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THE NEWS-WEEKLY OF MOORE COUNTY THE PILO® FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina VOLUME 9, NO. 21, ABERDEEN, N. C., FRI DAY, MAY 3, 1929. Price Five Centa LARGE TOBACCO INTERESTS LEASE WAREHOUSE HERE South Carolina Operators Take Five-Year Lease to Enter Local Market BELIEVE IN ABERDEEN R. N. Page Defends County Against Attack by Burt Brands as Anarchistic Author’s Position Regarding Enforce ment of Prohibition Three of the largest tobacco ware housemen of South Carolina have tak en a five-year lease on the ware house operated here last season by J. N. Warren and will enter the Ab erdeen market this fall. J. R. Williams, A. B. Edwards and O'Dell Lewis of Mullins, S. C., are operators of the “Brick Warehouse” in that town and are reported to be ! mending- Charlie McDonald, sheriff Editor, The Pilot— The communication signed by one of your associate editors, my friend, Struthers Burt, in last week’s paper, sounds a strange note. Particularly does it jar following so closely the speech of the President before the Associated Press last week, upon law observance. Let’s see what it is all about: Two weeks ago The Pilot carried an edi torial with all the earmarks of hav ing been written by Bion Butler, com- among the largest operators in the state. They were most enthusiastic about Aberdeen as a tobacco market and as a town when they visited here recently. They look upon Aberdeen as having a big future in the tobacco field, and hope to become permanent fixtures in this territory. of the county, for diligence in the enforcement of the law. It matters not what law, that is beside the ques tion, for McDonald upon assuming office was sworn to enforce all laws, and being Charlie McDonald he did not cross his fingers when he took that oath. Shop Talk OTIZENS VOTE IMPROVEMENTS FOR SO. PINES The lease was made with the Aber- j If what Mr. Burt says about the deen Warehouse Corporation and runs I manufacture and sale of liquor in foi five years. , Moore county is true, then certainly This movg gives Aberdeen two j the more need of a sheriff like Charlie large tobacco warehouses operated by j McDonald. He assumes that this prominent men in the industry, and | question of the enforcement of the goes further to enhance the value of | prohibition laws ig a matter of par- the town as an important market. > tisanship and that he and you should J. N. Warren, proprietor of the | out the laws that should be en- j It’s just happenstance that makes Mrs. Robert N. Page the Goddess of Fortune for The Pilot’s future in Aberdeen. There’s a tradition in the newspaper business about the first line set on the linotype ma chine when a new newspaper plant is christened. Our big Mer- genthaler linotype, the first lino type machine ever set up in Ab erdeen, was put in commission Friday afternoon last, and the operator, Frank Thomas, start ed to work on the piece of copy on top of the pile. The tradition is that you will have success if no error appears in the first line of type and that much of that success will be due to the person whose name is first set on the machine. The first name happened to appear in the first line, and it was Mrs. Page’s. There was no error in the line. It was just happenstance, but The Pilot can think of no one it would prefer to have sponsor its success than Mrs. Robert N. Enthusiastic Meeting Recom mends Progressive Program to Incoming Commission VOTE TO ACCEPT PARK Warren Warehouse, which operated in the local field last season, will not be back this year, it is understood. forced, at the same time making out a list of them that should not be, and this latter list Charlie McDonald The B. B. Saunders Warehouse and other enforcement officers should which has so successfully operated here in the past will be “on the job’ keep their hands off. Where does Mr. Burt or anyone else under the as usual, and Mr. Saunders antici-1 A’^^e^'can flag get this strange doc- pates a most successful season, I trine ? The Pilot’s move also brings to Aberdeen the first cylinder press ever set up in the town. This press prints four pages of The Pilot at a time. We print on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and Acquisition of Piney Woods Park, the paving of South Broad street from Massachusetts avenue to the city line, the paving of two additional blocks east on Massachusetts avenue, additional curbs and gutters for un paved streets and the extension of water main were recommended to the incoming Board of Commissioners of Southern Pineg at a citizens’ meeting held at the Civic Club in Southern Pines Tuesday night. The citizens passed unanimously a motion to issue bonds in the needed amount to cover the program of im provement recommended at the meet ing. It was the largest and most en thusiastic citizens’ meeting held in Southern Pines in a long time, and there was no doubt left in the minds of any present that the people of the town want Southern Pines to progress rather than stand still. The sentiment seemed almost unanimous that the tax rate was secondary to future dev-elopment, that a stand-still program was not the people’s