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Friday, September 25, 1964
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“And I Will Lift Mine Eyes Unto These Hills . .
Martha Goode, Editor-Publisher
Helen Hopper, News Editor
Helen H. Norris, Columnist
Telephone 5411 Post Office Box B
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Twenty Successful Seasons
... But Much More To Do
It was in 1939 that a young man with vision
was invited to take over a virtually defunct
North Carolina Symphony. The man was Dr.
Benjamin F. Swalin and the vision was of a top
flight Symphony Orchestra which would take
the world’s finest music to the people of North
Carolina — to the small towns as well as the
larger urban centers.
By 1946, some impressive results were seen —
the Orchestra had been placed under the patron
age of the Sfate (1943), the North Carolina
Symphony Society had been reorganized and a
successful state-wide fund-raising drive con
ducted (1945), the Orchestra had been put on
a professional basis with musicians available for
an extended period. In 1946, “Music on the
Move” was set in motion with the Orchestra’s
first annual tour.
1965 will bring the celebration of the North
CarQlina Symphony’s twentieth anniversary on
the road, What has been accomplished over this
span of years? Has it been successful? Well,
look at the record: 179,985 miles traveled, 2,354
concerts presented, 62 young adult and 43 child
soloists (selected by rigorous auditions) have
been presented. The list could go on.
Successful? If anything, the North Carolina
Symphony has been too successful. For instance,
last season’s schedule of 129 concerts in some
fifteen weeks were Sxtremely intensive. New
communities want to be included in the sched
ule. Those already entrenched request more
concerts. A question frequently asked Dr. Swal
in is, “Why don’t you come more than once a
year?” The answer, of course, is obvious. There
is a maximum number of concerts that can be
played in a 15-week tour. Last season’s average
load of eight concerts per week — plus rehear
sals! — pushed the limits of human endurance.
The entire State takes pride in the North
Carolina Symphony’s growth and development.
But there is much more to be done. The season
must be expanded in order to accommodate new
communities as well as the old friends hoping
for more performances. For all this more fin
anciai support is neeaea.
The Macon County Chapter of the Symphony
Society is now conducting its membership cam
paign to bring the Orchestra back to Macon
County in 1965. Let’s all support the North
Carolina Symphony, not onlv with the minim
um financial quota for its visit here, but with
a little more to grow on.
The People Speak
The Highlander
Dear Editor:
I am a colored woman who has been in hospitals in
Thomasville, da., Calhoun, Ga. and in Trenton, N. J. There
were colored nurses there, but I am in the hospital in
Highlands, N. C. where there are no colored people liv
ing — just those who come for the season There is just
one doctor, and you know what? — that doctor is a
woman and her name is Dr. Harmon and she is so sweet
and kind to me, the nurses, too. It seemed to me they
went out of their way to be specially nice, but as I looked
around I found they were specially nice to all the patients.
Ime hospital is spotlessly clean, and in my room the
furniture is not old but up to date. There is a TV in my
room at no extra cost — just for your comfort — not to
mention there is nurse every two hours to give me medi
cine. When I have to ring the bell for help, before I put
the bell down good, there stands a nurse.
I shall say that Highlands, N. C. is lucky to have a
wonderful doctor and her staff. I can’t find words good
enough to say thanks to all of them, and I mean it.
I will say if you get sick while you are in Highlands
don't be afraid to come to this hospital as they say they
welcome you regardless of what color when you are sick.
And that cook! Her food is more than good — it’s tasty
and delicious. And I will not forget the hospitality I got
when in the Highlands hospital.
Again thanks from the bottom of my heart
ETHEL PORCH
1303 Magnolia St.,
Thomasville, Ga.
P. 8. You can take my word for It!
To the Editor of The Highlander
Highlands, North Carolina
Dear Mrs. Goode:
We were very much impressed with Dr. Harmon’s com
mentary on the needs of our local hospital, and agree
wholeheartedly.
