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Page Two^ 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 General Manager CyG. COUNCIL . Advertising Subscription Rates: One Year $3.00 6 Months $1.50 3 Months 75c Entered at the Postoffice at Southern Pines. N. C.. as second class mdil matter Member National Editorial Association and H. C. Press Association ‘Tn taking over The Pilot no changes- are con templated. We will try to keep it as good a paper as Nelson Hyde has made it. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Where there seems to be an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will treat every body alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. TI{E PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday. October 27, 1950 Protect the Public's Right The alley situation in Southern Pines would be ludicrous if it were not so serious, involving as it does the basic principles of land ownership, public and private, with injustices—no doubt on both sides—which have accrued through the years. ^ It has reached the point where many think ing people’here believe that only the State Su preme Court can say what is right, or at least provide a key to the maze in which our com munity finds itself. It appears to us that now is the time to secure sufch a judgment, when the case of the Leroy Lee building is in the spotlight, exemplifying the major issues and with much at stake for both the private owner and the public. We doubt if any other town in the state has a problem quite like this one. When founding father John T. Patrick laid out the town in 1880 in neat squares, with a “center square” in each and alleys proceeding from it to the street on all four sides, he did a very fine thing. The cen ter squares and alleys were to be used by every one on the block and the public in general. The plan is noteworthy in that it came so far ahead of the modern trend toward “community plan ning.” While other towns were growing like Topsy, Southern Pines was thoughtfully charted, with future needs in mind. But Father Patrick did not follow through by putting these areas into the ownership of the town. They were privately owned, and were bought and sold along with the lots which ad joined them. Some owners respected the intend ed right of the public in the center squares and alleyways, while otheriS put buildings on them, and their right to do so ^lras seldom, if ever, questioned. Apparently in those old and spa cious days, nobody cared. As business property grew more valuable the squares and alleys downtown became almost indiscernible in the general maze of building, and only when surprised property owners found themselves with only the most tortuous ways of getting into and out of the rear of their build ings did complaint begin to arise. By that time nobody knew who owned what, or whose rights preceded those of others. Some years ago, when the Church of Wide Fellow ship wished to turn its alley into common ground with its Sunday School annex and gar den, the town denied it the right, as this would bar access to the interior of a busy downtown block. Yet when the A & P built its new store, it built right over the top of an alley on the same block. Maybe the church’s mistake lay in asking. The fact remains—aU over town the rights of the public, if they have any legal right in these alleys, have been abridged. Until it should be proved the public’s right is invalid, the Town should stand fast on what alleys remain—even portions of alleys. If it should be proved that, in vesting title in private owners, the early fath ers gave or sold away the public’s right, the Town should move quickly to restore such rights as remain by whatever means are open. Boy Scouts: A Sound Program Boy Scouting in the Moore district has reach ed a sound position, mainly through the labors of a devoted handful of men who have given tirelessly of their time and resources week in and week out for several years. They haVe caught the vision of the founders of Boy Scouting, of the development of boy nature along splendidly useful lines toward finer citizenship. Under their good guidance the pro gram has now been a part of the county’s life for long enough to show real results—all of them good. Also, so well has the job been done that there is hardly a community in Moore coun ty wHicn nas not been touched by it, and can not see its excellent work at first hand, among its own boys, led by its own citizens. A countywide program involving mbre than 600 boys and a hundred or so adult leaders isn’t built up in a day or a week, or just by “wishing”* —it takes time, work and also money—^for pro fessional services, materials and supplies and our share in the council camp. Those who keep the program going, and growing, just once a year ask financial support. This should be given by everyone, as everyone has a vested interest in youth and a responsibility toward it. Once a year the community and district can help carry the load. The reward of the volunteer leaders comes in the satisfaction of achievement where it counts most—with the coming