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$3>e fftuiKtttt and ?he Highland fHarmtiait WEIMAR KWKS Editorial I'age Editor NEEDLESS TO-DO Remedy's At Hand To many plain Americans, the Washington civil rights hassle? with its filibuster and its almost in credible round-the-clock Senate sessions ? seems a bit silly. It's worse than that. It's wholly unnecessary. It grows out of tl?c effort of the Republican ad ministration and the Democratic leadership in Congress ? -both with an eye on this year's elec tions?to cnact legislation to assure Negroes the right to vole in Southern states. I Even its most ardent backers surely would con cede that the pending bill is involved, that its en forcement would be cumbersome, and that its con stitutionality is questionable. Yet the remedy for the situation this legislation seeks to meet is clearly set out in the U. S. Con .stitution itself. It's been there more than ninety years. Section 2 of the Fourteenth Amendment reads: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. Bat when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Exe cutive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male in habitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced In the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty -one years of age in such State. What does lhat welter of words mean? Eliminate the whereofs and the whereins and all the qualifying phrases and clauses, and you come up with this : "When the right to vote ... is denied . . . the basis of representation . . . shall he reduced" pro portionately. That is, if a state denies the right to vote to any considerable proportion of its citizens, the number of that state's representatives in Congress shall be reduced in proportion. That's simple and direct; that would be effica cious; and lhat would be in obedience to the Con stitution ? for the section quoted does not say rep resentation "may" be reduced; it says "shall". And of course the responsibility for obeying that mandate is on the body that apportions represen tation in Congress ? Congress itself. I.s it possible lhat nobody in Congress, no pro ponent of voting rights for the Negroes, has ever bothered l<> read the Fourteenth Amendment? Unusual, Sensible For a chamber of commerce address, what Mr. Wayne Rogers, new president of the Haywood County Chamber of Commerce, said at the recent annual dinner meeting of that organization was so unusual as to he little short of amazing. For Mr. Rogers talked more about people than he did abtiiu money, more about needs, than about growth, more about planning than about business. Vet his approach made such good sense. his bear ers must have wondered whv such a talk is un usual at a < banilvr of commerce Catherine. He didn't under rate monev or growth or business, but put them 1 '< ibe'i ? roper perspective. Suggesting that lie and his hearers "lav aside our rose ( olored glasses" and "stop thinking on the usual levels of chamber of , commerce intelli gence", he said "let's put on our best bi focals and bring the problems and the needs of Haywood county people into sharp focus. "Haywood County needs to take inventory. We need to inventory our assets and our liabilities ? our natural resources, our forest, our land, and our water. We need to know about schools, and churches, and banks, about community services, about jobs for our people or shortage of jobs, and about recreation. "Then when our inventory is complete, we need to plan the future of our county. Based on our * ZHO" - . ? e*co?e' *? . . -!ym m *"r#' ^ 'P-S-S-T, YOU OLD FOOL! THEY'RE WAITING FOR ME TO COME ON! ? Atlanta Journi strong points and our weaknesses, we must plan for orderly growth of Haywood County for the benefit of all our people today and the generations to come." Orderly growth . . . for the benefit of all our people . . . and the generations to come. What could make better sense, than those! Yet how few communities, how few chambers of commerce, how few of us individually do such planning? "The kind of inventory I am thinking about", Mr. Rogers continued, "will point up the needs of our people and lay the groundwork for their solution." Then he listed, as among the needs such an in ventory would be likely to show, these eight: 1. The need for a county-wide waste disposal plan for oar industries and towns and rural residents. Haywood Coanty needs a good old-fashioned Saturday night bath. 2. Preservation of our water resources for industrial, recreational, and domestic uses, with plans for a network of water mains to every community fn the county. 3. Preservation of our land for its most valuable use ? farm land, industrial plant sites, commercial properties, residential property. 4. A study of the county's educational facilities. 