MOORE COUNTY’S LEADING NEWS-WEEKLY rpTITZ? J. A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding VOL. 18, NO. 4. UMCBVIBW sppmoe PILOT ^ C- Po„ FIRST IN NEWS, CIRCULATION & ADVERTISING of the Sandhill Territory h Carolina Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina, Friday, December 24, 1937. FIVE CENTS BAILEY TELLS WHV HEVOTED AGAINST SENATE FARM BILL Unconstitutional and Unsound; We Can Write a Helpful Meas ure Within the Law ASKS COOPERATION The Farm bill which passed the Senate will not become a law, Sena tor Josiah W. Bailey of North Caro lina ask8 The Pilot to tell the far mers of this section. And the Sena tor goes on to say why, and to advo cate measures for the benefit of the farmers that he considers sound nelp- ful and constitutional. The Senator writes: “To the Farmers of North Carolina: “The Farm Bill which passed the Senate will not become a law. The House passed a different Bill. When the Senate passes one Bill and the House passes another, both bills are referred to a Conference Committee made up of Senate and House mem bers, and they work over both bills with a view to reporting a comoro- mise measure. "We may look for the compromise measure in the session in January. Meantime, there is little to be said. "I voted against the measure in the Senate because I am sure it is unconstitutional, and I do not like to disregard the Constitution. More over, I think it an unwise policy to be passing unconstitutional measures that cannot last long and that fail under the first attack. Congress has no power to tell a farmer that he shall not plant pastures for the dairy business. It has no power to tell North Carolina farmers that they shall not expand in the production of hogs, 'tt cannot say to one man you may plant, and to another you shall not plant. It cannot impose prohibition or prohibitive penalties jipon the production or sale of crops. This is so obvious that I wonder that any one ever took a different view. “This Senate BUI would greatly re duce cotton acreage in North Car olina and at the same time prevent farmers from expanding their pro duction of hogs, dairy products, etc. Sound and Helpful We can write a sound and helpful bill within the Constitution. Such a bill should be founded upon condi tional gifts and conditional loans; that is to say, we can provide finan cial aid for farmers who comply witn the conditions imposed on the in terest of the conservation of the soil. To this we may add loans upon their non-perishable products upon a condition that they will limit their production. To this we can add pro visions for the payment of at least the costs of production to farmers producing export crops, such a» to bacco, cotton and wheat. "The conditional gifts, the condi tional loans, and the guarantee of the cost of production on export crops would be sufficient to induce all sensible farmers to comply with the terms of the gifts, the loans, and the export marketing. Such a system would bring about an orderly agri- (Please turn to page four) No Mail Distributed on Christmas Day Sad Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Bill Smith and Their Seven Children Lose Home by Fire Christmas is not a happ^ one this year for Bill Smith and his 'family. Bill has a wife and seven small children. They’ve been living in a comfortable house on the Cartn- age-Vass road; in fact Bill jjst finished a lot of improvements to their home, using the money he made from the sale of his tobacco. While Bill vvas away on Tues day tind Mrs. Smith was getting dinner for the youngsters a stray spark from the chimney took root on the roof and the first thing the Smiths knew, their home was aflame. Mother and the children rushed about getting out some of their furniture and clothes, but the house itself was burned to the ground when Bill came back from his trip to town. SANDHILLS HORSE SHOW NEXT WEEK INPINEHlIRSTRINr, “SANDHILLEERS” BANQUET DATE IS CHANGED TO IITH Governor Hoey Unable To Be Present on 7th, Will Come on Later Date PLAN FOR BIG NIGHT Word was received yesterday from Goyernor Clyde R. Hoey that he would be unable to come here on January 7th for the banquet of Chambers of Commerce of MoDre county, scheduled for that night at the Carolina Hotel, owing to a con ference of Eastern State governorp called for that day in Washington. After a hurried meeting of the committee in charge of the banquet Governor Hoey was again contacted and asked if he could be here if the date were changed to Tuesday, Jan uary 11, and replied that he would love to come then. The committee therefore announced the change in date to the night of the 11th. Plans are proceeding to make this banquet one of the biggest and boat gatherings of the clans of Moore county in many years. Charles W. Picquet is in charge of the pro gram, and in addition to the princi pal speech by Governor Hoey, will have a varied assortment of enter- Nine Classes on Program I* or ■ tajnment features. County Solicitor Thursday Afternoon at Grounds M. G. Boyette, Democratic county Near Race Track Plans were completed for the Sandhills Horse Show to be held at the Pinehurst shftw ring, near the race course, on Thursday afternoon, December 30th, at a meeting of the committee in charge last Saturday afternoon at the Thomas & Alexan der Stables. At the meeting were Corbett Alexander. Lloyd Tate, Mrs. W. O. Moss, Will J. Stratton, William E. Baker, V. B. Johnson, Lotifs Scheipers, the Rev. J. Fred Stimson, Frederick H. Burke and Herbert Cameron. The