Pafire Four
THE PILOT
Friday, September 11,1925
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GROWING SEED
AT HOME
Mr. McCrimmon, of the Little
River Stores, is doing a work in
this section that is worth the
help of the farmers, who will be
the people chiefly concerned, for
it is an effort to raise in this
neighborhood as much of the
seed for farm and garden crops
as possible. It is well known
that for most things seed grown
in the neighborhood of where it
is to be planted is the best seed.
It has become adapted to the
peculiarities of climate and soil,
and usually produces the best
crops. Already certain varieties
of seeds have become a success
ful crop, particularly the cotton
and com seed raised in the vi
cinity of Eureka, and Abruzzi
seed rye is pretty well estab
lished as a seed product on some
of the farms.
One of the advantages in
making seed here for home use
is that it is under the eye of the
planter. It is an unfortunate
fact that frequently seed
brought from a distance turns
out to be inferior or of different
variety. It is impossible for the
dealer to know what he is selling,
as he must depend on the seeds
man he buys from. The seeds
man buys much of his seed from
growers and knows little of the
quality he buys. So it is often
the case that the local dealer
here in the Sandhills as else
where, sells his customers un
satisfactory seeds.
Now if the farmers, and
gardeners here will join with
this movement to grow seeds of
a good type, and more than they
need for their own use, Mr. Mc-
Crimmioin will undertake to sell
that surplus seed, and he will
serve two or three useful pur
poses. He will make a market for
another profitable farm crop.
He will provide the community
with dependable seeds, for every
farmer can see at any time the
kind of seeds the growers are
making. Then there will be
awakened an interest in the va
rieties of plants that the seeds
will be made from and for, and
a community of effort will bring
about better farming, for better
seeds are the basis of better
farming. Mr. McCrimmon is
trying to broaden the market for
the things the farmers raise.
If he can add several thousand
dollars’ worth of farm and gar
den seeds to the products of the
neighborhood farms he will in
crease the income of the farmers
to that extent, which is a de
sirable achievement. It is worth
while for the farmers to talk
over this scheme with him, and
see what can be brought out of
it.
people of this generation that it
is only a memory.
What is to come out of this
The Pilot does not assume to
know. What has come is ap
parent to every observing
thinker. The sabbath day as
recognized forty years ago is as
completely wiped out of ex
istence as the other habits of
life that have given way to
modem innovations. The com
mandment that says to remem
ber the sabbath day and keep it
holy and in it do no work, is as
completely shot to pieces as it
can possibly be, and it has few
to even defend it in its literal
ness. Sunday has become not a
day of rest and of holiness, but
of recreation and diversion in
which the religious phase enters
in but the smallest degree. Sun
day is a day of danger on the
highways, a day of bloodshed, of
forgetfulness of all serious
things. And the attitude that is
presented toward Sunday as a
day of sabbath observance is the
same attitude that is growing up
toward any restraint and any
law. The spirit that has thrown
off the Sunday restrictions is
throwing off all legal and moral
and social restraint. Popular
sentiment has come to stand
with this modem method of em
ploying Sunday. A few stand
out against the modern innova
tions of sabbath observance, but
they have little effect. The
great mass is on the other side
and Sunday instead of being a
sabbath and the Lord's day is
the recurring date of Vanity
Fair, the day of complete
abandon, the day in which the
whole country gives itself over
to more of irresponsible twenty-
four hours existence than on an
other day of the week. That is
what we are doing with Sunday.
Instead of a day of rest Sunday
is a day the experienced traveler
likes to stay off the roads, for it
is a day of terror and disaster.
THE INDIFFERENCE
TO SUNDAY
The Pilot prints a lengthy arti
cle this week regarding the at
titude toward the sabbath as a
religious date, and the only ex
cuse for giving so much space
to the subject is that it is so ex
tremely pertinent. The writer
mentions, evolution in his argu
ment, and while he merely
mentions it he might have gone
on further and said that the
thing that confronts the church
is not evolution, but the absolute
indifference that is growing up
regarding even a semblance of
sabbath observation. A few
years ago the sentiment in
America was that this country
was in danger of the introduc
tion of the European sabbath.
Today few fear the European
sabbath, for the American auto
mobile sabbath has made the
European sabbath look like a
trival innovation. The sabbath
of the past generation in this
country has gone so far out of
the habits and customs of the
THE UNUSUAL
HOT WEATHER
At Southern Pines on Friday
the government thermometer
registered 106, which is the
highest record ever made in this
section so far as The Pilot has
been able to find out. This is
getting up toward California and
Montana and Idaho Tveather,
although not quite up to the ex
tremes that are felt at times in
those states. In spite of this
high record every one of the
most northem states of the
Union from Minnesota westward
has exceeded this figure, and
Califomia has gone above it by
ten or twelve degrees.
It is not the extreme of heat
that is disagreeable in the Sand
hills, but the scarcity of rainfall
that has been common in the
last four or five years. In a dry
open climate like this the heat
is not as effective as a lower
temperature in the more humid
areas. But the shortage of rain
fall has been disastrous. This
year so far the shortage of rain
fall has been in the neighbor
hood of twelve to fifteen inches,
and in some parts of the state
even more. In the last four or
five years the total shortage of
rain has reached three feet or
more, and the result is that the
ground has dried to a new, low
level below the surface. Where
ten or fifteen years ago digging
post holes would find the ground
wet within a few inches of the
top it is possible now to dig down
in many places two or three feet
and find everything as dry as
dust. That is what is doing the
damage to growing things, and
especially to the forests, which
in many places are dying.
The situation is more serious
than is commonly suspected, for
unless water enough to saturate
the ground comes before a great
while it is likely that many trees
will be killed and that the forests
will suffer severely. In these
days of declining forests it is
not pleasing to see the drouth
kill the trees in large numbers.
