MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 13, NO. 30.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Aberdeen and Southern Pines, Nortn Carolina, Friday Ju ne 23, 1933.
FIVE CENTS
COUNTY RESCINDS
PLAN TO ENGAGE
WEFARE OFFICER
State’s Failure to Promise Por
tion of Salary Necessitates
Action by County Boards
PRESENT PLAN CONTINUES
The County Commissioners and
Board of Education of Moore county,
in a special joint meeting at the
Court House in Carthage on Monday
afternoon, rescinded the resolution
previously adopted to employ a fuil
time I'uolic welfare worker f>* the
county. The decision not to employ
a full time welfare worker at this
time was reached after failure to get
a definite promise from the State
School Commission that any portion
of the proposed welfare olficer’s sal
ary would be paid from State r.chool
funds. It has been customary for fifty
per cent of the welfare officer’s sal
ary to be paid from such funds.
For the past four years welfare
work in the county has been divided
between the County Superintcn sent
of Public Instruction an the County
Health Nurse, neither receivinjr any
extra remuneration for extra service
rendered the county in this c'.ipacity.
The school superintendent, H. Lee
Thomas, estimates that fully one-
third of his office time in the past
four years has been taken up with
conferences about welfare work, while
he has traveled several thousand
miles annually in the interest of the
work, largely at his own expense. The
cost of stationery, postage, telephone
and clerical assistance incident to per
forming the welfare duties, has been
taken from the funds of the public
schools; the stenographic and clerical
work has been imposed upon the reg
ular force, without extra pay.
The present situation seems to
point towards a continuation of the
Roosevelt Feeling Way Cautiously
Along Untrodden Road, Guided by
Some of Best Brains in Country
We Appear to be Headed in
Right Direction Under Com
mon Sense Leader
present arrangement for welfare
work in Moore county for the next]two or ihree dollars. vaf;e3 to ten dol-
By Bion H. Butler
The Pilot is frequently asked for an
opinion regarling the outcome of the
recent session of Congress and the
policies of the new President. In all
candor The Pilot does not know what
are to be the results of the new at
titude the country is taking, but it is
safe to assume that things are head
ed in the direction of improvement,
and not becau&o of much that Con
gress or the President can do, but
rather more largely because of what
they did not do in the way of obstruc
tion.
In analj'zing the situation it is
wise to begin with the fundamental
principles. The strongest force in lift
is self-protection. Some call it self
ishness, and it is the predominating
characteristic of life, and the one
that maintains us. Selfishness got us
where we were. Selfishness will get
out as far as we can get. We flat
ter ourselves that we are a Christian
people and a Christian nation. But our
army and navy, ar.d courts and jails,
and police and strong vaults, and night
watchmen and dogs and everything
else that we maintain to keep others
from trying to acquire ours, shows
that one of the main things of life is
to keep selfishness from taking away
fronr anybody who has it that which
VI want, and which selfishness tries
to keep.
The farmer wants more money for
his produce. The householder wants
more produce for his money. The
worker wants higher wages, the buy
er wants lower prices. Everybody
wants more from everybody he deals
with. So when it was possible to put
on the screws cotton went up to 35
cents, tobacco to sixty conts, wheat tc
two years.
Lambeth on Job For
New Postoffice Here
Hopes to Land Southern Pines on
List for Construction of
Federal Building
A Pair of Spectacles
Noted Detective Story Writer
Has Time Finding Indispen
sable Paraphernalia
Representative Walter Lambert of
this Congressional district is keep
ing his ear close to the ground in
Washington in the matter of a new
Postoffice Building for Southern
Pines. Frank Buchan, chairman of the
committee of the Southern Pines
Chamber of Commerce appointed re
cently to “leave no stone unturned”
to get Southern Pines on the approv
ed list for a federal building under
the new allocation of funds for gov
ernment construction projects, receiv
ed a letter last week from Mr. Lam
beth sayng that he has the matter
before the proper officials and ex
pressing the hope that good news
may be available in the near future.
Should both the postoffice and the
proposed municipal auditorium be au
thorized, Southern Pines will have a
young building boom on its hands and
the probiciiis of unemployment locally
will be solved for some time.
