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Soulhern Pines THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Site Commiinity Must Have Group of Interested Friends THURSDAY. AUGUST 18. 1955 ^ North Carolina “In taking over The Pilot no changes are conter^iplated. We will try to keep tWs a go^ paper. We will try to make a Uttle money for all concerned. Where there seems ' Sion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it And we wiU treat everynoay alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. Hurricanes — A Continuing Problem? - - - If hurricanes continue to sweep through North As Hurricane Connie approached the North Carolina coast last week, it was evident that last October’s visit of Hurricane Hazel had instilled plenty of respect for wind and water in resi dents of this area. Not only was the approaching storm a topic of constant and serious conversation, but prep arations for meeting its possible effects were more intensively undertaken by public agen cies, utility companies and individuals. Town officials teamed up with Civil Defense, Red Cross, Civil Air Patrol and amateur radio operators to watch the progress of the storm and prepare to meet its challenge to this area. Radio Station WEEB stayed on the air Thursday after its customary sundown closing to bring ad vice and information to listeners throughout the night, when it was thought the storm might start to move inland. Many a home that was ill-prepared last fall in regard to flashlights, candles and other rec ommended emergency equipment, had them on hand last week. The Carolina Power and Light Co., which serves this area, alerted over 1,000 men in the territory of its operations, added auxiliary communications and otherwise girded to cope with possible damage by Hurricane Connie. If it is true that a new pattern of hurricane paths is developing, with North Carolina in a frequently threatened position, we wiU have to learn to live with these storms as best we can, as coastal residents long since have learned fo do. Carolina regularly, the impact on beach resorts, agriculture, power and telephone companies and private individuals will be tremendous. Last fall when Hazel struck, tobacco and oth er crops throughout the area had mostly been harvested. The tobacco loss alone, had Connie followed the path that Hazel did, is fantastic to contemplate. Thousands of bams of tobacco throughout eastern and central North Carolina were being cured last week. If the hurricane threat continues, tobacco bams may have to be designed and built which are windproof and weather-proof and wiU allow curing fires to continue burning, without danger, in the strong est wind and rain. Sympathy goes out to beach property owners who rebuilt after the destruction of Hazel, only to suffer severe damage from Connie. What are they going to do? You can’t rebuild such things as expensive fishing piers every year. And it appears that work on beaches ravaged by wind and water! may become a permanent public works program, calling for regular state and federal expenditures. •Utilities companies in some locations may find that it is hiore economical to put their wires under ground than to face repeated dam age to their facilities and interruptions of serv ice. Rates for service might be affected. Hurricanes may become one of North Caro lina’s major economic problems, touching the pocketbooks. and way of living of all residents of the state. Yardstick For Mental Health One of the publications we read with interest is “Inventory,” a little magazine published by the North Carolina Alcoholic Rehabilitation Pro gram. “Inventory” takes its readers into a world where men and women, whose lives have been twisted and torn out of all recognition or under standing by most non-drinkers, view their problems clearly and steadily—their triumphs and failures, their aspirations and the cold facts of the use of alcohol by human beings. The magazine, however, has much to say of value to the non-drinker because the problems and attitudes that result in alcoholism for some persons, in.greater or less degree, beset all of us. In this sense, alcoholids who come to grips with their problem often step ahead of non-drinkers in their grasp of the essentials of mental health, while attempting to triumph over the mental pitfaUs that underlie their excessive use of al cohol. A recent “Inventory’.’ lists “10 safety signs of good mental health” that we can aU contem plate with interest and profit. Many of us can measure ourselves by these signs more comfor tably, perhaps, than can an alcohoUc, yet we should not be complacent. Lucky indeed is the person who can honestly find these 10 charac teristics as dominant in his daily living: 1. A tolerant, easy-going attitude toward yourself as well as others. 2. A realistic estimate of your own abilities— neither underestimating nor overestimating. 3. Self-respect. 4. Ability to take life’s disappointments in stride. 5. Ability to give love and consider the inter ests of others. 6. Liking and trusting other people and ex pecting others to feel the same way about you. 7. Feeling a part of a group and having a sense of responsibility to your neighbors and fellow men. 8. Acceptance of your responsibilities and doing something about problems, as they arise. 