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I After Navy Duty, Bowers Enlists In Air Force Recently discharged from the U. S. Navy after four year's duty, Eugene Bowers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Bowers, of Cullasaja, bas enlisted in the U. S. Air Force. Sworn in on March 1 in Char lotte, he is now stationed at Cha nute. 111., for training in aircraft and engine mainteance. At the end of his training, he will be joined by his wife, the former Miss Helen Woodard, of Jackson County. During his "hitch" in the navy, Eugene had the rating of machin ist's mate third class. He par ticipated in the Korean and Indo china theatres of war. He has two brothers also in service. An older brother, S/Sgt. Ed ward Bowers, is with the air force at Maxwell Air Force Base, Mont gomery, Ala. He just recently com pleted a management training school and is assistant supervisor of the communications center. A younger brother, Wiley A. Bowers, was sworn in the air force on January 13. He has finished his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, Tex., and is now assigned to Kessler Air Force Base, Miss. Cullasaja 4-H _ Holds Meeting; Sign Is Given Seventeen members attended the March 6 meeting of the Cullasaja Community 4-H Club at the school, according to the club re porters, Janice Thompson and Michael Bryson. Members worked on a forestry scrapbook and make plans for en tering a float in the 4-H parade on Saturday. A new 4-H sign has been pre sented to the community and it is planned to erect it on the 4-H grounds. A special meeting also is sche duled soon to work on bird houses. Although the number of farms in the U. S. selling milk is declin ing. total milk sales have reached a new record high as sales per farm rapidly increase. DRAFT BOARD CLASSIFIES 21 MEN HERE Action* Taken At Meeting Last Week; Classes Are Listed Twenty-one registrants have been classified by the local draft board. The actions were taken at a meeting last week. The classifications: 1-A (accepted): Milton L. Hig don and Earl L Moses. 1-C deserve*: Thomas R. Potts, Charles D. Cross, Gilbert E. Moses, Andrew Moses, David L. Carpen ter, Charles K. Carpenter. Guy E. Holland, and Furman D. Reece. 1-C (enlisted): William P. Gib son, Avery Stewart. James E. Van hook, Louis W. Reece, and Samuel L. Holland. 1-C (discharged): William H Johnson. 4-F (physically, mentally, or SPECIAL! ANN PAGE Tomato Soup 4 35 2 s? 29' Reduced for Grand Saving ! Melo-O-Bit Pasteurized AMERICAN CHEESE 2 - 89 Priced Extra Low! Economical A&P GRAPE JUICE - 15c - 27: Grand Buys and Savings! Young Tender Spears of A&P Asparagus Gr "n "??* 29c Quality and Savings at This Low Price! Short Grain Sultana Rice 3 fc 37? Special Price on! Jane Parker Freshly Baked Cherry Pies & 39 Special Low, Low Price! On Jane Parker Spanish Bar ss 29 Just Reduced! Ann Page Creamy Rich SALAD DRESSING 39" Save Money On ? Ann Page ? With Tomato Sauce PORK & BEANS 3 a 29c Special Price On ? Ann Page ELBOW MACARONI 2 ? 19c New! A&P Vacuum Pack Virginia Salted Peanuts ^*33? Stock Up At This Low Price! "Super-Right" Luncheon Meat 29? Special Low-Low Price On A&P Fancy Apple Sauce 3 H' 35c Come See You'll Save at A&P ? ? ? Super J^arkets Prices Effective Thru March 17th A&P's ALL PURPOSE OIL dexola ? 25c morally unfit for duty) : Bob Neal 1 and Norman H. Webb. ; 5-A (over the age of liability! ? Harvey N. Talley, David B Moses. 1 and William B. Deal. Quartet Coming To Cullasaja ; For Performance 1 The Carolina Quartet, which I broadcasts each Sunday morning j over WWNC, Asheville, will be at I the Cullasaja School Sunday night at 7:30. This program is sponsored j by the Cullasaja community j Organization. There will be no admission 1 | charge, but a free will offering j ] will be taken. COMPULSORY INTEGRATION? WAIT NOW' Continued From Editorial Page delinquents, can be controlled by firmness once they are I brought to believe that the I police mean business, is as base less and illusory . as that one a generation ago of (oh yes, we subscribed to it too) columned porticoes and magnolias. The rest of the United States as sumes that this condition in the South is so simple and so uncomplex that it can be changed tomorrow by the sim ple will of the national ma jority backed by legal edict. In fact, the North does not even recognize what it has seen in its own newspapers. I have at hand an editorial from the New York Times of February 10th on the rioting at the University of Alabama be cause of the admission of Miss Lucy, a Negro. The editorial said: "This is the first time that force and violence have become part of the question." That is not correct. To all Southerners, no matter which side of the question of racial equality they supported, the first implication, and ? to the Southerner ? even promise, of force and violence tu the Ba- I preme Court decUlon ltaelf. | After that, by any standards at all and following as inevitably i as night and day, was the case ' of the three white teen-agers, ] members of a field trip group from a Mississippi high school ? (and, as teen-agers do, probably wearing the bright parti-colored blazers or jackets blazoned across the back with the name of the school i who were stabbed in passing on a Washington street by Negroes they had never seen before and who apparently had never seen them before either; and that of the Till boy and the two .Mississippi juries which freed the defendants from both charges; and of the Mis sissippi garage attendant killed by a white man because, ac cording to the white man, the . Negro filled the tank of the white man's car full of gasoline