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t*age Four THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, April 27, 1934. Little Theatre Closes A Successful Season Final I'resentation, “Poverty Flats,” Best I’erformance (liven This Year Civilization’s Debt to the Church A Sermon Preached by The Rev. J. Fred Stimson The members of the Sandhills Lit tle Theatre gave their best perform ance of the season on Tuesday and Wednesday nights as “'Poverty Flats." | a hilarious three-act melodrama in the setting of the gay 90's, was present- | ed before a total attendance of over i 400. Perhaps the most enjoyable fea ture of the production was the whole hearted cooperation of the audience, who enthusia.'stically cheered the hero and heroine and booed and hissed the villian as they passed before them on the stage. | Stuart Cameron, as the bold, bad | villain, gave the outstanding perform- i ance of his career in me Little Thea- ■ tre and overshadowed the excellent work of the other members of the ] cast. His appearance and action could ' hardly have been surpassed by any ; but a professional. Craighill Brown played the part of Jim Turner, the hero, and received | loud applause for his performance. I The role of his sweetheart, the sher iff’s daughter, was capably handled by Bannie Cornwell, and she had no difficulty in immediately winning the hearts of the audience. The comedy was ably carried through by Fred Cole, as Win Lung, the Chinese cook of the mining camp, Raymond Kennedy, as Judge Kirkland, whose chief companion was John Barleycorn, and Emilie Mae Wilson, as Biddy Houlahan, the queen of the camp. Beverly Walter, in the role of Dan Duffy, was another who provided plenty of laughs. The part of the Sheriff was taken by Robert Cornwell. The villian’s chief assistant was Constantino Mon- tesanti, while Dick Sugg also featured in two small roles. Pinehurst Paragraphs It was promised by the prophets teaching of Christ. The Christian and announced with the birth of ■ law of co-operation and bearing one Christ that He should be King of another's burdens has been found in Kings., Lord of Lords, Prince of the present depression the rhajor med. Peace, That is. His rule would be icine for sick economy. Business be- above every kingship and His do- fore Christ was plunder and spoil of minion would be beyond the realms war, robbery on sea and high places, of misery. He said of His kingdom fraud and cheat in the market. To- that it was not to destroy but to give day we prosper only under a good life and life more'abundantly. Over name and the policy of the golden and above the lordships of strife, mis- i-ule. "The cattle on a thousand hills ery and death He came to set up a are mine." If yovi do not think kingdom of peace, love, and service your ability to possess wealth Is due for time of peace, love and beauty for to Christian influence, lake your eternity. When at the close of His wealth into heathen lands in time earthly career He gave to his small of depression and the very armies ollowing, that little unorganized Apos- ^ that should protect you will take it, tolic church of eleven apostles and ; from you. ; a few women, the great commission, ^ 3. in all Protestant lands church "Go yet into all the world and make and state are separated. So separated disciples of every nation, uaptizing are they that governments lost their them in the name of the Father, the sense of obligation to the Church. Son and the Holy Spirit,” He start ed on its way the institution that has been and still is the most useful yet least appreciated organization ever established. Without the Church’s teaching and struggle for peace, without its spirit | of brotherhood, without its reverence > for law and order, no country can but ' be the victim of strife and revolution. I At times in its early history the Without a single religion 10 bind its Church has been considered a public constituency together in one great, enemy and wars have been waged to mastering common cause, there can destroy it. Instead of destruction, the be no ^o'idarity of patriotism, very attacks have served to further, 4. Members of the fine arts and its teaching. The courage with which : their patrons seem to be prone in its members sought to advance the i our day to lose sight of their debt Jesus standard and the spirit of love and faith with which they faced even death, inspired others to rally to the banner of the cross both to suffer for it and to apply its courage, faith and love in all phases of endeavor. No blood is shed to destroy the to the Church. But the great sym phonies are those written to the Christ. The great poems are those sung to the Fatherhood of God. Mas ter paintings are the madonnas. Ar chitecture has found its highest mark in the Christian cathedrals. Beauty at F.