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m We Agree We heartily agree with the ac tion of the Transylvania County Board of Commissioners in their re cent resolution asking that the funds appropriated for the Mills River Dam be used to construct a head waters dam on the North Fork of the French Broad. We think this proposal should be very seriously considered. First off, we remember that the original plan was to begin dam con struction on the headwaters streams as the best way to prevent flooding. This was everybody’s understanding of the way things were to go until, suddenly, the first dam was to be at Mills River. We don’t know just what brought the change about, we say tongue - in - cheek, considering the much heavier political clout in Buncombe county. But now that funds are held up there, we agree that every effort should be made to get them released to do the job they were originally supposed to do. Secondly, we suppose we’re just a little parochial. Building the high ly controversial dam at Mills River wouldn’t help Transylvania’s flood problem a bit. But building a dam on the North Fork would make a big difference in the high water levels at Rosman and Brevard; and this would not be nearly so contro versial as the Mills River project unless we were committed to the whole plan by so doing. We’re not fully committed to all the Upper French Broad Economic Development Commission’s and the Tennessee Valley Authority’s plan for dams on the Upper French Broad, but we’re of the opinion that a start in the right place such as this, just might serve to settle some of our own controversy on the sub ject. 46Anyway You Plow It” Agriculture is still the nation’s largest industry. Three out of every 10 jobs are connected to farming. Nowhere in the world, at anytime in history, has a nation had a more abundant, low-cost, high-quality supply of foodstuffs. “The average American”, com ments a leading business executive, “spends only 16.7 per cent of his take-home pay (for food). This com pares with 37-39 per cent for his counterpart in western Europe and Japan, the East Indian who pays 60 per cent of his paycheck for food and the Russian who must pay 65 per cent. . . In a period when pro ductivity has been steadily falling for the country as a whole, output per man-hour of farm labor has in creased 6.6 per cent per year since 1950. As the business executive puts it, “Anyway you plow it, this is real productivity improvement. . . .” Unseen Faycheck Twenty years ago the average firm’s employee was $450. Today, according to a recent survey of 8,000 firms, the annual fringe benefit to the average employee total $2,052. This survey found an increase of two to four per cent oyer ,frhe past two years in the cost of fringe benefits. Firms with 50 or fewer employees pay 13 to 15 per cent of their pay roll toward the annual unseen pay check of over $2,000 which has been dubbed a “fringe” of a person’s total income. Larger firms, the survey re veals, pay up to 30 per cent of pay roll for these fringes which include expanding forms of medical and hospital insurance, life insurance, disability and pension coverage. Other fringes include the cost of company clinic, physical, dental and eye care; cafeteria and coffee ser vices; employee tuition refunds; scholarship and matching gift ptfis-, grams, etc. Many employers as well as em ployees are oblivious to the mone tary value of today's fringes. Never theless, they are part of the total cost of doing business. No employer, no employee or consumer should be deluded with the notion that fringes are free. Censorship By Starvation Censorship of the press can be ac complished in many ways. One of them is ever-tighter government con trol of advertising. By dictating to advertisers, government indirectly can control the press. An official of the Magazine Publishers Association warns that in some cases govern ment requirements would convert an ad for a certain product into an ad against that product. He says, “. . . . Under such government stric tures, what advertiser would con tinue to pay for advertising? If the government establishes the legal right to destroy the effectiveness of advertising by regulation, the gov ernment could move from one cate gory of advertising to another as the predilections of officials dictate. The result could be to dry up most of the 10 or 11 billion dollars of annual advertising revenue that now makes possible the wide dissemina tion of publications at popular prices. The press would not cease to f ■lummiiiiiiin The Transylvania Times IOC Broad St Brevard, N. C. 38713 The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established 1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1881; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard News), established 1888; The Times, established 1831; Consolidated 1833. A STATE AND NATIONAL PRIZE - WINNING NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ED 1L ANDERSON — Publisher — 1M1 MRS. ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher JOHN I ANDERSON, Editor-Gen. Mgr. RTT.T. F. NORRIS, Advertising lggr. MRS. MARTHA STAMEY, Office Mgr. MRS. KATE ROWE, deck - Proofreader CAL CARPENTER, Feature Editor HENDRY HENDERSON, Mechanical Supt ESTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head GORDON BYRD, Compoaitar D. C. WILSON, Printer JOHN HAWKINS, Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES PER YEAR Inside the County—$5.00 year Outside the County—$5.50 \ ill EDITORIAL PAGE PAGE TWO Thursday, January 20, 1972 (Editor** Note: Utter* mast be brief, signed, typed «r writ ten legibly on one side of pa per. We reserve the right to re ject, edit, or condense. Letters should be received by The Times by Monday morning*.) January 12, 1972 Rosman Volunteer Fire Department Rosman, North Carolina {fl Gentlemen: the fine work you do in our community. We are all grateful that we can depend on