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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina FRday. AprU 13. ll THE PILOT Published Each Friday by THE PILOT. INCORPORATED Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944 KATHARINE BOYD • Editor VALERIE NICHOLSON ..... Asst. Editor DANS. KAY Gener^ Meager C. G. COUNCIL Advertising Subscription Rates: One Year $4.00 6 Months $2.00 3 Months $1.00 Entered at the Postoffice at Southern Pines, N. C. as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Association and N. C. Press AssociaHon “In taking over The Pilot no changes are con templated. We will try to keep it as good a paper as Nelson Hyde has made it. We will trpr to make a little money for all concerned. Where there seems to be an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will treat every body alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. The School Construction Plan The proposal of the county Board of Educa tion to carry out much needed school construc tion through a temporary raise in taxes ought, we believe, to be adopted. As a pay-as-you-go measure, it should appeal to our people who like to do things in a business-like way without piling up a big debt. Furthermore, the alterna tive, a bond issue, could not be large enough to raise the money needed, while it would entail paying interest of $374,000 as well as election costs, an extra expenditure hateful to all thrifty citizens. ! The sum proposed is large and, as such, is a sad commentary on the way we have let our schools run down. However, it is a fact that much of the new construction is for things that were never considered necessary in the old days. Eight cafeterias and eight gymnasiums are list ed, for instance, as well as agricultural shops, home economics rooms and other things that had no place in the scheme of education when most of these schools were built. There is little doubt that the needs listed by the board are valid, but some things will, of course, be more vitally needed than others. It will be possible to dp the most necessary things first and it is to be earnestly hoped that in con sidering the plan each item will be judged on its merits. It will be a great pity if political pressure or personal or community influence creep in. It will not be too easy to achieve fairness but we submit that that is the only way this large school expenditure should be tackled. For in stance, it seems to be clear that the greatest need is for the Negro schools. Here in many cases, and especially in the northern end of the county, conditions are extremely bad. Not only are the buildings in bad shape, they are actually in some cases unsafe. This is something that must not be allowed, to go on, but we are faced,, immediately, by the fact that these cases where the need is greatest are the very ones where political pressure is weakest. These communities, with the back ward schools, pay less taxes into the county treasury than others and it is harder for them to apply weight, if weight is needed. It will be up to us all to m'ake sure that this school situation is taken out of the all-too- frequent political setting of such affairs, and decided not by weight but by merit. Those who will try to argue that because their community pays a large share of county taxes and there fore should have first crack at the school money, must realize that they are out of line. This is a question of the education of the future citizens of our democracy. We cannot allow it to be handled in any but a democratic way. It cannot be denied that there has grown up some jealousy in our county between the north ern and southern halves, perhaps especially in the school picture. The fact that both Southern Pines and Pinehufst have been special school districts has made for misunderstandings and occasionaLhard feeling. Though a reasonable enough arrangement for towns that include students of a wide variety of background and a good many temporary ones, it cannot be gain said that it has a slightly snobbish air. It ought to be dispelled as quickly as possible. Whole hearted participation in the proposed plan, with no community trying to get the advantage of another, will go far towards reducing any fool ish ideas of rivalry. In fact,, the proposal seems to offer a splendid opportunity to draw Moore County together in a comtnon generous plan'for all her children. History and General McArthur Although one can understand the political reasons which make the recall of MacArthur difficult, it is surely time that disciplinary ac tion be taken against him. We cannot let one man, no matter what his rank, no matter what his prestige, endanger our relations with our Allies and materially increase the chances of a third world war. The problem of dealing with meddlesome generals is one that has bothered a good many presidents, notably Abraham Lincoln. One of Lincoln’s worst headaches was the case of his first commander. General John C. Fremont. This explorer of the West and popular hero used his position again and again to defy the policies of the administration. He was a former Repub lican presidential candidate and deeply involv ed in politics. Like MacArthur, an unapproach able man who surrounded himself with guards, the general dressed with the magnificence of a royal potentate and was subservient to no one. At the start of his service, without consulting Lincoln, he issued a proclamation about the border states that ran directly counter to gov ernment policy. Lincoln