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\0L. 12, NO. 35.
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, Norlh Carolina, Friday July 2}>, 19.32.
UNEMPLOYMENT
SITUATION HERE
BEING STUDIED
Some Fargotten Political History
Is Reviewed by E. C. Natheson
So. Pines C. of C. Seeks Im
provement of Local Roads
As Relief Measure
OTHER AVENUES OPEN
At the regular meeting of the
Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce Tuesday the important ques
tion taken up was the matter of un
employment and the possible relief
of it through road construction un
der the funds that the United Sattes
is placing at the disposal of the
State Highway department. Dr. Mc-
Brayer has been in touch with the
state highway department urging an
appropriation for the work on the
road between Aberdeen and Drown
ing creek^ and an appeal will also be
presented to the state department for
reconstruction of the road between
Carthage and Sanford, and some
other work in the county. Shields
Cameron and Frank Buchan tele
graphed Mr. Jeffress of the state
commission calling attention to the
grave situation in the Sandhills vil-
lage.s regarding unemployment, and
advising that this winter will see the
reed of any work that can be afford,
cd. The fact is that something for the
idle people to do is of more conse
quence just now than any road im
provement, and the argument put up
by some of the members of the Cham
ber was that the basis from which
to figure as to what should be done
within the county should be aeier-
mined by the need of the idle peo
ple, for whose benefit the action. of
the government was chipfly directed.
This matter will be further ironed
out with Mr. Jeffress and the Cham
ber hopes to .secure action m this ter
ritory in time to help relieve the ten
sion of rlie prevailing idleness.
Disturbing Question
The question ot employment in the
Sandhills during the coming fall and
winter is beginning to dist>’.b the
thinking people of the village conir
munities. The situation around South
ern Pines, \<-hich has the largest pop
ulation depending on wages is not al
together satisfactoi-y. A couj)le of
thousand colored people are facing a
winter that at the present ii;ne is un
certain. While some of the signs
Commissioner Has Had Long
and Varied Experience as Pub
lic Officer in Moore
ABERDEEN STILL
LEADS COUNTY’S
BASEBALL CLUBS
The Pilot has a story this week
from Evander Matheson, county com
missioner, which explains itself, but
which stands a brief introduction. Mr.
Matheson, as the Grains of Sand
stated, had been long enough in of
fice to know the county, and this was
proven acceptable to the people by
his election to the board of commis
sioners for the next term. But more
than that he has been so long before
the people that the pecjple know him,
and that is why he was reelected, <le-
feating a mighty strong man in his
battle. And The Pilot has no hesita
tion in saying that at this time, when
the question of taxes and county
: economies are before the people Evan.
I der Matheson is a valuable man in
Grang’e to Speak Here i the county’s employ, fully earning his
salary, which is somewhere around
Leaders Are Followed by \'ass
Which Is Less Than a
Game Hehind
FIVE CENTS
Taxpayers’ Leagu""*v^ ^mands
Ciitof Twenty-Fivfc^^ ^rCent
In Cost of Running County
E. C. MATHESON
Secretary of National
INJeetinjf Will He Held in Court
house at Carthage Monday
Nij?ht, August 1
I'omt to some impi-ovement in gen-
eial business it is idle to ai>proach
winter without making some prepar
ation to meet the conditions that are |
likely to prevail. Much thought is
turned toward the troubled proposi-'
lion that is ahead, and from one
■group of observers comes the sug
gestion that Southern Pines, Aber
deen and Manly should take up a
question that has been discussed at
times in recent years, that of extend
ing the Southern Pines water service
tc the two outlying towns.
The statement offered is that
Manly must soon provide a better
water supply and that Aberdeen will
liave to look to the future for an
increase in water and water service,
and that with prices for everything
low at this time the work could be
carried out now to advantage, and
with added benefit of solving the la
bor problem. The proposition that is
discussed abo’Jt the streets is to lay
pipe lines from the Southern Pines
mains to Manly and to the houses
there, and also to lay mains to con-
Tiect Aberdeen with the Southern
Pines mains that Aberdeen may have
a much larger supply and an increas-
«d pressure. Southern Pines has am
ple water to provide for the three
communities until they have all
grown to far greater population than
they have now. The advocates of the
scheme say the existing plant could
pump the needed supply to all the
con^munities with slight increase
over the present expenses, making it
possible for Manly and Aberdeen to
get abundant water at a lower cost
than will be possible if they continue
to depend on their own supply.
