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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1962
‘‘May I Be Of Service Madam?”
Southern Pines ' North Carolina
“In taking over The Pilot no changes are co ntemplated. We will try to keep this a go^
paper. We will try to make a little money f or 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 wi
treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. ^
Fine Addition to the Community
The Pilot extends its hand, along with
many others, in welcome to the Proctor-
Silex Corporation which, it was announc
ed last week will build a big plant here,
to employ between 500 and 600 persons.
This area is just beginning to wake up,
it seems, to wiiat this industry will mean
to the community in stimulation of the
economy, in boosting business morale, in
helping attract other industry and—an
often-overlooked point—in making avail
able additional human energy and talent
in civic service: in government, cultural
endeavors or other projects.
Southern Pines is doing well to wel
come growth and a balancing of its resort-
residential character with industry and
business. And the town can be thankful
that its Industrial Committee has helped
to bring here, in recent years and now
again with Proctor - Silex, companies
whose personnel and characteristics com
plement the commimity.
The Pilot salutes the Industrial Com
mittee and all who worked through and
along with that group for a task well done
in dealing with Proctor-Silex on behalf of
Southern Pines, Moore County and North
Carolina.
Again we repeat a sentence we have
written sometimes under less inspiring
circumstances: Gur optimism about the
future of Southern Pines and the Sand
hills remains strong.
Running up a Dead-end Street
What can the Republican party hope
to accomplish by moving farther to the
Right—becoming more conservative—as
evidenced in Governor Rockefeller s
speech that was such a disappointment
to his supporters in the so-called liberal
wing of the party—not to mention the
accolades extended to Senator Goldwater
from large groups of the party’s faith
ful?
An article on this page, quoting various
Republicans’ misgivings about the mean
ing and destiny of their own party, shows
that some GOP members at least are
questioning, if only half-heartedly, the
doctrine that is announced as guiding the
party in its efforts for the nation and
against the Democrats.
This striving to project^ an “ima^e,”
Walter Lippmann points out, can never
be successful so long as the Republicans
continue to wall themselves off from the
needs and desires of a large proportion
of a growing population and a changing
world.
Mr. Lippmann bluntly describes as
“silly” the constantly voiced Republican
theory that progressivism (all the social
legislation from the income tax down
through Social Security and welfare aid
to aid to education) leads to socialism
and socialism to communism.
There is not the slightest evidence that
the United States is headed for commun
ism and there is a world of evidence that
social legislation of the kind denounced
by Republicans for half a century has
been a mighty bulwark both to the na
tion’s economy and to the health and
strength of democracy and freedom.
Republicans are always trying to scare
the daylights out of people by telling
them that the United States is “spending
its way out of freedom into socialism and
communism—yet Mr. Lippmann refutes
this “central illusion” of GOP doctrine
by citing figures to show that this nation’s
public spending (28.3 per cent of gross
national product in 1959) was less than
that of other advanced, industrialized.
Western countries, notably Canada,
France and the United Kingdom, and
only slightly more than that of West
Germany in that year.
Likewise, the seven per cent of gross
national product that the United States
spent for social services (social security,
veterans’ benefits, government interest
and cash subsidies) in 1959 was less than
the percentage spent for these purposes
by anv of the nations named above and
by Belgium also. Compared to these other
nations, the ratio of U. S. public spending
is conservative, Mr. Lippman points out.
These patently absurd basic dogmas
of Republicanism today should be enough
to alienate large masses of the voters
whose common sense, even without the
figures cited bv Mr. Linpman. tells them
that the GOP is running up a dead-end
street under the impression that it is the
highway to the future.
Welcome Back, Chester Bowles!
It is welcome news that Chester Bow
les is back in Washington. And, best of
all, he is back with a stirringly optimis
tic report of his journeys through North-
East Africa and parts of Asia.
But to those who are inclined to look
down their noses at optimism these days,
especially when it comes front one of
“those liberals,” it should be said that
this Bowles report is tempered with
plenty of hard facts not all of them
cheerful by a long shot.
