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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, September 22, 1944. THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT, INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 1941 JAMES BOYD Publisher 1944 MRS. JAMES BOYD - - - - PUBLISHER DAN S. RAY - - - - General Manager BESsIE CAMERON SMITH ■ - - EDITOR CHARLES MACAULEY - - - CITY EDIltOR EDITH P. HASSEL - - SOCIETY EDITOR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS HELEN K. BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN *SGT. CARL G. THOMPSON, JR. *SGT. JAMES E. PATE SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - . - $3.00 SIX MONTHS - - - . $1.50 THREE MONTHS .... .75 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU THERN Pines, N. c., as second class MAIL MATTER. FOR OLD TIMES' SAKE THE PILOT is happy this week to present to its readers a message from an old friend who was back in the Sandhills from the Nation’s capitol for a brief visit and who, for old times’ sake, complied with a request that he be guest editor ial writer. For good measure he threw in a few Grains of Sand, also. His former associates on THE PILOT are always glad to wel come Nelson Hyde, one of the best newspaper men who ever hit the Sandhills, and we feel that a message from him will be of es pecial interest to his many friends throughout the paper’s territory. —BCS 4 KEEP IT "AS IS" By Nelson C. Hyde When this reporter was editor of THE PILOT his most unwel come visitors were the old timers who used to live in the Sandhills and were back to tell us how things have changed and how something ought to be done about it. It was nice to have them back but we always felt that if they wanted to see the section devel op in accordance with their hopes and plans, they should have stay ed here and done something about it themselves. Well, here we are back on a visit and doing the same thing eind if you feel as we used to you don’t have to read any farther. All we have in mind is that in the post-war era. Southern Pines must be up on its toes. Not for growth—we’ve always been of that school that doesn’t want to see it outgrow its breeches. The town is largely made up of folks who came down here to visit and stayed on because they loved the place “as is”. We think that those are two big words: “as is.” In the jabber- wocky of Washington they’re spelled “status quo,” but we’re not in Washington. Of course the war has upset the equilibrium of every community in the country. The “as is” we’re talking about is the “as is” of pre-war days when “we all lived together in a cozy little cot hard by a nest of roses in a fairy gar den spot.” When we say Southern Pines must be up on its toes, we don’t mean in the Chamber of Com merce sense. We mean exactly the opposite. It’s this old timer’s ad vice-welcome or no—to let Sou thern Pines grow like Topsy, nor mally, systematically, yes, friend ly. There’ll be a natural tempta tion to stimulate growth in com petition with other communities. Competition in everything will be rife after the war. Resist it. Keep what you have, or you’ll kill the thing you love. Perhaps there’s a selfish motive in our plea. But we want to come back here some day and find the Southern Pines we left—the same old trees, the same old snake fences, the same old Patch’s— even the trains running right down Broad street. And we thmv a lot of other old timers feel the same way about it. They want it “as is.” cases have developed in Moore County recently and the quaran tine was extended through this week. North Carolina has been this year the hardest hit of any state. While a few counties in New York have had as high a number of cases as some of ours, the area affected has not been as great. As North Carolinians we may congratulate ourselves upon the way the epidemic has been han dled. There has been none of the panic and none of the careless overconfidence that is sometimes a regrettable feature of such a crisis. On the part of the State medical authorities, action was prompt and wise. Acceptance of the help of specialists and nurses sent by the New Haven Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine showed judgment. This unit work ed in the closest cooperation with a staff of local physicians. At Hickory, where the main center is located, the most modern meth ods of therapy are used, admin istered by experts in their field. The people of North Carolina owe a deep debt jof gratitude to these northern doctors and nurses and to those who were responsible for thejr coming. Their help, given so generously and so quickly, has been of inesti mable value. • To forestall panic great care h^s been taken to keep the public fully informed and the press and radio have cooperated with fine control. There have been no scare headlines or melodramatic elo quence, just facts reported care fully, quietly. The people did their part. Re strictions on gatherings were com plied with without a murmur, the people agreeing with health and school authorities that the protection of the children should be the first and only considera tion. *ro be strongly commended al so are the polio committees for their work of the past in keeping before the public the most up- to-date information concerning the disease and efforts to combaf it. An informed public is an in telligent