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Page Two THE PILOT PUBLiSHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATEP SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA THE PILOT. Souihern Pinw. North Carolina Friday, April 4, 1947. 1941 JAMES BOYD Publisher 1944 KATHARINE BOYD - VALERIE NICHOLSON DAN S. RAY BERT PREMO - - CHARLES MACAULEY MARY BAXTER . . EDITOR ASST. GENERAL Manager . -ADVERTISING . . CITY Editor Society Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR . . - - SIX MONTHS . . - - THREE MONTHS $3.00 $1.SO .75 ENTERED AT THE POSTOPFICE AT SOU- THERN pines. N. C.. AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. EASTER 1947 Once again, as the earth turns, the Easter season comes again— the annual time of renewal of hope after the long hard winter. Long before Easter became the time of the celebration of Christ’s resurrection, it was a pagan period of rejoicing, and of prayer for the fertility of the seeds. And it is safe to suppose that, far back in the dim eras before the years of which we have know ledge, the spring brought a lift to the heart of prehistoric man. His chill flesh felt the sun’s new brave warmth, he saw the green ing of the forests and the mea dows, he sensed the stir of new life all about him. By a miracle he had survived another winter- once again life was good. He learned to make use of this time of goodness, sowing the seeds which under the sun’s beneficent warmth grew and ripened into the food which would serve him against another winter. And as he grew in spiritual -stature it meant also to him the survival of his tribe, his race, his kind. Then after uncounted eons came the miracle of Jesus Christ, and the Resurrection which be came the single great tenet of the religion of hope-Christianity, No longer earth bound, the imagi- tion of man could now leap for ward to encompass, not only the renewal of life on earth with each recurring spring,* but the immor tality of the spirit, and the reap ing of the rewards of the seeds of virtue sown during life. And it is this quality of man to believe the unbelievable, to know the unknowable, and to have faith when all the obvious facts are against him which makes him more than man—capable of dreams and deeds unthinkable in a mere mortal animal. And it is at Eastertime each year that we all bow to this quality in man. Kneeling before God, thanking Him for the miracle which has opened to us the infinitely wider life of the spirit, we, also acknow ledge that in each of us there is a little bit of God, to be nurtured and tended in the sunshine of our faith. Recorded history goes back only a few years, in actual point of time. Learning what has gone be fore, imagining what went on be fore that, we know that mankind has passed through many winters threatening his very survival, many of them darker than the one which now chills our minds and souls. Yet always spring has come. It is hard even for the most faithful now to see the green shoots of the promise of peace and a better life for nations on earth There was a season of brief, early budding—then came a frost which may have killed the bloom. Icy winds of alien ideogies, sweeping across the wreckage of war’s havoc in one country after another, appear to have frozen out the G(^-promise of redemp tion on renewal, though with all our faith we are striving to bring about their fruition. The winter blight has invali dated the old systems, and it seems that what worked before may not work this time. In such case the tiller -of the soil tries new ways—keeps trying, though he fails again and again, because he must in order to survive. He use^ implements that the exp^fi&nc^of years has put un- ,yder his^RQdi-.and where they also fail, he divises" new ones. He cannot fight the wind and cold. But he can protect his land, and help his neighbors to protect theirs. He sows, and sows again, the seeds he knows are good, for the crops nedessary to life. 'Then once agaip comes Ithe springtime—as he knew it would. ’This Easter let us pl^ge again our faith—and put pur hgnd to the plow. A. C. DAWSON Congratulations to A-^ C|Kaw- son, principal of the ’^Sowhern Pines High school, on his Elec tion to the vice presidency of the NCEA. Congratulations, too, to all those whose belief in him and work in his behalf helped bring about this end. Southern Pines has been on the map before, as a resort, as a beau ty spot, and as a village of homes, Mr. Dawson’s election puts this village on the map in a brand new way, with state educators and with those working toward a better way of life for those who teach and guide our schools. For Mr. Dawson, as personable and likeable as he may be, as ef ficient a schoolman and capable an administrator as we know him to be, in this election became a EDITOR gyn;^^jol along with R. L. Fritz, Jr., the new NCEA president. Together they stood for a strong forward step toward a good living for teachers—^not only for the benefit of the teach ers on the current payroll, but as an inducement to capable rnen and women to enter this vital field. For too long the teachers wait ed patiently while other bodies, equipped with lobbyists, politi cal supporters and entrenched ad herents, got what they needed from the public till by all ex pedient means. When they got through there was never any thing left to lift teacher salaries, above depression levels. Then canie the South Pied mont plan, which the aroused teachers accepted as expressive of their needs. With their own leaders in NCEA turning their backs on the plan, they found leaders elsewhere—one of them A. C. Dawson. Little known outside of Sou thern Pines, filling his first school job after graduation from college and never before an NCEA officeholder, Dawson had no personal axes to grind. He just picked up the cudgels and went to work to see that the teachers got a square deal. Having received the over whelming approval of classroom teachers all over the state, the real job now begins for Dawson and Fritz. NCEA’s new leaders must take their fight straight against .the enemy — legislative indifference. We don’t know Mr. Fritz, though we congratulate him also; but we do know Mr. Dawson, and, backing him with all the strength at our command, we predict a clean, courageous battle—^with victory at its end. