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THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1964
■LOT
Southern Pines
North Carolina
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treat everybody alike.” — James Boyd, May 23, 1941.
To Better Serve Justice
We keep hearing more and more from
law enforcement officers and court of
ficials that there is need in Moore Coun
ty for both juvenile and domestic rela
tions courts.
Officers say that juvenile offenders are
increasing. Tiey can pull from their files
case after case of youngsters who have
been arrested repeatedly — some of
them going on to get in big trouble as
teenagers or youths in their 20’s, ap
parently confirmed in a life of crime.
Invariably, we have found that these
officers to whom juvenile offenders are
such an irksome nuisance are worried and
concerned that there is no agency, no
individual working regularly in attempts
to turn young offenders from their de
linquency, to help provide recreation or
other outlets for their frustrations, to go
into their homes and confer with their
parents—in short, to make some real
effort to bend the twig while it is bend
able.
As to domestic relations cases, we have
long thought that the burden of this sort
of court actions—most of which involve
suspended sentences (the conditions of
which are often violated) or court-direct
ed support payments (which often lapse
or become in arrears)—is too heavy for
the limited facilities of the three lower
courts in this county.
It is a tedious task for clerks of these
courts to receive and pay out the funds
that come in from domestic defendants
in a variety of cases. And the task often
becomes complicated beyond belief—
keeping track of partial payments, trying
to find and communicate with payor or
payee, having to have capiuses issued,
listening to the tales of woe and not be
ing able, often, to do anything to help.
With each week’s court, the cases mount
in number, each bringing potential new
complications and difficulties piled on
top of those that already exist. We won
der, sometimes, how the clerks, two of
whom have no other staff members to
assist them, ever manage to keep it all
straight.
What’s needed with a domestic court,
then, as with a juvenile court, is an of-
ficer of the court who is not desk-bound;
who can, like a probation officer, visit
the people involved; anticipate short
comings; counsel to prevent further out
breaks of violence in homes; and keep the
wheels of justice turning outside, as weU
as inside, the courtroom, working with
the Welfare Department, the Mental
Health Clinic and with law enforcement
officers, in trying as much as possible to
prevent muddles from endlessly develop
ing and repeating themselves.
Perhaps a court could be set up to
hear both juvenile and domestic relations
cases, with its special officer working in
both these related and often overlapping
fields. Perhaps the expenses of such a
court could be shared by the county and
its towns.
Whatever the answer, we’d like to see
the possibility of such a court investigat
ed. At stake is the future of numerous
youngsters, as well as the general social
stability encouraged by efficient and
skilled handling of domestic cases.
Puzzling Responsibility
Americans often have to exercise con
siderable imagination to make credible
various developments in foreign affairs.
So much of what happens overseas is
outside our experience—indeed outside
our notions of the believable.
every Turkish man, woman and child.”
In another portion of the article he uses
the actual term, massacre, in connection
with what might happen if the Greeks
had their way.
We can give some credence, for in
stance, to “massacres” in Africa which
has long been associated—to an exag
gerated degree, even—^with savagery.
But on Cyprus, in the heart of the tradi
tionally civilized Mediterranean world,
we find the same word, massacre, crop
ping up. Witness the lucid explanation
of the Cyprus situation, by Joseph C.
Harsch, on this page.
Despite a treaty-guaranteed right of the
Turkish minority to live on Cyprus, Mr.
Harsch explains, the Greek majority,
motivated by “ancient, deep and bitter
feelings,” would, if there were no outside
restraints, “by this time have destroyed,
dominated or driven from the island.
Here is a situation utterly foreign to
the experience of the American people
far exceeding in bitterness even our own
Civil War experience. And Americans
are likely to find themselves wondering
what we are doing mixed up with such an
—to us—improbable mess.
Yet here is the United States recogniz
ing the right of the Turks to intervene
and land forces on Cyprus, under the 1959
treaty, if the Greeks were to attempt a
massacre—a position presumably dictated
by the U. S. A.’s important alliance with
Turkey in relation to the supremely im
portant containment of the Soviet Union.
So it goes—another reminder of Amer
ican responsibility in a shrunken and
often puzzling world.
