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Page Four THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Vass, Nort.h Carolina. Friday, November 2, 1928 the pilot Published every Friday by the pilot. Incorporated. Vass, North Carolina. NELSON C. HYDE, President. familiar with County affairs, land he is a man of broad infor- imation and understanding, as 'his rank and station definitely in- jdicate. He has been in close con- itact with the business of the not because of any lack of pre sentation on the part of party managers or press. It is customary at this time to urge upon the people their duty Every one on board just lay around on deck sweltering while we were pass ing through. Finally we eased out through the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb, and at seven to vote. This, year we do not i in the morning anchored off Djibouti, Subscription Rates: One Year ■County and of the people of the one seems vitally, many rabidly,;the French foothold in Somaliland. feel this to be necessary. Every-: We were to be there only four hours, interested. The vote will break 1 but of course, I went ashore. A hot, all records, many claiming it will' dusty, dry place, perched on the edge 'County for years. $2.00 • And even in going far enough to include the Congressional dis- GRAINS OF SAND Six Months ^^'"".trict'iris hard to imagine any reach as high as 40,000,000. This, of the desert. Golly, how I pity any -rrr-r^communieations to The!gain that would come from sub-!figure would top the total Presi-'one who has to stay there all the .Wdress all _ stituting a new man for W. C.idential vote in 1924, when Mr. time. When we landed the thermome- Hammer, now representing thejCoolidge defeated Mr. Davis, by,ter ’was 115 degrees m the shade, pilot. Inc, Vass, N. C. Struthers Burt informs us that it nority, and many farmers who have is going to be a Smith landslide, and low ground farms have also some we guess it must be so, for he says i high ground, and are not wholly dam- he got his information at Democratic ag«d. But some have lost practically National headquarters in New York. | the entire crop. Tu^.rtisinir Kates on Application, j district, as he has for several i nearly 11,000,000, and yet it is which is about the record for me We ! years. Mr. Hammer is thorough- not an improbable figure, the to- walked about the place, declined the Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, Jy acquainted with the ways of tal registration reaching 43,000,-| ^^^’'^^tation of sundry black beauties to tJ c as second-class mail matter. Congress. He is lined up pretty 1000, in round numbers. In North 1 dance for us “sans” clothes, and re- : ,well with those things that in-'Carolina the approximately cor- turned to the ship. Of course, the TIMF .terest this section of the State rect registration exceeds the place was filled with interesting ^ !in National affairs, and he is 1924 vote by 217,313, the figures types-the finest looking black men TO HUKOiiiO. i recognized in Washington as a'showing no less than 700,000 on that I have ever seen—tall, slim and Next Tuesday the^ man of weight. the 1928 polling lists. Straight as a ramrod. Baby camels ^ Judge George H. Humber was 1 Nationally, The Pilot has en-, ^ never seen before. No dogs at Of course the real problem of the ‘ October goes out with little destruc- day is what everyone is going to talk tive frosts in the Sandhills. One or about after next Tuesday. |two slight falls of temperature have killed the leaves in the lower valleys, We have acquired a new title. We but in most places vegetation is still are “Chief of the Fire Department, safe. The trees are green through Vass, N. C/’ As far as a pretty com- most of the forests, and the farmers plete search of the town on our part have had plenty of time to get their has revealed, Vass has no fire depart- harvesting finished. The worst dif- ment, but the good postmistress has ficulty was met in the rains that took apparently decided we should be Chief, time that should have been devoted She has started sending us his mail, to gjetting in the barns the hay and Can it be she wants us to start a de- corn that were ready and the cotton partment? We haven’t played with that was white. Flowers are still fire engines in many a long day, but blooming in the gardens in abundance. ed we would eventually become Chief? slightly above the normal amount. gyt the ground is better saturated That Pinehurst-Southern Pines water this fall than at any time double road is a beauty but we worry several years. a little about it every time we pilot our trusty fliv over its newly ac- It' remains to be seen next week quired surface. Everyone seems to whether Thanksgiving is to be a pop- SVtSffh" m« wEo ,iiL •< r.n":.virs:jis.