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NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
FIGURES REVEAL
EQUAUZATION IS
BEST FOR MOORE
founty Would Get More Under
MacLean Bill But at
Heavy Cost
Volunteers Have Stiff Fight With
Forest Fire Near Southern Pines
Thousands of Acres Burned Over
Sunday Afternoon But
Houses Are Saved
difference OF $14,446
Moore county would fare better than
the average North Carolina county
under the MacLean school .bill, but,
along with 85 other counties^ of the
State, Moore w^ould lose nearly $15,-
•00 a year more under this bill,
v\ith the general sales tax already
adopted by the House of Represen
tatives, than by the operation of the
Senator Folger bill, which provides
a $10,000,000 equalizing fund.
Under the present equalizing fund
of §6,500,000, Moore county received
for school aid this year $69,468.92.
With the proposed $10,000,000 equal
izing fund, Moore, according to esti
mates compiled by the State Board of
Equalization, would receive for the
lext two years $115,640.83 a year.
Under the MacLean plan, Moore
’’ould receive $175,839.40, or the en-
ire six months school budget. This
niear:^ $60,198.57 more under the Mac-
".ean plan than under the so-called
Folger plan of increased equalizing
fund.
But the sales tax is estimated to
hring in $9,000,000 in revenue for the
school fund. That means an average
of about $3 per person in the State,
which has a population slightly above
3.000,000. Moore county had a popu-
■r.tion of 28,215 according to the last
lensus. At $3 per person—and this
county would probably spend more
Ter person than the State average—
1/ooi'e would pay into the State school
fund $74,645, which is $1^,446.43 more
*han the difference between the
amounts this county would receive
under the MacLean and the Folger
plans.
In other words, under the MacLean
plan, with the sales tax, Moore would
•‘•eceive $175,839.40, but would pay
$74,645 of the amount in sales tax,
thus getting $101,194.40 clear. Under
the Folger plan Moore would get
$115,640.83 from the enlarged equal
izing fund, all clear, or a clear gain
of $14,446.43.
Approximately 85 of the counties
of the State, on the same basis, wouk*
get more clear under the Folger plan
ihan under the MacLean plan. Thi 15
other counties that would get more
■ban they pay under the MacLean plan
are the 15 larger counties of the
State, according to the Board of
Kfjualization figures.
Blue Renamed for
Mayor of Aberdeen
Shamburger, Sloan, CavinevSS,
Doub and Rowe Nominated
for Commissioners
With Bion Butler acting as field
general on one front, Alex Field on
the other and Miss Julia Scott Butter
field mounted on a fiery charger
serving as liason officer between the
two forces, one of the largest forest
fires of the year in this section was
conquered after a tough battle on
the hills overlooking Southern Pines
last Sunday afternoon. The fire was
still raging in the Fort Bragg Res
ervation on Monday, but the danger
to Southern Pines was over when the
large army of volunteer fighters quit
the battle front last Sunday night.
The fire started on the hilltop in
back of The Paddock, near the old
Yeomans peach orchard. Alex Fields
was first to notice the curling smoke,
and the fire had not covered much
area when he arrived on the scene.
But before he could get help, the high
wind had carried the flames into the
thick woods, and the dry scrub oak
and pine needles, whipped by the
wind, became a raging torrent in no
time. All available manpo'wer was
called into action and all were needed,
for the flames threatened the Bower
and Butler homes and numerous ne
gro houses that lay in the direction
the wind was blowing. More than a
hundred were organized to start back
fires against the tide on the several
fronts, Mr. Butler directing forces
in his direction and Alex Fields head
ing the volunteers along the Gallery
and Paddock fronts.
It was one of the hottest fires to
fight the oldest fighter in the line
could recall, the wind almost blowing
a gale at times, and shifting in direc
tion frequently so that when it looked
as if a section was safe, a gust would
send flames scurrying off into anoth
er. The fight lasted from soon after
noon Sunday until dark, and the
worst of the conflagration was then in
the government reservation. The au
thorities at Fort Bragg were notified
and sent a large detail of soldiers to
protect Uncle Sam’s interests. The
loss was not great, all houses being
saved. Several thousand acres were
burned over, however.
