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THE
PILOT
NUMBER
8
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, JANUARY 16,1925
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
JUDGE WAY URGES
COMMONITY TROSr
proposed Plan for Organized
Charity With a Workable
System
The feature of the Kiwanis dinner
on Wednesday at Aberdeen was a pro
posal by Judge Way to form a com-
niiinity trust for the more efficient
ami intelligent handling of charities
and public welfare work backed by pri
vate contribution. The judge, who has
had much experience along this line
told of the plan that is working in
many places throughout the country
where gifts in large or small amounts
are turned over to the community
trust, which is an organized corpora
tion under the law, and the funds are
invested intelligently so that loss may
be avoided and the income is put in
the hands of an intelligent committee
of the most responsible men in the
community for application to such
things as justify the outlay.
Judge Way spoke of the blindness
of the most of the charity, and the
vast improvement that could be made
by having a capable committee of
really practical business men to in
vestigate the case and handle the
funds, and the need of having a re
liable trust company receive and in
vest funds offered by generous peo
ple for such purposes. His proposi
tion made such an impression on the
club that it was made the order of
further investigation and discussion,
and as much interest was awakened
in the scheme it is likely that an at
tempt will be made to organize the
community trust if it is deemed prac
tical for so limited a field as this, and
many of the big men of the communi
ty think it is.
The opinion of the leaders of the
club is to the effect that if some move
ment of this sort is started it will
grow to big proportions, and they
voiced the intention of the club to
stand by and see what can be brought
out.
PILOT OFFICE GIRL
GAINS DISTINCTION
Annie McGill who has been associa
ted with The Pilot from its beginning
except such time as she has been at
school, is now at the Women’s col
lege at the University of South Car
olina. After a couple of years in
Mitchell College in this state she went
to the University and recent informa
tion from Columbia says that she has
been chosen House President of stu
dent government in the Women’s col
lege of that establishment. While
with The Pilot she was an excellent
^ and dependable member of the force,
and naturally the shop rejoices in the
advances she is making.
dewberry men
MEET AT HAMLET
At a meeting of the dewberry men
at Hamlet, January 8, it was decided
that any member of the association
shall have the privilege of selling dew
herries to a local cannery prior to the
opening of the season, provided, how
e'er, that the grower notifies the man
ager of the association ut least two
weeks before the season opens. In
case of gluts in the marker, should
the growers desire to sell local can-
iieries on the spot, said grower shall
have this privilege provided, howev
er’. if such sales interrupt the loading
a solid car the said shipper shall
he liable for that percent of the
fi’eight in proportion to cases divert-
the contract to be effective April
if enough acreage signs up to war
rant car lot shipments.
The following organization com
mittee was appointed:—W. L. McCoy,
^cBee, S. C.; R. E. Carrington, San-
N. C.; J. E. Phillips, Cameron,
C.; A. H. Guild, Pinehurst, N. C.;
Muse, Laurinburg, N. C.; W. R.
Land, and S. W. Clark, Hamlet, N. C.
A growers’ meeting will be held in
Hamlet January 28 at 10 a.m.
GOVERNOR A. W. McLEAN
Who was inaugurated Wendesday, was elected by
the largest majority any man has ever received for
Governor of North Carolina.
BARBER EXPANDING
KNOLLWOOD LAKE
Project Increasing in Importance
as the Work Goes
Forward
BLUE FERTILIZER
FACTORY STARTS
Will Begin Operation the First
of Next Week; Output
Greater this Year
The silent partener usually has the
last word.
B. A. McManus, president of the
Blue Fertilizer factory at Aberdeen,
says things are starting up and he
expects to be in active operation about
the first of next week. Material has
been coming in until sixty thousand
dollar’s worth is on hand, with two
or three times as much contracted for
delivery as needed. The prospects are
that the output of the factory will be
about twenty-five per cent greater
than last year and an extra salesman
has been added to help take care of
the growing trade. The reputation
that has been made by this concern for
meeting the requirements of the Sand
hill farm and orchard has given the
Blue factory a steadily increasing bus
iness. The call for plant bed fertilizer
by the tobacco men indicates an active
year in the tobacco belt, and Mr. Mc
Manus figures on a good sale of fer
tilizer to the cotton men as Moore
county last year made one of the big
gest cotton crops in its history, and
realized for it a good price. He says
peach men are also beginning to call
for their spring supplies, and that ev
ery indication looks like a good ngri-
cultural year for 1925.
Last year the factory added a cot
ton ginning outfit, partly for the con
venience of the cotton farmers, but
also for the purpose of attracting cot
ton seed for the fertilizer factory. The
gin did a good business and it will
reach out for trade again this year.
On account of unavoidable trouble
with the typesetting machine, The Pi
lot is compelled to omit the inaugural
address of Governor A. W. McLean.
Cold baths prolong life. But
pshaw, that means more cold baths.
GOVERNOR McLEAN
When The Pilot last summer
announced that it was for Mc
Lean for governor of the state
the motive of the choice was
clearly stated as a conviction
that the man possessed the vir
tues of rugged uprightnesr,
clear thinking, business ability,
and a courage that would not
shrink at ordinary obstac’e^.
Today his inaugural address
is given in the main points, and
the man who reads that po itive
utterance on pub'ic affairs can
have no doubt that the new ex
ecutive is rightly chosen. Mr.
