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MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 9, NO. 52.
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PINE
PILOT
FIRST IS
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Tev^prv of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, November 29, 1929.
PREVENTION OF
DISEASE AIM OF
WELFARE BODY
Association to Sponsor County-
Wide Adenoid and Tonsil Clin
ic at New Hospital
3,000 NEED TREATMENT
Between forty and fifty people, in
cluding a gratifyinlg- proportion of
busy men, attended the recent an
nual meeting of the Moore County
Health and Welfare Association at
Community Club House, Pinehurst.
Officers were re-elected and a few
new ones introduced, to serve for the
ensuing year.
The Seal Sale, beginning immediate
ly after Thanksgiving, was discussed.
The Seal Sale for the relief of indi
gent tubercular victims, is conducted
under the auspices of the Health and
Welfare Association, each town main
taining a separate campaign under a
local chairman. A portion of the in
come is administered by the Health
ASK MAIL SERVICE ON
NEW “CAROLINA GOLFER’
Concerted effort on the part of
the Chambers of Commerce of
Southern Pines and Aberde€n, the
Kiwanis Club and Pinehurst, In
corporated, is being made to pro
vide better mail facilities for the
Sandhills during the winter
months. These civic organizations
are petitioning the government to
provide closed pouch service on the
new “Carolina Golfer,” the crack
Seaboard train which will run
throughout the season and which
would mean greatly improved mail
service both in and out of the sec
tion.
NEW HOSPITAL
OPENS TO SERVE
ALL THE COUNTY
Modern Medical and Surgical
Equipment Available for
Rich and Poor
BOTH WHITE AND BLACK
Another Hangar for
Knollwood Airport
Work on Building To Accommo
date Five or Six Planes is
Under Wav
With six planes at the Knollwood
Flying field last week, and room in
the hangar for three the necessity
and Welfare, which accounts for the j for more room was apparent, and Ras-
seemingly outstanding interest given j sie Wicker staked put another build-
to tubercular cases. | ing 60 by 42 feet, and a force was
The other outstanding responsibil- put at work to hurry it under cov-
ity of the association is the backing
of the County Health Board, estab
lished some two years ago through j along Saturday when rain interfer-
funds collected by the Health and ed. The new building will provide
Welfare Association. The Moore room in emergency for five or six
County Board of Health now consists planes, and should be ready for use
of the following: I in a couple of weeks.
Dr. John Symington, Public Health j Xo make things look more like bus-
Officer in charge of the Department; | iness the Standard Oil Company has
Miss Mary McLeod, Sanitary In-1 arranged for a building near the
£r. This will be done within a few
days as the foundations were well
spector, and part-time Welfare As
sistant; Mrs. J. E. Snow, Maternity
and Infancy, (Pre-School Age),
Nurse; Miss Olive M. Seagrove, Gen
eral Nurse, working in schools and
homes under the direction of Dr. Sym
ington.
This is an equipment for commun
ity health and well-being of which
present hangar where gasoline and
supplies are to be available for air
navigators. It is the expectation that
it will soon be open for business, as
gasoline and oil are coming into press
ing demand on the field. Lloyd Yost
says that with a good arrangement
to refuel with proper gasoline and
oil and some further conveniences
By Bion H. Butler
The opening of the new Moore
County Hospital at Pinehurst this
week is one of the great events in the
history of the community, for it not
only means a new hospital, but a hos
pital was completed. It was fortu-
by anything on earth unless some new
invention has come up within the last
few days since the Moore County Hos
pital was completed, tl was fortu
nate that the new hospital fell into
the hands of a group of men who had
the acquaintance with things of the
world to such extent that they knew
where to look for the best that is to
be had in hospital practice, and that
thsy had the audacity to requisition
such things, and to feel a confidence
that they could be paid for. So we
have a hospital that for its size has
no superior. It is well for the peo
ple to realize this fact.
The next fact that the board of di
rectors of the hospital desires to em
phasize is that the hospital is for the
whole community, rich and poor, black
and white, and that the need of hos
pital care is the ground for admis
sion. Some misconception of hospitals
is felt in many places, many people
looking on a hospital as a place of
last resort in case of sickness, but
justt the other view of the matter is
the correct one. Early resort to the
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FIVE CENTS
ToUo^
One Dead, Four injured, We<
Accidents Here Due to the AutomobOe
Girl Suffers Crushed
Back in Auto
Upset
THREE OTHERS HURT
Car Turns Turtle on Highway
Near Lake view.—Mrs. C. L.
