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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communioatioDS to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C
FRIDAY, JAN. 28, 1927.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.C0
KIWANIS BACKS
EUREKA SCHOOL
The Balance of Dir. Poate’s Re
port to Kiwanis Club Last
Week Is As Follows:
There is only one other County
school with a trained teacher of agri
culture: Jackson Springs, with Mr.
George Ross, who is employed un
der the terms of Smith-Hewes fed
eral fund, (which pays part salary,
etc.) Three other County schools
teach home economics; Aberdeen,
Carthage and Pinehurst. Pinehurst
is giving the course this year for the
‘It is, perhaps, not generally un- first time; Southern Pines plans a
derstood that there are two quite course next year. These are, of
separate and distinct educational in- course, subsidiary courses, and form
stitutions in operation at the Farm ^ small part of the work done
,VI n j /i\ rpu . ; these schools; they are incidental,
Life school, so called. (1) There v • •
* tnat IS, mstead of bemg a mam pur-
ftrst, a District School, operated for
the children of Eureka District as
STRUTHERSBURT
HAS NEW BOOK
Curiously Philosophic in Tone,
and Reyolution-
ary
pose as at Farm Life,
third service: backward.
As to the
wayward
a unit of the Public School System unusual children; this is of vast
- n i. 4 4.U importance, and will tend to increase
of Moore County, under the manage- , , tu uicredbe
1 IT. J i rauier tnan to decrease. As those
ment of a local Board of Trustees, I ^ ^ uiosc
^ lo children now over compulsory school
the County Superintendent of Edu- i ^ x ^ ^
j.* j i. -D j ^ I without much schooling, are
cation, and the County Board of Edu- . ^,
mi.- 1- 1 • 4. A educated and brought up to the stand-
cation. This school is operated, ,5,
, , j . • 1 *1. ard, their places should be, and prob-
nanced and managed in precisely the ! ,, ^ j v
^1- 4. 4.U oe, more than filled by
*ame manner as are the seventy ther , backward in school, or tem-
pubhc schools of the County
There IS, also the SandhUls Farm
Lrfe School, which IS operated as a surroundings,
distinct unit, and is not under the
direct control of the Board of Edu-
As every schoolman knows, these
cation. It does not,'and never has children constitute a great
received, aid from the County School '“"f growing problem; and the Paam
Funds. (This County appropriates ' u” ’ place for their
$100 per year—this year it will be ^ graduated 15
$200toward the operation of a
trachers who are now employed and
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GOLF COURSES
COMING SWIFTLY
Ready
To Seed In
Another
Month
About
Teachers’ Training Class during the j well.
summer months. This class is held The indirect and general influences
in the Farm Life School Buildings, | of the Farm Life School upon liv-
and Farm Life Teachers cooperate; i i^g standards and agriculture prac-
but it is not a part of the school : ^ice in Eureka, and in the County
proper.) (3) Finally, there is a
high school in operation, which form
a sort of connecting link between the
two separate schools. Certain of its
pupils are Farm Life students tak
ing the high school course. Others
are taking the high school and agii-
culture courses together, or home
economics and high school, or parts
of either or both. It will be im
portant, when the matter of expenses
and financing is reached to bear these
distinctions in mind.
“Eureka District school, a County
school maintained a.a are all other
county schools, uses Farm Life build
ings for its work. This school has
160 elementary pupils, and 20 high
school pupils. That is to say, there
are in all 180 pupils who are taking
the regular school courses, given in
all county high and elementary
schools, and attending arm Life
School because it is most convenient.
In Farm Life School proper, there
are 81 pupils, not including the com
mercial Department. In the high
school, there are 86 pupils. The to
tal census of all schools at this place
is 274. (As will be seen, there is
an overlapping of high school pupils,
mentioned above.) In commercial
department, there are 21 pupils. In
Teachers’ Training Department, there
are 10. There are 70 boarding pu
pils, of whom 35 are from Moore
County and 35 from other counties.
