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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS- WEEKLY A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 12, NO. 52. E.AGI.E SPRINCS VASS LAK EVIEW MANl-BY JACKSOH &PRIHOS SOUTHCRM PIM£S A5HI-EV MCKiHTS PINEBLUFF I LOT YOUK TOBACCO ABERDEEN 4; o ' ^ ^ v,T V < of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday November 25, 1932. FIVE CENTS “MAN OF VISION” INVISIBLE WHEN POLICE “Bin IN’ Feat of Raising Dead Man from Casket Fails to Materialize in “Jimtown” BUT “DOC ” GOT THE CASH A man of vision and spiritual won der descended upon Jinitown with a rattlinp drum and fluttering showers of circulars reading: THE MAN OF VISION A spiritual wonder is here to help you in your business. Do ycc believe that you can be help- \?d? Yes I believe I can be helped. Do you believe in luck? Yes I be lieve in luck. Why? Because there is such thing as luck. If you are troubled in mind see me. If any plan you have in mind see me. You want to be lucky see me. Anj dream you can’t understand see me and I will tell you. Any old sore or warts and winds that you have on your body see me. School girls and boys that is try ing to make a future in lift* that has wart!, and winds on them and want them removed see me. Pro fessor will answer any question that you put before him.—Dr. McCoy. The circulars drew a crowd of three hundred to see him “raise a dead man” from the elaborate casket there for all eyes to behold. The stage of the school auditorium was to be the scene of this great feat, but an unfortunate dispute over the cash rep resenting the entrance fees led to calling of Police Officer Newton from Southern Pines and the good doctor fled into the night bearing wtih him the cash, but minus his drum, car and casket. Receipts from a two liay sale of “lucky hands” at !?3.00 each went along with him. His two assistants ar in the local lock-up aw'aiting « hearing. When Is Butchering- Time? Eating Tiwt COUNJN^ 1Aun'C\pav EATERS KIWANIS HEARS I OF SPLENDID WORK AT BARIUM SPGS To Head Kiwanis Superintendent .1. B. Johnson of i , Orphanage Interestinf; Speak er at Thanksjfivinjf Meeting ' AT HOME OF MRS. .1. R. PAGE Frank Pa^e to Discuss New Governmental Economies at Meet- inij in Cartha.ue Courthouse on Friday, ])et*ember 2nd “Butchering Time ' i,-. going lo be (iiscussed by Kiank for mer heail of the Xor^’i Carolina .State Highway Comnii.=;sion and now vice-presideni of the Wachovia Bank & Trust Com; any, at a meeting to be held in the courthou' a at Caitiiage at 2::i0 o’clock on Friday, Decem ber 2d. The meeting is ’uk! r the auspices of the recently organized Moore County Taxpaycs’ League, and Bion H. Butler, chairman of the league, will preside. Through his connection with State governmental affairs and his connection with one of the state’s leading financial institutions Mr. Page, former Aberdecnian, is as well e(]Mipi)ecl to talk on the subject of gov ernmental economy as any man in North Carolina, and it is expected that a capacity crowd will attend the meeting on the 2d. Mi'. Page is an able speaker an;l one who knows thoroly any subject he discusses. Ralph Page Tells How to Stop the Farm Foreclosure Devastation Sees A Compromise Between I Banks and Farmers Only Hope of Savinjj Situation Circus is Coming’ to Town Next Monday Mighty Haajf Shows To Spend Week-EJnd Here and Give Two Performances Save your pennies, children. The Circus is Comin’ to Town. The Mighty Haag Shows, an old fashioned circus with two rings and a stage with old time features and many new ones, arrive in Aberdeen Sunday and show twice on Monday. This is their 47th season, and if it wasn’t a real honest-to-goodness cir cus it wouldn’t have lasted 47 years. They are offering, as one of the many featui'es a number of dancing horses that do the Charleston and the Biack Bottom with all the ease of a hu man. Yes, the circus gets in here Sunday morning and week-ends in Aberdeen. You are invited to go out to the base ball field Sunday and see the ele phants and other animals. Then Mon day you can see the whole show eith er at 2 o’clock in the afternoon or 8 at night. The progiam opens with a spec tacular pageant titled “A Night In Asia.” Over 100 people take part in this unusual and magnificent specta cle, which brings to view many gc geous gown creations and costumes from all four corners of the globe. The band is under the direction of Frank Miester, the world’s youngest band director. It is composed of 25 men, offering everything from opera to jazz. Particularly are the equestrian acts varied and enjoyable this season. In one act fifteen horses do all sorts of difficult maneuvers and steps guided by as many pretty and daring equestrienes. The act of Sy Kitchie, internationally famous star, is one of the most brilliant and 'thrilling head balancing acts ever offered 11 America. There are in all 32 displays in endless variety including contor tionists, jugglers, acrobatic marvels, trick