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In requesting chance of address, it is important to
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Entered at the postoffice at Boone, N. C? as
second class ' mail matter, undrr the act of
Congress of March 3, 1870.
TIm bud of our govern men t being the opinion of the
poople, Cho very first objective should be to keep that
right, and Were ft left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers, or newspapers
without government, I should out hesitate a moment to
chooee the latter. But I should mean that every man
should receive these papers and be capable of reading
them "? T*homas Jefferson.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951.
RURAL TELEPHONES
A campaign is now being launched in
Watauga county by the Skyline Telephone
Membership Corporation, seeking 575 people
in the western section of Watauga county,
who will sign on th? dotted line for tele
phone service under the co-op plan, and we
can think of no more worthy undertaking at
this time.
Good roads, electric lines, rural mail
roi< tea, and other conveniences have contri
buted mightily to the satisfaction- of living
on the farm, and have enhanced the wealth
of the people a great deal. Adequate tele
phone service would bring added conven
ience to our farm people, to the people of
Boone as well, and generally facilitate the
transaction of business, while contributing
to the social life of the region.
We believe that when the solicitors go
around, they will be able to readily find the
575 farmers who will sign the agreement,
and thus bring about an increased degree of
well-being in the rural areas of the county.
WAR DEADLINE NEXT YEAR
Leo M. theme, noted political and eco
nomical analyst, down at Pinehurst the oth
er day, told the members of the Southern
Furniture Manufacturers Association that
July 1952 is the deadline for World War III.
But that time, the speaker reasoned, the
allied forces will be and ready able to re
sist attack, and said war production here is
being stepped up with July 1952 the "read
iness goal."
The economist estimates the Russians
have seventy to one hundred missiles, while
the United States has four to seven times
that many, he guessed. However, only 100,
he said would be needed to wipe out United
States industry, while many more would be
required to paralyze the widely dispersed
Soviet industry.
With all this talking about when there's
going to be a war, we've been hoping that
the costly Korean campaign would be recog
nized by some soothsayer, who would in
turn give us some idea as to when that phase
of the Russo-American conflict might end. ,
HIGHER FARES
Those who still look to the railroads for
passage when they go journeying, will likely
be interested in the news that the ICC has
granted Southern railroads a 10 per cent in
crease in passenger fares, in answer to the
pleas of the carriers that they were neces
sary to enable the railroads "under honest
and efficient management to provide ade
quate and efficient service."
We had been of the opinion that high
rail fares had been the cause of the inroads
of the buses and airplanes, and to one whose
only experience in transportation comes from
buying tickets, it would seem that further
increases would move the rail lines even
farther from effective competition with tho
faster modes of passenger travel. A more
favorable schedule of fares, together with a
bit faster schedules might put some folks
back into those near empty cars which are
being hauled about over the country. High
er rates won't ever fill 'em.
BIBLE WEEK
National Bible Week is currently being
observed under the sponsorship of the Lay
men's National Committee, described as "a
non-sectarian, and non-profit organization
whose mission is to encourage belief and
faith in God, daily reading of the Bible and
religious education for all."
There is pretty general agreement in
this area, at least, that a thorough knowledge
of the Divine law is of paramount import
ance in the* days of global uncertainty and
ttix.
Walter H. Judd, National Chairman of
the Bible week, has this to say:
"Became American pioneers had a firm
belief in the spiritual fatherhood of ?od, they
put first in their scale of values the freedom
and dignity of individual man as a spiritual
being. A* a result ifitrir political system re
leased, for the first time, the creative capa
cities inherent iir men everywhere. . . . We
rhull not live victoriously, either as individ- j
uals or as a nation, except as we come to
know God and His eternal laws and love
through eternal searching of the Scriptures."
picked up . . .
HIGH WEST
By'Jt. Guy Swaringen in Hi? Column "Community
Comment," Stanly News and Prcw,
Albemarle, N. C.
