Page TWO
lURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1958
Southern Pines
North Carolina
“In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a go^
paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned. Wherever there seems to be
an occasion to use our influence for the public good we will try to do it. And we will
treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
Progressive Action By County Board
Action of the county commissioners this
week in authorizing appropriation Of $7,500 in
county funds to help build water and sewer
lines i'rom the Southern Pines town limits to
the proposed new plant of Mozur Laces, Inc.,
is a tremendous boost to this project and an
indication of a progressive attitude on the
part of the board.
The county, of course, is the political
unit that would benefit most directly from
the plant, since the county and not the town,
would collect real estate and property taxes
on it. It is, therefore, logical for the county
to make some direct contribution to the pro
cedure of getting the plant established.
That is the most obvious argument for the
commissioners’ action—but there are others
equally compelling, once the matter is given
a little thought. All existing industries in
Moore, for instance, draw their employees
from many parts of the county and there is
no reason to think that the proposed lace
plant would be an exception.
Moore County is an area of small towns
which for manv years have been closely con
nected and interdependent in a number of
ways. For industrial planning, the county is
a much more sensible and logical unit to deal
with than its individual towns.
This is exactly the premise on which the
countv’s industrial devleopment committee is
operating. Its brochure lists sites in all sec
tions nf the county and its membership—
which has been informed and consulted all
along on the Mozur plant project—is county-
wide.
We ai-e most pleased to see the conamission-
ers <^ake the progressive point of view that is
behind this week’s action. As the industrial
development of the county continues, the
commissioners will no doubt have other occa
sions to render assistance that would be
forthcoming from no other' source. All studies
and statistics about the impact of industry on
an area back up the point that in making
such appropriations, the county is not just
spending money but making a wise invest
ment.
This week’s action by the commissioners
seems to point the way to a new era of town-
county cooperation that is sure to react to the
benefit of the county as a whole.
Light Under A Bushel
Congratulations from the board of county
commissioners greeted the presentation before
this body of the report of the Pinebluff Mater
nal Welfare Committee.
The Commissioners directed that a letter of
commendation be sent to the chairman of the
committee, Mrs. Walter C. MacNeille, for the
excellent public-service rendered by the group
which she heads.
The Pinebluff committee, with its “Golden
Rule Shop,” is a phenomenon of extraordinary
attributes. Through its thrift shop system,
through donations of clothing and through
sewing done by a good many people, the com
mittee provides funds to carry on its work,
as well as supplying the clothing needs of
many needy persons.
It carries on, in cooperation with the county
ty staffs, welfare and health, a welfare work
of its own, visiting cases, going to the aid of-
families suddenly destitute, carrying patients
to clinics and helping with the Adder clinic,
held ir that village by Dr. Francis Owens,
under the auspices of the county health de
partment, once a month.
The Pinebluff Clinic does all this. . . but
who has heard of this Pinebluff Clinic? Only
the people it helps, a few grateful county of
ficials and the field workers and public health
nurses in the county health and welfare de
partments. Very little publicity has ever at
tended the operation of this service.
The annual report of the Committee is dis
cussed in a news story elsewhere in today’s
Pilot—but a fev.' words in that report may be
an eye-opener to some of us: “Do you know
that some large families have homes furnish
ed with little more than a couple of rickety
beds scantily covered, two or three beaten-up
chairs, a few broken dishes and utensils?”
The report tells how such families have
been helped v/ith clothing—of which it ap
pears there is never enough to go around.
The Pilot adds its own commendation to
that' of the commissioners, for the good work
being done by the Pinebluff group.
Achievement In School Building
We wish that more residents of the east
side of town could have been on hand Mon
day night for the ceremonv opening the new
cafeteria at the West Southern Pines school—
or schools, we should say, because during the
past few years a regular galaxy of handsome
modern buildings has sprung up there. All
were open for inspection following the pro
gram Monday night.
Spotlessly clean and decorated with dozens
of exhibits made in the course of school work
and activities, the buildings fairly dazzled the
observer. Covered walkways connecting the
buildings sparked with lights and, inside the
rooms, the colorful decorative schemes, wide
windows, and good arrangements removed
from the word “school” whatever flavor of
drabness or dinginess it may have retained
from yesteryear’s dark varnish, splintering
floors, inadequate lighting and other such un
pleasantnesses that many of us have in our
memory of early education.