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS Politics, like adversity, some times makes strange bedfellows. Most recent exam,pie of this tru ism is the surprising agreement cn the future of Germany of such ill-assorted companions as the U.S.S.R. and former president Herbert Hoover. Both have ex pressed the firm opinion that Germany should be helped to build up her industry, including her heavy war potential, and be governed by a strong central gov ernment. The reasons announced by each for holding these similar views are different. Russia wants Ger man industry rebuilt so she can start collecting reparations. Ex president Hoover wants Ger many self-supporting as soon as possible for the relief of Ameri can tax-payers. These are the reasons given, but when two such different parties agree it is just as well to look behind the reasons given. In this case it looks as if the reasons might really have a certain sinister agreement, too. Hoover has always been assoc iated with the anti-Russian group and the America First crowd who see everything in terms of the red menace. At first strongly isolationist, they eventually swung over to agreement with those in England who, before the war, were backing Germany as the bulwark against communism. It seems more than likely that this is still in Hoover’s mind, and is the real reason behind his ad vocacy of a strong Germany. And if that is the way he sees it so does Russia, only, of course with Germany headed the other way. Seeing what German re sources in steel and techntology would give her and how those same resources could be used against her, seeing the possibility that Germany might become one more link in that encirclement, leal or imaginary, which Russia fears, is it any wonder that she votes for a strong Gerihany, thereby winning to herself Ger man support and the greater like lihood that it will be thrown to her side in any future show down? And so there may develop just what the prophets of doom fore told and certain ghosts will laugh long and loud as the struggle over Germany commences. powerful stimulus to action. The fact that they refused to proceed with the rescue is significant of the deep-seated trouble that ex ists ip the coal business. This whole tragic story of the disaster in the Centralia mine seems to reinforce the judgment of those who maintain that the cau:e of the labor troubles in the coal business should be largely attributed to indifference and in efficiency on the part of man agement. The owners of the Cen tralia mine had been warned by government inspectors that, the mine was not safe and definite remedies had been urged. They had not been carried out. In view of this fact, it would seem quite possible that criminal negligence might be charged and the mine- owners prosecuted. John L. Lewis takes this view, but instead of condemning the mine-owners he directs his at tack at the department of the in terior. “The mine explosion vic tims,” he says, “believed to num ber 111, have been murdered by the criminal negligence of Sec retary of the Interior Krug.” These are strong words, and in view of Lewis’ “agin-the-govern- ment” attitude, they must be taken with several grains of salt. But if this mine was operating under conditions which violated government safety ordinances, there can be little doubt that the department is severely to blame. The point wiU doubtless be cleared up by the senate investi gation to be made, but whatever the facti uncovered, the deep- seated reason will remain: man agement indifference. It is sad that this should exist, but it does. It is a fact that only very recently has management become aware of the need for bet tering the lot of its employees. In the majority of businesses that lack of awareness has meant only: too few washrooms or no place to sit down while eating lunch; but to miners it meant, and continues to mean: too few props in the tunnels or too few fans. And where health and efficiency may suffer in the former, in the latter men die miserably in the sufT locating blackness. This negligence which fails to provide safe working conditions is seldom downright deliberate. Rather it is a question of lack of funds, of carelessness and inef ficiency, and ordinary muddling. And that is where the officials must come in. Frequent, careful inspections must be maintained, and, no matter what the circum stances, if a mine is unsafe it must be closed. This is the lesson which this disaster teaches. It has been taught before, over and over, in the deaths of brave men and the heartbreaks of their wives and children; in the devastating strikes which have swept the country. How much longer will it be before the lesson is learned? and CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE On Saturday the rescue squad of miners, trying to reach thEir entombed comrades after the ex plosion in the Centralia coal mine stopped work and refused to pro ceed because