Bugs and Beatles
There' was an article in last Sunday’s
New York Times Magazine that made
fascinating reading. By David Dempsey,
it dealt with the teen-age mass hysteria
of the Beatles variety, and was entitled
“Why The Girls Scream, Weep, Flip.”
The author’s ideas seem to make a lot
of sense and he quotes extensively the
theories of others—psychiatrists’ and edu
cators—who have given serious study to
this whole question. There seems to be
general agreement that “Beatling” is
right in line with former crazes, such as
rock and roll and jitter bugging; right in
line, in fact, with similar crazes of the
past all the way back to the Greek legend
of Orpheus and the Bacchantes.
totally different angle: that this mass
hysteria is being exploited to fabulous
lengths into an enormous market for
records, pin-ups, and all sort of para
phernalia. Someone is making plenty of
money out of it and this whole Beatle
business is based on amazingly skillful
and powerful promotion.
And that makes it that much worse. It’s
a great pity and a great wrong that the
weakness of youth should be thus ex
ploited.
Heartwarming Response
The article describes the origin of this
sort of thing as the welling up, during
the lonely, disturbed, emotional time of
adolescence, of the craving to belong, to
find security in a group, in group action,
and, at the same time the craving to wor
ship together, to bow down, to obey. The
beating of the rhythm, like the rattle of
the Indian Medicine Man, the clicking of
bones in a tribal dance, even the hum
ming, swaying, insistent beat of the
insect world, is the hypnotic factor that
brings release.
The overwhelming success of blood col
lections made last week in both Southern
Pines and Carthage was heartwarming.
The generous response was evidence that
people of the county do not propose to
see the blood program lost by default—
as it nearly was lost last year.
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Fair Exchang«
According to the UP from
Britain, the London Committee
Against Obscenity reports as fol
lows:
“In the past three years, the
British customs have seized 826,-
454 pornographic American books
and destroyed them.”
America exports obscenity and
Britain exports the Beatles.
The British bum up the books;
the Beatles burn up the teen
agers.
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And We Think . . .
As for the Beatles: to this ob
server they completely lack the
few redeeming qualities of some
of the earlier crazes: their singing
is very poor, their rhythm com
pletely lacking in any get-up-and-
go—no capers, no fun; and they
look like something an undiscrim
inating cat brought home.
The Beatles are purely synthet
ic, built up by inspired advertis
ing and someone is surely making
a pile of money out of them.
Question?
Headline: “NORTH CARO
LINA REPUBLICANS PRAISED
BY RICHARD NIXON.”
Question: Is that good or bad?
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Pedagogical Pedi-atrics
We’re a long way from “heel,
toe, and away we go!”
Says a learned piece on the
newest fad: “It is generally ad
mitted that jungle rhythms influ
ence the ‘beat’ of much contem
porary dance activity. Every man,
according to this theory, is in
stinctively aboriginal in his feet.”
And every teen-age sister in
her head?
'^SCHiESCHE'
ANCIENT, DEEP, BITTER FEELINGS
Cyprus — WhaVs At Issue There
Writing from London, Jo
seph C. Harsch, special corre
spondent for The Christian
Science Monitor, throws ex
planatory light on the com
plicated Cyprus situatiaon.
The Pilot welcomes this op
portunity to reprint, by per
mission, Mr, Harsch's com
ments:
It’s an interesting theory, given added
point by something the author points
out: that the majority of Beatle addicts
are teen-age girls and, as he claims, the
majority of these are the less attractive,
homely, potentially lonely and unhappy
types. Their idols, of course, are men
usually only a few years older than them
selves. Says Dempsey: “The day when
young people ‘looked up to’ their heroes
is gone; instead they have foimd a self-
identifying culture which they need not
transcend . . . The hero is not only an
idol but an image.”
Playing a major role in attaining a new
high level of blood giving were new
committees named in Southern Pines and
Carthage. Similar committees—drawing
on service club, industrial and other
groups—have been appointed in other
communities over the county. We hope
that the work of all these committees will
be as productive as those that did such
a fine job here and in the Carthage area
last week.
Dempsey makes another point from a
We do not know of any volunteer com
munity service that rivals in daily value
this fine American Red Cross program
that supplies hospitals with blood of all
types, asking only that residents of the
area served donate back to the Red Cross
center as much blood annually as that
area’s sick and injured people use.
