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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, Nonf. Carolina
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1964
Southern Pines
ILOT
North Carolina
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treat everybody alike." — James Boyd, May l!3. 1941.
The Wonderful Weekend That Was
Looking back on a weekend crowded
with varied events of interest in this
area, we are struck with a mixture, a
pattern that symbolizes the growth and
progress of the Sandhills: a kind of sum
mary of what living in this particular
corner of the world is like.
Recalled chronologically, there was the
annual Ladies Night meeting of the Sand
hills Kiwanis Club on Friday night-
minus the usual Builders Cup award, but
bringing to attention again this county
wide civic organization that has a 40-
year-long record of conununity and area
service to its credit.
That same night a group of visiting
travel writers came in, to spend a long
week-end, with Southern Pines, Pine-
hurst and the State as hosts, circulating
among the various resort attractions—
riding, golf, shooting and the like.
Here also on Saturday and Sunday,
for a business meeting and banquet, were
many of the prominent North Carolinians
and others who founded or joined the
fabulous Country Club of North Car
olina, a recreation and residential de
velopment that is only beginning to make
its impact felt hereabouts.
Seldom does any area find itself dedi
cating a church and a school on the same
day, as was the case Simday, when the
first services were held at the new Our
Saviour Lutheran Church here and when
ceremonies were held at the Ing new
Union Pines consolidated high school be
tween Carthage and Vass.
Vying for attention with the school
dedication, Sunday afternoon, was an
event (praised in another editorial on
this page) attracting hundreds of per
sons: the presentation of the sacred ora
torio, “The Messiah” by the Sandhills
Community Chorus at Pinehurst.
At Whispering Pine Motor Lodge and
Restaurant last weekend—typical of the
groups that come here regularly for
meetings and conventions—-were antique
car owners who chugged in with their
old vehicles for a district dinner and
"^^ookfng back over this weekend that
was filled with these many events, both
lively and solemn—involving the relig
ious, educational, musical, recreatioiwl
and other interests of the area — the
observer cannot help but be impressed
by the vigor, enthusiasm, determination
and plain hard work they represent.
Taken all in all, many hundre^ of
people were concerned, involved, inter
ested—and thousands of others, in great
er or lesser degree, share in the pride that
the area can justifiably feel in these
various accomplishments that turn eyes
toward the future with confidence.
The Kennedy Stone At Runnymede
It is something to touch the hearts of
all Americans to hear that the British are
erecting a memorial to the late President
Kennedy. It will, in fact, be two memor
ials for part of the funds raised through
out the British Isles will be devoted to
scholarhips.
The memorial itself is to be erected on
what is perhaps the most sacred land in
Britain. This is Runnymede, the place
where King John signed the Magna
Charta which designated and established,
once and for all, the rights of the barons
and the people against the dictatorial
powers of the King.
Rimnymede Island, where the docu
ment was signed, is situated in the
Thames River valley about 20 miles west
of London. It is lush and beautiful coun
try and the site chosen for the Kennedy
memorial lies on the south bank of the
stream on the slopes of the hill overlook
ing the island. Here three acres of un
touched meadowland have been made
over to the United States. Approached
through adjoining woods belonging to the
National Trust (British society for the
preservation of historic sites and monu
ments), the memorial will comprise a
stone with inscription, a paved terrace
looking down on the island below, and
two “contemplation” seats for the
thoughtful, the gateful, those whose
spirts crave renewed hope.
Two-thirds of the sum needed to com
plete the memorial have been raised and
the remainder is in sight as the British
government itself, with the full unani
mous support of the Opposition, is sup
plying matching funds. The Kennedy
Memorial is expected to be completed
by spring and will be dedicated on the
750th anniversary of the signing of the
Magna Charta.
So once more the interweaving history
of the English-speaking nations comes
alive, in this act of solemn dedication.
There can be no surprise in this latest
sign of the closeness of the two. King
John and the Barons and Runnymede are
as much a part of the history of Ameri-.
cans as they are of the British themselves.
The great Magna Charta is, in spirit at
least, a forerunner of the American Bill
of Rights. After all, four hundred and
some years of Britain’s history rolled by
before Sir Walter Raleigh boarded his
caravel and set his sails for the western
course.
