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VOLUNE
8
PILOT
NUMBER
27
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the SandhiU Territcfc of North CaroHna
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Kiwanis Hears
Leslie Johnson
FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1928.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
Leads Commissioners’ Ticket
Aberdeen Naval Officer Talks to
Home Folks on Work of
the Navy.
At the dinner of the Kiwanis Club
St the Community building in Pine-
hurst Wednesday Bob Page present
ed Lieutenant Leslie Johnson, of the
United States Navy, who is visiting
in his home town a few days prior
to taking charge of a vessel on a
government mission to Spain. Mr.
pajre told of appointing the boy to
the naval academy, and because he
had the character and merits that de
served the appointment, and said it
was a satisfaction to see the advance
ment and recognition the young chap
had ^von as he grew to manhood and
at the present time had become a
commanding officer in the service.
Lieutenant Johnson explained in
simple manner what the United States
Xavy stands for. It is not war, buc
it was established as an economic
measure, and has continued as such
and today is maintained as such be
cause the welfare and prosperity of
the country require it. When this
nation began to grow it commenced
to establish an ocean commerce, and
because we have a coast line that em
braces thousands of miles our com
merce is the foremost seagoing com
merce in the world. That commerce
had to be protected when our country
w'as little, and the Navy made its
history when the Mediterranean pi
rates attempted to interfere with
American ships, England called out
the defenses of the Navy when med
dling with our merchant ships brought
on the war of 1812, and from then
until the present we have been obliged
to have ships on the sea equipped to
protect the ships that carry our com
merce. So the Navy is an economic
factor, and as such it must be big
enough to function.
Without merchant ships our com
merce would be at the mercy of for
eign merchant ships, which is not to
be tolerated. The enormous business
We do requires that we have ships to
carry our exports and imports and
the experience with the Germans in
the recent war shows that we must
have the naval powder to protect those
ships. Had we possessed a suitable
navy when the war broke out Ger
many would probably never have mo
lested our merchant vessels. But we
had neglected our navy and Germany
expected to chase our merchant ves
sels from the sea, and so we got into
the war.
The war extended our commerce and
we are now the creditor nation of the
world. Practically all nations owe
us great sums, and they turn this way
for supplies, and much that they pay
is paid in trade. That trade must be
protected against mauraders. We re
quire now a bigger navy than ever,
^e have arranged with Britain and
Japan a basis whereby the size of the
navies of the three nations may be
defined, but this arrangement is not
wholly satisfactory to either of the
^hree, and it is possible that in time
will determine for ourselves the
number and size of the ships we want
to build for our navy, and others may
uild as many as they can. But as
are the only power wealthy enough
to build a big navy it is optional with
as to what our limit will be if we
^ould be forced to a show down,
^is step may be far away, but Lieu-
enant Johnson thinks that we need
^ navy big enough to care for our
^erchant fleet at sea, and that is the
^ and practically the sole pur
pose of the navy. His reception by
e club indicated that he told a story
M. C. MCDONALD
The primary election held in Moore
county last Sati’.rt ay brought out one j
of the biggest votes ever cast in the |
county, and while some of the results ;
are at this writing not positively de
cided the successful candidates for
some of the offices are clearly shown.
Spence gets a good majority for the
legislature, Humber wins the nomina-
E. C. MATHESON
tion for judge of the recorder’s court,
Harrington and Boyette go on the
ticket without opposition. Hammer
leads his opponent by a whirlwind.
McDonald for sheriff leads Frye, and
McDonald and Matheson have a ma
jority for commissioner. McLauch-
lin leads Patterson for the same of
fice.
D. A. McLAUCHLIN
As this is printed it is not announc-
; ed whether Frye will ask for a sec-
I ond primary or concede the nomina-
, tion to McDonald, or whether Patter-
! son will ask for another run against
I McLauchlin. As one man from West
I End, McDonald, is already assured
, the nomination, it is argued that an-
I other man from the same town would
I have little chance.
^ , PRIMARY RETURNS.
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Sheriff
R. G. Frye 1062
B. C. Morgan 408
C. J. McDonald 1116
County Commissioners
M. C. McDonald 1319
D. A. McLauchlin 1233
E. C. Matheson 1434
D. A. Patterson * 1084
W. E. Porter 1029
G. C. Shaw 1058
W. J. Wadsworth 432
Coroner
D. Carl Fry 913
Dr. A. A. McDonald 1356
Dr. Poate 105
Judge Recorder’s Court
G. H. Humber 1386
J. Alton Mclver 1171
House of Representative
Spence 1665
Brewer 902
Congress
Hammer 2045
Battley 452
Lieutena^it Governor
Jno. D. Lanston 339
W. H. S. Burgwyn 551
R. T. Fountain 1463
Commissioner Labor and Printing
Frank D. Grist 1420
M. L. Shipman 575
0. J. Peterson 356
U. L. SPENCE
THE TREES OF
BY J. McN. JOHNSON.
MOORE COUNTY
Chapter X.
“Ah, bare must be the shadeless ways
And bleak the paths must be,
Of him who having open eyes,
Has never learned to see.
And who has never learned to love
The beauty of a tree.”
REV. J. K. ROBERTS.
J*
Next Representative In the General
Assembly from Moore County.
County Builds
Good Bridges
state Contractor Approves Mc-
Deed’s Creek Structure
Torn Out.
that
was appreciated.
Charlie Mason announced the ap
parent success of the summer golf
ournament at Pinehurst next week,
emphasized the fact that it is an
®Pen championship, and so wide open
that
The
ance
no entrance fees are required,
prospects are for a big attend-
Using 10 pounds per acre of three
cent nicotine dust will control
Pant lice on cotton.