Obviously proud of these facilities, the peo
ple of West Southern Pines are just as ob
viously appreciative of the fact that the board
of education has authorized and built the
structures.
A visit to these buildings—and a chance to
talk v/ith teachers and pupils there—would be
a rewarding experience for anyone who is in
terested in the future of education in our
town
The New Farm - Industry Partnership
In a recent column in The Greensboro
Daily I^ews, Henry Belk, veteran Goldsboro
editor, noted the close relationship between
farming and industry in North Carolina and
aligns himself with those who feel that Gov
ernor Hodges is not slighting the interests of
farm.ers in emphasizing the importance of in
dustrial development over the state.
Not only has the Governor expressed direct
interest in the farm program of North Caro
lina, Mr. Belk says, but it is a fact that indus
trial development depends for much of its
manpower on residents of North Carolina’s
farm.s.
Farms are one of the largest, if not the
largest sources of manpower for industries in
this Moore County area. While we have no
figures at hand, our guess is that there is
probably no other state in the nation which
has such a close relationship as does North
Carolina between agriculture and industry by
dr4wing its industrial workers from small
farms. The steady cash income from indus
trial v.'ork by one or more members of farm'
families has had much to do with the increas
ing rural prosperity one sees almost every
where m North Carolina in the better appear
ance of homes and in the ability to purchase
labor saving appliances and equipment.
In areas of the state where industry has
moved in since World War 2, “mill villages”
and the industrial slum areas seen at many
places elsewhere in the nation are almost en
tirely lacking.
Mr. Belk goes on to note how much more
public money is being spent to promote agri
culture in many counties of the state than to
promote industry. In his home county of
Wayne, which depends 75 per cent on agri
culture, he says there are 19 people on Exten
sion Service payrolls, all working full time to
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Gov. Hodges Warns State On KKK
improve the farm economy.
It has been interesting to watch the devel
opment of the farm-industry partnership in
the Moore County area. A new way of life is
developing from this partnership that may at
times seem more precariou.s than the old one
hundred per cent' dependance on the land,
but which is already attaining a stability of
its own.
Home-Grown Product
■While we have as much respect and admir
ation as the next for the great charitable or
ganizations that have done so much to lighten
humanity’s burdens—the Red Cross, March of
Dimes, TB Seal Sale and so forth—we retain
a .special affection for Moore County’s own
strictly local project: the nurse scholarship
campaign of the Sandhills Veterans Associa
tion.
Like the tasty, home-grown products of a
back-yard garden, the SVA endeavor has a
special appeal. One’s dollar becomes merged
not with millions but with a thousand or two
at mo.st, to provide a complete three-year
nurse’s training course for a Moore County
girl who will then return to work in one of
the hospitals in this county.
Now the SVA is renewing its annual ap
peal. The girl—or more than one if enough
money is collected—who will win the scholar
ship will be carefully chosen among appli
cants from the senior classes of Moore Coun
ty’s high schools.
We urge the people of Moore County to
continue their generosity in this campaign.
There is a particular isatisfaction in starting
a Moore County girl on such a valuable career
of service.
People of good 'Will over the
state welcome and applaud the
recent statement of Gov. Luther
H. Hodges on the Ku Klux Klan,
in which he affirms North Caro
lina’s determination to maintaain
law and order, while cautioning
the public and the press not to
give the IClan aid and com
fort by undue attention.
Governor Hodges’ complete
statement follows:
'The recent incident in Maxton
involving citizens of Robeson
County and a small group of out
siders claiming to be members of
the Ku Klux Klan is of serious
concern to the thoughtful citizens
of North Carolina who are de
termined as I am that we shall
maintain law and order.
It is of concern because we
know that several people cpuld
easily have been killed or seri
ously injured on that occasion.
It is of concern because such
an incident is an assault on peace
and good order, and a slur on the
name of our State.
It is of concern because of the
possible stimulus to other and
more serious future incidents.
Pie
Threats Noted
In the last few days there have
been intimations and threats to
the effect that the Klan will a*
some future date assemble an
armed gathering in Robeson
County or at other places and
put on a big show of force to
further intimidate the people of
this State. There have been
threats that bands of armed men
from out of the State will come
into North Carolina.
I want my position to be clear
ly understood.
