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THE NEWS^WEEKLY OF MOORE COUNTY THE PILOT /n ^ ^ <?■ — FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of Nor^%^ Una VOL. 9, NO. 9. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929. VASS. N. C. Career of Perfilieff An I ASSOCIATION TO Amazing Story of Cossack ; BOOM HIGHWAY Who Wanted To Paint! NO. 1 PLANNED Arrived in America with Russian Flag His Only Baggage and “Cocka-tail” His One English Word SPEAKS AT PINEHURST FEB. 7TH Organization to Promote Travel Over Route from Maine to Miami FRANK PAGE ON BOARD By Struthers Burt The Pilot has asked me to say some thing about Captain Vladimir Per filieff who, on February 7th, at the Carolina Theatre in Pinehurst, will show his motion picture, ‘The Whis pering: North.* At the same time there will be an exhibition of Perfil- ieff’s drawing’s and paintings at the Carolina Hotel. I have a right to do this, outside of the pleasure involved, because I was one of the very first Americans who met Perfilieff upon his arrival in this country eight years ago. I knew him when he couldn’t speak a word of English and the only way we could communicate was in French—on my part bad. No, I am exagjgerating— he knew one English word, ‘cocka-tail.^ Another friend of mine, Francis MacDonald, a professor of English at Princeton, had brought Perfilieff back with him from Tokio. For three years MacDonald had been on leave of absence as private secretary to the American Ambassodar to Japan. Fleeing from the Bolsheviks in Si beria, Perifilieff had in some way reached Tokio and there had met Mc Donald and the later had discovered that the one thing this blood-stain ed and burly young Cossack was in terested in was painting. He never had had a chance to paint, for six years, ever since the ag« of nineteen, ha had been engaged in chasing his fellow-men up and down the earth, but all the while what he had wanted to do was to paint. MacDonald brought him back to America and pretty soon Perfilieff was painting. He became a student at The Academy of Pine Arts in Phi% adelphia, and before long on? began A TALE OF PERFILIEFF, A BUCKING HORSE AND FIFTEEN DOLLARS By Struthers Burt At one of the annual artillery shows of the Princeton University R. O. T. C. several years ago a horse was discovered that no one could ride, not even the five West Pointers attached to the Prince ton unit. Finally the Major in command stepped forward and jokingly offered anyone in the crowd fifteen dollars if he would ride the horse. A completely un known young man volunteered and mounted. The first thing that hap pened was that the horse’s bridle came off; the next thing that hap pened was that the horse ‘broke in half,’ as we say out West, and settled down to a first-class ex hibition of Far-Western bucking. The unknown young man, not in the least perturbed, rode the horse. It was Perfilieff. Hearing about this incident several years later, I asked Perfilieff what he knew of bucking horses. He grinned. “Nothing, but I'm a Cossack.’ And then he grinned even more widely, “And oh my goodness, how I need ed those fifteen dollars in those days!” . United States Highway No. 1, which passes through Vass, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, is one of the longest continuouis Federal mailed I highway in the country. It begins at I the international boundary at Fort I Kent, Maine and terminates at Miami, ! Florida. The American Association of State Highway officials gives the mileage of this route as 2,328 miles. I The longest highway is No. 30, which | I goes from coast to coast, beginning at I Atlantic City and terminating on the ] coast of Oregon. The distance is 13,472 miles. I The entire distance over Route 1 I from Maine to Florida is paved with ! the exception of a portion through i South Carolina, from the South Car- ! olina line to Camden and from Mon- letta to Aiken, which is being paved but is not as yet open to traffic. The route across Georgia and into Jack sonville is all paved and open. Association Formed The United States Highway No. 1 Association has been recently organ ized in Georgia. This is the begin ning of what is expected to be a large organization to promote travel I over the entire route. Frank Page, re tiring State Highway Commissioner,: BEN LINDSEY NOT BULLET PROOF, THE GANG FINDS They finally got Ben Lindsey. It had begun to look as if Ben was bullet-proof. In fact he had boasted that he was too tough for a bullet to pierce his hide. Ben had been hit, but never hurt. But the other nigiit he broke out over at Amos Broadway’s bil liard parlor in West Southern Pines, and there were some fire works. Four shots went in Ben’s direction, and three of them dis proved the theory about the bul- let-proof hide. Ben was hit. And hurt. They carried Ben off to a hos pital, Chjef Kelly and others, and when they had extracted the lead, they carried him on to Carthage. The county seat is there, and the “coht-house.” Ben, they say, has a few things to explain to the “jedge.’