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Graduation Time
Graduation time is here again.
Armies of young people will venture
out into what they hope will be an
exciting and receptive world.
It will, for a certainty, be a world
which is vastly different from that
their forebears knew. It is troubled,
complex and restive. It demands
are enormous and implacable.
Change takes place at a dizzying
pacer The challenges are all but
endless.
At the same time, it is a world of
marvelous opportunity. New fron
tiers are constantly being opened—
in industry, business, government,
medicine, the physical sciences. In
the space of a few years, more ma
terial progress has been made that
in preceding centuries. And the fu
ture will bring more and greater
wonders—all the way from homes of
virtually incredible comfort and
convenience to the landing of human
beings on the moon.
The world will welcome the young
people who will soon leave the
schools and colleges. In return, it
will ask much of them. It will, of
ten, require skills that didn’t even
exist a comparatively short time ago.
About all, it will demand a willing
ness to keep on learning for infor
mal education is a beginning and
not an end in itself.
One mere thing may be said. Sur
rounded as we are by material abun
dance and achievement, it is easy to
loose sight of the old spiritual vir
tues. But, without them, the world
is essentially meaningless and em
pty.
This is a truth that never changes
—and a truth that, one profoundly
hopes, our young people will not
forget.
At this time, we particularly want
to congratulate the graduates of
Brevard College, who are gradu
ating Sunday. We are fortunate in
having the Lieutenant Governor of
the State, Patrick Taylor, to make
the Graduation address Sunday
afternoon in the College Gym.' You
are invited, and again, congratula
tions to all Graduates!
Bugs And Drugs
Scientists learn a great deal about
human beings by studying animals.
In recent months scientists have
given drugs to spiders to see how
they react. The results were pre
dictable. Spiders on drugs become
very erratic.
For example, a spider given an
hullucinatory drug spun a useless
web with strands that were very
far apart. It looked pretty, but it
had just one serious shortcoming; it
couldn’t catch a fly.
Spiders given tranquilizers stop
ped spinning the longest, most dif
ficult strands of their webs; they
did only what came the easiest.
Spiders “high” on morphine took
three hours to complete webs they
normally spin in 20 minutes. Sfpiders
“taking a trip” on LSD turned out
useless, free-form webs. And spid
ers on marijuana made webs that
were rectangular instead of circu
lar.
When human beings indulged in
drug abuse they become of very
little use to themselves or their fel
low men. Life on earth is short.
The need for service to others is
great. Wasting a human life is the
greatest tragedy there is.
Cooperation Is Essential
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The hue and cry for air bags and
other devices to protect automobile
passengers should not overshadow
other important aspects of highway
safety. A timely reminder comes
from Herbert L. Misch, Ford Motor
Company vice president, who agrees
with the need for innovation but
urges that adequate attention be
given to other fundamental con
siderations.
He suggests that states should co
ordinate their laws and regulations
to avoid conflicts and overlapping
on such matters as bumpers, emis
sions, safety requirements and road
rules.
For example, nineteen states do
not have rpriodic vehicle safety in
spections to get unsafe cars off the
road; many road-side obstacles
should be removed; lighting and
safety controls should be as modern
as possible; and spot improvements
at high-accident locations often re
sult in a lot of safety for the money
involved.
""The national goal should be much
broader than merely adding safety
features to automobiles. State and
local officials should work to reduce
automobile accidents in every way
possible.
Paragrapliics. ..
People are certainly peculiar.
They want the front of the bus, the
back of the church and the middle
of the road.
Forget yesterday: It’s how you
manage your life today that will af
fest tomorrow.
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HOW ABOUT A PING-P0N8 GAME
HNATOK
SAM ERVIN
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WASHINGTON —The Senate
has passed the Emergency
School Aid bill authorizing the
appropriation of $1.5 billion in
Federal funds for fiscal 1972
and 1973 for the desegregation
of local school districts. I vot
ed against the bill on final pas
sage when I was unable to ob
tain approval of a number of
amendments to make the bill ac
ceptable.
The amendments which I of
fered and which were rejected
would have barred the use of
Federal funds by private non
profit religious organizations
operated for the primary pur
pose of religious training;
would have barred the use of
funds by nonprofit private
schools which discriminate
against teachers and students
on the ground of religion, in
addition to race, color, or na
tional origin; would have con
ferred upon parents the right
to choose the public schools
which their children will at
tend; would have prohibited the
housing of children to change
the racial composition of a
public school; would have ex
tended to all school children
the right to attend the public
school nearest their home; and
would have provided that $1.5
billion in funds be divided
among all the States in pro
portion to their school popula
tions for general education free
of Federal coercion to achieve
“racial balance*’ in neighbor
hood schools.
