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Page Four THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Aberdeen, North CaroBna Struthers Burt Bares Mysteries of Writing’ Game to Kiwanians Just Another Occupation Like the Plumber’s Says Author of “Festival” NOVELS GREAT GAMBLE Self-Supporting, Self-Sufficient Community Is Needham’s Grove One of Oldest Sections of Coun ty Has Found Way t^ Take Care of Itself Struthers Burt let members of the Kiwanis Club and their g'uests' in on some of the secrets of writing nov els and short stories in a talk before that organization at the Civic Club in Southern Pines yesterday noon. And when all was said and done, the well-known author proved to his audience that there is no mystifying secret to the “writing game”, that it is just another occupation like the plumber’s or the dentist’s or the law yers’. Mr. Burt said there was no telling what makes a man an author any more than there is what makes him anything else, “But,” he said, “it is true that in delving into the past of a writer, you will always find that he started writing at about the age of eight years.” There are two schools of fiction, he stated: the stories which are fiction pure and simple, and those which are an interpretation of life. The latter have the modern appeal to readers, books wherein they see themselves or their friends or their neighbors depicted in the characters drawn. He told a little of the history of fiction, how it started with the minstrelsy of •bygone days and has worked up to the modem novel. He classified writing as .in six forms: newspapers, fiction, the ar ticle or essay, ipoetry, biography or autobiography, and drama or scenario writing. He delighted his hearers with the remark that practically all auto biographies are the most fictional of fiction, that the only true autobiog raphies, where men have bared thsir real selves, are unobtainable on ac count of censorship. You can’t be a successful writer by waiting till the spirit moves you tc write, the Sandhills author stated. He said that one of the greatest fal lacies about writers is that they write when they haven’t anything else to do, and when’ the inspiration seizes them. “My advice to young men and women who come to me to ask me how to get started writing is—to write.” You have to make a business of it to become a sucessful author. And it is difficult because you ar^ your own boss, and you’ve got to con-1 quer yourself and become subservient j Intercollegiate Champion Who to that boss before you can do your i Starred Here Last Year Will work properly and sucessfully. Most; Quit College authors lay aside certain hours of | each day to work, maintaining of- j Cliff Sutter, New Orleans tennis fice hcurs just as any doctor or law- 1 star, who began his meteoric rise in yer does, he said. He himself works | the court game while playing in the each morning from 9 until 1 o’clock, j North and South tournament at Pine- He won’t even answer the telephone j hurst last Spring, is going to make a during those hours. The work re- bid for inclusion on America’s Davi.? jquires confinement and concentra- * Cup team this season. Cliff, who went tion. An author, he says, needs little ahead to win the national intercol- excitement outside his writing because legiate title after beating some of his work is exciting. He is living with the Davis Cup candidates here in 1930, his fictional characters through thick has announced he will resign from and thin. ' i Tulane University after his mid-term - Of his new novel, “Festival”, pub- exams, and devote the rest of the lished last week by Scribner’s Mr. j Spring to preparedness in other than Burt told the members it was started studies. nearly two years ago in Italy, finish- ; The youthful s^ar says he expects last Summer in Wyoming, and just to leave New Orleans next week to en- reached the market last Friday. There | ter an invitation tournament at San is big money in a sucesslbl novel, but ' Antonio. He will then go to Bermu- the gamble is great. You don’t know j da and Ormond Beach, to be followed what you will receive for your labors j by trips to St. Augustine, Augusta, for months after it leaves your hands. | Ga., Pinehurst and White Sulphur. For a steady income, he said, short | Pinehurst will again this year be stories were necessary but a really one of the test tournaments for can- great novel, with movie rights, etc, can | didates for the Davis Cup team, earn as much as $100,000 for a writ- | Eight of the first ten ranking players er. He cited Sinclair Lewis as having of the country