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MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY THE A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 18, NO. 7. ^ ^^ARTHAOE eACL.e SPRINCS ISfo ) /uakev.ew MAHU6V OACKSOfl SPRIM08 PlliCS ASHLEY MKICHTS AecRoe^ ^ PIN EBUiFP FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTLSING of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, P’riday January 13, 1933. FIVE CENTS C. OF C. CONSIDERS YEOMANS AGAIN WORK PROJECTS TO HEADS LIBRARY IN AID UNEMPLOYED SOUTHERN PINES Information Booths for Tourists Trustees Hear Annual Reports at Either End of Town May Showinjj Fine W’orit Done Be Erected Despite Deficit TO BE OPERATED BY NEEDY ALL OFFICERS RE-ELECTED Citizens Bank May Purchase its Banking House The errection of information booths for tourists at the northern end south ern boundaires of Southern Pines, on U. S. HiKhway No. 1., is being con sidered as an unemployment project and is to be taken up for action by a joint committee of the Committee on Unemployment and Relief and the Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce within the next few days. Information booths have been con sidered by Southern Pines for some time, but the expense of maintaining them, that is, employing persons to operate them and furnish information about hotels, b(>ardint^ houses, cot- tajres, restaurants, has deterred the commerce body from proceeding with the plan. It is now believed that un employment funds might be niadp a- vailable, not only ^ov the manual la bor of erccLinar the booths but for op erating them through the period of depression, thereby giving en\pl(5/- ment at small wages to needy persons in the community. Southern Pines particularly needs such booths, in the opinion of the di rectors of the Chamber of Commerce and many of the town’s merchants. The main body of tourist traffic, north and south, does not pass through the business section of the tow'r, does not see many of its hotels, nor any. res taurants. Thousands of automobile? pass through May Street each win ter, n ‘'ny of which it is believed, would stop pnd their owners make inquiry if attractive information booths %vere located at either end of the town. President George G. Herr, at a meeting of Chamber directors on Tuesday, ai>pointed the following committee to meet with th e“Project” committee of the Unemployment and Relief body and discus sthis and other projects for the spreading of feder al unemployment funds to a good ad vantage: Frank Pottle, Frank Buch an, the Rev. .1. F. Stimson, H. L. Mc Pherson and .1. W. Windham. At present Southern Pines unem ployed are clearing the parkways a- long the road leading from from Ben nett street to the Mount Hope Cem etery. Other projects under consider ation for the near future including the laying out of bridle paths in pic- turosque sections of the vicinity of tov.n, including one leadmg to Be- thesda Cemetery; fire lanes for the prevention of spread of forest fires; the painting, in cooperation with mer chants and owners, of buildings need ing attention in the heart of town, and possibly community gardens. Further funds will be made avail able to Southern Pines as well as to all other county towns from the ?13,- 500 allotted the county by the state for relief of needy unemployed du ring the months of January and Feb- ruai-y. It is to put this money to work ad vantageously that proper projects are being considered at this time. The annual meeting of the South- , ern Pines Library Association was held in the Library on Monday after noon, January 9. A comparatively small, but enthusiastic, number of members of the Library were pres ent and a general tone of encourage ment lor the coming year was notice able. Among the more important re- ■p« rts submitted for the yerfr 1932 were of the Librarian, the Treasurer, a com- ^ parative statement of the number of I Library members and the report and election of Trustees and Officers for the year 1933. , The following were elected officers for the year 1933: i A. B. Yeomans, president; Eugene I Stevens, 1st vice-president; Struth- j ers Burt, 2nd vice-president; Miss Mary Schwarberg, 3rd vice president; Mrs. J. K. Walker, treasurer and George ilnidison, seci’etary . The following new members were elected to the Board of Trustees: Almet Jenks, Mrs. Struthers Burt, Mrs. .lane Towne, Richard Wilson, Frank Webster, Hiram Westbrook and Paul Barnum. ; Miss Anna Jenks and Mrs. James Swett were re-elected to the boai-d and Mrs. James Boyd, Mrs. M. A. Hayes and Mrs. Gilkyson, whose terms did not expire this year, are contin uing on the Board of Trustees. The Librarian’s report by Mrs. Parker W .Fisher revealed