VOLUME
THE
PILOT
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NUrlouC
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Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territ^^^Uorth Carolina
Address all communioitions to
the pilot printing company, vass. n c.
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1928.
SUBSCRIPTION S2.00
Yoemans Draws
New House Plans
Four Designs in Hand, All to Be
Built During the Present
Summer.
A. B. Yeomans has in his hands
at" present designs for four new
houses to be built this summer. The
Olnistead house at Pine Needles .s
not vet beyond the preliminaries, but
will be taken up shortly. It is to
be completed by fall on the lot ad-
ioininff the house already built there
by the same owner.
After these in order comes the
house for Mrs. John L. McKinney,
of New York, on the Weymouth site
at the junction of Arbutus road and
Ridgeview road, and not far from
the Olmstead house. This building
has been awarded to McPherson, and
work is expected to start about the
first of June. It will cost around
$30,000, and wll be another of the
conspicuous homes on the Weymouth
Ridge. The location is one of the
finest in the Weymouth community,
looking out over the James creek
valley far down into Fort Bragg, and
gathering in a picture that covers
miles of remarkable scenery.
Farther out F. H. Robinson will
build on the south yde of the road
going to the Grover orchard. He will
start his house by the first of July,
and the plans indicate a building to
cost about $12,000. The site is on
the high ground not far from the
road to Aberdeen by Bethesda church,
in the neighborhood near Grover’s
and Morrison’s. There Mr. Robin
son has bought a tract of several
acres and w'll make an attractive
country home. He will have accom
modations for his horses and dogs,
and will improve that section to cor
respond with the development that is
taking place in the vicinity. He will
be close by the extended golf course,
which W’ll have a big influence on
that entire territory. Mr. Robinson
is from Long Island.
Another design Mr. Yeoman is
working out is one for a modest cot
tage for J. S. Wadsworth, of Gene-
seo, N. Y. Mr. Wadsworth has
bought several acres of the Maples
lands on the knobs betweuii Lem
ons and Grovers’ on the cross roads
that intersect near the Maples home
he will have a house that will invest
about $5,000. Mr. Wadsworth is
fond of horses and dogs and will
probably expand somewhat in the
near future, but at the present he
will make an interesting home there
on those fine knobs and join the rural
community. He is of that fine old
Wadsworth family of pioneers that
several generations ago settled Cen
tral New York, and one of his an
cestors was rated in his day as shar
ing with Wade Hampton of South
CaroPna the name of the foremost
farmer in America, in point of farm
land ownaid and operate and the
product made from the farms. Gen
eral Wadsworth led the Union army
at the opening of the battle of Gettys
burg, and was killed at Chancellors-
ville.
The forces on the golf links are
getting w'ell along with the new work.
The whole east end of the grounds
C. W. SPEARS GETS BOOT
STORE IN SOUTHERN PINES
C. W. Spears, until recently the
manager of the Lakeview Improve
ment Company, has secured the Car
olina Bootery at Southern Pines, in
the postoffice block and takes posses
sion in a few days. Mr. Spears has
^en associated with industries in
Vass and vicinty until he has made
many friends here, and he will prob
ably draw a good share of trade from
his old home community. The store
he takes over has had a reputation
for a good line of goods, and he ex
pects to have a good business.
Also, where there’s a wdl there’s a
half-dozen lawyers.—Detro't News.
Our Relations
To Old World
Struthers Burt Gives Kiwanians
Something to Think About
Nations-
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To Represent Moore
Boone Gets Stately Pine
Miss Loula Eastwood, of The Pilot,
is in rece’pt of the following letter,
which is self-explanatory:
“Boone, N. C.
“Loville Home
“April 23, 1928.
“Dear Loula:—
“The school authorities are having
each county represented by having
the members of the different counties
to plant a shrub in a plot. This plot
is laM off in the shape of North Car
olina, and of course we want Moore
County to shine.
“We are writing to you for a sug
gestion as to what kind of shruh to
plant that would grow beter in this
section. Some are planting fruit trees
and our first thought was to plant a
peach tree, but they told us peaches
«^an’t be grown here. If you will get
a good shrub that will represent
our county and mail to us C. 0. D.
appreciate it so very much.
We both thought of you in connec
tion with this b^ause we knew you
yere always interested in things per
taining to our county.
If you can send this real soon we'll
oe glad for we are leaving in two
Weeks.
“We hope that you are enjoying
”ie to the fullest these Sprng days.
“Kindest regards,
“MARY THOMPSON and
NANNIE GILCHRIST.”
