Page Two THE PILOT, a Paper With Character. Vass, North Carolina Friday, March 15, THE PILOT Published every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated. Vass, North Carolina. NELSON C. HYDE, President. Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 ston-Salem it may as well be recognized, that if she has not yet achieved those accomplish ments that draw the eyes of the world toward her she is on the way to becoming one of the ac tors in this big world of hu man effort and accomplishments, and that as the older ones among us turn our feet from the busy scenes she will join Address ali^ommunieations to The!with those whose shoulders are to carry the tasks of the GRAINS OF SAND Read The PILOT Every Week Pilot, Inc., Vass, N. C. Today is the last for filing your State and Federal Income Tax re turn*. Charlotte is in the midst of a fight over the City Manager form of gov ernment. This is a war which every city seems to have to go through at some stage of its career. There are Advertising Rates on Application. Lj V C „ now 392 cities in the United States world, and those A^O having the City Manager form of best are most confident that she ^ - will do her share in maintaining Entered at the Postoffice at Vass, | high ideals that the old N. C., as second-class mail i«atter. | revolutionary days j set up for the people of a newly ! developed nation, of the i After all it* is the boys and government, 109 of which have had it for ten years or more. Those cities North Carolina under this form m Reidsville, Rocky Salisbury anti THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS Ti T accept the respon- United Stetes, in ^ing ^ for the next big for- sponsi^hty of t e > , move of human kind, and the folks all over tl^e wOTldth^^ broadening of life and one of the the alluring of the race toward must do If we are to ^ standards that w. to give personal attention to the o-pnpration work athletics. We law. The attempt to make the fe^^^ation by : someone speaking to m,. , law apply to others than her son’s prow, selves has gradually and very gradually, at that, brought; ciplization and the f US to the unenviable position of being the most regardless of le and t e M of any civilized or semi-civilized i Johnsons are to ru e an o people on the globe. We have as-1 world. sumed that laws are not to gov-' * GTnsir em us except as we elect to obey | them, and that laws are optional,' and we met three young high school girls the other afternoon who said th:y were going swimming. One of the Casey Jones cabins on the Southern Pines-Aberdeen road burned down the other night and the Southern Pines department had quite a time laying a hose to it. The near est hydrant was one-fifth of a mile from the cabin. Unfortunately, the Casey Jones establishment is outside the city limits and hence the absence of a nearer water supply. of government are Chap«l Hill, Dur- ^m, Elizabeth City, Gastonia, Golds boro, Greensboro, Point, Morganton, Mount, Roxboro, Thomasville. Those who went to Frank Buchan’^ There is a difference of opinion in that Grover family in Southern Pines ^ -.1-1-0.;-- heard Mrs. Grover prowess and promise Hickory, High‘Bible class for the first time fearful of having to display their ignorance of the Bible were soon at ease. They fcund everyone else in the same frame of mind. But it’s surprising how quickly it comes back to you if you haven’t happened to keep up your Bi ble reading for some time. And how interesting it is! Wepouth Heights Southern Pines, N. C. in tennis. Wherever you go, planting is going “Yes,” she said, “that may be, but | on in the Sandhills. Not crop plant- you should see his algebra marks as j ing, but beautification planting. The a result.” j epidemic is due to the work of the Kiwanis Club, the civic bodies and a general desire to make the country- All one has to do to know it’s spring is to walk by the playgrounds side more picturesque, and it won’t be of the community. Youth is in full long before we’re living in a garden bloom on swings, slides, tennis courts, spot comparable with any in Anier- putting greens and baseball diamonds, i ica, and away ahead of most. competitor, backyard gossip, and when turned loose in Europe will get to the United States five hours be- ^ fore it starts. Nobody knows exactly i what it is because it has never stood 1 still long enough. i “Electricity is someiimes known as! amazing science gone crazy with the heat, and and that individually we are all' A government bulletin comes personal courts of the highest;to The Pilot telling of crop con- dntemretation Mr. Hoover savs' ditions, probable acreage to be | STARTS, THE LORD KNOWS that is a mistake. planted, and one thing or another | where! and ends same One of the great principles of‘that might give the farmer some; PLACE: ELECTRICITY the old nobility was that doc- i of what the American far- { At last a satisfactory definition f )r trine of “noblesse oblige,” a doc-ii^i®^ will do this season. Hum-j electricity! it is given by the NevV' trine that made the man of' orous among the reports is the | York State committee on Public Util- greater privilege a man of s^tatement that no reference is jty Information in its Utility Bullc-1 greater responsibility. Because raade to cotton because con-1 tin of January 28th, which says: the law dealt more lightly with gress has prohibited certain in-1 “Electricity is something that starts him he accepted the position