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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, Norli Carolina
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1941—JAMES]
KATHARINE BOYI_
VALERIE NICHOLSl
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More Blessed
Christmas in the Sandhills is always home
coming-time for the young people and for some
old ones, too; it was, this year, its usual time of
family gatherings. There was some gayety too,
in the way of parties, but the report is that the
social whirl spun less dizzily this year. Most of
all, Christmas was a time of giving.
Reports from the various organizations and
people who helped with the County Welfare
Department’s Christmas project are that more
people pitched in this year than usual. Here in
Southern Pines 34 baskets were given to the
needy families on the departnient’s list by the
VFW and many personal gifts were made. The
tale is the same in other parts, with the Lions
Clubs, Legion, Elks and other civic organizations
sharing the Santa Claus role with kind-hearted
individuals.
Christmas parties were held at the hospitals
and at the County Home, while carolers stood
outside the latter on Christmas Eve, singing the
old songs. A Christmas dinner was served for
the seven well and two sick inmates. Christmas
with children is the most fun and those who
took home for the day the youngsters from the
Jonkers foster home must have had a merry
time.
Everywhere the spirit of Christmas was
abroad, the spirit of Love Your Neighbor and
Good Will to Men. And if that made it a happy
time for those on the receiving end, we are sure
that for those who thus gave of themselves,
with loving hearts, in time and trouble, the day
was doubly joyful.
Save Moore County Assets
A matter of vital interest to the people of this
section is the proposed sale of the state land in
the northern end of the county. The property
has been held as prison farm land, attached to
the Carthage Prison Camp, but actually only
a minor portion of it is under cultivation. Most
of it is heavily timbered, rolling country. Penal
institutions coming under the jurisdiction of the
Highway Department, in this state, this tract is
in the Sixth District, which has decided that it
is no longer needed and should be sold.
At the same time the Department of Conser
vation and Development which has charge,
among other items, of forestry and state parks,
is interested in this land. First of all because
it is, an extremely valuable and beautiful tract
of timber including both pine and hard wood.
The forest, covering hills and ravines, is full of
dogwoods and laurel and azaleas. It constitutes
probably the only comparable piece of wild
woodland in the Eastern part of the state. Both
from the angle of hunting and fishing and as a
tourist attraction such an area is of inestimable
value to Moore County, and to the state, as
well. Of far more value than the amount of
^oney the timber would bring, large as that
ty be.
^her point: the land adjoins the Philip
^ace, the famous revolutionary home-
^House in the Horseshoe, which the
its eye on, along with many his-
that it might be secured and
I state monument. An exchange
lie arranged, it is thought, for
Jand and the Alston tract.
^ agency, the Highway De-
aething that another state
at of Conservation and
j^much like to get. The
^t need it, but to the
great importance.
Innocently: “Why
a good many
gn and have
„ about, but
has been
hammer
. lumber
every-
tesult
are
Stalled In Reverse
Powerful reinforcement for the Pilot’s edi
torial of December 7th, “Ten Years Ago,” comes
in a report from Paul Green on his recent trip
to Japan. The Carolina author comments with
admiration on the remarkable comeback of the
Japanese and points ou.t that the whole thought
of the country is swinging into line with West
ern concepts. But, says Green, the very fervor
with which the Japanese are taking up demo
cratic ideas is evidence of their fear of a return
to the regimentation and militarism that was
instrumental in bringing about the war. And
Green warns that if militarism is once more
forced upon them while at the same time, by
tariff barriers and discriminatory measures, this
country refuses to accept Japan as an equal
partner and a legitimate competitor in the
world’s markets, the intellectual leaders of
Japan may combine with other, now dormant,
hostile forces in a swing towards the Eastern
bloc.
This is the dilemma that confronts us. We see
our survival in the face of the Russian threat
depending on armed might which, to be truly
effective, must include allies among whom are
those very nations that so recently fought
against us. Too, the war-weary peoples of Eu
rope are included as major aids in our strategy.
None of these people want to fight, some be
cause they are too exhausted, the others because
they fear their own war-like impulses that
brought them to their present ruin.
For us Americans, rich, comfortable, united,
free, comparatively safe, this point of view is
hard to understand. It is very necesary, how
ever, that we try. Put, admittedly too simply,
the facts are these: the people of Europe and,
to a slightly lesser extent, of Japan, suffered
during the war as we never did; few Americans
have the least conception of what they endured.
