THE PILOT
Published Each Friday By
THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
Southern Pines, North Carolina
1941
JAMES BOYD
PUBLISHER
1944
DAN S. RAY - - - General Manager
BESSIE CAMERON SMITH - - - Editor
CHARLES MACAULEY - , - - City Editor
EDITH POATE HASSELL - - Society Editor
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
HELEN K. BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN
•SGT. CARL G. THOMPSON, JR.
*SGT. JAMES E. PATE
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HENRY WALLACE
The repudiation of Vice-presi
dent Wallace by the Democratic
party brings sorrow to many.
Granted his serious faults as an
administrator, he is, by ge^ral
admission, even among those
who are opposed to him, acknow
ledged to be idealistic and honest
beyond most men, a tireless
worker, one of the finest public
servants, perhaps the finest, in
the ranks of either party.
It is an unhappy portent of the
future that in both parties the
most idealistic, the most inter-
nationally^minded men should
have been set aside in favor of
“practical politicians”. The Re-
publican repudiation of Willkie
appears little short of suicidalj a
political mystery of the first or
der. That of Wallace is perhaps
more understandable.
There are two possible explan
ations. The one most freijuently
mentioned is tViat the Adminis
tration is not sure enough of the
approaching election to risk on
the ticket such a highly contro
versial figure as Wallace. There
is no doubt that he is a rock up
on which the party might be
split.. The other explanation is
less clear-cut and far less innoc
uous. It is that an aging adminis
tration has lost its crusading spir
it, is playing close to its chest and
turning away from idealism. The
driver who hitched his wagon to
a star is content now with less
celestial motive power.
The right answer is probably a
mixture of both. And all who be
lieve in Wallace and what he
stands for must hope that the for
mer reason is predominant. For
to admit that idealism has been
cast aside is to kill the hopes of
millions of people the world ov
er. What will be needed in the
next few years, both at home and
in the international field, will be
the very qualities which Henry
Wallace so glowingly personi
fied: imagination, courage, vis
ion, vital enthusiasm, unselfish-
Aess. Without them no lasting
peace that is worthy the name
can be devised.
Thoughtful people the coun
try over will be hoping that,
among the statesmen who will be
chosen to draw up the plans for
peace, a place will be found for
Henry Wallace.
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a ghastly infringement of sov
ereign rights? Nobody cared.
What was wanted was to win the
war. That was the supreme aim;
everything else was subservient
to it. And because of that spirit,
that unity of aim and action, the
war was won.
Yet, when a still greater aim
presented itself, what happened?
Suddenly it mattered again
that men were of different na
tionalities. The war was won;
peace had miraculously come
again to the world, the peace for
which men had bled and died,
for which women had wept. And
now this peace, it appeared, was
not as important as the war for
which it had been fought. No
longer were these men, these
British, Americans, Belgians,
French, “acting together”; in
stead each acted for himself, for
his nation. And the peace men
had died for was lost in the bat
tle of stupidity, of greed, of fear
which filled the following years
until once more the fires of war
sprang up.
Will this happen again? When
the last gun is silent and the vic
tory parades are over and the
great men sit down to discuss
the peace, shall we, as then, look
back upon this time of war and
see in it, again, a spirit we have
lost? Shall we see it as a time
when, though men fought and
died, there was among them a
spirit of sacrifice, of devotion,
yes, even of joy amid the an
guish, the joy of men working
well together for a common end?
Shall we see this and know that
it is lost again? Shall it be al
ways so that only war brings
forth man’s highest efforts?
Or shall we, this time, be able
to write: “Acting together, in
perfect coordination, wisely,
bravely, generously, the states
men of the nations laid the foun
dations for an international gov
ernment and a lasting peace.”
It seems too much to hope for.
Yet hope for it we must. Hope
for it and, from now on, with
out ceasing, work for it.
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an ^:vil Wind”? It is only an example
of the heart running away with the'
head, the same as those well mean
ing people who at one time were at
tracted by the Liberty League and
America First.
