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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, N(»th Carolina
Friday, September 6, 1946
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NORTH CAROLINA FIRST
IN CREDIT UNIONS
North Carolina leads all other
states as of May 31 in number of
new credit unions formed, ac
cording to D. R. Graham, Cred
it Union Supervisor, Department
of Agriculture, who quoted fig
ures in BRIDGE, official organ
of Credit Union National Asso
ciation.
Graham said that there are
now a total of 180 state-charter
ed credit unions plus 20 which
are Federal-chartered in North
Carolina and that there ai; o\i'i
10,000 active credit unions m the
United States functioning at llie
present time.
Advisor for Women Vets
Don’t Buy or Build Dwelling
Now Housing Authority Warns
Because we are in the midst of as serious a real estate
inflation as this country has even seen, it is folly to buy or
build a home in the present market, according to Miles Co
lean, former Assistant Federal Housing Administrator.
“Don’t build. Don’t buy,’’ Colean declares in an article
in the August issue of House Beautiful magazine, a publica
tion which ordinarily encourages the construction of new^
homes.
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We Have A Variety Of The
choicest blossoms of the season. . bouquets and
corsages. . . ready to fill your order.
Miss Winifred L. Stilwell, recenHy
separated from the WAC's with the rank
of lieutenant colonel, has been named
advisor to General Omar N. Bradley,
Administrator of Veterans' Affairs, on
matters pertainins to women veterans.
Miss Stilwell, vvhose home is in Kansas
City, Kans., served in the Philippines ds
officer-in-charge of the WAC unit
at General MacArthur’s headquarters.
Monroe Reunion
Held at Ben Salem
housing economist. Colean hits
straight from the shoulder in his
advice to prospective home builders
or buyers when he states in the
article:
“It’s strange for a home maga
zine to recommend this. But if it’s
the truth, we should not be afraid
to -say so. No other advice makes
any sense now. Except under the
direst necessity, stay out of the
housing market. You can’t win ex
cept on the rhortest of deals, and
you are almost certain to lose in
the tong run.”
Colean points out that any build
er or buyer in the present market
only adds to the pressure on prices
and-that not only will they lose but
they will be forcing others to lose.
“If you buy or build now, yo"
face the grim outlook of losir''-
dollar value and quantity v
he declares.- “Not only will you
yourself lose, but you will be help
ing others to lose, too, for every
buyer added to today’s prices adds'
to the pressure on prices. Hole in
where you are, if you possible can,
till the storm sweeps by.
“This is hard advice to take after
four or five years of waiting and
planning. It is particularly hard
advice after the fair prospects w«
could glimpse a year and even
less than a year ago. But the dis
couraging fact is now plain: we
are in the midst of as serious a real
estate inflation as the country has
seen.
“Inflation—dangerous inflation—
is here now. Watch, look, and stop.
There is an old saying, ‘To the
starving man all bread is good.’ To-
•^iay’s building bread is bad. Be sure
at you are starving before you
■ it.”
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SHIELD
younrAHHLy,
CRITICAL
YEARS n
After a lapse of four years, due
to war conditions, the Monroe
reunion was held at Ben Salem
Church Sept. 1, 1946. At eleven
o’clock the church and class
rooms were filled to capacity for
the preaching service conducted
by the pastor, Mr. McBath. After
the sermon, the servicemen and
women present were recognized
and the congregation stood in a
moment of silent prayer in mem
ory of those who made the su
preme sacrifice.
Immediately following the ser
vice, Fred B. Monroe, president,
called the organization into a
business session. Mrs. C. V. Rich
ardson, secretary, read the min
utes of last meeting and gave a
financial report, after which the
following officers were elected;
Guy Monroe, Hamlet, presi
dent; Ernest Monroe, Star, vice-
president; Blanche Monroe, West
End, secretary-treasurer.
Mrs. Guy Monroe gave some
interesting facts about the Mon
ro Coat of Arms, the motto of
which is “Dread God.”
Upon adjournment, the assem
blage gathered under the an
cient oaks for a picnic dinner.
Around the long loaded table,
clansmen, friends and neighbors
enjoyed a rare period of fellow
ship, renewing old acquaintances
and making new ones.
As goodbyes were said and
we departed from the old church
grounds it was with a feeling
that it was good to have been
there.
By ELEANOR MITCHEL
(Eleanor Mitchel is on vacation.
Anne Winslow, ex-WAC officer
who served in England, Prance &
Germany, is writing this week s
(column.)
The salary of members of the
British Parliament was recently
raised from 600 pounds to 1000
pounds (about $4,000) per year.
Arqerican Congressmen receive
$10,000.
Membership in North Carolina
erdeit unions now totals 40,000
with total resources listed as ap
proximately $4,000,000. The larg
est union is that of the State Em
ployees in Raleigh with resources
of $1,400,000.
