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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
VOLUME 9, NO. 19.
FRIDAY, APRIL 12,1929.
TO ASK NEW AIR
MAIL ROUTE TO
SERVE SANDfflLLS
Knollwood Airport Ideally Lo
cated to Serve Pinehurst,
So. Pines and Aberdeen
STATE TO BUILD
ROAD TO GRAVE
OF W. H. PAGE
THE EXPLOSION AT ABERDEEN
WILL PASS OVER HERE
Hopeful that the new air mail route
following more or less the route of
the Seaboard Kailroad from Richmond
south will pass over Southern Pines,
efforts are to be made by local or
ganizations to make the Knollwood
Airport a port of call during the six
iiionths of the year when mail into
and out of this vicinity is heaviest.
The subject was broached at the
weekly meeting of the board of di
rectors of the Southern Pines Cham
ber of Commerce last Monday and a
committee appointed to work with
committees of other civic organiza-
tins looking toward the desired end.
Harry Vale, of Southern Pines, who
has just been elected president of
Knollwood Airport, Inc., is chairman
of the committee, with Postmaster
John Powell and Nelson C. Hyde
named to act with him. Mr. Vale is
at present in New York and may
Memorial to Late Ambassador
Is Plan of Commissioner
J. Elwood Cox
BURIED NEAR ABERDEEN
Highway Commissioner J. Elwood
Cox at the present sitting of the
commission will lay before it a pro
posal to build from route number 50,
ranking with 10 and 20 in state im
portance, and nationally marked, be
tween Quebec and Miami, a road to
the grave of Walter Hines Page in
the country church cjljmetery.
Mr. Cox said he will ask the com
mission for a driveway to be con
structed of the perfect Sandhill soil
plus an oil treatment which will make
it as good as any road in the state.
The commission, of course, will fa- i
vor the road and in time Mr. Cox !
will have a shrine to the great diplo- '
mat.
Dr.Page, who died in the late fall
of 1918, was buried at the Bethesda
cemeterv near’ Aberdeen. There is a
have something to report upon his j i ather inconsequential road out from
return next week. 'the Sandhill capital to this giavs.
Six Month Service ■ During the incumbency of Chairman
Committees are to be appointed by Frank Page, of the highway commis-
the Kiwanis Club and by the Agri
cultural and Commercial Club of Ab
erdeen to aid in the movement to
make the Knollwood field an air mail
slop during November, December,
slon, ihere was a proposal to build
this road but the brother of Dr. Page
was unwilling that it should be done
curing his tenure of office. Mr. Cox
now renews the request and there is
January, February, March and April evidence that the commission will or-
of each year. It is estimated that j tier it done.
sufficient mail would be handled dur> j The death of Dr. Page following:
ing those months to warrant the des-^ closely upon his resignation as am-
ignation of the field by the Post | bassador to the court of St. James,
Office Department. The field has al- j was obscured somewhat by the events
ready been approved by the govern-1 ending the war. In his name many
•ntnt SkS. an official landing field, and ' honors have been shown North Caro
ls ideally located for serving the I’na. It is the opinion of a great
three towns, Aberdeen, Southern ^ many Americans that next to Wood-
Pines and Pinehurst as a mail cen- row Wilson, Walter Hines Page was j
:er. the most conspicuous figure in Amer-'
It is argued that overnight mail 1 ican life as it related to the war. |
from and to New York would be of | President W^ilson, living on the Amer-1
Kreat assistance to the many busi- | ican side, was more hesitant to enter
ness men who spend their winter j the war than was Dr. Page, who lived
seasons in the Sandhills, and make i in London. But once in, the two who
possible many more staying here i had been great friends from youth
more of the time. Efforts were made > wf-nt the limit to win. Unquestionably,
some time ago, as outlined in The \ the war killed both. A tardy honor
Pilot, to include the local airport in j is to be done by North Carolina in
the air mail route now existing I the building of this road,
tl rouffh Greensboro and South, bin! ^
nothing ever camc of the plan, | niVinFNT)
'.o the fact that the route traveled i DECLARES DI ID ^ |
was considerably off the course of I
Knolwood. The proposed route south' At the annual meet.ng Wednesday
f.om Raleigh is expected to run in afternoon of the Highland Ho-
■ lose proximitv. ' Company, which controls the High-
^; hind Pines Inn in Southern Pines,
(;LEXXA COLLETT PLAYS | report of the secretary and treas-
IX TENNIS TOURNAMENT ' W. VanCamp, showed a high-
I ly successful year for the company,
Those who know Miss Glenna Col- ! i ml a 12 per cent dividend was de-
1-tt only as national golf champion i dared. A vote of commendation to
oi her sex wete taken by surprise | Mesrs. Creamer and Turner, proprie-
v.'hen this talented young woman | tors, was adopted.
trotted out on the tennis courts as |
an entrant in the eleventh annual
North and South championships be
ing played this week at Pinehurst.
