Now that graduation and com mencement time are near at Brevard and Bosnian, this is a time for adults as well as the graduates to do some serious thinking. Commencement time is well named for it is the time for the graduates to commence to do u.ore serious thinking about what is ahead. It is indeed the commence ment of a period of serious thinking. Some students will go directly to work, others will continue %eir studies. It is indeed fortunate if graduates know in advance what they want to do or are best prepared to do, but if they have not found themselves it should not be difficult to do in this age of many and varied opportuni ties. Not only will young people be finding more and greater opportuni ties, but most of them are better prepared than their fathers and mothers were at their age, because their educational advantages have been greater. This year’s graduates wiH be ac complishing much their father’s and iqpther’s little dreamed of. Sop\P of th,em may even travel to th$ moon. To all of them We wish a full measure of success. May all gradu ates ever be mindful of their oppor tunities and responsibilities and responsibilities and travel far! Bike Riders, Be Careful How often do we stop to think what causes most of the accidents to bicycle riders? In four out of five accidents, the bicycle rider is violating a law, the National Safety Council asserts. The fact was one of many obtained from a council study of the circumstances of bike accidents in the United States. Forty-two states took part in he study, and provided this informa tion : Between 400-500 bike riders are killed each year in accidents with motor vehicles. More than 25,000 bike riders suffer disabling injuries. More than eight out of 10 victims are under 16 years of age. Nearly nine out of 10 are males. When do bike accidents happen? Seven out of 10 occur during April - September. Seven out of 10 occur during day light hours. They occur most often on Satur day, least often on Sunday. Here are some suggestions for safety for bike riders: pbey traffic laws — traffic lights signs are for bike riders, too. Stay on the right. Ride with traf fic. Ride single file. Newer zigzag. Make sure your bike is in good condition. When traffic is heavy at a corner, get off and push your bike across the street. Stay within the crosswalks. Don’t ride your bike at night un less you have to. And then, make sure your bike has a light and rear reflector. Wear clothing that is light colored or that shines in the dark so you can be seen easily by motorists. If bike riders will make it a point to heed these rules, there will be fewer accidents. A local safety clinic for young bike riders here will be held this Saturday, May 22nd, at the Ameri can Legion Building. Sponsored by the local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and the Brevard Police Department, the clinic will provide much needed safety instructions to the young riders, and safety reflector strips will be taped on all bikes there. Each owner will also have his or her bike registered with the local police department to help in the pre vention of theft and in the location of stolen or lost bikes. It’s a wonderful service that these interested organizations are help ing to provide for the safety and welcome, of -young children. If there is a bike owner in your family, see that they attend Saturday’s clinic. The Making Of A Tragedy Two leading spokesmen of the U. S. medical 'profession have testi fied before the Senate Health Sub committee on broad health care problems and the choices before the nation in how best to meet those problems. Both Dr. Max H. Parrott, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the American Medical Associ ation, and Dr. Russell B. Roth, speak er of the AMA House of Delegates, made it clear that all health prob lems are not medical problems and that saddling the country with a monolithic government health care system would “. . . cast all 200 mil lion Americans in the role of the guinea pig.” Dr. Parrott testified that many health problems would respond best to programs that are not purely medical and pointed out that, “Our fat standard of living creates health problems. We ride in cars when we should be on a bicycle or on foot. We overeat. We overdrink. We smoke cigarettes. This affluent life style relates directly to the accident rate, the principal killer up to middle age, and to heart diseases, the principal killer after middle age.” Infant mortality rates, he points out, are linked closely to poverty at the other end of the economic scale. Cleaning up tjbe ghettos would do more to solve this problem than a hundred Mayo Clinics. He con cluded, “We did not attack malaria The Transylvania Times 10T Broad St Brevard, N. C. 28713 The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1801; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1898; The Times, established 1831; Consolidated 1932. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY 1 '.'ju, mj I.'wiwA'W'j!. in "i" f [i'va '' I ED 1L ANDERSON — Publisher — 1941 - 1018 I . 111.. . . .* KBS. ED X. ANDERSON, Publisher JOHN L ANDERSON. Editor-Gen. Hgr. BILL P. NORRIS. Advertising Mgr. MBS. MARTHA STAMEY, Office Hgr. HRS. KATE ROWE. Clerk - Proofreader CAL CARPENTER, Feature Editor HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Soft ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head uORDON BYRD, Compositor D C. WILSON. Printer JOHN HAWKINS, Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR Inside the County—-$4.50 year Outside the County—$5.00 — v w f ' - v1--* aary%: .