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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, June 16, 1944.
THE PILOT
Published Each Frida; By
THE PII-OT, INCORPORATED
Southern Pines, North Carolina
JAMES BOYD
Publisher
DAN S. RAY - - - General Manager
BESSIE CAMERON SMITH . - - Editor
CHARLES MACAULEY - - - City Editor
EDITH POATE HASSELL - - Society Editor
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
HELEN K. BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN
•SGT. CARL G. THOMPSON, JR.
•SGT. JAMES E. PATE
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
ONE YEAR $J.O*
BIX MONTHS 1.6»
THREE MONTHS .74
Entered at the Postoffice at Southern Pineai
N C., as second class mail matter.
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A DOUBLE BLOW
Among the many war uses of
pulpwood War Bonds shouldn’t
be overlooked. While they don’t
have the direct destructive pow
er of giin powder made of pulp-
wood, nor the life-saving quality
of blood plasma’ packed in pulp-
wood containers, they are essen
tial to winning the war.
Buying War Bonds and cutting
pulpwood are similar in at least
two respects: One, they are pri
marily responsibilities of civil
ians on the Home Front and, two,
they are necessary to back the
jnen on the fighting front.
Actually farmers and woods
men in this area can do double
duty for Uncle Sam and the man
overseas this month.
They can cut a few cords of
pulpwood and put their earnings
in War Bonds. This will give
Hitler and To jo a double blow
at a time when both of them are
toppling.
Rationing Pointers
this time they shall stay there, ^went without. Life expectancy was
When the little towns of France j45 years; infant mortality was terrif-
are rebuilt, the slums of London'ic. But'pshaw! what’s the use of cit- MEATS, FATS
transformed to decent dwelling-ung facts? Anybody who has reach-j stamps A8 through W8 are
places, when there are gardens [ed the age of discretion with eyes in indefinitaly. Waste kitchen
again in Holland and when, once his head and is not nursing a
again, the Victory stands, wings | grouch or a torpid liver has only to
raised, in Paris. . . . this time it .look about him to see convincing
must be for good. [evidence that despite wars, famines
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The only thing that makes, and pestilences the world has been
these days endurable is the im-|and is growing better,
plication of the struggle. If the Mere intimation that after all these
outcome shall be life and more zillions of years that Nature’s su-
abundant life, then it is worth perior creature has been crawling
® fats exchanged for tWo points and
four cents a pound.
PROCESSED FOODS
all that it is going to cost.
Now and Then
BY A. S. NEWCOMB
about on this ball of mud and angle
worms he has not succeeded and
Blue stamps A8 through V8 are
good indefinitely.
SUGAR
Sugar stamps 30 and 31 are good
for five pounds indefinitely. Sugar
stamp 40 is good for five pounds of
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cannot succeed in bettering his hab- canning sugar through February 28
itat is an insult to mankind. So, if i
IF WE WOULD WIN
In the early days of our entry
into the war, the. collection of
paintings in the Metropolitan
Museum in New York was taken
down and placed for safety far
from the coast. It seemed then
more than likely that New York
and other ports would be bomb
ed. Recently, the paintings were
brought back and restored to the
walls of the Museum.
Among them was one of a
young man, Francesco d’Este,
painted by Roger van der Wey
den. The young ihan wais an Ital
ian, and as his portrait was being
hung again on the walls of an
American museum, it is more
than probable that his beautiful
home, the Villa d’Este, was being
freed from the oppressor by the
friendly hands of American
troops.
The villa was built on the
slopes of the Alban hills. From
high terraces it looked over the
tops of cypress trees to where,
across the Campagna, the doihe
of St. Peter’s cut the sky. The
d’Estes were one of the great
families of mediaeval Italy. They
were the fascists of those days,
tyrannical, grasping, hard, but
they had a belief in beauty and
it may have been that which sav
ed them from the vulgarity and
viciousness of 20th century fas
cism. It may have been that
which made them great. For
theirs was not a retrogressive
rule. Under them and the other
lords of the period, Italy forged
ahead. Her universities, her cit
ies were famous; her scholars,
her artists, her workmen, her
merchants were known all over
the world, qnd from all over men
flocked to Italy to study and ad
mire.
Men have come to Italy again
and, if the Villa is still standing,
there may have been many men
there a . few days ago, crouching
among the black cypresses and
marble balustrades to aim their
tommy-guns at other men fight-r
ing fiercely in the struggle be
fore Rome. The outcome there,
as everywhere, will decide
whether beauty, the beauty of
art and scholarship, of books and
paintings and music, is to go on
in the light of a free world. It
cannot ever cease, any more than
the world can stop turning. But
it can be forced to hide; it can
be starved and bruised and bat
tered, as the masterpieces of ar
chitecture are being battered in
this war. By now the Villa d’Es
te itself may be a shapeless heap
of rubblfe, its cypresses ragged
trunks, its fountains forever
silent.
