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BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1963
Incredible Hatred
There will always be contentions
and ill-will, it would appear, between
some segments of the human race,
and there will also be degrees of
segregation, not alone by color
necessarily, but between groups in
all race categories, based on cul
tural attainment, on economic ac
complishment, and on individual
preference. But from where we sit
we can't understand why so much
hatred and bitterness should de
velop in the civil rights controversy
? so much so, in fact, that four
young Negro girls should have been
blasted into eternity while they were
going about their worship of the God
of us all, in their own church in
Birmingham Sunday. This act of un
precedented hatred and violence
triggered the death of two more
young Negroes the same day.
In a nearby church, attended only
by whites, the minister announced
the tragic crime, and asked that
tho6e concerned come to the altar
rail and pray. All of the more than
five hundred responded.
As in the case with all crimes,
this act was not committed by the
better element of Birmingham's cit
izenry, no matter how much they
may be opposed to intergration, but
rather by elements of what has been
traditionally known as "white trash"
in the South. However, it no less
reflects on all people, to the extent
that no man, from any region, should
be expected to reach the degree of
depravity necessary to perform such
a heinous act against civilization
itself.
Whenever people can't be secure
in their churches and in their homes
in this citadel of culture, there's
something rotten. We deplore the
death of these children, and would
suggest that those enemies of their
race who perpetrated this dastardly
crime, have unwittingly given added
impetus to the civil rights move
ment. We shall hope that when they
are apprehended, they pay the su
preme penalty.
Parents Can Help Student Record
Most young people, like most
adults, rarely operate at full capa
city, but parents can take steps to
help the child who is classed by edu
cators as an "underachiever," ac
cording to Changing Times, the Kip
linger Magazine.
An article in the inagfclMe state*
that about half of all' able boys and
a quarter of all able girls are in this
category ? bright youngsters whose
marks show they are hot doing as
well as they should.
"Lack of interest in school, rebel
lion, frustration and personal psy
chological problems are causes of
underachievement," the article con
tinues. "So are unsympathetic teach
ers and unsympathetic parents. Boys
ne?d approval from their fathers
plus the knowledge that their fathers
respect education. They need to
gain independence from their mo
thers. Girls need expressions of love
from their fathers, and mothers who
are not dominating and not dissatis
fied with their role as wife and
mother."
In boys, the tendency toward un
der achievement shows up as early
as the first grade and usually is
pretty clear by the third or fourth,
according to Changing Times. Girls
aren't generally spotted until the
sixth grade. "Though many an un
derachiever appears to be sailing
blithely along, most ar? deeply con
cerned about failure and are disap
pointed in themselves, their teachers
and their paredts," the article notes.
"They know they could be doing bet
ter but don't know why they ahould
or how to get tbemaelvea to make
the effort."
Trees Vital To Parks
Since more than seventy millions
of people will have visited our Na
tional parks before the current year
is ended, we are reminded, that to
keep our parks in top condition, a
tremendous amount of behind-the
scenes work is done by foresters and
other personnel of the National Park
Service.
With these millions of people
coming to tht parks every year for
a picnic, a week of camping, or to
feast their eyes on the beautiful
scenery, we are reminded that trees
art an important ingredient in the
over-all value of these National areas
or recreation. And one of the big
jobs of Forest Service personnel is
guarding the forests against fires.
The trees, too, fall prey sometimes
to insects and diseases, which actu
ally are said to kill seven times as
many trees as forest fires. Foresters,
we are told, use a variety of cultural
practices and chemicals to hold this
damage to a minimum.
Chemicals, of course, are being
used by others than Park Service
personnel to control insects, such as
ticks and mosquitoes, and to keep
ponds and waterways free of weeds.
Foresters and scientists in govern
ment and industry are working to
keep our national forest resources
in top condition for the public ben
efit.
Visitors to wooded areas, whether
in the Parks or not, are asked to be
careful with fire when they visit the
painted forests this fall.
NEW YORK TIMES
On Pleasure Bent
This age of ours, as we are tempted
to thiDk at this season, may be remem
bered not because it invented the flying
machine and atomized the atom but be
cause it developed and universalized the
vacation. Let the toiling millions broil
ing on beaches, breathing gasoline fumei
on our magnificent highways, struggling
up mountains, gorging themselves on lob
sters and hot dogs ? let them reflect that
this would have been impossible ? cen
tury ago.
