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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
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CIRCULATION &
ADVERTISING
of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina. Friday, February 10, 1939.
FIVE CENTa
FOREIGN AFFAIRS,
RELIEF NO PLACE
FOR PARTISANSHIP
Waller Lambeth Tells Politicians
To Keep Hands Off Where
Lives Are Involved
ADDRESS BAN(iUET HERE
Prospects Appear Bright for New
Community House for Aberdeen
In Piano Recital
You can’t play politics with for
eign affairs any more than you can
with human suffering. The one is
likely to involve us unneaessarily
in international complications; both
are trafficking in human lives.
This waa the main point brought
out by Walter Lambeth of Thomas-
ville, for the past eight years the
Representative in Congress fi'om this,
the 8th North Carolina district, in
his talk before the Chambers of
Commerce of Moore county and their
guests at the Carolina Hotel in Pine-
hurst on Tuesday night. And hia
mesage fell upon sympathetic ears of
close to 300 persons from all sections
of the county.
“Politics kept us out of the Lea
gue of Nations and made the world,
not safe for democracy, but for^
gangsters,” he said. “Our foreign
policy is not a matter of partisan
politics. Nor is human suffering.
And we'll be better off if our Sec
retary of the Interior will leave ex
ternal affairs to the Secretary of
State and look after his own depart
ment,” he said, referring to Secre
tary Harold Ickes.
Sounding the praises of Cordell
Hull, Mr. Lambeth gave the head
of the State Department to his aud
ience as the ideal man for the next
President of the United States, a man ' djreCTS SCHOOL OF MUSIC
who, he said “has his feet on the j
ground.’’ The nomination met with | ^he Civic Club of Soutl cra Pines
great applause from the crowd. Hoffman, concert
MARK HOFFM.\N
NOTED PI ANIST TO
GIVE RECITAL AT
MID-PINES CLUB
Mark Hoffman of Greensboro en
Program of Southern Pines
Civic Club Tuesday
“This, That and T’other”
Mr. Lambeth’s talk, announced as
on "Government and Business,”
might be more aptly titled; "This,
That and T’other,” as he stated upon
arising in response to the introduc
tion of former State Senator U. L.
Spence of Carthage. He was in the
mood for rambling, and his ramblings
hit high spots. He quoted from Sir
James Barrie, from Captain Anthony
Eden, from the famous play Cyrano
de Bergerac; he read a letter writ
ten in 1914 by the late Walter Hines
Page—all put in evidence to reveal
that war is war, and that the mainte
nance of peace in America is worth
all the effort of all goverment and
all business. It’s a matter of "moral
rearmament,” of courage, of toler
ance.
“Economic planning, central man-^
agement of everything, is a fine con
cept, and it is possible we’ll come
to it. But who is to guarantee that
a few minds at the top embrace all
the wisdom ? Who can say that our
knowledge of ljusinesa or economic
conditions is sifficiently well de
veloped to be blueprinted by a few
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Washington Birthday
Races at Camden Off
Sandhills Meet Will Be First of
1939 Hunt Race Season Pro
gram, on March 18
pianist, in recital at the Mid-Pines
Club next Tuesday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock.
Mr. Hoffman, widely known pianist,
is tiirector of music at Greensboro
College. During his tenure the school
of music has gained national recog
nition as one with conservatory ad
vantages and a small college atmos
phere.
Mr. Hoffman is a scholarship pu
pil in piano of Rudolph Reuter of
Chicago, III, and of Earnest Hut
cheson, now president of the Juil-
liard Graduate School of Music, New
York city.
His program will consist of the
Toccata and Fugue in D minor of
Bach-Tausig, the Waldstein Sonata
of Beethoven, a Chopin group and
miscellaneous number by Granados,
virittes and Griffes.
A number of luncheon parties will
precede ,the concert Tuesday, and
there will be several teas following
Mr. Hoffman’s performance.
The list of guarantors and the
interest shown already in thiS recit
al promises a notable occasion. Tick
ets may still be purchased at the
Carolina Pharmacy in Pinehurst,
and at Hayes’ Book Shop in South
ern Pines.
list of Guarantors
Those who do not drive and vho
wish transportation to the Mid-Pines
Club to attend the recital are in
vited to meet at the Civic Club by
2:30, and members’ cars will be wait
ing. It is also requested that all
members with vacant places in their
cars pass by the Civic Club en route
Announcement was made from
Camden, S. C., yesterday of the can
cellation of this year’s Washington
Birthday race program at the Spring, j to the Mid-Pines,
dale course, an event which has at- j Following is the list of guarantors
tracted many from the Sandhills to for tuesday’s recital;
Camden each year. Inclement wea- j Mrs. Margaret Bishop, Dr. and Mrs.
ther in the north, officials stated, Edward E. Bradley, Mrs. Frederick
had delayed the training of many*H. Burke, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Blod-
prospective entries. Plans will be'gett, Mrs. Robert A. S. Bloomer,
concentrated on making the Caro-1 Miss Mary Blymer, Mrs. F. Craighill
lina Cup race meeting on April 1st Brown. Mr. and Mrs. Emmett E.
the greatest in the history of this
classic.
