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VOL. LXVII Number 2
Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press
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Speaking Of Inflation .
The best description we have heard of the infla
!tion from which Americans are presently suffering
comes from G. F. Crisp, of Franklin, Route 4.
L The difference, Mr. Crisp sagely remarked the
?ther day, between conditions now and 25 years ago
I well illustrated in buying groceries.
r "Then you could take a pocket full of money and
ouy a tow sack full of groceries. Now you have to
take a tow sack full of money to buy a pocket full
of groceries."
Name-Calling And Peace
Truce Teams Fight Name-Calling Duel", said a
eadline the other day, describing the Korean truce
egotiations.
Most Americans who have kept up with events
an sympathize with the UN negotiators ; undoubt
edly they feel they have had abundant provocation
for calling names.
But how can we expect even a truce, much less
enuine peace, to grow in an atmosphere of such
suspicion and bitterness that it breaks out into
ildish name-calling?
Which recalls the wise remark, many years ago,
a Macon County man :
"If you would understand men", he said, "remem
r they are just boys, with rpen's bodies."
Perhaps we continue to be disappointed ? perhaps
we continue to fail to make progress toward
international understanding ? because we mistaken
Iy expect men to act like adults, when really most
us are grown-up only in, body.
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HOW You Played The Game
No chronology .of events, such as The Press pub
ished a fortnight ago, can be complete. At best,
such a chronology can hit only the high spots.
The list of 1951 Macon County events that ap
peared in The Press of December 30, however, miss
ed one of the hjgh spots. Overlooked in that com
pilation was an athletic event so significant we
hasten to add it.
Last spring the boys' and girls' basketball squads
of the Nantahala High school, under the direction
of Carl D. Moses, the then-principal and coach, won
)lhe Sportsmanship trophy awarded at the Tourna
rent of Champions in Asheville.
That was one of the highest honors that could
fcave come to a group of Macon County youngsters,
pecause anybody, if he tries hard enough and is
billing to sacrifice enough, occasionally can win a
iontest; but it takes guts of a very high order in
Peed ? it takes a great soul ? to consistently play
the game by the best rules of sportsmanship, win
or lose.
i For in athletics, as in life,
"When the Great Recorder comes
To write against your name,
He writes not that you won or lost
But how you played the game."
Television Is Here
i ?
Even a quarter -century ago anyone predicting
television would have been considered an idle
dreamer, if not a fool. That a person could sit in his
(home and see and hear events transpiring thou
sands of miles away, and see and hear them thf
moment they happened . . . "impossible", most oi
ns would have said. ?
Yet television not only has been invented and
I developed, it has arrived ? it is here, in Macor
County. More and more sets are being installed, a<
witness the bizarre patterns atop more and mon
residence roofs.
Its arrival further complicates living; create:
new problems, especially for parents. The parent!
who haven't a television set in their home are go
i?ig to have life made miserable for them by theii
children until they get one ? meanwhile, the childrer
are going to visit the neighbor who owns one.
Because this extraordinary device has a power
ful fascination, most children, and many adults, are
going to be tempted to spend a large proportion of
their waking hours (and many hours they should
be asleep!) watching the television.
Television, of course, potentially may be a great
instrument for education; but even the best of
things can be overdone. And television as it is to
day presents at least three serious dangers, for
children.
First, it is likely to interfere with ? in fact, it al
ready is interfering with ? children's home and
school home-work responsibilities.
So far, much of what is available over television
is of a very low order of entertainment.
And, most important of all, television completely
robs the individual of the opportunity to partici
pate. Reading a book requires some thonght ; even
radio, since it is heard but not seen, demands some
imagination ; but watching television is an entirely
passive thing. Such activity (or lack of activity),
if overdone, will create minds and characters about
on a par with those of a sawdust doll.
Television is here. It can become a great blessing.
But, like most good things, it creates new compli
cations and problems. Wise parents will do some
thing about those problems now, before the tele
vision habit becomes fixed.
Among other things, wise parents will fix certain
periods for the performance of the child's tasks,
and insist that those tasks be done at those periods
? regardless of television ; no task, no television.
