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Entered as Second Class Matter September 13, 1945, at the
Post Office in Black Mountain North Carolina, under the Act
of March 3, 1879
The People Have Spoken!
The people have spoken. Indications are
that when final tabulations are in more than
55,000,000 Americans will have had a choice
through the ballot box of choosing the nation
al leaders for the next four years. Of the
electoral votes Eisenhower will receive a
great majority. The popular vote was closer.
Be that as it may, whether we like it or
not, the people have elected Eisenhower and
he will be inaugurated as President on Jan.
20.
The two candidates, Eisenhower and Stev
enson are two of the highest type men to
run for the Presidency in many years, but
the campaign, through no fault of their own,
developed into a dog-eat-dog match with noth
ing barred, not even the strangle hold and
gouging.
It was the dirtiest campaign, with more
mud slinging than has been seen in many
years.
How much effect did this type of campaign
ing have on the outcome?
The NEWS believes very little. We have
yet to find a person who believed, truly, that
either man was a Communist, that he had set
out to wreck the country, that he stood for
or approved of Reds in government, or would
like to make the United States subservient
to a foreign power.
All of these arguments may have influenced
a few voters, but they were mighty scarce
around Black Mountain.
What, then, is the answer? How much ef
fect did the support of Truman have on
bringing about Stevenson’s defeat? What
about corruption in government? Korea?
High taxes? Charges of waste in govern
ment? The five percenters? And dozens of
other subjects we heard discussed and redis
cussed?
Although reams of copy will be written, ana
newspapers and books will be published on
the subject, no one will ever know for cer
tain why the American people swept ouf of
office the party in power when the prosperity
of the nation was at an all-time high, when
personal incomes were hitting new peaks
with each new quarter.
“It’s time for a change,” the opposition
said. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t, but
after 20 years the spell has been broken and
come January next year a new administration
will take over the powers of government.
Facing the new President will be the same
problems that have given Mr. Truman many
sleepless nights for the past four years. Much
is expected of President Eisenhower who
comes into office when the United States and
the free world are opposed by the most pow
erful foe in all history. He finds us engaged
in a war which we are neither able to win
nor to lose without spreading the fighting to
a much wider area. Indications are that the
people will expect him to clean up the mess,
as they did Truman, without actually engag
ing in an open war. We can’t have our cake
and eat it too. What do we want?
We expect and we want him to be President
of all the people, not just the industrial
areas which gave him his margin of victory.
Failure of the large cities, which usually go
heavily Democratic, to follow party lines,
cost Stevenson the election. Eisenhower
cracked the traditionally solid South but many
states below the Mason Dixon line failed to
go with the tide and ran true to form.
The South has made more progress in the
past 20 years than in the century before
Let us hope that the time will never come
when we will have cause for regret.
This Could Be Their Last!
Black Mountain and Swannanoa will meet
here Friday afternoon for what may well
be the most important game of the year for
both schools.
Each will be trying to keep alive a winning
streak and claim a share of the county crown.
Both the Warriors and Darkhorses have run
over some of the best teams in this section
during the season, and will be attempting
to keep the record clean.
But the game has another very great
significance which many may not realize.
Since the teams play on a home and home
basis next year’s game will be played at
Swannanoa. By 1954, according to present
plans, the new consolidated high school will
be ready and the two teams will become one
Thus, this could be the final game to b€
played here between Black Mountain anc
Swannanoa on the football field.
For this final game it is fitting that both
teams should rank with the best fielded by
either school for many years. It’ll be home
coming for Black Mountain and graduates
and former students are expected back from
far and near to help in the observance.
Win, lose, or draw, in this final game it
has been a wonderful season for both schools.
Congratulations.
111113
Raleigh
Round-up
i f:
Predictions — Now that the
election is over, let’s take a look
at some predictions which were
made on the outcome in North
Carolina. These have been served
up to us during the past few
days—and should make interest
ing conversation as they are com
pared with the actual vote.
First of all, there is Lynn Nis
bet, pipe-smoking Raleigh re
porter for the afternoon news
papers. He was one of the few
scribes in North Carolina, or any
where else for that matter, who
predicted that Harry Truman
would win in 1948.
Size — Here was his forecast
last Friday as to the size of the
vote:
“First of all, there will be the
biggest vote ever cast in a state
election, going well above the
record of 839,435 in 1936 and far
beyond the 793,209 of four years
ago. The heavy registration re
ported during the past month and
interest manifested at political
meetings throughout the state in
dicate a total vote in excess of
900,000. It will be nearer a mill
ion, if the physical facilities at
the 2,036 voting precincts can
accommodate all the people who
want to vote.”