A Grave Situation
What brings the matter up( just
now is the need of employment for
so many people, and the action by the
Federal congress which has offered
to provide loans to the states and
communities that can employ the
Grange members and others in
oore County will have an unusual op-
Iiortunity on Monday night, .\ugust
7. to hear the Secretary of the Na
tional Grange here. r. Harry -A.
Caton will speak in the Court Room
at 8 o’clock. Mr. Caton will be in
North Carolina for a series of meet
ings. These meetings vvill precede the
National Grange meeting which will
later be held in W'inston-Salem.
It is hoped that Grange members
in this County will avail themselves
of this opportunity and also others
who do not belong to the Grange. This
meeting will be open to the public and
everyone who is interested in hear
ing a good speaker should ti'y to at
tend. It is seldom that we'are for-
tunj^te in securing such good speak
ers a^ this. Please try to be on hand
for this meeting and bring along any
one else who cares to come.
MKS. SMITH AND !{\BY
.MUCH IMPKOVPU)
Officials at the Moore County Hos
pital are authority for the statement
that Mrs. Watt Smith and her young
baby, who have been in the hospital
since they were shot in Candor about
a week ago, are very much improved.
It was stated that while they were
CELLARITES SWAP PLACES
STANDING OF CLUHS j
Team W L Pc. I
Aberdeen 12 7} ,800
V’ass 12 4 .7.50
Southern Pines 7 !t .5G3
PInehurst 7 8 ..533
Thomastown 6 S .42lt
Carthage G 9 .400
West p]nd G 10 .37.5
Cameron 4 7 .3G4
Aberdeen is still leading the lea
gue by a small margin—less than a
game ahead of Vass-Lakeview, the
next in line. Further down the line
there has been some shift of position.
West End has turned loose of the
cellar position in favor of Cameron;
Southern Pines and Pinehurst have
I reversed their relative positions and
, rr- • both have moved above Thomastown,
more popular or a more efficient com- , . , , ,, , ,
. . . . iu u j • which lost all three games played
missioner has been on the board in a , . , , „ ,
, .. (luring the week. Southern Pines won
long time. ® r..
la game and lost a game, while Pine-
This is his story: j iiurst was inactive; Carthage also
“When I sent my announcement as ] won and lost a game; West End won
the only game played and Cameron
five or six dollars a month. The truth
E'bout his relation to county affairs is
that he has always been extremely
di.screet in his sanction of public ex
penditures, and it is doubtful if a
very seriously injured they were re
covering nicely and would proliably be
able^to IpRVe the hospital in about a
week.
COLIN BETHUNE ACCEPTED
FOR UNITED STATES NAVY
Colin Bethune is one of tw'onty-two
young men enlisting in the United
States Navy at the recruiting station
in Raleigh last week. The men enlist
ing were transferred at once to the
U. S. Naval Training Station, Norfolk,
Virginia, where they will receive three
months intensive training in the life
and work of a bluejack in the United
States Navy.
WINNERS ATTENDING
SHORT COURSE
Misses Bernice Blue and Margaret
McLeod, members of the Eureka 4-H
Club who won first and second prices
in the biscuit contest in the county,
are spending this week in Raleigh,
attending the short course for club
boys and girls at State College. Their
prizes were scholarships to the short
course.
TAX COLLECTIONS SLOW
Tax collections are coming in slow
ly for the last while, according to Tax
Collector Huntley, but around seventy-
five per cent of the county’s revenue | salem town.ship. Our board consisted
candidate for commissioner to The
Pilot in the spring the Grains of
Sand department remarked that “E.
