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Twy. PILOT, Southern Piheg. Horfe Cwltoa_ IW MOnTH CAROUM. FRIDAY. OCTO ■LOT NEW LOOK AT SCHOOLS NEEDED ^ ^ North Carolina Southern Pmea In taking over The Pilot no changes Sre°seSi?to^ ‘ will try to make a little money for all concerne . treat everybody to use our iiSience for the pubUc good we will try to do it. And we will treat everybody Le.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. Required Reading For Good Citizens ed and described along with the strictly munici pal services. The county health and especially The Southern Pines League of Women Voters aue congratulations on its booklet, Town Survey,” which was published recently and is .available to the public at local stores. About two dozen of the local ladies worked on the project, apparently with as much zest and energy as if they had been turned loose to clean up a long-vacant house or to cook dinner for several hundred hungry persons.. They di rected their inquiring propensities—a line of endeavor in which the ladies are said to excel into town government, education, political or ganization, health and welfare services, clubs, Virganizations, history and population. They lye emerged with a booklet that should prove ' .Valuable specific use to persons seeking in- jimaticn about the town, as well as one of Jroad general interest to any citizen with one hvhit of interest in his or her community. We think it is in order that county services which apply in Southern Pines have been list- welfare departments play an important part in town life, yet they are usually considered and described only at the county level. It occurs to us that this booklet or a simil^ compendium of information should be required reading, if not required study material, for every high school student. Perhaps there is some such instruction at the school and some of the material in the booklet, such as voting requirements and regulations, is certainly cov ered in school, but we think a detailed study of one’s home community should be required of high school students and even of younger stu dents on a simpler scale. The preparation of this booklet alone quali fies the League of Women Voters, one of the town’s youngest civic organizations, as one of the most valuable in terms of service to the community. Bright Outlook In Medical Training big problem in the near future may be a short age of well-qualified applications rather than a shortage of teaching facilities. For that reason it is significant that the American Medical Association is advancing the following information for prospective physi- A report by The American Medical Associa- Ition tells a heartening story of an increasing Lumber of physicians and expanded facilities Lr medical education. Highlights of the report include; —The number of doctors is at a low ratio of one for every 730 persons, a proportion exceed ed only by Israel, which has an abnormal num ber of refugee physicians. —The nation’s medical schools have record total enrollments and graduating classes and the largest freshman class. new four-year medical schools are [scheduled to begin operation and the traming Uf doctors within the next five to six years, and (three more are under consideration. The report of progress bears out the opinion lof many medical education experts that the ‘•Young people will be interested that only 21 per cent of the freshmen entering medical school last fall had “A” averages in their pre- medical studies, 69 per cent had “B” averages and 10 per cent had “C” averages. “In other words, they don’t have to be ‘grinds, bookworms or Phi Beta Kappas to get into med ical school. Most young people who have the character, personal balance in qualities and a sincere desire to serve their fellowmen as phy sicians have an excellent chance of entering medical schooL” Traffic Safety Program Saves Lives Slow Down and Uve, the northeastern and ^southern states’ summer crusade for safer high way travel ended with a 12.2 per cent reduction in motor deaths or a paving of 5S|4 lives. The anti-speed program co-sponsored by Gov- William B. Umstead and the governors of ernor 23 other states from Maine to Texas, started during the Memorial Day weekend and closed with the Labor Day weekend. Highway fatali ties throughout the region dropped from 4,856 during the summer of 1953 to 4,262 for this year. North Carolina reported a 16 per cent decrease. In all, 15 states showed death reductions this year. They were Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Speed played a part in nearly all of the seven traffic deaths recorded in Moore County this year. The lesson is clear, here as elsewhere: Slow Down and Live. Thankfulness - And A Note of Warning Thankfulness is the keynote of reaction we Lhave heard to the hurricane whose swirling ^outer winds gave this area a frightening indi cation of the fury that blasted a swath of death and devastation from Haiti to Canada. In this area where Nature is generally placid and kind—without extremes of cold (and we almost said “heat,” ’too, but we’ll let that pass so far as the summer of 1954 is concerned), floods, winds, earthquakes and other natural disasters, we have come to feel almost immune from the rougher natural elements that plague mankind. As trees toppled or were lashed about in the gusts of Friday’s storm and gale-driven rain whirled through the streets and beat on the sides of our houses, many must have felt, as we did, that man is still puny before the powers of nature. Compared to the havoc elsewhere, this area’s damage was slight—and for this we all are thankful. As always, people responded nobly in the face of a threat shared by all and workmen of power and telephone companies, town street crews, police officers and many private citizens who did what