Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 5 1934. THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Inrorpomted, Aberdcea sind Southern I’ines, N. V. NIXSON C. HYDE, MiiiuvKing Editor BION H. BUTLEK, Editor fAAlES BOVI) STKl THEBS BURT Contributing Editors Subscription Kut«‘s: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Alonths 50 events of the day, a:iil if they should merely stand on the plat- i foi’m and wave a hand they ; would be received with applause I and cordiality, for they repre- I s.ent in themselves the progress I this nation and this state have i made since their boyhood days ' in Old Bethescla. The Shaws were pioneers in this neighborhood: Southern : I'ines was built on the ancestral I lands. Shaw’s ridge is the main! ;summit which is now called Wey- i I mouth. Duncan Shaw and Thom-1 ' as Shaw were two of the chief I subscribers to the fund collect-1 ' ed three quarters of a century j Entered at the Postoffice at South-i build the old church to •m Pines, N. C., as second-class mall j which the friends and visitors | wetter. : will repair on Sunday, and the' Shaws have been identified with ] every thing of progress in the I i history of the community for i more than a century. On the roster of names of the congre gation in 1812 Norman Shaw land Elizabeth Shaw are register-' ed, indicating the long period; i during which the family has; I been associatecj with the work ' It is not \<'holly the develop-' GRAINS or SAND Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. THE RE.VL ISSUE IN THIS STATE Last week before the Kiwanis Club Herbert F. Seawell, Jr., made some statements that arc about as startling as anything that has been said in this coun ty ill many a long day. “Two evils beset the state made in this pine-clad re gion in the recent years that give to the world a knowledge» of what the Sandhills have and i are doing that is our most val-, ued recommendation. Rather the men who have gone out | from the old hive and risen to | such station that they are also i exhibits of what can come out | of Nazareth are the convincing i credentials of what the old-time \ sand barrens can produce. It is i no boastfulness that permits i pointing with interest to Dr. i Shaw and Judge Shaw, but an ' earned local pride in their achievement and in the work they have done since they cast their fortunes elsewhere. gerous to the advancement and progress of human welfare. They are our overwhelming and increasing public debt, and our apparent loss of sensibility to ward honor.” Leaving the second charge for the present, the first one is of such magnitude that it must command attention because it was fortified by such an array of figures as to be of most alarming character. Elsewhere in this issue are extracts from Mr. Seawell’s address, and for the common good of this county, state and nation, it is more im perative that these be studied than anything that has been printed in The Pilot in a long time. The figures Mr. Seawell pre- THE. sents are presumably correct. tOR THE >MN'TLR for he says they are taken from ; The first October drop of tem- the official suurces at gives the sought-for and no motive could be round in t„ take a fall out of ottering misleading figures for ^ ^ they are easily verified or refut-1 weather instead of the con ed. However, everybody has, tinued protest against the heat known that our expenditures, na- of summer, and incidentally tells tional, state and local have been; Sandhills iilhabitants that overwhelming this people and | that vve are riding toi a ed. Already the returning win- trous fall unless we take up the ^ beginning to drop slack at once and on a broad ^ short time the Car- scale. Here is the one leally bigPinehurst will have open if th«t confronts the whole Lnited States toda\, which, foi boarding houses will be in operation. The signs point to a In his “off the record” talk to the Kiwanis Club on Wednesday Con gressman Lambeth said, among* other things: "But I have never that I know of been accused of stealing sheep.” After the meeting, held in Aber deen. he drove to Southern Pines. While talking to John Stephenson and Frank Buchan in front of the Broad Street Pharmacy the Congress man reached in his pocket for the time. “Say, this isn't my watch. I’ve walked off with someone's from the meeting.” Meanwhile Dr. E. M. Mediin, Ki wanis pro=iident, was wondering over in Aberdeen what had become of his timepiece, always kept in front of him at meetings to keep the program running on time. It's a temptation this week to write a poem starting off: Half a house, half a house, halt a house onward— Down Massachusetts Avenue rode the old Heyward house. If you’ve tried to negotiate Massa chusetts avenue by motor this week you have the idea. They .say the 16-pound dolphin hauled out of the Atlantic off New reiver Inlet last Saturday is the first of its kind caught in those waters. If so it's news, but unfortunately the modesty of the writer of this column forbids his telling you who caught it. Mebbe some other paper w'ill write u.s up. Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. Now is the time for all good citi zens to see that their lawns are planted. The season is upon us. The City is planting the Broad street parkway and some of the highway, May street. The price of seed is low. Cyrus Butler, of the Eastman Silk Mills, of Kingsport, Tenn., who has been out in Indiana, writes about the roads in Indiana. He says: “I had always thought that North Carolina had no superior in roads, but Indiana roads are the finest I have ever seen. They are straight and smooth, and the only signs permitted are signs needed by the drivers. When you see a sign you know it is important and not some fool ad for soaps or ciga- our own concern reduces itself to the local issue of the affairs of the state and subdivisions, for at the pre.>ent the voice of the people of the county is not heard loudly in Washington. With the figures given by Mr. Seawell there is nothing else at good winter. Folks are coming out of their panicjl<) .\rXILIAKY TO MEKT ' The Woman's Auxiliary of Em manuel Church will meet at the home . of Mrs. Elmer Davis next Thesday, ; October 9th at 3 p. m. ELEt’TKIFK .