The cancellation of the Washing
ton Birthday event makes the Sand
hills meeting here on Saturday,
March 18th the opening gun of the
Hunt Race schedule for 1939. The
Boone, Mrs. John Berry, Mrs. Julia
Chambers, Mrs. Edwai’d A. Camp
bell, Mr. and Mrs. Archibald D. Dav
is, Mrs. Frazier, Mrs. George B.
Graff, Dr. Isabel Graves, Mrs. Claude
Hafer, Mr.s. Hargreaves Heap, Miss
Mildred Hatfield, Miss Louies Haynes,
early demand for Parking spaces in Mrs. Herbert Henderson, Mrs. Walter
the Clubhouse Enclosure is unpre- j T. Ives, Mrs. George J. Jenks, Miss
cedented, local officials state. An of- Laura Jenks, Mrs. Homer H. John-
fice in the Village Court Building, j son, Mrs. A. N. Janeres, Mrs. E. C.
Pinehurst, has been opened for the Keating, Mrs. Francis Keating, Mr.
convenience of those desiring these j and Mrs. Preston T. Kelsey, Mrs.
reserve spaces, so long as they last. (Plea$e turn to page four)
State Director Lang of Youth
Administration Offers Coop
eration in Labor and Materials
ADVERTISING OF
STATE APPROVED
BY COUNTY BOARD
A special meeting of the Execu
tive committee of the Aberdeen Com
munity House Association was held
Monday afternoon at the offices of
Johnson & McCleur in Aberdeen,
the offices of Johnson & McCIeur
at which time John A. Lang,
State Director of the National
Youth Administration, and Phillip S.
Randolph, Chief Engineer, were prc.**-
ent and gave their ideas and .siigges-
tion.'^e as to how the Town of Aber
deen might accomplVsh the long-
cherished ambition to have a Com
munity House of its own.
Members of the Executive commit
tee had previously .secured from Ay-
mar Embury. II, a set of plans for
the proposed building, and which had
been forwarded to Mr. Lang for in
spection. Messrs. Lang and Randolph
gave their full approval of the plans,
and formally stated that such a
building, if completed, would be one
of the outstanding Community houses
in the state. Mr. Lang made the
unqualified statement that the NYA
would he glud to sponsor this as a
project, and gave assurances to the
association that the NYA would glad
ly furnish all necessary labor and
in addition would furnish as much as
$2,500,00 in cash to be used towards
the payment of a competent super
visor, tools, equipment and mater
ials.
Cost Under $6,000
Mr. Lang gave as his opinion that
it would be advisable in the construc
tion of this building to use the same
group of young men who were work
ing on the Communty House at
Carthage, stating that there were 50
of these men, rno.^t of them exper
ienced in this type of work, and that
their services should be available to
the Aberdeen project by July 1st.
Estimates made by the architects
and engineers in Mr. Lang’s ofi'fce
indicated that the materials for the
building proposed by Mr. Embury
would amount to $5,384, based on
prices prevailing In the city of Ral
eigh. Members of the local commit
tees. including M. S. Weaver, were
of the opinion that such materials
could be purchased here less than at
Raleigh prices, giving as an illus
tration that the Raleigh Engineers
has Included $120.00 for sand, and
had designated a price for brick con
siderably higher than the prices pre
vailing in Aberdeen. Included also
in the Raleigh estimates was $400.00
for roofing material. Mr. Lang stat
ed the fire limits of the town would
permit rustic poplar shingles made
at one of the government mills near
Elkin, he could furnish thsee shin
gles gratis, the association paying
only the freight charges.
Considerable interest was evidenc
ed by all members present, and it
was apparently the concensus of
opinion that with the cooperation of
the Lions Club, he Garden Club,
the Book Clubs and other public-
spirited organizations of the town
the possibility of obtaining the much
needed and desired Community House
might be accomplished without a
serious burden upon the townspeople.
Present and taking part in the
meeting were Mesdames N. M. Har
ris, E. L. Pleasants, W. T. Huntley,
L. J. Dawkins, C. S. Worsley, Leon
Seymour, John Sloan, J. Talbot John
son, E. T. McKeithen, H. A. Page,
Jr., Stewart Weaver, Forrest Lockey,
Garland Farrell and Robert Gwyn,
and J. B. Edwards, G. C. Seymour,
Mayor Frank D. Shamburger, J. Tal
bot Johnson and Dan Farrell.