The signing of the charter at Runny
mede took place in June, 1215. It is. pro
bable that among the barons and the
knights and burghers and the towns
people and lesser gentry, who either
signed or stood solid behind the signers,
were the forebears of many an Ameri
can-
It is fitting and deeply gratifying to
know that the name of John F. Kennedy,
a name so hallowed among Americans
today, is to be among the great names
that shine upon the shrines of British
history.
“From Harmony, From Heavenly Harmony”
Mr. Composer Handel did his part, and
a wonderful and mighty part it was. His
music of the great “Messiah” soared up,
last Simday in the dimly lit chapel,
as it has year after year in churches and
halls throughout the Christian countries
at this advent time, bringing inexplicable
joy and gratitude to musicians every
where and to those not musicians, or
even musically inclined, bringing solace
and hope through the words of the scrip
ture set to the great composer’s heavenly
harmonies.
The Messiah soared as ever in this
Sandhills, Sunday, warming the hearts
and minds of the people of this section
who filled the large Village Chapel at
Pinehurst and overflowed into the aisles,
until there was room for standees only,
and not much for them. The soloists sang
their best, and it was a very fine best,
the chorus performed to perfection under
the skillful direction of W. A- McAdams,
the whole performance undergirded and
enhanced immeasurable by the fine play-
Adiilt Courses: Opportunity and Challenge
The broad range of service that Sand
hills Community College can be expected
to bring to this area is already apparent,
with this week’s announcement that the
college in January will begin classes in
Basic Education for Adults, for those per
sons who have less than an eighth grade
education and are 18 years of age or
older.
Details of the project are given in a
news story elsewhere in today’s Pilot,
along with an invitation to qualified per
sons—^who need have only a bachelor’s
degree—^to apply for posts as part-time
teachers of the Basic Education courses.
Here is a golden opportunity for retired
In Black and White
A BRITISH VIEWPOINT ON THE CONGO
Stanleyville And The United Nations
ing of Organist William Stokes-
This was an entirely local project and,
as such, the music spoke with a special
message of immediacy and tenderness to
the local audience. Some had doubted the
ability of local talent to cope with the
difficult score—and in a few cases the
doubt was to a certain extent justified,
but only temporarily and always in the
singing there was that special message,
that joint participation between perform
ers and audience that is the essense of
the arts, whether they be music, drama,
writing, painting or any other great cre
ative effort.
Sunday, at the performance of the
“Messiah,” there was such a give-and
take and when the audience rose to its
feet at the opening bars of the Hallelujah
Chorus, in the final outpouring of joy
and worship, it seemed as if the very
roof must fly off and the spirit of hope,
and the goodwill that it engendered, soar
up into the evening stars and on across
the weary world.
persons, inactive teachers and business
I>eople to render a valuable service, while
at the same time drawing what appears
to be an attractive rate of pay for their
work.
We hope that all persons interested in
education and in the progress of the com
munity (the new courses will be given
in five counties) will support this new
program by spreading the news about it,
by urging adults with limited education
to take the courses they need and also
by helping to recruit the teachers who
will be, as in any such endeavor, the key
to the program’s success.
For some of the hostages who
were held by Congo rebels in
Stanleyville the agony is over.
They are either safe or dead.
Many were still unaccounted for
on Tuesday night. Whether justi
fied or not by abstract political
criteria, the rescue had to be at
tempted. As M. Spaak told the
Belgian Parliament on Tuesday,
the dilemma lay between arriv
ing too late to be of use and
starting a n.assacre by the act of
arriving at all.
Lonely Decision
It was one of those lonely de
cisions which statesmen have to
take by themselves. The opera
tion cost the lives of perhaps
thirty hostages. Delay might
have cost 1,000 lives or none. But
the barbaric threats which have
been issuing daily from Stanley
ville could not be ignored. Con
golese troops, on the Government
as well as the rebel side, have
been guilty of extreme cruelty
almost as a matter of routine. M.
Ganao, Foreign Minister of the
neighboring (ex-French) Congo,
refused to help in the airlift on
the ground that American and
Belgian help had been given to
M. Tshombe’s Government in the
exercise of terror. M. Ganao has
a point. It would be well, how
ever, not to stray too far from
a first principle: when lives are
at stake there is a duty to save
them.
Agreement will not be reached
on whether or not the operation
was justified. The British Gov
ernment, in our view, was right
to put no handicap in its way
and to help by allowing Belgian
troops the use of Ascension Is
land. African States may take a
different view. The rescue, for all
its humanitarian object, was a re
minder that when they judge it
necessary the ex-colonial Powers
can return quickly and in force.
