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F ?h* Iflnrnkliit ^rts* nnb (Eke Jttnrmrian Second cUm mail privileges authorized at Franklin. N. C. Puollshed erery Thursday by The Franklin Press Telephone M WEIMAR JONES ... BOB 8. SLOAN .... J. P. BRADY . . BOM NK1LL MBS ALLEN 8ILER . . . MBS. MARION BR Y SON CARL P. CABE .... PRANK A. STARRETTE . . CHARLES E. WHTTTINOTON O. B. CRAWFORD . . . Editor Advertising Manager Hews Editor-Photographer Reporter Society Bdltor Offlce M?n>g? Proofreader Operator-Machinist . . . . Compositor Stereotyper DAVID H. SUTTON Conunetdal Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outbid* Macon Cotncrr One Tear $3.00 Biz Month* 1.75 Three Months .... 1.00 Two Yean . 5.25 Three Years 7.50 Iksxds Macon Couktt One Y ear $3 JO Six Months 1.79 Three Months .... 1.00 Two Years Three Years 4.23 BOO JUNE 6, 1957 About Time? This community needs an adequate auditorium. That need was emphasized anew at last week's Franklin High School graduation. It's an improve ment, of course, to be able to hold the exercises on the school campus, instead of having to go to a downtown theater. But that doesn't change the fact that the gymnasium is no auditorium. The very word "auditorium" means a place where you can hear ; the gymnasium does not fit that defi nition. It was a little pathetic to think how much work the young people on the program had put into their speeches, hours and days of preparation and other hours and days of practicing ? and then have them unheard. i In all this community, there is not one suitable place, that is large enough, for a concert, a public address, a dramatic performance, or even a high school graduation! The need has been with us for many years. Isn't it about time we did something about it? You Can Go To ... ! Urging passage of the new tax bill to ease the burden of corporations, Governor Hodges the other day told the General Assembly approval of the bill would give the state a good chance to land an industry "as large as any in North Carolina". He quoted an executive of the company as say ing there was no positive assurance the plant would come, even if the Legislature enacted the tax bill, but that "we won't come if you don't". That, to us, sounds perilously close to intimida tion, to blackmail, even. We don't like it. And we'd have felt better about it if Governor WARMS OF BOMB DANGER Hodges, instead of holding this bait (or threat) before the legislators, had told the industry : "We'll enact our own tax laws. We want no dictation from you. You'll have to take us or leave us as we are. If you don't like us as we are, you can go to . . another state." Behind The Times Most of us are ashamed of last week's reported "drag" race here. Ashamed, first of all, at this open violation of the law. Ashamed, second, that we have even a few peo ple that childish and stupid; for "drag" racing is silly, a mark of immaturity. Ashamed, finally, of being so far behind the times. For "drag" racing is not new ; it is on the way out. If we have so little originality that we can't do any better than pick up every fad that comes along, at least we should be up to date, not trailing the procession. Wake up, kids; this is mid-1957! Praise For Mr. Bueck (Cherokee Scout) The high school graduation exercises at Murphy's new gym Thursday night will be old stuff to at least one man there. It will be his 25th such ceremony ? and also his last. H. Bueck, for the past 25 years has been superintendent of Murphy city schools, announced his resignation a few weeks ago. He has accepted a position in Franklin. The fact that it will mark the end of his service here no doubt will be foremost in the mind of Mr. Bueck as well as many of the other people during the graduation ceremonies. For he will be missed in Murphy. The school will feel the loss of Mr. Bueck because he is a fine educator and the teachers because he is an outstanding leader. He will be missed by the community because of his civic work and by the people because he has been a good neighbor. But these things, by comparison, are trivial. The greatest loss will be to the children who will not have had the oppor tunity to learn under this outstanding man. There is no way to measure that loss. No Place For Brush-offs (Windsor, Colo., Beacon) Our official spokesmen need to acquire a new attitude and learn some new words to go with it. To every "peace" over ture from Russia, their answer is: "It's only propaganda." What if it IS propaganda? Then why not answer it with propaganda of our own? The trouble is, American diplomacy is stQl battling the shadows of McCarthylsm. Our diplomats feel obliged, above all, to convince congress that