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Page Two THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA JAMES BOYD ... - PUBLISHER DAN S. RAY ... GENERAL MANAGER BESSIE CAMERON SMITH - ACTING EDITOR , CHARLES MACAULEY - - CITY EDITOR MARY BAXTER - - - - SOCIETY EDITOR J CONTRIBUTING EDITORS HELEN K BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN G THOMPSON, JR , - EDITORS SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - $3.00 ! 6IX MONTHS - ''s° THREE MONTHS ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOUTH- j ERN PINES, N. C , AS SECOND CLASS MAIL j MATTER. MIGHTY MEAN. IF TRUE A man who should know was ; telling lately about a system; which he claims is followed by i some of the workmen in thisj section and. for all we know, in i others. He says they will work j for the boss for two or three j days a week. Then when their j wages get up to twenty dollars I or so they will quit in order not to get into the withholding tax i and will work the rest of the j. week for private parties on odd jobs. The money for these jobs is paid in cash, of course, and no j account is kept either by the man who pays or by the work man. Therefore it is not taxed. In that way, our informant says " some workmen keep a steady job as a back-log but actually receive; an equal amount on the side 1 which is not taxed. He says that practise is what makes it hard for contractors to keep their force up these days. We don't know if he's right, i ■ If he is, such workmen are cheating a government that has befriended them and cheating an army and navy that is defending ; them. POSSIBLE SOLUTION It is well-known that mer chants are operating under unus ual handicaps at the present time and a word for those who are bearing the brunt of the incon venience resulting from the controlled distribution of civil ian necessities is in order. Information passed out to the consuming public in the form of warnings not to pay more than "legal prices" suggest to some that where price tags do not jibe with the decreed legal price, something shady is going on. Consumers are led to believe that these legal prices are set by a simple procedure based on ex perience and knowledge of the problems: that all the merchant has to do is follow the law. like the driver of an automobile. However, rationing and pricp laws have been imposed, not only with no precedent as a guide, but by men with little or no practi cal knowledge of retail distribu tion. The advice of the mer chants has seldom been sought in the formulation of the rules un der which they must operate. As a result, the controls are cumber some, vague and often unwork able. Infractions have been un avoidable, in spite of the best ef forts of the merchants, the great er per cent of whom are patriotic citizens who fully realize that war controls are necessary and are conscientious in their efforts to cooperate with the govern ment. Perhaps the inclusion on the regulations board of men with first hand knowledge of the workings of a retail business is the first step toward the solution of the problem. THIRD WAR LOAN DRIVE Fifteen billion dollars is the goal for the Third War Loan which Pre sident Roosevelt has proclaimed will be launched September 9. In his proclamation the President said, "Our need for money now is greater than ever, and will continue to grow until the very day that Victory is won; so we must ask far more sacri fice, far more cooperation than ever before." FEWER NEW TIRES Smaller quotas of new passenger car tires for August and larger quotas of used and recapped tires have been announced by OPA, based on ra tioning allotments assigned for the month by the Office of Rubber Dir ector. The August quota of Grade 1 tires is the lowest since last April. OPA officials warned that drivers who are eligible for new tires may have to accept used or recapped types as long as the quota of new tires is low. /|f0 RP ANTHONY CASAMENTO, - ?