5100RE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS- WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 10, NO. 41. mamlcy PILOT FIRST IN NEWS AND ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, September 12, 1930. FIVE CENTS FARMERS WILL HOLD MEETING IN CARTHAGE Tobacco Growers of Three Coun ties Will Meet Sept. 16 to Discuss Plans GREEN TO BE HERE Farmers of Moore, Randolph and :\Iontgomery counties are scheduled to r eet in Carthage on next Tuesday morning, Sept. 16th, from 9:00 to j2:00 o clock, for a tobacco meeting which will be conducted by W. S. ureen, educational representative of he Federal Farm Board. The plan, according to E. H. Garri son, county farm demonstration agent, is for an educational meeting wherein a tobacco cooperative associa- ■-on will be discussed and the farmers informed as to what they may or may not expect such an association to do. This meeting will not be in the na ture of a sign-up meeting, but if the people, after hearing the discussion, want a co-operative tobacco associa tion, follow-up work will be done, farmers of these three counties are ”rged to attend and to influence their neighbors to be present. This meeting follows a conference held in the high school building in Aberdeen on Thursday of last week, at which time representative men includ- irg county agents and vocational teachers from some seven or eight counties heard Mr. Green discuss the whole tobacco situation as it relates to production, outlook information, the mistakes of the Tri-State Tobac co Association, what cooperative mar keting can and cannot do and what the Federal Farm Board can do to help the farmers. Interest in this meeting was so keen that it was deem ed wise to have Mr. Green carry his message to other groups, and if the farmers decide that they want a new tobacco cooperative association, they w’ill be asked to suggest what they want put into the marketing contract and their suggestions will be given full consideration. Lawyers and Laws Discussed by Kiwanis Murdoch Johnson Make^ Out Good Case for His Craft at Weekly Meeting The Kiwanis Club at its meeting at the Country Club in Southern Pines Wednesday, listened to Murdoch John son, who told about lawyers and law. Murdoch seems to have an acquaint ance with a rather varied collection of the men of justice, and • he con- ^^essed for several of them. Then af- ■^fr shriving them he sai^ that with he exception of a limited number of shysters and ambulance chasers, who ought to be at some other work the remaining 99 per cent were all right, and that the way to deal with the law yers is to retain a good one by the >ear, follow his counsel in your business deals and have him keep you out of court and out of litigation, for, he says, a lawyer would rather keep his clients out of court than go to the court house with all its costs and contention. He made a right good case for his craft. Then he told of the evolution of our code of laws, starting with old Ham- urati, six thousand years ago; with the Greek Lycurgus, Solon, Justinian, not forgetting Moses, and leading to the Great Charter by the English King John, which is the base of our laws today. Murdoch says we have too many laws, and that all the money a lawyer earns goes to buy new books with new laws. Next week the constitution will re ceive attention of the Kiwanis club. Judge Way Suggests Scheme of Regional Planning for Sandhills STATE FAIR BOOSTERS WILL VISIT ABERDEEN The State Fair Boosters, on their annual advertising tour throughout the state, will visit Aberdeen on September 25th, according to infor mation received by Mayor Henry Blue from the Secretary of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. They expect to arrive at 2:15 o’clock in the afternoon. The Boosters, who formerly traveled by train, will this year make their trip in four busses, and will be ac companied by the State College band. Women Are Active in Local Party Politics Mrs. Charles Urges that Large Delegation Hear Bailey Monday With the opening of the Democratic senatorial campaign in Carthage next week, the Moore County Democratic Executive Committee is getting warm ed up and is putting on its armor pre paratory to waging an aggressive fight. More and more are the women being recognized in political circles and local Democrats, in perfecting their organization, were quick to real ize the wisdom of bringing in the fresh thought and sane judgment of the women voters. That the ladies are awake to their opportunities and conscious of the re sponsibilities resting upon them is shown by the active part they are tak ing in the work of the organization, and the time may be coming when the men’s names will be in the back ground not only on the social pages but in the political columns as well. The Moore County organization has two prominent women on its execu tive committee, Mrs. G. A. Charles of Aberdeen as vice-chairman, and Miss Bess McCaskill of Carthage as secretary. Mrs. Charles says: “We are looking forward this year to a large Demo cratic vote in Moore County. I es pecially want to urge a large delega tion of men and w^omen voters of Aberdeen and vicinity to hear Hon. Josiah Bailey, who will address you in Carthage at the courthouse Monday, September 15th, at 2:00 p. m.’’ Long Term Schools Report Good Opening 1600 White and 400 Colored Chil- dren In These Schools. Char ter Schools Also Open SPENCER ADDRESSES LEE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CLUB Colin G. Spefncer spoke to the Republican Club of Lee County in the ballroom of the Wilrik Hotel, Sanford, on Monday night, Septem ber 8th. The Republican Club is to hold another meeting on Monday, September 15th in the Wilrik Hotel in Sanford at which time Vice- Chairman, Mrs. Juanita Gregg Wynne will speak to the club. The long term schools of Moore County opened their doors for the reception of pupils on September 1st, 2nd and 8th, and include Cam- e^'on, West End, Pinehurst, Eureka, Jackson Springs, Eagle Springs, Putnam, Glendon, Roseland and In gram Branch, he enrollmen of 1600 white a)nd 400 colored children in these schools show a healthy in crease over last year’s opening date. When the short term schools open on October 13th, 1800 additional white and 1200 colored children are expected to enter, making the to tal county^ school population reach 5000. Aberdeen, Carthsige and Vass Charter Schools have opened with large enrollments, while the South ern Pines Charter schools are look ing forward to an equally auspicious opening on Sept 15th. PRITCHARD TO SPEAK IN CARTHAGE, SEPT. 25 The Honorable George M. Pritch ard, candidate for U. S. Senator of North Carolina on the Republican ticket, will speak in the Court House at Carthage, at 8:00 o’clock p. m. on September 25th. Mr. Pintchafrd has been making an impressive cam paign throughout eastern North Carolina, and it is believed that the Court House will be filled when he speaks in Carthage, Mr. Pritchard has several admirers in the county and every where he has been he has made a very favorable impression. On September 26th he will speak in Troy, Unity of Action Needed that Whole Sectiotn May Be De veloped Harmoniously Bion H. Butler Judge Way suggested a scheme the other day that is worth consideration by the entire Sandhills community >from Little River to Drowning creek, and from Fort Bragg to West End. His remark was prompted by the announcement that the Midland Farms would probably this fall respond to the desire for rural locations by put ting on the market some of their lands between Pinehurst and Knoll- w’ood. The judge has several hundred c'Cres adjoining the southern tract of the Midland land, and also adjoining the large acreage that Burrell White has bought, and the big holdings of D. J. Ross and others, and his notion ir that it would be a good plan for all these folks to get together and follow a project that has been under taken in the vicinity of Philadelphia. This project is in the hands of an organization called a Regional Plan ning company, and its job is to pro pose a plan for the development of the entire area under its jurisdiction, so arranging that every step on every tract of land shall be taken with re gard to the harmony of the whole area involved. Surveys Already Made The Judge has had a typographical survey made of his territory. Mr. White has also provided a similar study of - his lands. Midland Farms j have a pretty good map of their I property. Knollwood close by and the | Barber estates have made surveys. | Much of all the land for miles is fair-1 Ij well mapped, and all of it could be properly designated in suitable maps to join with that which has been covered. “Then,” said Judge Way, ^‘If | we would all get together and have some man like Ross, or anybody else | capable, plan some roadways through t the whole combined body of the sev eral possessions, so that when I try | to do something with my land it may ' fit in with White’s holding, or Ross’s, | or the Midland land, and that we may i not sell a chunk here or there, hit or | miss, that might spoil the land adjoin ing, or that might not fit in with what the other would do, we could have one of the most intelligent regional im provement influences that can be planned.” The judge further said that this idea ought to be carried through the entire Sandhills, so that instead of ffich separate spot being an inhar monious unit in a jumble of aimless growth it might be a coordinated fac tor in a fine, big, intelligent commun ity creation, and working out the in telligent plan that could make of this part of North Carolina a magnifi cent big park, wjth sports and amuse ments, fine homes, everything fitting in with everything else, Knollwood and Weymouth and Pinehurst and Southern Pines, and all the rest from the duPont property to the Tompkins purchases, all tying up with each other, and making the finest thing of its kind imaginable. Good Property Scarcer A little bunch of fellows the other fight in Southern Pines were discuss ing The Pilot’s guess that the building movement meant much more activity ahead than has ®taken place in the past, and one predicted that we are about to enter into a new phase of land ownership. Heretofore the idea has been to sell land to newcomers for the sake of selling the land. But we have about reached a place where the thing is to help the newcomers buy some land if they want to make homes in teh Sandhills, and with the realization that not a great deal of land remains to be bought dose in to the centers. This situation was fixed as a permanent restriction when the government bought 122,000 acres for Fort Bragg. It has been growing more acute of recent years and was brought to a climax last spring when the Tompkins interests bought 2,200 acres from Knollwood, cutting out the last big available holding that could be had. Watson and White added to the tenseness of the condition, a^jd where to buy another big tract now would be hard to say. The time has about arrived when lands should no LOC AL SCHOOLS STARTED WORK ON WEDNESDAY Enrollment in High Sohool Ex ceeds that of Last Year BUSINESS COURSE POPULAR The Aberdeen Schools opened on^ Wednesday morning, Sept.' 10, with bright prospects for an outstanding year’s work in all departments. Supt. N. E. Wright is again at the head of life schools, and he has secured a fac ulty of well-trained and