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Paire Two THE PILOT Friday, July 10, 1925 THE PILOT Published every P^ida^ by the PILOT PRINTING COMPANY Vass, North Carolina STACY BREWER, Owner Subscription Rates: One Year *...— $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Address all communications to The Pilot Printing Co., Vass, N. C. Advertising Rates on Application Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, K. C., as second-class mail matter. THE THING HE IS PROUD OF A prominent citizen of Moore county, a native of one of the states of the North, but for several years a resident of North Carolina, remarked a few days ago to a native citizen of the county that he had found a thing recently to fortify his pride in the state more than any of the other influences had done. He had been at the mines of the Carolina Coal company immedi ately following the explosion there, and he was impressed with the attitude of the great masses of people who were there and the sympathetic atmosphere that constantly prevailed, the order, the helpfulness, and the high character shown by every body. “Sympathy for the afflicted, for the company, for the state in case the new industry should be affected, and a kindly tone in every utterance. I had never seen anything to equal the cordi ality that was manifest on all sides, and it made me proud that this state into which I had come as a stranger and cast my lot was one that rates higher in its human sympathies than any thing I had ever before known.” Then two other little tales filter in to The Pilot. A man who uses considerable coal has been buying some from the Carolina Coal company. After the acci dent at the mines this man’s buyer asked about placing a con tract with a Virginia mine for a supply for a number of months. “Thunder, no,” said, the head of the concern. “These fellows need to sell coal now if they ever did, and as their coal is as^ good as any coal we ever had just give them an order for a year's supply.” Another manager told his buyer to cut out the Virginia coal he has been using and stand by “a bunch that is hanging on to make North Carolina self-dependent. They deserve our trade.” From another source came an inquiry, “Can you take care of our trade for the next year ?” Time after time in the last six weeks The Pilot has heard people from out of the state say they never saw such a universal standing by in any other state. And from Alabama comes another commendable remark. The Coal company is arranging to settle the clainis for damage which it thought should be given the earliest possible attention, and this work has been pushed along so energetically that near ly every claimant has already been seen by a representative of the company, and agreements signed. Several of the company’s men had come from Alabama, and the bodies of the dead and the families were sent back to their old homes. One of the company went down there to arrange settlements with those people, and had a banker of the neighborhood to take a hand in handling the money. The banker remarked, “I never saw in all my experience in settling claims anything like this. Here you come right away to hunt up the people and adjust affairs. Usual ly the attitude of company and employes is one of antago nism and lawsuits. But here you meet your people on the most cordial basis, and reach your agreements in the best possible friendly and satisfying manner. North Carolina is different from most states I reckon.” North Carolina has been kindly to the coal company and the company is dealing squarely with its people. Pretty good old state all around. A CHALLENGE TO ALL OF US The fine new school house just completed on the hill top in the edge of the village of Vass is a challenge to every individual in the school district, man woman and child. Here is a costly plant provided for the education of the children. Such an establishment is so far in advance of what any of us have been accustomed to that we do not understand the power of its abilities. It is wholly beyond the range of what we have been familiar with, and as the children come into this heritage not comprehending anything else they do not realiez on their part what it means. But we who are older know better. The new school house is a promise of knowledge and of training. To make it of use the grown folks must get from it its benefits for the children. The day of the old school house has gone. The primitive methods and the primitive type of education are gone. No matter how many great men have come from log houses and from one room school houses that day is gone. Social conditions have made it the rule to give the children the modern facilities, and that will be the rule for an indefinite period. But the truth is that a school house is a small factor in educa tion. The children will go to the new school henceforth. But the school house will not give them knowledge. Fathers and mothers have a bigger job than ever in backing up now what the school house can afford the children. Teachers will have a bigger job. The community will have a bigger job. Many men and women yet stand by the old spelling book, and the old Fourth reader. Make no mistake. More than these are necessary now. In their day they were a power, but this is not their day. The world has gone beyond reading and writing and arithmetic, whether we are willing to con fess it or not. This is a day of thinking as well