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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Carolina
Friday, April M. 19S2
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—James Boyd, May -3, 1941.
Good Friday
It seems impossible that there should be peo
ple who do not khow what Good Friday means;
that is, people in a Christian country. But the
other day when someone, speaking of this
Easter Week, mentioned Good Friday, sonwone
else said; What do you mean? What is Good
Friday? . .
There cannot be many people as ignorant as
that, but, at that, it is a question whether people
tviink much of the special meaning for men, of
Good Friday. We are not thinking of the scrip'
tural meaning, nor even the theological mean'
ing of the atonement and sacrifice. Perhaps it
might be termed the human meaning that we
have in mind. For Christ’s suffering brings us
face to face with the eternal human question
mark: vhy? Why must there be suffering; pain
and physical misery and wretchedness?
Some of the more priftiitive sects used to
believe that suffering was man’s lot on earth,
that it was inflicted by God as punishment for
sin. But that idea didn’t work out in life, for
the very people who were clearly the most free
from sin. the most decent and brave and fine,
were often among those the most afflicted. That
fact, perhaps, led to a theory that seems nearer
the truth; that the experience of suffering is
necessary in order to understand suffering and
be equipped, through sympathy and knowledge,
to help other sufferers.
There is,, too, the theory that men are tested
by suffering and it is as they are tempered by
the fire of such testing, humbled in spirit yet
strengthened by the sense of an inner victory,
that they grow in godliness.
There must be truth in each of these ideas
but there is a third factor bound up With them,
and with so much else beyond our comprehen
sion, in this answer to the meaning of suffering.
Good Friday, we must remember, would have
had no meaning at all if Easter had not follow
ed it. Through darkness to light; through suf
fering to joy. This is a fundamental truth that
Christ’s suffering and death was meant to teach.
“He that loseth his life, shall find it,” He said,
in a paradox that surely means that only
through a completely selfless acceptance of life
with whatever suffering it may bring, can man
attain the serenity of spirit that will bring about
his fullest effectiveness as a human being.
In accepting suffering and death on the cross,
Christ was working out the inevitable pattern
and path of his life, a path that led just as sure
ly, just as inevitably, through that suffering to
the Easter morning, and the scent of spring lilies
in a garden and early sunlight slanting across
the open doorway of an empty tomb.
It is dangerous to drop down, a long long way,
to concrete affairs but it is, in these troubled
times, tempting to bring the analogy back
to the current world situation. Half of the world
is in desperate straits of suffering, but the other
half, our half, is relatively imtouched; we may
be suffering mentally to the point of a spiritual
paralysis of worry and self-doubt but we are
still literally waUowing in the enjoyment of
our bountiful life. If the lesson of Good Friday
were applied to the world, it might have an
ominous ring for us: for it might weU say thit
lack of suffering makes us incapable of world
leadership; that only through experiencing
some of the trouble that has overwhelmed our
neighbors, the other peoples of the world, may
we attain the understanding and the inner
strength necessary to help them and ourselves
and bring us all out into the light.
on trying to present the whole unpalatable
story that we would have to keep on taxing
ourselves, that Europe cannot shift its entire
economy to making arms, that there is a point,
in this arming against communism, beyond
which we cannot go or else we shall throw Eu
rope into worse bankruptcy than it is m now,
and that would bring communism quicker than
anything else. And he would have informed the
American people that while we berate Europe
for not arming, we ourselves have not lived up
to our promise to furnish them with materiel.
He would have told us that in view of the fail
ure we seem to be making of our attempt to
combine the preparedness program with main
taining the highest standard of living our na
tion has ever known, we would do well to mod
erate our criticisip of others.
