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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Fri(J^y, March 7, 1947. > ) 1 J I THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT, INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA 1941 JAMES BOYD Publisher 1944 to see the 'young trees grow straight and tall. Moore County is taking part 'in both these projects. There are !some five to six hundred young people in the county engaged in every variety of 4-H service; last year was, the agent reports, the KATHARINE BOYD. - - - EDITOR «iost successive year o^ the 4-H VALERIE NICHOLSON ASST. EDITOR ‘^lubs tO date. DAN s. RAY - - General Manager ' field of fire prevention, BERT PREMO - - - -ADVERTISING Moore County is doing its best. CHARLES MACAULEY - - CITY EDITOR havc a full time warden and MARY BAXTER - - SOCIETY EDITOR ®lso an assistant, recently ap- _ pointed. In June we hope to ac quire (a new Mnd of monster SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR SIX MONTHS THREE MONTHS $3.00 plow to help open up moie fire $1.50 lanes and clear the underbrush. In Carthage, Colin Spencer is spreading the gospel of selective ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU- ■■ cutting and growing timber as a THERN PINES. N. C.. AS SECOND CLASS ® ® i a icrop: fire fighting is one of the MAIL. MATTER. 1 a.t_ • i , I things he stresses, of course. In trade under reciprocal agree ments. Such influences have hindered the development of policies which are needed if western society is to be once more integrated against communism and other to talitarian experiments. Fortun ately, a considerable section of American opinion knows the United States must shoulder the big part of the postwar job for democratic society. For many, however, the urgency of this re quirement has been obscured. The impact of the British crisis and the unrest in France on the world political* situation, just as the most limpoijtant peace negotia tions are about to begin, has again underlined America’s en larged and 'inescapable role. Weather Nips Blossoms, Ground Hog Latter Flees From February Freeze MONTHLY SUMMARY NO. 260 days recorded lows from 7 to 32 HANDICAPPED Southern Pines, Weymouth Es tate has recently engaged Donald One of the first things that formerly of the State General Marshall is going to Department, to take have to do when he gets to Mos-, woods on the cow is to cope with the situation property. Save the Woods” which has been foisted on him, have been placed all as a part of our foreign policy, through the woods by members by the navy. It is not usually to Moore County hunt, kindly the liking of an army man to ®opP®rating with the owners in have to take navy orders; when attempt to preserve the those orders are illogical, con- 'W'oodlands which mean so much trary to the good of the nation their sport and their enjoy- and constituting a violation of rnent. our pledged word, the situa- \ There is no doubt that Moore tion must be distinctly disagree- C°unty folks are very forest-fire conscious; and there is no doubt ... j that we are also 4-H conscious. This IS the way things stand , „ j , T> trees and our young people in regard to our Pacific bases. , . , . ® f f. This was a navv idea When the inis was a navy laea. wnen tne Sandhills folks. navy’s stand was first reported, this editor wrote to Secretary! Forrestal protesting this entry into the field of foreign pol icy, a violation of the tra dition of the services; pointing out, also, the effect upon our re lations with Russia which the navy’s Pacific bases policy was bound to have. The secretary re plied that he was in complete dis agreement, thas this was the navy’s stand and he was aU for it. Clearly he and the navy are still all for it, but the effect it has had on our relations with Russia is only too plain. We have just been treated to our first view of it in the Igvely Jenthusiasm with which Russia has acclaimed our “sole trustee ship” of these islands. The navy urged our claim to them on the grounds that we had made the greatest sacrifice in winning them. Did it just not occur to the naval policy makers that other people might think of that, and that if Russia, for instance, used EUROPE'S CRISES— AMERICAN MEANINGS (Editorial from the Christian Science Monitor.) Crises in Europe have already had one arresting effect in the United States. They have caused Americans to stop, look, and lis ten. It may be only a momentary effect. But it is a salutary one. Seeing Britain brought so near to the brink of new economic pitfalls by a coal shortage, hear ing rumblings of dissatisfaction among French working classes, Americans are reminded of some thing they seemed to be almost forgetting. That is that the world has just pulled through the most destruc tive war of all time. No country has emerged quite the same as it went in. And some nations on the firing line are altered almost be yond recognition. Meanwhile, the elements of the balance of power —which now must be accepted LEND-LEASE MACAULEY The Piper Cub, respected 8th grade rival of The Pilot, in its February 28th issue, makes what can only be ^termed a rash state ment. It offers to “lerid Mr. Mac- auley to the P.ilot, ’till we need him again.” Now Pipers! Since when, may we ask, has our Mr. Macauley been lend-lease material? Does he strike you. Pipers, as the sort of article to be casually appro priated and then dropped as the fancy moves? He does not so strike the Pilot, we asure you. In fact, we mildly suggest, whoever has the idea that this particular worthy can be either appropria ted or dropped, like so much flotsam and jetsam, has many other guesses coming ... if he survives to guess at all. Have a care. Pipers, have a care! One whiff from that old pipe, atop the checked plaid shirt and handsome necktie, and the both of us. Piper Cub and Pilot, are liable to vanish into limbo. You lend him if you can, and we’ll catch him if we can. . but we’d both better keep mighty quiet about it. . By Charles Macauley Following lour months of note worthy gains in average temper atures—totalling 13.4 degrees in all—February, with a slight gain •ot maximum temperature, lost five and one hall degrees of min imum