Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, October 3, 1941. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pines, N. O. BOYD, Publisher CARL G. THOMPSON, JR., Editor CHARLES MACAIJLEY, Advertising Dan, S, Ray, Mary Thompson, Helen K. itutler, HeMHie Cameron Smith, Charles Culltngford, Associates Subscription Rates: One Year Blx Months Three Months $2.00 ,.$1.00 .. .50 Blntered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mall matter. PROTECTION FROM RACKETS A racket completely blew up in the face of a group of Aber deen people last week in the form of the Sandhills fair, and many of them were being unju.st- ly singed by the blast and blaze. To our thinking, the local folk involved should immediately patch up any differences result ing from this explosion aiid make an earnest resolution to be henceforth and forever more on guard It would be decidedly unfair to carnivals, fairs, circuses and other itinerant forms of enter tainment and amusement to al low this event to become a sweeping condemnation for all such enterprises. The happening does however, point out the nec essity for all organizations to ex amine minutely credentials of any outside promoters before be coming silent or active partners in their activities. It has been this writer’s ob servation on several occasions that local enterprises often have a more difficult struggle with lo cal folk than outside promoters. One example may be cited: One of The Pilot’s advertising custo mers admitted that he had paid $5.00 for a minute space in a “Premium Book” for this fair. It So happens The Pilot knows that no more than 500 of these book.s were to be printed — slightly more than enough to go around to all the advertisers who so gen erously contributed. Vet, if The Pilot were to ask $5.00 for a similar amount of space in an established newspaper distribut ed widely throughout the Sand hills towns and Moore County, we are sure we would bring ac cusations of “racket” down upon our own local heads. One or two Individuals al.so criticized The Pilot’s decision not to accept advertising or “public ity” from this outfit. At that time, we had no definite grounds for this position and wished then that there existed some agency through which the legitimacy of such enteiT)rises could be clear ed. The immediate incident w'as unfortunate and resulted, prob ably, in undeserved headaches and discord among Aberdeen folk. But in the long run per haps it will prove a stimulus for at least a normal amount of sus picion directed at free-lance schemers and promoters who are apparently selling gold bricks for 50 cents a dozen. Could not the Aberdeen Cham ber of Commerce or some similar organiztion take as one of its piu*poses the approval of promo tional, merchandising or similar “outside” .schemes, so that the merchants and other townspeo ple could have some protection from the inability of single or ganizations to check completely upon them? CORRESPONDENCE To the Editor: The article on the editorial page about the oil situation needs elucida tion. “There is a serious oil shortage. It is not primarily a shortage of gaso line, but of two far more vital prod ucts, heavy fuel oil used in the heat ing of homes during the winter, and crude oil used in factories and in the bunkering of naval vessels." So Michael Straight writes from Washington in "The New Republic” cf this date. The fact is that the iso lationist press anU members of the Senate of that ilk want to discredit any program of the administration. The America First Committees in a confidential memorandum to the peo ple they infhience asked for non-co- operation in oil consei’vation. This ha.s I been the stand of The Washington Times-Herald and The New York Daly News. The Wall Street Journal stated the rumor about British ex port trade supplying their usual pa trons while IT. S. tankers were sur rendered. This Wall Street Journal Kditorial was reprinted all over the country, and an isolationist Senator interpreted it and spread the false in formation. North Carolina would have cheap er oil if the pipe line were built, but this is not the season for that pro ject. Throe years ago 1 lived for a time in N. C. and paid five cents a gallon more for ga.soline than in N. J. In fact that is the case in Texasi Oil by boat is the cheapest transportation. It costs three times as much by rail ■ as boat and between the two by pipes, : It is the business of everybody to do L-ill We can to beat Hitler and save I our civilization. Very truly yours, _F. K. AMOS. SIXAINS €r SAND VICTIMS OF BRUTALITY Brief years ago, when the an ti-lynching bill in