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✓ Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, April 25, 1941. THE PILOT Publish ed each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Fines, N. C. NELSON C, HYDE Editor DAN S. RAY General Manager CHARLES IVLACAULEY Advertising Manager Helen K. Butler, Virginia Crw!. Bessie C«meron Smith, Charles Cullingford, Associates. Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months Entered at the Postofnce at South ern Pines, N. C., aa second class mail matter. BAD ROADS TO BADLANDS South of the Potomac river are the badlands of traffic saf ety, so called by Rear Admiral Percy W. Foote, retired, who was formerly commissioner oi Pennsylvania Motor police. The further south one goes the worse the lands. North Carolina is 42d in the list of states so far as safe driving is concern ed. There is no point in becommg indignant over such a state ment, says the Charlotte Ob server. It is made by a native of North Carolina and is not Yankee propaganda. We should be the first to admit it. All that j is necessary to prove it is to; read the papers day by day, es- | pecially on Mondays. There are i the facts about the carnage, the i dead and injured, the maimed j and the crippled. I It is not a question of safe | highways; we have them. The j tar wrecks occur on the broad, i well-paved roads. What is the j trouble? Are we simply silly, half-witted when we get behind the wheel of a car, disregarding every safety rule and throwing to the winds the rules of cour tesy and consideration for oth- ers ? It is no enviable distinction, being 42d among 48 states in the matter of highway safety. No state has too good a record and we are near the bottom. Only six others keep us from being the bottom. Many people roundly de nounce “Tobacco Road” as a li bel on the South. What about Murder Road and Suicide Road and Accident Road, leading to the Badlands? THE POCKETBOOK KNOWLEDGE 9,000 SfPM’ATT PARTS90.000 ^,V£7S <30 moTue "AHfFMMe'-- AWr /MrwPi/A/6 ^^N£. irfS71iOM£M7S, OK PtK>PeU<Mi— ‘ OF A MOPEKN PtMiSOtT otBOCc: yw— fiHOCT /CO. ooo ■ns/Ji - Mosny MefeoD/c txjtr TUe U. s. IN\/ENTIVE 6ENIUS- SINCE usr njf offmi aFARIN6 H005E * HAS ReOEIveD /V-.SOO PEFPH5E WVENTIOM SOGSFSl'lONS _ NEmv f/Air tPBAS BECAUSE WOOD 16 SCARCE FiRES ABE oFitM euiLT Of wHAieBo^e, ON -rve ALfUTIAN I5LAM05. OFF ALASKA HUNPHfW OF U S dMPWlES, W AID PEFEN5E 'HAVf AVWE AWNUfi«TURlM<5 CHANGE. OVERS LIKE mESE: /WM ^MACf/WfS 70 SMfil POINTS: COMncTs TO sums- CMPtrs Toaii iAKHWMilK t) KilS: M'OgS fo StMU mrrs/ Grains of Sand ANOTHER MAN, ANOTHER GARDEN “And the Lord God planted a garden eastw^ard in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.” Ever since that first garden of long ago, gar dens have been approved by the people in general. Follow ing along ’he lines history has laid down lor us we find another man in a garden, by the name of Ernest Morell. Last week a garden pilgrimage came into the Sand'hills and the visitor from without and the resid<^nt from within enjoyed the Spring festi val of flowers that surrounded them. The pilgrimage was not com plete without a trip to the H. IL iJeckwith garden. A few years ago the same sandy ridge grew a fine crop of wire-grass and broom sage, scraggy oaks and a few pines. Nature practices a wonderfully rigid economy and usually does not allow land to I’emain idle or bare very long at a time. However, she was covering her investment. Then along came Morell, another one of those plant wizards who un derstands how to collaborate with the inorganic empires. The sandy ridge was transformed into a delightful and enchanting garden. Imported mature trees, flowering shrubs of all kinds form a dense wall about the es tate, masses of azaleas, bloom ing perennials, flowering bulbs, vines and evergreens and artifi cial pools with a carpet of heavy green grass all unite to make the gj'.rden one of the m©st beautiful to be found in the Car- olinas or any other state. Behind the spectacular'display of Nature is the master engi neer, Morell, the gardener with constructive conception who never does a job , of meaning less planting, whose imagina tion visualizes harmony and the fundamental elements in land scape. Another side of his gen ius is the happiness and peace Spaking of visiting small folks, the George Herveys, of Geneva, N. Y., sent a message to friends in South ern Pines two weeks ago today, say ing. “We can't take Winter any lon ger.” So they arrived for a week with two youngsters. Snow was left in the yard at home- As they traveled southward, piece by piece, galoshes, heavy coats and winter apparel was .chucked off. They landed in the warm wave that swept the country and experienced the direct passage 4 of winter into mid-summer. Flowers they could pick, sand they could