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Little Rock: A Remedy
In the Little Rock crisis, itself a mere symbol of
the nation-wide clash of opposing forces, last week
brought developments in bewilderingly rapid suc
cession.
Outstanding among events transpiring in a peri
od of only Six days were these:
Denial, by the 8th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
of a previously court-granted delay in integration
at Central High School ? a denial highlighted by
this declaration : "We say that the time has not yet
come in these United States when an order of a
federal court must be whittled away, watered
down, or shamefully withdrawn . .
Issuance by President Eisenhower of a prepared
(and. therefore, deliberately planned) statement
threatening to use federal troops again: "My feel
ings are exactly as they were a year ago".
The quick retort of Governor Faubus that he,
too, will not give an inch: u. . . my position of last
fall is unchanged" ? a retort backed up by a call
for a special session of the Arkansas Legislature.
Are these the words and actions of tolerant,
open-minded, reasonable men? Do they even hint
at the humility that must mark any honest search
for truth?
The obvious answers to those questions underline
what has been becoming increasingly evident :
What is needed today is not more (or less) inte
gration, not more court rulings, not more troops.
All of those have been tried, and they have brought
not clarity, but greater confusion. No! The imme
diate, crying need is for a Solomon skilled in face
saving.
What is needed is a formula broad enough to
save the faces of the nine black-robed men in Wash
ington who enunciated the "new law", of six of the
seven judges on the Circuit Court, of the President
of the United States, of the Governor of Arkansas
? and of scores of lesser figures who have seen in
this crisis their once-in-a-lifetime chance to strut
across the national stage.
Tor these august men have forgotten something.
'So intent have they been in saving face for them
selves and their causes, they have forgotten what
this is all about. It is about education. And educa
tion is about children. And because; you cannot
quarantine the effects of such a situation to a single
area, it is children who will suffer in increasing
degree, North and South, East and West.
Such a face-saving dcvice seems the onlv hope.
That or a wholesale change in the faces of those in
high place.
As Schools Open . . .
M^nv a Macon County person still alive can re
member when the chance to go to school, even for
three or four months in the year, was considered
great pood fortune. They traveled horseback, or
walked, miles to a country school ; or their parents,
denying themselves, somehow got together enough
money for their boys and girls to board in town
i and attend the Franklin school. And these youg
sters, eager to grasp this rare opportunity, worked
mornings and afternoons to help pay their board.
Today that opportunity is available, nine months
in the year, without cost, to every child. What a
contrast !
With that change has conte another contrast.
Half a century ago, an education was a help, but
was not essential. Today, the boy or girl without
at least a high school education is handicapped for
all the best jobs are closed to him.
Macon County has a long tradition of respect
for education. Long before the establishment of
?tate public schools, there were good private
schools here.
With that background, it is no wonder we have
good schools here; and no wonder we have ari ex
"CouJd Y'ou Fellas Try Learning A Couple Of New Words
During This Recess?" . .
cellent record of school attendance. Even today,
though, there are children in this county who do
not go to school.
For that small minority, we now have a state
wide compulsory school attendance law. Compul
sory attendance is for the benefit of us all ; the
ignorant are a drag on a community. Even more,
it is for the benefit of the child himself. In those
rare cases where parents are too indifferent or too
lazv to see that their children go to school, the law
is there to require his presence in school. So that
the child may have a fair chance in life, that law
should be enforced.
The first responsibility lies with the schools, to
report non-attendance; the next responsibility lies
with the welfare department, to see that something
is done about the situation. But, basically, the re
sponsibility rests upon the community. For, in this
area, as well as in others, each of us is his brother's
keeper.
A Friend
More than 500 persons paid tribute last Friday
at Mt. Zion Methodist church and Woodlawn ceme
tery to YV. R. VValdroop.
And we feel that the grief and loss felt by the
people there and the community were greater than
is usually experienced at the passing of a friend,
because "Bill" Waldroop was a truer friend to more
people than is usually found today.
A kind, sympathetic, understanding heart was
perhaps the outstanding characteristic of this hum
ble, hard working mountain man. Many young peo
ple remember him for a kind word of encourage
ment when the world seemed unfair and hard.jOlder
people shed a tear at the remembrance of the many
kind deeds he had done for them, "just in passing
Truly here was a man who understood the Chris
tian principle of "service to others" and who lived
a happy life through its practice.
The term "true friend" is not used so often today,
but here was a man of whom it was said by many
with the greatest respect.
