Pag’e Two
THE PILOT
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THE PILOT, a Paper With Character^b^een^^ Carolina
Friday May l, 193^
OVERLOOKING A
GOOD BET
May be it may require the im-
genuity of a genius to discover
•how to capitalize one of our best
assets, but now that the winter
season has »pretty well closed
in the Sandhills we have at our
finger tips the possibilty of de
veloping a spring season if we
have the ability to turn it to ad
vantage. Out of this fever of
planting and decorating our
roads and landscapes and homes
•and gardens has suddenly flash
ed on the communities the fact
that here in the North Carolina
sand barrens has been created
one of the finest floral establish
ments in the world. Some places
have more extended examples
of individual gardens, but few
sections have a more extended
and detailed community garden
than in that area of which Pine-
hurst, Knollwood, Southern
Pines and Aberdeen are the vil
lage centers. This territory has
not only awakened to the gains
from intensive planting of ev
erything, but the highways as
well as the village streets and
lawns have come into project,
and along with all that the own
ers of large acreage of ground
are encouraging the native wild
growth, the pines, dogwoods,
brilliant maples, the heaths and
the various flowers of the
swamps, until we have realized
that all of nature around us is
earnestly trying to regain that
primal beauty that we allowed to
escape us when the lumberman
centered upon his campaign of
desolation.
cient to justify the visit to
Moore County.
We have this valuable asset,
but we have not yet realized its
gre^ worth. We made a noise
about the peach blossom a few*
years ago many people came
from nearby points. But our
broad, general floral exhibits
that lasts for weeks, is so much
bigger and more extensive that
it is sufficient to justify much
more advertising, and an intro
duction to the people every
where. The .trains now should
be filled with excursionists from
the North coming to see the
Sandhills flower show that cov
ers miles of country, and the
highways should be lined with
cars hurrying this way to bring
people to enjoy the unusual spec
tacle. A whole commuinty clad
in flowers, roads, hilltops, lawns,
valleys, swamps, everything a
riot of color, a forest of endless
charm.
We are overlooking one of the
best assets we possess, where we
where it already is, and be sold
without the competition of the
new crop. Another step would
lead to the thought that in-
instead of making the new crop
it might be pulled as soon as
along far enough to show the
berries, and thus save the work
of ripening and harvesting. Or,
other plans for preventing the
GRAINS OF' SAND
One of the reasons given for fail
ure of the legislators at Raleigh to
agree on means of raising revenue to
provide a six months school term
from State funds is the unpopularity
of one Josephus Daniels with the
lawmakers. Josephus through his
growth of the crop might be in- . ^ Observer has been fighting
troduced to save the work en- and nail for a luxury tax. Of
tailed. j no one wants a luxury tax,
but then no one wants any tax,
and it may be that a luxury tax will
be found the most expedient, the
least objectionable of all the plans
evolved. And a luxury tax would have
been passed long before this were it
not for Josephus’ support, we ^re
told.
There is reason for Mr. Daniels’
unpopularity. No one likes a dictator
in a democracy.
This same proposition was
carried far enough to intimate
that some cotton could be burn
ed to advantage. But ultimately
some philosopher will propose to
curtail the crop that has not yet
been grown rather than to de
stroy the one that has been
made and then make another.
However, it is not certain that
such a scheme would be favor
ably received. To refrain from
making another crop is too pos
itive to be popular. And prob
ably the man who might be ask
ed to burn the surplus cotton he
m a long time is about the fellow
who’d stinted and saved until he had
a thousand dollars salted away. His
uncle was well along in years and
was going to leave him another
thousand, and he figured with two
thousand dollars and the aid of the
mortgage company he could build his
own home at last.
Uncle died. Left him the thousand
dollars, in stock in a bank, pie
stock was duly transferred to him;
then the bank failed. Stockholders
were assessed 100 per cent of their
holdings, in accordance with law, and
our friend lost his inheritance and
the thousand dollars he had saved.
Beat that one.
should make the most of it and | has already on hand might file
profit immensely.
THE LESSON OF
PENDER’S HOUSE
In going to the country to
build his house L. E. Pender has
interpreted the future. This is
a territory of room, and attrac
tive home sites in the vicinity
of the villages. Mr. Pender has
approximately a hundred acres
of ground a couple of miles
from Pinehurst, and not quite
so far from Southern Pines. He
wants the charm of the space
about him. He does not like the
circumscribed dimensions of the
village lot, and the phonograph
or the radio of the next neigh
bor, and the dialog that floats
in from the house just beyond
the line fence.
