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THE PILOT, Southern Pineg and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, August 2, 1940. THE PILOT Published each Friday by the pilot, lneorporat«tl, Southern Pines, N. C. THE POCKETBOOK of KNOWLEDGE ^ yZLSOS C. HYDE Editor DAX S. RAV (tenenil MaDa^er CHABLKS MACAl'LEY Adverti>Jnff .Hanajjer Bclfn K Butter. Cameron Chmrlei Cullinsford. AKWciatu Subsrription KatOA: One Year Eix Months Three Months Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, X. C., as second class mail matter. Smith. yfARt TMi ON IBS REPftKD«MTlVi U COMMNtft AMOUNTiP tote// or rHeMOf^rwm S/X MUHM MrAMtM6 Oft co^f rooM wwiff /9 COAfiSg Aufcorrwciom wAt fifHr CA PROPUCE« RU0BCR *mAN AU tME RHX C>F THE WOP'^ TMriAf. JMKfiiNlHiiT/iyHQWfMPtOVi /sa oco pup TORE5fA»CK,MMtCAH NOW BE MAPe lENPER IN 3 pAys By LiCHTfwyfi-^ /r roMCXiy TOOK 4- TO 6 weet<s A pr:> icrr-^f SnatS) 7D MAfA ac^f 10H6. WiTM fi TA/i 3perr/NIBN6TH t A TOUGH JOB. THE PRESIDENCY One of the toughest ,iobs in the world is the Presidency of the United Ststes. It’s bad enough in normal times. Ripht now we cannot envisage a more difficult assijniment. The next President, from the moment he takes office, will be called upon to det^l with changes; and trends whicii menacc all that i the United States has created | since the Revolution, and which threaten the very foundations of our system of jjrovernment. His most immediate problem wilj be that of national defense. It is apparent that we will be I ^ . able to produce little that is tan-*standai’d ot living, gible, .so far as defense is con-!,y^’^ spend for national cerned, this yeai'. It takes time;-fifteen billion, twenty for a great nation to switch j*>iHion thirty billion—must even- from a peace economy to a wari^^’^^l'' come out of the people’s cconomy. The groundwork for Perhaps lifteen j'ercent last winter we were going to have a workable i)rogram i From Other Papers irS A GRE.4T MISTAKE The Democratic party has made a blunder in the nomination of Mr. Roosevelt for a third term. In our opinion this blunder is going to have lasting influence: it is going to rise up to haunt the Democratic party, it is going to be disastrous to Mr. Roosevelt, and it may be injurious to the country. These effects may be expected without regard to whether Mr. Roosevelt is elected or not. Mr. 'Koosevelt was not drafted. He 400,000 GAIN SEEN IN POPl'LATION OF I The census bureau has not releaa* ST.ATE ed any state wide figrures yet but county ana congressional diatrict (Cnntinufd from pagr one) tabulations given out were used to gain assured North Carolina of ano- figure the state’s estimated increase ther congressman. in population. The five counties losing in pop- ulation all w-ere in the northeastern Miss Marshall Page is attending coastal region, Camden, Currituck, house pariy of Rockingham friei|ds Gates, Hyde and •’erquimans. Cabarrus county apparently had , the biggest percentage increase for I the decade, adding an even 15,000 to I its 1930 total of 44,331 to make the I count 59,331, a gain of more than 34 I per cent. The county also claimed the largest unincorporated city in the nation, the census listing Kan napolis with more than 25,000. Counties with industrial centers at Myrtle Beach. Mrs. E. M. Medlin is visiting friends in Washington, D. C. E. V. PERKINSON General Contractor was manipulated in. This manipula tion was begun and carried out by j larger cities showed the biggest office holders with a direct interest I population gains. Storage in its success. They operated, if not with the aid of the President, with his tacit consent and without his dis approval. It was done by those very methods for which a third term has been always condemned, and which | Virginia Ormsby NOT.