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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Cirolina Friday, September 20, 1946. THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA 1941 JAMES BOYD l^ublisber 1944 KATHARINE BOYD' .... EDITOR OAN s. RAY .... General Manager ^THOMAS G. JOHNSTON. Ass'T EDITOR BERT PREMO . . . ADVERTISING CHARLES MACAULEY . . . CITY EDITOB SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE Y-EAR . . . $3.00 SIX MONTHS .... $1.50 THREE MONTHS 76 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU. THERN Pines. N. C., as second class MAIL MATTER. "ACTIONS SPEAK ..." It is over a year now since we celebrated the end of the war, and some of our returned veter ans are beginning to wonder just what that end meant to them. There hav(e been parades and home-coming celebrations, and there is no doubt of the warmth of the welcome, or of the fam ily love and pride that envelop ed each dear son or husband. The home-towns have gone all out to show their G. I.’s how much it means to them to have them back ... all out, that is, in feel ing and expression, they have set up memorials, decorated anew the honor roll, held glad mass meetings where the leaders of the community have vied with each other to speak their pieces of gratitude and praise. And then . . . what? That is what the G. I.’s are beginning to wonder. Most people have done littje to follow up that spoptaneous burst of feeling. The father welcomes his son back into the business. He has looked forward through three terrible years to his coming. His son was, perhaps, a corporal and then a sergeant during most of those years; perhaps he was an officer. He commanded numbers of men, leading them into danger, or in the successful accomplish ment of difficult technical tasks. He comes home. His father ex pects him to come into the family business, be it a hardware store, a grocery, a garage, or running a farm or a ranch. But does the fa ther take into account the exper ience his son has gained dining the war years? Hoes it occur to him that he might have some new ideas, even some good ideas? Does he realize that the young man’s self-confidence and ambi tion have been so stimulated, his imagination so awakened, that he is on edge to be given a chance to see what he could do, now that he is a free man again? In nine cases out of ten, the answer would be: no. The father of a young man, who was pilot of a B 29 and com mander of his squadron, owns a small hotel. He puts his returned son behind the desk sorting mail and answering the foolish ques tions of the guests. The son had a few ideas of his own but after being told each time he made a suggestion that: “the hotel has al ways been run this way, son, and we seem to have gotten along pretty well,” he up and left for Other parts. His father was deep ly hurt and quite uncomprehend ing. : A man wbo owns a ranch em ployed a young man in a “train- ing-on-the-job” position. He was a returned veteran who had been a captain in the Field Artillery; before that he had graduated from the state university. He wias given the job of driving the car, for two months and nothing else. Nervous, and dissatisfied, he fin ally kicked over the traces and was promptly fired. Thousands of similar cases are daily occurring. On the surface we might say that the older peo ple should not be blamed too much: there is nothing in the job of flying a Fortress that, ipso facto, fits a man to run a business, and also, a great many of our veterans are suffering from war-wearniess and are in no condition to assume positions of responsibility. But that is'not to say that most are, and that thousands are not eagerly await ing their chance. Here is the concrete opportun ity to put into action all this talk about helping the returned GI. Understanding, appreciation of a man’s ability, and a willingness to step aside and give him some rope and scope for his ideas and his talent: this is all the boys ask. It is an unhappy thing, and a sadly wasteful thing, that so often they ask in vain. For it is the experience of far too many returned veterans that their fathers or the men in whose businesses they find a job, have no idea at all of treating them any differently from young men just out of school. And, as for politics, in which almost all ex soldiers show an intense interest, the old machine rolls along as inexorably as ever. There have been, of course, a few exceptions, and they are so few and so sur prising that they made the head lines. The town of Brewster, N. Y. elected an entire slate of re turned veterans; in Athens, vet erans took over a town govern ment at the point of their guns, claiming, and later proving, that the election of the regular ma chine men, which had just taken place, had been crooked. The guns were very regrettable, but the spirit behind them was what will bring our country back on its feet, if it is given half a chance. The government is doing what it can, and more, in some cases than it should, but the individual fathers, heads of businesses, poli ticians, people in positions of re sponsibility are not doing what they could and should. For their own sake, for the boys’ sake, and for the country’s. “It’s ‘Tommy this’ and ‘Tommy that’ and ‘Tommy, run away!’ But it’s thin red band of heroes, when the guns begin to play!” We turn to them when we are in peril, we accept their sacrifice, but when peace comes it’s ‘Tommy, run away I’ We must stop treating these ex-fighting men as children, to be welcomed, praised, loved, seen, and then never heard. We must put our welcoming speeches into action: action to give them good jobs, action to build them homes to live iii, action that will include them in the working life of our country. “We look to you,” a Gold Star Mother said, “to carry on!” Then we must give them the chance to carry on. AFffiRICAN LINE When Henry Wallace was ask ed, at the close of his speech be fore the mass meeting in New York, if he minded the heckling he had received, he said: “No; it was to be expected.” “Why?” asked the icortrespondent. “pe- cause,” Wallace answered, ‘‘I was following a strictly Ameri can line.” Not a British line; not a Rus sian line. Not an isolationist line: (Wallace had supported the British loan, urged American participation in the development of the “so-called backward areas”, is a strong international ist). No. . . an American line, and for that he was hissed by many of the people at the meeting, at one time or another during his speech, and the speech itself has brought about a crisis in govern ment and international circles. To the uninitiated observer, it would seem that Mr. Wallace had not said anything so very out of the way. Further, it would seem that Mr. Truman need only to have pointed that fact out to save himself and e^lreryone else a great deal of grief. Mr. Wallace said a good many things in the course of his speech but those which have raised all the ruckus appear to be confined to three parts of his address. In one case he said: “I want one thing clearly understood: I am neither anti-British nor pro- Brftish, neither anti-Russian nor pro-Russian”, and in the second: “We most earnestly want peace with Russia, but we want to be met halfway. We want coopera tion. And I believe we can get that cooperation once Russia un derstands that our primary ob jective is neither saving the Brit ish Empire nor purchasing oil in the Near East with the lives of American soldiers.” The third remark Mr. Wallace made is the one jxiunced upon the heaviest by his foes and de serves special attention. He said: “The real peace treaty we now need is between the United States and Russia. On our part we should recognize that we have no more business in the political af fairs of Eastern Europe than Rus sia had in the political affairs of Latin America, Western Europe and the United States.” To take up these remarks one by one is, we suggest, to feel a good deal bewildered at the hue and cry they set off. The first, surely, no one could quarrel with except the two sets of idiots at the meeting where Mr. Wallace spoke, one of whom hissed when he said anti-Russian” and the, other when he said “anti-British”. As for the second statement, there are precious few Ameri cans who would not admit that it was a pretty good description of their own feelings. We want peace with Russia, we want to be met half way, we want coop eration. And most Americans do not feel that preserving the Brit ish Empire or the state of oil in the Near East is “our primary ob jective.” The last paragraph of all, where Mr. Wallace says we have no more business meddling in Eastern Europe than Russia would have in Latin America, Western Europe and the U. S., has been interpreted by his foes and by critics of the Administra tion as implying that he favors dividing up the world into spheres of influence, a policy at variance with that of our State Department, though these same critics have a good deal of diffi culty explaining just what that policy may be. Be that as it may, why do they jump so quickly to the “spheres of influence” inter pretation? What Mr. Wallace said was that we had no more business meddling in Eastern Europe than Russia would have in Western and North and South America. Put it the other way around and it looks as if Mr. Wal lace, always a strong supporter of internationalism and the U. N., is simply trying to show up the falseness of our position, and to try to get us to see how it looks from Russian eyes. We have a Monroe Doctrine in South Ameri ca, we send our advisors to China to bolster up the hand of the Na tionalist government, we run Japan, we take bases in the Pacif ic. That, implies Mr. Wallace, is supposed to be all right, but if we do all that, on what grounds can we object to Russia’s doing the same in her neighbor countries? Mr. Wallace is simply pointing out the lack of logic in this posi tion, and plumping, we suggest, not for more ‘"'spheres of influ ence” at all, but for fairness, for clearness of understanding and vision, and, in essence, for vigor ous support of the U N, by every body, as an American policy. The Public Speaking Editor, The Pilot Dear Sir: It is very much to be hoped that the rumor afloat of a com bined office and apartment build ing to be built on Borad St. im mediately adjourning Dr. MillT- ken’s office is without founda tion. While the site in question is not now owned by the town it is, from every point of view ex cept that of ownership, a part of the park and should be so consid ered. Hence it would seem in credible that the people of Sou thern Pines should consent to the erection of a building of any sort at that point. The two chief assets of the park are its recreational facili ties—tennis courts, children’s playground, open spaces for games not requiring permanent equipment, and its beauty. Thus it serves the interests of both young and old—of those who are lucky enough,to be able to take part in active play, and of those whose use of the park is necessarily limited to the en joyment of its beauty. In the writer’s opinion the one is as im portant as the other. Now the beauty of the park consists in its unbroken, tree shaded lawn areas, and any struc ture or play equipment which breaks into the lawn areas mars its beauty. Thus the bare ground and backstops of the tennis courts and the children’s play apparatus seriously detract from the appearance of the park. But there is no other place to put 'theise highly important recrea tional facilities. Here beauty must yield to civic necessity. Sim ilarly, with apologies to the Swett family to whose generosity and civic spirit we largely owe the park, the present municipal building is a Serious blot on the beauty of the park and should be removed. If you will stand at the lower corner of the tennis courts on Pennsylvania Ave. and look towards the flagpole you will see the prettiest landscape picture in the park. Now imagine, if you can, the rear of a business apart ment- building with its neces sary storage and service features breaking into this picture on thc- right and you wiU agree, I am sure, that the park would be tak ing a severe beating. Moreover, as the town grows, every inch