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THE PTT-OT^-So^hera Pines. North Carolina
Friday. October 31. 19S2
THE PILOT
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Southern Pines. North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD. Publiehet—1944 —
KATHARINE BOYD 7 • Editor
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-James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
We Are Proud of Stevenson
No matter how the November 4 election
turns out, we will be proud that ™ this
time of crisis we supported Adlai Steven
He started out to “talk sense to the
American people” and we beheve that he
has done so, and that he has l^en the only
candidate for the presidential nomination
to have done so consistently.
We believe that he has demonstrated the
nnalities we need in a President of tlm
United States: that he has shown a fim
p-rasp of the issues, and ability to think
th“m through clearly and conclusively, and
that he can express himself decisively up-
on them, with a lucidity remarkable m pel-
itics, intelligible to every voter.
We are convinced that he is the “tool” of
no faction >cr individual, and that if elect
ed he will act independently according to
his own views of what is right for the na
tion as a whole.
If he is not elected,we shall still feel that
he has put these campaign weeks to good
purpose, lifting himself within a short
time to a height of prorhinence, prestige
and good will which should stand him. and
the Democratic party, in good stead in
1956.
At the beginning of the campaign Ste
ve nsop was a comparatively obscure name,
while that of his opposition was a hoi^e-
hold word, an object of hero-worship. Yet
at this writing practically every poll por
tends an extremely close election. At St^
venson^s present rate of ga-in, and with
changes in a few crucial states, the differ
encial between the two candidates can easi
ly be closed by Tuesday.
He has accomplished this in the face of
many obstacles, including almost unani
mous opposition on the part of the nation s
press, most of which had lined up for
Eisenhower before either party had even
held a convention; and of wholesale de
fections on the part of those from whom
he had every right to expect support. His
achievement is, according to even the anti
administration Time, “unprecedented in
American history.”
We are proud of Adlai Stevenson and be
lieve he has earned the right to the na
tion’s top job, and that he will bring to it
both the will and the ability to provide the
“change” the country needs.
repugnant to the true American. It takes
a high order of patriotism to ns'k it, a
brave heart and tough hide.
We don’t need a McCarthy, nor does
Stevenson, to point out the darigers o
communism, nor to spur us on m the bat
tle against it. No communist^ was ever
caught through khouts and smears, nor
was any fight ever made easier to win
through beclouding the issues. Many a
good man has in the past few years been
turned aside from running for office, or de
feated once he began, by the mass hypno
tism induced by such shouts and smears.
We saw it happen in North Carolina dur
ing the 1950 senatorial campaign, which
gave us a do-nothing Senator wh^o has
consistently voted with the Republicans
and who has signally failed in party leader
ship in the current presidential campaign.
These tactics have also succeeded in Mary
land, California and other states, are just
about to succeed in dividing our country
beyond repair and may some day, God tor-
bid, give us Joe McCarthy for President.
No. 28 Do You Know Your Old Southern Pines ?
Letters Invited—Pro and Con
We feel, with Mayor Page, that 20 People
at a public meeting to discuss a $160,000
bond issue 'is all too few. W^llr absence
might indicate satisfaction, it is likely that
it means indfference—a bad thing in civic
affars.
One who attended the meeting is ex
pressing himself to a wider audience in a
letter to The Pilot this week. We myite. at
tention to Captain KcDaniel’s letter in
Public Speaking, also more ^
con. At least let it not be said the bond
election w'as won, or lost, through igno
rance or apathy.
This is the Southern Pines school, as it ap
peared some 40 years ago. Our understanding
is that the central part was built first, the wings
added later. There was considerable remodeling
as time went on, the latest being that of Aymar
Ambury II, nationally famous architect, who re
designed it into the building now used for the
high school. The old school is still a part of the
structure as the (now obsolete and unused) audi
torium section
Within the past four years the plant has been
expanded by the addition of the beautiful ele
mentary school building, the auditorium and
gymnasium, fronting on East Massachusetts ave
nue. A new high school building within the
next few years is a cherished hope and plan.
than it is in Chiria?^ Qppimitted to
a war of ‘•liberation’’ wpuld we
not have to continue ipto Russia
itself?
