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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, April 6, 1934, THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE I'lLOT, Incor|M>ratied, AlM*rde*>n and Southern l*ln«««, N'. lk'El.SON IIVDE, Maniiffiiis; Editor BION H. Bl'TLEK, Editor B(»V1) STKl THEJtS Bl'KT ContribuUug; Editors SiibsTription Kttt«“t; One vear $2.00 \ load of impotent folks that must Six Months $1001 be carried the more certain will many people as possible on that j footing is one of the essential tasks before this nation. I Far too many people are ^ leaning on the public treasury J The more the government can j persuade men to depend on. themselves the better they will j be benefitted. and the more sub-. stantial the affairs of the whole nation will be, for the bigger the broadened in a direction that gives greater attraction to the whole section. This territory’ was never so attractive as a place to live, and the influences that are at w«rk are extending that attractiveness. It is now quite evident that business conditions are picking Grains of Sand The Carolinas suffered the loss by death of two distinguished person ages during the past week. Congress- iTian Pou, dean of the House of Rep- esentatives, passed away in Washing- FOURTH OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES FROM THE BACK SEAT By DR. ERNEST M. POATE up, and that for the future we j ten. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock, famous are going up the hill instead of hor.sewoman and mother of Ameri As I was saying, science is just than those of the Medes and Per- yonderful. Everybody has grown sians. Laws that never fail, laws very, very wise. Folks know so much that we count on every moment, that they can’t be fooled any longer without ever thinking aktout it. Yet Tbree Months .50 Address all communications to The Filot, Inc.. Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South- trn Pines, N, C., as second-class mail matter. WILL THE DOGWOOD KE IN BLOSSOM? be the prospect that the nation; will get through the depression, I which it has not done yet. But if ^ we encourage the larger num-: ber to imagine that they need j not care for themselves and that i government will care for all who ' fall by the wayside, presently the load will be so big that nobody can stagger through. The little i farmer does not want charity, ! but he does want a chance and I a right to help himself as far as he can, and it looks as if the' {Bailey amendment to the Bank- j head bill has made his salvation. I possible by his own effort, and. The game the betters ave ii'emoved him farther from be-^ plaving these days is the bios-i mg a government charge and a, soming of the dogwood for some menace to our whole fmancuil, of the doubters are saying it, structure. j will not be open by next week., rMVFRSlTY 1 Others bring m the ^levelopnig | L l ^ I buds and insist that it will be in | A1 i Hh, h L»l IV Al. I'ull color by the first of the | coming of a group of stu- Aveek. Certainly if we have a few jdeptj. fi-om Shaw University, the days of warmth and sunshine , institution for the higher educa- with the sun as high as it is, colored young people, is now in the sky blossoms will ^ most instructive fea- bur.st out with unusual speed, ■ for proper weather is a great i generations ago the an- stimulus, and at this season the ^ of these young people position of the sun in the sky ^ unwilling migrants from gives a great deal of warmth to interior of Africa and the vegetation. ith the proper lyesent enlightenment these j warmth it is to be remembered j young peo])le have attained was that the recent and successive j.Qcky in a way, some of it terri-' rains hav'e provided the ground some of it less terrible with plenty of moisture which is than many people think. But a great factor in hurrying the ^vith all its hard lines it led to I growth of plants. Everything is j.ggyii; jj. perhaps worth loaded with the energy to make ^ comparison be- the blossoms, and if the group | tween those who will be here that is betting on the opening of ^ week to let folks see what the blossoms by next Monday do, they have reached as beside the not have a run for their money j position of their kinsmen who, it is going to be rough weather j,tiH in the backward African , between now and then. crudeness will be accepted as a i When Spring starts after a, gain for the Shaw students, backward season it is usually no-, ]sJq people on earth have come ticed that it breaks open with an . forward farther in the two cen- explosion, for with all the forces J turies than the American ne-: ol nature ready to get into ac- j,o matter what the tion speedy results follow. I pj-icg their forefathers paid. No Peaches are coming rapidly, ar- one of them would go back to butus came out during the night, old conditions under any circum- pyxsie moss has covered the stances. No such a contrast can grouiul before we were aware,: found in the story of man-1 the blossoms of all sorts have jt known in modern Gome out, until today the whole d^yi,^ probably if we knew Sandhills region