THE PTTiOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina
Friday, December 13. 1940-
THE PILOT
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Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NEiaON C. HYDE
Editor
DAN S. KAY
Oeneral Manager
CHARLES MACAlLEY
Advertisinic Manager
■elpn K. Butler. Viruinia Crwl.
Pesaie
Cameron Smith. ChHrleti Cullingford,
Associates.
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"AN IMPORTANT
TRANSACTION”
'Otc'asionaJly newspaper men
do strike somewhere near the
center of the target when mak
ing a phophecy. This bit of ar-
grument springs up from an old
Southern Pines Tourist, dated
February 18, 1904 and hinges
around an entertaining article
of Arthur Newcomb’s, in last
week’s Pilot, wherein Mr. New
comb describes the early devel
opment of the Boyd property
and the important factor it play
ed in the town’s growth since
the day of its purchase.
Nearly 38 years ago the town
paper boasted a two-column edi
torial page and under the head
ing: “An Important Transac
tion,” the editor in his foreward
glance, visualized what the huge
transfer of land would mean to
future Sandhill life when he
wrote:
THE POCKETBOOK
of KNOWLEDGE
A RECORD OF pROQt?E6S-
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Beyond a doubt the most impor
tant event in the career of the ter
ritory about Southern Pines since the
establishment of Pinehurst is the
purchase by Mr. Boyd of the acreage
of land from the Blue estate, im
mediately adjoining the corporation
limits of the town. This deal insures
the preservation of one of the finest
bodies of the original timber in the
vicinity. Hencefoit the Blue pine
timber will stand. It is so important
as a factor in the surroundings of
the town that the mere pre.servation
of the beautiful forest is a matter of
inestimable gain to everybody. The
forests about Southern Pines con
stitute the life and future of the
place. With the forests gone a Sand
hill town would be a barren and un.
attractive spot.
whom they are giving, in order
that the duplication may be
avoided. The master list will be
kept at the office of E. H. Lor-
enson, on East Pennsylvania
avenue.
j will be all that is necessary.
Gifts to be delivered through the
'bureau rather than directly
I should be delivered to his office.
tween sharp freezing
sence of frost.
and the ab-
The State Department of Revenue
at Ralegh has made things more
hopeful for little Lizzie to get her
new jewelry early for 1941, as the new
license plates are now offered for
sale before Santa Claus comes and
sweeps the till. New Year’s resolu
tions are not always as remunera
tive as pre-Christmas currency.
Down in Maxton, me neighbor aslts
after the first sentence uttered by
the stranger, "Whre are you from?”
In the Southern Pines Schools, with
more than half of the states repre
sented, no one is concerned over dia
lects, as there is no provincial mode
of speech or one modified by local
peculiarities.
The youngster growing up in the
cosmopolitan atmosphere of the lo
cal schools finds his companions are
not at all northern, or southern, east
ern or western, and pretty soon ex
periences the advantage of not hav
ing his neighbors limited to one point
of the compass. Association from all
parts of his own United States and
foreign worlds tend to free the stu
dent from local lattachment and
prejudices. And as he grows up un
conscious of a difference in speech
and various other habits in people
made by geographical locations he
no longer looks upon the new arrival
8s an oddity. The oddities vanish as
acquaintance develops.
Grains of Sand
The Pilot’s Anniversary Number
A telephone call to him j has stirred up recollection.s, Jock
Bowker of Pinehurst dug into an old
trunk the other day and found this
f rogram, dated 1918:
MINSTREL SHOW AND
VAUDEVILLE
Benefit of Southern Pine,"* School and
Starving Children of Europe.
Mintrels—Mr. Claude Hayes, In.
terlocutor; Sam B. Richardson, Edwin
Industry spent $215,000,000 last
year to improve existing products and
try to discover new ones. This year,
because of defense needs, the figure
will probably be much higher.
MAKE THIS A
LIGHT CHRISTMAS
Dawn of Christmas Day will
find the United States one of,
J. ., u J J u . Beach, Noirnan Sykes, \Vm. Waldon,
the few nations unshadowed by' , „ , „
, , , , , , , iJock Bowker Oliver Redfield, H. B.
blackouts, unshaken bv scream- i „ , ^ „
V,' Sanford, Toi., Kelley, Max Backer, E.
mg dive bombers or the high , v i
, , c • -J I |M. Poate, John Bloxham, Frank
whine of air raid alarms. L u ^ r ..