«n answer to the above request a
leaf pine was sent and the two
pns who are now home say that tiie
IS doing nicely and concrrstiilated
ne sender upon making stidi «n ap
propriate choice.
At the KiWanis dinner at Aberdeen
Wednesday, Struthers Burt, who has
been writing in the Saturday Evening
Post a series of articles on the rela
tions of this country and the old world
told something of the reactions to his
stories and also gave his opinion
about the poss.ble outcome of the
problems that are existing. He has
rece ved from all over the world about
•500 letters commenting on his utter
ances in the Post, and some of the
letters are not wholly complimentary.
In fact some of them are in the class
with Old Colt’s opinion of Mr. Noblit,
when Colt said, “Noblit it would be
base flattery for me to call you a
damn liar.” On the other hand some
were more cordial, but all were in-
teresfng as showing the state of mind
of each particular section arid each
particular section whence the letters
come.
Mr. Burt has spent much time in
Europe since the war and he sees that
there is considerable misunderstand-
mg of our country and the other
countries by each other, but he ac
counts for this by conditions that are
perfectly natural, and not so bad ‘f we
study them a littk*. He moi*e
common sense is needed in our rela
tions toward each other, just as it is
needed between man and man any
place. He confesses that we are dis
liked because we are the leading na
tion in wealth and progress, which is
always the case when any nation or
any ind’vidual leads. England had
the same experience when in Eliza
beth's day, when that nation came to
the front. Spain, France and Italy
looked with contempt on the buddin;
nation, just as Europe is disgusted
with America, and when Napoleon
brought to Europe a new era and
England again advanced by the new
condit'ons the same hostility was
shown by the continental powers.
England was accused of coming late
into the war, of selling bad ammuni
tion, of all the things we are accused
of now in the last war, but England
said nothing and pulled ahead.
But one problem is worse now than
in the older days because the United
States is a different type of people
now. We are democratic. Europe is
class-infected. The old world cannot
tolerate the right of the lower class
to rise, which is the basic rule in this
country. The old world has contempt
for our consideration of the rights of
those not born to the purple, and that
the man from the log cabin may be
the head of the nation is inexcusable.
That and the fact that we are prac
tically beginning to dominate the
world’s trade, commerce and industry
can not be forgiven. So we are an
tagonized, and probably will be until
some other nation passes us, and then
the hatred will take a d'fferent line,
and the successful new leader will be
the target of animosity.
Mr. Burt says the only thing to do
is to take it cool, and roll along, be
ing as good as we know how, and
content with what we do. But he says
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TO DISCONTINUE WEDNESDAY
AND THURSDAY SHOWS JUNE 1.
McPherson Endorses
Old Commissioners
WASHED AIR FOR THE
SOUTHERN PINES THEATRE
New Golf Course
For Pinehurst
Within the next two weeks a new
Hopes Election will Be Without i cooling and ventilating sy^m will | Nine Holes of No. Five to Be
Bitterness. Urges Voters
to Stand by Party.
be installed ’*n the Carolina Theatre a
! Southern Pines which is known as the
I Supreme Washed Air System. By
this system the fresh air will be
Through your columns I wish to drawn in from the outside and forced
thank my friends ’’n their apparent de- j through cool water before reachin<
Ready by Fall Opening
Demands.
I
BION H. BUTLER.
Everybody who has been observing
sire to have me back on the board of' the theatre auditorium, thus making i the situation at Pinehurst has been
aware that another golf course was
necessary over there, but with a place
county commissioners again. How-! the air not only cool but clean. Th's
ever, as age is telling on me, I do not | system guarantees to change the air
care to take on any more responsi- [ every two minutes but keeps it cool growing as Pinehurst has been doing,
bilities than I have with my own af- and comfortable at all times. Patrons building and expanding, it is never
fairs. j will no longer swelter through a pic
Unfortunately it seems to be the 1 ture but the slogan will soon be.
possible to keep up with the new
thrng« that are called for, and Pine-
the present board is responsible for eool.”
the high rate of taxes. But it seems
to nie that there w 11 have to be some JfL
changes in the present school laws, vl’do
before there will be much reduction
in taxes, as that is where most of our
money goes. We want our children to j
receive good educations, but we are Pemtsylvania Folks tO Start at
Metal Factory
Once on Land Bought
Last Week.
impression of a number of people that | “Let's go to the Carolina where it’s j hurst, being alive and governed by
the rules that shape the action of
mankind, has had full hands every
summer with something equally im
perative. But this year the cards
fell right, and when the visitors re
turn in October they will see an in-
tereslrng surprise. No. 5 course has
been laid out on the ground, and nine
holes are now in process of construc
tion.
