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Edward B. Veerland Tells Ki-
wanians About the Veer-
land-Aldrich Bill
One of the most influential men who
has ever addressed the Kiwanis club
Edward B. Vreeland, of Sala
manca, N. Y., the father of the famous
Vreeland Aldrich bill in Congress
nearly twenty years ago, which
marked the evolution of American
finance from the old system based
on the security of government to the
infinitely better Federal reserve sys
tem. Mr. Vreeland was introduced to
the club by Bob Page, who was in
congress with him, and Page pre
sented Vreeland as one of the great
financiers of the nation, which means
of the world. Mr. Vreeland was
chairman of the currency and finance
committee in the house when the
panic following the failure of the
Knickerbocker Trust company broke
in New York in 1907. The country
was about to go wild in a great
financial scare, but Mr. Vreeland suc
ceeded in getting through the Em
ergency Currency measure, which per
mitted money to be issued by the
government on assets other than the
bonds held from National banks as
security for government issues of
National bank notes, and tiiat em
ergency currency measure saved the
country from that panic. Commercial
paper guaranteed by a group of banks
was accepted as security for money
as well as bonds, and on this se
curity money was supplied the banks
under government authorization, and
almost immediately the panic stopped,
for when people found that they could
get money they also found they did
not need so much as they had thought.
Mr. Vreeland worked his measure
through congress and then came the
war, and the Federal reserve system
was established, which brought this
nation through the greatest war the
world ever saw. That measure en
abled the country in the face of the
most tremendous draft for money
ever made by any civilized group of
people to carry on the war, maintain
its currency on a strictly gold basis
and sustain its credit through the
war, after the war and to reduce its
debt, billions of dollars in the half
dozen years since the war closed,
another feat unparallelled in the his
tory of nations and of finance. This
was the feat Mr. Vreeland’s measure
in congress accomplished, so it is not
hard to rank this man with the great
men of the world, and with the power
ful influences that have shaped human
affairs.
The speaker said he started in life
to be a lawyer, but in a jesting way
he announced that he found it hard
to be fairly honest and be a success
soon enough to eat as often as he
liked so he turned to banking, but that
his knowledge of law was worth the
^ime and money spent in gathering
it for it kept him out of law when in
banking. He gave a little touch to
the banker, the grocer and all the rest
of the folks, and painted a classical
picture of Claude Hayes as a golf
player which ought to be worth money
if the Kiwanis club would stage Hayes
and somebody in his class for an
exhibition game, proceeds to go to
^he benefit of almost any old thing,
for if Vreeland should be the publicity
^an for the Hayes performance it
''^ould draw a full house.
gave some advice to the folks
who try to fool the banker, saying
that if you fool him once you never
will again, for he does not walk twice
into the same trap, and the man who
his banker has lost his credit,
® one thing a business man cannot
afford to lose. Then he told Southern
^i^es that this section can be any-
tning it wants to be if it will push on
lines a little. He comes here be
cause the neighborhood suits him,
and is going to come and not go any
^here else. He predicts that as soon
good roads reach all the way from
the Sandhils to New York the roads
^in be black with folks moving both
^^ys, and they will «td|) with u», and
his experience is that by the time they
are ready to go home, what the Sand
hills will have done to them will be
plenty and profitable to the Sandhills.
Mr. Vreeland then talked a little
about the banking situation, but he
seemed to like to talk about the Sand
hills more than about federal banking
affairs, and he was so entertaining in
any field of speach that he was ap
plauded every time he stopped long
enough to catch his breath and put
in a period.
Hotel Project Rolls Along Vigorously
Monday night the public affairs
committee of Kiwanis met at Sam
Richardson’s office to talk with the
hotel enthusiasts about the prospects
of a new hotel. On Wednesday at the
club meeting at the Southern Pines
country club the committee for the
club reported that a committee con
sisting of Judge Way, Arthur New
comb, Ed. McKeithan and Dr. Mudgett
had been appointed to outline a plan
and dig up some subscriptions. About
$60,000 had been subscribed up to noon
Wednesday, with that much more be
lieved to* be certainly in sight, and
letters are coming in from hotel men
who seem to be interested in the
project with suggestions of backing
in various ways. A further report
was asked from the public affairs
committee at the next meeting, and
the sentiment was apparent that a
hotel can be secured if the folks of
the community want on enough to
help push the thing along.
The job seems to be working nicely
so far.
