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VOLUME
THE
PILOT
NUMBER
23
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.
WITH DEMOCRATIC
STATE CONVENTION
Big Crowd at Raleigh Last Week
From all of North Caro
lina.
(Bion H. Butler)
Last week I taggied along with
others from the rural region to the
state convention at Raleigh. The
road is getting in right good shape
most of the way, and the trip is at-
ractive at this season of the year.
Curtis McLeod, who is a forward
looking fellow, had secured lodging
for a bunch of us at the new Sir
Walter Hotel, a fine big structure that
is already overrun with business.
But the thing that struck me there
was that while several of us country
jays had our names on the register,
and went there to sleep, as soon as
we located our quarters we footed
over to the Yarborough to see who
was on the trail. And there they all
were, and presumably there they all
will be as long as rural North Caro
lina heads at intervals toward the
capital.
At the new house the doctors were
in convention, and instead of signs of
McLean for governor the things on
display were surgical instruments,
and medical preparations, and plun
der of that sort. And the bunch of
doctors, good fellows as there are in
the world, made you feel as if you
would be given a dose of apagohanko
or have a leg sawed off, when what a
fellow wanted at this time was to fall
in with the man who would tell how
Hammer will fare in Yadkin county
or whether Pete Murphy will sew up
McAdoo for Brock in North Carolina.
Funny how you get in the habit of
herding up at the familiar place, and
the way some of the crowd registered
at the one hotel and then hurried over
to the other was suggestive of the
man who breaks away from home as
soon as he eats supper, and then
thinks he is staying close to the fam
ily if he gets back to the house to go
to bed after the wife has tucked all
the kids in and wound the clock
and put the cat out. So we gathered
at the Yarborough, and men stood
round, and fought over the battles of
other years, and pinned McLean but
tons on the fresh fish that steadily
streamed in, and when I say McLean
buttons that is what I mean, for I
saw only one Bailey button from the
time I left home until I got off the
train on my return to Southern Pines.
That was on Doc Alexander, who came
down on the train with me. I will be
fair enough to say I was not at the
meeting Mr. Bailey held in the court
house Wednesday night, where I
imagine the buttons should be more
abundant than the one I saw, for I
cannot conceive Mr. Bailey is so help
lessly outnumbered in a general way
as the signs at the Yarborough indi
cated.
I found at the Yarborough house
one man who said he was for Bailey,
and I was much surprised that I
found no more. That does not neces
sarily delude me into the belief that
Mr. Bailey has no following, although
I could not understand why more of
them were not making themselves
known. And it was still further an
unusual thing to me to note the tre
mendous applause that followed the
name of McLean at the auditorium
when the convention was in session,
and the painfully small nniount that
came out with the me*/it ion of Mr.
Bailey’s name. The good natured
laughter that followed the Bailey ap
plause was more noisy and prolonged
than the applause. The good nature
at the convention wa^5 pleasing. I
have seen democratic conventions, as
well as other ones, whers when the re
porter said that great excitement pre
vailed he told the truth. But we were
as docile on Thursday at the Raleigh
convention as though we were a
bunch of little lambs frisking on the
green clover. Everybody declined to
be indorsed for anything presumably
‘ for the sake of a wonderfully broad
sentiment of unselfishness, but be
tween you and me, I doped it out,
rather for the purpose of preventing a
digging up of what the old timers in
our section called a ciaymore in their
youthful days. Brock and Murphy
and the Daniels fellows were so sweet
to each other that I know it will be
worth while to watch the gentle de
bate when they really play for blood.
In our Moore county delegation it
was of a sililar character, only our
folks have no particular hostility up
their sleeves to bring home for the
future. Spence was named as a dele
gate to the Federal convention. Burns
as a vice-president of the convention,
some others for other posts, and we
all looked pleasant and several of us
rode home in the other’s fellow cars
wholly different in our attitudes than
before the primary law had taken all
the kick out of a state convention.
