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THE PILOT
Friday, May 1, 1925.
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AT THE END
OF THE ROAD
“Adsum,” answered the boys
in the grammar school at the
roll call. “I am here.” Year by
year as the days rolled on one
name after another dropped out.
^‘Adsum,” answered the boys.
But it was an answer to different
names as the days had gone on
into that indefiniteness of eterni
ty which is yesterday.
What is the difference how
long ago it has been since
Malcom McNeill first said “I am
here,” as he opened the sacred
book for the first time as the
pastor of the Presbyterian flock
in Vass. Time is only a flexible
yard stick. Years are the drops
of water that flow ceaselessly
over the dam. More will follow.
The fresh crop of boys will say
‘‘I am here,” as the days come
and go. For that is life, and
that is the story of man, and all
creation.
“Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,
Whether the cup with sweet or
bitter run.
The wine of life keeps oozing drop
by drop,
' The leaves of life keep falling one
by one.”
Who is the great man among
you ? Listen to the answer.
When the Recording Angel, with
his pages blotted with tears and
marked with corrections and in
terlineations offers his evidences
at the final tribunal the cleanest
sheet there in that motley mass
of credits and accusations will be
set down with the name of the
country preacher as the subject
of the dread inquisition. The
man whose existence has been
devoted to his fellow men, to
their grave questions, their
sorro-ws, their hopes, their
duties, sacrificing his own allot
ment of the vanities, his own
proper right to
ing a companion to the building
by which it will stand, and of
that same type of architecture.
These four building jobs are
undertaken to provide for in
creased facilities for handling
the business of the Sandhills
neighborhood. Pinehurst and
Pinebluff get the greater hotel
room. Southern Pines gets a
much enlarged banking house.
Pinehurst gets an enlarged post-
office location, and several more
store rooms, with modern apart
ments in the upper part of the
block. All of these are essential,
and they unite to foretell the
course of progress, which is of a
most substantial kind. In these
four pieces of work will go a
quarter of a million dollars, and
possibly more. But it is enough
to guarantee that the builders
are interested in the future of
the Sandhill country, and willing
to back their opinions by the in
vestment of a decidedly substan
tial amount of money.
Anybody who has imagined
that the tomorrow of this section
is to be marked by any slump in
development is a bad guesser.
The day of development is only
beginning, for all the influences
that have existed from the
beginning have only so far
served to arouse the interest of
the people to do something, and
so many more people are inter
ested this year than ever before
that the building projects are
as near a continuing certainty as
anything can be. The four pro
jects are mentioned not as the
scope of the work that is to be
done this summer, but merely
as the beginning of what the
season is starting with. These
will be followed as the summer
advances, by other things, big
and little, and the air is full of
right pretentious talk that gives
signs of materializing into some
thing of magnitude before fall
comes around. Building will be
active this year, and the fall will
open with the ability to care for
a still bigger business than ever,
and in a better manner.
county to give every child a
chance. It can be done in syste
matic way if we have a county-
wide systematic system. It can’t
be done in any other way. The
school board can with profit con
sider both these schemes when
the subject is brought up by the
petition for the new arrange
ment of the district around
Southern Pines.
money, to shine among the ac
complished, to stand out among
those favored by luxury, promi
nence.
The Good Samaritan left no
name to be carved on a monu
ment. But he is one of the few
whose .monument would be su
perfluous. The country preach
er is the one great man. He
knows he has no hope of reward,
but he serves as willingly, for
his service is not for reward.
But one other creature is in his
class, the mother, who asks
nothing but the opportunity to
think and work for others.
Those two are the curiously con-
spicious and outstanding empha
ses of human goodness.
Mr. McNeill ends his pastorate
at Vass. Fate makes new boun
daries for his field of action.
Ties are broken. Contacts are
ended. It is the night.
RE-ARRANGING
SCHOOL DISTRICTS
A petition is in circulation
asking the board of education to
re-arrange the school districts in
the Southern Pines area, so that
more of the children who are
convenient to the schools there
may go there instead of to the
accumulate I schools of the adjoining town-
THE BUILDING
PROGRAM FOR 1825
Last week The Pilot presented
two pictures of important build
ings that are about to be com
menced in the Sandhills, the new
bank building at Southern Pines,
and the new hotel at Pinebluff.
Tv^p other important jobs of
building have already been com
menced—the enlargement of the
Holly Inn at Pinehurst and the
new block that Mr. Taylor has
started on the Market square,
adjoining the Market square
buildings. These two pieces of
new work will be of the same
magnitude as the two noted last
week, for while the work on the
hotel at Pinehurst will not in
volve sa much money perhaps as
the Pinebluff hotel, it is a step
toward further expansion of the
Holly Inn that will make it one
of the commodious hotels of the
state, and capable of caring for
a much greater number of visi
tors. The new business block at
Pinehurst is in its own class, be-
ships. The location of Southern
Pines is peculiar. The high
school there is but a few hundred
feet from the Sandhills township
line, and as the new Aberdeen
high school is in Sandhills* town
ship, as well as the only other
school in the northeast end of
the township, children must
either go to Aberdeen from the
vicinity of Southern Pines, or
arrange to get into the Southern
Pines schools. This has not been
satisfactory, and the proposal
is to draw a line fairly between
the school houses so that the
children may go to the school
most convenient, and while the
thing is in motion to make a di
vision line between Southern
Pines and Vass, Southern Pines
and Pinehurst, and Aberdeen
and Pinehurst.
That is a decidedly logical
movement, and while the board
is at the re-arrangement it would
be a good plan to go into the sub
ject of a community dstrict for
the whole county, making the
county the unit of school opera
tion and management, and the
districts underlying factors in
the broader project. It looks as
if this step is to come sooner or
later, and the sooner it comes
the better will the children of
Moore county be served.
