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Page THE PILOT, Southern Pines. North Carolina THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHEFlH PINES, NORTH CAROLINA JAMES BOYD 1941 _ ... . 1944 P<id)hsber KATHARINE BOY0 .... EDITOR DAN s. RAY .... General Manager BERT PREMO ... ADVERTISING CHARLES MACAULEY ... CITY EOITOB SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE Y-EAR . . . $3.00 SIX MONTHS .... $1.80 THREE MONTHS . . . . .78 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOI^- THERN Pines, n. c., as second class MAIL MATTER. GOOD HEALTH On this coming Saturday one of the most important meetings of our section is to be held. This is the meeting at the Mid Pines Club of the North Carolina Good Health Association. Addressing it will be the president and other leaders in the field of health, who will tell the people of Moore and nine other counties what they may do to help in the coming campaign to better the health of the state. North Carolina’s Number One need is Good Health. Health is fundamental to every improve ment. Unless we can raise the general health of pur state, now the lowest in the entire country, we might as well quit trying to improve education, teachers’ sal aries, living conditions and all the other good things so many are working for. What’s the point of having good roads, clean towns, attractive surroundings if the people who ride or live or look at them are sickly. This is the first nCed that faces us in the general attempt to raise the South’s position in the nation. The problem was dramatically emphasized in the reports of the draft boards during the war. North Carolina was at the bottom of the list physically, with more men rejected for physical defects, here, than in any other state. This is the problem that this group of citizens, calling them selves the North Carolina Good Health Association, has decided to tackle. Looking it squarely in the eye, they are rolling up rheir sleeves and flying to it, and their enthusiasm, determination and the high standard of ability they represent will carry with them not only people of similar inter ests but the rank and file of citi zens all over the state. Saturday’s meeting will be pre liminary, to lay the ground work for the intensive efforts which will follow. As these people gath er under our pines we will wish to send them every good wish for the success of their under taking, and a promise of coopera tion to the best of our ability. hard. Which is, of course, non sense. Production came then, as it comes now, principally through new inventions and new machin ery and through more efficient methods and management. This McGraw advertisement is a strange thing. Here you have a long detailed statement earnest ly written by an authority in the field of industry. Increased pro duction is the theme, yet the writer fails even to mention the greatest factor making for in crease in production. What is the reason? Dismaying as it is, the inference is inescap able that the omission was a de liberate attempt to deceive the reader into placing all the blame for the present confusion upon government and labor. This cry that labor is not put ting in an honest day’s work is the theme song of management. Only the heads of companies, it appears, really have their hearts in it, carrying great responsibili ty, giving endlessly of their abil ity and their initiative. Only they work. The actual laborers who run the machines are slack ers who never do a lick more than they have to. This is the picture McGraw paints .and the one usually given by industrial ists. FOR MOORE COUNTY UN (Editorial from Salisbury Post, Salisbury, N. C.) There is no way of proving that it is not true, anymore than there is proof that it is. But on the face of it, it is so contrary to human nature that it is certainly sus pect. Why, just because a man wears overalls and handles a ma chine, should he be a slacker, un interested in his wqrk, doing only just what he has to do to get by? Men aren’t like that: given good tools and a decent incentive al most every man has a fire in him which drives him on to do a good job. Proper working condi tions combined with some recog nition will make him do that much more, but even lacking these spurs to action, the average man just naturally works and is naturally honest about doing his job well. It is a rather frightening thing to look at this advertisement, so carefully composed, written so cleverly with just the right amount of apparent sincerety and earnestness. It reads so well, it sounds so sensible. And it is so false. When one considers also the fact that it cost some thous and dollars, the motivating force behind it assumes terrifying pro portions; terrifying for the dan ger it may be to our country. THE SCAPEGOAT AGAIN It is the fashion for both labor and management to put adver tisements in the papers setting forth some particular point of ^view. Thus we find the president of the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company, leading dealers in in dustrial publications, taking a page of the New York Herald Tribune to say what he thinks about government controls and recovery. Few will maintain that the system here criticised has been perfect, but when this writer comes to suggest his remedies there would seem to be much to question. His plea is for increased production and he gives, as two great needs: elimination of bot tlenecks in material and parts, and “greater individual efforts of the workers themselves,” saying that “only by greater output per man hour can workers and man agement solve their common problem.” He does not, however, go on to say that that greater output has been most frequently