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r Page Two PUBUSHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED 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 - SI.BO THREE MONTHS - .70 ENTERED AT THE, POSTOFFICC AT SOU- THERN PINES, N. C.. AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. out the big eastern section of this proposed extension would measurably reduce its expense to the town. That is a question that needs further study. So, in asking for a straw vote instead of holding a town meet ing, we may have run into a few snags. Perhaps they can be ironed;its ranks. try’s strongest bulwark against communism. Mr. Davis certainly knows whereof he speaks and the actions of all the big labor lead ers testify to the accuracy of his statement. But this action of a small local union shows that la bor must clean house throughout out by the town board, but in any event every opportunity should be offered citizens with varying opinions to express themselves. For ourselves, we believe we would favor doing the thing by degrees: taking in' the thickly, settled, obviously “town” sec tions first where control and zon ing is so badly needed. And sure ly the people already in town who expect town services should get them, regardless of tax valu ations, as soon as any new sec tion to be admitted. TOWN LIMITS It used to be the custom here to have town meetings when any big step was proposed in town affairs. Sometimes the meeting was well-attended and really got somewhere in the discussion held, sometimes hardly anyone came and no real expression of opinion was obtained; too often the oc casion served merely as a plat form for a few opinionated citi zens and no real meeting of minds was achieved. The big step being discussed this year seems to be the matter of extending the town limits and instead of calling a meeting the Town Board has, apparently, ac quiesced in the suggestion of the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce to hold a straw vote. A map outlining the proposal under discussion was placed in the postoffice and postcards for registering approval or disap proval were mailed to all voters. This may be a good scheme, and the two organizations deserve credit for cooperating to assist the town in its complicated decision. They may be performing a defin ite service to their local govern ment and as such will be carrying out one of the purposes, it would seetn, for which both groups were organized. But there is a certain disadvan tage, as well as an advantage, to this system of getting an expres sion of public opinion: It does not allow for any questions to be asked and answered or give an opportunity for discussion. The clear-cut “for” or “against” an swer required will be very hard for some to comply with. Several points appear to need further study. The map placed on the bulletin in the postoffice, shows the ex tension of town limits which had been considered some time ago. It takes in some of the newly built-up section around the Coun try Club, but carefully circles the club itself; it takes in a portion of the new development south of town on Highway 1, but not all; on the east side of town it reaches all the way to the road which crosses from the Morganton Road to the Ark School as an extension of the Old Bethesda Road, includ ing several hundred acres of woodlands. This is the map re ferred to in the Chamber of Com merce letter and therefore must be the property to which the town is ready to extend all city serv ices, according to the statement on the postcard. When this map was drawn up, the cost of the proposed extension was estimated at around $100,000. That was a good many years ago, and there is no doubt that the cost would be more than double, now. It was given up then because the cost was thought to be pro hibitive, involving as it did reim bursing property owners for all improvements made by them for the services which the town was going *10 supply. The question of expense, therefore, is bound to arise again: are we any more able to finance such a proposition pow than we were then? The present town limits in clude areas which are not getting the improvements in town serv ices which have been promised to the proposed new sections. Is it right to go ahead and take on more commitments if the town has -not been able to afford the improvements to which it was al ready pledged? In looking at the map, doubt arises as to why the Country Club was so carefully left out. This is now a private concern like any other in town; why then the dis crimination? Granted that the golf course might well be exempt ed it is hard to think of any rea son why the buildings should be. What about the extensive wood land areas where there are only a few scattered houses? This is surely not in the same dlass with the thickly built-up districts such as the Pinedene section. Our com munity needs a diversity of de velopment, room for the man who wants a big country place, with wild land around him, space for paddocks for his horses and dirt roads for them to exercise on, as well as the man who wants to live in a city block. We ought to INJUSTICE A few weeks ago, a fourteen- year-old Negro, boy received a sentence of thirty years for burg lary. There is something terribly wrong here. Surely it is beyond all reason to exact such a heavy penalty for burglary, while to put young boy into State Prison for any offense at all is an out rage. What chance has he to grow into anything but a criminal and probably a warped, perverted in dividual as well? How does it happen that a young boy can be thus deprived of any chance to reform and to make something of his life? David Bryant’s history is