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Page Two THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THE PILOT Published Each Friday by THE PILOT. INCORPORATED Southern Pines. North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944 KATHARINE BOYD • Editor VALERIE NICHOLSON Asst. Editor DAN S. RAY Gener^ Meager C. G. COUNCIL Advertising , Subscription Rates; One Year $3.00 6 Months $1.50 3 Months 75c Entered at the Postoffice at Swthern Pines. N. C., as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Association and N. C. Press Association Red Cross - Good Neighbor Though campaigns for one cause or another have multiplied during the past few years al most to the point of exhaustion, there are a few which stand out with universal appeal. It is well to remember, as March brings the annual membership drive of the American Red Cross, that this was the first of them all. Since World War 1 days and through the years of the annual “Roll Call” the Red Cross has been in there pitching, and has solidly established itself as a national necessity and a help in time of trouble. The American Red Cross was chartered by Congress to fill definite needs, and has shoul dered its obligations with distinction. These charter obligations are so vital that if they were not supported by citizen response, they would have to be supported by taxhtion. They repre sent the obligation of man to man in time of distress—the sort of distress which can happen to anyone, through no fault of his own. The charter obligation of home service to ness and relief takes the Red Cross instantly to the scene of major disaster, whether caused by fire, flood, hurricane or railroad wreck. The only thing predictable about such disaster is that It will strike—somewhere, somehow. Ev- Qxy year the list of them is great and terrifying. This winter, for’instance, floods in the central plains and blizzards in the west haye necessi tated Red Cross rescue and relief operations on a grand scale. Two railroad wrecks last month brought Red Cross service into instant play. If only for the disaster service alone, we would feel the Red Cross deserved our full support. The charter obligation of home service to . the serviceman, the veteran and his family was necessitated by the fact that this is a natipn whose defense forces are made up of millions of civilians. The man in uniform leads a double life—he is soldier and civilian both, with re sponsibilities belonging to each, and the Red Cross forms the necessary, important link be tween the two. This work goes on every day in multi-detailed routine, everywhere a service man has home ties ,or a veteran lives and works. Numerous other services are rendered accord ing to the needs of each “home front.” The Red Cross has had, will always have, its ups and downs, plus criticism from those who think they know better how it should operate and what it should do. The Red Cross, which does know its job and has proved it over many ' years, goes right on doing what needs to be ' done, in a way to be admired, loved—and sup ported. Serving widely in natural disasters and in the vast man-made disaster of war, it can make none'of these a bed of roses. No agency can- but it can, and does, save lives, bring comfort, alleviate suffering and illness, extend a swiftly helping hand in time of need. Made up largely of volunteers, supported by the people’s funds, the Red Cross acts for us as the Good Neighbor we should all like to be. The following remarkable story is reprinted from the Humane Review, under the title ONOi BLIND DOE SEES NOW The buck fell to the ground, just as the first rays of the sun were creeping through the trees, and as he fell, three deer fled into the nearby trees. When the hunters approached they found a tall, graceful doe standing quietly behind toe fallen buck. A curious look in her expression caused one of the hunters to move his hand swiftly before her eyes.' She did not blink or start, for she was blind. It was then that the hunters noticed that she held the tip end of the buck’s tail firmly in her mouth. She had been led along the trail by the buck who was acting as a guide for the magnifi cent but .totally blind deer. The hunter, with great understanding, grasp ed the tip of the tail held firmly in the doe’s teeth and proceeded carefully back to their camp. Today, in a park in Salt Lake City, the once blind doe grazes peacefully in the warm suri, where she lives in comfort. Her eyesight has been restored by an operation. No Mercy In Mercy Death It was testified at the trial of Dr. Hermann M. Sander, being tried in connection with the death of a cancer patient, that when Mrs. Abbie Borroto’s husband learned that air injected in her veins would bring a “mercy death,” he ex claimed, “Thank