\RMERS MUST KEEP BOOKS TfflS YEAR £. H. Garrison, Jr. One of the features of the Agri cultural Adjustment program for this year will t)t the keening of records on all farm crops grown. These rec ords will not be hard to keep and in the end should be of valuable assist ance for all future programs. These books are already printed and will be ditributed at a later date through a series of meetings to be held in the different communities. Each one who has a contract on tobacco or cotton w^ill be required to keep vhis record book and later in the year these will be returned to the farmer as part of be returned tot he farmer as part of his permanent records. By keeping up this work it will not be necessary in the future to "guesstimate” how much of certain crops have been grown on the different farms. Had we had this information this year, there is no doubt but that our con tracts would have been cleared long ago and all rentals would have been in the hands of our farmers by this time. This keeping of records will not work a hardship on anyone and is something that should be done all the time anyway. The books are not com plicated and I think that most anyone would be glad to have one and also be glad to keep it up. The only thing I regret is that there will not be enough for all who really should have them but only for those who have signed contracts for this year. Church today, but by platform, by | its best can only be that c;<ncerned press, by organized amusement, by with the Father of beauty, organized business, and by private g Youth is enjoying its freedom, conversation it is frequently condemn- granted that society owes ed as of value only to children, the | education, that the family owes sick, and dying. Too many consider g^ppQ^t and sustenance that the it a relic of good but supertitious | opportunity and privi- people, the enemy of progress m Without the Christian institu- thought. business and government. | ^ The astonishing problem to the true , p^^igh that can be sav- and thinking Christian is how intel-, iligent and, in other things, responsible | e.specially detectives men and women can be heedless of females, would have been cast in their debt to Christianity, blind to the [ mountain to [necessity of promoting its teaching; generated in I in the life of modern society. Bethlehem, the I It is impossible to measure the ac-; abundant life, cumulated influences and values of | •„. the Church, but to those familiar with ! laboratories into op- I history one may claim without fear j ; of contradiction that to take Chris-1 ^ ..... ^ » J I 6. The poor machine-dnven labor- , tianity entirely from the world today ^ . . , er, the drudgery-slavmg housewife, I what has the Church done for them ? Before the day of Christ the only ; would mean the Immediate collapse i of civilization. In the short space of I this sermon. let me point you to a ! few realms in which civilization owes i its progress to the Church. i 1. Contrary to the opmlon of many I that the Church is the enemy of ed- i ucation, and science, we find that in the early centuries the schools of the Roman empire were swept away by Barbaric invasion. Schools of the Christian priests and monks gradu ally enlarged from individuals study ing together to organized institu tions for theological training. The University of Paris, the first great university of the world, came into being in response to the sincere spirit calling for Christian light and feel ing that light could not come with out logical, organized study of all known truth. All of the early Euro pean universities were established by the Church. Go to Oxford and inquire of Cambridge from whence she came. Her history will answer the Church. organized labor was militarv. The ma chine that drove man then was the command of greedy monarchs. Work men’s hours, compensation and pro. tection were as unknown as the life on Mars. Th£ housew'ife was l>ought, sold and worked, as the African slave whose state the Christian spirit changed into freedom. Homes, m the modern sense, existed only for a few- favored and those connected with the armies. The Church has not yet com pleted its responsibility to the labor er nor the housewife, but home is a palace now compared to what it was before the Church took up its task. If wealth, science, youth, fine arts and labor took up their debt to the Church we would have a transform ed world within a decade. Is it not significant that those na tions that rejected the Christian Church have gone down in decay and ruin? The nation’s that have embrac- SOUTHERN PINES T.