Morgan Dies as Result of In-
state to Blame
Criminally Responsible for Slaugh
ter on Highways Says Robert
N. Page
Editor, The Pilot:
As a citizen of North Carolina, more
particularly as a citizen of the Sand
hills, I cannot refrain from express
ing my approval of the position your
has taken relative to the
juries Sustained Few Weeks I Pfp""
i slaughter of our people on the high
Ago.
Miss Myrtle Gillis of Manley is in
the Central Carolina Hospital possi
bly permanently crippled as a result
of an automobile accident on Route
50 between Lakeview and Manley last
ways, by the reckless and criminal op
eration of automobiles by reckless and
irresponsible people. The recklessness
and irresponsibility comes from those
operating cars. The criminality rests
wi.h the State for allowing them to
do so. Under modern conditions the
Highways Too Danger
ous, Says Judge in
Charge to Jury
STATE PRESS CONCERNED
‘‘Recklessness and Incompetence
Not Affected by Advice of
Any Sort,” Says Raleigh
News-Observer, Counseling
Remedial Action.
Saturday night. The car in which Miss ‘ automobile is indispensabk to the
Gillis, who is about 16, was riding
with another young girl and two
youths, all under age, turned turtle
beside the road. All were crowded into
the front seat of a new Ford roadster
belonging to George Haynes of Lake
view, and the party is said to have
be:n returning from a dance in the
neighborhood.
Miss Gillis’ back is crushed in two
places, X-rays taken at Sanford show
ed. The car rested on top of the pas
sengers after turning over. Hiram
Mclnnis of Lakeview, one of the four,
managed to crawl out from under and
summon aid. Mclnnis has a broken
collarbone and ribs torn loose. Haynes
suffered a broken hand and the fourth
member of the party, Miss Kats Hall
of Southern Pines, was painfully cut
the county may well be proud. The j that can easily be made the field will
activities of the Health and Welfare ! attract a fair business. A pilot who
Association fall therefore naturally' had recently come remarked Friday
under the two heads of tubercular re-1 that he regarded the Knollwood field
lief and to that most imT)ortant aim of i as one endowed with unusual advan-
hospital often saves a serious illness I bruised ^ ,
Haynes claims to have been blinded
bv lights of a passing car, causing
him to drive off the hard surface into
soft sand where the roadster turned
ov^r. Mclnnis mana^ced to extricate
or a grave outcome of an injury, and
it is reasonable enough for a hospi
tal is simply a place where the doc
tor can work with a full supply of
tools, with suitable surroundings to
encourage health, and with nurse?
and assistants that are a big factor
in regaining health.
himself and although painfully injur
ed, to lift the car sufficiently for the
carrying on of the business and social
life of the people, but the State can
not escape the responsibility of reg
ulating the traffic on the highways
built and maintained by it, so as to
safeguard the lives and limbs of its
citizens, insofar as is possible.
It has enacted laws prohibiting the
carrying of concealed weapons, and
while the law is laxly enforced, it does
now and then send some rough-neck
to the roads for the violation of the
law. On the other hand it allows any
irresponsible person who can raise
fifty dollars to buy a second hand
car, however low his intelligence, or
ciiminal his record, without any test
of fitness, to take a deadly weapon
unconcealed in the shape of a high
powered automobile out on the roads
belonging to the public, and jeopar
dize the lives of all who may use
them, thereby sacrificing more lives
every month than would be taken if
Every person in the State carried a
concealed weapon unrestrained bjs le
gal enactment. WHY? Because among
those elccted to enact laws for the
safety and v/ell being of our people
One death, a girl with a back crush
ed in two places, a youth with a
broken collarbone and ribs torn loose,
another boy with a broken hand and
his girl companion with severe cuts
is the past week’s toll of careless
driving on local highways. Several
minor accidents were also reported to
The Pilot.
Meanwhile The Pilot’s campaign
for a State law requiring operators^
licenses for those who drive motor ve
hicles on the public highways is gain
ing state-wide attention. Judge E. H.
