?Continued From P?fe Two
not appear to be In harmony with the avowed Forest Service
ities of this area would lor several reasons be of much greater
policy of the use of forest lands for the most good to the
greatest number of citizens. The full use of the range possibil
value to the people than its present use, which over stringent
range regulations, allow.*, and would not of necessity preclude
improved hunting conditions on the same area, whereas its
use under present range regulations does preclude Its profitable
use for grazing except to a very few.
The upper Nantahala alone, at the conservative estimate of
men who have observed ranging conditions for years, would
carry at least one hundred thousand dollars worth of live
stock through ^the grazing season. That would mean more in
come lor the "stock owner, more tax money for the county,
more trade for the merchant; in short,- a considerable contri
bution to the prosperity of the county as a whole.
There are certain of our citizens, mostly small farmers, who
in the past and for many years derived an appreciable part of
their income from the grazing privileges they enjoyed when
W. M Hitter Lumber company owned the upper Nantahala
watershed and later under the, at that time, liberal grazing
policy of the Forest Service. A number of the people of Clay
county depend more than ever on this grazing privilege, since
their timber and wood is about worked out and the T. V. A.,
took a large part of their best farm land. I know one old man
who for the past 64 years has bred in unbroken line the
same strain of sheep, which he turned on the Nantahala range
nvery summer. He had to sell the last one this spring because
he was refused a grazing permit on the grounds that he did
not apply last year. He was not informed that this was neces
sary. I know of several other men who have been forced to sell
their stock for the same reason. These people will continue to
make a living, but their families will do without things they
otherwise would have had. I love to hunt as well as any one,
but I do not care to hunt on an area set aside solely for the
pleasure of the hunter, if it means some child will do withyut
something it needs. ,
It is obvious that the present policy of attrition in regard
to the issuing of grazing permits is aimed at the ultimate
prohibition of all grazing and if continued will work a great
and unnecessary hardship on a number of the people living
adjacent to the Nantahala area, also robbing the counties of
Macon and Clay of the benefits they would derive from the
contribution to their prosperity that the addition to the in
come of a number of Its citizens would cause.
The grazing of this area within its stock carrying capacity
would in no way detract from its value for other uses except
lor the passible exception of its exclusive use as a game man
agement area, for which, for two reasons, it is not suitable.
One, a large part of the area is bounded by the State of
Georgia and at certain times the game tends to drift south
into Georgia. Any refuge should be so located that the adja
cent lands will be available to the hunters whose money sup
ports its operation. Standing Indian Refuge is not so located.
The Wayah Refuge and the Coweta Experiment station are
adequate to stock this section of the mountains with deer and,
to a considerable extent, other species of game.
If the State feels there is need in this section for a game
management area, there are government owned lands adja
to both the Wayah refuge and the Experimental forest that
are not suited for open range grazing but are highly suitable
for game and need additional protection because of their ac
cessibility.
Why set aside for a game management area, the only area
that Is, because of Its- physical characteristics and location, an
ideal open grazing range when other areas can be had that
as a game refuge would be of more benefit to the hunter?
I do not believe any of our citizens would care to see grazing
restricted on the Standing Indian Refuge for the dubious bene
fit of the hunter, when It deprives the people as a whole of a
much greater benefit.
H. T. CROCKETT
Franklin, Route 1,
May 29; 1948.
? Others' Opinions ?
WHAT WE REALLY NEED
i
Secretary of State Thad Eure provided food for thought and
lss{ ??yrt needed and timely warning in his address to the Dunn
. "Visiq ' ^b Friday night.
f0"?" leech that was significant as well as forceful and
iif m e the P?Pular state official struck out at the Third
T pavement and warned against subversive minority
groil s.
He admonished that it is not at all impossible for the minor
ities to band together and to take control of the government
by destroying both political parties.
''We're gone? we're sunk," he warned, "if there is not an
awakening on the subject of government." He pointed out that
only one person out of six bothers to vote. The others merely
sit back and "cuss" the government that is duly elected.
It is indeed an unhealthy situation in which only a sixth of
the people exercise their constitutional right.
Likewise, it is an. unhealthy situation when a man who has
served as Vice-President of the United States breaks away from
his party and becomes the "tool" of the Communists to head
a Third Party.