C. Matheson was a county commis
sioner 30 years ago, is a county com
missioner now, and sends in his an
nouncement this week asking for
another term. Vander ought to know
the county by now.”
There was in that statement noth
ing wrong, but from it some of the
IK'ople inferred that I had been a
commissioner 3(3 yeai'.«, and that it
was time to make a change. Others
became impressed with the story that
I had held jiearly every office in the
county including the office of county
surveyor. But that is one office I
never held. But here are the facts:
“From the 1870’s to 1895 the coun
ty government was lodged in the
hands of the justices of the peace
who were appointed by the state leg-
fslature. These justices of the peace
were organized into a county govern
ing board and met at the court house
in June each year. We had then as
we have now, five commissioners and
the last functioning of this board of
justices was in 185)4. At that time
they appointed as county commis
sioners Henry A. Page of Aberdeen,
J. Alton Mclver of Jonesboro, Dr.
John Shaw of Carthage, J. M. Wright
of the extreme upper end of Shef
fields Township and myself (E. C.
M*atheson) from the mid west section.
We served 1895 and 9G. From 18G5 to
1875 the State and Counties had got
ten into a devil of a mess and the
State took over local government
through its appointed agencies. The
Populist-Republican fusion party
came into i>ower J«id found us like
the boy that stood on its burning
deck. During the twenty years prior
to 1895 county paper or script, had
risen from almost nothing to 100
cents on the dollar. There is one of
fice that I have held that the people
have forgotten and that is member
of the County Board of Education.
“The fusionist legislature of 1895
made the Board of County Commis
sioners the Board of Education and
we served in this dual capacity the
balance of our term.
The fusionists w’ere good to me and
did not wholly cast me out. Their
school law changed the school dis
tricts of the county and the township
was made the unit. They appointed
five committeemen for eac^ township
and 1 was appointed one for Ben-
was inactive.
Southern Pines
Defeats Thomastown
Gobble! Gobble
Herewith Is Evidence That
, All Good Stories ,Don’t
'Come from Kinston
The FMlot’s Eureka correspond-
ant is authority for the following
story:
“Even the turkey gobblers are
trying to help out in this time of
depression. One in this section has
builded him a oest in his coop, had
taken cabbage heads for eggs and
is patiently “.setting on” wonder
ing when he is going to bring off
the hatch and whether his poults
will look like cabbages or tur
keys.”
Perhaps it’s the heat.
.Meetinj; in Carthage Saturday
Karsely Attended by Repre
sentative Gathering
BION Bl’TLER CHAIRMAN
Cfimmittee Chosen to .Make Study of
Situation and Present Definite Rec
ommendations to County Commis
sioners.
Aberdeen Teacherage
to Operate as Club
Teachers Will Budget Expenses
and Thereby Reduce Their
Livinj; Costs
As The Pilot predicted, the little
■ fire kindled over at Bensalem a few
weeks ago has broken out in a genu-
I inp conflagration. Unless the Moore
j County Tax League, organized last
; Saturday at the court house in Car-
i ti'.age, is to fire a few sensational
' fchots and retire, things have started
; in this county that are due to arouse
j the county, and possibly the state,
I and who knows but also the nation.
At a meeting of the people in Car
thage about a month ago James Tufts
was instructed by the preliminary or
ganization there to issue a call to a
number of representative citizens,
three to each township, to meet in
Carthage to see what could be done
to enlarge the Bensalem movement to
county-wi<le dimensions. When Mr,
Tufts called the Carthage meeting to
(rder he found that not three dele
gates from each township had come,
but that each had been followed by
others, and the court room was fairly
Workmen are busy making needed
repairs on the high school building
here and other activities intlciate the
Southern Pines journeyed to Thom- i approach of the beginning of anoth-
astown Monday taking the local boys er school year. K. C. Zimmerman, men and women whose talk
into camp 11 to 3. the game toeing who succeeds N. e. '^ definite interest in the
marked bv a home run for Monte, the' • u* ..u i. u i subject in hand. The called meeting
' , i right in that position, has been on. i i •*. ^ ...
return of Cliff Johnson to his place . . i rescued itself into an organization
in left field and the pitching of Mil- 1 by grabbing R. N. Page, who happen-
lar. For Thomastown L. Lawhon, W.
