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\ Pag« Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, August 2, 1935, THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Fines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE, Editor JAMES BOVD STRl'THERS BURT WALTER LIPP>L\XN Contributing Editors Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 mained true to the end of his career. Friend and enem\i alike ad mired Henry Page. Those who knew him intimately loved him. Aberdeen has lost another dis tinguished citizen, the State another great Page. YOUR OWN HOME ON EASY TERMS If you have $2,000 and a small income, you can own your Six Months $1.00 j own $10,000 home. The terms Three Months _ _ .5o|ai'e easy. They were explained [ to those interested by a field rep- Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second-class mail matter. THE PASSING OF HENRY A. PAGE Henry Page was a bigger man than most people appreciated. Possessed of as keen and bril- resentative of the Federal Hous ing Administration here this week. The govemment will lend 80 percent of the total cost of your new home. Paying this back to your Uncle Sam is made as con venient for you as possible. The interest rate is five percent- and there is a charge of one-half of one percent for insurance and liant a mind as any member of one-half of one percent for taxes, the illustrious family* that in- The payments are arranged mon- cluded America’s famed World thly over a period of 15 years. War ambassador to Great Bri-|so you can figure out for your- tain, Marse Henry’s adamant re-1 self that the burden is not fusal, ever, to compromise his; heavy. , , , convictions kept him from high I Of course >'ou don t have to places in the sphere of govern-1 have $2 000 if you want a more mental activities. Mr. Page was,modest home. If you have one one of those rare men, an indivi. I thousand to put into a home, the dualist. As such he made many; FHA will lend you $4,000, and friends, some enemies, but no I It is also possible to pro- one ever questioned his great- cure FHA aid for the purchas- ness of mind nor sinceritv ofjing of existing houses, for re purpose. He never left a doubt I your own home, or for of his position on any question, | refinancing existing mortgages, “let the chips fall where they | seems to The Pilot like an ex- jyiay V j ceptional opportunity to improve Herbert Hoover, when federal!houses in this commun- food administrator during ^ war. wrote .Mr. Page that he, ad-! Ai'l ^ ■? somethins: he Go - ministrator for North Carolina.;‘^™™™‘ was not complying with the j ^ ‘ ^ ' The chairman for Moore coun- Tributes to Henry A. Page ANOTHER ILLUSTRIOUS PAGE PASSES HENRY A. PAGE Three times within two years they Another of the illustrious Pages of, have buried from the Page Memorial the Sandhills is dead—Henry A. It has been a family of phenomen al aohi’vement, prestige and influ ence in the making of North Carolina. It was W’alter Hines Page who bril liantly wrote himself into the am bassadorship to the Court of St. Jame by appointment Wilson. There was Robert N. Page, the worthy, energetic, faithful and effec tive Congressman from the old Seven- Church in Aberdeen a member of the company of Page brothers who per. haps more than any other large group of brothers in the history of North Carolina served the State’s progress and enlivened its life. Yesterday they buried Henry Alli- of President ■ son Page, who, as legislator, lumber. man, railroad man and writer, play, ed a prominent and vivid part in the history of the times in which he liv ed. Though he was interested in every th for term after term and all but ■ aspect of North Carolina life, most Governor of the State. Frank Page, another brother, died only a few months ago after a bril liant record as a statesman, his pe culiar claim to permanent remem brance arising from his handling of the $100,000,000 highway building program as chairman of the State Commission. Henry A. Page, who has just pass ed at his Aberdeen home, was less in of his own living was spent in the Sandhills where as a young man he helped cut down the pines, the de struction of which he later lamented. In the Sandhills, too, he worked for those good roads which later his brother built across the state. He served his state as legislator and war time food administrator. He was best known, however, as a sharp-penned contraversialist who enlivened North the public eye, but the equal of any Carolina’s press' and politics with his of these other brothers in native ca- vigorous views. Even those who dis- rules and regulations set down for the job. Mr. Page wrote Mr. ty is John R. McQueen, whose Hoover that he had appointed him to handle the task in North Bn'Win? m Aberdeen, Mr Carolina, that he would handle "I,'!!, it his own wav or not at all. Mr. Hoover wired: “Go to it.” Mr. Page w'as once approach ed by a committee of prominent Democrats of the state with th^ offer of the nomination to the United States Senate, tanta mount to election. “Either you think I am crazy now, or you those interested in availing