Designated in a semi-official way as
one of the Administration’s ambassadors
at large, Bowles was, it will be recalled,
dispatched to foreign parts when he had
his desk chair slid out from under him as
assistant Secretary of State several
months ago. There was a certain unseem
ly haste in the moye, and the to-be-ex
pected explanation that he was too valu
able a man to be tied down in Washing
ton did not fool many. As an idea man
of courage, energy, and strong convic
tions, Bowles was obviously getting into
the hair of the Department. His abrupt
departure for what many felt might be
parts unknown, with no termination date
set to his roving, caused supporters of the
liberal policies of the Kennedy regime to
shake their heads. Now he is back with
a bluebird flash of optimism into the
Washington picture. According to reports,
his “air of quiet confidence” is impressive.
The people of this nation were given
a chance to know about Chester Bowles,
both from his outstanding record as Am
bassador to India, and later, and fullv.
from his book, “Political Breakthrough.”
The book won wide acclaim .and showed
a man who was a thinker and a student
of international affairs, especially of the
problems of those nations he has been
covering in this recent trip.
The book reflected, also, the pattern of
thought and convictions of nOt only the
student and the ambassador with his
practical experience in foreign diplomacy,
but also the courageous attack and ef
ficiency of Bbwles’s original success in
the world of business as co-founder of
the famous advertising firm now known
as B.B.D.&0.
'This would seem to be a rather rare
and valuable combination. It is to be
greatly hoped that the Administration
will take full advantage of the report
that this able public servant is now bring
ing back to headauarters. In his speech
to the National Press Club, some of the
angles of the report were covered: Bowles
described the more hopeful attitude he
'A DEAL THAT MUST BE MADE'
Settlement on Berlin Imminent?
had found in many of the countries visit
ed, towards their own problems and also
their relationship with the United States
and the West. He felt the people were
coming round to a better understanding
of what the West is trying to do and also
of the falsity of the Communist doctrine
and “friendship,” so-called. He spoke of
the worsening of the Moscow-Peking en
tente and of Commimist China’s growth
of population in view of its vast food
shortages. But Bowles also cautioned his
audience that such optimisrn should not
be interpreted as the conclusion that “the
Communists are throwing in the sponge!”
The return of Bowles to Washington is
welcome because it will bring the first
hand information of a close student of
foreign affairs and a man schooled to
judge the reactions of people to the
council table. But without doubt Am-
bassa^or-at-large Bowles will be on his
way again and this will be a good thing.
If there is anything that Washington
needs to know and know accurately it
is what people everywhere are thinking,
doing, hoping.
Clean-up Time Again
Cooperation of all property owners is
asked by town officials and by the Sou
thern Pines Garden Club in cleaning up
private yards, parkways and vacant lots
in preparation for the hundreds of visi
tors who will be here for the club’s
House and Garden Tour on April 11.
Town officials have, as in former years,
agreed to make town trucks available for
extra hauling of trash and rakings next
week, picking up piles placed on park
ways without the normally necessary
request by a property owner to the town
office. Town crews will also clean up
along streets. State Highway officials
have been asked to clean up State-con
trolled streets in town, like Connecticut
and Indiana Avenues.
Vacant lots that need mowing and rak
ing offer one of the unsightliest characte
ristics of the town’s residential sections,
a number of them located on the streets
through Weymouth Heights that will be
on the route of this year’s tour. We urge
that lot owners clean theni up next week.
Although this annual appeal is made
on a basis of pleasing visitors, residents
of Southern Pines should be proud enough
of their community to keep it clean
throughout the year, in both residential
and business sections.
By JOSEPH C. HARSCH
' Special Correspondent of
The Christian Science Monitor
With an East German delega
tion arriving in Geneva and a
West German delegation reported
not far behind, it is obvious, m
spite of official silence, that East
and West are once more on the
brink of a settlement of the Ber
lin problem.
Whether they will mapage to
Step over this brink remains to
be reen, but that they tentative
ly are considering the leap to
what might be a lower plateau of
some stability in Central Europe
can scarcely be doubted.
Since it could happen—and
fairly soon—the West might as
well- face up to what it would
mean for the two sides.
For both, the leap would be
risky. Both would have to part
company with positions of long
duration which have acquired
strong emotional overtones.
Broad patterns of policies would
be affected.
Essential Features
To grasp what it would mean to
the two sides, take first the two
ess.3ntial features of a settlement.
