A Salute .To The Girl Scouts
In pur youth - oriented world, a
56th birthday might be better left
Uncelebrated. Who wants to admit
hieing more than 17-year-old these
modern days?
Well, a 55tfy birthday is being
celebrated this week, not only with
pride but with an eager anticipation
of many more to come — the half
century-plus-five anniversary of Girl
Scouts of the U.S.A.
There’s been a long, long trail
awinding from the 1912 era of the
middy - blouse to that of the 1967
mini - skirt. Girl Scout hemlines
aren’t that far up, of course, nor
are those of most moderns. But the
organization’s mood is on-the-move
—as it has been through each chang
ing generation.
Consider the Girl Scouts’ new
triennium theme: “Values to Hold
-^-Worlds to Explore.” The values
still are the solid values founder
Juliette Gordon Low instilled in her
original band of 12 girls: to seek
and carry forth the highest ideals
of character, conduct, patriotism and
service. And the worlds to explore?
Tangible worlds, of course—of home,
community, nation, other cultures,
other lands. But perhaps, more im
portant, the worlds of Girl Scout
values themselves.
There’s a lot of questioning and
questing going on among all of to
day’s youngsters. Girl Scouts are no
exception. And being more than
three million strong they represent
a mighty force among youth. So
when they explore yesterday’s val
ues in the light of today’s needs,
they may come up with some mean
ingful answers for all young people.
Can girls be Girl Scouts and still
be with it?
The girls and the two - third mil
lion adults, volunteers and profes
sionals, who work with them believe
they can. The communities which
encourage and support them believe
they can. So do we.
And on this editorial birthday
cake, we’re lighting 55 candles for
the Girl Scouts — plus one more to
grow on.
Watch That Sore Throat
Does your throat hurt?
If so, you may console yourself
with the knowledge that you have
plenty of company.
Sore throat is nature’s warning
system that something in your body
is out of order.
Often p sore throat accompanies
a common cold and the soreness
passes in a few days. But, says To
day’s Health, the family magazine
of the American Medical Associa
tion, sore throat also can be the
symptom of any of a wide range of
diseases, from diphtheria to luke
mia, that require your physician’s
skill, not your guessing, to diagnose.
Sometimes tonsils and adenoids
are involved in causing a sore throat,
and when these organs repeatedly
cause trouble they frequently are
removed. Tonsil - adenoid removals
account for half of all surgery per
formed on children, Today’s Health
reports. Sometimes the removal helps
[prevent sore throat, sometimes it
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Allergies can cause sore throats.
Cold, dry winter air can trigger it.
So can extreme thirst, excessive
smoking or mouth breathing. Any
thing that dries out the throat and
cuts off secretions that normally
wash dust away.
Virus infections of many types al
so are a cause of sore throat, and ev
eryone who has had “flu” knows
that this particular virus disease of
ten causes the throat to hurt.
“Strep throat” is a serious infec
tion that ocaasionally leads to rheu
matic fever and possible heart dam
age. It can be knocked out with pen
icillin, if it is diagnosed in time.
The crucial diagnostic test in
sore throats is the swab test through
which the germs causing the trouble
can be identified.
There is little or nothing you can
do to cure a sore throat at home..
There are medications which bring
temporary easing of the discomfort
but the cure must be launched by
your physician.
I * Plan For Spring, Clean-Up Now!
Now that Spring is not too far
away, why not make some definite
plans for clean-trp, paint-up and fix
up? And with all those ups, why not
include some teardowns and burn
downs.
If there is unsightly trash or
bfush, why not plan to burn that in
early Spring? Needless to say care
must be taken, but clean ashes look
a lot better than some rubbish. Tear
dbwn is also a good project for old,
unsightly, unused buildings. If a
building is usable, why not fix it up?
If it is not Used and is unsightly, tear
it <down.
,:The Spring of the year is the time
nature does her best to dress the
country-side up in green. It would
be an easier job if some clean-up
work was done in advance.
Spring clean-up has long been a
part of the community development
program and this year it is a Special
project of the travel and recreation
division of the Northwest North
Carolina Development Association.
This should be an individual proj
ect for every property owner. It may
cost a little more than just the effort,
but it will pay big dividends in
health, beauty and safety.
This is a beautiful county and this
beauty can be enjoyed more, not
only by the people who live here, but
by visitors if the countryside and the
buildings which cover it, along with
fence rows, road sides and other
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You Can Tell A Smile
By PETE HULTII
(Smithfield Herald)
Maybe all of us need to smile more; but
when your newsboy forgets to leave your
morning paper, your wife scorches your
cereal, nothing seems to suit the boss, and
you have car trouble—well, it’s hard to
smile.
Yet, I see that the Post Office Depart
ment has instructed those who work at the
stamp and money order windows to flash
pretty smiles at the patrons.
But you can tell whether or not the
smile is genuine.
