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Page Two THE PILOT, Southein Pines and AberJecn, North Carolina Friday, January 4, 1935. THE PILOT Published every Friday by TIIE PILOT, IncorporatedI, Aberdeen and Southern Pines, N. V. rttLSOy C. HYDE, Managing Editor mON II. BUTLER, Editor IAMF.S BOYD STRUTHERS BVBT Contributing £ditor8 SubMcription Kates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months - .50 Address all communications to The Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail natter. KECU LATING THE ArTO>IOBILE Slaughter by the automobile keeps climbing up until a mild demand arises that steps should be taken to correct the reckless ness on the highway. What can be done nobociy yet has any idea. The chief difficulty is with the people who are not willing to submit to restrictive laws. From time to time de mands ai’e made to stop reckless driving. The.se demands are al ways aimed at the other fellow. Each driver knovi’s that he is a careful and safe and blameless agent. No matter how fast he drives he can handle his car. If he bumps somebody on the road the other fellow should not have been in the way. If he hits a telephone pole, the pole has no business to be there. Pub lic sentiment is not very much in action in demanding safety because public sentiment must be turned toward the driver himself and not always to some body else if any action is to be gained. The Governor and the State officials are asking for safety on the highways. They will get safety to the extent the people will sanction the laws that exist or may be made. Every man who drives the road knows that whether he looks out for his own carelessness or not he must con stantly bear in mind that the other fellow is possibly a bigger fool than he is. He knows that pedestrians are too careless. He knows that every driver he meets is a possible danger and every (Jrivej' he meets knows that he is^ We can not have safety oil the highway until we have laws we keep, and somebody to en force the laws. The men to draft the highway safety laws should be composed of a body of railroad officials. They man age to secure safety. For rail road accident.-? are so few along side of automobile accidents that there is no comparison. If the railroads killed and injured peo ple like the automobiles do we would tear up the tracks and throw their rolling stock into the harbor. The difference is that the railroads belong to a corporation and automobiles be long to individuals. The rail road has no large body of per sons to defend it, but every au tomobile has an individual be hind it to protest against any restrictions. Governor Ehring- haus and the Legislature have a job on their hands. There is no excuse whatever for not tak ing positive step toward making the highway safe. Whether they can do it or not remains to be seen. But until they have made some desperate effort in trying, no excuse they can offer will be worth any more than any other excuse. Probably this is the biggest issue before the State of North Carolina today. Beside it all other things are children’s play. A CAPABLE STATE DOCUMENT The President’s message to Congress at the opening of the session must be regarded as a capable state document. It very well fits the changing conditions of the country and a close study of it finds little to criticize from a logical viewpoint. It may be set dov^Ti as a further exposition of experiment for it could not very well be anything else. From the beginning of his ad ministration Mr. Roosevelt has stated definitely that his work must be experimental. So radi cal a change as this country has encountered could not be made without a great deal of experi ment and no man will argue that we axe sufficiently able to read the future as to know what to do except by trying the new projects. Considerable criticism of Mr. Roosevelt’s methods have been offered. He has himself, turn- eil his back on some of the things that he tried out and found unsatisfactory. No doubt he will drop other things that are on trial, for the country is still undergoing revolution, and one that no man can see the course or the end of. Too many influences are at work, too many varying opinions of men who are thinkers and too much influence exerted by too many men who are not thinkers. The President has an extremely un stable situation with which to contend, but it must be con ceded that he makes a fairly in telligent analysis of the situa tion and that he offers solutions that seem reasonably workable if the people will go with him. Many other factors than poli tics are crowding the changes that are in the making. Many of the influences are world wide.. It is impossible for our nation to be isolated from the rest of the world. That being the case we cannot say emphatically what our relations with foreign people shall be. In all mutual transactions the parties we deal with have as much right of ex pression as w’e have. Tw’o per sons or two nations cannot trade or make a mutual bargain un less both are satisfied. It is im possible for us to isolate our selves as a country and a peo ple. That close relationship has a decided influence on our in dustries and commerce which affects our entire industrial, so cial, and financial status. American industry is affect ed by our foreign relations, by our domestic conditions, and by the temperament of our people. Many conditions w'ork together in this respect. In