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Page Two THE PILOT. Southern Pines, North Carolina FYiday, Augruat 29, 1941 THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PlLO-r, Incorporated, Southern Pines. N. C. A BROOM ON SIDEWALKS On several occasions recent ly certain business men have re marked about the appearance of some stretches of sidewalk alonjf the main business section of JA>n:s BOYD, Publisher CARL G. THOMl’SON, JR., Editor CHARLES MACAiXEV, Advertising Southern Pines. B«1«1 K. Butler. Virginia Cre«I, Bessie' Can’t thcSe sidewalks cmeron Smith Charles Cuiiingford, ^ ^e swept evcry moming?" they • ^ have queried, as if we knew the Subscription Rates: answer One Year $2.00 to\m with the beautv of Six Months Three Months Southern Pines, it does seem a shame that some of this beautv ARMY DISCIPLINE OH TERRORISM? Entered at the Postoffice at South- be marred by accumulated em Pines, N. C., as second class mall ^r^^h on business sidewalks. To matter. some extent, this must be the fault of those who carelessly let jfly with papers, cups and trash, I rather than usinjr the large waste cans conveniently placed Several i*ecent events, which JdonK the parking places. Also. 1 must be classed as more than there must be some blame on mere “incidents.” raise a vital individual merchant who! question concerning militarism fl^es not see that the walks in j in a democracy. i front of his place are cleaned j Most recent of these was the, ^ SIXAINS cr SAND Overheard on a street the other day was « soldier quite obviously from some more northern clime, dis cussing with a newly made friend an experience he had had with “other than legal” liquor in the South. "We got something this fellow called ‘sugar-head,’ " the soldier was explaining. “Was it in a fruit jar?” his friend a.slied. “Yep I In a mason jar. It was whito, and boyi did it have a smell i” “Did you drink it out of the fruit jar?’’ he was asked. “We sure did.” “Well, you know, you’ve just be gun to live when you start dnnging ■white lightning' out of fruit jars," the casual southerner explained. The Yankee soldier thought a mo ment, then exclaimed, “Well, then. I Have Lived I’’ tracted our attention. The dog was apparently a perfectly normal black and white fox terrier—except that he had light blue eyes, so abnormally blue that at first glance, he appear ed to have glass eyes. sentencinf? to 10 years and nine . approach- • • e n • i. OOPS ’lot seem untime v months in prison of one Private remind evervone that clean John Habinyak. Pennsylvania sidewalks j North Carolina writer.s and citi zens are featured in a number «.f magazines this month. While we don’t attempt to keop up with all mean an attractive | coal miner, who, after onlv two city and an attractive citv can I„ weeks in the army at Fort Bragg mean a succes.'^ful one. A good , ormer overnor yUe R. Hoey was chai’ged with insubordina- broom, a little elbow grease and i .‘I,*: .,'," . tion for refusing to clean his a few minutes on the sidewalks! mess kit. refusing to pick up'each morning would help do the > concrete blocks, for spitting on job. j a mess hall floor and refusing to clean it up. These offcnse.s— HOI’E THEY’LL HE and offenses they certainly are HERE NEXT YEAR —appear more childish than ma-■ t t licious, while the punishment . ir meted seems both childish and feaboard golfers will not spend justice to Tn'ilicioii'? Labor Day week-end, enjoying m an arti ‘■ri . ,, ,. the golfing and accompanving Earlier this month a disgrace- pleasures of a week-end in ful shooting scrape occuired be- Southern Pines, tween some I\Iilitarv Police and zine—the speech which he made at the Atlanta Kiwanis Convention. Former Southern Pines writer Hugh MacNair Kayler collaborates on an article about Archery in the current Colliers. Edith Harbour, edi torial secretary for the Raleigh News and Obser\-er, and book editor, does Dr. Fi’ank Porter Graham article in Holland's Magazine All of this about writer.'! reminds I us that very few people whom we've Demands of National defense, know that the late John Cais- rail movements were given as.