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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 10, NO. 5.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
JACKSOH
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
advertising
of the Sandhii^;#
ry of North Carolina
Friday, January 3, 1930.
LOC AL GIRL HURT
AND 1 KILLED IN
AUTO COLUSION
]Mrs. Godfrey, formerly Miss
Gibson of Aberdeen, in Char
lotte Hospital
brother-in-law killed
Three B’s—Buchan, Betterley and Burt—
Plan Chamber of Commerce Dinner
Modestly Announce Themselvse as Chief Entertainers for
Annual Meeting and Banquet on
January 10th
The annual meeting, banquet and , Frank Buchan is to speak, according
election of directors of the Southern to Struthers Burt, but neither would
Pines Chamber of Commerce will be
held at the Southern Pines Hotel on
Friday evening, January 10th, from
7:30 to 10:00 o’clock. The tickets will
be $1.25, and all members of the
Chamber of Commerce and all citi
zens interested in the development
and beautification of the city are in
vited to attend.
As some madwag stated at the
meeting of the directors of the
Chamber on Tuesday, it should “B”
a good Banquet Because three “B’s”
Mrs. T. C. Godfrey, formerly Miss
Elmer Gibson of Aberdeen, was ser
iously hurt and her brother-in-law.
Perry Godfrey, was killed in an au
tomobile accident which occurred at
about 10 o’clock last Saturday night
between Mathews and Charlotte. The
automobile in which they were re
turning to their homes in Charlotte
after a visit in Aberdeen collided with
a large bus, turning their car turtle.
Mrs. Godfrey was hurled some dis- form the committee in charge, Buchan,
tance while Perry Godfrey was pin- j Burt and Betterley. When The Pilot j ial value to Southern Pines where
ned beneath it and fatally injured. . representative asked the members of l there are so many temporary citi-
say what Hugh Betterley is to do and
he refused to be interviewed. Dr. L.
B. McBrayer, president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, will preside.
Some outside talent is to be pro
cured for entertainment features.
Members of the organization will have
tickets on sale within the next day or
two.
Only routine business was trans
acted at the directors’ session at
Jack’s Grill Tuesday, and Mr. Burt
in summing up the year’s work spoke
of the great value of a Chamber of
Commerce to any city, but of its spec-
zens, without vote, who have no med
ium of expression or hand in civic
government except through such an
organization.
Disgrace and Financial Liability
He died soon after his arrival at the i the committee who were to be on the
Charlotte Hospital. | program they stated modestly that
Mrs. Godfrey, whose brother, Carl j'they were. Struthers Burt is to sing,
Gibson of Aberdeen was killed in an ! according to Frank Buchan, and
automobile accident near Carthage : '——
several months ago, was returning to i ^ j xL, ID J. 11 ia J O*
Charlotte with her husband, their j d Lm CJl10]7S JDU]? L l^clliS fCOdCl ^l£HS
small child and Mr. Godfrey’s broth- i
er. The accident occurred when they :
tried to pass another car near Math- |
ews. In some manner they were forced
into an approaching bus, which they
struck with sufficient force to hurl
the car off the road and turn it over.
The child and its father escaped with
bruises, but Mrs. Godfrey suffered
a fractured hip, broken wrist and
many cuts and bruises. She is in the !
Charlotte Hospital to which she and '
her brother-in-law were rushed after
the collision.
Decrease in Accidents
There have been many reports of
automobile accidents throughout the
state during the Christmas period,
further demonstrating the urgent
neea lor an increased State Highway
Patrol and a law regulating the is
suance of licenses to operate motor
vehicles. The value of the highway pa
trol has been clearly shown by sta
tistics just issued by the Motor Ve- i
'Lv° Department, gouthbouud CaroHna ^
These demonstrate that though Golfer to Carry Mail
th^re was evidence a few months ago j
that 1929 would show greatly increas-i in,proved Service Provided m
ed automobile casualties over 1928,
but Not Out of the
KATHARINE NEWLIN BURT
ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE
Katharine Newlin Burt writes on
Man and his treatment of Woman
in this issue of The Pilot. Her
thoughtful if controversial ar
ticle appears on the editorial page
as No. 4 of the series of contribu
tions to this newspaper by promi
nent authors resident in the Sand
hills.
Next week The Pilot will offer
“Scatterings,” a column by Dr.
Ernest M. Poate of Southern Pines,
contributor to many leading mag
azines, lawyer, doctor and crimin
ologist.
Commends Letter of George L.
