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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1961
North Carolina
Southern Pines
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treat everybody alike. —James Boyd, May ' , •
Plea for a Straighter Course
It was Adlai Stevenson’s disagre^ble
duty last Friday to announce to the^ Gen
eral Assembly of the UN that the United
States would feel itself obliged to r^i^e
nuclear testing unless a treaty
testing, with controls, was signed. Furth
ermore, the testing would be conducted
in the atmosphere.
Arthur H. Dean, heading the U. b.
disarmament commission, comment^
“This is a very difficult position for th
United States to be in.”
Nothing could be truer. It is, and it is
a very difficult position, and a sad posi-
Uon%r the people of the UnM States
to be in. Just this very move has been
feared by many who have again and again
deplored the follow-the-leader role play
ed bv this nation. ,
When the Soviets broke the ban and
exploded their first small bomb, people
held their breath hoping that we would
not follow suit. It had been stated often
and firmly by the President and spokes
men for the Admmistration that this
nation had no need to test; we had ail the
bombs we needed. But when the Russians
started, our tune began to change. We
did prepare to test, though underground,
with, of course, the noble implication that
we would not pollute the atmosphere—as
Russia was doing—by testing in the air
and spreading more radioactive fallout;
and, anyway, we didn’t need to. As re
cently as early last week in their pleas
to Khrushchev not to explode his 5u-
megathon bomb, U. S. spokesmen have
been saying that there is no sense to such
a test, that it can have no military value.
Now Mr. Stevenson is forced to inform
the U. N. Assembly that his country “is
obliged in self-protection” to prepare to
make tests in the atmosphere as well as
underground. Next thing we know we
* will reverse ourselves again and start
saying that, after all, there isn’t so much
dapster froih fallout;
This is a sickening way for this nation
to operate. It is as if the United States
were on a treadmill one pace behind the
Soviet Union, obliged inexorably to do
whatever the Russians do; including tell
ing lies.
What is this about testing? Have we
enough bombs already or havent we.
And, if there is something to be gamed by
testing, so that we ought to keep on, will
it_or wont it—outweigh the loss of con
fidence in this nation by her own People
as well as the rest of; the free world, not
to mention heightening international
tension and, even more/the further dark
ening of that deadly cloud of radioactive
poison already hanging over the earth.
We do not for a moment doubt the
President’s conviction, often voiced, that
intelligence and the persistent courageous
use of it is the only way to find a way
to save the world from destruction. But
there are increasingly powerful grimps
arrayed against him. Powerful members
of the Atomic Energy Commission, the
Pentagon and the conservative wing of
the opposing party have
up with the Radical Right, that well-fi
nanced band of unsavory fanatical fire-
eaters clamoring for “a show-down, as
they call it. The President is under terri
fic pressure, greatly increased, m course,
by the infuriating tactics of the Russians,
and the difficulty of finding out, for sure,
whether they act as they act, and say
what they say, to panic the West or sim
ply to boSter up their prestige with China
and the Communist regime.
Between those forces the President is
in a bind. It will take all his skill and
fortitude to keep his head and proceed m
what he knows is the only way. But
he must climb down off the Soviet tread
mill. He must call .a halt to gyrations m
policy or at least let his people into the
reasons behind them. He must stop
ing them one day that we don t need
more bombs and, the next, that we do.
Domestic Cases Pose Challenge
ments. We have further suggested that
The case of the 18-year-old boy who
was in court at Carthage on Monday, for
the second successive week, charged both,
times with assault and battery on his
mother, would challenge the resources of
any society and the wisdom of any judge.
Here is a youth who has already served
two terms in prison camp, both arising,
from incidents of domestic strife, who
has been sent to one or more state mental
institutions from which he has consis
tently escaped, who last week was as
signed by the judge of the Carthage court
to a state Training School for Boys at
which, it turned out when he got there,
he could not be accepted because the
school does not take any boy who has
ever been in prison; and who finally,
this week, received a suspended sentence
on condition that he go to live with a
relative in another town and get a job.
The Moore County court seems to have
done all that it could and to have acted
with commendable restraint, leniency
and compassion in each of the instances
in which this boy has been brought before
the court—but the observer of these in
cidents through the years is contrained
to wonder if, with all its resources, the
State of North Carolina could not pro
vide some service, some guidance that
would rescue this boy from behavior pat
terns that point toward eventual disaster
for him and possibly other persons.
