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THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, April' 29, 1949.
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TOWN ELECTION
This is a week of voting. On
Tuesday the school bond issue was
passed; the election of mayor and
five town commissioners is still
to take place.
It is to be strongly hoped that
this vote will draw a large turn
out. It is true that in the case of
the mayor and three of the com
missioners the outcome is prob
ably a foregone conclusion. Mayor
Page, Eugene Stevens, Joe Steed
and L. V. O’Callaghan have all ex
pressed their willingness to run
and they are almost certain to he
re-elected. As shown in the re
sume of the record of these past
two years, printed elsewhere, their
term has given the town a reason
ably good government and they
have accomplished some very
worthwhile things.
With several stalwarts in line for
the two openings on the town
board, and with the reelection of
the rest of the board and the may
or a pretty certain thing, it looks
as if Southern Pines was going to
have a good board for this next
term. Nevertheless it must be re
membered that these people can
not serve unless they are elected.
It is up to the people of the town
to show them that they want
them, to prove by the enthusiasm
with which they signify their
choices and then go on to vote for
them that the town wants a good
active, progressive government;
wants one, needs one, and is going
to get one.
A GOOD LETTER!
In an adjoining column the
Pilot prints a communication
which is both timely and imj^or-
tant. It is from H. L. Bryant,
principal of the Berkeley School
at Aberdeen, and ably presents
what we believe to be the views
of the great majority of colored
Americans on the subject of their
country and the threat of Com
munist Russia.
Mr. Bryant writes specifically
about Paul Robeson, and his re
marks before the so-called World
Peace Conference in Paris, in
which this great Negro artist pre
sumed to speak for his race in
America in asserting that no Ne
gro would ever fight against Rus
sia.
The Robeson statement is, of
course, absurd. There are only
a small handful of Negroes, as
there are only a small handful of
white Americans, who are delu
ded enough about Communist
Russia to imagine that things are
perfect over there. Actually, there
is not a doubt that the rights of
minorities in Russia are not con
sidered at all. Robeson and other
Negroes who have travelled and
lived in Russia have been made
much of, partly for propaganda
reasons, but let pnough Negroes
go there, and let them try to act,
talk, or vote with any indepen
dence, and their treatment would
be very different. It would be
just what it is for anyone who
tries to act independently in a to
talitarian state.
The lot of ‘the Negro in Amer
ica is far from ideal. Grave in-
. equalities in opportunity, in edu
cation, in health facilities, in
many of the essentials pf living,
exist here. But they are not as
bad as they were, and, here, there
is some way of remedying them.
Slow, halting, and unsatisfactory
as the democratic process is, there
is a process: something can be
done.
Mr. Bryant has put his finger
• on the point when he says the
- Negro “feels that with an educa
tion he will be able to solve his
own problems.” That strikes us as
one of the best simple statements
of independent democracy that
we have seen.
The Pilot agrees with it whole
heartedly. It is especially wel
come coming at just the time
when a stride forward has been
taken in our own state in the
realm of Negro education.
For Governor Scott last week
appointed the first Negro to serve
on the State Board of Education.
Here is another welcome instance
that the Negro is at last begin
ning to be given, in the South,
that chance to solve his own ^
problems ,of which Dr, Bryant
wrote.
Congratulations to the gover
nor on this appointment; good
wishes to the new member, and,
to our correspondent from Aber
deen, the Pilot’s thanks for this
timely and effective letter.
NAVY KEEL HAULED
Last week the papers carried
the story of the laying of the keel
of a gigantic aircraft carrier.
Photographs accompanied the ac
count, showing the enormous dry-
dock with the steel keel at the
bottom of it. The next day came
the news of the cancellation of
the order for the ship: “orders
from the President and the Sec
retary of Defense,” was the word.
This story illustrates as noth
ing else could the extraordinary
state of things in Washington in
which the heads of the armed
services appear to have come
pretty close to defying the au
thority of the head of the govern
ment.
It. is probable that this blow-up
has been making for some time.
During the war, the men at the
head of the fighting forces were,
understandably, directing not
only our military but much of our
domestic policy. Necessarily so.
But whereas at the end of other
wars, these men have receded
into the background of the pic
ture, this time, because of the oc
cupation of Japan and Germany
and the threat of Soviet Russia,
the case has been different. Many
of the high posts of diplomacy are
held by military or naval men
while Clay and MacArthur reign
supreme, each in his sphere.
All this has resulted, perhaps,
in a certain inflated attitude on
the part of service people, to
which the mounting wave of ri
valry between the services has
added fuel. Because there was
rivalry, because each branch was
determined that if the threatened
unification came it would be not
that branch but the other two
who were reduced in size and im
portance, it became even more
necessary than ever to impress
the country with a big todo. No
chance must be missed for folks
to realize that the Army, or the
Navy or the Air Force, was the
most important one.
