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r Page Two THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina Friday, September 26, 1952 THE PILOT Published Each Friday by — — — *lTED THE PILOT. INCORPORA' __ Southern Pines. North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOyP. Publisher—1944 KATHARINE BOYD • Editor VALERIE NICHOLSON ..... Asrt. Editor DAN S RAY General Manager ramrmCIL Advertising Subscription Rates: One Year $4J)0 - 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 all con cerned. Where there seems to be an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will t^ to do it. And we will treat everybody alike.’ —James Boyd, May 23, 1941. India Says: No Thank Youi It is deeply heartening to read that India has reiected famine aid from China aM Russia that had political strings attached to it. The gifts of the much-needed food and funds carried the provision that it 'vyas to be distributed in certain specified regions and by the Communist-sponsored red reliet agency, but the Indian government said: “We will welcome these gifts as we do as sistance from any country, but it must be left to us to decide where help should go and how it should be made available.’ And they returned the gift. This raises the spirits. It takes courage for a government to deprive its people of food and money to buy ;food, for a princi ple. It is good to know that the Indian government has that courage. But, more than that, the fact that it can act so bold ly and independently proves that the situ ation in India is not so bad as some would lead us to believe. For a government must be pretty sure of the support of its people before such courageous action would be possible. , 4. 4.T, ■ This should be an encouragement to the free world. It should be, also, a lesson to some of Us. It was not so long ago that a similar gift was under discussion in our Congress. There were a good many voices raised, then, among out anti-administra tion Congressmen in particular, stating that the United States should do just what China and Russia tried to do. They wanted this country to attach strings to the gift of food that we sent: to specify that it should be distributed only by our agents and under certain conditions. Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed and the generosity of this nation was not used as a club over the heads of our neighbors in distress. The gift was made to help India feed her peo ple, because she needed it and we could spare it and vyanted her to have it. India’s action in refusing to be coerced by the Communists through her need for food places her among the nations we must respect. We may congratulate ourselves that in the face of the greatest difficulties, she is maintaining her independence and high principles. The Editor Answers Mr. Patch's Two Points In the Pilot of September 12 appeared a letter from Charles S. Patch, Jr., in which * he took issue with a previously published editorial entitled “How Do They Stand.” The title referred to the two presidential candidates and it is, of course, natural that on this subject Mr. Patch and this news paper should disagree. The Pilot supports Governor Stevenson’s candidacy, while our correspondent is the head of the local organization backing General Eisenhower. While we believe there are a great many matters in which we and our correspondent see eye to eye, this is one in which, we con fess happily, we are poles apart. vWe have been for the Governor from the start, if not before it, and we are more for him every minute. Mr. Patch picks out two points in partic ular, for criticism of our editorial: one re lates to foreign policy and the other to the Stevenson speech to the American Le gion. As to the first, Mr. Patch feels that The Pilot is all wrong in saying that, as he puts it, “Eisenhower and Stevenson are similar in views on foreign policy.” He says that the General wrote down a ten point program and quotes the General’s criticism of the Administration’s program: “one pol icy for Europe, a feeble policy for South America; a little policy for the Middle East; writing off the Far East at one mo ment and the next finding our sons fight ing in Korea.” Well, we read the General’s ten points carefully, and they still sounded like mighty familiar ideas. As for the above quotation, let’s take it, piece by piece as the General gave it. “One policy for Eu rope”: presumably that one policy is the Administration policy that culminated in NATO of which General Eisenhower was the head We have never heard that he did. not approve of this plan; he continues to stress the importance of a united front against communism and the need for all the allies we can get. “A feeble policy for South America.” Maybe we ought to be do ing more there, but seeing how hard-press ed we are everywhere else, somehow it seems to us that a feeble policy is probably about as