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VOLUME PILOT NUMBER Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all ccMniKimications to the pilot printing company, vass, n. c. FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1924 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 REV. W. H. H. LAWHON, who is conducting a revival this week, at Friendship Church near Hallison. Friendship Church is one of the oldest Baptist churches, and Rev. Lawhon was the first minister to occupy its pulpit. GOOD TIMES AT FARM LIFE ENCAMPMENT Katharine Blue, age 13, grade 8, won first prize for best composition on the encampment. It follows: Several weeks ago I read in the county papers of the annual encamp ment to be held at Farm Life School. Reports from the previous encamp ments, and the promises of just as good and better times than had been had before, naturally made me want to attend the encampment. 1 enroll ed and began immediately to prepare for this chance to get acquainted with the boys and girls from other towns. Also to learn the different arts to be taught, and to have a big time. Monday afternoon when I arrived with my chicken, eggs, meat, rice, to matoes, potatoes and numerous other things, and saw the gathering of chil dren already there, I began to feel at home. After fixing up our rooms ev erybody went out on the grounds and played. The best part of Monday's program, undoubtedly, was the picnic supper. Besides the chance to get acquainted we were provided with a good bait of good eats. After supper every one enjoyed an hour of games. In this way we be come better acquainted. Miss Mary Currie, of Carthage, came out and played the piano for us. Then we sang some. We went to bed about nine-thirty, but I think everybody was having such a big time that we didn’t get to sleep much. But believe me, we made up for it Tuesday night. Everybody en joyed the breakfast Tuesday morning. After breakfast dishes were cleaned up, we spent about half an hour with Mr. Hutcheson, taking exercises. Next came Miss Bryan’s cooking class; we were taught to can, preserve, and make jelly. Miss McDonald, who taught us to make several stitches, and a collar and cuff set, had her class next. Immediately following this, ev ery day, all gathered in tJhe living- room for chapel. Dinner time came, and with it a plenty of good eats. Don’t think that it was all work, for while we enjoy ed that, we enjoyed our trips the best. On Tuesday afternoon we had plan ned to hike to Thaggards Pond, but on account of the weather we had to make the trip in cars. Most of our crowd went in bathing, while the rest ii^ight just as well have been in for they were real wet from standing out in the rain. After supper, Mr. Tufts sent over a truck to take us to Southern Pines to the movies. Mr. Picquet gave us all free tickets. The picture was “Bread,” and everyone enjoyed it. Wednesday, after sewing class. Miss pyan taught us to make pine needle baskets. The Kiwanis Club ate din ner at the school on Wednesday. .We yelled and they yelled, we sang and S That afternoon the boys went to Thaggards. The girls stayed “at home” and sewed and played, and ate 'watermelon. Wednesday night about 8 o’clock, ^J*s. H. F. Seawell and daughter, Miss Meade, entertained us for an hour With delightful stories. After that sat on the porch and sang and played until bed time. Ihuisday morning the girls took regular lessons with Miss McDonald snd Miss Bryan. Next came chapel, and after that, dinner. i‘Hirsday p. m., Mr. Dwight sent us over a truck to help take our crowd ^0 Lai'eview. We took supper with and after about an hour in bath- ng, v;e opened our supper and enjoy- ined chicken, deviled eggs, sand- ichci;, pickles and cake. After an spent on the grounds, we arted back home, where we found McRae had beat us home, and as Waiting with some watermelons *or us. camp broke Friday morning, nd while no tears were shed ovej th?[^S’ judging by myself, at all will want to come back next year. OPEN 34 HARKETS WEA^TOESDAY Will Take No New Contracts For This Crop in Eastern Belt After Opening Date The Tobacco Co-operative Associa tion will open thirty-four markets next Tuesday, September 2, in East ern North Carolina and at several of its receiving points in the Central Carolina Belt. Every member of the tobacco asso ciation who delivers his 1924 crop to the co-operative floors will be enabled to receive 75 per cent of the bankers’ valuation of his tobacco by means of a cash loan equal to one-half the amount of his first cash advance. The ability of each member of the association to realize 75 per cent of the cash value of his deliveries has al ready resulted in bringing the asso ciation more than 500 new members from the South Carolina Belt. The tobacco association has also in creased its cash advances upon all medium and low grades of tobacco de livered by its members in South Car olina and deliveries to the association have increased each week since it be gan receiving the South Carolina crop on August 5. The cash receipts amounting to 75 per cent of the loan value which the associated farmers have been receiving since the associ ation be.