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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina Friday, May 22, 1936. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pine#, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE Editor FRANCES FOLLEY Advertising Manager DAN S. RAY Circulation Manager CARO-GRAPHICS ™ by Murray Jonts, Jr. Subscription Rates: One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months - -^0 Entered at the Postoffice at South, ern Pines, N. C., as second .class mai) matter. SENATOR BAILEY STICKS TO HIS POST The mud-slinging type of poli tician does not seem to The Pilot to be the sort we want in the ^ United States Senate. ; Listen to this: ^ ' ‘The reason Senator J. . Bailey is waging a letter instead ^ of a vigorous speaking campaign for re-election is because he has [ not the courage to face North Carolina Democrats with his DO YOU KNOW YOUR STATf ? scMOOir m FIRfT WOMAN’f CLUB IM TOF JTATf WAf ORCAHtZFP IH CHARtOTTF (l62l) piOYOu mmrn THE BURDEN OF KE5P- INO m yOUTMERN ARMY IN THE 1AJTYEAR5 OF m RHVOIUTIONFEUON MORTri CAROimA ? SCHOOL zone Slow PO\VN The Week in Carthage MORTH CAROUNA An£MPT£P PRO- HIBITIOM AJ fARLY A5 I0d2, BOTITWPMOT’TAKr THE F1RJ7 JCHOOl IH NORTH CARO- IINA WAJ OPfNED IM PA5(?U0TANK PIDYOUKHOWtmat MORE TriAM ONE FOURTH OF THE COflFEDf rate; WHO FEa AT TME BATTIE OF 6frrVj0UR6 WERE flORTri (AROIINIANJ ? ’ TH6 EDITORS OF CARO'flllAPHIC* INVlTIt YOU TO SEND IN iNteneSTINO TACTS AOOUT YOOd COMOONITY • shut up forever a man with the the State would have had to 1 • j mental history of Fiorenza. Per- spend nearly half a million dol- great anti-Roosevelt and anti-ad- ^oo, the law is hardly re- lars to support them, ministration record in the ben- sponsible. There must be thous- Most people who criticize the ate.” ^ ands of potential Fiorenzas roam- parole svstem talk as if the Thus reads a statement from Grains of Sand Eight states are represented among Mrs. N. J. Muse is in the Memorial Hospital in High Point recuperating from an operation. Mrs. Bill Buffalo of Lumberton is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Neill Stewart. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Pemberton of Fayetteville are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Blue. Hoover Carter of Oak Ridge spent the week-end at his home in Carth age. Willie Myrick of Sumter, S. C., spent the week-end at his home here. Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Huggins of Chapel age. Lee Campbell is receiving treat ment in the Veterans Hospital in Co lumbia, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. Watty Hridgers of Florence, S. C., are visiting in Carth age. Miss Margaret Clegg has returned from a visit in Richmond. Mr. and Mrs. George Hart of Snow Hill spent the week-end with Mrs. Harts’ father, the Rev. I. N. Clegg. Mrs. Atwood Smith has frcm a trip to Asheville. Mrs. Ed Simpson and Mrs. C. C. Kennedy left Monday for New York. Miss Simpson expects to be away for the summer. Mrs. Hilliard and son Armestead of Portsmouth, Va., spent the week-end with relatives here. Bom, to Mr. and Mrs. H. Lee Thom as, on Monday, May 19th, a son, James Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Lind, holm cf Washington, D. C., announce the birth of a son, Frederick W. Lind* holm, Jr., on May 6th. Mrs. Lindholm is the former Miss Helen Miles of Carthage. The Carthage Book Reviewers met on Tuesday with Miss Mary Currie. The study for the evening was on the Hill spent Monday in Carth- , author, Zona Gale. "Zona Gale, au thor and playwright,” was read by Mrs. L. C. Wallace. A three-act play, “Miss Lulu Beth,” was read by Miss Mildred Sinclair. Miss Frances McKeithen entertain ed the out-of-town teachers and a few Carthage guests at bridge on Saturday afternoon. Contract was played at three tables. Miss Julia Thompson won hig^ score prize, and gifts were also given Mrs. Claude Stutts of Roanoke, Va., and Miss returned Thompson of Norwood, guests of Miss Julia Thompson. The Auxiliary of the Presbyterian Church celebrated its 27th birthday on Monday, May 10th. A pageant, "At the end of the Rainbow,” was