It looks as if the Navy’s new
carrier had been going to be the
Navy’s big todo. And it looks as
if the President and Secretary
Johnson had gummed their game.
All this is something to make
Americans squirm. First off, it is
a public muddle and mess that is
humiliating and will be hard to
explain. How is it possible that
such a gigantic enterprise as the
building of the biggest carrier
ever planned could be started
without the knowledge of the
Secretary of Defense or the Pres
ident? Yet not until the story
and the photographs appeared in
the papers was the work stopped.
This is lack of liaison in high
places that is hard to believe and
beyond excuse. It would appear
to come pretty close to insubordi
nation, while, in the waste of
money and material, it is sicken
ing tp contemplate.
There has been long and loud
talk of the need for unity in the
armed forces; this latest incident
makes the point more plain. It is
high time not only for unity but
for that proper subordination of
military to civilian control and
policies which has been and ever
will be the strength of our dem
ocracy. It is high time to clear up
the muddle.
TOWARD WORLD
GOVERNMENT
North Carolinians, who read the
following editorial from the April
14th issue of the Christian Science
Monitor, may recall with suitable
pride that, of the growing number
of states to vote for World Gov
ernment, North Carolina was the
first.
(From The Christian Science
Monitor)
The “world gbvernment” front
advances. On the Pacific Coast
last week the California' Legisla
ture, by an overwhelming majori
ty vote, asked President Truman
and Congress to call a constitu
tional convention as a step toward
world federation. On the Atlantic
Coast this week a group of 50
Massachusetts business and civic
leaders urged on Secretary Ache-
son that the United States declare
the ultimate aim of its present
foreign policy to be the “achieve
ment of peace based on world gov
ernment.”
There is ho use blinking the ti
tanic difficulties which stand in
the way even of a federation of
derhocracies, not to speak of - a
genuine world government. It ns
easier for state legislatures to pass
resolutions than for national offi
cials to call a “constitutional con
vention” with even a remote hope
of success at this time. It is easier
to state ultimate aims than to en
visage or agree on specific, prac
tical steps.
Yet by pressing for law the
sideration of its desirability. Ar-
community is educated to the ne
cessity for law. Only by holding
an ideal firmly in mind can daily
actions be guided in the direction
of that ideal. Men will not drift
toward world law, schooled only
by an academic and wistful con-
From California
Out in Marin County, Califor
nia, Elizabeth R. Smith wi;ites
feature ■'stories and does straight
reporting for the Vournal Inde
pendent.
In her off tiinie (and there isn’t
much of it,) she thinks about the
Sandhills where she used to live
and where she comes every win
ter to visit her mother, Mrs. C.
M. Rudel. . . and she thinks about
a lot of other things, too. Some
of her thoughts, under the title
“Cnee Oyer Lightly,” are, we
hope, going to find their way into
the columns of The Pilot.
The first thoughts are printed
below. We are confident our
readers will enjoy the light touch
that goes over with a bang, char
acteristic of the Pilot’s new cor
respondent from California.
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Once Over Lightly
By Elizabeth R. Smith
There is a conspiracy afoot
which is of the greatest impor
tance to the Sandhills.
There are many alleged, inferred
and suspected plots of all sizes and
shapes, and in varying degrees of
menace, worrying people today.
There is the Butter plot against
Oleo, the Real Estate plot against
public housing, the Politburo plot
against UN and the AMA plot
against national health insurance.
These are insignificant.
And what is more, they lack the
finesse and subtlety of the plot
which I am satisfied exists, if only
on the basis of circumstantial evi
dence. Nothing more is needed.
The suspected perpetrators are
such innocent and friendly seem
ing rvials as Sea Island, Hot
Springs and White Sulphur, and
the chain of sunspots down the
Florida coasts. Personally, I can’t
see that any one of them is a
proper competitor with the Sand
hills, once you get there. But
getting there is the kernel of the
conspiracy.
You can boa^d a train in Penn
station and get to any of them in
“Pullman Safety and Comfort.”
Or you can board a train in Penn
station and be ready for the osteo
path when you topple off in South
ern Pinei.
Numbers of lithe streamliners
drift through Southern Pines daily
and nightly, but( do they deliver
passengers to the station plat
forms? No. Only mail.
The Sandhills visitor, who has
booked his bed months in advance
at one of the hotels, is ready to
crawl in it by the time he gets
there. He has survived a sleep
less night, especially terrifying
around Baltimore and Washing
ton, when the whole train bucks
like a brahma bull, and the prone
passenger meets himself in the
middle as he shuttles up and down
his berth.
