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FARCICAL
One- Way Justice?
It was emphasized, last week, th^t this week's
National Labor Relations Board hearing in Frank
lin would deal only with union charges against the
Franklin Hosiery Company (Burlington). It would
not, an official reiterated, go into the alleged beat
ing of a union organizer.
Why not?
A labor relations hearing presumably deals with
labor relations. And isn't what a community does
to a labor organizer or what the organizer does
> to the community labor relations?
Organizer Robert J). Beamc charged last Febru
ary that he was beaten by a Macon County mob.
One 'of two things happened at that tinier
Fithcr Mr. Beamc was beaten or he lied.
If he was beaten, any Labor Relations Board
worthy of the name: would get the facts before the
public.
If he lied ? and the Macon County Grand Jury,
after hearing his testimony last' week, apparently
was convinced he did lie? he libeled a whole com
munity; and it was the kind of libel that goes far
and wide; the kind where the truth never catches
tip with the lie.
Is that of no consequence in labor relations?
Has the public no rights, in a labor-inanageljient ?
dispute?
Any investigation of labor relations in Franklin
that ignores this situation is farcical.
Religion And Sleep
The scientist; quite properly, takes little for
granted. He tries to look at the phenomena about
hiin and find an explanation, rather than starting
with a preconceived theory, and looking for facts
to confirm it.
W e would not, of course, discount the value of
that method, or the great work scientists have
done by using it.
Tt serins to us, though, that sometimes the '"scien
tists spend a lot of time and effort "discovering";
the hard way, what the layman knew already.
More and more .psychologists and psychiartists,
for example, arc coining around to- the vicw-r-long
accepted l>y laymen? that religious faith and con
viction are important to mental health and the
serenity that i< a symptom of good mental health.
That. i> illustrated in the following suggestions
on how to go to sleep, and then how to sleep sound
ly through the night, .offered 1?\ a psychologist .
The quotation i> from an article 1>\ Mr. ( ieorge \\ .
Crane. It is reprinted from the Knowille fSews
Sent in el. '
To sleep soundly at night, clear your mind of ideas for
next day's work by keeping a notebook at your bedside.
Jot down your plans, so you can then dismiss them and
relax.
If you are still sleepless, turn on a bedside light and
read some educational book or magazine. The Bible is
topnotch for this purpose.
To free yourself from stomach pain or gnawing, drink
a glass of milk or have a bowl of hot milk toast just be
fore you retire, for a full stomach produces drowsiness,
as witness the sleeping students in the first hour after
hjneh.
To help produce faster relaxation, just take 12 deep
breaths in rapid order and then hold the last one for a
brief interval.
Also, be sure you have a modern, scientific mattress,
and the right amount of covers. If you have too .many
or too few blankets, you'll not sleep as restfully.
Say your prayers, too, and make your confessions of
your secret dreads so their tension will disappear.
And if you are working in any constructive field,
whether you make shoes or bread, clothes or farm equip
ment, you are teamed up with Clod in a constructive way
to produce the more abundant life.
So lift your hand high above the covers, as if you are
placing it in the grasp of the Almighty, and then whisper:
"Lord, I'm try:ng to be your Junior Partner and plant
roses where thistles grew before. But I must ?et up early
tomorrow so I need a good night's sleep. Will you please
take over the night shift for me?"
Then limply drop your hand back on the covers, for God
NEVER refuses to take over the night shift for anybody
who is a rose-planter in life.
I do not believe the greatest threat to our future Ls from
bombs or guided missiles I don't think our civilization will die
that way. I think it will die when we no longer care? when
the spiritual f trees that make us wish to be right, and noble
die in the hearts of men. ? Laurence M. Gold. President of
Carleton College.
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TUB M0S 1" IMPCWAHY i-eSSOM
War Of Many Names
What is the name of the war between the North
and the South that was fought nearly a hundred
years ago? <
Most people call it the Civil War and let it go
at that. A few, more particular, say War Between
the States.
