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Page TWO THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1961 ILOt 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 aUke.”—James Boyd, May 23, 1941. The election of Texas Republican John Tower over the incumbent Democratic senator, William A. Blakley, should be a lesson to all North Carolina Democrats. It is a lesson particularly applicable to those of the Eighth District of which Moore County is a part. Blakley of Texas was beaten, according to all accounts, because of his strongly Republican voting record. Real Demo crats in Texas stayed away by the thous ands from the polls. Blakley had voted with the Republicans in Congress on practically all issues; had voted consis tently against President Kennedy’s pro gram. Furthermore, he voted for Eisen hower in 1952 and 1956, along with Texas Governor Shivers and other turncoats. Texas has now elected a Republican to the Senate for the first time in its history. Tower is a reactionary conservative, by all reports, as was Blakley; there is little to choose between the political philosophy of the two men, but Texas elected the one who was enrolled under the banner of the party that expressed his own convictions, especially the conservative Goldwater wing of that party. While regretting that Tower’s election adds another Republican to the Senate rolls, it is hard not to feel More Deserving The Newton Memorial Fund Commit tee has been in a difficult position because it could not definitely announce the pur pose for which the fund will be used until it knew how much money would be given—yet it is possible that a Humber of persons have hesitated about giving until they knew definitely how the money will be handled. As things stand now, the committee favors a suggestion that the income from the $1,400 or $1,500 in the fund be used by the chief of police to help young peo ple in trouble with the law, or young people who might be kept out of trouble with the encouragement that a small gift or loan might bring. The case of a boy bordering on delinquency for whom the late Chief C. E. Newton bought, from his own pocket, a second-hand bike, so that the boy could take a paper route, was cited as an example of the kind of help envisioned for the fund. The committee hopes, nevertheless, that the fund will grow enough so that the original aim (requiring a principal of $5,000 or more) of using income for an incentive award for high school students in both local high schools can be realized. We urge that this plan not be abandon ed and that persons who may have been holding off on giving show their generosi ty now, with no strings attached. Chief Newton’s lifetime of service to young folks in oir near trouble should be honored by more than has been given so far. Warning From Texas Pointing The Way Water Is Dangerous! ' the second succes-sivp vpar. tViP j Tir i ht. ^ For the second successive year^ the Southern Pines Elks lodge has brought more than 100 golfers—all Elks members from North and South Carolina and Vir ginia—here for'a successful golf tourna ment in May. Now comes word that the lodge is ex pecting to invite Elks from throughout the nation to compete in the tournament next year, presumably also making the event larger in number of players. More and more talk is heard about year-round operations in the Sandhills. Two Pinehurst hotels are going on a year-round schedule. Motels and some local hotels also remain open all year. We met a man last summer who had come here to play golf in July. He said Sandhills heat was comfort compared to the steaming temperatures he had left in one of the Ohio valley cities. He was having a wonderful time, wondering why S^dhills golf courses weren’t crowded with summer visitors. The Elks national tournament, if it becomes a reality, could be a stepping- stone to increasing off-season activity in the Sandhills. The sad Western North Carolina acci dent in which a college dean and his five- year-old son were drowned, apparently during a fishing trip in which they were on a lake in a small boat, points striking ly to danger around water—an ever-pre sent peril that parents, young people and everyone must recognize as the swimming and boating season begins. Boating accidents are becoming such a wide - spread and serious problem that the State has issued a warning, primarily directed at the thousands of landlubbers who have taken to the water in motor- driven boats with which, in many cases, they are little familiar. Collisions, capsiz- ings, carelessness around swimming areas and other mishandling of boats have be come a serious safety problem. Children must learn, from the age of toddlers, to respect the water. Parents rnust be ever alert for the carelessness children are sure to show. Each summer brings its tragedies of children drowning in even so little water as a plastic pool or backyard minnow pond. Parents, youngsters, everybody—take warning! Was ADisgrace The Way Our Wages HadBeenHeldDownP that the Democrats in Texas