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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 17, 1937.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON G. HYDE
Editor
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IS IT OPEN SEASON
FOR POLICE OFFICERS?
Early last Sunday evening, on
the outskirts of Southern Pines,
Chief of Police J. A. Gargis was
riding in his automobile on one
of his regular patrol rounds
when a drunken negro, John j
Willie Thompson of Niagara op
ened fire on him from beside the
road with a high power repeat
ing rifle. Thomp.son’s aim was
bad. Chief Gargis stopped his
car and, after the negro’s rifle
jammed, arrested him and took
him to jail. In Recorder’s Court
on Monday Judge J, Vance
Rowe sentenced Thompson to 18
months.
A few weeks ago Kenneth
Medlin, white of the Cameron
section, faced Superior Court
Judge F. A. Armstrong on th- in'The" world and where
combined charges of beating his, work shorter hours than
wife and then severely wound
ing Chief Deputy Sheriff Her
man Grimm with a large knife
when Grimm attempted to ar
rest him on the wife beating j is it that we have
THE CONSTITUTION
150 YEARS OLD
“We the people of the United
States, in order to for ma more
perfect Union, establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, pro
vide for the common defense,
promote the general welfare, and
secure the blessings of liberty to
ourselves and our posterity, do
ordain and establish this Con
stitution of the United States of
America.”
With the above preamble
America’s government was plan,
ned and established 150 years
ago.
On September 17 of this year
w'e observe the 150th anniver
sary of the signing of the Con
stitution, that document under
which has grown the most per
fect civilization ever created by
man. Under the Constitution
there has been created better
living, more of the comforts and
luxuries of life, for more people
than anywhere else in the world.
Under the Constitution there
has grown a land of opportunity,
drawing millions of people from
other countries to our shores.
Our streets are not paved with
gold, as so many of those who
came to our shores believed, but
there has existed and does exist
today golden oppoi’tunity and
liberty for one and all.
What has been the foundation
of the vast progress of America
in the short space of 150 years?
W'hat lies at the bottom of our
vast opportunities? How is it
that we have built great indus
tries that pay the highest wages
men
else
where? How is it that we have
the world’s highest living stand
ards? Why do more people own
their own homes in America?
more
Grains of Sand
We don't think much about it when
we buy such little things as chewing
gum and matches. But they mean a
lot to Uncle Samuel.
During the month of July Ameri
can consumers paid the •federal gov
ernment $85,654 in hidden taxes on
chewing gum alone. In the same
month tliey paid $1,277,036 in feder
al match taxes. These are but two
of the hidden or nuisance taxes whfoh
collectively add so much to the cost
of living.
charge. Medlin’s sentence, like
wise. \vas for 18 months.
The mere fact that these two
officers of the law were not kill
ed in the performance of their
duty seems to us to be beside
the point. Plenty of other offi
cers have been killed in similar
attacks, as both Southern Pines ;
and Moore countv can well at- u-
4.^ 4. rrv I No other document in this his-
test. The case of young Geoi-go'.
' ^ory of the world hus giveu;
schools for the education of our
children and that there are more
hospitals for the sick?
Because behind all of these
stands one thing—the Constitu
tion of the United States, which
today, as 150 years ago, guaran-
I tees freedom, liberty, opportun-
Fred Roberts’ Boston paper car
ried a two page rotogravure spread
of all the entries in that recent At
lantic City Beauty Carnival, at which
Miss America for 1937 was chosen.
He showed it to the boys in the
Southern Pines Men’s Club the oth
er day and all were agreed that the
Sandhills could offer half a dozen
girls better looking than any of the
contestants, including Miss America.
NEW JVIETHODIST HYMNALS
• TO BE DEDICATED AT VASS
New Methodist HymTials foi the
local church have arrived, and are to
be dedicated at a special service to
be held at the regular preaching
hour, 11:00 o’clock, this Sunday
morning. More than a hundred books
have been purchased as memorials
to loved ones, or in honor of persons
yet living, and the >namea of those
in whose memory or honor the books
were given, and the names of those
making the gifts, will be read in con
nection with the service. The public is
most cordially invited to attend.
REVIVAL SERVICES ENDED
AT VASS METHODIST CHURCH
Revival services at the Vass Meth
odist church came to a close with
the Sunday evening service, at which
time eight were admitted into mem
bership on profession of faith. They
were Ruby Pearl Morgan, Grace
Goodman, Hazel Crouse, Luther
Crouse, Roland Bass, A. Mac Camer
on, Cortls Thomas and Etmer Hunt.