Cranmer, presiding in Alamance Su
perior Court, in charging a jury this
week said: “The highways of North
Carolina are claiming too many hu
man sacrifices because of careless
handling of automobiles. Seventy odd
citizens lost their lives in some man
ner of automobile calamities during
the month of October. These fatalities
were largely the result of negligence,
or violation of the law. Drivers may
reduce the appalling death toll by ob
serving the simple rules. In my travels
through several states in automobiles,
I have noted that traffic law observ
ance is worse in this state than any
visited.’ ”
“Pause and Consider”
“The increase in the number of kill
ings and. maimings on the hard-sur-
tages. Its location on the hill top, giv
ing clearance in all* directions, and
the solid turf on which to land or
take off, with four directions to the
all, preventive work, which is the
prescribed work of the Public Health
Department.
The chief effort for the coming
year of the Health and Welfare As
sociation along preventive lines is
its undertaking the sponsorship of a
county-wide Adenoid and Tonsil Clinic,
to be held at the new Moore County
Hospital. Dr. Symington has examin
ed all public school children of Moore
county and reports that over 3,000
children require the immediate re
moval of adenoids and tonsils. This
is a preventive measure against most
childhood disorders, perhaps especial
ly against tuberculosis. The Shrine
Club have in their splendid way, al
ready independently undertaken to de
fray the expense of 80 to 100 of these
cases. The Health and Welfare is
conductnig a census to determine j
which are actually indigent cases. | “In the past, farmers have not
Great care will be exercised to make ' studied their business; they have
this dependable. ‘just farmed,* and farming is worthy
of the best brains of the State,” said
T. E. Browne, Director of Vocational
j Education for North Carolina, in ad-
I dressing a district me?ting of voca-
Health moving pictures are coming jtional teachers, advisory boards.
after which always enough who arc
It is true that hospital care costs | ^ more of the political effect
'•'^riouslv iniured to the office of Dr.
Rosser in Vass v;here they were giv
en first aid treatment, after which
Miss Gillis and the Mclnnis boy were
^5^ken to the hospital at Sanford.
money. But not because it is a hos
pital, for hospital care costs less than
similar care at home with much infer
ior facilities for treatment. It is not
the hospital that entails the cast, but
wind or with it, are all favorable. The | the sickness. At the new hospital a x'.ray pictures showed that Miss Gillis’
hard grass top is highly appreciated | diiferent sea e of prices for hospital. j,roktn, but
by pilots, as their wheels ride easily services will prevail the private
over the surface without cutting in, rooms with elaborate furnishings and
as is the case in many places where with individual nurses entailing high-
sand or soft earth is the only cover er costs than the wards where semi-
for the planes to alight on.
Suggests Vocational
Training for Farmers
Must Put Study Behind Prob
lems, State Education Tells
Group at Ellerbe
Accident Proves Fatal j
This accident occurred near the spot i tomobile out on our highways,
privacy is gained, although more pa- ; where Mrs. Charles L. Morgan of | How long is this slaughter to go
tients than one may b? in the ward Belmont, Mass., was fatally injured Just so long as the intelligent
and the services of a nurse are not | several weeks ago’when the car in | state, those who have
claimed exclusively by a single pa-! which she was riding turned turtle, | regard for human life, elect to
tient. Most patients are cared for severing one of her legs. Mrs. Mor-
I extremely well where one nurse looks jgan, 68 years of age. died last week
faced roads in North Carolina should
give pause and consi r^eration to
, . thoughtful people,” rays the Raleigh
(upon themselves from the Morons) Observer editorially. “It
ana ciimmals than they are of admonitions
lives anc safety of the law abidmg. ^ ^nd activities of the State Highway
Every one with enough intelligence j decrease the accidents,
to get in out of the ram knows the,[,yj. r citjessness and i':comDetence are
dangers inciaent to the operation of ^^t affected by advice of any sort,
an automobile, and the harm that is ; number of drivers
almost sure to come, by allowing un-|^j,„ gasoline
trained, to sar nothing of the unin- situation is more than ser-
telhgent a.-d criminal, to take an au-1 Something must be done if hu-
HEALTH MOVING PICTURES
TO BE SHOWN IN COUNTY
after s.n’eral cases, and in that way
costs are much lower, and likewise
lower than where a nurse is engaged
at the Central Carolina Hospital in
Sanford as a result of injuries sus
tained on November 9 when the au-
the Legislature men who have more
man life is valued.”
The editorial then reprints The Pi
lot’s editorial of last week and says:
“The Pilot is troubled at our ‘sub
lime ir:difference’ to the killing. It
predicts that in another twelve months
regard for the vote of the Moron and ^
the criminal than they have for the
lives of the people.
