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Page Two TH’" Southern Pines and Aberdeen, North Carolina Friday, October 4, 1940. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PIIA>T, Incorporated, Southern Pines, N. C. NELSON C. HYDE Editor DAN S. RAY General Manager CHARL1'» MACAILEY Advertising Manager Helen K. Riitler. Virttlnia Crwl. Itessie Cameron Smith, Chailes CillIinKford, AH8«>ciate«. THE POCKETBOOK (/KNOWLEDGE ^ D. H. TURNER REAL. ESTATE | OFFICE MOVES TO PILOT BLDG. i Subscription Rates : One Year $2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. THE MAN BEHIND THE HOME COMING Some day when Azrael VTites Finis for Talbot John son, and the newspapers attempt an obituary, they will leave un said a good many things that might have been said before the colophon is reached, marking the end of the story. So just in case anything might be over looked later on. The Pilot offers a bouquet to Talbot Johnson be fore his vision is deflected and the heirs dictate copy for his tombstone. The Scots had a great day at Bethesda last Sunday. It was a success from every angle. They drifted in in droves from all over the country, from states far away and from ones nearby; from the tidewater section and hill country they came. It would be difficult to estimate the crowd as folks came and went during the day, as both morning and afternoon services saw a shifting of faces with church and grounds overflowing until the rays of the setting sun lengthened towards the end of the late afternoon. When Talbot Johnson summon ed the Clans together at the 150th birthday celebration of the old church he undertook a huge task. The chairman of the Home coming committee was far more than a genial host to a horde of people. He not only had the bur den of a large coiTespondence. of arranging printed matter, of assembling the various clans and arranging a sponsor for each one. but was in general the unseen force that carried the affair both spiritually and socially. The old country church has not lost its hold upon the peo ple. The Scots returned in a body to the ancient ground where a century and a half ago older generations held sway over the lives and actions of the first settlers, and there the descend ants renewed old friendships with acquaintances that have been worth while and of lasting interest and value. The Bethesda Home Coming was a highly successful affair and the many souls who derived both pleasure and profit from the religious and social contact from the old shrine will feel grateful to a man who helped make the day an outstanding one in the history of the church. So The Pilot in behalf of a multitude tosses a few posies to Talbot Johnson. —H.K.B. UNITIO «wm HA« ABOUT 30 Jt or All RAIIRCAO MILEAGE ui mt WOfiip BflAMBie* HAP BUMPS OM IT INSTWP OP D«VltCCSION< THf SUyiNG POW/ER 0^ TMe AVERAGE AMERICAN FACTORV W/ORKER rSTlMATEPAS 60% TVMy THAN iN /P/V V SP£B0iN6 OOR ONE AIRPLAMC COMR^Kiy ReCFNTLV 8UILT A COMPlkTE FACTORY C/TV 5/005 ./A/ s/ze~ fNONV/SfOAiS! Sh rT^'cnrruny you HAC TO A ItCMg TV fic^sr yoo^ Grains of Sand Turner's Real E^state and Insurance Office lin" moved from the Carolina Theatre Building In Southern Pines to The Pilot Building. Mr. Turner reports the following •rentals: Mrs. Winnie J. Dodge house, 80 South Ashe stret to J. R. Gandol of Montreat, Can.; Mrs. Dodge’s house on North May street to Lieut. William W. Potter • Mrs. F. W. Mer- ♦ rill'p house on East New Yoik avenue to Mrs. S. P. Bennett; The Chiawell house at 11 East Massachusetts ave nue to Lieut. Choller; the Condit house, 47 West Vermont avenue t'. F U. Roache, and He'-Pt’t Cutter j hot:se, 34 Illinois aveni'ii to Lieut H. E. Brakke. boards. A crowd soon collected to look over the spoils of the early morning i hunt. George Colton and Aichie Fer-1 gi i cr. were the Nimrods responsible for Ihe kill. winds from the Carribbean sea and the Gulf of Mexico will blow strongly towards the north, carrying wami tropical air over tie whole Atlantic seaboard. The cold winds that nor mally begin to blow at this season will be weak. The tropical air that covers so much of the country is go ing to be a rain carrier too. It will lay the foundation for an excellent crop year in 1941. Much of the good autumn weather will carry right through into 1941." That ought to help those who had (he heart-bowed-down over preiiia- ture low temperatures and fear of a dismal winter. To sell their products to the peo ple in this far-flung land, national advertisers spent $148,713,036 In newspapeis in 1938—a large amount than in any other medium of adver tising. On more than one oc-..-''ji Sand hills people have found themselves' con.nected with the piotiire .stcUon of “Life" magazine. In a recent is sue Life tells the story of the Deb utante Ball in Raleigh, in picture and prose Sue Ann Milliken and Jane I Musscr of Southern Pines were ! among the debutantes in attendance I with Dick DuRant, J. S. Milliken, Jr., I and Chris Page Shamburger among I their marshals. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS This is National New’spaper Week, dedicated to the Freedom of the Press in general, to appre ciation of its part in the upbuild ing of America in particular. And as America means the small town as well as the big city, the county, the state, the nation, it means aopreciation of your own paper—if it deserves it. In letters made public in con nection with National New'spap- er Week, the President and the Republican presidential nominee cited the responsibility of the press for democracy’s survival. “Freedom of con.science, of educa tion, of speech, of as.sembly are among the very fundamentals of de mocracy,” said President Roosevelt, “and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged. "I have little fear that freedom of the press will be abridged from ex ternal assault in this country. The dangrr is from Internal corruption. If our press exemplifies a passion for truth and justice and fair play to all, It will avoid that spiritual par alysis and decay which are the dead. ly enemies of our free institution.’’ Willkie wrote: “News, accurate and unbiased, is the daily need upon which a democ racy feeds. Pervert the news and control the views of the press—those are the first aims in the would-be dic tator’s effort to undermine democ racy. Lies and controlled propaganda is the stuff I’.pon which dictatorship? feed and grow fat. Freedom of the press is the staff of life for any vital democracy." CA.MPAIGN NOW IN HIGH GEAR What history may prove to be one of the most important Pres idential campaigns in decades is at last in high gear. The period of peace and quiet which follow'- ed the nominations seems to be definitely over. During that period, there can be no question but what the Willkie candidacy suffered a slight let-down—his friends ad mit it, even as his opponents exult in it. But only the politi cally inexperienced believe that let-down was necessarily of any narticiiar siglnificance. Mr. Willkie was swept into the Re publican nomination on the crest of a wave of almost unprece dented enthusiasm, similar to that whiclf gave Mr. Roosevelt the Democratic nomination eight year.<3 ago. No one experienced in politics believes that enthu siasm could have been maintain ed undimmed from nomination ; day to election day. Willkie strategists deliberately planned the letdown, knowing that it had to come some time, and that the earlier it came the better off his candidacy would be. History is studded with dismal examples of candidates who brought their campaigns to maximum pitch too long before November—and, as a result, seemed to the voters as stale as yesterday’s beer by election time. On top of that, the Willkie campaign called for super-care ful planning. Ordinary issues are of little moment today, with t^e national attention focu;sed on war in Europe and defense at home. Mr. Willkie is not an “a-ginner.” He endorses mary New Deal policies in principle, even as he denounces many New Deal methods. And so, almost in evitably, it looks as if this campaign will focus down to two i.ssue.s—one tangible, the other more or less intangible but of immense potential importance. The tangible issue is that of administration. Willkie backers believe that he could get more ‘‘or each defense dollar than could the present White House nrroup. They believe he could steer a course which w'ould be fairer to all the diverse inter ests in this country today—work- ?r and capitalist, farmer and manufacturer, little business man, reliefer, etc. And only the b'indest supporters of the New Deal fail to see that it has made many xrave mistakes in the ad ministrative field, even as it has niade great advances in brining before the people ' prbblem.^’ There are two newly elected presi dents in the DuRant family of South ern Pine.s who are not concerned over a November election. Bob has been made president of the Student Body of the Southern Pines High School, and his brother Dick of the Sophomore class of the Maxton Pres byterian College. Tuesday, October lit, opened the c'et r season in McNeill and Sandhills townships. Soon after the stores had opened a car drew up to the curb at Lakers Food Store with two fine yo’ing bucks tied to the running which must eventually be solv ed. The intangible issue is that of the third term—of one man’s 'ndispensability. Mr. Willkie has been hitting that issue hard, and some of the experts believe that it may turn out to be the decisive issue of the campaign. No man, says Mr. Willkie, is vi tal to the country—and once the idea eets around that one man 's indispensable, it will be just a matter of time before dictator ship follows. To Mr. Willkie, there is no personal fight in this — he doesn’t charge the Presi- I^^nt with dictatorial ambitions. He simply points out that once the precedent i.** established—or, putting it another way, the old Ilfithird-term precedent is de molished—we will have, in prin cipal, accepted a government of men as against a government of laws. That was the theme v.hicl’i dominated Mr. Willkie's Coffey- ville address, opening gun of hi.s campaign. And it has dominated ’^is other prepared addresses made since, even as it ha.s dom inated the little two-minute c,ff- hand talks he has made in doz ens of towns. Mr. Roosevelt bases iiis can didacy on his record—on v.iiat he regards as great Ne.v Deal [attainments. His answer to the ithird-term argument is that there can be no dictatorship here : «o long as the people jiOose^s the ballot. His recent speeches have I been moderate in tone, and have |l>een generally well received. I They are not driving spoeches !—apparently he thinks there would be no point in his making a campaign tour, inasmuch as he and what he stands for are well knowTi to the country. On one point, all are agreed—the President was never in finer form, when it comes to his ra dio presence and deliver}’.' Who will win? One of the weekly picture magazines re- '’ently psked a group of well know'n Washington correspond ents and commentators that question, and all but a few hedged. Too much can happen between now and November, they said, to make a safe pre diction possible. They were about eveTiIy divided in giving the edge at present to either Mr. Roose velt or Mr. Willkiei With the heat of summer vanished and the days showing a tang of au tumn in the air, the local prognostica- tors scare some of us into thinking F all will descend harshly, bringing ! frosts earlier than usual, weather conditions below normal, and that winter will lay a ruthless hand upon us, or in other words we are in for a long hard winter. For every prophet who sings of woe and the worst to come, there is generally another type who offsets the gloom. Prof. Selby Maxwell, the meteorologist and weath- erer man of note slays the severe winter theory by saying: “We are going to have a bountiful Indian sum mer in 1940. 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