Geo. Wright Addresses
Chamber of Commerce
Fiather of American Golf Dis
cusses Development of the
Game in This Country
Henry McCoy Blue was renominat
ed for Mayor of Aberdeen for the next
\vr: years as a result of the town
n' eting held Monday of this week,
and the following were named for
T‘\vn Commissioners: Frank D.
han'burger, John Slo^n, W. D. Cav-
11'ss, H. W. Doub and J. Vance Rowe.
The present commissioners are M.
'^1. Johnson, C. J. Johnson, John
nc McLean, J. R. Page and G. C.
ymour, who retire this year.
There is talk of a second ticket in
he field, as is usual, and village poli
tics will begin to seeth from now un
til the election in May.
KIWANIS CLUB MEETING
The Aberdeen Kiwanis Club held
i' ' weekly luncheon Wednesday at the
-’Icore County Court House, Carth
age, North Carolina, the meeting be-
i’lA one of the regular monthly bus
iness meetings of the club. Jimmy
McXab, chairman o:^ the Dance Com-
it tee, reported that the annual Ki
wanis dance would be held at the
Pinehurst Country Club April 10th
and that music would be furnished
hy the North Carolina State College
orchestra. Following the ladies’ night
program which will be held during
the early part of the evening, dan-
cii^g will begin promptly at 10:00
p. m. and continue to 2:00 a. m. Each
Kiwanian was given three tickets to
sell.
An interesting visitor at the meet
ing of the Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce on Tuesday was George
Wright of Boston, who talked to the
gathering about the game of golf
as the father of golf in this coun
try. Mr. Wright is 84 years old. He
was one of the first professional
baseball players in the United States
and in the history of the game. Pri
or to baseball he was a cricket play
er in Philadelphia, and from that he
took to the game of two-old cat,
which was the foreruner of baseball.
When three and four old cat grad
uated into four bases instead of two,
and putting out a player depended
on touching him with the ball instead
of throwing and hitting hinn with
it, baseball ari’ived and Mr. Wright
followed with the game. Ultimately
in a shipment from abroad of sport
ing equipment he included some golf
sticks and balls and a Scotchman
here saw what he had and talked
golf with him a little. Mr. Wright
found a place out of doors where he
Could make some little holes in the
ground and knock the balls with the
crooked clubs, and there Was born
golf in America. i
The expansion of the interest in
this game, its wonderful hold on the
whole United States, and especially
the distinction it has attained here
in the pine barrens of the Sand
hills, largely instrumental in trans
forming this section into one of the
popular playgrounds of the world,
led Mr. Wright to go into some de
tail in the development of the game
and its striking rise from a curios
ity to a great asset.
Paid Your Taxes?
Brother McLean Says You’ll
Be Advertised if You
Don’t Hurry Up
Those who do not want their
land advertised for sale have just
one more month in which to pay
their taxes, as the property will be
advertised the first of May.
According to J. D. McLean,
county tax collector, collections
are quite a bit behind those of last
year at a corresponding date. They
kept up well until the first of Jan
uary, but February and March saw
a rapid decline.
HOSPITAL IS GIVEN
SUM OF $5,737 BY
DUKE ENDOWMENT
Trustees Distribute $861,175 to
Hospitals and Orphanages
in Cafolinas
144 INSTITUTIONS BENEFIT
The Moore County Hospital is to be '
the recipient this week of v. check
for $5,737. as a result of the distri
bution of funds from the Duke En
dowment, voted at the annual meet
ing of the trustees on Tuesday.
Distribution of $861,175 to 144 hos
pitals and orphanages in North and
South Carolina was announced at the
conclusion of the meeting.
Checks for the amounts allotted
will be mailed immediately to the in
stitutions.
A total of $714,453 was appropriat
ed to 100 hospitals, while 44 orphan
ages were given a total of $146,722.
Disbursement of the sum brought
to $5,094,281 the grand total of dis
tributions from the endowment since
it began operations six years ago.