Strength to your pen, Mr. Editor. I
for a case at home. Without doubt a i tomobile in which she was 'riding was
case of sickness that involves a nurse j in collision with a car driven by John j orous stand it has taken. Keep
and much attention by the doctor McDonald of Charlotte.
?nd innn’e:^ than were killed in bat
tle in the Civil War in both armies in
1 ^ mi. .an equal length of time. The remedy?
am proud of The Pilot and the vig- ^he Pilot does not pr:fer to know,
it
should be cared for in the hospital,
for it can be cared for much better,
and in the majority of cases no doubt
at much less cost. But the cost is not
the main thing in sickness. Getting
well is. And at the hospital are the
helps the doctor resorts to in sick
ness. That is the chief virtue of a
The automobile was driven by her
husband, the Rev. Charles L. Morgan,
D. D., a minister of the Congrega
tional Church, and the party was en
route to Winter Park, Florida to
spend the winter.
The remains, accompanied by Dr.
Morgan, their daughter. Miss Mirian
up.
-ROBERT N. PAGE.
“THE PADDOCK” OPENS WITH
GUESTS FROM NEW YORK
but thinks it can come ‘only through
'^ublic sentiment and a law with teeth
and that will have back of it a suffi
cient force of highway police to en
force it.’ ”
Bus Accidents
I Smithfisld Herald says editor-
First guests at “The Paddock,” j ially regarding the recent bus accident
which opened this week on the out-inhere:
skirts of Southern Pines where the i ‘‘The law plainly forbids a motor
to the county and will be exhibited j school superintendent and principals hospital. It can help your doctor to j Morgan and Miss Mary Greeley, rel- new clubhouse sprung: up during the , vehicle passing a school bus which is
centers throughout the county. Dates
and places have not yet been fixed
but the program will commence De
cember 9. These pictures will be Very
interesting and we understand that
there will be no charge for admission.
The full program, as to places and
dates, will be given out later by Dr.
J. Symington, public health officer.
KIWANIS LUNCHEON AIDS
BARIUM SPRINGS ORPHANAGES
W. W. Rivers of Goldsboro, active
in boy scout work throughout the
south, was the speaker at the weekly
Kiwanis luncheon held at the home of
Mrs. J. R. Page in Aberdeen Wednes
day. He counseled the setting of good
example to the boys of today by the
men of today.
The luncheon was for the benefit
of the Barium Springs Orphanage,
of which Mrs. Page is a trustee, and
a goodly sum was realized to be
despatched for work at the institu
tion.
each night for two weeks at different j held in the school auditorium in El
lerbe on Thursday afternoon. Through
vocational training he predicted a
good day in North Carolina with im-'
proved living conditions and increased
earning power for the farmer.
P. W. Edwards, vocational teacher
in the Ellerbe school, presided over
the meeting, which was the second
one in the district for the year, the
previous meeting having been held
in Vass. J. M. Osteen, district super
visor, spoke on “How the Vocational
Teacher is Guided in Making a Pro
gram of Work for His Community.”
The program, he said, should not be
theoretical teaching from books, but
should have as its basis field work
in the community, with class work
built around that. It should be built
on the enterprise basis, the enterprise
being adapted to the needs of the
particular community, and should be
approved by the advisory board and
the county superintendent.
Teachers Report
The various vocational teachers
then presented their five year pro
grams for their communities, R. T.
Grant for Candor, R. B. Winchester
for Mt. Gilead, R. F. Brackin for
Troy, R. L. Mayfield for Vass-Lake-
view, L. L. Osteen 'for Rockingham,
and P. W. Edwards for Ellerbe. Cot
ton improvement, soil improvement,
poultry, dairy and school ground im
provement were some of the enter-
get you back to health.
There is little doubt that the new
liaapital is the choice among the hos
pitals that are available to the inva
lid of this section. It is under the gen
eral oversight of the State Health
Department, and in charge of a local
organization of doctors and laymen
that is reassuring in its composition.
Then your own doctor can attend you
ative, were taken to Belrriont, a suburb
of Boston.
BOB GARDNER, FORMER U. S.