As I read in the paper, one da:
last week, that America's effor
to shoot a rocket to the moot
had failed. I was clad:
I realized that suddenly ? anc
was shocked at my reaction.
What was the matter with me:
Didn't I believe in progress? Wa:
I so old-fashioned I was just oui
of tune with this modern scientific
age?
I asked myself those questions
Then I asked this one:
Is it patriotic for an Americar
to feel that way?
I ought to be ashamed. I tolc
myself. But somehow I wasn't
ashamed. And the more I'vi
thought about my unexpected re
action when I read that new!
story, the less I've been able tc
make myself ashamed. As I've
thought about it, I've wondered
too. if maybe there aren't othei
people who reacted the same way
In the ten days since that great
rocket exploded. I've tried t<
analyze the reasons for my re
action of pleasure that the All
Force had failed In this long
planned, painstaking, probably in
credibly expensive project.
Was it a mere envious fear thai
somebody else would do some
thing I couldn't? That didn't seem
likely: because I'm not a scientist
and so would never attempt any
thing of the kind. Besides. I had
had a quite different reaction
when the Nautilus crossed the
Arctic Sea under the ice.
Was it resentment that the
world is moving too fast for mc
to keep up? Again the answei
seemed, no: because I was thrill
ed by the Nautilus' exploit.
Was it a sort of superstitious
feeling we were meddling in places
we didn't belong? To that ques
tion. I found myself answering
"maybe". But that alone wasn't
the full explanation. I was sure
Was it the feeling that one
satellite might be all right, bul
Dollars And Sense
(International Teamster)
Money may talk, but today's dollar doesn't have cents
enough to say very much.
Give-out And Take-in
(Campbellsville, Ky., News)
Penny pinching people as a rule never amount to much and
if they do it is for themselves alone. You have to give-out in
this world as well as take-in.
Race Relations, North And South
(Franklin, La., Banner-Tribune)
Mississippi is one of the most maligned states in the Union,
yet it Is one of the finest and friendliest of any of the 49 . . .
Race relations? A hundred times better than they are in
Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia!
'Too Dirty'
< Raleigh Columnist Kidd Brewer)
While in Chicago recently on that industry-hunting trip,
the Governor and two or three friends cornered a firm repre
sentative and asked him seriously for an honest answer as to
why his company decided to locate their Southern plant In
Virginia instead of North Carolina.
The solemn answer he gave was that his investigators had
found the N. C. city In which they planned to locate "too
filthy looking . . . too dirty . . . the streets were terrible."
And so they located in Virginia.
Liberty Frustrated
(Windsor, Colo., Beacon)
In the Saturday Review, Eleanor S. Lowman relates how the
office of Education In Washington first hired her to write a
book on Russian education, then dismissed her. A year or so
later the book came out, unrecognizable because of deletions
and propagandists additions. When pressed for her original
manuscript, the bureaucrats told her It had been lost.
As Just one glaring example, the book states that Russian
children get Just their first year or two of schooling free,
when actually their education all the way through college and
graduate study is government-paid.
This is Just one more Instance where hired bureaucrats
have infringed on the democratic principle. It's reaching the
point where we hear of some such case nearly every week.
President Elsenhower went into office wrathfully Intent on
putting an end to government waste through bureaucracy ...
and this year his budget is the biggest and most wasteful in
history! What has made this such a tremendous task ? to fire
the bureaucrats? No one seems to have the answer, but one
suspicion seems to be getting stronger: the security which we
gave our government employes through Civil Service may very
well have grown into an Instrument powerful enough to en
danger our Individual freedom from government oppression.
PATTERNS ARE IMAGINARY
Fed Up' With Psychoanalysis Of Southern Elections
Stateiville Record and Landmark
Every time an election Is hela
In the 3outh nowadays the ex
perts try to read some form of
racism Into the results; but ballot
ing In the enlightened elsewheres
of this nation seems never to In
volve anything but the purest pro
cesses of democracy.
They voted over In Tennessee
only yesterday and already we
are discovering that Senator Al
bert Gore's victory "eases th?
worries of Southern moderates
and liberals".
They voted down in Arkansas
a week or two ago and "set the
pattern for other Southern poli
ticians".
They nominated a governor III ,
Alabama about a month ago and . i
the Ku Klux Klan and Citizens I
Councils were credtted with hav- I
Ini? been deciding factors in the
outcome.