show will feature events for the young, but the program includes classes for everyone. No charge is to be made entries or for spectators, and entries may be made at any time up to the start of a class. The program calls for nine classes, in the following order: Horsemanship class for beginners. Horsemanship class for children 14 or under, Horsemanship class for ladies. Best pair of riders. Hack horses used locally. Junior jumping for riders 19 years old or under. Open jumping. Heavy and middleweight hunters. Lightweight hunters. . These last two classes will be run over the outside course. The show will start at 2:30 o’clock. Classes will be judged by Almet Jenks and Nelson C. Hyde. Talc Co. Employes Win Compensation Cases Superior Court Affirms Findings of Industrial Com«iission for Silocosis Victims Eastwood’s Little Colored School Sells $31.75 of Christmas Seals Edna Taylor’s Pupils Go Over Top in Big Way in Aid of Tuberculosis Fight Spell EASTWOOD in capital let ters on the map of Moore county. Eastwood, four miles from the nearest village of any size in the county, is a diminutive hamlet be tween Pinehurst and Carthage. It has a two-teacher colored school, with an enrollment of about 90 pu pils. Principal of the school is Edna Taylor, than whom there is no more efficient teacher in the colored schools of North Carolina. As to all other schools in the county, an appeal was sent along about Thanksgiving time to raise funds for the tuberculosis work in the county, through the sale of Christmas seals. Principal Taylor talked to the Parent-Teacher Asso ciation and to the children—and they went to work. This week the returns came in from the little school. They had rais ed $31.’?5. Almost as much as the largest white school in the county, more than most white and colored schools. The Seal Sale is still going on throughout the county. Some towns are still behind their quotas, one of these. Southern Pines. It is not too late to go over the top here. Every penny is needed to carry on tlie splendid program of the County Tu berculosis Committee in caring for patients and in preventing the spread of the disease in this section. Among j'eturns received this week Used Ford Methods Thirty at Cheatham Home Pack 1,000 Christmas Bags in One Hour, 10 Minutes chairman, will introduce the Govern or, Mr. Picquet said yesterday. Sponsoring t)ie affair are t^.e Chambers of Commerce of Aberdeen, Carthage, Hemp, Pinehurst, Vass ar.cl Southern Pines and similar civic or- were tho.?e of the Southern Pines ganizations of Cameron, Pinebluff, .schools, white and colored. The for One thousand bags containing nuts, candy and fruit were filled in one hour and ten minutes at the home of Dr. and Mrs. T. A. Cheat ham in Pinehurst on Tuesday night. Thirty assisted in the pack ing, using Ford factory assembly line methods. On Wednesday morning, the last day of school before the holidays, Dr. Cheatham told the pupils of the Pinehurst public school that he had been able to contact Old Santa on a recent trip north and Santa had promised to stop at the school. He did, while the children were singing "Jingle Bells,” anJ he arrived with many of the bags I filled the day before and with I gifts for more than 400 young- I sters. II S. ROUTE TO BE RE-ROUTED THRU RALEIGH, BEUEF Sandhills Delegation to Highway Commission Hearing Returns Optimistic BOARD TO ACT SOON* CHRISTMAS TO BE OBSERVED IN ALL LOCAL CHURCHES Special Services Scheduled for Christmas Eve and On Christmas Day West End, Eagle Springs and other localities in the county. Window Service Until 10:00 o’clock Tonight, But None on Saturday “Our office force has worked u,n- tiringly during the Christmas ruih season, some from six in the morning till 11:00 at night, in order that our patrons might have the service they desei-ve. The clerks want to spend Christmas with tJieir families as much as anyone else. “Therefore, there positively will be no delivery of mail to anyone on Christmas Day—except of perish ables and special delivery. Our gen eral delivery and parcel post win dows will stay open until 10:00 o’clock Friday night for delivery of mail." Such was the announcement made yesterday by Postmaster Frank Buchan of Southern Pines It is understood the same regulations will be in force in other postoffices in the county. Moore County Superior Court last week affirmed the findings of the State Industrial Commission in re- gaid to compensation for Beecher C. Williams, Dave Bennett and Leonard Dowd, employees of the Standard Mineral Company of near Hemp, suf- ftti'ors from silicosis, a disease char acterized by shortness of breath, cough, and pain in the chest and caused by inhaling talc dust. The Industrial Commission had ruled that Williams be allowed com pensation for 400 weeks at ?1 a week, not to exceed $6,000, and Bennett and Dowd were allowed compensa tion for the same period at 97 a week. The American Mutual Liabil ity Insurance Company, Carrier, ap pealed to the Superior Court ind last week’s hearing was on this ap peal. Beverly L. Walter of Southern Pines was awarded custody of five- year-old Beverly, Jr., the mother, Molly O, Walter to be permitted to visit the child and have him visit her at reasonable occasions. Mrs. Sherrerd Sues for Auto Accident Injuries mer reported sales totaling $35.00, the latter $30.00, Pinehurst school still leads the county schools with more than $80 collected. Christmas will be fittingly observ ed in all churches of the Sandhills. Christmas services