when all the white man wanted was two dollars' worth. This problem is far beyond a mere legal one. It is even far beyond the moral one it is and | still was a hundred years ago in 1860, when many Southern ers, including Robert Lee, rec ognized it as a moral one at the very instant when they in i turn elected to champion the underdog because that under- j dog was blood and kin and j home. The Northerner is not even aware yet of what that war really proved. He assumes that it merely proved to the Southerner that he was wrong. It didn't do that because the Southerner already knew he was wrong and accepted that gambit even when he knew it .was the fatal one. What that war should have done, but fail ed to do, was to prove to the \ North that the South will go to any length, even that fatal fore it will accept alteration of its racial condition by mere , force of law or economic threat. Since I went on record as be ing opposed to compulsory rac ial inequality, I have received ' many letters. A few of them J approved. But most of them ! were in opposition. And a few of these were from Southern ; Negroes, the only difference be I ing that they were polite and courteous instead of being i threats and insults, saying in | effect: Please, Mr. Faulkner, stop talking and be quiet. You are a good man and you think you are helping us. But you are not helping us. You are doing us harm. You are play- j Ing into the hands of the 1 NAACP so that they are using j 1 you to make trouble for our race that we don't want. Please f hush, you look after your white 1 , folks' trouble and let us take : < care of ours." This one in par- ' } ticular was a long one, from a I . woman who was writing for , and in the name of the pastor ] and entire congregation of her j > church. It went on to say that . the Till boy got exactly what he asked for, coming down i there with his Chicago ideas, and that all his mother wanted was to make money out of the , role of her bereavement. Which sounds exactly like the white people in the South who justi fied and even defended the j rrime by declining to find that : it was one. We have had many violent inexcusable personal crimes of j race against race in the South, but since 1919 the major ex amples of communal race ten- j sion have been more prevalent j in the North, like the Negro family who were refused ac ceptance in the white residen- , tial district in Chicago, and the j Korean-American who suffered i for the same reason in Ana- 1 heim, Calif. Maybe it is because | our solidarity is not racial, but instead is the majority white ; segregationist plus the Negro minority like my correspondent above, who prefer peace to equality. But suppose the line of demarcation should become one of the race; the white min ority like myself compelled to join the white segregation ma jority no matter how much we oppose the principle of inequal ity; the Negro minority who want peace compelled to join the Negro majority who advo cate force, no matter how much that minority wanted only peace? So the Northerner, the liber al, does not know the South. He can't know it from his dis tance. He assumes that he is dealing with a simple legal theory and a simple moral idea He is not. He is dealing with a fact: the fact of an emotional condition of such fierce unan imity as to scorn the fact that it is a minority and which will go to any length and against any odds at this moment to ustify and, if necessary, de lend that condition and it* ight to it. So I would say to all the or ;anizations and groups which, would force integration on the South by legal process; "Stop now for a moment. You have shown the Southerner what yo? can do and what you will do if necessary; give him a space in which to get his breath and as similate that knowledge; to look about and see that <1) No body is going to force integra tion on him from the outside; (2) That he himself faces an obsolescence in his own land which only he can cure; a moral condition which not only must be cured but a physical condition which has got to be cured if he, the white South erner, is to have any peace, is not to be faced with another legal process or maneuver every year, year after year, for the rest of his life." You Can't Beat THIS GUARANTEE New Idea Lime Spreaders are guaranteed to spread any fertilizer ? in any condition ? in. any amount ? uniformly and evenly? or your money back. Priced reasonable and I sold on easy terms. This is the original ! Easy-Flo spreader. See The "New Idea' j L. E. ENGLISH "Your ( asf Dealer" Phone 60-J Franklin. V C. Let's keep it that way! IT'S A FINE THING to have the "welcome mat" out for a new factory on opening day. But it's not enough! A community's long-range industrial growth and prosperity depend on sincere and continuing hospitality to industry, long after the welcoming committee has gone home. This is a job for all of us in the South today. The steady, year-by-year expansion of existing industry is impressive proof that the job is being done. Southern industries are getting an honest day's work for a fair day's pay . . . understanding acceptance of technological progress, which ultimately creates still more jobs . . . honest, stable, friendly state and local government and fair tax treatment . . . efficient, dependable rail service. With all of us doing all we can to welcome new industries to the South and to keep them happy in their new home, the Southland will continue to grow and prosper. And all in the South will benefit! SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM WASHINGTON, D. C.
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