I have long been concerned
about the use of Federal funds
for any religious purpose. The
First Amendment gives every
American the right not to be
taxed for the support of re
ligion, and this bill went so
far on the question of inter
eration that it undertook to
provide for the payment of
money to a church school to
persuade it to desegregate its
student body. Frankly, I do not
believe that it is any business
of the Federal Government to
undertake to say what the ra
cial composition of a church
school shall be. The Constitu
tion clearly intended to keep
the church and the state sepa
rate, and yet, under the bill as
passed by the Senate, the Fed
eral Commission of Education
would acquire by indirection
the power to determine the ra
cial composition of student
bodies in church schools.
Moreover, 1 think it is a
tragedy that today children in
the South are denied the right
to attend the school nearest
their homes. Our country has
embarked upon a policy of in
tolerable tyranny when it seeks
to compel little children to be
bused to and fro over the face
of the earth merely to inte
grate their bodies and not to
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THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
There is tremendous value in a smile. Many business concerns,
realizing its value, train their employees who meet the public to do
it with a smile. Dr. George W. Crane, whose column, “The Worry
Clinic,” I read with profit, says that the ability to smile at the right
time marks the difference between an introvert and an extrovert
The introvert is more concerned with himself and the things
with which he deals than with other people. The extrovert is in
terested in other people first, loves them, is concerned for their
welfare.
He who wishes to succeed in any business which deals with
the public must learn the value of a smile. The act of winning
friends and customers is a science. It has to be studied. If you
are a “front man” for your firm, or work for the government
where you meet the public, remember that it is your job to speak
first and smile when you do so. A smile wins customers and wins
friends.
For years I have kept on the top of my pulpit a card on which
the word “Smile” is written in bold letters. I have learned that
a congregation is more receptive if warmed up with a smile, and
that many points can be driven home in the course of a sermon
with a smile.
A smile eves takes the edge off “No” when you have to say
tt.
When I was in college there was no one member of the ad
ministration whose job it tyas to inform students who had failed in
their work that they would have to go home. He would let them
down so easily they often didn’t realize what had happened until
the interview was over. He would call a student in, greet him
affatdy with a smile, and invite him to have a chair. After some
general convemtWn, iSehtding a joke or two, he would say, “Mr.
Brown, judging from reports we have on your work; you have
thoroughly epjoyed this school.” He then looked at him with a
ipmm
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EDITORIAL PAGE
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THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
PAGE TWO Thursday, May 13, 1971
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May 6, 1971
Thomas A. Bindrim
209 Batson Rd.
Brevard, N. C„ 28712
Mr. John I. Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C., 28712
Dear Mr. Anderson:
A little while ago it was Mr. Agnew’s
pusillanimous pussyfooters hysteria. That
died and was replaced by the free-Calley
hysteria. Then that one died and once again
we moved on to greener pastures. Now it’s
drug abuse. We’re about three years late
with it, but never mind that. We have
a problem right under our noses.
I only hope that when the drug abuse
hysteria in turn dies it leaves behind at
least a nucleus of dedicated people who are
basically not finger - pointers, but whose
burning desire is the solution to the prob
lem ....
Sincerely,
Thomas A. Bindrim
To the citizens of Transylvania County,
and the lukewarm church.
We all agree that our nation’s morals
have fallen to their lowest degree since we
became a nation. We have become like unto
Sodom and Gomorrha, giving ourselves over
to the going after strange flesh, and unto
fornication and adultery. There have been
Negro boys and white girls seen out together.
The people of today are condoning sin, and
we have become a nation of spots and
blemishes, which is an abomination in the
sight of God.
The fathers and mothers of this county
and this nation say they love their children,
yet they let their teenage daughters go
around in mini skirts showing off their
naked and sexy legs. These fathers and
mothers are guilty of teaching their daugh
ters to entice men, and stir up their sexual
nature. You may say you love your daugh
ters, but I say you are making them children
of hell. Christ tells us that if a man looks
upon a woman to lust after her, he has com
mitted adultery already in his heart. The
woman is guilty of causing the man to have
such thoughts, if she parades around in a
near nude condition. I say you don’t love
your daughters. If you loved them as you
should you would make them dress decently.
