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Page Two 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 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. 0., as second-class mail mat ter. DRIVE OUT THE UNFIT DRIVER The agitation going on seems to indicate that the unfit driver is to receive a vigorous handling before the coming session of the legislature in this state. With a record of over a thousand per sons killed and 35,000 injured it is folly that tolerates such con ditions for another day. We have been making the highways com parable with nothing else than the grave battles of the wars, and instead of shrugging a shoulder at the idea of going on the roads to meet such a fate as the records show, the principal attitude toward the slaughter is to^ the effect that the whole miserable sacrifice is accident, and that the driver who would be safe must look out for him self. The basis of our indifference to the bloody record is that we have been tolling ourselves along with the belief that liberty in volves the privilege of doing anything we choose to do with perfect disregard for the rights of others. The truth is that of the wrecks on the highways pj^’obably not one of ten can with reasoncble accuracy be called an accident. Nearly every collision or other affair reported can be traced down to carelessness, drunkenness, lack of ordinary skill in driving, or to some other thing that should bar the driv er from the road.. If the rail roads put at the throttle the in discriminate army of men and women who are allowed to han dle an automobile on the high ways the first serious accident THE PILOT, a Paper With Character. Aberdeen, North Carolina December 5, 1930. and appeals to people, and their personality is of the character that makes friends. Aside from their hotel they are an asset to the community, for their friend ly contact is as much as the fare they serve their guests. Not many people at this day are aware of what the High land Pines Inn has done in hold ing the Sandhills on the desired course. When the old Piney Woods Inn was burned Southern Pines felt a sickening discour agement, and for a time the vil lage doubted as to the future. But John Y. Boyd, who has been such a factor in the survival of the fortunes of this section that his name should be remembered at the lowest price that can be had in this section at the pres ent time, so the buyer profits as well as the farmer in buying more poultry. From the State Press THE SANDHILLS When the head of the New Eng land family of Tufts stopped off in the barren sand wastes of Moore County about 38 years ago, he saw what others had seen—a sandy land of scrub oaks, s.tubby grass and pine ^oods, a forbidding-looking stretch of indefinitely, with some of the useless land. But he saw what had not been seen, or rather he felt what had vigorating tinge in the atmosphere and the inspiring warmth of the Win ter sun, and he visioned at that spot of a mid-Winter resort for the Nation He had no difficulty in buying up all the land he wanted at prices ranging from one dollar to four dollars, an acre and the lan-d-owners marveled at the big things that had come cheir way. They laughed at Tufts as easy meat. Mr. Tufts made his way from Southern Pines, the railroad station, a dozen or so miles inland and there aggressive and hopeful villagers, planned a new hotel on the hill above town, and the Highland Pines Inn arose. It fell into the hands of Creamer and Turner, who have been worth a fortune to every inhabitant of this part of North Carolina, for they made a success of the institution far beyond the anticipation of its backers. From its start the house has been in the hands of these two been a positive success in every men, and from its start it has ! the foundation for a hotel later way. Its attractions have to gain fame as the Carolina Inn, brought many people this way, meantime laying off the ground roundabout as a residential section and inviting his Northerii friends to come along and pass upon his new prospect. Then it was that the sandhills sec tion was “discovered.” The highest type of Northern and New England citizenship began flocking in and building winter homes and soon there was an overflow to other adjacent sections, so that Pinehurst, as Mr. Tufts named his original place is now the center of one of the finest win ter colonies in all the country, with the sandhills as well-knov/n to the and much of the expanding de velopment has had its root there in the tavern on the hill. Much more will follow, for a thing of that kind once started can not quickly lose its weight. And so the Highland Pines starts on another winter, its registers pretty fairly engaged for much of the season, and its patron age continually threatening a need of more room with the at tendant overflow to homes that the temporary visitors utilimate- ly make to become permanent winter habitants of the favored tourist world as Florida or Califor- addition are painters and artists of National reputation, to establishment in the Sandhills of a citizenship of the highest order. One gets the impression of the hotel life in the Sandhills that it is a collec tion of the finest Florida institutions concentrated in the limited space of | which Pinehurst is the center. Among the more notable hotels are the Car olina iiin, enlarged from its original \ proportions, Park View, the Pine j Needles Inn, the Berkshire, the High- J land Pines, the New Hk>lly, the \ Pine Crest, the Manor, the Chalfonte, the Berkley, the Southland and others. The dean of hosts is Ed, Fitzgerald, who presides over the Carolina in win ter, and over the Graystone in sum mer, and next to him comes the “Fitzgerald Brother,” John, who man- j ages the Mid-Pines Club in winter j and the Oysters Harbor Club in sum- j mer, with the third Fitzgerald broth er, young Fay, coming up out of the golf links to take charge of some other hotel. The Fitzgeralds have made large contribution to the hotel fame