MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLY
THE
VOL. 20 NO. 10
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
Aberdeen
TR 7 1941
PILOT
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Terri tor, of North Carolina
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, February 7, 1941
CLARENCE STREIT
TO TELL FORUM
OF “UNION NOW”
Author of Plan Which Has Ta
ken Country by Storm To Be
Here February 13
“Union Now” Author
PINEHURST COUNTRY CLUB
Clarence K. Streit, former foreign
corresponJent. AKF veteran, and au
thor of “Union Now,” will speak on
Thursday, February 13 at the Pine-
huist Country Club under the auspi
ces of the Pinehurst Forum.
Mr. Streit has had a remftrkable
amount of practical experience as a
working newspaper man. He was for
many years a member of the foreign
staffs of the New York Times and
the Philadelphia Public Ledger. From
1929 to 1939 he served as the New
York Times League of Nations Cor
respondent at Geneva, Switzerland.
While there, Mr. Streit had ample
opportunnity to observe and study at
first hand the tragic failure of the
l.eague, until Woodrow Wilson's beau
tiful dream of world peace ended in
the terrible actuality of a second
World War. He was not content mere
ly to report the unhappy facts ts
saw them with his own eyes. He
wanted to know why? Why did the
League of Nations fail? Why was
the will to peace of the entire hu
man race so completely destroyed?
In searching foi the answer to tnese
questions, Mr. Streit came to this
conclusion: that the fundamental, fa
tal weakness of the League of Na
tions was simply due to the fact that
it was a League of Nations—instead
of what it should have been— a Un
ion of Men. It was from this simple
premise that Mr. Streit developed his
great plan for "Union Now."
The book "Union Now" was firsV
published in France in August, 1938
at Streit's own expense. Later it was
published in England, France, Swe
den and the U. S. By a process of
organized movement in all those coun
tries, dedicated to the proposition that
such a world Federal Union can be
echieved in our time. In the U. S.
an organization knowm as Federal
Union, Inc., was formed In 1939.
To Outline Plan
Mr. Streit will discuss his proposal
and will show how the principal of
Federal Union is best fitted to solving
the world’s present problems.
Usually the writers of books
which set forth f|ir-reaching propos
als in the field of government must
wait a long time for their ideas to
be recognized as practical by states
men, political scientists and the gen
eral public. "Union Now” by Clar
ence K. Streit, which is now in its
16th printing, is an exception to this
rule. When it was published, it was
greeted immediately with superlatives
from the pens and lips of prominent
persons on both sides of the Atlantic.
Wlhile a student at Montana State
University, Streit enlisted for the
first World War, served overseas on
the AEF and was attached to the
archives division of the American
peace mission at Versailles. Later he
returned to Montana and completed
his studies at the University, win
ning a Rhodes scholarship which took
him to Oxford.
Both from their national headquar
ters in New York City and through
affiliated local chapters, in many
parts of the United States Federal
Unionists are conducting an inten
sive educational campaign. Part of
the purpose of this campaign Is to
show that Federal Union Is an Amer-
lean idea Invented by the fathers of
the • American Constitution when
they were faced 150 years ago with
the problem of creating a workable
federal government for the United
States without depriving the various
states of local autonomy in matters
of purely local concern. Federal Un
ion malnUlns that the still existing
free democracies of the world today
Australia, Canada, Ireland, New
Zealand, TJnlCi, of South Africa, Unit
ed Kingdom and the United States—
are faced with proWems which are
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SCHRAM, OF R.F.C,
HERE TO ADDRESS
BANQLET TONIGHI’
Reconstruction Finance Chair-
j.man to Be Presented to Sand
hills by 'Gov. Broughton
C. JOHN'SON HONOR (JUEST
To Address Chambers Banquet
O' V.
