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VOL. NO. 27*
IW ROAD OPENS
UP VAST FORT
BRAGG COUNTRY
Hoke County Commissioners
Plan Direct Highway to
Sandhill Section
big boon to business
If plans set on foot at a meeting
of the Hoke County Road Commission
n Monday develope as anticipated,
an entire new avenue of approach to
^he Sandhills towns will soon be op
ened up. embracing a wide area and
cringing to people now residing on
;nimproved roads a direct route over
^ood road to the busy centers of
Moore county.
The Hoke county commissioners on
Monday appointed a jury consisting of
Sheriff Daniel McGill, D. M. Cameron
and John W. Smith to lay out a con-
rectins* road between Fort Bragg and
ihe Southern Pines-Pinehurst-Aber-
deen section. These men are all prom
inent and able citizens of their county
and are thoroughly familiar with the
locality and topography of the coun
try which the proposed road will
traverse.
It is expected that the road will
^tart at the entrance of the Sweet-
])eart Lake road and go by the lake
running about a mile through the
Dunlop estate to the little old school-
house, built over 100 years ago, then
past the Talbot Johnson f^rm, the
McMillens’, Camerons’ and McGills’
larms to the Percy Rockefeller estate
at Overhills, then on a little further
:o Fort Bragg.
No one can foresee the effect this
ioad will have on this section. It will
De about 18 miles to Overhills and
21 miles to Fort Bragg as against
ihe present route of 59 miles by way
of Fayetteville. It will bring all the
towns beyond the end of the road
many miles nearer to Pinehurst,
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, open
ing up a territory which means more
:rade, more golfers, more visitors for
the athletic and sporting activities of
the resort section' here.
Ideal Hunting Country
Nor it is all one-sided in favor of
this locality. It will open up an un
developed section through Hoke
county, giving northern visitors an
opportunity to see the attractive
country in that direction, permit far
mers to open up roadside markets for
iheir produce, and make Fort Bragg,
the country’s most extensive artillery
reservation, easy of access to the win
ter guests who now, because of the
motoring distance, know of this vast
military preserve only as “a fort
somewhere nearby.”
The road will extend through one
of the finest hunting' sections in this
locality, with many deer, plentiful
Quail and wild turkeys and many
foxes. Shooting has been reported ex
cellent throughout the territory dur
ing the last few years, and sports-
n^en are bound to be attracted to the
country with possible shooting pre
serves, clubhouses and private estates
in the near future.
The possible development brought
iibout by the construction of a good
county road through the Hoke county
section toward Overhills and Fort
Bragg is unlimited in prospect, and a
great boon to the residents of that
section and to the business interests
locally.
LAKEVIEW
MANUCY
SOUTHCRN
AeEf^DC£H
.P PIN
PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, June 6, 1930.
Struthers Burt Launches Bitter Attack
on Ralph Page for Billboard Advertising
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Author Claims Man Brought Up in Court of St. James Wearing
Sword, Knee Breeches and Cocked Hat Should Know Bet
ter than to Desecrate Highways.
father of MRS. M. M. JOHNSON
f>IES IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Word was received in Aberdeen
Tuesday morning of the sudden death
in Black vale. South Carolina of L.
P* Blume, father of Mrs. Murdoch
M. Johnson of Aberdeen. Mr. Blume,
who was 73 years of age, was the
victim of a heart attack. Mr. and Mrs.
Johnson left at once by automobile
for Blackvale, where Mr. Blume re-
•'^ided and where funeral services were
held Wednesday afternoon.
TO REPRESENT COUNTY
The Editor of The Pilot:
Ever since the sea-goddess Thetis
dipped her son Achilles, the great
Greek hero, in the river Styx to render
him invulnerable but, holding him by
the heel, forgot to dip that too and
so left him open to injury—*you re
member he met his death by an ar
row in the heel?—it has been recog
nized that all great men have their
weaknesses. Indeed, nowadays this
idea is so prevalent that it has become
almost a superstition. Most modern
biography is based on this theory.
