Mon and more people, young end
old, are buying bikes, and you'll see
them all along our countryside and
on our streets, too.
That's good. Bike riding is the
finest of exertiae, and at the same
time you are saving precious gaso
line. _;
But tiie more bike riders we have,
the greater the traffic hazard.
There was a bad bike-automobile
collision in Brevard Tuesday after
noon. Just how serious the bike rider
was injured, we do not know just
But the accident should serve to
remind all of us to w&fcch out for
bike riders, also motorcycle riders,
when we are driving:.
And thfe bike rider should obey
&11 traffic rules and regulations of
driving: just as the driver of a car.
Let’s all be very, very careful 1
Don’t Forget To Start
The wet spring has kept many in
dividuals from doing much cleaning
up of grounds, fence rows and other
premises.
But for those who have not done
so, it is never too late. Start now to
clean-up for health and beauty sake.
More and more tourists will be
visiting this section. Let's have them
going back saying this is the clean
est, greenest place in the world.
With all this wet weather, weeds
are growing. Let’s keep them cut
down along our streets and high
ways.
It is a good time to paint-up and
fixup, too. Start some improvements
on your home and grounds. You will
be glad you did.
Please, please, if you are riding
along, do not become a litterbug.
Nothing makes our roadsides more
unsightly than cans, bottles, papers
and other trash thrown out by motor
ists. And just a word of warning:
Transylvania has employed a deputy
to catch litterbugs.
Cleaning up is sometimes catch
ing. If you clean up your own
premises, who knows but what your
neighbors may be influenced to do
the same. Let us help to spread this
good practice.
We will enjoy our country more,
if we keep it clean and beautiful and
our many visitors will say over and
over again, “This is one of the most
beautiful counties in North Caro
lina.” s
Let’s show our appreciation for
what we have in natural beauty. We
will be glad we did. A little effort
will go a long way.
Young People Have Most At Stake
The most important resource this
country has is its work force.
It is the working American who
is the backbone of our economic sys
tem, who produces the goods and
services, pays the taxes, and, in
directly, creates business growth.
Better jobs for more Americans
will come, of course, from business
profits and the expectation of prof
its which are essential for companies
to expand. !
The term "profit.” unfortunate
ly, has taken on an negative, exploi
tive connotation in some segments of
American society today. Vice Presi
dent Gerald R. Ford told a group
of business leaders reecntly that
they have not succeeded in their ef
forts to educate the American pub
lic about the importance of profits.
Young people are entering the
job market each year. Increasing
numbers of positions must be creat
ed. Without steady growth, the
economy will soon stagnate.
Under our systeajnhigli' profits at
tract competitors who, in turn, will
provide more jobs and seek to pro
duce better products at lower prices.
It is a never-ending circle which, if
broken at any point, will have dis
astrous consequences for those at all
other points along the flow.
Paragraphics«. •
Teaching your wife to drive is the
easiest way to lose control of the
car. i
Why Is then always too much
month left over at the end of the
money > * {jjj
A well - trained child always
keeps quiet while its father is doing
its homework.
Shyness is usually mistaken for
unfriendliness.
Sign in the window of marriage
license office — Out to lunch . . .
think it over!
Tact is the unsaid pari of what
you think.
Burning the candle at bo h ends
is one way to go out like a light.
i --*>
The Transylvania Times
100 Broad Street
Brevard, N. C. 28712
The Transylvania Pioneer, established 1887; The French Broad Voice, established
1888; The Brevard Hustler, established 1891; The Sylvan Valley News (later Brevard
News), 1886; The Tines, established 1931; Consolidated 1932.
A STATE AND NATK.NAPPRIZE^
PUBLISI
G NEWSPAPER
:Y
■Ml Mm
on ni
EDM. ANDERSON
Publisher — 1941 - 1968
...
• kisSfS
lntR ED M. ANDERSON, Publisher
HENRY HENDERSON; Mechanical Supt
SSTON PHILLIPS, Printing Dept Head
GORDON BYBD, Compositor
D. C. WILSON, Printer
DAVID METCALF, Printer Apprentice
SUBSCRIPTION RATES PE8 YiiAR
Inside the County—$6.00 year
$4 00 Six Months
CHltside the Coiiftw, $7.50
$4.50 Six Months
New Yor>—CWcego—Detroit—Atlanta
natigWtal REPRESENTATIVE
American Newspaper Representatives
1
* +§M Hymn
'•ilW.
