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d It* Ifirnuklxn attit CJre llixjlilaiiiis J&arxromn bum at Pot once, Franklin. N. C, ? ? ocpd clia utMt Published mrj Thumtay bj The Franklin Pna Ptmnklln. NC TWspboos M WEIMAR JONES . . . BOB S. SLOAN .... a. P. BRADY ?BBS BETTY UXJ POUTS . CARL P. CABE . . . . ?BANK A. STARRETTE . . DAVID H SUTTON . . . nwAlMUM E. WHTTTINOTON JULY 29, 1954 Mechanical Superintendent , . . Shop Superintendent Stereotyper Preeeman SUBSCRIPTION RATES HTT 1 One Tear *3.00 One Tear Outsibi Macon Codhtt _ Iwsn? Macoh Cootitt ^ Six Months 1.W 81r Months 1-? rtre? Months 1-00 Three Months . . 100 Surrender and Repudiation Perhaps Benjamin Franklin was right in saying that "there never was a good war, or a bad peace". But beyond a feeling of relief that the slaughter in far off Indochina has ceased,, the West can get lit tle comfort frorri the cease-fire agreement signed last week in Geneva. Maybe there never was a "bad" peace ; but cer tainly this one is not a "good" peace ? if, indeed, it is peace at all. What it probably will prove to be is simply an armed truce, and a temporary truce at that. For it settles nothing. The problem of Indochina is a far more complicated one today than it was when the fighting started eight years ago. The settlement is a humiliating defeat for the West. Even the most casual examination of its terms reveals that. In fact, there was no pretense that it was anything else. The Communist negot iators, ordinarily glum, were openly jubilant; and the French premier told his country's National As sembly that the peace i.s "cruel", but the best bar gain obtainable. In the light of this abject surrender, what must be the emotions of the mothers and widows of the thousands of French soldiers who died fighting in Indochina ! And of the mothers and widows of the Vietnamese soldiers who died to keep their country free! Surely they must be asking themselves today: "To what end did they die"? Probably the most significant effect of the West's surrender, though, will not be the humilia tion, or even the terrible loss of prestige the West has suffered. The worst feature is the West's repu diation of all the things it is supposed to stand for. By the terms of the agreement, the big powers handed over to the Reds approximately half of an other country ? Viet Nam. They sold into Commun ist slavery 13,000,000 souls. And the protests of the Vietnam foreign minister were ignored ; he charged he wasn't even permitted to read the text of the agreement that so vitally affects his country. After such a betrayal, how can the West ever expect to be believed again? The United States attempted to keep its skirts clear by refusing to sign the agreement. But it was represented at the conference ; its delegate merely abstained from voting ? he could have, but did not, cast his vote against the agreement. And we gave it support bv announcing we would not attempt to upset it by force. We tried to salve our conscience by making an other idle threat, about what we will do to the Communists ? next time. Then - And Now If anything is going to he done about the antics of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, it will have to be done by you and me ; that is, by the taxpayers. That was the suggestion offered in these columns last week. The way to put an end to those antics, the sug gestion continued, is for Congress to stop appro priating the money that makes them possible. And the best way for taxpayers to get such action out of Congress is to refuse to pay federal taxes until Congress cuts off these appropriations. After all, it is our money. Of course, the law says we must pay taxes; and to advocate refusal to do so is to advocate break ing the law. That, we have been told, is pretty seri ous ; it is to advocate a form of rebellion. ' Well, maybe. But we seem to remember reading in the history book* about some earlier Americans who refused to pay taxes. They went even farther; they not only woohia't pay taxes on tea, they forced their way on to * tea-lades ship and threw the tea overboard. The Real Motive The Atomic Energy Qommission-TVA-private power controversy in Washington serves to high light something bigger, and something all-too ap parent: There is a widespread and determined ef fort to destroy the TVA. Mast of the folks engaged in that effort would tell you they hate the TVA as a wicked socialistic heresy. We doubt if that is true. We think the hate goes a bit deeper. We think that for two rdSsons: First, nowhere is socialism, as a theory, more feared and hated than in the South ; but very few Southerners hate or fear the TVA. Quite the reverse. Second, the anti-TVA-ers are too bitter about it. Xbbody gets that het up about sin in the ab stract. Our guess would be that what they really hate is the South. And that that hate, like most, stems from jealousy. The South is fast catching up with the rest of the country; the TVA, they reason, is speeding that overtaking process. Ergo, let's de strov the TVA. tt ? Letters AN ARITHMETICAL PROBLEM Editor, The Press: Here is a problem for the amusement of your readers. If anyone gets stuck, if they will let me know, I will try to straighten them out. With best wishes to The Press and to my North Carolina friends of 50 years ago, Yours respectfully, WILL S. JOHNSON THE PROBLEM: Three persons rented a room in a hotel. The proprietor charged them $10 each, or a