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I TODAY'S BTTTT.E YFRSD * *? lie shall rnlrr Into pmm: they shall rest In their beds, each one walking In his up tightness.?Isaiah 51:1. ? i.f'M .. 0 Editorial Page of the Mountaineer I - * TODAY'S QUOTATION The loves that meet In paradise shall rati I out fear; and paradise hath room for you and I me ana all.?Christina G. Rossettl. I The Manufacturing Situation For The Past 7 Years tTith the recent release of the Census of Manufacturers of 1954, it is now possible to evaluate the industrial progress of North Carolina during the post-war period, and to compare the state's progress with that of the Southeastern region and with the na tion as a whole. Manufacturing Kmptovees Between the years 1947 and 1954. the number of manufacturing employees in North Carolina increased by 45,392. This in crease raised the number from 381.438 in 19*7 to 426,830 in 1954. The gain in numbers of manufacturing employees was exceeded by only seven other states in the nation. These states were New York, Georgia. Texas, Ohio, Kansas, Wash ington, and California. The great gains in Georgia (52,796) and in Texas (117,059) are to be noted. Similarly, it should be noted that in Florida manufacturing employment in creased by 44,235, nearly as great an in crease as occurred in North Carolina. In 1917 North Carolina ranked twelfth a tnong the states in the nation with respect to total number of manufacturing employees. Hy 1954 the state had risen to tenth rank, moving ahead of both Wisconsin and Con necticut. The addition of more tjian 45.000 manu facturing employees between 1947 and 1954 was a percentage increase of 11.9. This rate of increase was substantially larger than the national rate of 9.7 percent. These figures indicate a rather good move ment upward in the state's Industrial pic ture; nnd, indeed, it is perfectly obvious that North Carolina has been far from static in dustrially. However, other facts and figures do not paint quite so rosy a picture. North Caro lina did not increase its manufacturing em ployees at as fast a rate as did the South east. where the rate of increase was 15.6 per cent. more than one fourth larger than that of North Carolina. Indeed, seven of the eleven states in the Southeast exceeded North Carolina in. rate of increase of manufacturing employees. The lender in the region was Florida, 56.2 per cent. Next highest was Georgia, 21.1 percent, followed by Arkansas, 19.4 percent: Missis sisippi. 18.1 percent; Tennessee. 17.5 per cent; South Carolina, 15.6 percent: Ken tucky. 13.3 iH'rcont. North Carolina was next after Kentucky, followed by Virginia with 11.7 percent; ? Louisiana. 10.6 percent; and Louisiana. 5.0 oercent. It may be properly objected that rates of increase for the various states in the South east arc misleading, on the grounds that North Carolina began the period with a pre ponderant numerical leadership over all the tates of the region in number of manufact uring employees. Thus, for instance, in 1947 Mississippi had but 77.353 manufacturing employees, compared to 381.438 in North 'arolina. It is not fair therefore to compare North Carolina's rate of increase of 11.9 percent with that of Mississippi's 18.1 per ent without noting that the numerical in crease in North Carolina was more han three times that of Mississippi. However, his argument loses some of its force when North Carolina's performance over the period is compared to that of several other states. For instance, in 1947 Georgia had 249,958 manufacturing emplovees, which number was comparable to North Carolina's 381,4.78. Yet between that date and 1954. Georgia increased in manufactur ing employees by 21.1 percent, and that state's numerical increase was greater than that of North Carolina. Or. again, even though Florida had less than one fourth as many manufacturing employees in 1947, there was a numerical increase in that state of 44.235 ? almost as great as in North Carolina. Tennessee also made numerical gains that are comnarable to those of North Carolina.?University News letter. A recent issue of Life Magazine had a color picture made at Mile High Overlook on the Farkway link enroute to Heintooga. Several local people posed for the Life photoeranhor when he was at the Overlook making the picturers, but the published pic ture did not show any roudway or people. A large red maole tree was the center of at traction in the foreground. "When we presented arms," boasted one ex-Marine, "all you heard was a stao. slap, click." Said the other ex-Marine: "With us it was slao. slap, jingle." "Jingle? What was that?" "Our medals." ? Memphis Press Scimitar. Cooperation Among Our Churches We doubt if any town the siw of Waynes ville enjoys better cooperation between all the churches than right here in Waynesville. Time am) time a rain this has been proven, and each tin* it makes os happy to see such fine cooperation. Each congregation delights in seeing the others in profrresstve undertakings and foJ low through to success. Each group respects the other, and holds them in the highest