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THE PILOT
Friday, May 1, 1925.
WOMEN’S CLUBS AT
PINEHURST MAY 4-6.
H. W. Chase as joint hostesses.
Luncheon conferences will be held
Wednesday by the Health and Public
Welfare departments with Mrs. R. L.
Allen and Mrs. W. T. Shore as joint
hostesses and by the Press and Pub
licity committee with Mrs. J. Henry
Highsmith presiding.
One of the most enjoyable features
planned for the delegates and visit
ing club women, will be the Federation
dinner at the Carolina Hotel Wednes
day evening.
The key note of the approaching
Convention will be “The American
Home.” This is the new department
of the General Federation and one
that Mrs. Sherman is emphasizing.
Dr. Louise Stanley, head of the
Bureau of Household Economics, De
partment of Agriculture of the U. S.
Government, will speak Tuesday
afternoon at a section given over to
ouy Department of Home Economics,
and our Home Demonstration dele
gates. This bids fair to be a most
interesting session.
On Wednesday evening, Ida Clyde
Clark, well known leecturer and journ
alist, will speak on “A New Woman
Looks at an Old World.” She was one
of the speakers at the Biennial in Los
Angles and made a most fascinating
address. A native of Tennessee, she
has our Southern viewpoint, developed
by wide contact with affairs and
peaple.
SANDHILL BILLIES
AT STATE COLLEGE
(Continued from page 1)
There were several interesting talks
made by the old as well as the new
members. Henry Steele, the retiring
president asked for greater coopera
tion, loyalty, and honest support of
the members in putting State College
before prospective students. He said,
“that our club will rise only as high
as you fellows aspire to have it.”
“It should be very gratifying to you
to know that Moore County stands
fifth in number having 27 enrolled at
State College now,” said N. M. Smith,
of Vass. We are surpassed only by
Iredell with 33, Mecklenburg 43,
Buncombe and Guilford tied with 48,
and Wake leading with 112. Wake is
in the lead so far because instructors
taking post graduate work are con
sidered as Wake students. Further
more we are competing with such
cities as Charlotte, Greensboro, Ashe
ville, and Statesville, all of which have
large enrollment here. Do these facts
mean anything to us and to our
County ?
The Sandhill Club is nothing more
than an organization to help new
students and to encourage fellowship
among the members. With this in
mind the following suggestions were
made: That we all send all available
literature concerning State College to
high schools students. That we assist
new students more when they first
come to State College. That we each
ask at least one boy to come and spend
the week-end with us, at that time we
shall have a Sandhill Club meeting.
That we have a general meeting of the
Club this summer and have the
Alumni present.
McLEAN EXPLAINS
WAGE COMMISSION
(Continued from page 1)
well why I recommend the creation of
a Salary and Wage Commission, and
the public, I think, understood it at
that time.
“Reports made to the General As
sembly at its request showed great
inequalities in the Salaries paid in the
various Departments to persons doing
the same class of work. For instance,
ordinary stenographers in some of the
Departments were receiving Two
Hundred dollars a month, and in
others, stenographers were receiving
One to One Hundred and Fifty dollars
a month for the same class of work.
There was very little, if any, atten
tion paid to the question of ability
or meritorious service. Some salaries
were entirely too high. It was freely
charged in some of the Departments
that employees doing clerical and
other work had no regular hours of
service, and that there was no regula
tions governing either the hours of
service, rate of pay, time allowed for
sick leave, or time allowed for vaca
tion leave. It was also charged that
some of the Departments had more
help than was needed. It was also
charged that the conditions existing
were causing confusion and dissatis
faction in some of the Departments.
The unsatisfactory conditions were
generally discussed by Members of
the General Assembly, and some of
the conditions were much exagger
ated.
“In order to remove any just causes
of complaint and at the same time
do justice to the taxpayers as x^^ell as
employed by the State,
I decided that an Administrative Com
mission should be appointed and given
power to make a thorough investiga
tion of the conditions, classify persons
in the same employment, as far as
possible, and remove the inequalities
complained of. I asked the General
Assembly to appoint a Salary and
Wage Commission, and I have ap
pointed as Members of that Conimis-
sion five of as fair-minded business
men as can be found in North Caro
lina. They have had wide experience.
