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(Elte Jflnmklht ntt?t ZHigltlnn&s JKnrmtmtt VOL. LXVII Number 15 Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina Telephone 24 Entered at Post 6ffice, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. WEIMAR JONES Editor BOB S. SLOAN Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In Macon County Single Copy ? -10 One Year $2.50 Six Months $1.75 Three Months..... J $1.00 Out-of-County ? One Year $3.00 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodges, churches, organizations or societies, will be regarded as advertising and inserted at regular classified advertising rates. , Such notices will be marked "adv." in compli ance with the postal requirements. APRIL 17, 1952 The Next School Board Seven tfountv offices are to he filled this year, representative, five seats on the county hoard of education, and surveyor. And Saturday is the last day for candidates to file for the primary election. Yet as this is written (Monday morning) none has filed, and only one ? C. Tom Bryson, for re nomination -and reelection as representative? has even announced. Every public office is important, and among county offices none is more important than the county hoard of education ; since its members fix school policies, to a very large extent they deter mine the future of the county. Of the five present members of the board, three ? Chairman Bob Sloan, Walter Bryson, and Walter Gibson ? have told friends they will not stand for reelection. Are those three places to he left vacant on the next board? Or are they to be filled by whoever may fHe at the last minute Saturday, without ref erence to qualifications? If competent, forward-looking men and women do not offer tneir services on this board, then they will have nobody but themselves to blame, should our school program bog down during the next two year term. You Tell Us! Last week Congress voted to extend the Presi dent's "emergency war powers" to July 1. And that bill is a mere stop-gap until the legislators can get around to voting on a long-term extension. These are the war powers granted the President for the emergency of World War 2. That war ended in 1945, nearly seven years ago! What does all this mean? | You /tell us! ? ? ? ? ? Which Way, Cullowhee? Western Carolina Teachers College, state insti tution at Cullowhee, is rapidly expanding. As it ex pands its physical facilities, how should it expand vided a supper so bountiful that the tables were still ern N'orth Carolina region? That question, the -subject of an interesting and spirited discussion at a recent meeting of the Frank - 1 in Rotary club, is of importance to the general public of llii:' whole area. Few people outside of the college have any con ception <?i the physical expansion that is taking place. Dr. Paul Reid. W. C. T. C. president, pref aced the discussion by pointing out that the new buildings will make it possible for the college to increase its stud.nt Ix'xlv from about f>0() to about 1,000. The structures going up at Cullowhee include ;i million-dollar classroom building with a quarter of a million dollars' worth of equipment ; a million dollar dormitory, to contain, 150 rooms \vith 75 baths ? room for students; and a $750, (XX) li brary that will be "as fine, for its size, as anv in . 1 - the South". \t present. SV) per cent of the students- at Cullo , whee are taking teacher training, and the school has won an enviable reputation in that field; it supplies G) per cent of the teachers in 14 south western 'mountain counties. It also offers four-year courses, however, in business administration and in liberal aits, and some professional work. A faculty, committee. Dr. Reid explained, is mak ing a studv of the question: "Which way from here?" He then turned the meeting over to Dr. \Y A. Ashworth, chairman of that committee, who pre sided .over the discussion. Hefe are some of the suggestions offered: c. I Many young .people in this area are not financi ally able to take a f6ur-year college course, but they -coqld finance vocational training (which they badly need) for a year or less. The college shotild continue to stress teacher training, rather than divide its interests and efforts and thus lower its standards. Teacher training is of vital importance because "the teacher makes the school". . W. C. T. C. should continue to strengthen its general teacher training work ? "the teacher is the most important person in the' community" ? but it should also expand its home economics course from two to four years. Its home economics graduates are not now qualified as teachers of that subject. A four-point long range program: (1) Change the name of the school to eliminate the word "teachers" ; (2) expand subjects offered to in clude four-year courses in home economics, for estry, agriculture, engineering, and law; (3) make everyone in Western North Carolina familiar with the school's program ; and (4) establish some col lege-operated enterprise that would enable worthy students without funds to earn their way. Get individual citizens and business houses to help worthy students by offering scholarships. Go ii}to the fields that the industry of this area is centered around ? crafts, home economics, for estry, etc. Offer. courses, with cVedit, in the field of religion. Establish and expand an extension program ; since W. C. T. C. is, or should be, the intellectual and cultural center of