II xt Slmnkiht |rm I f (Eke Sligklnn&s JUarxmian Entered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C.. as second class matter Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press Franklin. N. C. Telephone 24 WEIMAR JONES BOB S. SLOAN J. P. BRADY . . IBS. ALLEN SILER MSB. MARION BR V SON CARL P. CABE PRANK A. STARRETTE DAVID H. SUTTON CRAWFORD . . Editor Business Manager News Editor Society Editor and Office Manager Proofreader Mechanical Superintendent Shop Superintendent Commercial Printer Stereotyper SUBSCRIPTION RATE8 Outside Macon Countt In&idx Macon Couhtt On? Year $3.00 Six Months ... 1.75 Three Months ? 100 One Year $2 JO Six Month* 1.71 Three Mentha 1-00 Refreshing To many laymen, the practice of hiring football players for college or high school "amateur" teams just doesn't make sense. The terms "paid players" and "amateur sports" contradict each other. If you have one, you can't have the other. It was refreshing, therefore, to hear a sports enthusiast ? a one-time college letter man and a former college football coach ? tell members of the Franklin High School football squad just that. Dr. Quinn Constant/, of Western Carolina Col lege, speaking last week at the annual Rotary ban quet for the Franklin footballers, called the so called "athletic scholarship" just what it is ? "a free ride". Look And See "There are no opportunities for young people in Macon County; everybody knows that. The only way to write an essay about opportunities here is to point out there aren't any." That was the substances of a chorus that greeted Mr. Bob Carpenter when he sat down with a group of students at Franklin High School to talk about the essay contest on "Macon County ? My Home, My Future". The contest, open to any high school student in this county, is sponsored jointly by The Franklin Press and the Franklin Jaycees. The student reaction seems to be evidence that just such a contest was needed ; for it proves rather conclusively that at least a part of the lack of op portunity. here is .psychological ? it's not so much a fact as a mental state. Because it's been taken for granted so long that there is no chance for youth here, people, young and old, have come to accept it, without bothering to look around and see what the situation really is. Mr. Carpenter, who himself left a good job in a much bigger town to come back to Franklin, made the logical ? and correct reply: "If I were talking to a group of high school students in Atlanta or Detroit, I'd hear exactly what you've just said." It would be foolish, of course, to pretend that the opportunities here are not limited. But whether they arc more limited here than elsewhere, in com parison with the competition, is debatable. For it is a fact that many Atlantans go to Detroit, because they feel the opportunities in Atlanta are limited; many go from Detroit to Chicago for the sapie reason; many go from Chicago to New York ; and many, notably artists, still go from New York to Rurope. This, too, is fact: A lot of jol> opportunities here are being overlooked by Maconians ? scores of chance*, probably hundreds. Four instances that come readily to mind illustrate the point: Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith came to Franklin from elsewhere; they've built up a good business, that brings them orders from all over the country. And what the) are doing is so simple, so logical, the wonder is that some Maconian hadn't done it long ago. The same is true of Mr. K. S. I'urdom. What they did, scores of native Maconians could have done. In each case, the business started in a small way; the money capital outlay probably was small. The chief thing, in each case, was an idea. Along with the idea, of course, there had to be imagination, some training, and a lot of work. And in the employe field: We know of one establishment here that recent ly had to. send to Ashcville to get a bookkeeper with the training and ability the job required. And here's one we know about intimately: Right now The Franklin I'ress badly needs a man with a spe cific type of training ? training that is available in most universities. It would be good business for lis to hire a M't' onian, because he'd .know the com munity; but there is nobody in this county with that training. We had to go elsewhere; as a matter of fact, we're having to wait till he gets out of the armed forces, next October, to get the man we want. "I want to be a fashion designer. What chance is there for me here?" one girl challenged Mr. Car penter. * * * i "I don't know whether there is a chance for you here or not", he replied. "But let's take just one phase of fashion designing ? hats. I do know there once were two millinery establishments here, and now there is none. T do know there still are a lot of women here who would gladly pay more to get hats designed to their taste instead of having to buy out of stock. And I do know that, in Atlanta, say, you'd probably be competing Against maybe 50 other hat designers. I know this, too, if you do an outstand ing job here, the word will get around, and the orders you get will come from far as well as near. "Is there an opportunity for you in Macon Coun ty? I don't know. But I don't believe you know, either. Before you go somewhere else, I suggest you look around, find out what the opportunities are here in Macon County. "And that's the whole purpose of this contest." - Better Hurry! East Franklin already has grabbed the ball. That neighborhood has a covered dish supper meeting scheduled for Saturday night, when it will plan its activities in the new Franklin Neighbor hood Development competition. Unless the other four areas in town hurry, they are likely to wake up and find the folks "over the river" have scored a touchdown before they're even got on the playing field. ? Letters 'Heard 'Round The World' Editor, The Press: In an editorial ("Stupidity, Plus") of March 1st you say the Negro ministers in Montgomery, Alabama, "have called mass prayer meetings ? all over where somebody shall sit on a city bus! It would be ludicrous, if it weren't so tragic." I