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THE PILOT, INCORPORATED
SOUTHERN PINES, NORTH CAROLINA
1941
JAMES BOYD
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1944
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where it is strongest, in the Con
gress in Washington. When a pa
tient is suffering from “nerves”
there is one unfailing prescrip
tion: give him something concrete
to do. It would seem that it is
time, now, for Congress to stop
investigating and get to work on
the thousand and one really im
portant things that are being al
lowed to drag along, to the tre
mendous satisfaction of all ene
mies of democracy.
This is the real need today: the
need for our government to stop
being scared and go to work to
make this country such a good
country, such a strong country
and such a true democracy that
no communist will dare show his
face in it.
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
A Sandhills Message Goes to Europe
CASE OF NERVES
If anything were needed to il
lustrate how recently the United
States has entered the field of
world diplomacy, it would be the
revelations of the Chambers-Hiss
case as regards State Department
procedure. We read of papers be
ing left about on desks, of the
code room kept unlocked, of no
check being made of those who
take out or ask to see important
documents. The reader has to
keep reminding himself that this
was back in 1938 in a time of
peace with no emergency in sight,
except in the minds of a few
astute foreign correspondents, in
order to retain any degree of com
posure.
Profound changes have taken
place and the country has been
projected into the forefront of
world affairs. This has had the
effect, we may be sure, among a
lot of other effects, of bringing
about a great change in State De
partment procedure as regards se
curity. It is hardly likely that
there are papers lying about these
days to be picked up by enemies
of the state.
But the pendulum has swung
too far. Among effects, impor
tant or otherwise, which the
change in our position has
brought about, is one which is be
ginning to worry a good many
patriotic citizens. The dubious
curiosity which is this very Cham
bers-Hiss case is an illustration of
it. Here is the strange case of the
government prosecuting a man of
apparently the finest character,
upon the accusation and with the
help of a confessed former com
munist, liar and general scoun
drel. Hiss is accused of being a
communist spy by Chambers who
admits to having been one, to
having lied under oath, to have
passed under several aliases, and
to have led a decidedly unsavory
0xist©iicG.
This is the man whose word the
government may accept, against
that of one who numbers among
his friends some of the most dis
tinguished men of our nation and
who has the record of a fine ca
reer behind him. There is some
thing very topsy-turvy here.
But this is but one of many
curiosities. One may have the
unpleasant privilege of reading
daily, in the press, accusations of
disloyalty against a growing num
ber of prominent public figures.
Because somebody on the Atomic
Energy Commission allowed a
young communist to have a schol
arship to do non-secret research,
the men at the head of this, per
haps the most important of any
government service, havp stopped
work and are spending week after
week answering the inept ques
tions of a Congressional commit
tee. The wfark suffers, but far
more serious is the effect on the
morale of our public men. It is
becoming more and more diffi
cult, we are told, to find men will
ing to go into government service.
The present investigation of Lili-
enthal by the Hickenlooper com
mittee is not going to make it any
easier. • .
But it is not only the great who
suffer from the wave of hysteria
that is sweeping Washington. All
through the ranks of government,
today, there must be men and
women who are wondering where
the axe is going to strike next.
And one does not have to be in
government service to be nervous.
The recently published FBI lists
indicate that this organization
has, of late, taken on to an alarm
ing extent the aspect of a secret
state police, whose files contain
the names of thousands of Ameri
cans whose only claim to such
doubtful honor is that they once
knew so-and-so, or once belonged
to the committee of such-and-
such, that is, according to
THE BIG FOURTH
We are looking forward with
pleasure to the countywide
Fourth of July celebration, to be
held at Carthage Monday as a
high mark of the coming holiday.
It’s a good thing these Carth
age Jaycees are doing, in bringing
the Moore County neighbors to
gether for a day of carefree pleas
ure in traditional holiday style.
The forecast of events is an en
ticing one, from the beauty con
test, the parade with floats, the
baseball game and on down the
schedule to the Grand bull at the
high school gym—something for
everyone, of every age.
