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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, May 18, 1945.
THE PILOT
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THE EVIL THAT MEN DO
Perhaps it was a good omen
that an article on the death of
Hitler got squeezed out of the
Pilot two weeks ago by an inter
view with a returned soldier.
There is something very pleasant
in contemplating the juxtaposi
tion of the two items, in their re
spective importance as news. It is
good to know that, for once, news
meant happiness and goodness as
opposed to death and destruction.
But as we look back and think
what our feelings about Hitler’s
death would have been a year or
even six months ago, how the
news would have appeared in let
ters a foot high in every paper in
the land, its omission, now, is
hardly credible. How have our
scale of values changed: that the
death of the dictator of Germany,
the most hated man in the world,
was received almost with indiffer
ence.
It is well that it should be so.
Lately, as more and more atrocity
stories, authenticated by photo
graphs, appeared in the press, a
growing realization has come over
us that l^he dictator was only the
head-man of the gang. The dis
gust and horror we felt for
him has spread to take in the
whole German people. No longer
can there be a feeling that they
were the tragic victims or even
the unwilling tools of their lead
ers. It is only too clear that they
followed and acted, aware and
even rejoicing in the horrors they
were perpetrating. And so, now,
the death of Hitler makes hardly
any more stir than the death of
any other German. His power is
recognized: we want to make very
sure that he is indeed dead, but
the evil that he personified is a
thousand times bigger than one
man.
Not only that, it is a thousand
times bigger than any group of
men. As we recall the way in
which it crept, like a living ma
lignant growth, into the hearts
and minds of a whole people, a
great talented, vigorous people,
turning them into the brutes and
perverts we have read about, we
cannot be unaware of its terrific
insinuating power. The picture
takes on a meaning whose signi-
cance it is vital that we under
stand.
The racist theory as regards
Germany is always popular. Per
haps because it is pleasant and
comfortable to have a scapegoat,
someone who is quite obviously
guilty all round yie clock. It is,
admittedly, quite true that Ger
mans have always shown signs of
■potential nazism, their characters
combining the bully and the mor
al coward. They have too the
sheep-like quality that makes
them peculiarly liable to corrup
tion.
But the roots of the plant that
came to flower so poisonously in
Germany are deep in the soil of
the world- 'We shall not have
grubbed them out with the re
moval of that malignant blossom.
They lie in wait to flourish again
when the climate of man’s af
fairs shall once more be favora
ble to their growth.
That is why these next years
are so vital to the future of the
world and why the question of
the treatment of Germany looms
so large.
A peace, no matter whether
hard or soft, will be ineffective,
unless it means, to the Germans
a great deal more than the cessa
tion of war. The field will not
remain fallow long: if it is not
sown to crops it will grow weeds.
We must do more than cut down
the growth of the Nazi evil, or
even tear out its roots. We need
to plant the field with healthy
seeds.
The obtacles are enormous. The
individual re-education of the
German people is a collosal task.
They must be utterly changed in
character. And the changing must
be done by all too human agen
cies. The subtle corruption of
power will be ours to cope with;
the temptations of greed; the
tragically human temptation to
slide out from under such oner
ous responsibilities; the urge to
get on home and forget it all. And
there will be the worthier feeling,
too, that ,we„ a rather humble
people, with all our smugness,
have no business over there tell
ing other people how to act. We
shall have all that to fight against
and we shall have, besides, the in
finitely cbmplex job of rebuilding
a country as well as a people. It
is a task to test that American
genius, we all talk so much about,
to the limit.
We can accomplish it only if we
enter into it with humility, with
determination and unity with our
allies, who understand even better
than we do the problems that we
face. And we can only then ac
complish it if all of us together
understand one thing more: that
we face a spiritual task far great
er than any material or intellec
tual one.
When we look back fifteen, even
ten years ago, we see a Germany
still prostrate from the last war,
without spirit, without industry,
completely at the mercy of any
potential enemy. In ten years that
nation challenged the power of
four of the greatest countries of
the world and almost beat them.
