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THE PILOT, Sontkarm PlMa» Harili Curalkw
Friday. January 26, 1945.
THE PILOT
PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY DY
THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
SOUTHERN PiNBS. NORTH CAROLINA
MRS. JAMES BOYD -
PUBLISHER
DAN S. RAY
. . - General Manager
. Editor
EDITH P. HASSELL - • SOCIETY EDITOR
CHARLES ,MACAULEY • • • CITY EDITOR
§ESS1E CAMERON^SMITH
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
HELEN K. BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN
♦staff SGT. carl G. THOMPSON. JR.
♦SGT. JAMES E. PATE
♦pvt. DANIEL S. RAY. HI
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THREE MONTHS
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MAIL MATTER.
A NATIONAL SERVICE ACT
,It looks as if the American peo
ple had not yet recognized the
critical urgency of these times:
the drive for a national service
act is letting up. The moment the
Belgian Bulge be^an to decrease
and the Russian offensive to start
rolling, Congress and the country
sat back and relaxed.
It is distressing to see the
change coming over the country:
to think that intelligence plays
so small a part in our actions and
that we have to be scared into
doing the right thing. And as
soon as the fright is over we for
get that it ever happened. How
can we hope to play a command
ing part in the world if we show
ourselves so weak in spirit?
A Universal Service Act should
be passed for these reasons:
First, because it will help win
the war more quickly and with
fewer losses.
Second, because its passage
would immediately raise, ' sky-
high, the spirits of our fighting
men.
Third, because -it, would unite
our country and wake up our
people by giving each* of us a
direct personal stake in the war
and a responsibility for victory.
Fourth, because it might help
to make us, through this exper
ience of individual TJarticipation,
feel at last that America is'part of
the world and so carry us into
whole-hearted participation in an
international organization to en
force the peace. It would assure
our allies, as nothing else could,
of the seriousness of our inten
tions. If the bill is not passed, we
may well expect a further spread
of the “power politics” we rightly
deplore for Britain and Russia
would have good cause to believe
that we are not awake to our re
sponsibilities or ready to assume
them. They would decide to de
pend upon themselves alone.
Fifth: it is the only just ar
rangement, affecting all men and
women alike.
tion to her girls and asked for
volunteers. Every nurse raised
her hand.
Courage is not rare. Almost ew
eryone of us would have respond
ed, in such a situation, as those
nurses did. The nurses, now,
whom it is proposed to draft be
cause they are not coming forward
when so urgently needed, would
have volunteered in Bastogne. It
is not courage that we lack, it is
not even willingness to sacrifice—
men in battle who take unneces
sary risks, giving their lives to
save each other, are not different
from the rest of us. But they are
there; they see and they know.
And so they do.
Lack of imagination and lack
of intelligence: these are the cry
ing needs in America today. Lack
of these two qualities, above any
thing else, brought this war upon
the world. We shall need them
both in order to get out of it and
to build a structure of law and in
ternational unitor without which
other wars will be inevitable.
There is as yet little sign of their
development.
Our hearts are wrung, but as
yet our minds are dim. Only
through passage of a National Ser
vice Act, bringing with it immed
iate individual participation in
the struggle, will America heal
and heed the urgent call to action.
—KLB
They had that old time delicacy—
remember? chicken.
The only thing about the whole
ceremony reminiscent of Hoover
was the chicken in every plate.
And we heard one guest remark
between forkfuls: “All this—and
Truman too?”
The Army was represented on
the portico by an all-star cast-
General Marshall and General
Arnold, with five each.
The Navy was in stripes. But
the Secret Service 'was on the
job.
No chair was provided for any
guest. Sewell Avery was not there.
PULPWOOD SAVES
LIVES TOO!
None of these reasons for pas
sage of the bill is disputed by its
opponents. Their objections are
based solely on their claim that
the Act is unnecessary, from a
military stand-point. We can line
them up as judges against the im
pressive array of opinion on the
other side, and make our guess
as to which is most likely to be
right. But let us recall that these
military men who now urge the
Act have been often accused of
overconfidence, of under-estima
ting the foe, and never, so far as
we know, of under-confidence. If
they say we need Universal Ser
vice, most probably we do. And
would it not be better, an3rway,
to take our chance on the af
firmative side? “Too much” can
do harm to no one, except our en
emies, but “too little” is some
thing else. How could we face
our boys, the ones who survive
the fight and come back to us, if
because of our folly and weakness
only ten return where twenty, or
even thirty, went away?
