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VOLUME
NUMBER
11
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.
ANDREW JOHNSON AND
HIS NE^ONUNENT
A Man Who Had a Troubled Ca
reer and One Unique in
American History
(Bion H. Butler)
Stacy kind of wanted to see what
the commissioners were doing at Car
thage Monday and when he urged me
to go along over he didn’t have a hard
job. For I was some interested in Jim
Johnson’s monument to Andy John
son, and particularly because my old.
friend at Aberdeen has been sick for
a couple of weeks and I was told he
would probably not be able to go to
Carthage. So I thought I would go
over and make one more of the crowd.
Partly because I like Jim Johnson a
whole lot and partly because I like to
run around.
I never saw Andy Johnson. But I
knew him before I knew Jim. In the
fall of 1864 when Johnson was on the
ticket with Lincoln who was elected
to be president for the second time of
the United States, I was a boy in
a Pennsylvania town. Most of the
men were away in the army. The
boys of us stayed at home. But we
fought just about as much, or at least
oftner than the soldiers at the front.
I was old enough to read and to hear
the grown up folks talk about Lincoln
and Johnson and I was a very decid
ed partisan of this ticket. A boy in
the next house above was of a fam
ily who were as noisy for McClellan
as I was for Lincoln and Johnson. The
next house also held a McLellan fam
ily. In the war days politics reach
ed a rather exciting stage and once or
twice a day I had a run in with my
boyhood companions. Lincoln and
Johnson were elected and the death of
Lincoln made Johnson president of the
United States.
I still recall some of the bitterness
of the four years of Andrew John
son's administration. I was not old
enough to understand the conditions,
but Thaddeus Stevens a man as curi
ously constituted as Andy Johnson, a
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1925
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ANDREW JOHNSON
Seventeenth President of the United
States and a friend to the South.
man of tremendous force of character
'vho antagonized Johnson to the bitter-
extreme, was a Pennsylvanian, and
oi'J community lost its enthusiasm for
president. Among the older men
of my acquaintance was Gen. John A.
1‘njrham. He was chairman of the
boj'rd of impeachment of Andrew
Johnson in 1868, which fortunately for
Wanness and justice failed of its con-
tion. Gen. Bingham never said
m !ch to me about Johnson, but his
iduct with the men brought John-
more prominently into my interest
historical affairs. Then finding
he had lived at Carthage for a
^ ^ brief though the period proba-
Was, and that his family and the
^^■•erdeen Johnson were related gave
9 farther interest to the event of Mon-
But even beyond all of that is
the other fact that Andrew John-
was a unique character in Ameri-
i history. Curtis McLeod said to
“That isn’t a monument to An-
‘V Johnson. It is a monument to
Johnson. People contributed to
(Continued on page 8)
SHRINERS TO HELP CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Give Dance February Twelfth, Pinehurst Country Club
to Raise Funds for This Charity
On Thursday night the Shrine Club
of the Sandhills will give a dance at
Pinehurst, the purpose being to gath
er a fund that is to be used for the
relief of the crippled children of the
community.
The net proceeds from the dance
goes into a special fund known as the
“Crippled Children Fund.” The Sand
hill Shrine Club was organized a lit
tle over a year and a half ago and
held the first dance on last Valentine
day (or rather night) and the success
was such that it was decided to make
it an annual affair. The first dance
netted $580.00; with this fund in the
last twelve months five crippled chil
dren have been treated, two of which
it has been necessary to furnish with
artificial appliances as shown in the
picture. Dr. Bell, of Aberdeen, is
chairman of the committee that looks
after the treatmnt of these little crip
ples and gives his services free of any
charge and is glad to look into any
case reported to him. Most of the
cases go to the hospital at Gastonia.
The dance this year is to be on Thurs
day evening, February 12th and as
last year all proceeds other than ac
tual expense will go into the same
fund as tefore and the club hopes to
be able to keep up the good work it
has commenced.
The two children in the above pic
ture are Wilson Tarlton and Frances
Bates, and both are coming on nicely.
The officers of the club are: J. Tal
bot Johnson, president; H. B. Emery,
vice-president, and Chester O. Bell,
secretary-treasurer.
Tickets can be had from any mem
ber of the Shrine, or from the offi
cers. The event will be one of the
big social affairs of the winter, with
a big attendance from everywhere in
Central North Carolina.
SUBSCRIPTION $2.00
PRIZES ARE OPEN
TO NX FARMERS
$2,500 Are Offered Farmers En
tering National Seed Com
Show, in Chicago
Prizes totaling $2,500 are offered to
corn farmers in North Carolina coun
ties who make entries in the National
Seed Corn Show to be held in Chica
go, March 2nd to 7th, under the au
spices of the Sears-Roebuck Agricul
tural Foundation, an announcement
received here states. The show, which
is to be held during “Seed Corn Test
Week,” is inteded to drive home the
need of a high germination seed com
policy to insure the country a normal
1925 corn crop.
In addition to the five-dollar prize
to be awarded to the farmer in this
county showing the best ear of corn, a
thousand dollars in gold is offered to
the farmer in North Carolina or the
United States who exhibits the na
tion’s champion ear. Another prize
of a thousand dollars to the agricul
tural agent, farm bureau, agricultural
or community organization of the
county displaying the largest number
of entries is also announced.
The show is open to the entire
United States. Any person—boy or
girl, man or woman—may enter an
ear of corn. Parcel post entries will
be received any time up to the night
of March 7, and each ear must have
the name, address, county and state
of its owner on a paper which should
be wrapped securely around the ear
with the writing on the outside. No
ear will be awarded a prize until
tested for vitality and disease resist
ance,*the judges to be selected by the
American Society of Agronomy.