Gknna played in both the women’s
doubles and mixed doubles, and gave
a splendid account of herself. Sbe
has the same graceful strokes in ten
nis that she displays on the golf
ourse, and it wouldn’t surprise us
at all if some day we read of her
ranking well up in the court game.
There was a large entry list for
the annual tennis tournament, with
•lohn Van Ryn of East Orange, N. J.,
’he favorite to win. The upset of
the week was the defeat of Wilmer
Allison of Texas, one of America’s
ranking players, by Marcel Rainville
of Canada.
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VASS, N. C.
Atty. Cenerai^^^>rprets
New School LaW In Talk
Before Kiwanis Members
Purpose to Fix Uniform Rate of Taxation
Counties for Six-Month Term
Maintenance Outlined
MAY WORK SOME HARDSHIPS
m
Attorney General Dennis E. Brum-
mitt explained the new school equali
zation law, known as the Hancock
bill, to the members of the Kiwanis
Club at hte weekly meeting held Wed
nesday noon at the Southern Pines
Country Club. The Pilot is privileged
to report Mr. Brummitt’s remarks in
full:
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of
the Club:
Your association in this club gives
opportunity at your luncheon hour
for some study of public questions.
The General Assembly of 1929 enact
ed new school legislation. The pos
sible effect of that legislation has
been agitating the public mind. There
fore, I have thought it well to dis
cuss it with you.
Necessarily, there must be an in
timate relation between public school
support and tax-paying ability. Pub
lic education is a problem which in
creases in magnitude the nearer we
seem to reach its solution. It is a |
task in which progress is attainment.:
As one grade passes out from the I
high school, another and larger none
tckes its place. Always there will
be the necessity to strain at our re
sources in order to meet the need.
It is easy for those who see the
coincident with an expanding pro
gram of expenditure for other public
purposes. In a short time we issued
$115,000,000 in bonds for the con
struction of a state highway system.
During the same period we increased
the efficiency of the state’s educa
tional and charitable institutions, pro
viding the necessary funds largely by
bond isues.
The support of the school system
rested largely upon land. In the East
there was no industrial devielopment
corresponding to that in the Piedmont.
During this time we were in the
midst of a depression in agriculture
throughout the nation. In a time when
industry found abundant gains, agri
culture, like Gideon’s fleece, was un
visited by the revivifying dew of pros
perity.
The General Assembly of 1929 was
cognizant of these conditions and re
flected their existence. Its members
determined that there should be some
relief from taxation upon land. They
provided for a transfer to the coun
ties of some of the revenue from the
I gasoline tax so as to relieve lands
to that extent. They passed the Han
cock bill for a similar purpose with
respsct to the public schools.
The difficulty of interpreting and
The above photograph, taken especially for The Pilot, shows
the tremendous gusher of water hurled into the air by the ex
plosion of some 500 pounds of nitro-glycerine touched off 500
feet below the surface of the ground at the plant of the Moun
tain Ice Company, Aberdeen, a week ago. This was believed to
be the first time that nitro-glycerine in any such quantity had
V)een used for blowing a well in this part of the country. Water,
rocks, pebbles and sand shot some four hundred feet into the
air, blowing the roof off the well-house and puncturing the roof
of the huge plant of the ice company adjoining. Because of
the possible danger of greater damage, the explosion was staged
with the utmost secrecy. Increased demand for water for the
ice manufacturing plant was the purpose of the blast, the well
drillers having struck bed rock after readhing a depth of 500
feet. The nitro-glycerfne blasted away sufficient of this rock
to permit of the necessary additional flow to meet the demand.^
of the company.—Photo by Eddy.
■ sents, not the developed thought of
one individual on tht subject, but it
'"arries the impress of probably a
dozen or more men. Several senators
and represen atives, several members
. 1 u J ^ 4-u 4- construmg the school act of 1929 is
ever lifting goal ahead to say that , - . , , .