The size of a paper of course has
nothing to do with the soundness
of an editorial. But is it not true that
an editorial, to be sound, must be
written without prejudice and based
on the pertinent facts? Should not
the “awful wallops” be left to the
stump speakers?
Again was it quite fair to try to
twist Mr. Stevens’ excellent letter
into a request that The Pilot adopt a
namby-pamby attitude on the ques
tions of the day?
As a born and bred Democrat I
can no longer find such a party. To
my mind there is no more a Demo
cratic or Republican party. The real
alignment seems to be working to
wards what we call the American
Way of Life as against the Russian
Ideology.
Are not the real questions—do
we want to be governed by laws or
by bureaucracies?
To those who still believe in the
Individual and want to be govern
ed by laws, a review of the history
of our Supreme Court and Mr.
Roosevelt’s connection with it will
prove sufficient reason to desire a
change in the administration. For
those who need added reasons, I
would suggest an unbiased study of
the Labor Unions, the playing of
class against class, and the attempt
by the Federal Government to usurp
State Rights. The Commander in
Chief appeal—^bunk. The Army and
Navy will take care of the war. It is
the administration’s job to take care
of the Home Front. Have they not
made a poor job of it so far?
WALTER C- MacNEILLE
THE
Public Speaking
Editor of THE PILOT:
"Acting togeiher
Describing the
fighting in
France, an editorial in the New
York Times uses these stirring
words: “Acting together, in per
fect coordination, the Americans,
British, and Canadians have set
the whole Normandy front in
motion.”
As this beautifully timed of
fensive swings forward into the
plains of France, the Russians
on the west, deployed before
Warsaw, see their massive line
surge forward engulfing all be
fore it, as a prairie fire burning,
creeping, flows inexorably on.
On each side of the map of Eu
rope, with matchless coordina
tion, the Allied fronts sweep to
ward each other, drawing tighter
and yet tighter the strings of the
net.
In World War 1, the commarid
of the troops was, as it is now, in
the hands of one man. Under
him the Allied armies were weld
ed together into a unit, a single
hammer of military might. The
British, American, Belgian,
French commanders who made
up his Supreme War Council,
who advised with him on all
phases of the battle, followed his
orders. On that military council
there was no question of nation
alities. Foch \TO^thegreatest sol
dier there, '^H|||H|||M||||||eader;
’■e. almos
I am proud that The Pilot has
taken its place along with the best
tradition in journalism and shown
its strength of conviction thru its
editorial columns.
There has been a serious tendency
in recent years for a newspaper to
fear offending its readers and adver
tisers by expressing views contrary
to theirs so they have sought ref
uge in ambiguous and hypercritical
editorials attempting to hide the true
policy of the paper, if it had any! To
make a show that the policy of the
paper was really “broad”, column
ists who expressed two opposing
points of views were subscribed to
and thereby the readers could choose
what they wanted to read and see
for themselves how , “fairminded”'
the paper was, it expressed all shades
of opinions! If this practise had been
in vogue long we should never have
built up great newspapers of bold
leadership with such editorial writers
as William Allen White and many
others,
A reader has never been asked to
agree with an editorial whether it
be in the New York Times or the
Chicago Daily Tribune but it gives
him confidence ’and fills him with
respect to read opinion well express
ed and honestly given. We want
news, opinion, and information in
our papers. This is what I have
found in The Pilot and I am grate
ful for it.
READER
THE PILOT—
You have been my newspaper for
a good many years off and on. I like
you fine all but those “Old Judge”
ads. I suppose they pay well and per
haps you feel yourself too poor to do
without them. They are clever. I’ll
admit, and sound so innocent and
innocuous, but are calculated to
smooth away our objection to liquor
advertisements. The radio blurbs are
just as bad or worse and I hale
them but can turn them off if I’m
right alert!
I know, and you must also know
that the liquor business and its re
sults are. just N. G.! You know What
it is going to do to a big majority
of our army boys. You can readily
see by what is very evident among
many of our older army men’here
and anywhere. It must be mighty
hard for a fine sober clean young sol
dier . to come out of training even
as decent as he went in, and they
are so young. Don’t let us be to
blame for any least encouragement
of a business that does what the
rum business does to folks. I do
not know what I can do about the
business but to keep from encourag
ing it by my own example, except to
protest as I have opportunity and I
do protest against your running
those bum ads.
