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VOLUNE THE PILOT NUNBER 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, JULY 3, 1925 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 TEN CONNANDNENTS CAROLIN^ATRES The Mightiest Dramatic Spec tacle of All Ages— July 6th and 7th (By Fay King) I have been hearing so much about this big Cecil DeMille picture, “The Ten Commandments,” I figured I better hurry in and have a squint at it and, believe me, the first half, or in other words, the Bibical part of the picture, is truly a triumph in every way! Tut’s tomb has had us all mterested in Egypt lately, and in this part of DeMille’s picture you see how the poor children of Israel were in bondage to the Pharaoh, and had to haul those sphinx and gigantic statues around, that the tourists admire so much. And you see how Moses pleaded with the Pharaoh, and then how each first born was taken, in cluding the mighty Pharaoh’s son, who was a chip off the old block, and beat Moses with a whip while he talked with his father. And then when the Red Sea sepa rates and the children cross in safety. Gee! That’s a thrill! And then Pharaoh, racing after them in their countless chariots gallop right into the sea after them and when they reach the middle the waves just fold over and—that’s that! “The Ten Commandments,” as you know, is really a double header! That is, there are two stories. The first part deals with ancient times. The modern story shows what can happen to people to-day if they break God’s law. Probably no more magnificent and dramatic spectacle will ever be made than the first reels of “The Ten Com mandments,” showing the splendor and oppression of those times when the children were in bondage in Egypt. The torture they endured while enslaved to the mighty Paraoh! Then the terrifically impressive scenes which show Moses receiving the Ten Commandments hurled from the very heavens! The bolt of lightning that cuts the tablet from the mountain side! Then the grief and dissapointment when Moses returns to his people to find that in his absence his own sister has inspired them to give their orna ments that a golden calf may be made to worship. To see the Pharaoh’s six hundred chariots in pursuit of the captives just released, to recapture them— Thrill after thrill—the kind that make you think! ! ! And then after this marvelous color picture, comes the modern story. The two sons, Dan and John. Dan, wayward and unbelieving, who goes out into the world for success at the price of his soul. John, who remains Godfearing and as his mother trained him. “The Ten Commandments” will go on forever! ! ! ! —Reproduced by permission from the New York Daily Mirror. Upon conclusion of the business a most enjoyable social hour was held, on a contest of characters of the Bible. Mrs. J. P. Thomas and Mrs. W. T.. Cox were presented with a set of silver lingerie clasps. The hostess served delicious fruit punch and home-made cakes. LAKEVIEW SCOUT NEWS Te regular meeting was heJ^^. Thurs day evening at 8 o’clock. It was con ducted by Patrol Leader, Hiram Mc- Innis. Mr. Walter Cole acted as as sistant Scout Master. The Scout oath and laws were given by the scouts. The pledge to the flag was also griven by the scouts. Signaling was practiced by all scouts present. Games were played, such as pyramid building, and “flip.” There was also a knot-tying contest. Our Scout Master, Mr. F. M. Dwight is attending summer school at Raleigh. We miss “Dude” very much. We scouts wish to thank him for the splendid work that he has done with us since we organized and we feel sure that he will continue it in the future. A number of scouts from here atten ded a picnic with the Loyal Friend’s class, of the Lakeview Sunday School, at Currie’s pond, Wednesday. Scouts Winfred Causey, and Prank Coore entertained the Loyal Friend’s class at a class meeting, which was held at the church June 10th. Something to remember: law No. 4. A Scout is friendly. He is a friend to all and a brother to every other scout. Scout law No. 5. A Scout is courte ous. He is polite to all, especially to women, children, old people, and the weak and helpless. He must not take pay for being helpful or courteous. THE TOWN OF VASS AND ITS CONNUNin A Story of Its Early Life and Development — Yesterday and Today CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends and neighbors for their kindness and faithful service rendered to us during the sickness and death of our dear sister, Mary Ann Darroch. D. DARROCH, and Family. NEW DEPAKTNENT FARM LIFE POOL Professor Hutcheson Working Hard For Our Boys and Girls Moore County and all surrounding territory is awakening to the fact that the Sandhill Farm Life School is one of its most useful institutions. This school has always stood for service. When it was founded in 1915, High Schools were few and scattered, and TOMATOES IN DEMAND AT GOOD PRICES Farmers in the Vass territory have been planting a considerable acreage of tomatoes, and the way it looks they are going to have a good demand for their crop at profitable prices. A few crates have started to market, with the figures satisfactory, and an