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TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE j?*; S TODAY'S QUOTATION things; another. who Is weah. eateth ZL" Editorial Page of the Mountaineer should quietly bear both aides.?Ooethe. ?Romans 14:2. ? J ~ 51 - , .tip ?: / S < ? 0 V * ' 1.. _________________ ' ? e ?? - 1 - "**? i??? _? _ . New-Standards For High School The action of the executive committee of 'the University of North Caroline last week is a far-teaching step, and one that will touch the lives of every Tar Heel high school student planning .to attend college. The trustees set forth a plan requiring entrance examinations for admission to the three units of the consolidated university. Thin action, according to the Raleigh News and Observer, constitutes a long over due forward step. Until now, all graduates of standard high schools have been admitted to the greater university units without question. That .practice, it was pointed out, was justified by the theory that al high school graduates are qualified for college. The fact remains, how ever, that a high percentage of high school graduates are not qualified for college work. The action of the trustees cannot be light ly overlooked by student, parent, and certain ly high school teachers and members of the school administration. , The News and Observer, speaking editdr x ially along the same line, said: "The new requirement may be attacked as a reflection upon North Carolina high .schools. If there is any reflection implied in the action the reflection is deserved on the record. As a matter of fact, however, the new retirement should serve the desirable purpoa^vof improving the caliber of high school education ip North Carolina. There nre no* many high schools in the State whose graduates are properly prepared for college. There are many others which grad uate students whose preparation is deficient. "The new requirement, which will become effective in 1957, although the examinations will begin this year, will serve to end the fic tion that all high schools in the State main tain uniform standards. The requirement will also serve to raise the standards of the high schools with the lowest standards. "Graduates of high schools should be pre pared for college. When the examination system develops the fact that some high school graduates are not prepared, the par ents of those children will naturally demand explanations. And if the number of rejec tions by the university are disproportiorlate ly high .in any community, demands for ex planations will become so numerous and will have so much merit that corrective action as well As explanations may be expected. "One feature of the plan, however, de serves a cautionary note. The present inten tion, apparently, is to disqualify only those who finish in the lowest one-fotlrth in all of the three tests required. As a practical mat ter this arbitrary distinction might result in the admission of disqualified students or the rejection of qualfied students. It is en tirety conceivable that in a given year more than 75 per cent of those taking the exami nations would pass them and in another year less than 75 per cent would do so. And it is Hot only conceivable, but highly probable, that some aplicants might do well on some of the examinations and very poorly on oth ers. It would seem that a requirement of passing marks would be fairer to both appli cants and the university. "However, if the arbitrary requirement concerning the "lowest one-fourth" proves unsatisfactory, it can be abandoned. For that matter the examination plan itself can be abandoned if, in the future, it should become unnecessary because of the adoption of high er and more uniform standards for gradua tion by high schools. The present need for entrance examinations is undeniable and the trustees are to be congratulated for their action." "A little less of you or me, A little more ?f us."?William T. Card. n Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. Honesty is the fear of being caught. Good News For Burley Growers The fact th'it Congress has seen fit to kill the measure which would cut tobacco acre age 15 per cent" is aD encouraging note to farmers. ' As this is written the measure must go to the White House for the signature of the president, before it becomes final. The action of Congress literally means an increase of 15 per cent additional burley for farmers, and that means a lot in view of the prior cuts which have already been made. The cancellation of the directive ordering the burley cuts came at a time when burley farmers can still plant their full acreage ? and this is most important this year, that the full allotments be planted. Last year there were a number of Hay wood farmers that failed to plant their full allotments, and thereby lost that much cash income from burley. It is not likely that such will be the case this year, especially in view of the "close call" with the 15 per cent cur tailment. Miss Osborne A Pioneer Specialist A fact not known to many people was that Miss Florence Osborne was a pioneer in advocating modern pasture building, and purebred cattle. We were told that Miss Osborne was a mong the first if not the first person in Hay wood to plant ladino clover. She constantly read and studied ways to improve her farm, and dairy herd. She was a member of that school that realized the necessity of using new scientific methods in her business, - which made ttyvery successful. Miss Osborne's memory