MOORE COUNTY’S
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NEWS-WEEKLY
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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
VOL. 19, NO. 8.
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FIRST IN NEWS,
CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, January 20,
FIVE CENTS
MOORE COUNTY
U. N. C. ALUMNI
HEAR SAUNDERS
Gymkhan^ Today
Executive Secretary of (iroup
Attacks Tuition Increase at
Banquet at Pine Needles
OVER 100 ATTEND
One hundred members and their
guests of the Moore County Alumni
of the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill attended the organi
zation meeting and banquet Wednes
day night at the Pine Needles in
Knoll wood.
Dr. R. L. Felton of Carthage made
a. short welcoming addre.ss and turn
ed the meeting over to J. Talbot
Johnson of Aberdeen, who acted as
Joastmaster. J. Maryon Saunders, ex
ecutive secretary of the Alumni As
sociation, Chapel Hill, greeted the
alumni for the greater University
of North Carolina and voiced opposi
tion to the Increase in tuition of
students at the university, which is
now before the Legislature In Ral
eigh.
Short talks were made by former
Senator U. L. Spence of Carthage,
John W. Graham of Aberdeen and Dr.
Thaddeus A. Cheatham of Plnehurst,
three of the oldest alumni In the
county, who reminisced about their
early days in college. Frank W. Web
ster, superintendent of Southern
Pines schools, also spoke.
Ray Wolf, head coach of the Un
iversity, and Charles Kline, Moore
coui;ty boy once All-Southern end,
made short talks prior to a show
ing of a film of the Carolina-Ford-
kam game.
At the organization meeting, J.
Talbot Johnson was elected president
of the alumni group for the coming
year. W. B. Sabiston of Carthage
was elected vice-president. Dr. R. L.
Felton of Carthage was named sec-
Tetary aurf J. F. Sinclair of West
I!nd was elected treasurer
The meeting was followed by a
dance
Dr. Cheatham Guest at
Junior Chamber Dinner
TRUSTEES, FRIENDS
OF BOYS SCHOOL
TO PLAN CAMPAIGN
Aim to Carry Hu’Idinfr of Out-
stand’njj Institution To
Prompt Conclusion
Mrs. W. O. Moss On Lady Durham'
Six Events on Program at Sou-'
them Pines Country Club j
This Afternoon >
The third of the season’s gymk
hanas in the new horse show ring
at the Southern Pines Country Club
will be held this afternoon at 3:00
o’clock, with a program of six
events. A good turnout of riders and
horses is expected, and the public is
invited to enjoy the jumping and va
rious equestrian games. The sche
dule:
Open jumping, Scarf jumping in
pairs over tlje outside course, Ladies'
hunters over outside course, a Wa
ter race, a Wheelbarrow race, and a
Ciacker-eating contest. In this lat
ter event the riders dash to one end
ot the ring, are given four or five
crackers to eat, dash back to the
other end and—if they can—whistle.
The first one able to whistle wins.
Past Achievements And Future
Aims Outlined by President
Grantham
The regular dinner meeting of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce was
held in the Baptist Church on Mon
day night, and was attended by over
25 members and guests. The speak
er for the evening was the Rev. T. A.
'Cheatham, pastor of the Village
Chapel in Plnehurst.
"Tackle your jobs, not as kickers,
but as promoters and interested cit
izens. Do a man’s job In a man’s way
and get the thrill of your life” was
the advice of Dr. Cheatham to the
yotmg lorganizatlon. The speaker
made an unusually fine and inspiring
talk to the body and he was roundly
p.pplauded as he finished.
Before presenting the Rev. J. F.
Stimson, who introduced the speak
er, President Grantham outlined to
*he rricmbership the achievements of
the Jay-Cees during 1938, and oul-
l«ned briefly his alms and hopes for
the coming year.
MRS. JAMES McCREEBY
PASSES IN PINEHUBST
Mrs. Lydia Florence McCreery,
widow of the late James McCreery,
founder of one of New York City’s
great department stores, died In the
Moore County Hospital early Wed
nesday morning after an illness of
several weeks. Mrs. McCreery had
oome to Plnehurst to spend tlie win
ter as she had done for more than
20 years, and was a guest at The
Carolina until illness necessitated her
removal to the hospital. Her son, J.
