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Page Two THE PILOT the pilot, Southern Fines, North Carolina Friday, June 20, 1941. Published each Friday by THE PILOT, inoorporated. Southern Pines, N. C. JAMKS BOVO, NFJ>iON V. HVOK, Kditor HAN S. UAY, >Iami)(er CHAKLES SlAC'Al'LEV, AilvertislnR flclen K. n»tlpp, Virginia Creel. Bessie Cameron Smith. Charles CullinKforU, Associates. Subscription Rates: Tear _»2.00 THE POCKETBOOK KNOWtEDCEj^ Grains of Sand 1UUMB')* A HfMj •MAlAPy" IKI BBlTAIM.... CA'J«fP By CDM«fANT 6MjrtCUlN6 Of -f><e ‘ToRcnes' OFF ahp on IN BIACKOUTS, WMlCH PBOPUCK woe SfOTS OM -fHUM65. -THtRfS N0Ti41NG NEW ABout FALse resTH..- -rue peo°L£ of , AiKif/^T KOM£ vxm 'eM< One Six Months $1.00 Three Months 50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class njail matter. •‘FOREST FIRE” Fire Prevention Week was in augurated in Sandhills towTiship by the start of a fire which, if unchecked might have destroy ed one of the prettiest stretches of wood around here. Due to the; hard work of the local firefight-1 ers the fire was under control j and extinguished within a couple | of hours. It started in a patch of partly cleared ground far' from a road so that for once the passing motorist cannot be blamed. The cigarette of a Sun day stroller or the fire of a pic nic party are the most likely suspects. Last to be considered is the chance of deliberate ar-' ~ son. In the old days when work pine branches whacking, hoses was scarce it was thought that spraying. The local fire truck fires were (X’casionally started has been denuded of its extin- by men who hoped to earn a guishers and the people of a few dollars fighting them, nearby house have brought Sometimes, too, a man with an their's. The crowd of neighbors, enemy had his timber burned up:Sunday drivers, strangers, farm- and sometimes a pyromaniac in-;hands, wandering negroes, has dulged his yearning for a good oi'ganized itself into a hig/hly big blaze. Sunday’s fire had competent fire brigade under none of these lurid implications. I the guidance of the local fire- It is probable it was that far men and are fighting fire, more common, and depressingly : x^ese people do not know how avoidable event, the result of man's innate cai’elessness. Americans are prone to this sort of carelessness and in I.! irtE number or EMPLoyces im u-s- 6HIPB01LPIN6 1NCREA5EP 70% w Q^e yfws TIMS i ReSfARCH has PSVCIOPCP ah "antiseptic ice' WHICM. IM CyPeRIMEMT'S. HAS PRESERveP PERl5riABLE« son. whose monumental memorials cast their shadows across the shore. Is this an augury? ■V / BI6 /NPUSTRIAL PI?0!>OCTION JCB.^ /e.OQO POUNDS crAlUMIMU'A i-iE J\cc^ci> FOe A MOPB/fH 4 - •►trt"r'iy A v fO^V^SiS ' The Draft Interesting Figures About Se- leclive Service System Given Out by (!en. Metts ■ Expressing pride in the smooth working machinery of the State Se lective Service System. General Metts gave out some figure.s show ing accomplishments through April 30. Out of a total of 454.335 regis- I trants (of whom 325,358 are white .ind 128.977 are negro), classification i has been completed for 130,141. Of the fire started. It is not on I their land; none of them care fu: .and many of them do not know ■ . —; . ' * 1 \ i 'T'l- • I uvtru ctJiupit'ieu lor lou.i*!!. particularly American state it is "ho owns the land. They are in 24.108 have been found a particularty e%ndent American no way involved in the catas- e for general or limited mii- quahty. Our p^ple are of Scot- trophe. ’iet sacriticing time ^ tish stock ind6D6nd0nt Droud i clothes, runiiinjr the risk ot * ^ i. • » HMJ MiAn, jjjurptrjiurm. pi uuu,j » r- Ui.- *.u j on account of being necessary men in sure of themselves. The New:burns, they are fighting the'^^^,^, England virtues of neatness, | fire with all the strength in-; deferred because they have de- planning, foresight are lacking genuity and courage they have, pendents; and 9.780 have been deferr- in this land of wide spaces and ^ Americans are not respectors, reasons, uncertain livelihood. Our people;of property. They do not say: are generous to a fault, hospi-j"That is your land, therefore I table, kindbut if the spirit of , must not cross it.” On the other The busiest spot in the country on the night of a national election is a big newspaper office. The layman al ways pictures it as bedlam. It is any thing but. The wheels turn rapidly, but quietly, smoothly. There's the whirr of adding machines, the click cf typewriters, the scurrying feet of copy boys from desk to desk, the dada-da-da-dadada of teletypes, but there’s no mad dashing about, no shouting—a machRie running in the smooth grease of organization. We spent two days last week in Washington, and were struck by the analogy. Washington today is the world news capital, and it’s the hub of the whirling wheel of the Ameri cas in all things. It should be bed lam, but it isn’t. We read of the ex cited activities in the State Depart ment due to the sinking of the Robin Moor. W’e wander by the stately old building on Pennsylvania avenue. Few are entering, leaving. No one is rushing madly. The President has just "frozen” foreign credits in the country. Front page newspaper stuff. But there s no sign of unusual activity around the Treasury building. We wandered ovei' to the War De partment, housed in a new workman like structure on Constitution avenue. Beehive of activity. Many