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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, May 4, 1934. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE riL<yr, IncorpnratMl, would have any effect. But it may be as capable as they, or has mig'htly little, for we are even more capable in a general all so completely indifferent in way, although that is merely a ie mass of action that we get 1 concession to a possibility. But nowhere except to the doctor and the main fact is that these three Grains of Sand EIGHTH OF A SERES OP^ ARTICLES One Year Six Months .. Three Month.s $2.00 $1.00 J . .50 Aberd<>en and .Southern Fin«w, N. | Undertaker. Possibly the at'hntn have gained a familiarity to organize a safety ; with the business of the coun- Kiov II KfTi KR | movemeut in a Safety Week ' ly, atui that familiarity is the m>v., MTKITHKK.S accomplish a slight some-1 biggest asset that will be offer- thing, but until we can arouse i ed in the coming two years of C ontributtnc Editors r . n i- ^ . an interest that will overcome operation. Siil>s4-ri|ition Ilau's: I , , , . • the absolute indifference gen- j JMatheson has been active erally manifested regarding au-,in his contact with county work tomobile travel the doctor and foj- many years, and is worth the funei’al shop will continue to | his magnificent salary of about Addres.s all communications to The I have plenty of business. j forty dollars a year if for no I These things we may as well more than as a wise counselor to recognize: i the board. Mr. Currie is a man The hichwHv is bv far the I >iot so many years experience ern Pines. N. C., as second-class mail' 1 e nign a. . . _ niihlir- wnrk hut most dangerous place m this.‘•i puoiic woiK, out nt nas a countrv. ■ recoivl of intelligent ances- Our cocksure indifference try which has i)roven its busi- makes it so, and until we take ' qualifications, and his own a different attitude towaiil our .vt'ars ot work have added to the road practices the highway will, P>'oof ot his ability. He has been still l)e the most dangerous ’ head ot the board and in that place in the countrv. War is a <-ai)acity has shown his value to bugaboo to scare little children, ^ the county. He know.s what can but the automobile is the perma-' what needs to be done, nent and active and efficient "’hat can not be done, and l^illgi. i his loyalty to the county welfare We can have safetv weeks and »ever questioned. Gordon Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South- matter. rOR A NEW ST ATE CONSTITiniON A week from this Sunday is Moth er's Day, a day set apart by Act of Congress to honor our maternal par ent. Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, Pa., was the originator of the Moth- FROM THE BACK SEAT Bv DR. ERNEST M. POATE I have been reading books. Two books. And they made me mad. Both er’.s Day idea some quarter of a cen- of them. tury ago. In her words, “the general i Mr. Scott Fitzgerald has publish- object of that day is a simultaneous | ed a new book, which seems to have observance in every part of the world, j the reviewers puzzled. At least, no your land and my land, of the mem ory of the best Mother who ever liv ed, or in her honor if that Mother is still living. "On that day everyone is asked to wear a white flower, preferably a carnation, as the emblem of our Mother's suffering of the flesh.” two of them agree about it. Some think it very, very good a meicilefjs psychological study, and all that rot: some think it prftty thin. I think it is lousy. He has called it “Tender is the Night.” He might as well have called it “The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring, Tra-la,“ because they haven't anything to do with the case, either. But if the night is tender, Mr. Fitzgerald's characters are tough enough to make up. Quite. Setting all other objections aside .