It is unfortunate, but true, that one has to spend time
there, or have a loved one there, to realize the Inadequacy
of the present facilities
My mother spent five weeks there recently and we saw
first hand, patients in the hall, operating room .. v .
wherever they could flnd npom for an extra bed . . . and
sopne referred to other hejpljsie due to lack of space We
have seen out-patients standing hi the reception room
The Vital Role Of The Layman
In The Church Today
By KENNETH S. KEYES
(The following address was
presented by Mir. Keyes at
an August meeting of the
Highlands Rotary OM>. It is
printed here toy special re
quest and appears in two in
dtaUima'Xa Editor) .
Scripture: Deut. 8:11-20
Strong forces are at work
in the world today seeking
to conquer our nation, to
weaken our Christian church
and to undermine our faith
in Almighty God. The free
doms we have enjoyed — the
system of free enterprise
under which the United
States has become the most
prosperous and powerful
country in the world — our
opportunity to proclaim the
Gospel at home and abroad
— even life itself — are at
stake in this great struggle.
We have ail had what
might be termed a general
awareness of these dangers,
but until recently many have
thought of them as being
rather remote, not liable to
affect our personal lives to
any great extent. But events
in the last few years — the
Berlin crisis, the disturbing
situation in the Congo, the
Communist military build-up
in Cuba, the attempt of the
Communists to take over in
Brazil which was averted by
the recent Army coup there
have caused us to sharpen
our focus. We’re beginning
to realize that unless these
forces that seek to destroy
us are checked — and check
ed soon — we stand to lose
nmgyhayiygHHii,
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with Khrushchev, promising
that the U. 8. would not in
vade Cuba if the Commun
ists removed the missies. It
was agreed that UN inspec
tion would be permitted to
insure that the missies were
removed, but wh£n Castro
objected to this inspection we
even waived that very essen
tial point.
Russian bombers capable of
carrying nuclear warheads
are still based 90 miles from
our shores. We have no way'
of knowing whether the In
tercontinental Ballistic Mis
sies have actually been ship
ped back to Russia as they
say they have or whether
they have merely been stow
ed away in caves near the
launching pads ready to be
come operational upon short
notice. Our Government has
apparently decided to take
the Soviets’ word that they
have removed the offensive
weapons and to do nothing
further to remove this threat
to our safety.
Surely we must all agree
that ever since the end of
World War II the Commun
ists have been making steady
progress toward their an
nounced goal of world domi
nation And we have let
them do it.
Our Christian faith is also
under strong attack. The
Communists are proclaiming
to the world that the Chris
tian religion is an opiate —
that the idea of a personal
God is a myth. Millions of
children in Communist coun
tries are being trained as
atheists to deny the exist
ence of God and to recognize
the Communist state as the
sunreme nower.
In 1983 the Russian Minis
ter of Education wrote, “We
do not want our boys and
girls to grow up merely ig
norant of religious questions.
We want them to become
convinced, militant atheists.”
And the tragic danger on
this front is that this attack
is coming not only from the
Communist forces from
without but also from forces
within the Church itself.
Influential leaders in some
of our largest Protestant
bodies scoff at the inspira
tion of the Bible, deny the
virgin birth of Christ, reject
the miracles as being myths
or fables and repudiate the
atoning work of Christ on
the cross of Calvary.
Very recently one of the
best known theological semi
naries in America (Prince
ton) Installed a professor of
Christian philosophy who
Btated plainly that he could
not affirm the virgin birth
of Christ (Hicks) and the
General Assembly—the high
est court in the denomina
tion — overruled* the (Synod
and took the position that it
was not necessary for a min
ister to believe this cardinal
doctrine of our Christian
faith.
Many church leaders of to
day take the position that
the principal job of the
Church is to try to solve the
social ills of the world rath
er than win people to Jesus
Christ.
With men holding views
like these occupying key po- 1
sitions in many of our im
portant churches and in our
colleges and theological in
stitutions, is it any wonder
that young men are being
graduated from our seminar
ies today with a watered
down faith — refusing to ac
cept the Bible as the inspir
ed Word of God?
A recent survey by Chris
tianity Today showed that
74% of American ministers
are still fundamental or con
servative in their theology
and only 12% are liberal.
