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COMPIUNITY MOVING PICTURES AT SCHOOL HOUSE TUESDAY NIGHT
THE PILOT
VOLUME
NUNBER
Devoted to the Upbuilding of Vass and Its Surrounding Country
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
ONE CAUSE OF FEWER RAIL
ROAD ACCIDENTS
The Birmingham Age Herald quotes
President Markham of the Illinois
Central Railroad, in referring to the
decrease in railroad accidents notwith
standing the increase in passenger
travel as compared with 1911, as say
ing:
“We believe that the public will
agree with us that the handling of
the heavier business with a smaller
percentage of fatalities is a barome
ter of railroad efficiency.”
It is interesting in this same con
nection to note that President Stone of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
neers in a recent letter to the Manu
facturers Record which will shortly
be published, says that prohibition
has reduced drunkenness 75 per cent.
It is obvious that this reduction in
drunkenness has already had a pro
found influence on the decrease in the
number of accidents.
The president of the Gulf States
Steel Co., Birmingham, Ala., writes
that accidents around their plants
have been reduced at least 75 per
cent due to prohibition.
Within a few weeks the Manufac
turers Record will publish in pamph
let form the views of hundreds of
manufacturers and others on Prohi
bition as an economic issue, as well
as viewed from the moral standpoint.
The results which have been given to
us as showing decreased accidents, in
creased efficiecy, better condition of
women and children, and lessened
drunkenness in and around manufac
turing establishments, will prove one
of the most unanswerable arguments
ever put forth in behalf of Prohibi
tion if viewed simply from the stand
point of economics and of the savinjc
of life. Entirely without regard to
whether a man may approve or dis
approve of the Prohibition Amend
ment and the Volstead Act, he must
if honest hearted be willing to study
the facts already accomplished as
shown by the testimony of many of
the leading employers of the country.
Their testimony is overwhelmingly in
favor of Prohibition.
The Prohibition pamphlet, which
will shortly be issued by this paper,
should be widely distributed through
out the country. It will prove in
valuable to men who are honestly
seeking to know the truth. No man
who loves his fellowman more than
he loves the gratification of his own
selfish appetite, no man who seeks to
see the advancement of women and
children and see them better fed and
better clothed and happier than they
were under the rule of the liquor traf
fic of the country, can be otherwise
than profoundly moved by the facts
which will be given.
The statements of Judge Gary,
President Stone and hundreds of
others who take the same view, and
who hit straight out from the shoulder
in favor of the value of Prohibition
^ an economic sense, as well as from
the moral standpoint, will profoundly
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VASS, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1922
R. F. D. 1, Vass, N. C.
Dear Pilot:—
I see you say set another hen. We
have over three hundred biddies on hand.
Must we set another hen or not?
Yours Respectfully,
Mrs. W. P. DAVIS.
REV. J. A. CALIGAN TO HOLD
MEETING AT PINEHURST
The Pinehurst Presbyterian church
recently extended an invitation to Rev.
J. A. Caligan, of McColl, S. C., to
hold a meeting at Pinehurst duritig
the month of June. Rev. Caligan has
accepted and conferred with Rev. W.
L. Wilson and J. Bruce Cameron at
the recent meeting of the Fayetteville
Presbytery at Red Springs, at which
time definite plans for the meeting
were formulated.
Rev. Caligan will come to Pinehurst
on Saturday, June 10, and start his
meeting on the Sunday following,
continuing through Sunday, June 17.
The many friends of Rev. Caligan
in Moore and adjacent counties will
hail this news with delight, and the
Pinehurst church is making prepara
tions to care for the large crowds
which will gather to hear him.
Until about one year ago. Rev. Cali
gan waspastor of a group of churches
in Harnett and Lee counties. He ac
cepted a call from McColl, S. C., where
he is at present located. He needs
no introduction to the people of this
community, having spent several
years in Moore county. His fame as
an evangelist is known throughout the
Carolinas and the Pinehurst church is
to be congratulated upon securing him
for their meeting.
While conferring with Rev. Caligan,
the officers of the Pinehurst church
learned that he was booked to hold
a revival at Culdee church in Sep
tember. Quite a coincidence—that
two communities in the same county
should be seeking the services of the
same evangelist! It shows something
of the high regard in which Mr. Cali
gan is held, and the Pinehurst church
expects the crowd from Culdee to be
on hand in June, for when Rev. Cali
gan comes to Culdee in September
we expect to be right there waiting
for him.
