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?Jt? 3f\tntiklin mxit Ut Mighlnn&s jUnttfumtt VOL. LXVn Number 33 Published every Thursday by The Franklin Press At Franklin, North Carolina . Telephone 24 Entered at Post Office. Franklin, N. C., as second class matter. WEIMAR JONES - .Editor BOB S. SLOAN Business Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Out-of-County ? One Year. 1 ? $3.00 In Macon County ? One Year ? $2.50 Six Months $1.75 Three Months $1.00 Single Copy ............ ? .10 Obituary notices, cards of thanks, tributes of respect, by individuals, lodge*, 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. AUGUST 14, 1952 A Lift For Today -fr Be of good courage, and let us plav the men for our people, 'and for the cities of our God. ... II Sam. 10:11. THE TASK anc| triumph of Christianity is to make men and nations true and just and upright in ^11 their dealings, and to bring law, as well as conduct, into subjection and conformity to the law of God.? Van Dyke. Help us to strive to make not only our city for Thee, but to bring our nation back to Thee in sincerity and humility, we pray, O God. J Military Justice Rdbert \V. Grow,, courtmartialed and found guilty on two counts of improperly using secret military information in private records (his dairy, which was stolen by Russian agents), and 011 two counts of failing to properly safeguard secret military in formation, has heen sentenced to a formal repri mand and suspension from command for six months. Warren G. McConnell, courtmartialed and con victed of sleeping 011 sentry. duty at the Korean war front, after (he said) he had heen without sleep for 72 hours, has been sentenced to dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay and allowances, and 10 years' confinement at hard labor. Grow, a regular army man, is a lyajor general. McConnell. acred 20, is a private. Our Best Bow Our best bow to the group that had the imagi nation to form Franklin's new, and only, theatrical organization, the Community Players? -and had the git-up-and-git to set out to stage at least one production this summer. Dramatics, a form of art nearly everybody under stands, unfortunately has been neglected by moSi schools in this immediate region. The Community Players can help make up for that neglect. The Franklin community badly needs recreation and amusement, especially in summer. An amateur the atre will help fill this need. Finally, people every where are starved for participation ? all the trend, as illustrated by movies, television and radio, rec ord players and concerts, and big league ball games, is toward making us mere passive observers. The new organization will provide an opportunity, at least for a few, to take part in something. Its members can, and no doubt will, do the com munity a real service ? and have a whale of a lot of fun while doing it. 25 Years Of Progress Today the Highlands Biological Station, Inc., will celebrate its 25th birthday. The program, how ever, will mark something more than just a birth day ? it will celebrate a quarter-century of remark able progress. ' i But what and why, the average reader may ask, a biological station? And why was Highlands chosen for such a station? j Students of the biological sciences ("Biology ? ' the science of life" ? Webster) need an opportun ity to supplement textbook study with field work, and a biological laboratory provides the facilities l for this down-to-earth study.i And back in 1927, when a group of earnest persons, interested in the development of this particular branch of knowl edge, sought a site for such a laboratory, they chose Highlands, because "the biological resources of the Highlands Plateau cannot be duplicated" in the southeast. Today the station Owns six acres of land in Highlands, the six-acre Lake Ravenel, the VVeyman ? Memorial Laboratory building on that lake, the Museum of Natural History building on Main street, the Margaret Cannon Howell wildlife refuge in Jackson county, and a three-fifths interest in the John P. Illeges property on Lindenwood road. Far more important, however, than what it owns is what it does. 1 In the community educational field, it has con stantly expanded its work. Summer nature study classes for children were started in 1935 ; it has sponsored the annual flower show since 1935 ; and it has conducted a series of evening lectures since 1946. In the purely scientific field, it now provides re search grants to 98 students, and has issued a number of publications on the work of students and others. Humility Virtually unknown six months ago, Governor Stevenson was brought to the attention of the country as a Presidential possibility by three things that happened last January, reports Time maga zine : In a single week in January, President Truman called the Illinois governor to Washington and of fered to support him for the Presidency ; Stevenson made a good speech in Xew York ; and Mr. Steven son's picture appeared on the cover of Time. \\ hether Time is correct in its appraisal of the effects of these great events we do not know. What we do know is that Time is entitled to a citation for setting the oustanding 1952 example of self effacing modestv. Soilie self-styled liberals in the Democratic party now propose, to outlaw die filibuster, so that that group can force civil rights legislation through the senate. Maybe the filibuster, which probably is no better and no worse than