What lies behind this unhappy
weakness in our country, that
makes us still hesitate to go all out
for war? Mainly the fact of geog
raphy which has thus far saved
this country from devastation,
that and the weakness of human
imagination.
A young nurse captain, head of
a hospital unit in Bastogne, told
a reporter, last week, what hap
pened when she was told the unit
would have to be moved to avoid
capture by the Germans. The com
manding officer ordered her to
choose five nurses to stay behind
with the seriously wounded. She
asked to stay herself but was not
allowed. Then, standing in the
hospital tent before the group of
nurses, the roar of battle coming
closer, she explained the situa-
Although pulpwood makes most
of the powder now used to blast
paths for our fighting forces to
Berlin and Tokyo, pulpwood 'al
so performs many missions of
mercy.
Pulpwood can claim credit for
the remarkably high recovery of
our wounded men. Out of each
100 GIs wounded in this war only
three die. That is less than one-
third of the death rate in World
War I.
Prompt treatment on the field
or immediately behind the lines
is mainly responsible for the sav
ing of these precious 97 out of
100 lives. And this prompt treat
ment is made possible by pulp
wood.
Blood plasma, which has work
ed miracles on every front is pack
aged in paper made of pulpwood.
Every fighting man carries a
package of paper-protected sulfa
drugs and tablets into battle. A
newly-developed surgical gauze,
made of pulpwood, has stopped
the blood flow of many a GI until
he could obtain a doctor’s care.
All bandages, surgical dress
ings, surgical instruments, and
first aid dressings are delivered
to field stations in perfect condi
tion because of special paper
packing. Even| ambulances are
paper protected for "overseas ship
ment. It takes 52 pounds of paper
to wrap each one.
So when you are trying to de
cide whether or not to cut pulp
wood, remember some boy’s life
may depend on your decision.
trying to get the Sand Box back
on the front page) I once had a
tortoise shell cat named Gwendo
lyn, who was very efficient and
had fits. She never molested a
rat or mouse, but devoted her
life to killing song birds. This is
a true story, starkly told. A Dis
tinguished Poetess came out to
visit our quaint colonial home at
East Setauket. She had no sooner
gotten off the train than she told
us she was neurosthenic. She
had a duplex complex; the sight
of a cat or a bird threw her into
an ecstacy of fright.
So we locked Gwendolyn in
the cellar, and looked forward to
a pleasant week end. To insulate
the Famous Poetess from bird-
life we put her in a summer house
in the rear lawn, where we had
tea and a cozy chat about suhi-
mer in the country . . . when' sud
denly the Poetess dropped her
cup and made a noise like a fire
engine. It was Gwendolyn she
beheld. Gwendolyn had escaped
from the cellar and was eating
a fresh killed robin. The robin
seemed to disagree with Gwendo
lyn—^ma'ybe it was the feathers—
for with a ferocious growl she
threw one of the most elastic fits
in her repertoire. The Poetess,
who is a nice gal, forgave me,
when she stopped yelling. I gaye
Gwendolyn to the fish man, after
representing her as a famous
mouser.
Let’s see—I was talking about
Dogs,, wasn’t I? Well, a city edi- Qfficer ExolamS
tor was supposed to have said,
lowed that up very well. They de- | DclivCry of
Among Governors present was
not New York’s.
Harry Truman was sworn in
by Hairy Wallace.
“Ma” Perkins said she Carrie
for two reasons: a labor of love,
and a love of labor.
There were several First Aid
tents on the grounds. Presumably
for lame ducks.
Weather Note: The Marine
Band played “Hail to the Chief,”
—but none fell.
vote a lot of space to telling us
Sand Box
Being Filled Weekly
BY WALLACE IRWIN
To be conservative, let’s say
that Russia seems to be doing well
on the Eastern front. Do I hear
some Nazi inspired whispers that
Stalin planned this giant victory
so it would fall on the eve of our
presidential inauguration? A com
munist plot to boost the New Deal,
understand. This theory is not too
silly for Doc Goebbels to broad
cast for serious discussion over
American tea tables.
