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Page Two THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES. NORTH CAROLINA THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina ,941 JAMES BOYD Publisher KATHARINE BOYD . Editor VALERIE NICHOLSON Asst. Editor DAN s. RAY • • General Manager CHARLES MACAULEY - - CITY Editor C. G. COUNCIL Advertising SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - $3.00 SIX MONTHS - ^ - $1.50 THREE MONTHS .75 ENTERED AT TH^ POSTOFFICE AT SOU- THERN PINES. N. C.. AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. STRENGTH FOR PEACE In as ringing tones as our chief executive is probably cap able of, President Truman ask ed the Congress Wednesday to prepare this country for possible war. He asked for immediate enact ment of ERP, for passage of the Universal Military Training bill and for the enactment of legisla tion calling for selective service. He said: “we have paid a terrible price for our unpreparedness, and we have learned through ex perience that military strength is necesary to prevent war.” There was applause twice dur ing the speech; Once when he said “I am confident that the United States will extend to the free na tions of Europe, the support they desire and need;” the other time when at the end of his speech, he acclaimed once more the desire of this country for peace and world order. It cut in neatly be fore the final inevitable phrase when divine help, that prerequi site of success, was, by time-hon ored custom, roped into the pro gram. What of the speech? It said all the things to be ex pected and it left out all the things to be expected. It made a bow in the direction of UN, but it made no mention of the fact that we had just refused to back UN with the force we are now willing to use to back Europe. Thereby coming close to destroy ing UN for good. It said that Russia by her use of the veto. 21 times in two years, had caused the failure of UN. It did not say that the veto had been proposed by the' United States, that we had refused to give it up and that we would continue to re fuse to give it up. It did not say that Russia had a majority against her on every question proposed, including Argentina which the United States had fqrced into UN so that, controlling as we do the South American countries, we would always be sure of a ma jority of votes. It said that we had learned “through experience that military strength is necessary to prevent war.” It did not say that Ger many, Italy and Japan did not find that military strength pre vented War. Those were the expected things. But there was one .thing which the administration’s recent moves may not have led us to expect. That was the forthright, definite quality of the speech. That, in itself is something. Many, listening to the president, may have wished that he had taken a different stand. They may have longed to hear him- say that now was the time to review the whole world situation, to intro duce into the Charter of the United Nations measures leading toward the stretigthening of this body. Many might have liked to hear him suggest that the strength of America be Differ ed, not simply to the 16 nations of Europe, but to the UN, of which those nations were mem- ,bers. Many might have wished to hear a mention of universal dis armament, with the United States urging an immediate meet ing between nations to consider such a proposal. These would have been the proposals of a leader of vision and greatness. They were not heard. But instead there was heard, at least, a definite state ment of policy. That, it seems to us is’ a^ain. We do not subscribe to the theory that Russia can be scared into peace; we do not be lieve that Russia scares easily. But if those at the head of things believe that, at least they are finally acting consistently. And, certainly it is time to act. Russia’s seisure of Czechoslov akia has roused this nation to the reality of the situation and to its own responsibility in the cause of peace and freedom. If we can now carry out the President’s program of preparing for war, while work ing harder than we have 6ven started to do, yet, for peace, per haps peace can be salyaged. But if the preparedness pro gram for war absorbs all our ef forts, and if we should move, now, into the control, of the military- minded among our people, and the Russia-haters, then the UN will be lost and that “strength have little love for the so-called for peace” which the president spoke of will be nothing but strength for the war which will be bound to come. FIDDLERS When we first lived down here there were lots of fiddlers’ con ventions. They were very serious affairs, generally held in a school house. The countryside turned out for them, and everybody took sides passionately. Each fiddler had his backer there in the au dience. The applause was terrific and feeling ran high. There was nothing so exciting as a fiddlers’ convention, bringing together fif teen or twenty of the best fid dling talent of the whole area. The affair held at the Legion hut Friday night was different. There were only two fiddlers who put on special numbers, and most of the evening was devoted to square dancing, but the' same spirit was there. It was a spirit of gaiety, of simple good fun. To the infectious, lilting rhsrthm, steady as a drum-beat, of the square