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ke TWO THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1962 1 ILOT Southern Pines " Carolina “In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will tsy 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. ^ While Kitchin Slept A prime example of the disregard that Rep. A. Paul Kitchin has shown to vital issues affecting the 8th Congressional District, the State and the nation is his attitude on federal aid to education. How oblivious Kitchin is to the needs of his district is shown by what happened in his own county of Anson and town of Wadesboro almost exactly a year ago. In April, 1961, the Anson County com missioners, faced with a school construc tion and rebuilding program estimated to cost $1,019,000, voted to approve the then-pending federal aid to education bill proposed by the administration of President Kennedy. Their Congressman, Mr. Kitchin, was informed of their action and was asked to support the Kennedy proposal. His answer was to request an appearance, be fore the commissioners and he was in vited to speak to them at their next meet ing, Monday, May 1. Here are the immortal words the Con gressman spoke on that occasion, as quot ed by the Messenger and Intelligencer, Wadesboro newspaper, two days later: “If you and the other good citizens of our district really want me to sup port that act, after yoii have explored all the possibilities, then I shall do so —but in that event I assure you that you can look for another fellow to . represent you in Congress after next ' year. Yoii see, I have to try to sleep with Paul Kitchin every night. I do not think my conscience would let pie rest if I voted to help enact this tin td extend further the socialistic trend of our national government and to impose federal controls on import ant areas of our state and county institutions.” r . So moved were the commissioners by the Congressman’s problem ©f trying to sleep with himself that they forthwith rescinded their approval of the federal school aid plan. Thus did an elected re presentative suceeed in leading his people not, like MostS, out of, but rather back into the wilderness. ^ ^ ^ Something else of interest throughout the 8th District was taking place in May, a year ago. On May 22, the North Caro lina Advisory Committee on schools re leased its study of the percentages of pupils attending, in each county of the state, high schools accredited by the Sou thern Association of Colleges and Secon dary Schools. This accreditation is the top rating accorded to high schools throughout the South and takes into con sideration building cirriculum, faculty and other considerations. Accreditation has a direct effect on the admission of high school graduates to colleges. Anson County, at the time when Con gressman Kitchin talked the county com missioners out of seeking federal aid for school construction, had 39 per cent of its white students and none of its Negro students attending high schools accredited by the Southern Association. While Mr. Kitchin was sleeping so soundly with his conscience, here is how the other counties of his district stood in terms of percentages of their white and Negro students attending accredited high schools: Davidson—48 per cent of white, 100 per cent of Negro.’ Davie—No white students, no Negro students. Hoke—No white students, no Negro students. Lee—46 per cent of white, 100 per cent of Negro. Montgomery—No white students, no Negro students. Moore—31 per cent of white, no Negro. Richmond—76 per cent of white, no Negro. Scotland—71 per cent of white, no Ne gro. Union—15 per cent of white, no Negro. Wilkes—39 per cent of white, no Negro. Yadkin—No white students, no Negro students. Against this background—including four counties of the district in which not jWhite or Negro student was at- Ccredited high school— Kit- Ifederal aid to .schools. [rting which put Kitchin in listrict, as of the first of _/ this year, must have made him sleep even more soundly. It relieved him of respon sibility for three of the counties totally without accredited school facilities— Davie, Hoke and Yadkin; also of David son, Scotland and Wilkes. The new district added another pro blem, however: Lincoln County, baili wick of Charles Raper Jonas who is the Republican candidate for Congress from the new 8th in November. Lincoln, the North Carolina Advisory Committee’s re port shows, likewise had not a single student attending an accredited high school. Mr. Jonas, also, opposed federal school aid. Mecklenburg, the other new county in the 8th, has one of the best records in accreditation in the state, but a record still far from perfect: 68 per cent of white and 21 per cent of Negro students in accredited high schools. Mr. Kitchin testily told the Anson County commissioners that, if he voted for federal aid to education, they would have to “look for another fellow to re present you in Congress after next year.” He didn’t vote for it—but now finds many voters in the district “looking for another fellow” anyway: State Rep. John P. Kennedy of Charlotte who is opposing Kitchin for the Democratic Congressional nomination on May 26. And Mr. Kennedy is quite a fellow. It is hard to imagine him appearing before a board of county commissioners to orate on what he intends NOT to do. He is marching to a different drummer than Mr. Kitchin. He has been thinking and talking, all through this campaign, of what he COULD do for the 8th District— for, education and for slums, for roads, housing, hospitals and every other need that is apparent throughout the district. One of the first statements he made in his Campaign is that he would be reluctant to see “any large-scale federal support of the day-to-day operation of the schools,” but that special federal programs of loans or grants for school and college construction, which would “encourage and stimulate states and local communi ties,” are needed. Mr. Kitehin’s drummer seems to make him walk backward. The Congressman’s 1961 record shows that he voted against the majority position of his party 67 per cent