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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
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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 panicj<y attitude and '
beginning to realize that affairs :
are not all going to the dogs,
which is the beginning of re
covery from our depressed state.
When that state arrives we be-1
rets or what not. Struthers Burt
should get the North Carolina roads
on the same basis. I never realized
that bill boards made so much dif
ference. Members of the North Car
olina legislature should take a trip
out to the Indiana roads and see
what a lesson they convey.”
This is referred to Struthers and
to Spence, Clegg and Seawell.
age is 73.3, and this was exceeded
last year by 2.8 degrees, and lower
ed this year by 3.2 degrees.
Long Time Max , Min Aver.
Average 84.5 62.3 73.3
1933 89.5 63.3 76.1
1934 S3.2 57.1 70.2
EDIJY liEOl'EXS STl I>l<)
.\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.
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SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
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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-
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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<l
to preach at IMcKay’s, which la
ter became the seat of Long-
street church, and in a few years
later Bethesda grew up as an
offshoot from Longstreet, and
as one of the pioneers of the
Carolinas and in the southwest
and the great west of the Amer
ican republic.
Bethesda as a budding con
gregation is older than the Fed
eral union, and has seen the na
tion grow from three million
souls to more than forty times
that many and to occupy the
foremost place among the peo
ple of the world. Bethesda is one
of the remarkable witnesses of
the great development of a con
tinent which has seen the pass
ing show on broader scale than
ever before known to man
kind, and the old church stands
today a monument along with
those other memorials in the
churchyard, to a work of the
people of the past and the pres
ent that is a marvel.
This old shrine, this remark
able feature of our striking
American story of the progress
of mankind, is not understood
nor appreciated as it deserves
or as it should be as a marker
and memorial and a page of not
only local but of national and
W’orld history, tor Bethesda,
physically and in its education
al and moral influences, has
been one of the most potent and
active underlying influences of
all that has been accomplished in
this country in the period of its
existence. Sunday’s meeting
there vC'ill be one o fthe educa
tional and religious events of
this section of the state and
should have a large gathering
of people from everywhere.
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Building and Loan Stock Is Safe
Tested and Tried
THERE IS NO MATERIAL INVESTMENT BASED ON A MORE
SOLID FOUNDATION
SAFE—Because secured by real estate valued at
twice loans made.
NON TAXABLE—Adding from two to three per
cent over other investments.
H We are opening the 45th Series for Subscription on October 6th.
Paid up stock is available in even shares of
$100.00, paying dividends of 5 per cent. Install
ment stock is available in amounts from 25c and
upwards per week.
Established in 1922. The Southern Pines Building
and Loan Association is now entering its 13th
year and 45th series.
On the security of its proven service, this sound
institution invites your membership.
Come in and let us discuss our convenient plan.
Solid as a Rock through the Storm of Depression Stands the
Southern Pines Building and Loan Associatton
A. S. Ruggles, President
P. F. Buchan, Vice-President
R. L, Chandler, Secretary-Treasurer