they are not being taken in by Soviet propaganda. And our elected officials, most of them, feel that they have to keep reminding the people back home that they are not soft touches for Moscow. Consequently, their answers to Russia overtures are not directed to Russia at all, but to cQngress or the electorate. This situation obviously cannot make for good diplomacy. Answers to peace and disarmament gestures should not be phrased primarily to please congress, nor even to please un thinking voters. This nation simply cannot afford to give any peace overture the brush-off, whether we regard it as sincere or as the merest propaganda. We should meet these approaches in such a way as to con vince allies and neutrals ? and the communist nations as well ? that we are always ready to talk peace. Nuclear Explosions Endanser Generations Unborn Dr. Schweitzer Declares (EDITOR'S NOTE: This w am ine to the world of the dancers of continued explosion of nu clear bombs is excerpted from the recent Declaration Of Con science issued by Dr. Albert Schweitzer, under the auspices of the Nobel Prize Committee in Oslo, Norway. Dr. Schweitzer, scientist, theologian, philosopher, and musician, who has devoted much of his life to helping the people of French Equatorial Africa, is generally considered one of the greatest men living,), Since March 1, J954 hydro gen bombs have been tested by the United States at the Pacific Island of Bikini in the Marshall group and by Soviet Russia In Siberia. We know that testing of atomic weapons Is something quite different from testing non-atomic ones. Earlier, when a new type of giant gun had been tested, the matter ended with the detonation. After the explosion of a hydrogen bomb that is not the case. Something remains In the air, namely, an Incalculable number of radio active particles emitting radio active rays. . . , Since radioactive rays of suf ficient amount and strength have harmful effects on the hu man body, it must be considered whether the radiation resulting from the hydrogen explosion* that have already taken place represents a danger which would Increase with new explo sions. . . . The material collected, al though far from complete, al lows us to draw the conclusion that radiation resulting from the explosions which have al ready taken place represents a dancer to the human race? a danger not to be underrated? and that further explosions of atomic bombs will increase this danger to an alarming ex tent. . . . The explosion of an atom bomb creates an unconcelvably large number of exceedingly small particles of radioactive elements which decay like uran ium or radium. . . . May Last For Tears Of these elements some exist for hours, some for weeks, or months or years, or millions of years, undergoing continuous decay. .. . . How long it will take before everything carried up in the air by the explosions which have taken place till now has disappeared no one can say with any certainty. According to some estimates, this will be the case not earlier than thirty or forty years from now. . . . Of what nature are these ra dioactive elements, particles of which were carried up In the air by the explosion of atom bombs and which are now fall ing down again . . . ' Particularly dangerous are the elements combining long life with a relatively strong ef ficient radiation. Among them Strontium 90 takes the first place. It is present in very large amounts In the radioactive dust. Cobat 60 must also be mention ed as particularly dangerous. DM|er In Breathing The radioactivity In the air, ; Increased through these ele 1 ments, will not harm us from the outside, not being strong enough to penetrate the skin. It is another matter with respira tion, through which radioactive elements can enter our bodies. But the danger which has to be stressed above all the others Is the one Which arises from our drinking radioactive water and our eating radioactive food as a consequence of the In creased radioactivity In the air. . . , Reports of radioactive rain fall are coming from all parts of the world where analyses have recently been made. In several places the water has proved to be so radioactive that it was unfit for drinking. ... The soil is made radioactive not only by the downpour, but also from radioactive dust fall ing on it. And with the soil, the vegetation will also have become radioactive. The radio active elements deposited In the soil pass Into the plants, where they are stored. . . . Plants To Animals To Man The radioactive elements in grass, when eaten by animals whose meat is used for food, will be absorbed and stored In our bodies. In the case of cows grazing on contaminated soil, the ob sorption is