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Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, April 17 1931, THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen, North Carolina NELSON C. HYDE, General Manager BION H. BUTLH^R, 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. C., as second-class mail mat ter. SPRING PROJECTS FOR BUILDING The plans for an addition to the buildings at The Paddock, the addition Webster Knight is making to his stables on his re cently acquired possessions close by, Mrs. Pavenstedt’s additions to her new home, i^ecently the Herring house, the new house on Ridge street starting for Mr. Sherman, McPherson^s busy PARKING THE MIDLAND BELT The apparently definite move ment to improve the several thousand acres of land in that section between Pinehurst, Knollwood, Aberdeen and South ern Pines, starts something that is of the highest importance in the Sandhills, for it is the expan sion of a possibility that will bring out a new phase of mak ing this section a pleasant one in which to live. Just such an opening a^ this has been need ed, and with Manning and the horse-back riders crossing the converging road of progress at the same time things started. In spite of the increase of au tomobiles in this country the saddle horse has come iMto greater favor than probably ever in its history. The number of riding horses is greater now than at any time, the type of horse is steadily improving, and fortunately for the Sandhills it has been discovered that here in the mild climate, the atmosphere ed itself to reap the whirlwind. We have danced. Now we must pay the fiddlers, and that is all there is to it except that we are hard put to find the money, and we have not yet been able to understand that the dance must stop. Our trouble is not that we are poorer than we were fifteen years ago, but that in the wild frenzy that followed the out break of war we were saturated with the notion that we are many times richer than we are. We proceeded to put new price marks on things. Lands that wei-e rated at a few dollars an acre skyrocketed to many dol lars. Possessions that were nom inal in value became principali ties. We dreamed of affluence and bonded the dreams. We marked up our possessions and borrowed to the limit on the marked figures. We advanced wages until money rattled in every pocket, and bought on the installment plan against every advance. We built schools, put school busses on roads that we too many ultimatums to their representatives. But a lot of ground has been cleared. We are not gone to the Devil at all. We have merely been flounder ing in the mud flats of Delusion, and are. nearer to the shore for our efforts. We are learning, although 'it is in the burning school of experience. Necessity has been an active teacher, ^hool is not yet over and some more of bitterness is in the les son, but we are getting at the facts in the case liow, with not (trains of Sand and are instrumental in making j of the SouthBrn Pines and Pine-1 hurst vicinity what they are as j well as promising to make of; _ them what they ^e | Producers’ sales on the Aberrlp^. further than to point out the ad- j b^cco market the past season vantages of this bit of ^nd 14^62,532 pounds, the avera-e wi country the program for Fort; gg per thousand. Carthage Bragg goes into the matter of | reached 3,994,726; average creating its army projwt on a 1 ^ fj-m..V'; growing scale, and the hand has j announced by the State-Fedemi been put to the I^W so positive-j Agriculture. The ^ ly over at the fort that the gov ernment cannot now turn back. Fort Bragg is set for a big de age for the Old Bright Belt $11.99. aver- Was so much self-fed folloy, and the velopment, which means that position is better than for half the vast 122,000 acre reservation a dozen years or more. Always the first job for the doctor is to diagnose the sick ness that presents itself to him. Now that the legislature is dis covering what is the matter, and Prices of farm products showed a slight advance between February 15 per cent of the pre-war level. Prices advanc ed on eggs, chickens, cotton, butter lambs, horses, flaxseed, sheep, hogs ing knobs to give picturesque ground for the rider, the coun try <estate has rather suddenly loomed prominently. Mr. Man- summer on the McKinney pur-1 ning has been called to apply his chase down near Hoffman, the | skill as a landscape engineer to finish of the Homewood house at Knollwood, the Olmstead house over in that same section, with other building projects and the preliminary moves toward other big things in the entire Sandhills section, indicate that the future of this territory is'as