Congress was a subject of white hot debates, we remember one proponent who held that he was not so much concerned over the individual suffering of a single victim as he was over the degrading effect upon those who were inflicting cruel discriminations and injus tices. This observation wa.s made at a time when one Southern city had sent a message of i)rotost to Washington because of Nazi Germany purges of Jews, w'hile, in the same State, two lynchings of Negroes by white mobs were being recorded on inside news paper pages, without noticeable public protest. It is easy to analyze the pr^ gressive degradation of Nazis and Fascists since they rose to THE PILOT TAKES MANY LONG, strange trips, especially during the! sununer, when it follows vacationers i about the country, but this summer it made a regular weekly trip on one | of two existing floating post offices i In the country. The post office of Squam Lake, New Hampshire, is a boat—a boat which leaves Holderness, N. H., daily, and travels along the lake shore, pull ing into docks where usually the pa trons are awaiting the arrival of the morning post. Preston T. Kelsey, who has just re turned from Squam Lake where he spent the sumrtier, told u.s that The Pilot arrived regularly on the boat post office throughout the summer' and, he added, u.sually started a great scramble to see who would get The Pilot first. BOOK REVIEW To the Editor: Many of your readers will be inter ested, I feel sure, in the following excerpts from the report of the Com mittee on Week-day Religious Edu cation of the North Carolina Coun cil of Churches, of which committee Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, State Superin tendent of Public Instruction, is a member. "A veritable wave of enthusiasm for the teaching of the Bible in the pub lic schools is sweeping the state of North Carolina. Thoughtful leaders, both rural and urban, are beginning t'j realize the dangers of an educa tion largely secular in its emphasis. They are convinced that training the mind without adequate cultivation of the soul tends to breed a materialis tic philosophy of life which stifles the liberty of the spirit. "The Committee on Week-day Relig ious Education has been unable to meet the demiinds of this amazing movement. But it has made an heroic effort to anticipate events ana provide a measure of guidance for communi ties seeking to increase the spiritual content of the public school curricu lum . . . ‘The State Department (of Public Instruction) has made provision that credit may be secured for successful work in Bible courses and may be used toward credit for college entrance. The teacher of such courses must meet the following requirements: "(a) Fifteen hours of Bible in an accredited institution of higher learn ing: "(b) The usual professional courses required of all teachers.” The report goes on to speak of the A BATTERY OF DRAWN golfj clubs, in full military salute—practl-, cally equivalent, they say, to a 30-! gun barrage—was the farewell ges-: ture of Yadkin golfers for Capt. Or- rin C. Kreuger, a season’s regular at the Yadkin weekly golf events thisj season. j Captain Kreuger has pulled down many weekly top scores and was gun ning, with considerable accuracy, for the Season’s championship when the Army ordered him to San Juan, Puerito Rico, for duty. Unable to fin ish the championship event, Capt. Kreuger was given the golfer’s sa lute. In return, he promised to be back in the spring with Hitler's scalp. AMUSING AND NOT-SO-AMUS- ing counter signs have made fheir way into America’s eating and drink ing life. Many have become so widely spread that they have lost their orig inal appeal: but here’s one which we had never before seen until visiting The Gray Fox's informal club room the other night: SPE('IAI>! TcKlay Only Mickey Finn 50c Epsom Salts 2.5c j Rat Poison 15c' Kerosene lOc K. O. Drops 33c Fusel Oil Cordial 60c A WORRISOME QUESTION. AD- nnittedly prompted more by curiosity than by rit-ed for the knowledge. Was raised by R. S. DuRant this week, and he propounded it to many of his friends, going so far as to call Isham Sledge in Pinehurst, seeking an an swer. DuRaot placed the question square ly before Ward Jenks of the U. S. O. at Ki'A,.nis meeting Wednesday, and after some confusion, finally got somewhat straightened out. The question: "What happens to a soldier during maneuvers who is ‘theoreticaly killed’ in action? Is he given a funeral, although he is ac tually alive?’’ At first, U. S. O.