Pinehursi
FIVE CENTS
CI..\RENCE STREIT
The Sandhills la host this week to
the one rpan in the United States
whose check for one billion dollars
1 might be honored, Fnill Schram,
I chairman of the Recon.struction Fi-
' nance Corporation. Mr. Schram is
I due here today, Friday, in a private
I car provided by the Teaboard Air
: Line Railway. He will be the prlnci-1
i pal speaker at tonight's annual ban-
i quet of the Chambers of Commerce
I of Moore county, sponsored by the
I Aberdeen Chamber and to be held at
I I
I the Carolina Hotel in Pinehurst. [
i Accompanying Mr, Schram Trom'
! W'ahsington will be Col. Charles F. '
OVFR WFFK"F\n ^ Johnson, president of the Botany
^ f T IjlJla I worsted Mills, another guest of hon-
I or at the dinner. Col. Johnson is deed-
Three Men Die In Head-On' ly interested in the .Sandhills sec-
FOUR KILLED IN
MOORE COUNTY
Collision of Auto and
Truck Near Hemp
WOMAN HIT BY TRAIN
I'tion as a possible location for a
i large plant of his company. He and
' Mr. Schram will spend the week-end |
I here. |
, Governor J. M. Broughton is driv-
Three men were killed and two' ing down from Raleigh to introduce
others were injured in an automobile- Mr. Schram to the people of Moore
truck collision which occurred early ’ county at the dinner, and as this
Sunday morning about four miles will be his first Sandhills visit since
from Hemp on the Seagrove road. j assuming the governorshp, he will j
Wayland Morgan and Winston' be given a rousing welcome by his
I Frye, both of H^mp, were killed In- j bellow citizens.
' stantly and Bruce Kiser of near. Also on the program for tonight's
Southern Pines died shortly after banquet will be the Ensemble of Sta-
reaching the Moore Coimty Hospital. i tion WHIG at Greensboro, which will,
Carl Thompson and Tish Yarbor-^play during the festivities. Station
oiigh, both of Hemp, '.vere riding in; WHIG is also recording the proceed-
the automobile with Moi-gan and Frye | ings, for a broadcast to the general
and both were injured, Thoma.s the pubic tomorrow afternoon at 2;00
more seriously. Thomas has a frac-1 o’clock.
.S SCOUTS OF
! ELEVEN COUNTIES
tured skull and numerous bruises and
lacerations.
Chairman J, Talbot Johnson of the
Banquet committee will be assisted
In the tiuck with Kiser were his Charles W. Plcquet in seeing that
brother. Carl Kiser, and I. L. Hicks, Carolina runs off |
' owner of the truck. Carl Kiser was smoothlyand enjoyably. The dinner Is
injured slightly scheduled to get under way at 8;00
Deputy Sheriff T. N. Slack who re
sides at Hemp reached the scene of
the accident shortly after it occurred,
end he described it as being by far
the worst wreck that he had ever
see.i. The two vehicles a^eared to
have sldeswlped each other, the car
traveling 27 steps and the truck 28
from the place where the impact oc
curred.
The car, when it finally stopped,
was turned in the opposite direction
from which it had been going, and
the left side was torn to pieces.*
The truck stopped straight across
thp road with Its rear wheels on the
bank. It was totally demolished.
Wheels, fenders and pieces of met
al were strewn the entire distance of
55 steps or approximately 100 yards
between the two vehlcl''*.
A man from Greensboro who ar
rived on the scene shortly after the
accident carried the two Kisers,
Thomas and Yarborough to the hos
pital. ,
Mary Bryant, colored who resided
ir the colored section north of Aber-
dren, In a delirious condition arose
from her bed early Sunday morning
and walked onto the Seaboard tracks
In the path of a southbound train
and was Instantly killed. She had
been In bad health for sometime and
was quite ill the week proceeding her
death. The people with whom she
lived sat up late with her Saturday
night, thinking she was asleep before
retiring.
SALE ANNOUNCED BV TURNER'S
REAL. ESTATE AND INSURANCE
D. H. Turner of the Turner Real
Kstate and Insurance Agency an
nounced this week the sale of the
Swarlngen property on South Page
street to the Rev. Edward F. Greene.
In addition to the nine rooms In the
house there Is also a basement apart-
;ment consisting of four rooms. After
makini: extensive repairs to the prop
erty ttsv. Greene will occupy it as
hia future home.
E!ec(ed Kxecutive Head of Occo-
iu*erh<‘<> ('ouncil of Central
North Carolina
I NEW SPIRIT SHOWN
, Not I is L, Hodgkin.s, president of
I the Citizens Bank and Trust Com-
I pany, of Southern Pines, was sig-
! nally honored last week by his se-
I lection as Piesident of the Occonec-
I chee Council of the Boy .Scouts at
j the meeting of the Counjil at Chapel
: Hill on January 24th,
j Present at the meeting were Ex-
j ecutives. Scoutmasters and troop
committees representing the 85
I troops of eleven counties of North
I Carolina grouped as the Occoneechee
, Council of which the two troops of
i Southern Pines'are an important
! unit.
