THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
The News, Established 1896; The Times, Established 1931
Consolidated, 1932
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PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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Banner Tourist Season
~We notice that Waynesville, like Bre
vard, is having an excellent tourist sea
son.
Many of the tourist homes, motels and
others catering to summer visitors in our
town and county have a good many reser
vations from now until Labor day, and
again this week end, hundreds and hun
dreds of persons are expected here for
tile Brevard Music Festival.
The Waynesville Mountaineer com
ments on the good tourist year in this man
ner:
“The best signs of the times — to local
folk—is the one which reads “No Vacan
cy”
“It has gotten to be a pastime for many
to ride through the area at night checking
on the signs in front of places catering to
tourists. i,
“Since last week end, the “No Vacan
cy" signs have prevailed throughout the
community, and indications from advance
reservations show that the signs will b©
used continuously until after Labor Day.
“One Maggie operator curtailed the,
sign, and just used the word “NO" to let
passing motorists know he did not have
any extra space.
“We can appreciate th© sinking fe©ling
on the part of motorists seeking a place to
spend the night when all signs read “no
vacancy" but on the other hand, from the
local angle, the signs look like the sunrise
on a horizon of prosperity."
"Give The Kids A Brake"
With schools opening today, we issue
* the timely warning, “Give the kids a
brake.”
From early morning until late afternoon
hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls
will be walking and riding on our high
ways and by-ways.
In this fast, modern age, children dart
from all corners, seldom giving'a thought
to a possible oncoming vehkle that might
be exceeding the speed limit.
The best policy for the motorists to fol
low, particularly when driving in school
zones, is to travel at a speed which will
allow for stopping suddenly to avoid hit
ting a child.
More than ever before, Transylvania
drivers should practice safety.
We have a record enrollment, and more
than half of our school children ride the
school buses. Motorists are again remind
ed that it is unlawful to pass a school bus
while loading or unloading.
Please, Mr. Motorist: Be constantly on
the alert and “give the kids a brake/’
Advice To Bike Riders
Editorially, The Times warned all mo
torists to be extremely careful while driv
ing now that school is opening-, and the
following remarks are directed at boys
and girls who ride bicycles to and from
school.
•North Carolina’s motor vehicles com
missioner, Ed Scheidt, has labelled bike
riders as “Miniature Motorists,” and he
calls them this because child bicycle rid
• ers must for safety’s sake assume two of
the adult motorist’s major responsibili
ties:
1. To be careful and safe in traffic.
-2„ To keep their machines in smooth and
safe working order.
Tlie commissioner reminded Tar Heel
•‘Miniature Motorists” that 11 tots and
teen - agers were killed in collisions of bi
cycles and motor vehicles last year.
What is more, almost 300 were injured
in bicycle traffic accidents.
The commissioner urges child bike rid
ers to see that their bicycles are properly
equipped and that all equipment is prop
erly maintained.
Pay particular attention to headlight,
reflectors and brakes, he cautioned.
Seven simple traffic rules for North
Carolina’s “Miniature Motorists” are list
ed :
1. Ride with traffic, and keep to the far
right, close to the curb.
2. When riding with a group of other
bicyclists, ride single file.
3. Never ride two on a bike.
4. Do not weave or stunt — either in or
out of traffic. Ride in a straight line.
5. Remember — when in traffic you
must obey the law just like any motorist.
Obey all signs, signals and traffic laws.
6. It is illegal and extremely dangerous
to hitch on to a passing truck, street car
or any moving vehicle.
7. If you must ride at night, be sure you
have a good headlight and a clear, red re
flector on the rear.
Paragraphics...
In olden times when a youth started
sowing wild oats, father started the
thrashing machine.
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Inscription on a tombstone: Here lies
an atheist, all dressed up and no place to
jo
lt’s almost always the failure who has
1>een a grand success at dodging work.
Being short of cash makes it hard to con
vince some people of your wisdom.
Lots of folks, short on money, are still
managing to scratch out a vacation.
A good spo^t is a fellow who thinks any
kind of fun is worth the trouble.
It takes more than today’s costs to keep
some people from building a happy home.
Things are never quite so trying for
folks who are always willing to try.
Trust to luck and you have to be darn
lucky to get anywhere.
We could stand automobiles being thick
on the highway if so many drivers weren’t
the same.
STARTER'S GUN
Comments From Our Readers ....
LETTERS TO THE TIMES
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Mr. John 1. Anderson, Editor
The Transy>/ania Times
Brevard, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Anderson;
In reference to the article con
cerning United Appeal Fund in
the Transylvania Times of August
18, the following statement re
garding the Christmas Seal cam
paign appears: “. . . the TB asso
ciation would mail out its annual
Christmas seals, but no solicita
tion would be made by the group.”
In the event that some people
might misinterpret the meaning
of “solicitation” in this instance,
I would like to emphasize that
the campaign will be conducted
this year exactly as it has been in
the past: Christmas Seals will be
mailed out and the recipient may
buy or not buy the seals, as he
chooses. No door-to-door solicita
tion will be made.
