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Page TWO THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina REPRESSION RESULTS FROM FEAR THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1963 ILOT Southern Pines North Carolina ‘Whose Children Were They?’ After more than a week, the ghastly bombing that killed four Negro children in a Birmingham church has lost none of its horror. No single event that has taken place in the United States for many years "has caused more revulsion at the cruel folly of which man is capable in even a supposedly civilized society. “Whose children were they?” asks the writer of a bitter, eloquent letter on this page. And he gives an answer that the people of the United States must not only face but must ponder deeply in their hearts: “They were America’s children America’s children: heirs to the free doms, the opportunities, the responsibili ties that have been hewn and set as the solid underpinning of our national life over the course of nearly 200 years. Seen in this light, how shallow, how contemptible become all assertions that Drifting Into Catastrophe If only a small proportion of the thous ands of healthy, qualified men and wo men in Moore County gave blood, twice or even one a year at the periodic visits of the “bloodmobile” to its seven regular stopping places, the Red Cross blood pro gram that supplies both the county’s hospitals would be a constant, over whelming success. The people of Moore County are using about 1,400 pints per year. All the Red Cross center at Charlotte asks is that the county’s people donate back as much as they use. Generous, interested, helpful in many matters, the people of Moore County seem to have developed a blind spot in relation to the blood program. They have been failing it dismally, and with steadily in creasing ineffectiveness, year after year. Now the crisis is upon us. If 588 pints of blood are not given in the five remain ing visits of the bloodmobile in 1963, the Red Cross center can no longer serve this county. And that, as everybody attending a recent meeting to assess the situation Late—But Not Better Tliis seems to be Tax Week. A gloomy time for everybody, unless there may be a few rare souls with such a lofty phi losophy that they are public-spirited enough—or possibly vain enough—to re joice in the discovery of how high taxes have risen, indicating that we here in Moore County are more valuable even than we thought. To most of us, at least in McNeill town ship, the gloom may outweigh the good. This is particularly apt to be the case when, in gazing apprehensively at those envelopes with the Carthage postmark labelled MOORE COUNTY TAX COL LECTOR, we realize that they contain an extra sting., They have been mailed so late that it will likely be impossible for some of us to take advantage of the use ful one percent discount allowed if pay ment is made in August or September. August is dead and gone and here it is September and the last week at that. A good many people, we would guess, will find it very hard, and may be unable, to scrounge up enough cash quickly enough to mail their payments before the month is over. This is too bad. Doubtless the cause lies in the Carthage office and doubtless they worked hard up there; the job may have grown too big for the folks and maybe they need more help. Whatever the trouble, it ought to be rectified so it wont happen again. The gloom is deep enough in Tax Week without this added annoyance, creating hardship certainly for some and exasperating everybody. One Way To Help Young People The Youth Employment and Conserva tion Bill, whose primary purpose is “to provide work and training for youths from the age of 16 through 21,” has passed the Senate and is expected to go before the House soon. An interesting aspect of the nation’s response to this proposal is that many police chiefs, including several in this area, are endorsing the legislation. There has been ample evidence in courts in Moore County that break-ins, vandalism, affrays and traffic law of fenses, all involving young people, have been increasing. School drop-outs and un employed young persons are often involv ed. In case after case, the offenses as re vealed in court seem not so much the acts of criminals as a form of entertainment. Discouraged and bored, young law-break ers simply have nothing else interesting to do. During the next three years, five and a half million youngsters, most of them under 20, will be seeking their first full time jobs. Two million of these will be high school drop-outs and, unless they are able to gain additional training, their chances of landing a job are slim. And, without jobs, their chances of becoming involved in crime are good. Congressional approval of the Youth Employment and Conservation Bill—the only nation-wide effort to meet the com ing youth unemployment crisis head-on —has already been delayed too long. Small-town police chiefs can smell trouble coming. No wonder they are en dorsing the Administration’s plan. Add A Cup Of Opportunity.. It is disturbing to read that John H. Glenn, Jr., the astronaut, is trying to de cide “whether to leave the nation’s space program for politics or for a $1 million job in private industry.” The disturbing element is not that Glenn is contemplating relinquishing the chores of an astronaut. He should be free to do anything he pleases. In or out of the space program, he will remain a national hero, a figure in history. But, according to Glenn’s legal advisor, the astronaut spent one and a half or two hours discussing with the attorney the possibility of entering politics—“on both sides of the fence.” Does that mean that Glenn is prepared to become either a Democrat or a Repu blican according to which party seems to offer the brighter future? We find it distasteful to contemplate a candidate who, at the age of 40, presumes to offer himself for any post of responsi bility with no strongly held prior political convictions, no deep feeling for the tra ditions or significance of one party or the other. Such a candidate’s service would be a sort of instant statesmanship, based on a pre-packaged and newly acquired creed to which was added a cup of opportunity, the way cakes are made nowadays. Is there anything in knowing how to pilot a space capsule that would qualify a man for public office? As we see it, fame can never take the place of convic tions as a qualification for such a career. Freedom: Way Of American Faith “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 2.