The Transylvania Times
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TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Brevard, N. C.
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Estab. 1896 Estab. 1931
Consolidated 1932
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1931, at the Post Office in Brevard, N. C.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1946
Plea For Teachers
The Times some weeks ago made brief
mention of the proposed salary raise for
teachers and endorsed the proposal. We,
however, declined to suggest or accept any
definite percentage inasmuch as we felt
that only those having an intimate knowl
edge of the state’s financial affairs and
numerous obligations could name the fig
ure.
The minimum being asked is 20 per
cent; the maximum 68 per cent. The teach
ers of Ashe county, we note, have suggest
ed 40 per cent. Considerable heat has been
generated among the teachers over the
matter.
Ihe Times is of the opinion that the
Hrisis now facing the schools is not wholly
Hie of inadequate salaries. Teachers have
Heen underpaid for years. But for an even
longer period they have been denied the
little bonus that appreciation of their ser
vices would have afforded them. In many
communities they have lived under a form
of surveillance that the more sensitive of
them found galling ... in nearly all their
virtues have been ignored and their faults
magnified. All of us who have had the
privilege of sitting under competent and
devoted teachers realize how niggardly
they were paid, not only in money but in
the treatment they received from the com
munity.
So our plea for the teachers at this
time of crisis is not only for more money
for them, but a fuller appreciation of their
services and a more kindly and generous
attitude toward them. The state can make
teaching more attractive from a financial
standpoint, but only the people whom they
serve can make the vocation more inviting
to those who follow it, not in the hope of
amassing wealth but with a view to en
lightening minds and moulding character.
Why Lewis Surrendered
John L. Lewis is a daring and ruthless
man, as well as one with an inordinate am
bition. Perhaps it he lacked these qualities
he would have never risen to the position
he enjoys among the men who mine the
nation’s coal.
Put Lewis demonstrated when he capit
ulated to the government last Saturday af
ternoon that he is also a man of sober judg
ment. He realized that he was licked, so
he ordered the miner’s back to the pits
from which he had withdrawn them over
the government’s protest.
\Vhy did Lewis change his mind? In
our judgment there were at least four rea
sons that moved him.
First, Lewis realized that the public is
weary to the point of exasperation with his
antics. The people of this country are tired
of being subjected to financial losses, mis
ery and uncertainty by recurring idleness
in the coal mines. Lewis has at no time
shown any deference to public opinion,
which at last has been solidified against
him.
The portent of the last election was not
lost on Lewis. He realizes that the next
Congress is going to discipline organized
labor—and that his strike was one of the
best arguments possible for the speedy im
position of restraints even more severe
than those already suggested.
In the third place, Lewis does not have
to wait on a pronouncement of the supreme
court to learn definitely whether he was in
contempt ot the district court when he
flatly refused to call off the strike. He
knows he was in contempt and by contin
ued obstinacy exposing himself to another
whopping fine. Three and a half million
dollars “ain’t hay” even to such a poten
tate as Lewis.
It had been announced that the Presi
dent bunday night would appeal to the
miners to go bacK to work. Lewis realized
that if any appreciable number of them
did so, he would be repudiated — so he
shrewdly decided not to take the chance.
Miners’ stomachs also get empty when they
quit eating.
The Times is of the opinion that Lewis
has made the fatal blunder of his career.
W e believe that this fiasco will have a pro
found influence on all organized labor for
decades to come.
Lewis, finding the dish of crow set be
fore him very distasteful, announced the
strike was off until March. By that time,
we are sure, he will find himself in quite
a different position from that which
he has occupied for the past dozen years
or more. Organized labor, favored by the
government and cajoled by segments of
industry, has during that period amassed a
tremendous influence over the nation’s
economy and the public, alarmed at the
way that influence has been exerted, is re
solved that it must be curtailed. To this
end, major revision of labor’s “Bill of
Rights,” the biased Wagner Labor-Rela
tions act, have been proposed. This is but
the first step toward modifying those ex
emptions and privileges which have cre
ated hostility between labor and manage
ment and led to an endless series of strikes.