total of $30. Later, he decided he had charged too much, and gave the bellhop $5 to return to them. The bellhop decided to keep $2, and give the three guests back $1 each. After the refunds, the guests had paid out $9 each. Three times nine equals $27, and the bellhop kept $2, making $29. What happened to the other dollar? For they started with $30. Others' Opinions BARLEY (Quonset Scout) We hear that next year's bathing suits are barely big enough to keep a girl from being tanned where she ought to be. JUST ABOUT SHOT (Asheville Citizen) We feel impelled to relay a reader's comment on that A.P. story that read: "In Grand Rapids, Mich., a grandfather and grandson were watching a jungle show on television when a tiger appeared on the screen. Grandpa grabbed his grandson's B-B gun, fired, and ruined the set. He said he didn't know the gun was loaded." Writes the reader: "Never mind the gun; what about grandpa?" A TEACHER MAKES A DISCOVERY (Shelby Star) A North Carolina teacher has discovered some of the weak* nesses in her own profession and cited them to the National Education Association which is now meeting In New York. Schools have traditionally been faced with the misbehaving student. Now comes Mrs. S. M. Taylor of Greensboro to say there are several kinds of misbehaving teachers. First, she says there is the teacher who sets bad examples. They tell children not to walk on the grass and yet cut corn ers themselves. Then, there is the teacher who rushes in tardy and who rushes out as soon as the day is over. There is the teacher who does the Job as a martyr feeling that he or she is the hardest working teacher In the school. Finally, there is the teacher who encourages or participates in group conflicts; for example, young teachers against older teachers. These are not all the sins mentioned by Mrs. Taylor as head of the NEA ethics committee but they will suffice to illustrate a lack of perfection which crops up once In a while and which ought to be called to the attention of those most concerned. We hadJttver heard that teachers laid claim to perfection. Most of pFm go about their duties humbly and with full knowledge that they often make mistakes. Nevertheless, It is refreshing to have a teacher herself call attention to a few specific shortcomings which she has seen crop up among her fellow workers. The chances for them to be corrected are a thousand times better that way. OUR DEMOCRACY; f ($06 wttr\x#t" This affikmatiom or faith ha* comcoowmtousthsouch THC OLO TrSTAMCNT, THC NgW TMTAMBNT, OOH MUWNTS' ?CACMINO*(OUft NATIONAL ANTHCM-4AefMEV0WOMt COMS. y ? UK THe FUST A?/ MCE OF THE MOTTO ON OUR COINS WM ON A oeoNZE two-cent piece minted in 1864 in Philadelphia. NOW OUR GOVERNMENT HAS ISSUED ITS FIRST REGULAR STAMP PROCLAIMING TO TVE WORLD *IN GOD WE TRUST." IT IS AN EIGHT-CENT 4TAWP, USED PRINCIPALLY FOR INTERNATIONAL MAIL , j' AND SERVES AS ANOTHER REMINDER OF THE FAITH ON WHICH OUR DEMOCRACY WAS FOUNDED, f Poetry Editor EDITH DEADERICK ERSKINE Weavervllle, North Carolina MY NEIGHBOR I see her press her weight against the wind, To a shabby house that leans against a hill. But there are flowers upon her window sill, And peace is there for those who ask no more Than mother hands and heart and open door. She is so frail and yet so strong To bear the weight of all their care. Her beauty not a thing of form or face, But from a certain inner grace. The Master must have placed such beauty there. Perhaps when He shall walk with us again, He will pass by the very wise and great, To linger by my neighbor's gate. For one of His simplicity, Might well prefer to be, Her guest for tea. MARIE HALBERT KING STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONBS This column Is for women only. * * ? No mere man should try to 1 talk about cooking recipes. He shouldn't, certainly, if he'd had i the experience I have. I ought to have had my les- i sons. For every time I've ever | even talked about cooking ] (much less tried to do it), I've i got myself in trouble. The climax of those troubles : came a number of years ago when I was working on the Asheville papers. It was decided to put out a section devoted to recipes. And I was nominated and unanimously elected (by my newspaper boss) as recipe editor. ItH be very simple, I thought; all you have to do is Just print the recipes women send in. O, yes; I also was supposed to read the proof, to make sure there were no typographical errors. It should be simple, I thought; and when the section was out, I congratulated myself it had been simple. Really noth ing to it. But, unhappily, some folks read that section; or, at least, I know of one person who did ? my wife. And though It's been at least 15 years ago, she never has let me forget that one rec ipe in the section I edited called for a CUP full of baking powd er! ? ? ? You'd think I'd know better by this time. But here I go; not only talking about recipes, but putting what I say In type ?where I can't possibly deny I ever said It. I'm doing It for a reason-^ two reasons, in fact. What prompted this column was a dish we had at our house the other night. It was some of the best food I ever put in my mouth. And It came from a recipe, of course. ? And where did Mrs. Jones get that recipe? From Boston? New York? San Francisco? Wrong! It came from Macon County. And she found it in The Frank lin Press ? in that little "Cook ing Corner ? Favorite Recipes af Macon