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lUtlllllllUIUUUUitmiMHIUIIilUtUlUiUMUiitMitUil ^ I— I minim. I'iiiinHMMMiim.iiMMMusiiiiniHKimini..... j THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES I The News, Established 1886; The Times, Established 1931 Consolidated, 1932 I A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher IRA B. ARMFIELD, Business Manager JOHN I. ANDERSON, Editor HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt. FRANCES WALKER, Asst, Editor J. FRED TAYLOR, Printing Dept. Head SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In County — $3.00 Outside County — $3.50 MEMBER OF NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE National Editorial Association Weekly Newspaper Representatives North Carolina Press Association New York—Chicago—Detroit Audit Bureau of Circulations Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Brevard, N. C. Under the Act of March 3, 1879 We Are Over The Top Again Again Transylvanians have answered another humanitarian call and the county is “over the top" in the '54 March of Dimes, Never before have we seen such a com munity project as was this year’s polio campaign. With the Jaycees directing, civic groups, church organizations and ethers pitched in to make the drive a suc cess. Of course, the cooperation of the pub lic at large was necessary, and more peo ple this year contributed more than ever before. The school kids gave their nickels and dimes to the tune of nearly two thou sand dollars; businessmen kicked in their •dollars as always; and the industries again did their part, along with the Home Dem onstration clubs and others too numerous to mention. It was certainly a community project! Since polio does not discriminate, the primary objective this year was to reach every home and every family for a dona tion. Polio strikes the home of the rich and the home of the poor. It plays no favorites with race, color or creed, and by this same token, the Jaycees appealed to all to give. And they did in a most generous way. We highly commend a community minded organization on a job well done and say thanks to all who gave their dimes and their dollars in this never end ing job to stamp out infantile paralysis. Times Again Wins Press Awards In competition with the largest and best weekly newspapers from Murphy to Man teo, The Transylvania Times was awarded three prizes at the annual institute of the North Carolina Press association at Duke university last week end. These awards bring the total to 17 that The Times has won during the past 11 years in state and national contests. No other weekly in the state has received so many awards in the same period of time. During 1953, Brevard's weekly news paper won second place in news coverage, editorials and photography. In the first categoiy, news coverage, The Times has won all three places during the past four years. In 1949, we were awarded third place; in 1951, first place; and last year, second. The general news coverage award is eagerly sought after by editors and pub lishers for the primary function of a news paper is to gather, prepare and distribute the news. To do this in such a way as to Impress the readers with the integrity and fairness is a sure mark of superior jour nalism, which is recognized in these con tests. Another newspaper published by Ed M. Anderson, the Forest City Courier, was awarded first place in this category dur ing ’53. In the editorial division, The Times won another second place, and again this past year this newspaper ran a close second in photography among North Carolina's weeklies. First place went to The Skyland Post at West Jefferson, which is also an Anderson newspaper. In recent years pic tures have assumed so much prominence in the weekly and especially the daily newspapers. While we who produce The Times are naturally quite gratified that we are again recognized by out-of-state judges as pro ducers of a top-flight newspaper, we feel no sense of gloating nor any tendency to ward complacency. Rather do we consid er the awards as a challenge to continue to do our best to publish the best weekly newspaper in North Carolina. These awards are a compliment to the staff of The Times, and more particular ly, they are the result of the fine coopera tion and support of our readers, our ad vertisers and the citizens generally of Brevard and Transylvania county. Scouting Builds A Better Community Boy Scouts in Transylvania and throughout America will observe the 44th birthday of Scouting all next week, and Mayor John A. Ford has issued a procla mation, proclaiming the week, February 7th to 13th, as “Boy Scout Week” here. Today our nation is all the richer for since 1910 the Boy Scout program has af fected the lives of 21 million American boys and men, and today there is an active enrollment of 3,300,000 Scouts. Under the guidance of many outstand ing adult leaders in Brevard and Transyl vania county, Scouting here plays a most important role in building better future citizenship in our community. While the current theme is “Forward on Liberty’s Team,” major emphasis is be ing placed on the Scout family. This is a two-way recognition. It honors the many fathers of Scouts, and it salutes the moth ers, who give generously of their time as Den Mothers in the Cub Scout rank. It is here that the enrichment of family life is a main objective. Through doing things together boys and parents learn to know each other better, and this em phasis upon strong family ties helps to build a stronger community, a stronger America. The Times salutes all Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, their parents and adult leaders during the 44th birthday observance of Scouting in America. Paragraphics.... Right now the ice that wasn’t thin is taking the place of the gun that wasn't loaded. Indignation is what hits a housewife when she discovers her laundress has stol en some of her best hotel towels. Before marriage a man yearns for a wo anan. After marriage the “y” is silent. Forgetfulness is a virtue only when you can remember the right things to for get. It’s getting so that it's easier to make your money first than it is to make it last. People with a wishbone where tfce back bone ought to be constantly complain about not getting ahead. 