I am enclosing a copy of the
letter which I have sent to the
Admissions and Budget Commit
tee of the United Fund of Tran
sylvania county and will appre
ciate it very much if you will
print it in your paper in order
that the people of Transylvania
county may know our reasons for
not participating in the United
Fund.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Sincerely,
JEANETTE AUSTIN
Christmas Seal Chairman
Transylvania Tuberculo
sis Committee
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Mr. Don M. Jenkins,
Co-Chairman Admissions and
Budget Committee, The United
Fund of Transylvania County
Brevard, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Jenkins:
Your letter inviting the Tran
sylvania Tuberculosis Committee
to participate in United Fund has
been referred to me because I am
the legal representative of the
tuberculosis association, having
already signed a Christmas Seal
contract with the North Carolina
Tuberculosis Association for the
year 1955-56.
Although we appreciate the in
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vitalUrn, I am writing to advise on
behalf of the members of the tu
berculosis committee that the
Transylvania Tuberculosis Com
mittee does not feel it essential
to be represented at your meet
ings as the association does not
wish to participate in United
Fund for the following reasons:
1. The Christmas Seal Sale is
conducted through the mail with
out personal solicitation and,
therefore, the individual is at lib
erty to make his decision in the
privacy of- his own home,
2. The Christmas Seal Sale is
an established tradition closely
associated with the spirit of
Christmas-. U- clusters around the
Christmas Seal, the most potent
symbol which any voluntary or
ganization has ever possessed, 0£
the amount raised in Transylva
nia county, ,75-per cent staye here
to fight TB and 94 per cent stays’
in North Carolina to help fight
TB.
3. An independent campaign!
enables the Tuberculosis Asso
ciation to take full advantage of
its educational potentialities. In
addition to publicity and promo
tion accompanying an indepen
dent campaign, a large segment
of the population is contacted
through the mail with facts about
an infectious disease and facts
about available facilities or lack
of facilities.
4. TB associations have 48
years of experience in successful
fund raising with tested and prov
en techniques. The Christmas Seal
campaign is not dependent on
large contributions, but is sus
tained by small donations from
thousands of people.
I am sending a copy of this let
ter to the newspaper with the re
quest that they print it in full.
On behalf of the members of
the Transylvania Tuberculosis
Committee I am sending our best
wishes to the United Fund organ
ization for a successful campaign.
Sincerely.
JEANETTE AUSTIN.
Christmas Seal Chairman
Transylvania Tuberculo
sis Committee
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FROM OUR FILES.
GLANCING BACKWARD [
AT “THE GOOD OLD DAYS” I
15 YEARS AGO
The last in the series of four
summer concerts, sponsored by
the Music Lovers’ club of Brevard
will be presented to the public
Tuesday, August 20th, at 8:00
o’clock in the high school audi
torium.
Mrs. Allie Wilson, Mrs. Rubye
Hubbard, Mrs. Beulah Bagwell,
and Miss Sadie North are attend
ing a conference of adult educa
tion workers under sponsorship
of the WPA at Asheville this
week.
Directors of the Kiwanis club
were entertained at dinner Tues
day evening at 7 o’clock at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Brit
tain. Mrs. Brittain and Mrs. Har
ry R. Sellers were co-hostesses
in entertaining.
Brevard Tanners will journey
to Enka Saturday afternoon to try
their hand at dislodging the
league-leaders from the pedestal
the Rayonites have sat upon
throughout the season.
The two days’ meeting of the
Baptist association held at Cath
ey’s Creek church was a pro
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nounced success. The. Cathey’s
Creek folks were complimented,
on the excellent, dinners for the
two days.
Miss Geneva Neill has returned
from an extended visit to friends
and relatives in Golonmbia and
Greenville* Si. C.
Arrangements have been made
to continue the Monday night
street dances through September,
it was announced at the party on
West Main street Monday night.
Adger L. Capps of Jeter Moun
tain section was winner of the
$105 cash award at Plummer’s
store last week, and received his
money Tuesday afternoon.
All aliens in Transylvania coun
ty are required to register and be
fingerprinted at the Brevard post
office, it was announhed here
Monday by Postmaster Coleman
Galloway.
High quality manganese ore
was mined in the Boylston section
during the War Between the
States, and used in the manufac
ture of arms for the Confederate
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BEHIND THE NEWS ...
From Washington
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT
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“DRAFT IKE” MOVE A
WASTE OF MONEY
It is not easy to understand all
the activity to “Draft Ike” for the
Republican nomination for presi
dent in 1956. If Eisenhower wants
the job, the Republicans will
nominate him.
In fact, they have no other can
didate on hand, except Richard
Nixon, the vice president, or Wil
liam Knowland, the senator, and
both would prefer to be remem
bered in 1960 rather than in 1956.
Ike does not need to be drafted.
The convention will be his private
property and will do his bidding.
Tom Stephens, the Dewey
henchman and for a while ap
pointment secretary to President
Eisenhower, is busying himself
with the “Draft Ike” effort. It is
expected that John Roosevelt, Re
publican son of the late New Deal
president, Franklin D. Roosevelt,
will head a Citizens’ Committee.
