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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, February 9, 1945. THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT, INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA JAMES BOYD 1941 1 QAA Publisher i*^-*** MRS. JAMES BOYD Publisher DAN S. RAY .... General Manager BESSIE CAMERON SMITH - - - EDITOR EDITH P. HASSELL - - SOCIETY EDITOR CHARLES MACAULEY • . • CITY EDITOR CONTRIBUTING EDITORS HELEN K. BUTLER WALLACE IRWIN •staff SGT. carl G, THOMPSON, •SGT. JAMES E. PATE ♦PVT. DANIEL S. RAY. Ill SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS . - . . THREE MONTHS $3.00 $1.50 - .75 entered AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU THERN Pines, N. C., as second class MAIL matter. THE JONES LETTER The President’s letter to Jesse Jones was bad. But it was bad in the sense that it was a blunder; in other words, more because of the way it was done, than be cause of its substance. He believ ed that he was writing informally to an old friend; be trusted Mr. Jones. Had it entered his head that the letter would be made public we may be sure that it would have been couched in the suave language of the usual pub lic document. But there is no get ting around the fact that the President should not dash off in formal letters to anyone on pub lic matters. Not when their publi cation could produce a national storm of disapproval which could so shake public confidence. Given Jones’ high estimation of his own importance, his hatred of Wallace, and his innate antagon ism to the liberal policies the lat ter represents, it would perhaps have been expecting too much that he should let such an oppor tunity go by. When one adds to tha‘‘’the fact that, looked at from one . ngle, the language of the letter i.'.self casts a slur upon Wal lace, implying that it was riot his ability but his political useful ness that won him the appoint ment, the letter would seem made to order for hi^ purpose. It is sad, but only human, that he availed himself of it and did not put his country’s welfare ahead of his own personal revenge. Jones is a realist; he knew that the letter was a slip on the President’s part; he knew what a storm its publica tion would create. It was, to say the least, an act of disloyalty to give it to the press. As for the President’s part in it: we have a right to expect more considered action on his part. Too often, of late, he has shown great carelessness. His predilection for dashing off personal notes and ^king hasty casual statements, tossing out airy remarks to had been deliberate. For to feel that it is another example of care lessness on the President’s part is disturbing. There have been too many. This letter to Mr. Jones is of a piece with the President’s irresponsible talk about De Gaulle at a time when the French negotiations were at their most difficult; it is similar to the in eptness of his handling of the vice-presidential situation at the convention. It surprised and shocked us. But it was not the cynical political act which Mr. Jones and his supporters would have us believe. Sand B OX Being Filled Weekly' BY WALLACE IRWIN press, these are a cause of grave anxiety to those about him. The wording of this letter could not, if it had been deliberate]->51 mouni;^ nlanned, have been more cidlcu- tai,^d to create an kmpres^on of cynicisii. -prolitical opportun ism, of disregard for the nation’s welfare. The public’s reaction was natural. But in making a final judgment a few points must be kept in niind. In the first place, the Pres ident considers Wallace, rightly or wrongly, the ablest man in his cabinet. When he offers him “any position”, he is saying what be undoubtedly^ believes: that Wal lace would fill any post credit ably. The next point is that both the President and Mr.. Jones knew that the post of Secretary of Commerce was the only one Wal^ lace wanted. Actually there was no question of offering Wallace ;“any position*’ and jthe Presi dent’s expression was used with out a doubt in the misguided at tempt to soothe the feelings of Mr. Jones, by implying that he was not being singled out for martyrdom. The President’s suggestion to Mr. Jones that he see Stettinius about \ an ambassadorship was an other inexcusable blunder. Put in that way it was little short of an insult. But the fact of the mat ter is that an ambassadorship is nowadays a very important pos ition and it has long been the cus tom to reward political success in this way. Besides, the Presi dent knew the outstanding abil- of his former Secretary and would fill any such post iIF' to Mr. Jones was in- but it was not the crime it has been way it might be to thii^ that it PIECE OF POETRY Avery, Avery, Dry goods and slavery! (signed) Ina Wanda. Tut, Ina Wanda—don’t go uni lateral on us! I’ve been down to South Caro lina (a state) where it was so cold I had to wear a fur nose-bag. Gives a Sandhiller a sort of smug feeling—pitying the rest of the world, which is hardly