of park area will be needed for its special purposes. All things considered it would seem quite understandable that the proposed building should cause consternation among those who have at least an elementary sense of beauty and some appre ciation of its value to the com munity—call it money value, if you like, because in a resort town of this kind beauty is both a ma terial and a spiritual asset. Let’s hope that there will be a general expression of opinion on this im portant question which will re sult in the town acquiring the lot, and thus solving the problem. A. B. YEOMANS On the Land THE ANSWER. . . The Depart ment of Agriculture predicts that the farming situation is about to pass through “an unprecedented break with the immediate past”. Production on farms is increas ing by leaps and bounds in some parts of the country. . . without significant expansion in acreage and despite- insufficient labor. Farm machinery output, how ever, is on the definite upswing. That’s the answer. SHOES SHOO ’EM OFF, or so says M. D. Har-t, executive sec retary of the Virginia Game Commision. “Of all known odors that deer are mortally afraid of, it is the human odor.” Following this known fact, freshly worn- out shoes were tied to apple trees to keep deer out of the orchards, and they did. TO OUTFOX BR’ER FOX. . . just cut down the weeds around the chicken yard in a two-foot wide swath and spray same with a mixture consisting of one quart of turpentine to a gallon of used motor oil. Dayton Parsons, ver min control technician for the Ohio Division of Conservation and Natural Resources, says it works like a charm. BAD FOR CHICKS is idleness, accbrding to the American Veter inary Medical Association. Idle ness they maintain is one of the causes of “cannibalism” in chick ens. Chickens, like children, should be kept too busy to get to picking at each other. = eORN BORER BLITZED by an an imported parasite, result ing in a saving of thousands of dollars each year for Tarheel corn growers, is the interesting announcement made by C. H. Brannon, Entomology Chief of the N. C. Department of Agricul- tutq. Th^se imported parasites have established the heartening economic record of killing from 25 to 50 per cent of the European corn borers at Camden County experiments in New Jersey. 54 PER Dent greater than the ten year average. . . that’s the picture for this year’s flue cured tobacco. It is expected to total 884,290,000 pounds for 1946, an increase of 10,000,000 over the August 1 estimate. This is brought about mainly by a higher yield per acre than anticipated in Types 12 and 13. This is about 11 per cent over the 1945 crop. CRIMINAL INTENT has been strongly suspected in at least four instances where stones have used this season to increase the wejght of tobacco piles on ware house floors. C. D. Baucom, Supt. of the State Agriculture Dept’s Weights & Measures division said the racks varied from six to fif teen pounds each. Conviction on such weights violations would carry a fine of $5,500, 30 days to a year in jail, or both. MAKE HAY while the weather lasts. During the first half of Sep tember crop conditions have been fair to good throughout the State. This has been particularly favorable for harvesting hay, but also good for cotton picking, milk production, and apple harvesting. NOTICE ELEANOR HARLOE MOORE PLAINTIFF V S JAMES S. MOORE DEPENDANT John C. Parrish Plumbing & Heating Tel. 8621 Aberdeen. N. C. Even with increased taxes in cluded, the consumer pays one- third less today lor a gallon of gas than in 1920. STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA MOORE COUNTY IN THE SUPERIOR COURT The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Moore County, North Carolina, to secure an absolute divorce; that the defendant will further take notice that he is required to appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court of said County in his office in the Court House in the Town of Carthage, North Carolina, within twenty days from the 26th day of Sept-, 1946, and answer the plaintiff’s comp laint in said action or plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Compl aint. Dated this 26th day of August- 1946. JOHN WILLCOX Clerk of the Superior Court Aug. 30, Sept-, 6,13,20 A Statement.. Open On Wednesday Afternoons In the past we have been closed on Wednesday afternoon. This has been done in cooperation | with other merchants in Carthage. However Starting this Wednesday CARTHAGE HARD WARE INC., will be open 6 days a week— closing at 7 p. m. on Saturday. We have a pro gram that will give each of our employees a half day off per week. Therefore, we will re main open every day, all day, to be of service to YOU on your HARDWARE NEEDS. Regardless of the other merchants in town OUR policy will be to remain open on Wednes day all day. Carthage Hardware; Inc. Phone 151 Carthage, N. C. This is the famous door to Primrose House Salon on Park Avenue in New York, where special treatment methods and make-up fashions are created for many of the world's loveliest women. It is with pride we present this exclusive line in our cosmetic department. Chiffon Face Powder 1.00 and 3.00 . . . Petal Tint 1.50 Lipstick 1.00 . . . Cream Rouge 1.00. All latest shades We Are At Your Service Sunday, September 22nd Hours 9 to 1—^3 to 7 SANDfflLL DRUG COMPANY PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Telephone 6663 Southern Pines Parker 51 Pens A big neiv stock just received, call and get yours. Also the famous Faber Ball Point pens of which we have a few PLEASE ORDER NOW TOIL OF TfDE BRAVE by Inglis Fletcher author of Raleigh's Eden Men of Albemarle Lusty Winds for Carolines All advance orders will be filled with the Kings Moun tain limited edition, Autographed by Inglis Fletcher. Wonderful for a moderate priced Christmas present. Just received a lot of very nice new social stationery. ’S Sandhills Book Shop SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. INSURANCE REAL ESTATE J. D. AREY & CO. J. D. Arey, Sr. Poplar St J. D. Arey, Jr. ABERDEEN Tel. 8701
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