The contractors who have torn out.
the concrete bridge built by the county j
at the McDeed’s creek crossing of
Midland road say it was one of the;
best bits of concrete work possible to I
build. This old bridge was taken out.
to make a place for the new bridge ,
the State highway is putting on the'
new State road and in tearing it out
the character of the old bridge was
striking. It was not an old bridge,
for it was built only a couple of years
ago. But it was not big enough for
the new sixty-feet wide highway, and
its grade was not at the point to suit.
So it had to go. But in tearing it out
it proved to be of exccellent construc
tion, well located, well grounded on
its foundations, durable in its resist
ance against the forces that were
necessary to remove it, and it was
highly commended by the men who
removed it.
This bridge was built from designs
by George Maurice, who is the engi
neer in charge of the county work,
and under the immediate supervision
of R. S. Boger, who came to the coun
ty from the State highway depart
ment. Charlie McDonald is the super-
intendent of the work on the county
roads, and had the matter m hand.
This tearing out of the bridge is
looked on by road men as »
lustration of the advances that have
(Please tom to
.^lulberries: Morus Rubra: Red
Mulberries: The Mulberry Family is
a large one, and its members vary
greatly. They run the whole gamut
from weeds to great trees. The fam
ily include more than 50 genera, and
about a thousand species. Botanists
claim that the common Hemp Weed
is of the Mulberry Family, as is also
the Hop Vine. Then on up the scale
through the numerous fig bushes and
fig trees until he reaches our great
Mulberry Trees.
We have three kinds of Mulberry
Trees in Moore County, to-wit: The
Red Mulberry, Morus Rubra, the sub
ject of this sketch: The White Mul
berry, Morus Alba, and the Black
Mulberry, Morus Nigra. But it is
only the Red Mulberry that is native
to our county.
The White Mulberry was brought
to our country from China and Ja
pan; and it has grown so well in our
soil it is now almost naturalized as
an American “Citizen’’; but while‘it
has far outstripped the native Red
Mulberry in the matter of growth and
size, it has proven a failure for the
purpose for which it was imported.
Our people thought to build up the
silk industry, and imported the White
Mulberry Tree—^the leaves of which
is the universal food for silk worms
in the Orient; but either the leaves
left their silky lining at home, or the
worms forgot how to spin and weave
it into silk, for the silk industry in
America has never proved a success.
But for the purpose of growing a no
ble looking tree, whose fruit is more
valuable than silk, the White Mul
berry has proved a phenomenal suc
cess. It is the largest tree in Moore
County, with the possible exception
of the White Oak and Swamp Pine,
and its berries begin to ripen and
fall to the ground in mid-May and
shower down a copious supply till
mid-September, and there is no better
feed for poultry and pigs to grow
into fryers and porkers.
But while our Red Mulberry Tree
does not grow so large, it is a better
and hardier tree than either the
White Mulberry, or the Black Mul
berry. Its fruit is decidedly better,
as free from the sickening sweetness
of the imported mulberries, and its
wood is incomparably better.
I As the WTiite Mulberry came from
j China and Japan, so the Black Mul-
I berry Tree was imported from Persia.
I Its fruit has been improved by the
j skill of the horticulturists until the
berry has become a thing of beauty,
and many of our farmers now prefer
it as a pasture tree to either the
White Mulberry, or our native Red
Mulberry; but like all forced fruit
trees, it is short-lived, while its wood
is soft, and without the great value
of our native mulberry tree.
Soft as is the texture of the wood
of the mulberry tree it has great
lasting qualities when set in the earth.
t recall once walking through the
campus at Wake Forest College in
company with the late James Pure-
foy. We were talking of the trees.
Mr. Purefoy walked up to an old
fence, and laid his hand on an ancient
post and said: “I myself set this
Mulberry Post in the ground here 52
years ago.” He gave the post a vig
orous shake to show it was still
sound.
The fruit of the Mulberry tree is
referred to by our botanists as “Edi
ble.” I take this to mean you can
eat it, but it is not to be called good.
It is true they are not much prized
as human food; but I had a better
opinion of it when I was a boy. The
berry is shaped on the plan of the
blackberry, but is longer, and more
slender, and the stem upon which it
grows extends through the berry
from end to end. This fact detracts
much from the value of the fruit; but
chickens and pigs seem to have no
objections to the stems.
As we go to press news reaches us
of the death of Rev. J. K. Roberts, a
man known to all in this county and
many others. For 25 years he was
pastor of the first Presbyterian
church in Carthage, serving faithful
ly and wonderfully in that capacity.
At the time of his death—Thursday
morning—he was in Greenville, S. C.,
and had been there for sometime,
teaching. His remains will be brought
to Carthage and buried there Satur
day afternoon, June 9th.
Much Activity On
The Mid’and Road
Knollwood Tallies No. 86 in Lot
Sale to Frank Mc-
Graw.
(Please turn to p«0i
Edward Barber was down this way
during the past week, and he is much
impressed with the outlook for the
whole of the Sandhills. This is of
tremendous importance, for Mr. Bar
ber is one of the foremost of the
Sandhills developers, and that he sees
a promising future is encouraging to
everybody. He is as optimistic on
the situation as his father w^as, and
that is saying a lot.
The contractors are tearing up
things along the Midland road, not in
a very disturbing way, for it looks as
if the original surveys and construc
tion of the double road will not be
much disturbed. This is a right cred
itable testimonial to the skill of
Francis Deaton who planned the road
as it now exists, and whose work has
always been regarded by the folks of
this community as of a high order.
While rain has made work on the road
disagreeable it is moving along, and
the contractors say they will make
a showing in short order.
The dam on the Manley end of the
road from McDeed's creek is taking
definite shape, and when it is com
pleted a fine bit of new possibilities
will be available in that region. It
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