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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, June 21, W4(F. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PUiOT, Incorporated, Southern Pine*, N, C. NELSON C. HYUE Editor DAN S. RAY (ieneral Mana;;er CHARLES >L\CAl’LEY Advertising Manager ■•Ita S. Butltr, B«uir Cameron Smith. Assoeifttet I Subscription Rates: { Ob« Year 12.00 | ■tK Months Jl.ooi H»ree Months 50 I playinp in the street or runnintt into the stiX'et or highway should point a le.sson to every mother and father in North Carolina. “Children are not as well ac quainted with traffic hazards as their parents are and it is the duty and responsibility -of par ents to pa.ss on to their children the benefit,s of their knowledge and experience in coping with traffic. “And not only must parents impress upon their children the danger of playing in the street or running into the .street or highway, but they must go far- Entered at the Postoffice at South- ther and provide safe J)laces for rn Pines, N. C.. as second class mall' their children to play away from ktter. TO ON'E BELOVED OF ALL— Dear Mrs. Tufts: You must know how greatly ‘ we do and shall miss you. We DON'T SELL wish you could hav« stayed with, A.MERICA SHORT: traffic “Our children deserve every protection we can afford them. Let’s all work together to stop I this slaughter of the innocent onjin rows as long as eye can reach. ' our .streets and highways.'’ Grains of Sand .SA.V1)11I1.I>1 IN Jl'NE A golden sun, a fleecy cloud; Great long-leaf pines, majestic, proud. The chuckwill's widow's short at night; The mating quail's call, "O’ Bob White!" Bold blucjay's scolding, raucous, shrill; The friendly mocKinp bird's gay trill. Shy mourning dove's soft, plaintive coo; Wise hoot-owl's question "Who, who, who?" Soft balmy eve, cool bracing morn; Tobacco patches, fields of corn. Broad acres of the luscious peach US longer. There are so many things which need to be done— and in your way. There are so many of us who need your ad vice. And then, you must have noticed how often we sought you for no apparent reason than to be in your presence for a little w*hile. Whatever the burden, great or small, mentioned or not, it was always lighter, and more in proportion to reality and ' Where nature teems with lusty life. Far from the crowd's ignoble strife. In peace, in harmony, in tune— The Sandhills in the month of June. “Don’t Sell America Short'’ is the subject of a paper recently .>.ent to its employes by the Gen eral Electric Company. After re counting the cost to Germany of its conquests to date, and dis counting the possibility of a suc- ce.ssful invasion of England, it has this to say about America: Even if the German victorv But- Some days aie cool. Some days are not— And thishyere day's Too doggoned hotl —A. S, XEWCOMB. There were 32.471 babies born in North Carolina during the first five should come this week, the train-1 months of 1940, which was 712 more our strength after just a'little^^ transports, guns and, than were visit wth vou. munitions of war are so far ! ponding period of 1939 and 18.049 in But all that is the selfish part ^pen ., exce.ss of the 14 422 deaths reported of the wav we feel. The purpose ^^'.^lers ability to attack, far dunng the present year, of this letter is to signifv our I""-'’across an ocean would, Kiwanis Hears Report of County Welfare Mrs. (lilliam Brown, Speaker at Weekly .Meeting, Says More Monev Needed acknowledgement of the debt off gratitude we owe to vou. your time and strength for us 'J]""'',’ be so certafn of failure that he{ if it gets too hot, you can pay a wouldn’t dare attempt it. He j visit to the new air-cooled room in Electric shop where "Jim" Philco-York air-condi- tioner keeping him comfortable. We thank vou for the utter''‘"''ther five or seven the Simons e: kindness with which vou spentpreparation, and what; has his new when we were sick or lacked . . , food or clothes, when we needed'”'^. hospital treatment for our.selves ' or our children, or when we need ed great public machinery to help us in our various needs, or to protect us from disease, or when our greatest need was for a sure friend. We are already do- now the machinery is being set in motion to make this THE ITALI.\NS t>F .X.MERK'A its way through the 1 the radio and else- ' into circulation and new resentments mittedly the best men in the encouraged as a result of the | For some time an undercurrent Nation the strongest defensive j against the Italians of America has force in the history of the world.' „,akii We are set up to build and main-1 tain the large.st production military aviation ever attempted j prejudices are put back And we want to thank vou for the planes with ad- cprtnin nnaiitios nf nfo‘^nittedlv the best men in the certain qualities Ot ine which 11 ^ Cimnlv nf Trmnitinn« l ®'tuation created by the European you taught us. and for the en- V' * ^ u u ^""‘tions | richment of our lives by having be brought up to;"®!