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\ Page TWO eE: *ILOT Southern Pines North Carolina "In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We wiU try to keep tl^a g paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Wherever occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we w treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. Polio: The End Is Not Yet In the IQ.'iS slogan, “Survival Is Not Enough,” the March of Dimes gives the key to its appeal and the reason why, as some cynics have suggested, it does not shut up shop and quit asking foi money. In the 20 years that the March of Dimes has been operating, it has assisted some 325,000 polio patients “Assisted” means that it has saved the lives of many of that number— which is quite an assist—but for those who lived, 't has done much more than provide the bare necessities of survival: it is helping them, with rehabilitation techniques that are constantly improving, take their places in normal life despite what were formerly over whelming handicaps. Now that Salk vaccine has relieved the March of Dimes of part of its vast burden of emergency care for large numbers of patients in epidemics and otherwise, this great organ ization can devote more of its funds to the re habilitation of the 100,000 ex-polio patients still under its supervision and care and to continuing research for an even more effect ive vaccine than the Salk preventative. So, with this picture of need made clear, continuing generosity in the current March of Dimes drive is mandatory. The end of polio is not yet. ^ Incidentally, it is shocking to read that hundreds of thousands of doses of outdated Salk vaccine may have to be destroyed be cause it is not being used before the expira- tioii of its six-months lifetime set by govern ment direction. Yet hundreds of thousands of eligible children and adults have not been given the vaccine’s protection. Now. well in advance of the polio season, is the best time to start the series of Salk shots. We most urgently urge parents who have not yet given their children this protection to take the matter up with 4heir family physi cians o" with the Moore County health de partment which will give the shots free of charge. Young adults are advised, too, to take the vaccine. Rededication To Basic Principles One of the finest statements ever drawn up to explain a newspaper’s function and pur pose is that issued by the North Carolina Press Association at its January meeting in 1955. As 1958 begins, nearly three years aftfer the adoption of this “Statement of Pinciple” by the North Carolina Press, it is fitting that it be printed again on this page—both to inform our readers of the principles by which we try to produce this newspaper and to rededicate ourselves to .these worthy goals: * A STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLE The newspapers of North Carolina, con scious of their obligations, and mindful of their own human imperfections, rededicate themselves to these principles which guide a responsible press in a free society. I Freedom of the press exists in a democracy, not for the power or profit or pleasure of any individual, but for the common good. right of the people to know caijnot be denied or diminished without endangering democra cy itself. It is the obligation of the press to provide accurate, timely and complete infor mation about all developments which affect the people’s political, economic or social well being. Given the facts, the people usually will reach wise decisions. II The trusteeship of a free press is the final responsibility of the publisher. He may share it, but he cannot escape it. The good publish er provides the necessary money and space for adequate coverage of the essential newsi and employs personnel of integrity, ability and sound judgment. He exalts accuracy above other confederations and insists upon prompt, fuU and even generous correction when errors occur. i III Every citizen deserves the stimulus of a strong editorial page, on which the editor voices his own well-informed opinion clearly and forcefully yet willingly provides space for contrary opinion. The good editor often takes sides, but without arrogance or intoler ance. He champions boldly the rights of the people, sometitnes against government itself. He provides leadership, particularly in his own community. He has a special responsibil ity to defend the weak, to prod the public conscience, and to speak out against the_ m- justices of which a majority can sometimes » be guilty. IV The primary function of a newspaper is to report the news. The good reporter strives constantly to find and write the truth. This task, no matter how difficult, is his unescap- able responsibility. To be true, a story, together with its head lines, must be honest. To be honest, it must be fair. To be fair, it must be accurate and complete. Honesty demands objectivity, the submer gence of prejudice and personal