God!” That exclamation, we think, illuminates the whole twisted ideal of “mercy killing”; for it was not God who is to be thanked, but the doc tor and his hypodermic needle. If it is true the air injection brought on Mrs. Borroto’s death, God had nothing to do with it. Rather, one of His basic laws was broken by man playing God, dealing with matters beyond his ken and his authority. It appears the injection as actual cause of death may come in for dispute, but there seems to be no contention as to Dr. Sander’s intent, nor the reason for it. Tom as we may be by human pity for all concerned, we feel that Dr. Sander through human failing attempted to make wrong right; that this was a weak thing to do, not a strong—^reprehensible, in no way justifiable. Compassion is the finest emotion of man’s soul, but it is just that—an emotion. 'When laws of God and man, broken for emotional reasons, meet with approval moral chaos results. If Dr. Sander’s act is condoned, it will be time for a wider compassion: for other doctors, now clear in their sense of duty, who will then be confused; for relatives of ill people, tortured by dark, dangerous thoughts freed of moral re straint; for the ill and suffering themselves, trusting in God but at the mercy of man’s erratic will. Lost will be the star we steer by. 'With no authority other than man himself, “mercy death” can become merciless death in the time it takes a dying man to sigh. Red Cross Campaign Poster for 1950 pose of the Union was to get stu dents to think. “In his talk to the Kiwanigns he continued his poUcy of trying to get people to think by enlarging on the motto of Kiwanis Interna tional for 1950= “Aggressive Cit izenship—Safeguard of Democ racy.” The speaker made it clear that his idea of the meaning of the motto was for citizens to par ticipate in their government and be informed about it on the state, national and local levels, and to demand efficiency and economy on all three.” Bright boy, that ’Voit—wish we could tell you just how bright! He effectively hushed the mouth of Grains of Sand on the subject of his office warming, which we had plaintively men tioned as overdue. . . He got the best of us, all right, and some day we’ll tell you just how he did it, and made us like it, too. . . ■We’re still a little puzzled, our selves. After writing all those news Friday. March 3. lasjpl - stories telling citizens they shoulgil ask for credentials of all house-t( house salesmen—including a pe mit from the town—we did th;^^ ourself when we met two lads c^’g our front porch selling brooms. ^ We found out they were tw, fine boys from Pinebluff, Tyner and Jack David, Eag^jJ Scout, selling the brooms in ' Lions' Club project to help tl blind. . . We bought a broom hope you did, too. Approximately 1.5 billion boai feet of timber is cut from Nor Carolina’s forests each year. PIANOS Cole Piano Company Neill A. Cole Prop. Piano Sales and Service Phone 92-L Three Points Sanforc Seen Across Anr Abyss A friend of ours once had a very horrible ex perience. Staying as a guest in a mountain ho tel, she could' look from her bedroom window many miles across a valley to ^other mountains. From a tunnel made small by distance she could see occasionally a miniature train emerge, puff ing tiny gusts of smoke, and make its way across a toy trefetle. It was all so far away she could hear no sound. One day she saw walking on the trestle a young man and girl. Seen across the valley they looked like dolls. Suddenly from the little tunnel came the. little train. The dolls saw it too, and moved faster but not fast enough. They ran but the little train caught up with them and ran over them. There was no sound. So, transfixed, helpless, horrified, we have had to watch from afar the relentless drama of Robert Vogeler’s trial and conviction at the hands of the Hungarian government, followed by the mysterious death of his friend, Capt. Eugene Karpe. If from these small, far figures have come screams of anguish we have not been able to hear them. Only in our imagination can these screams resound—desperate cries for help which their hearts hoped would come, though their minds knew it could not. And a great nation has had to sit immobile, staring across the distance not only between one nation and another, one side of the earth and another but between communism and democra cy: a measureless abyss. Some way rnust be found across the abyss. Or is this an impossible task of State Depart ment engineering—are we licked before we begin? More Negro Policemen The use of Negro policemen in Southern cities and towns continues to grow. The latest com pilation by the Southern Regional Council shows 62 cities and towns in 12 Southern states employ 101 uniformed Negro policemen, 33 Ne gro plainclothesmen