desir?. Figures submitted by Ralph Chand ler and Roy Pushee, of the commit tee of the Chamber of Commerce, which investigated the town’s finan cial condition, failed to frighten the gathering despite the fact they showed that over a period of sixteen years HONORED LEONARD TUFTS Mr, Tufts Carries Out Dreams of His Father for Pinehurst Mechanically Inclined, Changed His Career Upon Death of James Tufts INFLUENCE WIDESPREAD Aberdeen is ideally situated to take care of the tobacco industry in this section, and that the future holds He says in one sentence that those wanting these laws enforced in Moore county are in a minority, and in the you are cordially invited to drop^t^, into the new building and watch the operation. The population of Aberdeen will increase some fifteen souls by The Pilot's move to town. O. D. Park is superintendent of the plant and expects soon to bring his large family here from Greensboro. Dan Ray, who makes up the paper after Lino- typer Frank Thomas gets it in much in store for the town as an | “if the prohibitionists of Moore agricultural market there is no ques- ' <^ounty had the moral and social cour- tioii. I to try to make Moore county ac- ■■ ~ i tually dr>’' they could go out tomor- AOeraeen Hiiecis rsew lanvhow, for there isn’t one of them Mayor Next Tuesday l that doesn’t know where whisky is ! being made and in quantities.” Aberdeen will elect a new Mayor! Knows of No Stills as successor to G. C. Seymour, to-, I want to go on record as beine k^vje’wiifbrinV’his wifVrnd^ gether with a new Board of Commis- one citizen of the county who does Q^er from Lakeview. Milton sioners at the annual election next I not know of a single plao^ in the, advertising and job « I'T tI.““ • ,T \ printing solicitor and handy the Aberdeen Hotel. The nominees |d,d I would tel McDonald just as of the Town Caucus were as follows: ■ quickly as I could get him over the tnnvp nvpr frnm VaQc T W telephone, just as I would tell him advertising manager, is of the whereabouts of the murderer , already here. Miss Laland Frye, of Chief Kelly, if I knew. office manager, is coming direct- Is is the business of the cibzens gytler, who belongs to to band themselves together in an , whole COUnty, says heHl be organization to enforce the law^^^^ most of the time, but against murder, burglary, theft or; “guess 1^1 have to sleep out on the farm, Buddy.'' This is also For mayor, Dan I. McKeithen. For commissioners, G. C. Seymour, J. R, Page, J. D. McLean, H. McC. Blue and M, M. Johnson. Since the caucus further candidates for the Board of Commissioners have been added among them T. D. Mc Lean, C. J. Johnson and J. K. Melvin. The five receiving the largest num ber of votes will serve as commis sioners for the next year. FUND CAMPAIGN ASSURES NEW COMMUNITY CHURCH The campaign for the additional funds necessary to assure the imme diate placing of the contract for the new Pinehurst Community Church has met with such decided success that only the completion of • the ar chitect’s plans now stand in the way of construction, it was announced yes terday. The Rev. Murdoch McLeod told The Pilot that, although the fund is by no means complete, large con tributions have come in since the start of the campaign, and the con tract will be let almost immediately. Further funds will be needed before the final coat of paint is applied to the finished structure, he said, but he and others interested in the new church anticipate a continuance of the Ratifying flow of contributions. M. C. REYNOLDS DIBS AT HOME IN EAGLE SPRINGS After a residence in Moore county of almost 35 years, M. C. Reynolds died at his home in Eagle Springs last Friday night in the sixtieth year of his life. Mr. Reynolds first came to Eagle Springs from Richmond county in i895 to run a peach or chard belonging to K. M. McDonald. He established himself as a farmer and storekeeper and was throughout bis life a loyal citizen of Eagle Springs and much esteemed by his fellow townsmen. Services were held Sunday in the Methodist Church of Eagle Springs. Mr. Reynolds is survived by hii wife and son, Marvin Reynolds. arson ? What do we elect a sheriff for if not to enforce the law? Mr. Burt is all wrong. He has no right, nor has any other citizen to say what laws he will observe or which of them he will not. Mr. Hoo ver is eternally right when he says it is the duty of all good citizens to observe and support all the laws. Anything short of this is anarchy. Certainly no man advocating the breach of law, or the non-observance of it can claim good citizenship. The question is very much larger than prohibition, large as that is. It is a question of whether we are to have a government under law, or a government of license. I want to be recorded as being for the law. —ROBERT N. PAGE. our difficulty for the present. Among the first visitors in the new building were Mayor G. C. Seymour, Frank Shamber- ger, J. McN. Johnson, Murdoch Johnson, Arch McKeithen, Roy Rosser and Jerry Healy. HOPES MR. BURT WON’T SECEDE FROM THE UNION We have spent this week get ting settled. It takes a lot of time to move where machinery is involved. Next week will be the big “Aberdeen Number” of