MOORE COUNTY’S
LEADING NEWS
WEEKLY
THE
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 12, NO. 29.
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FIRST IN 1
NEWS AND
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Ten:
Aberdeen and Southern PInis, North Carolina, Friday, June 17, 1932.
V of North Carolina
FIVE CENTS
FRANK T. WEBSTER
NEW SCHOOL HEAD
Board Elects Successor to Sup
erintendent William F. Al
len, Who&p Term Expires
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Frank T. Webster, principal of Paw
Creek High School in Mecklenburg
county, near Charlotte, was electcd
superintendent of Southern Pine?
schools at a meeting of the Board of
Education last week. Mr. Webi«ter
has accepted the position and will
move to Southern Pines in the near
future to prepare for the opening of
the fall term.
Mr. Webster, whose honje is in
Charlotte is a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina and, since
graduation, has been for some ten
years at the head of schools in Meck
lenburg county. He comes to the
Southern Pines as successor to Wil
liam F. Allen, whose tei m has expired,
with the highest reconimendation.®
from the educational authorities of
those schools in which he has served
and from the faculty of the Univer
sity at Chapel Hill. He was selected
by the board here after careful con
sideration of a large number of can
didates for the position.
While an effort was being made to
reach him on the telephone last week
to inform him of his selection by the
board, Mr. Webster dropped into
Southern Pinos on his way home from
Chapel Hill and accepted the position.
One of the reasons cited for Mr.
Webster’s selection in his interest in
extra-curriculum school activities, it is
said. He is a young man, fond of ath
letics, believes in scjiool teams; he has
a wide reputation through the state
for the development of dramatics in
institutions which he has headed, one
year taking a school dramatic club to
New York for an invitation perform
ance in the metropolis. He is said to
be interested in music, which it is
hoped to develope among pupils as
part of the newly organized musical
society in Southern Pines.
.Splendid Kecord
Commenting on his decision to go to
Southern Pines the Charlotte Observ
er said:
“The new superintendent has been
principal of the Mecklenburg county
schools during the last 10 years and
had become the dean of county school
principals with the largest school in
the county under his liirection. He
served as principal of Woodlawn two
years, princii)al of Derita High School
five years and for the last three years
has been at Paw Creek, where he has
<luplicated the records he established
at Derita ar d Woodlawn, particular
ly in the field of high school dramat
ics. During his pr'ncipalship at Derita
and Paw' Creek hi.-; amatic teams
have several times won the State high
school championship at Chapel Hill.
He is also a former president of the
South Piedmont district of the North
Carolina Education association.
“At Southern Pines, Mr. Webster
will have charge of a teaching staff
of 32, including a large negro school.
His new position holds considerable
promise of even further advancement,
his friends here feel.”
Temperance and Courage
Strut hers Hurt Believes North Carolina Has Recofjnized the
Failure of Prohibition in Its Vote
for Reynolds
Hy St rut hers Burt
This is a purely personal statement.
I am not a citizen of North Carolina
although I am a resident and a prop
erty owner, therefore, not being a cit-
perience, who had neither a machine
nor money. Who had nothing except
personality, ihe ability to speak, and
a rare ability—the desire to say as
plainly as possible just what he
izen, it would be presumptuous on my thought. When he began his cam-
part to attempt to advise in any way paign many people, especially the ex-
the voters even of the county in which perienced and entrenched politicians,
f hold property and pay, by no means, laughed at him. They stopped laugh-
all taxes. That is not my intention, ing Saturday two weeks :.go after the
My intention is to praise North Car- ordinary voter of North Carolina had
olina rather than to advise it, for as his say. I sincerely trust that in the
an obsoi’ver I am very much stirred next primary the ordinary voter will
by the primaries of two weeks ago. continue to have his say. He will have
I am once more confirmed in my con- his sa.v if he will make i very effort to
viction that North Carolina is a great say it. But if he sits back now; if, at
state with a peculiarly high standard the next primary he sits at home, or
of citizenry. A thoughtful state; a lets his neighbor sit at home, he will
state slow to move and to make up lose, and all the effort he has already
its mind; but once deciding to move, made will go for nothing,
making up its mind along the lines of j THE POINT OF' THE NEXT PRI-
intelligence and progress. ! MARY IS TO VOTE AS YOU DID
A good man.v years ago I came to IN THE LAST ONE. RIDE TO THE
North Carolina because of its win- POLLS IF YOU CAN, BUT IF YOU
ter climate, the conditii'ns of life I CAN’T, WALK, CREEP OR CRAWL,
found in the particular section in BUT vjET THERE,
which I live, and the presence there In that way only will you register
of some intimate friends. I had no .vour opinion as you registered it two
idea what sort of a state North Car- weeks ago.
