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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES The News, Established 1886; The Times, Established 1931 Consolidated, 1932 A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ED M ANDERSON. Publisher JOHN I. ANDERSON, Editor FRANCES WALKER, Associate Editor IRA B. ARMFIELD. Business Manager HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt. ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head JAMES H. LYON, Operator WILLIAM D. LEWIS, Printer GORDON BYRD, Pressman : : SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In County — $8.00 Outside County — $3.50 MEMBER OF NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE National Editorial Association Weekly Newspaper Representatives North Carolina Press Association ws» New York—Chicago—Detroit Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Brevard, N. C. Under the Act of March 3, 1879 .... R Best Festival Ever The first week end of the Brevard Mu sic Festival measured up to expectations and from all indications, the festival this season will surpass all previous perform ances in quality, variety and attendance. Almost a thousand music lovers per con cert atended the events here last Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday after noon. Persons from all parts of Eastern America were here, and inns, rooming houses, restaurants and others serving summer visitors reported a booming busi ness. We’d particularly like to urge local citi zens to attend the remaining six concerts. It is a thrilling experience to enjoy the strains of the world’s finest music on a starry night in the cool breezes of these mountains. The press of the nation is heaping praise upon the festival and what an at traction it is to this entire section. The radio also continues to give the Brevard Music Festival top billing, and the local event is the only one of its kind that one of the leading networks is carrying. Again, The Times bids welcome to all persons here for the festival this week end and next. Yes, a hearty welcome to the “summer music capital of the South!” We hope you enjoy your stay here: We know you will enjoy the music at the festival, which is the best ever. Progress At Brevard College Brevard college is really on the march. As soon as plans are completed, a si multaneous building campaign, including three structures, will be started on the beautiful campus of the local college. Long has been the need for a college •center on the campus with recreational quarters and an auditorium and this is in cluded in the approved program. With Brevard the “Summer Music Cap ital of the South,” it is interesting to note that a music and fine arts building, to hon or the late H. A. Dunham, will be erected. At the present time the noted Frances Clark Piano Workshop is in session at the college, and with a new music building more such conferences could be held on the campus. Another thought: A new auditorium and music building would certainly be a community asset and would stimulate com munity-college relations. As the enrollment increases, more dor mitory space is needed, and the ideal ex pansion is the new wing for the women's dorm, one of the finest buildings of its type in the country. And the new addition is expected to be even more modern. With these expanded facilities, Brevard college will be able to serve more effi ciently its increasing student body. While an adequate plant is not the first requisite of a college, it is very helpful in training students for useful careers and at the same time reflects credit on its sponsors and stimulates the pride of citizens of the com munity in which it is located. Tree Farming Shows Gains Here in this section, where wood is an important crop for farmers, tree farming may prove the answer to some of their jproblems of income. A report reveals that North Carolina had just added 35,529 more acres to the American tree farm system of sound for « est management, bringing the state’s to > tail to 960,837 acres. The North Carolina Tree Farm Com mittee, in session at Raleigh, approved 18 new tree farms, making a total of 123 pri vate woodland owners of the state now af filiated with the program. Woodlots rang ing in size from 20 to 18,000 acres were considered by the tree farm committee, 'whose findings are based on actual in spections by technical foresters. T3ke tree farm program is sponsored by theFforth Carolina Forest Industries Com mittee, an organization of wood-using in dustries. To qualify as a tree farmer, an owner must demonstrate ability and will ingness to manage his woodland under good forestry practice for continuous pyo - duction. 'Every year more and more small land r owners are recognizing the value of grow - ing trees for commercial purposes. These people are benefitting themselves as well ns the wood - using industries which de pend upon outside sources for their raw materials. Many 4-H boys have taken an interest In tree planting in this county. We con gratulate them on this forward step. Many of them, through proper forestry management will live to reap real income from their trees. During this week, two Transylvania 4-H’ers are at the Crabtree Creek State Park, which is a forestry camp. Their en campment is sponsored by pulp and paper mills of the state. Tree planting is one of the many types of conservation farming. There is much land in this area which is more suitable for growing trees than any other crop. We suggest farmers with hilly land, which washes away, to consider tree planting. It will save the land and produce a crop, too. Paragraphics.... We see by the papers the French styl ists are giving ladies back their figures this fall. Anyway, hurricanes do have pretty names. A lady’s hat by any other name would look just as silly. If all home towns could have a change, of climate maybe everybody would be happy. It’s twice as easy to get in wrong when you think you’re always right. The only woman who’ll lsten to both sides of an argument is the woman who lives next door. In the old days young men had to ques tion the gal’s pop. Now they just pop the question. DOLLAR DOWN, HUNDRED YEARS TO PAY ■E PICK OF THE PRESS IN THE CAROLINAS I PLAN TO MEET A GRAVE PROBLEM OFFERED BY A WISE GOVERNOR (Hendersonville Times-News) Governor Hodges, in a widely heralded broadcast from Raleigh made Monday night disclosed his program for meeting the prob lems of public schools integra tion forced upon this State by the decision of the Supreme Court. This newspaper desires to pub licize its approval of the Gover nor’s plan. Our only regret is that our limited space does not afford room for the detailed dis cussion we would prefer to de vote to the address. The Governor’s plan shows our chief executive is a statesman, a courageous and wise thinker, a citizen who faces the situation in the spirit evidenced by the intelli gent, informed conservative and practical leadership of this State. Certainly in conservative North Carolina, we have citizens who oc cupy extreme positions on both sides of this controversy. The Times-News, not an extremist, but a newspaper which, we be lieve, “knows its North Caro lina,” has not hesitated to take and defend its convictions about this farreaching and inclusive problem. We have never questioned the power of the Supreme Court and the federal government to enforce this decision, backed by all the sources of power banded together to secure it and to make it the fixed policy in public school ed ucation. But we definitely agree with Governor Hodges that the “mix ing of the races forthwith in the public schools throughout the State cannot be accomplished and should not be attempted.” We ad vance somewhat beyond the po sition of the Governor in this statement with the conviction that integration can never be ac complished in toto in North Car olina. Doubtless Governor Hodges is as familiar as we are with the certainty of this statement, but it was a declaration he did not make because he had the task of discussing the issue from another standpoint in an effort to do justice to all parties con cerned and an effort to declare to his people a convincing argu ment for what he regards as an emergency measure which he be lieves will serve the best interests of public education and of all the people. Now, this newspaper devoutly hopes that all North Carolinians, both white people and negroes, will give the plan and the pro nouncements of Governor Hodges the attention and the prayerful consideration merited by a de liverance of the chief executive on one of the gravest problems that has come to ur people for decision in all the history of this State. The Times-News doubtless will be able to give this issue further attention in future issues of this newspaper. LAUDS Ufit E. ALLEN (Easley Progress) Very few of the readers of The Progress were acquainted with Robert E. Allen, but because he was an appreciative reader of this column, an understanding and interested friend of our fic tionary assistant editors, and be cause of his generous disposition and great love for beauty in life and in nature, we want to give honor to his memory here. He had seemed to appreciate more than any one else we knew the superb beauty of the summit of the cliff at Caesar’s Head, where all of Pickens and Greenville Counties, and on and on is laid out in panorama, ever changing with sunlight and clouds, and the myriad lights at night. His re tirement to that beauty spot had come after a full life in the arts and music, high position in New York banking, and a reputation for generosity, and remarkable se lection of vocabulary for conver sation. Our brief acquaintance with Mr. Allen convinced that life can be wonderful and fully lived, in spite of all its tribu lations. FROM OUR FILES. GLANCING BACKWARD AT “THE GOOD OLD DAYS” iaaaaanaaiaaaaaaaiaiiiaaaaaaa[a] .inuuiiimmiiMnii.". 15 YEARS AGO All schools in Transylvania county will open Wednesday, August 28th, County Superintend ent J. B. Jones has auuounced. Brevard residents were breath ing easy Wednesday afternoon after what was a near-serious flood on Monday night and Tues day. Between 600 and 800 people attended the Ecusta barbecue and picnic last Saturday after noon at Pink Beds camp grounds in Pisgah National Forest. orty-seven different colleges and universities are listed as ac cepting Brevard College grad uates during the past five years, check up of alumni shows. Miss Ella Mae Whitmire, and Talmadge Brooks, of Rosman, were married at Jocassee, Suth Carolina, Saturday, August 10th. Dr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Bailey, owners of Eagles Nest camp, en tertained at a special dinner par ... ty at the camp Sunday, August 4, in honor of three counselors who have served Eagle’s Nest since 1928. Second term of the National Aquatic School of the American Red Cross will open at Camp Car olina on August 23rd. Between 100 and 150 students are expect ed to enroll. Brevard’s annual dahlia show will be held at the Brevard Col lege gymnasium Saturday after noon and evening, August 24th, opening to visitors any time af ter noon. The show is sponsor ed by the Transylvania Dahlia club. Sitton, Gillespie, and Whittaker families wil hold their annual reunion at North Mills Recrea tion center in Pisgah National forest on Sunday, August 18th. First in a series of band con certs will be given by the high school band Thursday evening of this week at the municipal band stand on the court house lawn. fitmiiHmiimiiniimii BEHIND THE NEWS ... From Washington By GEOKGE E. SOKOLSKY llUIIUIIItllUttl PAPER AND MORE PAPER A small business man in Mil waukee has sent a letter to Robert W. Burgess, director of the cen sus, and* he has sent me a carbon copy to which he appends: “Help, help and keep up your good work.” He says in this letter: “We are a small business with our sales last year about $60,000. All of our parts are prefabricat ed and we only assemble and ship. I personally do our correspon dence and most of the bookkeep ing with the help of a girl who assists part time. I also super vise production, as well as doing much of it I have one full time girl who does detail work and one part time girl who helps her. I have two part time boys doing most of the production. So you see we don’t have the staff to dig out the information you ask for. To tell you the weights of steel and aluminum we use would be impossible. We don’t even have a scale. To list certain classes of wages and costs would be impos sible because we don’t keep our books that