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THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday November 3, 1939.
THE PILOT
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Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern l*ines, N. C.
NELSON t. IIVDE
Editor {
CHARLES MACAULET DAN S. {
AdvertiiinK Circulation
Helen K. Rutter, Bessie Cameron Smith.
H. L. Epps, Associate* |
Subscription Kites; t
One Year |2.00 j
Bix Months $1.00 j
Tnree Months .50
EJntered at the Postoffice at South
ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail
matter.
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
THE VALUE OF
BOOKS A.VD LIBRARIES
“Some love horses, some birds,
others wild beasts, but from boy
hood I have been possessed with
the desire of acquiring and own
ing’ books.” That statement was
uttered about the year 363 by
a man who was known as Julian
of the Apostate.
Whether it be the year 363 or
1939, the man who has formed
the habit of acquiring or own
ing books is the man who ex
pands, and who expands in all
directions his bounds of knowl
edge. The young emperor lived
in all the narrowness of bar
barous janglings and religious
strife; lived in a world of few
books. Startling as this may
sound, North Carolinians, al
though many years removed
from Julian’s day, are not much
better off. If all the books in
the subscription and publ'c li
braries of North Carolina could
be divided and passed out among
the people of our state, each in
habitant would receive one-third
of a book- and no more. Fifty-
four percent of the total popu
lation are without public li
brary service, and North Caro-
ina ranks 40th in the United
States in public library service.
We are only eight states from
the bottom. That surely is not
a record to boast of, neither is
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ed size are facing each other on |
the Western Front. ]
President Roosevelt has sev!
eral times said, in effect, that
The Church of Wide Kellowship
and the Women’s Society of the
Church of W’ide Fellwoship are
among the eleven benefiriades nam
ed in the will of Johnana C. Doscher.
late of Southern Pinej, \vhicl\ has
been filed in the (;oiirthoupe in Car
thage.
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The will provides that nil of the
property be sold and the money re
maining after i-3ttlement of ex
penses be divided equally amon» the
church and society, and Christopher
,T. Doscher of Waldrick, N. I.; Hanna
Tiejen and Kip Finch, both of New
Vork City; Mrs. George Dunkel, Jer
sey City N. J.; reveral pe sons, and
a school in Germany.
The value of the property is about
$7,.')00, and F. W. Van Camp and
Ethel S. Jones arc executors.
To Explain Townsend
Pension Recovery Plan
Prominsnl Southern California
Lawyer and GeoHgist To
Speak Here Sunday
Madame et La Jeune Fille
Announce their opening for the winter
Village Court, Finehurst
You will enjoy the security of knowing our costumes
will see you safely through a season losing none of
their style.
Prices will begin at $16.75 and we have added large
sizes. Your .selection may be from twelve to forty-four.
Nancy Haggerty Shoes
Maison Glass Food
Floris Perfumes
Bendel Soap
Christmas Pre.sents
417 Park .Avenue
New York
130 Newburj St.
Boston
NOTHING NEW
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Grains of Sand
A huge billboard on U. S. Iligh-
partisanship should be ad.journ-i i north of Raleigh reads r
ed for the duration of the I “Stay on U. s. l through Sanford,
emergency—fhat national unity | Finehurst. camden.”
should be the paramount goal j Try and do it.
sought by all. Republicans and
Democrats alike. This view
point as naturally been endors
ed by his political opponents.
But the fact remains that parti
san politics is an essential mo
tivating factor in any democrat
ic nation—it exists and must
continue to exist. Both parties
will have candidates in the field
a recoru u, u., year Both will have plat-
it one to be glossed over. North fo™s. Both want to win. And
v,o. fls an I >'0U can t fight a campaign
Carolina has been classed as an
illiterate state and for years has
had an unenviable low mark in
educational rank. It has never
been a reading state and never
will be until we overcome the
pitiful allotment of books per
capita the library record shows.
“A book is the sign of all the
gathered wisdom and romance
and anticipation and research
of mankind from the beginning
of history to the farthest points
of the imaginative future, the
sum of all that is known to man
or that is to be known, the mys
teries of expectation, the tradi
tions, the tales of the fathers
handed to the sons, the make-
believe of little people told to
each other, the tragic dreams
and realities in all their various
combinations. And as the child
is walking through its early
years where all is novel and in
comprehensible, and where wis
dom is a doubtful and ill-assort-
ed sea all about it, the juvenile
mind welcomes a book that in
a sort of way catologues and
hands out in shape to be under
stood some of this great mar
vel of existence and its manifes-
t^itions.” So wrote the late Bion
H. Butler, in behalf of children
and books.
