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Page Two THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, April 25, 1952 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 DAN S. RAY General Manager 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 Association ' “In taking over The Pilot no changes are con templated. We will try to keep this a good paper. We will try to make a little money for aU con cerned. 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 everybody alike.” —James Boyd, May 23, 1941. Was He Right? Wlere it not for the deep sympathy that must be evoked by the contemplation of a man wrest ling with bis soul in the face of a stupendous decision, it would be enough to point out that the picture of Grovernor Adlai Stevenson, as he sought to make up his mind whether or not to be a candidate for the Democratic nomination, may be classed, without doubt, as one of the most absorbingly interesting in our political history. But there is the man, the human being, torn by doubts, worried by commitments, only too well aware of the gravity of the alternatives, and so deeply anxious to do the thing that is right. Sympathy outweighs all else. In an adjoining column we print Governor Stevenson’s statement of his reasons for refus ing the call of his party. It makes impressive reading. Particularly telling, we submit, is his reference to the need for good government and good men on the lower political levels. The governorship of a great state can hardly be so classed, except in comparison with the highest office, but Governor Stevenson was clearly in tending his comment to apply all the way down the line. It is very true that if we had good govern ment at the grass roots, many of our problems would be solved, and good government at the top would be not only more certain but less im portant. Automatically, it would seem, the whole thing would start to click. Stevenson’s remarks will raise the spirits of all public ser vants as they feel the ennobling responsibility that is theirs. But, nevertheless, there must be a man at the top who can assume the top re sponsibility; especially is that true today. There remains the question: should the call to this duty not supersede all others? , Whether one thinks that Stevenson was right or wrong, one cannot but honor him for his de cision. It was based on a philosophy of govern ment that is valid; it was reinforced by a pro found sense of duty to the state that had chosen him and to those whom he had persuaded to work with him; beyond that, was his affection ate consideration for his family and, beyond that again, an exciting modesty, rarer than pearls. Perhaps these should not have prevailed/ against the call to lead his party in the possible peril of an isolationist Republican leadership; perhaps Governor Stevenson was wrong, but, if’ he was, he was wrong for the rightest reasons imaginable. Time will show and it is just possible that time will play a more active role. For it is con ceivable that if there is a deadlock at the con vention and if, meanwhile, the nation is threat ened by the wrong sort of Republican victory, there may be a sudden re-emergence of the man from Illinois. It is more than likely that the state itself, and those.people and forces who played such a part in the Governor’s decision not to run, would refuse to allow their needs to obstruct a higher call. It is conceivable that a draft in such force as to be irresistible may yet come to this man whose refusal of the honor has only shown more clearly how fitted he is to re ceive it. ■ STEVENSON’S STATEMENT “I have been urged to announce my candidacy for the Democratic nomination for President, but I am a candidate for Governor of Illinois and I cannot run for two offices at the same time. Moreover, my duties as Governor do not presently afford the time to campaign for the nomination even if I wanted it. “Others have asked me merely to say that I would accept a nomination which I did hot seek. To state my position now on a prospect so remote in tjme and probability seems to me a little presumptuous. But I would rather pre sume than embarrass or mislead. “In these somber years the hopes of man kind dweli with the President of the United States. From such dread responsibility one does not shrink in fear, self-interest or humility. But great political parties, like great nations, have no indispensable man, and last January, before I was ever considered for the Presidency, I an nounced that I would seek re-election as Gover nor of Illinois. Last week I was nominated in the Democratic primary. It is the highest office within the gift of the citizens of Illinois, and its power for good or ill over their lives is cor respondingly great. No one should lightly aspire to it or lightly abandon the