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Page Two THE PILOT—-Sonthern Pines. North Carolina Friday, December 5, 1952 THE PILOT Published Each Friday by THE PILOT, INCORPORATED Southern Pines. North Carolina Good Government No. 33—Old Days In Southern Pines 1341—JAMES BOYD. Publisher—1944 KATHARINE BOYD ^ 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 ‘Tn 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 tiy to do it. And we will treat everybody alike.” ' —James Boyd, May 23, 1941. Eisenhower and the UN When General Eisenhower visited the United Nations last week, he termed his visit “an in spiring experience” and said “this building, the people in it and their work are, in sum, the symbol of the free world’s hopes for a peaceful and secure future.” It was only proper that General Eisenhower should chcose the occasion of his first visit to the UN headquarters to reaffirm his allegiance to the organization and what it stands for. Giv en his long and outstanding record of service in the cause of international accord, his words should have come as no surprise, but it is a fact that they brought much needed reassurance to many. For during the past campaign, as Repub lican candidate, he spoke too often otherwise. He attacked the foreign poUcy of the administra tion so persistently and so violently that many who had Pelieved him to be a convinced inter nationalist began to think that he had changed his mind. It seems now clear that he was acting at the suggestion of those behind the scenes: in other words from motives of political expe- diency. The explanation, while indicative of weakness in the man to whom the country looks to lead them during these next four years, is far better than the alternative. At least it is now clearly . evident that General Eisenhower is taking every measure to strengthen this country s role in the UN. If further testimony were needed, it is found in the appointment of Senator Lodge to head the United Nations delegation. Lodge is, of course, the Republican who has done such outstanding work for the cause of international understanding in the Senate. Furthermore, he n.ns been termed the man closest to the new president, among his political associates. That Eisenhower chose him to head the delegation, to devote all of his ability to this cause, shows unmistakably the importance he places on the role of this nation in international affairs. At a time when the UN is under attack by certain intransigent and powerful forces in our nation, all of this is especially good to know. A leader in those forces. Colonel McCormick of The Chicago Herald-Tribune, who backed the Republican campaign, has already turned against his candidate, calling him “socialistic.” The President-elect will undoubtedly be call ed worse than that by the lunatic fringe, but, as he goes forward in the cause of peace, he will be strengthened by the knowledge that behind him stands the vast body gf' the Ameri can people, who are looking to him to guide this nation in its mission as a member of the United Nations. Last week’s Gallup poll gives clear evidence of the feeling in the country. Asked the ques tion: ‘‘how important do you think it is that the United States try to make the United Nations a success,” 77 per cent of the answers were: “Very important” and ten “fairly important.” That is strong proof that the scoffers at the principle of international unity are a mere handful. The fact should give added encourage ment to General Eisenhower as he starts on his historic mission. Any organization that wants to improve the government is worthy of a welcome from every citizen. That is the chief aim expressed by lead ers of the former Citizens for Eisenhower com mittee, meeting here last week. The new group call, themselves, simply, the Citizens Committee, disclaiming all political bias, with “strictly non-partisan” as their watch word. It is likely that the fuKiUing of this non partisan aim will prove the test for the new or ganization. There is little doubt that it wiU re ceive the close attention of both Democrats and Republicans, who will wach like hawks for any veering away from this professed course. But, be that as it may, we believe that upon its strict impartiality in carrying out this non partisan aim for the betterment of the demo cratic system will depend the committee’s true usefulness. There are other groups whose constitutions state the same fundamental aim, notably the League for Women Voters. This national associ ation has done yeoman service in educating worpen in their duties as citizens and voters and in clarifying issues and the stands of candi dates. In localities where there are well-estab lished chapters, it is routine for candidates for office to release to the League a full statement of records and political beliefs. The League stages round table conferences at which candi dates appear to give an account of themselves before the people. The committee could not do better than adopt such methods which have already proven so successful But there appears to be one way in which the new state organization differs from the League. This is the third point of their stated aims; “to urge both major parties to sel ect their best candidates for office.” This is fine if it is meant to indicate simply an impersonal wish that the parties will put up good men, but if the committee is entering the field of actual selection, then it certainly will be entering into politics, as they are at present Constituted in North Carolina. For as there is, as yet, no ef- ^ fective Republican party, when the committee comes to urge the selection of a Democrat, it will be taking sides, backing one man against others. While non-partisan, as between the two p.nrties, it will be in the thick of the Democratic . fight as it takes place in the primaries. That this was in the minds of several at last v/eek’s meeting was evident. One man put it cle.arly when he said; “The trouble with present politics is we haven’t sufficient leaders to lead the opposition to the present political machine.” Another said he favored the rule against offi cers of the