they could to help others and themselves provided many an instance of the goodness that exists in most people. What many residents may not know is that, as Hurricane Hazel bore down on this ordinari ly peaceful section. Red Cross and Civil Defense officials were organizing for disaster relief here, if needed. The hurricane’s effects stopped short of the disaster classification here—bpt it may serve as an eye-opener for some of us to have had such a close brush with potential disaster and to imagine what might have been the situation had one’s own home and others in the com munity been wrecked by the storm, possibly with accompanying death or injury to the oc cupants. Civil Defense forces of the county and tovra and the Red Cross were mapping their tasks in preparation for such an eventuality as the hur ricane approached and were prepared to or ganize relief when the storm struck. What such organization can mean to a com munity has been learned by the direct example of New England storm-struck towps and cities. The classic example in Worcester, Mass., where livil Defense was highly organized and where a ■was held only one week prior to that t(8 egp COLOOFUt HI5TORV WITH VISITORS IM north CAROLINA. band in fslorth Carolina num ber over SpOQ They live in the Great Smoky Mountains. Books, Study, DiscipUtSij Only Road Toward Edti three of Norfh CaroWnas 'fomeua feature IhcJAiw— "Un-Jo The«« Hills "of Choroke*,, "Horn in-tlie Wfesf'W- Boone and "Lost Colony"Atawfeo. STATE PUBLICITY—Here is another in the series of car- toon-type advertising features that carry the attractions of North Carolina to readers all over the nation. Newspapers within the State including The Pilot, are reprinting these advertisements to show home folks what the State Advertising Division is doing in the way of making the name of North Carolina known to more and more people. This Is The Law mind, we recalled that the local Civil Defense director. Col. Don Madigan, told the town coun cil last month that, in attempting to organize a block warden system here, he had asked 66 persons to serve, of whom only eight indicated a willingness. If the hurricane had hit Southern Pines with some of the destructiveness exhibited else where, some of those 66 persons might have wished they had given another answer. Block wardens, as we understand the matter from our limited acquaintance with Civil Defense, are invaluable in the case of a natural disaster, as they are in case of an enemy attack (which seems remote here—but so did a hurricane un til last week) because the wardens are the link between the individual householder and the Civil Defense-Red Cross relief forces. "Wardens, as we understand it, can save lives (1) by having made personal contacts on their block with instructions to residents of what to do in case of disaster and (2) by organizing re lief for their little domain, their block or street, in cooperation with the over-all CD and Red Cross aid if disaster strikes. So we can ask ourselves: if Hurricane Hazel had flattened houses and killed and injured Southern Pines residents, would we have been better off with or without block warden or ganization? And, it follows, shouldn t we pro ceed at once to set up such an organization, now that the need for it has been made appar ent by a narrow escape from a natural disaster here? Support Music Association The Pilot urges residents of this area to sup port the Sandhills Music Association whose an nual membership campaign is now going on. The Association, a non-profit organization whose aim is to make good music available to audiences here, is now conducting its annual sale of season tickets to attractions that have been scheduled for the faU, winter and spring. Establishing a half-price ticket for students who will attend concerts accompanied by an adult is a commendable move by the Associa tion and should make it possible for a consider ably larger group of young people to hear the vocal and instrumental artists who will appear during the concert series. Like everything else that is well organized and presented to the public as an accomplished fC. ^ the Music Association concerts are often ^’^or granted. We must wake up to the ‘.these concerts are possible only if the this~"sBBfliNMIiMi*.JupBOrt them By Charles W.JDaniel (For the N. C. Bar Association) LEGAL FEES Did you ever wonder about the basis for a legal—or other profes sional-fee for services? All of the following factors— approved by the North Carolina State Bar—are normally consid ered by a lawyer in setting a fee for a specific piece of work: (1) The time and labor requir ed, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved and the pkill requisite properly to con duct the cause; (2) whether the acceptance of employment m the particular case will preclude the lawyer’s appearance for others in cases likely to arise out of the transaction, and in which there is a reasonable expectation that otherwise he would be employed or will involve the loss of other employment while employed in the particular case or antagonisms with other clients; (3) the custom ary charges of the Bar for similar services; (4) the amount involved in the controversy and the bene fits resulting to the client from the services; (5) the contingency or the certainty of the compensa tion; and (6) the character of the employment, whether casual or for an established and constant client. No one of these considera tions in itself is controlling. They are mere guides in ascertaining the real value of the service.” Many attorneys will attest that one of their most difficult prob lems is that of setting a fair yet adequate fee. From the imposing list of factors to be considered in this connection, the problem of the fee is indeed troublesome. Texas Eyes The Fee The State Bar of Texas has