Friday, August 2, 1935.
THE PILQT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Page ThrM
Teachers To Get 20%
Increase for 7 Months
Size of Check For Eighth
Month Will Depend on Bal
ance in School Fund
Teachers in public schools of the
state will get. the full 20 percent in
crease in salaries next year, in addi
tion to increases from earned incre-
ments and advanced certificates, for
the first seven months and as much
as is available for salaries the eighth
month, the State School Commission
has decided, a decision approved by
the State Board of Education.
The commission found that it will
not have money enough in the appro
priation to make full individual 20
percent increases for the entire year,
due to a larger than usual number
of teachers who raised their certifi
cates by work during the summers
and also due to the fact that practi
cally all new teachers entering the
profession are college graduates and
therefore start as grade A teachers,
even though without experience.
The shortage of a full 20 percent
increase, in addition to increments,
will not exceed one percent of the
total by much, and will not exceed
$280,000 on the more than $16,000,-
000 going to teacher salaries. Esti
mates are that if no additional funds
are available, the teachers may have
to take 10 to 15 percent cut on the
last month. However, all savings pos
sible are being made on other school
items, and some of the big-jump in
crements will be pared down, so no
teacher will get more than a 36 per.
cent Increase. This, with possibility
of funds from other sources, may re-
suit in the full increase for all of
the eight months. Average increases
■will be about 22 percent.
The commission meets again Au-
gust 9 to plan for fall school open
ings.
Tl'FTS .AND THOM.AS WIN
YADKIN CLUB EVENT
Richard S. Tufts of Pinehurst and
J. B. Thomas of Raeford won the
Yadkin Golf Club’s weekly tourna-
ment medal play, total of pair, with
a net of 140. This was played over
the picturesque No. 1 course at Pine
hurst. Hubert McCaskill of Pine
hurst and Bill Woodward of South
ern Pines teamed up to land in sec-
ond place w’ith a 141.
She Ark
i&outhnrn ]3inrs. N. <L
Mra. Millicent A. Hayes, Principal
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BOYS AND GIRLS
Kindergarten through the 8th year
MUSIC—ART—LANGUAGES
Tutoring Arranged for Older
Groups
Limited Accommodationa for
Boarders
Will be in hia office over the
Poat Office, Sanford, N. C., •▼•ry
Wedneaday, fnom 10:00 a. m. to
t:00 p. m. Don’t fail to tee him If
yoar eyte are weak.
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Ambulance Service
Day and Night Phone 6161
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VETENARIANS
Swinnerton’s on Mondays
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Fridays
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A Major Prophet, Daniels Calls
Bion H. Butler in Testimonial
Late Editor Revealed the Op*
portunities of North Car
olina To Its Own People
(By Jonathan Daniels)
Bion H. Butler, a familiar figure in
North Carolina journalism for a
third of a century, died at his home,
Valhalla, near Southern Pines, Feb
ruary 21, 1935. Ill health overtook him
a few months before his death, but
he continued in harness v/hde in bed,
dictating editorials for The Pilot, pub
lished at Southern Pines, of which he
was editor. He was in his 78th year.
In the presence of a large assem
blage, he was buried the following
day at Old Bethesda church, a few
miles from Aberdeen, near the tomb
of Walter Hines Page, late ambassa
dor to the Court of St. James.
Born June 28, 1857, in Brockville,
Pa., the son of Lieut. Col. Cyrus But
ler and Elizabeth Butler, he attended
schools in Pittsburgh in early youth,
later going to a military academy at
Titusville in that state. While still
in school, at the age of 12, he learned
to set type, and the ink he got on
his hands then was never rubbed off.
At the age of 19, he established the
Courier at Dubois, Pa., which contin
ues to thrive until this day. Moving
to larger fields, he worked on the
Pittsburgh Times and during that
connection what until then was the
longest individual assignment to a re
porter, that of making a study of the
oil industry in Russia.
