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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Frtdny, June 6. 1941.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Inroiporated,
Southern Fines, N. C.
JA.MKS BOVD, Publisher
NKI>iO.V C. HYUE, i:dltor
DAN S. RAY, Manaser
<’HAKU';s .>L\CAI LEY, Advertlslns
Btlrn K. Butler. Virginia Cr«l, Besnie
Cameton Smith. Charles CuUinxtord,
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SubM-rlption Rates;
One Year $2.0(i
Six Months $1.00
Three Months 50
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The United Service Organiza
tions is a merger, tor war work
only, of the Y. M. C. A., the Na
tional Catholic Community Ser
vice, the Salvation Army, the
Jewish Welfare Board and the
National Travelers Aid Associa
tion.
In the last World War, each of
these organizations solicited
funds and ran its own program
independently of the others. In
order to avoid this duplication of
effort, overlapping of activities!
and unnecesfsary expense, these!
organizations, through their
leaders, have joined their efforts
for all war and defense activities
in the United Service Organiza
tions. This will mean greater ef
ficiency, better results and much
less expense.
The Army and Navy are re
sponsible for our bovs while thev
are on dutv or in the camps and Selective Ser^-ice
reservations, but when they physical detects and
leave for week-ends and visit the P^^y^'caiiy sub-par youths
nearby communities, the Govern- siven an oppoitunity to im-
ment does not and cannot assume, Physical
any responsibility for them. Jlost '^ceiving expenenc
of our boys are stationed in
camps adjacent to small com
munities, which, in themselves,
are unable to provide proper rec
reational facilities. It has been
thoroughly demonstrated that
the great majority of boys in the
service look for and gladly wel
come decent amusement and
clean recreation. If, however,
this is not available, they will be
amused and accept whatever
kind is at hand, which, of course,
is of the indecent and sullied
sort.
The United Service Organiza
tions is determined to see that,
through properly run clubs, in
sufficient number, in communi-
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(’addell Awarded $1,000
by Superior Court
County To Benefit Financially
From Selective Service Act.
—Grand Jury Report
Flight Injured In
Auto Collision
Youths of Moore county who are re
condition while
for jobs in vi
tal defense industries in the National
Youth Administration's new center
at Durham, which will be opened
June 16.
The Durham camp will be the first
nf its t>T3e in the United States for
the rehabilitation of men rejected by
Selective Service Boards for physical
reasons. Applications for enrollment
in the D-jrhair. camp are aeing ac
cepted through the >.TA office at
Carthage.
.Mary Jo Williams. l()-Mon(hs-
Old. of Vass, I’nscratched In
Wreck Near Jack.><«n Springs
The registration for selective ser
vice is expected to result indirectly in
the turning of a sizeable amount of
tax revenue into the county coffers,
according to information contained in
the Grand Jury's report to Judge Zeb
y. Nettles, who presided over a term
of criminal court in Moore county
last week and who is on the l>ench
for this week’s civil terra.
The Grand Jury had previously or
dered that the tax list be compared
with the selective service roll, and the
body reported that the check-up re
vealed a number of citizens who had
not listed their taxes. The list of
names was turned over to the Court
for further orders.
The Grand Jury recommended that
all jurors be paid a minimum of $3
per day for their service, this In ad-
Alltion to the present mileage sche
dule in effect.
The county institutions were found
in good condition. A few minor re
pairs to the interior and exterior of
the court house were recom mended,
but the building was found to be
much cleaner than when examined be
fore.
Six bu.s replacements were recom
mended in the January report, and
the Superintendent of Education told
the Grand Jury that this would be
taken care of before the next school
I term. Repairs to buses are being
i made rapidly, and storage space is
being provided for the 20 buses that
heretofore have been allowed to re
main outside dunng the summer, it
was reported.
Since the time that the Wright
brothers made their first successful
flight, the airplane industry in the
United States has built about 60.000
planes of all types. The present de
fense program, by contrast, calls for
ties adjacent to camp areas, our completion of 40,coo planes by the
boys are offered clean, decent eighteen months.
and wholesome recreational fa-1
cilities and religious atmos- incomes of JiO.OOO and over, if
pheres. These service organiza- taken entirely for taxes, would pay
tions are determined that the costs of government for only
boys shall return to their homes about two months.
in p good or better moral con-
dition than they .were when they The United states, with only 6 per
came into^the service. Every cit-; cent of the world's population, has
izen in North Carolina should nearly 19,500.000 telephones, or about
have a part in this great under- half of all those in existence. And a
taking. No one is too busy to telephone in New York City will reach
lend a hand to the safeguarding 93 per cent of all the rest of the
of the future of his or his neigh- phones in the world,
bors’ boys. Nothing can be more
heartening to the boys in the
•service than to know that our
citizenship is squarely and en
thusiastically behind them. Noth
ing can cement our citizenship
together better than a concerted
effort of this sort to show the
dictators that we are as
against them.
