Again, Transylvania rural com
munities were in the limelight at the
annual Western North Carolina
Awards luncheon in Asheville in the
Rural Development contest last Sat
urday.
The Cedar Mountain community
won second place in Division 8,
communities with 75 to 100 families.
The community leaders at Cedar
Mountain were awarded a check for
$300.
With this winnings, Transylvania
has a record of being a top winner
in a 20 - year period.
This record is unparalled in West
ern North Carolina, and it speaks
mighty well for this county which is
recognized as the "Land of Water
falls”, the summer music capital of
the South, and a center for agricul
ture, industry, tourists and educa
tion.
Through the Rural Development
program, Transylvanians are being
brought closer together in their
work, in their religion and in their
play. They are indeed building a
finer community, one that is excit
ing the envy of North Carolinians
from Murphy to Manteo.
May our continued winnings serve
as a challenge for pven greater pro
gress tomorrow!
Winter Comes
Most of the U. S. is blessed with
four distinct seasons determined by
the rhythmic movement of celestial
bodies. As the sun moves North in
the spring, it crosses an imaginary
line, and lo, it is summer. In the
fall, it works its way South until it
again, crosses this imaginary line
and we have entered winter.
The metabolism of nature is so
finely balanced that not a living
creature escapes the influence of the
seasons. As winter approaches, the
sap recedes from the trees, small
creatures burrow into the ground
and store up stocks of food, animals
put on their winter coats and man
surrounds himself with a thousand
and one wonderous contrivances of
technology that make winter one of
the most enjoyable periods of the
year- j mm
Yes, winter is nearly here. It
arrives December 22nd — just one
jump already of Santa Claus. What
ever man’s accomplishments, it is
doubtful if he can ever change the
march of the seasons. Those who
wish to beat old man winter have
but one recourse. They can follow
the sun, as it moves South. For
those who live in the North, the
time has come to get out the Christ
mas tree trimmings, sleighs and
popcorn poppers, as well as the
more high - powered devices of win
ter sports and settle down to enjoy
the days of the new season.
Unanswered Question
The latest score on the Social Se
curity, inflation, taxation merry-go
round, as reported in U. S. News &
World Report, shows the following:
Effective January 1st, Social Secur
ity “will be sweetened again”—
probably by about seven and one
half percent. It is said that mini
mum pensions may be raised to as
high as $100 a month; all of which
sounds fine. On the debit side of
the ledger, however, the increase
will mean something like this. The
average employee earning $9,000
will pay $468 a year in Social Secur
ity tax in 1971, compared with $374
now. By 1980, his contribution will
go up to $585. A person earning
$12,000 a year as an employee Will
be taxed $624 next year in the name
of Social Security, and $780 in 1980v
The question that remains un
answered is how'ftff' we can aban
don the principle of self-reliance and
still expect to retain the privilege of
self - government and the liberties
granted under it. Admittedly, this is
an old and shopworn question. But,
it remains, nonetheless, more per
tinent today than ever before.
Crime Costs Are High
Permissiveness costs money.
That fact is made brutally clear
in figures released by Mr. J. Edgar
Hoover, director of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation. Mr. Hoover
reports, “We complain about high
taxes, but last year crime cost every
man, woman and child in the United
States $122, or a staggering estimat
ed total of $20 billion. Pe*„aps this
figure could become more meaning
ful if we realize that for every $1
spent on education, crime costs,
$1.45; and for every $1 which went
to churches of the nation, $13 went
to crime.”
Violent acts against persons and
property are an offense against ev
ery citizen. Whether he is a vic
tim or merely a taxpayer, he must
help foot the bill. He has a direct
stake in the law and order issue.
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WASHINGTON — For more
than a year now, a bill lias
been pending in the Senate to
nr>'ie an unfair labor practice
for labor unions to levy a fine
against a person for refusing
to engage in a concerted activi
ty, such as a strike.
While this bill, which was
introduced by me and Senator
Paul Fannin of Arizona, has
been languishing in the Com
mittee on Labor and Public
Welfare, some unions have
continued to impose such fines
and other economic sanctions
against their niembers, which is
contrary to principle of indi
vidual freedom in this nation.
To my mind, these fines
constitute a direct abridgement
of the individual right not to
engage in concerted activities
which is guaranteed by the
Taft-Hartley Act.
