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THE PILOT, Southern Pines. North Carolina
Friday, March 15, 1946
THE PILOT
PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY
THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
SOUTHER!^ PINES, NORTH CAROLINA
1941
JAMES BOYD
Publisher
1944
KATHARINE BOYD .... EDITOR
DAN S. RAY .... GENERAL MANAOER
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THE OLD SHAW PLACE
There are two very fine books
in existance giving the history
and showing photographs of old
North Carolina homes. It is sig
nificant that in those books there
is not one house mentioned rep
resentative of the early Scottish
settlers of Moore County. There
are a few log cabins and there are
a great many fine town houses,
and a few fine country ones, but
there is no example of the sturdy,
well-built, gracefully proportion
ed house of these parts.
There are of course not many
of them still in existance, but
there is one right at the edge of
Southern Pines, and it is this
house which was the subject of
the interesting meeting last
week.
The Old Shaw Place stands at
the southern end of town, be
hind towering sycamores and
a few old cedars, ivy twines over
it and honeysuckle nearly
smothers it and, in the summer,
old-fashioned rose bushes bloom
in the yard. Inside, the wide pine
boards are mellow and the small
rooms are graced by two lovely
carved pine mantles. Many peo
ple, well-known in these parts,
lived there or played in the yard
as children, or some of their kin
did. The Shaw and Ray families
know it best for it was home to
many of them, but to the Buch
ans, McKeithens, Blues, Camer
ons, Campbells and other Scots
families of Moore County, it is an
old friend.
The idea of buying this old
house and restoring it and pre
serving it is a stirring one. It
should appeal strongly to those
who have {he history of this
county in their blood, and to all
who are proud of America’s past
and Moore County’s past. It
should appeal, as well, to all
who are lovers of old things; col
lectors, historians. There is an
opportunity, here, to recreate
something beautiful and fine and 1 world today,
of enduring value. It will be an!
attraction to visitors, but, much!
more important, it will be an in
spiration to all who call Moore
County home.
policy, at the suggestion of
Churchill, our government has
dealt the internationalists a mean
wallop. For though this attitude
may work now, so long as we
have the bomb and Russia, pre
sumably, hasn’t, what will hap
pen afterwards? Supposing that
Russia quits threatening all these
places for a time and that UNO
has a chance to really start func
tioning; what will happen? We
must not forget that, so far, UNO
has headed more and more to
ward being a Britisn-American
block aimed against Russia. It
may be Russia’s fault that this
is so, but there has been little,
thus far, to make Russia feel
comfortable in UNO. She has
been consistently outvoted, with
Britain and America lining up
against her, time after time. We
have the bomb; Russia has not;
the British and American Joint
Chiefs of Staff have never been
disbanded. Many will say: thank
God, they haven’t. Yes; perhaps
but if we were Russians how
would we feel about it? How
would we feel about UNO’s truly
international character?
There is one thing that would
do more th^ anything else to
help in the present disastrous
state of affairs. That is, if Britain
would make one single slight ges
ture toward giving up one of
the many key-points which she
holds. If she would suggest the
internationalizing of Malta, or-
Gibralter, the Suez Canal, or even
Hong Kong; if she would offer to
turn one of these strategic points
over to UNO, a way m.ight be
ppened to peace.
For this, surely, >s the way to
ward unity: To take the strategic
bases of the world, includ.ing, of
course, the Dardenelles, the Pan
ama Canal, the Pacific bases, out
of the hands of individual na
tions; and put them into the
hands of the overall, world or
ganization.
The sending of warships may
work a ’ temporary settlement,
but until we convince our medi-
evil and suspicious team-mates
that we are not so medieval as
they and that there is something
behind the guns on those war
ships than a desire to reinforce
the status quo, to keep commun
ism in its place and save the
British empire, the truce will on
ly be temporary.
We must keep before our eyes
and the eyes of the world our be
lief in the possibility of world
government through UNO. This
is our only hope. Russia’s goal,
the communism of the world, is
an idea; to fight an idea you
need another, greater idea. Peace
with justice and freedom is that
idea. And it is that, instead of
services. But when you turn on’
god’s true word, you don’t get
no services.
