Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines. North Carolina THE PILOT PUBUSHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT, INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA Friday, July 4, 1947. KATHARINE BOYD - - - EDITOR VALEF^IE NICHOLSON ASST. EDITOR DAN s. RAY - - General Manager BERT PREMO ... .ADVERTISING CHARLES MACAULEY . . CITY EDITOR MARY BAXTER . . SOCIETY EDITOri SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - $3.00 SIX MONTHS - $1.50 THREE MONTHS .75 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU- THERN PINES, N. C.. AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. HIGH AIR OF FREEDOM July 2nd was James Boyd’s birthday and July 4th is the day we celebrate aS our national hol iday. It seems appropriate, then, to re-print in this issue an article written during the war by the Southern Pines author and Pilot editor for the War Writers’ Board. Translated into many lan guages the article has carried the spirit of America all over the world. To Southern Pines people it brings a special message of love and pride and a remembrance of those war years when, through trials shared and victories won, our people were brought closer togethet than ever before in a spirit ot friendliness and mutual respect. WHAT AMERICA MEANS By James Boyd Hundreds and thousands of troops have been training during the past three years near my horne. Our house is often full of them: officers and privates, few ' of them professionals, nearly all young and from every section of the country. We have learned how to talk to these men. The first thing we ask them is where they are from. Proudly they will tell you. Then they want to know if you have ever been there. If by any chance you have, they are excited. They say, “Did you see .the court house when you were there?” “Did you get to know the fel low who, runs the Elite Cafe?” “Did you ever go down Main Street on Saturday night?” “Have you seen the wheat fields in July?” If you can answer “yes” they are deeply happy. Sometimes they will bring a neighbor who is with them in the army to see you in order that he, too, can hear you say that you have seen his home. What each of these men, now going' off willingly enough to fight, wants without quite un derstanding it is to find some body who can grasp his love of the place he has left behind. He thinks if you have seen it you will understand that love. The place itself, of course, is usually like a hundred others, It is the love which is unique, the love of home, of his family and friends, of his countryside or city street, of the life he has known, which belongs to him as his, own private and special and prized possession, as his own United States. It is the sum of all those in dividual loves which makes our love of country. I have never heard an American soldier speak of his love of country. But it is there and it makes him a home sick but a formidable fighter. What is the basis of this love?' Certainly not money. Contrary to general belief many Ameri cans are poor and our poor are as 'devoted to our land as any people in it. It is not the conveniences. It is true that we have them more abundantly than most other peoples: telephones, ice-boxes, automobiles, electric refrigera tors, vacuum cleaners, and it is true that all these devices are valued as making women’s work easier and life more pleasant. But millions of us do not have them and now none of us can buy them anymore or enjoy the automo biles we have. Yet it makes no difference to us. Indeed we are glad to be able to give this small proof of our patriotism. Nor is it even a tradition of patriotism. Our foreign-born, many of whom do not know our history and can hardly speak our language, have consistently been if anything, more devoted to our ideals than the older Americaii stock. What is it that in a country as vast, varied and new as ours, gives us such a universal affec tion, such a united spirit? It iS', I think, our combination of polit ical and social freedom. True, we have politicians and their little groups of followers, some of them rich and powerful, who are al ways working to corrupt or steal that freedom, and sometimes suc ceeding. And we have our snobs in varying degrees who concern who is their social, equal. But in the main we do control our political destiny: our lead ers, both the well-intentioned and the ill-intentioned must lis ten to us or be destroyed. And in the main a. man or a woman here is judged and accepted on his or her own merits. It is true that, to our sorrow, we have not yet solved the Negro problem though it is in process of ameli oration. And like most countries we have a certain amount of Sec tionalism in some sections. But in general it is very rare to hear of a person’s origins, racial, econo mic, or social, being held against him. We are criticised because we admire success and certainly men and women who succeed here are looked up to. But that applies to success in the arts and sciences as much as in business and to foreign-born