quest once begun. “Hence, I have repeatedly said that I was a candidate for Governor of Illinois and had no other ambition. To this I must now add that in view of my prior commitment to run for Gov ernor and my desire and the desire of many who have given me their help and confidence in our unfinished work in Illinois, 1 could not accept the nomination for any other office this sum mer. “Better state government is the only sound foundation for our Federal system, and I am proud and content to stand on my com mitment to ask the people of Illinois to allow me to continue for another four years in my present post. “I cannot hope that my situation wUl be uni versally understood or my conclusions unani mously approved. “I can hope that friends with larger ambitions for me will not think ill of me. They have paid me the greatest compliment within their gift, and they have my utmost gratiude.” The Floods Again They're Saying Esienhower’s victory in New Jersey was im portant on two counts: 1. In that heavily industrialized state he won over Taft by a larger margin than in New Hampshire; 2. Although Taft captured 40 per cent of the Republican votes cast, bad weather cut the voter turn-out and most observers expected Taft to run best under “small “turnout” conditions. Eisenhower’s strong support in New Jersey focuses attention on a decision the general an nounced last weel^. He will not, he said, com pletely shed his military uniform before his Re publican brethren decide whether to drape him out in their regal robes this Summer. The wisdom of this move is questionable. If, in so doing, Eisenhower also decides wearing the uniform restricts his activities as a candi date or limits his expression of opinion between the time he hits home shore and the July con vention, then it may be very unwise. The people—and that includes Republicans, Democrats and independents—need very much to know what Eisenhower, thinks. And they de serve to see and hear him say it in person. Some, like Senator Taft, want this for campaign pur poses, others want to know before they adopt Eisenhower as a candidate. They should know. The American tradition calls for the give and take of political cam paigning in an election year. By standing too much aloof Eisenhower may not be playing fair with his own folks. The general should doff his uniform and re sign completely from the military when he leaves Europe next month. He has promised to do this if nominated. He should do it before jn order to make himself free as a private citi zen to speak up in the public forum with no strings attached. —Greensboro Daily News No. 1—^Do You Know Yoiir ‘‘Old Southern Pines?” Sympathy for the victims of the floods now raging over a large section of the middle west is almost obscured by a feeling of angry frustra tion. Why should this thing happen year after year? Why can’t we manage things better? Who is responsible? These questions persistently reassert their sharp demand as we read the stories of des truction and loss and see the pictures in the papers of flooded towns, crumbling levees, and the desperate, exhausting struggle to stem the tide. They are pictures and stories that are mon otonously familiar. They were in our papers last year and the vear before and the years before that. They wiU keep on appearing, as the waters rise each spring, until the time comes when those who can bring order out of this chaos, are able to set in motion the wheels to stop and stem and control the flooding Missouri and its tributaries, until Somebody—perhaps we should say: all of us decide that the job is going to be done. What is wrong? Why hasn’t something been done before? There seem to be a good many things to blame. Authority is vested in several bureaus, none of who’m agree on the remedy. The Army Engineers, the Department of the In terior and other government agencies have big fingers in the pie. Then there is Congress and the individual congressmen who are out after their own pet projects or sections and against the other fellow’s. Nobody wants to give up any of his prerogatives: nobody is willing to back down in favor of someone else. But back of all this is perhaps a larger stumbling block. This is the bogy of socialism. Every time it looks as if an overall plan might be possible, somebody raises the cry of “socialism!” The Missouri Valley Authority, modelled on the Tennessee Valley flood-control system, has a plan to harness the Muddy Mo. It would seem that with the evidence before us of the extraor dinary success of 'TVA in saving tbousemds of acres of farmlands and also furnishing the cur rent to carry out the production miracles of to day, not otherwise possible, this example would be immed,iately followed. No private companies could have created ’TVA and none could create an