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Page Two THE' PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberde^, North Carojma Friday, August 22. 1939 THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager 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 that are trying to get fanning on a better foundation. They are all having a wholesome influ ence. The new produce market ing corporation will take up the marketing end of the work, and if all these agencies work* to gether and follow some of the thoughts Mr. Coker gave us to chew on the fiarm in Moore county should have a decidedly more promising outlook. The Pi lot has the utmost confidence in these agencies if they are only permitted by the farmer to help him. Address all communications to The, PRESERVING Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. THE WILD LIFE Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter. A feature over at the Watson lake is the large number of white herons that have found the place and congregate there at the pres ent. These birds have also been wsiting the lake at Knollwood, where they add an interest to the place. At other points where DAVID COKER AND THE FARMERS The address to the farmers of Moore county made last week by ' bodies of water have been pro- David R. Coker, of South Caro-1 they drop in, and if they lina, was one of the events of | made absolutely safe at the summer. David Coker is a j these places thev promise to farmer, operating on a broad constitute a decided feature of American originally instead of Irish, is a dependable food prod uct, and should be raised more largely in this section than it is, but it is in no way fit to displace the sweet potato. In those sec tions where the sweet potato does not grow the Irish potato is the best bet. But in the North Carolina Sandhills the sweet po tato deserves to be produced in much greater quantities and to be introduced to many a table where it is yet only an occasional visitor. It is so easy to raise in small or great quantities that it makes little difference about the price if it is offered for sale, for it can be grown in quantities at a cost that can almost give it way. And it is always worth the price. It can save many high priced food products, and give far better results in feeding and nourishing the family, and all the animals about the place be side. Cow peas and sweet potatoes ought to be Moore county’s ban ner cry. scale, and bringing to his aid in telligence as well as muscle. He uses his head as much as he does his hands, and in consequence he is prosperous. The basis of his Sandhills country life. It is also possible to encourage other wild creatures, which will give added attractions to the country the year Vound. Squirrels are becom- philosophy is the Biblical injunc-{ ing common, and if the tion to prove all things and hold p^ot gun can be kept off them fast that which is good. Another adjunct of his philosophy is that the gods help them that help themselves. Dr. Coker has more hope of help from his sweet po tato patch than from political agitation, more confidence in the benefits that come from good seed than come from money bor rowed from government agen cies, and more assurance of pros perity from intelligent work than from reams of theoretical ad vice. the woods all around the Sand hills section will be alive with them. The truth is that hunting should be held down to a rigid limit all over this neighborhood, for the presence of the small wild birds and animals is a far great er asset to the communities than the questionable satisfaction af forded by killing them. A flock of turkeys that people could see at times slipping through the 1 T i 1 • II woods would afford incompara- The man who digests his ad- j more pleasure to a multitude dress at Carthage last week can 'of Visitors than the same number go home encouraged ^th the | turkeys slaughtered to grat- conviction that the world has not | momentary eagerness of gone to the dogs and that the' farm is not a wreck. Some of the practices on the farms would THE TIME TO SOW GRASS SEED The time approaches to sow grass seed. This community is largely indebted to Pinehurst for the knowledge that grass can be grown luxuriantly in the Sandhills, for Pinehurst in try ing to secure lawns around the homes and greens o nthe golf courses has spent great sums of money in research and experi ment. Forty years ago the front j^ard of most homes was a clean 3andy area, absolutely void of grass. Now the front yard is as treen as the heart of a Kansas wheat field in April. Two things have brought this result — a knowledge of seed and fertiliz er and a knowledge of how to use them. Continued experiment with grass seeds here have whit tled down to practically the Pine hurst Special Mixture and Ital ian Rye grass. These have giv en the Sandhills a covering rec ognized not only in Pinehurst, but in all the outlying neighbor hood. This has been a right trying summer on vegetation in the whole state, but never was a time when the golf courses held up a better color and more vig or. At Pinehurst, at Mid-Pines, Knollwood, Southern Pines, a glimpse of the golf courses shows that grass can be grown jn an extended manner in this tandy soil if proper methods are introduced. No longer is there any excuse for the old style of sandy front yard. And that be ing demonstrated everybody ought to start