olina was. Slowly I began to find
out. I like to live ii n state in which
I respect the people around me, even
when I don’t ahvays agree with them.
The Old and the New
What was that opinion? Will you
permit a non-voter, but a resident and
a -tax-payer to attempt to explain it
as he sees it ? The opinion at which
North Carolina arrived two weeks
Two weeks ago in the senatorial ago had a lot more to it than merely
primary North Carolina had a hard the defeat of an entrenched political
decision to make. One the one side was machine; than merely the country-
a man, Senator Morrison, tried in the wide, growing annoyance with and
councils of his party, for man.v years distrust of the old-line political lead-
a worker for his party, a man of age, er who uses words merely to dis-
great wealth, and an experienced poli- guise his intentions or to leave loop-
tician; on the other was a young man
with comparatively little political ex- , (Please turn to page 8)
E J. TILLMAN OF
VASS, VETERAN OF
WORLD WAR, DIES
KIWANIS TO USE
RELIEF FUNDS TO
PROMOTE CANNING
SOUTHERN PINES TO
GET A POSTOFFICE
AS SOON AS OTHERS
Frank Buchan Explains Purport
of Telejjram of Protf*s( Sent to
Bailev and Lambeth
/
Favored by N. C. ^
DOES NOT AFFECT STATUS
F'ear that the telegram sent to Sen
ator Bailey and Congressmen Lam
beth at' Washington registering the
protest of a number of residents of
Southern Pines against the Garner
bill might militate against a new fed
eral building there caused a flurry of
excitement through the town last
week. Many did not undei'stand the
purport of the message to Washing
ton, and thought that the signers of
the telegram had placed Southern
Pines on record as refusing .$!)5,f*no
for a new builciing.
The fact is, of course, that Southern
Fines some time ago was designated
by the Postoffice Department for a
new buijding- as soon as funds were
made available by Congress through
a federal building bill. The Postoffice
Department, not Congress, specifies
where such buildings are needed; Con
gress appropriates the funds. South
ern Pines will get a new building'
when the nation can afford the money, I
being on the preferred list. '
The purpose of the telegram sent
to representativs in Washington was
to register the feeling of those resi
dents of the town signing it that this
was not the time for appropriating
some two billions of dollars for post-
offices, with the treasuiy depleted and
people crying against increased tax
ation. As emphasized by Frank Buch
an in a statement given The Pilot yes
terday, it was the hope of the spon
sors of the petition that enough com
munities would register similar com
plaints to aid in defeating the Gar
ner bill. Since the telegram was sent.
The Pilot has learned of a number
of other towns which did register like
objections to the bill.
iNSALEM MOVES
TO LEARN ABOUT
COUNTY FINANCES
Taxpayers Gather To Stud.v Rev
enue and Expenses in Hope
of Saving Money
iMAY RECOMMEND CHANGES
FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT
Leading' Democratic ^'andidate
President
for
RAILWAY EXPRESS
REDUCES RATES ON
PEACH SHIPMENTS
New Schedule from Sandhills
Belt to Northern Points Takes
Effect Today
BIG SEASON IN PROSPECT
More peaches have been ship
ped by express from Candor so
far this season than were han
dled by the express company all
last season, and the new rate
has not yet gone into effect.
