hav-
and
bred to
for the
)remises
herein
pur-
jan con-
le party
or as-
the real
>ed in a
Pine-
Poston
in the
Ids for
[e 185.
House
Noon.
)r Pine-
s
mm
tx
1171 tt
kCi n
tt
♦♦
tt
tt
tt
ntttttttu
mttttst;
mtmtt
VOLUME
6
THE
PILOT
NUPIBER
Is a Paper Devoted to the Upbuilding of the Sandhill Territory of NcUJj^aroHna
Address all communications to
THE PILOT PRINTING COMPANY. VASS, N. C
UCTUBER 1, 1926.
A TRIBUTE TO
J. ALTON MTVER
Moore County Bar Expresses Ap
preciation of His Courtesy
and Efficiency
In appreciation of the untiring ef
forts of Hon. J. Alton Mclver in serv
ing his County and State as Clerk
of the Superior Court of Moore
County during the past twenty years,
:he Moore County Bar passed the fol
lowing resolution at Carthage during
:hfc September term, and Judge T. P>.
Finley ordered that the same be
spread on the minutes of the Court.
Little Stories About The Natives
ION $2.00
By MISS CONNIE CURRIE
When “Gas” McKenzie Went To Carthage
COnON PRICES
DISAPPOINTING
RESOLUTION
In The Superior Co^rt.
Carthage, N. C.
September term, 1926.
Whereas, the term of office of Mr.
J. Alton Mclver, Clerk of the Superior
Court of Moore County, will expire
before the next term of the Court; and
whereas, owing to the condition of his
health he has declined to be a can
didate for re-election after a conspic
uous service of twenty years in the
office:
Be it resolved by the Moore County
Bar:
1. That we express our affectionate
regard for Mr. Mclver, and our regret
that the threatened failure of his
health makes it apparently necessary
for him to relinquish his active work
for the present; and we hope for him
that the needed rest will speedily re
store his strength and prove that the
menace has been in fact unreal:
2. That we declare our deep ap
preciation of the nniform courtesy
shown to each of us by Mr. Mclver
at all times in our contact with him in
the years since he became clerk; and
we testify to the efficient manner in
w^hich he has kept up the records of
his office, and discharged the duties
thereof; and we particularly commend
him for his close application to the
details of his office work and his long
hours at his desk affording to all op
portunity for the transaction of bus
iness with the Court. We doubt if
any record in this Jjliate has ever ap
proached that of Mr. Mclver for ac
tual hours spent in his office.
The foregoing resolution is adopt
ed unanimously and it is ordered that
it be spread upon the minutes of the
Court. Sept. 25th, 1926.
T. B. FINLEY,
Judge Presiding.
Standing on the Jackson Springs
church yard some 45 or 50 years ago,
M. L. McKenzie, familiarly known as
“Gas,” casually mentioned the fact
that he was going to drive over to
Carthage the next day. The natives
looked thoughtful, husbands and wives
nodded and becked at each other,—
mothers consulted daughters for the
same thought had occurred to each—
namely that here was a good oppor
tunity to get the few littl« things
they wanted from Carthage without
making the trip.
That afternoon Gas had quite a bit
of company, several of the neighbors
“dropped in to set a spell,” but he
discovered before they left that his
popularity was due somewhat to his
intended trip.
Some brought butter, some brought
eggs, others different things that
they wanted swapped for commodities
that the great town of Carthage boast
ed of. By night time Gas had prom
isted to bring home more stuff than he
could easely haul to say nothing of
the little things he was to “see to.”
His wife was rather peeved at him—
she didn’t see any room for the chick
ens and butter and stuff she was go
ing to send, besides she didn’t know
when he was going to get time to
tend to his own business if he tended
to all the other businesses right. But
he was a good natured gUy and he said
he’d manage somehow.
He was “up by times” the next
morning. When the sun rose he had
greased the buggy, fed the horse and
was ready to go. ’Twas a busy day
—all day long he bargained and talked
and long passed the time he should
have started home, he was still at it.
At least, however, he was through
with the exception of one thing.
Among the other visitors he’d had
the afternoon before was a couple of
young men who had what they said
was a very important paper they want
ed delivered to a man whom for con
venience sake, we will call McNeill.
McNeill lived out on the edge of town,
so after finishing his other busi
ness, Gas obligingly hurried over to
Mr. Mac’s house. Much to his dis
gust he found that McNeill was down
in the field ploughing, some quarter
of a mile away. ’Twas getting late
and he was strongly tempted to go
on—there was a thing as “riding a
free horse to death,” he told himself,
but he’d been taught that once he’d
put his hand to the plow to never turn
legal looking document was this writ
ing:
“Sir, let Gas pass and repass on
his good looks and good behavior..
