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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, December 13, 1935.
TH E PILOT
Published each P’riday by
TIIK PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern rines, N. C.
NKLSOX C. HYDK
Kditor
FK.VNCKS I'OLLEV
Advertising .Manager
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Circulation Manager
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Entered at the Postoffice a: South,
ern Pines, N. C., as second .class mall
matter.
A CAUSE FOR
CONGRATULATION
Fort;r-seven schools of the
state were last week dropped
from the accrcdited membership
list of the Southern Association
of Colleges and Secondary
Schools.
This leaves North Carolina
with 34 high schools on the ac
credited list, less than any other
Southern state.
“No school in the state has to
belong to the association,” said
Dr. J. Henry Highsmith, chair
man of the association and head
of the State Department of
Public Instruction,” but the
fact that our schools canliot
meet the standards met by
schools of other states shows, I
think, that we lack something.”
Reasons advanced for the
dropping of the schools were
these:
The eight months school term
falls below the association’s re
quirement of a 175-day term;
Excessive pupil load on teach
ers;
Teacher salary schedules, be
low the annual $900 minimum
set by the association;
Lack of proper library facili
ties.
The electorate of the South
ern Pines School District is to
be commended for its action a
few years ago in voting a nine
months school term here.
Southern Pines is among the 34
schools retaining membership
in the association—among a
mere 10 of public schools in the
state, for of the 34 accredited, 16
are private institutions. South
ern Pines is likewise to be con-
graLulared upon an efficient
teaching force, salary supple
ments over the State schedule,
and the start of a good school
library.
All that is really lacking here
is adequate space for the edu
cational facilities and potentiali
ties we have at hand. The
Southern Pines School is crowd
ed. Some remedial action should
be taken in the near future to
remove this one obstacle to a
perfect record. We cannot af
ford, at any time, to lose our
standing.
Graduates of the 47 schools
dropped from membership in
CARO-GRAPHICS — by
Murray
Jones, Jr.
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world, the demand for the met-:
al will ease, prices will conse
quently continue to rise. If the
dollar 'had not been cut to 59c,
U. S. prices might only return
to pre-Depression levels. Now,
however, prices should not only
recover to former levels in
terms of Roosevelt dollars but.
Grains of Sand
The Charlotte Observer paid trib
ute to Charlotte movie exhibitors in
an editorial the other day for bring
ing two notable pictures, “Road to Ro
mance” ana '‘Metropolitan” to town
to make up for the slash in the ■ gg promptly after their release. The
gold content of the U. S. nione-j Jn charlotte last week,
tary unit, should mount another i xhis was a nice thing for the Ob-
69 percent. jseiver to do. We probably should
“From February 1933, the have done likewise when "Road to
last month in which we were on ; Romance” was here last summer
the old gold coin standard, to i and “Metropolitan” here some two
the present, wholesale prices weeks ago.
have risen 35 percent and the
cost of living 6 percent,” Dr. j incidentally, “Midsummer’s Night’s
Kemmerer declared. “Many im-1 Dream,” which comes to Pinehurst
portant items of food have
shown spectacular rises during
this period. The public, partic
ularly our w'omen folk, are be
coming increasingly t concel'ned
over these continued advances
in the cost of living; and con
sumers’ strikes are being re
ported frequently.”
DISCI SS FOOD CONSEHVATION
Mrs. Cornelia C. Morris, State Food
Conservation and Marketing Special
ist, with Miss Gladys Kimbrough
and Miss Wood of Muncie, Indiana
held a food conservation conference
in Carthage Friday with the follow
ing home agents attending: Miss
Martha McKinnon of Troy, Miss Cor
nelia Simpson of Sanford, Mrs. Anna
Lea Harris of Rockingham and Mrs.
Bertie Brown and Miss Flora Mc
Donald of Carthage.
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ESCAPED CONVICT CAUGHT
A TRAGEDY
IN SMOKE
The last cold snap released
the leaves. They showered down
over lawns and gardens. Leaves
are an annoyance to many peo
ple. Rakes are immediately call
ed into action and energetically
comb the grounds for every, ves
tige or scrap of a leaf. Burning
our leaves is one of our most
deplorable habits. Where Nature
works without the interference
of man she frequently does a
better job.
From early in the spring the
leaves of the trees are at work
collecting and storing up carbon
and hydrogen. With the help of
sunshine, the Ikyers of cells
which make up a leaf are con
verting the gases into starches,
sugars and other materials. It
Monday, takes two and one-half
hours to run, Charlie Picquet says.
As there will be no preliminaries on
the program it behooves one to be
on hand early. |
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A stranger at a recent Kiwanis
dinner spent some time talking to
those on either side of him about
recent purchases he had made at
the new Southern Pines liquor store.
A few minutes later he was intro
duced to his neighbors. One was the
Rev. Dr. Raymond, the other the
Rev. Mr. Barber of Aberdeen.