\KES FIRST G.AME OF SERIES The Southern Pines baseball team smothered Pinehurst in the first of a five-game series Saturday by a 13 to 2 score. The contest was played on the Southern Pines diamond be fore a crowd of 400. Mixing twelve hits with five walks and a couple of errors at crucial mo ments, the locals gave Frank Mc- Caskill several bad innings, four markers in the seventh being the largest group scored. John Hunter, with a pair of triples, one coming with the bases full, Web ster with a homer and double and Monte with two doubles and a single, were the leading hitters. Myrick and Bagley, two south paws, held the visitors to eight hits, three of them by Hinson. Myrick fanned five men in the five frames he worked. McCaskill aijo a lefty, pitched some good ball, whiffing eight of the locals, but was hit hard most of the time. Score by innings: R. H. E. Pinehurst .... 000 100 001—2 8 5 S. Pines 022 101 43x—12 12 2 The second gameo f the series will be played ont he Southern Pines field this .Saturday afternoon. Francis Field at Washington uni versity waa built for the first Olym pic games held in America, in con junction with tie world's fair of 1904. I Make the round of all the great Eu. Church have advanced morally ropean centers of learning. The an-1 culturally and materially. Palestine swer will be the same. Come to Har-1 examples of those vard, the first and one of the fore- j ^^o refused the Church and perished, most universities of America. The} ^hina, all heathen name is taken fro.n Joh:^ Harvard, are proof that those who have Puritan minister, whase donation 1 ^heir arms to the Church nearly doubled that of the Common-Christ have closed their doors to I wealth when the institution was, I founded. And, on her gates you will vindications of the I find carved that the purpose of the, necessity and benediction of the institution was to provide an intelli- ehurch. With all that has been accom- gent Christian ministry. Yale soon pjig^ed. the Church’s task has just followed for a like purpose. So you | will find, wherever there is a great i ^ abundant university, a Christian spirit and in-|,jj^ Christ, but the great Ifluence brought it into being. True, completed until all jthe Church sometimes raises a cry l overcome. of horror amid university instruction,, Church is still conquesting and but He who said "I am the wav. ^ ’ I conquering. A visitor to our western the truth and the life," leads men,„.,„„, wheat fields last summer saw aban- into the way of truth, which truth , they defend with their life-it Is life. | t,y 2. We are told that we live in a I sixteen or twenty horses. Some of business world today. The first ques-these horses were pulling back, some tion in the mind of individual, cor- I poration and government is one of business concern. Wars are even hop ed for in order that business may flourish. Little does the laborer, stockholder, managing board, suspect that his business has been made pos sible only by the influence of the Christian Church. Take from busi ness the influence of Christianity and every legitimate business of today will be wrecked tomorrow. The mor al responsibility, the sense of right and justice that impels man to meet his obligations finds its origin in the were kicking, some were walking along with traces slack, some were even lying down and being dragged, while others were pulling hard. The reaper was going on through the field. In the Church of Christ, some are walking along with the traces slack, some are pulling back, some kicking, but enough are pulling to make the Church still the salt and preserver of the world, the light and the lif« of the earth. Com can be frozen on the cob and preserved well enough through the The following announcement has been received by Pinehurst friends of the bride: Mr. and Mrs. We.sley Pamplin Hunt ley announce the marriage of their daughter Eleanor, to Mr. Joseph Henry Johnson, on Saturday, April 7th. 1934 at Ashland, Ken. Mrs. Johnson is a sister of Mrs. F. C. Pinkerton of Pinehurst and has man}' friends here who are interested in this announcement. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson will make their Jiome in Gadsden. Ala., where the groom is with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. He was graduated from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute where he was am ember of the Lambda Chi- Alpha Fraternity. The bride studied at Randolph-Macon Women’s College where she joined the Delta Theta So rority. She received her degree from the University of Virginia and has taken special library training at Co lumbia University. She has for a number of years held the position of librarian in the Asheland High school. The Woman’s Auxiliary of the Community Church will hold the reg ular monthly meeting next Tuesday night. May 1st in the ladies’ parlor at the church. All members are re quested to attend and visitors are always welcomed. Miss Frances Cox, teacher of the fourth grade has returned to her work after an absence of five weeks on account of illness with appendicit- is. Mrs. Annie Alford of Rock Hill, S. C., who substituted for her the past four weeks left Thursday, returning to her home in Rock Hill. Mrs. Mable Brocklebank, Miss Jean Hough and Miss Laura Dadleigh of Lebanon, N. H., were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Cobum, en route to their home after speed ing the winter in Florida. They were thrilled with Pinehurst and discrib ed it as the most beautiful place they had seen on the trip. Miss Nettie Coulson has returned to her home in Baltimore after a visit of several weeks in the home of her nephew, Dr. F. C. Pinkerton. Mr. and Mrs. H. W’. Norris, and Mrs. Norris’ mother, Mrs. Douoran, left last week for their home at Bridgewater, Conn. Miss Elsie Sperber, superintendent at The Moore County Hospital is at tending a nurses convention in Wash ington, D. C., this week. Miss Sper ber will also visit relatives in Bal timore while away. Dougald M. Stewart of Laurin- burg was a guest several days l£ist week in the home of his son, Alex Stewart and while here attended the meeting of Fayetteville Presbytery at Aberdeen. E. B. Keith left Sunday afternoon for Salisbury to begin work this week with the Home Loan Associa tion. Miss Katherine Blue had as her guest for the week end, Miss Fran ces Paisley of Greensboro. John Biggers of Raeford visited friends in Pinehurst the past week- end. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cunningham of Pulaski, Tenn., arrived Friday for an ; extended visit with Mrs. Cunning ham’s mother, Mrs. Ethel Journey. Mrs. A. P. Thompson and Mrs. Al ma Taylor attended the funeral ser vice of Mrs. Graham Tyson which was held at Carbonton Sunday af ternoon. Friends of Arch Currie are pleas ed to know that he was able to leave the Moore County Hospital and re turn to his home this week after being a patient there for more than a month. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Nicoll have gone to their home In the north af ter spending the winter in Pinehurst. The Rev. and Mrs. E. F. Montgom- ' ery of Lake City, Florida were guests j this week of Mr. and Mrs. A. J, Mc- I Kelway at the Manse. I Mi.ss May Chapman made a week- 1 end trip to Philadelphia. I Mrs. I. C. Sledge, Mrs. A. J. Mc- j Kelway and Mrs. Alex Stewart spent I Monday in C.harlotte. Mrs. Mary Roberts, who suffered a slight stroke several weeks ago is now much improved. Miss Jimmie Gables and John Ald ridge of Durham were married Sat urday, April 14th. On last Saturday evening the bridge was honored at a miscellaneous shower given at the home of Miss Elizabeth McDonald and attended by the members of the bus iness girls circle. Many useful gifts were received by the honoree. Mrs. Mary Matthews and her daughter, Miss Kate Matthews and Miss Loula Loving entertained in their apartment at dinner Friday evening, Mrs. Ethel Journey, Miss Will Frances Journey, Miss Beulah Thomas of Cameron and W. P. Mor ton. Miss Thomas was a week-end guest of Miss Loving and Miss Mat thews. The girls’ circle of the Community Church held the regular meeting on Tuesday night with Miss Idelle Mc Kenzie as hostess. Mrs. A. J. McKel- way and Mrs. F. C. Pinkerton were .special giie.'sts. The feature of the social hour was a shower "for one of the members. Mrs. Harold Thompson, who before her marriage this month was Mi.ss Carrie May Carter. The hostess serv ed a salad course with punch. '* Mrs. F. C. Pinkerton entertained at three tables of bridge at her home Thur.sday afternoon. At the conclu sion of the brtdge game delicious re freshments were served. Guests in cluded Mrs. Gordon Cameron, Mrs. Tom Cole, Mrs. Carl Johnson, Mrs. Raymond Johnson, Mrs. S. R. Jelli- son, Mrs. Alex Innes, Mrs. Herman Campbell. Mrs. Clarence l.^yman. Mis. I. C. Sledge, Mrs. Alex Stewa»-t. Mrs. A. P. Thompson, Mrs. Wesley R. Viall, Mrs. E. B. Keith was a guest for tea. MANLY IMNEIIl RST BOY WIN’S HO.NOR IN' MUSIC C ONTEST Pinehurst High School is proud of the fact that Holland Shaw, a mem ber of the .senior class, won first place for a barito ne solo in the district music contest at Durham last week. He represented this district at the state contest at Greensboro this week. PINEHURST JUNIORS ENTERTAIN SENIORS A. A. Allen Couch of Durham were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Snipes. J. S. Morgan of Carrboro was a visitor in our town Sunday. W. G. Stanford of Sanford was at our church on Sunday and gave ati interesting talk on his travels in for- eigh lands, especially of his stay in far away Norway where they have it about six months day and then six months night. Miss Elizabeth Morgan who has spent the past two week in our vil lage left Sunday for her home in Chatham county. Mr. and Mrs. John Tilly of Cal- vander were visitors in town Sunday and guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Snipes. W. F. Smith and R. B. Smith and family of Raleigh w'ere visiting rela tives here Sunday.'