^an its third year of market ing, have compared very favorably with the cash returns which other farmers got all at once for their deliv eries to the auction floors. No tobacco of the 1924 crop will be received from new members after September 2, when the association will close its membership books for this season. After that date it will receive (Continued on page 7.) DR. D. N. McLAUCHLIN, pastor of First Presbyterian Church, of Norfolk, who will preach in the Vass Presbyterian Church next Sun day morning at 11 o’clock. Mr. Mc- Lauchlin is a brother of D. A. Mc- Lauchlin, of Vass, and A. D. McLauch- lin, of Hoke county. THE KIWANIANS HEAR HRS. KATE JOHNSON Commissioner of Public Welfare Speaks of the Under privileged Child The Sandhills Kiwanis Club was exceedingly fortunate this week in having Mrs. Kate Burr Johnson, State Commissioner of Public Welfare, as the principal speaker. Mrs. Johnson was present at the invitation of Dr. L. B. McBrayer, chairmen of the com mittee in charge of the study the club 4 BELMONT’S LIONS It takes nerves strong as steel to be a successful trainer of wild animals. Few men elect such a hazardous profession. And of the few who are really famous, probably not one could tell you the secret of his success in mast ering beasts of the jungle. There are no text books on “How to Become a Wild Animal Trainer in Ten Easy Lessons,” and there is no school except the school of experience. And among the few men who have attained world-wide repu tations for their strange power over wild beasts, Bruno Radtke is regarded as probably the most daring. In this day of high- powered efficiency, even animal trainers specialize. For more than ten years Radtke has de voted himself exclusively to training lions. There is probab ly no man living who better knows the habits and character istics of the King of Beats, and there is no man who has suc ceeded in teaching these jungle monsters to do his bidding more tiban has Radtke. . . (Contiziii«d on pag« two) GEORGE R. ROSS WITHINHISRIGHTS Attorney-General Gives Him a Clear Slate; Entitled to a Seat in the House The complaint against George Ross sitting in the legislature after he had been appointed to a place in the mar keting division led The Pilot to inquire of the Attorney-General of the State as to the status of the case, for George Ross is a mighty valuable man in State affairs. That he is clearly en titled to a seat in the house until the recently elected member succeeds him in the coming session is evident from the letter in answer to the inquiry, as shown below: Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 22, 1924. Mr. Stacy Brewer, The Pilot, Vass, N. C. Dear Sir:—We received your letter of yesterday this p. m. Section 7 of Article 14 of the Con stitution is as follows: “No person who shall hold any office or place of trust or profit under the United States, or any department thereof, or under this State, or under any other state or government, shall hold or exercise any other office or place of trust or profit under the au thority of this State, or be eligible to a seat in either house of the General Assembly: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend to offi cers in the militia, justices of the peace, commissioners of public chari ties or commissioners for special pur poses.” The General Assembly, in order to aid in carrying into effect the above provision, enacted Section 3201 of the Consolidated Statutes: “If any person presumes to hold any office, or place of trust or profit, or is elected to a seat in either house of the General Assembly, contrary to the seventh section of the fourteenth article of the Constitution of the State, he shall forfeit and pay two hundred dollars to any person who will sue for the same.” Thus we find that both the Consti tution and statute of North Carolina prohibits double office holding except in the particulars stated in the proviso to the constitutional provision. Ac ceptance of a second office by one al ready holding a public office operates ipso facto to vacate the first when he has qualified in the second Indeed, the Court has gone so far as to inti mate that after the acceptance of the second office, if he presumes to act in the first, his acts are absolutely void and could not be sustained as acts of an officer defacto. A member of the county board of education is a public officer; a director of a State institution is a public offi cer; a policeman is a public officer; a county commissioner is a public offi cer; the county superintendent of roads is a public officer; the clerk of the superior court is a public