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*! he IF rank Jin tfrrss i r nub Cite iitarmtinu tfcs-uod clas* Ui?i< prmiegt* tutiicrued at Franklin N ? Puollsia ??; ?*v? r> Thursday Oy The Franklin Pn* Telephone 24 Established in 1M6 as The Franklin Press Member: N. C. Press Association. National Editorial Association, Caroltnas Press Photographers Association. Charter member. National Conference of Weekly Neu spa per Editors. BOB 8. SLOAN Publisher and Advertising Manager J. P BRADY News Editor WEIMAR JONES Editor MRS ROBERT BRYSON Office Manager MRS BOB SLOAN Society Editor CARL P. CABE Operator-Machinist FRANK A STARR ETTE Compositor CHARLES E WHITTINGTON v . . Pressman O E CRAWFORD Stereotyper DAVID H SUTTON Commeiclal Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES Outside Macon Coojttt One Tear 1 $3.00 Six Months I TS Three Month* 1-W Two Tear? S-2S Thr^e Year* 7-J0 Insioe Macon Codmtt One Year WJI Six Months ITS Three Months 1.09 Two Years Thrf* Year" 4.25 ? 0? 'Down On The Farm' Figures compiled by N. C. State College recall the old song, "How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Paree?" For the State College figures, covering the period l<M0-50, clearly indicate that the more edu cation rural parents give their children, the less likely are the children to stay on the farm. For example: Of those young people with no formal education whatever, only 1 out of 5 left the farm. Of those with five to eight years' schooling. 1 out of 3 moved from country to city. And of those with as much as one year of col lege, 2 out of 3 were lured by the bright lights. I What do those figures mean? They could mean, of course, that only the unin telligent remain in the country. They could mean, on the other hand^ that there's something wrong with the kind of education we offer ? that it emphasizes the wrong things. Now To Keep 'em Clean w-* ??4 J f i ? Hats off to the firemen and others who got but before daylight one morning last week to hose Main Street. Our compliments to Mayor Burrell, too, for pushing the town-wide Clean-up W eek. What we need now is some plan for frequent and regular washing of the town's streets? doing it once a year is a little like taking a bath every spring. Beyond that, we need a campaign to create county-wide community pride, so the town author ities will get citizen backing in keeping the streets ?clean. Regular, thorough cleaning, though, is the first step. Just as a man would hesitate to spit on the aiew rug in the living room, so people would hesi tate to throw trash on a spotless street or side walk. You Can Count On It You can always count on the U. S. Bureau of Internal Revenue. If there's any way to make simple things compli cated, the Bureau will find it. Witness the income tax form. If there's any way to rob Peter while paying Paul, it will find that, too. Witness the fact that, for years, it has permitted businessmen to throw lavish parties and travel in regal style ? and charge the cost off as legitimate expense; but during all these years, it has sternly forbade school teachers to deduct the cost of improving their education. That injustice, at long last, has been remedied ; but in remedying it, the Bureau is careful to warn all and sundry that the cost of education may not be deducted, if the purpose is to qualify for bet ter job. j&Jv Now who, we ask you, is the first one to take a bite out of the bigger salary that goes with a better job? Your Uncle Samuel, of course. But your Uncle Samuel's Bureau goes out of its way to discourage folks from qualifying for better jobs. That brings us back to what we said in the first place: You can always count on the Bureau of In ternal Revenue: For this evidence suggests it's tops, even, in finding new ways to be stupid. I Quote of the year (Claude H Farrell of the N. C. Educa Asaociatton) : "We In North Carolina , . . must raise both per capita toe*?* and the per capita insight of our cltl Eating Humble Pie Well, it seems, we're going to have to eat our words. Back a couple of months ago, we talked too much and too fast . . , a!>out something we didn't know enough about. ft The piece that has us in trouble appeared on this page under the title, "All Potatoes Just Potatoes?" It was provoked by an editorial in The Saturday Evening Post. That publication referred to the Irish potato simply as "the potato" ? as though there were no .such thing as the sweet potato! Our Southern pride boiled over-. We deplored such ignorance. YVe pitied the benighted souls who never had reveled in the palate joys of the many luscious dishes made from the sweet potato. We declared "the sweet potato is to the Irish what a luxury liner trip to Europe is to a trip downtown to the post office". Then, to emphasize all we'd said, we exclaimed : "Imagine, if you can, creoled Irish potatoes, or candied Irish potatoes, or Irish potato pie!" Alas ! just fotir words too many ! If we'd only had gumption enough to stop four words sooner! For, it seems, there is such a thing as Irish potato pie. We're assured of that by a woman. Furthermore, she gives the recipe. And who are we to argue with a woman about a recipe! So we call attention to the letter on the .subject, on this page. We're starting to masticate those fatal four last words. And, if we can pursuade the culinary department at our house to try Mrs. Wat son's recipe, we're prepared to eat humble (Irish potato) pie. Ye?, sir, we're going to