The Transylvania Times
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Brevard, N. C.
THE NEWS THE TIMES
Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
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Entered as second class matter, October 29,
1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1943
4
Be Patient With Boys!
With camping season well underway,
thoughts have been centered around the
training of boys and girls. A few days
ago we ran across the inspiring article by
the noted Elbert Hubbard entitled, “Boys.”
Here it is:
I have a profound respect for boys.
Grimy, ragged tousled boys in the street
often attract me strangely. A boy is a man
in the cocoon—you do not know what it is
going to become, his life is big with many
possibilities. He may make or unmake
kings, change boundary lines between
states, write books that will mold charac
ters, or invent machines that will revolu
tionize the commerce of the world. Ev
ery man was once a boy. Wouldn’t you
like to turn backward and see Abraham
Lincoln at 12 when he had never worn a
pair of boots, a lank, lean, yellow, hungry
boy—hungry for love, hungry for learn
ing,— tramping off through the woods for
20 miles to borrow a book and spelling it
out crouched before the glare of the burn
ing logs?
Then there was the Corsican boy, one
of the goodly brood, who weighed only
50 pounds when 10 years old, who was
thin and pale and perverse and had tan
trums and had to be sent ^Tipperless to bed
or locked in a dark closet because he
wouldn’t “mind.” Who would have thought
that he would have mastered every phase
of warfare at 26 and when told that the
exchequer of France was in dire confusion
would say, “The finances, I will arrange.
them/
Very distinctly and vividly I remem
ber a slim, freckled boy who was born in
the “patch”and used to pick up coal along
the railroad tracks in Buffalo. A few
months ago I had a motion to make be
fore the Supreme Court and that boy from
the “patch” was the Judge who wrote tfte
opinion granting my petition. Yesterday
I rode horseback past a field where a boy
was plowing. The lad’s hair stuck out
through the top of his hat and his form
was bony and awkward. One suspender
held his trousers in place. His bare legs
and arms were brown and sunburned and
briar-scarred. He swung his horses around
just as I passed by and from under the
flopping brin of his hat cast a quick glance
out of dark, half bashful eyes, and modest
ly returned my salute. His back turned, I
took off my hat and sent a “God bless you”
down the furrow after him. Who knows?
I may go to that boy to borrow money yet
or to hear him preach or to beg him to de
fend me in a lawsuit, or he may stand with
pulse unhastened, bare of arm and white
aproned, ready to do his duty while the
cone is placed over my face, and night
and death come creeping into my veins.
Be patient with boys. You are dealing
with soul stuff. Destiny awaits just around
the corner. Be patient with the boys.
A State Post-War Plan
We are impressed with the five-year
post-war planning program that Mr. Cole
man W. Roberts, of Charlotte recently ad
vanced.
His sixteen-point plan envisages the de
velopment of state-regional airports, high
ways, and farm-to-market roads, traffic
engineering and safety, expansion of
schools and other institutions, health and
recreation, development of mineral re
sources, port facilities and seaplane bases
and advertising.
The sixteen points are as follows:
(1). State regional airports: At least
five state-owned, state-operated airports,
posting over a five-year period approxi
mately $5,000,000 a year.
(2) . State highways, farm-to-market
roads and elimination of grade crossings;
a program costing not less than $20,000,
000 a year for five years.
(3) . Traffic engineering for highways
and cities: A street and highways safety
program, with motor vehicle inspection,
thorough drivers’ training and examina
tion, a cost of $1,000,000 a year for five
years.
(4) . Port facilities and seaplane bases:
Development of these at a cost of $4,000,.
000 a year for five years.
(5) . State universities, colleges and
schools: A postwar program of expansion
and modernization of not less than $5,
000,000 a year for five years.
(6) . State institutions and state build
ings: Building additional state offices and
a building program for state institutions,
at $4,000,000 a year for five years.
(7) . State health department: A pro
gram of research and expansion at a cost
of $2,000,000 a year for five years.
