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Page Two THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday May 18, 193+ THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, IntorporatHi, Aberdeen and Southern Pine«, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE, MannRinK Editor BION IL BITLEK, Editor JAMES BOVM STKl'THEBS Bl'KT ('ontributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Elntered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines. N. C., as second-class mail matter. THE TAIL-END OF A (;reat storm The showers of Monday clear ed the air of a smoke cloud that had been more or less fitfully hanging over this section for a couple of weeks, but which sev eral days ago reached a climax that was the outskirts of the greatest smoke and dust cloud the United States has seen in many years, if it was ever equall ed at any time. This vast cloud ,was greater in the North where it reached from the Rocky Moun tains to the Atlantic ocean, and covered most all of the North from here to the St. LawTence river, much of the cloud laden 'A’ith smoke, ashes, and dust, a covering some three miles thick, ’and carrying millions of tons of sediment. In some places the .set tling dust clogged the roads, houses were blackened with it, the ground was drabbled, and at times the darkness required driv ers to keep the lights burning on their cars in the day time. The whole North was swept with fires, from the Rockies east to the Hudson and the Delaware rivers, and to make matters much worse the winds that blew gales from the scene of the fires carried dust and ashes in quanti ties that made the air a soggy saturated mass. Here in the Sandhills we had the smoke of our own fire, but with it was the fringe of the great cloud that swept from the West. The picture here was one of somber magnificence for a considerable time, but from what th? papers and the people of the North say it was unrivalled as well as terrifying up that way. One estimator said that more tonnage of material was moving overhead in the air than was aboard all the freight cars mov ing on the railroads, for the load in the sky was an unbroken mass two or three miles thick, and covering the entire area all the way from Wyoming and Dakota to the Atlantic and over all of the North. THE END OF AN EVENTFl L LIFE As the night closed for Char les B. Grout last Saturday an eventful life in the story of Southern Pines reached its end. Starting with the qualities that go to make up one of the finest men ever known in this section Mr. Grout was in the embryotic settlement of Southern Pines with the first of thos( bold spir its who undertook to develop her-^ a village and a center of hu man activity, and he had an ac tive finger in practically every thing that tended to further any logical proposition. Half a cen tury his contact haj^ been at work, and in all that time there was no hesitating hour until age laid a hand on his shoulder and compelled a modification of his activities. Grout was here with that early group that included Patrick, Stebbins, Clarke, Dr. Swett, Sadelson, Von Flerf, and W'ho began at once to plant vine yards, build homes, experiment with orchards, establish various business institutions, anil they w^ere a great group of pioneers and intelligent w'orkers. South ern Pines is a monument to their energy and business tact, to their progressiveness and their integ rity and good citizenship. Personally Charles Grout was one of the most likable of men. He early set up a business on the main street of the village and built himself one of the promi nent houses up the street to ward Manly. His trade reached a desirable volume for his meth ods were clean and his relations with his people kindly. He was an excellent type of that sort of man that has given rise to that old time name of gentleman. IWhen the bank w-as projected in j Southern Pines Grout became its active head, and his name gave I character to the institution. [Every new thing that came up I with a promise for the common I good found a backer down at CJrout’s feed store. It is proI>ably safe to say that no man ever liv- led in this community who had I so completely the esteem and confidence of the whole people and .so little criticism. It is hard to find a man who ever said a mean word of Charlie Grout or who ever heard him say a mean word of any other individual. He had the cleanest slate in this p;u’t of the footstool, and those who have known him through his years of life in this section have been richer in his friend ship than if they had gold or great possession, for the friend ship of an upright man is beyond [all compare. SEnXtoR REYNOLDS i GIVES SOME FIGI RES 1 The Congressional Record of last week contained an interest ing i^age presented by our own Senator Reynolds, which gives some .startling information for his peaceable constituency down here in North Carolina. The oc casion was the return of Mr. Insull to Chicago to jail, and at I the same time the commotion made i)y the hectic doings of Mr. Dillinger and the whole nation .in the chase after him. Senator Reynolds says he still believes in the law enforcement authority , of this great government, but ; he gives a knock-out blow when , he presents his figures on our crime records. We are a crime- soaked people, stacking up about kidnappings a year, 50,000 robberies. 