effected when we drink their milk. . . . What we absorb of radioac tivity ... is deposited in cer tain parts of our body, partic ularly in the bone tissue and also in the spleen and in the liver. From these sources the organs which are especially sensitive to it are exposed to radiation. What the radiation lacks in strength is compen sated for by time. It works day and night without Interrup tion. . . . What are the diseases caused by Internal radiation? The same diseases that are known to be caused by external radi ation. They are mainly serious blood diseases. The cells of the red bone marrow, where the red and the white blood corpuscles are formed, are very sensitive to radioactive rays ... If the cells In the bone marrow are damaged by radiation, they will produce too few or abnormal. degenerating blood corpus cles. . . . Not our own health only 1 threatened by Internal radla tion, but also that ol our de scendants. The fact Is that th cells of the reproductive or gans are particularly vunerabl to radiation. . , , Danger To Those Unborn To the profound damage o these cells corresponds a pro found damage to our descen dants. It consists in stillbirths ani in the birth of babies witl mental or physical defects. . . The today effect of the dam age done to descendants of an cestors who have been exposei to radioactive ray^ will not, ii accordance with the laws o genetics, be apparent in th generations coming immediate ly after us. The full effects wll appear only 100 or 200 year later. ... i We are forced to regard ever, increase in the existing dange through further creation of ra dioactive elements by aton bomb explosions as a catastro phe for the human race, i catastrophe that must be pre vented . . . America and Sovle Russia and Britain are tellini one another again and agali that they want nothing mor than to reach an agreement t< end the testing of atomic wea pons . . . Why do they not comi to an agreement? The real rea son Is that in their countrie there is no public opinion ask ing for it. . . '. Public opinion in all nation concerned must Inspire and ac cept the agreement. . . . The end of further experl jnents with atom bombs woul( be like the early sunrays o; hope which suffering humanity is longing for. u And When They See This Sign, New Industries Will Rush In And Givp You A Hand? I Think*' ^ L -<? B/U VffKQH*? ^hcmwuhiJ i^> Klov eiHlfVTS w \HDV\Sm\\ .wovaw * STRICTLY : Personal ? ? Br WEIMAR JOKES Attending an editorial writers' conference at Chapel Hill recent ly, I heard an interesting panel discussion on segregation. One of the' three speakers rep resented the viewpoint of the Southern conservative: the second presented the liberal attitude; the third was a Negro who long has crusaded for prompt integration. Naturally, they disagreed on nearly everything; even the white liberal and the Negro had trouble getting together. But on one point there was complete agreement. In almost identical words, all three empha sized that whatever is done must VIEWS . . . By BOB SLOAN Many people were shocked when Senator Wayne Morse, po litical marverick frojn the state of Oregon, charged the ad ministration of President Eisen hower with immorality In gov ernment affairs. Most of these same people were defenders of the Dixon Yates deal, which If there was nothing wrong with, why did Attorney General Brownell have the contract set aside? neiurning u> ine charges made by Senator Morse, that ~ the question of accelerated tax " ammortlzation certificates In favor of the Idaho Power Com ~ pany is similar to Dave Beck's action In borrowing from union funds to make personal Invest ments. The parallel Is not ex 1 act, because no official of the ' administration stood to gain monetarily as an individual, as did Beck, but there is enough 1 similarity to warrant conslder 1 atlon by the taxpayers. Sena ? tor Morse has rendered a serv - ice by bringing this misuse of - a wartime emergency power to i the attention of the public. J During World War 2, Congress 1 passed laws which would allow 6 companies to depredate the " cost of plant construction In a 1 short period of time. This was 3 done to encourage Industry to build plants essential for .the Y successful prosecution of the r war, which plants, when the - war was over, would be of lot i tie productive value for our clv - ilian economy. 1 What the administration has ' done is to allow the Idaho Pow 1 er Company to amortize and ? depreciate for tax purposes the 1 cost of construction a huge dam. e This dam can easily be profit 5 abW for 100 or 150 years. It Is ' not, as some defense plants s were, something whose useful " ness may cease in five, ten, or 8 20 years. This action was not, as Sen ator Morse pointed out, Illegal,. 