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r TODAY'S BIBLE VERSE " TODAY'S QUOTATION Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ' d : ' ? ' ' * * J ?% Governor Made A Masterful Plea For Schools The address of Governor Luther H. Hodges before the special session of the (ieneral Assembly Moriday night was marked with clarity- depth and sincerity. Governor Hodges never made a more sin core and earnetk appeal for action than he did while explaining the proposed legislation to the 170 members who have been called together to enact laws relative to the fu ture of the schools in North Carolina. Our chief executive made it very plain that the proposals of the State School Advisory Committee, which are being incorporated into the suggested measures for considera tion by the A-ssembly, represented a long, thorough study, and one which had his en dorsement as well iia the Council of State, Attorney General, and many others. Haywood's Senator William Med ford was a member of the 7-meml?er advisory com mittee. and through him we learned of the hard work and study wfhich went into the final projjosals. The romlmittee and the gov ernor readily admit that the plan is not per fect, y< t thus far there has not been a better plan offered. There are some who are criti cal of the proposal, but they offer nothing but criticism, yet they realize that North Carolina cannot afford to "stand still' and trust to the future. The local option and tuition grant proposed laws are being sought to "have available" if needed. It is very much like buying a fire extinguisher?you buy cgie hoping it will never be used, but realize the importance and value of such an item in case of necessity. Among the growing list of leaders approv ing the proposals of the Advisory Committee, are Dr. Charles Carroll, state superintendent of public instruction. He announced his sup port by saying: "A more realistic, workable proposal has not been submitted and what this one contemplates seems to provide a minimum of Interruption with our present school system." That opinion coming from the man who heads our state schools merits every consid - eratlon. News coming from Representative Jerry Rogers on Tuesday night was that indica tions show the hearing will possibly take all week, even with night sessions. The vast majority of those wanting to l)e heard op pose the plan. Yet they have no suggestions to offer, except beg to "let's just wait." That attitude in this case is dangerous, as the odds are difinitely against it working out satisfactorily. One only has to look at some other states in recent months to find thnt factual answer. This is no time to take chances. Neither is it a time to become excited. Calm deliberations with immediate action are essential. Haywood Folk Spread The Good Word Sometime after dark Sunday night, the 88 folk on the Haywood Farm Tour are slat ed to roll into Waynesville, thus completing more than 8,300 miles iijto l.r? states and Canada. From all reports of the fast traveling tour ers," they are enjoying a lot of beautiful country, and having a wonderful time. And they are leaving at every stop, a good word about Haywood and plenty of printed matter on the subject. A man could retire comfortably in his old age if he could dispose of his experience for what it cost him.?Carlsbad Current-Argus. How Is The . Tourist Business? The age-old seasonal question come* up about this time of year: "How is the tourist business as comj>ared with last year?" Ask ten people and you'll pet ten entirely different answers. A business man asked 10 Rhop owners and moteJ ojjerators in Cherokee the question, lie pot nine answers that were vague, but ail hinted at a slight increase, while the 10th man said: "My business is away ahead?I know; 1 po by the records, and not from memory." Many others keep records, and still seem somewhat pessimistic; yet the next person you ask is bubbling oyer with justified opti mism. We crawled out on the proverbial limb last spring, when the peaks were snow-cov ered, and Lake Junaluska was frozen over, to predict the best season in the history of the area. We are sticking to the prediction, mind ful of the fact that the season still has sev eral weeks to go. From our own little sur vey, we find that we are well on the way of being "so right." Highway Across Smokies Destined For Improvement It is interesting to note that a renovated or a new alignment of Highway 441 from Cherokee to Newfound Gap has been given top priority with the Park Service for the current fiscal year. The present road was never constructed to carry the traffic that is being loaded upon it today. The traffic through the Smokies has literally beaten the highway to pieces, and repairing it is futile because of the heavy grade and sharp curves. A new era of prosperity will have arrived in this area when a new highway is built to replace this worn out link, and the four lane road built down Pigeon River to New port to take the commercial and much through traffic off the Park route. Community Zoning Only Solution For Sound Growth A recommendation has been made by Western North Carolina Associated Com munities to the Cherokee Tribal Council, that they take immediate steps for zoning the area. The suggestion was