esteem. Such an attitude is one of the many rea sons this has often been called the ideal place in which to live. A Lot Of Young Men In Court We share the opinion of a Haywood coun ty man who 9eems disturbed by the fact that so many young men have cases in court. This man said after seeing two young men sentenced: "I do not recall any time in 35 years when so many young men have been in court. I am concerned about the trend, and yet I do not feel that things are any worse here than elsewhere, but that does not change the fact that there are too many young men In trouble." The record shows that a large number are charged with traffic violations, as well as several on more serious offenses. It is a healthy sign when grave concern is being shown over the plight some of the youngsters are getting into. rTFW<; OF OTITFW FOTTORS Backing Into The Future Governor Luther Hodges gave some good advice in the ./southern Furniture Manufacturers Associ tion at White Sulphur Springs the other day? nd hi doing so he also revealed some of his Ideas bout North Carolina's future. 'All my life 1 have believed in looking and "tanning aliead for the future." said the Governor 'Hien he quoted 80-year-old Charles F. Kettering of the automobile industry as saying: "We are looking backward so much that we back Into the future, and that is why we get into so much trouble What 1 ? houtd like f6r us to do is to back into the past and t'K?k forhard and learn whatever we can. because the rest of your life is going to be spent in the fu * ? I ture and you should bo interested in that and not where you came from " Looking at North Carolina's past and future. Governor Hodges pointed out that we have started late industrially and we must strive even harder to keep up with the rest of the United States But the South ran industrialize, he Insisted, "without chanting or losing the best of our cul ture. our friendly way of life, our closeness to the soil, and our deep appreciation of home and family. "There is a continuing need for further diversifi cation in industry and business, and the best pos sible uae of our natural resources. We are still los ing many thousands of potential industrial workers every year. The hard fact remains that, in per sonal terms of daily living, the average Southerner receive* less than the national average The per capita income they share is about threefourths: in income per farm less than two-thirds: and indus trial wages about three-fourth*." Been while looking at the past to see our prob lems. Governor Hodges looks to the future for our solutions Part of our lower income problem is be cause we do not offer the Negro enough oppor tunity for higher pay labor Part of our problem is taking care of the surplus labor that leaves the farms. Part of our problem is the need for indus trial research that wil lencourage the best-raying industries to come to North Carolina Looking to the future. Governor Hodge* will soon face the 1957 Legislature, where he hopes some of the solutions can be found As he told the furniture manufacturers, these solutions must in clude the reorganisation of many governmental responsibilities to meet new conditions, and mod ern. up-to-date programs in education, highways, health, welfare, highway safety and industrial de velopment Wltb suck plana fur North Carolina's continued progress. Governor Hodges certainly shows no signs af "harking into tku future" but ia faring tha future with vision. buugtuslhia and a reel understanding of Nbrth Carolina's needs?Smlthfleld Herald THE MOUNTAINEER Waynetvllle. North Carolina Main Street Dial GL 6-5801 The County Srat of Haywood County Publish.* B? "he WAYNESVILLE MOUNTAINEER. Inc. tV. CtfaTIS RUSS k Editor t". Cortts Rims and Marlon T. Bridges. Publishers TU BLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY BY MAIL IN HAYWOOD COUNTY One Year $3 SO f ix months ...? 2.0? BY MAIL IN NORTH CAROLINA One Year 4.30 ftx months 2.50 OUTSIDE NORTH CAROLINA < ne Year 1M ? ix months 3 00 LfcCAL CARRIER DELIVERY I ?r month .40 ( Riee-nald for carrier delivery 4.80 Swwil Class mall prtvfUfea authorized at Waynaa v He. N. C. _ IrerfeiR or THrnsnrx-iATrn Ana ~~ The Asenclsted Press Is entitled evelustveW to the taw r re-nubhratlon of all the local news minted In this r wsnaaer. as well sa all *> swa dW?lehss. Monday Afternoon, Not1 em her W, 1W6 l Views Of Other Editors AMKItfCANS STII.L JOIVTRS If the average American male doe*n't display a fraternal or ser vice club emblem on his coat lapel or watch chain, it could be that he cannot decide which of the many he 1* entitled to wear should be there. The editors of Fraternal Mont tor recently said Americana hold more than 115 million member ships in more than 270,000 lodges, temples, councils, or whatever the units of their organizations are called Many men join as many as 10 or more organizations so that, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article on the fortunes of fraternal and service club group* In the U S. "People are carrying more membership cards around in their wallet* than ever