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yr—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1962
Southern Pines
ILOT
North Carolina
“In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a go^
paper wf Im try to make a Uttle money for aU concerned. Wherever there seeim to be
an occaTiL to our influence for the public good we will try to do ;t. And we will
treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23. 1941.
Paul Dana: Good And Faithful Servant
Paul Dana, a quiet, gentle and modest
man, gave generously of his services in
many ways that made the Sandhills a
better place to live. These services were
always of the most superior professional
quality. His fine training and high stand
ards would allow him to do no less, in
the smallest to the largest jobs.
His excellent service rendered to Moore
County, now Moore Memorial, hospital
from earliest days are an example, which
we mention because that was where w^
knew him best. His faithfulness and ef-
ficiency over more than 30 years as
secretary to the board and treasurer of
the corporation did much to get the hos
pital well established and give it its sound
business reputation.
In affairs of the hospital, in the coin-
munity and religious life of Pinehurst, in
business and banking circles and in all
the finest phases of Sandhills life and
activity, the death of Paul Dana this week
means a great loss. He was a gentleman in
the truest sense of the word, and a good
and faithful servant who did his work
well.
New Lee County Center A Godsend
We are happy to welcome the Lee
County Industrial Education Center, the
new regional school set up at Sanford to
serve Lee, Moore, Chatham, Harnett and
Richmond counties, and we
many Moore students regi^ered there.
This is a public school. Courses
fered without charge to high school
youths and to adults in draftsmanship,
machinist trade, air conditioning and re
frigeration mechanics, automotive me
chanics and electrician technician.
For youths who cannot or do not care
to go to college, who want to develop a
skill or trade and start earning a living
as soon as possible, such a school could be
^ ^Iso for adults who wish to improve
themselves or change their line of work,
who need re-training in order to tit the
modern economic picture, it offers real
opportunity. ,
We recall some years ago when a tech
nical school for this region was first pp-
iected, the late Judge L. T. Avery tried
hard to secure it for Southern Pines, and
to that end talked to manv persons in
Raleigh and lined up considerable local
support. He offered a building with class
room equipment, the old Notre Dame
Academy, and he might have achieved
his aim 'except for one thing; at Raleigh
they told him there was not enough in
dustry here to justify placmg the school
at Southern Pines.
We would like to have had the schwl,
but the fact that it was placed m a big
new modern plant at Sanford, a town of
wide industrial diversification, does not
mean that all of Moore county can not
be helped by it. Our industry is growing,
and with a reservoir of trained skilled
workers, it will beyond question grow
even faster. Sanford is not so far but that
many of our people, including those vol
untarily or involuntarily leaving the
farms, can get there to take the courses
which will help their future as well as
all of Moore county’s. . .
This program of training or re-trainmg
at the grassroots should be a big factor
in achieving Governor Sanford’s aim of
raising the economic level all over the
State. It should also serve to keep many
of our young men here who now go to
Norfolk, Portsmouth and the northern in
dustrial centers to make their livings.
Classes for high school students start
Monday, for out-of-school students Sep
tember 14. For those already employed,
evening courses may be arranged. For
information, phone, write or visit the
Director, Lee County Industrial Educa
tion Center, at Sanford.
Newspaperman Into Lawyer
We are proud that, of the 163 new law
school graduates taking the recent state
bar exam, four were from Moore county,
an unusually high percentage from one
of the State’s smaller counties, with small
towns and small high schools.
We are proud that, out of only 81 pass
ing what must have been one of the
stiffest exams the State Board of Law
Examiners ever gave, three were form
Moore.
All these young men’s names have ap
peared in the news columns with pertin
ent personal data, and we are going to
single out just one for special congratu
lations, praise and a real welcome—the
only one who is returning at this time to
Moore to practice his profession.
He won’t particularly like this, but
Vance Derby was never the stuffy sort
and we don’t believe that three years or
300 in a law school would make him so.
Anyhow, we’ll take the chance and claim
special privilege, since once we were
practicing the same profession, frequently
together.
For Vance is a newspaperman turned
lawver, and we can’t imagine a happier
combination, except maybe a lawyer
turned newspaperman. There’ve been
plenty of times we’ve wished we had had
some law training—it would have been
mighty useful.