typi cal of juvenile delinquents. His parents were separated and he had no home. He had been up for truancy in New Bern, but nothing was done about it. Then, when he was twelve, he was caught and charged with breaking, entering and larceny and was sent to a re form school, from which he es caped to become involved in crime that culminated in the burglary for which he was sen tenced. Apparently nothing was ever done in his early years to help him to a decent life. Yet the solicitor who prosecuted the case against him said he “seemed a decent sort of colored boy.” We talk a lot about our pro gressive country, we boast of our Americanism and claim that in justice and cruelty is not tolerated here, but surely we have some thing to answer for in such a case as this. Our state puts millions of dol lars into building highways: how much does it put into welfare work, into hiring competent psy chiatrists, doctors, social work ers, how much into cleaning up slums, into the training of law officers and into hiring men of high type for supervisory work? And how much do we spend on our reform schools and the men who run them? Governor Cherry has instructed the S. B. I. to investigate David Bryant’s case, with the hope, pre sumably, that additional facts may come to light and enable him to reverse or at least lighten his sentence. This is probably all he can do, but it is doubtful if it can do much good. What is really needed is an investigation of the circumstances that made this boy v/hat he was. The S. B. I. is hardly the agen cy to compile the case history of David Bryant and what other state body is qualified to do it? Yet it should be done. For it is time that we be clear ly shown such problems as this, that we realize our responsibility for their occurence. For such tragedy will go on, young lives The labor leaders are trying to do it, but they need help, help in the form of constructive action by employment to remedy con ditions that give the communist agitator his toehold in the ranks. For along with all the lies in the statement of the tobacco workers was this paragraph: “Those who make profit out of low wages bred by disunity and hate have kept alive the remnants of slavery and race prejudice. . . we are de manding of our government that they act to bring political freedom and economic justice to the South ern States. . .” This is clear evidence of the ammunition furnished to com munists by the injustices still ex isting in our body politic. It is infuriating to every American to read the lies in this statement sent to the Italian workers, but to see that one true statement there in the middle of the lies adds a bitter touch to our otherwise just indignation. DP BILL, S. 2242 On March 2, 1948, Senator Alexander Wiley (R Wis.), chair man of the Senate Judiciary Com mittee, introduced a bill into his committee entitled “The Displac ed Persons Act of 1948.” Dean Earl G. Harrison, chairman of the Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, in a statement to the press, scored the bill as an “un satisfactory solution” and “in sufficient.” Provisions Aanalysed Here are some of the provisions which he emphasized make the Wiley bill dangerously defective: 1. The Wiley Bill provides that 50,000 displaced persons be ad mitted each year for two years. The bill is so worded that there can be no carry-over from the first year to the second in the event the full number cannot come here the first year. Since the first year starts on July 1, 1948,^ it will require almqst superhu man efforts to get administrative machinery rolling to obtain en trance for the fuU number; par ticularly in view of other pro visions which make administra tion extremely difficult. 2. No displaced person may be considered eligible unless he is assured in advance of arrival of suitable employment and decent housing which will not displace anyone else, from a job or a home. There is no doubt that ade quate housing and job opportun ities exist for displaced persons. But to insist that an individual 3,000 miles away Can be employed and housed sight unseen, is to pose an enormous difficulty. Mul tiply that difficulty 100,000 times, and the task of administration be comes formidable. 3. Perhaps the most objection able provision of the Wiley Bill is that which states that to be eli gible a displaced person must have entered the American, Brit ish, or French zones of Germany, Austria and Italy between Sep tember 1, 1939 and December 22, 1945. December 22, 1945 is the date on which President Truman directed that visas for the Cen tral European countries be used for displaced persons. The State Department has since changed that date to April 21, 1947 to in clude later arrivals who qualify Dawson To Be Presiding Officer At NCEA Meet, Asheville, April 15-17 More than 2,000 teachers, prin cipals, and superintendents, rep resenting 18,000 white teachers of the state, are expected to attend the 64th annual state convention of the North Carolina Education association to be held at Ashe ville, April 15, 16, 17. Three general sessions, four ma jor divisional meetings, and 29 de partmental meetings will be held, in addition to the usual luncheons, banquets, and social events.. Out standing state educators and vis iting guest speakers will appear on the various programs- Acting President A. C. Dawson, Jr., Southern Pines high school teacher, and lone candidate for the presidency, will preside over all general session meetings, which will be held in the Ashe ville municipal auditorium. State divisional and departmental heads will preside at the meetings scheduled for superintendents, for principals, for classroom teachers, for the division of higher educa