Growers have made sales as
high as $6.00 a crate.
Sixty-five taxpayers of Bensalem
tow^iship started a movement last
Saturda.v which, if it becomes county-
wide, means the education of the cit
izenry of Moore in the fiscal affairs
of their county government and which
as an outcome of this education, may
mean a saving in government ex
penses.
Bensalem is organizing to make a
thorough study of the county’s finan
ces. The move was started by some
who felt that there must be ways of
curtailing expenses. It was not a
flare-up move initiated by those who,
in hard times, cry for the scalps of
officers they deem unnecessary, but
a const!'uctive effort to ascertain
where if anywhere, there is waste in
’ the county’s machinery’.
I At the meeting, held Saturday af-
j ternoon in Bensalem Church, a com-
I mittee was appointed to spend Wed-
j nesdaj' of this week at Carthage get-
tmg all possible information to spend
Wednesday of this week at Carthage
j getting, all possible information on
I county revenue and county expenses.
, This committee was made up of Jesse
|W. Page, chairman; Howard Harrison,
j E. W. Borst, R. C. McLcjn and Vv. C.
; Dowd. These men delved into the
! books Wednesday and are preparing a
I report to submit fo a second meeting
I to be held this Saturday at 3 o’clock
at the same place. This will be an open
meeting, as was the other, to which
an.vone in the county who may be in
terested is invited.
Seek Comparisons
The Bensalem folks are going into
the matter thoroughly. They are in
Prominent Resident.
Member of Pilot Staff, V'ictim
of Complication of Diseases
The Railway Express Agency an- ] communication with the powers that
, Buchan, one of the signers jounced new reduced rates on peaches! be in other counties to find out their
Former Club Sponsors Countywide Move tjie telegram to Senator Bailey and Sandhills peach belt to nor-! f®’’ comparative purposes.
AT V. S. NAVAL HOSPITAL
To Aid Putting Up of Fruits,
Vegetables
SANFORD MEMBERS HERE
Funeral services for Edward J. ‘
pro-
A county-wide movement to
Tillman of Vass World War veteran ' canning of fruits and vegeta- ^
who passed away at 3a.-) o’clock Mon- launched | resentatives in Washington on June
I Congressman Lambeth, in his state
ment said:
Mr. Buchan’s Statement
I should like to clear up some im
pressions regarding the Postoffice
building here and the intent of the
signers of the telegram sent our rep-
by the Kiwanis Club of Aberdeen at 6th
cay morning m the United States Na- Wednesday
val Hospital in Brooklyn, New \ork, ni^ht in the Aberdeen Community
were held in the Laurinburg cemetery
at 11:0(T o’clock Wednestlay morning,
conducted by his pastor ,the Rev. W.
C. Ball of the Vass Methodist Church,
assisted by Dr. Hawkins of Rocking
ham, the Rev. Mr. Traynor of Laur
inburg, the Rev. C. A. Lawrence of the
V'ass Presbyterian Church and the
Rev. W. S. Golden of Carthage. Fellow
members of the Joseph G. Henson post
of the American Legion served as
pall bearers. They were Raymond
Evans, Jim F]vans, John Gaddy, Char
lie Cameron, George Hilliard and I F
House. After Frank Buchan had re
ported for the committee recently
appointed to investigate the possibil
ities of aiding women of the county
by the fuinishing of cans for their
use, the club enthusiastically register
ed its approval by voting unanimous
ly to make available all moneys in
the relief fund.
