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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, April 20, 1934, THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Aberdeen and Southern Ptnes, K. C. NELSON C. HYDE, Managing Editor BION H. BUTLER, Editor JAMES BOVU STRVTHERS BURT Contributing Editors Subscr^>tlon Rate*: One Year ^2.00 Six Months »100 Three Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Idl , Southern Pines, N, C. Bantered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail matter. since the first black men were brought to this country. Next year it is hoped to expand the part of the program that deals with negro sports, dances, games, and to feature fully as much a|s this year the negro music. This also suggests other pecul iarly southern attractions, for the South is still new and inter esting to the fblk^ from *the North. With a year to provide a program and so many novelties to select from, and with the un suspected success that last week afforded it is to be imagined that the program arranged for next year will be one to talk about. The enthusiasm that backed the leaders of the affair this time will not be lacking in the next event, for accomplish- nent is a great incentive. As this was a .>5pontaneous movement coming from many persons it is apparent that with more in terest and more suggestions THE GROWTH OF THE DOGWOOD ciate the country conditions. In country life the people must like their work. In town they regard work as a burden and short hours the desideratum. In the country work is ended when it is done. In town it is done when certain hours are concluded. It is a thing to get away from in town, but in the country it is a matter of accomplishment, and the two aims are as far apart as east and west. In the coun try the worker has the pride of ownership and of creation of the thing he produces. In town the worker has his interest in the entertainments that somebody else puts on the stage for him. The two habits of life are whol ly different, and the problem is one that is growing more com-. picated every year. In the shuf fle the farmer does not get a square deal because he is an in dividualist. The town worker forms a union and strikes when he does not get the wages he SIXTH OF A SERI ES OF ARTICLES FROM THE BACK SEAT By DR. ERNEST M. POATE I have just finished reading the I pulled while Rome was burning. If Rome was burning. I wouldn't know about that. One more. I met Almet Jenks at the Library one day. (With A. Jenks and Mistress K. Boyd to the library, and there much—. I beg your pardon. Pepya and-vichy is out.) Anyhow, I did meet Almet Jenks, honestly. And says 1 to him: "Consternated is an ugly word.” Says he to me, "But it’s in the New Oxford Dictionary.” Says I to him, "None the less, it is an ugly word.” Says he to me, "So it is.” And then I came away. James Boyd has written a new proofs of last week's effusion: and, Boy I Wasn’t that Something? Talk about Fine Writing. That was Grade A-plus, fit for the Atlantic; just one continuous Royal Purple Patch, dotted with twenty-five-cent words as thick as last week’s Tan glefoot with dead flies. I had to read it over twice, myself, before I could be quite sure it didn’t mean any. thing. Oh, yes. Old Doctor Poate is a swell writer. But unappreciated. At least, that's the more comforting theory. And one has to explain it somehow. I mean, the puzzling lack of that ex- j pected mob of clamant editors (there I I go again: clamant. It’s easy to get Correspondence into bad habits) besieging my hum-j book. It will run serially in Scrib ble home and begging for just one i ner's Magazine. James Boyd has a from more persons the ideas fori demands. The farmer is not able j Masterpiece—even a little, teeny one. | coonskin coat, another year will be more num- to make mass plays in spite of l^nd offering me Untold Gold. | it is rumored that Struthers Burt Never was the dogwood more materially | all the advice that is given him i shucks, there goes the alarm-clock, disapproves of roadside sign-boards.! attractive than this vear, and ' ^ .'’ear is a considerable | as to organization, and he getSjj'nfj awake again. And remembering (You know: Like the ones about the | for one reason because the en- which to grow, so it is the little end of the horn. The ■ j^at if I had any gold, the Govern-; canoneers using tin-shears on whis- ‘ ’ to be an event in the spring in farmer pays high prices Pa\ISE FOR CURRIE Editor, The Pilot: We need a good Board of Commis sioners and I don't believe we can do better than to head same with Wilbur Currie. Some people say he c'oesn't shake hands enough and is not friendly, but let that be as it is for we are voting for a man that can do business for the county. i I don’t care whether he gives much time to hand shaking as long as he takes care of the best interests of the county. I am convinced that he is a mac who can say "yes” at the proper time and "no” when that is the best thing to say. The fact that he can run hia ow’n business successfully is an indication that he can do equally well for the county. W. D. SMITH. From the State Press couragement of the trees all over ,, the country has greatly increas-,Sandhills ed the number coming mto; lynLiTARY bloom. Proper control of woods NEIGHBOR fires at a time when it is safe to burn the grass has given the dogwood trees a better chance for ! everything he buys, and gets low prices for everything he sells and as far as can be re membered it has always been One of the best things coming ' ^o, and as far iis can be .seen in ! ment would put me in jail . . . Well,' kers until they discovered Burma- I'm saved from that, at least. from the festival of last week wa.s the practical lesson that the to multiply and to develop size i contact with the soldiers from and blossom capacity. So thislpoj.