Sixty-seven hospitals and 30 or
phanages in North Carolina received i
$443,018 and $98,441 respectively in
the allotments, while 33 hospitals and
14 orphanages in South Carolina re
ceived $271,435 and $48,-281 respec
tively. '
The largest single appropriation
was $66,889 to the Roper Hospital, |
Charleston, S. C.
Allotments to hospitals are based on ^
the number of day’s care giveti char- ,
ity patients free. One dollars per free i
bed day is allotted.
State Dentist Treats
964 County Children
Total of 4,656 Operations Per
formed by Dr. Pigford
Since First of Year
The Woman’? Auxiliary and Parent-
Teacher Association will hold a ba
zaar and food sale in the vacant room
next to Arnold Shoe Store Saturday,
April 4th.
Little has been said about the den
tal clinic that has been in progress
in the schools of Moore county dur- |
ing the past few weeks, but much |
has been accomplished, as j^s shown j
by figures compiled by Dr. Guy E. j
Pigford, State dentist who is doing
the work. The figures cover the per
iod beginning December 29, 1930 and
ending March 28, 1931.
A total of 964 children have been
examined for dental treatment and
879 have been treated.] A total of 4,-
656 operations have been performed.
There are 605 fewer bad teeth in the :
mouths of Moore county children to j
poison their systems, and 923 chil
dren have had their teeth cleaned.
Dr. Pigford has worked in the fol
lowing schools: Putnam, Dover,
Moody, Mt. Zion, Acorn Ridge, Cedar
Hill, Needham’s Grove, Hemp, Cam
eron, Carthage, Plank Road and Rock
Hill. He will be in the county sev
eral weeks longer finishing up the
work.
'This dental clinic, which will mean
more than can be estimated to the
children of the county, was made pos
sible by a fund of $2,000 raised by
Mrs. Francis T. Keating of Pine
hurst, she being the largest contrib
utor.
Friday, April 3, 1931,
BETTER PICTURES
POSSIBLE ONLY
THRU EDUCATION
Cultivation of Public Taste Great
Constructive Effort of Indus
try, Writes Will H. Hayes
PREVIEW PLAN BIG AID
By Will H. Hays
(The following article, written es
pecially for The Pilot by Will H.
Hays, president of the Motion Pic
ture Producers and Distributors of
America, Inc., and former member
of the late President Wilson’s cob-
inet. was prompted by a recent edi
torial appearing in this newspaper.
—Editor.
I have just read with interest and
appreciation your editorial of March
15th in which you stated that “Mr.
Picquet discriminates and he pre
sents that type of picture that has a
wholesome influence in the main.”
It is the primary responsibility of
the producer to furnish the highest
standard of productions followed by
the responsibility of the exhibitor, as
Mr. Picquet practices, in using dis-
crimnation in selection of pictures and
last, but by no means least, is the
responsibility of the public demanding
better pictures to support them when
they are shown.
The education of public taste in mo
tion pictures is one of the great prob
lems and one of the great constructive
efforts of this industry. No produc?er
or distributor or exhibitor can con
tinue in business unless he gives the
public what the public will accept and
pay for. But I do not know a single
individual of importance who is con
tent to have this great industry held
dowTi to the levels which would be
indicated by an unqualified acceptance
of what might be termed “box office
standards.”
Only insofar as the general level
of public taste rises to higher stand
ards will it be possible for this in
dustry or any other industry to bring
the general level of its product up to
the standards cherished by tlie mak
ers of the product.
Again and again in the motion pic
ture industry the world has witnessed
the spectacle of the courageous and
idealistic producer bringing forth a
screen drama that was so far above
the levels of general public taste that
only extraordinary efforts kept it
from being a complete failure finan
cially. Again and again these dramas
that reflect new standards of art afid
good taste are brought forth, and
time after time the results are disap
pointing to their producers. And yet
that inner urge which marks every
one of our producers as a true artist,
causes him again to make the trial.