So said Nisbet with regard to
the SIZE of the vote. Now check
with your paper and see how his
prediction stands up against the
facts.
Another Nisbet statement:
“Chanc' s are there will be many
precincts with unserved waiting
lines when the polls close at 6:30
Tuesday night.”
125,000 To 150,000 — Nisbet
said that Stevenson would win
over Eisenhower for President
by about 15 per cent of the total
vote, the margin to be 125,000
to 150,000.
State Auditor Henry Bridges
guessed last week that Stevenson
would carry' the state by 300,000
votes. With that statement, Bridges
put himself out in front as to
the margin of Adlai Stevenson’s
victory in North Carolina.
Attorney General Harry Me
Mullan figured the Stevenson lead
would be around 10 per cent—
or approximately 100,000 votes
out of a total North Carolina vote
of close to a million.
Assistant Budget Director Dave
Coltrane, who is still around and
doing a good job despite blasts
and efforts to fire him by Gov.
Kerr Scott, as of last Friday
thought the state vote would run
around 60-40 for Stevenson over
Eisenhower. He was worried about
Stevenson on the national front.
A Certainty — One thing is
sure: Adlai Stevenson was praised,
hallowed, and all but sainted by
the political leaders who toured
North Carolina this fall. We re
fer, of course, to the Democratic
warhorses.
How different from 1948: In
that year, Harry Truman was
hardly mentioned by anybody.
Democratic Nominee Kerr Scott
finally got around to whispering
his name just before the election.
Otherwise, he was dead as a dodo
in Scott’s speeches and very much
the forgotten man. Why? Because
we were all sure that Truman
could not win. Might as well ad
mit it.
This year — because of what
happened in 1948—we have not
been ashamed of our Presidential
nominee. Mainly, however, the
Democrats have thought he stood
at least a 50-50 chance; and so
he has been plugged vigorously
by the speechmakers.
More Money — As a usual
thing, the big money tossed around
in political maneuverings in North
Carolina comes during the spring
as the Democrats square off for
the primary.
Every four years—and some
times in between—we do every
thing we can to kill off each other
in the Democratic Party here in
this state. The blasts which Hu
bert Olive’s camp threw at Good
Democrat William F. Umstead,
and vice versa, were something
to behold and much worse than
anything the Republicans have
said about Mr. Umstead.
We don’t recall, however, when
as much money was available on
both sides as this fall.
First and last, and including
the primary which led up to the
General Election, those millior
votes expected Tuesday cost up
wards of $1.00 per vote.
Another Christmas — In one
of his books, Thomas Wolfe wrote
something about how Octobei
Roams The Land.
Christmas is a lot that way; oi
is getting that way.
According to a survey com
pleted last week by the N. C
Merchants association, we fine
that the Christmas seasor
begins in Morehead Citj
on Nov. 3. The season roam:
from town to town up the state
beginning in most places on Nov
28. In Forest City, for instance
the Christmas season opens oi
Nov. 20; in Raleigh on Nov. 20
in Roanoke Rapids on Dec. 3; ir
Taylorsville on Dec. 5; in Albe
marie on Dec. 1, etc. Christmas
is a local thing; and there is n(
effort at uniformity, except thai
the day falls on Dec. 25. Other
LETTERS TO THE EDITOI
Star Route,
Black Mountain, N. €.
Broad River Township.
Mrs. Ann Hubbard, Membership
Chairman Elementary School
P.T.A.
Dear Mrs. Hubbard:
As an ex-Teacher of the Rural
schools of Broad River Township,
am enclosing 25c to show my in
interest in the children of my com
munity.
I am old, past 70. It would not
be physically possible for me to
attend your meetings and tak<
part, stiU I am a well wisher foi
our schools.
This bulletin was brought to m<
by Diantha Vess, 5th grade stu
dent.
My interest stems back to 1901
when Diantha’s grandfather wa:
my pupil, and my last school ir
1923 numbered Diantha’s mother
Hope you will accept the 25<
and just consider me a friend o:
the children.
Sincerely yours,
MRS. BESSIE LEE ELLIOTT
Adopting Child Is Complicated Matter For Kj
By Ed Rankin
Greensbore, N. C., Nov. 1—
Have you been thinking about
adopting a child? Maybe you have
relatives and friends who have
been giving this serious consid
eration.
If so. you or your friends are
in need of expert advice, because
the adoption of a child is a com
plicated matter these days. A
sensible approach to adoption can
result in unbounded happiness foi
new parents and the child given
into their care. Hasty or ill-ad
vised adoption methods often
bring heartache and possible legal
difficulties to childless couples
who act before they think.
