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Page TWO the pilot—Southern Pines, North Carolina The Children's Home Society Progress Noted In Half A Century North Carolina Southern Pines “In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will tpr to keep tiiis a go^ paper 4 to make a little money for all concerned. Where there seems to be ^occa- S to use oTSe^e for the public good we will try to do it. And we will treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. Extraordinary In Every RjCspect To be told that they have cause to congratu late themselves on the quality of law enforce ment in the county will not come as a surprise to Moore County people. The record of. Sheriff Charles J. McDonald and his team of officers is a good one and well-known. But it seems to us that this is a fitting moment to pat ourselves on the back once more over our good luck, the occasion being the way the officers handled the free-for-all that took place last week at the Bums roadside restaurant beyond Robbins. Free-for-all is a term we use with delibera tion. It covers just about everything and 'just about everything is what the officers had to deal with. The offenders were two young men, in the prime of their young strength, set ablaze and gone berserk with the fire of what appears tO' have been religious conversion or mania. Their strength was like Galahad*s, the strength of ten.” They apparently took a dislike to the olace they were in and to everybody who was in it with them or within sight of it. They were seized with a crashing, over-powering, resplen dent urge to do something violent and they did it. They threw everything moveable out the window or at the folks, tearing counter-stools from their foundations and even, as a final ges ture, heaving the weighing machine through the plate-glass. They met the law officers with open arms, shouting: “Shoot! The Lord won’t let the bullets hurt us.” But the officers didn’t shoot. They had the will and the wisdom to subdue the pair without recourse to their weapons. Hastily summoned by Patrolman Swaim, whose attempt to cope with the problem single-handed had brought him to grief. Sheriff McDonald and Deputy Lambert sailed into what turned out to be a long, exhausting tussle arid a dangerous one. There should be no mistaking the very real risk run by the officers in their attempt to over power the young men without shooting. It is to their moral credit that they made the at tempt and evidence of their skill and training that they were successful. Both men, as well as Swaim, suffered con siderable damage in the fray. They dodged blows that would have knocked them out, but could not dodge them all. They kept their heads under difficult and provocative conditions^ the sheriff showed the cool head and ingenuity of the frontiersman as he sent for some cord and wound up the affair by roping the two wild- men. Safely hog-tied, they were finally taken off to jail and, later, to hospital for the mental examination they clearly needed. Cool good sense, the courage that is not ph^- ed by the unexpected and the wit to cope with it, and the restraint that marks the work of the highest type of law enforcement officer: these qualities, exhibited by the county force last week, kept in the realm of melodrama an affair that might have resulted in high tragedy, with death or critical injury the lot of innocent bystanders as well as the participants. It was an extraordinary situation and we submit that it was extraordinarily well-handled. Time To Take Action, Mr. President Attorney General Brownell was Governor Dewey’s man; he engineered the defeat of Taft and the election of President Eisenhower at the G. O. P. convention and his skill as a political strategist is unquestioned, nevertheless it is doubtful if he anticipated that his attack on ex president Truman would stir up such a hornet’s nest. It was, of course, carefully calculated to rouse out that chief hornet, Harry Truman, who could be counted on to talk too quickly and too much. But, though the main object was gained in de flecting the public gaze from recent Republican defeats and assuring the victorious California election, it was at a pretty big sacrifice. The Brownell attack, followed by the Velde sub poena, shocked the nation and united in a solid phalanx of opposition an angry Demo cratic Party until then friendly and decidedly helpful to the administration. FurthermO're it was a thundering failure in achieving the effect among Republicans which is claimed to have been Brownell’s secondary objective: to put ' Senator McCarthy s red- hunting in the shade in favor of the Department of Justice and the Jenner subcommittee. Mc Carthy has not even been jolted by his two or three days out of the headlines. He is back there again in bigger type than ever and the incident has given him. fresh openings. Brownell’s speech contained a