This is the largest number of
pupils ever in the school from other
counties ,and makes 13 percent of
the entire enrollment of the schools,
or 50 percent of boarding pupils, or
30 percent of those pupils not not
enrolled in elementary school. As
some of these are in Farm Life
proper, and some in High School,
Teachers Training Course and Com
mercial Department, it is difficult to
give any more definite percentage
figures than the above.
In Agriculture, there are 40 boys
enrolls. In Home Economics, 41
girls. There are 36 boarding pu
pils who could not remain at home
and have their schooling, due to lack
of facilities near their homes.
The school has 13 teachers in all,
including two specially trained agri
cultural teachers, a 'domestic science
graduate and a trained teacher of
commercial practice.
The main services of the Farm Life
School are, (1) the giving of practi
cal training in agriculture, with ex
perimentation and home work done
on the farms. (2) Home Economics
courses, including Domestic Science
and Art. (3) Education of children
backward, wayward and deprived of
early schooling. (4) Commercial
Education, (5) Teachers’ Training.
The new golf courses at Knollwood
on the Pine Needle grounds are so
well along that Frank Maples says
h^ will be ready to seed the ground
by the latter part of February. He is
working about 65 men, 26 double
teams, two tractors, four trucks and
four more trucks to come in a day
or so, and has the clearings pietty
well finished on the links, his force
now working on the eighteenth hole.
Much of the grading is completed,
and the clearing will be done in a
short time. The roads are pushed
forward as fast as men can move
them, and will soon be ready for the
s'lrfacing and for planting that will
ba undertaken along the margins.
/
The snow of last week held up some
of the progress, but the better con
ditions this week have given a new
life to the job, and the clearing that
has been cut in the woods ov r there
«
on the hill gives an interesting look
to that whole section.
The county road force is rebuilding
the extension of the Midlands road
from the bridge over Me Deeds creek
at the foot of the hill at Knollwood
to Manly on the line of the old Yad
kin road, and when through two
routes will open from Pinehurst,
Knollwood and the Pine Needle vicin-^
ity to the Southern Pines and Manly
neighborhood.
The payroll at Pine Needles is a
mighty welcome factor in this com
munity at the present time as the
employment of nearly a hundred
hands keeps money moving where it
is of use. From now on the pay
roll over there in that section will
continue to grow until building is un
der way.
To prevent stored ice from melting,
make the ice house air tight at the
bottom, so the cold air inside won’t
filter out. There should be at least
12 inches of sawdust for insulation,
packed around the sides of the ice
stack, and also underneath and on top
of the stack. Be sure to drain out
through an airtight trap any water
that may form at the bottom of the
stalk.
(Bion H. Butler)
Stnithers Burt, of Southern Pines,
has a new book off the press through
scribners. The Delectable Moun
tains is the name of it, but instead
of being a taint of Pilgrm’s Prog
ress t comes about the next thing
to Calvinism, or perhaps that phase
of Calvinism which is that things
are foreordained. Not that the story
alludes to anythng of the kind, for
it does not, but in its revolutionary
tone it compels the thinking man or
woman to realize that Mr. Burt has
dug up some fundamental ideas, and
that those fundamentals are those
that life is based on, and what life
is based on must be more or less in
line with foreordnation, although
probably the author s not a predes-
tinarian or a fundamentalist either,
in the common acception of the
words.
Mr. Burt has written a novel. But
his pen ran free at times to present
a phase of character that savors of
the analytical. He has some people
in his book you probably will not
like, and he admits some things that
society trie sto keep under cover, but
recognizes. Burt opens the door a lit
tle wider than is common yet in this
day, and anticipates what looks like
tomorrow. He does not attempt to
advocate anythng. But he intro
duces some characters who show us
that burning witches did not stop
witches, and that burning martyrs
did not wind up martyrdom, and that
legfislation or prescription or code or
creed never yet cfianged human in
stincts or created a moral senti
ment. It is the other way.