Obviously, to any scientifically-
minded observer, every picture that
is produced will meet the highest
standards of today only when pub
lic taste of tomorrow has been edu
cated to the point where it demands
and will patronize our best.
It was upon the'* initiative of this
association in cooperation with the
national groups that the previewing
plan at Hollywood where eight na
tional^ groups are seeing pictures in
advance of release was set up to fa-
ciliate the progress of better motion
pictures through public support. Lists
of recommended pictures are being
sent by them to thousands of their
constituents throughout the country.
NOBLES TO ENTERTAIN
IMPERIAL POTENTATE HERE
FIVE CENTS
Substantial Dev\^^se in
Tobacco Acrea^> Only
Hope for Price ^ 4,eco V ery
Another Girl Solos
Miss Peggy Haynes Tries Out
• the Clouds Above Local
Airport, Alone
Miss Peggy Haynes of Ardmore
and Pinehurst made her first solo
flight on Tuesday, being the sec
ond woman flyer to solo at the air
port this season. On Friday pilot
Harry Sievers flying a Fleetwing
with passengers from Cleveland
landed. The day before S. J.
Crain flying an East Coast Air
ways “Travelaire” from Miami to
New York dropped in for gas.
Other arrivals include Dr. Rich
ard U. Light and his dog, “Red,”
in a Pitcairn Sport Mailwing from
Washington, and J. P. Mattux, of
Salisbury tn his “Waco.”
Another Big Planting Following
Last Year’s Record Crop
, Means Ruin for Farmers
FIGURES ARE APPALLING
Bion H. Butler
The Tobacco association is urging
the farmers to reduce the acreage
planted in the last few years in to-
I bacco, and the argument is simple
I enough. In 1914 the acreage planted
to tobacco in this country was 1.-
223,000 acres. The acreage in 1929
exceeded 2,000,00 acres, while old
world production has been increasing
proportionately. From 1914 to 1929,
the last year world figures are ob
tainable the world’s supply of tobac
co increased about 250 per cent, and
not only the United States but the
I whole world is engaged in grov/ing
I the crop, and on a steadily increasing
I basis.
I North Carolina has steadily in-
I creased its acreage and production
I rlong with the rest of the bright leaf
producing states, but likewise the
Large and Colorful
Crowd Attends Final
Day of Horse Show I Burley tobacco growers have been
, piling up a bigger production, and
Bright Su??shilie Brings Out is worse that increasing Burley
Society Leaders and Young
er Set in Large Numbers
tobacco has been supplanting North
Carolina bright leaf in the manufac
ture of cigarettes until North Caro-
After having been deprived of most ■ cigarette factories are depending
of its color by the dlagreeable drizzly . <>" Kentucky and Tennessee
for their leaf.
weather Tuesday and Wednesday, the
Pinehurst Horse Show made up for stimulated the production
it all in good measure yesterday crop until every country is
when tne remaining postponed classes niaking a much too great supply forits
were shown. own use. Competition with American
Society turned out in large num- gj-own tobacco has increased, nntil
bers and the ring side took on a col- spite of the strenuous effort'? of
orful atmosphere which added to the American grown tobacco has inoreas-
gayer aspects of the occasion. ed, until in spite of the strenuous
The classes shown this year have efforts of American cigarette manu-
beer* well filled and the horses factrrers the supply of cigarette to-
entered have been of high order. ibacco has expanded, and now the
Even to the most casual obsrver it supply on hand is simply so great
is apparent that the horse as a maj- that for the farmers to add another
or form of sport and recreation has jjjg crop to the amount of leaf in ex
arrived in the Sandhills. The popu- istence will mean a stock that v/ill
larity of matinee racing here this fj^d no market.
season, the interest manifest in the
fox and drag hunts and the enthusi
asm with which the bridle trails have
been followed all point to an in
creasingly important place for the
horse in the scheme of things here.
King Red Vine, owned by A. H.