Not only that. If he hasn’t had
the foresight to sustain himself
before he boards the Whipsaw, he
can walk half way to Philadelphia
before he gets to the diner, which
is reported to "be hidden occasion
ally between the baggage cars.
Going nolth is no pleasure
either. The ride is decep'^vely
comfortable until somewhere
around Richmond. After that the
best way to be certain of arriving
in New York without needing an
ambulance is to make a sort of life
preserver of the pillows and the
extra blanket, and spend the rest
of the night trying to outguess the
engineer.
The fine railroad which serves
us, and to which most of us feel a
softly sentimental attachment, has
several very nice trains. They
have double bedrooms, pleasant
lounge cars, and good service. But
they go through the Sandhills at
such an awkward hour that prac
tically no one takes them to come
here.
We have fixed up our station,
and present a very good front
now, but it would certainly help
if our visitors could get here in a
state of good repair and a happy
frame of mind.
On second thought, though,
maybe they stay longer than they
otherwise would, building up their
health against the trip back.
Grains of Sand
Congratulations to the Cham
ber of Commerce and Manager
Tom White on the lively sheet.
Chamber of Commerce News,”
he put but recently—BUT,—what-r
ever happened to thp name
“Sandpaper” the C. of C. bulletin
received last year? Seems like we
remember there was a contest last
year to name it, and Mrs. O. A.
Dickinson won the $5 prize for
submitting the winning name. We
liked it, too.
A lot of people enjoyed Emily
Forrest’s art exhibit in the Fine
Arts room at the library last
week, but others were disap
pointed when they went in Sat
urday afternoon and found it
gone.
Emily, an absent-minded artist,
thought the library closed Satur
day afternoon. She went in at
lunch time, when Miss Churchill,
the librarian, was out, and got all
her pictures and took them home.
We were one of the disappointed
ones. We took a quick look early
in the week, and went back Sat
urday to spend some time enjoy
ing her lovely portraits—to find
ourseK staring at blank walls.
We’re going out to that studio
on Orchard road and hang over
her shoulder* all one afternoon
watching her paint, just to. get
even.
A hotel visitor left word at the
library that he wanted to buy one
of the paintings. Before Emily
could get the message he had
moved on, no doubt a disappoint
ed man. She’s trying to get in
touch with him and we hope they
get together.
nold Toynbee argues that a pro
longed cold war may be the very
influence needed to force the de-
mocracries to unite in a federa
tion, but this will not happen au
tomatically unless democratic
eadership pushes shrewdly toward
that end.
It may be that the United Na
tions will prove in the long run
to be the embryo of a limited
world government, as the Atlantic
Pact may less remotely prove to
be the embryo of a federal union
of democracies. The two ideals
endanger each other to a consid
erable extent, but are not neces
sarily or fatally antagonistic. If
the Atlantic Pact can be carried
through without straining the
seams of the UN too greatly, then
a not-too-distant Atlantic Union
might be achieved without jeopar
dizing that further idealism which
holds to the goal of a strengthened
with an education he will be able
to solve his own problems. He
world organization empowered to
enforce world law.
‘ And have you noticed what an
artist’s colony we’re becoming?
Glen Rounds, Pat Stratton, Emily
Forrest, Nina Hill, Marian de
Costa and several others. . . And
not a surrfealist in the lot.
Do you mutter a little rhyme
under your breath when you need
to know how many days in a cer
tain month? “Thirty days hath
September—” it’s probably the
most oft-repeated piece of poetry
in the English language. And
have you' ever stopped to won
der about February, “which has
but 28, in fine, till Leap Year
gives it 29?”
Miss Beatrice Cobb, publisher
of the Morganton Herald, got to'
wondering about .that “in fine”
which she had repeated so often
in a rriechahical ■way, and inquir
ed about it in her column, “Folks,
Facts and Fancies.” 'We see that
Dr. Arthur Talmadge Abernathy,
“the Sage of Rutherford college,”
came up with the explanation.
“The word ‘fine’, ” Dr. Abernathy
wrote, “is from the Latin ‘finis’,
the ablative form ‘fine’ meaning
‘in conclusion’ or ‘in the end’. ”
So now you know.
Headlines in other papers fas
cinate us, who have struggled so
often with those of our own. . .
It’s no easy job, to have your
headline say what yhu want it to,
and at the same time fit the arbi
trary measure of type. . . We rem
ember when we first started writ
ing headlines, and Roy Ray, com
posing room chief on the Win
ston-Salem Journal, would bring
an occasional too-lengthy one
back to us for revision, with the
laconic comment, “All out of rub
ber type today.”
