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•OVOMNBIIWIMNM9ICHII9IHNI MtNHIlH sr THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES The News, Established 1888; The Times, Established 1931 Consolidated, 1932 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 \esy 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 Congratulations To The '54 Graduate It’s graduation time in Transylvania, a joyous time for the boys and girls receiv ing their diplomas. It’s a challenging time, a few brief moments to pause for a salute on a goal attained and a time to look ahead to a brighter, a richer tomorrow. A record number of graduates will re ceive diplomas both here at Brevard and at Rosman. Brevard college also has a fine graduating class, and we take great pleasure in saluting the graduates at the three schools. Education is the backbone of all con structive progress in a democracy and ev ery year we take pleasure in turning the spotlight of publicity upon our schools, so that our readers may have a better under standing of our educational progress and of the educational needs of today. For the 1954 graduate, commencement means the beginning of careers at an un paralleled time in history. The struggle be tween democracy and communism is being waged; scientists are daily discovering and expanding new fields which open doors to careers unheard of a few years ago; the churches are realizing as never before that an extra effort must be made to expand the teachings of Christ at home and abroad. This is indeed a challenging age filled with unequaled opportunity. Many high school graduates will enter college to secure more education and this is indeed fortunate; for in this new scien tific age, additional education will be found useful. Others will enter military service and this may delay some of your future plans. Along with our congratulations to the ’54 graduates go our sincere best wishes for continued success. Graduation is an achievement and an inspiration, and com mencement should serve as an opportuni ty for broader fields of service. It has been said that success does not come from talent alone, but from concen tration and perseverance, and this is a hint well worth remembering by the grad uate of today. Interest Is Vital In Peabody Report Much favorable comment has been voiced throughout the county on the Pea body Report compiled on the public schools. It is vital that each citizen take an interest in this report and its effects on the growth and progress of public ed ucation in Transylvania. The report shows that instruction is be ing seriously handicapped in the high schools because of lack of classrooms and equipment. The Peabody professors could not have more strongly recommended that one high school be built in the county to care for all students in grades nine through twelve. This was one of the main recommendations of the report, which should serve as a blueprint for all future growth in buildings and the teaching pro gram. One consolidated high school will re lieve the other crowded conditions and provide equal opportunity for the educa tion of all high school youths. The present high schools will care for the junior high groups, or sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The new high school would be design ed to care for a minimum of 800 students. Today there are 708 boys and girls in Ros man and Brevard high school and the en rollment is at the lowest it has been since September. At Brevard there are 500 en rolled (compared to 553 prior to Christ mas) and at Rosman 208 boys and girls are studying. By consolidation it will be possible to hire more and better teachers to carry on a high school program that the report points out is badly in need of revamping. A more complete program of home eco nomics, vocational agriculture and the in dustrial arts will be possible with the add ed facilities, as well as a gymnasium and space for indoor and outdoor recreation. This consolidation is in line with what other schools throughout North Carolina are doing. Since World War II the 14 high schools in Mecklenburg county have been merged into junior highs and three senior high schools. In New Hanover coun ty on the coast one tremendous senior high school now serves Wilmington and the entire county. In nearby Rutherford coun ty the board of education is now consid ering consolidation of the ten existing schools into three senior and three junior high schools. The report shows that much must be done if the children of Transylvania are to receive the education to which they are entitled. However, many of these will have to be included in a long.range program. Several of the recommendations should receive immediate attention. Among them are provisions for sick pay for teachers, a revision of the bus schedule or either shortening of school hours so some chil dren will not be gone from home for as long as nine hours, hiring of more clerical help, provision of more materials and im provements to the small schools in upper Transylvania. It is also gratifying to see that the board is already endeavoring to hire only teachers with standard certifi cates for next year. Great Statesman Passes Transylvanians joined with the rest of the state and nation in mourning the pass ing of Senator Clyde R. Hoey last week. The tall, white-haired statesman, who stood as a symbol of the fading Southern gentleman on the senate floor, was a fa miliar figure in Transylvania county. On many occasions he spoke at gatherings in the county and at Ecusta in recent years. Each time he endeared himself to local people with his