* But what the folks around Southern Pines are wondering is, whether the powers that be are go ing to arrest Ben's assailants or give them medals. KIWANIS TELLS FRANK PAGE OF GROWTH HERE Speakers Review Aceomplisli- ments in Sandhills at Din ner to Commissioner OPTIMISM IS KEYNOTE Moore Co. Educators Affiliate with Clubs in 2 Other Counties The meeting of the Kiwanis club Wednesday at the Pinehurst Country club was scheduled as a dinner to wel come Frank Page back home after a practical absence of ten yeara in Raleigh as road builder of the state and the head of the State Highway Commission. Mr. Page said he didn’t SUPPORT URGED FOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Southern Pines Body Asks Aid in Beautification and Bet terment Program HAS ACCOMPLISHED MUCH An appeal to join the Chamber oC Commerce and aid in the work which, it is doing for the beautification and' betterment of the town has been, sent to the citizens of Southern Pines, during the past week. The pTograxxk* outlined by the Chamber for its work: in 1929 requires the expenditure of* want any reference to his work or funds in excess of annual receipts: his ability or anything of that sort, during past years, and the officers; but that he would appreciate just a and directors are appealing for ad- homecoming where everybody mixed ditional support on the merits of the- Educo Clubs of North Carolina Orj?anized by Schoolmen at Raefwd Meeting TO IMPROVE PROFESSION Believing that they have entered a new field of educational endeavor with everybody else a little and talk ed about matters and things in an informal way. So it was decided to ask a few of the old timers to tell him a bit about what the county has done during his absence, and Dr. Mc- Brayer led the educational program by a statement about the Sandhills Sixteen which was present to speak for itself. The doctor talked a bit about some related matters, but pre sently he told the Sandhills Sixteen to stand up and be seen, and then Charlie Picquet set them at work to sing and they needed no further in troduction or approval. They made their usual hit. work which has been accomplished' in the past. That the Southern Pines Chamber- of Commerce has done much in im provement of the Town from tjhe- standpoint of landscaping and plant ing is acknowledged by all citizens w'ho have witnessed the transition- of bare spots into beauty spots in^^ the last few years. But not all know^ of what has been accomplished alongr the line of bringing more people into* Southern Pines annually. Publicity Work Howard Bums, secretary, tells The- Pilot that he is receiving hundreds of: inquiries each month from people in Bion H. Butler was called on to j parts of the country. These^ in- tell something about the publicity | Qwiries are the result of publicity- given Moore county in various ways, Mr. Bums and his office have ; has l)een” named a" member of the ^ contains wonderful opportunities! and made the astounding statement I ^^en sending to newspapers and mag- ' Board of Directors. ' advancing the cause of education, i that in the last five years the adver- I azines during recent months. He ! Sinrp thp fomnlpfinn nf tha i schoolmen of Cumberland, Moore | tising of the Sandhills has been of showed us this week a huge ctack of Inortr of the S^nZr, Hoke counties met at the Blue- the value of fully a million dollars, i clippings containing stories in Ne^ 'irreatlv inereaaed and the cities and Tuesday evening, Jan-' Pinehurst alone figures on aboutPhiladelphia, Pittsburgh and g,eatlj mcreaaed and the c.ties and^ . . . .. ^ Southern Pines,other northern city newspapers, arti- and the other interests add a big describing the “Mid-South Se- is an^Educo Cluh in each of the three ^ sum to this. But in addition the * sort,” many of them illustrated with* 4owns along its route have enjoyed | ^2 “„d organized the Affiliated ■onsideraUy i„crea*ed p.tr£Mge.