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Scouts 9 Soar Paradoxically, as concern for the environment increases, roadside lit ter and individual slovenliness seem to have become evermore prevalent. The current crop of adults is appar ently destined to go down as the worst generation of litterbugs in his tory — unless the younger genera tion can shame them into changing their ways. One important group among the younger generation, The Boy Scouts of America — all 6 million of them —will be out in force on June 5th in observation of “Scouting Keep America Beautiful Day.” The 6 million Boy Scouts will engage in a gigantic litter clean-up operation to focus public attention on the tremendous proportions of the prob lem. Hundreds of thousands of people in other organizations — in dustrial, conservation, and govern mental agencies — have pledged their active support. They will make a point In their litter collection of separating from the trash each items as glass, aluminum, steel and newsprint that can be reused and thus reduce the drain on natural re sources Used in making manufactur ed products. The June 6th litter clean-up cam paign of the Scouts is called, “Save Our American Resources” — or SOAR. In making their project a success, the Scouts are asking every one to join in their effort to further the cause of litter prevention, waste disposal and recycling of used pro ducts. It is a cheering thought to realize that what fines and laws are unable to force in the way of litter prevention, the Boy Scouts may help accomplish through example and education. Summertime Only a very stodgy adult with a very short memory can fail to have a feeling of kinship with the young people of the nation now looking forward to the eminent closure of school for the Summer. There is something timeless about the joy ous freedom of the first days of Summer Vacation. American youngsters are doubly blessed. In spite of all the clamor and confusion over what is being done wrong in this country, we still have a great land. And millions of youngsters will see it this Summer as they travel with their parents— camping, fishing or just looking. Freedom from the discipline of the schoolroom will give millions of youngsters a chance to realize, along with their folks, that there are still wide open spaces, still plenty of blue sky and quite a few unpollut ed streams and lakes, as well as mountains and forests. And then in thousands of communities across the country, there is the tranquility of the family backyard, and per haps even an old-fashioned ham mock under a shade tree. Incidentally, as we really begin to appreciate the good Earth of these United States in the early days of Summer, it is well to remember that June 14th is Flag Day. A little show of patriotism never hurt any one. Displaying our Flag on ap propriate occasions such as Flag Day is one way in which we can ex press our awareness of the many freedoms and privileges that we all enjoy in greater measure than most of us ever realize. Freedom from the schoolroom may be short - lived, but our other freedoms, as symbol ized by our Flag, can be perpetual if we value them and guard them well. With A Grain Of Salt * <'• ~ ;■ Nearly everyone knows what it is like to pay interest on debt. Near ly every family makes interest-bear ing payments on a car, on a home or some other item. No one escapes the necessity of paying interest when they borrow money. It is the wage that money earns for people who have savings to invest. Even government pays interest on money it borrows from its citi zens. At the close of the federal government’s fiscal year last June 30, 1970, the federal government owed its citizens the incomprehen sible sum of $383,427,640,000. The interest on that debt last year cost the federal government over $19 billion — more than the total ex penses of the federal government for the first 117 years of our his tory. It was also more than the to tal federal budget for any single year until 1942. The next time someone tells you government debt means nothing because we owe it to ourselves, take it with a couple of grains of salt. Only the bank rupt fail to pay their obligations— including interest. Tell Your Congressman! The federal government collects $1,117 in taxes from the average family with a $10,000 annual in come. Under President Nixon’s pro posed budget for the 1972 fiscal year, this money would be spent as follows: $371.80 for national de fense, including the Indochina war; social security, $291.50; $41.80 for education and man power training programs; $77 for hospitals, medi cal research, Medicaid, Medicare, and public health services; veterans’ benefits, $50.60; pollution control, $20.90; agriculture and rural de velopment, $27.50; commerce and The Transylvania Times 10r Broad St. Brevard, N. C. 88711 The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1801; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1808; The Times, established 1031; Consolidated 1033. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ED U. ANDERSON — Publisher — 1041 - 1088 .