Seems like riding uphill ? at lesst, more up
than down ? a* you go to Boone, by way of Salis
oury, and Statesville, and North Wiikesboro, and
all the little towns in between. And one* there,
it is plain to see the way ha* been uphill. The
elevation up between three thousand and four
thousand, and most any variation, depending on
which mountain you climb, or which gap you
descend into.
Riding with Bob Agle, the movie man from
Boone, one takes one's time, and gets there all
together. Bob is no racer. But at that, the legal
rated trip takes only three hours, and it's a won
der more people don't go oftener. For the town of
Soone has sunshine that can burn you red by day,
and nights that make you snuggle under blankets.
One man over there, a fertilizer salesman, said he
could breathe more air in Bonne. Of course, he
may not actually breathe more air, but it may be
better air. Anyway, this Mr. Jones and his wife
rent a house there each summer, and when she
isn't teaching in Statcsville, she is going to school
in Boone. These school teachers sure can take it!
First, Mr. Jones rented a house near Boone, with
a little creek along the back of the lot; wpnt out
early one morning, and caught eleven big moun
tain trout. Then fished as hard as he could the
rest of the summer, without another bite! And
fell and nearly broke a leg while trying.
The Aglet ? Bob, Margaret, Mollie, Bobbie,
Jimmle and Richard ? live about two blocks from
the Appalachian theater, and the Daniel Boone
hotel, get crick* in their necks from looking up
Howard's Knob, to the left, and can practically
?pit arroftA their front porch, the road, and onto
a farm that makes up their front yard. Owned
by a lady u 1 to be one of the best teachers in all
the junior grades, and farmed by a Mr. Austin,
who does his plowing with two fat horses, and
keeps his dog thin as a rail so it will be in fine
hunting fettle. You can look right over his house
to his barn, several feet higher up, and on above
that to cows grazing in the pasture. When they
start down to the barn, they have to trot down
hill, because their brakes won't hold them any
slower. Moilie, Bobbie and Jimmie Agle go to
school. Richard, aged four, goes to college. It's
a fact. Over there at the college they have a
nursery school, for the benefit of the students
who arc learning to teach, and they train a se
lect and fortunate dozen youngsters to do every
thing for themselves, using miniature equipment
built to fit their size. For instance, a small swim
ming pool, with warmed water, where they take
their daily swim, undressing and re-dressing
themselves; and doing a lot of other simple but
necessary things that many parents find it diffi
cult to teach many children. A fellow in nursery
school can start to grade school a year or two
later, and he won't have to begin by learning howj
to study; he will already know.
Riding up and down the Blue Ridge Parkway,
you notice how often you are not on a ridge, but
threading between still higher ridges. However,
there are moments. Moments when the hills
spread out on either side, or both, and you won
der how much land would be there if it were
smoothed and flattened. Not that it would be so
lovely as in this beginning of autumn, when the
little hills and the larger hills are just starting to
dress themselves in their coats of many colors.
Riding the ridges, you look far, far down, and
wonder who lives in this or that tiny homestead,
often with its thin thread of smoke climbing;
for the sun leaves the dwellers in the valleys ear
lier than it leaves the heights, and the chill of
evening falls. This Blue Ridge Parkway is one
road wjiere you read no commercial advertising,
only the signs put there for your guidance by the
builders ? signs which it is wise to observe and
obey, if you with to stay on the highway and out
of the gaps where you might easily plunge five
hundred or a thousand feet before' you stop, and
never know if you did. And no trucks. It is just
built ? or rather, is in building ? as part of the
nation's playground, and long my it survive!
Boone has no railroad, but the college has a
time-signal whistle that reminds of a train. Three
long warehouses hold their periodic tobacco auc
tions. Fields roundabout grow cabbages like
spaced row on row of soldiers, and apple orchards
spill their red fruit on the ground to rot unheeded
for lack of gatherers and markts. Heat for the
winter comes in countless truckloads across the
Tennessee and Virginia borders. And the hollows
teem with busy, friendly folks who have ever a
bright smile and kind word for the- stranger in
their midst.
