M00r<E COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 18, NO. 22.
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Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina. Friday, May 6, 1938.
GENERAL BRYDEN
NEW COMMANDER
AT FORT BRAGG
War Department Assigns “C.
O.” at Fort Meade to Succeed
Gen. McCloskey
FINE MILITARY RECORD
The War Department announced
on Monday that General William
Byrden, now commanding the 15th
Field Artillery Brigade and the Post
at Fort Meade, Md., will succeed
General Manus McCloskey as com
manding general at Fort Bragg, the
largest artillery post in the world.
General McCloskey retired for age
on April 30.
General Bryden is 58 years old,
six years short of the retirement
age, having been born at Hartford,
Conn., on February 3, 1880. He was
gi’aduated from the U, S. Military
Academy in 1904 and saw service
in the Philippines and at various
posts in the United States prior to
the World War, when he was pro
moted to the temporary rank of Brig.
adier-General, serving as assistant
commandant of the Field Artillery
School at Fort Sill, Okla., and re
ceiving the distinguished service
medal for his services.
After the war. General Bryden,
who by that time had reverted to
his then permanent rank of Major,
served with the American Army of
Occupation in Germany.
Reports Here This Week
General Bryden wtis promoted to
his present rank on September 1,
1937. He has been stationed at Fort
Meade since September 16, 1937. He
will report at Fort Bragg for duty
this week.
General Bryden has had a long and
distinguished military record.
He was graduated from the Army
War College in 1928, after going
through the command and general
staff school in 1923.
From the outbreak of the World
War, he took a prominent part in
field artillery training of troops.
He commanded the 329th Field Ar
tillery, at Camp Custer, Michigan,
and was director of the Department
of Field Gunnery, and assistant
commandant of school of fire for
Field Artillery at Fort Sill, Okla.
General Bryden formerly was on
duty In the operations and training
division of the War Department gen
eral staff In Washington.
He received the commission of
(Second jlieutenant In the artillery
June 15, 1904. He was promoted to
first lieutenant in January of 1907
and fissigned to the field artillery
four months later. He became a
captain in January, 1915, and a ma
jor in 1919. In 1928, he was promot
ed to lieutenant-colonel and became
colonel in May, 1935,
Henry H. Clark Dies
Here at Age of 74
Former Chief Clerk of Holly
wood Hotel Was Native of
Amherst, Mass.
Succumbing to a lingering illness,
Henry Holbrook Clark, aged 74
years, died in his apartment on Penn-
sylvanla avenue. Southern Pines, at
10:30 o’clock Wednesday night.
Holding the r€sponaible position
of chief clerk of the Hollywood Ho
tel, Southern Pines, from 1918 until
his retirement in 1928, Mr. Clark also
managed resort hotels of New Hamp
shire during the summer season,
numbering a wide circle of friends
among hotel guests both here and in
the New England states.
As an ornithologist, a hobby he
had followed for years, Mr. Clark be
came a skilled observer notable for
his study and Knowledge of the
birds of the Sandhills.
Bom in Amherst, Mass., January
Sth, 1864, the son of a professor of
Amherst college, young Clark receiv
ed his education at that seat of
learning.
Funeral services will be held In hia
summer home, Lakeport, N. H., Sat
urday afternoon. Burial in Hillside
cemetery there.
Mr. Clarke is survived by his wid-
od, the former Miss Mary E^thelyn
Sanders, and a daughter by a de
ceased wife.
MOTHER’S DAY
An Editorial in Appreciation of the Splendid Work of the
Moore County Maternity Welfare Committee,
its Nurses and the Physicians
Though Mother’s Day comes offi
cially but once a year, actually it
comes every second. For there is
not a moment when a baby is not
being born into the world or when
mothers are not suffering for, re
joicing and loving their children.