Lawhon and Kelly each made a run.
P’or Southern Pines Vann and John
son made t.ro runs each, Millar and
Montesanti three each and Stewart
one.
school and is fast getting things lin- ’ ed to be in Carthage, as temporary
chairman and James Tufts as tem
porary secretary. The name of the
organization was given as The Moore
County Taxpayers’ League.
A motion was made that a com
mittee of one man from each town-
ed up for the coming year.
One of the most recent announce
ments of interest is to the effect that
the teacherage will be run under a
different system than in the past.
The line-up for this game was as The plan this year is to run it as a
follows: Southern Pines—Vann, *ss; co-operative boarding club, the ! county be created with
^lontesanti, 3rd; Fisher, c; ilson, teachers budgeting the expense. Un-j puipose of ha\ing a v\oiking
1st; Harris, 2nd; Johnson, If; Millar, der this plan it is hoped that the en-1 limited numbers and wide
p; Case, cfj Stewart, rf. Thomastown,; expense to each teacher will not } distiibution to act as a board of oper-
E. Lawhorn, p and 2nd; Gordon, 3rd;|e.\ceed $22.50 per month. Expenses j'These men were selected by the
Baughn, cf; J. Thomas, 2nd and p; other tha nfor food will be mnti'on’s {present from each
L. Lowhorn, c; W. Lawhorn, rf;' salary, cook, water, lights, heat and i to make the
Petree, 1st; C. Thomas, ss; Kelly, If.' ioom 'rent. Mrs. L. L. John.son will! choice, thus securing representative
An exhibition game between Southern | continue to serve .as matron and will
Pines and Pinehurst was played Sat-: leceive ii!.50.00 per month less her
urday afternoon, Pinehurst being do-1 share of the expense. A charge of
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has come in to date, which is a pretty
good shovving. Advertising will begin
in September and the sale of land for
taxes is scheduled for the first of
October.
MEN OF CHURCH TO .MEET
At the Presbyterian church tonight,
there will be a meeting of The Men
of the Church. J. \V. Graham will
have charge of the program and
every member is requested to be
present. Supper will be served at 7
o’clock.
of four white men and one colored
man and I served as loyally as if I
had been appointed by a Democrat.
My next political experience was
sixteen years later. I was ejected in
1912 county treasurer and held that
office two years 1913 anJ 1914. Mr,
Henry A. Page, my colleague of 1895
and 1896 went to the legislature in
1913 and changed the county treas
urer’s office to a bank or trust com
pany, This was a wise piece of legis
lation. It saves the treasurer’s com-
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feated 10 to G.
.\berdeen Wins
In a ragged but exciting game
Aberdeen defeated Southern
8-6 at Aberdeen Wednesday after
noon.
Aberdeen scored four runs in the-
third when Bowers hit Folley and this
was followed by hits by Maurer, Mc
Lean, Russell and Huntley.
Aberdeen scored two more in the
fourth on hits by Folley, Maurer, Mc
Lean and a sacrifice by .Martin.
Southern Pines scored four runs in
the seventh when Webster trijiled,
followed by hits by Montesanti and
Fisher, and an error by Martin.
Aberdeen scored again in the seven
th when Russell tripled and Martin
Iiut on the sciueeze play. Bobbitt was
safe on an erroi- and continued to
second and .scored when Wilson made
an error on a throw to first.
$2.00 per month for each teacher is
to be made for room rent, the money
thus raised to be used for repairs to
men. The committee is composed of
T. L. Blue, of McNeills; O. T. Parks,
Ritters, E. -M. Ritter, Sheffield, W.