Ten-months-old Maiy Jo Williams
of Vas.s was unscratched in an auto
mobile accident in which her father,
C. H. Williams, driver of the car, her
mother, grandmother, three uncles
and an aunt were injured Saturday
night about 10:30 o'clock as they were
returning fiom Rockingham. Their
car collided with one occupied by two
Negro men. Bowden brothers of Nor
man, about six miles from Jackson
Springs.
The injured are Mr. Williams, one
leg broken in two places, chest crush
ed and back injured; Mrs. Williams,
minor abtasions on face and legs;
her mother, Mrs. M. G. Cooper, dis
located hip; Wade Cooper, 18, cuts
on face and neck that required 25
stitches; Thelma Cooper, 15, broken
,leg; George Cooper, H, fractured
arm; Tom Coper, 9, foot injury. They
I weie taken to the Mocre County Hos-
‘ pital.
! All except Mr. Williams. Mrs Coop-
I er and Thelma Cooper were able to
leave the hospital after having their
wounds dres.sed, Mr. Williams is the
most seriously injured of the group.
One of the colored men had his
f.ead crushed and teeth knocked out.
He was carried to the Hamlet Hospi-
, tal and his "brother was lodged in the
I Richmond county jail.
M. G. Cooper, husband and father
I of the wre';n. victims, was fatally in-
' jured in a wreck just before last
I Christmas.
BAR\\(K)I) HOI SK SOLD
TO «F.OR<iE T. .M'KIJ)ERK^
I A transaction of interest to the
j people of Southern Pines and its vi-
Icinity was consummated through the
I agency of A. S. Newcomb Realty last
iweek whereby Mr. and Mrs. George
It. M'Elderry became the owTiers of
I the former Barwood property jit 45
East Connecticut avenue.
Built by the late Rev. Dr. M. A.
Brownson and occupied by him un
til the time of his death, this attrac
tive home was bought some three
Editor, The Pilot:
You may recall a poem by Rob
ert Browning entitled ‘A Grammar
ian's Funeral." . . . Well, a member,
anonymous so far, of the Southern
Pines Library has been making a
practice of noting, in pencil, in the
text of books belonging to the Li
brary his, or her, preference In the
use of ccrtaln words and construc
tions when such preference differs
from that of the book’s author.
These pencil marks resemble correc
tions made in proof and are mostly
directed at the use of "neither . . .
nor”, "not . . . nor," and the pro
noun 'me" as the object of the verb
"to be." Although in many Instances
they are. In point of strict grammar,
right, they are, at the same time,
wrong in "coiTecting" what the au
thor intends as colloquial speech or
what has been sanctioned by usage.
And they are always in error in
changing "or" to "nor'' when the
verb Ts resoolved and the auxiliary
serves both clauses: e. g., "He neith
er moves nor speaks," which of
course is correct, beconi?s. with the
verb resolved. “He does not move or
speak." (See "Nor" In Fowler's Mod
ern Engli.sh Usage.)
In any case, otner readers have
been annoyed, in varying degrees, by
these “corrections," and the officers
and trustees of the Library would re
quest, through the courtesy of The
Pilot, that our grammarian, when at
odds with hi.s author, refrain from
'narking him up.
—ALMET JENKS.
President, Southern Pines
Library Association.
yeaf's ago by Leon J. Barwood. fiom
whose estate, represented here by At
torney W. Duncan Matthews. It was
purchased by the M'KTderrys.
As recently announced in The Pilot,
Mr M'Elderry has just been made Sup
erintendent of the Eastern division of
the Carolina Power and Light Com
pany with offices here.
Upon completion of extensive reno
vations and improvements of house
and grounds. Mr. and Mrs. M'Elderry,
who have lived in Hamlet the past
four years, will move into their new
home to become permanent residents
of Southern PineS.
Suit Againsl (’ameron Men Out
come of Death Caused by
Truck Wreck
JvKlgment in the amount of $1,000
was awarded Thonia.s L. Caddell, ad-
mini.Htrntor of Clarence Caddell,
against A. P. Phillips, J. A. Phillips
and L. B. McKelthen of Cameron
in Moore county Superior Court last
week in a suit arising from the death
of Clarence Caddell In a truck wreck
at Acme .several months ago.
Young Caddell was a helper on a
truck upon which fertilizer was haul
ed and was, according to the allega
tions, asleep on the truck when Joe
White, the driver, carelessly drove It
again.<<t the side of a bridge. The
tinck exploded and burned up, the
plaintiff alleged, and Clarence Cad
dell was so badly burned that he died
about eight, dnys later.