one. Due to all these factors, to the copperation of all thSse people, this epidemic of a very grave and very alarming disease was met and handled calmly, wisely, skill fully. Without efforts of all con cerned it might well have had a far more serious effect on the health and bodies of our children. tected something unusual about him, a mysterious air that both puzzled and attracted me. We became buddies at once: I told him stories and he regaled me with Mother Goose rhymes and expatiated on the remark able qualities of his wonderful puppy. “How old is he?” I asked. “Six weeks, Mummie says, and his fur is just as soft. He lets me rub my face on it, and sometimes he sleeps in my lap”. How big?” I inquired. He turn ed his face to mine, and with a most pathetic expression said “just a little bitty fellah”. “Is he that long?”, I asked, spreading his hands apart about six inches. “Yes, I guess so”, he replied with that same peculiar expression. Then in a most appealing tone he said “I like you”. “Well, I like you too,” I told him “I never had any children, and I’d like to have a boy just like you”. Again that peculiar expression. Then his mother, her business concluded, said “Come Johnnie, it’s time to go”. Putting his arms around my neck and cuddling his head up under my chin, he whis pered audibly, “I’d like to gtay a little longer”. “Well Dear,” she said, we’ll have to leave now, but perhaps we can come again sometime if the gentleman will let us”. “All right”, he assented cheerfully, taking her proffered hand but getting down with ob vious disinclination, ‘I’d like to. I like him”. Then his mother paused to ex^ plain that he had no playmates and few adults ever tried to en tertain him, but he makes the best of it, entertains himself, never complains, is always cheerful, kindly and thoughtful and never makes any trouble for anybody. As they started out, he thanked me and said he was coming again. “Yes, do, soon” I replied, “you’re a good boy”. Whereupon his mo ther hesitated, swallowed hard and said, “Yes, he is a good boy and he’s all I have. His father died before he was born. He IS a good boy and always has been since the day he was born—blind!” & Co. A. Montesanti, local agent.” Adv. 1914 In many sections the “buy a bale” idea is becoming contagi ous and appears very promising. “Coming to Southern Pines. C. E. Haraden’s big 10 ct. vaude ville Show under canvas. Wepk of September 21st. 1909 The Bank opens. After being closed forty-eight days the Citi zens Bank and Trust Company resumes business, and everybody is happy. P. A. Stebbins dies. 1904 N. F. Wilson has bought, the F. B. Johnson house on Indiana Avenue, and it is reported that James Boy(^ of Harrisburg, Pa has bought Brodnax' property at the head of Vermont Avenue. S. W. Stevens dies in Cairo, N. Y. 1899 The new banking enterprise of Mess. Charles T. Geyer & Sons has commodious quarters in the rooms back of the postoffice. Prof. H. C. Schultz, the princi pal of our public school, and Miss Alice'Van Deman, the teacher of the intermediate department, have arrived. THE PILpT’s gone metropoli tan on us—added a seventh col umn. We haven’t been able to fig ure out whether the new one is on the right, on the left, or down the middle. We hope the latter. Frank Buchan says just be cause he’s had his hair clipped short doesn’t mean he thinks the Democrats are going to have a close shave. Says he’s just sick of seeing so many grey locks when he looks in the mirror. COOPERATION, the keynote of efficiency, the keynote of dem ocracy. Without it we can do lit tle; with it we *an accomplish al most the impossible. Yet unless we have the individual’s best ef fort, the best work of which each one is capable, the sum total is lacking. Cooperation is no good if the tools for cooperation are weak. It is only when, as in the fight against infantile paralysis, when scientists, doctors, nurses, a Sister Kehny or a Dr. George Draper, give the best that is in them, each individual working for a common end, that the best is attained and the end eventu ally won. A form of government that sup presses individual development and individual effort cannot be successful. Nor can one which up holds the one at the expense of the other. Just as the former breeds a generation of sheep at the mercy of any demagogic shepherd, so the latter with its emphasis on the glories of rugged individualism paves the way for cut-throat competition, for intol erance, hatred and, eventually, war. It is only when, as in dem ocracy, the best of the two are combined that the miracles occur. It is only through cooperation that mankind shall survive. —KLB Now and Then BY A. S. NEWCOMB POLIO AND COOPERATION As the fall approaches the de crease in the polio epidemic pre dicted by the health authorities has started. This is the usual course of the disease. Commenc ing in the hot months, it tapers off as the summer wanes. The first frost usually marks the end of an epidemic. Throughout most of the State the bans have been lifted and Monday was back to school day for thousands of young North Car olinians. Unfortunately, two new He was a cute little chap with wavy brown hair, mouth turned up at the corners, and big blue eyes the color of a cloudless sky. When he came into the office, he was clutching his mother’s fore finger, and while she conversed with my associate he