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THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina
Friday, June 4, 1937.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
NELSON C. HYDE
Editor
Ben Bowden, Katharine L. Boyd,
Helen K. Butler, Jean Edtton, Claries
Marauley, O. D. Park, Dan S. Ray,
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PRINCE DEWBERRY
HAS THE SPOTLIGHT
There is somet(hing mindful
of old vaudeville days in the
Sandhills panorama. We are as
season a section as we know of,
with our resort activities, our
peaches, our cotton, our tobac
co; our dew'berries, each in the
spotlig^ht at its proper time.
At the moment Prince Dew
berry is the starring act, has
the stage pretty muc'h to him
self until that pink cheeked sis
ter of his, Princess Peach,
steals the show a few weeks
hence. The dewberry market
opened this w'eek, and we’ve
seen some pretty fine looking
fruit on the vines. The opening
prices were good, and the grow
ers are optimistic. They deserve
a good season, for a year ago
the bottom ^ort of dropped out
of the basket. They could use a
little more rain, but that’s one
of those things they can’t do
anything about, so they’re just
picknig and packing and ship
ping, and bringing fresh money
into the Sandhills.
The Pilot congratulates the
Cameron, Vass and other sec
tions of t'he county that have
built us up into the leading
market for dewberries in the
world.
ROOSEVELT AND THE
SUPREME COURT ISSUE
In upholding the constitution
ality of the Social Security Act,
the Supreme Court has added
one more to the string of New-
Deal victories! acquired since
the President made his propos
al for its reorganization. Yet
Senator Robinson, leader of the
Administration forces, contin
ues to say that the President
will go on with his plan.
There are two qualities in
President Roosevelt’s character
that stand out perhaps above
all others: his political sagacity
and his stubbomess. This issue
over the Supreme Court seems
to put these two characteristics
in direct conflict. There is no
doubt that his stubbomess is
thoroughly aroused. He hates
to give in, even to such an ex
tent that when he already is
“in,” to all intents and purpos
es, he won’t admit it. Every gain
his program makes seems to be
fuel to his determination to hold
out. At the moment certainly
it looks as if stubbomess was
winning over political sagacity.
It looks that w'ay, but his
supporters will not believe it un
til the issue is actually decided.
For if the President continues
to fight for a dead issue simply
cut of bull-headedness and swell-
headedness he will prove himself
a true Roosevelt, in the worst
sense of the name, certainly, but
more than that he will lose his
place as t'he world recognized
leader of a great liberal move
ment.
And supposing he accepts
things as they are, quietly let
ting the matter drop now that
the fight is won. What then?
Is it not likely that history may
record his action as the greatest
piece of political strategy of oui
generation? It is all very well
for ‘tfhe defenders of the Su
preme Court to say that the
shift from reactionary to liber-
decisions was not made under
fire; that Justice Vian Devanter
resigned when he did just be
cause it suited him to do so. The
record of this bit of history is
going to look strangely fortui
tous ten or twenty years hence.
If Roosevelt gives in now it
would not be surprising to find
him credited with ‘having plan
ned the whole thing from the
beginning, with having gauged
his bluff accurately, with hav
ing guessed to a hair how far
he needed to go to get what he
wanted. It would not be the first
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: Mebbe it’s time to start boosting
I the Sandhills as a summer resort.
We hear from some of our winter
I visitors, now in Maine, that it’s been
! above 100 up there this week—hot-
! test they’ve known it at this time
i of year in decades.
I It is gratifying news that the wid-
I o\v of the former editor of The Pilot,
Bion Butler, is much improved after
I
j a serious illness. Godspeed her re-
I turn to complete health.
j We heard the five-year old son
I talking with the hired man beneath
our window. They were working in
the flower garden.
“Z is the last letter in pansy, isn't
it. George?”
“Yassah, tha’s right,” said George.
From Other Papers
'I'MK UlLLiSUAKD BA'ITLJ!:
time a Roosevelt had shaken a THE ABC OF THE SOCIAL
big stick. i SECURITY PROGRAM
PeSrthe'strS 7 pSnai' Confusion that apparently ex-
Pysident’s character will ov^r- “ proTr^ can
ride his pohtical acumen. Wei.,,_ , ^ ®
saw', in a different way, that
Grains of Sand
fate overtake President Wilson,
giving the death blow to that
great dream of a cooperative so
ciety in the world. If another
great dream is lost through the
weakness of a single man the
tragedy will be almost as great.