other parliamentary tricks used by Southerners and Northerners. Democrats and Republicans, should be outhawed. But if we're going to do it, let's do it because the filibuster is bad, not merely because it stands in the way of civil rights legislation. It still is poor sportsman ship to changfe the rules in the middle of the game. Our American Civilization Frowning severely on the buying of the votes of individuals; both parties openly trying to buy the blocks of votes of the Negro and other minorities. Other's Opinions BILLY'S BLESSING (Billy Arthur, News and Views) Habit is a wonderful or terrible thing, depending on how you look at i.t. For instance, Thursday morning had answered the telephone very, very frequently? more often than usual. Then, I went home to lunch, set down and proceeded to ask the blessing. The Missus and I bowed our heads reverently and I spoke: "Hello." ' STILL GOOD BUSINESS (Dunn Dispatch) . The Ice business is not on the wane despite the inroads by deep freezers and refrigerators. The Dunn Ice and Fuel Com pany, for instance, can still sell as much ice daily as It can make and if it could make more it would sell more. This is interesting news. Only decrease is from individual home own ers under twenty years ago. Most of the ice now goes to drug stores, soft drink stands and the like but there are still plenty of these. APPALACHIANS (Washington Post) Capt. Myron H. Avery, who died in Canada the other day, was a distinguished Washington admiralty lawyer and naval reserve officer, but he will be remembered most gratefully for his work in a totally different field. Captain Avery was the guiding spirit of the Appalachian Trail Conference, and his initiative and preseverance were largely responsible for the completion of the Appalachian Trail along the mountain ridges all the way from Maine to Georgia. Myriads of hikers and mountain climbers who have tramped over segments of the 2,050-mlle-long trail have paid him unconscious tribute. An ardent mountain enthusia^ and an authority on the lore of Mountain Katahdin in his native State of Maine, Cap tain Avery first became interested in the movement for an Appalachian Trail in 1926, the same year he organized the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. In 1931 he became chairman of the Appalachian Trail Conference, a federation of local mountain clubs. Under his leadership some 50,000 volunteer workers surveyed routes from Mount Katahdin to Mount Ogle thorpe, blazed and cleared and built trails, provided markers and constructed a series of lean-tos and campsites. Malnte I WHO'S ZOO-ON T i.E IIJGHW/Y ? 1952 ft tno Cowolty & Sur*ty Co. DON'T BE A LOVE BIRD. Do your billing and cooing elsewhere. Keep your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road. nance of the trail, especially the part crossing private lands, has been a continuing work. The Appalachian Trail Confer ence has expanded into a sizable venture in publishing guide books and answering queries about vacation treks. Captain Avery's motivation lay in his conviction that people need some place where they can get out and walk ? in the splendor of the Blue Ridge as well as in the solitude of more wild and inaccessible spots. For thousands of persons who love the outdoors his handiwork has contributed to a better appre ciation of America. LOVELIEST THINGS LIST GROWING (Greensboro Daily News* Miss Beatrice Cobb started it in the Morganton News-Herald the other day by citing a list of "loveliest things" as she has noted them and asking for others to come through with lists. Then Henry Belk took it up over in the Goldsboro News-Argus, and so the list keeps a-growing. \ While we don't know that "loveliest" is the adjective we'd choose nor are we disposed to go in the superlatives, we'd nevertheless like to throw a few questions into the cumulative compilation: Have you ever stood down at the headwaters of Albemarle Sound, just off the point where the Roanoke and Chowan Rivers converge, and gazed upon the masses of wild crab apple blooms when they were at their height? Have you ever looked across the Elk River Valley from Ban ner Elk across the rugged top of Grandfather Mountain just as the rising sun pushed its rim across the ridge's peak? i Have you ever been out on the serenity of Orton Pond, well up toward the upper edge, on a late afternoon when the bream started popping lily pads and the fading sun cast its pattern through the moss-decorated trees and fantastic shapes danced upon the waters? Have you ever strolled on the strand at Nags Head in a full moon and watched the moonbeams play through the mists of the waves that beat everlastingly in upon a pummeled shore? Have you ever trudged along bare-foot mist, on the deck of a cabin cruiser tied up in the quietness of Second Creek and breathed in deeply the aroma of brewing coffee and sizzling bacon as it drifted up from the galley below? Have you ever trudged along bare-foot through a damp and newly plowed field in CleVeland County's clay country, with the soft cool clods disintegrating under your liberated toes and the smell of the good earth filling your nostrils? Have you ever lay prone and lapped up water from a spring that gurgled out from a fern-swept, mossy nook or thrown yourself down, dog-tired, on a lush, grassy plot beneath a thick shade and closed your eyes in a relaxation that is com plete? If you haven't, then, whatever your "loveliest" list may