SASH AND DOOR MILL
TO START AT ABERDEEN
Max Foley is getting under way a
new plant at Aberdeen where he will
manufacture sash, doors, moulding,
finished lumber, mill work of all kinds
and everything that goes into a house
in the way of finished lumber. The
establishment will be in operation in
three or four weeks, and of capacity
to supply the trade in this section at
any time with orders of any size that
may be needed. Mr. Foley also carries
hardware and builders’ supplies of
all sorts, so the man who is contem
plating a new house can find his needs
cared for at the one place.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27,1925
JANES BOYD’S BOOK
ON SM FRIDAY
Southern Pines Man Writes
North Carolina His
torical Novel
PAGE TRUST WILL
BUILD NEW BANK
Two Story Block on South
ern Pines Lot Lately
Bought
(Bion H. Butler)
A year or two ago it was my
pleasure to look over the manu
scripts on which James Boyd, of
Southern Pines, was engaged, the
purpose being a historical work of
fiction, based on the colonial days of
North Carolina between the Little
River and the sound country about
Edenton and the coast. In the last
few days I have looked over the
proofs of the book which the Scrib
ners are bringing out, and it is grati
fying to be able to say that when the
book goes on sale at the Hayes Book
store in Southern Pines Friday, March
28, an unusual production will be
offered the people. If any other work
of fiction has come from the hand of
a North Carolina writer who has ac
complished a more finished piece of
romance I do not now recall it. When
I saw James Boyd’s first story in
Scribners a few years ago I knew at
once that a new master had arrived in
literature, and this was emphasized
ir every succeeding article that he
published. His novel now forthcom
ing, “Drums,” is the first lengthy at
tempt, but it is up to the high stan
dard the first story set for him, and
it profits by the experience that two
or three years of work gave him.
The story is a bit of romance of the
days that climaxed in the American
revolution, an event in this country’s
history in which this state and this
part of the state had its full share.
Mr. Boyd wrought studiously in
ferreting out the basis for his nar
rative, putting in much time in local
territory, and in farther neighbor
hoods where history is kept in the
archives, until he had his facts and
their philosophy. In simple and
scholarly fashion he has woven his
story, in a manner wholly his own.
As near as I remember it was about
forty years ago that James Lane Allen
had his first story in the Century
Magazine. His first production that
I recall was his story of the Trappists
at Gethsemane, near Lexington, in
Kentucky, and as I had some ac
quaintance in • that section the story
appealed to me do Mv, for it was
more on that acaoun*: than merely the
finished piece of v o'^k "hat it was at
once conceded to be. Other stories
The Page Trust company announces
a new building on the lot lately
bought from Perkins on Broad street.
Aymar Embury is at work on the
plans, but is expected to have the
drawings in shape that work can
start in three or four weeks. The
full width of the lot, 81 feet, will be
used, and the building will about that
depth, with two stories and a base
ment under the whole building.
Embury is working out an attrac
tive plan. It will provide for two
rooms of about 17 feet front at each
side of the lot coming out to the side
walk. Between these two rooms the
main building will set back about
twenty feet with a lawn in front, and
that portion of the building will be
allotted to the bank. At each side of
the bank will be a corridor forming
an arcade, which will run through to
the rear, and the 17 foot rooms will
continue the entire depth of the
building, but probably be cut into
small apartments for small shops.
It is not decided vfhat the second
will be used for, but likely it
will be cut into apartments of three
or four rooms each, for which there
is and always will be a lively demand.
It is the intention to start work as
soon as the plans are completed, and
that the building will be ready to
occupy in the fall in time for the
opening of the coming season’s busi
ness. The banking rooms will be
modern in every way, and will afford
one of the best layouts for this busi
ness that is to be found in this part
of the fltate.
BOBBY BURNS
Bobby Burns of Carthage,
started his career in baseball in
state eemi-pro and with Pitts
burgh National League. Made
the training trip last year to
California with them. Was later
farmed out to Williamsport, Pa.,
in the New York, Pa., league.
Went good with Williamsport
and was recalled by Pittsburg at
the end of season. Traded to
Omaha, Neb., Western league,
under option. Omaha traded
him to Houston, Texas, and left
for spring training camp Wed.
March 4th.
came from Allen, located in the Lex
ington neighborhood. Then his longer
works. So James Boyd gives to me
the appreciation of the local setting,
and as well the acquaintance of a boy
who grew up here under our noses to
become a man and then blossom out
into one of the most able writers I
know of in the country. He surprised
all of us with the excellence of his
work in his first story, and kept it
up with other contributions to the
high class publications until we recog
nized that a new prophet had arisen
in the world of fiction, and that he
was bringing a message wholly his
own. Yet in his finish he reminds
me of Allen.
The new book is free from sensa
tional. It is an aciD[uaintance with
what were actualities, and with people
who really might have been people,
and the author knows very well how
to choose people worth knowing for
his readers. In his historical facts he
tells what was. In his fiction he
tells what very likely was, and he
creates for Us a bit of a world that
is interesting to browse around in, and
which evidently could have been very
real.
One thing about all of James Boyd’s
stuff is that it never needs to pass
under the eye of the censor. He wants
none of the doubtful elements to make
something that will appeal. He finds
the decent side of life broad enough
to fill his hands with all the material
he requires to make one of the most
delightful bits of romance that has
been printed in a long time.