The Pilot, with special feature stories of Aberdeen's founding and growth, its importance as a railroad center, its place in the tobacco and peach industry of the country, its industries and shops, its organizations of a civ- ir. and social nature, its scihools and churches—its future. Dear Mr. Editor— They say it “ain’t nice” to answer articles you see in the papers. After seeing Mr. Struthers Burt’s article in last week’s issue of The Pilot in regard to prohibition, liquor “guz- zlin,” etc., I ain’t nioe, if you want to call it that. Mr. Burt seems to have a prohibiiton complex and is con siderably “hipped” on the subject. Be ing one of the best informed men in America, one of our noted writers, living in different parts of the United States every year, he has no doubt discovered some plan whereby we can remedy ourselves of this “damnable affliction.” There’s no doubt that prohibition is a problem but while it is a prob lem, it is also a law. When a good sheriff of our county goes out to enforce a law it seems very commend able that The Pilot should encourage And Aberdeen has a real fu ture, individually and as a link in the chain which makes up the whole ever-growing com munity known as “The Sand hills," erage close to $90,000. This average was based upon the required princi pal, interest and sinking fund to care for bond ratirements over the sixteen- yea” period, plug operating expenses bsMJftd iipon the 1928 budget. Would Retire Debt Roy Pushee showed that the town would be practically out of debt if it maintained its present rate of op eration and borrowing expense over the sixteen-year period when that pe riod expired, provided the tax rate was slightly increased or the added property valuation amounted to suf ficient to produce additional revenue at the present rate. The Chamber of Commerce committee recommended ar. increase in the rate from the pres ent $2.15 per $100 to $2.40 as being the best guarantee against a greater jump becoming necessary later on. The meeting, however, did not go on record regarding the rate. The offer of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Millen, Jr., of five acres of the Piney Woods estate for a village park was enthusiastically received and Hiram Westbrook of the Chamber of Com merce committee appointed to look into the cost of meeting the terms of the gift reported that $1,200 would probably cover it. Paving So. Broad St. Howard Bums reported that $4,000 would cover the cost of paving South Broad street, some of which would come back to the town frm abutting property owners. The cost of paving two additional blocks on Massachu setts avenue was put at $1,700, two- thirds of which would be paid by property owners along the street. Curb and gutter costs are met by property owners, but the town ad vances the money and pays the cost of street intersections. No figures were given on the cost of water main extensions. The new Board of Commissioners, to be chosen at next Tuesday’s elec- LEONARD TUFTS IS HONORED BY KIWANBCLUB Unanimously Chosen for Cup Annually Presented Builders of the Sandhills DR. CURRIE IS SPEAKER Let us grow together, for the common good. —N. C. H. (Please turn to Page 8) BECK OFF TO RALEIGH TO TRAIN STATE POLICE BY BION H. BUTLER To those not well acquainted with Leonard Tufts it is the impression that Pinehurst is a big business en terprise, and that he is the head of the organization, and that his aim is to increase his wealth and pres- tig? as a successful business man. But while in a moderate degree this is true, back of the fact that he has been working to make Pinehurst a financial success is a far greater am bition, that of carrying out the dreams of his father, James Tufts, founder of Pinehurst, and make the commu nity a place wherein people may live with greater c<Tmfort and happiness than they find in most other parts of the country. Leonard Tufts was born in Medford, Middlesex county, Mass., June 30, 1870. His father was James W. Tufts, his mother, Mary Clough, of an Eng lish stock that had for many years carried on in Massachusetts, with a fair degree of prosperity and accom plishment. The boy was reared amid an atmosphere of plain tastes, com fortable financial conditions, not too rigid discipline, but with due regard for energy and industry as applied to those things to be done, and with an upright view of life and the re lations of man to man. The boy ac quired the habit of persistent read ing, and after passing through pre paratory school he landed in the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology, for his inclination was in the direc tion of mechanical production, and when he built his present home in Pinehurst he established a shop where he might work a little at the forge or the bench, or otherwise. Moves to Pinehmrst But the fates tell many of us what we are to be, and although the young man joined his father’s organization, the American Soda Fountain Com pany, and contributed some important inventions to the production of the output, the death of his father in 1902 brught him in his early thir ties into possession of Pinehurst, and his dreams changed overnight. Not long before