much as we can afford in South America. Nexl; comes^ “a little policy for the Middle East.” Here we would point out, the Administration gives every sign of wanting not a little but a big policy in the Middle East: it is the Republicans in Con gress who have consistently refused to ap propriate enough money to carry out the Point Four program which, it is agreed by all observers on the scene, would be the best way to draw, this part of the world in our direction and away from Russia. The last item on the quotation seems to us to be entirely controversial. But with occupa tion troops in Japan, "with an American military mission in Formosa, with Ameri can mi.ssions, military and civliian, in ^e Philippines, it doesn’t look to us as if this country were “writing off the Far East.” As for" the men fighting in Korea, that de cision was made largely by the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It followed up a speech made m Korea a few days before the outbreak of the war by John Foster Dulles, Republican, for- / eign policy adviser, in which Mr. Dulles spoke openly of armed intervention by the U. S. if trouble developed. Would General Eisenhower have advised against the course adopted by his colleaguesi and his party’s leading foreign adviser? It would seem doubtful. Mr. Patch feels that the Pilot'is in error regarding the General’s foreign policy: Maybe so and, now that, since the edito rial was written, the General and Mr. Taft have gotten together, it may well be that the Eisenhower program has become very different from the way,it started. We frankly admit to a good deal of confqsion on the subject and if Mr. Patch can set us right, we’d appreciate it. For instance, here are a few questions we’d' like answered: (1) In what respects would Eisenhower* change the administration policies, in Eu rope, in Asia, in Korea? (2) Would Eisen hower have opposed U. S. intervention in KorGU The other point dealt with in the Patch letter takes little space to answer. Mr. Patch asks why, if Governor Stevenson meant what he said about pressure grwps he “accepted the support of CIO and AF of L leaders.” We are tempted to ask if Mr. Patch thinks his candidate would refuse that support if it were offered to him, but eschewing such temptation, may be say this: our'democracy functions, at the pres ent time, largely in response to so-called pressure groups. The labor uriions are pres sure groups, so are the AMA, the Grange, the oil lobby, the conservationists and the anti-conservationists, the bankers, the butcher.^. Wall Street or the schoolteach ers: they are all pressure groups, as are also, of course, the veterans. Governor Stevenson did not speak against pressure groups; what he said was that he would resist pressure groups when they seemed to him to be putting their own aims ahead of the welfare of the country. We believe that the Governor would cohtinue to hold that view and act in accordance with it, whether the undue pressure cams from the veter ans, or from labor or from Wall Street. _We believe he would try to do an honest job, if president, just as we believe Mr. Patch s candidate would do his best. And Mr. Patch is not quite fair in accusing Stevenson of wanting to scrap the Taft-Hartley Act. What he said was that the principle behind it was good, but it ought to be re-written. He argued strongly for less .government in terference between labor and management and m .ire dependence on direct bargaining. We welcome Mr. Patch’s letter. It is good to have a forthright expression of opinion and we hope there will be more such. The Disfranchised Soldier No. 23—Do You Know Your Old Southern Pines? miles north of Raleigh. The name “Ternado” was prob ably earned by the locomotive from its whirlwind trips through the undeveloped parts of North Carolina at the great speed of some 20 miles an hour. There are three of these repli cas. One is on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Wash ington, and the other in the Hall of History in Raleigh. A minimum price support for the 1953 wheat crop has been set at $2.21 a bushel. This gabled house with its picket fence and sloping yard is siire to be recognized by some readers of The Pilot, and we’ll appreciate it if they will let us hear from them, for we are in the dark as to the ownership of this early South ern Pines home. There are people on the porch, but it would be difficult if not impossible for anyone to recognize them. Sometimes the seem ingly impossible happens though, so speak up, won’t you? Grains of Sand THANKS MRS. PRILLMAN We are indebted to Mrs. Edna Prillman, ■who has lived in Southern Pines for 40 years, for the first and only identification of Old Picture No. 21. which she feels" sure is the R. W. Tate residence, at 310 North Page street. This house, Mrs. Prillman says, was formerly owned by a family named Emory, and she thinks that the couple stand ing