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VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER 36 ' Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to jhe pilot printing company. VASS. N. C. noore county SDNNER SCHOOL Mrs. Essie Blankenship Talks on Music in the Public Schools FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1924 The reason for teaching music in the public schools, if its purpose is questioned, is not to produce skilled musicians, but instead, to create in the minds of the great mass of school children a desire to hear, and the abil ity to appreciate good music. It has ever been granted that music has an elevating, refining influence up#n the human character, and we may be confident that the moral tone of our public schools will be lifted when we have taught the children to appreciate even the simplest works of the great masters of music. The school room Victrola has help ed immensely in educating the children in a musical way, but it cannot en tirely take the place of the singing lesson. Children like to sing, and this desire grows as their ability and confi dence grow. It is logical then that we should in troduce our classes to music by the singing of songs by imitation or rote. Children are all excellent imitators. They mimic with wonderful accuracy, the calls of birds, and animals in the forest, their household pets, the wind, the train, and they enjoy doing it; it is one of their favorite games. The teacher is necessarily the model the children strive to follow; conse quently, she rmist knew absolutely the little songs to be taught, without no- ficeable reference to the book. Let the songs be seasonable, songs which will correlate with whatever we are teaching or those which have an all- the-year-round fitness. Now a word about the social de velopment, which should begin early in the lives of the children, through the medium of games and plays. Many of our children do not possess the abil ity to mingle readily and pleasantly with others, indeed they are more of ten painfully backward in giving ex pression to the best that is in them, because of this timidity. Through development of the social instinct in plays and games, the shrinking child is constrained to assert himself, the brazen child learns that there are others beside himself, and th« unpopular child becomes popular, and better pleased with his unfold- wient, and gathering strength. Games and plays have an important educational value. The sense percep tions are quickened, the motor powers are strengthened, powers of volition, inhibition, and accuracy are gained through them. By this agency is ac quired a balance power of will, the love of fair play and a sense of true moral virtue. The final intent of the dramatic instinct is that it should min ister to the fulness of life. The following program to be given on Thursday evening, July 24, by the mulic and games class of the Moor® County Summer School, under the di rection of Mrs. Blankenship, primary instructor, will demonstrate by songs and games, helping music for primary grades: I. Patriotic Program: 1. Song, Dear Old Flag,” class; 2. Declaration, by Miss Brewer; 3. “America,” class; 4. Questions on Flag, Miss Brewer and class; 5. Salute; 6. Recitation “Amer ican Flag,” by Misses Coates, Fergu son and Morgan; 7. “Star Spangled Banner.” IL Collection of primary songs; IIL Game, “Shoe Maker Dance; IV. Thanksgiving songs; V. Christmas and New Year Songs; VI. Game, “Looby Lou,” in costume; VII. Amer ican Negro Cradle Song, in costume; VIII. Collection of Spring songs; IX. Game, “Greeting and Meeting,” in costume; X. Cradle Song, “Go to Sleep My Baby,” music by J. Heller; XI. Exercise Song; XII Game, “I See You.” Cream, cake and candy will be sold on the lawn. Public invited. SCHOOLS NOT SO BAD INFIELD Mrs. Wilson Finds Number of Children in Prmninent Places L REV. M. D. McNEILL Hemp, N. C., July 21, 1924 Editor of The Pilot: I read with interest Superinte ident Cameron’s address to the Kiwanis Club, and heartily sympathize with his efforts to secure better schools for Moore county, especially the north ern part. However, to those not ac quainted with the circumstances, part of his address may convey a wrong impression, i. e., that very few of the (Continued on page 8) “In his duty prompt at every call, He watched and prayed and wept and cared for all. And as a bird each fond endearment tries To lure its new fledged offspring to the skies. He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds and led the way.” « « « Growing gray in the service of his maker and of man, exerting an influ ence over a community that includes a wide range of people, a genial cler gyman whose encouraging words and whose wholesome smile has enlighten ed this section for a life time, one of the best known- and appreciated men in the Sandhill territory of Moore cour.ty is Rev. M. D. McNeill, of Cam eron. Something about a country preacher or. a country doctor puts these men in distinct relation to the world, for they move about so com pletely in the closer intimacy with their neighbors and friends and their congregatiohs and their patients that they are infinitely more than the pro- fesFio-ial extending the circumscribed help of their callings. They are the help and dependence in the broadest sense of the word, of their people, priest