CHAMPION, AT PINEHURST
SEEK LIGHTING EXTENSION
Extension of the North Broad street
lighting system to the start of the
Pinehurst double road at the South
ern Pines end was recommended to
the Town Board of Commissioners by
the Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce at Tuesday’s meeting of the
Board of Directors.
(Please turn to page 5)
Pinehurst is host to tv/o former na
tional champions, bent on a golfing
vacation.
Robert A. Gardner, who won the
at the hospital at Pinehurst, while at national amateur championship in 1909
FORMER PINEHURST MAN
KILLED BY EXPLOSION
a distant institution you are in the
hands of a new man. In many cases
this becomes necessary, but where
your family doctor can care for you
it is better to be at your local hos.oi-
tal and close among friends and neigh
bors who can respond to your wants
than to be far from home.
Although it is hoped that most of
us are not to go to the hospital right
away professionally, nevertheless it
is desired that as many as possible of
the community turn out this week to
see the new institution on its open
ing occasion and to gain an idea of
what it has to hold out for any of us
when sickness comes, and to under
stand better why a hospital is an in
stitution that can minister to the
sick better than any other method or
agency can. And above all things it
is desirable that the folks of Moore
county realize that the hospital at
Pinehurst has been built for the ben
efit of the whole people.
when still a boy and occupied in
those days much the same position
Bobby Jones holds now,, played a fine
round of 79 over the No. 2 champion
ship course as soon as he could get
from the train to the links.
It was the first game Gardner had
played on sand greens in many
months, he said.
Hugh Halsell, New York City, who
won the national senior championship
in 1923 and again in 1927, also ar
rived with his golf clubs from Dallas,
Texas, where he has a winter resi
dence.
The Sandhills Daily News will ap
pear each morning beginning Tuesday.
JAMES BOYD RETURNS
AFTER SINUS OPERATION
summer months, are Mr and Mrs. B. j stop’^ed for the purpose of putting off
A. Tompkins, Mr. and Mrs. Bradley | or taking on school children. The
Delehanty, Mrs. George Mumane, j says approaching vehicles must
Ranald H. MacDonald, John Ross and j come to a full stop before reaching
William P. Willetts, all of New York,, bus. Yet people take chances and
who are spending the Thanksgiving | accidents occur. A few weeks ago a
holiday there. j child in Guilford county was killed
! because this law was not observed.
Last week a sixteen-year old girl near
Windsor was seriously* injured be
cause the driver of an automobile
failed to observe this law. ?.’he bus
was at a standstill, and the young-
girl with arms laden with books and
packages of groceries was going from
the bus to her home when the bump
ers of the approaching car struck
her and tossed her fifteen feet. Too
much publicity cannot be given such
occurrences. The public needs to be
impressed with the danger of not ob
serving traffic laws.”
So it goes throughout the state.
And so it will continue until some le
gal enactment regulates who shall
drive on the pftblic highways.
Guy P. Henry, prominent business
man of High Point, died in a hospital
there Monday morning following in
jury in a boiler-room explosion Wed
nesday. Death was due to burns and
the inhalation of flames.
Mr. Henry was president of the
Henry Motor Sales Co. and distribu
tor of Studebaker and Erskine cars
in 20 counties of North Carolina. He
had lived in High Point a little over
a year, having gone there from Pine
hurst. He was 52 years of age and
was born on a farm near Flint, Mich.
BIBLE FORUM SUPPER
James Boyd, author of “Drums” and
“Marching On,” has returned to his
home in Southern Pines after an op
eration for sinus trouble in a New
York hospital two weeks ago. Mr.
Boyd is much improved and perma
nent relief from the condition which
has troubled him for some time is pre
dicted by his physicians.
Men of Southern Pines are to be
invited to a Dutch supper to be giv
en by Mrs. Grearson at the Highland
Lodge for the purpose of interesting
more men in the Bible Forum, famil
iarly known as Frank Buchan’s Bi
ble Class. The committee in charge
of the arrangements for the gather
ing include the Rev. Mr. Stimson and
Messrs. Windham, Swearington and
Council.
PINEHURST INVESTMENT
COMPANY INCORPORATED
Incorporation papers were filed in
Raleigh last week for the Pinehurst
Investment Company,’ ’to buy, sell
and otherwise deal in commercial pa
per, bands, etc.” The authorized cap
ital is $100,000, with $28,600 sub
scribed stock. Incorporators are I. C.
Sledge, A. P. Thompson, O. H.
Stutts and others of Pinehurst.