WASHINGTON — The Con
gressional Budget Act, which
the Senate has passed, is one of
the most important pieces of
legislation considered in the last
two decades. Its central purpose
is to provide a legislative
framework to overcome the
present problems arising out of
unmanageable Federal expendi
tures.
My first year in the Senate
was one of the last years of
good budget news for the Ameri
can people. Id that year of 1954,
the Federal government re
duced its spending by some $2
billion below the previous year’s
level. This accomplishment has
not been repeated in the en
suing 19 years.
Deficit spending has become
so fashionable that it is no long
er possible to shock the Ameri
can people. They know that each
year will bring higher taxes,
more spending, and a bigger
federal debt. When the latest
budget was sent to Congress,
it was with a sense of helpless
ness that we were given a bud
get which breaks the $300 bil
lion barrier; lifts the federal
debt above the half trillion dol
lar mark; and increases federal
spending 36 billion dollars above
the amount originally estimated
for this year. This budget will
spend $30 billion just to pay
interest costs on the public debt
and delivers the 14th budget
deficit in the last 15 years. In
essence, it shows how much our
future has been mortgaged by
the profligancy of the past. v
The inadequacy of present
budget procedures is best re
flected in the inability of Con
gress to complete appropri
ations before the start of the
new fiscal year. Federal agen
cies and state and local govern
ments must depend on the un
certainties and stopgap charac
ter of continuing resolutions be
cause most of the appropriations
have not been enacted in time.
Oftentimes, Congress ignores
the appropriations process by
allowing certain programs to be
. funded through the backdoor.
Over the past five years, more
than $30 billion has been added
to the budget in the form of
backdoor spending. The result is
that while regular appropri
ations are being given much
scrutiny, other programs may
proCetid to enactment without
necessary care. In too many in
stances, Congress has author
ized programs without any
awareness of their Mi cost.
They are open-ended and the
Federal Government will have
to pay whatever the costs may
be.
The crux of the budgetary
problem is that Congress never
really decides on how much
total expenditures should be, nor
does it go on record as to
whether the budget should have
a surplus or deficit. Total ex
penditures seem to happen with
out anyone being responsible fen:
them or knowing with much
confidence that they will be.
The total results from dozens of
separate actions, most taken in
past years, some in the current
session of Congress; some in
appropriations bills, others in
legislation which mandates the
expenditure of funds. In the cur
rent context, Congress does not
have the capability to assess the
impact of its fragmented budget
actions on the economy.
This situation has come about
during the last 50 years because
Congress has neglected to equip
itself with essential budgetary
information, methods, and con
trols while it has bolstered the
budgetary capabilities of the
President and the Executive
branch.
S. 1541, a bill which I origi
nally introduced on April 11,
1973, has been reworked in the
Senate Government Operations
Committee and by the Senate
Rules and Administration Com
mittee. It is now the product of
a year of intensive study and
work by many Senators and
staff members. The bill would
relate all fiscal actions within a
comprehensive and consistent
budget framework .It would cre
ate Committees on the Budget
in each House of Congress;
establish that the budget be
adopted early in each session
and for review and revision be
fore adjournment, change the
federal fiscal year to October 1
to September 30, and provide
for the completion of both
spending and revenue decisions
within a comprehensive time
table. The measure sets out in
detail how the budget processes
shall operate to achieve Con
gressional control over spending
and hevenues.
I am pleased that the Senate
has passed this monumental
piece of legislation.
THE EVERYDAY
COUNSELOR
BY
DR. HERBERT SPAUGH
If you found a wallet containing $1,306 with no identification
inside other than a name you didn’t know, what would you do?
Keep it, or try to find the owner, or what?
From San Francisco, the Associated Press reports that a man
was strolling along Ocean Beach when he saw a wallet partially
buried in the sand. Inside, he found $1,306. The only identification
was the name of A. J. Spence, no address.
