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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, March 20, 1942.
THE PILOT
Published each Friday by
THE PILOT, Incorporated,
Southern Pines, N. C.
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PROMOTION OF MacARTHUR
The appointment of General
Douglas MacArthur to command
the fighting forces of the Unit
ed Nations in the southwest Pa
cific area is first of all a mighty
bolster to the morale of the peo
ple of the allied nations. It is
also a definite recognition of the
general’s courage, military strat
egy and ability, as demonstrat
ed in his defense of the Philip
pines. '
There is every reason to sus
pect that General MacArthur
will continue his fine record and
no indication whatsoever that
his successes in the Philippines
can be attributed to anything
ALL CREDIT TO REYNOLDS!
For the establishment in the
Sandhills of the TechnicaJ
Tr^aining Command of the
Army Air Force, Senator Rob
ert R. Reynolds of North Caro
lina, chairman of the Senate
Military Affairs committee
claims and is due much credit.
His wire to this section, when
Air Corps officials were com
ing here to look over the lay of
the land, was just one of his con
tributions to aid the establish-
Book Review
By MRS. E, V. HUGHES
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, flying
with a French Army reconnaisance
crew in May, 1940, told himself that
the flight to Arras would be futile
in the face of the shockingly unsavory
peace which they were facing. Only
six out of twenty.three crews had
returned in the last thi’ee weeks.
Three men, a pilot, an observer ajid
a gunner, made up the sortie and went
out to almost certain death at the
stern command of their major. One
ment of a military function in|pYening of grim war flying is the
the Sandhills. jtime of "Flight To Arras.” The spec-
For years, 'he has been pre- tacle is much more dramatic than
paring the way for such an was the story of the craft of flying
eventuality. It’s fairly simple to .in “W’ind, Sand and Stars,’’ or the
follow his line of strategy.
There would have been no es
tablishment of the headquar-
risks the first night.fliers faced in
the novel, "Night Flight.” Saint-Ex.
I'pery's three books give us a glimpse
ters here if there had not been;at the guage marking the rise of
war. There might not have been | peril for airmen since the airplane
this war if the United States'
had earlier cooperated in the
anti-aggressor movement, if the
United States had fortified its
was perfected to bring man closer to
man.
“War-by.the.blueprint had broken
down.” Group 2-3.3 had been ordered
Pacific islands, if leaders in thejmjj. ^ low.altiture sortie over Ger
L nited States had not «ldvocat-jnian-held Arras to play a game of
ed appeasment of Hitler and his
allies. And if there had been no
war. this headquarters unit
would not have come here.
So “Our Bob’s” strategy wa.«!
apparently well worked out.
Cops and Robbers. Saint Exupery
thought then of the Jewish pilot. Is.
real, the most courageous and most
modest man he knew, who had not
come hack and a premonition seized
ihim. They went up to 33,000 feet and
PINEHURST
Mrs. J. C. Morrison of Raleigh is
the guest of her daughter, Mrs. S. R.
Kansdell.
Students home for the spring va
cation of the University of N. C. are
Misses Eloise Wicker and Olive Hen.
nessee and Messrs Jesse Cole, Bill
Viall, and Joe Montesanti, Jr.
Frederick F. Hale who spent the
fil'oddlnc Invitations
Invitations were issued this week,
to the wedding of Miss Jane Sanford,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chlirles Ap
pleton Warren, to George Mixter, Jr.,
i which will take place Saturday the
fourth of April at four o’clock in the
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Cote. Chapel,
and their children, Carolyn, Joseph |
L., ni, John and Edward of Greens,
iury. Pa., are visiting Mr. and Mrs.
John M. Jamison.
S. A. Razook, has returned from Has-
Kell, Okla., where she visited for
several weeks.
Mrs. Brewster Macon of Charlotte
spent the week.end with Mr. and Mrs.
C. B. Fields. |
They Mean STOP!
winter in Florida has arrived for his| Sdmond F. Wright of Washington,!
aunual spring visit and is at the|D. C., was a recent guest of his sis. i
home of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thomp-1 ler, Jlrs. James How.
son.
Mrs. Robinson Cook has returned
from a visit in California.
Mrs. L. G. Sounders spent the
week in Raleigh as guest of her broth-1
er, L. M. Bates.
Mr. and Mrs. Jo.seph R. Porter of
New Haven, Conn.. are guests of
Mrs. Aras Williams at her home.
Byfield. •
Mr. and Mrs. Raeford Hutchinson
March 17th was the begijining of
a campaign in which the friends of|
the Boy Scouts of America will bej
given an opportunity to contribute;
to this work for the youth. Ourj
Scouts have entered into the nation-'
a) defense work to a tremendous ex.
tent. Checks should be sent to C. W.'
Thomas, treasurer of Local Council,!
