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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1961
ILOT
Southern Pines
North Carolina
“In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a go^
paper. We will try to make a Uttle money for aU concerned. Wherever there seems to be
L occaaon to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will
tre&t everybody alike.**—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. . —
Effective Approaches to Justice
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Judge W. Harry Fullenwider continues
to try to make the local court over which
he presides more effective, not only in
meting out justice but in acting as a de
terrent to lawlessness and as an instru
ment of public education.
The judge first made news along this
line over a year ago when he announced
that he would give jail sentences, as well
as the usual fines, in certain cases of
drunken driving, careless and reckless
driving and other flagrant violations of
the motor vehicle laws. This he has done,
sometimes confining a defendant in jail
only for the balance of the day on which
he is tried, sometimes directing that a
defendant spend nights in jail for a week
or so and sometimes giving longer, full
time jail sentences. Though many of
these sentences are appealed and may not
be upheld in the higher court, we feel
that the purpose has been accomplished:
it has been demonstrated that crirninal
irresponsibility with an automobile is as
socially reprehensible as criminal irre
sponsibility with a knife or with a gun,
meriting equally the humiliation of forc
ed confinement. We venture that persons
thus locked up by Judge Fullenwider
w have entertained some long and self-in
structive thoughts while behind bars.
Recently, Judge Fullenwider has in
stituted other unconventional measures
that deserve the community’s support and
applause.
Exasperated and distressed by the
weekly parade of “public drunks” to
whom it is illegal to sell alcoholic bever-
aees the judge is cracking down on per-
SSwho’Lu to them or buy whiekey
wine or beer for them To "»mne
to the public as to who is forbidden to
buy these beverages, defendants are be
ing “declared an alcoholic m open co^t
so that there need be no
illegal to sell to them or buy for them.
Ana if these defendants have a shred of
pride left, the public designation itself
may help them to mend their ways.
L^t week, the judge tried another
new tactic to make both defendants and
the public sit up and take notic^ In
numerous “routine” speeding cases the
sort that is handled rapidly
torily by many courts—the judge gave
defendants a choice of paymg a 1“^
promising to walk every place they went
for periods of 24, 48 or 9b hours, as the
case^ might be. Many took thejvalkmg
option. No matter how light-heartedly
they entered this contract, to ease their
pocLtbook, such a choice could hardly
fail to be a “lesson” to them, not to men
tion the wide circle of friends, acquain
tance or Pilot readers who learn of their
^'^inhe^dministration of justice becomes
cynical, hasty or even routine, how can
the public be expected to respond with
anything but distaste, if not cor^fP^P^^’
for the operation of the courts. Efforts
such as Judge Fullenwider’s create new
concern for the courts’ function and help
keep the public from taking for granted
either the courts themselves or the of
fenses they exist to punish.
Personal Gifts Aid the UN
The incredible Quakers have done it
again.
While many of us have been urging
vigorous support of the United Nations,
as the world’s best hope in the struggle
for peace, members of the Society of
Friends have been giving one per cent
of their income this past year as a pledge
of faith in the UN.
The “pledge of faith” is wonderful—
but the plain fact is, the UN can also
use the money. The Quakers contribu
tion offers practical, as well as moral
support.
The Friends say they hope their one
per cent “self-tax” will be taken up by
everybody, demonstrating their usual
calm and candid idealism that forever
seems undismayed at the selfishness and
unresponsiveness of the rest of the world
in moral matters. Because they are few,
they have produced from their “tax”
only $60,000. Imagine what could be
done with a great national response in
such an effort!
Others than Quakers, in small num
bers, have been moved by their convic
tions to contribute financially to the UN,
notably a group of people at Chapel Hill
who sent to the UN the amount of money
it would have cost them to build fallout
shelters. Others around the nation have
also done this, dramatizing the frequent
ly made point that strengthening of the
UN is more important, now, than shelters.
Then there is the United Nations Chil
dren’s Fund which receives more than
$1 million per year through contributions
collected by children on Halloween and
by sale of greeting cards.
Whether or not the Friends’ example
moves others to give to the UN financial
ly, it cannot fail to stir the conscience of
many Americans and bring home to them
that we all have personal, as well as
national, stakes in the United Nations and
its success or failure in this age of crises.