Willie Lee Hooker, colored man
who resides between Cameron and
Vass and who recently escaped from
the Cataw'ba read camp where he
was serving time, was captured by
Moore county officers on Monday
night while on a visit to his home
and placed in the Moore county jail.
Hooker was sent to State’s Prison
to serve from five to ten years on
a breaking and entering charge and
this was his second or third escape.
East Broad Street
Sonthem Pines
Visit the Curb Market in Southern
Pines tomorrow.
Opening Tuesday at Pinehurst in the
Carolina Hotel Ballroom, 2 P. M.-
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Telephone 6933 , Southern Pines, N. C.
The State WPA office had provid’
ed 1073 work projects to employ 48,-
655 unemployed persons, up to the
end of last week. Director George W.
Coan, Jr., announces.
the association will be faced an accident now that they
with the prospect of taking en- have fallen to the ground. The
trance examinations to enter col
leges outside the state. With a
goodly percentage of our high
school pupils residing in other
.tates and plannnig to enter
northern colleges and universi
ties, it is plain to see the im
portance of meeting all require
ments for an accredited institu
tion.
COST OF LIVING TO
SOAR, IS PROPHECY
If Professor Walter JCsnimer-
er, one of the country’s leading
financial authorities, one time
adviser to the Dawes Commis
sion and to a number of foreign
countries, is correct, we are in
for a period of high prices along
with recovery. A week ago in
Philadelphia Dr. Kemmerer
said:
“We may reasonably' expect
that the cost of living, the
wholesale and general price lev
els will be something like double
what they are today.”
He based his conclusions on
these facts: •
“That the gold standard will
be retained in the United States
and the other countries that
continue to have it;
“That the leading countries of
the world that are now off the
gold standard will return to it;
“That we will not further de
base our own gold monetary
unit but will continue with our
so-called 59 cent gold dollar.”
With the return of more sta
ble conditions, Professor Kem
merer thinks, gold will come out
of hoarding throughout the
scheme that regulates their
growth plans that when their
mission has been fulfilled they
are discharged by a special row
of empty cells at the joining of
the leaf and branch. A chemical
action takes place, the cold wea
ther retards the growth, the ma
terial is stored in the bark of
the tree and the leaf drifts
down. Turned over in the soil
we put back the organic mat
ter, or humus, the plant has
manufactured. Some gardeners
estimate that a ton of leaves
and a ton of manure are of equal
value. We burn one and buy the
other. Tons and tons of valuable
fertilizer go up in smoke year af
ter year, and all there is to re
turn to the ground is a little
bit of ash the plant took out of
the soil. Leaves spaded into dif
ficult clajT or the porous sandy
section of your garden will break
up hard soil and add the bulk
of much needed humus, over
coming many of the obstacles of
dry hot summers. A progressive
young farmer pointed with pride
to a huge pile of leaves, “There
are my next .vear’s crop of
sweet potatoes.”
If fire could be kiept, away
from our natural mulch of de
caying leaves through the woods
and gardens and we could be
taught to appreciate their value
we could transform our impov
erished and sterile gardens in
to a more productive and valu
able part of the earth.—H, K.
B.
Noel Laing of Southern Pines had
a field day in the recent hunt race
meeting at Middleburg, Virginia. Al
most every winner in the brush and
hurdle events was either ridden or
had been trained by young Laing.
Laing is secretary of the Sandhills
Steeplechase & Racing Association
and will be here soon with a string
of horses.
Save enough from your Christmas
shopping to get your 1936 license
plates before January 1st. The State
Highway Patrol is double the size
it was a year ago, and you won’t
last long after New Year’s Day with
1935 plates on the old buggy.
Tobacco auctioning is about over
for the season in Aberdeen. The sales
will total close to 4,000,000 pounds
for the two warehouses.
Don’t forget Tuberculosis Christ
mas Seals on your shopping list.
Governor Ehringhaus recently
went into details on North Carolina’s
relief receipts and contributions to
the Federal Government in a letter
to a newspaper man in New York, af
ter Senator Dickinson, of Iowa, had
said he would “check up” on relief
coming to this State. Governor Eh
ringhaus had angrred him by hold
ing him up to ridicule in a N. Y.
State Chamber of Commerce meet
ing for jumping on the Roosevelt ad
ministration. A New York bond house
man wrote the Governor this:
“For the past two years I have
had it called to my attention almost
weekly here in Wall Street the large
amount of contributions North Car
olina was receiving from the Fed
eral Government. I have insistently
responded that as a matter of fact
North Carolina was receiving less in
proportion to the amoimt they paid
the Federal Government than any
other State in the Union. Your re
marks covered this point so clearly
that they received wide publication
here in the city.”
A new registration of qualified vot
ers of Moore county may be called
before the next primary and elec
tion, N. J. Muse, chairman of the
County Board of Elections says. The
present books are in such condition
that such registration is almost im
perative.
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