! Buchan and J. Talbot Johnson; Mrs.
Of the major nations in theij^ ^ j wiikens, soloist; Mr. Piatt,
world, America is the only one ; director,
this year, where the lights on: vaudeville-Spanlsh Dance, Miss
the Chrifitmas tree may burn
throughout the night without
violating a law, military or civ
ic.
Blackouts are certain to rule
Spanish Dance,
Anna Patch. Jules Morrell.
Monologue—A. S. Newcomb.
Indian Dance—Miss Annie Oakley
and Assistant.
Song and Dance—Miss Patch, Mr,
•m. D J crvoaf ^ ttiost COUntrics. But in the Morrell. (Miss Patch's costume cour-
The Boyd purchase is of great con- ^jberty
sequence because it put into the hands '
of an energetic business man of wide
icquaintance a body of land big
enough to make a hundred magnifi-
kent building spots, and makes of
that sort of man an interested advo
cate of the virtues of the Sandhill
region. He will be a more efficient
End per.sistent representative of the
place than any man who might be
hired at a salary to advertise the
has flamed through many per
iods of darkness, little children
can greet again the ever new
v.-onder of the tree that Santa
brought.
Because this is the one land
where electric lights burn on in
the windows and on the Christ-
i mas trees let us all unite to
I make this a light| Christmas.
tesy of Mrs. Hayes.)
Strength Test—Miss Annie Oakley.
The Modem Mikado—Jock Bowker
SFsisted bv Master Swoope.
EVELYN EDSON
Notary Public
rel''^hone Office N. H. Ave
E. V. PERKINSON
General Contractor
Storage
POTTED PLANTS
MAKE A LASTING
CHRISTMAS GIFT
They long continue to say
"Merry Christmas”
I'OTTEI) PLANTS
Choice I’oinsetlas. Amelia
Begonias. Pansies.
CHRISTMAS TREES,
WREATHS
Cut Flowers. Sweet Williams,
English Daisies. Sweet Peas,
Roses.
For Flowers Grown by a Woman
By* Telephone Anywhere
CHANDLER’S GREENHOUSES
Telephone 6154 Free Delivery South liennett St.
Christmas Suggestions
GOLDETTE—Under apparel, stepins, vests, bloomers.
TOWNVVEAK and NYLON HOSE in season shades
and weights.
Bags, Linens, Sweaters, Imported Pillow Slips.
Dresses of course.
MIDLAND
West Broad Street
DRESS
SHOP
Opposite Depot
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FOR RESULTS ADVERTISE IN THE PILOT
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Also Norris
Exquisite Candies
One of the amazing reports of the
week In W'ashington, cbmes from
the U. S. Department of Interior
s-howing how m.any fishermen there
are in the United States, and in eacli
town, for he will reach the people!. i. i • -1.1.
, , „ ,. , front vard of a mansion with
who are to follow his example, and' u j 1 j u iu u
^ trees bedecked bv those who
he will reach them because he is , , • j
, . V, u „ have plenty, or the tinv window
know'n to them, and because he has . * i-
. , of a small cottage, show a light
the confidence of the commercial , . , * ’
at Christmas time. Holiday
■ I lamps of red and green strung
the
• 1 . , , state. The report shows that 7,858,275
\vhether it be in the expansive
were issued to men.
were
v.'omen and children during a fiscal
year. Michigan issued more than 858,-
000 licenses and Minnesota, Nev.
York and Ohio issued more than .'iOO,-
000 each.
COME her* for
CKOCOLATES!
Mr . Boyd's purcha.se puts me wreaths in the win-
boundarv of Southern Pineo practi-,
their holiday me.^isages of greet
ing in honor of Him whose bir-
development of the purchase shallDecember 25.
rally down at the property line of the
Duncan Shaw estate, for whether the
of the purchase shall
be swift or slow', it is cettain, and
one of the best features is that it will
be on a scale and plane that
of the best. There is every reason to
believe that the character of homes
on the Boyd tract will make of the
whole .500 acres a splendid park, sur
passing anything yet attempted in
this section.