■ MBS. ED M. ANDERSON. Publisher I' JOHN L ANDERSON, Editor-Gen. Mgr. BILL P. NORRIS, Advertising Mgr. MRS. MARTHA STAMEY, Office Mgr. MRS. KATE ROWE, Clerk - Proofreader CAL CARPENTER, Feature Editor HENRY HENDERSON. Mechanical Sopt ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head GORDON BYRD, Compodtor d. c. wtlson. Punter JOHN HAWKINS, Printer PER YEAR Outside the Cou«tfr-*-|6.00 w York—ChicMO—Detroit—Atlanta NATIONAL KEPltESENTATlV* THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES PAGE tWO Thursday, June 8, 1971 Letter* i hr (Editor’s Note: he brief, sigm tee legibly on one iW of lb We reserve the right to re» edit, or condense. Letter* he received by The Thee* Monday mornings.) Brevard, N C. May 29, 1971 Mr. John Anderson, Editor The Transylvania Times Brevard, N. C. Dear Mr. Anderson Considerable comment has been stir red up by the publication of our statistics on drug abuse among Brevard High School students. The statistics were compiled by one of our committee members from tabu lated information supplied by students who were either using drugs or had been using drugs. We believe that the statistics are reasonably accurate and provide a more honest picture of the drug situation here in Brevard than any other information or opinions available. Although we are satisfied that these statistics are more reliable than the various opinions of ministers, parents, teachers and others, the purpose of our committee Is not to defend the accuracy of these figures, but rather to help our students have a more wholesome community to grow up in — one free of drug abuse and court poli tics. Respectfully yours, Bill Leonard, Temporary Chairman Transylvania Committee for the Prevention of Drug Abuse May 28, 1971 Dear Sir: ATTENTION: Young ladies of Rosman High Concerning your letter of May 27th, we too resent the implication that we are all involved in the use of drugs. We also resent your implication that we are all in volved. Just as the authors of the first ar ticle we’re not familiar with the situation at Rosman High, you are not familiar with the situation at Brevard High. We also feel that you are in no position to judge our morals simply due to the fact thdt you are nine miles away physically. Quote, “Please do not fall guilt to the old axiom of guilt by association” unquote. Sincerely yours, Janie Whitaker Rosie Anderson Mark McGuire Lynn Baynard Beth Mooney Don Brookshire Route 3, Brevard, N. C. May 24, 1971 Mr. John I. Anderson Editor, The Transylvania Times Brevard, N. C. 28712 Dear Mr. Anderson: 1 am a rising Senior at Brevard High School and am writing in regard to the ar ticle in the paper entitled “Drugs Are Used In Transylvania Schools”. You said in the Editor’s note that you made no verification as to the accuracy of the “shocking” infor mation. I can not even begin to under stand why such slanderous accusations were printed in our newspaper, which is suppos ed to represent the entire county. There fore, I think it only fair to submit my feel ings, as well as those of many students and faculty members of BHS, to the ‘Times” for publication. The article made it seem as though the school, or rather, the educational sys tem, were at fault for the use of drugs in Transylvania Courtty. People tend to ac cept this idea rather than admit that many times the problem stems from the home. It is much easier for parents to place the blame on “the school” instead of coming to the realization that perhaps they were at fault, or at least that they must share in the blame. Wheil people begin to feel this way, it gives our school (which we are, by the way, proud of) a bad name. I wonder where the statistics came from? Surely not from the students. I doubt if any member of any class can name over 15 people, if that many, in this entire county who are on drugs. How can that add up to 28% of the 10th graders; 39% of 11th graders; and 41% of the Seniors who are supposedly continual users? I was both hurt and angered when I read these figures. It means that I could be “on file” as a drug user or as one of the 11 high school girls who “have been selling them selves for illegal drugs and/or narcotics, because of lack of money to purchase the same.” I have a friend who uses drugs and I am not personally involved with drugs. According to the article, my parents can “bet their last dollar that this is a lie.” Fortunately, my mother and father have more faith in me than they do in newspa per articles written about me. I say about —Turn to Page Three Pick of the Press 'Save The Boys From Drugs' (Smithfielu Herald) A new clamor for ending the war in Vietnam may soon be heard around the country. It could prod the Nixon admin istration into speeding up withdrawl of U. S. troops from the war zone, succeeding where rowdy anti-war demonstrations have failed. The emerging anti-war slogan may be: “Bring the boys home and save them from drugs.” Congressman Robert Steele, a Connec ticut Republican, went to Vietnam to study first hand the use of drugs among U. S. soldiers. The word he brought back to America is that marijuana is widely used in Vietnam and that 90 per cent of the marijuana users in Vietnam have moved on to heroin. The direct effect of marijuana upon human health may be debatable, but users of heroin get hooked and their per sonalities become subject to ruin. Congress man Steele found that already from 30,000 to 40,000 of the U. S. soliders still in Viet nam are hooked. The Republican from Connecticut sees “only one clear way” to save the U. S. Army and the 260,000 soldiers we still have on duty in Vietnam. “We must bring them home as soon as possible,” he says. The threat of heroin to our men in Viet nam is hardly the most important reason why the United States should get out of Vietnam immediately, but it is surely an im portant reason not to be shoved aside casu ally by the White House policy makers. Guest Column Doughton Home Sold By - HUB K1VEKS (Watauga Democrat) Boone The Robert L. Doughton home at Laur el Springs went under the auctioneer’s ham mer Saturday morning and a nephew bid off the three-story structure for $12,900 . . Reba, the sole survivor of the immediate Doughton family^ had lived at the old place most of the time until she moved to Char lotte three years ago ... . During her ab transportation programs, $62.80; community development, urban re newal and housing programs, $22; foreign aid and loans, $19,80; space, research and technology,. $15.40; g 9 n e r a 1 government expenses, t $24,20; revenue sharing (if adopt ed) and related programs, $28,60; interest on th«s national debt, $84 00. Out of each 8-hbuT, working day,, • the typical taxpayer, upon which these figures are based, toils for 2 hours and 