generation. In the annual campaign for funds, all of us can share in this achievement and reward. The amount of $5,000 currently being asked is larg er than before—but then the program itself is larger than before. It grows apace, and it is our proud privilege and duty to help it do so. Girl Scouts Too Something new has been added in the past lew months—or rather, something fine and precious from years ago has been restored to Southern Pines: Girl Scouts, whom we would salute this week along with the Boy Scouts. Like Boy Scouting, Girl Scouting had a be ginning here in bygone days, but without the excellent organization now available both lapsed after a while. The Boy Scouts have not only made a splendid comeback but have spread out all over the county, where they are firmly root ed in almost every community. Girl Scouts have become evident in our midst again only in the past few months, and we are happy to see them and wish them the best of fortune. Next week, we are told, is Girl Scout week. It finds in Southern Pines two eager troops of girls in the green Scout uniform, and two others of their little brown-clad sisters the Brownies. It finds leaders undertaking the hard task of starting something new, securing the firm and fruitful establishment of a program’ in which they have faith. They need encouragement and they need support. Girl Scouts are not just Boy Scouts who happen to be girls. The program is no slavish copy but one which stands on its own merits, wisely de signed to answer little - girl and young-girl nee^ and to develop the character of the future feminine good citizen, wife and mother. We hope to see the Girl Scouts as firmly established in Moore county, one of these days, as the Boy Scouts are and this can happen if we aU do our part. There is just one thing as precious to us as our boys, and that is our girls. Together, they de serve the best we can give. Invisible Armor (From a speech by Newton D. Baker, Secre tary of War, before the National Confer ence on Weu Camp Community Recreation Service, Washington, October 23, 1917.) This great national emergency presents two responsibilities and two opportunities. One, of course, is the perpetuation of the principles upon which our government is established, by suc cess against the adversary who has questioned our integrity. 'The other is the coincident up building of the strength and wholesomeness and virility of our own people. . . We are interrupting the normal life of this nation. We are summoning out of their com munities and their homes a vast number of young men. We are taking men from their nor mal environments, from their usual occupa tions; we are violently interrupting their cus tomary modes of thought. . . We are collecting those young men in vast , groups and subjecting them to an entirely un accustomed discipline. In a certain sense, we are training their minds to an entirely new set of ideals. We are sweeping away all of the social pressures to which they have become accustom ed, and are substituting therefor military dis cipline during that portion of their time when drill and the military regime are necessarily imposed on their lives. , . A large part of these young men have been accustomed to city life. Sqme of them, however, are straight from the country. Some of them are from remote parts of the country, far away from the places where they have hitherto lived, away from the people whose opinion has hitherto been their guide and control. . . Now that presents a very grave problem in dealing with human beings. . . The soldiers of these camps, in their days , off and their hours off and in their moments of relaxation, are go ing to scatter through all of the cities and towns nearby. . . We must make the advantages in these towns as wholesome, we must ipake the inducements to wholesome thinking and whole some living just as fine and as numerous as we can possibly make them. . . These boys. . . are going into an heroic enter prise, and heroic enterprises involve sacrifices. I want them armed; I want them adequately armed and clothed by their government; but I want them to have invisible armor to take with' them. . . You are the makers of that armor. . . The in visible suit which you are making, this attitude of mind, this state of consciousness, this esprit de corps which will not tolerate anything un wholesome, this brand of righteousness, if I may speak of it as such, this pride that they ought to have in being American soldiers, and represent ing the highest ethidal type of a modern civili zation—all this you are manufacturing in. your armories, in the basements of churches, the lodge rooms of societies, the dinner tables of private homes, the rooms of Young Men’s and Young Woinen’s Christian Associations. . . Everybody in America wants to help. . . Many people in America want to do some in- divdual thing. I suppose I am just like every body else, I would like to go “over the top.” I would like to storm a rampart. I would like to grab a flag which was shot down and raise it up and go forward with it, and feel that I had taken Old Glory where