It was announced that the following
are to be received by letter from oth-
^ churches: Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Beas
ley, Franklin Beasley, Mrs. A. G.
Edwards, Jr., and George Mason.
Duncan McRae expressed a desire to
move his membership from another
town to the Baptist church here.
Strong gospel messages were
preached each evening last week by
the pastor, the Rev. Leon M. Hail,
and Dr. M. L. Matthews of Sanford
rendered a fine service in directing
the music. Splendid cooperation from
the other churches, and from the
merchants of the town in closing their
places of business added to the suc
cess of the week’s series of meet
ings.
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Remember The Pilot when you
need printing done. Phone 7271.
MRS. EUGENIA HONfcVOf^'n’,
AQED 77, PASSES AT VASS
Funeral services for Mrs. Eugenia
Honeycutt, 77, who passed away Mon
day at the home of her son, Charlie
Honeycutt, at Va,ss were conducted at
Johnson’s Grove cemetery at 11:00
o’clock Tuesday morning with the
Rev. L. M. Hall of Aberdeen in
charge.
Challle Stewart, Lacy McRae and
Colin and Norman Caddell served as
bearers and eight little girls carried
the flowers. Several selections were
sung at the graveside.
Mrs. Honeycutt was the widow of
Joe Honeycutt, who .passed away
some ten months ago, and was a res
ident of the Vass community for
al)out fifty years.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs.
Julia A. Caddell, Mrs. Dunk McRae^
Mrs. Ben McRae and Miss Ada Hon
eycutt, and two sons, Charlie and
Arch Honeycutt, all of Vass.
The Moore County Educational
Foundation, a Kiwanis offspring, has
made it possible, through student
loans, for half a dozen young Sand
hills residents to go off to college
this fall.
The talk around town is that groc
eries ought to be pretty reasonable
in Southern Pines this winter.
Two prominent local residents, af
ter celebrating something or other
last Saturday night, almost started
for China. They decided they wantei
to get into the fight, and might now
be on their way but for the fact that
one went home for his clothes and
wifey wouldn’t let him have them.
Besides which, neither of them ha i
the wherewithal to get much beyond
Sanford.
QyESTlON:
Is it worth while
for Camel to spend
millions more for
finer Tobaccos?
ANSWER:
Penn, shot down by bandits in
the performance of his duty, is
fresh in every mind, and the
murders of Chiefs Kelly and
Beasley, of the Southern Pines
police force, both within the past i
ten years, can hardly have been
forgotten yet.
The fact that Chief Gargis
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light
It has been suggested that the
northeast corner of East Broad
street and New Hampshire avenue bj
termed the “Stop and Go” corner.
One new store, Buttry's, has bright
red awnings: its next door neighbor,
Melvin’s, bright green ones.
Camels are the
largest-selling
cigarette in
America!
IT is homespun fact that nothing man does to
tobacco can take the place of what Nature
does. People get more pleasure out of Camels
because Camels are made of those finer tobac
cos into which Nature put extra goodness
and mildness. Camels are a matchless blend of
FINER, MORE EXPENSIVE TOBACCOS-
Turkish and Domestic.
Religious freedom.
Freedom of speech.
Freedom of the press. I
Freedom of assembly, the
to get together at any
time.
I 5. The right to petition thei
government to right wrongs. I
ami Deputy Grimm escaped the' The right to vote and
unhappy Hie of Kelly, Bea.,ley j S»''ernmg off.-
T^ar\'v\ ^iTQC5 ! V. ^ •
7. The right to work, using
our earnings for ourselves and
and Penn was certainly not due
to the absence of murderous in-,
tentions on the part of their as-! ... j l u
sailants. Except for the Gracel""'' “"'i '’old prop-
of God both attacks might well
have proven fatal and both offi
cers might now' be dead.
Had such been the case Med
lin and Thompson would have
been prosecuted to the full ex
tent of the law'. As it is both are
serving a mere 18 months. It
hardly seems that the mere fail
ure of the tw’o a.ssailant’s mur
derous intentions to materialize
is sufficient reason for such len
iency on the part of the courts.
Or is it open season for police
officers ?
EMPLOYMENT NEARS
PRE-DEPRESSION LEVEI.