statement that laid him wide open to the McCarthy attack. The attorney general spoke of Harry Dexter White as “a Russian spy,” adding that the ad ministration knew him to be a spy. Ac tually, White’s guUt rested solely on the word of Elizabeth Bentley, at that time a compara tively unknown former Communist. Brownell stepped right into the McCarthy camp when he stated as a fact something that was not then proven and, actually, never has been. He is fur ther convicted of McCarthyism in his exploit ing of such dangerous material for purely po litical purposes. Not least disturbing was the attorney gen eral’s use of secret F. B. I. files to bolster his case and the summoning of J. Edgar Hoover to the witness stand. The appearance of the head of the F. B. I. as a leading figure in a highly political controversy, the awe in which he was apparently held and the political aspect of his testimony struck a note discordant and disa greeable to American ears. Ex-President Truman’s reply to his attackers could have been a lot better, but when he ac cused the administration of adopting the tactics of McCarthy he was on firm, ground. What is Persident Eisenhower going to do about all this? He is now caught in a cross-fire, with his attorney general and other Republican leaders flatly contradicting his own views and Senator McCarthy attacking his administration with everything he has. The issue itself, of course, the extremely serious issue of Communr ist infiltration, has been overshadowed by the political battle royal. We join with the many Americans who are deeply convinced that Senator McCarthy and all he stands for represents a menace of fearful potentiality. The President should not delay in denouncing the adoption of McCarthy tactics by his attorned general and the subservience to the Wisconsin senator shown by members of his cabinet. If this revival of the White case has served to awaken him finally to the threat to the prin ciples for which this nation stands, the affair, disturbing as it has been, may have been salu tary. By GERTRUDE W. ATKINS The Children’s Home Society of North Carolina was founded in 1902. That was the year American Occupation- Troops returned home from Cuba, that Teddy Roosevelt settled the Pennsylvania coal strike, that Governor Aycock launched his state-wide public school program. Long beiore the turn of the present century, concern had been growing over the plight of small children with no homes or parents to care far them. North Carolina, like most of her southern neigh bors, was poor. Struggling to re cover from the disastrous effects of the Reconstruction, the state lacked funds to take specific ac tion to relieve , these helpless youngsters. In 1902 a group of leading citi zens decided to do something to help these babies and young chil dren. They organized the North Carolina Children’s Home Society, Inc., to provide “a heme for the child who needs a home and a child for the home which needs a child.” The original Board of Directors included names such as Venable, Mclver, Duke, Broughton, Bqttle and Bynum. . . names synony mous with public service in North Carolina. The group first employed an experienced superintendent who was instructed to keep a careful record on every child. These old records, kept at a time when few records of any sort were made, reflect the life of the state, its growth through half a century of progress. The first office was located in the Benbow Hotel in the center of Greensboro. The first Superin-, tendent, Mr. Streeter, chose the Benbow because of its central lo cation near both train and street car lines. Both of these modes of travel were faster and far su perior to the horse and buggy, the only alternative. Careful handling of confiden tial material was introduced early as a Society regulation. Wheq Su perintendent Streeter requested a private telephone at the Ben bow, board men;bers assented im mediately when he explained, “In view of the confidential nature of most of the Society’s business,” he didn’t consider the public tele phone in the hotel lobby a proper place for business conversations. There are many stories in the 6,000 records in the fire-proof vault in Greensboro. ’There’s the story of the baby born in a county poor-house fei 1919. His 18-year- old mother, who was born in the same poor house, died of tubercu losis six months later. The mother had spent all of her life among the feeble-minded, the sick and the helpless old people in the poor-house. A Boaid Member brought the Street, Greensboro, North baby to Greensboro by automo- lina. bile for examination and care. The doctor examined the baby but found no symptoms of tuber culosis, despite his exposure to his mother. The Society had one caseworker by 1919. While she could not visit the adoptive fam Ed. Note: Information from the Children’s Home Society disclos ed that 56 children from Moore County have been aided by the Society from the year 1917 FRIDAY. DECEMBEH 4. 