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THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1960
'EARLY BIRD'
A Good Start
This community, we think, is fortunate in the
men who will serve as directors of the Franklin
Chamber of Commerce during the coming year.
The incoming board is made up of two holdover
members ? the present president, J. C. Jacobs, and
T. Y. Angell ? and five new ones. Those just elected
are William B. (Bill) Garrison, Bryant McClure,
B. L. (Benny) McGlamery, Woodrow Reeves, and
Bob S. Sloan.
These seven men represent a wide diversity of
business interests and viewpoints, and are, without
exception, citizens who have proved their interest
in the community by hard civic work. It is note
worthy, too, that the county, as well as Franklin,
is represented. That is as it should be ; for the in
terests and progress and prosperity of Franklin
and Ma Count v are so closely intertwined it is
never possible to separate them.
The community and the new board arc fortunate,
too, in another way : Thanks to the outgoing ad
ministration, this year's election was held early.
To appreciate the importance of that, it is nec
essary to take into account the steps that must be
taken before a new Chamber of Commerce admin
istration can get going. First, nominations must
be made for new directors, and from those nomi
nated, five must be chosen in a malil election. Then
the new board must meet and elect its officers.
After that, it must outline a program for the year
and prepare a budget that will finance that pro
gram. Finally, the program and budget must be
approved at an all-member meeting, and the money
must be raised.
All that takes time, and in previous years the
tourist season usually was upon us before a new
Chamber of Commerce administration was ready
to function. ^
This year we're off to an early start. The new
board will elect its officers tonight, and it should
not be long before it can submit its program and
budget to the organization's membership. In 1960,
for the first tinie in many years, the Franklin
Chamber' of Commerce will be in a position to start
tourist advertising at the time advertising will be
most effective ? before the tourist season starts.
The next step is the preparation of a program
for the year. If that program be an imaginative
one, and if it is clearly and effectively presented
to the public, it will, we are convinced, be given
the public's enthusiastic support.
Wonderful T( >1 e ra nee!
Tolerance is a wonderful tiling, intolerance a
terrible thing. '
Most Americans are agreed on that. Few of us
would ever admit we arc intolerant. On the other
hand, we think of ourselves as uniformly tolerant;
we are sure we are consistent in our tolerance ? of
other religions, other races, other regions, other
viewpoints.
Yet our consistency in this matter takes some
strange turns.
What happens when someone expresses a new
and different viewpoint? In the conformist America
of today, such dangerous unprthodoxy is likely to
he met with stony silence, if not open hostility.
In the southern part of the United States, use of
the word "Yankee" persists, sometimes with an in
flection that suggests it properly should he pre
ceded by. "damn". And outside this region, many
persons refer to "the South" as though it were a
land on some other planet, inhabited by strange
and inexplicable creatures. Yet the people who are
surest the' South- is "different" are the stoutest de
fenders of the theory there- is no such thing as
' racial differences !
Tolerance todav vetoes Negro stories, and
frowns 011 Jewish s.tor't Such stories, it is said,
afront the dignity 01 members of these groups. But
Scotch stories are still in good taste. And all
America laqghs at Li! Aimer, a gross distortion
of the life and ways and speech oi jibe Southern
mountaineer. (Happily, the mountain, people are
saved from afront by their sense oi thumor; they
laugh at Lil Aimer, too.)
We hold up hands of horror at fhe mere sug
gestion it may not be politically poslible to elect a
Roman Catholic to the Prcsidcncy.lSuch intoler
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CLEAN SLABS AND f D6IN6S, LfFT AFTER
DE BACKED LOOS HAVE BEEN CUT INTO
LUMBER, WERE ONCE BURNED. TODAY/
MANY SAWMILLS CONVERT THESE OMCI
WASTED TRIMMINGS INTO PULP CHIPS/
THI CHIPS AM LOADED M
railroad cars or trucks
WHICH "TRANSPORT THEM
TO PULP AND PAPtR MJLL6.
