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(Ehr rn it kii n jJreb^ a n D h r itfaimra W KIM Alt JiiNM Bob ? M < 'AN J P HHAl \ BOLJ-'t Nt.ll 1 MR.- A L.I t> 11. ILK M R.^ I AM i ' K i ? CAK1 P CAHfc FRANK A 1 A Kith"! I t a t I'liAWKt >KlJ CHAHLEH i. WH1T1 IMiTON DAV1I) H Sl' ITON E<iiu?r A?lvrr *. UiliiK Nrwt EUiU-r Hf..>u??<ri*pf-cir K-^irur , :ny Editor t ?m?-r M?i,me r ( /yx" rhUf MitCfiluUl < <>utp<isiuir Hu-reot yy>?r P-rMIIlMl Cnmniercl#] Prto t?r 3 Jobs Thar Need Doing Most M .hi >11 (;'inmi\ ciii/ciis undoubtedly ayree with iIhm- | x 1 1 1 n - . made b\ Mi. I ? * < 1 \ auyhn iti his letter on tins paye laM week: 1 That the Board of I oiimii- moih i - make pro vision in thr animal count \ bullet lor the o|>era tion an<l maintenance oi the county schools. That not onlv seems to lie a matter ot justice, hut it makes sense. W'lieti any considerable propor tion of these funds has to he raised by the eiti/eiis of the different communities, it usually is a lew people who raise, or j^'ive. the money, hairness seems to demand thai the cost of operating and maintaining the public schools he equally divided anion"' all the people- that is, that it he raised by taxat ion. And certainly it doesn't make sense to require the school principals to operate candy stores in the schools to raise monev for .necessarv operational costs. It doesn't make sense, tor two reasons: To hire a man qualified to operate a school and then to make a second late merchant out of him on the side is like hiring a first rate executive to run a private business and then requiring him to devote part ot his time to sweeping the floor. In neither case are you jjettiny your money's worth. And nothing could he more illogical than to con duct school lunchrooms, so every child will yet a wholesome lunch, and then sill him candv to ill sure he will have spoiled his appetite when lunch t iine comes. 1. Thai the < oiiimissioners set a lixed percentage of the actual value of proper! v as the rate at w hiih it is to he put on the lax hooks. Thai is, if ihe rale is lixed a! , sav, 5< > per cent , a piece of proper t v that is actually worth SI.OU) would lit' listed I < >i" tax purpose.-, at riial inaltcT was In come lieioic the ( <1111111 1 ss k hi ers M < >n< la \ , ami prohahlv will have I >< ? < ? 1 1 acted up mi before tills is published. W e hope so. because the system undei wliirli we have < i] >?-ra t <??< 1 in past veais was a I11I or miss plan thai ollerel both tile 1 1* 1 1 1 ] > t at i< >11 and tin- opportunity l" list proper! v at too low a li?itrr and penalized llu man who tiics to lie holiest. In the past, taxpayers were inld I > \ llu- 1 i > I <? 1 thai they were "supposed to list" property "at about" such and such a percentage. No matter how honest the taxpayer, ilie figure liii on usually \va e heller than a micss. Such a system doesn't deserye to lie called a s\s teni - 11 is neither lair nor intelligent. .v Thai I lie < 'omniissioner-* have all property 111 Macon ( mmty revalued lor tax purposes. \n holiest 1 evaluation would have three elicits; (a) It y.or.ld 1 eipiirc a loi 01 taxpayers who areiu p.i\ in:; iliea iau -liaie oi ilie taxes in do s(1. (hi I1 would laise eiioiili a < I < 1 1 1 ion.il lave- In pa\ the >o i oi i h e 1 1 v alu.it ion inanv tunes over, I he i ii s| v i a r. ( i ) I ' oi;id ii*,., 1. c H |ji,s ll ile 1 o pi ov ide Ml I 1 1 cieni lax lund.s to ilie oprialioii an I uiaiiil etiatu e o| the sillool- WmIioUI ,!li. Ill' I < . I - e III I Ile laic o I taxes. 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I>\ -i >iiii I h ill;1 il e \n, | . 1 1 cut will trll \ < 1 1 1 tin- ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 is likely In peak tin kiinl nl I ni'lisli In hears m i lie si'Ik ml 1 1 H at i I I ( n\ isit.tlien.tli.it I eai liei s' i i il le^es ifiiilintie in f;i\e M \ < I e ; ? i < ? < ami lints ailt i > ? ii a I ic salaiv im lease.s In te.nliels who litem selves inlir.lei tile Kind's bullish evet \ time tliev often their mout lis J SiJ D vy or SU^TANCE Don t o\ t rd r i \ c \our lights Night doubles traffic troubles! About half of North Carolina's fatal auto smash -ups occur after dark, even though more driving is <fone in the day time. The State Department of Motor Ve hicles says "slow down at sun-down". Letters God, The Russians, And Us Editor, The Press: Although I am not an H. V. Kaltenborn or a George Shuster authority on work conditions, I would like to have a space on your page, to speak to the people of our county and I hope through them, to the people of our nation. When we hear and see what happened to