dance bands, the couples danced and turned, paraded round, joined hands and made a ring, swung to the left and swung to the right. The girls’ hair flew and their skirts twirled, the men shuffled, quirked their elbows out, spun on a heel, patted their toes. The prompter called the fig ures loud and- clear, and in the little Legion room the floor shook and the dust hung and the atmos phere of good time, whirling music and general asphyxiation grew higher and higher. Why the roof didij’t fly right off was something nobody could explain. There were anywhere from 100 to 150 people there, a dozen or so of them were the musicians. Looking around one spotted peo ple from every one of the many little sets that make up the town’s social life. Each one seem ed to be enjoying him or her self to the limit; there was a gl^am in every eye and a grin or a chuckle on every face. It reaUy looked as if they were having the best time ever, We are of the opinion that who ever thought up this evening’s entertainment had a bright idea. (And why not come out and say that we ’ are almost sure it was Shields Cameron?) Here is some thing that is pretty simple to put on, that appeals to all sorts of people, including, we believe, the tourists. For square dancing is growing in favor all over the country and the old-time fiddling is something that has real local color and a strong attraction for evefrybod'jj. Truman doctrine and little faith in it; it looks now as if Truman’s inept handling of the civil rights issue '^would be the final card against him. It seems more than likely that the leaders of the Democratic party will begin to look around for another standard-bearer. For the chances of winning with Tru man look slimmer and slimmer. IS TRUMAN OUT? President Truman has stirred up a hornet’s nest with his pro posed legislation on civil rights. He must have expected it in the South, but it is certain that he was far from anticipating the re sentment aroused all over the nation by this political move. Having merely hinted at our stand, we should like, now, to come out and commend Governor Cherry for not joining in with the other Southern governors in their denunciation of the civil rights proposal and their wild talk about secession. Intolerance and bigotry are not in the North Carolina tradition of intelligent libeijalism, and we trust, never will be. We are proud that our state is keeping its head and its democratic, with a small D, spirit. But to commend Governor Cherry for his stand is not to ap plaud President Truman for in troducing at this time his highly inflamatory proposal. Though we believe firmly in the principles they embody and believe that eventually they will come to pass as the education and general cul ture of both races advance, we cannot approve the president’s move. The sudden passage of a. law cannot put an end to the traditional attitude of two or three hundred years. The propos al was in itself a tragic blunder, while passage of such a law would have the reverse results from those intended, arousing passions which it would be diffi cult to quell and setting back by many years the gains already made. The generally adverse response to the president’s proposal among Northerners as well as Southern ers and among the colored people themselves shows that there is a cleat understanding of this. It shows too that the people have not been fooled as to the motiv ation behind this act. They real ize that political reasons, far more than love of justice, have dictated President Truman’s move and that is something that has arous ed the strongest resentment. Many have doubted Truman’s ability and his political sagacity, but his sincerity has hitherto not been seriously questioned. To find him now thus angling for political advantage, willing to stir up the fiercest passions in order to win votes comes as a rude shock. ' The people have grown more and more dubious about some of Truman’s domestic moves; they NO SHRINKING VIOLET General MacArthur has never been accused of shrinking from anything, least of all, perhaps, prominence and acclaim. There fore his announcement last week that he would not “shrink” from accepting the Republican presi dential nomination comes as no surprise. Even with General Eisenhower’s good example be fore him, it was probably too much to expect that he would be have any differently. So we now have a militaiy man before us as a possible president. What can be said for and against him? For him, as a military man, a good deal has been said. And a good deal has been said against him, too. As in the case of many who served in places of authority during the past war, we shall have to wait till time casts its perspective before his true value as a soldier is known. As an administrator he won un stinting praise for his organizing of the Philippines and much has been said contrasting MacAr- thuii’s role in Japan with Clay’s in Germany, to the credit of the former. But it must be remem bered that MacArthur’s task was immeasurably simpler, -and also that, there is some difference of opinion about the Japanese occu pation. 