\RY PUBLIC E H. Loreniion Offire TIXEPHONE 5774 PE NPER it Grains of Sand Wheie's the fellow that told us now. but difficult bottlenecks, exist. And we start th? defense'<l‘tion to possible debt increases, program under the definite han-^T'hat means that we will have iinvui h. lUl aji s being laid the national income will now cooi summer 'be devoted to armament, in ad- Beat The Heat—Ser'e Double-Fresh ICED COFFEE dicap of a $45,000,000,000 na- tiorftl debt largely built up dur ing thd ’ast eight years. There is a po.ssibility that the debt will reach and perhaps pass the S70.- 000,000.000 mark before we are done. Even .so the defen.se problem, vital as it is, is perhaps the simplest of the next president’s job.s—few question that we will find some way to produce and pay for the gun.s and airplanes and battleships we must have. Before him will be other prob- Jem.s. far-reaching and immense ly difficult, which must eventu ally be solved. And here are a few of them: There is the problem of trade. Today Hitler dominates the con tinent—tomorrow he may domi nate all Europe. And Hitler does not deal in money, which means dealingin gold. He deals, in.stead, in barter. His economy goe.s back to the most primitive of economic .systems. He says, in effect. “I have coal that you need—you have machines that I need—so we will trade them." The task of the United States will be to either meet Hitler’s terms, which would involve a veritable economic revolution here, or to force him to meet our traditional trade policy which few economi.sts believe he will be willing or able to do. There is the problem of agri- culture, which is related to the problem of trade. We havp spent immense sums in the name of larm relief, and it i.s apparent that we have gotten little of dur • able worth in return. Today the problem grows graver, as our oreign market.s disappear. There is a certainty that Europe will Wint and need more of the produce ^ our farms and ranehes—but there is al.so the certainty that Europe wil be unable to pay for ti. The next pr^sidr.-it sitting in his ornate office, will have to seek a way of:, and whichever way he turns there will be gigantic barriers between hin; and success. There is the problem of un- emolovment, coupled with the problem of relief. The defense program will make many jobs, buf it does not look p.s if it will take care of the millions‘of un skilled and little-skilled men and women w’ho today are supported in one way or another by gov ernment. In some important ijnes there is a .serious shortage of workmen — many willing hands reach out for jobs, but tinev are not adeouate to per form the tasks. Training people for highly skilFed work takes a lone time, and it also takes fa cilities which do not now exist in sufficient quantity. There is the problem of the That means that we fifteen per cent to spend for housing, food, clothing, enter tainment—all the luxuries and necessities . The net president will undoubtedly attempt to in crease our national income suf ficiently to make up for this- In case you're interested, there's a big fur coat sale on in Charlotte. The Obsei'\’er had a page ad Wednes day. Speaking of incongruities, the SoutheiTi Pines postoffice has the architecture of dignity and repose. The newly painted Parking Zone out but. so far as we can see now, he front smacks of RingUng Brothers. i.s foredoomed to at east partial failure. It is almost universally fellow just dropped in the of- agreed that the standard of liv- real news, ing must suffer—that Ameri-, He said he had actually driven^ cans will eat cheaj^er food, live without seeing a smashed j in cheaper homes, spend less for watermelon in the road. j subsistence and for pleasure. There is the long-range prob- The only trouble about living near km of the effects of war and war Sragg these days is you can t l)reparedness on the entire eco- ‘‘“'l whether its thunder or gunfire. nomic structure. The factory | that i.s built to make shells is Painting the railroad station re- either worthess when the emer- niinds us that we haven't seen any- gency is over, or must undergo thing in Charley Macauley's ‘The a costlv revamping ))rocess. War- ^’assing Years' column