the people of Hungary, a fear grips u.s at what could happen to us. And we consider what we could do to prevent our being slaugh tered and driven like wild beasts. We think of the atomic bomb. Well, the Russians have that. Then we consider the H-bomb. They have that. Then we think, "What is there for us?" Oh, yes, there is Christianity. They don't have that; and who knows that this might not be the time that God has chosen to make Himself known to all people; to plant the "fear of the Lord" in the hearts of many. We know that prayer is a great power for good to them who love and obey God Those who can qualify need fear no evil But when we consider how we, as a Christian nation, rate in this great God-given power, we as individuals find that we have fallen far short. We have not separated ourselves entirely from the sins of the world and our hearts fail us for fear ' of the evil in our nation ; of God's dis ( pleasure in us. When we read our Bibles, we find many times where God allowed His people to be taken captive and made servants to other people (wicked people i until they repented. And many years later, when they had been taught the fear of the Lord", were allowed to win their freedom. And always before an occasion like this, there have been warnings, as we have t today, of impending danger, of our neglect to call upon God f for direction and follow Him. , c We have broken the first and greatest commandment: j "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Right in be- < tween us and God has crept this god, the desire to be ap preciated It is that that keeps u.s from speaking against evil and standing to be counted for God. We have fooight against this god, wp know he is a fake, but so many times J the fear of being criticised has given him a victory over us. ] After looking back over our people as individuals, we know i there Is much to displease our God, who is "a jealous God visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto 1 the third, and fourth generations of them that hate me, and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and ; keep my commandments" And we wonder what to do next. Proverbs 2H 13 says: He that covereth his sins shall not prosper but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy " And we remember, after Solomon in his prayer to God asked, "if this people should sin against God", "for there ' is n > man that sinneth not", would He. God. forgive them < if they would repent and pray toward this temple And in 11 Chronicles. 7 14. we have God's answer If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways; then will 1 hear from heaven and will forgive their sin. and will heal t heir land Let us evaluate ourselves and see how badly in need of God we are First, let us make a tree We have to have a seed. W? II. let's make ;> seed You make the seed and let some one nffi ? ttLr dirt to plant it in Only God can make a tree Ther^Jrt, us acknowledge our inferiority to God. i pray and seek Then let us start doing some of the things He hxs Ix'nufl directing us to do The things we thought were too foolish. Vl Cor 1 IK For the preaching of the cross is to t hem that Hprish foolishness but unto us which are saved, it is the pKer of God ? Turning from our wicked ways, we can claim ftod's promise, to hear, forfcive. and heal Let us show God the Russians But first, we must make Him our God. and realize God alone is between us and destruc tion MR,S ( JIIiMFR SKTSER Franklin. . Route 1 ' Others' Opinions (Opinion* eipx c5oo( l lii tills space axs not nettwn illy tiiOM of Tfi? Prras Editorial* selected (or reprinting fcsre Ua fact. me ciioaeu wltfc a Tlew to pieaexitlng ? variety of viewpoints They aie Uisl is. Just wtial Uis caption s?>s OTHJUjUT Opinions ) Needed: More Neighborliness i Greensboro Dully News i Unfortunately our good trlend The Rocky Mount Evening Telegraph sets up u straw mail and demolishes it in com menting on the Great I*'batt- over reapportionment Tilt- Sun ford Herald raised a question. .1 valid 011c we think, about Weimar Jones's minority report, which opposed the Weathers Commission's recommendations 011 reapportionment The Herald leared the Jones plan (reducing the House from 120 to 100 members and placing all the population principle in the Senate, yet not expanding its membership 1 would widen the rural-urban split in North Carolina The House would become m/>re rural the Senate more urban? and never the twain shall meet The Herald saw many disadvantages to a reapportionment plan in which "compromise would have to be worked out on an inter-cliamber rather than an intra-chamber