Why should he? Why should
anybody limit his boundary to
50x100 feet, and compel himself
all of his life to back out of the
garage and turn in the street?
Five or ten or twenty acres
outside of town costs but little
more than half an acre in town,
and gives so much more free
dom and space for indjividual
action. It gives infinitely more
opportunity to make a house
an objection. Actually burning
his own cotton is 'one thing, and
not the same as burning anoth
er fellow’s surplus. And there is
the impossibility in the story.
If coffee or cotton or any
other thing is destroyed to les
sen the supply on hand some
body has to lose the amount de
stroyed. It is like paying taxes
in that we are all willing to
make the other fellow the goat,
but never ourselves. The alter
native is to face the situation,
and if there is a surpilus so great
that buyers will not take it and
pay for it we have to sell it
for what they will pay, and suf
fer the loss ourselves. Always it
is to be remembered the buyer
has the last word. He can buy
or raise, and he can refuse if
the price is not satisfactory.
Quantity makes the price, and
the seMer can make the price
only by improving quality or
lessening the quantity. And
high price always increases
quantity, as low price lessens it
in due season.
SPEAKING OF
THE WEATHER
Chief Beasley of Southern Pines
took a little of his own medicine last
week. The officer of the law drove his
car to Salisbury to appear against the
so-called “Boll Wee'vil” gang, and
The story is, of course, that Jo
sephus wants to be the next Gov
ernor is playing to the people, let j parked in front of the Courthouse.
the corporation chips fall where they | When he came out he found a tag
jYiay. * j dangling from the steering wheel. He
jhad violated parking regulations.
What Josephus fails to take into !
consideration in his apparent theory ; “The Aberdeen Hotel has changed
of life is the important element of ; hands. Get a story about it,” we told
pleasure. He would tax our motion
pictures, one of the few joys we have
in the sticks; he would tax our coca
colas until the “pause that re
freshes” loses its refreshment; he
would tax our smokes to the point of
breakinig the Camel’s back. And of
course anything containing more than
a fraction of one percent of alcohol
one of our reporters the other day.
“That isn’t news. Boss,” he said.
“It changes hands every week.”
They’re having a great squabble
in Southern Pines over their new
Recorder’s Court. It’s only a few
weeks old. Why don’t they give it
a try and see how it works before
is entirely out of the question. We condemning it? The voters will decide
are given a bit to wonderment as to the question next Tuesday,
what Brother Daniels would leave us
by way of amusement. We
write editorials all the time.
can’t Daylight saving went into effect
in the north last Sunday. They are
going to save something up there, if
The saddest story we have heard it’s only daylight.
The bridle path has found the
beauty of the low trail around
the swamp edges and having led
folks in that quarter tliey ore
recognizing the many interesting
plants growing there in profus
ion. In the older days the roads
climbed to the hill tops to be
on dry ground. Now they j^re
droppinor to the valley to be a- j have. On the
mong the luxuriant flower and
shrubbery shows. The swamps
down on that level keep the
roadside planted. This supple
ments the planting going on a-
long the road? higher on the
ride'Gs. and helps to make the
entire Sandhills an extended
dream of floral perfection.
Few places in the whole Unit
ed States have such a spectacle
to present to an appreciating
audience. But for some reason
v/e have not counted the spring
flower show in our assets and
charms to be included in inform
ation distributed to folks who
might be interested in knowing
about the charm of the Sand
hills. May is the month folks
ought to be coming this way for
their short outings. If they
knew the delights of a week or
two or three weeks on the golf
courses here at this season, and
on the roads, and on the bridle
paths and on the footpaths, and
how excellent the roads are that
lead to Moore county, and the
good roads that gridiron the
county, it is reasonable to sus
pect that hotels and sports and
the community life could be con
tinuing their activity for six
weeks yet.
You can always talk about the
that fits the ground, and that | weather and the fashions and
can surround itself with the the people, and nobody holds you
sort of trees and shrubbery that to task for what you say because
make a landscape rather than
a hedge to shut out the next
fellow’s back yard.