It is probable that General Eisenhower will
soon take off his uniform and come home; and
probably that is just what he ought to do, for
it is not fair to our program, it is not fair to our
foreign friends for him to stay over there and
try to combine business with politics. He will
be acclaimed when he comes home, as a great
general and a great man, but the sound of that
acclaim may possibly be somewhat dim
med by an anxious murmur of doubt and dis
may, as this veteran gives up a task for which
he is superbly fitted and which is of over-riding
importance to become a recruit in a new and
very different assignment.
Grains of Sand
A New York doctor weekend-]the same jurisdiction as superior
ing at Pinehurst emerged unhurt court. . . He retired from the
from his damaged plane at bench in 1941 and has be^ prac-
IKnollwood airport Sunday morn- ticing since that time. • • With de
thus rs ‘A
IS^repS’ S'llttte" daTa"" on and taughUaw at the University
I be ^ would of North Carolina for two years
hi!^ was available . . . -u- I Thprp he taufiht many who
like to know more about him, • • • there ne taugnx
' -a 01 tC
I tlmse rare peop 1 . William B. Umstead, is now can-
♦He flew m Saturday for thek.^^^^ governor.
I weekend, and Sunday morning j
went out to the airport to take contribution below reached
I a spin ... As he came m for a] ^ Fesperman’s
[landing a crosswind caught o^’Loiumn in the Charlotte News,
tipped his light plane over on one I ^ friend with an eye for ap-
i wing and them nosed it complete- Pretty good,
ly over. . . A Piedmont Airlines
'attendant phoned quickly for ant — ^
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1 ambulance, a smart thing to do
. But the doctor proceeded to
step calmly out, uninjur^, and «.pj^gy made up;
when the ambulance got there it «iiave bold types;
found it wasn’t needed. “They always have the last
We’re sorry that, through a numbers are not in de
misunderstanding, we located
week’s Sandhills Kiwanis meet- »i«hev have a great deal of in-
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Thanks and Good Luck!
W. A. Leland McKeithen, who is retiring as
solicitor of recorder’s court in Moore County, has
held this post for 13 years. During that time he
has worked hard and faithfuUy in the service of
the county, leaving it only for the period of his
army service. _ _ ^
Moore County loses an able public servant in
the retirement of Mr. McKeithen. It is impos
sible to see him in action in court without being
impressed by his knowledge of the law and his
careful and finished handling of cases. He takes
his work extremely seriously and gives it his
best efforts. Furthermore, while firm and sonie-
times stern, he consistently upholds the dignity
of the law and maintains a courteous demeanor,
which must, we believe, have won him the re
spect of aU, even those in opposition. His col
leagues in the court are unanimous in praise of
his friendly spirit of cooperation.
Moore County people would be inclined to be
grudge the loss of their 13-year soUcitor if it
were not for a strong conviction that we shall
hear much more of him. Mr. McKeithen says
that he intends to devote himself to his law
practice and his duties as newly-elected presi
dent of the North Carolina Bar Association.
That will be all right with his friends for a
while, but only for a whUe; they will be watch
ing for what will come next.
Meantime, it is certain that the Pilot express
es the sentiments of Moore County in saying:
thank yc;u for what you have done for your
county, and all good wishes for what we feel
sure you will keep on doing for it, for your
state, and, perchance, for your country iii the
years ahead.
Operations instead of the South
ern Pines Country club. . . Not
that USAFAGOS wouldn’t havep''.':Y’
been a wonderful place to have
‘You cannot believe everything
been a wondermi piace lo
it, with all those generals (10 “Thev carry the news wherever
count ’em—10) .attending, but theLj^^
dining room there just isn’t op^ “They are
for public or club meetings. . . Lpggjj.
was the USAFAGOS comman- gj-g m-uch thinner than
dant, of course, who made theLto be;
speech, and the speech was about] «Tr„o,.,, man s
never afraid to
'Every man should have one
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the school, and in getting ^is own and not borrow from
news over the telephone we gath-U neighbors.”
ered that it was also AT the]
school. . . Our mistake.
The location of the meeting.
I however, was a matter of small
moment in comparison with the
importance of the assemblage . . .