, Ti. • n '< partly due to the fact that it repre-
we make no progress. It is easy for i ' . ^ ,
those, who, looking back to the place
whence we came, to say that we are |
traveling too fast. Neither is right. |
The duty will be met, not only by i
thoujfht upon the need, but also upon i ^ t x- j
, e cr the state board of equalization, and
:he capacity of our people to bear ^ ^ i
, ^ i. J I nossiblv others, collaborated m its
rhe cost. Anv attempted progress , ’
. J. , . . X i-T. production. Amendments were adopt-
that does not take into account the , • . ^ ^
, , . , .,.4. 4: ed in the course of its passage. An
resources and tax-paying ability ot ! , ,
,, , f. ^ amendment or anparently slight na-
the people will soon find i.s mistake ^
, , , T4- to one ’:rovision of a bill ren-
and reach its end. It is necessary , . .
,, , n i.* i. u I it difficult to correlate other
that all parties to such differences
of opinion keep all these factors in
mind.
State Ranks Well
The figures will show that W3 hav;:'
been making progress. According to • ^ ^
a bulletin issued by the National , teipretation and to carry mto effect
Association, only four' broad prmcples underlying it.
unchanged sections with the one thus
amended out of relation to the thought
of the original draftsman. But such
difficulties are n ;t insuperable in the
effort to give the act a workable in-
MaEAN SENDS NEW HOSPITAL
FINAL WARNING TO OFFER ROOMS
TO TAX PAVERS AS MEMORIALS
Purpof^es of Act
Three thing' re «ought to be ac
complished by this act;
1. The primary pur*'ose is to set
l{E(OKI) ENTRY LIST FOR
NORTH AND SOUTH GOLF
With the largest entry list in its
twenty-nine years of existence, the
-nnual North and South Amateur
Golf championships are under way at
Pinehurst this week on the famous
2 course. Surviving in the cham-
F'ionship division at time of going to
pres^ were: Richard Wilson, South-
Pines; B. P. Merriman, Water-
^ury, Conn.; W. C. Fownes, Jr., Pitts
burgh; J. W. Dawson, Chicago; Phil-
>;ps Finlay. Belmont, Mass.; J. D.
Chapman, Greenwich, Conn.; C. S.
J^aton, Winchester, Mass., and George
^'oigt, New York.
tournament ends tomorrow.
KIWANIANS DISCOVER
OPERATIC TALENT HERE
The future of the Metropolitan
Opera House in New York, in
sofar as it relates to a new home
has been a matter of discussion
for some little time now, and has
caused those who have the inter
est of America’s leading home of
the opera at heart.
But let there be no worry on
the part of lovers of music as
to future talent for the Metro
politan, be the opera house where
it may.
The Kiwanians unearthed some
real talent when they met around
the luncheon board Wednesday at
the Southern Pines Country Club.
John Bloxham, chairman of the
music committee, announced a duet
by a contralto and a lyric soprano,
whereupon he led to the stage the
Misses Katherine Buchan and Eliz
abeth Lynch. Katherine played
the piano and took the contralot
part, while Elizabeth carried the
soprano. They rendered two songs
with all the artistry and poise of
a Mary Garden and a Schuman-
Heinck. I»n short, they brought
down the house.
Katherine is 12, and Elizabeth
is 11. Opera is safe in America
for many years to come, with such
talent in the offing.
Ecucational
states of the Union spend a greater
percentage of their tax revenue on
• n-hools than does North Ca olina.
' Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa and Colo
rado. in the order nani3d, are the^e up standards of school costs for dis-
?tates. W'yoming spends G1.13 per iributing the equalization fund. That
c.nt, and North Carolina 52.18. fund is fixed at $.5,2.')0,000 for aid
Some timss comparisons are made to the six months’ term and $1,2.50,-
I between expenditures on schools, on 000 for aid to the districts le'- ying
the one hand, and automobiles and taxes for an extended term. For each
;ther luxuries, on ths other. Such a ! vear of the biennium 1929-1931 the
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(jmparison is valuable. North Caro-‘ oqualizaJon fund is double that pro-
lina spends on schools 20.88 psr cent . vid-ed by the General Assembly of
as much as on motor vehicles, while 1927 for the pr'^'^eding two y.ars.
the nationwide average is 18.86. Ai The act cst?.br«h3s a' standard for
Final warning notices with regard The opportunity for the dedication 1 the least, u may b3 said that the superintendents and teachers’ salaries.
