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VOLUME THE LOT NUMBER 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, AUGUST 15, 1924 10 WH^rr TENDS nnwosiiion to Saddling State With Biggest Per Capita Debt Known To The Pilot:—It’s heartening, to 5av th*- least, that men in the Demo- modern democracy years ago Lord Macauley, the eminent English historian made this gloomy forecast concerning the American gov ernment: “I have long been convinc- said the distinguished writer, “that the American government will, in the 20th century, be destroyed, just as the Roman civilization was, in the 5th century, with this differ ence,” he added: “the destroyers of the Roman government came from without, while those of America will come from within.” America may not have been very much exercised by the predictions of this master of the English tongue. But in the light of present tendencies it might be well to honestly determine whether these cold and deliberate predictions are be ing vindicated in the conduct of our own State administrations. When even a minority of a special legislation threatens to grab up, and get .off with cratic party have convictions like those of Judge G. H. Brown, as re cently appeared in this paper. His opinions, as to how our State ought to be governed, and where the Su preme authority ought to rest, are just ab sound, as just, and as equita ble as were the legal opinions he enunciated, while a member of the State’s highest Judicial Court. The strange thing about this whole busi ness of creating shipping ports and sea-going vessels is, that any legis lature should desire any such respon sibility. And the wonder grows, when such action carries with it a bond issue of eight and a half million dol lars, to be added to the present State debt of one hundred million dollars. I wonder if the promoters of this new and highly doubtful experiment real ize this would increase the percapita indebtnesss of the citizens of our State one hundred per cent greater than that of the richest and most populous State in the union. With no intention of being critical of the acts of public officers,—for I am trying, in a feeble and imperfect way, to ‘"fear God and honor the King,”— but every man, of even moderate in telligence, must conclude that this special session of the legislature has been assembled on Midlin Scant prov ocation. The Governor “stands from under,” and says let the people vote— so say we all. It’s the most sane step taken from the initial conception of the ship and port scheme, to the present time. This action of the Governor will strengthen him in any future aspirations he may have, and will prevent the act being labeled “Morrison’s Folly.” It’s difficult to understand the zealous efforts of the commission, appointed by the Gover nor, to go out, at a cost of $25,000 to the taxpayers, to spy out the pos sibilities of putting over the enter prise. Now that the Commission has had a summer outing, a number of the members are busy trying to con vince the voters of the State, that they-~the voters—have nothing to do with this matter of placing a debt of eight and a half million dollars on their property, except to pay it off, principal and interest, when the New England bond-buyers say so. Here are the only two reasons, so far as I have seen, why the voters of the State should be denied what was sup posed to be their natural privilege, guaranteed by the constitution: (1) “The people if permitted to vote on this bond issue would kill it.” (2) “The people would have no time, not sufficient opportunity, to study this new and novel departure, in the polit ical activities in State legislation.” I submit that such reasoning is not very compelling—although it seems to bave commanded the attention of the Senator, and by a statement in the papers he seems to have transferred bis fo] iiier faith and confidence in his State ‘'Constituency, to a legislative ol- ligarchy, as the best method of secur ing safe and sane law making for the State. I conclude with some brief ob servations as to what this sort? of ^bing is tending. I make bold to say, that p- worse thing can happen to a State U'an to be burdened with high and u.,eless taxation—this can be cur- ®d- Ahorse things than a useless mul- ^iplica; of offices and office hold ers—this can be corrected. There may be worse things than pa- ^rnal and class-legislation, now tak- root in our own State, these will ® at least modified, as our people ^ all distinguish good law makers ii'om poor ones. All the ills that ap pear or: the surface now, will be cured, ' en the true principles of democra- shall guide the actions of public ^^I’vants. The real menace to the ^®ace rnd prosperity of the State will comparatively few men ^11 attempt to abridge the natural THOHPSON-AUNAN Marriage of W. F. Thompson, of The Pilot Force, and Lydia Auman, Took Place Sat. Unpretentious in display, and a sur prise to their friends, was the quiet wedding of Mr. William F. Thomp son and Miss Lydia Auman, which event took place Saturday evening at the home of the officiating minis ter, Rev. Euclid McWhorter, in