temperature, which coup led with many days of brisk to high north west winds made a real winter month, though with out snow or heavy rainfall. Freez ing temperatures nipped the for ward blossoms of the preceding month. On the bright side, twenty days gave us some sunshine with the high afternoon temperatures offsetting the lows of early morn ing. Only two days were cloudy and six days partly cloudy. Nino days registered high temperatures ranging from 60 to 72 degrees, the high on the 18th. Eighteen degrees, the low on the 9th, a close approach to the low of 6 degrees in 1943, and' the 4 de grees in 1936. Total rainfall for the month was .81 inches, a loss of 3.22 inches, for the month and 2.37 inches for the two months of the year. The heaviest fall was .65 inches on the 20th, followed by .10 inches before daylight of the 21st. With freezing temperatures a sparkling coating of ice formed on the evergreens soon dissapat- ed by the warming sun. Raleigh reports a deficiency of 2.35 inches of rainfall for the year, Charlotte, an excess of .01 inches. Brother Ground Hog’s day was clear and bright with a low tem perature of 30 degrees. Long time Max. Min. average 55.1 33.6 1946 60.1 36,1 1947 56 28.1 Aver. 44.3 48.1 42.1 anti-prohibitionists during that sad experience. That is something the drys can not toss .aside; nor can they ig nore the case today, in North Carolina, of Mecklenburg county, a dry county and yet reported to be the most lawless in the state, with Charlotte the third highest city in the nation in crime and the wettest city, despite its dry ness, in the south. REFERENDUM? Senator Currie, when ques- tionned by the advocates of a county referendum as to why there should not be a vote on the liquor issue in Moore County, re plied that he could not think of a reason. While fully agreeing with the senator’s respect for the democratic process, we believe that in this particular matter he might have answered his ques- tionners simply with the one word: prohibition. The issue as a World concept and not as a that argument in pressing her;European one—have altered al- claims to eastern Europe it would most as radically as elements al- cut the ground from under any ter in an atomic chain reaction. which this group in the county GARBAGE COLLECTION If, as is reported, some of the town board have been consider ing ways and means of improv ing the garbage collection in town, they are to be congratula ted. This will be welcome news to their fellow townsmen. Our people pride themselves on the charm and attractive appearance of our streets. This is too often marred by .groups of unsightly garbage pails, filled to bulging, or else overturned, their unat tractive contents scattered up and down the curb. The casual speculator might imagine that the two large gar bage cans which should perhaps be all that would be needed by the average family to hold a four- day accumulation would present no problem, and that the two-day weekly collection should be suf ficient. This is not the case. Apartment dwellers are faced TOM MOON SINGS Of great interest to many in Southern Pines will be the news that Tom Moon, student at the New England Conservatory of Music, sang at the student recital given in Brown Hall, Boston, in February 27th. This talented young man was heard first here when, as a soldier at Camp Mackall, he saTig in the choir of the Episcopal Church. It is said that his voice has increased in volume and quality and that he is looked upon at the conservatory as a bright prospect for the concert stage. $17.95 BUTCHER LINEN in Black, Cocoa, Beige, Moss-Green ' INCOME TAX The Ides of March are coming —and to help you with that all- important federal income tax re port, the deputy tax collector will be at his post in the basement of the Southern Pines post office building today (March 6), March 12 and 14 and March 24 and 15, between the hours of 8:30 a. m. and 12 noon, and from 1 to 5:30 p. m. Anyone who had a total income of $500 or more during 1946 is re quired to file an income tax re port. Mrs. Hayes Shop HOME HEATING CORRECT GRADE FOR YOUR BURNER GULF OIL CORPORATION possible American resistance? General Marshall enters the Where old and worldly-wise countries cautiously manipulated Moscow conference seriously this balance in the past, and did handicapped by his brother-ser vice and the president’s compli ance with navy wishes. Even so. so without benefit of such concen trations of power' as now exist, today two “new” nations, the if the case for Pacific defense United States and Russia, share bases were well proved, we might the balance uneasily. And which agree that the handicap was I way that balance swings. worth suffering for the future gain, but the case is far from proved. The value to a power of such a vulnerable target for atomic bombing as a small con centrated island is highly ques tionable. This whole thing of Pacific bases is indefensible. We do not claim French Normandy because of the sacrifices of Americans on Omaha Beach, the British do not claim Tobruk. If these Pacific is lands must be held by anybody but the natives they belong to, they should b6 a United Nations whether in favor of western ways of life or of more repressive modes, depends on the skill and power with which these two Great Powers exert their influ ence. This is a moment in which Americans seem more than usu ally ready to ask themselves whether they have been exerting their own influence with suffi cient skill or power. With the Moscow Conference approaching, the United States finds itself about to face Russia not as the protagonist of a vigorous corn- trust. The opportunity thus to, muntty of democratic nations but render them safe for everybody! rather as the one well-fed cham- and at the same time to strength- j pion of democratic ideas. The in- en the standing of the United ternal crises ^ in Britain and Nations should have been siezed as being of paramount impor tance.