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VOL. LXVn Number 32
Published ever; Thursday by The Franklin Press
At Franklin, North Carolina
Telephone 24
Kntered at Post Office, Franklin, N. C., as second class matter.
WKIMAR JONES -Editor
BOB B. SLOAN. .Business Manager
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AUGUST 7, 1952
A Lift For Today
? . . . The foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal,
the Lord knoweth them that are his. ... II Tim. 2:19.
CHRISTIANITY makes men truer, purer, nobler. It is not
more wealth that the world needs ? it is more character; not
more investments, but more integrity; not more money, but
manhood; not regal places of abode, but regal souls.
We thank Thee, O God, that our country was founded by
Christians. Give us the courage and wisdom to build worthily
upon this foundation, looking to Thee for guidance.
Land Of Opportunity
A remarkable man died last week in Durham.
Born of humble, uneducated Columbus county
parents, in the dire poverty that marked the South
of the Reconstruction period, when he died at 78
he was one of the South's wealthiest men.
He started out as a $10-a-month dishwasher, but
in 1899 changed jobs to join the insurance com
pany he headed at his death. He often recalled
that the company's first office rented for $2 a
month, and that, at the start :
"When I came into the office early in the morn
ing, I rolled up my sleeves and swept the place as
janitor. Then I rolled down my sleeves and was an
agent, and later I put on my coat and became gen
eral manager,''
Today his company employs more than 800
agents, in eight states and the District of Colum
bia, and has assets listed at 33 million dollars. In
addition, it operates a Durham bank, a building and
loan association, and several waller insurance
companies.
But this poor Columbus county boy won more
than wealth.
Respected and admired by people of all classes,
he was asked to serve on a number of Durham
boards, including the selective service and the Red
Cross.
Because of his passionate devotion to the cause
of education, he was a trustee of three institutions
of higher learning, and was given honorary de
grees by several colleges and universities. Three
Schools were named for him.
Last year he was honored by the Freedom Foun
dation, at Valley Forge, Penn., for his contribution
j to Freedom.
Grateful, as are all really big men, for the oppor
tunities others provided for him, he never ceased to
be thankful that his ancestors were transplanted to
North America, and he referred to the United
States as "the best place in the world I have found
to live and leave one's mark".
He had such a deep-seated faith in the possibil
ities of cooperation, between races and other
groups, that he often was called "Mr. Coopera
tion".
This remarkable North Carolinian . was Dr.
Charles Clinton Spaulding, a Negro, the son of
former slaves.
It appears that General MacArthur was right ?
perhaps even righter than he thought ? when he
intimated he might just "fade away".
It's always been tough for parents who insist
their children make good grades in school. Usually,
they have had to fall back on the stock argument
tfrat good grades in school are forerunners of suc
cess in life. But now look what's happened to that
argument ! For General Eisenhower was far down
the list in his class at West Point, and Governor
Stevenson once was dropped from Harvard law
school for poor grades ? and one of those two poor
students is going to be President !
Congratulations!
Congratulations to the people of Highlands on
their "Hillbilly Day" celebration.
There was a time when those of us who were
born and reared in the mountains might have re
sented such an observance, as poking fun at us.
The "hillbilly" has been so exaggerated, however,
that he has become a purely fictional character ? as
fictional as "Lit Abner" ? and bearing no faint re
semblance to the havseediest hillbilly of even half
a century ago. t
Here in Macon County we have long needed
something for the tourist to do. Last week's pro
gram in Highlands supplied that need ? and provid
ed something different. It was a long step in the
right direction, if we are to attract tourists, and
keep them for a while.
Perhaps even more significant, it was a project
that appears to have won the almost unanimous
support of Highlands people. And thus it may mark
the beginning of accomplishments by that com
munity ; because, as a prominent Highlandser re
marked recently :
"The people of a town can do almost anything
they want to do, if they all want to do it."
It's our guess that the press photographers the
other day missed the best news picture of the year.
They were not present to- get a close-up of the face
of Walter White (secretary of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Colored People)
when he got news that Omaha Xegroes were trying
to bar a white family from moving into their neigh
borhood.
Our American Civilization
Boasting of our universal democracy ; denying
the voter any voice in the selection of Presidential
nominees.
Our words, in the criminal courts, always shout
ing loudly of "justice"; our actions, many times,
shouting even more loudly of "vengeance".
Newspaper publishers prating of freedom of the
press ; many of those publishers proving, by their
publications, that what they mean is personal
license.
His teacher telling little Johnny that the only
things that really count are the imponderables of
the mind and the spirit ; that same teacher desert
1 ing the school room because another job will pay
more.