of the Sandhills and are regard ed as natural-born hotel keepers. And so, from a barren waste, the Sandhills have developed into a win ter resort that is bringing National fame to North Carolina, to a mount ing prestige that will not be dimmed by any other resort section in the United States. The vision of the elder Tufts has established a seat of pros perity from which benefits flow to all sections of the State, and one whose chief drawing card is the unmatched beauty of its landscape. GAMMACK & CO. Members New York Stock Exchangre Pittsburgh Stock Exchange Main Office 39 Broadway, New York City SOUTHERN PINES—TVEW HAMPSHIRE AVENUE Telepihones: Southern Pines 6751—Pinehurst 3821 Grains of Sand THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, I ABERDEEN, N. C. Safety is one of the great factors in all the work of a bank. Your money is entrusted to a bank for safe keeping because in your own pocket or in your home it is subject to losses in various ways. Your valuable papers, insurance policies, contracts, etc., are kept in a safety deposit box because there is safety. Your investments are made by the advice of your banker because he is in touch with financial conditions over the country. Your needs in all these lines and others will be served with care by— THE PAGE TRUST COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N. C. nmtmt region. Out of the Highland Pines again this winter will come another brood to help in the pleasing job of making the Sand hills the pleasant place to live which it is more and more be coming, for the contribution from the Highland Pines is of the class that make the best type of new citizens, the type nia—and as well patronized. Pine hurst is a winter city of peculiar charms. The native woods were spar ed to preservation of a forest of tall pines, and as much attention was paid to landscaping as to architect are, so that every home is a bower of flowers, shrubs, trees and grass, the shrubbery effect being of the orna mental kind, privet and box wood and good neighbors way. in every THE LIVE AT HOME BUSINESS that is progressive, aggressive i trimmed into beautiful forms and shapes. The land that was thought could grow nothing but briars and weeds, proved susceptible to grass carpeting a^d only the walk-ways through the hedges show the nature of the native soil. All manner of flowering and i>erry trees w^e im ported to add to the beautjWf the landscape and all Pinehurst is a gar den of royal beauty. There are no fences—roadways and walks wind in and around to constant revelation of residential beauty. The municipality of the sandhills open to discussion, for long ex perience has shown that it is economy to prosecute commerce as well as manufacture and pro duction. Probably when we un dertake to interfere with the flow of trade we interrupt those .1^1 , - , How much logic is really in the ^ I live at home proposition may be would arouse the whole nation. But the automobile can go ahead | and kill and injure so many peo ple that the accidents on the railroads look like the work of pikers, and nobody turns a hair. This thing can^t go on indef- u ijuw ui Liciut; wt; iiilchliul tiiuse - it O I prosperities that come from thei^■as location at Southem Pines and + stopped at ^ exchange of commodities made j the chief occupation of the Mayor— stnn ttio hlnrwlir v* + i thev Can be made to the'His Honor Dorsey Stutz—has to do k hv -1 rJ i I best advantage. It is well knowTl ■ "ith keeping back of the beautifiea- anH thf f- we Can buy automobiles ; t'on idea of the locality, rather than roarf / f ! Henry Ford cheaper than | "-ith sitting in judgment on common liAnoct r ^ cannot pass an j farm, i offenders of the law, which few come T. • on the other hand, we may i his way. But the man hauled before amination It is the misfortune things on ] him for disregard of th. parking 0^0 f u? . nthe farm cheaper than we can | laws, or for trash responsibility of any they are not capable of driving Kansas or Mon- kind, gets a fine to keep him remind- tana. Meat, for instance. i eel- The farmers are to be encour- | The overflow from Pinehurst em- aged to increase their product of | braces the strictly residential sec- poultry. The present price of | tions of Weymouth Ridge, a million- chickens seems to be around l ^ire colony, and the adjacent South- twenty to twenty-five cents. This ern Pines Country Club, Knollwood, makes fairly cheap meat, of a! Midland Farms, Lakeview, Aberdeen “Jim” Boyd is again to be seen on the streets of Southern Pines in bis big fur coat. That coat is the bane of village boosters, but all ef forts to get the noted author to shed it have been in vain. The boosters claim it’s bad advertising for the Sandhills climate, but Jim says he’d lather be warm than be president, or st>mething like that. PIUMBINO and HE4TIIMG And after all, the bad advertising of the Boyd bearskin is offset by the good of John Bloxham’s white trous ers. No matter what the temperature, •roljn is out in flannels. And no one has ever seen Bion But^r in an overcoat. ww s H n H with safety, but that is no reas on why the whole population that travels the roads should be put at the mercy of incompe tents. It is not to be expected that we will ever have the dras tic and sensible laws of the road that we should have and that are necessary for public safety, but we should get from the next legislature a road law that will cut out a lot of the slaughter and recklessness. The law that is essential is just as necessary to restrain some of the wise ones, who think they know it all and take every chance on the road, as it is to halt some that are just as incompetent and not so conceited. The whole pestifer- out gang of killers and mutila tors must be cropped of their privileges, and the sooner the start is made the sooner the roads will be safer than they are now, and that will be a great gain. THE HIGHLAND PINES INN - ^overlooked one of our leading Ifcrriterj when listing the famed of