But in comparing the two events
we must not lose sight of the
fact that while W’ilson and
I Roosevelt were men equally de-
I termined to have their owti way,
Roosevelt has managed to get
his own way again and again
through a political sagacity nev
er conceived of by Wilson. Cer
tainly part of Wilson’s failure
to handle the League of Nations
issue was his inability to handle
the Senate, coupled also, we not
forget, with a conviction that
the cause for which he fought
w'as so great it could not help
but wiii. Stubborn he was and in
vain, but it was the cause, not
himself, which he fought for.
His tragedy is that the very des
pairing intentness of conviction
with Which he held to his League
of Nations caused him to fight
confusedly, stupidly, and in the
end to go down in defeat. Prom
etheus blinded by his own vis
ion, slain by his own fire!
To say that Roosevelt is not
so blinded by his vision is to im
ply perhaps both that the vision
is not so great and that he him
self is not so great a man, so
high an idealist, so much a fa
natic, if you will, as Wilson. The
pure idealist had to win in the
right w’ay; Roosevelt, the politi
cian, wants to win just as much
but he may be willing to win
any old way so long as he wins.
eliminated once and for all by
a very simple formula., which,
once learned, is not easily for
gotten. It may be termed the A
B Cs of the Social Security pro
gram, and is offered by Chair-
“Judge” Avery of Aberdeen tells
us the prospects for the tobacco crop
in this section are bright, and the
judge ought to know, for he travels
about the territory the year 'round.
He says the farmers have found very
little replanting necessary, that they
have a fine stand, though they need
man Charles G. Powell, of the some rain right soon. He thinks
N. C. Employment Compensa- there’ll be about a ten percent in-
tion Commission, as folloW'S; i crease in acreage over last year.
A stands for assistance, Old |
Age As>sistance the Federal-1
Wilfred J. Funk, dictionary maker,
magazine editor, book publisher and
poet, picks the following words as the
‘‘most overworked” in the Bnglish
language, and names the classes of
people he considers their "most fla
grant abusers:”
1. Okay—children and shopgiris.
2. Terrific—all persons “exposed”
to Hoilyw'ood for 24 hours or more.
3. Lousy—ditto.
Contact (both verb and nouu)—
advertising workers.
5. Definitely—society.
6. Gal—Broadwayites.
7. Racket- tradesmen.
8. Swell—interior decorators.
9. Impact—Columnists and com
mentators.
10. Honey—stock brokeis.
C’HA.tlBEK ENDORSES PIAS
FOR NEW BASEB.^U. PARK
State-County cooperative plan of
paying to every needy individual
65 years of age and over a sum
sufficient for a decent living, up
to $30 a month.
B stands for for benefits. Old
Age Benefits, in which the
worker pays a small part of his
wages, doubled by his employer,
into a fund to the Federal Gov
ernment to provide him a reg
ular monthly income ranging
from $10 to $85 a month for the
rest of his life, after he reaches I
65 years of age and stops work.
C; stands for compensation,
Unemployment Compensation,
sponsored by the Federal Gov
ernment and operated by the
States, by which a small per
centage of their payrolls is
paid by employers on their work
ers to create a fund to be paid
to the workers on the basis of
one-half their normal wages, but
not over $15 a week, when they
become unemployed through no
fault of their own.
D, to continue the little for
mula, might stand for Depend
ent Children, a Federal-State-
County cooperative plan of pay
ing up to $18 for the first child
and $12 for each additional
child, not over 16 years of age,
if kept in a home by a close rel-
The peach men are feeling better,
too. They are going to have larger (Covtimud from page one)
crops than they anticipated when passed expressing sympathy to Direc-
frosts came at a bad time in the tor J. Fred Stimson in the recent
spring. And prices should be good death of his mother,
here, for the Sandhills crop is better! it was also voted to ask the County
than in other sections of the Caro- Board of Commissioners to ask the
linas or in Georgia. State to take over the extension of
Indiana avenue outside the city lim-
The editor of The Pilot has lost his maintain it. This stretch of
I wallet. Being an editor’s w'allet, there leading to The Ark school has
' was no money in it. But it did con- in bad I'epair for some time,
j tain something that cannot be re-
placed, some snapshots of his son Seasonal fruits are on sale each
taken when he was a year old, the Saturday at the Southern Pines Curb
films for which have been destroyed.' Market.
