The Transylvania Times
Published Every Thursday By
TIMES PUBLISHING COMPANY
Brevard. N. C.
THE NEWS Consolidated THE TIMES
■stab. 1896 1932 Estab. 1931
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, NOVEMBER 27, 1952
Successful Parade
The 1952 Christmas shopping season in
Brevard was auspiciously opened last Sat
urday afternoon with a gigantic parade,
which exceeded all expectations.
Thousands of children and adults alike
were thrilled with the beautiful floats and
the magnitude of the parade.
The Rotary club, and especially the mem
bers of the parade committee, Otis Ridge
way, Rhea Doyle, Dan Hawkins and Buddy
Melton, are to be congratulated on a job
well done.
The parade was a clear demonstration
to merchants of the town that a big parade
can be staged here, and we should plan
now to make it an annual event. In the
words of one of the members of the commit
tee, the parade is worth all the money, all
the effort required when you look at the
expressions on the faces of the youngsters
standing in the crowds, the looks of antici
pation, surprise, pleasure and happiness.
And adding to the beauty of the occasion
wore the multi-colored lights, which were
erected by the Jaycees. They are by far the
best Brevard has ever had, and the mem
bers of the organization are still busy on
the project. A well deserved bouquet goes
also to them.
For a happier Christmas this year, trade
at home. We should like to remind our peo
ple that dollars spent here do double duty:
many of them change hands several times
and eventually, a portion will go into vital
public services.
Our merchants support all worthy move
ments. They make Red Cross, TB, Scout and
other drives possible. Our merchants are
interested in the welfare of the town; they
pay taxes; employ local people; and they
deserve special consideration at a season
when people give rein to their generous im
pulses.
So, resolve now to trade at home this
Christmas and the whole year through.
A New Thanksgiving
Although the world about us is confuse^,
frustrated and filled with turmoil, we here
in America are still living in a land of plen
ty.
The Thanksgiving table our forefathers
set up those many years ago was an oasis
in a desert of near-starvation days. An im
migrant people, newly arrived and untrain
ed for the needs of this wild continent, they
needed help even to exist. This they receiv
ed from their friendly Indian neighbors and
the Maker above.
Today, the meaning of those early times
is sometimes lost in the dazzling brilliance
of our present wealth. We often forget that
all this is not merely the product of our la
bors, but also the result of the kindly benev
olence of our Lord.
America since the first Thanksgiving has
grown to be the most powerful nation in
the world, and as it has done so, it has ac
quired certain obligations with respect to
the world and to humanity. Long a cham
pion of the rights of free men, we have
grown to the point that the primary task
of protecting the rights of free men every
where rests largely upon us.
Without what America represents today,
there would be scant incentive for free men
to continue the struggle forced upon them
or hope for the ultimate triumph of the
things in which they believe.
So, as we gather around our tables on
Thanksgiving, let us celebrate our good for
tune with humility, vowing to use the Light
of our Lord as our beacon.
Buy Christmas Seals!
Throughout Transylvania and the nation
at this time of the year an urgent appeal
is made to buy Christmas seals.
According to the local chairman John P.
McCoy, letters containing the 1952 Christ
mas seals are being mailed out to hundreds
of Transylvanians by the Transylvania Tu
berculosis association and liberal contribu
tions are being requested.
The mailing out of the Christmas seals
is the only way by which the local associa
tion raises funds to fight tuberculosis hnd
money raised is kept right here to fight
TB at home.
Many advances have been made in the
detection and treatment of tuberculosis
since the first year that Christmas seals
were sold. This year in Transylvania coun
ty 6,380 people were given a free chest X
ray in the countywide survey made by the
mobile unit. Your purchase of Christmas
seals in the past made this survey possible
and also furnished the means whereby the
necessary steps may be taken to further
help any cases of TB detected in this sur
vey. This is an example of the new methods
being used in the fight against TB.
The fight is not yet won. Of all the infec
tious diseases TB is still the No. 1 killer!
Mail in your contribution today to fight
tuberculosis, and on every Christmas card,
every gift, use a TB seal. You will be aid
ing in a great cause!
