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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940
Dr. Cushman Delineates
World Peace Barriers
Kiwanians Hear Scholarly Talk by Savant
Tracing Great Wars of
the Ages
Established Law and Order is
Artificial State, He Contends,
and Frail Structure; Linguistic
Influences Stressed
face facts, he urges
Herbert Ernest Cushman, Ph. |
D, member of the Tin Whistle
Club, and winter resident at the
Berkshire Hotel, turned his at
tention yesterday to more serious
matters than the holing of a four
foot putt, and in a profound
speech to members of the Ki
wanis Club, discussed various fac
tors which he declared made , it
difficult to predict permanent
peace in the world.
Dr. Cushman, who lectured in
philosophy at Tufts college, Dart
mouth, Wellesley, Harvard, and
other institutions of learning,
was introduced by Rev. T. A.
Cheatham. John H. Howarth,
president of Kiwanis, presided.
Dr. Cushman’s speech did not
have the energetic ring of a pol
itician trying to convert people
in an oration of words from a
balcony. Nor was it the speech
of an attorney before a jury, or
an evangelist under cover of a
tent. Dr. Cushman is advanced
in years, as well as in thought,
j and his address was that of a
philosopher.
The speaker pointed out that
the great divide, separating the
Orient from the Occident, t|ie
East from the West, had been
contested since the beginning of
recorded history, with armies
shuttling back and forth across
his line, marked by Danzig,
south through the Polish Corri
h°r> Constantinople, Palestine,
along the river Jordan, through
Dead Sea, on to Cairo and
| farther into Africa.
I ^he Persians crossed into the
Occident. Alexander the Great
retaliated by conquering a large
|part Aisa; the Crusaders, be-'
pause of religious and commercial
1 objectives, crossed the line into
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WAT TO DO AND SEE
Today
Silver Foils Bridge Play at
P»try Club today.
|i ee^y buffet supper at Pine
I. ^°uritry Club. For reser
l^^0118 Ca^ Miss Dorothy Pierce,
AT tHE theatres
* ' Pinehurst -
cn.at3:o°and 8;30,
■banks t. Wuh Dou^las Fair'
| *• and Joan Bennett.
T * Southern Pines -
hlavriej :,:,00 and 8:15>
lilcCrpa H‘S Wif<“>” With
1 Uca and Nancy Kelly.
WtbCrd?,!n Theatre •
7:15 nand ^omorrw night
I00 ’ ‘Judge Hardy ai
iMicW I, Pewis Stone a]
1 y “ooney.
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CAKE SNOW CASUALTY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—
(A*)—President Roosevelt was
seated behind his desk and
all ready to accept a 300
pound birthday cake today.
But the cake was one of the
casualties of the season's heav
iest snowfall in the capital.
It broke into pieces when a
truck bringing it to the White
House bumped over ruts at a
street car track. It was the
gift of the Bakery and Confec
tionery Workers union.
VIRGINIA HIGHWAYS
BLOCKED AS HEAVY
SNOWS DELUGE EAST
New Cold Wave Accom panied by
Buffeting Winds Isolates Com
munities; Drifts Scale Up to
10 Feet
By Associated Press
A new cold wave, stupendous
snowstorms and buffeting winds
flayed a winter - weary nation
yesterday.
Temperatures fell in the path
I of a mass of frigid air moving
I eastward across the midwest,
while snow isolated many com
munities in the south and east.
Snow hills scaling up to ten
feet blocked all highways in east
Virginia.
The storm left as much as
17 inches of snow in lower Del
aware. Seven to ten inches of
snow fell in New Jersey.
Many hamlets in upstate New
York were still cut off by snow
hummocks eight to ten feet high.
Jitterbug Contest
WiO Feature Ball
Many colored folks of Taylor
town, Smoke, Jimtown, East-,
wood, Jackson Hamlet and other
communities of this vicinity,' are
looking forward to the first an
nual ball of the Pinehurst Colored
Golf Association which will be
held at the Academy Heights
school in Taylortown tomorrow
night. A highlight of the af
fair, which is being held for the
benefit of the proposed Taylor
town golf course, will be a jit
terbug contest at 11:00 p. m.
Music will be by WBT artists,
Jimmy Gunn and his , Dixie Sun
aders.
VOLUNTEERS END WIN
STREAK OF A. A. TEAM
The Pinehurst Volunteers bas
ketball team defeated the South
ern Pines lAthletic Ass’n 39-38
in a torrid .and close game at the J
Pinehurst High school lqf^t night.
It was the first time that the
Southern Pines team had been
beaten in a run of record play.
Robinson of Southern Pines was
high scorer with 16 points.
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HE SEES UTTLE HOPE FOR PEACE
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Photo by Humphries of Hemmer Studio — Outlook Engraving
DR. HERBERT E. CUSHMAN, PH. D., LL. D.
who covered a lot of history and philosophy in a 20 minute talk to
rn embers of the Kiwanis Club yesterday, in which he declared that
things were not favorable for permanent peace on earth.
DINEHURST SCOREBOARD
■ by ROBERT E. HARLOW
Ralph Trost, sports writer for the Brooklyn Eagle reports that
Harvard, within four years, will follow Chicago’s dead and abolish
| intercollegiate football. This waiter predicts that Thomas Lamont,
| important factor in Harvard affairs, favors the idea and regrets that
Harvard was not the first to adopt it. Intramural athletics will be
the thing, and Trost figures that Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Williams,
Brown and Bowdoin, will follow Harvard. .»
