Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina FridAy, Pebrnary 22, 1935^ THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, InoorporaUHl, Aberde«‘n and Southern Pint's, N. C. NEL.SON C. HYDE, Muna^^tnK- Editor BION H. BUTLEK, Editor JAMF:S BOYD STKUTHEKS BUKT Contrilmting Edit-orH SubM'ription Kates: One Year Six Months Three Months .... Address all communications to The | them. Pilot, Inc., Southern Pines, N. C. selves to produce the things we need, mighty few people will go out of their way to work for us. What is produced in this world is what we will have. And as one Cl tne fundamentals of nature is “root hog, or die,” it is The Pilot’s guess that in spite of the current theory that we are go ing to quit working, we will ipresently find out that the hog { that doesn’t root is going to be $2.00 I hungry when :^upper time cornea. $1.00 j Nature works things out accord- .50; injjr to her own plan, and man will find he has to conform to Ehitered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail matter. THE SOUTHERN I’INES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE In the older days when the women reached a point where they had to talk and eat they had ^ quilting bee or a sewing bee jJiUiN H. liL iLfcK where they could gather around Little Nancy scratched at the chatter and lead up to a door as was her wont, but there dinner that was a work of local was no answering word for the skill. In the^e day^ they play little Sealyham on Thursday bridge, and the men gather to morning. talk and eat. The gatherings All was quiet at Valhalla. , take various forms. One of the Bion Butler had gone on his most interesting, perhaps, be- last assignment. such affairs as the Cham- And bequeathed to others the Commerce dinner last task of writing the story of this i kind is dav long dreadecl in The Pilot of-; wholly serious, not a matter lice, his Pilot office. , of eating as you might imagine a bit social in its way, and yet Grains of Sand WEST END ruary, March and April, and every one is smiling again. Mr. and Mra. J. F. Sinclair and j small daughters spent Saturday and Folkd are starting to flock into the j Sunday in Chapel Hill visiting Mrs. Sandhills for the mild months of Feb- | Sinclair’s mother and sisters. B. W. Pulliam whose business head quarters are in Charlotte, spent Sat- j urday night and Sunday with his A lot of them stayed up north ' family here, awaiting the gold decision, and hur-1 Ralph Wallace of the. high school ricd down a,s soon aa the Supreme | faculty spent the week-end In Lake- Court upheld the government’s mon- j view. etary program. j M. C. McDonald, Jr., spent from Seven extra Pullmans, just for Friday until Sunday in Davidson with Southern Pines and Pinehurst, are ar riving this morning for the Washing ton's Birthday week-end, and there were two extra cars on yesterday Allan McDonald, who is in school there. The West End Book Club met in the home of Mrs. W. A. Johnson morning’s train, which means that i Thursday evening with Mrs. B. U. more than a dozen carloads are here j Richardson as hostess. The program 10 help swell the population. The Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada makes a fine annual re port, covered in an advertisement in this issue of The Pilot. This is one ol the big substantial financial organi- gations and Southern Pines is proud to have it represented here by a lo cal agent. ' Building activities in North Caro lina in January increased ,51 percent over January, 1934, figures released by the State Department of Labor show. was in charge of Mrs. Hogwood with Thomas Dixon as the subject. June Currie, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Currie of Cameron died ear ly Sunday morning. The funeral was conducted by the Rev. Lacy McDuf fie from the Presbyterian Church at Candor Monday afternoon at 2:00 with burial at Jackson Springs. Rel atives from here attended. SILVER TEA WEDNESDAY KE.\L ESTATE TRANSFER W. G. Smith to W. H. McNeill, property in Sandhill township. A silver tea will be given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Abra ham, corner of May street and Con necticut avenue on Wednesday, Feb ruary 27 at 3 p. m. There will be a short musical program and a talk on Chinese art will be given by Mrs. H. H. Pethick. There will also be an exhibit of porcelains and other Chi nese curios. IHIigliland. l_jo