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THE PILOT, Southern t^nes and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, May 12, 1939.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PU<OT, Incorporated,
Southern Plnea, N. C.
NELSON C. HVDE
Editor
CBARLES MACAULEY DAN S. RAY
AdvcrtUinir Circulation
H«l«n K. Butler. RcMie Cameron Smith,
H. L. Epps, Asiociutei
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE ^
^ivic Club To Close
A Successful Season
Subscription Kates:
One Year $2.00
Six Months $1.00
Three Months -50
Member Woodyard Aasociatea
Sintered at the Postoffice at South-
em Fines, N. C., as second class mall
matter.
A SEMINAR
FOR SAFETY
Leaders in highway safety
moves throughout the country
sat down with representatives of
the press of the state and with
highway officials of North Car
olina this week in Raleigh and
discussed what can be done,
through education- through road
improvement, through laws, to
reduce the heavy toll of life and
the tremendous property dam
age annually in state and nation.
It was an inspiring meeting, and
that much good will come of it
is not questioned by anyone
present.
This North Carolina News
paper Seminar of Safety, as it
was officially called, was spon
sored by the C. I. T. Safety
Foundation of New York, ‘ with
a view to the further develop
ment of traffic safety techni
ques which can be applied in lo
cal communities,” as the pro
gram put it.
Every conceivable angle of
the problem was discussed, and
by such men as Dr. Miller Mc-
Clintock, director of the Bureau
for Street Traffic Research of
Yale University; Dr. F. R. Noff-
singer, educational consultant of
the American Automobile Asso
ciation; Judge E. Earle Rives of
the Municipal Court, Greens
boro; Dr. Clyde Erwin, State
Superintendent of Public In
struction; Lew Wallace, past
president of the American Asso'
ciation of Motor Vehicle Admin-
istartors; Lieut. Franklin M.
Kreml, director of the North
western University Traffic In
stitute and a nationally known
safety expert; Col. A. B. Barber,
manager of the transportation
and communication department
of the Chamber of Commerce of
the United States; Re&inald M.
Cleveland of the editorial staff
of the New York Times; Ronald
Hocutt, director of the highway
safety division of the Depart
ment of Revenue of North Car
olina. and others.
Digests from the talks made
by these speakers will appear in
The Pilot from time to time, for
it is through the knowledge
which these men have attained
in their years of study of traf
fic problems that the general
public can gleam the part it
can play in making our high
ways safe for our children, and
for us.
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Expresses Gratitude to Members
and Friends For F'ive Series
of Winter Programs
€F SANr
A PROGRAM
FOR RECOVERY
A seven-point economic recov
ery program was submitted to
the United State.s Chamber of
Commerce by its retiring presi
dent. It reads:
1. Removal of tax deterrents
which discourage investment in
both established and new en
terprises.
2. Abandonment of “unwise
public-spending policies."
3. Modification of laws gov
erning the issuing and market
ing of private securities.
4. Discontinuance of Govern
ment competition with private
business.
5. Abandoment of monetary
manipulation and imodification
of the policy of “artificially
cheap money.”
6. Modification of banking
laws to permit greater freedom
of private initiative in under
writing security issues.
7. Discontinuance of “un
necessary investigations which
create apprehension and impose
needless burdens upon industry
and trade.”
The Pilot, which is a member
of the Southern Pihes Cham
ber of Commerce, which in turn
is a member of the United States
Chamber of Commerce, en
dorses this program. It is con
vinced that it would speed up
recovery, revive investment, en-
In a report from the Department
of Public Instruction it says that
North Carolina schools have spent
$203,499.94 ioi library books and
magazines in the past two years. This
was an increase of $60,000 over
1936-37.
Such a sum might be looked upon
a long time before a better invest-;
ment could be found that would bring
to the school child a higher return.^
Buying books and encouraging school j
children to read and form reading
habits leads them into broader paths
J.han if they lived in a state where j
no books were available. Giving books
to children is handing them all the
gathered wisdom and research of
mankind since the beginning of civili
zation. Since the first scribes began
to chronicle events out of an ob
scured past we have raptured about
all the known information in books
and this includes the modern imagi
native writer who dreams of farthest
points in a distant future.
No greater or more lasting invest
ment could be made in behalf of the
State than to buy books for North
Carolina’s school children.
as in yesterday^ it has attractive ho
tels, apartment houses and homes.
The Congregational church in its
setting is one of the most imposing
structures of the town. The fine old
trees lend a dignity and charm some
of the newer streets will not possess
for years to come. The appeal of an
attractive old street often has more
delightful qualities than one too new.
A winter resident asked one day
if a word could not be said in be
half of Bennett street as a desirable
location for living quarters, and
proceeded to enumerate advantages
offered by the street. Bennett street
needs little said in its support, as it
established its reputation when the
town was an infant and has never
wandered very far from its original
characteristics.
When Pennsylvania avenue and
Bennett street were considerably
younger than they are now, they
were the prominent thoroughfares of
the village. The postoffice, the bank,
the opera house, the printing office,
a school house, a church, a couple of
hotels and the better cottages and
apartment houses were at one time
located on Bennett street. Today sees
many new locations for these build
ings. Time has a way of scattering
things, and also crossing the tracks.
