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#9 1^ Page TWO THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1964 ILOT Southern Pines North Carolina “In taking over The Pilot no changes Eire contemplated. We will try 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. Two Men Talk Sense During the past two weeks Americans heard three speeches of major import ance. Two of them were made by the same man, Senator J. W. Fulbright, chairman of the Foreign Relations Com mittee, and the other was by Adlai Stev enson, U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, delivered as the Dagg Hammar- skjold Memorial lecture at Princeton University. It is to be hoped that the words of these two men, dealing from different angles with the same subject, are widely read and earnestly studied. For what they say is of prime importance to the welfore and security of this nation. The Stevenson lecture dealt with the history of the cold war, and especially with the role of the UN. With subtlety and acumen he scanned past events, and went on to show how the successful policy of containment, with tremendous emphasis placed on military means, was beginning to shift over into “a policy of cease-fire or peaceful change.” He sug gested that if the early policy stood for limited war then perhaps the policy of cease-fire could stand for limited peace and climaxed his address with his stated belief that “what the world needs is a dynamic syystem of order . . . which helps parties to a dispute to break out of rigid stalemates—to adapt to new times—to manage and absorb needed change.” Senator Fulbright’s two speeches were concerned more directly with problems and dangers, but the theme was essential ly the same: the need for Americans to keep pace with what he, like Stevenson, considers is an important change taking place in the world. He, also, believes that the policy of containment no longer holds the answer. The dangerous times we have endured have, he feels, brought undue reliance on defense, “a morbid preoccupation,” blind ing those who hold it not only to the reality and gravity of the changes taking place all over the world, but also to the state of the nation itself, with its many domestic problems that desperately need reform measures of wide scope and vigor. The words of such men as Fulbright and Stevenson ring with utmost authori ty for they truly know the facts behind their statements. Furthermore if there were ever two men to whom the wel fare and progress of the nation is abso lutely paramount, it is these two. It is not often that two men of such stature and experience, both leading statesmen, speak at almost the same time, with equal urgency, on the saine subject. The fact that their conclusions are identical lends enormous weight to their words. Both said: the world is changing; the United States must keep pace with it; it must mend its own fen ces; it must widen its vision. And Sena tor’Fulbright added: “This is a lot more important than trying to get to the moon.” Books In The Hands of Children Proclamations and statements by of ficials about the various special weeks, on behalf of this or that, crowding the modern American calendar, are usually pretty dreary reading. An exception was what Governor Sanford had to say in designating this week as Library Week in North Carolina—^part of the obser vance of National Library Week. Saying that he hopes support for pub lic libraries and their use by people will increase, the Governor abandoned flow ery phrases and said as though in a side walk conversation: “. . . We have children growing up who have no acquaintance with libraries. We ought to try to get books into the hands of these children. I know some of the children will lose them or tear them, but it’s time we had more books used by children,a nd lost or torn by children if that’s the price we must pay Bravo, Governor! That’s the ticket! Let them relish a book like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Help them somehow to understand that hooks are the very stuff of life—fragrant and nourishing like a bowl of good soup, strengthening and comforting like the hug of some body who loves you. No prissiness, no exaggerated solici tude about books, please. They’ll take care of themselves. The good ones, given time, will be cherished and the bad ones forgotten. Parents, teachers, relatives, friends— all who have contact with children can help steer them to the public libraries’ doors. Once inside, and given access to books, they’ll make their own way—and lose or tear fewer volumes than appre hensive adults might forecast. How Can The Town Be Kept Clean? It came up in the town council meet ing Tuesday night that April 15-21 has been designated Clean-Up and Beauti fication Week in North Carolina. That was fine, the town fathers opined. But then the question was: what can we do about the litter on streets and roads in and around Southern Pines? There wasn’t