acquiri|ig Pine hurst Leonard Tufts had married By a unanimous vote, Leonard Tufts was the recipient of the cup annually presented by the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen to the man who has done most for the Sandhills dur ing the previous year. The award was made at the annual ladies’ night meeting of the club last Friday eve ning at the Pinehurst Country Club. The Rev. Murdoch McLeod of Pine hurst, in a gracious speech, present ed the trophy, and it was accepted, for his father by Richard S. Tufts, Mr. Leonard being unable to be pres ent. The occasion was a most pleasant one. Besides the award to Mr. Tufts, the feature of the evening was the speech of Dr. Archibald Currie of Davidson College, who talked on how well America had followed the man dates established for it by the framers 0^ the Constitution and the need for continuance of following in the foot steps of our forefathers. Quoting the preamble of the Con stitution he stated that we have as a nation “insured domestic tranquil lity,” which he gathered to mean cor dial relationship between states; “provided for the common defence, promoted the general welfare and se cured the blessings of liberty to our selves and our posteritiy,” but he stressed the importance of two other words of the preamble, “establish jus tice.” More should, can and must be done in the establishment of justice. Dr. Currie stated. Mrs. Seawell Speaks President Murdoch Johnson of the Kiwanians called upon Mr. Cheatham for the invocation when the dinner guests had been seated around the horseshoe table in the ballroom of the club. John Bloxham led two verses of America. Robert N. Page, “Mr. Bob” to all Kiwanians, spoke words of welcome to the ladies, to which Mrs. Herbert F. Seawell of Carthago responded, commending the Kiwania Club for its part in the upbuilding of the community. In his presentation speech Mr. Mc Leod told of the splendid work which Mr. Tufts bad done in carrying on the great work started here by his father, James Tufts, some forty years ago. He particularly commended the Master Farmer movement initiated by Mr. Leonard and which has been so successfully carried out for the past few years by the Kiwanis Club. Richard Tufts, in accepting the handsome silver trophy, said that nothing had pleased his father more than the announcement of his selection for the honor conferred upon him, and he read a letter from Mr. Tufts in appreciation of the gift. Songs and stunts were interspersed throughout the dinner, and dancing followed until after midnight. Other recipients of the Kiwanis Club’s annual cup have been John McQueen of Lakeview and Bion H. Butler, editor of The Pilot. (Please turn to Page 8) LOCAL CITIZENS APPOINTED TO SAMARCAND BOARD (Please turn to Page 8) Rufus Beck, former Aberdeen night patrolman, now a lieutenant of the recently organized state police, spent a few days in town after his visit at Harrisburgh, Pa., where the offi cers of the new police force were in structed in the methods used by the Pennsylvania state constabulary. Beck goes from here to Raleigh to instruct others appointed to the force. BUSY DAYS FOR COUNTY COLLECTOR OF TAXES J. D. McLean, county tax collec tor, has been the busiest man around these parts in some time. The la«t minute rush to pay coun ty taxes ahead of publication of the delinquent tax list kept J. D. bent over his desk signing slips all week. He’s threatened with writer’s cramp, he says. So much money has poured in on Mr. McLean during the week that Charlie McDonald hasn’t dared leave the building to hunt up those stills Struthers Burt talks about. Richardson, Stutz for So. Pines Mayor New members of the board of man agers of the State Home and Indus trial School for Girls at Samarcand were named Monday afternoon by Governor Max Gardner. Those appointed were: Mrs. Clyde R Hoey of Charlotte; Lionel Well of Goldsboro; Gilbert Stephenson of Winston-Salem, and Dr. W. A. Stan- bury of Durham. Members reappoint ed were: Dr. Delia Dixon-Carroll of Raleigh; Mrs. J. R. Page of Aberdeen; Mrs. W. N. Everett of Rockingham; Leonard Tufts of Pinehurst, and E. T. McKeithen of Aberdeen. All terms expire on April 29, 1933. The new members were appointed in compliance with the act passed by the last General AsesmUy increasing the members of the board from five to ten. Politics are seething in Southern Pines. There are two tickets to be presented to tonight’s caucus, one headed by S. B. Richardson, former mayor; the other by Town Commis sioner D. G. Stutz. These two will be offered in nomination for the mayoralty preparatory to next Tuesday’s election. Various names are to be presented for the town’s Board of Commissioners, some slates includ ing many of the present commission ers, others eliminating certain ones of them. Excitement is keen, and to night’s caucus is expected to draw a capacity house. Mr. and Mi^. Frank Shamberger last evening entertained the “Nite Club” at dinner and bridge at their home in Aberdeen. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harrington en tertained the “Ace of Clubs" at tlie Southern Pines Hotel last evening.
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