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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, February 23, 1934. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. C- NKiSON C. HYDE, Manaeine Editor BION H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT Contributin^i^ Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months 11.00 Three Montlis 50 Address all communications to Tlie Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N, C. E^itered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., £is second-class mail matter. 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. 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