officer; the chief of police is a public officer; member of school committee is a pub lic officer; a notary public is a public officer; a rural mail carrier is a pub lic officer; a deputy clerk of the super ior court is a public officer. You will notice that officers in the militia, jus tices of the peace, commissioners of public charities or commissioners for special purposes are all exempt from the provisions of the Constitution. The commissioner of a public charity would probably be a member of the board of directors of the State Hospit al, but the Court has never had occa sion to define definitely who are com missioners for special purposes. The State Highway Commissioners are public officers, the highway commis sioners of the various counties are public officers, but using the recent resolution adopted by the General As sembly in regard to the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railroad as an illustra tion, those appointed commissioners by Governor Morrison are commission ers for special purposes and conse quently, the double office holding pro vision does not apply to them. You will notice also that when the Constitution comes to deal with mem bers of the Legislature, it makes a special provision for them. It declares if they hold an office, they shall not be eligible to a seat in either house of the General Assembly. The effect of that, in the light of the constitutional provision. Article 2, Section 22, that each house shall be judge of the quali fication and election of its own mem bers, is to leave the question of wheth er the office holder so elected shall take seat to the house, a member of which he has been elected. No court can in- terefere with this constitutional right of the Legislative Depaii;ment. The statute also puts those elected to a seat in either house of the General As sembly in a different class. It does not punish a person elected to the General Assembly for double office holding if an office has been conferred f BION H. BUTLER When the history of the Sand hills is finally written, Bion H. Butler will have a large share of the credit for the great awak ening and wonderful development of these recent years. He be lieves in the Sandhills and loves the people, and his great sympa thies and kindly interest go out to them. He wields an optimis tic and inspiring pen. He sees the good and promising in men and movements, and encourages them wholeheartedly and cou rageously... He is kind, generous, tolerant but firm, and ever mili tant for what he believes is just and right. Mr. Butler is a human sort of man. We remember distinctly his fine tribute, some, years ago, to a deserving neighbor who had passed to his reward. It was true and deserved but none the less revealed the tender human interest of the writer, which we have so often seen since then. He is a writer of faith in men and things, and of abiding hope. The burden of his messages seems to be: “Take down your harps from the willow trees for the fu ture is full of hope.” He is a modest, retiring man, loves na ture, the hills and plains, the streams and forest, flower and fields, but his great interest is in human welfare. Long may his bow abide in strength.—Rev. M. D. McNeill. upon him after he is elected to the General Assembly. It imposes a pen alty upon him only when, while hold ing another office or place of trust or profit, he permits himself to be elected to a seat in either house of the Gen eral Assembly. If, however, after he becomes a member of the General As sembly and during his term as such member, he is appointed to another office and qualifies therein, he is not subject to the penalty imposed by Sec- tion 3201. Very truly yours, JAMES S. MANNING, Attorney-General This letter is printed in full because it has an application in many other cases, which are not quite so simple as the case of Mr. Ross, who was with in his rights. All over the state are men in duplicate positions, and it is probable that the statement of Judge Manning will be followed by a scat tering of those in dual jobs. This is particularly the prospect where men hold jobs that involve signing con tracts or reaching decisions that in volve financial outlay or permanent proceedings of any sort. MEASURE TO AMEND LOCAL SCHOOL LAWS V A bill passed in the legislature at the last special session has for its purpose to broaden the representation on the school board, which is deemed wise by many of the school patrons since the district has been enlarged to include a considerable outside terri tory. Under the present system the board of trustees is self-perpetuating; a very undemocratic way of electing: same. The measure under discussion reads as follows: A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 67, PRI VATE LAWS, EXTRA SESSION, 1913, AS TO THE METHOD OF (Continued on page 7.)
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