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\ Page Two THE PILOT. Southern Pines. Norih Carolina Friday, June 26, 1942. THE PILOT Published cach Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated Southern Pines, N. C. JAMES BOYD, Publisher CARL G. THOMPSON, JR.. Editor CHARLES MACAULEY Advertising Dan S. Kuy, Mary Thompson, Helen K, Hutler, Cum«*ri)n Smith, Charles ruUinKforU, Associntea Subscription Rates: One Year S2.00 Six Months $1.00 Three Months .50 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C , as second class mail matter. THE PILOT welcomes contribu tions to its news columns, but re serves the right to distinguish be tween news and advertising. Final deadline for news items and adver tising is noon Thursday of each week. Cards of thanks are public notices and, as such, will be charged for at regular advertising rates. Ex pressions of opinion are also wel come. but each communication must be signed, although the writer's name will be withheld upon request. Letters should be kept to 300 words or be subject to editing. No anony mous contributions will be consider ed. To give personal items, other sews, or for further information, tel ephone 7271. he problem. (Witness the old )iamond Dick and Dime Novel ige). But the concerted efforts education and protest among dults would help to take some )ff the market. Some attention to children's enjoyment of real humor also would be helpful. \merica must keep its humor as ilive as its democracy. The “fun- lies” of today read and look too nuch like a Nazi book of con- [uest. UNSUNG HEROES OF THE ATLANTIC Many feted heroes of war are accidents of fate, so there are many, many brave soldiers who fight and die heroes but remain unsung and unpraised as far as the public is concerned. Amer ica’s here-worship tends to be limited to those who accomplish, somehow, the spectacular. This is unfortunate, because there are many heroes today who are not among our armed forces, some of them in factories, some in fields, some on the seas. The At lantic ocean now covers many of the latter group. "Losses of merchant ships since December 7 now total 308,” said a news commentator the evening this was written. And every crew member of those ships and every ship that puts out to sea in the Atlantic in these time is worthy of the name here. There has been no accur ate compilation of the number of lives lost in the merchant ma rine, but the total would proba bly be startling. Yet, we who clamor for more gasoline, for instance, have given little thought to the cost in lives of sailors that is involved in ship ping this gasoline in tankers. In stead of recognizing as heroes those men who take even great er risks than many of our sol diers and navy men, too many of us are inclined to feel that we are making the great sacrifice by conserving the use of motor fuel. In this war. not the armed forces alone will produce heroes. Total war means total effort of every citizen, and the contribu tions of all who are performing duties necessary to the war ef fort should be recognized. Cer tainly, this means that the crews manning the merchant marines in the Atlantic are facing today not only the greatest risk but the greatest task of the, war. At this point of the war, when the urgent need is for getting supplies to the battlefront with greater and greater speed, the burden of the war is growing heavier upon the backs and spir it of these unsung heroes of the Atlantic. DEATH OF J.\CK CC’’"CEY CALLED "DISTirCT SHCCIZ" It’s been some >t\irs since lack Cmirsev lixcd Ivie i>i Southoi n P'no' Hut hf' v\ :is w oH \novvii ht!o. and h'.s v.’ifc 'ron\ the town. Since leavi" here, Jack Cour.sey had done well for himself at Fayetteville. The Fayetteville Observer notes that Jack Coursey was doing an important job well. Editorially, the Fayetteville paper observed: JACK COURSEY "L’ntiinely and uni'xpeeted death i)f Jack Coursey comes as a distinct •shock to the inany residents of Fay- , ctteville who knew and admired a diligent and modest young man, who had built himself a reputation for friendliness and business ability. “.As a key man on the little rail road which connects Fort Bragg with the majpr lines Coui'sey suddenly found himself confronted with great responsibilities and duties. The lit tle line suddenly became one of the most important links, mile for mile, in the Nation. Over it moved a big percentage of the materials which went into the building of Fort Bragg and over it moved myriads of troop trains, taking men to the big train ing center and taking them away to the more active defense of their country. Over it moved a big per centages of the huge volume of sup plies necessary to the maintenance of Fort Bragg. "In this big movement of men and materials there was more than a strain on the rails and the engines. There was a strain on the men who kept the trains rolling. "Under such conditions a man can assume a responsibility or dodge it. Jack Coursey assumed it. He work ed early and he worked late. The road functioned, the supplies moved in, the troops moved out. "But they mov'ed on something more than steam and rails. "They moved—like they are mov ing all over the country—on the de termination of men to keep them moving at any cost to themselves. "Jack Coursey was such a one.” HERE’S A PINCER MOVEMENT WE CAN ALL USE ON THE AXIS! I 1932 Cliff Johnson dislocates his right arm while sliding for home plate in the West Knd-Southern Pines ball game. