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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, September 24, 193T
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor
Ben Bowden, Helen K. Butler, Jean
Edson, Charles Mm'auley, O. D. Park,
Dan S. Kay, BesHle Cameron Smith,
AsHooiates.
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ern Pines, N. C, as second, class mail
matter.
DO HIGHWAY SAFETY
CAMPAIGNS PAY?
Do highway safety campaigns
pay?
During 1936, the national fa
tality rate from automoblie ac
cidents was 21.4 persons per ten
million gallons of gasoline con
sumed—and gasoline consump
tion is said to be the soundest
statistical basis. The rate for
Iowa was 13.4, Massachusetts
12.3, Minnesota 17.3 and Rhode
Island 10.1. The record is these
states was not a matter of luck
—for three yr .rs they have
been carrying on an intelligent
safety campaign.
North Carolina has started a
campaign to reduce the heavy
toll of lives within its borders.
The major move in this direction
was the passage of the Opera
tor’s License law a few years
ago. Licenses are being taken
away from those unfit to drive
as rapidly as police authorities
can get their hands on them.
Drunken driving is not to be
tolerated. Minors must not drive,
nor those mentally unfit. The
arbiters of the law are looking
after this end of the campaign.
But in the last analysis, it is
up to the operator of an auto
mobile himself to 1 ;nd that
need of cooperation which will
materially cut down fatal acci
dents. Public opinion must be
aroused, as it has been in the
states mentioned above.
Drive carefully yourself.
Report license numbers of
cars seen operated recklessly.
Report infractions of laws
and common sense.
Never drive when you’ve had
that one-too-many drinks.
Thirty-eight thousand per
sons lost their lives in automo
bile accidents in 1936. One mil
lion persons were injured. The
financial loss has been estimat
ed at $1,250,000,000.
It’s up to you!
UNCLE BILLY HUTT
WON’T BE BACK
When the count is taken and
the last Sandhiller is back with-
ing the county lines, there will
be a check against one name
listed in the homecoming. Uncle.
Billy Hutt will not return. Nei
ther will he be forgotten. Mr.
Hutt unwittingly established his
own memorial a number of
years ago, and today in an ar
ray of gardens over the com
munity there are many mark
ers that pay loyal tribute to a
friend.
Mr. Hutt w'as a real gardener
and one whose experience and
broad intelligence went far be
yond the ordinary variety. Born
a Canadian, he becamc familiar
with conditions North and
South. His long contact with
the State Department of Horti
culture at Raleigh made him
one of North Carolina’s useful
citizens. When retired from pub
lic affairs he had time to devel
op his own garden. In it were
plants picked up here and
there in his travels. Oddities
were sent to him by friends,
and frequently you ran across
something not to be found in
the seed books, as on some oc-
c'isions they were the results of
his own generations of cross
ings and development. To those
interested he gave generously
of his treasures and his knowl
edge. He would lift a dump of
his imported English Iris and
divide with a neighbor. He shar
ed his bulbs and flowers, his
own strain of berry plants, his
grapes, or his carefully select
ed seeds to all who coveted.
Things have a way of chang
ing during a long summer. Lord
ly weeds encroached upon the
regal lilies and finally absorb
ed the same soil and obscured
the stately Iris. Unbroken spi
der webs hang across his gar
den paths. Uncle Billy won’t be
back. But his memory will be
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—H. K. B.
EDITORIAL
U iMBLINGS
Last week our old friend Sam
uel A’Court Ashe celebrated his
97th birthday. The confederate
i officer declares now he is head-
I ed for the century mark.
jCapt. Ashe is beloved by North
I Carolinians who will watch with
!hope and interest the prolong-
jed closing of a wonderful life.
I An attorney, a legislator, a
''newspaper editor, a soldier and
' a historian weave an interesting
[pattern in a distinguished ca
reer. Capt. Ashe once said,
1 “Every one owes something to
khe community of which he is
ja member.” He hoped in per-
I forming the self-imposed task
of preparing his History of
North Carolina to pay a small
part of the natural obligations
resting on him as a citizen of
the state.
Now, at 97, Capt. Ashe is
busy writing his memoirs and
still figures he has time to re
vise his history. His work has
not only been gratifying to the
people of ths state but the crea
tive influence of such a genius
should encourage and cheer
every individual who has ever
known of the gallant old offi
cer.
The government is building
an eight room house within the
boundary line of Fort Bragg at
the intersection of the Southern
Pines-Raefoii’d road and the
Bowley boulevard. The house
will be ready for occupancy in
another month and in charge
w'ill be Sergt. McMinn, who will
be moved up from the old Sam
Cameron farm where a ranger’s
station has been maintained
since the removal of the Camer
on family at the beginning of
the camp’s activities. Sergt. Mc
Minn and his family will make
Southern Pines their postoffice
and trading center, with the lo
cal schools taking care of their
children.
