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THE PILOT, Southern Pines. North Carolina
Friday, November 15, 1946.
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HEALTH AND EDUCATION
When the Governor set aside
this past week as “Good Health
Week,” he was, wittingly or not,
horning in on ‘Education Week.”
This business of ‘"weeks” threat
ens to become ridiculous, and
surely it is a good thing to have
them double up. It is especially
wise, in this case, for, without
a doubt physical and mental
health go hand in hand. Where
you find disease and bad health
conditions, there, almost always,
you find ignorance. The cause of
education in health and educa
tion in book lamin’ are sister
causes.
They are both being stressed
this week, not only through pa
pers and propaganda all over the
state, but here in Moore County
in a very practical way.
Last week, the Moore County
Classroom Teachers met at Cam
eron to plan what part they
should take in the present cam
paign to raise teachers’ salaries.
Addressed by the president of the
North Carolina Education Assoc
iation, C. W. Phillips, the audi
ence was tmanimous in approving
TAKING THE TROUBLE
The above account of a tele-
^ , phone call to The Pilot, on Sat-
that action be taken to acquaint | ^.^aay, points to a real lack in
—unity ,pm,.
legislature. That action will be
taken only and if the people
whom it represents care enough
to make known their wishes. It
is up to each and every one of
us to tell our representatives in
Raleigh that we expect them to
act with vigor in the session
ahead, in raising teachers’ sal
aries and passing the bill soon to
be presented to improve and in
crease medical care of the sick in
our state.
PHONE CALL
“Is this the Pilot?”
“Yes, m’am.”
“They tell me that the stores
here don’t close on Armistice
Day. Is that right?”
' “That seems to be a fact.”
“Where I live Armistice Day is
observed as a holiday. The stores
are closed and there is a service
at the War Memorial and Honor
Roll. Don’t you all have that?”
“We had it once or twice, but
not for some time.”
“That seems a shame; they do
it all over the country. You do
observe two minutes of silence at
eleven o’clock, don’t you?”
"‘Don’t believe we do.”
“What! Why all over the world
they do that! What’s the matter
with you folks down here? Don’t
you care about things like this?”
“Well, m’am. . .seems as if we
cared a lot.”
“Then you ought to take the
trouble to do something about
It.”
“One of the churches has pray
ers all day long.”
“That’s fine. I’ll go. But this
ought to be a whole town ob
servance.”
“We agree with you, m’am.”
SANDHILLS AUTUMK
Autumn m tne sandhills is a
fine time of the year. It seems
likq a different sort of time than
autumn in other places. In other
places, autumn is an ending time.
There is a note of sadness in the
time, just a hound, but the old
gentleman had some six hundred
miles to go to get back to his
doctor.
Perhaps there should be peri
odic clinics for car drivers, just
the way we examine our children
falling leaves, the birds flying ■ periodically. Eye clinics, hearing
enlist the help of laymen in pres
sing the cause before Congress.
This is a fine step. It is not
easy for those directly involved,
depending on good will and the
sense of justice of their employer,
the state, to take action in their
own right. Retaliation is too easy
and has too often been practiced
to make such direct sticking out
of necks an appealing proceed
ing. The teachers are to be con
gratulated on their courage; also
on their wisdom. For if those to
benefit by such action are not
brave enough to risk something
for it, then they can hardly ex
pect sympathetic action from out
siders. The step of the Moore
County teachers will win wide
spread approval.
In the field of Good Health,
the local committee is engaged,
as are all others taking part in
this campaign, in spreading the
gospel by means of articles, pos
ters, word of mouth. Moore
County has been at the forefront
of the health world in several
respects. "The first progressive
maternal health set-up to be or
ganized in the state was started
here, while in the field of tuber
culosis, the work done by Mrs.
Cheatham’s committee has been
outstanding, in particular, per
haps, the negro branch of it,
which has chalked up an extraor
dinary record of money raised
and work accomplished. The rec
ord of the Moore County Hospi
tal, which actually serves many
more counties than Moore, is
hard to estimate. To think of
what our county would be with
out it is to be overwhelmed with
gratitude that it is here.