You young men who wear long hair
should know that it is an abomination in the
sight of God. The Bible in 1st Corinthians
11:14 states: “Doth not even nature itself
teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is
a shame unto him.”
All Christ professing fathers and moth
ers who permit their sons and daughters still
under Their rule to Do The Above mention
ed things, have never been saved, or they
have fallen from grace. Read Revelation
3:15-16.
Those persons who defile their flesh
with the white or the black race with forni
cation and adultery are destroying their own
souls. Jude chapter 1:7-8 tells ua, “Even as
Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities about
them in like manner giving themselves over
to fornication, and the going after strange
flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering
the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also
those filthy dreamers defile the flesh, de
spise dominian, and speak evil of dignities.”
Those perrons who follow the styles of
this sinful generation are foolish and un
wise. Quotation from Webster’s Dictionary:
Caricature, “a pictorial or descriptive repre
sentation of a person or thing, in which the
defects or peculiarities are exaggerated so as
to produce a ludicrous effect; parody: to rep
resent in a ridiculous or exaggerated style.”
Proverbs 2S:26 says, “He that trusteth in
his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh
wisely, he shall be delivered.”
Hebrews 4:12 says, “For the word of God
is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any
twoedged sword, piercing even to the divid
ing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of *
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
It is my hope that by writing this mes
sage, I will bruise the head of satan, and
cause some lost soul to repent of his sins.
The Sword of the Spirit will be publish
ed once a month in the Transylvania Times
if God permits. Any comments or criticism
may be placed in the Transylvania Times.
Signed: A messenger of the Lord
George T. Owen
Pick of the Pres*
Sick Of Our Sickness
(Bradenton, Fla., Herald)
The following are the concluding re
marks of an address given at the Policeman
Firemen Awards Breakfast at the College
of the Holy Name in Oakland, Calif., by
Pat Michaeis of radio Station KGO in San
Francisco, Calif. The remarks, we believe,
provide a message which should be heard
by all Americans.
* * * • •
I am sick . . . and there are those who
claim that ours is a “sick” society. That our
country is sick, our government is sick, that
we are sick.
Well, maybe they’re right. I submit
that maybe I am sick . . , and maybe you
are too.
I am sick of having policemen ridiculed
and called “pigs” while cop killers are hail
ed as some kind of folk hero.
I am sick of being told that religion is
the opiate Of the people . . . but marijuana
should be legalized.
I am sick of being told that pornography
is the right of a free press . . . but freedom
of the press does not inc’ude being able to
read a bifcle on school grounds.
I am sick of commentators and column
ists canonizing anarchists, revolutionists
and criminal rapi ts but condemning law
enforcement if it brings such criminals to
justice.
I am sick of paying more and more taxes
to build schools wh le I see some faculty
members encouraging students to tear them
down.
I am sick of Supreme Court decisions
which turn criminals loose oh society —
while Other decisions try to tr ke the means
of protecting my home and family away.
I am sick of being' told policemen are
mad dogs who should hot have guns — but
that criminals who use guns to rob, maim
and murder should be understood and help
ed back into society.
I am sick of being told it is wrong to
use napalm to end a war overseas . . . but
if it’s a bomb or molotov cocktail at home,
I must understand the provocations.
I am sick of not being able to take my
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FROM OUR FILES . . . . .
GLANCING BACKWARD
AT “THK GOOD OLD DAYS'*
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(Fran the File «( Jan. 1, 1965)
The Brevard Board itf Aldermen adopted
a revised zoning ordinance for the ToWft of
Brevard at their January meeting this week
at the City Hall
Reports on collections of 1964 taxes were *
made this week by Lawrence Hipp, the tax
collector, to the Transylvania Board of Com*
missioners, the Brevard Board of Aldermen
and to the Rosman board.
businesses la
g to statistics
ict manager of
& Bradstreet,
ysical count of
e Dun & Brad
ert T. g;
at noon
tinucd.
Basletbatt aetivity on WPnF is hot and
heavy during the next week with four games
from the Tar Heel Sports Network.
Charles Osolin was a guest of life. and
Mrs. Ray Hooper and family several days
last week. He and Marianna Hooper, both
students at wake Forest College, returned to
Winston-Salem on Saturday.
The Brevard police Department is re
isible for maintaining law and order and
ing after the safety of the citizens.
Jig S.Sgt. W. A. Jamer
imeBton and children of
tase, Ind., was held re