order for a car load has come from Richmond, with a call for a good lot from Florida, as Florida is out of to matoes now. The quality of the product is i?ood, and it looks now as if a harvest is about to result that will encourage a 'jigger acreage next year. Little difficulty has been encountered in the way of damage to the fruit. The local market is taking a good proportion of the first harvest, and may be a con siderable factor in the crop. MRS. H. A. BORST HOSTESS TO CIRCLE NO. 1 (Bessie Smith) Part IV. We have seen that the natural re sources of this section consisted of pine timber and its products, tar, pitch and turpentine. TTie question that naturally arises is, how were these products marketed in the days before railway transportation became a reality ? The tar and turpentine were hauled over land to Fayetteville, over the old plank road, the only good road in this part of the country. Among the last to carry on a turpentine business on a large scale near here was J. A. Keith, and by that time, the railroad facilities were good and his products were loaded here. Transporting the timber itself pre sented the greatest problem, as it had to be floated down the river to Wil mington. It was found profitable to cut only the largest trees, those measuring not less than thirty-two ^ feet in length and on up to sixty feet. Scout Everything smaller was left to be taken care of by saw mills later on. The timber along the river was cut and squared, and hauled to various landings, the nearest one being known as the Long Point. There, eight of these huge sticks were securely fastened together, side by side with the front ends even. The whole was called a “clamp.” The owner usually hacked his name on each stick in order that he might claim it, should the timbers become separated in their journey and be picked up by some one else. Usually, several clamps were made ready for the trip at once, and then, when the water was high enough, which was usually the case in the winter time, or when a freshet came, the clamps were started on their oceanward jounrey. The “crew” con sisted of one man to the clamp and the steering apparatus was a large oar. It was no child’s play to steer a clamp through the narrow channel [of Little River and to guide it safely j along the v^inding path of the stream. ' About two days were required to go the distance to where Little River joined the Cape Fear. There, where I the breader waters were, the little row boat was converted into a great ocean I liner. From one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five sticks were joined together to form a raft, the crew was increased to five men, and the trip was begun in earnest. When Fayetteville was reached, they “tied up” and went ashore for supplies to last for six or eight days, the time building and loan workers, paying in their money weekly, some up to several dollars a week, and they are laying up ahead of them a nice sum of money for the foundation of future usefulness. A more detailed report will follow as Frank gets his figures tabulated. Dr. Dickey read the names of several young folks who are in school by the help of the club and will give further report at a later meeting. The club will hold its next meeting at Southern Pines Friday of next week, and guests will be present from a large number of the agricultural colleges of the United States. They will be shown the peach orchards, and the rest of the Sandhills. Ray Johnson, of Pinehurst, was the biographer of the day. Ho was a Virginian by birth, but has roamed over much of the country, and finally after going through Eastman’s college in Poughkeeepsie, N. Y., he arrived at the Sandhills, where he started to become a farmer, and then drifted into the Berkshire department of the Pinehurst farms. Mr. Johnson is a young man, but an important^ agent in the Pinehurst work, and he says he is going to stay in the Sandhills the rest of his life. Nobody else being in sight to do any other talking Talbot Johnson permitted Bion H. Butler to gay a few words introducing Dr. W. C. Mudgett, who is soon to sail for Europe, where he will visit the medi cal universities with the object of getting a familiarity with the European slant on medical and hos pital work. The Valhalla philosopher asserted that when Doc Mudgett goes abroad to look into European medi cal progress he goes not for his own welfare but to pick up a few other ideas about keeping the Sandhill folks well and right. In support of this theory the speaker told of some shop work the doctor had done on him, and from that argument the speaker advanced the doctrine that every man should from time to time go to his doctor and be overhauled be fore he gets into shape where the repairs will take more time and ex- (Continued on page 8) DR. LEIBY SAYS SPRAY TOMATOES Spray With Bordeaux Mixture Every Ten Days He Says given an opportunity to complete J ^ ^ thouSit it would seem that their high school trainmg at a mini- ^ ^oatmg dowu tho river m this way mum cost. Many students availed themselves of this opportunity, and at present the school has many gradu ates, successfully putting into practice the