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A Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding
of the Sandhill Terr ^ ^ North Carolina
Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina P’riday, March 3, 1939.
Future of System of Private
Enterprise May Depend Upon
Settlement of R. R. Problem
J. F. Johnston, of Seaboard
Counsel, Tells Kiwanis Much
Involved in Solution
SUBSIDIZED COMPETITION
New Book Ready
The entire future of private enter
prise in the United States may de
pend upon the solution of the prob
lems of the country’s rai'roads. If
an enterprise of the magnitu.’e and
importance of the railroad industry
should be shunted out df the capital
istic system into government owner
ship, there is no reason to believe
that other utilities and gradually
other industries would not meet the
same fate.
The speaker was Joseph F. John
ston, of Norfolk, Va., assistant chief
counsel of the Seaboard Air Line
Railway, at Wednesdays meeting of
the Sandhills Kiwanis Club, held at
the Highland Pines Inn ir Southern
Pines. '
Mr. Johnston gave gome intercst-
mg figures in his talk on “The Na.
tional Railroad Situation.’’ There are
more than one million fewer employes
of the railroads today than there
were 20 years ago, with a two bil
lion dollar decrease in wages. Rail
roads are paying 450 million dollars
less in dividends annually than dur
ing the ’20t, and capital expenditures
are off one-half billion dollars. They
are spending 700 million less annual
ly for materials and supplies. So the
•effect is vital in national economy.
The I causes of the situation: Low
•volume of traffic resulting from the
<lepression—railroads areoperating at
40 per cent capacity; rates less than
cost in most cases; unfair competi
tion; government regulation and tax
ation.
Tho government, Mr. Johnston
stated, has spent 20 billion dollars in
subsidies to competing transpoitation
facilities, more tan the capital of
all the railroads in the country.
Buses, trucks, water carriers are per.
milted rates with which the rail
roads cannot compete on any com
pensatory basis. Railroads pay, in
North Carolina, 33 cents on every
dollar of revenue in taxes and main
tenance, as against four and one-
half cents paid in taxes by compet
ing agencies. The Seaboard annual
costs of operation include $4,850,000
in items which cannot be controlled
by the management.
IMbllc Owns Railroads
Is the remedy government owner
ship? The public already owns the
railroads, Mr. Johnson said. Bonds,
stocks, are in the hands of individuals,
insurance companies, savings banka
j'epresenting millions and millions of
people. No, the effect of such a
move would undermine the entire in
vestment structure of the country.
The transportantion system must be
considered as a whole, and a nation
al policy adopted, fair to all means
of transportation. Railroads are not
’ asking special privileges, but the
removal of the handicaps of regula
tion and subsidized competition.
North Carolina franchise taxes ex.
ceed the total net revenue of raid-
roads operating in the state from
business taken out of the state.
Wages, rates, are fixed by the gov.
emment; the financial return to own
ers of the railroads, the investing
public, largely controlled by govern
mental agencies.
And Mr. Johnston summed up with
his warning that in dealing with the
railroad situation, we are dealing
v^ith the entire problem of our pres-
,I.\IVIP:S BOYD
Mr. Boyd’s new novel, ‘‘Bitter
Creek,’’ will be published this month
by Chaiies Scribners Sons, who call
it the best of the works of the
Southern Pines author. Orders are
already being booked for first edition
copies. The story ran serially in
the Saturday EJvening Post, but has
since been revised by Mr. Boyd.
Mr. and Mrs. Boyd are now in
Tuscon, Arizona, but are expected to
return here next week.
Schwartz Reelected
Head of Sandpipers
300 HEAR WHAT
IT tmm TO BE
Charles Milton Newcomb Deliv
ers Notable Address L'nder
Civic Club Auspices
MUST FIGHT FOR LIBERTIES
Golfers Banquet at Country
Club, Hear Arthur Newcomb,
Award Trophies
The Sandpipers, men’s golfing or.
ganization of the Southern Pines
Country Club, held its annual meet-
iog and banquet at the club on Wed
nesday night, awarded prizes, decided
on a tournament date and a banquet
date with the Pine Dodgers, heard
stories and reelected Jameis S.
Schw^irtz president and Elmer E.
Davis secretary.
The championship cup for low
gross *match plays was awarded to
Gordon Keith of Aberdeen; John
Schaanmaker of Naponech, N. Y.,
was runner-up in the championship
flight.
Low net award in the second divis
ion was won by John C. Barron with
Eugene C. Stevens the runner-up. Roy
Grlnnell was medalist in the qualify
ing round.