committee holding a public office, because “the organization must stay clear of subversives.” While the suggestion that Demo cratic office-holders are ipso facto subversive brought a general chuckle, the emphasis on this aspect of the committee’s plans makes one won der if the new organization does not actually hope to take an active part in state politics. Wnether this will be confined to converting Democratic “subversives” or will tend towards the encouragement of a two-party system re mains to be seen. S ^ ll* 7M The crowds turned out for some event of many years ago—^maybe a Fourth of July celebration, we would judge by the flag waving at right. The long dresses worn by the ladies would seem to place the date at some period before World War 1, so it isn’t an American Legion celebration this time. A penciled notation on the back of this cut says “Gov. Glenn.” That must be the Governor up on the porch of what we seem to recognize as the Town Hall. We can’t seem to place this Governor in history. Who remembers Governor Glenn, and the occasion pictured above? For abrighter dag ! you can't go wrong— I ► When you start right in with a laugh and song. Tune to WEEB — Mulual "Sunrise Serenade" "Round the Clock with Music" Because it'smiiH'WJffliiir illMi, Grains of Sand How Near Is A Neighbor? where in the writeup where it was held. The headline told where, and in fact everybody knew where it was, so that the omission appears . to have gone absolutely unno ticed, except by us, the author. No one has mentioned it one way or the other. However, for the rec ord, and so as not to seem to slight in any way one of our fav orite places in the Sandhills, we will state here and now; it was held at the Mid Pines Club, The Mid Pines Club, besides be ing one of the prettiest places im aginable in its setting of pine woods and golf fairways, is also one of the places it is the most fun to be. Everybody at the Mid Pines makes you feel so welcome. And everybody is so nice—the Cosgroves, and Jeanne, and all those attractive girl golf cham pions who work at the Mid Pines. And to have a meal at the Mid Pines is one of the blessing of life in the Sandhills, for they really turn out marvelous fare at the Mid Pines. All this, Wd Julius Bores too, seems to be^too much for one place to offer but you’ll find it out at the Mid Pines. Now—anybody want to know where that tournament was held? ? 9 7 Will They Do It Again? One of the first things that is due to face the president-elect is the thorny question of a pro tective tariff. During the past two years it came up on several occasions. The dairy interests, angered at the importation of superior quality cheese at reasonable prices, were able to put over a high tariff on these imports. Presented in the form of a rider on the defense bill it ef fectively forestalled President Truman’s veto. In the matter of the importation of wool from Australia, petroleum, Swiss watches, the rider form was not used and the measures were blocked by the Administration. While this goes on, the United States calls on Europe to work and earn its own way, looking toward the time when our grants in aid can cease. These are now being reluctantly offered and as '•eluctantly received yet by our high tariff wall we prevent the nations from getting out of debt and dispensing with them. Furthermore, while the special interests may gain, the rest of us suffer. We are the ones whose taxes are going to help Europe get on its feet, to build the factories that will make ' the cheeses, or the wool or the watches, or a hundred and one other commodities, that the special interests prevent us from buying. We don’t get our taxes cut: we don’t even get the cheese. It’s just the way it was after World War 1. The Republican high tariff prevented Europe from exporting goods to us and thus acquiring the dollars to pay back the money we had loaned them. Many economists attribute much of the resulting catastrophe to that short-sighted pol icy on the part of the Republicans. Are they going to do it again? That’s a question the pres ident-elect will soon be called on to answer. These days, with the Christmas season ap proaching, every mail brings word of those neighbors of ours, who live, not ^ down the street, or around the corner, but farther away. Some of them are very far indeed, across the oceans and across the world. And some of these neighbors are brought into our ken through c.itastrophic happenings for which we were, in some measure, responsible. A recent letter from Korea describes the plight of our neighbors there. The letter was written by a social worker to her board, the committee of the Yeung Women’s Christian As sociation in charge of work overseas. She was thanking them for some gifts they had sent her and saying that in her appreciation of them she was bitterly aware of those about her so much less fortunate, her close neighbors. She describes some of them, first speaking of her Korean board, the group, comparable to the group in the United States who make this work possible. “My Korean board,” she writes, used to live in comfortable attractive homes; now they think themselves fortunate if they have one room for a whole family. They cook and eat and play in it: there is not the slightest pri vacy: yet, somehow, they get along. In the next category, down the scale, are the people whose homes have gone and who have managed to find a hovel or patch'up an old shed to live in.” And then the YWCA worker goes on to tell of her real neighbors, her not next-door neighbors, but next-to-the-wall neighbors. She says: “There is a family of four, living right outside my window Their home is the street. All they possess is one small straw mat, a couple of rag ged bundles, a little charcoal stove and one pot. On cold evenings, and they are getting very cold, now, I am afraid to look outside my win dow; it is such a grim reminder of the misery around me. The stamina and ability of these people to stand such extreme poverty is beyond words. They have such resiliency and courage and will to live as must be seen to be believed.” The Young Women’s Christian Associa