• Hpi ► EDITORIAL PAGE THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES PAGE TWO Thursday, May 20, 1971 105 Minor street I Brevard, N. C. May 14th, 1971 Mr. John I Anderson Editor, The Transylvania Times Brevard, N. C. Dear Mr. Anderson: Since my two years, as president of the American Legion Auxiliary, of Unit 88, will end with the June meeting, I’d like to take this opportunity, to thank you and Station WPNF for your wonderful cooperation in giving time and space to the activities of the Unit. It is a privilege to work in a community, where the press is cognizant of the patriotic efforts, of a small unit auxiliary, and sup ports its activities, as was said by John Paine during the American Revolution, “These are times that try men’s souls”. This can now be repeated in these trying times. If patriotism, and the American way of life, is to remain alive, it should be stressed in every nook and corner of our nation. The small services that our unit can render to help “Old Glory”, fly more proudly in the breeze, or light the flame of patriotism, in the hearts of its citizens, is an award for any services we may render. For the part in helping to make our aims more meaningful, again please accept our sincere thanks. Most Sincerely yours, Mrs. J. B. (Lottie) Pettit Unit 88 President Mike W. Cook 116 Franklin St Brevard, N. C. Dear Mr. Anderson, I became quite disturbed when I read Mr. Owen’s letter in your column, “Letters to the Editor.” It is no wonder that so many young people are turned off from the Bible when people such as Mr. Owen “uses” it indis criminately to support his personal opinions. . To support his views on long hair, Mr. Owen quoted from 1st Corinthians 11:14, “Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him.” However, Mr. Owen conveniently Smitted Paul’s continuing statements, “But t anyone wants to argue about ih all I have to say is that neither we nor the churches of God have any other custom in worship.” Clearly Paul was just expressing his own opinion, and Paul himself says in 1st Cor inthians 7:12, “... what I say (I’ myself, not the Lord) ...” I feel that Mr. Owen is un fair in using a quote from Paul’s letter to the Corinthians to support Mr. Owen’s opin ion that long hair is an “abomination in the sight of God.” Why, Jesus lived in a time when most men had long hair and he is often pictured with long hair and a beard. Are you saying, Mr. Owen, that Jesus’ hair is an “abomination in tire sight of God?” In Judges 12:3 the Lord appeared to the wife of Manoah and said to her, . . for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall cone npon his head J . . and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Phili stines.” Mr. Owen also said that people who fol low the styles of this “sinful generation” are “foolish and unwise.” But Mr. Owen’s only support for this statement is a quote from Webster’s dictionary, defining the word, “caricature.” How in the world does the word, “caricature” relate to the word, “styles?” Caricature is a picture such as those you see of President Nixon with an exaggerated nose in the political cartoons. Besides, Mr. Owen, I would have thought that you would have been pleased with the longer dress styles since you seem to be so concerned with the teenage girls who go around in mini skirts^ “showing off their naked and sexy legs.” I respect your right to express your opinion. I have expressed mine. All I ask is that you choose your quotes from the Bible more carefully. It is very easy to take passages out of context in order to make them say something they don’t. Your tac tics seem to be scaring the youth away from the Bible, rather than bringing them closer to it.—At least that’s my opinion. A youth, Michael W. Cook Dear Officers and Members of the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Transylvania Community Hospital: Thank you so very much for the gra cious greetings and delicious refreshments that you served to patients in the hospital recently when I happened to be one of the “guests”. As a part-time resident of Transyl vania County, I had been enjoying for sev eral years your magnificient mountains, waterfalls and fresh air; but the week pro ceeding Eastei (and a few days thereafter) constituted my first visit to your hospital. Although no illness can be said to be pleasant, I must say that the doctor whom I had, the nurses, the staff and the Ladies’ Auxiliary, made my stay there just as en joyable as possible. I know how much trouble you took to transport refreshments, to give your time and your energy, and to have a gracious greeting for each of us. I’d also like to thank a certain lady who distributed orchid corsages on Easter, if anyone could send me her name. Thank you again for your hospitality. Sincerely, Mrs. James W. (Elizabeth) Soverns 1325 N. Lake Howard Drive Winter Haven, Florida 33880 Guest Column Chamber Began Before Revolution By GENE FARMER Cherokee Scout Murphy The Chamber of Commerce as a whol ly voluntary institution in the United States is eight years older than the Declaration of Independence. The New York State Chamber, first in America, was organized in 1768 and five years Hater the first local Chambep was by doubling: the number of hospital beds or tripling: the number of doc tors. We conquered malaria by draining the