Boy Scouts of America. |
Those blinker lights at street
inteniections with U. S. Highway
No. One mean STOP!, Chief Ed.
Newton said yesterday. The
lensen of the blinkers on the
eroNs streets have been changed
from yellow t« red to empha.
size this, he said. The red blink,
ers mean stop, look both ways,
and then go arrows the highway,
the C^ief said. Cars going back
and forth on the highway are
greeted with yellow blinker
lights, which mean, slow down
so you can stop if you have t».
of Charlotte spent the week.end with
Mrs. Hutchinson’s parents, Mr. and from a trip to New York.
Mrs. Colin McKenzie. '
George T. Dunlap. Jr., has returned | Subacribe. to The Pilot, Moor*
\ County's Leading News-Weekly.
nfVior fVion tVio fio-Vitintr onirif nf 19'?8, Senator Reynolds re-|traveled at 325 miles an hour toj
other than the fightuig spirit of turned from Europe and the avoid being a vulnerable t rget for thf I
his men and his own abilitv.lvpw YnrV Timpa mpppmwl
critviou-Viof 1 01 K J im6S ' Uecember, anti.aircraft. But the throttles
riowever. it is somewhat untor- 94 nnwiori +>10
earned me tollowmg froze, drenching the pilot with de-
• feat. Throughout the flight, suspense
“Senator Robert R. Reynolds
Mr. and Mrs. Eberhard Faber were
hosts to a group of friends on Satur.
day evening at Twin Gables in cele
bration of Mr. Faber’s 83rd birth
day.
Mrs. Kate Gibbon and little grand-j
daughter, Margaret McKelway will|
leave the first of the week for Jack.j
sonville, F’a., to visit Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Gibbon.
Miss Viola Beshara, niece of Mrs.
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tunate that, because he did.
practically overnight, become a
hero in this 'hero-worshipping
country, viewing the thing ob
jectively, one has a tiny fear
that maybe this hero too will
not stand up in the limelight.
In years past, the United States
have made presidents out of
generals because of their war-j Germany mid^'lta^y'prosperou^^
tirne activities and disaster us-j^yj^j^ everyone emplo\’ed and
ually resulted. i.';ufficient to eat. Germany un-
It is a far ^tter move on the (jer Hitler, he said, ‘owns’ Eu-
have ,ope and is making rapid
Kept MacArthur in the general I g|j.,-f]es ”
area where he has shown his|‘ The' Congressional Record
capabilities that would have;contains other words of praise
been the following of the sug-;from Reynolds for Hitler. Musso-
gestion that MacArthur be ],•„{ and Franco. He did not neg-
is sustained in the author’s reflec.
lions on experiences out of the past,
which move before his eyes: his bll.
of North Carolina, back from a
.<^ix weeks tour of Europe, de-^
c!aied in an interview today jiej during the cold winter of ’39.
ihat America must cease its ^ ^ocj^ede and the stop.watch he would
hate waxe against the Euro-!,iot trust another man to borrow, the
! meaning of bread. France weighed
He 1 epol ted that he found down bv ineffectualness ,the common
,. ^ 'H-iermany and Italy prosperous,
time activities and disaster us-pyj^j^ everyone emplo\’ed and
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brought back to this country
to hold down an Army staff
job—no matter how important
—in Washington.
His new job is a test of his
mettle Lord knows, we in Amer
ica are pulling for MacArthur to
maintain the impressive record
he has made in the Philippines.
DISASTERS DON'T STOI’
lect Japan, either. In February,
1939, he was a leader against
the proposal to fortify the is-
I.’xnd of Guam and was ouoted in
19.S9, a.s .saying “.Tapan restored
order in Manchuria”
He is on record as opposing
pr.'icticallv every step on prep-
.■iration for war that the Unit
ed States tried to make. He is on
, rpf*ord as opposing the policy of
• collective action to try to stop
ngh l.v turned all our efforts to-Hitler and perhaps prevent war.
ward the proserition of the war.j He is on record opiwsing lend-
deplormganvdistraction.s of any countrie=^
.<ind, and when we have had no liehtine against Hitler. He ha^
other way have done our bit hpp^ ,>,own to maintain close
through the American Red ^contact with America’s own fas-
i ross, now deep in war work, we ci.«t “Cliveden Set ”
must not forget that even the! rWhen the President recent-
greatest di.saster-war — does j,- charged that America had its
not halt natures own or man-;own Cliveden set of fasci.st ap-
made local tragedies. peasers. he declared that news-'
Ten days ago, \yhen a huge papermen would know the
denominator of all the aspitarions
of mankind, and the confusion of
evacuation, "a clinging viscious
memory’’ of "such a war as was nev.
or dreamt of.”