Two ‘Doctrines’ on Germany
In his interview with Alexei Adzubei,
Krushchev’s son-in-law who is editor of
Izvestia,, President Kennedy apparently
accepts a continued division of Germany.
“We recognize that today the Soviet
Union does not intend to permit German
reunification and that as long as the
Soviet Union has this policy, Germany
will not be reunified. . . ” ,
And with this acceptance is linked
another thought—one that is developed
at length in an article by Joseph C.
Harsch on this page: that the granting
of nuclear weapons to West Germany
would be an extremely dangerous pro
vocation to Moscow.
The President said: “I would be ex
tremely reluctant to see West Germany
acquire a nuclear capacity of its own.”
Mr. Harsch points out that Russia
would take the nuclear arming of West
Germany “as a preliminary step to re
unify Germany by force.” This is why,
in his opinion, such a step would not be
tolerated by the Soviet Union.
In a second Christian Science Monitor
column on the German reunification-nu
clear weapons problem, following the
one printed on this page, Mr. Harsch
contrasts two “doctrines” on Germany:
1. The approach apparently favored by
President Kennedy: that the West should
not insist on Germany reunification and
should not give West Germany nuclear
weapons, at least until the Soviet Union
loses some of its present obvious fear of
development of German power.
2. The theory subscribed to by General
de Gaulle (and which, Mr. Harsh thinks.
West Germany would also support if not
pressured away from it by the United
States and Great Britain)—that the Wes
tern governments are committed to re
unification of Germany, that failure to
pursue this end is a betrayal of Germany
and that West German resentment of this
“betrayal” might eventually lead West
Germany into an alliance with the Soviet
Union, on the basis of the reunification
of the entire nation—on Moscow’s terms.
There is a basic division between these
points of view, each of which appear to
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“Bah! Humbug!”
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QUICKEST WAY TO BRING ON WAR
Nuclear Weapons For West Germany?
involve terrible risks—nuclear war if the
West insists on unification and arming of
Germany on the West’s own terms; or
the possibility not only of war but of loss
of Germany to the Soviets, if we continue .
on the present course and do not insist
on reunification.
Mr. Harsch feels that nuclear war is
inevitable if the West will not accept a
divided Germany. President Kennedy,
whatever he may think about the possi
bility of war, appears to accept that
division. Britain solidly backs that point
of view.
The problem is whether West Germany
can be kept as a loyal ally under the
doctrine accepted by the President. We
believe that it can and that the U. S.-
British line of approach is the most ra
tional at this time.
A Worthy Program
The Pilot urges generous support of the
annual Christmas Cheer Basket program
carried on by John Boyd Post, Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
Persons giving food items or money
donations can be sure that their help will
reach the community’s neediest families
just before Christmas. The 75 or more
big food baskets that are normally dis
tributed by the VFW go primarily to a
list of families whose need has been
certified by the county welfare depart
ment. It is not a hit or miss operation.
The few baskets not going to welfare
recipients are given by the post to fami
lies whose need at the Christmas season,
if not throughout the year, is established.
The community owes the VFW ap
preciation for the post’s efforts in col
lecting, packing and distributing the
baskets. It is a labor of love. There are
no administrative expenses or deductions
for this or that. All the money given—
which is used to buy perishable and sup
plementary food items, added to those
placed in grocery store collection barrels
—and all the food go where they are
needed most.
By JOSEPH C. HARSCH
Special Correspondent
The Christian Science Monitor
Speaking at Georgetown Uni
versity in Washington, D. C., on
November 26, West German Min
ister of Defense Franz-Josef
Strauss said:
“The problem is that the pos
session of nuclear weapons, and
control over these weapons, is be
coming the symbol and even the
characteristic aspect for the de
cisive criterion of sovereignty.”
In Izvestia on November 28
Alexei Adzhubei, son-in-law of
Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrush
chev, quoted President Kennedy
as saying that the President is
against West Germany’s having
nuclear weapons at its disposal or
some measure of control over
them,
These two citations bracket the
hub of the issue which is involv
ed in the “Berlin crisis.”