The Pilot has on a number of occasions
noted that it is well nigh impossible for
judges of the lower courts in small com
munities to deal effectively with domes
tic relations cases when they do not have
at their disposal skilled investigative and
guidance personnel to follow up on judg
^‘Just Keep Your Eye On The Little Green
Pea, Folks...”,
Crains of Sand
Live an<il Learn
So Margery Michelmore has
learned that postcard reading is
not confined to the so-called de
veloped nations. ■
Live and learn. Miss M. This is
learning the hard way and it
strikes us that it would be a lot
easier to do the learning here. . .
before you go over there. Easier
on everybody. For instance:
Warning of another kind of
peril might be gleaned from the
notes of a recent expedition to
a very far-away spot in a very
far-away jungle. The explorers
had brought along canned goods
as presents to the folks. They set
out the shiny cans with the
tempting labels: soups, salmon,
ham with a picture of a fat pork
er, a gambolling lamb on the
lamb stew; beans, vegetables,
baby food, cocoa, and so on. Then
they sat back, beaming: “Food,”
they said. “Good to eat!”
The natives crowded up, looked
and mirated till they saw the cans
of baby food. They took one look
at the plump baby on the label,
stared in dismay at the explorers,
turned and fled into the bushes.
Later; the truth came out. They
thought the picture showed what
was in the cans.
Well, can you blame them?
GREENSBORO DAILY NEW*'
'AN UNUSUAL BREED OF CAT'
CreatMty Should be Recognized
By WINFRED GODWIN
Director, Southern Regional
Education Board
preTominafely rural counties fuch ^ as
Moore might find it possible to band to
gether to set up special domestic relations
courts that would try this type of case
originating in several counties or towns.
Pooling their resources, several counties
or communities might be able to employ
one or two skilled people who perhaps
could help prevent the incessant repeti
tion that characterizes these cases.
Time after time, recalcitrant s^ns,
dirunken and violent husbands, wayward
daughters and irresponsible mothers are
given suspended sentences in the lower
courts, only to be sent back again for the
same or similar offenses, until finally
there is no resort but jail or prison. Then,
likely as not, what remains of the family
goes on welfare and society bears not only
the expense of the incarceration of the
offender but also support of the family
members staying at home.
Neighbors, ministers and other persons
of good will often -can—and do — help
these people who cannot seem to stop
creating strife and turmoil in family life,
but there is a limit to what they can do.
Beyond that limit is where a professional
domestic relations adviser might do more
to aid the defendants in these cases and
their families. (It is apparent that, from
evidence often heard in court, it is not
always the person before the bar who is
at the root of the conflict, whatever it
may be.)
We would like to see some coordinated
effort, by individuals and public officials,
toward more effective handling of domes
tic relations cases.
Hidden behind the impossible
disorder in that front office, there
might lurk a creative employe.
Or it may be that the student
in the back of the classroom, who
barely passed for the second year
in a row, is not dumb—^but crea
tive and frustrated.
Creative people seem to have
a preference for complexity and
disorder. . . sometimes they work
best out of simple chaos, the Uni
versity of California’s Institute of
Personality Assessment and Re
search has found. For six years
the Institute has been conducting
a study of creativity financed by
a grant from the Carnegie Cor
poration. Its result should be of
vital interest to our schools and
colleges which need to give great
er attention to finding and en
couraging creative individuals.
These creative individuals are
an unusual breed of cat. They
aren’t necessarily the most intel
ligent, the most capable or the
most competent. Buf they are all
fairly intelligent, a Carnegie Cor
poration report says, and early in
their lives they show evidence
of a special talent or talents-
drawing, mathematics or writ-
astating to the creative person,
the Carnegie study reports. The
idea of a time-clock, for example,
is stifling to the creative em
ploye. At times he may appear, to
be doing nothing af all, while at
other times he will work for 24
hours without a break and be
extremely irritated at someone
wfio interrupts him for anything
during that time.
In today’s world, ths creative
person—whether in school or in
society—is prey to a sharp con
flict of values. On one hand he
must adjust to the integration of
the individual into the group and
its activities and on the other he
must break away from the herd
enough to nurture creative talent
and individuality.