Join In The Spirit
We wish to echo the plea of the officials
of the Brevard Garden club and urge the
citizens of the community to make their
homes radiant this Christmas.
Several generous cash prizes are being
offered in this annual outdoor lighting con
test and included in the various classifica
tions are the best decorated house and yard,
best outdoor tree, best decorated doorway
and best decorated window.
Nothing can add more to the attractive
ness of the home or the beauty of the town
than decorations, colored lights and Christ
mas trees. These decorations, aside from
adding beauty to the natural landscape,
emphasize the spirit of the season and its
potent meaning.
Decorations are inexpensive. There are
literally hundreds of ways in which the
natural settings can be utilized during the
holidays and made attractive, beautiful
and cheerful at very little cost.
Light up the trees and shrubs growing
in your yards; it’s a friendly way to say
“Merry Christmas” to your neighbor!
Taxes Cost More Than Food
Ask the average man what his chief
family expense is, and he'll probably reply
food.
But he'd be wrong. The chamber of com
merce of the United States points out that
the average family’s tax bill is greater than
its combined food and clothing budgets.
For fiscal 1952, the total tax bill is
around $86,500,000,000, of which $62,100,
000,000 consists of federal taxes and the
rest state and local levies. That amounts to
$500,000,000 more than the department of
commerce says we spent for food and cloth
ing in 1951. Prospects paint a darker pic
ture for 1953 when the federal tax alone
may jump $7,000,000,000.
So many of our taxes are collected as a
hidden part of the cost of all the things we
buy that most people don’t realize the mag
nitude of the load. In 1939 all taxes aver
aged less than $400 per family—today the
figure is close to $2,000.
The federal debt now totals $260,000,
000,000, which means that the average fed
eral mortgage on each family is $5,860, in
addition to state and local debt mortgages.
We will never be able to reduce our debt
mortgages and tax liability until govern
ment cuts wasteful spending and keeps ex
penditures within the limits of its income.
IKE'S PEAK
1 he Everyday Counsellor
By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D
Gratitude is one of the noblest
and most rewarding of graces and
virtues. The Bible and modern psy
chology agree on this. Each year
Thanksgiving Day, the distinctively
American observ
ance, is an annual
reminder of this
fact. Don’t miss
its purpose and
lesson by becom
ing lost in the
many other
things which we
have crowded in
to its observance.
Gratitude and
appreciation fur
msn tne lunn- Dr< goaugh
cant for success
ful human relationships. They oil
the machinery of society, of indus
try, of the home, and the individ
ual nervous system. Personnel di
rectors in industry have learned
that men and women do their best
work under the stimulus of appre
ciation. Safety directors have learn
ed that the happy and grateful
worker has the least number of ac
cidents. Educational and social
leaders have learned that men and
women are best led to constructive
thought and action through appre
ciation. Doctors, psychiatrists and
ministers have learned that the
door to health and happiness is ap
preciation.
From long association with peo
ple I have learned that the chron
ically ill are the complainers who
have lost the grace of gratitude, if
they ever had it.
The teachings of the Bible cen
ter and revolve around love and
gratitude, which is an expression
of love. The secret of answered
prayer is thanksgiving. St. Paul
wrote, “Rejoice in the Lord al
ways; again I will say, Rejoice. Let
all men know your forbearance.
The Lord is at hand. Have no anx
iety about anything, but in every
thing by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving let your requests
be made known to God. And the
peace of God, which passes all un
derstanding, will keep your hearts
and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
(RSV) He tells us that we are to
pray about everything, and with
thanksgiving. No matter how small
our need we are to ask God about
it and then thank Him. The reason
so many of our prayers aren’t an
swered is that they are not conclud
ed with true thanksgiving. Prayers
offered in true faith in God will re
ceive an answer. It then remains for
us to thank Him, and then wait for
the answer. Learn to be thankful
and practice it every day in your
relations with God and your fellow
man. Follow the instructions in the
Bible, that great Book of Wisdom:
“And whatever you do, in word
or deed, do everything in the name
of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to
God the Father through Him.”
“Let us come before His pres
ence with thanksgiving, and make
a joyful noise unto Him with
psalms.
“Thanks be God for His inex
pressible gift!
