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Page Two THE PILOT. Aberdeen and Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday, September 23, 1932' THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C. foremost city of Western North Carolina, gets its name from the prominence of the family. Samuel A. Ashe came through the Civil War si.xty-five years 1 ago and faced the reconstruc- NELSON C. HYDE, ManaginR Editor j tion, an experience in some ways HION H. BUTLER, Editor j worse than war. As one of a JAMES BOY!) STKUTHEHS BUKT'group of men who held this state RALPH PAGE' Contributing Editors Subscription Rates; One Year $2.00 Six Months —$1.00 Three Months -^0 in line with the most vigorous progress and intelligent recov ery possible he shares the credit of the accomplishments that mark the road the reconstructed state has traveled. Yet possibly it is as a student of affairs that A Tribute to North Carolina Grains of Sand Address all communications to The , ^'Pt. Ashe has excelled, one of j Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C. Entared at the Postoffice at Aber deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat ter, I THE SCHOOLS AM) TRCANCY the crowning efforts of his life being his comprehensive “His tory of North Carolina.” Writ ing; history is one of the most exacting tasks in which a man ' can engage, for along with the I judgment and ability to sift and [assemble and weigh and compare and analyze facts is required the A problem that confronts the infinite patience to wade through public school, not only of the interminable masses of facts, county but of the whole state, | trailitions, rumors, assumptions i this season, is the task of par-, and impossible statements that| ents in supplying suitable cloth—; that must be reduced to logical i ing for the children, and books.,and correct narrative presented' Many boys and girls have corne form that is readable and eas-1 out of the American public' jiy understood. There Samuel i schools pretty well grounded in Ashe has ranked himself with | the fundamentals of education ^ Bamcroh and Prescott. No man , with a small outlay for books. In, but himself can conceive the; the extreme case the example of! endless work he had to take on Lincoln is cited where a boy | his shoulders in gathering the with some borrowed books, some ; material he has presented in his ' determination to learn and some; printed pages, and no one but a | encouragement on the part of i reader knows how thoroughly those with whom he came in j and accurately he has held to his, contact, eventually found a place lines. A fine old scion of a fam-| among the outstanding men of ily of .service in the building of passed as far as second grade.” the \\orld in his daj*. But pres-| ^orth Carolina, and perhaps the What are we going to do about ent customs do not stimulate the I noblest Roman of them all. ijs7 Not much unless a few tim- budding Lincolns, and the tasks | llruce llurtun. author ot “The Man Sobody Knows," has icriften thts tribute to \orth Carolina lor the “Parade ol the Stntca” Monday night programs o! the ({encrai Motors Corporation part of an riiiiciitional i>lnn to ttinke the rotinfrj/ as n whole hettcr acountnted toith the individual states—thair history, scenic beavtji, iniluslnrs and people. TO IVorth Carolina, the >ld North State, the Tar Heel State, the state whose greatness has bfen achieved oy her own native sons and daughters, with little aid from without ... to North arolina. General .Mptors puys its tribute. One of the thirteen original states, she has played in many fields the heroic role of the pioneer. On her soil was planted the tlrst English colony In what IS now the United States, and the first A.ngio- Saxon child in the New World was oo.n Virginia Dare was the child, and her name lingers on in our memories, though her fate is forever veiled in the mystery of the Lost Colony of Roariokfc Island In North Carol.’na, on the wind-swept sand hills of Kitty Hawk, the Wright Brothers Hew the tirsl airplane. The Old North Stale gave the nation Presidents Poiit and John.