'CAN'T DRINK COFFEE. KEEPS ME AWAKE NIGHTS!' FAMU.Y | Comments From Our Readers .... I LETTERS TO THE TIMES I s s .............. Z Editor and Staff The Transylvania Times Brevard, North Carolina Our Dear Friends: Let me congratulate each indi vidual of the Transylvania Times on the most wonderful special hospital issue of your good pa per. It was indeed a great effort on your part to make the “hospi tal story” become a reality in print. It was done in such an ex cellent fashion that I feel that those individuals who were un able to visit this wonderful insti tution could visualize most clear ly their hospital. It was with great pleasure that I had the opportunity to work with you good people, and I as sure that the same will be true of all future relations. Once again let me thank you from all of us of the hospital proper for the great public ser vice rendered by your most ex cellent newspaper. The Transyl vania Times is serving the people of Transylvania .county in the fashion that a newspaper should and that you can be proud of. Most sincerely yours, Transylvania Community Hospital JOHN W. BAILEY Administrator E PICK OF THE PRESS IN THE CAROLINAS MAYBE THE TIME IS HERE AGAIN (Elkin Tribune) There was a time — and in the very recent past — when the au tomobile dealer didn’t have to worry about new car sales. But it would appear that the time has come when things are not like they once were in the new car business. And in many cases, no doubt, this is a situation that is is causing considerable worry to the dealer and car salesmen. How ever, when you get right down to it, maybe this is the time when folks should get back to work again. Robert S. Armacost, president of the National Automobile Deal ers association, told the nation’s car dealers recently that 77.6 per cent of the national population had not been solicited by car salesmen, either in person or by telephone. Armacost also said 17,000,000 U. S. families do not own automobiles. This seems surprising to those of us who are inclined to think almost every farm family has a car or truck. But the auto dealer official pointed out that 37 out of 100 farms are without an automo bile, while 66 out of every 100 are without trucks. These figures, he said, are a challenge to all the retail dealers of the country, and he believes the retail dealers can spur sales of new cars by inten sive effort to sell motor vehicles. As we see it, what the auto dealers association president real ly believes is that new car sales men will have to go back to the old-time selling methods and hustle up deals, rather than wait for the customer to come to him. And as this is true in the auto business, it can be just as true in other lines. When things seem to level off and business is not as good as it has been, rather than wring one’s hands and talk about how hard things are, business should roll up its sleeves and go after new business. It’s nice not to have to, and be able to sit back and have it come to you, but times like that cannot last al ways. Our country grew great on hus tle and bustle and competitive buying and selling. But in recent war years, living in a so-called war economy, with money plentiful, we have grown accustomed more or less to sitting back and watch ing the business and the money roll in of its own accord. When it stops rolling, then it is time to go back to work again. So rather than cry depression, and blame the administration in power, and think up other excus es, why not just roll up our col lective sleeves and go back to work? Like we once did. FROM OUR FILES GLANCING BACKWARD AT “THE GOOD OLD DAYS” a... 14 YEARS AGO Thomas S. Gash, aged 91, of Brevard, was presented a certifi cate of membership in the Dunn’s Rock Masonic lodge Friday eve ning, in recognition of his 50-year continuous membership. He has been a member of the local lodge for 67 successive years. He is said by Masonic officials to be the oldest living Mason in North Carolina. The presentation of the certificate was made by J. Edward Allen, grand master of North Carolina. Mr. Gash was born in Penrose, Transylvania county, on August 10, 1848. George Bromfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Bromfield, of Bre vard, has been promoted to the position of assistant radio opera tor at the Atlanta airport. Low temperature records of the past 20 years were broken here last week when the extreme low .....a of 15 below zero was registered at the official station checked by Phillip Price at the city hall. The snow reached a depth of eight to 12 inches in many parts of the county. Brevard’s new post office build ing prospectus in the hands of the specifications division, ac cording to a letter from Congress man Zeb Weaver, it is expected that bids will be asked on the project by the end of February. The new Community hospital thermometer on the court house lawn moved up to the $15,000 mark Wednesday afternoon, de noting three-fifths of the actual cash on hand. Miss Gladys Shipman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Shipman, of Pisgah Forest, has been notified that she passed the state board ex —Torn to Page Fir j BEHIND THE NEWS ... From Washington : : 1 By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY £• UP GO THE STAMPS! I can remember when a two cent stamp carried a letter from coast to coast and when the post office was the proudest boast of every American. Then the postage went up to three cents and the post office ceased to be a boast. The mail came only once a day. The postmen’s uniforms looked shabby and the men were dissat isfied. Letters lost never turned up and generally speaking, a smell of inefficiency pervaded the service. So there were lots of com plaints and apologies. Mr. Tru man appointed a postal employee as postmaster general and things went from bad to worse. Then came the Eisenhower administra tion, and Arthur Summerfield, a businessman, went to work to make the post office an efficient organization, and one of his effi ciencies is to raise the rates. Mr. Summerfield apparently