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THE PILOT, Southern Pinati and Aberdeen. North Carolina
Friday, February 10, 1939.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Int'orporated,
Southern Hues, N. C.
NELSON C. IIVDK
Editor
CHARLES MACAULEY DAN S. RAY
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THIS WAR DIDN’T
LAST LONG
It doesn’t take long for an ex
plosion to follow here in the
Sandhills when someone sticks
a pin into the biggest bubble.
Our resort business means so
much to so many that anyone
who threatens it in any way is
inviting wajr. War camo, and
came quickly, last Saturday
morning when the report, ema
nating from Raleigh, spread
around that Moore’s representa
tive in the State Legislature
was openly opposing the State’s
advertising program, vitally im
portant to us here.
Hurried meetings of every
conceivable civic organization in
the section were called. Could
Mr. Clegg have seen the hurry
ing and scurrying and heard the
vociferous reaction to his stat
ed position he’d have caught the
first bus for Virginia. Nor did
it take long for him to hear by
telephone, telegraph and mail
that he was treading on tender
toes.
Well, what’s the sequel? We
give you a Raleigh despatch
from The Associated Press:
Representative W. R. Clegg of
Moore county went home to com
mune with “the boys” over the week
end and came back convinced his op
position to the $250,000 State ad
vertising fund was “a mistake.”
Clegg had promised to carry to the
floor his proposal that the appropria
tion for State advertising be wiped
out.
During the week-end, Clegg told
the Appropriations committee Tues
day, he received 16 telegrams, three
long distance calls, three letters, one
petition with 19 signatures, and a
delegation at his home. All urged
him to support the advertising fund.
Clegg promised the appropriations
committee to do just that.
“I’m here to represent Moore
county and not myself,” he explain
ed.
THE POCKETBOOK
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By
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ANP local oovernment smplovees not
COUHTIMQ 339.000 IN THE ARMY AND
navv and over 4, ooo, ooo ON
VARIOUS relief projects.
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A GERMAN CACTORY WORKER
most work S riMCS AS LOHb
/IS AN AMERICAN TO
BUY AN AUTOMOBILE —
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ONLY HORSES ARE
THOROUOHBRBDS. .
other animals ARE
called "PuRe BftiO*
ec/iiNs crsAND
You can now mail a letter in Sou
thern Pines at 9:00 p. m. and have
it in the New York postoffice at 7:15
the next morring—provided the en
velope bears an Air Mail stamp.
There’s a new air mail schedule in
effect. Postmaster Buchan informs
us.
“A new and spacious structure,
was first opened for the accommoda
tion of guests in January, 1896.”
“It is a pretty sight when the
raddle riders assemble at the hotel
front porch for the morning ride.’’
“The golf links at Piney Woods
start off immediately at tne hotel.
The names wnich won the great- They consist of a nine-hole course—
est applause in the speech made by some fine natural hazards. The turf
Walter Lambeth at the Carolina ho
is firm and hard and kept in good
tel on Tuesday night were those of | condition. A tennis court and cro-
the late Walter Hines Page, Govern
or Hoey, Secretary of State Cordell
Hull, and Senator Josiah Bailey.
The Rev. Ernest Barber brought
into the office this week one of the
first, if not the first, advertising
folder put out by the Piney Woods
Inn in Southern Pines, which burn
ed to the ground in 1912. Quoting a
few passages:
quet grounds, and numerous large
swings upon the hotel grounds af
ford pleasure and comfort in their
use. A pack of hounds for those wish
ing to' go on a fox hunt and fine
bird shooting.”
The folder shows pictures of the
inn, inside and out, and of a group of
“saddle riders” at the front entrance.
The manager of the inn at the time
was Leon St. John.
“THE ONE BIG
UNCERTAINTY’
One of the leading statistical
and economic services, in fore
casting the future trend of bus
iness, recently had this to say:
“The public utility industry re
mains the one big uncertainty.
Some plant expansion in this
field will be necessary merely to
meet the growing utilization of
electric power, but any long-
The largest single planting of slash
pme ever to be undertaken in North
Carolina has just come to a success
ful conclusion on the Sandhills Land
Utilization Project. During the past
two and one-half months 500,000
slash pines have been planted on
farm land formerly cleared for cul
tivation during the boom days of
7' - I- ’ - — - o ■. j exploitation in the Sandhills
term expansion program will not i cAiJiuiLdLxu
develop until the utility execu-1 ^
tives and the Administration! Soil formations m this section have
settle their differences.” ' recognized in the past as more
It will be remembered that,adaptable to the growmg of
not long ago officials of the i
government asked the coopera-11’”^
tion of the utility industry in
Half Million Slash Pine Planted
On Land Utilization Project Here
644,000 Long Leaf Pines Also
Put In at Federal Develop
ment Near Hoffman
The Weather
expanding plant facilities in the
interest of current plans for na
tional defense—as well as to
provide employment and profit
able sources for productive pri
vate investment. The utility in
dustry immediately indicated its
willingness to do everything in
its power—and its leaders point
ed out that it could and would
spend billion.s in the next few
years if there was an end to po
litical persecution, and federal
subsidies for socializing the
electric industry. What has hap
pened? The socialization drive
has not been stopped. The TVA
is going ahead with its ruthless
policy of forcing private utili
ties to sell out at ruinous, unar
bitrated prices set by TVA direc
tors—using as its weapon the
threat of building duplicate fa
cilities. At Bonneville Dam,
plans have been announced for
building a va.st system of trans
mission lines in the Pacific Nor
thwest with federal funds—and
all or practically all of these
lines will virtually duplicate the
lines of the heavily taxed private
utilities which have long served
t^ie area with abundant electric
power at extremely low rates.
have been carried on on this project
for about four years, and observa
tion of other plantings in the state,
some of which are approximately ten
years old, have prompted us to try
on a large scale the planting of slash
pine in comparison with the plant
ing of long leaf and other pines.