Here in Moore county, Mother’s
Day might be celebrated every mo
ment too. We have our goodly share
of babies, about 570 born every
year. A certain number of these, in
fact about half of them, are partlc-
ularly Interesting to all of us. These
are the babies who have been wat
ched over In the clinics which we as
taxpayers support. They have been
under the care of the nurse who we
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engaged and their coming into the
world has been, in some cases, under
the kindly and skillful care of the
doctors who we have asked to help
us and whose fee, small as it is, we
have paid.
Last year 279 mothers attended
the pre-natal clinics in Moore coun
ty, Eighty-five of there were white
and 194 colored. Most of these moth
ers have had their babies, and moth
ered babies are safe and well. In
the case of 27 mothers, complica
tions were discovered at the clinics
they attended which warned of a pos
sibly dangerous condition. They
were carefully watched and taken to
the Moore County Hospital for their
deliveries. Seven mothers who were
without funds to pay a doctor were
delivered in their homes and the fee
was paid by the county. Tw'o moth
ers who attended clinics last year
died: one had attended three clinics,
the other only one.
Full Time Nurse
Last January, at the urgent re
quest of the Moore County Matern
ity Welfare Committee, a full time
maternity jiurse ’wao engaged by
the county. She is Mrs. Edith Baines
Harris, a graduate of the Lobenstine
Midwifery Clinic. She Is at present
continuing the prenatal clinic and Is
also busy organizing various other
phases of the work, such as mother’s
clubs, a “loan closet” of baby clothes
and so forth for needy families She
also expects in the near future to
start classes for colored mld-wlves
with a view to eliminating those who
are unfit to practice and replacing
them with at least somewhat train
ed healthy younger women.
Last week your reporter went
over to the Moore County Hospital
on the day of the joint Aberdeen,
Pinehurst and Southern Pines pre
natal clinic. The clinic committee of
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HIGHWAY FUNDS
NOT AVAILABLE
FOR AIRPORT ROAD
New ,$2,000,000 Allocation To
Be Used For Bridges and
Maintenance
There is no chanr.e of resurfac.
ing the roads leading to the Knoll-
wood Airport from Pinehurst and
Southern Pines, nor the old Southern
Pines to Carthage road from the
new $2,000,000 fund allocated for
secondary roads in the state, accord
ing to Fred Underwood, district en
gineer. An appeal was recently made
to the State Highway Commission
for the improvement of these roads.
Mr. Underwood, in his talk to The
Pilot, quoted from a statement of
D. B. McCrary, highway commis
sioner of the 6th division. Mr. Mc
Crary said:
"The State Highway and Public
Works Commission at Its last meet
ing allocated to the ten highway di
visions Govenor Hoey’s appropriation
of $2,000,000.00 of highway funds.
After $175,000.00 of these funds had
been earmarked for strengthening
bridges on secondary roads through
out the state, the remaining $1,-
825,000.00 was allocated to the di
visions on the same basis as regular
maintenance funds are allotted, tak
ing Into consideration area, popula-
tion, road mileage and motor car
registration. On this basis an aver
age county in the state will receive
barely enough to hard surface two
miles of road by the least expensive
method. It Is perhaps for this reason
that Governor Hoey made It clear In
the statement he made at the time
the allocation was announced that
the appropriation is to be used in
streng^thening weak places In the
present secondary road systeni .
“By the secondary or farm to
market road system is meant those
county roads now constituting tha
system under maintenance by the
State Highway and Public Works
Commission. The legislative appro
priation for maintenance of the 48,-
000 miles of county roads in the
state does not provide for strength
ening those weak places in the sys
tem which render our coimty roads
Impassable under very adverse wea
ther conditions, nor does It provide
for re-bulldlng all weak bridges on
our county road system.
“Much of Governor Hoey’s popular
ity is no doubt due to his proposal
to serve all the communitle sof the
state by providing for this extraor-
dinary maintenance on the secondary
road system, rather than spending
these funds in the construction of a
few short sections of highways.”
Don’t Rush!
