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i. I. f' The NEW BEKN r PUW.K IN TH| V V . ' lAim CAHOvliy A . 5P«rC VOLUME 9 NBW BERN, N. C., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1966 NUMBER 15 We didn't know until recent ly that Dr, Bascom Anthony, author of * Fifty Years In The Ministry*’, was the grandfather of one of our New Bern read ers, Mrs. Dick (Louise) Kent. He wrote many weekly columns for the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News. One of them titled’’Boys” and publish ed on September 14,1930, is of fered for your enjoyment today. ”As I am writtog the first line in a notebook given me as a birthday present by a nine year (dd boy, I will write about him and all his kind. They compel me to deny Mother Goose’s statement that they are ’’made of snakes and snails and pu^y dog tails” even if they are devoted to dogs. ’’When babies ttiey are a com pound of milk and lungs, but later they are nothing but an animated apetite hooked tg> to a loud noise. No amount of food can long keep him from being as hollow as a stovepipe, as hungry as a tape worm and as noisy as a thrashing ma chine. Nearly all of them are nice and quiet when asleep, and quite good looking from the top of their head iq>. ”Yet, somehow, I have a weak spot in thy heart for all of them. { .guess that’s beoau^w I stiU uuyiiwu* 8U1U w '' ^e pl^s'aiicl commm with e^s T'held in my playmates. We were a strange mixture of the knights of the Round Table seeking the. Holy Grail, and of Robin Hood who robbed the selfish rich to feed the hung ry poor. “We stole apples by the peck that anybody could have for the picking, and stuffed them incur Jacket fronts till it looked like we had a spare tire about our waist. These apples we pitched through the Jail bars to tte pri soners. pon’t try this on peaches unless you are close to the wash hole, for peach fuzz makes you scratch like a monkey with the fleas.) ”We planned to have the gamest and out-fightlngest rooster in the world. We plan ned to go west to fight the In dians and kill buffaloes. We planned to run away and be come a part of every circus that came to town. In fact, I did run away a few times, and on one occasion went as far as the two mile post, where I sat down and got to thinking about how anxious my mother would be when nlj^it came and I wasn’t home. So I atiindoned the con quest of the world, and went home to keep her from being worried. ’’Boys can be real unselfish in such matters at times, even if they do build a world of their own made up of trtq>s, fish hooks, camps and wash holes, without a schodl house or a woman with a wash rag in one hand and a bar of soap in the other anywhere in sight. ’’Since the days of Eve wom en have been discontented with the sort of paradise men and boys like, and have kept all parties busy fixing it up to satisfy them until it’s too nice for anything except to stand off and look at. ’’This ruthless ruining of his paradise gives ttie boy a poor opinion of all women except (Continued on page 8) » t i; trieemi.K, . ALMOST FAMILIARr—New Bernians who visit our mother city, Bern, Switzerland, and a number have during the past year, are reminded of ; home when they see the world famous Clock Tower. UnUke our lives. Nothing else in Bern seems to hold the fascina tion that the unique timepiece generates. The Swiss . « a lA. ...... A«f«Al have no equal when it comes to making watches and clocks, so they are justly proud of this historic land^ K and do all sorts mark. Bern has a pair of rivers, like New Bern, and is located at their meeting place. This, of course, led Baron DeGraffenreid to found a town at Union Point and name it for the Swiss city. 3 ii
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