This has no intention of being a
book review. It is merely a state
ment of the achievement of a young
fellow grown to manhood and to suc
cess here in the community, a young
fellow whose grandparents were the
cordial good friends of my children, a
fine old pair now gone to their final
reckoning. To my notion James Boyd
has made himself a place with the
fiction writers who will endure, and
his book is of the kind that can be
taken up any time now or in the
future by an appreciative reader,
certain that it will not grow tiresome
when it has once been hurriedly read.
It is of the kind that can be opened
repeatedly time after time, for its
people are of the old friend type that
you are always glad to encounter even
if but for a minute, but always for
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OLGA STEEB
AT PINEHURST
Paderewski Predicted Great
Career For Olga
Steeb, Pianist
It was about ten years ago that the
San Francisco “Bulletin” predicted
for a quiet, unobstructive, young lady
still in her teens, “She will one day
rank among the World’s great
pianists.” And it was just about the
same time that the great Padere
wski himself went even further and
said, “If she goes to Europe fer ob
servation and experience she will one
day teach us all how to play.”
In Berlin before the War, this same
quiet young person, Olga Steeb from
Los Angeles created a veritable sen
sation by playing nine different Con
certos in nine days—and by her other
wise sound pianistic ability. Ameri
ca, always slow to recognize its own
musical children, has been tardier in
its recognition but with each ap
pearance the prestige of this artist
becomes a more established thing,
and she has atained that respect in
the most advanced music circles of
New York and other important music
centers which carries more weight,
and has more intrinsic value than head
line sensationalism.
Olga Steeb is announced for an ap
pearance in Pinehurst on Tuesday,
March 31. Tickets no on sale at the
usual places.
PLATE SUPPER
The ladies of Yates Thagards
Baptist church will have a plate
supper at Thaggards Saturday night,
March 28th. Everybody come.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
TWO POINTED LAWS
FOR NOORE COUNTY
Tax Collector to be Appointed,
And Officers to
Render Reports
Out of the multitude of new legis
lation at Raleigh in the past session
came two bills that are regarded as
the beginning of a material change
in county government. , These fare
given below as they are copied from
the records.
A Bill to be Entitled an Act to Pro
vide for a Tax Collector for Moore
County and Authorizing the County
Commissioners of said County to
Fix the Salary of said Tax Collec
tor and the Salary of the Sheriff.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OP
NORTH CAROLINA DO ENACT;
Section 1. That the office of tax
collector of Moore County be and the
same is hereby created, and it shall be
the duty of the county commissioners
of Moore county, on or before the first
day of October, one thousand nine
hundred and twenty-five, to select and
appoint a competent person as tax
collector, who shall hold said office
during the pleasure of the board, and
it shall likewise be the duty of said
board of commissioners, upon said
office becoming vacant through death,
resignation, or otherwise, to fill such
vacancy by like appointment.
Section 2. The tax collector of
Moore county thus appointed shall,
from and after the first day of
October, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-five, take over, exercise,
and succeed to all of the powers,
duties and privileges now or hereafter
conferred upon sheriffs by law with
respect to the collection of taxes and
special assessments collected as taxes
witliin said county, including the au
thority and duty of enforcing the pay
ment of taxes and assessments by dis
traint, levy, garnishment, or othesr
process, the execution of tax sales
and certificates, and generally to per
form all functions with respect to the
collection of taxes which are now or
hereafter may be vested in sheriffs
by law.
Section 3. The board of com
missioners, before turning over any
tax list to said tax-collector, shall re
quire him to give such bond or bonds
for the faithful collection and account
ing for the tax lists which go into
his hands as are now or may be here
after required of sheriffs when per
forming the duty of tax collector, the
cost of such bonds to be borne by the
county.
Section 4. Nothing herein con
tained shall be construed as relieving
the sheriffs from collecting and ac
counting for any taxes collected by
him or which should have been col
lected by him prior to October one,
one thousand nine hundred and
twenty-five, or as relieving the sure
ties upon any official bond given by
him from liability on account of the
same: Provided, that nothing here
in contained shall prevent the board
of commissioners, by appropriate or
der, from vesting the tax collector
with the collection of back taxes from
the collection of which the sheriff and
his sureties may have been lawfully
relieved.
Section 5. The tax collector, whose
office is created by this act, shall be
paid a salary to be fixed by the board
of commissioners of Moore county,
payable monthly, and in addition
thereto the commissioners may in
their discretion authorize said collec
tor to retain as additional compensa
tion legal fee authorized to be charged
by law, as costs in case of levy,
garnishment, or other process for the
enforced collection of taxes or any
part or percentage thereof.
Section 6. The sheriff of Moore
county, on and after the first day of
October, one thousand nine hundred
and twenty-five, shall receive as com
pensation all fees, costs, and other
allowances now received and paid to
the sheriff of Moore county, exclusive
of commissions or other compensation
in or connected with the collection of
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