^, 1941. some children in this nation should be denied their heritage—^that they are not completely and rightfully “Americas children”—because of the color of their skin! Can we pridefully call ourselves Ameri cans if we deny to any segment of our society all the blessings that our hard- won, cherished heritage provides? As the writer of the letter points out, the fathers and the forefathers of Ameri ca’s dark children have toiled also to build this nation, often while others reap ed the benefits; and they have fought in the wars that kept this nation free. Full participation by those children in the American heritage is theirs by virtue of past achievement as well as by simply being born in the United States. Four dark children died. Millions are living—also “America’s children.” Is it not then a patriot’s task to help assure their rightful heritage to them? (reported elsewhere in today’s Pilot) agreed, would be a catastrophe indeed. Nor can we blame the Red Cross. How can the Charlotte center continue to send into Moore County each year more than 500 pints of blood than are not donated here? Who are the people, elsewhere over the state, who gave that blood that saved lives in Moore? Are we in this county so incredibly incapable of looking after our own? Red Cross blood program officials say that if only the persons who had pledged to give blood, in visit after visit to the seven Moore County communities, would really give, the Moore County shortage would be largely prevented. But many don’t give—and unless they change their ways or unless many other persons step forward—Moore County will lose an efficient, proven service that is saving lives, aiding physicians and help ing maintain the high standard of medi cal care of which this area is justly proud. Will the people of Moore County allow this great service go by default? We can’t believe it. As pari of the Norlb Car olina Tercenlenary Celebra- lion. Dr. Frank P. Graham delivered an address at Ap palachian Slate Teachers Col lege at Boone in Western North Carolina. Following are excerpts from this ad dress by the United Nations mediator who is a former president of the University of North Carolina and former U. S. senator from this slate, dealing primarily with the "anti - Communist speaker" law for state educational in stitutions, enacted this year by the General Assembly. This celebration of Daniel Boone’s crossing the Blue Ridge, as a significant part of the com memoration of the 300th anniver sary of the birth of Carolina, comes at a timely hour. It will serve to awaken our people against a possible trend of re action and retreat from the frontiers of freedom of the mind and equal suffrage for all. North Carolina, which under the valiant leadership of Bickett and Morrison abolished the poll tax, has failed to ratify the Con stitutional amendment, sponsored by Senator Holland of Florida, which would abolish the poll tax in the remaining five states where its cumulative prohibition excludes many patriotic Ameri- mans, white and colored, from the right to vote. Moreover, North Carolina, the historic home of complete free dom of political and ideological discussion, has suddenly shown a lack of faith in the robustness of our free American democratic institutions by restricting the complete freedom of political and ideological discussion in our state colleges. Unpopular Views A member of the Communist party who is necessarily under the tyranny of the party line and therefore automatically without freedom of mind has no valid place as a teacher in a free uni versity. Any speaker, while un der lawful indictment for treason, has no valid claim to speak in a free university which might be found in violation of federal law if he were later found guilty, of treason. Responsible student or ganizations should have freedom DR. FRANK P. GRAHAM to invite and to hear speakers of unpopular views, whether to the right, the left, or in the middle. It may be recalled that the President of the University was in the thirties admonished by a pdtriotic North Carolinian be cause Norman Thomas, on stu dents’ invitations, spoke several times from the University plat form. When again in the thirties, the President was attacked by some Democrats because the Republican candidate for vice president, in response to the in vitation of students, spoke in Memorial Hall, the person who came most vigorously to his de fense was the very man who questioned the propriety of Nor man Thomas having that free dom. When reminded by his friends, he replied in characteris tic good humor. “I am just be ginning to get the idea. The Uni versity of the people belongs to no one party but to all parties and all the people.” Law abiding students should not be dismissed from a collegf because of their political views, however mistaken those views might be. The best way for most of the usual handful of such stu dents to learn the errors of their views is in the uncensored dis cussion of a decently free cam- put democracy. In the Open It may be recalled that when the demand was made, during the depression and the recovery, that a handful of extreme leftist stu dents