Most of them have served as em
ployees themselves, and in recent
years have had experience in employ
ing every class of clerical, technical,
professional help. They have entered
upon the discharge of their duties in
a wholehearted and patriotic effort to
perform a distinct public service.
Obviously, there are many technical,
professional and scientific workers in
certain institutions in the State whose
salaries cannot be fixed as a class.
Many of them are in a class by them
selves.
“Personnel classification, such as is
to be attempted by the Salary and
Wage Commission, is not now in
Government administration. In the
Federal (k>vernment and in practical
ly every progressive State in the
Union where real effort has been made
to apply sound methods of Govern
ment, it has been found necessary to
take definite steps to have the
salaries and wages of Government em
ployees brought in to more direct re
lationship with the duties and re
sponsibilities involved in the various
positions and the qualifications neces
sary to their proper performance.
Unless this is done, many cases will
be found, as many were found in our
State Government, where some em
ployees received far more than others
equally capable and where the work
was substantially identical. It often
happens that the harder working,
more ^cient employee will be the one
receiving the smaller pay, because of
lack of political or other personal in
fluence.
. “The effort on the part of some
designing persons to discredit in ad
vance the work of the Comrtiission
by trying to create the impression
that the purpose of the Commission
is to arbitrairly reduce all salaries or
to fix a flat salary for each cfass of
work without regard to the elements
of experience, ability and hours of
service is wholly unjustified. The pur
pose of the General Assembly, and I
have no doubt that the able Com
mission will carry out that purpose,
was ^ establish a sjjstem of personnel
classification, by fixing for each class
of employees a fair range of salaries
so that the amount paid to any em
ployee between a minimum and maxi
mum will depend upon his or her ex
perience and general efficiency. It is
expected that there will be estiablished
uniform hours of service for all of the
Departments and that salary rates
will, as a rule, be based upon standard
hours of service and other conditions
of employment, such as regulations
concerning vacation leave and sick
leave, just as has already been done
by the United States Government and
the Government of every other pro
gressive State in the Union except
North Carolina. This will be fair to
the taxpayers and no fairminded office
holder or employee should object to it.
In fact, the faithful and efficient em
ployee should welcome such a plan
as the only hope of reward for faith
ful and meritorious service performed.
Asked as whether or not he expected
the action of the Commission to re
sult in any material reduction in sal
aries, Governor McLean said: “When
I asked for the appointment of this
Commission, I had no knowledge as
to the salary and wage situation, ex
cept that given me by my members
of the Legislature and the newspapers,
and the charge made then was not
that all salaries were too high, but
that salaries of some of the employ
ees in some Departments were from
twenty-five to fifty per cent higher
than salaries of other employees in
other Departments doing the same
class of work. I am reliably informed
that the appointment of the Com
mission has already had the effect of
correcting many of the cases in which
public criticism was directed against
unfairly high salaries in some De
partments.
“Now that these inequalities have
to some extent been eliminated, it is
entirely possible that an important
result of the Commission’s work will
be to perfect a classification system
that will prevent the recurrence of un
fair discrimination and favoritism in
the future and particularly of develop
ing a system of personnel administra
tion which will be effective in carry
ing out the plan for a new Budget
system and the inauguration of other
business reforms in our State Govern
ment. I desire to emphasize the fact
that there is no disposition on my
part, or on the part of the Salary and
Wage Commission, to treat any em
ployee of the State unfairly. The
main purpose is to give North Caro
lina a classification and a salary
equalization system such as the
United States Governmont and most
of the progressive City and State
Governments have had since the year
1910. I believe that the people of
North Carolina will give the able and
fairminded gentlemen who constitute
the Salary and Wage Commission
their united support and thus render
futile the attempts of a few who are
actuated by ulterior motives, to pre
vent North Carolina from aligning
herself with other prograssive (Govern
ments which are putting fair, just and
business like methods into the admin
istration of State Grovemment.”
