VOLUNE
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
16
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
fliE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 7,1924
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
FANODS DOCTORS
IN THE SANDHILLS
One of Them, Dr. Carrol, Made
a Great Record During
the World War
ilecently two . distinguished men
have been visitors in the Sandhills.
Tliese are Dr. Alexis Carroll and Dr.
Simon Flexner, both connected with
the Rockefeller foundation for medical
re^earch. Dr. Flexner has gone south
to Florida to confer with John D.
Roclvefeller whose money makes their
work possible. The Pilot has already
made note of his visit at Pinehurst
where he was for a time at the Caro
lina Hotel. Dr. Caroll was at the
Hiji’liland Pines in Southern Pines,
and expects to be back again in April.
He is one of the most eminent men
in Medicine in the world. Originally
a Frenchman he was on this side
when the war broke out. He went
back to France to the army and was
assigned to specialty work in the hos
pitals. He succeeded in bringing out
a new antiseptic which so thorough
ly robbed hospital gangrene and the
infection of wounds of their terrors
that the dreadful mortality of previ
ous wars among the wounded was re
duced to such a small percentage that
infection was no longer regarded as a
grave danger. Dr. Carroll is a modest
chap who declines to talk much about
his own work but army and medical
records tell so completely what he has
done that he does not have to say
much for himself. An interesting
cbarac'teristic of the two men is that
while Dr. Flexner preferred the livlier
surroundings over at the Carolina, Dr.
Carroll came to the Highland Pines
because he said he was in search of a
quite place. They were both much im
pressed with the Sandhills.
the new SCHOOL BUILDING AT CAMERON
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u *1^ ^ Cameron district has sold its school bonds at $106.77, and with the money will proceed to
buila a nne school house which is best described by the picture shown above. This excellent struc-
ture will contain 13 standard class rooms, a library, office for the superintendent., and an auditorium
with seating room for 700 persons. In addition will be a rest room for the teachers, the ordinary
toilet facilities, drinking fountains, and the other utilities essential to such a building.
A TRDIDTE TO
ENKY SMITH
The Stonewall Jackson of the
Sandhills Peach
Country
KIWANIS CLUB MEETS
At the meeting of the Kiwanis Club
at Aberdeen on Wednesday an en
lightening address was made by Ed
ward Prizer, one of the big oil men
of the world. Mr. Prizer’s work has
taken him to all countries and all
quarters of the globe, and his talk
included a prophetic warning that ad
vanced medicine will give the asiatic
countries such a growth that soon the
yellow^ peril will begin to threaten the
food supply of the whole world.
Then Mr. Prizer talked about our
taxes. He deplored the effort of make
taxation a political wrangle, for he
insisted that taxation is an economic
problem, not in the least democratic
or republican, and one that affects all
of us alike. He showed that the ef
fort to make the capitalist pay 60
P^T cent of his income in taxes while
the man of limited income pays four
per cent or none at all is an impossible
stunt, for the man with a big income
Simply buys the federal, state, county
and district bonds, which are all the
t me calling for money at low interest,
hut no income taxes. The result is
thj't money that should be going into
the development of industry is going
into bonds to build all kinds of roads,
schools, etc., which we will all have
to help pay interest on, and to pay
money to retire as fast as they fall
due.
Mr. Prizer said there is no way for
poor man or rich man to escape his
fair share of taxes, for everything is
burdened with the taxes paid by the
place where the product originates.
The factory pays a big income tax and
at once tucks that tax on what it
makes, and the ultimate buyer pays
it at the end. And the man with a
little stock in the factory dodges his
taxes by passing them along as w'ell
as the big stockholders does.
The railroads are so taxed that
they have no money to improve the
road, to build new stations at South
ern Pines or Aberdeen, or do anything
else to handle the steadily expanding
traffic. It is industry and the buyer
that are taxed to death, not rich men.
The Club is figuring on a minstrel
show at some time not far ahead.
THE LAST EVENT
OF THE SEASON
Recital by Mme. Frances Alda at
Pinehurst Monday Night
Will Eclipse Them All
FAVOR EUREKA SCHEME
The committee of the Kiwanis Club
appointed to present to the county
commissioners the proposition for the
county to take over the Farm Life
School and hospital, presented the
matter on Monday to the board which
was impressed with the plan. But
County Attorney Burns called atten
tion to the law which lays some re
strictions on the acquisition of such
property. R. N. Page, J. R. McQueen,
Leonard Tufts, Edwin McKeithen and
others discussed the matter at con
siderable length, but until some fur
ther preliminaries are cared for the
commissioners decided that the matter
must be held over. Mr. McQueen left
the meeting saying that he would
bring the subject before the board of
education of which he is a member
(Continued on page 8)
Mme. Frances Alda, America’s
greatest soprano, who has just closed
her season of Grand Opera in New
York, will sing in Pinehurst on Mon
day night, March 10th, at 8:20.
This announcement alone should be
sufficient to choke the doors of the
Carolina Theatre with folks who will
not be denied the opportunity of hear
ing this great singer.
The writer well remembers one
PROGRAM OF THE RECITAL
MADAME FRANCES ALDA
Assisting Artist; Miss Florence Barbour, Pianist.
