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Camps Are Fine Assets As w© welcome the summer camp ers to Transylvania, we should pause a moment and refect on the impor tance of the many fine camps we have in this community. From an economic standpoint, they are most valuable. It has been estimated that the 15 camps could be: compared to a half million dol lar industry, or even larger. .They employ many local people. They pay taxes, and attract many other visitors in addition to the campers themselves. Practically all of the supplies they use are purchased locally, and the owners contribute to these agencies whioh are interested in building a finer community. The camps also receive much pub licity in the press and radio of the nation, and when each camper re turns home, he or she can be con sidered a goodwill ambassador for our matchless scenery and ideal cli mate. ViifUC In welcoming the campers, we also salute the owners and operators on the fine job they are doing. “Never On Weekends” “Never on weekends” might be a mdtto worth observing, according to The Travelers Insurance Companies highway fact book entitled “Voice Behind The Wheel.” The reason is simple. Nearly half the auto deaths and injuries occurred on weekends in 1970. During 1970, 55,200 people lost their lives in traffic accidents and another 5,100,000 were injured, ac cording to the booklet. Even though these figures are tragic, the number of those killed on our highways de creased by 1,300 from 1969. Although there are many reasons why so many people are killed or in jured on our highways every year, the fact that most deaths and in juries occur on weekends, and on weekdays between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. suggests again that alco hol may be a serious contributor to the overall problem. Another reason for the high rate of accidents during night time hours is the tired driver. Remember that last long trip you took, trying to cover maximum distance in minimum time? Did you or did you not get sleepy? How many times did you shake your head before pulling in for a coffee or quick nap? Excessive speeds accounted for 17,700 deaths. Perhaps some limits are not realistic, given modern high ways and today’s automobiles. But the fact is that we must become a slower population, not faster, if we are to cut down on our injuries and fatalities. Making A Fool Of Man Before the summer is out, there is likely to be a new understanding of the word abundance. This year, na ture could easily teach the nation that abundance in food, as well as other material blessings, is not something that should ever be taken for granted. According to late re ports, farmers fear a return of the corn blight that made serious in roads on corn production in 1970. As things stand now, no one knows for certain hbw hard'fff^lSTl corn blight wTft ’berhift If the corn blight cuts average corn yieldi as low as 60 bushels per acre, a serious corn shortage will ensue. If it does, housewives, for example, are going to find fresh meat in short supply and prices higher. Chances are also excellent that if the nation’s breadbasket is threatened with crop failure, of a substantial nature, there will be far less talk of ecology and far more talk on how to boost farm produc tion with every aid possible. But, more important, the people of the U. S. may learn as one farmer ob served, “Mother Nature can still make a fool out of a mairif she takes - a notion.” “Perhaps There’s Hope” In its “Parting Shots” column, Life magazine has run a little story over the name of Jane Howard, entitled “The diary of a polluter”. It is an hour-by-hour account of a day in the life of an average young lady and her emotional reaction as she goes through the day adding her bit to the cosmic pile of refuse that is the product of today’s living. She turns off her electric blanket —heated through the night by an obliging power company — makes the rounds of bathroom and kitchen, brews instant coffee from a big non > returnable glass jar, uses unsalted whipped butter from a waxy con tainer and pineapple juice from a tin can. Nearly every move she makes is accompanied by the creation of trash. She removes the plastic cover from her newly dry-cleaned pants suit. She uses detergent cleansers liberally, drives her car, smokes, chews gum and wonders where the filter tips and foils will wind up. The whole day is one long round of waste-creating activity. As she goes to bed at night, she opens the window . . six inches to admit pestilent and yet bracing noc turnal midtown air . . .” She again turns the electric blanket up to high The Transylvania Times 10T Broad St Brevard, N. a 28712 . The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1881; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1898; The Times, established 1931; Consolidated 1932. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY J5D M. ANDERSON — Publisher - 1M1 • 1811 MBS. ED M. ANDERSON. Publisher JOHN L ANDERSON, Editor-Cen. Mgr. BILL P. NORMS, Advertising Mfr. KBS. MARTHA STAMEY, Office Mgr. ICRS. KATE ROWE, dark - Proofreader CAL CARPENTER, Feature Editor HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head GORDON BYRD, Compositor D. C. WILSON. Printer JOHN HAWKINS, Printer • 1 - ' v __ -• ■ SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR the County—$4.50 year Outside tbs County—15.00 •flfc THl TRANSYLVANIA TIMES MQ» TWO Thursday, July 8, 1OTI ■* (Miter** Note: MtM«M be brief, dpti, typed er writ ten legibly en am riie ef pe June Ml 1871 Congressman Roy Taylor U. S. Representative House Office Building Washington, 0. C. 80919 Dear Congressman Taylor: W* wish to acknowledge and thank you for your fine effort in securing a realistic