were here for the made that much for one of his more North and South last April. Johnny ?ucessful books. | Doeg, now national champion, won. » I Hunter Eckert Cards 138 and Wins Mid-South Tourney Up in the Needham’s Grove section of Moore county some community ef fort is undel* way that might be an example for some of the rest of the county. The Needham’s Grove neigh borhood in one of the old settlements of Moore county. The original stock is English, coming from Stafford shire and Yorkshire, from the pot tery region of the old country, and it was around Needham’s grove that pottery in the earlier days of the county made such development. It is there that the Jugtown pottery of the Busbee’s has taken advantage of the generations of training and her editary skill of the people in pot tery work to build up the famous pot tery that they now operate. That old English character ana ability to hammer through is still alive in that English stock, and from Needham’s Grove school district comes a story that some of the rest of Moore county, and probably of North Carolina, might study. Need ham’s Grove has a parent-teacher s association. That association looks af ter the school children and supplies them with light lunches and milk and chocolate and little things like that. Next year it proposes to supply the children with free school books. It looks after the people of the commun ity so well that the Needham’s Grove district has had but two ap peals for relief in recent months. One of these was provided with employ ment, and the other was found to be a case for the county home, and was sent there. These folks have been caring for their own, and with no call from anybody but themselves. The association holds little enter tainments and devises methods of raising money among thjemselves. But the ipeople have also a reserve of self-dependence and they have that English resolution and habit of cut ting their coats according to their cloth. If they have little they make little cover the ground, and they come through. Fashion Show Young Society Girls of South ern Pines To Appear as Models at Benefit An announcement of interest to many, is the Mlisicale and Fashion Show to be given at the Southern Pines Country Club, IJuesday even ing, February 17th. Mrs. Henry Page, Jr., of Aberdeen will be the as well as with the Sandhills Six- soloist, appearing in a solo group teen. A number of prominent younger society girls of the Sand hills will model the new spring modes. The proceeds will go to the Sand hills Activities Association, an or ganization formed to provide en tertainment for the winter guests of the Sandhills. World Record Falls As Horses Compete Ima McGregor Hangs Up New Time for Half Mile Event C. of C. in Protest. Against Additional Taxation of Movies Peoplt Need All the Recreation They Can Afford, Says Resolution TO RAISE $5,000 FUND FQR LOCAL UNEMPLOYED (Continued from page one) en credit at the grocery so that he can buy food before tpay-day; then the amount-spent at the grocery is deducted from his pay. The weekxy payroll is now about $400, and will soon be close to< $500. Most of the men employed so far are common lab orers, and work is divided as fairly as possible,'so as to give the more des titute people their jobs first. No out siders are taken on these jobs, and all those registered at the office must be residents of the con^munity. The committee now' needs money badly, not only to continue its pres ent work but to extend it to take in more men. Five thousand dollat^ must be raj^ed at once, and every cent giv en to the committee will serve two purposes: that of relieving destitute TO STUDY SALES TAX Directors of the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce went on rec ord at their meeting Tuesday noon as against any additional tax on motion picture theatres in North Carolina and aippointed a committee to look into the proposed sales tax in the state and report back at a meeting to be held next Tuesday. The Chamber officials were guests of Andrew I Creamer of the Highlands Pines Inn for luncheon yesterday, and S. B. Richardson, newly elected president, presided for the first time. The resolution against theatre tax- families and of improving the town ation was drawn by Struthers Burt, and adding to the value of town prop- and reads as follows: ‘We, the Chamber of Commerce of Southern Pines, petition respectfully the Legislature of North Carolina, now in session, under no circum stances to permit further taxation Friday, January^ HOT LUNCHES SERVED Tn CAMERON SCHOOI, Pupj^ Hot lunches are now bein^ to the chiWren of the Cameron School. About seventy-five ed hot cocoa Monday ,the first T' At (present it is planned to serv k cocoa and hot soups, changing a menu each day. The hot dish , erty. With taxes as they are today the town itself dould never afford to undertake the new work of improve ment, but it is being done just the same, by the committee; and the com mittee gets its fund entirely from pri- upon the motion picture theatres, or | contributions, and spends them Setting a world’s record for the month of December for a half-miJe track, the bay mare Ima McGregor, by Peter Potemkin, owned by the Du- quense Stable, of Pinehurst,, won ths first annual Mid-South Class, a mile event in straight heats, the first in two minutes, twelve seconds and the second in 2 minutes 10% seconds. The track was exceptionally fast due to a long spell of warm weather^ and the day was calm and sunny and fav orable to fast times. The harness horse record was made in the open ing event of the fourth meeting of the season of the Pinehurst Matinee Club. Donna Volo Peter, owned by T. S. Wheeler, of New York, was second and Prodigal Silk, owned by W. H. Watt, of East Orange, was third. any other theatres, within the state. Not only does such taxation indirect ly tax the very land-owners for whose relief the present tax measures are designed, but the theatre, and the motion picture theatre, are at pres ent the most important centers of amusement and relaxation in the life all on the work, giving its own time for nothing. When you realize that $25. will give a man work for 12 1-2 days, you can appreciate how far even a small amount of money will go. TLe second thing the committee needs is work, for its other unem ployed. So far two permanent jobs of most communities, and, in many i have been found for men: both are communities, the very center. To tax f^j. tending furnaces. But there are tended to supplement the cold T brought from home. Only five being charged per cup, and it is ho;" that a large number of the child ■will partake of it. Children may ?! free tickets by bringing to the schn I canned tomatoes, corn, beans, pe Irish potatoes, onions, etc. ’ ' After an examination of the bo and girls of the school by Dr S ington, it was found that^ there weT 150 in the school who were und weight, and 80 of these were over u per cent under weight. This is all due to undeniourishment but ve^ probably some of it is and it ^ ^thought that the hot lunches will hel"* to remedy that. ^ The hot dishes are being prepared by the ladies of the community, with the assistance of the high school’girj. Miss Margaret T^homas has been chos en chairman of this group. Through the generosity of some of the people of the community, lunches will be served to children whose parents are unable to pay for them. The following have made con- tributions so far: L. B. McKeithen $5; Bill Muse, $5; Ira Thomas, $5; E i S. Temple, $5; .J. M. Guthrie, $5; j’ j W. Cameron, $2; Mr. Tally, $1; j’ p' i Turnley, $1; H. P. McPherson, $2; Mrs. G. McDermott, $4. men on record at the office who can do all sorts of worlc; there are cooks, caddies, garage men, butlers, hotel them further will, in many cases, put them out of business. A darkened theatre is a serious blow, both to the business future and the state of mind ■ workers, men who can clip hedges and of a small town. In this period of de- j p^t yards in order, drive trucks, do pression particularly do the people ^ rnasonry, plastering, carpentering, need all the recreation they can af- ^ and a lot of other things. Most of ford.” them would be glad to get even a Study Sales Tax few hours of work cleaning up a yard The following were named on a | qj. putting a cellar to rights or wash- committee to investigate proposed i i„g a car. legislation looking toward a sales or j kittle Work for Women luxury tax in this state, and will con- | when you ask what is being done fer with Senator Murdoch Johnson ; j^^out women out of work—some of LEGAL NOTICES UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT MIDDLE DISTRICT OF NORTH CAROLINA Sutter To Make Bid For Davis Cup Team and Representative U. L. Spence when , ^hem without husbands and with chil- The fifth annual Carolina Trot, the | they return from Raleigh this week- j record is not so only other harness event on the pro- end: Struthers Burt, M. G. Nichols, | bright. Sixty-one cooks, maids, laun- gram went to the bay gelding Cool-jl^r. L. B. McBrayer, Duncan ^®^thev\s , houseworkers have ap- idge, owned by the Pine Needles Frank Buchan. ^ plied for positions. Many of these