Who invented the vacation? The En
glish, no doubt, after perfecting the
steam engine and the spinning jenny. At
first it was for students and scholars,
whose delicate brains could not stand
12 months of incessant exercise. It waa
for the upper classes. It was for the lily
handed. Now all of ua have it. It is
written into contracts of employment,
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don't are thought peculiar. People say
they should have their heads examined.
Vacations were once bourgeois. Now
the Russians have them, only they call
them Culture and Rest. If the mainland
Chinese don't have them they soon will. . .
Travelers tell us that a European, Latin
American or Antipodean vacation is no
different from our own, except in the
languages used and In details of diet
People on vacation the world around wear
funny clothe* and art inconceivably silly.
The young make love. The elderly play
childish games. Some lay, when ma
chines do all the work, life will be
for everybody one long vacation
Meanwhile, vacations always end. And
somehow, a a we poor back Into our homes,
they give the old routine a new charm,
they make work seem almost alluring.
We can relax. We can stand erect. We
mt# no lopflwr Oft pltmwrt boot*
Congress Is Giving Teacher A Hard Time
From Early Democrat Files
Sixty Years Ago
?eptenber 18, IMS.
W. R. Lovill has complete^
a new road to his Jones farm
from the Silverstone side, and
he reports an exceedingly good
grade, for a mountain road.
John S. Williams, who is
teaching on Elk, was in town
Monday. He has discontinued
his school for a period of two
weeks, the foddering season.
Rev. L. C. Wilson will fill
his regular appointments at the
Baptist church in Boone next
Sunday at 11 a. m. and at night.
Mrs. Leah Dougherty of
Russelville, Tenn., is visiting
relatives here.
T. J. Sullivan is repainting
the pretty residence of J. F.
Hardin in East Boone.
Attorney Frank A. Linney
and wife spent a part of last
week in Jefferson.
Mrs. Frank Norris of Soda
Hill is visiting her parents in
Boone.
Miss Edna Holsclaw of Vilas,
has returned to Davenport Col
lege.
Mr. R. K. Bryan, who has
spent several years in the west,
spent Sunday and Monday of
this week with his parents here,
leaving Tuesday for Jackson
ville, Fla. He has succeeded
well, is in the best of health,
and we were all glad to see
him again.
Messrs. Roy Brown, Jerry
Day, 0. L. Hardin, Henry Perry,
Romy Storle and L. E. Farth
ing, six of Watauga's brightest
men, have entered the Univer
sity of North Carolina it being
the second term for Messrs,
Farthing, Perry and Brown.
Dr. Jones was thrown from
? cart on Friday evening last,
and as a result is the possessor
of a very lame shoulder. He has
been keeping up his practice
just as if nothing had happen
ed.
Mr. T. F. Coffey and wife of
Manning, S. C., who have spent
the summer here, left for their
southern home last Monday.
B. S. Dugger has returned
from Tenn., and opened a nice
stock of goods near his home at
Vilas.
Thirty-Nine Years Ago
September It, 1984.
Mrs. S. C. Eggers is visiting
relatives and friends in the
Sutherland section this week.
Miss Lucy Ray, attractive
little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
F. M. Ray of Tayloria, Pa. has
been spending several days here
with her cousin, Miss Pauline
McGhee. She left for her home
Friday of last week.
Miss Virginia Councill, teach
er in the consolidated school
at Banner Elk spent Sunday
with her parents Mr. and Mrs.
J. D. Councill in Boone. The
young lady is highly pleased
with her position and speaks
favorably of the good people
of that delightful section.
Mrs. Mary Graybeal, wife of
Dr. Avery Graybeal of Grassy
Creek, Ashe county, With her
two handsome sons, has been
a visitor at the home of her
mother, Mrs. J. M. Payne. The
doctor is expected up the last
of the week for his family.
Just One Thing
By CARL GOERCH
There has been some specu
lation over the years as to the
origin of the State motto, "Esse
quam videri."