And what has been said on this
subject by John Foster DuUes,
High Priest of Republican foreign
policy for lo, these many years,
and slated to be Secretary of State
if Eisenhower is elected? Dulles
on September 3 came to the con
clusion that “aggressive despots
must be slowed down and stop
ped from within or we shall have
to check them from without in the
head-on collision of atomic war.”
So much for the neaceful inteh-
4;ions of the Republican partvl
» Contrast this with the credo of
Adlai Stevenson, which has been
exoressed bv him in these words:
“Not in the ashes of another
world war but onlv in the atmos
phere of a peaceful world cah the
reaffirmation of the right of self-
determination have any meaning.
I will never fear to negotiate in
good faith, for to close the door
to the conference room is to open
the door to war^'.’
Sincerely yours,
RUSSELL E POWELL
The Public Speaking
ON ;rpWN AFFAIRS " '
forthcoming election, and implied
that beside this issue, all others
pale into insignificance. I heartily
agree, and suggest that, to decide
i which candidate is most likely to
promote peace and avoid the dev-
estation of a third World War, we
Tbo U. S. T^p-artment of Agri
culture bv September had pur
chased 317,600 pounds of frozen
turkeys to provide an outlet for
temporary surplus. The turkeys
will go to non-profit school lunch
programs.
Latest From "Low Blow Joe"
Adlai Stevenson has now become one of
the company, of which General George C.
Marshall is the ranking member, blasted
and be-slimed' by Senator Joe McCarthy.
The latest McCarthy “revelation,” with
its distinguishing characteristics of “Lis
ten to this, friends—I hold in my hand,
and I quote—just listen to this—” rates
just as little attention as its predecessor,
being similarly compounded of distorted
’half-truths, outright fabrications and mys
terious references which are never follow
ed through.
The main difference between the two
was that the speech against Marshall had
no limitation, being printed at the taxpay
ers’ expense in the Congressional Record,
' where it took up 60 pages. His Monday
night speech was limited by funds sup
plied by private supporters, to 30
minutes of radio and television time. With
plenty of mon.ey on hand the Republican
National committee, quite rightly,
wouldn't touch it.
In the meantime McCarthy himself
never refers to, or explains, deliberate lies
in which he has been caught time and
again, or mysteries concerning his person
al career and finances which many people
would like to have clarified.
Anyone who thinks either Marshall or
Stevenson is a communist, or affiliated
with communists, or working for commun
ists, of appeasing communists, or seeking
the support of communists, or in any other
way condoning communism, needs to
straighten out his thinking, and to ex
amine its source.
This is the type of thing which is tend
ing more and more to keep able men from
seeking public office. The very idea that a
smear expert such as McCarthy can he
turned loose against them on a nationwide
scale, associating them falsely with the
very things they hate the most and against
which they are fighting most ardently, is
We Are Fortunate
In his Chapel Hill Weekly Editor Louis
Graves makes a complaint that should be
required reading in every town m North
Carolina:
Chapel Hill’s main street used to have a
row of big flourishing trees on each side, so
big and flourishing that they met over the
mfddle of the street. You could goivom
one end of the street to the other and, the
whole way, you would be shaded froni the
Tun by th£ ianopy of Miage. EveryMy
who came here admired it and phapel Hill
was famous for the beauty of this tree-
bordered avenue.
In rceent years there has been a shame
ful destruction of our trees.
The reason for this is that the people who
do not want them destroyed have been
passive about the matter. Jh^y
made any real move to save the trees. They
have been content to fret and fume, to ex
press their indignation to one another, to
tell the newspaper editor how niuch they
sympathize with his protests, but they have
not been willing to go to bat, in the rig
quarters, to save the trees.
Edenton’s main business street, with its
vista of Albemarle Sound, once had a mag
nificent row of elms in the center; it was
then a broad, beautiful, cool street. The
elms were cut down; it is now a hot and
ugly street.
In Charlottesville, Va., High Street is
charming, with large trees forming an arch
over it. A few years ago the city council
decided to cut the trees down to nuake
parking easier. The women of (Charlottes
ville rose up in arms, the council saw the
light, the trees stayed up in the air, and
Charlottesville is a more beautiful and
comfortable town than it might have been.
In Warrenton a few weeks ago there was
a proposal to change the zoning law to al-
low erection of a filling station on the inain
street side of the old Governor Bell pmce.