be a good sport about it . . . but already we don't think we're go ing to like it ! Who Owns What? (Johnstown, Colo., Breeze) Some of you pedestrians walk as if you owned the streets. Yes, and some of you motorists drive around as if you own ed your cars. > Pointing The Way (Tulsa, Okla., Daily World) The journalism school at the University of Tulsa deserves a pat on the back in its, new policy of giving "spelling" les sons. The idea seems to be to correct a glaring omission in earlier schooling even though it requires the taking of valu able time that ought to be going into higher educational ef fort. Now, if the elementary schools would accept the hint and pour a little more effort into teaching spelling? and making the pupils stick with it ? it is just possible that one of these days Professor Wood at T. U. could go back to teaching what he is hired to teach. Letters Irish Potato Pie Editor, The Press: A while back, I read a reprint of one of your editorials in The Atlanta Journal, re the sweet potato. Very Interesting! And, being a native Southerner, X, too, love (yes, love) all your suggested dishes and menus. Sweet potatoes are one of my most favorite foods! However, I cannot refrain from saying to you: "Think of It! never to have known the taste thrill of Irish potato custard pie!" Here is one recipe from an old country cookbook of 45 years ago: Rub 1 pint of Irish potatoes through a cblander or sieve. Add a pint of sweet milk, iy2 cups of sugar, pinch of salt, the yellow of 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in one crust. When done, spread on a ' meringue made from the two egg whites and two tablespoons sugar. Bake to a golden brown. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do! MRS. CHAS. WATSON. Atlanta, Ga. P. S. In years gone by (many a one), I have spent a num ber of pleasant summers in your nice town. I always stayed with the Sellerses ? down the hill and over the rise froim the hospital. "Roll, Jordan Roll! Rolf, Jordan Roll!" pear eVERfTt/ : /K C. Z>r4tOC/?/trfC CO/VfoVTYO/V Strictly Personal By WEIMAR JONES In the old days, the word most of us used was "aggravate". A woman would exclaim: "The chil dren just aggravate me to death!" Today, since we've all become conscious of such things as psy choanalysis, "aggravate" has been pretty well displaced by another word, "frustrate". Both convey the idea of a situ ation we somehow can't seem to handle; one that balks us in every thing we try to do, until, at last, we become so frustrated (or ag gravated. if you prefer >, that we get the "all-overs ". Nothing goes right; our fingers are all thumbs: we wish everybody ? and that means everybody! ? would go on and just let us alone. We all get that feeling some times. (I wonder at the child psychologists' saying, "the child must not be frustrated I wonder, because he's going to be frustrated, and the sooner he gets used to it, the better.) The other day I got to wonder ing why it is we all seem to get that way. and so I started setting down on paper a list of things that frustrate me. And what did I find? I found just what I suspect you would, if you'd stop to make your own list. I found, first of all. that it hap pens oftenest when I haven't slept well, or I have an upset stomach or headache, or when I've smoked too much and so have put my nerves on edge. In other words, part of It is physical. The other thing I found is that it's not the big things, as a rule, but the little ones ? sometimes the most insignificant things ? that rile me worst. Here are some of the things that I find most frustrating: Looking in a newspaper for something I know I've seen there, Conspiracy of su.k-xck High Negro Crime Rate Must Be Faced To Be Remedied ? f/rrruttboro Dnilff \rtr* A good bit of the racial mis understanding now bothering the United States ? both North and South ? will not be allevi ated until certain hush-hush subjects are examined with courage and candor. One of these Is the alarming ly high rate of Negro crime. A Negro scientist of Chicago, Percy L. Julian, spoke up brave ly about the "conspiracy of sil ence toward the increase in the Negro crime rate" at a Y.M. C.A. meeting In Chicago: "Our Negro crime rate has become so alarming that those of us who have struggled so long to merit freedom are struck with panic. . . . White friends of the Negro should not rationalize the crimes of the Negroes. . . What does the record show? An FBI tally for 1956 reveals that in 1,551 U.S. cities Negroes, making up 10 per cent of the U. S. population, accounted for about 30 per cent of all arrests and 60 per cent of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm? murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. For example: In New York City, of prisoners confined in houses of detention to await court disposition of their cases, 44 per cent of the males and 65 per cent of the females were Negroes. New York's Negro population is 14 per cent. ' In Chicago almost twice as many Negroes as whites were arrested on charges of violence and bodily harm. Similar statistics are available from Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco. What la the explanation for this high rate of crime? Some Negro groups, such as the N.A.A.C.P., claim that segrega tion Itself accounts for much of the trouble. They also say white police concentrate on art resting Negroes more avidly than whites. Yet, most South erners know that the very op posite