Yet, encouraging as these prac
tical evidences of success and in
terest are, Moore County cannot
afford to rest on its laurels, either
in the field of education or
health. We must keep ever before
our eyes, the next steps ahead
which must be taken if we are to
keep our place as one of the
counties- in the forefront of pro
gress. Higher salaries for our
teachers, imply its corollary that
we shall then get better and bet
ter teaching for our children, bet
ter and better school facilities
and more of them, the abandon
ment of such health hazards as
some of our present negro
schools, this is a practical thing
to work for. In the field of health,
the improvement of both hospi
tal and public health department,
with again, higher pay for under
paid workers, are “musts” on our
county list. Each and all require
money, and that must come, the
large percentage of it, from the
state.
Our own county problem is
simply the state’s problem in
miniature. To carry out what
must be done to raise North Car
olina’s standards of health and
education requires action by our
We believe it points to tnat and
not, as this lady thought,
to the fact that we “did not care
about things like this.” The end
of tne i'lrst World War meant
as much to people here as any
where. Armistice Day, the cele-
oration of which takes place in
most other places, is a reminder
of the coming of peace, so that it
has come to mean the blessed
peace after this war, as well as
after the first one. That peace,
which we have now, even in its
precarious state, is something
each and every one cherishes, as
we cherish the memory of those
who gave their lives for it.
It is not the will to celebrate
Armistice Day fittingly that is
absent, it is the way, the method
of bringing such things about,
that our community seems to
lack. There is no civic body to
take charge of such affairs, to
plan them and see that they are
properly run. In the pastt,organ
izations have made the attempt.
Few have been very successful,
and it is not right that such
community enterprises should be
delegated to any individual or-
ganization.On Sunday night the
American Legion and its Auxil
iary undertook to hold the Ar
mistice Day service at one of our
churches. It was right that the
service be held and the Legion
is to be congratulated for step
ping forward, but the rather
sma^ll congregation was evidence
that it was not felt to be a com
munity affair, as, of course it was
not, in the sense that the com
munity had no share in the plan
ning or carrying out of the ser
vice.
No single organization should
be permitted or expected to take
charge of similar events. Neither
should the Town Board be ex
pected to shoulder such a respon
sibility. Here is a case where,
once again, a Citizens Committee
is needed. And now is the time to
get it under way.
We are at the starting point
of our “winter season.” Many
holidays are ahead, days that
should be celebrated in a fitting
south, the squirrels rushing to
bury their nuts, everybody start
ing to hole up for the coming
winter. Autumn is the end of
summer in most other places;
here, it is not an ending but a
starting-off time.
Of course, our “season” starts
with autumn; that is one reason
it has that effect here. Every
morning, now, when the train
pulls in, more and more people
get off. Most of them are the
ones who are coming back, like
migrating birds, to the South
land for the winter. They disem
bark, grinning like Cheshire cats.
They stretch and take deep
breaths of the air. You feel they’d
like to let out a “Whoopee!” of
joy; and sometimes the more ex
uberant ones do. Soon you begin
to see them swinging and striding
on the links or riding through the
woods.
This is the starting time for
hunting, for both bird dogs and
hounds aijd their Respective fol
lowers. Guns are being oiled up,
pink coats hung out in a breezy
spot to get the moth ball smell
out of them. Bad, if those hounds
got confused in their smells!
Most likely that true Sandhills
weapon, the sleek golf club, stays
ready to hand all year round, but
surely this fall weather brings
out an extra shine, not to say
accuracy.
Speaking of shine, the pines,
in the autumn, always seem to
have more gleam to them. They
are one reason our fall is such
a lively time. The big cones
bounce to earth and the brown
needles cover the ground, but
above, glistening in the sun, is
always that canopy of green. No
sadness there. All through the
coming months the pines will
stand by us, singing softly in the
wind, heartening us with their
bright beauty.
