MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NO. 7.
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PILOT
FIRST IN
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolipa
Aberdeen and Southern PinjBs, North Carolina, January 15, 1932.
FIVE CENTS
SENTIMENT FOR
NEW FORT BRAGG
ROAD DEVELOPS
Proposed Scenic Highway From
Sandhills Referred to Division
Engineer by Jeffress
WOULD AID UNEMPLOYED
Editor Finds Lesson for Today in
Letter Describing Visit to Emerson
Considerable sentiment is develop
ing thiioughout the Sandhills section
for the improving bjr the State of the
proposed scenic highway leading from
U. S. Highway No. 1 to Fort Bragg
throusrh the Sweetheart Lake coun
try and past the Rockefeller estate.
In response to a petition sent to the
State Highway Commission, E. B.
Jeffress, chairman, has advised in
terested parties here that he has re
ferred the matter to Mr. Morspn,
chief engineer of this division, with
headquarters at Fayetteville, and a
delegatidn recently waited on M.r.
Morson urging him to make the new
highway a part of his next building
program. It has been urged that the
road be put in line for early con
struction as an aid to unemployment
in this section, and that it be built
under government specification in
icrder that F^ederal aid funds be avail
able.
The proposed route for the double
road carries it fi’om U. S. No. 1 be
tween Manley and Lakeview through
the former Edgemoore Heights land,
now owned by a syndicate and used
for hunting purposes, across the
Lake ^Dunlop hunting preserve of
some 6,GOO acres, then thn'^ugh the
Allen property of 12,000 acres, the
Upchurch lands of 4,000 acres and a
part of the 45,000-acres Percy A.
Rockefeller estate into Fort Bragg.
Farmers Interested
Farmers are particularly interested
in "the new road as it would open
up a wider market for their produce.
Three days a week a curb market is
held at Fort Bragg where a place is
set aside for the growers to display
what they have t,o offer.
Another important feature is the
making available to the resort sec
tion of the huge government reserva
tion and artillery encampment as an
added attraction. The present route
to the Fort is, if good roacs are fol
lowed, a circuitous one inv.olving more
mileage than the average sightseer in
the Sandhills desires for an after
noon’s run. The distance would be
greatly cut down by the proposed
road, and run throujfh a picturesque
f.ection. There is a road much of the
way now, but it is almost impassable.
Mr. Butler I^ses Kiwanis Talii
on Simple Life of the Great
as Found by Merchant
Bion H. Butler as speaker at the
Kiwanis Luncheon on Wednesday t,old
the Kiwanians an appealing story of
a man who saw something better and
more interesting in life than chasing
the almighty dollar. Here is the story
as Mr. Butler told it.
When Frank Buchan called to me
Monday night to ask me to talk to the
Kiwanis club I was reading an old
letter. It was from a man I kmw
only in a bookf^h way. He was a mer
chant in an interior New York city.
One August Sunday in 1878 he wrote
to his sister of a visit to Boston. Af
ter finishing his business there he
went with a friend to Concord and to
the home pi Emerson where he was
“cordially received by the sweete'st
faced, most spiritual looking, pleas
ant, smiling old gentleman of 7.5 that
ever lived.” Emerson’s home under
the .shade of gigantic elms, out al
most in the country, a plain old fash
ioned farm hc)|'.se to the west, a
mead,ow and men haying. The letter
tells of a discussion with Emerson,
of books and friends and surround
ings. From there he drifted to a pub
lic library where he encountered “a
fine stately old gentleman,” who in
troduced himseif and proved t,o be
Bronson Allcott, famous for his con-
ver.^iation, his book's and his daught-
ei' Louisa May. Allcott showed him
manuscript volumes of Emerson,
Lowell, Hiolmes. Thoreau, Longfellow
ar.d others. And the letter continues:
“It did me good to go there and see
how indifferent real men, men of
birth, men of wealth, men of cul
ture and even of fame, are or may
Napoleon’s Coach
Miniature Replica of Famous
Vehicle on Exhibit at
Pinehurst Shop
At the Village Qourt showroom
of the Pinehurst Warehouses in
Pinehurst in 'a novel exhibit, a
copy of the coach used by Napo
leon in the height of his fame. It
was made by Marcus Andrews, a
16-year old of Mt. Gilead, and ex
hibited in a competition in De
troit arranged by the Fisher Body
Company, makers of aut(Omobile
bodies. The boj' won the first prize
for North Carolina, which brought
to him a sum of money and a free
trip to Detroit. He put in almost
1,500 hours of w,ork on the minia
ture coach. In the contest were
•m.