understanding of prob lems and hopes, and his flowery oratory was always most impressive, almost hyp notic. Senator Hoey succumbed in the manner he would have wished to, with “his boots on.” For almost a half century, Senator Hoey was in forefront of politics, having served in both branches of the general assembly and in both branches of con gress. He was also one of North Carolina’s most popular governors, adding much to the dignity of the office. Senator Hoey lived long and served well the people of North Carolina and these United States. It would seem that the richest years of his life of service was after he had reach ed his “three score years and 10.” He gave unsparingly of his energy to duty and to friends. Senator Hoey’s contributions to govern ment, to the people and to the church will long be remembered and they will stand as an inspiration to all Americans desir ing to make this a better, happier and more prosperous state and nation in which to live. 'JACK BE NIMBLE-!' I......«■■•»»•.....................................q Comments From Our Readers .... LETTERS TO THE TIMES I 2 *J"‘".*..................».ill May 8, 1954 Mr. John Anderson Editor, Transylvania Times Brevard, N. C. Dear Editor Anderson: Just now received The Times and am very sorry to learn of the death of my good friend Mr. John Duckworth. Also Mr. Taylor Lee, of Pickens, S. C., both of whom I was very well acquainted with and had utter respects for both men. Through your paper I would like to send their families my deepest sympathy. I have noticed from The Times we have had lots of deaths throughout the county. I receive a lot of mail from friends of mine in the county which I enjoy receiving very much. It sure builds up your mo rale when you are in the hospital. I also receive mail from people I don’t know. They got my address from The Times. I have always made it a practice to answer all mail I receive. But I have been in the hospital now over three months and a lot of times I don’t feel like writing. I send my appre ciation to ali of them through your paper. In this hospital we have the very best of service and attention. We have our chaplains of all de nominations in the hospital every day. We also have the Red Cross which is at your service at all times. We have special services, also a VA office. A navy boy said to me the other day, “Do you ever hear from the pastor of your church?” I laugh ed and said “No.” I know he is busy and the navy boy laughed. He said my chaplain comes to see me every day and I believe he does. They are in and out of my quarters most every day. I enjoy getting The Times every week. Wishing all of you good luck and good health, As ever, ECK L. SIMS USNH, Ward 73, South Great Lakes, 111. E« FROM OUR FILES ■B GLANCING BACKWARD AT “THE GOOD OLD DAYS” 13 YEARS AGO Word was received here last week that Pat Kimzey, local citi zen, has been reappointed on the State Industrial Commission by Governor J. M. Broughton. Charlie Murphy, Brevard bar ber for many years, is opening a new barber shop on East Main street opposite the court house, and hopes to be ready to open for business tomorrow, Friday. Edward B. Clayton returned last Monday from Ruffin, where he taught and coached in the Ruf fin high school the past year. The Brevard college track and field squad, coached by Leonard W .Roberts, took second place in the State Junior College confer ence track and field meet held at High Point college last Saturday. C. E. Buckner, dean of Brevard college, has issued a list of can didates for graduation here at 1941 commencement exercises, June 10. Final plans have been made for the Jaycee May dance tonight at the country club at which the Carolina Buccaneers from Ashe ville will play. A Demolay Degree team from Asheville will come to Brevard Friday night to confer the First —Turn to Page Seven CROSSWORD ACROSS L Tear 4. Perform 7. A creed 0. Clamor 12. Theater seats 13. Apportion 14. Misuses 16. 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SOKOLSKY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY The Republican party lost five presidential elections, but main tained a sizeable following: 1932, 15,761,841; 1936, 16,679, 583; 1940, 22,304,755; 1944, 22, 006,278; 1948, 21,970,065. In some of these elections, it was clear from the votes for gov ernors and senators that many Republicans were not voting for their party’s candidate for presi dent. Republican politicians have estimated that as many as 5, 000,000 Republicans either did not vote for their candidate for presi dent or stayed away from the elections. In the 1952 campaign, the Advertising Council and oth er bodies put on a campaign to ballyhoo the election, to get the citizens to vote. Dwight D. Eis enhower garnered a vote of 33, 936,252, which not only was enor mous but which gave evidence that many Democrats, particular ly in southern states, crossed par ty lines and voted for the Repub lican candidate for president. But they did not cross party lines to vote for Republican can didates for senators and members of the House of Representatives. Therefore President Eisenhower has had an inadequate working majority in either house. For some reason, not understandable to practical politicians, President Eisenhower and his strategists as sumed that he could combine Re publicans and Democrats in sup port of his leadership. However, whenever a vote has been taken, as recently in the matter of the Taft-Hartley law, or actions in various committees of congress, the Democrats have voted against Eisenhower with a discipline which was not evident when Tru man was president. On