As a matter of fact, most newspaper
people get more than an inkling of the
law, covering court cases, gabbing with
officers and lawyers, and following un
certain trails through the law dictionary
and General Statutes for help in various
complexities of the news.
Vance has said that, without the know
ledge he gained as a reporter m the
Moore Country courts, he might not have
passed that bar examination either.
^ Vance went to law school at Carolina
straight from the editor s chair of the
Southern Pines Pilot. While still a young
man, from our viewpoint, he was a ma
ture individual, with several j^ars of
newspapering and a variety of other jobs
behind him. He was, and is, a married
man—very much so: his fourth child was
born after he entered law school, and he
postponed moving his family to Chapel
Hill till after that event. All this, if
nothing else, made him a rather unusual
member of the Class of 1962.
We’d like to write about the qualities
that made him a good newspaperman,
and that we behove will stand _hirn ^ in
good stead as a lawyer—his quick incisive
mind boring straight to the heart of a
matter, his endless resourcefulness, fertile
brain and fighting spirit, his innate
friendliness and understanding of people
on all levels, his deep curiosity and wide-
ranging interests — but on second
thought, we won’t. He’s modest, too, and
it might embarrass him. And it might
violate some of those shiny new legal
6t]iics.
Anyhow, we’re proud and happy to
welcome Vance, Mitch and all the little
Derbies back home, to wish him all the
success in the world, and advise our
good friends of the Moore County Bar
association that something new has been
added.
Probation Expansion Needed
^What’s Wrong With Leading A Double life?”
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/ /V.o PEMOCRAliC
CONiSRESSMBU
IT USED TO BE MORALS—NOW,
CompetencylAsked Of Teachers
(Hoke County News-Journal)
Here at the opening of another
school year, we thought you d ap
preciate a look back into the re
cent past when teachers labored
under a burden of second-class
citizenship fully comparable to
that of a Negro sharecropper in
the Mississippi Delta.
For example, an Idaho teacher
in 1923 was paid the munificent
sum of $5 monthly, but only if
certain conditions were meticu
lously observed. The following is
verbatim from the contract: ^
Don’t get married, and don’t
keep company with men.
Don’t be away from home
between the hours of 8 p. m. and
6 a. m.
—Don’t loiter in ice cream par
lors.
—Don’t smoke cigarettes, and
don’t drink beer, wine or whis
key.
Don’t leave town without
permission.
—Don’t ride in a carriage or au
tomobile with any man except
your father or brother.
—^Don’t dress in bright colors,
dye your hair or use face pow
der, mascara or lipstick.
Well, what the heck, for $5 a
month a teacher ought to be re
quired to conform to plain, com-
monsense rules! But note that no
where in this list of “don’ts” is
there any rule that teachers
should know a little bit about
what they’re teaching.
Here are some verbatim ex
cerpts from a list of “Rules for
Teachers” that was posted by a
New York City principal in the
1870s:
—Men teachers may take one
evening each week for courting
purposes, or two evenings a week
if they go to church regularly.
—Women teachers who marry
or engage in unseemly conduct
will be dismissed.
Every teacher should lay
aside from each pay a goodly sum
of his earnings for his benefit
during his declining years so that
he will not become a burden on
society.
Any teacher who smokes,
uses liquor in any form, frequents
pool or public halls, or gets shav
ed in a barber shop will give good
reason to suspect his worth, in
tentions, integrity and honesty.
Certainly, we can all rejoice
that the era of second-class cit-
izennship for teachers is dead and
gone. Indeed, in this state and in
many others, the teachers are a
powerful political influence, so
powerful that they are intensive
ly courted by politicians from the
White House to the courthouse.
We have advanced now to the
point where the community no
longer has any special concern for
the “morals” of a teacher that it
does not exhibit for the '‘morals”
of anyone else.
But what does the community
demand now of a teacher? Is it
fair to say that the community de
mands the teacher know the sub
ject he teaches, to keep up with
the literature in his chosen field,
to have the God-given ability to
stimulate his pupils towards in
tellectual growth?
And is it fair to say that many
teachers fall just as far short of
this new community demand as
their predecessors fell short of
being paragons of virtue?