the Sandhills in a recent issue. Among those prcsient in Southern Pine, is Misp Ruth Burr Sanborn, who nas sfs^t several winters here. For more than seven years Miss Sanborn’s short stories have been appearing in Mc Call’s Magazine, the Saturday Even ing Post, Ladies Home Journal and C’ollier’s. During' the past year she has written exclusively for Collier’s. Her latest stories were “Sing a Song of Symptoms,” and “The Wagon and the Star.” Apologies to Miss Sanborn for omitting her from our list of writ ers. INSTALLATIONS AND REPAIRS SUPERFEX AND ELECTROL OIL BURNERS LV.OmLAGHAN Telephone 5341 7 East Connecticut Avenue Southern Pines, N, C. type that is not hard to eat, and within the live at home doctrine. The Produce association is in earnest in undertaking to in crease the production of poul try in the county. It is foolish to make a lot of meat here and send it to New York to market, and buy an equavalent lot of meat from the packers of Kan sas City or Chicago. Probably no one is going to deliberately change his usual habit of pro viding his table for the sake of buying his supplies at some par ticular place or from some par ticular person, but if we can cul tivate the habit of substituting poultry to more or less extent for other types of meat we can have an effect on the condition of agriculture in the county. Moore county farms are mak- opening of the Highland ing a right fair quality of poul- Fmes Inn with a wmter pros- ^ j pect that tells of a good busi ness is one of the assuring signs. Since this tavern threw its doors open for the first time jfeome years ago it has been a meas ure of the progress and the prosperity of the Sandhills, and one of the most decisive agen cies in bringing about the broad and popular acquaintance this section has established all over the country from which the win ter patronage is drawn. Creamer and Turner have carried on their busmess in a way that satisfies try now, and all the influences ^.re in the direction of further improvement in quality. More buying of farm produce will tend to further improve the quality and also to broaden the facili ties for making poultry which will ultimately enable the farmer to introduce economies in pro duction that will be felt in the prices. It does no harm to get ill closer touch with the farmer or his distribution agents, and '^ncourage him to bring to your house more fowls. Chickens probably provide the best meat and Pinebluffj with all in between dotted with magnificent homes, club houses, golf links and lakes, of which there are half a dozen large enough to afford boating. It is a land of sports and outdoor pleasures—golf, as a matter of course, being king— with archery, horse-back riding and polo. Convenient to the hand of every business man enjoying life in the sandhills are telephone and telepragh- ic connections back home, with daily market reports, so that he can keep in close touch with business, and if there is call for haste, he can take off in an airplane, hurry home, at tend to the call and tJien come back the same day, if at all impatient to get back into the air and sun shine of the pines. It is the character of the transient hills population of the Sandhills that interests. The patronage comes from people able to pay for what they v.ant, and they have choice of a doz en and more hotels of the finer type, ranking among the standard of the country. But the custom in the Sand hills is not all transient. Many cele- brites have built homes there and are numbered among the permanent res idents. Among these is James Boyd, famed as author; Struthers Burt, of like fame; Dr. Ernest Poate; Maude Parker Childs and Almet Jenks; Wal ter Gilkyson and Bernice Kenyon; Hugh Kahler and numbers of writers known to magazine readers all over the country, whose homes are among the most beautiful in the locality. In “The Big Trail,” now showing at the Carolina in Southern Pines, was photographed near Struthers Burt’s ranch in Wyoming. A large number of Mr. Burt’s cow ponies appear in the picture, and Mr. Burt himself saw the scenes shot. He says it great picture. PAE T. BARNDH, Inc. Insurance of All Kinds —^At The— Citizens’ Bank Building Southern Pines, N. C. u tt H IS a Speaking of the photographing of “The Big Trail,” Mr. Burt throws a sidelight on the unemployment situ ation out west. When word spread around that hundreds of extras were ^.eeded in the filming of th,e big scenes, men and boys came from far and near seeking the four dollars a day paid these “background boys.” They were pretty hard up and ready to do anything. “Can you ride a horse?” a direc tor asked them. “Never have, but we’ll try anything once,” was the general response. Whereupon they were ordered to shed their clothing, were sprayed with ! paint to look like Indians, and assign ed cow ponies to ride over the plains. No clothes, no saddles, and never on horses before. “They haven’t been able to get the paint off yet,” says Mr. Burt,” but a lot of skin came off before they fin ished that ride. They earned their four dollars all right.” Successors To PAUL T. BARNUM S. B. RICHARDSON, INC. ittttttxiixtxuitttttxsi ti u H u iiy. The Kiwanis Christmas Daddy Com mittee can use all the old clothes, shoes, foodstuffs, toys. etc. you can spare in its work of seeing that Christ mas is made merry for the less for tunate of the community. They can 11| also use money. In looking over that | g old suit do not ask yourself whether H you are going to need it any more, g but whether you need it as much as some fellow who is out of a job and down on his heels. Then send it to ! n ABERDEEN one of the committee. Frank Buchan, Southern Pines, is chairman. ONLY 16 MORE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS We have a complete list of gifts for the entire fam- H Toys—or something useful. This is the year to give a useful present. We have just the gift you are looking for. 0. B. FLINCHIM & SONS CAKTHAGE
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