bicycling, dashing cowgirls "and cowboys, loads of clowns and charm ing and beautiful Evelyn McGuyre, America’s own White-Top prlma donna, singing her own songs. A pa rade will be given at noon and there will be two performances, one in the afternoon and one at night. Ralph W. Page ' To the President of the United States; The Jlonoiable Franklin 1). Roose velt, exposed to the Presidency; the Holders of Those Government In strumentalities, the 5 per cent tax fi'ee bonds of any Land Bank; and to the members of the P’ederal Farm Loan Board: P’vents in That Mystic Field of money and credit—That holy realm beyond the control if not the concep tion of mankind—gathering cordons of disillusion and discontent, as well as The Studied (if stupid^ policy of some of our Master Mintls, have brought to pass a deplorable situa tion in my home County of Moore in The State of North Carolina. This is purely an agricultural com- ..1,unity, whose peasantiiy—we once called ourselves planters—subsist on the fruits of labor behind the plow. It is not a rich country. All the mon ey a farmer gets must come from the sale of cotton, tobacco, peaches or dewberries, grown in humble quanti ties. However, it is a beautiful country, and in the last 30 years we have made a name for ourselves as a centre of restless thought, of so-called progres sive action, and an asylum of rich men and tired Yankees, cultivated gentlemen who pursue literature, and fox hunters of the Old English Tra dition. We are devoted to all these things save only the “progress” and there are none of us who wish to leav^. It suits us as well as an yspot on earth to continue the pursuit of happiness. The Daily Dread Family Orchestra I “Even dishwashing becomc-s an hon- j or and a privilege if it is a promotion !rom something else,” accordinj; to I Joseph B. Johnson, superintendent of I the Barium Springs, Orphanage, -vho j addressed the Kiwanis Club of Abre- 'doon at its annual Thanksgiving meet- j ing held at the home of Mrs. J. R. I Page on Page Hill, Aberdeen Wed nesday noon. ^Ir. Johnson in his pleasing manner told of the work at the orphanage, how happy and contented his charges were, how well the honor .system worked, the splendid esjirit de corps, and he attributed it all to the desire of the children themselves to do the job in hand the best it co'jld be (lore. They are always striving for the next step forward, he said, and take each step as it comes eager to earn the right to the next. Thus they like their work as they like their football in which p)'omotion from on>' team to another follows alor.g the same line. He stressed the importance of ath letics in inculcating a healthy phil osophy of life in the youngsters. Mr. Johnson explaine i how he had gone into the orphanage with his first aim tho placing of the institu tion on a business basis. This acconi- "li.shed—anu that it has been ai'coni- plished under ^Ir. Johnson’s guidance is (videnced by the fact that the F’arium .Sjirings Orphanage ranks first among the IJ charitable institu tions of the state—he began his cam- raign of I'aising the chirirtn in a healthy, clean atmosphere with IIERBKRT I). VAIL Newly Elected President of Kiwanis Club of .Vberdeen, to Serve During Year 1933. McNAIR PLEDGES CO-OPERATION TO NEW U. S. ] RIVAL Proposed Aberdeen - Southern Pines Road A Link in New [..afayette Hi«jhway RALEIGH TO SAVANNAH Janet Rosser, .Afjed 4, Starts Violin Le.ssons "^I’o Join Dad and Brothers Little Janet Rosser, four-year- old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. R. G. Rosser, is the proud possessor of a new violin, a real instrument in baby size that just fits her little hands, and she is the happiest lit tle girl in the country. The violin was a gift from her fiddling daddy, and of the two it would be hard to decide which is the more delighted. Doctor Rosser can now come home and, like old King Cole, call for his fiddlers three, and in the hap piness of his own fireside forget the troubles that in his profesion, lie conies in contact with on every hand. Doc and his boys, Robert and John, have been taking violin lessons for some time and with their help, Janet is already making progress in her study. She proud ly says that she can play “open ctrings.” nasty, I will continue my complaint and my humble suggestions to what I have seen and heard and part of which I am. I operate two commercial banks in this territory, and 20 farms. (This ex termination of the farmer was not invented or patented by the Land Banks. We were g>eat partisans of ttie process in the olden days.) Worse We are being driven out. Not some | than that. I am a director of a Land of us. All of us. We are being moved. Bank, and I am a customer (God Save en masse, like a Tartar Tribe. The' the Mark!) and well known in innum- collectors, lawyers, process servers, i erable battles by the field marshals sheriffs and auctioneers fill the land - and general headquarter*; of every like an invading army. And there is : other Land • Bank