Ike London, Who prints the
Rockingham Post - Dispatch, has
no such worries. . . He gets the
nearest thing to rubber type, by
dropping a 'letter wherever he
pleases, substituting an apostro
phe, which takes little space. . .
A sample was one front page
headline, “Football Frid’y.”
And Louis Graves, of the
Chapel HiU Weekly, makes his
headlines do just what he pleases,
even make poetry. . . Here’s one
two-column, 14-point head which
deserves some sort of immortal
ity; “For the Tender Grass’s Sake,
■What We Need’s a Wooden Rake
—Say, to Make a 'Visitor Glad,
Where Can Such a Rake Be
Had?”
And from the Sanford Herald—
a note about Mr. and Mrs. John
Nixon, who while visiting in
Asheville had lunch with the fa
mous “lovelorn” editor, Dorothy
Dix. . . “She is the most charm
ing person it has been my pleas
ure to meet in many a day,” said
Mrs. Nixon. \ . “She has a won
derful sense of humor and you
would never guess she is 87 years
old” ... She told the Sanford-
ites the letter she had received
which had amused her the most
was from a 17-year-old girl who
wanted information on “how to
look hot and stay cool.”
One of our friends who has a
smart little granddaughter eight
years old expresses himself as de
lighted with the progress she is
making in our public school. . .
She has been to private school
till this year, and has always
done well. . . But now, in the
third grade at the Southern Pines
school, she is really being educa
ted, he says. . . Which means
something, for he has good old-
fashioned views on what “educa
tion” means.
‘She can talk to us on practi
cally any subject,” he says. “Her
infofmation frequently astounds
us and we are beginning to think
she is the best educated member
of the family.”
The Railway Express somehow
holds a perennial fascination. . .
Though we know mighty little
about it, and suspect that few do
. . . Even those who work for it
,get only a small look at its far-
flung operations. . .
M. F. Beasley, the local agent,
tells us that the new Coronet will
have a story about it called “Any
thing Goes By Express” ... It is
due to hit the stands this week.
*
It is no secret that Pinehurst is'
golf-minded. . . A fact which' is
proved all over again by a new
story from over there, concerning
a guest who walked up to the
desk at the Carolina hotel and
said, “Birdie bogie birdie.” The
clerk never batted an eye—just
gave him the key to Room 353.
The Pilot didn’t particularly
appreciate receiving a phony let
ter' last ■week boosting several
gentlemen of the town for mayor
and the town board. . . And we
don’t believe any of those men
tioned would appreciate this type
of support either, with the pos
sible exception of the one of
them whom we suspect of writing
it.
We had no trouble spotting
this as a fake. . . It smelt a mile
off. :
THE WAY IT SEEMS ... at tax
times and other times wheii the
load seems heavy:
CONFIDENTIAL
Democrats and Republicans take
note:
Balance sheet for year just end
ed:
Population of USA 135,000,000
People 85 or older 37,000,000
that this country will eventually
be as Democratic in fact as it is on
paper. Anyway, right or wrong,
it’s ,our Country. • We know no
other, so we fight for the preser
vation of a principle that is ours. ,
■H. L. BRYANT.
4berde.en.
(Mr. Bryant is principal of the
Berkeley school at Aberdeen. We
feel he is an able .spokesman for
his people and appreciate this ex^
pression of his views on Paul
Robeson’s pro-communistic speech
made in Paris last week.)
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Balance to do work 98,000,000
People 18 or younger 54,000,000
Balance to do work 44,000,000
Working for gov’t 21,000,000
Balance to do work 23,000,000
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Just TWO . . . You and I . .
And you’d better get a wiggle on;
I’m getting tjred of running this
country alone.
—Gyrator (published by Rotary
club of Chicago)
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names and addresses of the
senders are made kno'wn to
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ANSWERING ROBESON
To the Editor, The Pilot:
Judging by the statement made
by Mr. Paul Robeson to the World
Peace Conference in Paris, it
seems that he has a pdor concep
tion of colored Americans. The
colored American feels proud of
his country and tias the same
visions and hopes that any other
American has.
He knows that in many instances
his rights so nobly written in the
constitution of the United States
have been ignored because of evil
circumstances. Still he feels that
reads of groups or organizations
that have made plans for him to
overthrow this government, “pf,-
for and by the people.” He is
ashampd of Mr. Robeson who has
received so much of what Ameri
ca has to offer and then stands be
fore delegates of 52 countries and
says the American Negro will
never fight Russia.
Mr. Robeson, who thinks that
the Russian government is so per
fect and has such high hopes for
such a government, should inform
Mr. Stalin that Negroes will fight
Russia or any other country that
tries to force a government upon
the United States other than a
Democracy. For we do believe
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