Yes, we think it’s fair to state
these obvious things, and we also
think that the new demand for
competence is far more reason
able than the old demand for vir
tue.
At the heart of the question of
teacher competence is the mech
anism (controlled by a handful
of administrators) by which men
and women are passed through
the education schools of the big
universities, take the required
number of education “courses”
and emerge with the precious cer
tificates that are the passports to
job security.
Alone among the state’s major
newspapers, the Raleigh News &
Observer has questioned the role
of these education schools and
the worth of many of their grad
uates. It would be nice to see the
General Assembly conduct a
thorough and sober investigation
of the certification mechanism in
North Carolina, Or is the role of
the Assembly strictly limited to
the appropriation of ever-increas
ing amounts of educational dol
lars?
Our old friend Mr. Claude Dut
ton was the subject of some pub
licity last week emanating from
a place of which, we must admit,
we never heard before.
It is Wakefield, Neb., through
■which, it appears, Mr. Dutton
was traveling when he was pick-
ed at random as a “typical tour
ist” and made a guest of the city
for the day. He was also made an
Honorary Nebraskaland Cow-
puncher, with a certificate sign
ed by Governor Frank B. Morri
son as Trail Boss, Mayor Harry
Wendel as the Horse Wrangler
and Chief of Police Lawrence
Graffis as The Ramrod.
The publicity doesn’t state
whether or not Mr. Dutton re
ceived the keys to the city, but
we bet that at least he received
a dinner of good Nebraska beef.
The Nebraskaland Cpwpunch-
ers association would like a copy
of any publicity published about
this event, and we are so impr^-
ed by it we are happy to oblige.
We just hope that when we see
Mr. button again, his head hasn’t
gotten too big for that 10-gallon
hat we are sure he will be wear
ing. How's this for publicity,
Nebraskaland podners? And y’all
come to see us sometime. We’ll
give you a golf putter, elegantly
inscribed.
Notes of a Sandhills
Summer Gardener:
You can tell when autumn comes
Because the petunias and zinnias
start looking like bums.
Suddenly there comes a day
You pull them all up and throw
them away.
And go to the nurseryman and
get some chrysanthemums.
Sandhills vs. Sandhill:
While extending a warm wel
come to the Sandhill Regional Li
brary, we will complain—just
once, and then shut up—about its
name. We don’t go for Sandhill,
we never have and that’s final.
We like Sandhills.
We got steered in this direction
by a good friend and mentor when
we first landed in the Sandhills
(not in a Sandhill) 15 and a half
years ago. What she said made
sense to us and this was it:
“This is the Sandhills. That is
the famous and beautiful name of
this whole region. What is one
Sandhill? Nothing much and not
very pretty. It means nothing at
all.”
We struggled in vain, as a
charter member, against the
name of th.s Sandhill Tennis as
sociation, and think today Sand
hills would sound better and
have more meaning.
We learned that the new re
gional library board studied the
matter deeply, searched lists of
names all over the three member
counties (Moore, Montgomery,
Richmond) and found Sandhill
more in use than Sandhills.
We denied it vigorously—but
then did some list-searching our
selves and are forced to swallow
our words. We don’t like swal
lowing them, or admitting we did
it, but in our telephone book we
Sandhill Telephone Co., Sand
hill Music Center, Sandhill Citi
zen, Sandhill Sunoco Service,
Sandhill Oil Co., Sandhill Veter
inary Hospital, Sandhill Awning
Co., Sandhill Drug Co., Sandhill
Garage, Sandhill Lumber Co.,
Sandhill Properties, Inc., Sand
hill Perma-Stone Co.
RAPID CHANGES AND LOST BEARINGS
Where Is United States Headed?
Next year’s General Assembly is being
asked, through the Advisory Budget
Commisison, for about $1 million (cover
ing expenses of two years) to double the
present number of probation supervisors
(now 59) at work in the state.
Anybody who has been around the
courts knows that most probation officers
have an overwhelming burden of work.
And, as with any job that involves con
ferring, discussion and the influence of
personal relations, all the work suffers
if there is not time to handle any of the
cases thoroughly.
