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1926. i mmm rket re- te has as he at the \E I I mmm fenmni; ;o. f :i I ii VOLUME THE PILO NUMBER 41 ^ Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of North Carolina Address all communicatioDs to THE PILCtT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS. N. C SEPTEMBER 10, 1926. SUGDEN INSISTS i ON LOCAL POWER More to Constabulary Propa ganda Than Appears On The Surface Little Stories About The Natives By MISS CONNIE CURRIE Tc the Editor of The Pilot: ; Now that Mr. Authur Page, Mr. Butler, Mr. McLeod and other ad vocates of State Police have been iieard from, perhaps you will permit another word from the opposition. At the beginning, let me make my own position clear by saying that I am heartily in favor of policing our State Highways. I argue merely Thai this policing business should be done by local or County authorities and not by State Police under orders from some appointed official in Ral- tigh, Mr. Butler’s editorial rhapsody on ihe beauties of the Pennsylvania Po lice as speed cops and competitors of the. cut flower industry does not im press me. It isn’t all quite as sim ple as Mr. Butler thinks. Let him visit Colorado, New Mexico and Ari zona. He will find these states once had constabulary, but disbanded their forces, because in each instance they became hopelessly involved in politics. To Mr. Arthur Page, who offered some criticisms of mv position, I still I Water Branch school- , . ^ ^ I which was located some few miles ]nsist that police power is local. If The First Lot Surveyed In Vass The country is full of old stories, and old names often bring to the memory of old people stories of things that happened long ago. On old gentleman, after reading The Pilot sometime ago, laughed and told the story of the surveying of the first lot that was ever surveyed in what is probably now the town of Vass. In times past a college graduate in the country school was an unheard of thing and often a bright young fel low in need of money would “stand the county examination” and if per chance he were lucky enough to get a “first grade” certificate he would then be eligible to teach all the young ideas of the community to shoot for the pricely sum of $25.00 per month. Indeed a first grade gave him a stand ing in the community second only to the preacher and he was almost con sidered a descendant of Solomon, so far as wisdom was concerned. Such a fellow was young Currie who in the year of ’78 was hired to teach the Governor of North Carolina oc- ■ one young fellow, whom for conven- The security and Dugald, studied so hard that his parents began to fear for his brain for it chanced that young Dugald only wanted to study arith metic, a weighty subject, you’ll ad mit, and his parents at least fearing the boy would have “mathematical in digestion,” as it were, came to the teacher begging him to “put” the boy at something else. The teacher was “put” to it himself—there didn’t seem to be anything else the boy like readin’, and he didn’t like writ ing and as for grammar, well, he con sidered grammar a perfectly useless thing and the teacher couldn’t blame him much for he’d seen more useful tilings than grammar himself. .Be sides, there were some things the teacher couldn’t teach. At last young Currie had a brilliant thought. Some time before he had run across a book on surveying and had been studying it at night himself and he “figgered” that as the school was to last only a month longer that he might stretch his knowledge of sur veying over a month’s time and teach BUILDING STONE IS PROMISING from what is now Vass. j The school rocked along, both teach- casionally calls out militia he does so er and pupils learned a lot, in fact precisely because local police power has broken down. f^ovreignity of the State being for a time threatened, military power super sedes police power until the danger to the State (real or imaginary) has passed and the civil authorities are again in control. A policeman and a soldier do not look alike to me mere ly because they appear to be doing the same thing, for I feel I have at ieast theoretically, some control over the policeman but none whatever over the soldier. One is civil and the other is military, and they, derive their authority from different sources. I agree with Mr. Page that constabu lary and militia are both liable to misuse. But it is so much easier tij misuse the constabulary! Mr. Page knows, as well as anyone, that the highly centralized police sys tems on the continent of Europe are entirely different from English po lice methods,-frpm which our own de scend. He knows,; further, that the creation of the Texas Rangers years ago to meet a temporary and essen tially military frontier condition not present in older and better organized communities, does not in any way ar gue against the general proposition that the extension of police power is unAmerican and undesirable. These Texas Rangers, in January of last year, were, as a matter of fact, de clared unconstitutional by the 57th District Court of Texas, on the ground that, under the terms of the State Constitution, law enforcement de volved exclusively on local authori ties. The Court issued an injunction against the^ Rangers and pending an appeal (the oiltcome of which I am,' not aware) the entire force ceased to function. ; The power to police is power to oppress. It should be carefully con trolled and jealously safeguarded, es pecially with a realization that such power becomeis incrpasingly dangerr ous when concentrated in the hands of some high official who nine times out c*f ten will serve the interests that control his appointment. : The constabulary question, there fore, is not merely a matter of high way patrol. It has a wider, social aspect, with which I am primarily con cerned. To those who, in a moment of perplexity over our highway prob lems, are being stampeded into accept ing a constabulary, my position will seem trival and