was obliged to counter mand it, and the affair created such a stir that there was actually talk of impeaching the pres ident and replacing him with Fremont. As a last act of effrontery, the general decided to receive no bearers of dispatches so that if Lincoln tried to remove him he would fail to get, the mes sage. As complicated was the case of General George ^rinton McClellan. McClellan’s supreme self-confidence fostered an inherent disbelief in the judgment of others. Like MacArthur, he trusted only his own Intelligence, but unlike the commander of the U. N. forces, he consistently overestimated the numbers of the enemy. This error, plus a refusal to fight unless he was ab solutely confident of victory, led to inaction which endangered the Union cause. McClellan was a Democrat. It seemed almost as if he wanted the Union to fail to spite Lin coln and the Republicans. Because of the gen eral’s political affiliation, Lincoln was slow to recall him. He believed that the union of the two parties was as important as winning a bat tle, and he did not relieve McClellan until he had repeatedly proven his incompetence. There is no need to point up the similarities of the two cases to that of General MacArthur. Both in the question of politics and tempera ment, there is a parallel. It is significant that Lincoln was forced to take a bold stand with his generals. As soon as McClellan and Fremont had thoroughly proved their, failure, he put aside political expediency and recalled them. The courage that he showed by his decisive ac tion was upheld not only by later developments but by his contemporaries. The case of General MacArthur jeopardizes not only the safety of the country but the fu ture of the United Nations and the peaceful de velopment of the world. We cannot let the words of one arrogant, self-centered commander be accepted as the proclamations of an interna tional law-making organization. If President Truman is looking for a prece dent in curbing General MacArthur, he would do well to get out the history books. Grains of Sand First through the line at the Bloodmobile Monday were John S. Ruggles of Southern Pines and the Rev. O. J. Hagler of Car-' thage. . . Proving that the “blood line” was one in which aU dif ferences were forgotten in the in terests of one great cause. Leaders and bitter opponents on the issue of beer and wine sales for Moore county, Messrs. Ruggles and Hagler joshed each other happily as they went through the medical exam together, and later as they lay on neighboring cots watching their blood flow into vacuum bottles for Korea. The blood of one looked just as red as that of the other. . . In fact, there wasn’t any difference at all. . . And it wiU go into the veins of fighting men at the front without any questions asked as to how they feel about issues at home. Taxes—^Now and How A five percent retail sales tax was proposed last week by the Committee for Economic De velopment as one way, among others, to finance the mobilization effort and also keep the coun- ry’s economy running on an even keel. It will not be enough, this group of business leaders stated, to raise income and corporate profits levies, nor will the reduced government spending they also advocate contribute very much to the need. In order to provide the gigan tic sum that makes up the country’s budget, it will be necessary, also, to see that every retail sale transaction, excluding only those for abso lute necessities such as food, fuel and housing, contribute its small share to the national treas ury. So-called luxury items would be taxed higher, also, under this plan, as they are now. This seems a reasonable idea, fully in keeping with the democratic tradition of this country. It is true that in its effects it will penalize the poor man more than the rich one, but that is something that life is already doing. Higher costs, to begin with, are already hitting the low income and the no income groups harder than those who are better off. We would be reluctant to go along with a plan that placed a^ sales tax on food. . . and we have a yearning to see chil dren’s shoes exempted, thinking how fast they wear out and are outgrown and how you can’t go to school if you have no shoes. . .but in gen eral the other items included in this committee’s plan seem to us sensible. Beyond this is the important point that a sales tax is directly visible, directly felt. The psychological effect it should have in educating our people to each one’s individual responsi bility for the welfare of the nation, in helping to maintain its economy as well as to build up its defense, would be immensely valuable. As for the other items on the committee’s program: higher income and corporate profits taxes will depend on what the traffic can bear; profits are towering in some industries and it would seem that they could stand considerable curtailment before investors would draw back. It is, of course, highly desirable that there should ’ be government economy, along the line suggest ed by the Hoover Commission; especially, it would seem, in the field of veterans’ affairs. However, care must always be taken lest econ omy curtail needed welfare work or those great government projects of conservation and devel opment by which the natural resources of the country may be saved and immeasurably in creased in value. With Our Students . . . Pretty little Frances Cameron is really having a busy time of it at Guil ford college . . . She had the lead last winter in the campus