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Pacre Two THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, Noiili Carolina Friday, January 17, 1930. right defnite hope on the part of many intelligent citizens that government as a positive busi ness in county affairs should not be subordinated to the de sire of any individual to secure a political office, or made an agency to reward a friend or fel low party man. Moore county does a business of over half a million dollars a year. No other business of that magnitude would be placed in the hands of a manager either because he is of our political party or because he is a friend, or because he wants the place. For any other business of the magnitude of the county govern ment a selection would be made from the men best qualified to carry on the work in economi cal and efficient manner. The board of county commissioners is the important feature in county government. It is the business manager, and it en gages and directs most of the other county employes. It se cures the revenue, and appro priates it. The board of commis sioners is our business agent, and should be the best we can procure for the lordly salary of $40 a year paid each member. Mr. Buchan is not sectional in his suggestion that the Sandhills neighborhood be represented on the board. It is so represented now, and has been, so there can be no objection in his call for representation again. The Pilot is not aware whether Mr. Mc- Lauchlin or Mr. McDonald will offer themselves again or not. , , , ... j: This paper has regarded them as and he has the reputation of a highly capable officials, and man of character. Those are the THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT* Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor. BION H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT RALPH PAGE Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Advertising Rates on Application. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. MURDOCH JOHNSON FOR THE SENATE The mention of Murdoch Johnson for the state senate is a good suggestion. The Pilot is not aware whether Mr. Johnson will consider the proposition or not, but is lead to believe he has the idea under consideration. Should he be willing to make the canvass it may be said of him that he is a capable and an ac ceptable man. He has had much experience in the legislature in South Carolina, and he is well enough acquainted in this county where he has lived for years to be a suitable representative of the county. He has the ability By kJaznes Boyd GALiLiBERRIBS Being the sixth of a series of articles written for The Pilot by Sand hills Authors Notice—Persons who feel entitled to pecuniary damages on account of any of the following remarks should con- suit with any agent in Southern Pines with whom I carry collision and liability insurance. Those preferring the satisfaction of a personal encounter are referred to my brother, Jackson H. Boyd, height 6 feet, 4 inches, weight 180 lbs. -§- The streets in Southern Pines are still pretty well tom up. —§— Motto for next year — Buy your Christmas sewers early. —§— Granville Dietz by leaving no ad dress has put some of our people at at loss. —§- They don’t know where to send him flowers now. It was pretty tough to put him on that farm. —§— He ought to have been sentenced to a greenhouse. Just because a man is a murderer is no sigr) that he likes life on a farm. However, it will be quite a lesson to him. —§— Next time he’ll know that in this state folks can he killed legally only by an autompbile. The automobile has done a lot for Lemocracy in this state. things that count. Murdoch Johnson is a highly esteemed friend of The Pilot. That does not enter into his fitness as a candidate for the senate. He is a man of information and abil ity. That is the whole thing. will be thoroughly satisfied if men of their type are chosen for the next term. And there is no reason why such men canrot be had. Of course many of the men who might be suitable are not willing to take up the load and equipment fellows can save you money. prove will The trouble is not many people can afford them. —§— Cotton, peaches and tobacco are on the cooling board and the tourist bus iness is in a sinking spell. The only going concern is the new hospital. —§— The trouble is the hospital business is hard for an outsider to break into.! Anyhow the farmers have one com fort. They have a new three hundred thousand dollar court house to be sold for taxes in front of. And what’s more the court house was built by the taxes they’re being sold for. -§- It makes the performance a mighty proud moment in a farmer’s life. —§— A man once tried to put something over behind my back. When I asked a friend of his why he had done it.— He said the man was afraid if I found it out it might hurt m.y feel ings. —§— In this community there are a lot of people who think more highly of the human race than Dr. Poate does. comer of the street leading to my brother Jack’s house. —§— And moved it the the comer of the street leading to mine. —§— Last week the many friends of N. C. (Safety First) Hyde, editor of The Pilot, were congratulathig him on his narrow escape. While driving home from an even ing conference he was run into by a tree that had gotten out of con trol. —§— The paper says the Pope is going to make saints of two newspaper men. —§— Quite an instance of spiritual pow er. —§— You can hear John Watson’s gang blasting every day. The rumble in the Devil’s gut. WHO IS PEPSY? Who is this vile creature, ‘‘Pepsy,” who has recently been polluting your columns? A week ago, he, sliC or it, claimed to be a beautiful girl of eighteen; this week he—she, or it— appears as a mature man; a mature man of the lowest type; an ogler. I suspect a Marine. Only a Marine could so change his type. You know what Mr. Kipling said about them; “Soldier and sailor, too,” .... ‘^A sort of bloomin’ etc, etc.?