Ground is abundant and
so much is said by everybody
else that no one pays attention
to what you say. One day a chap
coming down street during a
cheap—so far. But it will not brisk rain said to a man he met.
alw’ays be so. Not always can
the man seeking a home location
‘Nice day.” The other assented,
‘Yeh, not bad.” The philosopher
salutation on
NEW RECORDER’S COURT long enough for us to decide whether
!
I or not the Court was necessary. But
Editor, The Pilot: anther bill was drawn up and present-
Several people have suggested that ed to our Legislator and passed,
through the columns of your paper amending the charter of Southern
I state my reasons for being opposed Pines, making our next election not
to the Recorder’s Court Bill as pass- one year hence but two years in the
ed by the Legislature now in session, .future.
Some have intimated that my oppo- , I believe that a judicial office
sition was based on political purposes. ! should be an elective office. I have
Let me assure you in the beginning no fight against our present Recorder;
that I have no such reasons, and on the other hand I have the highest
I have no political aspirations what- admiration for him, but I think it is
ever, but, as a citizen and tax payer, my right and privilege to vote for a
I feel that I have the right and priv- man for a position of this kind rather
ilege to oppose any particular , than have him appointed,
measure which I feel will not be for We have a County Recorder who is
the best interest of our town and paid around $2,000 per year to try
community. I do not believe in the every case that should come before a
criticisms of a measure without of- i Recorder. We also have a salaried
To Breed Quail In
Historic Horseshoe
Section of County
Julian Bishop of New York and
W. R. Heree of Detroit Be
hind Game Farm
Horseshoe section of Moore county
near Carthage, scene of many Revo
lutionary skirmishes between the
Tories and the Patriots, and birth
place of Governor Williams, one of
the early North Carolina chief exe
cutives is to he the scene of the es
tablishment of a commercial game
farm by John Willcox, clerk of the
Moore county superior court, Julian
Bishop, of New York, and W. R
Pierce, of Detroit, Mich. The project
starts off with the blessings and en
couragement of Governor Q.
Gardner, Col. J. W. Harrelson, chief
of the Bureau of Conservation and
Development, and Charles England
State game warden.
The farm will be in charge of Mr.
Pierce, for twenty years a breeder
of commercial game, and native quail
will be bred for purpose of stocking
state and private game preserves.
Wild turkeys will be later tackled. Mr.
Pierce has already moved to the
Horseshoe Camp, and with the assist
ance of Ed Fry, Carthage hunter and
guide and custodian of the camp, is
getting everything in readiness to
start the venture, which, it is believed
will mean much to that section.
Quail sell for $8 to $10 a pair. As
Mr. Pierce says that he is confident
that he can raise 2,500 pair a year
i without any assistance, the tremen
dous possibilities of commercial game
breeding are readily grasped. “And
by taking on a few hands,” Mr.
Pierce said, “I believe I can raise all
of the quail that we can profitably
market. The Horseshoe .section ii
ideal for game breeding purposes, and
I am delighted over our prospects.”
Messrs. Wilcox, Bishop and Pierce
called on Governor Gardner, Col. Har
relson and Warden England last
week and were given every assur
ance of state cooperation in their
venture. They were told they could
count on the State Department of
Conservation and Development to take
about all the birds they could hope
to raise the first year or two and Mr.
England said there was a market
right now for twenty thousand na
tive quail.
To begin, with, Mr. Pierce plans to
set eggs, which he will procure from
other breeders, under bantam hens,
and will thus have a sizeable bunch
of birds, if all goes well, by the lat
ter part of the summer, or early
fall.
SCORES MOURN DEATH OF
BENJAMIN D. CAVINESS
have the pick of a small tract j tried the same ^ ^ t i. n n 4. r, 1 •
that will give him the topog- another pedestrian, with the re- ® I shall County Prosecuting Attorney who is
raphy and the neighborhood ! loiner, “For ducks and fish and | my objections fust and my sug- paid a salary to prosecute every case
and the roads and the trees and ^ that kind of cattle.” He tried it!^®^
the shrubs that he would like to again on old Doc Strawbridge,
acreage in the who had a thinker of his own
country he can designate the | and Doc looked at him with that
kind of house he wants, for with ! i^laring stare of his and said,
much ground to put it on he
can choose the type of house
that v/ill harmonize with differ
ent locations and then take the
location that suits.