- been touched with the beautv of f which will outweigh the " , strength of any other nation or We are grateful to vou for combination of nations which letting us see the gentle dignity be arrayed against us. And of quiet purposeful living. In ail have the le.souices to do this issues, great or small, your life in our sti'ide. while maintain- is a kind rebuke to all our little J'l^/nuch the ."^amf standard of fretfulnesses business conduct that has been And in these da vs of worship-^lappiness ful fear of clamorous physicafj" t|ie force, we hold i)recious the memory of the strong power of i your inner life which, .so far as Mrs, Gilliam Brown, Moore coun ty's welfare officer, told members of the Sandhills Kiwanis Club all about the work of her department at their weekly meeting held Wednesday in the Methodist Sunday School build ing in Aberdeen. Mrs, Brown stress- <d the need of additional appropria tions to care for the aged, the de pendent children and the blind in the county stating that though 335 eldei ly needy people, 237 children and 37 blind were being cared for, there I.*? a waiting list of 700 who can't un derstand why they can't be taken care of as well as those already on the lists. Mrs. Brown told how much was expended each month in the county, one-quarter of which is paid by the county, one-quarter by the State and one-half by the federal g;ovemment. She explained the other service work handled through her office, such as WP.\, NYA, CCC paroled prisoners, mental cases, the crippled, food dis tribution to the needy, the placing of babies in proper homes, and the finding of work for unemployed, Nix Resigns As Vass- Lakeview School Head W. H. Davis of Oxford. T. N. C. Graduate. To Succeed As Prin cipal Here FARMERS AND GOOD DEMOCRATS— it is important to your welfare to read the statement given below! Did Nr. Biirgin Vote Against THE APPROPRIATION FOR MAKING PARITY PAYMENTS TO THE FARMERS? we could see. and in si)ite of tre mendous and insistent demands, was renewed more rapidly than even you could sjiend it. from seemingly inexhaustible reserves whose sources you knew how to tap. In a race for sui)remacy Amer ica woulil win every time. Some jieojile say: “Oh, but what about Japan’’? For years Janan has been spending her substance and her manpower in a co.stly war in China, and has not won that war yet .... not bv a long shot. We have, in the , Tlawaian Islands, the strongest In all these things and more. I '"the world, there is a wi.^dom of life and living which is vours and which could handle even vou shared with' us so far as we ‘'’•”<1 ^fth struggle with Were able to understand the <Tapan with the certamty of vic- depth and simplicitr of that wis- tor.v for our foiTes. The Japan- dom. At lea-st we can thank you e«e have their hands full in an for your clear though wordless attack on a poorly counsel to us all that the least of equipped and poor^v manned living is in things, and that the;and their resour- meet of life is in the living of it ‘ ^t low ebb. Let the un^eifishlv, without withholding ^ or withdrawing. t"? ^^anpers: (1) The We believe vou understand ; danger is pa.st. we have en- who “we” are. We are the white' countered on a program of de- and black, sick and well, rich! fensive armament that will pro- and poor, wise and foolish, good '• tect us against the worst that can happen abroad, and (2) the other danger is that we are lia ble to “sell America short” by and bad whom you have helped and loved, and we love you. Thank you .so much for all you’ve done and are and for hav-1 ing been one of and with us. With love. “WE.” an attitude of doubt and fear iover situations and circum stances that could not happen. A PLEA TO PARENTS A plea to North Carolina par ents to drill into their children the dangers of running into the street or highway was voiced this w’eek by Ronald Hocutt, Di-! rector of the Highway Safety Division. t Noting that the May traffic fatality report showed an in- crea.se in child pedestrian deaths in this state and also that sev eral children were killed in traf fic accidents on North Carolina streets and highways the first two weeks of June, the safety director said: “The fact that ten or morej children in our state have died in the past 30 days as a result of Virginia Ormsby NOT.ARY Pl’BLIC E- H. Lorenson Office TELEPHONE 5774 Dr. J. I. Neal VETERINARIAN Southern Pines, N, C, EVELYN EDSON Notary Public Telephone Office N. H. Ave But now let it be .