some sections we have exhausted our natural resources, as for instance our lumber, our coal, our oil sup plies, while in other sections these things have increased. The textile trade has moved largely from the New England states to the South. The de velopment of water power has stimulated manufacture in new quarters. The machine shop has brought implements to the farm which have revolutionized agriculture. Nearly everything is in the state of transition. From being skilled mechanics large numbers of workers have become merely machine tenders. All this has revolutionized our I industrial and social atmos phere. A wild wave of credit has involved the whole country, which has disturbed the finan cial status. All these things Mr. Roosevelt has to face, and it seems that j he takes a pretty fair viewpoint j of the necessities that rise be- ' fore him. Possibly it is .safe to Jsay that his message is a mor'' j logical and favorable note than some quarters anticipated. I Probably Mr. Roosevelt with . the issue of this document has I the actual confidence of the substantial people of the coun try to a greater extent than at any time during his administra tion. This does not have refer ence to his political followers who run with the machine, but to the whole people who are concerned in the sound success of the nation and the mainten ance of our affairs on a sound political and social basis. VALUE OF SEED CATOLOGS This is the month when the garden annuals are coming in from the big seed houses all over the country, from fancy books of many pages, illustrated with colored pictures, down to pamphlets of lesser pretention, all with boundless information that we could all 'do well to pro fit by. They are practically a school of floral culture, full of intelligent information every reader can digest with benefit. Our Sandhills are by no means a barren land in spring time or summer, or later when fall drifts around. But we could all help to make them even a much gay er place to live in by careful thoug'ht and planning. These books have been called by some the most important “Book of the Month.” They should be to every resident of Moore county. When some flower enthusiast sees a gay bed of blooming tulips he makes a mental note to hurry home and plant some tulips, not knowing that tulips should have been planted in the fall before. Another admires the poppies, the early blooming Civic Loyalty Pays Bigr Dividends ANYTHING THAT HURTS YOUR TOWN Out-of-town buyin9 hurts your towrx World, The Folk.s, The Son of Marie Antoinette, So Red The Rose, Re treat From Glory. There are also nine books for ju- veniles including Minute Biographies and Minute Stories from the Bible. The list far adults includes new books by the popular Joseph C. Lincoln, Zane Grey and S. S. Van Dine. Pit cairn’s Island, the latest book by Nordoff and Hall, tells of the exper ience of the mutineers of the Bounty and should prove very popular. iiET Cleaners and Pressers For the Sandhills Tel. 5651 Southern Pines Sponsored by BROWN’S GARAGE & ESSO STATION Try Your Home Town First corn flowers of a neighbor’s garden, larkspur, pansies, and English daises in bloom in April, and decides to include them in the seed order, to plant in a few weeks after frost is ov.er. A carefully read garden book will tell you you should have planted them in August or November or what ever month is natural for this location. But with the spring months ahead a great variety and number of things can go into our gardens here that will be thrifty and adapt themselves to our summers of heat and dry weather and sur vive and be happy. Your seed books will give you all the in formation. A GRATIFYIN'G ACHIEVEMENT "Old Sam Simons and Young Sam Simons, Old Sam Simon’s son— Young Sam Simons will be Sam Si mons When Old Sam Simons is gone.” The announcement that Henry A. Page, third of the name, has been selected by a committee of able educators as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University in England is of more than ordi nary interest. When Cecil Rhodes established a fund be fore his death for the purpose of educating at his expense a limited number of American j'Oung men in one of the most famous European colleges he made the entrance requirement rigid because his desire was to cull out a group of fitting young chaps who could be brought into an acquaintance with the con stantly developing touch of the two great English nations with cach other that would have far reaching effect on the future of the two ’ountries. Cecil Rhodes w'as building for the future of civilization. In his plans he pre scribed requix’ements that would choose young fellows capable of rendering the mutual services he had in his mind. It is hard to imagine any draft that might be made on a college aspirant that could afford great er satisfaction. This thing is not a game that plays favorites. Its one purpose is to cull the crop of young Americans and pick the best that can be found. And the selection is left wholly to outstanding American educa tors. That a youth from the Sandhills is selected is a mat ter of community congi'atula- tion. If this youth meets all the requirements and carries to Ox ford the name of an honored stu dent, admftted w^holly on his qualifications, it will not be the first time that the name of Page )f Moore county, North Carolina, has been heard in England. Grains of Sand We glean from the December is sue of the