It is further an unhealthy situation when a big New York
district, traditionally Democratic, kicks the traces and votes
for the Communist-supported candidate.
"A few years ago who would have paid any attention to the
formation of 8 Third Party?" asked Secretary Eure.
But the Third Party won in New Y6rk.
Those things have Iiappened. And still, as Mr. Eure poir.ts
out, there is a .complacency among the people, a tendency u>
pay no attention to eovemment? the thing that affect* our
every-day life.
Though his words were pessimistic and somewhat alarming.
Secretary Eure still has hope.
"I'm not afraid of any committee's report to the President,"
he said. "I'm not afraid of the Communists, and I'm not afraid
of the Third Party if the people will exercise the right to vote
far the kind of people and kind of measures they want."
The Rotaiians have been enlightened by Secretary Eure's
address.
Thad Eure is one of our best state officials. He is the second
oldest member of the Council of State and the only one who
originally was elected and not appointed to oflice.
He has made an outstanding record. He has proven that
he is the sort of official who recognizes that his office belongs
to the people His services have greatly benefitted the state
and he has biougnt honor and recognition to North Carolina.
Thad Eure is right. We need no Third Party, we need no
Communists; we can get along without Henry Wallace and
his cohorts. ,
What we do need is more people voting, as he says A ad
we also need more officials like Thad Eure. Dunn Dispatch.
WHO WILL CONTROL?
We Americans have a way of complaining a lot about our
politics as well as our weather, the end result being about
the same in both cases. We have a careless habit of blaming
most of our government and economic troubles on "polities''
vCTthout really knowing what we're talking about. Demands to
take government, or business, or something else ("out of
politics" are almost the battle hymn of our republic.
Politics, as all people of experience in the complexities of
public aflairs. government and business should know, is abso
lutely essential in our free way of life. The important thing
is to see to it that it is used for good rather than for evil.
James V Forrestal, America's first Secretary of Defense, is
a product of big business who has learned much about politics*
since the war drew him into government service. In a recent
article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine Mr. Forrestal
wrote that this nation's future depended on getting our top
grade men into politics and public service.
"Some of my friends," he wrote, "have frequently said to
me that they were glad to see me in the service of the gov
ernment because I was not a politian. I have always replied
that you can no more separate politics from government; than
you can separate sex from creation.
"For politics, as Webster defines it, is the art and science of
government. To try to separate it entirely from the adminis
tration of public affairs is impossible? just as it is impossible
to separate foreign policy from practical affairs like ships and
fuel and tariffs and air bases. Or, for that matter, to separate
it entirely from domestic politics."
So, those good citizens who proudly boast that they will
have ''nothing to do with polities'! couldn't really mean what
they say. Intelligent participation in the affairs of our com
munity, state and nation is definitely "politics". Now politics is
just like business, or any other activity dealing with the pub
lic^lf good people don't run it, the evil ones will.
? Asheville Times.
No virtue is higher than love to all men, and there is no
loftier aim in life than to do good to all men.? Confucius.
FARM SAFETY
WEEK PLANNED
Period Of July 25 To 31
Set Aside To Make
Farms Safer
In proclaiming the period
July 25-31 as National Farm
Safety Week, President Truman
points out that "needless haz
ards on the farms of our na
tion continue to cause thous
ands of accidents each year
which could be prevented by a
positive safety program."
Goal for the 1948 observance,
which is sponsored by the Na
tional Safety council and the
U. S. Department of Agricul
ture, in cooperation with a
number of other organizations,
is the elimination of at least 30
million ^arm ha2ards. Each farm
family is being asked to accept
l esponsibility for eliminating at
least one hazard for every mem
ber of the family.
The long-range purposes of
National Farm Safety Week are
to make every American farm
and every American farm resi
dent as safe as possible, to cut
the annual toll of needless
deaths and injuries to a min
imum, and to make farm life
safer, happier, and more pros
perous.
Estimates by the National
Safety council show a 52 per
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deaths to farm residents from
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wai similar to that of 1946. the
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the final figures will show 14,000
non-work deaths and 1,400.000
non-work injuries to farm resi
dents.
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cottonseed and its by-products
are being sought by the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
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