Signed,
THE COMMITTEE”
Farmers Are Not Pleased With
The Present Low
Figures
BION H. BUTLER
When cotton last week went down
almost to thirteen cents Moore county
farmers, as well as the farmers else
where, expressed in positive words
their disappointment, and much discus
sion of the situation and the causes
was heard in all quarters. The crop is
a fairly good one through this sec
tion, as it seems to be over the coun
try generally, and little expectation
was felt of the high prices that have
prevailed in the past. But the far
mer did not believe that thirteen
cent cotton was due, and he does not
believe it is fair with other things
selling as they are.
Different opinions are heard as to
the future. Predictions of ten cent
cotton have been made, while some
folks look for the early distress cot-
For just one instant McNeill look
ed amazed but as it dawned on him
that this was the boy, Gas, he sat
down on a stump and fairly hee-haw
ed. All of which did not improve the
boy, “Gas’s” temper as he stalked
back over the ploughed ground fairly
boiling with rage. All the way home
he told himself that he’d get even if | ton to go on the market around the
’twas the last thing he ever did—
and that a joke was a joke but there
was such a thing as going too far.
But the road was long and dusty—
the sand from three to four inches
deep and as Gas creaked along in his
huggy for mile after mile he found his
resentment gradually fading away and
by the time he reached home he was
able to laugh at himself.
Reformers are agreed that what
back, so Sunday clothes and all, he j |g matter with our country today,
stalked across the ploughed field to j perchance there is anything the
matter, is that we are living so fast
deliver that important paper.
McNeill seemed surprised to be get
ting a paper at all to say nothing of
an important one and since he’d left
his glasses at the house and couldn’t
read without thiem he asked “Gas” to
we haven’t time to think—creaking
over 20 miles of sandy road. Gas had
time to think and thus was enabled to
prove on the next Sunday, as he had
done many times before, that he was
read it to him. Folded up in quite a a good sport.
Sixty Years of
Paint Supremacy
The Pinehurst Warehouses,
who represent the Sherwin-Wil
liams company in this territory,
received a souvenir edition of The
Cleveland News, containing a very
interesting history of the con
cern "which “covers the earth.”
The write-up shows employees on
the roster who date back to 1872,
this being one of few concerns
in America with such a record.
This business can point to a ser-
POULTRY MEETING
HELD Tins WEEK
Opportunity Offered To Improve
Your Flock and Increase
Production
COTTON PRICES
The trend of the cotton market for
the past few weeks is just another
warning that cotton farmers must
keep at work on the job of reducing
production costs. To do this, in
crease acre yields by enriching the
land with winter-grown clover crops,
reduce the labor cost with better im
plements and machinery and reduce
the cost of supplies by growing a
greater share of them at home.
How about those acres to cover
crops? Now is the time to begin think
ing about them.
(Please turn to page 5)
BROADWAY MOVES
TO PINEHURST
Picquet Booking Wonderful At
tractions for Next Winter.
N. C. Boy Heads Company
OXFORD ORPHANAGE SINGING
CLASS AT ABERDEEN SOON
The Oxford Orphanage Singing
class will be at Aberdeen in the high
echool auditorium Octoberl, 8:00 p.
m.
Amusement lovers forturate enough
to be near Pinehurst during the com
ing guest season, will have several
opportunities to enjoy the highest type
of entertainment ever produced, any
where. Formerly, it was necoss^ry
to travel to the large Northern cities
to see and hear the class of attractions
that are coming to the Carolina Thea
tre at Pinehurst next winter.
The first big musica; ev^nt "ake*;
place on December 13. w'hen the Vale
Glee club comes for onn performancf.
We know from experience what this
visit means, as they were with us on
the first Christmas night after the
new Carolina Theatre onontd.
The week of January 17 bririgs the
first road show to Pi.iehursc. In'.i-
dentally, it will be the first time that
an original New York cast ever vis
ited this part of the country. Madge
Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer will
head a large company in a play that
was one of Broadway’s greatest sue
cesses this season, “Love-In-A Mist.”
This delightful play enjoyed a long
run at the Gaiety Theatre in New
York and was the vehicle that car-
Don’t forget the poultry meeting
this week.
If you are the least bit interested in
poultry, please try to attend at least
one of our meetings this weeks. If
vou do no know or have forgotten
the schedule it will be gladly furnish
ed you that you may be able to at
tend the meeting nearest you.
Time was, when the farmer with
his crop system was carried un
till fall of the year by his merchant.
When his crop was* sold a settlement
was made. This form of business is
fast going out of style and the farm
ers of necessity must have more than
one pay day each year. Better prices
are offered all the time to the man who
pays cash. To meet this situation a
small flock of pure bred poultry well
fed and cared for properly offers an
excellent means of making extra cash.