But the Church boards and
agencies, the schools and
seminaries of most of the
larger denominations are in
control of the liberals. Un
less this control is returned
to conservative leaders our
churches of tomorrow will
drift further and- further
away from the trust in Al
mighty God that has been
our heritage, providing the i
/spiritual strength that must
<go hand-in-hand with phys
ical strength if our nation is
to remain strong.
You and I can thank God
for the thousands of minis
ters throughout the land who
still teach and preach the
good news that Christ died
for our sins — that God
hears and answers prayer —
that the Bible is a trust
worthy guide But these
faithful ministers cannot by
themselves stem this tide of
ombefttelf thlaib thretaltem to
undermine our churche s.
. . . lined up in the hall . . waiting for emergency treat
ment. We kept saying ... “It will ease off after Labor
Day” . . . but up until September 16th, it hadn’t eased off.
We have never seen a more efficient, dedicated group
of women than Dr. Harmon, Mrs. Carter, our Adminis
trator, and the entire hospital staff . . even with the
over-crowded conditions and the demands made on them,
they left nothing to be desired in the way of care.
We agree with Dr. Harmon, that now is the time to
pledge our loyal support to The Hlghlands-Cashiers Com
munity Hospital, so that we may have a Medical Center
worthy of our beautiful little town, and not be one of the
unfortunate ones to have to leave our community for lack
of facilities so sadly needed. We are sending our additional
contribution HOW.. •
- ■v Sincerely, _
4/... . RUBYE 6. 6GHRQEDER
• • (Mrs. Bernhard Schroeder)
• *"■**'.
They need our help. I
On both fronts, therefore,
we laymen in the pews have
a vital and important role
to play. We can no longer
afford to sit on the sidelines
while evil forces are busy
day and night seeking to de
stroy the liberties that we as
free people have enjoyed and
much else that we hold dear.
As we consider these seri
ous problems it is natural
that we should ask the ques
tion: "What can I—one lone
individual — do to help de
feat these forces that would
destroy my faith, my church
and my country?’’ I would
like to suggest two things
that we should not do and
seven things that we can
and should do.
x. raaujr jrctuo muuuuu
Burke said, “All that is nec
essary for the forces of evil
to win in the world is for
enough good men to do noth
ing.” We should not allow
ourselves to be lulled into
doing nothing by the thought
that we are only one person
in 180,000,000 and that any
thing we might do individu
ally could have little influ
ence on the trend of events.
Dr. Fred Schwarz — the
Australian physician who
gave up his practice to de
vote his life to fighting
Communism points out in his
latest book, that if he spoke
to 1,000 people every night
and convinced every one of
them of the dangers we face,
it would take 500 years to
reach every one now living
in the United States. But if
he spoke to one person each
week and he and that per
son spoke to two persons
the next week and if those
four in turn spoke to four
persons the next week, and
so on, the entire world could
be reached in a single year.
Our individual voices can
help.
2 We should not be lulled
into doing nothing by the
complacent thought, “It can’t
happen here.” If you have
seen the film, “Operation
Abolition” picturing the yell
ing mobs of students at the
House of Un-AmeriCan Af
fairs Committee hearings in
San Francisco you know that
Communism has already
gone far in' capturing the
minds of many of the so
called young “intellectuals”
in our colleges.
The Communists have been
working at this Job for more
than a generation. When my
son returned home after his
first year at college I found
that he had been indoctrin
ated with a lot of pro-Com
munist ideas.
Several years ago his son
— my grandson — came
home from his first year at
the University of Florida.
The Christian Anti-Commun
ist Crusade had just com
pleted a 5-day school in Mi
ami and I saw some of their
books and literature on the
table and told my grandson
that I hoped he had been
reading them. He replied that
he did not intend to read
them — that there was far
too mueh anti-Communism
in the United States today —
that the House Un-American
Affairs Committee was ruin
ing the lives of fine citizens
— that the film “Operation
Abolition’’ distorted the true
facts of what took place at
San Francisco.