This book will be read, and it will
arouse a lot of discussion, and a lot
of thinking. To the fundamenta
list its fundamental inclination will
be objectional, for there are two
types of fundamentalsm. One is that
which began with creation, the other
originated when doctrine was formu
lated. The two do not run togeth
er harmoniously. The book is a pre
dicament. It starts out with ordi
nary folks, and leads them an ordi
nary life, and ends with an ordinary
end, but it is insurrectionary most
of the way along the road. It will
ba criticised because it is too nearly
true to life, but in that it is only a
few laps ahead of its time. Or it
may be it is not ahead of its time,
but ahead of its recognition by the
present social habit.
The new volume evidences that the
author has lost none of his ability to
tell a story that carries an interest
is not a compulsory organization, bu
one in which all are invited to join. A
small fee is required from each per
son insured, and an equal amount is
paid each month by Pinehurst. The
insurance provides for a death claim
or for sickness or injury. The ap
pended statement issued January 1
shows that the association has in the
hank and invested $1,800, paid to the
insured during the year $4,400, which
is almost twice as much as the mem
bers paid in, the balance coming from
Pinehurst and from interest on in
vestments. The statement makes a
good showing, and ought to interest
workers in forming a branch of a
similar society.
Annual statement of the United
Workmen’s Mutual Benefit Associa
tion, January 1, 1927.
Receipts.
Cash in bank Jan. 1, 1926 $ 302.89
Cash I5aned on notes 1,500.00
ANS
GYMEN
Their Number is Three Times
That of Dentists or
Actors
Total - $1,802.89
Assessments $2,348.43
Pinehurst, Inc 2,579.39
Interest 79.30
Total $6,810.01
Disbursements.
Paid sick benefits $4,130.93
Paid death benefits 270.00
Paid expenses 15.25
Paid Secy and Treas 50.00
Paid license 49.00
Total : $4,515.18
Net balance $2,294.83
Refund due from Stacey
Wade 49.00
Total $233.83
PINEHURST WINS
ITALIAN MEDAL
Turin Exhibition Recognizer
Village Chapel Archi
tecture
The Pinehurst Chapel has been at
tracting attention far beyond the
boundaries of the Sandhills as the
folowing letter to Leonard Tufts from
Hobart Upjohn, the architect, will in
dicate.
“Grand Central Terminal
“New York City
“January 20, 1927.
“Mr. Leonard Tufts,
“Pinehurst, N. C.
“My dear Mr. Tufts:
“I thought it would be of int'^rest
to you and perhaps the Church in
general, to know that last summer I
entered three buildings in the Inter
national Exhibit at Turin, Italy. They
were the Village Chapel at Pinehurst,
Chapel of the Cross at Chapel Hill,
and the State Colege Library at Ral
eigh, N. C.
“They evidently attracted a good
„ . deal of attention for the reason that,
as wells as one that reads the signs 'i. - j n-
: niuch to my delight, I received a Di
ploma of Merit for this work. I
of the apparent revolution we are un
dergoing. Or perhaps it is not a rev
olution, but rather a discovery. The
reader who concludes it is a discovery
will probably have some uneasiness.
Those who set it down as a revolu
tion will be more uneasy, for dis
coveries are after all merely recog
nition of things that are, while revo
lutions are some times radical
changes. Mr. Burt does not suggest
ether revolution or discovery, for his
story is a story. But the book sug-
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PINEHURST PLAN
FOR INSURANCE
Scheme Takes Care of
ployes on Mutual
Basis
Em-
Pinehurst employes have a mutual
insurance scheme which takes care
of them on a low cost basis’, and the
cost is the lower because the corpor
ation pays half of all the sums con
tributed. When a new hand is en
gaged at Pinehurst the privilege of
sharing in the Workmen's Mutual
Benefit Association is extended. It
thought it would be perhaps of inter
est to the church people that the
Architectural Officials of the Exhibi
tion should have considered them suf
ficiently worthy as pieces of architec
ture to give me the award. The ac
tual name of the exhibitfion was:
Mostra Internazionale di Edilizia held
at Turin, Italy.
