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VOL. 11, NO. 44.
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Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, October 2, 1931.
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BRUMfflTT PLEADS
FOR COURAGE AND
FIGHTING SPIRIT
Diffusion of Purchasing Power
and Rout of Defeatism Needed
to Restore Prosperity
ADDRESS KIWANIANS
Dennis G. Brummitt, a^^torney gen
ial ;>f North Carolina and a candi
date for the Democratic nomination
for Governor, says that only through
diffusion of the purchasing power of
the dollar and the complete rout of
the attitude of Defeatism which pre
vails in many quarters will we bring
order out of choas and witness a re
turn of prosperity. Attorney General
Brummitt addressed members of the
Kivvanis Club of Aberdeen at their
luncheon meeting at the Courthouse
at Carthage Wednesday.
fhe future progress of the country
uepends on consumption. The machine
age has so increased production that
only increased purchasing power can
catch us up, he said. We can’t catch
up on five cent cotton, ten cent to
bacco and 50 cent wheat, but if we can
spread demand through diffusion of
purchasing power, these commodities
like all others will not stay at their
present levels. The widest possible op
portunities must be provided all
classes for purchasing.
Defeatism he described as the cur
rent feeling that the present low lev
els are here to stay. This is not so,
and the sooner we get that defeatist
idea out of our heads, the better, he
said. We in the South were in lots
worse shape after the Civil War.
North Carolina weathered that storm.
It has today every advantage it had
five years ago except the purchasing
ability. Things aren’t selling for what
they were then and people aren’t buy
ing as they were then, but with cour
age and “that old fighting spirit”
everything w'ill come out all right.
Mak(!S Good Impression
The attorney general was introduc
ed by Dr. L. B. McBrayer of Southern
Pines, who, \nth Hiram Westbrook,
chairman of the program committee,
was responsible for his appearance at
the meeting. The gubernatorial candi
date made a good impression and was
roundly applauded at the end of his
twenty-minute talk.
Vice President Dan I. McKeithen,
tvho presided at the meeting, announc
ed the following program committee
for the balance of the year: Paul
Dana, chairman; Dr, G. G. Herr, Ar
thur Newcomb, Talbot Johnson and
C. T. Waldie. He also called a meet
ing of directors for Tuesday night of
next week.
Col. G. P. Hawes announced at the
meeting that arrangements had been
made with General McClosky at Fort
Bragg for a guard mounting with col
ors and the Fort Bragg band before
the prize fights start at the Pine-
hurst race track the afternoon of Oc
tober 22d, the occasion being part of
the entertainment provided for Ki-
wanians from North and South Caro
lina here for the district convention.
Artillerymen from Fort Bragg will
put on the fights, and the public will
admitted.
many plan TO ATTEND
STATE FAIR AT RALEIGH
Hemp All Dressed Up and Ready to
Entertain Fair Crowd Next Week
Big Assembly at Fish Fry H'jars
Plans for Exhibits and Sena
tor Baggett on^Economics
Hemp is growing cocky over the
prospect of a country fair that looks
like a bank-sweeper when the gate.i
are opened and the crowds permitted
to enter. On Tuesday the first sign of
the popularly of a public gathering
at Hemp was shown in the crowd that
assembled at the fish fry. More than
a thousand persons were there as the
guests of the Hemp Business Men’s
Club, and when Mrs. Jacques Busbee
presented to the audience the distin
guished pers-ons on the platform at
the meeting she introduced a goup
that was right creditable to a small
community on a hurry-up social pro
gram. Among the number were:
Sheriff McDonald, of Moore; R. E.
Denny of Pinehurst; D. D. McKimmon
and Edgar Brown of Hemp* M. G.
Boyette, Paul Waddell, of Carthage*,
Mrs. ^Wm. C. Hammer, Harriette Ham
mer Walker, of Asheboro; Miss Jane
Prait, secretary to Congressman Wal
ter Lambeth; and County Farm Dem
onstrator Garrison, of Carthage.
Edgar Brown, a leading business
man of the upper part of the county,
served as chairman at the feast, heli,*
ing it along in his lively fashion.
Senator Baggett of Lillington ad
dressed the gathering, paying atten
tion chiefly to the economic condition
of the state, and making a positive
impression. Paul Waddell and others
talked about the fair to be held next
week beginning October 5. As che
gathering was largely to emphasize
the coming fair the turnout seems to
have been about as responsive as any
body could expect.
Mr. Waddell outlined some of the
many things the fair is undertaking
for the Hemp community, pointing to
the large audience as an indication
that the bigger attendance next week
will be a revelation to everybody. The
sponsors of the fair are among the
prominent folks for miles in all direc
tions, and the exhibits are promising,
with many novelties and unique ex
amples o fold time life in this com
munity.
