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NEWS-WEEKLY
MOORE COUNTY’S
A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 15A, NO. 1
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CIRCULATION A
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill TergJ of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Abero'w-j i, i^orm (.arolina, Friday, November 30. 1934.
HUNDRED CITIZENS
HEAR TOWNSEND
PLAN OUTLINED
Enlhusiasfic MeetinK Addressed
by Robert Denny Gives Ap
proval (0 I’rofjram
TO PETITION CONGRESS
It may be that at first sight the
Townsend Plan seems "radical” and
“fantastic,” but no one would ever
think of applying those terms to the
thinking of the men and women who
filled Straka Hall on Monday even
ing, at the invitation of the local
Townsend Club. One could not find
a more representative body of ser.
ious-minded, conservative, clear-
thinking men and women than this
group of Sandhill citizens, expert
economists, most of them, through
long practical experience in trying
to make ends meet in home, commun
ity, county and state, paying taxes
to provide public benefits, and help
ing to support every movement for
the common good. One hundred were
present.
The Townsend Plan was conceived,
and has been carried forward, in a
deep religious spirit, and this spirit
pervaded the meeting Monday night.
The meeting w-as opened with the
reading of a most appropriate and
inspiring passage pf Scripture by
Mrs. J. F. Cole, followed by silent
prayer, and the Lord’s prayer in con
cert. The president. J. M. Windham
introduced the speaker of the even
ing, Robert Denny of Pinehurst. Mr.
Denny took for his text the Interna
tional Sunday School lesson of the
previous day, on “Christian Stew
ardship.” hanf^iing the subject in the
true style ol a Southern orator, and
showing how' the ideas of providing
social security, through both unem
ployment insurance and retirement
pensions, have been permeating so
ciety through these later years. Miss
Holmes stated that this was the nec
essary result of the constant preach
ing and teaching of Christian prin
ciples through many years, that the
reason why America has safely come
through a bloodless revolution is be
cause it is at heart a Christian na
tion.
irnuniiiious .Vpproval
In the most interesting discussion
that followed it was found that all
present believed in some form of
federal old age or retirement pen
sions. and that the Townsend Plan
was especially appealing becau.sc of
its insistence upon economic recov
ery for all ages, through quick cir
culation of money, and employment
assurance, thus killing a great many
birds with the one stone called ‘‘Old
Age Pensions;” and that, to use Mr.
Denny’s figure, the pendulum must
swing first to the left and then to
the right, in order to make the clock
go at all, and that “all we can do
at this juncture is to sign petitions,
and let Congress do the rest;” that
the petition is the sign of public in
terest and cooperation, and the only
way to effectively approach Congress
in the matter.
The petition was then presented
and signed with enthusiasm, and
another meeting planned, to be held
next Monday evening in the Civic
Club building, at tight o’clock. The
members hope that many representa
tives of other towns in the county
will be present and will take petitions
home to be signed, in order to get
as many signers as possible in Moore
county.
REV. L M. HALL
NEW PASTOR OF
PAGE MEMORIAL
To Succeed Rev. W. C. Ball in |
Aberdeen-Vass Methodist
Churches I
LATTER GOES TO DURHAM
FIVE CENTS
RRESTOFGANG
LVES SERIES OF
LOCAL BURGLARIES
George Hill and Others Rounded
Up by Police on Numer
ous Charges
HELD FOR SUPERIOR COl RT
The Rev. L. M. Hall, for the past
four years pastor of the Fifth Ave
nue Methodist Church in Wilming
ton, has been assigned by the North
Carolina Conference of the Metho
dist Episcopal Church, South, as pas
tor of the Page Memorial Church in
Aberdeen and the Vass Methodist
Church. Appointments were announc
ed at the clo.se of the conference in
Washington, N. C., on Monday.
Mr. Hall succeeds the Rev. W. C.
Ball, who has faithfully served the
local charge for the last four years,
endearing himself not only to those of
his congregations but to the com
munity in general. He will be great
ly missed here. Mr. Ball goes to the
Methodist Church in West Durham in
the exchange.
Mr. Hall is a graduate of Trinity ' :
College, now Duke University, and of Cooperation Must Come from
What the Little Theatre Movement
Should Mean to the Sandhills
Yale University at New Haven, Conn
W'ith his wife he will move to Aber-,
deen as soon as he and his predeces
sor there have arranged their house-1
hold moves. Mr. and Mrs. Hall come
with the highest recommendations
from those of their charge in W'il-'
mington.
