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(Ih* Iflnmklm att& Che Migltianite jHatuinan Second class mall privileges authorized ,?t FrunkMn. N C Puolished every Thursday by The Fr&nltliu Press Telephone 24 VKQIAR JONES BOB 8. SLOAN BRADY NEILL i. F. ? . Editor Advertising Manager News Editor -Photographer Reporter ALLEN SILER Society Editor Office Manage] MARION BRYSON Proofreader P. CABE t Operator-Machinist A. STARRETTE Compositor E. WHITTINGTON Pressman O. E. CRAWFORD 8tereotyper DAVID H. 8UTTON Commexclal Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ourams Macon County Insios Macon County One Year ... $3.00 One Year . . 1.75 Six Months 1.00 Three Months Two rears Three Tears 5*5 7.50 Two Years Three Years $2.50 1.75 1.00 435 6.00 MAY 23, 1957 Commendable Moves For years, the election situation in Franklin township has been bad. Voters have often had to stand in line at the courthouse to cast their bal lots, and at almost every election it has taken far into the night to count the heavy vote in this township. And as the township's population has grown, the situation has become worse. To illustrate how overgrown this township has become, as a voting precinct, in the 1956 general election more votes were cast in this precinct than in any other four in this county. It makes good sense, therefore, > to split the pre cinct four ways, as the County Board of Elections recently did. It also is a boon to the elderly and thosfc in poor health to have the voting place here moved from the second floor of the courthouse ? those are steep steps ? to the new ground floor location, in the Agricultural Building. Finally, it has been 15 years since a new voter registration was held in this county. It is high time for a new one. All three of these changes were needed, and the vast majority of the county's voters undoubtedly will join The Press in commending the election board for making them. The Soil And Life Without sunshine, air, water, and soil, there can be no human life on this earth. The sunshine is beyond our control. The air still is there for all, though we have gone; a long way, around our big cities, toward poisoning it. Due to waste and unintelligent use, water is becoming a more and more acute problem. But it is in the realm of the soil that man, especially American man, has been most sinfully wasteful. Yet there can be no food without soil. Thus the conservation of the soil is as important to the city dweller who ngver sets foot off the pavement as to the dirt farmer. And so, if Soil Stewardship Week, to be observed starting Sunday, accomplishes no more than to make Americans conscious of their stewardship for this wealth not of their creating, the observance will be abundantly worth while. Bouquet Here's a well-deserved bouquet: For its recent election, the Town of Franklin might have borrowed from the county the rickety, dilapidated voting booths used here in general elec tions. Just that, in fact, was suggested. After discussion, though, the town authorities decided to have some booths built. The result was something that lent an air of dignity to an impor tant citizenship responsibility ; when Franklin vot ers went to, the town hall to cast their ballots, they entered simple but neat and attractive booths. Carefully designed for the purpose, the substan tial booths are collapsible ; and now they are folded up and stored in the town hall basement, ready for the next municipal election. And all this for an investment of well under a hundred dollars ! New Legislative Crime If you read newspaper headlines, line by line, as we do, here is the headline of the year, from The Asheville Citizen: BILL TO STERILIZE UNWED MOTHERS KILLED BY SENATE Letters Watch For Postman Editor, The Press: My wife and I watch for the postman each Monday morn ing and read each edition of The Press In detail. It's our only way of getting the news of Macon County. FRED DOWDLE Mt. Vernon, Wash. ? Prospective Citizens Editor, The Press: Thanks for ttoe sample copy of your fine paper. Enclosed Is my check for $3 for a one-year subscription to be sent to the address above. In a few years we hope to settle In Frank lin or Highlands. In the meantime, we shall look to your paper for local news and color. MONROE HEGGLAND Libertyville, 111. More Great Teachers Editor, The Press: If I should install a bronze plate in the high school build ing at Franklin ? and that is exactly what I intend to do, if the county education authorities be willing? I would certain ly include every name mentioned by Weimar Jones in his able article (the Strictly Personal piece in the May 2 education section, discussing some outstanding teachers here). For his information, Mr. Britt's initials were J. J. I will re member that gentleman, I have not forgotten the technique he used when he laid the "penicillin" to me with a two handed switch for shooting "Mutt" Munday in the back of the head with a stick of chalk. I would certainly add to that list of names the portly, in telligent, steak-eating attorney, the Hon. Thomas J. Johnston. There is another name that would be a must on my list. Modern, capable, energetic, and a severe taskmaster, she came along about my freshman year in high school. I, of course, refer to Mrs. Eloise Potts, nee Miss Eloise Griffin. No person, past or recent, has contributed mora to education in Macon County and to the welfare of the people than Mrs. Eloise Potts. With her permission, I would put her name right there with those splendid people who have helped Macon County to move well up the list in education. The future will bring