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THE PILOT, a Paper With fliaracter. Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, March 13 1931
THE PILOT
Published every Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated.
Aberdeen, North Carolina
from nothing, and he has not
had his ears tied in hard knots
by very many people as far as
any one dan remember. He
stands out in the front rank
when things are moving and you
JUGTOWN
affected as the farms of the ^
United States at this time. Many I 7 ^ ,
observers are pronounced in ^ Albert V. Fowler
their opinions that the situation Pmebluff
was greatly accelerated if not Jacques Busbee m the Carolina hi s
actually prompted by the gigan- is potter as the early settlers were.
SPRING
By Mrp. A. A. McKeithen
of Aberdeen
Spring has come! It is Marche
rough, yet pleasant, vigorous March
t^C "deiusion" crued farrn relief. A lazy one-eyed mule goes round and | People are all eager to be at work in
The day the land banks began j round t^eir g-ardens. The earth turns up
to lend money to the farm the in endless circles to prepare his clay; , fresh an mellow, and there is a beauty
farmer^S fate was sealed for the | Charlie and Ben, both native to the I in its very blackness that charms the
and his free silver sophistries,
the red shirt days, the constant
threat of the old force bill, which
even yet is used occasionally to
conjure with, and others of min
or significance have had their
NELSON C HYDE, General Manager varying hours with their worri- don’t have to hunt to find him
VT ments and terrors. The climax 1 when the game is in progress.
BION H. BUTLER, Editor came with the prohibition divis- j For that reason he has la follow-
JAMES BOYD STRUTHERS BURT Democratic party, and |ing which cannot be shaken from ^ -- i I eve Flowers are fa<.t
Three Months commander and his intep*- I he does not have to hit it twice is there to this day, land today forms , ^ spectacle while the bush is still
Address all communications to The rity as his oriflamme. He con- to make known what he is at-' he feels the burden of it more ^ Froni them, who only ghmpse w at j lea ess. n ® delightful
eluded his political fife with his tempting to do. In a fair propor-: than ever. KnT fh^hand .la.ed dav in tw.' Win^ tLZT
flag in his hand, defeated but tion of cases he hits the head ; Spring is here, with the plan^, He h^s the hand-glazed clay b^s g But
that ought to be hit, and that ling season. Fertilizer, seed and] bnck kilns, j a^ve aii the favorites, the vmiet,
sense of justice that prompts I financing for the summer are | Low bmlt and long beneath a rough , white or purple, now diffuses its
men registers when Morrison I facing numbers of farmers who j wood roof; 1. 1, + ®wee ness a ong our borders. How
gets into action. Wherefore it is do not know where to turn for, One peers through,red-gold sheets of ^ many scenes of that happy childhood
Pilot, Inc., Aberdeen, N. C.
Entered at the Postoffice Aber- ^
deen, N. C., as second-class mail mat- ^ ^
I T~l~T |-| -i-riafi i~l IT
ter.
STATE CONTROL
OF COUNTIES
his people. A valiant old worKior,
he leaves the ranks because age
has vanquished him but honored
in
the fact that he would not de-1 likely that he will be a candidate the needed money and supplies '
flame to see
does the first sight of these recall'
sert his principles though stead-
With the degree of authority . fastness to his S'mcenty entailed
/.rvTifornori nn fViP «t'atp with re- the sentence to political death, lo .no icci, , puLucv;<ii.c: mc.i. — - ---j
conterred on ne s i ^ fearless old warrior, nailed to pretty clear of vision and a skill-' credit limit has been reached.
with a reasonable certainty of ^ to make their crops. Fann re-' The bowls and jars that glow with, How the mind flies back to the sports
success, for the Honorable Cam- j lief lias gone so far as to hy- j borrowed fire. _ _ , which we may perhaps never again
eron is quick on his feet and pothecate their farms until their, in the small cabin made of mud and visit and where they who made
J ^ tx i.-_.:x logs j much of the delight of thoso
so
delight of those years
.gard to the counties North Car-! rightousness oflful adversary. When he lights and the result is interest charges , Jacques shows you many vases, an- have long ceased to exist. Well, a
olina takes a big step toward i f^ith as he saw it. I the fiery cross and sets it on | and foreclosures 'and disaster.! cient blue, thousand welcomes to Spring, though
centralized government. It is j — | the Carolina hilltops the clans The question is a tremendous vi-, Of early Persian and Chinese design, she cannot bnng back with all her
will rally. It is a reasonable safe tal one right now, for how to , The Chinese potter is his chief de- | flowers, the flower of our youth; can.