TAX EXPERT COMING
Commission Asks Boyette and
Clegg To Support $2.')0,000
Appropriation
4-YEAR REGISTER TERM
I The Board of County Commission
ers, in regular meeting Monday, gave
voice to its approval of the contin
uation of the State s advertising pro
gram and of the proposal to ex-
^tend the length of the term of of-
Ifice of the Register of Deeds of
Moore county from two to four years.
The Board voted to recommend
that Senator M. G. Boyette and Rcp-
ro.sentative W. R. Clegg use their in-
^fluence for, vote and work for the
passage of the bill providing for the
appropriation of $250,000 for contin
uing the advertising of the State
and (lireoted that copies of the or
der be sent to Mr. Boyette, Mr. Clegg
and to R. Bruce Etheridge, Commis
sioner of the Department of Conser
vation and Development.
“It is a great thing for Moore
county and I think it would be a
tremendous mistake to even think
about giving it up,” Chairman Wilbur
H. Cunlo stated to a Pilot represen
tative. "T. feel that the people of
the county as a whole are practical
ly unanimous in thinking that the
advertising program is a good thing,”
he continued.
The Board was unanimous in rec
ommending that Mr. Boyette and Mr.
Clegg support to the fullest the bill
introduced in the Senate by Mr. Boy
ette to extend the Register of Deeds
term in Moore county from two to
four years.
New Stunts Feature
Afternoon Gymkhana
Obstacle Jumping Over “Humor-
our Jumps” on Program at
Country Club Ring
Heads S a- Drive
A- r-
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BONDS DELIVERED
FOR PURCHASE OF
HARRINGTON SITE
Public Works Administration
Soon To Advertise Bids For
New Library Building
FROM PLANS BY EMBURY
T. -VSHLEY H.WWOOn
Nine thousand dollars in serial
I bonds of the Town of Southern Fines
were delivered this past week to
j the Municipal Government Commis-
! Sion at Raleigh, whence they w’ill
' pass on to the Raleigh bond house
which purchased the issue for dis-
I tribution to investors. The delivery of
^ the bonds followed the recent decis-
^ ion of the State Supreme Court val-
idating their sale for the purchase of
the Harrington site on West Broad
street for a Civic Center and the
^ location of a new library building,
i possibly at a later date of a mun-
; icipal office building,
j Machinery was also set in motion
this week with the Public Works Ad-
' ministration for the advertising of
bids at an early date on the plans
; and specifications for the new li
brary. The plans, drawn by Aymar
‘ Embury II, call for a building rough-
I ly estimated at $15,000 which, with
the $9,000 lot, means a total outlay
The campaign7o7the Building and ^^4,000, The Town of South-
Endowment Fund of the projected $24,000. The Town of South-
North Carolina Preparatory School acquiring the lo.t and a
for Foys got started this week on ^^A grant Is providing $11,250 to-
schedule time under the leadership ^he buUding, the balance for
of T. Ashley Hay^^•ood for Rocking-■‘^«"«truction, furnishing and equip-
ham, one of the largest peach grow-1 to be m«de up from private
ers in the Sandhills. Appealing to the
NEARBY COUNTIES
RAISING QUOTAS
FOR BOYS SCHOOL
Building and Endowment Cam
paign Starts Under Leadership
of T. Ashley Haywood
ULTIMATE GOAL $6«>0,00()
An obstacle jumping event will
feature this, Friday, afternoon’s gym
khana postponed in the new show
ring at the Southern Pines Country
Club, but what the obstables are
to be the committee in charge re-
lused yesterday to divulge to the
press. Anyway, it's something differ
ent, and will doubtless be worth the
price of admission considering that
there isn’t any price of admission
unless you happen to want to park
the Bulck against the ringside—and
that’s only 50 cents, half a dollar.
Freddie Burke—pardon us—Fred
erick H. Burke, chairman of the
Gymkhana committee, announced the
program yesterday and it’s a seven-
event affair, more than usual. It
starts off with pair jumping over
the outside course. This is to be fol
lowed by an egg race, which re-
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sentiment of seven nearby counties
to duplicate the amount already rais
ed In Moore County for the pur. j
chase of the site selected on Midland
I Road, halfwtay between Pinehurst
and Southern Pines, Chairman Hay
wood rallied a dozen of the leading
men in his own county to follow his
own example in subscribing gener
ously to make up the assigned quota.
The response was prompt and enthu
siastic. Three other counties have al
ready been organized by Frances M.
Osborn, the executive secretary, J.
A. Baldwin, associate field manager,
and will complete their quotas next
week.