a one of the councilmen who could say he hadn’t received com plaints on this matter. Southern Pines was asked last week to clean up the town in anticipation of Wednesday’s House and Garden Tour this week. Many property-owners res ponded. Despite bad weather, rakers and primers and pick-upers were out in force over the weekend, all around town. But it takes more than this to keep a community clean and attractive, the year around. Town crews can’t do it, the city manager says. They’ve got their hands full with regular garbage collect ions and routine yard-raking pickups. If everybody looked after his share of road way and parkway—and maybe a little Why Allow Unqualified Candidates? We suspect that numerous Tar Heels are having as hard a time as we are in bearing paatiently with clearly unquali fied candidates for Governor. It is not that anyone has to waste much time on contemplating the inanities or the antics of these people whose names will be cluttering up the Democratic Primary ballot simply because they have been able to pay a filing fee. What worries us is that they are a pervading nuisance, a constant affront to the dignity that should surround ef forts to attain the highest office in the state. One of the candidates paid his filing fee while still in prison for an offense that involved the state itself, having done more than perhaps any one man has done in a generation to hurt the good name of a state that has been noted for honesty in government. This, it seems to us, is more than the citizens of North Carolina should have to bear. station has been running a pro- ‘The Thing Is, Can I Adapt To The Environment?’ \ JL"'r m t* L-.vNT'jjJ’-Sr'V: V*- 'RENDING AND TEARING PROCESS' NOTED Communist World Is Coming Apart By JOSEPH C, HARSCH In Christian Science Monitor London We can see now that Friday, April 3, will go down in history as the decisive moment in the split between the Moscow and Peking versions of communism. It is from that day that Soviet diplomats have used the word “split” and said in their conver sations with outsiders that it ex isted and could not be healed. Fragments of events since then give Westerners some idea of the rending and tearing pro cess by which the Communist world is coming apart. For ex ample: Up to this writing Romania has not published one word about the memorandum written by Soviet ideologist Mikhail A. Suslov, which ran for seven pages in Pravda on April 3, or reputed the argument which has raged since among the vari ous factions of the Communist Party. Nonconformity Grows Premier Fidel Castro’s Cuba, emotionally on the Chinese Communist side in the dispute but tied to Soviet economic aid, resolved the predicament by printing a version of the Suslov memorandum from which every unkind reference to Communist The Public Speaking beyond his property line, if nobody else lived there—it would help a lot. The only other answer, as we see it, is regular town-wide clean-up days witS. platoons of youngsters— Boy Sccy .ts. Girl Scouts and all others invited to join —combing the town for street litter. A suggestion made some weeks ago, in a letter to The Pilot and received with enthusiasm in an editorial, would add extra meaning and effectiveness to such a clean-up: the young people, with an assist from cooperating adults in cars, could take boxes of cans and trash to a central collection point such as the post office where, after numerous citizens had viewed it, in all its massive unat tractiveness, it would be loaded on town trucks for transportation to the land-fill disposal area. Happy thought: surely, among the youngsters recruited for such a task, there would be many a future joy-riding beer can tosser. If picking up cans now would, maybe only subconciously, help curb such a messy practice later, two birds would be killed with one stone. Bible Reading. Teaching In Schools Here Unlawful To the Editor; This is an open letter to Mr. J. W. Jenkins, Superintendent of Schools, Southern Pines. irhich a panel interviews, each varying, appeal. week, o.ne of the candidates for Governor. So, to be “fair” to “all” the candidates, viewers were solemnly subjected recent ly to an hour of banjo-strumming, semi-literate , thouroughly uninformed and painfully self-satisfied person who rated equal time with Dr. Lake, Judge Moore and Judge Preyer, because he had been able to pay a filing fee. Perhaps, without doing injustice to freedom, an open society can impose no restraints on running for office—^yet strict standards are involved for those who aspire to become a member of most other professions: doctor, lawyer and such. To us, it is disturbing that the profess ion of government sets no similar quali fications. The voters usually make sure that no obviously incapable candidate is elected—but the whole tone of public service is lowered when unfit persons are allowed to parade theimselves in pub lic for months and get their names on a ballot, on an equal status with candi dates of genuine ability and genuine, if Dear Mr. Jenkins: A clear-cut, significant victory for the principle of separation of church and state was recorded in the U. S. Supreme Court with the decision that Bible reading and recitation , of th^.'