\t the next election North _ ^ Carolina is to vote on a new state ;iH the prattle about safety we ■ ^ ^meron i.s another dependable constitution. The existing onC|eare to indulge in, but we w’ill pian, intelligent, ami his exper- liates from the rwonstruction not stop the slaugter until we' is worth money to the period of the war days and is get interested enough in the i^'Hinty, and the county pr i .. r- ,, , «.i,-7r,uw th not regarded as entirely suitable high cost of coffins and hospi- l>y his period of training in the i paid Kershaw county si47.,,oo for the f''• modern days, and perhaps ^tal bills to really have a concern ice it he can be continued on “ 8*^' it is not. At an.v rate in some ^ about safet.v. tor as a jieople we ^ht .iob. | writer of this column has been things it does not fit in with-care little about safety or any^ . For the same reason The Pi-;, things as they are at present,' thing else that takes active' lot would like to and probably there is littleidoubt thinking or actual interest. Postmaster Buchan announced this week that special Mother's Day stamps are now on .sale in the post- office here. They are also available in all postoffices of the oounty. It will be good news to motorists j that means lifting a lot of weight who traverse U. S. Highway No. 1 I ^he scoundrel has stolen ^hat char- outh of here to know that on Monday j acter so long and well beloved of lady the toll bridge ju.st south of Camden, novelists: the Brilliant Young Sui- S. C., became property of the state! goon. Fitzgeral J call.s him a P.sy- and there is no longer any charge for : chiatrist,” but the disguise is thin, cro.ssing the river at that point. The You know the critter: I< ive famous 'ofits ^ South Carolina Highway department i professors of surgery, from univer- ' sity medical schools. Sir Sandy knows about the perversion.*?, rather than to aid in the development of hia principal characters who have no characters to begin with. They are lat, like colored paper, cut-outs. Smut ?olored. Eh? No. Rollo. I (iid not like the book. The other one was “The Economy of Abundance,” by Stuart Chase. It is tripe. He begins with the pleas ing dream of the Technocrats (and one had supposed they were discred ited long ago), all about a world full of Machines, so nobody need work. Apparently the machines are self-created, or else they breed like rabbits. Anyhow, it’s all automatic. He cites that celebrated rayon fac tory in Jersey, this time: I have read about it in Michigan, Massachu setts, Rhode Island and points north and east: even in North Carolina, ouce-which runs itself, Untouched By Human Hands. Only there never was such a factory: Howard Scott invented it. So, every human need can be sup plied by "a few hundred thousand technicians," leaving the rest of u.s that some things about the old document need to be harmoniz ed with conditions as they now are. It goes without saying that IMNEHI RST AN EDI CATIONAL FORCE The common idea of O'Quack McNut. the eccentric Scotch genius, and the Mandarin Bong Gong, , , oi. , ■ » , ^ 11 I Shocking. Am t it? Though he , the learned Chinese observer, all ' ^ • s to New York City and to Georgia and ^ j^eir heads in unison. The 1,. , 1’rank . South Ca.olina points since the re-|j^.,^,^ Doomed. Only one nvihrnTtr/ l.rv ril iT'rn t amendment. In f«»r • the'country in the .solar sy.s- main on the Ijoaid. It co^ts the i Javs in wet New York he did not see,, . i, , , nmintivi c.inity mono,- l„ l,r«,k in new i though “V I'-'" meml)ers, foi- new men have a lot to learn and a lot to unlearn at the expense of the taxpayers Pine people do not like to make radi- hurst is that it is a pace wherein ; every time a shift is made. This cal change.^; quickly, which to pla.v golf and follow the; eounty does a biggtr business means that they hesitate about* horses or such other .sports and ’ .'’early than any liut a few con- voting a new constitution or any n creation as may be agreeable, eqrns in the count.v. To com- ofviL'inir m nfl i t'ir* u f Riu Ai'liiltj I’cf ic -i l^l^l\^_ Pal'O OUl’ .SVStem Ot hirini? mail- were wide open and apparently doing | a thriving business. In one small town in dry South Carolina he saw four ' "drunks" on the main .street within ten minutes. What is the answer? seems to upset his own argument a little, by pointing out that a million I)oople, more or less, were required to fabricate the book in which he writes. Yep. We’re over-built. The reason we don't have everything we'd like is, that there's an over-supply of every thing. Too much isn’t enough, that is. And he points out, (as all orthodox ■ The younger scions have the duty. Scarcely pausing bottle of Mellen's Food, he comes. an save her. Send for the Brilliant Young Surgeon, the Boy Wonder of , Oscalcosa and see what happens. He invented the operation: he alone dares perform it. -r. • , , . . „ 1 u n, 11 f Kconomists do, nowadays* that we are Tlie Boy Wonder hears the call of to finish his ^ .so nothing that happened earlier than 1929 can pos.sibly happen again, and all our y acquiied body of experience scrapped. adopted l)y the people. Possi- cultural