Southern colleges and universi
ties can help settle this conflict
when they recognize creativity
and award it its true value. At
that point, we wjll have a double
winner—the society which bene
fits from creativity and the indiv
idual free to contribute through
his creativity.
The Public Speaking
Another Low
Along with per capita income
and other well-publicized items in
which North Carolina ranks low
among the 50 states, per capita
consumption of malt beverages is
way down in this state—second
lowest in the nation, at 5.4 gal
lons per person per year in 1960.
Only state lower is Alabama at
5.2 gallons. These figures are to
be compared with 25.6 gallons in
Wisconsin, highest beer and ale
consumption in the nation, and a
national average of 15.1.
The figures come from the
United States Brewers Associa
tion, a very dignified organiza
tion that always prefers the
words “malt beverage to drink,
“beer” or “ale,” and puts out an
“industry fact book” that is de
corously known as the “Brewers
Almanac.” The USB A ako takes
pride in the fact that it is the
oldest incorporated trade group in
the nation “which will next year •
celebrate the 100th anniversary
of its establishment” — with
everybody at headquarters quaff
ing a jolly, but “moderate,” stein
of malt beverage, no doubt.
North Carolina’s low standing
in beer and ale drinking, though
probably painful to USBA, should
please those residents of the state
who raise such a ruckus against
these beverages whenever there
is a local election to determine
whether or not the drinks can be
sold legally.
Reliance on Shelters
Could Prove Calamity
ing.
Nutrition As Important As Sanitation
v.r,+ fr-nm a onvemiTK
A startling suggestion (from a startling
source) is made by Harvey J. Rape, execu
tive vice president of the North Carolina
Association of Quality Restaurants, Inc.
In a recent issue of “The Health Bulle
tin,” the official publication of the N. C.
State Board of Health, he writes that he
believes:
“That the approximately 4,000 eating
places in North Carolina need to be
checked as closely and carefully on the
nutritive aspect of their service as they
are now being checked to guard against
unsanitary conditions and health hazar^.
“That a large per cent of our eating
establishments, excluding schools and
hospitals, have little thought that their
customers can suffer because^ of their
negligence or ignorance—washing away,
pouring down the drain and cooking away
the vital elements of food. . .
“That the public has as much right to
demand that an establishment prepare
and serve food with all its qualities as
they have to demand that it be sanit
ary . . .”
Bravo! That’s coming from a restaurant
man, not from a government spokeman
who would be labeled meddling, dictator
ial, idealistic and impractical were he to
venture such opinions.
With more and more people traveling,
with the downtown lunch almost univer
sal among businessmen and office work
ers, with older people congregating m
retirement hotels or living in apartments
and eating out for one or more meals
each day, Mr. Rape’s concern is obviously
of wide import to millions.
Yet we do not recall seeing the matter
publicly mentioned before in North Car
olina or elsewhere.
Three cheers foV this outspoken spokes
man for the restaurateurs. We hope that
his revolutionary suggestion will meet
with approval both within the business
he represents and with the public. ,
As to practical application, it seems that
“nutritive inspections,” or whatever they
might be called, could be carried out by
the same Health Department inspectors
who check sanitary conditions, so that
legislation in this new field would not
entail any vast new expense to the state.
Most of them score high on in
terest tests which point to careers,
as author-journalists or research
scientists.
There is evidence, the Carnegie
study found, that creative people
are not very interested in small
detail, in the practical and the
concrete. They seem more con
cerned with meanings, implica
tions and symbolic equivalents of
things and ideas.
Often the creative person is not
a very satisfactory student in
school. He isn’t particularly fond
of group work, he wants to follow
his own interests and he wants to
be free to set. goals for himself
which may differ from those of
his classmates.
The colleges and universities of
the region have a major respon
sibility to identify and nurture
creative students. If originality is
not rewarded and encouraged
during those years, it may be lost
to fields of endeavor which need
it badly.
So far a lot of emphasis has
been placed on the intellectual
capability of students, but liftle
attention has been given to Other
aspects of a personality which
point to creativity.
The increasing numbers of stu
dents who will enter our colleges
in the next 10 years will give add
ed impetus to concentration on
the “sound” student who may or
may not be original. This mistake
will be further compounded un
less business, industry and the
work-a-day world do something
to make the creative person feel
mor.3 at home in his world.