had it com ing to them in not picking a real Demo crat for their candidate. It seems likely that the planned redis tricting in North Carolina will pit a Re publican against a Democrat in the Eighth District. The Texas election should be a warning to all Eighth District Democrats that they had better choose the right man or he may not stand a chance. At present the district is represented by a congress man not unlike the defeated Blakley, as far as his half-hearted support of the administration’s program is concerned or his strongly conservative personal views. As Moore County Democrats look ahead to the next election, they had better start thinking. It would surely be a good idea to find a candidate more in line than the incumbent with the aims of the admini stration, more alert to the needs of this changing world and the widely expand ing responsibilites of state and nation. But we must not only get the best man, we must get him elected. Only a candi date of stature, one who truly represents all the people of this progressive district, can get out the votes in what may be a close election. Only with such a man can we be sure that this distriqt will not suffer a Texas-style defeat. One Law Too Many If anybody were to offer a bill in the North Carolina General Assembly to stop “freedom riders”, lunch-room sit-ins, tests of theatre segregation and other evidences of racial ferment, it wpuld seem unlikely that a representative from a county with no Negro residents would be that man—yet that’s what happened.' Rep. Leonard Lloyd of Graham offered ihs “act to protect and secure people of the State in the enjoyment and use of their property. . . ” on getting word that freedom riders who are testing and chal lenging bus transportation and bus sta tion segregation in the deep South, were headed toward Tarheelia. Trusting that this ridiculous piece of special interest legislation has been con signed to the scrap basket by the time these words are read, we feel impelled to protest the bill and any other piece of legislation aimed at special groups in special circumstances, for temporary re lief. There are already too many laws. Legis lators should labor to reduce them, rather than add to them, least of all under pres sure of specific, hotly - argued current events. Simple, ancient regulations of trespass, disorderly conduct and the like have been serving Anglo-Saxon jurisprudence well for hundreds of years. And defendants, even freedom riders, are or should be con sidered innocent until proved guilty. Isn’t that enough? "Sfe vNN' (T qa ViAQB AMERICANS MUST ACQUIRE: New Dimensions of Understanding "A Grassroots Reflection on the Nation" was the title of an article appearing re cently in The Chapel Hill Weekly, excerpts from which appear below. Author of the article is Mrs. Waller Spear man, wife of a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina^ Her anal ysis of the lack of communi cation between Western civ-' ilization and restless peoples burdened with pov^ty and disease is striking-^nd her suggestion of essential Chris tianity as the touchstone to understanding of other peo ples and of renewed t!aith in cur own future, merits at tention. Dempsey Ernest Bailey This community was shocked last week by the death of Dempsey Ernest Bailey, one of its most widely known and best liked residents. Though he retired from active work as railroad agent and justice of the peace more than five years ago, Mr. Bailey was by no means on the shelf. Since then, he had served on the town council, served as town treasurer, held office in the Democratic party, traveled with members of his family ( a house trailer for a plann ed trip to California was delivered only two days befoire his death) and had been greeting friends and getting around town with all the personal interest, enthusiasm and vigor that were characteristic of him throughout his lifetime. As a magistrate, Mr. Bailey was known for his fairness, honesty, shrewdness and kindliness through four decades of deal- ing with defendants who came before his court. He tried to use his authority to steer young people out of crime, as well as mete out punishment. If there is any thing wrong with the justice of the peace system, it is not because of men like him. With ancestral iroots deep in this area, springing from the proud, simple, rugged Scots folk who settled the Cape Fear Valley, Mr. Bailey had a long life of community service and good citizenship. Of this, the town and his large, devoted family can be proud. By MRS. WALTER SPEARMAN As we walked across the Uni versity campus last night in the too-crisp-for comfort air of eeirly May, a group of friends were dis cussing Mr. Christian Hertqr’s lecture which we had just heard on “The New Dimension of U. S. Citizenship.” We were pondering the inability of the West and especially that of our own coun try to imbue the rising people of th.e “developing” countries with our love of freedom and self-government. Emerging Insight The words of Mr Herter’s pro vocative