Many are still only on the thin edge of recov
ery. These people are irrevocably convinced that
nothing could be worse than ano-ther war. Also,
when we talk about losing democracy under
Russian conquest, many of them don’t know
what we mean. They have never experienced
ease, security, bountiful living, the freedoms we
know as part of our daily lives. A deeply des
tructive element, also, has been the legacy of
moral corruption left by the' Fascist regimes in
Germany and Italy and by the occupation in
France. To all these people domination by Rus
sia, while a terrible prospect, does not present
the inconceivable fate that it does to us. War,
hovmver, in which they would be the battle
ground, would mean the end.
We must resist the temptation to say: “If they
are such fools as even to contemplate being
overrun by Russia, let them go.” That would be
fatal. It would place in Russian hands over
whelming economic and military power; even
more serious would be its effect on our dem
ocracy and everything we believe in. Confront
ed by a totalitarian state, our only means of
survival would be to follow suit. Thus totali
tarianism Would have won the victory without
a battle.
Through the Marshall Plan, through EGA and
the start of Point Four, even through our own
disarmament, hasty and ill-considered as it
was, we won friends and started the machine
moving. Now, in the sudden reversal of policy
into which we have been forced, there is danger
that we will strip the gears: that our insistence
on rearming will result in turning our friends
against us.
This seems to be the message in the warnings
heard today: behind General Eisenhower’s crit-
cism of the slowness of the European effort, in
the reluctance of the Germans to have anything
to do with the program, in the dismay in Italy
and France over the huge U. S. bases being
esiablished there and in Africa, and now in the
Green report of the fear among the Japanese
of this turn toward rearmament and the warn
ing that if pushed too far it will boomerang
against us.
Now that you have enjoyed] We had a look-in at the strug-
your Christmas cards, admired gles of one quartet of handsome
their beauty and color and thrilled youths, who ordinarily have no
to their sentiments of the season,
you will be pleased to know that
there is a place you can pass them
on where they will continue to
give pleasure and joy.
Once again the Carolina hotel
at Pinehurst has placed a big bin
at the doorman’s desk to catch
those Christmas cards when you
are through with them. . . For
several years now the hotel has
acted as collector for the cards and
has sent them to the N. C. Ortho
pedic hospital at Gastonia, where
they are distributed among the
crippled child patients. . . These
small shut-ins use them to make
scrapbooks, as cut-outs for post
ers and to make new Christmas
cards for another year.
It ought to be possible for the
Sandhills to produce 100,000 cards
if everyone pitches in. . . All you
have to do is drop your cards in
the bin at the hotel, or hand them
over to Happy, the Pinehurst bus
driver, anywhere along his route
and he will drop them in for you.
The bin will be there until well
after New Year’s day, so you don't
have to rush about it. . . When
you are clearing your cards away,
just remember.
trouble securing feminine com
panionship, as they employed the
telephone in an effort to,stave off
a lonesome evening ... “I don’t
mind so much when they say
‘no’,” one of them admitted, “but
I don’t much like it when they
laugh first . . . And one of them
just laughed.”
One popular young lady, be
sought on Christmas Eve for the
granting of a date for New Years
Eve, turned down the importu
nate one, exclaiming, “I don’t
know what in the world you mean
asking for a date at the last min
ute like this!”
Maj. “Tejf” Willard Young, one
of the Air Force’ top parachutists,
madd his 169th jump the other day
—right into the Arch Coleman’s
front yard.
He has made previous jumps in
Europe during World War 2, and
more rcently in Korea. The 169th
was on a gardened yard with
curving driveway, and one of the
prettiest views in Moore county.
Running to greet him were no
enemy troops but members of the
Coleman family, who were pleas
ed to see him land expertly on
his feet with no damage done to
parachutist—or shrubbery.
The jump was made in the
course of one of the regular US-
AFAGOS air-ground demonstra
tions over Skyline airport, which
is across the highway from the
At Local
Churches
luary 4, 1952
US 1. Major
er of the USAF-
other officers
at the same time.
It on target.
Shields tameron, visiting in
Raleigh the other day, spied a
familiar figure on a downtown
street. . . It was Father Herbert
A. Harkins, deep in converse with
a young couple who appeared to
be asking directions somewhere.