|.®'^"%Clubs of North Carol,^ There Persons who used to come into this X- 1 train arp motA’•nir 1composed of the schoolmen newspaper correspondents send out t courses,, about all he’s got. He pms it to the i counties, and they had arrang-' miles of stuff and piles of pictures, i hunting scenes and other attractions; wall the moment he gets on to a , ^ get-together meet-' so that in every town of any size the j to be foun4 here. Southern Pines. steamer, or enters a train, or stops ^ ^ '■J ^ for the purpose of perfecting a papers print the events from the Sand-1 Plays a prominent part in booklets. at a hotel.’ And it was just about all. ^ district organization of the th>ree hills. Millions of papers every day I issued by the Seaboard Railroad, by Perfilieff had. When the Russian! contmue to grow as the main ar-1 t.u •_ i. fho Amori/»nn Antnmnhilp As.«?nria- When the and at this meeting the or- tell what is going on at Pinehursn the American Automobile Associa- revolution broke out there were nine , an,: thp ^niitV. and if with fV«p iHna ganization was perfected and a con- and many papers pay large sums of ^ion, and other such publications. The* to hear ^f him. Then you heard that i of his immediate family ^iv-^ stimulating this wowih that the' ’"0"''^ correspondents who Publicity work has had a far-reachmg- T^n o then he has had no knowl-, ^ . The officers of the new organiza- write about Pinehurst. effect in teUing the country about the- edge of their whereabouts and no try and unable to speak a word of English for at least three years to J(An Singer Sargent, a year or tw’o: before his death, had tisked him to bs his pupil—^the caily pupil Sargent ever had. ATI that was from 1920 to around 1924. Now Perfilieff is a well known painter and his exhibitions are annual affairs in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago. He has a genius in catching the likeness and character of his sitter. His drawings and por traits are enormously clever, as you will see if you will take the trouble to go to look at them at the Carolina Ho tel this coming Wednesday. An Amazing Career !any American I have ever met. Also But, being a friend of Perfilieff, j loves the United States better than j what has always interested me ever' Americans. At intervals he buys more than anything he does is Per-1 hires some delapidated Ford ^ or filieff himself. He is <one of the most I^odge truck, and ^ putting cooking amazing, amusing and charming men | utensils and a bed in the back, starts I have ever met, and his history is j to see the country Arizona, New amazing. | Mexico, Kansas—anywhere. When he He was hom ti Cossask in Eastern | a town he likes, he stops off for Siberia where his father was Hetman! ^ week and gets a job of some kind; I as^sociation has been formed. Secretary Howard Burns of the tion are as follows: President, K. A. Sounds Optimistic Note attractiveness of So’ them Pines both ^dfn/rv RusZ naXn-1 Pines Chamber of Commerce • “''r' “ "7' dinary Russian (I beg his pardon made annliratinn fnr t%n» (nf fhp'’ Cumberland county; vice-pres- the most instructive addresses that l^ve permanently. Cossack) in more ways even than PP ° th! • ^est, principal of has been heard in a long time. Rich- More homes are being built here those 1 have mentioned although; Good Roads, Department' School of Moore county; * ard has a fashion of looking over the northern people all the time. Pub- of Agriculture, showing the entire i - treasurer. Superintendent i daily records of business at Pins- Heity bnngs these P^»P>= *>««• The Federal Hi^hwav svsteni Thi^ man Hoke County Schools; hurst, and his figures are positive, no town and its people hold them. Th is to be f.Led Ld prominently dis" . '•’I''"'-; J'. He noted that, Chamber of - ^ ^ ^ fin tho P^ftvp+tovilla WicrK wit.h tnp ifiwn BoaiQ oi vjonimission— of tourists. I come, I never heard of him asking ; a favor of anyone and from the very i beginning he began to take care of himself. At present he speaks fluent, j I if at times odd, English and he knows j ! more about the United States than ^®-AZED NEGRO WITH GUN played In Soutien, Pines for the use j J" Fayetteville High; the income tax figures show that manv with the Town Boai-d of Commission School. Forty schoolmen were present; more people