scheme. i P'c^^king a new man from the : tu r.... «... . .... to^mucTof^t" hlv the best argument in its fav- In the last few weeks various sticks for the next two years j ever, any one who has heard the • save her,' And .so he does, of cot.r.se. or is a series of articles in the conventions have been assem- because the old man has been L oungsters sing ot late will hard- Outside of novels, a hard-working Z Charlotte Observer by Clarence bling at Pinehur.st. the bankers,'‘>n the ,iob long enough and a: surprised at the succes.ses .loctor can expect if he s ucky to y. ^ ^ Poe. of the Progressive Farmer, the doctors, the engineers and np"' man should be given the they acliieved away from home., be recognized as one of the ')r nrnnrwp now nt rilC.V also let the World kllOW promising of our Younger Men by I let the Goveinmeiit do it. instead who was a member of the con- others, ami while these men car- l^lace. Or propo.se a new man at vention that prepared the new ry on in the business of their the hea, 1 of Pinehurst, or the document, an 1 who explains the craft they also enjoy discus- >Tiills at Hemp or one of the why and the purpose of it. He sions and addres.ses that rank hig stores, picking him without , 4,, , 1 ■ nopv tr, rvio notes the abilitv and the char- with some of the highest utter- rtgard for any experience “ifo>'"^ation that the town He graduates from medical school, acter of the meii who wrote the ances of highly specialized edu-‘ hi the line to l)e filled. The sug-1 «^’hools seem to know what they invents his operation (or writes his So we nee new measure, and tells whv thev cation and culture, and the doors Kestion would be absurd, but no.’“'e carrying on tor. Here .seems I two “standard text-books” like Fitz- promlsing of our Younger Men by some thing creditallle about the ' the time he reaches his middle fifties. ' Wicked W'all Street Bankers. Sai'clhills as well as conveying But the Novelist’s Dream gets la-; it out of nothing, .so debts to home folks that pleasant bit mous before he’.s dry behind the ears, i never ue paid. It sounds like accepted what thev have incor- of the meetings are usuallv open so than replacing fxper-J he what the old bop years geraid’s boy porated in it, an^l why they left to such visitors as care to listen ■ fenced men with inexperienced lour-time win-, wide Fame, out what is out. in. Othtr gatherings of similar county atfairs that in-j’^^^' Now, while it is undoubtedly mature are frequent at Pine- \ast sum.> of mone.x yeai-| right for every man to think for hurst, so that from the opening • * rnone,\ paid bj the tax pa.ver, himself, it is also true that most the resort in the early fall un-, 'yho has no recourse to compel. CARTHAGE Diver) and wins W'orld all in six months. Before he's thirty, the lad must get fright fully blase! (French term, meaning "he burns you up.”i But the Diver Boy is a p.sychiatrist. of us, and by a large ma,jority, til the close in last spring, the have not the familiaritv with educational atmosphere is alive things that enable us to' devise ''’'th an agreeable stimulus and an organic law for a state. The the daily talk is tinctured with men who did this .iob are men the tlotsam ot the themes that of experience and of ability and ^‘onie betore the meetings. its wise use. THE SOI THERN PINES SCHOOL TRIUMPHS need an Industrial General Staff, to Plan things, and decide what kind of Easter hats the ladies will wear next year. The human I’ace man aged in its feeble way for some thous- incls of years without Plans: but we need 'em now. He fails to say where we are to find competent Planners (meaning, of cour.se, he can see to that himself I. or who is to select them or how folks are to be made to like the Plan. If everybody would C. C. Kennedy and Walter Mclver ; anyhow: before his p.syche has e.scap- I of New York City are spending their from the "oceanic state.” Fltzger- j vacations in Carthage visiting rela- says he is. You’d never have j tives. known otherwise. The heroine is a Mr. and Mrs. George Carter spent j 'ady lunatic. In addition, there are, | plan his own affairs, with rea.sonable In this welter of trying to find ' Friday in Madison. . i One Movie Star. Several Exhibition- | honesty, and forget the rest, we'd get they gave much time to consid- intelligent man or woman, out where we are at, as Tom I Mrs. Henry Roberts of Sanford >«ts, and Any Number of .sexual per-j along. We always have, tration of all the things under or old, can stay a few