lOORE rOL NTY’S
FADING NEWS-
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
OL. 10, NO. 29.
LAKEVIEW
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PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, June 20, 1930.
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0 F CEMETERY A T
SOUTHERN PINES
Mi. Hope Not Properly Cared
for and Citizens Register
Complaint
VILLAGE FUNDS NEEDED
Mt. Hope Cemetery, sitting on the
commanding site of Tilghman Hill
i verlooking Southern Pines and the
heights of Weymouth, is not being
properly cared for. Complaints com
ing to The Pilot from residents of
Southern Pines prompted an investi-
g'ation this week, and a visit to what
,>-'hould be one of the most beautiful
spots around the village proved the
complaints justified.
The approaches are not properly
kept up, the roads leading in and
ut of the grounds are not in good
condition, and the cemetery itself
]i oks shabby and run down. It is not,
in its present state, a cemetery
worthy of the village of which it is
a part, for in all else Southern
Pines has just cause for pride in its
-Tppearance.
Is Property of Town
Mt. Hope Cemetery is the property
of Southern Pines, and under the jur-
it'diction of the Board of Commis
sioners through a board of trustees.
The village ordinanoes call for a
“fund to be known as the Perpetual
Care Fund, for the purpose of per
petually caring for and beautifying
the town cemetery, or cemeteries,—”
imd go on to say “that in order to
reate and maintain said fund the
Board of Commissioners may make
contracts with plat or space owners
in the said cemetery or cemeteries,
Vmding the said town to keep up and
maintain said lots and space in per-
letuity upon payment of such sum
or sums as may be fixed by said
Board; that the said Board of Com
missioners is further authorized and
t mpowered to accept gifts and be-
uests to said fund upon such other
erms as the donor may prescribe;
c.nd is further authorized to set aside
for said fund, whenever it sees fit,
an amount not exceeding 25 per cent
of the proceeds of sales of. cemetery
iots.’’
The ordinances further specify that
he principal of the fund established
i' tti be used solely for the mainte
nance improvement and beautification
of the cemetery.
Set Good Example
It is understood that sufficient
nione yhas not been realized from the
•‘■ale of lots for the proper unkeep of
the cemetery, and that few gifts or
bequests have been made, so that
•he cemetery is anything but self-
supporting. Those whose departed
ones are buried there feel, however,
that some financial aid should be
^nade by the town for the upkeep of
the grounds, and that if the town set
good example by keeping the walks
cleared of grass, shrubs clipped and
roadways properly maintlained,, lot
(wners would be more inclined to
keep their own lots in order.
Mt. Hope Cemetery should be one
of the most beautiful spots in the vi-
^iriity, and that it is allowed to run
- wn is a sincere cause of regret on
'he part of a large group of citizens
interested in the beautification and
upkeep of Southern Pines.
Signs Objected to by Burt
Will Come Down, Says Page
Believes Beauty Coirimunity’s Greatest Asset and All Should Co
operate to Improve Highways and Approaches
to Villages
‘AN UGLY TOWN IS A DEAD TOWN”
AMERICM ORCHID
SOCIETY HONORS
JUDGE W. A. WAY
Local Grower Elected Trustee of
Orgranization of Leading
H or t icult uralis ts
By Ralph W. Page
I saw, according to the headlines
in the papers, that the leading liter
ary craftsman in North Carolina,
who is also the arbiter elegantium of
the highways of the State, had made
an “attack” on me. Since nothing on
earth is so oxhilerating as an attack
unless it be any notice at all from
distinguished sources, I rushed with
elation to the discovery of the par
ticulars. My speed and enthusiasm
almost equalled that displayed by the
perpetual mob of depositors daily
thronging the corridors of the Page
Trust Company impelled by the witch
ery of the beef red sigiis along the
road.
It turned out as I feared. Mr.
Struthers Burt is altogether too wise
and too tolerant to attack any per
son. As usual, he went ferociously
into action against an idea. He made
an attack on art. Briefly he said:
1. That road signs are a nuisance.
2. That a road sign advertising a
bank is - furthermore ridiculous, be
ing useless.