and successfully attained not by harder work on the part of the laborer but by the invention of new machinery and the re-tool ing of old. For, over and over in the history of industry, the in vention of a new machine has doubled and trebled the output ,of a factory. The fallacy of McGraw’s state- naent that only by greater output per man hour can production be increased is easily seen if the statement is carried to its logical conclusion. For if you say that we are not getting full produc tion now because the men aren’t working hard, then you have got to say, also, that the reason for the amazing increase in produc tion in the past twenty years must have been because the men worked twice or three times as ON GUARD Business as usual is the theme upon which symphonies of des truction are composed. While many of us are occupied with achieveing greater personal security the ground beneath us is being undermined by people of the Joe McWilliams or Joe Kamp class. While we are wondering how soon new cars will be avail able, the Rankins and the Hoff mans and the Bilbos in Congress are throwing sand in the carbu retor of progressive legislation. While we .are worrying about the security of white shirts, Gerald L. K. Smith is recruiting poten tial storm troopers. "While we are following the adventures of Dick Tracy, the New York Daily News is sabotaging us. While we figure out new ways of beating the in come tax, the accused seditionists make capital of their undeserved freedom. And while the forces of evil .are drawing up the lines of battle many of us comfort ourselves with the palliative that this is America—it can’t happen here. Can’t it? When a Negro lynched in Texas or a teacher in the New York City school system disseminates hate or a United States Senator from Mississippi slanders certain national groups those things are happening here. When minorities are attacked in the halls of Congress, when ex soldiers with Mexican blood are denied admittance to veterans orgapizations, when Nisei wear ing the Order of the Purple Heart are banned from their own homes . well, what would you call it? Pogroms and barricades are not inevitable but neither are they as improbable as some would like to believe. Change the slogan to “business as UNusual.” Unite against the leaders of re action and peddlers of poison. Give intolerance, bigotry and chauvinism the hot foot. Merely because you have always been free it should not be taken for granted that freedom will never slip away. Now is the time to find out what action you can take in order to prevent the growing weeds from choking off the fruits of the democracy which has been so good to you. (Friends of Democracy) By-Spencer Murphy The city of New York has just put in an impressive bid to pro vide permanent headquarters for the United Nations. San Francisco is getting ready to renew its formidable claims to have the world’s capital put on the American gold coast: Lukewarm notice has been taken here in North Carolina of recent days of legislature candi date iT. B. Volger’s announce ment that he will (if selected) ask the General Assembly to of fer to purchase Smith Island, near Southport, for the United Nations if the organization will accept it as site for a permanent home. All of which tends to indicate that if choice of a permanent home for United Nations head quarters is really as cut and dried as some spokesmen say, there are still a great many people who do not realize it. The Post is among those not yet ready to give up trying. As Raleigh newsman Lynn Nisbet was kind enough to point out the other day. The Post was first to call attention to the fact that North Carolina by reasons of lo cation, population, and precedent is without peer in the eastern seaboard region in having valid claims to being ideal as location for a world capital. In one section of North Caro lina that fact is being given rec ognition sufficient to stir inter ested parties into action. A group of Moore County folk, under leadership of lumberman Colin G. Spencer is actively en gaged in filing claims and pre senting inducements to the UN executives calculated to get a hearing for the Pinehurst-South- ern Pines area. Realistic enough to understand that the area in question should have the best chance to score for North Carolina among all the sections of the state which might be considered, we have previous ly announced transfer of our hopes from the Piedmont to the Sandhills. If the whole state could be moved in line with the Moore /county folks. North Carolina’s chance for becoming site of the United Nations headquarters would be very good indeed, un less we are badly mistaken. Tentative approaches to sever al metropolitan areas have re vealed that the UN would en counter serious and costly ob stacles of citizen opposition and legal procedures before it could obtain sufficient acreage in the shadow of any big city. The passionate yen for'metro- politan proximity which sprang originally from first-flush hy potheses that UN conventions would of necessity require tre mendous ready supplies of high quality liquor and low quality women, and internationally as sorted amusements otherwise ranging from full fights to peep shows gives some evidence of sloughing off as spokesmen for the world organization show in creasing signs of taking their re sponsibilities seriously. Be that as it may, we wouldn’t sell North Carolina short as long as at least one group is seriously working at demanding a hearing for the birthplace of American liberty. one of the most attractive dwell ings in town, all will wish to join in the hope that the former own er will long make her home in these parts. Not to mention main tain that