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THE PILOT
Published Each Friday by
THE PILOT. INCORPORATED
Soulhern Pines. North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944
KATHARINE BOYD Editor
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Brolherhood Month
Because Lincoln’s birthday comes in Febru
ary, .this month has been dedicated to Human
Brotherhood and the Sunday nearest it, and
this year it is the 12th,. to the improvement of
Race Relations.
Students of Lincoln and his philosophy must
find food for thought in considering what he
would think and do if he were here today. Cer
tainly there has never been a time when the
message that he had for the world, the belief
in human brotherhood, was more important.
It has become a truism to point out that while
man has reached incredible heights of material
and scientific progress, in the field of human
relations he is, comparatively speaking, only
a few steps removed from his hairy ancestors.
As scientific marvels have been discovered, as
one thing after another has been turned to use
by his fertile and ingenious brain, the scope for
man’s activities has immeasurably widened. He
goes farther, quicker, but how he acts when he
gets there remains just about the same. ;
Down though the ages there have been those
who have pointed this out and have suggested
other ways of thought and action. They have
generally met an early and disagreeable death,
but their uncomfortable ideas have persisted.
Answering the constant painful yearning in
men’s hearts, they have supplied the vision of
something better, the hope of a good society
where men might live in equality and peace.
In the terrible urgency of these times, this
spiritual yearning has suddenly taken on reality
and become vitally important. For the first
time, it is clearly apparent that unless we do
something practical about this business of hu
man brotherhood, we will be swept off the face
of the earth in fairly short order.
'There is always, the hope, of course, that if
human brotherhood has become a practical nec
essity, this world of practical men will find
some way of achieving it. But they will have
tO' change some of their deepest instincts. In
herent in the idea is both humbleness of spirit
and a recognition of the mutual rights and as
pirations of mankind; notions singularly at
variance with the general practice.
We shall have to extend our spiritual outlook
as we have extended our material achieve
ments, if we are to succeed in the supreme task
that lies ahead.
TH£ PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
FridaF> February 10. 1950
Senator McMahon Speaks Out
In the debate about whether or not to make
the hydrogen bomb, thj^ weapon which, the
scientists tell us, may turn on its rnakers and
wipe civilization from the earth. Senator Mc
Mahon, chairman of the Joint Congressional
Atomic Energy Committee, has spoken out
strongly for peace.
All over the land a great many people must
have" drawn a deep breath and uttered a fer
vent: “Thank God.”
At last someone speaks for peace; looks the
pfoblem in the eye and prepares to tackle it.
The real problem: for neither the atomic bomb
nor the hydrogen bomb are the real problem.
That remains what it has always been: how
can we achieve peace?
The senator warns that we cannot achieve it
through an armaments race. It is time, he says,
to try something else, and he turns toward the
way suggested by the Quakers, among many
others. He proposes (1) action on “point four”
of the President’s program of technical help
to the world’s underdeveloped areas, (2) econ
omic help to all countries, including Russia,
for peaceful uses.
Senator McMahon will be attacked for speak
ing out. There will be plenty of people to de
nounce him as impractical or un-American, bent
on sabotaging out foreign policy and the de
fense of the nation. But the senator should be
a hard man to scare. As head of the Atomic
Energy Committee he has had plenty of things
to be scared of, a good deal more formidable
than anything these critics can think up. Thqt
he realizes, now, the appalling nature of the
danger which faces the world is evident by the
very magnitude of the plan for peace which he
proposes. It is radical, it is tremendous in scope;
it poses conditions of the utmost difficulty. But
what is the alternative? Says Senator McMa
hon =
“Let me warn, with all the solemnity at
my command, that building hydrogen
bombs does not promise security for the
United States. It only promises the negative
result of averting, for a few months or
years, well-nigh certain catastrophe.
“Do not overlook the obvious — that
Soviet Russia broke our atomic bomb mon
opoly sooner than we had expected, and
she would break any hydrogen monopoly
that we enjoyed with equal or greater
speed.”
As Lovely As A Tree
The fact that we were not able to scare Rus
sia with the atomic bomb into quitting but only
spurred her on to manufacture it herself, indi
cates clearly that we cannot scare her with the
hydrogen bomb. It is time to do what Senator
McMahon pleads for: try another way to peace.
Last week the Pilot carried an editorial urg
ing the need for better care of the trees and
shrubs along'the streets of Southern Pines and
suggesting that expert advice as to planting
and pruning be secured. In the same issue was
another editorial on the subject of town ad-
vertisihg. While definitely in favor of spreading
the gospel of our town and section high, wide
and handsome, we held that this project might
best be accomplished through citizen action.
