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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen. North Carolina
Friday, June 19, 193ff.
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THE NOMINATION
OF MR- LANDON
If the enthusiasm engendered
by the nomination of Alfred M.
Landon, Governor of Kansas,
for the Republican candidate for
President at Cleveland, Ohio last
week continues through the
campaign, there would appear to
be a real fig'ht in the offing. Mr.
Landon has much to recommend
him for the Presidency. As set
forth by Mr. Hamilton in his
nominating speech, Landon came
into office as Governor of a
great state at the same time and
facing the same difficulties as
Mr. Roosevelt, He pursued an en
tirely opposite course than the
President, a pay-as-you-go pol
icy, insistence upon a balanced
budget, governmental economies.
And Kansas weathered the de
pression with flying colors, is in
splendid financial condition.
The Republican platform calls
for similar steps in restoring
confidence in the administration
of national affairs as have prov
en successful under Landon in
Kansas. An aggressive fig'ht by
the G, O. P. would appear to be
the program. It will be an inter
esting and exciting campaign—
no walkaway for either candi
date.
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;tINO FACTS ABOUT Y(iORCO«m>NlTY*
THE REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION
The Republican Convention
was held in Cleveland in a hall
decorated by the Works Prog
ress Administration. The fact is
significant. The Republican Par
ty is having a New Deal. The Old
Republicans and those new Old
Republicans, whose prospective
walk grows longer and longer,
were verj* quiet Their organ, the
Liberty League, was mentioned
only once when the office of
Vice President came under dis
cussion. Senator Wadsworth an
able man, the first choice of
'hiany for the positi6n, was ruled
out. His connection with the Lib
erty Leagus^made him ineligible.
Thus, with many of its leaders
absent and with those present in
a subdued and chastened state of
mind, the G. O. P. sank from
view to allow the new phoenix
to arise from its ashes.
The process, inevitably, was
not accomplished without a few
dying squawks. The first w'as
the keynote speech. It was true
to form in that it resembled the
keynote speeches of all parties
not in power. It may be however
that it surpassed them in one re
spect. It set a new high for polit
ical hypocrisy. The speech con
demned the Democratic admin
istration on every count, but the
record of the man who made it
showed that as Senator for Ore
gon he had voted for every one
of measures he attacked. While
inveighing against regimenta
tion, interference with business,
extravagance. Senator^ Steiwer
voted for N. R. A., A. A. A-, T.
V. A.; he voted to override the
President’s veto in various econ
omy measures; he voted for the
bonus.
Mr. Hoover’s speech was more
honest but disappointingly arid
to those Who had come to ex
pect better things of the Elder
Statesman. It may be that the
sight of so many republicans
gathered together was too much
for him. It brought baick too
many "dreary memories of the
time when prosperity remained
so obdurately around the cor
ner. Actually, however, Mr. Hoo
ver probably sensed the feeling
of the convention in that hall re
modelled by the New Deal work
men. He knew that fche Old
Guard was a thing of the past.
The King is dead—Long live the
King—It is a curious thing that
the man who actually inaugur
ated many of the measures
which the New Deal later adopt
ed and extended should have
turned against them and actual
ly used them as a point of at-j
tack against 'his opponents. The
New Deal has been referred to as
a government of men. If it,is, it
is only because the Republicans
have made it so. Personal feeling
can go further than attacking
your own principles because
they are held by your political
opponent-
' The platform is an interestinj^
document showing again how
carefully the Republicans have
watched the experience of their
opponents. Political platforms
are tricky affairs arising like
banishes from the grave to
I haunt their creators. The Demo-
I cratic party emblem is the don^
I key; it is a question if the goat
I would not have been a more ap-
i propriate beast. Too often the
party has played the part of the
sucker—the goat—the victim of
its own dumb honesty. The 1932
Democratic platform is an in
stance in kind. It remained for
them at that time to do some
thing that had seldo^i if ever
been done before: write a plat
form' that meant something.
Framed in a tense atmosphere
of impractical idealism, the
' promises were concrete and defi
nite. “If elected,” the fatal doc-
' ument read, “we promise to . ..”
I and there followed a list of
splendid hopes and utterly im
possible pledges.
No such mistake has been
made this year by the Republi*
,cans. The platform is a master-
' piece of vague generalities.
^ Where there is a cqm;nitment to
' direct action, it is prefaced by a
jneutralizing phrase: “if the
I state of affairs allows”—“com-
of public opinion has been stifled
by a leadership possessing none
of these qualities, one, on the
other hand, the party in power
has shown the deteriorating ef
fects produced by an opposition
which was almost wholly de
em Virginia and Tennessee was a
visitor last week of Miss McQueen.
The acquaintance began in Korea
where both young women were then
teachers in the same school. Mary
Stuart Wilson, a friend of Kate Stew
art hailed from Arkansas by way of
structive, stupid, and, when it Socnchun. and was a student in the
schools where Miss McQueen and Miss
Martin taught.
Flora McQueen, brother of John
came to action, timid and two-
faced. Governor Landon is still
an unknown quantity. His en
dorsement by Hearst will cause McQueen, is an outstanding woman,
grave doubts to many a voter, I she is listed in the 1935 year book of
while his record as governor, | prominent American college women.
mensurate with the national in-
I terests.” Loop holes of escape of-
'fers their sanctuarv on every
side. The see-saw method is em
ployed — one thing offsetting
another—the budget is to be
balanced sends us to earth while
“taxes are to be reduced” boosts
us up again. Then comes “plenty
I of relief’ ’to bring the board lev
el. We find the high tariff bal
ancing drearily with farm legis
lation It is clear that the Re-
! publicans have profited by the
mi?take of their opponents: no
Republican platform will ever
say anything definite. It is per-
jhaps a safe bet that no future
I Democratic one will either. Inci-
.dentally, not the least interest
ing thing about the platfoim is
that while repudiation of the
New Deal occupies most of its
attention, not a promise or even
a suggestion is made for repeal-
; ing a single one of the New Deal
laws now in force except the two
which affect only the present
power ip relation to foreign
. trade policy.