“O give thanks unto Lord for He
is good, for His mercy endureth
forever.”
“Through Him then let us con
tinually offer up a sacrifice of
praise to God, that is, the fruit of
lips that acknowledge His name. Do
not neglect to do good and to share
what you have, for such sacrifices
are pleasing to God.
FROM OUR FILES.
GLANCING BACKWARD
AT ‘THE GOOD OLD DAYS”
14 YEARS AGO
(From the files of 1938)
Special Thanksgiving services
will be held at the Brevard Bap
tist church Thanksgiving morning
at 9 o’clock.
A new furniture store is expected
to open for business within the
week in Brevard, to be known as
Abercrombie and Co.
A program of unusual interest
was a feature of the regular meet
ing of the DAR, held Monday aft
ernoon at the home of Mrs. C. L.
Newland.
A special feature at the Wood
men of the World hall Monday
night at 7:30 o’clock will be an en
tertainment by Garley Foster, the
human bird man.
The annual P-TA picnic will be
held Friday afternoon and evening
of this week at Rockbrook camp, it
has been announced.
Patients reported at Lyday Me
morial hospital on Wednesday
were: Jim Burgess, Guy Eason, Mrs.
Mattie Lance, Mrs. B. F. Chap
man, Virginia Surrett and Mr. Cook.
Last week’s assembly program
proved very interesting and unus
ual. Miss Poindexter’s eighth grade
girls gave a musical comedy en
titled “Good Morning, Teacher.”
Election of officers will feature
the Thursday noon meeting of Bre
vard Kiwanis club, when a full slate
of officers and directors are to be
elected. Dr. E. J. Coltrane is the
retiring president.
Edward Clayton, of Furman uni
versity, spent the week-end at his
home here.
Mrs. M. A. Mull, 42, died at Bilt
more hospital, Asheville, last Fri
day at noon, following an operation.
Mrs. Van Huggins, aged 45, died
suddenly at her home in the Selica
section Monday afternoon about
5:30, from a stroke of apoplexy.
16 YEARS AGO
(From Files of Dec. 3, 1936)
Another link in highway 284 was
let by the state highway commis
sion in its meeting held in Raleigh
Tuesday.
Nearly $300 reward money has
been posted for the arrest and con
viction of the slayer of Joseph D.
Whitaker, Henderson county game
warden, who was shot and killed
early Sunday morning, November
14, by an unknown assailant.
T. B. Reid, respected citizen of
the Oakland section, died at his
home last Saturday morning, fol
lowing an illness of two weeks. He
was 86 years old.
Outweighed and outplayed in ev
erything but kicking, Brevard col
lege lost the final game of the sea
son to Mars Hill last Thursday on
the latter’s grid by the score of
38 to 7.
A news story released from The
Transylvania Times office early last
week in regard to Jack Miller, of
Brevard, has made the rounds of
newspapers throughout the nation,
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BEHIND THE NEWS ....
From Washington
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
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WISDOM ABOUT KOREA
Senator Styles Bridges, address
ing himself to the Korean question
in the “American Mercury,” pro
foundly remarks:
“In our republic one man is said
to be as good as another. But it
doesn’t follow that one man is as
wise as another; and what is need
ed now is wisdom . .
It is so often said that every
man is entitled to his opinion. Yet,
what is his opinion worth when
neither experience, scholarship nor
wisdom supports it? The Korean
war, costly in American life, is an
example of the danger to a nation
of swift action guided not by care
fully prepared knowledge and ap
plied wisdom, but by an emotional
reflex to an immediate challenge.
As long as our government was di
I rected in its Far Eastern policies
by Owen Lattimore, John P. Da
vies, Jr., Philip Jessup and similar
persons prejudiced at the time of
crisis in favor of Soviet Russia, we
had to go wrong.
Senator Bridges wisely raises the
question as to the fact of the war. It
is a war. It is not a police action.
It is an American war, not a United
States disciplinary effort. He says
of it:
“The Third World War is not in
the future; we are in it now; we
were in it even before the Second
World War ended. The Third
World War is the oldest of all wars;
it’s the determination of totalitari
an conspiracy to destroy the revo
lutionary idea of free government
and individual importance.”
