Love
Hospital?
Who loVefo a hospital? The hos
pital peoplr have been about as real
istic as ohe Jan get ih selecting the
theme for this 1971 National Hos
pital Week. The question portrays
the huge public misunderstanding
which our hospitals have to keep
working so hard to Overcome.
Hospitals are thought of as places
where mose people go when they are
dick. More accurately, hospitals are
places where most people are being
restored to healthy lives or told what
to do to stay healthy.
Hospitals are often thought of as
medical hotels for the few who can
afford the tariff. Actually, hospitals
today are deeply invoiced in deliver
ing care to the underprivileged, and
are increasingly visible in commun
ity health programs.
Hospitals are accused of con
tributing to inflation. Instead, hos
pitals are victims of inflation. Re
cetot raises in hospital wages were
long over-due, yet it takes 279 hos
pital workers to provide proper eitfre
to 100 patients, compared with 156
workers a quarter century ago.
Boosts in the prices of hospital sup
plies are justified, but it takes even
more equipment and supplies to pro
vide the advanced clinical and diag
nostic services now expected of the
hospital.
Hospitals are front and foremost
in the quest to control operating
costs, reduce the length of stay and
provide comprehensive health care
prepayment. Since it is so important
that a good hospital be available to
any of us at a moment’s notice, it be
hooves all of us to keep informed of
hospital needs and problems. Get
ting informed is a logical way for
you to observe National Hospital
Week and we are sure your favorite
hospital will be glad to help—as
usual.
Give A Pint Of Blood
The American Red Cross Blood
mobile returns to Brevard this
Thursday.
It will be at the Brevard College
Gym, beginning at 10:00 a.m. The
length of the stay will depend on the
number of donors, so come early.
Transylvania is lagging in blood
donations, and we need to catch up
during: this visit.
During the spring and summer
months there is a greater need than
ever for blood, thus making this an
important time to give.
This visit is being promoted by the
Brevard Rotarians, and they urged
all to give. It only takes a few
minutes, and you might save a life
with the pint of blood that you give.
Pot Costs Too Much
Readers of The Times might be
interested in the following clipping
from the Houston City Panhellenic
Bulletin, entitled “Pot Costs Too
Much”.
"At Phillips College in Borger,
Texas, the student newspaper offer
ed food for thought about the case of
a youth arrested and convicted for
the possession of marijuana, a fel
ony; he received a suspended sent
ence, BUT . . .
"Did he lose anything?
“All he lost was the right to vote,
the right to own a gun, and the right
to run for public office.
“He lost the opportunity of ever
being a licensed doctor, dentist,
CPA, engineer, lawyer, architect,
realtor, osteopath, physical therap
ist, private detective, pharmacist,
school teacher, barber, funeral di
rector, masseur, or stock broker.
He can never get a job where he
has to be bonded or licensed.
“He can’t work for the city, coun
ty, or Federal Government.
“He can enlist in the military serv
ice, but he will not have a choice of
service and probably will be assign
ed to a labor battalion.
“If this happened to you, would
you think you had-lost anything?”
Soaring Postage Rates
Newspapers and magazines appear
to be special targets of the new
postal establishment and word is
they will get a whopping 30% post
age raise during May and added in
creases for four years, bring a boost
of 145 per cent over all.
Meanwhile junk mail continues to
flood every business establishment
and household and the mailers
aren’t complaining about the cost so
far as wre have heard.
The n( n-daily newspapers are
particularly hard hit by the spiraling
rates since they, by necessity, de
pend more upon mail delivery than
the city journals. We hear talk is
some sections of the rural press of
establishing sales points in the vari
ous areas of local circulation where
readers may call for their copies in
their normal movements around the
neighborhood. Meantime, subscrip
tion rates must go up again shortly,
particularly in the out of county and
out of State categories, which con
stitutes a minute example of the con
tinuing vicious circle of inflation.
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SAM ERVIN
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WASHINGTON — In a land
mark decision day, the U. S. Su
preme Court has ruled that
federal courts may order the
busing of public school chil
dren to and from neighborhood
school districts to implement
desegregation plans.
Speaking through the Chief
Justice^ the Court affirmed the
decree originally entered by U.
S. District Judge McMillan in
Swann v. Charlotte • Mecklen
burg Board of Education, and
declared that the neighborhood
school concept must now yield
to the paramount requirement
that the school board must mix
the racial composition of the
student body in balanced pro
portions irrespective of the ex
pense foistered upon heavily
burened taxpayers, regardless
of the traffic hazards involved
in transporting thousands of
children to places distant from
their homes, in spite of the loss
of time and talent which could
be devoted to more useful pur
poses, and without regard to
the character of the education
el system which the edict may
engender.