Sometimes I think the boys of this
generation are missing something that
the older one of us found interesting
twenty or thirty or forty years ago.
But then my boys point out to me
that after the gray heads are bowed
the boys will encounter some novel
ties that the old ones are going to
miss by moving too soon.
The thing that made the biggest im
pression on me at the convention,
where a fair sprinkling of the prob
ably 2,500 present were women, was
the utter defiance of all that Southern
chivalry of which we heard more a
few years ago than now, for the
knights of last week saturated that
big auditorium with tobacco smoke
and the women were obliged to toler
ate it through the whole session. As
women have come into the right to
join with men in public gatherings I
am going to suggest for the comfort
of the women that cigars and ciga
rettes, in common decency be left
outside.
Some whiskey was in evidence at
the hotels during the days of the
meetings, and the folks who went
down for the convention were not the
only ones who had trouble to say
shibboleth distinctly. But even at
that there was less evidence of whis
key in this occasion than was the rule
in the past before Mr. Volstead won
fame with his celebrated act of con-
FRIDAY, APRIL 25,1924
GREAT DAY AT THE
FARM LIFE SCHOOL
Special Commencement Sermon
by the Rev. George Hanna,
of Pinehurst
Last Sabbath, April 20, was a com
mencement, sabbath at the Farm Life
School at Eureka. A large audience
that taxed the seating capacity of the
large auditorium assembled to hear
the baccalaureate sermon before the
graduating class of nineteen splendid
young men and women. Rev. George
W. Hanna, pastor of the Pinehurst
Presbyterian church, was the speaker
for the occasion. He chose for his
text the fifth verse of the forty-fifth
chapter of Jeremiah, the words of the
prophet to his young secretary
Baruch. The speaker said that, like
all normal young men and women,
this young man was ambitious to get
on in the world, to do something great
and to become great in life. But he
met a bitter disappointment. His
hopes had been dashed to the ground.
He had fallen into disfavor with the
very ones on whom he felt he had to
depend for the success of his ambi
tions, and he cries out in his disap
pointment: “Woe is me, for the Lord
hath added sorrow to my pain; I am
weary with my groaning, and I find
no rest.” Then the prophet came to
him with the message of the text:
“Seekest thou great things for thy
self, seek them not.”
There is our natures that quality of
mind and of soul that causes to ad
mire and to desire the great.
We stand to look at the great
river of water and our hearts are
thrilled by the impression of its
greatness. We lookout over the great
ocean and we are overawed by our
sense of its greatness. We look at
the great range of mountains and we
feel like saying with the Psalmist:
“I will left up mine eyes unto the
hills from whence cometh my help.
My help cometh from the Lord which
gress. Prohibition is more of a sue- | made Heaven and earth.”
cess than some folks are aware, but j ^e feel something of the same ad-
those of us who remember yesterday | miration for great men. We remem-
as well as today know that this is a j how we felt when we first saw
the governor of our state. Never can
we forget when we first looked upon
the President of our country, how we
were thrilled with the thought of the
greatness of the man and his great
office. And then we remember when
we were permitted to look upon one
of the kings of earth, and how we
thought of the great place he occu
pied among his fellow men. I think
God has implanted in us this quality,
this spirit of adfniration, and I think
it is a part of our very beings. We
could not rid ourselves of it if we
would and we would not if we could.
What then shall we do with this
quality, this spirit that admires and
that desires the great? Let us say
first of all that we ought by the
grace of God to sanctify it, to take
self out of it. What is wrong in our
national capitol today, with all its
investigations, all its corruption, all
its turmoil, all its incrimination and
recrimination ? I think our answer
must be that it is unsanctified ambi
fact.