entering, leaving. But behind the windows offi cers are quietly at their desks, study ing, wofking, interviewing, planning. No one tearing hair. The same at the Navy Department. Congress always seems confusion ' itself, but underneath it all work is, being accomplished systematically. | I The visitor sees the House in session | with its 435 memoers—all striving to ’ ' talk at once—nearest thing to bed-; i lam you can view in Washington; or! I the Senate, with its 96 members and ■ no rule limiting debate. But the real work isn't accomplished on the floors of these historic bodies; it’s done in quiet committee rooms, far from the i madding crowd. j Washington has never been busier. | But despite this, the old saying, "All | quiet along the Potomac,” came to mind. Perhaps it's the stately influ ence of Washington, Lincoln, Jeffer-' the Star Spangled Banner. I agree that it should not be used ' perfunctorily, else it loses its mean ing, but if we arc not in an emer- We passed, at 17th and F streets, a ; gency then I do not know the mean- building bearing a sign, "National | ing of the word, and it was with the Council for Prevention of War.” In utmost reverence for our Flag that 1 ! four windows were signs, “For Rent.”! began the playing of the Star Span gled Banner in the only way possible A party of ladles were leaving the ! Senate Office Building, and we over- , heard a bit of their conveisation. They had been to the office of Sana- ! tor Reynolds, North Carolina; had I talked to Kelsey McDonald, the Sen- ' ator's secretary. under our mechanized equipment. I do not have to I'emind our citizens that “God Save The King” is playtd in England and Canada at the begin ning of every performance and most often at the end, which may be one of the reasons why these countries "But I just couldn’t make myself are keeping their chin up in these refer to the Senator as 'Honorable,' ” trying times, and may have a bearing one of them said. on the absence of so many strikes with which we are now afflicted. Both the Army and Navy buildings I must confess that I had not not- have little side offices off the lobby ed the "mechanical and bored way in M here briefcases are rigidly examin- which the audience rises" and I have ed by inspectoi-s before the bearers ■ been the recipient of many commen- are permitted inside. And visitors are datory remarks from my patrona, tlon card only. Officers and employes many of whom expressed the regret wear identification tags bearing their that they were unable to sing it. pictures. —N. C. H. CORRESPONDENCE THE X.\TIONAL ANTHEM F.ditor. Tho Pilot: In this good old U. S. A., everyone ; hps a right to express his opinion.s, I privately or publicly on any subject, up to certain limits, and that’s one of the reasons why its good to live under the fold.s of the Star Spangled Banner. I mui't disagree, however, with Mr. Yeoniant, that said Star I have deemed it a privilege to sa lute our Flag at the beginning of our performances, at this particu lar time, and have felt that the ma jority of our citizens were in sym pathy with it and have felt that I was not being indiscriminate in its use. If I am wrong, I am sorry. —CHAS. W. PK'QUET. >IK. SERL DISAGREES To Struthers Burt, Southern Pines author, in reply to a contributed edi torial to The Pilot, comes this letter from a former pastor of the Church of Wide Fellowship, now of Lone Oak Spangled Farm. Delavan, Wisconsin: ; Banner should be kept under ccvrr except, p-.‘rhaps, on Flag Day and the ; Fourth of July. According to this per- "Dear Mr. Burt: If you are so keen for war as your Pilot editorial of May 23d indicates,— ’iiaps the singing of America should | go to it yourself, and get loose from w discontinued before Kiwanis and; these committee.*? of obsolete de- ■Rotarian luncheons and I might add slroyers. You give me a pain ia the that the reason, perhaps, that Amer- neck I Read history, and think ica is substituted for the Star Span-1 through, and talk less, gled Banner at such functions is the —ELMER WILLIS SERL. fact that, unfortunately, tho latter | just i.sn't singable with the ordinary-j sportsmen: Do your part in re human voice. serving hunting and fishing by co- When I read about the banning of operating in the preverrtion of forest all American films in the conquered fires Blackened ruins follow the bum- counti'ies in Europe where only films ing of brush and forest lands and may sponsored ey the Hitler regime are make the areas covered useless for allowed to be shown, I am grateful, years following needlessly started that I live in America and for that | fires. Be careful with matches and rea.son alone, I am enthusiastic about fire in any form in the outdoors. a big young country has temper ed their Scottish dourness. it has also encouraged thoughtlessness, wastefulness, carelessness not only of their own affairs but of the rights of others. They have no sense of property, their own or anyone else’s. We have no fences to speak hand they do not. either, say: “That is your land and when ai fire breaks out on it it’s no bus iness of mine; you go put it out your.self." Why is» this'? Why do we rush to put out a fire when it is no concern of ours. Be cause fires are bad for the prop erty owner? Yes of course. For Of interest is the fact that 26 reg- istr-ants have been found to be con scientious objectors and therefore de