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THE PILOT—Soaxlhern Ptees. North Carolina
Friday. October 10. 1952
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Tit For Tat and Swat For Swat
The Tit For Tat campaign is in full swing;
only, of course, that’s a mild name for what’s
going on. It should be the Blow For Blow or
Swat For Swat. But whatever you want to call
it, we believe a good many will agree that it s
a poor way for an election to be conducted.
We had hoped that the high character of the
two men heading both tickets would ensure a
decent campaign. But here we are, with one
candidate and his colleague accusing the Pres
ident and the Democrats of every sin imagin
able with President Truman whistle-stopping
all over the place throwing those accusations
right back again, wkile behind HIM trail three
Reoublican senators, calling themselves the
“truth squad,” to deny everything that Presi
dent Truman has just denied.
So now will there be Another truth squad of
Democrats to trail the Republican squa^ and
roll up another batch of denials or accusations
or whatever it is by that time?
We shall just have to grin and bear it. It was
foolish for Democrats to think that President
Truman would keep out of the campaign. You
couldn’t expect a president to keep still under
the accusations that were being hurled at his
Administration; he was morally obliged to de
fend it. Even if he had not been a man with
the president’s fiery courage and genuine love
of the people, he was bound to carry his case to
the country. In the same way it was naive, we
believe, for Republicans to hope that General
Eisenhower would not endorse McCarthy and
others of his kind in the party, or for the liberal
wing, who nominated him, to believe that he
could steer clear of Senator Taft. The General
is in politics and if it is the kind of politics that
must make him wish more than once that he
were back in the army in Europe, that’s hard
luck.
We confess to having done some wishful
thinking ourselves and on both sides of the
fence. We hoped President Truman would hang
onto his temper and lie doggO' and we hoped
that General Eisenhower would be himself. We
cannot believe that he is being himself now: not
when he endorses McCarthy, saying, as he has
just said, that his only difference with the Wis
consin senator is as to his methods. We refuse
to believe, for instance, that General Eisen
hower agrees with McCarthy, that General
Marshall is a traitor to his country, or with a
good many other of the senator s ravings.
We have thought more than once, during this
campaign, of the great Lincoln-Douglas debates.
That surely is the way it ought to be: no public
relations men, no speechwriters, no paid flag-
wavers or cheerers or booers. Just the two can
didates up there, debating the issues, each one
telling the people what he believes and what he
will try '.o do.
The Letter Column
As the campaign waxes hotter The Pilot s let
ter column will probably wax hot and hea^
along with it. Most of the letters will be valu
able contributions to the discussion, but there
will undoubtedly be some of the other sort.
There will be the/letters starting with^^the
familiar, “of course you wont print this. . .” or
bemoaning the fact that this newspaper, once
so upright, has gone to the dogs. . . or the Dem
ocrats, it’s all one to the writer.
Then thbre is another kind of letter, one that
is delibei atly composed to disqualify i;t for pub
lication in the column. The sender will then
tell the’world that The Pilot refuses to print un
favorable comment or views in opposition to its
own. This also is a familiar trick to try to put
the editor on the spot. ,
These dodges are old stuff to most newspaper
editors. The subject of the letter column was
the topic of one session at the two last confer
ences of the North Carolina Press Association
and it was found that all the leading newspapers
in the state followed quite definite and almost
identical policies in handling it, and in deal
ing with this type of correspondence.
We are proud of the fact that our letter col
umn, The Public Speaking, is just that: the pub
lic, our readers, using this space on the editorial
page for the sincere expression of their views;
the type of correspondence we have mentioned
is, of course, the exception. However, in view
of the present political situation and the letters,
gcod, bad or indifferent, sincere, honorable,
spiteful or plain crackpot, that it may bring
forth we think it a good plan to take time out,
right’ new, to review the accepted newspaper
policy S'- regards letters to the editor, policy
with which The Pilot is in full agreement and
which we endeavor to follow.
First of all, the letter cplumn is open to read
ers for t'-e expression of their own opinions. We
do not want and will not print handouts, or long
quotations'from campaign literature or column
ists Our desk is loaded with them already and
obviously if we 'wanted to reprint them we
would do so. However, a short quotation from
a candidate or a reputable source, contained in
a reader’s own letter, would not disqualify it
for publication.
We will edit and cut down on the length of
a letter when space or reader interest demands
it. The latter, in particular, cannot be sacrificed
to one correspondent’s enthusiasm or disgust.
We will not print more than one or two letters
expressing the same opinion, nor will we make
a practice of carrying frequent letters from one
individual.
We recognize that, especially in a weekly
paper, it is far preferable if editorial comment,
when called for, can accompany the letter.
