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Your Responsibility Labor* Day, the summer season’s last important holiday, is almost here. As with all three-day holidays, one primary consideration will be sheer survival in the press of traffic and other hazards of congestion. There is another consideration too of which we should all be acutely conscious. As individuals, we can each contribute mightily to pollution control during a period when lakes, forests, streams and parks are swamped with visitors. A leaflet, issued by Enterprise Publications of Chicago, offers the following ques tionnaire for those who are sincerely concerned about pollution. It asks, among other things: When did I last threw an empty can, bottle, cigarette butt, or paper wrapper out of the ear window ? When did I last throw a cigarette pack, gum or candy wrap per on the street or the floor of a public building? When did I last leave a picnic table without cleaning up? When did I last leave a camp site without picking up all the ref use? When did I last leave a public or private peach without picking up paper, glass, or other sharp objects? When did I last—when no one was looking — drop off garbage or junk by the side of the road—hoping I wouldn’t be caught? —How these questions can be an swered by those returning from the long Labor Day weekend will be a pretty accurate gauge of public interest in pollution control. A Word For Kindergartens A wonderful experience awaits the preschool child when he is in cluded in a kindergarten or day care group with other children his own age, and with a teacher aware of their needs. Children this age need plenty of room to explore, play and take part in quiet activities; they should not be required to sit at desks or tables ex cept for short periods. Authorities such as the North Carolina Depart ment of Public Instruction, the North Carolina Day Care Licensing Law and Federal Interagency Day Care Standards emphasize that there should not be more than 18 or 20 five year olds in a group with one teacher. Three and four year old children should be in groups of 12 or 15. With groups this size, the chil dren are assured of a lot of indi vidual attention from the teacher. The right amount of indoor space is necessary; 25 square feet per child is an absolute minimum, and 35 to 50 square feet is recommended. Out door play space should be 75 to 100 square feet per child. Many studies have shown that crowding children in spaces not adequate is very detri mental to their normal development. The daily preschool program in cludes experiences in arts and crafts, games, music, field trips and ex ploration into the child’s everyday environment. Pre-reading and sub f;rst grades are not recommended by the Department of Public Instruc tion. Each child is encouraged to reach this goal on an individual level. Teachers of preschool children en joy meeting together in local and state associations to share new ideas, compare notes, attend workshops and increase their knowledge of the growth and development of pre school children. Sustaining Our Environment Early this year, “Better Homes and Gardens’’ began a series of articles entitled “Environment Yes Hysteria No.” The series dealt with such questions as auto and sewage pollution -— and that highly contro versial subject pesticides. The article on .pesticides pointed out that there are some 3,000 different insect pests thajt compete with us for our food. It observes, “It’s obvious that we mi&t try to control these insects as best we can. If we didn’t, we’d soon face food shortages and sky-rocket ing food prices—not to mention the thrteat of epidemics caused by insect borne diseases.” While concluding that a few of the mo^t toxic pesticides are dangerous if ftot used properly and should ulti mately be replaced, the “Better Hopies and Gardens” piece finds that there is litt.e fiim evidence oi a pesticide threat to either man or animal that justifies banning all pesticides. On the contrary, it points ouf, “. . . one of the fastest ways, to wipe out wildlife is to denude a for JtJuiAiuiiiiii est, as the spruce bud worm can do if it’s not controlled somehow.” Farm chemicals have revolution ized agriculture. If they were banned, it has been estimated that food prices at the grocery store would rise 50 per cent. Moreover, as one agricultural publication com ments, “. . , what company will re search new compounds if there is little chance of their being used? The research and development time and cost required to put a new pesti cide on the market is now about 10 years and ?10 million.” The same publication commented: “Few in the cities understand the fragil price margins in agriculture and the enormity of the farmer’s dependence on weather, chemicals, labor, and machinery as well as weed, insect, and disease control.” As a matter of cold fact, it is likely that the pesti dides, which have been so hysteri cally condemned, may actually be one of the major factors in sustain ing an environment in which modern civilization, as we know it, can live. i | The Transylvania Times • lot Broad St. Brevard, N. C. 1*71* The Transylvania Pioneer, established, 1887; The French Broad Voice, established J888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1801; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1896; The Time*, established 1931; Consolidated 1982, * A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ED M. ANDERSON — Publisher — 19*1 - 1M MBS. ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher JOHN L ANDERSON, Editor-Gen. Mgr. Rill P. NORRIS, Advertising Mgr. MRS. MARTHA STAMEY, Office Mgr. Mrs. KATE ROWE, Cleric • Proofreader CAL CARPENTER, Feature Editor HENRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt. s ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head j GORDON BYRD, Compoaitor D. C. WILSON. Printer JOHN HAWKINS, Printer 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR Inside the County—$4.50 year uutsiae tne uouniy— SAM ERVIN *»KT* WASHINGTON — Congress reconvenes next week after a month - long summer recess with much of its work yet to be completed. Economic measures are cer tain to receive speedy Congres sional consideration. President Nixon won assurances to that effect from Congressional lead ers a few days ago at the White House. The economic legisla tion which the President is ex pected to send to Congress pro poses the repeal of the seven percent excise tax on automo biles, a new investment credit program for business, and a speed-up of the effective date of the $750 personal income tax exemption to January 1, 1972. With the money crisis fore most on the minds of everyone, there is also the prospect that other measures may be introduc ed to fight inflation and un employment, since the Admin istration has been under steady pressure for months from Cap itol Hill to take action to im prove the economy. The shift in the Administra tion’s money policy is almost eertain to have some effect on several of the President’s major proposals — revenue - sharing and the guaranteed annual in come for welfare families. When the wage-prioe-tax-budget plan was announced on August 15th, it was stated that the Adminis tration was deferring the ef fective date of any revenue sharing and welfare reforms for periods of as much as one year. Since both of these measures were in some trouble already, the President’s action is not likely to improve the chances for their passage at this ses sion. New environmental legifla. tion seems likely to win final approval soon. Most likely this will be in the form of a 3-year construction program for water treatment facilities. The Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution completed markup of a bill to extend such aid on August 5th. The House Public Works Coihmittee has schedul ed hearings on water pollution control measures on September 13th. The House - Senate conference report on the bill to extend the draft, which was approved by the House just before the re cess, will be taken up by the Senate on September 13th. Op ponents of the measure have already indicated that they will again engage in extended de bate in an effort to set a dead line for the withdrawal of U. S. troops from Indochina. My own feeling is that Congress ought to extend the draft for a period of two years and leave it to the President to work out the withdrawal schedule for our troops as he determines best for our national interests. Four out of fourteen regular appropriation bills have yet to be approved, but even so this —Turn to Page Four THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR DR. HERBERT SPAUGH ^HHIHMIHIHMHnHHWIlHmil'llHimNWMWWWmiWWIUMlimiHWMIimMWMmHIWIII ‘J Trouble, confusion, fear, anxiety, frustration, recrimination and resulting illness is the burden of a 10-page letter from a cor respondent. It was written by a grandmother who has difficulty with her own husband. He is not a professing Christian and does not attend church. She does attend and is quite active, but does not make her religion attractive enough to her husband to make him want to attend. The domestic difficulty carries over into the second generation where a son and his wife are battling much in the same way. The third generation, a 15 year old girl, is caught in the cross fire. The perfect setup is developing for her to marry at an early age and get out of the home battles. The letter concludes, “I can hardly write I am in so much trouble. I love God and I have asked God to show me or tell me what to do.” Selfishness is written all over the letter and in between the lines. Selfishness and self-centeredness. I might add that the grandmother has arthrities. It is a wonder she doesn’t have more. In such cases we always recommend going back to the point of personal relationship with God, confession of sin, seeking for giveness, and yielding the life with all problems completely to Him. Next The grandmother should develop such a Christian at mosphere of warmth and love in her own home that she wins her husband to Christ Now they can become a praying team. Next the blessing, and guidance of the Holy Spirit should be sought through prayer (See the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit in I Corinthians 12) Finally there must be some demonstration of the fruits of the Spirit, (Galathians 5) love joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and Practically all of our public and automobiles are now air - should be emotionally condition first three gifts of the Holy Si mosphere of love is acquired, it and many of our homes home - (the and at Into the THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES PAGE TWO Thursday, September 2, 1971 EDITORIAL PAGE Guest Column fl Daily Devotionals (Editor's not*: The following is the third of a five - part series which will appear as Guest Columns. These are taken from the September - October; 1971, issue of "These Days”, a magazine publish ed for the Presbyterian and United Church of Christ. They were Writ ten by the R*v. G. Daniel McCall, formerly the pastor of the Brevard Davideon River Presbyterian Church.) Sunday, September 19 Read Phillppians 3:1-11. Joy In The Good Newt that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith ... Phillppians 3:9 Have you ever felt discouraged because you were unable to do consistently the good you want to do? distressed at being un able to behave as you feel God expects? Most Christians are troubled by this at one time or another; some are bothered by it most of the time. Paul was aware of the human tendency to feel that we must earn God’s approval. He knew the anxiousness which comes with the belief that we must win God’s favor through our own efforts. But what a bless ing to learn of “The righteousness from God that depends on faith”l This