before/' This situation prevails, despite the competition of TV, the auto mobile. sports, and Marilyn Mon roe. While much credit for the growth or these organization* must go to their aggressive re cruitments of nefr units and new members, their lasting success must be attributed more to high ideals and worthy objectives. Often there are direct benefits for the members of these groups, but every hit as often those who belong to them, are benefactors. Through hfs organization the individual finds a satisfying chan nel for hi* desire to serve others Charitable work?children's hos pitals and the like?involve the outlay 01 many millions of dollars annually bv men and women who give unselfishly of their time and resources in furthering welfare programs that, in the aggregate, achieve incredible size and diver sity. Some Americans, perhaps, give this national trait too free a rein. But most of them, even if they are often the butts of gibes and sneers, need no defense The na tion could tv the poorer if it were not a nation of joiners. ?Oast on ia Oazette. IN DEFENSE OF GOSSIP When Robert Louis Stevenson was in his lonely exile in San Francisco, skirting the edge of death from tuberculosis, he wrote to a friend bark home in Scot land. "Why does everyone .send me sermons? Why doesn't some one send nve-goRsifMhat I am dy ing for'.'" In that reproachful question, Stevenson was speaking for the human race. There are many times when our spiritual constitu tion heeds eood gossip more than sermons For news is usually a better boon than advice. There are times when we feel strongly. "And now ahideth faith, hope and love, nnd the greatest of these is gossip." There is often a saving power in gossip?the Rower of saving life from extinction bv abstrac tion There are many times when our mind turns eaeerlv not to the spiritual issues of civilization, but to the ouestion, "What on earth are the Joneses going to do next?" Of course, gossip has a bad name because so much malice is associated with gossin. There is no defense for vicious, mean sniritpd talk There is no defense for a ton?m? Jlke Jane Welsh Car lvVo'v U'hirh li:VC unmonnn eorurtd <>d. "like a rat's which would take the skin off at a touch " Perhaps that kindly remark was lust an cxamnle of vicious malice ? thouch it must he admitted that most of us re'ish a hit of honi"n malice such as that in the classic trihnt > to Ceot-ce flrote the his torian. ?pd his wife Someone, possibly Svdncv Smith, said "I like the Orotes Genrpe is so sweet and Mrs. Grote is such a martlv fellow." That is not poison: it is just a wallon in pood clean fun. Rut eossio, in the true and un dented sense, is nourishment from the eood earth of the do inps of people. Christian love and gossip stem from the same root ? an interest in other oeonle When that inter-st is lacking, much of the saving salt of life is gone Thoreau wrote one thing in Walden that is coiossallv wrong, excent as a personal confession He said "For mv part 1 cnotji eas )1v ffr> without the Post office. T think tlsetre are verv few imnor tan? eommunieations made threueh it. To sneak rriticaltv I never received more than one or two tetters in mv life that were worth the nostave." Such a petition in bankruptcy excites only pity in anyone who has .ever enjoved the luxury of devouring a vivacious eossiov let ter. A missive like that is worth far more than the postage. It Is water to a thirstv soul rood news from a far country Life takes a sharo revenge on such disdain for small human haoneninas Part of the price to Thoreau was that he was exited from the iov* of ea?v friendship as shone in Emerson's remark that he would as soon mink of taking The arm of an mm elm tree as Thoreau's Thoreau wrote. "I wanted to drive life intd a corner and re duce it to its lowest terms." But if life driven into a corner is robbed of a continuing interest in the folks around us. then the terms are far too low for human nature's daily food. We would seriously question the reality of "love of humanity" in anyone who did not have stir red into it a lively interest in good gossip. Oh, yes, I almost forgot: what is the news down your way? - Simeon Stylites In Christian Sci ence Monitor. GIRL SCOUTS TO SOON BUILD CAMP Hundreds of Girl Scouts throughout a seven-county area of Western North Carolina will soon be benefiting from the con struction of the actual camp at a sit? in Transylvania purchased nearly three years ago. In commenting on the an nouncement of plans to go ahead with the camp. The Asheville Citi zen, in last Saturday's edition, had the following editorial: "Girl Scout work has been mak ing steady progress in this area, "It has now reached the point where it is practical to plan a permanent camo for Girl Scouts. "At a meeting of the Piseah Council this wx-ek. approval was given the proposal for a $116, 000 camo to be situated on a 131 act'e wootjed tract owner' bv the council eight miles southwest of Brevard in Transylvania County. "Til? iwopertv. to be developed to provide for 96 eirls and a staff of 20. will have facilities for Brownies/ Intermediates and old er girls. "Construction will proceed over a thre?