the area, it should take what it has to offer "out to the people" of the region. Specific suggestions along this line: As a starter, night courses' at Cullowhee for people in the outly ing areas; make the library facilities more easily accessible to the people of the whole region. ? ? ? ? ? ? Something Different Up at Cullasaja the other night they did some thing different. A number of Macon County schools this year have held benefit suppers ? rand they have proved highly successful, both as money-raising projects and as community gatherings. But at Cullasaja they held a' supper that was not a benefit ? there was no charge! Under the leadership of Lacy Harper, P. T. A. president, and Principal Weaver Shope, the people of the school community got together for an eve ning of fellowship. The women of the P. T. A. pro the work it does in order to best .serve this West laden when the supper was over, and after the meal the only formal program planned ? the installation of P. T. A. officers ? was postponed so the group could spend the time in group singing and in infor mal discussion of school and community affairs. As Mr. Harper pointed out, when the teachers, the parents, and the children of a school commun ity are brought together, community understand ing and school progress are almost sure to follow. It is a good sign when the people of a community get together like this ; it is an even better one, when thev decide- ? as they did at Cullasaja ? to hold such an event annually. Our American' Civilization . Assuming that the biological is the one and only difference between men and women. t Everybody ? from the U. S. Supreme Court on down? believing that complete and exact equality of opportunity is both possible and enforceable by law. Applauding an inferior product, whether it's music or hominy grits, if it comes with a "big name" label : rejecting a highly superior product .solely because it lacks a "big name.." label. ? Letters A MACON1T.K IN KCROPE (EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from a letter from Miss Lois Latham, of Franklin (Buck Creek Ranch), who is ,with the U. S. army in Germany, engaged in teaching the children of army personnel stationed there.) ? I am enjoying every day in Europe. I work quite hard at my job of teaching the army children. 4nd I travel all I can and try to cultivate friendships with individual Europeans. I ex pect to go to Italy for my spring vacation next week, hoping to spend at least three days in Rome. I am looking forward to the Mozart Festival at Salzburg in August, too. I have enjoyed Vienna a great deal this winter. It is a gracious old city, built far all sorts of intellectual pleasures, with its concert halls, opera houses, theatres, university, and wonderful restaurants and gardens. I have heard good music there this winter. I was glad to see your news stories and editorials on the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra. That is one N. C. insti tution which is very close to .my heart. ? ? ? ? ? ? Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee ? Ps. 119:11. THE SERENE, silent beauty of a holy life is the most power ful influence in the world, next to the might of the Spirit of God? Pascal. , Help us, O God, to find spiritual enlightenment and nourish ment in Thy World to fortify our hearts againat evil. Four democracy? i EDUCATION FOR. LIVING For. the simpler, life in the early days of our I COUNTRY, SCHOOLING IN THE "THREE Rs"MET THE NEEDS OF THE AVERAGE PERSON. As INDUSTRY ANO BUSINESS HAVE GROWN, OUR. SCHOOL SYSTEMS HAVE BEEN BROADENED TO MEET THE NEED OF VOCATIONAL TRAINING AS WELL. Today, in preparing our youngsters for living, our SCHOOLS, MORE AND MORE, ARE TRAINING THEM IN MONEY MANAGEMENT? TEACHING THEM THE FUNDAMENTALS OF SAVINGS, INVESTMENT, LIFE INSURANCE, HOME OWNERSHIP 'S WELL AS HOW TO BUDGET THEIR. EARNW6S. ? Others' Opinions HARD TO FILL Some day congress \ ?'> create an office that has a lot of work to It, and they won't be able to find a politician to fill it. Chattanooga Hamilton County Herald. ? ? ? ? ? BOTH BEHIND THE TIMES Senator Kefauver says the Republicans are looking to the past. Quite so. And the Democrats are still running against Herbert Hoover? Manchester (Tenn.) Times. ? ? ? ? ? THE WAY OF JURORS Is justice blind? Jury verdicts are generally a pretty accurate reflection of public sentiment, but they are not always determined by . the evidence. A Carthage man tells of a case in point. He said: "I was on a federal court jury in Rockingham a few years ago. It was late in the afternoon when we got the case. I was anxious to return home and it turned out that most of the others were of the same mind. We took a vote. Eleven of us voted the same way. "'Gentlemen,' said the lone dissenter of the majortty find ings, 'I live in Rockingham and I'll stay here all week before I change my mind...' " 'And I've got t? get home,' a juror moaned, 'My baby's sick.' " 'My hay has got to be raked,' said another. " 'Let's vote again,' one of the more optimistic of the eleven chirped. "We took the second ballot. The verdict was unanimous. All eleven of us had changed over and the Rockingham man had his way."