was the “good news” Paul had pro claimed to the Philippians. It was the faith upon which the church had been built. He declared it again in his Letter because he knew of the temptation to revert in our thinking to the idea of works’ righteousness. Christian joy — for Paul, for the Phil ippians, and for us — Comes with knowing that the right relationship with God for which our souls yearn is his gracious gift through Christ. PRAYER: Help us, great God, to hear with understanding minds and believing hearts the good news that is the gospel. In Jesus’ name. Amen. Monday, September 20 Read Philippians 3:8-16. Joy In Christian Maturity I press on toward the goal (or the prise of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:14 Maybe you or someone in your family has asked, “Can I be sure "I am saved? If so, then what? What is there left for me to do?” Paul was joyfully confident of his salva tion. He might have been content to rest securely in that belief and do little more. Instead, this confidence seemed to spur him on toward greater knowledge of God’s will and deeper devotion to his service. When we first inquired into the Christ ian faith, you and I were looking for a right relationship with God. Hearing his offer of salvation through Christy we ac cepted his Lordship with the confident ex pectation that he will be true to his word. What now? Shall we retire to the gallery of “the saints who from their labors rest”? Shall we be content with our assurance of salvation, or shall we, like Paul, strain for ward and “press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus”? Christian maturity is not so much a state or condition at which one arrives. It is more an evolving attitude and a de veloping disposition that leads the believer to continue to seek further into God’s will, to trust him more implicitly, and to devote himself more fully to his service. PRAYER: O God, “let those of us who are mature be thus minded.” In the Master’s name. Amen. .K Pick Of The Press Sleep On, Silent American (Gaffney, S. C., Ledger) Sleep on, silent American. Turn your ears away from the dissonant clamor of the mob in the street, the thunder of the artillery shell in a Cambodian jungle, the,, wail of a starving child. Sleep on, silent American. If the six-thirty newcast shocks your sensibilities too'much, or is tomorrow's headlines frighten you, or if the cover of LIFE makes you sick to your stomach, just don’t look. Sleep on, silent American. Don’t wor ry about the hundreds of thousands of stud ent protestors who are commandeering ad ministration buildings and bombing banks and exalting false gods like Bobby Seals. Sleep on, silent American. Say nothing, think nothing do nothing — and the prob lems of this nation may vanish away. Sleep on, silent American. Preach the gospel of peace and tell your next door neighbor as he reclines on his patio that the President should end that nasty war in Viet Nam and withdraw 100,000 more troops this month, but don’t give any thought to those last 50,000 men who’ll be left in Viet Nam to be mercilessly slaughtered. Sleep on,, silent American. Do not con cern yourself with the problems of the cities. Ignorance and disease and poverty are part of life itself. Even Christ himself said, ‘The poor, you shall have with you always.” Sleep on, silent American. Don’t pay any attention to all you read and hear about pollution and destruction of our natural re sources. It’s all just a scare-tactic thought of by politicians to push their own programs through Congress. (They toki us cigarettes would kill us, too, but we’re ail still here.) Don’t worry about the pollution of our air or the pollution of our minds. Sleep on, silent American. Don't be intimidated by our children, either. Tell teenager to go have himself a good time. Throw him the car keys and give him a ten-dollar bill. But don’t a'k him where he’s going. That would be a violation of his privacy and infringment on his rights. Don’t even question his judgment. Always take his part in a confrontation with the high school principal or the higway patrol man. Never ask for an explanation of how he spends his spare time or who he runs around with or why be stayed out all night. Don’t ever roll up his shirt sleeves to see if the skin on his forearms is free of punc ture marks. Don’t look to see what he’s reading. Never ask him who his heroes are. Don’t require him to work and earn his own money. You remember the lean times when you were a boy, and you’re going to make sure that your own child never has to do without anything. Protect him from responsibility and hard work and don’t force him to make decisions for himself. Sleep on, silent American. Do not bestir yourself to the polls on election day. Poli tics is a rotten mess anyway, and you’re better off to stay out of it. Don’t tire your self out with any serious thing. Just listen to the opinions of others and emulate them. Never be seen with your hand over your heart and resist that nagging urge to put up an American flag on your front lawn. Con tinue to applaude nudity in the theatre and pornography and filth on the newsstands. Thig is the new morality, haven’t you heard? Stand idly by and watcit our system of jus tice made a mockery. Watch the Supreme Court of our land degenerate into a hand ful of bitter, bungling old men, who com mand neither re; pect nor dignity, yet who still have the authority to tie the of Our law enforcement agencies. Sleep on, silent American. Go to the golf course on Sunday morning. You’ve worked hard all week and you deserve a little time off to relax and enjoy yourself. Of course, on your way to the greens you might drop the kids off at Sunday School and giye them a. quarter to drop into the collection plate, tet peace and tranquillity the quintessence of your summer day. iMh* hammock of complacency You have
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