™ have the presiding officer of the of independence throughout thei^^^-- the big rains in September, is only governments for the epuing j be tolerated m British Colonies, but ^ y riod of years, ' y^ars ago. He was chosen not issues onlv through the medium French are notoriously slack ant that some deliberation and^^^^ pditcal reasons but for his ^ of its correspondents. Its clien- such things, judgment be orought o i fitness for the work, and he has | tele seems fairly evenly divided eleven we were under way, careful selection ot the i proven fair and capable and i as between Mr. Smith and Mr. starting up nothward for Aden in men. National affairs ave e j^^erits re-election. The same ! Hoover, and having no ax to which we reached at ten discussed at length, and it arguments apply to M. G. Boy-1 grind, we have taken no position., ^ more to the candidate for re-election asiWe feel that either candidate time with Abdullah Ben Ibrahmri,: driving in one track. We would ular date on the calendar this month. cal matters that 1 he j Prosecuting Attorney of the i will well serve the nation, that prime minister of Tahore, who is: suggest signs along the route read- suggest the attention OI ^ ^ P " | County. | prosperity is before us without returning to his country after four. Drive in One Track. The persistent call for fresh eggs pie. For after all ou^r ioca go -| ^ j Harrington, through i regard to the result of the ballot, i England. He is supposed , Making a Rut.” and the small responses leads Bunker ernment is about tne ifour years’ experience as Regis-' that paramount questions of thei^o be Malay, but looks about three- Jopes to remark that the hens are thing the citizen comes in | Deeds, has become a val-! dav will find their proper solu- ^^^*'ths C inese, and one-fourth P il-1 There has been one very satisfac- paying too much attention to politics tact with. In our bounty tne ^gggt jjg should kions in the due course of events. Anyway, he took me tory condition about this year’s elec- gngygh to business. taxpayers contribute a large sum pei^nitted to carry on. i A week from now it will all be "P *<> the famous tion. There has been a marked scarc- of money to provide for the pub- ^ over, and the march of progress Mermaids which are really a species I ity of punk poetry. Due, no doubt, to ^he fellow that gets the most mail lie needs, and that money IS best I will go on. Vote, and you’ve or Sea-Cow. Then a drive , the fact that it is almost impossible the these days laid out with the most satisiac-; ^ around the city, and finally back: to properly rhyme “Hoover” tory return when it is handled i CARING FOR l! aboard. The most interesting thing “Smith.” Cheer up— to me was a trip to the huge con-' by men of ability and experi-iLoCAL HISTORY. , DON’T QUARREL ence. Moore County is expand-! ■phe community of which the OVER POLITICS i7^oreabm/andra14*J of the worst features of moie abilit} ana care m i^oun bends of Deep River is just r.Aii+iVal ty work. This particular period ^ conspicuous center owes to is emphasized by the intelligent women of the Daughters of thei -i j- • * direction of the work that will i Revolution a great gratitude for | a^pCTSona? fla^v^/a*nd*en- and all drawing great two-wheeled restore the roads to the condi- uncovering next week for public' t,' seems to be a chap named “Box Hold er,” and he appears to be carrying ^ Next Tuesday it’ll all be oover, on a tremendous business th€ way Crete tanks built by the Romans over They’ll cast their votes for Herbert people write to him. two thousand years ago to hold rain | ‘ Hoover* water, and still in use. A caravan ■ perchanth, they vote like OIL ENOUGH IN WORLD was coming in as we drove down the i thith hill. Thousands of camels it seemed,; »por U Eth Thmlth.” TO LAST 3000 YEARS. Prethident, Alfred tion they had reached before the information some of that his- Quarrel more or less is natural storm destroyed so many tory of the Revolutionary War u„4. putting on the party. bridges. The general County which the Deep River valley con- matters are steadily affording tributed as its share to the crea- bigger problems to require the tion of the republic and a devo- business management of capable tion to one of the most wide- ’reaching causes humanitv has gender unfriendly relations. To quarrel more or less is natural to all living creatures, but we do so much of it on other grounds that it is hardly worth while to cars. My visit to Aden only cost me ten francs, as Abdullah insisted on He has asked There is enough gasoline in the '— world to last at least 3,000 years, According to a new Industrial Di- said Dr. Gustave Egloff, a Chicago ICO vvc vtw • • u* • rectory of North Carolina, just pub- scientist, recently. «o much of it on other irrounds Tahore, which I ^ the first time, the ten lead- Dr. Egloff stated that there are to- .0 mucn 01 on orner grounas ^e able to do some time within industries of the