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Two THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Soathem Pines, N. O. THE PILOT, S^thcrn Pines, North Carolina Friday, October 25, IMO. NEl^SON C. HYDE Editor DAN 8. RAY General Manairer CHARLES MACAULEY Advertising; Manager Helen K. Rutler, Virginia Creel. Bessie Cameron Smith. Charlen Cullingford, ABAociateii. * Sabscrlptlon Rates; One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mall matter. THE POCKETBOOK 0/KNOWLEDGE 4^. THE SITUATION IN THE FAR EAST Many an American who has been watcfhinfir Europe during the past year has had his atten- 1(ion suddenly diverted to the Far Ea.st. At the present time, the action there, so far a.s we are concerned, is of a diplomat ic and not a military chaiac- ter. But. in the opinion of many an authority, the question of whether this country is to re main at peace or go to war will be answered in that vast Orien tal land that lies some 6,000 miles away from our Pacific Coast. We now have a very different XHt Blue MMur, DURIN* tMt rnuoooFrrt MO*T IW1P AWy NCKCAfC n» \MMHTM mcHAf£S>fS!^tf4niy THf coHCRrre USEP EECEHTLV IN •IN6lf AMERiCAN STAtlW SU«R-H\6«WAV WOUID HKVC BUILT fiVKAMDS M iAUGfASTf/f fmonoNtofoieops •m u.«. mooncM MOW nscmic POWER'nAN-Mi MnrT9 axM/rtfies TMF tUMtP COttfMBd They UOfA' -meeTHen. coo MANUFJKTtMIN* coMOMvr Mhcfss tmt soio 70 7MM «.9»«LOOO fmmte Gniii of Sind Tomorrow, Saturday, is your last opportunity to reg^ister for the gen- ■ral election on November 5th. Keg. 'ster—and vote. LITTLE FLOWER OIRL HAS FIVE ON HORNO ROLL The regular meeting of the Little Flower Guild was held last Friday with the largest attendance since the Guild's organization. There was but one member absent, unavoidably so [ because of illness. Three new mem. Old friends are drifting into mill-Ibers have joined: Ann Seawell, Jean of 90 or above have been posted on the Honor Roll and are, in the followinf order: Mary lllona Willianu, Hetoni Maloney, Geraldine Maloney, Jan* Maloney and Mary O Callaghan. tary service. News comes that the Sadler and Mary Ruth Spring. Rev. L. M. Hall, former pastor of the Page Memorial Methodist Church in Aberdeen, is now a chaplain at Fort Bragg. He is pastor of a church in Dunn. Our esteemed contemporary, the Sanford Enterprise (colored reports that "Rev. G. W. Harrell was a plea visitor at the omce Wednepday.” We assume that "sant" was left off the "plea” by the typesetter, but mebbe not. We have a lot of plea visitors ut our office, too. You'll have to hurry. The World’s Fair in New York closes Sunday, for good and all. During the business meeting, a re. port was made on the Achievement List, a record of which had been kept since organization six months ago. Grades ha dbeen given for the fol. lowing;—prompt and regular attend ance at meetings; neatness, accuracy and promptness in execution of as. signed problems attendance at Church services, including services designated and those attended volun. tarily; co.operation and participation ! 1r social servicie edivitics of the Guild; performance of duty In office Mf any). Members having a general rating EVELYN EDSON Notary Public Telephone Office N. H. Ave Far Eastern policy than we had a year or two ago. We are tak ing a firm stand with Japan. Our efforts at appeasing her are apparently over. This new policy could have been forecast w'’ien the President appointed Mr. Stimson to the Cabinet. Wheh Mr. Stimson was Secre tary of State under Presi dent Hoover, he tried to effect a joint English-American policy which would have stood square ly in the way of Japanese em-1 hns simply said pire-building in China. The didn’t know. Roosevelt is leading a war party “Miss VaSS-Lakeview” and Mr. Willkie a peace party, | CrOWncd Oct 31 and said that in his opinion this should be the decisive issue of the campaign. It is true that some men supposedly in the know are saying that there is an even chance of us becoming actively involved in war within a few weeks, or by the end of the j-ear at the outside. Navy Secretar>' Knox, on being ques tioned by newsmen concerning that he Twenty High School Studients in Competition, Sponsored by Ix>cal Merchants Enlargement of the Fort Bragg reservation i’l being di.ocussed, and engineers have already surveyed sec. tions of Hoke county around Rae- ford. Parts of Moore are being look, rd over, but the Army can't get much of its contiguous to its present land without coming