Other's Opinions
NEW BERLIN LIBRARY
(Providence Journal)
For less than the cost of a modern bomber, the United States
Government Is providing one of the most effective weapons
In the cold war in Berlin The weapon is a library with 850,000
volumes, the first American type, open-stack library to be built
in Germany.
Books are dangerous objects. Worse than bombs. They keep
exploding in people's minds and encouraging them to think ?
frequently to think for themselves. And the wisest thing any
dictator can do Is to burn all of them he can lay hands on,
knowing how quickly unrecorded knowledge evaporates. Then
he can rewrite history to suit himself and dictate his own
truth. All this sounds like something out of the dark ages,
but less than a decade ago it was going on. The spot where
the new Berlin library to to stand lsnt very far from where
Hitler's followers burned books in their time, and not too far
from where the Russians are burning them now? 8,000,000 vol
umes so far, It is estimated.
This new library Is to stand as a memorial to the Allied air
men who lost their lives in the Berlin airlift.
The books In the memorial library are not simply for the use
of scholars and students, as library books have been through
out Germany hitherto. They are for the people.
SUMMER IS FOR SILENCE
(From Vineyard (Mass.) Gazette)
It is too bad, but one must admit that the beginning of
summer is the beginning of the noisy season.
A good deal of the racket that is going to disturb our vaca
tioning friends and patrons In the weeks to come will be made
by automobile horns, racing engines, and other mechanical
contrivances, but we must all recognize the fact that, basically
and prlmevally, it is people who are noisy. If we could get rid
of people, we could get rid of noise. Well, yes, it might not
work out, so the next best thing is to persuade the human
race to go easy.
Especially in summer, and especially on the Vineyard, we
should like to see respect for the silences, the peace and tran
quility carved by visitors from the modern Babylons of con
crete and steel.
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All sounds are not noise. Laughter is not noise, and the cries
of small children are usually not noise, grumpy dissenters to
the contrary. The incidental, lively sounds, property spaced In
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WHO'S ZOO-ON THE HIGHWAY
DON'T BE A SHEEPDOG. Be sura you can see ahead. Keep your
windows and windshield clear and your lights adjusted.
daylight hours, are a necessary and desirable accompaniment
of living. To. a certain extent they go with the cries of gulls,
the pounding of surf, and the far off eeriness of hoot owl and
whippoorwill.
The point of this reflection is an important one, for it
means that no real constraint is needed to avoid noise. People
may be natural and happy without so much as a ripple of this
kind of nuisance ? and therefore it's asking very little in the
way of effort, and no sacrifice whatever, to suggest that they
avoid din and racket and all the unpleasant clamor that adds
nothing to their proper self-expression yet afflicts the privacy
of their fellow-citizens.
STAY WHERE YOUR ROOTS ARE
(Asheville Citizen-Times)
The urge of American young men, brought up on farms and
in small towns, to leave their native surroundings and seek
fame and fortune in great centers of population has, for many
generations, been very strong. Some decades ago they were
urged to "Go West." Today, in a rapidly changing world of
confusion, instability and insecurity, some competent authori
ties are advising youth to "brighten the corner where you are"
and work out their destiny on home grounds unless there are
compelling reasons to do otherwise.
Those whose sole objective is to make fancy money right
away, or within a few years, should perhaps ? if they think
they can swing it ? go where there are lush opportunities for
big and quick financial rewards. But those who are searching
for true security and happiness must think in terms of what
they can "put In" the community of their choice no less ?
and even above? what they can "take out."
Arthur Gordon, who at 19 left his little home town for New
York and achieved noteworthy success as writer and editor, now
believes he probably made a "gigantic mistake." In the curvent
Reader's Digest Gordon writes that "while I had been chasing
my gilded rainbows, prosperity had come to the seemingly Im
poverished area I ran away from as a youth." Upon his return
to his native haunts a short time ago Gordon found the com
munity humming with new Industries and Its citizens were not
only prosperous but happy. The people who had remained
there, and accepted the challenge to better themselves and
their surroundings, had earned a spiritual reward Gordon had
never known.
"Stay where you've got some roots," Gordon now advises.
"For through those roots will come the strength to do a good
Job in the best of all possible surroundings for you? your own
home town."
For many years, North Carolina has been losing great num
bers of its most ambitious and best educated young men who
figured the big cities in the North offered far better oppor
tunities for success than their old Tar Heel communities. Today,
North Carolina's economy is expanding rapidly on all fronts
and the outlook for young men and women of ambition, initia
tive and intelligence is as good, or better, than in any other
state. ?
