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THE PILOT
Friday, July 31, 1925
THE PILOT
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A FELLOW
OF THE CRAFT
One day the office door opened
and a friendly face smiled a
greeting. He was an old man,
gray, with sunshine in his whole
appearance. A newspaper man.
From Maryland. A bit of human
driftwood on the big ocean of
civilized society. One of the
mysteries is why God ever
makes men like that and then
allows them to slip their moor
ings and become derelict.
He joined The Pilot force, and
and while he stayed his in
fluence was wholesome, his work
bright, his example that of a
Chesterfield. He never spoke of
yesterday, nor of himself. And
as he was sufficient evidence of
his own character he was never
questioned. Yet it was apparent
that the serene days that he
passed in this community were
but partially filled with those
things a man of his age and in
telligence might hope for. He
was away from those ties and
those associations that a man
of his age has a right to expect
from life. He made new friends
at sight. But what a price a
man pays who has cut loose
from those who mark the whole
accumulation of existence.
Another day the door opened
again, and he moved on. He es
tablished himself in a neighbor
town, where he held his part in
that great comedy of Nature
which men call life, until about
a year ago. Nature tripped him
then and he went to the County
home near Sanford, the haven
of the missing and derelict
craft. But always there is that
one grim messenger who comes
with a greeting for us, and
always a smooth water where
both today and yesterday may
be washed down. The messenger
came and the gentle old chap
was ready. He closed his eyes
and followed in the darkness.
Family ties or old time friends?
A daughter in Baltimore it is
said. But the old man keeps his
vigil in the port of the aban
doned—the cemetery at the
County home. Tragedy—not
comedy.
His name! Oh, George W.
Brock, but that will not help
you to know him unless you
knew him by his simple and
kindly ways.
THE GAINS FROM
THE PEACH CROP
The total returns from the
peach crop will not be known for
some little time, but now the
si^s point to the big end of two
million dollars for the Sandhills
belt. On first thought people
may conclude that the peach
growers will roll in wealth. But
peach production like every
thing else, is not a deluge of gold
for the men who carry on the
industry. Rather it is an oppor
tunity for the entire community.
When a group of men conclude
to establish a peach orchard
they commence to buy some
land. Then they proceed to em
ploy hands to clear the ground
and whip it into shape to plant.
From that day until the trees
have arrived at maturity it is a
constant paying out of money in
wages, supplies, and everything
that goes to make the orchard
a going and producing concern.
No money comes to the owners.
It goes from them. And when
the day comes that the trees are
ready to set a crop more money
must be forthcoming to handle
the orchard, prune, spray, ferti
lize, cultivate, and do a lot of
work on every side. All that
means paying out money into
the community, for whether the
orchard makes any money for
its stockholders it must go on
paying money to the hands and
to the supply dealers.
Then more money must be
forthcoming to move the crop
when it is made, and when the
returns are all in bills are to be
paid, and money scattered here
and there before the orchard
man gets a chance to put any
thing in his own pocket. And
of what he manages to get for
himself after everybody else is
paid he must put aside enough
to carry on for another year,
for his pay roll continues imme
diately after the peaches are
finally sent to market.
When everybody else is looked
after and the next year provided
for the orchard man can have
dividends if enough money has
been earned from the crop. But
the dividends will always be the
small part of the income of the
orchard. When the prices are
low and the sales not good the
hands get their money just the
saire. Everybody gets his
money except the stockholder,
so even in a poor year the peach
crop is a great thing for the
community. The amount of
money received in wages, distri
buted over the peach belt is a
big factor, and always will be.
That money goes a long way
toward the general prosperity of
the community, not only because
it is the big end of what the
crop brings, but because it is so
quickly put into general circula
tion. The peach grower gets his
small share. The peach com
munity gets the rest. That is
worth remembering. The
grower makes an awful lot more
money for others than he makes
for himself.
BETTER SCHOOLS,
NOT NARROWER
When the petition to bar
teachers from the Moore county
schools unless they are affiliated
with certain churches came to
The Pilot the request was made
that the paper say something
about the matter. But The Pilot
thought wise to let the thing
pass by, half believing it would
die of its own volition. But the
unnatural commotion created by
the Scopes trial in Tennessee
has prompted much discussion
and thought on the subject of
religious influence in schools,
and the outside papers are so
disposed to have fun with Moore
county over what has gone out
to the world as ruling that the
teachers must comply with cer
tain religious orders that it
seems proper to say that the
matter is much more of a
tempest in a tea pot than a
serious affair.
The school board so far as
The Pilot can leam, has not is
sued any orders as to any re
ligious status of the teachers,
and it is not believed any such
a misguided step is contem
plated. Better schools are what
this country needs, and very
much, but not narrower schools.