conviction. Fairness demands regard for the rights of others Accuracy demands courage, painstak ing oare, and perspective to assure a total picture as true as its individual facts. The final test of every story, every head line, every editorial, every newspaper is: Is it honest? Is it fair? Is it accurate? To the end that they can more frequently answer these questions in the affirmative, the newspapers of North Carolina adopt this statement of principle. Groiyinff New Interest In Stevenson We are more than a little interested in an analysis made bv The New York Herald Trib une of Adlai Stevenson’s role in the present political situation and the outlook for his fu ture. As summarized by The Greensboro Daily News in the editorial quoted below, the Her ald Tribune story shows that the Stevenson role comes closer now than at any time since his 1958 defeat for the Presidency to arousing the loyalty and interest of a variety of sup porters. Mr Stevenson, with his vision, energy and good sense—those qualities that are so con-- spiculously larking in the Eisenhower ad^ ministration—must be much in the thoughts of many persons, these days, as he is in ours. Time and time again, one is forced to reflect on how different the mood Of the na tion would be, how much more confident, united and thoughtful the American people would be, were Mr. Stevenson in the White House. The crying need at this hour is for leader ship that can formulate for the people an im age. an understanding, of' what the nation’s role must be in the great search for world peace and security, and so of who and what the people themselves are. For the tragic fact is that we are being manipulated, rather than challenged, bj' the present Administration. There is need for just the kind of pulling to gether and interpretation and exhortation that was provided by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. And who better than Adlai Stevenson to do this? Yet 1960 is a long way off. Says the Dailv News: “Of all , the surprising developments in the post-sputnik era, none is more amazing than the substantial talk that Adlai Stevenson is a highly rated possibility for the presidential nomination in 1960. “Equally astonishing is a resume of all tJiese signs and portents right in the middle of the staunch G.O.P. New York Herald Trib une. Earl Mazo, one of the Tribune’s Wash ington columiiists, tells about them in a piece called ‘Back in the Limelight: Eyes on Adlai.’ THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1958 / “By George! Vm r,lail YouVe Awake, Sleeping (iianl” Grains of Sand // V u ? . J VIEWPOINTS OF TWO MILITARY MEN The Continuous Search For Peace With peace in everyone’s thoughts, now that the Birthday of the Prince of Peace has just been marked, and a new year, bringing hopes of new accomplishments toward peace, is beginning, people look for leadership in a quest for peace that, goes beyond an arms race and an eternal armed balance of power. It is surprising indeed to find such leadership coming from military men—yet, in the following quotations, men who have spent thfeir lives in military service indicate that an idealistic and even visionary attitude to ward peace may indeed be the most prac tical outlook that mankind can adopt. General Bradley is the World War II leader and holder of top military posts; Brig. Gen. Hugh Hester has retired after 34 years of military service. Gen. Hester: The United States Must Take the Lead “Here are some of the straws in the wind: “Sen. John Carroll of Colorado and some other congressmen are making speeches about the nation’s need for Adlai in 1960. “In Republican New Hampshire a group of Democrats—some of whom' proclaim them selves ‘eggheaa.s’—are! organizing to enter Mr. Stevenson’s name in their state’s next free-wheeling presidential preference pri mary. “An aide pointed out that Mr. Stevenson’s mail was never more laudatory—and much of it is aloiig the line of ‘please do something to save our floundering country.’. “Several 1960 Democratic hopefuls who were heretofore big Adlai boosters are becoming apprehensive enough to show the concern they were trying to hide. “These hopefuls blame John Foster Dulles for the reappearance of Adlai Stevenson as a contender on the political scene. Those three well-publicized weeks in the State Depart ment put the name on every tongue, i^d ‘ the rather shabby treatment he got from Presiaent Eisenhower, Jim Haggerty and Sherman Adams created Empathy for Ste venson. “Until Secretary Dulles called on Steven- s<^n for advice in preparation for the NATO Paris conference, he was just a twice-defeat ed candidate for the presidency and the “titu lar head’ of the Democratic Party. “Pro-Stevenson Democrats' see the revival of interest in another light—as a new appre ciation for the man who ‘talked sense to the American people’ in his election campaigns. “ ‘We wasted him in 1952 and 1956,’ one of these told the Tribune’s Mazo. ‘He was right on most things he said in the 1956 campaign. The people will have an opportunity now to realize it and elect him in ,1960.’ “Besides, there are two important questions to be answered. Would Hamlet-like Stevenson agree to run? (He might wish vindication but would he be willing to face the ordeal of the Democratic preferential primaries?) And would the Democrats be willing to nominate a two-time loser?” (From a guest editorial by Brig. Gen. Hugh B. Hester in The Saturday Review) An intensification of the arms race is not what is required now to increase our security. The his tory of all arms races between great powers proves this, for they have always led to war. This one will prove no exception, but it will be different in that the whole Western civilization will be destroyed instead of only par tially as before. For the first time in human history the farms and factories, homes, schools, and churches and all people every where will be in the front line if war comes again. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was stating only a half-truth when he said at his Washington press conference, October 16, that the Soviet Union would have “no privileged sanctuary” in any war with Turkey. He should have added, neither will the United St.ates, Europe, or North Africa, for they too will have no place to hide. This is the real meaning /of sputtering Sputnik to us and men everywhere. An Evil Thing It no longer serves any useful purpose to debate who or what started the Cold War; or why, when, or where it was initiated. It is an evil thing and must be liquidated. It should be permis sible, also, to declare that expres- • sions such as “balance of power,” “positions of strength,” and “power politics” have lost all ra tional meaning. .They are an- acronisms in the A and H age and must be discarded. As possible useful contri butions to a new approach, the following suggestions are pre sented. First, the President should resume discussions with the “top” leaders of the great powers. The United Nations headquarters offers the proper place for such a meeting, with the President of the United States in the role of host. Second, the United States should promote instead of oppose the universalization of the United Nations. At this great forum all voicek should be heard, not just those nations we or any other people may temporarily approve. Pious Atlitude those regimes actually in control of the instruments of power in other countries. Whether the leaders of any nation, great or small, meet or fail to meet in their official conduct high stand ards of personal probity is large ly a matter of who keeps the scorecards. Fourth, the United States should sponsor and support a vast economic development pro- grarq^ under the auspices of the United Nations in order to elim inate the worst features of pover ty now smothering freedom in many lands. It is believed this could be accomplished at much less cost than unilateral aid, now largely military in character. Finally, the United States should assume the leadership of negotiations designed to remove restrictions on international trade and travel. 'There is certainly no longer any valid evidence to support the thesis that restric tions on trade with Communist countries have retarded, or will in the future delay, their scien tific and technical progress. But there is ample evidence to sup port the belief that these restric tions have increased the poverty of the world’s masses and the burdens of those nations we Would convince of the superiority of the capitalist systeml. Real Enemies It is worth repeating over and over again, I believe, that the real enemies of man are poverty, ignorance, and bigotry; that war and preparations for war increase these; and that totalitarianism in whatever form is, more often than not the symptom rather than the cause of man’s maladies. The persistent sputtering of Sputnik merely re-emphasizes the importance of and necesity for man’s continuous search for peimanent peace, the grand de sign of which must ever remain a Federation of the World and a Parliament of Man. LITTLE RIVER NOTES There was some irony in the j fact that the plcar^of Little River Township citizens for better law enforcement was one of the big reasons the Hoke County town ship petitioned for annexation to Moore—and then, two days after it was officially part of the coun ty, officers arrested 12 persons there for liquor law violations. That seemed like mighty fast work to some Little River resi- dnts, maybe too fast, but the fact is the persons arrested had been investigated by Federal Alcoholic Tax Unit (A’TU) agents before the township had its January 1 changeover from Hoke to Moore. Good Citizen Gossiping about the arrests with officers in Carthage, we learned that one of the men ar rested last week was in the sher iff’s office a few weeks ago as a bondsman for a (then) Hoke County friend who had been ar rested on a traffic charge. “You want to look