Returning to his native state, he
became a special writer on oil, coal
and other industries in Pennsylvania,
but the wanderlust was strong in him
and he completed him education by
touring North America as reporter
and tramp printer. He travelled as
far as the Pacific Coast. Although
he became a cosmopolitan, he never
lost the common touch. Kindly, toler
ant, modest, he liked nothing better
than to add to his store of knowledge.
Keenly observant, he delighted in
writing down his impressions. In
short, he was a newspaperman, who
found his greatest joy in his work.
Heudx .South
After following the injunction of
Horace Greeley to go West, he turn
ed his eyes towards the South. It was
in the late nineties when John T.
Patrick and others were advertising
the healthful qualities of the atmos-
phere in the Sandhills that he and his
wife went to Southern Pines to estab-
lish their permanent home. He con
tinued to write both for newspapers
in North Carolina and out of the
state and also for the magazines. For
a number of years he wrote a feature
article for the Raleigh News and Ob
server each Sunday on some phase
of the State's agricultural, industrial
or commercial life. During the latter
portion of the administration of Sec
retary of the Navy Josephus Daniels,
he was an assistant editorial writer on
the News and Observer, hailing his
editorials each day from his home.
He also did work oli local papers in
Southern Pines and vicinity.
It was during his active period as
a writer on industrial subjects in
North Carolina that he coined the
phrase, “North Carolina Slopping
Over with Opportunities," which be
came almost as widely known as Ir
vin Cobb’s phrase, “What North Car.
olina Needs is a Press Agent.” Bion
Butler was in fact press agent for
•North Carolina, not primarily for
people outside of the state, but for
the people within the state, for he
revealed the opportunities of North
Carolina to its people. An outsider
himself, he saw the possibilities in the
state, and with an enthusiasm that
never cooled, he shouted the glories
of the Old North State from the
housetops. It was necessary in the
days of his active career to shout
loudly to awaken a slumbering peo
ple.
A Major Prophet
He was In fact a major prophet,
who never offended our pride or stir
red our prejudice. Frankly recogniz
ing our shortcomings, his sympathet.
ic viewpoint prevented resentment
from being aroused, and he became a
prophet who was honored in his own
country, for North Carolina became
as truly his state as it was of any na
tive. He was honored by being made
a vice president of the North Caro,
lina Press Association and could
have been president had his modesty
not prevented his being considered for
the job. He was awarded a loving cup
by the Kiwanis Club at Southern
Pines for having been the most use
ful citizen in the Sandhills. Shortly
after reaching the age of three score
years and ten, he was the guest of
honor at a testimonial dinner at
which tributes were read from Jose
phus Daniels and many State officials.
While his typewriter was ever kept
active, his voluminous writings found
their way into newspapers and other
periodicals but he found time to write
a couple of books, “The Church on
Quintuple Mountain,” and “Old Be-
The Skies in August
Big Gain in Autos in
Moore County in Year
300 More Pleasure Vehicles and
100 More Trucks Than June
30, 19.34
WEST END
Editur’a Note: Mr. Wicker haH «Kree<i
to write a series of iirticleH on astron
omy, ‘‘not only for the information of
the public but in deference to the mem
ory of Mr. Hutlcr," na he mitu it. Hion
H. IJutler, iate editor of The Pilot, was
deeply interested in the stars and planetH
and wrote numerous articles on the sub
ject.
By Rassle E. Wicker
Some philosopher has said if the
stars of the Heavens were visible
only one night each year, that the
whole human race would be up for
the show.
To the writer it is a sad commen
tary on the state of the human race
that more pleasure, appreciation and
resultant education is not had by sim
ply exercising the mind upon the
problems presented by nature, and
which lies within arm’s reach of every
person on earth. Pick up a grain of
sand—what is it? Well, scientists by
the score would like to know—are
puzzling over just that problem, and
are coming nearer to its solution every
day. Pick up a bug—if you are not
afraid of them, and study not only
its habits, but its make-up. In the
word.s of the poet: "O flower in the
crannied wall—etc” which to me
aint much poetry, but a lot of wis
dom.