Harold McCreery, w'as with her dur
ing her last days.
Mrs. McCreery was born In Brook
lyn June 6th, 1856, the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Plummer Per
kins. During her many winters In
Plnehurst she had endeared to her
self a large circle of friends. She
leaves two sons, and suffered the
loss of another boy in the World
War.
The body was sent tc New York
by J. N. Powell, Inc., and funeral
•ervicM wDl lie lield there todAy.
SAYS WISE PARENT
WILL SELECT LEE
AS MODE FOR SON
Judge Winston, in Talk Before
Kiwanis, Quotes President
Andrews of Brown
One hundred and thirty-two years
ago today Robert E. Lee, a great
Southern gentleman, was bom. It
was, therefore, fitting that Wednes
day The Sandhills Kiwanis Club had
Judge Robert Winston, author of
the best selling life of Lee, address
them. The judge said In part that
Lee was far-sighted and broad-mlnd-
ed. He advocated the gradual aboli
tion of slavery, freed his own
slaves and agreed with Lincoln and
Grant that the negroes should be
colonized.
A grandson of Washington, by
adoption, Lee took Washington as
his model and was wise, prudent and
thrifty. His last days were Lee’s
happiest. He was then President of
Washington College. ‘T made a
great mistake,’’ said he, "when I
became a soldier. Teaching the youth
ic far better than fighting them.’’
So liberal was Lee that hia former
enemies loved and honored him. Nor
thern boys by the hundreds filled
his college and Cyrus McCormick,
Doremus, Peabody, Corcoran and
other northern philanthropists gave
it millions. The General is also the
idol of the South. But for the mag
nanimous example of Lee, North and
South would be enemies even today,
as England and Ireland are.
"Dignified, majestic, practical, ex
tremely socially conscious-minded
and obedient to law and order, and
therefore a worshiper of the Consti
tution, with its safeguards of liberty,
the General’s sanity and wisdom
no doubt, Inspired Senators Glass,
Byrd, Bailey, Byrnes. George, and
other Southerners to defeat the
odious court-raping bill and the in
famous ‘Purge,’ ” said Judge Win
ston. “ ‘The parent, if wise,’ said An
drews of Brown, ‘will select Robert
E. Lee as a model for his son.’ So
speaks the geneious North.
"And what says the impulsive
South? We call hllh Marse Robert.
We touch the hem of his garment.
We are proud
That the fame of the Wilder
ness fight abidtfl.
And down into history grandly
rides,
Calm and unmoTed In battle he
sat,
The grey-bearded man in the
black slouched hat.”
(Fletue tunt to pa§« Hght)
FUND FOR SITE PLEDGED
At the Carolina Hotel, Plnehurst
on Saturday evening, January 28th
at 7:00 o'clock there will be a meet
ing of the Board of Trustees of thf
projected North Carolina School for!
Boys, with a group of leading re>i-
dent.s and visitors of Plnehurst and I
Southern Pines and in addition a
number of prominent citizens from
all parts of the state to consider and'
adopt plans for carrying to a prompt
and successful conclusion the build
ing of an outstanding preparatory
school on the site selected on the
Midland Road, half way between
Southern Pines and Plnehurst. For
the purchase of the site the people
of Moore county have already pledg.
rd the necessary amount.
A hospitality committee consisting
of George T. Dnlap, Sr., Richard
Tufts,^Dr. T. A. Cheatham, the Rev.
J. Fred Stimson and Dr. Paul P.
McCain is sending out an invitation
to a selected group of those in this
community who are co-operating in
establishing this school to meet with
the trustees and frends of the move
ment throughout North Carolina to
plan the next step in this important
movement which means so much not
only to the Sandhills but also to
ward the improvement of North Car
olina educational facilities.
Several prominent names are on
the list of those expected and these
will be announced before the meet
ing.
Red Cross First Aid Course Here ^$2,500.00 GIFT TO
Pays Dividend in One Life Saved HOSPITAL
* BY MRS. CHAPMAN
Want a Parrot?