3. That, furthermore, the Page
Trust Company signs were not only
nuisances, and useless, but actually
hideous.
4. That, I, or whoever put them
there, or allowed them to remain
there, was obviously sub-normal. The
I charitable interpretation remained
I that this moronism might be an ec-
; centricity relating only to signs,
j Well, I am going to answer that, as
1 vigorously and finally as I possibly
I can. And I will not imitate the last
I gentleman whose sign was withered
I off the face of the earth by Burt’s
i vocabulary. He replaced it with a
fctill more shocking example of de
cadent art saying:
“SPEND THE WINTER IN
SOUTHERN PINES, SAYS
STRUTHERS BURT.”
Every man had best stick to his
trade and his own experience. Mine
is not art. Neither is it forestry, nor
landscapes, nor flower gardens, nor
architecture nor color schemes, nor
city beautification. Much less sign de
signs. On the contrary, a banker
deals in a heartless mathematical
manner with the profits and losses of
everybody in his neighborhood and,
as a banker, confines himself almost
entirely to observing and discovering
the sources of material welfare or the
melancholy decline of fortune of his
clients. 'And ultimately, of course, he
has but one client, which is the en
tire community in which he operates.
It is so obvious as to be a platitude
that the individuals of a town pros
per or go broke together. A com
munity, like an individual, either
creates those things that are in de
mand of the world, and thrives, or
fails to create them, and in the de
gree that it fails, sinks into financial
decrepitude.
All Want Beauty
The first question confronting the
most hardened merchant or banker or
manufacturer is, “What do people
want?” The business of a banker is
tc observe and, if possible, find out.
Well, I have spent a long time ob
serving. And I think IVe found out
•one thing they always want. That
thing is beauty.
Moreover, they are going to get it.
FAME FOR KNOLLWOOD
(Please turn to page 4)
Moore’s Population
25,614, Says Ferree
^ ensus Supervisor Gives Total
for Eight Counties in His
District, 257,876
Moore county has a population of
2i>,614, according to official census
figurse released last week by A. I.
of Asheboro, supervisor of
^^*^%for thie eighth district. Mr.
Ferree gives the census for his entire
district as 257,876 persons, a'pportion*
as follows:
Anson county 29,496
r^vidson county 46,549
Moore county 25,514
Montgomery county 16,216
^^andloph county 36,641
I^ichmond county 34,008
Stanley county 30,062
^nion county 40,926
Kiwanians Have Good
Time at Fayetteville
Thirty-Seven Members Attend
Inter-Club Meeting of R. N.
Page’s District
Mrs. Chambers’ Car
Demolished in Wreck
Southern Pines Women Have
Narrow Escape on Carthage
Pinehurst Road
Fifty-one Kiwanians, wives and
sweethearts, made up the local del
egation which attended the inter-club
meeting held at Fayetteville last Fri
day, the occasion being a get-to-gether
of all clubs in the district presided
over by Lieutenant Governor Robert
N. Page of Aberdeen. The Aberdeen
club had the best attendance at the
meeting, 37 members being present.
The party was a great success, start
ing off with entertainment features
staged by each of the clubs repre
sented, and followed up with a talk
by the governor of the Carolinas
district, R. N. Honeycutt of Ral
eigh. Other past governors spoke. Mr.
Page presided.
Some of the members played golf,
a few tennis, some went in swimming,
and after this part of the program
V barbeciue supper was served at the
Fayett<iville Country Club.
At Wednesday’s regular meeting of
the local club, held at the Commun
ity House in Pinehurst, Mrs. Clara
Yates of Atlanta, Georgia, who has
been singing during the evangelical
meetings at the Aberdeen Presby
terian Church during the past week,
sang several songs and told a story.
Mrs. Yates is frequently heard on the
radio from Atlanta. Announcement
was made that U. L. Spence, member
of the state legislature from this dis
trict and a member of the club had
undergone an operation at Charlotte
on Monday, and the club expressed
its hope for his speedy recovery and
instructed the secretary to write Mr.