ever semi- tropical, as we are. Trains pointing toward Miami hesitate at all flag stations, trying to make up their minds whether to keep on going South or to take the load back to Philadelphia. The one we were on finally decided to get as far as Charleston, any how. Which it finally did, after 10 hours of frantic indecision. Civ ilians are warned to keep off the trains. I now add my warning to the Government’s. Soldiers in trains along the way are keeping up their morale, ob viously. One car, stalled on a side track, had chalked across its side, “To Hell with Italy—Car 3”. The G I’s who grinned out of the windows were Itaio-American in type. In our car, after the lights went out—which was 10 minutes past sunset—I heard what seemed to be a corporal proclaim huskily, “You ought to see my Wack— she’s a scream!” They’re well mannered, quiet young men, our soldiers in travel. The sergeant behind me, who wore a South Pacific service rib bon, admitted modestly that he’d had malaria, but that was okay. He was back again okay. Every thing was okay by him. At the entrance of Summerville, where I’ve been, they’ve tom down the white wooden arch which bore the sign, “Let the Pine Be Sacred.” Why that sanc tified text was ever put up, and why it was rembved is beyon me. Perhaps the village fathe/s have given up trying to adveajlBe something which just can’t J^val the Sandhills long-leaf—pine about which we up bi^'^ are al ways so modest rand shy. (Eh what?) That’s all fotf this time. Except that I wish a^ertain broadcaster would sto'' a|01ing that Philippine ^wn “Bag-wee-oh”— K«! ‘’'idS^ee-oh”, baby. Don’t ask me anything else, about Spanish. I’ve told you all I know. “Humph!”, I repliec^ ■'‘That strikes me as unmitigated fool ishness.” Being a resident of neither'of the rival towns, I had remained strictly neutral, care fully refraining from taking sides in any pourparler concerning either. “Being on the oi^tside looking in, I can see it plainly,” I continued. “Oh yeah?” said Mr. St. John, “Would you let some body keep a sign like that up at Lakeview if you could help it?” “Probably not”, I answered, “No doubt I would let emotion run away with reason too.” But the right thing to do would be to have the name of the place offi cially changed to Pinehurst Junc tion thereby acquiring all the ben efit of Pinehurst advertising for all time.” When emotion rules the brain, then sound reason fails to reign. Some five or six years later, after I had become associated with Leonard Tufts at Pinehurst, I mentioned this affair to him, assuming that he had never heard of it. “Oh yes”, he said “I knew all about it. Mr. Cotter got my head in a noose with that sign, but the Southern Pines people kindly cut the rope and turned me loose.” Reference to the burning of the Piney Wood^ sometime back re minded me of an occurence at that fire that very nearly resulted trag ically, but I shlal have to tell you about that later. The Pilot: We hear so much about the lend lease from U. S. to Britain and how will it be paid back, and about fighting England’s war etc. But these remarks, of course, are made by uninformed and un thinking people with old time spite, and from a long way off from the war centers, where we want the war to stay— The knowing and thinking peo ple go quietly ahead all out to win the war for peace—here as well as England. Enclosed items from the Char lotte Observer might help to en lighten some people and give a diffe^>^nt line of thought—and ac tion. ^ “Too Precious for Price Tags” would be good 11 again—If is a thought. -A. B. torn flesh of this, blue-eyed lad is seared by pain more excruicia ting than that of this boy with eyes of brown whose wounds gape as widely? The steel casing of a General Grant around the vulner able flesh of a boy named Jim, from Omaha, Neb., contains the same high courage and the same mortal shrinking from death that are contained by, say, the trailer covering of a Typhoon piloted by a youngster called Fred, from Tunbridge, Wells, Kent. What is it vAorth? Jean, in Normandy, worming his way flat on his belly bearing the deadly mechanism that was to blow up a German troop train, risked no more and no less than Ivan, who sniped along at German lorries on the road to Smolensk. And the girls who loved them were wrenched by no anxiety greater than that of _ the sweetheart of Klaas, a Dutch paratrooper, who was one who landed at Arnhem. Heroism, by military regulation, is defined as gallantry above and beyond the call of duty. But are all heroes in uniform? One man risking torture and death to distribute news of free dom' contributes *to the sum total of the mighty effort of all. How much? Can you weigh it, the im ponderable of what that courage adds to the dignity of man’s im perishable fight for integrity? While your head is bent in awe, can you do that sum? Just on a million homes in Lon don have been destroyed or dam- j aged in the bombing, but London ers never stopped their work. Dan ger. and discomfort