Take the word of an expert,
Harriet L. Tvnes, executive di
rector of the Children s Home
Societv of North Carolina, you
should deal only with a qualified
adoption agency in taking such
an important step. The Children’s
Home Society is a volunteer, non
governmental agency which has
served over 5,000 homeless child
ren in North Carolina since 1917.
Miss Tynes. a soft-spoken social
work who has directed the activ
ities of the agency since 1944,
has shared in hundreds of these
adoption cases. She has advised,
assisted and encouraged childless
couples across North Carolina in
their efforts to have their own
family.
The demand for adoptive child
ren is so great today that an
actual “black market in babies”
exists, Miss Tynes warns, and
there is evidence that operators
of so-called adoption agencies are
doing business in North Carolina.
These unscrupulous people have
found that there is big money
in “selling” babies to unwary
couples who let their fervent and
honest desire for a child run
away, with their judgement and
common sense. Then there is al
ways the well-meaning but unin
formed “amateur” who frequently
tries to do a good turn for a
childless couple by handling the
“arrangements” between the
mother of a child born out of
wedlock, for example, and the
new parents. Both sources for
babies can be dangerous, the
Children’s Home director asserted.
“If you are seriously interested
in adopting a child, go to a thor
oughly qualified children’s agency
and tell them of your desire,”
she declared. “Choose an adoption
agency with the same care that
you choose a family doctor or
family lawyer.”
Is the agency fully licensed?
(A qualified agency always com
plies with all state, federal and
local laws.) Does it place child
ren near blood relatives? (This
is NEVER done by a good
agency.) Does it do a considerable
volume of adoption work? Has il
an established background in the
field of adoption? (Make sure the
agency is not a fly-by-night.) Will
it permit trial placements oi
children previously unknown tc
the adoptive parents? (This vio
lates every sound principle oi
modern adoption procedures.!
Does it maintain complete records
on each case? (Every reputable
agency does.) These are all tests
to apply to prospective adoptior
agencies.
POET’S CORNER
Conducted by Anne K. Sharp,
Chairman, Creative Writing Club
KNOWLEDGE
I only know the robin brings
A breath of spring
When first he sings.
I only know a tulip bright
From winter’s grey,
A lovely sight.
I only know the first green tree
A wealth of joy
Enriches me.
I only know a baby’s kiss,
I’d poorer be
Were I to miss.
' For knowledge more, I do not
care,
But such as this
L I gladly share.
; —Peggy Kyle, New Bern
branch, Pen Women.
Our Creative Writing club finds
» that by exchanging poems with
; other groups it broadens our
1 friendships and spurs us on to
‘ even greater accomplishments.
; wise, the season is determined
5 locally and is more or less adapted
r to local conditions and habits.
One significant note: trend to
ward later openings for the
Christmas shopping season. Ob
servance of Christmas seems to
be getting more reverent and in
• better taste — thanks to our
1 merchants associations and cham
1 bers of commerce,
j Notes — See how the Repub
licans of Moore county have made
.’ a Little White House available to
Ike and Mamie in Moore. Pres
j entation was made last week to
. counter the Moore County Little
’ White House owned by Adlai
Stevenson’s sister, Mrs. Ernest
j Ives. Haw!
} Did you notice that bank clear
, ings in Charlotte during October
, ran to a whopping $606,690,585,
_ 88? Set a record!
Well, one thing; North Caro
| lina teams will not be bothered
^ with bowl bids come December.
Sale of season tickets to State
= college basketball games began
r Monday. Season opens on Dec. 2.
The Advisory Budget commis
s sion, political engagements laid
- aside for a season, returns to
Raleigh on Thursday, Nov. 6, to
3 resume its discussions on budget
s ary recommendations for the 1953
i legislature.
We were unable to find a Dem
c ocrat here last week who thought
{ a single Republican would win a
congressional seat. Close, yes,
they said, but with the Democrats
emerging the victors.
The Children’s Home executive
pointed out that a qualified child
ren’s agency will have a working
arrangement with competent ped
iatricians and lawyers who can
advise on medical and legal prob
lems involved in every adoption
case. This is your guarantee that
you will know the exact state of
the child's health and that the
adoption complies in full with
all legal requirements. These are
factors which you can never be
sure about when you deal with
unqualified adoption agencies or
bumbling friends or acquaintances
who have no knowledge or train
ing in this field.
“Once your decision is made,
and you have selected your
agency,” she continued. “be
guided by their advice in how to
adopt a child. You and the agency
need to know each other extreme
ly well. The agency will want to
know your background, your
health, your ability to support a
child, your attitudes toward the
growth and development of a
sound child, and many, many other
details. All of this information
is necessary in finding the right
child for the right parents.”