The best that can be hoped is
that the Belgians will withdraw,
their mission accomplished, as
quickly as they arrived and that
the humane necessity of the oper
ation will be evident when its po
litical overtones have died away.
'Diplomatic Fiction'
The Belgians were careful, and
wise, to obtain M. Tshombe’s
consent for the rescue. It cannot
now be claimed that sovereignty
was infringed. But presumably
the rescue would have had to be
mounted whether M. Tshombe
approved or not. This, indeed, is
what differentiates the Congo
from any other State—its sover
eignty is little more than a dip
lomatic fiction. For four years
the country was kept together by
the presence of United Nations
troops. They did valuable serv
ice, but they left—as the Belgians
had done—^before their mission
was complete. They left, more
over, almost by default. No at
tempt was made in the Security
Council or the General Assembly
to weigh the probable conse
quences of leaving, although the
dangers were well known. The
“Guardian” wrote six months
ago of the three rebellions then
in progress:
Whatever their in&piralioa.
they are a sickening sign of
what is to come when the
Congolese have no intema-
lioned help to call upon. . If
the UN is going to pull out,
let it do so deliberately and
in the knowledge of what
will happen afterwards. Esth
er large parts of the Congo
will be shut off again into a
pre-Belgian isolation from
the world or individual
countries will try to impose
an order of their own.
The UN troops left on June 30
without further discussion, and
as late as Monday of this week
few delegates could be found to
interest themselves in what was
happening in Stanleyville. It will
ill become 'the silent delegates to
protest now that Belgium ought
to have acted differently.
International Force
One would like to hope that
the use of Belgian paratroops at
Stanleyville will spur the United
Nations into urgent discussion of
an international force on perma
nent stand-by duty. The rescue
would almost certainly have been
undertaken by UN troops had
they still been in the Congo and
would have passed off with none
of the international outcry that,
one suspects, will be heard about
the Belgians. Three difficulties
have to be overcome before such
a force can be effective. 'The first
is finding the men. Canada and
the Scandinavian countries
The Public Speaking
Reader Has 'Long Thoughts'
On U. N.. U. S., Congo. Etc.
To the Editor:
Saving space for long thoughts
by using short words. One of the
26 million. Proud of it. Give us
this one crumb? Thanks.
U. S. & U. N. caused chaos in
Congo by pressuring Belgium un
til she gave up and got out. (They
are doing the same thing to Por
tugal vis-a-vis Angola.)
Elxplain please. When U. S.
lent U. N. forces to be used
against Moise Tshombe, our
friend, in Elizabethville, you
were silent. When U. S. sent
troop-carriers for a mercy mis
sion in Stanleyville, you fear for
“the American image.” When U.
N. troops were bombing, strafing,
and raping the peaceful citizens
of Katanga, you were silent.
When Belgium paratroopers
mopped up cannabalistic. Com
munist-controlled rebels, you
were shocked. Why the differ
ence?
James Boyd and NY Times
wrong on Red China. R. C. not
“peace-loving nation,” uses
“force” and “threats of force.”
Ergo, ineligible for membership
according to U. N. Charter. Ad
mission not “inevitable” because
such a serious decision would be
vetoable in Security Council.
U. S. must never recognize the
illegal government of R. C. Not a
mark of “courage” for President
Johnson to do so. It would take
far greater courage for him to
withstand the pressures from the
Commies and Libs to take this
step which would be a stab in
the back of the Captive Nations
who look to us as their last hope
for eventual freedom and would
Grains of Sand
would provide contingents. So,
under Mr. Wilson, would Britain,
although they might not be
wanted. The second is the hostil
ity of the Soviet Union and
France to contingents acting in
their name but not under their
orders. The third is the veto
which interested States would
wish to apply. The chances are
high, for instance, that Africa
would be among possible desti
nations of a UN peace force:
could such a force be sent against
the combined will of African del
egates?
Not Insuperable'
TTie first two difficulties need
not be insuperable. A force the
size of the Belgian parachute
unit could certainly be found.
The Soviet Union and France
might be talked round or might
contract out of the scheme. 'The
third difficulty is perhaps more
apparent than real. African
States would find the United Na
tions a preferable interloper to
the Belgians or the British. The
Belgian airlift was necessary, but
it was also a confession of fail
ure in international co-operation.