basis." We agree that North Carolina needs no further segregation of rural and urban interests in separate houses; rather the state needs more integration and mixture of viewpoints in both houses. The Daily News did not Imply that the urban areas would automatically produce more "enlightened" legis lators or that in the Evening Telegram's words "the urban elected Senate would be constantly dead-locked with the dumb clucks in the House elected by rural counties." As a matter of tact we constantly look to the present rural domination of the House to give North Carolina more intel ligent and progressive leadership than the generally conserva tive Senate. But the point here did not involve judgment of competency on a rural-urban basis. Rather the idea was to avoid further concentration of opposing forces in such a man ner as to create in North Carolina the kind of dilemma Geor gia now faces ? in which urban Atlanta remains at logger heads with a rural county-unit_ system. North Carolina has achieved an extra dividend in neighbor liness because it has not been dominated by a large city or group of cities. Its neighborly flavor is preserved in a pro fusion of small cities and rural areas, where the mode of life is much the same North Carolina, thank goodness, still has a deeply-engrained state-wide outlook; it will suffer if its two houses are stacked against each other. We favor retention of some rural and urban influences in both House and Senate ? and a condition which Weimar Jones's plan, for all its good intentions, would not foster. For less noise, it's the car that's supposed to be well oiled, not the driver. STRICTLY PERSONAL By WEIMAR JONES I have never taken much stock n the usual New Year's resoli; ions? "after January 1, I u t ;moke". or "beginning with trie irst of the year, I'm going to >ave a little money each week )r month", or "starting with the view Year. I'm going to do thi; )r that or not do this or that' Such resolutions are made only :o be broken. If a man really wants to stop smoking, or start saving money, or whatever, he's lust as likely to want to start July 19 as January 1 . and if he starts when "the spirit moves him" X). much more likely to keep on han to wait for a calendar date New Year's, though, is a good Limo to take stock; to review what, you've been trying to do and see if it is good or bad; to amend it or add to it or find new and better ways to do what you're trying to do. And. most important of all. it's a good time for rededication to the things you've come to believe over a long period of time, not just sud denly on December 31 are worth while. It is in that spirit that 1 am reprinting below what another newspupeiman said recently I! ? ? put. much better than I could, what we on The Press have been trying to do. year after year. We're going to try. in 19T>7, to do these things a little better than we have in any previous year The man who said what follows is Don Norberg. editor ol the Albia. Iowa. Monroe County News "The newspaper which truly loves and respects the community it serves will have the best editor* lal pace from literary ana philosophical and typographical standpoints it can produce. "Headers have a right to a com plete newspaper And a newspaper which has no editorial expression is not complete it has a body, but no heart "Second "The newspaper which believe ?; the people it serves have a destiny will appreciate their dignity and Intelligence It will interpret local national and international news in the light of what has happen rd And in the light of what ri free and dynamic people can make happen. "Third? "The newspaper which appreci ates the people it serves will em phasize the spiritual and cultural and intellectual growth of the community as well as the physical growth. "My town will not grow better simply <.by becoming bigger. No town will. "The truly important citizens of your community and mine are the teachers, and the preachers. They need a newspaper to hold in their hands. "Many years ago. when I was wanting very much to become an editor, an editor told me this? " Never, ' he said, become in volved editorially with local poli tics or religion.' "T)ae world and newspapers . . . and rightfully so . . . have passed him by. "It is in local politics that legislators and governors and congressmen and presidents are made it is in local politics that our republic has its roots. "As for religion if Billy Gra ham came to my community and addressed a thousand persons, that would look like really some thing But "the pastors and the priests and the rabbis who serve my com munity talk to