Mr. Pender has begun a .job
that is making not only a home
but a home that is artistic and
that takes advantage of all the
things nature and human intel-
licrence have afforded the man
who wants to get a roof over his
in the County that should go before
I believe I have the distinction of ^ Recorder. This Court in Carthage,
being the first person to go before ^ told, nevei takes more than
our Board of Town Commissioners days per week to try all the
opposing the fee system for our offi- coming under its
You’re a dum liar or a dum'cers. At that time I told our Mayor Jurisdiction, and most of the time, I
fool.” I and Commissioners that I believed f told, they dispose of their work
Some sage has counted the | we were paying our policemen a sal- one day.
rainy days and says we have >ry large enough and that they should Court here in Southern Pines
had rain every consecutive Sat-| not, in my opinion, get an extra fee prove to be self-sustaining, it
urday for eleven weeks. This is for making an arrest or summoning a $1,200 per
not in that class of information witness, and that their activities, in ^ correctly inform-
that Horace Greely catalogued . my opinion, should be confined to the salaries are $75.00 per month
as “important if true.” Where- city limits of Southern Pines unless | Recorder and $30.00 per month for
fore a majority of people will a crime was committed inside the i ^ portion of that
agree that the winter just pass- icity limits and it was necessary for j as I stated before, should go
ed has been one of the m -^st ' them to go outside of the city lim- i County Court fund. And we
head. He has set an examp>le I a^^^able recalled in this sec-j its to apprehend the criminal.
Beyond a peradventure no
six weeks of the year is more de-
ligihtful in the Sandhills than
those just in sight. Winter is a
time when folks come this way
partly to escape the rigors of
the disaerreeable weather of the
North. But May is a time when
this country has so much that
is pleasant to offer that it v/ould
be worth leaving anything in
May or June in the North eo en
joy what is offered here now.
Everything that is attractive in
winter here is attarctive now.
All the sports can be enjoyed
In addition the marvelous May
and June weather are worth a
few weeks in floral paradise, the
flower show alone being suffi-
that deserves to be followed, an
exampile of a harmonious loca
tion for a house, and a house
that belongs where he puts it.
That is a thing that should be
studied more than it is, making
the house and the location fit,
and both fit all the surround
ings. This house is worth much
study in this respect. It fits the
location, the neighborhood, the
place under the hilll away from
the road, the field in front, the
pines across the valley, and it
supplements the more preten
tious buildings in the villages
and emphasizes that it is a coun
try place of modest ambition,
but one that embellishes its
community by its simpllicity and
excellent taste in everything
that accords with its simplicity.
A CURIOUS
PHILOSOPHY
An odd suggestion comes from
some wise man who proposes
that with the excess amount of
coffee in Brazil it would be wise
to burn a large quantity of it to
reduce the am^ulnt an hand.
Maybe it did not occur to him
that it would be as simple to
lay away until harvest the sur
plus now on hand, and then in
stead of burning what is laid
away burn in the field what
comes to be harvested, which
would permit the present sur
plus to come Qn the market,
tion. Yet if we will all study the
weather records we will discov
er that comparing one year with
another there is but little dif
ference in the main. A few more
cold days, a few more warm
days, the heat and cold differ
ently distributed, more of one
in January, more of the other
in February, but about the same
Some time later the Mayor and
Commissioners appointed a Mayor
pro tem which, to my mind, was a
good arrangement, but I am told
they questioned the legality of such
a procedure, and decided to have a
Recorder’s Court instead. Our Sena-
must understand that if our County
Recorder’s Court is not self-sustaining
it must be paid for by the taxpayers
of Moore county, of which we are a
part. Therefore I would suggest, if
we must have a Recorder’s Court in
Southern Pines, that we have an Act
of Legislature, if necessary, to have
^ , our present County Recorder hold
tor, . M. Johnson of Aberdeen, told court one day per week in Southern
me that the first bill sent him by pines, bringing with him our County
totals within a few degrees j called for a Record- Prosecuting Attorney. There are sev-
when the end of winter comes ree mi es eyon ,eral county wide advantages to this as
when the end of winter comes;
that’s about the way weather
runs. The records say the tem
perature for the four months of
this year was just about the av
erage, and the rainfall about an
inch short monthly for the four
months. But being that near an
s jurisdiction three miles beyond g^al county wide advantages to this
our city limits. He refused, he tells ! i gee it.
me, to pass this bill, and another bill j Right’ here let me say that in my
was sent him making the city limits j opinion, Howard Burns, City Clerk, is
of Southern Pines the limit for the j g very valuable man for the Town of
Recorder s jurisdiction of Southern ^ Southern Pines—so valuable, I think
Pines. He had this bill passed, not ’
knowing there was a State law giv-
said town.