? Moove County News. STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES On a trip to Asheville recent ly, I made definite plans to go to see a good friend of many years' standing. Retired, alone in the world, and in poor health, he must look forward, X knew, to the occasional visits of f.viends. Besides, I WANTED to see him. < But there were so many er rands to a'o and my time was so short, I didn't get around to it . "I'll go the very next time X am' in Asheville", I promised myself. Exactly a week later the .morning paper carried the an nouncement of his death. (I should have known better than to wait, because only a couple of years ago I had had a similar experience, for which I still was blaming myself. But in both instances I never could seem to find the time . . .) I TOOK time to go to his funeral, but that was a poor substitute indeed ? for him and for me ? for a visit while he was alive. SP After the funeral I was chat ting with another friend. I had learned that his wife was near death, and expressed regret. He said: "We have had a happy life together, and no matter what the circumstances, she has al ways been wonderful. But I never seemed to find lime for any real home life, for the companionship we both crav ed and enjoyed, for the little trips we had planned to gether. Now it is too late . . . SP If these experiences have any significance beyond their per sonal poignacy, it is that they are typical of what is happen ing to most of us today. Like automatons, mechanically driv en, we rush hither and thither, faster and faster. We are' so busy DOING things we rarely find the time to BE what we were designed to be? human be ings! There is something wrong with a civilization like that. SP In some communities of Ma con County? and of course in some sections elsewhere ? people still find time to te good neigh bors, to sit down and visit with their lamilies and fiiends, to do the little, kindly, sympathetic acts that spell the difference between a robot existence and a .really good LIFE. They some times may lack the mechanic* of our modern so-called civilize j tion, but they have something far more important. Somehow, in these sections, people still find time to be hu man. I hope they can keep it that way. Business Making News ? By BOB SLOAN. A DIFFERENT THOUGHT Perhaps I should let sleeping dogs lie, but I just can't do it. Ever since the issue of Univer sal Military Training was raised this Spring there has been something I have wanted to say and two recent events just won't let me let it go unsaid any longer. Many church leaders and ministers have opposed Univer sal Military Training on the grounds that it was an un healthy influence on our youth. I believe that it is fair to judge something by the products turned out. Never have I read of anything tnore inspirational than the conduct and words of Gen. James A. Van Fleet, a profes sional military man, since being notified that his only son was missing in action. His Easter message to the parents and wives who had lost their son or husband in Korea was the most inspirational of any that I heard or read on Easter. Gen. Van Fleet in asking those who had lost loved ones in Korea said, "We should all be proud, as The One so clearly stated so long ago, 'Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends'." Today it seems that we are sorely lacking in moral leader ship in our governmental of fices of high position. With this in mind I would like to quote from an interview between a news correspondent and a pres idental aspirant. The candidate had this to say concerning de mocracy: "Democracy is indivisable from the idea that man is a child of God and as such sac red. Without this concept that man is a soul and a spiritual being the, idea of human equal ity would never have come into this world. . . . Behind every idealology lies as assumption, an act of faith. That is why there never has been, and never can be a great or enduring civ ilization without a basis in re ligious principals." To me it is markedly sig nificant that a statement which so clearly ties together growth of our form, of government as being based on religion came from the one man in the presi dential race who is a military man ? Dwight Eisenhower. Could it be that the ideas- of discipline and duty which are so strongly inculcated in those who undergo military training are apong those which are most needed to enable us to have Faith in these troubled Continued On 4*age Three ? Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Court commences here next week, Judge Fred Moore pre siding. As Mr. Moore attended school, and studied law here, in fact, made this his home for a time, his many friends will be glad to see him. Sam L. Kelly and party re turned home Saturday from the Charleston exposition. Henry Stewart, Jr.. of High lands, came down to the city Sunday on business. 25 YEARS AGO The high school baseball team is getting ready to beat the socks off teams from neighbor ing towns.. Mr. L. C. Stepp, of Aquone, was a visitor to Franklin Thurs day of last week c>n business. Mr. J. W. St.reet, foreman in The Press composing room, took a short vacation last week and went fishing. It is just possible that there are still a few iish left in the streams. 10 YEARS AGO On account of the rubber scarc'.ty a reduction has been ordered in . the production of suspenders and garters. This is going to cause the Administrar tion to lose a lot of suoporters. ^lis and That, by "Frankie W* ? 4- w ? M.ss Be;L..> M. Richardson e.nd Miss Gertrude Swanson have returned to thsir home on Eearpen Mountain after spend ing the winter in Mexico City. (Highlands".
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