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Tolerance And Tax Money
THE attacks of Francis Cardinal Spellman, first
on North Carolina's Representative Graham A.
Barden, and more recently on Mrs. Eleanor Roose
velt, are unfortunate: they are likely to halt the
movement in this country toward greater tolerance.
But since they come from the best known Roman
Cittholic leader in this countrv, and since they deal
with something that is fundamental in American
government, t'hey are significant ? too significant
for Americans to, ignore, ostrich-like, even in the in
terest of tolerance.
* * *
Tt is the job of government to provide, through
tax monev. free public schools, open to all children.
And it is the responsibility of government to see
that all children attend school.
But an individual has the right, if he wishes, to
have hi.5? child educated bv .private tutor. Or a group
of parents have a right to establish, and operate
their own private school.
Tn the same way. the Catholic church has the
right to maintain its parochial schools. Catholic
parents have the right to send their children to
those schools. And, so long as these private o.r paro
chial schools meet reasonable educational standards*,
* * *
no governmental agency nnav demand that these
children be sent to the public schools.
But this right, like everv right, can be exercised
onlv at a price. Tf the individual parent wants a
tutor for his child, he must pay the tutor. If a group
of parents want a private school for their children,
they must pav for it. And if Catholics want their
parochial schools, they must pay for them.
That is ordinary justice. Any other course would
be in violation of the American concept of no special
privilege.1-. That is true quite aside from any ques
tion of separation of church and state.
There is. however, in the current controversy a
very definite question of separation of church and
state ; for the controversy has to do with the use of
public fun-rls for the support of Catholic parochial
and other non-public schools. And certainly there
are abundant grounds to argue that once tax money
is used to. support church institutions. Catholic or
Protestant, church and state are inextricably mixed.
Yet that, apparently, is exactly what certain fig
ures in the Roman Catholic church are demanding.
First thev wanted ? -and obtained, in some states ?
use of public school buses to transport children to
and from the parochial schools. No.w they want
public funds for the direct support of parochial
schools.
The supreme courts in a few states have held that
state funds mav he used for the support of paroch
ial schools, and the senate has passed a federal aid
to-education bill which would permit use of federal
aid funds by parochial schools in those states where
use of state tax funds for parochial schools is legal.
Representative Barden, however, has introduced a
substitute bill which wo,uld limit use of federal aid
funds to the public schools.
In writing this limitation into his bill, Mr. Barden
has done nothing more than reiterate what most of
us understand the Constitution of the United States
to saw But he has been bitterly attacked bv Cardinal
Spellman. And, when Mrs. Roosevelt defended the
"Barden Bill, the Catholic prelate turned his invec
tive on her.
What is most unfortunate about the whole inci
dent is not that the point should have been raised ?
What is unfortunate is that Cardinal Spellman, in
stead of applying logic and argument to the issue,
has descended to the o.ld trick of attempting to dis
credit a cause of a principle by name-calling. He
shouts "bigot" and "religious prejudice" at Repre
sentative Barden, and he tells Mrs. Roosevelt that
she "could have acted only from misinformation,
ignorance, or prejudice", and that her stand is in
line with her previous "record of anti-Catholicism".
Quite as disturbing is a dispatch that quotes Mr.
Barden as fearing his bill will not pass because "the
controversy has made members (of Congress) very
cautioui". It certainly ii a danger signal when any
group, Catholic 6 if Protestant, labor or capital,
white or Negro, can intimidate congress.
* * *
Any American, Catholic, Protestant, tor Jew, has
a right to his religious beliefs, and to worship God
" in his own way. To deny that right is bigotry.
Furthermore, Cardinal Spellman or any other
Catholic has a right, in his role as a citizen, to ex
press himself on political matters; he has a right
even to work for the elimination of the constitu
tional provision separating church and state.
But distinctions need to be drawn.
In the first place, the controverted question of
how tax money is to be spent is a political, not a
religious, issue.
I
In the second, religious rights do not carry over
into the political field. And Cardinal .Spellman has
no right to attempt to influence purely political
matters under the cloak of religion ? to seek to af
fect political decisions by raising the cry of re
ligious prejudice.
* * *
All Americans thank God that this is a land of
religious tolerance. We need more of it.
But we will no.t get it by name-calling. We will
not get it by refusing to face facts. And we will not
get it ? at least, we will get only a synthetic sort of
tolerance ? by politely dodging every issue that
niigfht, bv any stretch of the imagination, involve
tolerance.
Tolerance is an American fundamental. But it is
onlv one of our fundamentals. There; are others
equally precious.
With Just A Little Effort
A person who recently bought property here
and moved to Franklin to make his home was over
heard. one day last week, in conversation with
friends. They were discussing Franklin.