S6 the confusion of the nations
today, comes because of disobe-
diance. Because people will not
submit thereselves to the STAN
DARD OF GOD’S WORD.
(Signed) Bro. McLairi
preacher for 25 Yrs.)
(A
Oyez! Oyez!
(Day In Court)
Every Monday at . nine-thirty
the Courthouse bell in Carthage
tolls deep-throatedly and late
comers drift in through the big
swinging doors, taking seats with
those already seated in the high
ceilinged courtroom.
The law enforcers these last
two Mondays had “light days.’’
The Recordeds Court was sitting
and the majority of cases were'
for drunken driving. But the
other cases covered everything
from pistol pointing to pocketing
another man’s pocketbook.
, Judge J. Vance Rowe presided.
Soon after he comes in from the
back the Court is ordered to
stand. Then follows the age-old
and almost unintelligible ritual
of the Court Clerk calling out:
“Oyez! Oyez! mumble, mumble,
mumble. Be seated!” The Court
has been called to order and is
ready for business.
“WEAVING AND SPEEDING
ning in the air. No one badly
hurt. Two passengers well
shaken—one in truck, one in pas
senger car.
Highlight! of the lengthy and
heated cross-examining came
when farmer Brown’s wife took
the stand. Attorney Boyette, at
tempted to confuse Mrs. Brown
about whether or not Brown
made the proper signal when he
turned. Snapped Mrs. Brown: “I
could see his hand sticking out
there just as plain as I can see
you. Hit was certainly out there,
a-plenty, too!” Then, asked if she
knew whether the rear view mir
ror was working or not, Mrs.
Brown succintly summed the mat
ter up: “I gues it were,” she said.
“Works every time you look in
it.” Asked earlier if she was sit
ting close to Mr. Brown, Mrs.
Brown snortingly replied: “We
don’t often sit so close together
no more.”
Judge Rowe ably sifted the
conflicting testimony with: “I’m
satisfied beyond any doubt Ken
nedy was speeding. But I don’t
know any reason in the world
why a man would try to pass like
that if he saw a hand out.”
Judgment; Kennedy—Guilty.
60 days on Rpad, suspended on
payment of $25 and costs. Brown
—Not C?uilty.
PISTOL POINTER Charlie Mc
Neill ran afoul of some “strange
liquor” that some soldiers had
forced on him. Taxi driver Mc
Neill, from Pinehurst, was up on
two charges. “Operating a ve-
Pete, however, didn’t get out of
the car when he 'got there He
“was too tired.” When he did
get out, his pocketbook was no
longer with him. George Smith,
paU bearer, who rode in the car
with Worthy and Williams, testi
fied to seeing a black pocketbook
lying on back seat as they were
getting out on return from the
funeral and said “Any of you la
dies or gentlemen leave your
pocketbook?” Worthy accept
ed it gracefully saying “Oh
yes,’ thank you a thousand, boy.”
A few seconds later up drove an
other taxi with Williams,
thoroughly revived, wanting to
know had anyone seen his pock
etbook. It was' pointed out
Worthy had picked one up, but
the one Worthy showed as hav
ing picked up was, according to
Smith, tan instead of black. How
“Jellyfish” got into the case your
reporter could never quite make
out, as the action got a little too
rapid for clear note taking. De
fense attorney Johnson came,
like a bolt out of the blue, with
the surprise theory that “Jelly
fish” and George Smith were in
cahoots and had the pocketbook
between them. Judge Rowe side
stepped like a practiced broken-
field runner and bound the case
over to the Superior Court, as the
pocketbook had a claimed $60,
whereas the limit for the Record
ers Court is $50.
And so ended another day.
HOME FROM JAPAN
Capt. Daniel Cornwell will ar
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join Mrs. Cornwell at 'the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph K. Trix
as their guest for several weeks.