1953 LIFE ON PLANETS Nobel prize-winning chemist Harold C. Ltyey voiced the opinion in 1952 that there must be several planets in our galaxy sufficiently Caro- similar to the • earth to support life. Dr. Urey pointed out that there are 100 billion stars and 100 million “solar systems” in the Milky Way much like our own. ily, a regulation was enforced to j through 1952. Gertrude Walton make the prospective family come Atkins, writer of the foregoing ar to Greensboro for an interview. The Society collected a good deal of information on them, then fol lowed through to be sure the baby was adopted legally. Recently that baby, grown into a vigorous young man, visited the Society. He didn’t seek informa tion or a birth certificate. He wanted to thank the Society for “my happy home and wonderful parents.” The Society had given i him. the “promise of a future” three decades ago. Now he had that future. In the years following, industry and agricutlure were developed in North Carolina. Roads and communications were improved. Economic progress brought extra interest in the work of the So ciety. A home was bought in Greensboro where children Were brought to await adoption. When they were ill, a staff of Greensboro doctors gave their services freely. When the Receiv ing Home was too small to ac commodate all the youngsters, the children “spilled over” into the homes of Greensboro resi dents who were friends of the So ciety. Today the Children’s Home So ciety offers a service very differ ent from the service, in 1904. There is counseling and guidance, first for the relatives of every baby being considered for adop tion. The baby has a safe place to wait while final decisions are be ing made. Medical care and legal services are available for each one. For the older child, the Society has a program in which it helps transfer the child from the or phanage to a home of its own. There is a caseworker to help while the child makes the change from the orphanage and the peo-, pie he has known to a new home with strangers he hopes someday to love as “mom and dad.” The annual Christmas appeal for funds begins Thanksgiving throughout North Carolina. A growing membership is needed by the Society to carry on their vital work of giving help to some 400 babies and small children annual ly.' Average cost for the care o^f a baby is $3.60 a day. Voluntary contributions have to pay for this “promise of a future” for some homeless child. Any contributions should be mailed to The Chil dren’s Home Society of North Carolina, Inc., 740 Chestnut tide, is well known in Southern Pines. She was on the editorial staff of The Pilot in the summer of 1945 and again in the fall of 1946. A native of Salisbury, she is now the wife of Emmett At- ikns, who is with the public rela tions department of Burlington Mills, and lives at Greensboro. OLD DOBBIN FADES Old dobbin has almost faded away from the country landscape. On January 1, 1952, the number of horses and mules on farms was 60 per cent below the 1935-39 average, the service reports. The decrease in the number of horses on farms is attributed to the ever increasing use of labor saving machines. DELICIOUS _ __ country ham. steaks, chickeo. 12 - 2:30 & 6 - 9 P. M. daily, turkey on Sundays. No food Sunday night. Popular prices. Groups up to 100. Phone 2032 DIXIE INN VASS.N.C. only REGISTERED PHARMACISTS fill your prescriptions at SOUTHERN PINES PHARMACT Aiy Cole, R.Ph. Graham Culbreth, RJ*h. tfn Phone 2-5321—Wight Phone 2-4181 PINEDENE, Inc. EVERYTHING ELECTRiqAL ZENITH SERVED HOTPOINT FURNITURE TELEVISION AIR CONDITIONING HEATING and PLUMBING U.S. Highway No. 1 South—Southern Pines. N. C. Phone 2*8071 ^O.J.^Sees Vandalism At Church In Robbins As ‘Old Original Sin^ Investment In Public Health Thanksgiving marked the official beginning of the nationwide Christmas Seal Sale of the Na tional Tuberculosis Association. In Moore Coun ty, seals have been mailed out by community chairmen who ask thst contributions for the , work of the Association be returned as quickly as possible, before the “Christmas rush.” Christmas Seals have become an integral part of the American holiday scene—symbols of a humanitarian effort that" runs back nearly half a century dnd which has had no small part in the dramatic reduction that has taken place over that period in the tuberculosis incidence and death rate. Against the background of new miracle drugs and optimistic predictions of a foreseeable end* to the fight against tuberculosis, we moist not forget the half century of persistent research, public education and direct aid that the seals have made possible. The end is net yet. Full generosity in this , great cause must not be withheld. Case-finding and publit health education now form the badibone of the Moore County Tuberculosis Association’s program. The bud get calls