THIS IS Birr ONE EXAMPLE OF "THE AUNY CONSERVATION ME AWRE9
PRACTICED BY THE SOUTHERN PULP AND R?P?R NDUSTRY.
ancc! But we take it for granted that "o. course
no Southerner can be elected".
And the height of intolerance would be to vote
against a candidate for public office "just because
he is a Catholic". Yet we all admit, without a trace
of shame, that such a candidate could count on
"the big Catholic vote". That is, it's quite all right
to vote for a man "just because he's a Catholic".
Yes. tolerance is a wonderful thing.
And consistency is even more wonderful!
Wise Wood's
i
Adlai Stevenson may or may not he an unan
nounced Presidential candidate. He may or may
not be the right man for the Democrats to nomi
nate.
However that may be ? and whatever one may
think of Mr. Stevenson ? some recent words of his
deserve careful consideration.
For it remained for Mr. Stevenson to put the
finger on what is the basic weakness in the whole
American outlook today ? the outlook of the peo
ple of this nation as well as of its government :
In the most radical and revolutionary epoch of main's
history, our dominant concerns seem almost wholly de
fensive. We are not spurred on by any positive opportun
ities of world building and nation building inherent in
our position as the most fabulously endowed people man
kind has ever seen.
On the contrary, our foreign policy is dominated by fear
of Communism, our domestic policy by fear of inflation.
Economic assistance programs have been sold chiefly as a
means of checking the Communists, never as our creative
part in extending the technological revolutions to the rest
of mankind.
The spur to our explorations of the solar system and
scientific research has not been our rest'ess desire to ex
tend the boundaries of human knowledge. Rather it has
been irritation with the Russians.
Interest in greater excellence in education flawed up,
not because we want every free citizen to exercise to the
full his innate talents and capacities, but because our
rivals are producing more scientists and technologists.
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(Denver Post)
Many a youngster of today will tell his own children about
the winters when he shivered in the cold all the wav to school
because it was only two blocks, which didn't give the car
heater time to start working.
U. I ?
(.'rairie City, Iowa, News)
A church is a unique combination o' a hospital for sinners
and a club for saints .? . . the only trouble being that too
many who think they are in the club really should be there
as hospital patients.
Diversification: The Only Answer
(Greensboro Daily News)
North Carolina can take the bad with the good.
The good Is Governor Hodges' success In bringing many new
and expanded Industries to the state during the last five
years.
The bad is that so much of North Carolina's Industry
and agriculture remain low paying and unskilled.
Labor Commissioner Frank Crane Illustrated that point the
other day in statistics showing that during October only In
Mississippi were average Industrial pay checks lower than
North Carolina's throughout all the 50 states. Half a million
N. C. factory workers averaged $61.95 per week. The national
average was $89.06 during the same period.
Nearly half of North Carolina's factory workers are em?
ployed by the textile Industry and the second, third and
fourth largest number of Tar Heel workers also get their pay
checks from relatively low paying Industries.
The Hodges Industry drive has brought the state a. number
of industrial bonanzas. That campaign must continue if North
Carolina succeeds in moving out of the underdeveloped cate
gory and into the ranks of national leadership.
Better diversification, both in Industry and agriculture, re
mains the only answer.
Health Opportunity For All
(New York Times)
Next Spring the good ship Hope is scheduled to depart for
Indonesia on a mission that makes a challenging appeal to
the hearts and minds of people the world around. And now
comes the welcome news that next month the Advertising
Council will begin a nation-wide public service campaign to
make that appeal effective through the financial support of
the American people.
This is the kind of a "people to people" project of which
the United States government heartily approves but which
it doesn't control Or subsidize. A former Navy hospital ship,
chartered by the nonprofit organization responsible for the
venture, the Hope will visit those countries to which it is in
vited by the local medical profession. Staffed with the best
in both full time and rotating professional personnel, and
equipped with the very latest in therapeutic and hospital fac
ilities, the Hope will be a floating medical care center school.
Its mission will be to help the doctors of the host countries
to meet the health needs of their people, in ways best suited
to their own way of life. And, in so doing, the staff will re
ceive as well as give, in knowledge that will make for a
greater "health opportunity for people everywhere" ? H. O. P. E.