Watson used to say, it is en-| “pent Thursday with her sister, Mrs. verts. Mrs. Diver (Nicole to you) is I Of course, times are hard. But ;i ivi.sement, entertaining sug- veeks at Pinehurst without prof-' couraging to find that in school R- L. Yow. gestion and opinion from all -ting by the contact with educat- affairs Southern Pines is gain-j Mr. and Mrs. T. McNeill of Red sources and after months of indivvluals who come that ing an enviable fame in the Springs spent Sunday with Mr. and clo.se study they complied the thiring the season and find- friendly contests with the Mr.s. e. h. Morton, paper which they have submitt- hig much pleasure in the ac- schools of the state. In the ed. It is .safe to say that that ^)’-'^hitances made. People who Greensboro contest the Southern ^ C. Wallace, Mrs. h. j. Hall and, ing this group of studious and capable ' the Sandhills are prompted Pine's Glee Club, a .school organ- Mrs. Frank McDonald spent Wednes-1 have rei such a lunatic as never was on land | they’ve been harder before this, and or .sea. She demonstrates her lunacy 1 «'e pulled through. It's easy to for- by being faithful to her husband for ! get that in the Good Old Days thous- •several years: and proves her re- i ands of poor folks actually starved Mr. and Mrs. O. D. Wallace, Mrs. | covery by taking a lover. Before writ-j to death: that they used to have his story, Mr. Fitzgerald must I I'amines— as they still do in China read a book. Unfortunately, he ; (and in Russia, in spite of the Five men are as fully to be trusted in ^ desire for relaxation, and ization, won the first place, and , clay in Greensboro shopping. 1 read the wrong one. He seems to their .joint effort and judgment get away from the driving to make matters more pleasing Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mohr* have re-1 think that “Schizophrenia” implies y of us as individuals, and ■of business. They come a few weeks ago the Southern , turned to New y iat rea.son it seems logical mix with other people, 1 Pines High School won the dra-' vi.sit with Mrs. Mi ork City after a Mohr’s mother Mrs. as an.v for that rea.son it seems logical - - . to take their view of the value take life with not much ser-' matic championship, and as this , R- L- Burns of what they are offering. It ionsness. In that way cordiality , only the second year for this i The Rev. i. N, ciegg of Pageland, would seem that the new docu-'friendliness pave the way I-‘^t'hool in competition for these s. c.. spent a few days here last nient is of a kind to stand bv.' eomradeship, and the bank* events the victory is all the; week visiting his sisters, Misces An On the recommenplation of men the raih'oad man and the like Clarence Poe, who was one' I^**ofessional man, and all the of the builders of the new con-' of the aggregation, bent on stitution The Pilot believe.s it a pursuit of pleasure, are good thing. THE PEN'A.^i'Y OF INDIFFERENCE thrown with each other under circumstances that bring out the congeniality that exists among people, and a sort of dil ettante post graduate cour.se in everything is the outcome. Not A movement is on foot for « - • . “Safety Week.” to be ol).served : ^iketi seriously in the from May 7 to the principal Iwith everybody idea in view being to stop the ^^'^rtheless much that is well bloody experience of the auto mobile on the highways. Heaven knows there is ample reason to try tf) stop the murder and mu- tiliation and destruction that the automobile entails, for it each grounded is enjoable companion ship follows and most folks go home with a broader comprehen sion of lots of things, a better knowledge of the humanities in cluded. 'Fhe convention season split personality—which it does not, by any means. And he .selected most of his characters from the Psycho- pathia Sexualis. Doc Diver make a much more convincing praecox than does his wife. He proves his brilliant diagnostic powers by declaring that a strange young man is about to more gratifying. , nie and Marie Clegg However, the winning of a ; Margaret Clegg, student at high place in state-wide compe- -^P«nt the week-end i commit some horrid crime: “Look at tion is only one phase of the aunts, Misses Annie and j his chin, his handsi” So the poor real achievement, which is the Marie Clegg. 