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VOLUME
2
THE PILOT
NUMBER
10
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surroiinding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
PINEHURST SHALL BE THE
HEAD
(Southern Medicine and Surgery)
That the present president of the
Medical Society of the State of North
Carolina is a gentleman actively con
cerned in making a success of the
job is manifest to those who have
followed closely his activities since
his election at the Pinehurst session
a few -months since. He is literally
construing the section of the con
stitution and by-laws which provide
that “Pinehurst shall be the real
head of the profession of the State
during his term of office, and, as
far as practicable, shall visit by ap
pointment the various sections of
the State and assist the councillors
in building up the county societies
and in making their work more prac
tical and useful.” His recent visit
to the extreme Western town of
North Carolina, Murphy, to attend
the Tenth District meeting was evi
dence of his -active thoughtfulness
and deep concern to foster the every
interest of the organized profession.
During the Murphy meeting Dr. Roy
ster gave out an outline of his plans
and purposes during his administra
tion arranging for having a program
at the next session which would be
planned with a view to restricting
the activities of “visiting medical
statesmen” and emphasizing the im
portance of the Carolina doctor to
the profession, to the society and to
himself. The doctor also plainly ex
pressed his desire to see the state
society arrange for having its own
journal and publishing the proceed
ings from month to month rather
than a continuance of the present
time-honored method of issuing an
annual volume which too often ap
pears many months following the
state society’s annual meeting. Dr.
Royster plans to attend all of the
district meetings, and is evincing the
liveliest possible interest in lending
a helping hand at every point where
he may be of any service to the pro
fession.
COURT HOUSE MANNERS
Farmers around Vass are quick to
note the kind of treatment accorded
them when' they go into the court
house to transact business, and noth
ing galls them quicker than to run
across inattention. We don’t mean
that they expect a clerk or a deputy
01* an official of any kind to get dow’n
on his knees and scrape and bow and
toady to them. They would be just
as much disgusted with this. But
they do appreciate being waited on
by one of their public servants just
as carefully and as carefully and as
quickly as they would be waited on
a clerk in a store. There are
officials, many of them, who fail to
realize that they are drawing their
salaries from the farmers who trans
act business at the court house, and
that they have no more right to neg-
ect the taxpayer than a hired man of
A GOOD RESOLUTION
In conversation with a well-known
local man a few days ago he told
us that he had made but one resolu
tion at the beginning of the new year,
and that was that he will take more
pride in Vass during the months to
come than he took in the months al
ready gone.
We believe it is the best resolution
we have heard of. And if ALL of our
citizens would resolve to d6 the same
thing just think what we would have
to point to a year from now. The
greatest trouble with smaller towns
and cities of America today is they
contain too many citizens of the
“don’t-care” type. That is, citizens
who are satisfied to let things take
their course. Sooner or later, when
things do not go to suit them, they
develop into knockers. And we all
know how quickly a town or comninni-
ty loses the respect of every one
once the knockers get to swinging
their hammers. But in the town
where men and women do care, where
they take an interest in seeing that,
streets and walks and gutters are
kept in repair; that school buildings
and public buildings and the churches
are spick and span, inside and ont—
there the knocker finds his seed of
discontent being sown on stony ground
and he quickly moves on to some
other community, or learns to keep
his mouth shut.
It is the easiest thing in the world
to take pride in your home town, and
to stop for a few minutes talk every
day with your neighbors about what
more is needed to make it still bet
ter. It doesn’t cost anything to boast
of your town’s advantages to a strang
er, or when you are in another com
munity. All these little things count
in the course of a year, and especial
ly when we are all doing it. Boost
ing the home town gets to be con
tagions. Pretty soon you’ll find out
siders joining in and doing the same
thing. The returns are too great to
be estimated. So that’s why we be
lieve the resolution to take more
pride in your home town this year
than you did last year is the best one
you could make..
Last year there were not enough
freight cars to move the crops and
we suppose the alibi this year will
be that there are not enough crops
to move the freight cars.
CAMERON
We heard one man say yesterday
that to him the saddest thing the
world is to see a woman who thinks
she knows it all married to a nian
who thinks he’s pretty.
any kind would have a right to “talk
back” to his employes. Our county
is pretty free of this sort, however,
and that is why it is pleasing to note
that when one of our farmers has
occasion' to mention his treatment at
the court house it is usually to do
so in an approving instead of a criti
cising way. ' ;
Miss Annie Pierce, of Borderleei en
tertained, Saturday evening in honor
of her friend. Miss Ruth Bullock of
Carthage route.
Miss Vivian Matthews, Miss Lois
Sanford, and Miss Annie McGill, of
Vass, were week-end guests of Misses
Lora and Nonnie Norman.
