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THE PILOT
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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North CAroIina
1941 JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944
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quire much sacrifice, courage and patience,
but it is already working and, if. we stick to
it, there is every reason to believe we can save
the peace. ^
Less needling, less {lokum; more frankness
■and straightjtfromi-theyshouldet talk; thalt if
what the American people need and,> we submit,
that is what they want.
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articles which will appear weekly pgj. year. Considering the size of
Frf^^Y' June 16. 1950
Within a short space of time A. j make up. The edition of May 23,
An Important Election
It appears to date that both candidates for the
second primary will be restrained in pressing
their causes.
This is not surprising. It will make little
change for Senator Graham- who has, from the
start, been content to let his record speak for
itself. Restraint will, however, be a direct
shift in tactics in the campaign of his opponent,
but it was also to be expected. Clearly, in the
first test of strength, the Smith campaign of
attack by smear and innuendo boomeranged
against the attackers. Even North Carolinians
who opposed Graham began to resent the slurs
against their university president and junior
senator. It was a complete underestimation of
the political intelligence and sense of fair play
of the voters and was resented as such.
It is interesting to look back over the cam
paigns of the past and to note how, almost inva
riably, that sort of attack falls flat and reacts
against those making it. It is one of the most
encouraging qualities of Americans, their in
nate skepticism and stubbornness to such prop
aganda.
It is a relief to find that this second test will
be conducted on a more honorable plane and
with a minimum of noise. However, there is
one danger that we must watch out for. The fact
that Reynolds has announced that he will try
to throw his supporters to Smith, which was to
be expected, makes it certain that there will be
the utmost endeavor to capture these votes. That
means quiet pressure, if not open campaigning.
It is just as important as it was before for all
voters to study the issues carefully, to study
the men behind them and to take this election
with the utmost seriousness. It is an iniportant
one, deeply important for North Carolina and
for the nation. As our nation leads -the free
world today, the outcome of this election of a
senator of the state that leads the South may
have the farthest-reaching consequences.
Crackdown On Speeding
Fifteeen speeders pleading guilty before
J. Vance Rowe Monday, plus one who offered
a tacit plea by failing to appear—thus forfeit
ing a cash bond—indicate that the crackdown
on speeding in Moore is being taken seriously
by our law enforcement officers.
Several cases of drunken driving and other
safety law violations brought the number up
still higher.
We do not know how many of the arrests
took place on US Highway 1 or its feeders, but
undoubtedly a goodly percentage of them did,
and well they might.
A young man arrested on US 1 for driving 70
miles an hour, and compelled to put up a cash
bond which he intended to forfeit, complained
fuj-y to a Pilot reporter that this kind of
thing will kill your tourist business.
“I know I’ll never come on this highway
again,” he declared in wrath, “and I’ll tell all
my friends, too.” To a suggestion that he might
have driven a little slower, he admitted, “May
be that was a little fast but I can drive perfectly
well at 70. Everything’s under control!”
That is exactly the attitude which has for
years caused wrecks up and down US 1, many
of them fatal, and for our part, we’d just as
soon lose that kind of tourist business. In fact,
we believe it hurts the real tourist business for
a highway to get a reputation of being a killer.
US 301 and other north-south routes are, as
far as we are concerned, welcome to the young
man who, at 70 mph, thinks he ha,s everything
under control,” and to his friends too. We’ll bank
on the kind of people who prefer to drive where
they are not.
And we’ll continue to count on our vigilant
patrolmen and policemen, and our county court,
not only to protect us from such death-dealing
speed demons, but also to teach the facts of
life to those members of our own citizenry who
persist in speeding, drunken driving and the ig
noring of simple safety laws.
Dat Ole Racial Issue
The Long Pull
To listen to the president’s speech last Satur
day was to be conscious in a special sense of the
difficulty which the international situation im
poses on this country.
President Truman recounted all the details of
our foreign policy in their complications and
their dangers but, while these themselves are
in all conscience difficult enough, it is what lay
behind the speech that poses the greatest diffi
culty. Or what did not lie behind it. Those who
listened sought in vain for something to take
hold of. There was nothing: the speech'was as
dead as last week’s headlines.
The reason was, of course, because it was last
week’s headlines, and the week before and the
week before that. It was as deathly familiar as
was Senator McMahon’s speech before the UN
Association in Philadelphia last week. Both he
and the president said the same things over
and over that hhve been said over and over for
the past year.