Bulletin of the North Car olina Hospital Association this con gratulatory item: ‘Moore County Hospital, Pinehurst, guts out probably the most attractive and the annual report with the strongest appeal in North Carolina. The story of the year 1933 is extreme ly well told. The fact that Struthers Burt, famou.s author, was chairman of the board, may account for this. That the story told by the hospital was effective Is evidenced by $27,- 956.72 in contribution for operating purposes during the year.” In addition to Mr. Burt, credit for the report referred to should also go to S. Donald Sherrerd of Pinehurst, under whose direction, as chairman of the hospital’s publicity committee, the booklet was prepared. And, Treas urer Paul Dana writes us, "to The Pilot for the good job it did in turn ing out such a fine looking booklet.” CHAS, J. S.ADLER, Mgr. Park View Hotel F.1NE LOCATION GOOD ROOMS EXCELLENT CUISINE R.VTES MODERATF3 I Pinehurst BERKSHIRE Sausage Product of Pinehurst Farms This Fresh, Pure Pork Sausage Sold Only in the Sandhills. Ask for this High Grade Product at Your Market or Hotel You’re Missing Something if You Haven’t Tried It. BABY STILL CAPTURED; M.4KES HALF A GALLON From time to time this paper has reported the capture of distilleries ranging from medium size to large, but the baby still was taken on Wed nesday, a tiny little outfit not as large as the milk cans which are commonly seen around dairies. It is made of copper, though, the same as the best of the'large outfits are con structed of, but it is capable of hold ing only four and a half gallons of mash which would turn out a “run” of one-half gallon of liquor. The lit tle plant was in full operation, and had been for some litle time, for there was a gallon and a half of man ufactured liquor there. It was locat ed near Spies. Two white men made a get-away. The Piiot is read by some 10,000 persons each week. Regular advertia- ing would drive your message home to these prospects. Governor Ehringhaus was remini scent last Friday, January 4. That was the 23rd anniversary of his mar riage to Miss Matilda Haughton. It was also the second anniversary of his moving his family to the Govern or’s Mansion in Raleigh, to be inaug urated Governor on the next day. It will be about the fourth anniversary two years from now w^hen he will va cate the mansion on Blount street for his successor. When Governor Ehringhaius went to Raleigh two years ago, he was a sick man and had come from a sick bed to be inaugurated. Now he is the picture of health and his doctors give his physical condition a strong OK. He is ready for the hard grind of two months, or maybe four months, of the General Assembly which iconvened this week for its 1935 session. The Governor has been in his office each morning as usual, but during the af ternoons for a week or more he has been in seclusion at the Mansion, preparing his biennial message for the General Assembly. Sales of automobile license plates are forging ahead of those of the same date last year, the Motor Ve hicle Bureau reports, showing that j up to Friday night in the Raleigh of-1 fice and Thursday night in the i branch offices, 222,178 plates had' been sold, or 16,548 more than the 205,630 sold'on the same date in 1934. The officials are plea.sed and expect the year 1935 to reach 500,000, or near the banner year. Sales of 1934 tags went slightly above 470,000. Sheriff C. J. McDonald has been learning things in 1935. He had al ways thought of the “flu” as some thing to a bad cold, but when he was forced to stay in with it for a week ending last Monday, he came out a wiser man. Perhaps the blu would not have made such an unfavorable impression on the sheriff if it had not been for the staying in bed part, but he had never been confined to his bed but three days before the flu laid hands on him, and had not taken more than fifty cents’ worth of medi cine in the last twenty years. However, the sheriff was not talk ing for publication, so don’t pester him with requests for his health rules. MANY NEW BOOKS IN PINEBLUFF LIBRARY The Plnebluff Library Association reports the following new books on its shelves: While Rome Bums, Forty Days of Musa Dagh, River Supreme, The American, Dusk at the Grove, Rab ble 'In Arms, Captain Caution, Pit cairn’s Island, Sails Over Ice, Amer ica’s Trag' 3y, Casino Murder Case, Native’s Return, British Agent, Mary Peters, The Peel Trait, The Jasmine Farm, Code of the West, Goodbye Mr. Chips, Lust for Life, This Little The Citizens Bank and Trust Co. SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V. Prea. ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t. Cashier U. s. POSTAL SAVINGS DEPOSITORY A SAFE CONSERVATIVE BANK DEPOSITS INSURED BY The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation V WASHINGTON, D. C. ccnnn maximum insurance (cnnn ^UUUU FOR EACH DEPOSITOR ^UUUU ^ tatimtmmnniiiuiniiHuoimta II :: II H' I j| I H II On Edge of Southern Pines Attractive Residence—Outbuildings Suitable for Kennels or Poultry Farming*—Seven Acres of Land At One-Third Original Cost Located on Old Pee Dee Road, recent ly improved, just off U. S. Highway No. 1 at southern limits of Southern Pines. New modem house and other buildings in excellent condition. This property highly recommended at ex tremely low price for prompt sale. SEE P. T. BARNUM Citizens Bank Building Southern Pines
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