Francis Paschal, loyal alum
nus of Wake Forest College, has
this to say on the subject and
he may be right.
"I think it probable that the
Philomathesian Society of Wake
Forest was the agency directly
responsible for the adoption of
the State motto.
"Since 1833 these words ?
'Esse quam videri* ? have been
the motto of th? society. In
those days there was a much
wider interest in such organiza
tions, so it is only natural that
the motto should have become
generally known.
"Of course, the words were
not original with the society, M
you probably know without my
telling you. Aeschylus, the
Greek poet, had exactly the
same idea in his works, and
also the Roman historian, Sal
lust. In his 'The War with Cat
aline.' Iiv, in speaking of Cato,
has the identical words: 'Esse
quam videri bonus malebat.'
The General Assembly of
18S3 adopted the words as the
State's motto and directed that
theae words, with the date ^0
May, 1779' should be placed
with our coat of arms upon the
Great Seal of North Carolina.
"Nearly every state has
adopted a motto, generally in
Latin. The reason for their
mottoes being in Latin is that
the Latin tongue is far more
condensed and terse than the
English. The three words,
'Eaae quam videri' requires at
least six English words to ex
press the same idea."
And in case you don't know
your Latin, the translation of
the State motto is "To be rather
than to seem."
Mr. Ed Kanipe of Asheville
calls our attention to the fol
lowing bit of Interesting infer
DftfttiOD*
AFTER ANOTHER
"During the 1887 session of
the Legislature in Raleigh, State
Senator James Hyatt, Yancey
County, introduced the first bill
in the state favoring woman
suffrage. The members of the
Senate voted to have the bill
referred to the Committee on
Insane Institutions."
We often think that we know
where every town and village
in North Carolina is located
and then something happens
which shows up our ignorance.
For instance, the other day
we received a letter from Ed
win Pate. On this letterhead it
stated that Z. V. Pate, Inc.,
operates stores at Gibson, Lau
rel Hill, Osborne and Purvis,
N. C. We certainly drew a blank
on Osborne and Purvis.
The town of Marshall, 'way
up in the western part of the
State, has many individual
characteristics, but we believe
that the outstanding one is its
high school building. So far as
we know, the Marshall High
School is the only school in
the State that is located in the
middle of a rivef.
As the various candidates an
nounce for governor, tb be nom
inated in the primary next
spring, we couldn't help think
ing of the way it was done in
the good old days. The Demo
crats got together in convention
and nominated the man they
wanted to represent them in the
election.
The convention system of
nominating Democratic candi
dates for Governor continued
through 1912. However, In that
year, Craig had no opposition,
so he was merely certified by
the convention as the Demo
cratic candidate. In his address
to the Legislature in January,
101S, be strongly recommended
the primary system for nomi
nating'- Governors.
Mr. Roby Adams hai almost
completed his new home in the
Buena Vista addition. The fam
ily will 100a move in to get the
children in school but we take
it that Mr. Adams will spend
much of his time on his farm
a few miles out.
Mr. L. L. Bingham, who for
a number of months has been
with the Peoples Bank ft Trust
Co. has resigned and taken a
position with the Ward Chevro
let Co., as bookkeeper.
Miss Ruth, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. D. J. Cottrell is off to
Winston-Salem where she will
take a course in a business col
lege in that city. Ruth is a gra
duate of the A.T.S., full of en
ergy and she may be depended
upon to make good in her un
dertaking.
Mr. and Mrs. Don J. Horton
have returned from quite an
extended visit to Farrell, Pa.
and Cleveland, Ohio.
Born last Sunday night to
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Mast, a lively
boy. Jim's "hello" has a tre
mendous ring in it now.
Fifteen Yean Ago
Sept. 16, 1948.
Sgt. John W. Winkler, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Winkler
Boone is now serving with
the Osaka Military Government
team in Osaka, Honshu, Japan.
Sgt. Winkler entered the army
In February IMS, and has been
serving with the present unit
since November 1947.
Mr. and Mrs. Duward Hartley
and daughter Ann, of Los An
geles, Calif., have been visiting
for ten days at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Hartley of
Vilas. Other recent vi*itor? In
the Hartley home were Mr. and
Mrs. Leuis Hartley and son Jeff
of Greensboro.