But that is only the beginning. According to the
University of Virginia News Letter, at least 27
descriptive titles have been used by different writ
ers in referring to the great conflict of the 1860's.
Here are the other 25 it lists:
War of Northern Aggression.
War of .Southern Independence.
War for Southern Rights.
War of the Rebellion.
War Over Slavery.
War of the Confederacy.
War of the Southern Confederacy.
War of the Sixties.
War Over States Rights.
War Between the North and South. >
War for the Preservation of the Union.1
War of Secession.
War for Southern Freedom.
War for Emancipation.
War of the Southrons.
War of the Southern Planters.
War for Abolition. *
War of 1861-1865.
War of the Blue .and Gray.
Mr. Lincoln's War.
Yankee Invasion.
The Lost Cause.
The Recent Unpleasantness.
The Late Hostilities.
The Southern Uprising.
If Abe Lincoln Lived Today
(Hartsville, Tenn., Vidette)
Had Abe Lincoln been born 140 years later, how much
easier his life would have been! A welfare worker would have
provided aid, and he would have been moved to a more com
fortable home, and given warm clothing. Instead of learning
to read by the firelight, he would have been sent to a beauti
ful consolidated school in a safe and comfortable school bus.
Child labor laws would have taken him from the menial task
of rail-splitting, and truant officers would have broken up
many a. session of tall tale telling.
The Lions club would have provid?d him with eyeglasses,
and instead of the homely fare of the backwoods, he would
have had free lunches at the consolidated school, well-bal
anced, nutritious and hot. He would have played center on the
high school basketball team, and after the game a pal would
have said. "Let's go snag a babe, Abe."
And charities, that ' dislike to see anybody come into con
tact with hardships that are likely to develop stamina and
fiber, would have paid his way to some state-supported In
stitution of higher learning for four years.
And then he could have run for congress and become a can
didate for president. Or he could have come back home and
waited for a soft Job with security. Which, gentle reader, do
you think he would have done?
Free Country
(Frederick, Colo., Farmer & Miner)
Thank goodness, this Is still a free country where a man
can do as his wife pleases!
LETTERS
'Visitors', Not Tourists'
Dear Weimar:
There Is a word that has been In common usage in the
Franklin area for years that this writer particularly dislikes
and strongly disapproves of. It is misleading and out-dated. We
should all get together and do away with it, and bury it In
the deepest part of Lake Emory for all time to come. The
word is "tourist". Webster defines a tourist as "one who
makes a tour; one who travels from place to place for pleas
ure or culture; an excursionist."
Let's all make a solemn resolution to do away with the
word "tourist"? forget that It was ever a part of our vocabu
lary, and instead always use the more fitting and appropri
ate term, "visitor."
The people we refer to by the above named grammatical
terms, really are "tourists" to the cities and towns in wrtlch
they stop overnight, when they are en route from their home
towns to the Franklin area. But ? when they arrive here for
two weeks', or a month's, or a season's stay, they are most
certainly "visitors" to us ? not "tourists."
TED REBER.
Franklin.
DO YOU REMEMBER?
Looking Backward Through the Flies of The Press
a
65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
(1894)
Marshal Rankin and force are cleaning up the streets.
Mr. C. C. Cunningham met with the misfortune to lose a
good mire Thursday. He was on his way to Dillsboro with a
wagon in company with several other wagons, and the train
had halted for dinner on the Cowee Mountain when another
horse kicked his mare breaking her thigh so she had to be
killed.
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35 YEARS AGO
(1924)
Miss Allie Caler, who is now living at the Littleton Plaoe
on Nantahala, was in town last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank H. Hi)l and son, Harry, of Horse Cove,
,and Mr. W. P. Sloan, of Anderson, S. C., were in town on
business last Monday.
Mr. Fred Jacobs and Miss Lavinia Pressley were married in
Clayton, Oa? Sunday. Mr. Jacobs is manager of Johnson's
Barber Shop here.
15 YEARS AGO
(1944)
E. W. Long last week was reelected chairman of the county
Democratic executive committee.