marked in favorable manner as any time in the past. While the air is always full of rumors, and this spring may be no exception as regards these, it is certain that the talk at this the planting of roads and home sites and country places, and he has taken the excellent mater ial that Nature has provided and worked out a project that has aroused so much enthusiasm that its results are certain. Detail is yet to be determined, but the move that has set on foot has acquired a momentum that cannot be stopped. Probably modifications of the plans put forth will be adopted but the primary ideas will not be dis and established various com- Overheard in the lobby of the Car olina at Pinehurst: “I wonder if there is any other place in the country where in the time points^ to much interest in I carded, and the plans for this village holdings as well as in rur-1 territory will be of such appeal al acreage, as the recent large transactions prove. The fitll houses, both in hotels and cottages as well as in private homes of all type, are further that it is a safe assertion that in a few years within the boundar ies of the maps Mr. Wicker has been making will arise a wonder- i5 to be one of the outstanding , „ ^ . * military centers of the entire un- March 14, the first advance af iverse. The social phases of mil- months of steady decline. The itary life are steadily interweav- ^^^ance was one point, to 91 per cent ing with the social life in the ; pre-war level, compared with a Sandhill villages. The sports on March 15, 1930 of 126 Der that the people are beginning to | the Moore county side of the realize th-e character of the mal- reservation frontier are embel- adv we are on sounder grounds. I lished materially by the pres- . ^ „ We can apply a remedy when we • ence of the visitors from the cottonseed during February and know whiat is wrong, and what 1 fort. Bragg is already a valua-, declined on grains, hay, is wrong is beginning to soak ble human asset of the Sandhill ^eal, calves and wool, into our heads. Quack remedies neighborhood, while its certain for imaginary ailments will not. expansion predicates a future bring relief. Heroic recognition that no one is yet farsighted of our affliction and intelligent enough to foretell, munitv m)iifts"*in all directions application of logical remedies The government reservation We bought automobiles to be I will effect :an improvement. The is a military isolation under ' course of two or three weeks one can paid for as we ride, and found i case is by no means hopeless. It [conditions, yet in a way it is a see the best golfers in the country, ourselves unable to pay for the ‘ is painful, and to some extent headquarters of a big factor in the best tennis players, the best trot- pas, and unable to ride and un- i chronic, but we will recover, al- all that goes toward the advance- ters, a cracking good horse show, and able to pay as we ride because j though not exactly as many of nient of the common impro^^- we don't I'ide ' us have planned. We -have to j ment of the central part of the Well, we all'know the tar pitl^wea* -a little blood yet, and to: state Fort Bragg is a commun- thnt WP have niit m'f fppt in ! i»end our ways, and correct our ity of high intelligence, of sound Then romps thp tax collector the [habits and stick to the rules that American ideals, and of active dav C bottom fait out of i necessity will prescribe. The fu- energetic habit and custom cir.mp'^of thp Hrpams wp have I ture is all right after we wallow broad in its relations, and enjoy- some of the dreams we have, sackcloth a ing the backing of the govern- little. I ment to the limit. As a stimulat- —— ing neighbor nothing could be of greater help in those things the Sandhill villages are under taking to carry forward. Anoth- er contract for $150,000 in fur- year at college, boys and ther construction of permanent girls whose education would otherwise building for Fort Bragg tells of end with high school graduation. And the determned policy of the gov- < after their first year they can, as a dreamed and we find we can’t pay on the old basis. So we send our legislature to Raleigh to hatch up some fanciful scheme to dig money from some one else. We have shed tears over the lit tle man until he is saturated as if he had been dipped in the sea. We have pointed out the man who must not be molested, and have indicated the malefac tors of great wealth until some ANOTHER $150,000 AT FORT BRAGG A press dispatch from Raleigh announces the award of a con tract to a Raleigh concern for fast polo games, all within a stone’s throw of your hotel? I don’t know of any such place; that’s why I come here.” That’s