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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1960 Page TWO ■LOT “Hello, Ike? If You Think You Have A Dollar Problem.. Southern Pines North Carolina “In taking over 'Die Pilot no changes are contemplated. We will try to keep this » 8°^ paper. We will try to make a little money for all concerned Wherever there seems to M an occasion to use our influence for the public good we wiU try to do it. And we wiU treat everybody alike.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. ^ /' Support the Christmas Cheer Program We urge generous support for Moore County’s Christmas Cheer program—a county-wide coordinated effort to make Christmas a happier time for individuals and families who need help. The names of persons who receive food baskets—sometimes, in the case of chil dren, toys or other gifts—are provided largely by the Welfare Department whose case workers have checked the circum stances of each person or family and vouch for the genuineness of their need. The program is well administered in the various towns of the county, reaching out into rural areas around the towns, by or ganizations or individuals who give many hours of volunteer work. In Southern Pines, this function is performed by mem bers of the John Boyd Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, who for years have done a good job of it, receiving, in addition to gifts of food, old toys which members of the post repair if need be. Pfobably no other toys given at Christmas time in this area bring more pleasure than these once- broken, outgrown or rejected ones that are distributed with the cheer baskets. The program in Southern Pines needs cash as well as food donations in grocery store containers, because more food than the amount donated always must be bought to fill the 75 or more baskets that are prepared. The Pilot believes in government- financed public welfare programs, and has tried to use its influence to extend anci improve these programs, because pri vate charity can never efficiently cope with or reach the needs of the aged, chil dren, the disabled, the handicapped and others. But if modern Americans no long er have to be as much their brothers’ per sonal keepers as in former days, there is still no substitute for personal generosity and personal attention to less fortunate persons. The Christmas Cheer program provides this personal touch and any one can share in it by giving food, toys or money to the effort. 'e>\uu V /// V iff "S' Air Rifles Are Dangerous Weapons lit: f r« We commend the town council for authorizing an ordinance that will pro hibit the firing of air rifles or BB guns within the town limits. Here is the background of recent inci dents that brought a demand for such an ordinance: Street lights have been shot out; lights were shot out in an unoccupied home; lights on a tank at the National Guard armory were shot out (police have appre hended the boys); a window in a private home was hit and shattered; a BB gun was discharged at a metal bucket near which some children were playing and the shot ricocheted, narrowly missing the head of one of the children; boys shooting at squirrels, accompanied by barking dogs, outsi(ie a church while a service was going on, had to be reprimanded an I sent away; and, worst of all, an air rifje was actually pointed and discharged from a distance, at a group of boys who had gathered for a Scout meeting. Without an ordinance on the books pro hibiting any firing of air rifles or BB guns in town, the police, though concern ed about such incidents as those noted, can do little, unless there is property damage or some other offense against an existing ordinance. To comply with legal requirements, the new ordinance has to be advertised and come up for a public hearing, but it is good to know that it has been authorized and will be adopted as quickly as possible. We, urge parents to think twice before giving a child an air rifle or BB gpn. In no case, should such a gun be given to a younger child or an older one who has not demonstrated a sense of responsibil ity. Even if air rifles and BB guns are rela- gated to out-of-town areas, parents should instruct children not to shoot at song birds —which are protected by law—or at small animals like squirrels and rabbits who can be wounded but rarely killed with such weapons, simply causing the animal needless suffering. It is a great American tradition that all boys become proficient in the use of fire arms and the air rifle and BB gun have a legitimate function in the first steps of this process, but they should be used strictly in target practice and all the well- known customs in handling regular fire arms should be taught and observed. The council’s action will help, but the basic responsibility on control and use of air guns lies with parents. 