Whenever possible this procedure will be follow
ed, but it will often not be possible due to lack
of space and the demands of editorial writing. .
neither the letter column nor the editorial
columns can be turned over to political debate.
No. 25—Do You Know Your Old Southern Pines?
A two-story house designed for comfortable
living, with columned porch, front and side en
trances, gabled roof and a littl^upstairs portico
that would be an ideal place from which to
watch the harvest moon ... we wonder who
built it, and when; and if it stiU stands in South
ern Pines, and where. Perhaps some of our read
ers will be kind enough to tell us.
I Grains of Sand
This reporter went out to pick way off into the woods. There, a
. »-/-v f i. -I+O o+Ot-T tno
up GRAINS, the other day and
cars alone? After all, there are
plenty of other dogs to chase. Not
to mention cats, squirrels and lit
tle boys.
Sporting life that starts in the
Sandhills as the huntihg season
got involved, instead, with the ad
ventures of a SEED. Capitals
fully deserved.
It started, we’re told, among a
lot of other'^eeds put out to at
tract the birds beside the house of
a certain well-known surveyor up
on the hill.
First adventure was the SEED’S
escape from the other seeds and,
incidentally, from the birds. Judg
ing by what it eventually accom
plished we’d say the SEED just
up and jumped.
It dug itself a nice hole in the
surveyor’s lovely new lawn, and
then proceeded to GROW. It sent
out roots one way and stems the
other way. And gradually the
stems became a vine and things
really got going. The vine began
to ramble.
It didn’t go up any of the handy
pines and turn itself into a bean
stalk for any local Jacks; it went
along the ground. Furthermore,
having,an intelligent and courte
ous nature, it conformed to the
ideas of the land-owner. It under
stood surveying and it followed
the contours. It dipped here where
the ground dipped and swupg off
that way when the land did the
same. Half-way along it really
went into action. It produced a
squash. Not a reasonable-sized
squash but a mighty pale green
creaturp, in keeping with its own
ambitious behavior.
Partway through this process,
the surveyor took off for New
good 50 feet from its start, the approaches has been in full swing
vine ended in a graceful curlycue^jjj England this fall. A recent i
of tentacles and green leaves. But, jggyg ^^e Boston Herald car-'
even while he was looking the ^ spread showing scenes
last tendril reached gently out a'^^ ,.j^g 53,.^ annual Myopia Hunt
few inches further. Or so it is horse show in which several
said. Talk about a fish story. . -Iiocal sporting figures appeared,
we claim this SEED story has alT^^gjjg those photographed riding
others beaten. Just go up there j. .^^atching the performance is
and look if you’re disbelieving! I John A. Tuckerman of Jackson
And which surveyor are we! Springs, a former president of the
talking about? Afraid we can’t hunt club and follower of the
tell you till the delegation is poll-[ Moore County Hounds, not to
°d He says: tell all, but She says: mention a crack goal-hitter
School Cafeteria
Octobe/'lS-l?
MONDAY
Spaghetti, Meat, Tomato Sauce
Cup grated Cheese
Buttered Spinach
Raw Carrot Sticks
Corn Bread, Margarine
Cup Honey
Milk
TUESDAY
Toasted Cheese Sandwich
Deviled Egg Half
Tossed Slaw
English Peas
Milk
WEDNESDAY
Chicken Stew
Green Beans
Fruit in Gelatin
Chocolate Frosted Cake
Wheat Bread, Margarine
Milk
THURSDAY
Baked Lima Beans
Turnip Greens
Hot Raisin Applesauce
Corn Bread, Margarine
Chocolate Pudding
Milk
FRIDAY
Salmon Loaf
Creamed Pea Sauce
Harvard Beets
Lettuce Wedge, 1000, Island
Dressing
Dinner Rolls, Margarine
Peach-Plum Preserves
Milk
Same To You, Sirs!
don’t you dare!
Ohoh! What a difference a few
capital letters can make. Just
writing up the newly organized
New Car and Truck Dealers’ good
idea about getting out the vote on
Election Day. Found ourselves
writing; “Anyone lacking trans
portation to the polls, just caU up
a New Dealer.” Sorrreee! It’s new
dealer, of course. ^ ^
How can you teach a dog not to
chase cars? We’d really like some
one to tell us. There are several
dogs around town that need
few lessons, (and
know ourselves
starts.)
It’s a great danger to the dog,
of course, but almost as much so
to the people in the car. A big
dog darting out suddenly startles
a driver into swerving sharply.
You miss the dog, but you may
crash into someone else coming
the other way. Or you may even
with a light
who like to end your sentences
with a preposition, don’t develop
an inferiority complex; you have
the great St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat to back you up. It says:
Comes now another college lit
erary purist who views carefree
diction dimly and vows gumming
up of grammar is something he
definitely isn’t for. His pet peeve
the Pinehurst polo team, in the
days when that spirited organiza
tion was first formed. With Mr. . _ .