given, directed by Mrs. J. K. Roberts. s a statement i^oni^jj^g about the country, indivi- choice were between parolling a members of the graduating class the campaign ^ headquartei^ ot duals who. while they cannot be man and keeping him in prison Southern Pines High School, appor- Senator Bailey’s opponent, Kich- insane, have such the rest of his da.Ms. They com- ^tioned as foycws: North Carolina, lo; ard T. Fountain. mental and emotional instabili- pletely overlook the fact that alUYork, 2; vir- \Vere Senator Bailey making ^ menace to so- these paroled men were bound to Ohio, Kentucky, lowa and iiii- a vigorous speaking campaign t-jety. It would be impos.'^ible to come out anvway a few months ^ach. for re-election, the statement ^p^ ^ later. How much from the Fountain h€a(^ them a short prison term is ob- better to have them come out southern Pines is known for the,tainly cannot vote in a Democratic ''^Venator '’Bailev supposedly '’’O^^sly not accomplishing much, with a job waiting for them, to class of movies it gets. The writer, inipHmary and vice vfrsa. ^eiiciuu urtiic , A slightly different case is have them under supervision for an advertising agency in New York; <3to+oc that of Dillinger. When he start- several years. Critics of the [ast week, mention;d where he was a Republican a Republican, according to a ruling furnished the State Board of Fi ctions by Attorney General A. A. F. Seawell. Mr. Seawell held that a vote cannot change his party after . the registration is closed and pointed out that a registered Republican cer- C'OOKING SCHOOL AT VASS The Vass Woman’s Club will spon sor a cooking school to be conducted by the Carolina Power and Light Company’s representative. Miss Sadie Winstead, in the Vaas_Lakeview School building on Thursday after noon, May 28th, at 2:30 o’clock. ed on his rampage he was on pa- system should bear in mind the from. Mr. Fountain. IN DEFENSE OF THE PAROLE SYSTEM There has been a great deal of loose talk lately about the parole system. It happens that several of our more spectacular crimi nals have been paroled prisoners, and because of this fact the w^hole svstem has been under a MRS. EVEREST RETl KXS j Mrs. Charles P. Everest has return ed fivm WMnsdor, Conn., after attend ing the funeral of her father-in-law. Carolina in the United States o i u U' ^r>K irtuiiJaKc Ilf un Senate, ha.'^ quit on .s the critics of the pa- unfortunate fact that the news that legislatne oocl^> .s i Sv..- svstem contend in this case value of the prisoner who breaks Sion, with much of the inipoitant ^ ^ legislation of the Congie^^ would have made a moral char- times that of the one who re- be enacted, and is acter of Dillinger? Their argu- mains faithful. We only hear tor "’hicn ne is paict o> p - would probably be that Dil- about the spectacular criminals, pie ot this oui ^linger had not reformed and that the thousands who make good go on his own behalf fori e-election unrecognized. It is this ob.serv- 01 .sometning i reformed. That is a ei ’s strong conviction that those More powei to iie Se oi legitimate ai'gument but surely who commit fresh crime.s would sticking to his post. And foi shame foi such un an v ., should be let out of pris- for each of those who break their on till he has reformed. That parole, there are hundreds who takes the argument away from arp, through the parole system, the parole system and directs it helped back to a responsible, at the laws which determine sen- trustworthy position in society. tences. , The truth of the matter is that few people visualize clearly the prison problems or under stand the parole system. Ordi- ^ _ nariU the convict .