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Sljr Highlands fHaronum WFAMAli J (LYES Editorial Page Editor THURSDAY, AUGUST 27. 1959 WOULD YOU?. Visitor From Abroad Suppose you had as a neighbor.-. . .1 - ? A man who had beaten and driven out mem bers of his own household and made slaves of all the rest, and who, even now, maintained his tyran nical mastery at home by brutal force. ? A. man who, through deceit and robbery and murder, hail enslaved his close neighbors, one by one. ? ? A man who, in his dealings with you, had lied quite as often as he had told the truth. ? A man who, far from being penitent, stood at his back fence and , shouted imprecations at you, threats of what he was going .to do to you and members of your family. <? In such an intolerable situation, you'd try to find a w;i;, out. And, if vo'ti were 'sufficient lv afraid; ? or if volt were a good enough ("hristian inaybJ vouM |>o litel y invite him to. Suntlav dinner. But would vou seriotislv expect that neighborly courtesy, that chance for him to see how pleasant life is^ ? when lived in freedom and with justice: ? would you seriously expect that to change him into a gentleman and a good neighbor? A Job Vs. School Been working litis summer, von tecn-a,ncrs ? Earning a bit of money ? Has ft seemed nice to lie independent ? to lie able to buy ulna \<iu need and want with your own money? lias it seemed so nice vouxe thinking about holding on to that job instead of -.tjoiny back to school .* V Well, be ! ore vott decide to do that, consider this sti^ers t ion Iron) a man in position to. know what he's talking about, Mr. Frank < rajie, \. ( . coiti iuissiiiner of labor : \ > "Karnitijis Iroin a job may look jyo.od to you now, but don't lor?et tin- lonjj haul ahead. < )nly the best possible education' can jjive you the real break you need in this last -inbvin'tf, technological ? ? ? \ ' , ajre. And onlv thy best possible education, Mr. Crane niijfht "sell have added, can equip you to under stand today's world, and so be able to shoulder your share of the responsibility lor making it a better one. ' What Do We Want? Fbr a lon^-ran^e solution of Franklin's water problem, should we pump water out of a creek or should we go to one or more controlled water sheds? That question raises another one: What do we expect to get for our money, when GROWING PAINS * 'man.lookit tuose^-^ , WHISKERS FINISH VOUr\ CIGARETTE /MISTER, AND J GET TO WORK WITH THAT/ (Tconnkctici INSURANCE. CO. V I \ v Oh Man! Now is the time when parents sRWuld stop, look anil listen. ? Don't laugh at Bill during these days. His feelings' can he deeply wounded. Help Hill grow into the man you want him to become by giving him strong, wise, and kind guidance. S- p.trcatin? I?:m lik a child. I k v r the quick charge? ?jT n'rtod, the inters?, k * bHsf inturc .'t in everything. I.i ten svmpathetically d?ir! j r. :?? i - v.'icn lie to cua??2e iil vyu. 1 . ? ? ve invest in a new water system? ' Well, we want enough water; and we are as- { sured we earn yet enough out of Cartoogechaye ' Jreek, as proposed. lint quantity isn't everything. Don't we also , ,vant good water? ? the very best? i One of the characteristics of good water is pur ty. Theoretically, we suppose, it is possible to take i ?ven the most polluted water, and, by sufficient .hetnical treatment, make it safe to drink. Contrary 1 to general opinion, though, that method is not 1 recommended by the State Board of Health. It j suggests yetting the purest water obtainable in 'i the first place, so a minimum of chemical treat- ' inept is, necessary. I Another characteristic of good water is, it is pleasant to the taste. In many places, all the water is unpleasant ? and there's nothing to be done ' about it. In others, the original supply is so ]><?1 luted, it is .necessary to pour chlorine in until you virtually have to hold your nose to dririk the water. Those places have little or no choice. We, here in the mountains; are more fortunate, Most of our water tastes good, some of it better. And, u]> on the mountainsides, the water is so pure that little chemical treatment would be required, even by the super-cautious state health authorities, W e want the best water 'obtainable, for our selves. Bevond that, there's a dollar's-aiid-cent's con sideration. Ask ' people who have moved to Macon County in recent years what brought them here. Nine 'out of4 ten will mention, among Other things, "the good'1 pure water".. Of course we want' enough water. But if we're smart, <ve won't compromise quality just to get . quantitv. It s a good, bet we can get both. As School Opens How can parents, who usually are the ones most interested, help to make this school year a profit able one? They can 'Contribute a lot by (loins; three simple things: First, inform themselves ? find out just what the school is doing. Second, try to understand how it is being done, and why. Third, n" thev have quarrels with the what and the how, tell it to the school authorities, not to? or I >e f< ire ? t he child ren. Went About Doing Good The name of Mrs. Marietta Stiles Cooper never appeared in the metropolitan -press. She was never on television. So far as we know, she never held important office in any -organization. She