be, you still have something to live for. STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES II every adult in Macon County could take a trip some where once a war, it would multiply the speed ol our Ma con County progress by at least 10. I become convinced of that every time I go away, and see what even a little travel does to me. New scenes, new faces, new ideas, put our minds to work; i and, after all, what most of ! us need is not mental rest, but mental stimulation. Far most Macon-ites, a trip is] likely to create dissatisfaction'* with the rate at which our com munity is progressing? but NOT dissatisfaction with the com munity. On the contrary, we usually come back surer than ever th?f we have one of the best of communities ? though a little impatient that we aren't making the most of our God given opportunities. X ? 9 I got back from a recent tr.'p down state realizing, as never before, how blessed we in Ma con County are, in scenery and climate, among other things. After the terrific heat of Middle and Eastern North Car olina, for example, the hottest day we have had this hot sum mer seemed almost pleasant by comparison. Down east, air con ditioning is coming to be con sidered a necessity; at the least, almost every room is equipped with an electric fan. And even a fan doesn't help much ? it just stirs the hot air! Excuse me from a country where, ly ing in bed at 5 o'clock in the morning, you are as wet with Franklin in the middle of the day! And to a mountaineer, the monotony of the dull, flat lands soon would become "un endurable. ? ? ? The folks down east have their problems, too. We think .road-building, for instance, is Continued on Page Three ? News Making As It Looks To A Maconite ? By BOB SLOAN "This week I would like to jot down some ideas that occur to me concerning the schools of Macon County and to some ex tent the, nation. EQUALITY IN iHE SCHOOLS ?Many people do not seem to realize that more nearly than ever before equal opportunity and similar advantages are of fered in all the schools of the county. Not only are the physic al plants of similar construc tion but more nearly than ever before the teachers comply throughout the county with certain educational require ments. Because your child at tends a school in one of the rural areas, it does not mean that your child will be taught by a teacher who has had less educational advantage than the teachers of the Franklin or Highlands schools. In our coun ty today every teacher either has an "A" certificate or is do ing college work toward obtain ing that certificate. Many of the highest trained teachers in the county will teach this fall in the rural schools. WHAT DO PARENTS WANT FROM THE SCHOOLS? To' me, one of the biggest problems concerning public education is the answer to that question. Are parents today more inter ested in seeing their children come home with a report card filled with "A's" and. "B's" and glowing reports as to how they like their teacher, than to have their child really . learn some thing and feel that the teacher is "too hard" on them? What do "A's" and "B's" mean if everybody is getting them? This is not just a local problem, but is nationwide. At a time when a person is in greater need of academic knowledge than ever before to cope with the prob lems of existence, it is very dangerous if there is a weak ening of educational standards. This demand for "passing grades" and "popular teachers" is not coming from the wishes or request of the educational leaders but from the people ? who have the final say in any public school system in a de mocracy. ARE WE STRONG ENOUGH TO GIVE OUR CHILI 'REN WHAT THEY NEED INSTEAD OF WHAT THEY WANT? To me, the answer to that ques tion, judging by the record, so far is, No. In Franklin, or most any other small similar com munity, you can raise S10 to buy athletic equipment for every $1 you can raise to buy scientific equipment, yet I do not see how any impartial person can help but admit that training in the latter is much more im lems today. Is it because we are so prosperous today that per haps we have become so con tent and self-satisfied that for the moment we really think, it is more important that our Continued On Page Three ? Do You Remember? (Looking backward through the files of The Press) 50 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK Dr. Lewis Eiias arrived home Saturday evening from New York, and will remain till Oc tober. The weather is very dry and warm now. Crops are suffering for want of rain. The election board for Macon county is composed of W. H. Waldroop, J. G. Siler, and E. H. Franks. 25 YEARS AGO R. W. Shields, supervisor of the Nantahala National Forest, is being transferred to Virginia to become supervisor of the Shenandoah Forest. Facon county might as well make up its mind to have a new court house and a new new jail. The sooner the better. 36 weeks in New York ? 16 weeks in Boston ? but only TWO NIGHTS in Franklin. Don't miss BEAU GESTE! 10 YEARS AGO The ftrst test blackout in this section was carried out in the Western North Carolina coun- , ties on Monday night when Ma con county united with other counties. Mrs. J. S. Gray, president of the council of home demonstra tion clubs of Macon County will attend the meeting of the officers of the North Carolina Federation of Home Demonstra tion clubs at State college In Raleigh next week. ,
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