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Page TWO ■LOT THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North_Carolii^ ‘‘Go On I’m Backing You Up, Comrade” .0_'a' Southern Pinec “In tav-ing over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. North Carolina this a good We will try to keep paper. We wiU try to make a little money for w^lTtreat'^vSybody Sion to use our influence for the pubUc good we will try to do it. Ana we alike.”;—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. On The Eve of The National Conventions •and especially the supporters of he hasn’t much strength hut just keeps trying Democrats- Adlai E. Stevenson of whom we count ourselves an enthusiastic member—have been treated in the past two weeks to a series of heartening * happenings, on the eve of the National Con ventions. A few months ago, it would have seemed like a sweet dreams to a Democrat, and a nightmare, to a Republican, to have Mr. Stassen, a member of the President’s official family, leading an ef fort to eliniinate Vice President Nixon from the Republic/n ticket and to hav? Kefauver with drawing as a candidate and throwing his sup port to Stevenson. On top of all this, the Republicans are faced with the unhappy fact that the President is re cuperating from his surgery more slowly than the nation was led to believe would be the case —so slowly and, according to some reUable re ports, with such distressing after-effects that the ordinary observer must be led to entertain some doubts as to Mr. Eisenhower’s fitness for the role of Presidential candidate again this year. Truly, the Republicans must recently have been lamenting that “when it rains it pours. The incomparable GOP public relations ma chine, with the skilled James Hagerty at the controls, thought to recoup confidence in the President’s physical condition by arranging the jaunt to Panama, but the President, in an aside that certainly hadn’t been written into the script, ruined the production by revealing that to go on. And so the picture changes. What seems re mote today is tomorrow’s reality. The conven tions, with their special atmosphere of tense ness, their unforseen and lightning-like switches of loyalty, may produce before the month is over, a picture as unlike what we see today as today’s is unUke that of a few weeks ago. While we are solidly in the Stevenson camp, we are not blind to the pitfalls that lie between our favored candidate and the Democratic nom ination. There is no denying that the Stevenson personality is viewed with a somewhat jaun diced eye by certain powerful professional poli ticians who fear that he is too intellectual, too witty and perhaps not handshakingly warm enough for the common man—although we have not found this to be true in our observa tion of the candidate. _ Brains and wit are no handicap to a Presi dent. The lack of warmth charge is perplexing; we have found human interest, warmth and kindliness amply evident in public and private appearances of Mr. Stevenson. His recent speeches and utterances reveal these qualities perhaps more than any others. Against the background of these changing circumstances, next week’s Democratic conven tion at Chicago and the subsequent Republican gathering in San Francisco will be watched with extraordinary interest over the nation. Regulation Needed In Pest Control It is good news that a State pest control com mission is preparing rules, regulations and minimum standards for operation of this busi ness which has provided a fertile field for fraud in recent years. Reliable local pest control operators, of which there are several in this area, will very likely have no trouble in meeting the standards that will be set up. And state-wide uniform regula tions will control or at least discourage the gyp artists that are practicing in this field. Most of the fancy operations in pest control have to do with termites, It is amazing how a sensible home owner can lose his reason and judgment when it is shown that he has termites in his home. With the enthusiastic encourage ment of the unscrupulous exterminator, the home owner seems to feel that he is facing an explosively disastrous situation and that if the pest control man is not sent immediately into the fray against the insects, the home will crumble into dust before nightfall. We know an elderly lady who lives alone in a home whose heart pine timbers have been ig nored by termites for nearly half a century (which shows the good sense df the termites and the enviable soundness of old-timie lumber and construction), but who was taken in by a traveling termite “expert. A friend arriving at the old home discovered the phony exterminator in the basement of the house spraying some noxious oil mixture all over the perfectly sound floor joists and inci dentally making an awful mess of the cellar. It seems that the nastier some worthless mix ture smells and the more it is splashed around, the more effective it is supposed to be for in sect control, in the opinion of unscrupulous persons. The fly-by-night operator, challenged as to what he was doing, appeared eager to stow away his equipment and depart with a smal token payment. A job that, at his estimated cost, would have meant a loss of several hun dred dollars to the home owner, was prevented only by the good fortune of some one arriving who knew more about such things than the home owner. Recently, we noted that the town ordinances on itinerant