But Here’s A Bargain: Mr.
Raskob’s Private Railroad
Car for Only $25,000
Here’s a bargain, boys. Don’t
rush; Keep in line.
John J. Raskob of New York
and Pinehurst, former chairman
of the Democratic National Com
mittee, is offering his private
railroad car, “Sklpaway,” for sale
at $25,000. It cost $110,000, Mr.
Raskob says. He bought it in
1928 after his unsuccessful cam-
salgn to elect former Governor Al
fred E. Smith as President,
500 LAWYERS OF
STATE COMING
TO BAR MEETING
(iovernor Hoey to Address An
nual Convention, Opening
Today in Pinehurst
TWO-DAY PROGRAM
School Music Festival
Here Tuesday Evening
Newly Organized School Board
an Added Attraction on
Fine Program
The annual Public School Music
Festival will be given next Tuesday
evenijig at 8:00 o’clock In the South
ern Pines School auditorium. The
program this year promises to be un
usually interesting in that music by
the recently organized high school
band under the direction of Band
master Bingert will be an added at
traction
The program will consist of folk
tunes and action songs by the various
grades, music by the rhythm orches
tra directed by a second grade pu
pil, piano numbers, selections by the
high school band and the glee club.
This program will afford the patrons
of the school an excellent opportunity
to observe the work done by the de
partment of music during the past
year. The festival will be given un
der the direction of Frederick Stan
ley Smith, public school music sup
ervisor. There w^ll be an admission
fee of 15 cents for children; adults
25 and 50 cents.
MRS. AUSTIN PASSES AT
HER HOME IN PINEBLUFF
Funeral services conducted by her
pastor, the Rev. Dr. Amberson, will
be held In the Methodist church In
Plnebluff, at 3:00 o’clock this, Fri
day, afternoon for Mrs. Ida Elizabeth
Austin who died In her home In
Plnebluff shortly before midnight
Monday.
Mrs. Austin, the widow of the late
James Wesley Austin, was bom Au
gust 21, 1865, In WInscroy, N. Y.,
the daughter of William Way and
Amie Annie Washburn Way, and has
been a beloved resident of Plnebluff
for the past 25 years.
She is survived by two sons, Char
les L. Austin of Southern Pines and
Albert Austin, of Gastonia, and two
daughters, i^the MI;^ses Alma and
Frances of Plnebluff.
Between 400 and 500 members of
the North Carolina Bar Association
assembled last evening at the Car
olina Hotel in Pinehurst for their
40th annual convention and, follow
ing an address of welcome by J.
Talbot Johnsoa of Aberdeen, rej)orts
of the staading officers and com-
mittees and an address by F. E
Winslow, president of the associa
tion, the group repaired to the Car
olina Hotel ballroom for the Barris
ters’ Ball.
The entertainment, furnished by
the hosts—members of the Moore
county bar—comprised a series of
Scottish dances by the girls of Flora
Macdonald College, tap dances by
Miss Ruth Thompson and features
by little Bobby Jean McBride.
The business of the day this morn
ing, Friday, will consist of commit
tee reports and discussions and an
addi’ess by Governor Clyde R. Hoey.
The afternoon session will be taken
up with further business, and at 8:30
this evening George Maurice Morris,
chairman of the House of Delegates
of the American Bar Association,
will address the gathering.
Tomorrow the convention will close
with the finish of routine business,
an address by M. V. Barnhill, Asso.
date Justice of the Supreme Court
of North Carolina, and the election
of officers for the coming year.
The presence of this convention
here this year is a tribute to the
promotional work of the Moore
County Bar Association. Last year
the convention was held aboard the
Hamburg-American liner Reliance,
chartered by the group for a cruise
to Bermuda. At that time tne local
members of the bar invited the as
sociation to meet at Pinthurst, this
year and followed up their Invita
tion with convincing proof that this
was the ideal place to hold the meet
ing.