converging upon no household either of the w'ell-to-do. | Moore County. J. know the intimate so called or the most lowly, that does | history of half the land and half the not live in daily dread. For those that; cultivators of the region, and have have not been condemned live under ■ myself harried and harassed as inany the inquisition, and are at the mercy I of these brave yeomen as any man of an almighty and cruel master. j within .50 miles. And I have had long The master is a Joint Stock Land I and intimate converse with the Super- Bank Mortgage. The devastating army is the Foreclosure. Perhaps one reason no answer has even been attempted to this final and complete finish to an old civilization is because it has always been stated in the modern meaningless language of the financier—with statistics. Only 17 1-2 per cent of the farms are abandoned to date; 12 per cent less farmers were convicted of moonshin- ing than in July; Land Bank bonds hardened, percentibllv following M>' Roosevelt’s non-stop speech !The cot ton acreage is reduced 1,736,222— point 7 acres. To avoid these oracular and mean ingless shadow facts of a dying dy- vismg members of the Farm Loan Board, and divers representatives of the people, and whatnot. I know and in painful detail exactly what I am talking about. Since I have suggestions to offer, it seems reasonable to state the case, that we may agree on the facts. Not Always Bread Practically without exception the farmers of this county have not only made no money for two years, but have barely made their daily bread. This is so. If this statement be con troverted, we can get no further in Please turn to page 5) sane, safe outlook on life, at that «anio time fitting them for their niches in the world. , Appreciation of Orphans i He gave the Kiwanians an example ; of the love the children have for their I inst■^ution Fach yea" in Uk* |iast it I has been the custom to award the j or.xi.xns -;;i.ail arlounts Oi money for I their various jobs during the year, ISO that when f’hristmas lime comes they have four or five dollars due them. One day Mr. Johnson was in , one of the large cities of the state I making an address about the orphan- I age, a talk that was broadcasted over ! the radio. He told of the dire need ! for funds, the necessity of curtail- 1 ing certain of the school activities becaii e of th!s need. T i ^ chilaren at the school happened to hear the speech on their radio. Next day they sent their matron to Mr. Johnson to offe;' hli I a generous shnre of the money they had earned through their efforts during the year. Several amusing incidents in the life at the school were told by the speaker, amon” them the prop.is'al of some of the boys who had heard cows would give more milk to music than otherwise He ?et them try it, giving the man old victrola to put in th< cow barn. Sure enough, the produc tion of milk increased. One day he went down to the barn to find out what kind of music cows liked and discovered the record, “Two Black Crows,” appeared to be their favor ite. The boys told him while the music was playing the cows never even swished off the flies with their tails; they waited until records were being changed. They have more accidents at the orphanage outside the football sea son than during it, he said, showing tlie value of supervised athletics. During off seasons, they climb trees and do other stunts which occasional ly break something. “Tarzan of the Apes,” he said, “cost us two broken arms and one collarbone.” Mr. Johnson was introduced by M. C. McDonald of West End, who had charge of the program. A. delicious turkey dinner was served by Mrs. Page and her cohorts. Proceeds from the luncheon and contributions left on the table by members all went t^ the orphanage. More than fifty at tended the meeting. That the purjjose of the proposed new highway leaving U. S. Route 1 at Morganton Road and May street, Southern Pine.s and cutting through the Southern Pines Country Club and the Pinecrest .Manor property to fol low the Seaboard tracks to Aberdeen where it connects with the new Aber- deen-I.aurinburg highway is to in fluence main north and south traffic over that route in preference to U. S. \'o. 1 appears to Ik- indicated by an ar. tide in last week’s issue of the Laur- inl urg Exchange. The article, which tells the whole story, reads as fol lows: The LaFayette Highway Associa tion had a meeting at Bennettsville November 3 for the purpose of pro moting the LaFayette as the best and shortest route between Raleigh and Savannah and in celebration of the opening of the new road between Ben nettsville and Society Hill, which has been completed only recently. James I.. McNair of Lau.'inburg and a member of the North Carolina State Highway Commission, repre sented the highway depaitment and his home town at the Bennettsville meeting. Speaking before the meet- The Church of Wide Fellowship in ing he pledged the heartiest co-oper ation and support of the road by the