CAROUNA ROOM
MOOHE COUNTY’S
LEADING
NEWS-WEEKLV
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 29, NO. 13
Aberdeen
TMM«
MAR
PILOT
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, February 28, 1941.
of the Sandhill Territory of ^ 'th Carolina
Pinehurst
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
FOR GYMNASIUM IN
COLORED SCHOOL
Public Asked To Aid in Raising
$4,000 For West Southern
Pines Institution
FINE RECORD RECOUNTED
To Teach First Aid
The West Southern Pines School
wants and needs a new gymnasinm.
It also deserves one. on its record.
A campaigTi was launched this week
to raise $4,000 for a building 54 feet by
?4 feet, built of cement blocks or
brick veneer. In a letter sent out by
Principal P. R. Browni, he says that
$5.00 will buy 25 cement blocks,
$10.00 will buy two windows, $25.00
will buy 125 cement blocks. $.50.00 j
will buy 800 feet of roofing, and ]
$100.00 will buy 1..500 feet of floor-1
ing i
“For six years," Principal Brown |
wiitcs. "it has been my pleasure and!
privilege to work in the capacity as |
principal of West Southern Pines |
School. During this peroid we have'
encountered every problem, common
to Negro schools of our type, but |
in face of these problems I am happy [
to report some degree of success, |
"On coming here to work in 1931,
I found nn enrollment of 510 stu
dents, 17 teachers, 130 books in the i
library, no special .>!pace for the li-
hrar>’, no extra-curricular activities,
and very little effort spent in try
ing to reach children out of clusa and
school.
"During the first .school yent, the
school building, much in nood of re
pairs, was repaired and painted. A
yertion of the basement was parti
tioned, floored and p'ainted, in order
to provide two more cla.s.'^room.’i. Ex- ■
tra-curricular activities were initiat
ed for the first time as a patt of
the regular school pnigrani. The ac
tivities put new life into the school
work, causing a rapid increase in
daily attendance, and in.spiring stu-:
dents to higher ideals The commun-
ity and school gradually merged and
the faculty was imbued with fresh
courage, greater endurance, and a
desire for highei’ intellectual attain-1
ments.
“We are happy to report today an j
enrollment of 557 students and a
teaching faculty of 19 teachers. The
library has been moved three times,
each time to a larger room, and to
day there are 2,008 volumes for stu
dent use. The Home EJconomics De
partment has been raised to Class
l.A. Manual training was added to
the curriculum in 1935 and today it
i« housed in a new building, built by
student labor under the dlrecl.on of
the teacher.
“We have not been satisfied with
achievements made thus far, but are |
constantly striving to do more for our
■tudents and community. We are
now working to build a grymnasium .
or activity building for the teaching;
of boys and girls the way to a bet-j
ter and more wholesome life." j
Friends and well wishers are,
asked to send a contribution for the!
project Norris L. Hodgkins, presi-|
dent of the Citizens Bank and Trust j
Comp.'iny, Southern Pines, is treas- ^
urer, and donations toward the,
gymnasium should be forwarded to
him.
RED CROSS SENDS
DOCTOR HERE FOR
FIRST AID COURSE
To Deliver Address Here On Tuesday
National Field Representative to
Conduct Classes in Traffic 1
Accident Work
nil ons M.AKSII.XM,
DR. MARSHALL TEACHER
The elimination of accident fatal-
j ities and the alleviation of suffering
j by victims of accidents is the purpose
I of the forthcoming series of classes
^in first aid under the auspices of the
I Southern Pines chapter of the
j American Red Cross To conduct these
i classes the local chapter is bringing
I here Dr. ytis Mar.shall, First Aid
j Field Representative of the nation,
al organization
Dr Marshall is due here next Mon
day. March 3rd, and classes will be
held in the evenings for two weeks.
Teachers, heads of departments in
industries, and any others desiring are
invited to take the course under Dr
Marshall.
Automobile accidents are incieasing
at an alarming rate, Mrs, Alice Burt
Hunt, Moore county Red Cross chair-1
man. point.s oi t. The toll of lives tak
en on highways and in city streets
continues to mount in spite of traf-
lic safety drives and .stringent traf-,
Kntries close next Wednesday for ^een
t'io country's opening steeplechase hand in hand with local of-j
tace meeting of 104!, the revonth an. throughout the country in ef-
nual event of the Sandhills Steeple- to control traffic fatalities and
chase and Racing Af^.sociation, to be •’'iPPling accidents, and the nation-
run over the Barber E.state course '■ ors-'nization has in:-or,u.rated th;s
niidwav between I’ineliurst and ‘*‘‘’'dent i)revention worK in it.s yeai-
ENTRIES CLOSE
WEDNESDAY FOR
STEEPLECHASES
Country’.s Leading: Stables To
l5o Repre.'wnted in Races For
.s.‘l.<»00 Purses
(;kn. dkvers a stkward
■*
FIVE CENTS
JOIN,?:; ~^DANIEUS
WRITt^' EDITOR,
SPEAKS TUESDAY
Author of “A Southerner Discov
ers The South” To Be (Juest
at Civic Club
I’l HLIC IS INVITED
JONATHAN DANIELS
Coca Calais First Bookkeeper Quit,
Saw No Prospect For New Syrup
Southern Pines on Palurday after
noon. Miirch l.')th. With entiie.s nl-
ready in from many* of the leadni';
’■nund program.
