Page TWO
Casualty Of Little Rock
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1957
ILOT
Southern Pines
North Carolina
"In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a good
paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Wherever there seems to be
an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will
treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
C & D Meeting: Symbol of Faith In Future
As Southern Pines and Moore County wel
come Governor Hodges and the North Caro
lina Board of Conservation and Development
for its Fall meeting here in the next few days,
we cannot help but look beneath the surface
of this .occasion for a deeper meaning than the
mere hospitality of the occasion. ''
And, in looking deeper, we are bound to
look ahead. For this board, composed of men
who are devoted to the development of North
Carolina—its industry, its resort and tourist
business, its forests, its mineral and water re
sources, its state parks, commercial fisheries
and other resources—is geared to the future:
“to con.serve and develop the natural re
sources of North Carolina for the common
good of all her people,” as the board simply
but most adequately describes its own mis
sion.
So, in welcoming this group of men who
represent all sections of the state and are con
cerned wtih all these varied aspects of Tar
heel resources, we at The. Pilot take this oc
casion to reaffirm our confidence in the fu
ture of Southern Pines, Moore County and
North Carolina.
The C & D board meeting here becomes, in
a way, a symbol for this community of faith
in the future. As board members in their
meetings consider their varied state-wide re
sponsibilities, v/e on the sidelines in South
ern. Pines and Moore County may well follow
suit in taking stock of our resources (and,
when examined, they are impressive) and in
gearing our thoughts and work to the future,
like the State board, for the common good of
all our people. This is the thought, the point
behind this special edition of today’s Pilot
which presents both resources and past
achievements and, against this background,
our faith in the developments that we are
confident lie ahead for this area.
To r-’i'serve and develop—that is the whole
story of progress. Here in the Sandhills, we
have conserved and developed, it seems to us,
many good things: natural beauty, for one,
and, in tbe f'eld of intangibles, a nati\fe tra
dition of thrift and industriousness combined
with a sense of enjoyment fostered by the
outdocr life of sports and recreation, and the
other pleasures of a resort area.
We have been blessed with honesty in local
government and with more than an average
The YDC Convenes
The Community’s Conscience In Action
Public welfare departments are a commu
nity’s conscience in action.
Welfare workers perform those functions
that used to be attempted by relatives, friends
and neighbors: helping the needy, sick and
aged, taking care of children whose homes
are temporarily or permanently broken, help'
ing the blind and other persons so disabled
that they can’t work for a living—in general
trying to ease the human need and misery
that seem to be a part of all societies, no
matter how prosperous may be the times.
This newspaper, as is well known, has for
many years taken a special interest in this
welfare work, recognizing first, that humble,
needy persons have few spokesmen on their
behalf and that a newspaper should speak
for them and make their needs and problems
known; and, second, that the welfare depart-
Preparing For Moore-Upper Hoke Merger
When people of the Little River community
of Heke County entertained Moore County
officials recently, the merger of “Upper
Hoke” with Moore County—which is sched
uled to take place January 1 of next year—
was carried along further toward a satisfac
tory completion.
This hospitality on the part of Little River
folks was a fine gesture and the occasion pro
vided the friendliness and good will that
make a success of such changes in boundaries
and allegiances.
We trust that, come January 1, Upper Hoke
residents will be settling down to a long and
happy term as citizens of Moore. Because
they were cut off by Fort Bragg from their
county seat at Raeford and because their ed-
Scouts —Boy and Girl—Merit Support
Attention will turn in the near future to
those two worthy youth organizations, the
Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts. Each of the
groups is beginning a program of Fall activ-
itie.s and each is soon to launch its annual
fund drive—the Boy Scouts on October 8 and
the (^irl Scouts a week later, on October 15.
The outlook is bright for both the organi
zations. The Boy Scouts have a new executive
for this county, Joe Woodall, who will work
with volunteer adult leaders. The Girl Scouts
are now emphasizing the training of adult
leaders, who will then be ready to train addi
tional leaders who are needed if the program
is to reach all the girls who want to take
part.
Successful Scouting programs are not pos
sible without enthusiastic leadership from
adults. Here, as in most communities, men
and women who are willing to give some por
tion of their spare time to these great youth
organizations are being asked to step forward
so that the many boys and girls who want to
be Scouts can be given the leadership they
need.
In character-building and citizenship train
ing, the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts have
proved their effectiveness over many years.
