I TODAY'S DTRT.F YFKSF TODAY'S QUOTATION f ? Editorial Page of the Mountaineer ?ml precious. I Peter ?:?. ' 7 * Sng ?lnd.-Robert M.cArthur D. D. WTHS Auditorium Gives Way To Classrooms More than one patron and former student slipped over to the high school during the past week to see workmen removing one of the places in the school which held many fond memories, for them?the auditorium. Some even listened for a time while work men walked up and down the aisles carrying out the seats?the old floor continued to squeak to the very last. The auditorium is being remodeled to make more classrooms for the steadily in creasing enrollment of the school, which this year is expected to reach 1500. Now the question comes up: where will high school plays be given; band concerts; civic programs and the like; which have utilized the auditorium in the high school for over 30 years? There is not another audi torium in the area except churches and at Lake Junaluska that can seat more than half as many people as the one at the high school. The high school auditorium was far from adequate and did not lend itself to many groups, such as conventions, that wanted to come here. The time is at hand when the people of this community will have to give serious thought to getting a modern auditorium to replace the one which had outgrown its use fulness and had to give way to more essen tial needs. Third Election Of Year In The Making For the "third time this year Haywood election officials are making preparation for handling the balloting. The election is set for September 8, at which time North Carolina voters will express their wishes by way of the ballot on the Constitutional amendments recommended by the recent special session of the General Assembly. Right after this election preparation will begin for the general election on November 6 In the meantime, this week, we have the Democratic national convention, and next weoHTthe Republicans, to remind us of the approaching campaign and election later on this fall. With four elections in the county this year, citizens should easily acquire the habit?as well as realize the importance?of voting. Haywood Now Completely Linked By Telephone Haywood history was made the past week end as telephone lines were completed into the White Oak area, giving telephone service to the last remaining Haywood community. Southern Bell officials announce that early this week actual connection of telephones will be made in White Oak?a connection which will link every Haywood community by tele phone on a non-toll system within the county. The White Oak project cost almost $8,000 and will add 13 telephones to the present system, with seven due to be installed at a later date. In the past few years Southern Bell has changed from the central office system to the dial system in both the Waynesville and Canton exchanges and has constructed lines into every community in the county, includ ing the Balsam section, just over the county line. We doubt if there is a county in North Carolina that is better served, and has more complete telephone coverage than Haywood. Expansion Of Champion Of Major Importance The major e^ansion program of the Can ton plant of Champion Fibre is of vital im portance not only to Haywood but to all of Western North Carolina. The addition of a new paper-making ma chine jjnd plans for increasing production of paper and pulp by 50 per cent of the present rate by 1959 give promise of many additional jobs, as well as the need for more pulpwood from this area. The decision of Champion officials to make this exF>ansion serves as a good business barometer for the entire area. The outstand ing leaders of Champion, by their example, are in fact saying to the world the extent of their faith in the future. The newly announced expansion program is important in many ways, because it will be an incentive for others to plan for comparable growth. The expansion program adds materially to our industrial picture and our economy here. Lot Of Hard Work Put On Safety Fair Those who have been working and plan ning for the Safety Fair, which will be held at Camp Hope Thursday, are about as en thusiastic a group as we have seen in many a day. They have a well-rounded program outlin ed and from all indications will set a new pat tern for such a project in North Carolina. It is interesting to note the broad program which has been prepared for the occasion and the vast amount of detailed work that has gone into the planning. If the public responds in comparison to the amount of work that has gone into mak ing this event, then it will be an overwhelm ing success. There is no reason why the response should not be satisfactory. Haywood's Highway Safety Record Not Good Haywood's highway record for 1956 is not as good as it was this date last year. As this is being written, the reqord shows that three have been killed on Haywood highways this year, as compared with one last year; 49 in jured, as agaist 117 last year; accidents for 1956 have jumped to 112, as compared to 76 last year; while damages are up this year over $6,000. This is not an encouraging picture, but it is one that can well bring all of us to our senses in facing the growing trend that af fects the lives and pocketbooks of each of us. Maggie Civic Group Hard Pushers ? The newly organized Maggie Chamber of Commerce will soon have on its membership roll the names of some leading Americans, headed by President Eisenhower and fol lowed by Vice President Richard M. Nixon. The latter accepted the membership while on his recent trip to Haywood as Mrs. M. L. Sadler, Chamber president, presented it to him and in return was promised an auto graphed picture of the two top executives. The Maggie group are hard workers and are not leaving a stone unturned to keep their area before the public. VIEWS OF OTHER EDITORS Worst Of All ? Tipping! Worst of all, it Seems to me, is the custom of tipping. That, of course, is not an exclusively American practice; but nowhere does it make poor er sense It is in conflict with all our modern ideas of standard prices, of our traditions of equality vs servility, of our democratic Ideals of special privi lege \o none. A man has a service for sale. It is priced at so much. But, when the time comes to pay for it. you find you have been misled?you must pay the stated price, plus a tip. It is a plain case of mis representation. And tipping is spreading. Today, you not only tip the man who carries your bags into the hotel, the waitress who serves your meal; in the cities, you tip the barber, the taxi driver?you darn near tip "the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker " At a hotel recently, I ran into something I had heard about bu* never experienced The manage ment explains to its guests that there ia no tipping; instead. 