Our library should be looked
upon as important as any indus
try or institution in the county
or state, as the books it holds
mean the mental growth of the
child and the adult. For mighty
little effort the library gives
back a wealth of knowledge. The
cordial librarian is active and
aggressive and anxious to ex
tend to all not only systematic
instruction but pleasant recrea
tion and helpful entertainment.
The library needs all the ser
ious encouragement and support
every citizen of the town and
community is able to give.
POLITICS
ON VACATION
Since tht war began in Eu
rope, there has been quiet on
the political front in this coun
try. The attention of the great
bulk of the American people is
today largely centered abroad
where history of the most mo
mentous kind is being made.
And so partisan politics, for the
time being, has pretty much
dropped out of the spotlight.
You can’t stir ud much interest
in Candidate Whoozis’ political
ambitions when ships are being
without partisanship.
The problem facing the poli
ticians is how to fight their ver
bal battles without alienating a
public which feels strongly that
this country must appear uni
fied in the eyes of the world.
That’s a tough problem, a'nd
the burden of it, of coux'se falls
on the Republicans. The Demo
crats are in the saddle now, and
the Republican hope is to unseat
them. And the question of what
issue to use for that purpose
is causing many a severe head
ache among party chieftains.
Of late, the only domestic is
sue of great moment has been
our neutrality legislation. And
over that the party lines split
wide open. Where, for instance,
potent Republican Senator Bor
ah immediately announced he
favored rigorous isolationism,
potent Republican Senator Taft
stood with the President in sup-
Dort of cash-and-carry for arms
as well as everything else.
Neither political group, as a re
sult, can make a good campaign
issue out of neutrality—unless
something happens to change
the picture drastically.
Republican strategy now
seems to be to bide its time and
wait and see what happens.
Leaders apparently feel it would
be suicidal to take an aggres
sive partisan line now, and most
independent commentators think
they are right.
On the Democratic side <of the
fence, matters are somewhat
simpler. But there is a big ques
tion mark there too—and it con
cerns the possibility that Mr
Roosevelt may be planning to do
the unprecedented and seek a
f^hirc] successive term. If the
President is thinking of that, re
cent public opinion polls must
have encouraged him—they in
dicate that opposition to the
third-term hns dropped rather
sharply in the past month or
two.
Some think the fact that the
Prf*sident has refused to say he
will not run again—as was re-
'’entlv requested by Governor
Landon. who said that would be
of great benefit in furthering
the national unity the President
asks—indicates that he plans to.
On the other hand, a Presiden
tial declaration to that effect
wr>’iH undoubtedly start a
tremendous scurrying , abou*
among Democratic aspirants to
Last Thursday night the Southern
Pines theater turned people away by
the score. Cars were parked for two
blocks up and down the 3v*?nues and
on Broad Street. Crowds .iammed the
doors to be told there was standing
room oniy. The beauty contest proved
to be a great drawing card.
Kent Kane_ a Pennsylvania lawyer
and politician, weary of depression
and relief questions, headed west on
a vacation, his objective the Mormon
settlement in Utah where people re
ject relief and still thrive. He write?
to relatives in Southern Pines: “It
was remarkable to see 10,000 peo
ple in a body, none of whom smoke
or drink, and they are only part of
750,000 who live by the same rule."
Last Week when the thermometer
hovered close to the 90 mark and
a few on the street were complaining
about the unseasonable heat one fea
ture offset the summary conditions.
Up in the Mack five and ten cent
store they were busy with some pre
liminary Christmas work, and pil-
rolored boxes for Santa
Claus. We didn't know whether to
commisserate with the unhappy man
over the warm weather or worry
about the spectre of Santa Claus
looming up.
We who are surrounded by green
grass all winter think litt'.e of the
many acres that are about us> un
til we are attracted by a comment
from a northern visitor who is not
accustumed to seeing grass cut.
after they have left heavy frosts and
freezing weather behind. A couple of
non-residents enjoyed the busy lawm
movers as they cut across the ex
pansive green of the poatoffice anr’
library lawns on a damp momine
the early part of the week. The smell
of fresh mown grass greets a Sand-
hiller’s nostrils any day of the year,*]
be it fall or mid-winter.