What you do is to take a great man
and, having carefully collected all his ^
faults and all scandals, minor or ma
jor, concerning him, forget his virtues
entirely. The method is profitable.
There is nothing so pleasant as to
hear evil of your neighbor, especially
if he has been successful. *
But it is true, none the less, that;
all men have their Achilles’ heel, and i
naturally, knowing them better, you
remark these heels especially in your
friends. They are always a trifle as
tonishing, perhaps—as a rule your
friends keep their shoes on while
you are with them, but sooner or la- ^
ter, if you see enough of a man, some I
strange weakness in his structure is
noticeable.
I am speaking especially of my
very good friend, Ralph Page, and
what I may call his monomania for
decorating the state he loves so well
w’ith the largest, ugliest, and most
useless signs I have come across in
a long while. You may think that my
Achilles heel is my hatred of road
signs and my love of nature. Well, I
will admit that, but at least it isn’t
as ugly on the surface as Mr. Page’s
heel—it may throb underneath but
it isn’t an open offense to decency and
intelligence. It isn’t festered and in
flamed.
Now, I don’t understand Mr. Page.
I have discussed this matter with him
and I don’t understand him. In most
respects I admire him greatly. He
has a brilliant mind. He is a man of
culture, experience and good taste. He
is a good business man; he is such a
good business man that when he goes
to New York to buy stocks he never
buys any. Two or three times a year
he goes to New York saying that he
i« “going to buy stcoks,” but he always
comes back without buying any be
cause “the market wasn’t just right.”
As a result, he is never ouj; any thing
but his ,time and his travelling ex
penses, although every now and then,
like the hero of Richard Harding
Davis’s story who went to the races
and didn’t bet, he may spend the
money, thus made, on pleasure. I
don’t know anything about that, but
I do know that a man who goes to
New York and never buys stocks be
cause “the market isn’t just right,”
is a darned good business man.
“Ob-scenic America”
Furthermore, Mr. Page has had ex
ceptional advantages. He was brought
up at the Court of Saint James and at
an early age wore a sword, satin knee
breeches and a'cocked hat. Also he
went to Harvard. All his life he has
frequented the society of alert, up-
to-date and intelligent people, and I
repeat that, with one exception, these
things are marked about him, they
istick out all over him. You know he is
a brilliant and fine man when you
meet him. That one exception is all
Fights For Nation^
k
FIVE CENTS
A State Senatorial
‘A
Nominations Feati. >turday Primary
By Edwin T. McKeithen
To the Editor:
On Saturday North Carolina Dem
ocracy will decide whether Senator
F. M. Simmons will succeed himself
or w’ill be succeeded by Mr. J. W.
Bailey. The campaign in behalf of
these two gentlemen has excited na
tional interest for the reason that be
yond the bounds of North Carolina a
renomination of Senator Simmons will
be regarded as a victory for the Drys
By P. Frank Buchan
Editor of The Pilot:
Your valuable paper so generously
agreed to give me this spacQ. Let me
say in the beginning that I am grate
ful for the same. This letter is to the
three thousand and more Democrats
of Moore county who stood so loyal
to the Democratic ticket in the cam
paign of 1928.
Have we forgotten the hectic days
and weeks and months of work that
Three-Cornered Battles for Dem
ocratic Honors To Be Settled
with Australian Ballots
FEW CONTESTS IN COUNTY
Judge Humber Opposed for Re
corder’s Court and Harrington
for Register of Deeds.—Four
Seek Republican U. S. 'Sena
torial Nomination.
while the nomination of Mr. Bailey i we did trying to keep our county and
will give comfort to the Wets; this I state in the Democratic column where
for’'the reason that Simmons refused
to follow Smith when he repudiated
the dry plank in the national demo
cratic platform and selected wet Ras-
kob as his campaign manager while
on the other hand Bailey espoused the
Smith cause.
Senator Simmons asks that he be
continued on his record. Mr. Bailey
asks that he be made Simmons’ suc
cessor for two reasons—first, S^im-
mons should be punished for not sup-
I-orting Smith -
ag-e.
it has been for years preceeding the
election of 1928?
