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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, NO. 15.
LAK EV/IEW
MAKt.tY
SPRINOS
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ASMUSY
PILOT
FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen and Scuthern Pines, North Carolina, Friday, Marjh 10. 193.3.
FIVE CENTS
ADOPT A BUDGET I
WITfflN INCOME, I
LEAGUE DEMANDS
Unemployment Board to Provide
Labor for Painting and Repairing
Taxpayers Appeal to Represen
tative Cameron for “No Def
icit in Next Biennium”
SALES TAX DISCUSSED
The Moore County Taxpayers Lea-
Rue addressed an appeal to the coun
ty’s Representative in the General As
sembly, A. B. Cameron, after the mass
meeting at Raleigh on March 2d,
held under the auspices of the State
Grange, the North Carolina Merchants
Association and the North Carolina
Economy League. The letter was as
follows:
Dear Mr. Cameron:
I feel that I can safely state that
all of the nearly three thousand tax
payers of Moore county who signed
the petition of January 24th endorse
the platform of the mass meeting at
Raleigh, March 2d, namely, “The Leg
islature must adopt a budget within
current income and must not levy
new taxes.” I hope you will use the
full power of your office to see to it
that no new taxes are levied and that
no deficit is incurred in the next bien
nium. It is my belief that this is the
least that can be done for a people
and an economic sysem already para
lyzed by an unbearable burden of
taxes.—Faithfully yours, Jesse W.
Page, Chairman of the Executive
Committee.
In commenting on this letter Edgar
Ewing, manager of the League said:
“Mr. Page has indeed been moderate
in saying that the least that can be
done for a people and for an econo
mic system already paralyzed by taxes
is to refrain from imposing additional
taxes or incurring new deficits. If the
Legislature does not heed the request
of the people to cut expenses to the
bone and persists in its apparent in
tention to impose additional taxes I
fear the taxpayers will employ more
drastic means than mass meetings to
make their demands effective. It is
possible that our lawmakers do not
realize that the tax burden is one of
the primary causes of the depression
and that its increasing weight com
pared to the national income is daily
driving the depression to greater
depths ?
Proposed Sales Tax
“The mei'chants’ association is
fighting against the proposed sales
lax. 1 do not thmk their opposition la
because they believe a sales tax is un
fair. I am impressed that they be
lieve there is a fallacy in the old
sawr that all taxes are passed along to
the consumer. They seem to fear that
much of the additional tax will come
out of their own pockets. My own
guess is that the tax w'ould come out
of the pockets of everyone who has
anything to do with the taxed arti
cle whether he be the producer of
the raw materials, the manufacturer,
the distributor or the ultimate con
sumer. If this be tri» the question the
Legislature must decide is whether
agriculture and commerce can bear
any more losses than they are now
suffering.
“It would be a happy situation if
taxes really could be passed along to
the consumer. If that were so what
would prevent the farmer, manufac
turer and merchant from adding some
profit to their goods and passing them
also along to the consumer? Is it not
nearer the truth to sr.y that in time
like these supply anu demand deer-
mine what the consumer will pay
and that, after the government takes
its toll, the farmer, manufacturers and
merchants get what is left?
“If I understand the temper of the
people of Moore county correctly they
believe that the time has come for
legislators to turn their| backs on
lobbyists and to give ear to the pleas
of the taxpayers.”
Local Improvements in South
ern Pines Invited at No Cost
Except for Materials
The Project Committee of the
Southern Pines Committee on Unem
ployment announced yesterday that it
is in a position to supply capable la
bor for the following projects; paint
ing, or other repairs, on public build
ings, business buildings, or private
tesidences; the building of picket
fences, walls, arbors, etc; the laying
out of private flower gardens and so
<m. There is no cost to the individual
or firm except the cost of material.
It is understood, of course, that
those applying will pledge their word
(>f honor that they are in no way in
terfering with legitimate lal)or and
that they are only' undertaking pro
jects that otherwise they could not af-
t'oi'd. On its part, the project com
mittee pledges itself to investigate
all applications and see this ruling is
adhered to. Under no circumstances
should unemployment funds be allow
ed ti> interfere with legitimate labor.
