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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1963
Southern Pines
ILOT
North Carolina
^^Gee Whiz, Dad/ Don’t Be So New-Fashioned!”
“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 ^
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. „
Boost for the College Project
This tveek’s announcement that Mrs
C. Louis Meyer—who owns a large tract
of land in the area between Pinehurst
and the Southern Pines-Pinehurst Air
port — has given about 100 acres for
the propKJsed comprehensive, two-year
community college to serve this area,
is a mighty boost to the project.
Happily, assurance of the gift was re
ceived Monday, in time to list it along
with other salient information in today’s
presentation of Moore County’s request
for such a college before the State Board
of Education at Raleigh.
Gift of the college site continues a re
cord of extraordinary generosity by Mrs.
Meyer and her late husband, a Chicago
industrialist, to this area. Recalled especi
ally is Mrs. Meyer’s gift of $55,000 to
Moore Memorial Hospital in 1955, in
memory of her husband who died in 1953,
for construction of the children’s wing.
Since counties are obligated to build
community colleges, under the enaWing
legislation approved by this year’s Gen
eral Assembly, donation of the land
would markedly reduce the amount of a
contemplated county bond issue for the
college. The tract given by Mrs. Meyer is
appraised at around $40,000.
The site is large enough so that it can
also be considered as a possible location
for a consolidated Aberdeen-West End
high school, to be constructed separately
from the college. School officials said
Mrs. Meyer is aware that a portion of the
land might also be put to this use. 'This
would also reduce the bonds needed for
construction of such a school, if the coun
ty decides to build its consolidated high
schools, as well as the college, via the
bond issue route.
Gratitude for Mrs. Meyer’s generosity
will be deeply felt throughout the area
to be served by the college.
The Bald Eagle —Going... Going...
unless the present trend can be arrested.
The extent to which DDT, one of the
most widely and carelessly used insecti
cides, is permeating living matter and,
directly or through a chain reaction, de
stroying wildlife, is apparent from an
item in “Conservation News,” a bulletin
of the National Wildlife Federation.
Within recent months 45 bald eagles—
the magnificent bird that is the nation’s
symbol—have been analyzed for pesti
cide residues, after being found dead
or in the throes of death. All but one
contained DDT in the tissues, apparent
ly obtained from eating fish which, in
turn, had been poison^ by consuming
small forms of aquatic life which absorb
and concentrate pesticides from the
water which surrounds them.
Because it’s estimated that there are
fewer than 1,000 bald eagles remaining
alive in the 48 mainland states, it’s clear
that this bird is, on its way to extinction.
One can imagine, if 45 eagles were found,
how many others died and were never
found in wild and inaccessible areas.
Bald eagle nests in Michigan and the
Chesapeake Bay area are drastically re
duced from last year—and in only a few
of the nests were young birds observed.
In the less than 20 years that DDT has
been on the market for general use, it
has so permeated our environment that
it appears in the fatty tissues of most
living things, including meat consumed
by human beings, not to mention the
tissues of human beings themselves. It
is not disposed of by the body, but is
stored in the tissues. What its effect is
on man, over a lifetime, cannot be
known, because no man has lived out
a lifetime since DDT was introduced.
Folly, obviously, has not yet been
eliminated from human affairs.
Sinister Background of ‘Speakers Bill’
Two weeks ago, just after a confused
and tired and by-no-means unanimous
General Assembly railroaded the “visiting
speakers bill” into law. The Pilot de
nounced the measure as “an insult to the
intelligence and patriotism of educators
and students.” It is just that.
The new law has met with almost uni
versal disapproval and scorn from the
press of the state. North Carolina’s edi
tors are as honorable and patriotic a
group as could be found anywhere in
the nation. Not by the wildest stretch of
the imagination could any of them be
called communist sympathizers. They
simply saw, perhaps because they are
used to sticking their heads through or
around smokescreens of one sort or an
other, that a ban on speakers who are
communists or who have pleaded the
Fifth Amendment, while sounding like a
righteous rejection of subversion and a
protection for young minds, is in reality
a low blow against a basic American
right—freedom of expression.
It was a low blow—a foul, a stab in
the back—because the law means that,
to prevent one rare or occasional com
munist or Fifth Amendment pleader from
speaking at a state supported educational
institution, hundreds of other persons
would have to be subjected to humiliating
investigations or questioning.