However, the U. S. Supreme
Court ruled a few years ago in
a decision involving the Allis
Chalmers Company that labor
unions could go into state
courts in order to collect these
outrageous fines.
That ruling by the highest
court in the land haa bad? the
effect of making legal the
worst kind of coercion by labor
unions over the individual
members. In a case involving
television performers, such
compulsion took the form of
fines amounting to $18,000 per
person.
During a recent case decid
ed by the National Labor Re
lations Board, which has more
or less been on the side of big
unions for the past decade, a
worker was fined $500 for
crossing a picket line during
a four-week strike.
The Uuion sued ip a Califor
nia court to collect the fine
and was awarded a judgment
of $528 including costs against
the worker. During the time he
crossed the picket line, the
member earned a net of $511.
Under the Taft-Hartley Act,
a union member clearly is giv
en the right not to engage in
concerted activities such as
strikes. To my mind, the Su
preme Court should have read
the Taft - Hartley Act exactly
as it is written and outlawed
the use of union fines.
However, the Supreme Court
ruled in the Allis - Chalmers
case that fines are internal
union affairs and thus are nob;
.-■^governed by the provisions of~
Taft - Hartley.
Under this interpretation,
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THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
A
TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CHRISTMAS
..v 1 „T^°U 8,1311 not leaye Christ out of Christmas, making it
Xmas for this is the sign that thou art lazy minded and spiritual
ly listless. To most minds “X” stands not for Christ, but for the
algebraic unknown.
.^ou shalt not value thy gifts by their cost for verily many
shall signify love that is more blessed and beautiful than silver and
gold.
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3. Thou shalt give thyself with thy gifts. Thy love, thy per
sonality and thy service shall increase the value of thy gift an
hundred fold and he that receiveth it shall treasure it forever.
4. Thou shalt not let Santa Claus take the place of Christ In
many homes Santa Claus supersedes the Christ Child and Christ
mas becomes a fairy tale rather than a sublime reality in the
spiritual realm.
5. Thou shalt not burden thy servant. The shop girl and
mail carrier and the merchant should have thy consideration.
6. Thou shalt not neglect thy church. Its Christmas services
are planned to help spiritualize the Christmas season for thee, thy
child and thy household. REMEMBER THE CHURCH IS A
SYMBOL OF WHAT WE ABE FIGHTING FOR IN THIS WAR.
7. Thou Shah not neglect the needy. Let thy bountiful
ings be shared with the many who will go hungry and shhwr with
cold unless thou are generous in their time of want
8. Hum shalt he aa a little child. Christmas is the day of the
Christ Child; not until thou hast become in spirit even as a little
child art thou ready to enter iqo the kingdom of Heaven.
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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
PAGE TWO Thursday, December 10,
(Editor’* Note: Letters most
f be brief, signed, typed or writ
ten legibly on one ride of pa
per. We reserve the right to re
ject, edit, or condense. Letters
| should be received by The Times
December 1, 1970
Mr. Ralph Moyle, Supervisor
N. C. National Forest
P. O. Box 2730
Asheville, N. C. 98802
Subject: Jackson County - Whitewater Falls
Visitor Development. ,J
Dear Mr. Moyle:
When I was a young boy I helped my
Father drive sheep on the "Old Road” that
passed by Whitewater Falls. I would peep
through the rhododendron and take « quick
look at the water rushing down the moun
tain side. I was not aware at that time that
I was looking at the highest water falls in
EASTERN AMERICA. Forty years later
and after many “world renown picnics” to
promote a new road and after contracts to
taling 91,743,575.00 have been let for the
road, Whitewater Falls can not safely be
visited. So called road progress has made
it virtually impossible to view the Falls. In
fact, a person would need a “seeing eye
dog”, a pair of high top, steel toed boots and
two walking sticks in order to be half way
safe in trying to see one of NATURE’S
WONDERS.
I am aware that some road construc
tion is still under way and more is planned,
but construction in and around the Falls
has been completed for two years. Also, I
am aware that since this is Forest Ser
vice land that you people have plans to
develop the parking and visiting areas. Peo
ple from all over are becoming very criti
cal and rightly so, about the poor walking
and viewing conditions. Lets give White
water Falls back to the people. One of our
prominent T.V. stations “signs off” every
night showing Whitewater Falls and I am
grateful to them because this is the only
safe way now.
Your interest will be appreciated by
our State, our Conservation and Develop
ment Department, our Highway Commis
sion and the tourist industry in both North
and South Carolina.