Ab erdeen. Mr. Thompson, or “Bill,” as he is more popularly known here, has been with The Pilot Printing Company since its founding in 1920, and in his capacity as printer, linotype operator and all-round man, has played a significant part in the past growth and development of The Pilot from its in fancy on through the stage where in and the present leader of the Epworth League of the local Methodist Church. Since their return to Hotel Vass, where they will reside in the future, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have been recipients of many expressions of con gratulations and good wishes, tender ed by their many friends here, in ad dition to those from other places. FARM LIFE CAMP 1923 it was awarded the Savory Cup the clearly defined rights 'of the vot- all-round weekly in ers of the State. When this can hap pen, we may be sure the “dry rot” has set in, which will surely confirm the most gloomy picture made by the English historian. J. C. CADDELL. Wake Forest, N. C. PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT The Pilot has received the follow ing announcement: Henry Burke, Certified Public Ac countant (La.), with whom will be as sociated D. N. Blue, Irma T. Smith and W. E. Easterling, all late of the firm of S. G. Gardner and Company, Certified Public Accountants, will con tinue in the practice of Accountancy. The policy and the service of the new organization will be the same as of old. Odd Fellows Building Raleigh, N. C. Subscribe to The Pilot. North Carolina. “Bill,” in the three and a half years of his residence here, has been something more than “just a printer.” The wide circle of friends which he has won and held by his genial nature; the merited confidence which has been placed in him by the business men of the town; the con sistent good will which the people as a whole have evidenced toward him in every business and social activity— all go to link the name of “Bill Thomp son” with the finest attributes to be found in the nature of wholly likeable young man. Although having been in Ve»ss for some'hing less than a year, since Sep tember, 1923, when her father, Mr. A. Auman, assumed the managership of Hotel Vass, Miss Auman has during her residence here been identified with many social and religious activities, and has won a wide circle of friends by her friendly nature and charm of personality. She was the re-organizer Thirty-five boys and girls of Moore county are enjoying a four-day out ing at Farm Life School this week, under the direction of Miss Bryan, Home Demonstration Agent; Miss Flora MacDonald, of Carthage, Home Economics teacher at the Farm Life School, and R. G. Hutcheson, superin tendent of Farm Life School. The girls are learning to can, sew, cook and make pine needle baskets, while the boys are being taught the difference in grasses and legumes, their value as farm crops, the value of pure bred live stock, and how to judge live stock. The boys are also learn ing the sources of fertilizing materials and home mixing. On Tuesday morning a trip was made to the Pinehurst Dairy and pig gery; and on Tuesday evening, thru the courtesy of Mr. Picquet and Mr. Tufts, trucks were sent over to con vey the campers to the moving pic ture show at Southern Pines. On Wednesday evening Mrs. H. F. Seawell and daughter, Miss Ella Meade Seawell, of Carthage, will en tertain the children with a story-hour, from 8 to 9 p. m. On Thursday af ternoon the children will have a pic nic supper at Crystail Lake Park, Lakeview. Camp will break on Friday morning. No personal canvass was made for members, and since the camp was worked up entirely through the local papers, gratification is felt at the sue- SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 DR. C. B. NcNAIRY TALKS ON HEREDITY Tells the Kiwanis Club That Crime is Mental Defect iveness W. J. HARRINGTON A The Kiwanis Club held its weekly dinner at the Farm Life School, and the event proved unusually interest ing as it gave an exhibition of the work a number of the children are do ing. The girls of the school sang a succession of songs, and the club re plied with others, and a community of good feeling was aroused. Some of the visitors got new ideas of the work the school .is doing, and came away more enthusiastic friends than they had been before. Harry Lewis, of Southern Pines, was what they call the goat on the occasion, and he told a unique story of starting in life an orphan with a jack knife that his sister had given him as a Christmas present, and trad ing it and getting a little boot, and trading here and there and working at odd jobs until he grew up to be a dozen years old, and then he began to get into real work and have real experience, ai\d finally he found him self at twenty-one a merchant, and later a merchant in Southern Pines, and after eleven years in this section he is the head of a business that had total sales last year of almost a quar ter of a million dollars. His was one of the best of the personal stories told so far, and that means it was one of a lot of good ones. Claud Hayes is to tell what he knows about himself next