Management of the Bryson Hotel, recently bought by Gil
mer A. Jones, R. S. Jpnes, and Horner Stockton, has Been
taken over by Mrs. Gilmer A. Jones.
Angel Hospital has been named as one of the hospitals to
receive penicillin, the new "miracle drug".
5 YEARS AGO
(1954)
The first in a series of concerts by the Franklin Band will
be presented Sunday afternoon.
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Tar Heel Newsmen See Cuban Leader As Patriotic, Sincere
//. II A'eii'laH In Greensboro Daily New.
As seen through Tar Heel eyes.
Dr. Fidel Castro, bearded leader
of the revolution that rid Cuba of
Batista tyranny and now prime
minister of the island republic,
did a good job of selling himself
and his country in a five-days'
conquest of Washington, climaxed
by a 2'j-hour appearance before
the annual convention of the
American Society of Newspaper
Editors. .
About a dozen North Carolina
editors were in the audience and
all whom I questioned after. Dr.
Castro's address and question-anu
answer period voiced practically
the same reaction I had.
No one who heard the young
Cuban and he'looks even younger
than his pictures ? could doubt
his earnestness, his patriotism or
his sincerity.
Castro is without question a
showman, as all leaders are I J
more or less degree; the hall
marks of his green battle dress,
open at the throat, and his beard
were but outcroppings. of that
Milesjtianship. I could not help
wondering, however, if he con
tinued to wear his beard to con
ceal his youthfulness; and the
same thought applied to the
bearded young men who made up
his bodyguard and who seem al
most to worship their leader.
V ? ?
Castro looked anything but the
wild man. He is much larger than
one would judge from his pictures:
his six-feet-two-frame, all 210
pounds of it. towered above the
lectern on the speaker's dais. His
whole appearance was neat and
well groomed. His features are
refined, even delicate, and reflect
more of what I would consider
Castillian than Cuban strain His
hair and beard were slightly
chestnut, his eyes hazel and
deeply expressive, his skin pinkish
beneath his sunburn and his bear
ing that of a confident and well
educated individual. The latter he
had to be, with three degrees, two
of them doctorates, at 32.
Courage no less than salesman
ship must have played its part in
causing Castro to speak entirely
in English. It was announced be
forehand that he would deliver
his main speech in English and
then answer questions in Spanish.
Editors were given earphones
when they entered the Presiden
tial Ro6m at the Sta tier, where
Castro was speaking, so that they
might pick up the Spanish trans
lation. But the prime minister
himself changed all that. With a
Spanish-English dictionary in
front of him and two aides close
by. hansine on his every word
intently, he stuck to Enulish
throughout. Quite frequently,
when he was at a loss for a specific
word, one of these aides quickly
came to his rescue.
While at times Castro appeared
to be evasive, voluble and even
haranguing, his answers rang suf
ficiently clear to win frequent ap
plause from his audience. Pleas
ing were his assurances that the
revolution he led was not Com
munist backed or inspired, thai
Cuba would meet all of its present
commitments, that the U.S. would
not be asked to abandon its
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, that
in any clash between Russia and
the West. Cuba would be found
with the West and that his govern
ment expected to restore civil
rights and processes as soon as
possible. He stressed the complete
breakdown under the Batista
regime and the necessity of re
building the entire governmental
structure, including the judiciary.
Castro's answer to criticism for
mass executions was that only
"war criminals" such as we had
known and tried in post-World
War II days had been executed,
that the liberated Cuban people
demanded justice and that such
punishment had to be meted out
as a warning to any one who
might think of establishing a
dictatorship and suppressing the
\ieople In the future.
* I ?
Mostly the young leader plead
ed for understanding and support.