as much as to native sons; indeed we are ^peculiarly proud of our Einsteins, our Knudsens, our Toscaninis, our Thomas Manns. What an honor that they selected the United States for their new homeland! What a compliment that they seem happy here! Not only do we admire success: more important still we like to see people succeed. I cannot claim we are free of all envy and jealousy but I think no t>ther country has less of it. Indeed, if I had to describe America in a sentence I would take a remark of the English writer, Hugh Wal pole. “You’ll like it there,” he told a friend, “it’s the place where everybody hopes that you succeed.” And it is not only the big suc cess that we admire. My town is small, a village, and here we are pleased witt). the small suc cesses of our neighbors whether in business, in farming or the professions or public service, or the arts. In this atmosphere men and women are naturally friendly; they speak to strangers readily and easily without either conde scension On the one hand or fear of being looked down on, on the other. For they have seen the tal ent latent in the oppressed who have flocked to these shores and they know that they them selves, even those longest in this country, are descended from the oppressed of other generations. So they look for the best in others and in turn expect to have their own inherent dignity respected. It is a country of friendliness and of self respect. > .This stirring scene is not with out its many ' flaws, flaws of which we are aware and over which we struggle and quarrel so that visitors often miss the underlying basis of, unity and love, and think that we are divi ded and without a national soul. But actually we are at heart mountaineers who have been raised in the high air of free dom. We may hear abo^t other lands and even visit them. We may recognize that those other places are as beautiful as ours, the cities better planned and more historic, the pattern of ilfe more orderly and gracious. But we cannot breathe there freely as we do at home. Our mountains are rough and the life often ar duous and tumultuous, but few of those who have tasted our springs, have smelt our forests and have felt our breezes can ever elsewhere be at ease. nerability upon which subversive forces anroad would sieze, is real statesmanship. The more we See of this man, the luckier we may feel ourselves to be. it may well be that in him we have found the man of vision as well as practicality needed to lead the way to peace. ‘ LIBERAL LEADERSHIP It has been reported that Sec retary Marshall was one of the cabinet members- most strongly in favor of the president’s veto of the labor bill. His main reason was: that if he did not do so he would add immeasurably to the anti-American sentiment which has been growing stronger among the middle - of - the - road liber als and socialists in Europe. If this is true, it is tremendous ly encouraging. It is not long since Wallace described the state of 'near panic he found in Europe after Truman had announced our support of the reactionary Greek and Turkish governments. The great middle-ground political group, on whom we must rely for support of any democratic pro gram, were almost ready to give up hope. Since then others have pointed to this grave dangdr and urged vehemently a program of liberal leadership in our dealings v/ith Europe as the only possible way to recovery. Though Marshall’s fine conduct of his China mission pointed that way, this is- the first time, as far as we know, that he has throvm his weight openly on the side of liberalisrn. The fact that he has done so is very important; even more so, that he ha3 realized the connection existing between our domestic and our foreign policies, in this realm of the intangible factors, of social attitudes and legislation. It was to be foreseen that Mar shall would fight the high tariff on wool, seeing so clearly how it would sabotage our iteciprocal trade efforts in the world econo my, but that he se^ equally clearly the need for liberalism THE NEW SANFORD Congratulations to the new Sanfofd! And congratulations to the old Jonesboro! Both towns deserve great praise: Jonesboro, the old pion eer, who carried the ball for all tfie years before Sanford , was born and then, when the young town grew to maturity, steppeq gracefully aside; and Sanford tor the name it has made as one of the leading towns in North Caro lina. The Sanford Herald tells the tale with gusto and accuracy, in Its fine Merger Edition. Tlie whole paper makes interesting .reading and should furnish val uable aata for the local historian. There was only one thing left out, and, at that, we may just have missed it in our ramble through the varied pages. But we did look in vain for some data about the Jones for whorh Jones boro -was named. A Col. L. C Jones was mentioned casually by Judge Seawell, but - as having been a resident many years aftei the town was founded. We would love to know who the first Jones was, and, as it is he who is really making the