Woman Seriously Hurt
In Auto Collision
11-Cent Average
Aberdeen, Market Has Good
Week, with Good Tobacco
Selling High
Two Cars Collide, Turn Turtle
Three Times, On Route 50
Near Hoffman
Despite the two fairs here in the
county, many Sandhillians plan to
take in the State Fair at Raleigh the
wee\ of October 12th. According to
the news from Raleigh, the exposi
tion will be the best ever. Horse races
^or good sized purses are carded for
each afternoon. A dog show will be
^ fair feature, and the carnival will
entirely new, among the attrac
tions being “Sensations of 1931,” Car-
Comedy Circus, Captain Charles’
Le. *ping Hounds, Joe Basile’s Madi
son Square Garden Band, Fireworks,
etc.
There will be the usual agricultural,
industrial and historical exhibits of
interest to people from all over the
state.
ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED
^I’s. Celeste Edson announces the
engagement of her daughter, Julia
“^Jgene to Dwight Amhurst Hoskins.
The wedding will take place in No
vember.
One woman was seriously injured
and two men cut and bruised in a col
lision of two automobiles on Route 50
between Hoffman and Aberdeen last
Saturday afternoon. One car was
practically totally demolished, the
other badly damaged. Each turned
over three times as a result of the
impact.
Dr. Henry A. Monat, a surgeon at
tached to U. S. Veterans’ Hospital No.
63 at Lake City, Florida, was driving
north, accompanied by a nurse on
her way to duty at the Walter Reed
Hospital in Washington. In attempt
ing to pass a car driven by J. S. Ad-
cox, a cigar salesman, of Richmond,
Va., Dr. Monat is said to have cut
across in front of the Adcox car with
out sufficient clearance, the collision
resulting. Both cars were traveling at
sufficient rate of speed, it is said, to
cause a complete upset, both turning
turtle, the Monat car landing upset
down in the middle of the highway,
the Adcox car lighting in a field,
though on all fours.
The nurse, whose name has not been
revealed, was thrown from the Flor
ida car with such force as to cause
serious injuries. She was rushed to
the Hamlet Hospital where she is still
confined.
MRS. I. H. BURGESS OF
PINEHURST PASSES AWAY
Mrs. I. H. Burgess of Pinehurst
died Wednesday after a long illness,
at the hospital in Durham, following
an operation. The funeral was held in
Albemarle, from which the family had
originally come. Mrs. Burgess leaves
her husband and two young children.
They have for some years lived in
Pinehurst where Mr. Burgess is em
ployed by the Pinehurst Lumber
Yards. For a time they lived in South
ern Pines.
With an average,of around 11
cents and a lot of good tobacco on
the floors, Wednesday was one of
the best days to date on the Aber
deen market, both warehouses re
porting good sales. Throughout the
week the price average has ranged
between 9 and 11 cents, the good
leaf bringing prices up to 30 cents
and over, while lugs and inferior
weed went so low as to pull down
the average.
Sam Stewart has reported for
duty as sales manager at the Sand
hill Warehouse.- He was formerly
assistant sales manager at the Lib
erty Warehouse in Winston-Salem,
and is well known throughout the
tobacco belts.
BACKER DRAFTED
TO REORGANIZE
BOY SCOUT TROOP
Former Scoutmaster Accepts Po
sition and Calls Meeting of
Boys for Tonight
CUB TROOP PLANNED
145 Women Attend
Group Conference
District No. 6 of FlayettevSlle
Presbytery Has Interesting
Meeting at Jackson Springs
The Group Conference for District
No. 6 of Fayetteville Presbyterial
was held in the Presbyterian Church,
Jackson Springs on Tuesday, Septem
ber 29th, beginning at 10:30, with
the following program for the day:
Call to order, Mrs. Alex Stewart;
prayer, the Rev. R. C. Matheson; wel
come, Miss Margaret Clark; response,
Mrs. M. M. McLeod: devotional, Mrs.
E. L. Barber; report on Montreal,
Mrs. D. H. Shaw.
Reports: Statistical—District Chair
man; Literature, Mrs. Suttenfield;
Flora McDonald College, Mrs. Rob-
|Crt Stewart; Solo, Mrs. Grady Burney;
■ Address on work in Johnson county.
Miss M. J. McNeill.
The afternoon program was led by
prayer by the Rev. E. L. Barber, fol
lowed by and address by the Rev. Mr.
McLeod, President of Maxton Jun
ior College, Report on Yuong Peo
ples’ Work, Miss Kate Sutton; Re
port on Social Service Work, Mrs. J.
A. Jones; Historian, Mrs. Lauchlin
McDonald; Home Missions, Mrs. J.
P. Wiggins; Elise High School, Mrs.
Joseph Suttenfield; White Cross
Work, Mrs. J. O. McClelland; Discus
sion of local problems, Mrs. D. H.
Shaw. The next meeting will be held
at Manley. There were 145 women reg
istered at the conference.