Spence in behalf of the club.
FAYETTEVILLE DEFEATED BY
SOUTHERN PINES GOLFERS
Mrs. P. A. Chambers and the Misses
Julia and Helen Kirwin of Southern
Pines had a narrow escape from ser
ious injury when the car in which
they were riding from Carthage to
Pinehurst was in a collision with a car
occupied by Charles Williams and
Dewitt Short near Eastwood about
4 o’clock Monday afternoon. Although
no injuries resulted, Mrs. Chambers’
car was almost completely demolish
ed, and the other car jumped off the
road and rolled dpwn an embank
ment.
Williams and Short were placed un
der arrest by a State patrolman who
arrived on the scene shortly after the
accident, and their case will be heard
Monday at Carthage. Insurance ad
justers stated after examination at
the scene of the wreck that Mrs.
Chambers’ car, driven by Miss Julia
Kirwan, was in no way to blame for
the collision, being on its own side
of the road.
PAGE TRIBUTE ON PARCHMSlifT
DONE BY RASSIE WICKER
Southern Pines Country Club ad
ministered to Fayetteville the first
defeat it has suffered on its home
links in ten years when t'he teams
met at Fayetteville Wednesday after
noon, the score being 17 to 15. Those
making up the Southern Pines team
were Woodward, Witherspoon, Blox-
ham, Shepard, Thad Page, Medlin,
Tarleton, Q. Keith, Daniels, Morrison,
H. Vetterlein and Jordan.
The tribute which Bion H. Butler
wrote at the time of the burial of
the late Walter Hines Page in Be-
thesda Cemetery, Aberdeen, hand-
lettered and hand illuminated on gen
uine parchment by Rassie Wicker of
Pinehurst has been placed in the Old
Bethesda Church. The work of Mr.
Wicker is as fine a specimen of work
of this kind as one will often see, and
residents of the Sandhills should pay
a special visit to the church to see
it.
HERE AFTER 27 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Harding of Pur
cell, Oklahoma stopped in Aberdeen
yesterday on their way to Washing
ton and New York. Mrs. Harding,be-
ore her marriage, was Martha Bish-
ery of Aberdeen and is well remem
bered es a young girl here. She left
27 years ago. Her father was then
manager of the Aberdeen Hotel, at
that time located in what is now the
Teacherage.
Judge W. A. Way, of the Knoll-
wood Orchid plant, is given decided
recognition by the highest orchid au
thorities in the ^country in his elec
tion as a trustee of the AmericF,n
Orchid Society. This is an organi
zation of the foremost commercial
and amateur growers of the conti-
r.ent, and one in which the amateur
growers figure as conspicuously as
the commercial members, for the
growing of orchids is an occupation
that interests many of the wealthy
and intelligent people of the United
States. The organization holds meet
ing and exhibits every two years, the
next meeting being in October at the
Willard Hotel in Washington. Two
years ago the big Madison Square
Garden in Newi York was called on
for a meeting plac*e, and prior to that
Horticultural Hall in Philadelphia.
F. E. Dixon of Elkins Park, Phil
adelphia, is president of the organ
ization; Mrs. Pierre S.^ DuPont, of
Wilmington, Delaware, vice president;
T. W. Nason, secretary; Albert C.
Barrage, Boston, ex-president and W.
H. Jewell, of New Rochelle, N. Y.,
is another of the official list. The
judge has joined in with a conspic
uous group of scientific men, for the
work as it is done in their green
houses is on a much broader sc?ile
than the mere commercial production
of flowers. All of these men are breed
ers and developers, and known in the
botanical w’orld as well as in floral
circles.
Prepares Big Shipment
Incidentally Judge Way has reach
ed the stage where he is rated with
the prgoressive breed'ers, and he has
at the present in one of his depart
ment houses hundreds of thousands
of small plants that he is raising to
a size that will permit them to be
shipped to a big grower in the North.
These plants are all grown from the
seed oy Judge Way, and from
crosses that he has been making un
der his own experimental schemes.
