A Moral And Spiritual Imperative
A deep love and respect for life is
•at1' the very heart of the rural
.' American. And so it should be, for
...•tUr business and concern is in the
-creation and sustaining of life from
"V.'flle soil. It is with great pride and
satisfaction that he plants the 9eed,
nurtures it and then witnesses
fruition.
^*,.»eWith this thought as our under
"• lying concept it then becomes very
natural and meaningful for this
same man to be just as interested,
‘‘just as concerned about the preser
vation of God’s greatest gift to man
-L—i,human life! In the first book of
a the Bible we read, “Then the Lord
God formed man out of dust from
the ground, and breathed into his
‘ nostrils the breath of life; and man
J became a living being”, and the ac
* count continues, “God looked upon
* His creation and said, ‘It is good’.”
! Who of us would deny that life is
; man’s greatest possession. Certainly
* we do not make this denial with our
l lips but our attitudes and our be
' havior really indicate what little con
l cern we do have for human life, our
: own and our neighbors. Listen to
■j this —last year in our country 114,
£ 000 people were killed from acci
» dents—accidents that could have
£ been prevented. Disabling injuries
V numbered about 10,800,000. Nearly
V half of those who lost their lives lost
* them on the highways of America—
» 55,500. I would suggest that there
j> is a message in these statistics. They
belie our confessed concern for the
l value of human life. Man since the
* beginning of time has lived under
» tlfl^ spiritual imperative, “Thou shall
- nJfclKilL” To kill in a drunken rage
* behind the wheel of a car is as
l mjfaliy damning as taking a gun
* ana Svith. one bullet bringing an end
* to a man’s life.
It is with this in mind that we say,
1
our spiritual cohcem for man, our
love for him as a creation of a Divine
power, should lead us to the moral
conviction that we have the respon
sibility to do all within our power to
not only protect the life of our neigh
bor, but our own. There is a Hebrew
dictum that states, “He who sustains
one human life is regarded as if he
had sustained the whole world.”
In a practical sense this means
that when we drive our automobiles
we need to keep constantly in mind
that there is a human life in that
other automobile — it is not just an
inanimate piece of steel. This means
that safety should be built into our
homes to protect the lives of those
whom we love most. This means that
when working around our machin
ery we should give it the respect
due.
About 7,500 farm people died last
year in work, home and highway
mishaps. An additional 650,000 sus
tained disabling injuries, and many
were permanently crippled. Farm
work accidents rank first in total oc
cupational deaths and third in rate
on a worker basis. This does not
speak well for agriculture’s safety
record.
As we previously indicated, acci
dents involve some human failure—
improper attitudes, carelessness,
lack of attention to rules and regu
lation. This means that the answer
to the accident problem is a large
part lies with each of us — we can
not escape it — safety is a moral
and spiritual imperative.
Your assistance is promoting the
moral and spiritual side of safety
during Farm Safety Week is needed.
We hope that you will consent to
help in this vast effort to reduce ac
cidents to rural families. Your ef
fort will indicate that you do believe
“I am my brother’s keeper.”
New Responsibilities Ahead
#
I Now that Congress has given the
| 18-year-olds the right to vote, Amer
* leans are faced with additional re
| sponsibilities. Let us never forget
| that knowledge is power and that
« young voters need knowledge, un
- biased and without prejudice.
£ When they have questions to ask,
£ try to give them answers that are
j sensible, based on facts not hearsay.
I' Never try to influence young
t voters with propaganda. They want
t straight answers and the right infor
■J mation will not only help them, but
* this country as well.
* Never before has this country had
so many young new voters coming to.
the polls to vote. Most of them will
soon find the difference in truth and
propaganda.
It is our duty as adult citizens to
be able to give young voters infor
mation, truth and unbiased. Never
try to fill them with pure propa
ganda. Remembering the Bible state
ment, “And the truth shall make
you free”, we can help them to keep
this country free, by giving know
ledge to young voters if it is asked
for.
To Save Your Life
i» A bulletin of the National Trans
fir
£ portation Safety Board reports that
s the great tragedy of boating acci
t dents is that so many of them are
•t needless. Eighty-seven per cent of
£ all pleasure boating fatalities occur
; | as a result of persons falling over
board or from boat capsizings and
sinkings. Eighty per cent of persons
involved in these accidents were not
using available lifesaving devices.
The Safety Board provides a
guide to safe boating. It urges all
boatmen to: (1) Check and heed
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Thursday, July 29, 1971
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104 Lake View Drive
Brevard, N. C.