tion, and for the subject matter groups. First Session The first general session will be held Thursday at 8 p. m. Act ing President Dawson will call the convention to order and Fred Bishop, Roxboro Bible teacher, will deliver the invocation. Greet ings will be extended by Mayor Clarence E. Morgan, Asheville, and J. W. Byers, superintendent of Asheville city schools. An added feature to all general session programs will be group singing and entertainment by Cul len Johnson, announcer and en- terfainer of radio station WRAL in Raleigh. Johnson is a former teacher and principal, and is well known for his popular radio fea ture, “Hymns of Faith.” Two addresses will highlight this first general session. Dr. W. H. Plemmons, State Education Commission executive secretary, will report on the work 'of his commission. Dr. E. B. Norton, deputy commissioner, U. S. Office of Education, will address the convention on the topic, “Teacher clear evidence that we do not practice the democracy we preach. We would be giving Soviet Russia another weapon in the “cold war”. Congressional supporters of constructive legislation for dis placed -persons have promised that when the Wiley bill reaches the floor, they will try to get it amended in such a way as to eliminate the discriminatory clauses. It is to be strenuously hoped that they will carry out their promise. Passage of the Wiley bill in its present form would be a betrayal of these peo ple so tragically situated. As such it would constitute a betrayal, as well, of American principles of decency, honor, and kindness. GRENVILLE CLARK SAID; „ - „ in all other respects as displaced will be ruined and society will I persons. To revert to the Decern- _ 1 J.X ! 1 0« 1 , _ _ . suffer until we find a better way to watch over and to help the children in the poorer strata of our society. LIES AND TRUTH The action of a small group of Tobacco workers in Winston- Salem in writing to Italian work ers denouncing American policy in Italy is a sad example of how easy it is for Communist influ ence to take hold of ignorant men. Local 22 comprises some of the workers, mostly negroes, of the Reynolds Tobacco Company. The action taken, we are informed headed by two co- chairmen of the Union, both of whom had been suspected of be-l - upcia ing Communists. It appears clear ting independently of the agri ber 22, 1945 date means that both the Jews who fled anti-Semitic terror in Poland ear.ly in 1946, and refugees from Communism in the last two years, are exclud ed from admittance to this coun try. 4. At least 50 per cent of the visas granted must be to displac ed persons formerly engaged in agriculture. This provision means that if each DP farmer brings one dependent with him, the en tire quota, is used by farmers and their families. As farming represents but one-eighth of the useful occupations of displaced persons, this is a clearly discrim inatory clause. 5. Another preference, opera- “With us, it is too commonly assumed that it is Russian perver sity alone which stands in the way of world order. I do not min imize their obduracy, born of many elements, including deep fears and suspicions. I do not even know—no one does—that the Russian rulers will not try for world domination. How fool ish to deny that this may be so But how foolish and also irre sponsible to assert that it must be so and that the cause of peace is hopeless until after the atomic war. “In any case, however grimly we choose to view the Russian attitude, we ought to recognize that it is not merely the Russians but also ourselves whom we have to persuade.” in the Land of the Free.” The first general session will be fol lowed by an informal social hour. Fo^ World Understanding The second general session, scheduled for 8 p. m. Friday, will have as the theme, “Ways to World Understanding.” Greetings will be brought by Minna Clo thier, St. Mary’s School, Finchley, Middlesex, England, now ex change teacher in Tarboro, and by Anne Stech, Winnipeg, Canada, exchange teacher at West Edge combe school. Rocky Mount. Dr. Clyde A. Erwin, state sup erintendent of public instruction, will introduce the feature speaker, Edward G. Blakeway, Manches ter, England, exchange teacher at the Needham Broughton High school in Raleigh, who will speak on “Sharing Educational Ideas through Teacher Exchange.” The second general session will be followed by the featured so cial event of the entire conven tion, the “Convention Cavalcade, an informal dance sponsored and financed by the convention ex hibitors. Delegate Assembly The Saturday morning general session will be a delegate assem bly meeting devoted exclusively to business. Reports of statewide committees will be given and the newly elected district and state officers will be introduced. Can didates for state offices are: pres ident, A. C. Dawson, Jr., Southern Pine's; vice-president, Mrs. Lu cille Allen, state president of the classroom teacher division. Hen dersonville, and Blaine Madison, principal, Methodist orphanage, Raleigh. The division of higher educa tion meeting at 10 a. m., Friday, with the divisional president. Dr. W. Carson Ryan, Chapel Hill, in charge, will present a panel dis cussion on “What Should We Do about the Report of the Presi dent’s Commission on Higher Ed ucation?” Professor G. R. Patter son, Lenoir Rhyne college, will lead the panel. Superintendents The superintendents, C. Reid Ross presiding, have planned three meetings: a dinner meeting Thursday at 6 ,p. m., a business s^ession Friday at 10 a. m., and a joint meeting with the principals, also Friday, at 11:15 a. m., for a discussion of “The North Caro lina High School Athletic Associ ation.” Dr. Clyde Erwin-and Cul len