Pcstoffioe Receives Card Ad
dressed “To Lady Interest
ed in Huy'ns” One
Arthur Shields. I!i|rhfalis, Uses'
Artificial Respiration on Child.
—lit in County Trained
The First Aid Standaid course |
which has been given in the county
under the auspices of the American
ried Cross has already demonstrated
it.s value. Arthur G. Shields of High-
falls was instrumental in saving a
child from drowning by the applica
tion of artificial respiration he had
learned during the course, and Dr.
Davis, called at the time to care for
Ihe child, states the youngster would
undoubtedly have died before his ar
rival had it not been for Mr.
Phifld's work.
Certificate.s have arrived at the
Public Health Office in Carthage for
those who have taken the First Aid
course. Twenty-four men and wo
men took this course, which con-;
slsted of ten classes of two hours
duration plus the examination writ
ten and oral. Those in the county
completing the course and taking
the examination were Mjs. Faye
Cowing Brown, Stacy Brewer, Jr.,
Carl B. Cole, Miss France.s Dowd,
Herbert Eastwood, Arthur C. Fergu
son, Robert P. Guarino, Ellis iS.
Hannon, Wm. Harrington, Jr., Wil
liam H. Jackson, Jr., Mrs. Mary K.
Lentz, Donald McDonald, Mrs. Eliza
McDonald, Fred P. McKeithen, Pa
trick McKenzie, Neil A. McLeod, Au- Few Planting Less, Some Doub-
gustus W. Payne, Crowell M. Poplin,! ling Their Acreage, Says As-
The Southern Pines postoffice
was a little baffled yesterday.
It receives a lot of mail with
.'tiange addresses, and can usual
ly ferret out where it goe.s. This
time it was stumpecf.
A postal card came addressed
as follows;
‘‘To Lady Interested in Buying
a Parrot, Southern Pines, N, C.”
On the reverse side it tells
about parrots for sale and winds
up: “I’m sorry I misplaced your
name.”
Not knowing what else to do
with it, the postoffice delivered
it to The Pilot where "Lady In
terested in Buying a Parrot’’ may
claim it. We don’t want a par
rot.
Widow of One of First Directors
Endows Bed in Memory
of Husband
ON BOARD MANY' YEARS
PREDICTS BIGGER
TOBACCO CROP IN
COUNTY IN 1939
Tony Sarg Marionettes
To Be Here January 24
Matinee and Evening Perform
ances of “Treasure Island” at
Southern Pines Theatre
The Junior Guild of Emmanuel
EJpiscopal Church, Southern Pines, will
bring to Southern Pines on Tuesday,
January 24, Tony Sarg’s famous
Marionettes. These puppets, well-
known throughout the country, will
give two performances of "Treasure
Island,’’ a matinee at 3:30 and an
evening performance at 8:30, at the
Carolina Theatre. Tickets are on sale
at Tot’s Toggery and the Broad
Street Pharmacy.
Creator of puppets for more than
18 yea: .*', Tony Sarg needs no in
troduction to the American theatre
public. He is acclaimed one of the
best, if not the best, in the business,
and his troupe of little 24-inch dolls
has played to thousands In theatres,
both large and small, throughout the
country. This year the Sarg Com
pany Is booked to play In cities from
the Atlantic to the Pacific and back,
on Its eight-months’ road tour out of
New York.
Sarg, with his marionettes, has
.since the turn of the century, re
vived one of the world’s oldest form.<*
of entertainment. He has applied
modem methods to an art which
flourished in ancient times.
"Treasure Island,’’ adapted from
Robert Louis Stevenson’s book of
the same title, was chosen by Sarg
for this year's production. The stoi-y
Is well-known. Little Jim Hawkins,
the landlady’s son, wins the favor
of the old pirate, Billy Bones, who
has sailed with Flint, the Buccaneer.
He sets sail, after the death of
Bones, to find the hidden treasure
and finds himself and his compan
ions on a pirate vessel. Through
bravery, all are saved, but not until
their ship has been cut adrift. There
is a bloody battle in the stockade on
Treasure Island, an exciting scene
on Skeleton Island and a final suc
cessful search for the treasure, which
Ben Gunn, marooned sailor of Flints’
crew, had found and hidden a second
time.