^ Bragg afforded the people spring many corners are bright of Southern Pines. A number of with blossom where previously young men trained to efficiency, the trees were fewer. This is ! Shave, or something.) I believe he But now that we’ve struck this would admit feeling that way, if you high-toned, literary note, I am re minded that every self-respecting col umnist must, occasionally, toss in a few bits of literary chit-chat. Light gossip about doings in the World of Letters. And with an Authors’ Coi- asked him. And I don’t blame him. There. That'll have to do for this week. Can’t use up all my celebrities p'. one whack. Gotta save 'em, dole ’em out a few at a time. 1 one (with the wool inside.) It cost But the future it will be so; for no NliA can tell him how to hold up the country when he sells his goods. We are complicating the lony right handy by (or so the papers problem by the relief that is of- I Keep saying, every once, in so of- n. . e shape or another, I ten) jt would be criminal not to likely to continue until in the ^ to work to definite ends and ?inVll“eTvet wm ^ days far distant the woods in'nui-Dose The soldiers are trath-'- >et was it possible to me-see, now ... all'directions may be to become a continuation of country, and from all stations, m hut i^whv the folks do not'T ^ ^ snowy display hard to match any They are taught to do things daLi to Set back to the couf' ’ T ^ place in the world. that may one day be the «ilva-1pfnlee n Michigan f „ f .T' ‘'‘"™ Along with the dogwood are: tion of the nation, not especially ! ygy made the garden fa- other forest and roadside floral in the things themselves, but in I ^ous but he and his gardens are displays that lend life and charm the precision and reliability of,{^oth forgotten You can’t "per- to the community, and all influ- the method of doing what is to' manentlv herd the crovvd where ences are extending the range of be done. Uncle Sam’s army runs , does not go voluntarilv A all these things. Never were the|like a locomotive. Every part has town m-in is about as vviselv general settings of the villages a particular motion and a par-1 ^^ck on a farm as a plow as attractive as they are this'ticular time to make that mo- mule would be in an automobile shop. He does not know the trade. SANDHILLS MADE HIM It was a lucky circumstance for the literary world when, some years ago, the doctors who had the physical wel fare of James Boyd in hand, dispat ched him to his grandfather’s plan tation in the sandhills section of North Carolina, now become famed as Southern Pines, of which Mr. But if you all will just stop clap- Boyd is part and parcel for it was ping a minute. I'll give you one brief encore . . . Thank you. Old Doc Poate has no coonskin coat: but he's got a sheepskin him, says I, I “Good evening. Mister Boyd.” He lets me call him that. Doesn’t mind a bit. Well, you know how keen he Right back at me! IS. To change the subject, Edgar Rice Burroughs writes so many books so fast that he has had to set up his own publishing company. Otherwise, to use his own locution, he had lik ed to have been swamped by over year, and chiefly because with' tion, and every motion is for a each season the improvement purpose. When a gun is to be that commenced forty years ago placed or fired each man know’s is having its results. Each year just what his part is in the more folks are prompted to add game and when it is to be done, to the appearance of their sur- and he does no more and no l»ss, roundings, and the gain increases . he moves at the fraction of a more ev'ery year than in the year ' second for which his act is preceding. The example of one scheduled, and the entire gun bit of cultivation is infestious squad or platoon or regiment or and leads to another. The cumul- army ticks off like a clock ative result is gratifying. OUR GROWING TAX DRAMA It is hardly necessary to be come alarmed over the steady in crease of taxes, for when it reaches a point that the people THE SUCCESS OP THE FESTIVAL The most marked thing about tie, for beyond a doubt we are facing a situation that is not , , , , comforting, and it will settle it- tire ot the burden they will stop self if it is not settled intelligent- If ever a f ort Bragg troop TWs if a coun-! ly and logically before the cli- li" ‘7 J'-,*’ people .