In Moore county are many
capable young women who
would be highly helpful in the
schools, some of them Jewish,
some Catholics, some Protest
ants, and we have a few Mor
mons. One man even tells The
Pilot that he is not a descendant
from Adam at all, coming from
that branch of the human fami
ly in the land of Nod, where
Cain got his wife, a branch not
much known to the Adamites.
But all this is beside the real
issue, which is good schools in
which the children may be
taught the things that scholars
have been digging out for years.
It is unfortunate that evolution
has been allowed to excite so
much discussion. It may be a
suitable thing for dogmatic
handling, but as for schools it is
far wiser to have the trahied
and educated teachers and text
book writers outline the plan of
study than for all of us to fog
the children with our personal
views of things on which we
know but little. Evolution is
either a fact or not a fact, and
no amount of argument will
change the fact. Some of the
best preachers in North Caro
lina are emphatic evolutionists.
Some of the most active church
men in the county are positive
evolutionists. They are entitled
to their views, and the school
house is no place to drag those
things in for the warfare that
has been too closely associated
with the clash of creeds as long
as men have had an idea of gods.
North Carolina is making en
viable progress in school work.
Moore county is coming bravely
forward. But we must come
faster yet to keep up with the
average of the entire country,
and we have not time nor place
for religious antagonisms in the
schools, for there is other work
to do than quarrel over creeds.
A school teacher has enough
trouble* to handle her school
without a continual hindrance by
outside influences, and The Pilot
has not the slightest notion that
her tasks are to be made more
burdensome by requirements
that the law does not prescribe.
Teachers will be engaged by the
local committees as in the past,
and the teacher will be a free
agent as she has been in her
work.
In the meantime from the
fundamentalist point of view
this whole thing must be re
garded as unfortunate, for more
people have been reading of
evolution in the past month than
had been giving it a thought in
the past two years. If evolution
is right it is certain to be ac
cepted generally. If it is wrong
it is as certain to die. And
nothing any of us can do will
have the slightest effect. The
Christian church is in no danger
whatsoever from the outsider,
for it is founded on those things
that are not moved by dispute.
And the author of the universe
needs no defense . from the
teachers by tying their wings in
the school room. The Lord of
Hosts can not be frightened by
a bunch of misguided men with
impossible ideas, no matter what
their ideas are.
What we want in this county
is much better schools than we
have, and we want to encourage
the teachers in every way, and
the main essential is that they
shall be teachers. Knowledge is
what we want from them, and
freedom to think and to inquire
and to expand. Honest, freedom
of thought and opinion never
hurt any one and never will.
A STORY
OF PROGRESS
Last week the Bank of Vass
had a rather sizeable advertise
ment in The Pilot. One or two
things about the story were
interesting, and the one that
called attention to the fact that
the bank building was the
second brick building in Vass
was worth thinking about. It
is only fourteen years ago that
the structure was built. But at
that time only one other brick
building was in the village.
The fourteen years have gone
galloping. Today Vass is a
thrifty community, with con
veniences and modern features
that fourteen years ago it had
not the faintest idea of ever see
ing. Paved highway coming over
the hill. Fifty thousand dollar
school house. Weekly paper
that is credited with an enviable
place among the country papers
of the state. Fine big hotel. Big
brick warehouse for tobacco
marketing. Large Ford sales
agency. Standard Oil distri
buting station. Lots of things.
The change has been revolu
tionary. Now don’t think for a
minute the end has come to this
progressive step. The forces
that have made the change from
fourteen years ago are as active
now as ever, and they are
strengthening now as much as
they ever did. The next four
teen years will see equal prog
ress and improvement, and
probably much much greater,
for we are all in much better
shape collectively now to go
forward. Imagine the influence
of that new school house as com
pared with the old one, and of
the good roads as compared with
what we had fourteen years ago.
And likewise bear in bind that
the Bank of Vass, which
brought up this bit of gossip is
also more powerful now than
fourteen years ago, and that it
is helping to waken that enthu
siasm and ability that moves
things onward.
The bank in its advertisement
reverted to the places where it
had aided in financing forward
movements. It might have been
more emphatic, for if it wanted
to make public some of the busi
ness relations it sustains to
ward its neighbors it might
have told of a loan here and
there which was of prime im
portance in establishing the
leading business agencies of the
vilage and community. The
Bank of Vass is not the biggest
bank in the world, but in its
fourteen years of active work in
this community it has been a
tower of strength because as it
says it likes to do business with
these farmer fellows and to back
the things they need. A bank
is a great community institu
tion. Its chief use is in its way
of encouraging the community
to save money and accumulate
capital that local industries may
be made to thrive. The Bank of
Vass has served that purpose
admirably. It might have said
much more about itself, but it
is modest. It has been worth a
lot to this neighborhood, and
will be worth much more in the
days ahead.
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.
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