The new home is the first
building to be erected in that
section of Hoke county since
Jasper Mayo put up his house
there years ago, followed
by Ed Waldon some time later.
The arrival of the McMinns is
the first family life to be estab
lished in that locality since be
fore the world war.
Pilot Praised by Printing Authority
W. Swain, Greensboro, Writes: “In My 30 Years in the Field
I Haven’t Seen a Ijocal Weekly To Compare Favora
bly With The Pilot
As do all newspapers, The Pilot
receives lots of brickbats and few
bouquets. It is therefore with partic
ular pleasure that we received this
week a letter from J. W. Swain of
Greensboro, an authoritj' on printing
and newspaper make-up, and head of
"Trade Typesetters,” a company
which furnishes the type matter for
practically all Greensboro printing
houses. Mr. Swain's letter reads:
"Please permit me to express my
appreciation of the efforts of you
and your associates in giving the
people of the Sandhill territory of
North Carolina a weekly newspaper
of which everyone may be justly
proud.
“As you doubtless have oberved,
the tendency on the part of the man-
agement of most weeklies is to over
look or wilfully neglect those little
niceties and refinements which make
I a newspaper inviting. In my thirty
' years in the printing field I haven’t
; seen a local weekly that can compare
j favorably with THE PILOT. The
' news stories ARE news stories, the
' features all that they should be, and
1 the locals are pleasingly written. The
j ads are not overcrowded and invite
the attention of even the casual read
er. The business and professional men
of your section should be enthusiastic
over the spic and span appearance
of their messages in print, and the
entire community should rejoice in
the fact that THE PILOT speaks so
eloquently of the advantages to be
found in the Sandhills.
“My appreciation of THE PILOT
comes to you unsolicited and is not
biased by any hope of gain on my
part. Please accept it as such.”
When the Rob»rt Farrells of Aber
deen had their second child a couple
of weeks ago, their first couldn’t wait
to tell her little friends about it. As
soon as she arrived at Sunday School
she announced to her classmates;
“I’ve got a new sister and it’s a
girl.”
There’s a sign in front of a house
on the double road reading “ONE
WAY.”
But don’t let it fool you. Both
Judge and Mrs. Way live there.
Correspondence
What with all the trouble he’s hav
ing over his one recent appointment
to the Supreme Court you just can't
help but wonder if President Roose
velt is still going to want to name
six new justices.
There are seven stores within 100
yards on East Broad street, Southern
Pines, in which you can purchase
food.
side in September, high above our
lowlands where we get them in May
and June, so long ago they have been
entirely forgotten.
Although Charlie Picquet claims he
gives us the very latest in pictures,
the Carolina Theatre in Southern
Pines has a big sign on one of the
windows reading: “ANTIQUES.”
Eighty thousand pounds of grass
seed is the amount W. H. McNeill
has counted on to supply the de
mand this year. When he opened his
business several years ago he dispos
ed of 150 bags. A steady increase de
manded more seed until this fall two
carloads were purchased for the
Southern Pines market.
WHY?
Editor, The Pilot:
When it takes from five to 40
years to grow a tree, why is the
telephone company permitted to go
around the town and country and
ruthlessly cut great chunks and in
seme instances the entire tops out of
beautiful shaped pine trees and other
species as well? At Christmas time,
when colored boys go out and cut
holly and mistletoe for a few pennies,
there is a great fuss made about It,
but the telephone company may cut
whenever, wherever, and what
ever suits it for dollars.
We know the telephone is neces
sary but the wires can be put under
ground and not through our beautiful
trees. In the words of our departed
friend, Joyce Kilmer, “Only God Can
Make a Tree.”
—CITIZEN.
Southern Pines,
Sept< 20, 1937.
The descending sun once more
touches the equator until we have a
day and night of equal length. The
Autumnal equinox has come and
gone, desi)ite all local superstition’
handed down, rich in their coloring,
from some of the older and fanciful
negroes. To escape the "equaoxshes”
and what they portend seems to be
something of a feat, when described
beforehand by some of the rare old
timers. Our spell of serene weather
with the heat of summer dissipated
is hard to match and with rains and
stormy conditions deferred peace Tias
settled over the cotton fields where
the snowy fleeces aie piled high in
the harvest.
The people of North Carolina will
be interested in the figures that show
the State’s share in the harvest of
national forest crops for the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1937. Timber
sales from the Nantahala and Pis-
gah National Forests amounted to
$38,794.79 according to announce
ments by Paul H. Gerrard, Forest
Supervisor of the Nantahala National
Forest, Franklin, N. C., and H. E.
Ochsr.ur, Forest Supervisor of the Pis-
gah National Forest, Asheville, N.
C. These figures represent the
amount of timber and forest product's
cut from the different areas under
sale to private corporations and in
dividuals during the past fiscal year.