40,000 burglaries, 100,000 felonious assaults, an ev- erage of 1,000 murders a month every 45 minutes, and we have ! increased our murdei* rate 350 per cent in 35 years. To offset the crime it appears that in 1926 the chair an(l the other 11,925, out of 12,000 murders 75 of fenders went to the gallows or like Old Mother Hubbard’s dog, got nothing. That same year London, which has one murder to every half million people, had 17 murders, against our 50 mur ders for every half million peo ple. We murder fifty times as many people as is done in Lon don. In 1926 the murders in this country were one-tenth as many as all the killings in all the wars this country has been engaged in from the Revolution to present including the world war. The only real killer that is at all a rival to the murderer of the United Statf.^ is the American automobile, l)ut it is a social in strument, and we don't count its thousands of fatalities. Racketeers, robbers, arson and other crime bills amount to about seventeen billions a year, making war look like a little boy's game (sf plunder, from which it would seem that if we are to allow murder and rob- btry and loot and all the trim mings go on, it is small matttjr 1 whetlier we fool over wars or not. They are only chicken feed ‘ in the great game of life, and we 1 may as well tell Japan to take her ships in off of the Pacific for we don't want to play those i childish games in the back yard. ^ W’e are going to join with the Dillinger chase and /the real games that put hair on your breast and make your mu.scles swell up until they split your coat sleeves. This is a great na tion, but you got to eat plug to bacco, anti pick your teeth with a bowie knife and drink blood if you play. CORRESPONDENCE ( ANUin.XTES VIEWS SOrCHT ' axe. What I have to say is in the in- i terest of fair play and justice, j If the truth were made known to ; Kditor, The Pilot; j While serving as County Chairman' [jjp public about this one act of the on "The Emergency in Education" so p,fsent Board of County C'’ommission- many people asked me the platform of ■ g,.g giie of them would be renom- i our aspiring legislators, that I would inated by their own party. I refer to !be glad if you would ask them to state ^ their method of reporting favorably ^ their attitude towards better educa-' proposed Hemp Sanitary District. I tional facilities in your next issue, first place, the law was not may 2r>th. complied with in the petition of free- Another thing we w'otild like to holder.^. The law calling for two- tiiirds petition of freeholders when in truth and in fact the commi.ssioners actually had less than fifty-one (51'; t per cent i-ightfully signed. In spite of the objections of County Attorney, Mr. Hoyle; in spite of seven affidavits alleging fraud in the procurement of ...... ,-.1 . I certain names on the petition and in Editor. The Pilot: ^ .... ... ... spite of a great mjiny m attendance You may use this communication * ” ^ . . ■ tv:. . 'before the commissioners, pleading aF a basis to say in'The Pilot this t . with them not to recommend the dis- NINTH-OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES FROM THE BACK SEAT By DR. ERNEST M. POATE know, what is their stand on the Sales Tax ? MRS. J. M. Guthrie. Cameron, May 14, 1931. I'li.MSKS HOSIMT.XL i week that I am again on foot and ■able to look after my larm and other business and am again able to re- i sume my post on the Board of Coun- * ty Commissioners. I left the Moore County Hospital on April 30th, the 20th day after being operated on, kept my bed one week ' . , . ... i than ten families in Hemp who could , and have been un since, considermg ' I the seriousness of the operation I ^ consider this a remarkable recovery and speaks highly for the efficiency ^ 1 of the staff, of whom I can not speak i trict which would plunge the Hemp community deeply in debt and in crease taxes in and around Hemp, the ^ commissioners recommended favor ably to the Depaitment of Health 'in Raleigh the creation of the District. In the fir.st place, there are not more afford to pay for installing equipment i to use a public water wqrks. To in- tall the plant would take more than , third of the valuation of all the too highlj’. — E. C. MATHESON. Eagle Springs, May 14, 193-4. ' property in the proposed district, con sidering the present depressed condi- THE LIBKAKVS NEEDS ' Editor, The Pilot; I was shocked, and frankly rather . ashamed, to find that the Sout;*ern Pines Library is so badly in need of ; funds that it has become necessary jj^^o debt, in spite of the failure to I to reduce the hours to one morning have two-thirds petition of freehold- tions. The beauty of the Hemp com munity and the reason it has grown so in recent years is the fact that there are no town taxes to pay. The Hemp Silk Mill was, of course, left out of the proposed district, the only estab lishment really able to pay lax. The commissioners’ recommending that this little community be plung and one evening a week, suspend the I buying of new books, dispense with I free memberships for school child- ' ren, and. probably, do without the ; services of Mrs. Fisher as librarian t during the summer. Perhaps in the ^ past 1 have taken the library too , much for granted. Apparently I ac- I cepted it like the gentle rain from |hfaven, which falls alike upon the ! just and the unjust. Only this, it ap pears, is going to be a dry season. Having lived most of my life in places where public libraries are sup- i ported from town funds dependent on ■ taxation, I did not fully realize how small a group of people, relatively, has giVen its