Have we forgotten the feeling that
we had when the man to whom we al
ways looked as our great leader in
the Democratic party in North Caro
lina, the man who had taught us to
vote and work for the Democratic
party for thirty years or more an
nounced that he was no longer our
leader unless we chose to be lead
away by him into the Republican*
second, Simmons’ ^ fold ?
Have we forgotten the struggle we
Senator Simmons is now 76 years had to keep our Democratic county of-
old. He is at present minority leader ; ficers when the Republicans, so
of the all-important senate finance i heartened by the news that Senator
committee. During the present con
gress he has carried the brunt of the
fight in opposition to the pending tar
iff act. At no time during his thirty
Simmons had left us, so encouraged
were they that they took on new life
right here in- our own county, that
many sle'epless night were made for
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Kiwanlans To Enjoy ! Petitions Out For
Day at Fayetteville | New Street Paving
Local ClujKMembers To Attend Southern Pines Hopes To Get
Inter Club Meeting at Coun- i Property Owners’ Co-nsent
years of senatorial service has his the Democratic officers of this county
mental alertness, his wide grasp of and friends and suppor^rs of these
national affairs, his constructive officers? And on June 7, this year,
statesmanship been more impressive. 1 only about a year and h-alf later, we
He is recognized as the leading tariff three thousand and more Democrats
expert of the senate. So much for of Moore county are called upon to
his age. ' forget everything that happened in
W’hy punish Simmons? Did he for- fhe 1928 campaign, forget the battle
The interest in the Democratic pri
mary tomorrow, Saturday, June 7th,
centers locally in the two senatorial
fights, the national and state senator-
ships. Both are three-cornered fights,
though in the contest for the nom
ination for United States Senator one
has heard little about the third can
didate, Thomas L. Estep, in the ex
citement of the race between Sena
tor F. M. Simomns and Josiah Bailey.
Ir the contest for the State Senator-
ship from this district Murdoch M.
Johnson of Aberdeen, Shields Cam
eron of Southern Pines and Dan A.
McLauchlin of Vass are the contend
ers.
The other local squabbles are for
Judge of the Recorder’s Court and
Register of Deeds. Judge George H.
Humber is being opposed by D. A.
McDonald for Recordier, while for
Register of Deeds the present incum
bent, W .J. Harrington, has opposi
tion from J. Clyde Kelly of Cam
eron. Two other fights failed to de
velop^ due to the ineligibility of G.
C. Seymour of Aberdeen in his quest
of a seat on the County Commission,
and of W. M. Seawell of near Car
thage for Sheriff. The commissioners
rominated will be E. C. Mattheson,
W. H. Currie and G. C. Shaw. Charles
J. McDonald will be renominated for
sheriff.
Union L. Spence, present member
of the State Legislature is unoppos-
Sf;ke Democracy? Is there any evi- Moore county as fought so hard i ed tomorrow for renomination. John
try Club There
Frank D. Grist, State Commission
er of Labor and Printing, spoke at
the Kiwanis Club meeting held at the
Civic Club in Southern Pines on Wed
nesday.
There will be no regular meeting of
the Aberdeen Kiwanis Club Wednes
day next due to the inter-club meeting
to be held on Friday of next w^eek,
June 13th, at the Fayetsville Country
Club, to which members of the local
club are going. The Kiwanis clubs of
this division will convene there at
2:00 o’clock, the Hon. Robert N. Page
of Aberdeen, lieutenant governor of
this division, presiding. The princi
pal speaker will be Allison Honeycutt,
governor of the Carolinas district. Af
ter a short business session and en
tertainment by the various clubs, golf,
tennis and swimming will form the
program for the remainder of the
afternoon, with supper at 6:30 o’clock.
Members have been invited to bring
their wives.
GUNTER PRESIDENT OF
ABERDEEN WAREHOUSE CO.
to Extensive Program
^ Petitions are being circulated
, among property^wners in Southern
: Pines for the paving of Ashe street
I from Indiana to Maine avenues; New
; York avenue, from Ridge to Broad
I streets, and Country Club Drive from
I Massachusetts avenue to the entrance
' to the country club grounds, and the
I cf>mmissioners are hopeful of getting
these petitions promptly signed that
I they may proceed with the work dur-
ing the summer months.