and seven Negro police women. In October, 1947, a similar survey by the council showed that 46 Southern cities were using a total of 236 law enforcement officers. A year later 54 Southern cities were employing 279. The capitals of all Southern states except Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Kentucky now use Negro police. More cities and towns in Florida—a total of 14—use Negro policemen than in any other Southern state. North Carolina runs Florida a close second with 12 cities. Texas has nine cities and towns making use of Negro police. Colum bia, S. C., and Atlanta are the latest state capi tals to adopt the practice. About half the cities and towns in the South nO'W using Negro policemen in Negro areas have adopted this practice since 1940. Five cities have employed Negro policemen since 1920, and nine since 1930. Agencies concerned with improving racial • relations in the South have long advocated the wider use of Negro police in Negro areas as a means of deferring crime and easing racial ten sions. Cities report the use of the Negro officers invariably is effective in increasing respect for law and order. —N. Y. Herald Tribune This simple but forceful picture, symbolic of Red Cross service, is the work of Stevan Dohanos, noted magazine artist. Grains of Sand They need $1,000 for a “blue baby” down at Ellerbe, and they don’t care if 1,000 folks show up with $1 each at a dance the local Legion post is having Saturday night ... All the money will go to pay for an operation for little Frances Lee Dawkins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Dawkins. Cliff McLeod, commander of Richmond County Post 73 at El lerbe, writes us t^at they have se cured Dick Levin and his State College orchestra to play . . . The dance will be in the old gym at Ellerbe, from 8 p. m. to 12 mid night and we hope lots of our lo- The Public Speaking A GOOD CAUSE Editor Pilot: I want to take this opportunity to thank you on behalf of the Moore County district of the Boy Scouts of America for the splen did publicity that you gave Boy Scout week in your paper. Such publicity does a great deal to ad vertise the merits of the Boy Scout organization and at the same time build confidence with the' general public in the splendid work that is being done among the boys of our community. All of us who are actively en gaged in Boy Scout work in Moore county greatly appreciate * your fine cooperation in helping us to keep the public informed of our worthwhile activities, and we are particularly grateful for the space that you gave during Boy Scout week. Thanking you for all that you have done and with kindest per sonal regards, I am Sincerely yours, W. LAMONT BROWN cal Legionnaires and other folks will go. A novel means of censorship of the local public’s reading matter has been brought to our attention. A lady who did not approve of a certain book in the Southern Pines library first tried to buy it, then when Miss Amy Churchill, librarian, told her the books there were not for sale, borrowed it and now refuses to bring it back . . . The book is “Biography of a Vir ginal Mind,” by Dakin ... It is about Mary Baker Eddy, of whom Author Dakin did not approve and he wrote a whole book to say so. Now, the lady, who does ap prove of Mrs. Eddy, has hit on this way of stopping circulation of Da kin’s views, at leEist as far as Southern Pines is concerned . . . Which has changed her from a borrower to a larcenist, and put the Library in an embarrassing spot. The lady undoubtedly has wor thy motives . . . but we doubt if Mary Baker Eddy would approve her methods. NOW OPEN PINE CLUB Formerly Pine Valley Inn On old Pinehurst Road A Bil of Old France in the Pines LUNCHEON DINNER ENGLISH BRIDGE TEA SUPPER MIDNIGHT BREAKFAST—WITH MUSIC Cosmopolitan Cuisine with Wines For Reservations Call Blanchette Southern Pines 6864 GOOD FRIDAY Kindness To Animals Boy Scout week is over, but kindness to ani mals, one of the cardinal principles in the Boy Scout book of rules, goes on, whether it is prac ticed by young scouts or scouts grown up. Little Woman, Hail A PHT differs from a Ph. D. as help differs from self-help. The University of Colorado is informally giving the lesser known “degree” to wives of GI students for “Putting Husbands Through’ and helping husbands to help them selves to an education under the GI Bill Rights. As a woman member of the board of regents explains “Any senior’s wife who has pushed, pulled, and put her husband through the Uni versity of Colorado, who has contributed econ omically, domestically, and otherwise to her husband’s education, who has learned tO' wash her husband’s clothes and her children in the same sink, deserves full recognition.” Hollywood has already paid tribute to the GI college wife with a