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was Officer Kennedy’s des-i^^^^J® influence
cription of, Robert Washburn’s
driving when told by Solicitor
McKeithen to “go ahead and tell
the Court just how you saw him, ^ ^ r, ,
and all about it.” “He come overBu'tler , of
the hill, weaving and speed-1 colored,
ing.” “Did he give you any j Charlie McNeil is a well known
of intoxicating liquors, or narcot
ic drugs.” and carrying on his per
son “a deadly weapon, drawing
same, and threatening to shoot
Southern
trouble at all?” “No, sir. Very
nice.” “Ever been up before that
you know of?” “No, sir.” “All
right.” And that was that—
quick and simple. Net result:
Found guilty as charged. 60 days
on the Road, sentence suspended
upon payment of $50 fine and
Court costs. Driver’s license re
voked for a period of twelve
months.
taxi driver in the Pinehurst-Sou-
thern Pines territory and has evi
dently never run amuck. This
time, his luck quit him dead.
Brown, employed at Resort
Airlines, saw the car ahead of
him zig-za^ing down the road.
He and McNeil were driving up
W. Pennsylvania toward West
Southern Pines. McNeil stopped
and Brown stopped behind him.
AS^ULT AND BATTERY i but McNeil’s car rolled back into
with a deadly weapon, to wit—a bim. They started up and the
plank, was the next case called. thing happened a second
Linnie Ritter had wielded the
plank and done “serious injury
on the body of L. T. Brown,” then
entered a plea of nolo contendere.
Attorney Herb Seawell, for the
defendant, arose and said: “Your
Honor, I believe this is a family
matter. I’ve talked to the son-in-
law. He’s willing to pay every
thing; coming to a total of
WILL IT WORK?
How easily do the Russians
scare: that is, today, the $64.00
question.
In the answer to that question
lies, if we are to believe our po
liticos and writers, the fate of
the world. Yet only last month
marked the beginning of the Uni
ted Nations Organization, the
body upon which, it had been
said, the hope of that same world
rested.
There is no blinking the fact
that the outlook for internation
alism looks very black. When
such an eminent authority as
Walter Lippmann can write some
thousand words on our foreign
policy without once mentioning
UNO, as he did'in his recent
“USS Missouri,” there is ample
excuse for pessimism. Every
thoughtful person must be pro
foundly discouraged over the
present trend.
How inconsistent it is! We have
it hammered into us that the Rus
sian conception of world affairs
is medieval, pre-Tzar, yet, when
Churchill tells us that the Rus
sians only respect force we
promptly take up this medieval
pre-Tzar policy ourselves, and
send the USS Missouri, bearing
the innocuous bogy of the Turk
ish ambassador’s corpse in her
state cabin, to say “Boo!” at the
Kremlin. This is supposed to
strike such terror into Russian
hearts that they will promptly
abandon their territorial ambi
tions and once more subside be
hind their steppes.
While we do this our reporters
plead to he allowed to enter Rus
sia and our statesmen assure her
that we really are entirely
friendly, and just want her to
stop spreading communiorn
around.
around $300.”
the threat of power, which we, states Attorney McKeithen
should be sending around the Lj.ose and stated: “I have talked
jto Mr. Brown. This is agreeable
to him. But he does want some
strict penalty imposed, and sus-
: pended during good behavior, so
I it can be held over Ritter.”
, The Court found him guilty as
charged. Sentence: 60 days on the
Road, suspended in accordance
with agreement between State at
request of prosecuting witness
and defendant upon payment of
$200 to L. T. Brown.” Added was
the catch: “be of good behavior
and not violate the law for two
years.” No planks, no nothin’ .'.
. . for two years.
“JUST GOES CRAZY when
he gets a drink in him” was the
reason given for Negro ex-sailor
The following contribution from
one of our older colored preachers
was brought to The Pilot by his
wife, Rosetta Holman McLean.
We print it, certain that many
of us share the confusion of
which Brother McLean speaks.
There is a great deal of truth and
wisdom in these words, written
simply but with deepest faith.
Dear Editor:
Please find space enough in
your paper, for these remarks.
This comes from West Southern
Pines.
The Negro has religion, he
know everything, he has been ev
erywhere, he is got everything.
But after all, it don’t seem like
that they have sense enough to
live together and treat each other
right.
I was in a city a few days ago,
and me and my wife boarded a
subway train going down town.
Only white peoples were in this
coach, and there was only one
vacant seat, and course I permit
ted my wife to sit down.