did not win fame, because, first of all, her activities were restricted to this small community; and because, second, she possessed in remarkable decree a noble virtue that rarely accompanies fame ? she was modest. Nobody who knew her can imagine , her ever having pushed herself for ward. Instead, all of her life she went about doing good. Kven she could not have told the number of her kindnesses, to strangers as well as friends ; she, indeed, would have been the last to count them. ? Why an editorial about this woman whose in fluence was neither spectacular nor wide? Well, why is it we always find ourselves somewhat jawed by basic goodness? Isn't it because .we suspect that simple, qujet, useful persons like Mrs. Cooper have found a wis dom that often escapes those in high place? Be cause we know, in our hearts, that the world's only hope lies not in ruthless hate and grasping force, but in the selflessness of a life like hers? Easy (Mllford, Conn., Citizen) A congested, grey and brown, hot, dusty, dirty city can be built without much trouble. All we have to do is let "progress" take its course, and Milford can become like so many other cities. Salary Comparisons (Fayetteville Observer) Teachers of North Carolina are to be congratulated on the Increase in salary awarded them by the State Board of Edu cation. 1 Under the new pay scale a classroom teacher with a college A. B degree in /education will make a maximum salary equal to that drawn by a Fayetteville police patrolman under the new pay schedule which the City of Fayetteville is putting into operation. The teacher will draw $4,144 a year and the senior patrol man $4,236. And the teacher who has acquired a master's degree in edu cation. which requires at least five years of college, will re ceive a maximum salary almost equal to that of a senior traffic sergeant on the Fayettevilie, police force. This teacher will draw $4,556 per year, the senior traffic sergeant; $4,680. i And all teachers will make more money than City of Fay ittevllle truck drivers. Now this Is meant to be no kind of reflection at all on po licemen or truck drivers. Their jobs are very Important to the public and we couldn't get on without them any more than ?ve could get along without our public school teachers. We are just trying to show how the teachers stack up with ;wo other classifications of public employes. Two important differences should be noted, differences which partly balance one another: The teacher works nine months a year, the policeman and truck driver 12 months a ^ear; the teacher must attend summer suchool periodically at tils or her own expense to better the certificate which governs nis or her pay, the policeman and truck driver do not have to attend such schools. The point is that you do not have to have a college educa tion to make as much or more money than a North Carolina public school teacher. One can only hope that the average pay increase (less than 5 per cent) will encourage more and better teachers to re main in North Carolina schools and instruct North Carolina children, Instead of grabbing a better teaching job at better pay In another state. Another item for consideration Is that local school districts have the opportunity to supplement teacher pay over and above the basic salaries paid by the state. Perhaps In this opportunity the people in many North Car olina communities will be able to secure better instruction for their children by voting heavier taxes on themselves. But it does not make for equality of education throughout the state. Academy For Diplomats (Washington, Mo., Mlssourian) Sen. Stuart Symington has introduced a bill to establish a Foreign Service Academy in this country. The purpose of this academy would be to train men and women for the diplomatic service. It would be tuition free and be operated by the government pretty much along the lines of the military academies. The students would be selected on the basis of their scholastic standing, ability and character, and be required to pass entrance examinations, just as they do at West Point, for instance. The setting up of such an academy seems to be a most worth-while undertaking. We train war fighters in three top notch schools, but we do not have a professional training pro gram for our diplomats to fight for and maintain the peace, which is much more important. We sincerely hope Congress will go along with Sen. Syming ton's proposal. . DO YOU REMEMBER? 1 2 ? * tl Looking Backward Through the Flies ol The Press ci 65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1894) V s c t The action of the Cold Spring Baptist Church in expelling * a member for being a U. S. government (liquor) store-keeper * and gauger gives rise to the question as to whether church members engaging in such work are violators of church * discipline, and as such whether they are liable to be tried for it. If store-keepers are liable, what about all others in J the revenue service as collectors, marshals, clerks, and as aiders in all the departments of the work? ' Dr. A. C. Brabson was in town Saturday on business. Sandy Munday is a candidate for sheriff on the Republican i ticket. i Dr. George W. Truett, a native of Clay County, now pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, will preach here Sunday morning. , The nominees for county offices, to run in the general elec tion in November, are: For representative, A. W. Horn (D.) and Charles A. Lowry (R.); for sheriff, Charles L. Ingram , and Charles H. McQlure; for register of deeds, Horace J. , Hurst and Robert Rogers; for coroner, J. J. Conley and T. W. , Angel; for surveyor, John H. Dalton and E. L. Long; for county commissioners, A. B. Slagle, C. R. Cabe, and S. P. Pierson (Democrats) and W. B. McGuire, John H. Fulton, and Carey Hall (Republicans). Funeral services for Mrs. J. W. Cantey Johnson, publisher and editor of The Franklin Press, were held Tuesday after noon at St. Agnes Episcopal Church. Dedication of the Burningtown Baptist Church is planned Sunday at 10 a. m? the pastor, the Rev. T. A. Slagle, has announced. 35 YEARS AGO (1924) 15 YEARS AGO (1944) 5 YEARS AGO (1954) , i I I STRICTLY ? PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES It was a purely Informal dis ission. The only specialist in the "oup was a sociologist. He was aiding forth on the problems of le aging. Somebody wanted to know did b think compulsory retirement . 65 was a good or a bad thing. "Well", he parried the question, rou can't turn the clock back?" "Why can't you?" someone else jmanded, belligerently. "In every area of life", the jestioner continued, "we Ameri ins have come to assume 'you in't turn the clock back'. What mean is, we have come to take for granted that trends, no mat :r how bad they may be, are in stable and irreversible. "Take our agriculture special ts. They freely admit it is un )itunate, really a calamity, that irming as a way of life is being ;placed by coipciation-type agri ulture. But they throw up their ands, helplessly. They say 'it's le trend; there's nothing you can o about it ? except adjust to "Then there's an awful lot of iddence that the radiation that aes along with release of atomic nergy ? whether it's for wartime r peacetime uses ? ? is endanger lg us all, and especially the gen rations yet to be born. But it ever seems to occur to anybody e might stop releasing it.' 'It's ie trend', we are told; 'there's othing you can do about it ? xcept adjust to it'. And most of s accept that as gospel. "And many people think this usiness of making everybody re ;re at 65 ? whether they want > or not, whether they are worn ut or not ? is bad business. But he only answer you. a specialist, an give us is: 'It's the trend; there's nothing you can do about it ? except adjust to It'. "So", he continued, "what do we do?" "What we do is assume there's nothing we can do about the situations that really are the cause of our troubles, and so we scatter, our energies more and more try ing to solve the growing number of problems that really are re sults . . . like a doctor treating the symptoms instead of the dis ease. "What I want to know is: What's happened to change the American character? We haven't always been defeatists and fatal ists. "There was a time when Ameri cans took it for granted they could change conditions, instead of be ing changed by them. And it wasn't an attitude of 'maybe we can do something about this'; it was an attitude of 'we're going i to do something about this'. "What's happened to change us?" and the belligerent one looked about at the group. "I can tell you ! " shot back ttae sociologist, ignoring the fact his answer was an indictment of what he himself had said earlier. "I can tell you. We've changed I because we've all become victims ' of the Cult of Progress." Then he asked his own ques- i tion: "What is progress?" There was silence. But he per sisted : "Surely one of you can define progress." Again there was a long silence. Nobody in the group had a seri ous answer; so at last someone came up with a facetious one: "It's hurrying to the grave," - CURIOUS PARADOX Roads Get Worse, Speed Goes Up R. M. S. in MADISON MESSENGER By some curious paradox, there ppears to be, as one travels west, n inverse relationship between he quality of the roads and the stablished speed limits. For in tance; in North Carolina, where oads are magic carpets compared pith those in Tennessee, the peed is 55 miles per hour, except in throughways, where it goes up o sixty. In Tennessee, on road.s hat would be considered second ly in North Carolina, the speed imit is 60 and some times 65 niles per hour. In western Ken ucky, where the roads are much nore difficult than the road be ween Madison and Reidsville, the ipeed limit is 70 miles per hour; ind in Missouri, on roads that are ittle better than cow paths, the imit is 75 mph. I would defy any nan alive to drive 75 on those roaas and live to tell the tale, . even for a half a mile. Frequently seen on roads in western Tennessee, reading: "Speed Observed by Helicopter". For miles I drove with my hrad. out the car window on the look out for helicopters. I didn't see any but the strain was almost un bearable. . | BUT THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE We see where Richard Moore, president of KTTV in Los Angeles, believes the public ,likes TV ad vertising so much he proposes an.' all-ad TV show. Where've you, been, Richie? Isn't that the kind we've got right now? ? Advertising Age. They're