' The truth is that there is little else to say and
will be little else and therein lies the difficulty,
perhaps the greatest difficulty that faces us and
those on this side of the iron curtain. How are
we going to keep on our toes? How are we going
to keep up the terrific efforts demanded of us
through the long pull that lies ahead?
This problem is especially critical because we
.are new at this sort of thing and we are faced
by a team of experts. It is not necessary to re
call the Russian defense of the siege of Stalin
grad, when this great people held out for months
under the most gruelling ponditions, to realize
what we are up against. We need only remem
ber accounts of committee meetings with Soviet
delegates, or even of Russian entertainments, to
realize that holding out and wearing down are
routine Soviet tactics. They are past masters of
the long pull. , .
How shall we stack up against them?. History
gives little indication, for though we have al
ways responded superbly to the stimulus of dan
ger or a mighty cause, we have had little ex
perience with the long pull. To judge by the
president’s speech, and those of other adminis
tration leaders, we are still fumbling the ball.
Thus far, the leadership has been inept and con
fusing, veering from good news one moment to
hectic needling of Congress with strident mes
sages of woe the next. This is a poor start for
the long pull.
It is high time that our leaders got together
and took the people into their confidence with
some straight and sane talk. We dp not believe
that the American people will become compla
cent and over-confident, as the president warn
ed, but there is grave danger that they may be
come both confused and disgusted, if they con-^
tinue to be fed the same old tale.
Above all things they need to hear that the
phrase “cold war” has been stricken from our
vocabulary. We are working for peace, not for
war of any sort. We believe that peace can be
attained through strengthening the forces of
democracy everywhere, both spiritually, materi
ally, and militarily. That and the upbuilding and
atupholding of international law and coopera
tion for the good of all through the UN is
the aim of our foreign policy. It will re
in The Pilot.)
By Charles Macauley
THE FREE PRESS
1898-1907
THE FREE PRESS, the sixth
newspaper of Southern Pines, was
'established by Emmett D. Oslin,
a native of Virginia, on Novem
ber 18, 1898,» and continued
through 1907. The first seven is
sues in this collection were print
ed elsewhere and were blanket
sheets of four pages, size 19 1-2
by 25 inches, eight columns to the
page with the motto “The Old
North State Forever” on the ban
ner head. Mr. Oslin in his first is
sue states that illness has pre
vented his arrival in Southern
Pines and that delay in the ar
rival of machinery has been em
barrassing. This box on the banner
head explained the policy of the
new paper.
THE FREE PRESS WILL
TAKE ITS PLACE at the
head of the list of newspa
pers in North Carolina. It will
be live, progressive, and asks
for support purely upon its
merit. This section is the cen
tre of the famous NORTH
CAROLINA FRUIT INTER
ESTS, famed alike for its
genial climate, pure atmos
phere and the healing, health
giving ozone of the “piney
woods” region, and we wish to
“ADVERTISE IT TO THE
WORLD.”
Numbers 8 and 9 are missing,
but Number 10 is in the new for
mat 15 by 10 inches, the banner
head and box being dropped. The
paper was printed in the Oslin
home and office building on South
Bennett street. Here for
the season of 1900-1 the PRESS
issued an attractive “Town Book
let” featuring the homes, stores
and hotels and the advantages of
Southern Pines. No. 19 of Vol. 2
was a special “Chautauqua Edi
tion” with many illustrations.
In this form the FREE PRESS
continued until 1907, the various
the town and its sparse popula
tion during the off season the
paper was a newsy one and car
ried most of the merchants as
regular advertisers. Competition,
beginning with the BULLETIN in
1901, and the TOURIST in 1903,
was a losing battle for Mr. Oslin
who changed the form of his
paper to the old blanket sheet in
1907, and some time that year re
moved to Cocoa, Fla., where he
purchased the Rockledge News.
He died in Melbourne, Fla., No
vember 6, 1913.
This file contains 21 issues of
Vol. 1 1898-1899. Of Vol. 2 1899
1900, 39 issues. Vol. 3, 1900-1901,
49 issues. Vol. 4, 1901-1902, 44 is
sues. Vol. 5 1902-1903, 35 issues.
Vol. 6 1903-4, 17 issues. Vol. 7
1904-1905, 2 issuer in all 207 num
bers.