your department. I We at Cherryfield Baptist Church would like to thank you for your prompt and ef ficient service when our furnace caught fire. May the Lord bless and strengthen Members of Cherryfield Church Sincerely, Cherryfield Baptist Church Route 2, Box 575 Brevard, North Carolina 28712 Guest Column Least We Think Too Highly Of Ourselves By - Pete Ivey Chapel Hill Weekly Hoosier Hoot sends this verse to indi cate that people should not take themselves too seriously. He quotes: Take a bucket and fill it with water, Put your hand in it up to the wrist Pull it out, and the hole that is remaining Is the measure of how you will be missed. You may splash all you please when you enter, You can stir up the water galore. But stop and you’ll find in a minute, That it looks quite the same as before. '* The moral of this quaint ex ample T Is do the best that you can. Be proud of yourself but re member, J, * There is no indispensable man. ~ Pick Of The Press That Haunting Calley Case (Smithfield Herald) The Calley case still haunts some of us. As 1971 drew to a close, Colonel Oran K. Henderson was freed of the charge that he covered up investigation of the massacre at Mylai in Vietnam. He was the officer in charge of an Army brigade that killed more than 100 Vietnamese men, women, and chil dren in the hamlet of Mylai in March 1968. He was the last officer to be tried as a suspected war criminal in the most sensa tional of war-crime cases growing out of the war in Indochina. Last September, Captain Ernest Medina was acquitted of murder and manslaughter. He was the company commander who led the attack on the civilians of Mylai. Twenty-five officers and soldiers be came involved in the case. Some were freed of charges outright Others were repri manded or subjected to “disciplinary ac tion.” Only Lieutenant William Calley, Jr., was convicted of a war crime. Subjected to the longest trial in military history, he was found guilty of murdering “not less than 22 civilians” and assaulting a small child “with intent to commit murder.” Lieutenant Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment. Since the trial, the Third Army commander commuted his sentence to 20 years. The evidence strongly showed Calley’s guilt He was surely no national hero. Nev ertheless, the conviction of Calley reflects a gross injustice. The injustice does not lie in the con viction per se. Many Americans think that it does. Some Harvard University research ers interviewed persons across the country and found that 75 per cent of the persons ex pressing opinion thought that the Calley trial was too harsh. And 67 per cent said they themselves would shoot old men, women, and children under'military orders. What a commentary on what we like to call “the moral fiber” of America! Injustice lies in the Army’s singling out Lieutenant Calley for punishment with out making any strong effort to bring or press charges against many military men, including higher-ranking officers^ who should have shared accountability for what happen ed at Mylai. “One in 25” is a conviction rate that remains suspect Not to be forgotten is the Army’s pub lic investigation of the Mylai massacre only after the massacre was exposed to public opinion by civilian media of communica tion. Moreover, all too few Americans see any wrong in the U. S policy of fighting a war in which our political and military leadership sanctions wholesale destruction of civilian populations, both aerial and ground weapons, as a means of subduing a crafty enemy. If is, indeed, hard to erase the Calley case from conscience. The Expensive Lush (The Mount Airy News) Most of the country has a lackadaisical attitude toward the drunk. It's a sort of “live and let live” attitude, even if he is driving his weaving, wobbly way down the street in an automobile. He’s costing you money, friend — around EIGHT BILLION dollars in 1971, according to some pretty reasonable sta tistics coming from the nation’s insurance industry. Last year, your friendly drunken driver KILLED more than 28,000 Americans, chalked up a total of over 800,000 accidents and sent auto insurance rates upward again and again. A growing number of citizens are get exist, but its editorial activities would be pinched back and its prices to readers would go so high that its circulation and its influence would dwindle to a fraction of thedr size. .. People have a way of forgetting that oppression is always clothed ip a zealot’s concern for the public good. As the Magazine Publishers Association official concludes, . No one, including government, should dictate what must be said or must not be said in the advertising pages of a free press. Under the 8 increasingly militant about “soft” laws, :h permit the drunken driver to return he highways to continue his errant and r expensive ways. Perhaps that’s why some have been ling up on the way other nations treat r drunken drivers. In San Salvador, for ance, the penalty for drunken driving be as severe as an appearance before a lg squad — with pretty final results to offender. ill Virginia is considered by many to have l me of the more effective laws in the nation. * A driver with more than two convictions for a major traffic offense, or more than It for subject to judicial certification as an ha lesser offenses within a 10-year period, is bitual offender and could have his license revoked for life. Should such a person then be caught driving without a license, he could receive a mandatory oneto-five year prison ■sentence — a sentence, by the way, which cannot be suspended. That may sound severe, ih as the 10-year jail ten WASHINGTON — In spite of the fact that the first ses sion of the 02nd Congress was one of the more legnthy ones, it did reverie to some extent the long delays in completing final action on appropriations. Congress adjourned Decem ber 17th after approving 13 out of 14 regular money bills, leaving only