All pensons Intele.st*-! in I'l-'eivinp
first aid training .should copimuni-
ter at once, in order to ho enrolled in
the cla.sses starting next week.
Dr. Marshall entered the service of
stables in America, tnere is even,' ‘ chap-
( vidence of a record number of start
ers in the five events on the card,
ti'i'l the unprecedented I'oniand for
parking spacs give.s promise of the ^he American la'd Cross after with-
bifigest crowd ever to ciri'le the pi<- dr,i\\ ing fioni the piivate piaetice of
tuifsque Sandhills course. The medicin.- and surgery. lUs task is the
purses this year total $.^,f.00. I traning of lay instructors in fiist
.... f equipping them to teach the fun-
Alifady in the nands of Richard j i &
Wallach, Jr. racing secretary, are of emergency treatment
entries from Richard K. Mellon and "’J'"’'''! industrial groups
Paul Mellon of Pittsburgh. Mrs. E.s-1 “"'I orgRniy.cd by V,cal
ther duPont W^ir of Wilmington, 1 chapters.
^ f ivT i Much of Dr. Marshall's profession-
Del., Alvin Untermyer of New York, i *
al life has been devoted to industrial
cases, including employment as sur
geon for the Culpepper Silk Mills
Day of Prayer
To Ik* Observed by All
Churches Today at Hrown-
son .Memorial I’resbytcrian
The World Day of Prayer ser
vice wlil be observed today, Fri
day by all the chun-bes of South-
(rn Pines. The meeting will be
held in the Bio-.vnsi.n Memorial
Prcshyti'rian Chun h at 2:0(1 p. ni.,
with Mrs. D. K. IJailey in cl;arr;e
of the sei vii’e. The public is urged
to attend this meeting of pray-
Charles .1. Come, Winter Resi
dent Here, Recalls Start of
Now Fam(»us Industry
Mrs. Marlon duPont Scott's Mont
pelier Stables, Fay Ingalls of Hot
Springs, Va,, Pietrw Crespi of Char
lotte, H. Duane Clark of Camden,
S. C., Louis E. ftoddard, r., of Aik^-n,
S C.. Kenneth B. Schley of Peapack,
N. J., A. A. Baldwin of Whitepoint,
Va.. Cecil Tuke, Hot Springs, Va.. J.
H. Whitney of Manhasset L. I.. Mr
Virginia Ciieosoting Company and
the Chesapeake and Ohio and South
ern Railways, in which capacity he
was retained for 20 years. In addition
to his work in industrial cases, he
carried on his private practice.
His medical education was receiv-
and Mrs. F. Ambrose Clat k of Old
Westbury, L. I., G. H. (Pete) Best- the University of Virginia, with
wick of Aiken, S. C-, and W. B interneship at Martha Jefferson
SAYS REYNOLDS
MAY WANT TO BE
TARHEEL FUEHRER
Struthers Burt Attacks Oppon
ents of Lend-Lease Bill in
Kiwanis Talk
BRITISH WAR REUEF SUPPER
TO ST.ART PROMIPTI.Y AT 7
Those holding buffet supper tick
ets for the British War Relief party
at the Pinehurst Country Club tomor
row. Saturday night, are asked by
the committee to be at the club early,
as the supper hour will run only
from 7:00 until 8:00 o’clock. The
program calls for an auction of va
rious articles between 8:00 anfl 9:00,
this to be followed by bridge from
9:00 on.
B.
Ruthrauff of New York and Cam
den, S. C.
The afternoon card will be as fol-
lows: The Catawba, one and one.half
miles over hurdles; The CroatP.n Ser
ial Steeplechase, two miles over
biush; the Sandhills Challenge Cup,
three miles over timber; the Yadkin
Handicap Steeplechase, two miles
over the brush course, and the Ran
dolph Memorial Cup, one mile on the
flat.
General Jacob L. Devers, command
ing officer of Fort Bragg, will act as
one of the stewards at the race meet
ing. with Algernon S. Craven of
Charlottesville, Va.. Warner Baltazzl
of Aiken, S. C., and Hariy D. Kirk-
over of Camden, S. C. Judges will be
James and aJckson Boyd of Southern
Pines, Nat S. Hurd of Pinehurst and
Willliam Post of Aiken. Fred Parks,
secretary of the National Steeple
chase and Hunts Association, will
serve as handlcapper and clerk of
Hospital at Charlottesville. Va.
