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Friday, July 29, 1927. THE PILOT Published every Frida” by the t*iLOT TRlNTlxNG COMPANY V’ass, North Carolina STACY BREWER, Owner Subscription Rates: Oi'M? Year $2.00 ^ix Months Sl.CO A.ddress all communications to The Pilot Printing Co., Vass, N. C. Advertising? Kates on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, N’. C., as second-class mail matter. SOME MORE OF THE RED FLAG. The Sandhills Bolshevik has another complaint to file, and a considerable proportion of the State is sore under the collar at the present minute on account of the matter. Here is a good big crop of excellent peaches, to be had at a minimum price for the grade that is too ripe to ship to distant markets, and those are the best peaches that are grown, for a peach that goes to market solid enough to keep is not as good as one that comes off the tree just ready to eat. It was assumed by the orch ard men, and by many %of the people of North Carolina that Sandhills peaches would be available all over the State at low prices. And they would but for one thing. Orchard men are hauling out and dump ing hundreds of bushels of the best peaches in the world every day. although they would be glad to sell them at 25 or 50 cents a bushel, or ten cents or five cents or any thing if they were taken out of the way. But folks can’t get them. And why? One orchard man attempted to take care of these peaches, and undertook to arrange to send a car at frequent inter vals to one of the mountain counties, and have the fruit distributed there at a moderate price. The scheme looked good, but when he went up to the community to talk it over be fore sending the first car he found that any man who would buy a truck load and undertake to distribute them had to buy a license for $60. As it is ne cessary to sell a lot of 50-cent peaches to pay a $60 license and leave any profit to the truck man, the truck man simply said he was not interested. The orchard man came home. He dumped his s^ft peaches in the hog lots. The folks who have no treps get no cheap peaches. And the State does not get any 860 license fee, for the truck man cannot pay it and come out. The orchards are throw ing avv’ay a hundred thousand dollars’ worth f good fmit. The folks arc getting no peaches wliere tho\’ could have car loads at nominal price. And the 1)1 >on-)in.ir oi l red flag gets an- il^tter in the wind. Tbo hlood of the goose that laid the golden egg '^ne time makes the ground red just as it h-s alwavs done. DON’T Tuk RARE BIRDS. Since dams have been multi plying in the Sandhills, as vt I akeview, K n o 11 w o o d, the Southern Pines Water reser voir, one of the biggest in the neighborhood, and others, mor? water fowl are seen scattered over the vicinity f the villages. Unfortunatelv the human tend ency is to kill a bird if it hap pens to be something out of the ordinary, and it seems to be an achievement if some fellow with a gun can bring in a dead bird that people have not seen. Now some of these birds that frequent the ponds will multi ply here if not molested. With the power dams lessening in their acreage it is pleasing that other dams are building, and closer in to the villages, for if the wild birds are encouraged they will become a common sight under the eye of the folks m the towns, and some of the Carolina birds are handsome and interesting creatures. But public sentiment must be ex erted in favor of the birds, and even at that they have a hard row to hoe, for any wild crea ture is looked on as a thing for :he wanton amusement of everybody who cares to kill or annoy it. And the same policy might be pursued toward animal life in the woods. Pinehurst has =:et a good example by making 1 State game preserve on most of the lands of the corporation, and if the birds and animals are let alone there it will not be long until wild life will be common and fearless through all the w'oods in the vicinity. When that day comes this will *be a still more delightful place to live than when any four- footed or feathered creature has to spend the most of its life trying to escape its human ene mies. A pronounced sentiment in favor of protecting the pine trees and other shrubbery is springing up in the community. It will be good if the sentiment can also be emphasized as con cerns protecting the animal life as well as the tree life. THE SEABOARD’S NEW SERVICE. The new train service the Seaboard is offering from Flor ida and the entire South Atlan tic Coast as well as from Wash ington to the mountains is an other innovation in Seaboard progress. It is only the older settlers and the native inhabi tants who can realize the ad vance the Seaboard has made. Some of the folks recall very well when the passenger serv ice of this road consisted of one exclusiv»3ly |rjasse)!iger.' t I'l ai i n each way daily, supplementcid by a mixed freight and passen ger train that came down from Raleigh and went as far as it could get on down toward South Carolina. The present luxurious trains are known to every one who has to do with railroad travel. It is unfortunate that the local trains have largely given way to the automobiles, but that is one of the necessi ties of conditions over which neither the road nor the travel have any power. But the through service is as near ideal as is posjsible. The forenoon train south and the early night train north, in addition to the Atlantia ajmd Rutherfortdon service mentioned are without many rivals in the railroad world. They make quick pas sage from Washington. Jack sonville, or such points as they : come from, or go to, and they do their work expeditiously, and with the highest degree of comfort. And while it is curin?us that the riiilr()ads rarely ever refer to one important factor in the • •omfort of the traveler, the Seaboard has to its credit a group of