the foreign aid appropriation for fiscal 1072 yet to be acted upon. In lieu of the passage of this bill, it en acted a continuing resolution to allow that program to be funded at last year’s level pend ing the outcome of a decision as to whether the foreign aid program should be continued and, if so, at what level of fund ing. Congress also enacted an omnibus supplemental money bill to fund a number of pro grams apart from the regular appropriation process, and pro vided money for several spec ial programs such as unemploy ment assistance and the feeding of hungry children. Statistics taken from the Congressional Record reveal that Congress thus far has appropriated $153.7 billion for fiscal 1972, and that this is approximately $639 million less than requested by the Presi dent for these programs. It also appears that if Congress finally approves the foreign aid appropriation for fiscal 1072 it will cut the President’s re quest by approximately $1.34 billion. This would represent an overall budget cut of about $2 billion, barring any new sup plemental appropriations which could wipe out that budget re duction prior to June 30th, the end of fiscal 1972. It also appears likely that Congress will attempt to take speedy action on appropriation bills when it reconvenes next week. Senate and House lead ers have urged that fiscal 1973 authorization billsk which set money bill ceilings, be acted on prior to June 1st, so that ap propriations can be voted on prior to July 1st, the date when fiscal 1973 begins. This is a lauderable goal, be cause in those years when a logjam of money bills came to the Senate floor in October, November, and December that process permitted only hasty judgments- on hundreds of de partmental and agency requests. This was so because usually there are multitudes of non-ap propriation bills which also must be acted upon in the hec tic days just preceding adjourn ment. I have long advocated consideration of money bills earlier in the session. Such action on appropriation bills may give greater perspec tive to lawmakers now consid ering outlays that aggregate one-fourth of our “gross nation al product,” a nebulous term .used to describe ithe total American output of goods and services for a particular year. We have reached a time when overall Federal outlays have more than doubled in the last ten years, 1962 - 1972. One of the most striking facts about this increase is that while de fense spending even during the Vietnam was rose by about $35 billion and has now de creased by $10 billion from the peak years, outlays for social welfare and domestic programs have jumped by about $100 billion and project a continu ing increase. This represents a near trebling of Federal out lays for non-defense programs since 1962, and an emergence of a totally new spending pat tern in the Federal budget. Again in the next session, which convenes in a few days, Congress will be confronted with many new programs that will; if approved, require more than $100 billion in new funds. What is often left unsaid dur ing the advocacy of many of these programs is that they would have to be funded by new taxes or borrowed mon eys. Nonetheless, the nature of our political proccess tells us that with elections of the Pres ident, all of the Members of the House and one-third of the ; Senate-'only months away, Con gress can expect to consider a multitude of proposal^ to dis pense tax funds that^e do not have and are not likely to get. !■) iiiiiiniiiniitimiiiiii THE EVERYDAY COUNSELOR BY DR. HERBERT SPAUGH a Prayer changes things. Prayer changes you. Repeatedly over the years I have affirmed this truth in the Everyday Counselor column. Before me now is a letter from a coi respondent corroborating this truth. “Thank you, Dr. Spaugh, for joining me in prayer for my 18 year-old son. Sometime ago I wrote you asking you to pray with me for his guidance. He was going with a divorcee older than he. He said be was going to marry her. About a week after I wrote this request, my son came home one night and as usual I went in to wish him good night. But this time he said, ‘Mom, please sit down. T want to talk with you.’ Then he expressed his apprecia tion to me and his father for ‘everything I have ever wanted in life.’ Then he commenced to sob that he was sorry for the worry he had caused us and for his sin, saying that he was going to try to live better and be a better Christian. Then we had a long prayer together. “Now he has changed and almost forgotten the divorcee and is showing interest in a sweet, single girl his own age. /‘I feel that my communication with my son is being restored. He says he plans to finish high school and hopes to go to college. “So I want to thank you for your prayers and also for the Bveiyday Counselor column which I have read far many years.” This is no isolated incident. 1 frequently receive letters like this. At first there is a letter asking me to place their problem on the Everyday Counselor prayer list and join in prayer for its So lution. Now a statement we have made in this column many times, “When you can’t t$lk to the man about God, you can to God about the man.” Over the yean my motto has been Prayer, Pa tience and Persistence. ' Sometimes it takes all of these qualities in dating with a problem. And sometimes it takes years before the answer comes. 1 recall praying 20 years for one man before he yielded his life to his Load. Then he did it ip. a tremendous way and became a great influence for goodt witnessing for his Lord. | questions and problems are brought to my desk for siasS an. £ =. When you have a problem for which you seek a yields your fife to your Lord, establish communion with Him lay the problem before Him. Don’t make the mistake «f a the Lord to approve your desire, Instead ask Him to plan and His desire. Then when the answer comes, accept It
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