bet that Cam^s address will be' prov'ide fertilizer and. supplies is * light; inot, with all her poetry, bring back the
the Senate Office Building, beyond the solution of far too He thinks the potter in the reigns of j poetry of early love; though she can-
Washington, for some yeiars. many Forbidding as the pros-1 Han not repaint the rose on the cheeks that
i pect seems it looks as though a , Discerned and crystallized those per-
THE DEAD BONES further scraping of the bottom | feet shapes
OF FARM RELIEF of the empty flour barrel is a j That are the essence of the day and
It is useless to cry over the necessity, and that the worM i wheel.
hard to say whether the action I A PLEA FROM A
is wise or not, for it has to be 1 HANDICAPPED MAN
realized at the start that repub
lican governments lack much of
being as efficient and as capable
as would be desired. Yet a repub
lic retains its freedom. Any
other government takes freedom
from the people and rests it with : craft that holds aloft the lamp
the accredited head of govern-1 information and intelligence.
^ . . ... ! The News makes an appeal to the
ment, be that an autocratic type | thinking men of the state re-
or the more tempered one of ’ garding the prison printing of-
human authority which we seem fice, the value it ds to the men
The Pilot has on its occasional
exchange list “The Prison
News,’’ a publication emanating
from the State Prison at Ral
eigh, and one that 'awakens a
fTl?dsfis^rSe?SThe!milkrhay^h^^^^^ wUThavVto scrape with the wet clay on th.
of the United States.
Human character and ability
has its limitations. Were the in
times a look at the causes serve , mer, for no man lives to himself j wheel so well . ,
as a warning to be more care- in this life. Unfortunately many. That as it changes shape m Charlie s
ful. It is doubtful if in the his- others than farmers have been, hands
tory of this country except per-1 encouraged to load up with The unseen elements of form that
haps the reconstruction period; debt that is overpowering, and
after the Civil War, and that was that helps to cloud the sky.
confined to one section, has so Loading the farms with debt
called
And tantilized the Chinese
•mind
potter's
to be st^-adily approaching in all .j? an 'industry, involving so was a noble experiment, but a | Flicker before him between change
tion the prison printing office j people, been so seriously terrible one in its results.
presents to other printers, and
the comfort that comes to a man
dividuals broad and dependable | in custody of the state if he may |
enough an absolute monarchy. have some thoug!ht-provoking
would probably be the most effi- ■ ^yrk to occupy him and to hold j
cient government available toi United States Board of Tax Appeals Reed’s hounds.
As a member of the Pharisees
GRAINS OF' SAND
and change.
Something in the very working of the
clay
Appeals to Jacques and is his happi
ness ' ;
A harking back to the primeval man
Judge Herbert F. Seawell of the pack and the two-year running of Mr. ^ \yho made clay vessels as Jacques
I makes them now;
the human race. But men who interesting notes on
could he trusted with ereat and i ^ longevity in this section. The follow-
couw be trusted with great anct never been caught with the,
are pillowed beneath the evergreen
nor enable us to offer the first gath
ered violets to the dear souls who are
in Heaven, yet she brings joy to the
earth still.
Spring stirs everything with her in
fluence—the depth of the soil, the
depth of the heart—and makes us,
more than all other seasons in love
with life, and full of longings for
those who are dear to us in time and
eternity.
It is then that we are most sad yet
happy.
We live more lovingly in the past,
the present, and the future.
FEBRUARY WEATHER
i A bond of union with the
We hear talk of a forthcoming en- strength
i: .4. , -u-Ti. i. ! 1 •. 11 /. i ing, he writes, are authentic records tertainment to be put on in both That dances sines and naints for t)ut’«
limited responsibility are too goods on it and is therefore; Bensalem Township, among others: Southern Pines and Pinehurst for the delight;
John Campbell died in 1885, aftei’ benefit of tl}6 Moore County Educa- , j)eeps of emotion linking us with
few to make such a type likely. • above reproach and sin. The Pi
We have in the country assumed permitted by its confessed' jjving there 103 y
virtues to say a word on behalf
sinners. The Prison News is a
ears.