ideals of the school, in all sections of the State. would be most pleasant, but we must remember that there were dangers all along the way. The men must be alert and careful to keep their raft from hanging up along the side of the stream; then, there were falls here riNEBLUFF CONING AT RAPID SPEED New Hotel Well Under Way and Farms Spreading aU Around The new spirit that has awakened at Pine Bluff in the last year or so has completely transformed that vil lage. The big factor is the new hotel, which is now so far along that the first floor is pretty well raised, and the appearance of the fine big building fully defined. As it rises above the foundation walls the magnitude of the venture is seen, and the boldness of the job in making such a fine hotel there is realized. While the project was in the talk and blue print stage it did not stand out as clearly as it does now when the developing struc ture tops the knob on which it stands, and is becoming visible from all sur rounding points. From the highway Those who are growing tomatoes should by all means spray them every ten days with the home-made poisoned Bordeaux mixture if they want to ^ow sound fruit and prolong the life of the vines advises Dr. R. W. Leiby of the Peach Insect Labroatory at Aberdeen. This spray, he says, will prevent the development of blight which attacks the vines and causes them to die prematurely, and the poison in the mixture will control the com ear-worm that bores in the to matoes and the horn worm that some times defoliates the vines. The tomato blight develops in hot dry weather from spores or the leaves. The Bordeaux mixture kills the spores and thus prevents the blight from developing, says Leiby. Once the blight is started in the vines it is very hard to control. Spraying with the Bordeaux is there fore to be regarded as a sort of in surance, he says. “We have found too that the Bor deaux mixture stimulates the growth of the vines even though the disease is not present, and I am sure that all the tomato growers will find it de cidedly worth while to spray their vines with this mixture regularly,” said Leiby. “We know this positively from our ten years of experiments in the spraying of Irish potatoes, where we increased the yield around 65 bushels per acre by spraj^ng four times during the season, and the to mato plant is usually affected by the same disease as the Irish potato.” The poisoned Bordeaux mixture ad vised by the entomologists consists of three pounds of bluestone, 4 pounds of rock (unslacked) lime to 50 gallons of water. The bluestone is dissolved in a small quantity of water by having just under the surface in a wooden container. After it is dis solved water is added to make 25 gallons. The lime is then slacked in a small quantity of water, strained, and water added to make another 25 gallons of lime solution. The two are then poured together simultane ously in a 50 gallon barrel and the pouring forms the Bordeaux mixture. In putting the poison in the Bor deaux mixture, one pound is mixed in a small quantity of water, and this poisoned water then added to the 50 gallons of Bordeaux mixture. The mix ture should be sprayed on the vines, care being taken to spray upward, using an angle nozzle, so that under side of plants will be covered as well as the upperside, for Dr. Leiby says that the blight germs lodge on the underside as well as the upperside of the plants. The vines should be sprayed re^larly every ten days. It is advisable to use this spray on watermelons, cantaloupes, bunch grapes, and dewberries, to control the various diseases and insects which affect these crops. According to Dr. Leiby, this spray has successfully con trolled the antracnose of dewberries all'^around’pJLent^the^ Farm and there, and who could know at jihe'house wiirrook7ike‘a“casU that every T.i-fo SpVinni 1C ctill offpriTio- a Hie- momcnt the timbers would be across the little ravine that sets it should be fam.* ar with. A most interesting and helpful rneeting of the Missionary society circle No.l, was held with Mrs. H. A. Borst as hostess Tuesday evening June 23. The subject of the program being “The Belle H. Bennett Memo rial. Mrs. J. A. Thomas led the de- voti^al, papers being read by Mrs. w. P. Thompson, Mrs. H. A. Borst, A. G. Edwards, and poems by Mrs W. T. Cox and Mrs. G. B. f^aubscheur, Mrs. A. G. Edwards read ing the scripture lesson of the evening. Keports were made by the different committees, after which plans for the ■oming month were made. 1 or? Saturday afternoon from i; P ®’clock on, there will be a “Va- which will be held in the hall over Vass Mercantile ore^ from which can be gotten bar- ^ins of all kinds. A rumniage sale be m connection. Life School is still offering a dis tinct service. Along with special training in Agriculture and Home Economics, the school is offering other work, which can be found in no other school in the County. Last year, a teacher training department was es tablished. This department offers the high school graduate a wonderful opportunity to enter the teaching i field at a good salary, and with special training, when the graduate is not able to attend college. This