With unemployment and a de
pleted treasury, drained of mi!
lions of dollars by Batista am
his fleeing a ides. 'as Cuba's majo
problems,. Castro pledged that hi
government will seek to keep ou
Communism by remedying cor
ditions which breed Communism
He asked that this country bu:
more Cuban sugar, offered er
couragement to American invesl
ments that would develop industr
and provide jobs and invited mor
tourists to come to his countr
and "have a good time." As fo
the acuteness of Cuba's economi
plight, he declared that his cour
try has a greater percentage o
its population unemployed thai
our country had during the depth
of the depression of the early 30 '
In summation. Castro did ai
excellent personal selling jot
Those who sympathized With hir
deeply came away wonderin
whether he could make good 01
his promises and commitment
and whether; despite his patriot
ism and apparent dedication t
a cause, his youthfulness, ino
perience and naivete might catc!
up with him in the days ahead.
I
? '? ?
Castro, given full credit for hi
honesty and qualities of leade:
ship, needs all the help he ca
get. If it does not come from thi
country, where, all thinking Ame
icans must join him in asking. 1
it likely to come from?
FORGOTTEN NOW
Once There Was A Dixie
EASLEY, S. C., PROGRESS
In the days when there were
long whiskered Confederate vet
erans and every town had an ac
tive U.D.C., there was in all this
dear South a dream world known
generally as Dixie, which we were
taught to adore. It had some
thing to do with an event known
as "The War." But there are now
so few of us who have seen a
man who wore the Confederate
Gray, and the UD.C. is no longer
the ultra social organization In
all our small towns.
Little children, who have come
up in the wrong age, UD.C. means
"United Daughters of The Con
federacy." Winnie Varina Davis,
the noble wife of our president,
Jefferson Davis, was the first
Daughter of the Confederacy. We
would wager that you high school
students at Easley High have
never sung the Bonnie Blue Flag.
Pour other wars have buried that
history dream world that was so
lovely, but occasionally there is a
break through.
This month in Holiday Maga
zine, an admitted Yankee publi
cation, there is an article that will
warm the blood of a third genera
tion Confederate. The writer, J.
Bryan, III, of course, is from
Richmond, and he knows his
Virginia that found war close at
hand, endured all its perils, suf
fered its sorrow, and then dream
ed In its romanticism for sixty
years.
All the generals were noble
knights. General Lee the paragon
of perfection. They even turned
his picture to the wall when a
gambling game was in progress so
he would not be looking on. The
famous cavalry raider, Mosby, was
so pure in heart he never used
profanity, or permitted his noble
soldiers to use it except in one
instance, one only! In calling for
surrender, they were permitted to
say, "Come out of them bushes,
you Yankee s-o-b."
The anecdotes of the Virginia
of 1865 to 1910 given in Mr.
Bryan's article are intriguing,
whether you are a Confederate
descendant or not. And he is per
mitted, beiieve it or not, to use
Negro dialect that is authentic.
HERE'S TIP
TO TEEN-AGERS
We are Indebted to Mr. Bruce
Blossat, staff writer of Newspaper
Enterprise Association, for the
following transcription of a
father's statement to a teen-age
daughter who brought home a re
port card studded with failures.
It Is recommended reading for all
teen-agers and parents of teen
agers:
"You seem to have the idea that
school is some kind of plot cooked
up by the teachers and your
mother and father just to bore
you and annoy you.
"The schools are open for you.
and school work is for you. If
you're lucky, you'll live to be 70
or 75 years of age. But in all that
time you'll never again have the
golden chance you have now to
do nothing but learn about the
world you live in, your own coun
try. the people who lived before
you here and in countless other
fascinating places.
Except for the chores you have
around the house, you're as free
of burdens now as you can ever
hope to be. In a few years you
might be married, pnd then your
life will be a round of cooking,
washing and ironing, cleaning,
taking care of your husband and
children. That won't leave you
much time for learning. You may
find yourself regretting the time
you threw away.
''You want life to be fun, and
it should be. But there are more
kinds of fun than patting the
dog's head, laughing at stale TV
Jokes and prancing about to rock
and-roll. Knowing about things
can open a thousand doors to fun
of kinds you never dreamed of.
"School spreads out before you
the treasures that can lead to
happiness and understanding. It's
all up to you, you and nobody
else, whether you take them or
pass them by." ? The Savannah
Evening Press.