Stebbin’s and Scores Mer
chants who Defile Highways
the total has been gradually reducing |
during the last few months, or since ,
the patrol has become efficiently op-1
erative, and the year’s total will not
greatly exceed 1929.
The wide publicity and appeals of
the press of the state for better reg
ulatory legislation have undoubtedly
had much effect in bringing about this
reduction.
Death by months for the past two
Sandhills
The request to the Postoffice De
partment at Washington for closed
pouch mail service on the “Carolina
Golfer,” the new Seaboard train op
erating from New York to Southern
Pines and Pinehurst and return, has
been partially approved. Service ^ neighbors, and it is
time W9 showed, in whatever legiti-
re-
town
additional injured, while figures com
piled for the first ll months of 1929
show 622 dead and 5,176 injured.
Figures for the entire year will not
be completed until the middle of
vised of the date this service is plac
ed in effec-t, which will probably be
January, but unless December has | about January 6 leaving New York,
an unusually heavy toll, the total “The investigation does not indicate
will noti go far beyond that of 1928. I that we would be justified in incurr-
North Carolina motorists began the I ing the additional expense involved
year by more than doubling the na-1 for a northbound movement on the
tion’s percentage of increase in au- i Florida Flyer as suggested in your
tomobile accident deaths. On July 1, j letter in view of the fact that it is
the 295 killed amount to a 12 per cent 1 thought that reasonable service is now
incTPase over the 262 killed during the j provided northbound with the space
ft,rst six months 'of the preceding j now authorized,”
year. The average increase for the |
nation as a whole was only 5.8 per rnitimif®
cent for the same period. ACdV/riCi
By the first of December, however,
the percentage of increase was cut
down to five, and a material is ex
pected during this month, since in
December, 192G, there were 106 deaths |
^'eported in the state from automobile ]
accidents, and during the past month
observers say there have been fewer
than the usual number of holiday ac
cidents.
Suicide at Carthage
Miss Myrtie Stewart, 27, Kills
Herself W'hile at Home
for Holidays
RETURN FROM GEORGIA
Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Spence, their
son, U. L., Jr. and Miss Ma^y Wor
thy Spence have returned to Carthage
after spending the Christmas holi
days in Columbus, CJeorgia, where
they were the guests of Mr. Spence’s
brother, Ken Worthy.
Miss Myrtie Stewart, 27 years old
and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M.
Stewart who live a few miles outside
of Carthage, committed suicide last
Friday afternoon by drinking lysol
at the liome of her parents where she
was spending the holidays. She hais
been teaching school at Snow Hill.
Miss Stewart is said to have been
in poor health for some time, and to
this IS attributed the taking of her
life.
increasingly this method of advertis
ing is becoming dangerous. The Amer
ican travelling public is beginning to
resent the desecration of its highways
as anyone can tell who is in touch
with the situation. But Southern
Pines no sooner takes a sign down,
then a neighbor puts one up. We are
on a famous hifghway north >1^(1
south. Not very far away from us
there is a town which, from the way
it has ruined its approaches and ad
jacent scenery, has become a state
wide, and even nationwide, laughing
stock.
I could go on, but I won’t. I simply
repeat, having been in the tourist
business myself for many years, that
what Mr. Stebbins has said is the
hardest kind of business sense.
—STRUTHERS BURT.
Southern Pines,
Jan. 1, 1930.
DR. BROWNSON HERE SUNDAY
Dr. Brownson will preach at the
Presbyterian Church next Sunday,
Jan. 5, at 11:15 a. m.
MRS. McLEAN IN HOSPITAL
Mrs. John McLean of Aberdeen who
has been very ill for the past week,
has been taken to Highsmith Hospital
in Fayetteville for treatment.
WOMAN VETERAN
OF TWO WARS TO
ADDRESS D. A. R.
Dr. Anita McGee, Now Resident
Here, Has Spent Life in
Army Medical Work
SERVED U. S. AND JAPAN
Editor, The Pilot:
I wish to commend most heartily
the letter of Mr. George L. Stebbins
in your last issue.
Mr. Stebbins knows what he is talk
ing about and he speaks primarily as
a business man of the widest exper
ience. The problems with which he
has had to deal for many years are
exactly the problems that confront
Southern Pines. Mr. Stebbins, until
his retirement from business a year
or so ago, was one of the most success
ful real estate men in the country and
was one of the small group of men
who had to do with the building up
of Mt. Desert Island, Maine, which |
I think, is generally admitted to be >
the most successful and prosperous i
summer resort today in the United |
States. Mt. Desert Island has on it j
such resorts as Bar Harbor, Dark :
Harbor, etc. Mr. Stebbins knows what
cleanliness, beauty, trees, well pre-;
served roadsides and so on, mean i
to a community.
