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t THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES The News, Established 1896; The Times, Established 1931 Consolidated, 1932 A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher JOHN L ANDERSON, Editor ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept. Head JACK BRIGGS, Advertising Mgr. NED COMAR, Linotype Operator FRANCES WALKER, Associate Editor GORDON BYRD, Pressman HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt. D. C. WILSON, Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR In County — $3.00 Outside County $3.50 MEMBER OF NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE National Editorial Association <gCfjT|jw> 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 IIIUMNHMIMIIIIIIItllfIMlINNNHtlllllllllMIIIMHflUIMtIMHItlllHMINMimillHMMHUIMMtSMamNIUII Give The United Way Next Monday the second annual United Appeal campaign will be launched in Bre vard and Transylvania county. With a total of 17 allocations to sup port welfare, health and social agencies m the area, the campaign this year has a goal of $25,000. The United Fund plan enables one to give to all of these various agencies. The program of United Appeal is a fair share appeal. Each citizen is asked to give only his just proportion of the total seed. The program is also designed to save lime, to save cost of solicitations and cam paign expenses. Thus, more out of every dollar given through the United Fund plan goes direct to the purpose for which Ufa given. In some instances, where cam paigns are staged singly, the cost of the 'campaign goes as high as 40 cents out of every dollar going for the expenses of raising the money. Under the United Fund, the cost is just a few pennies. Needless to say, the demands of the agencies are heavy aigain this year, and the committees in charge of the budget have gone over the needs carefully and al located what they felt was justified in comparison to others as well as the need. This is a time to share blessings with others. It is a time to give, and give once, thus saving your time, and the time of your neighbors who will be spared from making numerous campaign drives. Transylvanians did themselves proud last year in the first annual drive by over subscribing the goal of $22,500. So this year, again share your blessings with the people who need and give gener ously, remembering that it is more bless ed to give than to receive. Little Theatre Deserves Support The Brevard Little Theatre is now en gaged in selling memberships for its sixth season, which begins with a family com edy on November 13th and 14th. If every body within driving distance of Brevard could realize the value of this community entertainment, he would rush right out and buy not only tickets for his family, but for friends. Recently Brooks Atkinson, drama edi tor of The New York Times, made some profound remarks on the values of com munity theatres and the great effect they Have had on American lives. Quoting Mr. Atkinson: “Why have a theatre at all? The theatre enriches community life. It brings people together for a common emo tional experience, and occasionally for an Intellectual experience as well. With out a theatre a community is not fully alive. Primitive societies have communi al dances and festivals from which, inci dentally, the art of a drama is derived.” So the home town theatre goes back many, many years. Brevard was fortunate in having a Little Theatre that produced excellent plays some 20 years ago. The present organization was founded in 1950 and has chalked up five excellent seasons giving a total of 15 well cast and profes sionally produced plays. Brevard is fortunate, indeed, that all of its plays have been directed by Robroy Farquhar, whose guiding theatrical hand has no doubt contributed more — much more — than could be measured by his pitiful remuneration. And so once again Brevard Little Thea tre is preparing to give to local audiences a series of three plays. All in all, an in vestment in a season membership is about as good as could be found in entertain ment. In fact Brevard is lucky to have such a fine organization. A Timely Warning iTansylvama hunters have taken to the woods,” and a story elsewhere in this week’s Times reports that a record num ber of hunting licenses have been sold this season. The woods are dry and as the leaves be gin to fall the fire danger will increase. Hunters should take special precaution against starting fires, which destroy not ' ja»Vy crops and timber, but also the game they have come to hunt. With more than 80,000 acres of Transyl vania in the Pisgah National Forest and "with many smaller private forests in our county, the economic value alone should fee sufficient incentive for every citizen to late every precaution against forest fires. October 15 is the official opening date of the fire season, and the forest ranger reports that the woodlands are dry at this time. Transylvania is peculiarly blessed with soil and climate for growing trees, which are not only a great economic asset, but contribute much to the natural beauty. Many, many times have we elaborated on the multi-use activities of the Pisgah Na tional Forest. It has been aptly said that a million matches can be made from one tree and that a million trees can be burned by a forest fire started by one match in care less hands. So, when you are in or near our wood lands, remember the “ABC’s" of safety, “always be careful." Be Sure To Register registration ior tne iNovemoer bth uen. €raJ Election will begin on Saturday, and file books will also be open on the two fol lowing Saturdays and November 3rd will be challenge day. Registrars will be at the precinct pol ling places from 9:00 a. m. until sunset on fitese days, and all citizens who are not registered and all those who are uncertain about their registration are urged to reg ister. Persons must be a resident of their pre onct for four months and a resident of librth Carolina for one year prior to No vember 6th to be eligible to register and vote. Young men and women who will be 21 years of age before November 6th may register and vote in this important elec tion. Qualified voters who will be absent from the county in which they are regis tered on election day or who by reason of sickness or other disability are unable to go to the polling place, may vote by absen tee ballot. These may be secured from the election board office here in the court house. This year’s election is an important one, and it is the duty of every qualified voter to cast his ballot. However, before you can vote, you must be registered! v . FIRE PREVENTION WEEK'OCTOBER 7-13 *---—-——-------4 Comments From Our Readers .... LETTERS TO THE TIMES j 4m—.