New York . . . Painters, plas
terers, carpenters and electricians
are hard at work transforming
the building of the City of New
York in the Worlds Fair grounds
and the Sperry plant at Lake
Success into headquarters of the
United Nations. They are doing a
good job as I found out when I
went to get a first hand preview.
Under escort of very helpful
guides I clambered over and
around piles c- lumber, bricks
and colossal lighting fixtures. _
The big Assembly chamber in
Flushing Meadows seats 1500 peo
ple—delegates on thp floor, press
and public in a balcony. Around
the sides are the booths for radio,
television and press photogra
phers. The back wall is a deep
maroon red—the sides a pale sal
mon. and in front is a great map
of the world with the North Pole
in the center copied from the
emblem of the United Nations.
The lighting gives the effect of
warm sunlight. The day before 1
went out there, somel-ody had
apparently satisfied the ambition
of a lifetime. A loud booming
voice was heard from the cham
ber. Investigation revealed an
agitated little man addressing the
empty room in accents that re
minded his hearers of Adolf
Hitler. In addition to the Assem
bly chamber, the building houses
quantities of offices, a delegates’
lounge and dining room, press
rooms and a big cafeteria.
Despite the size of the building,
there is a feeling of quiet effi
ciency and intimacy. Incidentally,
the flags,of the 51 nations stand
on the exact site of the Trylon
and Perisphere of Worlds Fair
days.
The Sperry plant, which is
some distance from Flushing
Meadows, will house the Secre
tariat. the Economic and Social
Council, the Security Council, the
Atomic Energy Commission and
other commissions and commit
tees. Here, at last, the United
Nations should be able to settle
down with reasonable comfort
and convenience until its move
to the permanent site some years
hence. The moving, by the way,
is being done for $1.00 through
the courtesy of James O’Neill
president of the Lincoln Ware
house Corporation and a firm be
liever in the United Nations.
ALSO . . . Clark Eichelberger,
Director of the American Asso
ciation for the United Nations,
has just returned from two weeks
in Europe attending the meeting
of the World Federation of
United Nations Associations in
Luxembourg and looking in on
the Paris Peace Conference. As
he stepped casually off the plane
he remarked, “The flying time is
almost the same as to the West
Coast.”
For the first time since the war
the United Nations Associations,
formerly the League of Nations
Associations, met to reorganize
themselves into a World Federa
tion. Representatives of 24 coun
tries met in the little Duchy of
Luxembourg, a country of 240.-
000 inhabitants and the site of
the most powerful radio statipn
in Europe, first used by the Ger
mans and later by the Allies. The
striking features of the Federa
tion meeting, according to Mr.
Eichelberger, were the youth of
the delegates and the harmony
of the discussions. Almost all rep
resentatives had either been in
the resistance or the armed forces.
In these meetings there was no
sense of an Eastern bloc and a
Western bloc. These people knew
all too well the suffering of war
qnd were eager to make a peace
that was intelligent and endur
ing. Scarcity of radios, shortage
of paper and lack of funds to pay
news services has'ereated all over
Europe a desperate need for the
kind of information about the
United Nations which we take so
much for granted. Mr. Eichel
berger was able to bring them the
welcome news that the United
Nations will give a free set of all
its publications to each Associa
tion.
The Federation met in the
Chamber of Deputies of the Gov
ernment of Luxembourg. There
were interpreters, agendas, mim
eographed documents and all the
accessories of a smoothly run
conference. But, in this case, most
of these services were supplied
by a group of volunteers who
had come from all over at their
own expense. Jan Masaryk of
Czechoslovakia was elected as the
first president along with four
honorary presidents, including
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In the village of Ham, three
miles from the city of Luxem
bourg, the American delegation
paid their respects to the 9,000
American dead buried in the
cemetery. There lies General Pat
ton between an Unknown Soldier
and a Polish boy from New York.
. . . Next week I’ll tell you some
thing about Mr. Eichelberger’s
impressions of the Peace Confer
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THANK
The Southern Pines Veterans’ Organizations and the Advisory Committee of Interest
ed Citizens wish to express their thanks to the people of Southern Pines for their whole
hearted support in securing funds for the erection of the steel fence around the Southern
Pines Athletic Park.
The drive was a success and after all the bills for posters, newspaper advertising and
other expenses are paid, along with the steel fence, the balanc will remain in the Veterans’
Athletic Fund to be used toward any further development of the Athletic Park.
We wish to especially express our thanks to the Teen-Agers for their grand coopera
tion in makingjout of town ticket trips and conducting a house to house canvass in Southern
Pines.
Lennox Forsyth,chairman
Robert Henderson, treasurer
Veterans Athletic Fund