School Food Service employees’ in
Transylvania Coujnty schools axe to
be commended. Many thanks are ex
pressed to the managers and all the
workers in the County. During this
week, set aside as National School
Lunch Week, we express our ap
preciation for their efforts to make
the School Lunch Facilities more
pleasant.
By planning, preparing and serv
ing attractive and tasty meals, these
persons help meet the nutritional
needs of our boys and girls.
Mrs. Madge K. Maree is the Di
rector/Supervisor for Transylvania
a .County Food Services, and this
newspaper is appreciative of the fine
cooperation she gives in making the
menus possible for publication each
week.
The Times is also happy to salute
all the School Food Service em
ployees in the town and county dur
ing this special week, and we are
indeed proud of the fact that more
than 90 per cent of our students are
eating in the lunchrooms.
And for many, this is the best meal
they have each day.
Veterans’ Day 1971
Veterans’ Day will be observed
this year in most states on October
25. This time of rememberance had
its beginning as Armistice Day
marking the end of World War J on
November 11, more than 50 years
agq. It is now the day on which the
nation honors all veterans of the
Armed Forces. They should be
doubly honored this year for the
thankless task of “winding down”
the; Vietnam war—a conflict in
which many of them have partici
pated.
Unlike veterans of 'previous peri
ods* in our history, those returning
from Vietnam will find no brass
bands awaiting them, but a nation
preoccupied with dissension and con
fusion over economic and social
troubles would assume far more rea
sonable proportions if the respect for
our’nation, which is implicit in Vet
erans’ Day, could enjoy a rebirth. A
part of that respect can be redeem
ed by observing Veterans’ Day in the
spirit in which it was conceived by
patriotic Americans of over half a
century ago. There was no question
then of the greatness of our nation,
its purposes nor the' quality of its
citizens.
We should realize that what was
true then is true now. There is no
greater nation than the United
States. Those who have served in its
military forces are symbolic of every
thing in which free men believe—
the Christian ideals of personal lib
erty, the rule of law and the sanctity
of the home and the individual.
There is no better time to pay hom
age to all of these safeguards of hu
man dignity and freedom and to the
members of the Armed Forces who
have helped to preserve them on
Veterans’ Day.
It Is Not Free
According to late figures from
The Tax Foundation, a nationally
knofwn research organization, taxes
—federal, state and local—now take
moie than $33 out of every $100 we
earp. The tax charge against earn
ings includes not only obvious things
like income taxes, social security and
sal^s taxes, but also hundreds of
hidden taxes. The old cliche about
supporting government by “soaking
the rich” is seldom heard anymore,
and for a very good reason. If gov
eminent confiscated all taxable in
»
come over $10,000, it would provide
enough additional money to run the
government for less than two
months.
When new taxes are levied against
businesses, they are, of necessity,
passed along to customers. Taxes are
a major cost of business. All busi
ness costs come out of the pockets of
consumers. When government per
forms a service for the citizen, it can
be paid for in two ways; higher
taxes or inflation. The point to re
member is that it is not free.
: National Forest Products Week
Most of us ride along on our space
ship Earth much the same as pas
sengers of a jet airliner. We enjoy
the 'comforts of the ride but are dis
maljy ignorant of the powerful and
complex machine that is carrying us.
By remaining ignorant about such
things as natural resources, their
use and conservation, pollution con
' trol progress and other matters in
volving the integrity of the environ
ment, we can wreck the best efforts
of those who truly understand the
life support systems of the Earth.
For example, in the name of con
servation, we constantly hear politi
cians and far-out environmental
purists advocate locking up forest
lands in single-use recreation areas.
Single use of commercial forest lands
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PAGE TWO Thursday, October 21, 1971
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Guest Column
(The Kansas Power and Light Company)
Just for today I will live one day oply,
forgetting yesterday and tomorrow, and not
trying to solve the whole problem of life
at once.
Just for today I will be unafraid of life
and of death; unafraid to enjoy the beauti
ful and to be happy. Lincoln said that peo
ple are as happy as they make up their minds
to be.
Just for today I will adjust myself to
what is, and not try to make everything ov
er to suit me. If I cannot have what I like,
I will try to like what I have.
Just for today I will be agreeable, cheer
ful, charitable, do my best, praise people
for what they do, not criticize them for what
they cannot do; and if I find faulty I will
forgive it and forget it. I will not try to im
prove or regulate anybody except myaelf.