July 21, 1971
Mr. John I. Anderson, Editor
The Transylvania Times
Brevard, N. C. 28712
Dear John:
Having been associated with Youth
Baseball for several seasons, I feel that this
year, by far, was the most gratifying. The
program was expanded to add three addi
tional teams, making a total of 19, or 285
boys from ages 8 through 15 playing base
ball. In addition, the most satisfying thing
was the parents’ attendance at the games,
giving their support and encouragement to
the teams.
On behalf of the league, I want to thank
you and your staff for the publicity and as
sistance given so generously again this year.
I also want to use this opportunity to thank
all the managers, their assistants, our loyal
sponsors for their financial help, the um
pires, and the many parents who contributed
their support to make this program a suc
cess.
I am confident that with the rapid
growth of Brevard this program will be
even larger next year. The league will cer
tainly be counting on you and many, many
Transylvanians for their support, both moral
and financial, to carry out this summer pro
gram in 1972.
Sincerely yours,
Malcolm F. Johnson
Transylvania Little League
and Babe Ruth League
MFJ:me
Pick of the Pres*
For Your Hot Weather Reading
(Smithfield Herald)
“Where there’s a will there’s a way,”
a dear old lady kept saying at the church
long ago. And, indeed, there is.
Consider this story that comes from
Morganton’s newspaperman J. D. Fitz (“the
Mountain Man”) by way of Billy Arthur of
the Chapel Hill Weekly, who is quite a
story-teller in his own right.
There was this old preacher who, after
spending many years on the circuit, de
cided he needed to have a D. D. after his
name like the rich pastors he had encount
ered in his travels.
He wrote to an institution of dubious
standing asking that they confer upon him
this honorary degree.
Finally, some unscrupulous person at
the institution wrote that if the preacher
would send $25, he’d see what could be done.
There was a hitch in the plan because
the preacher did not have the $25, but he
was determined to get that degree.
The preacher wrote back: “Enclosed
please find the sum of $12.50 for which I
kindly ask you to please send me one D.
As soon as I get the money I will send for
the other D.”
Guest Column
Some Good Advice: Suntanners, Beware
the weather forecast before sailing;
(2) Advise family or friends of the
weekend itinerary; (8) Make sure
the boat is sound, fully equipped,
and . suitable for the planned trip;
Avoid overloading or overpowering
the boat; (5) Take enough life pre
servers for all occupants; (6) Make
sure a second member of
can operate the boat and
area of operation; (7) Be
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By PETE HULTH
(Smil.hfield Herald)
Do you sunburn easily? If so, you should
be interested in some pertinent poop pub
lished in the June issue of “Emergency
Medicine,” a magazine circulated among
doctors and nurses.
If you are devoted to products which
contain that miracle ingredient which com
bats body odor — hexachlorophene — or
take tranquilizers or ringworm medicine,
you can expect to suffer more from sunburn
than other people. But that ain’t all.
“Hundreds of common substances—from
soaps to flu shots — contain chemicals that
can make almost anyone a sucker for sun
burn,” the magazine advises.
The article is based on an interview
with Dr. Ralph Grover, a dematologist at
the Downstate Medical Center in New York
City, and lists more than 40 drugs which
make their use and exposure to ultra-violet
radiation incompatible — and the burning
rays of the sun, as you know, are ultra
violet. The article said that the tested medi
cines comprise only a partial list and that
many more products probably should be in
cluded in its warning.
Among the medications that the article
cited are tranquilizers which contain pheno
thiazines, a related family of drugs used to
rid the body of excess fluids, and pills such
as diabinese and orinase, which are taken by
diabetics.
Other medicines which should be used
with caution if you are going to be exposed
to the sunshine, the article cautions, are
quinine, a staple in the treatment of some
kinds of heart disease; sulfa drugs; tetra
cyline antibiotics; some antihistamines; and
even sun-screens, particularly those that con
tain paraaminbenzoic acid or another chemi
cal called digalloyl trioleate.
Some people are taking griseofulvin to
combat athlete’s foot or ringworm. These
people are advised not to sun bathe.
Dr. Grover warns that shaving lotions
and perfumes should be used with caution
during summer months as they can become
irritating when sunlight is intense.
I found this information enlightening
because I have fair skin and have been
troubled with sun exposure all my life,
which I almost lost from stupidly taking an
all-day sun bath in 1940. Fear seven days I
could do nothing but sit on a white sheet
and sip cool drinks while my mother used
10 pounds of ice every 24 hours in keeping
cold cloths on my burned body.