produc- ,tion of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” and is rehearsing again, as the feminine lead in “Death Takes a Holiday” .. . She is social chair man of the Women’s Athletic asso ciation, and as such is in charge of the May Day dance . . . She’ll be dancing two roles, the Dew Fairy and an angel, in the May Day production, on the “Hansel and Gretel” theme . . . She’s also a member of the campus social committee, which plans most of the dances and s(jcial functions, and has just been elected treasur er of the rising junior class . . . Whew, what a list! And those are just the things we heard about; no tilling how many more campus jobs she has, and we just bet she’s doing all right in her studies too. Mickey Nicholson, a junior var sity cheerleader at Appalachian during her freshman year, was one of 30 privileged to try out re cently for the coveted job of var sity cheerleader . . . Six were chosen, and Mickey was one of them, which means she has the cheerleader job as long as she stays on campus, with uniforms furnished by the college, also trips with the football teams ,etc. . . . Nice work! way. . . He said he didn’t s^ a single dogwood tree in flower till he was well into the Sandhills. This week is probably the love liest of the whole year here, with all sorts of bloom reaching its peak. . . For the first time the feeling of full springtime is in the air. . . The trees are greening rap idly, azaleas beginning to flame out, the dogwood trees like snow drifts in flight. Another odd thing, though. Usually the Judas trees and dog wood bloom together. . . This year the Judas trees showed their pur plish pink two or three weeks in advance. . . They are still in full bloom, for that wonderful contrast with the dogwoods which we love to see each year. Spring comes piecemeal. . . It has already been here, and gone, for the fruit trees, and for many kinds of flowers, who are now in the early stages of their suip- mertime, creating their fruit. Still not too late for an April frost. . . So keep those fingers crossed. Seymour spoke: “I don’t see a thing wrong with that table. It looks fine to me.” What was the matter with the table was that the flags were wrongly placed, with; the U. S. At the Sandhills Kiwanis Club meeting at the Hollywood hotel last week, G. C. Seymour's name was drawn to answer the ques tion for the weekly award of golf balls. . . As the dignified Mr. Sey mour arose Lewie Hallman, presi dent, fired the question at him “What is wrong with this table to day? You have 30 seconds.” Mr. Seymour gazed at the table where President Lewie sat, flank, ed on either side by good-looking ladies in Girl Scout uniforms of a smart forest green (that day’; program was on Girl Scouting). . “Fifteen seconds,” said Lewie. . As the last second ticked off Mr A Testing Time The fact that the Red Cross campaign is still short of its goal is symptomatic of the times. This country is still short of its goal. That goal is not only the physical means to bolster our fight for peace, but the state of mind behind it on which depends the effectiveness of what ever we are to do. As this newspaper has repeatedly pointed out, the great task before the United States is two-fold: We must remain Peace-minded while at the same time we build up our armed power. The difficulties of this task cannot be exag gerated and, when we take note of the fact that this Red Cfoss campaign for funds is not going as well as it should, we are immediately faced with the whole problem. For in this organiza tion of the Red Cross we have it in a nutshell: The Red Cross works for peace, but it is in time of war that it is most needed and most apparent. When we fail the Red Cross we are clearly showing that this critical role of getting ready for possible trouble while we work for peace is beyond us. We are showing that the American people cannot wage peace, and that they are not intelligent enough or persistent enough or patriotic enough to face the facts of life as it must be lived today to tread the difficult path ahead. Are we such a people? Do we need scare headlines to spur us on to do our duty? The way we respond to the call of the Red Cross may well give the answer. flag at the president’s' lef j However, “Give him the balls!” the members shouted Lewie did. PILOT ADVERTISING PI FLOOR COVERING Goodyear Wingfoot Vinyl and Rubber Tilej Aspbalt and linoleum Tile Linoleum Table Tops — Inlaid Linoleum | Satisfaction guaranteed—Free estimates LELAND DANIELS O'Callaghan Appliance Store 125 Broad Str| The Public Speaking Southern Fines readers of the Ladies Home Journal this month can see the beautiful face of a neighbor whom most of them do not know . . . Mrs. David Anthony Drexel is featured in a Ponds ad, which, incidentally, does not say she lives at Southern Pines—^wish it did . . . Young Mrs. Drexel stays pretty close at home with her hus band and youn^ child, is not often seen about the streets—wish she were! . . . She’s lovely. What a birthday, Lloyd Clark— Friday the 13th! Many happy re turns! . . . And many happy re turns also to Hoke Dickinson Pol lock, who will be two on Satur day . . . Harold A. Collins. Jr., 18 next Tuesday . . . and Sandra Louise Younts, two on Wednes day. And congratulations to Mr, and Mrs. Donald Scbeipers, married two years ago next Wednesday. Some postcards on sale at Hayes Book shop, for the benefit of the Moore County Hospital auxiliary present a novel idea and definitely have their uses. . . Printed in attractive green