big gesture of sacri ficing his place in posterity in the cause of cooperation, we feel he deserves a special hand. But if one must be- sacrificed, that is the way to have it happen, and there must be many besidfes the first Jones who have made sacrifices. Such an undertaking is bound to involve a great deal of give and take. The citizens of both towns have wisely realized that their personal sacrifices will be more than made up for by the over-all advance in which each one will share. And whereas San ford, being the largest town, on the railroad, contributes its re spected and well-known name, Jonesboro’s citizens, contributing their good will and enterprise to the mutual arrangement, will share in satisfaction over the splendid result. The two towns are demonstra ting their belief^ in our national motto. “In unity is strength” is a philosophy that has stood up under many ordeals. It is being Leaders Urge American Action To Admit Displaced Persons Of Europe This nation stands shamed before the world because of failure to do our fair share in alleviating the misery of Europe's Dis placed Persons by permitting some to find refuge here. America has not yet responded lo President Truman's appeal to fulfill our responsibilities to these thousands of homeless and suffering refugees whoi include eighty per cent of Christian and twenty per cent of Jewish faiths. We call for support of the non-partisan Stratton bill, now the subject of hearings before Congressional committee, -which under strident safeguards against abuse will permit immigration and absorption of one hundred thousand displaced persons an nually fol: four years making use of less than half of quotas un filled during war years. We affirm that these refugees are of the same humanity as those who preceded them to these shores during past centuries • and whose labors made this, country great.. We affirm the com mon responsibility .of every American devoted to our country's humanitarian tradition to share in its vindication through sup port of Citizens Committee on Displaced P.ersons, the conscience of America in this moral crisis. In the spirit of the great Puritan leader's words: "There but for the grace of God, go I," we urge your immediate gift (not tax exempt) to Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, 39 East 36th Street, New York, N. Y., Earl G. Harrison, chairman. Help ini our struggle on behalf of these disinherited of the earth. Signed: Eau:! G. Harrison, William J. Donovan, Jame6 A. Far ley, Virginia C. Gildersleeve, F. H. LaGuardia, Mrs. David M. Levy, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Herbert Bayard Swope. 1946. This regretably small fig ure is due to several causes. 1—Immigration into the United States is ^ under a quota system according to the country of birth. Of the 39,000 figure quoted by Pres ident Truman, 26,000 are as signed to the quota for Ger many and very few native- Germans can qualify as DPs. 12—Our Consular services in Central Europe are still inadequate and up to March of 1946 there were no consu lates prepared to issue visas •iio DPs. 3—Under our immigration laws quptas are not cumula tive from, year to year. In deed they are broken down into months, and if during a given month^ the full allot ment of visas are not issued, they cannot be carried over for use the following month. These are some of the reasons why even the modest attempt to bring refugees in under existing laws proved ineffective Turning to the larger immigra tion picture we find that since 1930 over 78% of the total quotas permitted by law have not been tested now everywhere, tested on used. During the war years 1940- a vaster scale than ever before. May the happy merger of these two North Carolina towns be an omen of success in those wider fields where unity, also, is the ultimate aim. LAND OF LIBERTY , in the fiel5 of domestic social leg- themselves with the problem of islation, as the first point of vul- admitted utider this program in We print on this page an ap peal signed by eight leading Americans of varying political, religious and social backgrounds asking for funds to further the cause of admittance to this coun try of 400,000 Displaced Persons. In the naine of America’s tradi tion of freedom and welcome to the oppressed, all Americans are urged to lend their aid to this cause. The story of the Displaced Per sons of Europe is familiar to most people, but this is beginning to be one of those cases where fa miliarity breeds contempt. We have all heard so much about the misery of the camps and the long ings of the inhabitants, that we have grown weary and want to hear no more. , Or perhaps the guilty feeling, which must be ours through the continued inaction of America in this world prqblem has proved too strong: we are turning away our eyes in order not to be forcibly rerriinded of our dereliction. The telegram quoted here is the briefest outline of the case. There are almost a million of these people still awaiting resettlement. Of these about 850,p00 cannot