waited with (noticeable Ratience unusual in one of his age. After some time, thinking that he must be getting restive and Uke most boys would soon give annoying evidence of his uneasi ness, I said, “Wouldn’t you like to g^ up in my lap?” He responded promptly with, an expression that lighted up his pallid countenance like a ray of sunshine through a rift in a cumulous cloud. His mo ther relinquished her hold, with some hesitancy, I thought, and as I lifted him to my knees, I de- The Passing Years BY CHARLES MACAULEY Third Week of September 1943 E. C. Stevens accepts County Chairmanship of Third War Loan drive. Display rooms of Backer’s Gar dens will occupy quarters in the show rooms vacated by Brooks in the Citizens Bank Building. H. S. Knowles left Tuesday evening for two weeks vacation in St. Petersburg, Fla. Dr. Clement Byrd now partner and manager of Southern Pines Pharmacy. Tough, being kept out of school these extra weeks, eh. Kids? Your Residence Fire Insurance Policy Now Gives Improved Protection Without Additional Cost tttmt II Here's Important Information . . . for every city and suburban citizen whose home or household furniture is insured by stock fire insurance companies. Automatically, and without any additional cost to you, your policy now provides broader, .simpler and more liberal protection. This forward step has been made by stock insur ance companies. 110 per cent of the amount of insurance on dwelling may be ap plied to cover garage and other private structures on residence premises. >10 per cent of the amount of in surance on dwelling may be ap plied to cover rental value of the residence. (No^ exceeding one- twelfth of 10 per cent for each month the property remains un occupied because of damage of any of the perils insured against.) 110 per cent of^the amount of in surance on household and per sonal property may be applied to cover while such property is away from the premises. ® 10 per cent of the amount of in surance on household and per sonal property of a tenant of res idence premises may be applied to cover improvements, altera tions' or additions if installed at the expense of the tenant. • When loss does not exceed $250.00, the policy is reinstated to its full amount without addi tional premium. (These new features do not apply to farm or country property.) See us for complete information about these and other new liberal provisions. 'That’s quite a, job they’ve done to the old Woolnough brick yard. Citizens Bank Bldg. Southern Pines. N. C. Place hasn’t changed a bit in the three years we’ve been away. Doc Bretsch is still going -fishin’ and Ralph Chandler’s down at the beach. We’ll know the war’s over when we see the first announcement of steeplechase races out on the Mid land Road. Save us a seat—any where but on a horse. 1939 Financial Note: Struthers Burt is readying a new book which is good news to Claude Hayes. N. C. H. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATOR c. t. Announcing .... NEW MANAGEMENT Texaco Service Station Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Johnson buy Hepburn house on New York Avenue. Marvin A. Ray forms retailing orgartization for proprietors of Niagara Dairy, Osco Farms and Royalton Pines Dairy. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Kelsey re turned on Wednesday after spend ing the summer in Holderness, N. H. 1934 The BcBrayer building opens, re built, refurbished after disastrous February fire. Finest A & P store in the Carolinas; Sandhill Drug Company organized by E. E. Mer rill and J. T .Overton also have store. Having qualified as Adminis trator c. t. a. of the estate of A. A. Buchan, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersign ed at Southern Pines, N. C., on or before the 19th day of August, 1945, or this notice will be plead ed in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make immediate pay ment. This 19th day of August, 1944. P. FRANK BUCHAN, Adminis trator c. t. a. OF THE ESTATE OF A. A. BUCHAN, DECEASED. A25-S29 I OUR DEPENDABLE SERVICE WILL KEEP YOU ON THE ROAD LONGER... SAFER! 1929 J. D. Callery of Pittsburg leases the John Y. Boyd house for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Goldsmith have as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Bob Goldsmith and children and Mrs. Wallace Goldsmith. Calvin Edson dies. 1926 Mrs. Decia Welch and family have moved from Aberdeen to Southern Pines and are occupying a cottage on north May Street. George Richardson, Elmer Da vis, Arthur Olmstead, Robert Far mer, James Silver, J. T, Dillehay, Frederick Cole and Earl Merrill have gone to the University at Chapel Hill. 1920 Mr. Platt, the new superinten dent of the Southern Pines school, has arrived' in town. ‘Grapes wanted. We will pay $3.00 per bushel for Scuppernong Grapes, delivered at the Seaboard depot in Southern Pines. Garrett Telephone 6161 J. N. Powell, Inc. Funeral Home 24 hour Ambulance Serrlce J. R. Worthington Manager Southern Pines KEEP YOUR CAR WASHED and ready forUSE i , WASHING LUBRICATING POLISHING REPAIRING PAINTING TEXACO PRODUCTS Drs. Neal and McLean VETERINARIANS ' Southern Pines« N. C. GAS OIL II » :t ♦♦ n H n ♦e « ll II II II « ♦e n ti it ♦♦ ♦♦ II ♦♦ it ♦♦ ♦« I Paul T. Barnum, Inc. John S. Buggies Garland A. Pierce Complete INSURANCE Service HAROLD A. 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