about the time booms in other words, pro- time the boy.s from the neighborhood duc'e peace-tinte depressions and the bigger the boom the lonirer and deeper the depression. Thse are but a few of the Droblems the next president must face. It isn't an enviable job. CORRESPONDENCE FAVOK.S MAIL BOXES Editor, The Pilot; I would like to add my approval to the suggestion of "Subscriber” in last weeks Pilot about mail boxes. We are all proud of our beautiful new postoffice and very glad to have it. But since it is permanently located at our side of town, would not some nnaii Iroxes be a great convenience and especia’ly to those living in the east ern part or near No. 1’ Highway ? To some I know it is a day’s work to go to the postoffice. I know of one town that has two mail boxes at the railroad station, one for north going mail and one for sruth. When the train comes in, the mail clerk on the train callects from the boxes. It is a great convenience to the pub'ic. Could we not try it? —MRS. LUELLA C. SmLEY, RECORDER’S COURT Clarence Goins, colored, of East wood was given four months on the load in Recorder's Court Monday for breaking into a trunk in the home of Frank Goins, Sr’., and stealing watch. Arthur Marr, white, of Hemp was found not guilty of skipping a board bill. CARD OF TH.'%NKS Caroline Martin and family wish to exttrid their thanks to their many friends for the many nice things and deeds of kindness sliown them dur ing the illness and death of their daughter and sister, Hannah Martin, and for the lovely floral tributes. put up the "rinohurst Junction" sign on the Southern Pines depot. We weren't around then but we under stand it didn't stay long. Why didn't they get Willkie and Wallace on the same ticket? A foi- mer Democrat who's now a 'Ropu>’.i- can and a former Republican who's now a Democrat would have made things much more complicated for the dyed-in-the-wool party man. These included Buncombe, Cabarrus, Caldwell, Dur- h.-ton, Guilford, Mecklenburg, Ran dolph, Rowan and Wake. Best gains in areas which are principally agri cultural were in Duplin, Harnett, Haywood, Johnston, Pitt, Sampson the party has officially pledged itself j '^ayne. This does not mean that the peo- pie might not have expres.sed a de sire to see Mr. Roosevelt nominated for a third term. It means that noj such popular expression was allow- , Of. to take place. It is not an asser-: tion that Mr. Roo.sevelt has not been a good president or will not again 'oo ^ a good president if elected. It means i that hi.« nomination has been accom-j H plished by methods which have al-; || IjO encoriragfd. | H vavs been considered bad and not to, m Twelve yp'^m is too long for one' || man to bo rrps'rlent. .Such a period; || in a generation is stifling to the en- || ^figies, ambitions ard enthusiasm of i too manv people. With the President I goes for the most part that vast of ficialdom which revolves around an ' administration. Thi.« has the same effect upon state and local enterpri.se ambitions that the long term p-esidency has upon the national .sit uation. Democracy cannot endure under s ich practices. Democracy depends upon a free and ceaseless flow of en ergy and personality from the bot tom up. To cork its stream at the top dries it up. There are . always hundreds of excuses and sophistries to argue for third term.'^ and long- lasting officialdom. But these have always proven fallacious, as they are bound to do in this instance. Lacking the strength or the de termination or the willingness to re- fuse a third nomination. Mr. Roose velt has proved his own worst enemy. If he is defeated he will go out as a broken and disappointed man. If he is elected his health and spirit will so crack under the coming strain that the political vultures will pick his carcass at the end as they picked Woodrow WiI:on. And the Democrat- ic4)arty will be in another one of its long eclipses. —Moore County News, Carthage. D. P. Blend lb. H ti V.'ith Rind :: 17c = ISk Skinless Franks Strip Bacon Peanut Butter Colonial Tomato Juice 4 Triapgle Pickles American Cheese Hotel Blend lb. Virginia Maid 2-lb. Jar IGic lb 19c lb 15c 21c 1 1-2 pt. 1 \\s Sweet Mixed 32 oz. Jar GEORGE r. EVANS DIES, RESIDENT HERE A YEAR Vienna America’s new-est, largest U. S.