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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Frlttay, March 13, 1942. THE PILOT Published each Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated, Southern Pinm, N. O. JAMES BOYD, Publisher CAKL (J. TIIOM1*SOV, JR.. Editor CHAKONS MACAIIIjEV, Advertising Oan S. Ray. Mary Thompson, Helen K. Hutler, Hesrtie C'ameron Smith. Charles Cullingford, Associates SubHcription Rates: One Yoar $2.00 Six ilontbs $1.00 Three Months 50 Entered at the Postoftlce at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mall matter. SOLDIER-VIOLINIST You know, it sort of makes I’ou feel hollow inside, when ou first think about it, and then you get kind of mad and ’ant to Ko out right then and there and bash Hitler and Mus- olini and anybody else who <houts about “national iority” and the “weaknesses of he American safest thing: he runs to the fire house. All the way down one long hill and up the other and on across the track.s many a one has run, to stumble exhausted into the fire hou.se. The time is not long then till the engine is nn its way, but time lost in the beginning cannot be made up. huper-| jriare is alrejuly high in the vou think, well, this is the sort,^,,.^^ THE EAGLE SPREADS HIS WINGS The reorganization of the Army, even if it overcomes the opposition of the traditional die- haids and becomes thoroughly accepted by all ranks and all branches of the service, cannot be final. But it probably repre sents all that can be expected at the present time from a group of men with human limi- tation.s. And it does represent the direction in which the or ganization of the armed might nf this country must eventually f-'®' . . . All administrative distmc- tions between Cavalry, Artillery. Infantry, and so forth, are now <lone away with. The Army now functions as three general serv ices. There is the Air Coi-ps. There are the Ground Forces. There is the Service of Supply. At the worst, this means that the Air Coi-ps is now regarded ■ \ 1 .u sky and as the truck draws up way. And then .r^^bling walls and fig- a ! few blackened pos.ses.sions tell t?he tragic tale. I How the problem of setting up I an adequate system of fire Inlarms wili be solved we do not ; know, but the commissioners are I to be congratulated on at last i taking notice of a situation that ■ has for many years been shock- ' ingly neglected. of thing we're fighting for and we like it well enough really to fight- Behind all this is the an-, liouncement today that the Sou-j them Pines Library Association is going to present a violinist ' on its concert series here March j 16. The violinist also is in the, Army. He's at the Fort Bragg; Field .\i1tiUery Replacement j ('enter. But that's not all. He’s a, native of Budapest, Hungary.! His appearances and his teachers would prove that he’s good. | 1 Freedom of the Seas To those who sit, who wait, who listen I For word from loved ones on the sea,' Who can not do the things they; would do, For age, or reti tape, or because they are not free, Who only hear “another tanker is sinl<inK: in the .sen," Vnothcr life boat adrift with bodies, forty-thre»‘, ,\nd seamen tell of shelling:, freezing. thirst and madness. While back they go, always back to' the sea, ' The sea is calling, alway.s calling fori the gladness Of Freedom of fhe Sea.s. —Contributetl WHO PAYS THE TAXES - PUBLIC SPEAKING (Editor's Note; Millions of us who have not befon* hail to file Income tait returns v\lll this year Ix- recjulred t<: do so. For t'le benefit of Its readers. The Pilot is presenting a s«-rles of brief. Informative articles con. ce’ning Income taxes. The arti cles c/)ntaln authoritative Infor-. niatlon, direct from the Bureau of Internal Itevenue, I'. S. Treas ury Department. ARTICLE SEVEN Have you filed your Fedei-al in. To the Editor; 1 read in Tlie Pilot that the last >prartice blackout staged here had not oeen a .succe.ss, owning to many not hearing the .«iren. Has anything been done about it 7 Here, on tiighland Road, I doubt it inyone. while shut in their homes, hears the fire siren unless the wind happeni to be in the right direction. A rommejitator recently announc ed over the radio that the difficulty of hearing the sirens had been solved i)V one community: Stone Mountain, TOWN<-MEETlNG PREPAREDNESS Nowadays there is a g(X)d deal And there's the thing that I of talk about Mo<ire County’s job makes us mad. Here’s this young, in the matter of organizing for war. The confusion among lead ers of the 0. C. I), is refelcted in the conversations going around. A Hst of remarks heard Hungarian-born violinist who’s now serving for his adopted Un cle Sam and whose talent he’s willing to share with his fellow Americans, even while he’s go-j up and down the streets of our ing into battle for us. And this is the sort of thing Hitler and ^Mussolini and the Japs would take away from us! Not much, they won’t. The peo ples of the world have united ir .America. Let America con tinue to unite the peoples throughout the world by repeat ing over and over again, inci dents like this little one: “Private Frederick Balazs, as the equal of all other com-! Hungarian born violinist, now| private in the United States; hat sei*\'ices combined. And at the best, it may mean that the Air Service will now be backed up in action by the Ground | Forces, .iust as, in turn, thei Ground Forces are backed up by| the Service of Suppl.v; that, in! a word. Air Power is now rec ognized as a spear-head of all attack, ai-ound which, and be hind which, all other implements and services must be coordinat ed. and, when necessary, subor dinated. So far. So good. But what has been done affects only the \rmy. and is desiened to acoel Sandhills communities would read something like this: "I’d gladly do my part if someone would tell me what it was.” I “I’ve saved a loi of olil alum-1 inum pots, but what am I sup-' posed to do with them?’’ “I read in the paper that we' must save tin cans .so I did, but^ yesterday .some big shot ini Washington said there wasn’t: enough tin in them to be worth i saving. What the heck! Whyj Army, will pre.sent a concert in' <lon’t they make up their mindsj Southern Pines, North Carolina,j'"hJit they want done?’’ dar year returns. Taxpayers subject tiii m.selves to a penalty for failure to lile r<turns on time. U. S. A., Monday, March 16.” ALARMS ARE NEEDED Next to Southem Pines is a little town of which, during the last ten or fifteen years, we have become increasingly proud. Starting as little more than a huddle of .shacks and cabins on the hill. W’est Southern Pine-^ has grown until it now fills many blocks. It has grown not only in size but in tiuality and in api)ear- ^ several well ance. There are orate the pace and efficiency of, built churches there and many land warfare. Air ])ower, how-| attractive houses whose door- ever, knows no (iistinction be-j yards full of flowers and shady Iween the sea and the land.j trees are as pretty a sight in There are. of course, special, spring and summer as is to Ije problems such as that of bases and of special training for at tack on ships or for night bomb ing. but. generally sp.-aking. air ])ower can in an instant trans fer its attack from land to sea. ■)r from sea to land, and can, in the .same op(>ration. attack ship-| provided by us on this side of ping. ])orts and troops. There, the stream have been few. It is must be difforent sorts of planes therefore very satisfying to hear for different piiri)ose<: high that our conmiissionors are nov level bombers, dive bombers, torpedo nlanes. fighters, car- iier-base<l planes, and others and the men who fiirht these plane'! must l)e snecialiy trained ‘'<tle(|u:ite fire alarms, for their particular mission. But there is no nioi'o reason why some of the.se planes should be in the Navy, and some in the Army, than thc're is whv ma- I “The colored people who come 1 I over to town to work are worry- I ing about their cars. Why I doesn’t the town help them to i organize a bus service?” I “Is anything being done about getting folks to plant vegetable gardens around here?” “W’hat about sugar? T saw where it says housewives will be allowed sugar for caiuiing. Is that .so?’’ “Why doesn’t the town get mules and start driving wagons instead of their truck.s—now in stead of later? If all towns did ihat—and lots of people could too—we’d save a lot of gas f,>r our tanks and planes and ships. Why don’t we start now?" “They .say electric power andj also the tung.sten that goes into: light bulbs should I)o saved. | Wh.v couldn't every sign in townj oe turned off at night except on lliose stores that remain open? If everylxidy did it the loss of business if any, wmild be e(|ual. We haven't many signs in town but at that they make (iiiitt- ai glan* in the sky. If we started such i\ thing here, we would act as a model for other towns to, follow. Tliere was a long article., prominently featured in one of T'l, .,1, 1 1 I the big New York papers last Thei e have been a great manv .-ei'k 'ilifnit r.-,..n ♦ ... i ■ '■res in West Southern P|„os. i " • ’ ‘ found. Southern Pines jiroper has helped its neighbor town some, but on the whole the inijn’ove- ment has been accomplished by the colored people who live in the town itself. The contributions I come tax return? If you come wUh.,(.j^ its siren on top ot jin the group from whom returns at-e highest point in i required, you have only until mid- jt ean be heard for a I night, March 16, in which to file a 1 about the be directing us, are late on the i r''turn. Single persons who earned as countryside. •■^cene. Whether they are in a i^iuch as $14,43 a week for the 52 r j offering a suggestion: why muddle, as some suspect, or too [weeks of 1941; or married persons t„p of th# busy arranging the defense or- j living together who had aggregate j highest telephone pole at the highest ganization of larger and more |‘'amings of as much as $2S,8.'> | p^int on this ridge and operate it by vulnerable areas makes no dif-|Week for the year, are required to (remote control)? ference. There has been, quite | tile returns. The instructions attach- MARY BLYMYKR. rightly, a .strong feeling of in-1'’d to the foms describe the method Southern Pines, dignation W'ith those in author-'f'f preparing returns, but if further p j, anyone know when and !ty, but though their slowness 1 information is necessary it may be here ga.s m.isks and "tin" hats win jmd squabbling has undoubtedly j obtained at the offices of the collector .jeopardised the defense activi-' 01 internal revenue, deputy collec. available, ties of large cities, it may be 1 tor. or an internal revenue agent m that this ill wind will blow us charge. They make no charge for - little folks some gocnl. : their services. Mudh has boen said about I if income tax return.s are placed in how hard it i.