5 but to use a law Intended for " one purpose for another pur pose Is, I think, Immoral. And - persons who aid and abet In 1 such acts, even If only by giving f their consent, as Is the case of f President Eisenhower, are guilty of Unmoral acts. be done within the law, and that order must be preserved. Now nobody, I am sure, would quarrel with the idea that law and order are desirable. But all through the discussion. I, found myself wondering at the almost reverent tone in which they spoke of law and order, as something, infinitely sacred. "Well", I asked myself, "what's wrong with that?" Then, toward the end of the discussion, the answer came to me. It came in the form of a question: How much freedom would any of us, white or black, have if we had not had ancestors who were willing to throw law out the window and precipitate violence? Take, for example, some rather highly respected citizens who, along about 1776, defied law and started violence that lasted some seven years. The law, in that case, was clear; and it was enacted by the duly constituted authorities. But that did not deter men like Washington, Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson. "ihe same was true of those who defied King John and wrested the Magna Carta from him. And it has been true down through his tory; most freedom has been won by men who had a feeling of something less than reverence for either law or order. Maybe I have a somewhat twisted sense of humor,' but I still want to ask those men; "So you hold law and order as something sacred? Then what are you going to do with all the heroes who have refused to ac cept that thesis? Are you going to repudiate them? Were they all criminals? * * ? Black-eyed peas on New Year's are supposed to bring good luck through the year, writes W. E. (Bill) Horner, In The Sanford Herald. Well, where did that folk cus tom come from? he wants to know. How did people get that idea In the first place? Mr. Horner was Interested enough to write the Encyclo paedia Britannlca for the an swer. But the learned men who edit that vast compendium, of knowledge didn't know. Well, I'm no encyclopedist, much less a compendium of knowledge, but I'll hazard a guess: January is a long time from harvest. Any'uody, in the old days, who had anything to eat, come New Year's, was lucky. And If they had such a delic acy as black-eyed peas, they really were In clover. And surely, If one were that lucky on January 1, he'd be lucky all through the year. If he had hog jowl to go along with peas ? well his for tune was made! DO YOU REMEMBER? Looking Backward Through the Flies of The Preaa 65 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1892) Mrs. Mary Bell met with a serious accident last Thursday morning before day. In attempting to pass from one room to another, where she had to step down some distance, she fell and broke her right arm and hip, inflicting very painful In juries. Mr. J. D. Curtis, of Clay, father of the editor of The Press, arrived In Franklin Sunday morning and will remain some time. Mr. Geo. Bidwell is getting lumber on the ground to build a fine large barn at his place on the east side of the iron bridge. 25 TEARS AGO (1932) Walter Gibson, Gus Leach, and Erwin W. Long were nomi nated as the Democratic candidates for county commissioners in last Saturday's primaries, while John H. Dean, Robert H. Rogers, and the Rev. A. S. Solesbee were successful In secur ing the Republican nominations. The Old Maids' Convention, which was given at the school house on May 28, was enjoyed thoroughly by all. The proceeds amounted to $32. "Uncle" Wiley Caldwell, 89-year-old Confed erate veteran, declared the show was worth a dollar of any man's money, and he Is anticipating seeing It again when It is presented at the courthouse June 11. ? West's Mill Item. Messrs. John Bollck, Earl Wood, and Bennett Barnes, of Marion, spent the week end with home folks.? Shookvllle item. 10 TEARS AGO The Franklin board of aldermen voted Monday night to in stall 115 parking meters In the business district of the town. The mica properties of Andy W. Reld and others have been acquired by R. G. Llchtensteln, of Oil City, Penna., and asso ciates, and a corporation Is being formed to mine and process mica here. The firm's original investment will approximate $300,000, according to Mr. Llchtensteln. From a beautifully decorated stage, the 23 piano and voice pupils of Mrs. O. F. Summer, Mrs. Jack B. Davidson, and Miss Marlon Lester were presented In recital Thursday night of last week at the high school auditorium. ? Highlands Item.
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