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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1964
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North Carolina justice will not sink or
swim according to how things come out
in Madison County. It is far too strongly
based to be in jeopardy. The culprits
will be shown up for what they are and
dealt with according to their deserts, we
are convinced. Nevertheless, the smog of
mean, grasping trickery and brutal vio
lence will long linger in the mountain
air, to seep out over the good name ot the
whole state.
And deep in the heart of this ugly evil
smelling cloud lurks a cackle of ridicule
that will be hard to take. Hard to take,
but impossible to avoid. In fact, the whole
mean mess up there on the edge of the
Smokies, with its stolen ballot .boxes,
disappearing records, men with guns
place. Most of them are run by conscien
tious people fully aware of their respon
sibilities and executing them in accord
ance with the law. But behind all the
polling places are the politicians ^d
politics. We place no quotes around that
misused term. Since Andrew Jackson set
up his party-and-patronage system, poli
tics is here to stay. After all, our de
mocracy, run by means of politics, has
turned out better than any other kind
of government. .
In Madison County the Bads got in
the driver’s seat. It is a fact that in many,
many counties and communities ■ and
Moore County has been no exception—
the hierarchy of political power lacfe a
visible head, and that’s a bad thing. The
head is there, the powerful influence
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threatening the state’s representative, is jjegply felt, but the source of the influ-
such a parody on the nation’s most be
loved form of entertainment that even
those who are suffering from this sham^
ful affair can hardly forbear to join in
the derisive cackle, even as the headlines
spread out over the nation.
State justice will take care of Madison
County and its political machine and its
Big Bad Boss; but the rest of us had
best not turn away from the uncomfort
able scene. There’s a lesson in it.
There are probably few polling places
where affairs such as this could take
ence, the men with the real power, re
main behind the scenes. They make no
statements, they get few pictures m the
papers, their moves are made through
the small coterie around them, and their
names are seldom mentioned. Their rule
is sometimes good; too often it is not.
Power corrupts and secret power cor
rupts a thousand-fold. That’s the lesson
of Madison County where secret power
burst like a festering sore when the Bads
rode high on Primary Day three weeks
ago.
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Camp Easter: Heart-Warming Project
— ^ news item elsewhere in today s
lists many of the large donations which
have made possible construction of
major installations at the camp. Others
have contributed much in time and fi
nancial gifts, large and small. Thousands
of Tar Heels, in fact, who have bought
Easter Seals over the past several years
have a stake, if only a few cents worth,
in the creation of Camp Easter
Opening of Camp Easter in the Pines,
the camping facility for the handicapped
where 32 children will arrive for the first
summer session on Monday, is an out
standing event for the Sandhills.
The camps conducted by the North
Carolina Society for Crippled Children
and Adults for several years, at rented
locations elsewhere, have always struck
us as fine human-service projects. Now
that Camp Easter is ready to operate just
north of Southern Pines, our good will
toward the camp is redoubled.
Where else, how else could children in
wheel chairs, in braces or on crutches—
from throughout North Carolina—ever
be able to enjoy a camping experience,
if it were not for this wonderful project
initiated by the “Easter Seal Society?”
And not only enjoyment is involved.
The children will receive skilled therapy
a phase of the operation here that will
receive more and more attention as time
goes bj^, with the possibility that the
facility will become a year-round center
for treatment of the handicapped.
GLOOMY PROSPECT FOR U.S. AND WORLD
A British Look At Sen. Goldwater
(From The Manchester Guardian)
Nowhere in the United States
is typical of the rest of the coun
try; but Los Angeles is less typi
cal than most places.
That is the central fact to be
nr iriori+Via+n fln0nnlp at the reckoned with in assessing the
We are pleased that a tlagpole at tne . outcome of the Repub-
camp will be Lean convention. For it was Los
the long and devoted efforts on behalt ot
the camp by Mrs. Graham Culbreth and
Dr. H. A. Peck, both of Southern Pines.
Generally recognized also, with grati
tude, is the work of William P. Davis of
this community who, like Mrs. Culbreth,
is a member of the Society’s state board
of directors.
In its planning, its development, its
construction and in the great service it
will render. Camp Easter is a heart
warming undertaking. We are proud and
happy that it is located here and wish it
continued success.
Nobody could run for Governor m
North Carolina these days without advo
cating efforts to bring in new industry
and expand existing industries.
