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THE PILOT, Southero Pines and Aberdeen, North CaroHna
Friday, February 18; I'SSS.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor
BEN BOWDEN
Newi Editor
CHARLES MACAULEY
Advertising
JEAN C. EDSON
Buiincu Manager
DAN S. RAY
Circulation
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matter.
IT’S BUSINESS,
BIG OR LITTLE
To say that official Washing
ton was “shocked” when repre
sentatives of “Little Business’
laid their 23-point program for
easing the strains on business
would be putting it mildly.
The final draft of the prog
ram was of a much quieter tone
when the Drafting Committee
finished with it than was the
program approved by the full
meeting of some 1000 represen
tatives of small business. Even
so, it was a document vastly
different from what had been
expected to emerge from the
sessions.
In effect the 23 points reflect
one certain fact and that is that
it doesn’t matter what the term
“business’' represents—wheth
er a business of a man working
for himself or employing five
persons or five thousand, the
same problems exist.
At the meeting, Mr. Tom
Jones of Jones and Co., was eith
er a maker of hats in Duluth,
or a brick manufacturer in
Cleveland or a scrapiron mer
chant in Podunk. If his exper
ience conforms to that of the
average businessman, a glance
at his ledgers shows the follow
ing for the past two years:
1. The hourly wage rate he
pays is 10 to 15 percent above
what it was a year ago.
2. His taxes have risen and he
must now even pay a prohibitive
tax on earnings retained to be
put back in his business.
3. He pays an old-age insur
ance tax, larger than it should
be because it is used to build up
a large reserve fund which is
actually non-existent.
4. That all of these factors op
erating in the business of those
supplying him with raw mater
ials, have caused his costs for
materials to rise at a dizzy pace.
As the New York Times com
ments on the “Little Business”
report :
“Anything that will actually
help Mr. Jones reduce his prices,
by enabling him to reduce his
costs, will bring Mr. Jones’s
customers back into the mar
ket and revive activity in oth
er business, both big and little.”
MORE THAN THE BUDGET
NEEDS BALANCING
An able appeal to agriculture,
business and labor to “get into
the proper balance” was made
by Roy S. Durstine, a prominent
New York advertising man, in
a recent talk before the Adver
tising Club of Chicago. He based
his remarks on a talk he had
had with President Roosevelt’s
secretary, the late Louis Mc
Henry Howe, before the for
mer’s first inauguration.
Mr. Howe described the job of
the Roosevelt administration as
the task of bringing those three
groups into proper balance be
cause “each one can prosper only
as the other two prosper.” Per
haps it is the job of those in the
advertising business, Mr. Dur
stine added, to help in that
job.
“Whether we like it or not,”
he continued, “we are nationally
in a day of comp’ote interde
pendence on each o '"'er. And we
who are supposed to be engaged
in the articulating side of bus
iness cannot ignore our respon
sibility to help business inter
pret itself.
“I honestly that every
advertising maii hree jobs.
First, to prod',1 ^ i,e best ad-
vertiiiiri^ ha yr .ibJe can to snll
merchandise f?.:cono, to let -hat
advertising rellect the integ-rity
and good faith of the company
^vhich 5''Iis I he product. And
finally, lo hr Ip his fellow coun
trymen to think straight politi
cally, to balance not just the
budget but to balance what
Louip Howe called the three bas
I
ic divisions of American life—
the farmer, the business man
and the worker.”
AN AMERICAN
INlSTITUTION PASSES
An American institution died
this week Oscar Odd McIntyre,
columnist of many journals,
this week, Oscar Odd McIntyre,
lotte Observer. In the feeling
that many of our readers have
appraised McIntyre as did Ray
Irwin of the Observer staff in
his Wednesday column, k
print it here, with thanks.
Grams m Sand
Lives there a man with a soul
so queer
He can turn down a job paying
$75,000 a year.
re-
Former Gover3.or Max Gardner has
written the New York Stock Ex-
chanpe that he will not accept the
presidency if offered to him. Ain’t
that somethin’?
In again, out again, all inside a
week.
McIntyre—One night before Christ-, John Beasley, editor- of our dls
tinguished contemporary and friend
ly rival, the Moore County News at
Carthage, announced his candidacy
for Walter Lambeth’s Congressional
job last Wednesday, and unannounc
ed this Monday. He says his uncle,
Rowland Beasley of Monroe, would
make a better Representative for
the Eighth Congressional district.
mas after I had retired and begun
to read I suddenly decided for the
thing wriie a “fan” letter, and I
first time In my life to do that rash
reached out for paper and pencil and
scribbled a leter o he favorie col
umnist of mine and of the world, Os
car Odd l.r Intj're, the Magnificent,
who brought Broadway to Maine
Street through the medium of his lu.
cid writings.