The Jaycees have made a good
name for- themselves for sponsor
ing good clean events filled with
hearty fun, and we feel sure this
one will top them all.
It’s a holiday in the true Amer
ican style, to celebrate a day as
American as the Stars and Stripes
themselves. Let’s all go to Car
thage Monday and enjoy our
selves, glad to get together, glad
to be free—glad that, in celebra
ting a national event of the first
order we are not regimented into
doing so, clicking our . heels and
saluting in unison as must be done
in some lands today.
CITY MANAGER
Citizens of Sanford went to the
polls' Tuesday of last week to
vote their town into the ever
growing ranks of those having the
city manager form of government,
labile the number voting was not
large (437) the vote of 255 to 182
in favor of the more modern form
of municipal government i#as a
decisive one.
While larger cities the nation
over have for many years now
been changing to a managership
from' a mayoralty, as a simple
matter of good business, it has
been only recently that the small
er towns have been following
their example. Though a growing
town can muddle along for a
while without actually being
forced into a change, it is more
and more apparent that what is
good business for a big town is
the same for a smaller one, and
just as important in proportion.
It is even more important for
a town at the “in-between” stage
to investigate the desirability of
the change before things get too
unwieldy, and much time, money
and resources are lost.
Many Southern Pines citizens
are speaking today in favor , of
the change, and Mayor Page at
the town caucus expressed him
self as feeling the matter should
certainly be studied, and the city
manager form be adopted if it
should in truth be found more
There ig a little bit of the Sand- ’
hills making a good-will tour of
Europe this summer. Not a per
sonal bit, no resident or former
resident, but something that is
much more a piece of the Sand
hills than thalt. The story goes
back to some 20 years ago, when
Marshall Bartholomew, director
of the Yale Glee club, was paying
one of his then frequent visits to
the James Boyd family.
The visits were partly because
of friendship and partly on busi
ness. At that time, and ,of course,
always ever since he started to be
seriously interested in American
music, the Yale director has been
looking for foil: tunes, Negro spir
ituals, work songs and any sort
of music native to America. On
the occasion in question, the
Boyds took him, to the small Ne
gro church, out in the country
several miles beyond Jackson
Springs, where, it was reported,
many of the old songs were still
sung. The group was in the com
pany of Roger Derby, and Mr. and
Mrs. John Tuckerman, and at the
little unpainted church, stuck up
on its brick piles, they were wel
comed-and given seats of honor
by the deacon, Tip Leake, then in
his 92nd year.
Deacon Leake was one of the
choir and at that Sunday service,
after, the minister had preached
and had led his congregation in a
chant of the Psalms, line by line,
a chant whose strange minor har-'
monies seemed to have come
straight from the jungles of Afri
ca, the choir sang some spirituals,
several of them of unmistakably
early origin. One in particular
caught Bartholomew’s ear: “Little
lamb, little lamb, little innocent
lamb ... I’m going to serve God
till I die,” was the refrain.
Arrangements were made for
Deacon Leake and his choir to
come to Southern Pines, and
there, in the Boyd library, the
men sang the song and others,
too, and the Yale director wrote
them down.
And this is the piece of the
Sandhills that is now bringing
cheer and the-touching faith and
beauty of Negro music to Europe
this summer.
The Yale Glee club, with Direc
tor Bartholomew, flew to England
last Tuesday. They wiU make a
six weeks’ tour of England,
France, Germany and Scandina
via, and on every program of the
concerts they wiU give is listed:
“Little lamb, little lamb, little in
nocent lamb,” the spiritual of old
Tip Leake and his Jackson
Springs choir.
Mrs. Boyd and her daughter
Nancy heard the song sung at a
rehearsal of the Glee club last
week, when they were visiting the
Bartholomews in New Haven. It
has been arranged by Bartholo
mew, with simple yet delightful
harmonies, emphasizing the
rhythm, which is never lost or al
lowed to drop. The Boyds were
tojld that it was one of the most
popular songs on the club’s pro
gram and that the men loved to
XT
Hearing it again, wrote Kath
arine Boyd, recalled the meeting
long ago in the library at Wey
mouth, and old Tip Leake’s quav
ering voice carrying the tune.
