THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, February 23, 1934.
THE PILOT
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farm occupied with its own
problems which are the prob
lems of the operators.
To go to a farm and meet with
any success means to find a
farm that is willing to make a
place for the man who would go
there. That is about as difficult
as to find a place with a factory
—the place the proposed farmer
is supposed to leave on start
ing back to the farm. Depres
sion has hit the farm as it has
hit the factorj% and farms have
little more to offer than the
the hoped for ends, as many peo
ple anticipated, and we may ex
pect other changes in plans. But
in a general way tihe recovery of
business is apparent, and the
prospects are decidedly encour
aging.
We still face some radical con
ditions that will not be waved
away with a motion of the hand
or by decree of the head of a
temporary relief commission,
for this affair is deeper seated
than a verbal order and involves
more than simply the influences
I
Grains of Sand
Correspondence
FOREST PROTECTION 1 ernments are so anxious to encour-
mills have. The man who would |of a fiat proposition. It embraces
return to the farm must first | the whole people and it must
find the farm. Then he must j move the whole mass of the peo-
find stock to work with, supplies : pjg in the effort for recovery be-
to carry on until crops are made, | f^re the recovery is actual and
and he must make his crops in extended.
the fsce of the same depression have to get rid of some of
that aff^ts the factories. It is empty dreams we have been
true that the man on the farm dj-g^ming, and to put our feet
can raise his own food supply, I bottom again before we
I brick?” asked the judge.
I “Well. Jedge, hit was thisaway.
' He says to me in the book store is
i a book about me and I went with him
I to see. He points to a book in the
i window that has on the back of it
I Book of Reptiles, and he says aint
i that about me, and I seen a brick
, on the edge of the walk, and 1
throwed it at him, and he didn’t
I dodge it."
THE EFFICIENT
VOLUNTEERS
Tuesday was a nasty day for
a fire, and the fire was a diffi
cult one to contest. The volun
teer firemen came out as they
usually do, a few seconds after
the alarm s®unded, and they
stayed until it was safe to leave
a long and at times a dangerous
task. Folks don’t realize what
the volunteer firemen do for a
town like this. The day was
windy, and cold. The building
was one of a block, with not
^ but so can the man in the mill | gQ.
I towTi, for most mills wll pro-; discover that getting rich
vide gai-den facihties if the mill ^ ^^e salvation of mankind,
hand IS wilhng to work and pro- ^^t hurt any
duce from his prden the things I ^^at our wants are not
mu family. necessarily to be measured by
The whole thing is a question some envied neighbor may
of work, but in going back to i ■y^u get down and dig
the farm unless the man S^oing hustle and save before we
capital to estab- q£ woods, and we will
lish him, he has a small pros- f^^ggt that idea that borrowing
pect of success. To aro as a ten- ^iQj.g money will make us all
ant is not much more promis
ing, for family life at the mill
village disturbs those habits of
farm life and work that are es- *
The automobile man who drove up
Broad street past Hart’s drug store
Tuesday morning and blowed for the
fire engines to get out of his way so
he might go on up street to the sta
tion was indignant whtsn the engine
refused to give him the right of way,
but they held to their place.
Dune McNoot says after seeing
this much of February he is glad
-it is the shortest month of the year.
prosperous, or that the world
owes us a living, or that we can
have anything more than we as
... ^ I ^ people create for ourselves,
sential on the farm. If a family ^g j^^ve to learn that the farm
can find on a farm a suitable op
portunity to make a new start it
only the burden of putting out; niay be wise in sonie cases to go
the fire to consider, but the
further task of preventing the
extension of the fire by actual
'fcontact or by blowing flame or
spark to something else close by.
The struggle was uncomforta
ble, tedious and hard, but the
back to the farm, but for those
familiar with town habits and
without means to start the new
and the cotton mill and the wood
lot are more productive of sub
sistence than the federal treas
ury, and that what we buy with
taxes is the most expensive
... thing we procure. We are going
life it is likely to be vepr dis-1 leani these things by rigid
careful and capable person.