Council is formed by the Scout or
ganizations of Moore, Lee, Harnett,
Chatham, W'ake, Durham. Orange,
Franklin, Warren, Granville and
Vance counties, numbering in all 85
troops of which seven are in Moore
county including Aberdeen, Southern
j Pines, Pinehurst, Carthage, Vas.s,
j » •• _] Cameron and Hemp. Locally Morris
I ragtc I tmes tntnglana Descrtbed j ^nson is scout Miste. taking the
By Former Winter Resident Here i now at Camp Jackson. The Rev.
* ; Father Edelen, assistant to Rev.
Father W'illiHms is in charge of
Troop Number 2.
Wiihin the past two years, owing to
the interest shotvn by several citizens
of Southern Pines of whom Father
Williams was one of the foremost,
who contributed their time, a new
spirit has animated the local troops,
a spirit vitalized by their inclusion in
the Occoneeche Councl, one of the
three large groups of North Caro
lina, and the group now under the
leadei’ship of President Hodgkins as
Executive Chairman, an honored po
sition awarded for his contribution
of time and work for Scout welfare.
EMIL SCiiRAM
Chairman, II. S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
o’clock, and a packed room is ex
pected to greet the noted honor
guests. Tickets have been on sale
throughout the county for the past
two weeks and have been In great
demand. As only 500 will be sold, it
behooves those who have not as yet
purchased theirs to "get busy.’ They
are $1.25 per person.
Train Kills Woman at
Aberdeen Wednesday
Her Companion, Edward Geyer,
Is in Moore County Hospital,
Seriously Injured
As a result of a car crash at the
street crossing north of the Aberdeen
railroad depot Mrs. Mward G. Gey
er, 26„ is dead and her husband lies
unconscious in the Moore County
Hospital In a highly critical condi
tion.
Proceeding westward shortly after
3.00 o'clock Wec'nesday morning in
their Packard with Mrs. Geyer at
the wheel, the car crashed Into the
second engine of the northbound
Orange Blossom Special of the Sea
board railroad, demolishing the car,
throwing the unfortunate woman
onto the tracks, her body being badly
mangled.
L. C. Turner who witnessed the
accident, stated that Mrs. Geyer'
stopped as the train approached and
then the car shot directly Into the
the second Delsel engine, the clutch ’
apparently released. {
Letters found in the wreck seemed
to indicate that the young couple |
were recently married and on their.
way from Washington to Alabama;
and New Orleans. The woman's maid- j
en name was Irene Varga of Dor- i
mont. Pa.
A daughter, Forena, aged four
years, survives from a former mar
riage, also a slater, Mrs. Ella Parker
of Dormont. Uoyd Clark, who has
charge of Mrs. Oeyer's body Informs
The Pilot that Mr. Geyer's mother
planned to fly from Pittsburg to her
son’s bedside.
Miss Penelope Turton Writes of
Caring for Evacuees of Air
Raids, of Philosophy of British
Life in England ihese days is viv
idly dc-scribed in a letter received i'1
Southern Pines by Mrs. Almet JenK.s
from Mi.ss Penelope Turton, Eire, who
■spent the winter at the Hollywood
Hotel here two ywrs ago and who
has been in the trick of things since
the'outbreak of war. The Pilot is
privileged to publish extracts from
Mrs. Jenks comm\mication:
We started off with large num
bers of Belgians and Dutch, some
with pitiful stories, and all with only
small bundles of clothing, having lost
everything on the way. They came
mostly In small drifters and fishing
smacks and had terrible tales of aer
ial attack both on land aui at sea.
I managed to land myself with be
ing responsible for the orgaiiization
of a large staff (over 100) of volun
tary workers, as well as for nurses,
for a staff canteen. It was all quite
thrilling, though exhausting, often in
volving a 20-hour day and never time
for a regular meal. Boats came in at
all sorts of queer times, and one al
ways had to be there with a staff
ready and • standing by—which was
difficult as volunteers have a way
of melting Into space unless kept
busy. I can’t give you figures, but
we had a huge number through, on
the whole smoothly, except for a
few horrible moments like the one
evening when 250 mothers with in
fants came through and it was late
at night before we got them away.