tional Foundation, and from the list
men
John Morrison (Kit John) was 109 of talent to appear we feel safe in ^ cjo^hed in the mystery of ancient
lass oi me fvediitahle naner in r.ra^tipalIv *his life predicting rare amusement for all,' ti^^s.
havp hppn papei in practically , about 1887. We’ve been trying to get definite ^
In the same year Archie Leach died news, the dates, the personnel, the
for the present.
that this is a system of govern-
ment by the whole mass of the'
population. But we have been mechanical and professional
delegating authority here and Probably, for,
there in state nation, county i hpliP^Tp^^ ^
and town until* the individual is the averag^of the napers of lim- Campbell died there at keeping everything up the^r
of extremely small influence un- j^ed, circulation in the state. It is '
less he is one of that restricted i r)robablv doine- a hpffpr work in i
number that pushes to the front « o-pnpral wpv fhpn f ha nf McDuffie, maiden ladies of the Southern Pines new judge,
and takes up the ruler’s mace who mpkino- respectively, cast Poate has a lot of titles and jobs, but
and meets the favor of the io nrnhphlV inQflifvin^ ballots, voting for Hard- he hasn’t a great deal on his clerk of
crowd. The whole trend of the ^.omnpfitinr. it President. President Harding court in that respect. Howard Burns,
world today is toward that state ' tine- pcitflhlkhmpnf«3 anH ^ letters and sent them his sworn in as clerk Monday, is also
socialism that would have been I Thp Pilnf'«5 rpiapfinn i Photograph. Annie died in 1926 at the clerk of the Board of Commissioners
communism fifty years ago. The competition of the News The Pi secretary of the Library
move in the state this winter has lot extends the exchange froni age of 107. Pvp.» Torres-
in at a surprisinfirlv swift erait. 4.
the age of 99.
In 1920, two sisters, Annie and
Katie McDuffie, maiden ladies of the
, , , .u I her face for the last time. I could i
scenario, etc., but those in charge are ' . .
sleeves I him telling her the great |
! news that he was President and must
Dr.
mov
been
, pnsingly swift gait, ^he badlands the warmest hand
. inteiestmg feature of the Qf -fellowship. If those of us who
cnangjig tendency is that fev/ gj.p surrounded by all
environ-
Association, Associated Press corres
pondent, chairman of the ipublicity
The University of North Carolina , committee of the Kiwanis club and one
“News Letter” has some interesting' other things we can t recall
figures this week on population den- offhand.
Just as we were getting encouraged
j go at once to assume the great re
sponsibility. Then again I thought;
I “no great man ever lived who has
i not the seeds of greatness in his
I mother before him. I could imagine
1 the look on his mother’s face and her
I saying, “Go son and your mother’^
I prayers be with you.” After staying
I as long as I wished in this room, I
i went into the old dining room—out
I of this door into the old garden that
remains, and again I lingered and
. among the massive old boxwood, I
I thought here is where Mary, George’?
! mother, spent much of her time and
I where Lafayette came to pay his re-
I spects.
While February past did not give
us the gentle month of 1930 neverthe-
racial : less the month ran above the normal
averages and below the normal rain
fall. February of 1930 in the Sand
hills gave us the abnormally high av
erages of a 61-2 maximum, 36-5 min
imum and average of 52, these aver
ages being lowered this year to a
maximum of 63-1, minimum 28-5 and
average of 45-8, contrasting favorably
! with the thirty-five year normals of
maximum 55-1; minimum 33-6, and
general average of 44-3. Rainfall for
the month was light, only 2.03 in
ches in all—1.10 inches falling on the
14th. This was a little better than
last year, and just two inches less
than the normal of 4.03 inches.
Groundhog days for 1930 and 1931
were clear enough to cast shadows,
the month just past giving us 14 all-
clear days and 14 .partly cloudy. The
coldest day came on the 13th with a
low of 13, three degrees worse than
last February, ^and the warmest, the
17th showing only 73 degrees against
an 81 last year.