McDonalds, at Movies,
Lose Home By Fire
House Near Manley Destroyed.—
Forest Fire War Water Works
Calls Department
During the absence of the fam
ily who were attending' the movies,
the home of Duncan McDonald, a
frame structure located west of the
Seaboard railroad tracks, midway be
tween Manley and Niagara, was burn
ed to the ground shortly before 9:00
o’clock last Saturday night.
The fire was not discovered until
too late to save any of the furniture
or personal effects of the family
which comprises Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Donald and nine children. Friends of
the family are asking for donations
of household articles, furniture, cloth
ing, etc. These may be left at the
scales. The paddock judges will be ^ Modem Market or at The Pilot of-
Ralph Chase of Camden and G. W.! fjce.
Cutting of Warrenton, Va., and the Last Friday afternoon the Southern
A car driven by Clifton M. Wilson,
of the Aberdeen Hardware Company.
wa« hit by a Seaboard train near the
Aberdeen depot laat Sunday morning
and badly damaged. Neither Mr. Wil
liams nor members of his family in
the car were injured
patrol judges David Dallas Odell of
Philadelphia, Pa, Charles P. DuBose
of Camden, J. T. Skinner of Mid-
cileburg. Va., J. North Fletcher of
Cnmden and Will . Stratton of South
ern Pines.
ON DEAN’S USX
Presbyterian Junior Colloge an
nounces that Richard S, DuRant, of
Southern Pines, makes the Dean's
lUt for the firat semester.
Pines firemen fought a forest fire on
the borders of the water supply lake.
i.nd at 8:15 p. m. were called out to
another blaze in the vicinity of the
disposal plant. During the same af
ternoon another forest fire menaced
the Barber, Swoope, Randolph and
Drexel estate south of the Knollwood
\irp«t company and numbers of men
fire company and numbers of men
working under the direction of the
Moore County Forestry Service.
Senator Robert R. Reynolds, who
came out against the Lend.Lease bill
in a lengthy speech in the U. S. Sen
ate last week, is betting on one of
two things, in the opinion of Struth
ers Burt, Southern Pines author:
1. Favorable reaction from the
inevitable feeling that would follow
U. S. entry into the war,
2. That if Germany should win,
he will become the fuehrer or the
Quisling of North Carolina.
Mr. Burt addressed the Sandhills
Kiwanla Club on Wednesday at the
Southern Pines Country Club. He
made a stirring appeal for aid to
Britain, sees the United States an
armed camp for years to come if Ger
many wins, the surrender of our
American way of living, of freedom of
thought and action. This is a fight
of those who flrr'aiR do not believe in
democracy, and the two cannot live
together in peace,
“This is to be an American cen
tury or a German century, and we
must make our choice,” he said.
Should Germany conquer Europe, we
will become a third, fourth or fifth
rate power.” Mr. Burt cannot under
stand the arguments of such men
as General Wood, Senators Wheeler
and Reynolds. “There is not one for
eign correspondent who has not
pointed out the danger to the Unit
ed States should England fall.”
As Be did recently before the
Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Burt
pleaded for the organization here of
trained bands to combat “the jitters’’
and to boost morale In the event of a
British defeat. He would have the
citizenry organized, with each man
and woman trained for something,
trained to know what to do when
the time comes
! Jonathan Daniels, author of two re-
cent best .sellers. "A Southerner Dis
covers the South." i»nd "A South
erner Discovers New England,” and
editor of the Raleigh News & Observ-
ei. will deliver an address in South,
ern Pines next Tuesday night to
which the public is invited by the
Civic Club. The meeting will be In the
clubhouse at the cornel’ of East Penn,
sylvania avenue and Ashe street,
starting at 8:00 o'clock. Noadmlssion
is to be charged.
The Civic Club has been endeavor
ing for some time to bring Mr. Dan
iels here for n talk. He is an excellent
speaker and it will he a privilege to
tht residents and winter visitors to
hear him. Mr. Daniels has not an
nounced his subject.
