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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
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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.
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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. Wright and
husband to James Turner and
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