They will be delivered to the buyer
at the Knollwood plant, and trans
ported in automobiles under the im
mediate care of the men in the buy
ers’ employ. They will represent ^
valuable sum in money when they
are turned over to the new owner, for
many of them are expected to de
velop into plants of more than ordi
nary worth as staple plants and
some of them to become novelties of
unusual interest.
The Knollwood institution is win
ning world-wide fame from its flow
ers and also from the plants it is de
veloping. People from everywhere
drop in now to look it over, for some
of the Judge’s experiments are gain
ing a big reputation.
80 KiUed by Autos
in State During May
Hig'hwiay Death List for First
Five Months of Year
Reaches 281
Eighty persons were killed on
North Carolina highways during last
month, bringing the total for the first
five months of the year to 281, it was
shown Wednesday in the May auto
motive accident report issued by W.
C. Spruill, assistant supervisor of
the State Motor Vehicle Division.
The May total was approximately
50 per cent greater than the figure
^or April when 48 persons were killed.
The toll of the first five months of
the year was 35 greater than the to
tal for the corresponding period last
year.
ICE CREAM SUPPER
There will be an Ice Cream Sup
per at the old Thagard poTid next
Saturday evening, June 21, beginning
at 6:00 o’dock.. Ice cream, cake,
weiners, lemonade and other good
things will be on sale. Proceeds will
go to the Yates-Thagard Church
ceiling fun^. Everybody is invited.
FIVE CENTS
$10 Rewaru ^ ^ ' j
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Thirty Seven Windows Brok
en in Aberdeen! Schools
Since Closing
A reward of $10.00 has been of
fered by the Aberdeen school board
for the arrest and conviction of
any person doing damage to eith
er of the Aberdeen school build
ings. Since school closed, there
have been thirty-seven window
panes broken an dthe buildings en
tered. The window panes were
broken by rocks.
Rambling ’Round
When news is scarce, it behooves
the tireless reporter to roam about
and pick up what he can. A news
paper has to come out, news or no
news, and some weeks “they just
ain’t any news.’^
♦ * ♦
“Judge” Avery says there’s a
mighty fine stand of tobacco all
around us, and looks for a big season
locally.
* ♦ *
Mayor Henry Blue tells us that the
tags the police officers put on auto
mobiles improperly parked or in other
ways violating traffic ordinances
have worked out well. “When they
come to see me I warn them, and if
they come again, I fine them. 3o far
nc one has come again.”
* * ♦
Andy Page, Ralph’s son, made near
ly $300 in dewberries and left for
the north the minute he got his hands
on the money.
♦ * *
Fayetteville printers are the only
ones busy around my territory, said
a paper salesman who dropped in the
ether day. He travels much of North
(’arolina.
* * *
The rains have tlie tobacco men
smiling and the peach men nearly
crazy.
* ♦ *
A fellow wandered into the bank
^he other day and fascetiously asked
Dan McKeithen if he could borrow
.S20,000. “Sorry,’^ said Dan, “but this
is a half holiday.” The other retort-
td, “All right, I’ll take $10,000.”
* * *
Aren’t we getting chummy in the
Sandhills? Ralph Page capitulates to
Struthers Burt, and Dan McLauchlin
refuses to run again against Murdoch
Johnson. Even Ed McKeithen is pull
ing for Bailey now. If one wants to
start a fight he has to get Walter
MacNeille in a bridge game.
* * *
Henry Page, Jr., has sold so many j
of those banana colored Ford station
wagons to the folks they are talking j
about getting up a race on the Pine
hurst track. Almet Jenks is the new
est recruit.
* ♦ ♦
Gloma Charles returned successful
ly from Canada. Asked about condi
tions there, he said “Things borders
on the normal.” When asked if they
were “normal on the border,” he refus
ed to be interviewed.
♦ * ♦
Mr. Estep got 24 votes in the coun
try. We didn^t suppose there were 24
people in the county who knew he
was running.
* ♦ ♦
Emmett French had his picture in
a Pittsburgh paper Sunday for doing
something or other up there, probably
busting the course record.