it ought to be. That is the heroic appeal, but one of the great difficul ties of life is that we fail to realize that the master heroisms of social progress are aggre gations of inconspicuous acts of selfsacrifice. Now this is the opportunity for us to show the master heroism of this age. If you will im press that upon the people of your communities, I think they will respond, and they will feel, not perhaps the spiritual exaltation that comes from carrying the flags, but they will feel that they are really builders in the final and higher civilization, the civilization of jqstice and oppor tunity, and of high thinking and high doing which we pray is to be the permanent state of civilized man after this terrible visitation and tragic calamity is safely passed. A beautiful October is like a second springtime. . . And to prove that that is what we have been having, Carl Klabbatz show ed us twigs from his peach trees containing (l)real buds and blos soms, (2) green leaves and (3) the beginnings of tiny new peaches. It’s as if the trees knew the days of grace might be fleeting ones. . . And worked extra hard, doubling up on their labors in the mighty effort to produce what they were denied last spring by an unseasonable freeze. Poor things. .. We’re afraid that again they won’t be able to bring their fine crop to fruition. . . But we love them for trying. A lot of interesting odds and ends must have gone into the trash in the fall clearing-out of attics and closets. . . One find was made by James Wells, a member of the town crew which handles the trash truck. . . Who rescued a bunch of old post cards showing Southern Pines as it looked 40 years ago. We saw some of them. . , Color pictures, of the Weymouth Woods lodge, the railroad, station, “En trance to Hedgerow Estate” and “View from Piney Woods Inn Looking Toward the Village. . . The last named, with its pretty lake, green park«and wide road leading to town 'made us wish again that Millen park might be restored to, its old usefulness and charm. A sepia-tint card, “Mag nificent Specimens of Longleaf Pine at Thaggards,” could have been made today. . . Except for the lady with Gibson-girl hairdo, picknicking all by her lone self in the foreground. .•. . The message on the back, signed with initials “W. A. Y.,” says “Our concert is over and thus ends another big day in our wonderful village”. . . It is postmarked March 14, 1910. Bill Sharpe in his column “Tur pentine Drippings” attributes to Hoagy Carmichael a ^tory about an old fellow named Chep Blev ins, a southern character given to boasting of his prowess with fire arms. On one occasion, the story goes, when Chep was hunting with some of his cronies his dog stirred up a single quail. . . Waving to his associates to lay off, old Chep took aim and fired. . . The bird sailed calmly on toward the dis tant horizon. . . For a few min utes Chep stood with his mouth agape. . . Then threw down his gun ,in disgust and stormed, “Fly on, you blankety-blank fool bird! Fly on with your gol-durned heart shot out!” The Morehead planetarium at Chapel Hill remains an outstand ing attraction. . . And every week we hear of cars driving up from here taking people to the “star- show” for their first—or 41st— visit. . . Some go again and again . . . and for many who have been a number of times, their greatest pleasure lies in taking visitors on their first trip to the show. We have had several calls from persons wishing to know the schedule. . . Which at present is 8:30 p. m. seven days a week, and also 3 p. m. Saturdays and Sun days. ... A new show, “Autumn Stars and Stories,” opened this week. With our former students— Jean Olive, majoring in public school music at Meredith college, is doing practice teaching at Cary, near Raleigh. .^. She was one ot 70 girls honored last week at a unique Meredith festivity, a birth day party for all the girls whose birthdays occurred in September and October. . . Pretty Jean is usually in any group which does the singing, but this time she wa? one of those sung to, as the stu dent body of 600 rendered “Happy Birthday to You.” Fred Arnette is working in Miami, Fla., where his address is 5700 N. W. 25th avenue. . . Jim mie Dickerson has pledged SAE at State college. . . Ed Nicholson, his roommate, was also to accept this bid but had to leave as Ma rine Reserve orders arrived the same day. . . Mary Jane French, sociology major at Sweet Briar, has been elected vice president of the Sociology club. . . Reggie Ha mel made 100 on his first chemis try test at UNC—probably be cause he was scaredest of this test, and worked on it the hardest, as well he might: his professor wrote the textbook. . . Mickey Nicholson led her freshman class of 200 at Appalachian State Teachers college, in their first English test. Newsettes: A break-in at the Siarview Drive-in theatre was dis covered by deputy sheriffs the other day before the theatre peo ple knew it themselves, as three young escapees from Morrison Training school who had managed to pilfer a small amount of cash, were apprehended near here. . A slight collision between a