M. Field, Deep River, L. B. McKeith-
en. Greenwood; J. B. von Cannon,
.Mineral Springs; Sam Millar. Car-
Pines the building. It is possible that the^|'‘“*^‘“’ Page, Bensalem; Frank
teachers mav be able to reduce the Shamburger, Sandhills. hile the va
rious township delegations were con
ferring in the selection of their mem
bers of the committee a motion was
carried instructing the committee
when chosen to demand of the county
commissioners a 25 per cent reduc
tion in county expenditures, temper
ed with a rider from Frank Buchan
ninth with the score 8-'4. Montesanti
singled, was safe stealing second
when Bill Maurer threw over the sec
ond basemar.’= head, scoring on
Fisher’s single. Miller walked. Fisher
scored on a play at first when Stew-
p.rt was thrown out. With the score
8 to 6 and runners on second and
third and two out. Tommy Vann de
livered with a line drive over short.
Purvis Ferree leaped high into the
air with his back towards »home plate
and made a beautiful catch to end
the game.
There were several hundred of the
wildest fans who kept up continued
cheering for both sides. They got
their money’s worth.
SCHEDULE
Friday, July 29—Thomastown at
Cameron.
Saturday, July 30—Vass at Pine
hurst; Cameron at Aberdeen; West
End at Southern Pines.
Wednesday, August 3—Pinehurst at
Southern Pines; Cameron at .Aber
deen; Vass at Thomastown.
Thursday, August 4—West End at
Carthage.
cost of board still further by per
mitting other roomers to share in
the expense, there being more rooms
than will be needed by the teachers
During th summer months the ma-
themselves.
tron will be allowed to operate the
tcacherage as a boarding house and
for that privilege will be required the committee find a way to show
to pay a room rental of three dollars | commissioners how it can be done,
per month for each person stopping Tax Rate Analyzed
there, this money to be used in re-1 Wilbur Currie and Evander Math-
pairing the building. | eson, t^ o members of the board who
; jji-e pretty well known as reducers of
FII{E DEPART.MENT TO 'expenses if they can be reduced, were
COMPETE AT HAMLET 1 resent, and Mr. Currie discussed
j county finances to some extent, say-
The Southern Pines Fire Depart-. iup among other things that the board
would welcome any help that would
show how to reduce expenses, and
also give any aid that could in any
way help the committee to gain infor
mation on any subject. He also analy
zed the tax rate of the county, show
ing that our total tax last year on
Southern Pines came to bat in the j |-nen( plans to be wel^ represented at
the meet in Hamlet next week. Prac
tice has been going on for some time
and the teams are all set to win.
The water team is made up of T.
C. Vann, C. J. Simons, Alden Bowers,
Ed Davis, Norn'ia nDay and Clyde
Durn. The chemical team is composed
county-wide schedule was 73 cents.
of Fred McCracken. J. C. Clark, El-1 Of this state school tax is 15.5 cents,
mer Renegar and A, L. .\dams.
The best record runs made in prac
tice are 9 3-5 seconds by the chemi
cal team anJ 11 seconds by the wa
ter team.
Beside.-, the teams the department
will be represented by Chief L. V.
O'Callahan, Assistant Chief Walter J.
Glue and Captain L. S. Rowell. Row
ell and Adams are the official dele
gates to the convention.
A CORRECTION
It was erroneously stated in The
Pilot last week that the baby of Mr.
and Mrs. W’^att Smith had died from
the effects of its wounds. The error
was discovered too late for correc
tion to be made last week. We regret
the mistake.
highway bonds 14 cents, court house
bonds 6 cents, county bonds 2 cents,
a total of 37.5 cents, on which no re
duction can be made, as this sum is
fixed by law other than that of the
county officials. The amounts that are
flexible in the county art the county
general fund of 15 cents, county
schools, 12.5 cents, health 3 cents, and
outside poor 5 cents, or a total of 35.5.
Mr. Currie showed that a reduction of
25 per cent of the total of 73 cents of
county-wide tax would mean cutting
out 18.25 cent.s, which would have to
come out of the 35.5 of the county gen-
e’-al, county schools, health and out
side poor, or leaving out the county
schools levy, out of the county gener
al, health and outside poor, which
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