We have the impression that people all
over Moore County have waked up to the
tremendous value of this program and,
from now on, will never again fail to
support it adequately.
The nub and heart of the crisis
over Cyprus is the fact that the
Greek majority would like to
drive the Turkish minority off the
island or out of existence or into
a position of complete subservi
ence. Ancient, deep, and bitter
feelings have welled up.
If there were no outside re
straints on the behavior of the
people living on Cyprus it must
be assumed that the Greek ma
jority would by this time have de
stroyed, dominated, or driven
from the island every Turkish
man, woman, and child.
But the freedom of the Cypriote
Greeks to massacre or drive away
the Cypriote Turks is hampered
and restrained by a treaty right
possessed by Turkey under the
guaranty entered into among Tur
key, Greece and Britain in 1959,
upon which Cyprus rests.
Right to Action
Article 3 of that treaty of
guaranty reserves to each of the
three guaranteeing powers “the
right to take action with the
sole aim of reestablishing the
state of affairs established by
the treaty.”
One of the states of affairs es
tablished by the treaty was the
right of the Turkish minority to
live on the island and be a part
of the island community. Any
attempt to destroy it by massacre
or drive it from the island by in
timidation or reduce its political
position to that of an underprivi
leged minority would upset the
state of affairs established by the
treaty. Hence the Turks could
claim the right to move their own
armed forces into Cyprus to re
store the position of the Turkish
community on the island.
The validity of the right of the
Turkish Government to come to
the rescue of the Turkish minority
on Cyprus when the minority is
in trouble is itself the issue in
all the maneuverings over
whether the peace-keeping force
should be mounted from NATO
countries or under the United Na
tions.
Theory and Hope
Archbishop Makarios has in
sisted on taking the problem to
the United Nations on the theory
and in the hope that he might ob
tain from the Security Council of
of the United Nations an action or
resolution which would suppress
the Turkish government’s right
of armed intervention.
If that right were suppressed,
then the Greek majority would
enjoy the ability to deal as it
chose with the Turkish minority
in immunity from outside inter
ference.
The question in many minds
when Washington sent Undersec
retary of State George W. Ball to
Cyprus—by way of London,
Athens, and Ankara—was wheth
er the United States would recog
nize and support the Turkish
right of intervention under the
treaty of guaranty.
Question Answered
That question has now been
answered. Both Washington and
London do recognize the validity
of the Turkish right of interven
tion. Both hope that the Turks
will not find it necessary to land
their armed forces on Cyprus in
order to protect the lives of the
Cypriote Turks. B'Ut both recog
nize the right of the Turks to do
so should there be a massacre or
attempted massacre.
The only armed forces which
could physically prevent the
Turks from intervening on Cy
prus would be the naval forces
of the United States and Britain
in the Mediterranean. The United
States Sixth Fleet could, if order
ed, prevent the landing. The
Sixth Fleet will not be given an
order which would damage the
interests of one of the United
States’s most loyal and strategi
cally important allies.
Barring an event which would
justify the Turks in moving, the
issue will for the time being be
argued out now in the Security
Council where President Makari
os still hopes to get his immunity
from the Turks, but where the
British and American delegations
are in agreement that he does not
deserve to have it.
Restraint
The restraint on the Cypriote
Greeks at the moment is the
knowledge that they are not pro
tected by British or American
forces from retribution at the
hands of mainland Turks if they
take further unpeaceful action
against the Cypriote Turks.
Timber-r-r-r!
They started fussing about
trees way back in the early Sev
enteenth Century. As early as
1609 “fower score” Virginia masts
were shipped overseas to Eng
land.
Up in New England an Act of
Parliament was passed “For the
Preservation of 'l^ite and Other
Pinetrees.” One of its passages
read: “Whereas great numbers of
White or other sort of pine-trees,
fit for Masts, growing in Her
Majesties colonies may commodi-
ously be brought into this King
dom, no persons shall presume to
Cut, Fell or Destroy or Mark any
such trees with the Broad Arrow
(of the British Navy), to deter
others from getting Logs for
Lumber or to make for them
selves a Property in such trees."
