The Pilot salutes a master—Charlie Picquet, 1924

From the Editorial Page of the Nov. 7, 1924 issue of The Pilot, Vass, N.C., Stacy Brewer, Owner.

The close of the Sandhill Fair for this year brought out many a creditable word for Charlie Piquet, for more than ever the folks realize what this energetic and enthusiastic man is doing for his community. 

Picquet is the son of a Pennsylvania preacher and no doubt that is where he gets his missionary aggressiveness. He is likewise a might human sort of a creature, and that accounts for a lot of his cordiality toward everybody. He looks above the ground, for he is not a muckracker, and he sees the people when he is looking up. He likes to do something that will brighten conditions and arouse interest in things not altogether sordid. He likes to shove at his neighbors the clean and wholesome attractions of life, and he puts in a lot of work in doing it.

He is a singer and a leader, and he has interested the Sandhill country in singing, and in doing it he is awakening an agency that is worth attention. He is by instinct a showman, but a showman who wants his offerings to be a stimulus of character and of ambition. He is working in a field that is wholly new, and that has not been bothered by any one else in this section, and he is getting good results. 

Some day Charlie Picquet may drop out of the Sandhill Fair, and out of Sandhill life, and things may go on without him, as they do without any of us when we have finished the work. But it is a dead sure fat that by being in these things Charlie Picquet has hoed a grown man’s row, and hoes it right and clean, and completely. The Pilot salutes a master—Charlie Picquet.