But all the time vigiliance is
the price of safety, and even af
ter the cold snap has gone by it
will be wise to keep an eye on
the condition of the heating
equipment^ for as in anything
else, an ounce of safety is worth
a pound of cure. This also ap
plies when in the spring grass
and trash and leaves are to be
burned, a job that will soon be
on hand. Fire is a thing to
watch all the time for it has no
conscience and knows nothing of
friendliness.
couraging and disappointing.
experience, and in learning them
the air will be let out of some
of the bubbles we are trying to
float. But things are shaping be
cause it is impossible to keep
125,000,000 people with > their
heads in the mud. It is not to
the members of the fire compan
ies are up to the requirements
and willing to respond to the
summons. They were on hand.
They subdued the fire. They
have done more for themselves
and for the world collectively
than the others have.
We are coming out of the de
pression, but we have many
THE BENEFIT
fire never made headway after,OF SUNLIGHT
the engines arrived. j Qgnesis says He made the
It is not hard to imagine the, greater light to rule by day and
possibility that in that wind the! the lesser light to rule by night. ,, , , .
whole town might have been ^nd God saw that it was good, j congress that we can turn in
swept from end to end but the. have taken the sun and emergency with the hope of
volunteers saw that no extend- „ matter of habit but' stringent old
ed damap followed. They were profound I
ready when the call sounded,' Fenton Turk, who fre-; all the prosperity that men
and their machinery was ready, quently came to Vhe Sandhills, ?
The water and the other facili- ^^id he came here because the i^^^damenta law of hfe, and that
ties were ready, for back of the sunshine was one of the great-!^
fire company is the town organ- assets he knew of in all the i of Egypt and out of the
ization, and fortunately the towTi TeJurcls of heM ° timutation^ ^ndage It sounds
government has been progres- yfg jg ^ chemical process. The
sive enough to maintain a fire j,. ^he origin of a chemical i v ^
fighting unit that is equal to actinic influence that is a basic I
the occas'on. But even at that element of all existence. It is ii- but far more people have lived
the eqiylpment would be of lustrated in the potato sprout in, an hour than on
much less value were it not that the cellar away from the sun- t
nf tho <.nmnan. havp Honp more for them.selve.«;
white. But access to the sun
permits it to take on a green
color, and that change to green
is the reaction that indicates ^ ^ • j *
saved the towTi from an exten- the develonment of the chloro- things yet to learn and to
Sion of the scourge, and they are phvis that build the plant and its
entitled to a decide(i recognition products, and on which all ani- radical plans, and not all
of their work. mal plant life depend.
Along with the local organiza- -purk likes the SandhilU alphabetical. Some are not
tion was the heln iriven bv the k tne &anamiu-> yg^. tjefinitely scheduled, and
non was me neip given tne because the open atmosphere
visiting companies from Aber- permits more sunshine from one I
deen and Pmehurat, two other year’s end to another than in
community saviors who show up ^ther place he could find
just as regular as the fire whis- that possesses the other advan- " ™
tage« the Sandhills country of-' At this season the cold incites
fers. Probably, taking his con- people to crowd the fire appar-
clusions, the amount of clarified atus about the houses, and too
-sunshine that envelops this re- much carelessness is shown fre-
. , gion as a daily average is pos- quently in firing, both in the
ganization is practically a three itively our greatest asset. Down character of the fuel used and
company affair, all working in j,^ ^ mine is an ideal place in the quantity. Not so much
harmony, and so far they have as far as temperature is con- kerosene oil and gasoline are
eerned, but life can not grow used to kindle fires as in some
and thrive there. Sunshine,, places, for we have a quick ac-
chemically, is the source of life in the native fat pine which
and the sustenance of it. We | used ft^r kirtdling and for
a hat have a little cold snap at times, j touching up the fires already
off when you meet them take hut usually the sunshine is burning. But fat pine is almost
off your head cover to the fire- above the averiige, winter or as dangerous as kerosene oil if
men, and soak it into your head summer here as compared with H is used indiscriminately. The
that they are one of the most other places, and the open air active factor about the pine
important factors in making this j allows its free passage. Noth- wood is the tunx-ntine it con-
section a safe and satisfying ing makes up for a lack of sun- <^ains, whioh is as inflammable
place to live. I .shine, and nothing is more as oil, and being quickly con-
friendly and genial and whole- verted into inflammable gas by
PUTTING PEOF’LE some. This is the sunshine land, the touch of a match any addi-
ON PWRMS and whether we appreciate it or tional fuel of pine wood added
X . not the (lay the Creator made f‘J’e acts like gasoline or
I issue ot the ^har-1 the sun he probably did one of ‘>’1 thrown on the blaze.
lotte Observer Julian Miller jfjc, jjg^t jobs. And a proper I’ine wood is a fine kindling
discusses the suggestion ot re-, .share of it was done for the if used in moderation, and if ad-
tle blows. And there is one of
the great assets of the Sand
hills. The hannony between
these three communities is such
in emergency that the fire or-
not failed to register in any job
to which they have been sum
moned.