MORE FAMILIES AIDED HERE
IN MAY THAN DURING APRIL
laj's a day, and everybody went to
making cotton and wheat and tobac
co and everything that would sell and
the world was driven crazy with the
fantasy of making things at fancy
prices. Then we fell from the crazy
position because everybody wi.? mak
ing things and at such prices that
nobody could buy, for everybody had
more than he needed. So prices fell
into the ditch. Everybody who buys is
satisfied, but everybody who sells is
disgruntled. We all want more, which
means 've all want to gi 'j less. And
we l''>rrowed money, an ! ^e call
names and we try all device^ to get
the most for the least return, and we
confuse ourselves with ideas of mon
ey, which is of no consequence, and
of the values of property, which has
no value, and of that old notion that
the world owes us a living, though ic
owes nobody anything and we tangle
our hair and get our feet in the mud,
and get mad in politics and in our
dealings with our neighbors. Then
came the flunk.
Mr. Roosevelt Steps In
Roosevelt closed the banks. He
gained the permission of Congress to
take the country by the collar, and
the people and the Republicans join
ed with the Democrats and told him
to take the ball. He called in the
“brain trust,” a group we all despise
because they examine into things and
find out facts and like St. Paul prove
LOST—Pair of horn-rimmed
spectacles in or near Carolina
Theatre, Southern Pines.
There’s a story behind this adver
tisement which appeared in The Pilot
last week.
About two weeks ago one of the
country’s best known writers of de
tective stories, Leslie Ford, whose real
name is Mrs. Ford Bi'own, arrived in
Southern Pines to spend a month.
She had contracted to provide her
publishers with copy for a new book
by the middle of July, and sought out
the quietude of the Sandhills for the
concentrated thought necessary to the
task before her.
Mrs. Brown had not been here two
days before she discovered the loss of
her glasses. Now it so happens that
the authoress is utterly dependent
upon this important paraphernalia for
the transcription of her thought to
paper. She appealed to The Pilot.
The telephone in the home of Mrs,
Edmund Pavenstedt, prominent local
writer under the name of Maude Par-
k“>'. where Mrs. Brown is stopping,
rang. A voice informed Mrs. Paven
stedt that the glasses had been found,
that if she would call at a certain
residence in Southern Pines she could
reclaim them. A visit was made to
the residence, where the maid told her
that her mother, who lived in West
Soutern Pines, had found the specta
cles. A trip was made to “Jimtown”
and at the designated house there Mrs.
Pavenstedt was informed that the
maid’s mother had found the glasses
but that she had turned them over to
“her” mother. The plot thickened.
Discouraged, Mrs. Pavenstedt re-
tui-ned home. Half an hour later a
colored boy appeared on the doorstep
with the spectacles.
Mrs. Brown is the wife of Dr. Fore
Brown of the faculty of St. Johns
College, Annapolis, Maryland. She has
written detective stories for a num
ber of years under several nom de
plumes, and her 'books have a wide
sale both here and ab>oad.
PAGE DEPOSITORS
MEET IN RALEIGH
NEXT WEDNESDAY
Municip
To Name Representatives on
Boards To Administer Inter
est in New Bank
5 ABERDEEN DELEGATES
Depositors’ representatives of Page
Trust Company, the N. C. Bank &
Trust Company, and Independem'e
Trust Company of Charlotte will as
semble next Wednesday. June 28th
to elect four of the seven directors
who will administer the intere-jt of
each of the three old banks in the
proposed new bank. On the following
day etf’ckholders will meet to elect
from their ranks twc members of
each boaid of sever. The Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporrtion will name
ttie sev»'nth member of each board.
Depositors and creditors have this
week-end to formally object to the
plan whereby the three banks would
take part in the formation of the new
bank instead of being liquidated in
the usual method. Objectors to date
are far from the required one-third,
and Bankirjur Commissioner Gurney
P. Hoo<^ is confident the project will
go through. Collections of stock as
sessments is now in progress, and
judgments will be docketed against
stockholders who had not paid by yes
terday, June 22d.