10 per cent is added to your bill to cover what i* euphemistically referred to as "gratuities". I found myself asking: "Why in heck doesn't Uus hotel pay its help decent wages to start with? Why force me to pay for service I'm supposed to get and pay to get, and then pay the hotel's help besides?" But did I say that to file hotel management* I did sot! I was just as cowardly about this iniquitous practice as most Amartcana as Weimar Jonas in "Strictly Personal", Franklin Press. 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It-?. 5X0 E- BAfHfli B o* .-L'WI & tK h*% K ??>'* II ^ Rambling 'Round By Frances Gilbert Frazier While chatting with a lady visitor recently, we absorbed a w*hole some viewpoint to take on life. This lady was not beautiful nor was she a college graduate with degi'ees to her credit She was an uncommon person, though, for as she says: "The kind C reator gave me a sound body, a normal mind, willing hands and an interest in my fellow man." And her idea is to use these properties to the very beat advantage. Truly she has. for neighbors and friends in her-home town (Florldag can attest to the many kindly acts she contributes to every day living. She is an ardent church worker and carries her true Christian spirit wherever she goes. She attributes her happiness in life to being just what she is and not attempting to be anything else. She does not try to "keep up with the Joneses" unless she can be of some help as they go along. She stays abreast of the times and can talk interestingly of local and national events ol importance. Her maxim is: "Be what y?u ar^ naturally and try to impur e the product every day." Don't be discouraged over a few failures. Remember even a watch with a broken main spring, has the correet time twice every twenty-four hours. WHY CAN'T They think of an appropriate name for tire squealers? They invent a maxim silencer for motorcycles? They concoct a way to have election-* without using verbal sti - ettos? Thunder storms have a settled place instead of always being scattered? Automobiles park for conversational convenience next to t-l ? ? curb instead of across the sidewalk? Children be seen without being parentially applauded? Everybody appreciate the beauties of Nature? Monday morning be as acceptable as Friday night? Waynesville be along a big lake or wide river? Air conditioning be regulated by the United States Supreme Court? One word of praise be substituted for an entire sentence ? disapproval? Gossip is a virus whose germs have never been isolated. Views Of Other Editors NUCLEAR GRANITE? COOL, MAN We ought not to have been too surprised at the report from the atomic experts that the ordinary granite rock is capable of radiat ing an almost unlimited supply of energy. We got an inkling of it awhile back from a teenage party at pur house. We live on the side of a hill atop a pile of granite which the geologists say has been there since the late ice age and which the building contractor says is so fused together that it's best to leave the boulders in the base ment. They never bothered us much until somebody decided to hold a summer dance in the, cool of the cellar. Now, the teenagers around our house are very quiet and some what lethargic people and so. as the other parents tell us. are the neighboring teenagers When quietly at home. But plainly if you take enough teenagers to reach a critical mass, put them in a cellar underlined with uranium seeded granite and submit them to an electronic bombardment from a hi-fi set. the resulting vi bration will startle a Geiger counter. As for limitless energy, we don't know whether the source of it was the granite or the grama phone but we do know that it was still radiating long after we had passed our own limits. ?The Wall Street Journal 4*&&WASHINGT0N 1 MARCH OF EVENTS 'fort-Tim# President' May Be Demos' Crv Open Attack on Ike n* u.jiu n,.? # , _ m vll I IVMIIII W??S VW? Special to Central Press Association WASHINGTON?Democratic strategists are reluctant to hit too hard on the issue of President Eisenhower's health during the coming campaign for fear of antagonizing some voters. The Democratic onslaught may well be limited to the accusation of "part-time President," and the theme will be that Ike isn't devot ing enough time to his duties, not that he is disabled. Ex-President Harry S. Truman set this pattern recently. Other - - - - nartv leader* ft?* 1 t-hof f*-? *-? 1J?* ' President Eisenhower KT ? -V- vtiw pau'Uiac rrcsiuCHi charge is the only way the health issue* could be brought in by inference and in good taste. The Democrats are aware of the publia^bdon polls which show that a large bloc o^Bters might resent an open attack on Ike on the health issue as being shady politics. They realize that Mr. Eisenhower is tremend ously popular and that all efforts must be made to prevent any personal attack on him that could boomerang against the Democrats. This doesn't mean the Democrats won't wage a heated campaign. They will open up with heavy fire on the administration's record and Ike's delegation of work to his subordinates. The theme, as Truman put it, probably will be "I like Ike, but?." ? ? ? * # COUNTER-PLAN?The Republicans have developed a counter plan to frustrate the effect of the "part-time" charges. One indica tion of the GOP strategy came when the White House announced that Mr. Eisenhower would not take a vacation before the Repub lican national convention. Previously, the chief executive had planned to go to New England for a fishing trip, a less strenuous form of exercise than his favorite pastime, golf, which his physicians have forbidden him to play until about mid-August. However, GOP National Chairman Leonard W. Hall is said to have counseled that it would be "better psychology" if the Presi dent remainec . his VN hite House desk, with week-end trips to his Gettysburg farm to provide the necessary relaxation from his duties. Regardless of Mr. Eisenhower's great popularity, the Republican strategists considered these factors: 1?He was on vacation last Sept. 24 when he was stricken with his heart attack in Den\er. He spent the rest of the year con valescing. 2?After returning to the White House in Januarv he took a Georgia vacation in February; and after announcing his decision to run again, he went south for a golfing holiday in April '?His ileitis operation kept him away from the White House from June 8 until July 15. Thus, the GOP high command decided, any new absence from Washington might give ammunition to the "part-time" howlers. ? ? ? ? * ? RED CHINA AND THE l*N?House action in adopting a reso lution to reiterate the opposition of Congress to admitting Red China to the United Nations clearly Sionificant shows the concern felt on Capitol Hill about the Situation. Action By 2*1! reports that some The House State department quarters feel that the Chinese gain ?tr?ice to the world organization thie autumn? . This has aroused sharp suspicion in Congress Judd Senat* Republican Leader r Can * to keep up ? b __ -i