want to object to that statement. In the first place I don't think it's right to call anybody's prayers ludicrous; and in the second, the statement is not accurate. The Negroes in Montgomery are not praying merely for certain seats in a bus; they're praying for the right to be considered citizens. Whether or not their prayers are being heard in heaven, they certainly are being heard 'round the world. And around a world in which there seem to be relatively few people who can understand why, in this Christian democracy, two classes of citizens are forced to sit in separate sections in public con veyances. The letters from Mr. Kenneth Corbin and Mr. Charles Fer guson, in the same issue of The Press, I thought extremely In teresting. ANNIEWILL SILER New York City. (EDITOR'S NOTE ? The Press would be slow indeed to question the sincerity of any . man's prayers. The passage quoted by Miss Siler was not so intended. The purpose of the editorial was to point out that nearly everybody, white and black, involved in the Montgomery situation seemed to .have lost .all sense of proportion. The mass prayer meet ings, "all over where everybody shall sit on a city bus", was merely one of several instances cited to illustrate the point.) Defends Eisenhower Decision J)ear Mr. Jones: Before his decision to seek reelection, and even with more vigor since, much has been written and said against President A LETTER TO THE NOR I H Eisenhower remaining In office because of his physical condi tion. Evidently, those who oppose him, not being able to criti cize his race or religion, having worn themselves out with their laments about his political beliefs and jettons, and afraid to analyze his motives because of his sincerity, are going to make the most of his misfortune in having had a coronary throm bosis. But do they have a sound foundation for their new argu ments? Weimar, you or I might have a coronary thrombosis today. Approximately 20% of the people who have a coronary throm bosis die within two months of the onset of their illness. If we survive this period, it will be necessary to know the answers to certain questions in order that we may plan our futures. 1. What are our chances for a complete recovery, I.e. for re turning to our previous work? 2. What is our life expectancy 'after we pass this two month period? The following statements In answer to these questions are taken from the writings of well known specialists whose ex perience Is gleaned from large series of cases. 67% of patients who survived the first two months lived more than 5 years; 44% more than 10 years 10% more than 15 years. Approximately 70% of these patients were able to return to moderate or complete activity; 20% were considerably limited in their activities; about 10% remained bedridden. The more completely a patient was able to resume his former activities, the longer was his life expectancy. President Elsenhower has been doing a good day's work each day since his return to Washington. During his recent trip to Georgia he seemed to have no difficulty hunting or playing 18 holes of golf. Therefore, we can assume that his physical con dition is good even without his doctor's assurance that it is. The apparent limitations he has imposed upon himself at the advice of his physicians are those which we might all do well to apply to our own routines. A more sensible schedule of work interspersed with periods of recreation would make us all more efficient in our jobs. I would think more kindly of those to whom I refer In the opening paragraph of this letter If they would state their real reasons for opposing the President's bid for reelection; namely, that they are Democrats and he is a Republican. Most of these critics have not given the matter more thought than that. They have come by their political affiliations in the same man ner as they have their mode of locomotion and their posture and have accepted them with equal resignation. JOSEPH W. KAHN, M. D. Franklin. Others' Opinions Got Him Picked Out (Catskill Mountain (N. Y.) News) I never hate anyone ? but If I ever do, I've got the louse all picked out. Alarming Assurances (Sacramento, Calif., Bee) With the shocking assertion that President Dwight D. Eisen hower has not been truly in command of the United States Government since last August, the eminent columnist, Walter Lippmann, states: "In the past six months we have suffered the biggest and most serious setbacks since the Communist victory in China." Mr. Lippmann further attributes the absurd backing and filing, of the Government in the matter of tank shipment to Saudi Arabia to the central fact the President simply has not been able to fulfill his role as co-ordinator of the various Gov ernment departments. It will be remembered that in the big medical kazoo when the doctors testified on Ike's health, the assurance was given ? that he probably could continue for five or ten years doing his job as well as he has been doing it "recently." Mr. Lippmann raises the commanding question of whether the nation can survive if it has many more years of this kind of presidential operation. The assurance of the doctors thus turns out to be no assurance, at least for those concerned with the welfare of the country. Compulsory Integration? 