*^ I demand a show dovm. At all events, if this sort of thing keeps up, I will have to take two copies of The Pilot, instead of one as I take now; the first for my mem ory book, and the second for the po lice files; and I shall have to keep both copies away from my forty-six year old daughter. Frankly what can young girls read nowadays? I ask you? AN IRATE PARENT. Southern Pines, N. C., January 12, 1930. PEPSY SCORES DR. POATE But not many more highly thought It’s a great thing to think that a j by the human race than Dr. Poate. drunk or an imbecile at the wheel has | Well both are right. just as good a chance of killing the | ’ § governor as the governor has of kill ing him. In fact better. I don’t know why people who work around horses and mules curse so. give_the time and work that is I Pin^ Since Richard Tufts’ letter about hov.' Charlie Picquet was running the People who work around congres- j men don’t. J1 il,-! i isj lorTorth^goodT’L^eommfnity give this matter a lot of con-1 somewhat narrowed on that ac- sideration. If a better man is to count. But that does not ^.^/eak- be found he should by all means be brought to the front if he will consider the race. If a man of less ability is proposed he should not be considered if the en Mr. Buchan’s argument that good men be selected or that this corner of the county be permit ted to offer one of the men. But the point that The Pilot suspects better man can be had. It is wise: Mr. Buchan had in mind was to look at the matter with as i that before we get too far into completely dispassionate feeling | the campaign we should as a as possible. In considering Mur- j people get together and discuss doch Johnson or any other man! names sufficiently to have some for the senate or for any other; suggestions to offer the people public place the man’s desire to; as a county proposition, and try have the place is wholly a sec- j to bring out the most capable ondary matter. What the county; persons available as candidates, wants is the best service that it, Moore countv is Democratic in can find within its borders. It politics. But that in the county may be it cannot get the be.-5t, are no Republicans capable for all men are not willing to i serving with satisfaction to the'" distinguish- quite a few of our more sensitive people have been staving awav. —§— Thfy don’t like to be objects of charitv. -§- These moonlight nights it’s hard to keep our hounds hushed up. They don’t know that the moon is in the citv limits. Well, I’ve been doing a little pro bono publico stuff mvself lately. “Drums” now on sale at all book stores in a one dollar edition.—adv. And speaking of advertising, did Visitors to our country ofter won-1 der how a living can be made out' of this sandy soil. ! So do our farmers. ed contributors ? betical. Memorandum—maybe that is how ' enter a contest for office, and good of the countv government some good men would not ac- i is not accepted. Mr. Buchan cept the place if offered if by can is of more use to the countv ■appointment. Some men can not j realizes that a capable Republi- arrange their business affairs as a commissioner than an in- to give up time to public employ- capable Democrat, and his state- i Abou Ben Adam got his break, ment, while some have no lik- ment points to a very consider-1 —§— ing for that sort of life. So the pble cloud on the sky which says I Since the last cold wave the South- really available number is not that party success this fall must | Chamber of Commerce is large. Therefore a ticket shoald be won bv offering the right i offering a $25.00 prize, be one carefully selected from kind of goods. Neither he nor: t, k f ^ the largest number that may be any other Democrat can make a | Jfs In how available, ^^d now^ is a right fight vvith an inferior Democrat, and me from wearing our coonskin good time to begin to talk about against a superior Republican 'coats on Broad Street when the tourist the matter. j and have any confidence of win- i trains are passing. The more the making of a i ning next fall, ticket can be simplified before ^ However the Demxocratic or- the primary election takes place ganization in the county can find the better, for a primary elec- plenty of suitable material, and rru ^ tion is a costly matter in time | is therefor in little danger un-1 change ^ and money if much contest! less it deliberately commits sui-' arises. Much elimination of can- i cide by backing incapacity. And didates could be made by popu-1 that is Why Frank is anxious to lar discussion before prmary! see his party leaders unite in —S— We think a good deal of our Fire Department in Southern Pines. I , But there’s not much chance for the man whose house catches fire at j twelve o’clock noon. I — , Our telephone was out of order for I two days last week and the company ' never knew the difference. -§- Neither did we. ' — I confidently predict a great fu ture for Moore County