Women". It's called "Congealed Salad", and it was given to the world by Mrs. Lyle Shepherd, of the Liberty Home Demonstration Club. A burnt child dreads the fire, and I'm not going to try to give the quantities this time. But I am going to list some of the things that go in it: Cream, black walnut meats, cottage cheese, pineapple, olives, and gelatin. Note those ingredients again, and you'll get an Inkling of how smart Macon women are: Cream? comes from the family cow; walnuts ? right off the farm; cottage cheese ? again thanks to the cow (and to con siderable kitchen labor). The pineapple, the olives, and the gelatin are, I would guess, min or Items; and a lot of women here would find, if necessary, substitutes for the pineapple and olives. They might even substitute the gelatin out of pig's feet for the bought kind. That brings me to my first point, my first reason for writ ing this: Mrs. Shepherd's rec ipe Illustrates how Macon wom en turn out delectable (that's a $64 -word meaning "how good that Is!") dishes, using what is produced right on the farm. My second point Is this: Ma con County folks are eating a lot better than they did SO, or even 25, years ago. Imagine con gealed salad on a Macon Coun ty table, back In 1904! ? ? ? P. 8. Since this Is written for women only, 111 break down and make a confession: The best ideas in this article natur ally aren't a man's at all. You can probably guess what woman gave them to me. News Making As It Looks To A Maconite ? B j BOB 8&OAN If the figures given, by the Ltomlc Energy Commission as 0 the Increase In cost In ob alnlng electricity from a prlv ite company for their work ather than from the TVA is :orrect then President Eisen hower Is doing the people of he United States a gfreat wrong. According to this commission he power could be obtained for BO, 000, 000 less money from the ilready existing TVA, This pow ir Is necessary for the develop nent of Atomic power neces iary for the defense of the :ountry. It should be obtained n the cheapest way possible rtth the assurance that the upply will continue. Further nore, it seems unwise to place iomethlng so essential to the lefense of our country in the lands of a small group of men vho could If so motivated at empt to force the country to >ay an even higher price for what may be a great part of he life blood of our defense. Vlso It looks to me like this >50,000,000.00 excess In price Is 1 handout from the government :or those utilities producing this ilectricity. If the motive behind ,he whole project is not an at ;empt to gradually freeze out rVA then why don't the other private utilities protest this move? It is not only beneficial ;o their competitors, but, also s a waste of their tax money is well as the private citizens. It seems to me that the Dem scratic party would do well to make their pitch on the basis of ;he unfairness and unsoundness 3f allowing small groups to benefit extremely well from the use of our natural resources rather than seeing that they a.re developed for the use of the country as a whole. The Tide lands Oil deal was an example and if we go paying private companies bonus sums to pro duce power necessary for de fense with the intent of de stroying the government agency built at great expense which can do this job we are doubly wasting our money. If TVA is selling power to private industry that is needed for defense then that should be stopped, but isn't it better for a government agency to produce defense pow er rather than a company which wants to make the big gest profit possible. ? ? ? In confining ones remarks to a short column like this one always runs the danger of not making his position too clear due to lack of space. Last week In commenting on conditions at Arrowood I intended no reflec tion on the personnel charged with the duty of keeping the area clean. Instead I felt that, the administration in their pseudo effort to fool the people into thinking they would give the same service at less cost would result In placing almost Impossible jobs on personnel down at the bottom. In army parlance that is where the "buck finally got passed to." Such Is the case. One man is ? Continued on Page 3 Do You Remember? (Looking backward throagh the flics of The Press) 50 WEARS AGO THIS WEEK President (Theodore) Roose velt has given out that he will deliver no political speeches during the campaign. The coun try is to be congratulated. Mrs. Oeorge T. Bryson moved last Wednesday from the Dr. Lyle cabin to the Bartlett house on West Main Street. At the Democratic senatorial convention that met at Andrews last Friday, Mr. Steve Porter, of Cherokee, was unanimously nominated by acclamation for senator from the 34th district. 25 TEARS AGO On August 10 Highlands Is planning a big barbecue In cel ebration of three distinct events. First, a monument to 8. T. Kel sey, founder of the town, will be unveiled. Second, the opening of Highway 28 between Frank lin and that town. Third, the opening of the Highlands Qolf Course. On the opening date, Bobby Jones, the most famous golfer In the world, will play. 10 YEARS AGO Lieut. Horace C. Hurst has been awarded the Air Medal, according to an announcement received here from England. Sgt. Carlyle Shepherd, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dock Shepherd, has arrived safely overseas, ac cording to a letter received by hU parents.
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