(8) . Agriculture and animal husban
dry: Research and promotional program
looking toward the development of agri
culture and animal husbandry, dairying
and poultry farming in the state at a cost
of $1,000,000 a year for five years.
(9) . Industrial and mineral resources:
Promotional and research program look
ing toward the development of mineral
resources and industrial possibilities at a
cost of $1,000,000 a year for five years.
(10) . Vocational training program to
be conducted through existing education
al and industrial facilities at a cost of $2,
000,000 a year for five, years.
(11) . State parks and recreational fa
cilities: Adequate recreational facilities at
$3,000,000 a year for five years.
(12) . A state program of advertising,
well diversified, at $400,000 a year for
five years.
(13) . Expenditure by the 10 largest
counties in the state and their cities of a
minimum of $3,000,000 a year per county.
(14) . Expenditure by the second 10
largest counties and cities and towns in
them of not less than $2,000,000 a year
per county for five years.
(15) . Eighty counties should plan ex
penditures of not less that $200,000 a year.
(16) . Private construction: A total of
$100,000,000 a year for five years.
$30,000 Congressman
How much are the services of a Con
gressman worth? To many a salary of
$10,000 a year looks like a handsome sti
pend, but, as matter of fact, many men
who are serving in the national legislature
at that figure are doing so at a consider
able loss. For example, a lawyer of con
gressional caliber can easily make several
times that sum practicing law and the same
is true of men from other vocations. There
is a widespread tendency in this country
to jeer at Congressmen and belittle them
and some of them, no doubt, have but
meager qualifications for their job, but,
taken as a whole, Congress is made up of
able and diligent men.
These thoughts were inspired by the
revelation that a Congressman from Geor
gia has set an all-time high for helping
himself and family at public expense. Eu
gene Cox and his connections are drawing ;
from the Federal treasury more than $30
000 a year. There is a name for this prac
tice, of course. It is called nepotism. Cox
and his relatives may be worth this much
money to his constituency and the nation,
but many will be unwilling to concede it
for they dislike to see a man in public of
fice use his position to confer benefits on
his own relatives. Cox and the other Con
gressmen who engage in nepotism are
within their legal rights of course, but in
doing so they expose themselves to just
criticism.
The Federal Auto Tax
Word comes from the Collector of In
ternal Revenue at Greensboro to the ef
fect that all who expect to operate auto
mobiles from July 1st must purchase the
federal tax stamp, cost $5.00. To our
way of thinking, collection of the $5.00
tax in the area this year is ridiculous,
particularly for the A-card drivers who
are reduced to IV2 gallons of gas per
week. This regulation should be imme
diately suspended by Congress. It brings
in a trifling amount of revenue, compared
with other sources of taxable income and
it is a nuisance and an irritant for auto
owners already burdened with a multipli
city of special fees, taxes, imposts and
annoyances. *
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Transylvania Boys
in the
Military Service
Cpl. Robert Wallis Orr has been
transferred from Camp Adair, Ore
gon, and is now in the AAAS at
Camp Davis, N C. Zane Orr has
written his parents that he is sta
tioned somewhere in North Africa.
Both boys are former residents of
Brevard, and sons of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E. Orr, of Sonora, Calif.
Harry Allison, who has been in
the Pacific the past three years,
has notified his sister, Mrs. Floyd
Orr, of Sonora, Calif., that he has
been promoted to first class petty
officer, and that he is well and
hopes to see his folks within an
other year.
Cpl. George E. Monteith, who is
in the air corps at Homestead,
Fla., has been promoted recently
to the rank of corporal at Scott
Field, 111. He left last week for
Florida after a 10 day furlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Monteith, of Sapphire.
Pfc. Mitchell J. Smith, who has
been at Camp Rucker, Ala., the
past 10 months, has been trans
ferred to Fort McPherson, Atlanta,
Ga., where he is in the MP de
tachment. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Clarence Smith, of Bre
vard, who have four sons in ser
vice. Harold J. Smith, another son,
seaman second class, has been
transferred from Norfolk, Va., to
Dutch Harbor. Alaska.