- Mi. ar.d Mrs. J. Thomas of South ern Pines were callers in our village Sunday. Miss Harriet Gay and L. T. Mar tin who have spent the winter in Sar asota. Fla., returned to their home here the past week. TOBACCO CHECKS BEGINNING TO ARRIVE The Junior-Senior banquet of the Pinehuhst High School was held at the Carolina Hotel on Tuesday even ing, April 17, and was the highlight of the school year for those attending. The Rev. T. A. Cheatham acted as toastmaster and gave the occasion a geiwal, informal atmosphere. A spec ial song and dance number was given by a group of girls from the fresh man and sophomore classes. The whole occasion was a success and Miss Simp kins of the faculty and the members of the junior class deserve much cred it. RISING JUNIOR CL.\SS •\T D.WIDSON EI.ECTS W. F Bowman, Aberdeen, was elected president of the rising junior class at Davidson College, in the elec tions recently completed here. At the same time C. L. Windham, Gastonia, was chosen vice-president and La- mont Brown, Barium Springs, was se lected as secretary and treasurer. Bowman defeated Coleman Bran- ton. Greenville, Miss.; A. G. Bren- izer, Jr.. Charlotte; Treadway Pur. nell, Spartanburg, S. C.; Henry Cath ey, Charlotte; Joe Dees, Greensboro, and Paul Harlan, Jackson, Tenn., foi the office. MRS. GREEN DELIGHTS BIRD ENTHUSIASTS Certainly there are many more people with a lively interest in bird life than make time to share- in the activities of the Bird Club. Some of these helped to fill the N. E. House parlor and lobby to overflowing when Mrs. Charlotte Hilton Green spoke to the club last Monday morning. The speaker so blessed with a personality which won the immediate attention of her audience and this was held until the close of her delgihtful address. For an all too short hour. Mrs. Green talked of the various aspects of bird life, seemingly with wide knowl edge and experience of them all, and cleverly mingling the instructive with the entertaining. It was with enthu siasm that a vote of thanks was car ried for the kindness shown by Mrs. Green in coming to address us. The club will meet as usual next Tuesday at the same place at 9 a. m. and vis itors .are assured of a welcome. MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED The first batch of checks for ren tal payments on tobacco land are being distributed this week, and 1 hope that in a shovL *vhile we shall have a grer.t many more to distri bute. These have been held up for some time, due to the fact that w’e had too many acres of tobacco turn ed in, on contracts, for the years 1931 and 1932. This matter has all been cleared up and I feel sure that in a short while that all the checks for the county will be in. Each day there are parties coming in wanting to know when t.his will be paid It is impossible for me to tell Just as soon as a bunch of checlfs arrive we send out cards to parties to whom these are made payable. Please do not send in for your check but come in per son. Government regulations require that we must deliver the check to the party it is made payable to and that this party must sign for same. Bene fits on tobacco sold on the Borde markets have been held up in the same way and for the same refison. Since the contracts for the county have been cleared the parity payments .should start coming in also. I real ize that there are a good many who need this money now for the purpose of fertilizer but it is impossible for us to hasten the matter any so please be patient a little while longer and “Watch for your card telling you when to call for your check. We are have been awfully busy, and sometimes a ittle impatient perhaps, so please bear with us a little longer and watch foi your notice, instead of coming in. This will save us all time and worry. E. H. Garrison, County Agent. We Print [packet HEADS 11 LETTERHEADS INVITATIONS STATEMENTS BILL HEADS ENVELOPES] RECEIPTS DODGERS FOLDERS BLANKS CARDS TAGS Marriage licenses have been i.ssued from the office of the Register of | Deeds of Moore county to the follow ing: John C. Store and Annie Mae] King, both of Hemp; J. H. 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