salesmen and on solicitation of religious and charitable funds are ineffective without public cooperation in reporting viola tors and backing up law enforcement officers. The same point applies to pest control. Pending state-wide licensing and standards for the pro fession, home owners should be most careful with wihom they are dealing. Once licensing and standards are established, the public should inform itself about the requirements and should be vigilant in the effort to maintain them. Step Forward for Freedom of Press state Supreme Court has officiaUy and legally brought press photography under the freedom An Alabama judge would go a step further than the Supreme Court of Colorado, the first State officially to relax the ban on press pho tography in court. , A , ■ Colorado judges may now permit the taking of photographs, but their new rule states that no witness or juror shall be photographed “over his expressed objections.” Judge Walter B. Jones of Montgomery, Ala., Secretary of the Alabama Association of Cir cuit Judges, and chairman of its Committee on Judicial Ettiics, believes this may “nullify the constitutional freedom of the press.” Judge Jones expressed this opinion in a letter to Joseph Costa, chairman of the board of the National Press Photographers Association in New York. , The Alabama judges are expected to write their own version of the American Bar Assn, .canon of judicial ethics with respect to court room photography. He “appreciates” the Colorado decision and expects it to be “helpful in other jurisdictions”. Judge Jones stated. However, he is “disappoint ed” in. the provision concerning witnesses and jurors. “When a person comes into court as a witness or juror, he really does not come as a private citizen, he comes officially-really as an officer of the Court,” Judge Jones miaintains. He also makes the point that a distinction must be made among press protography and other media wthenever the question of court room coverage comes up. He believes that many judges tend to group them. As for the press photographers, he expresses the view that they “have shown in demonstra tion after demonstration that they can perform their function and exercise their right with^t any disturbance of the Court whatsoever. He believes they “have pul^lic opinion behind ^^Smmenting on Judge Jones’ letter Mr. Cos ta said “The NPPA has been aware of the lim itations of the Colorado decision. But we be lieve it was stm a tremendous step foward^ “The most important thing is that the firs oQf WSg' :o )oO -o- o rc-< 0 o' O o o o o o Htfi' o. o o o: Q O o o (The Pilot this week begins publication of the cartoons of Hugh Hayni^ staff xr. ASu For for. S info^lSrabou. Ihe arlisl. soe n.wr alory on loday'a iron! pago.l The Public Speaking Another Viewpoint On Amerotron’s Operations To the Editor: Mr. Gramelsbach of Amero- tron, as indicated in your news story last week entitled “Indus trial Relations Program Has Ten Points,” must have sounded like a little boy whistling loudly as he walked past a graveyard, in his talk to the local Kiwanians. They surely must have recognized it as strictly a “canned” speech full of high sounding phrases, which m the light of Amerotron’s recent activities meant nothing. It cer tainly was a most untimely mouthing. . , ^ x. The summary dismissal of halt a dozen or so executives in one fell swoop recently, men highly respected in this community and in the textile industry as a whole, certainly has not been overlooked by Sandhill residents. Where was the “full acceptance of the dig nity of the individual” on that Not one was even forewarn- keeping the public about the organization, was it not your own paper that received a terse “no comment” when it made inquiry into the dismissal of the local Amerotron execu tives? I say, and I know that I speak for many others around here: for the sake of those still working at Amerotron and for the stability of our own little area, let us hope that their mission in this part of the country is accomplished swiftly. Let the mills be sold to firms who are more interested in manufacturing than manipula ting, and who honestly have the interest of all their employees and the community which sur rounds them at heart. ROBERT S. EWING Southern Pines of the press guarantee. “Moreover, while the press photographer is still restricted by the provision concerning wit nesses and jurors, we know that progress comes one step at a time. We believe that other judges, as Judge Jones, will ultimately recog nize the limitations of the Colorado decision. As recognized by Judge Jones, court business is public business-a fact that The Pilot affirms each week by printing the full proceedings of Recorder’s Court at Carthage, with no cases left out or pertinent names omitted. Now that it is possible to take courtroom pho tographs without flash bulbs or other proce dures that might be detrimental to the dignity or concentration of the court, iVe feel that such photography should be permitted and we hail Judge Jones for his sensible opinions on the matter. ON WISDOM “And what is wisdom-that gift of God which the great prophets of His race exalted? I do not know; like you I know it when I see it, but I cannot tell of what it is composed. One ingredi ent I think I do know: the wise man is the de tached man. By that I mean more than detach ed from his grosser interests—his advancement and his gain. Many of us can be that—I dare to believe