an attend ance (luring the year of 75-U5 regular and 189 children for the story hour. The circulation, regular, totalled 1024(5 and at school 1058. Fees and fines totalled $302.28. Books donated, 239, books purchased, 115, or total additions of 38-1. These bare figures mean very little unless attention is drawn to the use of the library which has been made by the school children this fall. For the past five years the High School students have used the Library for re- tiuired reading and the books issued by the Libraiian gratis for this woik. This has been continued this fall, but in addition the children in the gi'ades have also had the use of books, and it is interesting and gratifying to note the appreciation manifested for this privilege. One afteinoon each week isss^.r"": m EEN LAKE DISAPPEARS WHEN OLD DAM BREAKS I Practically No Damajje ResultK from Burstinji: of Dike Built in 190.5 I NO ACTION ON REBUILDING An 01(1 Cut Showing Citizen.s B:ink Building as it Loo ked Ten Years Ago. I. — — ^ ^ - Stockholders to Act on Recom- TmTrfi-«T * w w /\irn~* mendation „f Directors on COUNTY ALLO'lTED C.LT.CORPORATIO^ MOVES ITS OFFICES FROM ABERDEEN .January 24th The annual stockholders meeting of the Citizens Bank and Trust Company, Southern Pines, was held at its bank ing house on Tuesday, with tliico- fourths of the stock i-epresented. Tne president’s report and statement of the financial condition was read and ccmniented on and it was the general opinion that the business was doing all that could be expected ami show- ing a material increase in deposits The C. I. T. Corporation, discount- ov^r last year. The profits of th:* ants of automobile paper, this week bank for the past year have been very Headquarters in Carolina Dis>- count Building Closed and Books Taken to Raleigh BURNEY, WEAVER LEAVE closed its Aberdeen headquarters in the Carolina Discount Corporation Building' and moved its books and e- ({uipment to the Raleigh office of the company. The C. I. T. took over the automobile paper departmerit of the Carolina Discount about a year ago and has since operated the local of- fic's but due to the proximity of the Greensboio and Raleigh offices of the Company it was found inmpiactical to maintain a branch in Aberdeen. The removal of the company cames as a severe blow to the town at a time small due to depressed conditions and to opportunities bein^: scarce to prof itably employ funis, but on the whole the showing was satisfactoiy to i!i“ stockholders and the reports ordered accepted with commendation and tVanks to the official and office for e. The election of directors foi- the en suing year resulted in the unanimou- election of the present board, consist- rng of Messrs. Abrf'>'’.in, Bernstein. Blair, Buchan, Xichols, Risgan, Stutz and Welch. Imme iately after the a I- journment of the stockhoK)ms the when the section can ill afford to lose new board of directors met and elect- any of its industries. With the clos- ed the following officers: Chairman of ing of the office two of Aberdeen’s Board, .1. E. Bernstein: President and prominent young citizens are ordered Cashier, H. O. Rigi»'an; \'ice Presi- elsewhere, di'ady J, Burney to Nash- (lents, J. E. Bernstein, M. G, Nichols ville, Tennessee and Harold Weaver and Geo. C. Abraham; Assistant Cash- State Officials Here to Discuss Fire Prevention Col. Harrelson of Dep’t. of Con servation and Development a Speaker at Local Meeting Col. J. W. Harrelson, head of the State Department of Conservation and Development, C. H. Flory, As sistant State Forester in charge of Fii-e Control, and District Forester W, A. Peterson were the principal speakers at a meeting of Moore county property owners yesterday afternoon in the Southern Pines Country Club. The meeting was called by the Moore County Forest Protective Association to discuss forest fire prevention in the county. The establishment of fire lanes dividing the county into sections and making possible the confining of fires to a section was discussed, and use s.i Federal Unemployment money for the purpose may result. L. L. Bid dle, II of Pinehursti secretary of the local association presided at the meet ing. Please turn to page 5) Walter Gilkyson Says Technocracy Unsound still of Opinion Thit Democracy Is Onl^ Scheme Which Will Work in America Walter Gilky.