right into Southern Pines. is over. The State Highway and Public Works Department hasn't de. rided yet where to locate the straight, ened road (U. S. 1) between South ern Pines and Aberdeen, and has no definite plan for an improved road betveen here and Fort Bragg. PERSONAL John — your wife hat Icirncd lh« truth I 8lie’g foun<l out it'H easy to bake all kiniig of caki'x and hotbrwuiB ptTfiftly every time—even thoujfli dhe’s never trieil the nvip<' Ix-fore. Wlmt Bhe’g found in Hunifonl Hakiii); Powder! For with Runifoni you can use any gdixl without worrying about how much bakini; powder to use. Tlie amount tlie dirootions call fur is Uie right amount to ui«> of Unniford. Send for a FRKK rpt'iiK' l)OOk. AdilnnH: Kiim- ford Kukinfi; I’owiler, Box C, Kumford, Kliodc iBlanii. The dentists played golf here Sat. urday morning and the greenskeep- er gays he found quite a few cavities in the course. English, however, refused to come in, and the effort failed. There are many conflcting ar guments as to whether our cur rent policy is right or wrong, necessary or foolish. Those who support it say that if we give Japan an inch she will demand many a mile—that every con cession made her simply paves the way for new and stronger demands in the future. And, with England at war in Europe, we possess the only check rein that can be used against Japanese ambitions to dominate and con trol all Asia, and thus to estab lish herself as a world power equal or superior to the United States and Britain. Further more, they argue that we have an economic stranglehold over Japan—that if we refuse to buy from her and sell to her she wiil no longer be able to obtain the resources that are necessary to building an empire. And lastly, they quote naval authorities who have testified that if war comes, and fleet is pitted against fleet, we can wipe out Japan’s navy in a matter of months. On the other side are those who argue that we have no bus iness in the Far East. Our in vestments there are compara tively small and belong primar ily to a few very large indus tries. The Philippines are, in the view of some, practically in defensible, and should be aban doned, along with Guam and other lesser outposts. So far as the n?tural resources of the Dutch East Indies are concern ed, they say, we can use substi tutes or find and develop other resources nearer at home. Last ly, they believe that we cannot afford the gamble that a war with Japan would entail—it would mean that our naval pow er would be concentrated in the Pacific, almost half a world away from our shores, thus leaving the Atlantic coast unde fended and open to attack from Europe if England collapsed. Whether this will become a telling political issue in the short time remaining before election is still another factor. Mr. Willkie, like Mr. Roosevelt, is in favor of helping China and combating Japan. But, going by his speeches, he feels that this can be done without taking a chance on involving ourselves in a war which we might lose— and which would be immensely expensive, in both dollars and materials, even if we won. Hugh Johnson, one of the leading col umnists, recently wrote that Mr. At any rate, v(s ajre today working hand in hand with Eng- “The soldiers has captured the 1 town,” Lila reported when she came I to work early Monday morning. It I looked that way, with the boys in Twenty high school students, spon.over the plane and army sored by business men of their com-, trucks lining most of the downtown munity, are competing for the title! streets. of 'Miss Vass.Lakeview," and the! They weren't advertising a movie though they might have been. They were "The Boys from Syracuse,” an artillery battalion of the New York ' National Guard, bound south for maneuvers. lucky girl will be crowned with due ceremony at the big hallowe’en car. nival to be staged at the Vass.Lake. View school on Thursday night of next week, October 31. The committee in charge of this 'and in the Far East. It is felt feature of the carnival is delighted certain that Britain will throw {with the cooperation given by the open her great naval base at business men in sponsoring the girl? Singapore to American fighting j Mrs. Gladstone is getting up a one, shins if we ask it—whoever con-1 act play which will b« another high, trols Singapore controls India flight of the evening's fun, and there and the far-flung life line of the win be fortune telling, sideshows and Empire. Japanese