THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina
Friday, December 8, 1944
THE PILOT
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THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA
MRS. JAMES BOYD - -
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DAN S. RAY - -
BESSIE CAMERON SMITH - - - EDITOR
EDITH P. HASSEL - - SOCIETY EDITOR
CHARLES MACAULEY - - - CITY EDITOR
will nevertheless be helped to an
equal chance with the rest of us
in its same grim battle against
ever-menacing Death which we
must all make and see our loved
ones make sooner or later.”
The proposed plan thus is not
only a program for the indigent,
worthy as that may be. It also
provides more and better doctors
and hospitals, and it encourages
more hospital prepayment plans
for the citizen who can pay all
or part of the cost. It is a program
for all the people of the State.
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
HELEN K. BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN
•STAFF SGT. CARL G. THOMPSON, JR
•SGT. JAMES E. PATE
•PVT. DANIEL S. RAY. Ill
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The Passing
Years
BY CHARLES MACAULEY
First Week of December
1943
Miss Birdilia Bair receives the
Kiwanis Builder’s Cup for Public
Service.
C. T. Patch knocked down by
army truck.
M. F. Grantham promoted and
will move to Rockingham.
THE GOVERNOR'S
HEALTH PROGRAM
Facing the North Carolina Gen
eral Assembly at its next meeting
will be Governor Broughton’s pro
posed statewide program of hos
pital and medical care for all the
people of our State. Last week
THE PILOT presented an article
by Dr. Carl V. Reynolds, State
health officer and secretary of
the Governor’s Commission on
Hospital and Medical Care, in
which he discussed the need for
this proposed program and what
the program will mean to each
individual.
This week Dr. Clarence Poe of
Raleigh, editor of The Progressive
Farmer and commission) chair
man, outlines the program which
the Governor’s Commission is rec
ommending to meet those needs.
Inasmuch as our own town and
county have a vital stake in these
matters, we are presenting Dr.
Poe’s article in full.
We quote Dr. Poe:
Dr. Reynolds, who is the No.l
authority on health matters in our
State, has shown us that North
Carolina ranks 45th among all
the states in number of doctors,
42nd in number of hospitals, 41st
in maternal and 39th in infant
deaths, and 48th, or the very bot
tom, in draft rejections in the
army camps.
The needs are plain—MORE
DOCTORS. MORE HOSPITALS,
MORE INSURANCE—and here
are the six main remedies which
the Governor’s Commission is rec
ommending to the people and to
the 1945 General Assembly to
meet these needs:
1. To set up a State appropri
ation of $5,000,000 to help the
counties and communities to
build new hospitals (or to en
large existing hospitals) and
health centers of the pubhcly-
owned or non-profit type, wherev
er and whenever needed. This
contemplates a small number of
District Hospitals of approximate
ly 100 beds and a much larger
number of small county or rural
hospitals and rural health centers
—each under the administrative
and professional control of its own
locally-elected board of trustees.
(In no case will a grant by the
State exceed 50 per cent of the
total cost of hospital construction.)
2. To expand the present two-
year medical school at the Uni
versity of North Carolina into a
standard four-year school with a
central hospital of 600 beds. These
would serve jointly to provide the
State another needed medical cen
ter and to train more doctors, par
ticularly for the rural areas.
3. To set up a State loan fund
for medical students with extra
aid for those who agree to prac
tice medicine at least four years
in rural areas.
4. To cooperate with adjoining
states in establishing a regional
medical school for negroes.
5. To appropriate $500,OOC) in
State funds annually to be used
in paying $1 per day toward the
care of each charity patient in any
hospital in the State, this amount
to be supplemented by similar
grants from cities, counties, and
probably private sources like the
Duke Endowment.
6. To encourage the develop
ment of group medical insurance
plans which will enable the peo
ple to prepay the costs of exten
sive illness requiring treatment
by specialists and extended hos
pitalization.
“The family that can pay for
its own hospital and medical care
will do so,” it is emphasized in
this Commission’s recommenda
tions. “Yet the burden on even
these families should be eased
through health and hospital in
surance.'