"We love it here", the newcomer was explaining.
"A beautiful place. And the nicest .people. There's
inst one thing . . ." The speaker looked around, then
lowered his voice: "Really, thotigh, it's the dirtiest
little t?wn I ever saw."
The perfectly natural reaction of all of us who
live here i.s to deny the charge ; there must be o.ther
towns that are dirtier. The natural reaction, too, is
to say: "It's none of his business; we have a right
to a dirty town if we want it that way". And the
final natural reaction is to say : "Nobody made him
come here to live".
Those are natural reactions to any loyal Frank
linite.
But isn't the important thing not so much to be
loyal to Franklin a?v it is, but to ask ourselves: I.s it
true? Is it even approximately true?
With just a little effort, we could have a town
that visitors and newcomers wouldn't have to
whisper about. With iust a little effort, we could
have a town they'd talk about out loud :
"really, though it's the cleanest little town I ever
saw."
? * *
One of these days we will !
Up To Asheville!
Near "the redlight" (at the Murohv-Heorgia
highway intersection) is a road sign:
Highlands 21
Asheville 73
Just to the left of the names of the two towns
are, as would be expected, arrows. But the arrows
point neither right nor left, backward nor forward,
south nor east. They point straight up!
Now that might be all right for Highlands; for
Highlands is certainly a lojig way up from Frank
lin.
But Asheville! Has the Asheville chamber of
commerce stolen in here by night and done this
thing to us? Why, Franklin is higher than Ashe
ville ? well, if it isn't actually more feet above sea
level, at least its farther in the mountains; you
cross two mountain ranges between Asheville and
Franklin.
Our civic pride i<? outraged. Asheville up indeed !
That sign! ? why, it's downright up-pity.
POETRY CORNER
Conducted by
Sponsored by Asheville Branch, National League of American Pen Women
EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE
Weavers ille, N. C.
TRY CORN
The taste of tender eon
Lies tweet upon the tongue;
And where, since man was born,
Was worth attained so young?
What gems of pearly white
Are cloaked so well In green?
Could be the stars at night
More dewey fresh and clean?
The taste of tender malse
Is redolent of spring;
For Ceres' highest praise,
Try corn . . . as offering.
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LOCAL CITIZENS, WHO ClVC WILLIMOLV Of THEIR TIME
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Others' Opinions
POSITIVE CHRISTIANITY
Jesus' code of ethics is primarily positive rather than nega
tive. He Judged goodness as being good for something rather
than ? refraining from doing bad things. Note, for instance,
Jesus' list of those who were shut out from heaven's rewards.
The Foolish Virgins had not done anything which would be
considered bad or to which a chaperone would object. As far
as we know, they were nice young women, but they had a duty
to perform and they failed to do It. At the moment of privi
lege and opportunity, they were not ready.
The rich man at whose gate the Beggar Lazarus lay may
have been an upright man In his personal character and among
his friends, but the call of need came to him and he did noth
ing about it. In the parable of the Last Judgment, the persons
who went to hell were condemned not because of any positive
wickedness but because of what they had not done in minis
tering to human need. "Inasmuch as ye did it not" is the word
of doom spoken to them.
Therefore, in disciplining our lives we should not merely re
frain from doing wrong 'things, but we should keep in mind
the many good things which we most certainly should do.
Each of us has only so much time and so much energy to spend
in this world. Let us resolve so to live that we will make the best
possible use of our time and energy for the good of others as
well as ourselves. Christian living consists primarily in posi
tive living for that which is good and right.? Biblical Recorder.
THE SOCIAL SECURITY DELUSION
At last the social secnrlty cult has thrown off the mask. It
now tries to tell us that government handouts are not a privi
lege, not an emergency measure, not a humanitarian means of
helping those who through no fault of their own have become
dependent? the handouts are none of these; they are the right
of every citizen.
Those statements were made at the National Conference of'
Social Work at Cleveland by no less authority than Earl J.
McOrath, United States commissioner of education.
Moreover, said Mr. McOrath, the citizen can take his social
security without losing any Jot of his freedom and it can be
"Indefinitely extended."
Hear him:
"I believe that the history of our nation shows a steady
growth In the well-being of our people with a commensurate
growth In freedom."
Those are true words, but did we get that way on govern
ment handouts? We most assuredly did not. We got that way
by providing opportunity for every man to rise above his en
vironment and find a place in the economic structure that Is
commensurate with his own abilities, his own energy, his own
determination to improve his situation.
We got that way, in short, by adhering to the natural law
of Incentive, of reward for effort.
In Europe, where they have had social security for decades,
the people have neither the opportunity nor the inceptive to
rise above their environment. A waiter is always a waiter. He
seldom has a chance to open his own restaurant. A mechanic
remains a mechanic. He seldom opens his own garage.