the other hand, the Repub licans have shown no such disci pline or unity since Robert A. Taft died. It would seem to be each man for himself. The Repub lican National Committee has lost its relationship to the rank and file of the party. While in the House of Representatives, the so called “leadership” does exercise a large measure of authority, in the Senate it is altogether miss ing. The attempt of the “leader ship” to reduce the influence of Senator Joe McCarthy has failed to accomplish its goal and they now face the prospect of a run ning fight with him on the fun damental White House program, such as farm supports. This quar rel need not have been permitted to develop to its present propor tions, producing damage only to the Republican party and the president. The president’s “old friend” advisers, John J. McCloy, Lucius Clay and Paul Hoffman, whatever their abilities, have no nexus with the rank and file of the Republican party and they are being blamed increasingly for the party’s present troubles. As the 1954 congressional cam paign approaches, hard-working Republicans are distressingly frightened. They frankly fear that they will lose this election; that the committee chairmanships will revert to the Democrats; and that Eisenhower will either become a captive of an antagonistic major ity or will be forced to veto measures in congress designed to hurt him and his party. The McCarthy-Stevens investi gation has harmed the Republi can party equally among pro and anti-McCarthyites. It is true that some Democrats were projected disadvantageously. For instance, Senator Stuart Symington may have spoiled his chances as a presidential candidate. Senator John McClellan faces a tough pri mary fight in Arkansas. Senator Fulbright and former Governor Sidney S. McMath have joined forces against him, Fulbright sup porting McMath. I was recently told in Mefnphis, Tennessee, that there is considerable New York money behind McMath. I do not know whether this is true or not, but a group of New York inter nationalists send money into states to fight anti-Communist senators. A senator, under the Constitu tion, represents his state, not a coterie of busy-beavers who make their headquarters in the Waldorf Astoria in New York and who se cretly support candidates of their choice, for whom they cannot law fully vote. If such a money-rais ing crowd is actually engaged in defeating Senator McClellan, it cannot be because they want the Republicans to win, which is im possible in Arkansas; it can only be because they want to pack the Senate. The Republicans face the prac tical problem of saving them selves between now and Novem ber. If the present “leadership” cannot do better than it has up to now, the election of 1954 could be disastrous. THE EVERYDAY COUNSELLOR Tl. By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. * “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength.” Digest these lines. They are taken from an article in the May Reader’s Digest, “How to Stop Worrying,” by the noted doc tor-writer, A. J. Cronin. Read the article for yourself as the author gives his prescription for dealing with “Private Enemy No. 1.” Dr. Cronin says that the secret enemy of worry is responsible for more casualties and greater suffering than almost any other scourge. He says," As medical men know, worry can actually induce organic disease.” Pointing to the universality of worry, Dr. Cronin offers this estimate of what most people worry about: “Things that never hap pen: 40 per cent. Things over and past that can’t be changed by all the worry in the world: 30 per cent. Needless health worries: 12 per cent. Petty miscellaneous worries: 10 per cent. Real ligitimate wor ries: 8 per cent.” Get out your pencil now and make your worry list. After you have made the list, then classify your worries. Use Dr. Cronin’s yard stick. You might also deal with them in the terms of the old prayer ascribed to St. Francis of Assisi, “God grant me the serenity to ac cept the things I cannot change; the courage to change those things that I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” Dr. Cronin says that self-pity is the root of many of our worries. He tells how, when he was a practicing physician in London, one of his patients, a young married woman, was stricken with infantile pa ralysis. “She was sent to a good hospital where it soon became ap parent that she was responding to treatment and would eventually recover. Some weeks later I received a visit from her husband. In a state of tenseness and nervous-upset, he complained of sleeplessness and inability to concentrate. After a checkup I found nothing what ever the matter with him. But when I suggested that he get back to his job, he turned on me furiously: ‘My wife is seriously ill. Do you expect me to go on as though nothing has happened? Haven’t you any feelings for me?’ The basic cause of his worry was self-pity, mas querading as concern for his wife.” Dr. Cronin comes to a most arresting conclusion, “Worry, in the final analysis, is a form of atheism, a denial of the human need of God. It is like saying, ‘I shall never get the better of this, for there is no God to help me’.” Jesus Christ repeatedly warned His hearers and warns us con cerning worry. He said, “Take therefore no (anxious) thought for the morrow . . Read Dr. Cronin’s article if you can. If you are a professing Chris tian it will make you re-examine the whole structure of your faith. The good doctor offers an excellent prescription for treating “Private Enemy No. 1”—Worry.
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