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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.
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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?
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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.”
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