made because of some arrowing criticism that "Cherokee is just growing up everywhere without a plan or sufficient restrictions."' A comparison was made Tuesday in the WNCAC director's meeting that "GatMnburg looks so spic and span." No community can expect to go too long without a zoning code and plan. Town after town has tried to get by without a zoning code only to wake up and find that progress had been retarded, and mistakes made which would curtail the further development of the area for many years. Hazel wood recently named a zoning com mission. and while it is several years behind time, it is good that it came now rather than not at all. A year or so ago a master plan for de velopment was presented to the residents of Maggie Vtdley for study and consideration. Many leaders of that area realize the im portance of a blueprint for further develop ment. and it is not too early to adopt a code. No carpenter would start building a 10 room house with the idea that he would build one room, let a neighbor add the second, and several years later let other folk add the remaining eight rooms as they saw fit. The same idea goes for community planning. A master plan is essential these days. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS More Families In all the talk about soaring American popula THE MOUNTAINEER Waynes ville, North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-6301 The County Seat ef Haywood County Published Br The WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER, Inc. W. CURTIS RUSS Editor W. Cuttle Ruaa and Marlon T. Bridge*. Publishers PDBfBD EVERT MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3 30 Si* months 2 00 BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year 4.50 Si* months . 2.50 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA One Year . 5.00 Si* months 8.00 LOCAL CARRIER DELIVERY Per month ___________ .40e Office-paid for carrier delivery 4.50 Entered at the poet office at WayneevtDe, N. C.. a* Second Class Mail Matter, as provided under the Act of March 1. Htm. November >0. 1?M. i MEMBER or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is entitled exclusively to the use ?r (ssroutllcaiiori of all the local news printed In this ncWrpffeer. aa wen as an AP news dispatches Thursday Afternoon, July 26, 1956 tion, one important set of figures is frequently ob scured. It's the rising number of families, and hence households, in the United States, Back in 1946 there were some 38 million house holds in this country In the 10 vears since that date, the total has climbed by nearly 11 millions to a level just under 49 million. To afford some notion of how sizable this in crease was in family numbers, the best previous decade, 1920-1930, showed just 5.500.000 additional households. Why is this figure important? From the standpoint of the nation's economy, it is the real measure of the widening base of busi ness. I Every time a new household is set up as a sep arate establishment, it means a family will be buy ing furniture, rugs, household appliances, utensils, sheets and towels, and radio and TV sets. If and when the family gets a house instead of an apart ment. there will be such things as garden toote, home repair equipment and materials, paint, and so on. So that 11 million boost in household numbers since 1946 is on? of the real keys to the great post war boom In the American economy. And bow tbosfe figures run in the neat .10, years will tell 4 good deal about how much prosperity we shall enjoy in that span.?Salisbury Post. '. . . L % X WE'LL TAKE A RAIN CHECK?If you have oome to the conclusion that it does nothing but rain here please note that last winter Lake Jun aluska frow over. Here's proof, with the young people enjoying the novelty of h'e skating. Views of Other - Editors EDUCATION IN RUSSIA "BIGGER THREAT THAN HYDROGEN BOMB" In .ill the hullabaloo about education in the United States on the national level in the re cent school construction bill which Congress scuttled, and at tils' state level in Governor Hodges' controversial Pearsall committee recommendations ?- a small item buried in a Washing ton columnist's daily writing went comparatively unnoticed by a ma jority ot Americans "According to ex-Senator Wil liam Benton of Connecticut, re cently returned from Russia," the columnist wrote, "Russian educa tion is a bigger threat than the hydrogen bomb" <t there be those inclined to pooh pooh Benton's statement, lot them take note of the fact that he spent several months last year in Russia gathering material for the Encyclopaedia Britannlca, of which he is publisher. In an article for the encyclopaedia this year Benton dwelled long on the Soviet educational system and the sensational progress the system has made in a short time He was impressed by many fa cets of their system. For example illiteracy in Russia has been prac tically eliminated in people under 40 years of age, something that can l be said about the United States. Eor another thing, by 1060 tiK, entire Soviet .school program will ho cumpul.sty \ for 10 grades Con trast thai with the policy in this country where a pupil can quit school when he gets to the age of 1C. whether or not he has com P 'ted one year, two years or a dozen years of