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*.v Christmas 1967 The traditions of Christmas—the tree with its lights, tinsel and dec orations, the holly wreath on the door, tite mistletoe and the color ful collection of Christmas pack age^ all contribute to the Spirit of . Christmas. It is a time of year when old ac quaintances are renewed — a time for family reunions. Sometimes in our effort to make this a bigger and better Christmas, we are inclined to let the material things of life overshadow the most festfre holiday of the Christian world. Left us pause and reflect on its true meaning’ — and fen our mind’s eye go back to th* first Christmas —the birth of the Christ cUU is a stable in Bethlehem. Just what message should we draw from this momentous event? It conveys a dual message, as » famous clergyman ones said, “The family that prays together, stays together,” and it al so in a dramatic way points out the attribute of humility. And when man is on the thres hold of nearly a half - million mile round trip to the moon, one should conjure the thought that a woman traveling 65 miles on the hack of a donkey made the most significant trip of all time. ' “Big Government At Its Worst” Another instance of the blessings cf a free press and the penetrating editorial competence of thousands of editors across the land who make u'p that press may be seen in an item from The California Farmer. The editor briefly summarizes the his tory of the Tennessee Valley Au thority, the federal government’s gi gantic socialized electric power en terprise in the southeastern part of the United States, with the words, “What started out as a single dam to provide cheap electrical power and flood control for the Tennessee Valley mush-roomed into a social ist’s d*etn» . . . . ” Today, TVA is the nation’s big gest purchaser of coal and is in the process of entering in a major way the atomic energy field. But that is not all. According to the editor of The California Farmer, “Now TV A wants to buy 200,000 acres of land to set up a showcase for the Na tion of how an area can be develop ed for recreation and conservation education programs. Land and homes in the area would be con demned if they refused to be brought out.” He concludes, “In our book, this is big government at its worst.’* Many thinking editors wonder, and with good reason, how far down the path of big government we can go and still retain freedom of the press. A Gift For Humanity With our modern techniques, a single American farmer feeds and elothes nearly 40 of his countrymen. In the underdeveloped countries, the average farmer barely feeds his own family. Christmas sharpens the contrast. Whale we shop for festive items for family and. friends, half the people on earth are hungry. Surely most of us, in this season of ■ goodwill to wards aH mankind, can afford to add a gift for humanity through CARET* Food Crusade. Every dollar donated delivers a food package, in the name of the American people. The U. S. helps by dbnathig commodities and host governments share operating costs. A total 6,500,000 packages are need ed to eomjplete CARE programs that will help feed 37 million people in 32 countries during the coming year. The food sustains war refugees In Sooth Vietnam and the Middle Blast, famine victims in India. In villages from Latin America to Af rica, it brings hope for a better life. Served at schools, it helps educate children for a more productive role as the farmers and workers of to morrow. At preschool centers, it saves malnourished youngsters from permanent mental and physical dam age. Pfcid as wages, it feeds fami lies while men build schools, roads, water systems and other facilities essential to economic development. Compassion is reason enough to send a holiday contribution. But it is good to know that by our giving we also help the hungry feed them selves in the future. You can mail your check to: CARE Food Crusade, 615 Forsyth building, Atlanta, Ga. 30303. Paragraphics. •. One of the biggest troubles with success these days is that its recipe is about the same as that for a ner vous breakdown. Toupees are for men who have nothing to hide. Some people work like a horse— only when the boss is riding them. A conservative is usually someone who thinks nothing should be done for the first time. Too many women would rather mend their husband’s ways than his socks. Ginger ale, according to Ez, is a drink that tastes like your foot feels when its gone to sleep. I' 'HIIIMIM HlMNIM « ED M. ANDERSON — Publisher — 1941 . 1998 MRS. ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher JOB!* R ANDERflOWf, Editor-Gei. Mgr. BILL P. NORRIS, Advertising Mgr. CHARLENE ASHWORTH, Mgr. Office MBK MARTHA STAMEY, Bookkeeper HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanic# Supt ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Heed GORDON BYRD, OompoMtar TOMMS BROWN, Print* RICHARD FHILLIfS, Print* Dt C. lHLSm, Printer The Transylvania Times The News, Established 1896; The Times, Established 1931 Consolidated, 1932 A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY THE TRANSYLVANIA PAGE. TWO / Thursday, Decen £D fro RIB 9 December, 1967 Mr. John I. Anderson Editor Transylvania Times Brevard, IT. C. Dear Mr. Anderson: You may remember me — if 1 mention my fathers name — Howard Schmidt. As yon may know, 1 (Ann) enlisted in the Wo men’s Army Corp. last yew. Since leaving home, I must tell you how much 1 appreci ate receiving my home-town newspaper. It’s a good feeling - to at least know how things are on the home front! This news paper is tremendous, and delightful to read. My fiance, who is presently serving in Vietnam, thoroughly enjoys reading your paper. I send it to him, after I’m finished, and he reads it, then lets the other men read it. The others enjoy it also, as it brings out many points of interest (May I please drop a few hints to your readers — concerning items needed by U. S. servicemen in Vietnam. Many items are on the blackmarket, and many who are stationed away from shopping facilities LPX’s, etc.) can’t get there every often— if at all. Foolpowder (for athlete’s foot) is a badly needed item, com pads, pencils, and joke books. Old magazines - discarded - es pecwlly Readers Digest; ete, mould be great ly appreciated. Also, hart surtBv etc. kt * so appreciated, along wMk atn ef map. Thank you for taMug tee cut te read this letter, and tfaanla agrta for ■ part Sincerely, Ann E. Schmidt Sp/3 Ann ET. Schmidt William Beaumont Gen. Hosp. P. 0. Box 603 (Wac. Co.) El Paso, Texas 79020 December 1, 1907 Mr. John I. Anderson Transylvania Times Broad Street Brevard, North Carolina 38712 Dear Mr. Anderson: The members of the Brevard Jbnior Chamber of Commerce would like to express our appreciation for the publicity in the Transylvania Times and for the announce ments on WPNF on our recent pumpkin sale. We