' Davidson’s President is
Baccalaureate Preacher
Pinehurst Seniors To Hear Dr.
Lingle on May 15, Rev. Mur
doch McLeod on May 20
Dr. Walter L Lingle, President
of Davidson College, has accepted an
invitation to deliver the baccalaur-
I eate sermon at Pinehurst High
I School on Sunday morning. May 15
I at 11:00 o’clock in the Pinehurst
i Community Church. Dr. Lingle Is
I a pleasing speaker and his many
I friends In this entire section will
j welcome him to Pinehurst.
I The Rev. Murdoch MacLeod of
I Nashville, Tenn., has accepted an In-
j vitation to address the gra4uates on
I Friday evening, May 20 at 8:00
I o’clock. Dr. MacLeod is now pastor
of the Moore Memorial Presbyterian
Church at Nashville. He was for nine
years pastor of the Pinehurst Com
munity Church and his many friends
will be present to give him a most
cordial welcome All are looking for
ward to his coming with the keenest
pleasure.
Prof. Ernest Hancock of Parkton
will address the seventh grrade on
Thursday morning. May 17, at 10:00
o’clock. Mr. Hancock is very popu
lar in the Pinehurst district. Many
of the patrons of the school know
him Intimately.
Heads State Bar
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FIVE CENTS
GRAo? ilEENS AT
.SOUTHERN PINES
COUNTRY CLUB
Work Started Monday On 18-
Hole Championship Course.
To Cost $3,000
READY FOR FALL PLAY
FR.\NK E. WINSLOW
DR. PEELE. FORMER
ABERDEEN PASTOR
ELECTED A BISHOP
Presiding Elder of Greensboro
District Served Local Charge
in 1910 and 1911
PINEHURST STUDENTS WILL
PRESENT OPERETTA ‘PANDORA*
The students and teachers of the
Pinehurst Elementary School are
busily engaged in rehearsals of “Pan
dora,” an operetta, which will be
presented In the School Auditorium,
Thursday evening. The following
boys and glris, will play the leading
roles: Flora Ellen Cameron, Marie
Leavitt, Jackie Homer, Whit Thomas
and Billy Jackson. Approximately
fifty other boys and girls take part
in the choruses. There will be no
admission charge.
Dr. William Walter Peele, of
Greensboro, presiding elder of the
Greensboro district of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, and a for-
mer pastor of the Page Memorial
Methodist Church in Aberdeen, was
elected a bishop at the Southern
general conference in Birmingham,
Ala., on Tuesday of this week.
At the conference opponents of
merging Northern and SoutJhem
Methodism paused in a "secession”
movement to await a decision from
the church’s highest court on legal
ity of the recent vote favoring uni
fication.
Dr. Peele has devoted 35 of his
56 years to ministerial and educa
tional work. He was chosen a bish
op on the first ballot.
He has been presiding elder of
the Greensboro district since 1936,
prior to which he was pastor of the
First Methodist Church of Charlotte,
one of the two largest churches of
the denomination in North Carolina,
for nine years.
Dr. Peele was a member of the
general conference in 1926 and again
in 1934, as well as this year.
He served last year as president
of the North Carolina Council of
Churches and was president of the
Western North Carolina Conference
Board of Education from 1930 to
1937. For eight years he was a mem
ber of the committee on appeals of
the general conference. He was a
delegate to the world conference on
life and work at Oxford, England,
last year.
He is a member of the board of
trustees of Duke University, Dur
ham, and of the Children’s Home,
Winston-Salem.
Native of Gibson
Dr. Peele was born at Gibson in
November, 1881, a son of Andrew
and Nora Jane Gibson Peele, natives
of Marlboro County, S. C. He was
educated at the Gibson public schools
and Trinity College, now Duke Un
iversity. He was graduated in 1903
with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Duke conferred upon him the Doctor
of Divinity degree in 1928.