If it’s the real thing, not only do the
lips and teeth show it, but it’s also shown in
the eyes. Eyes shine brightly with a sincere
smile.
If someone greets you with a smile—
even if it doesn’t look like a “true-blue” one
—bear in mind that his job might require
him to smile, even though he has the stomach
ache and the books don’t balance!
• * •
We often hear about a man helping a
boy, but we hear so little about a boy help
ing a man.
Mrs. John W. Wells has received a letter
from her son, Ensign E. Warner Wells on
the USS Hollister off the coast of Vietnam.
The Naval officer, a former Boy Scout
in Smithfield, wrote to his mother:
“I received a letter from Herbie Taylor,
a Boy Scout from Smithfield. His letter is
very dear to me. I appreciate it so much.
He sent me an American Flag, and I intend
to have it sewn on my foul-weather jacket.”
Mrs. Wells said she and the other mem
bers of her family would like to thank the
Boy Scouts of Smithfield for taking the
time to write her son and the other service
men.
Pick of the Press
Religion, Trading Stamps Wouldn't Mix
Zelienople (Pa.) News-Record
The Texas minister who offered trading
stamps to all who attended his Sunday Serv
ice admitted ruefully that the idea was not
a howling success.
Only the same old faithful were in the
receiving line as he stood at the church door
and the experiment will not be repeated.
It was, however, a good try and the
pastor was on sound ecclesiastical grounds.
The Psalmist says, “There is a reward for
the righteous.” In Kings I, it is written,
“Come ... I will give thee a reward.”
But on the other hand, Deuteronomy
warns: “Cursed be he that taketh reward.”
Apparently the road to heaven is not
to be paved with trading stamps.
Church Announcement
Christian Herald and flowers. Once the bulletin bore this an
In Jim’s church, a couple named Mr. nouncement: “If amoved one dies, please
and Mrs. Buzzard took care of memorial gifts notify the Buzzards.
FROM OUR FILES.
GLANCING BACKWARD
AT “THE GOOD OLD DAYS”
(From the file of March 17, 1960)
It is the same story again this week
more snow. The first 10-inch blanket fell
last Wednesday, followed by three more
inches on Friday and capped with less than
an inch again Tuesday. Temperatures re
mained low, ranging from five degrees Sat
urday night to 48 degrees on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Owen, of Lake Tox
away, have moved into the Bosse apartment,
124 Johnson street. Mr. Owen has recently
accepted a position at the Du Pont plant.
For the first time in several years, a
capacity enrollment for the summer camp
ing season is reported at beautiful Camp
Carolina by mid - March, the director, Hoak
Sloan, reports today.
The Book and Plate club helds its
March meeting with Mrs. Eben Morrow at
her home on the Greenville highway. Mrs.
Robert Gash, vice . president, presided and
read the cor ee appointments for 1960
61.
We do not have much news to report
this week, because Oakland has been snow
bound for quite some time.
New officers of the Lewis Earl Jack
son post of Veterans of Foreign Wars will
be elected at the next regular meeting,
Commander Claude Melton announces.
During the month of February, there
were 49 real estate transactions recorded
here in the register of deeds office. Accord
ing to Owen G. Lee, the registrar, and his
deputy, Mrs. Georgia Holden.
A special eight - page pictorial edition
of Brevard College’s “Clarion” is now be
premises are kept clean and beauti
ful.
Along with the Spring clean-up,
why not consider some special plant
ing? There are many native shrubs
which are not expensive and will
add much beauty to grounds. White
pines which cover hillsides, which
might otherwise be washed With
gullies, present a beautiful appear
ance the year around and are good
conservation practices. This will take
a little planning, so again ye ur#e
that some special plans be made for
Spring clean-up and beautification.
.ing prepared for publication by members
of the newspaper staff. This paper is being
printed in co-operation with the Public Re
lations office and will be mailed to 4,000
prospective students and interested per
sons.
Transylvania school students will have
to go to school on two Saturdays each month
for the remainder of the school year and
also on Good Friday and on Easter Monday
to make up for the time that has been
lost because of the snow, Supt. Wayne Brad
burn announces today.
Leslie Coleman and Kid Tinsley have
returned from a fishing trip to Cocoa, Flor
ida.
(From the file of March 24, 1960)
The Morning Circle of the First Baptist
church met last Thursday at 10:00 o’colck
at the home of Mrs. H. E. Newbury on Grove
Circle.
The law firm of Ramsey and Hill is now
in its new location in the Legal building,
opposite the church of the Nazarene on Gas
ton street.
A record of 2,000,000 man-hours with
out a disabling injury was achieved by the
Ecusta Paper division of Olin Mathieson
Chemical corporation at 12:00 midnight on
March 21st, according to H. E. Newbury,
safety supervisor.
An open installation of I960 - 61 of
ficers of Pisgah Chapter No. 198, Order of
the Eastern Star, was held Wednesday eve
ning at 8:00 o’clock, in the Masonic Temple.
