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THE PILOT. Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolma
THE PILOT
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Published each Friday by
THE 1'II.OT, IncoriMirateU,
Southern riiu's, N. C.
NKUSON I. ll\l)K
Kdltxr
DAN S. K\Y
(ienpral Manajjer
CHARKKS MAC'AI LEV
AilvertlHing Manager
S«]an K. Uut!er, Hfimif Camtrun Smith.
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PUBLIC-SPIRITED
NEIGHBORS
In totaling up the results of
the Maternal VVelfare Commit
tee’s Tag Day, an interesting
fact appears. It seems that West
Southern Pines contributed a lit
tle over one-fifth of the amount
raised.
The Pilot believes this is a
most creditable showing, and
reflects great credit on the peo
ple of West Southern Pines, on
the various organizations and
the leaders in the community |
who took part. Much of the work i
for which the money pays bene- j
fits the colored people. The color-1
ed mothers are in the majority ^
at the clinics and the classes for
colored midwives are an im- i
portant part of the program. It I
is? right that the colored people!
phould do their part in raising
this money. Rut things are not
always done just because they
are right.
In work of this sort one of
ten hears the criticism that it is
“pauperizing” and that people
take advantage of it undeserv
edly. The Pilot believes that on
the whole that criticism is pretty
seldom justified. But at least we
know that it cannot be made in
this case. The people of Wes/
Southern Pines are to be con
gratulated on their splendid re
sponse to this cause, and we in
1 y
ilWOWtNl
AloRe PEOPLE
MAK£ MACHIHBS
TODAV than were
EMPlOVED IN
■J/i MMUFACTURlHa
lOO YEARS AGO.
THERE ARE
rnjK Tons OfSTBBL
IN THE AVlRAOi
, UJ.HOMB
A DfSCMT SETS cotoen
TMAM A foaesr after the
SUN SETS, /fPi/Aae^»est«'/fs
fUAT; SA.'iD icses/rMP:Diy.)
KRAKATUA,
VOLCAHO in netheriawd east iNOiES,
tROPTED SO VIOLEMTLV 1®83,
Mr IT COLCMD SUf^SBTS
44P THftOUOHOUT rue
V^ORLD FOR TMO
YtMS AFT&tWA/fP/
REACH $175,800
I'neniploymenl (’ompensation
Accounts for of
Funds Distributed
$41847 FOR AGED POOR
Auro TIRBS, COSTIN& uESS than t/ALfAS much as IH i9I0, f^ow
lASr to TIMES LON$lfi. -
CI^AINS cr SANE
Don't fail to vote in tomorrow’s of the bank drawn Monday morning
primaries. ^ he scratched hi.*! head while he ran-
Polls open from i :00 a. m. to sacked his brain for a reason. He
knew of no important event looming
up at this particular time of the
month and he puzzled over the bank
holiday.
Up in Raleigh a flag floats over the
State house. On the banner are two
significant lines, the answer to the
stranger’s question.
May 20. 1775,
April 12, 1776.
Monday was Independence Day for
And don’t miss tonight’s dance in
the Aberdeen Tobacco Warehouse. It’s
for the Red Cross, which needs money
as it never needed it before.
Dr. Louis R. Wilson, dean of the
graduate library school of the Uni
versity of Chicago in speaking at
Chapel Hill recently, said of public
and sch.-iol libraries of the South:
‘•The area remains more backward
, . in general library devplopment than North Carolina. One hundred and
sponse to this cause, and we j other region in the nation.” ! Sixty-five years ago a small group of
Southern Pines can e 1 Y\'hiie that wasn't a pleasant note 1 Mecklenburg farmers, longing |for
that we ha\e, as our nex ( OO hear the subject of bis disclosure peace led the countiy toward its
neighbor, such a public-.spirited 1 . .
community.
lU iitrrti me: V. ^ ^
was not all discouragement as he ^ freedom from European domination.