And they will learn enough abcfut television pro
grams to do a bit of selection for their children ?
just as they select the clothes he wears, the books
he reads, the movies he sees. f
Otherwise, the .parent will be surrendering, to
people who have no interest and no responsibility
for the child, but whose sole interest is profits, the
right to say what the child is to become.
There are many phrases for expressing the satis
faction that comes from eating a hearty meal. The
most expressive one we've come across, however,
was unintentional ? the result of a typographical
error in a newspaper. It read:
"Greatful of lunchroom".
We judge the children are getting enough to eat.
Life is funny. For the expression "clothes make
the man" has become a part of the language, while
everybody knows it is the near-absence of clothes
that make the well dressed woman.
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The widespread use of firecrackers during the
Christmas season suggests that a lot of people here
still hav-xi't learned that July Fourth doesn t come
in December.
Our American Civilization
Confusing attendance with interest, publicity
with achievement, money with success.
Tossing a dull razor blade into the garbage can
in the morning; hauling the old automobile to the
junk pile in the afternoon. Between times, attend
ing a luncheon on conservation of national re
sources.
Each of us assuming, without question, that he
is a member of the upper middle class; assuming,
also without question, that most of our neighbors
are in a lower statum of society.
Thinking we can frighten peo'ple into being care
ful or intelligent or good ; forgetting that each of
us is sure that the dire consequences of careless
ness or stupidity or immorality will be visited upon
everybody but us.
* Letters
THE WORD GETS AROUND
Editor, The Press:
We have received mail from people on the West Coast of
Florida congratulating us on the articles we wrote, and pub
lished in your issue of December 13, "Everything Right Here".
One of them even asked us to look around for them for a
year 'round home.
. G. N. MOORE
Highlands, N. C.
CONTRIBUTES TO NATION
Dear Weimar:
We always read The Press with lhtereit. We were especiallj
Interested in the best articles on Macon County.
Of course Macon County cannot well offer position* to al
Its youth, but that may be a good thing for the rest of Amer
OUR DEMOCRACY trM*
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THE HfUCTtVE PJW +XSSS OF AMERICA.
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In my father's family of nine (J. K. Bryson, Cullasaja) only'
my twin sister, Mrs. John M. Moore, remained In the state.
The .rest of us migrated to Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri and
California, but we are still Macon countains. In Missouri some
of the leading lawyers, doctors, farmers, ministers and college
professors came from Western North Carolina. I meet them
and we go over old times.
No doubt Macon county can make greater progress toward
offering opportunity to her youth, but America needs the
leadership of the type of young men and women which she
can furnish. After all, Macon county is tied In with the heart
of America and that is what counts.
Very sincerely,
Columbia," Mo.
1 Others' Opinions
INTO LIMBO
Before the Herald appears again, an important change will
have occurred in postal rates. No longer will the penny postal
card be available.
It will bear a two-cent stamp which will have the effect of
doubling the postal bill of those people who major in postal
card correspondence.
Worse than the doubling of the tariff on postal cards in the
surcharge on purchases of 50 cards or more. This means that
organizations which use postal cards to notify their members
of forthcoming meetings, will have to pay 2.2 cents for the
manila cards.
Some congressman who authorized this amendment to the
postal rate bill should be ferreted out and remembered. He
has added expensive bookkeeping costs to every postoffice staff
in the nation, and quite non-sensically.
Few will object to paying the two cents for a postal card,
but the ten percent surcharge will create difficulties. This
foolish amendment should be repealed by the Congress at the
earliest opportunity.? Kings Mountain Herald.
CONTRAST IN LIVING STANDARDS
There is a tremendous difference in the wealth and welfare
of peoples in the world today. While this is common knowledge,
data from the United Nations statistical office paint us a vivid
picture.
The average annual per capita income on our own North
American continent is about $1,100. The comparable figures for
the Soviet Union are $310, for South America $170, for Africa
$75, and for Asia, $50.
Using other figures to show the contrast between the haves
and the havenots: Nine per cent of the world's population live
on this continent and produce about 45 per cent of the world's
goods and services; 50 per cent of the people of the world live
in Asia and they consume only about 10 p?r cent.
In the United States, our six per cent of the world's popula
tion has 78 per cent of the world's automobiles. In othei
words, we own one automobile for every 3.6 Americans as com
pared with one automobile for every 18 Englishmen and on<
automobile for every 222 people living in other parts of th(
world. ?