experienced teachers. County Superintendent H. Lee Thomas was present on Wednes day morning and addressed the high school pupils at the chapel exercises. Formal opening exercises will be held at the grammar school building at 9:00 a. m. and iat the high school building at 10:15 a. m. on Monday, Sept. 15th. Prominent speakers will be present to address the pupils and patrons of the schools, and Mrs. Reid Pleasants, who is at the head of the music department, will furnish special music. Supt. Wright is well pleased with the opening day’s enrollment. In the high school, 121 pupils, more than were enrolled during the entire 1929- 30 school year, w^ere present, and 258 grammar grade children began their w’ork in the Aberdeen school, while Pinebluff, where a section of the pri mary work is carried on, is yet to be heard from. A commercial department has been added to the schools, with Miss Ef- fie Butler as teacher, and the enroll ment has already gone beyond the number expected for the entire year. Fifteen high school graduates have signed up for the course, as have twenty-one pupils from the tenth and eleventh grades, making a total of thirty-six. This course is open to any one desiring to take it, whether of school age or not. The high school boys are very en thusiastic over their football play ing, and the opening day saw thirty- one out for practice. All of the colored schools of this district will open on next Monday, and the Aberdeen school wil have a high school department for the first time. Bankers Will Again Meet in Pinehurst Versatile Ministers /q. To Unfor^v ‘e Humanity • ^ Marvin Caviness and His ife Unselfishly De vote Their Time to Complex Task of Meeting the Needs of County’s Dependents Bion H. Butler I about the place, and flowers, things Down through a bit of woods the | gathered up. Third successive crop of load opened on a small clearing. A man in blue overalls was raking the ground. When we approached it was seen that he was cleaning the grass away from a group of perhaps forty or fifty graves, each with its small foot-square marble head stone, each lined up along side of the others, sym- corn for the table since spring came. Second crop of tomatoes turning red as the first crop is about gone. Col- lards, cabbage, onions, peanuts, and a field of sweet potatoes that helps to keep the potato supply up from one crop enc. to the next. Marvin Caviness says he is not a farmer—doesn’t have mettric, and plainly all related in , time to farm. But he has one of the some way. It was the cemetery at ^€;st farm exhibits of the county, and Moore county’s home for its aged and j ^^at pays. He is not a boarding financially dependent wards of misfor- j bouse keeper—doesn’t have time to tune. “That new one?” and Marvin , a boarding house, but he has two Caviness inclined his rake toward a j frozen boarders, all ages and color, recent mound. “Old Isaac Freeman. 1 Isn’t an undertaker, but he is called on to officiate three or four times a year or more, and by himself, and as hospital steward and in every other capacity associated. Does a man do those things for money? Not very many men could do them at all, and not very many women would' do what Mrs. Caviness does. They are a combination that is a mar vel of fitness for the place they fill. They might be paid for farming, or Old negro. Around Manly for years and years. Probably 82 or 85 or around there. Yes, that row colored. These rows white.” Old Isaac Freeman, an aged darkey who was old when I first knew -him, a friendly old chap, of wide acquaint ance. Typical of the derelicts of hu manity. Marvin Caviness doing what he can of salvage. Not abandoned. All but two or three with, that small marble marker telling the name and j for housekeeping, or for looking after year of death. And the sexton looking | the sick, or for caring for the dead, after their final home there under or for the innumerable things they the shadow ot the pines and the oak trees. Sexton, undertaker, homemak er, farmer, herdsman, friend, companion, advisor, every thing about that home from the day of the arrival of the guest until the general roll is called. A man can think a lot of things in a short time with such a stage setting, j A Busy Woman I I went with Marvin Caviness back i tc the house. His wife sat on the i I verandah sewing. She, too, has a var- I ied job. She is housekeeper, nurse, ' cook, baker, mother superior, com forter, heaven only knows what in a household that includes the infirm, the senile, the mentally unbalanced, do severally, but nobody was ever paid in cash for the humanitarianism, missionary, j the fathering and mothering and the task of making as nearly pleasant as possible the gray road that goes down into the Valley of the Shadow for these old people who are there on thet last steps of the fading journey. A county home is a problem of civilization. I have no solution to of fer. It may be that some of these days we will do these things better, or maybe worse. But-'as long as we do them as we do, and as long as Marvin Caviness and his cheery-faced wife sit in authority, and as long as they w^ork day and night, year in and year out for the comfort and the care of their human flotsam it is an hon- fnd the responsibility and the task wholly on her shoulders. I did not | think much of the members of that home. Their situation is trasric stitution to at least in his mind doff his hat to this pair, and to repeat to Executive Committee Decides on Local Resort at Meeting in Goldsboro Wednesday enough, but it is slowly and steadily | ^he working out its termination—the ' '’^surance that “whosoever shall give group down by the pine trees where i these a cup of w