'It is fatuous to talk about dem ocratizing Japan: neither the term nor the spirit it describes could possibly be understood ther^, but the feeling is strong that little attempt has been made in that di rection by the present regime. Rather, it is reported, MacAr thur’s tendency is to play ball with the reactionaries, the big business interests who were so responsible for Japan’s entering the last war. A recent happening in Japan casts a good deal of doubt on the success, as we would like to think of success, of the General’s rule. Only a short time ago, nine Amer ican correspondents filed charges against MacArthur’s military cen sors on the grounds that they have been using ttieir authority to suppress criticisms of occupation policy. The case suggests, in the first place, that there is something to criticise about the American oc cupation of Japan, and second that criticism that has been made has been suppressed. We have not been given the true picture. A third point illustrated by this case is the one often mentioned by MacArthur’s critics, that he is potential dictator material, with a militarist’s innate con tempt for the democraCc pro cesses. This is so much the most serious charge against him that we may well ignore his conceit and his bombast and his marked unpopur laxity with his troops, even his absence from this country for eleven years, to concentrate on it. One of the greatest dangers that face this country, or any demo cratic country, during the pres ent critical times is the danger of losing its democrary. Whether it is lost through communism, or through the rise to power of a dictator, the result to the free spirit of man is much the same. General Eisenhower wisely and bravely pointed out the reasons why military men were not the ones to head our government. If his brother-in-arms. General Mac Arthur, has not taken his words to heart, it is to be hoped that the American people have. carry it into the house. It gives you a fine important feeling to stagger in with your arms full of sun. When you get it fixed up in a vase standing on the living room table it lights up the whole place.. Put it over in the dark corner and you can almost read by it. Later on we’ll be having moon light everywhere;, white dogwood moonlight, glimmering ghostly through the woods, gleaming to fairly dazzle your-eyes and make you blink when you come on it suddenly. But that’s for later. Now it’s sunspots. And isn’t it nice to have the sunshine come first? Gather ye sunshine while ye m,ay, lads and lasses! And if you’d prefer to be sophisticated and call it forsythia that’s all right by us. The Public Speaking SPRING SUNSHINE This is the time of the year down here, when sunshine ap pears in odd places. It isn’t only up in the sky, in the conventional place for the sun to be, or only reflected on a bit of water or somebody’s window, or the top of a car. But it gets right down on the ground and shines up. All around the Sandhills, right now, there are these pieces of sunlight scattered about, shining away like all get-out. Mostly thes' are in peoples yards, or maybe along some of the prettier town blocks, tucked away under the pines and dogwoods. You drive along and suddenly there is a piece of sun sitting right there by the roadside. You can almost feel its warmth as you slow down and creep past. A few people are lucky enough to have hedges of sunlight, two ribbons of it running up to their front doors, or maybe along the front of their houses. It rqust give them a, warm gay feeling when they come home. Even at night the spots of sun shine out. A nice thing about it is that you can snip some of it off and VIEWS ON PALES’nNE Aberd,een, N. C. March 8,1948. Editor, The Pilot, Southern Finest N. C. In your last issue you stated that you did not agree with me “that the British ane the ones to handle this” Palestine “affair.” You further stated that “during that time” when the British were handling it “the situation has grown steadily worse and they they have done -nothing to head it off. We see no reason at all to have confidence in British abil ity to handle the present prob lem.” Now thgre are certain facts on which we can doubtless agree; during the past few years Ameri can Jews have poured money by the millions into Palestinfs. Our Jewish Secretary of the Treasury helped greatly by rulings of the Treasury Department so that con tributions for many Jewish So cieties wiere exempt from taxa tion to the same extent that con tributions to the Red Cross are exempt from taxation. Thus the very rich Jews could contribute large amounts and get a nsduc- tibn in their taxes. This condi tion since the tie up with the or ganizations that have assassina ted so many British soldiers and non-combatants become a matter of public knowledge led to a pro test by the British Government. One Jewish writer Ben Hecht openly advertised in the New York papers asking for contribu tions in. order to help Jews to enter Palestine illegally. In this country the matter of Palestine is a political football, indulged in by politicians for what they consider is their bene fit—a game played at the ex- pl:nse of the American people who may find themselves engag ed in war with the Arab na tions. Suppose conditions were re versed and we instead of the Brit ish had held the mandate. Suppose American boys were being killed through the use of money poured into Palestine by English Jews, how would this country react to such a situation? In my considered judgment the British have been very patient and long suffering. Ernest L. Byrd