state in order day 1,100,000,000 acres of possible oil cultivate politics to the quarrel- products, as shown by the lands m the United States alone. The ing point. If VOU stop to think w/f i ^ manufactures were: potential oil areas in other parts of minute most people are pretty „ r'hT Tl t™V. JP^^uce ” ' 100,000,000,000 barrels of crude falls, which gave freedom to mankind, think that makes such people I should like several days I construction and repair, being used to produce »hlp fnr thp wholp n,.ttpr k"; ^ any the less desirable as friends f ^ (tanned and cured), and print- 000,000 gallons of gf able, for the whole matter is a us of the Deep River valley a business i,— ^ xu 1„ anct neighbors, big end of the burden should be the best men as rrienas ^eard that it is one of the most in- ‘ , . . - <aii»i inLikfiiiftiior mavbp none i. a* • . , mg and publishing. operation, requnng knowledge of what the early in- ip=, wise in their views Not ports m the world. How-; business training and executive habitants there did to accom- itjwfe. t hours so I! skill. The preLnt Board of plish the drift of this LtTon To ffT '”^1' °*'i fbest I can with, Pr. +1,^ u J 1 natiuii tu jytely and always correct in .u-x Coinmissioneis has put the a broader plane of human rights. thinkincy and ;f County on the most substantial Everv one of these women has i, ^ J uiic ux Liicoc wuiucii ^oy^ie ouc happens to favor a ours don’t ^ candidate other than v known. Recent legi.slation has the overthrow of monarchy and XpV'nn^hls^nprk ‘‘amV trv unbelievable. Yes given them a power never before its attendant nrivile^es as j terday most of them were sea sick, so ‘cracking” process, which is more than 5,- g^soline yearly from petroleum oils, could be used on present by-products and oil shales, Because John Wilcox is a good cit- as well, to increase the amount of lizen The Pilot suggests that the gasoline production when necessary. . u J U-, • ■ 'crowds that go next week to the ded- Another encouraging sign is the de- 1 e on board, while quiet, is most Horseshoe monument termined effort being made by the in dustry to conserve oil resources and Such varied types of P^s-^ waste and plunder as possible on his lawn. Put the junk curb over-production. Co-operation f "jvci ueiu.e us attendpt privileges a.s roughVrm mTthod’of converting °u f° ;in7he'car and dump it off the bridge. had by the County officials, but against the just consideration of p:,-? him thp riirht tn think ® "'“"eer” to myself,; even in addition to keeping up the great mass of the people, and Is hp likes and as C ®" ‘’^einning to; “Cigarette Smoking Shows Big In- Wlth the law the present Board, as their right in the claim that liVp. rpmprtihpr that\p is ‘®“ and Urease World Over in Year,” says has been progressive in many their forbears established thev ‘ nrptt^dprpnt kind nf a *>e real- newspaper headline, ways on its own initiative. Of lead in holding for present and npiah “ Norwegian, whose husband was More business for North Carolina. the present board D. A. Me- future generations a record of hoi for manv vpars aftpr fhp “ Stranded in Shanghai, she! Lauchhn and M. C. McDonald the events that accomplished Farmers on the lands along are up for re-election. Mr. Shaw this purpose. present campaign encts and tnat turning from a purchasing trip to is succeeded on the ticket bv E. The marker to he nrovided at of community p^^s. The young English doctor has lhe_ marker to be pioyided at assets if you lose the compan- fallen violently in love with her-his among producers will assure us a supply that will meet adequately the demand at a stable price. Those who criticiez use of our na tural resources on the ground that they will be quickly exhausted, have I no support in the scientific facts. Farmers on the lands along the j streams that were flooded by the high | TRANSATLANTIC TELEPHONE water during the big flood have lost j SERVICE GREATLY EXTENDED seriously. The water in many places | She is very! was several feet deep, and the crops! With the recent extension of trans- C.Matheson, who has had former the HousI n the Horspshr the • T T/- I- experience and who was also for scene of'one of the bitteJli. , w ixo sc;: V ^ 10.1 iciiivi viiir j years the register of deeds of thoueh as comoared with nthprs ii him around by the ^ were submerged for many days. The [Atlantic telephone service to all of thp compared with others You never have to call a man a „ose. as it were, but I think will hurt|result was such soaking of the com!Belgium, the total interconnected not at all, as she is a remarkably ! and other plants that the product I telephones is over 26 million. This is was shot through was entirely spoiled, and some of the | more than 82 per cent of all the in- the County, and is broadly fa- not a very big event in point of fool to get him to seelhe iight , and II