DR. HERR RETURNS
Max G. Backer of Southern Pines,
former scoutmaster of the Boy Scout
troop in Southern Pines, has acceded
to the request of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce to reorganize
the troop there, and has called a
meeting of boys interested for to
night, Friday, at 7:30 o’clock at the
Scout Hut.
The move for reorganization of the
Scouts locally was launched by George
Moore at a meeting of directors of
the Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce last week. It was voted to
place the position of scoutmaster on
a salary basis inasmuch as it requires
more of a man’s time than he should
‘ be asked to give gratis. The directors
agreed at that time that if Mr. Back
er could be persuaded to again head
the Scouts, he was the man they
wanted, and Mr. Backer accepted the
proposition this week.
In his “call to arms” for the boys,
he says:
“All boys interested in joining the
reorganization of Troop 3, Boy
Scouts of America, in Southern Pines
will please be present at a meeting
to be held at the Scout Hut on Fri
day, October 2d at 7:30 p. m. All
boys having keys, merit badge, pam
phlets or any Scout property should
bring such property to the meeting.
“Any Scout who has paid his 1931
registration but has not received his
Scout identification card, should be
present. Any boy desiring to become
a member of the troop should bring
fifty cents for registration which will
enroll him with the National head- |
quarters in New York. |
“Boys under twelve years of age,!
who are too young to join the troop, |
will be assembled at an early date, j
under another scoutmaster, with the |
purpose of forming some sort of a |
cub troop. Notice of that meeting
will be given in the pewspapers.”
A large number of boys of the
Sandhills are planning to assemble to
night to start the troop off with a
bang.
West Southern Pines
Annexati'^^^^^ill Held
Legal Finley
Court Upholds Him
X -
Injunc.’^^ nst Sale for
Taxes ** Colored
Citizck.' is Set Aside
NOTICE OF APPEAL FILED
MAYOR D. G. STUTZ
10,000 PEOPLE ON
OPENING DAY IS
COUNTY FAIR AIM
Real Exposition Promised by
American Legion Post and
Fair Association
INTEREST COUNTY-WIDE
TO PLAN LITTLE RIVER
GAME PRESERVE TODAY
Dr. G. G. Herr has returned and re
opened his office for the season in the
Mudgett building. Southern Pines.
During the summer Dr. Herr attended
clinics in New York, Bridgeport and
Hartford on clinical dentistry, ortho-
dontita, plate work and extractions.
This afternoon, Friday, at 2:30
o’clock State Game Warden Charles
England and Assistant State Director
Paul Kelly will be at the hotel in Vass
to confer with those persons who are
arranging to establish the game pre
serve in the Little River neighbor
hood. The meeting is an open one, and
all persons interested in the subject
are invited to attend. This is the first
move in this neighborhood under the
new law and will throw a great deal
of light on the possibilities of the
new proposition.
Mrs. Ripley Writes Fascinating Saga
of Sandhills when Peach was King
By Bion H. Butler
“Sand in My Shoes,” is the name
of a new book from Katherine Rip
ley, to go on sale at Hayes’ South
ern Pines store October 2, the day of
its publication. To break the ice
about it quickly, it is one of the most
clever and entertaining things of all
that has come from the pen of the
Sandhill writing colony. Yet to an
alyze it is something like attempting
to sit in a postmorten inquiry on
yourself, for Mrs. Ripley has told a
story of the Sandhills peach orchard
so keenly accurate that it lets a lit
tle blood from nearly everyone who
reads it, and she does it so nicely
that the reader can almost imagine
it would be a pleasure to have her
pursue her dissection on his own anat
omy.
Mrs. Ripley and Clem,—Clem is
Mr. Ripley and figures pretty freely
in the history,—came down to the
Sandhills to stay a while with Ra
phael Pumpelly at Samarcand, and
there fell in with Roger Derby,
George Maurice, Ralph Page, and
their folks, and with the widening
circles of contact, Pinehurst, South
ern Pines, when peaches were riding
the clouds, and before they knew how
it happened the Ripleys were peach
growers a couple of miles from Sam
arcand. You all know the story.
Plant an orchard, firs|b c^op pay
all the costs and the rest of the
years are velvet with no troubles but
loading a wheelbarrow from day to
day to roll your money down to the
bank. They planted their orchard and
began to make the acquaintance of
the neighbors, and the colored broth
er, and the peach men around them,
and the guests at the resorts, and
?long with all the rest, the idioin-
crasies of the peach crop and the ec
centricities of the Creator who seems
to have many new and curious sur
prises for the city folks who come to
the country to share in its bounties
and altrusitic existence.
“Katti” is not weaving a bit of fic
tion. She is stripping truth to its
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From all we can gather, the Moore
County Fair is going to be a real
fair this year. It opens at Carthage
Tuesday, October 13th and runs
through that week.