Johnson will appear on the dinner meeting program. The division of principals will hold its business meeting Friday at 10 a. m., a joint meeting with the superintendents at 11:15, and its annual luncheon at 12 noon. E. M. Thompson, president, will preside. Classroom Teachers The classroom teachers division likewise has three meetings sched uled. The first, Friday, 10 a. m., will be a business session at which committee chairmen will make their reports. The program for the Friday dinner meeting, 5:45 p. m., will consist of “Greetings from NEA” by Dr. Ralph McDonald, former NCEA president and now executive secretary of the NEA commission on teacher education and professional standards, and that the members of the Union had little notion of what they were voting for or why, or of the inpnense harm to their country’s foreign policy which their act might effect. Their leaders ap pealed to them on the grounds of prejudice and the long strug gle of labor to obtain their just deserts in wages and working conditions. The message sent to the Italian workers by this Winston-Salem local union was full of lies and it was full of half-truths, and of all the lies the impression it was intended to convey: that it repre sented the majority of American labor, was the biggest lie of all. William A. Davis, former head of the War Labor Board, told a Pilot reporter that he considered have room for both. Also, to leave American labor was this coun- cultural- preference, is that at least 50 per cent of the visas must be given to persons whose place of origin or country of nationality was “annexed by a foreign power”. This is equally discrim inatory, for it gives to a minority of the DPs who come from the Baltic States and Eastern ^Poland half the visas. But it has an even more far reaching effect—it rec ognizes the annexation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithunia and Eastern Po land. Since it is this country’s es tablished foreign policy not to recognize these annexations, the Wiley bill contravenes our coun try’s foreign policy. In short, the Wiley bill dis criminates against displaced per sons on grounds of religion, na tionality and occupation. If such a bill were passed it would be C30RD MEYERx JR. SAID; “This transformation of the U. N. from a weak league into an effective federation requires deep changes in our traditional ways of thinking. It will not be easy, and we have very little time. I do not say that war will occur next month or next year, but I think we all must recognize that we are {rapidly approaching a critical point when competing programs of national propaganda and preparedness will have swept us past the last hope of escape. We who are alive today have a brief period of garce in which we must decide the fate of gen erations to come.” ^ JUSTICE RUTLEDGE SAID; “The federal principle, applied to create liberty under law, is the basic tool by which our people have 'attained this goal. I believe that it may be used for satisfying the universal need now so appar ent. May we and others have the vision, the will, and the courage of the founding fathers to do this.” (From “A Declaration of Legal Faith”) - an address by 'Virginia Kinnaird associate secretary, commission on the defense of democracy through education. The last meeting of the CTA group wiU be a Saturday Dutch breakfast at the S & W cafeteria. Mrs. LuciUe A1 lent, CTA president, will preside over the meetings of this division In addition to the divisional meetings, Friday will be filled with sessions of the 29 depart mental subject matter groups. Departmental Speakers Well-known educators and sub ject matter specialists will appear on these departmental programs. Art and elementary teachers will hear Mrs. Wanda 'Wheeler Johns ton, supervisor of art education in the Knoxville city schools; • Paul Reid, controller of the state board of education, will address the dis trict principals; Dr. Ralph Me Donald will speak to the future teachers; and Veryl Schult, math ematics department head of pub lic schools in the District of Co lumbia. to the teachers of mathe matics. School librarians will hear No- rd Beust discuss “Today’s Books for American Youth.” Miss Beust is a library specialist in the U. S. office of education. Health, recreation, and physi cal education teachers will hear speeches by John D. Everman, recreation director, Ecusta Paper corporation; Dr. Oliver ComweU, UNC; and Mrs Annie Laurie Mc Donald, Lenoir-Rhyne college. Social Studies Council The council for the social stud ies, meeting at 12:30 p. m., Fri day, for a luncheon at the CJeorge Vanderbilt hotel, will be ad dressed by Dr. Fred Coney of Maxwell Field, Alabama. The program for English and dramatic art teachers will consist of addresses by Dr. Edwin' Mims, Vanderbilt University, and Jose phine Niggli, lecturer and author. Chapel Hill. Other departments will likewise build their programs around ma terials of special interest to the members of the respective groups. The convention wiU adjourn at noon Saturday, April 17. it ' ‘ Hknuiui shirtdress perfection. stitched in detail the undateable goodness is oil there. yoked shoulders, shirred for action; on easy, gored skirt; nice lean lines. Lots of geometric stitching to underscore its well-made look. Celanese* rayon crepe or Pima combed cotton in a handful of springtime colors. OURS EXCLUSIVELY Also black and navy sheer rayon crepe Mrs. Hayes Shop SOUTHERN PINES, N. C. Handwoven T BY THE YARD FOR MEN AND WOMEN. EXCLUSIVE COLORS AND DESIGNS. STILL $10.00 PER YARD—54 INCHES WIDE. Custom Tailoring for Women Our Regular Staff t ALSO—EXCLUSIVE MODELS READY TO WEAR. 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