<!on, and trom the same sturdy pioneer stock sprang Andrew Jackson Her rugged mountains ored ruggedness in the character of Daniei Boone Those mountains have not lost either their ruggedness or their charm Dreamily Oeautiful they are , . , the Blui Ridge and the Great Smokies, "the ^and of the Sky." . . . covered with virgin forests, cut through with loaming rivers, peopled by hardy mountain folk who still preserve in their speech and customs the traditions of Elizabethan England. From Mount Mitchell, the highest peak east of the Mississippi, an empire ol fertile valleys and plains slopes down to the Atlantic, an empire boasting climate of splendid variety and an almost bewildering wealth uf products. Down from the mountains come the rivers and streams to be trans formed into the magic of electric energy, and so to drive the wheels of hundreds of textile mills and the vast tobacco factories of Durham. Wins'on- Salem, and Reidsville, Up to the mountains and to the pine forests go tourists from all over our land, to find health and refreshment and delight at Asheville and Pine- hurst and many another beauty spot. You, too, must go. You must ride along .he famous modem roads of North Carolina, penetrating every corn?r of the state You jiust visit Raleigh, the charming old capital. You must see Greensboro, where Dolly Madison and O. Henry were born, and Guilford Court House: the State Uni versity at Chapel Hill, and Duke University at Durham, so munificently endowed by the generosity of one of the state's devoted sons, and the great Days along the coast where fishermen and hunters find the sportsman's dream of happiness fulfilled. On North Carolina's behalf General Motors extends this Invitation to the people of America, knowing that a gracious friendliness has ever been the portion of those who come within her borders Step into your car and go. Go and linger Nowhere Is the past more instructive or the present more in spiring than in the Old North Slate. The new “Who’s Who in America” lists .seven residents of Southern Pines, one of Aberdeen, one of Car thage, which is the total foji 'the Sandhill.s according to the geographi- McLauchlin Named Coal Company Trustee But Group of Creditors Objects and Matter Goes to Judge Hayes At the first meetiriK of the credi- ^ tors of the Carolina Coal and By- cal mde.x. Ue have not seen a copy sOr.,. ^ ^ i L .LI Pi'oducts company, held in Carthage we cannot give you the li.st yet, but we do know that it is incomplete from our standpoint, for Mr. and Mrs, Struthers Burt are listed from Wy oming, Walter Gilkyson from Phila delphia, Maude Parker from New York, and they are more of Southern Pines than of anywhere else. A fire in We.st Southern Pines Wednesday morning did not amount to anything except thi.s: It proved the value of opening up Pennsylvania 1 avenue ^hrough to the colored settle- j nientj for had the apparatus not been able to speed directly up that thoro- fare to the scene the house would un doubtedly have burned down. Come on over to .‘Vberdeen next Tuesday and hear the auctioneer’s wierd language at the opening of the tobacco market. There is nothing quite like opening day in a tobacco warehouse. i id souls shudder a little as they I read the statement. 'We have j created in our present popular government a di.sregard for law al facilities for every child in the state, but unhappily our re strictions are so many that much of the effort to educate is Football has quickly taken the spot light from baseball. Carthage High School has already played one game, Aberdeen High plays Elise on the 30th. Southern Pines high is organiz ing its fir.st eleven in several years. Don’t be surprised if the boy comes home with a bloody nose most any afternoon. last Friday, D. A, McLauchlin, V’ass^ was appointed trustee by Referee H. F. Seawell, Jr., after nomination by some of the creditors who were rep resented there. Another group of common creditors, nominated J. H. Kennedy of Cumnock as trustee. An appeal over the appointment of Mr. McLauchlin was made and the matter will be carried to Judge Johnson J. Hayes of the United States court. According to some of the credi tors present, the appointment of Mr. McLauchlin will be contested on the que.stion of validity of powers of at torney, given by some creditors to others who favored Mr. McLauchlin. Thes» creditors are understood to claim that Mr. McLauchlin was the choice of the bondholders and stock holders, who are creditors. FREEMAN & SLOAN Undertaking — Embalming Ambulance Service Day Phone 7 Night Phone 22-J * ABERDEEN of the present are the tasks of a more artificial period. iONE SrCCESSFUL We lay great stress on the im-: STATE INSTITl’TION portance of providing education-j xhe prison camp