And the afterglow. Are there
ever, anywhere, such glorious
after-sundown effects as we have
been seeing lately? Surely the
red glow through the burnished
trunks is as fine an ending to the
day and a start of a good night
as man could wish.
Autumn in the Sandhills is
very nearly perfect.
clinics, (not so important), re
action clinics, if such a thing
could be worked out. The doctors
would make the main examina
tion and then perhaps the license
man could follow up with a short
drive around town. Our guess is
that a good many would have to
take to ^hank’s mare or get some
neighbor to help out. It would be
hard on them, but a lot better
for the rest of the folks.
There isn’t a doubt but what
some such procedure would cut
down on our appalling number
of traffic accidents. We believe
Jere has a good idea, and we
hope he will try to get action on
it.
Would that be something for
our new politicos to take up?
The Public
Speaking
HOW'S YOUR DRIVING?
Worthy of second thought, or
third or fourth, is the suggestion
of Aberdeen’s Jere McKeithen, as
reported by that Chiel Editor
down there, that automobile
drivers should be examined peri
odically and their licenses re
voked if they are found to be
unfit to drive.
There are far too many people
driving that should never be al
lowed behind a wheel: elderly
shakey people, deaf people,
people with bad eyesight, or bad
hearts. Almost all of us have
soine friend who scares the wits
out of us every time we get in
his car. Meandering down a road,
crawling along, squinting ahead
at a stop light. . . “let’s see, now:
is that red or green. . . Dogged if
I know, for sure. . . think I must
need some new glasses. . . ” all
the time creeping up on it, till. .
. . Wheeee. . . , through the light
and the stop signs, step on the
gas and on his terrifying way
he goes! They creep or they
charge, these terrifying people;
whether it’s the gas or the brake
they step hard and sudden. But
they don’t step or swing instinc
tively, instantly, when they are
in a'tight place. These elderly
chauffers don’t see things coming,
and they don’t react quickly.
They are a real danger on the
roads.
The heart attack driver is an
other. Motoring to Camden, once,
we came around a corner to see
the car ahead swerve suddenly
and make for the ditch. It climb-
maiuier. The first of them is ed halfway up the bank and stop-
Christmas, and not so very far Ped. Two terrified old faces peer-
off. The Chamber of Commerce, ed out at us.
has already suggested that it be “My husband!” the old lady
celebrated as a community affair, gasped, “Must have had a heart
To The Editor,
The Pilot
Now that Henry Wallace has
been thrown in the political ash-
can, is there any just reason why
Mr. Truman should not fire Mar-
riner S. Eccles, the present inef
ficient chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board and only remain
ing New Dealer holding a top
ranking government job?
Mr. Eccles is wholly responsi
ble for the 100 per cent i^arginal
requirements on stocks listed on
any recognized stock exchange in
the U. S. Thus, one could not buy
a sound investment stock such as
Gen. Electric on the margin. But
one could buy say, Kaiser Frazier
auto stock or some equally un
seasoned and unlisted stock on
the margin. This ruling, in the
writer’s opinion, was one of the
main contributing factors in the
recent wide open break in stock
prices on the N. Y. stock ex
change. So severe a decline, that
it is now always referred to as
The New Deal Panic and justly
so. Numbers of investors would
have been glad to have purchased
good sound stocks on such a mar
ket decline but these same inves
tors when forced to pay cash in
full for them, and above all,
could not use their excess and
collateral for their purchase, they
simply withdrew from the mar
ket and let prices fall out of bed.
And why not? Although, I’ll ad
mit tile decline was way overdue.
Mr. Eccles, during his term of
office, has never had the decency
or courage to divest himself of
his personal business interests in
his home state. He has been and
still is Chairman Utah Construc
tion Co., obtaining big govern
ment contracts from Washington.
He is also head of our Investment
Co. with a 15 per cent interest in
a holding Co. controlling a chain
of banks and yet this New Dealer
still remains head of our Federal
Reserve System.