at Chapel Hill be dismissed. we refused. Most of those few learned the error of their ways and later fought and some died for America and freedom in the world on the farthest frontiers of human liberty. In Chapel Hill they wer.3 known and in the open. In some other places, it has later been said, such handfuls of stu dents—perhaps no less and may be more in number—were not in tha open but were underground. We need in these days to be reminded of, and to be resourced in, our Judaic-Christian, Ameri can and North Carolina heritage and hope. When some leaders in the Sanhedrin wished to suppress the views of followers of the radi cal Jesus, the wise Gamaliel ad vised them that if this new gos pel be of God it could not be overthrown and if not of God it would come to naught. John Milton said to those who would repress freedom of print and speech that they would actually be suppressing themselves and the free institutions of England. Thomas Jefferson said that he had “sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” With the “freedom to argue free ly” he maintained that he had “no fear of the outcome.” Principles of Light Freedom is the way of en lightened faith. Repression is the way of frightened people. The best answer to totalitarian tyr anny is not fear and repression but loyalty to the principles of light and liberty, equal freedom and open democracy of our his toric Americanism. Now is the time for the youth and people of North Carolina to rally to the side of President Fri- lay, Chancellors Aycock, Cald well, Singletary and the presi dent, faculty and students of all our state institutions. May this great heritage of our Judiac-Christian faith and our commitment to light, liberty, and human dignity in this historic an niversary year, become a part of the structure and substance of man’s unresting dream of build ing on this earth a nobler home, of the family of man in the eter nal adventure of the human spirit for equal freedom, justice and peace under law and human brotherhood under God in these years of mortal peril and immor tal hope for all mankind. The Public Speaking Evil Forces Killed The Children In Birmingham To the Editor: This is the general feeling ex pressed here about an incident that happened as close as Bir mingham, Ala. The scene is a church occupied mostly by children making their last minute preparations for Sun day morning services. I imagine they asked questions like these, upon approaching the church: Mother, do you think my dress will be all right after Sun day School? Do you think I should speak louder when I read the announcements? Typical questions for children. In the church, some are so anxious to take their places that they leave Sunday School early. Then fanatical, evil forces swing into action and the lightning strikes. A bomb is thrown. Re sult—four children are still and dead. Whose children were they? Answer—they were America’s children: children whose fathers showed their Americanism by standing fast on the battlefields of of the world. Why are these children still and dead? Nine sticks of dynamite, one for each attitude: hatred, fear, disgust, anxiety, anti-trust, anti respect, anti-Christian, anti-de mocratic, anti-civilized. What makes prejudiced white' people so bitter about the rights of black Americans? Do they need time? They’ve had a hun dred years. We have contributed to every field of American cul ture and they have reaped the benefits. We have earned respect in three wars and one conflict. We have held our dignity in pas sive resistance, though spit upon and—men and women—dragged to the paddy wagon. Though we were unarmed, they have used vicious dogs arid fire hoses to push us back—because we want something that belongs to us. They hate us and we cook their meals. They don’t trust us but send us to the bank to deposit their money. They fear us and we rear their children. They con stantly are disgusted with us and we wash and iron the clothes they wear each day. Carol Robinson, Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins and Cynthia Wesley—their pains banished in the twinkling of an eye, their lives ended and four more names added to the Community Memor ial Day exercises. Prejudiced white people must suffer: so long as they don’t ac cept our will and word for what it is, they must go through life miserably adding dynamite to more bombs for our little chil dren. They must try to destroy our houses against which the gates of hell shall not prevail. It is they to whom we speak when we say: As you have done it unto the least of these my breth ren, you have done it unto me. J. ROCHELL SMALL 903 W. Pennsylvania Ave. Method To Point Out High Taxes Suggested To the Editor: Why don’t workers rebel against confiscatory taxation? Pay check after paycheck, their hard earned money is taken away from them before they even have a chance to touch it. Isn’t the reason be cause the withholding system makes paying taxes so painless that employees don’t fully realize that they ever earned the money they don’t get week after week and, instead of rebelling against high government taxation, they somehow blame their bosses for not giving them their full pay? As long as the men and women who have their taxes removed so conveniently from their pay can be kept from being fuUy aware of the high taxes they pay, only scattered and ineffectual protests will be made. Therefore, management, not labor, must lead the fight to arouse public opinion to the de gree necessary to force Congress to a bill that would eliminate the withholding of income tax from wages and salaries. (Representa tive Bruce Alger has introduced such a bill (HR 739). There is a brilliantly simple way for management to do this. (And isn’t it high time that they should? After all, isn’t having to work as unpaid tax collectors for the government tantamount to involuntary servitude?) Instead of prorating the amount deducted from each employee’s wages so SAME FOR ALL The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of man ners but having the same manner for all human souls; in short, be having as if you were in heaven where their are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another. —GEORGE BERlvIARD SHAW that the same amount is taken out each pay day, employers should deduct taxes only once a month which is all they are forc ed by federal regulations to do. Mr. A. K. Summers is the orig inator of the once-a-month-only withholding plan. (An organiza tion called S.W.A.T.