A recently distributed bulletin of
the ever-vigilant National Roadside
Council contains .some valuable in
formation about the legal status of
the battle against the billboards.
Thanks to the campaign of this or<
ganization and of various garden
clubs and other civic bodies public
opinion is now largely opposed to
billboards in rural regions. The most
important legal victory was won in
in the famous billboard case which,
when appealed last year, was dis
missed. Under the court’s original
decision the right of states to invoke
the police power for the protection
of scenic beauty was definitely es
tablished.
In the Roadside Bulletin Albert S.
Bard has gathered together extracts
from seven| casesj before the Su
preme Court of the United States
where billboard or outdoor advertis
ing was mentioned. From these ex
cerpts he concludes that in the opin
ion of the court the states possess the
right to control billboards; that this
business is in a class by itself and
may be controlled by special regula
tions; that such regulation is con
stitutional; that special taxes may be
imposed even if they operate as prac
tical prohibition of the use of bill
boards; and that, finally, billboards
may be considered as a quasi-nuis
ance and may be treated as such If
legislatures so desire.
All of this is good news for those
who oppose the use of billboards
along our scenic highways. It is to
be hoped that as this knowledge
spreads more states will follow the
example of Massachusets and exercise
the police power to restrain the use
billboards where such uses clearly
deface the natural beauties of the
roadside and the landscape. Much
still remains to be done. But the
campaign is well under way. Its
legal bases seem at last to be indis
putably established.
—New York Herald-Tribune.
HAIL D.4MAOES COTTON
The hailstorm which struck the
lower section of Moore county in the
Aberdeen-Southern Pinea sector Wed
nesday afternoon did considerable
damage to the cotton and tobacco
crops, it was reported yesterday.
This not particularly admirable
quality may in the present case
save him from W'ilson’s tragic
winner no longer supports the
children.
AB, also, might stand for Aid
to the Blind, another Federal-
State-County cooperative plan
of paying up to $30 a month for
the needy blind in the state.
In these first five divisions,
money is paid to individuals. In
the other five, the Federal and
State governments cooperate in
j mistake.
i So there are two hypotheses
I to back up the hope that Roose-
I velt will lay off this Supreme
Court proposal from now on.
One that he will be satisfied sim
ply with winning what he was
after. The second, and I think it
more plausible that it may
at first seem that he plan- „ . . . , ^
ned the w'hole thing from the fumisning funds for services,
beginning, that his threat was' They include Maternal and Child
a bluff and his strategy delib-j Welfare, services to Crippled
erate, in clear expectation of Children and Public Health
just the reaction w^hich occurred, j work, all administered by the
Undoubtedly such deviousness State Board of Health; Child
should be condemned. However Welfare services, administered
much we may concede its polit-j^y ^he State Welfare Depart-
ical smartness, it is dangerous ™ent, and vocational rehabilta-
and unethical. Yet the spirit I tion, administered by the State
against which it is directed is in, Education Department,
itself as dangerous and we can-| North Carolina is cooperating
not 'help but be grateful for its' fully in aJl of these divisions, or
overthrow. Indeed President. will be when the Old Age Assist-
Roosevelt’s threat against the
Court has done a very impor
tant thing. For whether made
with that direct end in view or
not, it has already liberalized
that institution, and, more than
that, it has made Americans
democracy conscious. The doubt
ing Thomases in the country can
now rest assured that when a
vital issue comes before the
people they will respond. While
insisting that the Supreme
Court acknowledge and open the
way to equality and fraternity
in our country, they are equal
ly quick to spring to the defense
of the third in that great tril
ogy of democracy, the peculiar
ly American slogan of liberty.
—K. L. B.
ance. Aid to Dependent Children
and Aid to the Blind laws be
come effective this month.
THAD PAGE TO SPEAK AT
KIWANIS CLUB MEETING
Thad S. Page of Washington, D. C..
formerly of Aberdeen, will be the
speaker at the Kiwanis Club lunch
eon next Wednesday noon. Mr. Page,
former secretary to United States
Senator J. W. Bailey, is now admin
istrative secretary of the National
Archives in Washington.
Flowers of the Sandhills, never
prettier, on sale tomorrow, Saturday
at the Curb Market.
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