JfTnxtkiin tyrtss nnb (Ehe ^tgblanbs ^arcnintt Second oiass mall prlrtlsfes buthartaed at Pranfclin. M. O. Puollshed every Thursday by The Pranklla Pre? Telephone M Established Mk in ? referenda*! reject the Idea of Inte grated. II* I III' Did net the voters in the Congressional district id which little Rocfc is located oast Represent* - Ura Kaya k a write-in vote becaase his rtewi did not tfaeira* Iter, ia ear dtaasnmlle process with the secret ballot. Mil Civilian Faabaa "suddenly engineer" the defeat . of Krsda Diyn nalwa tke raters spurned his views? Is ?ra are iq In Arkansas ma expression of _ of &? puiH? w Ajfcanaas? It aeons to me yon are ?of air to Gwreraor Faobui, and If the events In m fWSL TWO-OROP CMS. . Arkansas do not aceord with what you deem meet and right, you should Inveigh against the people of that sover eign state and not simply against him who does their will. After all, events in Arkansas, if the election returns are a guide, are taking place in accordance with the will of the people of that state. The Supreme Court decisions in two segregation cases present the opinions of the justices and, in the view of many, rest on very doubtful constitutional authority. That one day the concept of seg regated schools in a vast area of this country could be entirely legal, and the next day wholly illegal, with nelthrr a constitutional amendment nor the enactment of a statute by the Congress, is not in accord with the Amer ican concept of a government of laws. Almost as interesting as the letter itself is its geographical source. It came not from Arkansas, not from a state in the Deep South, not from a border state, even. It came from Plainfield, N. J. 1 Bouquet In a way, it is not surprising that the United Fund goal here was over-subscribed; for the peo ple of this community always have been more than generous in support of worth-while causes. But ten thousand dollars is a lot of money to be raised in a small town, and it never would have been raised without a lot of effort. A lot of work went into setting up the organization; and, no matter how generous the people here, it took time merely , to call on those who donated. ? Congratulations are in order to the Rev. Donn K. Langfitt and his co-workers, not only because they were successful, but for their own unselfish contributions of time and thought and effort/ ?But are Southerners to be second-class members of the Democratic party? See where a New York gambler has settled a million dollar U. S. tax claim for 2J4 millions. Wonder how far you or I would get, if we owed Uncle Sam $5.50, trying to settle for $2.25. The federal government's spending more than it takes in, and there's just one way to meet that sit uation, says Chairman Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee ? collect more taxes. Well, now, we'd say there's a second possibility ? spend less. ' Just Our Opinions I Moorearlile Tribune) Bom* folk* have the Idea that editors are a special breed. There are even a few who declare that editors themselves ap parently believe this. And by special breed, we mean Individ uals gifted with the ability to aolve any problem. Let us say here and now, we hold no such Illusions about ourselves. As a matter of fact, we have enough difficulty try ing to solve oar own problems without taking on any of those of the world Not so a few editors we have read after. There are a few who sit down at a typewriter every day and solve the most complicated of all problems ? human relations. These Individuals, and we are beholden to an all-wise Prov idence that their numbers are so few, take less than a galley of type to dispose of the race problem, religious bigotry, and nationalism throughout the entire world. The delusions of grandeur from which these fellows suffer are sufficient to make a psychiatrist shudder. All the time, these boys think they are solving the world's problems when In reality all they are doing Is exercising their own peculiar brand of prejudice. The only thing set forth in these columns are our own opinions. We know that a good many people who read them disagree with us. But instead of accusing these readers of be ing ignorant and Ill-informed, we simply accept their dis agreement as their right to choose what they believe. Not so these fellows who hold they are the repositories of special Insight into the ills that beset us. You either accept their doctrine as the final word or you are a dirty little re actionary, communist, socialist or Infidel, whichever term they choose to apply. * Why Are Americans Hated? (Pacific Islands Monthly) Why do an Increasing number of the world's so-called free nations display an Increasing hatred of the United States? America does nothing to injure other nations. Americans abroad are friendly, helpful, generous people. And very many nations have been kept out of bankruptcy by American funds, given without strings. Now, we are told, Washington highbrows are visiting each other's offices, trying