Mr. Walter Boone left Sun
day for the University of Ken
tucky, where he will enroll as
a student In the current term.
At the same time, a brother,
Mr. Charles Boone left for Dur
ham to pursue his studies at
Duke University.
Mr. and Mrs. John Boone
spent the week end at the home
of Mrs. Esther S. Boone. They
will visit relatives in Georgia
before going to Boston, Mass.
where Mr. Boone will enter
Harvard University.
Mr*. B. G. Teams and Mr.
and Mrs. Willard Triplett re
turned home Saturday after
spending 10 days with Mrs.
Team'* daughter, Mrs. Emory
Sylvester and Mr. Sylvester of
Madison. Wis.
Mr*. Pearl Hartley, who has
spent her vacation period at
her home la Boone, left Thurs
day on her return to Fremont,
N. C. where she will teach dur
ing the current school term.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Heffner,
of Glen Alpine, announce the
birth of a son on September
8th, at Grace Hospital, Morgan
ton.
Mr. and Mr?. Lloyd Isaacs
left Sunday for Bobbins, N. C.
where Mr. Isaacs will be athle
tic coach In the Bobbins high
school.
Mr. and Mrs. 0. L. Adams of
Wilarington, Del. are guests of
Ifr. and Mrs. C. B. Angel this
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wendal Wilson
left Tuesday for Athens, Ga. af
ter (pending a few days with
Mr*. Wilson's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Cooke.
Mr. A. E. Hodges, Jr. and
Mr. Ralph Hodges left Satur
day tor Richmond, Va. where
they will enter the University
of Richmond.
Miss Wanda Hodges left Sun
day tor Norfolk, Va. after
spending 10 days vacation with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
B. Hodges.
KING STREET
BY ROB RIVERS
Thirteen . ? Unlacky? 0 :
The other morning we got out bright and early to
view the country for a few miles, and came mighty near
having a collision. . . Before we got back, the little motor
car, which we cherish in a sort of seventh-grade fashion,
developed a ping, which became more noisy all the while,
and which we found was due to the leaking out of the
oil in the engine. . . When we got back to the office,
we noticed by the calender pad it was Friday the thir
teenth. ... In spite, however, of the portents of bad
luck, we didn't hit the other car, and our motor once
again hummed sweetly when she had some oil in her
whizzing innards.
FRIDAY AND THE THIK
TEENTH have been tradition- -
ally viewed with alarm by the
superstitious, and when the
sixth day of the week coin
cide* with thirteen something
mighty grievous is said to be
ready to march on the stage of
human existence. . ; . Friday
has been traditionally we be
lieve, the day of executions,
even from the time of the
crucifixion. . . . In the days of
the court house hangings in
North Carolina, a condemned
man walked ap the thirteen
stepa to meet the Sheriff and
his rope, and to plunge
through the trap Into the mys
teries of eternity on a dismal
Friday. . . . When the narrow
guage railroad bought a new
engine after the rails came
Into Boone, they had engines
four, eight, nine, ten, eleven
and twelve, but the new one
came through with fourteen on
the headend of the boiler. . .
Of course she got ruined in a
roundhouse fire in Alaska, any
way, so giving her a skipped
number didn't help her.
* * *
Of Desks . . And Messes
Richard Pence, Editor of
the Carolina Farmer, Raleigh,
writes like this:
"DEAR MR. RIVERS: Your
column about the roll top desk
was a gem. As a member of
the flat-top generation, I've
never been able to understand
how editors used roll-tops as
combination research files and
work benches. That they do,
however, was forcefully
brought home to me one sum
mer.
BETWEEN JOURNALISM
SCHOOL sessions I was work
ing vacation relief on ? small
weekly In South Dakota. The
Editor'* office ? barely six by
twelve feet ? also doubled as
advertising layout room. To
my idealistic young eyes, it
was ? to pat It bluntly ? a
mess. The roll-top desk had
countless scraps of paper
sticking from every pigeon
hole and the top was piled
high with exchange newspap
ers. Advertising mat books
and mats were scattered every
where. ( ?*
"BY SUMMER'S END the
boss evidently had enough con
fidence to leave me to my own
devices and took a couple of
weeks off. While he was gone
I took it upon myself to clean
out his office. I didn't really
throw anything nway; I Just
rearranged things in a neat,
logical order. It took me all
one Saturday, but when I was
finished I was quite proud of
my accomplishment. The pig
eonholed material was neatly
arranged and every exchange
for the past year was in proper
order for easy reference.