'AMERICA'S FOLK-TYPE ART FORM- The 'Western'-Symbol of Change Rural Diets in a Changing Society Many Moore County rural families are making more money than they used to— or than their parents did—but they may not be eating as well. This interesting aspect of changing rur al and semi-rural life was brought out in this month’s meeting of the county com missioners during reports made by Miss Flora McDonald, home economics agent, and Mrs. Eva Crawford, Negro home eco nomics ag^t. One of the commissioners questioned Miss McDonald as to whether rural fam- In Front Row The North Carolina background qf Dean Rusk, President-elect Kennedy’s choice for Secretary of State, puts at least three men with North Carolina connec tions high in the new Administration. Most direct connection, of course is Gov. Luther H. Hodges, the Commerce Secretary. Dean Rusk attended Davidson College (class of 1931) and worked in a Greensboro bank in the summers. He, like Governor Hodges', springs from hum ble people, worked his way through col lege and is a self-made man: the sin^ilar- ity of their careers is remarkable, though they made their marks in different fields of endeavor. Thirdly, there is Adlai Stevenson, am bassador to the United Nations, who has ancestral roots in this state and considers it his second home through his visits over many years at the home of his sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest L. Ives, here at Southern Pines. Though Governor Stevenson had for some time been the choice of this news paper for Secretary of State, we feel that he will be in a post in which he can exer cise his abilities very effectively. Prob ably no other American can rival the re spect in which he is generally held throughout the world. We are pleased that Chester Boles will have a prominent role in the administra tion as Undersecretary of State. With Governor-elect Terry Sanford standing high in the graces of the Admin istration and with the Tarheel connec tions of Governor Hodges, Governor Stevenson and Mr. Rusk, North Carolina has a welcome front row position in na tional affairs. ilies were raising a considerable portion of their food. She replied that with one or sometimes both parents working off the farm, in industry or other occupation, many rural families are buying an in creasingly large proportion of their food. Nobody in the family has time or the en ergy to tend a garden. Miss McDonald made this interesting point: it’s true, she said, that you can buy a can of tomatoes more cheaply than you can raise, that many tomatoes, but if a family is growing tomatoes, they grow and preserve a lot of them—^more than they can afford to buy, or will buy, if they are getting canned tomatoes at a store. “They make the money, but often they use it for something else, not for food,” she said. Mrs. Crawford said that she had made a survey of 500 4-H Club members and found that only 33 of the families repre sented by this group of young people had family cows. This lack of milk in the diet of rural residents also came out in a survey of 110 Home Demonstration Club members. On ly 25 per cent of them, the Negro home agent said, bought milk. Mechanization of farms seems also to be a deterrent ^on 'home gardens. As one of the commissioners pointed out, and as confirmed by the home economics agents, one of the reasons given by rural families for not having vegetable gardens is that they can’t get anybody to plow up the ground in the first place. The new pattern of rural life, in which farm income is supplemented by indus trial income, is, we think, basically sound and had done much to raise the standard of rural living in Moore County and throughout the State and the South. Undesirable side-effects of this revolu tion in rural living—such as the food hab its pointed out by the home economics agents—will be corrected in time. In 4-H Clubs and Future Homemakers classes in schools, girls are learning good dietary practices and will, we hope, when they have homes of their own, put more of their income into food and less into pay ments on TV sets and other luxuries. And the home economics agents themselves are evidently trying to raise the dietary standard of fhese families—who are by no means all rural families, many of whom eat extremely well—^in a time of chang ing customs eyerywhere. From the Chapel Hill Weekly The saying grace of the western hero IS his gun. It is the deus-ex- machina, the cymbol of masculini ty, the hero’s key to individuality “a quick and potent agent of death or sustainer of life” says Martin Nussbaum in the October issue of “Social Forces,” edited at the Uni versity here. The adult western is America’s folk-type art form, “the first to have features of universality,” says Nussbaum. The English had their Eliza- bethean theatre, the Greeks, their sculpture, the Spanish their Fla menco dancing, and finally, the Americans have their “adult west ern.” Writing on “Sociological Sym bolism of the Adult Western,” Nussbaum says that this form per mits emotional identification in “our culture.” With six features of recurring ideas or emotions that have produced this form, he implies that the western is “uni versal enough to be appreciated by a wide range of people as the answer to their current prob lems.” 1. The western is a symbol of foreign adventure to us. The days of the wild and wooly west are bygone days and few living per sons liave experienced theni. The land of the west is a heroic land. 2. The westerner is a “univer sal-type hero.” Like Davy Crock ett, the pioneer, or like an idolized baseball player, such as Babe Ruth, but more than these, the western hero is faceless and can be any man who wants to go out and brave the elements. 