^ord’s Prayer in public , schools violates the “no establishment” of religion clause of the First Amendment. The 8 to 1 verdict', was a wel come addition to other court rulings supporting the separation of church and state !as a vital constitutional guarantee. To those who may feel that the court’s decisions, 'pr this letter, is an attack on religion, it should be urged that calm thought be given to the fact that religious freedom can only exist whefp the government does not impotee a particular brand of religious activity. Strict neutrality in the field of religion is especially necessary in the sensitive airea of the public schools. i The Court stressed, howevdr, that nothing in its decision pre vented the teaching of religion or the use of the Bible in the normal educational program “as part of a secular education ...” but the exercises at the school here in Southern Pines d'o not fall in these categories. Hence-— a definite breaking of the laws of the land! I would not surmise that you would condone breaking the law, Mr. Jenkins, but if your teachers read Bible passages to the children, and try to explain the “Pharisees,” etc., then these teachers are breaking the law. Would it not be strange if all of a sudden the grown-ups came to the realization that there weis no such thing as a “juvenile de linquent,” and the shoe was on the other foot called “adult de linquent”: grown-ups who break laws they don’t like, and by a measure of getting away with it instill in their children to “go thou and do likewise?” Grown ups should, if they do not like certain laws of the land, legis late to get these laws changed. But by all means obey the law as it is, until then! Mr. Hoke Pollock is the at torney for our school and Mr. Harry , Fullenwider, his partner, is a judge. I’m certain if these learned gentlemen were apprais ed of the Bible reading-Bible teaching in our public school, they would be quick to advise that the law does not permit of this activity. TOM O’NEIL 110 Highland Road Southern Pines, N. C. What Fulbright Said (Bee editorial) A few passages from Ful bright’s speech show how great ly it has been distorted in some criticisms: (li) "We are confronted with a complex and fluid world situation and we are not adapting ourselves to it. We are clinging to old myths in the face of new realities, and we are seeking to escape the contradictions by narrow ing the permissible bounds of public discussion, by relega ting an increasing number of ideas and viewpoints to a growing category of 'unthink able thoughts.' The myth is that every Communist state is an unmitigated evil and a relentless enemy of the free ’world. The realtiy is that some . • > pose a threat to the ifree woxlld... and others pose little or none." (2) "It would be unwise to recognize Communist China or acquiesce in its ad mission to the United Nations ... so long as Peiping main tains its attitude of implac able hostility toward the United States. . . But we must jar open our minds to certain realities. . . of which the foremost is that there are not really 'two Chinas,' but only one—^Mainland China... ruled by Cbmmunists and likeSy to remain so indefinite ly." They're Off I Prettiest sight seen in many a moon WEIS the bay horse BrEuinagh as he galloped away with the Sandhills Cup Saturday. And is there anything prettier, ever, than a beautiful thorough bred striding out under a beauti ful ride? But, then, when you get four or five thoroughbreds, aU two- year-olds by the fine stEillion In dependence, all running together as we saw Saturday, that’s a pretty sight, too. And mighty heart-warming to the owner, we’ll say. Congrats to Owner Trainer Walsh and everyone else who helped make the day a success! (Reprinted' fcy Permission) Hot Tip Hanging on the paddock fence, as they were saddling up before the big Sandhills Cup race,, were two earnest watchers. Said one to the other: “Who you betting on, feller?” “Number 1: Brannagh,” was the prompt reply. “Hey! You know something about him? His breeding? His rec ord? You got a hot tip? “Don’t know a dum thing,” came the answer, “But I cEin see, can’t I? He’s a beauty all right. He’s beautiful, and he moves beautiful He makes the rest look like puppydogs. You watch him run away with it.” Pause. “Wanta bet?” “No sir, not me. Handsome is as handsome does, I say.” “And I say handsome does ’cause handsome is!" And then the bugle blew and they ran to the rail. . .and hand some DID as handsome was, as Brannagh galloped home 20 lengths ahead of the field. China was deleted. This would roughly equal printing an edi tion of the Old Testament from which every reference to the Israelites was first removed. The Poles held back