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# Page Two THE PILOT. Southern Pines. North Carolina Friday, Decemher 17, 1948. THE Pn.OT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 1941 JAMES BOYD PUBLISHER 1944 KATHARINE BOYD . - - EDITOR VALERIE NICHOLSON ASST. EDITOR DAfi s. RAY - - General manaoer CHARLES MACAULEY. - CITY AdV. C G. COUNCIL • - - advertising SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR . . - - $3.00 SIX MONTHS . . - - $l.BO THREE MONTHS entered at the postoffice at south EBN pines, n. c., as second clas^ MAIL MATTER. /MEMBER NATIONAL Editorial Association AND N. C. Press Association HOME AGAIN When you have been away for as long as five months, going on six, it is quite an event to arrive back home again. In my case, that feeling of ex citement was increased by a surge of elation, not to say triumph. 1 had had a wonderful time cruis ing around over there, seen many beautiful things, met many fine and interesting people, but then, when I was all set to come home I suddenly got stuck. First an ex asperating accideut and then the ship’s delay in sailing, because of the dockers’ strike and then be cause of the fog, held me in Pans for many extra weeks. All these hazards overcome added to the zest of arrival. And how good it was to step off onto the fine new station Plat form and see my dear friends waiting there for me. “How’s everything?” “Every thing’s fine!” that, was the greeting, and, if it was one that could be exchanged only m America these days, that was something else again, something that, with the piney air in our faces and the sights- and sounds of home around us, we didnt have to think of right then. But, later on, it hits you hard. Everybody who comes here from overseas experiences it. There is a* push of going places, of doing something, in the air. And it im plies, of course, that there are places to go and things to do. You realize, suddenly, that that was one of the things that you found so depressing over there: there seemed to be no future in peo ple’s minds. Just to be able to get by with the present, just to be able to handle each day as it came, that was what counted. But here: “everything’s fine,” This day, each day things are go ing well, plans are working out, and plans are being made for the days that lie ahead. But there is more to it than that. With that vigorous forward surge of life in America, comes an extraordinary sense of ease and relaxation, of weU-being. Over there, thefe is continual tension. It isn’t because the Rus.sians are a comparatively short distance away, with very little in between to slow them down. . . Od^dly enough, war talk is heard less over there than here. It is, think, a state of nervous exhaus tion, a hangover from the terrific strain of the war years in a peo pie who are tired out and under nourished, ancl who have lost so many dear ones and gone through so much that their interest in life has slightly dimmed. You feel they are near the breaking point It is America’s job now, while keeping her own beauty and strength and gay good living, to breathe vigor and hope back into the rest of the world. Along with our food and clothing and our ma chines we must send the spirit that is America, this spirit that you feel when you come- back home again from overseas. We must send it because, without it, the material things will be of small avail, and we must send it because, unless we share it with those in need, we shall not be able to keep it for ourselves. And that is what makes coming home especially exciting these days. Because you are so over whelmed with this thing that is America, this strong, generous, confident, gay spirit that you feel, like the freshness of the cool piney air in your face, you are so swept by its strength, that you know w6 must have a lot to spare. You know there is enough of it and it is strong enough to cover the world. ••‘Everything’s fine” here. Well everything can be fine there, too^ if we have the faith and the will to make it so. ^KLB beauty and usefulness, is a matter jly, for true gratification. It has been eight months since the matter of the park’s restora tion first came up, as the town board was about to return it to its original owner as a useless prop erty. During these eight months the townsfolk have expressed them selves vigorously as desiring to keep their park, and one organi zation after another has gone on record as feeling this should be done. The Sandhills Veterans as sociation, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Chamber of Commerce and the Teen Age club expressed themselves strongly. Through a Chamber of Commerce committee, leaders of the Garden club. Bird club and Civic club said they felt their membership would be in ac cord with any move made m this direction. Letters, signed and un signed, have been received and published by The Pilot, and when, in the press of other matters. The Pilot let the matter go for a while, phone calls, visits and letters kept bringing it back to life and to mind. The latest straw in the -wind was a. letter written to “Citizens Anonymous” (Pilot, December 3) which suggested-volunteer crews of workers to beautify the park. Another letter this week echoes that plan—one which, incidental ly, was first offered by the Teen Age club as its members offered their services some months ago We feel that