statesmen ^ other attractions too spooky to men- ^Pve said that they would con- Uon. The doors will open at 7:30 Plder American use of the o’clock and there will not be a dull *^ingapore base a declaration of moment, the committee promises. war. and that Nippon would j__ ■fight to prevent it. However, of.pg^dent Democratic paper, which is late. Japanese official declara- Wiiikie? We wonder lions have been more moderatesong Mr. Flynn would be 3ing- in tone, and some think that i^g if the American press was united Japan may be slowly backing, support of Mr. Roosevelt. down. . . .1 Boss Flynn yesterday was merely One thing is almost certain— echoing the New Deal drive to stifie a free press in America. The death i I District Engineer Fred Underwood says nothing will be done in road work here until the winter season Be Comfortable THIS WINTER Let us give you an estimate on installing an Automatic Esso Oil Burner. Sold, guar anteed and fueled by the makers of Esso gasoline. L. V. O’CALLAGHAN PL.VMBINO AND HEATING CONTRACTOR relephoiie SS41 Southern Plnei we are closer to war now than at any time since 1916. We can t press is “on order"; its de. actively to war iri Europe, for Jiygry jg scheduled after November 5 obvious geographical and strate gical reasons. So if we do fight, 't will be in the East. And, if if Mr. Rosevelt is reelected. At this time, we cannot help but think of that newspaper, printed not that happened, we would be au- „ , , „ .. tomaticallv at war with: Gen-i^ manv and Italy, under the terms ocratic pre.sidentiai nominee since 3878. Prior to and after the Republi can convention at Philadelphia it of the recent Axis agreement Then a new W'orld War, far greater in extent and purpose ” , •• ^han the first, would at last underwav. The armor-clad fig- "re of Mars would shadow all the earth. REE PRESS THREATENED Wendell Willkie this year. Not many weelcs later, federal agents swooped down upon that newspaper, and pulled it into court. Coincidence? Give the New Deal the benefit of any doubt, and say "yes." But who can be criticized for raising an eyebrow; e.specially so “The death of a free press is ^ ^ order: its deliver.v is sche-Inewspaper was the only duled after November 5 if Mr Roosevelt is re-elected.” So says the Low“Il, Mass. Sun tjmgjy attacked, in an editorial October 17th ti-' one in all New ETngland, and one of the comparatively few in the nation, <led: “Boss Flynn on Newspap-' '^rs.” We quote: Yes, indeed, Mr. Flynn was talking I the language of the New Deal yester, day. The type of attack on the press Boss Ed Flynn of the Bronx, the j which he used was much the same man Mr. Roosevelt picked to replace as that trumped up by Hitler ana •Tames A. Farley after Big Jim and Mussolini before they abolished a free been purged at Chicago, forgot about press in Germany and Italy. It is Willkie long enough yesterday to predicated on the theory of "Rule or level a broadside at the newspapers Ruin Dictate or Destroy." r>f the land. j dictator can be satisfactorily Boss Flynn said that the news. _ entrenched as long as a free prest* oapers of the country are under a | exists in his naUon. The death kneel real dictatorship, a financial dicta, of freedom of speech and assembly torship of their advertisers I chal- I3 not a difficult thing to accomplish lenge them to print this," he added, after a free press is killed. Probably every newspaper in the| And if the free press of America Is »and printed that statement. It was „ot throttled in the manne.- now •printed on the front page of this planned, it will be done via the war newspaper. As has frequently been ^oute and censorship. ‘he case lately, the Bo.ss of the j This election is no mere contost be. Bronx was talking through his hat. tween two political parties Thi.« Mr. Flynn hastened to add, how. election has no precedent in all ■ver. that advertisers do not do as American history. In this campaign much dictating to Democratic papers dictatorship and freedom are lockcd as they do to Republican papers. | In a death struggle. In what class would Mr. Flynn it is also the last ditch stand tc "•lace a Democratic paper, an Inde. maintain peace In the United States EMMETT E. BOONE takes pleasure in announcing the opening FOR THE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR of THE PINE NEEDLES . Southern Pines, N. C. Saturday, November the second nineteen forty
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