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Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, May 7, 1948. THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT, INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA ' It depends on Moore County peo ple exclusively. KATHARINE BOYD - - - EDITOR VALERIE NICHOLSON ASST. EDITOR DAN S. RAY - - GENERAL MANAOER ' CHARLES MACAULEy' - - CITY EDITOR C. G. COUNCIL ADVERTISING SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR - $3.00 SIX MONTHS - - - $1.50 three months - .78 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOU- THERN PINES. N. C., AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. isn’t a patch on the front door sentinel garbage cans, lining the The funds raised go to supple- curbs WELCOME TO THE PRESS The Pilot extends a welcome, this week, to the editors of the newspapers, both dailies and weeklies, who have assembled in Pinehurst to attend their annual convention. They come from all over the country and we of the Sandhills are glad and proud that they chose our pinelandg of North Carolina for their yearly pilgrim age and accepted the invitation extended to them by their col league of the press of the state. It is'good that editors should meet together these days. Good at any time, but particularly now when so many great questions are before our nation. It is a serious time. There is a tension in the air that warns of the precarious ness of our position. Under the strain, the senses are sharpened, the mind grows more alert. We scrutinize the news; we study what is happening, balancing one thing against another. But even as events seem to rush ahead, so that the headlines bring shock after shock, there is sense of waiting, of pausing, with minds desperately striving to ap praise what is going on. And, be cause there is this slight pause right now, it is deeply, important that such meetings as this editors’ convention should take place- We have got to achieve unity in this country; we have got to know where we are going and to make up our minds what we are going to ^o. That IS why- it is important that thinking men and women, whose job has to do with guiding public opinion, should join together to exchange views and news and through their discussions and con ferences, try to find out what the people in this country are think ing and wanting and hoping. A newspaper, like democracy itself, is of, by, and for the people. This is a vast land with all sorts of folks living in it and, no indiv iduals are better acquainted with the varied points of view of all these different people than edi tors of newspapers. The Gallup polls purport to tell what people are thinking, and, of late, they have shown surprising unanimity on some of the great issues of the times, but these edi tors will know how strong is the feeling behind the Gallup poll vote. For instance, when there is a majority vote in favor of world government, the editors would be able to interpret it and to tell whether the voters really under stood and agreed with the impor tant point in that question; the relinquishment of sovereignty which world government would necessitate. That is the sort of thing which will make this conference so val uable to the public at large as well as to the editors themselves. Beyond that, any meeting of minds is a good thing when it takes place in an atmosphere of freedom. And that is the atmos phere that surrounds the Ameri can press. . We believe the people of the Sandhills are privileged to enter tain these visitors, and, on their behalf, we welcome them.. MATERNAL WELFARE On the Saturday' before Mother’s Day, every year, the Moore County Maternal Welfare Committee conducts its yearly drive for funds. This year, as has been the case since this organi zation started in 1935, the little tags with the baby’s head on them will be sold everywhere in the Sandhills for the benefit of this county-wide service on May 3td. This is, we believe, the only drive for funds that is held for a purely local need. The commit tee itself is composed of Moore County women and the money they raise goes entirely to Moore County people. There is no great state or national organization be hind it and taking part of its funds. Everything done, and everything raised is right here and stays right here. This is not to disparage in the least the other worthy causes that enlist the aid of our people: It is merely to point out that this cause has to stand on its own without any help from outside. ment the travelling expenses of the county nurse in charge of maternal and baby health, to pa5' for clinic supplies, to pay a fee to the doctors who attend the clinics. It is hoped to raise enough money this year to make this fee more nearly commensurate with the and effort they expend. Besides that, there are alwdys extra ex