MV A, stretching over many states and drain ing the lands of many more. Yet, because of this unrealistic fear of socialism, nothing is done and the floods go on. This is not sensible. It is insanely wasteful to go on and on letting half our country wash away, losing millions of dollars worth of crops and livestock and homes and plants. More, the moral effect, in the face of the world need, let alone our own, is destructive of confidence in our ability and in our good sense. The picture of the U. S. A., spread over the world by Rus sia: that we are a wasteful, uncontrolled, imma ture and decadent country is given too solid a foundation against the background of the Mis souri floods. Surely it is time to stop fighting amongst our selves over who is to do this work of control, and to stop scaring ourselves out of what must be done by needless nightmares. It is time to get to work and get results. Let the floods be stopped; may 1952 see the last crest moving down over the famished, flooded coimtryside. Can you identify the picture above, and tell about when it was made? This is the first of a series of old copperplates The Pilot owns, used for advertising booklets long ago. We’ll run one each week, asking old-timers to send in their information. Keep the pictures each week, so you can check the identifications as they come in. No. 1 should be easy, as it shows a sign, “The News Depot”—forerunner of which store in present-day Southern Pines? shined up to the little girl right away and she to him. . . When the time came to leave, she burst into loud wails, hung on tight and could hardly be pried loose! We had so many favorable comments last week on the new one-way traffic—with practically none that were unfavorable-^that we just couldn’t print them all. One of those which got crowded out was that of our friend "Red' Overton, who was one of the most enthusiastic of our commentators. Along with his enthusiasm for the new traffic pattern. Red hacTsome good suggestions for additional improvement. One of them was for signs to help drivers entering town from the south, wanting to go to Pine- hurst or beyond. They could, he thought be directed from US Highway 1 to Bennett street south of town, and miss the downtown traffic, going directly to Pennsyl vania avenue. *This would ease the traffic load on Broad, and get the cars through to the MJidland road in double-quick time. Others' who have expressed their pleasure in the new traffic arrangement include Herbert Cameron, Walter Harper (who noted that many more cars are already using Bennett street than before), Joe Warren. Remond Ty ler and Bill Heller who frankly said he hadn’t thought before that he would like it. When he saw how well it was working, he changed his mind. He thinks it would be even bet ter if people would learn to ease onto the side where they are planning to park, instead of abruptly moving over, for in stance, from the curbside flow of traffic to park by the railroad. Redmond Tyler wants an im-' provement, too. He thinks i should be settled now which has the right of way at intersections —the north-south traffic, or the east-west traffic. People are apt to think that the north-south has right of way, since it is through traffic—^yet east-west people caught on the railroad track might find themselves in a dan gerous position. We agree with'him that this is important, and hope a decision is made. Maybe it already is, and we iust haven’t heard. How about it. Mayor Chan? Then comes another good sug gestion, from another source—^that the State, which is installing numerous highway improvements these days, be requested to build a truck route to divert tliis heavj' traffic from US 1 through town. A truck route could branch off from the highway at Niagara, come along the old Niagara road into town and through the ravine between Southern Panes and West Southern Pines, straight on south to Aberdeen. The originator of this plan lives on May street, which coincides with US Highway 1 in Southern Pines. He said the constant pounding of the- trucks is pretty frightful along that pretty thoroughfare, a residential street On which our schools-are also located. All of these plans and others some of our citizens are thinking and talking about, are in line with the modern idea of speeding through traffic through, and' heavy traffic around, a town— keeping both of them clear of the local traffic, making driving easi er in town and saving wear and tear on one or two particular streets. A little girl who has just mov ed to Southern Pines is having her first experience at playing with other white children. . . Five- year-old Andrea Laura DeBruin recently arrived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gerard DeBruin, from the Virgin Islands, where for three years Andrea Laura