‘<on, Southern Pines au thor, addressed the Kiwanis Club Wed nesday noon at the Church of Wide Fellowship, Southern Pines, on the, subject of “Technocracy.” He told the members how the engineers and ! scientists believe that in this machine^ age their rules should be made to ap ply to human life, but expressed the opinion that they fail to take individ-1 ualism into consideration, that soci ety cannot be governed as a ma-' chine. “I am still of the opinion that democracy is the only scheme which will work in .America. It is the only one which lay® emphasis on the indi vidual. It IS the individual who is responsible for progress. The individu al makes history;^ history does not make the individual.” Mr. Gilkyson de.scribed the theories and the plan advocated by the tech- i nocrats, but stated the only facts to be found in their premise are that technological employment has tre mendously increased since the begin ning of the machine age, about 1830; that it reached its peak in 1918; that production reached its peak in 1929, and that debt is incieasing faster than either productitn or population. On these facts the technocrats base their conclusion that disaster is ahead, that soon the banks will have all the mo ney, factories be jammed with un sold goods and employment practi cally aL an end. to Raleigh. Mr. Burney was manager of the .Aberdeen headquarters. \o. provision has been made for other employes of the local office. GOVERNOR “FEEI.|N(; BETTER” -Gov- ier, Ethel S. Jones and Secretary to the Board D. G. Stutz. The stockholders favorably con.^id- er«*d the recommendation of the board of directors that the bank purchase from the holding company the build ing now occupied and to meet again on Tuesday, January 21th to con- Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 11— ernor J. C. B. Ehringhaus was “feel- fiini or reject such proposition. It was ing better” today but he was still con- fui'ther decided that in the event t.'e fined to his bed at the executive nnin- purchase was consummated it woultl sion from a recurrence of a kidney be necessary to reduce capital stock ailment. and surplus for that purpose. One Person in 95 in Moore County Files Federal Income Tax Return One ))erson in 95 in Moore county pays a Federal income tax. On this basis there ai'e 295 citizens of the county’s population of 28,041 who i>ay a Federal tax on their incomes. As small a proportion as this seems, it is above the average for the state as a whole, and away above Moore’s neighboring counties. In the state 28,- 800 income tax returns were filed which is one for every 109 inhabi tants. There are only three states in the union having a smaller percent age of its citizens filing returns. Lee county, next door, has 117 in come tax payers out of a population of 16,996, or one in every 115 per sons. In Chatham county one person in 541 pays a tax; in Harnett the percentage is one in every 368 peo ple. I The low income tax returns in this stat.'i ai’e due largely to the scarcity of incomes big enough to. tax and not to the failure of the legislature to place a levy on wealth. Six of the 100 counties have only Dan Disappears Business at The IMIot Halts ITntil He Returns with Im portant Announcement Dan Ray mysteriously disappear ed from his post at The Pilot lino type machine on Tuesday. He reappeared an hour later. “It’s a boy,” announced Dan with a broad smile. “Nine and one-half pounds.” Richard STiaw Ray—good old Moore county names—was born at the Moore County Hospital in Fine- burst Tuesday morning. He’s fine, and so is his mother. And you know Dan’s all right or V’ou wouldn’t be reading this week’s Pilot on time. $13,500 MORE OF mmkl AID FUND Given $6,.'500 for January and .$7,000 for February to Aid the I’nemployed N. l\ BORROWS Sl,(i.‘J."),000 The Governor’s office of relief re ports «e?uring a loan of $1,635,000 D’ore fiom the Reconstruction Finance Corpoi-ation f(n- relief in the state for January and February, .$740,000 for January and §895,000 for February, Previous allotments secured were $8]^^((00 for Octobei' and November and S'i71,000 for December. The larger amounts for the winter months are made necessary because of the increasing number of families needing aid. Dr. Fred W. Morrison announces. Estimates are that 143,325 families will need help in January and 151,272 in P’ebi-uary. The relief funds just ina !e available will be raid in four installments, the first havini; been sent out. .Moore county’s allotment is $6,.^fl0 for January and -$7,000 for February, Dr. Morrison announces. Permanent school improvement pi-ojects in 59 North Carolina coun ties duiing October, November and December, as a result of the Federal relii^f program, have cost a total of $347,828, spent on projects created and carried out in keeping with the government’s wishes to provide v.'ork for destitute people rather than give them funds outright. Dr. Morrison, the State relief director, announces. Of the $347,828 spent, $148,777 came from Federal funds and was used to pay for labor, while the remainder, $198,031, purchasing all equipment and supplies, came from local sources, as follows; .State Literary fund, $84,- 700; miscellaneoi^ State funds, $1,- 254; county appropriations, $41,854; loc5<! school district appropriations, The miller is out of a job and the I young people of .