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Cite firmklin ^rrss nni? ?hr (JHnrmnnn Second class mall privileges authorized at Franklin. N. C. PuoUshed every Thursday by The Franklin Press Telephone 24 Established in IU6 as The Franklin Press Member. N. C. Press Association, National Editorial Association, Carolinas Press Photographers Association. Charter member. National Conference of Weekly Newspaper Editors BOB 8 SLOAN Publisher and Advertising Manager WEIMAR JONES Editorial Editor J. P BRADY News Editor MRS ROBERT BRYSON Office Manager MRS BOB SLOAN . Society Editor CARL P. CABE Operator Machinist CHARLES WHITT IN G TO N Operator FRANK A STARRETTE Compositor -O. E. CRAWFORD Pressman HOWARD JOHNSON Sterotyper E. CLEVE KINGSBERRY . \ . Salesman DAVID SUTTON Commercial Printer SUBSCRIPTION RATES INSIDE MACON uOUNTT One Year $300 Six Mouths 2 00 Three Months .... 1.25 Two Years 525 Three Years 7.50 UUTSIBC UAIUN 1/OUflII One Year $3.50 Six Months 2.25 Three Months 1.50 Two Years 6.25 Three Years 9.00 THURSDAY. OCTOBER 16, 1958 Prosperity On Credit ? i Herbert Hoover announced recently that the pension, given him as a former President of the United States, will be devoted to charitable pur poses. Mr. Hoover commented that he owes a great debt to his country. Then he added, by way of ex planation, that when he was a young man, the U. S. income tax was hardly more than nominal; and so he had been able to acquire a financial com petence. By indirection, what the former President said was that, in today's world, with today's tax levies, it is not possible for an individual to acquire a financial competence. Such a situation is not in keeping with American tradition; more important, it is hardly healthy. But what can be done about it? Well, it may never again be the rule that any body can accumulate at least moderate wealth. But something can be done to keep the situation from getting worse ? and it is getting worse. First of all, the people can demand of their gov ernment that it levy sufficient taxes, ?especially in times of prosperity such as this one,, at least to balance the national budget ? this year we're oper ating how many billions in the red? Second, they can insist that most taxes be direct, so that the citizen knows he is paying them. If the government is spending too much, is wast- ? ing too much, but is doing it on credit, the average citizen is going to be hardly aware of it. But if the citizen is financing his government on a pay-as you-go basis, and is paying direct, rather than hid den, taxes, he's going to start scrutinizing expen ditures ? start demanding to know why we spend so much and what it goes for. That way the man in the street can ? and maybe he will? control expen ditures. So That's Why! Vanilla, the pure, natural vanilla today's older people enjoyed when they were children, has been slowly pushed aside by eager American laboratory technicians, reports a news story. True vanilla is the fruit of an orchid, and comes from such far-off, tjoinantic places as Madagascar and Tahiti. What we're being fed today is a sub stitute product called vanillin. At first, a little vanillin was mixed with vanilla ; now a little vanilla is mixed with vanillin. Vanillin, the story explains, is made out of the by-products of coal tar and wood pulp. So that's why chocolate has become so popular! New Teacher Plan Most states, including North Carolina, have set up elaborate tt?acher certification programs. The aim is to make sure incompetent people are kept out of the teaching profession. Out in Wisconsin, a plan has been proposed that takes the reverse approach to the problem ; it seeks "to make sure that in Wisconsin no person who knows enough to teach and who. can teach does not get certified". In most states, a certain number of college hours of education ? that is, courses in how to teach ? are a basic requirement for certification. Under the Wisconsin plan, any person with a col lege degree could qualify for a teaching certificate by passing a series of examinations. The program, proposed by the School of Educa tion of the University of Wisconsin, has a three fold objective: to permit liberal arts undergrad "My Brother! Where'' ve You Been Keeping Yourself?" uates who expect to teach to concentrate on their major field; to encourage persons who have been out of college for some years, particularly house wives, to enter teaching without having to make up credits in education ; and to ease the way for teachers from other states where certification re quirements are different from those of Wisconsin. It should be said that it is well worth-while for a teacher to be trained in teaching methods ; the trouble seems to have been that knowing how to teach has been over-emphasized at the expense of .knowing something to teach. It might logically be asked why, if a person can pass the examinations, even a college degree should be required ; but the Wisconsin plan appears to be a big step toward putting these two things in their proper relationship. It would seem to have the added advantage, in a day when we are hearing more and more about ' teacher shortages, of making it easier for qualified persons to get into teaching. Others' Opinions (Opinions expressed In this space are not necessarily those of The