How? Because of her extraordi
nary talent for organization, and
her military genius, but above all,
by many times, because of her
faith. It was the evil faith of an
insane fanatic, inhuman, horrible,
but it was a faith. It gave her
armies the might of the crusading
knights of old.
Faith such as that cannot be
beaten with the sword; it can only
fall before a stronger faith. It is
that toward which we shall have
to lead the German people, if we
do not want to see a resurgence of
Nazism in Europe. And before
you can preach a faith or teach a
faith you must have faith your
self. The supreme test facing the
United Nations is this: will their
faith, in the brotherhood of man
be strong enough to win this bat
tle, perhaps the final battle, to
decide whether ,divilization, as
we know it, shall endure.
aid of Stalin.” Yes, Mr. Patter- the criterion of universal approach
son. Hitler and Goebbels have
reminded us of this danger, quite
frequently. But the Fuehrer didn’t
echo to Mr. Pqtterson’s fright of
September 16, 1943, that “if the
Russians enter into some sort of
arrangement for a separate peace
with Germany we will have a
damn difficult time of it. . .” That
characteristic Daily News bogy
was dandled at intervals, with
soft insinuations that England
might get in on such a deal too.
Or, even worse,. . . “we’re stuck
with the Roosevelt-Churchill tac
tics and diplomacy.”
In September 1943 the remark,
“Russia is helping its alleged allies
as little as it can.” In January
1945 the Daily News sounds ,a
sour note of cheer: . . . “The fact
that Stalin is concentrating his ef
forts against the heart of German
power, instead of fooling around
in the Balkans, is encouraging.”
(Russia’s “fooling around in the
Balkans”, by the way, was a feat
of grand strategy which has amaz
ed military experts even more em
inent than Mr. Patterson.)
Meanwhile the Daily News was
urging a fierce all-out Russian
offensive against Japan. 'Was
Sand Box
Being Filled Weekly
BY WALLACE IRWIN
Molotov has left San Francisco,
but 'Westbrook Pegler is still on
the job (or was when this column
was written) frequently to re
mind us that Russia is a wicked
CIO plot, or vice versa. Uncondi-
to “practical political issues” is
lacking. The powerful newcomers
to international power and the
habitues of the old tinie diplo
macy' are alike trying to play
their part in the new international
Congress of Nations, as if they had
not recognized that a new era is
dawning in this field.
Our own representatives have
not yet been able to impress upon
the assembled host of 49 nations’
representatives that there is no
alternative to another world war
and ultimate destruction of civil
ization but faith and confidence
in the announced principles and
ideals of the Atlantic Charter and
the Dumbarton Oaks outline of a
possible guide to a system under
which the nations may dwell to
gether in peace and harmony. The
details of, economic adjustments
and of immediate relief of current
destitution- as outlined in the
Bretton Woods Conference and
our own UNRrA are eatnests of
our acceptance of a universal re
sponsibility and our moral obli
gation to make effective any
reasonable pact the San Fran
cisco Conference may bring forth
The rather riduculous situation
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that to keep the Muscovite out of
Berlin, do you think? And aren’t
the sensitive Axis papers a weeny
bit afraid that a Russian invasion
of Japan might communize all
Asia?
So here’s a parting groan on
December 13, 1944. “But for God’s
sake, let’s not go into World War
III to put down Russia in its
turn.”
All right, Mr. Patterson. You
can keep us out of World War HI
by doing' what you have no inten
tion of doing—closing your editor
ial trap for about 10 years.
THE
Public Speaking
Editor, The Pilot
Dear Sir:
I have read with no little in
dignation your reporter’s account
of my recent visit to my old and
valued friend, Mr. A. B. Yeomans.