"MONDAY WHEN THE
BOSS RETURNED, I hovered
a few steps away from the off
lee door, confidently expect
ing a pat on the back, If not a
bonus. He'd been there about
five minute* when he came
charging out. His first word*:
"Where the h i* . . .*
"THE NEXT WEEK WAS
MISERY. He couldnt' find
anything and I spent most of
my time searching for things
I had arranged in logical'
order. After a while he got
things back to where they were
'supposed to be.'
"ITS STILL A MYSTERY
to me how he could reach into
* four-foot stack of newspapers
and come up with the one he
wanted. But 111 have to ad
mit it was faster than my
chronological method.
"I DON'T THINK steel fil
ing cabinets ? complete with a
secretary to keep them in or
der ? will ever replace editors
and their roll-top desks.
"HERE'S HOPING you will
be able to find thing* in your
new quarters.
"Sincerely,
"RICHARD A. PENCE,
Editor.
P. S. I'm going to mall
this a* won at I can And that
book of stamps. I put them
some place where they'd be
easy to find. Some logical
spot, no doubt"
WHEN RICHARD found the
postage he helped us mightHy
on this week's column.
? * *
Favors For The Living
MRS. AUD WARD fetches
us a couple of tomatoes from
her garden which grew to a
fantastic the. . . . Oar thanks
to her. . . . Sometimes we get
cheese from Mrs. Ward, the
kind she makes herself and
which nsed to be made gener
ally by Watanga ladles, and
sold regularly in all general
stores. . . When eoortweek
came and there were no rest
aurants, the stores In Boone
needed to have plenty of
cheese and an extra barrel of
cracker* ready for the fotti
who dldnt bring along their
vlttlea.
Uncle
Pinkney
HIS PALAVERIN'S
DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
I was reading a piece in the
papers where one of them Wall
Street experts was advising
folks to "build a second in
come." He was claiming the
national economy was sitting
to the place where one wasn't
enough.
This feller must have got
lost crossing the New Frontier
because we been in that fix
fer a long time now. It got
started back during the sec
ond World War when Sadie
took a job on the swing shift
to help out on the war effort.
When the war was over, prices
got so high that Sadie had
to stay Art the swing shift to
make both ends meet.
Fer instant, I saw some fig
gen the other day where six
married wimmen out of ever
100 was holding down jobs in
1040 and now 38 out of ever
100 was working full time
helping with the family ex
penses, and they was predict
ing that In another 10 years
about three-fourths of all mar
ried wimmen In the nation
would be coming home with a
payroll cheek.
Farthermore, It ain't only
the wimmen folks that is work
ing on this "second income"
project. I was reading a piece
from the U. S. Labor Depart
ment that announced they was
3 million men in this country
holding down one full time
job and one part time job. and
another 78.000 was holding
down two full time jobs, work
ing 8 hours on one and doing
another 8 hours somewhere
else.
I was raised u? in the old
school, Mister Editor, when ?
woman's place was in the
home, as the rfd saying goes,
but with the taxpayers trying
to keep up the interest on a
$300 billion debt, old fashioned
field tomatoes costing 28 cents
a pound, and a pair of $1 shoes
costing |18, most wimmen
staying home ain't going to
have no home very long.
This "second income" ia ?
way of life that's been sneak
ing up on this generation of
Americans and aint had much
publicity, but it is coming full
bloom and this feller Wall
Street is way behind the times.
Incidental, this new "eqoel
pay" fer wimmen law the Con
gress passed ia liable to force
more men into the two- job col
lumn. I waa reading where
one big manufacturer claimed
it cost 10 per cent more to
hire wimmen than men, on
account of the constant ton
over in wimmen employees. He
allowed as how his firm waa
cutting way down on hiring
wimmen and replacing 'em
with men.
Yours truly,
UNCLE fJNKNEY.