themselves of federad aid for this purpose. OI R PERILOUS HIGHWAYS In the August number of the . Reader’s Digest is an article about our destructive automo- pacity and in some respects possess ing qualitie.? of mind and characteris- tic.s of leadership which they might have easily envied. His public service was confined to three terms in the Legislature, but his private life was filled up with ex cursions with his pen into public af fairs that those of the few years ago will recall with enlightening interest. He was as fearless as the crusader he was. Those high in the leadership of his own Democratic party were not spar- ed the vitriol of his condemning pen once he was convicted that their pio neering was spotty and erratic. He once attacked the late Chief Justice Clark in a memorable battle of letters. He later castigated the agreed with him, as many did, rec ognized his writing as witty and ef fective. By any standard he was an able man. In a family of remarkably able brothers he added to that family’s stature, which loomed in the gen eration of which it w'as a part.—Ral eigh News & Observer. TREMENDOUS PERSONALITY I For all the mournfulness of the occasion there was an irrepressible reminiscence about the colorful char acter who dropped out yesterday. The friends of the family tramping over Old Bethesda and looking upon the earth over Walter Hines, Robert N., Frank and Henry Page, wondered if State department of education in a [ contemporaneous North Carolina will classic engagement that revealed not j ever again look upon a family of such only the fighting edge of the man. j tremendous personalities. Newspaper but the versatility of his weapons and fellows were asked some day to try the dauntlessness of his courage.; their hands at analyzing the Big Four. None stood so high and enthroned to | And all of them will lie in Old Be- escape his penetrating criticisms. ! thesda with heavy stone over them, The only other office that brought ^ granite blocks which more emblemat- him conspicuously into the public eye ; ically weigh them down than puff was that of food administrator for; them up to the world about them. North Carolina during the war when ; There is nothing on Walter Page’s pie officially declared its disbelief in liberty and the outbreaks of persecu. tion occurred on the frontiers of the westi'rn world. International opinion counted not only because there were common moral assumptions but be cause opinion was not imprisoned by government censorship and manufac. tured by propaganda. Under the conditions prevailing to day the only question involved in of. ficial protest is whether it does good or harm. The most seasoned observers think that in the present state of na tionalist feeling, the chief effect of official protest of any kind from abroad is to undermine fatally the position of the liberal opposition in the persecuting countries. The very fact that they are liberal at all makes them suspect to the dominant mob, and, when foreign governments sup port their opposition, they are not strengthened but are weakened. The foreign governments can do nothing to back up the protests. But the for eign official protests are an easy pretext for denouncing the liberal op position as unpatriotic and in alliance with the enemies of their country. It may be said, of course, that in countries like Germany and Russia the liberal opposition has already been destroyed. This is rhetoric rather than truth. The opposition must exist potentially. If it did not, the govern ments in power would not break out so violent at frequent intervals. If the opposition were utterly crushed beyond hope of resurrection, it would not be necessary to resume the bus iness of crushing it every few months. Unofficial protest, if it is made with dignity and restraint, is a dif ferent thing. It is not likely to be effective immediately. The censor, ships are too impenetrable for that. But it is important, none the less, in order to prevent the moral outlook of the free nations from becoming in sensitive to evil and confused about what is fundamentally right and wrong in human relations. Liberty is one of the latest achievements of civi lized man and it is not invincibly es tablished in their minds and hearts. A pleasant evening with an apologist for tyranny, a good hotel, clean streets, courteous and efficient rail, road sfrvice can easily, as so many returning tourists testify, completely confuse the naive. To guard against the corruption^ of the ideals of free men, it is necessary to keep contin ually alive a sense of what tyranny means. In the last analysis, however, the defense of civilized ideals today must depend, not on protests, but on far. sighted policy. For those nations which are threatened with aggressive violence, the only defense is diplomat ic combination backed by military force and a willingness, when deeply challenged, to use it. It is the old. fashioned remedy, expensive, danger, ous, and unsatisfactory, but there is no cheaper or easier one. For the other nations, of which the United States is the most conspicu ous, the