I hope the citizens of Southern |
Pines will take deeply to heart what I
he says. Every year this town itself |
become more attractive and the citi-1
zens of Southern Pines are to be con
gratulated, but outside the city lim
its we are still subject to the self-
The January meeting of the Alfred
Moore Chapter, Daughters jf the
American Revolution, will be held at
the Southern Pines Country Club, on
Tuesday afternoon, January 7th at
2:30 p. m. Mrs. E. Ellsworth Giles
will be hostess upon this occasion.
This will be one of the most impor-
atnt meetings of the year and a good
attendance is urged.
Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee will be
the speaker of the afternoon and the
guest of honor. Dr. McGee’s subject
will be “Hunting Ancestors in Eu
rope.” She has had much experience
in this line, having gathered thous
ands of her own ancestors, delving
into manuscript records in England,
France, Germany and Switzerland.
Dr^ McGee’s associations with the
D. A. R. are many and her services
^reat. She has served as Vice Presi
dent General, Librarian General, and
founder of the library. Historian Gen
eral, Surgeon General and Director
General of the “D. A. R. Hospital
Corp,” which selected women trained
nurses for appointment to the Army
Nurse Corps in the War with Spain.
She «lso served as Assistant-Surgeon,
U. S. Army, on duty as organizer and
Superintendent of Army Nurse Corps
in the Spanish War and Phillippine
Insurrection years, serving directly
I’nder the Surgeon General of the
Army in Washington, and was with
the Japanese Army at the head of a
party of former American Army
nurses, whom she took to Japan by
invitation of the Japanese Go\ . rnment
during the Russo-Japanese War in
1904. She is the daughter of Prof.
Simon Newcomb, eminent astr3n:>m3'
and widow of M. J. McGe , ge3loglp.t
and anthropologist. Dr. McGae i
making her home in Southern Pine
at present and it will be a pvivllege
to hear h^r.
Accordin- to the new recomrrtenda-
tion of the State Regent, the r^nnual
election of Chapter officers will take
place and also the election of dele
gates to the State Conference.
All visiting daughters are cordial
ly invited to attend the meeting.
FIVE CENTS
Death Claims Prominent
Southern Pines Residents
S. E. SLAYMAKER
An Appreciation
THE REV. MR. LAWRENCE
INSTALLED AS PASTOR
years, chargeable to the automobile, i gtart next week southbound, providing
—all accidents occuring within North ' iniproved service to the Sandhills. ,
Carolina,-show the following. | Bu? the deMre for better northbound
1QOQ 100Q /IQ. • 1-1 XU • . sentment. We keep our own t
inFpbn!»T^Q95f^k k 1Q9Q ^ fn’ the primary aim
w! iqJs OS •’ f’aoa aI ’ I’ M I of it. Each year we improve it. Out-
fgS 4^ in in Mav f | recent ptitions to \V ash,ngton seems ^ ^^^h and
4? ’ 1^.; 1Q9/’S7 " disap comtment. , entrances to our town,
1929 Tnlv ^1 In 1Q2q i ^ communication received by Post-, through no fault of our own, are dis-
in Aui.Lt iq28 fi2 ,q2q |q.’' ^'es-j graceful and direct financial liabili-
in’spnt'^^h f’ia9s • iQpq ‘^e General Supenntend-1 hurt our present, and they
in K iQoa 74 1Q9U 7r Division of Railway Mail; „jn still more our future.
Xovetb "’192^77!’in 1929 66;’ Washington reads as fol-, ^ Take one small example, for road-
December, 1928, 106, 1929, uncom-i -Replying to your letter of recent 1 jarge'qu^stloL The vast ^majority of
^ . I date suggesting that additional closed i Southern Pines signs are now down.
622 Deaths in ’29 I pouch service be provided on Sea- j On the whole the Southern Pines bus-
The 12 months of 1928 chalke(} up i board Air Line train No. 197, the ! jness man is progressive and knows
a grim total of 675 dead and 4,768 Carolina Golfer, I am very glad to in- | what a stupid and wasteful form of
form you that instructions are being j advertising roadside advertising has
issued today providing for space on j become, and, since he is in touch with
the southbound train. You will be ad- world, he is aware how every year
The Rev. Charles A. Lawrence v/as
farmally installed as pastor of the
Vass group of Presbyterian churches
on last Sunday, services being held at
Union in the morning, at Cypres.^ in
the afternoon, and at Vass in "he
evening, the last being a joint ser
vices for Vass and Lakeview.