It was therefore doubly gratifying to find
that the Greensboro Daily News had reprinted
excerpts from the editorial on town planting,
heartily endorsing the point made and that, in
doing so, they had added some comments of
their own which, we are confident, will appeal
to our fellowtownsmen as a pretty good
piece of town advertising.
We take special satisfaction in printing be
low, the piece from the News, in which they
hit two Southern Pines birds with one very
fine editorial.
From the:
Report From Britain
GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS
(Feb. 5th)
A TOWN AS LOVELY AS A TREE
Noting that Southern Pines has been called
“one of the prettiest towns in this part of the
state,” the Southern Pines Pilot opines that it
is because of its trees, shrubs and planted park
ways. Says the Pilot:
There is nothing that has drawn so much
favorable comment. Our flowering shrubs
and our dogwoods, against their superb
background of dark magnolias and pines,
give an incomparably lovely effect to our
streets. When they start to bloom. Spring
truly breaks out all over.
No one realizes better than I
how wrong first impressions can
be and how futile generaliza
tions based, on a three weeks visit
to a country of nearly fifty mil
lion people, especially when the,
observer neither speaks nor reads
the language. But in Italy I was
lucky in having as interpreter the
highly voluble George Csabone,
an expert on local history who
has been in the land of his ances
tors since last October. I did talk
at length with several people who
spoke English, from the manage
of a good sized corporation to the
shine boy who .had picked up i
most of the American expressions!
which do not bear repetition.
At least a dozen busine^ss men
told me that they do not, cannot
obey the law. They agreed that if
a)\ enterpriser were to fill out all
forms honestly and pay all the
taxes levied that he would soon
go broke. There is considerable
hope of a revision of the Italian
tax structure but until that comes,
as one store owner put it, the
business man “must be looking to
subterfuge to survive.” It was the
Italians, I was told by a man who
kept on good terms with Musso
lini, the Germans, the,Americans,
and ‘ the present government,
“who taught the Germans how to
graft.”
Under such a system business
We’d go. farther than the modest claim of
the Pilot and say that Southern Pines is one
of the prettiest towns in any part of the state.
The reason is obvious. Its people have had the
sense and taste to utilize the trees and shrubs
that God has put in their neighborhood.
Any town in North Carolina could do the
same. All it needs is the will and the energy. A
small group with a friend on the city council
can do wonders. In a few years a town that
looked like “a beggarly account of empty
boxes” can blossom out. Even so, as the Pilot
intimates, you have to watch those tree haters
whose idea of pruning is to begin at the top
and work down to the roots.
‘ New Citizens Stepping Forward
DR JAMES W. SILVER, of
Southern Pines, University of
Mississippi history professor, is
now instructing in history at
Aberdeen university, Scotland, on
a Fulbright scholarship awarded
by the State department. His
“Report from Britain” will ap
pear in The Pilot during his year
abroad.
statistics must be largely mean
ingless because so much is never
reported. Even pay envelopes, in
some instances, are increased by
“under the counter” methods to
avoid the higher social taxation
which automatically comes with
greater wages. An official of an
American corporation, unsuccess
fully prosecuted for evasion of
taxes, was asked after the trial by
his Italian lawyer: “But where
do you keep your other set of
books?”
Business Difficulties
You might gather from this
that some business men, looking
back to the more orderly days of
the 1930’s, would be talking of
M'ussolini in terms of approba
tion. I am sure this is true but to
what extent I do not know. One
obviously well-off person not only
spoke of the “good old days” but
blamed the partisans for most of
the damage that came to Italy
during the war. According to Car
bone, convulsion in Italy could
always lead to a combination of
monarchists, ex-fascists, and dis
gruntled middle class powerful
enough to set up another fascist
tate.
The day before we left Italy,
government police in Modena
played right into the hands of
the Communists by killing' six
strikers, five of whom were under
twenty-two. One of these was the
third son of a wido-w who had lost
her other boys in the war. You
can imagine what the propaganda
machine of the Commies did with
a story like that. A sympathetic
work stoppage which delayed the
Grains of Sand
Certainly the pulse and pleasure of every
American must accelerate this week of Febru
ary 6-12—Boy Scout Week in the U. S. A.
“Breathes there a man” who does not ex
pand at the sight of growing things—spring
flowers, birds in a nest or BOYS, best of all?