He couldn’t name a single
citizen whose life had been
ruin®rt — he had never seen
the film — but his mind had
been poisoned by the propa
ganda of International Com
munism. Given a little time,
v,° will see things In their
proper perspective (Just as
his father did before him)
but for the moment he has
been prejudiced against those
who are seeking to save
America by bringing us face
to face with the facts.
An important part of the
Communist program for
softening up a country is the
infiltration of the churches.
There is much evidence to
support the belief that this
part of their program has
made substantial progress in
the U. S. Much of the oppo
sition to the showing of the
San Francisco film has come
from leaders within the Na
tional Council of Churches —
the same group that keeps
urging us to recognize Red
China and admit her to the
United Nations, to abandon
universal military training
and to refrain from H-bomb
testing. 1
Living in Miami I had a
number of friends who own
ed sugar mills, cattle ranches
and important businesses in
Cuba before Castro took
over None of them had- any
forewarning of this fate
which awaited them. 'Within
a very 'few s months -their
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mills, ranches and businesses
— even their homes — were
dowteaited. And tlhey had to
flee for their lives.
This could happen to us —
and those who know most
about Communism say that
it will happen — unless we
wake up and start doing
something to defeat this
menace that would destroy
us.
(Contiuned Next Week)
LOOKING
BACKWARD
By HELEN HILL NORRIS
Was talking the other day
to one of The Highlander's
Interesting contributors,
young, alert, Lawrence
Wood, .produce manager of
Platts’ Market.
We talked while he weigh
ed me a mess o’ sweet taters,
and the talk somehow dott
ed around to the early days
of the Indian occupation of
the area. I’m always some
how interested in those dark
children of the forest whom
we so pitilessly routed from
their peaceful lives. I’ve
seen the play “Unto These
Hills” .three times, and al
ways with resentment, for
my girandpappy Hill was one
of the men eommisstoned by
Winfield Scott to remove the
Cheroikees from the little
valley of Horse Cove where
the Hills had lived since
1832.
Reckon grandmother did
nlt go along with the idea
much either, ’cause one of
the young squaws, with her
ipaipoiose strapped to her hack
somehow got away as they
were being herded like stray
cattle over (Black Rock
Mountain’s short trail Into
Whiteside Cove where they
were to join up with Cod.
John1 H. Alley’s Cherokees
and strike westward. The
Indian woman got away and
hdd ini the woods near
Grandfather’s smoke house
and kitchen, and Grand
mother fed her and took care
of the baby as best she i
could with blankets and oth
er necessities until .the poor
'little frightened Indian
mother's husband came back
for her.
Reckon he got away too,
and had told her he’d be
back for her when they
parted. Oonit think grand
father ever knew it. Dad told
us younguns about it and
’lowed Grandfather left it
out of his report to General
Scott.
Lawrence went on to say
that among his records he
had a history of the early
Colonial days of Virginia.
The Old Dominion ... of his
direct decent from the In
dian princess Pocahontas. I
was delighted and Interest
ed, but people welre busy
wanting to be waited on, so
I fooled around pinching an
avocado or two when no
body was Hookin’ to see if I
could find one not too ripe
. . . and watted.
He hJas very kindly given
me the loan of his carefully
typed records, authenticated
or based on the records of
Governor Wyndhlam Robert
son, of Virginia. Also re
cords from Henning’s Statue,
Viol. 1, page 327.
The romance of John
Rome’s courtship end mar
riage to Pocahontas are well
known and became a matter
I
of history long ago, tong be
fore oar Hand gained Ms In- i
dependence from England . .
fault sometimes history misses
recording taberesltflmg little '
InoklenMJs. Seems that Gov
ernor Thomtas (Date, and the
Rev. Alexander Whitaker
took a great interest In. this
daughter of Chief Powhatan,
head Of the tribe that once
ruled the great state of Vir
ginia. They gave her in
•strucrtian In the Christian
faith, and She was baptized
In the first Christian Ch urch
ifaudlt in Virginia, presum
ably the Church of England,
and She married John Riolfe
In the chapel at Jamestown
on April 5, 1614. The cere
mony received the blessing
tf her Heither, Chief Powha
tan and Ktf Governor (Dale.
Hie name Roife te ctf Da
idfih origin, and dates beck
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