are Stable of Pinehurst after a tie with Richard Tufts of Pinehurst was a j experienced and some are untrained Lord Carville, owned by W. H. Watu. | guest of the directors Tuesday and ^ any housewife who wants Lord Carville’s time for the second talked briefly on Pinehurst’s advertis- j ^ servant has only to go to the heat was 2:13^/4, while Coolidge went | mg’ program. The Southern | office to find one, whom she can em- the distance each time in 2:16, Tease, | Chamber of Commerce has ^ked Mr. , pjQy g^t a wage lower than she would owned by Duquense Stables, was third | Tufts, representing Pinehurst, and | suppose. The girls are glad to get' The specialty events resulted as ' Edwin T. McKeithen, representmg ! In the Matter of Norfleet P. Ray, Bankrupt IN BANKRUPTCY NOTICE follows: Jumping: Stewart Lanahan, New York, winner; J. Corbet Alex ander, Asheville, 2. Overall race: Mrs. Grace Lewis, Chicago, and William Gale, New York, winners. Potato race: Team captained by Mrs. Grace Lewis, winners. Aberdeen, to attend all its regular meetings, in line with the general policy of outlining future plans for the benefit of the community as a whole rather than as only affecting Southern Pines. The directors voted $50. to the Sports Program committee of South- usual rather than have no work at all. Surely there are some housewives in Southern Pines who can spend an extra dollar or two a week to have their heavy cleaning done for them, by a girl to whom even a dollar means a great deal. There must be Auto Bill Provides I'ern Pines for use in pui chasing tio- : window-w'ashing, spring clean phies for the forthcoming Mid-Soulh golf tournament at the Southern Revocation of License ! Pines Country Club. I President Richardson announced the Cutti(hg^ off Privileges for Reck- ^ appointment of his 1931 committeci lessness on Highways Would ^ of the Chamber of Commerce as fol; Protect Lives of People ^lows: 1 Committees Named Mandatory revocation of individual | Finance Committee—R Qood PRINTING —Costs Less There U an old saw “Whatever la worth doing ia worth doing well.’* Ea* pecially ia chia true of printing. Printing, han> died aa we know how to do the work, is a good in vestment of money. Let us show you how we can improve your present LETTERHEADS STATEMENT’S CIRCULARS FOLDERS CARDS We know that we can prove to you that Good Printing Costs Less Hunter Eckert, of Reading, P^, playing with a handicap of 19, won the first annual jMid-Soutlj M'edal Tournament played yesterday over the Number One course of the Southern Pines Country Club when he dupli cated his score of yesterday, making a total of 138 for the 36-hole event. Dr. A. M. Brown, of Franklin, Pa., with 16 handicap, had a 68 to take ing, extra laundry, now and then ex tra kitchen help wanted; and there are plenty of unemployed girls who would jump at the chance to get even a little work. One girl is so hopeful of what the committee can do for her that she conies to the office three times a day to see if something has .L. Chand- | turned up; but the committee cannot dnvmg licenses followmg conviction j ler, George Moore, P. T. Barnum. | create housework and envjloy shifts in certain cases, without leaving the | Village Planting and Beautification | women to do it, and so far it has matter up to the discretionary ,pow-j Committee—R. L. Hart, P. F. Buch-1 been able to provide but one woman ers of judges, is one of the strongest j an, A. I. Creamer, M. G. Nichols, L. protective features of the statewide B. McBrayer. Community Roadside Beautification Committee—StI^lthers Burt, C. T. Waldie, W. D. Matthews. Good Roads Committee—L. B. Mc- drivers’ license bill which was intro duced in the General Assembly last week by Senator Blount and Law rence, in the opinion of C W. Roberts, of Greensboro, vice president of the ’Carolina Motor club. The motor club is sponsoring the bill as a safety measure. “Operators of motor vehicles con victed in the following cases will au tomatically lose their license for a period of 12 months,” Mr. Roberts pointed out in discussing details of the TTieasure: “manslaughter result ing from operation of motor vehicle, driving a vehicle under the influence of intoxicants or narcotics, perjury regarding automotive statutes, any crime punishable as a felony under Game Committee—George Moore and with wor^ and that for a few days only. Among the white women apply ing at the o'ffice are two with hus bands absent and little children to support. r> -ixr ^ IT I, I always asking why the Brayer, W. C. Mudgett p. F. Buchan, unemployment situation is so grave Sports