employes that stack lip very well with the other points that help to make it a 'ommendable railr ad. The train men on the Seaboard are on the same plane of satisfactory ' sei-vice and cordiality as are the other agencies that make travel on the road a thing to be re membered. I The summer service of the ^;e^hoarH to the mountains, and to the North and South is all of the type that tells of effi cient management not only at the general offices and on the part of the general and divis ion officials all along the line, : but clear down to the last man I on the tracks, for the road is iT^t only operated in excellent I manner, but the physical con- ' dition of the rails is such that the Seaboard takes off its hat these days to few tracks in this country. Of course S. A. L. will not build all the new stations and overhead bridges, and will not stop all trains at all stations, nor do a lot of oth er impossible things with what money it gots, for every time it finds a gold mine it has so many calls on its finances it has to wait with some of these things. But it gives, its patrons a great deal more than it pays its stockholders in dividends, and that is a thing to remember. than is reasonable and proper. It also says the maximum rate of speed allowable under any circumstances is 45 miles an hour, and that is not allowable under certain conditions,. Fif teen miles is the limit when go ing around a curve or when ap proaching an intersection, when the driver’s view is obstructed, and it is explained that the view IS obstructed when the driver can not see for a distance of 200 feet on the highway entering at the intersection. The legislature says these things are law. Possibly they are. But the Legislature does not say how to make Fido sit up on his hind legs and beg for a bite to eat w^hen Fido doesn’t want to eat. Opposite Keith’s garage is an intersection, on a curve, and it is impossible to have a clear vision up the intersection street by the man raring down the highway like the Devil sifting sand. The law says drive care fully at places like this, and some folks do. But some do not. The experience of the first of the week shows what a law is worth that has no enforcing attachment. The North Caro lina traffic laws /have exactly as much force as is given them by the willingness of people who want to observe the laws. Beyond that they are as im portant as an empty sack that tries to stand upright, and they will be until the people awake to the constant danger of our high speed laws, and our child ishly confident expectation that such traffic laws and enforce ment systems as we have will make the highways safe to any one on foot or in any vehicle on the public roads. The one gravely dangerous I menace in this State to human 'life today is the automobile on I the highway. It is laughable to I hear folk talk about ending I wars and the terror of wars, when they never bat an eye when talking about the auto mobile slaughter, which makes our wars look like children’s plays. Human emotion and in difference is a singular thing. We build monuments to the men who are killed in battle and look out for the widows and orphans but the greater number killed on the highways we do not even give the poor bauble of a bo- quet at the funeral and never ask if there are any widows and oi-phans. W^e would mob a careless railroad engineer who would kill the multitudes the automobiles kill, but the auto mobile fiend is given every free dom that his own pleasrue prompts, and the only comment is that one or tw^o or three or four more victims have been added to the blood list. The peo ple of the United States shed human blood with less reluct ance and with more indiffer ence than any great body of people on the planet, and sole ly because we seem to have reached a point where the law is so lacking in enforcement machinery and popular desire to have it enforced that it is ignored by all who care to ig nore it. And the pity of it is that it is not the courts that I are lacking, but it is the peopl'^ i who will not give the courts the power to stop this continual i carnage. ! ADMINISTRATIX NOTICE. Having* qualified as administratrix of the estate of W. T. Lewis, de ceased, late of Moore County, North Carolina, this is to notify all persons havinf? claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersij^ned on or before July 26, 1928, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. This 26th day of July, 1927. MARGARET C. LEWIS, Administratrix. 6t-pd.-July 29. MOMENTS a T0I1BST0MS If you are interested in Morru ments or Tombstones, write Rockingham Marble Works ROCKINGHAM, N. C. See or Write JOHN B. KEXNKI)^ Hiijh Fail, N. C. DR. J. C. Gyehight Speci^ii. isl and tjpticiaii will be at Cheara Jewelry Store, rfanforU, N. C., every Wednesday ir. each week. Headach^ relieved when caused by Eyestra.n Office equipped with the latest exam, ining instruments. When he fits yo’j with glasses you have the satisfac- tion of knowing that thej are correct Weak eyes of children should receiv^J expert attention; take your child *^0 him. Remember that he la in Sanford luery VVedneKdav from 10 A M { P. M M. L. MATTHEWS. M. D. Practice limited to the eye, ear, noan and the throat. Office in Masonic Buildmg, Sanfora, N. C. Phone 117; Residonee, 274 Houtj from a. r>i.. to 12 and 1-30 to 3:-S0 p. m. an«l by appointmen!:. IF ITS TOMBSTONES OR MONUMENTS See or Write D. CARL FRY Carthage, N. C- DR. HUMPHREY X-RAY CHIROPRACTOR. Acute and Chronic Diseases Nervous Disorders, danford. X. C. Carthage, N. C. DR. OLIVE ClilROPRACTOR Aberdeen, 9 to 12 A. M. Southern Pines, 1 to 5 P. M. Raeford, N. C. Carthage, N. (J. SMITH & SMITH Attorneys - at - Law CAHTHACE. N. C. Jtiices .<• n Tru-^t Co. Bldg. F’ractice^ m ail courts in the State / / ON THE DEVIL’S RACE GROUND. 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