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From the beginning of time,
mankind has tried to build as far
up toward the sky as he could.
Primitive men built in the tops of
trees to protect themselves from
prowling enemies on the ground.
The Bible tells of the effort to
build a great tower. at Babel,
which never was finished.
Two recent news items remind
ed me of modem efforts at tower
building. It is Just over 50 years
since the tallest structure ever
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built by man up to then was fin
ished. That Is the Eiffel Tower,
984 feet high, built as a show
piece for the Paris World's Fair,
and still standing, the dominant
figure of the Paris landscape.
Only two higher buildings have
ever been built, the Empire State
Building, 1,248 feet high, and the
Chrysler Building. 1,056 feet, both
in New York.
New York learned to build high
steel-framed structures from Chi
cago. For years the Chicago
Masonic Temple, first of the
"skyscrapers." 302 feet high, was
the tallest building in the world.
Only the Washington Monument,
555 feet, and the Eiffel Tower,
neither of them really "build->
ings," surpassed it. But now, the
papers say. that pioneer of high
steel buildings is being torn down.
MYSTERY Roanoke
The most fascinating mystery
in American history is what be
came of the colony of Englishmen
which Sir Walter Raleigh plant
ed on Roanoke Island, off the
coast of North Carolina, in 1587.
Here was bom the first white
child in what is now the United
States, Virginia Dare. But when
an expedition with supplies for
the colony reached Roanoke a
year later, no living person could
be found.
Many legends have centered
around the lost colony, the most
credible being that they joined a
tribe of friendly Indians on the
mainland and intermarried with
them. Gray-eyed Indians were
still found arouni Cape Hatteras
two hundred years later.
Just the other day a storm
swept Roanoke Island and uncov
ered the frame of an ancient
ship, of the type built by English
men 350 years ago. A crew of
CCC boys is digging away the
sand in the hope that there may
be found, in the old hulk, some
thing tp give a clue to the real
fate of the Roanoke colonists.
Raleigh's name is perpetuated
in the capital city of North Caro
lina, and the memory of the
"Virgin Queen." Elizabeth, who
sent him to America, is preserved
in the name of the Common
wealth of Virginia.
IMPOSSIBLE radio
The older I grow, the more ab
surd it seems to me to hear peo
ple say that anything is impos
sible. I have seen so many im
possible things come to pass that
I am ready to believe anything
can be done if the right man puts
his mind to it.
I think of my old friend, Lee
de Forest, inventor of the vacuum
tube which gave radio a voice. In
1913 de Forest was indicted on
THE ELKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN, NORTH CAROLINA
the criminal charge of using the
mails to defraud. His letters to
prospective subscribers to his
company predicted that eventual
ly the human voice could be car
ried across the Atlantic. That
was so obviously impossible that
it was called a crime to take
money from people to develop the
radio.
Lee de Forest was acquitted of
crime, but I thought of him the
other day when I listened to a
former King of England talking
to all the world in a moving ap
peal for peace, from the battle
field of Verdun, while his brother,
now King, was on a ship bound
for America.
Not many years ago we would
have said it was impossible for
the most powerful King in the
world to be forced to give up his
throne because he wanted to
marry someone of whom his Gov
ernment did not approve.
Among the things which the
world owes to America are tur
keys, Indian corn, tobacco, cocoa
and chocolate, rubber,, potatoes,
and one of the most valuable and
essential drugs in medical use,
quinine. The Indians taught the
Spanish settlers in Peru how to
cure malaria with cinchona
bark, and modem science learn
ed how to extract its active prin
ciple as quinine.
For a century, the best cin
chona has been grown in the
Dutch East Indies, which have
almost a monopoly on quinine.
So the United States Department
of Agriculture sent an explorer
over there to see if he could get
some seeds to plant in South
America. He had trouble getting
them but he got them and now
the Western Hemisphere will no
longer be dependent upon the
East for its quinine.
Dr. Walter Swingle, the Gov
ernment scientist, also brought to
Brazil some rubber seedlings, bet
ter than any that now grow in
America. The world depends on
the East Indies for commercial
rubber, but it is to be grown
again in the land where it is na
tive. ,
LOST ......... arts
An art died onty a few weeks
ago, when Rudolph Blaschka
died at 82 in Gei'many. With his
father, Leopold, he had spent his
life for fifty years making color
ed glass reproductions of flowers
and botanical specimens for Har
vard University. There never
were such skillful glassblowers as
the Blaschkas were. In the Har
vard Museum are 840 glass flow
er models they made in fifty
years, which cannot be disting
uished from the natural flowers.
They are perfect in every detail.
Asked why he did not teach a
young man his art, Rudolph
Blaschka said: "Find me a boy of
ten with generations of glass
workers behind him, who will
work ten hours a day for ten
years; then I can begin to teach
him."
NBMS FROM THE
The new spacious building for
housing the prisoners at the
prison camp north of Dobson is
about completed and ready for
occupancy. It will be dedicated
at an early date and Hon. A. D.
Folger, of Washington, D. C., has
been invited as speaker of the oc
casion during his ten days vaca
tion from Congress. He is ex
pected to arrive today to attend
the Democratic Woman's meet
ing to be held in Winston-Salem
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyle Lee, Mr.
and Mrs. Wade Lee and Miss
Esta Lee, of Polkton, were week
end visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Wendell Stone.
Mrs. Nannie Hundley, of
Stuart, Va., has been visiting her
sister, Mrs. Mary Folger, for the
past two weeks. Mrs. Folger and
Mrs. Hundley spent part of last
week in Mt. Airy visiting rela
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller Hundley
and little daughter, Jo Ann, cf
Stuart, were Sunday guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Ivy Rogers, and
Mrs. Mary Folger.
Spencer and Miss Mary Betty
Norman spent a few days in
Rockingham last week in the
home of Mrs. Blanche Palmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wolfe, of
Mountain Park, were visitors in
town Saturday afternoon.
Rev. Richard West held his
regular service in the Baptist
church Sunday at 11 o'clock. He
was accompanied by Mrs. West
and her mother, Mrs. Caldwell.
Dr. and Mrs. Joe Folger and
Mrs. Elizabeth Bolick accompan
ied Mrs. Edwin Bowles to her
home in Asheville Wednesday. Af
ter a short stay with her sister in
Asheville. Mrs. Bolick will return
by Denver to join Mr. Bolick and
son, Gray, in a visit to Mr. Bo
lick's parents.
Mrs. J. T. Threatte entered the
hospital at Elkin last week for
treatment and perhaps an opera
tion. Her friends wish for her
an early recovery.
Mrs. W. H. McNeil spent last
week with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Brady Norman, here, and re
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turned to her home in Carthage
Thursday.
Mrs. Fred Lewellyn, an em
ployee in the office of Collector
of Internal Revenue in Greens
boro, spent the week-end in Dob
son.
Rev. C. W. Russell and family
left this morning for a ten-day
Thursday, May 25. 1939
visit with relatives at Asheboro
and Denton.
Mrs. F. P. Riggs returned Sat
urday after spending some time
with relatives in Charlotte and
Pilot Mountain.
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later.