■Aberdeen have no swimming hole. About 10:30 o’clock last Saturday morning the old dam I built by M. H. Folley in 1905, broke at the -■\berdeen Lake and by six o’clock there was but little water left excej)t in the original creek channel. The dam gave way at a point near the little bridge on the northeast corner of the lake. Much excitement was caused by the bieak and large numbers of people went down to watch the water run out, and incidentally to enjoy the fun of seeing men and boys, both colored and white, wade in mud up to their I necks picking up fish which had been stianded by the rapidly receding wa ters. Considerable damage was done in the ba ement of the H. A. Pa^e Mo tor.Company garage where the water Tacked up until it was between two and three feet deep. As yet it is not known what ar rangements, if any, will be made for restoring the dam. It is doubtful if tha income fro mthe mill would justi fy any veiy great expenditure, but there seems to be much sentiment in favor of restoring the dam for, its lecreational value. There has been a suggestion that unemployment relief money be used for the purpose of cleaning out the stumps in the lower part of the lake, building a sand beach on the north side of the lake and thu.s make an ideal bathing place. What can be done along this ^ne has not been determine;], but with the water out there is i>resented an opportunity for the town to add to its recreation al facilities at very small outlay. Thus far the Board of Commission ers of Abei'deen has taken no action in the matter. The fact that the lake is fin property largely belonging to in dividuals and not to the town compli cates the situation. Were it public property it is believed that authoriza tion could be procured from Raleigh for the use of unem))loyment funds to rebuild the dam, clean out the lake and make of it a public playground of value to ti e community. It is possi ble that this may be arranged any way, owing to the fact that, though )>iivately owned, the lake has always been a public gathering place and a village asset. Union Services To Start Here Sunday Aberdeen ('hurches Unife Evenina: Worship in One Large Conijrejjation for Please turn to page 5) F^ine Annual Report By the Shrine Club Shows Treatment of 348 Child ren in Five Years, Treasury Balance of $2,700. The head of the Orphans’ Home at Greensboro, Dr. Phoenix, was the principal speaker at an enthusiastic annual gathering of members of the Sandhill Shrine Club, held in the Pine Crest Inn at Pinehurst on Tuesday night. John Fitzgerald, president of the club, preside(L Dr. G. A. Charles of Aberdeen read a splendid report of the work accomplished by th» organi- ^ution during the past five years, showing treatment through the club’s over 2,000 inhabitants. Clay, in the chargity of 348 cases of children suf- one person southwestern part of the state, large- ferir^ with diseased tonsils, impaired paying Income tax for between 1,000 ly taken up in the Nantahala Nation-, eye.sight and other ailments. Dr. and 2,000 people while four counties al forest, has no one paying income | Charles reported a balance in the have only one income tax payer for tax. U'.iV.’c 701 45. 1 I -All of the chur.bes of .Aberdeen rep resenting the white people will hold a L^nion Service at the Page Memorial Methodist Church Sunday night at 7:30. The ministers of the various churches together with the church members have decided that all ait woiking towards the same coal and that to meet in the various groups at the different churches Sunday nights does, not accomplish enough. The services will be held each Sun day night in a different church and some pastor other than the one of that particular church in which the meet ing is held will preach. At the Page Memorial Church this Sunday nii^ht there will be a special musical program. Mrs. E. L. Pleas ants, organist at the church, will form a choir of all choir members of I the different churches for the serv ices. It is desired that all singers of the community join with Mrs. Pleas ants in making the musical program a feature of the servitea. ' The ReT. E. L. Barber, minist;pr of Betheada Presbyterian Church, will de liver the sermon at this meeting. Not ] only are the church members of Aber- ; deen' urged and most cordially in vited to attend these services but a ^ most cordial invitation is given all t come.
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