<*age EIGHT THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina RALPH W. PAGE Sandhills: Good Place To Live (Continued from page 1) and ideas crackle, whether in conversation or on paper. He fav ors a judicious use of vigorous expletives—not all of which end up in print. He can give words savor and flavor—as in describing U. S. Middle Eastern policy as “a lot of s^ctimonious stuff.” (“We have got the Jews to get out without any guarantees at all and have taken on Nasser and now what are we going to do with him?") It’s a treat to hear himi say “sanctimonious.” , His laugh is famous—a kind of trademark. Old friends say he has not been sparing with it through the years. And he’s laughing at himself as often as anyone else, they say. Once on the Maine coast, in a heavy fog, k friend heard laughter. “That’s Ralph Page—or his ghost,” was the judgment of the friend who did not know Mr. Page was anywhere near that area. It turned out to be the real man. One can’t imagine a less ghostly person. He is an indiv idual in a sense that we are sometimes told is disappearing from American life: the product of an age and a tradition that honored conformity less than that doubtful virtue is honored to day. Take his column in the Bulle tin, for instance. It doesn’t have a title—merely Mr. Page’s name and his picture over what he has written. The column is the man. The editors must feel that it needs no other description or en ticement for the reader.” People want to know what Ralph Page has to say about something or somebody in the news. He is a grandson of Allison Francis Page, a lumberman from Cary in Wake county, who came to Aberdeen in 1881 to found a family that has played a notable part in various fields of endeav or through three generations, at local, state and national levels. He is the son of Walter Hines Page who left North Carolina early in his life to become editor of The Atlantic Monthly at Bos ton and a co-foimder of the pub Ushing house of Doubleday, Page and Co., and who was best known as United States Ambas sador to Great Britain during the first World War. His Roots Are Deep Ralph Page, therefore, grew up in homes near Boston and New York, but he spent much time with his grandparents at Aberdeen and feels still, though much of his own life has been elsewhere, that his roots are deep in the Sandhills. He attended Harvard Law School, practicing law in New York City until 1909. While at Harvard, he' met his wife-to-be; Leila Tuckerman of Boston, then n student at Radcliffe College. Their son, Anderson Page, a for mer B-29 pilot, is now a la'wyer ia Philadelphia. Their daughter, Cary, died in a tragic accident while in her late teens. After he left his law practice in New York until the depression years of the early thirties, Mr. Page led a varied and interesting life, with the Sandhills his base of oppTations. With Raphael Pumi)elly, he pioneered the development of Samarcand plantation, growing peaches and sold helped as many as 800 acres of peach or chards. About the time of World War 2, when his father was represent ing the United States in Britain, Mr. Page wrote the one book he has had published: “Dramatic Moments in American Diploma cy.” which reviewed friendly re lations with France and Britain over this nation’s history. It was well received and still rates highly in its field. Twice in his life, Mr. Page has supported Republican candidates for President of the United States: he was for Theodore Roosevelt and, in 1928, was on- a committee that helped to carry North Carolina for Hoover against A1 Smith. Though he later was a staunch New Dealer, he had special per sonal reasons for his two Repub lican loyalties. What happened after Hoover was elected is an other story. The great depression of the early T930’s is a subject that Mr. Page has studied care fully and felt deeply. Studied .Depression In 1933, at the request of Rob ert McLean who now is publish er of The Philadelphia Bulletin and who formerly headed the As sociated Press, Mr. Page made a nation-wide trip to learn and write about the effects of the depression and what the first Roosevelt administration was do ing about that national catastro*- phe. He reported his findings in a series of syndicated newspaper articles. Looking back on this time, he recalls how the country was di vided between those who were pinched by the depression and favored the new program of gov ernment responsibility for, hu man and economic conditions and those who fought these sweep ing changes in approach to gov ernment—changes Mr. Page sums up in the phrase “the welfare stuff.” During the Roosevelt and Tru man administrations, he saw this pattern continue, and he saw it begin to change, with increasing prosperity for the nation. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1957 AMEROTRON • (Continued from page 1) Tufted carpets. An important segment of this production is in Velvet weaves which are to be produced at the Aberdeen plant. At present five different reg ular consumer Velvet linis are produced under the GuUstan brand name. In addition, a ntun- ber of commercial carpets which hotels, theaters, institutions and other public buildings use are manufactured with the Velvet process. The A. & M. Karagheusian Company was organized in 1905 by Arshag and Mifan Karagheu- sian, the only children of an Ar menian textile importer in Con stantinople. Both moved to Eng land in 1896 and decided, shortly afterwards, to establish an ex porting business to the United States. The firm later developed into the largest importer of Oriental rugs in America, a phase of the company’s operation stiU conducted in New York City. In 1905 the brothers decided to enlarge their importing business by manufacturing domestic rugs, mostly reproductions of Persian designs that would seU at much lower prices than imported ones. They established a plant in Free hold. In 1928 the company conceiv ed the idea of chemically treat ing rugs so they would acquire the beautiful sheen of Oriental rugs. This .completely new de parture in fine carpets was nam ed the “Gulistan Rug” and mark ed the beginning of the firm’s use of the “Gulistan” trade name, j Gulistan carpets are sold na tionally to a large network of distributors who, in turn, sell them to department, furniture | and specialty stores. Working di- ^ rectly with these distributors is the Karagheusian sales organiza- | tion established in major cities