Business firms or individuals
wishing this work done, should ariply
to one of the members of the Project
Committee, .^.pplications will be con-
.sidered in the order of their filing
and according to their worth, and in
this ranking; Public buildings, first;
business houses, or blocks, second;
private residences, third.
“It is the opinion of the majority,”
said a mem'ber of the committee yes
terday that the back of the depression
is broken, that this fact will speedily
be apparent, and that the nation is
now ready to march forward with re
newed courage and vision. Everyone,
therefore, i.s urged to take advantage
of this opportunity to put into effect
some paricular project, long in mind,
but impossible up to the present be
cause of cost. There may never again
be an opportunity to do this so cheap
ly, and by action properties will be
improved, the town will be improved,
materials will be bought, labor will
he helped, money will be put in cir
culation, and the wheels will begin
to tui-n. Step forward citizens of
Southern Pines!”
Members of the Project Committee
are Alfred Yeomans, the Rev. '^raig-
hill Brown and Struthers Burt.
Community Songfest
to Benefit Hospital
Fine Profjram Arranfjed to Raise
Fund to Suprport Beds in
Children’s Ward
NEW PINEBLUFF CHARTER
APPROVED BY ASSEMBLY
Word has been received from Ral
eigh of the passage of the General
Assembly of the bill incorporating
the Town of Pinebluff as a bird sanc
tuary and providing for revised water
rates. It is understood that the new
charter must be ratified by the towns
people before it goes ir Jr> effect.
A fine program has been arrang
ed for a Community Song-fest on Sun
day afternoon, March 19th, for the
benefit of the Kiwanis Club’s hos
pitalization program, a program
which calls for the support of one or
more beds in the children’s ward of
the Moore County Hospital. A dol
lar supplemented by Duke Foundr
tion funds, takes care of one child
I'or one day in the hospital, and the
Kiwanis Club hopes to raise sufficient
funds during 1933 to provide care for
many children.
The affair on the 19th is being ar
ranged by P. Frank Buchan with the
aid of the Music Committee of the
club, and already sufficient talent has
been “signed up” to assure a full
house that afternoon. Among the fea
tures will be the following; Quartet
from Pinehurst Community Church,
the Rev. and Mrs. Murdoch McLeod,
Rassie Wicker and William Dunlop;
Reading, Mrs. Struthers Burt; Duet,
Misses Jean Lane and Caroline Drew;
Baritone solos, J. B. Gifford and
Stuart Cameron; Solo, Mrs. Raymond
Kennedy; Short talks by the Rev. J.
Fred Stimson, Dr. Clements Monroe
and the Rev. Father MoiTisey; Duet,
Misses Katherine Buchan and Alice
.Abel; Solo, Mrs. R. T. Mills and Duet,
Mrs. Mills and Miss Maide Lee
Wade; Piano Duet, Mrs. Carl Thomp
son and Miss Helen Thompson; Com-
mun'ty Sirging, led by Charles W.
Picquei.
It is planned to have the affair in
the Southern Pines High School aud
itorium starting at 3:30 o’clock. No
admission fee but a collection will be
taken for the hospitalization fund.
Wanta Swap?
E. H. (JARRISOX, JR.
GARRISON, FARM
AGENT. ARRANGES
“TRADING POST”
Bulletin Board in Court House
To Serve as Exchiinge
for Farmers
WRITE AGENT YOUR NEEDS
GARDEN MOVEMENT
IS LAUNCHED AT
CARTHAGE SESSION
Ten Counties Represented at
Meeting Addressed by Stale
Director Sheffield
By E. H. Garrison, Jr.,
County Farm Agent
Since there is so little mone’j at
hand to purcnase the things people
used to buy, we are trying to arrange
a system whereby you may let your
neighbor know what it is you want
and see if a trade can be arranged
whereby you may trade him some
thing you have for something he has
All that will be necessary is for you
to send me a note telling what you
have to trade and what you would
like to exchange it for. All of these
receive;! will be posted on a board at
the main entrance to the Courthouse
as fast as they are received. Copies
of these may also be posted in the
Farmers Exchange, and often you may
be able to exchange things there.
