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Give To UNICEF 'i | ; |t>urin Sis 2Sth year of UNICEF’s existence, it is time to think about what the United Nations Children’s Fund means to all of us. It is good to know that in a world where too much hatred and bigotry exist, there is one organization through which all the Rations of the world show their concern tor the future of the children of the developing countries. Through UNICEF, all dif ferences of thought and ideology are forgotten in a united effort to help children - 900 million children - many of whom live in countries where daily survival is a struggle of such magnitude that any thought beyond that is virtualy impossible. UNICEF concerns itself with the needs and problems of these chil dren. It attacks problems like mal nutrition by providing nutrition edu cation, teaching young people about nourishing foods, and equipping them with the means by which they can produce these foods. Problems like diseases, which cat be prevent ed by clean water supplies, sanita tion, and innoculations or treated in the many clinics and health centers equipped by the Children’s Fund. Problems like ignorance, which is al leviated by providing scchool equip ment, vocational programs, and teacher-training grants. These and maj)y other long-term projects are UNICEF’s daily task. Often there are additional programs of emergency relief and rehabilita tion, necessitated .by such conditions as the disaster in East Pakistan and the earthquake in Peru. The United Nations Children’s Fund is supported by voluntary con tributions of governments, organiza tions, and individuals who realize the value of providing a future to day for the children who will be to morrow’s leaders. Today, UNICEF’s income (exclu sive of special emergency funds) is $50 million a year - the same amount of money the world spends on two hours of war. UNICEF has promis ed the world’s children that by 1975 it will spend $100 million annually on their behalf. On this Silver An niversary of the United Nations Children’s Fund, you can help ful fill that promise. On Halloween, when 3.6 million American young sters come calling “Trick or Treat for UNICEF,” why not make your contribution a silver one? Frightening Facts A warning on declining U. S. na val power is contained in the 1971 72' edition of Jane’s Fighting Ships, an annual compendium on the world’s navies published in London. The editor of this authoritative publication comments, “The situa tion for the U. S. Navy is serious.” The American section of Jane’s says, “The size and relative capabilities of the United States Navy continue to decline at what many authorities con sider to be an alarming rate . . . . ” Of Soviet sea power, the publication reports, “So prolific has the Soviet naval - shipbuilding effort been that the USSR is now able to maintain a standing naval force in the Mediter renean five times stronger than five years ago to counter the American Sixth Fleet . . . . ” The authoritative London publi cation reports that the Soviet fleet now exceeds the U. S. Navy in the numbers and capabilities of active surface ships and submarines. These are facts with which every Ameri can should be familiar — before it is too late. Free Citizens Too Even astronauts are subject to ill ness, the same as other mortals. The Apollo 15 moon mission, which es tablished a semi - "permanent resi dency of nearly three days on the moon, had to consider the possibility of accidents or sickness with the nearest doctor some 200,000 miles away. In preparation for such an emer gency. Apollo 15 carried its own home remedy kit. It included anti pain pills and injector for an anti pain drug; antibotic ointment; stim ulant pills; antidiarrheal pills; de congestant pills; aspirin; eye drops; nose drops; sleeping pills; motion sickness pills and injector of motion sickness drug; first aid cream and bandaging material; two kinds of antibiotic pills and tablets to control stomach upsets. Also included was an ordinary fever thermometer. It is likely there will be a defic iency in medical care facilities on the moon for sometime to come. By the same token, in a country the size of the United ^States,, it is hardly reasonable to expect a doctor to be at the fingertips of every living soul. There are still many remote regions where some compromise must be made so far as medical care is con cerned. That compromise need not be too severe thanks to modern com munication and transportation. Some have the idea that govern ment medicine will, among other things, take care of the maldistribu tion of doctors. However, it should be remembered that doctors are, supposedly, free citizens like every one else. When we reach the point of permitting the government to tell any group where and how it must live, the Christian ideal of individual freedom will be dead. One of the biggest problems is to educate peo ple to the intelligent use of the won ders of medical science, and to a due regard for the essential free doms that encouraged their develop ment in the first place. The Transylvania Times 10r Broad St Brevard, N. C. 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 1886; The Times, established 1931; Consolidated 1932. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY' THURSDAY ED M. ANDERSON — Publisher -1841-1808 MBS. ED M ANDERSON. Publisher 10HN 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 $upt ES'l'ON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head GORDON BYRD, Compositor D C. WILSON. Printer ' JOHN HAWKINS, Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES r-—14.50 year This Is Industry Appreciation Week In Transylvania and Throughout North Carolina SSNATOt SAM ERVIN * SAYS * WASHINGTON — The Sen ate has passed S. 215, the Fed eral Constitutional Convention Procedures Act, A measure which I introdudced and have fought for continuously over the last four years. The bill is designed to im plement Article V of the Con stitution, which provides among other things, that the Congress shall “op application of the leg Matures of two-thirds of the several states call a convention for proposing amendments.” From the foundation of the Re public to the present time, the states have submitted a total of 304 applications for a constitu tional convention, but virtually no precedent exists to serve as a guide to the states and the Congress in the carrying out of this method of amending the Constitution. In the summer of 1967, I be came concerned about the pros pect of a constitutional crisis with no guidelines if 34 states requested a national convention to modify the one-man, one-vote decision of the Supreme Court in the reapportionment cases. At that time, 32 states had call ed for such a convention, and my study revealed that we need ed legislalon to provide the an swers to the sensitive questions which would determine whether a convention should be called and how any convention, once called, should function procedu rally. Although hearings were held in October of 1967, the bill did not win Senate approval for at least two reasons. First, the bill had not been studied sufficient ly by a majority of the Senate to reach a conclusion as to its merits; andr second, the bill was judged by many uP°n the basis of partisan feeling about the pro posed reapportionment amendment. Again, in the next Congress, I reintroduced the bill where it languished in committee throughout that session. This year, the passage of time and concerns about particular pro posed amendments and the ef fect of the bill upon them changed the feeling about S. 215. Actually, the Senate, by a vote of 84 to 0 agreed with what I have said all along, and that -‘-Tom to Page Eight THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR BY DR. HERBERT SPAUGH As many modern American parents either give their teenage sons and daughters an automobile or . assist them to get it, I want to pass on to them a letter to a police chief from a mother quoted by the Transylvania Times. “I would like for you to be brutal with my sons. Is that a surprise? “If you find them speeding in a car, please be brutal. I have sat at a hospital holding a grieving mother’s hand because of some one’s mistake. That was brutal- I have played organ music at funeral services for babies, teenagers, and adults because someone drove too carelessly and fast. That was brutal. “I have tried to console a mother who:e daughter was killed by a drunken driver. That was brutal. “If you find my sons with drugs in their possession please be brutal. “1 have tried to rehabilitate a woman just out of prison for shoot ing her husband while she was drugged. That was brutal. “1 have seen a handsome young man turn into an ugly one be cause of drugs. That was brutal. I have seen a young mother who was addicted to a drug scream and rave for a lack of a ‘fix.’ That was brutal. “If you fma my sons committing any kina of immoral act or carrying any pornographic materials, please be brutal. I have listened to the sad cry of a young girl who was pregnant but not married. That was brutal. “I have tried to comfort a mother whose beautiful daughter was raped That was brutal. I have seen a promising young man with a brilliant future have to give it up, too young, to assume the responsibility of a wife and baby. That was brutal. , “If you ever see my sons taking something that isn’t theirs, or willfully destroying property, please be brutal.. I have walk ed in a hushed church that was stripped of, everything that could h? sold. Tbat was brutal, I have seen a lovely home and yard com pletely torn up by vandals. That was brutal: “I have seen a school and its equipment torn apart by other vandals. That was brutal. I have wiped a (little boy’s tears and THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES PAGE TWO Thursday, October 28, 1971 October 22, 1971 Mr. John I. Anderson, Editor The Transylvania Times Brevad, N. C. 28712 Dear Mr. Anderson: Knowing how interested you are in com munity affairs has been a constant inspira tion to me since moving to Brevard. Your feeling for and support of the School Food Service Program in Transyl vania County is most appreciated. S|j| I know I speak for the administration^, (Editor1* Note: Letter* nut be brief, signed, typed #r writ ten legibly on one ride of pi per. We reserve the right to re ject, edit, or condense. Letter* should bo received by The Time* by Monday morning*.) all the managers and workers in each school when I say “thank you” for your recent ed itorial, the “menu space” and for other articles carried which have helped to tell the “School Lunch Story.” Sincerely yours, Madge K. Maree Director/Supervisor Transylvania County School Food Service MKM/m Guest Column Making A Point By ■ Nudy James Montgomery Heald (Troy) It was bound to happen some day, but I never thought I would see it. Professional football