I A great saving will be realized to
the town and the property owners if
all the petitions can be signed and
frpproved at the same time, permitting
the ordering of paving materials in
larger lots. Petitions have already
I been signed up for the paving of Con-
r.ecticut avenue from Ridg^e to Broad
streets.
Much road improvement work and
resurfacing is under way in South
ern Pines and the Board of Commis
sioners leaving no stone unturned to
present a smooth surfaced town to
the winter visitors and residents
when they return in the fall.
(ic-nce that *Simmons ever failed to re
main trua to Democratic principles ?
When the Democratic nominee ^for
resident in 1928 attempted to dis
card certain declarations of the plat
form upon which he had been nom-
and contested so bitterly that it was
forty-eight hours before we knew that
oven our sheriff had succeeded in
v;inrin^ his election. Have we for-
iTotten that until the last minute we
Wilcox of Carthage will bs renamed
for Clerk of Court, M. G. Boyette as
.Solicitor, M. McQ. Bailey as Survey-
o» and D. Carl Fry, Coroner.
There a’e no local contests for the
•did not know whether or not our j Republican primary, the only interest
being in the United States Senator-
ship, which finds four candidates in
th? field. They are Irvin B. Tucker,
George M. Pritchard, H.' Grady Dor-
fcett and George E. Butler. Local Re
publican candidates are as follows:
For the State Legislature, W. N.
At the annual stockholders nieet-
ing of the Aberdeen Warehouse Cor
poration held Tuesday night a new
board of directors was elected as fol
lows: G. C. Seymour, Mrs.,R. G. Far
rell, H. A. Gunter, Frank Shamburg-
er, A. L. Burney, J. A. Bryant and
Henry Blue.
At the directors’ meeting immed
iately following the directors elect
ed the following officers:
H. A. Gunter, president; Henry
Blue, vice president; Forrest Lockey,
secretary and treasurer.
CARTHAGE BOY PRESIDENT
OF STUDENT FEDERATION
John A. Lang of Carthage, senior
at the University of North Carolina,
was recently elected president of the
Nolrth CJarolina Student fedieration
at the University. Lang, who ranks
high in scholarship and campus ac
tivities, is a son of J. A. Lang of
Carthage.
Miss Mildred Phillips of Glendon
will represent Moore county at a dis
trict health contest to be held in
Greensboro on Friday, June 6th. The
v.'inner in this contest will compete in
the State contest in Raleigh August
6th.
VOTE EARLY
The voters are urged to attend
their voting places early tomor
row, June 7th, and vote. If you de
lay until afternoon, there may be
such a congestion under the slow
er Australian Ballot system as to
prevent all voting by sundown.
FIRE DAMAGES HOME OF
ROBERT SHAW, PINEHURST
Fire broke out on the roof of the
residence of Robert Shaw iw Pin,e-
hurst shortly after 8:00 o’clock last
Saturday morning and the roof was
iii flames when the department raech-
ed the scene. The roof was a total
loss hut the rest of the house was
saved, with considerable water dain-
£<ge.
inated, it is true that Senator Sim- county would be put into the hands
mons was the 6ne outstanding dem- of Republican commissioners and the
ocrat of the nation who had the cour- registration books be put into the
t.ge to throw himself into the breach hands of Republican registrars?
in an effort to preserve the princi- Have we forgotten that we were
pies of the party. This is the thing looked on by some Republicans, en-
for which he would be punished, the couraged by Senator Simmons leav-
one thing charged against a public ing us, traitors to our country, for j McDuffie, Register of Deeds, C. L.
record of fifty years. supporting the entire Democratic | Williams; Sheriff, D. H. Lewis; Sur-
Why elect Bailey? On what record ticket that means so’ much to North j veyor, J. F. Seawell; Coroner, .J. Ab-
does he go before the 'electorate? Carolina and has meant so much to | ner Thomas, County Commissioners,
What does the Democratic party owe i North Carolina in the past? | R- B. Reynolds, C. D. Wallace and A.
hiin? Surely not a debt of party reg- Have we forgotten th^t 285,000 j M. Cameron.