According to the program the or
ganized campaign will begin March
1st in the Charlotte, High Point,
Raleigh, Rocky Mount and Wilming
ton districts with the raising of
$100,000 as an objective for the first
building—this being the first step
in a campaign with an ultimate goal
goal of $600,000.
Mr. Haywood, chairman of the
beard, was chosen at a recent meet
ing of the trustees held at Pinehurst.
He Is a native North Carolinian, a
graduate of Wake Forest College of
donations.
It will probably be a month be
fore actual construction work can
bp .started.
A deputy collector from the United
States Revenue Department will bv
;at the Southern Pines postoffice on
February 20th to aid citizens in mak
ing out their income tax returns.
FASHION SHOW GIVEN UP
The Fashion Show for the benefit
of the Moore County Hospital planned
for late March has been given up.
For Shame, Vass!
“Town Was Laid Out For a
Liquor District,” Says Com
plaint Filed in Court Action
“That said town was laid out
ior a liquor district and, accord
ing to said lay-out and boundaries,
is larger than ‘most any city in
North Carolina, said town being
circular in circumference and two
miles in diameter ”
This interesting bit of history
has reference to the town of Vass
and is recorded in a complaint
filed in the Clerk’s office In Car
thage In which Plaintiffs Dr. R.
G. Rosser, J. M. Tyson, W. D. Mc-
Craney and A. K. Thompson are
seeking to have W. D. Matthews,
Commissioner, restrained from
selling their property for town
taxes.
The property was scheduled for
sale on February 61!i, but tem
porary restraining order was sign
ed by Judge F. Donald Phillips on
February 4th and a hearing on
the matter set for February I7th.
Seawell and Seawell are attorneys
for the plaintiffs
Episcopal Clergy of
State To Meet Here
Bishop Penick of North Caro
lina, Canon Symons of Ohio
Among Notables Coming
The annual pre-Lenten conference
of the clergy of the Diocese of North
Carolina of the Episcopal Church will
be held In Emmanuel Church here
on February 14th and 15th. The Bish
op of the diocese, the Rt. Rev. Ed
win A. Penick, D. D., announces that
the leader of the conference will be
the Rev. Canon Gilbert O. Symons
of Cincinnati. Canon Symons is one
of the outstanding leaders in the
Episcopal Church. He holds a num
ber of important positions in hi own
diocese of Southern Ohio in addition
to several posts in the national
church. He has been a member of
the Forw’ard Movement Commission
since its beginning several years ago
and has contributed much to the val
uable work of that Commission. In
the class of 1911. After a short ex- i ^937 Canon Symons was a delegate to
perience in teaching he went with' World Conferences at Oxford
the (peach growing business and Edinburg,
though starting with small capital i
he is now general manager and part
owner of the North State Orchards
and controls the largest orchard in!
the world devoted exclusively to, „ ,
« oi ^ R**ownson Presbyterian Church
peaches. He also helped to organize . ■».t nj-...
Hopes To Be m New Edifice
For Easter Service
Ordains New Elders
and Deacons Sunday
the Noi'th Carolina Peach Growers
and Is a director. Mr. Haywood is a
member of the South’s oldest hunting
club and has a large game preserve
near Candor. He is the father of
two sons who will register in the
new school as soon as the book are
opened.
\SRS HIGHW.^Y MONEY
FOR CITY STREET VPKEEP
The Board of Commiseioners of
Aberden wants not less than $1,000,-
000 of the State’s highway fund
spent annually in maintaining, re
constructing, wedening, etc. of streets
in towns and cities where these
streets serve a^s ^connecting links
with State and county roads, A res
olution to this effect was adopted by
*he board at its meeting Monday
night, and has ben forwarded to
the General Assembly.
The board cites that car owners
esidlng in cities and towns pay 63
lercent of the State-collected gaso-
. ine taxes and license fees, and should
eceive more local benefit.
Additional elders and deacons will
be ordained at the Sunday morning’s
service of the Brownson Memorial
Presbyterian Church of Southern
Pines in the Carolina Theatre where
services are being held pending com.
pletlon of the handsome new edifice
on South May street.
The elders-elect are D. Ernest Bail
ey and Warren A. Smith, and the
new deacons Don Jenson, Dan Mc
Neill and F. M. Dwight.
Work is progressing rapidly now
or. the new church building, and if
it continues at the present rate, the
Rev. Ernest L. Barber, pastor, ex
pects to be able to preach his EJaster
sermon from his new pulpit.
HIGH SCHOOL GLEE t'H B
TO SING FOR ROTARI.\NS
At its meeting this noon, Friday, in
the Southern Pines Country Club the
Rotary Club will be entertained by
the Southern Pines High School Glee
aub.