APRIL WINDIER
THAN MARCH
Contrary to general belief, there
is more wind in April than in
March. This (act comes from
Mark Hannah, forester of the Big
Creek Cataloochee area of the
Park.
Mr. Hannah has to keep ac
curate weather records as means
of determining the extent of fire
hazards. He has found over the
years that April has more winds,
and is the greatest potential dan
ger month for fires in the year.
"We dread April". Mr. Hannah
says.? W. Curtis Russ in Waynes
ville Mountaineer.
WHY DO . . .
Public Officials Belabor The Press? '
E. A. RESCH
In Chatham News
I have noticed, with increasing
frequency, the sneering, snarling
attitude of many government of
ficials when they refer to news
papers or, as they choose to say,
"the press."
Unless their hand is called, they
seldom bother to explain. They
may have a "beef" at only a single
newspaper or newspaper editor,
but that doesn't deter them in the
slightest from voicing a broad in
dictment that covers all news
papers and all newspaper people.
This is somewhat strange, since
these people would swallow their
tongues before they said that ail
lawyers are shysters, all bankers
crooks, all doctors quacks, or all
merchants gyps. '
When it comes to newspapers,
however, it is a different story.
If you happen to be in a group
of them, your very presence is
likely to set them off. although,
in what they believe is a charit
able approach, they point out that
present company is excepted.
Few of them have any specific
complaints, yet they seldom hesi
tate to impugn an honest man's
motives merely because he hap
pens to be a newspaper man.
If you study these men's records,
you can find that the press, for
the most part, was unusually kind
to them when they were "on the
way up".
Once having attained positions
of so-called eminence, they think
it is "cute" to belabor the press.
If you press them for specific
grievances, they can seldom give
you an intelligent one.
If you speak up in behalf cf
the craft in which you've spent a
lifetime, you are almost sure to
be accused of being belligerent
or thin-skinned.
I'm not claiming perfection for
newspapers or newspaper people.
I dq claim, however, that there
are as many high-minded people
in the newspaper business, who
are honest and dedicated to main
taining high ideals, as there are
in any other business or profes
sion.
In analyzing this attitude, one
must conclude that the press is
a handy whipping boy when
things aren't going exactly light
for these people. It is regrettable
that their hands are' not called
More often than they are. Too
many of us would rather take a
figurative slap in the face and
go home to brood about it than
to stand up before these people
and ask that they be specific in
their complaints.
What they may^ be doing with
their invective is' using it as a
shield to cover up indiscreet ut
terances or actions.
WHAT WE GOT
RUSSIA AIN'T
* I was eavesdropping recently
I- on 76 lively sixth and seventh
i graders from Spring Hope and
r Greensboro waiting to enter the
s Morehead Planetarium. They were
t conversational and curious.
i* "Lookit that thing in there!"
i exclaimed a lad, pointing to the
y dumbell-shaped instrument,
i- "What's that?"
"That's the planetarium," re
y plied Tony Jenzano.
e "How many of them in the
' world?"
c "About 20."
l- "How many ge got?" The ques
f tioner was persistent.
ii "There are six in the U.S.."
s the guide replied.
'? "How many's Russia got?"
n "Three or four."
'? "See." The lad jostled the boy
n beside him. "I told you so. I told
8 you we got more'n Russia. Any
n thing they got we got better."
's Beside them a studious looking
o little burr-headed fellow with
glasses, who had been attentive,
^ spoke for the first time:
"And* anybody they got worse,
we got worser."
Another boy shoved himself to
s the front. "I'll tell you something
we got that Russia ain't got none
n of," he offered.
* "What's that?" asked Tony.
Is Me!" ? Billy Arthur in Chapel
Hill Weekly.
- THE WONDERS
OF SCIENCE
A limerick on the bulletin board
of the University's Department of
Philosophy indulged 4n gentle
pppofing of the scientist.
It read:
Said the physicist mounting
his bicycle,
"I have discovered the ulti
mate particle.
The thing is so small
That's it's not here at all
And ran t be .described in an
article."
?Chapel Hill Weekly