The reflections are eniiched by
Sfiint-Exi\pery’s present experience
with life near to death, as they drove
500 miles an hour to an altitude of
‘2,000 feet, to observe burning Arras
and become a bird of prey for the
rnemy. It was like being "naked and
running the gauntlet.” He had
I thought he would be concerned for
the Kaltimore Sun of March 1.5.'' ®
his body wh.’n this moment came, but
he discovered that his body was noc
He—amazed that what he though*
\>'as moralizing before was truth
when face to face with death. Ho
fpared not death but himself.
Then the test came and was fol-
IiAved by triumph and victorious ex.
’iltation—resurrection. Tie was over.
'vhelmed, not by victory, but by his
re-birth. Had he turned back a sec.
jond soner, he would have missed that
moment of self.realization. A writ-|
cr, he could have had himself removed
from Group 2-33. But he loved Group
2.33; he was a part of it, not just
observing it. It made him a shepherd
of fleeing peoples—victorious in de.
feat. And he concluded that if men
would save their country, preserve
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ammunition truck exploded to‘whom'he“wa\''referry^^^^^ spiritual heritage and its people,
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itiiat end. He pledged himself and Lo
near Smithfield. N. C the eminent and fearle.ss iournal-
American R^^d Cross rushed as-;;st. Bruce Minton in a conv i ' '
sKstance to that area. War work nVht article named the “Friend-
is important, but civilian airl shio House” of Mrs. Evalvn
1 /-I • McLean as the American
This week the Red Cross is Cliveden .set. Senator Reynolds
faced with stepping into anoth-, j<, this set. and is nam-
er of nature’s disasters. Six,pf| by Minton, along with Con-
Southern states were hit by a^ pressmen Fish and Dies as
terrific windstorm, leaving overjf>niong the people referred to bv
140 killed and over 1,000 in- the Pi^esident.
jured. Resides these thousands! Senator Reynolds has financ-
of families are probably desti-jed and promoted his own na-
tiite of home, food and clothing.,tive fascist group, “The Vindi-
It is in such situations as these ^cators” and ha^, published a pa-
that the Red Cross, in peacetime,p^r of the same name which fol-
years, has maintained its repu-'iows closely the Coughlinite and
tation as a helping agency, fur- other fascist lines
nishing funds, manpower and
morale support in time of great
est emergency.
This latest catastrophe in our
own land and of a peacetime
(though not-so peaceful) nature
As recently as March ,5. Sen
ator Reynolds took a slap at
the government’s policy of aid
ing our allies—meaning of help
ing the Soviets pu,sh back Hitler,
of assisting China to comba
brings even more shari)ly to our,ihe Japs, and of aiding Britain
minds that the Red Cross in [throughout the world
these times is carrying morej indeed. Senator ‘Reynolds
than a double burden. It is called I must be given full credit for
upon to do those things which doing all in his power to create
it always has done and yet ha«!
cheerfully accepted great war
time responsibilities which are
too numerous and varied even to
begin to list.
The punch line to this editorial
probably should be: Support the
Red Cross Drive! Enroll in the
Red Cross Roll Call! But none
of these things are going on
right now. So the punch line
^'hall be this: The Red Cross is
ccntinuouslv on the ,iob. Don’t
wait for a “drive” or “roll call.”
It deserves continuous support
in time, effort and money.
a situation w*hich brought this
war industry to the Sandhills.
ASCAP Sues for $500
From Local Tavern
Because a soldier band played a
couple of tunes written by members
of the American Society of Compos
ers, Authors, and Publishers at Scot.
tie’s Tavern during maneuvers,
ASCAP has brougfit suit against
Alton Scott, seeking $500 for failure
of the band to pay royalty on the
musk:.
or bear witne.ss against them and
to refrain for condemning other de.
mocracies for not standing by them.
This is not an apology for France
but an awareness of reproach. He
realized that had France stood for
the communion of men, as it claimed
to it could have saved the world. In
mat moment over Arras it came to
him—had France been France other
■iemoci'acies would have supported
her. Now each nation in turn to.'ik
her chance and failec lever w'ho'.jy
grasping the vision of that spiritual
communion. Read “Flight to Arras"
and study Saint-Exupery’s interpre
tation of failure and the significance
of man, as he looked into the face
(if death and came alive to a real,
ization of the essential role of sac
rifice. of charity, of love.
(Editor’s Note: "Flight to Arras”
is among the recent volumes added to
the .shelves of the Southern Pines Li.
hrary.)
“General Known” and
Other Horses Coming-
Four of Ernest White's Ljmdon
Farm’s horses, from Syracuse, N. Y.,
i.icluding General Known, who won
the Moore County Hounds champion
ship award at the third annual
Southern Pines Horse Show last
month, are expected In the Sajidhills,
at Mile-A-Way stables the last of
this month, probably to stay the
rest of the season. The Whites plan
to spend some time here during Ap.
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