is a mass of the history of the race from the flowers, and more coming every beginning no parallel exists to minute. l,e held alongside of that marvel The Pilot is not capping the which is here to be shown, game for the crowd that is bet- ^ Slavery has been discussed by ting for or against the opening the millions of tongues and by of the dogwood in time for the the million of volumes and by festival, but it is of the opin- printed newspapers by the car- ion that l»y Saturday night the loads. But with all concessions to man who says dogwood will be those who deplore its miserable out will be able to bring in some ti-ail it must be conceded that open blossoms to support this perhaps no other influence ex claim. But bet your money at erted by men has had a more your own risk. It is an exhilar- marked result, even though it is ating game, and if you win or one of the unintentional and un- lose you have a lot of fun. i suspected outcomes of African I despoilment of the people. But ' those things are past. The 11)1 ighter .*side is now in evidence, ^ ; ;'nd it is a surprise and satisfac- ’ Without attempting to discuss . tion to everyljody that the Shaw the merits of the Bankhead cot- Uiiiversity is a possibility and ton bill as a whole it is pretty a fact today, and the work it .is certain that the Bailey amend- doing is one of the most credit- ments which were attached to able and valuable occupations in the bill will serve to relieve some the state or in the nation. There of the uneasiness that has been’ is no use to argue about the past, hanging over the smaL farmer The present is so creditable that; in this section. PYom various vestei'day can be forgotten, for | sources came intiuiry to The Pi- it is past any way. But today is lot from time to time as to what h day of satisfaction and of ad- would be the outcome for some vancement that is a marvel, of the smaller farmers if the measure as originally intended THP] GFINERAL should be passed, and the an- OI TLOOK G(K)I) swer was not comforting. But sliding down. It is true that we | c**- leading polo player, young Tom- myths, and fairy stories. Religion men who call themselves scientists have squeezed some of the water >riy, died at her winter residence in bunk. “The opium of the peo- will tell us tliat things just happen out of the sponge, but apparent- Aiken, s. C. Mr. Pou had been in Con- Karl Marx. “The great il- ed so. It was all "blind chance.” ly it is pretty well squeezed, gross since 1901. Mrs. Hitchcock died .. doctor Freud. Facts are and from now on things will the result of a fall from a horse take a new start. Prices have while hunting with her Aiken drag- contracted, but the indications hounds several months ago. are that a turn has come and it ' is believed that the foundations Thomas Hitchcock was this writ- as thev are now anchored are commandmg officer m the au firiji and that the tendency ®‘‘‘'vice during the World war from now on will be toward oldest flier in what count today. Like Mr. Grad- grind. But what is a fact? Pontius Pi late once asked, "What is truth?” And lot.s of folks are still wonder- At If it's a fact, you ought to be able Don’t go north f5ir the summer with- Ami an axiom is "a self-evident fact.” out remembering to send that con- Which means, you can’t prove it. tribution to the Moore County Hos- You just have to belie.ve it. ' Scientists seem to have no trou- ble in believing that light, for in. stance, is either particles or waves, or maybe both particles and wave.'? I at the same time. And that we live in an expandmg universe, w'ith all One person of every six was on re lief in North Carolina during 1P;^3, complete figures for the year veal. Amateur golfs No. 1 man, George r. Dunlap, Jr., broke the all-time tecord of Pinehurst's famed No. 2 course on Tuesday when he took but more stability and probable ad- ' s. Army, his son Tommy the to prove it. Yet when you get down vances in values. Inquiries for yo»ngest. to the bottom of any set of ‘facts investment in building sites and, » but an axiom, in houses are based on more positive tones and the sales that ^ have been chronicled tell the attitude of prospective buyers. Visitors and residents both have come to have new idea of the Sandhills, with a preceptionj that much more than the super-: ficial lies under the surface in i the sound values the piney woods offer to the permanent or temporary resident. ’ i A few weeks more and this i season ends, but in ending it' <^3 strokes for the is holes. That is clears the situation by the defi- i an average of three and one-half nite assurance that Moore coun- strokes per hole, ty has not lost its standing with ; Amateur tennis' No. 1 man, Frank the folks who like to find a mild Shields of New York will be seen in climate wherein to spend the action here all this coming week, winter. Here are found satis- ' These are sort of No. l days in the fying f;icilities, as the winter * Sandhills. attendance and appreciation has shown. In the Sandhills all feet Isaminger veteran baseball are on the ground again. I of Philadelphia reminisces m ^ : the March 29 issue of