only lasting and effective ! contribution they can make is to help lead the world back to prosperity. Af. ter all, the violence and intolerance ^ in the world today are the unmistak able consequences of an intolerable and violent pressure on the afflicted peoples. In their ultimate desperation, men fighting for their existence re. vert to their most primitive instincts of survival. There is little hope of the revival of freedom in eastern and central Europe until the opportunity of men to live a decent and secure existence returns. A free civilization is one in which the mass of people can live without destroying their neighbors to make room for themselves. It is only in a reasonably prosperous world that free dom and reason will again flourish. (Copyright, 1935, for The Pilot) The Week in Vass “Anri' exactions of this authority made ^stone to indicate that he was anybody want me to go up there and be- ^ f - come crazy,’’ was Mr. Page’s f^^den Death It is Prefam, characteristic wav of declining ^ ^ paragiaph from the editoi thp nrnffpr ‘ giving warning of its nauseat ing contents. If the reader is un- Cameron Morrison, stumping the state for a Senatorial seat, was to speak in Aberdeen. Henry Page was asked to preside. In introducing Mr. Morrison to his duly scrupulous or over-sensitive he cautions them about the sick ening story. And it is all of that. But even so, its horrible emphas- sis should be read by every driv- it mandatory upon him to hew to the | but somebody who was born one day line and cut straight through to his j and about 65 years later died. It is so strict duty, no matter though his | of Bob Page. There is yet no marker path crossed those of friend and • to Frank Pag^. neighbors. He was adamant to the i But it is written very deeply into call of every other consideration when , Aberdeen’s mind that Walter Page stern duty sent its challenge his way. | died in December 1918 that Bob Page North Carolina has begotten no idled October 3, 1933 that Frank Page such family, perhaps, as this of the j died December 20, 1934 and Henry audience Page said: “I do not l deadly "missiles. An ! among whom stood Henry a. i Page went out yesterday. Aberdeen know any man in the country automobile with "all its pounds ^ Matterhorn, with his brilliant j is terribly conscious that something more unfit to become a United force and pressure hurling' impassioned flair for j has happened to this little town. States Senator.” down a hiehwav "" at tei*rific I welfare, with energies that 1 The whole Sandhills seemed to feel In arbiographical sketch writ-, were as restless as the sea and with |it. Henry Page was the regent in this l.JUO LHG iV0V. John ^ ^ Taal -frvr crxoial orvrl , lri'rtrr/^*-»ws Tf Cole said of Mr. Page: “Proba bly ous path. Our present scare of infan- y no other private citizen in!i.;i. K..r>n<rV>f q tile paral.Nsis has brought a I a soul afla^ne with zeal for social and | kingdom of sand. It seemed today to commonwealth progress.—Charlotte I have no mind to work.—Tom Bost in North Cax'olina has so impressed the public with the variety of his talents and with the super ior quality of his manhood as has Henry A. Page. He is one of the lights of our state that cannot be hid under a bushel, great deal of consternation to the inhabitants of the state and others not in the state. It has not taken anyi serious toll of life or maimed, to but a slight de gree. We have had doctors come in from bigger medical worlds Observer. Greensboro News. American Ideals in the Outer World By W.XLTER LIPPM.VNN It must not be confused with genu- Events in several parts of the world ine treaties like the Washington trea- have raised in acute form the question ties concerning navies and China or of what a nation like the United with the Covenant of the League. In States is to do in defense of its ideals the Far East the United States had and intangible interests abroad. Look- ground on which to protest because ed at through American eyes, Hus- it had made a bargain with Japan in sia, Germany and Mexico are engag. which it made real concessions in re- e\en though he has never been conferred put upon the cantllestick of i with their colleagues in scientif- fessional life or of political lead- i fiejcjg all in order that human • J'hile not standing himself in the public eye he' havp haH no one rnmp from T'J - • keeps his eye upon the public-i religious persecution. Parallel turn for real concessions. Under the and is a man to be reckoned with m religious free- Covenant, the members of the League when any, interest of the public: <'»"'■ «'«» i"- i-*™ IS involved. Some ot the bright- ^avs est things that have been said in | the press of our state in recent: j returning from Baltimore] united “grates years, and that have been said ^ ^ bridge near Richmond with a directness of aim and, bumped with an impact of argument that j^g^d on. Four trucks then sand was well nig'h irresistible, have been said by Mr. Page. An arti cle from his pen always means that an occasion ha.s arisen when dom, there are the breaches of in- ternational treaties, all of them pro- moted by the United States, some of A joung truck dliv^ recent-, ratified and signed by the wiched into the mass of wreck age. The fourth truck down the hill to join the weltering gore, . , , , , ., , I carried a cargo of fish, so the sonieJiing .should be said, | ghastly combination was about that there is a man present to say it, and to say it clearly, bravely, justly. Few men have been so daring as to enter the lists against him whenever he has championed a cause; and those that have entered have felt the shock of a terrible an tagonist, and have been left un- hor.