MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY ■VEJFT7 JL Jn£!/ A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 13, NO. 30. ^ >^A«THAOB '(Q KAOi-E SPRINC9 WKSr E.NO LAKEVIEW MANUSV jack«oh 9PRIN09 PILOT 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and Board of Education of Moore county, in a special joint meeting at the Court House in Carthage on Monday afternoon, rescinded the resolution previously adopted to employ a fuil time I'uolic welfare worker f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>