The Rev. A. R. McQueen preached
the installation sermon Sunday even
ing to a large congregation of Vass
and Lakeview people. The Rev. L.
Smith propounded the constitutional
questions, and delivered the charge to
the pastor, and Ruling Elder John W.
Graham of Aberdeen gave the charge
to the people. The Rev. W. S. Golden
of Carthage offered a prayer. A
Lakeview quartet rendered special
music.
By Robert N. Page
My own deep sense of loss at the
passing of Mr. Slaymaker, has led me
to reflect, as in my selfishness I had
not before, on what he meant to the
entire community.
Coming to Southern Pines some
nine years ago, upon his retirement
from active business, he immediately
became interested in community af
fairs, leading to his investment in a
home here during his second winter.
He was a modest man, never pro
jecting himself into the affairs of
others. He liked the section, and v/as
always interested to the point of
helpfulness in every enterprise look
ing to the betterment of conditions.
He made liberal contribution to the
churches, the hospital, while no wor
thy charity appealed to him in vain
He loved his Southern Pines home and
was continually adding to its attrac
tiveness.
At a time of crisis he came to the
financial aid of the Southern Pines
Country Club. His optimism, his cheer
ful outlook upon life, his cheeriness
of disposition, his charity made him
the most companionable of men.
His early life was by no means an
easy one. He had an intimate ac
quaintance with real work. His most
active years were spent in the lumber
business, having interests reaching
from North Carolina to New York.
He was a native of Sunbury, Pennsyl
vania, in the vrey heart of the an
thracite coal belt of the country; 'ust
across the Susquehanna river from
the city he owned a beautiful home
and farm; was for a number of years
an active officer in his bank, and was
identified with practically all the
leading industries of his town and sec
tion. With material success his inter
est in peoole grew. It was not whac
he possessed that drew m:n to him.
but his breadth of vision, and his
h^rrful spirit of helpfulness that
held the devotion of his friend"". He
w:nt as I am sure he would have liked
corld he have chosen. The world is
nuch poorer by his going; particu
larly is this true of this community
and the one from which he came.
Clouds came into his life, but he
always saw the sunshine through the
clouds. His wide business connections
had made him many friends in widely
separated communities. How we all
shall miss him.
E. Slaymaker, George -W. Mun-
roe and Sylvester Beauchamp
Die on Successive Days
LIVED HERE MANY YEARS
Grant Bus Franchise
to Safety Transit Co.
Corporation Commission Denies
Application of Southern
Motor Transport
MRS. TRAVIS’ MOTHER
DIES IN BALTIMORE
Mrs. Augusta Worth Sinclair, wife
of Judge Neil A. Sinclair of Fayette
ville and mother of Mrs. Frederick
F. Travis of Southern Pines, died
Wednesday afternoon in the Union
Memorial Hospital at Baltimore. Mrs.
Sinclair had been ill since early Sep
tember and was taken to Baltimore
before Christmas. She was operated
upon last Monday and never regain
ed consciousness.
Mrs. Sinclair was one of the lead
ing women of Fayetteville, active in
all civic and charitable enterprises.
Besides Mrs. Travis, she is survived
by two other daughters, Mrs. James
F. Williamson of Charlotte and Mrs.
G. W. Harrison of New Brunswick,
N. J. Judge Sinclair and Mrs. Harri
son were at the bedside when death
came.
NEW YORK CAST TO PRESENT
PLAY AT PINEHURST TUESDAY
The Parent-Teachers Association
will present “Sun UP,” a play by
Lulu Vollmer, at the Pinehurst School
Auditorium on Tuesday night, Jan
uary 7, with a cast of Broadway play
ers from New York city, headed by
Marie Pavey. The play is being pro
duced here at great expense, but a
large audience is expeetd as the pro
duction will be one of th feature of
ferings of the winter.
The application of the Southern Mo
tor Transportation Company for a
franchise to operate an interstate
svst-m of bus transportation through
North Carolina, with headquarter of
fices in Southern Pines, has been for
mally denied by the Corporation Com
mission at Raleigh, it was announced
Tuesday. Another company, the Saf
ety Transit Lines, already operat
ing southward as far as Richmond
and holding a franchise through Vir
ginia and North Carolina as far
south as Sanford, ws^s granted a
franchise through the state because
it was already serving most of the
route over Highway No. 50.