The farmer, who has eggs and chick
ens for sale each week gets his cash
and usually has some money in the
bank in addition. This is the man
who can pay cash as he goes and us
ually gets better prices for the things
he has to buy. I was told one day
last week that there was little or no
market for eggs and chickens. If
this is the case, why has it been so?
Largely because there is not enough
raised to create a market for our pro
ducts. According to latest govern
ment statistics, there is an average
of about twelve hens on every farm in
this section. With an average egg
production it would take us approxi
mately seven years to produce eggs
enough to give the city of New York
one breakfast. Think this over and
lets try a few good chickens as a side
line.
If you need help to begin with,
every effort will be made to give you
Sandhill Sixteen
To Visit Hamlet
With Mrs. Chas. W. Picquet at
the piano, the Sandhill Sixteen
will open the new Carolina Thea
tre at Hamlet next Monday night,
October 4. To imagine a more
appropriate selection is impossi
ble. It’s a Sandhill arrangement
from start to finish. The follow
ing excerpt from Manager Pic-
quet’s salutation, embodied in a
souvenir program issued for the
above occasion, is an excellent ex-
(Please turn to page 2)
KIWANIS TALKS
ON ADVERTISING
Propose Another Fund
Vigorous Work For
Winter
For
(Please turn to page 7)
At the Kiwanis meeting at Jack’s
Wednesday the club received a letter
from John McQueen of the advertis
ing committee of last year saying
that the committee recommended
another campaign of advertising this
year with about $7,000 of expendi
ture chiefly in the northern papers.
The results of last season’s work was
so satisfactory and the conditions
this year so favorable that the com
mittee thinks the proposition wise.
Discussion brought out the fact that
subscriptions to the fund last winter
provided for further payments of a
considerable sum for th^s coming
year, and the sense of the meeting
was favorable to the scheme. It was
referred to the public affairs com-
mitte with instructions to report at
the next meeting, so that advertising
can be started right away.
Signs along the roads cautioning
the destruction of trees and shrubbery
received some attendtion and brought
out the information that such signs
are about to be put up.
Charlie Picquet announced that the
Sandhill Sixteen and some other tal-
(Pleast turn to page 4)
present prices to be followed by bet
ter figures as soon as this early of
fering is absorbed. Some good au
thority says the cotton situation is
only an indication of other tribula
tions that are gathering over the coun
try, and what seems equally good au
thority says that business conditions
are basically sound. The volume of
trade is about as high as was ever
known, but everybody reports collec
tions discouragingly slow. Some of
the opinions advanced are interesting
whether or not. One banker said,
“I would not be surprised to see cot
ton go to ten cents, and even then I
don’t think we would be at the end
of the string, for let me tell you some
thing. Right now the cotton farmer
is in an uncomfortable plight, but
not a bit worse than every other in
dustry. If the cotton men are to
take ten cents or thirteen cents, or
ai:y other low price the buying power
of the farmer is crippled until indus
tries that are loading him up steadily
with their wares are going to find
themselves without a market.
“What will thirteen cent cotton do
to the auomobile?” he asked. “The
farmer as well as everybody else,” he
continued, “is loading up with auto
mobiles that are not paid for, and if
cotton is not to provide the money
to pay for those already bought where
will come the money to pay for those
not yet sold? Are you aware that in
our state we are buying over half a
>i'*ion dollars’ worth of gasoline a
week, and that we are buying as much
more of tires and similar things to go
with the gasoline, and that does not
take into account the payments on
the automobiles that have to be paid
every month? At thirteen cents our
cotton crop will not begin to pay our
automobile bill. Have you ever
thought of that, and have you ever
thought that the gasoline and the au
tomobile payments have to be met
with cash? We are loaded now with
all the automobiles thirteen cent cot
ton can carry, and probably more, but
we are steadily buying more. The
money that will come to the banks
of North Carolina in the next five
months for cotton will be pretty much
offset by the money that will go from
the banks to met drafts for gasoline^
cars, and car supplies.
“The farmer is not in good financial
position, but if he is not how are
the other industries? If the farmer
can not buy automobiles what foU
lows ? Another industry gets in dutch.
And if that happens the steel mills,
and the other mills that supply auto
mobile factories get their jolt. And
that is what gives me apprehension. If
the farmer can’t continue to buy, fac
tories are going to miss him. And
that means the people who are mak
ing things to sell the farmer are go
ing to have an idle period. The trou
ble is the farmer has been coaxed into
a credit position where he is in a
tight fix, and low cotton is dangerw
ous, not only to him but to all of us.
J
(Please turn to page 5)
(Please turn to page 8)
Ii