While statistics cannot measure relative happiness. It is saf(
to say that these shocking contrasts Indicate that hundred!
of millions of people all over the world are living on thi
brink of starvation.
It is unfortunate that the billions of dollars that are beini
r spent and the tremendous energy that is being expended t<
build war machines cannot be diverted to defeating poverty
1 hunger and disease wherever they afflict the human race.
i ?Marlon Progresi
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Demonstration
Club Meetings For Week
Are Announced
Meetings of home demonstra
tion clubs In the county for the
coming week have been an
nounced by Mrs. 8
Sherrlll, county ' sbo^^/wlhon -
stratlon agent. ThSlWfc as fol
lows:
Today (Thursday) Holly Springs
club with Mrs. Jack Cabe at
1:30 p. m. Mrs George Craw
ford, co-hostess.
Monday: Travelers club with
Mrs. Leland Roper at 1:30 p. m.
Tuesday: Oak Drove club at
the home of Mrs. Clyde Pen
nington at 2 p. m.
Wednesday: Cartoogechaye
club at the Nonah Craft center
at 2 p m.
Thursday: Liberty club with
Mrs. Ruby Gibson at 1:30 p. m.
Sisters Elected
To Class Officers
At Nursing School
Misses Pauline and Jose
phine Anderson, daughters of
Mr and Mrs. Elbert Anderson,
of Franklin, Route I, recent
ly were elected to class of
fices at the Cabarrus Nurses'
Training school in Concord.
Miss Josephine Anderson waa
named president of her class
and Miss Pauline Anderson,
secretary.
They spent the Christmas
holidays with their parents.
Has Had Press In Home
Since It Was Founded
A. J. (Jack) Moore, of Ellljay,
says The Press has been coming
to his home since the paper was
?stablished 68 years ago. Mr.
Moore, on a visit to the paper
in its new location Saturday,
said his father, Andrew Jackson
Moore, was one of the first sub
scribers, and took The Press as
long as he lived, and Jack Moore
says he has been taking it ever
since.
Carpenter Completing
Air Force Basic Work
Pvt. William Carpenter, 20
year-old son of Mrs. A. L. Car
penter, of Dlllard, Oa., Route 1,
Is completing the air force basic
indoctrination coarse at Lack4^
land Air Farce base, SaA ' An
tonio, Tex., the base pfablic In
formation office announced this
week. J
Do You
Remember?
(Looking backward through
the files of The Press)
50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
William McKee caught a mouse
Friday night that had a white- .
spot on its hips as large as a
silver five-cent piece. The hair
was as white as snow.
Mr. R. L Bryson has com
menced building a new dwelling
on Iotla Street between the
Shancks and Pendergrass lots.
Mr. N. L. Barnard left today
for the Southern market with
between forty-five and fifty
head of mules and horses.
Rev. T. Bright's term having
expired, the Baptist church has
called Rev J. R. Pendergrass to
the pastorate, temporarily.
25 TEARS AGO
Franklin is one of nine North
Carolina towns listed In the in
dex of The New York Amer
ican's annual winter resort
guide for the season 1926-27,
copies of which have just been
received here.
More tnan 1,700 letters, sees
ing manufacturing plants for
Franklin, were sent out last
week by the manufacturing
committee of the Franklin
Chamber of Commerce.
Franklin during the past four
years has spent over $300,00*} in
new buildings. And this figure
does not include the comple
tion of a $300,000 municipally
owned hydro-electric power
plant.
Mr. William Pickens, who has
been roaming all over Florida
for two months, from Jackson
ville to Key West and then
some, according to Ills own J
statement. Is again back home . A
at Gneiss.
1* YEARS AGO fl
Ben Woodruff, for the past ?
four years manager of the ?
Western Carolina Telephone j I
, company offices In Franklin y I
Highlands, Sylva, CullowheeA 1
5 Bryson City and Clayton, .Ga.,
i has accepted a position with I
the Southern Bell Telephone
company in Charlotte.
I
Leave has been granted to
Chief of Police C D. Baird to
'? attend the Federal Bureau of
Investigation school that will
be conducted In Greenville, 8.
'? C., January 19.