In our concern over the trage
dy of destruction caused by
bombs and fire, in our agony ov
er the loss of the youth of the
world, we must not lose sight of
the far greater loss which would
occur if the fighting turned
against our cause. In fact, if we
would win this war, we paust not
lose sight of that cause itself.
For we must resolve, now, that
when at the end of the war the
paintings go back on the walls.
‘The Ripe old age of 70.”
Just what does that overworked
cliche mean? It may be complimen
tary, implying that one who has sur
vived the biblical allotment of three-
score-years-and-ten knows best how
to enjoy in tranquility the fruits of
the tree of life when they have rip
ened to the degree that m^kes them
sweetest and most pleasing to the
taste. Or it may carry the connota
tion that a septuagenarian, having
passed the age of development, can
thenceforth only decay, and is there
fore ready to be plucked by the
hand of Time.
For my part, I don’t care what it
means. It applies to me and I like it.
Except fc*r bereavements that must
come to all, the seventh decade of
my perilous journey through this
mundane existence has been the
pleasantest, most peaceful and most
satisfactory of all. And, too, what
with battling germs and viruses,
dodging traffic, surviving cock-tail
parties, seven-course dinners and all
the other ever threatening vicissi
tudes of life, I feel that living to be
70 is an accomplishment of which
one may justly be proud. It takes a
long time and involves a lot of trou
ble.
■When I look back through the
kaleidoscope of memory to view the
changing patterns of years gone by,
I am supremely thankful to have
been permitted to live through what
I believe to have been a period of
social evanescence, the beginning of
a new era that will go down in his
tory along with the advent of Chris
tianity and the Renaissance as the
dawn of a better world day.
My father, born^in 1831, could re
member clearly conditions as they
were and events that occurred in
1844. His memory and mine, there
fore, span a full century, and as he
traveled extensively and kept a
journal, I have first hand recollec
tion of many things and happen
ings not described or recounted in
books, long since generally forgot
ten. A frequent admonition recurs
often to my mind. “Son”, he would
say, “as you grow on to manhood,
older men will tell you that you
will never see such wonderful new
inventions, improvements and prog
ress as they have seen, but don’t you
believe it. I was told the same thing,
and you will see more than I have”.
And he was right. He never saw an
airplane or a submarine, an oil burn
ing furnace or an air conditioner, an
electric range or an electric refriger
ator, a subway or a Greyhound bus,
a “movie” or a radio.
When he removed to Biddeford,
Maine, sometime in the 1850s, em
ployees of the Pepperell Manufac
turing Company there, including
many children of tender age, work
ed from 4:30 a. m. to 7 p. m. with ’
half-hour out for breakfast and an
hour out at noon, 72 hours a week.
I worked there myself in the 1890s
from 6 a. m. to 6 p. m., going in be
fore sunrise and quitting after dark
seven months in the year with but
one hour’s respite in daylight from
the noise and grime and lint-laden
air. How we stood it I don’t know. I
don’t know what the length of the
work week is there now but it is
probably not over 48 hours. Machines
were meticulously cared for but the
health and welfare of workers was
a matter of utter indifference to
employers. Machines cost money but
help” was plentiful. Day laborers
were paid $1.00 a day: $15.00 a week
was top wages for skilled workers.
If an operative was injured or work
ed himself sick, that was ' just his
hard luck. Hospitalization was only
for the rich and well-to-do. There
were no safety appliance laws, no
workmen’s compensation laws.
Retail stores kept open from 7 in
the morning to 10:30 at night and
clerks were expected to be on their
feet all that time. I remember that
when a bill was introduced in the
Massachusetts legislature to compel
department store owners to provide
seats for their clerks, the howl of
protest that went up from store and
facory owners reverberated all over
New England and was echoed from
far corners of the country.
Nobody could go to a store and
buy a ready made meal. Most bread
was made at home. Even in large
cities the majority of housewives
“put up” their own jams and jellies
and made their own condiments or
anybody tells you that the world is
not growing better, don’t you be
lieve it. I have been told the same
thing many times.
The Passing
Years
BY CHARLES MACAULEY
THIRD WEEK OF JUNE
1943
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Spurgin open
the Carolina Cafe in the former
Bowling Alley.
James Boyd speaks at Asheville
rally.
Mrs. Clarence H. Edson and Miss
Erma Fisher left Wednesday for
New York City.
Sugar stamp 32 becomes good for
five pounds June 16.
SHOES
Airplane stamps 1 and 2, good in
definitely.
GASOLINE
A-10 coupons now valid and will
expire August 8.
Rationing rules now require that
every car owner write his license
number and state in advance on all
gasoline coupons in his possession
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A. B. PATTERSON. Man.