If anybody in this belt of
woods deserve.s to have
lieving the depre.ssion by bring
ing people back from the mills
to put them on farms, and while
he does not go very far into the
proposition he does go far
enough to ask why and how. It
is true that many people left the
farm to go to the factory, but it
ded to the fire in a proper way
while othei- fuel is made the
I base of the heating supply. But
I the house that is heated with an
j e.xcessive amount of fat pine
I wood should be sure its furn-
. _ aces and stoves and grates are
There i.s \ ery little doubt that j absolutely safe, that its pipes
Sandhills, for whic'h as the
Prayer book says, the Lord
make us truly thankful.
I.MI’ROVE.VIENT
OITI.OOK CERTAIN
is equally tiue that the hack j bu.^iiKiss is improving generally' anrl chimney are as stife, and
track has nothing at the end that I over the country, and with fav- that it is not piling up soot in
makes the reverse move easy, ioiable signs ahead. Whether ^ chimneys to burn out some dav
When the move was from farm conditions are to follow as have and fire the building,
to factory the factory held an been outlined by the N. R. A. I Chimneys should be kept clean
open door into w'hich the migra-.and kindred projects may be de-' where any pine wood is used
tor might enter and find em-j batable, for it is believe<i in Contacts between chimneys and
ployment ready for him and a ! some quarters that modifica-j wooden walls should be scrutiniz-
place to live, with the problem tions of the plans based on the j ed that danger is eliminated. It
of production simplified to so ^ emergency schemes will be an is wise to have the chimneys
many hours of work daily. But ^ early step. Some of the hopes en- cleaned from time to time, and
if the factory hand goes back tertained from some of the me- on wet days it is a good plan to
toward the farm it is to find the' thods tried have not brought have the soot burned out by a
MAKING AN
j ASPARAGUS BED
I The Seaboard railroad agri-
jcultural department, which is
I trying to stimulate farm and
' garden work in its territory
\ sends in a circular announcing
ithat the Coker farms at Hart-
jville, S. C., are offering aspara
gus crowns for ten dollars a
I thousand. Asparagus is a val-
I uable garden product and should
Ibe more widely planted than it
! is, by some farmers for commer-
Icial uses, but by more farmers
and gardens for home use. Any-
I body interested can write to the
'Coker farms for information,
i Possibly some may take up
I the matter, and possibly many
I will continue to be indifferent.
[Asparagus, like other garden
I products, takes work if the best
results are to be had, and our
I training these days seems to be
in the direction where work has
not made a serious lodgment.
But if we could fall in with the
Coker idea and plant many more
things in the garden, not so
much to get rich from the plant
ing, but to make a home table
^supply of the good things that
the soil will afford to the man
who will intelligently tend his
ground, we might find a lot of
comfort and profit from the
work.
Much of the South has leaned
too heavily on cotton and to-
bat^co and not enough on the
widely diversified garden. Pos-
jsibly the mule has had some-
I thing to do with the slack care
given the garden, for mugh of
the garden is a hand job instead
of a mule job, and we do not
like to change habits and give
attention to detail where a mule
will walk down the furrow' and
I do everything except swear.
I Gardens are exacting. They de
mand care and work. But they
pay more for the work that is
done with them even if they
sell no truck,- for they fill the
buying inferior stuff at the groc
ery and giving up the money in
table and the stomach and save
the househoUl. A Chinaman or a
Hollander will make more mon-
I ey on a town lot than lots of
fai’mers wiil make on two acres
with a mule, but the Chick will
use a hand hoe and lots of en
thusiasm instead of a mule and
nnile mental limitations. Prob-
'al)iy Hugh McRae’s Holland far
mers make more profit with a
hand hoe than lots of folks
make with tractors, considering
ai reage, delays, repairs and sup
plies, "^'e need more asparagus,
more garden, more intense cul-
'tivation, more footwork and
more hand work, and they will
bring more happiness and prof
it.