- t0 four-year period, with progress to be made as rapidly as funds become available. "The Bov Scouts have a per manent camn of their own. It is onlv fair and nroner that the Girl Scouts too should have such a place Its benefits in the years ahead will be incalculjble. "All those who are particloat ing in the nmieet are enthusias tic about it Thev merit commend ation for th^ir- active mterM and civic mlndedness." ?Transylvania Times. DROUGHT BREAKER Looking Back Over The Years 20 YEARS AGO Joe Palmer is elected head of the County Council of 4-H Clubs. Charles Ray goes to Chapel Hill to spend Thanksgiving with Mrs. Ray. Mr. and Mrs. Hallett Ward at tend wedding of the former's nephew. Rufus Ward, in Char lotte Mrs. Harley Ferguson and daughter. Miss Virginia Ferguson, return to New Orleans after spending the summer here at the Ferguson home. 10 YEARS AGO Community-wide religious serv ices and the traditional Waynes ville-Canton football game high light Thanksgiving observance. .1 R Morgan goes to Raleigh for a meeting of the State Board of Elections. A. G. Baldwin of White Oak goes to St. Petersburg, Fla. to spend the winter. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Gwyn leave for Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., for the winter. 5 YEARS AGO Bruce Jaynes. WTHS line coach, is appointed general man ager of the Mountaineer Little League County Board of Elections sets February 23 as date for wine beer election. Miss FlOrrie Patrick gives par ty honoring her house guest, Miss Martha Maye of Macon, Ga. Edear Jackson Noland. student at Western Carolina College, is named to "Who's Who in Ameri can Colleges". f 1 Percent Change in Employment by Occupations (1955-1975) + 75% * u Professional + 51% Clerical and Sales + 38% Proprietors and Managers + 46% Craftsmen K???? + 40% Operative* + 28% S?rvit? -11% Laborers -30% Form I Sovrc* 1935 US Ctntvt ivrtou. P'tpared by NAM from Govt Statistics I V 1975 US 0?pf o# Labor Ml -nofrt / FI'Tl'RE JOBS CALL FOR INCREASED SKILLS Technological developments, including automation, in tbe fu ture will result in an increa.se in the skill level of the labor force and consequenty an upgrading of job opportunities. The U. 8 De partment of Labor's estimate of employment in major occupations for 1975 also foresees a job increase commensurate with the 35<> growth in population White collar workers will increase 54rr and in 1975 will be the largest segment of the labor forte The largest gain in this groop will be the 75^ increase of the professional class?more than double the growth rate in total jobs. The government report groups crafts men. operatives and laborers under a "blue collar" designation. The skllle dcraftsmen and semi-skilled operatives classification will in crease relatively faster than overall jobs, but unskilled laborers will decline numerically despite the 21,000.000 total job gain. The latter will also hold true for workers on the farm, a continuance of the long term trend. The growth in service occupations will be slightly' less than for tdOil employment. The rates of growth and decline for the white collar workers and farm^Workers respectively, vary little from the long term trend*. "Slue Collar" and sendee groups will be slightly smaller parts of the total.in comparison with their increasing shares of past years. Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE .... Let us have peace. Return us to our normal lives where we can pick up a morning paper and not be confronted with articles tell ing us of massacres, brutalities, invasions, shipments of arms and men and all the other implements of war. Restore the fellowship of man so that all human beings can pursue the even tenc ? of their lives unmolested, and are free to fol low their designated duties without fear of retaliation. Take away the dread of impending disaster and cast aside the ever-present cloud of apprehension. Let our minds be open to suggestions for important programs, and make our feet willing to walk along pavements of progress with out sensing that we are under suspicion of treachery. Reinstate our confidence in our neighbors, our government and and ourselves, so that we can fully discuss our problems and, to gether, work out their remedies Let "peace on earth, good will toward all men" become an actu ality and not a mockery. Watching television is like eating peanuts or potato^iips . . . always just one more. H Didn't you, as a child, have an ambition to which you clung tenaciously until it became a fact? Then, as the years added up, your ambitions became more mature and as each was brought to fulfill ment, you set immediately about getting another in line? Even as you and I, we can remember when we were about thir teenish. our greatest desire was to be old enough so that a man would tip his hat to us. (By the way whatever became of this courtesy?) Then as the calendar began to tear off its pages much faster, we aspired to have some one push around a revolving door for our convenience. <You probably