The story is completely inaccur
ate both as to the facts and their
implications., Far from being an
irresponsible marauder I had been
specially invited by Mr. Yeomans
to inspect his new wall the pur-
tional surrender doesn’t seem to
tionai surrenaer aoesnt seem to undesirable clients but to pro-
have squelched the Disunited Na
tions advocates.
I don’t know what the McCor-
mick-Patterson-Hearst Axis has
been saying about the Conference.
Plenty, no doubt; and probably
along their old line of phoney
prophecy, stiU. hoping against
hope to chisel a split between the
Allied Nations.
It might be amusing right now
to go back over some of the N.
Y. Daily New’s statements which,
when we read them, made us won
der whether we’d been fighting
Russia and Britain—or only the
Axis Powers.
Like this one, of June 1941,
apropos, of Poland’s fall: “British
diplomacy has thus incited un
fortunate Poland, poor old France,
and poor little Holland. . . to
fight to their national deaths.”
Same year, shortly after the
above: “Other people feel that
the British are fighting to pre
serve and if possible enlarge their
Empire. . . ” that Hitler is doing
the same thing for Germany, “and
that the United States can take
care of itself whichever side
wins.”
The Daily News followed up
in September 1941 with the re
minder that England and France
started the war “to keep Ger
many from getting too strong,”
Again, “We’re being drummed in
to it by the war party here. . .”
with the connivance of England.
And there are plentiful warning
paragraphs such as, “The United
States is unofficially a part of the
British Empire—has been in part
since the Spanish-American War.”
Now jump to the Daily News
of 1945: “Twice in a generation
the American people have been
led in a war to preserve the Brit
ish Empire.” This sage remark
is just one of many, covering four
years. . . We’re fighting England’s
war in the Pacific, and why
doesn’t Churchill send “those big
British naval units which are so
often reported steaming toward
the fight”? Russia, too, has only
given us token co-operation in
the Pacific, said Joe Patterson’s
voice in 1944.
In 1945, “The time seems ripe
to request the British to begin
doing their share in the work.”
(Lightly waving aside the fact
that Britain, with a population
one third the size of ours, has 4,-
500,000 men in her armed forces,
and in the Burma campaign has
employed the largest ground
force that has yet been used
against Japan—hence the capture
of Rangoon. And has the Daily
News read about Marshal Alex
ander’s conquest of North Italy
or of the North German armies
which have surrendered to Mont
gomery? British forces predomi
nated in both these sectors.)
In 1941 the Patterson paper
warned us that Russian victory
would mean Communism. . . .
“We’d better take notice of these
possibilities before we rush to the
that developed due to the desire
of one Nation’s head to defer
announcement of the end of the
war in Europe while the gigantic
news gathering and disseminat
ing corporations teetered on their
toes and lost valuable time (and,
incidentally, money) while at
tempting to bring the wished-for
news to the world, is a timely il
lustration of the sand-lot attitude
toward world affairs. We are no
longer interested in, nor desire,
NAZI and FACIST demonstra
tions to emphasize the importance
of world-shaking political an
nouncements. Our people arp
conversant with current events
by virtue of our free press and
radio and want only facts, with
out dressing of pagentry which
might appeal to less fortunate
peasants and subjects of other na
tions still amenable to propagan
da.
The citizenry of a free people
are able to make their own de
cisions based upon the facts and
are beyond the sand-lot stage in
dealing with international prob
lems. Let’s make this clear to
our representatives in San Fran-
'cisco—and through them to the
others.
O. A .DICKINSON,
Col. US^, Rtd-
Southern Pines, N. C.
vide a safe and homelike refuge
for oppressed and exploited ra
cial minorities such as rabbits,
skunks, field mice, wood rats,
moles, woodchucks and the like.
The big stick which figured so
prominently in your ridiculous
story was used by Mr. Yeomans
not to suggest the early termina
tion of my visit but merely to
point out certain particularly val
uable features of the refuge which
otherwise might have escaped my
attention. Notable among these
are a newly seeded lawn area
for moles, a delightful garden
patch for rabbits, a practice firing
fange for skunks etc. After I had
completed my examination qf the
refuge, Mr. Yeomans courteously
accompanied me to the gate with
an urgent invitation to return and
bring my friends.