'Wait Now, Stop And Consider' Liberal Cites Danaers (EDITOR'S NOTE: In this "better to the North", Mr. Faulkner, Mississippian, Nobel prize-winning novelist, and long time foe of compulsory segrega tion. warns of the dangers of compulsory integration. The ar ticle is reprinted, by special per mission, from Life magazine.) By WILLIAM FAULKNER My family has lived for gen erations In one same small sec tion of north Mississippi. My great-grandfather held slaves and went to Virginia in com mand of a Mississippi infantry regiment in 1861. I state this simply as credentials for the sincerity and factualness of what I will try to say. , From the beginning of this present phase of the race prob lem in the South, I have been on record as opposing the forces in my native country which would keep the condition out of which this present evil and trouble has grown. Now I must go on record as opposing the forces outside the South which would use legal or police compulsion to eradicate that evil overnight. I was against compulsory segre gation. I am just as strongly against compulsory integration. Firstly of course from principle. Secondly because I don't believe compulsion will work. There are more Southerners than I who believe as I do and have taken the same stand I have taken, at the same price of contumely and Insult and threat from other Southerners which we foresaw and were willing to accept because we be lieved we were helping our na tive land which we love, to ac cept a new condition which It must accept whether it wants to or not. That is, by still being Southerners, yet not being a part of the general majority Southern point of view; by be ing present yet detached, com mitted and attained neither by Citizens' Council nor NAACP; by being in the middle, being in a position to say to any In cipient irrevocability: "Wait, wait now, stop and consider first." But where will we go, if that middle becomes untenable? If we have ' to vacate It In order to keep from being trampled? Apart from the legal aspect, apart even from the simple in controvertible Immorality of discrimination by race, there was another simply human quantity which drew us to the Negro's side: the simple human instinct to champion the under dog. But if we, the (comparative) handful of Southerners I have tried to postulate, are compell ed by the simple threat of be ing trampled if we don't get out of the way, to vacate that middle where we could have worked to help the Negro lm prove his condition ? compelled to move for the reason that no middle any longer exists ? we will have to make a new choice. And this time the underdog will not be the Negro, since he, the Negro, will now be a segment of the topdog, and so the un derdog will be that white em battled minority who are our blood and kin. These non Southern forces will now say, "Go then. We don't want you because we won't need you again." My reply to this is, "Are you sure you won't?" So I would say to the NAACP and all the organizations wh* would compel immediate and unconditional integration: "Go slow now. Stop now for a time, a moment. You have the power now; you can afford to with hold for a moment the use of it as a force. You have done a good job, you have jolted your opponent off-balance and he Is now vunerable. But stop there VIEWS BOB SIX) AN Recent polls indicate that Presi dent Eisenhower will be re-elected as president of the United States in the election next November. Chief reason for this seems to be that the President has something which makes him Immune to criticism for any mistakes that may have been made by his ad ministration; yet he receives full credit for the good that has been done. That is something of a phenomenon in politics, psycho logy, or something. The old rule is that if you get the credit, you are supposed to take the blame. The farmers cuss Benson and in many foreign countries the name of Dulles brings forth a tirade, but la both cases Elsenhower is still very popular with the dis contented person. Another example of the invul nerability of Eisenhower's popular ity is the Segregation question. In the coming election, I think, Ike will gain considerable Negro vote in the large cities of the North and East. However, the same polls which indicate that he will win the election next fall state that his popularity is rising in the South. He seems to be the only thing upon which both the Segregationist and the Intergra tionlst agree. There is one other possibility, the polls might be wrong. They have been before. ? ? ? At East Franklin school this Saturday night we are going to have Covered Dish Supper and get acquainted with each other. I sure hope everyone comes. Looks like a good idea and we could all have a lot of fun. Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of Jhe Press) 54 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Stallcup and Mrs. Martha Hauser and son, H. Love Hauser, returned from Greenville, Tenn., Mon day. Hal Zachary returned home Wednesday from Atlanta, Ga., where he had been visiting bis aunt several weeks past. Mr. C. J. Park, & capitalist from Eugene, Oregon, spent about two weeks in this sec tion recently, prospecting for copper He found some fine specimens, but not sufficient to undertake a development on the scale he wished. 25 YEARS AGO Mrs. W. P. Deal entertained a number of her friends at an old-time quilting at her home Tuesday of last week. Miss Ina Henry, daughter of Chief R. P. Henry, left recently to attend Western Carolina Teachers College at Cullowhee, where She will work on her de gree. Miss Amy Henderson and Miss Mosely spent last week end at their respective homes. ? Highlands item. 10 YEARS AGO Mrs. Sam Morgan, of Savan nah, Ga., has leased the W. H. Cobb home on Satulah Road and expects to occupy it about the first of June. ? Highlands .item. Mrs. P. S. Murphy and son, Savannah, Ga., were here re cently visiting Mrs. Murphy's sister, Mrs. W. E. Purr, and Dr. Furr, and her brother, J. H. Williams, and Mrs. Williams, of Route 3. Mrs. Murphy is the former Miss Irene Williams. John Gibson Murray, who has been in the Navy for the past three years, has received his discharge and is now at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank I. Murray. for a moment; don't give him the advantage of a chance to cloud the issue by that purely auto matic sentimental appeal to that same universal human in stinct for automatic sympathy for the underdog simply be cause he is under." And I would say this too. The rest of the United States knows next to nothing about the South. The present idea and picture which they hold of a people decadent and even ob solete through Inbreeding and illiteracy ? the Inbreeding a re sult of the illiteracy and the isolation ? as to be a kind of species of juvenile delinquents with a folklore of blood and violence, yet who, like juvenile ? Continued on Page 3

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