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A Free Spirit! A short Associated Press dispatch from Spearfish, South Dakota, pre sents a refreshing departure from current “life styles” that are path ologically dedicated to comfort and security. The dispatch reports the retirement of an 82-year-old, crop dusting pilot. At the advice of the Federal Avia tion Administration, the pilot is closing a career of 52 years of com mercial flying. The 82-year-old .aviator, commenting on his retire ment, said, “I've got a few more crop dusting jobs to do and then it looks like I'm through.” One rea son he has decided to quit flying is that he has a knee that ‘hurts like the dickens”, and he finds it diffi cult to use the rudder pedals that are so necessary to crop spraying with his single-engine aircraft. Measured by current standards, this old gentleman of the aviation fraternity should, long ago, have been collecting his dole or other available benefits from a benefici ent government. How, his kind will never quite fit the rules of a system that places more and more emphasis on the illusory goals of safety and security. You see, he en joys living, while the primary con cern of the welfare state is existing. Profit Control Not Needed When the wage and price freeze went into effect, an immediate cry was raised by the shortsighted over the exclusion of profits. The pres sure is continuing for some kind of profit control. Under existing circum stances, profit controls would prob ably merely add to unemployment. According to reliable authorities, industry profit margins are close to the lowest point in 20 years, and to tal profits have fallen. Last year, they were $41 billion after taxes as against $50 billion in 1966 and about $47 billion in 1967 and 1968. Moreover, unlike in the days of World War II and the Korean War, When excess - profits taxes were imposed, there is now plant capacity standing idle and an over supply of many goods. Thus, as one business spokesman observes, the wage-price freeze automatically controlled pro fits. Under the freeze, the only way a company can increase profits is through improving efficiency or boosting output and sales volume. Controlling 'profits would probably kill the incentive to do either, and who would pay for that? The answ er is no one but the consumer and workers whose jobs depend upon expanding progressive companies. Controls that kill opportunity and incentive, stifle productivity and end by opening the flood gates of inflation, black markets, rationing and all the other evils of a police state economy. A Dangerous Age Figures released by the National Transportation Safety Board, cover ing a study of 15-to-24-year-old au to drivers, are enough to make par ents regret that cars were ever in vented. Among 17,700 youth fatali ties in 1969. there were 7,400 more youthful driver deaths than would have occurred if their fatality rate had been the same as that of drh(§{$ , 25-years of age and older. The proportionate loss involves “pre dominantly the young male”. The Board finds that, “Driving and rid ing with other young drivers consti tute the greatest hazard to survival which American youth must pass successfully to reach adulthood.” No one knows the loss of life inflict ed upon other age groups as a re sult of the suicidal carelessness of the 15-to 24-year-old drivers. The National Transportation Safety Board makes a number of recommendations aimed at young ^riyej: e^atiojEi ^JJpipro^menC. alcoholsafety action and vehicle in spection. Those who wonder about the high insurance rate on youthful drivers can find their answer in the carnage youth commits everyday on the nation’s highways. Forest Fire Time Has Arrived Again This is one of the several times of the year when foresters sleep with one eye peeled toward the woods, as they keep a sharp lookout for forest fires. Rains in late September and Oc tober kept the fire danger to a min imum, but the warm Indian summer days ahead will soon dry out the woodlands. Forest fires are a great potential danger not only to the fine timber and the wildlife in our forests, but there’s always the 'possibility that the fires will spread and engulf hun EI dreds of our homes as was the case out in California this year. State and federal foresters remind all Transylvanians that it is neces sary to secure a permit for burning of brush within 500 feet of wood lands, except between the hours of 400 p.m., and midnight. And persons living in Brevard are required to call the shortwave radio station, 883-3311 and request to do outside burning before hand. Always be careful with that match or cigarette, especially when you are in or near our forests. The Transylvania Times 10r Broad St Brevard, N. C. 88711 The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1881; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1896; The Times, established 1831; Consolidated 1881 A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY L0 M. ANDERSON — Publisher — 1841 - 1888 1 MRS. ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher JOHN I. ANDERSON. Editor-Gen. Kgr. BELL P. NORMS, Adrertiain* Mgr. IBS. MARSHA STAMEY, Office Mgr. MRS. KATE ROWE. Clerk - Proofreader GAL CARPENTER, Feature Editor HENRY HENDERSON. Mechanical Sop*. ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head j GORDON BYRD, Compoaitor D. C. WILSON, Printer JOHN HAWKINS, Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR e the Couaty—|4.50 year Outside the County—15.00 . .... THE TIMES'* PRIZE-WINNING COLUMN From ALMAR FARM In Transylvania BY CAL CARPENTER I got caught out in the rain the other day and it started me thinking about raincoats. I didn’t have one at that particular time, but I consoled myself that I’d prob ably have gotten wet even if I had. For raincoats, even though they’re some better than they used to be, still won’t really keep you dry in a determined downpour. When I think of raincoats, I naturally remember the first kind I wore. This was a long, black, ruberized cloth garment with latch fasteners like you sometimes see on galoshas now days. I wore it from the old house on Bugg Street in North Canton on the mile or so walk to the North Canton Grammar School. It didn’t leak when new, but surely did after it had been worn a while. Unlike today’s rainwear, which is made of all warterproof ma terial, my boyhood raincoat was only a thin coating of rubber sprayed, I suppose, on a heavy cotton cloth. As such, it had a tendency to crack where the coat was folded, and eventually peeled off to have a leperous appear ance. Where the rubber peeled off it was about as waterproof as cheese cloth. Added to this, it fit poor ly around the neck and usual ly for a growing boy, hung well above the ankles. What water didn’t manage to go down the neck mostly wound up on my lower pant legs and in my shoes — a problem that hasn’t been corrected to this day in the average raincoat. Next, in chronological or der, I remember the Govern ment Issue raincoat of my Cadet days in the Army*Thw was a sturdy, waterproof fab ric gafmenlfliWWHrtSr wat er efficiently where it cov ered — but it didn’t cover enough. I clearly remember march ing along the streets of Max well Air Field near Montgom ery, Alabama, one of a long pa rade of Flying Cadets, with an Alabama downpour coming down so hard you could hard ly see the man ahead of you. You see, the military has, of necessity, never made any con cession to the weather, bad or good. An army has to move, come you-know-what or high water, and you are trained to— march regardless of the weath er. It is still. I’m sure, against regulations for any man in uniform, be he private or gen eral, to be seen carrying an umbrella. It’s just not military —too much concession to the weather. But he can wear a raincoat. In those days, we wore the coats but no rain hats. Per haps it was considered enough of a concession that we wore coats — anyway, with nothing but the little cotton flight caps on our heads, the rain had a clear run down the raincoat col lars. And, like my schoolboy coat, the G. I. model stopped at mid - calf. So what rain didn’t go down our collars ran off onto our trouser legs and into our shoes. We marched along, heads high and shoulders back, with water in our eyes, down our middles and in our shoes, sing ing “Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder.” It’s a wonder we didn’t all get pneumonia and go off into the wild blue in a manner different from the way we were singing about. But we were young and strong — we minded the rain little more than I had as a ten-year old boy on the way to grammar school. Of all the rainwear I’ve ev er seen, I believe the best is the old army Poncho. Now there was a raincoat that would keep you dry in prac tically any circumstances, yet not quite all. It was — and still is I 4>mss —»a cloak resembling a 'blShket ‘of waterproof mater ial vftftra slit in the middle for . . your head. The Army had gone this original design one better by building a parka in the middle. You could put this thing on, and with a draw string tight around your throat and the bottom of it almost sweeping the ground, you’d be dry in a tropical downpour — as far as the falling rain went. I was with the Atomic En-. —Tun to Page Three THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR DR. HERBERT SPAUGH These early marriages in which so many young people today are uniting are not holding together at all well. In fact, the rate of divorce in the case of teenage marriages is about 50%, every other marriage. It isn’t difficult to discover the cause lack of thought and counting the cost. There are more teenage girls than teenage boys marrying. Many of them do it simply because the girls in their group are getting married. Others marry to escape home restrictions. In all but a few cases, they simply don’t count the cost. They are much like an experience had in Jamaica some years ago. I was visiting our Moravian churches and pastors on that island. We came to one parsonage where the pastor was absent but a terribly battered up automobile was standing under the carport I turned to my driver who was also a minister and ask ed him, “What happened? It looks like it rolled down the side of the mountain.’’ “It did, replied my driver. This minister saved his money, went to a car dealer and bought a car. Apparently he thought nothing at all about taking driving lessons. He tried to drive it home without any knowledge or experience. He didn't make it His car was ruined, but fortunately he escaped with only bruises. < This is the case in many of these early marriages. If they do hold together then they become grandparents while they are still in early mid - life. Here is a case.— ’ . “I am 46 years old, a mother and twice a grandmother. My problem is our 18 year - old son just told us he is in love with a 22 year-old divorcee with two children. He plans to marry her. EDITORIAL PAGE THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES PAGE TWO Thursday, November 4, 1971 _ - - - Guest Column It's A New Day In The Classroom By - JERRY BLEDSOE (Greensboro Daily News) A Greensboro mother is telling this one about her third grader. Mama went to school to pick up her daughter the other afternoon, and the daugh ter bounded into the car, settled into the seat and said: “Mama, what’s sex all about?” Mama, a little startled said: “Well . . . It’s uh, about a lot of things. Why? Have you been studying about it?" “No, but we having achievement tests and the teacher said that tomorrow’s test would be on sex.” -. Achievement tests on sex? Mama, trying not to seem nonplused, said: “Are you sure that’s what she said?” Daughter was sure. Mama puzzled over it until she figured out the only thing it could be. Next day, daughter