Pfc. James E. Barton, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elzie Barton, has been
home on a 9-day furlough from
Camp White, Oregon. He volun
teered for service last November,
and says he likes army life fine.
He is in the infantry of the U. S.
army.
Auxiliary Birdell Hensley Mon
teith, is at the WAC training cen
ter, Daytona Beach, Fla., where
she is taking her basic training,
according to information from
news releases at the training cen
ter. She has been classified for an
army job that will release a soldier
for combat duty.
T-Sgt. Charles A. Lance, son of
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lance, of Bre
vard. Route 1, has completed a
20-day furlough here with his par
ents. He is stationed at Morrison
Field, West Palm Beach, Fla., and
has been in service two years and
has been on duty in foreign parts.
Cpl. Walter A. Grooms, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Grooms, of
Brevard, is now in North Africa
with the U. S. army air corps. His
base was recently moved from
Egypt to North Africa. He has
been in foreign service nearly a
year.
John B. Dickson, son of J. W.
Dickson, of Brevard, is one of 14
aviation students to be graduated
with honors at the University of
Buffalo training detachment, ac
cording to information from the
campus public relations bureau.
He was cited for superior military
proficiency and leadership.
Aviation Student Napoleon A.
Miller, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
N. A. Miller, of Brevard, is taking
training at Nashville, Tenn., army
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air center, at the completion of
which program he will be graduat
ed as a commissioned officer, with
wings in the army air forces. He is
a graduate of Brevard high school,
Brevard college and attended Mars
Hill college.
Pfc. Roland Gray, of the marine
service, has been promoted recent
ly from private to private first
class at Camp Lejeune, New River.
Robert L. Whitmire, technician
fifth class, son of Mr. and Mrs.
E. J. Whitmire, of Brevard, Route
1, was graduated from the engi
neer maintenance school, Granite
City, 111. Tech. Whitmire was in
ducted last January at Camp Croft,
and received a course in welding
at San Antonio, Texas, before en
tering the maintenance school.
Four Transylvania county boys
have reported to the U. S. naval
training station at Great Lakes,
111., for a period of boot training.
The four naval recruits are Wade
F. Webb, Henry Lee Hogsed, Joe
Stokely Wilde, Jr., and Charles
Louis Whitmire. Now apprentice
seamen, the will be promoted to
seaman second class upon gradua
tion and given a 9-day leave.
YOU'RE TELLING ME!
--— By WILLIAM RUT--——
Central Press Writer
Field Marshal Rommel must be
old - fashioned in his taste for
clothes. His personal bodyguard
still wear the uniforms of the
Afrika Korps—long since gone out
of style.
Archeologists have found ruins
in Mosul of a town 8,000 years
old. Junior wants to know in
what war was it bombed.
Mussolini’s should not be the
only Axis stomach ache. Herrs
Goebbels and Goering have had
to do a lot of word-eating, too.
Grandpappy Jenkins’ turnips
which turned out to be weeds
have nothing on Zadok Dum
kopf’s chickens, bought for egg
laying. They turned out to be
roosters.
A post-war gadget we have yet
to read about is an ear muff de
signed for Vdtermelon eaters.
“Reindeer Headed for the
American Table” — headline. O.
K., but let’s net interfere with
Santa Claus’ priority!
If the range of anti-aircraft mis
siles is increased much more, the
Man in the Moon may have to
drop his role of strict neutrality.
WELCOME FOR VISITORS
A cordial invitation has been
extended by Rev. Ashby Johnson,
pastor of the Presbyterian church,
to all summer visitors to attend
the services at the church during
their stay in the community.
Three services are held each
Sunday, including Sunday school
at 9:45; preaching service at 11;
and young people’s service at 7
o’clock.
When your doctor asks where you
prefer to have your prescription
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