be to all this ostentatious di'.splay of
wealth, sh,ow, style, dress—every
thing that most people with us work
for—struggle for—and usually die
for. There they live in their plain
»il(i-fashi(^ned houses in a quiet,
^-•imple, happy way. It seemed an,
ideal life in which with work were |
A. B. YEOMANS NEW
HEAD OF LIBRARY
Succeeds Struthers Burt, Re
signed.—Reports Show 10,000
Book Circulation During ’31
NEW SECRETARY ELECTED
The annual meeting of the South-1
ern Pines Library Association held!
Mionday afternoon at the Civic Club, i
there were 197 members of the asso- j
siation in 1931, an attendance of|
over 7,000 and a circulation of over j
10.000 during the year. There are i
9.000 books on the shelves and 415 j
were added in 1931. Of these 228;
v/ere purchased and 187 donated. i
The library is open each morning
and afternoon throughout the win-1
ter season and every person is urg
ed to become a member. Since De-.
cember 11th, Mrs. James Boyd has j
conducted a reading hour for girls on i
Friday afteinoons, from 4 to 5 j
o’clock. These have been well attend-1
ed. 1
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Tune
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Station WPTF Will Bro>
the Story of Pinehursr^^
On January 21 *
J. R. THOMAS, VASS
'^4RMER,KniEDAS
. LY WHEEL SNAPS
Station W. P. T. F. at Raleigh
is broadcasting stories of the
towns of Niorth Carolina. On Jan
uary 21 at fi:15 p. m. Pinehurst
will be the subject of the talk.
The scries is offered under the
name of “Carolina Echoes.” It is
informative with bits of history, in
cidents of development, features
peculiar to the community under
discussion, and such interesting
phases of community life as are
of value in any way. Other places
in the state will be given attention
from time to time.
Body Pierced by Pieces of Steel
P'rom Wheel Used to
Operate Saw
SISTER SEES ACCIDENT
AIRPORT HERE NOT
J. R. “Dunk” Thomas, well known
and highly respected farmer of Vass,
was fatally injured just before noon
Wednesday when he was struck by
piect^s of the fly wheel of a woodsaw
which was running at a high rate ,of
speed.
Charles Gschwind, a son-in-law of
Mr. Thomas, Julius Simpson and Wal
ter McNeill were helping Mr. Thomas
saw wood at his home when the acci
dent occurred. The woodsaw was
PROPERLY MARRED^w“"1‘ I”,/,
Fiollowing the reading of reports,
Ihe officers and trustees for 1932
were elected. Struthers Burt, who has
most ably served as pruddent, de
clined to be re-elected, and Howard
of
fly wheel bui^it into several pieces.
One piece passed through the body
iof Mr. Thomas and another ripped
his right leg open almost the entire
No Direction Signs from Raleigh | length. Medical aid was quickly sum-
LOST FLIERS STATE
to Knollwood Responsible
For Forced Landings
BEACON LIGHT NEFjDED
moned, but the injured man passed
away within a few minutes, before be
ing removed from the scene of the ac
cident. Dr. Rosser had just adminis
tered fiii-it aid preparatory to re
moving him to a hospital when the
mingled rest and rcpiose for body,
mind and soul, and 1 came away feel-
ii:g to thank God that there was
something in this world and to this
life beside the turmoil of trade and
the rush after the mighty dollar. I
have since been more contented with
niy own work and home, and am not
near so anxious as I have been to
fcet into a finer house.”
Th^5 letter interested me particu-
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Farmer Asks Ralph Page Who Got
Him in This Mess Hes in, Anyhow?
‘Things Ain’t Turned Out the
Way the F’ellow That Loaned
Mcney Told Me.”
360 Persons Fed by
Unemployment Body
Donations of SI,100 Have Made
Steady .lobs Possible for
Sixty Men
Without a fund-ra'jing campaign,
people ,of Southern Pines and vicinity
have given $1,100 toward the work
of the Unemployment Relief commit
tee to keep 60 men at work on a part
time schedule. Thirty men are on the
job all the time, but alternate with
another thirty so that sixty get half
a week’s work regularly. Assuming
an average of six in a family, this
work is feeding 360 persons regularly.