North Carolina road authorities. “Make the LaFayette the hospitable route from Raleigh to Savannah,” I was perhaps the keynote of the meet ing. It was planned to solicit mem berships in the association and to launch an extensive advertising cam paign in behalf of the new road, which by actual measurement is something like 50 miles shorter than of the village, affording contact with any other route between Raleigh and .iianv nationally kno^wn celebrities. Savannah. CHURCH SPONSORS PLATFORM HOURS FOR 15TH YEAR Wide Fellowship Announces Se ries fif Sunday Nif*ht Lec tures to Start in January NEW FINANCING PLAN Southern Pines announces that it will j open its fifteenth season of Sunday j evening Platform Hours some time ; in January. These platform ■houi's j have brought to Southern Pines many j noted and accomplished s])eakers and I musicians. They have furnished cul- .^jiui.'il and insi)irational programs a I which are among the chief attiactions They put the town on a par with St. Petersburg and other winter resorts which supply such attractions for their tourists and citizens, and the I'/Ublic I'.as responded most favorably fo this \aluable activity of the church. The series will extend from Janu- “The trip through the Carolinas must be made one of confidence and convenience. The progress of the tour ists must not be interrupted; stop lights must he removed from useless comers and intersections. Special I parking spaces must be provided and 1 restricted for use of tourists on the route. Approved eating places, ga- to Constitution Passed No. 3 Providing Protection of Life Insurance Policies Adopt ed, Ballots Reveal ary to March with probably twelve sources of information must features in all. Plans are not yet fully b^, proviJed and cleanliness along the completed, but correspondence is be- highways must be stressed if we are ing carried on and dates made with ^.3;^ confidence and respect for the various artists. \o. 101.” Sponsor Card System j In lo the c.pens.sJhc On!y One Amendment Platform hours, efforts are bemg 1 •' made to secure talent as reasonably as possible, but the cooperation of all who attend the programs is needed to insure the funds necessary to brin these people here. Two methods o" meeting the expenss will be used. These are the sale of sponsor cards and the Sunday evening offering. A committee will canvas the town and I surrounding communities to place the sponsor cards. The price of these cards will be just half what it was iast y.?ar; that is, one dollar. This makes the price of each platform hour approximately eight cents, ard when one considers that ordinarily ths admission charge to such things is anywhere from ore to two dollars and a half, the cost of attending a plat form hour is practically nothing. Mr. Seri, pastor of the Church of Wide Fellowship, is now correspond ing with talent sucn as Dr. Luther Gubee, radium r’set;th scientist; Dr. Arthur Pills'burj', photographer of plant life, and botanist; Edmund Only one of the four constitutional amendments submitted to the voters of North Carolina in the general elec tion November 8 was adopted on the face of returns from 92 of the 100 counties, the other three having been dfeated, Raymond G. Maxwell, secre tary of the State Board of Elections, said unofficially. The amendment, designated as No. 3 and providing for the protection of life insurance policies make out to wives and children during the life of the insured, was adopted by a ma jority approximating 100,000, Mr, ■Maxv.ell said. The constitution al ready protects the returns from pol icies to wives after the husband dies. The other three amendments were defeated by majorities ranging from Vance Cooke, poet, successor to j 50,000 to 75,000, on the basis of the James Whitcomb Riley; the Guilford College Choir; the Band and Glee Club of the University of North Car olina; No Yong Park, the Chinese Mark Twain, who will speak on the Manchurian situation. It is hoped that the Church of Wide Fellowship will have the support of Southern Pines and the surround ing communities in promoting this se ries of cultural attractions, "rhe ad vance sale of the sponsor cards will be the most efficient means of start ing the programs, and everyone who is interested in bringing this talent to the town is urged to buy these cards. incomplete returns, Mr. Maxwell said. No. 1 would have made the terms of office oT pneriffs and coroners four years, instead of two, as at present. No. 4 provided for separate judicial and soliritorial districts, instead of having them the same, as at present. No. 2 was the most hotly contested of the amendments and created more comment. It would have permitted the General Assembly to call special electioTKs and submit to the voters proposals to change the Constitution at times other than at general elec tions, although not prohibiting elec tions to change the Constitution at the ^ same time general elections are held.
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