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THE PILOT—-Southern Pines, North Carolina
Friday, March 14, 1952
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Southern Pmes. North Carolina
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19*1-^AMES BOYD, Publisher—1944—_
KATH^InFbO^^ • • : : ; Asstlditol
’ . • General Managei
COUNCIL ‘ ■ ■ ■ • • . -J^dvertasm.
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iniexed at the PostoHice at Southern Pines. N. c..
as second class mail matter _—
“In taking over The Pilot no changes ^ con-
t,>Tnnlated We wiU try to keep this a good paper.
W? w1?iy to m^e a Uttie money for all con-
mere there seems to be an occasion to
urour influence for the public go<^ we ^ try
to do it And we will treat ev^body alike
—James Boyd, May 23, i»ei.
For A Commumiy Center
1 j In Ita little doubt that, if
a plan would be far closer to the origmai pur
pose of those who built the club.
^ +imA now the building has, while
For failed in most other
filling one de ^
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„.,;are a.d
bactad »‘e»* P“-
i=ssiiis
influence in keeping standards high.
Gradually much of this activity and mterest
ha?^t^d^ the efforts of the club have been
^hanneUed more and more into one groove The
entertaining ' of visitors, S
among the elderly, h^s become, during fees^
nast years, almost the club s sole activity. Th^
fs important: there are many older people with
little to do who might be lonely and unhappy
here were it not for the social afternoons con
ducted at the Civic Club.
It is generally agreed that this function of the
club is of great value and must not be abam
doned. On the other hand, the needs of younger
groups in town are quite as important. The
teen-agers, the young married set, army wives,
and. other groups badly need a place to meet. The
Civic Club building appears to be the ideal spot,
while it is especially suitable for the small in
formal daijces so dear to the hearts of the
younger set
All these groups deserve consideration in any
town plan. The thought that the Civip Club
building might fill a multiple purpose for all
is a tempting one but there are complications
which require working out before any step of
this natiure should be taken. In their good and
well-reasoned letter to this newspaper, publish
ed last week, the Teen-agers show a certain
lack of awareness of some of the problems in
volved. For instance, in speaking of their de
sire for a place of their own, there appears to be
a mistaken assumption that the Civic Club was,
or might be, a place of their exclusive posses
sion. Perhaps this attitude had something to
do with the original trouble, stemming from the
fact that a few, and we believe only a very few,
young people treated the building too much as
their own, to do with as they wished.
A community building, such as the town
board and the Civic Club have in mind, would
belong to everyone, not to any exclusive group;
the Civic Club itself would of course, be given
“ consideration so that its activities should
^Jgr. But all this means that a well-bal-
Ijrram, with time apportioned among
|he building, would have to be
definite amount of supervi-
Ijf the community house idea
igh it must be handled
^1 perseverance; it will
^d to get out of hand,
iirricular town gov-
K be termed a lux-
ail:’’. Yet how
l^'e worth-
itegory?
lux-
of Charlotte telling us he is thinking of entering
the gubernatorial campaign.
Mr. Clark is now receiving the acclaim of some
North Carolinians after his fray with certain
students at the University of North Carolina,
and he could, we feel regretfully sure, expect
much support in a campaign based on racial is
sues.
He states that the advantage of his getting
into the race would be to “give our people the
opportunity to express themselves” on the is
sue of segregation. This sort of campaign would
not only do North Carolina no good, but would
be a thoroughly degrading affair. It would re
vivify old animosities and create new ones. And
it would not settle, nor help to settle, the press
ing race problems which concern us aU; it
would make them worse.
It would be foolish to dismiss Mr. Clark as an
eccentric. There is no doubt that he expresses the
views of many North Carolinians. There is
probably today more sympathy for his view
point, right or wrong, than in many years past.
Recent actions of the NAACP, such as charging
that Negro law students of the University of
North Carolina were being discriminated
against in grading, have deepened prejudices
and alienated many who have been willing to
lend the Negro a hand in his quest for oppor
tunity.
Mr. Clark might have no hope of winning,
but in making the race he would inevitably
bring to the surface passions and animosities
which would mean trouble for the state and for
all of her people, white and colored.
Driver Training—An Essential
Senator Byrd and the Budget
While sympathizing with the thrifty attitude
of the county commissioners, and their feeling
that the schools are already taking as large a
part of the county tax dollar as is consistent
with a balanced program, we greatly regret that
they do not look with more favor on the Kiwan-
is-proposed driver training course in the public
schools.
We hope that they wiU keep the matter well
in mind and do their best to fit it into the bud
get, and in any case not shelve it entirely but
regard it as a measure to be taken just as rapid
ly as it can be afforded.
We think that on the whole such training is
very slow in becoming a part of the public school
system everywhere, and our feeling |s not en
tirely based on the accident statistics.
It is absolutely true that the death, damage
and disaster on our highways -need a stem
check and could probably be best checked at
the source—^the beginning driver, who soon be
comes the adult driver, and should have correct
training from the time he first takes the wheel.
There is another angle, too, which we feel
has not been sufficiently emphasized, and that
is that driving a car has become practically an
essential of daily living and a requisite of most
jobs. Training for any type of living today
should certainly include driving—a vital educa
tion factor now passed on in haphazard fashion,
often at inexpert hands.
Many things, have been blamed for the high
accident rate—^mechanical failures, speed, drink
ing, etc. All of these boil down to ignorance,
carelessness and incompetence. Proof, if any
is needed, lies in the fine records of trained
truckdrivers, who probably travel more miles
per person than any other one group, under all
sorts of traffic conditions and at a generally
high rate of speed. Yet the accident rate for this
group is far below that of the ordinary driver.