now to get out as much grass seed as possible. The villages are doing this on a rath er large scale, but the farmers and the rural homes should fol low the example, for nothing is more effective than grass in helping to make any place desir able as a home site. Grass and pine trees will do anything for the Sandhills, and grass is the thing that just now needs the attention, for winter is not far awaj". Was Walter Hines Page the Originator of the North Carolina Live-at-Home Program? Ambassador’s Mind Ran Toward a Grow-Your-Own Garden in the Sandhills While War W'as at it Height, as Witness Letter to His Son In his talk before the farmers at Carthage a week ago, Dr. Coker said hr knew of no place on earth where • the best foods could be better raised I than here, thus giving a boost to I Governor Gardner’s Live-at-Home pro gram. 1 On March 4, 1918, the late Walter Hines Page, th-e anniversary of whose birth was celebrated last week, wrote from the Tregenna Castle Hotel, St. Ives, Cornwall, England, the follow ing letter * to his son, Ralph Page of Aberdeen: Dear Ralph: Asparagus, celery, tomatoes; Butter beans, peas, sweet corn; Sweet potatoes, squash—^the sort you cook in the rind; Cantaloupes, peanuts, egg plants; Figs, peaches, pecans,.scupper^ nongs; Peanut bacon, in glass jars; Raspberries, strawberries. Etc., etc., etc., etc. You see, having starved here for some one individual to kill. We never can make the bulk of the , . 1 ij T_ 1. Sandhills country^ a hunting bnng wreck if they could, but 1 ho nnHovliT-Tnrr loAxrc! rho'f ^ . . . the underlying laws that govern life and existence are more po tent than some of our endeavors to distort those laws, and the farm can never be overthrown because it is a fundamental es- multiply fast enough to grow in the face of the shot gun. But we can encourage the wild creatures to increase and maintain such ; numbers that they will give im- GRAINS OF" SAND terward. An acre or two done right-, divinely right—will save us. An acre or two on my land in Moore countvl, no king can live half so well if the ground be got ready this spring- and such a start made as one natural- born gardener can make. The old Rus- sian I had in Garden City was no slough. Do you remember his little patch back of the house? That far far excelled anything in all Europe* And you’ll recall that we jarred ’em and had good things all winter. This St. Ives is the finest spot in PJngland that I’ve ever seen. Today has been as good as any March dav you ever had in North Carolina—a fine air, clear sunshine, a beautiful sea— fooking out toward the United States; and this country grcws—the best golf links that I’ve ever seen in the world, and nothing else worth speaking of but—tin. Tin mines are all about here. Tin and golf are good crops in their way, but they don’t feed the belly of man. As matters stand the only peo- f've years, my mind, as soon as it gets pie that have fit things to eat in all free, runs on these things and nay mouth waters. All the foregoing things that grow can be put up in pretty glass jars, too. Add cream, fresh butter, buttermilk, fresh eggs. Only one of all the things on page one grows with any flavor here at all—strawberries; and only Europe are the American troops in France, and their food comes out of tins chiefly. Ach! HeaVen! In these islands man is amphibious and car nivorous. It rains every day and meat, meat, meat is the only human idea of food. God bless us, one acre of the Sandhills is worth a vast estate cne or two more grow at all. Darned | of tin mines and golf links to feed if I don’t have to confront cabbage j the innards of Cheer up, little acorn, do not cry— You’ll have a tree-sitter bye and bye. It used to be that squirrels sat up in trees and looked for nuts. Now nuts sit up in trees and look for squir rels. ,. , T4- u u ^ ^ J I measurable charm to a ride or sential. It can be bungled and' j ^ farmers can suffer, but mtelli- ® f ‘ ^ •’,] + Moore, doubt be encouraged for a county farmers will go to schoo i, ^ime into the future, but in that school of endeavor and, * jinarv <,mall nlaces much thinking and work and practice;”” oi«inar> small places mucn that Mr Coker carries on at his f Tv." farm almost all things ! withholding the guns complete- The extensive building program in the Sandhills is out of line with the rest of the country. In 37 states east of the Rockies new contracts during July were down 39 per cent from June, 44 per cent from July a year ago. The decline for the first seven months was 22 per cent. ly- Making this country beautiful own worth while are possible- Hard work is the basis of all success. I • j.u u- i, ^ Intelligent hard work is the only i^he big possibility ahead If kird that counts Work never '" ® attract winter visitors >1.1 fVio cnnnoy ^nd to add Humbers of new home hurt anybody, and the sooner we | ^ mflkinB- de- get out of our heads that work is i ™aKers to our nome making ae a curse and that idleness is the ideal life the sooner we reach the if ideal existence But hard work iattractions. Pine mrst. be intelligent work not ’ ^ I,.. ' way in that direction, and now is blind force applied without R. L. Hare, Southern Pines phar macist and Chamber of Commerce di rector, predicts a record winter season here. “With money so tight, ‘north ern people are not going far, but they are going somewhere this winter, and we are only over night from New York,” says Bob. & Welfare Association, in last week’s Pilot, without a feeling of thankful ness for and pride in the Moore County Health & Welfare Association. Their work merits high praise—and all the financial support the County and its citizens can give them. every day. I haven’t yet surrendered, and I never shall unless the Germans get us. Cabbage and Germans belong together: God made ’em both the same day. Now get a bang-up gardener no Yours affectionately, —W. H. P. P. S.