Certainly not all people of
prominence in West Germany
want West German possession or
control of nuclear weapons. But
Herr Strauss has made it fairly
clear repeatedly that in his mind
his country never will regain its
full stature and sovereignty un
less and until it also possesses or
controls nuclear weapons.
would be being bracketed by
powerful and unfriendly states
on both flanks. Stalin attempted
to prevent this danger by keeping
Germany divided and China
weak. Since Stalin’s time China
has grown stronger, has reclaim
ed Stalin’s loot of the Japanese
war from Mr. Khrushchev’s
Soviet state, and has become pro
gressively less subservient to
Moscow’s wislies.
Mr. Khrushchev does his ut
most to maintain what Commun
ists call “the strategic Unity of
the bloc,” by which they mean
the Soviet-Chinese alliance. But
he can hardly be sure that he and
his successors will succeed for all
time in maintaining that “strate
gic unity.”
Important
These considerations make it
all the more important in Mos
cow to avoid the revival of a
great powerful sovereign and nu
clear armed Germany on the
Soviets’ other flank.
The West must take it for
granted that to Moscow the one
decisive casus belli would be re
unification of Germany. The West
must assume that the Soviets
would regard the nuclear arming
of West Germany as a prelimi
nary step toward an attempt to
reunify Germany by force.
Until such time as the Soviets
eeasP to fear the revival of Ger
man power, which time certain
ly has not arrived yet, the West
must assume that peace between
the Soviet Union and the West
depends on Germany’s remaining
divided and West Germany’s con
tinuing to be unprovided with
Herr Strauss’s nuclear badge of
sovereignty.
Not Easy
President Kennedy’s greatest
problem in the negotiations over
Germany which presumably lie
ahead is to manage to be a good
and loyal ally to West Germany
without granting it nuclear wea
pons or supporting its natural de
sire for reunification. He must at
tempt to make West German
membership in the Atlantic com
munity more attractive than nu
clear weapons or a visible pros
pect of German unity.
The task will not be easy. Fail
ure ■ in the task probably would
be the shortest and quickest way
to nuclear war.
Axing Trees and History
Asking
When he equates possession or
control with sovereignty, he, in
effect, is asking for the weapons.
It has been suggested in this
column that Soviet foreign pol
icy is erratic and unpredictable,
which in many respects is certain
ly the case. But in one respect it
for long has been solidly and
stubbornly consistent, and we
must, I think, assume that in this
one respect it will continue to be
consistent.
From the end of World War II
down to the present the very cor
nerstone of Moscow’s policies to
ward the West has been the divi
sion of Germany.
History and geography make it
clear enough why this is so. The
Soviet state is not protected on
its eastern and western flanks by
great oceans or high mountains
or even wide rivers. It is partic
ularly exposed geographically on
its western flank in Europe and
many times has been invaded
across the Eastern European
plains.
Strategy
Soviet political strategy
throughout the World War II
period was aimed at avoiding a
two-front war. Moscow labored
ceaselessly to avoid war with
Japan until after Germany had
been defeated. The Soviet attack
oh Japan after Germany’^ defeat
was not the most honorable deed
in history, although at the time
the West encouraged it.
The most dangerous condition
which Moscow might ever face
(From Raleigh News & Observer)
As our small towns stretch and
sigh to ease their growing pains,
many historic markers, in the
form of trees, are axed indiscrim
inately. Invariably no one who is
aware of this inadvertent vandal
ism knows anything about the
tree’s historical implications. The
indignant protests follow the act.
But professional axmen are not
expected to inquire about local
traditions and many places lose a
century of natural history and all
its warming facets in five minutes
to the offhand savagery of the
buzz saw. Often this happens be
cause young Turks are too busy
emulating Madison Avenue to
brush up on established facts
as depicted in living history. It
happens because the ones who
know end care haven’t done a
good job of tolling the story.
There are other depredations,
mostly unwillful ones, but the
despoiling of natural history,
such as trees, is an outstanding
example in today’s local laxity.