Not only would such a task be fantasti
cally difficult for university and college
officials—who are charged with enforcing
the new law—but laws like this are held
in such great contempt by the American
Goodbye, Bill Sanders
Bill Sanders, the cartoonist whose
work has appeared in The Pilot for
nearly four and a half years, has left the
Greensboro Daily News—from which his
drawings were syndicated to numerous
North Carolina daily and non-daily news
papers—and will soon become editorial
cartoonist for the Kansas City Star.
We have been proud to publish the
work of Mr. Sanders, which has provided
for The Pilot and other small papers
lively and pithy graphic commentary on
state, national and international affairs.
Such a service, at a cost that a small
paper can afford, is a rarity in the field of
journalism and will be sorely missed.
At this writing. The Pilot has no plans
for a service to succeed that of Mr.
Sanders. Previously unused cartoons
will tide us over a few weeks until a
replacement is obtained.
Numerous newspapers over the nation
and overseas have honored Mr. Sanders
by reprinting his work during his tenure
at Greensboro. His going to the Star
means a larger audience and, we are
confident, increasing recognition as one
of the outstanding young cartoonists in
the nation today. "The Hlot’s gratitude
and best wishes go with him on his
venture in Kansas City.
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VERBAL ATTACKS NOW MADE IN OPEN
Russian-Chinese Rift Is Traced
academic and intellectual community
that top people would be repelled from
serving on the faculties of state educa
tional institutions or visiting the cam
puses in any official capacity.
Some of the editors dug even deeper,
finding sinister overtones in the origins
and purposes of the new law. Ed Yoder of
the Greensboro Daily News traced the
background to a television broadcast by
WRAL’s Jesse Helms, that doughty com
mentator who daily sets up and knocks
down a host of fancied threats to the
Republic. An Ohio proposal like the
one eventually adopted in this state was
praised by Helms. Secretary of State
Thad Eure (at whose suggestion it is not
known) obliged by writing to Ohio for
the text and then, with unbroken cour
tesy, and very quietly, drafted the North
Carolina bill which was pushed through
the House while the rules were suspend
ed, and steamrollered through the Senate
by Sen. Clarence Stone, presiding officer
of that body, who cut off attempted de
bate like a machine chopping off fish
heads in a canning factory.
The sinister aspect is that this whole
process was a hush-hush affair, making
it clear that the sponsors—whoever they
all were along the line—knew that their
project could not stand the light of day—
adequate debate, consultation with the
University officials and trustees, subjec
tion to discussion by the press and con
sideration in the forum of public opinion.
The bill was a creature of the twilight,
from the start.
And that’s not all. The Chapel Hill
Weekly, one of the state’s most sophisti
cated smokescreen dispellers, sees the
speakers bill not even as a misguided
attempt at patriotism, but as a consciously
hostile retaliation by certain legislators
against State-supported institutions be
cause students and faculty members
from these institutions had taken part
in demonstrations on behalf of Negro
civil rights, and were unrestricted in
these activities by University or college
officials.
The speakers bill was a substitute for
direct race-baiting that disgruntled legis
lators knew could never be written into
law, the Weekly asserts. “So,” says the
Weekly, “the phony anticommunist but
ter was used to grease the legislative skids
and enable the honorables to slip a knife
into the University.” The law’s real pur
pose was “to embarrass the University
administration, attack the public’s con
fidence and brandish a big club. . . ”
This is sinister indeed—an example, if
it be true, of a despicable linking of race
and communism, two explosive issues on
which there is a vast amount of irrational
and violent emotion.
So have the waters been muddied.
And the State, by needless, disrupting,
internal controversy, as well as the crip
pling of academic freedom, has been done
no end of harm.
BY JOSEPH C. HARSCH
Special Conespondenl
Christian Science Monitor
London
One measure of the present
shape of relations between Com
munist China and the Soviet
Union is that they now openly
identify each other in verbal at
tacks on each other. Nikita S.
Khrushchev has specifically nam
ed Chinese leaders as being re
sponsible for “extremely aggrava
ting their difference” with the
Soviet and other Communist Par
ties.
It is particularly interesting to
recall that when Harold Macmil
lan was in Moscow in the spring
of 1959 and when President Ken-'
nedy met Mr. Khrushchev in
Vienna in the spring of 1961, Mr.
Khrushchev refused to admit that
he was having serious troubles
with the Chinese. Needless to say
Messrs. Macmillan and Kennedy
used to the utmost their oppor
tunities to try to obtain an accur
ate reading. Nothing came of their
fishing expeditions on those two
occasions.