Sincerely,
MRS. R. P. GIBSON,
Pinebluff, N. C.
Aug. 4th, 1944.
I’s skeered of him too.”
“What does he do, Annalulu?”
“He whistles at the snakes-”
I told her that Fm a little deaf, so
I often miss the high overtones in
Nature’s grand orchestral theme. But
I thanked her kindly for the lecture
on Long Island’s fauna. In these
frightful days I can’t help admiring
a person who is afraid of black-
snakes; especially in a county where
only four have been seen in the last
forty years.
Now that the campaign’s on, our
political leaders are saying funny
things too. Among the most comic
are Tom Dewey’s attempts to white
wash Governor Bricker. Tom is all
fussed up because some of the Gov’s
political enemies are calling him an
America Firster. The Gov, says Tom,
has never, never, never associated
his name with that bunch of political
punks. So the Gov echoes the echo,
like a Vice Presidential candidate.
“Do not in any way connect my name
with that of Reverend Gerald
Aplabet Smith,” he says in effect.
Okay, Candidate, we won’t. About
two years ago you must have been
shouting for something else, but it
sounded a lot like . . . oh, well. Ham
Fish is bringing libel suits against ev
erybody that calls him anything but
a 100 per cent patriot, so I ain’t going
to start nothing against nobody.
Anyhow, the war’s going all our
way as I write. Now I’m on safe
ground. We’d better consolidate our
post-war planning into something
definite, and do it soon, or the Nazis
will give up before we know what to
do with G. I. Joe, coming home. He’ll
want a job, and he’ll deserve a good
one. To put him to work without dis
placing the loyal laborer who had
given his best to win the war, will be
a headache for the industrialist.
That’s something of a puzzle for the
patriotic employer. If private indus
try is to furnish employment, the
Pegler school of vendetta must be re
tired to the background with Amer
ica First. No, the unions haven’t been
all lily white. There’s that Phila
delphia fracas that makes my honest
old blood boil; it indicates a Fas
cist tendency among the workers
themselves. But on the whole labor
has backed industry wonderfully in
furnishing the weapons that have
thundered through France, Italy and
the South Pacific.
I don’t believe that we should
try to settle anything in a narrow
spirit of revenge. Not either in peace
or war. But I wish I had brains
enough to make a really constructive
suggestion. Maybe Governor Dewey,
in his secret heart, wishes the same
thing.
How’s the weather down there? If
it ha^ been hot as Long Island, I’d
suggest that we all move down to
New Guinea and cool off.
great powers of the world on the
subject of the limitation of arma
ments.
Mr. and Mrs. John Powell and Miss
Mary are spending the month of
August at Washington, D- C-
from Jui
office, a
shoes,
furnishi
1914
The report that Oak Hall has
changed hands is not correct. The
property still belongs to Mrs. Mary
L. St. John and is available to a
suitable tenant for next season.
“Rexall ‘Skeeter Skoot’ will keep
mosquitoes away from you—just rub
a little on the exposed part of your
body, and they won’t come near
you. Broad Street Pharmacy.” Adv.
All the preliminary arrangements
have been made to establish the new
Potte r School of Music, Arts JRid El-
ocutic )n at this place- The large
struct ure known as the D- A. Blue
Buildfing has been secured and is
being I refitted and newly furnished
for th^ boarding pupils and practice
rooms.
1908
One of the best known residents
asks us to call attention to the aw
ful nuisance of the unnecessary
whistling and other noises by
thoughtless or careless trainmen. The
Commissioners have ample charter
authority to abate, unnecessary
noises.
Rev. E. W. Souders', of Fayette
ville, the new pastor of the Congre
gational Church, has rented the Mc
Adams house.