was such that she not only knew the quality of every animal in her large herd, but knew the background, and pedigree which is so essential in pure bred stock. Miss Osborne loved her herd and farm, and she never tired of devising new methods for improving each. She truly loved her work, and the success she attained will stand as a monument to her for many, many years to come, as well as an inspiration to others in similar fields of "endeavor. * t Hybrid Rhododendron Suggested For Area Howard Gryder, district supervisor of agriculture education, is advocating "whole sale" planting of hybrid rhododendron as a fast-growing, colorful, and hearty plant for a general area-wide beautification program. Here in this immediate section we have planted hundreds of dogwood trees, which are as pretty, and as colorfu\ blooming tree as one could wish to have about their home. The suggestion of Mr. Gryder has merit, and while rhododendron requires some shade and an acid soil, it might be possible to use it to supplement dogwood which grows under al ntost unrestricted conditions. ;? >V-- '? "? . # VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS Thrift Needs Its Gimmicks Too N ? ? ' ? 7. * The two Nashville men who have Invented a sort of slot machine, to be set up in public places and to help people save their spare change, have still another well-intended gimmick to discourage that perfectly dreadful habit of spending money. Shoppers presumably will feed all their stray pocket or purse coins into this device, and will get printed stamps in exchange. Later, these stamps, if not lost or used for cleaning razor blades, can be turned in at some bank and considered as a money deposit. It would be most generous for any Rowan store, super-market or garage with its own arrayed tempta tions to spend money to set up alongside this silent salesman of thrift instead. It can be noted that post offices have always deftly promoted their coin-con suming product-services while Just as fairly prompt ed saving via thrift stamps and bonds. , A bank in one breath will urge borrowing money to build or buy something costly, and in the next will Invite saving for old age or the next baby. Lota of stores having attractive goods tempting ly laid out for sale will also happily sell a china pig gy bank, or 57 varieties of other coin-saving gadgets Including some which make music or cause a minia ture porcellan head to dip in surprised apprecia tion of the thrift when a voin is deposited in an impulse of concern for old age security. Sometimes such a mechanical bank does no bowing, bell-ringing or back patting at all, and many a china pig half full of pennies has been slaughtered in some slight emergency, largely because he hadn't grunted commendingly at every feeding end of course had issued no pretty stamps. Anyhow, we welcome all depositories and gadgets, from pantry shelf sugar bowls to slot machines, which encourage us to preserve our lucre. We sel dom do it, but It's nice to be aslaed. ?From The Salisbury Post THE MOUNTAINEER Waynearille. North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5301 The Count? Seat of Haywood County Published Br The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor " W Curtis Ruts and Marion T. Bridges. Publishers PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year -TZLi *3 50 Six months J. ..... _ 1.00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Tear 4 50 Six months 250 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year 5 00 Six mouths - _ 3 00 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month a. l ,40c Office-puld for carrier delivery 4,50 Altered at the pott office at WaynervlUe. N C , at Monday Afternoon, February 20, 1950 . -e-c .w ? ? - i I CHURCHILL'S UNDERSTUDY. B * i ft My Favorite Stories By CARL GOERCH September 26, 1942 Mr. Carl Goerch State Magazine Raleigh. N. C. Dear Carl: In your September 21 issue you carried an article about the palatial home that Ray Adams of Washington, D. C? has purchased on the banks of Curri tuck County I have just receiv ed a letter from Ray asking me to contact you and see if you couldn't send him ten extra copies of that issue. Please forward them to him at your earliest conveni ence. Sincerely yours. Roland Mumford September 27, 1942 Mr. Ray T. Adams Keene-Adams, Inc. Eleventh and F Streets, S W. Washington. D. C. Dear Mr, Adams: I have just received a letter from our mutual friend. Roland Mumford. instruct ing me to send you ten thousand extra copies of our September 21 issue. Of course, we do not have this extra number of copies available, but luckily we still have the plate standing. I have instructed our printers to rush this order ' through immediately and they in form me that the ten thousand copies will b- ready for shipment by Monday We will have ther.i crated and sent to you by express,fs<l that you will get them Tuesday "or Wednes day, The cost of the copies will be $621 50. If we had had to re-se* the tyoe it would, of course, have been much more. You may remit for same at your convenience. Thanking you for this order end hoping that we mav have the pleasure of ser.ing you egain, 1 am Sincerely. - Carl Goerch # _______ WESTERN UNION RDA42 WAI42 ? WM WASHINGTON. DC. 1029A ROLAND MUMFORD HOTEI. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. N CAR HAVE JUST RETURNED TO WASHINGTON AFTER A WEEKS VISIT TO MY HUNT ING CLUB AT COROLLA NC HAVE A LETTER HERE FR<!