Frankly, we are getting a little
tired of being psychoanalized ev
ery time we go to the polls. We
think It is about time to let the
South get up off the cot for a
breathing spell. If we have been
Improving at all under the scru
tiny of the experts, we ought now
to be allowed to sit up for a
while.
The trouble with these experts
is that they never give us credit
for having any sense. We act only
through prejudice. It U never easy
for them to understand that most
Southerners. If left alone, would
vote Intelligently on the man and
Issues involved.
And there are always men and
Issues. These campaigns are never '
clean-cut. black and white affairs:
hut often the situation compels
the voter to balance the candidate
against his platform. It Is a rare
combination when the voter ap
proves both 100 per cent.
Thus. It Is possible for an avid
segregationist to vote for a mod
erate or liberal if the candidate
has redeeming traits of character
which make him personally pre
ferable to his opponent.
And vice versa.
Soon after Oov. Orval Faubus
had been overwhelmingly renomi
nated In Arkansas, Harry 8. Ash
more. Pulitzer prize-winning edi
tor who would integrate the
schools but not his own shop, read
Into the results "a powerful stim
ulant to integration resistance
throughout the South".
"The governor's course of re
sistance has been overwhelmingly
endorsed." he added. "It has set
the pattern for other Southern
politicians."
Oh the contrary, we think th
the people of Arkansas, by glvli
Oovernor Faubus nearly 70 p
cent of their vote, sought to re
lster an emphatic protest to tl
use of troops in forcing sine Negi
students Into Little Rock his
at a cost of over $5,000,000 In cai
and the complete demorallzatU
of the school.
White people In the South a
almost unanimously opposed
that sort of thing. Yet they a
open-minded enough to return
Gore to the Senate In Tenness
and a Brooks Hays to the Hou
of Representatives from Lltt
Rock. They believe In the right
the states to run their own schoc
and. sustained by that convtctlo
they have faught the NAAC
from the courthouse to the scho
house and back to the courthoui
They are Just getting a lltt
fed up on being analyzed.
Strictly Personal By WE IMA* JONES
v one was enough: that the thing
t was being "run into the ground"?
i That. I thought, undoubtedly was
part of It.
1 Was it the conviction that we'd
better learn to make a reasonably
, successful Job of running our own
s earth before we tried to take over
t others? That was getting close.
. I thought: because I have that
conviction.
Was it the suspicion that all
this talk of "gaining new scientific
knowledge" is a hypocritical
1 screen to cover up the real motive
? some sort of military lnstal
I lations on or near the moon? That
l suspicion Is present in my mind,
and that undoubtedly Is part of
the explanation.
I think it may have been all of
those put together, plus one
other:
Hiding behind the name of
science, the American military is
doing a lot of things of this nature
that I am far from sure are
either necessary or desirable. (As
satellite after satellite and rocket
after rocket has been fired, the
military men sometimes have re
minded me of excited little boys
playing with firecrackers ? in the
hay filled barn loft.) They ara
changing the world we live In ?
probably changing the universe
we live in; and it Is entirely pos
sible the change will be for the
worse.
But they are doing it with my
tax dollars!
That Is. I'm paying for some
thing I doubt very much if I
want: often I'm not even told
what I'm going to get until I
get It. And I'm told then only if
somebody doesn't think it needs
to be "classified".
? ? ?
Maybe I am old-fashioned. May
be I am out of tune. Maybe I
ought to be ashamed.
But I'm not.
And however reprehensible that
may be. at least I can claim one
virtue: This piece is an effort to
be completely honest.
I wonder how many other
people feel as I do.
There Are Weird Goings On
Taking Place In U. S. A.
I morganton news-herald
H-bomb and A-bomb tests are \
getting blamed for just about
, everything, and that may be the
, cause of the weird goings on of
. late.
For instance: Research on a
crapshooter who puts a mental
i whammy on the dice to make 'em
i seven and eleven has won a pair
. of British scientists an award.
They picked up a thousand-buck
- research grant in parapsychology
? (mind over matter) from Duke.
That's like making Little Joe
the hard way ? two deuces.
Some of the part-time citizens
of Washington have been scream
ing about the need for more and
better scientific education. Seems
they think the Russians have all
the odds.
Then, the other day. a 12-year
old New York boy sent in a detail
ed plan for shooting a man into
space for two weeks and bringing
him back alive.
Scientists say it "has a!l the
elements of a workable plan."
Who's ahead of whom?
And out Missouri way, a bunch
of folks who believe In spacecraft
were having a convention. They
claim they sighted a mysterious
white-orangey flying object dipsy
ding through the Ozarks.
