Friday, February 1, 1924
THE PILOT
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THE PILOT
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AS TO THE MATTER
OF POLITICS
It seems that in some quar
ters politics is regarded as a
thing to be spoken of lightly, a
sort of fetish that must.be ap
proached only under a guard,
and then with restrictions lest
some one’s preserves are trampl
ed, or an opinion entertained
that is not to be offered courage
ously or plainly because some
one else may have a different no
tion of things. The Pilot does
not worship any such god as
this, and that it has had little to
say of politics is not because it
has looked upon political themes
as of a nature too sacred, but
simply because little has pre
sented itself in the life time of
this paper that appeared to call
for much discussion.
But we are approaching a po
litical campaign that appears to
have been scheduled for more or
less bitterness and personality.
Should that be the case it is hard
to tell who may be drawn into
such a fracas. Where every
spectator is hitting a head the
enthusiasm often becomes con
tagious, and the most dispassion
ate philosopher finds himself
with a club in his hands.
and in some instances entire
herds of northern cattle have
been found infected, and the
state average has run up to near
ly half of all cattle in some of
the states.
Tuberculosis in cattle is con
veyed to man and to hogs. A
diseased cow is a grave danger
to the community if she happens
to be in a dairy, or to a family if
she is a family cow. Tuberculo
sis is the most destructive dis
ease that at the present time af
flicts the human race. Much of
it comes from using the products
of infected cattle. The way to
cut out that proportion of dis
ease is to discover the cattle that
are ailing, and to get rid of them.
The commissioners are impor
tuned almost to death by the
many missionaries who ask for
funds to carry on various com
mendable and some unimportant
tasks, and they are limited by
the funds that the people pay in
taxes for the common welfare of
the county. But it would seem
better to deal less liberally with
some of the other claimants and
to give the cattle question the
benefit of as big a fund as may
be required. Nothing is so ex
pensive as sickness and death,
and nothing so unsatisfactory in
any of its results. It would be
better for the people to let up on
some of the other public expen
ses that have been regarded as
the vital ones and take up this
proposition of getting rid of in
fected cattle, rather than to al
low an idea of economy of money
to hold up such a vital project.
phatic conviction is that the man
who has not bought his cheap
land will buy no more at the old
figures. Too many are ready to
pay more.
ROAD CONSTRUCTION OUT
FROM ABERDEEN
Greenwood:—C. S. Reynolds, W. J.
Vick, J. W. Rogers.
McNeills:—R; S. Blue, Neill M. Mc-
Keithen.
Mineral Springs:—Alex Black.
Aberdeen is the center of unusual
activity in road construction, and in
cidentally of inconvenience. Work has
started on the highway to Southern
Pines compelling a detour by way of
Bethesda church, and as that old road
has been in bad shap for the last two
or three years the rains of last week
did it no good. Travelers found it
hard to negotiate. Those who under
took to improve on the prospects by
going by way of Pinehurst encounter
ed another construction force in the
link of the new Greensboro road be
tween Pinehurst and Aberdeen, and
there the rains made things uncom
fortable. But some fair weather and
efforts on the part of the contractors
should make things more satisfactory,
and the final result will be a hard
road from Aberdeen to Southern Pines
and a fine highway from Aberdeen to
Candor and Greensboro on the other
the industrial and business activity
in Aberdeen and also in Southern
Pines.
Poultry Club members in North
Carolina entered eleven birds at the
Madison Square Garden poultry show
in New York City last week.
try producing State. Everywhere lig
goes now folks are talking about pure
bred eggs, incubators and poultry
marketing associations.
We do Job Work.
Tom Tarheel says that North Caro
lina seems destined to be a great poul-
FOR SALE—I have for sale a gooi
number of S. C. Rhode Island Red
pullets and cockerels. Some of these*
are laying; they are nice birds, and
the prices are rig^ht. $1.00 to $2.00
each. N. A. McKeithen, Carthage, N.
c. (9nf.{
VASS BASKET BALL TEAM DE
FEATS CARTHAGE TEAM
The Vass High School quintet,
showing up in good form Wednesday,
walloped the Carthage Knockouts to
the tune of 28 to 11. The line-up fol-
lows:
Vass
Carthage
Byrd
rf.