at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Southern Pines will be as follows: This evenmg, C|iri.stmas Eve. Holy Communion at 12;00 midnight; Christmas morning, John D. McNeill Found The Sandhills delegation which waited upon the State Highway Com mission in Raleigh on Wednesday returned optimistic over the prospect of getting U. S, Highway No. 1 rout ed through Raleigh over HUlsboit> street, the direct route, instead of via the business section as at pres ent, The change is desired for the convenience of tourists who now fre quently lose No. 1 at Raleigh and find themselves on other southbound routes which do not lead to the Sand hills. U. L. Spence J)f Carthage was prin cipal spokesman for the Moore countyites, and in presenting his ar guments asked the commissioners what was the natural through traffic route through the capital; what route they took when they left for south ern points; whether they drove through the congested business sec tion or by the wide boulevard cf Hillsboro street, past State College and through a pretty part of tovm. He told the commission why the route had been changed, one reason being to avoid a grade crossing, since eliminated by an underpass. Seversil 8pe4ikers State Senator Carroll Weathers of Raleigh and Attorney James Pou of Raleigh also spoke for the change to Hillsboro street. Richard Tufts of Pinehurst told the commission what the Sandhills resorts are doing for the state in bringing tourists here, estimating that Pinehurst ?ind Soutb- i ern Pines would spend $150,000 in Holy Communion "at 11:00 a-, m. At Midnight on Christmas Eve' the next two years in this way. J. * * I i IJ,rwSalut Authonv’s Church will begin ■ Talbot Johnson of Aberdeen talked Residenl of Pinehurst Asks $3,- Uead 111 Bumed Home|“^^ eelebratior, of the Feast ot; about the pre,ent mconvenlence to 000 and Husband $350 for Damage to Car As a result of the collision of two automobiles at the intersection of the Shaw Road and another road near Pinehurst on November 24, two suits have been started in Superior Court in Moore county. One is by Virginia B. Sherrerd of Pinehurst versus Leandro S. Galban, believed to be from Cuba or New York, in which the plaintiff seeks to recover judgment in the amount of $3,000 for injuries received and ex- jJense incurred in treatment of same. She alleges that the defendant w£is negligent in the operation of his car. The second suit is brought by S. Donald Sherrerd, husband of the plaintiff in the first suit and owner of the car, who is asking judgment in the sum of $350 for damage to his automobile. He also alleges negli gence on the part of Galban. CHRISTMAS PAGE.VNT AT UNION SERVICE SUND.W "Follow the Star,” a Christmas pageant by Karin Sundelof-Aszrand, will be presented at the Church cf Wide Fellowship next Sunday even ing at 8:00 o’clock, as a union ser vice of this churcli with the Bap tist Church. This program has been prepared by the Fellowship Foruin of the Chuich of W'ide B’ellowship. and in spirit and execution portrays the essential nature of the Christmis .season. The pageant itself is of ex ceptional beauty, and the occasion H 4 fTJih Christmas with the offering of Mid-' tourists, Munlers ^ind KO^^ Ot IJrotner l p,.^ , arguments were presented at Of Kev. M. U. MCiNeill or Lam- singing of carols by the hearing for continuing the route eron.—Lived Near Raelord John Duncan McNeill. 66, was burn ed to death last Wednesday night when his home, in which he lived alone five miles west of Raeford, was completely destroyed by fire of indefinite origin. Mr. McNeill was a brother of the Rev. M, D. McNeill of Cameron. The fire was discovered about S:30 o’clock by a party of hunters who were passing. It had not burned so far at this time but it had a start and the hunters were unable to put it out. They made their way into the house and found that there was no one in the bedroom. The hunters found it virtually impossible to en ter the other rooms, which were smoke-filled and beginning to burn. After the fire they found the body in one of these rooms with indica tions that Mr. McNeill had been eating his supper. Owing to the hour of the fire and the indicated position of the body at that time, it is thougnt by many that he suffered a fatal heart attack before the beginning i the children and by a visit to the ' as at present, and an effort was made Crib of Bethlehem which has been placed in the Church to remain there during the entire Christmas season. The Children’s Choir will sing the Mass of St. Aloysius, by Bonner. The Rev. Thomas A. Williams will preach. On Christmas Day Masses will be at 8:00 and 10:30. Masses on Sun day will be at 8:00 and 10:30 with Most Rev. William J. Hafey, Coadju tor Bishop of Scranton offering tlie 8:00 o’clock Mass and preaching the sermon. The Catholic Daughters of America will receive Holy Commun ion in a boIRS. r.MlKElt m.\i*le:=« dies, LE.WES m SBAND,( » cnrij>Rt: I Mrs. Parker Maples, 43, of Pin ■ hurst died Saturday, Dece.-.iber IL i in the Moore County Hospital. S ; had been ill with pneumonia for t-. > weeks. Mrs. Maples was well kno \ in Pinehurst and Southern Pines a . 1 will be greatly missed by her h t of friends. Funeral services were ho' l in the Culdee Church, five m >3 from Pinehurst, conducted by t ;3 Rev. A. J. McKelway at four o’cl-, ; on Sunday aftemeon. Mrs. Maples is survived by hir husband, an employe of Pineh’irR:, Inc., and nine chlldien, Mrs. R 'il:'iit Hunt, Harold, Christine, Mabel, ' I- mer, Edna May, Alec, Dorothy aaJ Buddy.