have noticed how lofty our ambi tions were!' Anyway, we lost our revolving idea when, one day. the door went one way and w.? went iho other. It was about this time, too, that the revolving door went out of circulation. <No pun intend ed.) Not satisfied with what had gone before, we decided that the pinnacle of success could bp reached by the slamming of an auto mobile door. Automobiles were a novelty at that time and we prob ably were of the inane opinion that the slamming would draw atten tion to the fact that we knew what an automobile was. tVe slammed many a door in our time but lost our taste for this pastime when, on one occasion, we forgot to remove our lingers from the door jamb prior to the perfect slam. It's a great thing to have ambitions It's sorter like the old habit of holding a carrot in front of a donkey's nose . . the everlasting reaching out will move one along much faster. One sure way to find Happiness . . . look it up in the diction ary under H. AftiofcWASItiNGTON MARCH OF EVENTS U. S. Form Mechanization Making Wonderful Strides Modern Methods Make Food Better Buy Than in 1926! Special to VcTTTral l'n .is Association WASHINGTON"?A revolution is sweeping the country today which affects not only Americans but more than half the people in the world who fail to get enough to eat. Yet it is getting little or no public notice. The technological advances which have taken place on American farms since the advent of rubber tires and tractor-mounted equip ment have had a pronounced effect on the structure of agricultural AotAonxioa TlTneonvQY' thnva 6ro thnca U'hn Vualipvn Old mothod of picklnf cotton. that during the next 25 years the revolution now in progress may look like child's play as com pared with what is bound to happen. The swift pace of United States farm mechan ization in the last two decades is evident by these government figures?which tell only part of the story: From 1940 to 1956, numbers of farm tractors increased 1*S per cent, trucks 167 per cent, grain combines 426 per cent, and cornpickers 536 per cent Of the machines which have been on the mar ket for only a few years, pickup balers have in creased 1,682 per cent since 1942, and field forage harvesters 149 per cent since 1950. The number of bulk milk tanks on farms has incre: ^^four fold in the last three years. ? ? * ? ON A TYPICAL CORN-HOG-DAIRY FARM, the volume of ma chinery and machine services used in one year has increased 30 per cent since 1940 while the volume of labor used has decreased by the same percentage. As a result of all this, farmers have increased their production efficiency. In the early 1930s, one farm worker produced food for about nine persons whereas today there is one farm worker for every 18 U. S. consumers and the farmer is producing more food products than can go into these 18 stomachs. Furthermore, food was never a better buy than it is right now. A generation ago Americans spent 25 per cent of their income after taxes for food. Today, we still spend a fourth of our take-home pay for food?but for a far better diet. Thirty years ago an hour's take-home pay for industrial workers bought 5'.j loaves of bread compared with 10 today; 30 years ago an hour's take-home pay bought 3'i quarts of milk?now it buys 7'?: then it bought 11 is pounds of steak - now 2 pounds; then it bought one dozen oranges?now it buys three dozen. ? ? * , ? THE PRESIDENT of the American Society of Agricultural Engi neers, Prof. Roy Bainer of the University of California, asserts that United States agriculture will have to increase its output by 40 per cent within the next decade alone because of this nation's growing f population. Since there has been a decrease of 16 million commercial farms in the last 25 years, some authorities, including Bainer, believe that the key to the problem lies in even more efficient farming. Still, we can't ignore?with justitiable pride perhaps?that gigan tic strides have been made toward increased mechanization. A cen tury ago. 79 per cent of the total energy used for agriculture and industrial woik was supplied by animals, 15 per cent by human beings and only six per cent by machines. By 1560, it is estimated that machines will supply 96 per cent of the nation's total work energy, humans three per cent and animals one per cent. ? ? ? ? THERE ARE 12 MILLION tractors, cars and trucks on our farms today, about a million grain combines and 700.000 mechanical corn pickers. More than 700,000 farms also have milking machines. The capital investment of our farms is tremendous. Officials esti mate that for each of the 8'4 million farm operators, hired hands and family workers there is an investment of slight- * ly more than 515.000. ? Progress However, perhaps the most striking addition to this Investment in farming has been in the last Technology, decade and a half with the progress of technology Equipment and equipment In 1940 the average value of the ?prtpment at the Aafroeal of each farm worker was about 5200; today It is slightly more than 51,700.
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