Triday, December d, 1640.
THE PILOT, Soulhern Pines, North Carolina
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SOUTHERN PINES
LOOKS FOR GOOD
WINTER SEASON
The Grave of Walter Hines Page
Improved Business Due To
Arm.'iment Proj?rani a
Favorite Sign
on
fCovfinurd fr(ym pfrgre one)
ing of the steeplechase course
Midland 'Road has probably done more
than anything else to bring horses to
Southern Pines. In addition, the
fynikhanas and hunter trial events
held at the Country Club have proven
very popular with the younger rid
ers and are one of the chief means
ol entertainment for visifors here'
during the winter. The horse show
ring is now being put in shape for the j
opening gymkhana early in Decern-1
ber. James and Jackson Boyd also'
maintain a private pack of fox
hounds and hunts are held three |
times each week during the winter
months.
Other Popular Sports
Deer hunting is another of the prin
cipal sports that has become impor
tant during recent years. The season
for the shooting of this game will re.
main open until January 1st and to
date is estimated that at least one
hundred and fifty bucks have been
killed. The wardens also report an
abundance of quail and turkey this
year. The season for shooting of
birds opened on November 28th and
Mill continue until February 15th.
The calendar of sports just off the
press lists a number of interesting
gclf tournaments at the Southern
Pines Country Club and the Pina
Needles. The principal event is the
13th Annual Women’s Mid-South
Championship to be played at the Pines and drive down to Bethesda
h
cesses of Methodists and Baptists.
I While as for Romanists, they occupied
a mere but distinctly dreadful limbo
• it her consciousness. When to this
she added the absolute pitch in mu
sic and a quick eye for the comic,
the congregation of Bethesda couW
not feel unfriendly tQvvard her.
Inside, the church drew tall solemn
ity from its plain, age.darkened
\.(K)d. A simple pulpit learod up in
from and, behind, the deep and shad-1
owy .slave gallery, long empty, brood-
i over us. The men sal on the right,
the women on the left. There was
l:arsh, true singing in methodical
;ime, with heavy slurred effects by
Ihe altos. Oui’ section
COUNTRY PAPER
IS CORNERSTONE
OF U. S. FREEDOM
Imuji'lne Awakening Some Morn
ing Without a Free Press,
Savs Struthers Burt
(Contivurd from piiffc one)
IIS they spring up, and are maintain
ed; so long as there are plenty of
them; so long as anyone is at lib
el ty to start one; so long as on the
'vhcle they are fairly honest and not
has always' too many of them subject to some
boon a great section for altos. I know! form of local tyranny, we will re-
I.;' no place wliere nn alto is more I r.iain pretty good country. Imagine
} ?nre: ly esteemed. In eon.-iequence, i hot being able to write an indignant,
f’cy ar«- not afranl to bear down ^ or enthu.'»iastic lettei' to some local
;'M'onf;ly and make a hackneyed tune' cciitor. Imagine not knowing some
'iito .something better. When a stran- local editor well enough to refer to
f.;er hears the people of our section'.him some needed reform, or
The World War Amhas.sador to Great Brit lin Lies Buried in Old Bethe.'^da Churchvard.
some
I ;ng, he feels that they are a little^‘iubject for an editorial, or some
I -Iranrre and wild, and that the women' tomplamt. Possibly ne will pay no at-
' ..re saong. He feels the way the l^ng.! t‘'ntion again there are
I :ish used to feel about the Scots. I the letters. He can’t suppress you
i After the singing, a point of dogma your cause is sufficiently just.
I was expounded with all the restrained I Imagine, further, having no local
A Visit To Old Bethesda
James Boyd Recalls Itioyhood Trips With Grandmother To
Aberdeen’s Ancient Edifice—and the Singing, Particular
ly the Altos—and the Expounding of Dogma, and Old Levi
Bj# JAMES BtOYD i The graves arc tended now; a State
When I was a boy my grandmother to the site; a flimsy metal
used to take me sometimes down to 1 highway with its
)assit)n of a mathematician demon-
, . . 1 Arating a proposition of Euclid to
mother s formidable and magnificent- re ■ «
° unbelievers. This was an affair of
ly decorated bulk. Levi drove off perhaps an hour — a brief moment,
t.mong the other carriages and bug- ] compared with the sinewy souls and
gies. From around the doors there i bodies of the older members sitting
I v,ere greetings, showing, under the ' dark, immobile rows. But already
I t'.'awlessly courteous but detached j tl'-e new age showed itself in the
feood manners of our region, a trace' softness of my fibre, I hung on, not
by physical or moral power, but by
mere unhappy dint of will, while the
Old Bethesda. The church stood, som-
ot warmth.
For my grandmother, though a
large tin letters. Thus our awakened Yankee, was, like themselves, a Pres-
c'lnsciousness of a heritage achieves
bre and abandoned, in an oak grove deferment of oblivion,
at the foot of a small farmed valley t^ose days I only thought that
below a looming hill. Only now and .^^bits were getting thick in that
then the congregation, who had long burying ground and that foxes
before moved into Aberdeen, came .tometimes came up from the branch j even, if necessity arose, confound an j inquiries and passed friendly jokes,
back to hold services there. On such them
bj terian. And a Presbyterian of no
nican potency. Reared by her father,
the great divine, oti iron kennels of the
laith, she was apt, like themselves.
pew gnawed at me like the fox in
the Spartan’s vitals.