with pine-needle ornamentation, they contain a map of a goodly portion of Southern Pines. . . You can send the postcard to a friend with your house marked on it, or at least where a motorist turns off Highway 1 to get where he wants to go. Many’s the time we have drawn crude maps in letters to expected visitors. . . They always got here all right, but in spite of our home made maps, we fear, not because of them. April 9, 1951 The Pilot: In the final paragraphs of_my letter on highway conditions which you published last'week, you substituted the word “romon” for the word “moron.” I said that a tourist who has to be told by a sign 12 by 40 feet, and in letters two feet high, that he is in South' ern Pines, is a dangerous moron " You said, “dangerous romon.” I hasten to correct this lest someone think my letter an un warranted attack on those inter esting people, the Romanys, or Gypsies; or even more likely, an attack on ' our good friends the Italians, through a misspelling of the name of their principal city. The Romans have pbt been dangerous for some 1500 years they’re too civilized. Even Mus solini couldn’t make them very dangerous. The Romanys have never been dangerous. On the other hand, the American moron is one of the most dangerous ani mals in captivity; he has the speed of the gas engine, the thick skull of the grizzly bear, and the hide of a rhinoceros. Death rides with him. And what’s more, everyone is engaged in a conspir acy of selfishness and indifference to assist him in bis lethal pur suits; the automobile manrrtac turers, the users of the rights-of- way of our highways, lenient judges, the slow red-tape process es of our laws, a careless public everything and everybody except a handful of State Police strug gling manfully against impossible conditions. Yours truly, STRUTHERS BURT In Bygone Days L. V. O’CALLAGHAN PLUMBING & HEATING SHEET METAL WO^ Telephone 5341 Noticed the N. C. Wildlife Re sources Commission was putting through a bill to have March 1 set aside as Dogwood day in North Carolina. . . We think it’s fine to have our state flower thus recog nized, but can’t help wondering why March 1 was picked. . , That’s a full month, or more, too early. Except in an unusually early season the dogwood reaches full bloom here about the second week in April. . . And our experi ence is that it is a bit earlier here than in most other parts of the state. The western and northern sec tions, of course, come in consid erably later than the Sandhills with their dogwood blooms. We would have thought perhaps the eastern portions were earlier. . . Last week, though, a friend of ours drove in from Kinston, pass- From the Pilot files: TEN YEARS AGO , G. C. Seymour of Aberdeen is elected president of the Mbore County Hospital board, succeed ing George F. Maurice of Eagle Springs. Bachelor Dick, owned by Mrs W. J. Kennedy and ridden by Mickey Walsh, wins silver plate and top money in the first North Carolina 100-Mile event, held here over -a period of three days. A. L. Burney has withdrawn as nominee for mayor of Aberdeen in order to accept post on county draft board, succeeding F. C. Shamburger, who resigned. JOHN C. PARRISH Plumbing and Healing Day Phone 6893 Southern Pines Night Phone 6814j USE THE BUSINESS SERVICES OF YOl CHAMBER OF COMMERCE PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER DIRECT MAIL ADVERTISING MANUSCRIPTS TYPED NOTARY PUBI MIMEOGRAPHIl LETT! All Kinds of Stenographic Work at Reasonable Prices Southern Pines Chamber of Commerce Phone 8932 244 N. W. Broad| TWENTY YEARS AGO Two Davis Cup Team players and other stars will participate in 13th annual United North and South Tennis tournament on Pine- hurst Country Club courts. Garden party given by pupils of The Ark nets $330 for South ern Pines library. John Warren 'Watson and Rich- DRY CLEANING SERVICE Have Your Clothes Cleaned and Stored in Mothproof Bags for the Summer i^pLET D. C. JENSEN AIRPLANE CHARTER SERVICE ONE TO THREE PASSENGERS TO AIRLINES OR OTHER POINTS Daylight Flights Only CESSNA AIRPLANES Sales and Service Phone 7151 Night 7032-Southern HAROLD BACHMAN Aberdeen Airport Aberdeen. The Prudential Insurance Company of America L. T. "Judge" Avery. Special Agent Box 1278 SOUTHERN PINES Tel. Fields Plumbing & Heating PHONE 5952 PINEHURST. N. C. All Types of Plumbing. Heating. (G. E. Oil Burners) and Sheet Metal Work uuic ... . ,ard Watson issue invitations for a mgkcros7practkally the whole of | “pioneer party” to be held at their os stern North Carolina on the log house on Watson’s lake. , FOR SALE Suburban Estate Homesite Close-In (1 mile from city limits) 10 Acres fronting 330 ft. on Youngs Road-pavement.. tricity and phone available. High building site wifl ever-flowing spring amid a nice growth of young l and dogwood to mold into a landscape of your d4 Here you can enjoy city conveniences in a quietJ vate environment without city taxes. The price i^ than sometimes asked for a small city lot. 100 Acres—6 minutes from downtown Southern Pine Highway No. 1 2000 feet with a deeded right-of into property. Large lake site with eyer-flo branch fed by springs with several high building j overlooking lake, and 200 Acres—3 minutes from Lakeview’s New Wooler Site. Several nice lakesites on property. Ideal tc divide into 2-acre homesites. Priced right for ca| will trade for what have you? SEE R. J. HUGHES Hughes Building Hotel 225 North Benne SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.
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