Represent Depositors
With the announcement of the
meeting dates, Qommissione^ Hood
yesterday announced the depositors’
representatives from the 14 branches
of thte Page Trust Company. The
Page depositors will meet in the hall
of the House of Representatives in
Raleigh at 10 'a. m. next Wednesday
and the N. u. Bank depositors in tne
same place at 2 p. m.
The four depositors’ repi’esentatives
of the Page and N, C. Bank on the
boards must be geographically distri
buted so that no two come from a sin
gle community or branch.
«ditorium in
s Appears
As a Distil.^ e.. ossibility
Southeri><x
Widow of T. R. Objects
Mrs. Roosevelt Among Those
Filing Protests Here Against
Page Trust Plan
Mrs Theodore Roosevelt, wife of
the former president, waa among
those who filed protests against
the proposed organization plan of
the Page Trust Company. Her pro
test is in the hands of County
Clerk John Willcox at Carthage.
One hundred and six protests
were filed in Moore County against
the plan. The amount of deposit
represented by the protestants is
not as yet possible. Mrs. Roosevelt
owned 100 shares of stock in the
Page Trust Company, is among
those assessed 100 percent of her
holdings.
Dr. L. B. McBrayer Optimbstio on
Return from Conference in
Washington
TELLS NECESSARY STEPS
FIRST CARLOAD OF
SANDHILL PEACHES
BRINGS OVER $2.15
Active Demand for Good Fruit
Gives Promise of Profitable
Season Locally
The prospects are bright for a
municipal auditorium for Southern
Pines, Dr. L. B. McBrayer reported
on his return this week from Wash
ington where he took the matter up
i with officials in charge of projects
to be aided under the new National
Industrial Recovery Act. Dr. McBray
er went to Washington as represen
tative of the Southern Pines Chamber
of Commerce.
In his report to the meeting of
Chamber Directors, held at Ji^ck’s
Grill Tuesday noon. Dr. McBrayer
outlined the necessary steps for pro
curing government aid for the pro
posed building. The government, he
said, is authorized to make an out
right contribution of 30 per cent of the
cost of an approved project. The bal
ance may be secured through bond
issue or notes of a municipality, on
easy terms, the government figuring
on no profit and fixing the interest
I rate at three and one-half percent or
I lower. The loan may be amortized
j over a long period of years. When the
I TO percent is paid off the building be
comes the property of the municipal-
j ity. It may be leased in whole or in
I part in the meantime, it is understood,
I to help fund the government loan.
U. S. .Must Approve Plans
{ The project itself must first be ap-
A. Burker and Company, with of- proved by the State administrator for
fices at the Pinehurst Warehouses, re- Xorth Carolina, and if so appoved,
port first returns for peaches scntjgQgg Washington. for tbe
tn •Tmrlfof, onH tho r«nHe , huild^ns' must Oe approvej bj the
ifying. The car of Redbirds sent out j government. Uncle Sam charges a,
from the Caricker orchai’d at Ellerbe building fee of one percent for its
brought over $2.15 a bushel. Shipment supervisory work. Projects, to be aj^
brought over $2.15 a bushel. Shipments I pj.Qy.gjj^ must call for employment of
sent by truck in smaller lots went forj hands. Municipal auditoriums are
aboue the same price. The demand approved list of projects, pro-
FRUCK CAMPAIGN PLANNED
seems to be active, and the call for
Commissioner Hood announced that, promise of satisfying
I in order that the liquidation of each | grower w ho has something worth-
existing institution may be conduct-1
Moore county had more families re
ceiving aid from public relief funds
last month than in April, a report
from the Governor’s Office of Relief,®*®^
shows. In the state as a whole there
was a decrease of 23 percent, but 15
counties, including Moore, increased
their aid. A total of 111,778 families
were aided in the state in May as
against 138,000 families in April.
In Moore county 1.068 famlies were
aided in May as against 1,008 in Ap
ril. A total of $7,602 was spent in the
county during May.
SALE OF SANDHILL CITIZEN TO
GEORGE R. ROSS CONFIRMED
Sale of the Sandhill Citizen, South
ern Pines newspawer, to George R.
Ross of Jackson Springs, manager of
State-owned farms, was confirmed in
Superior Court at Rockingham on
Tues<iay of this week, and Mr. Ross
is expected to take possession within
the next few days.