land. All we have to do is to hang on ’till the hourglass industry creates a market for our sand. Dear Editor; I am a little shaver of nine and one day. I had an awful bad stomach ache. Mama took me to see Dr, Poate and he said it came from my envir onment (too much Moore County corn). He was terrible nice and sym pathetic and called me a little hero. He gave me some horrid medicine ard when it didn’t do me any good and my mama had to call him in the night, why then he said I was just a big baby without any “character” at all, at all. Last week I fell in one of these big sewers and just as I was drowning, up walks Dr. Poate and do you think he saved me? Oh no, he just mur mured, “There’s no ssnse in getting excited .... You can get used to any thing.” Maybe—but I want Mama to get me a new doctor. Your loving child, PEPSY. Southern Pines, N. C., January 10th, 1930. perienced this peculiar and disagree able feeling. Curious, with that pure, intellectual curiosity wihch is one of my distinguished characters, I slow ly turned my head. At that instant, my astral body took flight. It left my social and actual person on the sofa in my living room and absented it self so that I did not know where or who I was nor what I did. I have no means of telling how long this strange condition of coma lasted, probably during a mere flash of time for, when I returned to myself, I was facing my former interlocutress (see Henry James) and speaking quite in my us ual clear and forceful fashion. What had happened in that in stant ? I should not have given the psychic flurry (common technical lingo in ^sychic circles) another thought had it not been for the very shocking mis apprehension, revealed with a male smirk—ordinary psychic phraseology to describe phenomenon of hypnotiz ing male exercising power — in Pepysy’s letter. Now, dear Mr. Editor, I do not know which of my guests masquerades in print under this undignified pseu donym, so I am driven to the follow ing resolution. From now on, every male guest, on entering my front door, will be given by my man Charles a pair of dark glasses. These must be worn during the entire time of his visit. In this way I shall be protected from an hypnotic influence, peculiarly dan gerous to my astral and phychic sys tem. If Pepsy will come forward with a belated chivalry and confess his iden- ity he will spare my men friends a temporary disfigurment my women friends deprivation of an experience to which they are pleasantly accus tomed. Having sent this announcement to your columns, dear Mr. Editor, I will sign myself, simply, poignantly and with a double anonymity, —Pepsy^s Latest Victim. Southern Pines, Jan. 11, 1930. ‘LIVK AT HOME’ “HILL,” NOT “BULL’ The trouble is ^he list was alpha- j Remember when they cut down all the shade trees along the street in Aberdeen ? j So that the town would look like New York? We only cut down the trees on one block in Southern Pines. That’s why Aberdeen looks more like New York than we do. This week telephone conditions are improved. date, and to the advantage of both candidates and the people. FRANK BUCHAN POLITICAL PROPHET Those who know Frank Buch an are likely to take seriously anything' he says in the way of political prediction. When he says that “If the Democrats in other sections of the county do not help us this year in nomi nating a Democrat who will be acceptable to our folks down he ire it is my honest belief that in the coming election you will see a Republican commissioner ivp- resenting this section,” he is not making a threat. He is not that kind of a campaigner. Rut he is reading the signs. This is ap parently to be an unusual cam paign season. Two factors are forceful in the approaching bat tle. One is the unfortunate align ment of Democrats againts Dem ocrat in the state campaign which is certain to be reflected in the county. The other is a the effort to select a really su perior ticket and work for it, that the county may be best served. He is not threatening opostas, but rather in his warn ing he is advising his political companions to pick their flints and keep their powder dry, and pointing out the danger they run if they do not heed the admoni tion. People who criticize the architec ture of the Pine Needles Inn should understand that the building is not completed. It will look pretty nice when they get the roller coaster and the ferris wheel. It’s lucky they located the hospital at Pinehurst. Because Pinehurst is the place BRIDGE AT HIGH FALLS SOON Among the road projects by the State announced for early attention is that which includes the bridge across the Deep River at High Falls in the upper part of the county. This will be on Route 902, the new highway from Carthage by Calvary church to Asheboro. The project cover:< the bridge and approaches in a distant of a mile, and will mean the extension of the road from the junction Lt Cal vary church to the point of crossing the river. It is not known yet whether Now subscribers who want to talk can meet there for a chat. At least in Bernard Leavitt^s time you could always get a good radio , where no one is allowed to die. concert. | § § ; It looks funny on court days in But all I’ve gotten over the tele- j Carthage to see the lawyers in al- phone in the last three weeks is the j abaster halls while the mule traders Seaboard whistles, twice, and a | have to stand out in the weather, strange negro in Nashville, Tennes- j —§— see. i The county would be better off if : they took turn about. Editor, The Pilot: I have long known the innate per versity of all type-setting machines, and I should be the last to protest any typographical error—even though it makes me seem to say “There is no eyes.”