published the following lucid ex planation of legal fees: “When a lawyer saves a client from trouble or financial difficul ty, the client knows only that he has been charged for ‘advice’—a commodity oftentimes too freely given by us all. Often overlooked is the study, work and time the attorney has spent in order that he be in a position to give advice that can be relied upon. “First, a practicing lawyer must have had six or seven years of academic education. This means at least three years of col lege work and three years in a recognized law school. Because the community at large has an interest in the qualifications and conduct of members of the bar, these minimum educational re quirements must be met before examination for admission to the bar may be taken. “During the three years of for mal legal education, the law stu dent attempts to read, digest, rec oncile and understand from 10,' 000 to 20,000 separate cases, stat utes, and monographs. He must draw from these an understand ing of basic legal principles, of processes of legal reasoning, of methods of fact and legal inves tigation, and of court procedures which bring relief to clients. . . “In both counselling and litiga tion, a lawyer must draw upon a wealth of precedent which he has attempted to store in his m6m ory in order to apply one or more principles of law to the fact situ ation presented by his client. (Ed. Note; Harry Golden of Charlotte, editor of ‘‘The Car olina Israelite,” a unique newspaper composed largely of essays by the editor on a multitude of varied subjects, thinks the quality of educa tion is declining generally throughout the nation, de spite the vast improvement in school facilities and the de velopment of new and sup posedly more effective edu cational methods. Widely sought as a civic club speaker and widely read by subscri bers to his newspaper over the country, Mr. Golden is a colorful and opinionated man whose viewpoints are enjoy ed by persons of all religious faiths and who has establish ed a unique place for himself and his newspaper as advo cates of inter-faith under standing and tolerance. The Pilot does not think that con temporary education is open to so sweeping an indictment as that laid down by Mr. Golden in this essay, but we feel that educators must rec ognize and attempt to remedy the dangers he points out.) more. This ma oversimplificatio] don’t think so boys and girls ni books. It is app like an you, but I high school Bnger read any ting. Today you can stand beforeT^ group of high- school seniors arM "leli them the basic tales of o]pr language; the stories outiiof Dici^®’^®> Verne, Har dy, Conrad Hugoj Dumas, and Bul- wer-Lytton, and i£h®y stare at you as if you had j from the planet ! dents (sic) are rl dropped down ars. The stu- [lired to read but they can ;hing on T'V, y are also re thousand lines and rules of statute or decision are involved in even the simplest situation. Too, the problems rais ed by various clients, like finger prints, are never exactly the same. “After searching his memory, the lawyer will usually check the pertinent rules and precedeiits. These are found in an ever-in creasing volume of statutes with which modern legislation seeks to regulate many aspects of our life, and in the decisions of the courts, boards and bureaus.” Many county Bar organizations in North Carolina set minimum fee schedules for specific services of the profession such as drafting wills, searching titles, appear ances in the various courts and the like. These minimum fees, however, do not purport to cover more than a few situations com mon to the attorney-client rela tionship. Free Legal Service Lawyers — as do practitioners in the other professions—perform many free professional services both to individuals and to their home communities. Through its committee on Legal (Continued on page 7) There has been a tremendous amount of new school construc tion, but the magnificent build ings and elaborate facilities have far outstripped the actual pro cesses of education. Often it ap pears as though the public cere mony dedicating the building is the all-in-all; since nothing else is “constructed,” “renovated, or repaired.” It’s like moving into a $50,000 home with holes in your shoes and no desire or resources to get them half-soled. In the end the beautiful new high-school building stands there, in one book a semes usually catch sm and that’s that. quired to read or*^* . of poetry—whiffh wraps up their lil ole credits-/and away they go; bubble-gum aryd all. This is notj the fault of the teachers. The/ teachers a^e not permitted toy do their job. Om entire systerfi of education needs an overhai^ling-. A magnificent buRding is; aU right, but it wiU never produce educated men and w<omen. pnly teachem can do that, and/they can do it (a^ they have doiie it) by candlehght if need be. And soV^ smack inVo something, (educa- S thati we just cannot buy er phcny-fiP any way;—frus- psri t it? Is it pAesumptuous of me to chal- lenge th^ entire idea of ‘'progres- give’* edipcation? I believe that someday/ the education^ system wiU walPe up to this danger of letting -^em do what they want. What nf3*'®ense. Did they really believe (that they can replace the school-tleacher with the authority to trell them what to do? Today it i/s a huge joke. You watch them ruuming from class-room to class- om, loaded down with books, ^d it’s all a fake. They know all its!/nothing. Nothing at aU. If you DuiiQing 7j,„ ws ( doubt my word, I dare you, go keep abreast of our business com munity-bigger and better facilij ties aU the time. ; This works very well in privaf a enterprise, but in education, if something else again. For thing we do- not “follow it M logical conclusion. 