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H. C. WILLIAMS DIES
AT HOME IN ROSELAND
TELI.S CONGREGATION OF
KIWANIS HOSPIT.^L FUND
The Rev. J. Fred Stimson preach
ed a special sermon from the pulpit of
his Southern Pines Baptist Church
last Sunday morning before a large
number of members of the Kiwanis
Club of Aberdeen and their friends.
Mr. Stimson told his congregation cf
the Kiwanis Club’s intf-rest in the sup
port of a bed in the hildren’s ward
of the Moore County Hospital and
«I its ef^oJ’ts to raise funds for this
purpose, explainingg how each dol
lar meant the care of one underpriv-
liged child for one day in the hos
pital. Members of the club gave out
pledge cawis after the service for
the use of those desiring to send their
dollar or dollars in the worthy cause.
MISS DORACE WHEELER TO
WED IN PINEHURST CHAPEL
Mrs. H. C. Williams of Roseland, a
suburb of Aberdeen, died at her home
Tuesday night following an illness of
several months. She would have been
58 years old this week.
Before her marriage she was Miss
Rebecca Lee Deans, daughter of Col
onel Henderson Deans, of Moore
county, who died in the Soldiers
Home at Raleigh a short time ago.
She leaves her husband, two sons,
Willie and Herbert, of Roseland and
of Aberdeen, Mrs. George Wells of
of Aberdeen, Mrs. George wells of
Clinton and Misses Lillian and Mary
Lee, of Roseland.
Funeral services were conducted at
her home in Roseland Wednesday af
ternoon at 3 o'clock, witlj interment in
» private cemetery near Hamlet.
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Barker Wheel
er of Southern Pines have issued invi
tations for the wedding of their
flaughter, Miss Dorace Elizabeth
Wheeler, to Philip Allen, Jr., on
Tuesday, June 29th at 4:00 O’clock in
The Village Chapel at Pinehurst.
Miss Wheeler, former member of
the faculty of the Southern Pines
Schools, has been teaching in historic
Albany Academy at Albany, New
York for the past three or four years
She was graduated from Radcliffe
College at Cambridge, Mass. Mr. A1
len resides in the Brookline section
of Boston, Mass., and is a lieutenant
in the United States Naval Reserve.
Fire losses in North Carolina dur
ing the past three months were al
most half a million dollars less than
for the same period last year, but res
idents are warned to be extremely
careful owing to the
ed in an orderly manner and without
favoritism, the regulations prescribe
that no person shall be elected as a
depositors’ representative who, at the
time of such election, is directly or
indirectly indebted to the bank (either
by reason of stock assessment or
otherwise), any amount whatso
ever.”
The depositors’ representatives from
14 branches of the Page Trust Com
pany were announced as follows:
Aberdeen: A. H. McLeod, F. D.
Shamburger, L. B. McBrayer.
Albemarle: E. E. Snuggs, T. R.
Wolfe, T. B. Mauney, W. L. Mann,
C. M Palmer
Apex: M G. Upchurch, H. W. Poe,
J. A. Cash, E. L. Turnstall, B. A.
Hunter.
Carthage; 0. D. Wallace, Dr. ^
E. Street, Martin McLeod, S. H. Mil
ler, H. B Shields
Hamlet: C. E. Coggins, M. M. Jor
dan, J P. Gibbons, T. A. Norris, II.
B. Ingram.
Liberty: Troy Smith, Cyrus Shofner,
C. L. Bray, L. H. Smith, W. H. Al
bright.
Raeford: Carl Freeman, A. L. Sex
ton, G B. Rowland, J. W. Bernard,
W, J. McDairmid.
Ramseur: M. E. Johnson, E. A.
Riehm, A. S. Hinshaw, A. H. Thomas,
D M. Weatherly.
Raleigh: J. B. Cheshire, P D.
Snipes, U. B. Blalock, J. W. Bunn,
D. T Poindexter.
Sanford: T. S. Cross, R E. Bobbitt,
H. A. Palmfer, E. M. Underwood, J.
C. Pittman.
Si.er City: W H Hadley, F. W.
Knight, W. H. Jones, J. G. Clark, J.