J GET YOUR
PRESSING
^ Done With Our
Up-to-Dato
SANITARY STEAM PRESSER
We have a modem Steam Presser in
our Pressing and Cleaning Depart
ment, and do the very best work, on
ladies* as well as gentlemen's clothes.
Vass Barber Shop
Beasley Building VASS, N. C.
REV. M. D. McNEILL
(Continued from page
leading spirit, going in and out
among his people, advising when
advice was needed, comforting
when the sad days came, and
ever living before them a life
so beautiful and uplifting that
results were bound to follow.
During his service here the
church membership grew from
twenty-nine to one hundred and
twenty. The Sunday School is
active and doing a splendid
work. Although Mr. McNeill
could attend this Sunday School
only one Sunday each month,
he always manifested a great
interest in it, and even the
children seemed to realize how
near it was to his heart. When
they were to receive pins or
Bibles as rewards for their
work, they preferred to wait a
week or two if necessary in or
der that their pastor might be
the one to present them.
Mr. McNeill will continue to
serve the same group of
churches with the exception of
Vass. The organization of a
church at Lakeview made the
formation of a new group
necessary, so Lakeview, Vass
and Union were grouped to
gether, and will be served by
the Rev. D. McD. Monroe. Al
though the ties of pastor and
people have been severed, Mr.
McNeill will continue to hold an
enviable place in the hearts of
the people of Vass, not only of
his own denomination, but of all
denominations.
You can look back upon the
path of a man, and determine
what sort of man he has been.
Oh that there were more men
such as he!~B. C. S.
PENIN
of Lakeview, N. C.
Saturday, Nay 2,1925
Under new management, with improved conditions
and extended facilities for caring’ for the steadily en
larging patronage.
Lakeview, the Popular Sandhill
ORX
On the Seaboard Air Line and State Highway in
Moore. County, will open Saturday, May 2, with a dance
at the Pavillion, Barbecue and Brunswick Stew, and aU
the amusements and entertainments for which this
resort has been famous.
J. E. McKeithan and C. L. Cockman, have leased Lakeview from Mr.
Barber, and have arranged for everything on the highest possible scale of
clean and wholesome attraction.
The hotel, opened last summer for the first time, will be in the hands
of E. L. Ramsey and A. B. Lingle, whose success with a chain of resturants
in Greensboro, Salisbury, Sanford, and other places in the state, has estab
lished their reputation for doing things right. The rooming department
of the hotel will be in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lingle, who know
how to care for the people.
The cafe will be open every night until 1 o’clock, a. m., and at the
resturant at the pavillion quick lunches, soft drinks, fruts, etc., may be
had at all times.
A feature at all times will be a
BARBECUE LUNCH and BRUNSWICK STEW
made as these people know how to prepare real food.
Dancing Tuesday and Saturday Nights from 8 to 12.
ISath Houses open all the time.
Music by the Waldo Lamotte Orchestra of Columbia,
which has made a positive hit in this section, and will
enliven the summer.
Two twelve-passenger gasoline boats, and twelve
row boats for hire. Six cottages for rent. Places for
Tent campers. Large cottages with cots for group of
campers. Picnic parties welcome at all times, and every
effort will be made to ensure their pleasure and comfort
while on the grounds.
It is the intention of the management to offer at Lakeview a more
attractive season than was ever possible before, as Mr. Barber has greatly
increased the facilities for serving the people. The beach is one of the
best in the state. The grounds are all that could be desired. The bath
houses are new and large, the hotel is new and modem, and a resident
officer living on the grounds will preserve order and look after the comfort
of the visitors.
Grounds free to every body. Good roads from every direction, the
main state highway passing the lake. Seaboard railroad station by the
water side.
Lakeview has been a popular favorite for many years, but with the
niany decided improvements and the new buildings that have been pro
vided this summer will offer more attractions than was ever possible in the
past. We propose to do everything possible to increase the patronage and
please the people, as the aim of Lakeview is to work for the future all the
time, and make of it the great resort that its natural advantages permit.
J. E. McKEITHAN,
C. L. COCKMAN, Managers.
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