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THE PILOT, a Paper With Character, Vass, North Caroiina.
Friday, December 14, 1928
Tree Planting to Beautify
Highways Asked of State
Ck>Temor to Submit Plan to
Legislature—Frank Page
Favors Scheme
* Characterizing the launching of
the American Business Club’s hijfh-
way tree planting program as a for
ward looking step in a movement
which he hoped would extend to all
State and county roads, Governor
McLean told members of civic
and representatives of other civic
clubs who attended tree planting ex
ercises in Raleigh that he was work
ing on a plan to submit to the next
Legislature for highway tree plant
ing.
Governor McLean said that he had
long favored such a movement, and
thought the best results would come
through the State Highway Commis
sion, and the State Department of
Conservation and Development and
with the aid of civic organizations.
The exercises were held on the
western boulevard to the rear of the
State’s prison, where the planting
was started, the line of young oaks
being extended westward for several
mil^s. The club hag several thous
and additional seedlings in the State
nursery near Clayton which will be
transplanted as soon as they are
large enough.
Govei^or McLean, Frank Page,
and Major Wade H. Phillips, director
of the Department of Conservation
and Development, were presented by
Eugene Mills, president of the club,
who presented the trees to the State
on behalf of the club.
Mr. Page expressed the willing
ness to cooperate in any such move
ment, but said that under the exist
ing law the Highway Commission
could cooperate only to the extent
which it cost nothing. He expressed
the hope that this status would be
changed, and said one of the needed
factors in such a program was edu
cating people of the State to desire
beautification of the highways. A
nursery in the western part of the
State offered to set out 10 miles of
highway with trees at their own ex
pense, and the project met with in
tense opposition of landowners along
the route, he stated.
Major Phillips discussed the work
of the forestry division of his de
partment which centers around pro
tection of trees, and said that 40
counties now have organized fire
fighting forces.
CAMERON
Mrs. Mamie McLeod, Misses Mar
garet and Mary McLeod with little!
Katherine Harrington, all of Carb-1
onton, spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. G. M. Thomas.
Roger Matthews came over from
Raleigh to spend Sunday with his
mother, Mrs. Georgia Matthews.
Mrs. Jamie Muse and Miss Jacksie
Muse were shopping in Raleigh Wed
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hardy, of
Siloam, were visitors of M. D. and
Vera McLean Friday afternoon.
E. L. Ray came over from Ashe-
boro and spent Sunday with his
mother, Mrs. D. S. Ray.
\A11 the Teachers from Cameron
High school attended the county
Teachers meeting in Carthage Satur
day.
Mrs. Anna Culberson of Sanford,
is here visitiitg her daughter, Mrs.
W. M. Wooten.
Mrs. John Thornton from Dunn,
spent the week-end with her sister,
Mrs. J. C. Kelly.
Mrs. Mamie Snipes of Clio, S. C.
is visiting her sister here, Mrs. W.
D. McNeill.
The Woman's Club met Friday af
ternoon at the home of Mrs. H. P.
McPherson, the very efficient presi
dent. After the business and a very
interesting program, the hostess serv
ed delicious chicken salad and hot
coffee.
Tuesday evening Prof. and Mrs. J.
C. Kelly motored to Raleigh to hear
B'ritz Kreisler.
Mrs. and Mrs. C. L. Dutton, Miss
Margaret Thomas and J. R. Loving
attending the County Sunday School
convention at Cool Springs Sunday af
ternoon, and report a splendid meet
ing.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Hartsell and
Miss Valda Hartsell came over from
Morven and spent the week-end at
the home of Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Hart
sell.
Mesdames Janie Muse, Lula Muse,
Jewell Hemphill, Miss Jacksie Muse
and W. A. Muse attended the marriage
of Miss Kitty Edwards, of Darling
ton, S. C. and John C. Muse, of Cam
eron—which took place in Darlington,
S. C. last Friday evening, December
7th.
The many friends of little Miss Mar
garet McDermott will be glad to know
she is home from C. C. Hospital in
Sanford, after an operation for ap
pendicitis.
The Bazarr and Oyster Supper on
last Saturday, conducted by Circle
No. 2 of Womans Auxiliary of Pres
byterian church, was quite a success.
Mrs. George Barnhart from San
ford, was inHown spending a few days
with her sister, Mrs. J. J. Irvin last
week.
Miss Majorie Black came over
from Broadway and spent the week
end with home people.
On Saturday December 15th the
Woman’s club Bazar will be at the
home of Mrs. Mitchell Guthrie. The
gifts will be auctioned off promptly
at 2:30 p. m. So be on time and
bid on your favorite gifts.
Fruitful Sandhills
of Today Once Land
Avoided by Traveler
County Was Poorest in South
Prior to Development as
Winter Playground.
ADDOR THEN METROPOLIS.
on it
S and watch thisnew
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Speed. More spe«Ml. Sixty . . .
sixty-five . . . seventy miles an
hour and more. It's the ory
of the day. EveryI>ody wants
speed. Some people want to
use it. Others don't. But
everybody wants to think his
<rar is full of it... that he can
pass anything on the road
whenever he likes . . . Some
car* are fast. The New All-
American Six for one. If ever
you*re driving one where the
law allows... step on it. And
watch this great New All-
American respondl... Speed?
The New All-American cer
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truly original style, la
7cm*n find In this greatest
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(By Laura Butterfield)
Visitors to the Sandhills look upon
this territory as fruitful. Acres of
peach trees, grape vines, cotton and
tobacco make up a complacement,
well-to-do landscape. But it was
not always so. Until the last few
decades, Moore county was known
as the poorest county in the south.