Bennett street however is not on
the wrong side of the tracks. Today,
courage business and industry,
create employment and change
the whole economical picture.
But what chance has such a
program in a New Deal Con
gress ?
“North Carolina accent fairly drip
ped like honey at the state exhibit
at the World's Fair on the opening
day last Sunday. North Carolina’s
was one of four or five state exhib
its ready for inspection and a flow
of visitors ebbed in and out the
doors all day. Pretty Miriam Johnson
of Aberdeen, chief hostess of the
state delegation was there with her
smile,” says Conrad Smith in his
New York column.
In the early part of May, a num
ber of year ago when W. F. Allen
was principal of the Southern Pines
schools he informed his boys and
girls all could have a holiday on
the 20th of the month who brought
to him in detailed account reasons
for having a celebration on that par
ticular day.
Allen’s youngsters worked for the
holiday and remembered the affair.
As the 20th looms up again it re
calls to some the story of a little
band of men who met in a log court
house in Mecklenburg county, under
the leadership of Thomas Polk, col
onel of the county in an effort to de
clare themselves independent. They
arrived at the resolution, "We do
hereby declare ourselves a free and
independent people; that we are, and
of right ought to be, a sovereign self-
governing people under the power of
God and the General Congress,” and
so on through four or five para
graphs In the spring of 1775 a
handful from Mecklenburg declared
themselves free men and prepared to
set up a government of their own.
Under Allen, historical events
were learned and some forgotten. But
the Mecklenburg Declaration left its
impression. Facts frequently are re
membered because they tie in some
where with other associations.
Special one $250.00 R. C. A. Ra
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co by weight in Camels, compared to the
arerage weight of IS o^r of the largest-
selling brands tested. Besides, Camels bum
slower than any other brand tested—2$%
slower than the average time of the others.
So Camels give yon the equivalent of 5
EXTRA SMOKES PER PACK/ On top
of that, you get the mellow goodness, the
smoking thrill of Camel’s costlier tobaccos
in a matchless blend. PLEASURE plus
ECONOMY made Camel America’s ciga
rette Na 1. Why not yours too?
CilMCL
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PENNY FOR PENNY YOUR BEST CIOMtETTE BUY
The Civic Club of Southern Pines
will close its season with a dessert-
bridge party itoday, riday, 2:00
j’clock, in the cluhous^e, and it is
sure to be a very happy occasion.
Many tables are already made up,
but members are urged to come any-
f/ay and make up tables with other
members and guests. Refreshments
will be served at 2:00 o’clock and the
game will follow, the entire cost to be
fifty cents to help the treasurer
carry on hrough the summer
months.
The Civic Club wishes to express
sincere gratitude to us members and
friends who have so loyally stood by
it this year and made possible the
winter season of excellent programs
weekly teas and social gatherings
open to all residents and guesst in
the Sandhills. From February 1st on
the Civic Club has been open daily
as a reading and writing room, and
well supplied with the latest maga
zines and papers, and the large hall
open for games of cards and friend
ly gatherings. This was done as an
experiment, and has proved a great
success. Much appreciation has been
expressed by the visitors to the club
and its beautiful garden, and many
letters of thanks have been written
back for hospitality extended by the
Civic Club.
There are 135 members of the Civ
ic Club at one dollar a year dues.
There are five life members at $25.00.
A new Holland furnace has been
installed this winter, and the entire
cost of $450.0 Ohas been paid. There
is a mortgage now standing on the
Civic Club of $2,850.00. $150.00 hav
ing just been paid off on the prin
cipal, plus $180.00 interest. Repairs,
light, heat, custodian, gardener and
maid service make other heavy ex
penses which have been paid. Many
members of the Board of Directors
have pledged themselves to raise
$25.00 each during the summer
months to help reduce the too-long
standing mortgage, and what could
better show the spirit that now car
ries on the little club in the heart of
the town.
HOT DAYS
Call for Cottons
We have
Nelly Dons, Ann Sutton
Lucy Madison—
Play Suits and Shorts—
All advertised—
GOING TO THE FAIR?
Dark and light sheers
Plain and Prints—Regular
and Half Sizes
Hats—Gage and Stetson.
Accessories
Mrs. Hayes- Shop
Southern Pines, N. C.
GRADUATES
We are making a special for Graduate’s Portraits. See
samples and make appointments before May 30th
as studio closes.
EDDY’S STUDIO
Don’t Leave Now!
This is the best time of year in the Sandhills, and
about the worst up North. Those who have left
have written back saying how regretful they
are. “We’ll know better next year,” is the gist.
If you MUST go—
Select your Cottage or Apartment for next Sea
son before you leave. They are renting earlier
each year; you may wait too long. Right now
you have a wide selection—latter you’ll be lim
ited.
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P. S.—A Still Better Idea:
Buy a Winter Home, or Property on which to
build one. Then you’ll come earlier, stay later,
and live happily ever after.
Paxil T. Barnvim
REAL ESTATE and INSURANCE
Bank Bnildine
Southern Pines