The Public Speaking
Hay For Haynie!
It is heart-warming to see how
often the cartoons of Hugh Hay
nie appear in the New York
Times “Cartoons of The Week”
of their Sunday edition. Haynie,
it will be recalled, left the Greens
boro Daily News—and conse
quently the editorial page of this
newspaper—to join the staff of
the Louisville Courier Journal,
carrying with him the good
wishes of his home state.
It is good to note his fine work,
with an increasing zest and an
even sharper eye, and sharper
pen for the telling point.
Picture Is Evidence
Of Good-Will In Area
To The Editor:
Please permit me to express our
deep appreciation to you for run
ning the picture of the speakers’
table at the Prayer Breakfast
held recently in the Holiday Inn,
Southern Pines.
bombing (to conjecture as you do),
what about the “Black Muslims”?
One of any other color would
surely have been observed in that
community.
There were about fifty leading
citizens present, representing
most areas of our county, and the
fellowship was excellent. At the
breakfast, just as on other oc
casions in our county, I was proud
of the Sandhills. There is such a
commendable spirit of good-will,
of honor and respect among all.
The picture gives added evi
dence to the fact that we here in
the Sandhills can, and do, live
together and pray together. We
are one, so we pray: OUR Father
Who Art In Heaven . . . .”
Thanking you again.
lee PRIDGEN
President, Moore County
Ministers Association
(Interracial)
Pinebluff
Medgar Evers? To that date
there had been no violence and
the agitators of the demonstra
tions wanted intervention by the
Federal Government. Also, a seg
regationist is not necessarily a
conservative. Following your ex
ample, the possibilities are unlim
ited when one doesn’t need proof!
I must admit, when I was mes
merized by the “idiot box” and I
heard Chief Justice Warren at the
late President’s bier, I felt he was
attacking the Conservative Right.
In re-reading his tribute and
without his emphasis or inflec
tions, he may have meant the
“Communist Conspiracy.” One
could review his decisions and
statements as the Chief Justice
to decide for oneself to whom he
was referring.
For Heaven's Sake!
There’s a new magazine coming'
out, just for a change. It will be,
according to it, “a fearless maga
zine. . . a magazine of uncompro
mising truth,” but how this ven
ture is to keep from going bust
from continual libel suits is the
question.
Because, once again accord
ing to it, it will tell: Why a cer
tain great city is “the Sanctuary
of Homosexuals;” How the Gov
ernment “suppressed” a report on
comparative safety of cars of dif
ferent makes; about the “declin
ing prestige of the Minister”; how
Radio Free Europe is “a threat”
to U. S. security; and—oh shame!
how the American press is “no
longer the Voice of the People.”
Well, there’s likely more than
a grain of truth in that last state
ment, but it looks as if this new
est trumpet to sound the alarm
was in hot water from the start.
THE PILOT
Conservative Right
Approved.' By Reader
To the Editor;
The editorial “Left, Right and
The Nature of Man,” in the Feb
ruary 13 Pilot, does unquestion
ably reveal “chaos. Chaos of
the author, maybe?
Here is a memory refresher on
Oswald’s allegiance. Quote from
the Charlotte Observer (same
source as yours), November 24,
1963, front page, dateline Dallas
(UPI):
Your analogy to facts encour
ages me to “hitch my wagon” to
the Conservative Right leader
ship. Facts and truth are better
than theories and conjectures.
MRS. M. CECILE WICKER
Southern Pines
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THE PILOT, Incorporated
Southern Pines, North Carolina
1941—JAMES BOYD—1944
“Police said Saturday they had
an air-tight case against pro-Cas-
tro Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald
as the assassin of President Ken
nedy, including photos of him
holding the rifle.”
Communist or Marxist, a shade
of difference?
As to the Birmingham church
(Editor’s Note: .The editori
al did not say that Oswald
was not a Communist. He
probably was. Our point was
that the hostile, disruptive,
authoritarian, vituperative,
uncooperative mind of the
Conservative Right tends to
create a climate of personal
and social chaos resembling
the de-humanized limbo in
which the President’s alleged
assassin must have existed.
Origin of the chaos—Left or
Right—is immaterial.)
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