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Certified Public Accountants
AUDITS — TAXES — SYSTEMS
MAsonle 'ITemple Building
1939
RENT CONTROL
All persons renting, or offering
for rent, any living quarters whatso
ever must register each dwelling un
it with rent control office in their
rent area. In counties not under rent
control, persons who feel that they
are being overcharged for rents may
submit complaints to OPA on com
plaint forms which are available at
A. S. Newcomb
Real Estate - Insurance
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Capt. F. M. Dwight reelected head local War Price and Rationing
£ C*
of Sandhill Post No. 134, American Board.
Legion.
Mrs. H. E. Thrower has returned
from Bladenboro where she visited
for several days.
TO SELL PULPWOOD
ON CORD MEASURE
1934
Wiley residence burglarized by
jewelry thief. Leaps from second
story window with haul when sur
prised by Mrs. Wiley.i Valuable
gems taken.
Nine counties visible from new
tower here. CCC to erect 85-foot for
est fire observatory station near Mt.
Hope Cemetery.
1929
Southern Pines sells $20,000 bond
issue. Proceeds to be used for ex
tending water mains on May and
East Broad Streets.
The third Annual Convention of
the Sandhill Firemen’s Association
was held in Southern Pines on Wed
nesday. Thirteen towns represented.
1926
Southern Pines Board of Commis
sioners has notified all local sign
owners that sighs extending over the
parkways must be removed.
Employees of the State Highway
Department have demolished signs
on Route 50 (now U. S. 1) between
Rockingham and Raleigh.
1921
Walter Lewis of Bethlehem, broth
er of Harry Lewis of the Public Mar
ket, has bought the Goldsmith prop
erty, on the corner of May Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue.
Mrs. Lamm and Mrs. Lash have
gone to Jefferson, Me., for a few
weeks’ vacation.
Effective September 6, all pulp
wood sold in North Carolina must
be measured by the cord and in no
other way, C. D. Baucom, superin
tendent of the Weights and Measures
division of the State Department of
Agriculture has announced.
Baucom said that during the past
two years—largely because of a farm
and mill labor shortage—there has
been no definite standard of meas
urement for pulpwood, pointing out
that it has been sold in various types
of units, by cord, and by weight.
Early in the year of nineteen-four
I left my home on Maine’s fair shore
And came to live in the Old North State
“Where the weak grow strong and the strong grow
great.”
I must have grown strong for I haven’t grown great
But I don’t mind that and it’s now too late.
But of all the places to live I know,
I’d rather live here and just grow and grow.
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-DEAN OF SANDHILL AGENTS.
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DOES YOUR CAR SOUND
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DiffcTent Lately?
The Company With Ihe
Coal and Service
" PARKER
ICE & FUEL CO.
Tel. 9581 Aberdeen. N. C.
If repairs are needed we are equipped
lo serve you with the best.
LARGE STOCK OF PARTS
TIRES AND TUBES VULCANIZED
FURNITURE
New and Used
LINOLEUM—MATTRESSES
C. G. FARRELL
FURNITURE STORE
Opp. Old Hotel Bldg.. Aberdeen
Midland Service Station
On Double Road Between Piiteburst and Southern Pines
Telephone 3051
1914
New plans for the Highland Pines
Inn show an addition of 17 rooms,
each with a bath and closet, on the
three floors.
Mrs. Isabella I. War burton dies in
Windsor Locks, Ct.
1908
Board of Commissioners sets tax
rate to be 20 mills on "the dollar, to
be divided as follows: old bond, 3
mills; new bond, 3 1-2 mills; school,
4 mills; special for interest on school
house notes, 1 1-2 mills; general fund,
10 mills; poll tax $2.00.
1904
Mrs. A. S. Ruggles and Mrs. G. H.
Locey returned on Saturday from
Raleigh, where they attended as del
egates the State Convention of the
Ladies’ Aid Society.
C. L. Hayes and Master Ray were
the guests of W. D. Loruhn at Nia
gara Sunday.
1899
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stuart are
making a visit to Wilmington and
enjoying the sea breezes.
Lightning last week struTT in
many places, and some narrow es
capes from death are reported. Hail
did considerable damage to the fruit
interests.
BUY YOUR COPY OF MR. HUGH
DAVE MacWHIRR. On sale at Hayes’
Sandhills Book Shop, or The Pilot
Telephone
6161
CLAUDE FRYE. Owner
BARNEY THOMPSON, Service Mgr.
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J. N. PoweH Inc.
Funeral Home
24 hour Ambulance Serrlce
J. R. Worthington
Manager
Southern Pines
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Dyers
Southern Pines
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Dr. J. I. Neal
VETERINARIAN
Southern Piner. N. C.
Buy more\St^ir Bonds = A quicker Victory
...or welcoming a Vl^ar Bond salesman
Our fighting men are fighting for our way of life, for everything we
treasure as American. You can put your dollars in that fight
-BY INVESTING IN WAR BONDS. Buy War Bonds and keep
,them. If a volunteer salesman of War Bonds drops in at your house,
give him the welcome he deserves. Sign up for as much in War
Bonds as you can. You’ll always be glad you did.
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