Cagle
Leslie
If.
Muse
Simpson
c.
Swaringer
Thompson
rg.
Fields
Laubscher
Ig.
Wright
it is evident that some things
are approaching a climax. One
of these is taxation, and it will
be right certain that we shall
hear more or less discussion of
taxation, which is wise. With
that will arise other views as to
THE KNOLLWOOD
LOT SALE
The sale of lots in the tract
that connects Knollwood Village
with Southern Pines, which took
But with the coming campaign i place on Tuesday morning of
last week, is one of the remark
able evidences of how the devel
opment of the Sandhills is guag-
ed by the buyers. About seven
ty lots were sold there on that
cold morning, and to men who
had but recently come to know
the changes The state and coun-1 that here was a desirable section
ty are experiencing in their pub-! the community. The road
lie functions and relations, for it; that connects the two villages is l. Gulledge, J. D. Hammon,
is no longer possible to make the •i®"' that it is just about m | p
old raiment fit the growing state. i shape to travel, for it was un-
Life is a steadily shifting prac-! broken black-jack forest just be-
tice and custom! New require-1 fore Christmas. But the road is
open now, the territory is access
ible, people have gDne in and
looked it over, and enough lots
to cover nearly fifteen acres go
on the first offer. This was done
with three or four days' an-
ments call for new attitudes on
all subjects. Doctrine of yester
day does not fit tomorrow. The
roads of fifteen years ago would
not fit next year. We are grow
ing more toward centralization,
Scoring—Byrd, 13; Leslie, 7; Simp
son, 8. Carthage—Cagle, 2; Muse, 1;
Swaringer, 4; Fields, 1; Wright, 3.
Referee: Page.
JURY FOR FEBRUARY COURT
The following citizens of our coun
ty were drawn to serve as jurors for
the February Civil Term of Court:
Carthage:—Eugene Vanderush, O.
B. Flinchum, E. C. Frye, A. F. Boy-
Bensalem:—B. H. Brown, A. T.
Cockman, C. G. Cox.
Sheffields:—W. C. Brown, J. C. Cav-
iness.
Ritters:—G. M. Upchurch, C. H.
Powers, C. E. Scott, Frank Brogan.
Deep River:—J. H. Matthews.
Tobacco Cloth
Big Shipment just in, at the right price
Two grades—Light and Heavy
A PLEASURE TO SERVE YOU
Burney Hardware Co.
ABERDEEN, N. C.
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and throttling individualism i nouncement that they would be
more. Presentlv we are going to 1 offered, and without any particu-
realize that North Carolina re-i lar fuss, and wholly because peo-
quires a new constitution to fit
in with its exhuberance of mod
ern laws, and antiquated things
will give way to more progres
sive habits. This will bring dis
cussion and some of it acrimony,
which is useless. Discussion is
wise. Recrimination is stupid,
and gets us nowhere. But a
pie are satisfied that a Sandhill
investment or a Sandhills home
is worth the money and going to
be worth much more money.
The price put on the property
in that new section is $800 an
acre, and nothing is a better in
dication of the confidence of peo
ple in this part of the world than
If you want to save money don’t
buy your dewberry twine and plant
bed cloth before seeing The Vass Mer
cantile Co.
TfielFlo for Serving
THree NIeals a Bay,
Little meals or big ones. Plain or fancy dishes.
A midday luncheon or a midnight feast Chops,
steaks, chicken, eggs any style, cooked in the
“Universal’* Electric Grill. The finest toast you
ever tasted—brown, crisp and warm from the
“Universal” Toaster. Clear, rich coffee to top off
your meal—fresh and hot from the “Universal”
Electric Percolator. This “Universal” Trio is big
in Quality, big in Service, little in Price.
UNIVERSAL
Sandhill Power Company
Merchandise Dept.
Southern Pines, N. C.
time is not far off when men will I the swift and tremendous ad-
have to meet candidlv and intel-1 vance in values there. The sale
ligently the disposition of many | was conducted by S. B. Richard-
new pr ejects that will have to do son for the Knollwood corpora-
with public affairs. No* doubt' tion. Two or three years ago Mr.
the campaign ahead will bring | Richardson was offering lots of
up some of these things. Honest i his own not far from the land
men will face them honestly, j sold last week, and his price was
looking for the right. Selfish I not above fifty dollars and pos-
men will be moved by hope of I sibly less. He could not have se-
personal gain. If The Pilot has
occasion to express an opinion it
will be expressed, for there is
never anything gained by run
ning away from facts.
