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Page TWO THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959 Cleaniness Is Next To Godliness Southern Pines North Carolina “In taking over The Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this a good 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. More Than Lip Service Needed Nationwide observance of Brotherhood Week, sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews, -will be held Febru ary 15-22. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is is Honorary Chairman of the observance. The 1959 theme is "‘Brotherhood for Peace and Freedom—Believe It!—Live It!—Support It!’’ The purposes of Brotherhood Week, ac cording to Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, presi dent of the National Conferenoe, are to give people an opportunity to re-dedicate them selves as individuals to the ideals of respect for people and human rights. “Wa try to dramatize the practical things that people can do to promote understanding and reali zation of those ideals. Brotherhood Week is essentially a campaign against the prejudices and bigotries that disfigure and distort re ligious, social and political relations.” The big promotion during Brotherhood Week, according to Dr. Jones, will be to urge people to do more than give the principles of brotherhood mere lip service. “By getting to know the other fellow, the one who has a different creed, race or national origin than yours, by understanding his viewpoint, his ambitions and goals, you will find old preju dices disappear. You’ll find that we are all one family made strong and great by the very differences that so many times divide us as individuals and groups. You’ll learn to accept or reject a person strictly on his mer its ai a human being and not because he hap pens to be different from you. “We hope that during Brotherhood Week people will begin to get to know and appre ciate each other — to make Brotherhood a year-round practice.” The importance of attempts at mutual un derstanding between differing peoples in a shrinking, crowded world is admirably ex pressed in an article from the Christian Science Monitor, appearing on this page with a cartoon especially drawn for Brotherhood Week. Appreciating All Our Industries Wa applaud the designation of the last two ® weeks of February as “industrial apprecia tion weeks” in Moore County “to let our al ready existing industries know that they’re appreciated.” The quotation is from Robert S. Ewing, chairman of Moore County’s Industrial De velopment Committee, a group that is ex pending much effort in working with new industries that are considering locating here. It might go without saying that the county appreciates its existing industry, since a great many of us, directly and indirectly, de rive all or part of our livings therefrom. However, with the spotlight on the search for new industry, it is good to let our old friends know we appreciate them, too. There is, of course, no conflict between new and old industry, except possibly in a situation where there would be acute com petition for an inadequate labor supply. But there is no such situation here. There is am ple labor available for both old and new in dustries. And all of us, in whatever occupa tion, old or new, would, benefit by the addi tion of new payrolls to the county’s economy. High quality Moore County industrial products—lumber, textiles, carpet, furniture and even such small items as handmade pot tery, soap and candles are being sold through out the nation. We have an active, balanced industrial life. And all these industries live as “good neighbors” in their respective com munities over the county. We welcome this opportunity to add The Pilot’s voice to those expressing appreciation for the existing industries in Moore County. i.y-i i WILLINGNESS TO GIVE AND RECEIVE Brotherhood—Another Dimension Driver Training: Dividends In Safety PinPQ narpnfo Vioyta a ^ Southern Pines parents who have doubts about the value of driver training in high school—a program that is- being conducted here and for which each car owner has just paid an extra dollar with his license fee may be interested in some information from an expert on the subject. • Dr. B. C. Tinnell of Appalachian State Teachers College at Boone has taught and studied driver training for 10 years and has observed first-hand over 100 programs oper ating in the United States. What student driver training does—and Dr. Tinnell sees this as the key to reducing acci dents—is develop sensible' driving attitudes among youngsters. We’ne inclined to agree. The simple mech anics of driving are easily mastered by a machine-conscious generation. But driver training is far more than learning to drive. A good basic attitude toward driving, in which understanding of the machine is link ed with a respect for the law—that’s the big dividend in a student driver course. A study was made in Cleveland, Ohio, of 1,700 students who took driver training and 1,700 who didn’t. The 1,700 who didn’t had twice the accidents of those who did. Driver training, here and throughout the state, is voluntary on the part of the student. Some students shun it, we’re told, because they think they already know how to drive and they dislike putting any time into the training after school hours. We hope that parents of students who are not taking the course will urge them to do so. Parents will thereby not only save later on their car insurance, but the student, no matter how much he thinks he knows, is sure to come out a better and,. in most cases, a safer, driver. Courtesy Christian Sknence Monitor '' Much has been written about brotherhood as a sentiment, or as a duty to fill a brother’s need. But brotherhood has another di mension, which refuses to be ig nored in these days of danger to free civilization. This is the di mension of mutual respect and appreciation. It demands to be expressed in willingness to re ceive from our brothers of other nationalities or races or back grounds the valuable ideas they have acquired in their experi ence, as well as to offer them ours. One of the besetting weak- nessiss of the entire Western community of nations as it en deavors to build a common front against totalitarian denials of brotherhood is this: the different peoples of the community know all too little about one another’s achievements and virtues. Am I my brother’s