And whenever a landmark goes
down, everyone testily berates
everyone else in seeking to
place the blame. The remedy
will come, though, when people
really want awareness of their
surroundings. Whenever men
relate their pride and their as-
piritions to the factors of iden
tification, no one has to stop and
investigate the historical signific
ance of local landmarks.^
Crains of Sand
How Sad! ^
There was a hearing in Wash
ington recently at which certain
of the smaller timber-cutting and
saw-mill operators testified
strongly against raising the min
imum wage in this industry. So
doleful was their tale about how
they would all have to go out of
business if wages were raised
that it sounded as if this industry
would simply have to fold up
everywhere in the South.
A reporter at the hearings was
overheard to remark to a pal:
“Isn’t it just terrible! If this bill
passes, gTass will grow in the
forests!”
Americans Don't Care!
“The trouble is,” says Joseph
Weehsberg, “Americans never
complain.”
Mr. Weehsberg, born in Czech
oslovakia but long an American
citizen, is an author, lawyer, mu
sician who does a lot of travelling,
and he has a big bone to pick
with his fellow-countrymen. He
maintains, according to the Sat-
review, that “things here are de
generating,” to wit:
“Americans will wait twenty
minutes for a taxi. People don’t
seem to care!
“And suburban life! I’ve had
my taste of that. Visited a friend
in Chappaqua. That train! No one
in Switzerland would stand for
that.
“When I go to an expensive res
taurant, I expect service!
“Ah, the great days are gone.
__ No one has time to do anything
' well any more. You should com
plain when things are bad; praise
when good. Send things back to
the kitchen if they’re not right.
Americans never do that. Why
not? And now that the Continent
is being slowly Americanized, it.
is hard to get decent service and
food.”
Key Madeun!
Mr. Weehsberg’s plaint calls to
mind an episode we witnessed
during the war when, then in
New York, we were standing in
line at Carnegie Hall to get a
ticket for the concert.
The line was a long one and a
few steps back was a British Tom
my. People stood first on one foot
then on the other while the line
inched slowly forward. Suddenly,
from the rear, a large lady
emerged and stalked past to a
plac.2 close to the ticket window.
Glances of fury were exchanged
along the line, but nobody did
anything—that is, no American
Not so Tommy Atkins. Without
more ado he stepped up ’to the
woman.
“I say. Madam,” he said, “You
can’t do that, you know. This is a
LINE. You must wait your turn.
Go back to your place, please,”
and h.s added: “at once.”
And she did; at once. While the
Americans tried to appear un
aware of the incident and their
own lack of gumption..
Moore County's
Madison Avenue Boys
We see that the president of
the State Society of County His
torians suggests that the State
should help finance the writing
of county histories.
Maybe. Dollars are certainly a
necessity. But we’d suggest: best
of all would be for the counties
to get some' do-it-yourself teams
like Edwin McKeithen and Ras-
sie Wicker, Moore County’s home
talent researchers and sales pro
moters of “The First Hundred
Years,” now hard at work on the
second hundred.
Only thing: they don’t come
more than one each of those boys.
Shoot!
“I shall never be influenced by
any consideration except one: Is
it the truth as I know it—or, bet
ter still, feel it? If so, shoot, and
let the splinters fly where they
may!
-Eugene O’Neill
AN UNPARALLELED OPPORTUNITY
The great revolution that is sweeping across the world of
education today can be described in a few simple words:
Young people have a far greater natural capacity to learn
and to develop their ability to think than their elders have
generally recognized. Organized school systems, without meaning
to do so, tend to slow down and even to frustrate this ability.
So new methods are being developed to release the full range
of growth of which young minds are capable.
But it takes genius in teaching to draw out this latent ability.
And it takes another kind of genuis—the organizing kind—to
multiply leaching of this high order, on a large scale.
If the newly advancing countries of today could seize this new
revolution and make it their own, they would have their philoso
pher's stone. Their overwhelming need is for speed. They are
not encumbered by old, established, inflexible traditions to the
degree that developed countries are. They have done well in
building their present school systems. But now they must sud
denly spread education to the many, almost at once. Nothing
but revolutionary new techniques can do this job.
They have an unparalleled opportunity to start fresh.
—SAVILLE DAVIS
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