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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
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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.
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