Each year we celebrate Scout Week, we know
that our boys have advanced in learning many
important things through Scouting. Young peo
ple can rarely be taught singly what they can
learn in groups. 'There is the exchange of ideas,
mutual responsibility as well as individual,
wholesome and stimulating competition and a
quiet but deep adjustment in the great art of
getting along with one’s contemporaries.
In short, future citizens with full responsibil
ity are' being made under Boy Scout training.
The future business men, government officials,
writers, scientists, leaders of men, not only in
the. U. S. A. but, we hope, throughout the world.
It is not only the boy who is learning; the
families of scouts renew their interests through
his interests; the chat at the supper table after
a scout meeting or around the fire, that vital
center of American family life, is a medium of
helpful exchange of things learned. And, as
scouts learn citizenship, so parents renew and
reinforce their sense of public responsibility
by listening to their boys talk. Youth is a time
of ideals, big ones, beautiful ones, and as the
wear and tear of adult life dims, too often, the
ideals in us, it is good to have them rejuvenated
through our boys and what their Boy Scout or
ganization stands for.
That is another side of Boy Scout Week that
needs special comment, the organization. For
though it is the individual scout for -whom this
work for youth is carried on, the men who do
the work, who make scouting possible, are the
ones who deserve our grateful thanks. Most
of them are busy men, for in scouting, as in
so many other civic organizations, the old slo
gan: “if you want leadership get the man who
is already up to his ears in work” holds good,
but there are also men who have devoted them
selves utterly to this task, with whom scouting
is truly business. To both groups, the men ac
tually in the scouting and the ones who choose
to fill the spare minutes of a busy life working
for boys, go a special vote of thanks in Boy
Scout Week. '
Scouting is a task which calls on all hands to
make it successful: above all, perhaps, the pa
rents of scouts. But if the • latter occasionally
feel like sighing over the happy turmoil of
scouting: the lunches to put up, the bed-rolls to
be aired, the countless boys running in and out
of the house, they may take thought that they
are working hand in hand with an organization
that is bringing to manhood the citizens of our
country, citizens with whom we stand or fall as
a nation in a world of nations.
The first flying saucers, report
ed in these parts were sighted by
Mrs, Philip G. Shearman Monday
morning, coasting along in a se
date row about 9 o’clock, just
above the horizon back of her
home on the Midland road.
Mrs. Sherman, ordinarily no
seer of visions, says she took her
dog out back for an airing, look
ed up and there the saucers were
—six Igrge silvery disks, seeming
ly very far away, traveling at
leisurely pace one behind the
other. She watched them till they
disappeared over the airport, then
went id the house and phoned her
hysband down at the Chamber of
Commerce office.
Colonel Shearman, we under
stand, is bending his brains to
seeing how this can be used in
promotional material about
Southern Pines. We are listening
out for Other reports from those
who may have seen the curious
phenomenon, but so far have not
heard any.
Southern Pines Carthage. Mustn’t
expect a little thing like accuracy.
Silvers at the French border for
twenty-four hours indicates how
a few key workers may disrupt an
industrial country. Apparently
the Communists concentrate their
efforts in the Modena-Bologna-
Reggio area where disturbances
may paralyse transportation and
communication systems which
link Rome and the north of Italy.
Two eminent Italian historians
believe that sooner or later there
will be an attempted Communist
coup in this section, but Carbone,
who talked at length with them,
doesn’t think that the present re^
vised government can be over
thrown by force', particularly in
view of the recent landing of
enough American equipment to
outfit twelve divisions.
Explosive Condition
Italy, though not exhausted by
the war as were Germany, Russia,
and Britain, will for a long time
remain in an explosive condition
There are too myny Italians foi
the country’s resources. Unem
ployment at the present is dan^
gerous only in the South, agri
cultural and held in a state
colonial economy. In all section
wages allow only subsistence liv
ihg and the workers are aware o
unbelievable luxury for the few
Pension plans are a farce and fac
tories do not take on men in thei
forties. Child labor laws are large
ly ignored. On top of this is th
inescapable fact of animosity be
tween the people of the North an
the South. North Italians, Nordi
(Continued on Page 3)
Maybe we’d better " go back to
just plain old-fashione'd “Sun
day.” This week, the national
game of dedicating Sundays and
weeks for special observances has
run into trouble. This Sunday; It
appears, is both Race Relations
Sunday and Boy Scout Sunday.
Though, actually, there’s noth
ing wrong with that. If there is
one thing the Boy Scout organi
zation stands for it is equality
and brotherhood. Moore (bounty
scouting includes many Negro
troops, boys and girls; and their
standing is very high indeed.
But how the local ministers
solve the problem of preaching
about both things in the same
sermon will be interesting. For
one thing, it will show how well
they understand Race Relations
and Scouting.