Committe^Nelson C. Hyde, | here, and by investigation the reason J. N. Powell, G. G. Herr, George jg always found to be the same: the Moore, C. M. Gray. Hotels and Boarding House Com mittee—Frank Pottle, A. I. Creamer and Frank Harrington. Radio Interference Committee—R. L. Chandler, S. V. Hooker, and George Elliott. Membership Committee — A. I. Creamer, M. G. Nichols, W. C. Baker, P. T. Barnum, C. T. Waldie. Promotion of Better Fishing and motor vehicle laws, conviction or for feiture of bail upon three charges of the lead in first day of play, finished * reckless driving within a period of with 74 totaling 142 for the 36 hole.s. Robert Skinner, of Wilmington, Del., who also played a good game yesterday finished with 74, Harry Pethic, Hong Kong, China, finished with 78 MISS EDDY TO TELL OF OBERAMMERGAU PLAY Miss Doris Eddy of Southern Pines, who spent last summer in Europe, taking in the Passion Play and the World’s Christian Endeavor conven tion in Berlin, will speak in the Plat form Hour at the Church of Wide Fellowship in Southern Pines on Sun day night, February 1st, on “From Oberammergau to Berlin.” The meet ing is scheduled for 7:30 o’clock, and the public invited. J. M. Windham. Advertising Committee — W. C. Mudgett, A. I. Creamer, Frank Pot tle, Frank Harrington. Publicity Committee—Hiram West brook, Nelson C. Hyde. 12 months’ conviction as a ‘hit-and- run’ driver. ^ ^ “While mandatory suspension or revocation is provided in the above cases the department is empowered | TO PltESENT FARCES AT to suspend or revoke licenses in cases WIDE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH where it believes th operator is incom- j -etent to drive safely, is a habitual- , Two farces will be presented at The drouth of last summer, resulting in the failure of crops and in the need of the country people to look for a living in the towns. Added to this there is the overflow of labof* from other sections of the country, making work very hard to find. The situation may not be permanent, but for the present it is acute. If you know of a job or can make one, even for a day—and if you can spare some money, even just a dollar —telephone Southern Pines 6582 or drop in at the office yourself,, and whatever you have to give, money or job, will be heartily welcomed. By order of H. F. Seawell, Jr., Referee in Bankruptcy, the undersign ed, Trustee, will offer for sale in the store room of the Market Square Building, heretofore occupied by Nor fleet P. Ray, Bankrupt, at Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina, at eleven o’clock A. M., on February 9, 1931, all and singular, all of lb. stock of goods, wares and merchan dise of the said Norfleet P. Ray, Bankrupt, together with the furniture and fixtures in connection with said business, located in and about said store building. DATE OF SAL2: February 9, 1931. HOUR OF SALE: Eleven o’clock A. M. ^PLACE OF SALE: In the store room. Market Square Building, here tofore occupied by Norfleet P. Ray, Bankrupt, at Pinehurst, Moore County, North Carolina. TERMS OF SALE: Cash. J. TALBOT JOHNSON, Trustee. PE DBAND Golf Finals, Twenty-seventh annual St. ly reckless or negligent operator, or j Church of Wide Fellowship Thurs-' January*31 o ... „ ^ .. | January ol. tinals. Fourth Pine COMING EVENTS EAGLE Wi has committed a serious violation of i day night, February 5th. Between the | Needles Women’s Tonr„»™»nt motor vehicle laws. However, in these acts a musical novelty will be feat-j S January 30. Wom^n-s'pi ured The cost of characters for “Hot-1 Contest Saturday, January 31. ler Gossip” will be Messrs. Loomis, I Doran, Cutter, Pierce, Cole, Page, Wooley, Elder and Manning and Mis instances the department will immed iately notify the licensee and afford him the opportunity of a hearing.” Miss Aileen Collins, of New York and Chicago, is expected to return soon to the Carolina Hotel to spend the remainder of the season. Miss Collins has been coming to the resort for many years. Polo vs. Visitors 1711 fni- 1 . Sandhills vs. Visitors Saturday i Ellen^e Eddy. Th^e takmg part in | January 31. Number Two Field at All Women” are Mesdames Hooker, 3;00 P. M. Woodall, Haworth, Johnson, Tyndle, | * * White and Misses Loomis, Yeager, Si- i Traoshootine mons and Pierson. Tickets will be Rifle Range, Saturday 31, weekly award. January PACKET HEADS LETTER HEADS INVITATIONS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS ENVELOPES fl'ECEIPTS DODGERS FOLDERS BLANKS CARDS TAGS • • . . and guarantee yoirf satisfaction with our work
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