We doubt that any civic club has
ever had such an impressive ros
ter of brass, active and retired, on
its guest list for any one meet
ing. and we are extremely proud
that such a gathering can, and
did, take place in our town.
The Public
Speaking
The New Assignment
We wonder if General Eisenhower’s recent
words may not have brought a moment s doubt
to his supporters. Not that they are not excel
lent; there is hardly a man who would not agree
with almost -everything he has said as regards
this country, but the little ways in which this
speech differs from former speeches is signifi
cant. There is no mistaking the fact that the
general is turning politician; the administrator
of the great experiment of leading Europe to
unity and strength is becoming the man who is
in line for the Republican'nomination.
When the general said that Europe must be
come self-sustaining, in military manufactures
and that it would be fatuous to assume that
American tax-payers would continue to pour
out their resources, his words were clearly meant
for the ears of those same American taxpayers.
No one can know better than General Eisen
hower that our insistence that Europe turn from
making civilian goods to military manufactures
has already seriously depressed her economy, a
fact that has, in turn, affected the economy of
this country in the reduction of our reviving
export trade. But the main point is that be
fore he became a candidate for the Republican
nomination, General, Eisenhower would not, we
believe, have pulled his punches. In fact,
the emphasis would have continued to be what
it had been aU along until political events came
into the picture. The general would have gone
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Bulldozer On The Lot
A bulldozer has an angry dangerous name and
an angry dangerous look. Furthermore he acts
that way. He grabs up mouthfuls of good earth
and chews them to bits; he gobbles trees and
bushes and he breakfasts on rocks. He’s a tough
hombre. That’s why yqji want to watch him
when he comes your way.
People who start to clear a lot to build a
house on have learne4 to cast a wary eye on
bulldozers. The contractor always tries to slip
one over, though slipping such a monster re
quires considerable slight of hand. The builder
will say, looking at your pretty wooded knoll,
“We’ll just get a bulldozer in here and clear
the site in no time. Come down tomorrow and
you’ll find us ready to start digging the cellar.”
Uh-uh. Don’t fall for it. That is, not if you
want your lovely knoll to stay lovely. A man
we know did just that, though. He let them
bring in a bulldozer and watched when it ar
rived whiffling and burbling, like Alice’s ban-,
dersnatch. He showed its keeper, up there on
top, his lovely knoll, sloping gently down with
scattered trees to the roadway. The keeper nod
ded: “We’ll just clear it out a bit,” and when
the man said something about “trees” he add
ed: “Oh sure, sure.” The man went away to
lunch and when he got back he drove right past
his lot without recognizing it. The bulldozer
was gone and so were the trees, the grass, the
few wild shrubs he’d been so pleased to find.
All that was left was a great raw red stretch of
dirt, a toboggan slide down to the road, already
hard-baked in the sun.
Bulldozers have done a lot of damage here
abouts. They hurry things up and aid im
measurably in heavy jobs, but the mess they
leave behind them almost outweighs the advan
tages. They have made it possible to build our
fine new road system, but also they are re
sponsible for the ugliness of the roadsides, lit
tered with upturned treetrunks, dead shrubs
and debris that they have'pushed aside. Be
tween the road and the mess is generally a
wide stretch of ditch and raw earth. Cracked
and eroded into gullies and washouts. Then
there are the big bare places with their crumb
ling banks where the clay has been dug out.
Bulldozers have done all that.
Bulldozers are a bit responsible, too, for the
maze of roads and paths that some people seem
to delight in making, till their lot is just like
a cat’s cradle of driveways and tum-arounds
with just a bit of lawn along the edges. Bull
dozers go to some people’s heads and they go
hogwild tearing up the place and smoothing it
down again.
So, we’d say: watch out for a bulldozer. In
his place-, he’s a fabulous creature and mighty
in his strength, but you’d better keep him under
wraps.