Sincerely yours,
R. J. Whitmire
Commissioner, 14th Division
„ State Highway Commission
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200 North Johnson Street
Brevard,
December 5th, 1970
Mr. John Anderson, Editor,
Transylvania Times,
Brevard.
Dear John:
You are always very generous with your
space in ‘The Times’ to people who wish to
state their views. You were very generous
in the December third issue to the coverage
of the problem of the TVA program. Will
you please give me space to point out an
important inconsistency in the reporting on
the Court House hearing on November 30th
under the title ‘Facts Clarified’.
One of the ‘Facts Clarified’ is the state
ment “that the Little River dam would not
be drawn down more than seven feet dur
ing dry spells . .. “It would NOT (you have
heavy type there) have mud flats like Lake
Douglas”. Of course seven feet of fluctu
ation on a vertical bank sounds small as
compared with eighty feet at Fontana and
forty apd fifty feet at Noris Dam. But the
impoundments at Lake Douglas and as pro*
posed for Little River do not have vertical
banks. In land drainage one foot of fall in
one hundred feet is considered a generous
slope, yet on such a slope, a seven foot drop
in the water level leaves seven hundred feet
of bank exposed. Much river bottom land,
however, falls in the category of six inches
of fall per one hundred feet. Here we would
have a quarter mile of stinking mud and
mosquito-breeding puddles if the water is
lowered by seven feet. Does Mr. Elliott ex
pect us to believe there would be no mud
flats at Little River?
This is just one example of how th«
bitter realities of the TVA Program are
glossed over. Why can’t we have a refer
endum vote to find out how many of our
people want and how many oppose the pro
gram proposed?
Yours truly,
William W. Overholt
Pick of the Press
Out Of Fashion Today
(From The National Observer) . . .
George Blanda and J. C. Penney have
something important in common. They have
long $ince passed the nqrmal retirement
ages for their respective trades and yet
both remain active indeed.
Mr. Blanda is the backup quarterback
of the Oakland Raiders who, at age 43, is
having his greatest season passing for touch
downs and kicking winning field goals in
the final seconds. He is an inspiration not
only to his team but to the millions of 40-ish
males who have secretly believed they could
perform the same heroics.
Mr. Penney is the founder of the varie
ty - chain that bears his name, and, at 05,
he still goes to the office five days a
week. His career would seem to refute the
notion that people are automatically ready
for the pasture at a particular age.
Nevertheless we must face the truth.
Messrs. Blanda and Penney are extraordi
nary individuals. Precious few souls of their
ages could handle their respective schedules.
And yet it is unlikely that such men
remain in the middle of things because of
happy chance. In fact both quarterback and
retailer have endured setbacks that would
have discouraged other men. Mr. Penney
attributes his prolonged success to pluck,
not luck. And Mr. Blanda last week told
our Mr. Peterson the same thing in differ
ent words.
“I love the game,” he said. “I love play
ing and winning.”
Pluck. Playing and winning. Such
thoughts are out of fashion today; they have
been replaced by convoluted attitudes stress
ing less individual responsibility and more
reliance on paternal institutions. The old
virtues have been stomped on by a new en
lightenment that, in the end, is indisting
uishable from a simple surrender of spirit
The old virtues have an unctuous ring
and so are rarely recited. Yet how well
they work.
Guest Column
Worth Re - Pea ting
bv ur |Prini**
M>y w. Lee rruicc
(Seneca Journal)
Dr. Russell Melntire of Clinton, Mis
sissippi, tells the following story:
My old college dean used to start ev
ery school year off with a chapel talk en
titled: “Altitude Depends on Attitude.” He
illustrated his point, with a personal exper
ience. ' ' '
As a younger man he had gone on a
tour of the western states with a group of
school teachers. On the return trip .they
came to Colorado and visited Pfloe’s Peak.
the trip bemoaning the fact that they had
not gone on to the top. Dean Pike would
then lean over the speaker’s stand and say,
"Young people, your attitude determines
your altitude in life!”
Think for a moment Your attitude
toward all of life is exceedingly important.
Your attitude about your potential, your
health, your family, your job, and your fu
ture will determine much of your success
and happiness in life. And your attitude
toward the setbacks, the rough times in life
are so important So many things can end
do happen to eh
all of our
ia: the
victory.
bitterness and