1904
F. H. Weaver, for many years
member of the firm of F. A. Ordway
& Co. has leased a business stand
Locey, next to the post-
Td is opening a new line of
•■ry goods and gentlemen’s
1899
IIAGARA
Innis—^Morgan
Miss Vir/ginia Blue Morgan of Ni
agara and| Pfc- Ralph Clifton Mc-
Innis were! married in Bennettsville,
S. C., Augiist 5.
The bri^ is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. m C. Morgan of Niagara-
Pfc. Mclnnis is the son of Mrs- W-
C- Mclnnis find the late Mr. Mclnnis
of Aberdeen, and is at present sta
tioned at ForV> Jackson, S. C.
Auction bridge'^as originated by
three Englishmen India.
)f your heart is
About one-third
on the right side.
Fight on the Home Front
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The Passing
Years
BY CHARLES MACAULEY
Sand Box
Being Filled Weekly
BY WALLACE IRWIN
SECOND WEEK OF AUGUST
1943
Mrs. E. V. Hughes resigns as coun
ty chairman of Surgical Dressings.
Property valuation in Moore Coun
ty is set at $22,000,000. Tax levy is
$162,106. Tax rate 75c.
Dr. Vida V. McLeod returned the
early part of last week from Saluda,
where she has been attending the
Southern Pediatric Seminar.
1939
Editor of The Pilot:
Is it really surprising that there
is more or less of an “atmosphere of
futility” over the Republican party?
Informed people, and politicians of
any caliber are certainly informed,
know that it was the “bought vote”
that carried the election in 1936 and
1940, and that to win this year this
“bought vote” must be neutralized,
this vote, bought with taxpayers’
money and corraUed by a $1,000-
000 to $3,000,000 fund, forced from
Labor. I think it was Will Rogers
who said, “You can’t expect anyone
to shoot Santa Claus.”
All political conventions leave
much to be desired. The Republi
cans at least nominated two men
who can be interchanged without
harm. How about the Democratic
ticket? Would i-ot even the Pilot
prefer eith^, Dewey or Gov.
Bricker to iman as Pres-
By Wallace Izwin
I said, “The first rainy day that
comes along I’m going to sit down
and write something for the Pilot.”
Well, it was two months ago when
I made that vow, and it hasn’t rain
ed a drop. Not until yesterday noon,
when clouds burst •over the sizzling
face of East Setauket. What brought
it on was yne watering the lawn. I
uncoiled one of those ersatz things
they sell nowadays. They don’t look
much like rubber; they have a
squamy reptilian surface. Maybe
you-all have a yard or so of the
same. If so, you’ll know what I mean.
While I was spraying the place on
Mrs. George London returned Sun
day night from Elizabeth City where
she spent two weeks with her pa
rents.
E. C. Stevens returned Sunday
from a two weeks’ trip to New York
and Boston.
1934
Earl E. Merrill and J- T. Overton
have leased the store adjacent to the
A. & P., and plan to open a drug
store on September 1st.
Miss Helen Hartgrove expects to
leave Friday for a vacation in Maine.
1929
State’s largest peach orchard be
ing dug up. Manice orchard near
wuii. . .Jackson Springs has been finally
our terrace that I call Little Sahara, 1 abandoned- Will be set to pines
X * I * K n cy crl
since the drouth came, the heavy
weight black Venus who chores for
us occasionally wandered by toward
the laundry. I’m not going to force
any Negro dialect on North Caro
lina, but this is what she said;
“Mister, I never sees that hose but
it gives me the creeps. Know what
it looks like to me?”
“Sure”, I said. “It looks like a
blacksnake”.
‘It do. And I’s so skeered of black-
snakes I could die. They’re very pi-
zen snakes, and they kiUs folks by
spittin’ pizen into their heels. I’s
skeered to go home at night, because
I can hear them blacksnakes whist
lin’”.
■Whistlip^?”
;ssir. They
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie T. Ruggles and
Mr. and Mrs- W. M. Saunders of
Waterbury, Conn., are visiting at
the home of Mr. Ruggles’ brother. A-
S. Ruggles.
1926
Max Backer and E. C- Boddy have
been chosen as delegates to repre
sent Sandhill Post at the Legion con
vention at Hickory.
The Girl Scouts will give an ice
Cream Social at the Municipal Park
next Tuesday night. Everybody is
invited.
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1921
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