Howard Burns Introduced Arthur
Newcomb who entertained the Sand
pipers with an assortment of French-
Canadian dialect stories.
Saturday and Sunday, March 11
and 12, was set as the date for the
mixed Southern Pines Country Club
championship, a 36-hole medal play
event. It was also decided to hold a
joint banquet with the ladles organ
ization, the Pine Dodgers, some time
late in April.
Three hundred residents of the
Sandhills heard a notable address on
the sjbject of “What Is It To Be
.^n Americanin the Southern
.•’ines High School Auditorium last
-■'riday night. The speaker was Char
t's Milton Newcomb, of AKheville, a
• c.l K.io.vn lecturer, who was in-
iuc.uLcd by Misj F'lorence Campbell,
.ji'C-ident of the Civic Club, under
■ hose auspices the meeting was held.
Ml'. Newcomb said, in i)art;
"Just what do you mean when you
.say that yoU are an ‘American?” Let
,.s consider tnis familiar but very
.nuch misused word.
“If, as fresuently happens, an alien,
oorn lesident of this country ex
presses a desire to become an Amer-
.Lan citizcn, we require him to give
evidence that he knows certain
things about America. If this be true
in such a case, then what ought you
and I who were fortunate enough to
iiave been b'lrn in the United States
Know in order to be called a “good
.vmerican” ?
“A Good American should under,
stand something of the philosophy
which underlies our American sys
tem of government.
There are, broadly speaking, only
cwo philosophies in the world, and
they are based on two absolutely op-
' posed assumptions. One is the Chris
tian philosophy based on the assump
tion that good Is more powerful than
evil. The other is the atheistic phll-
jsophy based on the contrary assump
tion that evil Is more powerful than
good.
Political Systems
“What, now, are the political sys.
tems in which these two philosphles
FIVE CENTS
Architect’s Sketch of New Library
lt,.^TRACTS LET
FOR NEW LIBRARY
BUILDING HERE
Relnecke-Dillehay Co. Awarded
(ieneral Contract On Low
Bid of $11,980
W ORK TO START SOON
BIG PL.4NS FOR JAY-CEfc
B.^RN DANCE MARCH
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Planning to make their second an
nual Bam Dance the most successful
event of the season, members of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce have
been hard at work the past week
arranging for the conversion of the
Southern Pines Country Club to a
most realistic barn and Chairman
j George London says the public may
I be assured of a most entertaining
ent system of private enterprise vs.
a Hflne^erous trend toward socia.llsni.
dang tn the Tickets for this event will be plac-
Mr. Johnston was presented to me , j .
. X r,, Of Abpr- ed on sale this week-end and may
rlub bv J. Talbot Johnson or Aoer x
^ be secured through any member of
1 the Junior Chamber of Commerce,
HKRfT^SDAY TO AID WTTH ,i or at Broad Street Pharmacy. Mer-
STATE INCOME TAX RETURNS | Pharmacy, or Dorn s.
John Thomas, Jr., deputy commis-
.oioner of the State Department of
Revenue, will be at the Broad Street
Pharmacy in Southern Pines next
Tuesday for the purpose of assisting
taxpayers in filing their State tax
returns.
TO ADDRESS ROTARY
George Graf of Boston, Mass., a
winter resident of Southern Pines,
wall be the speaker at today’s Ro
tary Club meeting at 12:15 in the
Southern Pines Country Club.
SKYLINE ESTATE
SOLD TO GENERAL
COLEMAN, U. S. A.
Army Officer Acquires Former
Swett Home For His
“Retired Years”
The Skyline estate, the former ^
James S\Mett prop(<^.y on U. S. |
Highway No. 1 three miles north of
Southern Pines, was sold during the
past Week by the Citizens Bank &
Trust Company through the P. T. |
Bainum agency. The purchaser is;
General Fredireck W. Coleman, U. S. 1
A., of- Washington, D. C-, who re- j
tires from the army next year and |
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purchases for a home for “my retired |
years,” as he put it. A relatives,Arch
Coleman, of Wisconsin, and his fam
ily will occupy it in the near future
pending Gen. Coleman’s retrement. i
This was but one of numerous real |
estate transactions consummated i
during the past week or two and an- j
find expression 7 One Is the system i nounced yesterday by the Barnum of-
of the so-called “democracies’’ of
which Great Britain, the United
States and France are leading expo
nents. In these the individual citizen
is relatively free. The other Is the
system characterized by the tyranny
of the state over the individual, in
which class come the Communist and
Fascist states.