-man Jenks got the question confused and started giv ing serious answers about soldiers who might be actually injured. Tele phone Man DuRant, though, wanted to know simply about "Theoretical deaths.” Grains of Sand has been informed that the following procedure is used on "tactical deaths” on the maneu ver battlefield: A soldier who is THESE ARE MY PEOPLE by Ruth Burr Sanborn. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York City. 306 pp. $2.50. There’s excitment, romance and a sense of reality in this new novel by Southern Pines’ Ruth Burr Sanborn, whose popular works find their way regularly into the columns of Amer ica's 'slick’’ maga’/.ines. Vv’hatever else it may or may not have, THESE ARE MY PEOPLE will have an ap peal to readers w'ho don't like their reading too heavy but seek from read ing something to enjoy after the cov ers are closed. Dr. Wingfield Chevron, the young doctor who.se blindness to his owr self provides the plot, appears to be a weaker character than Miss San born perhaps mtended; but this only serves to strengthen the appeal of Nurse Yarde and attractive Heather McQuarren, who are the only fully drawn characters m the book of " . . . MY PEOPLE." There can be little question but what the geographies of Moore Coun ty provided the setting for the story of this young practising physician in a resort town; but there should be no seeking to relate incidents or charac ters in the book with the people of the.se parts. Actually, the setting is incidental; but one familiar with Moore County cannot help being caught by the name, "Pincdome” for the resort towii; by the reference to "Horse Tail” as a section out in the county; by the back-country folk.i who devote their talents to the pot ters’ art, and by the family named of "Sheffells”—whcih is exactly the way Sheffields Township is pronounced by those who live there. While this novel cannot rank as a social satire, it performs a neat Job of prodding under the weak superfi cialities of ultra-sophisticates, and of paying respect to the genuineness and humaness of just plain folk. "We’re not at all sure that all read ers will find themselves sympathetic with Dr. Chevron as he attempts to bscome worth of the hand of Judice iiull—thoroughbred out of Mr. and Mrs. Hendeil Hull, y’know. Judice doubtless will have her following; but tliat’s partiy what’s expected. Incidentally, those who think they may have read "These are my Peopie” last spring when it ran in “The Ladies Home Journal” should know that the book version is a considerable expan sion of the condensed magazine pres entation, which was about half the length of the book form. If you enjoy ed the serial form, the full novel should be about twice as entertain ing. “killed" retires from the battle front and reports to an umpire. There is a procedure of recording the "theoreti cal death” which takes about an hour, if all plans go right, after which the "dead man” is released to go back into the lines, probably under the guise of reinforcements. Postal Scales weighing up to 4 lbs. at Hayes.’ power on waves of brutality and terrorism and to see that, as one little white lie leads to bigger untruths, so one act of brutality and discrimination leads deeper and deeper into the jungle of barbarism. Henry Bergh. founder of the Amei^'can Society foi'' Pl’even- tion of Cruelty to Animals, saw this when, in the late 1800's he began his crusade. Writing of Bergh recently, D. C. iPeattie said; “To him there was a deep ; reason for being kind to animals. iHe held that it was the dignity jof the human soul which suffer ed most when an animal was abused by man—that cruelty is even more degrading to the one who inflicts it than it is painful to the victim.” For Amenca s own self-inter- est, the pitfalls of intolerance and discrimination should be avoided. Perhaps the most hope ful assurance that Americans are unwilling to be dragged down the road of intolerance has been their almost unanimous rejec tion of Charles Lindbergh’s re cent anti-semitic remarks after seeing what Jew-hating and Jew-baiting has done to the Ger man people, Americans Wiiat no part of this self-destroying doc trine. work of the committee in fostering communication between teachers giv ing religious instruction in the schools of the state and lists thirty-nine places where such instruction is now given. One Moore County community, Hemp, is among these. For some time a proposal for Re ligious Instruction in the Southern Pines School has been under considc r- ation. At present a plan for instruc tion on “released time” to be given in the several churches ?.v\-ait^ the en dorsement of the ministers of the commimity. —F. CRAIGHILL BROWN, Southern Pines. CONTAINS NO AL FORELlAVBSNOBinMf ON*pho