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<iter on y
I found Mr. 'Caviness-but all the ' ^1’^” his reward
tasks, day by day 3nd night after
The Lord of Hosts lays on some
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The executive committee of the
North Carolina Bankers’ Association,
of which W. E. Stroud of Goldsboro,
ir president, held their regular annual
meeting in the directors’ rooms of the
Wayne National Bank of Goldsboro,
at 10 o’clock this morning. Sections
from Bryson City to Goldsboro were
represented. The committee is com
posed of representatives of the ten
banking groups of the state and of
officers of the association.
Current affairs of interest to bank
ers were discussed by the committee
men. Pinehurst was chosen for the
1931 convention of the association
which will be held early in May. Un
less special meetings are called, the
committee holds only two meetings
a year. This is the first meeting of the
committee since Mr. Stroud was nam
ed association president at the 1930
meeting held in Pinehurst.
Mr. Stroud is vice-president of the
Wayne National Bank.
Pinehurst Teachers
Given a “Pounding”
The social affair of this week was
the surprise “pounding” and informal
reception given the faculty of the
Pinehurst school at the Teacherage on
Monday evening. This was sponsored
by the Parent-Teacher Association
and was a big success, both from the
standpoint of stocking a pantry and
the social hour as well. Owing to lack
of room at the Teacherage the party
was transferred to the basement of the
Community church where an evening
of fun, music and refreshments was
enjoyed.
right, in sickness, in death, in that acceptance of responsibility
mocking state that corresponds to ■ which there is no question o
health in the more fortunate, Mrs. 1 reward. That responsi-
Caviness has her hands full. i ''''‘t!-’ says-“go to the last sheep,
I did not ask Marvin Caviness what
keeps him and his wife there. I knew
it was not money, for I had already
learned that his wage is $160 a
month for himself and his wife, with
$40 additional, for a helper who gets
$30 for such work around the place
as a helper can do, and the other $10
for a helper in the kitchen for such
help as that will buy for Mrs. Cavi
ness. With the benefit of this $40
w’^orth of help as noted these two care
for the home, for the population of at
present 25 persons besides themselves,
carrying on everything, farming on
such a scale that food supplies are
grown in large Ijuantities, grain and
feed enough for the mules, the cat
tle, the hogs, the chickens and the
and further instruction adds—“and
there abide.” The acceptance of the
task and the faithfulness with which
men carry it out in specific cases is
one of the marvels of the infinite.
School at Southern
Pines Starts Tuesday
Elementary Pupils to Report at
8:30 A. M. Tuesday a?id High
School Pupils Wednesday
The Southern Pines school will open
for the term of 1930-1931 Tuesday
morning, September l*5th, the elemen-
high school pupils at the same hour
tary pupils reporting at 8:30 and the
household. All the house work, all the | Wednesday morning. Pupils who are
odd jobs about the place, comforting -entering the first grade will report to
the sick, feeding them, washing them, ! room 1 on the opening day, and pupils
nursing them, burying them, answer- j who are transferring from other
nig their plaints at midday, at i schools must be registered in the of-
midnight, at five o’clock in the morn- ^ice o fthe superintendent before being
ing, no limit to the day’s work, to the assigned to classes. Superintendent Al-
week’s work, to the year’s work, milk
ing the cow^s, cutting the wood, mak
ing the clothes, and keeping the place
ciean and decent and cheerful and san
itary and in shape to satisfy the
grand jury and the commissioners and
the citizen—^with a few possible ex
ceptions.
Fine farm crops, fine pair of mules,
len’s offfice will be open Friday and
Saturday afternoon of this week. Last
year over sixty pupils were registered
in the first grade and the enrollment
for the school for this term is expected
to be well above four hundred. The
staff will be about as last year with
the exception of a teacher for the
commercial course to take Miss
a dozen or so of fine hogs, four fine i Stone’s place. Mrs. Gordon Brown
cows, corn in the crib from last year | and Miss Emily Mae Wilson will have
and considerable to sell from year j the first grade; Miss Ruth Davenport,
to year, cow peas for seed and to : second grade; Miss Mary Montgom-
eat, garden stuff, fruit. For several i ery, third grade; Mrs. Frank Gibbons,
years the place has given M&rvin
Caviness a certificate of efficiency.
As you drive past on the road you
see that a farmer is at work there.
It is Caviness. As you go about the
buildings you note care in their keep.
Caviness and his wife. Shrubbery
fourth grade; Mrs. Wade, fifth grade;
Miss Anne Willis, 6th; Miss Anne
Huntington, 7th, while the high school
will be in charge of Superintendent
W. F. Allen, Mr. Frank Gibbons as
sisting with Miss Pauline Miller and
Miss Anne Ford.