pilot—Southern j Carolina Friday. January 6. Pii IHE L _ loulheru PiiiS tna JAMES BOYD. Publis er—1944 |NE BOYD Editor J NICHOLSON Asst. Editor |AY ....... General Manager 17 g.^^B3NCIL Advertising Subscription Rates: One yJR $3.00 6 Months $1.50 3 Months 7Sc Entered at the Postoffice at Southern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Association and N. C. Press Association The Air Academy The idea that Southern Pines and the kandhills might be the site of an air force acad emy ppens surprising vistas. There is no imag ining the changes that would occur here. Every thing would have to become twenty times big ger and better. The population of the town would jump ahead, with corresponding pros perity. An occurrence which would so completely alter the character of a community cannot be contemplated without much concern by its cit izens. Whether it be joyful concern in the happy anticipation of great and good things to come or' whether the concern be tinged with some apprehension of possible drawbacks along with the expected advantages, the concern re mains. Everyone is vitally involved and vitally interested! "^Tlieve^ffi no way of judging accurately how tie people feel, for the move was made so hastily _(iat there was no: chance to find out, but it is highly probable that there is general enthu siasm. Many have long advocated the Sandhills as the ideal location for a college or school and this sort of “industry” brings many adtrantages with it. There will be grave problems, of course: we experienced some of tljem during the war years when we were an army town, in the sudden terrific strain on facilities of every sort, but the advantages: in business, in the type of people who will be added to our community and in many other respects, should far out weigh the difficulties. As a member of the group which sent the invitation put it: This will be the biggest thing ever. . . ” Because there are so many imknown factors ^nd the decision will be made by qualified ex- srts on its merits and on the basis of many onsiderations, including, one hopes, the tax payers’ pocketbooks, it is perhaps futile to spec ulate on whether or not our town will be chosen. However, if a new site on the eastern seaboard is to be considered, surely this would be a good one. The Camp Mackall tract is probably what the Chamber of Commerce had in mind. It is already Bwned by tlje government and the air strip Irhen built was considered ofie of the finest Ir the country. Its facilities for parachute train- pg are 'well known. Also, it is the hub of a [ whose spokes run out to a number of k both civil and military, of top calibre. Jmate for flying, though not in a class he southwest, is certainly by far the best f east. be who started this idea with so much en- ^m will undoubtedly get strong backing nost of their fellow-townsmen, while even ^ho are luke-warm will give it their sup- ■or our people are patriotic and they ipitable. If the air force chooses Southern ^nd the Sandhills for its academy site, Itiie’^TOcome signs will be hung out all over. I There is not a doubt that the town will do I everything in its po wer to cooperate with the |air force in this undertaking and to make its personnel welcome members of our community. Carolina Hotel It is an impressive sensation to look across. r?t our neighbor, Pinehurst, and think of those fifty years of the Carolina’s existence. The great ho- tbl in the pines has weathered several crises in ‘ tihe life of the country, and through them all has held hospitable doors wide to those who piame. * They came for many reasons, probably, but it is likely that the main one was the desire fo^r relaxation and rest. To get away from the cares of home and business, to live graciously in an atmosphere of good cheer, of healthy outdoor sport and pleasant companionship.. . to eat good food, nicely served, to stroll under the pines or sit lazily out on the lawn in the sunshine, to get a ride out to the golf course every day and then back again to relax once more in a friendly atmosphere. That is the sort of thing the Caro lina has meant to a vast number of people. There must, surely, be a considerable sense of satisfaction in the hearts of the Tufts family as they look back over these fifty years of Car olina living. The Carolina has numbered among its guests a good many of the Big People of this nation and a few others. They have been of all sorts: ^statesmen, movie stars, famous golfers, re- aowned game hunters, leading doctors, lawyers, ^nkers. The leaders of the press have chosen it a few of their conventions, as have, of trse, the statek^iH^K^, dentists, automobile In an^.3^^||^^^^|^usiness groups. As ^nventioris, the ho- service to this 3te the number Sandhills or I who first be- jirough their ivertising kworth [^ium was at- _'l enthusiasm. ^^rvimJanW right arid’^prcjUj^This building, v^ich has been needed ror so long, will fill a place in the life of the school and the commun ity which is an important one. Not only from a physical but from a character standpoint, a gym is a necessary asset of any good school, the lessons learned there through the give and take of sports, the subordination of self to team work, the sense of honor that can be inculcated through emphasis on good sports manship, the strengthening of self-reliance and courage. . . these are just a few of the qualities learned on the floor of a gym. From a physical standpoint, especially if exercises as well as sports are carried on and if all the pupils take their turns on the floor, the good to the whO'le physical side of a town’s growing youth is ines- -timable. There is no doubt, however, that if it is the wrong sort of “gym,” a good deal of harm in stead of good will result. A spirit of intense athleticism that overemphasizes competition and rivalry, taking all the fun out of playing a game and turning it into a deadly serious busi ness, can have bad effects, both on those who take part and those who watch them. The jeal ousies, the favoritism, the hero-worship so un dermining to the youthful ego, which are found in some school and university athletics, have ruined more than one promising youngster. But this sort of thing is a danger that all good teachers and coaches, such as we have here, are well aware of and constantly guard against. They know, better than anyone else, that it can undermine the character not only of the ath letes themselves but of the whole school: schol arship and morale suffer as the great majority, who are not star athletes or even moderately good players, find themselves relegated to the role of permanent spectators, their interests overlooked in the emphasis on sport. The fact that Southern Pines