others. DR. FURMAN ANGEL Franklin. > . (NOTE: I am in complete agreement with Dr. Angel about the names he would add to my list of outstanding teachers. That earlier list was not Intended as all-inclusive at all, but simply as illustrative of how fortunate this community has been In its teachers; and to make the point that it is the person who teaches that counts, with the techniques of teach ing in a definitely secondary position. ? W. J.) THE ROMANCE OF WORDS THEY HAVE INNER LIFE AND EVEN FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS Marriages Are Common (EDITOR'S NOTE: At the Mfiot of The Press, Mr. Bird, president of Western Carolina Collepe, Cullowhee, prepared the following con densation of a recent talk Ju made to the Franklin Rotary Ctafc.) By W. E. BIRD Tor the hobbyist interested in word forms and meanings, this topic takes on a double sig nificance. First, as vehicles of thought and communication, words are laden with ideas, Imagery, con notations, and often with such iwlltlw of Individuality and personal charm as to lift them above the level of drabness to flie high plane of delightful ro mance. It is this Hvlng essence ? the tamer life and spirit ? of words that so often endows them with their most fasclnat tag romantic qualities of mys tery and eluslveness. Second, as forms revealing structural peculiarities, words aw afford most surprising rev dlnani of themselves lndepen dent of, or at least In addition to, their thought Implications. It Is thus In their corporal as pects that we may often readily observe family connections, rac ial kinships, marital relation Ships, and even sex character istics. Their very appearance, therefore, often suggests cer tain enticing romantic aspects that stimulate our Interest and rivet our attention. Word relationships as reveal ed, therefore, by their forms may be Illustrated by simple examples, showing whether they stand as married couples, or as children of an Immediate fam ily, or perhaps as cousins, or even as orphans or Illegitimate children. Such words, for example, as "baseball" and "football" (made up of completely different small er words of different origins, forms, and meanings ? (as "base" and "ball", or as "foot" and "ball") were certainly not originally written in their pres ent compound form, hut have eventually, through a long pe riod of courtship followed, per haps, by a'shorter period of sol emn "engagement ("base-ball", "foot-ball") become compound ed as completely united words. It is Interesting to observe that the two husbands ? Mr. Base and Mr. Foot ? married sisters of the Ball family! Interesting, too, Is the fact that late in 1891 a physical director at the Springfield, Mass., Y. M. ,C. A. introduced another one of the Ball sisters to a man by the name of Basket. They began their . courtship (going together "steady") in January, 1892, and from recent evidence in the papers appear now to be en gaged (Basket-Bali! ). There can be little doubt that within a reasonably short time (say within the next ten years) they will become man and wife (Mr. and Mrs. Basketball). Watch the papers, too, for the engagement and, of course, ultimately, for the marriage of the youngest sister of the Ball family to Mr. Volley, the gentleman who met her in 1895 in Holyoke, Mass., through an Introduction by Mr. William O. Morgan, also a Y. M. C. A. physical director. We find married couples sim ilar to these Just mentioned on almost every page of every book, magazine, or paper which we might happen to pick up. Ex amples are endless. Here are some: "blackberry", "overtone", "whitewash", "yardstick". One may use his own imagination to explain such marriages as that of Mr. .Man to Miss Wo, or of Mr. Band to Miss Hus (could the proper spelling of her name be Husseyl). Several examples of engaged word couples are: "court-mar tial", "deaf-mute", "double breasted", "kind- hearted", "stage-coach". Some courting couples are: "hay fever", "lead pencil", "book mark", "screw driver". Let us not be surprised at some engagement announce ments before long. The following represent mem bers of two families: "genus," "generic," "genre," "gender," "genitive," "genius," "general," etc.; "tenant," "tenement," "tenure," "tenet," "tenor," "ten able," "tenacious,'' etc. Here are a considerable number of girls ? ? Continued on Put 1 "As A Last Resort, Of Course, We Could Trade It In" STRICTLY Personal Proud. That was the word heard most often. Arjd when It wasn't spoken, it could be read on their faces. It was the Cullasaja commun ity supper, sponsored annually by the P.-T. A., and it seemed every body was there; at the least, they were there from virtually every sub-community of the Cullasaja section; and of all ages, from infants to grandmothers, and a few great-grandmothers. And everybody had a smile. They are proud of their com munity; proud of their school, with its comparatively recent two room addition; proud of their pro gress ? and of the cooperation and public-spiritedness that made the progress possible. And with good reason! As I looked over the well-kept building, with the classroom evi dence of teacher initiative and pupil interest ? As I enjoyed the well prepared foods of an incredible variety and quality ? I counted eight differ ent kinds of meat, not to mention cakes, pies, salads, etc. ? VIEWS ? By BOB SLOAN Last year more business failures were reported in small businesses thin any time In the last ten years. This year there will be an even larger number of failures in the small business field. Why is this, when business and employment are reported to be at an all