on the upstairs porch are Mr. and Mrs. Emory. No. 19,—the white column ed house in a woodsy setting —ishe identified as Cedar Pines Villa, operated as a rest horn® by a Miss or Mrs. Thompson, and, later, for years O'wned by the Struthers Burts, who did considerable remodeling, and recently sold it to Martin' Gentry. This is another first identification. The original “Tornado” was built in England for the Raleigh and Gaston railroad, the original Sea board, which ran from Raleigh to the small town of Gaston a few Telephone 2-6161 Powell Funeral Home D. A. Blue. Jr. Southern Pines 24 hour Ambulance Service * and left it by the phone for some one to call me back. They never' did call back and I thought of it| Thursday when the papers were in the mail. Up to this point this is the same story that has happen ed to me many times before. From here on it’s different. “This week I have run into two of the three, who gave me the item and first one I saw I steeled my self to keep from running and started making excuses. Before I could finish I learned that John Reagan did not preach at Bethel after all and that it was just as well I left it out. “I don’t know John, but he’s my friend for life. All the other preachers I have left out of the paper have appeared and preach ed right on schedule, with few prayers for me, I fear.” MATTRESS - RENO^JtING Mattress—Boxsprings—Hollywood Beds^^mpletely rebuilt— by the Manufacturer of “Laurel Queen” ;^|ming. One day pick up and delivery service for your convenience. Our fifth year serving this area with the best in bedding. If your old mattress is not what it should be—call us. .We can convert it to any size or type desired. Phone 1270 Hamlet or 2995 Laurel Hill, N. C. All work guaranteed—Prompt, Cour teous Service. Hoffman Road Lee Bedding & Mfg. Co. Laurel Hill, N. C. She agrees with Mrs. Milli- ken that No. 20 is the old Gregory house, now owned and occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Milliken. Mrs. Prillman says that she thoroughly enjoys the pic tures each, week—^in fact has been losing sleep trying to fig ure some of them out. All news reporters can sympa thize with Editor Paul Dickson of the News-Journal (Raeford) in an incident recorded in his column “Addenda” last week and rejoice with him in its happy outcome. It’s usually the “notes” taken at off-the-beat times and tucked in a pocket or handbag that are for gotten until after the paper is off the press. Those who are in any way responsible owe an apology to members of the armed services and their families if, absent from home,, they are deprived of their vote Nov. 4 because they have answered the call to tll6 COROTS • Most members of the armed forces from thirty states will have the privilege of fighting for their country but mot of vot ing. One estimate places the disfranchised as high as 1,000,000 or more. . . Only eighteen states now meet all the tests for absentee soldier voting prescribed by the Armed Forces Information and Education Office. . . It is impossible now to forsee a. time, in this troubled world, when we shall not have absentee soldiers, absentee civilians and their families—stationed abroad in the in terests of saving the very_ democracy which guarantees the continuing right to the free ballot. It is a shameful thing that our Congress and, our State Legislatures have not fully foreseen their duty in this matter or fully acted upon that duty. It should be the first order of business, as the various lawmaking bodies meet, or if need be are called into special session, to insure that another election shall not pass without restoring the absentee to full citizenship and the ballot —New York Times Editor Dickson writes: “I was informed by no less than three separate and independent members of Bethel church last week that John Reagan would preach the sermon at the morning service at the church last Sunday I wrote it down, so I wouldn’t forget to put it in the paper. “I knew that John had married Jane Todd McCain, daughter of Mrs. P. P. McCain and the late Dr. McCain, but thought that the public might be interested in knowing where he was from', go ing to school, and things of that nature. In trying to find these ' things out I tore my note off “Mixie,” the pet dog of Police Chief and Mrs. Ed Newton, who, incidentally, was given that name beceuse of her nondescript an cestry, was cared for by Miss Mary Scott Newton while her master and mistress were away on vacation. But whatever Mixie lacks in pedigree is outweighed by her ap preciation and her promptness in expressing it, as is evidenced by the following letter which Miss Newton found on the seat of her car last week: “Dear Aunt Mary Scott: T just didn’t have a thing to give you for your birthday as my old Lady went off in such a hurry, but thank you so much for looking after me, and buy yourself some thing with this, as they won’t let little dogs in