“The family that can partly pay
its way will pay this part (like
wise helped by insurance to the
fullest possible degree); govern
ment and philanthropic aid being
provided for the remainder.
“The family that poverty, ill
ness or other misfortune has left
honestly incapable of paying any
thing for its fight against disease
1933
Occupancy of Stevens Building
in completed by Jack’s Grill.
W. D. Matthews to act as thinly
disguised Major Bowes at Rotary
Club amateur show.
Miss Jane Grant Mann, a stu
dent at Meredith College, spent
the weekend with her mother,
Mrs. Nellie Mann.
1934
J. Vance Rowe newly elected
Judge of the Recorder’s Court.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gage have
returned to their home here after
spending Thanksgiving in Ashe
ville.
“Open for the season. Fish fresh
every day. Bar Harbor Sea Food
Company”. Adv.
1929
Airplane swoops to tree tops
of Southern Pines frightening
children and horses and endan
gering lives.
Mrs. George Calderwood and
Miss Calderwood have rpturned to
Southern Pines from Biddeford,
Me.
1926
Mr. H. W. Dorn, manager for
Pender’s, is going into business
for himself and has opened the
Fruit Market in the Straka Block.
Albert Bretsch of Raleigh arriv
ed in town this morning and will
assume charge of the Prescription
Department of the Broad Street
Pharmacy.
1920
Harry Howe has opened his
jewelry store on Broad Street in
the stand formerly occupied by
Merusi & Co., as a fruit store. For
the correct time take a peep at
the big clock.
“The Jolly Good Tea Room,
New Hampshire Avenue just
around the corner from Bennett
Street, is still alive.” Adv.
1914
Are you coming to Southern
Pines? Nothing better for the
money. Four rooms for $85. Four
rooms for $125. Eight rooms for
$200. For the season. All furnish
ed. None better. See “Van Camp”.
Adv.
1909
“Something new. Have you
seen the Radiant Glass Cone
Lamp Burner? If not, call at Mrs.
Dixon’s Variety Store and try
one. Always, bright, clean, odor
less. Increases light. Reduces oil
bill.” Adv.
1903
James Schwartz reports that
Southern Pines is not used to
freezing nights and the Opera
House was caught unprepared for
the dance given Thanksgiving
evening by the young men of Sou
thern Pines. Those present very
generously passed the oil stove'
(the only heating apparatus of the
hall) from one to another.
cadent, finally outstripped by its
sister town. Manly, however, con
tinued to be the trading point for
Southern Pines residents for sev
eral years. Though never incor
porated as a town. Manly early
had a postoffice, probably the
drst in ythe Sandhills, which is
still in operation.
There is reason to believe that
somebody connected with the Ra
leigh and Augusta Air Line Rail
way had visions of a future resort
or some other kind of a town
where Manly is as early as 1877,
the year the rails were laid from
Sanford to Hamlet, for there is
a deed on record at Carthage
dated May 24 of that year con
veying from Angus Ray and M.
A. Monroe 24 lots “as shown on
the Map of Manly”. I have tried
to find this map but have been
unable to do so and doubt if it
ever was filed. If it was, it was
probably destroyed in the fire
that burned the courthouse in
1889.
Aberdeen, three miles south,
was also a good sized community
with a railway station and post-
office before the exploitation of
Southern Pines was begun. With
the construction of the Page lines
to the West and Blue road to the
east, it became a railway center,
grew substantially, and has been
an important element in Sand
hills development.
Pine Bluff, started as a resort
by Mr. Patrick in 1888, three years
after he began Southern Pines,
beautifully located on a' knoll
with broad streets and pleasant
vistas, has always offered all the
attractions offered by Southern
Pines and Pinehurst, but for some
reason has not grown as rapidly.
The only explanation that seems
logical to me is that it was too
far from the railroad in the first
place.
In the old horse-and-buggy days
when transportation was a para
mount problem, residents of com
munities served by railroads de
sired to be near the tracks where
they could see and hear the trains
go by and would be within easy
walking distance of the station.