penses for mothers who need help with the “baby budget”, or whose savings, set aside for this import ant event, prove inadequate when there are unexpected extras to be met. The benefi^s from the prenatal ciinic and after-care service have been clearly visible in the 'decline in mothers’ deaths as shown in county statistics. At the start of the work maternal mortality was higher in Moore County than in most places in the world; it stood at 16 deaths to 1000. Now the fig ures have dropped to one of the lowest county figures in the state, to about 5 to 1000, this year and this is counting two cases which came into this county late and did not have the benefit of the clinic service. It would seem' that this was a service to humanity that had been markedly successful. .Back of the figures and the statistics, lies the the intangibles, so much more important, often, in work of this sort. The numbers of homes spar ed the tragedy of the death of the mother, the number of mothers reassured and strengthened through the service and assistance of the nurse-widwife; then there are midwives trained and those who are unfit eliminated from this service. Gradually, as the figures show, the midwives are dropping out of the picture entirely, as more and more mothers go to physicians. The education of mothers in the care of their bab ies and of their own health is another angle of this work, not shown in the statistics. There is a saying among those who work in this field; “A mother saved is a home saved”.. The truth of it is obvious: without the mother’s presence, the helpless father too often proves inade quate to care for his family, the children grow up in neglect or un friendliness, and drift away. It is these broken homes from which come most of the juvenile delin quents who, as adult criminals, fill our prisons. From every angle this • cause must appeal to citizens of MoOre County. On Tag Day, this Sat urday, they will have their chance to support it- A proper garbage truck ,c6sts a lot pf money; granted; to collect the garbage daily costs a lot of time; also granted. Remains the fact that the thing has got to be done. 'We can’t go on into anoth er season with such unattractive, unsanitary streets. Editorial Opinion Differs Widely On Chances Of Presidential Candidates V-E DAY REMEMBERED May 8th is the anniversary of V-E Day. , Many things have happened since then: many discouraging things. Wars rage today in va rious parts of the world, assassin ations take place, brave men kill themselves in despair. And around us, a few people speak blithly of another war. It would be well to stop a bit and think, oil V-E Day. To think back to that moment when in Europe the guns stopped firing The war in the Pacific was still going on, but thousands of people everywhere suddenly took a deep breath, and most of them went to church to say a prayer of thank fulness. Even those still torn with anxiety for men fighting the Jap anese felt new hope: ware could end. But these people, who had seen one war end and another begin, Sorne of the editorial opinion being printed these days on the various president^! candidates makes extremely interesting read ing, _while the difference of opinion on the chances of the va rious leaders in the race seems astonishing. Lately we have been reading “The New Campaign Look,” by PM’s brilliant Max Lerner and About Eisenhower Drummond believes that the anti-Truman Democrats are de termined to get Eisenhower if they can. “They are entirely aware,” he writes, “that General Eisenhower isn’t going to yield to a ‘politician’s draft’ to run for the Presidency, and that he wouldn’t intentionally put himself in the position of reversing himself just the Christian Science Monitor’s,to rescue the Democratic Party.” •■‘State of the Nation” in -which, So the Democratic strategy will its author. Roscoe Drummond, dis’ibe to stay away from’the General cusses the chances of General I until he can be drafted on the Eisenhower. To contrast the two; convention floor. But Drummond is to realize how infinitely com- appears to doubt the feasibility plex is the political picture and of this tactic, while he thinks the how unpredictable the future. CLEAN UP Garbage cans are the i-everse of children: they may be heard but not seen. 