keeper? Is it my job to know all about him? Not only is it necessary to know as much as possible about him. Not only does our own conununal security rest partly in such knowledge. A new richness and completeness for individual experience awaits anyone who learns to look beyond his own personal—often too personal— environment into the lives, the problems, the hopes of others. This adventure begins at home but cannot fully fructify there. It demands a willingness to give, but what is for many hard- The Public Speaking Setting The Pace In Blood Donations f x.». Residents of^ the Robbins and Carthage areas turned out in force last week to set a record of Red Cross blood donations far su perior to the response recorded several weeks ago when the bloodmobile visited the Aberdeen and Southern Pines areas. The excellent response in the upper end of the county last week was the first bright Spot in the long and generally discouraging effort to set up a new system of blood pro curement for the county’s two hospitals. From the time it was first proposed that Moore County abandon the haphazard and often difficult system of obtaining individual donors as needed, the plan of cooperation with the Red Cross blood center at Char lotte ran into tough sledding. Under the new proposal, all types of blood are immediately available for hospitals here .from the Charlotte center—provided that the people of the county pay the administrative expenses and donate a quota of blood based on the county’s needs and population. From the beginning, all this made sense. Yet extra funds for administrative expenses during the first year were subscribed appar ently only with the greatest reluctance. And to H G Well.- h urgency when it came time fer ti,. ^ells observation in 1920 that ‘hu- or whatever you wish to call the reaction, it is ridiculous to link this valuable blood pro- j-ect with anything in the past. Everyone who has had to struggle indiv idually with the blood donor problem, with a family member in a hospital, can testify what a blessed relief it is to know that ample blood of all types is available through the Charlotte Center. It is not the Red Cross that is injured by anyone refusing to donate blood in Moore County. It is the people of the county and it might very well be a member of the refuser’s own family—or even he himself at some time in the future. ‘One Great Hope .. Education, like peace, has become a world-wide problem, one and indivisible with the well-being and survival of mankind. To- ignorance is a burden society can no longer afford. . . “The outburst of earth-jarring events since World War II has given particular urgency when it came time for the first collection, Aberdeen and Southern Pines failed to meet the rather modest quotas assigned. We hope that last week’s success in Rob bins and Carthage has put Moore County over the hump in this project and that here after the example of what happened in Up per Moore will inspire Sandhills folks to be equally as generous. When the bloodmobile was in this lower county area before, we heard some expres sions of resentment and uriwillingness to contribute blood, based on^' real or fancied grudges against the Red Cross, arising from some experience in military service. Aside from the fact that most such stories are based on hearsay evidence and the ser viceman’s well known and often understand able tendency to gripe, complain, belly-ache man history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. , .’ “Man’s future hinges on his ability to mas ter his own mind. His only salvation is through education: The cultivation of the si^ills and habits of intellect that are basic to human achievement. . . “’The vigor of a nation and its-educational level go hand in hand. Ignprance forestalls or imperils individual freedom and national po litical independence. . . One great hope is that education, with its power to liberate the mind, will provide not only the tools for scientific advancement but the environment for the fulfillment of man’s moral and spirit ual nature. . —'From Iha ISSfl resort of tho Ford FouadatioD Says Court Here Adds No Funds For County To The Editor: I am enclosing for publication, if you wish to print it, a letter I have written to Hon. L. R. Reynolds of Route 1, Robbins, chairman of the Moore County : Board of Commissioners. CHARLES M. McLEOD Carthage (Enclosure) Dear Mr. Reynolds: According to the county papers. Southern Pines officials' are again requesting additional funds from the Moore County A.B.C. stores profits. That is a problem to be worked out by you and the other commission ers, and I am quite happy it is yours and not mine. However, I noticed (again, ac cording to the papers) the state ment made to the effect the county would receive additional revenue due ito the establish ment of the Southern Pines Re corder’s Court. Knowing both Mr. Blue and Mr. Scheipers, I do not believe they meant to be misleading, but had probably taken someone else’s idea with out checking on it. It is my opinion the Southern Pines Recorder’s Court will fail to add any funds- to the county that the county would not have received through the Moore County Recorder’s Court, the Aberdeen Recorder’s Court, and the various Justice of the Peace Courts in the county. To say other than that would be to im ply the law enforcement officers of Southern Pines and in this section were derelict in their duties before the establishment of the Southern Pines Court. Also, the county does have to bear a portion of the expense of the court. The coimty is called upon to pay the insolvent costs, as is the case with the County Recorder’s Court, and the Aber deen Recorder’s Court. Is it also possible they neg- Iwted to point out that in addi tion to the ten per cent, they also get taxes from the stock lo cated at Southern Pines? z’" As a resident of Carthage, I am proud the Courthouse (Coun ty) is located here, and pledge to you that I will not lead any delegation before your board asking that our town be paid a portion of the county tax be cause of the location of this edi fice. I am sending a copy of this letter to the Mayor and Town Manager of Southern Pines, the other County Commissioners, our Representative and Senator in the legislature, and the coun ty newspapers. A MAN'S CATASTROPHE W, E. H. In Sanford Herald Nothing is quite alike to the lamentations of a man getting dressed to go to