THE SOUTHERN PINES
BULLETIN
1901
An item in the Free Press of
July 5, 1901, states that the Bulle
tin is a new paper in Southern
Pines, the Moore County Tribune
at Carthage having sold its out
fit to A. M. Clark. M. B. Clark is
editor. A subsequent item in the
issue of October 10, 1902, notes
the discontinuance of the Bulletin
The first issue we have of
Southern Pines’ 7th paper is dated
October 4, 1901, and is numbered
13 of Volume 5. Clark must hdve
taken his numbering from the
Carthage paper as his first issue^
that of July 1901, would have
been No. 1 of Volume 1. The paper
was a large sheet of four pages,
32 by 18 inches, seven columns
M. Clark erected a new building'
near the feed store on “Hogan’s
Alley” later known as Paradise
Alley, and still later as Jefferson-
Places to house the Bulletin. The
issues we have are numbers 15
and 47 of Vol. 5, and numbers 8-
10 and 12 of Vol. 6. These carry
the paper to September 19, 1902.
There is much confusion in the
numbering and in changes in the
1902, is 17 by 13 inches 8 pages
5 columns and the issue of August
22nd is back to 4 pages, but 6 col
umns. The late C. C. Kitchell had
about ten copies of the Bulletin,
and the Ayer Agericy lists the
paper as in existence 1901-1905,
but there is nothing to show that
Mr. Clark resumed publication ' |
after his sale to the new TOUR
IST in November 1903.
in ~ -
coniiimt;u .located in a building in the alley
issues running from four to eight I in the rear of the Jefferson Inn.
(Tom Best in Gieeaaboto Ne'ws)
All over the United States there is interest in
the North Carolina senatorial contest and almost -
universally this faraway public looks upon the
race as a competition between a conservative
lawyer and a liberal university president.
Which means that Attorney Willis Smith in
the United States Senate would be governed
grfeatly by the precedents of that body, and that
Senator Graham would go along more enthusias
tically. with the modern trends in politics and
business. Apparently very few, if any, of the
observers living at a distance have expected
the contest to boil down to a new effort to re
vive the Negro question in North Carolina, but
the first primary proved it and nothing so far
has happened to indicate a new strategy on the
part of anybody who participated in the first
campaign.
Deep regret has been expressed that any re
sponsible citizen in North Carolina would coun
tenance a campaign which was outmoded m
North Caroling 30 years ago. There is just one
thing to do wherever this ignoble issue is rais
ed: Tell the raiser to look at the record.
It is heard that throughout rural North Caro
lina, there are campaign canards that Senator
Frank Graham favors the abolition of bi-racial
schools, the intermixing of the races on all
levels, the teaching of white schools by Negro
instructors, and the unsegregated assembling of
all our children, white and black, in the same
schools. One would list that sort of base fiction
as too stiipid for even a lowgrade moron, but
unfortunately, it is believed by people who
aren’t stupid.
But let us look at the record, as A1 Smith
would say. For 19 years Senator Frank Graham
was president of the University of North Caro
lina. In all that time lio Negro ever registered
there. Is it possible that in that long era he
could not have done something against segrega
tion? Is it not strange that no suit so far has
been brought toi litigation in our courts? North
Carolina has been regarded the haven of liberals
in the South. Yet Negro postulants have gone
to the courts and gained entrance into the grad
uate courses of other white universities. They
have not been admitted to Dr. Graham’s univer
sity. We think we know why. They have found
a friendly North Carolina gradually abolishing
discriminations and they think North Carolina
will meet constitutional requirements whatever
the cost.
This has happened under the presidency of
Dr. Graham, the man stigmatized as “our great
liberal.” Let’s look at the record of other fine
North Carolinians. We have in Washington Sen
ator Clyde Hoey, Representatives Barden, Bon
ner, Bulwinkle, Carlyle, Chatham, Cooley,
Deane, Doughton, Durham, Jones, Kerr and
Redden. If there is a North Carolina member
who popularly is credited with extreme liberal
ism, no such charge has been made.
The point is that the conservatives in Wash
ington have not been able to slow down the
“liberalism” of the Congress, the Truman ad
ministration, or the U. S. Supreme Court, but
Senator Graham has fared well in his own state
which so far has not had imposed upon it by
new court decisions or by re-affirmations of old,
any of the odious civic rights demands made by
President Truman and the Northern leaders of
the Democratic party. Senator Graham as the
University leader merits better treatment on his
record than his calumniators have given hirn.
with'the label, “There’s a chiel
amang ye takin’ notesj and faith,
he’ll prent ’em.” M. B. Clark, Edi
tor and Proprietor. Clark’s name
was Milton but he was never
known as anything else but
“Mitt.” He was the son of A. M.
Clark, one of our earliest settlers.
The BULLETIN was printed on
a Washington hand press set up
O. P. Johnson’s feed store, then
With three graduations in the
family within a week. Dr. and
Mrs. J. J. Spring solved the prob
lem by dividing forces . . . Mrs.