The following excerpt from one of
Rev. Caligan’s letters expresses the
keen anticipation with which all are
looking forward to his visits; in
writing to a friend, he states: “I am
looking forward to the meetings with
a great deal of pleasure, and I trust
we may have the presence and bless
ing of Him whose bounty never fails,
and whose grace is sufficient.”
affect not only this country but the
world.
HENRY FORD’S EDITOR TO
SPEAK AT BUIES CREEK
ACADEMY
The commencement program o f
Buie’s Creek Academy is completed
with the announcement that Hon. W.
J. Cameron, editor of the Dearborn
Independent, Dearborn, Mich., will de
liver the literary address on Thurs
day, May 18th. Other announcements
of special interest are that Dr, Paul
Bagby of Wake Forest College will
preach the baccalaureate sermon on
Sunday, May 14th, and that Dr. Al
ston Ellis of Raleigh will deliver the
Alumni address, Thursday p. m.. May
18th.
This unusually attractive array of
speakers, together with the special
Alumiii announcements, is expected to
draw a great crowd of old students
and friends of the institution from
all sections. Aarrangements are be
ing made to provide for five hundred
Alumni expected at the Alumni
luncheon and ball game. Several
changes in the program this year will
be of interest to the Alumni and
friends in all parts of the state. Be
ginning with the exercises by the pri
mary grades on Saturday, May 13th,
followed by sermon on Sunday. The
program for the remainder of the
week is as follows:
Wednesday, May 17th.
2:30 p. m.—Contest for declaim-
er’s medal.
4:00 p. m.—Senior class exercises.
8:00 p. m.—Sappho and Astro liter
ary societies contest.
Thursday, May 18th.
10:30 a. m.—Contest for, orator’s
medal.
Noon—Address to graduating class
by Mr. Cameron.
1:30 p. m.—Alumni luncheon and
address.
4:00 p. m.—Baseball game between
Seniors and Alumni.
8:00 p. m.—Annual play.
COUNTY AGENT TAKES FUR
LOUGH
I wish to express my deep appre
ciation to my friends for the many
kindnesses shown me durifig my re-
cent illness and it is with deepest re
gret that I am forced to take a leave
of absence for several weeks on ac
count of my health. I hope to re
turn to the County just as soon as
possible and continue the work.
M. W. WALL.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
THE “OLD PLANK ROAD” SOON
SOLID CONCRETE
The furniture metropolis of the
South is looking forward to the gate
way which will soon be opened to
ward the Twin City. The new paved
boulevard, almost straight for nearly
20 miles, will be completed by mid-'
summer. The trailers are seen going
out behind the big trucks every morn
ing. The trailers are loaded with
road material such as cement, stone
and sand. These loads are placed iti a
siding of small trackage out at the
end of the concrete and by a derrick
device, the load which is in compart
ments on the trailers are lifted out
and placed on little cars which carry
the material on the track to the
point where the base is being laid
A force of hands receives the ma
terial and it is poured into mixers
and spread on the road.
It is an interesting historic fact in
road building that lends itself to local
tradition and history that the new
concrete road runs almost directly on
the road bed of the old Plank Road
chartered as the Fayetteville and
Western in 1848. This old road was
in turn laid on the trace of the old
Indian trail which was traveled by
Indians two hundred years ago and
later, by the old pioneer, Daniel
Boone in a trip he made to Wilming
ton in the seventeen sixties. This
historic fact is noted by Dr. Archi
bald Henderson in the North Carolina
Booklet, Vol. XX.
S. L. Davis, who is the head of the
High Point good roads organization,
and who is also of the Southern Chair
Co., tells about building a road over
the same roadbed 20 years ago at a
total cost of $20,000. Some of this
road is still seen and the material
is still good. Two tablets will be
unveiled May first on the trace of
this old plank road commemorative
of historic road building.
CYPRESS CREEK NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Stewart spent
Sunday afternoon with their uncle,
Mr. Andrew Stewart.
Misses Olera McCraney and Louine
McFadyen spent Sunday evening with
Miss Cornelia Cameron.
Mr. John Autrey, who has been very
ill for some time is improving.
Messrs. Leslie Gilliam and D. H.
Clark, of Olivia, were the guests of
Misses Bertie and Emliy Cameron,
Sunday.
Miss Naomi Peel, of Cameron, visit
ed her sister, Mrs. Cicero Counsel, the
first of the week.
We are glad to report that Mr. D.
A. Cameron is still improving.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Johnson motor
ed to the home of Mr. Geo. Stewart
on Cameron route 1, last Sunday.
Mr. J. P. Blue and family were
visitors at the home of Mr. Cameron
Johnson on Sunday.
Misses Bertie and Emily Cameron
visited friends at Lillington last Tues
day and Wednesday.
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