obstructive. But I take occasion again to warn my friends that there is more to this con stabulary propaganda than appears on the surface and th^t; they would do well to examine all police proposals carefully, especially with regard to a month’s worth of surveying with out getting into an embarrassing fix. So he proposed to the boy that he take a month’s course in surveying. Dugald eagerly assented. ’Twas on Friday afternoon and Du gald hurried home to tell the family any everybody was happy. That night young Currie had a caller. “Oh, Mr. Currie,” said Dugald’s fa ther, “I didn’t know you were a sur veyor. I was mighty glad to hear it. Mr. Byrd has been wantin’ to buy a piece of land from me for quite a spell, but we can’t get anybody to survey it for us. Byrd has just been down at my house and we thought we’d come by here in the morning and get you to run it off for us, if you will. Dugald tells me you are going to teach him survey ing.” Then everybody was happy but the teacher. He had proposed to teach surveying and now he couldn^t con fess to this committeeman that he knew no more about surveying than a goose knows about Darwinism. “Why, Mr. Mac,” he stammered, “I’d be glad to survey that land for you,” then he had a bright thought, “but I left my instruments at home,” he added, delighted that so plausi ble an excuse offered itself. ‘0‘h, that’s all right,” said Mr. Mac, “McKeithan used to survey some, though he’s gettin’ so old now he can’t see. I come by there and he said we could have his instruments. We’ll be by here bright and early in the morning,” and he left the teacher too stunned for words. Young Currie’s prayers were rather wanted to be “put” at. He didn’t mixed that night. He wasn’t sure whether he’d rather have a cyclone or a spell of sickness, anything to prevent that surveying excursion would have been permissible, but no such luck. By day break next morn ing, Mr. Mac and Mr. Byrd rattled up ip an old buggy with the survey ing instruments in a*sack and young Currie for the want of something bet ter to do got in and rattled off with them. Several times on the way there he was on the point of confess ing his limited knowledge of some subjects but each time the words stuck in his throat. ’Tis about as easy for a Scotchman to confess anything as it for water to run uphill, and after a bit he found himself on the spot with the compass in his hand. “Lordy,” he thought,” how does a body set this thing up,” but he re membered the pictures in the book and after a while he got the thing to gether and began to sight with it and look wise. “Nov^, Mr. Currie,’^ said Mr. Mc Laughlin, “we’ll let this stump be the first corner.” “All right sir,” was the answer— he did know how to drive a stob and so the first corner was stobbed. “Now do you see that green sap- lin over there?” “Yessir.” “Well I want to go about 140 yards towards that.” They sighted with the compass and they measured with the chains. “N. E. 70” said Mr. Byrd peering over his shoulders. “Yessir, N. E. 70” repeated Mr. Cur rie, becoming wiser every second. “All right, sir, come along,” the compass was moved and a new stob driven. “Now do you see that green pine over there?” “Yessir.” “Well, we’ll go so many yards to wards that.” “Yessir.” And on they went. Young Currie agreeing to .every suggestion that was made as peeping and peering over his shoulders the old gentlemen surveyed the land they^d been wait ing months to get a surveyor to run off for them. By the time they got back to the first stob, young Currie was elated. He knew how much land was wanted and he had already decided that that was the amount in this plot. “Well,” he said as he packed up the instruments, “I can’t tell you just how much it is ’till I figger it out. It’s not exactly square you know, but I’ll take it home and “figger” it out for you and let you have it later.” “That’s all right, Mr. Currie,” said both gentlemen, for now everybody was happy. Thus was surveyed what was prob ably the first lot in Vass. Oh, no, no one knew it was to be Vass then, that was in ’78, you know. Colin Spencer Finds Some More Fine Varieties in the County The fine display of building stone in the' new filling station of the Stand- ard Oil company at Carthage has'ex- j cited much favorable commendation | and Colin Spencer is encouraged in the belief that it will lead to the use of much more Moore county stone in building through the county and p<^s- sibly over the state. Mr. Spencer is recently home from a trip to Bal timore and Washington, and as he drove there in his car he paid much attention to building in all the towns he passed through. Much of the new. work is of stone, like^ the stone found in this county, and builders every place are greaJy inclined to ward stone as building material. The stoiie' iri the Standard filling station at Carthage is a handsome vol canic breccia, a type of rock that is not very common, and it has made a fine effect. Recently Mr. Spen cer found still another variety of the same material, and he has been show ing it to folks who have been in Car thage. . Ije is trying to get these two types of stone better acquainted over the country, for they are novel ties in many respects, and adapted for the finest kind of out door work. He has some inquiries for material of this sort for some new buildings, one or two prospects being of preten- ^Please turn to page 3) (Please turn to page 8) Kiwanis Receives Reports of Committees The weekly luncheon of the Ki wanis Club was consumed at Jack’s Grill on Wednesday. There were no vacant chairs around the board, in fact it became neces sary to provide an extra table for late arrivals, Messrs. Hayes and Shields Cameron being the members thus penalized. Committees appointed at prev ious meeting reported. Findings of the road committee are related in another column. The group selected to investi gate methods of law enforcement had 'not completed their work, but promised a full report for the next