“The people )0f Southern Pines and
the winter visitors never fail to con
tribute to any worthy cau^^e, and
without urging have been generous
in their support this winter,” Chair
man Buchan of the committee said
yesterday. “There is much to be done
yet, and others desiring to contri
bute may send checks to George W.
Case, Treasurer,” Mr. Buchan said.
Am,ong contributors to date are: Dr.
E. Levis Priztis, M. G. Nichols, John
Jayme, Mrs. Harry Vale, Martha M.
Emley, Miss Margaret Bishop, David
S. Packard, Francis H. Robinson,
Louise Birt Baynes, Anonymous, Rev.
and Mrs. W^m. E. McCord, A. B. Yeo
mans, Dr. J. S. Milliken, Mi«s Gus-
>sie Cameron, Kiwanis Club, Chris
tian Science Church, Food Matinee,
by Charles Picquet, Evelyn J. Bar
ton, S. B. Richardson, Collection at
Country Club golf match. Rev. Mar
cus A. Bj-ownson, Sale of lumber,
Clonated by Charles Picquet, Benefit
Dance, 'J. W. Barton, Wm. T. Shedd,
Geo. R. Witte and Mrs. Elizabeth S.
Howard.
The Pilot is in receipt of the fol
lowing communication:
Dear Mister Editor:
Being a farmer and being in the pay fertilizer bills but even that aint
.‘iame fix as most farmers I want to nothing to what happened to peaches
write you regarding all what Mister and for the life of me I can’t figure
lialph Page had to say in your last, out any sense to the reasons folks
Pilot. W'ell I must be that fellow tell me.
Mister Page writes about all right: Mister Page I never did see any
because I still got some land and Qf prosperity folks talk about,
suie aint got any money and as I i „ever did much want all these new
get what Mr. Page says he thinks I ■ fixings everybody used to say we
u/jn^t work hard enough .At least I . farmers had ought to have. Anyhow I
don t know about car loadings and gQj. ]Qtg Qf depression now' and if
Inadequate markers were largely
.nore organizations upon his should-[.responsible for the failure of so many i end came. Miss Lucy Thomas, a sister
rs than any man in town, felt that j aviators on the recent cruise here to | was standing in the doorway and wit
he must resign as secretary. The j make their destination, the Knollwood | nessed the accident. None of the ,other
lollowing officers were elected: Pres- ! Airport, causing so many forced | men was injured.
i'.ient, A. B. Yeomans; 1st. Vice Pres-1 lanc^ings in the neighborhood of their j Fur.ei'al services W’ere held at
i'-ent, Augustine Healy; -2nd Vice- j .jcal, according to a number of the Kphesus church in Lee county at 4:30
President, E. C. Stevens; 3rd. Vice; fliers. They stated that from Ral- o’clock Thui^^day afternoon, conduct-
President, Struthers Burt; secretary, I eigh to Knollwpod there is nothing ed cy the Rev. Frank Hare, Baptist
Ciftirge P. Hardeson, treasurer, Mrs. ] lor them to follow but the Seaboard i niinisier of Jonesboro.
John K. Walker. ; tracks, and that the tracks lead into ; Thomas was born January 29,
Mrs. Harry Vale, Nelson C. Hyde,' Southern Pines but not to the air- of Mr. and Mrs. W illiam
Mrs. James Boyd and Mrs. Edmund
Pavenstedt were elected .is trustees
to serve three years. Mr.s.. JI. A.
Kayes and the Rev. Fred Stimson
were elected to finish the terms of
Miss Ethel Jones and M. G. Nichols,
Thomas of Montgomery county. In
The need of a beacon light at the early manhood he was married to
airport is pronounced. It is said that j Miss Genettie Bean, also a native of
such a light, revolving, wpuld have Montgomery county, and to them
penetrated the mist that overhung tight children were born,
the Sandhills the <iay the fliers came jj,, Thomas was a kind neighbor
whose resignations had been regret- i here and showed them the way to ^ devoted husband and father.
fully accepted by Mr. Burt. Mrs. C.