Ida is no longer front page
news; she’s been crowded out by
Elliott Roosevelt’s pup, which is
supposed to have pushed our
Army and Navy off a transport
plane. Remember how F. D. R.
told a campaign audience that the
opposition wasn’t satisfied with
abusing his family. ‘Now they are
kicking his dog around. . . That
was the report, you remember,
that the President had ordered
the Pacific fleet to turn around
and take Shiela off a desert is
land. This fish story has a touch
of realism. If Shiela got himself
lost. I’ll bet he was looking for
Polynesian garbage cans.
Maybe the Roosevelt family
shouldn’t keep dogs. But they
mustn’t ask me to take them off
their hands. I have Ida. ^ome^
times I tell Tish that Ida ought
to be sent to a more ideal environ
ment; some home where her little
heart would bound with happi
ness from morn to dewy eve. “And
what sort of home would you
choose?” asks Tish, rising, to the
bait. “Give her to the garbage
man,” I suggest.
It’s hard to get around me,
when I’m in that mood.
Speaking of dogs (you see I’m
that what we expected to happen
has happened. They make an an
nual spread of Christmas, for in
stance, when we all know it’s
Christmas. If the Weather Bureau
should come out some December
26th and tell us that the event was
really July 4th, that would be
news.
And there’s the Presidential In
auguration. It always gets front
page priorities, with pictures. But
it lacks the charm of the unex
pected. It isn’t news, according
to the city editor’s classic. Under
Hearst management, the re-inau
guration of December 20th would
have been quite chic. Mr. Roose
velt would have stepped out on
the White House portico, brushed
the Chief Justice aside and pro
claimed, “I hereby retire in favor
of Thomas E. Dewey, wfio didn’t
put up much of a campaign, but
might improve with experience.”
That would be news. But I’m
glad that it didn’t happen that
way, and I’m right grateful that
the dog bit the man . . . Merely
a figure of speech . . . The short,
inexpensive and effective Inaugu
ration is over. Now let’s keep ’em
rolling toward Berlin, and toward
yie inter-allied unity that will
bring us there. As the Stars and
Stripes said grimly, “What mat
ters except kiUing Huns?”
I hope oifr Siandhills nature
lovers will admire this essay.
Overseas Letters
BY MARTHA P. HYDE
Washington, Jan. 25—Only reg
ular White House correspondents
of the big dailies were permit
ted to attend the President’s
fourth inauguration, so your re
porter will have to pass the worej
along by telling you a few of
the things the other half of the
family had to say about the his
toric gathering. Here we go, in
the words of a former editor of
THE PILOT as written for the
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin:
Well, he’s now been inaugurat
ed—again,'and again, and again.
Those words, “I do solemnly
swear—” etc., rang out as if he
knew them by heart. He should.
It was the sikth swearing in
of a Roosevelt. But not aU were
Franklin’s. Two were Teddy’s.
Rumor has it he’s going to keep
on trying until some day the
oath is administered by a Demo
crat.
Three times he was a victim of
the Hughes era, and now it’s the
Stone age.
This was the first knothole in
augural. If you weren’t on the in
vitation list, you peeked through
the fence.
Of course no tickets were sold,
but a lot of guests paid $1,000 to
get in.
They were rewarded, though.
Army postal service wishes to
clear up some of the misunder
standings of the public relative
to overseas mail delivery, accord
ing to Col. Hartley B. Dean,
Fourth Service Command postal
officer. “It appears,” said Col.
Dean, “that one of the complaints
of the public is that mail service
from overseas is better than the
service going overseas. The rea
son for this is that mail coming
to the United States is bound for
a definite,' fixed address while
overseas communications are often
delayed due to the necessity of
directory service and forwarding
to find organizations and indivi
duals in a constantly changing
scene.
“Anqther (thing which seems
to puzzle the public is the fact
that overseas letters are received
in bunches. This is due to trans
portation facilities—if a convoy
sails only every two weeks, natur
ally the mail will pile up and be
received in one batch. This in
cludes air mail. Both air and or
dinary mail accumulate waiting
for cargo space and as the space
is available, the oldest mail is
shipped out first. Of course if
plake space becomes available
after the letters (both ordinary
and air mail) have gone by boat,
the most recent letters arrive first
and the sequence of the letters
is broken.”