Holh Sides of the Footlights
to Bring Success
Uy Walter Frankl
Those present at the performances
of “Poverty Flat.'?” by the Sandhills
Little Theatre on Tuesday and
Christmas Seals
AN EDITORIAL
Every resident of Moore county has
a right to be proud of the success
made in past years in wiping the
MRS. H. 0. RIGGAN,
WIDOW OF BANK
PRESIDENT. DIES
Prominent Southern Pines Res
ident Passes 15 Months
After Late Husband
CAME HERE IN 1S95
Thursday evening of last week can dread .scourge of tuberculosis from
Seal Sale Campaign
To Start Next Week
Riport of County
Mrs. Cheatham, Reveals Bal
ance From Last Year
The annual Tuberculosis Christmas
Seal Sale is about to start in the
j Sandhills. Due to a bereavement in
the family of the Southern Pines
> chairman, the regular Seal Sale drive
j may be delayed here but it is in the
hands of an emergency committee
which will have it worked out as soon
as possible. In the meanwhile, seals; _
j bear witness to the ability and keen-
i ness of this ambitious young amateur
group. The unreserved applau.se and
! encouragement proved that their per-
Ireasurer,! formance was worthy cf an organiza-
: iioa of groator experience lo.ige*.
i standing.
1 A venture of tliis kind (a lilLle
theatre movement) tias always had
, during its formative years the prob-
, lem of public acceptance, the inevi-
; table comparison with tl’.e profession
al stage find screen But that is not
what the “Little Theatie” stands for.
' The history of the Abbey Theatre
abroad and the Theatre Guild here
this community. Not that this disease
will be on sale at the Broad Street
Pharmacy and the Southern Pines
Library after December 1st.
The campaign in Pinehurst will
cpen next Tuesday under the direc-1 tj,eir intensity and skill that
Relatives and friends paid their
final respects Tuesday afternoon to
has ever been very prevalent here. It Mrs. Anna Dorothea Riggan, whose
hasn’t. But. as in every other com- funeral was held at 3 o’clock from
munity, certain dangerous centers of her late home on Ashe .street, the
mreotion have been found, from Rev. J. Fred Stimson officiating. In-
which, unless checked, this fearful terment in the family plot in Mount
ailment will creep out and ravage the Hope Cemetery followed,
population. jirg Riggan, in failing health since
That’s why every single pers n in the death of her husband, Herbert O.
the county take.s a personal interest Higgan, president of the Citizens
in the National Tubei’culosis Christ- Bank & Trust Company of Southern
mas Seal Sale, which this year will Pines, on August 26, 1933. passed
start here December first. That’s why away Saturday afternoon at her home
the number of donations each year here. Born in Perth Amboy, N. J.,
more nearly approaches the total Novembei 6th, 1873, the daughter of
number of persons living here. For Mr, and Mrs. W. F. Junge, she came j ter Eckert was relieved of a radio,
here it is a people’s drive—“by the ‘ to Southern Pines with her parents in i five automobile wheels and tires and
“ i l-'oople and for the people." P^very ,189.') where in 1906 she and Mr. Rig-I other property.
as ama ' represented in the list gan were imited in marriage. In the fifth case. Hill, Charli-
' ' of contributors, some with large. Of a quiet and retiring disposition | Thomas and John Willis were charg-
, , , some with welcome donation.s. Mrs. Higgan was devoted to her
voung actors and have proven by i , , „ ,
The Tuberculosis Christmas Seal family, and a large circle
Some people go out for golf, others
for tennis or riding, but so far as
George Hill is concerned, there seems
to be no sport which can compare
with that of "breaking and entering.”
George is a colored youth who lives
in Southern Pines and on Tuesday of
this week, he was in court in Carth
age to face five different cases of
breaking and entering. Hill entered
a plea cf guilty in four of the five,
and was bound to Superior Court un
der S750 bond.
The arrest of Hill and others solves
the numerous petty burglaries in the
Sandhills of late, and great cred
it i.« due Chief of Police Gargis of
Southern Pines, his assistant. Ed New.
ton and Sheriff McDonald and his
deputies for splendid police work in
i-ounding up the gang.
In the early summer the home of
Mrs. Verdie Wiley m Southern Pines
was entered and the thief escaped by
jumping from a second story w’in-
dow' when a member of the house
hold started up the stairs. Approxi
mately $500 worth of jewelry was
missed. Hill w'as charged with the
crime, but this is the one case which
he denied. Deputy Sheriff Kelly tes
tified that fingerprints found on the
wall of the Wiley home were identical
with those of Hill.