would also like to thank you at this time for your cooperation in the past. Very truly yours, Paul Adkins Chairman of Pumpkin Sale PA:vm Pick of the Press Old-Fashioned Chapel Hill (The Chapel Hill Weekly) There is all this talk about “liberal” Chapel Hill, about the modernists taking over, and about how the world has moved into our midst. Well, it bears pointing wit that Raleigh, which in some ways is the cradle at Tar Heel tradition mid custom, held its Christ mas parade last Monday, a full three days before folk could 90 much as get the Thanks giving turkey on the stove. Durham has had its downtown Christ mas decorations up for a week or so, and others throughout the land seem to be try ing to proclaim Yuletide sometime around midOctefeer. Hera in modern, liberal Chapel Hill, the first strand of tinsel is not yet visible, and our Christmas parade won’t take to the streets until Thanksgiving leavings have been wanned over at least thrice. Talk about old-fashioned .... Guest Column Retired Status Means Nothing To Mr. Varner BY WALLACE THROWER (Charlotte Observer) Some people just won't quit. A good example is the Rev. Robert M. Varner. Mr. Varner retired last year 37 years as a Methodist minister, and immediately became full-time minisi Steeleberry Methodist Church. Today he is in Washington, D. C., capacity of national chaplain of Veterans of Foreign Wars. He will deliver the invo cation and place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery, as part of the VF’W’s annual Vet eran’s Day memorial service. The quiet, white-haired man was- elect ed to the national post in August at the con vention of the VFW in New Orleans. Dar ing his one-year term he will he In charge of all religious affairs of the group on a na tionwide level: He supervises and assists- district and regional chaplains — a position ho is well familiar with. He has been chaplain of the North Carolina area for M years, and for the last two years ha has served as chaplain of tha Southern Convention, which includes a 14-state area. During Us years as a minister, Mr. Varner served Method iat Chinches in Moores vtiBe, Lexington, Concord and High Point. After his. retirement IB months ago. he was appointed “on a retired basis” as sup ply paster at the gteeteborry Church. De spite Ms retired states, he’s “data* full time wart, ttn same as any minister would do** he says. : / T; his son, Robert Jr., who teaches in the Alex andria, Va., school system. The Varners have one other son, David, a medical tech nician in Brevard, and a daughter, lbs. Rich ard Walker, who teaches school in Lexing ton. v The Steeleberry Church, with 91 mem bers, is only about five years old, but its history goes bade a good bit further. It used to be Camp Greene Methodist Church, but was forced to move to its present location in Steele Creek when the airport expanded. The church has grown little since its move, but the new Westingbouse plant in that end of town could change the picture. “I feel like we’ll have quite an influx of people when they get into production,” said Mr. Varner. GLANCING BACKWARD AT "THE GOOD OLD DAYS' (From the file ef December 17, 1959) Brevard lions will hold ladies’ night at tiie next meeting on Thundey evening, De cember 17th, at the Colonial Inn. SENATOR SAM ERVIN * SAYS * I ■■ ' —■— WASHINGTON — On Decem ber 7, 1967, the Senate unani mously enacted S. 1943, a bill of rights for the American In dian. I am delighted that the members of the Senate gave our first Americans a vote of confidence and paved the way for them to have rights other Americans enjoy. Because of my long standing interest, concern, and admira tion, for the Lumbee and Chero kee Indians in North Carolina, since 1961 the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights has stud ied the reservation Indian’s lack of constitutional rights. This study has been nationwide. This effort represented the first that the Congress had ever attempted in this field, and the results were startling indeed- Subcommittee investigations showed that the American Indian lives in a le gal noman’s land — without full protection from either tri bal, state, or federal govern mental organizations. Title I of the proposal makes the bill of rights applicable to the actions of tribal govern ments, and provides that any Indian detained by order of a - tribal court is entitled to the writ of habeas corpus in a U. S. Court to test the legality of detention by the tribal court. 11116 II directs the Secretory of the Interior to recommend to Congress a model code gov erning the administration oi justice by Courts of Indian Of- ;' t ■ fenses on Indian reservations. Title III repeals a law which permits states to assume crim inal and civil jurisdiction over Indian tribes regardless of the wishes of the tribe. Under this title, any state desiring to as sume civil and criminal juris —Turn to Page Seves _.. THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR BY DR. HERBERT SPAUGH The debunkers are beck with us. They call themselves real ists. They are pulling literature and entertainment down into tbs gutter. Even some theologians promoted the “God is dead” move ment. They come up about once every generation. Some of you can recall that they were rife prior to the Great Depression of the thirties. Then, of course, they debunk Santa Claus. These learn ed brethren might well read that classic which appeared in the New York Sun about the year 1883 (following the Depression of 1888). It was written in reply to the following letter: “Dear Edi tor: I flm eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in the Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? Virginia O’Hanlau.” '•Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been af fected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They da not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is hot comprehensible to their little minds. ■< “All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, In his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. “Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to our life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world.if there were no Santa Glaus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no ohitdiah faith then, no romance, to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment except in sense and sight The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be ex tinguished. ‘Wpt believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe lnfsMss! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Clans, but even if they, did not see Santa Claus coming dawn, what would that prove? No body sees Santa Claus but that is no sign there is no Santa Claus.. “The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can Tree. Did you ever see fairies dancing on #*
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