McLean leaves no doubt as to
where he stands, and tells plain
ly why he stands there. There
is no emotion, no effusiveness of
words, no useless florid oratory,
but a definite statement of fact
and of intention... Capable men
have bee nin the execi’tive of
fice at Raleigh, but as The Pilot
reads the signs no man has been
there who gave reason to expect
greater things than the new ar
rival, for Mr. McLean while hav
ing the ability has also a broad
er field for action... North Car
olina today is much ahead of
the day when the other gover
nors served, and more is to be
expected of a governor this year
than in any day of the past
....Mr, Morrison turns his back
on the state house with a record
that no.man need be ashamed
of. He has been a wonderfully
progressive agent in the state’s
work, and if somewhat emotion
al at times he has offset all that
in the positive., gains., he ..has
made for his state, which have
not been surpassed by any of
his predecessors. Time will
show Cameron Morrison to have
been one of the big constructive
statesman of this state, and the
state to have been decidedly the
gainer for his term in office.
WHAT GOOD ROADS
HAVE DONE FOR US
Four Days the First Trip, One
Day the Last Trip From
Same Points
In a journey I made by motor car
in November, 1909, from Harrisburg,
Va,, to Pinehurst, N. C., I was four
days making the trip. The first day
I "oL as far as Roanoke by putting
chains on all four wheels. The second
iay I left for Greensboro after hav
ing; to be towed out of one creek and
two mud holes, and losing all the tools
I had in the car, as I found the next
day that automobile tools were not
very plentiful at that time. I ar
rived in Greensboro at 10:30 Saturday
night, bought 13 gallons of gasoline,
and slept in room No. 13, and from
that day I have always thought 13
was unlucky.
I had to leave Greensboro the next
morning without tools, as I could not
b’ly them on Sunday morning. Every
thing was going along nicely when
about 14 miles out of Greensboro out
went a rear tire, and those days we
had no spare tires, and it required a
good kit of tools to change a tire, and
mine was somewhere in the Blue
Ridge mountains.
I saw a house some few hundred
yards away and walked over and ask
ed if they knew where I could borrow
enough tools to change a tire. They
knew of a man seven miles away who
had a car. I walked the seven miles
and when I got to my destination I
found that the man was out driWng
in his car, so I returned to my car
and decided to wait until a car came
along, which was 5:30 that afternoon.
But by this kind friend’s help we got
the tire repaired and came into Ash-
boro which is about 28 miles from
Greensboro.
Monday morning I left Ashboro for
Pinehurst—about 50 miles by what
(Continued on pasc 8)
What started out to look like a
rather modest plan at Knollwood
when James Barber gave out the job
for the beginning work there has
reached a stage and the plans have
been broadened to such an extent that
the scheme is becoming one of the
most ambitious in the Sandhills. Mr.
Barber has looked deep into the pos
sibilities of the site, and as the dam
extends and the water rises he is able
to see so much more in the possibili
ties than was apparent on an engin
eer’s survey and prosy blue prints that
he has ordered further work, and he
has now reached to the stage where
the significance of the work is clear
to the spectator.
Already the dam is over twenty feet
high, and it has impounded sufficient
water to make a large lake that skirts
the east side of the golf course at
Knollwood, and which reaches to the
pine covered hill across the stream to
ward Southern Pines. All the trees
and stumps that were on the ground
have been removed, and the lake when
full will be an open body of water,
with its beaches close to a mile in
length, and the shores rising in the
edge of forest to the hill tops or to
the golf links. On the ridge that
sweeps the whole circumference of the
lake will be some of the finest build
ing sites in the Southern Pines terri
tory, and they will be convenient to
the golf grounds, and also but a short
distance from the business facilities
of Southern Pines for those who want
to reach postoffice, railroad, churches,
etc. The lake is but a couple of hun
dred feet from the Pinehurst and
Southern Pines double track road.
Between the road and the dam Mr.
Barber is clearing out the flat ground
and probably will have there a park
of some sort or a big garden of that
type that will add to the appearance
of the property.
From one side of the lake to the
other the dam will be wide enough
to afford a driveway, giving a
chance for a road all around the wa
ter side, and putting all the homes
b'Mlt on the entire lake front in touch
with the go’f grounds, the Mid-Pines'
club house, the Pinehurst road, and
the everal roads leading into South
ern Pines. The borders of the lake
v/ill be litt’e more than half a mile
in a dire'^t liiie from the Southern
Pi’^es bo^^ndary. All the intervening
I' e ritory between the town and the
I Vke is high and rolling land, cover-
jel with nine forests, which will make
I bighlv desirable home sites. With
I the body of water so close, and the
im’^rovements that Mr. Barber is car
rying on and has planned the whole
area between So^’thern Pines and the
Mid-Pines club house will be an ex
tended park, and when it is built rp
with homes it will continue to be one
of the most romantic and pictures
que quarters of the Sandhills.
The Pi-ol has not gone into any
questions concerning this new project,
for what it all means can be cipher
ed out by anybody who cares to look
the thing over. Many thousand dol
lars have gone into making that con
nection between the two villages, and
more is following it daily. Already
the lake shores, not yet defined as
they will be when the water is higher,
show the boundary lines to be the ap
proach of an extended beach against
a continued body of pine trees of all
sizes from little to big, and of a suc
cession of hills, high and low that are
attractive enough to appeal to the ar
tist as well as the visitor or resident,
or homemaker. The work will go on
into the end of the winter and spring,
and by summer time the transforma
tion will be complete. The swamp
will have been superceeded by a paA
and a lake that will be among the
finest in Middle North Carolina.
It’s a wonder they don’t change the
name of Reno, Nev., to Liberty.