The story is told an old confederate
colonel, staying at Mr. Tufts, resort
in New Hampshire, asked Mr. Tufts
where his winter playgrounds were.
The answer was that they were lo
cated in territory so poor that tra
vellers in the middle of the last cen-
,tury made a detour around our
I swamps and pine forests in order to
be sure of lodging and meat.
“But I know poorer country than
that,” said the veteran, “Once we
I were trying to get back to South
I Carolina and we got the most desert
ed country I have ever known. We
travelled for hours without sight of
a human being. At least we came
to a little cabin in a clearing and stop
ped for food and rest. The man who
owned it—and I still remember Frye-
took us in and offered to put us up.
But before we had gotten a bite to
eat in came two or three of the chil
dren to warn us that several Yan
kees were coming through the woods.
So we piled out the windows and
started south again. We never saw
another shack until we got out of
that section. IJet’s see—^that was
about twelve miles south of Car
thage, I guess.”
Pinehurst is just twelve miles south
of Carthage and the tribe of Frye is
now scattered all through the woods
They are hunters and farmers who
supply with game those who are not
expert enough to get it themselves,
and turn up at varying intervals with
a load of wood or a peck of sweet
potatoes.
The old colonel's wastelands were
first put to use for their lumber and
turpentine. The railroad was put
through in 1876 and the little town of
Addor, some 10 or 15 miles southeast
of here was the metropolis of the
county. At that time called Kaiser, it
was the center from which products
were shipped. It had six saloons and
Saturday night on the main street
was a boisterous affair. Saturday
nights are still exciting, but the main
street is only a road. The saloons
are gone, leaving one or two country
stores of the type rapidly vanishing
from the United States, and popula
tion is composed mostly of negroes.
The postmaster ond the agent in the
station are the only white persons
left. For them, their titles conferred
by government and railroad, are only
a side issue and a claim to prestige.
Their main business is running the
I two little stores that supply the far-
i mers everything from needles to
I shells. The march of civilization, like
I the early travellers, still goes around
Addor. There is no moving picture,
no soda fountain, and no dance hall,
only churches, our colored cook in
forms us and second,- third,-and
fourth-hand Fords.
It was not until about fifteen years
ago that a few thoughtful men learn
ed to plant peas and plow them
under in order to fertilize the soil.
Then came production on a large
scale. Now all travellers stop in the
Sandhills to rest, and find it a land
of peace and plenty, where vacation
ing becomes an art.
the Kiwanis is doing, and the vast
value in a club of this sort, which
has for its aims the advancement of
human contact and human apprecia
tion and the welfare of each other.
He then turned to a brief discussion
of the censorship of moving pictures,
and made a right decisive hit when
he said that frequently the papers
print pictures that the moviemen
would not permit on the screen. He
also pointed out that much of the
classical literature, Shakespeare, the
older dramatists,many of the modem
ones ,much of the modern literature,
and other material that is passed
without question, could not get on the
screen. He made a rather fair case,
and when he suggested that the news
papers might look for censorship if
success should attend the supervision
of the pictures he had presented
another phase of the subject. Mr.
Woodhull figures that the picture
■ten and the audience are capable of
demanding and securing good pic
tures, and his audience agreed with
him.
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1 Wishing You ■
¥
Very Merry
Christmas
A Happy
New Year
THEATRE OWNERS OF STATE
TO FIGHT FILM CENSORSHIP.
(Continued from Page One.)
companies featuring their favorite
stars, and these pictures, Mr. Pic-
quet finds, as a rule, lay no undue
stress upon wild parties and the
primrose path to fire and brim
stone.
This resolution is a great step
forward in film censorship in that
scenarios of the objectionable type
will die before completion, for lack
of a market.
All Electric Sets—
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SANDHILLS TEST FARM
RECOMMENDED BY BOARD
At the semi-annual meeting of the
State Board of Agriculture, held Wed
nesday in Raleigh, the board passed
a resolution favoring the establish
ment of a test farm in the Sandhills
section of the state. This test farm
has now been recommended by about
everyone and is likely to meet with
the approval of the appropriators of
the public funds in the near future.
Until then, those advocating the farm
can but wait. Aberdeen has been the
most talked-of location for the farm.
CHRISTMAS carols, famous
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the spirit of Christmas to you
in music, as you and your
family are seated in the com
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give you faithful reproduc
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Let the firemen spend Christmas
at hiome.—Use Electric Lights on
the Christmas Tree.
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KIWANIS LADIES* NIGHT
PROVES HAPPY OCCASION
WITH GIFTS FOR EVERYONE
(Continued from Page 1)
Mr. Jiggs was quiet and well be
haved and submissive. The Sandhills
Sixteen had the run of the evening,
and Charlie Picquet was a hero. About
a hundred and fifty joined in the
chorus when Paul Daua asked the
bunch to sing the first verse of
“America,” and they did it nobly, for
Charlie can get action out of any
thing when it comes to singing.
Ralph Chandler was happy be
cause his Carolina Light and Power
company had a gift for every woman
in the party, and this was further
supplemented by a basket of prizes
from which one was awarded to the
same group of fortunate recipients.
Then a number of folks talked about
things, including Pete Woodhull, pre
sident of the National Picture Thea
tre Association, and he looked around
at his wife every once in a while to
make sure that what he was saying
was all right. She also said a few
words to indicate that Pete was work
ing right.
Mr. Woodhull talked about the mov
ing picture business. He slipped his
story in by beginning with the work
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