4$ minutes to pay his fed erl taxes. Maybe you can think of some better ways to spend your money. Tell your Congressman! home scrip home n law sence the home of the former Congressman had fceen burglarized, sacked and pillaged .... Most of the antique furniture had been carted away, cherished pictures of col leagues of Doughton in Congress had been broken and scattered, a safe looted, windows smashed, draperies yanked off, locks brok en, trunks and suitcases and scrapbooks rifled .... A completely furnished was barren, except for the piles of and debris .... A room in the old had been made to resemble the vetera maker’s office in Washington with cherish ed autographed pictures of many leaders on the walls .... In the rubble someone noted the big black Stetson hat, familiar to so many —size 8 — and there was a size 15 shoe, grimly remindful of the big tracks he made in the national legi Happily, his most valuable ing letters are preserved it of North Carolina sonal letter from for whom Bob dressed to his father, ton, who followed throughout the us who had been years past, whog sonal friend, a and who had < particularly house had Civil : t MEW OFFENSIVE _ SSNATOK SAM ERVIN • SAYS + WASHINGTON — The dollar crisis which occurred in Eu rope earlier this month raises anew the problem of fiscal re sponsibility on the part of the Federal Government and what we ought to do about it. No nation on earth needs to take a harder look at its fi nancial obligations than this country. According to the best estimates available, there is a strong possibility that the Fed eral Government will incur deficits aggregating $83 bil lion for the fiscal years 1971 and 1972 under a long - time budget concept that prevailed until recently. This concept excluded revenues and borrow ings from trust accounts to arrive at the annual surplus or deficit. Moreover, the Treas ury now owes nearly $400 bil lion. Interest on the national debt alone now totals more than $22 billion annually. Fur ther complicating our monetary affairs, since World War II we as a nation have given away, loaned, and invested more dollars overseas than have returned to this country. These are the basic causes of the latest attack on the dollar. During this era, we have of ten been told by our economic advisers that “there is nothing to worry about.” Often, they have come up with figures that seemed to reveal that a def icit was really a surplus by ex cluding items like foreign aid pavments, monies to support military forces, and appropria tions for surplus agricultural products given away overseas under Public Law 480. On May 10th, the hard real ities were with us again. The German mark was revalued. In swift order, the Dutch guilder, the Swiss franc, and the Aus trian schilling aho went up in value as compared with the dollar. The consequences of these actions may curtail for a time the import of goods into this country and may revive some American exports over'eas. Eut the fact is that the dollar continues to be in trouble be cause this nation simply refuses to put its financial house in order. One of the focal points of this issue came up last week when Senator Mansfield offer ed an amendment to reduce the number of American troops stationed in Europe because our NAT Oallies are refusing to pay their equitable share of the costs* involved. In the back ground of this amendment was th?‘ *tl«fai' crisis. For some years now, we have maintained about 3CO.OOO U. S troops and about 200,000 of their depend ents. This has resulted in va t films of American dollars be ing tran'-ferred to Europe without a consequent inflow of European currencies to this country. Senator Mansfield has been pleading with the Admini tration for years to re duce the rumbrr of American —Turn To Page Three THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR BY Rl. DR. HERBERT SPAUGH “Let your words be tender and fweet, for rome day you may have them to eat”. This old copy book maxim brings to mind the Biblical admonition, “let everyman be swift to hear, clow to tpeak and slow to wrath (James There remind me of a story which Charlo'te News edtor, Perry, Morgan, quotes from Carolina Country of a truck driver who had stopped for refresh ment at a roadside restathrant. “Three motorcyclists, baarded, leather - jacketed, filthy, wiill swastikas adoring Chests and hel muts” ganged up to pick bn him. “For no reason at all they poured pepper over the truck driver’s head, stole his apple pie, up-et his cup of coffee. The truck driver never said a word - jutt rose, paid his check and exited”. “That paloOka sure ain't much of a fighter”, sneered one of the cyclists. The man behind the counter, peering out into the night added: ‘He aih’t much of a driver either. He just ran his truck oyer three motareyctoa”; - ^ - f: 7 In turn this brings to mind a personal experience related to me by a friend ol mine, an able businessman from Charlotte who received a peppery letter complaining with acidity and vehemence iZ raBstOBtz if ^ —hta JMy friend was so infuriated that h? grabbed his overnight bag, leaped into his automobile and set out for the offee in Phil adelphia of Jus infuriated customer. He reached Philadelphia af ter closing hour? andJWd tp.pttY w>. m tt Miotpl for the Wght. My friend Who keeps a Bible on his de k at all times, picked up the motel Bible‘lit thfe ifthfAlh £'Kfitf ret 'Itlfaft open by chance. Star ing at him from the printed page was an admonition from Book of Proverbs, “A soft answer turneth aw«v k»« *Mm, but gfiev ous words stir right: but the J* the time he reached hie customer's office the BlbUcal ad 8®0ch?n*fdJ,“ ®ttitude. th*t he not only persuaded his ; ww v vuajt persuaded nis keep the egulpmeht hfe h«d, but wldhim another “whom A wise saying from an unknown writer gods would destroy, t ~ When We get all L„ Sj&XifiT later wish you could
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