^’orthy, English writer famed chief- the reason for cancellation of ly for Forsyth family stories, Ihe annual lourriament of the Southern Pines and Aiken, S. Seaboard Golf As.sociation. i setting for one or the For- While the sacrifice of a week-end interludes, following a visit to of golfing is not a gi’eat One::^^‘® section back in the middle in the United States it is such | pleasures as these, enjoved b\- j ties and gross '^scrimii^tion against Negroes in the Army privates which ended in deaths' of both soldiers and ]\I. P.’s, From substantiated reports, this scrape resulted chiefly from an over-bearing attitude on the pait of the M. P.’s toward the pri vates who were Negroes. Thmughout the country reports of high-handedness of authori- ,terest, that keep us going, and the British and their sympathizers kTd"to\heTon7hWon Vl^nt7he;e^ f'^^t for .such pleas-1 Jhro^out the ^^^rld as a par^^ ures. I fight against Hitler was anticipated ' It is certainlv to be hoped i concern in the that a year from this Labor' ^ ’ 1.1 . . closing the word “Victor,” is the were not isolated cases. This tj^pe of “discipline” should not be necessarv. It cer tainly is not apt to‘be‘tolerated at a time when the countr>-’s in dignation is aroused against Hit ler for very similar tactics ■\Wthin his o\%ti organizations. Witlh all I’ts importance, the Army should not be considered a thing in itself, above the laws and principles of our country and its people. If the Army still defines “dis cipline” as obeying orders, it may be that some education is necessarv the word (rives from the Disciples of Christ. Such actions as those mentioned above seem to prove bors of the world will have been resumed and along with them, the normal pleasures of laboring men. Southern Pines looks for ward to welcoming back next year, come Labor Day, it", friends of the Seaboard Golfers Association. HUNTSMAN! HUNTSMAN! SPARE THAT HUNTSMAN! Siyned with a huge question mark and the caricature of a man with a furrowed brow a postal card message reached Postmaster Frank Buchan this week from Boston, Mass. The message was hand-printed in excel lent letters, and Frank suspects the source. Here's how the card read; "And now the ding-busted ‘raw- dealers’ have balled up the petrol eum industry 1 “With that fella H. Hickkies hog gin all the gas—Great Jumpin Je- hossaphat!—How' mi gonna git to Suth-earn Spines, Nawth Cal-ina?” CORRESPONDENCE TIME TO FIGHT Ml KnEKER.S To The Editor: Among all the argiiments as to whether we sTiould go to war or not against the destroyers and ravagers of humanity, against the monsters who in the most brutal manner are killing millions of mothers, their children, and relative.s, yet, putting them to death Iry slow torture, I have seen no arguments that touched on the really humane, unselfish, Chri.s- tian aspects of the situation. All, or nearly all, are for exped iency and for our own selfi.sh pres ent and future interest and welfare. What man with even a spark of brav ery can stand by and with a crav>’n heart see innocent people, mothers and children, cruelly attacked and tortured by a band of gangsters while debating in his mind as to his own safety or welfare! Well, we have been and are doing just that, we have apparently lost cur self-re.spect, we certainly will loose our immortal souls by holding back, quibbling over what is best for our country or our own families, eternally waiting, hesitating, vaccii- lating in a most cowardly manner while whole nations are being wan tonly destroyed- We fatuously cannot see that the most appropriately, rat traps. trademark appearing on products of | 'onger we delay the harder the bat- the Animal Trap Company, makers, | worse for our of mouse and i future. Let us then go in at once, se cure the highly strategic places of ' great importance for the throttling While in Aberdeen the other day, j the murderers of humanity. It is we thought we recognized a friend of i ^^11 time we got down to business ours, who’s supposed to be in Wash- gave up our vacillations, hesita- ington writing for the Associated tions and splitting hairs about what Press, getting out of his car for a or may not be international law. coca-cola. It was he—W. Joynes Mac- | The only way to fight fire is with farlan, former AP bureau chief in | fire itself. The only way to figh: At sunrise September first it Raleigh, who was motoring through murderers is to get there first, into the meaning of I will be legal in No^rth Carolina to: on a short vacation. | —Thomas b. smith discipline,” which de- hunt and .s'hoot deer, if one is! it was his dog, though, that