PiBsre Two THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Wnes, N, C. THE_PILOT, Southern i*ines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, May 5, 1039. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE T(Sis NELSON C, HYDE F]dltor CBARLES MACAULEY DAN S. RAY AdvcrtisinK Circulatiun H*len K. Hutirr, Hentie Camrrun 8niith, H. L. Epps, Axaociates Subscription lliktes: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.0C> Three Months 50 M«i«bcr WooUyard Associates Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N C., as second class mail matter. THE VALUE OF OUR 4-H CLUBS Among the various meritor ious activities of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club is a project called ^‘Boys and Girls Work,” which has for its aim the development of ambitions and ideals in the youth of the county. When Ki wanis recently launched a new committee to study what is be ing done for the young people of Moore it discovered well or ganized and highly efficient 4- II Clubs in many of the schools. The country has reason to congratulate itself that enroll ment in these Department of Agriculture-sponsored 4-H Clubs reached a new high in 1938 of 1,286,029. This is a “youth j movement” in the true Ameri can style which touches more than 40 percent of all rural boys and girls between the ases of 10 and 21. It is voluntary, yet it is so attractive that farm boys and girls are drawn to it in any community where the work is offered. The key to the success of the 4-H Clubs is in “learning by do ing.” Each member attempts a project of his own—to raise a pig or calf, to tend a garden, to learn sewing or some other use ful farm skill. And about three- quarters of the projects are car ried through. The constantly rising stand ard of rural living in the United States is due in no small part to what millions of farm youths have learned in the 25 years the clubs have been functioning. More power to the 4-H Clubs, the Head, Hands, Heart and Health of these enterprising and modern American farm young stars! BtSIOES THE eOWj 7 ANIMALS Cive MILK FOK HUMAN CONSUMPTION.. CAMBL, SH££f> 2EBI'i OOAT, tUPFALO, AND De/KOecK^ AS A RESULT OP INDUSTRIAL , RESCARCH EVtHV ^tmwORHK tMPLOVBD TODAY IS IN AH ' iNPusTKV ffo/v-cKisreivr ok MKT STAHTIH6 40 yews Aso. toms WITH A 1(9 TO STMOON,,. THIS CURIOOS COIN WHICH HAD A LE<> ATTACHBO TTj IT WAS US6D By THB ROMANS IN TH6 LAST CeNTUHV, ac. In a bkent soRveyop investors 81SX SAIO THEV wetie NOT mvtSTlNb fVNOS IN Uoe-fW\llDlN& eNTERPRISES BKAUSE TM BMDENS ON COMPANIES WERE TOO HIGH, KOMt WAiN'r BWLT IN A DAV... auTOHlAHOMA CnyvtASl ...OPENeO POB SeTTLEMBhtT BV TUB GRAINS Cr SAND On Election day in Southern Pines i and' forbidding in the summer. This the wind blew keen and cold from j is not out of the Artie circle. The tempera ture sought the lower levels while voters hugged the home fires and voted not. Hiram Westbrook stamped up and down the windy porch of City Hall and Mrs. Tilghman, swathed in many blankets, penciled the books with frosted fingers. It was just too cold to care who was what. “We’ve all heard the jokes concern ing the persistence of the life insur ance salesman. And we’ve all been annoyed by him personally. But, as many a man has learned eventually, that quality of persistence the case. “The way to see the Sandhills is to drive away from the main high ways and spend some time on the farms tucked away in the curve of the hills, boi’dered in many cases with superb forests and with valleys and creeks meandering through much of the territory. It is easy toestab- elected | lish a fish pond or to have a good strong well or to find a free flowing spring.” Moore county Is particularly fortu nate in its water supply. Our low hill that raise up several hundred feet above sea level belong to the Crataceous age of geology. Gentle erosion has provided beds for the performs a tremendous public set- ] little rivers and smaller creeks. Rain vice. Most of us dislike to spend | sinks through the sand to the stor- money for things that bring us no ■ immediate pleasute or return. It has to be dredged out of us. Our in stinctive inclination to procrastinate has to be beaten dovra. We admit life insurance is good and necessary but if it weren’t for “super-salesmanship” not one of us in ten would buy it. A life insurance salesman’s per sistence has saved many a m.an from a poverty stricken old age—and many a family from want when the bread winner died. A WORD FOR THE AMERICAN MERCHANT The American merchant has ifiven the American people the best retail service in the world. A typical small-town store in this country, dealing in food, hardware, drugs, dry goods or anything else, offers