-ule in spite max comes. ot all the tol-de-rol that says the , — — politicians or anybody else is in GIVING OLD DOC the saddle. In Oklahoma the ' \ FAIR SHAKE the Governor called/ ^ thoughtful citizen made mention the other day about the and up '^ho comes when "I'm fine,” .says he. "How are you?” production. It had me winging for a second; Among us of the Intelligentzia, it but I thought of a report. Quite new it is the fashion to turn up super. and clever, too. cilious noses (though when you come “I'ine, ’ says I. Just like that. to think of it, a raised-eyebrow nose would be an odd sight, if possible at all)—let’s say, supercilliously to turn up noses at Mr. Burroughs. As being a mere, commercial scribbler. I’ll tell you something about that. — The reason more of us don’t write Therei - Just as good as most of the anecdotes Alexander Woollcott comes this way again to give an exhibition of their gun drill it would be worth while for school u.u». uuu.g ciuuut to close and allow the students, Uovernor cj last week’s .spring festival is Jo study the military exercises ^ j j the success of it and the sugges-;fo/-the benetit that can be gam- thorities from insisting tions it offers for ne:ct year, for flX ‘i”"/ sale of lands for taxes. thYs thing is to be madVa per- ,«e.ss of trained action. Hardly [^WnnrvivLirgrtrerinK^^ ^ you call him, night or day, who any other occupation in life sets ^ , ,, , stands by to the finish, who has as gopd an example of the value NRA hours or prices, wh^ manent feature. When the first' other occupation in proposal was made the event in mind was a reunion of: effective application as the levies In our^own*^countv^ more, and the old slaves who still survive.' AH the ordinary habits ^^ce the veJy serirs proS Unwittingly the promoters of | f tolks look with indif- the iJnds oT «ny flowers. that remarked omTanothe^ bTof viLn, which in any action, nor for any Six'" bu\ "i>%erLTik^^ not | always has his trusty sword” handy .1 • - .Li- n fHllnrfi tn art wViPn jipfirin ic ’ ^ teriaini,V is pei- g,„f ■nnc.Vi rural, f; bv- nnrl aa orwin _ problem. It has not come to anj here that Boyd got his inspiration to "write.” He developed an ability that made him famous as recreator of his torical periods. His book on Drums has been called the best novel ever written on the time of the American Revolution, and Marching On i.« among the finest of all Civil War novels. Mr. Boyd modestly attributes his ability to revive the past to the fact that he lives in North Carolina, which has changed in character and local speech least of any State since the Revolution. This is partly because it is almost entirely Anglo-Saxon— 98 1-2 per cent American bom—and in the back districts has an almost pure Colonial dialect. Before Boyd came to the Sandhills he had never thought he could write and he had no knowledge of the pub lishing business. He had to do some thing or live in idleness, and in the invigorating atmosphere of the Sand hills he turned to writing. He is now like Edgar Rice Burroughs is, very' author of three distinct novels and simply, that we can’t write like Kd-1 starting a new serial on The Dark gar Rice Burroughs. I am free to i Shore, in Scribner's. In thia novel confess that if I could, I jolly well j he is recreating the period of the would. Eh, what? Right-ol You may; 80's and it is another publication that talk all you like about prostituting j js destined to go Marching On. one’s genius—if any. But mine should walk the streets in scandalous im modesty, beginning today, if I could thus attract cash customers as Mr. Burroughs does. Besides, I like his stuff. I think it’s swell. The language of Venus does seem oddly like that of Mars, at times: and the folks in Pellucidar have thags and thipdars, while the doctor you Martians ride on thoats and keep so- is one' aks instead of kittens, and Venusians OU. But i^'^'^t tarels: but what of it? Our Hero Charlotte Observer. is that here in the South are some conditions that are new failure when action is scheduled. It is to be hoped that and novel to the visitors from i the soldiers may come this way the North, and that one of the! o^tener and that more people most interesting because it ig j niay be able to .see thMr remark- wholly human is the association i ^ effiaent work, of two entirely distinct races of I interest- people and the definite progress j . companionable neigh- that both are making in |;he i, , sdm6 commu'iitv 1 6xurnpi6 of how to do things same community advantage that this To the northern vis.to; the^^er community can ever negro is more or less of a mys-|,ee. Fort Bragg is a mighty val- tery, as well as the relations be-1 uable neighbor. • tween the white man and the ! - i black one. In spite of a small mi is per plexing the county officials. Of what the outcome is to be i,, ^is pocket in return for his all over the country nobody ^lidnight calls. Mr. Citizen pm-i fcept this- eeeded to enlighten the heLr that when the people conclude to g^id we all take the doctor pa> less tax they will simply hospital about as we take pay less. It has been very well j the sunshine and the air and kmonstrated that a law which is j the other things that are to be ^t popular cannot be ei.forced. foj. the taking, and while we We can not enforce any law on know we can’t get along without ve.y general pnnciples today in,them, we don't even fi^re that this country. We could not en-,they have done for us anything Inf?. that ought to be paid for be- enforce the automobile laws, we cause they are always there cannot enforce any of the decis- whether we pay or not, and the get up nights to push over tO|*^y- and he’d as soon disembowel a .