4c *
There’s a woman’s tournament at
Roaring Gap this week. Buck Blue
and Nat Hurd and their families have
moved up to the Gap for the summer
season. Jim Hudson is marketing
Nat’s peach crop.
jf * ♦
Local peaches are still bringing $5
in the north. Things are O. K. if the |
rain stops. I^p to June 14th Georgia )
had shipped jnly 321 cars as against
755 last year.
♦ * ♦
Sam Richardson is so impressed
with the land back of Southern Pines
which Mr. Callery of Pittsburgh is
having-developed he spends most of
his time out' there admiring it. Mr.
Gallery’s plans haven’t gone beyond
D. A. McLAUCHUN
NOT TO CALL FOR
SECOND PRIMARY
Murdoch M. Johnson Becomes
Democratic Nominee for
State Senator
TANTAMOUNT TO ELECTION
There will be no second primary in
Moore county for the Democratic
nomination for State Senator. D. A.
McLauchlin of Vass, who ran second
to Murdoch M. Johnson of Aberdeen
in the recent primary, announced yes
terday that he would not call for
another battle of ballots, and Mr.
Johnson become the nominee. The
Democratic nomination is tantamount
to election in this Senatorial district,
and the Aberdeen attorney is receiv
ing the congratulations of his friends
and supporters.
Mr. McLauchlin, who is one of the
County Commissioners and cashier of
the Bank of Vass, makes the follow
ing announcement “to the Democrat
ic Voters of Moore County:”
In the primary election held June
7th, 1930 there were three candidates
offering for the Democratic nomina
tion for State Senator from this dis
trict. Mr. Johnson received 980 votes,
Mr. Cameron received 629 votes, and
I received 811 votes. No one having
received a majority of the votes cast
there was no nomination.
Having received the second highest
number of votes cast, it was my right
and privilege, under the law, to call
for a second primary. Many of my
friends and supporters urged me to
take such action. However, a* second
primary entails extra expense on the
county and inconvenience to the vot
ers, and should in my opinion not be
called unless the welfare of the
county was at stake. Being satisfied
that the county will be well taken
care of, I therefore withdraw' the
call for a second primary.
I wish to thank each one who vot
ed for me. I deeply appreciate this
expression of your confidence and
esteem, if any are disappointed at
the course I am taking, I think they
must agree with me that party har
mony and party success are more im
portant than the preferment of any
member of the party. I congratulate
Mr. Johnson and Mr. Cameron on the
handsome vote they received.
Again thanking my friends let me
urge them and all Democrats to pull
together for a splendid victory in No
vember,
Very respectfully yours,
—D. A. McLAUCHLIN.
GOODS STOLEN FROM VASS
MERCANTILE RECOVERED
W. B. Graham and C. L. Tyson
were summoned to Raleigh on Fri
day of last week to see if they could
identify some goods which were found
ill the possession of a colored man
who gave his name as John Smith.
They found that the goods were some
of those stolen from the Vass Mer
cantile Company on Monday morning
of last week, and while only a small
percent of the articles taken were re
covered, it is a satisfaction to know
that at least one of the robbers is
safe behind the bars. He was on
Monday bound to Superior Court un
der a bond of $2,^0, and will face
trial in August.
IZAAC WALTON LEAGUE
ENJOYS FIRST FISH FRY
(Please Turn to Page 5.V
Lovers of the rod and gun, friends,
and near fishermen to the number of
thirty or more answered the call of
Alex Fields, father of the Southern
Pines Izaak Walton Chapter, and
gathered around the tree-lined Boil
ing Spring last Friday evening to en
joy the chapter’s first outdoor gath
ering, a “Fish Fry.” With plenty of
fish, served by past masters of the
art, Bredbeck, Worsham and Keith,
good stories, and tall tales of the
“biggest fish,” a genuine stag gath
ering marked a pleasant episode in <a
dull week.
LADIES AID MEETING
The Ladies’ Aid of the Church of
Wide Fellowship will meet at the
home of Mrs. Pelton Thursday after
noon, June 26th at 3:30 o’clock.
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