. Jn
snite of all the political gibber
ish, these facts remain true.
The 1940 Worlds Almanac now on
sale—Hayes.’
ABERDEEN
Mrs. T. B. Wilder left Friday night
for New York to visit her daughter^
Mrs. Karl Pohl.
Miss Evelyn O'Brien of Goldsboro,
is visiting Dr. and Mrs. S. A. Max.
well at the Methodist Parsonage.
Mrs. Marion Brasington of Ben.
nettsville^ S. C., spent the week end
here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
David Knight.
Little N. A. Monroe, Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Monroe Is mak.
ing a satisfactory recovery at the
Moore County Hospital, where he un.
derwent an operation recently.
Linwood Pleasants is spending this
week in St Louis, Mo., attending a
Sand and Gravel convention.
Miss Mary Page has returned home
after spending several weeks with
relatives in Norfolk, Va.
Mrs. George Martin is able to be
out again after being confined to
her home with influenza.
Mrs. Reid Page spent several days
last week visiting relatives in Char,
lotte.
Mrs, G. C. Seymour has returned
home after spending .some time in
Greenville and Bethel. ’
Mrs. E. L. Pleasants was hostess
to the Walter Hines Page Book Club
last Thursday afternoon at her home.
After a short business session Mrs.
H. E. Bowman read an interesting
j paper on “Derivation of Words."
I Mrs. Rowe followed this with a talk
i on “Jews through the Centuries."
Mrs. George Blackmore and chil.
dren of Pittsburgh, Pa., who have
been visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. A.
Page Jr., have returned to their
nome.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Creel and
Melvin Creel attended the funeral of
their uncle, J. W. Masimore^ who died
I at his home in Wadesboro last
I Thursday. The funeral was at the
Masemore home with burial In the
Ledbetter family plot.
Miss Julia McNairy, of Greens,
boro, the week.end guest of
Miss Frances Pleasants.
Mrs. Lean Seymour was hostess to
the Junior Book Club at her home
on Tuesday afternoon. The program
consisted of currrent events given by
Mrs. J. B. Edwards and a paper,
"Germany through the Years.'
given by Miss Queen. The club voted
to furnish milk for the undernourish
ed children in the grammar grades
for the next month.
Mrs. R. S. Gwyn has returned
home from Sumter, S. C., where she
spent two weeks.
Mrs. W. A. Blue and daughter.
Miss Duke Blue who have been
spending the past ten daya in Flor.
Ida, are expected home the latter
part of thla week.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin McKeithen
are leaving today for Middletown, N.
Y., to attend the marriage of their
son Leland McKeithen and Miss Ja.
net Wigtrins.
The Womans Missionary SSoclety
held Its regular meeting last Mon.
day afternoon at the church. A
beautiful installation .service was led
by Mrs. Maxwell and the officers for
the New Year installed.
1939
Mrs. Adelaide F. Chapman gives
$2,500 to the Moore County Hospital.
C. T. Patch celebratfi.s 42nd year in
business in Southern Pines.
1935
Mrs. Elmer Harrington makes
"hole in one” on 150 yard Spring
Hole course, Southern Pines Club.
19.S0
The Hon. Robert N. Pnge in.'stalled
as Lieutenant Governor of the Ki.
w.inis for the Carolina District In
Charlotte.
New Freight house at Southern
Pines nears completion.
1925
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Betterley en.
tertained members of the Sandhill
Post, American Legion and the
Ladies Auxiliary.
First "Housewarming" of the re
cently formed Men’s Club in their
club house.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Carlton Wicker
entertained a number of their friends
at a dance in the Southern Pines
Country Club.
1920
J. L. Smith, first to advertise es
tablishment as "Quality Store” dies.
Misses Mary Powell and Doris
Swett of St. Mary’s College, Raleigh,
are spending the holidays with their
parents.
1915
Commissioners negotiate for for.
mer Geyer bank building to use same
as towTi jail.
W. V. Prillaman builds first ga
rage. ,
1910
Notice of the death at Quincey,
Mass., of the Rev. A .E. Ellsworth,
pastor of the Congregational Church
of Southern Pines, 1903.4.
Adv "Slght.Seeing Auto. Kerr’s
elegant 30 horsepower Cadillac for
touring parties.”
1899
Central hotel a large structure lo
cated on Bennett street burns to the
ground during a snow storm.
1895
Opening of the Piney Woods Inn.
Governor Carr and staff among
guests. Welcome by Mayor L. T.
Smith. Capt. A. M. Clarke master of
ceremonle*.
NIAGARA
mi':kt with mks. mcklrov
Mr. and Mrs. William Young of
Durham called at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Covington. Mr. and
Mrs. Young W'ere enroutc to Flor.
Ida.
Mr. and Mrs. Leggitt of New Jer.
■sey are spending a few days here.
Mr. Legfe:itt is spending the time
hunting with Roy Dutton.
Mrs. D. J. Blue of Carthage Route
3 listed taxes here last Thur.sday.
Mrs. D. F. Cavana\igh 'of Siui
Diego, Calif., arrived Thur.sday to
visit her mother Mr.s. U. O. Bobbitt.
Mr. and Mrs. Berney Garner and
family visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Brown of Eagle Spi ings Sunday.
L. F. Hartsell of Cameron visited
friends here Sunday.
Mrs. Carrie Fairbanks is sick with
influence at the home of Miss H .L,
Gay.
Miss Simons filled her appoint
ment Sunday evening as Bible teach,
er.
The Junior Willing Workers will
meet Monday evening. January 22nd
at 8:00 o’clock with Mrs. H. O. Me.
Elroy on New Hampshire avenue.
Bancroft Tennis rackets and
Wright & Ditson Championship ten.
nis balls at Hayes.’
EVELYN EDSON
Notary I’ublic
Tflcplione Office N. H. Ave
Virginia Thomas
NOT.VKV I’l IJMC
K II. Lorenson Office
TKI.KiniONE 5774
WOMAN’S SOC’IETV MKETS j
•\EDNE.SI).\Y AT ( HrKCll
E. V. PERKINSON
(General Contractor
Storagre
The regular meeting of the Wo. 1
man’s Society of the Church of Wide
Fellowship will bej held in the
church parlor on Wednesday, Jan. i
uary 24th at 3:30 with Group 1 in
charge. There will be a program of
musical recommendations.
Special in linen bridge cards, 2
packs for 59 cents at Hayes.’
DR. L. R. SHELTON
('hirofjodlst
will be at Agnes Dorothy’s
Beauty Shop,
SUNDAY, JAN. 21
10:00 A. M. to 6:00 P. M.
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