After he* had sung it once or
twice, a dictaphone was brought
in and he sang into the mouth
piece, without much comprehen
sion of what he was doing or why.
The record was turned back for
him and his friends to hear, and
the surprise and delight on their
faces was a joy to see. At one
point, the record had gotten a lit
tle off time and there was an echo
accompanying the singer. Deacon
Leake listened, then: “Who that?”
he said. “Ha! Somebody’s helpin’
me!”
The Pilot believes there could
be no better ambassador of good
will and hope to Europe than the
Yale Glee club singing Tip
Leake’s Sandhills spiritual.
Weather is. a perennially inter- with the telephone company, who
esting subject and always makes thought we must have m^e a
Surveys of newspaper mistake in the number and re
news
readers have shown that, whereas
one type of reader will read one
thing and another type something
else, the weather story is the one
EVERYBODY reads.
And that’s funny, since what
the weather did is the one thing
EVERYBODY knows . . . Which
all goes to confirm our theory that
people read newspapers not so
much to inform themselves, as to
confirm what they already knew.
Writing about the weather is
fun for a news reporter, too . . .
Only it’s a pleasure more for
writers on dailies than on week
lies, unless there is some unusual
phenomenon, such as a destruc
tive storm or record snowfall, to
write about.
You can’t write up the weather
news until the last minute, as
anything else may happen any
time . . . Then when that last
ferred the callers back to us . . .
So pretty soon we were all going
around in circles ... Finally the
thing got straightened out and
Mrs. Neal began telling the call
ers they’d have to wait till her
husband got home.
At least we found out Pilot Ads
Get Results!
You never know what’s coming
up in an ad department . . . The |
most curious thing of all happen
ed about a month ago, and we’re I
still pretty hot about it . . . The |
victim was K. F. Smith, of Salis
bury, owner of a carnival which j
was about to play a week at West
End under sponsorship of the
American Legion post there (and
afterward played for a week near ]
Southern Pines.)
He came in to put an ad in The I
Pilot and also ordered some post-
Mrs. Smith wrote a little |
must have a permit, secured by
writing the Office of Conserva
tion and Development in Raleigh
. Without the permit, when it’s
gate-locking time at Morrow
Mountain (9 o’clock—we think),
out you go.
“I’m sorry Clyde Cook is leav
ing the force,” one parent said
last week. “He was always so
good with the kids. When we
took our young ones to school he
was generally on duty at the high
way corner, and there was always
a bunch j of them around him,
laughing and kidding. You could
see they looked on him as their
friend.
“The day is gone when kids
were scared of policemen. Par
ents used to be at fault there-r-
they’d say,, ‘The cop’ll get you if
you don’t behave.’ We know bet
ter now—we like our youngsters
to respect the cops, but be friends
with them too.”
“What d’ya mean, putting in the
paper about Billy Warner getting
on the dean’s list, up at Harvard?”
our friend Clyde demanded indig
nantly. “Billy’s a nice- boy, and
smart, too, and I wouldn’t write
things like that about him.”
Turned out that when Clyde
went to State, umpteen years ago,
the dean’s list was different from
what it is now—or maybe the
dean had two lists. The one Clyde
got on, it seems, indicated a larg
er number of demerits than the
dean approved.
Friday. July 1. 1949
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compared with nearly 90 per cent
in 1935.
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minute comes, you’re too busy to ers^-^
borly cooperation it all took will
yield in the end, the finest re
turn.
Last week’s Saturday evening
Post told also of five small towns
in Illinois who found themselves
“dying on their feet,” deserted by
their youth for" lack of opportun
ity, boring all their inhabitants
for lack of anything to do and
half-starving them for lack of
business.
The step - by-step story of
do it.