We had wind of an air raid and the
building has a glass roof I
Tragic Time"
Then we had a few days respite
while Hitler was racing through
France, and then we had masses of
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2D ANNUAL HORSE
SHOW TO BE HELD
HERE0NFEB.21ST
The Kvcnt This Year
IJeipir Given Wn the
British Relief
Is
C. 0. at Fort Devers
Lieut, Col Alexander Kelly of
Carthage Commands Post
in Massachusetts
MANY P:NTRIES EXPECTED
Plan.s are now being completed for i
the Second Annual Southern Pines'
Korse Show to be held at the Horse
Show grounds at the Southern Pines
Country Club Friday, February 21st.
The show this year is being given
for the British relief.
W’orkmen have been busily engag
ed for the past few day.s in getting
I the jumps ready for this year’s show
which promises to surpass the one
I iast Spring. Charles Geagan of New
I Horse Show, Madi.son Square Gai-
den, will be on hand to handle an
nouncements here.
I The entry blanks have been mailed
j and It is expected a number of well-
. known owners will bring jumpers
from Camden, South Carolina,
i Mrs. Almet Jenks is In charge of
the program, Mrs. George W. John-
son Is In charge of trophies and Mrs.
j Eugene C. Stevens has announced
i that a buffet Horse Show luncheon
I will be seived at the Country Club.
Reserved parking spaces will be on
I sale soon at the office of Mr. E. C.
Stevens.
I The classes for this .year are as
; follows:
Class 1 and lA. Green Hunters.
I Class 2. Thoroughbred type Hunt-
I ers.
; Class 3.
I Class 4.
I Class 5.
I Class 6.
Hunters.
Class 7.
Class 8.
Class 9.
Class 10.
Working Huntcr.«;.
Ladies' Hunter.
Llghtwelgh Hunters.
Middle and Heavyweight
Lieut. Col. Alexander Kelly, for
merly of Carthage, last week be
came commanding officer at Fort
Devens, Mass., succeeding Col. H.
P. Caiter who was transferred to
the Sixth Army Corps at Provi
dence, R. I.
Col. Kelly is the son ot the late
Murdoch McLeod Kelly and Isa
belle Palmer Kelly of Carthage
and is fell known in Moore county.
He ls'» sister of Miss Margaret
Kelly of the General Office, Pine-
hurst.
Hunt Teams.
Championship Hunter.
Hunter Hack.
Children 12 to 17 years.
Class 11. Children 12 years and
! under.
I Class 12. Open Jumping,
j Class 13. llOO.OO Sweepstake,
Class 14. Handy Jumpers.
I AMERICAN USOION
I AUXILLIARV to MEET
Miss Bailey Sings
At Kiwanis Meeting
Dr. Paul Clyde of Duke ITniver*
sity Will Adress Club
Next Week
j The regular monthly meeting of
the American Legion AuxUary will
be held on Monday night at 8:00
o'clock in the hut. Mis. A. H. Ach-
termann will be in charge of the
program and Is promised an inter
esting one. All members are urged
to attend.
The Sandhills Kiwanis Club was
entertained Wednesday at the South
ern Pines Country Club with a very
fine musical program put on by Miss
Ernestine Bailey, soprano, and the
Dunes Club Orchestra. The program
opened with "Tales From Vienna
Woods" by the orchestra.
Second; An Accordion solo by
Jimmy Kennedy.
Third. Overture O’Maggio," with
accordion.
Fourth: Miss Ernestine Bailey,
singing Schubert's Serenade.
Fifth: Violin solo, written and
played by Hal Renee, "The Gypsy
Fantasy."
Sixth: Solo, Miss Bailey, Solevjs
Song, by Grieg.
Seventh :Ferr>’boat Serenade by the
orchestra.
The program w'as conducted by
Charles W. Plcquet.
Edward Horne, chairman of the
program committee, announced that
Dr. Paul Clyde of Duke University,
Durham, would address the Kiwanis
Club next Wednesday on Far Eaatern
affairs. Hi will continue the discus
sion started last week by Dr. Paul
Llnebarger of the Duke University
staff. He further announced that
Col. Lawrence L. Simpson, quarter
master, who is in charge of the build
ing program at Fort Bragg, will ad-
dtess the club on Wednesday, the
19th. discussing what has been done
i'nd will be done at Fort Bragg.
LAST CAIX FOR USTmO
Mrs. Don J. Blue, list taker for
McNeill township, will be at the of
fice of the city clerk in Southern
Pines Monday and Tuesday of next
w’eek to accommodate all late listers.