of the time and for it 33 per cent of the time—while no other Democrat in the North Carolina delegation voted against the majority position of his party even as much as half of the time. Mr. Kitchin has indeed been asleep. He has drifted through more than five years of office, apparently unaware of his dis trict’s human needs and human problems. It took John P. Kennedy to reveal and confront those problems—in education and many other fields. Everything he has done or said since the campaign began indicates he is awake and aware, ener getic and confident, and that, if nominat ed and elected—as we believe he will be—he will address his constituents in terms of what he will, rather than will not do. ‘‘How Do You Explain Your No-Win Policy At Valley Forge?” J I ‘ X ' / ‘•wrh ‘ ' i' ' f, ■MU its ■<0i m si nil* WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO SET IT OFF? State Has Literary Explosion ly GERALD W. JOHNSON In Greensboro Daily News As a native Tar Heel long resi dent elsewhere, I am curious about the extraordinary stimiUus that seems to have energized North Carolina Uterary circles this year. When five really note worthy books are turned out by North Carolinians in the same publishing season there is indeed a sound of going in the mulberry leaves, and a native son who re members when a Tar Heel who had written a book was as strange as a black swan, can hardly believe his eyes. Burke Davis’s marine general and Jonathan Daniels’s pathfind ing along the Natchez Trace per haps should occasion no surprise since both are established writers from whom good work is expect ed as a matter of course. But when to those two non-fiction works are added in the same sea son three first novels, each of which has attracted national at tention, one begins to think of North Carolina as Miss Peterson thought of her Pa in that immor tal threnody Written circa 1900: “I seen Pa coming, stepping high. Which was of his walk the way.” I refer, of course, to Russell Brantley’s The Education of Jon athan Beam, to Bynum Shaw’s The Sound of Small Hammeis. and to Reynolds Price’s A Long and Happy Life, which had the unusual distinction of being pre sented in full in the April Harp er’s. Mr. Shaw, now in this coun try, writes about Germany; Mr. Price, now in England, writes about North Carolina; Mr. Brant ley, now at home, writes about a college too thinly disguised not to be recognized by North Caro linians; but while their themes are varied, they are alike in hav ing written well enough to be gven serious consideration by critics far beyond the boundaries of North Carolina. Mr. Brantley and Mr. Price will certainly arouse indignation. Mr. Shaw, to an attentive reader, will arouse alarm. All three are some thing more than mere entertain ers; they are serious novelists studying serious problems through the medium of fiction— in Mr. Shaw’s case, a grave inter national problem. Whatever else may be said of them, none of the three can be justly accused of the reproach brought against North Carolina for generations— that of having a hopelessly paro chial point of view. Without doubt the old North State is “coming stepping high,” but in the old days that was definitely not “of its walk the way,” which sets a spectator, gaz ing from afar, to wondering what has happened to set off this out burst. The Public Speaking Affirmation of Life Residents over Moore County have a special place in their chairtable interests for the annual tag day of the Maternal Welfare Committee. 'ITiis activity, esta blished as a county-wide project some 30 years ago, has aided countless mothers and infants, for many of whom the com mittee’s help meant life itself. The green and white tags picturing a baby’s face will be on sale in towns throughout the county Saturday. We urge generosity in giving to the committee which maintains a free hospital bed for care of needy patients, and also an emergency fimd on which public health nurses may draw. The tag sale assists those who need help desperately^—here at home. There is a particular satisfaction in this sort of giving. The story of how the Maternal Welfare Committee was responsible for steadily reducing the death rate of mothers and infants—through its clinics, midwife training and stimulation of the public health service—is one of the dramatic episodes of Moore County history. The determined and selfless women who were responsible for the achievement deserve the gratitude of all citizens. In the years since the Maternal Wel fare Committee began its great work, this nation has spent billions on killing and preparations to kill again, if need be. A dime or a dollar for a tag on Saturday will be a small, sweet affirmation of life —a baby’s or a mother’s life. This, too, is important. Peace Corps Director Notes Pilot Editorial To the Editor: I read with interest your editor ial of March 22, entitled, “Peace Corps: A Moral Example.” The support which our program en joys this year in Congress has in large measure been the result of the high quality of volunteers who have offered their services to their country in the Peace Corps. 'The “moral example” of the Peace Corps is aptly described in a comment by the noted historian, Arnold Toynbee. Recently he wrote to me and said: “Here is a movement whose express purpose is to over come the disastrous barriers that have hitherto segregated the affluent Western minority of the human race from the majority of their fellow men and women. And the initia tive in this has come from the country that is now the re cognized leader of the West ern world. Service in the Peace Corps is not an easy option. It calls for adventur ousness, adaptability, human feeling, and, above all, self- sacrifice. ’There is something in human nature that res ponds to a challenge like this. I believe that, in the Peace Corps, the non-Westem ma jority of mankind is going to meet a sample of Western Man at his best.” Editorials such as yours of March 22, not only result in wid er public support, but also generate interest among the kind of highly motivated Americans we are constantly seeking for