one of the reasons why a lot of people settle down here, too. About $600 was netted by the Foun dation Follies for the Moore County Educational Foundation, we hear. That means that about three youths of the county can be financed through the construction of another $150,000 group of buildings for ernment to carry on here in the procure employment at college, officers'quarters at Fort Bragg. or win a scholarship, or procure ad- thusiasm that marks the Sand hills. Always the gods help them that help themselves, which is ed in ^he movement have de cided to utilize the resources, and summer will see much pre liminary, work on its way. It is A SAMARITAN | people to give to the Sandhills But a certain Samaritan bound' nnnf up his wounds, pouring oil and i wine, and set him on his own ; „ „ pV,ano-p Tn thP beast, and brought him to an;_„ j. fi • ^ u i inn, and said to the host, take'^'"* used as a unit of measure of values as applied to benefits of any sort derived from any GAMMACK & CO., OFFICE TO CLOSE FOR THE SEASON In the emergency no one has thought to suggest that two ways out are available in escap ing the mess we are in. The one ly of the village type. From now i that will probably force its ae on it looks as if the rural home jCeptance is the reduction of costs and country estate will see the i to start with. Then the other pronounced progress that will! one w’ill be the laying of some Friday night the Kiwanis club ^ community movement ^ intelligent-system of taxation on awarrleri n tilvpr c-in tn a m-n ^ Village centers, all of US, rich man, poor man, nf tViP pnmmnnifir tnfn-Vit Ko a decided emphasis on that sobby little man who has fesVnatedTfertS plS or It is probable 1 been drowned in tears, and the ®nc I o ,?J: I that the most striking schemes: big man and all of us. The mo- will be contained within an area; ment we realize that it is useless The Southern Pines office of Gam- mack & Company, members of the New York Stock Exchange, will close on Saturday of this week, according to announcement made yesterday by Augustine Healy, local manager. Mr. North Carolina sandy barrens as Healy reports a successful first year the preferable place. Those same | this office, with plans for opening natural conditions continue here, I early next fall. gree. This local foundation means a lot to the young men and women of this community, and therefore a lot to the community. oeen maKing will anse a \vonaer-Ioiiicers quarters at r ort isragg. ; oo-crrp<5ciivp qtvlp that has mark- au~ fully interesting paradise which 1 the malexactos j Qf pj.Qgj.ggg ]r^as I , i ^ , Mitional money from college loan significant of the prospects for i will bv its infectious example i nothing except what they j going forward at the big ^ ^ worK irom its earnest funds, to continue through to a de the years that are ahead. The | change the character of this ■ collect from everybody else, and | jnHitary establishment, a factor ! day. Fort Bragg to this neigh- ~ talk of a longer season is still j whole Sandhill country. Nature tiie whole thing is a vicious j ^^at is of the highest mportance | borhood is worth more than mil- heard on all sides, with the cer-1 planned the surface and the < other, and | country. The | lions in money. It is worth mil- tainty that when talk enough is-weather conditions for such an p^^t the more we try to shift, g^j.ggg iY\e government has laid Hons in evervthinff that can be forthcoming to arouse the gen-1 achievem'ent, and men have real- taxation from one to the other i Fort Bragg from the day eral interest the purpose desired | ized the possibilities. The land more complex and impossible | Qqj King made his first trip of will be undertaken with the en- i owners in the boundaries includ- the whole thing becomes. So we | spying out the land for a suit- have arrived at the point where ^ble site for a military reserva-, . We look like a wreck of a car until the present time rests | source. A ^ f glass ware., definte suitability of the' — , . . , , . And that is ’'^at we sent the v/hat the folks are doing with , r'easonable to expect that next i I'^^i^l^ture to Raleigh to Sf^'ther q£ right fair energ\^ at the pres- ; winter will witness projects on | ^P- ^ | of men, and of any considerable ent time. |a broad scale for home making} It is useless to complain be- operation. Natural conditions I in that territory that will catch | cause the legislature can't pick counted among the first influ- CONCERNING the approval of enough new ; Iiumpty-Dumpty up and set him | ences in the choice of the loca- on the wall again in good shape, j'tion after the military commit- i*or it can’t be done. That’s all. | tees and