The new "frontier" now is in the old South and North Caro
lina Is one of the happiest hunting grounds in the nation for
young men interested in both financial and spiritual rewards.
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Poetry
Editor
EDITH DEADERICK KR8KINE
Weaverville, North Carolina
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: The verges below are by Elisabeth
Wsil droop, afed IS. She is the danghter of Mr. and Mrs.
Lester Waldroop, of Cartoofechaye.)
Often I climb up my mountain so high
And look below with a happy sigh.
Far from my seat beneath a tree
Wonders down in the valley I see.
I see our Father's great creation
Houses and people with an earth foundation.
I see the caj-s traveling the roads
Bearing people with vacation loads.
I see the trees standing straight and tall,
The leaves green now, but brown in the fall.
I see birds gliding through the air
Little hungry mouths their only care.
?round me, ft tender sheen,
And sitting there, I feel like a queen. t
, I see a great many different flowers,
Waiting in patience for sunshine and showers.
MY MOUNTAIN VIEW
Yes, from my mountain, earth's beauty I see,
That God created for you and me. '
News Making
As It Looks
To A Maconite
? By BOB SLOAN
There are two characteristics''
of Dwight Eisenhower's presl'
dential campaign which are be
coming obvious even at this
early date:
1. Mr. Eisenhower is out to
do and say what ever is nec
essary to win the election. If he
is leading a crusade? it is for
votes and not to promote prin
cipals. We can think of no other
explanation for Mr. Eisen
hower's statement that he
would work for GOP nominees
for Congress regardless of
whether he agreed with their
views or not. That is the
thought of a politician? not the
leader of a great crusade as he
so described himself. To the
independent voter who wants
to vote for what he thinks is
right how does he know where
the Republican presidential
nominee stands if he says he
is for a strong international
foreign policy and then at the
same time works for the elec
tions of such men as Jenner,
Ind., Dirckson, 111., and Bricker
of Ohio, men who have contin
ually worked against the estab
lishment of a strong interna
tional foreign policy.
2. Mr. Eisenhower is either
letting someone else - run his
campaign or he has decided to
go after northern vote and for
get the South. We say this
after reading that top GOP
leader's signed statement which
said that they believed that
FEPC and other federal legis
lation against discrimination
and aggression to be- entirely
constitutional. They further
added that the Republican party
was the party which could
achieve this legislation. This
statement is signed by Henry
Cabbot Lodge, Jr., Eisenhower's
convention campaign manager,
and 15 other leading Republic
ans. We feel that the statement
was not made without first
confering with the presidential
nominee. Is the Republican
party going to be under the
leadership of Elsenhower or is
It to be a party of many
tongues and many policies? Is
Eisenhower the head of the
party or are the people being
asked to vote for a mouth
piece?
Duke Professor
Collecting In
Highlands Area
Dr. Lewis Anderson, profes
sor of botany at Duke univer
sity, has arrived at the High
lands Biological station. He is
an authority on mosses and is
making collections from stra
tegic localities in the area.
On Tuesday Dr. Anderson
worked in Transylvania county
and had as his companion
Byron Simonson. On Wednes
day Dr. Anderson, Henry Wright,
and Dr. Ralph Sargent made a
trip to the Thompson River
gorge for important collecting
for the station. On Friday's
trip. Dr. Anderson lead a group
composed of Henry Wright, R.
M. Sargent, Mrs, Ralph Sar
gent, and Miss Thelma Howell
to areas in Transylvania and
Haywood counties that had not
been carefully worked for bo
tanical specimens since the days
of early botanists.
General Extends
Highlands Visit;
Much Decorated
Major General and Mrs. Wll
lard Irvine, who have occupied
the Harcombe cottage on Mir
ror Lake, Highlands, through
July, are now planning to con
tinue their stay through Sep
tember.
General Irvine is president of
the Antiaircraft Association for
the United States and until his
retirement from the army, May
1, was commanding general of
the Army Antiaircraft command
with headquarters at Colorado
Springs, Col.
General Irvine has had a
long and distinguished career
in the Army and has three
times* been decorated by the
President for outstanding war
service. He is an authority on
air defense and antiaircraft
artillery, having lectured and
written on the subject.
General and Mrs. Irvine are
much Impressed with Highlands.
Since the General's retirement,
they' have made their home In
Atlanta, Ga.
LIBRARY MEETING
The annual meeting of the
Hudson library association will
be held this afternoon (Thurs
day) at 3:30 o'clock in the li
brary. Election of officers for
the coming year will be a fea
ture of the meeting.