The Brevard Blue Devils used a 14
point third period to overcome an early
Hendersonville lead and went on to beat the
Bearcats 51-47 in an overtime period in the
often . postponed finals of th eBlue Ridge
basketball tournament at the Henderson
ville gymnasium last Friday night.
Alvin J. Patterson is on a buying trip
for spring and summer shoes in St. Louis,
Missouri, this week.
Benet Kolman, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Kolman, Green Acres, Brevard, made
the dean’s list for the first semester at
Harvard. Young Kolman is a freshman at
Harvard, where he is making an outstanding
record.
Weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
McDonald were her parents and brother,
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh A. Walker, and Hugh,
Jr., of Charlotte.
LOBSTER RED
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SENATOR
SAM ERVIN
* SAYS *
WASHINGTON — Wiretap
ping and electronic eavesdrop
ping have become matters of
renewed Congressional concern
in recent days.
On February 8th Senator
Long of Missouri introduced the
proposed Right of Privacy Act
of 1967 to prohibit wiretapping
and electronic eavesdropping of
an interstate character, a meas
ure which I have cosponsored.
Actually the subject is not a
new one for the Senate. When I
first became Chairman of the
Constitutional Rights Subcom
mittee, we undertook an inves
tigation of wiretapping. I found
that like so many subjects that
not all the truth is an one side
and all the error on the other.
Crime is on the increase almost
everywhere in the country, and
there is a strong argument that
wiretaps be permitted in certain
instances.
On the contrary, since the
days of antiquity, and before
we had telephones and electro
nic devices, people have resent
ed eavesdroppers who listened
outside their homes to private
conversations and spread them
throughout the community. In
the field of criminal law, it was
a common law offense to “har
ken under the eaves of another
man’s house and repeat his con
versations.” The offender was
punished at the ducking stool
in the presence of the commun
ity as a “common scold.”
Now we have the old problem
in aggravated form. Communi
cations devices have become re.
fined so that conversations can
be heard at great distances, and
the Subcommittee on Adminis
trative Practices has uneaigfced
some unbelievable instance of
abuse of the right of privacy by
these devices.
The problem goes beyond
evidence sought to be obtained
by the wiretap. Usually conver
sations relate not only to the
evidence sought to be obtained
by this means, but to many pri
vate affairs and many innocent
people. The Subcommittee has
found that the Internal Rev
enue Service has been guilty of
some gross invasions of privacy
in its efforts to obtain informa
tion about tax cases.
Thus the problem with tha
“right of privacy” and the bill
on this subject is one of bal
ancing privacy rights against
society’s rights.
.The Long bill would prevent
wiretapping except in national
security cases. I would go fur
ther than the Long bill in some
respects if the decision was left
to me alone. I would require a
Federal court order to permit
wiretaps in national security
cases rather than permitting
such decisions to be made by
the Executive Department, and
I expect to offer an amendment
to the bill to present my vjejws
in this respect. I would adSo
permit wiretapping by Federal
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THE EVERYDAY
COUNESLOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
“What is spiritual healing? It is difficult from faith healiiro”
A correspondent raises this question. There’s no better authoj^Jy
on the subject than the Reverend Dr. Alfred Price, head of the
Order of St. Luke the Physician of the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Dr. Price spoke recently on this subject to the faculty and
student body of Ashbury Theological Seminary at Wilmore, Ken
tucky.
“Spiritual healing,” he said, “Is not mere absence of disease,
but wholeness of body, mind, and soul. It is the complete salva
tion of body, mind, and spirit .... Nearly all our sickness, mis
fortunes, and difficulties in life are the results of destructive sug
gestion in the depths of our personalities which is either acquired
or inherited.
“Real healing is always spiritual healing. A medical doctor
can only treat the symptom which is only the child of the deeply
held destructive suggestions.
“Faith healing may have some temporary effect, but this does
not reach the beginning of the trouble. The church’s ministry of
healing looks to the inner depths of personality.”
Dr. Price puts his finger upon the heart of the matter when
he says that the primary purpose of spiritual healing is not to make
unhappy people happy, or sick people well, or poor people rich, or
to solve problems, or to create healthier social conditions. These
are the results, not the primary purpose. «
“The primary object is to help realize the presence of M>d,
to get acquainted with Him.”
We talk about God, sing about Him, preach about Him, pray
to Him, but very few take time and trouble to get acquainted with
Him.
Spiritual healing is the cleansing of spirit or soul, the mind,
and the body. By the divine power of God, body, and spirit are
unified, interdependent, inter-related. The condition of one affects
and is affected by the other two. Every word that you speak requires
a harmonious use of more than 72 muscles. Good health is not and
can never be purely absence of disease. Good health is the har
monious operation of every single organ of the body, every thought
of the mind, and every motion of the heart. This is the principle
underlying the newest phase of medical science and is as old as
Jesus Christ Himself.