congress passed on Col. King’s recommendation of the In the appropriation bill passed by the House, $154,580 is provided for the State Sanatorium and $91,800 for the Samarcand School for Delinquent Girls. Howard Burns, town clerk of Southern Pines, had a close shave the other day. Chief of Police Beasley was examining a revolver in the clerk’s office when the thing went off. The bullet missed Howard by about 18 inches. Beasley turned white ‘and Howard turned upside down. Subscribe to The Pilot, $2.00 per year, payable in advance. care of him, and when I come again I will repay thee. And in such manner we are told of one who is our neighbor. ganizations as a useful member of the neighborhood. Some cur-|^^ especially between the dence was uppemolt'regarding | it iosity existed as to who that man ^ favorites any Ion- . one name, because on top of the records of previous years rec ords of the past twelve months had been adding to the promi- ' nence of the service of one Sa maritan of the neighborhood, and the award Friday night is in de cided keeping with the choice of the big majority. Frank Buchan is a quiet force for community good. He is so i , mi. i i - quiet in his work that many peo-! ^ ^ ^ knobs and the to presume that these influences will push farther and farther out into the townships, and that country expansion will be gov erned more and more by the ex amples set in the movement that is now taking its more ambitious shape in the Midland section. Certainly in this new move ment the Sandhills country has ger and that we must all get in and dig, farmer, wage earner, pitiful little man, along with big man, thief, and the rest, all ac cording to our ability and no more, then we will have started on the path to get our feet on solid ground again. It is useless to complain of the legislature. Moore county sent to the assembly two men who are capable of helping to work out some logical scheme, but they pie do not know of all the im portant things he puts his shoul der to, although most folks do know of a lot of things in which he figures conspicuosly because he is usually one of the first aid influences in anything that needs help in anyway. Christmas organization, relief of temporary or acute distress, counselor to a stranger in hard liuck. lead<=‘r in town and neighborhood road and home improvement, father of the Bible Forum, backing some unlucky chap, who more through folly than Icrime has run afoul of the law, lending a hand to some boy or girl to get farther in school, wherever he turns, he has a faculty of dis pensing good. Few things are done in the Sandhills that are not talked over with Frank Buchan, for his sound sense car ries weight as''his energy car ries force in bringing about de sired accomplishment. The award of the Kiwanis cup meets the heartiest approval of the peo ple. coves, the spring heads, the streams, the plateaus, the multi tude of evergreen trees and shrubs that abound, are all new material that has been largely overlooked in the past. Pine and holly tree have been recognized, but from now on a hundred trees and plants will have recognition, and waysides will be planted in stead of cleared. Artificial lakes will be created under engineer ing advice until this will be a country of pleasing pools and roads leading by streams and small beaches and fascinating were submerged the minute they arrived at the capital as all the others were, by a multitude of obstacles and impossible theor ies and political hindrances and demogogy, and complaint which prevented any logical precedure along effective lines. It was ab solutely impossible for the pres ent legislature to enact a suit able tax measure, for the state is a kitten that has not yet op ened its eyes. The chimerical and the impossible and the pre judiced and the antagonisms of TRUS STRENOTHr^l^ CO 5ECUBITY Strength- misunderstandings and vague II* 1 T . 11 i 1 ■ visions have arisen in too many rural drives and bndle paths pieces. We have not yet accept- that will be a novelty in resort practice of development. HARVESTING THE DRAGON’S TEETH The News has not believed from the beginning that the leg islature could possibly provide a tax measure that would prove satisfactory, or that would work as the people hope. North Car olina has not yet realized that in sowing the wind it has oblig ed the fact that the joy ride has ended and we have made too much of an effort to continue it and to^'put the cost on some shoulders other than our own. This legislature was doomed ,to failure from the day the great inflation program commenced several years ago. This is mere ly the culmination. 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