There apparently were hints in
the overtones of remarks made
by Mr. Khrushchev’s son-in-law,
Alexei Adzhubei when he visited
the White House in November,
1961, but this seems to have been
the first time that any high-level
Soviet admitted to a high West
erner that matters between Mos
cow and Peking had become seri
ous.
Of course we know that the dif
ficulties date from far back, in
deed from the very consumma
tion of the Communist revolution
in China itself. Stalin tried to
limit the extent of the Commu
nist success and was not pleased
to have the Chinese Communists
win a decisive military victory
over all of mainland China. Sta
lin favored keeping China weak
and, divided.
We also know in retrospect that
the issues between Moscow and
Peking contmu»9d to be manage
able down to the time of the
Hungarian uprising. At that time
Peking appeared very briefly to
play an avuncular and protective
role in Poland at the time when
Moscow was on the brink of un
leashing a military repression in
Poland like the one unleashed on
Hungary.
The first major policy differ
ence found Moscow and Peking
on opposite sides from the ones
they now occupy. In late 1956 Pe
king was preaching “let a hun
dred flowers bloom” and protect
ing deviationist Poland against
orthodox Moscow. Now China
preaches orthodoxy and Moscow
grows closer to the arch devia
tionist of the Communist world,
President Tito of Yugoslavia.
The expulsion or withdrawal
of technicians and students, we
are not quite sure which, took
place in August of 1960, and two
years after the last Soviet con
sulates in China, Harbin and
Shanghai, were closed down.
Soviet-Chinese trade dropped
steadily during that period and
by 1962 had ceased to be impor
tant in volume or value to either
party.
However, a review of the record
would appear to indicate that
both parties avoided any final
definitive action up to the period
of the Cuban crisis. It was ap
parently assumed among most
Communists until that time that
the differences could somehow
be composed and compromised.
There must have been many
reasons why a reapproachment
did not take place. Perhaps one
was a Chinese overestimate of
Soviet military power. Another
must have been Chinese resent
ment of the higher Soviet living
standard and Soviet unwilling
ness to deprive its own people to
feed the Chinese.
Charles de Gaulle thinks the
Russian people are at heart Euro
pean and are drawn by cultural
heritage and folk memory back
toward Europe. Perhaps abetting
this is a Chinese folk arrogance
which can never tolerate playing
junior partner for long to any
Western people, and to the Chin
ese, Russians hardly seem the
most civilized of Westerners.
(Reprinted by permission)
The Public Speaking
Mount Hope Cemetery
Care Being Neglected
To the Editor:
What has happened to our cem
etery? In days past. Mount Hope
was considered the loveliest cem
etery in this area. Today the
beauty has been dimmed by
weeds, resulting in an unkempt
look.
When placed on a grave, beau
tiful bouquets of flowers are
quickly hidden in a veritable
jungle of un-mown grass. It
seems to me that this kind of
neglect is unworthy of our other
wise beautiful town. It was my
understanding that with the pur
chase of a cemetery lot, perpetu
al care was included, or was I
mistaken?
(MRS) VEDA B. SMITH
Southern Pines
Goldwaler Would Be
Best Possible Candidate
To the Editor:
In regard to the somewhat sub
tle attack upon Senator Barry
Goldwater in “The Public Speak
ing” column last week, I should
like to submit the following in
his defense.
I believe that Goldwater is the
best possible candidate that the
GOP can run next year for four
major reasons. First, his candi
dacy would strengthen the party
organization in the South where
today it is just beginning to
grow. Second, it would give the
voters of the nation a real choice
between the “liberal” and “con
servative” philosophies—between
government control or laissez
faire. Third, Goldwater would
provide a sparkling personality
combined with deep-rooted con
viction which has been lacking in
recent candidates such as Nixon.
And fourth, the nation is well-
acquainted with Goldwater’s ideas
on domestic and foreign issues.
As to his popularity, he is one
of the most sought-after speakers
in the nation today. He spoke at
a rally of 18,500 conservative col
lege students last year in New
York and last week, July 4, 7,000
Republicans gathered in Wash-
in^on to launch a draft Gold-
water effort on a national scale.
I believe Goldwater is the best
candidate because of the excel
lent chance he has to win and
his popularity within his
party.