has chosen to build not only a new gym, but the auditorium and cafeteria, and the elementary school as. well, shows that our people have a well-round ed school program in mind. Our town is indeed fortunate, and this newspaper believes our peo ple are well aware of the fact, that it has been able to build such fine school buildings. Build ing for youth is building for the future, rem embering all the while that any building, no matter how fiiie, is valuable qnly because of what goes on inside of it. ' [of Sand So now Christmas is a memorj' . . We’re sure our town was never prettier at any Christmas than the one just past, thanks to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary club and others respon sible for the beautiful lighting. . . Now comes the job of getting all those lights back down again, the bulbs taken out and packed away till next year. Selections of the judges for the display prizes pleased us mightily . We’d have picked the same ones, if we were judging. . . There were others also which were mighty pretty. . . And seems that somewhere there should be a classification for the hotels, who always do a beautiful decoration job. . . We didn’t have time to get around to all the hotels, but we remember happily the beautiful tree and lights seen through the big luminous windows at the Hol lywood. . . And Bunny Harring ton's old - fashioned Christmas tree at the Southland, a real New Hampshire spruce shipped down here for a southern Christmas ac cording to immemorial Southland custom. . . It was decorated also in o^ii-fashioned style, with orna ments from long agO', each one different, delicately lovely. Today’s mass-produced tree or naments have their own stream lined beauty, but there was true artistry in their making long ago. . . When they were imported from Germany, each one a skilled craftsman’s work of art. For New Years and .^Iways The late President Hyde of Bowdoin College, gave these ideals that are fitting for the New Year resolution. To weigh the material in the scales of 'the personal and measure life by the standard of love. . . to prize health as contagious happiness, wealth as potential service, reputation as latent influence, learning for the light it can shed, power for the help it can give, station for the good it can do. . . to choose in each case what is good on the whole, and accept cheerfully in cidental evil9 involved. . . to put my whole self into all that I do and encourage no single desire at the expense of myself as a whole. . . to crowd out fear by devotion to duty, and see present and future as one. . . to treat others as I would be treated and myself as I would my best friend ... to lend no oil to the foolish, but let my light shine freely for all . \ . tO' make no gain by an other’s loss, to buy no pleasure with another’s pain. . . to harbor no thought of another which I would be unwilling that others should know. . . to say nothing unkind to amuse myself, and nothing false to please others. . . to take no pride in weaker mens failings and bear no mal ice toward those who do wrong. . . to* worship God in all that is good and true and beautiful ... to serve Christ wherever a sad heart can be made happy or a wrong will set right. . . and to recognize God’s coming kingdom in every institution and person that helps men love one- another. Happier Than The Average “I think I am happier than the average per son. . . I believe everyone should live every day the best way he knows how, and under the cir cumstances take things as they come along, neither worrying about what has happened or what is going to happen, because what people worry about may never oome to pass.” The speaker of those words is not, as one might think, a normal, healthy and successful man, perhaps addressing reporters from a com fortable swivel chair behind a large executive’s desk. The speaker of those words is Fred Snite, Jr., whose life has been sustained for the past 13 years only by virtue of an iron lung. When a man who could not breathe without a ma chine to perform the work of paralized mus cles, takes that attitude toward life, it sort of puts the rest of us to shame. For our part, we’re going to clip the words of this man who lives always within a few minutes of possible extinction and put them away where we can find them on occasions when we think we have something to complain about. —Sanford Herald Of today’s ornaments, we like the “something new” which has been added in the past year or t\yo. . . The “bubble-lights” which ripple busily in candle-shaped holders. . . Bright and lively bits of color, fascinating to watch. . . We heard, too, of the small silver bells which keep up a constant tiny jingling when plugged in. . . But we aren’t sure we think so much of those. . . We ^ove a beau tiful Christmas tree. . But aren’t sure we want it to jingle! • Congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Cook, of Jacksonville, on the arrival of an extra special Christmas gift. . . A daughter, Linda Gayle, born Christmas day. Clyde was formerly a police man h4re, and is now chief in the Onslow County town. . . Doing fine, too, we hear. . . Recently at his request the FBI held a police ® ^oo school at Jacksonville, for the po lice department and also for mili tary officers of nearby Camp Le- Jeune. . . Special agents of the FBI conducted the school, and re ceiving certificates were Chief Cook and all his men. Mayor Her bert Eastwood (who is from Lake- view) the Camp Lejeune provost marshal and a number of Marine non-coms. jid and he was there to greet us and is very active for his age. Everybody was given an oyster and of course excitedly waited to see what was inside. The oysters that were opened before mine had the pearl in sight but when he opened mine he dug around and I thought it would be my luck to get one that didn’t have a pearl, but out came the hiceest one of all, a fairly large one with just a small flaw and Howard was next in line and his was real nice, though a shade smaller. “There were several Austra lians on the tour and one of the men got three small pearls, but I heard him say on the train that he threw one of his away, it was so small. Can you imagine throw ing a pearl away? ‘The Mother-of-Pearl is import ed from the Mississippi river in the States. That is ground into small pieces about the size of a small pea, a piece of tissue is tak en from an oyster and two pieces of that with the round ball of Mother - of - Pearl is inserted in an oyster and it takes three to four years to grow. “From there we went in the room where holes are bored in the pearls, also where they are sorted for size, color and quality. 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