time, interest, money and books to supply Southern Pines with library ^advantages. Perhaps others have not realized either. Of these advantages there can be ers and in spite of affidavits alleg ing fraud in procuring many names alrf'ady on the petition is nothing short of a political move of the rank est brand. Overriding the Legislature, using rulings of the Attorney Gener al’s office to further the matter and the method used to take away the rights of property owners, is enough to make a fair-minded man •■■iiudder. The entire matter was rushed over the heads of property owners, with the sole view and purpose of creat ing a job foi- a certain political gang, a few of the "Ward Heelers,” as Tammany would put it. This is only a part of what has actually taken place but I do not have the space nor time here to tell it all. As I .said before, if the truth were known not a single member of the present Board would be renominated. A County no question. For a town of this size, | Commissioner has no business play the library is singularly well man-; jng politics after he gets into that . aged and well equipped. Mrs. Fisher i position. He is there to serve the is always ready to suggest, to wel- ! people and the County as a whole, come your suggestion, to choose books The people in this County don’t get for shut-ins who cannot come in per-; the truth about matters. The pres- son; if you have not been there late-1 ent Board has practiced a rank brand ly. you will be surprised to see. even ' of politics even in the drawing of in these parlous times, how many i jurors for Court service. This is bor- good new books are on the shelves. ; Bering on tyranny and other things Winter residents of Southern Pines i that smell unto high heaven. If a man have appreciated the facilities offer- j a fair, honest job of governing, ed them, and have shown their ap- let him stay in office; he is entitled ipreciation in tangible terms. Natur-' to it. After a man is elected to pub- • ally anything which makes our win- ■ ijc office he should serve those who ^ ter guests more willing to come to voted against him just as impartially Southern Pines, and more content to | as tho.se who voted for him. Setting I stay, is of value’to the business and jn motion something that will put a I social ipterests of the town. i mortgage debt on a person's proper- ! There is also the matter of the li- | ty without due proce.ss of law, is a brary’s direct service to the South-; ser ious matter. We all favor progress Why not discu-ss Literary Trends today? After all, I've got to talk about something . . . And as regards this particular Trend, unless I hurry up it will be all over with, and I might as well have saved my time. The Trend to which I refer is that represented by the Hard-Boiled Boys: like Dashiel Hammett, and that other chap who alw'ays made the postman ring twice; for fear he might barge in onto something that would shock him, no doubt. I mean the brilliant young exponents of what one might call the B.-B. School. And not air-gun shot, either. More meta phorically, one might refer to the.se gentlemen as the slums which have grown up beside the Hemingvay. Isn’t that one a nv'ty?And I made it up all by myself, too. The.se are the gents who delight in the “good old, Anglo-Saxon words" which you can be pinched for print ing. Their characters are as one might say -out-spoken. They believe in calling a spade not merely a spade, but a stable-fork. Even so, in reading their produc tions one sen.^ies a certain lack. Such ladies as are accustomed to say to their gentlemen friends, “You’re .such a xxx" (look in the book: "you’ll find the word printed in full there, but I shan’t use it. i Well, what 1 mean, they wouldn’t stop with that. Prob ably what they really said was, “You dirty xxx, you’re such a xxx-xxxed xxx." If you know what I mean. That is. even in these emancipated day.<f, one can’t print quite everything. Imagination still has some play. That being the case, it seems to me you might as well leave them all out. since you must leave out most of them. Smutty words, I mean. 'This rhetorical construction is known as “Aposiopesis" -- scattering periods about without any regard to sentence formation. I'm quite good at that. And some day I intend to try doing a “Zeugma”- if only I can find out what it is.) The "Adventure” magazine used to reason that way, and still does, as far as I kn.^w: That the reader can fill in all gaps just as well as he could fill in most. So they always print it like this: " it to said he. "You’re a ed ing Or .something of the sort. After all, every tenyear-old boy— and most of the girls, too- have heard all those words: the ones the B.-B. boys print, and the ones they leave out. You_can find them scrawl ed on the walls of freight houses, livery-stables (when they had them) and various public retiring-rooms. Authorities recognize only seven teen smutty words, anyhow. (Though a few include xxx, making eighteen: i and Schmallhausen regards xxx and ]xxx as colloquical, and therefore I rec- {ognizes only fifteen.) These every body knows: he doesn’t need !the B.