R. Whitaker, Miss Anna Jenks,
Frank Gibbon.«, Miss Mary Schwijr-
berg, Mrs. Walter Gilkyson and Mrs.
so I can borrow money right easy on
my farm and so it don’t seem right
I shouldn’t fix myself up better. But
somehow it ain’t turned out just like J^;;;;;swett remair^ on' the board
everyb|Ody told me things was going
to happen because cotton and tobac
co aint bringing me money enough to
prognosticators and symposiums and
milleniums but Mister Page says we
farmut’s bought lots of things we
didn’t ought to have aijd then says
you got any kind of a job for me
these folks what fixed up my tax
rate and sold me my n^ortgage and
got me to plant peaches can help
we got to quit being foolish and get | themselves to my farm. Mister Page
back to work or at least seems t,o j don’t know what happened to make
mo like that was v\hat Mister Page depression and who got all the
says. Well I don’t know Mister Page
but I hear folks say he is a right
smart financier and so I expect he
ought to be able to tell us farmers
what ail^us. Maybe Mister Page is
even smarter than the rest of these
financiers and if so maybe he can
tell me one thing I want to know.
money before it happened and I don’t
care whether you tell me about that
or not but what I want to know is
why aint folks wh,o do all this talk
ing got more sense. I aint expecting
to know much myself but somebody
gave me a whole lot of ideas that
aint done me any good even if other
Being just a farmer I never did try folks did get helped some and what
tc figure things out much but I read
all about what these fellows like
bankers and lawyers and senators
and such like men say abput it all.
Anyhow some time back I decided
that folks must know all about where
the money is coming from when
they say we need new, school build
ings where my children can learn
about things I never heard tell of
and new roads so I can go places I
don’t care none about and a new court
house f,or me to pay taxes in and
whole lots of things I always done
fme without before. Course I never
did figure these folks meant for me
tr pay for all this but I guess they
forgot to say* about that part. Anoth
er thing folks all talked about was
how everyb|ody had ought to have a
automobile and a radio and a peach
orchard and electric lights and lots
of things me and my father never
even, thought of. But my crops don’t
seem to make me money to buy all
these flings like most town folks
have and everybody says I ought
to have. Then some fellow fixes it up
I want to know Mister Page is who
v;as it started us farmers off ^>n all
this foolishness.
—DOUGALL McDUNCAN.
FRANK McCLEUR. JR., JOINS
JOHNSON & JOHNSON FIRM
Mr. Yeomans addressed a few
well chosen W|Ords to the associa
tion, urging the members to renew
their efforts to make the library a
factor in the community. Several in
teresting features were mentioned as
means of raising funds. The standing
committees were appointed for 19.‘j2
and the meeting adjourned for anoth
er year.
Leg’ion Starts Year
in Blaze of Glory
the port. The only marker at pres- specially beautiful was his affec-
cnt is atop a garage in Southern jjjj- iJttlg granddaughter, El-
rines, indistinguishable on any but,,)^ Mae Gschwind, who he t,ook into
a clear day. j heart and home when she was
Southern Pines Chamber of Com- left motherless at the asre of one
! mer.e directors at their meeting' yeai. Six wf the children picceded Mr.
Tuesday discussed ways and means | Thomas in death, Arthur, Daisy, Roy,
of providing better direction signs j Mrtf. Mattie Henley, Mrs. Zelma
for Knolhvpod. | (rschwind and Newton, who was killed
The lighting of the hoti-1 signs at; ir. action in F)ance during the World
Enthusiastic Meeting of Sand
hill Post Held Wednesday at
Civic Club
Sandhill Post No. 134, American
Legion, held its first meeting of
1P32 at the Civic Club, Southern
Pines, Wednesday evening with Com
mander O’Callaghan in the chair and
over forty legionnaires present.
Routine businei^s mcludea reports
of committees, a discussion of Ora-
torial Contest plans and the passing
of a resolution of thanks to the
Sandhills newspapers for their gen-
erou's aHowance of space to Legion
publicity.
The Legion membership drive has
been extended to January 30 and
all members were urged to go out for
members, old and new.