players, who are as adept at theatrics as they are at perform ing the fundamentals of the game, must spend hours practicing such things as what to do with the football after a touchdown is scored. Each player does his own "thing,” but the object seems to be to see who can toss the ball highest into the air, or to bounce the pigskin hardest off the turf. Blit, like the most carefully rehearsed game plans, sometimes the antics of the stars backfire. It happened Monday night during the nationally - televised NFL foot ball game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Kansas City Chiefs. The Steelers were behind in the fourth quarter and quarterback Terry Bradshaw spotted his receiver Dave Smith wide open. Bradshaw fired a perfect pass, and Smith made a perfect catch. It was obvious that Smith would score. But just as he neared the goal line, Smith raised the football in his right hand in gleeful triumph. This time, however, be fore Smith could slam the ball into the ground in the end zone, he dropped it on the one or two-yard line. It bounded through the end zone to become a touchback. Instead of a touchdown and seven points, the Steel ers lost possession and, subsequently, the game. I don’t know how Smith felt, but it must have been something akin to the clas sic miscue of a football player racing toward the wrong goal. Pick Of The Press Heroin Death Brings Home Hazards Of Abuse (Easley Progess) It can’t happen here? Well, it did — fatally. Last Saturday morning, in spite of her* culean professional efforts on the part of physicians and nurses, an 18-year-old Easley youth lost his life — thereby becoming a statistic, as well as proving that narcotics in gested in an overdose can bring death. It is the sort of tning about which Pick ens County residents have been hearing and reading for some time — something that has happened in the nation’s large metropoli tan centers, or even as nearby as Greenville. However, Saturday morning’s death was the first such ever detected in Pickens Coun ty as a result of an overdose of heroin. Many residents of the county have been complacently confident that the menace of drug abuse could not penetrate their bord ers i V,Vv'' How tragically wrong they have been! County and local law enforcement of ficers have long been aware that drugs of various kinds — and in varying quantities— have been both available and have been u.ed frequenily. Other officials ar.d private cit!zens, too, have known the drug menace was a reality, but far too many persons chose to ignore the danger — hopeful in some vague man ner that the problem would “just go away.” It will not simply vanish. On the contrary, the situation is like ly to get worse before it gets better, particu larly if. people are, apathetic about the in herent danger y'hich lies in the use of ille gal drugs. Those who choose to ignore the fact that drugs have “made the scene” locally 1 are deluding themselves — and, in doing so. they have unwittingly been contribute ing to the widespread distribution of every thing from marijuana to such “hard” drugs as heroin. Law enforcement officers at every level have been w irking long' and hard at trying to halt the sale of illegal narcotics; they have made arrests and have brought sus pects before the courts for pnrecution; but they are being thwarted in many of their drug violation investigations by reluctance of witnesses to testify, by refusal of persons to come forward with information which might bring lawbreakers to justice by dis belief on the part of families that any of their members could be embroiled in buying, selling or using drugs. Even instances resulting in recent court appearances and subsequent guilty pleas or rulings of guilt have been dismissed with minimal sentences — a situation which has had little deterrent effect upon narcotics trafficking. A consequence of such permissive atti tudes has been an increase in such activi ties as “pot parlies” and relatively easy pur chases of pep p!lls “goofballj” and other so called “soft” drugs. There was certainly nothing “soft” about the narcotic material which was the cause of Grant Hallums’ death. . Unless something is done on the part of responsible persons everywhere this trag ic incident will not be a “one-of-its-kind” case; it will simply have been the first. That’s one too many ... i The Queen's English? . . i. J ’ ■ If you have ever made plans for taking a boat trip in the coastal waters at Charleston, S-. C„ you were probably warned by a Char lestonian not to be ‘ lay-et” or you’d miss the “bo-ut.” i Charleston isn’t the only place in America thaj has a language all its own. Howard K. Smith, the ABC television news commenta tor, has directed our attention to Baltimore —“Balamer, purlin,” as the city’s natives cal! it. Commentator Smith, who lives in Wash ington, D. Ci, became weary of Baltimore’s lording it over the nation’s capital in sports even in thing to wear, not material to be molded into figures. The ABC newsman says they get things turned around a bit, too. The word council is pronounced cancel and cancel is council. In other words, if city taxes are too high, complaint is made to the city cancel. And the bank will council your checks. „' v Howard K. didn’t ray so, but things got turned around in Baltimore when, the Ori oles lost the World Series to the Pittsburgh Parrots. Yes, this is the Baltimore way of
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