5. Additional job opportunities. Such an inventory will tell us how fast or how slow to travel industrially. 6. The needs of our young people. 7. The need for a "face-lifting* in our county and towns. Sub-standard housing, slum streets, and blighted areas have no place In a healthy economy. 8. The need for closer cooperation and harmony. We must work together for the common good. But Basis Of Truth The average upstater has this mental image of the man who lives in Eastern North Carolina, com ments Henrv Belk, editor of the Goldsboro News-. Argus. ' , When he is not hunting he is fishing. If he Is inot fishing or hunting, he is loafing. If he is not taking his soul's delight In leisure he la knee deep in the surf at a nearby beach or in a barbecue or clam bake. It is a vastly overdrawn image. It does a good people real harm. For your Eastern North Carolinian often hunts or fishes or loafs because he has no job and can't get one. We have no doubt that what Mr. Belk says about jobs is often true. And we know Cxactlv how he feels about the caricature of the Eastern North Carolinian, because the mountaineer of Western North Carolina has been caricatured for generations. In both cases, though, there is some solid truth in tin- caricature. For your typical mountaineer is, among other things, an independent individualist^ and your typical Eastern Carolinian does know how to use and enjoy leisure. Th< ise are qualities the state and the nation badly need, and it will be a tragedy if we allow them to be destroyed under the steamroller of modern in dustrial standardization. Billed In Triplicate (Kiwanis Magazine) The trouble with government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Is that we are being billed for It In tripli cate, which wasn't what honest Abe had In mind. Man must cease attributing his problems to his environ ment, and learn again to exercise his will ? his personal re sponsibility In the realm of faith and morals. ? Albert Schweitzer. LETTERS That's Real Cold Editor, The Press: I guess many of us dream of going back to the days of our youth. I had that experience Sunday evening, and of ail things, it was riding a sleigh. Several adults met with the teenagers at Mr. Joe Wilson's, an ideal place for sleighing. The run was about five hundred feet, with about twenty per cent grade, and one of the best places to land ? if you dldnt land on something else before you got there. It's been so cold over here around Highlands that the foot logs have drawn up until they just reach half across the creeks, believe it or not. Well, let's feed the birds; folks will want to hear them sing, come Spring. Now to the boys who want us Maconlans taxed to support the Franklin fire trucks: We'll trade with you boys if you'll come up to Highlands and pay our water and light bills. That's fair, isn't it? HERMAN WILSON Highlands. What We Need Dear Mr. Jones: That list of things Macon County needs worse (compiled by Mr. W. W. Sloan and published in The Press March 3) set me thinking. I am a life-long resident of Macon County and a taxpayer, and it seems to me Western North Carolina could be the garden spot of the world. We have good fresh air, good, pure mountain water, and good, fertile soil. Yet to support my family, I have to leave Macon County to get a job; and there are many more in the same boat. But who gets out and solicits and encourages industry to come here? Why do neighboring counties get industry and we dont? For that and other things, it's time for Macon County citi zens to open their eyes and put their shoulders to the wheel ? and when the next election comes, make some changes for the better, so maybe we can get a new courthouse. I would like to see the opinions of others, in The Press. FRED CONLEY Franklin. (EDITOR'S NOTE: What do you think of what Mr. Conley says? The Press would welcome other letters, whether they agree or disagree with him ? or on other community prob lems.) DO YOU REMEMBER? Looking Backward Through the Files' of The Press 65 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK (1895) The General Assembly has passed a bill through both branches appropriating to the Greensboro Normal and Indus trial achool (now Woman's College ? editor) $12,000 a year, and >o,uuo additional per year for two years to make Improve ments in the Buildings. That Is one good deed the Legislature has done, and The tress Is ready U> give it lull credit for it. Mr. N. L. Barnard returned last week from a trip to Georgia with horses. Married, March 6, Mr. J. E. Calloway to Miss Julia Parrish. 35 YEARS AGO I (1925) Franklin and Macon County are to be reclaimed for North Carolina by the opening up of the county, as a result of com pletion of the state highway from Dillsboro to Franklin, by the way of cowee Gap. Work on grading the road is nearly com pleted, and contract will be let within 60 to 90 days for the hard suriacing of the entire 22-mile route. As soon as the contractors start pouring concrete between Otto and the state line on the new Georgia highway, the road will be closed to through traffic. 