AMERICA GREATEST
FIELD FOR WRITER
James Boyd Tells Kiwanis Club
Something of Writing as
an Industry
At the meeting of the Kiwanis club
Wednesday at the Highland Pines
Inn, James Boyd, one of the most
promising writers of the country,
talked & little about the industry of
writing and the conditions that gov
ern it. Mr. Boyd showed his audience
that never in the world was the in
dustry of writing on such a broad and
satisfactory basis as today, both be
cause the English language as devel
oped in America is the most power
ful and flexible language in the world.
and because as time goes on and es
pecially as development t^es place self-seeking has come into the
as it is takiner place in the United . ^
reaching forth unto the things that
are before, I press on toward the goal
of the prize of the high calling of
God in Christ Jesus.” Those who have
found a place in the “hall of fame” in
our national capitol are those whose
lives have been dedicated to an un
selfish service to their fellow men.
The speaker then briefly emphasized
three objects that ought to be had in
mind and for which we ought to
strive in our consecrated search after
that which is great, great faith, great
hope and great love. “For now abideth
faith, hope, love, these three.” Ev
erything else is transient, unenduring.
In seeking these three we need not
bridle our ambition. On the other
hand we spur it on by every stimulus
at our command, and the more we
stimulate it, the more we urge it on,
the more nearly we shall attain to
that ideal of true greatness of life
and life’s attainments. The more
free rein we shall give to such an am
bition the more nearly we shall attain
to the ideal set forth by our Master
himself when he said: “He who
would become greatest among, let him
be servant of all.”
And so, my young friends of the
class of 1924, let me offer you the in-
juction of the Prophet: “And seekest
thou great things for thyself, seek
them not.” And may all our ambi
tions be purged of self and dedicated
to that high ideal that shall cause us
in the highest possible sense to be a
blessing to our fellow men.
PEACH TREES SUFFER WINTER
KILL
As the peach trees come out in leaf
it is discovered that many trees are
affected by the winter kill that gets
some of the young trees in a severe
season after a milder fall. The dam
age seems to be confined to the young
trees and the extent of the damage is
not yet known. The fruit crop is con
tinuing to show up good, and the har
vest will be as big as anybody is look
ing for.
MAKING PROGRESS
IN DENTAL CLINIC
Miss McQueen Reports Six Hun
dred Cases in February
and March
as it is taking place
States the writer has so htiuch more
material from which to draw his facts
and on which to base his creations in
the domain of fiction.
Also he never had so wide a mar
ket for his work, for in the older
days the printing press had not
reached the ability to turn out mass
production of printed pages, nor had
the magazines and other publications
found such a vast reading population
as now. He compared the prodijction
of much of the modern literature with
the production of other things, auto
mobiles, for instance, of which the
cheap ordinary car like the Ford sells
in great numbers while the high-
priced car sells a few in a commu
nity. But he argued that as men ad
vance in material directions betteiT
cars and better literature will becoifiyp
more common. %
The club received a proposition to
join other clubs May 10 in a meeting
(Continued on page 8)
mastery in the hearts and lives of the
men who are being held up before a
scandalized nation. What is wrong
with the restless world today, with all
its degradation, all its hatred, and all
its uncertainty everywhere? Again I
think our answer must be that un
sanctified ambition, self-seeking is at
the bottom of it all. That was the
trouble with the young man, Baruch,
to whom the words of our text were
addressed by the Prophet of God, and
is the trouble with many a restle:^ gheTT nThopes all will
heart and life of today. The message
of the Prophet is applicable today:
“And seekest thou great things for
thyself, seek them not.”
After we have sanctified our am
bitions, what then? Then we ought
to dedicate our ambitions to the ser
vice of our fellow men. What do we
mean by a dedicated life? Let us an
swer in the language of the Apostle
Paul: “This one thing I do, forget
ting the things that are behind and
A report from the County Nurse,
Miss McQueen, on the subject of the
dental work that has been set on foot
in the county for the benefit of the
younger school children, shows that
600 cases were handled from the time
the work commenced February 6th
until April 1st. Of the cases 381 were
found to have defective permonent
teeth. Of these teeth 774 fillings were
provided, ranging from one to six for
the child. Temporary teeth to the
number of 436 were taken out. The
teeth cleaned totaled 583. The value
of the work done ranged from one
dollar to fourteen dollars.