address were not easily put aside. Finally an insight be gan to emerge—and not just the well-accepted one that these peo ple prefer bread to ballots if they can’t have both. The plain his torical fact of the matter would seem to be that our revolutionary fervor, even predating the Eng lish Bill of Rights of 1688, stem med from different conditions and had different , objectives from the tremendous surge of human striving which is gripping the under-privilegeti people to day. Ours was essentially, in all its phases—English, French, Ameri can, and the others, a struggle for political, social, and religious freedom. The present great tu mult is directed toward the rights and privileges which have an! economic base. Therefore the same mottoes and slogans, the same methods and means, do not apply. Worst of all for the West, the same motivations do not hold and we are left in a vacuum of understanding. We are not com municating. . . Manipulated However, we are confronted by a world in which varying but always very large proportions of the people are continually said to be under-nourished, poorly hous ed (if housed at all), lacking medical care, illiterate, and often basically manipulated by a small fraction of the ‘upper classes” in their own countries—“upper classes” with whom the West has on the whole found it possible to communicate and with whom we have made far too often common cause. . . We fulminate against Commu nism, which must surely be one of the saddest and cruelest of philosophies ever to fasten on the minds and hearts of men, without being willing to admit how it arose as a Christian her esy in an economic and social impasse which greed and the lust for power had created in the West. Must Care For us in the West surely the sine qua non is to understand and then to care about the physi cal and social plight of the mass es which seem to be arrayed against us. If you had never worn shoes and had watched one after another of your children die from lack of medicine and then sud denly one day had these decen cies provided, would you choose a ballot instead? Of course not. These provisions for the needs of persons we could have, of cowrse, produced much better in the West and out of our industrial and cultural life, but WE DID NOT. . . Enlightened)? Then there developed the real ly tremendous program of foreign aid on the part of the United States and certain nations of the West. To be honest, this was not Simply •'‘enlightened self-intben- est,” but was surely supported by a growing realization that his torically and morally it would soon be difficult to justify our holding and revelling in such a highly disproportionate amount of the world’s wealth, no matter how w'.3 had come by it. Yet in the administration of this huge and increasing financial outpouring we have far too often allied ourselves with reactionary regimes and put our money in military programs in countries where starvation and poverty still run rife. . . Given this evaluation , of our predicament—which is historical ly superficial but perhaps essen tially accurate in its broad out lines—what do we do? For us in the West there would seem to be one best way, a way which once before went a long, long distance in revolutionizing the world: that is the rediscov- Less Quantity, More Tastiness? From The Christian Science Monitor Time was when the American breadwinner coming home to dinner had put in a day clearing timber or puddling iron. He was ready to stow away a consider able pile of groceries with a view to providing energy for an other day. Not all jobs have been reduced to button-Hushiag, but enough of a change has taken place to be reflected in American eating habits. With the growth of popu lation, the main increase of food consumption has been in such ethereal items as lettuce and grapefruit rather than lard and potatoes. One sign of these times is an item on some chain restaurant and hotel dining room menus which offers a glass of calory- counted liquid, garnished with a stalk of celery and a couple of slices of cucumber. Where eating places have made a reputation for hearty food in ample portions, it is hard ly to be expected that they will risk queries of “You call that a steak?” by turning tea-shoppe. But viewing the trend toward lighter occupations and statistics on the rising proportion of senior citizens—whose fuel intake does not have to be what it was when they were riding herd on a grow ing family—there is a place for a certain number of restaurants whose appeal rests not on quan tity of food but tastiness. i ill ery of the basic insights and com pulsions of the Christian faith. . . Moving Words This does not mean that we move into Laos or Cuba or the Congo—or even into the some- ■what more hospitable and rare fied atmosphere of Berlin—arm ed with the Presbyterians’ Short er Catechism or the Anglican Prayer Book or even hark back to Luther’s Ninety-five Theses. It does mean, on the other hand, that we try to understand again the moving words of Jesus in the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew’s Gospel when he phras-'d the searching questions of the Last Judgment—“When .saw Thee hungi-y?”