EDW.4RD PRIZER HONORED
Edward Prizer, son of Mrs. E. Levis
Prizer of Southern Pines, has been
appointed associate news editor of
"The Tar Heel,” the student publi
cation at the Univeraity of North
Carolina ia Chapel HUI.
.Tack E. Phillips, Miss Mary Phillips
■\rthur G. Shields, Cleophua Swin
dell, Raymond Thomas and Mrs.
Gladys Warren.
Those passing the examination may
obtain their certificates by calling
at the Public Health Office or by
writing to Mrs. G. L. McGraw, Car-
thag«.
These classes were conducted by
Dr. John Symington, Public Health
officer and all attending the classes
took a deep interest in their studies
and work. Miss Laura T. Kelsey of
Southern Pines. Acting Chairman of
the Red Cross Chapter in Moore
sistant County Agent
Assistant County Agent W. G.
Caldwell said Monday indications are
that Moore county’s tobacco crop
will be considerably larger this year
than in 1938, following rejection of
crop control in this and other tobac
co-growing states.
Caldwell said that his office had
made no check-up on plant beds or
fertilizer sales but from numerous
contacts with individual farmers he
believed that a larger crop was cer
tain. "There are very few planting
less, and some are doubling their
county, and Mrs. G. L. McGraw of ^ acreage,” he said.
Carthage cooperated in arranging! How'ever, allotments under the soil
classes, | conservation program are still ef-
j fective, and penalties imposed for
Veteran of Two Wars ’ notice.biy retardmg,
m A -I J T> ^ * ' &*‘0"'ei-s who otherwise might in-1
10 AClUreSS IvOiarianS i crease their acreage, according to ;
; the farm official. |
Lieut. Col. Bullock Fought Forj Penalties under the program start!
II. S. Against Spain, Canada 1 when the allotment is passed and |
Against Germany > total eight tlme.q what the grower I
^ would otherwise be given in conser- j
"Rotary and the European Status, vation payments on that part of his
Quo” will be the subject of the talk crop above his allotment, said Cald-
to be delivered to the local Rotarj' vvell.
It was announced yesterday that
a ward bed in the new wing of the
Moore County Hospital has been en
dowed in memory of the late John
Davol Chapman, through a gift of
$2,500 made by his widow, Mrs. Ade
laide F. Chapman, oi Greenwich,
Conn.
Mr. Chapman was one of t!ie orig
inal directors of the Moore County
Hospital, and served on the board
from the time of its organization in
1928 until his death in the summer
of 1934. His wide business knowledge,
his talent for understanding human
problems, and his quiet but never-
failing conviction of the importance
of hospital work in this county
made Mr. Chapman an outstanding
figure In the records of the insti
tution.
A graduate of Williams College,
John Chapman entered the broker
age business in New York, helping
to found the firm in which he was
a partner. His chief relaxation was
golf, and in addition to being a first-
class player himself, he always en
deavored to give that game the in
telligent and high-minded support it
greatly needed as it advanced to the
position of a leading American pas
time.
For many years the Chapmans
maintained their winter home in
Plnehurst, and Mrs. Chapman still
visits here frequently. ’Two sons sur
vive; John S. Chapman, who carries
on in his father’s business, and Rich
ard D. Chapman, who inherits Mr.
Chapman’s love of golf and Is well
known nationally as a player.
The endowment fund of the Moore
County Hospital now totals approx
imately $6,000. The fund slowly
grows, and it has already demon
strated its great Importance in help
ing to meet the costs of running tlie
institution.
Club this week by Lieut. Col. C.
Seymour Bulloc’:, of South Bend,
Ind.
Colonel Bullock is a veteran of
both the Spanish-Amerlcan and the
World Wars, having served in the
United States Army during the for
mer, and In the Canadian army In,
the latter. He was seriously Avound-
ed during the World War, was dec
orated several times, and was a
guest at Buckingham Palace on
numerous occasions. The Colonel is
a lover of peace, but, as can be seen
from his record, not of "Peace at Any
Price.”