In August or September, radios,
guns, pistols and .shells were stolen
from the house of T. S. Wheeler,
Heman Gifford, Mrs. W. M. Cunning
ham and Mrs. Wilcox; around the
fi’’st of this month a dozen sheets
and pillow cases, a flash light and
three watches were removed from the
house of Mrs. F. B. Howland; blan
kets and other articles were taken
from the house of George J. Jenks
when it was broken and entered about
the same timf,. and the home of Hun-
! i>.re two noteworthy examples. Bo^h
these organizations, as have
tcurs; writers, artists, decorators and
they I
tion of Mrs. W. D. Hyatt. ' ould leave the so-called professional ' ^as no back debts—the money thronged the home
- Mhonf o hPhin.i vvhon H tn this year’s .sale will all go to-; floral tribtites lue.sday. Surviv-
The annual report of the treasur-; theatre far behind when it came to
I er of the Moore County Tuberculosis ;»[)roducing plays, of enduring merit.
'Association, Dr. T. A. Cheatham, re-1 The compelling f,>rce cf their intei-
I veals that last year’s Seal Sale net-1 est surmounted all ob.stacles which
j ted $942.58, with private additional | strew' the way of the unknown am-
; contributions totaling $259.84 and an : bitious.
I appropriation from the county mak-
; ing the grand total $1,462.42. Of this
' amount $235.65 went to the National *
North
Trials, Triliulatioiis
The trials and tribulations of the
I Washington Square Players which re-
sioners will care for two additional i
j association, $873.59 to the i solved itself after the war into “The
I Carolina Sanatorium for patients, j ,j,heatre Guild of New York," are , ^
I $135 to Dr. J. Symington, county: t^e ■ per pa
Sandhills. The place of The Theatre
Guild in the theatrical picture of this
wa^'I p’acing under proper care the.se i mother, Mrs. W. F. Junge
de.sperately ill men and women, or daughter’s. Katherine, of the
faculty of the Moravian Institute,
Winston-Salem and Lenora, of the
Southern Pines School faculty, with
whom the entire community sympa
thize in their great loss.
! Chamber To Press For
as many as tho money collected will
allow.
Rates have been reduced at the
State Sanatorium, so that every dol
lar collected will keep a patient in
the sanatorium two days, and the
duplication by the County Commis
Safety for Children
physician, for special medication.
$161.35 for food supplies, clothing.
BANK OF V.ASS ASSETS
ON THE AUCTION BLOCK
Assets of the closed Bank of Vass
were sold at public auction on Fri-
day of last week with the Goldston
twins as auctioneers. The sale start
ed at 10 o’clock in front of the bank
building with a large crowd in at-,
tendance, but with bidding rather
weak. Later in the day rain drove
the crowd to shelter, so the sale was
moved to the Beasley Motor Com
pany building to the rear of the
bank, where it continued until night
fall.
The greatest number of the notes
went at low fig;ureg. An official re
port is not yet available.
screening, etc., which, with a tax; ,3^ commented
Item of 64 cents, made up the ex-■ *
tient day or one patient one day,. Parents Complain of Danger to; I":;,
for every twenty-five Christmas Bridge Route
ed with breaking and entering the
Knollwood home of Joseph Wocd and
stealing therefrom a radio, six pairs
of shoes and a quantity of canned
goods. Thomas and Willis pleaded not
guilty. According to the evidence,
Willis drove his car to the Wood
premi.ses. Hill enter the house, unlock
ing the back door with a key which
he had, and Thomas waited for him
on the outside. Willis and Thomas
claimed ignorance of Hill's plans, but
they admitted driving from the Wood
place to the woods near Southern
Pines where they divided the prop
erty, All were bound to Superior
to School
penditures, leaving a balance on hand
of $56.1 D.
can of course never hope in this
limited territory ever to rival a lit
tle theatre of Dublin, A?5oscow or
New’ York has motives identical to
these giants of the theatre. It does
not stand for amateur theatricals; it
Between
these two there is a vast difference.
What are amateur theatricals?
Amateur theatricals are home tal-
The Thistle Club will hold its first ent endeavoring to reproduce a Broad,
card party of the season at the jway or European ephemeieal success
Southern Pines Country Club on Sat- j and usually very badly. A little thea-
urday afternoon, December 1st, at! tre is a group producing plays of ar-
2.-30 o’clock. A prize will be given j tistic worth, plays whether they are
at each table, whether you play cards; new or old that have real glamour of
or not. Members and their guests! writing and visual glamour that make
Thistle Club Starts
Activities Saturday
Will Have Its First vCard Party j
at Country Club " ’
This Week
arc invited to the social hour begin
ning at 4:30 p. m. Tea will be serv
ed by Mrs. Alfred Grover, with a 35c
charge for members and their guests.
an evening in the theatre an event.