“I don’t believe I know,” Father
Harkins was saying, then, looking
up, saw Shields, and added, “But
here’s a Cameron right here. He
j ought to be able to tell you.”
Turned out they were asking
directions to Cameron Village.
Guilford college is making a
name for itself in dramatics, and
a lovely, lively little girl from
Southern Pines is right in the
thick of things there. . . A trans
fer from High Point college last
year, Frances Jo Cameron had
leading roles in “Our Town” and
‘Death Takes a Holiday,” and this
year was elected to the Dramatic
Council, an honor which goes to
only 10 students of the college,
who are supposed to have been
there two years before they can
become eligible. For Frances,
though, this restriction was low
ered.
This fall she played a leading
role in “The Barretts of Wimpole
Street”—that of Henrietta, the 10 a. «i.
younger sister, which she prefer
red to the part of the invalid
Elizabeth. . . Along with that she
is on the sociial committee at
Guilford, assisted with the fresh
man reception and was in charge
of the Thanksgiving dance; was
one of lour ladies-in-waiting in
the Thanksgiving court of beauty,
sings in the chapel choir and plays
on the varsity field hockey team.
As chairman of the Modern
Dance club she is m
charge of the choreography for
May Day, and is busy thinking up
routines on an Aztec theme, to be
danced to Yma Sumac music.
She’s managing, moreover, to
keep up her grades—and also,
through the fall, attended all the
Carolina football games and
found time to date on Saturday
nights—as who wouldn’t, in her
place? For further information see
Mogo Baker, of the UNC football
team.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
New York avenue at South Aaha
William C. Hollaad. Th. D.
Bible school, 9:^ a. m. Wor
ship 11 a. m. Training Unions,
6:30 p. m. Evening Worship 7:30.
Scout Troop 224, Tues., 7:30 p
m., midweek worship. Wed., 7:30
p. m.; dioir practice Wed. 8:15 p.
m.
Missionary meeting, first and
third Tuesdays, 8 p. m. Church
and family suppers, second
Thursdays, 7 p. m.
EMMANUEL CHURCH
(Episcopal)
East Massachusetts Avenue
Rev. Charles V. Covell
Holy Communion, 8 a. m
Church school, 9:45 a. m. Morning
Prayer, 11 a. m. YPSL, .7 p. m.
First Sundays, Holy Commu
nion, 11 a. m.
Wednesdays, Holy Communion,
CHURCH OF WIDE
FELLOWSHIP
(Congregational)
N. Bennett at New Hampshire
Robert L. House, D. D.
Church school. 9:45 a. m. at
High School building. Sermon, 11
a. m. in Weaver auditorium. Nurs
ery at High School building. Twi
light Hour for Juniors, 6:45 p. m.
Pilgrim Fellowship at Fox Hole,
6:30 p. m. Fellowship Forum, 8
p. m.
Afternoon meetings: Circles
meet first Tuesday, first and sec
ond Thursdays. Missionary socie
ty, third Thursday. Women’s so
ciety, fourth Thursday.
Evening meetings: Bible study,
first Tuesday. Mothers’ club, sec
ond Monday. Prayer group, sec
ond Tuesday. Church supper, sec
ond Friday. Pilgrim Book club
fourth Monday.
The Drives Are Starting
As we in the Sandhills face the unknown sea
son ahead, there is at least one thing we can
be quite sure of: that is the endless chain of
•■‘drives” that it will bring.
Every one is for a good cause; every one is
being managed by hard-working, public-spirit
ed, fine citizens, nevertheless, as the letters ap
pear with exhausting regularity and the per
sonal appeals are made, you can feel a helpless
sort of irritation growing throughout the com
munity. We are a generous people; as a rule
every campaign is oversubscribed, but we do
wish they wouldn’t do it. We wish, earnestly,
that some other way of raising these needed
funds could be worked out.
