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VOLUME
5
THE PILOT
NUMBER
10
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina
Address all communications to
THt I’lLOT printing COMPANY. VASS. N. C.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30.192S
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
PILOT NAN SEES
ACTION AT RALEIGH
31o.!>re County Delegation Doing
Good Legisla
tion
(Bion H. Butler)
1- or some time Stacy has been talk
ing in me about going to Raleigh to
«:ee the legislature in action, and Jo-
sepluis and Os. Coffin and maybe ride
on the street cars and walk around
the lobby of the Yarboro, so we ar-
ri\r:xv(\ to go Monday and I got on
the train. A seat in front of me was
va ant and when we stopped at Vass
I looked to see him come on, for
whin you go away from home like
that a fellow from the country wants
some one along with him that knows
the way around town in a place like
Raleigh and how to act when you get
in that kind of a crowd, but Stacy
fooled me, for he never came. And
I went on by myself. I was comfort
ed by finding on the train Senator
W. B. McQueen, of Raeford, and we
presently got deep into a discussion
of the situation of things in the state.
By the time we reached Raleigh ev
erything was right well settled, and
if the rest of the legislature would
do as we said, the session could be
cleaned up promptly and with high
ly satisfactory results.
McQueen has to work when he get;?
up there in the senate, so I left,him
and rambled about town awhile by
myself, and was fortunate enough not
to get run over by automobiles which
are an everlasting nuisance in that
town. And along about the time
school is out I looked up a boy T ha;I
in State College and I found him with
Bill Phillips, a boy from Manley who
is also up there at school and the
three of us took another turn at look
ing at the town. We didn^t attract
a great deal of attention for the folks
seemed to be used to college boys and
jay-looking hill-billies, so by not try
ing to cross the streets any oftner
than we had to we got ali>r»'’ pretty
fair. By and by we rjunded up at
the legislature, and we w«?nt in to see
how the thing is lone. We hit the
senate gallery the first crack. About
the first thing a man with a ^^od
voice begun to read new bills. And
it seemed as fast as he would call out
the number and title of one and .lit
it two or three times wivh a rubber
stamp and Elmer Long referred it * i
its proper committee another bill was
there to be read by its title, i'r^m all
parts of the senate th^ bills Kept
shooting- in, and I didn’t see nuich t)
get excited over until a mcin.f uro was
offered to repeal that ten mi^'’'ii d(d
lar tip toward Tom Bowie’s raihoad
^scheme.
It was referred like all the rest tim
as the avalanche of bills kept ni )vlng
the boys failed to find suffic'*in* e*
citement in the thing and sug ri-.'ted
we go over and see the represent
in action.
It turned out that when we got over
there we had just reached the real
wide open fountain of new bills. The
^oys understood this was the plac3
where they make laws but they had
^ever been at a legislature before, al-
thoujrh I had had my boy in congress
one time, and they were surnrised to
see that making laws in Raleigh seem
ed to be carried on in car-lot style. We
looked down from the gallery on the
tops of the heads of the wise men ai.d
'''ith the exception of two of the most
perfect shiny bald spots that we had
had a chance in a long time to look .at
from up above the collection didn*t
^!ffcr much from about the same num-
of folks you would meet anywhere,
jin intimated that brains didn’t show
t"^'oiigh much, so he couldn’t tell
''^hether there was high grade skulls
.lust ordinary down below us. By
and by I chased the boys back to the
collejre as it was getting time for
' 'Ifnil youngsters to be in bed and I
^eni gossiping around among some of
, ^ folks from various sections. It is
^^teresting to see that our delegation
^eprr’senting Moore county is well rat-
^ the legislature. Mr. Woodley
at the disadvantage of going
^ out on crutches as the result of a
UNVEILING OF ANDREW JOHNSON MONUMENT
The Pilot received the following’ letter, just as we are going to
press, announcing the unveiling of the Andrew Johnson Monument
at Carthage;
^ Aberdeen, N. C., Jan. 28,1925,
Mr. Stacy Brewer,
Editor Vass Pilot,
Vass,N. C.
Dear Mr. Brewer:—
In your paper this week I would appreciate your making
some mention of the unveiling of the Andrew Johnson Monument
in front o the court house next Monday, February 2nd, at the hour
of noon, and invite all the good people of this section to be present.
Very sincerely,
J. McN. JOHNSON.
DR. LEIBY ADVISES
LlNE-SOLrilURSPRAY
Should be Applied on Trees Dur-
in the Month of February
or Early March
fall in the gin house in December. And
the day I wag up there he had a tooth
pulled. I don’t know whether it was
a sort of a welcome sign to us from
the sticks or not. But these conditions
kind of hampered him a little that
day, yet I could see the other fellows
sized him up as a full hand. And
they all told me that Woodley has a
good sensible conception of what he is
there for, that he is taking an intelli
gent hold of his work and that the
other members look on Moore county
as being well represented. Our sena
tors are Arthur Ross, from Ashboro
and W. B. McQueen from Raeford.