Time was in many North Carolina
towns when the breaking of sep
ulchral silence by the roar of a
locomotive or the tuneful manip
ulation of a train whistle/ was an
event of a day. That is the reason
that many good sized North Caro
lina cities grew up around a
station and not a few still have
the railroad running down one of
the main streets. I haye many
times been asked by new comers
why in the world the people of
Southern Pines ever permitted the
ESeaboard Air Line to run its
tracks down Broad Street. They
didn’t, of course; the towri grew
up around them.
In 1890, which year iharked
the beginning of “the era of c<^-
bination” and it was vogue to'ln-
corporate everything frorn an oil
well to a putty-knife factory, Mr.
Patrick incorporated his Southern
Pines holdings under the formi
dable name of New England Man
ufacturing, Mining and Estate
Company, of which he was to all
intents and purposes sole owner.
This company filed a new map
at Carthage in 1894 showing a
proposed layout that looked ideal
on paper but didn’t work out
satisfactorily on the ground and
has been a source of annoyance
ever since. This shows blocks 400
feet square divided by streets and
avenues respectively 80 feet wide,
intersecting at right angles, with
Broad Street in the rriiddle some
200 feet wide including the rail-,
road right-of-way. Streets run
N 53 degrees 15 minutes E, aven
ues, S 36 degrees 45 minutes W.
Each block comprises 24 lots num
bered from 1 to 24, varying in
width and depth with alleys 16
feet wide‘running 150 feet back
from the middle of each street
and avenue front to a central
square 100 by 100 feet that w.as
intended to have been a public
park or common, thus:
of-way by dint of use by the pub
lic, revesting the title to them
30 far as in their power in the
original owner, the New England
Manufacturing, Mining and Estate
Company, by whom they were all
2ventually sold. They have been
freely traded ever since and many
have been built upon.
In 1912 Mr. Patrick sold all the
land his corporation then owned
except one block to the Southern
Pines Improvement Company
which in turn, after disposing of
a large number of lo'ts, alleys and
squarjis, sold the remainder of its
holdings to F. W. Van Camp.
Very few of the houses here be
fore 1910 had central heating sys
tems or bath rooms. As late as
1909 there was not a house avail
able for rent or sale with these
conveniences, so, having been in
the real estate business here two
years with an office near where
Jack’s Grill is now, and confident
that fully equipped winter houses
would rent and sell profitably,
but unable to convince others of
the truth of this belief, I organized
a corporation, many of the stock
holders paying for their shares
with lots, lumber, hardware and
other commodities, and built four
trial houses at or near the inter
section of Massachusetts Avenue
and Ashe Street. These were all
leased to northern occupants be
fore they were finished in 1910
and they were all sold at a good
profit within three years. By that
time others were building simi
lar houses, so, having accomplish
ed the purpose for which the com
pany was formed, and having
moved to Pinehurst to found the
Real Estate Department for Leon
ard Tufts, I dissolved the corpor
ation. The houses we built are
still standing, one the home of
Postmaster Buchan, another of
Mrs. Heizmann Mudgett.
Sand B OX
Being Filled Weekly
BY WALLACE IRWIN
PEDESTRIAN POEM
When tobacconists say,
“No smokes here today
Don’t be an unreasoning mam
mal.
Nay, brother, be glad
And remember the ad.—
You are walking a Mile for
a Camel.
I’m taking lessons in pipe smok
ing, and find the work both pleas
ant and injurious. The pipe has
something the endearing quality
of Limburgqr cheese; its a rugged
individualist. The riper it smells
the better it tastes. And if it hap
pens to be offensive to the by
standers—well, you can’t please
everybody, can you?
Anyhow, there’s a lot of snob
bery about nicotine. When I was
a boy I lived in a mountain town,
mostly populated by miners. They
smoked corncob pipes and the
sort of drugstore perfectos which,
when ignited, smell like the ex
haust from a V-2 rocket. Some
times a stranger from the East
would come into the gas chamber
where they convened. The minute
he lit a cigarette they’d all move
out and stand in the snow, bitter
ly complaining, “The smell of
them coffin nails sure does pizen
the air!”
Chewing tobacco didn’t count
one way or the other. It was just
natural reflex of the human
jaw. But time alters custom. The
Mexican taught the cowboy tp roll
his own, and next we knew the
noble plainsman was telling his
mother how to sift nicotinized al- I
falfa into brown rice paper. Then
cigarette factories began to boom.