LEAVES ESTATE TO SON
Robert Z. Adams, prominent attor-
fipy-geologist of Southern California,
whose Company was credited with
development of the now famous mass
meeting in Southern Pines on Sun
day afternoon, October 5th, it was
announced this week by Grant Lowe, {
Salisbury Townsend National ,rep- |
resentative for North Cnrolina. The i
meeting will be held at the Civic'
Club at 2:30 o’clock. The address is
one of 15 to be made in North Car- |
olina by Mr. Adams who has been
sent here by Dr, Francis E. Town
send, president of the Townsend or
ganization, at the request of Town
send clubs in this state, Mr. -Lowe
said. He will explain the Townsend
Pension Recovery Plan.
Adams is highly regarded on the
w’est coast. His firm, the R. Z. Adams
company, was the largest land de
velopment concern in Southern Cal
ifornia during the expansion and
and building in the Los Angeles area.
The meeting is open to ull w'ho
wish to attend.
Just plain old SAND: by the Yard, by the Lot, or by
the Acre, From 1 to 5,000 acres—City Homes. Coun
try Estates, Farms, Hotels and Tourist Camps.
Inquire of
J. M. WINDHAM
Harl Bldg. Tel. 6681 Southern Pines
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OPERATING REVENUES OF
SEABO.ARD SHOW O^IN
Total operating revenues for Sea
board Railway for the month of Sep
tember, 1939 amounted to $3,195,995,
an increase of $316,725 or 9.91 per
cent over September 1938, L. R. Pow
ell, Jr., chief executive officer, an
nounces. Freight revenue amounted
to $2,461,337, an increase of $203,248
or 8.26 percent over the same
>r.onth last year, and was higher than
that for any corresponding month
since 1930. Pa^ssengrer revenue for
September, 1939 was $381,006 as com
pared with $266,041 for September,
1938, an increase of $114,965 or 43.21 i
Percent, and was higher than that
for any corresponding month since
1929. Net railway operating income
for September 1939 was $112,441 as
compared with a deficit of $38,658
for September 1938 and represents
an increase of $151,099 over Septem
ber 1938.
THE PINE NEEDLES
Opening November 10th
for the
1939-1940 season
EMMETT E. BOONE, Manager
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THE EDDY STUDIO
Until November 20, we are allowing a 20 percent dis-
cojjnt on all portrait orders.
Kin folks and friends always appreciate photographs,
and Christmas is not far off. So won’t you remember
them this season with this appropriate gift?
Telephone 5725—Southera Pines, N. C
DINNER NEXT WEEK TO
BENEFIT UNDERPR1V1LEOED
The will of Mrs. Alice Gregson,
late of Southern Pines, has been fil
ed for probate in the office of the
Clerk of the Court of Moore county.
Mrs. Chiswell bequeathed her prop
erty to her son, Alfred Gregson Chis
well. The estate was valued at
around $5,000.
From Farm to Fire—that's the
freahnesa of vegetables, poultry, etc.,
at the Curb Market, Southern Pines.
the White House, at the expense
of unity within the party. Those
the know in Washington
Vi'nV +^at the President has
not expressed himself on the
third-term issue even to his
closest advisors—that no one
save the Chief Magistrate him-
-elf. know.s whether he will run
nr not. And it is obvious that
inforseen events of the future
in this uncertain world could de
termine the decision.
At this time each year the Pine-
hurst Parent-Teacher Association
serves a dinner, the proceeds being
used to sorve hot lunches to the un
derprivileged children in the school.
The dinner is to be on Wednesday
nieht_ November 8th,‘ from 6:00 to
8:00 and will be served in the Com
munity Church under the suporvis-
'on of Mrs. Charles B. Fie'ds. Prices
will be 50c for adults and 35c for
children, and a delicious menu has
been planned. If any v.'^ho csimot at
tend the dinner care to make dona
tions, they will be greatly appreciat
ed. These donations may be mailed
to Mrs. Charles B. Fields or Mrs
Karl Johnson.
MRS. HOWE dies D.4Y
AFTER ARRIVAL HERE
Mrs. Alice Carlton Palmer Howe,
78 years, the wid^w of the late Al
bert Howe of Brookline, Mpss., died
*n her apartment on Pennsylvania
Avenue on October 26th. Funeral
services were held in Boston, Mass.,
on Sunday the 29th.
Mrs. Howe, a seasonal refident for
several years had planned to spend
the winter here, arriving in South
ern Piries just the day before her
death.
ttzwux:
Forget YOUR Washday Worries
Just Call 6101
Have your clothes washed with a mild and sterilizing
soap that has been tested and re-tested by the finest
laboratories in the county.
Remember To Call 6101
SOUTHERN PINES LAUNDRY CO.
Telephone 6101 West New York Avenue
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