«erves his full bitter attack. Whenever one of term. He then lea\ es lirison com- Arthur c. Everest, these men is caught it is the sig- free. He is given a rail- nal for a special outburst, and, I’o^id ticket, a suit of clothes, a though some of it is perhaps rea- money and with sonable, most of the outcry is in- governments resiwnsi- accurate, unjust; a sensation ap- towards him ceases. Some peal to the ba.ser instincts of a *ucky enough to have public always easy to stampede, -lobs, legitimate .lobs, waiting for The clamor raised when the Tit- them, but the great majority terton case was solved is an ex- They are out of ample. Fiorenza had served sev- touch with life, people are reluc- eral short terms of imprisonment employ tiiem, they feel and he was out on probation un- -outcast. Possibly the only ^ der a suspended sentence whsn fi'l^nds they have are men who he killed Mrs. Titterton. Immed- ^^ft prison ahead of them. They , iately> there was a great hue and touch with them and be ery: the Hearst papers came out . a job, one kind of a with a melodramatic indictment .^^b. is their s. of the w’hole system of proba- When a man is parolled on the tion and parole, and the com- other hand, he starts with a feel- plaint wa.s heard on every side ing of self-respect because he has that our prison system is a joke; h .i«b waiting for him—he must the prisoner.s are pampered, pa- have one before he can be pa roled on the slightest excuse; rolled. And for a certain num- and the parole system itself cli- ber of years after that he is un- i maxes the imbecile reforms of der supervision. He is given ad- ^ soft-headed sociologists. vice; his friends and habits are This type of critici.sm is what observed; he is helped as far one expects from the Hear.st pa- as possible on the way; to good pers and the general run of reac- citizenship. How much more tionaries, but unfortunately a chance has he of going straight great many public-spirited sensi- t’-'an the other man, despite—if ^ ble people join in the outcry, not because of—the latter’s lon- That they do so can onlv be ex- ger stay in prison? , plained on the grounds that they A show-dow'n on the pros and do not understand the situation, cons of the question woulvde- j There is undoubtedly grounds mand a comparison of the num-' for finding fault with the parole ber of crimes committed by men system, but they are not the on parole w'ith those committed i ones chosen bv> these critics, bv the same number of ex-con- | These will hardl.y bear analysis. [ victs who had served their full Taking the example they have sentences. Only so could a cor- ! themselves cited, that of Fior- rect estimate be made of this an- j enza, the murderer of Mrs. Tit- gle of the parole system. Not tei-ton, we find that he was in- having those figures it is per-! deed out under suspended sen-, haps illuminating at least to see I tence. How'ever, the sentence j one side of the record, that of which, under the law, he could | parolled prisoners in one state, have been given for his previous | California. During two years 2,- crime was so short that he would 414 prisoners were parolled. Dur- have been out of prison anyway, ing these two years 141 of these long before the date when he men committed new felonies, killed Mrs, Titterton. When These were 1932 and '33 years Fiorenza came up for sentence of great economic hardship; it the only alternative open for the j seems, at least to this observer, judge were to put him in jail for .likely that the same number of a short term and turn him loose ex-convicts freed without jobs at the end of it or to put him on ^ and supervision, would have pil- probation under supervision for, ed up a far hig'her record of new several years. It seems clear that crime. Incidentally, it cofit the critfcism in this case should be State of California $47,797.00 directed not at the probation and i for the supervision of these 2, parole system but at the law 414 men. If they had stayed in which makes it impossible to prison during those two years “Say, how do you get such good ni„vies in Southern Pines? You get a , iot of the best ones before they even come to Now York,” said the adver- ’ tising man. Sheriff McDonald may not have op position in the primary to worry him, but he has a new daughter to keep him awake nights. Congrats. That Pine Needles building boom sounds good. The section will have i three new houses by next winter. I If you aren’t on the list already, j don't fail to register tomorrow. Sat-1 urday, your last chance to qualify for i voting in the June primary. 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