for a $500 contribution to help with an x-ray program in the public schools next Spring. The Pilot urges prompt and liberal response in the Christmas Seal sale. The Central Carolinian These days, it is no small achievement to start a newspaper. Newspapers are not spawned numerously and recklessly like fish, bugs and some types of business enterprise; they are born in travail after long gestation, like the higher forms of animal life. As the creatures of the woodland gathered to view the infant Bambi, destined prince of the forest, people peer with some awe and wonder at the first edition of a new newspaper. There it is, in black and white. How will its character be molded? What potentials for com* munity service, enlightenment and entertain ment does it carry within it? What wiU it look like five, ten, twenty years from now? The foregoing is inspired by a lively new weekly newspaper published in Sanford—the Central Carolinian. There should be room in Sanford and Lee County—a prosperous and rapidly developing industrial and agricultural area—for the week ly Central Carolinian and The Sanford Herald which, as a semi-weekly and recently as a daily, has set a high standard of journalistic excel lence in the community. To Walter Mann and James Fields, the young men who have founded the new publication with energy, earnestness, humility and zest, go our best wishes for success in their undertak ing. “O. J.”—Oscar J. Coffin, former dean of the University of North Carolina Journalism School, Chapel Hill, cast his inimitable attention toward Moore County as follows in a recent “Shucks and Nubbins” column in The Greens boro Daily News: NOTHING COMPLEX ABOUT ORIGINAL SIN That tremor which a night or so since shook the residents of up per Mocre County out of their slumbers was not, as some may have fancied, a dog under the bed or a return of the Charleston Earthquake. It was, I am confi dent, my Great-Grandfather Hun- sucker turning over in his grave which lies on a red-clay hillside on the southwest edge of the Town of Rebbins. Grandsire, who shuffled off this mortal coil a generation or so be fore textiles got beyond a spin ning-wheel in every home that comprised an ell or lean-to and an occasional hand-loom for the weaving of rag-carpets and din- sey-wooley, had learned that the SBl had taken the fingerprints of presumably juvenile vandals to Raleigh in an effort to determine who flooded the Sunday school rooms, wrecked the ceiling, slash ed the Bible and tore up the hymnbooks in Tabernacle Meth odist Church. Tabernacle, a much finer edifice than it was in his day—and mine —stands just across the read— or make street—from the elemen tary school; hence suspicion naturally falls first on teen-age hellions of the community. 1 wouldn’t know how to recom pose yourself for the rest to which your progeny consigned you, Grandsire. Would it help to learn that none of the heirs of your body as represented by the off spring of that fellow Bethuel Coffin who married your daugh ter Camilla could have had any part in the defilement of the high place to which you ascended for worship? They all left Shuffles Township before they Ivere spoil- WILLIAM A. WRIGHT SECURITIES Member National Association of Securities Dealers Inc. Specializing in KEYSTONE CUSTODIAN FIOTS “A COMPLETE INVESTMENT SERVICE” P. O. Box 528 Pinehxast, N. C. Pinehuist 2151 ed by r6d-sparing. Personally, I have never met a plumb delinquent Hunsucker in those parts, either adult or juve nile; and I very much hope Man- esses, Marleys and such who are like myself beholden to you are all innocent of wrong-doing in wanton wickedness which has disturbed your repose. But in any event, may all those responsible be laid by the heels and given their needings. And as one privileged to have been born at just about the heart of Robbins at a time when the running water consumed by church or household in those parts came from a spring and there wasn’t'a rest room nearer than Greensboro—^if there— don’t want to hear this particular piece of hellishness laid to com plex or frustration. It is, I am convinced, old origi nal sin. My Great Grandsire knew what to do for that when he met it on the premises. The PILOT Published Every Friday by THE PILOT, Incorporated Southern Pines. North Carolina have YOtJH CLOTHES CLEANS) at— The Valet p. C. JENSEN Where Qeaning and Prices Are Belter! 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Katharine Boyd Editor C, Benedict News Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. Council Advertising Mary Scott Newton Busin^^ss Bessie Cameron Smith .. Society Composing Roqm Lochamy McLean, Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Jasper Swearingen Subscription Rates: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2; 3 mos. $1 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. 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