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VOLUME THE PILOT NUMBER 25 Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communications to the pilot printing company, VASS. N. C. FRIDAY, MAY 11,1923 SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 hospitable people of CAMERON TO HONOR THEIR CONFEDERATE DEAD Hon. D. B. Teague Speaks on Building Up a Sun day School—Other Interesting News Thursday, May 17,th, has been set apart for our own memorial day for Cameron cemetery. All who have loved ones buried there are requested to come early that day for the pur pose of cleaning off their plots. Also all are requested to bring dinner baskets, then after the cemetery has been cleaned we will then have din ner, and a pleasant social gathering, after which the graves of our friends and loved ones will be decorated with flowers, and flags will be placed upon the graves of our Confederate dead. Sunday evening at the Baptist church, Hon. D. B. Teague, of San ford, made an address on “Building up a Sunday School,” that was deeply in teresting and practical. His subject was “The life and individual of a hu man being.” Mr. Teague said in part, ‘‘We have a deep interest in every hu- | man being. The Sunday school can be an agency in promoting the char- ; acter of every human life. Every I young person needs an older person j hack of him.” Using the Sunday | school lesson as an illustration he said “There was the mother of Sam uel back of him. All older people should take a vital interest in the life of some one. A friendly interest in the life of some individual. The man sought the lost sheep, the wo man the lost coin. Older people should seek out the lost boy or girl. There was a call for every one. Answer that call as did Samuel. The culmination will be honor, and with it the blessings of God. Quite a number of men from Cam eron were summoned to Lee county court Monday in the Bowman case. Messrs. Parker and Beatman, book agents from Nashville, Tenn., are boarding with Mrs. Georgia Matthews. Miss Manda McPherson is on a visit to relatives in Florida. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Muse of Ham let, were visitors last week at the home of Mrs. Loula Muse. Miss Rebecca Ray, of Carthage, spent the week-end with home folks in Cameron. Miss Annie Borst and neice, Miss Helen Parker, returned Sunday from Vass where they attended the Chau tauqua. Mr. Paul Joyner, of Vass, was a visitor in town Sunday. Misses Mamie and Kate Arnold, Mabel Muse, Mrs. Jewel Hemphill and Mr. Tom Arnold spent a day of last week in Fayetteville. Miss Lora Norman, and Mrs. Alfred Graham and little Nellie will leave this week for a visit to relatives at Mt. Airy and East Bend. Mrs. 0. A. Keller of Aberdeen, and Mrs. Roy Hendricks of Vass were guests Sunday of Mrs. J. R. Loving and Mrs. Laura Rogers. Mr. Truitt Jones is home from Buie’s Creek. Miss Ella Underwood, of Sanford, spent the w^eek-end with Miss Lucile Loving. Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harri son May 2nd, a daughter. The many friends of Mrs. A. L. O’Briant are pleased to have her home again, after a two week’s visit to her mother, Mrs. Hagan, of Philadelphia. Mr. John B. Cameron on route one, and little grandson, Franklin Mat thews, of Vass, were in town last week. Mr. Fred Swett, of Hamlet, spent Sunday with his father, Mr. T. G. Swett of Cameron. Mr. P. G. York, of Sanford, spent the week-end at the Greenwood Inn. Miss Effie Gilchrist spent Sunday with Miss Kate and Nell Hunter at Huntersville. Mrs. Janie Muse visited relatives and friends on route one last week. Mr. Arch McRae, of Cumnock, was a caller in town Sunday. Mr. McRae and Miss Mabel Muse motored to Car thage Sunday evening. Revs. Fred Day, of Winston-Salem, I and T. Sloan Guy, of Virginia, were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomas. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Gaffie, of Lemon Springs, were recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Thomas. Mr. H. D. McLean, of Tampa, Fla., (Continued on page two) In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who molds public sentiment goes deep er than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions — Abraham Lincoln. BIG BUILDING BOOM AT ABERDEEN MAKES MORE HOUSES AVAILABLE EXPECT TO FINISH DISTRIBU TION OF CHECKS THIS WEEK Cotton Growers* Association Rushing Work of Getting out Third Advance to Members H. A. Page, Jr., is Erecting Convenient Houses For Rent—Business Changes—Other News Raleigh, May 7—Distribution of nearly three million dollars to 30,000 Tar Heel cotton growers will be prac tically completed this week, accord ing to announcement by the North Carolina Cotton Growers* Co-opera tive Association. The cotton co-operative is rushing work on getting out these checks, as it is realized that in most cases the money is needed to meet pressing ob ligations. Some of the checks have been held because of failure of mem bers to verify statements of accounts sent out some time ago, but every ef fort is being made to get these things straightened out. The third advance represents on an average four cents a pound on 135,- 000 bales of cotton. Every member will receive sufficient money to bring up his advances to nineteen cents a pound, basis middling. Contrary to the impression in some quarters this does not represent the total amount of money to be advanced on cotton. It is expected that there will be at least two more advances made including the final accounting that the association will make on last year’s business with each member. Owing to the delay in getting out advances on mortgaged cotton last time, all mortgage accounts were verified, so that advances have gone out this time on both mortgaged and free cotton without delay, save only where members have failed to verify their accounts. The Chautauqua has come and gone, and as far as we know everyone is satisfied with the performances that were given. The guarantors are o be commended for their elforts in making it possible for Vass to support such an organization. The Sandhills towns, all of them without exception, have enjoyed a rapid increase in population, and the future promises still more growth. Southern Pines was compelled of ne cessity to start on a building program last year, and it has kept at it since without having yet caught up with the demand for houses. Pinehurst has enlarged its program, and is open ing up new territory, all of which will be covered