Mr. Trost also has* Written quitd an article to the effect that the
prp golfers should “soft-pedal” themselves and give the amateurs a
chance. There is something in this if it could be done, but news is
where you find it, and for the past few years writers have found so
much more news around the professional golfers than around the
amateurs?tiiat a situation has come up. The professionals are not
really responsible for the publicity they have had. The winter and
summer open tournament schedule provided the vehicle on which the
pros have taken the spotlight. The U. S.'G. A. refuses to put any
professional promotion behind amateur golf, and so, from year to
year, the situation grows worse. The U. S. G. A. must have been
lulled into unconsciousness during the era when Bobby Jones was
being widely publicized, and imagined that there would be a perman
ent Jones, or substitute, in amateur golf. Even while Jones was fad
ing the pros were galloping into the front page spot. It would not
make much difference if club officials had not voted a recession of
interest on the part of the amateurs who really support the game.
It would take % Dies investigation committee to find out the
cause of all the actions of the U. S. G. A. .
For example, the U. S. G. A. used the numerical draw m plac
ing the field for match play in the women’s national championship at
Noroton, Conn., but did not adhere to this system in the national
amateur.
In the women’s event the winner of the qualifying round, Miss
Beatrice Barrett with 74, was placed at the top of the first quarter,
Miss Pam Barton, fourth qualifier, oh top of the second quarter, Mrs.
Estelle Lawson Page, second qualifier with 75, on top of the third
quarter and Miss Marion Miley, third qualifier, on top of the fourth
quarter.
In the amateur draw apparently no heed was paid to qualify
ing scores. • •
Pinehurst Bank Votes
Plan of Directors to Revamp Capital
Structure Is Approved at
Stockholder s’ Meeting
FOILS TO PLAY BRIDGE
The Silver Foils tourna
ment, scheduled for today, will
not be golf, but contract
bridge. This announcement
was made yesterday by Club
Captain Mrs. J. Pry of Wil
liamson. All members of the
ladies golf organization are
urged to come out to the club
and play. Mrs. Williamson
will be at the Country Club
from 10:00 to 11:00 o’clock
this morning to receive en
tries.
PINEHURST REALTY
TRANSACTIONS SET
15 YEAR HIGH MARK
Agencies in Village Report Small
Boom in Property Purchases
and Rentals; Summer Sales
Notably Good
According to the real estate
dealers of the village, Pinehurst
is experiencing what might be
called a small boom in real es
tate. Both H. G. Phillips and H.
B. Emery concurred in the opin
ion that more property transac
tions have gone on here in the
past year than in 15 years prev
ious. Business has been unusual
ly good during the “off” season,
particularly with a good many
sales during the summer.
One of the loveliest new homes
was built since last season by Mr.
and Mrs. Robert W. White on the
Linden road. The house, a white
clapboard cottage, was erected
on land sold to Mr. White by Bid
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Tax Experts Will Aid
Compilation of Returns
Information, which may be of
valued assistance to residents of
the Sandhills, has been received
from the office of the Collector
of Internal Revenue, Greensboro,
that1 they are giving February
15 through March 15 for filing
period to assist the taxpayers in
making their income tax returns.
Representatives ftom the trea
sury department will be at South
ern Pines, in the post office build
ing, on February 26 and in the
Pinehurst post office building on
February 27, to aid the taxpay
ers of this vicinity in filing their
income tax returns.
PALMER RENTS CORRAL
The firm of A. S. Newcomb
Realty announces the rental of
The Corral, the property of Web
ster Knight II, off Bethesda road
not far from The Paddock, to
Carleton H. Palmer of New York.
Mr. Palmer, who leased this
property a few years ago, will
arrive with his family February
1 to remain the rest of the sea
son. He will bring his groom
and several horses to participate
in Sandhill • equestrian activities.
Amendment of Charter to Add
$50,000 to Share 'Issue Unani
mously Indorsed; R. S. Tufts
Again President
OFFICERS REELECTED
Stockholders of the Bank of
Pinehurst at yesterdays meeting
voted to amend the charter to in
crease the common stock from
$50,000 to $100,000 and to recom
mend to first and second prefer-.
red share holders that they con
vert their holdings into common
stock. The vote was unanimous.
Richard S. Tufts was reelected
president and all directors were
reelected.
According to the plan recom
mended by the directors,"holders
of the second preferred stock will,
receive three shares of common
for each two shares of second
preferred, and holders of first
preferred will receive share for,
share in common stock. 1 \
Stockholders were advised that
the bank had had a very good'
year, according to the annual
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FINNISH SHIP SUNK
AS SOVIET BOMBING
PLANES STAGE RAIDS
HELSINKI, Jan. 25—<#)—Sov- |
iet bombers, swarming again over |
Finland yesterday, sank a Fin- |
nish ship with a shower of bombs |
in the Aland Islands and tried
to bomb a, German vessel, while
Finnish armies maintained a steel * |
trap around1 a big Soviet force |
Cut off from help northeast of
Lake Ladoga. !
Dumping 10 oi* 15 bombs, a |
plane sank the 1,133 ton Notung |
at a small island in the eastern f
part of the archipelago. * Other
bombs barely n missed a German 1
ship. A third ship, unidentified,," |
was machine - gunned from, a ; • |
plane. ’ ' ' ■ t ‘. 1
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No Ship Tragedy, j
Except Radio Drama
BOSTON, Jan. 24—W— The -
possibility that a dramatized ra- \
dio program based on a ship dis- v
aster might have led to the false
report of an SOS which sent
coast guard vessels scurrying!
around last night off Cape Cod
was considered today by author
ities.
Several residents of Martha’s
Vineyard, where • retired army ,
Captain Byron C Brown, 48, re
ported hearing an SOS from a
ship supposedly sinking off the
Cape, said they had listened to
a “ship tragedy” at the. same
time Brown said he heard the
distress call. *
The retired officer was arrested' ,
on drunkenness charges by state J’
police. In district court at Ed
gartown today he was convicted
and his case was continued for
one week for disposition.