It may be that Moore county is destined not
to take the lead among North Carolina counties
in installation of driver training courses in the
schools. But a start has been made, and some
day the schools must follow, as they have in the
part quarter century in so many things which
have meant better living, greater safety, added
skills and improved job opportunities for youth.
lod Bless Dr. Grum"
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CREOMUI^SION
Members of a local AA group
met at the home of a member one
night last week in anticipation of
hearing a fine guest speaker, a
visitor in the vicinity they had
heard of but whom none of them
knew.
As they sat waiting for him the
doorbell rang and there stood a
pleasant-faced man who was
promptly ushered in by th host.
He was taken around the circle
and everybody was introduced. He
didn’t give his own name and no
body asked it—names aren’t im
portant in AA.
He was seated in the most com
fortable chair in the room and
everybody waited expectantly for
him tq speak. Finally he did
speak. He said, “Er—ah—is this
the Boy Scout meeting?”
It ended up with his being es
corted across the street, where a
Boy Scout meeting was being
held, with his arms loaded down
was AA literature—^pretty good
stuff whether you nee^ it or not.
We may not have a Grauman’s
theatre here, where celebrities im
mortalize their handprints in wet
cement, but we saw a little dog
immortalize his paw prints by
trotting briskly the other evening
across new-laid cemnt in front of
the A & P supermarket.
A temporary fence had been
placed there, and flares lighted to
keep the people off, but these
didn’t mean a thing to the little
dog.
The Public Speaking
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AGAIN—YOUTH SPEAKS Imade a serviceable meeting place
Senator Byrd has now gone through his an
nual act of pruning down the federal budget,
and this time has announced to the press he
has found ways to reduce it by some eight bil
lion dollars.
This has happened a good many times now,
and outside of getting a few headlines for Sen
ator Byrd, we have not seen any tangible re
sults.
The Senator is a member of Congress, which
has the final power of determination as to the
federal budget, and we don’t see why, if he has
something to sell, he doesn’t sell it right there in
the Senate. He is not the only one in Congress
loudly protesting heavy federal spending, and
laying the blame at President Truman’s door.
Yet no one knows better than these same Sena
tors that the-President actually has very little to
do with it. It is up to Congress, and Congress
alone.
Talking about economy gets nobody any
where unless the talkers become doers, and ideas
become translated into action. The people are
disturbed, and rightly so, by the mounting bud
get figures. They would, we think, be grateful
^for some action to get them down.
Instead, they get a lot of talk aimed at getting
ges and headlines,, while the ones doing the
ling continue to pile up those exi)enditures
revile.
^Dr. Grum,” we learn, was the
^minions in India and Pakistan
glina’s Frank Graham visited
I first two efforts at settling
jdia again, going soon to
fcediation effort for the
further failure is in
[ayer—“God bless Dr.
forking sincerely for
arts may bring some
led world.
To the Pilot.
As a former Southern Pines
teen-ager, I have read with inter
est the correspondence in "The
Public Speaking” concerning the
problem of the Civic Club; and
I should like to congratulate the
high school students who took it
upon themselves to bring the
“firm believer in Democracy” up
to date.
Perhaps the greatest shortcom
ing of the ^en-agers of my high
school years was our lack of pub
lic spirit, which the present group
so aptly displays. Had we taken
the active part which they are
now taking, there might not be
the, problem which now exists,
and the Civic Club should prob
ably have provided constructive
entertainment for a great many
oeople, young and old, before its
floor became “unsafe for crowds.”
In any event, here follow some
observations on the problems of
<^he teen-age center, past and pres
ent
The event which gave the Civic
Club its ultimate case against the
young people was a breaking arid
entering of the building for pur-
noses variously described as in-
'’ecent, clandestine, and immoral.
Granted—the activities of those
people warranted the open mouths
and over-the-bridge-table com
nients of the members. But I won
der how many know that the per-
netrators of the “foul deed” were
not members of the Teen-Age
Club at all, but young adults,
some of whom had previously
graduated from high school, oth
ers who had never attended
school in Southern Pines.
In any case, the reaction was
set off. At the next meeting, the
teen-agers were fully as indignant!
as any of the Civic Club members |
nr older taxpayers of the town:'
and later, a committee of three
'^oung people appeared before the
Chamber of Commerce and nre-
:;orited their point of view. Manv
of the same civic-minded citizens
who are now working for a true
"ommunitv center were on thei’-
'ide and gave them a great deal
-^f encouragement. However, even
with the citizens’ help, they wem
nnable to move the Civic Club
^om the firm conviction that the''^
-■^'onld be evicted to the Broad
''t''’pet benches.
Finally, the High School dona-
♦»d the use of the former Men’s
niib, which was renamed the
“■irovhnle.” In true, so-called “so
cialistic spirit.” a great manv high
school students “pitched in” and
for young people in all club and
social activities. In so doing, they
showed that they were willing to
work untiringly for their “pro
tection and entertainment” and
that they were not content to sit
idly by and let the “entertaining”
citizens dictate to them. Is such
constructive action to be constru
ed as an outgrowth of “a break
ing up of family life and home in
fluence”? Not only did they have
the Foxhole for themselves, but
they voted to allow any school-
approved fimctions use it. They
neither needed the Civic Club nor
asked for it; and many hoped
never to have to request it for a
teen-age function again.
Now, the town is once more try
ing to make the Civic Club a com
munity center. I, too, hope that
"some way might be found.”
Some way by which our “firm be
lievers in Democracy” may real
ize that we under 25 do not in
tend to be seen and not heard;
some way by which they may
realize what group really consti-
tuts the “irresponsible, selfish,
discontented citizens” (and I
thank the writer for his or her
appropriate words); and some way
by which they may gain an un
derstanding and love of teen-agers
and will end their attempts to
smother the spirit of open-mind
ed progress for which the com
munity of Southern Pines is so
well-known.
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