, The responsibility for the
Maxton incident rests squarely
on the irresponsible and mis
guided men who call themselves
leaders of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan and its
leaders v/ho rant against Com
munism actually give aid and
comfort to Comim.unist Russia.
The Klan is responsible for pro
voking incidents that are ex-
ploHed in propaganda by Russia
and other Communist nations.
• I believe that all people have
the right to express their views
and try to persuade others, in a
peaceful manner, to agree/ with
them. However, no one and no
group has the right to impose his
views on others by intimidation,
by night-riding excursions, cross
burnings, and other overt acts
designed to intimidate individual
citizens.
The Ku Klux Klan has shown
itself to be an organization of
violence and intimidation. The
consequences of its usual activ
ities are the unlawful oppression
of individual citizens, or else the
arousement, incitement and pro
vocation of groups of citizens
which lead to public disorder.
Sent To Prison
Let me say:
(1) To the aUeged leaders of
the Ku Klux Klan—^Your mes
sage of hate and violence is a
mockery to the religion you often
profess. Not many years ago,
there were other misguided men
who were in your position of al
leged Klan leadership. They vio
lated the laws of North Carolina.
They were tried and convicted
in our courts of law by juries
comprised of citizens of this
State. They were sent to prison.
I hope that such events will not
have to be repeated.
(2) To those few citizens who
may be beguiled and misled into
joining or giving aid or comfort
to the Klan—Our basic freedoms
and liberties that all citizens
cherish can only be maintained
an] protected under a system of
law and order. No group can be
permitted, on whatever pretext
or cause, to gather in armed
bands, ride about in the night
time for the pirrpose of threaten
ing other citizens with violence,
and on occasion committing acts
of violence. No group can be al
lowed, under our system of law
and order, to act in such a way
Lumbee Lore
(The following item ap
peared recently in the
Greensboro Dsdly News. The
two school officials mention
ed are well known here. Mr.
■Weaver, new superintendent
at Greensboro, was formerly
superintendent here—a posi
tion that Dr. Dawson now
holds.)
You don’t have to tell Philip J.
Weaver, newly elected superin
tendent of Greensboro City
Schools, anything about the Lum
bee Indians and their insistence
upon fair treatment. He knows
from experience.
Several years ago Phil, who
played varsity basketball at Duke
under Eddie Cameron’s’s tutelage
and was then head of Southern
Pines schools, was asked to come
over to Lumberton, along with
A. C. Dawson, a fellow school
man, to officiate at a Robeson
County cage tournament. Daw
son, Phil explains, was even then
showing a bald spot on the top
of his head.
When the two officials went out
on the gym floor, they found the
place packed, with well-filled
bleachers coming right down to
the sides of the court. Many In
dians were in the crowd, yelling
for their favorites; and a particu
larly big, loud Lumbee was down
on the very bottom row.
As play was about to start, the
big fellow rose to his full height
and bellowed:
“You better call ’em right,
Baldy!”
Phil’s version is that the yell
came from that side of the court
which Dawson was to work and
that Dawson’s reaction was to
charge over to him and ask, “Say,
how about changing sides, Phil?”
Greensboro’s new school superin
tendent saw no reason whatever
for altering the original arrange
ment.
“The Indians,” Phil grinned as
he related the incident, “really
weren’t threatening us? they just
wanted to be sure that they got
good, fair officiating.”
as to incite other citizens to riot
or disorder. I ask that ygu be
ware ' of false and fraudulent
leadership. Some of the so-called
leaders in the Klan who have as
sumed imposing titles have turn
ed out to be religious imposters
with criminal records. Many of
these individuals, we are con
vinced, are interested only in
what money they can extort
from gullible citizens or the pub
licity they can gain for them
selves for a time. Wihen you as
sociate yourselves with such
men, you not only associate
yourselves against law and order,
but against the overwhelming
numbers of your neighbors' and
fellow citizens who are law abid
ing, who do not want or need an
organization whose creed spawns
hate and violence.
How To Help
(3) To those citizens who have
i o sympathy for the Klan or de
plore what it is and what it does
—Do not help the Klan by
crowding to their meetings out
of curiosity to see what might
happen. Do not allow them to
provoke you to attempt group ac
tion against the Klansmen. To
do these things is to do exactly
what the Klan leaders desire.