to solve the problem of American un popularity. They may reach the answer In time. It seems apparent to any student of history and human nature. It leads back di rectly to the fact that the overwhelming majority of people are not yet fit to exercise the privileges of the freedom which has been ladled out to them ? mainly under American direc tion ? In Indigestible chunks, during the past couple of dec ades. Up to about World War H, Great Britain ruled an enormous colonial empire, exercising dictatorial power with wisdom and justice. There was not much political freedom among bar countless masses of Asians, Africans, etc., but there were peace and order, sufficient food, no oppression, and reasonable con tentment. No attempt was made to buy their love with lavish gifts. They may not have loved the British, but they respected and trusted them, and there were few? If any ? manifesta tions of popular hate. Now all of Asia and much of Africa are "free and indepen dent" The Inhabitants? no better off, nor likely to be ? seldom miss a chance of being unpleasant to the West. The right not to belong Is as sacred, Christian, and Amer ican as the right to Join.? Franklin, 1a., Banner-Tribune. \ DO YOU REMEMBER? LmUof Backward Through the Film of The Frees 65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (ISM) Miss Allle Caler has a very serious attack of typhoid fever. We learn that Mr. W. J. West arrived home Saturday eve ning from Oklahoma. He expects to return to the Territory after spending the holidays with his family. The first edition of Cosmopolitan Magazine for December is 360,000 copies, double that of any other magazine In the world. 25 TEARS AGO (1933) Despite the Issuance of an order by the Interstate Commerce Commission, authorizing the receiver for the Tallulah Falls Railway to abandon the line, operation of the 57-mile railroad from Cornelia to Franklin Is expected to continue as long as it can meet expenses. Miss Hattie Slagle and Jesse Shope were married at Blairs ville, Ga., Saturday evening, December 9. Miss Mildred Harrison and Lake Shope were quietly married in Blairsville, Ga., on Saturday evening, December 9. 10 YEARS AGO When the December term of Superior court opened here Monday morning, it was an all-Macon tribunal. Every of ficial of the court ? judge, solicitor, jurors, clerk of court, sheriff, and court reporter ? was a Macon County person. Perry Cleveland Henson, Macon County student at the Uni versity of North Carolina, has qualified for election to mem bership in Phi Beta Kappa, top scholarship fraternity. STRICTLY PERSONAL /By WEIMAR JONU Most of u< are good neighbors to the family next door, or to our friends. Some of us go further and apply the Golden Rule to bare ac quaintance* or even strangers. But when a man In business goes the second mile to be neighborly with his competitor, that's a real test. Yet that doesn't seem to be un usual In Franklin. Two recent Instances Illustrate the point. Some months ago. when Mr. and Mrs. Paul Carpenter were operating the Wayah View Motel, there was a death In the family, and the afternoon of the funeral, they closed the motel office. It was the slack season, and on their return from the funeral, the Carpenters were surprised to see a car, which hadn't been there earlier, parked In front of one of the cottages; and Investigation re vealed that the cottage, empty prior to the funeral, now was oc cupied. How come? The occupants explained. They'd stopped at Wood's Motor Court, operated by Mr. and Mrs. Mar shall Pettis; but that court didn't have available exactly the accom modations they wanted. Mr. Pettis knew the Wayah View Motel had the desired ac commodations. Furthermore, he remembered the Carpenters would be at the funeral at that hour.. So he piloted the visitors to his competitor's place, found the cottage to suit their needs, and got them settled. They could pay Mr. Carpenter, they were told, on his return from the funeral. More recently, while Mr. and Mrs. Harold Corbln, operators of the H. tc J. Restaurant, were away on vacation, something happened to the restaurant's cook. Nobody was available to prepare meals for the customers. A hopeless situation? Net at all! Edward Coatea, who runs the Normandie restaurant, heard about the problem; put in his appearance at the H. Sc J., walked into the kitchen, and pre pared breakfast; and then stuck around until he was sure the crisis was over ? until a substi tute cook had been found and was on the job. We wont say things like that couldn't happen anywhere else. But we do say such things would happen elsewhere only once in ? blue moon. In Macon County, we'd (usee they aren't the rare exceptions. Those two lnstnaces just hap pened to come tg my ears. There probably are dozens of similar ones that didn't. ? ? ? The piece on this pace, about how a conference of modern young parents, defying the child psychology books. went on recard as favoring an occasional spank ing, recalls the story