Editor The Pilot Southern Pines, N. C, Dear Mrs. Boyd:— I have followed* with interest the recent altercation on the Pal estine situation appearing on your editorial page. Your original comment ex pressing confidence in the integ rity of the members of the Pal estine commission and in the wis dom of the General Assembly which approved the Commission’s recommendation for Partition, represents a very just appraisal of a problem which many consid er has put the UN on the spot. The decision was one of moral courage and it is well to observe^ that the people with little faith in the workability of the UN, and they are many, are always anxious to invent ulterior motives for the actions of member nations whose attitudes on previous is sues were not in accord with our own. Russia is being accused of fos tering Jewish-Arab intransi- geance by her vote in support of Partition and it is alleged that the tumult into which the entire Middle East will be thrown as a result of the Partition Plan will justify arbitrary intervention by Russia to “restore order” and her eventual assimulation of the Mid dle East. It would be no less unprovoked of Russia, let us say, to prejudge the United States’ act of support by fabricating the notion thiat we are desperately eager to es tablish a Jewish Home to which all Jewish Americans might be expatriated. “. . . for with what judgment ye judge, ye shall also be judged.” Your correspondent of March 1st, Mr. Byrd, is not above this readiness to question the good faith of every nation which voted Partition. But accord among for merly irreconcilable elements in the Security Council is a consider able moral achievement, a cause tbr renewed faith in the best hope of mankind, which small talk, in these delicate times, will help greatly to undermine. In disputing the legality of the General Assembly’s decision. Mr. Byrdf chooses to draw a compari son between Palestine and -New York city. The parallel is specious. In effect what he says is that a divorce court has no greater right to determine which of the di vorced pair has prior claim to their only child than it would have to intrude upon the affairs of a stable and happy family. Where there is no issue there can be no ground for comparison. Mr. Byrd all but implies that President Truman was guilty of coercing, bribing or otherwise in ducing the independent mem bers of the Palestine Commission to consider the problem on other than its own merits. He says: “President Truman forced the ac tion through the United Nations.” A final word on the legal right of the UN to prescribe Partition: The Chapter empowers the Gen eral Assembly to consider any question relating to peace and se curity and it may furthermore “recommend measures for tfie peaceful adjustment of any situ ation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to impair the gen eral Welfare or friendly rela tions.” The November 1947 reso lution on Palestine was, then, clearly in accord with the rules. Since it was ob'vious, even be fore the Commission drafted its recommendation, that the situa tion would require the attention of the Security Council, the body firimarily concerned with peace and security, the matter was for mally referred to the latter under the provision that “any such ques tion on which action is necessary” shall be referred to it by the Gen eral .A.ssembly.. Hence the matter rests with the Council and it is for the per- m,anent members to decide if and how the plan resolved upon by the General Assembly is to be im plemented. Sincerely yours, J^ohn H; Gilchrist. KIND WORDS March 15th, 1948. Mr. E. O. Hippus, The Pilot, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Dear Mr. Hippus: Whoever you are, you certain ly did a wonderful job in review ing the recent Chamber of Com merce Horse Show. My Congratulations for a grand story. Yours truly, Colin A. Gravenor, Mount Royal Hotel, Montreal, Canada. Editor The Pilot Southern Pines. Dear Mrs. Boy\i, I appreciate the item which you published about me in your paper of March 4. i There was a slight error in my name which you. may correct or leave uncorrected, as you please. Penn Seawell of our paper mis understood my name and gave it to you wrong. Later he talked with someone there, Mr. Ray, I believe, and asked that it be cor rected. In view of this, I suppose, no one is really responsible for •ihe error. However, it doesnT Imatter really. I am not so well known yet in Moore county. My grand father, James T. Adams, left Man ly. after the disastrous timber and turpentine fire which swept Moore county and several other counties one windy March day in the 80’s, I believe, jfrom West End to the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville. I have noted for some time your sharply edited, clean-cut, well-printed newspaper. It is a great credit to North Carolina, and I enjoy reading it. I read with considenabl intelfest your letter from Struthers Burt whom I have known for 25 years. Please tell him that this weather in North Carolina is nothing. In April, 1915, I saw it snow a foot deep in Wake county. That April snow was all over Eastern North Carolina. Sincerely yours, Leary W. Adams Moore County News Carthage For the loveliest legs in the Easter Parade choose enchantingly sheer Lorkwood* nylons. 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