- built liner, the America, was deliver ed to its owners, the United States Lines, last week in New' York Har bor. It was accepted by John M. Franklin, president of the company, a frequent visitor to The Paddock, Southern Pines. The boat cost $17,- 500,000. The wreck on ‘‘Brantley’s Curve” on U. S. Highway 1 south of Sanford Sunday morning in which one per- .son was killed and nine persons in jured, was the second fatal accident on the curve this year. Robert C. Eradhurst, salesman of Bronson. Mich. George C. Evans. 62. a resident of j ;j Southern Pine.*’ for the past year, died in his home on Orchard Road Saturday. Private funeral services conducted by the Rev. F. Craighill Brown were held at the home on Sun day. Interment will be at Plainfield, N, J., of which city he had been a resident for many years. Mr. Evans, a retired construction -superintendent for the Raritan Cop per Company was born at Houghton. Mich., November 7, 1877, flie son of W’illiam Evans and Amelia Wall Evan. He’s .survived by his widow. SHORT CIRCI’IT CAl’SES FIRE At 6:20 o’clock last Sunday even ing the Southern Pines Fire Com pany responded to an alarm of fire from the home of G. K. Streeter, lo cated at Massachusetts and Bennett street, where a short circuited wire was killed in February when , fired a rubber connection causing a his car overturned on the bend. In addition, there have ben three other wrecks on the curve this year, ac cording to Highway Patrolman J. C. Haithcock. The curve is one of the .••■harpest and most dangerous along No. 1 in this part of the state, and Sunday’s accident caused many peo ple to express the opinion that some thing should be done immediately to eliminate the danger, so far as pos sible. Miss Ethel Davis and Misg Bes sie McCasklU of Carthage spent last week-end in Raleigh. Miss Davis was the giiest of her cousins, Dr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Branch, and Miss McCas- kill visited her sister. Miss Msrrtle McCaskill. Three out of every four bicyclists injured last year were violating some traffic law. dense snrioke. No damage. I Doctors Say KEEP BOWELS OPEN Dnring Cold Epidemics When colds are all around you, don’t let weak spots in your defense arise due to constipation. “Keep Regular,” many physiciar.s advise. For constipation and its strength- sapping symptoms; headache, bil iousness, sluggishness, dizziness, sour stomach, use a laxative that acti thoroughly but not harshly. An ideal one is Dr. Hitchcock’s All- Vegetable Laxative Powder, which acts thoroughly, but usually with gentleness when taken as directed. It contains pleasant - tasting aro- matics, carminatives and what ’s known by medical authorities as a ga>itro-intestinal tonic-laxative. It helps tone sluggish bowel muscles. Dr. Hitchcock’s Laxative Powder costs less than Ic a dose. Get it at any drug counter. 10c, 25c. (adv.) 3 Sausage cans 25c Beef 2 16-Oz. Cans To If a t: II I w T: :: ti tt n tt •« tt ♦♦ i! I I 34c 17c lb 19c Hash 27c Armour’s Canned Meat Sale Armour’s Corned Beef, can ... 18c Armour’s Dog Food, 3 cans ... 23c Armour’s Treet, 12 oz. can 21c A Loaf of Pender Triple-Fresh Bread To Every Customer Purchasing Groceries We Fail To Sugrgest That You Try Our Triple-Fr«sh Breads. This Offer Expires Sat., Aug 3rd Fluffo Shortening 1 lb. ctn.' 12c PRODUCE DEPT. Lettuce, 2 heads 15c Local Fancy Tomatoes, Ib. 5c Local Peaches, 6 lbs. 25c Fancy Lemons, doz 23c Jumbo Celery, stalk 15c Golden Ripe Bananas, lb. 5c Idaho Baking Potatoes, lb. 5c MEAT DEPT. Boned and Rolled Rib Roast lb 33c Lamb Shoulder, lb. 19c T^p--0-Lamb. lb. 29c Roil Ham- IK 43c Assortf‘d CoH Cuts, lb. 29c Spiced Ham, lb 29c
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