TUBERCULOSIS
IN CATTLE
The county commissioners at
the coming meeting will be ask
ed to provide a fund of $3,000 to
engage a competent veterinarian
under the supervision of the
state and general governments
to test every animal of the cow
family in the county with the ob
ject of discovering all animals
affected with tuberculosis that
the diseased animals may be
slaughtered and the disease
eradicated. So far North Caro
lina has not had a great deal of
cattle tuberculosis, but that does
not say that we should put off
this timely measure on that ac
count. Some years ago some of
the states of the north had no
more tuberculosis in the herds
than we have now in this state
but the neglect of the war
against the malady resulted in
the extension of the infection,
cured at that time more than a
hundred or a hundred and fifty
dollars for an acre of v/hat last
week sold at $150 or better for
a single lot. Yet some seventy
hts found a market at the sale
in a few hours.
This sale establishes some
facts concerning the Sandhills
community. One is that $800 is
no longer regarded as a high
value to put on acreage that is
located well into either Southern
Pines, Knollwood or Pinehurst,
and that the location does not
have to be in the heart of any
already defined section, but
rather at some point that is in
the line of development. An
other is that the confidence in
the early development of all the
neighborhood of Southern Pines
and Knollwood Village, and in
the intent of the men back of
these projects to carry out their
schemes, is unbounded. Last
week’s sale shows that the peo
ple are cleverly believers in the
future of the Sandhills. No
more significant and positive
demonstration of this has taken
place in a long time. The em-
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FERTILIZERS
We have just received a car of
Plant Bed Fertilizers
See Us for Tobacco Cloth
Plows, Castings, Harrows, Stalk
Cutters, Axes, Mattocks, Forks
Rakes, Shovels, Hole Dig
gers, Spades, all kinds
of Handles, Harness
AVe are prepared to prepare you for farming
McKeithan & Co.
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FHday, Februaj
VASS- AN]
Mr. G. H. Sii
boro, Tuesday.
]Vlr. Clyde Ga<
in‘town, Sunday
Mr. Clyde Ga(
4n town, Sunday.
Mr. J. R- Thor*
xVie week-end vi
Mr. Neill Mcl
in town Wc
Mrs. Wicker, o
shopping in Vasi
Mr. T. J.
spent Tuesday
Mr. W. F. Tho.
end with relativ.
Miss Florence
.,.„re Sanford vi
Mrs. A. G. E,
bur, spent Satur
j^ev. Euclid I
deen, was a call
"Wednesday morr
Messrs. D. A. .
(Cameron attends
ing at Southeri^
Mr. and Mrs.
Monday in Sout
and Mrs. W. P.
Mr. and Mrs.
Miss Mildred Th
ford, Tuesday.
Mrs. A. Auma
visit to relatives
asville and Greej
Mrs. T. Franl
on route one, wj
Mrs. P. W. Jo:
Miss Ileen Ml
spent Saturday I
McCraney.
Mr. and Mrs. i
day afternoon \j
B, Cameron, in
Mrs. W. P. Shj
visited her siste
Tuesday.
Mrs. James ¥
ter, Martha, of
lives in town, 'B
Messrs. G. wj
came up from
week-end at ho
Mr. and Mrs.
ford, spent
and Mrs. D.
Mrs. Janie
the guest of
Keith, Tuesday.
Messrs. W.
Gunter attended
Tuesday night.
Miss Jennie
ham, visited
urday.
Mrs. D. A. M(
of this week wij
ford.
Mrs. J. D.
route 1, spent
daughter, Mrs.
Mr. and Mrs.
grandchildren,
Parker, of Cai
Mr. and Mrs. H.
Misses Bessi
Monroe and Gd
Charlotte Saturj
day, returning
Mrs. Thomasj
and Mrs. Abneij
route one, were
Mrs. J. R. Thoml
The pressing
her shop has adj
its outfit, whicl
in that departr
We are glad
Hewitt is doing
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