-B. school of literature to teach him. W'herefore I suggest this arrange ment. Let the B-B boys print a brief glossary, in the back of their novels; it could be on a perforated page,, with all the smutty words there are arranged in order, and numbered. Then, in the body of the book, they could just use references. "Why, you (2),” for exam ple. " (5) (3) you to (7)." Or, if preferred (for the sake ot variety), it might be written like this: “You dirty six-nining twelve!” (says the heroine to the boy friend.) “I’m going to knock your five-threed head, off, you six-seventeen.” Thus, ordinarily respectable folks could read the book through without offense: the free souls could use their imagination and probably fill in the. gaps quite as well as the authors. While those few who lacked an or dinary common - school education could take the reference-numbers and look in the back of the book and get I absolutely everything in the line of { Freedom of Expression. Everybody else could tear the glos- .oary page out when they bought the book. If they bought the book. I think this is a grand idea, and I offer it to the ten-minute egg school of authorship free. (Though if any- i body wanted to send a small check or even a large check—as a free will offering, purely a recognition ot my outstanding services to Literature, it can be done. Address me care ot this newspaper: and be .sure to send Post Office money-order. New York draft or ca.shier’s check. These per- .sonal checks fly back and hit you in the face sometimes, plus one-sev enty-five protest fees.) Anyhow, it seems to me a ver> silly notion that one can't give an accurate, realistic picture of lite without using a dozen-odd shoft and dirty words- when the- language is chock full of word.s. So many that not even the most erudite author can hope to know them all. It shows a lack of the creative imagination: or so I think. Not that smutty words do much harm, if any. We've all heard them , before. They are merely vulgar, dis* ! pleasing in bad taste. There are plenty of passages in books recom mended for the young as being "sweetly romjintic” which are so nasty-nice as to do very much more harm to imaginative youth than crude, blunt smut possibly could. R. A. WARREN I For Fine Repairs j Watches—('lock.s—Jewelry West Broad Street I SoHtkern Piaefi Grains of Sand Dry North Carolina note; The State Highway Patrol reported that 126 persons were ari’ested on highways in North Carolina last month for drunken driving, the larg est number of such arrests in any month since the patrol was organized three years ago. Capt. Charles D. Farmer issued the report showing 736 persons were ar rested on various charges, including 213 for driving without licenses and 24 for reckltsf driving. Patrolmen gave drivers 5 Ofe'i warnings during the month as hey traveled 128,299 miles. ^ ern Pines schools. Last year free I memberships were available for all children below high-school age; for I high-school students there were fifty- cent memberships, with special ar rangements for supplementary read- j ing lists in science, history, art and literature cour.ses. Between Novem ber and May of this year, I under stand that the library, from its dwind- , ling funds, has spent S22..50 for books specifically for use in high-.school i cour.ses. In addition, it has lent 2.50 j volumes to be u.sed without charge ■ at the school itself. The.se books have, of course, had the hard and constant wear of text books; when they are returned many of them, perhaps most I of them, will have to be rebound. The ■ bill will be, probably, somewhat over ^ $100. Such expenses as these in many I towns are met by the schools, whose i funds, again, are supplied by taxa tion. Since we are not taxed to main tain our library, it seems only fair that we should do what we can to support it. I After all, most people can afford a dollar for membership. And may I , add that a five-dollar membership j carries the right to take out all the < books you like for a year without further charge? I RUTH BURR SANBORN. 'Miv 15, 1934. I fit*- It finally rained and Harrison > Stutts and Will McNeill report a rush , for seeds this week. | Candidates for the Legislature are ] pretty quiet on the sales tax, auto drivers’ licenses, etc. The voters would ! like to hear from them. “PKETTY KAW DEAL” Editor. The Pilot: I am saying what I have to say before the primary so that .some thin-skinned, narrow-minded politi cian n'on’t say I’m grinding my own but no one ever mortgaged himself out of debt or spent himself into pros perity. Up to the present time about the only thing that can be said about the action in regard to the Hemp Sani tary District is that it wa.‘j a pretty raw deal. — H.F.SEAWELL, JR. C'arthage, May 14, 1934. NIAGARA I. p. Tuniley is spending a few da.ys in and around Cameron this week. Mrs. Luella Reynolds, Mrs. Hatton and Mrs. W'elch spent a day or two in Charlotte the past week. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Spauldinj;, who have been pleasant guest.s here for the winter season left Saturday for their home in Boston, Ma.ss. Miss M. A. Williams left Tuesday for her summer home in W'est Or ange. N. J. Mrs. E. B. Franklin, who spent the winter here, left the first of the week for her home in Freehold, N. Y. Mrs. D. J. Pierce of Cameron .spent a few daj^’s in our village first of the week. Mrs. W'. H. Chatfield and step-son, Clayton, who spent some time here left on Tuesday for their home in Brownville Junction, Maine. After several weeks’ absence the Rev. C. R. Dierlawn filled the pul pit at the village church Sunday. Special music by Mrs. Marble and little daughter and a choir from Manly added much to the services. vou SMOKe Alt YOU AND CAMELS WON’T UPSET YOUR ^ nerves. ... i The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. 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