car and a lightpole in Aberdeen Thursday afternoon caused a dis ruption of power all over town for several hours., . There is a move ment afoot to name the alcoholic rehabilitation facility at Camp Butner “Blue Lodge,” after Moore Rep. K, Clifton Blue whO' had a major part in putting the bill through the General Assembly. Carl Thompson, former South ern Pines resident and Pilot edi tor, has resigned as a member of the Washington staff of the Wall Street Journal to join the public] relation firm of Hill and Knowl- ton in Washington. . . Joseph H. McConnell, NBC president, broth er of John D. McConnell of Southern Pines, was elected pres ident of the Davidson College Alumni association. . . Kay Boy ette, daughter of District Solicitor and Mrs. M. G .Boyette of Carth age, has pledged Delta Delta Del ta sorority at tne University. In the Mailbag: A subscription from Mrs. J. S. Massenburg, of Raleigh, with a nice little note. . . “I am the former Johnsye East- wood from Lakeview. and find, from the copies my mother sends me occasionally, your paper most helpful and interesting in keep ing in touch with the community activities back home.” Thanks, Mrs. Massenburg. . . We’re glad you like The Pilot. . . And hope you like the new Lake- view news column we hope to publish weekly from now on, with Mrs. V. K. Manner as correspon dent. We never know what’s going to pop out of our “mailbag”. . . As The Pilot keeps our readers up with the news, they keep us up with theirs also. . . When Con gress adjourns or convenes, we get notes from our Congressman C. B. Deane to change his address . . . And a couple of weeks ago came a brief note we’re saving for our grandchildren: “Please change my addyess to General G. G. MarshalL Defense Department, Pentagon, Washington, D. C.”. . . The notepaper bears a small red flag in dutline, with five small red stars. in Ohio this November is prob ably 'one of the most important ever held in the history of this country, and that even includes all previous presidential elections. Senator Robert A. Taft is not just running against a political nonentity, by the name of ‘‘Little Joe” Ferguson—so-called “Dem ocratic” nominee. Senator Taft is running against (1) labor leaders and their unions, (2) communists, (3) socialists, (4) socialistic plan ners. These are his real opponents. It is no longer a fair and square battle between our two great po litical parties. It has developed rather into a knock-down, drag- me-out bitter barroom brawl with no holds barred, between dem ocracy on tfte one side, commun-' ism and unionism on the other. Let both Democrats—that is, the real Democrats—and Republicans pray that Taft wiU win out. And don’t forget that a great many dyed-in-the-wool Democrats are working to that end. The CIO and Political Action committee claini they do not want any part of the Communist party, and yet both outfits are going hand in hand in Ohio in their united efforts to defeat Taft. As proof of this statement, The Daily Worker, a communist trade jour nal, openly states that the target is Taft, and the time 1950, and (j asks all union leaders to play ball with the communists. As further (Continued on Page 3) The Public' Speaking Last -week The Pilot had the privilege of publishing in this column a copy of a letter in which Dr. G. G. Herr, chairman, and members of the school board expressed their appreciation of the services given by Mrs. J. S. Milliken as a member of the board for many years. This week we are happy to accede to the request that Mrs. Milliken's reply be pub lished here. Dr. George G. Herr, Chairman, Southern Pines School Board. Dear Dr. Herr:— It was with a feeling of deep humility and great appreciation that I received your letter of Oc tober 12, and so, through you, I want to thank the Board of Trus tees and the Superintendent, Mt. Philip J. Weaver, for the thought fulness that prompted it. In re sponse, I want to say that the privilege of serving on the Board for this period of time has been the greatest honor I have receiv ed during my years in Southern Pines. Though I am no longer official ly connected with it, the memory of the years spent with you and the other members of the Board, working, for the betterment of our School, will always be treasured by me, and likewise my interest in the School will be just as great now as it has always been in the past. My only regret is that there are no more Millikens to share in the advantages of the School. To our three children who grew up there and were graduated, those were the happiest years of their lives, and so, the little that I have done as a member of the Board can never begin to express my deep feeling of gratitude to the School Board and to the Town of South ern Pines, for making it possible to have the splendid school our children were so privileged to at tend. If at any time in the future I can ever be of service to the School, please do not hesitate to call on me for I would be only too glad to do anything I could. Thanking you again for your most gracious letter, I remain. 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