Tuckerman, (who is, we believe,!is the dog-eared but popular one
weaping his red and orange My-1—prepositions left dangling on
Mrs. Richard C.| sentences.
Technically perhaps, it’s a con
troversy he is on the right side of.
a
we’d like to
in case ours
Clean-Up Week
If you look up into the sky this week and
observe a great cloud hanging over the town,
don’t be alarmed. It’s not the atom bomb going
off inadvertently or even turned loose by enemy
hands, it’s just Southern Pines cleaning up.
There’s a powerful dust being raised.
Wherever you look, women are scrubbing and
sweepin'j. men are raking, clipping, carting off
junk, piling leaves. Little chillun, pressed into
unwilling service, are finding joy unbelieved in
dead leaves, dust-piles, trash-heaps, prime
fields for dancing and skittering around, not to
say treasure-hunting, till the furious roars of
their elders quell such high spirits.
But who can resist the infection of such a
crusade? For, though we have never been able,
somehow, to put cleanliness where the Old say
ing puts it, right up there next to godliness, we
are mo’:e than willing to agree that uncleanli- '
ness is a long, long way down in f;he other di
rection.
In other v/ords, the mess, not up in Washing
ton but right in some of the yards here in
Southern Pines, is pure Hades, to use the ijica
classical term of our grandparents. Maybe the
little devils don’t go frolicking and pitchfork
ing about in high dry weeds and dead broom-
straw ... if they did they’d likely catch a-fire
... but surely old rusty tin cans and broken
glass must have a high priority in the nether
regions. As for things like the orange peel, bot
tle caps, discarded paper cups and gum wrap
pers that litter the sidewalk that The Pilot
shares witn the A & P. • • as the Emcees say, and
often of mighty similar refuse: “Take it away!
And that’s, of course, just what we are all
doing: taking it away. We’re raking and sweep
ing and gathering it all up, all the mess, for
the town crews to cart away to the dump. For
this is Clean Up Week, as proclaimed by the
Finer Carolina Committee, the Does, the Gar
den Clubs and everybody else who is interested
in the town’s welfare.
Last week the Sandhills Kiwanjans joined
with the nation in celebrating Newspaper Week.
Following a just and sympathetic appraisal of
the value to civilization and to this nation of a
free press, the club, with thoughtful courtesy,
paid a bow to the local newspapers.
it was an evidence of regard and respect
which this newspaper is glad to pay right back.
We feel that the Sandhills Kiwanis Club is one
of the most valuable organizations of this sec
tion. Its influence is strongly felt in the entire
county and outside it. This has come about not
only because of the club’s many acts of intelli
gent service in the county’s welfare, but per
haps even more because of the unifying influ
ence of the county-wide organization itself.
Our service clubs, with the weekly meet
ings, bring together men of all sorts united in
the common aims of service, and of good fellow
ship and interest in each others’ problems. Not
only do they hear and learn, from- the experts
in many fields who address them, but they ex
change views with each other and they get to
know each other. And that’s a good thing for
everybody.
So, when the Sandhills Kiwanis Club says:
“Good cheer and good luck and more power to
you!” in this direction. The Pilot is proud to
make reply: “Thank you. Sirs, and the same to
you!”
opia tie,)
Storey, who has spent several
months here hunting during the
past winters. Also photographed
in the Boston paper is Mrs. R. H.
Dulany Randolph, who will be re
called as one of the outstanding
performers in last spring’s Sand
hills show..
Our friend Edd Gschwind of
Kansas City, Mo., with his re
newal to The Pilot, writes:
“I want to say again. The Pilot
is, a wonderful paper, and is ap-
preciated very much. It gives such' ^ denies, we chal-
a complete coverage of what precisely grammati-
going on in the community. losing nary a nuance; “He
“We certainly enjoyed reading'
about the boy’s trip to Alaska.”
England. (Can’t imagine why, can ^nd turn over. The
you?) When he came back two out ot conu^^^ ^
months, (was it?) later, first thing risK 01 a seix
he did was to run out and look*us very real.
at the vine. He looked where it Seriously, folks, does anyone
had spread to before he left and know a good way of spreading the
then hife eye traveled on and on,'word to the canine wor
The Public Speaking
Thanks, Edd, and we hope that
you and Margaret will continue to
enjoy The Pilot for many more
car, go complexly' years.
If you are one. of those people
October In The Sandhills
October is, one of those months when you
say; “this is the best time to be here,” and you
keep on saying that till November comes along
with its Indian summer days, and then you
think of Spring and dogwood time and Summer
starting with the bays and magnolias smelling
so sweet ... and then you’re back, thinking
about October again.