—■ ■—■■ - - --—-—-— .L Mr. John Anderson, Editor, Transylvania Times, Brevard, North Carolina. Dear Mr. Anderson: The Transylvania County Hu mane Society is deeply apprecia tive of the support which you have given us in this, our first year. We feel that we have had a most successful year, and know that we could not have carried out our very active program with out your fine support and cooper ation. Sincerely, Margaret Knoth (Mrs. E. A. Knoth, Publicity) ---- - PICK OF THE PRESS IN THE CAROLINAS *—--- - -4 DARE TO BE EDUCATED (Brevard College Clarion) You were born sometime between 1933 and 1938. You aren’t very old but you have already alienated yourself from home and familiar surroundings by coming to college. You have heard all the oratory, met all the VIPs, and are very sure that you are on the proper road to obtaining an education. Have you ever toyed with the real conception of education? Does a certificate of completion fulfill the definition? Or would it be good grades and a place on the Dean’s list? Perhaps it is a well rounded personality. Social adeptness is certainly a requirement. We could search forever and w’ould never find a satisfactory defi nition of education. Education, like God and man, is infinate, for it is the search of the latter for the former. It falls within the realm of no definition; yet each definition is a part of the whole. Can God be defined? Can he be patented and sold from the pulpit of yonder church? As God is, so is edu cation! No man owns it. No man can show you the best route to follow’. To obtain an education, you must grope along — in complete darkness at first — stumbling into unseen pitfalls, getting covered with slime and mud; but always retaining your direction toward knowledge. If you wrould be educated, you must stay well off the beaten path and run the gauntlet of ridicule. American educators and students have given to know ledge, a definition and are acting on this premise. They are, in this point, suffering from insanity. Instructors im plant when they should suggest, they scorn the query with skillfully elusive answ’ers concerning the real essence of —Turn To Page Five FROM OUR FILES. GLANCING BACKWARD -■* AT ‘THE GOOD OLD DAYS” 13 YEARS AGO Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Ray, of Lake Toxaiway, were guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Mc Neely. Decision of the Brevard P-TA to adopt the school lunch room as its major project for the year was the main matter of business transacted at the October meet ing of this organization, which was held in the high school hut Tuesday evening. Two large stills were destroy ed in the Cane Brake section of the county last Thursday and Fri day by officers. Miss Lucy Irene Tinsley, 15 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tinsley, of Lake Toxaway, tied for first place in the 4-H club district contest girls’ dress review, held in Asheville last Fri day. Pfc. Walter Clayton, of Atlanta Dental college, and Pvt. Harry Clayton, of Fort Jackson, were week-end visitors here. Major and Mrs. H. J. Bradley, of Magnolia, Miss., announce the birth of a daughter, Mary Eliza beth, on October 11. The par ents are former residents of Bre vard, where Major Bradley was a popular practicing physician. ---—“—-—“——+ A football team is now being or ganized at the Brevard high school with Slim Bullock, well known local man as coach and with William Thomason as man ager. Members of the Brevard Meth odist church school presented resolutions before the Sunday school body last Sunday, express ing appreciation for the services of J. E. Rufty, retiring superin tendent, who served as general superintendent the past 15 years. The Transylvania Times bowl ing team defeated the Army air forces Tuesday night 3 to 0 in the Tri-City league and Bruce Rey nolds rolled the highest score of the season, 644. Bridges also made over 600. Dunne scored 507, Kappers 445 and Straus, 546. To tal team score, 2,757. A total of 79 hunters partici pated in the first two days of su pervised squirrel hunting in the Davidson river area of the Pis gah National Forest and bagged around 350 squirrels, or an av erage of about 4 and a half each. The limit is 6 per day. Bill and Jack Crary, young demonstration farmers in the North Brevard neighborhood, are —Turn to Page Five BEHIND THE NEWS ... From Washington By GEOBGE E. SOKOLSKV THE FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE The “Beaumont, Texas, Enter prise” has stated the issues of the campaign better than I have seen it elsewhere: “Just what is the one big issue of this year’s presidential and congressional campaigns? It is an ‘issue’ neither Republican nor Democratic politicians care to discuss. The one big ‘issue’ of the 1956 struggle between the Demo cratic and Republican Parties is this: The Republicans want to stay in power, the Democrats want to get back into power.” No matter what Adlai Steven son, Estes Kefauver or Harry Tru man say for the Democrats, what it all comes down to is that they want to get back into the White House; and no matter what Dwight D. Eisenhower or Richard Nixon say about great issues, what they want is to stay in the White House and all that pertains thereto. But there is more to the elec tion than a President and a Vice President. The whole of the House of Representatives has to be elected and about one-third of the Senate. In