are each year reaching ^*s, starts the work of attracting^ sixteen from Cumberland, seven a place in the lists of generous in-, them. The climate, the attractiveness-, from Hoke, and seventeen from I comes, which means that the possi- of the section and all that :t offers. Moore. i ble patronage of a winter resort is the enjoyment of life holds them^ The aims of the new organization, \5*,jyger every year. This and thej Plans for 1929 SCASES THE COUNTRY SIDE as stated in the first article of the of his tribe and Governor of the prov ince. Very early in l\js life he de veloped the taste for traveling that later on was so t© mark him. Before he was sixteen he had been to St. Petersburg nine times and back, a dis tance of about 80,006 miles. When he was nineteen he entered the Guard Cossack Regiment. Almost immed iately the war broke out »nd Perfilieff became a captain and foug^ht for three years on all fronts. When Bolshe vism raised its head, Perfilieff found his way to the Crimea, where for awhile he fought, and subsequently was sent to join Admiral Kolchak in Siberia. When that leader was killed, Perfilieff decided that he had had about enough fighting and set out, as I have said, for Japan. I don’t blame him for his decision—he had had six years of slaughter. Quite a iong spell for a man who wanted to be an artist. The first time I eve^ saw Perfilieff was in Princeton, just after MacDon ald had arrived with him. I met Mac- r^cnald on the street and MacDonald said. Do you want to look at him?” hotel. Do you want to look at him?” He took me to the Nassau Hotel and there on a cot in a room on the third story was a blonde young man in trousers and undershirt, sound asleep. Pinned to the wall over his head was a liny Russian flag. “That’s his en- tiJ^e baggage.” said MacDonald. “It'a washing dishes, porter at the station, policeman; anything to enable him to study the town and make a living meanwhile. He is immensely inter ested in people and his principal study is of native types. This accounts for his motion picture, “The Whispering North.” It is a by-product of an ex pedition he headed last summer to the Artie and the Yukon in search of Eskimo faces. The summer before he was the artist member of William Beebe’s expedition to the West In dies and Haiti under the auspices of the New York Zoological Society. Hi* drawings of the negroes of the West Indies are as fascinating as his sketches of Eskimos. To Tell Experiences I have never heard him address an audleiice, even for a few minutes as he does with this motion picture. *I don’t bother them very long,’ he re cently wrote me, but I imaine it’s a grand talk-—short or long. I have much faith in Perfilieff’s ability to in terest people no matter what he does. And James Pond, of the Pond Bu reau in New York, under whose man agement the motion picture—*‘The Whispering North”—is produced says it is “splendid and exciting.’ So it must be. The name Pond Bureau is a guarantee. You can’t show any thing under its management unless it is good. That the trip was excit- (Please turn to Page 8) Because the Olive brothers who con duct a dairy business in Southern Pines deduotied a doctor’s bill from his wages, a certain colored man started some shootin’ over by the dairy the other night and ’most frightened everybody to death. Corn liquor is «aid iiQ have aroused him after the pay deduction, and he ran rampant, shooting right and left. A poBse was quickly formed to give dhase, and bloodhounds import ed from Fayetteville. They trailed him orer into the Aberdeen country, to a SftOTise in which he is believed to have ftot^t refuge, but they couldn’t go farther without a search warrant, and that’s where the story ends as far as we have heen able to gather. It’s the meat of it, anyway. constitution, are to promote fellow ship and acquaintanoes among the good geographical location have per-' The Chamber this year plans fur- mitted the Sandhills to increase its' tber planting, completing that along business steadily. Pinehurst has North Broad street from Maine ave~ men of the teaching profession, ’ played fair with the people who come,' to the double road to Pinehurst, through regular meetings at the and that brings them back and their j Pines, dogwood and holly are to frie nds with them. No real estate: beautify this thorofare. The syace boom has been tolerated. But Pine- between the passenger and freight': (Please