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irch 13. 1925 III \nd! - the >dyne ewest 3n! A ibinet ires — i sim« jiance H with- i near $ it is lily — lilt-in ?rams - get exact le diaL ntxtmtntxxM LINE 1ENT STER im CADS )ARD GLES iTreas. 3 ility the m»M»w tf You are a lover of Music—you should haat. r* ^ Itj_ ^ y^ snoum hear the Griflfes Group at Carolina Theatre, Pinehurst, Mar. VOLUME THE 31. Tickets now on sale PILOT NUMBER 17 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, MARCH 20,1925 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 CLAY ROAD FARMER ROAS^GERHANY gays Charity Should Begin At Home Not Abroad I^ay I ask the public the following: Do we all think the country’s heart is in the place it should be by even con sidering a movement or bill in Con gress to make the German govern ment a present of its war debt ? I am an ex-service man, having served two years in the service, one year of which was served during the world war. I did not vote for the soldier bonus because personally, I thought the country would be better off not to pass such a bill, for taxes were already high enough and for such expenditures the government has to raise money by taxation. After using the bonus bill for a political football for five years it was passed, giving a paid-up insurance policy which, after a specified time, a cer- Uin per cent of it can be borrowed. Though I haven't received my policy as yet^ I want it because now that the bill is passed I am entitled to it. Some of the atrocities committed by the German army certainly must not have made a very deep impression on some of the people of this country because if they had, we shouldn’t want to give Germany anything but Hell as long as some of the same hearts are left in the German republic as were there during the war and who either issued such orders or allowed them to be carried out, such as cold (Continued on page 8) An Opportunity To Get Water R. W. Beadle, of Brockwayville, Penn., was in Vass a few days ago to talk about building a water plant to supply this village and probably Lakeview, and he expects to be here again in a short time, when he should be able to get an answer as to whether Vass cares to consider his proposi tion. As The Pilot understands the matter Mr. Beadle is willing to build and operate a plant if the people are interested in hav ing a water supply and will indicate that they will take sufficient water to make the investment look like a logical scheme. The prices for water are not known to The Pilot, but that would be probably about such figures as prevail in other places in the neighborhood. The main thing Mr. Beadle will be apt to want to know it about what patronage he may expect, and then he can tell whether he thinks it will be worth while to put his money into a plant. He has been considering Vass for several months. It is now time for Vass to consider what he is willing to do. It is perfectly plain that before very long Vass must have a public water supply. The town is at the mercy of a fire if one should break out, and it is not possible to depend much longer on wells for domestic water supply, for before a great while sanitary require ments will tell us we must turn to some thing else than surface wells. Sooner or later this step for more extended and de pendable water supply must be considered, and then it will be a plant owned and oper ated by the town, or by some one else if some one else is willing to provide one. Mr. Beadle is favorably disposed. He has been here three or four times to look into the situation, and thinks well enr.ugh of it to come again. He should be given some definite opinions so that he may know how to act. It is a matter all are concerned in, and it is The Pilot’s belief that we should discuss this thing seriously with him and see if something can not be done. It may be that if we miss this chance we will hunt keenly at a later period when conditions are not so favorable, and find at a critica time we have lost our opportunity. Mr. Beadle should have some positive informar tion as to what we will be interested in and he should be encouraged to build a plant in Vass if he will. GRIFFES GRODP- ALLAmANSTAR Three Great Artists to Appear on One Program at The Caro lina Theatre, Pinehurst Three stars with but a single thought—“To make the Griffes Group America’s greatest concert organiza tion”—.Such is the slogan of the noted all American concert company which comes to Pinehurst, to give one of their much praised programs at The Carolina Theatre, Tuesday, March 31st. This Griffes Group is indeed a “Three Star’' attraction— Lucy Gates, Soprano, Olga Steeb, Piano, Sascha Jacobinoff, Violin. These artists say that there is a thrill in working under the name of the Griffes Group,—because they each admired that splendid American composer, Charles T. Griffes, after whom and whose work they pattern themselves. That Griffes was great, America is just* beginning to dis cover. America did not discover it while this brilliant, serious young man still lived Practically every one knows Lucy Gates, long a favorite record-seller, she holds a place all her own in many a home in America. Olga Steeb is the darling of the Pacific Coast—^from Los ^ Angeles to Seattle they have watched her grow and become the big artist she is today. Jacobinoff is one of those young Jewish fiddlers who were born with a violin—read Fanny Hurst’s “Humoresque”, and you will know the history of Sascha Jacobinoff, it spans from ghetto to greatness. IMPORTANT SALES ON NlOmS ROAD Two Lots to Talbot Johnson Near Southern Pines Starts New Movement Last week The Pilot told of the sale of a considerable frontage on Broad street in Southern Pines to the Page interests for a new bank build ing. As the paper was getting to the press tidings arrived too late to say that Talbot Johnson had bought through Sam Richardson two lots on the Midlands road between Southern Pines and Knollwood, between the village of Southern Pines and the creek. These lots are numbered ten and fourteen and are not far below the Knollwood office building and J. D. Davis’ house. The price approximates eight hundred dollars a lot. The lots are in size in the neighborhood of an acre. This is the first sale that has been made along the Mid-Lands road on the Southern Pines side of the creek. Mr. Johnson expects to im mediately begin to improve the lots, not with a building right away, but by planting shrubbery and working out a design in harmony with that larger scheme which has been started in the form of a planted i>ark leading out from Southern Pines. Following immediately on the heels of the purchase of the Broad street lot in Southern Pines this purchase is taken by men who have commented on it as an event of marked importance. Mr. Johnson has plenty of Sandhill land