Sincerely yours
EDWARD G. POSSUM
Pres. Possum’s Limited, Inc.
Sir: We hasten to extend our
apologies for the strange mistake
to which you have called our at
tention.
We endeavored to reach the ar
chitect in question, but with no
success. He is engaged, we are
told, in extensive additions to his
wall. The plans call for several
more roWs of bricks, the top one
to be laid without cement in or
der to be handy for throwing.
There will also be included a
portcullis and drawbridge over a
moat which has been dug to a
width well over skunk-range. Mr.
Yeomans is quoted as saying that
the whole, when finished, will be
guaranteed possum-and-reporter-
proof.
Mr. Yeomans is also reported to
have been seen lately clad in
full camouflaged battle-dress,
complete with gas mask. Thd pur^
pose of the latter is doubtless to
supervise practice on the range
mentioned in your valued com
munication.
As to our reporter: my dear
sir, we can only apologise. You
know what help is these days. The
Pilot has suffered like many
others. Our reporter to om regret
refuses to retract her statement
and sends you a message, which
in the interest of fairness we feel
obliged to transmit: It is in the
form of a quotation: “ ‘What be
came of Brother Possum, Uncle
Remus?’ the little boy asked.
“Uncle Remus smacked his lips
and looked wise.
“Don’t talk about Brer Possum,
honey. Ef dat ar Man was nice
folks lak we all is ...” Our report
er adds: “Enough said.”
Yours for free speech aud free
possums.—The Editor.
The Pilot
Mrs. James Bpyd, Editor,
Southern Pines,
North Carolina
Dear Mrs. Boyd:—
At a recent meeting of the
Board of Directors of the AMER
ICAN RED (IROSS Moore County
Chapter, the Secretary was in
structed to write you a letter of
appreciation of the splendid co
operation and generosity of your
newspaper in handling the pub
licity for our Chapter.
It seems hardly fitting for us
to extend “thanks” to you for
work carried on for a cause which
is universal. The Board of Di
rectors, however, wishes to ac
knowledge with sincere apprecia
tion the complete harmony and
co-operation with which your
paper helped and continues to
help in performing the duties laid
out for us in this time of emer
gency.
Most sincerely yours,
Louise P. Dana,
Chapter Secretary
Reading The Pilot
During the recent American
Red Cross War Fund campaign, a
total of $4094.04 was contributed
by military and civilian person
nel at Camp Mackall, it was re
ported by Colonel L. R. Hathaway,
honorary chairman.
According to agreements with
the local Red Cross Chapters in
the surrounding counties the con
tributions were apportioned as
follows: Moore County, Southern
Pines, 208.58; Richmond County,
Hamlet, $1072.63; Richmond Coun
ty , Rockingham, $1721.80; Scot
land County, Laur inburg,
$1091.03.
Colonel Hathaway, in praising
the response of-the enlisted men,
said that “although they were not
asked to participate, many insist
ed on giving something to help
their buddies and expressed ap
preciation of the American Red
Cross services to the armed
forces.”
“I would like to take this op
portunity,” he added, “to thank
all of those wHo helped make this
campaign a success. Their efforts
and the funds they raised are
splendid testimonial to both our
armed forces and the American
Red Cross.”
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Editor, The Pilot:
Evidence shows that the old ad
age of “boys will be boys” is still
dominant in the staid counsels
of the Nations’ representatives in
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Having qualified as Adminis
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Frank B. Pottle, deceased, this is
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NOTICE is hereby given that
under and by virtue of the
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page 603, and running thence.
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thence. North 71-55 East 401 fe^t;
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thence. North 29-56 West 203.4
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feet; thence. North 64 West 232.4
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808.4 feet to the beginning, and
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