A better means, not dependent on
national power or the luck of
having an island, should be found
before another such exercise is
needed. '
—^Manchester Guardian
(Published last week)
render meaningless the deaths of
countless men, women, and chil
dren by the bloody hands of
those who enslave the world.
PAT VAN CAMP
Southern Pines
Viewpoint On 'Medicare'
Bill Further Explained
To the Editor:
Regarding my letter on “Medi
care” which was published in
'The Pilot, November 19, and 'The
Pilot’s comments on that letter:
The writer is fully aware of
the fact that medical payments to
doctors are not included in the
Medicare bill. I have read the
bill.
However, since I was express
ing an opinion on Medicare which
indirectly fits in with the medi
cal profession, I wanted to in
clude a plug for the hard-work
ing, conscientious doctor.
After Medicare, the next step
will be to include the medicM
profession, as is done in England.
I am not in favor of putting
professional people under gov
ernment control.
HAZEL MACDONALD
Hotel Hollywood
Southern Pines
Telephone Line Repair
Crew Is Congratulated
To the Editor:
May I be the first to congratu
late that marvelous "crew from
Hamlet” on doing such a good
job in getting the telephone lines
repaired when a falling wall
broke them just below Aberdeen
recently, as reported in The
Pilot?
ROCKY BONSAL
Southern Pines
Watch It, B-52!
See where out in Ohio a farm
er was arrested for shooting at
Strategic Air ''Command jets as
they came in for practice land
ings at near-by Wright Field.
The farmer said the planes were
disturbing his cattle and he’d be
blankety-blank-blanked if he’d
let anybody do that.
He’d opened fire on a lot of
planes but had only hit five and
when the Law got after him he
shook his head and said his
shooting had fallen off a bit since
the manure-spreader turned over
on him.
The Law said those five planes
cost the taxpayers about $26
million. The farmer said that was
too much for the paint he’d
knocked off. He said a cow was a
cow and these cows were good
milkers and had won a prize at
State Fair and anyway cattle
hadn’t ought to be disturbed.
'The Law said: yes but; and the
farmer posted bond and said he’d
a mind to put up that old target
and do some practicing.
The Law said they’d keep an
eye on him and the farmer said:
O. K. fine and they could come
any time and practice, too; he
said it was a good idea to keep
your eye in.
'The Law said thank you and
they had to have some facts and
how old was he.
And the farmer said: “What’s
it to you?”
What Do They Say?
Nylon stockings are remark
able creations, no one will deny
that. Now the ads are telling us
they are super-remarkable. Be
cause “they are fashioned with
sound waves.”
And what do the sound waves
say?
Maybe: “Yoo-who?”
Leaky Roof? Pooh!
According to the recent Grand
Jury report a leaky room is just
one of those things. That is: in
some parts of the county.
Leaky roofs were reported in
seven Moore County schools; also
in the Reynolds Rest Home. The
Rest Home and two of the
schools “are getting the repairs
made now that were ordered last
April,” says the G. J.
Ho-hum.
Forward . . . March!
Want to march? Who doesn’t!
The Williams-burgers have hit
on a new gimmick to get folks
down to—or up to—their beauty
spot during the holidays. They
are having a huge, fancy torch
light parade and EVERYBODY
is invited to march.
The militia in Revolution^
costume will lead the way ■with
their fife and drum corps, towns
people and visitors will fall in
behind and the whole gang will
march down the main street from
the college to the Governor’s
Palace. At the end of the parade
local merchants will serve cider
and cookies.
Fun? We’ll say! Why don’t we
do it?
The Best Hope
“The most effective policy the
United States can adopt is to
make the cause of a strong
United Nations the fimdamental
objective of our foreign policy.
China’s threat to world peace is
reduced in direct proportion to
the development of the United
Nations—not just as an effective
peace-keeping mechanism but as
a respository of the hopes of peo
ple everywhere for a better
world.”
—N. Cousins
Pass. C,L.U.!
There has been a lot of silly
chat about the sentiments of
AD.A., and sometimes the Civil
Liberties Union is given the
same treatment. So—interestmg
to see that the latter carries this
notice on its publications:
“The Civil Liberties Umon
needs and welcomes the support
of all those—and only those—
whose devotion to civil liberties
is not qualified by adherence to
Communist, Fascist, K.K.K., or
other totalitarian doctrine.”
Eternal vigilance is still the
price of freedom.
THE PILOT
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