Some work practices are dev-
To the Editor:
I thought you might be inter
ested in the enclosed promotional
sheet of,the Goldwater “Program
for Survival and Victory,” and
its theme that, these days, the
only important thing, the only
aim of all REAL Americans, must
be to BEAT the Communists (em
phasis the pamphlet’s author). It
seems that thousands of these
sheets are going out all over the
country.
I am well aware that Commu
nism and Russia are indeed a
problem that must be dealt with.
However, it has been my feeling
that to beat Communism would
not in itself solve all our diffi
culties. The real issue is to raise
faith in the West and especially
in the American philosophy and
way of life. In other words, begin
to try to understand, to realize
deeply, what we have and, sec
ond, to try to pass on pur living
faith in the principles on which
this nation was founded, and our
hopes, to others. This approach is
surely more constructive, more
challenging than the purely nega
tive approach of “beating Com
munism.”
There is another point that I
would make; this is to draw at
tention to the extraordinary ac
tivity that has begun as to shel
ters in this city and others on
the Eastern coast. I have a law
yer friend who is a director of
several companies. He told me
the other day he had spent all
day going from one meeting to
another where the entire time
was taken up discussing plans for
fallout shelters: shelters for the
staff and for storing valuable
papers, sealed in blastproof
vaults, outside the city. What ap
palled this man—and what ap
palls me—is the growing feeling
that war is bound to come.
Actually, there is great doubt
as to the value of these shelters.
Most scientists agree that there
is no foolproof shelter, no reliable
protection from a nuclear bomb
blast. It would appear that prep
arations are being made along
World War II standards. Fallout
shelters are being constructed as
if the physical world outside the
shelter would go on just the
same, except for the fallout. That
is to say, that one would have
electricity to run air conditioning
units, fresh running water, sew
erage, all the normal facilities
and, that, when it was safe (when
would that be?) the people would
come out into a fairly normal
world.
This rush to build shelters
which may be of no use at all, is
like entering into a fool’s para
dise. And this may be its most
dangerous aspect, a national cal
amity. For it may mean that, be
lieving they can “get by” if a
nuclear war develops, people will
abandon the idea of trying to
find another way to survival
than by war, attack, and counter
attack. It would mean that more
and more Americans will feel se
cure, and will, therefore, turn
their energies more and more to
wards such flimsy, illusory meas
ures for their own supposed safe
ty and less and less towards that
over-whelming problem: how to
avoid war.
-JAMES BOYD
New York, N. Y.
What It Is
The huge creamy-skinned veg
etable (or would it be fruit?) in
the autumn-theme window deco
ration at Barnum Real Estate and
Insurance Co. is a gourd grown
by Ralph Mills who first brought
it to The Pilot, perhaps to show
that he could grow big and late
vegetables, as well as the small
and early English peas he
brought in ’way last Spring.
Seed from which the monster
was grown came from Louisiana.
Though it measures 54 inches
around, it is not nearly so heavy
as it looks and seems to be par
tially hollow. (We know. We car
ried it from the Pilot office to
Barnum’s after Hilda Ruggles
and Aileen Healy had spotted it
at The Pilot and Ralph had told
them they could use it for the
display.)
Ralph asked that the big gourd
be handled with care. He’s going
to cut out the top, as you do a
jack-o-lantern, scoop it out, dry
it, varnish it and then have what
may be the town’s only garden-'
grown wastebasket.
i
(Editor’s Note; The writer of the
preceding letter has been special
izing in the study of disarma
ment, especially as to nuclear
warfare, and acting as an unoffi
cial consultant in this field. For
further material on the subject
we suggest a reading of two ar
ticles by Norman Cousins, editor
of The Saturday Review, in the
Oct. 21 and 28 issues of the mag
azine, in which the author carries
even further our correspondent’s
thesis on the danger of reliance
on shelters instead of on brains
and courage.)
The PILOT
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Southern Pines. North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD—1944
FOR THE RECORD
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ed chiefly neither for its hor
rifying crimes nor for its as
tonishing inventions, but for
its having been the first
age. .. in which people dared
to it practicable to
make the benefits of dvili-
zation available to the whole
human race.
—ARNOLD TOYNBEE
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