and his addition to his holdings by this acquisition of the Knollwood property was taken to mean that he looks on this location with unlimited confidence. The talk on the streets is that this selection on this particular point marks the beginning of develop ment along the eastern end of the entire Mid-Lands road section. GEORGE WHITE THE KIWANIS SPEAKER Democratic National Chairman Of Five Years Ago Tells of Klondike LUCY GATES Everyone wants to hear the famous American singer who has made good both “over here” and “over there” so the Carolina Theatre, Pineshurst will be crowded when on March 31st when Lucy Gates makes her first appear ance here since acquiring world fame. This young and beautiful “Girl of the Golden West”—granddaughter of the famous Mormon pioneer Brigham Young, brought triumph after tri umph to her danner in the capitols of the Old World. Kaiser Bill tried to keep her in Germany for the Im perial Opera—ordered her, in fact, to return at once to her post, but with characteristic American spunk she told him “nothing doing” and de camped for little old New York where she landed, to use her own version, “with forty nine cents and fifty good intentions.” It was work from the ground up to' get her started here; in every city where she sang she braved the natural opposition to things American in music which had so long, and so ig norantly existed here. But once again conquest bore her aloft and to-day she is recognized far and wide as one of the definate forces in inter national music. In one season she five times replaced Galli Curci who was indisposed. At each event she was promptly re-engaged. Tickets are on sale at Carolina Hotel and Theatre News Stand, Pine- hiirst. Fox Drug Co., Aberdeen. Broad Street Pharmacy, Southern Pines. SOUTHERN RAILWAY EYEING PINEHURST Would Like to Have Some of the Western Business of The Sandhills A few weeks ago Leonard Tufts fell in with Fairfax Harrison, President of the Southern Railway, and Mr. Harrison expressed an interest in getting a finger in some of the Pinehui st business, especially from the West, as the business from the North is already pretty big on the Southern. Mr. Tufts encouraged the idea, and a few days ago the Kiwanis clrb joined Mr. Tufts in the en couragement. A little later the an nouncement was received that Vice- President Andrews of the Southern would be in Pinehurst to look over the situation and R. N. Page, Leonard Tufts and Sam Richardson were ap pointed a committee from the Ki wanis club to go over the matter with Mr. Andrews. He arrived in due season and was shown around, with such satisfactory interest that he went back to Wash ington with the assurance that the passenger department and the freight department would each send down a man to study the various conditions, in hope that something might come out of it. The general plan is to connect up a line that will reach out to Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago and the western territory, and from any other section not too exclusively in the Seaboard area. It looks like a broadening of the railroad facilities in this neighborhood by another sea son, with the Salisbury or an Ashe- boro connection with the Southern. The speaker at the Kiwanis dinneer Wednesday at the Southern Pines Country club was George White, of Ohio, chairman of the Democratic National Executive committee in the campaign five years ago. Mr. White was in Congress with R. N. Page, but that did not constitute the bulk of his talk. He made his experience in the Klondike the theme of his dis course, and as he went up there with' the first gold fever nearly thirty years ago, when going was bad enough and being there was probably tougher, he had a story to give up. Mr. White told of the extreme difficulty of going a thousand miles into the Artie moun tains, of the absolute necessity of every man caring for himself, carry ing food to depend on, doing his own work, being his own law, and then finding gold or not finding it, as the case might be, for as he said he said only ab9ut ten or fifteen per cent of the thousands Who went up there came out with anything. He drew a mighty graphic picture of the disap pointments, the follies, the hardships, and the empty hands that in time came back to the states, although he was fortunate to bring out with him good enough to help along in the days to come. One of the points he brought out was the necessity of men in such con ditions standing squarely and fairly on th3ir own feet and resources, for the Klondike was never the place for a pink tea nor for much crockedness unless the crooked member was sure he could get away with his offenses. Justice was mighty emphatic and quick in action. But friendships were strong there as they are elsewhere. Another thing he dwelt on was the dependence of the dogs in the Artie The dog was like the men, courageous, self dependent, but no toy dog made much headway. The whole affair was serious, and took backbone and deter mination. But Mr. White says it was interesting and worth the time and effort. The club joined in with the group of men who are talking about a new hotel in the Sandhills section, and e:> pressed a good deal of enthusiasm over the prospects. Tom Tarheel says it pays to watch the new things tried out by your neighbor. That’s the way he learned the value of planting pure bred seed. PINEBLUFF HOTEL IN PLAIN SIGHT Bids For Construction Opened, And Contract to be Let Saturday Bad accounts will bankrupt a busi ness, so will poor cows break a dairy man. County Commissioners of Craven county appropriated $350 for a mo tion picture outfit for County Agent, C B. Faris. Mr. Faris will use this principally in his educational work with clube this season. Bids for the construction of the new Hotel at Pine Bluff were opened this week, and it is expected that the contract will be awarded Saturday and that work will be started next week. The bids range from about $98,000, by the Burns Construction company, of Fayettevile, to $12,000 by the Jewell and Biddle company of Sanford. Six other bids are in hand, ranging betweeen these. The com mittee on awards is busy figuring out the comparative relation of the bids, and a conclusion will be ready by the time the announcement is to be made Information from the -directors is to the effect that the bidders say they can start promptly by next week, and the guarantee is given that the new house will be ready to turn over to the company October 31, in time for the coming season. The Winston-Salem folks who are connected with this venture are very enthusiastic over the prospect of the venture and also over other investments they have in the neighborhood of Pine Bluff and they will be active helpers in that neighborhood in the future. I i:
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