delightful and shrewd comedy, “Apartment for Peggy.” Statistics pay even higher tribute to her patience and ingen uity in “making do” in order that the titular head of the family may make good. Now aU that is necessary is the final tribute from the veteran of battles who is at the same time a bachelor of arts and a husband of parts. —Christian Science Monitor To the Pilot: As a Christian nation it should be our desire not only to give rec ognition and thanks to Qod for our civil freedom and prosperity, but greater yet to give thanks to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, for what was done some 2,000 years ago, when He suffered a most cruel death in order that we might live. Good Friday, the day which commemorates that Death of Christ, will be observed this year on April 7. With this in mind, we would appreciate your helping in a movement in the State of North Carolina to request the Hon. W. Kerr Scott, Governor of the State, to proclaim the hours of 12 Noon to 3 p. m. of Good Friday, the hours of Christ’s Agony, as a special time of prayer and recol lection and that this time be fur ther commemorated by (1) the closing of schools at this time; and (2) the closing of places of busi ness (except essential public places) and amusement centers. Because of your position of leadership and influence through the press, we feel that your ap probation of this cause will carry great weight. In a world that is fast declin ing from the recognition of God and from the invocation of His name, we are hoping that this cooperative effort on the part of many Christians in North Caro lina will bring home the signifi cance of Good Friday to the peo ple of our State. Sincerely yours, NEIL BIRCH. Executive Secretary, N. C. Cath olic Laymen’s Association. No news . . . Billy Warner, Southern Pines High School grad uate, now a scholarship-winning sophomore at Harvard, again made the dean’s list at this great university. When Billy DOESN’T make the dean’s list... THAT will be news.' Congratulations to the Char lotte Observer on its 212-page, three-pound special edition of Tuesday, giving in magnificent style the story of Charlotte, fast est-growing city in the Carolinas ... Its progress in the past 50 years has been phenomenal, as this mighty edition bears witness. We note in one * headline, “Women Have Played Part- In City’s Growth” . . . Well! And another, “Bus Industry Has Come Long Way in 30-Year Period” ... It could come farther ... It could come as far as South ern Pines. A story by Senator Hoey re veals that in 1891, when hfe was 17 years old, he began his career in the great world setting type (by hand) for the Chatlotte Ob server. “Delicious and Refreshing” ... Four of the charming flower ar rangement paintings used by Mrs. Ferdinand Wilcox to illustrate her lecture on iris Monday night were by courtesy of the Coca Cola com pany . . . She’d like to give credit where credit is due, and, as for us, we’re happy to kno-w our nickels for Cokes go into such a fascinating form of promotion. Mrs. Wilcox, who spoke at the library building as guest of the Garden club, said the arrange ments were made by a friend of hers, Mrs. Burroughs. From the Hoke County Journal: “Guest speaker at the regular meeting of the Raeford Kiwanis club last Thursday night was Voit Gilmore, Southern Pines lumber man. Mr. Gilmore, an accom plished speaker, 'Was presented to the club by Kiwanian Buck Blue. Gilmore may 'be remembered by some as having headed the Caro lina Political Union at the Uni versity of North Carolina some years ago. He was given consid erable publicity at that time for his advocacy of the policy of bringing speakers of all creeds and beliefs to the University to be heard. These included people ranging from Henry Wallace to Harry Byrd, Franklin D. Roose velt to Paul Robeson and Harry Bridges. Gilmore thought the pur- DR. DAVID W. WHITEHEAD OPTOMETRIST EYES EXAMINED GLASSES FITTED Hours 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. daily except Saturday (Wednesday afternoon, close at 1 p. m.) Telephone 6982—-Hart Building—Southern Pines. N. C. TYNER & COMBS CONTRACTING Painting and Wall Papering SOUTHERN PINES. N. C. O. C. Combs Pinebluff 313 G. W. Tyner Southern Pines 58C^ ANTIQUES 675 South West Broad Street ALLiE McIntosh Southern Pines Telephone 6452 DRY CLEANING SERVICE PROMPT MODERATE Ci//^ RADIO AND TELEVISION STAR UNNY ROSS RADIO AND RECORDING ARTIST FRAN WARREN FAMOUS SPORTSCASTER BILL STERN special 1. YES, CAMELS ARE SO Mill that in a coast-to-coost tel cf hundreds of men women who smoked Cat... — and only Camels — for . days, noted throat si ists, making weekly i nations, reported NOT ONE SINGLE CAS OF THROAT IRRITATIOi due to smoking CAMELS
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