With North Carolina’s own Jef
ferson-Jackson Day dinner now
gloriously in the past, it is of in
terest to note that our own Rep.
C. B. Deane will be the main
speaker at the Jefferson-Jackson
Day rally of the Young Demo
crats of Summit county, Ohio, to
be held at Akron Monday night.
Congressman Deqne, now rec
ognized as an outstanding south
ern liberal in the House, accept
ed the invitation on request of
the Democratic National commit
tee. Knowing C. B. to be a sin
cere and well-informed speaker,
we bet he’ll do an outstanding job
for the Summit County YDC.
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IRWIN CONFUEUESES
THE ISSUEUE
From England’s Conservative-
Labor brawl comes a confusing
echo of English spelling book
troubles.
In a land where “cue” is spelled
“queue,” “jail” is “gaol” and, ac
cording to some conservative
thinkers, “show” is still spelled
shew,” Mr. Winston Churchill
warns that if the King’s subjects
conform to the Socialist govern-
Ever since Russell Lorenson, as
treasurer, put the Rotary club on
a “pay - for - your - lunch -
whether - you - eat - it - or - not
basis, attendance at the weekly
luncheon meetings has gone up.
. Just how good it was, the mem
bers didn’t know until Russell
made his report last week on at
tendance since he took office July
1. . . It was a whopping 94 per
cent.
The last two meetings in Jan
uary registered 100| per cent at
tendance, and so,' technically
speaking, did the first one in Feb
ruary. . . T'wo members were ab
sent, but they were lunching with
Rotarians elsewhere that week,
to keep up their good attendance
records.
We doubt if many civic clubs in
the county can touch that.
A Private School for children under fourteen.
Music, Handicrafts, Sports. • Resident pupils received
Kindergarten Department
MRS. MILLICENT A. HAYES, Principal
JOHN C. PARRISH
Plumbing and Heating
Day Phone 6893 Soulhern Pines Night Phone 6814
Lady we know had occasion to
call up the Governor the other
day. . . It was on the weekend,
and she found he wasn’t at Ra
leigh but had gone to his farm
home at Haw River. . . “Well get
him for me there,” she told Oper
ator. . . The call had to be routed
•through Burlington, and fehe
heard her operator say “Southern
Pines calling Governor Scott’.
ment and stand in line for food, ‘‘We have no Governor Scott list-
England, failing to reach Utopia, came a cool voice at the
will soon become a Queuetopia. | other end. ■ • “Good heavens, you
the horrid prospect, all hog-tied j know v:ho he IS, don’t you?”
in English spelling, inspires the squawked our girl. . . “We have
.. .-1 i: a W Knrr Scott.” said the other
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following acrobatic limericks:
Queuetopia, forming in queues
Is something I hope we
won’t eueuese;
For going to gaol
In case we should faol
Is a prospect that gives
me the blueues
Though children the stunt'
might amueuese.
To get into line I’d refueuese;
I’d do it to shew
I’m aloof, don’t you knew.
To those queuerious, ,
fueuerious queues!
—^Wallace Irw(n
Proofreader’s comment:
■WHUEUE!”
lijf
On tim cover of the Carolina
Motor Club’s magazine “GO,” thJs
month, is a sight for sore eye^:
one of Emerson Humphries’ fiine
nhotographs of the Moore County
Hounds out on the old hun ter
trials course. Inside is the fsur-
nrising comment that “/tlO’s
cover has gone to the dogs-‘with
the Moore County hounds ; near
Carthage, N. C.” j
Gone to the dogs, indeed. But
of course anyone that wi|l call
hounds dogs is likely t)o call
a W. Kerr Scott,” said the other
operator inflexibly.
In Bygone Days
' TEN YEARS AGO
Mrs. L. D. McDonald, Mrs.
Wade Stevick and Mrs. Esther
(McDaniel are chairmen of a style
show held at the Civic club, with
society models wearing gowns
from local shops.
Dr. John A. Rice, president of
Black Mountain dollege, speaks
on education before the Sand
hills Kiwanis club.
N. C. Petroleum Industries hold
meeting at Highland Pines Inn,
with Carl Goerch as speaker.
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Murdoch M. Johnson, Aber
deen attorney, announces for
state senate.’
Governor O. Max Gardner, va
cationing at Pinehurst, plays
round of golf with Mrs. William
C. Mudgett and Miss Kay Wil
liams.
The town is draining Piney
Woods lake, through a five-foot
culvert placed midway between
New York avenue and Page
street.
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