1. Prelude in G. Minor Rachmaninoff
Miss Barbour , „
t Yet Old Scotch
(b) My Love, She s but a Lassie let Caccini
(c) Amarilli 'hir T nnp Wilson
(d) Pastoral (Old English) Arr. by Lane W
Madame Alda
:;:Rachmaninofr
(b) The Soldier’s Bride Lenormand
(c) Quelle Souffranee Fourdrain
(d) Chanson Norvegienne
Madame Alda por^v Grane-er
4. (a) Irish Tune from County Derry - Granger
(b) Country Gardens - -
Miss Barbour
5. Aria “MEFISTOFELES” --- --
„ , , ^ , Madame Alda
6. (a) Wmgs of Night Kramer
(b) Faltering Dusk Sigurd Lie
(c) Soft Footed Snow v v' j"'T Alda)
(d) The Singer (written for and dedicated to Madame
(e) The Song of the Open (written for and dedicated
Madame Alda) ---y
Madame Alda
The Piano is a Steinway
MADAME FRANCES ALDA
morning in Rochester, getting up at
4:00 a. m. and standing in line until
11:00 a. m. to purchase one ticket to
a recital for which he paid $7.00 and
to his mind the artist he heard could
not afford the rare musical treat
which is now offered to the Sandhills
for much less money.
Try to hear Frances Alda in New
York for the same admission you will
pay in Pinehurst!
It has been stated before that these
recitals were arranged for with no
thought and no chance for profit to
the manager of the Carolina Theatre,
but to give the people of the Sand
hills something from which they have
been deprived heretofore, an oppor
tunity to hear at their own doors the
world's greatest artists.
We will go still further and state
that the terms of Mme. Alda’s re
citals are a guarantee of 1100 with
70 percent, of all over that amount.
We have fixed the admission prices
at a figure which, if every seat in the
house is sold, will leave us $134 to
cover advertising and incidental ex
penses, which will take within a very
few dollars of that amount. The Car
olina Theatre seats 700 and it is very
easy for any school child to figure it
out. This guarantee is also the small
est she has ever accepted for a con
cert.
Mme. Alda is now at Palni Beach
for a brief rest, coming from there
direct to Pinehurst.
Philip Hale of the Boston Herald, is
recognized as one of America’s ablest
critics. He is not only a great au
thority on music but he is a forceful
and intelligent writer. In comment
ing on a recital by Madame Frances
Alda, he wrote as follows:
“This is an age of noise. Much of
it cannot be helped.* * * * The harsh
high tones of tasteless singers,
though, and the jangling din some
pianists make could be put to an end
easily enough if listeners would only
rise in their rath.
“It is the production of agreeable
tones throughout the whole range of
a voice an impossibility? Madame
Alda yesterday proved the contrary,
because she is content to abide by the
voice that God (and her masterly
training) gave her, instead of trying
to force tones suitable for a dramatic
soprano or a cornet-a-piston, she sang
yesterday with a voice always good
to hear and often of a beauty truly ap
pealing. Exquisite taste she showed
and a vocal technique equalled by few,
a fine gift and a fine accomplishment.’’
There is a great musical treat in
store for us next Monday night. One
we cannot afford to miss at any price.
In the death of Emery Smith last
Saturday morning the community lost
its right arm—the one man most re
sponsible for the heroic campaign that
has replaced the wilderness of pine
stumps with orchard lands. He was
the Stonewall Jackson of the Sand
hills.
His material accomplishments were
prodigious. There is hardly a farmer
or orchardist in the land whose plan
tation does not bear the irradicable
imprint of Smith’s labor and personal
ity. He cleared a good half of the
property now supporting the neigh
borhood; he literally manufactured
most of the orchards now in bearing;
he built the packhouse, drove the
wells, made the roads, constructed the
dams; he traded for the land, mar
shalled the labor into the country in
army corps; he was horticultarist, en
gineer, contractor, foreman, banker,
advisor, the one man in the section
who could and would execute any plan,
CARD OF THANKS
We take this means of expressing
our very deep appreciation for the
many courtesies extended us by the
people of Vass and the surrounding
community during our stay in their
midst. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. WOOD.
EMERY SMITH
or any number of plans» and who did
nothing but BUILD with terriffic ener
gy and fait’i, while others doubted, or
faltered. His energy was so enor
mous, and his ac' ivities so varied, that
no man knows half of it. Brt he has
left as monuments to his creative abil
ity at least the following:
He made the or’ginal Carolina Fruit
Company plant at Candor; the 800-
acre clearing and nucleus of the big
development at Samarcand; the foun
dations of both Benjamin F. Butler’s
“Up-ands’’ and George Maurice’s
“Helzacre”; he delivered Peachlands,
Incorporated, W. W. Cowgill, S. B.
Chapin, Bonnie Belle Orchard, Inc.,
the Mars'on Peach Orchard, Mrs.
Francis T. Keating, Edwin Scofield,
Jas. Maher, Ned Beall, and nobody
knows how many more their entire
orchard acreage in full growth, equip-
'^ed with s uperintendent and labor
force free, complete. Nobody knows
how many cotton farms he ran for
himself and o hers—how many stores
and churches he built ov owned or
sponsored — the endless calls h e
(Continued on page 8)
The Pilot in the Moving Pictures
The Pilot has attained the distinct!of getting into
the movies. On Saturday evening, at the Southern Pines
theatre, Mr. Picquet will present a short reel showing the
presentation of the Savoy silver cup to The Pilot by the
committee of the State Press Association at Blowing
Rock at the meeting of the Association there last summer.
.The main show Saturday night will be a picture
comedy of a high class, and The Pilot pictures will be a
variation during the evening. Several familiar faces of
Moore county will be thrown on the screen and a number
of the prominent newspaper men of the state, and a pic
ture of the big silver cup that The Pilot was given as a
token of its excellence as a country paper, the cup being
given to the paper accredited by the association as the
best in the state.
Naturally The Pilot will be glad to have its friends
see its picture at the show Saturday night.