^ fora democracy to the mail, they should be pasted in am. tight a totalitarian countr.v, and ;>le time to reach the collector’s of.! (hat onl.V by becoming totalitar-■ fire on or before the due date—that I Subfcrihe to The Pilot, .1/ocre ian our.selves can we hope to it, midnight OJI March 16 for calen- rou«(j/’s Leading Newn'Weekly. win. From the standpoint of over-all effort nothing could truer, and many defen.se pro- B jects are such that they must be coordinated and directed by .i 8 central authority. Hut there is' danger that in emphasizing this truth we may overlook anoth er. The genius of Ame.-ica lies in a combination of cooc»eration ‘ rnd individusl action. While we must cooperate with our leaders^ and carry out orders as they come as jjunctiliously as if we were members of the armed forces we must not lo.se the rare American spirit of independence. It is possible that the very confusion and slowne.ss at the^ top may be the spur we need tO| show what we can do. We should .seize the opportunity in the .same sjjirit with which we tack led the problem of the maneu- ,iects where individual initiative, .uul community action can be ex-; orcised, let us not wait to be told what to do; let us act—NOW’. Tlir Pint l]ffdln MORE LIKE A CLUB THAN A HOTEL n Our own Champion.ship Golf Cour.se entirely surrounds the hotel and club house. Superb putting course, tennis courts, bridle trails. Steak Dinners at Huntinj? Lodge. il ••Attractive Rates. . H John F. Sanderson, Mgr. :: V Every Truck Is a ly Work Weapon^for America holding discussions with a viowi to remedying one very serious | situation in West Suuthei-n; Pines. This is the installation of This it, on eveiy side V\ by don’t we do something— per^ple resj)onded are proud to call a . , , all sorts of things to help in de- «'^P‘^^ted perhaps, Ahen there are so many wooden 1 vertising than anvthing Whv houses, many of thom built with {,|o„*t we start, riglit now*'” cnme-gunners and artillerymen, .nadequate insulation around! You hear • who also have different armsj chimneys and stoves. The old' and functions, should not also! floors or shingled roofs of jiine' now be separated into two services';ire (]uick to catch and flare up| Last vear when the m-ineuv who have no common interest in nn instant. But though we| ers bur.s't over the heads of ho’ or understanding, and no unity might expect a number of fires' Sandhills the of command. . we also ex])ect that with our ex-1 in what' we The Navy will to crack. N s’eafarinir men always been servative. It is not unnatural.i ^*'>'->se in We.st Southern Pine.- A man who has th(' responsi-' burned to the ground and in bilit.v of taking a shij) to sea'tragic cases the occu- and getting her home again, is'P^oits have been consumed as temperamentally averse to any; T'his has not been the fault new-fangled notions. lie wants'^*" the fire department. In near something that is tried and; ca.se fche engine has re- true. In the end he gets down the alarm with on all notions that are new, Pi'omptness. arriving at the fire in remarkably short time, only later, in this ^^e hou.se already burned war or the next—and, if ^ wei ^I’ound. lose this one. there will be a! fault has been not in the next war. soon—sooner or later,! '^^P^i’tment, but in the fact ffiat even the Navy is going to have cJi^ie .so late. And that to recognize this terrible newi because there is no fire alarm power^ which is beginning tO' ^'’■''tem in West Southern come into its own. j P^nes. When this occurs, not anf,. happens now when a ■\rrny .\ir Force and a Navyi’'.’’^ breaks out over there? At Air Force, not a separate Air ''‘hen most bad fires oc- ' [ur, the few house.s which have telephones are locked up tight. Folks sleep hard after a long working day and the house it self may be far from the house that is burning. So the man or woman or child who is sent fly ing to give the alarm does not dare take a chance on being able USE CHEVROLET’S “TRUCK CONSERVATION PUN” however good. But, .sooner or Force, but a united Air Force, prepared to strike on land and sea without di.stinction. This force will be larger than any thing yet dreamed of. And both the Army and the Navy will be its auxiliaries, whose function is to occupy and de fend the land and sea which the Air Force conquers. which were sui)posed, among other thinp, to aid local com munities in the situation in which we found our.selves, but •vhen the maneuvers came to the Sandhills these organizations were not_ on hand. And so the people of our town worked out their own set-u]). They carried on so efficiently and intelligent- that visiting officials from the U. S. 0., Rod Cross, and Mo rale I>i\ision of the Army were free to acknowledge that the ■'vork could not h.ive been better done- Now we are faced with anoth er state of affairs, similar to our experience of last fall in that it is new to all of us. The country IS at war and we are one of the millions of communities which must ad,just to this new condi tion. It would be a wise move to study the situation carefully, and a.s a first step, to look back and try to profit by our pa.st ex periences. 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