What better caiise could there be for an Advertising Coun
cil campaign? As usual, the nonprofit council will help to
raise the $3.5 million needed to maintain H.O. P. E. for a
year ? mostly through widely channeled donations "of a dollar
or more." .
DO YOU REMEMBER?
Looking Backward Through the Flies of The Press
IMIIMMWI? ? ? mill I H
65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
<1895) J
A few bushels of oats will be taken on subscription at this
office.
Solicitor Geo. A. Jones went to Asheville Monday on busi
ness.
The vicinity of zero has been a popular resting point for
the mercury a portion of the past week.
Frank Ray forgot his certificate of election, and it required
a special motion of the House to allow him to be sworn in
(as representative from Macon County).
35 YEARS AGO
(1925)
Mr. Thad Dowdle, of Prentiss, who has been at Hopewell,
Va., for some months, is at home again.
General Manager D. G. Stewart is busy these days cutting
telephone lines into the new switch board.
The Press is glad to announce that the county commission
ers are having the jail cleaned up and painted.
15 YEARS AGO
(1945)
Wiley Clark's filling station on the Highlands highway was
destroyed by fire Wednesday morning. Franklin firemen tried
to pump water from the Cullasaja River, but the fire had
progressed too far.
Betty Peek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John M Peek, of the
Walnut Creek section, North Carolina winner in the national
4-H Garden contest, has been presented a $500 War Bond by
the National Victory Garden Institute as junior winner in the
National "Green Thumb" contest.
5 YEARS AGO
(1955)
The U. S. Public Health Service has given the Naiitahala
Creamery the highest sanitation rating on record in the state.
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Only Rp<3 o utir Modern Problems Is Better Homes
SOUTHERN PINES PIIO
The primary Importance \i. 1
iiy life has been proven r.c ; . j
throughout North Ca.ohna by ii
White House Conference tor Ch. -
dren and Youth.
Committees named In ^a h ?> t ?
ticipftting ocunty made eport-s
which were thtn summariz d o
a county basis and sent to Ha fv.i
for consolidation In the :e.
North Carolina Whit Ho.u Or.'..
fercnce. State n potts will no'
po to Washington frcm ? r flv
United States, for discussion of
the progress, stptus anc n ds ? f
the children and young p ;pl
of the nation in the Natio ? '1
White House Conference next
spring.
That is the - background <?' ? ?'??
remarkable fact that practically
nil of the seven' reports madr in
this county stressed the impor
tance of the family tn fields as
diverse as welfare, education, law
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>?>' couin.i is well,
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... .Vuy a:. .. Ma.r;j i, Moore
l?t. Hous ^ .. .Terence
id th ...t agreed
on i.o:i w.d.ly m h ?ailous
)anty i' pons was U a ' lie fam
y i i.l.e >. .r h p.). ;>le unit
l ;j; ar that ' e family
V re"V,ot h"raMng (Wn md fall
ing its function, many of the
p:obem : ; Ou'K. ? i i as the
ci . (n it. i ? le and
dim '? b'nus cot would
b ellminati-di" ,
l.'o t?u.;:d.e::p<vi,l.i-j. nstance,
. li e " . r Cou-.ty alth De
pa tm;nt would list as its first
-r lreri nrr in locking toward
'he future "b it r parents." Yet
that is'c'r- in the White House
Conference health committee's re
port.
"Better parents!" What can a
town, county, state or nation do
about that need, that problem?
You can't make better parents
by appropriating money, by hiring
more people, by issuing bonds or
any other action. Each of us, if a
parent, can try to be a better one,
but there is precious little any
of us can do abcut making any
other parents better. '
This peculiar' circumstance
makes meeting' the disintegration
of family life the most frustrating
social problem we face. Ministers
can help. Skilled counselors as
sociated with the courts or with ,
health an i. welfare departments
can help ? but they touch only
the people wlv> are in financial
need or get in trouble 'with the
law. What can be done about
healthy, prosperous, law-abiding
people who are nevertheless fai
ing to make and keep the famil
a responsible, guiding, controllin;
inspiring, strengthening force i
the lives of all its members?