If half of the time wasted in fig.
uring out the intricacies of the game
of bridge was spent in contemplation
of commonplace but fascinating prob
lems lying about us by the tens of
millions, ther^ would be greater cause
for continued existence and less down
right criticism of the mentality of
your partners real or fancied errors
in playing that futile game.
Sit out tonight under the stars,
and if you can’t think, then just sit
there. It will help you, no matter how
good or how badly you feel.
Mercury is on a vacation this
month; passing beyond the Sun on
the 9th, and will be invisible until
about the middle of September.
Venus is at her greatest brilliancy
during the first few days of the
Month; hanging low in the western
sky just after sunset, but is setting
earlier each day, and will be practi
cally invisible by the end of the month.
Earth is now in th sign Aquarius,
or the constellation Capricornus, and
on the seventh will be half way be
tween the summer solstict and the au
tumnal equinox—summer will have
been half gone.
Mars continues as an evening star
in the southwesterly sky—1st mag-
niture, and easily found by its dark
reddish hue.
Jupiter, the other bright star in the
southern skj’ will be at quadrature,
or just south of us at sunset on the
7th,
Saturn is in opposition to the Sun
on the 30th; that is. it rises just as
the Sun sets on that date, and is con
sequently in view all night during the
last few days of the month.
Uranus is still a morning star, but
cannot be distinguished unless one
knows just where to look for it.
Neptune cannot well be seen this
month, even through a telescope, al
though it comes within a sixth of a
degree (very close) of Mercury on
the 24th.
Moon is in the first quarter on the
7th, full on the 14th, last quarter on
the 20th, and new on the 28th.
Moore county had 3,225 automobiles
and 750 trucks as of June 30, as com
pared W'ith 2,925 automobiles and 650
trucks a year before ana with 2,680
automobiles and 575 trlicks three
months before. Director L. S. Harris,
of the Motor Vehicle Bureau, reports.
These figures are obtained by meas-
uring a given number of registration
cards on file in the office, then using!
that unit to measure all of the cards
for the county. The figures are with
in a dozen of accurate, he states.
North Carolina licenses issued to
June 30 this year showed 423.636 mo
tor vehicles operating In the state, in
cluding 348,145 automobiles, 74,425
trucks and 1,056 motorcycles. This is
an inciease of about 40,000 vehicles
over the registration a year before,;
June 30, 1934, when the total was
384,438 vehicles, including 317,137 au.;
tomobiles, 67,301 trucks and 1,0361
motorcycles, and an Increase of about
54,000 over the registration three ^
months before of 369,160 motor vehi-'
cles, including 304,087 automobiles,.
65,073 trucks and 708 motorcycles. 1
Guilford leads in cars and trucks, I
with 22,850 cars and 3,550 trucks; j
Mecklenburg has 19,501 cars and 3,
350 trucks; Forsyth 16,375 cars and
2,475 trucks; Buncombe 13,300 cars
and 2,025 trucks; Wake 13,000 cars
and 3,175 trucks; Durham 10,300
cars and 1,800 trucks. Clay county
has only 200 cars and 40 trucks; Gra
ham 275 cars and 55 trucks; Dare and
Aveiy have 450 cars each. Dare 50
trucks and Avery 225 trucks.
MK.S. C. M. GREY’S SISTER I
DIES IN LITTLETON, N. H.
Mrs. B. W. Pulliam and Miss Phoe.
be Pulliam entertained at their home
Monday evening, giving a surprise
birthday dinner in honor of Mr. Pul
liam's birthday. Guests were relatives
and friends of the family. Mr. Pulliam
is convalescing from injuries received
in an automobile accident near Char,
lotte about three weeks ago.
Miss Patricia Willcox, daughter of
Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Willcox of W’est
End, has accepted a position as a
director of plays with the American
Educational Company of Fairfield,
Iowa. She leaves August 2.