October is the month when the oaks start to
turn that deep, almost mahogany red; the milk
weed ti.ifts are white stars along the roadsides,
and the grape vines are turning citron yellow.
Foxes edke out to sit under- the persimmon
trees hoping that the first frost will bring a
few fat juicy mouthfuls tumbling down.
Cernnribs are full in October, and housewives
look complacently at their shelves crowded
with the produce of summer: jars of shiny peas,
and tender beans, crisp okra for winter soups,
dark syruppy figs and pink peach preserve, and
the spicey fragrant watermelon pickle.
The air is clear, with just a tang of wood-
smoke in it; the sky is bluer, but at night it’s
colder and the stars flicker, till the harvest
moon drowns them out. Inside, there’s a fire
and pecans to crack before you go up to bed.
October’s a good month, inside or outside, in
the Sandhills.
ABOUT POLITICS
To The Editor
It is disappointing to see a once
honorable paper • lending itself to
cheap partisanship as has the Pilot
in the past few months. Witness,
the editorial on Nixon in the cur
rent issue. The paucity in sub
stance of your indictment of
Nixon is emphasized by the labor
ed manner in which it is handled.
Had you wanted to be fair why
didn’t you draw a comparison
with Sparkman’s $10,000.00 ven
ture into nepotism, or with Ste
venson’s Springfield fund?
Nepotism is in disrepute with
most honorable men of the House
and of the Senate not simply be
cause, as some may suppose, of
the job it provides for a member
of the family, but because by its
very nature it provides a compara
tively safe and open road to graft
and robbing of the treasury. A
senator’s wife at $10,000.00 per
year, as receptionist in his office,
may work *only one hour each
day, and who is to call the turn?
As for Stevenson, surely any
fair minded American must hang
his head in shame over the equiv
ocal manner in which a candidate
for president of the United States
+ dealt with the public on the mat
ter of that political fund of his.
First he refused to give out a list
of his cabinet appointees who had
benefited from the fund, on the
ground that it would be violating
a confidence. A few days later,
under further pressure, he did
publish the list, which contained
the names of three men who, in
the interval between Stevenson’s
two statements, had told the press
that they had never received a
dollar of compensation over and
above their salaries.'’ Stevenson
undertook to reconcile this dis
crepancy by saying he felt those
men were perfectly justified m
thinking the gifts, up to $500.00
per year, should not be considered
compensation. What, please, tell,
should they be considered? Sim
ply the dividing up of a nice little
melon anipng a few in the know.
You without naming names,
undertook ' to cast aspersions
against the donors to the Nixon
fund. But, look who subscribed to
Stevenson’s fund to the time of
$7,000? None other than Marshall
Field III! Watch for Pegler on that
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one.
For my part I prefer that we
accept Stevenson, Sparkman and
Nixon as honorable, if slightly
misguided men, and that we con
centrate our efforts towards ef
fecting a complete change from
the inefficiency and rottenness of
the Truman administratioh.
E. W. BUSH, D. O.
The Editor:—
Extracts from, “The Firing
Line” published by the “National
Americanism Commission” of the
American Legion.
Ralph DeTolodano, associate
editor of Newsweek and co-author
of “Seeds of Treason” and “Spies,
Dupes and Diplomats” writes;
The word “McCarthyism” was
first used by OWEN LATTIMORE
before the Tydings Committee,
KWHITEWASH COMMITTEE)
The next day it was picked up
by the Daily Worker, (main pub
licatibn of the Communist in
USA). Then the PINKOS picked
it up and before you know it the
N. Y. Times made it famous, (later
it became a favorite word of the
Southern Pines, Pilot).
The Pilot must be very proud
of the ancestry of their PET
WORD.
Note;—Brackets mine.
Read, Sept. 26th US World New
and Reports, Page 16, “What’s
McCarthyism?”
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But most folks are familiar with
a lot of things the protruding
preposition is good for, being es
pecially handy as something to re
place words they can’t think of
with. '
Personally, we favor the loose
school. Mainly because there are
so many phrases there is no ac
curate substitute for. At times
like that, there’s nothing like a
shirttail preposition. If
the
cize,
got shot at.” _
With due regard for the old-
guard guardians of the language,
we still prefer the modern rule;
Learn your grammar right first,
then when you know better than,
beat it up as you need to^
IMPORTANT DUTY
The Pilot
To curb moral delinquency and
help the moral re-armament pro
gram let the- public know there
are churches they may join and be
baptized any day. This is too im
portant to be relegated to one day
a week. Joining a church is a per
sonal matter between the person
and God, it does not have to be a
public affair. Many people are
self-conscious about doing things
in public and do not join.
WILLIAM R SULLIVAN
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