turn to Page 8) istation of the Seaboard is to be beau- ! tified. It hopes to begin planting- and beautifying May s^treet, through; v/hich all tourists bound nrfrth or; luncheon table, to improve the mem bers professionally, to improve the profession as a whole, and to secure! the advancement to the cause of edu cation. The idea of Educo originated with K A McDonald of Hope Mills some NEW TELEPHONE BUILDING OPENED IN ABERDEEN PINE NEEDLES OPENS FOR ITS SECOND SEASON Pine Needles Inn got away to its second season with a goodly list of registered guests and a large field for its first golf tournament last Sat urday. Manager Richardson reports heavy bookings for the remainder of the season. The landscaping and gardening which have been done since last win ter have won the praise of those who have registered at the inn on Knoll- wood Heights thus far, and the grounds all about, including the eighteen-hole golf course, are in the best of condition. Many dinner parties are being given by Pinehurst and Southern Pines residents at Pine Needles, which is fast becoming one of the social cen ters of the Sandhills. south travel. It plans to stimrlatei years ago. His first success w«s to I Aberdeen’s new telephone office I organize the schoolmen engaged ™|on Poplar street opened this week, | further grass planting. school work in Cumberland into a ! The work of the Chamber costsr club known as the Educo club, and this organization has proven highly successful in inspiring and encour aging the men. The movement later spread to Moore and Hoke counties, both of which now have active clubs doing successful work. The plan of Educo is to work principally through the local clubs, believing that in this way invaluable work can be done to advance the cause of education andi improve the teaching profession. Study Withdrawals Here A knowledge of the work that is being done by the Educo clubs may be gained from the following facts: At the last meeting of the Educo club of Cumberland the members of the County Board of Education were guests and at this meeting various phases of the high school work of the county were discussed and reports had from all of the high schools of the eastern section of the county where schools have been consolidated this year At the previous meeting Dr. J. Henry Highsmith addressed the members of the cluh and commended them highly on their work in the club. In Moore county the members of the Educo club have undertaken a piece (Please turn to page 8) with congratulations on its attrac- , . . tive and complete building pouring, "’“"/y- it is money well expend- in upon the Piedmont Telephone Com-1 welfare. It ,s a« pany which is now operating in Aber-! The i who give their time unstintmgly ana *^e company has installed the |recompense to the work of most complete switchboard outfit and j Cham^r realise this. They ar^ • i-u* 4.: « setting out this week to impress the accessories in this section, and vast-1 ^ ^ 1 • J * importance of the work on their fel~ ly improved service is expected. Ihe, ^ operators will be the same hereto- “ general response fore employed, Mrs. Bertha Herring, I the appeal for needed funds to- Mrs. Elwood Creel and Miss Mar-l'^^y. ! garet Wilson. BRIG. GEN. HOLBROOK TO COMMAND AT FORT BRAGG pected. Memberships vary from five ; dollars a year to $250. Every citi zen of Southern Pines who believes in the future of his or her town should become a member. Brigadier General Lucius R. Hol brook has been assigned by the War Department to the command of the 13th Field Artillery at Fort Bragg. General Holbrook has been on duty in the Philippines since 1926. Graduat ed from West Point in 1896, he has had a distinguished army career. During the World War he was espec ially cited for skillful handling of the artillery in the Cantigny operations and during the second battle of the Marne, and was decorated with the Distinguished Service medal, Legion of oHnor and Croix de Guerre. MISS PARKER WINS MEDAL IN WOMEN’S OPEN TOURNEY The first women’s open golf tour nament in which amateurs and pros have met in competition in America is now being played at the Pine Needles golf course. Miss Martha Parker, New Jersey State champion, won the qualifying round on Wednes day, making the 18 holes in 85, two better than Glenna Collett, national champion. Miss Elizabeth Gordon, the only woman “pro’* entered, had a bad day and failed to qualify.