From these receipts, a total of $9,-
698.70 will revert to the State of
North Carolina as its 25 percent share
of these returns, plus $3,879.47 as a
further 10 percent dividend to be
expended for the improvement of
roads in and around the forests.
Some figures worih thinking about:
The total of all Internal revenue
tax collections by the federal govern
ment from 1863 through the last fis
cal year was $74,000,000,000.
The gross national debt today is
$37,000,000,000.
So, we as a nation owe today just
exactly half as much as we as a na
tion have taken in during the last
sixty-four years.
FINEHURST HIGH SCHOOL HAS
CONSTITUTION PROGRAM
Boy Scouts Win Awards
at Court of Honor Here
Attorney Matthews Talks on U.
S. Constitution.—^Three Boys
Given Star Badges
The first meeting of the season of
the Moore County Boy Scout Court
of Honor and Awards was held at the
Southern Pines High School auditor
ium on Friday evening, September
17th and the program opened with a
march in double column and salute to
the flag. F. M. Dwight of Lakeview
and Colin Osborne and Paul Van
Camp of Southern Pines acted as the
Guard of Honor. •
Dr. G, G. Herr, chairman of the
Southern Pines School Board, welcom
ed the Scouts in behalf of the school,
emphasized the educational value of
the Boy Scouts of America and clos
ed his remarks with a glowing trib
ute to the Constitution of the Unit
ed States.
The chief address of the evening
was made by Attorney W. Duncan
Matthews, president of the Moore
County Boy Scouts Council, who told
in some detail how the Constitution
was formed and the fundamental
meaning and significance of the doc
ument.
R. E. Denny, deputy executive for
Moore county, presided and awarded
the promotion and merit badges. Six
boys from Aberdeen, one from Carth
age, eight from Pinehurst, nine from
Southern Pines Troop No. 1 ana four
from Southern Pine? Troop No. 2
were granted aw’ards.
Features of the evening were a
demonstration of signalling by First
Class Scout Edward Prizer and the
awarding of Star badges to Lyle Me-1
Donald, C. P. Osborne and Edward j
Prizer, all of Southern Pines Troop j
No. 1. In congratulating these Scouts j
on this advancement. Dr. E. Levis I
Prizer, chairman of the Moore Coun-1
ty Court of Honor Committee, ex- j
pressed the hope and belief that a j
dozen more Star awards can be made ,
M. H. FOLLEY
Lumber, Millwork and
Builders’ Supplies
Aberdeen
Hemp
.^naitiiku jiiiniu^
Will be in his office over the
old Post Office, Sanford, N. C.,
every Wednesday, from 10:00 a. m.
to 3.00 p. m. Don’t fail to see him
If your eyes are weak.
Drs. Neal, Beard
and Wright
VETERINARIANS
Southern Pines Sanford
YOURS FOR GOOD SHOES
H. E. CONANT
PINEHURST
THE SHOE MAN
this winter.
IVIARRIAGE LICENSE
A marriage license has been issued
from the office of the Register of
Deeds of Moore county to Amos Jones
of Eagle Springs and Mamie M»-
Lauchlin of Carthage.
REAL. ESTATE TRANSFER
Mary E. Beck to W. R. Jones and
V. B. Jones: property in Sheffield
township.
24 HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE
WlONE 6161-SOUTHERN PINES
To serve those who e»U upon os
to tlie best of our ability and
with tboughftful fairness Is the
basis upon which oar organization
Is fonned.
H. G. McELBOT
Manager
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SOUTHERN PINES
NORTH CAROLINA
Boarding school for children six to fourteen years, with
day pupils from Pinehurst and Southern Pines.
Music —
Art — Handicrafts — Tennis
IklNDERGARTEN DEPARTMENT
Mrs. MUIIcent Hayes, Principal.
Riding
Snow in the mountains of Penn
sylvania and frosts! And the black
berries only ripened there last month.
In our own mountains some Moore
county folks picked them on a road-
Fi'iday morning of last week W. L.
Cunningham directed the chapel pro
gram at the Pinehurst High School.
The story of the making of the Con
stitution was retold bj' a group of
students of the Social Science classes.
Before introduci<ig the speakers Mr.
Cunningham briefly gave some of the
reasons for having a constitution.
Donald Surrie, Jr., with all of the
poise of a Patrick Henry, gave at
brief description of the crowd wel
coming General 'Washington. Edgar
Lewis discussed the troubles of the
Constitutional convention and Arthur
Dupree spoke on the secret meetings
and final ratification. All of (hese
young men made impressive speeches
and held the attention of both facul
ty and students.
IT’S TIME TO PLANT
GRASS
FOR YOUR WINTER
LAWNS
WOOD’S
Italian Rye Grass
SEED
We are offering again this season the high quality seed
that grows into the beautiful lawns of the Sandhills.
We are ready to fill your orders for any quantity.
McNEILL & COMPANY
FEED and SEED STORE
I Southern Pines Phone 6244