MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS WEEKLY A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. IS, NO. 8. Sr >^ARTHAae E.ACL.E SPRINC9 LAKEV/lSW MANUfiY JACK SOU SPRIHOS aoUTHCRM PtIiES ASHUEV M6.iCH-rs A^CROtEJS PIKI&BLUFP FI RSI’ IN NEWS, ( IRCl LATION & ADVERl'ISLVf; of the Sandhill T'rritory of North Carolina Aberdeen and Southern Pines, North Carolina, Friday January 20, 1!)33. FIVE CENTS NATHANIEL BURT ON PROGRAM OF STATE SYMPHONY The Pilot to Award Scholarship to Washington College of Commerce Applicants Must Be Outstanding Scholars, Deserving, Well Recommended Composition by Yo?'«‘»’ Son of 3Ir. and IMrs. Sfruthers Hurt , To He Heard Tonight WRITTEN IN SANDHILLS By Hion H. Huflcr An interesting announcement from the University at Chapel Hill says that this evening, Friday, the North Carolina Little Symphony Orchestra will give a concert under the man agement of the Carolina Playmakei’s and the Institute of Folk Music, La mar Stringfield conducting. The first part of the program will present com positions by Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms. The second part will be the work of living coraposevs, and prom inently on the schedule is a production “Prelude Aubacle,” by Nathaniel Burt, of Southern Pines, a student at Princeton University. This young man is the son of Strutlicrs and Kiitherine Burl, born in AVyoniing in November, 1913, at Jackson’s Hole, under tht shiulow of the Teton mountains, while his daddy in the face of a blizzard was trying to drive southward to the lower ranch, some fifteen mi'es away, a herd of forty horses. The boy was born a musician. At the a^e of three, nights when the mercury was 30 below zero, wrapped in his blankets he would sit up in his crib an:l sing, “Jesus Lover of My Soul,” and “Good by. Girls, I'm Through,” and strange composi tions of his own, the latter habit fol lowing him to this day. He began to study music when si.x years old. One of hiS first teachers was Mrs. E. A. Bariteau, of Southern Pin#*«. who laid his course along helpful lines, to the credit of both of them. He was educated partly in Fr.ince. partly at the St. James School in Hagerstown, Maryland, followed by two years at the David Manness school in New York and last year in Austria. He is now a freshman at Princeton, and still studying compo sition during week-ends ir. New York. He hopes to make music his profes sion, yet he has written considerable, and has had poems published in Scribner’s. Written Here The young man’s composition which is presented tonight was large ly worked out at Ms home in South ern Pines, but when it came to the or chestration he called on Lamar Stringfield, who will be the conduct or at Chapel Hill, to advise and aid in allotting the parts and the deter mination of the instruments. Na thaniel from the beginning has been interested in composition, not the playing of any particular instru ment, although he plays the piano well. He has been studying composi tion, hamony and orchestration. He has composed a good many piano pieces, but this is his first orches tral composition. Lamar Stringfield said he had a .most extraordinary sense of all the instruments' in an orchestra. He wrote “Prelude Aubade” during his Christmas holidays from Princeton, and then went up to Chap el Hill for two days and he and Stringfield orchestrated it. “Prelude Aubade,” of course, means Prelude to a Morning Song. An aubade is a The I’ilot will award a scholarship worth $180.00 in the Washington Col lege of Commerce, Blackstone, Vir ginia free to one of its readers who is selected as the most fitted by the judges. The ap|:licant must be a graduate from an accredited high school, or may be one who has had some col lege work and has been able to finish the regular course. The candidate must be sponsored by someone famil- 1 iar with his or her scholastic activi ties, who will vouch for his or her : ability and eagerness to go forward ' in the business world. I The decision of the judges will , be based on the (lualifications of the Icanriidates fro ma scholastic and ac- Itivities stand])oint, and their records I in high school or in college will be a deciding factor. The following have been named by The Pilot to pass upon applicants; Superintendent of Schools R. C. Zim merman of Aberdeen, Superintendent of Schools W. P. Morton of Pineburst, Superintendent of Schools Frank T. Webster of Southern Pines, Struthers Burt, Southern Pines and Richard i Tufts, Chairman of the Kiwanis Club ; (’ommittee on Vocational Guidance, of 1 Pinehurst. i This scholarship entitles the winner to free tuition for three quarters, : Winter, Spring and the choice of eith- jer i'.ie summer or fall quarter, which 'constitutes the equivalent of a reg ular year. The College will supply board and room, with laundry 'for only SSO.OO per month. The stu dent furnishes his own linens and 'covers, and buys his own book'?. ■Applications will be received at this joffice beginning at on?e so 'hat the ‘award may be made in tim« for the Special Winter term beginning Feb ruary 0, 1933. New Kduratiunal Plan The W'ashington College of Com merce operates on a new educational plan. It offers a two year course of i College grade work in Business .Ad- ' ministration to boys and girls who .are not intej'ested in, or able to take, [four year courses offered m regular I colleges. This plan is also for the benefit of those who want a prepar ation in the broad principles of bus- I iness procedure not offered in the ! many regular business colleges that lack collegiate standing. I Coui’ses offered in Business .Adriiin- ^ istration include General Bu.^iness, or special courses leading to professions ^ in Accounting; Banking; Finance; j Foreign Language (Commercial); Marketing, Advertising; and Sales; Production and Personal Manage- Iment; Insurance; Public Utilities; or Shoots Off a Toe Hen .