out for us folks down in Little River,” the bondsman told officers at that tLme. “We’re going to be part of your county soon and we’re go ing to make you some mighty good citizens.” It’s easy to sae why the officers were tickled when this good cit izen turned un among the alleged liquor law violators who were arrested in last week’s raids. Another Incident Officers got a laugh from this incident, too; One of the Moore County high way patrolmen was crqising around down in newly acquired Little River Township soon after the liquor la’v arrests were made. He came upon a somewhat suspicious looking car parked along the side of the road and stopped to investigate. Two men were in the car and a check showed that they had two bottles of ABC store whiskey, but legal ly. with seals unbroken. The patrolman gave the pair a nice talking-to on the follies of drinking and driving. “By the way,” concluded the patrolman, “you know you’re in Moore Cmmty now, don’t you?” “Know it!”\ was the reply, “Yes, sir! We sure do! We had to drive all the way to Southern Pines to get us some whiskey to day.” Gen. Bradley: ‘An Article of Faith’ (From a recent address by Gen. Omar Bradley) The central problem of our time—as I view it—is how to employ human intelligence for the salvation of mankind. It is a problem we have put upon ourselves. For we have defiled! our intel lect by the creation of such Third, the United States Gov ernment should discard its “pious attitude about recognition of EYE FOR EYE . . | Mr. Dulles has taken the op portunity in a press interview of promising an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and all that, thereby revealing that the ideas of the United States State De-, partment have not advanced be yond the Mosaic law handed down centuries ago to a primi tive tribe wandering in a des ert surrounded by enemies. It seems strange that after cen turies of suffering and two ruin ous world wars, any part of the human race should be contem plating more wholesale slaugh ter, but Mr. Dulles, who is an elder in a Protestant church, seems to be still in the stage of Old Testament tribal fears and haitreds. —Chapel Hill News Leader scientific instruments of destruc tion that,, we are now in desper ate danger of destroying our selves. Critical Plight Our plight is critical and with' each effort we have made to re lieve it by further scientific ad vance, we have succeeded only in aggravating our peril. . . Have we already gone too far in this search for peace through the accumulation of peril? Is- there any way to halt this trend —or must we push on with new devices until we inevitably come to judgment before the atom? I believe there is a way out. . . It may be thnt the problems of accomm.iodation in a world split by rival ideologies are more dif ficult than those with which we have struggled in the construc tion of ballistic missiles. But I believe, too, that if we apply to these human problems, the en ergy, creativity, and the perse- yerence we have devoted to science, even problems of accom modation will yield to resison. , . Faith Needed I confess that this is as much an article of faith as it is an ex pression of reason. But this, my friends, is what we need, faith in our ability to do what must be done. . . Fine People We relate all this with due credit to the many good people of Little River Township who are just as upstanding and law- abiding as good people any where. Thouf'h they may resent the liquor raids at first thought, while attention is turned on them, it’s only common sense that these good folks are inwardly sat isfied to see sources of the illicit liquor traffic cleaned up. For instance, somebody who was at the kickoff dinner of the county-wide March of Dimes in Carthage last Friday night, told how good it was to see represen tatives of Little River Township there, preparing to extend the March of Dimes into this new territory. We were told that everybody at the dinner welcom ed Little River participation. Matter of Maps j Think how this change is go ing to keep map-makers busy! It makes obsolete, in so far as Moore and Hoke Counties are concerned, all the road maps and atlases now in print. Wonder how atlas printers find out about such changes—whose job it is to get such information and how it’s knowm if they don’t just happen to hear about it. The State Highway Depart ment is on its toes, though. They’ve already got out new maps showing the addition to Moore, we were told. The, PILOT Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT. Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Katharine Boyd Editor C. Benedict Associate Editor Vance Derby 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 Thomas Mattocks. Subscription Rales: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2: 3 mos. $1 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter Member National Editorial Assn and N. C. Press Assn.
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