- While it seems equally clear that the trouble which our assuming control would cause might have been easily foreseen. This navy-inspired problem will be one of the prickliest, we venture to suggest, that General Marshall will be called upon to tackle at the forthcoming con ference. OUR YOUNGSTERS AND OUR PINES The fifth annual cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Cam paign is being launched this week, and in the same week the 4-H Clubs of the nation are proclaim ing their service to the young people of the country. There is something very pleasant in the France may reduce the weight they can pull at Moscow—and whatever weight they don’t pull the United States will have to. This realization has led to some self-searching among Amer icans. Secretary of State Mar shall’s statement that the world “is in a very critical condition” is obviously calculated to pro mote this, self-searching. For it emphasises the need which the United States has—for reasons of its own national self-interest as well as the broader world inter est—^to play a constructive econ omic as well as political role in world affairs. The United States today needs to develop economic policies with which it can aid its friends every where in the world. First of all, perhaps, it needs more ability to recognize its friends. If it had would revive was not only con sidered by the entire country, it was written in as the 18th Amend ment to the constitution, tried out for fourteen years and then rejected by a nation-wide repeal. No issue has ever been so thoroughly tested or so decisively condemned. The law of our state, however, ignoring the result of that cal amitous testing provides that our people may cling to the right to consider themselves immune to the lesson of history, wiser than all the other people of the coun try and reopen the issue. The state gives them the right to a ref erendum and that right is theirs. That, of course, is what Senator Currie meant, and of course he is correct. If they want the ref erendum, there is no reason why they should not have it. But, ac tually, this insistance on their democratic rights is camouflage for their real aim: to make Moore County dry, and the wisdom of that m5y be seriously question- ned. Some things happened during prohibition that people ought to with an impossible situation when required to keep garbage four days, while many of our houses lack back porches ade quate to hold such large cans. Not to mention the fact that the problem of hauling huge full cans to the curb is, to many people,' quite a serious one. Beyond aU that is the menace to health which the things present. A per fect attraction for flies, mice,and rats, they are also prime germ- breeders and sources of endless and horrible fascination to every dog and cat in town. Few people know that there is no garbage collection at all for stores and restaurants. These people, taxpayers as eligible as any for this service, have to fend for themselves when it comes to garbage disposal. Recognizing that the problem is no easy one, the owners have suffered in si lence but there can be no doubt that they deserve consideration. For the sake of the town, also, it is highly essential ths^t yards and alleys adjacent to the food places be kept clean. Many cities have specially built trucks to handle garbage think about. One was the first collecting. They are enormous crime wave that our nation ever | and probably fabulously expen- combination. The urge to help' done so early and clearly, there the youngsters by interesting them in healthful outdoor pur suits, by teaching the boys to would have been less reluctance to aid socialist Britain and France simply because they were “'going become good farmers and the' socialist.” There would have been girls to become good housewives* less haste to organize the attack has something akin to the desire against the program for freer experienced. For the first time, the criminal element, through its fabulous earnings, came to exer cise terrifying power in our coim- try: the gangster evil came into being then and has never quite disappeared. Through, prohibi tion, too, drinking suddenly be came, in the eyes of young peo ple, an exciting and daring ad venture. Our youth began to drink as they never had before; they drank terrible stuff, they associ ated with criminals, they broke the law. Instead of teaching the young that excessive drinking was stupid, dangerous to health and painfully Unattractive, it was glamorized, by being outlawed, into something strange and won derful. The effect of prohibition bn our youth was disastrous. All the pros and cons of the liquor question were well-rehears ed during prohibition. It is doubt ful if they ever changed any one’s opinion, dry or wet. But a great many people, who were undecided before, became firm sive. It might be that high slat sides, screened with wire on our type of trucks, and more of them, might do the trick. But even if the expensive trucks seemed nec essary, this is an outlay which, it can be confidently stated, the townspeople would think highly justifiable. With more and better trucks, daily collections might be pos sible. This is surely the goal to ward which we should work. During the war it was not pos sible, and citizens were content to leave it to the board to decide when such improvements could be undertaken. Even now they recognize that the problem is not as easy as in-a city where houses are always close together. The trip about Southern Pines consume? many man-hours and much gasoline. But we are now growing to be a sizeable town and the need is very great. The ex pending of town funds for this im provement will win hearty and wide-spread approval. Maybe it won’t be a tornado killing and maiming men and wonien—and children. Maybe it will be the devastation of a flood Or the destruction of a hurricane, or a fire. Oi the sweeping scourge of an epidemic. Red Cross stands ready to supply those in need with emergency hospital care, food, shel ter, clothing, and rehabilitation. All this and more to stricken human beings—regardless of race, creed or color. But one thing can be foreseen in the disastf that will strike every week of the year som where in our nation— It’s what you're ^ving for—when you give 0 your Red Cross. ^ Your Red Cross will be on the |ob! lA this year of peace, as in war, your Amer’ ilVE —SO your RED CROSS can carry on! CITIZENS BANK & TRUST GO.
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