All this activity seems useless
—of the order of presenting Cae
sar with a crown three times,
when truly the old boy wanted it
from the start. It is normal for
an American president to expect
to be nominated for a second
term.
It is abnormal for an American
president to decline a second
term. Coolidge did it by choosing
not to run — but the trouble there
was that the rest of the country
did not understand the particular
New England Yankee use of the
term “choose.” It meant that that
was his choice but was no indica
tion as to how others should
choose.
I have to say New England
Yankee because there are lots of
people these days who are not
Yankees and who do not quite get
the shades of meaning which are
so characteristic of the people
here in western Massachusetts
and Vermont who use few words
and no gestures but are always
understood among themselves.
Coolidge would have run for a
second term had he been nomi
nated, or so I have been told by
those whose propinquity to him
cannot be gainsaid.
As a matter of fact, if Eisen
hower announced today that he
will run for a second term, the
Republicans could dispense with
their convention in San Francisco,
where the hotel space is likely to
present a problem. They could
nominate him unanimously by
mail, the proxies to be addressed
to Thomas E. Dewey, who con
trols the machinery of the Repub
lican party anyhow. He appoints
judges and U. S. attorneys and
such, although he likes to give
the impression that he has re
tired from politics and is hidden
away in the gullies of Wall Street.
Why go to the enormous ex
pense of dragging thousands of
people across the continent in
August when the cat is already in
the bag? All the press-agent sto
ries handed out to give the im
pression that Ike may be too old
at 70 are designed only to have
thousands of telegrams and let
ters come to the White House,
saying, “No! No! 70 is not too old,
or even 80. Let’s have Ike. We
like Ike.”
Age depends upon blood pres
sure, pulse pressure, pulse rates,
blood sugar, etc., etc. It is possi
ble to determine the realistic
age of a man’s physique, which
may be 50 at 70. Of course when
the report is faked as it was with
Franklin D. Roosevelt, there is no
telling what a man’s age is except
by his birth certificate.
Gov. “Soapy” Williams’ vulgar
ity in discussing this question is
only possible in one who was bad
ly bred and therefore should not
be a candidate for the presidency
or even the vice presidency be
cause we should have decent man
ners in high places.
When I read what the soapy
governor said, I thought that this
fellow sure hopes that Ike is old
with one foot in the grave, which
is a very nasty thought on his
part. Even Democrats ought to
feel that Ike would make a grace
ful ex-president, living on his
manorial estate at Gettysburg and
delivering addresses before uni
versities and learned societies.
Even a Democrat can wish him a
long and happy life and I am sure
that most of them do.
So why a “Draft Ike” move
ment? Why does Tom Stephens
fuss so? Why does John Roose
velt, who has been most unroose
veltian up to now, want to get in
to the act? It would seem to be a
waste of money.
THE EVERYDAY!
COUNSELLOR, J
By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.l
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Gino Prato, 55, Bronx shoemaker, followed his father’s advice
and took the $32,000 prize on the CBS-TV show and passed up the
$64,000 question. He astonished listeners all over the country with his
knowledge of opera, the singers, composers and conductors.
A cable from Papa Prato in Italy advised, “Stop where you are.
That’s enough this way. Regards, Daddy.” Prato received the cable
from his 92-year-old father in the midst of a dilemma over a deluge
of advice from well-wishers.
“Because I take my Daddy’s advice all my life, I accept,” he said.
We can’t help but wonder if he would have taken his father’s
advice if he were fifteen instead of fifty-five.
Most of us go over “fool’s hill” when we are prone to utterly dis
count the advice of parents, consider them old-fogy and out of date. I
remember that I certainly went through it.
By the time I was 20 I commenced to think that perhaps my
father and mother had a little intelligence. By the time I was 25 the
conviction had grown stronger. Then after I had reached 30, I came
to the conclusion that my father was a man of relatively sound judg
ment. Then when I reached 40, I was convinced of that fact and only
hoped that by the time I reached his age I might do as well as he had.
It’s hard for young people to realize that their parents love them
dearly and want them to have fullest opportunities. Some parents g&
too far, especially those who have come up the hard way. I’ve heard
many a man who has come up this way say, “I don’t want my son to
have to go through the tremendous difficulties which I had to face.’*
Here they make a mistake. It is because they had to face difficulty and
overcome obstacles that they achieved success. When, with best of
intentions, they protect their children from responsibilities and ol>»
stacles, they do them a great disservice.
Children, as they grow up, must learn to make decisions. The
task we parents have is to train our children so they can make them
well.
One of the most difficult things we parents have to do is teach our
children to learn to make decisions and face life without us. We should
be prepared to give advice when it is requested, and to see that the
bond of affection between us and our children is such that they will
want to seek our advice. But we must not make the decisions for them.
We must teach them to make them for themselves.
The bond of affection between Shoemaker Prato and his father
continued strong throughout the years. He asked for advice from his
father and got it. From past experience, he knew that his father’s ad
vice was good. What a tribute this is to a long and affectionate rela
tionship between father and son.