Police Booth In Use
The booth for local police has been
erected on the court house square and is
now in use. It will afford Chief Banther
and his men protection against the weath
er and enable them to keep an alert eye on
both motor and pedestrian travel at this
busy intersection. It will also reduce the
need for cruising and effect a saving in gas
and the upkeep of a car. Visitors will also
find the booth a convenient place to make
inquiries.
The Times wishes to commend local po
lice for the splendid job they are doing.
Chief Banther and his men impress us as
being alert and conscientious and they are
deserving of the support of our citizens in
their efforts to make this a law-abiding
and a law-respecting community.
New Bus Station For Sylva
We were interested to learn from a
story in the local paper last week that Syl
va now has a new bus station, described as
“one of the best equipped west of Ashe
ville.” It has, we are told, waiting rooms
for both white and colored, with rest rooms
in each for men and women. Heated with
hot air, the building housing the station
sits back from the curb allowing space for
buses to pull off the street to load and un
load.
Sylva is a much smaller town than Bre
vard and it is therefore a safe assumption
that our need for a bus station is much
more urgent than theirs. As has been point
ed out frequently by various organizations
in recent years, the facilities for bus travel
here are wholiy inadequate. We have been
assured that when building material be
comes available, the state utilities commis
sion will see to it that a modern station is
erected here. This is a definite promise of
action to relieve a situation that has grown
steadily worse and our citizens should in
sist on its fulfillment at the earliest prac
ticable moment.
Atlanta Hotel Fire
The people of Transylvania county were
shocked and bewildered by the frightful
Winecoff hotel fire in Atlanta, Ga., early
Saturday morning which claimed the lives
of 120 people to become the worst disaster
of its kind in the nation’s history.
The structure was supposed to be fire
proof, which may account for the fact that
it had no outside fire escapes whatever.
But now the tragic fact is known that it
was definitely not fireproof. Within a mat
ter of a few hours it was reduced to a
smouldering hulk.
Already a vigorous demand for federal
inspection of such structures has arisen
and such a proposal would seem to be jus
tified by the Atlanta catastrophe.
ROAD TO ANARCHY
mil
WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—The
musicians’ czar Petrillo got a fed
eral judge to say ne couid force
radio stations to hire useless, extra
non working employees called
“standbys.” The judge threw out
the entire federal law, claiming it
was unconstitutional because it
singled out the musicians for reg
ulation “as a class separate and
apart,” (news accounts said.)
More anger was thus generated
in congress for more laws to bring
unions under some kind of con
trol. The reasoning of the deci
sion was a triumph of ridiculous
ness (however bad or good was its
law.) Why, certainly, the law sin
gled out the musicians. It intended
to. This is not due to act of con
gress but to Petrillo. He singled
out his musicians “as a class sep
arate and apart” for whom stand
bys must be employed by the com
panies at his direction. You have no
standbys, sitting nearby chewing
grass at your work and drawing
equal pay for doing nothing. No
one else does. Petrillo established
that distinction for his musicians.
Congress simply regulated the dis
tinction he exclusively made.
The decision could have been
based upon no more ridiculous
standpoint of reasoning if the
judge had said the law' against
murder by garroting was unconsti
tutional because it singled out gar
roters “as a class separate and
apart.” Indeed they are separate
and apart. They made themselves
that way, and thus seem to have
made themselves unconstitutional
in this respect, rather than any
congress which would pass a law
to regulate them or bring them un
der control in the public interest.
Author-Representative Lea, who
said the decision was like some
other union decisions lately “based
upon hypercritical and superficial
reasoning,” put the general atti
tude of congress mildly.
But the unions are getting deep
er into the law, for ill or good.
The labor party socialist school
philosopher Harold Laski simulta
neously has lost a libel decision on
the kings bench in a case which
developed somewhat like the Os
car Wilde decision in one respect.
You may remember all Wilde’s
troubles were due to his own suit
for libel. He exposed himself unin
tentionally in that case which orig
inated on his own initiative. Laski
did about the same thing.
Laski sued because he was
quoted in some newspapers from a
campaign speech last June as fol
lows: (Newark Advertiser:) “As for
violence, he (Prof. Laski) contin
ued, if labor could not obtain what
it' needed by general consent ‘we
shall have to use violence even if it
means revolution.’ ” A jury said he
said it, or the paper did not mis
quote him and he must pay the
heavy court costs of his action
against the newspaper.
