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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.
To start with, there is the
fact that once again the higher-
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to get in. Instead he does the ups, those who are supposed to
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It i up to all of u(, as indivlduali ,and as a notion/
to keep our trucks serving agricwituire-^servinfi
Jndustry^serving oil America. , . And immediate
end regular use of Ciievroiet's *'Trttck €oiis^frf|(^
Won” will help you to keep yowf trucks serving
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dependably for tiie duration. . . .. See your nearest.
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BUV*
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