was CANDIDATES To the Pilot. It has seemed to me that, the appearance in your columns, pnee, or preferably twice, before the May primary election and the general election in November, of the names of all candidates who are aspiring to the various offices, to be chosen by the electorate at both elections would do two Or three things desirable. I think that such appearances in all local papers throughout the country would bring out a larger vote and a more intelligent one. I am sure that countless thous ands go to the polls on all elec tions who are entirely uninform ed regarding the candidates, their names, where they come from and whether or not they have held of fice before. It is trhe that the names of the various aspirants come up in the papers from time to time as they file or announce, and their adver- tisemehts also appear; but there is always some uncertainty. I am sure, as to just who is running for what. I am sure it would be helpful if the names could appear in your columns and those of the other county papers in somewhat the form they will appear on the bal lots; the voter can thus study them at his leisure before he or she goes to the polls and be pre pared to vote intelligently and promptly, instead of as often hap pens he says, “Aw, mark the whole Dem. (or Rep.) ticket. I don’t know who any of them are.” ^ Just an idea. I don’t remember having seen such a compiled list in your or any other county paper. Best Wishes DAVID S. PACKARD Pinebluff New Elections Board Sworn In New members of the Moore County board of elections were sworn in Saturday, April 12, by C. C. Kennedy, clerk of court. They are Sam C. Riddle of Carth age, Democrat and former board member; Hubert McCaskill of Pinehurst, alternate choice of the county Democratic committee, who was commissioned after W. Lament Brown withdrew to flie for. solicitor of recorders court; and L. G. Thomas, new Republi can member. In an organization meeting, Mk'. Riddle was re-elected chairman and Mr. McCaskill was elected secretary. The board named elec tion officials for the Democratic primary in.May, as reported in last week’s paper. The Country Book Shop Pinebluff. N. C. Children's Gift Books Tel. 483 Margaret Rounds Drs. Neal and McLean VETERINARIANS Southern Pines. N. C. the only white child living in the island settlement of St. John. They are staying at Mrs. deBer ry’s, on East Illinois avenue. . Andrea Laura has entered Mrs. Edwards’ First Grade school, and in the afternoons she plays with Sarah Dee, aged five, and Buddy, three, children of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Matthews, who live close by. “Laurie” is. having a wonderful time, her parents report, and is learning fast. . . She enjoyed her little black playmates on St. John, but in a way was an outcast among them . . . She just wasn’t the right color! Lady pinched last week for fail ing to stop on entering a highway had to appear before Justice of the Peace Charlie MacLeod at Carthage the other day. . . Ac companied by a large patrolman. Corporal Parvin. She had to pay a fine and costs and, though she didn’t fuss, it can be imagined she wasn’t too happy and that the patrolman might not have won a popularity contest with her at the moment. It was different, however, with her two-year-old daughter. . When the lady had to write a check she turned over the child to Corporal Parvin to hold . . The corporal, who has a bunch of boys and no girls in his family. LIKES BOOK LOOKS To the Pilot. I found .the book reviews by Mrs. Constance Foster in your is sue of April 11 very interesting. I think it would be most helpful and instructive for your readers if these reviews were to be con tinued. EDITH H. SMITH Fields Plumbing & Heating Co. PHONE 5952 PINEHURST, N. a All Types of Plumbing* HeaRng, ' (G. E. Oil Burners) and Sheet Metal Work ^MATTRESS REpyATING New Inner spring mattress and box springs made to order. Cotton and felt mattresses converted to Innersprings. All work sterilized and guaranteed. One day service. PLASTIC and LEATHERETTE UPHOLSTERING LEE MATTRESS and SPRING COMPANY Southern Pines, N. C. U. S. No. 1 Phone 2-5614 Main Plant—Laurinburg, N. C. TeL 1089 Nylon Hosiery Buy directly from the Manufacturer at mill prices First quality all Nylon from top to toe priced as low as 81 cents per pair. Sold only by the box (3 pair) Also 54 gauge 66 gauge and Black Heels Aberdeen Hosiery Mills Co., Inc. Pinehurst Road Aberdeen. N. C. If • • 1l on one of Donald Ross’ finest 18-hole creations in the heartland of American golf. Ride... through endless miles of scenic splendor in the fableS Sandhills of North Carolina. Relax... with the most congenial people on earth. 5ltl6 /pines (flub SOUTHERN PINES where your hosts are the cosgroves
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