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
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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
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THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
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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
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