have been their bedfellows for years now, but they have not cried Out for the Commander-in-Chief to lessen their burden by diverting his air army from its tasks in his plans. Heroes? And what was it worth to the cause? Men and women in France, un able to draw a breath free of the stench of Nazi proximity, yet risk ed horrors, only too well known, to hide and to smuggle away to freedom hundreds of Allied fliers who bailed Out over their occu pied land. What it may have cost them, who can measure? The desperate, pitiful, proud fight of the trapped Jews of the Warsaw ghetto; the abortive, yre- ICIOUS 'RICE TAGS Now and Then BY A. S. NEWCOMB (Continued From Last Week) While I lived at Lakeview I of course came often to Southern Pines where I frequently spent a night or two at the Piney Woods Inn, then owned and managed by Charles St. John, later purchased by J. M. Robinson. The electric railroad connecting Pinehurst with Southern Pines was contin ued in operation until 1908. Its terminus here was near the S. A. L. passenger station, and T. B. Cottar, who became manager of Pinehurst after the death of its founder, James W. 'Tufts, put up a si^n there reading PINEHURST JUNCTION where it could be readily seen by passengers on the Seaboard trains. Since this was done without so much- as a “May I?” or a “Thank you”, needless to say many Southern Pines resi dents were not made happier thereby. In truth, many of them bitterly resented Mr. Cotter’s highhandedness and I more than once heard dire predictions that some day something violent would happen to that sign. One morning after a night at the Piney Woods Inn, I was ac costed on my way to breakfast by Mr. St. John who told me in gleeful tones: “Some of the boys tore down that sign there’s been so much talk about last night.” American Outpost in Great Britain (The purpose of the above pub lication is to promote full xmder- standing among the English- speaking peoples to assure their permanent association in the es tablishment and maintenance of a peaceful new world order. Un less otherwise stated all articles are written by Americans, and represent their personal opinion.) Who are the heroes? Who has done rnost for the cause of the United Nations? On both sides of the Atlantic a noisy minority is vaunting its superiority, very much in the vein of boasting small boys. The difference is that the rival claims of juvenile bat tlers don’t have earth-shaking re sults. This adult (?) rivalry can have tragic consequences for all mankind unless it is stopped— quick. In the minds of these minorities it is always this versus that Montgomery versus Eisenhower, Our Fortresses or their Spitfires, Our dollars or their pounds. Do we lease more than we lend, or is it the other way around? Who owes whom, and what? Only the Great Assessor knows the answer to that one. How can it be weighed in the balance, the contribution of one to the cause of all? Who is to say how much Britain’s lone valor ous stand that long hard year has meant in dollars and cents? Amer ica has put rnillions of men, equip ped with the best she can build, into the field; can those men, thjeir equipment, be evaluated in terms like these? Can we count out, so much for the heartening of f^ worn friends, so much for of steel and wool and wi much is a row of ribh No arnuiLamong t tions, ho great, b had its of their The li Britis Frenc mature rising of the Polish capital, with i and its magnificence. rejoice in our victories, we may have the generosity of mind and heart to look upon the great fel lowship of heroes and say: Their valor was without price; it h^s bought us the future—for all. L. M. W. TRANSPORTATION COSTLY Transportation facilities provi ded by the British government for the U. S. armed forces under reverse lend-lease from early 1942 until December, 1944, reached a total value of $140,890,000, U. S. Transportation corps officials said. BASKETBALL CALL TO ARMS Your Government needs and asks its citizens in this 165th week of the war to: 1. Answer the emergency call for 8,000 Medical WACS. Women from 20 to 50 are needed immed iately for non-professional medi cal work in U. S. Army hospitals. 2. Help to relieve the doctor and nurse shortage by taking a Red Cross Nursing course to learn how to care for your own family. 3. Remember—1944 income tax return forms do not provide for payment of the unforgiven por tion of your 1942 tax due March 15. Separate statements are being mailed. 4. Write your serviceman cheerful, re-assurihg and frequent letters. Use V-mail when you write overseas. 