Chaplain Stimson then introduced
Miss Maidie Lee Wade, soloist at the
Frank W. McCleur, Jr., of Lexing- Southern Pines Baptist church, who
ton, Virginia, has become affiliated t^^ng two solos in her usual charm-
the north and south entrances to
Southern Pines was also discussed at
the meeting and bids are to be ask
ed on spot lights to be thrown on
these signs at night.
Wr.r. Surviving are the widow; one
^on, Ray ThomaVi of Fort Bragg; ,one
diiughter, Mrs. Floyd Keith cf Aber
deen; two brothers, J. A. Thomas of
Cameron and J. W. Thomas of Nor-
Complaint against the condition pi sister. Miss Lucy Thom-
the old Carthage road leading from ; Cameron,
the Pinehurst double road past the ‘
Judge Way greenhouses into West 500 PcrSOnS Aidcd by
Southern Pines was also registered'
with the Chamber on Tuesday, and J.! thurch Relief Body
M. Windham named a committee of
one to ascertain whether State or
Ciounty is responsible for the upkeep
of this thorofare.
Committee Helps Families of
!VIen Out of Work, and Dona
tions Are Solicited
Jackie Vetterlein, 9,
Dies After Operation
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vet
terlein a Victim of Complica
tion of Diseases
with the law firm of Johnson &
Johns|On, Aberdeen, and moved to
Aberdeen this week to take up his
duties, J. Talbot Johnson, head of
the firm, announces.
Mr. McCleur is a graduate of
Washington and Lee University,
where he took an A. B. degree af
ter four years of academic work,
following this up with three years
of law at the same university for an
L. L. B. degree. He was graduated
from the law scho|ol last June. Mr.
McCleur comes to the Sandhills with
the highest of recommendations from
his alma mater and his fellow towns
men in Lexington. He will make his
home in Aberdeen.
ing manner. Her accompanist was
Mrs. R. T. Mills. Then, with Miss
Wado at the pian,o, the members of
the post rendered the old war songs
ol 1918 with all the old “pep” of
those days. As a compliment to a vis
iting Spanish War veteran, Franz
Hugo Krebs, of New York, the le
gionnaires enthl^siastically sang “On
the Banks of the Wabash ” and “A
Hot Time in the Old Tow-n” which
were followed by interesting remin-
scences p{ 1898 by Mr. Krebs,
W'ord was received in Southem
Pines on Wednesday of the death of
Jackie Vetterlein, nine-year old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Vetterlein of
Niagara, jis the result of an opera
tion performed at Ventnor, New Jer-
*jey.
Jackie has been ill for over two
months with a qom.plication of di-
In ,order to clear up any misunder
standing, E. 1C. evens explained
yesterday that the Church Relief
Committee of Southern Pines at-
temp.'i to aid the families, both white
and colored, of those men out of work,
destitute families in whose house-
nolds where medical attenti,on is ur-
holdse where medical attenti,on is ur
gently needed. This Church Commit
tee does not attempt primarily to
provide work for anyone, although,
of course, it aids in this work in
some .slight degree: it feels that the
Unemployment Committee is doing
this work and d,oing it well.
Since November 20th, the date this
work was started by the Church
Committee, it has supplied with eith-
seases. He suffered an attack of
scarlet fever, and during this appen-jer food, clothes or medical attention,
dicitis developed. He also developed | approximately oOG people up to Jan-
trouble in one ear which threatened
mastoiditis. It has not been learned
here whether the operation which
resulted fatally wa's for the appendi
citis or on the ear.
Jackie was in the third grade at
the Southern Pines school, a lovable
chap. The news |0f his going spread
p. pall of gloom over the many friends
he had made in his school and the
i extensive acquaintanceship of Mr.
Each post member was then asked and Mrs. Vetterlein throughout th?s
to stand, give his name and war ser
vice connection, thus acquainting the
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section. Tha family went north just
before Christmas. Besides his par
ents, Jackie leaves a younger
brother, Pem, eight years old.
uary lOth. In figuring the approx
imate number of people rupplied or
helped, let us say that when a fam
ily of five is aided twice, we consider
that ten people have been aided:
when a family of 3 is aided three
tiniiVs, 9 people have been helped. Do
nations of food, clothing and money
from church organizations and pri
vate individuals have been received.
C. W. Picquet with his generous thea
tre henefit handed the committee a
very substantial supply of food. We
McCord.
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