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Kerr Scott's Opportunity
I/"KRR SC< >TT lias an opportunity such as has
come to few North Carolina governors.
For decades every North Carolina chief executive
has gone into office with the backing, and there
fore in tlie debt, of the state Democratic organiza
tion. Hut Mr. Scott was mrtuinated over the bitter
opposition of virtually the entire so-called machine.
To whom, therefore, does Kerr Scott owe a polit
ical debt?- So far as is known, that debt is chiefly to
the rank and file voters who put him in office.
And what do those voters want? Fortunately for
Mr. Scott, and for the state, most of them are not
interested in political pie, whether that pie be ap
pointment to office or special favors for their sec
tions or counties. What most North Carolina citi
zens want is a state government that is free, hon
est, intelligent, forward-looking, and aggressive.
As has been true of no governor in years, Mr.
Scott is in position to give them just that. Whether
he proposes to do so, or whether he will use his
high office merely to build a political machine of his
own, will be apparent when he makes his appoint
ments.
It long has been taken for granted in North Car
olina that our judiciary should lie chosen, whether
by election or appointment, solely upon the basis of
character and ability. But why should this test
apply only to our judges? Why not, for example, to
the State Highway and Public Works Commission?
The highway commission, an agency charged
with the "duty of keeping the people out of the
mud, itself long has been mired down in politics.
There is a widespread feeling that political consid
erations dictate the commission's policies, and even
its choice of projects. And it is general knowledge
that highway employes receive, and are expected
to take, political orders from Raleigh.
That does not have to be true. A epiarter of a
century ago Frank Page took office as North Car
olina's first highway commission head, and he,
more than any other one man, is responsible for
the foundation of North Carolina's present high
way system. Frank Page envisioned a state-wide
highway systejn, to serve all the people, and he
built without fear or favor. He built good roads in
Republican counties as well as Democratic, in poor
counties as well as rich. And never was there an
intimation either that political considerations in
fluenced his decisions, or that he sought to influ
ence the political actions of highway employes.
North Carolina still produces big men; men of
character and vision and ability, and devoid of the
pettiness that puts purely political considerations
first. Many of them may not be known in public
life. Rut they arc here. And Mr. Scott can find them
if he looks. If he wishes to be a great governor, a
good first step would be the appointment of such
a man as highway commission chairman ? and then
to tell him that his job is to build roads only, not
roads and political fences.
In a sense true of no governor in years, Kerr
Scott will take office as a people's choice. He has
the opportunity to become a people's governor.
A Fine Record
In 1946 automobiles killed six persons on Macon
County highways. In 1947 we cut the toll to two.
And. as this is written, a zero still appears opposite,
the word "killed" in the 1948 highway safety record
that appears each week in t'he upper left hand
corner of the front page of The Press.
None killed so far in 1948, and the vear is more
than half gone! That is a fine record. Furthermore,
it is a record that didn't just happen. It could have
just happened' that we got through one month, or
two, or even three, without a fatal highway acci
dent, hut when we go half the year without one. it
evidently is due, in part at least, to general obser
vance of the rules of highway safety.
If everybody will continue to be careful, we can
end the year without a single highway death in
this county. For, as this newspaper pointed out last
February, "there is no such thing as an 'unavoid
able' accident ; whether there is an accident, some
one. some time, somewhere, some how, has been
careless".
As we enter the second half of the year, here
again arc a few suggestions on how we can keep
that zero opposite the word "deaths" :
Is your automobile sate?? you are endangering your lift,
and the lives of others, If It isn't?
Do you drive at a reasonable speed?? remember that
the legal speed limit is the maximum speed that is con
sidered sate. It's safer to drive below that maximum.
Do you keep in mind always that a fool or a drunk
may be coming around that next turn?? you'd better!
Do you watch carefully? and slow down? for children
and elderly people?? 60 per cent of the pedestrians killed
in the United States last year were under 15 and over 65.
Do you get under the wheel only when your mind is
perfectly clear?? the man who tries to mix gasoline and
alcohol is both a fool and an enemy of society.
Do you remember, every instant you are driving, that
just a little more care may mean the difference, for
you and others, between life and death?
Mrs. Luce Outshone
Among commentators on the contemporary
American scene Clare Booth Luce has won the rep
utation of being perhaps the outstanding maker of
clever phrases. But Mrs.' Luce now must yield first
place to another, a little known Englishman named
Alistair Cooke.