Press. Editorials selected for reprinting here, in fact. are chosen with a view to presenting a variety of viewpoints. They are, that Is, Just what the caption says ? OTHERS' Opinions.) They'll Tell You (Campbellsville, Ky., News) People who are just too busy to have done a 30-mlnute Job will gladly spend an hour telling you how busy they were. Old American Idea (Buffalo News) Still, the idea of getting something for nothing isn't new. That's what discovered and settled our country. Untrue Cliche (Suffolk County, N. Y., News) Too many Americans have accepted the cliche that the hungry masses of the world are demanding economic better ment, and that if they do not get this quickly from the United States they will line up with the Soviet bloc. This is a crude simplification of the notion of "belly communism." The fact is that in a number of the under-industrialized new nations the appeal of communism is stronger among the edu cated and the half-educated than it is among the masses. The Egyptian fellahln probably don't know who Karl Marx was, for example, and some of them probably don't know Khrush chev from the Prophet Moses. The educated and semi-educated are the sponsors of com munism in the under-Industrialized world. And many of them are looking toward Moscow rather than the West for reasons of personal power, and because of Irrational attitudes. The future stability of the world demands the effort to develop the STRICTLY PERSONAL Br WEIMAR JONES Back in the days when most travel was by rail, th? President of the United States, on the rare occasions when he. left Washing ton. usually went by special train And many rich men. especially railroad notables, had their own private railway cars. As a youngster, I thought that must be wonderful; but It never occurred to me I'd ever experi ence it. Well, you never can tell ? as I discovered on a trip to middle North Carolina last week. For I did have my own private car on the return, from Raleigh to Ashe vllle ? I was the only passenger on that Pullman. (I'm glad to say that's unusual: I was encouraged when the con ductor told me business on his line had been good recently. Oood news about the railroads always is encouraging to me. because I love rail travel, and I don't want to see the passenger trains disap pear.) Well, I guess It's Just as well I never became either President or rich, because I didn't like that "solitary glory": I got lonesome. Besides, one of the interesting things about a trip is talking to strangers. Wth nobody else to talk to. I started conversations with the Pullman porter and the conduc tor, and found both Interesting. The porter, thanks to many years as janitor of an Asheville office building and more years on the Pullman, knows most of the JESTING WISDOM, EARNEST FOLLY Many wise words are spoken in jest, but they can't compare with the number of foolish words spoken in earnest. ?Chilton (Wis.) Time-Journal under-industrialized countries, but this effort is not the sole answer to communism. It is not merely privation which turns men to communism. Many men with full bellies are for Moscow. We need to stop believing In cliches, lest we go down to defeat in bewilder ment and ignorance, not ever knowing why we lost. He Can't Win (Baltimore Sun) Henry is a stubborn man. Else he would realize the utter futility of beginning each monthly check-writing session with blast against his wife's extravagance. He can't win! Take the time he accused his wife of buying new furs just to show off in church. What did she reply? "Henry, dear," she sweetly retorted, ''you are dead wrong ? as usual. I bought them just to show everybody what a sweet, generous husband I. have!" ? Again, he said, "Laura, we simply must economize. If I died, where would you be?" To which she cracked, "I'd be right here. The question is, where would you be?" Still stubbornly persisting, he dourly observed on another occasion. "If I had known you were so extravagant I would never have married you." To which she coolly retorted, "If I hadn't been, father would never have let you!" You would think that all this would haVe taught Henry to keep his big, fat mouth shut. But no! The very next month he cracked, "Your extravagance is unbearable. When I die you'll probably have to beg." Without dropping a stitch in her knitting, Laura demolish ed him with, "Well, I should be better off than some poor women who have never had any practice." The Plowman Homeward (Raleigh News and Observer) In little 'towns, a few people still make fall vegetable gardens. Turnips and turnip greens are being sowed. Onions a {id cab bage will follow shortly. Some gardens are broken by tractor ploughs, but most of the folks who are real land-lovers are old-fashioned enough to hire a horse-plough. And so, in the brightness of the morning, when sun beams are speckled trout in blue cloud lakes, you see the old colored man riding behind his horses, the plough in the wagon bed. The old horse pulls the shackly wagon at a fancy clip when day has just struck with the force of a giant clock. At work, the old man and the horse are a study to en trance a painter ol pastorals. The horse-plough. Just a few yards from the busy streets, is simultaneously humorous and poignant in this age of the atom. The studied slowness Is In