school And Ben ton is quick to observe that the 10 grades in the Soviej svstem correspond to our 12 - grade schools. Furthermore. Russian children R" to school six days to the wc k for 10 months out of the year And, says Benton, "Students at all levels work harder than stu dents in America." In the face of a growing trend in this country to make educa tion easy (your job is to mak < them enjoy school, some teachers have been told' Benton's words carry extra weight. There is noth ing easy about education, and a system that allows mediocrity to graduate, that adds to the anti-in tellectual attitude so prevalent today, is certainly a system that needs re-thinking, a system that needs all the strength 1, can mus ter instead of being watered down This is a critical time, especial ly for North Carolinians for dur ing the next few hectic, active, harvest-filled weeks they will be asked to take on the added bur den of trying to decide the edu cational future of their children, and to a great degree, the educa tional future of this nation. North Carolinians should look long and hard at any proposal that would open the doors for abandonment of the public school system of this state. Perhaps as North Carolinians think about the future of their schools they should keep in the back of their minds the lucid ob servation bv ex-Senator Benton: "Russian education is a bigger threat than the hydrogen bomb." ?The Smithfield Herald. HOIJ) THOSE HORSES Anybody who wonders at the urge toward automotive speed among youngsters might read closely some of the latest adver tlwiMott coming from Detroit. "... again proves nobodv outperforms Ford," says one. So This Is New York rt. NORTH < \I.L MI \N This summer is a good time to visit New York City. It is having a festival especially designed for the out-of-towners and aimed to show them that no place excels Gotham as a holiday center. In dividual events range from base ball to Bach and all lines of ac tivity are represented. More than a thousand items are officially listed by the city as part of the celebration, and the mayor is put ting his main summer efforts on making the festival a success. Sports, music. art. theatres, movies, children's activities, flow er shows, radio and television, .sightseeing are only a few of the things to take part in. This i- not a chamber of commerce plug but the best thing of all is just see ing the Big City itself. A statistical company here re minds us that there are lt>2 mils lion Americans who are not mem bers of the Communist party; that 37 million married couples who will stay married this year: and 102 million of our people will not "Man. it's dynamite!" says an other of the new Dodge. "Now the hot one is even hotter." Chevro let has said. Those are just sam ples from the Big Three of auto manufacturing. All are boasting of horsepower and performances which might or might not he safe on. a race track but which would be the noxj thing to sub ride for the average motorist to whom these advertisements are addressed. The fact is that automotive power and speed are daily being impressed on the national con science. and Detroit still tries to impress those who have resisted This includes Dad as well as Junior. Hence the highway de linquency problem is far from strictly juvenile. And the horse power bombardment does not help?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. die of cancer or heart attack. This may not make headline news, but nevertheless is considered of im portance. Preachers, artists and teach ers are the lowest paid profes sional people in the country, a survey shows. Median income for the parson is $2,412 a year, with artists and teachers averaging $2,300. Bus drivers get $3,116, blacksmiths, $2,701. bookkeepers, $2,847, accountants and auditors. $4,002. architects, $5,580 and physicians. $8,115. A story is told here of the farmer who interviewed a hired mart and asked his faults. "Well," said the man, "the last fellow I worked for said 1 was awful hard to wake up during a hard storm at night," The farmer hired him, and two weeks later, a heavy wind storm hit the area. Instantly, the farmer arose and went to awaken _ the hired hand so they could check the stock and equipment. But the man would not wake up. Finally the farmer went out alone. To his amazement, he found the barn doors securely fastened, the hay stack tightly anchored, the lumber pile heavily wei jh!ed down. Suddenly a light dawned on the farmer. Now he knew why the hired man slept so soundly through it all. George K. Kose, Vice-president of the Chase National Bank. Ve in inds rue that every year. 35-40 000 young people set up com panies. lease quarters in Junior Achievement Centers supported by business organizations and is sue stock. Tliev elect their own boards and officers, manufacture products, provide services and sell them. If they make profits, they pav dividends, if not. they go bankrupt In this way, these young people learn about the the problems of life they are lat er to face, by doing things for r( FACTORY WAGES OUTRUN PRICES 135 ?j 130 . FACTORY^ WAGES^//' "? x CONSUMER PRICES 100 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 '56 Indtx?Jun? 1950=100 Prepared by NAM from Gov't Statistic! A ? o WAGE-PRICE SPREAD WIDENS