3. The western man is a “loner. ’ He is independent and individual istic. “Togetherness” may be the keynote today, but the western hero can move at will and drift with the sands, the wind and the tide. He is not tied down, there are no apron strings attached. 4. The western hero has an un breakable contact with nature. He is like primitive man, and knows how to live with nature. He sees nature as She is and dges not see things as a by-product of nature. 5. The western man is a combi- The Public Speaking Voif Pleads Not Guilty To The Editor: . Several have suggested that 1 brought this week’s weather back from the South Pole. Foul calumny! 1 wouiun’t do that to my friends—besides, I’.n buying fuel oil too! ■^OIT GILMORE Southern Pines Edict on Dependents Has Moral. Economic Effects To the Editor: The more thought one gives to President Eisenhower’s bo.nr.bshell edict to bring 284,000 military de pendents home from overseas, the more one is forced to conclude mat the whole idea is incredibly unsound. Not only will it cause an unnecessary and highly dam aging crisis in the military estab lishment, it will most likely fail lev accomplish what little in the way of practical aims it had in the first place. The practical objective, says the President, is to prevent about $284 million from leaving the U. S. an nually and thus help to ease the serious drain on the nation’s gold supply and keep the dollar sound. No one disputes the fact that this is necessary, but neither does any one deny that $284 million an nually will do little to help. Bil lions flow out of the U. S. each year! Furthermore, there is seri ous doubt that the plan will even saye this pointless $284 million. What our high policy makers ap parently fail to realize is thfit most of the foreign goods banned from sales in overseas PX’s by the edict are fixed-price luxury goods. People who can afford them and want them will buy them any way whether they are sold in the PX or not. In all this, one fac*! becomes glaringly clear. Whether the money is saved or not, it will hardly balance out the* grave hurt it will cause to our military es tablishment. Much has been said about the damage to morale. That is true and evidences of that dam age are already showing up, in re actions from all branches of the service. But even moi-e important, though less seldom noted, is the fact that the, edict perpetrates a moral hurt ob career servicemen. Why? Because forced separation of families would strain marital relations and destroy families. These disruptions of family life have appreciably increased living costs, multiplied personal prob lems, strained marital relations and, in many instances, destroyed normal family life. Rather than suffer this moral hurt, the intelli gent serviceman will be forced to get out of the Service as soon as he can. And those who will leave will be the men the military can least afford to lose—the highly trained specialists who can get good paying jobs in industry or on the military’s ^civilian payroll. En listments also are likely to be af fected. How can the military offer a man a promising career and at the same time tell him he can never enjoy genuine family life? The end result may be a return to a larger military draft. In short, far from saving money, the edict may in the end have to be chalk ed up as a major economic loss to the nation. A2c DONALD D. WALTER,USAF Misawa Air Base, Japan (Ed. Note: A2C Walter, a native and former resident of Southern Pines, is the son of Mrs. S. D. Fobes of this com munity.) nation of good and evil. Modern man is complex and does not see the absolute extremes of good and bvil, but finds a middle road be tween the tww. So does today’s westerner. He incorporates the “inadequacies,” “psychoses,” “emotions” and “fears” of modern man. 6. Finally, the-gun is the most important feature of the western hero. Not only the gun itself, be it rifle, six-shooter or sawed-off car bine, but the way he uses it is important. The giin is fascinating; it is the mediator in all situations; it, finally, solves a difficult situa tion ‘when all other metho-as have failed.” Nussbaum says that the “adult western” appears, at this time of modern man’s advances when the world is moving at such a fast pace in developments and prog ress, “where his inventions and machines aie speeding ahead^ of him and getting out of control,” in a revolt against rationalism and reason. “Social Forces” is a quarterly journal of scientific and social in terpretation published by the Uni versity of North Carolina Press. Editors of “Social