congruous below the streamer of white, the , tea kettle steam, the unseen jet plane leaves as a calling card. And this opera tion will produce nothing durable, you want to argue. You can buy greens at the corner store. And turnips, you seem to re call, had their great inning back when stolen by ravenous Confederate soldiers. But the land Is durable, and the plough is still the symbol. The old colored man, the official town land breaker, considering his age and the horse's, might do better at the welfare office window. And yet, he ploughs as his father did. The sociologist decries 'so shameful a lack of progress. But a plough in the smug shank of 1958 seejns somehow disarming and sustaining. When late afternoon is besmirched with gray hair and dark wrinkles, the plough goes back in the wagon. No evening bell tolls the suspension of primitive toll. Along the darkening edges of the lawns, the children turn from Superman and ask In unadorned curiosity what old fairy put this wagon and horse in the middle of Magnolia Street. Are not horses just in TV, wagons in kindling piles, and ploughs making ferric acid? VIA STATION WAUON Mobile Laboratory Enables Small Schools To Teach Science Ellin Count u ( Okla. ) Cnuital\ Eighteen western Oklahoma high schools will offer chemistry for the first time this fall, thanks to Oklahoma State University's unique mobile laboratory which goes Into operation for the second year. The lab. a station wagon laden with chemicals and equipment and driven by chemistry teacher Denman Evans, is the only one of its type in the country. It serv iced 18 high schools in the Ard more area last year. Dr. Robert C. Fite, OU*s direc tor of arts and sciences extension, who administers the program each year, said the travelling lab will enable about 230 high school stu dents to take chemistry for the first time. The lab will visit two schools a day. making the complete cir cuit every two weeks. A teacher in each of the local school sys tems will Instruct a regular chem istry theory class daily. The mobile lab plan was con ceived and developed by the arts and sciences extension service to permit small schools without ade quate resources and physical facil ities to offer chemistry. Each par ticipating school pays *300 for the lab. Dr. Pite believes the mobile lab provides instruction in chemistry equal to that offered in most Oklahoma high schools. The idea proved so successful on the Aid more circuit that a portable physics lab will be operated in that area by OSU this coming school year. This year the chemistry lab will service schools In Fargo, Gage and Arnett in Ellis County. Circuit rider Evans figures he^l drive about 1,000 miles in each two-week tour of the 18 schools. , people I know In Ashevllle. and ? we enjoyed talking about these i mutual acquaintances. And when I learned the con ? ductor lives In Norfolk, I was all ' ears. 1 Alter a few preliminary re ' marks. I asked him about the ? school situation in his home city. "People are right badly up in ' the air", he said; "they are dis turbed and confused. "But what would they do, If It were left to a vote?" I asked. "Would they reopen their schools on an Integrated basis, or vote to keep 'em closed". "I think there's no doubt about that", he replied. "They don't like their schools closed; they'd like to see 'em open. But the majority would vote to keep 'em closed, rather than integrate". There was a moment's silence; then he added: "Virginians feel Uke they're be ing dictated to about something that is their affair. And they feel if they don't fight on this, there's no telling what law the Supreme Court may make next." . . . 1 Then came this Interesting com- 1 ment: "One of these day's we'll solve ' this situation. And when we do j find the solution, it will be so j simple, we'll wonder why we had- 1 n't thought of it long before ? ? ? Most solutions, you know, are simple." j Everywhere I went, I found the problem pooping up. In Chapel Hill, a liberal pro- 1 fessor told me, frowning, that stu- 1 dent sentiment seemed to be changing. < "A few years ago. nearly all the students favored integration. To- < day I find a lot of them bitterly i oppose it". He added that his ob- : servation was based on his own classes; but he evidently felt the , change was campus-wide. And in Raleigh, the issue of < states' rights came up at the most I unexpected place and in the most i unexpected circumstances. It was a meeting, attended by people from all over the state, to plan ( for the observance of the cen- , U. S. PARENTS HAVE ABDICATED J The editor of The Frontier, * O'Neill, Neb., thinks tough and s unruly children are victims, not 1 predators. "It is the children that are suffering from the overorganlaa- A tion of their parents." He mentions a survey that show ed only one father in 10 has a definite relationship with sons in activities such as fishing, hunting, hiking and similar interests. ^ The fathers if questioned would probably plead lack of time. They have no time for their families c because their jobs, business, pro fession, committees, lodges, clubs and other outside interests exhaust their time and energies. Probably \ some children would also add a protest against absentee mothers. But we think the trouble goes ^ deeper. Children in modem homes ' don't