Would you like to exchange peas
for soy beans, or trade corn for pigs
or anything of this kind? You may
also have pieces of farm machinery
you do not use that someone else
would be glad to get. This idea has
been tried out in other places and
r-'eems to work out very well. We have
decided to try out the plan here, and
see just how well it will work. This is |
a day of swapping and trading. i
Please be sure to write your name'
and address plainly and send it direct |
to me, E. H. Garrison, Jr., County:
Agent, and I shall see that these are \
placed on the board as soon as they j
arrive.. If the idea proves to be a
good one, it will be continued, and if
not, no one will be out any money as
there will be no cost for doing this.
Things listed on our board will in
clude cow^, hogs, poultry, farm ma
chinery and all kinds of farm prod
ucts.
JUDGE WAY MAKES A
PROPHECY TO KIWANIS
Aberdeen, Knollwood, Pinebluff
Pinehurst and Southern Pines will be
one big community under one super
vising body one of these days, in the
opinion of Judge William A. Way, who
talked before the Kiwanis Club of
Aberdeen at its Wednesday meeting
in the Pinehurst Community Church.
Judge Way announced when introduc
ed by Dan I. McKeithen that he had
no speech and was just going to “think
out lond.”
Besides urging cooperation among
the Sandhills towns for the good of
all and with the view of some day be
coming one entity, the Judge touched
on the depression. The panic of 1907
didn’t kill anybody, he said. It quickly
cleared up. So will this one. Don’t
worry about your banks. No bank will
ever break unless we break il Fright
is the only danger, he .«aid.
PROGRAM IS OUTLINED
The heads of the department of re
lief from ten counties met in the Car
thage Courthouse last Friday in a
gcneial get-to-gether on the relief
gari en situation. Charles .A. .Sheffield,
.‘VgrifuHural Director, Extension Ser
vice State College delivered the
principal address. T. L. Grier, District
Supeivisor, who has the ten counties
in ctiarge, introduced the speaker and
led pait of the discussion in present-
in.1 practical problems to Mr. Shef
field.
A total of seventy-three (73) peo-
rle were present, representing the fol
lowing counties: Cabarrus, Anson,
Richmond, Mecklenburg, Scotland,
Stanley', Hoke, Robeson, Montgomery
and Moore.
Mr. Sheffield, in his address, point
ed out that there w-ere three objec
tives to be borne in mino in establish
ing the year-roun 1 community gar
dens:
1. To require wherever possib>
"’Very single relief individual in this
state to grow a year-round garden.
2. To assist the towns and cities
in providing work for theii- unem
ployed.
3. To “back the farm” movement.
In discussing the first objective
Mr. Sheffield advised that the Gov
ernor’s office in Raleigh would help
cut in the following way. P’edei'al
money is to be used in furnishing
gard n Sieef. Seeds have akeady been
purchased and are being put up in
packages as rapidly as possible, some
shipments have already been made to
the Eastern counties and they are ex
pected in this county early next week.
These packages are called “Spring
and Summer Garden Packages” and
contain all seeds necessary to plant a
year-round garden with the exception
of onion sets, sweet potato slips and
Irish potato plants. These will have to
be secured locally. It is the problem
of each local Relief Committee to dis
tribute these seed to relief famili»>s
only. Money for the purchase of fer
tilizer will have to come out of al
lotments to the various relief dis
tricts in the county. The Government
is also putting out garden calendars
to be distributed to everyone planting
a relief garden. These calendars tell
what to plant, when to plant and how
to plant. It is believed that anyone
following these instructions should
be successful in growing a first class
garden.
