Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North CaroHna Friday, October 18, 1935, THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Ineorporat«d, Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE Editor FRANCES FOLLEY Advertising Manager DAN S. RAY Circulation Manager Subscription Kates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months -50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second.class mail matter. IS THE SPRING BLOSSOM FESTIVAL AN ASSET Since the launching in South ern Pines of the Spring Blos som Festival there have been two schools of thought on its advisability and advertising val ue. One group looked upon it as a means to attract visitors who would spend monev with local merchants and local hotels and might develope into something attaining national repute, there by leading eventually to a great incursion of people to spend an entire week here. The other jrroup looked upon it as cheap ening to a village which has not catered to the class of people which carnivals and festivals attract. They objected to the ballyhoo. There is, of course, much to be said on both sides. Many of our seasonal residents come here for peace and quiet, prob ably the larger percentage of them. The Festival did not ap peal to these people. On the other hand, the shops and res taurants and hotels need all the business they can get. Now it appears that even many of the latter class ques tion the value of the enterprise. The Festival has not developed as expected. It has attracted largely from nearby points, has been local in character. It has attained national publicity only through its one original offer ing, the annual Old Slave Day. This has been worth while, and should be continued. The Chamber of Commerce is weighing the advisability of dis continuing the Festival. The Pilot favors its discontinuance, but would retain its feature event as long as there are sur vivors of slavery to bring here each year to tell of their exper iences. This is educational. It might also be a good plan to continue what has come to be called Sports Day. Old and young, here during the winter, like to see a good baseball game, some equestrian events, some fast tennis, an exhibition of golf. A program covering two or possibly three days of events of this type, produced for the en tertainment and diversion of residents and guests, would prove satisfactory to all. And get us away» from the ballyhoc and carnival spirit to which so many object. UNEMPLOYMENT: A CONCRETE CASE Cameron is having quite a time over a resident physician and it’s esteemed citizen, Mrs. J. M. Guthrie, has sort of put it up to the medical profession to provide one. It seems that when a recent statement eman ating from the American Med ical Association was published, to the effect that there were several thousand unemployed physicians in the country, Mrs. Guthrie wrote asking that one be assigned to Cameron. The reply suggested that she write to certain agencies, which she did to no effect. Cameron is still without a physician, or even a prospect. In her letter to Dr. William D. Cutter, Chicago secretary of the Council on Medical Educa tion and Hospitals of the Amer ican Medical Asscfciation, ask ing that he ‘locate for us a North Carolina physician — Protestant—one who is willing to undertake country practice,” she said in part: “That sounds like an easyi or der. We have trfed faithfully for five months to fill it and cannot. Until you are able to do so, do you think that your attitude of removing—or sanc tioning the removal of two of our medical schools from the State because of an overproduc tion of doctors is a consistent one ?” Mrs. Guthrie raises several points in her campaign. One is that present day graduates of medical schools fight shj' of “country practice.” The old horse and buggy days—6ven given the modern automobile— are gone so far as they are con cerned. They have no hanker ing for being aroused in the middle of the night and driving over lonely roads to ill-lit farm houses to render aid. Their idea is the up-to-the-minute office in town, with the folks coming to ! see them; only the occasional I visits, over city pavements, to homes and hospitals. For that have they been educated in the 'big medical schools of the day. j But Mrs. Guthrie’s campaign jgoes farther afield than the medical profession. The coun try is full of unemployed, in all walks of life. But have you tried to employ some of the un employed? No matter what the line of their endeavor, no mat ter what the apparent degree of their immediate poverty, they do not want just “A job.” They want “THE job,” the job which appeals to them. They I are specialists, it seems, even I in their dire need, just as these i physicians, though jobless, fight shy of “country practice.” Is the fault due to the age of specialization in which we are living? Or to the fact that to- daj’fs unemployed have been given to believe a generous government is going to keep them from starvation; that they can afford to wait for THE job? Or is it a little of both? Grains o! Sand Pupils Free Again Tomorrow at Fair { In seel