The rest is history.
I don’t quite understand why
plug-chewing has been relegated.
A soldier once said to me, as he
bit a hunk off a rich brown
square, “It’s the best way of tak
ing your tobacco. But it sure does
ruin you socially.” Yet the habit
has social possibilities. An Eng
lish duchess of the old regime
once had the job of entertaining
a Kentucky colonel while her
household rode to hounds. When
the party got back they found the
duchess and the colonel chewing
tobacco and spitting into the fire.
“And why,” she inquired, “has
nobody ever told me of this de
lightful American delicacy?”
I don’t want this to degenerate
into an essay on bad habits. But
did you notice how a multitude
of our Protestant clergy have been
fulminating against FDR because
he was supposed to say double-
trimmed-Dam when a voting
machine wouldn’t work? Consid
ering how the election came out,
I’d call that expletive the Oath
of Office. Our President is Navy
in sentiment, and I am inclined to
believe that it was a two-syllable
Dam. Our fleets are driven by the
same cuss-power that drives
mules.
Anyhow, if Mr. Roosevelt had
been reported as saying, ‘Oh,
drat!” or even “Oh, sugar!” when
the dam thing wouldn’t work, I’d
have gone right back to the polls
and voted for Dewey.
The ministers who are holding
mass meetings and writing to the
Charlotte Observer to denounce
presidential profanity, must be
very busy men. One reverend
wrote to the Observer last week
and explained that God alone had
the privilege of damning. Nice
thought, isn’t it?
Well, Stettinnius is in, and I’m
glad to see that noble Roman
name mastheaded on our Ship of
State. Senator Tangier’s solitary
objection was good advertising for
Senator L—perhaps. It pays to
be different, as the Ambassador
from Siam said when he walked
on his hands into the Court of
St. James. Certain elderly mem
bers of the Young Republican
movement don’t like Mr. Stettinius
either. They say he’s a mere boy,
and that’s why tl. S. Steel didn’t
want him any more. When I mild
ly remind these critics that he
might have offended the corpor
ation when he tried to soften
steel with an amalgam of labor
liberalism, that doesn’t get me
anywhere at all. Neither does it
when I say, “Why jump on Stet
tinius and Morgenthau? Aren’t
they both sons of famous bankers?
You ought to like that.” Not at
all. “Many a minister’s son turns
out to be a drunkard,” comes the
snappy rejoinder.
G—Gol darn it, I’m always
my neck out.
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Accepted applicants will be offered per
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STEAKS ■chicken
1899
Rev. Dr. D. W. Thomas of New
York has purchased the 8-room
cottage of E. B. Hodgin, Ashe
Street and New Jersey Avenue,
and has also bought the Gillis cot
tage near the Hamlin mill. Dr.
Thomas owns the only brick block
in town.
Dr. W. S. Woodhull dies.
Now and Then
BY A. S. NEWCOMB
When Southern Pines was start
ed, Manly, one mile north, was
and for some years had been a
thriving luinber, tar and turpen
tine shipping point. People liv
ing there were long sceptical of
Mr. Patrick’s efforts to attract
northern residents to the Sand
hills and treated those efforts
with considerable contempt. But
while they wqtched Southern
Pines grow (very slowly at first,
to be sure,) they saw the deple
tion of timber and kindred pro
ducts make their own place de-
As before stated, this looks all
right on paper but proved woe
fully impractical. It was the as
sumption of the designer that the
alleys and parks would be orna
mented and maintained by abut
ting owners as public beauty
spots, but as experience has many
times taught, “What is every
body’s business is nobody’s busi
ness”, and with nobody legally
responsible for these public
spaces, it soon became evident
that many if not all of them
would degenerate into dumping
grounds for old shoes and bent-
up sauce pans and become fire
hazards. So, more than 50 years
ago, Feb. 2, 1892, to be exact, the
Southern Pines Board of Commis
sioners formally relinquished all
rights and easements that the
municipality might have acquired
to these squares and such of the
alleys as had not become rights-
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