physician, guide, counselor £*nd friend. Mr. McNeill is primarily the clergy man of the Presbyterian church in his circle of rural charges. He is a neigh bor in his home village of Cameron. I He is a highly esteemed pastor, friend, advisor and neighbor all up and down the Seaboard railroad, and one of the most pleasing tributes to his rating is that on the days v/hen he holds services at Manley the Northern res idents of Southern Pines and that vi cinity constitute a fair proportion of his congregation. To that little, plain, unpretentious church come the folks who at their homes in the North ob serve their religious duties in magni ficent temples surrounded with those luxuries that even the church does not disdain. Out in the old field, sur rounded by the pine trees, in the mod est neighborhood, this man gathers his worshipers from all walks of life, and he holds them with his honest simplicity and his interest in human kind. Mr. McNeill is a product of the old Scotch stock that is so abundant in this neighborhood. His years of min istry have woven him into the lives of his neighbors of all ages, for he has watched his people from the cradle to the grave, walked the road from morning until the evening sundown with them, easing the journey and brightening the way. And what an enviable credit he will have when the ultimate balance sheet is struck, and we are given our standing in last accounting. SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 KIWANIANS TAU ABOUKHHJIREN Club Brings Pertinent Subjects Up for Discussion at Dinner CO-OPS TO MAKE PAYMENT The Co-operative Tobacco Grow ers will receive another payment Sat urday, July 26th. How much this payment is to be we have not learn ed. Higher education is usually obtain ed at an institution that pays its foot ball coach more than it pays its pres ident. PEACH FESTIVAL AT LAKEVIEW Also a Curb Market for Peaches Will be Established There On Saturday, August 2nd, Lake- view Park, Lakeview, will be the scene of the first Peach Harvest Festi val ever held within the great North Carolina Peach Belt, and for the first time in the history of fruit growing, a one-day curb market for the ex clusive sale of peaches will be estab lished. Plans have been made which will make this inovafon a really wor'h- (Continued on page 8) ' At the dinner meeting of the Ki wanis Club at Lakeview, Wednesday, the underprivileged child as well as some others furnished the subject for some earnest discussion. Dr. McBray- er led the program, which was wholly informal, but he was aided by Judge Way, Edwin McKeithen, Frank Buch an and others. Judge Way, formerly a judge in the delinquent courts of Pittsburg, and through whose hand thousands of children have passed, said that' pre vention measures must figure big in all matters pertaining to delinquent children. He said that the best way to stop the big problem of criminal and mentally defections is to begin at the origin. But he confessed that he could not ofT hand offer a solution. One thing he does believe in is fresh air on the hoof which means to get the child out of city influences and re strictions, and into the more whole some country surrounding. He will be called on later to elaborate on his views. Dr. McBrayer was asked to plan for a program to discuss this ob ject in three weeks. Pending the discussion Edwin Mc Keithen referred to an editorial in the Moore County News dealing with Mr. Cameron’s address on schools two weeks ago. Mr. McKeithen did not approve wholly of the county as a unit in school affairs, and cited the situation as to roads. He said that the Sandhill section paid the larger proportion of the taxes, and got a smaller sum on its roads. Frank Buchan was in full sympathy with Mr. McKeithen in objecting to the article in the News, saying the people of the clay section are pros perous, and can maintain good schools as well as the Sandhills folks can if they will, but that the townships of the lower end of the county go in debt for what they need and get it while the folks in the river township hold back from debt. Claude Hayes thought this a case where the child is the sufferer, and that if the parents do not do what should be done, some outside help (Continued on page 8) r V CKarloti S INCE t Se tember 1923, when Mr. James Barber, President of the Barber Steamship Lines, New York City, bought the old Lakeview property, IJNUlii as p I improve the resort. Great strides in this direction were made when the new Lakeside Inn and the modern bath- KJ every effort has een earnest efforts of the new management to give the visiting vacationists the general refinements of a ing pavilion were County citizens. modern up-to-date su features of Lakeview since the new ownership is the acquiring of the Original Southern Collegians Dance Orchestra. One of the outs g^udents from the various Southern Colleges, was obtained only after great effort on the part of the management, as This orchestra, conapose |.y,-o,,p-hout the State since they made their initial success in Charlotte. Each member of the organization is a true artist they were in ^eat perfect accord of the ensemble that immediately explains their well merited suc< on his chosen j^ns will give afternoon concerts daily, including Sunday, and play each night at the danci success, dancig pavilion.
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