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THE PIIX)T—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1962
Southern Pines
■LOT
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 lor all concerned. Wherever there seems to ^
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.
Happier Next Christmas, Mr. Nash!
We print below a sad lament by Ogden Nash, which will
doubtless ring a kindred note in many a fond parents heart.
But there was one item left out, it seems to us. Tell us, Mr.
Nash, didn’t you end up having a big time with all those presents
yourself? Even to the un-Christmassy point of not allowing the kids
to even touch those trains-and-all that Daddy had so delightfully
put together?
April Yule, Daddy!
Roses are things which Christmas is not a bed of them
Because it is the day when parents finally realize that their
children will always be a jump ahead of them.
You stay up all night trimming the tree into a veritable
fairyland and then in the joyous morn you sprmg it on
the children in a blaze of glory and who says Ooh .
You.
And you frantically point out the dictators ransom in
building sets and bicycles and embarrassingly lifelike
dolls with which the room is checkered,
And the little ones pay about as much attention to them as
they would to the punctuation in the Congressional
Record,
Because they are fully occupied in withdrawing all the
books from the bookcase to build a house to house the
pup in,
Or pulling down the curtains to dress up m,
And you stand hangdoggedly around because you haven t
any place to go, . ^ 4. j
And after a while they look casually over at the dic^tor s
ransom and say: “Are those the presents. Oh.
And you console yourself by thinking, Ah happy apathy, as
long as we haven’t had an emotional climax maybe
we won’t have an emotional anticlimax, maybe we 11
get through the day without hysterics, ah happy
Ah, may th^^Yuletide indeed turn out to be the Yuletide
without misapathy. ■ j. j e
Ah, could this sensational lull but be permanent instead of
pro tern; , , . ,
Ah and double Ah, if Christmas could but end at eleven
A.M. ! .
But it doesn’t, but the lull does, and here s something
else you discover as you keep on living.
Which is that Christmas doesn’t end for about two weeks
after Christmas, but it starts all over again right after
the following Thanksgiving.
Tercentenary
SYMBOL FOR THE CAROLINA
CHARTER TERCENTENARY
That the North Carolina legislature
will convene in the new State House dur
ing the State’s 300th anniversary in 1963
provides novel significance to the symbol
which will represent next year’s state
wide, year-long celebration.
Though not until 1711 was North Car
olina distinguished from the territory of
Carolina, the State’s formal beginning
dates from March 24, 1663. On that day
King Charles II of England granted the
Carolina Charter to the eight Lords Pro
prietors.
From the political freedoms granted in
the Charter, North Carolina evolved. Two
Year To Begin
years later, in 1665, the first General As
sembly met under the rights and privi
leges stated in the Charter.
Therefore, the 1963 legislature is a
lineal decendant of the first General As
sembly of 1665 and will enter the new
State House during the year of North
Carolina’s anniversary, or commemora
tion of the granting of the Carolina
Charter.
Based on the original seal of the Eight
Lords Proprietors of Carolina, the symbol
has eight modified shields radiating from
a central core. Although similar to the
original Proprietor’s seal, the shields are
represented in abstract form for easier
and quicker recognition.
Within the star-shaped core are the
dates which give time reference to the
Tercentenary celebration. At the center,
is an abstraction of the new State House.
The Charter Commission is urging
business, professional, civic and cultural
organizations to take part in the Tercen
tenary. Displaying the symbol through
out 1963 in conspicuous places and on
papers such as stationery would assist in
keeping the citizens of North Carolina
aware of their 300th anniversary.
Further information and instructions
on how to participate can be obtained
from the Charter Commission’s office at
Box 1881, Raleigh.
Stevenson Affair
Though the National Security Council
may not have been reduced (by the pu
blished stories about its secret delibera
tions) to the harassed, embarrased and
frustrated state pictured in Bill Sanders’s
cartoon on this page, the controversy
of a few weeks ago—especially as it in
volved Adlai Stevenson—has imdoubted-
ly jeopardized the status of this centrally
important group of men with the Ameri
can public.
Perhaps it would be better to say that
the aftermath of the affair leaves the
public cynical about the operations of the
Security Council and disgusted with
attempts to reveal its purported decisions
and mode of reaching its conclusions.
The Alsop-Bartlett Saturday Evening
Post smear of Adlai Stevenson, a smear
that was prodigiously inflated by the
magazine’s handling of the article, was
followed by Life magazine’s revelations
that what the Post said had happened, in
those fateful first days of the Cuban-
Russian crisis, hadn’t taken place at all.
Life credited Stevenson with helping
to formulate the basic essentials of tile
successful Kennedy strategy on Cuba.
'There was no question, said Life, that he
wanted to trade U. S. bases for Cuban
In Retrospect
missile installations or that he was "soft”
in any of the ways implied by the Sateve-
post.