did very well on her test on SETS. New math, don’t you know. Pick Of The Press Driver Education (The Pilot) Southern Pnes North Carolina's driver education pro gram, has proved itself over the three years since the plan was pushed through the Legislature by Senator Tom White of Kin ston. Under the program all automobile li cense purchasers pay an extra $1 for the training of boys and girls in auto driving skills. The program is administered by the Department of Motor Vehicles and the State Department of Public Instruction. The rec ord shows that it has been one of the best moves toward saving lives made by the State. We were interested in reading recent ly that most Americans feel the same way about driver education. The Gallup poll found that an overwhelming 83 percent of all citizens were in favor of passing through legislation which would require high school students to take a driver education course before they graduate. Young and old, men and women were strong for the proposal. Some of those who replied said they would favor it if the students were prepared for “actual life-and-death situations” and not just how to put the car in reverse. For the most part North Carolina has had a strong driver education program, which did just that. The emphasis on “de fensive driving” has undoubtedly paid divi dends in fewer lives lost in highway acci dents. The matter of requiring driver educa tion before high school graduation is fine, but what about the high school dropouts? They also need such training, and the granting of driver licenses should be con tingent upon their receiving it. The Robot Cow (The Reidsville Review) Farmers, wno still haven’t quite ac cepted, the fact that artificial'1 bttttehP is'fte^e ' to stay, are faced with a new challenge—an artificial cow' rid less. An Englishman has invented a contrap tion of plastic tubes and angle irons, with huge jaws fed by a conveyer belt and a centrifuge for a stomach, according to a Na tional Geographic news bulletn. The jaws munch on grass, clover or waste cabbage leaves. Then the centrifuge spin - separates the fiber from the liquid, which is treated with chemicals and electric currents to eliminate mineral discolorations. The resulting clear, bland juice is for tified with vegetable oilst> sugar and other add itiVds,1 ¥hcn is homogenized apd pasfeur J ized. «»'**->» It’s claimed that the machine can trans form one ton of fodder a day into 180 gal lons of “leaf protein milk.” This exceeds by far the average of less than three gal lons a day credited to American’s 13,509,000 dairy cows last year. Will leaf protein milk do to cow what ole - margarine did to the butter churn? At this early date, there is udderly no way to tell. The UN Accepts The Real China (Smithfield Herald) The real China is “mainland China,” as the Nixon administration calls it—or “Com munist China,” if you prefer. It should hare been admitted to the United Nations years ago. Its admission to the UN now can serve the cause of world peace if the hysterical politicians in America will tone down their anti-Peking end anti-UN rants. To support admission of the Peking gov ernment to the United Nations is not to ap prove the kind of government that operates in Peking. It is a way of saying that the UN can never fulfill the dreams of its founders if a country of some 800 million inhabitants is bared from its halls and from participa tion in its decisions. Many Americans who support admission of mainland China to the United Nations regret that Taiwan has been expelled from the world organization. It can be argued logically that no land containing 14 million inhabitants—the approximate population of Taiwan — should be barred from the “fam ily of nations.” The Nixon administration, which sup ported the admission of Neking, did argue that Taiwan should not be barred from the UN. But the U. S. view did not prevail when the votes were cast. And many Americans are angry. But the angry are wrong when they shout, “Take the United States out of the United Nations and take the United Na tions out of the United States.” They sound like the lad who didn’t like the way things were going on the school grounds and picked up his marbles and went home. The United Nations was never intend ed to be an instrument of U. S. foreign policy. Just as parties and individuals can not always have their way in domestic jtbe United States cannot munist world has captured the United Na tions. Americans feel that it is harsh to drive from the United Nations the government on the Island of Taiwan long led by Chiang Kai-shek, but other countries take a view of Taiwan’s status different from ours. Ever since Chaing and his associates fled Peking and established refuge on Tai wan after the communist won control of China more than two decades ago, Chiang has pressed the fictitious claim that his government on the island is the real China. And the United States under a succession of Presidents has supported his claim. The Communist regime in Peking and J its allies have presistently rejected Chiang’s claim, and Peking was repeatedly expressed its disinclination to desire membership in the UN alongside of a regime claiming to be the real China. Many non-Communist counties have been sympathetic towaift Peking’s attitude, and they translated their sympathy into votes that brought about Tai wan’s expulsion from the UN. Acknowledging realisnudoea not that Taiwan, With it’a 14 million human beings, is to be ignored or reduced to a nonentity. The problem of Taiwan's future deserves status as unfinished business. ICS. .. In the American view, Taiwan’s expul sion is deplorable, but realistic Americana will acknowledge that the United Nations comes closer to reflecting international realism with the real China sitting in the UN and occupying a seat on the UN’s Se curity Council.
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