'We would welcome the clatter of garbage cans being emptied If they could only remain out of sight. It is time that Southern Pines made up its mind to do something about this problem. Our streets are lydeous with garbage cans sitting out in front of every house. Often they are turned over and the refuse spilled out onto the street and sidewalk. The streets of our town are unus ually attractive, the front yards of most places are nicely planted, green grass and well-kept shrub bery are the rule. It makes as good a background, or as bad one, for the garbage cans as any other. This is admittedly not an easy problem to tackle, but, after all our town is not so very .different from other towns. In Pinehurst, for instance, the garbage can is not in evidence. Some to-vlms have a system whereby -a garbage truck rolls slowly along the street, while two men carry a big container through the backyards, from door to door, tmptying the garbage into it as they go. Here, the bearers might have to do some high hedge-hop ping if they followed that system, but even if they went along the front, walking in to every .house, the thing ought to be done. This defacing of oUr town ought to stop.. This is right down the Chamber of Commerce’s alley, a project of great benefit to the town both lo cally and from a tourist stand point. And it would please the members, we suspect, if the or ganization took up the improve ment of existin'g situations as well as starting new ideas. Speaking of alleys, they ought to be included in a clean-up plan, too, and so ought some of the empty lots. The lot next to the Gouger’s Electric shop, for in stance, is full of refuse, including broken bottles and old automobile tires. It looks as if the service station there and the taxi people, both, just made a habit of throw ing things over the fence. That lot has come in for consid erable criticism; it was the sub ject of one interested and public- spirited young officer’s letter to the Pilot once, and he volunteered to help clean it up. But his offer was not accepted and the refuse stayed there. That lot is an eyesore, but it knew this time„ that wars could begin again. Most of them, as they said their prayers, or spoke together of peace, made a great resolve that there should be no third world war. 'We need to think back to that resolve and to make it again. We have an enemy today as we had then, and it is perhaps as dan gerous. We are trying another course from that we pursued the last time. It is a course that seems more intelligent, and let us hope -it really is.' This time we know that there is danger of another war, and we are implementing our determination against such an outcome with definite steps. On one hand, we are doing all we can to eliminate the conditions that breed war, and, on the other, we are trying what a show of the tremendous force this country possesses will do to make our ad versary stop and think. Most people agree with these two companion measures,'but it is terribly important for their suc cess that we remember what stands behind them: the deter mination that we shall not have another war. General Eisenhower said that the only way to will a war, riow-( adays, was not to have orte. On 'V-E Day, it would be well to rededlcate ourselves to that old resolve. Then, while backing the government in its present pro gram to insist that every ounce of effort shall go into strengthen ing the UN, and into doing every thing possible to bring about bet ter understanding with Russia. ■We must leave no stone unturn ed to find a way for Russia and ourselves, the two greatest peoples of the world, to live at peace with one another. For those who gave their lives in World War 1 and World War 2, and for the great heritage of lib erty and brotherhood for which they fought,-we must m&ke again that fervent pledge: that there shall be no more war. In view of our understanding with Mr. McKiethen that he was not inclined to make an active race and the conviction of the people that he is well qualified to serve in this important position and in view of our desire to assist him in every way possible, we thought it only proper to make this statement in his behalf. * Cordially yours. hope of persuading the General to run is “the sheerest pipe dream.” He says that Washington correspondents see only one pos sible condition “which could bring about General Eisenhower’s ac ceptance. That would be the Re publican Party’s nomination of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. Such a nomination would constitute Re publican acceptance of the ‘war crisis’ character of the 1948 elec tion and, in the opinion of the Democrats, would fully justify General Eisenhower in accepting hower, I should choose Stassen. To be sure, Stassen is far more ruthless and shifty in his tactics than Vandenburg, and fgr more of a demagogue. His insistence that the British receive no aid unless they stop socialization; his lumping socialism and commun ism as if there were no crucial differences between them; his attacks on any further shipments of goods to Russia; his play-acting on the Pauley speculation episode; his demand for the suppression of the Communist Party: all these are the attitudes of either a reac tionary or a demagogue or both. Yet despite the fact that Vanden- berg is of a finer grain, he seems stuck deep in the rut of the Tru man foreign policies, and it is hard to see him getting out of the rut. One feels about Stassen, as one feels even more about Douglas and Eisenhower, that their minds are still in flux, that their no tions of policy have not yet jelled, and that; they might meet new crisis situations with imagination as well as strength. “This is a time when imagina tion and growthiness of mind may prove more important than the old opinions in the old moulds.”