believes that nobody really ob jects to the rates being raised. That is naive because everybody objects to prices going up, it does not matter for what. All Mr. Sum merfield needs to do is to have a look at the excitement over the high price of coffee or butter to recognize that nobody wants to pay more this year than he paid last for anything. But any increase in price ought to justify itself in some way. It is like the New York subway, which has jumped from a nickel a ride to 15 cents a ride, but the service is constantly growing worse. If there were any other practical way to go to work, no one would ride in the New York subway, but it is a monopolistic enterprise and leaves the custo mer no alternative but to walk. So, the people pay more and growl. If they had real courage, they would kick out of public of fice any politician who would so much as say “Good morning!” to Mike Quill, who is responsible for both the increase and the bad service. Now to get back to postage stamps: if the only way to reduce the deficit is to increase the cost of the postage stamp, then inef ficiency will increase. What the public would like to see done is for the deficit to be reduced with out increasing postal costs by eliminating every type of ineffi ciency. The theory of “pay-as-you go” has no limits as long as the operations are not brought under engineering controls. For in stance, mail order houses such as Sears and Montgomery Ward have not built their great businesses by charging more for less but by keeping prices down as low as possible while providing greater service. This is not written in criticism of Arthur Summerfield, who is the first postmaster general in many years who is really trying to do a job of modernizing the post office. Credit must be given him for trying to rationalize the postal operation. It has been us ual for postmasters general to leave things alone, like the fun ny pens they use and the heavy sacks postmen in cities carry on their shoulders in an era of light weight but durable fabrics. Sum merfield, at any rate, is not let ting grass grow under him. But like everyone in the Eisen hower administration, he is under pressure to cut his deficits, which is an excellent pressure to be put on any public official. However, sometimes the response to the pressure is in the wrong place, as, for instance, some savings among the armed forces are producing a breakdown of the morale in the armed forces, resulting in resig nations when they ought not to take place and separations of those with experience and then the hurried hiring of those with inexperience to fill holes. There is no economy in that except for a bookkeeper who only goes by figures, which do not always make sense. Firing a chaplain who has been in service 12 or 15 years to take on a youngster because he costs less is not good admin istration although it may con tribute to showy accountancy. While the post office should be operated efficiently and should not produce an unnecessary defi cit, it nevertheless exists not as a profit-making monopolist bust, ness but as a public service. Cer tainly Benjamin Franklin would have placed public service high in the functions of the post of fice he founded. If this monopoly is to be operated strictly as a bus iness, the sky can be the limit for its charges. But ye, brethren, be not weary in well doing.—(Thessalonians, 3, 13.) Why are so many of us these days addicted to pills to make us sleep, to give us needed energy, to allay our nervousness and ten sion? Let us try stopping at least once a day, in the headlong rush, to help someone in need, unself ishly to lighten another’s load— and in well doing, find peace. t THE EVERYDAY I COUNSELLOR } By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. 3' How do you look at life? Do you expect the best, or do you expect the worst? Do you say that your cup is “half full,” or do you say that it is “half empty?” There is a vast difference between these two ex pressions. He who says his cup is “half full” looks at it with expecta tion of having it filled. He who says his cup is “half empty” reflects an attitude of expecting it to become completely empty. Modern science is teaching us that our mental attitudes not only determine our relationship with other people, success in our work, but also our physical health. We tend to become like that about which we think. Both love and hate are gradual mental build-ups in the subcon scious mind from small beginnings. A man fails to receive an expected promotion in his business. His pride is hurt. His mind continues to dwell on this until it possesses him with jealousy, resentment, and an inferiority complex. His effi ciency is decreased and he may end up in losing his job completely. A wife takes exception to some slighting remark made by her husband —at least she considers it slighting. Her mind dwells upon it. She becomes resentful and either sulks or nags. One thing leads to an other, and the end may be the divorce court. A man or a woman may have some new and unexpected pain. The mind commences to dwell upon it. Fear mounts. The pains increase. He goes to the doctor who checks him over and finds nothing organ ically wrong, then asks him what he is worrying about. Sometimes the sufferer puts off going to the doctor for fear the doctor will find something wrong. Finally he does go and there is something wrong. The Bible, which is our best book on psychology, says, “For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Expect the best of life. Expect the best from God and your fellowman. Expect the best from your busi ness associates and employees. Then compliment them for it. Comply ments work like a two-edged sword. They make both the one who gives them and the one who receives them feel good. The new Stand ard Revised Version of the Bible, in Romans 8:28, tells us, “In every thing God works for good.” It is all a matter of allowing God to work in us for good. Commence your day with praise instead of criticism. Then con tinue throughout the day in the same manner. Let your cup be “half full” instead of “half empty.”
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