Employment and Food
The idea of relief gardens is most
practical in providing work for thous
ands of unemployed in towns and cit
ies throughout the state. It not only
provides work for these pt»ople, but is
a means of providing food for them
during the summer months with a
prospect of having enough food for
sustenance during next winter. It also
in one sense of the word tends to
help educate these people, along
agricultural lines at least.
“The Back to the Farm Movement
Subscribe .$250 V pjjjgj
Directors of S. P. Chamber ot
Commerce Pledge Quarter
of 1933 Budget
One-quarter of the I!»33 budget
for the Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce was subscriVied by the
directors of that oi’ganization
themselves within five minutes af
ter the report of the Budget Com
mittee was read by Chairman M.
Ct. Nichols at the meeting of the
board held Tuesday noon in the
Ladies’ I’oom ef the Church of
Wide Fo’.lowship. Despite hard
times anti the uncertainty of the i
status of currency, the directors
pledged more than •S2r»0 toward the
valuable functions of their oi'gan-
i'/ation. A campaign to laise an ad
ditional for the 1933 pro
gram of progress in Southern
Pines is now under way in charge
of Mr. Nichols’ committee.
AbX )ns Plan
for Annexation
Knollwood l*roperty Owners
Agree to Terms of Contract
for Water, Sewage, P^tc.
MANY ATTKNI) HEARINGS
APPLICANTS FOR
CROP LOANS MAY
APPLY LOCALLY
Office Established in Carthage
to Aid Farmers of
Moore County
MAXIMUM FIXED AT $300
! Regulations for 1933 govering crop
! production loans have been issued by
j the Secretary of Agriculture and are
j now available to farmers in this coun-
i ty upon request to Carl C. Culbreth,
I Field Inspector of the Crop Produc-
j tion Loan Office. Mr. Culbreth’s of-
I fiee is in t he Conrtbouse at Car-
j thage.
I Instead of wiiting to Washington
! or to one of the regional loan offices.
Mr. Culbreth announced, farmers can
I obtain the necessary application
blrnks for loans, and detailed informa
tion about the requirements, direct
ifiom his. Application will then be re-
j viewed by the county advisory com-
! mittee, then certified and forwarded
to the regional office at Washington
: I). C., for final approval and action
I The regulations this year specify
jthat only those who cannot get loans
elsewhere are eligible for loans from
\ the $90,000,000 fund authorized by
j Congress. Loans can be used only for
I crop production and require the bor’
I rower to reduce his acreage of cash
I crops 30 per cent under last year, un*
I less he does not intend to plant more
j than 8 acres of cotton. 2 1-3 acres of
I tobacco, 8 acres of peanuts, 20 acres
j of corn, 12 acres of sugar beets, 2 1-2
I acres of truck crops, 8 acies of po
j tatoes, 30 acres of rice, or 40 acres of
wheat.
The maximum permitted to any one
borrower this year is $.300; or, in the
case of tenants, the total of all loans
to tenants of any one landlord within
I a single county cannot exceed $1,200.
I The actual amount advanced by the
I authorities w'ill depend upon the the
I borrower’s requirements. A first lien
i or mortgage on the crop will be re-
Plans for the annexation of Knoll
wood, Pinedene and sections of Wey
mouth Heights and Southern Pines
Country C'lub property to the corpor
ate limits of Southern Pines w’ere
abandoned aftei' a final hearing held
by the Mayor and Hoard of Commis
sioners on Monday night, but not
without some good having come of
the movement. Knollwood property
owners agreed to meet the terms of
a contract made several years ago by
Knollwood, Incoiporated, whereby
icsidents there were obligated to pay
the Town of Sonthern Pines foi- fire
hydrants, sewage disposal and such
benefits as Knollwood derives from
its nearby neighbor. Knollwood tax
payers claimed the existing contract
was news to them.
Pievious to Monday night’s meet
ing in the City Clerk’s office. Mayor
D. G. Stutz and City Clerk Burns at
tended a meeting of Knollwood prop
erty owners and explained the situa
tion to them. Among those present
were Herbert D. Vail, Joe Fuller,
George Van Keuren, E. C. Keating, J.