“Up until the time of the founding
of constitutional government In the
United Staes every government in the
world’s history had rested upon this
assumption:
“That power resides In the state
and that the individual comprising
the state has no rights except those
which the state may give him. That
you will note is the idea of the ant
hill and the bee-hivc, the idea basic
to all lower orders than man.
“The essence o^ Christ’s teaching
was that all men are Important and
that all are equally important. And
the most striking thing about this
government of ours, is, that for the
Costume Parade
Fashions of Yesteryear To Be
Modeled for Hospital Ben
efit March 11
Sandhills residents and visitors
are to have an opportunity to
delve back into the past and
glimpse the fashions of yester
year at the Pineliurst Country
Club the afternoon of Saturday,
March 11th, at 5:00 o'clock. One
of the feature events of the “Old
Fashioned Costume Parade,’’ and
from reports more gowns of the
Giay Nineties, and before, and
jince, have been dug out of cellars
ind attics than were believed to
oe extant in the Sandhills.
The costumes will be “model
ed” by prominent ladies of all
parts of the country. In fact
there’s a rumor afloat that some
may be worn by well known resi
dents of the opposite sex. Any.
way, everyone is Invited to the
parade, with the admission fixed
at 50 cents and one dollar, “let
ting your conscience be your
guide."
With the awardng on Wednesday
of contracts for the construction of
the new Southern Pines Library build
ing on the Civic Center site adjoining
the postoffice, work is expected to
get under way within the next two
weeks. Bids accepted at the meet
ing of the Board of Commissioners
in the office of City Manager Howard
Burns totaled $13,786. The city re
cently acquired the land on which
the building is to be erected at a
cost of $9,000.
The ReiiTeck!e.Dillehay Company
of Southern Pines and Fayetteville
was awarded the general contract for
the building. The low bid was $11,-
f-80.
The Pinehurst Pluiuoing and Heat
ing Company was low bidder on the
installaton of the heating system,
with $1,154, and also low on the
plumbing contract with $387. The
Bushby Electric Company of South
ern Pines was awarded the electrical
installation contract at $265.
Work will start as soon as the
contracts have been approved by the
Public W'orks Administration at At
lanta, Ga., as PW’A funds are involv
ed in the project.
Plans for the building were drawn
by Aymar Embury, 2d of New York.
Mrs. Bethune Winner
in Movie Quiz Contest
Noted Judges Award Her $10.00
For Essav on Picture,
“Boy’s Town”
fice. Captain Alan Innes-Taylor,
member of the Byrd South Polar
Expeditions, and Norman Shenk,
manager of the Central Cai'olina Tel
ephone Company, have acquired Lots
Nos. 2 and 3 on the Southern Pines | Of $75. Fishing Award
Country Club estates and are letting |
‘Buck” Tarlton Winner
Mrs. C. C. Bethune of Aberdeen
received word this week of the
award of a $10.00 prize in the na.
tion-wlde Movie Quiz contest, in
which there were more than 5,000 en
trants. Mrs. Bethune chose the pic-
turer“Boys’ Town,’’ and submitted a
50-word essay. She Is believed to be
the only winner of a prize In the
contest in this section.
Judges of the contest were Con
gressman Bruce Barton, Mrs. Helen
Wills Moody, noted tennis player,
Mrs. Ogden Reid, Henry Willem Van
First prize in Its Southern Lurge Loon, prominent writer, and Dr.
Mouth Bass division has tieen awar<^ James E. West. The successful con
ed by Field and Stream magaziiTfe to; testants were announced at the
Richard F. Tarlton of Southern Pines Aberdeen Theatre on Monday night,
for his catch of a 11 1-2 pound baas ,^nd Mrs. Bethune was besieged wltii
in Cottonade Lake, Fayetteville ,on congratulatlc^is.
August 14th last. Word of the award
was received by Mr. Tarlton yester-, ucgION PL.ANS BIG NIGHT
day. The prize is $75.00 in various HVT ON THIJKSD.AY
Highland | merchandise, plus a set of books.
His llYz Pound Catch Takes
Prize in Southern Large Mouth
Bass Division
contracts for new homes tills week.
These houses will be on the road
leading from Morganton Road to the
L. E. Stoner residence.
The Bowers house on May street.
Southern Pins, was sold to John H.
Stei>henson, deputy United States
Marshal, who buys for a home.