When journalists of the top rank in
Washington differ so radically in their
conclusions and findings, the public’s con
fidence is bound to be shaken. Can we
assume that Life was any more right than
Satevepost? Divergence in accounts of the
“inside” of the Cuban crisis was not
simply in matters of interpretation. In
plain facts, there were huge, all-important
differences.
The President has made it clear that
he has faith in Stevenson and was grate
ful for his counsel and assistance, in and
out of the UN, but the President left too
many unanswered questions. Nothing ex
cept his direct denunciation as untrue of
whatever it was that was false and mis
leading, and whoever it was who wrote
the lies, in any of the “inside” articles,
will ever set matters straight.
This he failed to do. And the trust
worthiness of certain men close to him
(whoever they may be) as well as of
American journalism, has taken a terri
ble beating because he has not assumed
this unpleasant responsibility that none
but he could take.
“SpeakUp,Men! AllIAsked'Por Was'
Your Honest Opinion!”
LAND CONSERVATION FUND PROPOSED
Outdoors Not *Free* — Crisis Seen
By STEWART L. UDALL
Socretary of the Interior
Today we face perhaps the
gravest threat in history to our
resources of land and water—
and particularly to the once plen
tiful “green acres” which tradi
tionally have played a vital role
in shaping the character and des
tiny of America.
And this is at a time when
some 90 per cent of our people—
turning back by the millions to
the spiritual solace of the land—
take part in outdoor recreation of
some form.
Two Problems
While heartening, this vast
movement to the out-of-doors
presents two thorny problems:
First, our people are multiplying
and more people need more land,
both to live and to relax; and,
second, the demand for industrial,
commercial, and residential de
velopment for this burgeoning
population is chewing away a
million acres of remaining open
space a year, wiping but suitable
outdoor recreation areas at an
alarming rate, and, at the same
time, through ever stiffer compe
tition for use of the land, send
ing the prices for the remnants
of our natural, unspoiled wilder
ness and waterfront to levels
swiftly approaching the astron
omical.
Obviously, a solution must be
found. But to find it we shall
have to pay a price because, for
better or worse, in the 1960’s the
out-of-doors is no longer free.
An example of the cost may be
seen in this Administration’s vig
orous efforts to save needed land
to preserve our wildlife. Before
1961, land acquired for Federal
wildlife refuges cost an average of
$12.40 an acre; in fiscal 1961, this
average price rose to $69.39 an
acre; while in the 1962 fiscal year
—as suitable land grew scarcer—
the average price had soared to
$86.71.
Spurred by the President’s
leadership, the conservation-
minded 87 th Congress took un-
presedented action in setting aside
three superb strips of seacoast as
National Seashores at Cape Cod,
at Point Reyes, near San Francis
co, and at Padre Island, along the
Gulf Coast of Texas.
Praise from President
In May 1962, President Ken
nedy called the first White House
Conference on Conservation since
the turn of the century. At that
extraordinary gathering of con
servation leaders from throughout
the country he said: "I can think
of no more suitable effort for an
administration which is concerned
with progress than to be identi
fied with efforts to preserve this
Crains of Sand
land and maintain its beauty.”
Congress will act this yeeu: on
a proposed pay-as-you-go Land
Conservation Fund to be financed
by those who now enjoy our su
perb outdoor recreation areas and
from recreation and land related
Federal receipts.
The bill establishes modest user
fees for campers, picnickers, boat
ers, and others who in 1961 com
prised more than 300 million vis
itors to national parks, reservoirs,
and seashores. Revenues would
be utilized by the States and the
Federal Government to plan co
operative and comprehensive out
door recreation programs and to
acquire suitable new recreation
areas.
Annual Pezmits
Further financing for open
space acquisition programs would
be provided through a car permit
which would entitle annual ad
mission to all national parks, for
ests, fish and wildlife recreation
areas, dam reservoirs, and other
federally financed recreation
areas throughout the Nation.
With sufficient public under
standing and support, this is the
program which, in President Ken
nedy’s words, will enable tis to
move ahead in 1963 toward re
payment of our debt to the past—
and meeting our obligations to
the future.
Bomb Scare Affecting Children
BY PETER B. YOUNG
In Raeford News-Journal
Just last week I came face-to-
face with a pretty 6-year-old girl
child, who had a bad case of bomb
jitters. This was not a pleasant
sight and, of coiuse, I had to face
up to the degree of responsibility
I had for her condition. Various
writings of mine had persuaded
her parents to make some mini
mal Civil Defense precautions
which, in turn, considerably upset
the child. (Of course, this child
also watches television, which
was a spook thing to do during
the Cuban crisis.)