The significant feature about this
work is that it has been done for the
children in the small schools, many
of them far from the towns where
dentists are found, and among chil
dren who are not very fully apprised
of the importance of caring for the
teeth. The hope is that it has estab
lished in the communities a much bet
ter understanding of the needs of the
teeth of the children, and that it has
saved the teeth for the days when
they will be needed.
The number of schools contributing
to the cost of the work has been 27,
most of them small schools, the
amount contributed reaching $567.01.
A few of the small schools have not
yet made any contribution, but Miss
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
WAYLAND COOKE
PREF^ NcLEAN
Bailey’s Conversion in Politics
Does Not Fool the Farmer
Very Much
(Gibsonville Post)
Dear Mr. Editor:
I have observed in your paper sev
eral articles with regard to the gu
bernatorial contest.
I have known both Mr. McLean and
Mr. Bailey ever since I was a college
student. The great majority of my
kindred are farmers and I certainly
feel a great interest in the welfare of
the farmers of North Carolina, but
the idea of looking upon Mr. Bailey
as having an unselfish interest in the
welfare of the farmers of North Caro
lina, separate and apart from any am
bitions of his own, to me is ludicrous.
His recent conversion in politics ought
not to fool the farmers of North Caro
lina. He has taken many positions
about many things and many of them
entirely contradictory. Only a little
while ago he was the most active ma
chine man in North Carolina and only
when he found that he couldn’t get
the undivided support of the machine
in North Carolina did he break with
the machine.
I am for Mr. McLean fot governor.
I have known him a long time. He
never deceives any one. He makes no
promises he cannot keep. He does
not try to incite the people in order
to derive from it a political advantage
for himself. If anybody ought to
know something about farming and
what the farmer needs certainly Mr.
McLean should know, as he owns about
forty-five hundred acres of land and
is one of the largest and best farmers
in eastern North Carolina. He
knows what it is to follow the plow
handles himself and has by personal
experience gone through all of the
stages of a farmer’s boy on the farm
doing the work himself to the position
of owning a farm where he could oc
cupy a higher position.
Mr. Bailey opposed Will Kitchen
when he ran for governor. He op
posed Max Gardner and Page when
they were candidates for governor,
and in fact he has been the ring lead
er in machine politics in North Caro
lina for so long that he will have a
hard time convincing the people of
North Carolina that his recent con
version means anything, except a
camouflage, by which he can get into
office.
Mr. McLean is an elder in the Pres
byterian church, and a man who has
been successful in almost everything
he has undertaken in life due to the
fact that every man who has any
dealings with him feels assured that
he makes no promises that he cannot
keep and performs to the letter every
obligation that he incurs. He is a
man of fine judgment, of poise and
gifted to a remarkable degree with
that rare quality known as executive
ability, which is so necessary to one
occupying the position of the Gov
ernor of North Carolina. I believe
that he will make us a splendid gov
ernor, and if I did not think so I
would not recommend him to my
friends in North Carolina for this po
sition.
With all good wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
A. WAYLAND COOKE
join the work of financing the move
ment. She says that as most of the
small schools are closing now, the
dentist will go to larger schools as
they send in funds, and she is expect
ing the full amount, which is a dollar
for each child of the age the clinic
reaches, which is from six to thirteen
years. When the schools close the
dentist will be in the Red Cross
office every Saturday morning and
children from the school she has vis
ited may make an engagement for
further work there.
The colored school children will be
looked after when the white schools
have been completed. The work is
costing $300 a month, but Miss Mc
Queen figures that it is a tremendous
saving to the children, for by the
terms of the arrangement with the
dentist the children are cared for at a
marked reduction from regular rates,
and also it is to be borne in mind that
the children who are served in this
way would in many cases neglect their
teeth until too late to do much for
them. She is greatly encouraged with
the success of the movement.
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