Oklahoman who sighted this
"spaceship" said it was a good
thing they had witnesses along.
"Otherwise, people might not be
lieve us."
Seven come eleven for One O ?
why not?
On the industrial side, a corset
maker complains that women
aren't buying new ones like they
ought to. But he says a drive to
get teenagers into bras and girdles
earlier:
"Is paying off In fatter sales."
Chubby little rascals.
On the human side:
The Mi-wuk Indian tongue is
dead. Last man who spoke it was
the hereditary chief of the tribe.
And he was the son of a whita
settler and a Mi-wuk chief tian'i
daughter.
But all is not lost. He recorded
the now-extinct language for Col
umbia University. His father wa>
a 49er who found running a toll
road more profitable than digging
gold.
There was 71-year-old Eddie
Murphey, nabbed for going to a
baseball game without his boxing
gloves on. Seems he's a pick-pocket
who loves baseball. Police said he
could go if he wore the big gloves.
But Eddie had 'em off when th?
cops showed up. His reason:
"When I wear boxing gloves. I
can't eat popcorn."
Logical.
Fellow who Invented the gam?
"Monopoly" and netted a few mil
lion has retired and says he's
spending his life "enjoying the
companionship of my wife and
family."
Headline over the story read:
"Enjoy Your Wife ? It's Later
Than You Think."
Chicago writer says sack dresses
are fine "for expectant mothers
and shoplifters."
A Columbia University profes
sor's research shows that Ameri
can women prefer moderate men.
The gals describe a "moderate"
man as college-educated, a profes
sional worker and about 43 years
old.
From the mail: Research has
established that Abigail Adams,
wife of President John," had a
practical use (or the great East
Room of the White House.
On rainy Mondays she often
stretched a clothes line In the big
room to hang up her washing.
All of which just goes to show
you the way things are going these
days.
Dorothy Thompson took a look
at the state of affairs and sum
med it up thusly:
"Ours is the age of 'adjustment'
and 'togetherness' ? and to hell
with it!"
Add 'squirrelly' to that. Dorothy,
and we agree.
SCARED? THEN JUST
REMEMBER THIS
A little yellow dog will chase
anything that runs. It is some
thing to remember when people
have you scared. ? Buffalo News.
HORSEPOWER FOR
PLANES, WOMEN
Forty years ago It took about
100 horsepower to keep a combat
plane in the air. Today it takes
250 horsepower to carry a 115
pound female to the corner gro
cery? Chapel Hill Weekly.
UN'J_E ALEX'S
S/y/IN'S
The only feller that's plumb
ignorant is the one that thinks
he ain't.
When a man says I will at
the altar, he ain't got no idea
how much territory he's takln'
In.
Maybe procrastination's not ai
bad as it's made out to be. At
least, the feller that procrasti
nates never gets around to doin'
the things he oughtn't to do.
DO YOU REMEMBER?
Looking Backward Through the FUea of The Preae
? 65 TEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(1(93)
Spectacles for all eyes at the Drug Store. ? Adv.
R. H. Jarrett and Sons purchased, last week, of "Snipe" Mc
Loud, the old "Labyrlnthlan Entangleorlum" on the south side
of the public square and are engaged Ln unwinding its giddy
mazes, preparatory to converting It Into a livery stable.
at Mr. R. T. Slsk has returned from Cashiers and opened up
ig his shop to the Love office.
I 25 YEARS AGO
ie
ro The Franklin and Highlands consolidated schools will open
[h for the eight-months state-supported session next Monday
'h morning. Rural schools of the county have already opened.
Mrs. Moses Blumenthal and two daughters, Dorothy and
Marjorle, returned to their home here last Sunday, after spend
re lng several days ln Atlanta, visiting relatives and friends.
to
re An N. R. A. meeting, at which plans will be discussed for
a spreading the wings of the Blue Eagle all over Macon County,
ee will be held Tuesday.
10 YEARS AGO
.le
of Judge George B. Patton, presiding over his first term of
,18 superior court ln his home county, was presented with two
n gifts at the opening of the August term of court here Monday.
?P Three businesses here changed hands this week. Lawrence
?'? Liner bought Dryman Feed and Grocery from Prelo Dryman;
?? Mr. Dryman purchased from Kenneth Bryant the H. and B.
.le restaurant; and Rafe Teague bought the Franklin Service
Station from Erwln Patton.