1 lad. knowing himself Doomed, ljumps training of the children to a de-; Lynch of Sanford spent j overboard. Now, a phrenologist gree of skill that remains with week-end with her parents, Mr., night pull that sort of stuff, them long after the prizes won | ibut no self-re.specting psychiatrist are forgotten. Not long ago' James Pleasants has returned from would think of it. What I mean, some philosophers at the store I ^ business trip to New York. iFooey! box debating club were argufy- i has returned to New ! I think the book is horribly scram- ing over the lack of interest in 1 spending his vacation with ' bled. Its incidents .seem to be selected community music, and one un-' parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Muse, at random, to show how much Fitz happy commentator deplored the ■ ® Arrowood, Jr., of condition in which the old brass Concord spent Sunday with the Rev. j bands have gone to the loft, and ; ® Golden. Rev. Arro- > the glee clubs have taken to preached the baccalaureate ser- i bridge and the quartettes and Eureka. j quintets and other groups of ! Alice Mae Blue of Fayette- Year Plan)- and that people were reduced to cannibali.sm . . . Times are hard today: but even those who are on relief are better off than the av erage working family of the early in dustrial age. This is not the worst depression of all the ages. Stuart Chase himself admits that the “ordi nary garage mechanic” can and does have almost as much luxury as the millionaire for a lot less money. The poor have been grov'ing richer stead ily for a century. We're not sunk yet. SI ND.W SCHOOL ( ONVENTIOX The Sunday School Convention ot the Sandy Creek Association met at Carthage on April 28th, and 29th at the Carthage Baptist Church. year piles up a greater record Pinehurst is by no means the cultural characters are putting'week-end here with than the wars this country has i gratifying sea.son of the, in their spare time in cultivating parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo encountered. But we shuclier at!^’^^‘*- ^t is an experience that is ! an adeptness in cutting around i war and go ahead with the au-' ''’^^th the time and money it in- a curve or beating a train to a tomobile slaughter, and the sole ; solves. ; crossing and ^ humorous things : poful.^rity contest n reason is because of our perfect ~ i hke that, rather than .serenad- .at s. p. high school Cl’RRIE MVrHESON i ing Dulcinea on a summer night., .. . AND CAMERON ' training with the bass drum The pupils of the Southern Pines, The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONES, A.-^.s’t. Cashier indifference. We all know that a moving autonioi)ile of a ton weight, roaring down the street, is one of the most murderous missiles ever discharged in the direction of people. But w€ give the danger no thought as the results of each day’s travel ,«hows. Whether we are going to re duce the death and mutilation and ilestruction li.st* nobody knows. We have all talked enough about this thing to ac complish something if talk U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK lor training with the bass drum I and tuba and slide trombone to High School are conducting a popu- At the time this is written; lejslX the young DemocTats in ' larity contest to determine the most' Wilbur Currie, Evander Mathe-' the torch light parade in the | popular boy and the most popular I son. Gordon Cameron, Frank fall campaign. ' girl. The voting is arranged similar-. Cameron and L. R. Reynolds j But the triump'h of the school | ly to that of the Festival Queen con- have announced their willing-’ children puts a more cheerful test. Nominations close tomorrow. At ness to serve the county as com., slant on te musical and in fact' the pre.sent time the leading candi- missioners for another period. 1 oh the whole cultural outlook, i dates are: Girls, Susan Swett, 935; i The Pilot is plea.sed with this It now appears that the old Eleanor Sparks, 750, Katie Lee Ward, announcement and for this rea- Sandhills Sixteen, which gave 475. and Alice Abel, 300. Boys, son. These men have the exper-1 much tone to the community, at George Pottle, lOOO; Edward Cox; ' ience and acquaintance with the home as w'ell as on the air and' Tom Carlisle, 575: L. T. Hall, 430;! work of the office. Other men abroad, is not wholly forgotten, i and Charles Vale, 325. ’ I WE SOLICIT AND APPRECIATE YOUR BUSINESS Deposits Giiaran teed l^p to $2,500. Safe Deposit Boxes and Storage Space All Departments Commercial Banking NEW BANKING HOURS Mon. to Fri., 9 a. m. to 2 p. m Sat. 9 a. m. to 12 noon ttim«nmnt«n»i:m»»»«innriii!MHt»niimimminmiiiinimiinHiiiinB»gt»iw
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