WILLIAM L. WICKER
Vice President, North Carolina
Teen-Age Republican Clubs
Aberdeen
Birch Society Member
Resents 'Fascist' Label
To The Editor:
The hoopla and publicity at
tendant to President Kennedy’s
European trip to the contrary not
withstanding, the political out
look for Donald G. Herring’s hero
is not very bright. Members of
the Democratic National Com
mittee, meeting in Washington
week before last, were told of one
poll that showed that President
Kennedy’s popularity had drop
ped to 39 per cent. Other national
commentators say JFK’s popu
larity is under 50 per cent.
If Mr. Herring is a regular
reader of The Public Speaking
column of The Pilot, he knows
that I belong to the John Birch
Society. Therefore, you can bet
your favorite cliche that he hit
a sensitive nerve when he refer
red to Barry Goldwater as “the
darling of the fascist wing of the
Republican Party, the John Birch-
ers and their ilk.” (He doesn’t
tell us whose darling JFK is.) It
seems to me that Mr. Herring is
calling members of the John
Birch Society Fascists and that
since I am a member of the So
ciety, he is calling me a Fascist.
Them’s fightin’ words, you know.
The reason I resent being called
, j a Fascist even by implication is
that to me a Fascist is the ideo
logical kissing cousin of the
Communist, the Socialist, the Fa
bian, or even the liberal. In
other words, they are all ana
thema to me.
By the way, there were up
wards to three thousand dele
gates at the recent young Repub
licans Convention and seventy
five per cent of them were pro-
Goldwater.
(Mrs.) PAT VAN CAMP
Southern Pines
He Made It!
You often hear someone say,,
as he pours over a Sears cata
logue: “Wonder when they’ll
start carrying autonibbiles among
their merchandise?”
Maybe Town Manager Major
Rainey was thinking along those
lines the other day when he made
his unexpected and spectacular
entrance into the Sears store on
lower Broad Street.
It was quite an entrance. He
went in (1) through the big plate
glass window and (2) sitting in
his—or the town’s—car, firmly
grasping the wheel, foot tramping
down on the brake that had quit
cold.
Car and driver nestled beside a
big refrigerator, having pushed it
aside a bit to make room, mid
the tinkling of glass. Then Hail
Colurpbia broke loose as all the
A & P staff and customers, the
folks at Austin’s and the next
door paint shop came running.
Dental specialists came, white
coats a-flying pursued by indig
nant patients, ladies burst from
the Stylorama all dolled up or
dripping, all these and many
more, so it is alleged, converged
to hail T.M.M. Rainey (1st cl.)’s
unique achievement.
Also came The Law.
“Just one more little break-in,”
murmured We-won't-tell-who.
Keeping in Line
Coming up Connecticut Ave
nue towards Ridge last week late
one afternoon we were startled
to see approaching a long line of
cars headed by a patrolman. They
were travelling at a very sedate
pace and the line reached as far
as we could see.
What was it? A funeral? Or
maybe someone hurt? Another
bad accident out on the Fort
Bragg Road? A man had dropped
off the last car, the fifteenth or
sixteenth, at least, and as we
turned into Ridge Street he was
walking along. We slowed down.
“Some accident?” we called,
“You all driving so slow. Was
there a smash-up, or a fire or
something?”
The man turned with a grin.
“Not a thing, lady,” he said.
“Only That Law up in front. Ain’t
a one of us was going to pass
him, no, sir! We come like that,
all the way.”
Pigtale
Up in the Smokies, there lived
two brothers named Johnson.
Finding themselves short of meat
one evening, they waited till it
was dark then drove over to the
next cove, sneaked in and stole
their neighbor’s pig. They got him
into the back of their pick-up but
he set up such an outcry of pro
test when they started off that
they finally put him between
them on the front seat.
Driving homeward they were
suddenly stopped by the sheriff
and deputy, cruising round on the
prowl for just such playful folks
as the Johnsons.
The sheriff flagged them down
and walked up to the truck. He
looked in the back: nothing there.
Then he came round to the front
and squinted into the dark cab at
the driver:
“What’s your name?” he asked.
“Jim Johnson,” said the first
brother.
The sheriff walked around to
the other side:
“What’s your name?” he asked
the other brother.
“Jack Johnson,” was the re
ply-
Then the sheriff leaned in the
window: “What’s your name,” he
asked, “you there in the middle?”
“Oink!” said the pig.
The sheriff consulted his dep
uty. “Seems okay,” he said “You
can drive on, boys.”
As the truck shoved off, the
sheriff shook his head. “You
know,” he said: “those two John
sons, Jim and Jack, are right
good-looking boys but that Oink
Johnson sure is the ugliest feller
I ever did see.”
THE PILOT
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Southern Pines. North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD—1944
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