We would not be surprised t
see the National White House Cor
ference come up next spring wit
the same conclusion reached 1
Moore County and North Care
lina: That the family unit is it
comparably valuable to stab!
society -and that when this in
portance is ignored by neglectfi
or shortsighted parents, society
trouble's multiply endlessly i
many other areas of social ac'tlor
Parents who fail in their ri
sponsibilities sow the wind: socii
ty reaps the whirlwind in th
courts, in prisons, in mental ho:
pitals, in welfare payments, ant
we ^gradually come to realize, ii
the whole tone and moral fibr
of our national life.
STRICTLY
PERSONAL ^
By WEIMAR JONES
In a doctor's waiting room the
other day, I found myself smiling
at an old lady.
She must have been In her late
80's. She looked that age. she
walked like It. she even dressed
like It. But she made up her face
like a teen-ager.
She'd hardly taken her seat be
fore out came the compact. Hold
ing a tiny minor In one hand,
she applied lipstick with the other.
She had all the techniques down
fine. She applied it heavily here,
lightly there; then, using a bit
of paper handkerchief, she wiped,
off a tiny bit somewhere else."
She pursed her lips. -She turned
her head this way &Ad that, up
and down, moving the mirror as
she did so, to make sure she had
achieved just the right effect.
The incident reminded me of
how often our desire to conform
to change corrupts the best of us,
whatever our age. I'm not suggest
ing. of course, that use of cosmetics
is, in Itself, corrupt. But whenever
any of us does something we feel,
inside, isn't quite right, we are
being corrupted.
That old lady grew up in a
period when no respectable woman
left her bedroom until she was
fully dressed, to the last detail;
every hair was exactly In place.
When she was 20. It would have
been shockingly bad taste to use
cosmetics (if any decent woman
in that age had used cosmetics at
all) in public. It was still bad
taste when she was 40. And I
feel sure, with that background
of training, every time she makes
up in public now, she has a sense
of guilt. She does it because
everybody else does it ? well,
nearly everybody else.
It would be my guess it's still
bad taste; a little like a man's
putting on his necktie after ar
riving at his hostess' home for a
formal dinner.
It's not the question of taste,
though, that intrigues me about
the modern custom of making up
in public. It's the contradiction.
Mind you! I'm all for cosmetics,
beauty parlors, and such like. I
think women should be beautiful,
all women. If those wha aren't
can be made to seem so, I heartily
favor that bit of deception.
But the purpose of beauty aids
is to create an illusion; to make
It appear something is there that
isn't.
And how can there be illusion
when women advertise the fact
that it is illusion? How, when they
make up in public? How, when they
use so much lipstick even a blind
man would know the redness of
the Hps is artificial? How, when
they paint their fingerails a color
such as never was on land or sea?
It's as though a girl frankly
said to her boy friend: "Now I'm
going to open my eyes real wide, i
then blink the lids rapidly; I'm '
going to smile tenderly and drop
my eyes; my bosom is going to
heave; I'm going to lean toward
you. And you, big boy, are going
to propose!"
Those tricks probably would
work if the boy friend didn't know
they were tricks. But if he suc
cumbs knowing It, he's much too
dumb to be worth bothering with.
There's an explanation, I'm'
sure, a purely female explanation,
for all this. But I wouldn't dar?
ask any woman for it.
I wouldn't, because she'd be sure
to explain: ahd 'being a man, I'd
be sure to understand less when
she got through that I did before;
but, like any other man. I'd agree:
"Oh, yes, I see". But I wouldn't.
And then it would br I who had
been corrupted!
? ? ?
Our courthouse problem has be
come a topic of discussion not
only here, but in other counties,
even other states.
A friend, who has a summer
home here, mentioned it in a re
cent personal letter to me. He's
a man whose education, experi
ence. and contacts make his
opinion on the subject worth con
sidering. Yet. though he pays
taxes here, has been interested in
Macon County for many years,
and sometime hopes to live here
the year 'round, he commented he
didn't think 'it was up to summer
residents to try to influence the
decision as to what to do.