-^ed upon the field. “He has gifts that fit him for the affairs of state and for the most conspicuous public service. Had he chosen of the professions, he would have doubtless come to an elevation that few men at tain. Had he chosen journalism, he would have made a great ed itor. Had he chosen law, he would have ranked with the masters. Had he chosen letters, he would have companionship with the great spirits of litera ture. “In politics,” Mr. Cole wrote, “Mr. Page ‘stands in his ^ ovm boots and carries his sovereignty under his own hat,’” That was written of him in 1906; it re- complete. Fire, broken cars and trucks and broken people made Though it cannot be shown that'any important material interest is jeo pardized, the feeling exists that some how or other the United States ought to be able to exercise some moral au- thority in defense of elementary hu man rights and of the sanctity of treaties. The simplest of these questions is so lurid a picture one traveler | presented by the demand that forced to witness, held up by the tangled and mangled debris, did not recover sufficiently to con tinue on southward until a night or two spent in Carthage. Parents have w'hisked child ren away to distant points, some of them to the most northern of the New England states hoping to reach a safety zone from in fantile paralysis. Before their return they will have traveled around 2,200 miles. Risks and real danger on the road are overlooked. As killing factors, they aren’t in the same category. The former brings fear and trep idation; the latter fearlessness, assurance and boldness. —H. K. B. Buttermilk is always freshly chum, ed and ready for you at the Curb Market Saturday naoming. Pilot Advertising Paya. the government give moral support to the Kellogg Pact by condemning Ital ian policy iu Ethopia. The action de manded would have to rest entirely on the Kellogg Pact since the United States is not a party to any of the treaties affecting Ethopia and is not a member of the League of Nations, But on what ground can the United States government argue that Italy has violated the Kellogg Pact or is about to violate it? The pact pro vides no machinery whatever for any judicial determination as to whether the pact has been violated or not. An official denunciation of Italy would rest, therefore on no firmer basis than that American officials in Wash, ington, after reading the r.(-wspapers and the reports of their diplomats abroad, had set themselves up as judges of Italian policy. This may be unfortunate. But the misfortune is in the pact itself which is merely a pious resolution that each signer may interpret as he sees fit. have ground for action if under the procedure set up in the Covenant it is determined that the Covenant is violated. But the Kellogg Pact is a wholly different thing. Since each na tion may interpret it for itself, it has no sanction except the conscience of each nation. There is nothing in the pact which entitles us to say that our official conscience is a better con science than Italy’s. It is clear, I think, that the Ameri can government cannot appoint itself to be the judge of the Ethopian dis pute. If we had ratified the Covenant, the "position would have been utterly different. We should then have ac cepted the rule that our own action, as well as the actions of others, may be judged by the members of the League and we would have the moral obligation to support the Covenant. But having deliberately rejected all this, Italy would properly resent a policy which amounted to saying that we were assuming the rights of a member of the League without any of the obligations. In regard to the religious persecu tions, there are, of course, ample pre cedents for official protests. During the Nineteenth Century many pro tests were made by the American government and by the British, possi bly also by others, and on the whole they probably had a salutary effect. The civilized world was then not spir itually divided as it is today and the universal assumption was that civili. zation and the rights of man were synonymous. No highly educated peo- “Our Schools in Korea” was. the topic of an interesting program given by members of the Methodist Auxil- i iary at the regular monthly meeting I held last week at the home of Mrs. j H. C. Callahan. Mrs. Frank Jeffreys j gave a reading and Mrs. W. D. Mat- thews told a story of life in Korea. The Scripture lesson was read by Mrs. W. J. Cameron, and a duet, “The Touch of His Hand on Mine,” was sung