Try writing up a heat wave,
then on press day it blows up
cold ... Or a rainy spell, and by
the time the deadline comes the
siin is out.
All of which leads up to:
Summer began officially at
1:03 p. m, Tuesday of last week,
and, with the temperature at 94,
believe us, we knew it.
Edith Burwell was in to get ex
tra copies of the paper, with the
article abdut “Pant-ettes” — that
efficient for us than the form of
government we now have.
In fact, what Southern Pines
has today is a sort of cross be-
tweep mayorality and manager
ship. It may be this is what we
need, suitable to our present stage
of development. Or ‘ it may not.
This cannot be told without .some
specialized study.
It may be that the time is at
hand fbr that study to be made,
and for questions to be asked of
towns who have made the chang
as to why they did so, how they
did so and if they are more satis
fied now.
THE QUICK OR THE DEAD
Several instances have come to
our attention lately of small
towns which have hoisted them
selves by their own bootstrap,
through concerted action of their
citizens thus giving the best evi
dence of their faith in their com
munity.
In fact, in making the small
town a better, cleaner and more
attractive place to live, offering
far more of what is termed
good life” than most of them ever
did before, they have done a serv
ice for the whole nation.
A case in point occurred in
the 1 North Carolina just the other day,
how these towns performe^ a garment she designed and
so successfully marketed . . . and
to give a lot of credit to her fifty-
fifty partner, Adeline Evans.
Adeline headed up the produc
tion end of their business and, as
the story told, made up some 5,000
of their patented baby-garments
herself, before they sold the man
ufacturing rights . . . She also
does all the bookkeeping and bus
iness-managing.
Whereas the B&E company (as
they christened their partnCTship)
can now sit back and take it easy,
things were not always thus . . ,
Those girls worked plenty hard,
according to their separate tal
ents.
They’re two smart, attractive
young women . . . And they’ve
done a clever job.
self-diagnosis, surveyed their
needs and pitched in with a will
to fill them-, is an inspiring one,
with a lesson in it for all of the
smaller communities.
For true it is today that 'they
must choose to be among the
quick, or among the dead; and
the choice is their own, no one
else’s.
word of some other particular so-
and-so.
This is a sorry business. And
though it is possible to find some
excuse for it as the occupational
disease, the ulcers and hyperten
sion, of a nation suddenly thrust
into a position of stupendous re
sponsibility, that is too easy an
answer or, if it is the answer, then
It merely points up the crisis that
exists.
’There is one way to handle the
crisis and that is to tackle it right
when tiny Macclesfield, in Edge
combe county, won an honor
plaque and $2,000 award from
Better Homes and Gardens maga
as the comipunity in the
whole United States which had
done the most to improve itself
during the past year. Far beydnd
the actual benefits of the town’i
face-lifting campaign, beyond
even the new community build
ing they will build with the
money and the national honor
achieved, we believe the neigh
From the Pilot files:
TWENTY YEARS AGO
A light crop of peaches is start
ing to move, netting the growers
about $2.50 for large sizes and $2
for smaller sizes. R. B. Etheridge,
head of the state inspection bu
reau, said not more than hall the
Sandhills fruit will pass inspec
tion for Number 1 grade.
Piano pupils of Mrs. E. Ells
worth Giles gave a recital at the
Civic club, assisted by Miss Anna
Wilson, soprano. Those playing
selections were Misses Barbara
Betterley, Eleanor Barron, Mary
Jane Woodward and Carolyn
Spears.
Girl Scouts of Southern Pines
had a week of camp at Camp La-
Nuk-Si, in Lee county, accom
panied by their troop leader, Mrs.
James Boyd, and the council
chairman, Mrs. James Swett. Boy
Scouts of the Walter Hines Page
council start camping there this
week. !
TEN YEARS AGO
Philip J. Weaver, member of
the Southern Pines High School
faculty, is unanimously elected
superintendent of schools at
luck on his show . . . Within two
hours, another man came by, who
spoke with seeming authority in
saying the plans had changed,']
hold everything.