I recognize the great obligation
that newspapers, radio and tele
vision stations, and other news
media have to report the news
whether it is good or bad. How
ever, we all know that an over
zealousness in “finding” news
can sometimes result in the un
fortunate “making” of news.
There is some evidence in the
Maxton incident that the Klan
leaders had decided not to go
ahead with that meeting, but
changed their minds when they
were encouraged by the publici
ty they were getting before the
meeting and saw the potential
notoriety they would gain if the
meeting was held. It is signifi
cant that, according to estimates,
scores of news representatives
were on the scene the night of the
Maxton incident.
^ Aware of Danger
I am confident that our news
m^ia will continue to be aware
of ^the danger of unwittingly
contributing to incidents by pro
viding what amounts to promo
tional publicity to Klan meet
ings. Of course, we need to
throw the full light of public dis
closure on all those individuals
who take an active part in Klan
matters. Identification of names,
addresses and - past records of
such individuals is a salutary
thing and in the public interest.
Ouh sheriffs, chiefs of police
and all local law-enforcement of
ficers have the immediate and
primary responsibility for main
taining law and order in their
respective communities. They do
a good job. I want each of them
to know that I, with all other
State officials and agencies,
stand ready to assist them: at any
time such assistance is needed.
We will maintain law and or
der in North Carolina.
day for drunk driving. Every
body around here would like
for him to get a long time on
the roads."
Go Jump in The Sea
The favorite words descriptive
of the newest fashion creations
for women are: “blown, balloon- ^
ing, blousey, sphere-Uke, lineless, "
sack” (not “sad sack” but it
ought to be.)
Also “scythe” and “spoon.” The
“spoon” is described as a “hump
ed-back sack.” A pretty thought.
The rear is featured, it would
seam. Long jackets “are tied in
under the derriere,” (it’s always
okay if you say it in French) by
a band or belt. Or they may have ^
(ohoh) a “split taU.” As an extra w
elegant accent, a bow may be
placed on the bottom—of the
jacket, of course. Doubtless for
the cocktail hour.
Writes one designer: “Soaring
skirt and blousing cowls are
those extra-sensory ‘musts’ but
always the loose middle holds the
eye.”
What eye? Whose eye?
GRAINS asked two dainty ^
teenagers by the post office the
other day: “You girls going in
for these sacks?”
“Sacks?” they queried.
“You know: these new dress
es.”
“Aow, Naow!” they chorused,
shaking their curls. “We like ’em
to fit!” And they tip-tipped off
do-wn the street.
We could see just what they ^
meant. And v/e agreed.
Impressed
A Southern Pines lady who
has a cute but nondescript dog
recently took the animal on a
trip to New York City—quite an
experience, no doubt, for a stray
canine that happened to end up
in a good home.
She writes of an incident in ^
the city, as follows: ^
“In New York I took her for a
walk. A nice-looking man stop
ped and spoke to her and she
jumped up on him.
“ ‘What breed is she?’ he ask
ed.
'■‘I said: ‘She’s a Tarheel pooch.’
“He looked impressed.
“ ‘Really!’ , he said. ‘Really*
Well!’ and patted her and walk
ed cn.” •
Farmer's Gain: Pig's Loss
Pigs have been turned into
pushovers; pens have been turn
ed into parlors.
No longer does the patient pig
root and snuffle and wallow hap
pily in the mud; no longer does
he chump and sqush in the
trough, finally climbing into it
with all four feet to slaver up the ^
last drop of slops.
No more does the farmer, car
rying the pail fuU of garbage,
give his high hog-call and no
more the pig comes a-runing and
a-squealing to the fence. Gone
are the days.
The agricultural experts,
them as knows pigs—or thinks
they does—have taken a tip from
the chicken people who found ^
they could get hens to lay all *
'night if they kept them shut up
with the light'turned on. The
pig people have discovered they
can keep a pig eating all the
time if they can just keep him
cool. So. . .
. 'They now fashion concrete
floors to the pens, have a sprink
ler system installed for hot
weather, and they put self-feed
er'- around. That’s so the pig can#
keep on eating without stopping
but the farmer won’t have to
come running with the pail of
slops, without stopping.
All very efficient, in good as
sembly-line style. Question is:
do the pigs like it?
Pig people say: yes. But we
just don’t believe it.
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