with houses in a few years. Aberdeen, which is essentially an in dustrial and railroad town, long ago felt the necessity for more houses. A year ago a building and loan as sociation was launched in Aberdeen, and during the short period of its ex istence, it has made possible the erection of about a dozen houses. Nearly all of which were built by people who occupied other premises as tenants, and who thus moved up and made room for others who want ed to come in. Right at this moment, the Aberdeen Building and Loan As sociation has under construction five houses, and that is about their usual quota at any time. Now capital has become interest ed in building houses in Aberdeen, too. Henry Page, Jr. started the movement by letting the contract for the erection of six houses to begin with. Three of these are now actual ly under construction and the materi al is being brought up on the ground for the rest. The residences that Mr. Page is building are well designed and planned homes. They are of a type that would do credit to any town, I and are located in Park Place, the I addition which Mr. Page, Jr., develop ed in a high class manner and put on the market several years ago. The peach industry and the tobac co industry, and the other things cen tering in Aberdeen are bringing to it a c'ass of people whose business or profession does not warrant the buy- ,A‘^ of a home, as they are more or os3 subject to call a removal else where on account of their occupation. This c a?s of houses will rent well inj at j>ood figures to these people. and Mr. Page is at once assured cf a good income, and the town of Aber deen will gain in population. Hereto fore, these people have lived in South ern Pines, Pinebluff or elsewhere and come into Aberdeen during business hours. Mr. Page has taken the lead, atid we hope others will follow him. It will be a long time yet until there will be a surplus of houses in Aber deen. A little more of this “show ing the faith that is in us** in Aber deen and in our section will consider ably help in inducing others who have their eyes set this way to come to a decision to cast their lots with us. Elsewhere in this issue appears the announcement of Malcolm B. Pleas ants and Jack Thompson who have just bought out the interests of J. 0. Burch in the Sandhill Pressing Club, located in the Aberdeen Hotel Block. This business has been established in Aberdeen for nearly five years, and has always enjoyed a good patronage. The new o^^ners are home boys with a host of friends, and the business should and will grow under the new ownership. The Pilot wishes them all success. The Aberdeen town election which was held Tuesday, May 8th, passed off very quitely. Several tickets were in the field. All but one were head ed by H. A. Page, Jr. The ticket elected is as follows: Mayor, H. A. Page, Jr. Commission ers: J. J. Heckett, G. C. Seymour, J. W. Graham, Henry Blue and Dr. A. H. McLeod. P. N. Vandergriff, who has been running trains on the Aberdeen and Rockfish for a long time has accepted a position as locomotive engineer on the Norfolk-Southern Railroad, and will move his family from Aberdeen to Star this week. H. T. Morgan, one of the proprie tors of the Aberdeen Barber Shop, was united in marriage to Flora Mor ton, daughter of W. C. Morton of the Roseland neighborhood, Wednesday, May 2nd. The young couple immedi- (Continued on page 2) F'ARIVI CREaDIT IN NORTH C AR05_IN A—by B. W. Kilgore There has lately been a j^reat deal of beneficial dis cussion of farm credit, and Federal legislation has been enacted providding a larger volume of credit for the pro duction and marketing of crops as well as the condi tions for obtaining this cred it. In considering the matter of farm credit the cost of this credit must not be lost sight of as it has been this “cost** as much, or more than the lack of volume of credit which has made it difficult for the farmer to make enough from his farming op erations to make a living, and something additional, for the purchase of a farm. A survey made in 1921 of 800 farms in North Carolina by the State Division of Markets and the Federal Bu reau of Agricultural Econo mics, representing the State and Federal Departments of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture, by F. R. Yoder, H. S. Beardsley A. J. Honeycutt of these in stitutions, established the following facts regarding credit conditions on these farms, and these may reason ably be taken to represent average conditions for farm credit in the state: 1.—More than half of all credit obtained for current expenses was advanced by stores and less than one-sixth by banks. Advances from landlords to tenants was al most equal to all short-term bank advances to farmers. 2.—More than half of all credit obtained for long terni purposes on land mortgage security came from individu als. Commercial banks furn ished not quite one-fifth. 3.—The average rate of in terest charged for short term advances from banks was 6.3 per cent as compared with 26.6 per cent from stores. For mortgage loans the rate from banks was 6 per cent even as compared with 6.1 per cent charged by individu als. 4.—Collateral was requir ed for less than 5 per cent of the short term advances « made by banks, whereas more than 40 per cent of the advances from stores were fully secured. 5.—From the foregoing it is evident that farmers would profit by getting more of their credit from banks and paying their store bills with cash, if possible. Two means will be useful toward accomplishing this end: (a) Farmers may form credit unions and get funds by co-operative effort as ex plained briefly in a bulletin prepared for this purpose. (b) Both bankers and farmers can work toward a better contact. In this way bankers obtain a* first hand knowledge o f prospective borrowers which they often prefer to collateral security for loans, and which enables them better to know and to meet the farmers’ needs. 6—More legumes and live stock on the farm and the growing of food and feed crops will help in reducing the need for the more ex pensive merchant credit. The Home Demonstration Agent of Moore county has already taken orders for 2,- OOO cans of vegetables to be filled by her organized farm women during the summer months. The seven curb markets established in North Carolina by farm women did a $17,- 000 business Idst year. How alKMit one for every town in the State this year? - 1.;^ jir
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