course is absolutely free to the pupil, the only expense being the cost of board. During the present summer, another department which should be of service to a large number of boys and girls, has beeen arranged for. This is a business department. The depart ment is to be under the direction of Mr. Seth Stuart of the Bowling Green Business University, Bowling Green, Kentucky who is splendidly qualified for the work of establishing a new commercial department. Friends of the school are confident that this new branch of Farm Life School will render a great service to Moore county. This course will be offered for fifty dollars and board. One of the chief beauties of Farm Life, is that it is serving the county without thought of making money. Tho idea of its supporters, is to offer those branches of instruction which are needed, at the lowest possible figure. Pupils who are interested in any phase of the work at Farm Life, and are desirous of entering school this fall, should write for a catalog and familiarize themselves with what the school has to offer. Due to a number of big hearted Farm Life supporters, no pupil needs stand back for lack of funds. The several Loan funds will help defray expenses, and the terms are most liberal. torn apart by the rocks—and always there was the danger of running into floating timbers from some raft that had failed to successfullv ride the falls. When the landing at Wilmington was reached, the timber was sold, and then the homeward trip was begun. The men usually came from Wilming ton to Fayetteville on a steam boat. off from the road, and give^ a perfect picture of the building as the traveler approaches from either north or south. The building of the new house em ploys a large number of men, and the work makes a lot of activity about Pine Bluff. Along uith it other build ings are in progress, around the village as well as within the town A PAIR WORTH WHILE “Show me a father with faith in his son and from there they had their choice j boundaries, and much new work in the of conung on the train or of walking, last year or so has changed the ap- Sometimes they did one, sometimes the other. The timber along the creek was floated down that stream in a similar way. By the time that saw mills came into prominence around here, the railroad had been completed, and marketing the lumber was much more easily accomplished. (To be continued) KIWANIS APPLAUDS DR. W. C. NUDGm' Southern Pines Physician Goes To Europe Shortly The meeting of the Kiwanis club Wednesday at the Aberdeen school house was rather an enlightening gathering, as some of the committees made reports on the various works the club is engaged in, and the re sults were surprising to some who were not aware of what is going on. Frank Buchan told of the progress the boys who have been started in the Building and Loan associations are making, and he informed the club that a large number of the young folks of the various towns are active pearance of the community entirely. Acres of ground have been cleared and made into farms, and orchards have sprung up on all sides. In another two or three years Pine Bluff will be the center of a big peach production, as well as of a thrifty farming area, and the appearance of the multiplying farms about the village changes the whole look of the town. Pine Bluff is coming out of the woods and into the heart of a delight ful farm and orchard country that will have many attractions for the winter visitor who wants an agreeable and quiet neighborhood, with the con veniences that winter visitors look for when they come South. The new hotel will be ready for patrons when the winter season opens, and the new house will not only draw people to fill it, but it will have an influence in attracting others to the Sandhills, for Pine Bluff is shaping up in a way that it will be a factor in interesting visitors and in calling attention to the pleasures of Moore county. Standing on the roadside, and in plain view of the through traffic the hotel cannot escape being seen, and to be seen is to make a favorable impression. If Mussolini should pas his mantle along to D’Annunzio, as one rumor has it, Italy would simply be going from bad to verse.—The New Yorker. And ril show you a pair worth while; Although they be common as any one; And llittle for show and style. The man for the boy; like a pal for a pard; And the boy for the man the same With each for the other that fine re gard Which only themselves can name. Away with the parent whose all-work mind; Has never an hour for play— I’m praising the dad of a better kind; Who lives in a nobler way. The father who see’s in that son of his The man of a time not far; Yet thinks of the boy as the boy he is; Which makes them the chums they are. When fifty; or near it, and ten years old; In fellowship’s house have dwelled; They’ve gathered more treasures than all the gold That ever a kingdom held. A heart running over with pride and . joy A face that was bom to smile— Yes show me the dad who believes in his boy; “And I’ll show you a pair worth while.” Hamlet, N. C. “BILL” EBEY.
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