Anyway, as I looked at this
upset child, and thought about
children in other parts of the
world who have been equally up
set (or worse) by preparations
for bombs and, in some instances,
bombs that were actually drop
ped, it occurred to me again that
life in the 20th century carries
risks and psychological burdens
that our forebears could not and
would not have believed possible.
I know of no military leader,
politician or scientist who thinks
that both the USA and the USSR
can continue to manufacture nuc
lear stuff without some of that
“stuff’ going off—either as a re
sult of deliberate choice or
“accident.”
I know of no military leader,
politician or scientist who thinks
that these two great countries can
continue indefinitely in a sup-
The Public
Speaking
Bouquets Tossed to
Post Office Workers
To the Editor:
Right now is a good time to toss
a few bouquets to overworked
and underpraised friends at the
post office.
Think for a moment about how
much of your Christmas depends
directly on the services of the
people who work in your postal
system. Considered in any wray,
you can’t get more for your
money than by investing in a
stamp.
So let me give them our thanks
and best wishes for a happy new
year—that is the time they have
been able to dimly sense is be
yond those mountains of Christ
mas boxes and acres of Christmas
cards.
MRS CHARLES PHILLIPS
Southern Pines
pressed state of conflict without
some final resolution.
I do know that three Ameri
can Presidents have made inter
mittent and haphazard pleas for
a consistent and realistic civil de
fense program. I do know that
the nuclear trigger fingers on both
sides quivered during the recent
Cuban crisis. I do know that never
again can American children be
brought up with the certain
knowledge that they are safe and
secure when Mommy and Daddy
tuck them in at night. American
children now will know the ter
rible anxiety that has afflicted
the children of other lands.
POEM FOR THE
NEW YEAR
Defenseless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages;
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust.
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame.
— W. H. AUDEN
New Year's Wish; Peace
Writing of the huge pubUc re
lations budget of the military to
promote more armaments and the
disruptive news that promotes
more armaments, Drew Pearson
summed it up neatly:
“The military this year has
$31,000,000 to spend on public re
lations to educate the country on
war while the State Department
is allotted only $l,5OO,O0O to edu
cate the country on ways to win
the peace.”
Poor Peace!
But must it always be; “poor”
peace?
Good For Man And Beast
The Pilot was handed a pre
scription by an eminent Fayette
ville physician the other day.
Written on the regulation pre
scription blank it said:
“Grains of Sand. . . one each
week for 1 year. Take in Southern
Pines Pilot. . . Refill p r n.” At
the top where it says AGE, the
blank is filled in with “Old
enough to appreciate The Pilot.”
Couldn't Make It
Once more we clip a stirring
tale from our favorite sheet, the
Potomac Almanac. This is about
a business crisis that recently
took place in that town.
It seems that “a do-it-yourself
type gal,” as the Almanac calls
the heroine, decided to stop up
some holes in the walls of her
stable. So she got in her tiny Cor-
vair and drove down to the local
gravel pit for the makings. When
she lined up with the big gravel
trucks to be weighed, her little
car didn’t even register. But let
the Almanac tell it:
“Finally her turn came to move
in under the huge conveyer belt
that had been spewing tons of
gravel into the trucks. The man
peered down at her. “You lost,
lady?,” he asked.
“When she showed him her two
burlap bags, saying she wanted
one filled with large gravel and
cne with medium, he looked
stunned: ‘St. Peter!’ he said,
“Wa’ll need a shovel! Anyone got
a shovel?’ Upon which the
whole automatic operation of
the gravel company came to a
halt while everyone looked for
a shovel.
“An hour later, with sacks
filled, the little Corvair went
poketa-poketa to the weighing-
out platform. It stiU registered
nothing. When the heroine tried
to pay anyway, the gallant gravel
man shook his head: ‘Why, lady,
we spill that much off our trucks
and never notice!’ ”
Try, Try. Try Again
‘Happy New Year,” the phrase
goes back a long time. Carolers at
Christmas ended many a Noel
with the hopeful voices as the
next year came close.
The message of peace on earth,
good will among men must have
seemed just as impossible, just as
foolish, in those days as it does
today. Then as now the world
was beset by the sufferings and
wrongs of human existence, with
the evil of war, then as nov/, the
greatest enemy. And still they
knew, as we know today, that war
is the result of man's cruelty to
man, his bad will getting the
upper hand.
And so it is the second part of
the angels’ message that is the im
portant part. The carolers knew
this as, through the years with
staunch hearts they sang their
enduring message of good will to
all:
Fast away the old year passes,
Hail the new, ye lads and lasses,
Heedless of the wind and weather.
Sing we joyous all together:
Love and joy come to you
And God bless you
And send you
A Happy New Year!
The PILOT
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THE PILOT. Incorporated
Southern Pines, North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD—19U
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