Editor, The Pilot: ^
We have been very fortunate in be
ing able to get one of the C. C.
Camps located in Moore county and
being granted the privilege of di
recting their work. This is entirely
due to our members taking such a
wholehearted interest in the work our
Moore County Forest Protective As
sociation has been attempting to do
in the way of fire prevention in the
iast few years. ^
As you no doubt know, there are
a great many counties making every
effort to obtain C. C. C. workers
but the counties which had similar
organizations, and whose citizens had
shown interest in the cooperation in
forest preservation, got first choice.
This is very gratifying and I think
that we should make every effort to
see that the work being done wrill be
of permanent benefit. We have plan
ned the work so a.s to create perma
nent lines to protect principal towns
and the lands surrounding them.
The men at present are running a
line between Southern Pines and
Pinehurst following the telephone line.
This will split the land up between
the double road and the old Southern
Pines-Pinehurst sand clay road. At
the same time, they are cutting a line
between Southern Pines and Fort
Bragg, which will cut off the trem
endous fire hazard which the Fort
Bragg reservation presents to our
County. We have made a great study
of the proper location of these lines
and we would like very much to go
over them with anybody who has any
suggestion, as it is very important
to get them properly located.
Of course, our association has the
regular expense this year of fire pre
vention work, the maintenance of
lookouts and the upkeep of our truck
and equipment.
Everyone is being 'called upon to
help various projects at this time.
However, we hope local landowners
will realize the importance of this
work and will see fit to become a
member of our association. The reg
ular charges are 2c an acre or a
minimum of $5.00 per ytar.
The Federal. State and County gov-
age our work that each year they
j match the monies we receive, and in
I this way make available quite a large
j sum for prevention work. It is im
portant, if possible, that we get every-
j one to become interested in the work
I H. J. Menzel, Villlge Court Build-
j Ing, Pinehurst, is treasurer of the
association.
—L. L. BIDDl.E, II, President
Pinehurst, Feb. 20.
NOT BIDDING FOR JOB
Editor, The Pilot:
My suggestions about the County
line were so written up in last week's
Pilot that it appears I was bidding
for the job. Such is not at all the
case.
Such a boundary, properly run
would, as was pointed out in The
Pilot, be of great value to engineers
and surveyors, besides providing a
fixed and permanent location of the
County line.
These data, supplied free by the
U. S. Government, are not valued by
the average citizen or engineer a?
highly as they deserve. Even the
State Highway Commission failed tc
make use of them.
I am confident that to ignore this
valuable source of information would
be a serious mistake in work of thiit
nature, altho I appreciate the diffi.
culty of looking at the matter othei
than from an engineering standpoint.
While I would be glad to do what
I can to help the commissioners av"*
the engineer who runs the line, I am
most decidedly not looking for the
job.
— R. E. WICKER.
Pinehurst, N. C.,
February 20, 1934.
EMMANUEL EPISCOPAI4
First Sunday in the Month
Church School, 9:30 a. m.; Holy
Communion and Sermon, 11:00 a. m.
Other Sundays—Holy Communion.
8:00 a. m.; Church School, 9:00 i»
m.; Morning Prayer and Sermon.
11:00 a. m.
Saints' Days--Holy Communion
10:00 a. m.
During Lent—Wednesdays - Even
ing Prayer, 4:45 p. m.
Fririays--The Litany, 4:45 p. m.
C’AKI> OF APPRECIATION
We wish to thank our many friends
and neighbt)rs for the aid and kind
ness shown us during the recent loss
of our home by fire. Please accept our
sincere thanks and lasting gratitude.
MR and Mr.s. B. C. MORGAN,
Niagara, N. C.
Features—
Som'e have this
Some have that
We have them all
and Hydraulic brakes
Dodge
Plymouth
RALPH M. CALDWELL
MOORE MOTOR COMPANY
Telephone 131W Aberdeen
...helps you get the
odd jobs /
Th ere's no side-stepping
^ those odd Jobs even when
you come home tired from
the day's work. But on ice-
cold Coca-Cola will go a long
way to freshen you up. Helps
( you do better work. Keep it
at home...ready and ice-cold
.. . Ordor from your dealer.
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ABERDEEN, N. C.