swamps.” Dp. “ stressed before the Sube the AMA’s proposed Medic* which would assure the poor ac to quality health care, help ot purchase private health insui through a sliding scale of tajc cr and insure everyone against cj#Hy cnjtastrophic illness, j credit is currently supporte<| by 1 members of Congress. formed in Charleston, South Carolina. In these nearly 200 years Chambers of Commerce have steadily devoloped to a high point of efficiency and have proved vitally important in business and civic develop ment throughout the nation. Basically it is the business community at work as the central agency for communi ty development for business, industry, the professions, and all civic interests, doing jobs that no individual can do alone, ren dering many services that benefit all citi tens. The Chamber of Commerce works through committees which analyze prob lems, develop solutions and take actions to achieve the objectives which solve the problems. Fpr emaxple: 1. Committee work designed to We new tjujnessjjonvenUons, W- ill SAM ERVIN * SAYS * WASHINGTON — The Na tion’s Capital has seen many demonstrations in the span of its history- The tempo of pro tests has accelerated in recent years, but until last week, for the most part the rallies and the marches have been within the bounds of the constitution al freedom which guarantees "the right of the people peace ably to assemble, and to peti tion the Government for a re dress of grievances.” Clearly, however, the May Day demonstrators’ actions can not be condoned as lawful con duct sanctioned by the First Amendment. Any reasonable review of the demonstration leads inevitably to the con clusion that it was conceived and carried out as a conspir acy to halt by unlawful means the processes of the Federal Government. While one can and should tolerate peaceable demonstrations which have a legitimate purpose, there can be no justification for actions which seek to block highways, streets, and bridges, and which deny users of these traf fic arteries their legal rights to travel in safety and free from criminal interference. For the present purpose, it is unnecessary to chronicle all of the criminal acts perpetrated by these demonstrators. Nor is it essential to recount that I have always been a great be liever in the right of the peo ple to meet and petition Gov ernment for a redress of griev ances by their lawful actions and words. What is of import ance, now that law enforce ment officers have restored or der to this City, is to distin guish between permissible and non-permissible conduct under the First Amendment guaran tees in a day when our whole system of government is be ing challenged. These relevant truths should be our guideposts. The First Amendment undertakes to make the minds and spirits of men .free. To this end, it guarantees to every person in our land freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. One may exercise these freedoms either as an individual or in association with . others having a common lawful purpose. Fur thermore, the First Amend ment expressly recognizes a collective freedom, i.e., the right of the people “peaceably to assemble and to petition gov ernment for a redress of griev ances.” Moreover, the right of dissent, which is the right to differ from others in opinion, may be said to be a part of the First Amendment. Under our Constitution, men can be pun ished for what they do or fail to do, but not for what they think or believe. Even so, it is abundantly clear that the Amendment In quires that all of these free doms be exercised in a peace ful and law-abiding manner. This requirement is explicit in the declaration that those who wish to petition government for a redress of grievances must assemble peaceably, and is implicit in the nature of the freedoms themselves. They are designed to enable people to inform and persuade others, not to coerce them. Also, the Amendment does not author ize any acts whatever except —Turn to Page Eight THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR BY • ■ ir'ib"'.* -*s -.'Vi'-v SjifciiMY- V- • iv'V DR. HERBERT SPAUGH It is, rather, elaboration of The nation’s number one health problem according to Er nest I. McMillan, M.D, in his book, “None of These Diseases” is emotional and mental illness. In his chapter on the nation’s num ber one health problem he writes, “About nine million Ameri cans suffer from emotional and mental illness. There are as many hospital beds filled by the mentally deranged as are occupied by all medical and surgical patients combined. The annual cost of caring for these patients in the mental hospitals is about one hilljpn dollars.” ' . Concerning the cause of mental illness, he writes, “The most mon infection responsibility for insanity is syphillis ■*. . . . far the most common toxic responsible for insanity is alcohol. The third common type of insanity that involwes visible changes in the brain is arteriosclerosis of the cerebral arietta.” Then he lists some of the most important factors causing, arterios clerosis. Heredity, eating animal fat, over - eating smoking and stress. Then he discusses the frequent mental disturbances in the elderly. These, he says are often due to a combination of arter lerosis and personality factors.’’ Some elderly people may suffer n a frank insanity but often, instead of being considered in e, they are better described as ‘impossible’. The unlovely per develops childhood the rather of the “Before