as of reading, and reading said thinking are two wholly different things. The child who enters the field of reading finds that a few books and an occasional paper are not enough. The progress of civili zation has filled many books, and calls for many papers, and a wide familiarity with many things. Julius Ceasar would not know how to load a shot gun, and Benjamin Franklin could not tell which spark was miss ing. Abraham Lincoln would not know how to answer the telephone. The new school house makes education for the boys and girls of this day a much broader possi bility than those of us who have come ever had. And that school house is a challenge to us that the boys and girls get what that school house makes it easy for them to secure. We can’t dodge the situation by saying what we older folks had to be content with. We lived in a more primi tive day, and what was good enough for us is not good enough for the boys and girls now be cause it does not have to be. It is our business to see that the youngsters get what the school offers them, and if we do not stand by them in this respect we have neglected one great re sponsibility we owe them, and which the new school requires that we pay. We • cheat the children if we do not make this a great school as well as a new school house. which the men largely own, and any other old predictions you want to tie to it. It is the case of “The little book lies on the shelf. If you want any more you can sing it yourself.” But that is exactly the kind of thing The Pilot likes to see. For other people are seeing the possibilities of the Sandhills, and incidentally of the Sandhills orchard. Last year was not a very good peach year. But that is not the rule. This year looks like a good one. All years are not good. All years are not bad when you have a good thing like a Sandhill peach to deal with. It is much such an excellent thing that making it will be an occupa tion in this country for probably a million years, which is as long as most of us need to consider. And why? Because making peaches is just as good a job and just as profitable as any other job. It is not a gold mine, and no other business is very long, for the minute it gets too good the world will engage in it. But it is a good staple and stable in dustry, good enough to bring a lot of money to the community that sticks to it and manages it right, and well enough estab lished in the Sandhills to insure a long and profitable continua tion in this country. And while canning and pre serving has not yet built up any great business that signifies nothing. These things grow. They do not spring up in a night. The side developments always fallow the original line. We will have all the attendant industries that follow peaches when we have cared for the peaches so we know what to do next. The peach orchard is a stable indus try because the peach is a good article of human diet and here is a good place to make it. We know more every year about making peaches, and outsiders are watching our successes. They also watch our failures but that does not scare them, for they avoid the failures after we have pointed them out. And that is what makes the Sand hills grow, and gives us great outlook for the future. Out siders are seeing how we are winning, and they are coming to help cut the melon. It is need less for us to worry any about Florida and other booming places. We have here enough to occupy all who join us, and our industries are productive indus tries which will be going on when speculative booms have quieted. Money in the Sand hills is creative. In the Sand hills are occupations that enable people to earn money and live. Outsiders see these things. In siders need not worry. Since this section began its forward movement it has been going forward and it will. Just stay with the show and follow the crowd. DISCOVERING THE PRIZES This is a mild exhortation to the peach men, and incidental ly to all the rest of the folks who are acquainted with the Sand hills country—slightly. A few weeks ago The Pilot told of in vestments in Sandhills orchards made by two big railroad men. Recently from Greensboro came a story of Duke and others getting further Sandhill peach holdings, and along with peaches the tale ran along until it became mighty near romance, and possi bly it is nothing but romance, as it is not confirmed. Develop ment of orchards, canneries, the Norfolk Southern railroad, A CHANCE FOR SINGERS Charlie Picquet, in announc ing the musical event at the Sandhills fair next fall says he wants a hundred singers in the chorus. Last year he had about eighty, but he wants more this fall. He ought to have two hundred if he wants them, and not because he has anything to gain in the matter, but because it gives to a lot of capable young people a chance to get some of the best musical training ever available in this section. Mr. Picquet is an accomplished musician, a skilled instructor and leader, and he is willing to take the job on his shoulders. All that is necessary for an ambi tious young man or woman is to get in touch with Mr. Picquet, and he will soon say whether the applicant is a likely candidate to sing in the big event. In event that satisfactory ability is shown Mr. Picquet undertakes the necessary training. That training takes place in a big group of singers, and it is hard to imagine a finer opportunity to profit by the work of a large number of people. Then after