ferred: 38 men have been deferred be cause they are aliens; 424 have been deferred because they are ministers or divinity students. Out of 29.226 physically examined 5,069 have been rejected. Out of a total of 10.570 men deliver ed to the induction station, 1,786 were rejected for various reasons. A total of 9.629 men have volun teered. Of this number 5.356 were white and 4.273 negro. Men desiring to volunteer are not automatically ac t-ill not be accepted unless ■ they are finally placed in Class T-A. of in the Sandhills, no gates’and, the community? Again, of “Keep Out” signs; the pine'cour.se. But it is not enough to woods stretch their scented say, simply, because fires are acres from farm to scattered bad. and because when bad farm and no one knows or thinks ! things are going on Americans it important Lo know who owns,do something about them. Or-!f.^^ them. Hunters, bird clubbers, 1 dinarily careless and ea.sy go-! flower .seekers, strollers, lovers,!ing. once their emotions_ are who applied for picnickers, hikers—not to men- aroused no people are quicker, induction, 8,795 have ac- to shake off their seltish leth argy and spring to action. * * * The State has i pool of 6,193 men W hen the Lea.se-Lend Bill ^vho have been physically examined was discussed by the President, and placed in Class I-A and are , used the analogy of a man; awaiting induction, and another pool no thought of the owner of the | whose neighbor’s house is burn-1 of 11.040 who have been tentatively ing up, and who lends his hose: recorded as I-A men but who have to put out the fire. \\ hile^ appli- 1 not been finally so classified because cable to the general situation the they have not yet been physically tion drunks and garbage dump, ers—wander through the woods and fields at will. They smoke, they spread newspapers to sit on, they open coca colas and picnic kits. They do all this with , tually been classified and only 196 have been placed in I-A. 6,- property who may or may not relish this dreamy invasion. The chances are of course that he is indifferent to it or even wel- analogy was not appropriate to coming in his attitude, at lea.st i the American people. If a neigh toward most elements in the j bor s house catches fire the last multitude. He is hardly indif- thing an American will do is to ferent, however, to what one ini lend his hose to put it out. He every hundred, let us say, leaves will take the hose and he will u.se ' examined. A BOBOLIN(K> behind. Garbage, bottles, tin cans, orange skins, paper are ugly litter; when the calling card is a nice brisk forest fire the owTier’s fury is as hot as the blaze itself. “Careless loafers, trespassers, scoundrels” aro the mildest epithets to fall from his indignant lips. Jumping in his car he drives to the fire. “Americans have no sense of property rights,” we say. It looks as if it were a true statement in every respect. The fire is start ed by trespassers. But here, fighting it, are more trespassers. Neighbors driving by discovered tFie fire; one jumped out to fight it and the other rushed to the nearest house to telephone the owner. He arrives upon a stirring scene. Clouds of smoke are billowing over head, flames leap up, the underbrush crackles in fiery ven om. Silhouetted against this in ferno a crowd of people in vio lent action. Shovels are flying. Editcr, The Pilot: I commend to your rapt and it on the fire himself. The j spectful attention the following per- chances are further, that he willj feet lyric by my good friend Frank tell the house owner just how he; Sullivan which appears in the New should be using his own hose.; Yorker, i hope it becomes the State and when the fire engine comes j song: he will probably take that over^ and run it too. The fundamental reason for the vast discontent and uncer tainty among Americans now is because they are not acting in accordance with their true in- .stincts. A forest fire is burning and they are standing watching it. It is not on their land or di rectly threatening them. They are not responsible for it; they know that those who are fight ing it could have prevented it, could have stopped it when it started. They suspect that the present fighters are inefficient; they kjiow thty have been stow and criminally stupid. Perhaps they even think that the fire it self has in its ravages cleared out some rotten wood. None of these factors affect the funda- “Nothing could be finer Than to be in Carolina On the votln’ day the pollin’ Routs a certain so-and-Solon.” —S'TRTTTHERS BITRT. This letter, appearing also in the Charlotte News, prompted the follow ing editorial comment: “We take It that yo' ire Ain't directed at Joslah.” mental situation in the least and Americans know it. There is a bad fire raging; it must be put out. “Give us the tools,” Churahill said, but all over the country Americans are beginning to answer: “Aw heck! Get the hose, boys, and let’s go to work,” To turn out better work ... pause and /u^ YOU TASTE ITS QUAUTY Coco'Cola is made with the sicill that comes from a lifetime of practice. It has the quality off genuine goodness. Thirst aslcs nothing f more. So when you pause throughout the day, molce it the pause that nfnshms with ice-cold Coca-Cola. BOTTUD UNDER AirTHOUTY OP THl COCA^OLA COMPANY BY COCA-COLA BOTTUNG COMPANY. ABI^^lllEEN. N- O
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