Because of that single experience, I
wear long sleeves, long pants, a bonnet, sun
glasses, and sometimes a bandanna around
my neck while fishing or boating. If I go
swimming, I take no more than 20 minutes
of exposure — from the car, swimming,
and back in the car. And when I hit the
water I am greased from head to toe with
suntan oil.
I once substituted shaving lotion for
suntan lotion, and 1 got burned up. And a
well-known sun-screen product burned me
good when I applied H to ray face and arms
and even failed to go outside after a storm
came up and we cancelled a boat trip! So
the article in “Emergency Medicine” has
confirmed some thoughts I already had
about products and sunburn.
Did know that doctors say that your
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lingering shadow
SAM ERVIN
WASHINGTON — Foreign
trade policy brought on much
controversy in the closing days
of the last Congress, but, un
fortunately, no agreement
was reached on a bill that
would have curbed textile im
ports.
Since then the North Caro
lina textile industry has strug
gled to live with our unrealis
tic trade policies, but first
quarter earnings this year were
down and in many instances
profits became losses. Several
leading companies have laid
off substantial numbers of em
ployees and prospects are dim
that the situation will improve
soon. The chief cause, as has
been the case since about 1958,
is the importation of Japanese
and Hong Kong made goods and
their takeover of the domestic
market.
Even the world’s largest
textile firm, Burlington Indus
tries, has been seriously af
fected by the chaotic condition
of the textile market. Burling
ton’s President, Ely R. Callo
way, Jr., recently testified be
fore the Senate Subcommittee
on International Trade and
‘ painted this bleak picture:
1 “ ... the great disparity be
tween ' wage rates and working
conditions throughout the
world tends to make U. S. the
‘dumping ground’ for goods
which are produced abroad un
der conditions that are illegal
in the U. S.”
He pointed to a competitive
factor often ignored by many
“free traders,” and that is
that “Japan is the most highly
protected market in the world.
As a consequence, Japan often
sells products to its own peo
ple at considerably higher
prices than they sell the same
or similar products to Ameri
cans.” 1 would add that these
goods are no bargain because
they are being bought at the
price of thousands of Ameri
can jobs at a time when our
economy is already straining to
meet its obligations.
A new trade will has been in
troduced by House Ways and
Means Committee Chairman
Wilbur Mills, but it is now
dormant in the Committee to
allow time for Ambassador Da
vid Kennedy’s trade mission to
gain some concessions from thap
textile - producing nations of
the Far East. Reports coming
in on the Kennedy talks, how
ever, indicate that nothing much
has happened yet. The truth
of the matter is that our trade
policies have all too often been
geared to the granting of extra
concessions to other nations to
keep them friendly and very
rarely have our negotiators laid
down sensible terms for trade
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DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
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Jealousy is a deadly poison. If you are at all jealous, get rid
of it. Jealousy destroys happiness, health, and even life itself. It
caused the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ainscow of Manchester, Eng
land, sometime ago, according to an Associated Press dispatch.
She and her husband had been married for more than 50 years,
but she was jealous.
One night the wife had just retired to her bedroom upstairs
and her husband was waiting to hear the end of a symphony on
the radio.
“Who has come in? I can hear a woman's voice,” the wife
called from upstairs
The husband who had risen from his easy chair to go to bed,
called bach, “No one, dear.”
A few moments later he heard a thud. At the bottom of
the 6tairs was his wife, dead. At a corner’s inquest, the husband
said she must have been hurrying down to see if there was another
woman when she stumbled and fell.
"Why she should be so suspicious about such a very old man
I cannot understand,” said the coroner in giving a verdict of ac
cidental death. “So great was her haste to investigate this strange
woman’s voice that she did not trouble even to put on her dip
pers.”
The female voice was that of a woman radio announcer.
In my extensive domestic counseling I frequently encounter
jealousy, particularly on the part of wives.
One case comes to mind in which a suspicious wife as con
tinually accusing her husband of keeping company with another
woman. Whenever he was late coming home, she nagged at him
about it. In my interview with the husband he said that when
she first commenced to accuse him there was no other woman. He
said that finaHy, as a result of her nagging and continued accusa
tions, be went out and secured other female companionship.
As a result of several conferences, I finally secured the co
operation of the wife, as she wanted to hold her home together, m
She stopped her nagging, commenced to demonstrate some of the
affection which she really held for him. The home was restored
and the other woman closed out of the picture. They are now
quite happy.
Nagging or preaching about the duties and obligations of mar
itf thb marriage jg