He taught mathematics In Ruth
erford College for three years af
ter his graduation. He became presi
dent of that Institution In 1906, an
office he held three years.
Dr. Peele was ord|aIned to the
Methodist ministry In 1906 and was
supply pastor of the St. Johns-Glb-
son charge in 1909. He was pastor
of the \Aberdeen-Biscoe circuit in
1910-1911 and in the latter years be
came headmaster of Trinity Park
High School, Durham. After four
years there, he was appointed pro
fessor of Biblical Literature in Trin
ity College, a post he held until
1918, when he was appointed pastor
of Edenton Street Methodist Church,
Raleigh.
After five years in that pastorate.
Dr. Peele was transferred to the pas
torate of Trinity Methodist Church
In Durham, where he remained from
1923 until 1927, when he was sent
to Charlotte’s first church.
The start of work last Monday
morning on the transition from .sand
to grass greens on the cnampionship
course at the Southern Pines Country
Club heraidcu the beginning’ of the
end of sand greens in the SouLhein
Pines-Pinehurst area, where only a
few .short years ago the sand green
ruled supreme. The only sand greens
now left In the section are those
on Pinehurst’s seldom used Number
4 course, the nine-hole course at
Southern Pines and at the Mid-Pines
Club’s semi-private cour.se. There is
talk even now of grass greens on
the Mid-Pines course, but no definite
decision has as yet been made.
During the past few year.i the de
mand among the winter rtsident
golfers throughout the area has
been for grass greens on the Sand
hills golf courses and Pinehurst
took the lead when it made the
change-over on its championship
Number 2 course. It followed so'j>n
after with grass greens on Number
3 and last year saw Pinehurst’s Num.
ber 1 and the Pine Needles course
follow suit.
When the Town of Southern Pines
took over the operation of the South
ern Pines Country Club just before
the season opened last fall, the mat
ter of grass greens was discussed
at length, but the Imminence of the
season and the financial condition of
the club made the matter impracti
cal at the time. But with a highly
successful first season of municipal
operation behind them, and with a
view to doing all that they can to
attract more and more golfers to
the sporty Southern Pines course,
the Board of Commissioners decided
last week to install grass greens on
the championship course.
In Use By Fall
The work is being done by Angus
Maples, w’ho installed the grass
greens at F*ine Needles last summer,
with the able assistance of B. Weath-
spoon, who has been at the Southern
Pines Country Club for the past 15
years, and it is expected that the
rough work will be completed within
the next month or six weeks. After
that it will be but a question of care
ful tending, watering and fertilizing
throughout the remainder of the
summer and the greens will be ready
for use by the most ardent devotees
of grass greens by the time the sea
son opens next fall.
The greens will be the usual com
bination of Bermuda and rye grasses
and they will be watered partially
by a pipe line system and partially
by sprinkler carts. The estimated
cost of the grass greens will be be
tween $2,500 and $3,000, about one-
half of the regular cost of such an
installation. This saving will be ac
complished through the use of equip
ment that the Country Club already
has on hand and through the use
of sprinkler carts instead of the
Installation of a complete sprinkler
system.
There is no question but what
grass greens at the Southern Pines
Country Club will result hi a much
greater patronage of the course dur-
ing the coming season, and there is
every good reason to believe that the
project will be self-liquidating within
a remarkably short time.
DEMOCRATS TO MEET TO
ELECT PRECINCT COMMITTEE
Chairman George G. Herr of the
Southern Pines Democratic Pre
cinct Committee has called a meet
ing of the Democrats of Southern
Pines for tomorrow, Saturday, after
noon, May 7th, at 4:00 o’clock In
the Municipal Building, at which
time a new precinct committee will
be elected, along with delegates to
the County convention to be held at
Carthage on May 14.
Members of the present precinct
committee are Chairman Herr, Ern
est Wilson, E. H. Poe, Mrs. L. L.
Woolley and Jbhn Ruggles.
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