Probation can be a most effective force
for rehabilitation, especially with youg
offenders—rehabilitation that takes place
before, not after, an offender goes to
prison. 'The records show that this “stitch
in time” method is working and persons
close to the system believe that, with
adequate probation ser-vice, it could be
made to work much better.
The requested funds would also make
possible having 10 senior probation of
ficers to work where needed in the
State on “problem cases.” This, too, is a
sensible suggestion, taking off the regular
probation supervisors a responsibility in
which they could succeed only by giving
a few individuals more attention than
they can possible afford, in view of their
other commitments.
We gather from a news item out of
Raleigh that the State Probation Com
mission is having some difficulty in filling
10 probation officer appointments that
have been authorized now, with payment
from contingency and emergency funds.
The work requires special training, but
it could, we would think, prove tremend
ously satisfying. Few occupations afford
opportunity for such a direct influence
for good on the lives of others.
We hope that both the Advisory Budget
Commission and the General Assembly
will see the justice of the probation ex
pansion request.
(From the Madison Messenger)
One of the biggest problems in
pubic education today is the hu
manizing of knowledge. Man’s
store of new knowledge is in
creasing so rapidly today that it
is impossible to tabulate it as rap
idly as it becomes available, let
alone digest it and relate it to the
knowledge he already has.
The problem is aggravated by
the fact that new knowledge is
coming in such torrents no ow
man can hope to embrace all of it;
hence individual men specialize.
In so doing they inevitably lose
sight of the whole picture. And
while, any man may become
knowledgeable in some special
branch of knowledge, he is too
often a muttonhead in all others.
This is as true of our teachers as
well as the rest of mankind.
Somehow, somewhere along the
way, educators must pool this new
knowledge, and put it in proper
prospective. They must relate it
to our special culture and give it
meaning in that culture. ThiS' is
going to be an increasingly diffi
cult task.
Within several decades the
countries of the earth have be
come literally one world, with the
result that whatever happens in
the world today has influence
.■everywhere. There has been more
change in the past fifty years
than in the past five thousand
years of man’s recorded history.
The change has come so rapidly
that man has been unable to ab
sorb it, and has lost his bearings.
He is bankrupt of wisdom to cope
with it.
Another big problem of our ed
ucators grows out of this bewil
derment. It is related or perhaps
a result of this vast spate of un
digested knowledge that man has
uncovered and hasn’t yet learned
to handle. We Americans have no
clear plan for the future of our
civilization. We do not know
where we are headed. We have
no social or cultural goals beyond
vaster supplies of consumer goods
produced in a blind competition
with the communist countries.
Before we can educate our peo
ple, we must have a clear picture
of what we are educating them
for. We must know what our so
ciety is, what we want it to be
come. We must have realistic and
worthy goals and set our sights
on ways to achieve them.
Are we to become a welfare
state? Are we to become a social
istic state? Where are we headed?
Our philosophers and educa
tional leaders must determine
these questions and give us ink
lings of what goals we may work
toward. They must define these
goals and give them meaning.
The communists have a pretty
clear overall understanding of
their society. If we do not have
a better understanding of our
own society than we now have,
we may lose to them by default.
INHERITANCE
Our inheritance of well-found
ed, slowly conceived codes of
honor, morals and manners, the
passionate convictions which so
many hundreds of millions share
together of the principles of free
dom and justice, are far more
precious to us: than an3rthing
which scientific discoveries could
bestow.
—WINSTON CHURCHILL
ROTTEN RAFTERS
Delusions, errors and lies are
like huge, gaudy vessels, the raft
ers of which are rotten and
worm-eaten, and those who em
bark in them are fated to be ship-,
wrecked.
—BUDDHA
Then, on the other hand—
Sandhills Wildlife Management
Area, Sandhills Candy Shop,
Sandhills Woman’s Exchange,
Sandhills Bonded Warehouse,
Inc., Sandhills Eye Clinic, Sand
hills Insurance Agency.
Then there’s the Sandhills Mu
sic association, the Sandhill Farm
Life School, and—well—We quit.
Maybe Sandhill gets the majority
vote, but we still like Sandhills.
The PILOT
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Southern Pines, North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD—1944
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