Marriage License Issued
Marriage license has been issued to
W. M. Spivey of Sanford and Amy
It was told that this boxwood was ^ Tillman of Cameron, from the office
thinking persons are malting the encouragement of
niucn noise m questionmg the j ment, associates and kindlv the state. Forsyth county leads
soundness of the principle in- friends can not keep our heads inhabitants per square mile with
volved. Some protests have been above water because of any com- ' 287.8. Durham, Gaston and Mecklen-. over decreased death rate in North
otfered about submerging the petition with the handicapped | hurg are the only other counties with Carolina through our automobile op-
great followmg. May be it is a something about them of virtue Chatham, 34.7; Randolph, 45.2; Mont- as its having any value is concerned
v\-;se departure from original that entitled them to the half ' gomery, 32.6, and Richmond, 65.3. The bill as passed is as good as worth-
methods as written in the origi-' chance the law gives them. The' Dare and Tyrrell counties have less
nal plans of government, but it | Pilot is not afraid of any com- than 14 persons to the square mile.
takes a little time for the change petition that starts with its
to sink into the ordinary head hands tied behind it, and would' -rv, p i + k k v, •*
and fix its impression. It is no rather help thaftvne of men anv' humility itself
longer worth while to throw a/C
from her river farm and transplanted ‘ county.
into a walk and hedge—the whole dis-!
tance from her house to Kenmore, and | ---■ a a TC?
intrs frnm it tn Gpore-p- ' !Ci lo
less and motorists may go on driving, ^ i
with their usual reckless abandon. On ! gave cuttings from it to George, ‘
with the slaughter! with which he made his plantings in
shudder when
mentioned.
At the Pine Needles Inn business
is holding up on a good comparsion
communism is ! troiiblpH rn^^rl On tn it vnii hnv< * circumstance its story of the splendid with a year ago, with bright pros-
irouDiearoaa. uo 10 ir, you Doyj^, p ,. q, , , . . ktt ' -
Mt. Vernon gardens. Some trees still
remains which are said to have been
planted by her good son, George.
PAL OF BOYS
who have been caught, and if
‘ We who are still at large cannot
live in the face of your handicap
ped ability, we can always get
SUNSET AND
EVENING STAR
The retirement of Senator into jail, talso, and share in your
Simmons from public life closes | superior advantages.
an unusual public career. Bom
long enough before the outbreak i MORRISON A
of the great sectional war of' CANDIDATE
1861, reaching well beyond the
Fashion Show put on last week by j pects for the rest of the season,
the Church of Wide Fellowship, in | Throughout the Sandhills renting
Southern Pines, got lost in the shuffle 1 cottages are about filled for the bal-
of getting out last week’s paper, and . ance of the spring. Indications are
Those boyhood years between the
ages of ten and twenty are the impres-
This home was provided for her by 1 sionable y^rs—the formative years
n J ’ XI- rrv,.,Jwhen the fundamental character oi
George during the Revolution. ^ ^ | a boy is molded into the pattern it
were living at the river farm, the | will maintain throughout the remain-
boyhood home of George and i he | der of his life,
thought she would be taken care cf j That is why so much importance is
' placed on the factors that govern the
we appeared with no mention of the that the return travel from Florida j *raild a home in Fredericks- adolescent bovs—their com-
bui-g and be near Bettv, his sister. I I aaoiescent poys—tneir com
panions, their environment, their
successful and entertaining event in
our columns. Abject apologies are of
fered.
great war of the nations of the | tells the folks in Charlotte that
world, going down with his flag' he will be a candidate for the
flying fiercely in the struggle of United States Senate to succeed
T.*- . I "^6 drag hunting season
Senator Came^n Morrison j closed for both the Moore County
that social war over prohibition.
Senator Simmons has lived and
shared in the most sensational
period of events that this nation ^
has known, or perhaps that it
Hounds at Southern Pines and the
will bring a lot of visitors from now , r. j • i i. -.lt. i cuvnunnient,
until warm weather. FSlks in the ' F'-^«'’icksburg with-1 reading, the food they eat, etc. At this
North are realizing more than ever ’ t"** T' ' whether the boy
T J i. o J ' where he was born and last but , will develop mto a cheerful or surly
that they can slip down to the Sand- . j generous or selfish, intelligent
hills in one night’s run, stay over
Sunday or a holiday and be back in
another night’s run, with night ti'avel!
made George famous.
or ’dull, ambitious or indolent.
School teachers, librarians. Scout
himself when his present term
expires, and he includes in his
statement an intimation that he
will be active in his aspiration. * .