«!aid once and j for all that the Italians of America, naturalized or merely residents are among the best immigrants who have made this Country great and power ful. They are among the most labor ious and most disciplined, they are most respectful of -America a laws, devoted to their families and their religion, and are guicii.d the sin- cerest loyalty to their Country of adoption, a loyalty which is in no way undermined by the sentimental ties which bind them to their Country of origin. As everyone knows, it is an immi gration which has developed in the last few decades, hut which has rap idly affirmed itself with' all the in- heient virtues of the race in every field of human endeavor. We cannot expect that even among Italians th“re should not be a very .'■mall percentagpof law-breakers and followers of those .subversive theories which menace the institutions which govern us. But it is not on the basis of these undesirable minorities that one can form outrageous opinions to the detriment of an imposing and re spectable mass of six million Italians or sons of Italians living by honest toil in this great Nation and seeking rnly justice and tranquility. The record of our people amply il lustrate their industrious efficiency which has been translated into a pow erful contribution to the gigantic de velopment of the United States. The Italians have given a world of en ergy to the agricultural, highway, mining and building growth of the Nation. Italian artisans hflve distin guished themselves everywhere for their intelligence, activity and integ rity, Our professional men, though hindered by the lack of generous aid and by unjust prejudices, have val iantly affirmed themselves by gain ing prominent positions in ever in creasing numbers. In the industrial field we are in the forefront par ticularly in New York where our ereatest community resides and es- necially in the building field where we have 60 per cent of the builders ind contractors. In the field of Fine \rts we have many great names. As '•egards our patriotism, we have only to remember that 300.000 Italians of America answered the call in the de fense of the Stars and Stripes during the World War, where their brilliant heroism on the fields of glory and death won the admiration of their leaders and of their comrades, —II Progresso Italo-Americano. \V, V. Nix, principal of the Vass- Lakeview schools during the past year, has resigned this position and W. H, Davis of Oxford has been elected to take his place, according to information given out by the county superintendent, H. Lee Thom as. Mr. Davis has taught in Wilkes county for the past nine years, the last four of which he was principal, and has made a very fine record. He is a graduate of the Univei'sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Mr. Nix has accepted the prin- cipalship at Traphill and 20 teachers in the district will be under his sup ervision. During his year as head of the local schools, the elementary school attained the standard rating for the first time and much new equipment was added through the co operation of the teachers and the splendid work of W. E. Gladstone, head of the agriculture department, and his pupils. {OKO.NKK I lUJES HAIIAVAV SIGN \I>.S IN .SOI THKKN PINES Pilot Advertising Pays. (Cnvtinued frcnn pnoe and have no one dependent on me and if something happens to me it is rothing out of anybody's pocket but mine, but you foiget Uncle Sam will probably need all the men and wo men he can get before long. I have crossed the railroad tracks hundreds of times. Half the time I am not conscious of the fact that I am in great danger and I am not as care ful as I should be, I am sure this is true with tfie majority of people, j You people that go to other towns j having lailroad crossings, not even j in the main part of town, know that they either have signal light or a main with a stop sign to warn the peo ple of approaching danger. If you get these signal lights it will not only protect tho.se in cars but al.so children and old people that are hard of hearing. They can see the red lights and b** warned, where.’s they might fail to hear the train. “I have talked to many citizens of Southern Pines and they asked me to make some plea in thi.s behalf. I .“.uggest to the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Southern Pines that this be their next move toward the bet terment of their town. “I am asking you good people of Southern Pines to think about this and to get to work on it at once. Don't stop until you get this pro tection! Don’t put it off a day. You might save a life by doing it now. To help prevent needless loss of lives, no matter whose life it is, is a wonder ful thing. It is better to be sure than snrry.” » RED CROS.S WOKKER-S TO SEW .AND KMT WEEKLY Red Cross workers gathered yes terday afternoon in the basement of the Pinehurst Community Church to pew and knit for the refugees in France and Belgium. This was the first of a series of Thursday afternoon qatherings for the san.e purpose, and all W'omen in the county are invited to join with those in Pinehurst in the work. They are hard at it from ?:00 till 5:00, with Mrs. Foster Kelly in« charge. LET THE RPXORI) SPEAK: Recently, I advised the FARMERS AM) THE VOT ERS OF Ol’R DISTRICT in a newspaper ‘i{K;HT THE WRONG.” that Mr. Burgin. my opponent in Saturday’s primary for Congress, VOTEI) .