In the case of C. G. Cummings
versus B. L. Cooper, Elder Motor
Company and Kate C. Cujnmings,
the plaintiff is to recover of B. L.
Cooper the sum of $.50 with Interest
from October 2, 1939, $136 with in
terest from February 7, 1940 and $7
with interest from October 2 1939.
He w-as declared the owner of th«
mule described in a chattel mort
gage.
By con.sent, J. Vance Rowe was
appointed as a referee to hear the
evidence of the plaintiffs .ind de
fendants in a case entitled County
of Moore, J. W. Davis and wife, J.
H. Scott, administrator c. t. a. ver
sus E. J. Harrington et als. and ex.
rel of Mrs. Clara Nall Phillips, and
report to the court the amount due,
if anything, to Clara Nall Phillip.<i
under the provisions of her grand
father's will.
In the case of Moore Central Rail
way Co., versus Maryland Casualty
Companv and Roy Butner, by consent
it was adjudged that the plaintiff re
cover of the Maryland Casualty Com
pany the sum of $1,000 with interest.
Charred animals, birds, and nests
are part of the fearful toll of for
est fires. More than nine out of ten
fires in North Carolina are caused
by human carelessness. Every citizen
is the loser when fires sweep through
our woodlands.
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THE MEDICAL
ISSUE
On Friday, April 4. a Feder
al Grand Jury in Washington, D.
C., found the American Medical
Association guilty of “a crim
inal conspiracy to restrain
trade.” The decision has been ap
pealed, and it is estimated that
at least two years will pass be
fore the final word is said by the
Supreme Court. In the mean
time, ever>’ citizen is vitally con
cerned with the issues at stake.
The principal issue is simply
this: The right of physicians to
control and influence the qualifi
cations of hospital staffs, and to
determine education and ethical
standards for the rendering of
medical care. That is a matter
which has to do with the health
and physical well-being of us all.
Here in the United States, the
quality of medical care has
reached a level unequaled any
where else in the world. Here in
the United States, the average
doctor is far better qualified to
treat the sick, than his counter
part in any other country. Here
in the United States, the finest
type of medical care is available
In eleven months' time since the de
fense program first got under way,
■Vmerican industry's output increased
24 per cent. This is a larger increase
in productive output than during any
ether similar period in our manufac
turing history. ,
From Other Papers
to rich and poor alike. Here in
the United States, a.stounding
progress has been made by the
medical fraternity in fighting
the great scourges of mankind.
That has ben the product of
the American medical system. It
is a .system whereby the medi
cal fraternity itself has had the
basic right to control the train
ing of internes, to establish
standards of qualifications, and
to see to it that the men who
staff hf.pitals are able to prop
erly care for the patients that
come to them.
Those rights have ben consid
ered essential to the safeguard
ing of the public.
Is the medical profession to be
forced to discard systems of
ethics, codes of conduct, and
standards of qualifications which
have g'rown through the years in
response to public need? That is
the grave question which this
case raises.
BEST OF lA’CK
About the biggest ne\s-s breaking
in Southern Pines is a mighty long
while is the announcement that
James Boyd, the novelist, has active
ly identified himself with that com
munity by purchasing controlling in
terest in The Pilot, our esteemed
weekly contemporary. Mr. Boyd is a
national figure whos.’ voice com
mands weight and attention. Thous
ands all over the nation will watch
his publishing venture with an in
terest that followed the late Sher
wood Anderson's operation of a Vir
ginia weekly. It will be advertising
for Southern Pines that monf*y will
not buy. It is our guess, too, that the
entire county will enjoy a zesty, di
verting editorial page under Mr.
Boyd's direction.
While congratulating Southern
Pines on Its new publisher, It is
really a pleasure to know that Mr.
Nelson C. Hyde will continue his con
nection with the paper. We wish
both Mr. Boyd and Mr. Hyde the best
of luck In their team-up.
—Moore County News, Carthage
FOR BARGAINS
FURNITURE
See Alton D. McLean
Opposite Hotel Aberdeen
VAS8 STORE BUROLARIZED
j Vass had its first breaking and en-
1 tering, or it might have been a break
ing and fishing, Friday night when
soan«one broke a glass in a display
window of Stutta-Taylor's store and
removed a small quantity of wearing
api>arel. The_ would-be dresser-up]>er
left no clue as to his identity.
To work your best
... pause and
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When you're hard at work on the job, ease up
a moment and give yourself a break. Enjoy
the pause that makes for better work,— a re
freshing pause for ice-cold Coca-Cola. Its clean
taste pleases... and a refreshed feeling fol-
lows. So when you pause throughout the day,
make it Ifte pouse that reiFresfies with ice-coM
Coca-Cola.
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COCA^OLA BOTiUNG COMPANY, ABERDEEN, N- O