In providing for No. 5 it will not be
a new course asi^ed to that num
ber, but a reclassification of some of
the holes of No. 2 and 4, taking some
holes from each and giving to 5, and
shifting around to permit No. 2 to
extend along the Midland road all the
way down to the McDonald farm. This
will set 4 and 5 back from the road,
and out toward the stream heads of
Aberdeen creek and the old Southern
Pines road. This summer will see
but nine holes built, and these new
ones will be given to the extension of
No. 2 out the Midland road, but next
season it is the >intention to build
the other nine holes to bring No. 5
up to the full 18, and these will be
in the vicinity of the present No. 3
and No. 4.
Fronting the extended No. 2 along
Midland road will be one tier of build
ing locatrons, making sites like the
Donald Ross place, the Battson, the
Mason and other sites, and these lots
will front on the new double State
highway, and on the fairways of No.
2. These will make ejttjeptionally at
tractive building spots, and it is no
i hard task to guess that they w J1
I quickly be covered with a desrrable
1 tyj?e of houses with «»rmun<l-
TWgs 'ft tit £i»ch a Hettiftg.
I In a few more days work will be
I proceeding three deep on the Pine-
I hurst end of the Midland road. In
! addition to the crews of men and
: teams now building the golf course
I the contractors will be busy on the
I highway, and on the s'de of the road
j opposite the golf course construction
. crews vnll be at work on two new
> houses, one for A. B. Sally, to cost
around $9,000 on the location nearly
j opposite Colonel Hawes, and the oth-
! er close by for Alex Stewart, at a
I figure slightly less. Talk of other
“There are Eighty-One Million Acres of idle land in! building in the vicinity is heard, but
I those interested are not talking yet
this country that ought to be put to work growing ! Farther out the Linden extension
of the Midland road Mr. Reed is pre
paring to build a house estimated to
cost about $60,000. Mr. Yoemans has
drawn the plans, and he has produced
a remarkably interesting piece of
work. Mr. Reed has close to 250 acres
in what many folks say is one of, the
paying too much for what we are get
ting. There is lost motion some
where.
Of course it is true that the com-1
miss'oners could save a few hundred! Aberdeen is st’rring things up. With
dollars by refusing to contribute any- j the big new railroad yard rapidly
thing to farm demonstration or home building and the icing plant just
economics, county nurse, etc., but the}ahead another plant was signed up
county only has to pay a small part last week, and while it is not the
of the salaries of these people—the i biggest thing in the world, H is one
greater part of their salaries coming i that has bought the land, has the
to them through the government and I mafi«rial for building on the way, the
the Red Cross. Also the good they do: bought, and expects to be
is easily recognized and the demand i I «>P®^ion in ninety days, financ-
for them s© great* that it would be! project and under its own
hard for the commiss*oners to turn i management.
this down. Our present board are The new concern will manufacture
all high-toned gentlemen, and men of metal and electirc products. It will
considerable means. It is as much to i be incorporated for $50,000, with the
their interest to keep the tax-rate | stock held by C. L. Lorenson, R. J.
down as it is to any of the rest of us.' Lorenson and H. R. Harbottle, from
I served—I believe H was—ten the neighborhood of Scranton, Penn-
years on the board, acting as chair- sylvania, where they have sold their
man. During this time the county interests and are moving to a coun-
probably spent more money than it try that is more desirable. They
has at any time before or sin<^ in' have bought a location near the
the same length of time; and we were brick tobacco warehouses at Aber-
strongly condemned for it by some where they have 60 by 158 feet.
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THE TREE'S OF
BY J. McN. JOHNSON.
MOORE COUNTY
Chapter VIL
trees.”
—Forestry Primer.
HICKORY TREES: There are j all utensils of handicraft. The wood
twelve species of Hickory Trees in I is so tough and springy it can and
North Amer-'ca, and at least ten of I does res’st strong blasts of wind
them grow in North Carolina, and j when oaks, pines and other forest
half of that number grow in Moore | trees are blown down in great num-
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County.
We have the Scalybark, or Shag-
bark, sometimes called the Shellbark,
whose botanical name is Hicoria
Orata. We have the Mockemut.
Hicoria Alba, most beautiful in tree
Mother’s Day Sermon
Beginning June 1, the mid-week or
Wednesday and Thursday programs
will be discontinued at the Carolina
Theatres, p'ctures being shown on
Mondays-Tuesdays and Fridays-Satur-
days only. Until further notice both
theatres will be open on these nights,
namely, Mondays and Friday at
Pinehurst and Tuesdays and Thurs
days at Southern Pines.