The money and capital are In the hands of one class, and
stay there. The rest are laborers and they stay In that class.
Because of that hard and fast class division, capitalism as
the Europeans understand It, is entirely different from Amer
ican free enterprise. Europeans have never seen real free en
terprise; consequently, they think the American system is the
same as their abominable cartels. When we try to explain free
enterprise to them, they think of class divisions and cartels
and turn away from It to socialism.
And the German workman, .with 20 per cent of his wages
deducted for various kinds of social security, never even
dreams of driving his own automobile.
But Mr. McOrath tells us that social security can be "In
definitely extended" without loss of any personal freedom by
the citizen, because, forsooth, the government does not specify
how he is to spend the money.
We are already losing our personal freedom for social se
curity. How is the government getting the money to pay for
those benefits? It gets the money by garnlsheeing our wages
and salaries without due process of law, and If that Is not a
loss of personal freedom we'# like to 'hear somebody's defini
tion of It.
No property is more personal and private than a man's
wages. When we gave the government the right to dip Into
our pay envelopes before we ever see them, we surrendered the
right to control our most Important private property? our
means of living. When a man has lost control over his private
property, he has lost all of his liberties? not Just some of
them.
That old cabal about property right* vs. human rights Is the
VtriMt nonsense, because property rights are human rights.
-Tfe* Charlotte Obeervir.
LEGAL APVEE1U1WQ
NOTICE OP ?*"
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
tinder and by virtue of the
power of sale contained In a
certain deed ot trust executed
by E. C. Wood and bis wife,
Mamie Wood, dated the 7th day
of June, 1947, and recorded In
Book No. 40 at page 191, In the
Office of the Register of Deeds
ot Macon County, North Caro
lina, default having been made
In the payment of the Indebted
ness thereby secured, and said
deed of trust being by the terms
thereof subject to foreclosure,
and the holder of the indebted
ness thereby secured having re
quested foreclosure thereof, the
undersigned Trustee will offer
for sale and sell at public auc
tion to the highest bidder for
cash at the Courthouse door In
Franklin, Macon County, North
Carolina, at 12:00 o'clock noon,
on Monday, the 1st day of Aug
ust, 1949, the property conveyed
in said deed of trust, the same
lying and being in Highlands
Township, Macon County, North
Carolina, and more particularly
described as follows:
BEGINNING at a stake on
the East bank of the Short
off Road in the South line
of C. L. Wood's property,
said stake being situated
South 74 deg. 30 min. West
352 feet from the Southeast
corner of C- L. Wood's prop
erty; runs thence, with the
East bank of said Shortoff
Road, North 35 deg. 15 min.
West 152 feet to a hemlock;
thence North 74 deg. 30
min. East 290 feet to a
stake; thence South 35 deg.
15 min. East 152 feet to a
stone in the South line of
C. L. Wood's property;
thence, with said line, South
74 deg. 30 min. West 290
feet to the BEGINNING,
containing one (1) acre,
more or less. This being the
same land described In the
deed from C. L. Wood and
wife, Sarah Wood, to E. C.
Wood and wife, Mamie
Wood, dated 1 June, 1940,
and recorded in Deed Book
E-5, page 366, Records of
Macon County, North Caro
lina.
This sale will be made subject
to all outstanding unpaid taxes.
This the 28th day of June,
1949.
J. H. STOCKTON,
Trustee
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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
NOTICE OF MOTION
NORTH CAROLINA
MACON COUNTY
CHARLES E. PALMER,
Plaintiff,
vs.
LOUISA E. PALMER,
Defendant.
TO CHARLES E. PALMER and
JONES & JONES, HIS ATTOR
NEYS,
Sirs:
Please take notice that the
defendant, LOUISA E. PALMER,
is appearing specially for the
purpose of this Motion, and for
no other purpose, and is filing
a written Motion, copy of which
is hereto attached, requesting an
order striking out the judgment
heretofore made, at the De
cember Term, 1948, ef the Su
perior Court of Macon County,
and dismissing the above en
titled action, for the reasons set
forth in said Motion. -
Take further -notice, that the
defendant will cause said Mo
tion to be presented to the
Honorable Judge holding 'the
regular August Term of the
Superior Court for Macon Coun
ty, at the Court House, Frank
lin, North Carolina, on the 22nd
day of August, 1949, at 10:00
o'clock in the forenoon, or aa
soon thereafter as counsel can
be heard for argument and de
termination.
This the 6th day of July, 1949.
/s/ T. A. UZZELL, Jr.
/s/ J. M. HORNER,
Attorneys for Defendant
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