in formation and forecasts concern ■ the Lord knows where and ends >i\ society that that privilege re-1 ing cotton. The presumption the same place. It is 1-36 of a second quired him in fairness and in the I that to know about the cotton faster on its feet than its nearest worth of his example to observe crop may hurt the former by the law, and to give no one an,giving that remarkable bugaboo, opening to accuse him of doing the speculator, some informa- that which another man by his-tion. Then at the legislature in lower condition was denied the Kaleigh the attempt was made right to do. to forbid some forms of infor- It is not the bootlegger that nation by the state agricultural breaks down the prohibition law. department, and the It is the Pharisee who drinks>statement was made by some; if you can understand its manoeuvres the liquor and in doing it exhib-1 persons that the price of cotton! you can do anything with it except its a contempt for law. Law is i been harmed by some in- open a can of peanut butter at a pic-1 created by all of us in mass. It formation given out by some of njc. asks certain concessions from the departments, and that such; “Electricity was locked up in ig- all of US for the welfare of all ^ policy should be pursued as norance for centuries until Ben: of us, and no man who ia un- • would keep cotton in the dark. | pvanklin let it out with a pass k«ry,J willing to obey the law that ^ funny world. Any | since then it has been pulling off j would ask him to concede his other industry than farming; more new stunts than a pet monkey. i -submission has any right to J^^kes every effort to be posted; “with it you can start a conver- j ask any other man to concede completely as possible on sat ion or stop one permanently, cook j obedience. The man who defies ^^very branch of the business. I dinner, curl your hair, press youTj one law encourages another man J^^t the assumption is that the; trousers, blow up a battleship, run | to defy another law, and no mat- farmer should be kept in igno- an automobile or signal Mars, and I ter who you are, or what your ^^r*ce for fear some one beside I many more things are being invent-1 standing, nor what your oppor-' the farmer would get informa- » tunity to defy law, you have no tion as to crops and demands more excuse than the man who uses, and in that w^ay buy the new and enlarged company, comes from the gutter to commit the farmer’s stuff for a lower: because as an official of the his crime. You have not so than he could get if every-i company remarked, they are much, for his incentive to obey body remained in dense igno- both men of experience and ac- the common laws are not so ^^^ce. And a lot of farmers ac- quaintance with the people and great as those of us who profit ^^Pt that shallow nonsense. i conditions of the neighborhood more by law and order. Carried ^^^ht now every farmer ought to and their years of work in the a little further to where every h^ve access to all the informa- community make them valuable, man may make or interpret or tion possible as to how mch cot- These young chaps, or rather obey the law to suit his own no- on hand in the mills, in they were young chaps when tion we become anarchists, and t^he warehouses, abroad and at they started, have grown up as our civilization becomes chaos home, how much is carried over far as they have grown in the and destruction. You cannot compared with previous j service of their two developing square yourself vdth your con- what the yarn trade is j industries. They are men of science if you violate any laws, what the mill outlook is,' standing in their communities, nor can you ask any other man ''''hat the trade is demanding in and it is not going out of the to do any more than you do. We ^‘otton goods, what acreage far- way to remark that they have are a lawless nation because of ^ers are figuring on planting, been builders on a broad scale our conceit, which tells us we possible slants on the in- proportionate to the field as they may violate laws, though trom start to finish, took it and to the task they un- others may not. Some day we . ^^t the speculators will get theidertook in creating the property will pay the bill we are running J^formation is no consequence. | of which they are now dispos- up. I They manage to get much more ing. They have stood by at information than the farmers j times when the promise was not THE LITTLE ^^t no matter how much the i very great and the work was FOLKS 'government tells the farmer?,|burdensome compared with the This week the Daughters of, the speculators and every i returns. They have held on and the Revolution hold a conven-1 concerned in the use of j sawed the wood until it seems tion at Winston-Salem. With the cotton want to know all they can _ the opportune moment has ar- older members of the society ^^t all the knowledge they | jrived to make it possible for will go from this section one of,^^^* "^o keep the farmer in ig-|ample capital to lend a hand, the younger generation, Miriam ^^orance is a crime, even if he I and it is now to be believed that Converse Johnson, of Aberdeen, 1 to be kept there. The'Moore county will have an ex- who while not yet adopted into ought to know^ every-; panded telephone service that the order, is nevertheless by thing pc^sible about his busi-1 will keep up with the progress of heredity in line for acceptance Then he will know better;the Sandhills, a thing that