Nobody needs to apologize for either
one of these fellows. I was pretty
well satisfied after observing their
standing and rating given them by
others that Moore county qualifies
right well with any other county del
egation in the state, and I felt posi
tive that if the other
DR. TAYLOR TELLS
WORTH OF SERVICE
John Bloxham urged the substantial
backing of the boy scouts movement
and proposed a camp for the district,
which was received with favor, and
a hope the scheme can be carried out.
j Arrangements for a Kiwanis ball
But He Says Men Must Not Be are planning, and also an auxiliary
Standardized—Recorders
Court
At the Kiwanis Club dinner Wed
nesday at Aberdeen the speaker of the
occasion was Dr. George Taylor, a
New York clergyman, who has made
a hit by an address at the Mid-Pines
Club recently and before the Forum
Club at Pinehurst, Sunday night. Dr.
Taylor talked about the virtues of
service and the worth of being able to
say “no” when no is the word that is
needed. He argued that service ha.s
its place, and that it is a valuable of-
ninety-nine I fering to mankind in a way, but he
counties had the same type of men j thought that where we have too much
like the three in our delegation we ' emphasis on service we are liable to
would have less freak legislation, ' go to the wrong extreme and leave too
much more expeditious action and little to the individual effort and to the
much less half-baked stuff run thru
without a knowledge of what the
members are doing.
A couple of hours around the state-
inner impulses, and that we tend to
become the victims of industrial or
ganization and of machine dependence.
It was a line be^^ween the individual
meeting at which the women folks or
some other members of the families
may be present.
OUR RALEIGH LETTER
house in Raleigh is a pretty good place | development and the tendency toward
to get acquainted with the state. Some
of the things that transpire there in
dicate that in a way we continue to be
close to the crudities of the earlier
day. This has certain advantages, but
standardizing everything, and Dr.
Taylor could not accep*" the doctrine
that all men were standardized or
of the same individuality and type.
(By R. E. Powell)
Raleigh, Jan. 28.—Probably before
this is read a compromise of some sort
will have been reached, but just now
—at the time of writing—it looks as if
Governor McLean had met the enemy
and they are his’n.
It’s been but a short time since the
Cameronian obstinacy in person mov
ed majestically about the Executive
Chamber. If a little of that has been
bequeathed to the Morrison successor
and that little is added to the endowed
and acquired Calvinistic leanings of
the Lumberton Scotchman, there will
be no gubernatorial surrender to a
$35,000,000 road bond issue now.
The advocates of the same say they
have His Excellency whipped and, al
though they may be whistling to keep
courage and with a hope of attracting
votes, they lament his action is forc
ing at "his time a test vote to determ-
ire primarily the size of the bond is
sue bi't, incidentally and dangero’as'y,
He spoke of the man who wondered
it has certain objections. But the ob- | what kind of a country we have where leadershiD with the le-is
jections are offset by the further dis- i Harold Bell Wright is the foremost e McLean leadership with the le„.s
covery that there is a fair group of i author, Billy Sunday the lea-Jing evan-
strong men who hold an intelligent ! gelist, Hearsts the most prominent
leadership on the mass, and I feel j jo-rnalist, Charlie Chaplin the great-
(Continued on page 8)
“THE DIXIE
HANDICAP”
A Variety of Entertainment at
The Carolina Theatres Next
Week
Variety is not only the spice of life,
but the spice of moving picture enter
tainment' No matter how good they
are, we tire of the same types of pic
ture entertainment and knowing thi?
full well the Carolina Theatres always
strive to provide that needed variety.
They do not always succeed because
it some times happens that the right
kind of pictures are not available but
next week’s program offers just the
proper variety.
On Monday and Tuesday a real rac
ing picture, “The Dixie Handicap,”
taken from Gerald Beaumont’s story,
“Dixie,” laid in Kentucky the home of
thoroughbreds, an engrossing tale
with the background of the turf to
provide color, will be presented. It
is interpreted by a wonderful cast in
cluding Claire Windsor, the most
beautiful girl on the screen, and Prank
(Continued on page 8)
est actor and W. J. Bryan our lead
ing statesman. The inner force, he
said, must be our stimulus, not the
standardization of service, and the
applause his audience gave him indi
cated that had uttered a convincing
doctrine. He was not enthusiastic,
over our habit of piling up new laws
until we are a law-ridden country,
and a people that is so overwhelmed
with laws that we give little attention
to any of them and are automatically
the worst law breakers in the world
even though we have no intention of
breaking laws and no knowledge that
we do.