of the child psychologist himself who aban doned his theories when confront ed with a practical problem. A small boy. taken into a store's toy department. Just before Christ mas, was fascinated by the things he saw, and refused to leave. His mother's pleas were vain. Came time for tne store to close, and still he would not leave. The manager added his pleas to the mother's: all to no avail. And so, in desperation, the man ager sent for a child psychologist. The expert, sizing up the situ ation, leaned over and whispered something in the little boy's ear. Immediately, the child lost inter est in the toys, took his mother's hand, and walked meekly out of the store. Amazed, the mother took the expert aside. "You are marvelous", she said. "Wont you please tell me the psychological secret. What did you say to Junior that worked such wonders?" "I said to him" explained the child psychologist: 'You dam little scoundrel, you; if you don't drop those toys and get out of this store, right now, 111 beat the ? dickens out of you!'" ? ? ? Customs and manners change. Bow vastly they've changed was Illustrated by something I saw in an office here the other day. The man in charge, an ap pointive public official, was talk ing with an elderly lady, who had come In on business. The man sat at his desk, lean ing back in his chair. In front of the desk, the lady stood. Not once during the interview, lasting 10 or IS minutes, did he rise. Not once did he offer her a chair. Yes. customs and manners change. In this area, they've changed for the worse. FAVOR SPANKING Modern Mamas Don't Mean Maybe LITTLE ROCK, ARK.. GAZETTE The old-fashioned ideas expres sed at a three-day conference of mothers In Washington under the sponsorship of McCall's magazine must have surprised some of the modern authorities on child be havior. This meeting was not com posed of elderly mamas dating from the day when the woodshed was considered a necessary ad junct to the home. These were young, modern mothers ? their NOW WHICH WAY, MR. DARWIN? We were scanning the papers the other day, duly noting the cries that abound and mulling the words of famous people who keep getting themselves and their countrymen in hot water, when we came across the one hundredth anniversary of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Further reading of the day's news led us to wish Mr. Darwin were still around so we could ask him Just one question: Are we coming or going? ? Wall Street Journal. average ace was 32 ? and yet they espoused these antiquated Ideas: The most effective form of dis cipline Is a good wanking ? Par ents should be parents, not ''pals" to their children, and the young sters should not call Mom and Pop by their first names. ? Chil dren should do household chores without being paid for them. ? School work should be stiffened considerably. These forthright recommenda tions may bring forth cries of anguish from certain educators and child experts ? although the blow is softened by the agree ment of most of the mothers that they would consider it a compli ment to have their children called "eggheads." But we suspect that a substantial portion of the nation's practicing parents will view the conference's espousal of the verities with considerable satisfaction. Child psychology is an essential science. But there are times when even the expert will agree that you can get the best results by applying the child psychology book Itself rather than its contents. ALL KNOWLEDGE NEEDED . It's Not Science Vs. The Arts; Man, Bigger Than Either, Needs Both (EDITOR'S NOTE: Thto Is from u add rot by Mr. Gin. tmnirr of North Carolina, at Duke University.) If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he would be amused and ?omewhat perplexed by the cur rent controversy, which seems to pit science against the humanities and rice versa, as though our sal vation lay In one branch of learn ing to the exclusion of the other. In the mind of Jefferson there was spacious room for ALX> branches of human knowledge. Although he took a delight In art, literature, and music, ha was something of a scientist. Inventing a number of useful gadgets to make life more convenient at Montlcello. He took a scientific .Interest In agriculture, and was, of course, devoted to architecture, which partakes of both science and art. This feeling that all knowledge /? necessary and contributes to the well-being of mankind Is ex emplified In the life of Leonardo da Vtnd, supreme genius of the Renaissance. He was a painter, a sculptor and a writer, but his mind literally teemed with scien tific Ideas. II Leonardo had been a young man of our generation, I doubt that he would have found time to paint "The Last Supper", for surely Dupont or Oeoeral Motors would have absorbed his talents In their Research Di visions! In the lives of such universal geniuses as Goethe and Schweit zer we find a fortunate blend of science and the humanities. In America we have two exciting examples of artists who