One of my objections is, that the
people living within that district out-
average it is seen to be a right i®
pleasant winter, which our win- ^0“^ jurisdiction for five
ters, taking them from fall to corporate limits of
spring, usually prove to be. It
was a nice winter, and a magni
ficent spring. May be it has
rained a little too much, but we limits will never have
are a little short of normal rain
fall. Maybe ic has been a little
wet to plant com, but the i concurrent with the purisdic-
ground is a little dry for the i County Recorder, but as
springs and the streams. May- '
any voice in the personnel of our
tion is concurrent with the jurisdic-
be a lot of things, but some
other fellow sees too much
where some of us see too lit
tle.
Yet it is a delightful spring.
Tt has been a fine winter, and
taking all the years and all the
way through, and we have the
average weather, which is of a
satisfying type.
I understand it, they have no voice
where they will be tried, it being left
to the officers making the arrest and
the magistrate within- this limit.
Another reason that I object to this
bill is that it provides for an election
in May to decide whether or not we
will have such a Court, aiTd that de
cision stands until our next election.
It seems to me that if we are taking
this Court on trial, one year would be
that his whole time should be given
to town matters. And I do not think
he should hold a Recorder’s Court
clerks position hatting to do with
cases originating out of Southern
Pines, making it necessary for a tax
payer, who wants to see him an bus
iness, to have to be compelled to wait
until Court adjourns to transact bus
iness with him.
For our local judicial government
I would suggest that if the Mayor
does not want to try the cases, that
he and his Board of Commissioners
have the Governor or the Legislature
either appoint a magistrate, that they
will nanJfe, to try all eases coming un
der a mayor’s jurisdiction. Our city
government then would have our lo
cal situation well in hand.
Trusting that I have made my posi
tion clear in the matter I am,
Yours very truly,
—P. FRANK BUCHAN.
On Tuesday at 12 o’cock, April 21,
1931 the soul of a Confederate vet
eran and prominent citizen, Benjamin
D. Caviness passed away from this
world into the great beyond at his
home in Moore County near White
Hill. He was only sick for a short
time and all was done for him that
medical aid and loved ones counld do.
Mr. Caviness served in the Civil War-
and had he lived until next August he
would have been 88 years old. He was
a farmer and made his way by the
sweat of his brow and kept active un
til the last sickness. Few possess the
many good qualities that did Mr.
Caviness. As a neighbor and friend
he was unexcelled and was never too
busy or ,two tired to render aid to
one in need. His death will be mourn
ed by all who knew him. This was at
tested by the vast throng of friends
that surrounded his last resting place
and the many costly floral offerings
that were placed on the mound by ten
der hands.
Funeral services were held from
Center M. E. Church Wednesday at
3 p. m. by his pastor, the Rev. J. H.
Buffalo. He was a member and stew
ard of that church and a man of the
old faith and school The choir led by
J. M. Tyson, of Vass, softly rendered,
“Safe In the Arms of Jesus,”
“Sweet Bye and Bye” and “Shall We
Gather at The River.”
The Rev. Mr. Buffalo, then spoke
highly -and touching of the life of Mr.
Caviness. The body was laid to rest
by the side of his wife and children
who preceded him to the grave. The
surviving children are Mrs. Maie Gil
more, Lakeview, W. B. Caviness,
Leesburg, Va., A. B. Caviness, Ashe-
boro, J. E. Caviness, Lakeview and
W. D. Caviness, Aberdeen.
Flower bearers were granddaught
ers of the deceased.
Active pallbearers were Milton
Cox, W. M. Wicker, Jasper Childress,
C. N. Fields, E. B. Harrington and
W H. Jackson.
Honorary pallbearers were J H. Sal
mon, Turner Smith, J. D. Smith.
Tom Cameron, D. T. Harrington,
A. McLeod, J. L .Rice, C. E. Pleas
ants, Aberdeen, M B. Pleasants,
Aberdeen, W. J. Harrington, Car
thage, W. J. Wadsworth, Carthag->
Dock Layne, Sanford, and Jack Muse
of Carthage.