population of i that is a Frankenstein that we the State Highway Commission!cannot control, and candidly The increased by 310 during August, j Pilot expects to see the prison state or nation according to the monthly report ^ population grow rather than de- . issued by the Superintendent, icrease. For who cares? Popular negatived by the impediments September thei’e wei’e 3,-'regard for law is a tradition. THE SOCIALIST thrown in the \\ay. Ihe scnoos prisoners in camps, of the,Our schools are stronger on,PETITION are open and the truant officer, 2^914 being negroes, 1,-, football than on dharacter. IS active. isUt tnat does not pio- M-Vii + oa on^l Inrliunc in I-Tnmt> lifp ic rniinit’oal- ill mitnmn- vide books and clothing and oth er incidentals that are now re-i garded as essential. The truant I Figures tiom the State officer is charged with compell-1 ing attendance in school. The! child with no suitable apparel > i^ii^^tes. In April, 19-8 it had does not like to mingle with 1.87-, and was other children. The child with' growing at the rate of ^00 a no books is no farther along at Evidently in the last four do, and it is v.'hat we do that ^ will determine whether we im-' prove the situation or see it go | Winter homes in Pinehurst and from bad to still worse. Candid-'j Southern Pines are shedding their ly signs of improvement are not blinds, lights appearing in the windows apparent. 'Ae have too many'at night. Another season is upon us, other fish to to worry about the | and here’s hoping it may be a good growing prison population, or 1 one. the moral degeneracy of the I In Home life is manifest in automo bile drives and moving pictures rather than in any clo'-e fam ily contact and influence. The church has lost its authority. Law enforcement is nullified by all manner of delaying and in- fe-enious schemes that have tak- A little tempest in the state teapot involves discussion of the socialist petition now circulating asking the right of the socialist for a place on the ticket on elec tion day. If this is to be a gov ernment of the people common fairness would say to give the Hoover and Roosevelt are nip and tuck in the first returns from the Lit erary Digest poll. The Democrats lead in Pennsylvania returns, something to give the G, O. P. concern, coming is it does on top of the election in that other rock-ribbed Republican state, Maine. Will be in his office over the Post Office, Sanford, N. C., every Wednesday, fr^om 10:00 a. m, to 3:00 p. m. Don’t fail to see him if your eyes are weak. Agnes Derothy’s Beauty Shoppe All Branches of Beauty Work Also Carry a Full Line of GALVE PREPARATIONS Over Broad Street Pharmacy Phone 5131 Southern Pines, N. C. en the fear from the heart of a place on the ticket if HU uuoKs IS ijo lartiier aiuiig at I'l" j"" L. flip primin-ii Tho vunU-ofoov “le Wants it. No body has to vote seJ.001 than if he slay.s at horae, doublod, which is »: ‘*“'■ that ticket who i., not inclined savinenothineof hisembarras.s- St^J tl'ng statement. It.it has n.s the cities Indit eience gov- saying nothing of his embarrass ment and suffering doubled the increase has been at'smaller places. Laws , o^her distant points. The Pilot .A woman advertised for a servant | Dr. J. I. Neal m kst week s Pilot and informs us j v 4 ' • that she received replies from Cam- i Veterinarian eron, Vass, West End, Carthage and at Swlnnerton’s in Southern .Myrtle Beach, S. c. “Your paper must' Pines on Monday—at Pinehurst go everywhere,” she said. Well, the; Dairy on Thursday. truth is if she waits a little longer she may hear from London, Paris, China The"Pilorharno suggestions of above 400 a year. but they do not check' go almost everywhere. to offer, for it is well enough Jhat our prison popula -on is|Cnme. known that our schools are too costly not only in a general way, but that they are too costly to man of the school patrons, which means that their costs de feat the real popularity and use fulness of them. Probablv many five times what it was 11 years; ago is one of the most serious bits of information this .sophistry that keeps Democrats The breakdown is in our mor- and Republicans alike from con- al tone. Law will never make fe.ssing that prevalent practice . • 4. 1 Ti • i the people better than their own politically is the extreme of so- ha.s ever printed. It gives the he sense or righteousne.ss and their cialism in its tendency we are emphaticaHy to all ot that delu-i own force of character make already more .socialistic than so- Mon ue call the high standard t^em. and there is a point in cialism has so far advocated. A - • . . . I”?’ nyikes a mocker.v ot, applying little in- national socialist ticket has children could walk to school, advancing civili-, Pojiular sentiment is about as much chance in the elec- and save tran.sportation costs ” ridicules the achieve-1 pypuiji,. indifference tion as the proverbial snowball that would buy books for them ^^nt ot our multiplying .sThcols. ■ popular disregard for anv in Gehenna, but that is no reas- to better end than to .spend thei“ churches on the de-. ^vholesome e.xample or serious on whv a socialist has not as money to haul them to school to show where they are|jitttmpt to observe the .social much right of free .speech and where they arrive without books, tailing dovvn m maintaining the amenities between maid and free e.xpression of his political Certainly the schools are grant- level of the ver.v ^^tandards have been proclivities as anvbodv else, and ed money enough to make them it cnalienges our reduced to the one rule of ac- common fairness‘would sav that effective for the whole p„pula-: assumption to progressive|tion-who cares? Possibly it is his petition should be signed bv tion, and ccrtainly a proportion al! right, possibly it is sitting enough people to give him the LAST BARGAIN FARES OF THE SEASON September 30, October 1 ABERDEEN TO New York $ 9.50 Philadelphia 8.50 , , , , Atlantic Citv 8.50 ed them, they announced ' Pittsburgh ' 10 50 but a few haven’t. We understand 6.00 they plan a boycott on those that ' haven’t. Tiiat altitudinous pair. Dr. A. H. McLeod and Bion Butler, claim a par tial victory in their campaign to raise awnings in .Aberdeen sufficient to per mit their craniums to clear in pass ing. Most of the stores have rais- 5.00 j Washinglon And Return j Tickets Sold for all Trains Sep- j tember 30th — October 1st— cnFJiSTi \\ F\i)F vvoFi i Wa.shiiigtoii and Baltimore Tick- PKESENTS A 1‘AGEA.NT | Limited Returning to leave destination prior to Midnight Bring your tobacco to .Aberdeen. “The Kingdom Highway” a force- of the school population is hard taither. It sa.vs ^ye have reached; „ver a volcano. But whatever we recognition to which he is entit-|^”’ and nnpre.ssive pageant, was pre pressed to keep within the tru- "’here it is up to North tressing features of our central-' Carolina to show cause as to ant laws. This is one of the dis-1 we are not to be charged, ized government situation, and^'**-h retrogression, vvith a sink-, of our practice of raking the *’^5^ backward into crime, degen- country for taxes and pouring eracy and mental, moral, reli-; out the money in machine fash- material decay. It isj ion and in general standardized;^he most .startling arraignment! way. Our school system has a i faUure on the part of modern' are going to do we are going to led. FROM THE STATE PRESS THE .SOLDIER BONUS •A man who certainly cannot be ac- .$220 twenty yeans from now and the bank now, that $100 will, at com pound interest, be about $220 in sented in a lovely setting of golden- rods and pines at the Presbyterian Church in Aberdeen last Monday af ternoon at the close of the regular meeting of the Woman’s .Au.xiliary. It was given by the members of the Christian Endeavor of that church, and under the direction of their pres ident, Mrs. \V'. A. Blue, and all those grave responsibility ahead of it, I practice and achievement Republican bias, Walter twenty years. For at the end of the'present felt they had received a worth- w’ith no promising solution. TWO CENTURIES OF SERVICE that this state or nation has I <-he first year it will be $100 plus .$4 ih- ever faced, and the unfortunatei New "kork World, and terest or $104. At the end of the sec- feature of it is there is no ex-' .vriter ond year it will be .