SEEMS SOI
Even a woodpecker owes hi* success to the
fact that he uses his head. ? W. O. W. Magazine.
FEMALE GENIUS
i There an; three thin(s a woman can make
| out of nothing? a hat, o salad and a quarrel. ?
| Calgary Herald. '
UNLESS
Legally, the husband if head of the house and
the pedestrian has the right-of-way. Both hus
tiand and pedestrian are fairly safe unlets they
try to exercise their rights. ? Orlt.
EASY
Vacations are easy to plan: The boss tells you
when and the wife tells you where. ? Houghton
Line.
FIGHTIN' WORDS
Eight of any ten girls don't have the right
physical specifications, says a corset publication.
Those are fighting words to eight of any ten boys.
? Alexandria (Minn.) Echo.
IN BETWEEN
he knows why a strapless evening gown is held
A boy is at the in-between age in life when
up, but doesn't know how. ? Mobridge Tribune.
SILVER LINING
* For today's Infant, life it safer in counties*
ways. For example, with (110 worth of groceries
at present prices .it is well night impossible to
smother the baby in its go-cart ? From the Grand
Rapids (Mich.) Frets.
SHADOW ON THE WALL
DRAFT
eisenhower[
HEADQUARTERS I
Local Scouts Take
Part in Jubilee
LARRY KLUTZ. Scribe
Troop 98, B. S. A., participated
in the Old Hickory District Ju
bilee held at Rendezous Airport
in Elkin October 5. 6, 7. Six
scouts along with Mr. Jim Greene
made the trip. They were Mark
Hodges, Bill Edmisten, Dickie
Hunt, Phit McGuire, A. C. Farth
ing and Robert Rosenbalm. A
course in axmanship was offered
with eath Scout successfully pass
ing all requirements being
awarded a "Totin' Chip," a
badge to be worn on the Scout
uniforro designating that the
wearer has earned the right to
carry his axe and knife at his
side. In addition to the Scout
master, Bill Edmisten and Dickie
Hunt were awarded their "Totin'
Chin."
On Tuesday, October 9, Troop
98 were gueitg of their sponsors,
the Brotherhood of the First
Baptist Church. A fine dinner
was served. In return, Troop 98
entertained the brotherhood with
a short program on the activities
of the troop during the past year.
Highlight of the program was the
showing of colored pictures tak
KING STREET I
(Continued from page one.)
understand, but the food couldn't
have been any iqore delicious
than that consumed by the' news
men at th? Old Town Club,
where the Journal was the host
. . . The long trip through the
cheering crowds . . . The large
numbers of colored folks who of
fered their respects, and the
largest flag seen flying from the
home of a negro.
? ? ?
"THE. PRESID^JIT looks
better to me ? much better ?
dose up, in the flesh, than in
the newsreels or the tr . . .
He's a vibrant 'whole-souled
gray-pated man. radiating good
health and vigor, and one is
impressed by his apparent sin
cerity and friendliness . . . The
Executive, one of the country' 1
best dressers, wore a blue suit,
blue tie. and black shoes, and
turned over the dirt for the
start of Wake Forest's new col
lege. with a skill acquired on
a Missouri farm . . . He obli
gingly spaded up dome mere ?
of the red soil, when a news
man wanted a better shot . . .
He's quite a guy. this "man
from Independence." and while
you may not agree with him,
it's a kick to see him . . . and
to speak to him . . . And he's
en on the Washington trip in
which the troops from Boone par
ticipated. Plans were discussed to
build an addition to the present
Scout hut which is too small to
accomodate the three troops in
Boone.
not likely, to moil of tli* folki
felt to b* nit to dkpUc* come
next election timet"
"American agriculture and
American industry are integral
parta of a powerful team. Neither
can function effectively without
"continued help from the other,"
lays Secretary of Agriculture
Charles F. Brannan.
Cost of boll weevil application^
in North Carolina thu year rang"
ed from $8 to *20 per acre for
the season.
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Phone 17 Boone, N. C.