The Anniversary Number of The
Pilot carried a view of Southern
Pines taken from the air. We learn
ed only this week that this photo
graph was taken by Clyde Council, of
Street after street, block af- southern Pines, to whom go our
are ^ mile after mile, thanks and appreciation.
I let us make this a light Christ-1
1 mas. For this is the year of our
Lord 1940 in America, and in
America there is Peace.
CHRISTMAS
GIVING
It is the thought of others
that makes Christmas. We are
all made happy in our giving.
Giving, in Southern Pines, has
been unorganized for some time,
with the result that some poor
and needy families have re
ceived on Christmas Day more
than one basket or collection of
donations. Others have gone
without. It is gratifying to hear
that this year churches and civ
ic clubs and individuals have
taken steps to prevent this; that
they are going to see, through
the medium of a Christmas
Gift Bureau, that no underpriv
ileged family in this vicinity
goes without a Santa Claus, and
that none is oversupplied.
Individuals who have made a
custom to provide Christmas
cheer for certain families are
asked to notify the Bureau to
INCOME AND
SPENDING
The way the statesmen fig
ure things in W’ashington, the
returns from income taxes and
other revenue are expected to
total seven billion dollars the
coming year. F>en New Deal
ers haven’t been able to find a
way to pay the year’s expenses,
v/hich will run about 13 billion
dollars.
So the wise boys who are at
the head of Government affairs
are talking about putting all the
National Defense items in one
book and the non-defense items
in another book. The big book
would be left unbalanced. The
little book is the problem. Sena
tor George suggests that the
corporation income tax be rais
ed to 35 percent.
The Republicans are getting
together on an “economy pro
gram” to spe about two billion
dollars during the coming year,
and reduce non-military ex
penses, hoping to balance this
The subject of the weather is al
ways inexhaustible topic and ohe
where iomparisons are not without
interest. Last week a Southern
Pines resident had occasion to make
a.business trip into western Pennsyl
vania, He found 20 inches of snow
cn the ground, the mercui-y at ten
below, and roads icy and driving con.
ditions not of the best on the Key
stone State’s crack highways VVhen
he drove into his Sandhill home at
bed time on the return trip, the
thermometer stood in the fifties. He
had had a variation of 60 degrees,
and while that is not as much con
trast as you could find between the
artlc and the tropics, 60 degrees is
still 60 degrees and the difference be-
latter budget.
Of course that leaves the Na
tional Defense book entirely
without help—or even slight
“consideration.” All of which
means that the national debt
limit will be greatly increased,
taxes boosted, and public bor
rowing expanded to the very
limit.
Finally, Uncle Sam is hope
lessly in the red, even though
there is no War of our own.
Shaeffer and Parker Gift Sets
$1.75 up to $19.75
Amity Bill Folds—a full line
$1.00 to $5.00
Kodaks — the Bantam, Jiffy,
«
Vigilant, Brownies,
Ray-0"Vac Flashlights, 49c up
Remington Electric Shavers
(The Dual Shaver) at $15.75
Soda King Siphons—$5.00
Cigarette Lighters, Tobacco
Pouches, Cigars, Cigarettes,
Pipes, Pound or Half Pound
Tins or Jars of Tobacco.
Cutex Sets $1.00 to $2.50
Coty Perfume and Gift Sets—
The New Coty “Amphoras”—
$2.50.
5 oz. Toilet Water in L’aimant,
L’Origan, Paris, Emeraude
odors,
Beautiful Gift Boxes
The Variety Box—Assorted
Nuts—Gold Box
Whim's—C h a rni a nt
Mills Chocolates
Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Pink
Clover and ,honeysuckle Sets,
Harriet Hubbard Ayer Make-up
caddies—$1.00
Max Factor Make-up Sets,
$1.00 to $8.55
Evening in Paris Gift Sets
Old Spice Sets for Men and
Women.
18th Century Sets —The Nut
Cracker Bowl-$5.00
Houbigant Cashmere Bouquet
Tangee Sets
Clocks
Woodbury, Mennen, Williams,
Colgate and Palmolive Shaving
Sets for Men-
Hudnut Compacts, Toilet
Waters, Bath Powders.
Southern Pines Pharmacy
Phone 5321
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