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THE PILOT—Southern Pines. North Caiolins
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER L tS55
ILOT
Southern Pines
North Carolina
"In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a grod
paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Where there seems m ^
sion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we wi e
alike.”^-James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
Crains of Sand
Harnett Plans Centennial Observance
Paul Green, who pioneered m the outdoor
historical drama field with “The Lost Colony
on Roanoke Island, is re-writing his “Highland
Cali” fcr presentation as the highlight of the
centennial celebration of his native and Moore’s
neighboring coimty, Harnett.
The distinguished North Carolina dramatist
was born in Harnett County, near where the
drama will be produced in the Paul Green Am
phitheatre at Campbell College, Buie’s Creek,
October 10-15. He will be the honor guest at
the opening performance.
“The Highland Call” was originally present
ed at Fayetteville as an indoor production, and
is being expanded for outdoor production in the
amphitheatre seating 1,200 people. The outdoor
stage permits the adding of a scene from the
battle of Moore’s Creek Bridgg in the Revolu
tionary War.
During Centennial Week an historical muse
um will be open daily in the Community Center
in Lillington. A county-wide religious service,
Sunday night, October 9, will set a high note
for the Centennial.' It will be followed during
the week l)y separate celebrations in every
town and in Western.Harnett.
Many Moore County residents will be jour
neying to Buies Creek in October to witness the
“Highland Call” and to Lillington to look over
the historical museum. The Harnett celebration
is further evidence of an interest in the past,
especially local history, that is increasing in
Moore County and apparently also throughout
the nation.
Harnett County is to be congratulated on
planning this interesting observance of its first
century of existence.
Better Service To Welfare Clients
The hospitalization of recipients pf public as
sistance was provided for under provisions of
a 1955 amendment to Chapter 108 of the Gen
eral Statutes of North Carolina. The State
Board of Public Welfare was authorized to es
tablish a State fund for this purpose. Included
are recipients of old age assistance, aid to de
pendent children, and aid to the permanently
and totally disabled.
The new plan, in which Moore County is, of
course, participating, makes it possible for six
dollars per day toward the hospital bills of
these recipients to be paid immediately out of
funds from Federal, State, and county sources.
Previous to this plan such payments could only
be made in small monthly installments, the
amount dependent upon the size of the assist
ance grant. ^
Under the new plan, counties will continue
to deal directly with the hospitals which serve
their residents, the determination of the need
of hospitalization will be made in the county
upon medical advice, and the hospital bills will
be approved by the county department of public
welfare. The check, made out in the State of
fice, will be sent to the county department for
payment to the hospital. The county, in turn,
makes payments to the “pool” fund from which
the check is sent.
Details of the new hospitalization plan were
developed in cooperation with representatives
of the State Association of Hospital Administra
tors, the State Association of County Commis
sioners, the Medical Society of North Carolina,
the State Association of County Superintend
ents of Public Welfare, and the Bureau of the
Budget.
All agencies participating in the plan will
benefit by the improved administrative proce
dures, which it provides. Furthermore, better
services to welfare clients should be a direct
result.
What Is Emotional Maturity?
_ . .. 1
Two weeks ago we reprinted on this page
“ten safety sigps of good mental health”, which
had been taken from a recent issue of “Inven
tory,” the publication of the North Carolina
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Program. i
We pointed out then that alcoholics, desper
ately seeking answers to emotional problems
that result in excessive drinking, often forge
ahead of non-drinkers in their understanding of
themselves, and in efforts to attain happiness.
From another (July-August) issue of Inven
tory we’ve clipped "eight personality qualities
of emotionaUy mature people” which comple
ment and extend the list given two weeks ago.
1. Sticktoitiveness: the ability to stick to
a job, to work on it, and to struggle through
it until it is finished or until one has given
all one has in an endeavor.
2. The quality or capacity of giving more
than is asked or required in a given situa
tion. Reliability.
3. Persistence is an aspect of maturity.
Persistence (like sticktoitiveness) to carry
out a goal in the face of difficulties.
4. Endurance: the endurance of difficul
ties, unpleasantness, discomfort, frustration,
hardship.
5. The ability to size things up, make
one’s own decision. This implies a consid
erable amount of independence, A mature
person is not dependent, unless ill.
6. Maturity represents the capacity and
willingness to cooperate; to work with oth
ers, to work in an organization and under
authority.
7. Maturity includes determination, a will
to achieve and succeed, a will to live.
8. The mature person is flexible, can de
fer to time, persons, circumstances. He can
show tolerance, he can be patient, and above
■ all he has the qualities of adaptibility and
compromise.