9. Ability to plan ahead, and setting of real istic goals for yourself. 10. Putting your best efforts into what you do and getting satisfaction out of doing it. Sentencing of a young man in Lee County Superior Court to serve 12 to 15 years in prison on manslaughter charges arising from an auto accident that killed eight persons will, we hope, serve as a telling example of what recklessness . on the highway can produce. We do not feel that Judge Clawson Williams was too severe with his sentence, after a jury foimd the young man guilty of driving a car thalj swerved to the left hand side of the road and crashed into another vehicle, killing all its passengers—a mother, father, son, daughter and two sisters of the mother, as well as two per sons in the defendant’s oar. Evidence during the trial showed that the cause of the accident was downright impetuous folly—recklessness and carelessness supreme— An Example To Be Heeded probably aided and abetted by alcohol, on the part of the young man. Justice has been served to a certain extent by sending him to prison. We pray that some young person, potentially a killer on the roads, may have read about this case and may have taken the lesson to heart. Also, we would say this: worse by far than any prison sentence is having to live, knowing one has killed, that lives were snuffed out by one’s own contemptible failure of reason and judgment. The secret thoughts of that young man who has now gone to prison, could they be known and published, might provide a page of horror that should then be introduced as required read ing in student driver courses and published in every newspaper in the land. Rural Youth Programs Pay Dividends Rural young people of Moore County have given a good account of themselves in county, district and State contests involving skills ^and projects on the farm and in the home. These young people are members of boys and girls’ 4-H Clubs and of the Future Farmers and Future Homemakers of America. The 4-H groups are sponsored by the State and Federal Agricultural Extension Service and the FFA and FHA organizations are conducted through the vocational agriculture and home economics departments in the schools. Youngsters who take an enthusiastic interest in the activities of these various organizations never find themelves in the predicament that Is said to lead to juvenile delinquency—a lack of something to do with their time. An adult who prides himself on being a busy Savings Increase Sales of U. S. Savings Bonds in North Caro lina continue to rise with purchases in July amounting to $4,296,553.50. Compared with a year ago the gain is 18 per cent. This is a new July sales record topping any for the past ten years. For the first seven months of this year, a new all-time peace record was set with sales amount ing to $33,204,488.50, 21 per cent greater than 1954. This amount represents 56 per cent of the 1955 state quota of 58.8 million , dollars. In Moore County, sales of E and H bonds in the first six months of the year total $234,900— which is 43 per cent of the 1955 quota set for the county by the Savings Bonds Division of the ^Survival Value* Sought For New Church College Possibility that the recently authorized new college of the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina might be located in Southern Pines makes the college project of intense in terest to this area. From the report of the Committee on Educational Institutions, which was given at the Synod meeting in Barium Springs in June, The Pilot brings the following excerpts that cast light on the Synod’s thinking about the college project and forecast some of the consid erations that will bear on sel ection of a site. Under the proposal. Peace College at Raleigh, Presbyterian , Junior College at Maxton* and Flora Macdonald College at Red Springs will be merged into a four-year, coeducational in stitution. Any wise program for the Sy nod of North Carolina in the field of education must attempt to an swer the question—What kind of co-llege has survival value? What type of college will be found use ful fifty years hence? Of course, no man may foresee the future, but out of our studies certain things have impressed us as being true and as being characteristics of the college which has survival value. Principal Purpose The first of these characteristics which will give survival value to a Christian college is that it is openly, intelligently, and avowed ly Christian. As far as . we can see, this is the principal purpose which the Church has in educa tion. The Church is not in the business of education simply to train the minds of its young peo ple. The state has undertaken this function, and is perfectly willing to fulfill it. The Church is in the business of education to train the minds of its young peo ple in a peculiar way. It is in the business of education not only to inform them of the wisdom of the past and to train them in the skills of the present, but to create in them a Christian understand ing of themselves, and of their world, and of their relationship to the God who made them. 