The way suggested by a great many people
is the Community Chest method. This is done in
a great many places and apparently with suc
cess. The objection to it is that some of the na
tional charities refuse to join. Even so, some do
and all the local charities could. If no more than
this were accomplished it would seem worth at
least a try. A great advantage, besides the easing
of the public’s nerves, would lie in the pooling
and therefore reduction of administrative ex
poses and personnel. It is likely, too, that the
jough coverage Of the community, which is
^ needed, could be made with the able
, released from their individual drives
^rate on the one campaign. As things
‘same people are constantly dunned,
^any get no appeals at all. There
touse canvass, which, in our
^must mean a material loss,
^anything about the
^nter advances
^be a good
[le ques-
neces-
Make your New Year resolution
right now to give blood when the
Bloodmobile comes again . . . We
understand this will be some time
within the next few weeks . . .
Let’s make a better showing this
time than last, when only 187
pints of blood were collected here.
Though that 187 isn’t very cred
itable for a community this size—
and 88 pints were given by mem
bers of USAFAGOS and their
wives—one shining fact has re-
centy been revealed: 55 of the lo
cal civilian blood donors gave both
times the Bloodmobile came.
This was shown on the blood
donor list sent from the Charlotte
Blood Center, home of the Blood
mobile, to the Red Cross chapter
office here.
We have the list of “repeaters”
but somehow feel they wouldn’t
want us to publish their names . .
Eighteen of them are women, and
a quick glance shows at least one
mother of a boy in Korea, and one
wife of a young officer who is
over there . . . Several war vet
erans are on the list, and one dis
placed person from an Iron Cur
tain country.
The fact that this New Year is
a Leap Year may mean something
in other parts of the state and na
tion, where recent statistics show
that Women are slightly outnum
bering the men . . . However, it
was certainly different — among
the young unattached set, that is
—in Southern Pines during the
holidays.
The rush of boys home from the
armed services on holiday leave,
at the same time the young col
lege set was home, brought a
startling preponderance of males
and all at once there just weren’t
enough girls to go around.
Many of the young males made
their plans in leisurely fashion,
confident that as usual there
would be a girl for every boy . . .
But the young ladies got bookM
up fast and New Years weekend
found many a lad phoiring fruit-
ST. ANTHONYS
(Catholic)
Vermont Ave. at Ashe
Father Peter M. Denges
Sunday masses 8 and 10:30 a.
m.; Holy Day masses 7 and 9 a.
m.; weekday mass at 8 a. m. Con
fessions heard on Saturday be
tween 5-6 and 7:30-8:30 p. m.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
CHURCH
East New Hampshire
Service, 11 a. m. Service Wed
nesday, 8 p. m. Reading room
open Tue^ays and Saturday
3-5 p. m.
BROWNSON MEMORIAL
CHURCH
(Presbyterian)
South May at Inaaok
Cheves K. Ligon, Miiflster
Sunday school 9:45 a. m.
Worship service, 11 a. m.
Women's auxiliary, 8. p. na- Mon
day following third Sundatr*
The Pioneer Fellowship meets
at 7 o’clock each Sunday evening
in the ladies’ parlor of the church.
The Youth Fellowship meets at
7 o’clock each Sunday in Fellow
ship Hall of the church.
MANLY PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Grover C. Currie, Minister
Sunday School, 10 a. m. Wor
ship service, first and fourth Sun
days 11 a. m. Prayer meeting
Thursday, 7:30 p. m. Women of
the Church meeting, first Tues
day, 7:30 p. m.
VASS BAPTIST CHURCH
Rev. Lewis Beal
Sunday school, 10 a. m. Morn
ing worship 11 a. m. Training
Union, 7 p. m. Evening worship,
8 p. m. Mid-week Prayer service,
Wednesday, 8 p. m.
OUR LADY OF VICTORY
(Catholic)
West Pennsylvania at Hardin
Fr. Donald Fearon, C. SS. R«'
Fr. Robert McCrief, C. SS. R.
assistant
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Mattresses and Springs
Made to Order
Cotton and felt mattresses con
vert^ to Innersprings. Work
guaranteed. One day service.
LEE MATTRESS AND
SPRING CO.
Ralph Lee. Manager
South Main St. ‘Tel. 1089
Laurinburg, N. C.
or Mrs. R. E. Crafts Serv. Sta.
on US No. 1. Phone 2-4822
ADEN SCHOOL OF DANCE
Old VFW Clubroom N. E. Broad St.. Straka Bldg.
Ballet : Tap : Acrobaitic
Ballroom
Phone 2-8224
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tant evening of December 31. heard before Mass.
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