all of this feeling is spontaneous, genuine, and high ly commendable, but that it needs a coordinating plan- The town board has taken the first step in cleaning up the property; a sec ond step is necessary, that of for mulating an overall plan for fur- tner work, or delegating this job to some responsible, individual or group. Foundation of the plan could be the survey made last June, on request of the board, by Paul Van Camp, consulting en gineer. The survey has not been made public. It may include a map, topographical description or other material which/should be valuable to the planners. The town board might ask the Chamber of Commerce, or the Garden club to take this job over, with the idea that other interest ed agencies could work with effectively and characteris tically the message of Southern Pines? Can a sign be selected which will please everyone? We would suggest that at this point the mayor become a benevo lent dictator, and select a group of no more than three whose taste he deems to be good, with the Garden club and business inter ests both represented. We should like to see the mem bers of this group look about with an inquiring eye, observe good types of signs now in use and, with the mayor sitting in in an ex officio capacity, select one which is attractive, effective and in keeping with the town and the times. Let’s trust them to pick out something good and not worry them to death with talk. Grains of Sand The Public Speaking ANOTHER VOLUNTEER The Pilot, Southern Pines. Although anonymous I would certainly like to congratulate Mayor Page and the town board on issuing a definite statement re garding Millen Park, and to say to them that in my opinion their ac tions are well advised and most gratifying to a good many citizens. There has been considerable criticism of the town board and the mayor “yapped” up and down the street, most of which was un justified and due in a great part to ignorance on the part of the ‘‘‘yap- pers,” and Mayor Page’s statement in December 10 issue of the.Pilot certainly enlightens us on one point, principally, that Southern Pines has more than one problem to solve, in taking care of the health and happiness of the citi- Eens. Personally I would be more than glad to join any organized action to help clean up the park and then keep it clean, and I don’t mean just action, by word of mouth but physical labor with a “brush axe” or “cross cut saw that any country boy knows how ■J Was there ever such a magK December. . . As gently cool and sweet as spring. . . There may be snow before this gets into print, but as it is written it is hard to get the Christmas spirit. . .With flowers blooming right along With the tinsel and Christmas stars of the window displays. Drove out Sunday to see Mrs. M. G. Nichols’, camellia bush. . . She says it is not as pretty as it was. . . But to us it appeared a beautiful sight. . . Filled with rosy blossoms. . . We hear Bill Camp bell has been enjoying camellias at his place too. . . Roses are all around. . . And at the O’Callag- hans’ last week, strawberry blos soms were in bloom. ' One little freeze this week took the temperature down to only 28 . Not enough to kill the flowers busy about their Christmas blooming. There was great fun at the Elks’ banquet for the football team last week. . . Where everybody laid themselves out to keep the crowd laughing. . . The team’s serious work was over. . . Now was the time for fun. . . From the open ing speech by Master of Cere- nionies Don Madigan right on to the end. Mayor Page told a joke which brought a roar. . . It was about the birth of the new young British prince. . . For whom, if a girl arrived, 15 guns were to be fired. If a boy, 30 guns would be fired . And if nothing happened at all, they would fire Philip. At the end, Supt. Philip Weav er, expressing appreciation for all that had been done, said, “You people here are grand to work with, and for. . And I hope to be working for you many more years ... if you don’t 'fire Philip’.” Somehow, we don’t believe that is likely to happen! to use. cu I am going to make a very de- them, under the plan, as time goes, termined effort to get in touch on. I with the writer of the Citizen There is plenty , of room at the park. A part could be left un touched as the Bird Sanctuary for which the park was originally es tablished. Elsewhere, youth groups might want to build picnic tables and benches, a civic club might construct an outdoor fire place. With the loss of the'Aber deen lake as a gathering place, many youthful activities formerly held there may be transferred to our park. The Garden club may supervise some. planting in suitable spots, and cuttings from some of the town bushes and plants may be placed there. It took 20 years for Millen park to get into its present sad state. It will take more than a month or a season to make of it what the town would like. With a good plan, continued in terest and volunteer help, some day we should have a real beauty spot, one which we can show with pride to visitors—one to pro vide a pleasant and useful play ground for young and old, in our own lovely bit of woods. Anonymous letter of December 3 and see if we can’t join in with that town crew when they start cleaning off Millen Park. A CITIZEN. BILLBOARDS THOSE Editor, The Pilot. I was delighted to see in last week’s paper the story