time high? Regardless of what a person's politics are and whether they are praising or kicking the present national administration, most any one will have to admit that today's high prices and the "tight money" policy of the Federal Reserve System work a hardship on small business people. In fact, it works a hardship on all business people except the money lender, but it actually forces the small business out of being. This, in turn, by lesfcenine the regulatory force of competition gives big business a better show In other words, if you are a well established business with an ade quate reserve, these are good times and you can operate and show a nice profit. But if you are a small, strug gling business, needing to borrow money for plant expansion or to make technical imnrovements to keen abreast of the times, the tight money or high interest rate creates quite a problem. Because of the high labor costs you must mechanize everywhere you can. However, since canltal costs so much, many a small busi ness tries to struggle along with old machinery and inefficient pro duction methods. Some get by. by paving labor less. Increasing the minimum wage here In North Carolina to $1 per hour will add to the problem locally. Small business, like the small farmer, is doomed ? it Is Just a matter of time, unless we change our ways of doing things. As I watched and listened with admiration as the evening's pro gram was presented ? And as I studied the earnest, kindly faces of the people ? I thought: Who, ten or fifteen years ago, would have believed this possible? Back in the late 1940's, not one of these things would have been possible ? and you could have convinced few Macon County people that they ever would be possible, within their lifetimes. For, as I saw these things, an other picture came to my mind: That of the children at Cullasaja School, a few years ago, at recess time, isolated into little knots; all the children from one section together, all those from another together, etc., the children reflect ing the attitude of their parents. And I thought: What has hap pened is that we here in Macon County have learned to know each other; and thus to under stand one another; and thus to be able to work together, for the common good. And then this final thought came to me: What I see here can be multi plied by every school In the coun ty; what has happened in Culla saja, to a greater or less degree, has happened in every community in Macon County. By WEIMAR JONES Then it was time to leave . . . and there came out to us who had the privilege of being present as guests something carried over from that older period of isolation ism. It was felt even more than it was spoken, a certain genuine appreciation to their guests for coming, and that, surely, is the heart of true hospitality. It was a wonderful evening. And Mrs. Jones and I went home prouder than ever to live here; surer than ever of the fine future that is possible for this Macon County community . . . refreshed. and ready for the next task. * ? ? ? Then there was the woman who thought she oould reform a man' after She married him. And she's been mad at Mm ever since ? because she was jwong. * # ? Who ever heard of a tax that was too low? ? or of one that raised enough money? * * * If this high birth rate keeps ?up. Where In heck will anybody find a parking place, 20 years from now? ? * * Modern fable: Once there was a child who got answers to all his questions. DO YOU REMEMBER? Looking Backward Through the FNes of The Preso 05 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1892) Any democratic citizen of Macon County, who is the head of a family and who makes any pretentions to respectability or intelligence, and will not take The Press, his own county paper, and read it, has an aching void somewhere that should be filled with patriotism. We had a pleasant call from two very handsome young ladles on Tuesday, Misses Lucllla Barnard and Addle Ray, who are attending the Franklin High School. On last Friday morning, Mr. R. L. Porter and his daughter. Miss Hallle, were riding on two fine black ponies Mr.* Porter had purchased a few days before, and on returning, when near town, a chicken flew up on a fence by the roadside, frightening the ponies. Both riders were thrown to the ground. Miss Hallle is recovering from a concussion. Mr. Porter was not Injured. 25 YEARS AGO (1932) Mack Franks has Installed a bowling alley in the old Franks building on East Main Street. This Is a new amusement for the town; years ago, there was a boxball alley, but this Is the first bowling alley. Highway No. 28, between Highlands and Franklin, which has been treated with an asphalt oil binder during the last few weeks, was opened to traffic Tuesday. The building committee of the Pine Drove Baptist Church, which burned to the ground during the winter. Is endeavor ing to raise funds with which to reconstruct the church build ing. 10 YEARS AGO_ Detailed plans for the opening of a full power branch bank In Highlands are being worked out by the Jackson County Bank, of 8ylva. For the past 12 years, the bank has operated only a teller's window at Highlands. The Iotla Methodist Church will be dedicated by Bishop Clare Purcell In a service Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The building, the third tflnce the organization of the church prior to 1900, will be presented by Lawrence Ramsey, representing the trustees. C. Bller Slagle was seriously Injured last Friday when he fell from a tractor which he was operating on his father's farm.
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