NOTICE!
A meeting of the shareholders and
directors of the Vass Building and
Loan Association is hereby called to
meet in the hall of the Edwards build
ing on Friday evenrng. May 8th, at 8
o'clock. All shareholders are request-
^ to be pi«i€fnt.
I). A. McIjAUC^HLIN,
Secretary.
bers.
The wood is tough, even to the very
extremities of the twigs; and in the |
old days when cruel floggings were ! Rev. Edw. A. Tuck, of Southern
common, the tough, slender switches i P nes.
were considered so ideal the very I We have more love showered upon
form of all the Hickories, but bears j name “hickory’' meant to the rude' than we think. Our hearts should
the poorest nuts of any. We have; boy a switch with which he was to | ®cho back the love of others. In our
the Pecan,—Hicon'a Pecan—and some j get a sound thrash'ng. j homes especially we are constantly
others whose scientific names I do' The unbreakable character of the | feceiv ng love from our parents and
not know. But in dealing with our i hickory wood suggested the pseu- i it should be our joy as well as our
Hickories I believe I could do better donym of “Old Hickory,” which 1 duty to repay their love with love. I
seemed to, so well fit President An-1 do not think that we ought to expect
drew Jackson. My father used to ! to be paid for home duties and I think
to cast off all that the botanists tell
us, and write of this tree as a H*ck-
ory-Nut Tree, and try to see it and! sing a little song as he jiggled the | that it i^ a mistake for parents to
descir'be it as it was in my boyhood
—just a “Hickemut” Tree.
We can feel a pardonable pride in
this tree; for it is a true native of
North America, and no other part of
the world ever saw this tree until
it was carried to them from our own
forests. The very name Hickory is
very little changed from the name
the Indians gave it. The Algonquin
Indians were the first tribe to come
in contact with the early English
Settlers; and they taught the Colon
ists how to prepare a delicious food
from the fruit of the Hicora Tree.
They also made a rich soup from the
Hickory nut, which they called Powco-
hicora. They did not take the trouble
to P'ck out the ‘‘goodies” like we do;
but crushed the nuts fine, and boiled
the whole crushed mass for several
hours, and then strained the soup out
from the crushed hulls, and then re
boiled it with enough com mea! to
give it a semi-liquid consistency.
Everybody who has tasted the kemal
of a hickory nut will know this Powco-
hicora was food fit for a queen.
The Tvood of the H’ckory Tree is
of very high value for all purposes
‘where great strength is required to
resist strain and jaf—-hence it is al-
"most exclusively used for the rolling
gear of vehicles, and for handles of
baby on his knee, which he said was 1 pay children for mak-ng the home
a relic of the Log Cabin Campaign—' pleasant and happy—for this is a
it ran about like th’s: | suffic ent reward. (This, however, is
I not to say that children should not
“They say Old Hickory was never, ^a^ money given to them or have op-
hickoried portunities for earning it, for to know
With a hickory of tough old hickory I money and the wise use
For the boy was passing good;
But the unbreakable Buckra
Was dubbed ‘Old Hickory’—
Invincible as hickory wood.”
Most hickory trees have long lateral
limbs, that droop towards the ex-
trem’ties—as if they were fashioned
specially for boys to climb easily—
and I verily believe there is no purer
joy in a boy’s life than climbing
hickory nut trees to grather the ripe
nuts in the early autumn.
And just think! Aren’t you sorry
for those thousands of fine boys who
lived out the?r lives in Europe and
Asia before Columbus discovered
America, and never saw a hickory
nut tree, not to mention climbing one
for hickory nuts?
Julius Caesar never saw a hickory
nut tree—^no more did his friend,
Mark Anthony—nor Alexander, the
Great—aiid say—^that story about Al
exander conquering liie world and
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of it is an important part of the
training that they need for life.)
I read a story once which put the
contrast between Selfishness and Love
in an unforgetahle way. It was en
titled “What Bradley Owed.” it was
something like this:
One morning when Bradley came
down to breakfast, he put a little piece
of paper neatly folded on his moth
er’s plate. His mother opened it and
could hardly believe it, but this is
what Bradley had written: It was a
bill. Mother owes Bradley—
For runn’ng errands $ .25
For taking his music lesson 15
For being good 10
Extras 05
Total $ .55
His mother smiled, but did not say
anything, and i^hen Bradley came
home from school, he found 55 cents
on his plate along witii his bill. His
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