>M CARL GOERCH STATING HE IS SHIPPING ME BY EXPRESS TFN THOUSAND COPIES OF SEPT 21ST ISSUE OF STATE MAGAZINE CHARGES $8X150 AUTHORIZED BY YOU YOU CRAZY NUT I ASKED YOU TO SEND ME TEN COPIES NOT TEN THOUSAND. SHALL RE FUSE TO ACCEPT THE TEN THOUSAND COPIES SUGGEST YOU CONTACT GOERCH IM MEDIATELY TO CORRECT YOUR MISTAKE. RAY T. ADAMS No matter how good a man's eyes are it is seldom easy for him to see his own faults?Laurel (Miaa.i Leader ? Call. Letter To Editor EXPLANATION Editor, The Mountaineer: Recent statements by the Na tional Park Service tq the press regarding right of way needed to carry the Blue Ridge Parkway around Grandfather Mountain have omitted certain essential facts and should be corrected. My family conveyed to the State for the Parkway back in 1939 a right of way several miles long and 1000 feet wide following the route laid out by the Natonal Park Serv ice. The Park Service has since that time, and since our exten sive development of Grandfather Mountain as a scenic attraction, requested a right of way that would come a measured mile in side our property line and which would impair the natural beauty of Grandfather Mountain for all purposes except those of the Park Service. Highway Chairman A. H. Gra ham recommended a compromise route a short distance above the 1939 right o fway. and I agreed to this compromise by offering last August to donate this land to the State for the Parkway. It is my understanding that tile com promise route suggested by Chair man Graham Is satisfactory to Governor ffaAees and the mem bers of the Highway Commission. HUGH MORTON North Carolina Banks Show Gains RALBIG.H (AP> ? Total re soarers of all banks in North Carolina Increased S138.024.311 last year, according to State Banking Commissioner W. YV. Jones. On Dec. 31, he said yesterday, combined resources of state and national banks stood at $2,688. 689.422. compared with $2,550, 665.112 at the end of 1954. Assets of the state banks in creased $90,425,774 last year to a total of $1,892,160,112. The number of state ban?" last year shrunk from 178 to 171 but the number of branches in creased by 16 to a total of 271. Looking Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO Miss Sarah Welch is selected to represent the Dorcas Bell Love Chapter, DAR, in the state con test for the citiienship award. N.Y.L. Club has Valentine party at the home of Miss Lucy and Miss Edna Jones. Bethel Seed Judging Team, Glenn Chambers. Bill Hyatt, and Steve Cathey, win third place in State Contest. 10 YEARS AGO ' Haywood people provide money to buy 34 acres for 4-H Club Camp. I Dave Felmct, Jack Messer, L. H. Bramlett. and Furman Jones buy Arm of Hyatt and Company. M. B Reeves. Jr. of Clyde re ceives discharge from the Navy. Mrs R. H. Plott observes 91st birthday. Miss Rosalyn Ray honors Miss Martha Way, bride-elect, at steak supper. 5 YEARS AGO Glenn W. Brown is named to county board of elections, suc ceeding Crom E. Cole. First Baptists vote to start new auditorium immediately. Phil Lowe celebrates his birth day with a dinner at his home on qie Howell Mill Road. H. C. Turner, student at UNC, spends weekend with his parents. Dinner Gueat: "Will you please pass the nuts?" Professor, ab sent-mindedly: "Yes. I suppose so. but I really should flunk them."? Memphis Press-Scimitar. SCOTT'S SCRAP BOOK , By R. J. SCOTT KEYNOTE. ?fill feme o? k KIV oi I icn.1 Ai TiUlffiH o?.iou*a A KEYNOTE VI Al MMMWIKM. 'Ml* ?* hJ ICE*.; Mi KirMo<io?fc I? ?*t 1 Vtln' k*L Al CUHOS of A ?fUnKuPltf e*<? ?? OKI i? ><0,000.000 off SO.OOO.OOO. 0 /*fi& I ma.m/ M'OUW. cdwiu DiSCO?.*tP < *AS lASlLft. * Ig,(Ss ?(? P?U. A LOAD -WAX -fo PUS* if. 1 ?*? ?? " ^TiiiasStu-^? ' - KXfioNAL B/AP <f MtW CA1U0KIA KAittS A HOtU UK1 fat 1MM A. 806 M? CAJfHOf HY. Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier With the admission that George Washington's birthdate had originally been February 11 but later changed with a new calendar to February 22, we are again faced with the fact that a not Iter new calendar could be created just as it was from the Julian to the Gre gorian. On numerous occasions this question has been brought befdre the-public for a decision but has always managed to be sidetracked. How nice it would be to have the year made up of thirteen months, each month, each week, beginning on a specified day through out the years. How easy to plan on Junior's birthday six wee)ts ahead, or look back to see if it rained the day we started out on that long automobile trip. Quite naturally, confusion would lift its worried head until the routine had been perfected, then peace would reign. What is that awful howling we hear in the distance? Oh, that is the cry of anguish from the calendar makers who have a stock al ready printed up to 1966' Heard in passinf: "I should say he's henpecked. He always looks as though he'd just been hauled out of hiding." Readers of this column often ask us how we And things to write about each issue. Friends, we ask ourselves the same question twice a week. We try to keep to the abstract and not deal In personalities unless the occasion arises whqn we feel that the person concerned should be complimented for some deed they have accomplished. And about those rhymes we get past the deadline! Personally, we feci that a bit of poetry is like a cooling drink of water in the summertime, it sort of perks you up. But there are many who feel about poetry the same as they do about okra . . . they can take it or leave it alone. And many of our readers do the latter. Now, just one more item. Unless we