This is the lot with the magnificent box
wood on it, which has been a show place
since the days when (so they say) Governor
Bell of Texas used to stride up and down
its walks with a brace of dueling pistols
and a couple of bowie knives in his belt.
The women of Warrenton told the .city
council in no uncertain terms that a filling
station on such a location was persona "lion
grata, and the council harkened to the
voice of authority.
Someone has come up with a two-fold
solution to the problem about which Edi
tor Graves was writing: a group of wornen
organized to go into action at the first sign
of danger to their trees; and a zoning and
planning commission, preferably with a
free-defending woman as one of its mem
bers.
Southern Pines has long recognized the
importance of its trees, with the result that
it is. known far and wide for the beauty of
its streets and parkways. Only last spring
a visitor from a distant state, here for the
first time, inquired if the town had any
parks. After being taken on a tour of the
place he remarked: “The whole town is a
park!”
Southern Pines is fortunate in having a
Mayor and Town Board that appreciate
trees, civic clubs that are ever on the alert
and a citizenry that rises to action if dan
ger threatens. And, in thinking of the re
cent occasion when the Seaboard cooper
ated so wholeheartedly to preserve the
beauty of the railroad parkway, we add the
SAL Railroad company to the above list.
Yes, we are fortunate.
ON POLITICS
the slightest permanence in Rus
sia’s position in Eastern Europe
and Asia Never shall we rest con
tent until the tidal mud of aggres
sive communism has receded
1 within its own borders.” Is this
the I the declaration of a man who
prompt and efficient fire protec
tion now enjoyed on the east side
To the Pilot. !of the tracks.
Will you please publish the fol- ^ In view of the foregoing, it is
lowing Communication which I suggested that you and ' examine the record,
have addressed as an open letter ^ Hoard reconsider, the
to the Mayor and Town Commis-1000 proposed Bond Issue, ^nd r American Le-'
sioners of Southern Pines. porting to the public on our Eisenhower said: “Our gov-
, town’s practical needs prior to
Gentlemen: the election on °vem r . i finality, must tell the Krem-
For the good that it may do, Cordia^ yoms, recognize
the following constructive criti- A. K. MCUainie-i.. r^ormnnpnce in Rus-
cism is submitted for your consid
eration.
1st. You are assured that this
writer never has been and is not
now interested in anything that ^fie Pilot.
has already happened, except in^ Kegardless of who wins -.-i.— .
order to prevent a repetition ofj pj^ing Presidential election, let seeks peace, who is willing to erri-
same. this be our slogan for 1953: “Get ploy peaceful negotiation to at-
A The Country Club “affair.” | America out of the UN and the tain it? I think no ^ ^
It was admitted^t the Town’s UN cut of America.” J 1 atom c
October 22nd that the taxpayers! , ' ieXr
suffered an operating loss of
nearly $60,000. We are not inter-1 Everywhere in these few days ‘ .. nossible to
ested in the whyfore or how-comeelection the air is' to fteir
of this loss; but only in the fact j ^ ^^h open and concealed drive the Russians back ^ towr
that a loss for any cause was had. ^° ®eSs -The rivalry between the own borders, ^^at then? Is com-
To quote ex-President Roosevelt, -Taft forces is munism more desirable in Ru^
our Board of Commissioners must | g^gg^-ei. than what usually exists |
have been unable to sge the forest ^jgtween the opposing political
because of the trees. And to againDemocrats,'
r,„r.to or. r>lH savinv. “a cross-eved usually be depended
upon to fight each other as whole-1
heartedly as they fight the Re-1
publicans. They, too, left Chicago
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quote an old saying, “a cross-eyed
mule” would have shown better
judgment in this matter than cur
so-called Town Board exercised. .
B. Recreation ^ Building and wounds to nurse.
Grounds. We understand that re-j -phe duty of the Christian is
cently our Town Board, with tax-|„iog^ enough.,They must use their,
payers money, purchased the old for all they are worth, and'
Elks Club property on Highway 1, -
-onr<’atio''al onrooses. In ad-
vote for the candidate they con
sider honestly to be the best. No
dition to paying about $15,000 for aijtpB sueoqqndaa puB sjBJOOuiaa
property, by its action, the'jo sia^CBid juaps aqj jo paau aqj
tnis pi'uyeil.v, u,y XLO ov-kxvxi, c it
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PHONE 5952
PINEHURST, N. C.
some two or three hundred dol
lars per year in taxes that the
town would have received had the
’'ur'’hase not been made. We real-
purposes, is beyond understand
ing ether than as a combined
scheme of Major Hoople and Sen
ator Sorgum with the advice of
pive-em-hell harryv’
ize that a place of recreation is
net only desirable, but is needed
But how the Town Board could
' possibly have approved the pur
chase of this property which, in
addition to being most undesii;-
located and the building
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than anathemas and curses.