high standard of good time. Our town is getting a refur bishing these days, to get us all set for the coming season. Here and there the nooks and crannies of sidewalk that were supposed to be grass but never really caught on to the idea are being concreted over and removing that particular hazard of mud and un even sidewalks from the pedes trians’ way. This is the case in front of the Library and again along by Harry Lewis and Lloyd Clark’s stretch of pavement. The rough gravelly place in front of the Bushby - O’Callaghan build ing is getting a facial, too. Most exciting is the Bumpety- bumpety near the station. This parking space, which in wet wea ther turns into a roller-coaster, has finally been smoothed out and the report is that it is going to get a coat of tar, one of these days. That will be grand. Friday, November 1, 1946. wife, lot 4 in Block O and 14 in Southern Pines. From Norton Blue, -executor of the will of the late W. A. Blue, to H. D. Mclnnis, land in Mc Neill township containing 14 acres near S. A- L. R. R. From Grace C. Abraham to Glenn Gibson and wife Lot 408B in Knollwood Heights. Subscribe to THE PILOT) Moore Cotmty’s Leading News- Weekly. Another rumor is that the Sea board is at long last taking an interest in the idea of building shelters for passengers waiting for the train. We’re still mournful over our misplaced sense of humor. . . But even more mournful to think we were accused of writing serious criticism in such lousy grammar. “Tain’t” is something we ain’t in the habit of saying unless trying misplacedly no doubt, to be funny. Well . . . never again. NORTH CAROLINA MOORE COUNTY TOWN OF SOUTHERN PINES, PLAINTIFF VS JUNIUS PRATT and wife, HALLIE JANE PRATT, DEFENDANTS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT. NOTICE Junius Pratt and wife, Hallie Jane Pratt, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Moore County, North Carolina, to foreclose a certain tax sales certificate issued on June 5th. 1944; that the defen dants will further take notice that they are required to appear be fore the Clerk of the Superior Court of said County in his office in the Court House in the Town of Carthage, N. C., within twenty days from November 2nd. 1946, and answer the Plaintiff’s Com plaint in said action, or plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Com plaint. Dated this 2nd. day of October 1946. JOHN WILLCOX Clerk of the Superior Court Octll,18,25Novl THE PINE NEEDLES KNOLLWOOD Opened October 17 th for the SEASON 1946-47 UNDER THE MANAGEMENT of EMMETT E. BOONE SOUTHERN PINES NORTH CAROLINA READY FOR COOL DAYS (What never? . . No,never. . What never? . . . Lawdy, Lawdy, we hope not!) CARTHAGE by Ruth Harris Tyson UN EDUCATION The work of the United Na tions Educational, Scientific, and Cultural organization was discus sed by the Rotary club at their meeting last week. Atwood Whit man, of Glendon, who is associa ted with the forestry service, was speaker. Rev. William S. Gold en, program chairman, was in charge. PTA MEETING The opening meeting of the Carthage PTA was held Monday at 7:30 p. m. in the Carthage El ementary school auditorium. The new pesident, Mrs. Monroe Way, presided, and Miss Mary Currie’s second grade presenterd a play, “The Shoemaker and the Elves.” Cameron Teachers Meet The fall meeting of the Moore County unit of Classroom teach ers, a branch of the NCEA, met Wednesc|ay |afternoon at the Cameron school. The proposed pay boost for teachers, which will come before the next General As sembly, was the main topic of discussion. The Cameron teachers were hostessess at a social hour at the close of the meeting. Car thage teachers attending were Meade Seawell, Eula Blue, Val eria McCrummen, and others. This and That If you want to enjoy good con versation we suggest a walk up or down Broad Street and a chat with those Three Town Charac ters: Bnchan, Newcomb, and Hayes. Quips, cracks, old-timer anecdotes and plenty of good sense will be forth-coming. And via C. L. came to us a good phrase of Struther’s Burt’s, which that maker of many good phrases let fall, once, in his hear ing. “People’ ought to learn,” he said, “that the mind is an instru ment, not a receptacle.” Open- eared we stood, feeling very re ceptacle-minded, indeed. Workshops Close A series of workshop meetings which have been conducted over the apst six weeks for teachers in the Moore County school sys tem ended Monday night. A short [business meeting of the Moore County NCEA was held at the conclusion of the workshop. President Puckett of Robbins High school presided. The main business was voting on the state officers of NEA. Carthage school entertained the visitors at a social hour when ice cream and cake were served. ■What was that famous triple play; Buchan to Newcomb to Hayes? Might well have been. It’s an awfully good one. It is with a pang that we hear that Edith Heizmann Mudgett sold her home on Massachusetts and Ashe, where so many good times have been enjoyed by all her host of friends. In congratu lating the purchaser, George K McCall, on his acquirement of REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS From Highland Pines Hotel company to J. C. Hurley, Sr., and W. L. Brown and wife, about 12 acres in Weymouth Heights, in cluding the Highland Pines hotel, household kitchen and dining room furniture and all furnish ings in the hotel buildings, cot- jtages and other buildings located on the said land. From the Southern Pines as sociation to W. L. Brown and wife. Lots 11 and 11 in Block N and one. From E. H. Mills and wife to Robert Dutton and wife. Lot 11 in Block two and five in South ern Pines. From Georgia A. 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