—Max Lerner. Leon Seymour E. O. Freeman 1 ‘a call to duty in an emergency.’ ” Paul C. Butler* “But this is addink a large un- Mrs. W. D. Caviness likelihood to a great improbabil- J. D. Arey, Jr. jity” says the columnist, “and the Francis Pleasants Dr. Alex H. McLeod consensus is that both nomina tions have the thinnest of pros- H. A. Gunter pects.” The Public Speaking To The Editor of The Pilot We wish to make a statement with respect to the candidacy of Mr. Jere N. McKeithen of Aber deen for the Democratic nomi nation as a member of the MoorCj County Board of Education. Mr. McKeithen filed for^ this position only after the urgent in sistence of many of his friends in Moore County and more particu larly in Aberdeen. He has made it clear to those of us who request ed that he seek the nomination that he was not inclined nor could he spare sufficient time from his business to make an active cam paign. From our conversations with him we know that he decid ed to file for the post only from a sense of duty to be of public service and from the_ many re quests of his friends. The citizens of this section ap preciate the fact that members of the County Board of Education should have no particular local interest but should undertake to solve all school problems fairly and impartially from the stand point of need rather than locality. We are alert, however, to the fact that in the proposed 'bond issue for school improvements it is planned that a substantial amount of the proceeds will be allotted to improvements in the Aberdeen district and it is only natural that we would like to see an Aberdeen man on the Board at this import ant time. Knowing Mr. McKeith en as we do, however, we are con fident that he would give careful attention and study to the needs and problems of other localities L. P. Kellis J. M. Taylor Mrs. W. T. Huntley M. B. Pleasants G. L. Farrell Mrs. H. L. Marks J. B. Edwards Mrs. S. L. Windham F. H. Brown C. F. Buffkin Ray McDonald Mrs. Todd Baxter J. D. Lawson T. T. Overton Charles S.' Patch, Jr. A. B. Patterson . P. V. Hatch High W. Hobbs . Apr. 26,’48 Editor, The Pilot; Just a year ago today, I wrote a communication to The Pilot crit icising Henry A. Wallace, who was then acting as the most inferior Secretary of Commerce who has ev^r served in that position in the history -of the U. B. His base form of propaganda at the time was to officially announce that -business in this country was about to go on the rocks; His Dept, of Com merce, largely influenced by an irresponsible statistical agency, got out a bunch of phoney and misleading statistics to the effect that millions and millions of men would be out of any employment in 1947; that a panic might occur in his beloved Wall Street, (which this country has always had and needed) and that a very dark fu ture was in store for the whole U. S. A. This was just the time worn type of propaganda always used by “non Communist” Lib erals and real Communists to push themselves and their parties to the front. We all know that'Libev- alism has no place in times of pros perity. Instead of millions out of work in 1947, we had some 60,- 000,000 fully employed, a new high for all time! Business also boomed to a new peacetime high! But the crushing, almost cruel blow to Wallace’s prognostica tions came today, Apr. 26, 1948, just one year later, when the Bu reau of Labor Statistics of Wash ington, D. C., stated that “Em ployment in the U. S. is headed for New Peaks, exceeding last year’s 1947 record of 60 million jobs!” No wonder President Tru man fired Wallace from his cabi net. There was no other course. It was just another means of Wal lace’s expressing his base disloy alty to his country’s chief execu tive. Today we also see Wallace’s Third Party has been given a rousing reception in the state of North Carolina. Wallace for Pres ident clubs have sprung up throughout the state. His running mate as vice-president. Senator Glen Taylor, was actually per mitted to address the student body at the University of N. (^. Previously to this, our state Capi tol had received Wallace with wide open arms in a mixed gath ering at Raleigh. Here Wallace made a public address (which was awful) with hearty endorsement of Josephus Daniels his host, and a very prominent Raleigh clergy man. I strongly believe in Fredom of Press, Speech and Religion, but it’s a question, a big question in my mind, if such liberties should be enjoyed by any man of the Wal lace type. Mark, my wordjs. The Third Party with Wallace as its leader has no place in this state or in fact any state in the U. S. A. It’s place is in the Segregated Red VISITORS STAR RATSON WHOLESOME ECONOMICAL yreepj' doyj' in trim" Aberdeen Supply C!o. Aberdeen, N. C. Phone 8661 Light District of Moscow- Julian T. Bishop.