most states, many local officials have to be elected. The Republicans believe that Ike Eisenhower will be elected. They also recognize that he is in a little trouble; that he will not have anything like the vote that he gained in 1952. The Democrats on the other hand, are surprised that Stevenson is running so much better than he did in 1952. He is less the quipster and more the politician. The Democrats who six months ago thought that they had no chance at all, now believe that the presidential elec tion, in terms of electoral votes, will be tight and that if California or New York go Democratic, Ste venson might make it. The Demo crats believe that they have made unexpected strides in Pennsylva nia and Michigan and they think that they can make progress in Massachusetts. When it comes to the Congress, the Democrats are almost certain that they will hold the seats they have and may even do better. The Republicans are worried aibout the Congress. Their trouble is that during the whole of the Eisen “ ■■ —— - ♦ hower Administration, too little attention has been paid to state organizations and even to lower levels of politics. What count are patronage and honors. President Eisenhower, accustomed to the West Point career conceptions of the Army, has refused consistent ly to fire Democrats and to give their jobs to Republicans. He had no desire to institute the spoils system after 20 years of Roose velt and Truman. That may be a wonderful ideal, but it did not build organization. The competi tion between the Republican Clubs and the Eisenhower Clubs has done no good, because where as the Republicans have for 20 years kept the Party alive and go ing, the Eisenhower Clubs includ ed many ex-Democrats and oppor tunists who were New Dealers when the New Deal was popular and who later hooked on to the Eisenhower bandwagon. Eisenhower has attracted new elements to the Republican Par ty, but not enough of them. The Republican Congressional candi dates are therefore having a very tough time. Also the inexperien ced geniuses from Madison Ave nue who are spending much of the campaign money do not seem to realize that the best way to spend money in a political cam paign is to have the local candi dates do the spending. This is a very old experience. The Democrats, on the other hand, have not only retained the strength of their local organiza tions but they have built power ful bridges with other organiza tions, the Liberal Party in New York, the A. F. L.-C. I. O, the A. D. A., the Farmers’ Union, and there are others. It is true that some of these organizations, such as the A D. A., may be as unpopular with Democrats as with Republicans, but they have an effective propaganda opera tion that can make votes in par ticular areas. To a Republican, the A. D. A. is reprehensible. The Republicans had similar allied groups among the various anti-Communist and Right Wing organizations, many of whom cen tered about the leadership of Sen ator Joe McCarthy. The strength —Turn To Page Five THE EVERYDAY I COUNSELLOR ! § By REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D. \ There are many people who are naive enough to think they can have their cake and eat it. At least they try to do so. One such is Al exander J. Brady and family of Cleveland. In 1949 Brady sold his 17-room house to the government for $31, 350. The government planned to build a Veterans Hospital on Brady’s property and 12 adjacent lots. The people who lived in the 13 other houses also sold to the government and moved out. Brady wanted to stay on. So he induced a government official to sign an agreement, renting him the house at $1 a year “until such time as the premises are . . . actually needed for the purpose for which purchased.” That day never came, as plans for the hospital were can celled. Eighteen months ago the government ordered Brady to move. He refused and displayed his agreement. Asst. U. S. Atty. Russell Ake argued in court that the agreement was invalid because the gov ernment officer who signed it had no such authority. Judge Paul Jones agreed, and ordered Brady to move out and pay the government $1, 800 in back rent — $100 a month for the last 18 months. “I don’t think there is any rhyme or reason to his position,” the judge said. “What if the hospital were never built?” There are other people just as foolish and selfish, and their name is legion. In our marriage counseling experience I’ve encountered cases where husbands have wanted to retain their wife and children while carrying on an affair with another woman on the outside. There are many women who wish to retain all the special privi leges and respect which have been accorded women for generations, while at the same time clamoring for all the privileges of men and competing against them with both. There is the familiar picture of teen-agers drawing money from the family till while resenting and rejecting the authority and pat tern of the homes in which they live. There is the employee who works his 8 hours a day, but grumbles because he does not have the things his employer has, all the while being unwilling to assume responsibilities which will enable him to climb the ladder. I might add that there are church members who are unwilling for their minister to have a greater income than they, although he spent many more years on his education, handles problems they wouldn’t and couldn’t touch, and, furthermore, works many more hours a day. 1 We all must learn that the companion of privilege is responsibil ity. There’s no place where this unwillingness is more apparent than in the carelessness of the citizens of this great country of ours to as sume the responsibility of the ballot box and to take their proper share of public service. This leads me to ask you this question: As a citizen of this coun try, are you a registered voter? Did you vote intelligently in the last election? Are you going to vote in the next election? How much time have you given to public service in your community, in your church?
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