“It is fortunate,” comments “Inventory,” “that
most of us are not entirely satisfied with our
selves and our work. If we were satisfied,
there would be no growth mentally or emotion
ally. Because we are not satisfied, we try to
improve ourselves so that we will achieve not
necessarily financial security but, what is more
important, the maturity of mind and emotions
that will make us an asset to the community.”
Suits For Slale
The Durham shoplifters con
victed in Moore Superior Court
last week for thefts at Vass re
proved size tags as well as Other
.identifying marks from certain
men’s suits they are believed to
have stolen in Sanford, we no
ticed as we looked over the suits
in the sheriff’s office in Carthage
this week. This particular group
of about eight suits will be sold
to the highest bidder at a time
to be set by the sheriff, as they
could not positively be identified
,by Sanford merchants as theirs.
Tip to would-be buyers: most of
the suits are large sizes, 42, 44, 46,
we would judge, after looking
them over. And there are some
nice ones.
Tennis Odds and Ends
The recent Sandhill Invitation
al Tennis tournament brought to
Southern Pines some skillful
players and interesting personal
ities. Some hitherto unpublished
information from our notebook:
Seven of the tournament’s 43
participants hold rankings under
the Southern Lawn Tennis associ
ation. The men’s field, one of
the largest the Sandhill has ever
had, consisted of 31 players alto
gether (a few playing only in dou
bles), with three ranked players—
Umstaedter, Daniel and Cobb. The
women’s field, with only a dozen
players, had four ranked playe:re,
or one-third, an exceedingly high
proportion, which made play in
this division more than ordinarily
exciting. The ranked players
were Evelyn Cowan, Audrey
Brown, Sara Walters and Louise
Fowler, in that order.
Top Team in South
In addition, the Cowan-Fowler
doubles team is top-ranked in the
entire SLTA area of eight south
ern states, giving unusual luster
to the women’s doubles play,
while making the result more or
less a foregone conclusion. Though
they couldn’t be stopped, the
Georgia team met some excellent
competition in the Walters-Mayer
combine.
State Tourist Council Taking Shape
With the blessing of Governor Hodges and
the enthusiastic endorsement of the Board of
Conservation & Development, the State Tourist
Council'is taking shape. Groundwork was laid
at a day-long meeting in Raleigh, at which it
was determined that the prime purpose of the
Council should be to raise standards of the tour
ist industrjr on a state-wide basis.
The organization committee appointed by
Governor Hodges is inviting a group represent
ing the tourist and allied industries from coast
to mountains to meet in Raleigh on Monday,
October 3, at 10 a. m. in the Sir Walter Hotel,
to discuss the next step toward organization of
the Council. Recommendations of this larger
group are expected to result in a definite plan
for representation of aU phases of the industry
in a State organization of great prestige and
influence—the “voice” so long needed by the
diverse tourist industry.
In naming Robert L. Thompson, Raleigh pub-
.Uc relations counsellor, as chairman of the or
ganization committee for the North Carolina
'Tourist Council, Governor Hodges picked a
pioneer in tourist promotion for the job.
Other members of the organizational conunit-
tee are:'
Richard S. Tufts, president, Pinehurst Incor
porated; S. Gilmer Sparger, executive secretary.
North Carolina Petroleum Industries Commit
tee; S. B. Jones, president. North Carolina Mo
tel Association, and Marley M. Melvin, execu
tive secretary. North Csirolina Association of
Quality Restauarnts.
Governor Hodges said it had become apparent
to him that the industry needed some kind of
organization, bringing together its diverse ele
ments, and that he regarded the five members
of the organization committee highly qualified
to get the movement off to a proper start.
It is gratifying that the Sandhills has a rep
resentative in Mr. Tufts on the organizational
committee for the new council. This whole pro
ject is of intense local importance and interest.
We presume Southern Pines will be directly
represented at the October meeting in Raleigh
and feel certain that this community will give
the proposed Council its full backing. It may
be that Sandhills residents will be able to con
tribute valuable assistance and information as
the project develops.