Spring went north? to Mary Ruth s
graduation Monday at the College
of Our Lady of- the Elms, Chico
pee, Mass., and Bobby's Friday at
St. Anselm’s, Manchester, N. H.
. . . While Dr. Spring stayed home
to do the honors for son John,
graduating from the Southern
Pines High school Tuesday night.
Mrs. P. P. McCain also had two
graduations, as Jane received her
diploma at Agnes Scott in Geor
gia, and John his certificate in
medicine at UNC ... However,
even John didn’t attend his coni-
mencement . . . All the certifi
cates were awarded “in absentia
They mark a sort of halfway
stage for the medical student,
with two years yet to go.
In Southern Pines, three fami
lies had the proud privilege of
watching two of their members
receive their high school diplo
mas . . . Graduating with the class
I of 1950 were brothers Daniel
Wade Assad and James Assad, Jr.
. . . Richard and Milton Kaylor ...
and brother and sister Edward
and Winifred Nicholson.
Ed Nicholson almost didn’t
make it ... He was attending the
Boy Scout aquatic school in South
Carolina, hoping he could get off
for Tuesday night but hardly ex
pecting it . . . Needless to say, his
folks hoped so too and were
thrilled when he phoned Tuesday
afternoon, “I can come!” He add
ed, “Please wire money ... A
train leaves in an hour and I
haven’t quite enough.” . . . That
was one time they were happy to
oblige, and sent off the wire pron
to .. . Their hearts were high
when they went to meet the 6:50
p.m. train, and sank when it
brought no Ed . . . They went to
the school supper, and then to the
auditorium, but even with one
child graduating they felt a sad
lack . . . The seniors came in, the
commencement address began.
All at once they saw a scramb
ling going on at the side door . . .
Amos Dawson was helping some
one struggle into a cap and gown
. . . And into the auditorium and
straight to his seat (empty and
waiting for him) ducked Ed.
Big grins spread over three
faces—his father’s, his mother’s
and his grandmother’s and from
then on it was a perfect com
mencement.
All the better because, a year
ago, he was halfway around the
world, a U.S. Marine on Guam,
and now he was back, and getting
that diploma as had long been
planned.
The money had taken two houm
to reach Columbia . . . The train
left, he tried in vain to thumb and
finally took a taxi home! Okay,
okay, folks ... It was worth it.
' Almost every year there is an
outcropping of one or two mar
riages among the high school
graduates . . . In both 1948 and
1949 diplomas went to “Mrs”
somebody or other ... Not this
year, though . . . Or is anyone
holding out on us?
In the Mailbag: Nice to have a
postcard from Lieut. Warren Mor
gan, who was here with the pub
licity set-up for Exercise Swarm-
er in April and May . . . He’s
crossed the continent since leav
ing here, and will cross it again.
. . . He writes from Long Beach,
Cal., “Staying three blocks from
the beach! Flew to San Antonio,
then drov« to Long Beach to pick
up folks to return to Erie, Pa.
Then I go back to San Antonio.
Miss the Southern Pines gang!
Say ‘Hello’ to them all.”
Sure will, Warren . . . Maybe
you’ll be back, come another ma
neuvers.
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Fine - tooth - combing again
through the two pages of agate
type which was the list of the
UNC graduates of June 5, we
came up with some names We
missed last week . . . And there
may be more!
These were H. Lee Thomas, Jr.,
bachelor of commerce, and
Charles Roberts Bailey, bachelor
of arts, of Carthage; Jack Brevard
Horner, bachelor of arts, Pine-
hurst; Frank Alexander McNeill,
bachelor of science in science
teaching, and Hugh Edgar Bow
man, 2nd, bachelor of arts in edu
cation, bbth of Aberdeen.
Also Henry Stuart Kendall Wil
lis, McCain, son of the N. C. Sana
torium medical superintendent,
who won a certificate in medicine,
along with John Lewis McCain,
son of Dr. Willis’ predecessor at
the Sanatorium.
Hugh Bowman, we learn, son of
the late beloved Dr. Bowman, has
been employed as athletic director
at the Aberdeen High school, suc
ceeding Robert E. Lee, who will
be the new principal. We suggest
to Mr. Bowman that he pick up
pointers from his principal on the
coaching of girls’ basketball—as
no doubt he will.
And H. Lee Thomas, Jr., son of
the county superintendent of
schools (and we find that H stands
for Henderson) has a position with
the sales division of General Elec
tric, with headquarters at Raleigh.
He is married to the former Mar
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