they did not trust the judgment and ability of the men in charge of the rescue. Miners are more courageous than most people; they are used to taking big risks, often llor faint hopes. Even though they knew there was little chance of saving the entrapped men, the knowledge of what they were suf fering, the sight of their grief streken families clustered about the shaft would have acted as REFERENDUM It looks as though we’re to have a liquor referendum in Moore county, though under which of two proposed forms of special legislation, or under reg ular procedure as set up by state law, was not known at this writp, ing. With neither of the proposed bills finding favor with all concerned, it looks as though the matter might go to state law by default -and not on account of not hav ing enough time before the clos ing of the General Assembly. With all the time in the world, there isn’t a chance of drawing up any form of legislation which would be perfectly satisfactory to all sides. Too many other issues have become involved, and far too much is at stake. Without special legislation, which would involve only the Townships of Mineral and Mc Neils, those pushing the matter of a referendum will risk throw ing open the whole county to the ABC stores—something nobody wants. The only thing everybody seems to agree on is the right of the people to have a referendum, on this and any other vital issue, if they ask for it with sufficient voice. We’re certainly not quarreling with the idea of a referendum. We’re all for it. Let’s quit push ing our legislators around, shov^ ing them into untenable positions as they undertake the impossible task of trying to please every body. Let’s throw open the polls —but first let us recognize the issues clearly and inform our selves of what it’s all about. The main mistake the referen dum proponents have made is in tagging the opposing factions ‘"wets” and “drys” and glossing the issue with a phony title of “The People” vs. the “ABC in terests”—^whatever they are. In so doing they have created an artificial division. They have proceeded arbitrari ly to label one side—^their side— “good,” the other side “bad,” so that it. would appear that any body who advocates liquor con trol is in league with the devil. As a matter of fact, there are plenty of people on the “wet” side who are personally ‘"dry”; and plenty on the “dry” side who will buy and take a drink, but who consider it politic churchly to deny this. The two factions are in actual ity composed of those who be lieve controlled sale is the best way of handling the problem; and those who would remove these controls without any regard to the well dociunented history of prohibition in nation, state and country. With due respect to the sin cerity of those leading the so called “dry” forces, they are at tempting to foist upon our coun ty the most grievous, costly and corruption-producing form of le gal constraint on present-day rec ords. Prohibition has never work ed in the history of man. There is no reason to feel Moore coim- ty would be a shining exception, There is something about the liquor question which breeds curious form of fanaticism, blind ing the intelligence, abrogating the plain facts, and supported by Biblical quotations lifted from their context without regard to other. Scriptural passages just as authoritative which say the op posite thing. The sale or use of liquor is not a moral question. Its evils arise from the abuse of liquor, and every thinking person is for con trol, both by law and by personal discipline, in this as in other phases of social existence. But—^wherever there are peo ple who want liquor and who can pay for it, there will be tho.se who will sell it to them. What is needed is a practical form of handling the matter, and we believe that in Moore county we have found it. The results are seen in that Moore county is one of the clean est, most crime-free in the state, with a law enforcement body it can pay for and which can cope with what goes on here, includ ing violations of statutes deal ing with liquor’s abuse. Another result is that, through wise provision of the law makers, revenue is provided which helps keep our taxes down and bene fits our schools, which sadly need every benefit they can get. In the event of prohibition here, taxes must not only go up in proportion to the loss of rev«n- ue, but also to pay for the enforce ment problems which prohibition always produces. And even then, only an attempt can be made at enforcement, for this is a law destined to be broken. It won’t be broken because people have to have a drink, and will go to any lengths to get it. It will be broken because there is big money in the illicit liquor business, and this business is waiting tp move right in if a dry. vote prevails. It will make drinkers out of many minors who cannot buy liquor at all at ABC stores. It will sell to known inebriates, which ABC stores do not. It will mean that those who want to buy liquor will not have to go to Southern Pines and Pinehurst, they will be able to get it at a dozen or a hundred places in the county, or it will be delivered to their door. Cheaper, too. You can’t have a referendum about bootleg liquor, nor the crime and corruption which it breeds, once you let them in with a dry vote. Just take a look at dry counties of North Carolina, with their court dockets drowded with liquor cases, day after day, week after week. And these aren’t a circumstance to the ones which are never brought to court. These are the facts. Yet the ironic truth is that, if and when the referendum is held, many of those who