ti tax payments in Moore county of memorial rooms in the new Moore i -^tate has been doing its duty reason- It has written into law as reason-
are being sent out this week from County Hspital now under construc- the coming geneiation. j able th. sta
the office of the Collector of Taxe?,' near Pinehurst, is to be accorded
Time for Payment of Delinquent Opportunity to Honor One’s
Taxes Before Advertising Memory Afforded Under
Near At Hand Plan of Trustees
J. D. McLean, in Carthage. The time 1 residents and winter visitors of
for advertising for non-payment of ^^® Sandhills under plans worked out
taxes is at hand, and Mr. McLean ^ recent meeting of the Board
desires to call the attention of the Trustees. The plan to honor some-
('elinquents in the county to the fact . cne’s memory by the endowment of
that unless they dust off the check |a hospital room or laboratory or clinic,
book and pull the fountain pen out j to be known as the “John Jones
I of the pocket very, very soon, they
} are going to read their names in the
1 papers. This last letter of his will
■be the final warning.
I Many people in the county fail to
i appreciate, Mr. McLean said to The
I Pilot yesterday, that there is no long-
I er any legal way of holding on <^0
* one’s property without the payment
j of taxes when due. Under the termf;
of legislation enacted two years ago,
a tax sale is now a positive sale,
and is as binding as any other sale
if taxes are not paid within a spe
cified time after advertising. This
v;as not so in the old days, at least
there were ways around it. When
Tom Jones found the money to pay
his taxes a few years back, no mat
ter how long after his land had been
sold for taxes, the chances were that
he could maneuver to get his prop
erty again. In the terms of the car
toonist, “Them were the happy days.”
But they are gone.
Land will be advertised for taxes
(Please turn to Page 8)
Room,” or the “James Smith Labora
tory,” is one in common practice in
all the large hospitals of the coun
try.
In the case of the Moore County
Hospital, funds received for memorial
rooms will be considertd as part of
the general building fund and not
treated as endowments, and through
this plan it is hoped and expected
tc complete the amount needed for
making the local hospital as modern
and completely equipped to serve the
community as is possible.
Rooms set aside and offered to the
friends of the hospital fo rthe pur
pose are the following:
Rooms on ground floor—Labora
tory, $5,000; radiographic, $10,000;
emergency, $2,500.
First floor—Private rooms. Nos.
101, 102, one bed each, connecting
bath; private room No. 108, one bed;
semi-private rooms, Nos. 105, 106,
107, two beds each, $5,000 each. Wait
ing room, $2,500; ward 103, four beds;
(Please turn to Page 8)
larv schedule here-
Our people feel that they are sup- tofore adopted by the state board of
porting th. public schools in gsnerous i education. It fixes the number of
measuie. That psychology was oomi- , teachers that m iy h2 employed in
nant at the recent session of th. | the several schools and in a county
G.neral Assembly. There has been, j as a whole as ihe level for partici-
and is, an insistent demand for re- | pation in th. state equalization fund,
duction of taxation on lands. ! and it sets out the limit to which
Beginning with the administration j the state will participate in the pay-
of Aycock, this state determined tha* j ment of curr?nt operating expenses
it would develop an educational sys- ! and the cost of transportation.
tem adequate to the needs of its P^O"
pie. Year by year the state appro
priation for the equalization fund in
creased until it has now reached $6,-
500,000 per year for the next bien
nium. By constitutional amendment
adopted in 1918 the required school
term was increased from four months
to six months. District after dis
trict, rural as well as city, voted
bond issues and special taxes for
lengthened terms and increased ef
ficiency. Throughout the state there
was a ready response to the demand
to supply the children of the present
generation with opportunities denied
their parents.
The courts gave a growingly lib
eral interpretation to constitutional
provisions and statutes designed to
improve educational facilities. The
process may be traced from Collie
versus Commissioners, 145 N. C., 170,
to the more recent case of Frazier
versus Commissioners, 194 N. C., 49.
This educational renaissance was
Broadly stated, then, distribution
is to be upon this basis:
(a) A fixed schedule of superin
tendents and teachers’ salaries and
number of teachers employed based
upon average attendance for the pre
ceding school year.
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ROY PUSHEE PURCHASES
CADY ESTATE COTTAGE
The white cottage on the southern
border line of the estate in Southern
Pines owned by Dr. E. E. Cady was
sold during the week to Roy E.
Pushee. The previous week Dr. Cady
sold his large house and beautiful
surrounding estate to M. G. Nichols
of New York. Mr. Pushee plans ad
ditions and improvements to the cot
tage.
Dr. and Mrs. Cady plan to reside
after May 1st at the Wardman Park
Hotel in Washington.