Page Two THE PILOT, Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, April' 29, 1949. THE PILOT PUBLISHED EACH FRIDAY BY THE PILOT. INCORPORATED SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA JAMES BOYD . 1941 1944 Publisher KATHARINE BOYD . - EDITOR VALERIE NICHOLSON ASST. EDITOR DAN S. RAY - - GENERAL MANAOER CHARLES MACAULEY, . City Adv, C G. COUNCIL - - - Advertising ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES ONE YEAR $3.00 SIX MONTHS Sl.SO THREE MONTHS .78 ENTERED AT THE POSTOFFICE AT SOUTH. £RN PINES. N. C.t AS SECOND CLASS MAIL MATTER. MEMBER National Editorial Association AND N. C. Press Association 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. tuitttxtituutiiiiiuiiiiiinixnttxtttititttt 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.) ELECTRONIC SCIENCE g TIMES YOUR WATCH Thau OJundurL Cldiim. cON(r«otifo B'<' . , . QUARTZ CRYSTAL P0:NrS THE TICKS OF waTCh The U. S. Navy ships’ store at Yokosuka, Japan, operates a chicken ranch which supplies eggs to general mess and (|ommissary. YOUR WATCH TESTED FREE Paulson Time-O-Graf • INSTANT RATING - ^ST OR SLOW SEE THIS NEW SCIENTIFIC WONDER Over 22 Years Experience KARMINAX JEWELERS CARTHAGE. N. C. 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 In armed services lO,000,000 Balance to do work ...... 13,000,000 In state, city offices 12,000,000 Balance to do work 200,000 Bums who won’t wosk . 62,000 Balance''to do work Persons in jail 12,000 11,998 Balance to do work 2 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) Letters may be anony mously published only if the names and addresses of the senders are made kno'wn to the editor. This information will be kept confidential, if desired. 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 A Coal for Any Purpose PARKER ICE & FUEL CO. 95il Ab»rd«!fn. W. C. 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