have enoujh to do around y the house to keep them feeling interested and responsible. In town f houses chores are few. Electricity, invention and gadgets have taken away the odd and small but \ necessary Jobs that once made children feel themselves a part " of the family. And even when a few chores exist, parents are afraid to inter fere with their children's social and cultural life, and do the work _ themsgjves, getting up early each morrffng while junior sleeps till the ultimate hour in order to re cover from social exhaustion. Adolescents without enough to do get bored and forsake the home lot for their diversion ? Hence the supremacy of the mid night automobile, the honkytonk, the furtive nlehtclub and the rub ber check. Fro-n th:it point on. premature cynicism leads to de fiance of all adults and trouble with the police. Parents have ab dicated. Does that account for some of the wildness of American life? ? Chapel Hill News Leader tennial of the Civil War. The chairman explained at the outset that it Is to be a national observance, and that the purpose is "not to fight the Civil War ail over again", but to honor the heroism of the people of bath sides in that great conflict. But before the meeting was over, there was a minor Civil War right there. It was precipitated by Paul Green, noted author of historical dramas. A resolution had been intro duced. asking the General As sembly to appropriate money for the centennial observance. Mr. Green demanded that the resolution place the group on record as saying the war had proved a blessing. In that it uni fied the nation, and that . states' rights became a dead issue in 1865; then he proceeded to pay rather fiery disrespect to Gover nors Faubus and Almond. Immediately, the sparks began to fly. It was moved and seconded that the resolution be adopted . un changed. Mrs. R. O. ;Cver(' of Durham, long prominent in the Democratic party and former state president of the United Daugh ters of the Confederacy, said the Civil War may have settled the issue of secession, but that it didn't abolish states' rights Half a dozen others sprang to their feet and spoke feelingly. When It Came to a vote, ' the 3reen anti-states' rights sug ;estion won by a count of 15 to 14. The final ironic twist came ifter the meeting had adjourned. As I walked down the street ivith a former Mid-Westerner, low living in North Carolina, he seemed puzzled. "I can't understand Southem :rs' not standing up for states' ights", he said. "Out in our :ountry, we think that issue is mportant, and we're battling for t." ? ? ? Through the mail comes a lot )f Junk. But I've found it's best ;o open it; for you never know yhat it may contain. * I got a little mimeographed >ublication the other day, for in .Lance, that had nothing in It of iny value to me ? nothing, that s, but the little verses below. I ike them. But I'd never have ieen them if I hadn't opened that >iece of mail. The author is unknown: Vouldn't this old world be better. If the folks we meet would say; I know something good about you." And then treat us just that way! Vouldn't it be fine and dandy. If each hand-clasp warm and true. -arried with it this assurance : "I know something good about you"! II Vouldn't things here be more ' pleasant If the good that's in us all Vere the only thing about us That folks bothered to recall! Vouldn't life be lots more happy If we'd praise the good we see. 'or there's such a lot of goodness In the worse of you and me! Vouldn't it be nice to practice This fine way of thinking, too ? You know something good about me, I know something good about you"! UN1LE ALEX'S SAYIN'S Belli' told the truth is like havin' a tooth pulled ? it shore hurts, but, after while, it he'ps. There's a lot of the old say in's you have take with a grain of salt. There's thai un, f'rinstance, that says "tomor row never comes". Well, all I got to say Is, I ain't never been able to convince the bank, when a note was due, that to morrow ain't come yit. DO YOU REMEMBER? Looking Backward Through the Files of The Press 65 YEARS AGO THIS WF.F.K (1893) The editor is off on a trip to the World's Fair. Lee Crawford and F. S. Johnston are holding down The Press In his ab sence. Mrs. Elisabeth AUman has been right unwell for a week or so. The work of grading the streets and laying the curbing for the new side walks Ls in full blast. Pat McOulre is raising a terrible smell in town smearing the curbing timbers with coal-tar. 25 YEARS AGO (1933) County allotments of pork for relief of needy families throughout North Carolina were announced Saturday at Ral eigh. The amount alloted to this county is 4,482 pounds. Mrs. M. C. Bradshaw, of Route 2, brought to The Press Maconlan office what she called a "mad stone". She said it works miracles in the treatment of persons bitten by p3ison ous snakes or mad dogs. 10 YEARS AGO Plans have been completed for two organized deer hunts to be held in the.Nantahala National Forest this fall. This Ls the first time in several years there has been an open season for deer in this county. C. E. Barber of Mableton. Ga , here last Sunday, recalled that 40 years ago he ?nld a White Steamer to Mr. Bob Porter and that he was told at the time that it was Macon's first auto.
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