Just for today I will have a {dan. I may
not follow it exactly, but I will have one. It
will save me from worry, hurry and inde
cision.
Just for today I will get people off my
nerves and not get on theirs. I will ap
preciate them for what they do and what
they are.
Just for today I will not show it if my
feelings are hurt.
Just for today I will find a little time
for quiet, to relax, and to realize what life
is and can be; time to think about God, and
get a better perspective of myself.
Just for today I will look at life with
fresh eyes and discover the wonder of it;
I will know that as I give to the world so
the world will give to me.
Creation's Vast Lull: It Is 'Indian Summer'
By - Thad Stem, Jr.
(Southern Pines Pilot)
In Indian, or second, summer creation
is gripped by a vast lull. This lull, two
thirds poignance and one third wistfulness,
puts man and nature into an hypnotic trance.
Although creation is still, the earth is stand
ing and waiting for the gigantic change of
life.
One goes out at twilight almost on tip
toe for fear and extraneous sound will break
the spell, call down those rough-handed hosts
known as a falling-weather. And at eventide
it is easy to see creation as a supple maiden
standing in quiet meditation just before she
is sacrificed to the insatiable lusts of steely
west winds and killing frosts.
The Indians told the early settlers there
would be a second summer, and “Indian sum
mer” may have evolved from that informa
tion . . .
During Indian summer the impulse to be
outdoors is irresistible. Old-timers feel it is
indecorous, if not sacrilegious, to say a silent
farewell to the blue-green caravan called
summertime, and younger people find they
are homeless vagrants. The sum of wisdom
and ambition seems reduced to standing and
staring at green leaves trimmed with gold,
at skies that seem to be camp grounds where
the ghosts of Indians smoke pipes in misty
tepees.
If one listens closely, at twilight, one is
almost certain to hear the ghosts of Tusca
roras, or some other tribe, returning from
the hunt, and frequently this sensation goes
beyond all the tricks of winds and smoky
forests and skies.
Pick Of The Press
Honey May Lift You
W. E. HORNER
(Sanford Herald)
Been having a ball going through Folk
Medicine, by Dr. D. C. Jarvis of Vermont,
loaned me by Mrs. Eunice Teddar. Lots
.of interesting chapters, one about honey.
I eat lots of honey. Mostly because I
1 like it. Now I learn it’s non-irritating to
the lining of the digestive tract, is easily
and rapidly jvsimilated, quickly furnishes
the demand for energy, enables athletes and
those who expand energy rapidly to recup
erate quickly from exertion; of all sugars,
best handled by the kidneys, has a natural
and gentle laxative effect, has sedative ef
fect in quieting the body, is easily obtain
able and inexpensive. I add it’s also just
plain good to the taste: with plenty of but
ter and toast or biscuits can’t be beat.
Dr. Jarvis really is high on honey. He
said it has lots of vitamin C; is good infant
feeding; helps prevent bedwetting; is one of
the best natural remedies for inducting
sleep in all ages; makes a good cough reme
dy when combined with lemon juice and
glycerine: 1 lemon, 2 tablespoonsful of
glycerine, finish filling a drinking glass with
honey, use moderately. It’s also good for
muscle cramps, twisting of the eyelids^ suc
cessful remedy for skin burns. Athletes can
use honey particularly to good advantage,
Dr. Jarvis’ book says. And also eating plen
ty of honey combats arthritis and arthritic
pains. Even the honey-comb comes in for
high praise for medicinal value, so don’t be
finicky in buying honey; get a jar that has
both prune honey and a section of the hon
eycomb.
All this may sound silly. But anything
that tastes as good as honey and is non
alcoholic, non-fattening, non-sinful and
doesn’t cost $10 like modern antibiotics, is
worth a try.
in this way merely chokes off one of
our life support elements. By con
trast, those who understand the na
ture of our forest resources advocate
and practice multiple use. Timber is
grown as a crop, while at the same
time providing recreation. A weU
managed productive forest con
tributes to pure air. A million
acres of young, vigorously growing,
high-yield forest will supply enough
oxygen each year to meet the re
quirements of 18 million people.
On the economic side, the forest
industry provides full-time jobs for
more than 1.5 million people with an
annual payroll of more than $10 bil
lion.