When all is said and the
Chief Justice’s eloquent phrases
are reduced to their ultimate
meaning, they actually say
this: No constitutional or legal
standards control a Federal
Judge in framing his decree in
a school desegregation case. As
a consequence, the Federal Dis
trict Judge has the power to
require the public school board
to do anything which he deems
necessary to mix the races in
the public schools under its
jurisdiction in proportions
pleasing to him.
In reaching this conclusion,
the Court had to ignore one of
the fundamental concepts of
government — uncontrolled
power is the root of tyranny,
and in my judgment what the
Court did was utterly repugnant
to a government of laws which
the Constitution was ordained
to establish.
One of the judicial oddities
of the Swann Case is that the
opinion upholds exactly what
the Court sought to eliminate
in Brown v. Board of Educa
tion (1954), the decision which
set the Nation on the course
of school desegregation. In
Brown and in every school de
segregation case up to the
Swan Case, the Court uniform
ly held that a public scchool
board violated the Equal pro
tection Clause of the 14th
Amendment whenever it ex
cluded any child from admis
sion to any school solely on
the basis of that child’s race.
Manifestly, under this reason
ing, the Equal Protection
Clause does not confer upon
any federal judge jurisdiction
to enter a decree to compel a
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THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
S
I BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
Homemaking is still the most important business in the world.
Unfortunately in these days it has degenerated largely into house
buying and furnishing. We have never lived in more comfortable
quarters than we do today, but, alas, We don’t spend much time
in them.
necenuy i was driving 10 a worm umnun wiy mi « o*v
urday afternoon. I entered the suburban area about 5:30. Com
fortable houses lined the highway. It was dusk and I looked at
these houses for lighted windows. They were practically all dark.
I couldn’t help but wonder where the occupants were. Where
were they? Probably they were either still at work or perhaps
shopping. At least there was no evidence of their being at home.
While I am not a trained sociologist, I can’t help but wonder
what happened to the home, particularly in this generation where
so many wives and mothers have foriaken home for the labor
market. Is there any connection between this and the permissive
generation of young people we have about us wh» apparently have
had very little home training. I realize that the majority of Wo
men who choose to work in the labor market rather than the home
market do so because they want to do it, It is either because of the
increased income or because they dislike housekeeping. I wonder
if these mothers do not get confused about housekeeping and:
homemaking. Its a question of balancing one set of values against
the Other. A tree is known by its fruit. Our commercial home
doesn’t seem to have produced too good a fruit.
It is argued that couples out to feel happier if the wife chooses
to work, since her job provides more money for the so-called
“good things of life”. What are these good things? They
chiefly material things which money can buy but 1
der if they cost more than they are worth. ___
tifully furnished and well . equipped home if members of the
family stay in it so little? Pf
Perhaps this is the one reason why. there has been Such a
growth in the use of the so -
is a compact room for sleeping
pianp hi a mobile home. In fact,,
if there is one, seems to,]
*otaL1SThomes where
re times
are
doing things
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Thursday, May 6, 1971
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April 30, 1971
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Anderson:
I’d Uke to take this opportunity to thank
the Transylvania Time* radio station WPNF
and all the Brevard area citizens who help
ed make the Benefit Card Party sponsored
by the Fortnightly Club, a success.
Plans are underway to purchase a Book
Cart for our hospital and hopefully we will
have definite news soon.
Sincerely
Mary Judson
Chairman
April 29, 1971
Mr. John Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, North Carolina
Dear John,
I enjoyed reading the poem, “which,”
published in this week’s edition of the
Times; and, contributed by the Brevard
Post Office personnel who are good friends
to you and to all of us living in this com
munity. •
Here, along the same thought and theme
of “which", is a poem I’ve known since
early childhood; and, off course, the author
is unknown to me. I hope you will like it,
too:
“To each of us is given
A set of tools,
And to each of us, a set of rules;
And each must fashion
Ere life go along,
A stumbling block on a stepping stone.”
Sincerely,
Mary Armfield
(Mrs. Wade C. Armfield)
April 30, 1971
Mr. John 1. Anderson
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C.
Dear Mr. Anderson:
The other morning I saw something I
canhot forget; two faces belonging to two
children “stoned” on God only knows what.
One was a man.child with glassy eyes,
pale face and a red nose. He talked but it
made no sense. I never spoke to the other
one but even at a distance his face was shock
ing. He looked dead. Sunken eyes stared
out of a drawn gray face that had no expres
sion.