'When a 1? & corporation puts up a building, it does not turn th^ fice over to executives mfKins $3,200.00 a year. The jamto^ & that. For another thing a direct connection betweem ^ ger and better” facilitie^^and expanded production an^ bution of goods and ’ whereas there is no such/^nnec tion whatsoever in education, in education all you need benches, a desk, a p^ ’ blackboard, some chalJ^:- teacher, everything e’ fixins.” , . , The big problem j us today in oduqatiorf is lai y simple. No one reads *00“ IS STATE CD DIRECTOR SAYS— Hurricane Points UjP Civil Defense Needi Hurricane Hazel, ill wind that she was for Eastern Carolina, was a timely warning which may be a blessing in disguise. State Civil Defense Director Edward F. Grif fin said this week in pointing out the lessons to be learned from the devastating experience. “From the first warning that the hurricane would cut a de structive swath across the state, there was desperate need for three things which this agency has urgently requested,” the di rector said, ‘'three essentials to effective state-level operation, which were submitted early in September to the Advisory Bud get Committee. “Civil Defense, responsible for coordination of all services need ed in disaster operation, must have (1) communications or con trol center (2) auxiliary power units throughout the state’s sev eral communications systems and (3) all “hams” (radio amateur operators) incorporated into an organized, state-sponsored radio network to serve as a pick-up to regular communications service “As proposed by Civil Defense the Communications or Control Center, would enable all com munications pertaining to disas ter operatih-n'to funnel in to a cen tral place. This would in no way supplant or take control of exist- jjig communications, instead it would tie together such diverse systems as the Weather Bureau, State Highway Patrol, National Guard, Radio Amateurs, the va rious public utihties and others. As matters stand—and as they stood at the approach of the hur ricane—neither the Governor nor State Civil Defense has s^y one place from which to receive disseminate vital information normal ifteans fail. A Civil Defense Control /Center would fill this need. , “he hurricane’s/ disruption of electric power ser^ee proved the vulnerability of P’^esent com munications systf™ unless meaps provided forHibary power Prior to the sto>, fate Council o-f Civil Defens^ had initiated ef forts to procurrf auxiliary value Plans long in such an emi'^^ ■ U Sir Federal Svf/rioSa-siS;: riwc? >eeltag %over™,ent . J _ds jnd assisted by State Sfvil Drfen^e- On a moment’s no ^^aluable talents and Equipment; these capable citi zens could* be used in saving life ^”frr.^g1j^structiveness of this re will not be forgotten ;ime. . . but compared aid be caused by ene it isn’t a drop in the 1 agencies involved did an exce'Sent job as long as pow- communications were available, but when those func tions T^ere wiped out, they had to ait py wait. Such immobil- WaW can be avoided by proper nrecaidions, which should be tak- ^ Qjf the strength of this devas- waming. was Jean Valjean? 3. Name four members of the United States Su preme Court? 4. 'Who was the ^ first man to circumnavigate the globe? 5. What do we call the series of letters written by Alex ander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison which helped bring about these United States of America? If you get more than three per cent correct answers, let me know, and I promise to push a peanut with my nose from Char lotte, North Carolina to Atlanta, , Georgia. They know nothing. No one reads books anymore, and the teachers are helpless. The teach ers are paid twice as much as they are worth, as babysitters, which they are; and they are paid half as much as they are worth as teachers, which the system does not allow them to be. What amazes me is that the late philosopher John Dewey gave us this plan of “progressive” education, although it is only fair to state that the idea went off on several tangents from Dr. Dewey’s original plan, but basically not even a thousand John Deweys could improve on a system which had been developed during three thousand years of man’s search for knowledge. There are no short-cuts! In economics you start with—the land. In education you start with—a book. Nothing else can do it for you;—^not even TV, movies, Hopalong Cassidy, ninety million comic books a year, slopping around with paint brushes, or letting them do what they want. Letting them do what they want belongs in the insane asylum. Half of them can t tell you the name of the governor of their state, let alone, letting them do what they want! It is a great tragedy. A tragedy for the students, a tragedy for the teachers, and a tragedy for those of us who have read a boo-k. It is most certainly part and parcel of the current drive against intellec- tualism. When all of these unedu cated boys and girls come out of school, they someho-w carry with (Continued on page 7) cent stor for a lon| to what , my attaq bucket. The PILOT Published Every Friday by THE PILOT. Incorporated Southern Pines. North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Katharine Boyd Editor C. Benedict News Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. Council Advertising Mary Scott Newton Business Bessie Cameron Smith Society Composing Room Lochamy McLean, Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Jasper Swearingen en tatinp !^e hope that the people of state will understand what need for future protection, the necessary steps may be +ai,en to avoid a repeat perform- ‘^e,” the state director conclu de^- Subscription Rates: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2; 3 mos. $1 Entered at the Postoffice at South- •ed at tte *ines, N. em Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Aasn. and N. C. Press Assn.
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