Afterwards, we stood under the
pnother aspect of godhead,eta
trees and the preacher, showing
at theological dialectics and could ! f nother aspect of godhead, made kind
a Sunday, my grandmother would Qur wheels rustled through
forsake her own church in Southern gnj stopped on hard-packed reives, she viewed wii*.i emotion, but
I adversary with awe-inspiring reserves
dead of Greek and Latin. And like them-
Southcm Pines Country Club March
17th, 18th and 19th Estelle Lawson
Page, former women’s national cham
pion, 19 the defending champion in
this year’s competition.
Another golf event of interest to
be played at the Pine Needles Club
is the annual Mixed-Foursome Tour-
The wheels of the station wagon
sifted the deep sand. The dogwoods
and gum trees along the creek went
slowly by. Sitting in my hot woolen
Sunday suit, I used to try to see be
yond the fat back of Levi, our col
ored coachman, and the two sorrels,
to catch glimpses of cottontails and
sand before the church door. I strug. very clearly, the amiable inconse-
gled with the problems of extracting | quentialities of Episcopalian ritual
from the station wagon my grand-[end the unreasoned evangelical ex-
Levi's instinct brought the station
v;agon at the perfect climax of my
grandmother’s repartee. Then we
were on the sandy road again.
(From the Introduction of Bion H.
Butler’s book, "Old Bethesda.)
medium in which to advertise every
thing from a pig to your latest im
portation of ladies’ dresses. Imagine
being away some place and not
knowing who has died, or who has
been married, or who has committed
larceny, or whether ia\es have been
raised, or what your Iccal Congress
man has been doing. ^
I live in two piacc i, in Wyoming,
in Southern Pines. 1 sub'rcribe to two
local papyers, the Jackson Hole Cour
ier and The Pilot. I would be very
restless and unhappy without either
because when I’m in Wyoming I
want to keep in touch with North
Carolina, and when I’m in North
Carolina, I want to keep in toucK
with Wyoming. If I didn’t subscribe
to these two local papers there
would be semi-annually great gaps
—months long—in my knowledge,
ind every Spring, and every Fall, 1
would have to ask a lot of unneces-
(Please turn to page six)
nament on December 25th. It will be! bobwhites crossing the lonely road,
a medal play foursome under handi-1 A ruined fence and a tangle of
cap, each pair playing alternate honeysuckle and wild grape stopped
strokes. among pines at the edge of a small
The Pine Dodgers, an organizationisolemn grove of oaks. There;
cf women golfers, will hold weekly j ^he church, a great square box j
tournaments throughout the season: sparse rock piers. It was not |
on each TuesSay at the Southern' "‘“ch than the simpliest possi-
Pines Country Club. The Sandpipers, | way of providing a house of wor-
captained by Emmett Golden, has, ® large number of people,
listed a number of weekly tourna- j there is a good deal to be said for
menu on its calendar. The opening'the simpliest way of doing anything,
tournament will be played next Sun- -t still seems to me to be a sounder
day, the 8th. It is to be an 18-hole
medal Sweepstake event.
Southern Pines has a variety of
hotels ranging from the most lux
urious to the more modest home-like
places, all of which will meet the re
quirements of anyone. Most of them
are far enough away from the busi
ness section to avoid the hoise of
building than most of the more ele
gant churches that now dot our pro
gressive countryside. I turn from
their bilious glass and imitation stone
to Bethesda’s thin, tall windows and
icstful sides, silvered with weather
end almost forgotten paint. Its large
simplicity among the oaks gave it
a pertain meagre and unassuming
down town, yet close enough to make ‘^'S'^^ty.
the stores ana shops accessiblc.
The section can also be proud of
having one of the finest airports In
the Southeast. The east and west
runway is 3,500 feet in length and 500
feet In width. The north and south
runway is 3,000 feet in length and
500 feet in width. There is also a
cross section of better than 1,200 feet
in length. The field is rated by army
flyers, who have been stationed here
on several occasions for war ma
neuvers, as being large enough to
land the largest ship flying the air
ways. A new hangar 80’x80’ with 18-
fdot doors has recently been com
pleted to meet the demand for addi
tional storage space, giving the air
port three hangars In all.
yOUNG- LADY WB'RE
OUT OF LBTTBRHB\OS
DOStr GET EXCITED,
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Across the road, among tradition
al funeral cedars, Scots’ names lay
f-'cattered on the oVergrowrt graves.
Among the briars and the sprouting
pines were crude lumps of ferrous
rook and later slabs inscribed in fine
thin letters that, like the church,
echoed the precise and simple dig^nity
of a certain epoch. There was also a
fmall community of terra cotta head
stones of Huguenots, exiles of the
graveyard. Here and there a later ar_
rival strove to triumph over mortal
ity by dint of heavy letering and pol
ished granite and by some attempt at
neatness about the mound. But for
the most part briars and broom
grass, pine and sassafras were coming
In again. The pioneers were yielding
to the outposts of the forest again
which they had fought.
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