'Quality' Essential The institution which has sur vival value will be, in our opinion, a quality institution. By this we do not mean that it will be the kind of intellectual snob that seeks only to enroU the upper ten per cent of the graduating classes of high schools and better prepar atory schools. We mean rather that it shall seek to do a superior job. In the matter of teaching, it will seek to do a better job than the state university is doing or can do. It is, in our opinion, im moral to urge our Presbyterian families to send their children to an institution simply because it is ■ mm person is forced to stop and wonder how busy he really is when he is shown the amount of work, training and skill that is put into their various projects and contests by the young peo ple in rural youth o^rganizations. 'There is no doubt in our mind that 4-H Clubs, FFA and FHA are paying lavish dividends in better farming and better home life, on the in vestment that the taxpayers have put into the adult leaders, buildings and equipment that make the programs possible. We congratulate the young folks who have made such fine records in county, district and State contests—some of, whom have achieved top rating in the State—and we also recognize the achievements of all those whose study and efforts will make them better farmers and bet ter home makers in years to come. — A Good Sign Treasury Department at the beginning of the year. These figures indicate that North Ccurolina folks are stashing away at least some of their prosperity money. U. S. Savings bonds, of course, are only one of the several forms of in vestment and savings into which Tar Heels are putting some of their income. Whatever the method used, saving in good times is an essential to the economic health of the individual and the nation. It is encourag ing to see .that residents of North) Carolina are increasing their savings and are putting more money into savings bonds than at' any time since the war. New Standards Set For Highway Entrance Drives ^ ... A « _ ..... X....... ..V ^ ...X .M ^/WTl •n CT T*Ot 1 If you plan to build a service station with an entrance to a State highway, you’d better check with the district engineer in charge of highway maintenance your county. Highway Chair- A. H. Graham advised to rn man day. A new booklet, “Minimum Standards for Entrances to High ways from Commercial Establish ments”, has been sent to all Division and District Highway engineers, as well as the .oil job bers in the state, he explained From now on, Graham said, any person planning to construct driveway connecting with any State highway must apply for a (Jonstruotion permit from his Highway District engineer. The new standards went into effect July 1 and supersede sim ilar ones adopted July 1, 1951. They clearly spell out that “no commercial establishments shall be constructed to intersect with g right of way of any primary or secondary highway or road of the State Highway System until a permit has first been obtained for such an entrance in accord ance with the revised ‘Minimum Standards for Entrances to High ways’.” The State is saddled with many miles of highways which are un The new entrance standards are an effort to protect the local motorist, as well as the through motorist. The Highway Commiss ion hopes to reduce the number of accidents from slow moving traffic entering a high-speed highway from a commercial driveway. In the future, channelizing islands, (usually built of concrete or asphalt curb and gutter with a paved or grassed plot in the middle) will be bUilt to definitely form entrances and exits. The Highway Commission hopes to prevent the paving of entire ,(frontages adjoining the main highway, since this scrambles local low-speed traffic with the faster-moving through traffic on the highway. Paved frontage of business places immediately adjacent to a high-speed high way ' has proved an operi invita tion for the motorist to clog up the main highway by parking parallel to it. From now on, on any new high way construction or moderniza tion, no driveway will be per mitted to enter directly into an intersection where there are already many traffic conflict points. Instead, any new drive way must be built at a safe point so that it turns traffic into the main traffic stream or on a side street before passing through the intersection. BUT DO WE APPRECIATE THEM? Community Leaders Meet Test E. A. Resch, in The Chatham News, Siler City We demand of our contununity servants a tremendous amount of selflessness. Fortimately, we get it. We get men to serve us who are absolutely dedicated to the ideal of service—^who have no personal axes to grind—^who feel that their motives stem from the desire to help the community and mues or nignways wiuuii aic mi- .. . safe and outmoded for one reasont^^®”^ ^ t ii. only—uncontrolled roadside de velopment, Graham said. This uncontrolled ribbon business development along the highway soon chokes the highway and re duces its capacity and efficiency. The Highway Commission is striving to make its highways saf er by not only controling the number of direct connections, but alsoo designating where these driAieways shall enter the main highway. We get those people and we are