He did offer a suggestion,
though, as to what should be done
before a decision is made:
"Quite recently (over a period
of some ten years) I have seen
what can be done with old build
ings whose walls were sound.
Architects have come In, torn out
everything, and with a fresh start
have really modernized the Interi
ors. I do not know what can be
done with the Courthouse, but I
am sure that a competent archi
tect could find out if he were
hired on a professional basis."
That. It seems to me, sounds
like sense. Yet how many people
here seem to feel an architect's
fee would be a waste of money!
"Why not just get a good builder
to look,at the Courthouse?"
Well, a good builder is just
what the words say: he's good at
building. He's not an architect.
He lacks the training that enables
an architect to look at a thing
as It is, but visualize what it could
be.
It would be quite as reasonable
to say of a top-notch business
manager of a hospital: "He works
light there in the hospital. He
knows all about it. He can operate
as well as the doctor. And hell do
it cheaper."
Modern Need: The Old-Fashioned Rocker
GOLDSBORO NEWS-ARGUS
Everything has gone too com
plicated. We have lost so much
of a simplicity in our searching
after the complicated, the ornate,
the gadgety.
Take the matter of a simple
rocking chair.
When an infant has the colic
there is nothing better to give
him or her the pressure applied
and released, the sense of motion
and tranquility than a gentle
rocking in a plain, small, old
fashioned rocking chair. One that
is substantial, has no arms On
which baby could bump her head,
and a sufficiently high back to
rest the one holding the baby.
Give a little one the soothing
motion back and forth, add a
lullaby such as "Rocka bye. husha
bye little papoose, the stars come
into the sky. The whippoorwill is
crying, the daylight is dying, the'
river runs murmuring by."
Rock gently, sing softly, and the
colic goes and the stars shine in
your own life.1
What you need is a small rocker
such as the Murray family of
Middlesex built a reputation for
making. Their art was handed
down from father to son for gen
erations.
But such handicrafts are hard
to come by. If you don't think
so, try to find such a plain small
rocker.
IT'S UNKNOWN TODAY
'The Look' Has Gone
CAROLINA ISRAELITE
Ask this generation of kids
about "the look" and they will
think you are asking about the
newest fashions or about a star.
But "the look" was original with
neither Paris nor Hollywood press
agents. "The look" was the most
effective means of discipline for
children and teen-agers in the by
gone days when the family ties
r were more binding, when there
was greater respect for elders.
1. As a child you may have for
y gotten yourself and started rough
housing and raising a racket with
n your brothers and sisters. Sudden
ly your father raised his head and
? gave you "the look." He simply
v looked at you, but it was a differ
h ent kind of look. It communicated
n a warning of his displeasure. It
j. shamed you. Immediately you
stopped. No words were ex
e changed. Many a boy said lie
. would rather submit to a whipping:
,1 than suffer "the look" from h'S
s father. Occasionally, however,
n when your mother, who was the
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BUT CONSIDER
I MR. WHISTLER!
!,
n Feel neglected, Dad? Think of
e Whistler's father. - ? Holyoke,
Colo., Enterprise.
real boss, thought the punishment
meted out to the children was
unfair, she gave your father "the
look" but the look of your mother
had a different tension. She open
ed her eyes wide and raised her
chin to your father and what she
meant (as articulate as any state
ment) was, "Why don't you leave
the kid alone?"
"The look" has great signifi
cance In all cultures. It Is part of
the Evil Eye legend repeated in
every race. But whatever its
significance, it effectiveness wsfc
derived from the close familv tie.
This is gone. Today if a father
raises his head and directs "the
look" at teen-agers they think he
is nuts. They ell him a square
and go ahead and spin another
roek 'n roll record.
*
REPORT DOMINOES
COMING BACK
Dominoes, anyone? Sales of the
dotted blocks boom in San Fran
cisco where a bank executive,
Dominic C. Armanlno, has written
a local best-selling book on the
game. He predicts it will top
bridge in popularity in five y eft/fc,
calls It a "thinking man's game."
? Wall St. Journal