Colin G. Spencer of Cartha^<» will
be nominated as the Republican can
didate for Member of Congress from
ibis district, to oppose the present in-
i-larity! He boasted ‘‘I am an Inde- Democrats in other counties in the
pendant and have always been,” po-. state were classed along with us?
litically “I owe my alliegiance to my j Have we forgotten McNinch and his
God and my* conscience.” He proudly campaign ? When did the Republicans
says he has scratched the Democrat- who have never cast a vote in their | cu-nbent. Representative Wi!>if>m C.
ic ticket when the nominee did not life, and who will never cast a vote ; Hammer of Ashehoro.
f«it him. When Simmons was lead- lor Senator Simmons, suddenly dis- | The polls will be open throughout
ing the party through the trying cover he was a great man? Why have the day in the various townships of
Fusion days, Bailey sneered at White the Republicans been Simmons great-
Supremacy and “thanked God that the, est press agent since 1928 ? The reas-
Democratic Party could not carry an ; on is simple. They have two more
election in North Carolina.” When ^ Congressmen in Washington from
the Democratic Party, under Sim- North Carolina, many more Represen-
leadership, declared in favor tatives in the Legislature in Raleigh,
mons
of state-wide prohibition, Bailey far more Republicans holding county
■w'rote and declared that he was a lo- i offices than they would have had if
cal optionist. No one denies Mr. Bail- Senator Simmons had lent his aid in
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Brummltt Guest of
Chamber of Commerce
Attorney General Sits In at
Meeting of St>uthern Pines
Organization
Attorney General Dennis G. Brum-
mitt was the guest of the Southern
Pines Chamber of Commerce at its
regular meeting at the Southern Pines
Country Club Tuesday noon. Mr.
Brummitt was invited to make his
heme in Southern Pines when he be
comes Governor of North Carolina
and said he would give the matter
“serious consideration.” y
Only routine business was transact
ed at the meeting. Hugh J. Betterley
presented a report of the Hotel Sign
committee, showing the directors blue-
Rev. J. B. Davies Dies
at Home in Niagara
Civil War Veteran Was Pastor
of Church There from
1914 to 1925
The Rev. J. B. Davies, pastor of
the church at Niagara from 1914 un
til 1925, died at his home in that vil
lage at 5:00 o’clock Tuesday after
noon. He was 89 years of age, and
though he had been failing for some
time, he was confined to his room
only during the last few weeks. Mr.
Davies came to Niagara from Penn
sylvania in 1914.
The Rev. Mr. Davies was a veteran
! of the Civil War and was at Appo-
matox Court House with the northern
armv when Lee surrendered to Grant.
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the county, with voting closing at
rundown. Only voUrs listed *iis Demo
crats on : polli’i.^ Msts w'll be eli
gible to vote for Democrat! 2 candi
dates, and Republican enrolled vot
ers the only ones eligible to vote in
the Republican primary. Democrats
who voted for Hoover may vote in; the
Democratic Primary, Attorney Gen
eral Brummitt ruled Wednesday. The
Australian secret ballot will be used
for the first time. Where there is a
contest a cross (X) must be placed
opposite the name of the candidate
for whom you wish to cast your bal
lot. A square is provided for this
mark at the left of the name.
LATE CENSUS FIGURES
Census figures received yesterday
from A. I. Ferree, supervisor of the
cenjsus for this district, reval the
following:
Manley, Town—269.
West Southern Pines—806.
Vass, Town—467.
McNeill Township outside
above—1,840.
Last week’s figures gave Vass 606,
but the rechecking reduced it to 467.
the
C. P. Weatherbee of Providence, R.
J., arrived in Southern Pines Mon
day for a two weeks’ vacation, join
ing Mrs. Weatherbee, who has been
a guest of Mrs. Howard Carpenter.