Their frail bodies made them look even
younger than their years. They were bare
ly teen-age. Those that were with them hid
themselves or turned away.
At first my heart cried, “O God, have
mercy,” then I thought, does no one care?
I care, and because I do I feel that I must
write this while it is still wringing my heart.
Evidently these boys had been out all
night. It was then almost noon. Where
were their parents? Did they know where
their sons were or did thev care? What
could I do? Is it too late? All these thoughts
came flooding through my mind.
More arrests are being made and more
investigations being conducted than ever be
fore in our county, recording to local Po
lice Chief, J. C. Rowe. Referrals are in
creasing even at the Junior High age level,
says Dr. Joanna Byers, Consulting Psycholo
gist for Brevard’s Mental Health Services.
Civic leaders and school officials are be
coming more concerned even’ day.
A lot of time, money and energy is be
ing spent to educate young people on the
dangers of drug abuse. Is education work
ing? There kids know about the horrors of
drug addiction but does it make any differ
ence?
I hope that it does. The purpose of
this letter is in the hope that it may come
soon enough to spare others what I have suf
fered.
The present generation of young peo
ple seems to lack self-esteem or hope for
the future If this is true, the drug problem
is only a symptom of a more serious prob
lem. Self destruction is not the answer.
Perhaps people — and not youth alone
—need to be reminded, in a convincing man
ner, that there is a God in Heaven interest
ed and concerned about them; that Life does
have meaning and there is a Future.
Sincerely,
Pauline Landreth
Rt. 1
Pisgah Forest, N. C.
April 30, 1971
The Editor
Transylvania Times
Brevard, N C.
Dear John,
When I came here as District Ranger
in 1952, we had a seige of incendiary forest
fires in the Balsam Grove area. After track
ing down several young people with the aid
of the FBI, several were punished and the
fires stopped. It was learned that the main
cause was from a few individuals who
thought they were getting even with a State
Game Protector who had caught some for
minor violations.
Now the same thing has happened in
the past few weeks through a misunderstand
ing of a gripe against the U.S.F.S.
The whole thing boils down to a sign of
ignorance for the few who are committing
arson on their own land. The National For
est is owned by all of the people, and the
sorrowful part of it is that a big percent of
the folks in Balsam Grove, gain in part and
a few all of their living from the Forest,
such as timber, pulpwood, locust stakes,
fuel wood and the operation and utilization
of many forest products, plus the fish and
game benefits they have.
Balsam Grove has some wonderful
people and it is a shame for a few individu
als to disrupt this good reputation.
Sincerely^
Ted Seely
April 29, 1971
Mr. John Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C.
Dear Mr. Anderson,
I enjoy reading my weekly issue of the
Transylvania Times and have been meaning
to write you for some time but thinking like
many other", to voice mv opinion on some
matters would do no good.
Not so long ago they were trying to
legalize the sale of marijuana and o‘her
drugs in other towns just like alcoholic bev
erages as they claimed there was no differ
ence in them, the effects on the mind and
body. To be more frank about the effects on
the body, the bad breath, the stink of body
odor, watery eyes, drowsy, unconscious, dis
turbances etc. Truly, there is no difference
between the two.
I agree with the student at Brevard
High who expressed his opinion in the
last weeks issue on this sublet. Either
have both for sale or none at aU; preferably
none.
People do not count here any more. It’s
the money that counts. I assume the town
treasury is really building up off the sale
of this booze. After seeing all the beer
cans on th» highways before clean-up day.
I don’t suppose they wanted to take trash
home. After all, we do take trash away in
stead of bringing it home don’t we? As far
as I can see, prosperity is no where in sight
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How To Kill Your Church
(The Lirk, FBC, Lynchburg, Va.)
1. Don’t come. .
2. If you do come, come late.
3. When you come, come with a grouch.
4. At evefy service ask yourself, “What
do I get out of this?”
5. Never accept an office. It b better
to stay outside and criticize.
6. Visit other churches about half of
the time to, show your paitor that
you are not tied down to him. there
is nothing like independence.
7- W his w
money’s worth, and then wait a bit
longer.
10. Never encourage the preacher; if
yoit l'ke a sermon, keep mum about
H. Many a preacher has been ruined
by flattery, Pon't let his Mood be
on yopr head.
11. It is good to tell your pastor’s fail
ings to any strangers that may hap
pen in; they might be a long time
finding them out.
12. Of course, you can’t be expected to
get new members for the church
with such a pastor as he is.
13' “^ere happens t0 be 8 few zealous
workers in the church, make a trem
endous protest against the church’s