At the Children's Home, where
the aim is “a home for the child
who needs a home and a child for
the home which needs a child.’’
trained and experienced social
workers take a personal interest
in the application of every couple
for a child. A case worker is as
signed to get to know each ap
plicant and to follow through in
all the details of the adoption.
Meanwhile, every incoming infant
receives a complete physical ex
animation and is tested by skilled
psychologists to find whether the
child has normal average intell
igence for its age. A complete
case history is prepared, giving
all available information on fam
ily background and possible hered
itary traits.
By the time the Children's Home
Society decides that it has the
right child for the right parents,
the couple selected is asked to
come to Greensboro where the
Children’s Home Society nursery
is located in a large, rambling
home. This is a tense and excit
ing moment for the prospective
parents. To some extent, they
show the same anxiety, the same
trembling eagerness and the same
tenderness as natural parents
when shown their first infant at
the hospital. It is always a policy
of the Children’s Home Society
to leave the prospective parents
and the child in a room alone
when they first meet so that the
couple can decide for themselves
under no pressure or outside in
fluence whether this will be their
own child. It is extremely rare
to find a couple deciding against
taking the child they are shown.
This is a tribute to the meticulous
and personal care with which the
Society workers have studied the
background of the infant and the
background of the couple. It is
also a tribute to the thousands
of young couples throughout
North Carolina, unable for one
reason or another to have child
ren. who long with all their hearts
to give their loving care and at
tention to someone else’s home
less or orphaned child.
wnen mt- wup*v --
child, the baby’s layette is ready
and the new parents can take
their little boy or little girl home
immediately, it generally takes 12
to 15 months lor formal and
legal adoption procedures to be
completed in North Carolina. The
Children's Home case workers
keep in close touch with the pat
ents during this period and are
always available for advice and
assistance in any problems that
may arise. Since the Children s
Home is a licensed and fully
authorized adoption agency, there
is never a question of losing the
infant through legal action of the
natural relatives. The Children’s
Home Society never releases an
infant until it has full legal cus
tody of the child.
This is one of the pitfalls of
hasty adoption procedures. Miss
Tynes pointed "out that in North
Carolina the laws allow the
natural mother of a child to
change her mind in the matter
of whether or not she wants to
keep her child anytime within
the first six months after the birth
of the child. Regardless what
agreement the mother may have
signed before or after birth of
the child, this would be null and
void if the mother decided to
take her child back within the
first six months. In the case of
the Children’s Home Society, its
charter from the Legislature en
ables it to keep the child only
one month before it can have
full legal custody of the infant.
The demand for adoptive child
rcn in North Carolina continues
to grow. At the present time there
at the Children’s Home' in] M
fortunately, the period oi ir I
time is increasing. Kaeilit I
the Home are limited whii ;'l
plications for children an> °i I
ing the Society's files ,s, "l!i
now should expect to
least 15 months from the "f S!
inquiry until it can receive
child, and it may take longer u, 1
this. * ’N
“Regardless of the waiting
iod and the very natural
for a child,” Miss Tynes sniti -
is far better for a couple tn a'1
with a qualified agency and f H
low correct procedures rather h
take hasty action and fiirt
the tragic results which imv ,
low.” 3 fo>
I
This advice comes from
adoption expert who knows fr
experience that the slow wav a0!$.
the legal way is always the be I
means of adopting a child. j
(The anual campaign for f„nd
to support the volunteer, nJ|
governmental Children’s
Society of North Carolina is J
underway. The Society receive
no tax funds, gives its .servjCe!
free to all, and exists entirely o
voluntary gifts. During the pJ
49 years it has served over sooo
homeless or orphaned babies i
North Carolina. If you want
help the Society expand its se'’
vices to help additional union,
unate children, contribution*. caj
be mailed to the Children's Home
Society of North Carolina. 745
Chestnut Street, Greensboro
C. All contributions can be 4
ducted from federal income taxes
Tryon Lowers Seasonal Barriers And
Attracts Vacationists Year Around
Tryon, resort community in
North Carolina’s mountain-ringed
Thermal Belt, is pushing back
the barriers between “seasons
and attracting vacationists in the
auturftn, mid-winter and summer
as well as during its traditionally
popular spring.