5. Beware of complacency. When the war news is good, re double your efforts on the home front. Set an example your boy can be proud of. LOCALS DIVIDE TWIN BILL WITH PINEHURST Southern Pines split a twin bill with Pinehurst, Friday, February 2, with the Southern Pines girls losing, 46 to 29 and the boys win ning 34 to 26. In the girls’ game, the line-up for Southern Pines was as follows: forwards, Cox, Ward, and Brown; guards, Cameron, Nichols, and Schaefer. Substitutions were Field, Olive, and Kleinspehn. High scorer was Ward with 16 points. The line-up for Pinehurst was forwards, Cheney, Hunt, and Hartsell; guards, D. Cheney, Campbell, and Campbell. Substi tutions were Lewis, Black, Frye, Lewis, and Hunt. High scorer was Hunt with 23 points. The boys’ teams were well matched. Southern Pines led the scoring at the first quarter, 10 to 7, but Pinehurst passed them and led 22 to 15 at the half. Fight ing back, Southern Pines gained a one-point lead in the quarter to make the score 27 to 26, and held the Pinehurst five scoreless in the last period to win, 34 to 26. The line-up for Pinehurst was as fol lows: Smith and Garner, forwards; Currie, center; Thomas and Whitesell, guards. Subs^titutes were Corbett and Garner. High scorers were Smith and Thomas with 10 points each. The Southern Pines line-up was as follows: for wards, Page and Worsham; center, Neal; guards, Mann and Prizer. Substitute was Grey. Games next week are: Tuesday, February 13, with Carthage at Carthage; Wednesday, February 14, with Rockingham, here; and Friday, February 16, with Cam eron, here. NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX Having qualified as administra trix of the estate of Joseph G. DeBerry, deceased, this is to no tify all persons having claims against the estate of the deceased to exhibit them to the undersign ed at Southern Pines, N. C., on or before 26 day of Jan. 1946, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will please make immediate payment. This 26 day of Jan. 1945. Helen B. DeBerry, Administratrix of the estate of Joseph G. DeBerry, deceased Beginning Friday, February 9th, through Saturday, February 10th, NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATRIX w^flih, inytb4ne?^ cost, and how wa Having qualified this day as Ad ministratrix of the estate of Wil bert D. Edwards, deceased, this is to notify all persons having clefhns against the said estate to present them to the undersigned Administratrix within twelve months from this date, otherwise this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons in debted to the said estate will please make immediate payment. bated this 29th. day of Jan uary 1945. ADGGIE ALLMOND, Administratrix of the Estate of Wilbert D. Edwards, deceased. J. Vance Rowe, Attorney. F2-M9 we will have our Annual Winter Clearance Sale including Coats, Suits, Dresses and Hats aop SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. The Chinese havi their war—and time. Do the Chinese s! love and revere their homes, their wives and children less than do the New Zealanders who slog ged across Africa and up Italy the hsu-d way, weary miles and months away from the folks Down Under? Does that Yugoslav Par tisan, living a life of grimmest hardship, but who happens to be an ex-professor of Greek litera ture, yearn more for the ordered serenity of his book-lined study than does this Canadian Com mando who took honors in clas sics at McGiU, but who has been in the Allied landings since the war began? And can you add or subtract the difference in their sacrifice? The Norwegiems, small country as theirs i.s, had one of the finest merchant navies in the world. When war came, most of their skippers got their ships away,to— safety? No, to run the U-boat Tell him weWe cutting pulpwood” gauntlet ewer and over again in order tha^^ precious supplies shouldV^be brouglt to Brit ain so that\ the fifht might go on. No ancient saga was ever more heroic thin the tdes of the Norwegian seajpen of t'.day, who have dared th* double ruelty of warred-upon s®as. And Yhile they faced that peril they hao the sick knowledge (/f their violated homes, the feay of whatmight be. with their faniflies. ihe multipli cation table couldn’t help you to tell how many times human cour age fouglA with human despair —and won. NOr can your calcu lations give you their value. That feat of disconnecting the mines laid by the German swim mers at Nijmegen, what equiva lent \afl^ld you consider fpr the n who groped for death ater to puU its fangs? did is it worth so and dollars,. or is it [uipped battalion, or al of the combined mdon’s charwomen, on through the 1 arithmetic? Not on s is something that for price-tags; it ly with the beat I SEE here in the paper that General Somervell says, ‘We would rather fire a ton of munitions than lose a singleAmerican s oldier *, “That’s the way I like to hear our generals talk be cause that ‘single soldier’ might be our boy. So when the government says the shortage of pulpwood may hold up the supply of muni tions, I’m going to cut every darn stick I can. “You just tell the boy to keep on doing his best over there and we’ll do our best to back him up over here.” of the United all, in pride iving great- eat gifts; comes in ad and VICTORY PULPWOOD COMMITTEE ’^*1**^**- C.B.GALE W. E. BLUE Jf W. ATKINSON BUSTER DOYLE Southern Pines, N. C. VICTORY PULPWOOD CAMPAIGN **■
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