Richardson Preyer and Dan K. Moore,
who are seeking the Democratic guber
natorial nominationn in a second primary
to be held June 27, are each on record in
favor of an industrial program.
Preyer’s program calls for “a massive
Angeles County which gave Sen
ator Goldwater his victory in the
California primary and in spite
of the tumult and shouting which
the primary let loose, the fact re
mains that he has not done nearly
so well in the other contested
primaries he fought. He has now
amassed almost enough delegates
at the convention to give him the
nomination on the first ballot;
but most of them represent the
wishes of hardcore Republican ac
tivists, not of ordinary Republi
can voters. For this reason if for
no others, his nomination cannot
yet be taken for granted.
Hard-headed
In spite of the ballyhoo, an
American Presidential convention
is usually a fairly hard-headed
affair, in which a sober analysis
of public opinion cuts more ice
than ideological commitment—
whether of Left or Right. It is
true that conventions have some
times been stampeded by oratory,
but more often than not the
stampede has gone in the direc
tion of the candidate whom a
would also have favoured.
The question before the Repub
licans will be whether a sober
analysis favours their choosing a
candidate from their extreme
Right wing; and there is no doubt
that the obvious answer will be
“No.” This is not to say that Sen
ator Goldwater will lose the nom
ination, for it is now rather late
in the day to groom an acceptable
alternative
Alarming
In the last few days Senator
Goldwater has been described in
distinctly alarmist terms on this
side of the Atlantic. Much of the
alarm is justified. Senator Gold-
water is an extreme conservative
in domestic policy, and a narrow
minded cold warrior in foreign
policy. Some of his wilder state
ments imply that he would like
to dismantle the Welfare State,
halt the struggle for racial equal-
ity_at least so far as it has been
furthered by the Federal Goyern-
jnent—turn his back on the inter
nationalism which has character
ised American foreign policy
since the war, and generally wind
up the twentieth century. If the
unthinkable happened and he
reached the White House the
Western alliance might disinte
grate; even if he were over
whelmingly repudiated in the
election his nomination would
cause a severe loss of confidence
Contrasting Approaches Reveal Candidates
Dan Moore is making much of his busi
ness and industrial experience—that is,
his several years as an officer and general
counsel with the giant Champion paper
company in western North Carolina. So
it is in order, on this matter of encourag
ing industry, to point out that Champion,
several years ago, successfully undertook
one of the greatest drives ever staged m
the state to keep an industry OUT of
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state-local program for new and expand- ^ seeking to locate a plant in the sober analysis of public opinion among the allies, at least so long
ed industries,” expansion of Industrial ^ C. area, where the jobs it
Education Centers to provide people with provide were badly needed,
skills for new industries and better-pay- found in Moore’s program
ing jobs and (note this) a minimum wage commitment on the minimum wage
of $1, keeping farm and other exemp- conviction that the 20 existing
Industrial Education Centers need furth
er expansion to provide the skills so vital
to industrial operations.
A related blank in the Moore program
is the other side of the Development com
—Conservation. The big state department
that handles industrial matters is named
“Conservation and Development”—^yet
the Conservation aspect of this major De-
as the campaign period lasted.
All this means that a Goldwater
victory at the convention would
be a gloomy prospect, for the
United States and the world. But
some of the comments which have
been made on the California pri
mary result have gone farther
than this in a way which confuses
the true issues at stake. By impli
cation at least. Senator Goldwater
has been compared to “Dr.
Strangelove,” the neurotic and
not-quite-de-Nazified German
scientist played in a recent film
by Mr. Peter Sellers; his rallies
have been compared to Fascist
rallies in Europe in the thirties;
it has been suggested that his
supportsrs from the “Radical
Right” might eventually become
outright Fascists. But Fascists be
lieve in the total State, while
Senator Goldwater and the vast
majority of his supporters want
to reduce the power of the State
to the minimum. And Fascists
beat up their opponents, while
Senator Goldwater—for all his
verbal violence—obviously re
spects the Constitution and has
not indulged in McCarthyite
smear tactics.
Stupid, Not Sinister
If the Republicans nominate
him it will show that they are a
good deal stupider than most peo
ple thought. It will not show any
thing more sinister than that.
Salut, le Vild Vest!