meeting. . Meanwhile, they want it to be known that they are not interested in the persecution of any individuals who are endeavoring to proper ly enforce law. Rather, they would appreciate assistance from officials in their efforts to see that affairs of State are conducted ac cording to statute. The speaker was Murdock Johnson, recently rescued from South Carolina. In a very happy manner, he gave something of the beauties and advantages found in his native state. Very stren uous in his resentment of the charge that South Carolina was ever last in anything, and stated that she did not require the sym pathy often offered her. Never- the less, he was glad to migrate to Tarhelia. Mr. Johnson was “the life of the party” and, in shouting the praises of South Carolina before acrowd of Sand hill boosters, exhibited a brand of courage entitling him to full membership in .all the booster movements likely to be started in these parts, for by the time he becomes acclimated and sees what we have to boost there wiU. be no way of estimating his worth. WILL REBUILD TWO-WAY ROAD Jackson’s Force Moved to Manjy To Begin Work At Once SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 FORMER MOORE CO. GIRL PASSES AWAY Miss Elizabeth McNeill, Former ly Of Cameron Community Dies In Alabama At the meeting of the highway com mission at Carthage Monday, a big delegation of members of the Kiwanis club were present to appeal to the board for a rebuilding of the road be tween Pinehurst and Southern Pines. Bob Page spoke to the board in con vincing style, showing the great need of rebuilding the road, which carries the most traffic of any similar road in this section, and on which much of the business of the two resort towns depends. He showed that the en tertainment of winter visitors is the biggest industry of the county, and that to really interest the winter guests a passable road is a necessity. Talbot Johnson, Edwin McKeithen and others added to what Mr. Page said, and the case was so clearly present ed that the board met the appeal by the announcement that work would be started over there in the next few days, the first move being to fix the old road between the two villages so the traffic between the towns would not be held up while the double road is under construction, and in a few days rebuilding the double road will be under way. As it is not possible to do more than a certain amount of work this fall and winter without interrupting travel a road will be built with as little in- A feeling of deep and sincere sor row prevailed in the entire city Mon day afternoon when it was learned that Miss Elizabeth Jean McNeill had passed away at the Lakeview hospital. Becoming ill a week before, an op eration was performed as a last ef fort to relieve her trouble, but all that loving physicians, family and friends could do was of not avail, and with a gentle smile she fell asleep. Beautiful and impressive funeral services conducted by Revs. Carson, Cochran and Ellis, were held at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. McNeill on Tuesday afternoon^ at three o’clock. The rooms were filled with beautiful offerings, mute testimonials of the love and esteem in which she was held. It seems fitting that something more than passing appreciation should be given this beautiful life. Miss McNeill was born in Moore county. North Carolina, but moved with her family to this section in early childhood. It was here that she was reared! here she spent the greater part of her young life, and here she sleeps in Gods Acre. She received her education at the State College for Women at Talla hassee, Fla. Her life was a shin ing example of the fundamentals which are necessary for the making of true young womanhood. In early youth she became a member of the Presbyterian church and has served it faithfully and efficiently in almost every capacity. Endowed with a noble lineage, di rectly descending from the Campbell clan of Old Scotland, did she faithful ly carry on. Her happy spirit, her cheerful outlook upon life; her pure •nd refined Christian character; her interest in life, and all that it meant, always made for her true friends in every walk of life. Faithfully, did she work in the Bank of Florala. She knew every one of its friends by name—and many shall say her works do follow after her. The cheery smile, the thought for others, her life was a life of service. As a daughter and sister, she was devot ed. The memory of her life in that home will alw'ays be a precious one to those left in their great sorrow. Life is not measured by its short space of years, and it is cheering to know that though the loved one is cut off in the prime of youth the race is not lost—it is only a little sooner won. This beautiful flower is not crushed and its fragrance lost^ but it has been just a little earlier transplanted to the Heavenly Garden^ where its beauty and perfection will ever increase—in the Land where the roses never fade.—The Florala News. SUNDAY SCHOOL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT BONLEE SEPT 17 On Friday, September 17, Miss Biby, of the Baptist Sunday School Board will conduct a conference at Bonlee for Intermediate Sunday School workers of the Sandy Creek and surrounding associations. All workers are urged to be present and be ready to ask any questions about intermediate work that you feel like asking. The conference will be in formal and plenty of time will be giv en to general discussion. The people of Bonlee will have dinner at the church for all. B. S. BEACH, Bonlee, N. C. <Ple88e turn to page 8) Farmers conducting swine feeding demonstrations in Chowan County re cently sold 266 hogs for a little over $6,000. All the hogs killed hard and these men will net worry about the price of cotton this fall. The State Beekeepers* Association meets in Greensboro September 8 and t to discuBS late methods of handling bees and honey. • . . ' f 1 4 !i*l tv 11. 1 1 J
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