And there was one white lady,
that was so full of sympathy,
that she got up and ask me to sit
down and rest my feet.
I am still wondering: when
shall we make a race. A little ed
ucation, and little piece of land.
And some second-handed furni
ture and a second hand car turns
the most of our peoples half
crazy. And_most of the time, they
are living on something that
some dead person worked out be
fore they died.
The nations of the world, now,
is in one of the most tumults that
it never witness before. It time
for everybody to wake up, and
time. Being near a school, with
school children playing outside.
Brown got out and asked McNeil
“you drunk, crazy, or what?”
McNeil <told Brown where he
could go “So I just retched in
and took his glasses off his face.”
This further irked taxi driver
McNeil who felt down on the
floor boards and came up with a
big pistol in hand, said “I ought
to blow you down.” Brown back
ed on off and departed. He came
back with the Law and McNeil
was still there.
Clincher for the defense was
Attorney Seawell’s argument: “I
don’t want to put him (McNeil)
on the stand as he’ll tell the
truth and the Court will find him
guilty.” The Court did—on both
counts. $50 on each, driver’s li
cense revoked, for twelve months,
pistol to be destroyed.
FISH FRY CARRIES ON in
spite of terrific blow—the loss of
ten fifths of Old Quaker that ran
afoul of the Sheriff. The fish fry
was at the “Nub Jones Cabin” at
the head of lake on Jackson
Springs Road, only Old Quaker
never got there. Schenley Black
Jennings Caldwell’s failure to Label did—-at $10 a fifth,
show up at his own trial. And it! J. D. Lee, alias “Dinah”, was
was presumed he still had a toter of the spirits, which he
try to use some good sense, at
jeverything they start. You may
In falling for the "you scaie get up in the morning, and turn
me and, by gum. I’ll scare you ’ on Ihe radiqfc and thjerel, ytou
drink in him. His elderly, ebony,
respectable-looking mother came
in his place, made a much better
impression. Seawell, attorney for
the defendant, said by way of
extenuating circumstances: “He
said he was just plumb drunk
and didn’t know what he was
doing.” State’s attorney Mc
Keithen spiked further plea for
clemency by reading the charges
against ex-sailor Caldwell:
“drunk and disorderly, cursing,
attempting to break and enter,
resisting arrest; . . a multitude of
charges.” When he gets caught
up with his drinking, and the
Court catches up with him, Cald
well will be one sad ex-sailor.
“I DID, TOO, stick out my
hand” said Walter Brown to
James Kennedy, “but I sure
jerked it back when you ran in
to me!” Brown was charged with
failure to give proper hand sig
nal; Kennedy charged with
“driving in a careless and reck
less manner, at a greater rate of
speed than allowed by law.”
Kennedy’s car was going “at
about fifty” when it side-swiped
Mr. Brown’s truck that was
creeping along “at 5 miles per
hour” and making a left turn.
Kennedy’s car caromed off,
bumped over a ditch and turned
over, with all four wheels spin-
claimed he had not bought alone,
but with the eager aid of five
others. These five others included
some too prominent men in the
Sandhills, who must be worrying
and wondering just how much
will now come out; Lee’s case be
ing appealed to the Superior'
Court. The rub comes from the
fact that these bottles, of Old
Quaker left the Pinehurst ABC
store via under-the-counter sales
instead of the regular over-the-
counter method. This is a practice
well known, but until now hard
to prove. The date but not the
price stickers had ben torn off,
pegging the place of sale.
Judge Rowe found Lee “guilty
on all counts. Looks like about 6
months in jail, sentence suspend
ed upon payment of $100 fine and
costs; car in which liquor was
found to be sold at public auction,
unless proof is established that
owner (Lee’s wife) did not know
use to which car . was being put.
“WHERE IS JELLYFISH!”
thundered J. Talbot Johnson, able
defense cotmsel for Herbert
Worthy, colored, of Pinehurst
This came as the climax to the
case where Worthy, defendant^
was accused of picking up and
pocketing the pocketbook of Pete
Williams, who had driven dovm
from Nor^Eolk to attend a funeral.
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