This is a correctly stated position
from which there can be no factual
retreat. And no one, Republican
or Democrat, Truman, Eisenhower
or Stevenson, has presented a pro
gram for ending this war. Perhaps
there can be no end to it in the
foreseeable future. Do we have the
courage to face that fact? Do we
have the fortitude to recognize that
historical errors having been made
by our politicians at Teheran, Yal
ta and Potsdam, they cannot be cor
rected by wishful thinking and by
pollyannish platitudes?
How complicated our relations to
the enemy are is evidenced by the
fact that we have spent 16 months
talking about how a truce might be
achieved and during that prolonged
period no truce has been approach
ed and Americans have continued
to be killed.
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One of our major difficulties is
that for most Americans Asia is
a fortudden continent about which
they know nothing. Presidents
Roosevelt and Truman, Secretaries
of State Hull, Byrnes, Stettinius,
Marshall and Acheson were igno
rant concerning Asia. The only one
of these men who had spent any
time on that continent was General
George Marshall, first with the Fif
teenth infantry in Tientsin and
then as Mr. Roosevelt’s ambassador
to China. The only experts con
sulted from 1937 to 1952 were left
ists, out of the Institute of Pacific
Relations. Older China experts were
ignored because their well-prepared
experience conflicted with the opin
ions of those who, without knowl
edge, reached conclusions which
have proved to be wrong. Of this
Senator Bridges says:
“China, the heart of Asia, was
lest to the enemy. Whether it was
lost by Roosevelt’s listening to Hiss
at Yalta; by Chiang’s alleged in
transigence; by Stilwell’s petu
lence; by Marshall’s somnolence; or
by the chicanery and perhaps
treachery of the Institute of Paci
fic Relations—'all these we have de
bated with a good deal of light as
well as heat. The fact now is that
the heart of Asia was lost, and vir
tually every American, except those
who support the cause of commu
nism, now agrees with General
MacArthur that this was a tragedy
for which we shall be paying for
generations . .
General Eisenhower has no vest
ed interests in the mistakes made
in Asia. He had no part of these
mistakes. Except for the short pe
riod, November 10, 1945-1948, when
he was chief-of-staff, no Asiatic
matter came before him. In John
Foster Dulles, chosen secretary of
state, our country has a knowledge
able man of high character and an
intimate relationship with the East
of Asia. It is a good appointment
from this standpoint, the China
problem will remain with the Unit
ed States throughout this adminis
tration.
And what would be essential
then would be to recognize the fact
of war and to form firmer and
tighter relations wiht our allies,
South Korea, Formosa, Japan, the
Philippines. War requires sharp
and positive thinking if loss of life
is to be minimized. We have not
had that concerning Asia, for two
decades; it is essential now.
PICK OF THE PRESS
IN THE CAROLINAS
WHAT TO DO WITH TRUMAN
AND STEVENSON
(Smithfield Herald)
The election, which so emphati
cally put Eisenhower in the White
House seems to have put Truman
in the doghouse and left Stevenson
out in the rain
But there ought to be a place in
the American political arena foi
Truman, who has the experience
gained with seven years in the pres
idency and the support of over 24,
000,000 Americans who voted foi
him in 1948, and also for Steven
son, who showed a masterly under
standing of America’s problems in
his campaign speeches and drew s
popular vote of more than 26,000,
000.
The suggestion has been kicked
about for several years that all ex
presidents should be given seats in
the U. S. senate, where their ex
perience and their ability could be
drawn upon. They might be given
the right to speak without the right
to vote; and their wisdom and their
prestige could certainly be used ad
vantageously. This is probably the
most strategic moment to start the
plan, for the Republicans could call
in Herbert Hoover and the Demo
crats could draft Harry Truman.
Now what about Adlai Steven
son?
Just before the election returns
were in, Norman Cousins, editor
of the Saturday Review of Litera
ture, wrote an editorial entitled
“Must It Be All or Nothing?” His
thesis was that while the winner
necessarily takes all in any system
of majorities, it need not follow
that the loser should relinquish all.
“The least that can be done,”
said Mr. Cousins, “is to give the de
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