These organizations merit the community’s
financial support in their forthcoming drives
—and they merit the adult leadership on
which their effectiveness depends.
pride in community'appearance and commu
nity services. Schools are good and churches
play a strpng and vital part in all community
life. Industry, business and resort interests
exist in the Sandhills in mutual respect.
Never .nave the people of Southern Pines and
the Sandhills been so united in their aspira
tions for the future: a weU-organized com
mittee is distributing a brochure listing in-
du.stria) sites over the county and is otherwise
working for the industrial future which is
bound to be bright in this favored area; resort
interests are expanding and improving their
facilities for golf and for housing of visitors
and, most important, there is a growing real
ization that a new kind of balanced, hard
working prosperity can be achieved in this
area, with dedicated effort by all concerned.
We here in Southern Pines and Moore
County .are at a turning point. Like the Board
of Conservation and Development, who will
continue here their planning for the balanced
progress and the productive future of the en
tire state, we in. this area must look ahead,
building on the remarkable human and nat
ural r^'sources with which we have been en
dowed.
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The state convention of North Carolina
Young Democrats, opening in Southern Pines
tomorrow, promises to be an interesting af
fair. The gathering will be honored by the
presence of Governor Hodges and other not
ables and can be expected to produce, as
usual, some of the liveliest speaking and
thinking in party affairs.
It is a tribute to the Democratic party that
the Young Democrats Clubs, formed over the
nation, in the thirties when the dynamic New
Deal program enlisted the enthusiasm and
loyalty of youth, have continued to flourish.
Further, it is a tribute to North Carolina that
the YDC has remained so vigorous in this
state and has continued .to produce party
leaders over the years.
We welcome to Southern Pines everyone at
tending the convention and salute the Moore
Countv YDC for the extensive preparations
they have made for this event.
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HAUL. CARRY OR TAKE'N LUG?
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Word Use Is Fascinating Thing
By KATHARINE BOYD
ment of this county, as in many other places,
has been assigned a big, hard job with re
sources in funds and number of workers that
are never exceptional and sometimes inade-
qaute—and that the members of the .welfare
department—^who deal with human problems
that range from heartbreaking to exaspera
ting and are almost never routine or easy—
work hard and long to accomplish their many
tasks.
These thoughts come to mind as welfare
workers from 10 counties of this area pre
pare to meet here Friday to discuss the old
age assistance program. In coming to South
ern Pines this group may be pleased to know
that they are in a community and a county
that has, we believe, more than an average
interest in, and und erstanding of, what they
do.
ucational and commercial ties were with
Moore County, they asked for the forthcom
ing change and Moore County, with the ap
proval of the General Assembly, was pleased
to comply.
Moore and Hoke were both at one time
parts of Cumberland County and both were
settled by the same Scots folk who came up
the Cape Fear valley to hew out their home
steads from the vast virgin pine forest that
covered all this area.
In these days when people so often meet
in controversy or argument about what they
want or don’t want, it is pleasant to hear
about such a harmonious gathering as that
held last week. We will .welcome the day
when Upper Hoke becomes a part of Moore
County.
The use of words, now that’s
.0 fascinating thing.
'The other evening, cadging for
p ride home so we wouldn’t have
to hire a taxi, we hinted so hard
a friend finally said: “Sure, I
don’t mind hauling you home.”
“Haul,” he said. Not even
“carry.” Or maybe he wouldn’t
have ever said “carry.” Not be
ing a bom and bred Southern
cavalier and therefore polite. Not
to say chivalrous.
The West, he comes from. The
eastern side of the West where
the jackrabbits are so big they
loom on the skyline against the
hunter’s moon and the sage-
bru.sh trips your boots and the
ghosts of the longhorns low in
the valleys. Hard-bitten, that
part of the West was. None of
your Spanish vaqueros with the
over-size hats and clinking spurs
a mile long and the soft Texas
drawl.
Now there was real chivalry in
those boys. They’d not have said
“haul” when addressing a datne.
Or “dame” either. Except on the
right occasions.
Down East, where the 3,000
miles-long coastline reaches out
into the cold Atlantic and the
seals bark on the ledges—in that
country, they say: “lug.’'
“Yuh want me to lug that
there in for you?” they’ll say.
Only likely they’ll put a “take’n”
into it. “You want me to take’n
lug that there for you?”
Heard a rough, strong Maine
vmman—a big-voiced, big-boned
wortian—^using that phrase about
sheep.
She’s quite a woman, she is.
Hei trade is raising sheep on the
rocky sea isles where the surf
is like green velvet. She shears
her own sheep and once a year’ll
she’ll come and shear your sheep,
if you make a deal with her. She
has two of her men to help her,
but she can throw a sheep and
sit on him quicker and easier
than any of them.