With the nomination of Gov
ernor Landon the tone of the
Conveiition seemed to change.
I The factions faded more qr less
gracefully from view. The Old
I Guard w’earing the forced smiles
; of defeated age handed the
; young party over 'to the new
1 bridegroom, Mr. Borah, old, but
iby no means defeated, held 'his
I peace and marched staunchly
I out, followed, one mayf imagine,
jby the bridegroom’s slightly ap-
jprehensive gaze. The assembled
i delegates paraded, bands played,
I hysterical ladies and gents pro-
I claimed the victory as good as
won. The Republican Party, New
Deal style, took over. ^
Honest opponents, as well as
sympathizers, should wish the
new candidate success in his at
tempt to reorganize the Party.
It is imperative for the good of
the entire country that there
should be a vigorous, intelligent,
courageous opposition. For the
past three years one large body,
contradicting many of his pro
fessed sentiments, lead one to
suspect an equivocal disposition
depressingly allied to the plat
form see-saw. Still, strange
things have come out of Kansas.
It is perhaps not too much to
hope that its latest phenomenon
will be a Republican leader with
courage and common sense and
with the power to ni-'ld his
party into a fitting weapon for
the expression of the will of its
members in the campaign to
come.
K. L. B.
Grains of Sand
Sunday June 21, at 9:22 a. m. the
sun will reach the turning point of
its apparent course, its greatest dis
tance in the northern sky and we
have the longest day of the northern
hemisphere. Summer begins officially.
Mot an uninteresting season in North
Carolina. ~
Her social service work put some
thing of a high rating to her name.
She has edited a newspaper and done
some writing.
Mary Stuart Wilson graduated
from Flora Macdonald in the class of
1936. She is the daughter of Dr. R.
M. Wilson, a man who has contribut
ed to science and the medical world
in his study and relief of leprosy. The
little Korean reunion brought three
entertaining people together the rest
of the supper party counted worth
while.
Delicious home-made cakes
cookies at the Curb Market.
Everything in country produces at
the Curb Market.
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Out in the southeastern summer
sky the planet Jupiter now shines in
its great brilliance. A small four year j
old remarked that it is the first star '
he sees every night when going to J
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During the montis of rainless days
a severe strain was put upon the
weather prophets. The oldest and
most reliable of the seers saw their
prediction go into reverse. Those still
undaunted foretell both long dry and 11
wet periods ahead of us. Wet or dry,
laurels and honor will be hung up on
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Pork Chops
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Laundry Starch
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Delmar Butter
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Lb.—15c
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ENGLISH PEAS, (Large Cana), Special 5c
.In tha long spring drought many a
black snake was made to (lie and hang
on a rail fence with the hope of
bringing rain. In the course of time
plentiful rains brought an end to
the persistent sunshine. Losing the
snake, was not only hard on the
snake itself but a loss to the garden
er who depends on the serpent to help
dispose of many young rabbits, moles
and field mice.
Many freak programs, speakers
and sounds sift out of the air through
the radio; Recently a scientist from
one of the universities lectured on
the cicada and then let the whirring
little insect come to the microphone
and tell something of his own story.
His impressions, according to his vi_
brations were enthusiastic. As he was
the seventeen-year variety we won't
need’to look for him again until 1953
if invited for a return engagement.
The visitors, guests and friends and
native sons and daughters that drift
into the Sandhills are constantly an
interesting source to come in con
tact with. Last week Mrs. Robert
Stewart of Drowning Creek had a pic
nic supper for a number of friends.
An interesting trio were three women,
former friends in far away Soon-
chun, Korea, who met accidentally on
the banks of the Mossgiel lake. Miss
Flora McQueen, a native tarheel,
tought in the mission school at Soon-
chun. Miss Margaret Martin of west-
MARKET SPECIALS
All Pork Sausage, lb 18c
Smoke Sausage 17c
PYanks (Hot Dogs), lb 18c
Spare Ribs, lb. 15c
Stew Beef, lb. 9c
Pig Liver, lb. ,14c
Bacon (Our Slice), lb. 29c
Round Steak _„24c
GROCERIES SAVINGS
Dill Pickles, qt 13c
Sour Pickles, qt 13c
Mustard, qt. 14c
Ginger Ale (It’s Shivars) 9c
King Dog Food 5c
Vaseline — 4c
Permintoes, 10c size 6c
2 in 1 Shoe Polish (all colors) 9c
Salt (Round Pkt.) 10c size ... 6c
Soda Crackers, 1 lb. box 9c
Post Toasties, 2 for ..15c
NECK BONES, lb.
6c
Best Creamery
Butter
Pot Roast, lb.
15c
MEAT
Fat Backs, lb.
...12c
1 lb. Roll 34c
Rib Roast
-21c
Rib Side
14c
CROAKER FISH, lb.
5c
Pure (Hog) Lard, lb.—14c
Best C!ompound Lard
4 lb. Package 49c
Cigarettes „12c
FLOUR — FLOUR
5 lb. Bag 24c
12 lb. Bag .39c
24 lb. Bag... 77c
Meal, Peck ..19c
Fresh String Beans, Ib ...4c
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