[ had warm praise for libva»'y develop- ; In their log courthouse a few reso-
' .nent, in the South which he said be- ‘ lutions were drawn up under the di-
Ran in 1926 and has progressed more | rection of Thomas Polk and Dr.
concretely than in other regions. The ' Ephriam Brevard, and when they
results are already beginning to bear ^ were read at the door of the court-
fruit. I house next day, a little band of peo-
The expansion of the public and j pie^ the first in America, declared
school libraries means a substantial i themselves free from the domination
expansion in the mental growth In j of an English king. While up in Phil
the state's population, as a reading ’ v.. *,
jtate is not an illiterate state.
A CHALLENGE
TO ALL
The fact that twenty-one chil
dren were killed on North Caro
lina streets and highways the
first three months of the year is
viewed by Ronold Hocutt, Direc
tor of the Highway Safety Di
vision, as a stern challenge to
everyone interested in safety,
but particularly to North Caro
lina parents. i
‘Pending the fulfillment o^jthe canopy overhead is green.
M 'summer heat and clmufthts are
taught m e%*erv school in mrt.i u
Carolina, the responsibility Jar enough away to offer
- - » . , jno interference. Gardens are at
I their height of spring glory, and
IB riot of color and blossom
abound. The summer tanager de
fies the mocking bird and the
diminutive goldfinch outsings
' 1
When the visitor found the shades
V* - -
way, one skater who skated inj
front of a car, one bicyclist who'
disregarded a stop sign, and one
child on a sled.
“If parents expect their chil
dren to walk, play, skate and
ride bicycles in a safe manner,
they must take it upon them
selves to impress their children
with the importance of safe prac
tices and the dangers of wrong
practices,” Hocutt said.
“If your child rides a bicycle,
.‘see that he or shee learns safe
cycling habits, preferably by
joining a Bicycle Club, if there
is one in your community; if
your child owns skates, teach
him not to skate in the street;
and. above all, see that your
child doesn’t play in the street,
that Ihe leam.s to look before
crossing the street or road, and
that he cultivates safe pedes
trian habits.
“It is better that your child
learn the^he lessons of safety
throufifh teaching, not through
experience.”
BEAUTY—AND
THE BEAST
T^is is intended only for the
fellow who likes to get up early
and enjoy the new day. early in
its beginning. May is about as
attractive a month in the Sand
hills as anything that rolls
around tihe calendar year. It
means that the leaves have
about reached maturity and that
VyCAA v*l ^
teaching our children safety hab
itg must lie chiefly with their
parents,’’ says Hocutt.
The .safety director pointed
out that the 21 traffic fatality
victims under 15 years of age goinimcn
included nine who were crossing bursting cardinal, and the
or playing in the street or road-'P’^"
^ i becomes an interesting and com
plicated affair.
The colored man in his exu
berant spiritual describes the
unfolding of a May dawn as he
adds pressure to the heavy cords
“My Lawd, wihat a mornin'—
you’ll hear de Christians shout;
you’ll heah de trumpet soun’ to
wake de nations undergroun',—
my Lawd, what a mornin’.”
The Germans are ploughing
their way into France and heav
ing their strength at Britain.
Strife and greed and war are
as widespread a.s ever known.
The stock market is going down
and the price of butter up. A
puzzling array of candidates for
governor loom up and ask for
your vote. Washington needs
more money and taxes will ad
vance and a general darkness has
settled over a larger part of the
globe than ever before, and so
on ad infinitum, and the world
lies down to sleep in gloom, for
getting that a new day always
dawns and according to past ob-
.fcervations. aways will.
The man who wrote enthusias-
ticall.v about the wealth of the
morning never misled anyone.
In our isolated and protected
Sandhill gardens—
“God’s in His Heaven—
All's right with the world.”
It’s worth making the discov
ery for yourself, as you hear the
grand amen rise in the darkey's
wng: “My Lawd, what a morn-
—H.K.B
adelphia, a man by the name of Wil
liam Penn was making strenuous
efforts to come to peaceful terms with
an angary George 3d, whose retalia
tion was some 20,000 troops, made up
of Hessians from Germany.
The doors of the local bank were
closed Monday because a few early
North Carolina’.*? goaded into action,
proclaimed their decisions and set up
the first Independence Day in our
United States.