8. The right of citizenship
and of equal protection of the
law. No political group can pass
a law' removing the right of cit
izenship of any class or group.
These are but a few of the
protections which the Constitu
tion guarantees to every Ameri
can through a government of
three independent parts—the
Legislative, headed by the Con
gress : the Executive, headed by
the President; the Judiciary,
headed by the Supreme Court.
Under the Constitution and
this form of government, which
it lays out, America and Ameri
cans have progressed as no oth
er nation and no other people.
Employment In regular non-
agricultural industries increased i respect and sup
approximately 8,800,000 from: po^t the Constitution, so long as
March, 1933, to May, 1937, Sec
retary of Labor Frances Per
we hold it sacred as the founda-1
tion of the nation in w'hich 130,-
ED NEWTTON SHOWS WELL ON
LENOIR RHYNE GRID SQUAD
kins declared in a recent ad-! 000.000 people enjoy life at its
dress. j best, so long as we strive to ore-
In addition, she quoted fig., serve the principles of the Con-^
ures to show' that the estimated | stitution, that long will we re
total employed today is 34,722,-1 ^ nation and a people en-.
000 as compared wth 35,377,0001 world,
in March, 1929, at the peak of '
the pre-depression boom. This
would place the current employ
ment figure only 665,000 below
the boom-time record.
Those now employed in manu.
facturing, mining, construction,
transportation and public utili
ties, number 14,592,000; those
in distribution and service, cov
ering trade, finance, service and
miscellaneous industries, gov
ernment, education and profes
sional service, number 12,800,-
000; those classified as proprie
tors and self-employed, number
4.245.000 and the casual work
ers number 3,085,000, Miss Per
kins estimated.
She pointed out that the aver
age weekly payrolls in manufac
turing industries alone had in
creased from $80,700,000 for the
first quarter of 1933 to $194,-
900.000 for the corresponding
period tkis year.
Ed Newton, son of Police Officer
Ed Newton of Southern Pines, is mak
ing his presence felt on the Lenoir
Rhyne college football squad in the
first weeks of practice. Young Ed,
who hag never taken football serious
ly before, went out,-rfor the Mountain
Bears squad aa soon as he arrived at
the Hickory institution of learning
and after trying out for the backfield,
soon found his proper metier in the
end department where his height,
weight and speed could be utilized to
the best advantage.
The Hickory Daily Record, comment
menting on the condition of the squad,
says, “Among the veterans and can
didates who have showed up well in
practice to date are: Sigmon, Quinn,
Neal. Little, Tucker, Brown, Cook,
Garf^tt, Perry, Newton, Ream, Cald
well and Arndt."
F* E Cl AL.
L.OW PRICES
PENDERS
For Opening Days of the Aberdeen Tobacco Market
standard Quality
TOMATOES
3
No. 2
Cans
20
Virginia Maid-Rich
PEANUT BUTTER 2c 23c
Colonial White and Green
LINA BEANS 3 No. 2 cans 2Sc
Fine Quality Tender
STRING BEANS 3 No. 2 cans 2Sc
Richer Rio
COFFEE
2 lbs. 29'
standard Quality Green
PEAS
Q No. 2
Cans
Circle or High Mark
FLOUR
24 lb. gQc 48 lb. $|.SS
981b. Bag $3.00
Fancy Blue Rose Bujk
RICE
2 lbs. 0c
Standard
Quality S^i^eet
CORN
3 No. 2 cans 23'
Pure Bulk
LARD
Pound - - 16c
Colonial Sliced or Halves
PEACHES
Pillsburv’s Best
FLOUR
Dried Pinto
BEANS
3 No. 2 1-2 Cans 40c
S9c "C $1.1S
3 pounds 2Sc
THE GOODNESS IS LOCKED IN
SNOWDRIFT
6 Ib. (4 09
Tin V-i-
Dry Salt Fat Back, lb. . 19c
1
1 Fresh Pan Rolls, 2 doz.
- 9c
Libby’s Tomato Juice, 3 cans 25c
Medium Ivory Soap, cake
6c
Lipton Tea, 3 small pkgs - 25c
Lave Soap, 3 cakes
19c
Phillips Pork and Beans, large can —10c
Flash Hand Soap, 2 cans
15c
Broken Slice Pineapple, No. 2 1-2 can ..19c
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* Phillips Black Eye Peas, 4 cans
25c