Rent Information
Landlords putting housing ac
comodations on the rental mar
ket for the first time must register
this property with the Area Bent
Office within'30 days of first rent
ing, James L. Taylor, Jr., director
of the Southern Pines Defense-
Rental Area, stated today.
“I make this statement,” Mr.
Taylor said “because we intend
to make certain that registration
of housing accomodations in this
area is 100 per cent. All landlords
must have their rental properties
registered. This is for their own
protection, for failure to register
subjects a landlord to the penal
ties provided in the Emergency
Price Control Act.”
At the same time, Mr. Taylor
advised tenants who move to ask
to see the landlord’s copy of the
registration Statement covering
the accommodations they have
just moved into. This is for the
tenant’s protection, as thd state
ment shows the maximum legal
rent which can be chargeji for the
accommodations.
“Where such a change of occu
pancy occurs, the landlord is re
quired to file within five days a
notice of the change,” Mr. Taylor
added. “This notice, which the
rent office will provide, must
have on it the new tenant’s sig
nature,”
Registration of rental property
is not an involved process, Mr.
Taylor explained. The form is in
triplicate. The original of the
statement remains on file in the
rent office. One copy is sent to
the landlord and one to the ten
ant.
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Pinehurst North Carolina
January, 24 1945
The Stockholders
Bank of Pinehurst
Pinehurst, N. C.
Gentlemen:-
It has just come to the attention of the Moore County Insur
ance Agents Association that the Bank of Pinehurst has gone into
the insurance business and is at present represented by F. Shelby
Cullom, its Executive Vice-President, as a licensed agent. We feel
that we must protest this action for the following reasons:
There are at present five insurance agents in this small com
munity of Pinehurst that is of limited insurance possibilities.
These agents are fully equipped to write and service far
more insurable risks than now exist or ever will exist in
this community. A sixth agency is absolutely unnecessary.
The Moore County Agents Association is in a position to
efficiently write and service all the insurance that now ex
ists or ever will exist in Moore County.
The Bank of Pinehurst by entering the insurance field is
taking an unfair advantage of the insurance agents of Pine
hurst, Aberdeen, and Carthage, since all of these agents are
depositprs in the Bank and it has confidential data pertain
ing to each of the agent’s insurance accounts.
The Bank of Pinehurst, being the only financial institution
in Pinehurst, by entering the insurance field removes from
the Pinehurst agents its financial advice and service by be
coming a competitor of its own depositors.
It indicates on the part of the Bank of Pinehurst a desire and
intention to deliberately enter the insurance field, of which
it is ignorant having had no practical experience, and know
ing full well that by so doing they are deliberately injuring
by unfair competition established agencies of years of ex
perience in all types and forms of insurance.
If the Bank of Pinehurst enters the insurance field in Pine
hurst, it will as a result create much unfavorable criticism
and ill will toward the Bank of Pinehurst and Pinehurst it
self and this ill will would materially affect the future of
real estate in Pinehurst, as well as the splendid community
spirit that has made the Village the delightful place that it
is.
The above is being presented to the stockholders at this time
to acquaint them with the injustice that the Directors of the Bank
of Pinehurst will do the Community as a whole, and the Pinehurst
insurance agents in particular, if the Directors permit the Bank of
Pinehurst to enter the insurance business.
Respectfully soliciting your cooperation in preventing the
Bank of Pinehurst from entering the insurance business in Moore
County, we are,
Yours very truly,
MOORE COUNTY ASSOCIATION OF INSURANCE AGENTS
ABERDEEN
Theo Berg
Mrs. Evelyn H. Pleasants
PINEBLUFF
Levi Packard
CARTHAGE
United Insurance Agency,
PINEHURST
J. L. McGraw
SOUTHERN PINES
Paul T. Barnum, Inc.,
John S. Ruggles, Mgr.
Biddle & Company,
H. J. Menzel, Pres
Mrs. Robt. Gouger
Sec’y & Treas,
A. S. Newcomb
Eugene C. Stevens
D. H. Turner
Harry B. Emery
Colonel George P. Hawes Jr,
Robert N. Page, Jr.
VASS
United Insimance Agency,
J. L. McGraw, Mgr.
Pinehurst Insurance & Realty
Corp.,
H. G. Phillips, Pres.
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