Over in France, we are told,
there is a good deal of anti-
Am,erican feeling but a week ago
there appeared in the Christian
Science Monitor what seems irre
futable evidence that this “anti-
Americanism” may be a figment
of the imagination.
It seems that a resourceful
group of young folks, great
boosters for the United States,
every one, decided* they would
somehow get themselves a
trip over here. The question was;
how to get the money?
They didn’t go to the Funds, or
the Marshall Planners or Official
dom, but they put themselves
and their bright brains to work—
and lo and behold they produced
something that not only raised
the money but was a complete
wow of a success.
Noting how their people went
wild over Westerns on film or
TV, they devised a stupendous
plan. They would create a Wild
West town and charge admission.
They thought they’d at least make
a start on their Overseas Fund.
There were ingenious artists
and workmen among them and
the idea attracted more. The
gang got together and went to
work. They didn’t have any
friends in high places, but soon
acquired some. Among them, was
the mayor and council of the
Paris suburb of St. Germain en
Laye who offered them a site
in the magnificent forest, former
ly the King’s Domaine surround
ing the ancient palace of King
Henri IV. There they built, a la
movie set. a complete American
Far West town: main street,
false-fronted stores, gambling
saloons, jail, and' all. They had
everything down to the last
hitiching post, with cowboys
strolling and riding through the
street. (They were real, too;
cowboys from the French coun
ty of Camergue on the edge of
Spain where they raise the prize
bulls.)
The gang put a notice of the
opening in the papers and that
day the members stationed them
selves at the gate with their
small money boxes ready.
Result: the money boxes al
most immediately had to be ex
changed for barrels, as all of
Paris came. Special trains had to
be run, special guides hastily
organized. There were more than
15,000 people the first day; the
next, the number tripled or
quadrupled and then the gang
lost track. They had to close ,at
the end of the week from sheer
exhaustion. All of France had
heard about it and all of France
was going to get to see it, or bust.
But the gang busted first—after
they had raised enough money
to pay their wonderful trip
many times over.
Anti-American feeling? Not so
you’d notice it in St. Germain en
Laye.
But that wasn’t quite the end.
There were two more visitors.
After the place closed, the ghost
of Henri IV and the ghost of
Marshall Wyatt Earp, of Tomb
stone, Arizona, met and had a
stroll through the forest talking
over old times, when Men Were
Men.
“Why’n’t yu come over with
those youngsters?” Earp invited.
“Ahha,” replied the monarch,
“Maybe that I do!”
“Just get in touch with Gil
more”, said Earp.
The Public Speaking
tions.
Moore’s program as outlined in a long,
detailed brochure sent out earlier in the
campaign and in another widely distri
buted not long before the first primary-
stresses seeking out new industries, ex
panding existing industries, encouraging
small local businesses, and also two pro
posals that bear some close scrutiny:
“1 Expand the state’s full-time staff partment’s work, an aspect that turns up
of ‘industry hunters’ ” and, “2._Locate a a major plank in the Preyer platform.
qualified, full-time Resident Industrial
Development Specialist in each Congress
ional District. . . ”
We had been under the impression that
the State had an adequately large staff
of “industry hunters”—a post which, to
be effective, demands a particular abil
ity that makes it hard to fill. Moreover,
we can’t understand what Congressional
Districts have to do with location of in
dustrial development specialists. Some
districts might need a full-time worker
and some might not. Certainly all dis
tricts would not need one at all times.
The proposal brazenly holds out the
promise of 11, (there are that many dis
tricts) political plums, each no doubt with
a fat salary attached. It would seem to
us that the dozens of volunteer local,
county and area industrial development
committees, working with a relatively
small number of experts out of Raleigh,
could adequately handle the industry lo
cation problem. The picture of 11 politi
cally appointed “specialists” (we frankly
don’t believe that many really competent
people could be found in the state) com
peting for industry on the basis of Con
gressional Districts strikes us as absurd.
has been ignored by Moore. At least we
can find no mention of it in the six
columns of fine print that comprise the
most extensive summary of his program
yet issued.
Preyer, on the other hand, plugging his
“Land and People” theme again and
again, states in his program summary,
“We must protect our state’s heritage,
both natural and man - made . . . the
soil, the water and the air we breathe . . .
the forests, the wildlife and the sites of
the great events of the past.” New efforts,
he notes, must be made “to clean up our
streams and our air from pollution.”