re turn tb their native lands. The reasons why they cannot or will not have been carefully sifted by the authorities. Many cannot go back because if they did they Would be imprisoned by the party now in power. In looking toward America they are, follow ing the pattern set by our early settlers The time has come when we can no longer dodge the issue' of the resettlement of these people. To date nine nations have offered employment to displaced persons, asking for special categories of workers. ,i Unsuccessful Attempt The United States has not yet formulated an adequate policy concerning resettlement of refu gees although as far back as De cember of 1945 our government reccignized that the problem existed. At that time President Truman issued a directive to facilitate the entry of refugees from the DP camps. He estimated that under our existing immigra tion laws 39,000 Central Euro peans might enter the United States during the ensuing year. Actually only 6,213 refugees were 46 only. 15%' of the quotas were used. In other words, during these six years a total of 914,762 addil tional persons could have entered this country legally. However, not one of these “might have been” entries can be carried over to 1947. ‘ Special Legi|slaiioin After careful study it-has been estimated that considering the size and economic condition of the United States, our fair share of refugees would be about 400,- 000. There is a bill now before Congress that would allow the entry of 400,000 displaced persons over a period of four years. This speoial refugee legislation, would in no way alter the regular immi gration laws or change the basic quota system. i Concerning these 400,000 ref ugees, nationality restrictions and monthly quota regulations would not apply. However, all the protective provisions of our im migration laws would apply to this special group. These provi sions include screening for physi cal fitness and political desirabil ity, guarantees that the immi grant will not be a public charge, preference for relatives of per sons already residing in the United States. This country has been vigorous as a champion of the right of the DPs to choose resettlement rather than repatriation. We must give practical support to this principle. The Stratton bill embodying the principles outlined above is now before Congress. What bet ter time could there be for its passage than on this anniversary of the winning of our indepen dence? These people flook to us who once won our way to free dom. We must not fail them. ity; yet it would be hard to im agine a life which influenced di rectly or indirectly more persons than she did. The vast host of friends which she bound to her as by “hooks of .steel,” the hearts made happy by her sympathy, the pains allevi ated by her personal care and at tention, these are the things which the newspapers cannot evaluate. Hers was the life of the “Angel of Mercy” who walked unassum ing along the pathway of duty, regardless of the pain or priva tion which lay in that path; shirking no task, no matter how unpleasant or difficult; slighting no service, no matter how appar ently insignificant. Here is the story of the effective citizen who, without pomp or parade, worked diligently for every good cause in every community which she blessed with her presence. Wherever she went, wrong was reproved and goodness exalted. Wherever she went, the commun ity took on a healthier civic as pect and developed a higher moral quality. Wherever she went, education took on new life and schools increased their ef fectiveness. Wherever she went, churches gained a new glimpse of potential service and coopera ted with each other for the com mon good. Wherever she went, disease, ignorance, immorality and smufe satisfaction with low standards of living were success fully combatted and overcome. She was the epitome of the Christian standard of service to help, to heal and to hearten. Like the ideal which the Master set for himself, she brought “'beauty for ashes, the Oil of joy for mourning, healed the sick” and comforted the despairing. (It was said of the Apostle of old that people brought their sick in order that they might be cured by the falling of his shadow, upon them. She cast no shadow, but the sun light of her ' presence helped many a helpless and hopeless per son in a new hold on life.) Not only her medical skill but her personal interest made life more, tolerable for the hundreds to whose sickness she ministered, and death became less fearful be cause of her kindly presence. Only the great record of the Angel as he writes in the Book, will ever give the true account. So we leave her with God. Announcing.... No Admission Charge Tues.f Wed. and Thurs. 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Only etemit; give a correct estimate worth of such a life as herg She wrote no books, no office, made few basked in no limelight HOULIDAY’S COFFEE SHOP Palatable, Appetizing Meals . 7 A. M. to 11 P. M.

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