has when she grows older, for her ''’hat he Wants to do. But to do! been demanding a much bigger mother, Mrs. Talbot Johnson, is everything blindly cannot help [capital than the small company one of the prominent members j could provide, and officers of the society. Mir-1 ^ ~ ■ --1 The Leavitts have had consid- iam goes to Winston-Salem as | [ erable criticism because they did The shrewd buyer, whether for a home or investment, will observe the tendency to gather up acreage lands close to the vil lages in the Sandhills recently and at pres ent. More room than a town lot affords seem to be the idea now, and big and little tracts are changing hands. You can see what the buying of lands around Southern Pines will mean. More homes of consequence in the Weymouth ter ritory. WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS IS THE REGION OF THE FINE HOMES *4 ». u a It St u s 9t PECAN TREES FOR SALE ♦ ♦ ! « ♦♦ For Infoi*mation, See- Large Papershell, Stuart Variety | ^ 4 to ft. high, budded trees ' H $1.25 Each | ij TREES, SHRUBS. EVERGREENS 13 DEATON NURSERIES 111 B. RICHARDSON, Inc. ARCADE BUILDING Southern Pines, N. C. I 4Hi» at u X I VASS, N. C. not keep up with the develop ment of the community more closely, a criticism in which The Pilot has not indulged for it could see that they were digging in in their effort to keep ahead the personal page of Mrs. Whit-1 SYSTEM SOLD teker, of Southern Pines, State | Bernard Leavitt and Claude Regent, a woman of wide ac- Leavitt have sold the telephone quaintance and standing, not {systems at Southern Pines and only among these descendants of i Carthage and these become parts the early day heroes, but like-1 of a new system that will in- - wise she is a woman of promi-jelude some sixteen exchanges ini of the rapid growth of this sec- nence in her community. | villages in three different sec-! tion. Now that they have put Ihe i^wspaper folks are ac-itions of the state and in South I their scheme on a footing big customed to make mention of | Carolina, and afford an outlet to | enough to make it appeal to big- tne movements of grow-up i the big cities of the state, ger developers, and have passed loiKs, but it IS a fact without | These two men have devoted the major responsibility to heav- any justitying excuses that | practically all their lives to the ier shoulders they are going to Of interest to evefy car owtier: statement of General Motors’ Policy by Alfred P. Sloan ^ Jr.y 'T*resident while the world has also a fair proportion of small people, much less is said of them than of their bigger companions and asso ciates. So when Miriam John son 301ns the pilgrimage to Win- work of creating the telephone system of the main part of Moore county, and that they have brought the work to a con clusion so desirable is to their credit. They will continue with be given credit for the work they have accomplished, and the foundations they have fairly laid. Those who know what they have done will appreciate it. '"T^HE public has been visiting the ^ automobile shows in the larger cities of the country to see new models. Suppose you could cirop a curtain over the 1929 auton obile shows and raise it immediately upon the shows of ten years ago. How vividly the changes would then appear! Go back five years, or even three, and the contrasts are amazing. So fast have the improvements followed one another that every year has of fered you more for your automobile dollar—in performance, in comfort, in safety, in beauty and in style. Never was this fact quite so im pressive as in the cars now on dis play. This is real progress, and inevi tably General Motors has been a leader in it. You cannot have hun dreds of engineers, in one organiza tion, thinking and working day and night without knowing more about making automobiles than was known the year before. You cannot have great Research Laboratories, the Proving Ground and the unmatched resources and skill of Fisher body without developing constantly better processes and new ideas. The patron age of the public makes possible all this machinery of betterment; so the public is entitled to each improve ment as promptly as it has been proved. In this w'ay came the self-starter, fb'; closed body, durable Duco finish, four wheel brakes. By the same process one of the remarkable feats in industrial history has just be.en err^cted: Chevrolet has been trans formed into a six-cylinder car within thr, price range of the four—almost overnight. Similarly, the new brakes and transmissions of Cadillac and LaSalle are a fundamental improve ment; while the new models of Buick, Oldsmobile, Oakland and Pontiac all represent values that could not have been offered before. Such progress, born of the in herent ambition of an organization of active minds to do better and to give more, is of benefit to all. It offers you more for your money with cach suc ceeding year. It gives you more value for your present car when you trade it in. This is our policy. This is real prog ress. ALFRED p. SLOAN, J*., Fraident Detroit, March i, 19x9 AN INVITATION General Motors would like you to see the progress which it has made during the past year and which is represented by its new models. More than that, it invites you to peep behind the scenes at the methods employed to assure further progress. Simply chcck on the coupon below the products in which you are most interested. 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