play in. New experiences teemed about them. The smal' boy of the outfit, saw his first deei' on an evening’s excursion a few miles from the vil lage. “What do deefs eat,” the puz zled child asked as his mother put him to bed. The mother named over food items she thought might be found on the deer’s supper table. The little boy was skeptical, “They must cat something more than that. They must eat lightning bugs to make their eyes shine at night the way they do.” [sperscd. Flower arrangements out of the ordinary with an effective choice of apparel frequently adorn the win dows of the dress shop as only an artist could conceive. At the end of 1940, Moore county .nad 4,450 automobiles and 1,080 trucks and trailers, a ratio of 6.96 inhabitants per auto. The county ranks 28th in the state in this ratio. Guilford had a car for every 4.36 in habitants, ranking first, while Yan cey, with a ratio of 34.06 tanked last. With a check for two dollars for a subscription came this note to The Pilot: “This is the best two dollar pur chase I make in this here town an nually. The most for my money.” Thanks, say we. An artist with a deft hand does .some unusual things in the way of window trimming for the joint Hayes stores that attract many a rasser-by. Not long ago an aimful of garden broks lay scattered over the floor window of the book store with pots of blooming flowers inter- of mind imparted to many a lo cal gardener because he stood by and encouraged the novice. All of the county gardens are not of the .show type. Some were merely a couple of longleaf pines draped in their purple mantles of wi.steria, flanked by a dog wood tree. Foitunately, area and boun dary lines and rarity of plants have nothing to do with satis faction found in a garden. Tin can.s have been known to be as )nspiring a.s the most preten tious plots ever cultivated. A lot of us who have been encouraged to dig in the soil and plant a garden will lift our song with Solomon’s who sang, "Awake, 0 North wind; and come, thou South; blow upon my garden,” all because the Lord God put another man whom he had form ed into another garden. —H.K.B. I A lot of ar'gument has been I brought forth in the selection of a j State flower. The dogw'ood was fin- : ally decided upon, so the dogwood it j is. The choice should be a satisfac- ! lory one to all, as the dogwood has , many attributes, and is a tree that j IS never unattractive, regardless of I season. In the Fall when hedgerows I are brilliant reds, it is prominent in , the Autumn scene. The scarlet ber ries that stand out later on bare I branches are still another pleasant feature. Architecturally, the tree is j built for show-off purposes, with its tendancy to flat limbs set at oblique j angles to the trunk, the downward droop adding grace and lightness that few trees have- Common to the entire state from coastal regions to the mountains, the dogwood is not a stranger to any one. As a State flower, it has been a sound choice. Pi'obably no more ardent horse lover ever followed steeplechase, track, hound or bridle path than lit tle Cornelia Kane of western Penn sylvania, who spent several weeks in the Sandhills recently. The small gill’s admiration for the hor.se made a toy horse a bed-fellow at night. She dreamed horses. She never miss ed a horse show, or event where E. V. PERKINSON General Contractor Storage Highland Fines Inn Cheerful homelike atmosphere, splendid dining room service. Delightful surroundings. Weymouth Heights near Country Club. Good Parking space. Season November to May. W. E. FLYNN, Manager Southern Pines. N. C. lorse weie the actors. Her parting' •eihark that classed her among the most vehement of emotional equine enthusiastists came when she said, "I like horses so much I wouldn’t mind looking like a horse.” The new Chevrolet for '41 It the only lowest- priced car with an ultra* luxurious Body by Fisher of the tame type and size featured on higher-priced cork. It’s alto the only lowett- prlced car that bringt you a 90-h.p. Valve-ln>Head Engine, Unitized Knee- Action, Box-Glrder Frame and many other quality fea- turet... fogefher with such big savings in purchase price, operation and upkeep. It's the No. 1 car of the nation. . . . It’t the No. 1 oar for you! YOVll “ Mid-South Motors, Inc. ABERDEEN. N- O Busy at home? pause and ic' f- V'- '< y There's always time for a minute's rest and Ice-cold Coca-Cola makes such a moment really restful. Everybody welcomes the happy after-sense of complete refreshment which Coca-Cola always brings. So when you pause throughout the day, make it the pause that refreshes with ice-cold Coca-Cola. BOmjED UNDER AUTHOIUTY OF THB COCA.COiA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTLING COMPANY. ABERDEEN. N- O
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