In this connection it is most
important to observe that when
Mr. Averill Harriman took Mr.
Wallace’s place as Secretary of
Commerce he immediately re
signed as chairman and director of
the Union Pacific Railroad, di
rector of Illinois Central and
member of financial firm of
Brown Bros. Harriman.
I have before me a letter from
our Senator Clyde Hoey in which
he says, “I agree with you that
whenever a public official has
private interests, which are bene-
fitted by his government position,
he should resign all connections.”
He further states that he is not
familiar with the case of Mr. Ec
cles, so he is being correctly in
formed.
If President Truman is sincere
in his statement about accelera
ting controls the 100 percent mar
gins with its originator, Mr. Ec
cles, should be on their way out.
Right NOW.
Julian T. Bishop
not, we believe, associated.
As to the respective merits of
Mr. Harriman and Mr. Eccles, in
resigning and not resigning,
from their former posi
tions, we agree with Mr. Bishop
and Senator Hoey that such ges
tures look fine and should be in
dulged in. From a practical
standpoint, we doubt their ef
fectiveness. Mr. Harriman’s bro
ther is still director of both
Brown Bros. Harriman and the
UP RR. and it is to be imagined
he would keep a fraternal eye on
his brother’s interests. Actually
how is it possible for a man to
divest himself of all personal in
terests when he becomes a gov
ernment servant. Did Mr. Mellon
sell all his aluminum stock, did
Mr. Hoover sell his mining inter
ests when they became secretar
ies of the treasury and commerce?
Maybe, but we seriously doubt
it. Such gestures, noble as they
appear, can be no more than ges
tures. Men of such calibre can
not help but exercise enormous
influence in the economic world.
It is on their personal integrity,
and on that alone, that we are
forced to rely in the appointment
of any man of great private in
fluence to a public office.
And, to go back to the first
question to the editor, we’d an
swer that it was a non sequitur.
Just because one good ,man, Mr.
Henry Wallace, got thrown into
the political ash-can, seems to us
no reason why another should be.
A case where two wrongs don’t
make a right. But then, of course,
we are a New Dealer. The Editor
DEBUTANTE
this year. If this is to be done,
it should be put into the hands
of a Citizens Committee, in or^
der to secure the cooperation of
each and every one, and so that,
through each one’s share in res
ponsibility, the whole iriay have
that community spirit which
alone wiU niake it a thoroughly
happy event.
And then, next November
Eleventh, perhaps. Armistice Day
will be observed in^ Southern
Pines as it ijs in most other places.
said
“Just
attack!”
“Heart attack nothing!
that angry gentleman,
avoiding that dog.”
Looking back we saw a hound
trotting sernely down the road.
“Well, but,” said the old lady,
‘You know the doctor said you
might have a heart attack any
time!” She smiled tremulously.
EDITOR ANSWERS
The writer has opened his let
ter with a question, but he has
addressed it to the wrong person.
The Pilot editor is far, oh very
far, from qualified to answer any
questions having to do with high
finance. All we know is that we
always thought margins were bad
and that buying on them appears
frequently, to have had catas-
The spring-like autumn weath
er has brought out a Georgia
belle ... of the peach tree va
riety ... in Southern Pines. The
“belle” is putting forth buds and
leaves with April vigor on the
farm of Carl Klabbatz on the
Aberdeen road.
ELKS SESSION
The BPO Elks lodge here will
be in formal session Thursday,
November 21, for the annual vis
itation of Deputy Grand Exalted
Ruler W. C. Carrington of Dur
ham, John Cline, exalted ruler
of BPO Elks lodge 911, announc
ed this week.
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‘‘That’s one reason we are driv- trophie results. We never heard of
ing home,” she said, “We thought! the “New Deal Panic,” though we'
we’d like to get back to our have heard of other panics in past j
doctor.” years, notably that of 1929, with'
It wasn’t a heart attack that I which the name New Deal was
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1895
1946