In addition to the slasii pine that
has been planted on the area of sub
marginal land in and around Hoff
man, where the United **tates De
partment of Agriculture has purchas-
be secured even on very poor land
been ^planted during the planting
season of November, December and
The public ownership “scandal”
in Nebraska continues to cost
the general taxpayers a fortune
—and to threaten the existence
of private utilities there.
So it goes, throughout the na
tion. In addition to all this, the
government continues to lend
and give money to municipali
ties for the purpose of bui'ding
subsidized, tax-<^ree. unnece^’sarv
municipal plants. Is it any won
der that the utility industry “re
Higher Temperatures During
January Than Year Ago;
Rainfall Above Normal
The first month of the new year
was marked by higher temperatures
than those of January, 1938, exceed
ing the average maximum by more
than two degrees. Cloudier and more
moist than normal, the month pass
ed with 12 clear days, 14 partly
claudy and five with rain which pre
cipitated 4.85 inches, 1.43 inches
more than normal.
On the afternoon of the 5th a
thunder storm dropped 2.41 inches
of rain. On the night oft he 15th one
and one-inches of snow fell providing
a beautiful spectacle in the bright
sunlight of the following day. The
highest temperature for the month
was 71 degrees on the 10th, and the
lowest 21 degrees on the 20th.
Long time Max. Min Aver,
average 54.6 33.2 44
1938 53^ 30.1 . 41.5
1939 ...4. 58.2 34.1 46.1
January, 644,000 long leaf pines.
The pioneer in re-forestation by
the use of slash pine in North Caro
lina is Don L. Culberson, a native
of Richmond county. Mr. Culberson
has on his farm in Richmond county
a small demonstration plot of the
oldest slash pine available in North
Carolina. This planting is approxi
mately ten years old.
Land owners interested in re-for-
estating their lands that are too
steep or rough for profitable culti
vation or lands that cannot produce
a satisfactory harvest of cash crops
aie welcome to visit some of the re-
for'’‘>tcd pr’ps or this project anr!
rwhat amount of tree growth can
he secured c"pn on very por land
mains tVe one big uncertainty” I when T'rotection has been given the
—and tl^at economists point out j pla ts fro mthe ravages of forest
that lack of private utility ex-1 ^ -
pan.sion is a tremendous obsta-i
cle to recovery? I pilot advertising pays.
Gen. McGlachlin Enjoys;
Copy of 01 Bethesda
Nephew of Late Dugald Me- ||
Glachlin of Pinebluff Com- jf
manded Army of Occupation
Mrs. Anna McGlachlin of Pine-
bluff recently received an interest
ing letter from her nephew. Major
General Edw’ard McGlachlin, now
stationed in Washington, D. C., and
to whom she had sent as a Christ-
iTias gift a copy of “Old Bethesda,”
by the late Bon H. Butler, long edi
tor of The Pilot.
“The book, ‘Old Bethesda,” ” he
wrote, "is very interesting and adds
to the little remembered of the
sturdy part played by Scotchmen in
the settlement and development of
the Carolinas and thence westward.
It may be imagined that many of
them transported <(3 unsuccessful
‘lebels’ in Scotland so often were
really glad to come that way for lack
of means to come in any other way.
“But they come voluntarily also to
all colonies and many penetated the
south by ways west of the moun
tains.
“In my late years I have devoted
much study to geneology. I have not
developed anything new in the Mc
Glachlin line, but have traced my
mother s back to Providence, Rhode
Island, Long Island and Westchester
county families of around 1650. My
grandmother Fenton’s family is well
established back to the same cen
tury in Massachusetts and Connec
ticut.”
General McGlachlin, who was in
charge of the Army of Occupation
at Coblenz, is a nephew of the late
Dugald McGlachlin of Pinebluff.
WE HAVE THEM
If he would send her a nice Valentine it would please.
If she should send him a nice Valentine it would help.
Some nice friendly valentines,
Some really LOVIN’ valentines
and
Some almost scandalous valentines,
also
Valentine Cai'ds, Favors, Mottoes, place cards and party
goods.
HAYES’ SANDHILL BOOK SHOP
Southern Pines, N. C.
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NIAGARA
D. C. Fry and his band of "Swing
Your ners’’ went to Raleigh
Monday night to try out on the ra
dio.
Mrs. Wods of Ohio gave a talk on
Bible study Tuesday night at the
library.
Mi^s Pearl ^oore has returned
to her home in Carthage.
E. Li. Dean gave a musical social
at the library on Friday night.
“It is glorious that here, in the
United States, everybody knows
what is going on in world affairs,
instead of being limited to what
somebody else thinks should be made
public.”—Cardinal Mundelein of Chi
cago.
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