—And cornfield peas, of just the right rankness, cooked with just the right dryness. When I become a citizen of the matter vhat he costs. Get him start- Sandhills I propose to induce some ed. Put it up to him to start toward , benevolent lover of good food to give We don’t like to talk too much about ourselves, but we’re been re ceiving requests for copies of The Pilot all week from weeklies all over the country, due to an article publish ed in “The National Printer-Journa'- list,” referring to us as a distinctive weekly newspaper. The N. P.-J. is published away out in Wisconsin. the foregoing programme, to be reach ed in (say) ,thfee years—two if pos sible. He must learn to grow these things absolutely better than they are now grown anj^where on earth. He must get the best seed. He must get muck out of the swamp, manure substantial prizes to the best grower of each of these things and to the best cook of each and to the person who serves each of them most daintily. We can can and glass jar these things and let none be put on the mar ket without the approval of an ex pert employed by the community. knowledge of method and of ap plication. More close and inti mate acquaintance with the farm agent must be cultivated, and less with the quack doctor of farm procedure. More familiar- ity with really good farm papers , is necessary, not with the punky | kind, however, of which there | SWEET POTATOES the time to earnestly consider this scheme, for later may be too iate. Birds and animals as well as trees and shrubbery will help to make the Sandhills the most pleasant place to live. Another optimist is Hugh Betterley. “Business is good with us, and going to be better,” he says. Hugh’s the Southern Pines Warehouse. It won’t be long now before we can report on early reservations at the Carolina, Highland Pines Inn and other Sandhills hotels. It costs 25 cents to make a deposit in a Charlotte bank, 26 cents for a stick of gum purchased in the down town district, 30 cents for a coca cola. Why? Because we’ll defy anyone to find a place to park outside the 25 cent parking spaces. are too many. More intimate touch with the things needed for the farm table are essential, for the table is one of the first re quisites of the farm home. David Coker, in his talk at Carthage, said he could make a meal of sweet potatoes and milk, or of sweet potatoes and cow peas, and he also stressed the Moore county is a right prom-1 watermelon as a factor for the ising field for the farm, for as table. His suggestion was time- the winter resorts draw more, ly for just now both the sweet people this way the market for | potato and the cow pea are com- things the people will want i ing into the market, while the grows more extended. The rlew i farmer, who constitutes the bulk organization, the Moore County | of the population of Moore We walked into a printer’s office i in Charlotte last Saturday, saw him bent over his desk, busy as the pro verbial bee. We turned to go right out. “What’s the matter,” he said. “If there’s a busy printer in North Carolina, we don’t want to disturb him,” we said. And spoke feelingly. I can’t help but admire our distin guished and erstwhile guest, Mr. Henry Lr. Mencken, whose approach ing marriage belies his scathing lit erary denunciations on the subject of women and matrimony. He is now about to put aside prejudice and em brace this subject as his own, writes the editor of the Roaring Gap Out look. I from somewhere, etc. etc. He must I have the supreme flavor in each thing. Then we can get a reputation for ; Let him take room enough for each— | Sandhill Food and charge double price. ! plenty of room. He doesn’t want much ' I room for any one thing, but good | ♦—From “The Life and Letters of spaces between. | Walter H. Page. Copyright 1921, 1922, ! This will be the making of the i Doubleday, Page & Company. j world. Talk about fairs ? If he fails i to get every prize he must pay a dollar I No one could read the report of the meeting of the Moore County Health The first of the week Frank Buchan, Shields Cameron and Liv. Biddle were lidding a private conference on the street in Southern Pines in front of the postoffice, discussing Colin Spen cer’s chance to lick Hammer in the Congressional fight. Shields argued that if Colin should win he would get a marble postoffice building for Southern Pines. Frank said a stone building would be good enough, and Hammer could probably get that and nobody could get a marble building. Liv. figured on a stone building built of stone from Colin’s quarries up on Deep River and Frank with that long political head of his said, “Sure. Elect Hammer. Get a stone building. Buy the stone from Colin, and everybody will win.” John Powell came along and he was requested to ask Colin if he would rather help elect Hammer and have a sure chance to sell stone for the new postoffice building or run, and take chances of being