the stores. I love you. Mixie Newton.” Some “fold ing money” was enclosed. M. A. LYONS & CO. GENERAL CONTRACTING UP TO $300,000 BUILDING _ REMODELING Midland Road, Southern Pines Phone 2-4035 Fields Plumbing & Heating Co. PHONE 5952 PINEHURST. N. C. All Types of Plumbing, Healing. (G. E. Oil Burners) and Sheet Metal Work If you are down Hamlet way you might like to see the full-size model of the Seaboard’s first loco motive, which has been donated to the town for permanent dis play. You’ll find it in a specially constructed building on East Hamlet avenue at Municipal park, adjacent to the Horse Show grounds and facing the intersec tion of Highways 74 and 38. The building is of brick with glass front and ends. The “Tornado,” as the engine is named, is an exact reproduction of the first steam locomotive pur chased by the Seaboard railroad. CLARK’S INSURANCE SERVICE LIFE — HEALTH ACCIDENT — FUNERAL HOSPITALIZATION and POLIO INSURANCE July and August are Polio Months Phone — LLOYD T. CLARK — 2-7401 Bagpipes In The Highlands Our Country Is United We don’t agree on everything—never Itave—never ■will—and wouldn’t like it if we did. . . except about one thing-—our right to disagree. Fools—and enemies-— sometimes think those loud sounds mean we are not united. . . but we know our basic unity is there because now there are so many more of us agreeing on that one important thing. Commercial airlines in the United States carried more than two million passengers last month. One might say this indicates how many Americans are up in the air, but we prefer to believe that greater numbers are rising to new heights. A few weeks agO' the town council of Aberdeen repected with indignation and far-from-kind comment the offer of a girls’ bag pipe band from the State Univer sity of Iowa to give an open-air- concert in this ancient Scottish town, provided board, lodging and travel expenses were furn ished. This action of the council was reported widely in the press of the United States and the Brit ish Isles. There followed unpleas ant editorial remarks regarding the parsimony and lack of gallan try of the town fathers. But when five Aberdonian business men volunteered to put up the requir ed 250 pounds, the council hasti ly reversed itself, the local soccer club offered the use of its stadium and everybody was happy. All this has served to recall h night in the Highlands in jhe early years of this century, when I had the pleasure of listening to a master" piper. An old school friend, then living in Stirling, and I were on a two-week walking trip. One 'Of his neighbors had provided us with a letter of intro duction to Peter Mackie, of Glen ure. We arrived there in the late afternoon. Peter MsTckie was one of the finest looking men I have ever seen. Tall and broad-shouldered muscular without excess flesh, he wore his kilt at all times 'about his farm work and not fop show as so many Scots are accustomed ADEN SCHOOL OF DANCE Old VFW Clubroom N. E. Broad St.. Straka Bldg. Ballet : Tap : Acrobatic Ballroom Phone 2-8224 HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED to do. We had been told that he had the second sight and had seen the exact circumstances of his father’s death some time before it occurred. Naturally, we did not venture to go into this. He arid his family spoke Gaelic. (The dogs and horses understood no Eng lish.) But with the delicacy of the Highlanders, the Mackies spoke only English in our presence. After supper Peter got out his pipes and played for an hour or more. What never-to-be-forgot ten experience it was. The tall man, with theh turf fire at his back, pacing to and fro, playing stirring pibrochs and lilting pieces full of grace notes; perhaps they were love songs. And every thing had in it the heart of the Highlands—the lonely, helather- covered moors,, the misty moun tains and, the glens and the rush of clear streams among the rocks, bodyode' I only made one error. I asked him if he would play “The Flo\yers of the Forest.” He shook his head gravely. “We only play that at funerals,” he said, and I was properly rebuked. I thought that he might have considered that the playing of this famous lament' might bring ill-fortune on the house. We never realized un til afterward that this same house of Glenure had once sheltered Colin,Campbell, the victim of the Appin murder. . R. P. L in the N. Y. Herald-Tribune —at— fALET D. C. JENSEN Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better! J» 4 » 4 A WHATTA S0M6J it'll SELL A I CAN Mlf-UO:^ COPIES i ) JUST HEAR ^ VAUSHN MONROE ,,, „ SINOINSiri WHERE HAVE I .HEARD THAT BEFORE?, I I A. it'll be BIGGER. THAN 'oh! SUSANNA'! TEST OF A POPULAR S0H6 is hearing it OVER ANDOVER. THE TESTOF A CIGARETTE IS STEAPy SWIOKING! TEST CAMELS FOR SO PAYS. yOUR^T-ZONE" WILL TELL YOU HOW MILD AND FLAVORFUL CAMELS ARE, PACK AFTER RACK!
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