the Sporting A REGION' OF i Mews on the 1910 training trip ot promise the Philadelphia Nationals in South- ■ ern Pines. Isaminger "covered” that The interesting project that ^ ^ phiiiy paper. He tells of Burrell White is caiiying foi- ggyg,,^j humorous incidents that oc- waid at his home in the Knoll- curred at the old Piney W’oods Inn, wood section is significant of the ^yj^ere the players stopped, including tact that things ha\e taken a ^ scare vhen a bolt of light- new enthusiasm in that ejuarter > struck the cupola. The training space is limited, and the universe and that the future,of the Mill Jg driving range at the "closed,” so that if ever you got to Cl'eek area is all that the pro- country Cluh. it seems that even the edge there wouldn't be anything phets ha\e e\er anticipated. Mi. manager had difficulty in White has that home making' j^ggp^j^g, players off the links. the .stars travelling away from each other at the rate of goodness knows how many billion miles a minute— ^ That is if the un- can be higher and stronger Solomon, also, knew that fool who said in his heart, "There is no God." And, since all the science of our scientists is built upon, and really consists of, recognition of natural law, when they talk of "blind chance” they are not really denying God. Instead, they are calling him names. Some children are so bullied and restricted and hampered by thejir parents that they grow up hating all authority. Once they have escaped, the very notion of being bossed makes them mad. So they look around for "tyrants” to disobey. Because they had too many rules at home, they resent all niles, and hunt for rules to break. Just like children showing off before company, safe in the knowledge that pap w'on’t spank until the minister has left. Such folks so detest the notion that or is it a second? ivei'.se is expanding right now: it ruay be shrinking again by the time you read this. Or expanding one day and contracting the next, or moving so fast, both ways at once, that it is practically standing still. Like as not what has happened is that all the stars have travelled away from each other so fast, for so long, that bj’ now they’ve hit the edges of the "closed universe” that Ein stein invented. Then, naturally, they'd nave to bounce back, because there isn't anything outside. Not even nothing. So the stars keep boimcing back and forth, like so many dried peas inside a baby's rattle: and that explains everythia^. Why not ? There's just as much sense to it as to the notion that conception in mind that has characterized a number of the fine places of the Sandhills, and he has a territory that is suscep tible of the best possible results and his plans are htting with the possibilities the hill and vallej' beyond; not even space, not nothing. Just—. Well, what? Scientists believe all this than they that they make faces at God in His heaven, just to prove that iiobody can boss them. And so we have atheists: not because people sit down calmly and try to reason things out, and thus come to the con clusion that there is no God, but just because they want to show' off. They are not moved by logic: they are swayed by their own muddled emo tions. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who asked what was the u:ie of be- ing a reasonable man, if you couldn’t invent reasons for doing as you pleas ed? Now, that was very wise talking. Nothing could be much less im- ^ portant to you and me than the age I of this world, for example. Four thousand, or ten billion years: what of it ? It was here before we came, and it will probably be here after we are gone—and not much the ; worse for our leaving, perhaps. Maybe , Arcturus, or Betelguese, is three or FOR BIRD LOVERS Next Monday morning at 10:30 o’clock Mrs. Charlotte Green, author of the new and delightfu' "Birds of the South” has promised to addre.ss affordrwhile holding the prop-'^^e Bird Club, and others who would erty on a lease he showed what Privilege, at the New Eng- his designs are and now when he has come into absolute pos session. with his health recover- , • . . ^ • , , 1 , -ii J.1 ! regular niornmg) to Monday is only ed he goes ahead with the con- fidence that he can materialize | g Uie VKsions he has entertained. G,gg^.g Bun ell White is WOlth a million than 28 species of birds dollais to this teilitoiv, for he seen Jast Tuesday and over 30 persons were present. The depression land House, out on the steps, un less the weather drives us indoors. This change from Tuesday (the is a lover of Nature and an ar tist in his ideals. Another man who has the ideals is T. N. Barnsdall, who at Knollwood is creating a botani cal garden that is destined to be ' eleven quintilians of light-years, or twad- something, away from us: maybe die. They get real excited about it, jt‘’g going, or coming. And what of and red-faced, and mad, and caU each that? They’d have to travel much other names, arguing whether cosmic faster than they do to reach us — rays are protons or neutrons or mo-; and if they went plumb out of sight ron.s. and can you bust atoms, and going the other way, I doubt if it why