The committee, of which E. H. Gar
rison, Frank Buchan^Talbot Johnson,
Gloma Charles and Gordon Cameron
were members, met last week with
Mrs. Ryals, county home denionstra-
Edge. Military honors were accorded ^ tor, and formulated plans for promot-
Mr. Tillman by a detachment of sol-j ing inteiest in canning, the major ob-
diers from Fort Bragg. A large num-1 jective being to make It possible for
them markets this week which glad-1 are finding out what other
dened the hearts of the growers. The 1 counties pay their demonstration
rate .for crates 10x11 V4x24 inches | agents, their physicians, their school
or standard bushel baskets from Aber-j They are
deen, Biscoe, Candor, Cheraw, Dun-1 l^si’iiing how other counties collect
daroch. Eagle Spiings, Ellerbe, Ham-i <^heir taxes, and how their methods
let, Hoffman, Jackson Springs, Mars- ours,
ton, Montro.se, Norman, Pinehurst,| These meetings are to be held reg-
Raeford, Samarcand, Southern Pines!
ularl.v on Satui’day afternoons until
First, the Postoffice department | education has been completed.
‘ ’ 50 cents, to Baltimore 55, to Nor-i recommendations to the
folk or Richmond 45, to Philadelphia, i Commissioners will
Chester or Wilmington, fiO cents, to out of the gatherings. Possi-
Newark or New York 05 cents. I " found that Moore is
The above rates go into effect to-1 governed as cheanl., as is prac
“ONCE IN A BLUE MOON” IS
BIG HIT AT DIXIE THEATRE
A large audience greeted the cast
of “Once In a Blue Moon” at the Dixie
Theatre in Aberdeen last night, for
the first of two performances for the
benefit of the Aberdeen Community
House. More than 50 take part in the
comedy-drama, and with excellent
singing and dancing by a Sandhills
beauty chorus and rare comedy by the
principals those not present last night
should not fail to take in the second
show tonight, Friday at 8:15 o’clock.
Tickets are 35 cents, .15 for the
kiddies.
LAMBETH AGAINST BONUS
Five of the North Carolina delega
tion in Congress voted for the Sol
dier Bonus bill, four against it. Wal
ter Lambeth, of this district, was
among those voting against it. The
bill passed the House, 209 to 176; now
goes to the Senate.
ber of friends from Vass and Laur- farm women with excels fruits and j/erence between an allocation by the
in Washington, and not Congress, des
ignates the cities and towns in the
United States where Postoffice build
ings are to be built and the amount
they shall cost. This department is
governed entirely by thv-> receii)ts from
the office and not because the patrons
do or do not want such a building.
Sc.uthern Pines was allocated $95,000,
for a building by the Postoffice De
partment in either 1930 or lii31, and 5-qq
placed on the preferred list along
with hundreds of othei ; reason to expect good prices the peach
throughout the United States. These . more cheei-ful than they have
buildings were to be built ovei a ten- some time. Much of the local
.vear period as Congress would ap-j^j.^p already been sold in advance
progriate the money. 'at prices to return a handsome profit
“Remember there is a lot of di -1 growers. Buyers for big com-
day, June 17th, John Fiddner of the
Railway Express Agency announced.
Early peaches are alread.v en route
to northern markets. One grower
shipped 50 bushels to New York this
bushel. The crop is
in excellent shape, and with every
j panies are drifting into the section
remember that a Congressman, if he ^ schedule for peach shipments
wanted to, could not subtract or add | gj^ipments from this section will be
any certain building to this program., Train 192, which passes
“Knowing all this the signers of the I g.gg ^ Shipments
above mentioned telegram feeliSig j leaving here on that train will reach
that the hundreds of millions of dol- j destinations by noon of the next
lars appropriated in the Garner bill j They will arrive at Richmond at
for these buildings would serve only j.qq ^ . Washington, 3:45 a. m.;
to furnish labor to a certain high-
inburg were present for the funeral 1 vegetables to secure cans without ex- postoffice Depa mt of funds not in ' everything will soon be in full
service. 1 pense and to be able to seal them af- j hand and an appropriation of the |
Mr. Tillman entered the hospital in I ter packing. The plan?; call for theji'unds by Congress. And also please Mr.’Fiddner also announces the fol-
March for treatment for a cancer of | purchase of a large quantity of cans'
the nose, expecting to be away for; by the club, their distribution through
about three weeks. Early in May he | channels opened up by Mrs. Ryals, the
suffered an attack of acute arthritis; providing of sealers in various part^
and other complications developed,' of the county, and the use of a large
causing his condition to be critical quantity of the cahned goods for
from that time on. Mrs. Tillman left needy families. It is understood that
for Brooklyn on the fifth of May, and 1 the women will can on shares with
remained with her husband through- j the club, thus paying for their cans,
out the remainder of his illness. Last I and that the club will make use of the
Sunday was their twentieth wedding | canned goods among needy and unem-
anniversary. i ployed.