across the nation. j Executive offices are maintain ed in New York City. Present chairman of the board is Charles A. Karagheusian, son of one of the founders. Steele L. Winterer is company president. these, it gets thrown out.” As an example of this proposi tion, in reverse, he cites the city of Philadelphia which has thrown out a barnacle-covered Republican administration for a new Democratic one. Mr. Page remembers how hard the depression hit Moore County: “In 1933, one third of the county was sold out. Not a single farm er in the county could pay his debts. After I had seen those times, I had had enough of de pression. I supported the New Deal from then on.” During the 1930’s, Mr. Page be gan his association with the Bul letin and took on a variety odt as signments, including collabora tion with the late Struthers Burt of Southern Pines and Jackson Hole Wyo., on conservation ar ticles dealing with the bitter struggle between the government and cattlemen for control of ^ctartPd ' land in Wyoming, staneu, began to do a column each aches and sod L for. the Bulletin and in 1941 ineipea to sell large tracts Washington corres- land in western Moore County, | n®came n* launching the booming—and ponuent, world government. If you ever He i powerful fellows together, I you do have a kind of world gov- sees Eisenhowers victories at the Suppose Russia had polls as the result of persona , benevolent after World War worship for the man-—a wors ip, ^could have had that kind that he views as irrational. But, government then. also, he says this. „ * “Customs unions offer the best “Any administration collects two things. It collects barnac >!mosities for the sake of prosper- human barnacles and it coUects ^ou might get unions in Eu- errors. If it collects enough of Africa and elsewhere. Such unions could get wider and wider. Then maybe the big unions would get together.” i Racial Relations | ■ This practical outlook also marks • Mr. Page’s comments on racial rpiations — comments that are startling, compared with the dogmatic positions taken by both pro-and anti-integrationists. The racial situation in Moore County, he says calmly, is “vast- Iv better than it is in Philadel phia.” He notes that the principal speaker at the 50th reunion of hi» Harvard class was a Negro. The point: that the Negro will find his place and reach his goal when he is ready to reach it. As evidence of his contention that school integration agitation is “premature,” he cites the plain eventually busting—peach busi ness that drew together in a new pattern of life a group of indus trious and light-hearted people who lived simply but well, set ting a Tone of social life that is still dominant in the Sandhills. The Pages had bought some land west of Pinehurst—where they built the long house, “Garran Hill, fact that practically nothing is happening in North Carolina. He asks: “Does any one want to do anything about it? Is any one in Moore County trying to do any thing about it?” The gist of his opinion, one gathers, is that there has been too much excitement about something that will work itself out when aU concerned are ready Promise In Unions Looking at the world scene to day, Mr. Page feels like this: ...... “The main strength of the free i —just as he sees a happier future world,” he said, “is not going to for the world in slowly evol-vod be the kind of policy we are fol- | customs unions, with widening lowing in the Middle East. . .” influence, than in an all-out grand attempt at world govern ment. Moore County, this little na tive comer of a world hi turmoil i,the bluff and bluster he had des ignated “sanctimonious hum- low brick bug”). . . “The main strength will now thelmore likely be in the new set-up . .. j n hom"e’of Robinsoh Cook. The ter- in Europe where six nations are that Mr. Page t race at the back, the tennis court | proposing a customs and atoxmc fjfe, remains the pleasantes and swimming pond they added energy union. There would^ be later, were the scenes of much in- ^ more step to a federal umon, formal gayety and fun. tlien. - - - - v A writer of light verse par ex- | federation of Europe could gai^ this week. “I hope somebody cellence, comical, light on his ^ powerful affair, especially if writes the history up to the pres- feet, a powerful singer of spir- British Commonwealth ^ and ^nt, too. There have been ^ many place to be,” in his opinion. “I see they have written the county’s history up to 1847,” he ituals, of which he knew hun dreds, the host won high fame as song-and-dance man at many a festive evening’s entertainment. Mr. Page wrote articles for such magazines as 'World’s Work, Commerce and Finance, Current History, Red Cross Magazine and others. With Jerry Healy, now with Barnum Realty and Insur ance Company here, and an ad vertising man, Mr. Page edited and wrote the Pinehurst Outlook which then appeared in a semi magazine form. He went from peaches mto other business and into his fam ily’s banking activities. He re calls that at one time, he owned the Scandinavian nations join. I changes. Fifty years ago, it was uji rpoofmiypd a ^ job to got to CartnagG. In time that there has to be a solid Sandhills,, the whole develop- front to meet the Soviets. A Eu- ^as been since 1900. It was ropean federation seems to be the pretty pripiitive here, even in most practical way to do this— jt seems to me there are preferable to the other two prop- pjpre generals around here now ositions: world federation and f^gre were people then. It s Clarence Streifs Atlantic feder- interesting — very interesting ation - jwhat has gone on.” _ _ _ “The United Nations has its 1 a friend to whom this opinion usds, but it hasn’t any power, i ^as quoted thinks the modem It’s not possible to turn it into a history of Moore County, spM- TcT..—. Kft _ • ikir-. TSawa’cs IrvTitf OTld HlSO 111“ world government. Nor can it be amended to get rid of the veto. Neither Russia nor the United would surrender the veto power. 1 “You don’t have to have a ning Mr. Page’s long and also in teresting life, might be a suitable; job for him to do, when he re- j lilTGS IV 'hf! retires, that is. 'Which isn’t likely. Pemey’s •C- 7 a \ /i m m r A feminine as only florals can be! I ‘‘Regulated” COTTONS A mixed boquet of beauty by- the-yaid . . Penney's prints ■■ and matched solids. Easy to M J B care for cotton, the crease- m resistant. 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