—Stop With holding All Taxes—has been form ed to spearhead this drive with headquarters at Parkersburg, West Virginia, P. O. Box 1707.) He reports that his employees have really had their eyes opened. Imagine getting a check for $125 every week for three weeks and. the fourth week getting one for only $22.68. You wouldn’t have to be very smart to understand that you had been paying almost a full week’s pay out of a month for taxes. What plan could be better to make people see that all of this wild federal spending is coming out of their pockets— not some imaginary somebody else’s? This plan can become operative immediately!- Employers and plant managers should write to the above address for more in formation. PAT VAN CAMP Southern Pines Broken Treaties Listed In Senate Document 125 To the Editor: In reply to the letter of a reader concerning my letter urg ing defeat of the test ban treaty, I submit this letter. The writer of the letter challenged my listing of fifty broken treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the interest of space, I refer the reader to the staff study for the Congressional subcommittee, to investigate the adminstration of th e internal security act and other inernal security laws, of the Committee on the Judiciary of the United States Senate. This booklet is Senate Document number 125, revised, printed in 1959, and may be obtained from the reader’s senator or from me. It lists those treaties made with the Soviet Union and further lists those which have been broken. It appears that the Congress will ratify this treaty which seems to not be in the best in terest of either our defense or that of the free world. WILLIAM L. WICKER Former Chairman of North Carolina Young Americans for Freedom Chapel Hill Erstwhile Visitors Books by two erstwhile friends of the Sandhills appeared on the Greensboro Daily "^News book page recently. One is by the late Carolina au thor and columnist, Ben Dixon MacNeill, and the other by the South African, Stuart Cloete. The two were fairly frequent visitors to these parts during its heyday as a writers’ colony. Cloete made several long stays with both the Burt and Boyd families while MacNeill used to drop down from Raleigh to jeer at his friends, in his pose as the hard-boiled newspaper columnist scoffing at the “literary lights.” And before he died, MacNeill wrote a fine book about Hatteras and this present one, “dripping with sentiment,” according to a reviewer, and Cloete rolls on and on across the African Veldt, in one lengthy novelistic trek after another. Speaking of Books Another book that struck a bell with us, also reviewed Sunday, is “Rascal,” an appropriate title, all right, because it’s about a raccoon and if there ever was a rascal, a raccoon is it. We knew one who belonged to Dot, our Maine laundry gal. He had a hideous sense of humor. In fact, he was a practical joker summa cum. Dot called him “Coony” and Coony had one favorite trick. He used to wait till she had her long clothes-line hung to its limit with washing; then he’d steal out, climb up an end pole and creep along the line, pulling out the clothespins as he went. When the last pair of underpants or night gown fell to the ground he’d let out a wild shriek of triumph and beat it for his hideaway up in a big oak. Once Dot caught him in the middle of the line and went after him with a broom, but when she saw the look on his face as he peered down at her, it was so funny she got to laughing and once more he got away. She never did cure him of it. Chapel Hill Weekly Please Copy The Four in a family recently come here from Chapel Hill were talking out on the back porch: the topic: “Where are you going when you die?” Said the Oldest (coming nine) “I’m going to heaven.” Said the Second: “I’m going to heaven, too.” (The Oldest sigh, ed.) Said the Third, (family tough guy): “Huh, I don’t know where I’m going. Bet you don’t either.” Said the Youngest: “I know where I’m going. I’m going to Chapel Hill!” Oh, Those People Adlai seems to have been in hot company, for once, at that party given by the Arthur Gold bergs in Washington. The ad lib bing was a free for all, as you might say. The host, introducing Steven son, the main speaker, comment ed rather glumly that though he had always been a Stevenson man, “like Wirtz and Minnow and Day and that ilk,” nobody had ever paid attention to him. Adlai listened, finally inter rupted. “You know,” he mused, a puzzled look on his face. “I don’t believe I’ve ever met an ilk.” “Not at the Ilks Club?” said someone. “Too bad.” Pul in Her Place Alice, aged four and a half, was talking to Suzy, aged three, about her new experience of going to school. “Do you like your school, Suzy?” inquired the oldest sister graciously. “Oh yeth!” chirped Suzy, “I love my school!” Alice considered. “Well,” she said, “Of course, for a child of your age, it’s probably all right.” 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 Bessie C. Smith Advertising Mary Scott Newton Business Mary Evelyn de Nissoff Society Composing Room Dixie B. Ray, Michael Valen, Thomas Mattocks, J. E. Pate, Sr., Charles Weatherspoon, Clyde Phipps. 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