.Describing Republican Nominee Dewey for his
British readers, Mr. Cooke, writing in the weekly
Manchester (Ehgland) Guardian, tells of the New
Yorker's rise to fame as a gang buster ? and of the
resulting birth in Dewey's breast of fhe ambition
to become President.
"Since then he has gone after the presidency
with the humorless calculation of a certified public
accountant in pursuit of the Holy Grail".
That, we submit, leaves Mrs. Luce a poor second.
For all too often Mrs. Luce's comments are mere
clever arrangements of words. She told the Repub
lican national convention, for example, that Henry
Wallace is "Stalin's Mortimer Snerd". That was
funny ? and cutting; but it gave no insight into
Wallace's character. Mr. Cooke, on the other hand,
is at once amusing and revealing. In the sentence
above he has given his readers both a smile and a
clear cut picture, of a situation, and of a person
ality.
Someone should place his remark in nomination
of the honor of being the wittiest of 1948.
POETRY CORNER
Conducted by
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE
Weaverville, N. C.
Sponsored by Ashn-ille Branch, X ational League of American Fen Women
MOUNTAIN LAUREL
(The Bells Of Beauty)
Be it calico-bush or spoonwood tree
In charming vesture of pink delight,
Could the flower of Paradise prove to be
Only the laurel beyond the night?
With spooned-up wonder the soul is led
To mountain trails where we learn to climb;
On manna the spirit is truly fed
When the bells of beauty begin to chime.
We live on loveliness, bloom and thrive v
On the thrill of dawn in snow and rose;
The soul awakes and comes alive,
For we find our God where the laurel grows.
LENA MEARLE SHULL.
Asheville, North Carolina
(From West Asheville News)
LIFT DP THE FLAG
It , was born from the blood and sinew of men
And nurtured through toil and sorrow's toll.
Defended by valor of sword and pen
It has grown in wisdom as decades roll.
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The nations, plowed beneath their wars
Could faintly discern it over the fields.
Ideals that were lit in a group of stars
Were the power of radium that never yields.
The courage of millions dyeing it red
Must rise to the needs of the suffering lands.
The flag must be faithful to those who are dead,
Leading to freedom where God commands. ,
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE.
Weaverville, N. C.
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I ? Others' Opinions ?
SMALL THINGS COUNT
It Is amazing to us to see (hotel, tourist court, etc.) oper
ators spend money for promotion and have It mulllfled by
sending out of their places grumblers who kill for them
thousands of dollars In business every year.
Recently, we had a talk with the operators of a nicely
located and nicely built inn. "Our problem," they said, "Is to
build soem steady early and late business. This 30-day idea
is driving us crazy." It's a $7.50 a day (A) place.
So what? So we had a room in which there were two
naked lights hanging from the ceiling, one of which wouldn't
work. By chance we found the floor's public bath. The bowl
and tub both were coated with dust. A forlorn piece of soap
curled fantastically In the basin. There were no towels here
for emergency use.
At breakfast, It took 30 minutes to get an order and the
bacon was burned to a crisp. The waiter served everyone and
forgot to bring the toast-we got up and brought It? dead
cold now, from his tray sitting nearby. There were no sug
gestions for entertainment and no schedule of things to do.
There were no ash trays in the two connecting rooms we
occupied.
Thirty-five people Were there. They all went out grumb
ling and complaining. None will coem back. None will recom
mend the place to their friends, and so another N. C.
operator will wonder what in the world happened to the
tourist business.
? ? ?
Show me a place In N. C. which for five yean has operated
an attractive place, with clean rooms, courteous service and
good food, and I'll show you a thriving and profitable enter
prise. And vice versa, brother, with a double versa.
? N. C. State News Bureal.
The answer to error Is not terror, but the cleansing power
of light and liberty under the BUI of Bight# and the Consti
tution of the United Btate?.-mnk P. Or?h?m \
LEGAL ADVERTISING
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT .
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
OF SUMMONS
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
JOSEPH W. KAHN
V*
INEZ MEASE KAHN
The defendant, Xnez Mease
Kahn, will take notice that an
action entitled as above has
been commenced in the Super
ior Court of Macon County for
the purpose of securing an ab
solute divorce for the plaintiff,
Joseph W. Kahn.