The United States needs its 510
million acres of commercial forest
lauds, because they are a vital part
of the Ufe support system of our
Earth. Foreclosing on their produc
tive use makes no more sense than
expecting an airliner to carry us to
our destination without engines.
There is no better time to thipk of
these things than Rational Forest
Products Week, to be observed Oc
Paragrapliics, ..
Poverty is a state of mind often
induced by a neighbpr’s new Gar.
Generally speaking, women are
generally speaking.
If at first you don’t succeed, you're
running about average.
It was bound to happen. One of
the suburban stores is opening a
downtown branch.
Nobody is going to buy what you
have to sell unle^ they know you
have it for sale.
A well - trained child always
keeps quiet while-its father is doing
its homework.
America is the only country in the
world where a wap can build a
three - car garage and fill it with
cars he doesn’t own.
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WASHINGTON — House pas
sage of the proposed Equal
Rights Amendment opens anew
the serious question of whether
the Senate should adopt a reso
lution submitting this issue to
the States for ratification.
Any consideration of the ad
visability of adopting this
amendment requires answers to
these questions: First), what is
(he character of the unfair dis
criminations which society
makes against women? Second,
is it necessary to adopt an
amendment to the Constitution
to invalidate them? Third, if so,
would the House-passed amend
ment constitute an effective
means to that end?
From many conversations 1
have had with advocates of the
Equal Rights Amendment, I am
convinced that many of their
just grievances are founded
upon discriminations not cre
ated by law. The Equal Rights
Amendment will have no effect
upon such injustices.
Professor Paul Freund of
Harvard Law School, one of the
nation’s distinguished constitu
tional scholars, put the matter
in perspective with this sound
advice to the advocates of this
amendment. He said that all the
Effort being spent to enact a
badly drafted constitutional
amendment ought to be chan
nelled into lawsuits enforcing
the 14th Amendment and spe
cific legislative proposals deal
ing with particular grievances.
Instead, the country is con
fronted with an amendment that
could, if it becomes a part
of the Constitution, do an in
finite amount of harm by de
stroying many of the basic legal
protections afforded to women.
Indeed, many constitutional
scholars take the view that the
adoption of this amendment
could result in the nullifica
tion of every existing federal
and state law making any dis
tinction whatever between men
and women, and would rob Con
gress and the state legislatures
of the power to make any future
laws which recognize that there
are physiological and functional
differences between men and
women. This would be tanta
mount to saying that the nation
is ready at one stroke of the
pen to derive women of the
countless necessary protections
afforded them under the laws of
every state in the union.
I must confess that I am
somewhat puzzled by the argu
. menls_-ftf„HUBP who urge that
what they want is an amend
ment which will make men and
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THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
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Automobile sod suicide ere the number one and two causes
for death among youths. This is a horrible and tragic thing. Both
bring to focus the awful results of the lack of the conscious presence
of God. Too many young people are given an automobile without
adequate driving and spiritual instruction together with what
the military calls “time in grade.” The latter means that they
take to the highways in a car without adequate driving experience
under supervision.
For years we have reccommended that all drivers secure a
copy of the “prayer sticker” which goes on the dashboard of the
car which invites the driver to pray before and as he drives. You
cap get these by writing the Everyday Counselor In care of this
newspaper, enclosing 20c for each sticker and a self-addressed,
stamped envelope.
Buicide runs second to the automobile as 9..biller of youth
Here again there is a lack of the sense of tne presence of God
This is true of a suicide of any age. They reach that point of des
peration when they are at “wits end comer.” They feel that no
one cafes and there is no one to whom they cap turp. •£'
Some of these young people are brought up in Christian
homes, but they get in trouble when they enter the college arena
where there is so much skepticism and agnosticism. I know some
thing about this because 1 went through }t myself. J was reared
in a Christian home. Now add to this confused state, the. added
temptation and problem of drugs to cover up their sense of inade
quacy. - ■ „ •
While it is not written in the news account, back of many
youth suicides is the drug problem. ,
How desperately we need God today. He has blessed our
country so bountifully in a material way but we seam to forget that
all Of ps are (Jod’s children by birth, that “fie hath given us richly
all things to enjoy,” Hut there must be a desire to live our lives ac
cording to His will. Alcoholics Anonymous states this need very
well in their first three steps. (1) Admit you cannot handle your life
alone. (2) Admit that God can. (?) Yield yourself to God as
you understand Him. *:•/ -- ->vjT '