Forces” are LNC Kenan Professor of Sociolo gy Rupert B. Vance and Dr. Kath erine Jocher. George Mason’s ‘Sacred Rights’ Today, December 15, is Bill of Rights Day, observing adoption of the first 10'amendm.ents to the U. S. Constitution 168 years ago. On this page last week mention was made of George Mason of Virginia (1725-1792) who wrote for Virginia a Declaration of Rights on which the later “Bill of Rights,” or first 10 amendments to the 'Constitution, was modeled, and who fought-vigorously for the inclusion of such a Bill of Rights m the Constitution. Mason died at Gunstan'Hall, his estate on the Potomac River, now restored and open to the public, less than a year after the Bill of Rights amendments were adopted. Notable in the will that he left v/as a noble statement on liberty, in the form of an admonition to his sons: “I recommend it to my sons from my own experience in life, to prefer the happiness of inde pendence and a private station to the troubles and vexation of pub- lick business, but if either their own inclinations or the necessity of the times should engage them in public affairs, I charge them on a father’s blessing never to let the rriotives of private inter est or Eimbition induce them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or of death deter them from as serting the liberty of their coun try and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born.” Grains of Sand Cliristina.s Cheer Well, here comes the National Safety Council witlTsome of those releases that take the bloom off the nicest times of the year: “How many persons will die in fires during the Christmas holi day?,' one story begins, with fur ther details too gruesome to re late. Another, starts: “Christmas sug gestion for the man who has everything—almost: Buy him an auto seat belt. . .” Wouldn’t that look great under the Christmas tree? Simple Crime, says Sir Sydney Smith,, a British autnority, is “simply the normal development of uncheck ed primitive instincts.” And the reason for mounting juvenile crime, he thinks, is fail ure by parents to control children. Crime, asserts Sir Sydney, is “not an abnormality but a form of human conduct.” It’s up to parents, therefore, to decide what “form of conduct” their children’s lives are to fol low. We can’t bqlieve it’s that sim ple—but it’s refreshing to hear somebody NOT being profound and complicated about juvenile delinqency. Goose Pond Time Again Here’s a reminder to both new comers and oldtimers that it’s time to visit Gaddy’s goose pond (official name: Lockhart Gaddy’s Wild Goose Refuge) near Anson- ville again to see the amazing sight of 12,000 to 15,000 • Canada geese and ducks, many of them so tame that you can walk right in among them and feed them bread and corn. A tip: feeding time is around 3 to 4 p. m.—and that’s a sight! A truck drives back and forth on a hill dumping off bushels and bushels of dried corn on the ear and thousands of the big birds flock to the hillside from the water and nearby areas to polish the corn off in short order. There’s no better place to take u gang of kids for an afternoon’s outing. 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 Refreshing The Rockingham Post-Dispatch, of which Isaac S. (Ike) London is editor, remains the most refresh ing weekly newspaper in the state and we suppose in the nation for that matter. Ike breaks most of the rules and customs of wriiipg and making up a modern newspaper but ends up with a paper that is more read able than most. We just came across a corner of a Post-Dispatch front page we tore off back in October because of two items that caught the eye. Up in the top right-hand cor ner of the front page (“ear,” it’s known in nejvspaper parlance) where conventional papers some times carry the weather report, ciiculation figures or an exhorta tion to Buy Christmas Seals or Support the March of Dimes, this notation appears: “A Rockingham man who went to a Charlotte night-spot says the music was so bad that when a waiter fell do^ivn with a trayful of dishes, six couples got up and started to dance.” Right under this is a two-col umn headline in capital letters, in the right-hand top or “lead story” position: NO COUNTY COURT UNTIL OCT 18, SO REJOICE, YE PURE IN HEART Not 10 other editors in the United States would have had the guts to write and print a headline like that. Rejoice, Rockingham, in your Post-Dispatch editor. The PILOT Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT, Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina Katharine Boyd Editor C. Benedict Associate Editor Dan S. Ray Gen. Mgr. C. G. Council Advertising Mary Scott Newton Business Mary Evelyn de Nissoff Society Composing Room Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Ja.s- per Swearingen, Thomas Mattocks and James C. Morris. Subscription Rates: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2. 3 mos. $1 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. Meinber National Editorial Assn and N. C. Press Assn.
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