^ee old Doc and drop something! tarag as a Mahar. Or puncture a thipdar. (They have wings, the hor rid beasts: and the villain always has a putrid l.eart. Decayed, practically.* Just the same, it is all very nice and pleasant, and you’re perfectly sure that Tarzan, or Tanar, or Jason, or John Carter, or whatever other alias the ubiquitous here adorns, will come out top of the heap with a beautiful lady to "stay with the man she loves.” Instead of getting a Reno divorce, or taking arsenic. I like it. PUTTING PEOPLE gration of colored people to the BACK ON FARMS . ive laws on any subject, and averaee man Hops nnt nnv fnr North the folks up that way Last week in The Pilot l^eon- niost people are thoroughly ^vv-hat is handed out to hi^ with have never learned to know the]ard Tufts discussed the problem ] aware of thi.s. When taxes get a smile and without a bill of putting folks on small pieces! too high the collector will have Citizen says there are a of ground to enable them to be j the job ox attempting collection, few folks who can’t pay a doc- self-sustaining. His conclusion anti because the final re.sort is tor bill or a hospital bill and to negro or to appreciate his char acter and qualities. The folks of the South have been brought up together and White man knows black man and black man knows white man, and the relations are cordial and each has the inter ests of the other in mind. Each helps the other, and each is val uable to the other. No such con trast is found any where else in such numbers of people, and no such race harmony with so many rights for both races exists in the world. Next year the old slaves will not be as many as this year, but next year it is proposed to fea ture some of the amusing feat ures of negro life as well as some of the gains the race has made since coming from Africa to America, and they have been many. No other people on earth have made the strides in the same time that the negroes of the old slave states have made was that they do not want to! the sale of the property and be-' help them along a great many go back to the little piece of i ^-ause it can not be sold if no one : people cliip in funds to help the ground, and he is correct. Life on , wijl buy it the forced sale of . ho.spital care for those Who can the farm and life in town are two | property for taxes is possible : not help themselves. But the different conditions, and the; to the extent that it can be help is not enough for all w'ho taste for town is rarely over- sold. would forget to pay, for the con- come once the country man mi-: The matter is no joke, but is tributions are never as big as grates in that direction. Coun- ] really very serious, for the only | the demand for services from try life is a life of individualism solution of our high taxes is .low- the hospital. So the hospital asks ering the figures. We have not | help here and there to help meet yet reached the grave .stage of, its bills. But if Old Doc asked the problem, which will have! contributions he would raise a ome when taxation and attempt-' laugh. So the man said he con- - . collection will begin to inter-' eluded the thing for him to do' problems. Town life is glittering i fere with the operation of in- was to dig up some money and and sloppy with the excitements j dustry and business, and then, pay the doctor before he might I and emotional surroundings that I because business and industry ' need to call him again, and he' to many people satisfy the de-1 will be helpless under the bur-! says he has felt better satisfied' sires of living. Country life is in-; dens threatened and will stop i about it since the thing has been finitely richer in many pleasures operation, we will bump into the ; done. and s'elf reliance and self man agement. Town life is an exist ence where some one else does the thinking and the manage ment and the solving of the Kighland Pines Inn and Cottages (WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS) SOUTHERN PINES SEASON DECEMBER TO MAY Highland Pines Inn with its Splendid Dining Room Service and its Cheerful Homelike Atmosphere Caters to the Requirements of those Occupying Wlntar Homes in the Pine Tree Section. The Hotel is Sit uated on Weymouth Heights (Massachusetts Avenue) Amid Delight ful Surroundings. Good Parking Space is AvaUable for Motorlata. AU Features of First Class Hotels are Included at Highland Pines Ian. (THE INN, CHARUBVOIX, THE BEAUTIPUt.) M. H. TURNER, g FLKNN, Managing Director Recideat ManagM and advantages, but of a kind that must be analyzed and ap plied individually, and only a cer tain type of people can appre- dead wall that will compel a so- j He suggests that it will do no liition. And it may not be a sim-' harm to pass the idea along, pie and easy one. 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