tion is one of the many organizations who go and see and who come back to tell the rest of us about it, showing us what we may do to help. In Korea, as in many hard-pressed lands, the YWCA is carrying on the Christian mission of bringing friendship and understanding and hope to stricken peoples. Another way to put it would be; it is giving the Christian answer to the ques tion: How near is your neighbor. And the answer must always be the same: love knows no boundaries. A neighbor is as near as there is understanding and caring, whether he be there, outside your window, in Korea or in the house next door. In our excitement over the!read at the banquet. Julius Boros tournament and ban-1 It expressed the best wishes, quet last week we got through the! also a wish he could be present— whole story from beginning to from Dwight D. Eisenhower end without once mentioning any- ' If Friday the 13th means bad luck, then Saturday the 13th is certainly good—for the Sandhills that is, this year, for it is the date the Robert Shaw Chorale returns for his second concert engagement In the season 1950-51, the Sand hills Music association plunged in up to its ears to bring the Robert Shaw Chorale in March 1951. This was a tremendously ambitious un dertaking for such a young associ ation, which was having a real struggle getting started. The Cho rale is a big group, famous and high priced, and underwriting them was a daring thing. The association did it, though, and that concert now stands out las its turning point toward suc cess. For the people went, and had a wonderful time, and clam ored for more. It couldn’t come back last year—^Director Shaw went to Europe, to study some more and become “even better than perfect,” to quote Time’s music editor. This year, though, it is opening the Sandhills musical season, with flying colors Many knew the Chorale from its radio broadcasts. Others learn ed about it from their enjoyment of every minute of the program given here by this remarkable group, a combination of chorus and orchestra blending the best qualities of each. They will never forget the grand showmanship and verve which goes along with the- superb music; the variety of offerings, from impressive sacred music to the light and airy, and popular songs of the day; also the infec tious pleasure all the participants quite obviously take in their own performance. Nor will we forget their won derful generosity with encores, and the grand climax—“There’s Nothing Like a Dame.” 5 -Vlf W W *!<■ ^ '•* Drt. Neal and McLean VETERINAHIANS Southern Pines. N. C. • There were so many things hap pening that night we could not get them all in for fear the story would run all over the paper, leaving room for nothing else; but one we should have mentioned, and will right now, was the tele gram of congratulations for Jul ius Boros which came from an other well-known golfer, and was FROM THE RED CROSS FILES Red Cross Helps Soldier’s Wife And Baby Get Off On Journey Overseas u.r w p rriv rn r By W. E. COX JR. In October a 21-year-old moth er, whom we will call Elizabeth, came into the Moore County Red Cross office. She and her eight- months-old daughter were to join her soldier husband who is sta tioned in France, and whom she had not seen in over a year. Her husband had sent passage money through the American Express Company, but the little mother was bewildered by the many in structions the company had sent her. She had never been out of Moore county in her life. Red Cross workers immediate ly helped her with her problems. They made arrangements with the photographer for the passport photograph; told her she must apply to the clerk of court in Car thage for the passport itself; wrote letters for her to the Bu reau of Vital Statistics for copies of birth certificates for herself and infant, and sent both to Ft. Bragg for the required immuni zation shots. So far so good. Elizabeth was to leave home Thursday night and sail on a big French liner Friday at noon. On Monday she came to the office in great dismay. She had just received notice from the passport division of >the Depart ment of State that her passport would not be released without a French visa. As time was so short, the Red Cross worker telephoned the Department of State in Wash ington, and talked with the chief of the passport division, who said she would ‘‘do what she could." Feeling that this was not quite sufficient, the worker telephoned the American Express Company, also in Washington, and requested their aid in contacting the French Consulate to obtain the French visa. A return wire from the Department of State said that $9 must be paid before the passport could be released. As the little wife had no telephone she could not be contacted, so Red Cross wired $9 of its own funds to ex pedite the release. The Red Cross staff members haunted the pcstoffice all day Wednesday for the expected pass port, but no passport arrived. Thursday morning, it arrived and all gave a sigh of relief. Elizabeth was safe and her troubles seemed to be over. But by noon of that day Eliz abeth was in the office to report that she had not received the con firmation of the immunization shots. Without this certificate, she would not be allowed to land in France. Again Red Cross went in to action. They talked with the field director of the Aberdeen Red Cross at the Post, who con tacted the doctor in charge. He in turn said that by the time Eliz abeth arrived at Fort Bragg, he would have the certificate stamp ed and ready for her. All seemed well. Yet it was felt that Elizabeth might become con fused in the large city of New York, so a letter was sent to the New York City chapter of the American Red Cross requesting their aid in assisting her after she arrived there. As a fitting climax, one of the Red Cross workers went to the station, helped Elizabeth, the baby and the luggage on,the train and waved them a cheery, “Bon voy age.” Nylon Hosiery Buy direclly 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 and black heels 66 gauge Aberdeen Hosiery Mills Co^ Inc Pinehurst Road Aberdeen. N. 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