for six days on reporting the Suslov memorandum. They still have not taken an editorial stand. Tass reported a pro-Moscow editorial in Tribuna Ludu, the official Communist Party newspaper in Warsaw, but the editorial itself m.ust have been withdrawn before press time. President Tito’s Yugoslavia, which invented “revisionism” and is the arch villain of Chinese com munism, has objected to the Mos cow proposal for holding a peace conference of all Communist par ties. So, too, has the Italian Com munist Party. Thus there is no consistent pat tern to the reaction. Nothing be fore has so exposed the extent to which the Communist move ment has been infected with non conformity. The way matters stand at this writing, the Moscow line has been accepted, repeated, and supfiorted by the Communist leadership in Hungary, Czechslovakia, East Germ=any, and Bulgaria. Thus we now can identify those four countries as constituting what is left of the Eastern Euro pean satellite system once totally loyal to the Moscow line. (Reuters quoted the Yugoslav Communist Party as coming out in support of Moscow and charg ing the Chinese Communists—in the party newspaper Kommunist —with pursuing a policy that is, in effect, “a direct successor pf Stalinism.”) Breakup Coming? Albania, of course, belongs wholly to Peking. Romania, iii a new development of recent months, has asserted a degree of independence roughly equal to that of Yugoslavia and certainly beyond Poland. Poland is still, in the main, loyal to Moscow but has no taste for any action v/hich would formalize the split. 'The liveliest argument among those communist governments and parties which lean to the Moscow side is over the merits or demerits of summoning an all party conference. Moscow has elected to call for a conference. Presumably the Chinese Commimists either will refuse the invitation or, if they attend, will walk out. This would be the decisive formalization of the split. Unattractive This is all very well for Mos cow but is massively unattractive to Poles and Romanians, who much prefer the existing situation in which they can play Moscow off against Peking and vice versa. This is the story of one of the world’s great power empires pull ing itself apart before our very eyes. It is almost as though one had a grandstand seat at the fall of the Roman Empire. The pace this time is faster. Letter From England Pilot readers will doubtless re call the visit here of the two Roosevelt Scholarship young peo ple from Nottingham, England. Today arrived a letter from Peter Roberts, who visited here during the week of national trag edy, arriving on November 23. Those who were with him will re call the rare sensitivity shown by this young Englishman and his ex pressions of deepest sympathy, in which he seemed to be complete ly a part of the small gathering watching the television screen throughout the next days. Peter writes of an advance ment in his job, since his return, “which involves a bit of travel ling,” and says he is pleased aboijit this angle “because during my U. S. trip I got used to mov ing'about.” He continues: “I con tinue to give talks on the U.S.A. and it seems that the m.ore I give the more invitations to speak I get. It is very encouraging to see the real interest these people over here have in the U. S. A.” In closing Peter sends his “best to the many good friends” he made in Southern Pines. Ye Olde Trip The British pub is one of the oldest and most beloved institu tions in England. But they often have very queer names. Said to be the oldest of all the pubs is one in Nottingham called ‘Ye Oldte Trip to Jerusalem.” This title is not ironical; neither is it irreverent. It has nothing to do with golden streets or singing cherubim. It is simply the place where the Crusaders who came from that part of England stopped for refreshment on their way to embark for the Holy Land. The date of 1189 is graven som.ewhere on its stones, or in its records, but it’s doubtful if many knights and their retinues stopped there because of its size. It is not only the oldest pub in England, but also one of the smallest. It stands tucked into the walls of the historic castle of Nottitigham,. towering above it and is cherished far and wide for its hospitality and its ancient, warm, cozy, crusadey, atmosphere. THE PILOT Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT, Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Katharine Boyd C. Benedict Dan S. Ray C. G. Council Bessie C. Smith Edjfog Associate Editof Gen. Mgr.. Advertising Advertising Mary Scott Newton Business Gloria Fisher Business Mary Evelyn de Nissoff Society Composing Room Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen^ Thomas Mattocks, J. E. Pate, Sr., Charles Weatherspoon, Clyde Phipps. Subscription Rates Moore County One Year $4.00 Outside Moore County One Year $5.00 Second-class Postage paid at Southern Pines, N. C. 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