The Thermal Belt is a peculiar
atmospheric condition that tempers
both winter and summer, and
makes autumn and spring very
long. Scenery around Tryon. near
the southernmost Appalachians, in
cludes rolling farm and hunt
country, bubbling mountains
streams and waterfalls, and sharp
blue peaks such as those of Tryon
and Warrior Mountains. The aut
umn coloring IS laier man m
areas of comparable altitude, fre
quently lasting until mid-Novem
ber, when the sourwoods, dog
woods, oaks, maples, and hickorys
blanket the slopes with red and
yellow. Giant white pines, box
woods, spruce, and red-berried
holly provide green for the winter.
In the spring, Tryon’s dogwood
and laurel turn the hillsides to
pink and white, and wildflowers
bloom in great profusion along
the bridle paths w'hich extend for
many miles south and east of the
village. Lake i,anier, with a sur
rounding cottage colony, is ideal
for boating and swimming in sum
mer.
George Cooksey, president of
the Tryon Chamber of Commerce,
says that increasing numbers of
Tryon’s seasonal visitors are either
staying the year around or spend
ing as much time as possible at
their homes here no matter what
the time of year. Cooksey, who
with Miss Clara Edwards is co
owner and manager of the 85
year-old Oak Hall hotel, put the
big white inn on a year-around
basis of operation four years ago.
Today the hotel attracts “Amer
ican plan” guests all year, together
with dining room patronage from
business, club and social groups
from the cities of Rutherfordton,
Spartanburg, Greenville and
Shelby.
Described as a place “where
people retire to do things,” Tryon
has none of the inertia some
times associated with communit
ies attracting retired people. Its
colony of retired executives have
turned their energies to equestrian
sports, hobbis, community better
ment and small local businesses.
And their homes and farms, from
simple cottages to elaborate
estates, reflect their interest in
landscape design, horticulture, and
animal husbandry.
Many year-around residents of
Tryon work in Rutherfordton or
Spartanburg; others are assoc
iated with the thriving industrial
plants located in and around the
village. There are still others who
are officially “in residence” at
Tryon most of the year and com
mute by plane or train to their
offices in northern or mid-western
cities.
Late autumn finds the Tryon
Riding and Hunt club and the
famous Tryon Hounds beginning
a season of sport which extends
through the winter and officially
closes with a round of horse
shows, gymkhanas and the famous
Block House steeplechase in April.
Herbert S. Thatcher, retired tex
tile executive who has been secre
tary of the Riding and Hunt club
for 10 years, points out that Tryon
appeals to those who like leisurely
rides along scenic trails as well
as fox hunters who enjoy the
challenge of T-yon’s incomparable
hunting country. There are three
good stables operated by the well
known horseman J. Arthur Rey
nolds, as well as many privately
owned pleasure horses and
hunters. Even those who follow
the hounds can ride around the
big jumps if they wish.
The Tryon Country club is open
all year, its nine hole golf course
and tennis courts kept in excel
lent condition at every season and
its swimming pool popular in
summer.
Many of the inns and cottages -
remain open from October through
May, or even the year around, and
there are also apartments and
guest homes open for that long
a season or year around. The inn
dining rooms offer excellent food.
Artists, writers handicrafters,
musicians and actors have long
found congenial surroundings in
Tryon, many maintaining homes
here. Sidney Lanier, F. Scott Fitz
gerald, Margaret Culkin Banning,
H. V. Kaltenbom, John Burroughs,
William Gillette and Donald Cul
ross Peattie are but a few of the
famous personalities who have dis
covered Tryon as a place for both
work and relaxation.
Tryon grapes, famous the world
over, are still grown on the sunny
slopes of Big and Little Warrior
Mountains, but at present the sup
ply scarcely meets the demand
for table grapes, and the old
wineries are not being commer
cially operated.
The village of Tryon has un
usually varied shops and goods
for a community of 2,000. You
can buy everything from today’s
New York Times to tweeds
leather goods direct from Eng
land; from imported herbs to
baskets woven by the mountai;
people. There are many beautifj
churches, good schools, the Lam»
Library, a hospital, and a varie;
of civic clubs. Seth Vining hi
successfully published the Dai!
Bulletin as the “world’s smalls
daily” since 1928. I
Transportation to and froj
Tryon is facilitated by good high
ways and direct rail service t(
northern and southern points
Within a few hours’ drive are the
rugged peaks of th£ Great Smok
ies, the mountain metropolis of
Asheville, the neighboring sum
mer resorts of Flat Rock. Saluda
and Henersonville, and the v;mtCT
resorts of Southern Pines and Pine
hurst.
Swannanoa
Residents
The students of the Swam
nanoa school will begin next
week a circulation campaign to
raise funds for use of the indi
vidual rooms.
Watch the Neivs next week for
further and more detailed in
formation.