Handley of G*oldsboro, N. C. won
the championship in five gaited sad-
Along with this the tax on manu
factured tobacco has increased until
no other crop in the world has been
compelled to see its products loaded
with taxation to be paid by the buyer
of the product before it can be mar
keted. Between the tobacco farmer
and the buyer of his le^f lies a tax of
nearly half a billion dollars that must
Giltner of Tennessee.
Esten A. Fletcher of Rochester,
N. Y., Illustrious Imperial Potentate,
is to be given a reception by nobles
of the Oasis and Sudan temples at
the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst next
Tuesday, April 10th. The meeting
will be informal and the nobility of
the temples will be welcome, an
nounces J. B. Whittington,- potentate
of the Oasis temple.
There will be a Brick Party at the
Pinebluff Library Wednesday, April
8th. Al! th£ ladies of the town are
invited to be present at 3 o’clock p.
I m.
Special Eester services will be
held morning and evening at the
Aberdeen Presbyterian Church next
Sunday, April 5th, at which time the
Quarterly Communion ordinance will
be administered.
On the third Sunday in April the
regular services will be held in the
Old Church at Bethesda. Visitors in
the Sandhills are especially invited to
these services.
Singing Flowers
Prof. Chris Anthe Mum To
Exhibit Famous Collec
tion Here Next Tuesday
A “Garden Party,” featuring
Professor Chris Anthe Mum, will
be given in the Civic Club at 8
o’clock Tuesday evening, April 7th
by Mrs. Maude Grearson’s Circle
of the Baptist Church. Bowing to
the charms and united efforts of
the members of the Circle the
Professor, a noted scientist, whose
life has been spent in teaching
flowers to sing, will break his jour
ney from Florida to New York in
order to exhibit these wonderful
musical flowers of his singing
garden. Mr. Pier will be cello so
loist, and Mrs. 1^. Ellsworth Giles
will accompany on the piano. Also
taking part will be the Misses
Dorothy Richardson, Madie Wade,
Ethel Jones, Evelyn Rhodes; the
Mesdames Myron Adams, Raymond
Kennedy, Virgil Clarke, R. P.
Mills, Albert Adams, Irene Millar,
Reba Kennedy, Lawrence Williams
and Albert Adams. An entertain
ment of unusual beauty is promis
ed.
die horse class in the third and final taken from the proceeds of the
day of the horse show of the Pine- I g^lo of the tobacco before any money
hurst Jockey club. |can be returned to the producer. No
Wyoming in the Thorndale stables, | signs are seen to indicate that this
Millbrook, N. Y., won the champion ' tax will be lowered in the immediata^
hunter blue ribbon. Amber King, in I future. Rather the finger points to
the stable of Thomas and Alexander j hig-her sooner than lower taxes on the
of Pinehurst being adjudged cham- j tobacco crop, which means that the
pion three gaited saddle horse. j man who has^* to buy the farmer’s
The judging was well handled by ! pro<:uct must pay more for it, but
Ernest I. White of New York, War- | that the increased amount must come
ner Baltazzi of Aiken and Dr. G. B. i Q^t of the sale price of the manufac
tured goods before any of the in^
crease can filter back to th.i man
who grows the tobacco.
In the face of these condition? I he
farmer has but one way out, and that
is to raise less tobacco and moie
something else. He cannot grow to-
; bscco to buy pork, corn, hay, or any-
j thi’ig else he can make on his own
i farm for his own use, for the tobac-
I CO will not bring the price i o pay
the bills. There is no other way out
j of the difficulty. Too much tobacco
! has been grown all over the world-—
J too much is now in the warehouses
ready to meet the needs of the future,
and more piled on top of what is al
ready in the hands of the manufac
turers will further kill the price.
It is useless to complain <>i the
manufacturer. He does not w’ant more
tobacco. His money is tied up in the
surplus he already has on hands, and
he has little room for a further crop,
and no desire to put money into more
leaf, until he disposes of the surplus
in his possession. All the argument
in the world as to the attitude of the
factories will not help the situation.
If the surplus production keeps up,
Reynolds, the Aberican and the others
will be obliged to fall down complete
ly in the purchase of leaf, for a limit
' comes in time to everything. They
can not continue, whether they want
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