A Utile Change.... Can Make A Change At this moment we are in the middle of the Crippled Children's Drive and it would be inter esting to note exactly where we stand. One might visit the Orthopedic Hospital in Asheville, or for that matter any hospital in any community and you will see and feel the need for such a wonderful program. Your editor has worked with the Crippled Children's Drive for the past seven or eight years and the most convincing thing about his exper ience has been to see the children that are af flicted, continuing to smile because they know that thy are being taken care of when they need it most. ? How easy it is to pass things by and say "let Southern 's Message Important here The Southern Railway System last week had some words to say that are especially appropriate for the citizens of this county to think about at the present time. If Cherokee County is to continue its prog ress, its citizens must always remember that the community has to be the kind that makes people glad they came here. Here's what Southern Railway had to say in an advertisement in The Scout: "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 con tiuing hospitality to industry, long after the wel coming committee has gone home. This is a jot for all of us in the South today." Cherokee County already has that kind o continuing hospitality, and it is well to review th< advantages of keeping it. Our eyes are to the future, as shown by th launching of the Murphy Planning and Develop ment Commission by Town Council. That grou] is charged with the great responsibility of plann ing for the community's growth and progress. Murphy and the county has what it takes ti progress. Its many assets must be told to pros pecfive new citizens. As this is done; we would do well to remem ber Southern Railway's point: If we are to attrac business and industry, our community must bi TODAY the kind of community of which we an proud and they could be proud. Let's keep Chero kee County that way! some one else do it," but we must all refresh our] memory with this quotation, "Suffer little child ren to come unto me." A Lot Of Fun, Though Ftom Murphy comes word that that county's newspaper, The Cherokee Scout, has a new pub lisher, Mr. George N. Bunch. He formerly was with the daily papers in Spartanburg, S. C Having come to the weekly paper in Frank lin, after daily experience, we have an inkling of some of the adjustments that may lie ahead of the Murphy publisher. We could tell him, f'rinstance, that he won't I work till about noon Thursday, as we thought we'd do; then, when the paper was out, go fishing. He's much more likely to work 60 hours ('scusin' Sundays) than 40. We could tell him he won't be the editor y alone. He'll be the business manager (and that means not only the difficult problem of paying bills, but the sometimes even more difficult and always more embarrassing one of collecting 'em). He'll also be the personnel manager, maybe the advertising manager, certainly the public rela tions man, and, unless he's lucky, sometimes the janitor and bookkeeper. (Of the two, #e person ally prefer the janiting.) We could tell him that, if one thing goes wrong some week, everything will. If you're run ning late already, that's the week the press will \ choose to break down ? on the final press run. That's the week, too, when the man who told you last Friday, he'd have a page ad will tell you, right at the deadline, he's decided to run a want ad instead (what to do with all that yawning page space?). It'll be the week, too, that you get he wrong initials in front of the name of the man who has thought all the time you were gunning for him; those wrong initials are proof. And, un less you're unusually lucky, Mr. Bunch, it'll be , the week the biggest story of the year breaks min utes after you've put the week's issue in the post ! office. / We could tell Mr. Bunch all these things. But we won't. Instead, we welcome him to Western North Carolina ? and to the weekly newspaper busi ness. It's a whale of a lot of fun! THE FRANKLIN PRESS P. S. To Weimar Jones, Editor of the Franklin Press, I can only say, how true ! How true ! It is my pleasure to become a member of the Western North Carolina group of newspaper editors and publishers. LETTER TO THE EDITOR (Editor's Note: Henry M. ' Mason of Andrews Route 1 has written a fascinating ac count of his knowledge of the forest. He takes exception to a recent article In The Scout . which said that oak trees are dying because there is too much cutting of the best trees, leaving only the poorest trees to carry on. Following is Mr. Mason's remarks. The Scoot is pleased to get expres sions from its readers and _ would like to publish more of them.) Editor, ,% Cherokee Scout In looking through your paper I came upon an article entitled "The Tlmberline" in which the author attempts to give the reason for the