tendency often has been criticized by Negro leaders; the argument is: Negro offenders, especially when the knifing and murders %re among their own race, do not get arrested often enough and even when arrest ed, sometimes do not get stiff sentences. What can be done about this? The first responsibility lies in abolishing the ' "conspiracy of silence" and recognizing that the problem exists. As long 'as Negro pressure groups are Joined by white sympathizers in Ignoring the facts, tension between the races will Increase as these same groups seek, through legal channels, to push widespread racial integration in the public schools and else where. Why does the N.A.A.C.P., for example, concentrate so much of its attention, time and money on pushing Jntegj-ation in areas (such as Prince George County, Virginia, and Clarendon County, South Caro lina), where it is bound to pro duce violent white reaction? Why not spend more time on the problems of Job procure ment and other steps to raise the economic level of the Ne gro people? Tragically, for both whites and Negroes, the big school push has stymied chances for considerable advancement. The rise of racial tension has cut down lines of communications between the races. If friends of the Negro race who spend 90 per cent of their time pushing for Pyrrhic vic tories in schools and swimming pools would devote more effort to raising the economic, moral and cultural standards, race re lations would improve, North and South. Compulsory segre gation as a government policy may be on its way out, but Ne groes, as a group, and theii friends, are foolish to believe that integration per se is a panacea. but that doesn't seem to be there now. i About half the time, it really is there, and somebody else can find it' instantly; the other half the time, it was in another newspaper or a magazine or a' book.) Waiting till 4 o'clock to see a doctor or a dentist, when my ap pointment was for 3. (Sure, my time isn't worth much; but it isn't very flattering to be remind ed of it.) Not finding a pencil or a ruler or a pair of scissors (all constant ly necessary in a newspaper of fice) in the place on my desk where it's supposed to be. (Half the time. I can't find anybody who admits to having seen it. much less having borrowed it; so I rage ? to the world in general ? that "there's no sense in a man's spending half his life looking for things, just because somebody else is too careless to return them". The other half of the time, after accusing everybody. I find it ? right where I'd put it myself. And is that frustrating!) Trying to convince a woman ? any woman ? against her will. ? They can come up with the darndest, most unexpected argu ments . . . and the first thing you know, you're on the defensive, and don't know how you got there.) Being asked, when I answer the telephone, "Who is that?". <Haif the time, I'm frustrated because I don't like that telephone ques tion: the other naif, because good manners forbid me to demand what I'd like to, "Who wants to kndw?") Seeing words misspelled in print. (The word is already printed, and so there's nothing I can do about it; but, invariably, when I spot such a misspelling, I can feel my blood pressure rising.) Hearing an automobile horn honked insistently in the street in front of office or home. (Half the time, I get frustrated at my self for answering the summons, the other half. I'm burned up with myself for not marching out to the car and shouting: "Look, it's just as close from your car to my door as it is" from my door to your cat.")' ?' People who try to impress others. (If the guy is half as im portant as be thinks he is. people will find it "out. If he's not. they'll find that out. too. sooner or later. But the bigger the bluff, the more likely I am to fall for it, tempor arily. Then. later, when I realize I've been a sucker, am I glum! And, as usual, what makes it so bad is that I'm frustrated, aggra vated, and exasperated, all in one, at myself.) Little things. All of them little things. Far too little to let them spoil a day ... But they often da. And who is the fellow who ii most to blame? You'd guessed the answer before I even asked the question. Try making your own list. If you have my experience you may not find it very flattening, but I think you'll find it enlighten ing. I suspect you'll find just what I have ? that most of the frettin' and fumin' we do is about some thing that either we ourselves are responsible for, or something we can't change. * * * Down at Rabun Gap. just across the line in Georgia, they have a saying that "if you go any farther north, you'll have gone south . . . out of north Georgia into south ern North Carolina." ? ? * Said the tourist to the moun taineer: "What's the good of all these mountains?" Said the mountaineer to the tourist: "Well, you drove a right smart piece to see em. didn't you?" DO YOU REMEMBER? Looking Backward Through the Files of The Press 65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1893) Summer visitors are beginning to arrive at Highlands. Shooting fish is now a popular sport of some of our Nlm rods. . Sixteen hands, all white men, left with Col. Stoner Monday to work in the gold mines at Georgetown, near Cashiers. The Rev. G. A. Bartlett preached a very interesting sermon at the Baptist Church last Sunday and baptized six candi dates at the Iron Bridge in the afternoon. 