A number of rentals were also re.
ported, among them the Dr. Arthur
Ramsey house on Ridge street, Wey
mouth Heights, to Harry C. McDon
ald’ of Toronto, Canada, the M. H
Turner house, near the
Pines Inn, the Mrs. Nina B. Monroe I Mr. Tarlton, of the Relnecke-Dll-
house on May street, and the Burgess I lehay Company, contractors, made
house on Massachusetts avenue. I his prize catch on the estate of Mrs.
The Skyline estate consists of a Reinecke’s father, WUliam Suther-
The next regular meeting of .Sand
hill Post, American Legion, wil be
held on Thursday of next week at
8:00 p. m. in the Legion Hut. A spec-
two and one-half story brick dwell-! land near Fayetteville. With him was jai program has been arranged and
ing, a six-room tenant cottage, and Eldrldge Land of Aberdeen. Inclden. i members and ex-service men are
first time in history this principal
of Christian teaching was made dom- ] jQg acres of land on one of the tally, Cecil Robinson, also of South- urged to be present. Past command-
inant In a governmental system. i highest points in the section, thus de- ern Pines, was recently awarded sec- e,-g of post are In charge. Re-
“For when George Washlngon and | its name. The assessed valua- ond prize In the Southern Small i freshments will be served by the
the other founders of this Republic , property ls> $10,000, but' Mouth Bass division by the sam 31 ladies' Auxiliary after the meeting.
set upon the soil of the New World ; jj. represents a cost to the former. magazine. j
this experiment In self-government | owner of some $35,000. The land is'
they \^ere In revolt against the old j t^e growing of tobacco, * CONCERT .AT WEST END
Idea of the dominance of the state. I potton or other crops. TO BENEFIT HOSPIT.XL
To them it meant tyranny. So they 1
set up a government based on ex-! * AValUpr Giovanni ^erandeo, famous Italian
actly the opposite assumption, name- W VV 11^ El
ly, that power resides—not in the Prize in Poster Contest aie Sperandeo. pianist, will present
state—but In the Individual.
I I an unusual type of concert under the
And If you wUl study the Constl. School Pupils Submit Sketches a -spices of the wome nof West Knd
tution of the United States you will
(Please turn to page six)
ART EXHIBIT OF LOCAL
TALENT AT CH IC ( LI B
■and community in the West End High
Schcol uudltorlum on Friday even-
For Sandhills Woman’s Ex
change Advertising Campaign
in^;. March 10th at 8:00 o’clock, for
Miss Ann Walker of Southern tjip tjirefit of the Moore County Hos-
Pines won the first prize of $10.00 in j tai. The admission charge wil be
the poster contest sponsored by tlie 2"> ccnts for adult? and 1'5 for chi’- |
Sandhills Woman’s Exchange and ,j»'pn and the pii!' ic is cordially in
open to pupils in Aberdeen, Pirehurst vi’n j. ]
The Sperandeos have appeared be-;
hundreds of churches, hii.h i
Tag Day
Maternity Welfare Commit
tee To Raise Funds Through-
County on March 25
The second annual independent, no
jury art exhibit for Sandhills ar
tists, sponsored by the Three Arts j and Southern Pines Schools. Mi.':s
Group of the Sandhills, opened yes-^’ Louise Crain of Southern Pines won fore
terday afternoon at the Civic Club ; second prize, and honorable mention i.ools. colleges ard imiversitles of
in Southern Pines.
More than 75 separate exhibits by
15 different exhibitors are on view.
The exhibit will be open through Mon
day of next week, on Sunday from
2:00 to 5:00 and on w’eek-days from
1:00 to 5:00.
was glvep the Mi-ses Ruth Swett, tj;c leadino: cities of our count v. |
Ruth Van Camp and Mary Catherine They have been received everywhere, i
Cl an, all of Southern Pines. \,ith genu'ne enthusiasm ar.d praise* 1
The posters cf fVll flMP of t>.ese of the highest order have been nc-1
young ladies will be used in a poster corc*e-' them. In many cities they have j
advertising campaign planned by the been c.^.lled for return engagements I
Exchange. esain and again. '
The Maternity Welfare commit
tee of Moore County is s ion orlng
a Tag Day on Saturday, March
25th to raise funds ior cai’^lng on
work for the coming year.
More patients throughout the
county are being cared for as the
benefits are . becom’ng bettci
known. Some of the mo’-e critical
cases require hospitalizat’.on anci
extra doctor’s fees, Milk and med
icines are required in of'er cases.
All funds are distributed under
careful supervision an:l each gift,
whether a dime, a dollar, or m'sre
will help and be welcor e.
Tag Day, March 25th, will be
observed In each town of the cou”i.
ty.