way. Besides these semi-finished products we used are already covered in the reports of larger companies, our sup pliers. We haven’t even finished our 1954 income tax report.” The mistake that the author of this letter makes is that he as sumes that a benevolent bureauc racy cares whether he stays in business or not. If he cannot af ford to hire expensive accoun tants, keep a bookkeeper, a ste nographer, an office-boy and put in heavy equipment, why not join a union and get a job in a facto ry? After all, on a $60,000 a year turnover, he can at most make $7,500 a year after taxes — I am taking a most optimistic figure, assuming that he and his wife do most of the work, if he has a wife. Does the benevolent bureaucra cy believe in private enterprise? Presumably, it is devoted to the cause, but truthfully it is only in terested in the accumulation of data, statistics and the gathering and filing of pap^MiTheNAoover < Commission’s Task Force report on paper work and red tape is a learned and stultifying document which records a series of unbe lievable insults to the intelligence of the citizens who are pestered by questionnaires which mean nothing and which gather data that is already in the possession of government. The truth of the matter is that business men are generally stupid politicians. I recall a conversation some years ago with a remarkable business man who had made him self a couple of million dollars in honest business. So this smart and ethical business man was com plaining about this and that in government. I said: “This is still a free country. If you don’t like the government, why don’t you apply the same acumen that you did to business and get the kind of government you want?” “Who, me?” said he. “I wouldn’t think of going into politics.” “Then atop bellyaching,” said I. “You business men generally get what’s coming to you you abandoned politics. The last busi ness man who was sufficiently class-conscious to do a good job in politics was Mark Hanna who was destroyed by the literary ge nius and social scientist, Theodore Roosevelt.” what brought that conversa tion back to my mind was the fate of Harold Talbott, a business man who went into politics to collect campaign funds for the Republi can party. Harold Talbott fell un der the spell of Tom Dewey and worked real hard in the years when the cause of the Republican party seemed hopeless. Then a lot of New York business men and others went to Paris to im plore General Eisenhower to abandon NATO and run for presi dent on both the Republican and Democratic tickets. So Harold Talbott collected funds for the Eisenhower pre-con vention campaign and then for the election campaign and he was re warded by being given a job that he could do well but at great per sonal sacrifice. But, like most rep resentatives and senators, he kept a little business on the side, which is ethical for a congressman, but is not ethical for a government of ficial even if there is no conflict of interest. I cannot get excited about these ... in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiv ing let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all under standing, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. —(Philippians 4:6, 7.) —Turn To Page Eleven KlfMMMMfMlllllll *1 tajiMiMifmiimMaainmiiMiimaiiiiiiaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiMMiiittiii THE EVERYDAY| COUNSELLOR, I By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. •aaiaMMaaiiiaaMaamaaaaaaaaaaMaaMtaaaaanaaaiaaaiaiaaaiuifillii Ralph J. Belk, 96-year-old resident of Lancaster county, S. C., has performed the rare feat of collecting on his own life insurance. In 1912, Mr. Belk purchased a life insurance policy with Equitable Life Assurance Society of U. S. through J. Perrin Quarles, then manager of Equitable in Charlotte. Recently he received a check for $1,000, the face amount of the policy. The amount became payable when he reached the age of 96, the maximum age on the old American Experi ence Mortality Table. Mr. Belk, a former farmer and retired store operator, says his secret of longevity is “minding my own business and letting the other fellow mind his—and not worrying about anything.” Mr. Belk’s longevity is a good one, but how many of us follow it Minding our own business is a large order in itself. Part of that busi ness is to help others who seek help. Many people fail in business simply because they don’t concentrate on it. They are too busy mind ing the business of other people who have not asked it. There is an old story about a nobleman of the middle ages who came to a wise old monk asking advice in his financial difficulties. The monk gave him a small locked box and told him to take it with him every day over his entire estate and into every building. He was told that this would bring beneficial results. At the end of three months he was to return and the box would be opened and he would discover the secret. The nobleman faithfully carried out the instructions. In the course of his daily rounds over his property, he discovered many things wrong. Some of his servants were stealing from him; others were ne glecting their work; buildings were deteriorating from lack of atten tion. He set to work to correct these things. At the end of three months the situation was vastly improved. He returned joyfully to the monk and asked him to open the box and let him know the secret The monk unlocked the box and handed him a tiny scroll which it contained. He opened it and read, “Take care of what you have, and you will have something to take care of.” Mr. Belk’s other recipe, “not worrying about anything,” is even more difficult. The best way to tackle this is to divide your worries into those concerning yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Yesterday is in the hands of God. For the sins of the past, we can get forgiveness from Him if we truly seek it. Tomorrow’s worries are also in the hands of God, and we can get guidance for them if we truly seek it. That leaves the problems of today. Go into partnership with God on them and then tackle them one at a time. If you follow these suggestions you may not reach the age of 96, but you will certainly add years to your life.
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