•■‘You, Jerry!” she’ll shout,
“You take’n lug that there big
old ewe ovah to me! Hurry now,
’foh she gits by yah.” And Jerry
hurries.
He jumps on the huge, woolly
sheep which is rolling her eyes
and baaing stridently in terror.
He hauls—or lugs or tugs—her
along somehow to where Jenny
waits. Jenny reaches down,
catches hold of a back leg on
one side and foreleg on the other
and—^flip!—over she goes with
Jenny landing astride her in the
same deft move, v
Clippers in hand, Jenny goes to
work, rolling back the heavy,
brownish fleece as she cuts and
slices. It’s a tough job. She grips
and puUs, panting as she works.
The fleece trimmed off, Jenny
springs to her feet, and the pale,
trembling ewe slowly, feebly
arises, to stare wildly around and
When Hate Is Unleased
(Greensboro Daily News)
Any number of thoughtful cit
izens are concerned about dam
age done the face of America by
the sudden upsurge of racial
hatred in the South.
They know that one picture
boats a thousand words: No dark
man of Indochina, Algeria or
Burma needs a caption to explain
the photograph from Little Rock
showing a youthful national
guardsman letting a white student
pass and rejecting a Negro.
Unfortunately there are no
printed words adequate to ex
plain the picture—or to speak up
for the proposition that it does
not express the total truth.
Yet, the foreign impression
notwithstanding, we are even
more concerned about two other
aspects of the school opening
scene in the South:
1. The damaging inroads of
hatred, especially on the faces of
white children; and
2. The widespread inclination
of the nation to judge the South
as some monolithic, prehistoric
beast.
Davis Fitzgerald, a wealthy
planter of Augusta, Ark., had a
good antidote for both problems.
Shocked by a picture of a crowd
jeering a Negro girl who tried to
enter Little Rock’s high school,
he reprinted it as an advertise
ment asking Arkansas to study
its evidence of hate on white
faces, adding, “When hate is un
leashed and bigotry finds a
voice, God help us all.”
When asked about this adver-
Tyranny of the Telephone
The New York Stock Exchange
did business for nearly a full
century before the telephone was
invented, and you wonder how
they built the railroads, stretch
ed the country across a continent,
got married, and raised families,
all without the telephone. But
they did. In fact, Shakespeare
wrote Hamlet, and Mozart even
composed Don Giovanni without
the help of the phone.
There’s something about it that
only a trained psychologist could
explain. You receive a letter and
you either Open it or leave it un
opened, as you wish. You put it
in your pocket, or in your apron,
or in a bureau drawer. It awaits
your pleasure. This is even true
of a visitor. He rings the bell or
knocks on the door and you still
hoid the initiative. You can open
the door at your leisure, or under
certain circumstances you don’t
even have to answer it.
But let that phone ring and all
hell breaks loose; in summer and
winter, in bed or out of bed, in
the bath tub or up on the roof,
you make a bee-line for that in
strument, over the hill and dale,
in the darkness with the furni
ture falling to the left and the
right; nothing matters except to
reach that instrument; and then
what? A wrong number perhaps,
or some fellow says, “How are
things?”—^Harry Golden in The
Carolina Israelite
Grains of Sand
then, with a ludicrous spread-
eagle leap into the air, like a
v/inged starfish, sails off to join
the flock, and'
“You, Jerry!” shouts Jenny.
“You take’n lug me that grey ’un,
see? Git her quick, now!”
Come to think of it, don’t
know but what we prefer “haul”
to, “lug” and even “take’n lug”
. . . though the latter has a rath
er lively, challenging sort of im
plication that is not unpleasing.
“Carry,” of course, would be
most appealing. Ho-hum. Looks
like vye’d have to find us a differ
ent haulOr, or carrier, if we hope
for such refinements.
tisement by a Northern newspa
per, Fitzgerald said: ‘T hope the
n-ation doesn’t judge the South
by the shameful actions of a few
of us.”
Ralph McGiU, writing in the
Atlanta Constitution, recalls an
ola proverb: “Oh, great and
v/ise, be ill at ease when your
words please the mob.”
And this realization may al
ready be plaguing the conscience
of Arkansas’ Governor Faubus as
he surveys the damage wrought
by his stirring of racial furies. Of
course, much of the South looks
on the U. S. Supreme Court as
the original viUain of the piece,
but, as unfortunate as that deci
sion may have been, it could not
justify the bombing of a school in
Nashville or the castration of an
innocent Negro bystander in
Birmingham.