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stuart left Wednesday on a motor trip through western North Carolina. Mr. and Mr.s. A. S. Riiggles will spend this week-end in Raleigh with iheir son. Edward Ruggles. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Betterley and daughter Barbara have returneti from a short trip to Vermont 1927 Tile first shipment of structural steel for the Pine Needles Inn ar rives. The loose boards on the ovi'rhead bridge in the southern part of town, makes you think a storm is ap proaching when ears go over it. Mrs, Frank Pottle and daughter. Dorothy, injured in an automobile accident' near Jefferstm Highlands, N, H, I Harry Day who was proprietor of . Woodland Lodge last year dies at 1 Littleton, N. H. 'Committee is J, N. Powell, Leonatd Tufts, and A, S. Newcomb. G. A. Kimball is treasurer. New' .school hou.se. Ground has been broken for the new school house ' and it is understood that its erec tion will be pushed to an early com- . pletion as is compJitible with gix^d ; work. I I About $;10.00 worth of pyrctech- ' nies have bi'i'n ordered for the dis play of fireworks tm the evening of I the 4th. probably on the tennis ■ court. I 1902 I Wni. Koberson. colored, who was larrtsted last Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Tyson, charged with burning the buildings of \V. F. Campln'll and Alex K\ an.‘;, was tried before Squire Shaw', the result being a contniittal to jail at Carthage for trial at the ni'xt emirt. Peaches have been bringing S2 50 per crate. ADDING HORROR TO HORRORS You’d think the real world it self is filled with sufficient hor ror to satisfy the most sanguine of adults and children. But the horrors of the present world dwindle in face of the imagined horrors developed by so-called “comic artists” and presented in hundreds of magazines for chil dren as “funnies.” We can remember the day when “funnies” were harmless little things about Bobby Make- Believe, Happy Hooligan, al ways The Jiggs, always; the Katzenjammer Kids, and a few of the old timers. Now, it seems, only a few real funnies remain —Blondie and Dagwood—Skee- 2ix, who amazingly enough is growirig up—and Freckles and his Friends, who also have ma tured with the years. “Surely somewhere along the line of comic-strip drawing in the last decade, a Mr. Hyde of hum or has crept into the ink pots of many cartoonists,” comments the Christian Science Monitor. “He has transformed laughable, re freshing exploits of their char acters into morbid, distasteful episodes of mystic heroes and murderous creatures of the un derworld and stratosphere.” To ban such comics from chil dren would probably not solve They were talking about the work being done on the golf course, to get the grass growing again. Mayor Dun can Matthews pulled it sometime back when a large turf breaking machine was being run over the greens and fairways. Joe de Berry, talking with Howard Burns the oth er night commented the same thing, “The way to get Bermuda grass to grow is to make it think you’re try ing to kill it!” The Passing Years BY CHARLES MACAULEY | 1922 G, R. Wittie's new Sears-Roebuck ready cut house, located on the cor ner of Illinois avenue and Leak street, has received the finishmg touches. , MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED Marriage licenses liave been issued ^ from the office of the Register of Deeds of Moore County to Thomas Newton Bridges of Sanford .nnd Alma Elaine Williams of Carthage; I Stanley Ye.sh of Southern Pines and Frances Killian of Route 3, Bron- ! son, Mich. 1912 And don't these Victory Garden ers know that! How many people have ever no ticed that “Dune” McCrimmon, the Aberdeen Legion's new- commander, looks like the late Will Rogers? YOUTHS WILL LEND YOUTHFUL CONFIDENCE In this war it is difficult to hit upon a happy medium between optimism and pessimism. Cer tainly the events of the past few days do not lend to over-o)iti- mism yet they should not result in a dour pessimism. A quiet, determined and fighting confi dence in our phvsical and spiri tual streng'th is our great need today. And this is the sort of feeling you get when you learn that a fifth registration day for ma'.c citizens has been set. On this day —June 30, 1942—all young men who became 20 on January 1 and since or who will be 18 on June 13 or before will present them selves for registration under the Selective Training and Service Act. W hen these young men have registered, the nation will ha\e a listed supply of manpower ranging from 18 to 65 years of age, available for fighting forces and for the home front Jforces. All of the