Sheet Metal worker's rate on the Transyl vania Community Hospital job. Without your efforts and the fine co-operation from Mr. Malcolm Hart of the Department of La bor, I feel that the job, although, it did run over the appropiated funds, would have been so much higher that we would not have negotiated to build this much needed facili ty. I do have the hope that this contro versy had nothing to do with your gall blad der attack as I noted in the paper that the same Friday night, the 18th, you went in for a gall bladder operation. Sinoerely we were very pleased to learn of your success ful operation and also pleased to hear that you are making such a speedy recovery. We are looking forward to seeing you on your next trip to Brevard. Again many thanks for your fine co-operation and if the oppor tunity arises please tell Mr. Hart that we appreciate his co-opcration also. Sincerely yours, OSBORNE PLUMBING & HEATING CO., INC. D. M. Blackwell, President DMB:jc (t Guest Column Just Suppose You Had To Pick Up That Litter By • SAM RAGAN (Southern Pines Pilot) As we rode through eastern Carolina we came upon at least a dozen groups of Boy Scouts picking ujp trash along the highways and by the streets of small towns. This is a job the State Highway Depart ment is supposed to do, but highway forces have found it almost impossible to do even a halfway adequate jpb and still do the maintenance work required on our roads. So the Scouts are making a fine contribu tion to their communities with these pro jects. They are finding plenty of work. At one place two truckloads of beer cans, drink bottles, paper and boxes had been picked up in a one-mile stretch. This Legislature has increased the penalty for littering from a $50 to a $500 fine. But we seriously doubt if this will change things a great deal. A violator must be caught in the act of littering to make a charge stick, and the li?t of convictions is very low. The need is to continue the education process. Maybe if more people had to walk along the roadsides picking up trash this consci ousness would be more deeply ingrained. As our companion said as we drove along, “I’ll bet those Boy Scouts will think twice before throwing a can out of a car.” Pick of the Pres* To Strong A Dose (Winston . Salem Journal) Apparently some members of the Gen eral Assembly have forgotten one of the basic laws of economics, the law of dimin ishing returns. If the Senate enacts a bill that almost doubles tuition for out-of-state students at state-supported universiiies, that law will go into effect this fall to the detriment of all those schools. Out-of-state tuitions in North Carolina are lower than the national average, and one of the results is that North Carolina has a net influx of college students. But the legislators should pay heed to the fact that the percentage of out-of-state enroll ments in our private colleges is far higher than In our state - supported colleges. Even though some increase in out-of state tuitions is desirable, it probably wouldn’t be wise to make any increase effec tive this fall. Our universities have already accepted applications for the fall term on the basis of present tuitions, and a change now would undoubtedly cause a change in plans of a number of applicants — at a very late hour. To almost double out-of-state tuitions, now or in the near future, Could well bring about real financial difficulties. The num ber of out-of-state students enrolling in North Carolina’s public universities probab-. ly would fall off sharply, and the revenue brought in by the increase would certainly be far less than the $26 million estimated by the sponsors of the bill. What this would do to budgets is obvious. And there is some possibility, although no one can pre dict this with certainty, that net tuition revenues would actually decline. Whatever the effect of the tuition increase on income, the costs of providing education for North Carolina residents would not fall off propor tionately because most er all programs would have to be continued for them. The School of the Arts, which was established by the General Assembly as a regional school, would be especially hard hit. More than half of the school’s enroll ment is from out of state. Only the sons and daughters of the wealthy are likely to come to the school this fall in the face of a staggering — and unexpected — in crease in tuition. The General Assembly wishes, com mendably, to increase funds for the senior institutions without raising taxes or cutting into appropriations for other purposes. But such an enormous increase in out-of-state tuitions is much more likely to have just the opposite effect. Clearly this is a matter for a Board of Regents, or a strong Board of Higher Education, to concern itself with next year, after the General Assembly has created such a broad and given its powers to regulate higher education in the best interests of the state. It is certainly not a time for invoking the law of diminishing returns, when our senior institutions don’t have enough money anyway. Credit—A Nonprofit Service (Forest City Cornier) Interest charges on retail credit ac counts are a greatly misunderstood area of consumer—retailer relations. In response to consumer need* and the forces of competi tion, “charge accounts” are an accepted practice in the U. 8. mass retail distribution system. ' { One of the nation’s l«rga»t merchandis ing chain institutions has revealed the me chanics of its credit operation. In 1969, It collected |79 million ill service charge revenue*. The cost of maintaining }ts credit service to customers totaled f 102 million— exceeding interest revenues on customer ac counts by $38 • million. An official of the company