extremely fortunate that we do, but we have one peculiarity which I think is typical of the small town-that once we accept these selfless people and place them in positions of trust and re sponsibility, we begin to'impugn their motives and to accuse them Of having selfish aims. We also have a tendency to ^ . take these community servants!more attention and hold them up to a pitiless 1 good qualities. glare wherein we expand and ex aggerate their faults. We also have a decided tendency to over look the better, qualities, their character and goodness. Then there comes the time when their terms of office expire and they have come to the end of a challenging experience. We have taken them for granted and now discard them as we would a pair of old shoes or an Old hat, letting them go without saying anything to them that would in dicate that we appreciate what they have done for us. Some man has said that it is because we live closely together that we exaggerate one another’s faults. I am not disagreeing with that thought, but at the same time, I would suggest that we live close enough together that if we were properly motivated we would pay to one anotheFs Presbyterian. But not so if it is both a Christian institution and a quality institution, by virtue of its facilities, equipment, faculty, in- i||| struction, and curriculum. Adequate Size There are other and less impor tant characteristics of the institu tion which apparently will inherit the future. One of these is that it will be an institution of ade quate size. Experts differ on what is meant by adequate size. S For a junior college, the lowest minimum suggested is at least 300 regular students. For a senior college, the very minimum opti mum is from five to six hundred, though some experts say at least one thousand. It was formerly the opinion of many of the Commission that the smaller the school, the more thor- ough the teaching and the better opportunity for learning. How ever, our counselors have inform ed us that the small class is not necessarily the best situation for effective teaching: that good teaching depends not only upon the interaction between student and student; but upon the compe titive situation by which one stu dent competes against another; ^ and that the creative process of ” minds at work together on a c6m- mon project are values which can not be ruled out. It is felt by all of the experts whom we fconsulted that a senior college with at least a thousand st'udents would do a better job educationally than one half that size, and a much better job than one one-fourth that size. Co-Educational Best ^ Another minor consideration is that by and large the institution which expects to be in existence in the year 2000 A.D., will be a co-educational institution. It is true that there are some strong men’s colleges and some strong women’s colleges which will sur vive. They are those which have great prestige, great faculties, and large endowments. But we are already confronted by the fact that the vast majority of institu tions are coeducational. A third minor characteristic is that the college should be located in a corhhiunity large enough to afford a group of interested friends who will contribute to its support. A private or church-re lated institution needs this sup port in addition to the funds |(| which come to it from its endow ment and its supporting constitu ency. Such situations have proved to be the salvation of many of the better private and church-related institutions across the coimtry. Ideal LocaHon The ideal location for a college is no longer regarded as a remote and secluded spot, but rather a a population center where in addi- ^ tion to the interest and support of the constituency, cultural oppor tunities and advantages are af forded the student. Of equal importance, however, to the presence of loyal friends and of cultural advantages in the maintenance of the modern col lege, is the presence of a student pool potential commensurate with the minimum enrollment needs of ^ the college. Of particular signifi cance are the prospective day stu dents who enhance the economy of the operation of the institution to such an extent as to be gener ally regarded as a bonanza. Transportation Finally, today it is essential that the location of a college be accessible to various modes of ^ transportation such as main high ways, railroads, buses, and, if pos sible, airhnes. The modem world is one of rapid communications. Students in Protestant institu tions, at least, cannot be isolated as formerly, as is evidenced by the fact that many possess their own cars. The PILOT Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT, Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Katharine Boyd Editor C. Benedict News Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. Council Advertising Mary Scott New;;ton Business Bessie Cameron Smith Society ^ Composing Room Lochamy McLean, Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Jasper Swearingen Subscription Rates: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2i 3 mos. $1 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Assn. £B)d N. C. Press Assn.
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