young men who will register next Tuesday were born betw'een January, 1922, and July, 1924, They were youngsters without care when the crash of ’29 came. They were not quite 'teen age when, in the depth of a world-wide depression, a vir tual unknown named Adolph Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. They were in adoles cence when Hitler began his country-by-country aggression. They were just beginning to un derstand the meaning of events in the world and still unable to nfluence these events when Britain and France declared war )n Germany, making this world conflict official. And now, even before they be come of legal age, they are being called upon to prepare them selves to engage in a struggle, he outcome of which will ef fect them and their lives far more, probably, than any of us who watched the turmoil in its naking and were unable to halt t. Not everyb^y with a dollar to spare can ihoot a run straight—but everybody can shoot straifht to the bank and buy War Bondt. Bny yoar !•% every pay day. Leon Seymour's Mid-South Motors company last week turned in an ac cumulation of lO.OUO pounds of scrap, about 4,000 pounds of which were scrap rubber and the rest old bat teries, Since the salvage campaign began some months ago, this concern has turned back for use about 250,- 000 pounds of scrap iron. Rubber and other salvage. And Leon's bemoaning the days when they used to burn the old rub ber scrap that came in! A, Montesanti’s got a couple of big, green tanks sitting on the parch of the old building across the street from THE PILOT. They look like watermelons—but not from our gar den! Claude Hayes, who originally hal ed from Indiana, declares the heat here is nothing like the over-like, still heat of his native mid-west . . . Which is some consolation. The little brown Irish terrier, be longing to the Mann family, was faithfully trailing Arthur Newcomb, He was asked, “Is this your dog?” He glanced around, “No,” he replied, “but he thinks I’m his,” 1941 New move for Southern Pines Community building. Project given impetus at joint meeting of Rotary and Jay-Cees, Miss Edith Poate weds R, N. Has sell Saturday. Mr, and Mrs. Buster Doyle enter tained at a farewell party on Mon day night honoring Robert Dorn, who left on Wednesday for Fort Bragg. Mrs. M. N, Sugg and daughter, Miss Maureen Sugg, spent the week end at Myrtle Beach. 1937 To celebrate opening of the Hoff man project. Mrs. I, F. Chandler is attending the Carolina Florist Convention at Wilmington, Mr, and Mrs, R, F, Potts have re ■ turned from a business trip to New York, E. E, Porter dies. Mr. Huttenhauer's handsome place, j Edgeview, on the ridge overlooking ' the town and its environs, and his ’ I 15 acre peach orchard, one of the ■ most profitable pieces of property I in this vicinity has been sold. W'ork is going on rapidly on the enlargement of Jefferson Inn. When I done, will be one of the most at- ' tractive hotels in town or hereabouts. Mr. Reynolds is spending the sum mer here. 1907 D. A. Pease dies. i Mrs. H. T. Gates dies, | Road to Pinehurst. Money in hand. * work will soon begin. The Executive Telephone 6161 J. N. Powell, Inc. Funeral Home 24 hour Ambulance Service D. Al. Blue. Jr. Manager Southern Pines PROMPT MODERATE DRY CLEANING SERVICE THE Telephone 56SI V ALET D. C. JENSEN Southern Pines I “Who-Cares” Department; Al- ; though there are six “Smiths” list- j ed in the Southern Pines telephone I directory, there is only one “Jones” -Miss Ethel Jones. W. H. McUeill has a most fluid nickname—by which he is always known—“Whisky.” Up on West Illinois avenue, at the corner of the entrance into Millen Park, i sa large, round bare spot of ground, composed of hard clay and sand, with very little growth. Our best conjecture and circumstantial evidence, as well as some historical support from The Pilot historian, Charlie Macauley, convinces us that this spot is a remnant of one of the sand greens of the old Piney Woods golf course—long out of existence. Wonder how they got by calling them sand “greens,” anyway. There was nothing green about them. But always plenty of sand. Following the golf matches at the local course last Sunday, the Sand pipers entertained at a fish fry, se lecting an excellent day for playing and eating in daylight, June 21—the longest day of the year. And what seemed to be the hot test! lv«SS NELLE SIMONS WRITES ARTICLE FOR DESTINY An article on “World Dominion: The Ultimate Aim” written by Miss Nelle Simons, formerly of Southern ^ines, appears in the June issue of ‘Destiny,” a magazine of religion, published at Haverhill, Mass, Miss Simons left here last year to accept a position with Destiny Publishers at Haverhill, il 1 ' *‘ln war os in peace, I assure you quality... the quality of genuine goodness in refreshment. I'm ‘Coca-Cola*, known, too, as ‘Coke’. I speak for the reaf thing/' IOTTl£D UNDil AOTMO»ITY OP THt COCA-COIA COMPANY IT COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO., ABERDEEN. N. C.
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