- MACHINE GUNNER, /A . SURVIVED 14 WOUNDS IN AN ATTACK WMUL 4^? ON STRONG ENEMY POSITIONS IN THE \ TLXR •R-JB PACIFIC WHEN FAR IN ADVANCE IF® * JEM OF AMERICAN LINES HE BLUFFED THE R 9 JAPS WITH AN EMPTY GUN UNTIL ■| RELIVE ENTIRE SQUAD / GRAINS j OF SANI) | Mrs. Ida Patterson, a subscriber in Winston-Salem, sends us the follow ing story: A Colorado preacher is accredited with the declaration that an autoist venturing onto the public highway should sing if he has any regard for his future above. The suggested songs suited to the speed are: Twenty-five miies per hour: "I'm a I Stranger Here, Heaven Is My Home." Forty-five miles: "Nearer, My God. to Thee." Fifty-five miles: "I Am Nearing i the Port and Will Soon Be at Home." i I Sixty-five miles: "When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder I'll Be There." Seventy-five miles: "Lord, I'm Coming Home." 1 The many friends of an esteemed fellow citizen are distressed by a heart attack which he has suffer ed. He attributes it either to the news that fathers are about to be drafted. Or to an emergency call which he received to hurry home: And extricate a lady-boarder who was trapDed in the shower. 11. Scrap Rook Corner EEAUTY \ A drop of resin was hanging slim I In pendant form from a broken limb. ; Which held my glance and arrested thought. Caused me to pause, as indeed I , ought. J For the drop of resin caught the | light | Of the setting sun like a jewel bright, Or the fire in an Arab's roving eye. Or the flash of rain-drops sparkling nigh. ' Or the heart of an opal richly deep. I I stood entranced —for I could but steep J My thirsty soul in this beauty rare— -1 This loveliness which for me lay ,! bare —Emily Allen Elfreth '; Southern Pines, N. C GREATEST DRAIN Although primarily an agricultur al state. North Carolina's greatest • drain is in money shipped out for i processed foods. i We have only 650 establishments . producing chiefly bakery products, . 16, soft drinks, butter and ice . cream. We do not can 2 percent of the canned goods we eat. We make . only half a pound of butter a year . per person. Sausage and prepared r meats would last only a week. Prob t ably we lose 100 million dollars a ■ i year by not putting our own food up. THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina THE Public Speaking Mr. Editor: When is a village not a village? More about track pants and less about roosters. It seems that some of us army wives are accused of mistaking Southern Pines for a village, and should wear our Sunday clothes to market in this metropolis. Since you probably will not get around to in ! terviewing mf, I am proffering a few of my own observations in Southern Pines. If you had errands to do down town and had to walk, and guide a j small child along, you would wear a gymnasium suit too. Not for the heat, but to climb over deep ruts j jin driveways, piles of sand, tree roots, narrow paths that wind under | low branches of pine trees and cut \ I your face by night and day, and j drip rain all over you long after the rain is over, and then make a wide swath around most everybody's un trimmed shrubbery. Have you ever tried to walk past the school on any one of its four sides? Oh yes, the ! pavements are even swept with a broom, but the City Council must all have B. cards to ride over them, they don't seem to need walks, and S the rest of us have to. our cars go to Army Camps and we walk. So we appear in town in "Track Pants," and some day a crowd of us may stop en route and use the piles of last win ,l ter's ashes in the school yard to fill , up the valleys in the walks we have | to climb to pass the school house. At night one finally drops to sleep exhausted from the noise of planes ! snd trains, only to jump wide awake ; thinking the baby's crying, to find it ■. is one of the several roosters in your I very block in this ideal city, crow- I ing to greet the rising sun, or maybe wake it up too, anyway it gets all I the neighboring dogs into full bay. J and then you hear the trains again, ar.d smell the smoke from a shriek ing engine, and another day in Southern Pines has begun, with mos -1 quitoes and gnats and heat. Uncut '• grass and soggy pinestraw breed mosquitoes but nobody seems to T clean up and tidy up anything, and yet we visitors should dress up to do that obstacle race to reach the village for the privilege of paying * outrageous prices. It seems that even Mac Whirr ' drives a car and the Mayor just stands, and the Town buys crushed " paper cups and the children and an * imals get cut on broken bottles all over this Eutopia. I'll never for get Southern Pines. One good slam deserves another. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Marriage licenses have been issued from the office of Miss Bess McCas , kill, register of deeds of Moore County, to the following: William L. White, Jr., and Mrs. Winfred E. Howe, both of Southern Pines; An thony P. Stanopiewicy of Camp " Mackall and Veronica Marie Markie -1 wicz of Erie, Pa.; William J. Garry r of Camp Mackall and Nancy Jean Gaillard of Jacksonville, Fla.; Rich s ard Krajewski of Camp Mackall and Betty Trhlin of Cleveland, Ohio; | Charles B. Hubbs of Camp Mackall and Alice V. Hefferen of Richmond ? Hill, N. Y.; Ronald C. Chappell of J Camp Mackall and Sally McArthur Hensley of Raeford. i 1| FOR RESULTS USE THE PI i LOT'S CLASSIFIED COLUMN. Recorders Court I i • John W. Bowman, Jr., 19, of Aber- ■ deen was bound to Superior Court under bond of SSOO in Recorder's Court Monday on a charge of man slaughter resulting from an automo bile Occident which occurred near Pinebluff July 16. in which Pfc. George L. Webb of Carfip Mackall was killed. Both Bowman and his father, prominent residents of Aberdeen, received Injuries in the accident. Raymond Baber of Carthage was found guilty of drunken driving and [ operating a motor vehicle, without li | cense to do so. He was given three months on the roads, to be suspend ! Ed upon payment of a fine of $75 ! and the costs, and his license was re i voked for a year. Enlous Chambers, colored, of Aberdeen pleaded nolo contendere to 1 a speeding charge and his 60-day I sentence was suspended upon pay ment of a fine of ilO and the costs. I It appearing that Sallie McArthur, : defendant, and Randall C. Chappell were legally married last Saturday, prayer for judgment in her case was continued upon payment of the costs. The defendant was charged with bigamy, but the State accept ed her plea of guilty of fornication and adultery. The State took a nol. pros, with ' leave in cases in which Walter Bud Smith and Earl McPhaul. colored, of Carthage, were charged with tres pass and malicious injury to property of J. W. Kelly. For results use THE PILOT'S Clas sified Columns. j iITJU [Nil II Mid-South Motors, Inc. Telephone 9 59 _ _ Aberdeen, N. C. ___ j Ealing for Victory and Heallh means develop ing a new awareness of nutritional values and / $) j j vitamin content. Make your selections et H Dorn's for fine foods! MR CONDITIONED for SHOPPING COMFORT DORN'S "Finest in Foods" Sou*ero Pmes Pinehurst j! \ 7474 3511 COLORED INDUCTEES The following colored selectees passed their physical examinations at the induction station and were ( sworn in the following branches of service on July 16, the draft board of Moore County has announced. In the Navy: Southern Pines: Johnnie Green, i Richmond White, Charlie Wilbertj Gillis, Ciifton Earl Bell. Aberdeen: Joseph Franklin Biiggs. James Junius McKeever, R. Ger jtha Cosson. In the Army— Aberdeen: Adam Peter Mclvei, Robert Oscar Burns. Otis Winford Thomas. say: •CAUUC Off}' ' ° 4P y^l • pvG-.or torpedo M | 11 - ibe N ,„ I |gr> jjjl ci6» rc,,c * ) |gp I FIRST f I IIN THE StRV> cE ( I The U« ori £ ,?&>"'• f Friday, August 13, rM3 Cameron: Edgar Douglas Jenl.ins, r i Willie Odeli Gilmore. Carthage: 8.-njamin Goins. James Edward Ritter, R. 1. Joe Thomas Plunkett. . . i Pinehurst: James Ander Chrisco, Johnie Ransom. Southern Pines: Roosevelt Seg ers James Azile Stanback. Niagara: John Willie Thompson. West End: Willie Ingram. ; i P.ENT MATTHEWS HOUSE '! Night Policeman and Mrs. Tucker, formerly of Hemp, have rented the jw D Matthews home in Vass now .■owned by Futrell Lumber Company 11 and expect to occupy it immediate ly. .
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