—^and the rest. We should seek to red’sc^'ver who we ai.e as children of God, whether space-bound or not, and operate in reliance on the God Who made the universes. Noth ing less is adequate. Cause of Freedom This would produce a renewal of‘the sense of destiny which in one form or another enabled the Founding Fathers to create thisi nation, and give us one and all a more enlightened concept of our function and potential even in this fearful world. We might even abandon our feverish concern with Metrecal and where to park the second car, and give our selves seriously to the half-heart ed current efforts toward “dis armament,” and the establish ment of world law. We could even perhaps discover better ways of winning the “cold war,” which is a very hot issue to the revolutionary millions seeking our routine “creature comforts.” We just might see that airlifts ' over the world and Polaris sub marines prowling the ocean deeps may, after all they are costing us in money and energy and precious human resources, he unable to serve effectively the cause of freedom or even of sur vival. Are we willing to undertake this new dimension of under standing, and to commit our selves and our country to the costly effort of acting upon it in these fateful days? Grains of Sand Birds of Ill Omen Why are the snow geese stay ing this year instead of flying on north to the icebergs? At first we thought they were just cooperating with the Con- servation and Development boys’ entreaties to help us prolong the season, but we’re beginning to wonder. Maybe they decided they could stay right in Carolina and save the trip. The Cat's-Whiskers The J. D. McConnell family report a bird with whiskers visit ing their feeder. An inspired catbird, perhaps? Or maybe a bobolynx:. Page Miss Hgynes; she’ll know. Big Daddy Adlai It delights us beyond words to hear that Adlai Stevenson was: named “Father of the Year.” Mostly because it must have given his dignity such a fit. Some folks are even betting ^that he started that fire in the Triborough Bridge that delayed him from getting to the celebra tion in time for the TV show. When he did get there, though, he was in his usual form, flash ing his quips about, with a good many aimed at himself. “The American Father,” he said, “has come upon sorry times; he is the butt of the comic strips, the boob of the radio and TV serials, and the favorite stooge of all our professional comedians. Let’s face it: father has become a dodo, a simpleton, an object of mirth.” Well, self-deprecation has al ways been Father Stevenson’s favorite sport. More About This Father's Day Adlai was not alone in his glory. He was the Big Daddy of the show, but there were lots of others. ’There was Stage Father Of The Year, Radio Father OTY, TV Father OTY, Sports Father OTY, Literary Father O'TY. There was even Husband-and- Wife Father—no, no, that must be wrong. But the news story does say that Arlene Francis and Martin Gabel got it. And Kim Stanley, actress, was named Father’s Day Woman of the Year. Must have been a big day for her, we’d think. Red, White, and Blue Perhaps? Sandhillers are watching with interest to see what will come of Libby Rudel Smith’s proposal to add a little color to her job as United States , Treasurer. She suggested—if you didn’t knoy— that bills be printed in different colors. What are the chances? Pretty good, we’d say; that is if she can overcome opposition certain to come from two oddly assorted groups. One will be the Hon. Francis Walters and his House committee. Representative Wal ter .Judd, the DARs, American Legion and the Chicago Trip et al. When these folks discover that the Italians, the French, the Dutch and a bunch of other for eigners—not to mention the you- know-whos—have always printed their money in different colors, what a shout of: “Un-Ameri can!” will go up! And then there’s The South. The thought of “colored money” is enough to start the whole ca boodle marching, or sitting or riding buses, right into the Re publican Camp: NAACP, KKK, Citizens and all. Good luck, though, Libby! We’re all for you. We knew all the time you weren’t just going to sit there and sign your name. An Exciting Idea President Kennedy’s new pro posal of a Federal scholarship plan would offer our schools and colleges the finest opportunity we have ever had in this country to open up educational oppor tunities to talented young people no matter how needy. The PILOT Published Every Thursday by THE PILOT,, Incorporated Southern Pines, North Carolina 1941—JAMES BOYD—1944 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, Jas- per Swearingen, Thomas Mattocks and James Edward Pate. Subscription ^ates: One Year $4. 6 mos. $2. 3 mos. 91 Entered at the Postoffice at South ern Pines, N. C., as second class mail matter. Member National Editorial Assa, and N. C. Press Assn.
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