a far wider selection of goods, of a far bet ter quality than a typical store in any other land. This goes for single-unit as well as multiple- unit merchandising. Equally important, first-class iservice hasn’t involved high price. In the typical store, costs have been cut to the bone. Cen tralized buying has reduced handling and distributing ex pense. Big turnover has made it possible to earn a satisfactory gross profit at a very small unit profit. The result, from the con sumer’s point of view, is more goods for less money, an/d a hi&her standard of living for the family. Economists, consumer groups, new'spapers, government offi cials and others have boen point ing out that our American mer chants should be encouraged to the full in this trend. Increased consumptioi\ of the produce of farm and factory is the key to * increased production, an increas ed national income, increased employment — and eventual prosperity. And increased con sumption is almost purely an economic matter. The bulk of American families buy all they can afford. When prices go up,, they buy less. When down, they rather buy more. j'| pleasant in winter but avirfully dry Under a free competitive sys tem, every merchant tries to outdo the merchant next door. He lowers prices when he can. When that is impractical, he of. fers additional services. He in creases his advertising, and bet ters his displays. And the whole community profits. So does the merchant himself, who finds more and more customers enter ing his door—and taking more and more goods away with them when they leave. In the Sandhills your neighbors are never dull. In the assemblage of four or five friends the other day, a young fellow in the outfit, from the neighboring ridge, pointed to a col ored handkerchief in possession of one of the group. He recognized a creation of his own work He had made a varied lot of patterns for his company before he left it. The young man had not only designed decorations for gay handkerchiefs, but left the big textile plant that em ployed him a long list of ornamen tal drawings for fabrics that ranged from juvenile pictures to more con ventional forms. In the Sandhills your neighbors may be those who have produced not only your wearing apparel, but your Quaker Oats, or a standard brand of foods or shock absorbers or books or beds or locomotives. Sandhills neigh bors are always interesting. age reservoirs of impervious clay and we weather through with drougtha practically unknown and have an abundant supply of water the year around. Revised Itinerary For Bookmobile in County Traveling Library To Run on Time Schedule Mondays to Fridays The revised litnerary for the WPA Bookmobile for Moore County was announced this week as folloks: Trip No. 1—Monday: White Hill (G. P. Jones Store), 8:30—9:00; Cam eron School Building, 9:00—9:30; Cameron Drug Store, 9:30—15:15; Doss Service Station, 10:20—10:30; Vass Postoffice, 10:55—11:15; Lake- view Postoffice, 11:20—12:00; J. M. Kelly Residence, 12:45—1:00; Clay Road Farm, 1:15—1:45; Eureka (Farm Life School), 2:00—3:00; Carthage, 3:30—4:00 (Court House). Trip No. 2—Tuesday: Niagara Pub lic Library, 8:30^—8:50; Manly Post- office, 9:00—9:45; Southern Pines School, 10:00—11:00; Southern Pines Library, 11:00—11:25; Aberdeen Pub lic Library, 11:30—12:15; Pinebluff Public Library, 1:00—1:30; Pinehurst School, 2:00—3:00. Trip No. 3—Wednesday :Hillcrest 8:10—8:30; Eastwood, 8:40—9:00; West End School, 9:20—10:00; Jack son Springs (Gulf Station), 10:15- 1015; Easrle Springs Service Station, 11:15—11:45; Samarcand, 12:30— 12:45; Big Oak Church, 1:00—1:39; Carthage Grammar School, 2:00— 3:00. Trip No. 4—Thursday: Lassiter’s I Store, 8:15—8:30; Philadelphia School j Building, 8:45—9:00; Spies, 9:15— 19:30; Baldwin’s Store, 10:00—10:20; Gulf Service Station, (near Moody •School), 10:35—11:00; Jugtown, 11:15 —11:30; Service Station near Acorn f Ridge, 11:45—12:00; Leamon^ 12:15— 12:30; Elise School. 1:10—2:00; Hemp Graded School, 2:00—3:00: Trip No. 5—riday: Carthage High . S^chool, 9:00—9:45; Calvaiy Church, * 10:00—10:10; Hallison, 10:20—10:30; Putnam, 10:40—10:50; McConnell, 11:00—11:10; Highfalls School Build ing, 11:20—12:00; Highfalls Postof fice, 12:20—12:45; Quaker Home, 1:15—1:30; Glendon, 1:50-2:00; Horse Shoe (W. J. Harrington's) 2:10—2:30; Mt. Holly (Fred Under- wood’r), 2:50—3:00; Priest Hill Church, 3:15—3:30. # • PILOT ADVERTISING PAYS. BEMINGTOM E.^TON’S SO('l.\L TYPEWBITEUS ST.VTIONEUV CON«UF.SS 1*L.\V1>0 C.AKDS R.C.A. R A D I O S Buy The Best H AYES’ SANDHIL.L.S OOOK SHOF» Southern Pines North Carolinii PARKER P E N S BANCROFT’S TENNIS K.-VCKETS B. A: I’. 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