It must, in order to be acceptable
to the West, recognize the securi
ty and the survival of West Ber
lin as a community belonging to
tltte West and entitled to undis
turbed commercial communica
tions with the West. To be ac
ceptable to the East it must in
volve recognition by the West of
East Germany as a country and a
government.
Such a deal—and there can be
no settlement without such a
deal—will do quite as much vio
lence to . the existing body of
Soviet policy and to Communist
doctrine as it would do to the ex
isting body of Western policy and
Western doctrine.
Moscow’s reach for West Berlin
gees to the very heart of the is
sue which today is putting such
strain on the Soviet-Chinese Com
munist relationship. Moscow can
not renounce the reach for West
Berlin without conceding by the
action that it is breaking from
the Chinese concept of Commu
nist dynamism. It would be an ad
mission, ind>eed a trumpeted dec
laration, that accommodation with
the canitalist West is better than
conflict with the West.
Break With China
More than that, for Moscow to
renounce the reach for West Ber
lin would give substance to the
Chinese contention that Moscow
has renounced Communist revolu
tion in order to become a Euro
pean state. It is difficult to see
how Moscow could take this step
unless it already has concluded
in its own secret councils that the
break with China is already in
evitable. It could and probably
would be the event which would
precipitate the open and avowed
recognition of the break.
For the West, the deal would
destroy the last vestige of the old
-’’cent of rolling back the Iron
Curtain. It, of course, also would
mean abandoning for visible time
the idea of reclaiming East Ger
many by Western manipulation.
Within visible time the deal
would put East Germany in the
same category with Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and
the rest. It would become one
more state recognized by every
one as a state with fixed boun
daries and entitled to trad.e and
do diplomatic business with any
one choosing to do such business
with it. It would cease being
treated as a non-existent pariah.
So great is the violence which
the deal wpuld do to vested politi
cal interests in both Moscow and
the West and so radical is the pro
ject for both sides that one is al
most tempted to say that it can
not happen.
But it is also a deal which must
be made if the danger of a nucle
ar war arising out of Berlin is to
be exorcised. It is also a prerequi
site to a useful summit confer
ence, to disarmament, and to any
lasting improvement in East-West
relations. The price would be very
high, but the rewards also could
be substantial to both sides.
Crains of Sand
Redecorating ^Cbsts: Sky High
When the authorities of an old
church in England decided re-
cently to repair the interior fur
nishings, they employed a local
artist to touch up an old oil paint
ing. In due course, the artist pre
sented his bill, but the authori
ties refused payment until full
details of the work had been giv
en. So the bill came back, as fol
lows, (translated into US curren
cy):
To embellishing Pontius Pi-
late and putting new rib- “
bons on his hat $1.50
Repluming and re-gilding
left wing of Guardian Angel 4.98
Washing High Priest’s ser
vants 2.75
Cleaning out St. David’s ears .20
Renewing Heaven, adjust
ing the stars and cleaning up
the moon 2.75
Eright.3ning up the flames of
Hell, putting a new tail on ^
the Devil, mending his hoof
and doing several odd jobs
for the damned 5.10
Touching up Purgatory and
restoring lost souls 1-00
Mending the shirt of Prodi- {
gal son .50
Touching up Pharaoh’s
daughter 75 \
Total $19.53
Nuclear Heebie-jeebies
It gives us the creeps to read
that the next nuclear tests to be
undertaken by the United States
will be from, or over, Christmas
Island.
When you add to that wretch
ed combination the fact that the
basing point in Britain of our
polaris missile submarine is in
the Holy Loch you—well, to say <(|
the least: it’s a curious coinci
dence.
Look Out!
In the discussion about the fact
that machines are replacing men
right and left, the suggestion is
made that the thing to do, first, iS'
to make a study of the situation.
And how would the study be
made?
By the use of machines, of
coursis.
Frankenstein is coming closer!
HAVING ’IMAGE' TROUBLES
Confusion Noted Witnin GOP
In a recent nationally syndica
ted column, Walter Lippmann
points out that “in recent years
Republican doctrine has been
shaped by theorists who are out
of touch with the modern world.
Indeed,” Mr. Lippmann wrote,
“it would not be an exaggeration
to say that it has been shaped by
theorists who do not know what
they are talking about.”