Let us strive to be honest and
Christ-like, especially in the mat-
All Types of Plumbing. Heating.
(G. E. Oil Burners)
and Sheet Metal Work
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ter of politics.
MRS. W. E. COX
To The Pilot:
With all th^ mud slinging and
JOHN C. PARRISH
Plumbing and Heating
Dp / Phone 6893 Southern Pines Night Phone 6814
ably located and the accusations brought by
wholly unsuited for recreational. Dealers against General
C. The foregoing is believed|Ejoenhower in this campaign, I
sufficient reason to analyze the, below the citation, accom-
town’s proposed $160,000 Bond Is-|pgjjyjjjg Honorary Degree of
sue. Is it all needed? Positively | pQgtor of Laws, conferred on him
University (June
her Bi-Centennial
No. A small.part of it, yes. First, Princeton
consider the proposed liquor store, during
building. Some 60-odd thousands Qgjg^j.g^jQjj.
of dollars of the bond issue is sup
posed to go into its construction,
which is entirely unnecessary, be
cause a wholly satisfactory-build
ing can be purchased for less than
one-third of that amount
Dwight David Eisenhower
Doctor of Laws
Chief of Staff,
United States Army
“Supreme Allied Commander in
2nd. Police Station. Positively | the war and unofficial ambassa-
M. A. LYONS & CO.
GENERAL CONTRACTING UP TO $300,000
BUILDING REMODELING
Midland Road, Southern Pines
Phone 2-4035
not
nuL needed, because there is a dor of good will, of whom it has
detention room in the present Pc-1 been aptly said His character^ and
lice Station Building used by the'skill made of coalition a^ trium-
army during the war. If it was phant army of democracy.’ Bring-
good enough to lock our soldiers
in, it most certainly is good
ing to his task the intensive prep
aration of a lifetime, he revealed
HAVE YOUR CLOTHES CLEANED
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enough to detain the drunks and qualities Of simplicity, self-effa-
speeders in until they get sobered; cing efficiency, unerring good
up or until it is convenient to take judgment, and dynamic but
them to Carthage. friendly personality, which quick-
3rd. Fire Truck. Absolutely not Iv brought about an acceptance of
needed, because, Mr. Mayor, as his leadership with remarkable
you stated, our present truck is | unanimity not unmixed with real
O. K. but it has only two wheel 1 affection. In his daily decisions he
brakes. Therefore, you want a,was just and fair and wise, and
new one,
fALET
. D. C. JENSEN
Where Cleaning and Prices Are Better!
costing $20,000. A, com- held the respect and warm ad-|
There is no reason why the beckoning
highway should prompt inconsiderate ac
tions. Perhaps many good people just don’t
realize how they, change when they get be
hind the wheel.
parable example would be that all
of us be compelled to live in
single story houses, thereby avoid
ing being killed by the upper
story falling in on us. We sub
scribe fully (10 per cent) to your
contention that West Southern
Pines needs better fire protection.
Blit your proposed plan is far
from the best. As stated by the
Assistant Fire Chief at the meet
ing, a fire reporting system is
needed more than anything else.
By installing several fire boxes
at accessible places, West South-
miration of his officers and men
In his postwar missions to other
countries, his tact, humor and re
freshing frankness left a lasting
and happy impression. For his
service to his country we owe him
a debt never tO’ he forgotten.”
GEORGE G. HERR
To The Pilot.
In a radio address a few nights
ago the Honorable James F.
Byrnes, Governor of South Caro
lina, declared that the issue of
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ern Pines would have the same war vs. peace is paramount m the
ADEN SCHOOL OF DANCE
Old VFW Clubroom N. E. Broad St., Slraka Bldg.
Ballet : Tap : Acrobatic
Ballroom
Phone 2-8224