Routine affairs caused me to stuff
the notes in my desk and neglect (as
we often do until it is too late) the
task of editing, typing and mailing
the letter. It would have been only
one of 3,000 such letters received by
Mr. Mclntype each week, but it
would have given me the good feel
ing of having acknowledged the debt
I owe him for many hours of enter
tainment and erJightenment
One does not profane profound
grief over the death of a friend who
Is near and dear by exposing it to
the public gaze; one does not wish
to publicize purely personal (I near
ly added “piffle”) feelings. However,
it seemed fitting that I get out the
months-old letter and publish it un
changed from its original spontaneous
form, in humble tribute to Mr. Mc
Intyre, who died Monday, from one
of his millions of admirers. The pen
cilled notes read:
“Dear Mr. McIntyre:
“How does one begin a "fan’ let
ter? In the three decades of my life
I have never written one ,and this
first attempt finds me inarticulate
although I have been a professional
scrivener in the public prints for 15
years.
“In sunshine and shadow, youth
and more mature years, you have
been my friend and my daily com
panion. I, too, am a grandma-reared
boy who grew up in a small town,
was a printer's devil during high
school days, became a reporter of
personal and locai ‘items’ on a small
paper, even as you, and then left
home for the daily field in a larger
town, Charlotte, at the same age at
which you deserted Gallipolis for the
broader field in Daj^ton and later
Cincinnati. There the analogy ends,
because I have remained in obscur
ity as a small-time reporter and did
not, like you, go on to the Big Town,
see, and conquer.
“But on a couple of Manhattan
visits, I have made pilgrimages to
the portals of 290 Park Avenue,
which is to me the shrine of the most
entertaining living writer. Under the
icy stare of the liveried doorman I
dared not linger or loiter, but in
your residence I felt greater awe
and reverence than I ever felt at
the White House.
“Your friend, Irvin Cobb, once said
all North Carolina needs is a press
agent. Come down to see us. You
once glorified Ziegfeld and his Amer
ican girls and you have made New
York glamorous for yokels like me
the world over. Now come down to
Carolina, see Pinehurst and Asheville
and Charleston. Your facile pen will
find new realms to delineate with
cameo-like clarity.
"Through the years I’ve gradual
ly come to know you as I know few
men. I know and admire your rela
tives and childhood friends. I sym
pathize with your fauits—they are
few as modem writers go ajid very
human—and I admire your engag
ing virtues and they are many. I
commiserate with you in your sor
rows; I glory in your successes. You
are my friend and confidant, even
as you are the Intimate daily com
panion of millions. I can never ex
pect to even aspiree to your attain
ments, but I am proud to belong to
the craft you have honored so long
and with such signal success.
“So much of pleasure and profit
has been gleaned through nearly
20 years of close perusal of every
available screen from your pungent
potent pen that I feel constrained
at the risk of boring you to distrac
tion, to add my wee small voice to
the mighty pean of praise that the
grreat mass of AmericajQs sing in
your acclaim. You have done so much
for me. There is nr»thing I have done
or can do for you, save keep you and
your work everlastingly fresh in the
garden of my memory,"
Look what we found in the Kiwanis
Magazine;
One step won’t take you very
far
You’ve got to keep on wtdking.
One word won't tell folks who
you are,
You’ve got to keep on talking.
One inch won’t make you very
tall.
You’ve got to keep on growing.
One little ad won’t do it all,
You’ve got to keep them go
ing.
CAMERON
Notes from college campuses:
George W. Pottle of Southern Pines
took part in the Junior Week festiv
ities at Cornell University, Ithaca,
N. Y., last week and had as his
guest at the Phi Gamma Delta house
party Miss Mary Fowler of Briarcliff
Junior College.
Miss .Sibyl Rumley of Southern
Pines has been elected a member of
the Foreign Language Club at Mars
Hill. Sibyl is an honor roll student.
Maurice Hindus, author of “Hu
manity Uprooted,” is speaking at
Flora Macdonald College next Mon
day evening. He is regainied as the
world’s best authority on present day
Russia, Sandhills residents are invit
ed.
Moore county has 568 persons to
tally unemployed and who w'ant to
work, 255 employed in federal emer
gency projects, and 608 who are
partly employed and desire more
work, according to new census fig
ures.
“lOL'OHED AND GRA'TEFUL”
Editor, The Pilot:
Both my wife and myself were
•"'r: tcvhed ani grstcful than we
The following verses entitled
“Somewhere to Go,” from the pen of
Miss Mary Parker Colvin, a winter
resident of Southern Pines, are great
ly appreciated by the rural wom^n
who sell their produce in Southern |
Pines each Saturday morning.