Weise turned the wallet and money over to police, who are
keeping it for the rightful owner.
Ibis raises an interesting question of personal ethics. Many a
person Would have felt perfectly justified in keeping the wallet fol
lowing the old-time philosophy, “Finder’s Keeper’s.”
In this question of personal ethics we face head-on the question
of property rights. This is a characteristic which has to be de
veloped by work. Training commences in childhood. Many par
ents know what I am talking about. A child has to be trained to
learn to respect the rights of person and property of others. Some,
perhaps many, seem to never get that kind of training as they ape
coming up. As a result, they go out into society with the attitude,
“What’s yours is mine, IH take it.” A tremendous amount of this
philosophy if evident as jfou read or listen to news-casts. Many of
these robberies and holdups have been committed by young people
who never learned to respect the right of personal property of
other people. ,
Back of all wars of conquest and aggression is insensitivity to
the property rights of other people. This is not a process altogether
of education by any matter or means. Back of the conduct, good
or bad, of any person is right or wrong motivation. Society has
a hard time learning that. We still think it is still a matter of
it says that right motivation is induced
of our feUOWman. We don’t willingly
ir property of one whom we love. (We
ever read oh thik subject is “Love or
f Blanton, M, P. veteran psychiatrist.
t(Jove. Of
best motto
i God first,
right moti
of self love.
i EDITORIAL FAGE
THE TRANSYLVANIA TIMES
PAGE SEVEN Thursday. April 4, 1974
Pick of the Press
‘All Right, Luvf
Christian Science Monitor
The world’s wave of kidnapping readi
ed a reckless crest with the attempted ab
duction of Princess Anne — the first assault
on a member ot Britain’s Royal Family in
some 33 years. The episode, m which four
men received gunsnot wounds, recalls the
international need tor counter - kidnapping
eilorts.
To give full effect to practical steps, the
public’s abhorrence 01 tne crime must not be
numbered into latalistic complacency. And
though a princess obviously makes more
news, the most obscure victim deserves no
less sympathy and concern.
A bit of all our hearts was represented
by Miss hammy acou, v»no looked into the
i-rincv'sss buaet - sprayed car and asked:
“Are you all rignt, luv;" Ana later the Prin
cess herseit exemplified u.e outgoing com
passion that is neeaeu when sue went on
from being "thanaiui to oe in one piece’’
and said: “But we aie utxp.y disturbed and
concerned about those woo got injured.”
iiuest Column
Don’t Let Fear Rule You
By - HARRY REYNOLDS
The Matoon, lu., Journal-Gazette
The government s etiort to get Ameri
cans to cut down on gasoline consumption is
ini louled up. m ^
Why the “Doomsday” approach to the
problem? ,
Thus far, the efforts of the bureaucrats
in Washington, u. C., nave succeeded in do
uig two tilings:
—'Terrifying potential car buyers.
—Packing service stations witn motorists
whose fuel gauges are a notch below full.
Naturally, service stations will run out
of gasoline if motorists insist on keeping their
tanKS lined to the brim.
Remember the days when you drove 50
miles on empty?
The hysteria at the gasoline pump is
matched only by the mass hysteria of car
buyers.
These days, if a car isn't small enough
to drive under the bed, it is ignored on the
grounds that it wastes gasoline.
That is debatable, to say the least.
Buying a small car merely because it
gets more miles per gallon of gasoline than
a big car doesn t make sense.
A motorcycle gets a lot more miles per
gallon of gasoline than does even the small
est car. Does that mean you should rush out
and purchase a motorcycle?
Definitely not.
The best way for a motorist to save gas
oline is to drive wisely and keep his machine
in peak condition.
Driving wisely means avoiding fast take
offs at intersections, avoiding congested
streets, holding the speed down on the high
way and limiting the amount of driving that
you do. » -4 Irf
How many separate trips in a car have
you made that could have been combined in
to one trip?
Wasteful driving is like smoking ... a
hard habit to break.
Buying a little job that gets 30 or so
miles pef gallon doesn’t mean that you won’t
waste gasoline. It. doesn’t even mean you
will save money.