Friday morning after The Pilot |
came out, Mr. Smith arrived look
ing for his posters, and to pick up |
a paper with the ad'. . . No post
ers, no ad.
We’ve never been able to find I
out who pulled that mean trick.
Mean to the carnival folks, j
mean to us and mean to the Le
gionnaires.
Happy birthday, Barbara Har
rington! (Even is we’re five days |
late . . . And happy birthday to
day to Patricia Gordon-Mann, a]
charming young lady of six.
Birthday greetings, too, to El
len Bushby, who will reach the
advanced old age of two oh Sun
day ... And to Brenda Jean Hack
ney, whose fourth birthday we
will all celebrate, as it comes on a j
national holiday . . . July 4.
Another Independence Day j
baby was H. S. Knowles .. . What
year, we’re not telling . . . He’s
reached an age to be proud of and
we’re wishing him many happy ]
returns.
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A strange antic of nature is the
appearance of small green toma
toes on a potato vine . . . Some
thing we’ve seen several times in
our life without ever hearing an
adequate explanation.
The latest person to show us
this phenomenon is C. R. Faris,
of 125 East Maine, who found two
little tomatoes on a potato vine
in his garden last week . . . He
cut one open, to find it much
like a tomato inside as well as
out.
We read somewhere once a dis
cussion of this curiosity, in which
it lyas said that the small green
objects are some sort of sport
growth, not really tomatoes, no
matter how much they seem so.
And never grow to be big, red
and edible.
'me article did not do much to
end our confusion . . . We won
der if some of our readers can’t
explain it better.
meeting of the school board, suc
ceeding Frank W. Webster, who
resigned to become managing di
rector of the N. C. Tuberculosis
association.
The Carthage Jaycees are plan
ning their first county wide July
Fourth celebration, with Lieut-
Gov. Wilkins P. Horton of Pitts-
boro as speaker. -
Page Memorial Methodist
church at Aberdeen celebrates its
25th anniversary.
John H. Stephenson is elected
alternate delegate to the national
convention of the American Le
gion, at the department conven
tion held at Raleigh this week,
Vass Cotton mills resume full
operation after being on a curtail
ed schedule for several weeks. It
is averaging 25,000 pounds of cot
ton per week.
We bet next time J. W. Neal
puts an ad in the paper, he lets
his wife know . . . Especially
when he sends it in from New
"York City
We published one in The. Pilot
last week which came from him
by mail... Seeking a housework-
er for a New York home, with
ideal conditions described ... No
doubt to help out a friend there
who was having trouble finding
satisfactqry help . . . He gave his
home phone number here, saying
“Telephone for interview.”
He was not back from his busi
ness trip north when the paper
came out with the ad . . . And the
next day poor Mrs. Neal found
herself besieged . . . She told the
callers she didn’t know a thing
about it . . . Three checked back
We were congratulating Guye
and Edith Womble on their 15th
wedding anniversary Wednesday
night at the Rotarians’ chicken
fry at Mile-Away . . . And just
about forgot our own, which came
along the next day . . . The Mu- |
tual Celebrant, however, remem- i
bered in time for us to dine by
candlelight at Dante’s, which was
selected for the occasion by our |
spaghetti-loving offspring.
The Offspring? Well, natural-]
ly, she played a major part .
Children should always be in on]
wedding anniversary celebrations
. . . They have more to celebrate ]
than anyone else.
The Rotarians can be mighty
proud of that fine chicken fry last
week,—which gave some 300 peo
ple a good time, and made a
bunch of money for the school
band, too . . . Just how much, we
are unable to report until the club
meets again and those energetic
ticket salesmen turn in their re
ports to Chairman Russell Loren-
son.
They can be proud of another
event of last week ... The Boy
Scout court of honor, at which
three Southern Pines boys won
Eagle badges . . . Two of them
members of the Senior Scout out
fit the Rotary club sponsors .
Both sons of Rotarians.
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