\G.\INST the .\gricul- al Appropriation Hill which President Roosevelt asked C(mgress to pa.ss which would have provided 5,(100.000 for making parity payments on tobacco, cotton, wheat, and other crops. The same bill would have provided for government purchase of .$11.3000.000 in Surplus ht.i'ds and clothing. The puriM)se of this appropriation was to raise Farm Prices and give to the Farmers the help the,v so sorely need and which they are .so much entitled to recei e. The bill also provided means to get rid of surplus stocks of goods, and to relieve distress among millions of unemployed who would have been given sur plus goods and clothing. I stated that Mr. Burgin voted against making such parity payments, which was a vote against The Far mer, The Unemployed and people in Distress. .4t this time newspapers of (he District and circu lars are being dis(rihu(ed fa r and wide accusing me of circula(ing false s(a(ements against my opponent with reference to this question. 1 have been accu.sed in these statements of not telling the truth, Mv Farmer Friends and all good Democrats: I HAVE TOLD THE TRUTH. Mr. Burgin has reque.sted the Clerk of the Hou.se of Repre.sentatives to give 'him a letter showing how he voted on this Bill. You will note that Mr. Burgin voted for the Bill for making the parity payments, but LATER he voted AGAINST making the API’ROPKIATION which was neces.sary if the r<,-ment« were ever made. Mr. Hurgin voted for (he paritv pavmen(s on March 28. 19.39 BUT HE VOTED AtJAIN'Sf M.AKING THE APPROPRIATION THAT WAS NECESSARY TO MAKE THE PAYMENTS ON JUNE 22. 1939. Read the following letter and telegram that PROV’E I was right in saying Mr. Burgin voted against making appropria tions neces.><ary to make parity payments. Trimble Writes to Burgin: W’ashington, June 14, 1940. My Dear Mr. Burgin: In accordance with your request. I have verified your record on the Agricultural Appropriations Bill (H. H. 5269) of the 76t';'. Congress, First Session, regarding the item of parity payments, which shows that you voted “Yes.” This vote occurred in the House of Kepresentative.s on .March 28. lO.'lO. being Roll Call No. 44. South Trimble, Clerk ot *he House of Reiiresentatives. Washington Gives the Facts: William G. Pittman, an attorney of Rockingham on June 18th. 1940, telephoned to E. L. Oliver. Executive Secretary of Non-Parti.san League at Washington, to obtain additional evidence on this vote by Mr. Burgin. Mr. Oliver conferred with ('ierk Trimble's office and then wired ^Ir. Pittman as follows: Washington. June 18. 1940. Hon. W. G. Pittman, Rockingham. N. C. In response to your telephone call, I have .iust been in toucih with House Clerk South Tripible’s office. The Trimble of fice informs me that his letter referred to BURGIN'S VOTE ON PARITY PAY.Mf'.NTS which vote was takeri on MARt'H 28. 1939 On that date. Burgin voted for such pavments—BUT THIS WAS NOT A FINAL VOTE ON SUCH PAYMENTS. When the Bill which authorized FUNDS for those pay ments came up for final action in the Hou.se on JUNE 22, 19,39. BURGIN IS LISTED among the 175 Congressmen WHO VOTED AGAINST THIS BILL (H. R. 5269). This Bill was known as the Agricultural Department Appropriations Bill, which authorized funds for practically all services rendered by the Agricultural Department to farmers as well as the $113,000,000 for the purcha.se of surplus commodities. Burgin’s vote AGAINST this Bill on FINAL pa.s.sage is all the more important in view of the fact that the Bill pas.sed ONLY by a margin of five votes. The vote was 180 “Yes ” to 175 WHAT BURGIN REALi^i DID WAS VOTE FOR PAY MENT BUT OPPOSED APPROPRIATIONS FOR MAKING SUCH PAYMENTS! E. L. OT.IVER. Exec. Sec., Non-Partisan £eague. “DON’T ROCK THE BOAT” Much has been said about “Don’t Rock the Boat.” From the above clear facts, may I ask WHO IS ROCKING THE BOAT? I believe that every fair-minded Democratic Farmer, and the other srood Democrats of the Dis trict will REPUDIATE my opponent’s effort to lead them to believe that I am not telling the truth. I have been honest with my fellow-Democrats. I will be honest with the Farmers and not vote for making paritv Drices and THEN \OTE AGAINST making the appropriations nec* essary to make such payments, I ur^re you to give me your vote and active support Saturday! _ Sincerely, ‘ C. B, DEANE.
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