- date against Wallace and Eisen- PM's Lerner Says That is the Monitor correspon- dant’s view. In PM, we find Ler ner, in an analysis of all possibili ties. Democratic and Republican, listing Eisenhower as one of the leading candidates. He speaks of “the reemergence of Eisenhower, this time as a Democratic possibili ty,” and goes on, “That possibility has now become almost a proba bility.” Reviewing the entire field, Ler- .ner writes: ‘•To get at the valid analysis, one must broaden the field of study, and take in the personali ties now in the forefront in all three parties. There is, of course, Henry Wallace, who shows no signs of losing the substantial minority strength he has built up. In the case of the Democrats, Tru man is through, and the problem has now become how to lose, him ‘gracefully’ (as it is being put) before he loses disgracefully. The man most acceptable to all wings of the Democrats is obviously Gen. Eisenhower, the man want ed by most Democratic liberals is Justice Douglas. And in the case of the. Republicans the earlier hunch that the fight Would be between Dewey and Taft was good enough under the earlier conditions, but it hgs gone glim mering because the conditions that gave it substance have gone glimmering. “In the new alignment of Re publican hopefuls, the bets are now on two other men as the leading contenders; Sen. Vanden burg and Harold Stassen. Two months before the convention, Dewey and Taft have taken on a slightly archaic flavor; such former dark horses as Warren and Saltonstall are no longer spoken of; the vicious big boom for Mac Arthur has for the present proved a thudding failure; and the dis mal little boom now being started for Speaker Joe Martin (who, if he were President, would make Truman look like a giant in sta ture) will also peter out. Only Harold Stassen who has kept him self boldly in the foreground, and Sen. Vandenburg who has kept himself discreetly in the back ground, remain as the major fig ures to be reckoned with. If Stas sen makes a good showing against Taft in Ohio, and against Dewey in the primaries of the Western states, there will no longer be any doubt left that the fight will be between the young Minnesotan and the Elder Statesman from Michigan. ♦ Stassen or Vandenburg “Returning to the Republicans, and their New Look candidates, it might seem hard to find a com mon denominator for a man as young and vigorous as Stassen and a man as old and tired as Van denburg. Yet note that both are conservatives on basic domestic issues, and the Republican mood is distinctly in that direction. Note also that both have built up reputations as internationalists. Actually neither of them has quarreled sharply with the basic Truman foreign policies. Yet Van denburg has, always managed to suggest the attributes both of dig nity and astuteness, and thus to suggest that he could work the current policies better than Tru man. And Stassen, by his visit with Stalin, his service at the ^an Francisco Conference, and his mild world-government over tones, has also struck the inter national note. “If I were a Republican delegate, and had to choose between Stas sen and Vandenburg for a candi Among interesting' visitors to Southern Pines last week were the famed Tex Beneke and his or chestra, who stopped at the Sand wich Shop Sunday for lunch en route to Florida from the north. 'The 22 musicians apparently enjoyed their meal here and had nice things to say about the town. For many of them it was their first stop here. BURNEY HARDWARE ABERDEEN. N* C. LEE'S BEACH—White Lake. N. C. Cool, comfortable modern hotel and cottages. For reservations call White Lake Phone 2063. For Motlier’s Daf Give JEWELRY The Everlasting Gift KARNIMAX CARTHAGE. N. C. REGISTRATION NOTICE The Registration Books Open 9 A. M., May 1st,, and Close Sunset May 15, for Registration of Voters Having Become 21 Years of Age or Other'wise Qualified Since Last Election. PRIMARY MAY 29TH Polling Places Open 6:30 A. M. Close 6:30 P. M. S. C. RIDDLE, Chairman MOORE COUNTY BOARD OF ELECTIONS REAL ESTATE OWNERS AND BUYERS Do you want to Buy or Sell Real Estate? If so. it will pay you to contact Mr. Tague who is Professionally Trained, a licensed Broker, with years of experience and located at D. H. Turner's Office over Broad Street Pharmacy, West Broad St„ Southern Pines, N. C. Office' phone 8232. Residence phone 6701. IN STOCK 5 V - CRIMP ALUMINUM ROOFIN6 $10.00 Per Square SANFORD HARDWARE
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