25 YEARS AGO (1933) A class of 35 pupils was graduated from the Franklin High School Tuesday night. Many Franklin residents have raised a howl about dogs run ning loose at night, a howl so loud that Mayor J. Frank Ray was prompted this week to call attention to the law requiring all owners of dogs to keep them tied up at night, unless ac companied by the owner or some other person. Some resi dents, who have complained that dogs have been chasing their cows at night, are going to bed with shotguns handy. 10 YEARS AGO t Some 50 South Carolina pilots will fly their airplanes to Franklin this week end for a Sunday morning breakfast at the Franklin airport. Franklin High School will graduate 84 at exercises June 1 at the Macon Theatre. The PLsgah and Nantahala National Forests last year pulled far ahead of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park In popularity. They drew 1,800,000 visitors. i U. British f Relations Are Inq)roving By HENRY S. HAYYVAKO (In Christian Science Monitor) Let's record it: British-Ameri can relations are encouragingly good at the moment. We ? that is, both nations ? ara acting more in accord with Sir Winston Churchill's great dictum: "If we are together, nothing is impossible, and if we are divided, all will fail." .On the surface, this might not seem a particularly apt moment for a flourishing of Anglo-Ameri can amity. Britain currently is preoccupied by strikes and threats of strikes at home. Andl abroad, trouble once more has flared on Cyprus ? a problem colonially minded Bri tons and antlcolonial Americans seldom can view from- the same standpoint. Always With lis The small chaff, moreover, is always with us. As one. tiny, al most ridiculous example of th? would-be Irritant, take the Mary land Chess Federation's disqualifi cation of a state champion de scribed before a congressional sub committee as a Communist organ izer. That fact was reported in this country as part of a summary of happenings in the United States. "Un-American Chess," it was en titled. To Britons, this seems fur ther evidence that Americans go to silly extremes in their condem nation of communism. And to Americans, such a British reaction does nothing to foster the desired brotherhood, of the English-speak ing alliance. Hear Churchill Yet ? listen again to the wartime rumble of the ChurchiUian words when he said that Britain and the United States will have to be some what mixed up together in some of their affairs: "For my own part, looking out upon the future. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished? no one can stop it. Like the Missis sippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll! Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, be nignant, to broader lands and bet ter days." But what can we dfescribe as "good" today between the two countries? Item: Despite British eagerness to see the United States Atomic Energy Act revised to permit ex change of nuclear information, and despite the difficulties still encountered by the Eisenhower ad ministration in seeking a revision, the British Government is con vinced American officials have done their utmost in Britain's be half. Revise or not. there will be no rancor. Item.: Exchange of other infor mation is constant and without inhibition. London andi Washing ton still do not see eye to eye on recognition of Communist China or the strategic embargo of the Communist bloc. Soviets Help But the Soviet Union inadvert ently has helped enormously to narrow Anglo-American differ ences on how to approach summit talks. Recently, Britons even have heard good words in public about John Foster Dulles. One newspaper likened the American Secretary of State to a gnarled tree stump standing apart from the other for eign ministers at the NATO con ference in Paris last December when they preferred to resemble spring flowers heralding the ex pected East-West sunshine ahead. When the same ministers met at Copenhagen this month. , it now is admitted, "the gnarled tree stump seemed congruous and sea sonal, with the spring flowers look ing and sounding badly out of place." Seek Understanding Item: The State Department has sent a man to London to con fer with British publishers. His job is to Improve British under standing of American policies. Praiseworthy as that may be. in the opinion of this reporter, the most effective antidote for anti-Dulles sentiment in Britian long has been the distribution of transcripts of the secretary's press conferences to news media by the United States Information Agen cy. Even his critics admit that his grasp of world issues shines through his answers to newsmen's questions. Unity Vital Item: The issues to be discuss ed during Prime Minster Harold Macmllllan's forthcoming vlsl", with President Eisenhower have not yet been mapped -out. although one is almost certain to be Brit ain's long-range economic future. Nonetheless, the Prime Minster is convinced Anglo-American un ity is so vital that the leaders pf the two nations must talk at fre quent intervals ? personally and informally ? to keep little prob lems from becoming big ones Of course, we are not out of#the woods yet as far as relations with rach other are concerned. We doubtless never shall be, for now adays the effort to sever the Western world's indispensable trans-Atlantic linkage is ceaseless But unless we acknowledge our present blessings, can we demand that "good" remain good ? or be come even better?
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