Factory employees, on the average, have received wage in creases far in excess of the rise in the cost of living since the Korean War outbreak The chart shpws that the percentage gain in hourly pay amounted to more than 2'2 times that of consumer prices. To be exact, for every dollar of increase in the cost of liv ing, wages went up $2 67. During the first eighteen months of the six-year period shown on the chart, wages increased sharply. However, the average work er obtained little benefit throughout that period, because the rapid rise in wages wastaccompanied by an almost equal rise in the price level. Since the middle of 1952. prices have remained remarkedly steady w hlle the trend of hourly w age rates has continued upward. During this period, the spread between the hourly pay received by manufacturing worker* and the cost of goods and sendees they buy has widened very rapidly. Rambling 'Round By Fraaecs Gilbert Frailer If reports are correct, there lies Just ahead the passing of two ames that have stood highest in American entertainment for many ears. These two worlds of pleasure were as diametrically opposed s the poles yet with an equal fuliowing of enthusiastic devotees The announcement that Ringllng Brotbers-Barnum and Bailey ircus would haul duiwn its enormous tent for the last road hour was oljowed closely by the notification that the Metropolitan "Opera louse in New York City would not open its doors for its annual eason from October first until April. To the public, these arinounee nents were like saying the sun was going into an eternal eclipse o closely have these two mammoth organizations allied to the pleas ire of the entire country. The circus and grand opera were as well mown traditionally as Paul Revere and Faust. Perhaps time and reconsideration will enable the famous downs to again bring forth shouts of laughter and the renown ten >rs gnd coloratura ladies evoke tears for lovers parted by cruel fate. Maybe the trend for entertainment is entering a new phase, noving along at the Jet-propelled age in which We ace now living, somehow, the circus lost a lot of its prestige when the parade, with ts prancing horses, lumbering elephants and "a-pealing calliope eft the scene. Anyway, if you want to see the animals and the downs, you'll have to go to Sarasota, Florida. WOLF (to pretty girl at party): "Never mind abouG|mur name. Just give me your telephone number." SHE (not at all impressed): "You'll find it listed in theTele phone directory. Good bye." Definitions Mr. Webster never woull have thought up: HOSE: Covering for legs and lawns. TACT: Sometimes used instead ol what you really think. FALSEHOOD: A temporary bridge that has to be watched care ully. TRUTH; A commodity that is valuable to own but cannot be ised indiscriminately. WINDOW PANE: Similar to a dollar bill . . . not much use when broken. APOLOGY: The hardest word in the English lenguage to say. LUNCH HOUR: A race won by skin of the teeth. A sharp remark may relieve the speaker but leaves a sear on the recipient. Looking Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO Lake Junaluska Woman's Club donates proceeds of its annual birthday party to the "Save Jun aluska" campaign. Miss Salinda Perry becomes bride of Hubert O'Donnell of themselves. Gotham Gatherings: A Texan came to New York and needed to cash a check. Typically, he went straight to the president of the first bank he saw?and got the check cashed , . . sign of sum mer is the beginning of the out door chess games in Washington Square, played by folks ofT from work who choose to divert their minds in this fashion ... a ped dler of balloons on a street corn er watching out for the cops as furtively as if he were bootleg ging moonshine . . . there is an optical store at 22nd Street and 5th Avenue which will make spec tacles for you while you wait . , . in a ten cent store, a little old lady solving the meal-time prob lem by sitting in a phone booth and munching on a sandwich she evidently brought from home. i Raleigh. Miss Margaret Burgin and Miss Frances Burgin entertain at a weekend house party at Lake Lo gan. Joseph Howell Way and Jop Davis attend Daniel Boone Camp. 10 YEARS AGO Bishop Ralph Ward, recently returned to the U. S. after timet years in a Japanese concentration camp, speaks at Lake Junaluska. N. C. Press Association accepts invitation of Chamber of Com merce to come here in Septem ber. Haywood tax rate remains at SI 30. Three county schools open this week despite teacher shortage. 5 YEARS AGO J. D, Hyatt, student a^ East Tennessee Teachers College, is named director of choir of Cen tral Baptist Church, Johnson City. Howard W. Carter of Canton completes basic training at Fort Jackson Joe IT. Palmer of Crabtree is delegate to National Methodist Town and Country Conference'in Sioux City, Iowa. Larry Scruggs return-vWo his homo in the Hominy sec^* after attending summer school at Duke University. CROSSWORD I ACROSS 1". A Joke v 5. Resort* 9 Article of virtu 10. Savor 12 Indigo plant iW. 1.1 13. To mak* darker 14 Aim 15 Malt beverage 1# Neon l lym. I 17 Howl. as a dog 1 19 Pomological (abbr. I 1 SO Man's niclinim* 33 Indefinite article 34 Unless <L) 25 Trail 27 Tie again 28. 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