Could it be that Moore’s reluctance to
touch on these matters is related to the
notorious pollution of the Pigeon River
by the Chamipion company — a violation
the company was forced to remedy, but
only after it had long put its profits and
convenience ahead of the welfare of
natural resources?
In these less publicized points from the
programs of the two gubernatorial candi
dates, we find contrasting approaches,
diverging emjphasis—attitudes that may
offer the voter a key to what sort of
Governor each would become.
School Situation Should
Be Studied Carefully
To the Editor:
As a citizen of Pinehurst I at
tended the joint meeting of the cit
izens of Aberdeen and West End
last Friday evening to discuss the
consolidation of schools in area
HI.
Although there are many ques
tions still to be answered, I rec
ommend that the citizens of Pine
hurst and Southern Pines hold a
joint meeting and ask the School
Boards to explain to the citizens
of this area why a city adminis
trative unit is more advantageous
than becoming a part of the coun
ty unit.
It will be a disgrace for the cit
izens of Moore County to pay for
the construction of more than one
school building in the southern
end of Moore County. Funds will
not be available to maintain these
schools unless we have an in
crease in taxes. How many people
can afford to pay more taxes?
If there are advantages to a city
unit over the county system. West
End and Aberdeen should look! in
favor on this system.
Before millions of dollars are
spent unwisely, the people of this
area deserve a complete study of
this problem. What happened to
the survey that was to be made
by George Peabody College?
Our children deserve the best
in education, but we should not
build two consolidated schools
within the radius of six miles.
This plan will be outdated within
ten years. School buildings last
for a long time, but school offi
cials come and go.
WALLACE W. O’NEAL
Pinehurst
Platform. Not Man. Most
Important To Republicans
To the Editbr;
I don’t mind if I am the one to
put you straight in your specula
tions on Republican politics, as
expressed in the editorial, “No
Omaha Beach,” last week. I am a
conservative and the Republican
precinct chairman for North
Southern Pines.
You, dear editor, are what is
presently termed a liberal.
Most liberals and conservatives
recognize the same problems in
our society and in our nation. The
principal difference between
them lies more in their approach
to these problems than in any
solutions proposed.
(1) . General Eisenhower is not
the leader of the Republican
Party. I regret there was a time
when we expected pohticai direc
tion from him and he was found
lacking.
(2) . The MAN is not the “most
important affair” facing us, but
the choice of PLATFORM. Re
publicans also have been known
to jump party lines when plat
form was in question. A platform
embodying Conservative princi
ple based upon individual dignity
and not upon group dignity will
be the rallying point for all
Republicans, even the Big-City
variety. Candidates and parties
ma.y come and go but principles
endure. A generally accepted
platform will make enthusiasts
out of moderates.
(3) . “If, from a Democratic
standpoint” it seems immaterial
to you who the opposing candi
date is, let me assure you that
this question is not as important
to us as you seem to think, since
if our candidate fails to bear the
refulgent banner of conservative
principle we conservatives will
not hesitate to put up another
man. In any event our object is
not to stop Scranton, Rocky or
Barry but to stop L.B.J.
(4) . How shameful it is of you
to intimate that Eisenhower lacks
courage! At least he is man
enough to keep his mouth shut
when to speak would serve no
good purpose. Please note Fri
day’s AP dispatch from Gettys
burg. Ike said there would be
no need for a convention if the
choice was a foregone conclusion.
(5) I’m fairly certain that you
realize that if Barry is our choice,
LBJ will have all he can do to
defend Welfare Statism against
an opponent who will clearly de
fine the issues. The President is
the leader of his party, not of the
people.
Please confine yourself to the
antics of the Democrat contenders
in North Carolina. You have all
you can handle in this area at the
moment. We Republicans will
handle our problem when we
meet in July.
D. A. DREXEL
Southern Pines
Tact
Demonstration of tact, as re
counted by our recent Polish vis
itor:
Gomulka, head of government
in Iron-Curtain Poland, went into
the brand new supermarket of
Warsaw one day to buy some tea.
He asked what brands they
had.
“Only the best, your honor,”
said the manager. “We can give
you Russian tea or China tea.”
“Hmmmm, well,” said Gomul
ka, “I believe I’ll take Polish cof
fee.”
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