15 YliARS AGO (1^45) * S'gt. Ralph Cassada, 24, of Franklin, recently was awarded the Bronze Star for heroic achievement in action on the Fifth Army front in northern Italy. Five decorations, for "exceptionally meritorious achieve ment' during nearly 30 bomber missions over Germany, have been won by T. Sgt. Roy C. Grant, son of Mr. and Mrs. char lie M. Grant, of Nantahala. 5 YEARS AGO . (1955) Construction of Burlington Industires' $3,000,000 hosiery plant near Franklin Is proceeding. Now what have those folks got to say who're always complaining that "we don't have real winters like we used to"? ? ? ? Well, spring is Just around the ? not corner this time, but week end; literally, Just around the week end. If you don't believe it. consult your ? I started to say calendar; but modern calendars, moiw's the pity, don't list the phase* of the moon and the dates of the solstices and equinoxes, etc.; so consult your encyclopedia or dictionary. There youH find that the vernal equinox, which marks the be ginning of spring, comes "about March 21", except on Leap Years, when the additional day on Feb ruary 29 moves it back to March 20. And that's Sunday! The equinox, of course, is the time when the sun's position makes the days and nlghta equal. (Why the word equinox, which comes from two Latin terms, one meaning equal and the other night, doesn't go on and say "equal night and day" I've often wondered > Prom now on. the days will get longer and longer, and the sun, moving farther and farther north, will get warmer and warmer. So, whatever the weather today, or tomorrow, or even next week or next month, spring is on the way. Arid my personal weather pre diction is that this year it'll come with a rush, almost overnight. The snow will hardly be gone be loie spting bulbs will be blooming above brown grass, the fragile pink arbutus will be blossoming ' beneath the deaS leaves out in the woods, and there'll be once again that good smell of fresh plowed earth. This year. I'll welcome spring with open arms. Not that I'm not always glad to see it; I enjoy each of the seasons. But, for once, I've had enough winter ? and winter usually is a favorite with me. One rea?cn for that, I suppose, is that I'm a bit allergic to heat, but rarely suffer from cold. An other goes back to childhood. As a boy, spring always made me feel logy. Spring afternoons in school were miserably sleepy afternoons. And how hot and tiresome I found the Inevitable spring chores, as I worked under the unaccustomed heat of a sun moving farther and farther toward the north. I'll be glad to see the end of the snow and the ice and the slush. Yet I feel sorry for the people who never experience weather such as we've had the last month. Uncomfortable? Yes. A nuisanoa? Yes. Yet imagine never seeing a world transformed overnight into a thing of white beauty! Imagine never witnessing the shimmer of sunshine on Ice-coated trees! And Imagine children who never know the Joys of snowballing, of build ing snowmen, and of finding them selves rushing, at what seems a> Intoxicating spe4d, downhill on a sled! Spring? This year 111 weleMM It. But, even so. Ill b* thankful I don't have to live where it's monotonously always spriag : where adults, as well aa children, are denied the wondsr of ths changing seasons. ? ? ? t I like this witlclsm, clipped frost North Carolina Eduaatlon mags sine: There may be a destiny tkat Shapes our ends, but out middles are of our own chewsing. And this one, which came from the Calypso Crier at Trinidad: Top Executive ? I hope you thoroughly understand the im portance of punctuation. Newly Hired Secretary ? Why yes, sir! I always get to work on time. SLAVES TO ELECTRICITY How Many Motors In Your Home? Albemarle STANLEY NEWS AND PRB96 How many electric motors are there in your home? Maybe five? Ten? Guess again. The chances are that there are at least 25 of these "silent servants" ? lifting, pulling, cutting, grind ing, heating or cooling for you. So says Jack Riley, of the Pub lic Relations Department of Caro lina Power and Light Company, lie continues: "Few of us are aware of the fact that we're literally surround ed by electric motors in the home. A typical day in a typical Caroline, home reveals just how much our lives depend on electric motors. "Rise in the morning to the alarm of an electric clock powered by a 2-watt motor, one of the tiniest made. The electric shaver that you put to your face has a 1/100-horsepower motor in it. "Turn the thermostat and the furnace comes on, throwing into life from two to five motors to pump fuel and blow the warm air. "If you