about the forget. And Ray Brown, end coach at Davidson, the very young and charming speaker of the evening, had a set of jokes too. . . Some of which he brought right down to local personalities. . . One which fetched a big laugh he pinned on Janet (Beauty Princess) Menzel and Gary (Galloping Ghost) Mat tocks. . . And concerned their first date, when Mi». Menzel was sup posed to have warned her daugh ter of possible dangers which lay ahead. “If he wants to park after the show, and if he asks you to put your head on his shoulder, don’t said Mrs. Menzel, “that John Hemmer, official photog rapher for Pinehurst and also for the state news and advertising bu reau. . . And incidentally, one of our favorite people. . . was elected president of the Carolinas Photog raphers association^at its meeting at Pinehurst Sunday before last. This was the 10th annual meet ing of this assqpiation of serious workmen, news photographers of both North and South Carolina. . . John, dean of news photdg rapherS/in this area, is a past pres ident of the New York Press Pho tographers association, and, as an expert with a camera and also as a likeable person of ability and versatility, certainly deserves this new honor. . . He and Emerson Humphrey, of Southern Pines (staff photographer of The Pilot, a former Hemmer pupil and as sociate) were hosts to the Caro linas Photographers meeting. We share with our friend Francis Stubbs an inability to dis tinguish clearly between the New York Daily News and the Mirror (he was asking us the difference the other day, and we were no help to him!) . . . John was a staff photographer on one before he came south. . . Now his son is tak ing pictures for the other. . . Just which, we don’t remember! According to John Senior, John Junior is much the better pho tographer of the two. . . He must be good. Capt. George Shearwood, hunt ing publicity for Pinehurst the other day (a rainy day, it was), inquired concerning the progress of a couple of quail hunters who had been at their hunting on Julian Bishop’s quail preserves all week. . . He found his hunters home in front of the fire and ask ed them if it was because they didn’t want to get their feet wet . No, he was told, it was be cause the quail didn’t want to get THEIR feet wet. . . “Quail are so fussy,” was his headshaking comment. Help seal the door against tu berculosis by buying Christmas' seals. Fashions To Give Gifts To Wear ■s LEWIS BAGS FOWNES GLOVES MARVELLO PEARLS BERMUDA SWEATERS * GLAMOUR GIRL HANDKERCHIEFS HOSIERY AMERICAN BEAUTY and LARKWOOD JEAN VERNON LINGERIE At Local Churches LET'S WORK FOR OUR PARK The sight of town crews clean ing up Millen park, as result of the town board’s decision to keep the park and aid its restoration to TOWN SIGNS The recoqimendation of the mayor’s committee on the town billboards, that the present bill boards at Southern Pines’ north ern and southern entrances be moved farther from the town and smaller, neater signs replace them here, is as near to a meeting of minds as probably can be arrived at on this unexpectedly controver sial question. It should please both contin gents—those who like the bill boards, and think them effective, and those who think them repul sive and out of harmony with the town. Both sides can also quibble a little with the final recommen dation but on the whole, satisfac tion should result. At least there is the feeling of something achieved, a forward step made—a thing which too often fails to eventuate when a matter is opened for full discus- Uon by diverse elements. We con gratulate all who met, aired their views and listened to those of others and even compromised a little in deference to others’ wish es. Of such is progress compound ed, albeit slowly. However, the step just accom plished is but one on the path to ward getting the right kind of signs erected in place of the bill- hoards. The type of sign suggest ed by the Garden Club members,, submitted in sketch form to the town board and studied by the mayor’s committee, apparently failed to please the whole group. Many said they thought the signs too small, too hard to read. So now comes the question; what kind of sign shall be placed in those vital spots, to give dear- removal of billboards by law to at least 50 feet from the center of the highway. The Highway Com mission in not enforcing this law for two years has ben careless of its duty. But that such a law exists is wonderful news. It seems to me that placing these enor mous billboards at intersections of the highways and at curves is a very 'dangerous practice. With one eye on the billboard and one on the road it’s not surprising we have accidents. Locally, it has always surprised me that the monster-size sign, ad vertising Southern Pines, at the south end of town just at the curve in Route 1 was placed where it is. The corner there is a dangerous one and many people I have spok en to have never seen the sign, which is an indication that they are watching the road and not the billboards. It would be to the common interest to remove this particular billboard. The editorials and news stories The Pilot has had recently about the efforts to beautify Southern Pines and preserve its natural as sets are highly to be commended. The whole state is becoming more and more conscious of the historical aspects of its attractions, as well as its more obvious