he does not see Bolsheviks at Sepast-! farms will have no com nor hay, | struments in the world. ^iai with County affairs. It is numbers, of the contests in the of truth, and if he does not see wt i. Revolution, is only one of a num- it when ° - character. She for it is capable, experienced and jier of material records the composed of men known to be of.en are piacingV"Ai*ready"i^”he iTght on tra1;h than y^ou^are^try^’’hdamaged cotton, and much Horseshoe neighborhood is the ing to hammer into him. The * mupH mnX inv f n ^ ?k,“ “'k "■“« '« than to try ' ^ ^ Wisely, things that had to do with the to crowd it onto unbelievers for unfLX wTth ir'’Ld”*‘wh^: Carolina, some times the unS« ’can “uWs^nd fn learning thel^^ is sound and app u in learning me JooiBeniamm Wilhams lived fnr wico ♦^i « i,- u 1. • X placing. Aireaay time ifstlplTJes whS w^are neighborhood is _the ing to hammer into him. The arms. tobacco was so badly harmed as to materially affect the prospects of the owners. On some farms the winter is a cheerless one. Luckily the low grounds of the county are in the mi- The modem American, who can talk to a friend or business associate in London, Brussels or elsewhere in Europe at a reasonable cost, is wit nessing one of the newest miracles of progress. Benjamin Williams lived for wise and of general good than Charlierate it never hurts to be tolerant ig .nolhe, with tho« wh. h.ve much experience in County con- ground. on the same opinions, for none of us have a; | monopoly of political wisdom tre'rord^^pna^® "'®"apr. An event of this sort deserves any iliore than we have of any had a hand in mnnh ® f Vi, vf encouragement of the whole other sort. And it is better to stantlai tnoH ^ the sub-1 people of this section, for it es- live in genial harmony and Countv and hP kn the; tablishes the facts of history in friendship with our nei^bors fror^ Lt fo™ that those who'even if we know them t^ every townshfn^^anH ° ^now what part the l steeped in the sin of political nizedasaman’nT vr/®'^®j°^f P neighborhood of,heresy than to quarrel with the hieh st^ndar^ ^ of Moore County has taken in na-ithem over their shortcomings, that shLlH rlrn *" wy^tion building and in Nation de-i Remember the other fellow is to! velopment. Good roads lead now, right just about as often as we Make Your Money Work for You— man’fit”?orfhP^W^T‘? Horseshoe'are, and give him credif for as' officer of the rm.nt > ? chief,and it is a delightful drive to much honesty and sincerity as' forcemel Hp haTb ^?i ini you claim for yourself. Don\ rorcement He has had long con- these autumn davs. tact with the people of the whole County; his executive training IT WON’T BE commenced when an officer in LONG NOW. ^.e army during the war with ^ As old quarrel over differences in opin ion, nor hurt your neighbor’s :: feelings, nor set him down for a || , fool, for he may not really be the. p A LETTER FROM ABROAD. tJ ♦♦ #♦ ♦♦ ^ ^ --- -- Doctor Hoople said' fool in thp case Germany, and he has been an when he snipped off the puppy’s executive almost from his boy- tail, it won’t be long now. nooc,.^ Alwa;y^s his handi'ng of On Tuesday the nation selects, men and affairt has been entire-*its general manager for the four' This is No. 3 in a series of interest-! H y satisfactory. That is the type years beginning March 4th next, letters received by relatives of || q been a stirring campaign, j Leslie Johnson, Aberdeen boyjg fiat f ^ candi- i The registration is the greatest traveling in the Far East. 1H flttor if is an in the country’s history. Issues! D’Artagan, Aden to Colombo, j 8 ren among the! have seldom in the past aroused | August 23rd, 1928.1 presentative legal practition-1 the electorate with such unanim- j Sea was the hottest place ers ot the State. He has had ity as this year, and “there isU^^* I have ever seen. No wonder The reason some people seem so prosperous under all conditions is often because they have money at work for them. They have saved a reasonable portion of their earnings and placed it in the bank on interest. They are then assured of a certain definite income every year. You have to work for your money. Then make your money work for you. Two dollars per week placed in a savings account every year for ten years will amount with interest to over $1,300.00. Can you not save two dollars per week? We pay 4 per cent interest and compound the interest quarterly. We would be pleased to have you open an account with us. THE BANK OF VASS VASS, N. C experience in the legislature, he IS at the present time attorney tor the County, he is thoroughly much to be said on both sides.” | Moses got across it as quickly as pos- ^ Much has been. If the voter has j sible, and hied himself to the North- I ^ not now made up his mind, it i.S I ward. He showed excellent judgment. U
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