have an all-electric heat pump, changes in temperature activate electric motors which lit erally pump warmth from the outside air. "The wife switches on the electric range. An electric timer cooks your egg; a motor whisks away cooking odors. "Juice comes from oranges squeezed by an electric motor. The refrigerator that keeps it cool contains several motors, some sealed from dust for years of trouble-free service. "Walk to the garage, move the electric mower from the driveway. (Junior left it there yesterday.) The garage door is opened by I CIVILIZED MAN DEFINED A civilized man is one who con ducts himself as a considerate guest during his years on the face of the earth. ? Archibald Rutledge. an electric motor. You drive away to work in a machine filled with electric motors. "The lady of the house begins the Gaily routine. Cleaning the table, she dumps scraps into the food waste disposer where they are ground to pieces and flushed away by an electric motor. "She gathers the soiled clothes, tosses them into the washer, turns the switch and powerful motors * take over the washing chore. If the weather is bad, they're popped into the electric dryer where more motors go to work. "She uses a motor with tre mendous suction to Tacuum the house. "Madam decides to bake a cake. The mixer has an electric motor. The knife sharpener, the food grinder are electrically powered. "She takes a roast from the freezer (which contains several electric motors) and puts it into the oven. If it's one of the more modern ranges, electric motors turn the meat and control the cooking time. "She shampoos her hair. The hairdryer, powered by an electric * motor, speeds the job. Taking a coffee break, she switches on the telvision set. She adjusts the antennae by means of an electric motor. The phonograph nearby also runs on electric motors. "If the man of the house has a hobby shop, chances are it is filled with gadgets powered by electric motors ? drills, saws, planers, sancers, punches ? to take the 'work' out of workshop." If you don't believe it just let the current flicker off for a few minutes. Your whole life will be disrupted. We are literaly slaves to elec tricity. > INFLATION Inflation, as we get it, is when everybody is so rich that no one can afford anything. ? Changing Times. What Goes On At Duke V? (Greensboro Dally News) Duke University Is a privately endowed and operated Insti tution. In the sense that the University of North Carolina, for Instance, Is accountable, It has no direct obligation to let th? public in on its affairs. But Duke University has an indirect obligation. It is an in- f tegal part of North Carolina. It is one of North Carolina's great assets. It exerts a force and an Influence which, al though national and regional, are most strongly and directly felt In its own vicinity. The people of North Carolina have a tremendous interest in its affairs which can hardly be in sulated from the Tar Heel social, cultural and economic stream of life. Hence resignation of Dr. A. Hollis Edens from the Duke presidency and selection of his successor have a news value and public interest: Under such circumstances, the public is puzzled by the turn of events at Duke, the mystery back of what has happened, the intimation of friction and dissension which have crept Into news stories, especially those developed at Durham close to the university, and rumors which are certain to grow , stronger and do more harm to the university and Its public relations unless the facts are presented. North Carolina has entirely too much at stake at Duke University not to be dis turbed by the unexplained stir. The Daily News shares In that concern. Particularly dis turbed are we by the revelation that a special committee, composed of three trustees and two faculty members, had been named to recommend a successor to Dr. Edens even be fore his resignation was announced. Unless the whole affair was cut and dried in advance and this special committee Is merely to go through the motions of recommending a previ ously agreed-upon president, we do not see how a specific recommendation could possibly be made by March 23 when, news reports say, such recommendation Is expected for the full board of trustees. The man to head such an institution as Duke cannot under anything like normal circumstances and procedures be found within a matter of weeks. Selection of a president Is Duke University's own business, but the ramifications and public Interest are such that this selection should not be made In a vacuum. The university ? itself should be deeply concerned lest It become a victim of undue haste and an adverse reaction among home folks to whom It means most and among whom It must live, breathe and seek closest co-operation and understanding.
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