a much greater total congregation every week of the year "The philosophies they pro claim. the actions they urge are vital to the life of my community, and your own They are the leaders in the fight against everything that threatens a people with evil "Consequently, you have one of ?t-hf1* rare instances in which it can be honestly said if you are not with them, you are against them "and here is my fourth point: "The newspaper which loves and respects the area it, serves will be a diplomat first, a crusader second It. will not attempt to build itself by tearing down in stitutions and individuals "For example, most of the people who make mistakes in thr conduct of public affairs do it more through stupidity than mal ice And an editorial writer some times must, be bigger than his editorial page, and utilize avenues other than the public print to pro tect justice VIEWS | Bt 1 B<*B SIX) AN fl Both Macon County and the State uf North Carolina are fac ed with a vexing problem at this tune What are they going to do about their respective tax situations? In the case of Ma con County, I find that more and more people are agreeing that there are nutny, many in equities in the property valua tions. These have crept in through perhaps an uninten tional mistake here and there. The fact that once a listing Ls made the valuation has rarely been more than slightly chang ed has helped to bring this about Also, it seems to me, that more and more people are be coming convinced that the best way to correct this situation is to bring In an( outside firm or group of people that specialize in this business and have them to set up a new valuation for all property in the county Hav ing been an advocate of this for many years and this being the year for revaluation of county property, I certainly hope that the Board of County Commissioners sees fit to take action along this line. I feel that they will have the support of a majority of the people. I have discussed the state problem in a previous article. Various publications each year name some person for "Man of the Year". Generally, it is some person in political life. To me, the man who displayed out standing moral courage and knowledge of present events and the future was Sir Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of Great Britain. From the time that our gov ernment practically forced Great Britain to withdraw her troops from the Suez Canal area, I think that Eden felt that this presented an oppor tunity to Russia. When this vital traffic artery, so vital to economic livelihood of so much of the entire world, was seized by the vt-eak Egyptian forces, Eden knew that if something were not done, Russia would soon control the Suez canal. At grave risk of having his motives misunderstood by many of his own people, as well as most of the rest of the world, he took action to bring about a crisis. This, in turn, brought the United Nations forces on the scene ?and was a step toward placing the canal under the control of this international body, where it, and other can als, so vital to the commerce of the world, should be. I. for one, believe that Mr. Eden took the gamble witlr his eyes open, and can now hold his head very high indeed. To me, it is the outstanding example of courage, coupled with political astuteness, that has occurred in my lifetime. Do You Remember? (I^okinic backward through the files of The Press) 25 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK The Macon County Commis sioners authorized payment of $93 to the owners of 16 sheep killed by outlaw dogs. The Highlands Bank has been designated official depository for Macon County funds The county's daily balance is about $2,500 10 Y E A ICS AGO Mollis Clark, of Aquone, this week -told how he put a stop to hog-killing by tracking down and taking care of a 503-pound bear The Franklin Presbyterian Church will begin a building program that calls for the con struction of an educational an nex, installation of a central heating system, and restoration of the steeple and belfry. Miss Barbara Hurst has been promoted to demonstration agent for Caldwell County Hughes Ends first Phase Of Training At Base In Texas J. C Hughes. 17-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Clyde Hughes, of Franklin, Route 3. has com pleted the first phase of military training at I jack land Air Force Base. San Antonio. Tex. According to an announcement from the base, he has qualified for specialized technical training and will be assigned to the 3450th Student Squadron at Warren A F B . in Wyoming
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