—But I cannot consent to re ceive the credit for another’s wisdom. It is not as an error, but a bit of pungent literary criticism, that I wish to mention a certain small emenda tion made (whether by your linotyper, or perhaps by the machine itself, in a spontaneous revulsion) in the print ing of my little piece in your paper last week. What I wrote, quoting the poem by Alan Breck Stuart, was this: “The dun deer vanish; the hill remains.”— The “HILL,” please observe. But by altering the first two letters of “hill” to B U, my quotation, as published, became a profound philosophical truth—if not exactly the one I had in mind at the moment. And, as an hon orable man, I feel compelled to dis claim all credit for these three words. Honor to whom honor is due! Yours sincerely, ERNEST M. POATE. Still the system is nothing if not fair. All the negro got was me. —§— As far as the Seaboard whistle goes rot much is gained. -§- Yon can hear it out the window for minutes before you can get it on the phone. This is the age of science. You can’t sell a useless product to an I man who hit him, six. enlightened public any more. i —§— —§— j It’s encouraging to know that the Unless you advertise it with a pic-1 cost of crime is still within reach of j The other day a negro I know was } in an automobile wreck. He was I charged and convicted on the follow- 1 ing counts: I -§- Being run into; stealing a license plate; being picked up out of a cot ton field containing an empty bottle of corn; taking three women for a ride without including his wife. -§- He was fined sixteen dollars arKl the the present route by Parkwood and; ture of a man in a barber’s coat j the average man. McConnell will be followed or a re-! looking through a miscroscope. location provided. The new road will ! —§— be one of the most pictudesque of the | It’s wonderful how many things state roads i nthe county. j the building material and household This is the age of progress. The Seaboard has at last taken away the freight station from the dangerous PSYCHIC OGLING Editor, The Pilot: Since reading an extraordinary communication from someone who calls himself Pepsy in your last is sue, I have been very ill. Now that I am recovering from nervous shock I feel that I owe it to myself to pub lish an account of the following cur ious experience. As you may have heard, I arn some thing of a psychic. I have seen sev eral ghosts, about four and a half to be accurate, have received innumer able telepathic communications, have consumed— (modem psychic slang—) not inconsiderate quantities (modern psychic terminology) of spirits, and am an adept at automatic writing. I mention these gifts solely to clarify what I will now describe. Some little time ago I was enter taining a group which included some of my less distinguished friends . . . I might say the middle-men rather than the originators of literature. I was talking to one of the ladies pres ent when suddenly I had a strange intuitive sensation. I knew that I was being ogled from behind. Everyone that is at all sensitive must have ex- Editor, The Pilot: The interest already manifested by the people of the State in a better balanced prgoram of agriculture has far exceeded my immediate expecta tions. I am convinced that substan tial progress has been made and for this the thoroughly smypathetic and highly intelligent cooperation of the press is, of course, to a large degree responsible. I indeed strongly feel that the press of North Carolina has rendered the State no finer service within my memory than this. The condition is one, however, which we cannot expect to jdeld to immed iate treatment. The deeply ingrain ed habits of generations of unsound practices must be overcome and in their place a more prudent and far sighted approach to our present agri cultural and economic problems sub stituted. I therefore, while congrat ulating The Pilot and the press of the State generally upon the en couraging results of our “Live at Home” program already in evidence, wish to request a sustained and con tinued campaign of editorials and news publicity centering about this problem and its solution. It is my firm belief that we cannot hope for anything approaching a normal con dition of prosperity in North Carolina until the farmers are at least produc ing what they require for actual home consumption. Needless to state, in making this request I am actuated solely by con cern for the general welfare of our people, a concern which I am confi dent is shared fully by yourself as well as every other public spirited citizen. Faithfully yours, O. Max Gardner O. MAX GARDNER, Governor of North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 11, 1930. BACK FROM WORLD TOUR Mrs. Rosa M. Ames and Miss Ro- sella S. Ames, of Marshfield, Mass., formerly residing on Ashe street, have returned from an extensive world tour, and are registered in the Kenil worth on West Broad street. Mi^"^ Ames gave an interesting address to a large audience in the Church of Wide Fellwoship, W^ednesday even ing, her subject being South Amer ica and South Americans. Family Laundry, Phone
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