Entries should be addressed to the
National Seed Corn Show, Sears-
Roebuck Agricultural Foundation,
Chicago.
UNVEH TABLET TO
ANDREW JOHNSON
R. L. Burns Leads the Exercises
Aided by Many
People
On Monday at Carthage the Andrew
Johnson monument was unveiled in
the presence of a large crowd, many
from a distance. The monument to
the 17th president of the United
States, a native of Nor^h Carolina and
one time resident of Carthage, erect
ed by the Andrew Johnson memorial
association of which R. L. Burns is
president. Through the efforts of J.
McN. Johnson, of Aberdeen, the asso
ciation was formed and the monument
erected. Mr. Johnson was designated
by the association to deliver the prin
cipal address at the unveiling but
owing to illness he was prevented
from being present. The address he
had prepared was read by President
Burns of the memorial association
who also acted as master of ceremon
ies.
The following program was observ
ed: Song, the Old North State, by the
Carthage Round Dozen Music Club;
invocation, by Rev. J. M. Wright, of
the Methodist church; song, Ameri
ca, the school children, led by the
Round Dozen Music Club; the unveil
ing by Miss Meade Seawell, assisted
by little Misses Betsy Jean Johnson,
grand daughter of Mr. J. McN. John
son, and Emma Muse Burns, daughter
of president Burns; the address of
Hon. J. McN. Johnson, read by presi
dent Burns, as follows:
“I sometimes think that never blows
so red
The rose, as where some buried
Caesar bled.”
At the Centennial Anniversary of
the death of Voltaire, the great French
Publicist, Victor Hugo began his ora
tion with the oft quoted sentence:
“A hundred years ago a man
died; died immortal.”
When I was in the city of Paris in
1920 I was carried to the hou e where
Victor Hugo died, and the hack driv
er allowed me to alight from the hack
and stand upon the steps of the house
where the great man died. All una
bashed that, I know my American ac
cents were falling upon strange ears
I there repeated the quotation slight
ly altered: “Thir y-seven years ago a
man died; he died immor al.”
Just a hundred years ago a strip
ling of a lad, then 18 years of age
resided in Carthage. This lad was
Andrew Johnson, a tailor, who had
jvst completed his seven years ap
prenticeship in the city of Raleigh.
Forty-seven years fiom that date this
same boy was inaugurated the seven
teenth president of the United States.
There was a time when the South
hated Andrew Johnson for his strenu
ous opposition to the principals of Se
cession. Later there came a time
when the North hated him because of
his no less strenuous opposition to the
(Continued on page 8>
J. McN. JOHNSON
of Aberdeen, founder of the Andrew
Johnson Memorial Society.
GREAT ENGINEER
TALKS TO KIWANIS
Dr. J. F. Stevens Tells About
Russia in War Time Days
and Now
At the Kiwanis club dinner at the
Holly Inn at Pinehurst Wednesday the
speaker was Dr. J. F. Stevens, one of
^he mO't famovs engineers of this
country. He has been prominent in
’vork at home, with the Panama Can
al, with some of the biggest railroad
and cons^^ruction work, and when Rus
sia was showing signs of collapse dur
ing the great war he was sent there
as chairman of the railroad commis
sion to help get Russian soldiers and
supplies to the front, and aid in the
prosecution of the drive against Ger
many. Dr. Stevens told the tragedy
of a murdered nation, and gave lit
tle promise of what to expect from
^hat direction in the immediate future.
When he reached Rus~ia in the
troubled days he fornd fine soldiers
and loyal people, but an impractical
government and management, and the
wildest dreams of the army leaders
led only to disgraceful defeat on ev
ery hand. The attempt to rebuild
Russia has been disappointing, large
ly because the ruined monarchy has
had no capable and intelligent lead
ers who could lead any people any
where. A lot of things to attend to
before Dr. Stevens was called on to
talk had cut his time short, and he
could not go as far as the club want
ed to hear him, but he delivered an
interesting and instructive address,
giving an insight into the helplessness
of Russia under its imagined free
dom after the Czar was killed, and a
line on the unparallelled wreck of a
great nation.
Paul Dana, who was at Greensboro
at the conference of Kiwanis clubs
read a synopsis of his work there,
which was highly satisfying to the
(Continued on page 8)
DR. GILBERT McLEOD
of Carthage, whose r’eath last Sunday
takes from Moore cou.ity one our fore
most men. He was one man who spent
his time and talent for his fellow-man.
A GREAT NEED OF
THE SANDHILLS
Without doubt one of the greatest
needs of the Sandhills from an agri
cultural view poin‘^ is the establishing
by the s'a’e of a branch experiment
station or farm where experiments di
rected toward the solution of the
farming and frrit growing problems
of this section can be conducted. The
Sandhills are unique in their climate
and soil. They have specific problems
which are not characteristic of other
agricultural sections of the state.
Heretofore regarded as waste lands
they are now recognized as having
vast potentiali^ ies in the raising of
fruit, tobacco, cotton and other crops.
Already the section is renowned for
its peaches and dewberries.
The need for the branch station be
comes increasingly evident as the
farmers attempt to diversify their
crops in this section. Time and again
they are at a loss to know what fer
tilizer formula to use, what variety is
best suited, how a cover crop can be
grown and the soil improved, how to
prune a peach tree, and what to grow
while their fruit trees are coming into
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