Mrs. Tillman returned home by au-! Members of the Sanfoixl Kiwanis
tomobile, accompanied by Paul Laub-1 Club met in joint session with the
scher and her brother, who lives in Aberdeen club on Wednesday night
New York state, reaching here early | and were entertained by stories by
Tuesday morning, Mr. Tillman’s body! Arthur Newcomb, Frank Buchan and
arrived Tuesday evening and was | others, President St. Clair and Sec-
carried to his late home w here many | retary Teague of the Sanford club
friends from throughout this section \ matching the locals story for story,
called before the funeral hour on ^ Paul Danr^ welcomed the visitors,
Wednesday. |
Joined Pilot Staff I FOUNTAIN TO RUN AGAIN ^
Mr. Tillman had been a resident' R. T. Fountain, runner-up to J. C.
of Vass since January, 1927 w'hen he | B. Ehringhaus for the Democratic
came hero to work with The Pilot for j nomination for governor, announced
’ i Wednesday night that he had decided
(Please turn to page 8) i to demand a second primary.
tical for the results obtained. No one
knows what may result, other than
that when all is said and done, mary
more taxpayers than at present will
be posted on the governmental affairs
of their county, and know what is be
coming of their money.
There is talk of similar meetings
in other townships, a move which can
have but the best of results, for when
all is said and done, the county be
longs to the taxpayers and residents,
and the more they know about their
own county government the better for
all concerned.
Democrats at Raleigh
For State Convention
Many Journey to Capital from
Mjore County to Take Part
In Proceedings
(Please turn to page 4)
BETTER DEWBERRY PRICES
AT CAMERON AND VASS
The dewberry market at Vass and
Cameron came through last week in
good shape with prices better and
with berries arriving fr'eely and in
good condition. More buyers were at
tracted to the auction sales, with in
creased volume of business locally and
for shipmelit. But the rains of Sat
urday and later produced many soft
berries which had a bad effect on
prices. Later the sunshine has given a
tetter quality, and at the last report
the situation was improving again.
Baltimore, 7:48 a. m.; Wilmington,
Del., 9:31 a. m.; Philadelphia 10:39
a. m., and New York at noon. For
points beyond Washington this sche
dule applies to less than car lots. Mr.
Fiddner says that carload shipments
will be handled on a somewhat faster
schedule.
SCHEDULE OF CLINICS
Summer clinics have commenced
and the present are being held at the
following places:
Pinehurst, Mondays at 10 a. m.
Pinebluff, Tuesdays at 2 p. m.
Southern Pines, Wednesdays at 2
p. m.
Academy Heights, Thursdays at 10
a. m.
Democrats gathered at Raleigh
Wednesday and yesterday for the
Democratic State convention, with
Moore county well represented. This
county has 20 accredited delegates to
the convention and is expected to have
its say in the proceedings. Many, in
cluding Dr. L. B. McBrayer, U. L.
Spence, Raymond Johnson, Shields
Cameron, Charles J. McDonald, Stacy
Brewer, R. L. Hart, James Pleasants
and others motored to Raleigh W^ed-*"
nesday for caucuses and informal
meetings and for the banquet of young
Democrats. Miss Frances Folley of
Aberdeen was the official representa
tive of the young women of Moore
county at this latter gathering. Many
more from the county left for Ral
eigh early yesterday morning for the
convention proper.