should you. i woiikl affect the tobacco market Yet then turn up their noses and much, look superior, and give you a pity- Nobody could get excited about ing smile, if you suggest that maybe j such matters. Folks get excited be- God did make the w'orld, after all. cause they think their notions about That is mere superstition, they say. Arcturus, or neutrons, or something, They can believe in a universe that' will help to "prove” or 'isprove some expands and contracts. They can be- pet theory -will somehow make them lieve that natural laws are merely of more importance, help them to ■‘statistical averages.” so that you feel wise and superior. And the more can’t be sure stones won’t float in' uncertain they are about their no- the air, just because they have al- tions, the madder they get if you ways dropped when you let go of doubt them. them, until now. They can, and do, I have heard oculists say that the is obviou.sly over, although as a hum orous member remarked, the song birds hereabout are not conforming perfectly in.sane and impos-‘ human eye is a clumsy device; that to any N. R. A. rules. thmgs: but they won’t believe any good instrument-maker could All who have listened in to Mrs. in the miracle of the loaves and a feature of the Sandhills in the . Green’s talks from Raleigh on Thurs- superstition. (lays to come. Morell is planting ; will want to see and hear her the Barnsdall property, and it' Monday and show appreciation We .see everything around us, from tiny, microscopic germs to the moon 1'HE BANKHEAD COTTON BILL produce a better one. Maybe so. But you couldn’t see with it. It’s easy to turn up your nose at creation, and point out how stupid things are: but could you make a better universe ? is believed that there is gather- kindness in coming to address ^ laws more fixed ing one of the finest collections of this fortunate vi-' ‘ of native and foreign trees and ; shrubs in this countryl Mr. — J; Barn.sdall is an enthusiast, and the most modern sanitary plants ” with the amendment which The conditions that prevail in „ ,, , . the Sandhills are a surprise to pei mita the small man to raise yVhile we have had his enthusiasm has awakened the in rural North Carolina,'for the H interest of the scientific men at project is in the hands of a com- P Wa.shington who are authorities mittee of capable men who will’ll on botanical work, and they are see that it is done right and in watching his progress. a thoroughly modern way. ~ l| It is likely that the sanitary Taking all the signs together li project at Knollwood will be un- it is evident that Knollwood as a (lertaken at an early date as the neighborhood is setting its |t matter seems to be at that stage stakes for a decided move for- 11 of the game which means the ward, and for the broader foun- H beginning of the job of construc- datioil of a highly desirable tion. This will not only employ country community of the high-lh hands, but it will create one of est type. 1 h TO THE TAX PAYERS OF SANDHILLS TOWNSHIP: up to six bales without the pen alty of a fifty per cent on his production, the skies appear to have cleared. some unfavorable weather it is a fact that the visitors to the resort villages have been more . . . . _ than i)robably the most optimis- This is a community in which tic had anticipated. Not for many little producers depend on several years has the activity two or three bales of cotton for been so great. For the games their tax money and for the imd sports crowds have gather- other things that can not be ed, Xhe hotels have had a good made on the farm and which business, tne boarding houses must be bought with money ob- have been filled, the renting tamed from some source. If a cottages have been in demand, farmer may raise his own living, ^ and the general volume of busi- his garden, his potatoes, corn, ness in all lines has been good, meat, and such other things as Real estate has begun to move his hou.seihold will consume, and again, and some excellent new then be allow’ed to grow two or people have become owners of three or halt a dozen bales of Pinehurst, Southern Pines and cotton from which to obtain the Knollwood homes. Expamsion of money for his taxes and other j community and village improve- needs, he is in position to exist | ment has progressed, and in without calling nn the govern-, spite of the depression the ment free monew and to put as I neighborhood has materially START smoking camels. You’ll PREFER THEM FOR FLAVOR —THEY DON'T jangle NOTICE I will meet the tax payers of Sand hills Township at the following* places and dates for the purpose of listing their taxes for the year 1934: SOUTHERN PINES-at Standard Oil Filling Station, April 20th, 1934, station near overhead bridge, (one day only.) RADFORD’S STORE—(one day only)— April 24th, 1934. PINEBLUFF—Firemen’s Hall, April 17th, 1934—(one day only). ADDOR—at Postoffice—April 13th, 1934. (one day only). ABERDEEN—The remaining’ days of April will be in Aberdeen at the Aberdeen Hotel, except Sunday. J. T. Harrington Tax Lister Advertise In The'Pilot
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