It is not to be supposed that
these succeeding years of short
rain fall indicate anything, for
we will encounter later on a
probable excess of rainfall to
bring the average up to the nor
mal. But the thing that is most
threatening is the lowering of
the water level in the ground
and the effect it may have on
the crops from year to year and
especially on the forests. The
loss of the forests makes the
ground still drier and increases
the danger in this respect. A lot
of rain is needed when it begins
to come, and for a long period,
for the ground is probably drier
than at any period in the memo
ry of the oldest living man.
THE PINEHURST
BUILDING MOVEMENT
The start on a new group of
buildings at the vicinity of the
new station is rather indicative
of the way Pinehurst is moving
forward. The first building to
be undertaken is the initial
structure of the new warehouses.
This is to be occupied in sixty
days. It will be followed next
year by another of the same
ground plan dimensions, but of
two stories. With these will be
a new freight station and a new
passenger station. All these
buildings will be on ground that
has just been cut out of the
trees. With them is a new lo
cation for the railroad, and two
new locations for the highways,
making a shift for practically
all the chief main through roads
of the village, coupled with hard
surface on these through roads.
In addition to the hard surface
on the highways the village is
putting hard cover on some of
the village roads.
All summer long building has
been progressing in Pinehurst,
with the addition of two en
larged and rebuilt hotels, a fine
new business block of the first
dimension, a number of new
houses that will entail a cost of
several thousands each, and now
oomes this important building
plan that will in a group of big
buildings bring an entire new
portion of the town into action
at once and change the whole
quarter of the neighborhood on
the west side of the railroad.
Pinehurst adds annually
several hundred thousands to its
building schemes. But it never
adds enough to reach a point
where building seems to slack
up any. The construction of an
establishment like the ware
houses is made necessary by the
broad expansion of the business
of the warehouses. Much more
floor room had become impera
tive. The growth from 5,000
square feet at present in use to
the 10,000 feet that the new
buildings will provide is about
the best indication of how Pine
hurst as a commercial center is
appealing to the trade. More
over the railroad work is a sure
sign that the passenger traffic is
compelling better rail facilities
to handle more railroad business,
and that the time has come when
the future makes a call that has
to be heard.
Coming on the heels of the
summer's building this added
bunch of projects for fall tells
the whole Sandhill area what the
prospects are that this section
faces. Pinehurst is not by itself
in its expansion. The whole of
Central North Carolina is
moving on. Pinehurst is con
spicuous because we see here the
things being done in our own
neighborhood.
mous Sandhills are. In making pine
trees. North Carolina does a good and
interesting job of it, and they cause
some admiration even in so remote a
place from their native heath. The
case is the same with the tarheel girl.
She has won for herself some dis
tinction in being quite alright as
another North Carolina product. In
fact she has assayed something like
ivory soap, 99 per cent, a top notch
near enough for anybody. And this
was proved when she has been re
peatedly discouraged in handing in
a resignation where she is.
SANDHILL BROTHER
HOOD OF PINEHUST
“Watch ’em grow.” That seems to
be the password over in Pinehurst
these days, as men discuss the Sand
hill Brotherhood. There are now over
eighty men on the roll and each
Sunday finds new members coming in.
It is most inspiring to walk along the
streets of the little village and hear
old and young talking about the great
interest and enthusiasm of the men
as they grow into a strong group of
community builders. In the recent
membership contest, the Blues were
victorious and the Reds entertained
them royally at a fish fry Saturday
night. Messrs. John Fitzgerald,
Henry Frye, and Ang Maples prepared
for the crowd of seventy or eighty
men and to them goes the credit for
such a successful time. Singing,
speeches, and jokes were thoroughly
enjoyed.
The month of September finds an
attendance contest in full bloom, and
from the looks of things Sunday, it is
to be quite a success, as the record was
broken the first day. The Brother
hood is preparing to begin real out
side activities, and the good they will
accomplish may startle the wLole
community, for those men mean busi
ness. The Sunday School has out
grown the community house it seems,
and the Brotherhood is likely to
sponsor the construction of an edifice
which will meet the needs of the vil
lage for years to come. Everybody
is looking up and enthusiasm is at a
high pitch. X. X.
SANDHILLS GIRL
IN NEW YORK STATE
From a town in the extreme north
ern part of New York state a Tar
heel girl writes back to Moore county,
a;sking for some of our long leaf pines
to be used in an exhibit in the Low-
ville county fair. A few of the young
trees, several branches of the boughs
cut from bigger trees and some of the
big cones were sent. They arrived
for the fair and brought considerable
comment. The exhibitor told every
one they came from Southern Pines
and as a booth was made up at three
different fairs, the specimens are to
be shown for three weeks more, and
if a sprig of it is left it is to be
handed over to Laura Ray, the North
Carolinian of the story, **to be put in
a vase on my book case in the oflSce,
so I can see North Carolina every time
I lift my eyes from the labors of
this desk,” she stipulated.
North Carolina is getting recog
nition from many and varied sources,
but it is probably the first time her
pine trees have been in the limelight,
arousing interest at such a distance,
and letting folks know where the fa-
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Miss Jewell
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Hamlet, and
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Miss Jessie
Raleigh for he|
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daughter. Miss,
and Mrs. J. D|
Margaret McLt
in town, Tuesdi
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route 1, was tl
daughter, Mrs
Sunday.
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with Mr. and Mi
Mr. and Mrs.
Marie Cameronn
Mrs. G. W. b1
Sunday.
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Smith; secretar)
treasurer, Mrs.
porter, Mrs. S. \
departments, s«
civics, Mrs.
Mr^ J. W. Beai
McD. Monroe;
J; R. Thomas,
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committees and
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*®eeting.
Mrs. Joyner
reporter a list
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