Moore county resident.s and com
munities have benefitted aboi’t $175,-
SOO.OO through operation of the So
cial Security program, it is estimated
by Charles G. Powell, chairman of
the North Carolina Unemployment
Compensation Commission.
Unemployment Compensation, or
benefits to workers temporarily out
of jobs, is usually the largest item
in the ten divisions of the program,
in counties with fairly large indus
tries. In the two years of benefit pay-
meiils, 19’'8 and 1939, the distribu
tion was $63,668.88, inchided In 9,-
615 checks to county residents.
Through coopei-ation of Nathan H.
■yelton, State Director of Public As
sistance, and Dr. Roma S. Cheek, ex
ecutive secretary of the State Com
mission for the Blind, and with figures
from Washington and in the Central
UCC office in Raleigh, it is possible
to get a fairly accurate picturc of the
benefits distributed in Moore county.
Old Age Assistance, help for the
needy passed 65 years of age, in
Moore county ir^ 31 months of fllstri-
bution amounted to 141,847.00. The
January amount was $2,922.50, go
ing to 311 needy rtgt'd persons, an
average of $9.40 each, as compared
with the State average of $9.72 for
the month.
Aid to Dependent Children, help In
the support of children deprived of
their natural breadwinners, amount
ed to $27,341.50 in the same 31
months. The January amount was
SI.041..M), going to the support of
217 puch children, an average of
$4,80 each, ps compared with the
State averaee of $6.18 for the month.
Aid to the Blind in Moore county
was $17,192.76 for the same SI
months. In January $573.44 went to
37 blind persons averages $1550 each;
State average, $14.90.
In Old Age Assistance and Aid to
the Blind, the funds are provided
one-half by the Federal Government
and one-fourth each by the State and
county. Aid to Dependent Children
fvmds have been furnished one-third
each by Federal, State and County
governments. Now the Fedora] Gov
ernment will furnish one-half, as in
cases of the needy aged and tlift blind.
Old Age Benefits
Old Age Benefits, now Old Age
and Survivors’ Insurance, is not
available by counties, but a proration
can be made to get a county estimate.
This has been small lumpsum pay
ments to workers in covered employ
ment since January 1, 1937, and who
have since reached 65 years of age
and quit work, or to the families of
such workers who have died since
(hat date. The Importance of this
part of the program will be more
apparent now, since payment.^ have
started on a rupnthly basis, as pro-
phiyed—and 20.353 continui'd ;Iiiin)>- .'.I.h'Ic c''iinty.
the claims filod each wwk fifter th.- Kniploynicnt and bcni'fit payments
initial claims. 'ju.-iiu.s.s in Momc conrty i.s handled
Kmploynient service records imii- by tht Kmplo\n;enl St,'vvi(.c office In.
cate that in 1937 193S nnd 1939 .Mooro, Siuifon!.
registrations for work and 1.039'
placements on jobs were hand’ed in Ar>VKUT»SK IN' TllK PILOT.
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Every 27 Seconds
some person is injured in an auto accident
Are You Protected
against the Hospital, Xursinjj:, Medical
and Surgical Expenses of Such Injuries?
Hartford's New $5 Automobile .\ccident I’olicy
Pays Such Expenses You Actually Incur
Up to $500.00 And
For loss of life; both hands; both feet; wight of
both eyes; one hand and one f(x»t; or either
hand or foot and .sight of one eye $1,000
CAA
600
500
333
250
F^or loss of either arm or leg
For loss of either hand or foot
For lo.ss of sight of one eye ;
For loss of thumb and index finger of either hand
If You Are Injured
(a) while operating, driving, riding in, adjusting, repairing or
cranking a private pa.>>senger automobile; or
(b) while riding as a fare-pajing passenger in a public pa.ssen.
ger automobile: or
(c) In consequence of the explosion or burning of an automo
bile; or
(d) by being struck or run down by an aulcraoWle.
THIS V.4Ll’ABLE PROTJXTION I.S AVAILABLE TO VOI B-
S£XJ5' AND 1 OB MEMBEKS OF YOVK FAMILY BfrTWiaON
AGES 10 -VND 70. ANNUAL (X)ST $5 PfJi YEAK FOR EAtU
PERSON INSt’RED.