\TK)N SI KVEV The Fddy’s have returned to South ern Pines and opened the studio for the season, this being their 20th year. A rural electrification survey is to I be made in Moore county and it is expected that this work will be be gun this week. Finally the weather man has ar ranged hay weather, and the farm ers says they are geting heir barns pretty well filled with an excellent quality of hay and other stuff. The woods are full of seeds and feed for the birds and small animals and the forests are full of acorns and plunder of that sort. The swamps never saw a better crop of reeds for the deer, which are more plentiful than they have been in years. They have become .so bold that they have been seen a.s far into town as the Boyd packhouse below Mrs. Andrews' house this fall and around the Pad dock and they are well-fed and plump. Snake authorities say the mocca sins and small rattlesnakes that have been found at times in this section show decided scarcity this year, but that copperheads, which have been rare, are more bundnt. The phil osophers argue that copperheads are wet weather snakes and the others are not encouraged by excess mois ture. This is one of the believe it or not bits of information. F"0 R SAL. IB New 6 room dwelling, finely located near Country Club, and School, 100 foot lot, all latest improvements including electric , refrigerator and range. Apply any real estate agent. R. F. POTTS Owner Southern Pines. N. C. SE1*TK.>1BEK \\E.\rHKU I The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Pres. ETHEL S. JONES. Ass’t. Cashier The closing days of summer fore running the coming of Autumn were cloudy and misty of mornings, and with heavy rains earlier in the month. Nearly two inches falling on the 7th, making a total precipitation of 7.54 inches, nearly four inches over the normal average, five and one-half inches more than last September, and bringing the average for the nine months of the year to 4.65 inches over normal. Temperature averages show a sharp decline, in contract to the 17 days recording over 90 In September, 1933. The past month's high was 91 on the 11th, the only day registering above 89, and the low 51 degrees on the 1st. The long time normal aver- U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK DEPOSITS INSURED BY The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporallon $5000 WASHINGTON, D. C. MAXIMUM INSURANCE FOR EACH DEPOSITOR $5000 :: this particular time that should ! a tract the attention ot the peo-, of recovery. Some of the Cfrohna for be-1 di.spelled, side th.s rierce threat ot tinan- hopeless schemes cial revolut.on nothmg else com-, j.gcovery have been tried out pai es in its dangei and magni-1 some of the basic tude. Nero fiddled \vhde I^ome governed burned, but it looks as if we to- beginning and will day are playing the entire or-1 ehestra while a much greater conflagration than Rome is sweeping our entire industrial, social,, and government struc tures. Some of us are going to de lude ourselves in the belief that this is a cry of “wolf” when there are no wolves in sight, and ognized as still in effect, and j gradually men are harmonizing I again with the fundamental ' practices and getting the ma- I chinery of economics once more I into action. ! The general expectation seems I to be a restoration of business I and industry to a satisfactory basis, for most folks have the some will argue that it is the alarmist note of a Republican. 'J!;;:"" ‘th';’America'n But any man who vvili read these ■ , ^ ^ ^ , figures can see that it is wholly'' immaterial whether the admoni tion comes from Republican, Democrat, Socialist, horse thief or any one else; it is not the man who calls attention to the fact that is the thing to be fear ed. but the fact itself, and if Seawell is another Paul Revere energy to keep themselves afloat after some of the blown-up bal ance of nonsense have the wind let out of them, and that grad ually we will be on our feet again. Some of our hallucina tions will be retired. VVe will get a better idea of energetic and sensible business and indus- who is \yarmng us of the grave j cQ^j.ses, and the revolution ,..angei that is on us, ^ ^ the more to Jiis credit. Biit it is revolution always not men we need to think ot} ^^ill settle now. It is our state and nation al life, and it is not the man is who rings the bell that is the vital factor, but the man who heeds the alarm. This is a case for common action of all North Carolinians. I going on, and I down to more work and more j applied sense and less hot air, land all will come out in the I was'h. Things are starting off ' with better signs all around, and I a few more minor jclt.'; and we will be climbing the hill v;Ith vis- ! ible speed. It looks like a good ! winter in the Sandhills and if i everybody will join in the Hal- A SANDHILL EXHIBIT On Sunday at the homecom- lelujah chorus instead of in the ing at Bethesda church are sche duled two men reared within ri fle shot of The Pilot office, who have gone out in the world and attained prominence and an en vied place among the people of North Carolina, and who will be honored visitors among the oth ers there. They are the P.*"v. An gus Shaw of Charlotte and Judge Thomas J. Shaw, of Greensboro. Both these men will appear on the program of the chapter of lamentations the sun will shine once more and we will all be reasonably happy. This is going to be a good winter, but we all have to help to make it so, and putting honest bait on the trap instead of empty pea nut hu<=ks will help to make it so Fresh fruits and vegetables at the Curb Market in Southern Pines every Saturday morning. HOME COMING AT OLD BETHESDA The congregation of Bethes da church at Aberdeen on Sun day will hold their annual home coming at the old kirk which has for a century and a half been one of the outlying markers of development in not only the Sandhills, but of all of Central North Carolina, and with an in fluence reaching to the utter most parts of this continent. For when in 1755 Hugh McAden of Philadelphia, came down "the Yadkin road” as he mentions in his diary, he passed by the vi cinity of Bethesda, and stoppe