that moSt judges can be, and are. I am thinking of something far more subtly inter fused Our convictions, our outlook, the whole make-up of our thinking, which we cannot help bringing to the decision of every question, is the creature of our past; and into our past have been woven all sorts of frustrated ambitions with their envies, and of hopes of prefermen with their corruptions, which, long since forgot ten still determine our conclusions. A wise man is one exempt from the handicap of such a past; he is a runner stripped for the race; he can weigh the conflicting factors of his prob lem without always finding himself in* one scale or the other.” -Judge Learned Hand Fluoridation Advocates Given ‘Rude Awakening ed of his fate—a practice which is not common among the better firms in textiles, or any other business for that matter. Not 'one was given a chance to line some thing up for himself. As for their concept of the Golden Rule, it appears that they must refer to the gold that reach es the pockets of their executives (via stock option plans) and stockholders. An interesting article appeared in the July 14 issue of 'The Satur day Evening Post, entitled Tax Laws Make Us Dishonest, by Cameron Hawley, author of Cash McCall.” He describes how our present tax laws are a much greater determining factor in how businesses are ruh than even some executives would like to be lieve. There is no question that their manipulations are perfect ly legal in every respect, but Mr Hawley does question the moral climate. , . . ^ It is a well knowii fact tnat the former Robbins mills are all e part of a gigantic tax-loss man ipulation. In affecting the merger between Anaerican Woolen, Tex tron and Robbins, Textron-Amer- ican, the resulting corporation, picked up some sixty million dol lars in tax losses. Using this and other monies, they have expand ed rapidly into non-textile fields. Mr. Little, their chairman, has announced their intention to “spin-off” Amerotron, the textile portion of Textron-American. The Raeford and Clarksville plants have already been leased or sold to Burlington Mills. It is a known fact that the Aberdeen plant is on the block, and I would not be surprised that, if they could find a buyer for the Rob bins and Red Springs plants, they would not go too. Three woolen mills in New England are being inspected by prospective buyers ^^Under these circumstances, how can their present executives blindly carry on and try to con- not only their own em- but those who live To the Editor; ., , ^ , There has been a lot said lately in the “free press” regarding the fluoridation fiasco (quite a profit able venture for those who are selling) but once in a while, the people who are violently for fluoridation cross themselves up. It happened recently in almost two identical cases, one at Ottawa, Illinois, and the other at Mason City, Iowa. Let’s examine the facts in tne Mason City case, where the drums started beating for fluoridation. The same canned and misleading literature was distributed; the United States Public Health Ser vice was prominent in swaying the community. The newspaper crusaded for it, as necessary if the children of Ma son City were to have fine healthy teeth. Civic groups signed peti tions, went all out for the plan. The “endorsements” of the so- called leading health authorities were all introduced. Local doctops and dentists testified as to the horrible states of the children’s teeth in Mason City, and how the decay rate was so much greater than the available dentists could take care of and that the situation was out of hand. Dr. Charles Henshaw, tax-paid partment of Health, Dental Health employee of the Iowa State De- Division, made frequent appear- informed ances and gave out so-called facts as to the safety of fluoridation at one part per million and showed his charts and graphs as to how this 1 p.p.m. would save 65 per cent of the dental decay in the children in Mason City. Then came the rude awakening. With the tEixpayers and the pub lic ready for the kill, somebody thought to test the water in Ma son City for natural fluorine con tent, and it tested 1.24 parts per million—a little more than the magic amount the fluoridators would add. And all of this occurred after they had gone on record as to the bad teeth among the children in Mason City. All the above facts can be easily verified ^rom press files and clip pings of the “fluoridation fiasco” in Mason City, Iowa. About the same history was written at Ottawa, Illinois, only difference being that the water there naturally tested 1.3 parts per million. I believe that these facts reveal how really phony the fluoridation idea is. Aren’t we fluoridated in South ern Pines? How much is it costing us? TOM O’NEIL 110 Highland Road Southern Pines Crains of Sand THURSDAY, AUGUST 9. 