For further InformatloB see
Garland A.. F^ierce
Agent
Real Estate — Insurance
Phone 6291 Southern Pines, N. C.
I BOB STEELE in
I F’or Oongress
vided in an amendment by Congress
when North Carolina instituted j„ August 1939.
the revocation system in its High- with an’ estimate In this one small
way Safety Campaign it made one of ^ jtem of $2,600.00 going to 72 work-
the most important steps in its ca
reer, as figures emphatically show.
Last month 448 drivers lost their
right to drive an automobile. From
the first of January until the last of
April, 1,774 w«re removed from the
highways by revocation, and 27,362
ers or their families through October,
pnd practically accurate figures in
the other four diviaions, it is appar
ent that just about $152,650 has been
distributed in Moore county In these
five major divisions. In the other
five divisions, classed as "services,”
— ., I ^
smce 1935 when the law was put! a jproration Indicates that about
into effect. Out of the 448 who were j J23,155 has been distributed in this
given suspended sentences, 390 were
accredited to drunken driving during
the past mpnth. If the highway sys
tem had achieved no other gain all
month weeding 390 drunks from the
roads was enough.
county since the program started, di
vided approximately as follows: Ma
ternal and Child Health services, $4,
125.00; Services for Crippled Child
ren, $3,475.00; Child Welfare services
$2,780.00; Vocational Rehabilitation,
in’.
„... , ,
The man or woman who sets out j $1,775.00; and Public Health work,
in a hunk of tin, aluminum or steel, [ $n,000.00.
or whatever the construction, and Several factors enter into this pro
hurls the tremendous weight of the! ration, Mr. Powell explained. Moore
modern automobile over ros.us and'county had a population of 28.215. or
. , • . . » J I about 0:89 percent of the population
highways in an mtoxicated condition .. t
" of the entire state, 1930 census. This
is as great a menace to life as anyi^^^.^ security program
l:old-up man, gangster or assassin hag been In operation about four years,
that attacks from any other angle, j and the State has matched Federal
threatenjng human life. j funds in almost every Instance. These
The Highway commission has done facts are considered in making the
a mighty effective job, and more' proratlon.
power in tis weeding process. Central tJCC office records show
■ that in 1939 Moore county had 85
MIS.S .SUilDOE EXHIBITS ^resident employers subject to the
IX FEDER.-\L .4RT CENTER law and 2,879 workers protected by
it. Subject employers paid into the
Miss Katherine Sledge of Pinehurst State fund $143,529. 20 in the years
was among the exhibitors from the of 1937, 1938 and 1939, as compared
Woman’s College of the University With the $63,668.88 paid to unem-
of North Carolina at an art exhibit ployed w’orkers in the county in the
held last week in the Federal Art two years of 1938 and 1939.
Center in Greenville. Her decorative . The records show that in 1938 and
panels won high praise from critics j 1939 unemployed workers filed 2,-
and visitors. Miss Sledge Is the dau- ggg initial claims—the first claims
ghter of Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Sledge, j filed after the worker becomes unem-
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PERSONAL MESSAGE
TO THE GOOD DEMOCRATS,
OF THE EIGHTH DISTRICT:
To my many friends who started this move
ment to restore PEACE and HARMONY to the DEM
OCRATIC PARTY of the Eighth District and to the
multitudes that have joined OUR RANKS as the
movement has advanced, I wish to express my pleasure
in serving as YOUR STANDARD BEARER.
VICTORY is ASSURED. I will not BOAST-
INGLY claim victory in the first primary but I am cer
tain to LEAD, and WILL WIN in the second. WE must
guard against over confidence and PRESS ON.
This campaign is not a COLLUSION or TIE-
UP with ANY CANDIDATE. GROUP, CLIQUE or
FACTION, I am in the race to win. There will be NO
SELL OUT OR YIELD TO COMPROMISE, but a
CLEAN a«d VIGOROUS FIGHT to a GLORIOUS FIN
ISH.
YOUR FRIEND,