, TT- - 1 1 - ' who knows Cam doubts I
Will know. His whole life has ; either statement. When he gets 11
i)een cast in the years of contin- into action he is natural. When •
ued turmoil, for while in some ^ he is in politics the neighbors * *“
sections of the union quiet reign- j know it. He lacks a lot of being i Editor, The Pilot:
Cival war and at a dead one. In the brief weeks I After a three weeks’ visit in Fred- steps of the little porch I
other times when calmer inter- that he has been in the Senate
lIs
* .Lcixi, wiuii ui-a-vci grave of Mary Washington is leaders and others engaged in boy
Verner Z. Reed pack at Pinehurst. It covering the distance eacVway. sTnd- | marked by a beautiful monmument ] ameRICAN^ROY^^^ CMI-
was the most successful season, from j hill rail traffic this year has been ' erected by the women of America and i p^NION magazine is one of the most
the standpoint of good sport of any 11?etter proportionately than the travel | erected to a woman in j favorable influences a boy between
in the long history of the former ' farther south. 'l America. I could see from my win- ■ ^nd twenty can have. Its stories
erickburg, Va., it seemed to me that
twenty
; dow this lovely spot called “Medita- and articles are a force for good-
i tion Rock” and in Madam Mary’s old wholesome, alive, inspiring.
: age she went daily to pray. This spot ^ million or so boys who lea
1 J 1 1 • this magazme every month consiae.
at that time commanded a lovely view ^ ^heir closets friend. In it they fmd
of the river and it was here she chose the keenest entertainment, adventure.
I to be buried as this place appealed to ^ mystery, athletics, aviation, humor,
to her house and mounted the stone jYiuch. I think every virtue her i everything that delights a hye^viie
son possessed she Vssed on to him.: Ame’-ican boy. Its sports^artid^^^^^^
—MRS. A. A. McKEITHEN.
stopped,
and as I lingered I recalled that up
these very steps, the feet of Wash-
, famous coaches and athletes hel|>
i boys win places on their school team--
i Its professional articles and biojna*
CAMERON BOY WINS , phical sketches aid them in select!^
DISTRICT ORATORY PRIZE ^^rk. Its keenly analy .’-
; cal editorials guide them in
I . ^ ' daily problems.
In the American Legion Oratori- That boy or young man in whu.-
eal Contest of the twelfth district, you are interested would hav^^ ^
I entered a narrow haU and then , which was held in the City Hall, Ham- world of sure reading ^
vals were reached, in North ^ he has let the country make his t ^ oIo^pv w u
Carolina the reconstruction was acquaintance, and he has held , j w i,- ^ ington had walked, and I could see
next thxng to war, and the con-^ his own in the process. The; Washington, the man-than I
sUnt reappearances of the ap- ' youthful senator from North ' anywhere else because I visited knocker is still on the door) and say-
pariti^s of the basic struggle i Carolina does not have to be in- the home of his mother. I lingered ing goodbye to his mother before go-
kept the storm portentous. ^ i troduced any more to any quar-' long hours, for I would go out each ing to become President,
in Kepublican states a certain | ter of the United States. He has cay alone in order that I might lin-
certainty of _pp-; become la part of the show at ger as long as I wished. The home all of a sudden, a spacious living room ; let last^ Friday evening, Andrew Muse
ue to be from ' M the left with a colonial fireplace : Hemphill, of Lmeron School, was de-
lansion, which Colonel Field- m the extreme end. I stayed just as * dared winner, and was presented a tion prices are only $2.00 for on
School, was de- magazine your gift to him.
Spnnfni' woe T • .V ■ ■' Y' ICALICIIIC ciiu. i oi^^eu jusu as ciarea winner, and was presented a tion prices are only $2.00 for one ?’oa-
Senator Morrison was bora ing Lewis, the husband of Betty ! long as I pleased in this room, for it: handsome gold American Legion med- or $3.00 for three vears, Ma.l v"’
states the various phantasms of
I fith his“spe;k and shield inwtsw^gt:;. “sTst:ro7“L9;;e “l^d
militant political 'affiliatioivs. | hands and he has never for a, built for hi's brids
Populism, the Alliance, Bryan ' minute laid them dowTi. He
all came to nje—right here in this | al. Miss Sammie Stewart of Ellerbe poY—youTffS COMPANION^.*^.^^
are preserved by room, ^he great son, George knelt by , school, Richmond County was ' given
runs patiiotism. As I walked up the hill his good mother’s side and gazed into i second prize.
W. Lafayette Blvd., Detroit,
igan.