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The Public Speaking
Harmful Labor Monopolies
Miss Cowan and Miss Fowler, 1 To the Editor:
entering the SandhiU for the first I was thinking about buying a
time, also turned out to be two new car a few weeks ago when all
of the most interesting and unus- of a sudden, my head thinker
ual personalities of the tourna- tapped me on the shoulder and
ment. Miss Fowler, a tennis play- said, “Listen, O’Neil, do some
er of some note during her college more thinking about that think-
days, taught Miss Cowan in high mg.” So, I did some re-thinking
school. The younger woman was ... about the past non-thinking
a good basketball player but had of the thinkingless; and since my
never played tennis. Miss Fowler Ljjjoking was about a new car, I
offered to teach her, she says, “if turned my thoughts (fooled you),
she would promise to play dou- Uq these thinkers — management
bles with me when I got too old g^d labor—and some of the think-
for' singles.” ungs that they have put over on
Far from too old. Miss Fowler the public . . . They apparently
holds 11th place in SLTA singles forgot to think for a moment that
ranking, while her pupU has they too are the public. Here’s
climbed to third place and their .^^^hat my thinking came up with,
doubles team is at the top. Their j not think that I will
teamwork on the court is a beau- UJ^y g new car.
tiful thing to see. . . Since wages and- salaries and
They cooperate m business as incomes of the self-employea
well. In Covington Miss Fowler course ARE the pubUc)
has a dancing school of 100 stu- ' ’ ninAt-ir twn, r>pr
dent., in Which Miss cowan .e.ch-
es acroba ics. ] jjjjpgggjfjig fg increase wage rates
„ „ I without increasing the prices of
From Mrs. B^um „^ggg jjj.
Mrs: Paul T. Barnum writer obtained by lowering
frcm California that she is back returns to investors (rent, in-
in real estate again. terest and dividends), then savers
Mrs. Bamum, who conducted be unwilling to invest in fac-
a real estate business here for tories and machines. This will
many years, left Southern Pines Lgugg the unemployment of those
several months ago to live in Los ^ho would otherwise be building '
Gatos, Calif., a community where additional machines and equip-
her daughter, Mrs. Trigg Noyes, ment that go to making the new
has a home. car that I would be thinking about
Speaking of her going in busi-1 trading in.
ness, Mrs. Barnum writes; “I
can’t think of a better way to
learn this area quickly. We take
in quite a territory. There are so
many new developments here.
Just think! those who own the
present equipment wiU be sunk,
and their present, thinking prob
lem will be to salvage what they
can from investments already
made. But the threat of labor
union demands tend to prevent
expansion and the growth of new
enterprises, and we will have to
buy the “same old” brand new
cart with just a different bumper
that goes this-a-way instead of
that-a-way, and besides that . . .
a considerable part of the wages
of the employed will then be tax
ed away to support the unem
ployed.
To think is difficult. Most peo
ple have neither the capacity nor
the inclination to think? deeply on
any subject. They fall an easy
prey to demagogues who deal in
slogans and superficial arguments.
No group has a monopoly of
brains, and among workingmen
there are many with superior in
tellectual power; they are just be
ing tricked away from thinking.
I believe the growth of labor
monopolies is harmful to thoSe
who labor, and those who expose
the fallacies advanced by so-callec'
labor leaders are not anti-labor;
they are pro-labor. It would be
highly desirable if more intelli
gent workers could form associa
tions to combat the false argu
ments of their so-called labor
leaders. The real interest of
workingmen lie in preservation of
their liberties and they injure
themselves when they surrender
their liberties to these labor un
ion bosses.
It is kind-a siUy when you get
to thinking that a manufacturer
has to go somewhere to buy some
money so he can go out and buy
the very thing that he just got
through making.
TOM O’NEIL.
Southern Pines
Huge Accident Cost
To The Editor:
Aside from the sorrow of be
reavement, traffic accidents are
fabulously expensive. So far this •
year, they have drained away
nearly 63 million dollars from the
economy. Before the end of 1955,
the economic loss from traffic
mishaps will approach, or perhaps
exceed, 100 million dollars.
To enable your readers to fol
low this trail of lost dollars week
by week, it’s suggested they use
the formula developed by the Na
tional Safety CouncLL To chart
North Carolina’s economic loss ^
from traffic accidents, you take
the number of fatalities and mul
tiply them by the flat sum of
$95,000. 'The result, which changes
virtually from day to day, repre
sents the true cost of carelessness
at the wheel.
BILL CROWELL
Director, Public Relations
Office, N. C. Department
of Motor Vehicles m
Re4 Stop Signs Expected To Save Tar Heel Lives
Red traditionally warns of dan-
many new developments here, capitalizing on this psychol
with new ones springing up every s - Tar Heel traffi(
The Overlapping Seasons
Three bright red leaves on a swamp maple; a
softening of the afternoon light; a cooler morn
ing; an old dog rising and barking into the wind
for no apparent reason; a football recovered by
a youngster from the back of a closet—yes, even
now at the end of August, one can tell by the
signs that Fall is on the way.
Among the pleasures of living in a moderate
climate like ours is the overlapping of the sea
sons. Some day in October, when there is no
question but that Fall has begun, there will be
a sweltering hot Summer day, as though" Sum
mer were trying to gain, a last foothold before
being shoved out into the cold.