allure ments for the tourist and new res idents. Let Southern Pines re tain its place as one of outstand ing beauty and distinction among winter resorts of the United States. ERNEST L. IVES Paint Hill Farm Southern Pines is where I wiU start to worry” . After a beautiful dinner down town, a fine movie and an auto ride, all happened as she wpned . . . Only resourceful Janet (in the story) replied to Gary, “Suppose you put your head on my should er instead. We’ll let YOUR moth er worry.” FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH New York avenue al South Ashe Bible school, 9:30 a. m. Wor ship. 11 a. m. Youth choir 6 p. m. Training unions, 7 p. m. Worship, 8 p. m. Scout Troop 224, Tues., 7:30 p. m., faculty meeting, Wed., 7 p. m.; prayer circle. Wed., 7:40 p. m.; choir practice Wed. 8 p. m. Missionary meeting, first Tues days, 8 p. m. Businessmen’s sup pers, second Thursdays, 7 p. m Never underrestimate the power of a woman! The Moore County Farm Bu reau has been running into trouble because its regular meet ing night, the first Monday of the month, is also that of the Presby terian church circles, and when the Mrs. goes to a circle meet ing, generally the Mr. has to stay home. . . At the last Farm Bu reau meeting, held at Carthage December 6, it was decided to change the meeting nights to the second Mondays instead. . . For that reason. In Bygone Days From the Pilot files; TEN YEARS AGO Mayor D. G. Stutz warns that no one should buy holly or other Christmas greens without making sure the seller has a permit from the Town of Southern Pines. Paul Dana of Pinehurst is awarded the 1938 Builders cup of the Sandhills Kiwanis club. First gymkhana held in new show ring at the Southern Pines Country club. The Rev. J. Fred Stimson and Miss Ellen Vale are judges. TWENTY YEARS AGO File missing. Some more appreciations for The Pilot’s big Resort issue of last month. . . Including thanks from Governor-Elect Kerr Scott, who received a complimentary copy . “I enjoyed reading about your wonderful resort,” writes Mr Scott. . . We hope he’ll learn a lot more about it at first hand, when he is governor. . . He can get here mighty fast, when he needs some relaxation. . . Unless he will always be going back to Haw River on weekends! Thanks also from Gen. Homer S. (lummings, who wanted an ad ditional copy, for a friend. . . And we appreciated, too, a personal visit from Mary Corbin, a colored friend, who came to get an extra copy to send her brother, William Martin, who lives in New Roch elle, N. Y. . . . “He grew up around here,” she said, “and he knew all those old folks back yon der long ago. That list of people who gave money to build Old Bethesda church. . . He knew al most all of them. . . I know he will enjoy reading about them. EMMANUEL CHURCH (Episcopal) East Massachusetts Avenue Rev. F. C. Brown, B. A., B. D. Church school, 9:45 a. m. First Sunday, Holy Commun ion, H a. m. Other Sundays, Holy Communion, 8 a. m. Morning prayer, 11 a. m. Wednesdays, Holy Communion, 10 a. m. CHURCH OF WIDE FELLOWSHIP (Congregational) N. Beimett at New Hampshire Rev. Tucker G. Humphftes Simday school, 9:46 a. m. Wor ship, 11 a. m. Story-Telling hour for chUdrqn 8 to 12, 6:30 p. m. Teen Age group, 7:15 p. m. Fel lowship Forum, 8 p- m. Circle meetings, second Thurs- days. Missionary meeting, third Thursdays. Women’s society, fourth Thursdays. ROMAN CATHOLIC St. Anthony of Padua (Cor. Ashe & Vermont) Rev. Herbert A. Harkins, pastor Rev. C. F. HilL assistant Sunday Masses 8 and 10:30 am. Weekdays 8 a. m. Confessions are heard on Saturday, and the eve of Holy Days between 5:30- 6:30, 7:30-8:00. Women’s Discussion club Wed nesday. Men’s Discussion club Thursday, 7:30 p. m. at the rec tory. Carthage has i)roduced an. in ventor. . . James D. Tyson, Jr., has a patent pending on a card board device which will carry fbur sanitary cups or ice creanii cones without spilling the contents. . . He is reported to have 3,000,000 on order, with a plant operating at Elizabeth City. . . He is the son of Mrs. Ida D. Tyson of Car thage. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY East New Hampshire Service and Sunday school 11 m. Service Wednesday, 8 p. m. Reading room open ;Wednesdays and Saturdays 3-5 p. m. a. BROWNSON MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyterian) South May at Indiana Rev. Thompson E. Da'vis. Th. D. Sunday school 9:45 a. m. Worship service, 11 a. m. Women’s auxiliary, 8. p. m- Mon- ' day following third Sunday. Mrs. Hayes’ Shop SOUTHERN PINES. N. C For Christmas ; What Better Present Than A Book They cost less, last longer and give more pleasure OTHER ATTRACTIVE ITEMS A very fine line of leather goods from a Key Case to the largest Brief Case All The Best of their kind Parker 51 pen and pencil sets RCA Radios and Record Players Royal. Ward and Fredart Social Slationevf Zemih Portable Radios and The finest and largest line of Christmas Cards and Booklets in the Sandhills Extensive Display of Christmas Toys ALWAYS BUY THE BEST— YOU CAN GET IT AT Hayes’ Book Shop Photography For a really fine Portrait, Expert Coverage of Weddings, aU types of Commercial Photography, and all other activities HUMPHREYS STUDIO Complete Line of Frames Southern Pines, N. C. Studio Phone - 7722 Resident Phone - 5032 PROMPT MODERATE DRY CLEANING SERVICE
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