When the state began to func
tion as a unit in road building we
commenced to get real roads.
When the county took up road
building as a county unit we be
gan to build roads in the county,
and the present roads are be
yond any expectation of roads as
we were working under township
or local road districts. We never
could have reached a good roads
system in the county under the
old system, and we will not be
likely to secure good schools in
the county except in favored
spots, acting under the local unit
plan.
We have money enough in the
THE SANDHILLS
FAIR FOR 1925
It is coming time for the
people of the Sandhills country
to be thinking of the Sandhills
fair for the coming season. Be
cause the fair is held at the fair
grounds at Pinehurst, and be
cause Pinehurst backs up the
institution to the limit is no ex
cuse t^ leave to Pinehurst the
whole job. The fair is of so
much importance to this section
that the people are not fair to
themselves if they do not give
the fair every possible help, for
after all is said about the fair its
benefits are to the whole people.
The most striking recent ap
plication of the usefulness of
the fair on Moore county affairs
is seen in the poultry and egg
movement in the Vass neighbor
hood in the last six months. The
first sign was in the market for
eggs, and the second in the out
let for poultry. It was found
that eggs and poultry products
have undergone a revolution in
the community in fhe past few
years, and when the farmers
really found they had a positive
outlet for their stuff the pro
ducts came forward, and that
was significant, the quality was
materially improved over that of
not so very long ago. Now the
Sandhills fair has stressed poul
try on the benches and the in
fluence can not be overlooked.
Right now the poultry show at
the fair needs still more en
couragement, for farmers are
much more interested in chick
ens than they have ever been.
The fair will show them good
varieties and good types, and
more high class chickens will be
raised in the county.
Chickens constitute one thing.
Many others need to be studied
intensively at the fair. When
chickens had no market the
poultry show was a novelty.
Now that the farmers are called
on for all the chickens and eggs
they can supply at all times of
the year the poultry show next
fall will be an education. People
will study chickens from the pro
ductive view point. They will
look at other things in the same
way. It is time to take a new
view of the meaning of the fair,
and to approach it as an exhibi
tion of the samples of what can
be made and what can be mar
keted in the county. Pinehurst
and Harry Lewis are calling for
good hogs in the winter. Pine
hurst shows what is a good type
of hog, the type that Pinehurst
and Lewis will pay good money
for. Pinehurst shows the vege
table and fruit exhibits that can
be made in the county. It is no
use to make the old scrub stuff,
no matter what, and farmers
who make better stuff do wisely
in show'ing that stuff at the
fair. Those who make inferior
stuff do equally well to study
the fair in the fall, when the
exhibits of the superior things
are in. Such things show what
can be done, and what can be
sold.
Then the amusements and the
entertainments have their decid
ed value, for they are clean and
wholesome. The Sandhills fair
is fortunate in having Pinehurst
to back it, but it will be far more
fortunate if the people will go
the limit in regarding the fair
as a big study in production and
marketing as well as an enter
tainment for the community,
and will back the management
in every way possible, for popu
lar interest is absolutely essen
tial to the success of anything,
fairs included.
in were: knot tying, tent pitching,
water boiling, and wall scaling. It
was a grand sight to see over a
hundred scouts in action at one time.
Goldston was the winning troop and
it received the silver loving cup. We
congratulate Goldston on having such
a fine troop.
Most of the boys have got their uni
form. They look “dressed up” in them.
Some of the scouts are doing good
turns by killing dangerous snakes.
We see some of the scouts carry
ing nice spring flowers to the girls.
Winfred and Clyde Causey were in
Aberdeen Saturday.
Swimming and boating is great
sport with the boys these days.
Tom Zachary, star pitcher for The
Washington CHub of the American
Leag^ue was an Alamance County
Club boy. He was a member of the
first club organized in the County and
he is coming back to the reunion of
club boyg and girls now being planned
by the home and farm agent.
Tarheel dairymen are finding that
it pays to test their cows. One Guil
ford County dairyman told county
agent J. I. Wagoner that he could
afford to build a new barn now that
he knew what his cows were doing.
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Roadsters, Touring Cars, Trucks
and Coupes
Are you one of the lucky ones?
There were several last month.
Why not you?
I have just the Car you want and the price and
terms are right. No cars driven over three months. Some
only thirty days.
Write for Demonstration.
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Care Carolina Discount Corporation
ABERDEEN, N. C.
Just a Year
Ago T oday
LAKEVIEW SCOUT NEWS
The scout news was wrote too late
for the press last week.
All of the boys took active part in
the Walter Hines Page Council, Field
Review, which was held on the Fair
round at Pinehurst. April 18. The
events in which the boys took part
It is just a year ago today that I started
a Savings Account with the Page Trust
Company and today I have a neat balance
to my credit. I’ll tell you what, it does make
a fellow feel good to know that he is ready
to meet an emergency. It is so easy to start
saving, and by following a regular savings
plan it is easy to save. Better start saving.
Page Trust Company
Aberdeen, Carthage, Cameron, Hamlet, Raeford
Sanford, ThomasyiUe.
Frank Byrd|
College to sr
his people-
Dr. M. L-
j^iss Ernestii
Vass Wednes^
to pinehurst
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Mrs. Georg
A. M. Camel
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afternoon.
Mrs. S.
Jack and Claj
week from aj
Smithfield.
home by Mrsj
son’s Mills.
The Woms
regular me
o’clock Frida:
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Raleigh, sto]
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route to Pinel
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Mack and Mj
turned from
Raeford.
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fortune of l|
week.
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week. On
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Messrs. S[
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Mr. and
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spent Monday
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way to Pinel
Mrs. S. R.
of last weel
Smith went
returned wit|
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children and
to Sanford,
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