Under the order the Safety Tran
sit may operate between Sanford and
Rockingham, but may not carry pas
sengers in local traffic between those
points. It was also granted a fran
chise to the South Carolina line from
Rockingham. The restriction between
Sanford and Rockingham was based
on the fact that the Greensboro-Fay-
etteville line already is serving that
territory.
Under the new arrangement pas
sengers may board Safety Transit
busses here and travel to New York
or Florida on regularly scheduled
lines.
Death of three prominent residents
of Southern Pines occuring during the
past week cast a pall of gloom over
that city during the holiday period..
Sylvester Beauchamp, proprietor of
Beauchamp’s barber shop, died on
Sunday morning after an illness of
only two days. Samuel E. Slaymakeir
passed away on Monday morning at;
his home on Connecticut avenue, and
George W. Munroe died suddenly on
Tuesday morning at Highsmith’s Hos
pital in Fayetteville.
Mr. Beauchamp was 52 years old and
came to Southern Pines from Roches
ter, N. Y., some eight years ago. He
complained last Friday of feeling ill,
and was taken to the Moore County
Hospital on Saturday. Death came at
four o’clock Sunday morning. Mr.
Beauchamp was known to everyone in
the city, and held the respect of the
entire community. Surviving him is
his widow.
I Samuel E. Slaymaker, prominent
I and well beloved winter resident of
I Southern Pines, died at 4:30 o’clock
; Monday morning at his residence. He
I was 75 years of age and first came
I to the Sandhills nine winters ago from
I his home in Sunbury, Pa. Mr. Slay
maker had taken an active interest in
Southern Pines and the community
and at the time of his death was a
member of the Board of Directors of
the Chamber of Commerce.
Death came suddenly. Mr. Slay
maker had besn in failing health for
about a year but not until Saturday
was his condition regarded as serious.
Hc’ leaver? two sons. The funeral was
held from his late home on Tuesday
afternoon.
George W. Munroe, one of the lead
ing citizens of Southern Pines, died
suddenly on Tuesday morning at
Highsmith’s Hospital in Favetteville
where he had been recuperating from
an operation performed about five
weeks ago. For the last ten ('ays he
had been in excellent physical con-
cition, and was about ready to be
released from the hospital when death
overtook him without warning.
Mr. Munroe was 77 years old. He
came to Southern Pines to live in
1908, his former home having been
at McKeesport, Pa. He was known
and highly respected by all in South
ern Pines and the Sandhills section.
Surviving him are his widow, one
daughter, Mrs. Clinton L. CoHester of
Greensboro, and one son, Stewart
Munroe, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Several
brothers and one sister also survive.
The funeral was held at the Mun
roe home on Massachusetts avenue at
3:00 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
Resolutions Passed
Resolutions of regret and sympathy
were passed by the Board of Direc
tors of the Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce on Mr. Slaymaker’s
death at its meeting on Tuesc^ay, as
follows:
“The Southern Pines Chamber of
Commerce wishes to express its re
gret and sense of loss at the death
of Samuel Slaymaker, one of its di
rectors. Mr. Slaymeker, long a resi
dent of Southern Pine^;, was a man
of broad sympathies, wide experience
and deep willingness to support and
promote all plans for the betterment
of his community and its individual
citizens. Southern Pines will miss his
helpful and pleasant personality.
“To Mr. Slaymaker’s family we
wish to convey our sincere sympathy.”
Senator Brookhart
Speaks Here Sunday
Iowa Republican, Defender of
Prohibition, at Church of
Wide Fellowshp
DR. ANNE SYMINGTON
ADDRESSES KIWANIANS
Dr. Anne Symington, a native of
Scotland and relative of Dr. J. Sym
ington, Moore County Health Officer,
talked to the Kiwanis Club at its
weekly meeting Wednesday noon at
the Pinehurst Country Club, telling
them of university life in Scotland in
a most interesting manner.
The newly elected president of the
Kiwanis Club, Frank Shamburger, was
inducted into office as successor to
Murdoch Johnson.
I United States Senator Smith W.
i Brookhart of Iowa, one of the Coun-
I try’s leading proponents of prohibi
tion, who early this week in a speech
in New York demanded the resigna
tion of Secretary of the Treasury Mel-
len and all those government officials
having prohibition enforcement in
charge, will be the speaker at the
Platform Hour of the Church of Wide
Fellowship, Southern Pines, next Sun-
I day night, January 5th. The Senator
I will speak at 7:30 o’clock, but the
i doors of the church will be opened at
I 7 o’clock.
The meeting is open to the public
without charge, though a free-will
offering will be taken up during the
evening.
forceful speaker.