Cameron Hardware Company is the
name of the new firm that will open
next week in the Womack-Thomas
building. The members of the firm
are J. A. Thomas and J. W. Came
ron. Both men being good carpenters,
they are making the furniture re
quired for a hardware store. The
furniture is neat and quite artistic.
Their motto being, **A. place for every
thing and everything in its place.”
Dr. Rosser of Vass, was called,
Sunday, to see Mrs. Lula Muse in the
absence of Dr. O’Briant, her attend-
phj^sician. Mrs. Muse is reported
better.
Mr. G. M. McDermott and family
have rented rooms at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Irvin. Mr. McDer
mott has purchased two lots on Mc
Pherson street, opposite the Irvin
home, and expects to begin the build
ing of a home at an early date.
Messrs. George W. Cole and Dan
Vick attended Carthage court Mon
day.
Mr. Buie and family from near
Raeford have moved to Cameron. Mr
Buie is employed by D. W. McNeill.
Cameron extendes to Mr. Buie and
family a cordial welcome.
Messrs. D. J. McNeill and Tom
Phillips, of Union church, two of the
best hearted scouts in Moore county,
called, Saturday, at the home of the
correspondent.
Rev. M. D. McNeill was called, Mon
day, to Sanford to assist Rev. W. M.
Gilmore in the funeral services of Mr.
John D. Gunter, Jr., of Sanford.
Dr. A. L. O’Briant was called home
Saturday on account of the illness of
his father who has pneumonia.
Mrs. Dula Stephens, of Lakeview.
is nursing Mrs. L. H. Joyner, who we
are pleased to report, is improvmg
from a recent illness.
Pleased, also, to report Miss Chris-
sie McLean improving after a weeks
illness.
Mr. Aaron Rogers, a well known
citizen of this community, passed
away Monday morning at his home
near Cranes Creek. The burial took
place at Hays Chapel by the side of
his wife who passed several years
ago. Of him can be said, as of Na
thaniel, “A man in whom there was
no guile.”
Mr. Carl Yarborough, of Jonesboro,
(Continued on page eight)
DELEGATES FOR COTTON AS
SOCIATION MEET
Last Wednesday delgates selected
by the various county conventions
met in Hamlet. Mr. J. W. Graham,
of Aberdeen, represented Moore coun
ty. A full quorum was present. Mr.
L. M. Bhie, of Gibson, was made per
manent Chairman and Mr. Graham
secretary.
Mr. J. M. Dockery, of Rockingham,
and Mr. A. A. McEachern, of Raeford,
were nominated for directors of this
cotton district. The district is com
posed of Hoke, Moore, Scotland and
Richmond counties. These nominees
will be presented to all the members
of the association and a ticket pre
pared for ballot. Each member will
be asked to mail this ballot to Mr.
E. P. Pearce at Hamlet by January
30th, when with the assistence of
Ryan McBride of Red Springs and T.
B. Baxley of Roberdell, they will
count ballots and declare the proper
delegate as director. M. W.WALL,
County Agent.
MEETING OF PEACH GROWERS
USEFUL LITTLE BOOKLET
The Legislative Reference Library
of the North Carolina Historical Com
mission has just issued a very useful
little booklet of 68 pages entitled
“Directory of State and County Offi
cials of North Carolina” which con-
There will be an important meet
ing of all peach growers on Janu
ary 27th, 1922, at 2 o’clock p. m., in
the Community Building at Pinehurst,
for the purpose of formulating plans
for the institution of a vigorous sup
pression campaign against the peach
curculio in the Sandhills fimit section
of North Carolina. All growers and
others interested in the welfare of
the peach industry* are urged to be in
attendance and offer hearty co-opera
tion in getting the work under way
so that the peach crop for 1922 may
suffer no loss through attacks of the
curculio as was the case last year
with the crop in many orchards.
The speakers will be: Mr. J. B. Gill
of the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, Dr. R. W. Leiby of the State
Department of Agriculture, and Prof.
Franklin Sherman, Chief of the Di
vision of Entomology, State Depart
ment of Agriculture. Growers should
by all means go to Pinehurst to at
tend this important meeting and get
first hand information as to the best
methods for fighting and controlling
the peach curculio.
tains a complete list of North Caro
lina Congressmen, State officers,
heads of the various State depart
ments, boards and commissions. State
institutions and presidents, judicial
officers, members of the Legislatuie
and of county officials with their
postoffice addresses. It gives for
each county the name and address of
the clerk of the court, register of
deeds, sheriff, treasurer, coroner,
surveyor, auditor, superintendent ot
health, superintendent of schools, su
perintendent public welfare, chair
man of the board of elections, colinty
and highway commissioners. Copies
of the booklet may be obtained upon
application to H. M. London, Lei^isla-
tive Reference Librarian, Raleigh.