Right in the coldest part of Winter we get
days that would do honor to the best of Autumn
or that forecast the renascence of Spring. On
some Spring days the sun beats down as hot as
ever it' does in Summer.
There is no sharp change in seasons—some
thing that suits us fine and in which we find
that “infinite variety” which we believe was a
term first applied by a poet to a lady, but does
very well also for the Sandhills climate.
There is scarcely a yellow leaf on the big
sycamore outside the office window: this sum
mer of rains has kept it green and luxurious.
Yet the shimmer of August afternoon light
across it mysteriously spells the coming of Fall,
the yellowing and blowing-away of all the
leaves, as surely as if there were a printed sign
on the tree.
day.”
ogical impact, Tar Heel traffic
safety engineers are beginning to
She adds; “So glad Connie and I gg^g lives—the lives of
Diane passed you by and I hope persons statistically
oUr.” 'doomed to die in traffic accidents.
Gradually being erected across
Better Late. . . the streets and highways of North
An elderly Sandhuls lady tfhs g j^g.^ reflectorized,
how, when she was in her sixties, I ^j^g^ conveys the unmis-
she finally obtained a birth cer- L ^gming;' “STOP.”
tificate which she needed for yellow stop
some reason or other. This hap-1 Highway Com-
pened, incidentally, in ^®^herI workers replace them
state. [with bright new red'ones. At
All other methods failing, she
discovered that the physician who named Erich which lived in
had presided at her birth was still Soviet Zone of East Berlin,
living—aged about 90. She loca- ^^y slipped through the
ted him and went directly to himborder guard into the Free
with her request. Zone of West Berlin. It wanted
“That’s right,” he informed her, Lg g^g j^g^ ^jjg other half lived.
“1 never filed a certificate
Word got around, and very soon
X XJ.C V Cil. W . VVUiL* g'k/v ClAVvllXVtj C4XA _
your birth. Your mother and fath- j;j.jg}^ ^gg surrounded in a public
er couldn’t make up tlfeir minds pgj-jj by other dogs, all curious
about your name. You were overj^^gj, mutual sniffs had given
a year old when the name was Erich a security check, the ques-
finally chosen. Until then, they
just called you “Baby.” By that
time, the matter of the birth cer
tificate had slipped my mind and
I never filed one. But I’ll be hap
py to make one out for you now.”
Which he did—sixty-some years
too late, but just as good as ever
in the eyes of the law and as au
thentic as such a document could
be.
Freedom of Spee^
teedom ox &peecn • _ r
There was a miniature schnau-Ipliei.
tioning began.
“How is the food in the Soviet
Zone,” the visitor was asked.
“Fine,” Erich replied. “Ground
fresh hamburger every day.”
“How is the housing situation?”
“Wonderful,” Erich said. “Every
dog has its 6wn kennel, insulated
against the heat and cold.”
“If things are that good, why
did you cross over to the Free
Zone?”
“I wanted to bark.” Erich re-
critical intersections the red signs
are being installed immediately.
And it’s a good thing. Of last
year’s 12,681 intersectional acpi-
dents, the Motor Vehicles Depart
ment reports 99 were fatal and
2,403 involved personal injury.
The Vehicles agency also finds
that some 500 motorists a month
are arrested for ignoring stop
signs.
These are the accidents and vio
lations traffic authorities expect
the red signs to reduce. Not only
is it strikingly evident during
daylight, but at night, reflecting
the lights from the oncoming
driver’s car, it glows with a
brightness that makes it 100 times
brighter than paint.
At leastj 30 states and many
cities are Using the new signs, fol
lowing North Carolina’s lead in
seeking ways to stof) traffic
deaths and injuries.
Actually the idea of red stop
signs is not new at all—they were
recommended by traffic safety
officials back in 1924. But at that
time two factors stalled their gen
eral adoption. Red pigments then
available faded too rapidly and,
at night, red was difficult to see.
Yellow then was selected as the
standard color because it was rel
atively color fast and somewhat
easier to see after nightfall. But
its major disadvantage, which in
creased over the years, was that
it was too often confused with
numerous other yellow traffic
signs. As a result more and more
drivers failed to heed it, a fact
borne out by the increased num
ber of stop sign arrests.
The traditional VBe of red to
signify a complete stop was nev
er debated, but various technical
difficulties prevented the univer
sal use of red signs until several
years ago. '
' Now the movement is under
way in North Carolina. But high
way authorities can’t replace the
yellow stop signs with bright new
red ones until the yellow signs
wear out, without being accused
of waste.
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