became inventors ? Robert Pulton and Samuel 7. B. Morse. And. of course, there was a happy union of science and literature In the life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, who was not only a distinguished physician, but also, I believe, some thing of a poet. In this age of specialization there will be those who will say that Leonardo would have been a greater painter had he not given so much of his time to scientific speculation. Or, for Instance, that Spinoza would have been a greater philosopher had he not become entranced with planes, triangles ? and solid*. Or that Goethe would have been a greater poet had he not devoted so many hours to his rather doubtful theory of color. With this viewpoint I bee to differ, for It Is my conviction that Leonardo, Splnoea and Ooethe all had a natural era vine for the salt of science. Just as many scientists feel the we to season their study with a llKral dash of the human ities. It Is significant, I think, that HI ostein, after devoting hours to abstruse scientific problems, found solace In his violin; and that Churchill sought to maintain a normal state of mind, after the fiasco at Oa 111 poll In World War I. by finding refuse In art. Dar win, who belongs to science, con tended In his old age that man needed a dally diet of music and poetry. If there Is anything that we have learned about man. It Is that he does not exist In compart ments; that he Is a complex of interrelated Impulses ? physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual ? which constitute, ii%a mysterious and wonderful way, a human per sonality. Therefore, you cannot educate a part of man without affecting the whole. 80, if a phase of man's nature Is starved or neglected, there is a consequent Imbalance or distortion of the whole human personality. Now most of us do not have the capacities of a Jefferson, a Leonardo, a Goethe, or a Schwelta er, but, nevertheless, we too feel the need from time to time to take a vacation, if you please, from our career and to pursue some' avocation or hobby for our own satisfaction ? to dabble or even to play In an area of activity In which we may never excel. My suggestion Is this: when a person feels such an Inclination, he ought not to dismiss It as trivial, far It may arise from the Insistent de mands of his nature which forever seeks Its equilibrium. As we study the lives of gfeat men, such as I have mentioned here, much of the debate between science and the humanities be comes Irrelevant. Mankind desper ately needs all that both have to offer ? If we are to survive. And It seems to me that he who majors In science needs the Influence of the arts, and he who majors In the humanities needs to feel the discipline of science. Thus I do not think that we should become too much embroil ed in a rather meaningless debate between two branches of human knowledge. Although both are vitally needed, we should be re minded again and again that we shall find salvation In neither: for science without a soul can be a rather terrible thing. Witness, for example, the scientists under the Nazi regime who devised ef ficient ways In which to estenn lnate millions of human beings. It will take more than an amateur interest, too, in music and art to preserve sanity, for legend has it that Nero played a harp, and we know that Adolph Hitler was a frustrated painter I No, we will not find our salvation in the curriculum, regardless of how well balanced it may be. A man, for instance, may be well versed In Jefferson's philoso phy and yet have no faith in the people; he may master a course in comparative religions and yet never have a spiritual experience: or he may have at his finger tips all legal lore and be technically proficient in the law, and have yet no passion for Justice. Obvi ously, man does not find his salvation In courses of study as such, but in the high purpose to which he dedicates his skill, his juawin (Jill knowledge, and his professional competence. What we need Is not only a well balanced curriculum suited to the needs of the Individuals of our day, but great teaching and great learning ? teachers who rise mag nificently above the curriculum and give of themselves ? students who. with the humility of open minds, pursue as a great ad venture the eternal quest for truth, i And so, I wish for those who graduate from 6ur colleges and universities not wealth nor power, but rather that they be great teachers and great students as long as they live, never losing their sense of wonder at the beauty and mystery of nature, never ceasing to be stimulated by new Ideas; and I would hope that. In the tradition of men like Goethe and Schweitzer, they will be privileged occasionally to stand upon the summit of life ? rising above divisions of human knowl edge, above peoples and nations, above fanaticism and prejudice, and finally above self ? seeing, not the power and glory of this world, but what Is Infinitely more Important ? a new heaven and a new earth!