explained that his firm had paid $44 million to finance its customers’ credit accounts. Its bad debts totaled $16 million, and administering customer accounts totaled aoother $4$ million. Hie retailing executive concluded: “Our service charges are not de signed to make money- We believe them to be fair and equitable — Experience has con vinced us that more and more customers want retail credit and are willing to pay a fair price for it, but the retail industry will only be able to continue to extend credit on this basis if realistic laws are enaeted. To gether with other retailers, we intend to give the full facts on retail credit to the public In order to procure enactment of such necessary legislation.” Once again it is the old story. There is no way of getting something for nothing, in UPSY DAISY SAM ERVIN *XTO* WASHINGTON — The con troversy stirred, by the publica tion of the classified Vietnam war study which discloses cer tain information about U. S. in volvement in Southeast Asia raises momentous questions in respect to freedom of speech and national security. At the moment, the courts must say whether the newspapers can print the so-called “McNamara Archives,” and it is not the pur pose of this commentary to at tempt to decide these cases. It does seem to me, however, that it has now become the duty of Congress to review the functioning of our intricate sys tem of laws, rules, regulations, orders, and procedures govern ing the classification and pro tection of information relating to the national security. For the first time, we are faced with the necessity of determining whether the secrecy system we have established during this century is necessary, appropri ate, and consistent with our need to protect the security of this country, and with the right of the people to know pertin ent information about then government. On June 24th, I cosponsored a bill introduced by Senator Roth of Delaware to establish a National Commission on Executive Secrecy which would be empowered to conduct an investigation and make recom mendations for legi: lntion or other appropriate governmen tal ac'ion relating to our classi fied information system. """ The issues raised are trouble some ones. In a nuclear age, ., this nation must guard the " 1 safety of the people by keep- T ing security information sec ret. It is also incumbent on" „ the government to create a sys tem whereby the people will _ know what their government is doing in respect to most mat ters. The difficulty with the Pentagon papers is that both issues are raised in the same ease. One gets into the sticky que. tion of whether the infor- ... mation revealed ought to have been kept secret or not. Apart from this factual is-..— sue before the courts, Congress has the res ponribility of draft- " ing laws which insure the prop- -... er administration of govern- “ ment, and I have consistently ■■ taken the position that the-» Firt Amendment is an essen tial part of the ba-uc assump tion of our constitutional sys tem — that government serve<(|. the people and governs by the^ j will and approval of the citi zens. This requires the fullest possible knowledge of public* issues. Freedom of the press plays a vital role in this duty, to inform and to critize, and ls,^., a fur.damen‘al part of the ^ whole system. '-i What makes the tack of Con gress and the Nation difficult'’"'' in today’s context is that there: is an extraordinary feeling that we have cot been trld enough' about how we got bogged down “‘u —Turn to Page Three ■■■ THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR DR. HERBERT SPAUGH Nothing can replace the function of the family, according to Dr. David Mace, professor of family sociology at Bowman Gray Medical School recently. He was speaking to a class of workers in the Contact Program, a 24-hour free telephone crisis ministry in Winston - Salem. This program, one of S7 in operation in the United States, helps people in trouble. The Winston - Salem num ber is 919-722-5153. There is a program in Charlotte and the num ber is 704-333-6121. In the course of his lecture Dr. Mace said; that after one million years the institution of marriage still exists. Although it is changing, it is not collap.ing. Among other things he said: “Marriage is rapidly losing its utilitarian function, but there are still two functions fulfilled by marriage and therefore marriage, cannot be dispensed with. The first is the inter - personal one, In this big, complex, rather lonely world, we all need inter - per sonal relationship where we establish our identities and assure J personality in the world. In the wide world all relationships arc transactional such as buying a dress ... So we need a little world where we have our identity, where we are truly loved, where we are truly ourselvs and where we are not rejected ... Because of the increasing personality of the wider world, marriage is needed ev en more. Marriage is the answer, but ye only get the answer in marriage if we are prepared to work at it in depth.” In spite of the many reported youthful marriages, " “Young people of today have” absoiutely wonderful marriages , | They re terrifically related to each other and they seem to be successful in their quest for a relationship in depth. The greatest , marriages of all times are taking place right now. From my experience in 40 years of .marriage counseling we' «■ have learned a lew tilings about marriage ourselves. One k “thdOfc family that prays together, stays together." This is shared re ligious experience. Actually, it is the shared family experiences ~ rSL T 'HT!*** f°r the rich We- 1 never “> be fndSlSL T e^,CnCe<i * h°me With my P*"5"48
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