Now Laski claimed he did not
advocate revolution by violence,
did not say the quotation but ap
parently used the word ‘revolution’
in some way. What he seemed to
think now about revolution by vio
lence on the stand was that if the
conservative party did not consent
to what the labor party wanted
there would be revolution started
by his side, presumably by the la
bor party or its members or advo
cates. Apparently he thoueht he
was not advocating revolution in
saying this, but rather predicting
it.
The jury must have thought he
predicted it rather favorably. At
least he said notning dire against
it, thought it would start on his
side and obviously thought every
one should give in to fear of it.
The jury made no such philosoph
ical distinctions.
The British newspapers bent
backward to keep politics out of
the trial and gauged the case on a
philosophical plane. Laski they re
garded as a nuisance to his own
party as well as to them. They ad
mitted no treason was involved.
The testimony of bystanders va
ried. Some present did not even
hear Laski say some things he ad
mitted saying. Others did not hear
this particuar “revolution” phrase.
But after all that expenditure
and effort, Laski only succeeded in
proving he did say it (as far as the
law and future quotations are con
cerned at any rate.) He succeeded
only in dissipating any doubt which
hitherto had lay in his favor be
cause of his denial of the remark.
With the Lewis coal strike being
tried in district court, the Petrillo
standby non-work decision, and
the Laski verdict, the unions are
thus drawing their whole cause
deeper and deeper into law—or let
ting it be drawn there—for ill or
good—not only their actual strikes
and working agreements but their
philosophy as well. With congress
getting ready to pass new regula
tory laws, their case may be swept
completely into a legal stream.
Heywood Broun, when doing a
reporting stunt for the New York
World, was sent to interview Sena
tor Smoot. “I have nothing to say,”
the Senator haughtily informed
Broun. “I know that,” Broun re
plied. “Now let’s get down to the
interview.”
Ihe Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
This column is written for young
people who hope to get married
shortly, or who have recently mar
ried. The institution of marriage
is having a hard time these days,
and much trouble
is caused by ig
norance of those
a d j u s t m ents
which must be
made if the mar
riage is to be suc
cessful.
I have just
been counseling
with a youm
couple recently
married with a
new baby. They are in deep trou
ble, because through ignorance
!hey have broken most of the rules
for a successful marriage.
To be successful, a marriage
must make satisfactory adjust
ments in five fields: the physical,
the financial, the sociological, the
vocational, the spiritual.
l.The physical.—Many a mar
riage “goes sour” within the first
few days because of ignorance here.
Your minister or doctor ca>n rec
ommend a good book which will
give this information, or you can
get it by writing THE EVERYDAY
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2. Financial — There must be
sharing of financial responsibility
You must make a budget and live
within your income. Use the 10-10
Plan, which is give 10% to the
Lord’s work and save 10%.
3. Sociological—You must learn
to know, understand, and get
along with each other’s relatives
and friends, but you must also
know that your duty is first to
each other.
4. Vocational—You must like
the job by which you earn your
living. Dissatisfaction here reacts
against marriage. Either learn to
like the job or get another.
5. Spiritual—No marriage can be
happy and successful without an
enduring spiritual foundation.
Only the God-centered home can
be lastingly happy. You should
unite in the same church. You
should read your Bible and pray
daily. “1” must become “we” in
marriage. Then “we” must seek
daily the advice and counsel of
God. You must learn to pray,
“Not my will, but Thine be.done.”
At these five points marriage
either succeeds or fails.
Finally, the marriage machine
must be lubricated daily with the
oil of courtesy and appreciation,
and it must be kept in repair.
A RABBIT, caught in the Brit
ish isles, walks only on its fore-j
paws. Probably is a thrifty Scotch
hare—saving wear and tear on its
hind legs.
Walking on two feet only is
dangerous for a rabbit. Soir.o
hunters might mistake it for
some other hunter.
Today’s raincoats are so bright
that if it were not for wet feet
we’d think the sun was shining.
A horse, according to our dic
tionary, is a perissodactyl quad
ruped known as equus caballus.
No wonder we can’t pick the
nags—we can't even pronounce
’em!
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