W. Woods, H. H. Beckwith, R. G.
Morrison, W. C. Fownes, Jr., D. B.
Nettleton, Mrs. C. W. Middleton, Mrs.
W. A. Way, Mrs. J. B. Fuller, Mrs.
Clara Pushee, Paul Dana, R. A. 01m-
stead and L. L. BiddIe,II. They ap
pointed a committee of Mr. Nettle
ton, chairman, Mr. Biddle and Mr.
Fowne'o to arrange terms of settle
ment with Southern Pines.
At Monday night’s meeting many
appeared to register objections to the
annexation movement at this time,
among them being Alex Fields and
Max Backer of the Pinedene section.
President M. G. Nichols and Secretary
F, F. Travis of the Country Club,
Mrs. Elmer Davis, Miss Julia Mowry,
.Mrs. John McKinney and Louis La-
chine of the Weymouth Heights col
ony and Miss Florence Campbell of
Southern Pines proper. All based their
objections on the inopportunity of the
time for added taxation. Frank Buch
an and S. B. Richardson spoke of the
benefits being received by those out
side the city limits at the expense
of the city taxpayers.
Dr. Morg-an in Series
of Bible Lectures
To Preach at Pinehurst Com
munity Church Sunday and
Lecture During W'eek
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BALTAZZI TO JUDGE AT
PINEHURST HORSE SHOW
Warner A. Baltazzi, of New York
and Aiken, prominent judge of horses,
has accepted the invitation of the
Pinehurst Jockey Club to act as one
of the judges of the Pinehurst Horse
Show to be held on March 30th and
31st. Mr. Baltazzi, himself an owner
of many fine hunters, race horses
and polo ponies, has judged at the
Pinehurst show for the past two years
and with such satisfaction as to merit
a return invitation each spring.
Mrs. Lucy Pomeroy Deans of Cam
den, S. C., and Buffalo, N. Y. has
been asked to serve as a judge of
hunters here this year. Mrs, Deans is
well known in the hunting world and
until a serious accident a few years
ago was recognized as one of the
most skilled and daring riders to
hounds in the country.
Dr. Frank Crossley Moi-gan begins
a series of Bible lectures and ser
mons at the Pinehurst Community
quired. The regulations equire that' ^2, speak-
loans be repaid on or before October eight o’clock
31, 1933. Interest at 5 1-2 per cent, de- i services. He will speak each week day
ducted in advance, will be charged. : Monday through Friday the 17th
In order that applications may be ^
handled properly and to save the ap-1 Those w ho have heard his father,
plicants as much trouble as possible, I ‘ Campbell Morgan, of New
Mr. Culbreth makes the following iLondon, will want to hear
suggestions: | Jiis brilliant and already distinguish-
1. Come prepared to give a cor-1 He is not unlike his great
rect and definite mailing address, as i Esther, yet he possesses rare gifts of
route number and box number must '’'sight and exposition which are dis-
be given.
2. Be in a position to give a com
plete de.scription of the lands on
which you are to farm, namely: the
distance from town, name of road or
highway on which you live, names of
adjoining land owners.
3. It will be necessary for appli
cants to give a plain statement of
present indebtedness, as: farm mort
gage, chattel mortgages, crop liens,
taxes and judgments.
4. All landlords and tenants are to
be together when either the landlord
or tenant is making application for a
loan.
5. All farmers applying are re-
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tinctly his jwn.
Dr. J. Sprole Lyons, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Atlan
ta, Ga., who had Dr. Morgan with
him for a week in his church says:
“One of the characteristics of the ser
vices conducted by Dr. Morgan is
that persons who start with him al
most invariably continue wih him to
the very last service. His method is
distinctly expository and even his top
ical addresses reach heights of splen
did exposition of the Word of God
. . . .The fervor and power which de
velop as each study progresses is in
nonsense a blast of oratory but is the
irresistible momentum of Divine truth
aserting its authority and calling fov
dedication of life and service.'