Miss Margaret Davis of Carthage
was the* house guest of Miss Eva Rit
ter during the week-end.
Dr. C. R. Monroe, surgeon in charge
of the Moore County Hospital, has re
turned to his duties after spending
a three weeks' vacation with his par
ents, Mr. and Mis. J. A. Monroe of
West End, and a week spent in Rich
mond visiting medical clinics.
D. A. Patterson is now D. A. Pat
terson, Sr. Mrs. Patterson presented
him W'ith a nine and one-half pound
.son, D. A. Patterson, Jr., on W'ednes-
day, July 24.
Mrs. Floyd Uphold and Master Lar
ry Lee Uphold are visiting relatives
in Baltimore, Md.
Ml’, and Mrs. Vivian Tucker were
"shivareed” by friends Monday night.
The Tuckers are now in their new
home on the Eastwood road. Mrs.
Tucker was formerly Miss Grace
Thomas of Jonesboro and Eagle
Springs.
Lesitr rc.li, who has been serving:
as the assistant pastor of the M. E.
! Church, South, left this week for
Hoffman where he will assist the
minister with revival service. Mr.
FeiT, a student minister in the Duke
; University Theological School, made
; many friends during the short time
' he was here. He was a special fav-
'orite of the young people for whom
he has been conducting a Cokesbury
, school.
NIAGARA
Dee and Doc Thompson of Chat
ham county were visitors here Mon
day.
Mr. and Mrs. «H. P. Bilyeu of
Greensboro were visitors In Niagara
the past week.
Miss Margaret Ray Bilyeu and
Perrine Bilyeu of Greensboro are
spending some time with their grand
mother, Mrs. D. S. Ray.
Everything in this section has been
in a rush due to peaches for Some
weeks, but all will be over this week.
The nice rains for the past few
weeks have made crops pick up won
derfully. People are feeling hopeful
of good crops this year.
Roy Smith and family of ’^.aleigh
visited relatives here the past week.
Ray Taylor of Winston-Salem is
spending a vacation with his grand
mother, Mrs. D. S. Ray at the Pine
Tree cottage.
The Citizens Bank and Trust Co.
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C.
D. G. STUTZ, President N. L. HODGKINS, Cashier
GEO. C. ABRAHAM, V.-Pres. ETHEL S. JONES, Ass’t. Cashier
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Grey were j
called to Littleton, N. H., on Thurs--|
day last by the sudden illness and |
death of Mrs. Grey’s sister, Mrs. Hat-1
tie Bingham, wife of Charles F.
Bingham, a prominent resident of'
that town. Funeral services were held
in her late home at 3 o’clock Sun
day afternoon. Mr. Bingham is well
known in Southern Pmes, having
been part owner of the Grey-McBray-
er building when it was destroyed by
fire.
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Keeping Bossy in
Smiles is an Art
JACKSON SPRINGS
Mrs. W. M. McKenzie has returned
home from the Moore County Hospi
tal where she has been taking treat
ment for arthritis.
Theron McLeod returned to Sails-
bury Sunday after spending a w'eek
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. K. A.
McLeod.
Mr. and Mrs. Lacy Thomas of
Charlotte spent S •'day with Mr.
Thomas’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Lee and children
of High Point were with Mrs. Lee’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Thomas,
for the weekend.
W. D, Thomas motored to Harts-
vllle, S. C., Sunday to see his brother,
Marvin Thomas.
Ralph Thomas is in the Moore
County Hospital suffering from injur
ies to his left hand and arm, the re
sult of a car wreck Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Melvin spent
Monday afternoon in Aberdeen.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Myrick.
July 26, a son, in the Moore County
Hospital.
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thesda,” the latter a history of the
Sandhills.
He was survived by his widow,
Mrs. Anna Elizabeth (Schwem) But
ler, a native of Luthersburg, Pa., and
three children. Miss Helen K. Butler,
of Southern Plne.s; Howard M. But
ler, of Sanford, and Cyrus Butler, of
Kingsport, Tenn.
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