Peace Corps service. SARGENT SHRIVER Director, Peace Corps Washington, D. C. Retired Army Family Likes 'The Briar Patch' To the Editor: Anent the quoted remark of Mrs. MarshaU in Betty Beale’s column in the Sunday Charlotte Observer, May 6, regarding the Briar Patch, I recall Uncle Re mus’s story of Brer Rabbit who was delighted to be thrown into the Briar Patch. Perhaps your readers may remember the inci dent. That was his ancestral abode. My wife’s ancestors have been in military service since Colonial times, I only since 1900 until 1942. But on retiring we chose the Briar Patch and still recommend it to any and all who may ap preciate climate, community and release from the jungle of strife and absurdities of localities like Washington where we were com peted to “bide a wee.” We like the Briar Patch—-in fact we love it. O. A. DICKINSON Southern Pines / I ‘Realism* and Nuclear Ditjemma (Reinhold Niebuhr, noted theo logian, replies in “Christianity and Crisis,” of which he is an editor, to a letter questioning the “real ism” of his attitude towards the nuclear dilemma as expressed in a recent article. Below are the con cluding paragraphs of Dr. Nieb uhr’s letter. ED.) Mayer’s searching reflections (in a letter to the editor), illu mine the last tragic moral anti monies of the nuclear dilemma. He may be right in accusing the “realists” of inconsistency in af firming, on the one hand, the real ity of our peace through a bal ance of terror and, on the other hand, finding a nuclear war mor ally abhorrent. For my part, I acknowledge this real or seeming inconsistency. But I think it should be pointed out that the issue at stake is not logical consistency but the rela tive emphasis we place on the necessity of coming to some nu clear agreement with the Rus sians. There is a general fear of a climax of escalation in nuclear weapons. If this fear is justified, the ultimate issue is one that has not been widely discussed. It is whether we would accept any thing less than a . foolproof in spection system and take some risks for peace coniparable to our ever more dangerous risks in the the game of deterrence. Perhaps this is the issue tjhat will finally be presented to thjb American peo- Crains of Sand Sool Scotland Rummer tiirns the thoughts to tr welling, long, long vacations to ^ a luteky few, and summer turns ^ the thoughts, not so happily, to hot weather, and so then in des peration it turns them quickly, by contrast, to' cool weather and cool places. So when we came across the poem below, it is not really sur prising that all' those thought- turnings and twistings made it particularly appealing right now. ^ Especially to Scots, like all of us. ▼ From 'Twilighl on Tweed' Three crests against the sdffron sky. Beyond the purple plain. The kind rememb^d melody Of Tweed once more again. Wan w^lter from the Border Hills. Dear voice from the old years, Thy distant music lulls and stills. And moves to quiet tears. A mist of memory broods and floats. The Border waters flow; The air is full of ballad notes. Borne out of long ago. Twilight, and Tweed, and Eildon HUl, Fair and too fair you be: 0 You tell me that the voice is still That should have welcomed me. (Andrew Lang in "The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse" (Ox ford.) Which? Mike was a go-getter from the start. 'That start was a pretty low one but Mike worked hard and he went up the ladder fast. Bessie, his wife, kept up as well as she could. Which wasn’t really very well. But Mike ap preciated all she did for him and so, when finally he made his pile —a great big pile—^he decided he must do something special for the wife who had been such a loyal helper through the hard years. “Bessie,” said Mike, “I’m so grateful I’m going to give you a # present, the swellest present I can find. No! I’m going to give you TWO presents!” “Oh, Mike!” said Bessie. “Yessir; I sure am. I’ll tell you:” he thought a minute: “I’m going to buy you a Jaguar and a Rembrandt!” And off Mike went to keep his promise, leaving Bessie speechless with excite ment. A few days later, Bessie called him up at the office. “Mike,” she said, “The present has come. But, Mike, it’s one pres ent instead of two.” “One present!” said Mike, “Well, which one is it?” ‘•Mike,” wailed his wife, “I don’t know!” Brer Rabbit ^ Mrs. Marshall got her Uncle Remus memories crossed up when she told the reporter who inter viewed her after the White House dinner that she was glad to get out of the briar patch. Brer Rabbit scooted for the briar patch and then triumphant ly taunted Brer Fox with his in sulting song: “Bawn an’ bred in a brier patch. Brer Fox! Bawn an’ bred in a briar patch!” Anyway we kind of like the thought we’ve got this particular rabbit in our Southern Pines briar patch. You Can Find It “Writing, to me, is not an ex ercise in addressing readers, it is more as though I were talking to myself while shaving. . . All that I ever hope to say in books is that I love the world. I guess you can find that in there if you dig' around.” •;—E. B. White' The PILOT sibiUty past and t/ce and irrespon- lussians in the I present Geneva negotiations maiy, of course, ob scure this ultimate issue for some time. But we must face it ulti mately because join* present insist ence on foolproof inspection is defined as unrealistic by most of the experts. / Reinhold Niebuhr 1 Cambridge, Mass. (Editor’s Nfcte: One reason for the scientislfe’ feeling that the suggested infernational inspection system is “ulirealistic” is their be lief that it would not be able to do any bettier job than is being done now bjT the two nuclear pow ers througln their own seismo- graphic in^ruments and intelli gence reports. Actually, it would E.aem doulMful that either power would acc®pt a decision of the in- )ternationai watchdogs should it differ from their own reports.) Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT. Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Katharine Boyd Editor C. Benedict Associate Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. 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