Several points of the “doctrine
to which Mr. Lippmann refers are
discussed in an editorial on this
page. The “Democrat, a publica
tion of the Democratic National
Committee, reprints the Lipp
mann column in full in its cur
rent issue and accompanies it
with further comment on the
“GOP’s frantic preoccupation
with images”—the impressions
the party is trying to make on the
nation: what the party wants the
nation to think it is. To illustrate
the confusions and dissatisfac
tions within the Republican party,
the “Democrat” continues as fol-
The Public
Speaking
Area's Medical Service
Is Called Outstanding
To the Editor;
While a patient at St. Joseph’s
Hospital, I greatly appreciated
the excellent service and the de
voted care of the Sisters.
I was greatly impressed by the
small brochure from St. Joseph’s,
which I received recently. ]The
facts and figures were very en
lightening. The growth of this in
stitution has been phenomenal
and the information given clearly
demonstrated the need in this
community of a second hospital.
The county is indeed fortunate
in having both St. Joseph’s Hos
pital and Moore Memorial Hospi
tal, each of which render the best
of patient care. I dpubt if any
community of this size can boast
such an outstanding group of
doctors or better medical serv
ice.
H. C. LEFROY
625 S. May St.
Southern Pines
lows:
Mr. Lippmann’s acute observa
tions followed a rash of Republi-
van Lincoln Day speeches in
which GOP orators, searching for
some tie between today’s Repub
lican Party and the Great Eman
cipator, expended vast amounts
of ammunition in fire at fellow
Republicans rather than Demo
crats. No new '‘image” emerged.
Sen. Margaret Chase Smith,
Maine Republican, deplored
“faint-heartedness” in GOP ranks
and made it clear she thought
GOP leaders like Richard Nixon,
Barry Goldwater and Nelson
Rockefeller may be “waiting for
a sunnier day” in 1968 to bid for
the Presidency.
“The impression,” she said,
“whether it be right or wrong,
fair or unfair, is that they have
n3fused to be the 1964 nominee
because they don’t think Presi
dent Kennedy can be beaten and
believe the Republicans can’t,
win.”
She suggested that perhaps “the
really true role contemplated for
George Romney is to be the sac
rificial lamb on the Republican
altar in 1964.”
Conservative Sen. Goldwater,
meantime, observed on his part
that he hoped Romney, during
the latter’s campaign for the
Michigan Governorship, “is abl©
to decide more emphatically that
he is a Republican” than some of
his public statements have indi
cated.
Republican Senator Jacob Jav-
its of New York blasted right-
wing extremists. Their ideas are
“wholly out of step with the 20th
Century,” he said. “And some of
our political leaders, who believe
somehow that the noise genera
ted by irresponsible ideas is re
flective of a surge to them, are
equally out of step with the peo
ple of this nation.” He criticized
Republicans for “paying too much
attention to the thunder on the
right and not enough attention
to the thunder in the cities.”
Republican Sen. Hiram Fong Of
Hawaii said Republicans need to
ask themselves whether they
have “given sufficient impetus to
humanitarian programs—or have
we lost touch with millions of our
fellow Americans who no longer
regard Republicans as their
champions?”
Miss Hurst and
The Permissive Parent
“Permissive” is a word of
praise in the language of child
psychiatry. It is applied to those
parents either too dumb, or to
infatuated with or too exhausted
by their offspring to try to con
trol them. They’d rather let them
drive everybody crazy than pro
nounce those un-child-psychiatric
words: “Quit!” or “Hush!”
John G. Fuller, editing “Trade
Winds” in a recent Saturday Re
view, tells of the lengths to
which Fannie Hurst, the writer,
was finally driven to save her
rqason.
Miss Hurst, flying overseas
not long ago, had the misfor
tune to have as tv(ro of her com
panions a permissive mother
and a -horrible little boy. The
latter charged up and down the
aisle, bothering everybody while
his mother sat like a statue ap
parently immune to all.
Looking out at the clouds drift
ing by. Miss Hurst, a normally
gentle and law-abiding lady, put
up with the bouncing and the
shouting for several hours and
still the mother made no effort
to control her son.
Finally, when the boy yanked
off her bracelet and went for a
bauble on her new hat, she could
control herself no longer.
“Little boy,” she said in a tired
voice, but loud enough for the
unperturbed mother to hear, “why
don’t you go outside and play?”
The PILOT
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Southern Pines, North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD—1944
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