specifically state where or from whom we got it, everything in ftamblipg 'Round is original, be it good or bad. And, also like okra. the reader can take it or leave it. ^ A choice bit of gossip depends upon whose choice it was. With the great political book being opened for public perusal of its multitudinous pages, we are already being made aware of the capability of man to build a monstrous thing out of words carefully selected as to "vituperativability". Why can't the candidate rise on his own individual standards, beliefs and convictions? What merit can he gain by stamping ^lls * competitor as a scoundrel, rascal and all the other synonyms per taining to same? The perversity of the human race being what it is makes us in variably turn to the under dog, so the political haranguer is, in reality, boosting his opponent, be it candidate or party. But as both sdes are swinging hafd, it looks like the best thing to do is to keep out of reach. For the next nine and one half months, the knob on our radio will be turned to "Off" or will swing dizzily around the dial to escape political speeches and to duck the mud slinging. Exactly in the middle of the lex-i-con of modem conversa tion, you find the letter "I". I STRAIGHT TALK A noted biologist was lecturing < to a small rural school on the 1 danger of rat infestation and cholera in the Far East. The sixth grade class listened with rapt at tention and after the lecture one of the pupils wrote this note of appreciation. "We all* enjoyed your lecture very much. We didn't know what a rat looked like until you came." ?Wall Street Journal. Yawning Man Stays That Way JOHNSON CITY (API ? No body needed to tell George Babb to keep his mouth shut ? he was doing his best to close it. ? Babb woke up yesterday, yawned, and suddenly found he couldn't close his mouth. He was treated for a dislocat ed jaw and released from Mem orial Hospital after a doctor pushed the jaw back in place. AtUieWASHIHGTON MARCH OF EVENTS Middle West Looms Major Battleground Noxt November War and fiaci Sine# 1917 Hav# Cost U. S. $806 Billion Special to Central Press Association WASHINGTON?The Middle West looms ai the great battleground tf next November's presidential elections, wHlther or no? President Elsenhower is a candidate. It Is in that region of farms and factories that the economic issues on which the campaign will be fought are certain to t>e most keenly felt. Middle West farmers are suffering: from ths price-qost squeeze which the Republicans are at* tempting to ease, without much hope of dramatic results, between now and election day. Also in the Middle West, auto workers are being laid off as production falls below last year's record - rate. Should the layoffs become sizeable, other In dustries will be hit. % The Democrats, of course, will seek to exploit the situation, while the Republicans will strive to convince the farmers that their problems are in the process of solution and to find some pump priming device for the auto production centers. ? ? ? * President Eisenhower ? WAR COSTS?Rep. Lawrence Smith (R), Wis consin, has figured out that It has cost the United States $806 billion to wage war and maintain a precarious peace from 1917 to 1954. During that period, he says, the United States has given other na tions more than $129 billion, almost $100 billion since 1940. Smith estimates that the American aid bill since World War II totals $51 billion, of which $1 billion 325 million has gone to Russia and other Communist nations in the form of direct aid, gifts, bank loans and gifts from private agencies. In addition, the congressman says, America has spent more than $677 billion on national defense and preparedness fr6m 1917 to 1954. ? ? < ? ? ? SECOND VICE PRESIDENT?The proposal of former President Herbert Hoover to cut down on the burdens of the presidency by giving him power to appoint an "administrative vice president" is gaining support in Congress. Rep. Peter Frelinghuysen (R), New Jersey, already has introduced several bills designed to meet the problems spotlighted by President Eisenhower's heart attack and among them was the Hoover proposal. Furthermore, Senator John F. Kennedy (D), Massachusetts, who is chairman of a government operations subcommittee, says his group in'ends to hold hearings on the subject of easing the President's job. It is understood that Kennedy will seek the opinion of Mr. Eisen hower himself about the idea of a "second vice president." Ike may lend his full support to the idea since he is a firm believer in delega tion of powers and now relies heavily on White House aides. ? ? ? ? ? TV QUIZ FOR ALL?Senator Estes Kefauver has a pet idea that he will press should he ever become President. It is to bring the people and their government closer together by hav ing a televised question-and-answer period in Con- Would Quit ^ During stated periods. Cabinet members and heads of various federal agencies would have a chance to Federal Heodi explain their problems, report their progress and then be questioned by members of Congress. ? Kefauver says: "Under my psoposal, the question-and-answer periods would be fully covered by newsmen, radio and television. This would enable'155 million Americans to sit in on what you might call a town meeting on a national scale." The senator believes such a program, giving the people an Insight into the workings of government, would stimulate popular discussion of issues and leaders.
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