A consumer stives motley when he buys
a product that best serves his purposes.
If you need a car for a family of six,
does it make sense to buy a car that will
only hold four people comfortably?
If you need a car that will register 100,
000 miles, does it make sense to buy a four
cylinder car?
How soon will it be before you have to
overhaul the smaller car?
Too many people forget that the United
States is a far larger country than most of
the other industrialized countries in the
world.
Are you really interested in traveling
200 to 300 miles at a whack in a car that
blows in the wind?
Gasoline mileage isn’t the only thing a
car buyer should consider when scouting the
market.
It is as ridiculous for a person to buy
a small car that doesn’t serve his purposes
as it is fra* a person to purchase a large car
that doesn’t serve his purposes.
The song and dance that a large car is
lucky to get 10 miles per gallon of gasoline
is inaccurate and geared to scare people.
Tests show that a motorist who drives
his car ai au a^«i oi to, can cut
lUCi Cwi5ma^uvia UJ uo *4«aUi v*a C6Ht.
JSiaiiuiaLtvaiid uv.w*w? cvotcu one of
the xai&eai c«ud ou uc ;uuc*iCdU market
turn i>\muc owii uUig itolUlS.
me tii'si \\U6 u«ui u*c v.ui 15.3 miles
PCI' ^ouua v»uui vut«ui ui <U UipU.
me secoiiu w wu) Utah uiv \.«u' got 13.3
llUlta pd ^taUtaii VtULUi UAlVCll at 50.
The car was uu\ci u w** oan Diego,
Cam., to ao^uuiijiuu, u. c.
Of course, u*e mau uiivmg the vehicle
was a p4uicsdAuucu u*\wi . . . uiai prooabiy
UCt|»V.U OJlllC.
Ana, tne car was pi openy tuned and in
gOOU ...v-V.ivullv-ul COuUlUOll.
Consideration uiua. be given to the
fact Uiat tne people couuucung me test were
piejuuiceu as 10 me results.
Still, the tact remains uiat driven prop
erly, a Dig cai' can get ueuer gasoline mile
age tnan some people wouiu nave us be
neve.
Purchasing a car should be something
moie uian an exercise in fear.
I The Children Write., j
In The Morning
I get up. .
1 get (tressed.
1 eat breakfast.
I brush my teeth.
I wash my face.
I wash my hands.
1 comb my hair.
I get my lunch and coat.
I put on my backpack.
I come to school.
James Massey (1st grade)
-*
The Little Chair and Me
I have a little chair. Do you know what
I need it for? I sit in it and think all day.
I think about Daddy and Mommy and sister
and my school teacher and most of all God.
Michelle Nes (1st grade)
-*
God
God made the world for you and me,
Bui there are some tilings I cannot see,
Like, why trees lose their leaves,
And why people want to be thieves,
All the things that don't belong here,
And all the planets far and near.
God is just that to me,
And that’s why I’m glad I can see,
All the things God does for me.
Diane Ayers (5th grade)
-*
The No Fuel Blues
We’re running out of lots of things,
Things we need real bad.
Like paper and diamond rings,
But mostly out of gas.
Lots of tilings are in the news,
That were not there before.
All because of the no fuel blues,
We know it more and more.
By: Genevieve Calore,
6th grade student
T. C. Henderson Elementary
School
An Editorial
-ii toaiafaLiA*1
Good Place To Live
We ve come a long way from the
dark days of child labor and owing
one’s soul “to the company store.”
Now the work scene is one of pen
sion plans, insurance, paid vacations
and an occasional holiday.
Sueh fringe benefits have doubled
in the past decade. The Chamber of
Commerce of the U. S. says benefits
are up, from an average of $1,254
per employee.
The duality of these benefits has
teen simultaneously upgraded, with
better medical coverage and earlier
retirement dates as just two ex
amples. 3
Modern society in the United
States offers a wide spectrum of
benefits which were unheard of in
the past and still are but nebulous
dreams in some parts of the world.
When everything is said and done,
history will record that the U. S. —
faults and all — is still a prime spot
in which to live, work and raise a
family. • •X'-yfl