The best South must take re
sponsibility for the worst excess
es of its mob, but in the process
it expects some help from men of
good will elsewhere. Fortunately,
the very revulsion of the excess
es may be reacting in favor of a
better climate everywhere. Kas
per’s foul mouthings have made
honest segregationists reluctant
to join his ranks. Gov. Frank
Clement reports that the Nash
ville school bombing did much to
alarm the city’s best leadership
and arouse them to support of
law and order. In Charlotte a
Negro girl’s decision to quit
Harding High School because of
taunts and harassment has pro
duced a twinge of conscience
among many of the high school’s
students now shamed by the con
duct of some in their ranks. And
the same may be true in Senior
High School of Greensboro.
Everywhere — North and
South—let it be remembered that
the South has a decent, moderate
leadership seeking a path of ac
commodation through racial
trials of the hour. If that leader
ship is repudiated, then the
fiuies will win. There is a heavy
responsibility both North and
South to avoid the hard-bitten
extremes of both directions and
find a path of reason and under
standing through the middle.
North Carolina, it seems to us,
has come as hear finding that
path of moderation as any
Southern state.
And for that we are thankful.
By WALLACE IRWIN
Guest Columnist
Katharine Boyd, bless her
heart, asked me the other day if
I’d mind writing a little verse
for The Pilot. Had I been inclin
ed to answer in parables, I might
have given her this one from real
life:
Booth Tarkington was drooping
around the Players when John
McCormick spatted him cheerily
and asked, “What makes you so
glum, Tark?”
“Since my old father has run
away with a schoolgirl,” moaned
the afflicted, “and since the play
I started has just blown up, and
since my wife is getting a di
vorce, from me of all people, and
since the doctor has put me on
the water wagon for life—won’t
you sing something?”
I’m no such sorry case as Tark
ington was. My spine is less
humpbacked than it was, thanks
to the combined devotion of Tish
and Dr. McMillan, also my appe
tite is all too good and my boys
are being professionally above
par.
]^Iy afflictions are not person
al. They’re national. Right now,
comic verse wouldn’t be comic—
it seldom is, of course, but today
it would echo like a horse laugh
in a crypt. Serious poetry would
make demands beyond my
strength. Would you ask me to
'vrite the “Battle Hymn of the
Republic” to the tune of
“Dixie,” or vice versa? Of course,
they’d blame fhe discord on Pres
ident Eisenhower. No Republican
should be allowed to write mu-
sic^^ they’d say. And perhaps
they’re right. From what I hear
^elched at me from the radio, I’m
willing to think that Commun
ism is behind tin pan alley.
1. Now, keeping my feet out of
the hydrogen barrel, let me sug
gest a few reforms which will be
printed on my Presidential tick
et at the expense, I hope, of our
Chamber of Commerce.
2. It will be forbidden by the
Supreme Court for newspapers
to refer to State Senators as
“solons” or call little children
“t(Tts”, nor shall the headline,
“exchange vows,” with reference
to weddings, be tolerated.
3. Cigarette advertisers must
stick to established grammar in
■endorsing the “tastes good”
brands.
4. Boiling in oil is specially rec
ommended for members of the
so-called Teamsters Union who
insist on making OfficiEil Leader
of the member who used a black
ening brush to clean up his rec
ord.
I don’t expect to be elected,
even if I nominate myself. But
the above items, which I have
culled from 100 more, should go
to show how I stand on impor
tant national issues.
Opinions are thirteen to the
dozen * nowadays. Most of them
are inspired by prejudice, for
without prejudice what good’s an
opinion anyhow? In my dotage
I’ve come to the unopinipnated
opinion that most people take
their beliefs as a parrot does, by
copying another voice, not know
ing what they’re talking about.
Their faith warms up by friction.
Their blood is always boiling
over something.
I never cared much for boiled
blood, especially when it has to
be warmed over. I hope I’m not
sounding clammy, for deep down
I have an abiding love for my
ideals, the best ideals of my
country, I hope. But I’m not suf
ficiently partisan to ask that our
national mistakes be set in letters
of gold, an inspiration. A natural
ly cowardly person, I face the
main national issues today very
privately, behind locked doors,
not caring to be kicked in the
stomach as a certain investigator
(colored) was in Little Rock. So,
slyly evading the main issue,
let’s move to the side-show tent
and study those side-show issues
which shall be embroidered in
my presidential policy.
The PILOT
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