About three years ago Daniels de
cided to take a leave of absence from
his duties as editor of the Raleigh
I News and Observer and spend a
H.inimer seeing the south . having
‘ i.iUiniially discii.ssed southern prob
lems but having witnesseil eompara-
' av'ely few of them first-hand. He
I'l ve some 3,000 miles and saw the
TIii.< is the story of Charles James IVA, the biggest cotton plantation
Come, who with Mrs. Come is spend-j in the world in Mississippi, the spen-
iiiK thi winter at the Highland Lodge ter of Hiie^i' Lons in I.imisiana. the
n 'Uthi'in I’ln.'S. It comes from .\t- delta coiintiy, the industrial niag-
Uir.tn, Gu., where Mr. ;uid Mrs. Come nates in Birmingham. He talked with
ir.otor'.ti reieiitly with K S. DuUant. n'illionaires and hitch-hikers, with
f.'cn^ial iiianaijer of the Central Car- brothel-keepei’s. editors communists,
linn Teli’phone Company, and Mrs. p^et.s. Democrats and even a .“?tray
, 'Jull.int. Says the Atlant:i Consti- Hepubliean or two in Georgia. He re.
ii'ion: jiorts an ocnnomic situation one min-
j Charles James Come, aged 71, but iite and the next tells with K’lsto a
j 111 } lo'U'.nir it. wandered up and d nvn tale calculated to wham the breath
' Peachtree street yesterday, in search out of prim ladie.>i.
I of what wa.s No. 17 when he worked! Daniels loves the south, but
there—trom 188G to 1889. It's No. 61 he sees it too well to be very happy
now and occupied by the Cameo thea- ! (,ver it." states Johnson. He K-ft the
ter. And Wheat street, at the cor- psychopaths to William Falkner and
ner. has become Aubuin avenue. , Rrskine Caldwell and did his best to
"Number 17. as it was then.” said] present an honest appraisal of what
Mr. Come in his room at the Ansley, Roosevelt termed the “nation's No.
"was a drug store, wholesale and re- : ] economic problem.”
tail, run by a man named Asa G. ' Jonathan Daniels told in "A South.
Candler. I was his bookkeeper, work. I Discovers the South ' of the
ing until 10.00 o clock every night. southward of New England in-
Young chap, about 17, named Sam^^g^^ip, following the acclaim of
Dobbs, came in as shipping clerk. He ^^,(3 ^ook his publishers persuaded
was Mr. Candler's nephew. searchlight on tradi-
“Mr. Candler was playing with ^ew England,
a soft drink syrup,” .said Mr. Come. !
“He kept a keg of it outside his of
fice dooi’ and would invite customers
DUfirult Job
Even a native, Daniels admitted.
to sample it Some liked It, some . might be venturesome to undertake
didn’t. It didn’t tppeal to me.
“No, w« didn't have a soda foun.
tain. But you could get it at Jacobs’
Pharmacy, where Dr. Joe Jacobs had
a fountain.”
Young Come had come down from
to write a book about a New Engr
land which contained Ralph Waldo
Emerson and John L. Sullivan, Wil-
li^m Lloyd Garrison and Cotton Ma
ther, Calvin Coolidge and Phlneas T.
Barnum “It Is a land that holds
his home near Albany, N. V., in re- j hunger and wealth, not only educa-
sponse to an opening he’d heard of tion but violent and blinding blg-
for a bookkeeper in Atlanta. He was | otry as well,” Daniels averred.
19 and just out of business school. | He was well aware of the hazards
He worked in the drug house and for anyone, ihuch less an outsider,
lived for a while on Ivy street and but knew it was high time that a
afterward in Mrs. Talmadge’s board-; southerner do something about it.
ing house where the old post office Generations of Americans had been
now stands. j U d with the works of men who scur-
After some three years he didn't' rled down from the north to describe
see himself getting anywhere, so he the south, seen often from the rear
broke In another bookkeeper and went platform of trains, while there was
back east. After a while he landed a no perceptible movement from tne
job as clerk in the Neov York Custom (Please turn to page fight)
House which seemed fairly perma-,
nent.
“1 worked there 43 years,” he said.
"and retired a few years ago at 70.
Now my wife and 1 spend our winters' John Armiston. well known artist
at Southern Pines, N. C. We just took of Newfoundland, N. J., and a mem-
a notion we’d come down and see If her of the Salma Gundl Club, will
Atlanta had grtiwn much.’’ give an exhibition of watei' colors of
Naturally, Charles James Come, j local subjects, starting this Sunday
»afternoon at 2:00 o’clock and con-
EXHIBIT OF LOCAL WATER
CX>mR« AT CIVIC CLUB
(Pleatt turn to pnge fwr)
— tlnulng through Wednesday, at the
THOM.\S CX)MING TO .\ID Southern Pines Civic Club. Mr. Ar-
WITH ST.VTE TAX UKTl'IlNS miston’s works are not for sale, and
' he is showing them purely for the
John Thomas, r., deputy commis- nterest of the public which is cordift'-
sioner of the State Department of, ly invited. Tea will be served at 4:00
Revenue, will be In the Broad Street j o’clock.
Pharmacy, Southern Pines, on March The reading program scheduled at
11th for the purpose of assisthig tax- j the club for today by Mrs. Walter
pajrer* in filing their State tax re- j Scott Milne has been postponed un-
tums. jtU next Friday.