Dr. Poate presented a petition to our
representative in the legislature to
secure a measure that would permit
a recorder’s court in the three town
ships of this end of the county, and it
was signed by practically every mem
ber present. This is in line with the
movement that has been on foot since
last summer. The doctor gave some
figures to show the need of such a
court, and his statement was convinc
ing.
A delegation will go from the club
to present to the agricultural com
mittee of the legislature the need of
the experiment station cotton and
peach station in the Sandhills, with
the expectation that it will be estab
lished.
lature.
Thursday is the day set for a hear
ing on the bill, introduced by Major
W. C. Heath, of Monroe, in the Sen-
(Continued on page 8>
DEATH WUllAN
POSTELL DAVIS
Was Native of Anson County-
Resided in Moore for Past
Twelve Years
On Tuesday, January 20th, Eureka
community was saddened by the death
of W. P. Davis, a man who for the
past twelve years, has been an active
participant in all of the community’s
activities, and who has always been a
loyal citizen, a staunch friend, and a
kind neighbor.
William Postell Davis was born in
Anson County, N. C., on May 24th,
1853, and died, after a lingering ill.
ness, on January 20th, 1925. His
age at the time of his death was sev
enty-one years and seven months. He
was the oldest of ten children, born to
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Davis, of Anson,
and here he grew to manhood, was
married, and resided for the greater
part of his life. In 1900 he moved
to Union County, and from there to
Moore in 1912.
Forty years ago Mr. Davis married
Miss Martha Green, of Union county.
The dormant spray on peach rees
for the control of scale and leaf curl
should be applied any time during the
month of February or early in March
according to Dr. R. W. Leiby of the
Agricultural Experiment Station. He
advises the lime-sulphur spray for or
chards where the scale is not preval
ent to an injurious extent, and an oil
spray where the scale is abundant es
pecially if scale was found on the
ripened fruit last season. Even
where the oil spray is used to control
scale, a separate application of lime-
sulphur concentrate diluted one-eighth
would seem advisable, and if this is
done. Dr. Leiby advises that the ap
plications be separated by a period of
at least four weeks.
According to experiments conducted
by the peach insect laboratory last
winter, the oil sprays including the
miscible and lubricating oil emulsions,
killed an average of 98 per cent of the
scale, whereas the lime-sulphur so
lutions liked an average of 88 per
cent of the scale. It is on the basis
of increased killing efficiency of the
scale by the oil compounds that a dor
mant spray of oil is advised for this
season where scale is unusually abun
dant in an orchard, but Dr. Leiby
points out that the grower runs a risk
in the control of such diseases as leaf-
curl and brown rot when oil alone is
used and not followed by an applica
tion of lime-sulphur.
Doctor Leiby states that he will
gladly advise what dormant spray ma
terials any individual grower should
use in his orchard if the growers
write him at his winter headquarters
at the Department of Agriculture at
Raleigh. He suggests that each grow
er make a careful examination of his
trees for scale before deciding wheth
er to use the oil or the lime-sulphur
as* a dormant spray. Although the
lubricating oil emulsions are general
ly regarded as safe to use on peach
trees, he cautions against purchasing
the cheaper compounds commonly of
fered on the market. The grower
should feel reasonably sure that any
emulsion he may purchase will remain
stable and not break down, otherwise
the oil is apt to injure the trees.
Mr. aid Mr?. Davis were blessed with
o’ght chiMren, six of whom are now
living. Thev are, William Hurd Da-
vi'", Badin, Lorenzo LaMar Davis,
G'eensbo'o; John Marvin Davis, Vass;
R'^na Davis (died in infancy); Harvey
^avis (deceased); Ethel Davis, Vass;
Herman Postell Davis, Vass; and
James Emerson Davis, Vass.
In addition to his widow and six
children, Mr. Davis is survived by two
brothers and three sisters. They are,
C. S. Davis, Marshville, Union coun
tv; J. E. Davis, Hartsville, S. C.; Mrs.
John W. Kiker, An'^on county; Mrs.
J. W. Beacham, Stanlev county, an«!
Mrs. J. C. Austin, Marshville.
Mr. Davis lived a life of great use
fulness. Having farmed all of his
life, he put fo^th his efforts to make
^he community in which he resided, a
bet*^er place to live in. He was broad
minded and nrogressive, ever ready to
lend his aid in any movement for the
betterment of himself and his neigh
bors. During his life, he was for a
number of years a member of his lo
cal school board; for a number of
years he served his community as
magistrate. He was a staunch sup
porter of all organizations for the bet
terment of farming conditions; and,
was throughout his life an earnest,
sincere Christian, and an earnest
worker in the Methodist Church. At
the time of his death, he was a stew
ard in the Methodist Church, at Vass.
The funeral service was held in the
Methodist Church at Vass, on January
21st, by Rev. McWhorter, of Aber
deen. The large number of neighbors,
friends and relatives which filled the
church, bespoke the love, esteem and
respect in which this good man wa»
held by all who know him*
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