There is a spot in Southern Pines
To which I lik*' to go;
I make a weekly visit there
On Saturdays, you know.
Such friendly faces smile at me,
And friendly voices speak;
It’s given me much happiness
To go there every week.
’Tis true I can but little spend
Aa I walk ’round about,
I fear they’re disappointed;
I’d like to buy them out.
Their flowers so fresh and lovely are,
So homelike looks their food,
Those jams and jellies, jars of fruit,
I know are more than good.
Their breads, their butter, cookies,
cakes.
Their poultry, sausage, meat,
Their garden stuff, all freshly picked.
All these are hard to beat.
I go alone or with my friends
On each Curb Market day,
And later, leave, hands filled with
bloom
Some delicate, some gay.
Thieves broke Into the store of L.
B. McKeithen last Sunday night by
prizing open the front door. They
then rolled the heavy Iron safe out
of the door and off the porch, and
breaking off the door they secured
bfetween $60.00 and $100.00. None of
the papers In the safe, however, were
disturbed.
J. M. Guthrie spent several days
last week In Brookneal, Va., and on
his return had a slight automobile
wreck, his car turning over. He waa
not injured.
Mrs. W. M. Wooten and Mrs. Jew
ell Hemphill spent Tuesday In Fay
etteville. Mrs. Wooten’s daughter,
Mrs. Paul Jojmer, under went an op
eration at Highsmith Hospital that
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Tally, Mes-
dames O. B. Pullen, J. D. McLean and
Loula Muse were Southern Pines
visitors on Tuesday afternoon.
Carl <3oerch makes a talk In the
school auditorium tonight, Friday, at
8:00 o’clock.
Miss Lula Rogers of Route 1 was
carried to the Lee County Hospital
last Monday and underwent a minor
operation on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Phillips spent
Sunday in Biscoe, guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Wellons Burt.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Loving, Frank
lin, and Carl Loving spent Sunday in
Lillington with Mr. and Mrs. Char
les Loving.
Mr. and Mrs. Van Limebach of
Winston-Salem were Sunday guests
of Mrs. Laura Rogers and family.
Mrs. Anna Culberson of Sanford,
after spending a few days with her
daughter, Mrs. W. M. Wooten, re
turned home Monday.
J. E. Snow, who spent the tobac
co season in Winston-Salem, returned
home Saturday.
Friends of Mrs. J. Clyde Kelly will
regret to learn that her mother, Mrs.
Forbes, is critically ill at her home
near Farmville, Va.
Miss Lillian Cole of Concord and
Miss Effie Gilchrist of the Oriental
school faculty spent the week-end
with home folks.
DR. J. C. TRE8SLER VISITS
SOUTHERN PINES SCHOOL
Dr. J. C. Tressler, head of the
Department of English, Richmond
Hill High School, New York City,
visited the Southern Pines School
this week. Dr. Tressler, author of the
texts now used by the Jimiors and
Seniors, visited various E^nglialt
classes and spoke to the students.
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SOUTHERN PINES
SEASON DECEMBER TO MAT
Highland Pines Inn with its Splendid Dining Room Servlet
and its Cheerful Homelike Atmosphere Caters to the Require
ments of those Occupying Winter Homes In the Pine Tree Sec
tion. The Holel is Situated on Weymouth Heights (Massachu
setts Avenue) Amid Delightful Surroundings. Good Parking
Space Is Available for Motorists. All Features of First Class
Hotels are Included at Highland Pines Inn. Best of Everythinjr.
M. H. TURNER, Manager
DIVOKCE GKVX'IKO
At the term of Superior Court for
the trial of civil cases in Carthage
on Monday, with Judge F. Donald
Phillips presiding, Mafy Cauble
Cockman was granted a divorce de
cree from Clyde Cockman on the
grounds of two years separation.
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News note from our Niagara cor
respondent:
Comic valentines were all the go
on the 14 th. Some were pleased, some
were displeased, but everybody’s liv
ing so far.
can possibly say by the generous
and friendly editorial in The Pilot
concerning the departure of the
Burts from Southern Pines. Fortu
nately the departure is by no means
final. If it were I would be feeling
very somesick, but all going well I
hope to be back in the S. ndhills in
not longer than a year.
I have an idea that if on^e you
live in tlie Sandhills you nevi,, leave
them permanently if you can hnlp
it.
With renewed thanks,
—STRUTHERS BURT,
Philadelphia, Pa.,
February 9, 1938.
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