An ardent Rotarian, the Colonel
has sei-ved as District Governor in
his district in Indiana, as well as | same as that of last year,
president of his home club in South! Moore county voted about two to
Bend. He will bring to the local j cne against tobacco control in the
club a message of timely interest. | recent poll and also opposed cotton
The meeting will be held at the, restriction.
When the allotment has been over
produced by 12 and one-half per cent,
he explained, penalties have eaten
up all payments and any excess pen
alty can be applied against conser-
\ atlon payments for other crops,
such as cotton or wheat.
Some Fear Penalties
A number of farmers have said
they are not greatly Increasing their
tobacco acreage for fear of penal
ties, Caldwell said.
The 1939 tobacco allotment for
Moore under the soil conservation
program Is 4,906 acres, an Increase
of about one per cent over the crop
control limit of 1938. The cotton al
lotment is 4,869 acres, almost the
Mrs. A. McNeil Blair
Dies in Washington
Former President of Civic Club
First Came to Southern Pines
with Dr. Blair in 1905
Mrs. A. McNeil Blair, promi.ient
lesldent of Southern Pines for many
years and widow of Dr. Blair, who
uied in November, 1935, passed away
last Friday night at the Wardman
Park Hotel in Washington, D. C.,
after an Illness of several months.
Mrs. Blair, nee Josephyne Anderson,
was a former president of the Civic
Club of Southern Pines, active in
numerous other charitable and civic
affairs, and a leader In activities of
the Southern Pines Baptist Church
during her residence here. She and
her daughter. Miss Helen Alice Blair,
left Southern Pines Ir May, 1936
following Dr. Blair’s death, and since
then have resided in Atlanta, Ga.,
California and in Washington.
The Blairs came to Southern Pines
from Buffalo, N. Y., In 190C.
Funeral services were held in
the Forest Lawn Cemetery chapel in
Washington Monday afternoon. Bur-
Southem Pines Country Club, to
day, Friday at 12:15 p. ni.
Captain A. Innes-Taylor will be
come an honorary member of the Ro
tary Club this week, having been
selected by the board of directors
for his outstanding achievements In
connection with the Byrd Antarctic
Expeditions. He will be welcomed by;
Colonel Bullock, acting for the ,
board of the local club. |
Friday evening at 7 ;30 at the;
tent.
1*. BASKETBALL TEAM
INCRE.VSES WIN STREAK
trict on some subject of scouting
The members of the Scout commit
tee, the parents of the Scouts, and
anyone Interested in scouting are in
vited to attend. There will be no
admission charge, as the program
is sponsored by the Boy’s Work
committee of the Rotary dub.
A recent check-up in Lee county on, ial was in the Forest Lawn Ceme-
Mrs. Louis Scheipers, Mrs. Harry tery in Buffalo, where Dr. Blair is
the sales of fertilizer dealers showed 1 buried. A brother, Severn Ander-
that weed growers in this county f son, and a sister in Colorado, in addl-
are not taking advantage of the re-j tion to her daughter Helen, survive
jectlon of control to any large ex- Mrs. Blair. The news of her deatli
was a sincere blow to a vide circla
of friends throug-hout thp Sandhills
section.
I^VMBETH TO SPEAK HERE
Charles W. Picquet, chrirnian rf
the committee of the Pinehur'-t
Chamber of Commerce in charge of
arrangements for the coimty-wic’';
banquet to be held in The Carolira
at Plnehurst on Tuesday night, Fe’ -
ruary 7th, announced yesterday th.'^t
former Representative In Congrer s
from this district, Walter Lambe*:'i
of ThomacviU*. had accepted aa In*
vltation to be tke pri»H#at speaker.
On Wednesday night of this week
the Southern Pines High School boy’s
Country Club Colonel Bullock will | Cameron
address the Boy Scouts of this dis- | ^ to 18.
Arthur Pate led the scoring with 14
points.
On the previous Friday night the
Southern Pines boys "worked out a
33 to 18 victory over Aberdeen.
Southern Rnes’ record for the
season to date U four wins and oae
low.