week. He knows a lot more than he will tell. Owing to a death in his family. Dr. McNairy, of Caswell school, was not able to be present, but his manuscript was forwarded on the morning mail. Following is the substance of his ar ticle: The proper recognition and correct handling of the mental defective is the basis of all social, religious, and eco nomic betterment. Normal people cor rectly informed and properly ap proached want to and will do right ninety-nine times out of a hundred. A normal or intelligent person will function in the environment in which he is forced to live to the end that he will feed and clothe himself and h:s own and keep himself from being a monkey wrench in the wheels of P'o^ress. Intellect is progressive aJap^abilitv, says Dr. Portiejs. Web ster defines heredity as transmission of physical characters of parents to their offs’^rings. Science has done much with species, bit it has never created anv new spe cies. Burbank did much with the po tato, but he did not make an apple or a cucumber out of it. You people in the Sandhills have done wonders with the peach: increased i+^s size, etc., yet it is still a peach. We have done much with the fowl. The chicken, for instance; we have developed the size the qualities of the meat and the egg productive powers, yet they are still chickens just the same. The same has been done with animals. The cow: we have developed the species and made various types—the beef tv^ e, the milk prodi’cer, the special butter fat type; but they are still cows, and so on. Like produces like. If it were not so then when we wanted milk cows we would Jbreed donkeys: when we NYBODY who has traveled the road between Carthage and Glendon has probably noted the big white house standing in the forks of the road where the Horseshoe trail leaves the road for Glendon, for at that point W. J. Harrington has made one of the attractive places of Moore county. His land em braces many hundreds of acres, and includes some of the best farming and grazing soils in this part of the State. There the fortunate possessor has raised many a big crop of vari ous staples, hay and forage be ing conspicuous in the list. Mr. Harrington has carried on lumber operations on a rather large scale when lumber was more plentiful, and lumbering conditions more attractive, and that with his farming has made him a conspicuous figure in the upper part of the county. Un til James Barber bought Lake view Mr. Harrington carried ot) the amusement business there during the summer season, and made many friends by his cor diality and his way of handling the enterprises. With his re- wanted bird dogs we would breed grey - .1. . hounds; when we wanted cabbage we tirement from that occupation jtomato seeds: when we MOORE COUNTY SUMMER SCHOOL NOTES Moore County Summer School end ed its six weeks term on Friday, Au gust 8th, bringing to a close what we believe to be the best county summer school we have ever had. At the closing exercises, Friday morning. Superintendent Cameron ex pressed himself as being highly pleas ed with the quality and quantity of work done, and expressed gratification at the large enrollment, and the in terest manifested. Superintendent Cameron also spoke in flattering terms of the teaching force. Mis. Blankenship, of Char lotte, Miss Carrawav, of Wilson, and Miss Clatworthy, of Honea Path, S. C., are all highly successful teachers, and their work in sum Tier school be speaks their high type of excellence and talent. A pleasing feature of the last week of summer school was an interesting talk on “The Department of an Ap preciation for Art,’ by Mrs. H. F. Sea well t of Carthage. he went to the farm and took a little flier in politics, being named as register of deeds by the Moore county democrats. cess of the camp. From all appear ances, the children have not had a dull moment, and are thoroughly en joying the outing. CLEAN-UP DAY AT UNION Wednesday, August 20th is the day set apart for the members, and others who are interested in the Church, to meet at Union Church for the pur pose of cleaning off the cemetery. Howard-Bobbitt Co., Sanford, starts construction of refrigeration plant. wanted sweet corn we would sow cel ery seed. No two mental defectives or feeble-minded persons have ever produced a normal person. Why question the privilege of the individual criminal to produce his kind when ninety per cent are criminals or re peaters? Wh’‘T not say three times and out ? We repeat that like produces like. Nature’s laws are very nearly cor rect; that is, only the supernhysical and mentally strong survive—in other words “the survival of the fittest,” all the weaklings physically and men tally fall prey and furnish food for the others. We must prevent the re production of certain types. Those we know are insane, those we know are feeble-minded, those we know are un moral, unhonest, the criminals, the anti-social and the general disturbers must be segregated,, sterilized and be forbidden to reproduce their kind. That we can think that we are (Continued on page eight)
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