the work has been carried on, and the singing at the fair has taken place the chorus holds together and Mr. Picquet has them sing at times all the year. Various things are undertaken for practice and training, and the singers are in structed as long as they are interested enough to hang to gether. With the careful and patient training Mr. Picquet offers there is no reason why this section should not gather up a chorus of a couple of hundred singers. Think of the singing contests over at Benson, with six thou sand people estimated as taking part. If so many thousands could be assemble there we could drum up as many hun dreds and with a class of six hundred Charlie Picquet could make the Piiiehurst theatre life the farters. Of course he would not want to shake down the house, but imagine the interest such a chorus could awaken, and the enjoyment it would afford the people who could hear such a deluge of sound working in con trolled hamony. The invita tion is open to everybody who likes to sing to get in touch with Mr. Picquet, and no one who has ability of even moderate degree need feel backward about talk ing over the matter with him. A season’s training with him would make every church in the country the beneficiary by the training the singers woud get. It woud liven up every home, and stimulate the whole musical en thusiasm. Moore county people ought to sing much more than they do, and Mr. Picquet will put them on the right track if they will join in with him for the in struction. No matter where you live or who you are it is a good move to write or telephone or talk to him and start this thing in every community in the county. A reader of The Pilot remarked the other day of hear ing a chorus of 20,000 voices not long ago in Washington. That is almost as many people as are in Moore county. We can’t have that many, but we could supply Mr. Picquet with a few hundred, and it would be worth the effort. PREACHING SERVICES —OF— Union, Vass, Lakeview Presbyterian Churches D. McD. Monroe, Pastor Union—11 A. M. 1st and 3rd Sun days. Vass—8 P. M. 2nd; 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. 4th Sundays. Lakeview—8 P. M. 1st; 11 A. M. 2nd, 8 P. M. 3rd Sundays. Our foreign policy also seems to be substantially as follows: Boys, get the money.—Ohio State Journal. ii CAROUNA THEATRES I H ► M » H ^ I Pinehurst—Southern Pines || PRESENT A DRAMA OF TODAY’S ULTRA MODERN WOMAN I Anna Q. Nilsson, Lewis S. Stone, Tully Marshall —and— Shirley Mason —IN— I “THE TALKER” I Meet the Talker—^The wife who thinks she has new ideas of love—^who talks herself into a mess of trouble—who talks others into trouble—who loses love only to regain it when she leams that silence is golden. ALSO; A Two Part is: Snappy Comedy and a Fables. Pinehurst g FRIDAY, JULY 10th. 8:20 Southern Pines i SATURDAY, JULY 11th. 8:30 CONTINUING THE RHYME W^hen Jill and Jack were com- T 1 j T*ii 1- ^ Ai. I. *11 ing back, their tanks were not Jack and Jill shot up the hiU so full. Said Jack to Jill— “Here we’ll refill—^with me t: The tank was filled with pep The Gas we sell sure fills the bill That’s how we make our Rep. they have a pull. Their gas is pure, and clean. I’m sure,, their service prompt and fine, they are polite, their prices right—they’re leaders in their line!” (That’s what they all say now). HIGHWAY GARAGE AND FILLING STATION Day and Nig-ht Service Pinebluff, N. C. — On No. 50 Highway iittitmtxxttttxttxttxuxttxtixtxxtnxxttntnmtxxtttttxttttmmutttttuttuututttmxttxttttm xxttxxxxxxxxtttxixxxxxxxxxxxxxtxxxxxnxnxtxxuxmxxxxxxxxxxxtxiuuxxxixmmtxxtxxxxxnxuttnm New York Life INSURANCE COMPANY BUSINESS IN NORTH CAROLINA New business, paid basis, during 1924 $ 9,528,730.00 Insurance in force in North Carolina as of Janu ary 1, 1925 $47,925,935.00 The Company’s investments (cash, loans, county and municipal bonds and railway bonds apppor- tioned on mileage basis) in the State amount to $11,064,036.41 Premiums collected during 1924 from residents of North Carolina $ 1,691,868.07 Paid during year 1924 to North Carolina policy holders and their beneficiaries—death losses, maturing endowments, dividends, etc $ 1,125,290.24 Invested in North Carolina during 1924 $ 2,151,192.58 Paid to policy-holders and beneficiaries and invested in North Caro lina in 1924 $1,584,614.75 more than the total premiums col lected in the State. YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN J. A. OVERTON, Agent SANFORD, N. C. Friday^ VASSi Mr. H. John ThoJ of Hamlej and Mrs. Miss visited Glennie N. M. mer scho week-end] Mrs. T. Mr. an^ baby, M called on I Mrs. Sj two days! McLauchj Mr. an( of Raleij of Mr. ai Mr. D.| returned spending Mr. an neice, Mj visited Sunday Oscar boro, sp parents, Mrs. Marian, Creek tl Mrs. was a gu| Mr. J. Mrs. Moffit, Monday. I Miss Little, Florence] home, “] Guy at Duk« week. Richai spent tl Mrs. G. Miss ington, Tuesda: Mr. small sol union aj week-enj Mrs. last Sui and chil Mr. J| spending Mrs. W| Thomas] Mrs. Doroth: spendini ion’s m| Mr. a] have rei season, to the of Junel Mr. Camerol Earl Hi at the Tuesday Mr. Dunn, sail’s si Mary Dunn The its rej Sunday Mrs. Hunter! Euggs at MesI D. Uc( Mrs.] Mr. anj little guests W. H. The attenti^ be giv^ Thurs LeHuaj and tv dance, twenty for adi will gc Mr. childre Mrs. noon, spendi Lakevi for ov( Mrs. died la daughi Olivia, Friday conduc ‘ pastor paid a McKai daughi Olivia, Vass,
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