Said defendant will further
take notice that she is requir
ed to appear at the office of
the Clerk of Superior Court of
Macon County, North Carolina,
at the Courthouse in Franklin,
North Carolina, on the 16th day
of July, 1948, and answer or
demur to the complaint in said
action, or the plaintiff will ap
ply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
This 15 day of June, 1948.
J CLINTON BROOKSHIRE,
Clerk Superior Court
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
JOHN H C. PERRY, Plaintiff
V8. |
WILLIAM R. DEAR and wife,
GRETA T. DEAR, Defendants
William R. Dear, one of the
defendants above named, will
take notice that an action en
titled as above has been com
menced in the Superior Court
of Macon County in which the
plaintiff claims the sum of $2,
300 00 based on contract, which
contract has been breached by
the defendants;
Said defendant, William R.
Dear, will also take notice that
he required to appear in the
office of the undersigned Clerk
of the Superior Court of Ma
con County on or before the
4th day of August, 1948, and
answer or demur to the com
plaint or plaintiff will apply to
the Court for the relief there
in demanded.
Said defendant will further
take notice that in said action
a warrant of attachment against
the property of said defendants
has been issued and the follow
ing property attached:
All the land described in
the deed from George W
Marett and wife, Jessie O.
Marett, to Wifliam R. Dear
and wife, .Greta T. Dear,
dated 24 October, 1938, and
recorded in the office of
the Register of Deeds of
Macon County, North Car
olina, in Deed Book B-5,
page 475. Reference is
hereby made to said deed
and record for a more cer
tain description.
And that said warrant of at
tachment is returnable before
the undersigned Clerk of the
Superior Court at his office in
said County.
This the 14th day of June,
1S48.
J. CLINTON BROOKSHIRE,
Clerk Superior Court,
Macon County,
North Carolina
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EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor
of OLLIE JACOBS BENNETT,
deceased, late of Macon Coun
ty, N. C., this is to notify all
persons having claims against
the estate of said deceased to
exhibit them to the undersign
ed on or before the 27 day of
May, 1949, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said
estate will please mtJta Imme
diate settlement.
This 27 day of May, 1948
D. M. BTONETT,
Wxecutor
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having "qualified as adminis
trator of Alile Oarland, de
ceased, late of Macon County,
N. C., this is to notify all per
sons having claims against the
estate of said deceased to ex
hibit them -to the undersigned
on or before the 26 day of June,
1949 or this notice will be plead
in bar of their recovery. All
persons Indebted to said estate
will please make immediate set
tlement.
This 26 day of June, 1948.
JOHN BROWN.
Administator
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
EDDIS CRAWFORD
vs.
GRADY CRAWFORD
The defendant, Orady Craw
ford will take notice that an
action entitled as above has
been commenced In the Super
ior Court of Macon County.
North ' Carolina, to obtain an
absolute divorce from the de
fendant on the grounds of two
years separation; and the said
defendant will further take
notice thstt he is required to
appear at the office of the
Clerk of the Superior Court of
said County in the courthouse
in Franklin, N. C., on the 30th
day of July, 1948, and answer
or demur , to the complaint in
said action, or the plaintiff will
apply tor" the Court for the re
lief demanded in said com
plaint.
This the 23 day of June, 1948.
J CLINTON BROOKSHIRE,
Clerk of the Superior Court,
Macon County, North Carolina
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NOTICE OF ELECTION CALL
ED TO VOTE ON QUESTION
OF SALE OF BEER AND
WINE IN MACON COUNTY.
Notice is hereby given that
pursuant to petition filed with
the Macon County Board of
Elections on June 23, 1948,
which petition was signed by
15% of the registered voters
of Macon County that voted for
Governor in the last election
(1944), requesting that an elec- "
tion be held for the purpose of
submitting to the voters of Ma
con County the question of
whether or not Wine and Beer
shall be legally sold, there shall
be a Special Election to vote
upon said question held in Ma
con County on August 28, 1948.
The registration books shall
be opened on July 31 and re
main open for three successive
Saturdays. August 21, 1948 shall
be Challenge Day.
J. J. MANN, Chairman,
Macon County Board of
Elections.
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EVERETT R. WHITE.
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