at-Southern Pines. provided with a hunting license, j obtainable for a set fee upon i application to the appointed' that, lacking an understanding j agency hanng them for sale. “For sale” correctly describes and ability to achieve genuine discipline, it was necessary to turn to somethinsr approaching terrorism in order to secure obedience. If we take our example from the manner in which these li censes are issued. Pinehurst Paragraphs Christ's Discinles, then disci- enforce the law against wanton Miss Ehrhardt Honoree Mrs. Herbert Ehrhardt, Jr. enter- itained Thursday evening with a The posse.ssion of a hunting h- ^ridge party at her home in honor of cense is proc,f only that the hun-lj,,^ si^ters-in-law, Mrs. Henson ter has paid his share to help j^ ^ pline is dependent upon mutual good will a(nd understandings, not upon unquestioned author ity and power to punish. THE MENACE OF DEFECTIVE CARS waste of wild-life. This much is as it should be: but it .should go further than that, Dorothy Ehrhardt. bride-elect. Guests besides the honorees were Misses Rhoda Wilkinson Carolyn . ... . ,, 1 Beebe. Helen Ruth Cole, Lorena Mon- ere IS no ing or on thei tesanti and Mrs. Lewis Johnson, Mrs. license that assures the game warden or fellow-hunters that I the holder is competent to shoot , , r,, . TT. , ^ or to be carrying it fullv Attempts by State Highway, loaded through the fore.sts Patrolmen to eliminate from the where, this vear particularly, highways automobiles whose there mav be‘manv soldiers, in age and physical condition ap-'pursuit of their duties, as well parentlv constitute safety haz- as other citizens who have a ards will be successful only if right to feel secure against the there is cooperation from own--‘chance-taking” hunter who ers of such vehicles. j shoots at any moving thing he It is true, probably, that me- sees, chanical defects are contribut-| Judging from reported “acci- ing factors in many automobile dental shootings” in hunting accidents, although defective seasons of the past, it would drivers are the roads’ greatest | seem about time that steps were danger. While every effort tajcen to make the possession of should be made to .see that auto- , a hunting license proof that the mobile.s without proper lights, | holder is familiar with the type breaks and steering equipment'of weapon he is carrying, and are not allowed to endanger that he is responsible enough to road traffic, care should also bCjbe able to tell the difference be taken that the owner-driver is tween a buck deer and a fellow not penalized too heavily. Many.human being. •second-hand cars are bought, I It is not lawful to ,'ihoot a doe. cheaply, in good faith but turn j All hunters know, or should out to be in pretty sorry shape. i know if they are allow'ed (by li- The purchaser of a second-hand J cense) to hunt, that a doe does automobile may save himself a^not have antlers. If the hunter lot of woe if he will get some j is required to determine this kind of guarantee ■concemingifact before he shoots, what pos- the mechanical fitness of hisfsible excuse ca nthere be for his purchase. Then he will not, af-1 “accidentally” shooting his fel- ter having invested in a (car, [low? find himself forced to make all i All during the hunting sea- kinds of additional repairs to son there will be many khaki- get the car acceptable to the i clad youths in this vicinity en- Highway Patrolmen and me-j gaged in the business of leam- jchanical standards. |in^ to serve their country, and Hubert McCaskill, Mrs. Travis Wick er, Mrs. Norman Calcutt, Mrs. My ron Barrett and Mrs. Eugene K. Mc Kenzie. The honorees were presented guest prizes and high score prize was won by Mrs. McKenzie. On Tuesday afternoon Miss Doro thy Ehrhardt was honor guest at a tea given by Mrs. Aaron Leon Catel at her home in Troy. Entertain at Supper Mr. and Mrs. Ed Swaringen en tertained at a picnic supper at their farm on the Carthage road Monda> ’ relatives fn Nash County. Henson Maples are Dean Home Economics teachers and has already begun her work. W. P. Morton, Jr., has returned to High Point after spending the week end with his aunt, Mrs. Ethel Journ ey. Dr. and Mrs. J. I. Neal and Miss Rebecca Neal have returned from a nwjtor trip through western Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Black and family are at Myrtle Beach for a week. Joe Montesantl, Jr., and Bill "Viall came home Tuesday from Chapel Hill where they attended summer school at the University of North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thompson have returned after two weeks spent in the mountains. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Host spent the week-end in Wilson with Mr. and Mrs. Joel Cagle and together. the> attended the Lost Colony in Manteo. I. C. Sledge, Nancy and Bill Sledge spent the week-end visiting visiting the Harbison family in Mor-| Tuesday evening for Mr. and Mri.. ganton. Mr. Harbison will finish h'.S| Walter Morgan, who were married re- course at Duke University Summer cently. School Friday and join his family. } Miss Rhoda Wilkinson and Mise Miss Carolyn Beebe of Baltlmoi*? Norma Renfrew of Providence, R. I., is the guest of her aunts. Mrs. J. M. are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Eli. Hagood and Mrs. Blanche Wescott, K. McKenzie. Mr. and Mrs. J. Potter Stockton Mrs. R. L. Daniels and Mrs. E. J. have returned to their cottage. Barker of New Bern arrived Monday Stockholm, after a month’s motor and are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thoni- trip through the New England states, as R. Cole. Miss Virginia Daniels has Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Moore gave u been the guest of Miss Betty Reed miscellaneous shower at their home Cole for two weeks. CUT FLOWERS PLANTS FLOWERS FUNERAL WREATHS CHANDLER GREENHOUSES CORSAGES SPRAYS I SANDHIIJ.S SERVICE, INC. I Home Maintenance Service Property Management General Contractinsr • Paintinp: — Papering Termite Exterminating Free Inspection and Estimates Charle.'^ II . « B:j:!zzzz:zzzzzzzzzzzzz;zzzzz«zzz2zzzzzzjzzzzzjzzzzz«:jj}:z2z:zzzzzztztzntzt2zzz!t:zttz:zzzztzzmt» IVIidland Road Tel. 3051 Pinehurst \\. Sw(tope >Ianager ti "I'll Again in 1941 more peo ple have chosen Frigid- * aireall-porcelain models than those of all other makes combinsdl low Priwsi Buy Now MODfL LP-6 Per Month these advantages: • Oiant 6*/i8 cu. ft. size ^ • Fully-Fitted • One extra shelf mm • Exclusive current-savins ,, ^ Meter-Miser • Interior adjustableforbulkyfoodt • Made only by General Motors ' COJSiJMf S§W THIS OyrSTAHPIHQ miQIPAIHt MlVff/1 BURNEY HARDWARE CO. Aberdeen, N. C. p^one 9301 night. Guests were Mr. and Mrs Robert Gouger, Mr. and Mrs. J, F. Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Sally, Mr. and Mrs. Casper McDo;jaId, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Conant. and Misses Mr. and Mrs, spending their vacation at Myrtle Beach. David Coffey is loaving Saturday for Myrtle Beach to spend the week- Vera Harrington and Lucille Brooks, end with Mr. and Mrs, Raymond Johnson. Miss Kuth Futrelle of Sedgefield, | Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Coffey an3 has arrived and is at the Teacher’3 Raymond Johnson and daughter. Club. Hazelwood. She is a George jean and Peggy will return Monday after spending the summer at Myr- their paths no doubt will cross tie Beach. those of the hunters of game, j Mrs. George Dunn has returned af- There can be no chance-taking ter spending the summer in Maine this year, under these circum- and Washington, d. c. stances, by the “too-anxious-to- | Mrs. Kary Johnson, Miss Kay John- shoot’’ type of hunter. If this son. Mrs. Ellis Fields and Miss Hel- kind cannot exert enough self- j en Fields spent Tuesday in Charlotte discipline to forego ins hunting j William E. Baker returned last this year, then appropriate steps | week after spending the sununer in ^ould be taken by State Game i Providence, R- I. He spent last week end in Asheville. Mrs. James W, Harbison and j children Martha and Jimmie, are Commissioner and his wardens to see that only responsible hitfiters are licens^. wmwmwmmmmanszazjmzznznmzazzzzzzzzzzzmKzzzjzzzznzztKazzzznzzzzzzzzznm ^otre Same jVcabemu Southern Pine.s Private Girls’ School for Resident and Day Pupils Conducted by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Primary and Grammar Grades and High School Department .. . The four-year college preparatory course will satisfy the Collep Entrance Board Requirements and will prepare for the best colleges of the North or South. For Full Information Write or Phone Sister Superior, Southern Pines 5512. Re-open&~September 2, 1941 -
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