licked. for everyone that goes to anybody else. Farmers in Richmond county are .not complaining this year as they have the largest small grain crop on rec ord for the county together with Produce Company, which is be ing formed now, is one of the most important agents to bring county, is never disturbing his head about what is in the mar ket and what is not, for he has book: reviews farm and buyer together, and both of them in his garden, every farmers owes it to himself j The sweet potato is a great to get acquainted with that con-1 source of nourishing food. It is oern. It is formed with the pur- high in those elements that are pose of creating a real market for real farm stuff, and the ex tent of its service depends whol ly on how much the farmer will work with it. If California can sell eggs in New York and the FATHER MEANS WELL By Hugh Kahler. Farrar & Rinehart—$1.00. convertible into sugar. It is easy to grow, is palatable in many forms, and it is the democrat of the garden. It can^be used in some of the most pretentious combinations, or it can be baked East, three thousand miles from | in the oven or in the ashes, and the place of production, Moore j in its simplest form it is whole- county can sell eggs in its own 1 some and agreeable to the taste, market where eggs are imported from the outside in large num bers. Poultry is brought to this The cow pea provides the pro teins that are not so abundant in the sweet potato, and together market from New England. All 1 they serve the table in lordly manner of farni stuff made else- j fashion. They grow as cheerfully where is sold in Moore county.! weeds, and they yield abund- Our rnarket is not supplied by | antly. They can combine with our producers. many things, and one of their vir- The farm demonstration agent, the Kiwanis Club, and Leonard Tufts in the backing he xvas given the Master Farmer movement, are three agencies tues is that they do not have to be offset with a lot of other things when either of them ap pears at the board. The Irish potato, which is an One of the cleverest books of the season comes from Farrar & Rine hart, “Father Means Well,” by Hugh MacNair Kahler. It is a decided addi tion to the output of Sandhill writers, for it is along a new lead, and from kivver to kivver the book is clean. It does not draw on the questionable to obtain its fascinating hold on the young life of the present, and possibly in its interpretation it presents a better picture of youth and its relation to the older generation than some of those that get their feet too far into muck. Kahler has come close to successful analysis of modern conditions in which the young folks find themselves, which of course means the old folks as veil. His yarn is logical through its course, but it is funny and it is ingenious in its tangled unraveling. It is complicated enough, but never forced, and it establisheir its writer as a skillful architect of the novel, the pleasing, the plausible. The story is one that can be read on a warm af ternoon without increasing the tem perature, but it is also one that can be s-et away on the bookshelves with the knowledge that it is not so fluffy but what it will be timely for a good many years. Hayes ought to sell a window full of them and find a continuous de mand throughout the entire winter. You can put this book on your hall table without fumigating it, but that does not mean it is lacking in any thing it should contain. It is a good addition to the re/iding course of father and mother, for it has wisdom sprinkled humorously all through its course. One of the features about the new book is that it sells for a dollar, com ing under that movement which has for its aim a reduction in books from the high prices that have been pre- \ ailing. But if it sells for a dollar it is worth the money, and probably more than some that sell for higher prices. How we’ll live! I can live on these things and nothing else. But (just to match the home outfit) I’ll order tea ' crops of peaches, melons, to- from Japan, ripe olives from Cali- tornia, grape fruit and oranges from from other sections for their Florida. Then poor folks will hang ^*'oducts. around, hoping to be invited to din- ner! Madison county farmers working Plant a few fig trees now; and pe- | through their local cooperative asso- cans? Any good? i ciation did over $33,000,000 worth of Moore County Land I business last year. The association is The world is coming pretty close to | known as Madison Farmers, Inc.. and starvation not only during the war ! the membership is made up of bona- but for five or perhaps ten years af-' fide farmers. r Hckour Electric Refijgeratcu: has savedus!" The economical operation of the Monitor Top is ac» countable for the overwhelming popularity of General Electric Refrigerators. J^neral Electric Refrigerators are notin the luxury class reduce expenses. They save money. ThedependaMe^ Sble opewtion of the Monitor Top mzLs it pos- Ae ® ^ mort moderate means to enjoy advantages or electric refrigeration. you Monitor Top, that Tfe^cen?, /-I Refrigerator on just larsTn that a few dol- ‘ \GentraI Electric Refrigerator in your Kitchen witnin the neict forty-eight hours! GENERAL ® ELECTRIC Olers • Ck)mmercial Refrigerators . Electric Milk Cooler* THE ELECTRIC SHOP Pinehurst, N. C. SOUTHERN REFRIGERATION CO. Charlotte Distributors
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