1956 ^Pablum On The Potomac^ (From the recent address pf Adlai E. Stevenson, candi date for the Democratic Pres idential nomination, at the Colorado Democratic State Convention.) If America is about anything, it is about the liberty of the indi vidual. How has the Eiseiihower- Nixon Administration handled this precious responsibility? First the President sat passively by while Senator McCarthy con ducted his campaign agEiinst free dom, terrorizing the Govern- ment, assailing the foreign serv- # ice and the Army, and doing his general best to shoot up the town. Then the President sat passive ly by while Nixon and other, prominent colleagues shouted abopt all the Communists, fellow travelers and security risks they had cleaned out of the Govern ment. But it turned out that there were no Communists and that they themselves had hired half v|^ the so-called security risks. Then the President sat passive ly by while his Vice President tried by innuendo to cast a veil of disloyalty over the opposition Party in the 1954 campaign. . . But did-1 say that the President sat passively by? I ami wrong; he sent the Vice-President a letter of commendation at the very height of Nixon’s ill-will tour. No Guiiiance In the same way, the President has sat passively by while Ameri ca has wrestled with the anguish ed problem of racial segregation and civil rights. Here, I said last February, is an area where pres tige of the Presidential office could be put to active, positive use to help restore communication between the reasonable people of ^ both sides, and to further our full understanding that the cur rent of freedom and equality sweeping across the world is in exorable and that what is right is also law. Yet, while this great test of our moral maturity shakes the nation, no word, no guidance has come from the White House. Inertia is the rule across the board. But there is no Executive _ pressure, no Party coherence, no • Presidential leadership. Indecision is passed off as wis dom, postponement as statesman ship, stagnation as progress in this cynical attempt to conceal the vacuum; of leadership behind a barrage of propaganda, ■ decep tion and ballyhoo. The Republican formula is sim ple it is pablum on the Potomac. Can Be Trusted # And against the Republican cult of showmanship there stands the calm and traditional confi dence of the Democratic Party that the American people can be trusted to act intelligently when they are told the truth. This was the real secret of our twenty years’ tenure of power. Against the massed, power of nearly all the money in the coun- ^ try, nearly all the agencies of propaganda in the country, and all the disaffected and disgrunt led people in the country, we won five successive elections. ’The string of victories was not broken until the Republican Party mask ed its purposes behind a great na tional 'hero in whom the Party leadership did not believe and whom it had no intention of sup- (Smith by purchasing Runs In The Family A friend of ours name) has been “paint-it-yourself” pictures these last few years, when he would see one that appealed to his ar tistic side. However, he never seemed to get around to painting one, say ing he was saving them to work on when he broke a leg or some thing. As luck would have it, it was his teenage son, not the father who really broke a leg when he was thrown from a horse. While convalescing, the son has just about completed all the pictures. Doing a mighty fine job, too, we might add. All of which should, prove something. . . but we don’t know just what. porting. . . . ^ 11 But to have the courage to tell the people the truth you must believe in the people. You must believe that, if they are given the facts, they will make an intelli gent decision. The Party of nriv- ilege has never believed this— from Alexander Hamilton to Charles E. Wilson, George Hum phrey and the Eisenhower Cabi- jjet ^men so rich we are suppos-^ ed to conclude they must be wise. If you believe that ^jou ca" manage the people better than they can manage themselves, vou never can understand men like Roosevelt and Truman, j More than that, you can never understand America SANFORD HERALD SAYS; Not In Our Tradition Vince ployees, around them, that they conscien tiously are here to stay? As for It was in a fine North Carolina tradition that opponents of the Hodges Administration’s school plan had their say in Raleigh. Whites and Negroes, they minced no words. And the legislators, many of whose minds were closed to the arguments, heard them in courtesy. Not in the North Carolina tra dition, though, was the subsequ^t legislative attempt to discredit Dr. Douglas B. Maggs, a Duke Uni versity professor of Constitutional law, who offered the opinion that orv, the’ Administration’s progr^ would not meet the test of the Federal Courts. A former student of Dr. Maggs, now a State em- The PILOT ig41 JAMES BOYD—1944 ployee, was produced to testify before lawmakers that the' profes sor once had an assistant who was a Communist. A rumor was spread to the effect that he defended the character of Junius Scales, a con- victed Communist. The former student’s testimony and the rumor have been discred ited. That is not as important as their launching. The tactic used against Dr. Maggs was pure mccarthyism — guilt by association. Purpose be hind it was as shameful as any thing to come from the national hate camps—to silence an opposi- tion voice because it is articulate, Raleigh needs no more of this. Published Every Thursday by p THE PILOT, Incorporaled Southern Pines, North Carolina Subscription Rates: One Year $4. 6 mos, $2: 3 mos, $1 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter Katharine Boyd Editor C Benedict Associate Editor Vance Derby News Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. Council Advertismg Mary Scott Newton Business Bessie Cameron Smith Society^ Composing Room Lochamy McLean, Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Jasper Swearingen Thomas Mattocks. Member National Editorial Assn||l and N. C. Press Assn. '
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