“We have profited from last year’s
fair when we made the usual mis
takes of novices,” E. H. Garrison,
commander of the American Legion
Post at Carthage, said this week,
“and believe we are going to have
an exposition worthy of Moore county
this year. I am pleased with the num
ber of exhibits that have been enter
ed <^0 far, with the splendid side at
tractions we have signed up for en
tertainment, and with the county-
wide interest being manifested in the
show.” The fair is being sponsored
by the Joseph G. Henson Post of rhe
American Legion, and put on by the
Moore County Agricultural Fair As
sociation, of which Sheriff Charles J..
McDonald is president.
Ten thousand on opening day is the
aim of the fair management, 0. B.
Welch, manager of the fair, told The
Pilot this week. Tuesday is to be Amer
ican Legion Day, and Fort Bragg is
sending its big brass band to furn
ish martial music for the occasion.
A battery of guns from the fort will
be on hand to fire the opening salute,
and it is expected that Henry Bourne,
of Tarboro, commander of the Amer
ican Legion, North Carolina division,
will be on hand to make a talk. All
Moore county legionnaires are plan
ning to attend and dip into the free
barbecue promised them on the fair
grounds.
School children of the county may
attend free on Wednesday, “School
Day,” and there’ll be excitement
aplenty that afternoon. Then on
Thursday, the 15th comes “Home
Coming Day,” when the folks are go
ing to get together at the fairgrounds
and renew acquaintances and make
new ones. “Live-at-Home Day” will be
Friday, when it is hoped that Govern
or Gardner may be on hand to dis
cuss his program of economies
through “growing our own.” Saturday
wiH.be set apart for the colored peo
ple.
D. A. R. CHAPTER TO MEET
AT EAGLE SPRINGS TUESDAY
The Alfred Moore Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion will meet at the home of Mrs.
Jesse Page in Eagle Springs on next
Tuesday afternoon, October 6th at
2:30.
All members are urged to be pres
ent. »
Peaceful Settlement of Contro
versy Believed Probable as Re
sult of Conference Between
Mayor Stutz and Town Com
missioners and Attorney for
Negro Village.—Spence, Poate
Attend Wadesboro Hearing.
The injunction procured by
West Southern Pines* residents
to restrain Southern Pines from
selling their land for taxes was
set aside by Judge T. B. Finley
in Superior Court at Wadesboro
on Wednesday, the judge hold
ing that the annexation of the
town by Southern Pines through
legislative enactment at the last
session of the Legislature was
legal and binding. Representatives
of the colored citizens had main
tained that the annexation bill
was unconstitutional.
R. McCants Andrews, attorney
for West Southern Pines, served
notice of appeal to the State Su
preme Court. The Town of Souths
ern Pines was represented at
Wadesboro by Attorneys U. L.
Spence and Dr. E. M. Poate.
The historical “Era of Good Feel
ing” which followed the election of
James Monroe as president of the
United States by a vote of 231 out
of 232, has a parallel in the situation
in Southern Pines after the long dis
cussion and difference of opinion con
cerning the situation in West South
ern Pines, that portion of the com-
i munity in which the colored popula-
I ton had been carrying on an experi-
I ment in local self-government until
! the sudden climax at the recent ses-
! sion of the legislature abolished the
local government and annexed the
i community to Southern Pines.
Tax Sale Postponed
The separated government across
the creek had been much discussed on
the Southern Pines side, with division
of opinion, but the occasion for dis
cussion seemed ended when the leg
islature made the two towns one in
their governmental relation. Then
discussion on other lines broke out,
and a climax came when R. McCants
Andrews, a colored attorney from Dur-
i ham, acting for a group of West
Southern Pines folks, asked for an
injunction from the court to prevent
the sale of land in the West Southern
Pines section in default of the pay
ment of taxes due for one or more
years.
The attorney in his statement of the
case said, the folks were hard pressed
to pay the money and that many of
them were likely to lose their homes,
and his clients could not see that the
new government forced on them af
forded them a policy of community
administration under which they
could function and pay the necessary
costs. The government at Southern
Pines protested that in order to af
ford the community across the creek
the best government, with the con
veniences and necessities of commun
ity accomplishment, it was necessary
that the colored folks have the back
ing and help of the white folks, and
that in securing that help the colored
people must bear a reasonable share
of the costs of government, which
meant pajring their back taxes. The
arguments were long and many, but
finally on Tuesday afternoon the at
torney for West St)uthem Pines met
with the mayor and town commission
ers of South#'rn Pines, and out of that
conference ca ne an understanding
that gives possible promise of set
tling the whole question outside of
the action of the court, and which
those who have been watching the
development of the affair look on as
a wholesome and effective way of
handling the situation.
Improvements Sought
The recapture of the colored town
by the main corporation of Southern
Pines came from the realization by the
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