$104 plus 4 per CUse, no defense, no promise of United States, in the Charlotte cent of $104. In this way, without betterment—not a thing that. writes of the soldier bonus any further contribution on my part A few days ago in Raleigh an the faintest show of im-jfollows: the fund will grow year after year, official of the Federal court ob-! P*''3'’ement. On the contrary the! There are two sides to many pub- and so, by investing $100 now I am served his ninety-second birth-i outlook is for worse reports forj*’*^ questions but there are not two able to pay my friend $220 at the day anniversary. — Samuel A. jthe days ahead of us, and withi^>‘^es to this question. By no stretch of twenty years. Ashe. A fine old man himself, a j nobody seeming to show the^<^f the imagination, by no possible But suppose he says to me; Pay man of a life time of service,! sJij^htest interest in the aston-1 "manipulation of fact and thoory, can ' ishing degeneration of ouri't be denied that the demand for im- still in the employ of the courts at his ac'e, Samuel Ashe is a continuation of over two cen- t’lries of useful work by the family of which he is a distin guished member. His progeni tor, John Baptist Ashe, an Eng lishman of standing, came to the Carolina colony about 1727, and here he reared a family which contributed five officers to the Colonial army in the Revolution. He was in the early days a mem ber of Governor Burrington’s council. His posterity served the colony and the state in mihtary and civil life, two of the name being elected governor, others to important places in legislative, legal and other lines, to Con gress, to places in education, un til it is hard to put a finger on any prominent public task that has not been furthered by the name of Ashe. Asheville, the standards and our results. While we fiddle around and waste our time yammering over politics and quarrel with each other over trifles and the frothy vanities of pettyness the leprosy of crime is eating into the life of our social and moral system, and we pay no more attention to it than to the going down of the sun at evening. A report of the prison situation four years ago .''aid, “One fourth of all the new arrivals are under twenty years of age. It is the young people who are filling the pris ons. Only three per cent have finished the third year in high school. One-third cannot re^Jid or write. Eighty per cent were con victed for the first time, show ing that the priscm is a young man's game. Two-thirds had not attended sc'hool or else had not mediate cash payment is a demand for an outright gift ot some $2,000,- 000,000 over and above anything that the veterans are entitled to under the law which they themselves forced congress to enact. me the $220 today. This means that I have to take out n^y earnings $120 more than I promised him. If I am willing to pay, it’s a gift; if he forces me to pay it, it’s a hold-up. The actual calculations of the bonus are more complicated but the princi- , pie is e.xactly the same. It requires a That the ordinary veteran has not little effort to understand it, but understood this we may well believe, once understood the conclusion is He has a certificate given him by the' mathematically absolute that to cash government which entitles him to re- i the bonus now is to do a grave injus- ceive a certain sum of money in 194.5.. tice to the mass of the people by forc- He has been told by Viis congressman ing them to pay two billion dollars and by his own leaders that he ought | that they do not owe to any one. So not to have to wait until 194.5. Why,! clear is the case, that unqualified op- he asks himself, if the government j position to cash payment may justly owes him, say $1,.500 in 1945, should 1 be considered a test of the sincerity of it not pay him that $1,500 in 1932? I any public man and the Republicans j The answer is in the nature of com-1 are entirely justified in asking Gov- while inspiration for carrying on the church work. October 3rd; Other Points Octo ber 4th. Reduced Round Trip Pullman Fares Stopovers Allowed and Bagvage Checked For Information See Agent H. E. PLEASANTS, D. P. A. 505 Odd Fellows Bldg., Raleigh Seaiboaid MK LUM£ BMLWAV pound interest which can be studied by looking at the tables printed in the World Almanac. Suppose I promise to pay a man suppose that the rate of interest on money is 4 per cent. If I put $100 in erncr Roosevelt to state his position. One Dollar will keep the son or daughter po.sted on home doings while away at school. Send him—or her— The Pilot. Fall Clothing Now is the time to buy your winter supply of clothing- as prices on all lines are ad vancing. WE OUTFIT THE FAMILY! Men’s New Fall Suits, all wool $12.50 Silk Dresses $3.95 to $5.75 Coats, Sport and Dress $10.75 to $15.00 Hats $1.00 to $1.50 Prints, fast colors, 36 intfh wide 10c and 15c Bradley Sweaters at Bargain Prices SCHOOL SUPPLIES F^lincHvnvfc’s Aberdeen, North Carolina
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