\rnette Didn’t Know Gun A\'as Loaded When He Started Hunting Ben Arnette, led-headed come- lian of the Junioi- class in Farm Life .School over in Eureka, went hunting last Wednesday. Ben, like many mhers you may have heard about in the past, didn’t know his guii was loaded. He lean ed it’ on his foot. “Bang!” Ren was about a mile from home, a mile which seemed to him fifteen at least as he hobbled thcnce. He had shot off a toe. At the Moore County Hospital, where the fanii'y took him for tieatment, Ben is raj)idly recover ing. He'll be back in school soon and things will peik up. The Jun- jors miss his wisecracks. WIREGRASS FIRES SET TO PREVENT SI To , Meeting of Landowners Decides on Hurning Over Acres to Remove Danger UNEMPLOYED (JET .FOBS f Please turn to page 8) Verner Reed Heads New Kennel Club Organization Perfected To Put on Show in Pinehursl for Hospital Benefit (Please turn to Page 8) Influenza Closes Schools Until Feb. 1 Nearly 30 Per Cent of Pupils in Aberdeen Institutions 111 \ of Disease With almost 30 per cent of the pu pils of the Aberdeen public schools confined to their homes v.’ith influ enza the Board of Education decided early this week to close the schools until February 1st. The pupils in both the High School and the Elem entary ^School were dismissed for the two week period on Tuesday. The board members felt that the spread of the disease in the com munity might be curtailed by closing the schools at this time, and their action has met with the approval of the citizens to say nothing of the students. On Monday evening, the 16th, the Pinehurst Kennel Club was organiz ed, with the following offictrs for 1933: Verner Z. Reed, president; Mrs. Henry Page, Jr., vice president; Jack son Boyd, vice president; Col. G. P. Hawes, Jr., treasurer, Elmer M. Simpkins, .secretary and Charles W. Picquet, superintendent. The Bench Committee consists of Mrs. Hetni’y Page, Jr., Almet Jenks, James Tufts and Col. Hawes. The Constitution and By-laws were drafted and application was made to the American Kennel Club to hold a one-day show at Pinehurst on Monday, March 27th. Several locations are be ing at present examined as to the best place to hold the exhibition. All parties interested in dogs are invited to become members of the club, and if they will communicate with any of the officers they will be pleased to see that their membership is submitted to the club officials. The first show will be a 26-breed show and it was decided that the net proceeds would go to the Moore County Hospital. THE SENTINELS ENDORSED BY KIWANIS CLUB Sew Organization Given Impe- ; tus by Action Taken W ednes- : day by Kiwanians ' WO>IEN’S BRANCH MEETS At its weekly meeting on Wednes day the Kiwanis Club pa.ssed a reso lution that the club approve and isupfKUt the Sentinels. 1’his action, ; which was taken upon the recommen dation of the club’s Public -\ffairs Committee, should give considerable impetus to the men’s branch of the Moore County Sentinels which is still far behind the women’s branch in en- lollment and organization. F^dgar Ewing, acting district .sec retary for The Sentinels, attended the Meeting to answer whatever question.^ might be asked about the pi'ogram of the organization. He explained that The Sentinels would never oppo.se or lspo',i.sor any specific legislation but that if any member wished to bring any matter before the State or Na tional legislature or before the County Commi-ssioners The Sentinels headquarters would circulate among its members a petition with a view to enabling a large number of voters to take part in the request fur “redress of grievances.” ! “It is believed,” said Mr. Ewing, j “that this plan will enable large num- ' bers of citizens to bring their views to the attention of the law-makins , bodies without in any way compro- I niising ihe non-pressure policy of The Sentinels as an organization.” 1 The County Executive Committee I of the Women’s Branch of the Moore County Sentinels met at the home of , Mrs. Verner Z. Reed, “Sandy Woods,” on Thursday afternoon to discuss the I an angements for the meeting of the women’s branch to be held at the Carolina Theatre at half past three on Tuesday afternoon, January 31st. This will be the last county-wide meet- ; ing during this ‘session of Congress. Its purpose is to acquaint the member I with the procedure of the meetings 'and the method of obtaining the mem- I ber’s opinions on the acts of the rep resentatives. -As a result of the meeting of land owners called by the iMoore County Foi’est Protective Association and well attended at the Southern Pines Coun try Club last Thursday afternoon, a definite depariuic from previous pol icies in taking precautions against dis astrous fires in the section was made. Though the aim of the get-together was to plan for fire lanes in the sec tion, in the belief that they would prpvent the sprea 1 of fires, the plan ailo))tcd after consi jwere fornuiiated to take care of this neecL I At this point the jiods of winter ; in.ervened. With six inches of snovi I on the gi ound Dr. r]. L. Prizer, chair- l.iiari of the Unemployment and Ke- liief Committee, concluded P’liday j.noining th^t an emergency existed land irected the relief committee to j.supi)iy i.'iiiiiediately the needed shoe.-'. •A. more limited need for undercloth- I ng among the same children has also 'been met Tnere are numerous adults, i>artic- ularly • olored, who lack adequate clothing. Dr. Prizer has under consid- eiation severe! suggestions as to how this situation can best be handle 1. He wishes however to remind residents of Southern Pine.s once more that con tributions of discarded clothing and shoes are badly needed and also that contributions of money would simplify the problem of caring for our less fortunate ntighb^rs. A canvas for clothing will be made on Thursday, Jan. 20th and everyone is requested to have his contribution ready for collection. The Hon. Josephus Daniels, editor ‘1 the lialeiyh Newj? & Observer and •Secretary of the Navy in thf* cabinet lit Woodiow W ilson during the World War, will be the speaker at the annual meeting and banquet of the Southern I’ines Chamber of Commerce on Thur.-day evening, February 2d, it v.-as announced yesterday. Mr. Dan- icis wrote Nelson C. Ilyde, chairman <