by Mrs. H. A. Borst and Mrs. G. W. Griffin. Mrs. W. H. Keith con ducted the Bible study. I Mr. and Mrs. J. Marvin Matthews ' of High Point spent Thursday night i and Friday of last week with Mr. and Alls. W. Duncan Matthews. On Fri- i day. Dr. M. L. Matthews of Sanford joined them and the three brothers \ went on a fishing trip. They were pretty successful, but the biggest catfish died with a grin on his face, apparently thinking about how funny these three dignified gentlemen—a doctor, a lawyer and a wholesale dealei'—looked, soaking wet from the steady rain which fell nearly all morning. Mrs. D. A. Graham of Ruffin, S. C., the former Miss Bessie Lee Kelly of Vass Route 1. underwent a serious op eration at Duke Hospital in Durham Monday morning and her many friends throughout this section will be glad to know that her condition at this writing seems quite favorable. Mr. Graham is spending part of his time in Durham and part of the time with relatives here. The girls are with relatives in Georgia. The Vass Woman’s Club will hold its August meeting on Friday even- j ing of next week at the home of Mrs. I Frank Heffreys and the program will I be presented by the Public Welfare j department of which Mrs. C. A. Law rence is chairman. Mr. and Mrs. Angus D. Cameron, Mrs. Hudson Graham and small sons, and Miss Edna McLeod, all of Swann Station, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Smith of Vass route 2 Sunday after noon. Miss Jewell Edwards is attending summer school at Chapel Hill. Mrs. G. G. Inge and little son, Don ald, Miss Mary Louise Wright and Charles Fetner of Hamlet were call ers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Cox of Route 1 Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. McCraney and i their guests, Mr. Batson and Duncan j McCraney of Millard, Texas, and Rel- jmond McCraney, Junior and Billy Bob McGill visited Mr. and Mrs. Guy Ham- , ilton of Godwin community Sunday. I Russell Thompson and a friend j came over from Burlington to spend Sunday with Russell’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Thompson. Mr. and Mrs. Alton Hicks and fam. ily of near Carthage visited Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Hicks Sunday. Linwood Furr of Burlington anrf Roy Furr of Raleigh spent Sunday with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Furr. Mrs. W. J. Cameron, Mrs. C. J. Temple, Mrs. H. A. Borst, Mrs. C L Tyson and Mrs S. R. Smith visited Mrs “Kishie” Cameron at her home near Swann Station on Thursday af ternoon of last week. Mrs. Cameron, who suffered a fall several weeks ago, is able to walk around in the house. Miss Bettie McMillan and several friends trom Durham called on Neil ! McMillan and daughters Sunday. I Mrs. W. H. Keith, Misses Sallie ! and Bessie Cameron and Elizabeth I Keith were Sanfoid visitors Thurs day. Misses Exie Beasley and Katharine Gfaham returned last week from Greensboro where they attended sum- I mer school at W. C. U. N. C. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Beasley and j children of Ansonville, Mrs, Rcbecca I Pittman .of Winston-Salem and Miss Lcis Buchanan of Broadway were Sunday guests of the Misses Beasley and R. P, Beasley. Mrs. John T. Matthews, her daught er and two grandsons of Dayton, Tenn., and Arch Cole of the Pocket section spent Friday night at the home of T. Frank Cameron. Mr. and Mrs. John Bell of Southtrn Pines visited Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Chappell Sunday. Misses Mary and Katrine Beasley returned Thursday from a visit with relatives in Louisburg, Raleigh and Franklinton. Miss Katrina Beasley ex- pects to return the last of this week to Asheville where she attends school. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Matthews, Miss Sara Edith and Duncan, Jr., visited Mr. and Mrs. William P. Parker and Tommy Gschwind at their home on Raeford Route 1 Sunday afternoon. Miss Bessie Cox went to Wilming. ton last week. After spending some time with rel atives in and near Vass, T. R. Mof- I fitt returned on Sunday to his home I in Sanford. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mears of Ham let visited Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Grif fin Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Smith returned Sunday from a week’s visit in Ala bama. Bernice Graham spent last week end with his brother, Gerald Graham, in Ruffin, S. C. Mrs. A. L. Grove, Stewart and Rus sell Grove, of Chambersburg, Pa., and Misses Robberta Deardof and Emma Ullrich of Gettysburg, Pa., are guests at Hotel Charmella for a few days. Little Dixie Childress, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. H. C. Calla han, for several weeks, returned to Rockingham on Sunday with mem bers of her family who visited here for the day. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Calvin Alexander Caddell and wife to Norman Caddell. property in Southern Pines: J. V. Healy, Mortgagee, and Mary E. Richardson, Assignee, to Emily Richardson, property in McNeill town ship. Henry M. Hancock and wife to W. A. Cochran, property in Bensalem township.