L. Oliver.
Thomasvil'e: C. F Lambeth, R. L.
Lanifao'h' Z V. Crutchfield, J. R.
Myers, G. A Eva- y.
Troy: E. R. Wallace, C. W. Safiit,
Barna Allen, R T. Pools, E. H.
Weed.
Zebulon: J. G. Kemp, F. D. Finch,
C. V. Whitley, G. S. Barbee, E. C
Daniel.
Mr, Burker says he expects to hold
vided a need for same can be shown,
and provided the financial arrange
ments are satisfactory to the govern
ment. Dr. McBrayer was given to
believe at Washington that Southern
his market with the expectation of Pines was in a preferential class
his customers that he will forward financial condition is con-
something to them that will justify a cerned.
good price, and he believes the indica
tions are that good stuff will find a
reception that is to be worthwhile.
The plan to forward small- shipments
to smaller places so that truck dis
tribution can reach all the crossroads,
towns and the markets of limited ca-
Dr. McBrayer said he was given
whole-hearted support in Washington
by U. S. Senator Bailey and Repre
sentative Lambeth. Senator Reynolds
was out of town at the time, he
said.
The State administrator has not as
pacity ought to encourage the ship- ■ been appointed for North Carolina,
P®rs. I so that for the present the matter
So far the quality of the peaches ^ hangs in the balance. Reports from
has been good, . the freedom from Washington are to the effect that
pests permitting a shipment of fruit | General Hugh Johnson, national ad-
that is not only good to look at, but i ministrator appointed after passage of
is sound and free from imperfections National Industrial Recovery Act
and defects. The flavor of the early
peaches seems to be better than or
dinary this year.
While the fruit being shipped from
the Sandhills so far has been of the
earlier varieties and not of that sub
stantial and superior character that
marks the later fruit, it is encourag
ing to note that the later varieties
are coming on in good shape, and
two weeks ago, would confer with
Governor Ehringhaus before making
the appointment for this state. Those
mentioned to date as possible appoin
tees are fomaer Governor Angus W-
McLean and Dr. H. G. Baity, dean
of the College of Engineering of the
State university.
Dr. McBrayer’s committee was in
structed by the Chamber directors
with a promise that the crop will de- “keep on the job prepared to ?ee
serve a good return when the better state administrator as soon as his
grades are ready to move.
MEN OF THE CHURCH PLAN
STUNT NIGHT TONIGHT
The Men-of-the-Church will hold
their regular monthly meeting this
evening, Friday, at te Aberdeen Pres
byterian Church. Supper will be serv
ed on the church grounds at 7 o’clock
and some extra stunts will be pulled
off while it is in progress, in fact
you will not know' what is going to
happen till it actually happens.
ABERDEEN IN LEAD
Aberdeen defeated Pinehurst in a
Moore County League game yesterday
afternoon, 6 to 2, going into the lead
in the pennant race. Don Maurer
pitched for Aberdeen.
Edwin T. McKeithen, business man
ager of the Moore County Hospital,
talked to the Kiwanis Clwb about the
institution at its weekly meeting held
appointment is announced.”
PLAN U, S. 1 IMPROVEMENT
AT SOUTHERN PINES MEETING
Representatives from Rockingham,
Hoffman, Aberdeen, Southern Pines
and Sanford will meet soon in South
ern Pines to plan concerted acton
looking toward the improvement of
U. S. HjfJSway No. 1 from Aberdeen
to Rockingham with funds now avail
able to North Carolina from the fed
eral treasury. Dr. L. B. McBrayer of
the Southern Pines Chamber of Com
merce is chairman of the committee
arranging the gathering.
ICE-CREAM SUPPER
The Southern Pines Branch of the
inflammable'Moore County Hospital Birthday Clr.b
condition of property due to the long reports many new members secured on Wednesday in the courthouse at
dry spell. ^ during the past week. 1 Carthage.
There will be an Ice Cream Supper
at Yates-TKagards’ new Sunday
School Auditorium on Tuesday even
ing, July 4th from 6 to 9 o’clock.
Also fried chicken sandwiches, wein-
ers, lemonade, etc., will be offered for
fund. Everybody 'will be welcome,
sale for the benefit of the buildfaisf