work, a dinner party or the show who comes up with a broken shoe lace. Maybe he’s well dressed from head to, well, foot. Perhaps even a tuxedo or a white coat, with standup collar and black tie. Even his dark “preaching” suit with a quietened down four-in-hand tie and newly laundered white shirt, with cuff-links yet, all ended up with dark blue or black socks and navy-polished black shoes. So now your man stoops down, sucks in his belly and prepares to tie his shoe laces. Then comes catastrophe: a shoe lace has broken. Only the wisest and most far- seeing men have extra shoe laces around. Bet money there aren’t a score of men in the whole con fines of Sanford who have extra pairs of black and brown laces against the time when one will cease its usefulness and give up the ghost. The dam things cost so little (not over a dime and if you want to shop around only a nickel) but for an inexpensive item, I can’t thiifk of anything that causes as much annoyance and grief as one that pops in two, because it’s al ways inopportune. Six Good Points On Industry (Memphis Commercial Appeal) We commend for careful at tention the advice on pitfalls in industry hunting as outlined by George W. Cox, in the Thursday issue of The Commercial Appeal. Mr. Cox is head of industrial development for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe. Thes.e rail road men who go after new plant locations are unusually success ful, as many an industry seeker in the Memphis region can testi fy from personal experience. Exaggerated claims for advan tages of a location are harmful. It is wasteful to put effort and money into meeting require ments of a prospect until finan cial standing has been investiga ted. There may be jigger possi bilities in expansion of present industries than in getting a new kind of industry started. It is pos sible for a leading citizen to get more attention from a prospect than a professional industrial campaigner. And it is easy to lose a plant by the rush to brag and take credit for accomplish ment before the management is prepared. Each of these points is com mon sense and yet commonly overlooked. They are five good points, and we would like to add a sixth: Don’t fail to advertise your cultural advantages. More and more the industrial builders are looking for cultutal advantages for their employes, and for recre ational attractions, too. Colleges, instructions in specialized branches of learning, opportunities for the mature to continue their education, libra ries, musical organizations, train ing for artists and stages for live entertainers—these are some of the cultural activities which make a town attractive. v er to develop, a willingness to receive. Never before in history has it been so necessary for .iirankind to master the perils of propin quity in an ever-shrinking, ever more crowded world. The ex cuses for ignorance about one another are disappearing with the increase in communications among all mankind. 'The dangers of ignorance also increase be cause communication based on misconceptions tends to breed enmity where trust and sympa thy are needeb. ‘"What do I know about my brother?” This is as important a question as “What does my brother kncgw about me?” It is moreover a question within our own means to answer correctly and responsibly. Grains of Sand Another Problem A friend who lives neaf the Hudson River,, above Albany, N. Y., writes that there’s been a lot of high water up that way re cently. Enclosed in the letter was part of the “Lost and Found” classi fied section' from what appears to be an Albany or Troy paper. Along with ads about several lost or fqund dogs and cats was the following: “GEESE LOST—Flock of geese, last seen floating down Hudson River. Reward. Call etc.. . .” With all the rain of the past week here, that’s one weather problem we don’t have in the Sandhills—having geese carried away by flood waters. So, you see, it might be worse, after all. Taste Test “People are convinced that the cookies in, a package they like taste much better than the cookies in a package they don’t like—even tl^ough we have put the same cookies in both pack ages.” So quoth one of those insuf ferably smart advertising psy chologists recently, showing no disinclination whatever to have himself quoted in a feature story out of New York. Just to be insufferably argu mentative, too, we’ll disagree. 'The fancier the package on any thing, the more likely we are to suspect what’s inside. Certainly, it is common sense that the more expense there is in the package, the less value you’ll ba getting in the product—or else you’ll be paying just that much more for packaging in the price you plunk down. Immediately, on reading the psychologist’s statement, we re called the best-tasting cookies we ever ate which came graced - with no package at all—they were scooped up and dumped into a paper bag, from a big box in an old fashioned grocery store. Far from worrying about whether the , cookies were daintily draped in cellophane, it made not the slightest difference to us at the age of 10 whether the scooping hands of the grocer were even clean or not. No struggling with packages—at tractive or unattractive— in those days. The procedure was simply: grab and eat. Hail lo the Vest A1 Resch, editor of The Chat- hami News at Siler City, wel comes the return of men’s vests, as predicted by fashion experts. He makes clear that he is talk ing about the old-fashioned matching vest and not the color ed or checkered ones that natty individualists have been sport ing for some time. What’s so wonderful about the vest? Well, Mr. Resch says, he likes all those little pockets to use for pencils, pills, notes, glasses and so forth. Then, too, he likes (he notion of using his watch chain, again, strung across his chest. Then he turns to the third per son, when he notes how much vests will mean to “other peo ple” also—especially orators who like to hook their thumbs in the lower pockets of vests and rear back in a classic pose. Mr. Resch thinks that oratory has never been the same since the vest went out. Others who will be pleased at having vests again: Wearers of Phi Beta Kappa keys. Dry cleaners. The only adverse effect the^ Siler City editor could think up for vests would be that on laun dries: vests may keep shirts clean longer. 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. 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