And we were also charmed
with the account of the sp^ch
[made by Brig. Gen. W. M. Gross
about USAFAGOS, of which we
are also very proud. . . And we
are proudest of all of his “Alum
ni Song” for USAFAGOS gradu
ates—a masterpiece of wording
. The words are not hard to
’earn and in practically no time
General Gross had everybody
singing them. . . We’ve been sing
ing them ourself ever since, and
they’ve become our facorite song.
The song consists only of
“Southern Pines, O Southern
Pines” over and over, to the tune
' of “Maryland, My Maryland,” and
winding up with “Our Southern
Pines!” . . . Just try it. . . It’s a
honey of a song!
A GOOD START
To the Pilot.
This is just a line to tell you
that we truly appreciate your
splendid support of the “Finer
Carolina” contest. Your editorial
entitled “Carolina’s Finest” was
one of the most generous com
ments I’ve seen since the contest
was announced and will help us
a lot in getting it off to a good
start.
We are wishing the people in
Southern Pines the best of luck
in their chosen projects.
Cordially,
JACK RILEY
Director of Publicity
Carolina Power & Llight Co
Raleigh
Two of the three Moore County
citizens who were nominated last
month by Dixlecrat Dave Clark
(or membership on county elec
tion boards just found out this
week how their names had been
used—or misused.
Both came out with vigorous
denials that they had been con
sulted in any way, that they
wanted to be on Clark’s list or
felt they had any place on it.
These were E. C. Stevens of
Southern Pines and Chester Wil
liams of Pinehurst. We haven’t
consulted with Bob Harlow,
Clark’s third nominee, but we
feel sure he’s in the same boat
with Gene and Chester.
Clark, who headed the splinter
narty formed in 1948, and is about
the only thing left of it in North
Carolina now, submitted his list
of ihree good men and true from
each of the state’s 100 counties
GOOD NEIGHBORS
To the Pilot.
The members' of the Hasty
household on West Pennsylvania
avenue would like to take this
means of expressing our thanks to
the city fire department, our
neighbors and friends who quick
ly came to our rescue-last Tues
day when our chimney caught
fire.
What turned out to be a big
“April Fool” might have been a
great disaster.
We are happy to live in a com
munity that is' alert, and where
everyone is a good neighbor.
Most sincerely,
BESSIE HASTY
RESOLUTION
The following resolution was
adopted by the Vestry of Em
manuel Episcopal church, at its
meeting of April 1:
when the Democrats and Republi
cans were submitting theirs, for
approval of the state hoard of
elections. The state board, how
ever, disregarded his request for
representation on the county
boards, on the grounds that his
States Rights party was not
regularly establish^ party. Nor
if the Moore list was any sample,
were his nominees connected with
the splinter party in any way at
all.
One nice thirig about election
years is the pleasant faces Of can
didates for office as they make
their handshaking rounds. . . We
were visited by one such last
week, and really enjoyed a chat
with him. . . He was Oscar O.
Efird. Winston-Salem attorney
who is making his second bid for
Associate Justice of the State Su
preme Court. . . His first race
made two years ago, while not
successful nevertheless showed
him to be a candidate of surpris
ing strength and no one is belit
tling his chances this time,
though he is up against a strong
field of five superior court judges.
Mr. Efird bears the courtesy
title of judge, as he headed a
special court in Winston-Salem
for 14 years with approximately
WHEREAS, in’His infinite Wis
dom, God has called to the larger
life of perfect service the soul of
our fellow-churchman. Admiral
John Dundas, and
WHEREAS John Dundas show
ed in his life a constant faith
matched by loyal devotion to his
Lord and His Church, which he
served as Vestryman, and
WHEREAS his presence among
us will be greatly missed,
THEREFORE, be it resolved
that the Vestry express its sense
of loss and deep sympathy with
the bereaved family; that a copy
of this resolution be conveyed to
his family, as well as spread upon
the minute-book of the Vestry.
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