will vote against ABC stores will be those who would also have voted against the school bond issue, and who will holler the loudest if taxes have to be interest and support by visiting their displays and witnessing the events they have planned for you. The Public Speaking Announcing.... No Admission Charge Tues., Wed. and Thurs. Editor of the Pilot, Southern Pines, N. C. Dear Madam: For some years I have called to the attention of the Chief of Police in Southern Pines that the school busses were using the un protected crossings over the rail road in town He in turn referred me to the Chairman of the School Board who in turn asked me to speak to the Superintendent of Schools. The use. of these crossings still goes on despite the fact that we have two well protected crossings in town neither of which would cause any great inconvenience or delay if they were used. I be lieve the extra protection to our school children is worth the trouble. Yours very truly, CHARLES S. PATCH IN THE SUPERIOR COURT NOTICE NORTH CAROLINA MOORE COUNTY Willaistein Hill Thomas, plaintiff ys. Charlie Thomas, defendant The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Moore County, North Carolina, to secure an absolute divorce; that the defendant will further take notice that he is required tc appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court of said County in his office in the Court House in the Town of Carthage, North Carolina, within twenty days from the 10 day of April 1947, and answer the plaintiff’s com plaint in said action or plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said Com plaint. Dated this 10 day of March 1947. JOHN WILLCOX Clerk of the Superior Court. M14-A4 state of north CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF STATE raised to take care not only of present needs, but also of the costly problems of prohibition en forcement and the crimes and de linquencies that bootleg liquor brings. ARMY DAY April 7, 1947—America is at peace. The war years are behind us now, but we have not forgotten. Our was a hard won victory, bought at an awful price. We can never erase our debt to the men and women who made victory possible. But we can take steps to safeguard the future, by creating the structure for a last ing peace. Army Day is the day you can turn your attention to those pa triotic citizens who have signi fied their intention of taking an active part in preserving the peace and protecting America by proudly donning one of Uncle Sam’s military uniforms. To make this possible, the Reg ular Army, the National Guard of the United States, the Organized Reserve Corps, and the ROTC have planned special exercises and exhibits, not only on Army Day, but also through the week. You can back them up and show them that they have your One Moore County deputy sheriff has already said that ft control is voted out he will re sign, as his job will grow too hard and hazardous. Auto Body Glass Cut To Order In Stock For Most All Cars ... Window Regulators Channels and Door Handles. KING RADIATOR & GLASS CO. SANFORD Phone 213 J DINE AND DANCE SUPERLATIVE FOOD DOYLE TRIO Friday-Satnrday-Sunday Hie tillage 3nn SUPPER CLUB For Reservations Telephone 6632 or 8122 One-Fourth Mile South of Southern Pines Certificate of Filing of Consent By Stockholders to Dissolution TO ALL WHOM THESE PRES ENTS MAY COME—Greeting: WHEREAS, It appears to my satisfaction, by duly authentica ted record of the proceedings for the voluntary dissolution thereof deposeted in my office, that the HIGHLAND PARK HOTEL COMPANY a corporation of this State, whose principal office is situated at No. ,in the Town of Southern Pines, County of Moore, State of North Carolina (Garland A. Pierce being the agent therein and in charge thereof, upon whom process may be served), has complied with the require ments of Chapter 55 of the Gen eral Statutes, preliminary to the issuing of this Certificate that such consent has been filed: NOW, THEREFORE, I, THAD EURE, Secretary of State of the State of North Carolina, do here by certify that the said corpora tion did, on the 21st day of March, 1947, file in my office a duly executed and attested con sent in writing to the dissolution of said corporation, executed by at least two-thirds in interest of the stockholders thereof, which said certificate and the record of the proceedings aforesaid are now on file in my said office as provided by law. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and af fixed my official seal, at Raleigh, this 21st day of March, A. D., 1947. (SEAL) THAD EURE Secretary of State M28-A18 ANGLOW TWEEDS HAND WOVEN OF SAME PRE-WAR QUALITY 100 PER CENT VIRGIN WOOL SAME PRE-WAR PRICE Custom Tailoring By Our Own Regular Staff Also—Tweeds by the Yard Exclusive designs and colors just off the loom. HATS — BAGS — ACCESSORIES, ETC. Sales Room and MiU Half Way Between Pinehurst and Southern Pines on Midland Road Telephones: Pinehurst 4832 Southern Pines 5812 Easter Gifts Some lovely new stationery, Long Leaf Pine and Floral designs. Prayer Books, Bibles and Loads.of Books for Easter. Excellent values in leather goods. The Very Nicest Easter Cards. Special for Easter “DOWN MEMORY LANE. BY REV. TUCKER G. HUMPHREYS AUTO GRAPHED COPIES IF REQUESTED. Book Shop Southern Pines, N. C. ttttttuttunttmutnmtatmmmmi THE JEFFERSON INN New Hampshire Avenue Thirty-two rooms. All with running water. Twenty With Private Bath J. B. Gifford, Manager PROMPT REUABLE SERVICE CLOCK. WATCH AND OPTICAL REPAIRS WE DO OUR OWN WORK R. A. WARREN, JEWELER East Broad Street Southern Pines
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