But with all this fervor the actor
needs an audience. The playwright
needs a' listener. The cultural tone of
were amended to include more than
the fixed number of 100 members.
All ladies, either seasonal guests or
residents, are invited to give their
names to members of the club, that
they may enjoy either cards or golf.
Mrs. Hunter Eckert is formulating
plans for a golf schedule. There will
be a short business meeting before
A meeting of the advisory board a community is appraised by the
was held on the 24th, and the by-laws j books it reads, by the plays it sees.
The Sandhill.s have a cultural stand
ing, so the Litle Theatre appeals to
it for support.
The roster of young people who
Let each person in Moore county
provide for one patient one day at the I
State Sanatorium by buying twenty-'
five Christmas Seals. Many w’ill want
to take more, may be some will pro-:
vide for one hundred patient days, |
and some even more.
Seals at one cent each, and sheets ,
at $1.00 each, will be on sale early in i
December. An effort will be made,;
through the Local Chairmen, to reach
every resident of Moore county. If, by '
chance, you are not solicited, please
send or give your contribution to your ,
local chairman, whose name will be
published later in this paper, or to |
the County Chairman, Mrs. T. A. j
Cheatham, Pinehurst. |
To clinch the work of past years— I
to clean Moore county as quicklV and
as cheaply as possible—this year’s ^
effort is vital. For remember, TU
BERCULOSIS WILL NOT WAIT. I
The Chamber of Commerce direc
tors. meeting on Tuesday noon as i
luncheon guests of Mrs. M. H. Grear- j
son at the Highland Lodge, heard a Quick two wool blankets which he
report on the widening of the ap- “on the hill” for fifty cent"; each
Ed Quick was given 30 days on
the roads for receiviag stolen prop
erty, this to be suspended upon pay
ment of $20 fine and the costs.
George Hill testified that he sold
FRANKL TALKS ON VALUE
OF .-IRT TO A COMMl'NITY
I proaches to the new bridge over the
Seaboard tracks at the southern end
i of Southern Pines, and referred to
the committee on Civic Affairs a
proposal to take up with the Board
I of Commissioners the need of safe
; walkways for children leading to the
bridge. Ralph Chandler, chairman of
I this committee, stated that as secre-
i tary of the School Board he had re-
j ceived numerous complaints from
I parents about the danger of risks
j run by their children in walking to
school over this route, there being no
sidewalk at present from the bridge
I for some distance tow'ard the
I schoolhouse.
; HUNT FISHER HIGH IN
COLLEGE EX.\]»fINATION
W. Hunt Fisher-of Southern Pines,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Park Fisher,
was among the freshmen at the
Walter Frankl, Southern Pines ar
tist and director of the Sandhills Lit-
are joining to lend their hand befhind; tie Theatre, made a splendid address j North Carolina State College passing
and in front of the footlights is am- j at the Kiwanls Club’s annual Tranks- j recent English placement tests with
pie proof of the desire there is for giving dinner on Wednesday noon at | honors. Fisher, With a mark of 80,
a little theatre. But the help of an the home of Mrs. J. R. Page in Aber- j was fourth among those of the en-
audlence and subscribers is the com- j deen. His discourse on '“The Value gineering course taking the examina-
play Saturday afternoon and all mem- plement that is nee’ded to make the of Art to a Community” will be pub-' tion, and the engineers led all other
bers are requested to be present. desire practicable. I lished in next week’s Pilot. i classifications.
Charlie Thoma.s was given fou;
months%on the roads for receiving a
stolen radio.
Clarence W’illis, colored, was bound
to Superior Court under |x)nd <ot
$750 on charges of breaking and en
tering the home of T. R, Brown and
stealing clothing to the amount of
around $450.
TO DISCUSS PROGR.AM FOR
SPRING BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
Wheels will be set in motion next
Tuesday for a “bigger and better"
Spring Blossom Festival in Southern
Pines in April. A meeting has been
called for Jack’s Grill at 12:15
o’clock of officers and committee
chairmen of the Chamber of Com
merce for a discussion of program,
finances and organization.
UNION SERVICE SUNDAY
The usual Sunday night Union Ser.
vice will be held at the First Bap
tist Church at 7 ;30 o’clock, with
preaching by the Rev. Craighill
Brown of the Emmanuel Episcopal
Church.