Marrying Younger CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY The most unsurprising news to come out of Washington in recent days noted that brides and bride grooms in this country are getting younger all the time. Alter poring over^ statistics for GIVE THE SYSTEM A GRADE OF *U' Slightly embarrassing to school officials were the report cards printed for the District of Colum bia school system. The cards de fined "A" as excellant and "U" as "improvements is needed." ? Woman's Day. Struggle Ahead: Industrialism Vs. Individual ; , (EDITOR'S NOTE: The fol lowing is a condensation of an Assoeiated Press dispatch from Woodbury, Conn., by AP Writer Fred Powledge.) Playwright Arthur Miller says the world will soon face the most profound spiritual struggle of its history. He is not talking about the ever-increasing competition be tween America and Russia. In stead. he sees a later, "vastly more important" conflict. He sees men's minds fighting against a uniformity brought on by a "tremendously industrialized society." The 43-year-old writer, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for his play, "Death of A Salesman," set forth his ideas in an interview at his farm here. Now in the air, he says, is the hidden problem of retaining human values which industrial society around the world seems to be rapidly destroying. He is working on a play that will discuss this problem. The playwright thinks the strug gle with Russia will stabilize itself, partially because men will be afraid to destroy themselves. Then, he says, mankind will find that the competition between Russia and America was masking the more important problem. "In the last decade or so," be says, "most people came to imagine that once they'd managed to destroy Communist influence, we would somehow be back in Nirvana. "That was only an illusion." The settlement of the EasMVest power struggle, says Miller, "will only make more dramatic the problem this struggle masked. "It is whether or not people, can remain human beings, be It under communism or capital ism. when every human quality is being suppressed excepting the thing we need to have in order to fit in efficiently. "With goods being produced at a larger rate than any time in history, there are already mil lions of people who. are, so closely organized into the economic ma chine that/ they no longer know why they are alive or should live. "Is it possible." he asks, "that we have got to revise our concept of success, and face the fact that material advance and efficiency in themselves are not automtical ly going to fling us into happi ness? "That we are going to have to think again, and discover what it really means to be human, and what a human being really is and needs? The problem will not be solved by a new refrigerator, which cannot keep a soul from spoiling." Because the pace of the world is now so much faster, Miller says man has an obligation to attack this problem now. In the past, things took decades and centuries to develop, so that people could rarely see what was happening. "The speed of developments ought to give us perspectives which were impossible In earlier times. It is not hard to envision the virtual abolition of poverty in our time, for instance. "And when scarcity of goods and wealth is no longer here, what will we have to strive for? We are living as though we still had to fight over a bone; what happens when the game is over? "Poverty will not vanish to morrow morning, but as we strug gle against it new human values which have nothnlg to do with competition must be brought for ward." 1958. the Population Reference Bureau reported, "The average age of first-time marriages in the United States last year was 25 for men, 20 for women. More girls married at 18 than any other age.' The average US. marriage age today, the bureau said. Is probabl) the lowest of any industralizec society. One look at Chapel Hill ? par ticularly in the direction of Vic tory Village and the new marriei students' housing under construc tion ? gives ample support to th bureau's findings. A generation ago. the marrie< coed was a rarity, the marrie high school student unheard 'ql While there is still no noticeabl stampede of high school student to the altar, a coed with an am ful Of diapers is no more caus for comment than a coed with a armful of books, sometimes eve less cause. In a way, this is a good sigi It indicates a continuing belie in marriage anfi family as wortl while institutions. At the same time, whateve good is to be found in this tren toward early marriages must b tempered with doubt. About quarter of all marriages last yen were re-marriages. One of every 2 divorced women re-marrytng *; a teen-ager. In marriage, as in the 100-yar dash, it is good to get off to fast start but a waste of time an effort to jump the gun. THE MARVELS OF INFLATION As a sales gimmick, a compari sent a salesman out from doc to door to sell one-dollar bills . a special price of 75 cents. Nat ; ally people were very suspicioi and he couldn't sell a sinizle b; One woman turned him dow with: "You're trying to cyp m My h 1-b.ir.d s.iid orly this moi ing that the dollar is only wort 50 cents today." ? Exchange.
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