“Very sincerely yours,
“HOBART UPJOHN.”
The The chapel has attracted the
admiration of many people since it
was built, for it is of a singularly
simple and appealing architectural
style. Its tall spire among the pine
trees of the Sandhills is one of the
sights that point out to the traveler
the location of the village, and its
fine lines and classical composition
invite many comments.
The Sandhill regions is getting a
generous number of buildings that
are of more than local importance
through their architectural excellence,
and this is not the first one that has
had its plans hung on the walls of
International exhibits in Europe as
well as at home. Several architects
of wide reputation have their work
standing in the villages of Sout^m
Pines and Pinehurst and vicinity.
Musicians in the United States con
siderably outnumber the clergymem
and lawyers, according to a state
ment emanating from the Conn Music
Center. There are almost three times
as many people earning a living
through music as there are wrilling
teeth or playing behind the footlights.
These figures are for people entirely
dependent on music for a livelihood.
It does not include the tens of thou
sands doing part-time work teaching,
singing in choirs or earning extra
dolars on the side with violin or sax
ophone.
Another interesting compai^son is
that there are five times afi^ many
musicians as there are juoi^alists.
Journalism htis for some yea^ beea
a recognized vocational subject in the
public schools, involving elaborate
equipment, school publications, minia
ture printing presses and the like in
order that the boy who wants to be
a second Pulitzer or Joseph Medill
may get his preliminary training and
experience at the same time he is
learning the three r’s and without ad
ditional expense. But until recently
music in the schools has been largely
confined to assembly singing and re-,
garded as a cultural rather than vo
cational part of the curriculum.
Of later years, however, school
bands and orchestras have been great
ly on the increase and the economic
value of giving any apt pupil the
foundation of a musical education i»
being more clearly recognize eack
year.
Further evidence that A«£crica ia»
rapidly becoming one of the lead
ing musical nations in the ^orld is
found in the increase of the manu
facture of musical instrum^ts, ac
cording to the Music Center,' In 1914
there were $119,000,000 worth? of mus
ical instruments manufactured while
nine years later in 1923, this 6ure had
more than doubled ,amounting to
$242,000,000.
Established symphony orchestras
are to be found in nearly one hun
dred o four leading cities, to say noth
ing of less pretentious ones all over
the country. Civic and community
bands are the rule rather than the
•xception everywhere, not t6 include
the large body of industrial, school
and university bands and orchestras.
Grand opera, that most diffi4ilt of all
musical flowerings to keep healthy^ is
flourishing in 13 distinct grsmd op^ra
companies which, going on tour, cov
er most of the United States.
“If these encouraging evidences of
a musical consciousness exist today,
continues tho Conn Music Center,,
“what may we not look for when two
or three more generations have
studied instrumental music in school
as a part of their regular work, and
when every family can furnish its own
chamber music as wel as being an in-
t lligent and appreciative audience.’^
MRS.
BURKE TO
BUILD AT KNOLLWOOD.
Mrs. Mary Forbes Fay Burke has
bought from Judge Way through
Mason and Gardner, two lots at Knoll
wood Village, near the home of Ma
jor Nettlc4:on, and she will proceed
at once to build on the property. The
location overlooks the golf course and
is one of the most attractive building
sites in that part of the neighbor
hood. She is an old friend of Mrs*
•Netleon, and has been acquainted with
the Pin^urst and Knollwood neigh
borhood for some time. At the pres
ent she is living in Judge Way’s brick
house near the golf links. Mrs. Burke
is from W3mnewood, near Philadel
phia. She has become a member of
the Mid-Pines club.
Stirring fresh cream while cooling^
will help to remove had odors. After
the cream is cold, or during the ripen-
fing period, stirrinit is of little vslne.