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el March 3. 1870. ?
"The bull ef our government being the opinion of the
'people, the very flmt objective should be to keep that
right, end were it left to me to decide whether we should
have a government without newspapers. or newspapers
Without government, I should not beaitete a moment to
flhooae the latter. But I should mean that every nan
gbould receive theae papers and be capable ef reading
t? am "-?Thomas Jefferson
THURSDAY, JUNE 18. 1953.
"Top" Scenic Attraction
The trip up acenic Grandfather Moun
tain, over Hugh Morton'* recently completed
highway should be a "must" for visitors to
this region as well as to the natives, who gave
up trips to the rugged mountain, when they
could no longer navigate the heavy climb on
foot from McRae's or from the Linville Gap
approach.
We went up the other day to take a look
around for the first time since as a teen-ager
we triumphed over the steep incline on a
day-long excursion, and listened to the lsfte
train (fter the narrow gauge make its way up
through the gap, en route to Boone. And re
calling that laborious journey we remember
how we wished we might have been reclining
on one of Tweetsie's right comfortable seats,
free from the long trudge back down to the
Scotsman's, where the model T had been left.
But folks nowdays, thanks to Mr. Mor
ton's ingenuity, can view the whole of thi3
part of Carolina, from atop craggy old Grand
father just about as easy as they can take a
journey out the Parkway to view the wide
vistas. And those who don't mind the slight
swaying get a big kick out of the walk across
the swinging bridge between tmSwji peaks
of the mountain ? a mile high**r!fc to remem
ber. The road is all right and is skirted by
banks of red rhododendron, in hedge row
fashion, almost as if they had been planted
by the builders of the road., A short way
inside the gate are ample picnic tables, while
those who like their lunch on the crest of the
most rugged mountain in Eastern America,
can proceed to the summit.
At any rate, next time you take the fam
ily picnicking, consider Grandfather, if you
like the unusual. Mr. Morton has made it '
possible for you to get a panoramic view of
the Blue Ridge, without belaboring yourself,
and has thus vastly contributed to the worth
of the Boone-Blowing Rock-Linville area, as
a summer tourist and recreational region.
Hotel Will Reopen
The news that the Martin Cottage, pop
ular Blowing Rock tourist hosetlry, will re-,
open for at least part of the season, after a
fire which did considerable damage to the
property, will be welcomed by many people.
At first, news reports indicate, it was
feared the hotel would not open this year,
and that would have been the first time the
Martin Cottage had failed to entertain guests
for forty years.
Operated for many years by H. C. Mar
tin, veteran Lenoir newspaperman, and Mrs.
Martin, the property is now owned and op
erated by Mrs. Hal Martin. Known far and
wide for its congenial atmosphere, good food
and pleasant surroundings, Martin Cottage
is widely popular with the people who come
to the mountain top. resort community for the
lummer.
We join the people of Blowing Rock in
an expression of joy that the fire was no
worse, and that after repairs have been made
Martin Cottage will again take her import
ant place in the summer life of Northwestern
Carolina's most important summer resort
center.
DELUSIONS TO GRANDEUR
Pint Sergeyt to Private ? The afternoon off
. . . the afternoon offl What do you think you are
?a human being?? Camp Lejeune Globe.
TOO BAD s
Said the doctor to the tattooed sailor: "I'm
sorry, but I bad to rink three skips to get to your
appendix."? Heavtag Line.
COMtDAATC NATURE
Nature aeldsm brings the first worm out on
the tame day that the tint robin arrive.? Cleve
land Plain Dealer.
Type Dreams
Pop Plays Second Fiddle,
As Usual, To Fair Sex
Br "STRETCH" POLLIMS
A gill tar Pim
Will Mil* htm happy?
At Waal until
Ha get* tha Mill
So much (or Pop. who'* usually a pretty good
e||, even it ha doc* get a little hard boiled at
timet. And the old boy ihould be fitted ?? roy
ally aa possible on the day ul axide In kit honor,
even though he hai tc pay for it. himself. lt'?
the thought that counts, you know.
But practically everyone who attempt* to turn
out a column ha* at least one piece in hi* *y*tem
about the (air sex, and the best thing to do, prob
ably, 1* get it inty print so he can target about it.
(The column, not the ladies) -
A psychologist comes right out in bold (ace
type and say* if we men understood how a wo
man's mind works, we'd lose mtereit in her. He
advise* the girls to keep us gueuing so they'll
keep us interested.
Now,- that's what I call rank treachery right
in our own ranks! The little darlings can already
spot us six laps in the guessing sweepstakes and
still keep the kaleidoscopic complexities of their
cranial contortions a constant cause of complete
and colossal confusion to the mediocre mentality
o( a mere man. If they really put their minds on
their work, we might as well give up.
Somebody has said give a woman an inch and
she'll try to park her car in it. Which recalls the
story ubout the young lady who was maneuvering
her car hack and forth, half in and half out of a
tight parking space. Along came a masterful male
and gallantly asked If he could help. So she let
him take the wheel, and with a few deft manipu
lations he soon had her car parked neatly at the
curb.
mere you are, ne saiu, smirKing imu|tjr,
"nothing to it, when you know how."
"Thank you," replied the girl with icy aweet
neis, "but- 1 wu trying to get OUT!" You can't
win.
And if the woman driver ahead gives you one
of those vague hand signals, you can be sure of
only one thing ? her window is open. You know
only that she is going to alow down, stop, turn
right, turn left, turn around, turn turtle, or turn
handsprings. Unless, of course, she's just drying
her nail polish.
She'll think you're an unfeeling brute if you
don't give her candy and flowers occasionally.
But when you do, she wonders what you've been
up to.
We sometimes criticize her for talking too
much, but thirty minutes of complete silence from
her and a man will spend the rest of the day won
dering what it was HE said.
When she's a girl she wants to be called a
woman, and when she's a woman she wants to be
called a girl.
But someone haa truthfully said that for every
woman who has made a fool out of a man, there's
one who's made a man out of a fool.
And author Joseph Conrad said, "Being a wo
.man is a ti " " lince if consists
So we'll just have to try to get along with
them, it would seem, as no method has yet been
devised to get along without them. And who
wants to?
principally
They Say ?
BARRY BINGHAM, Kentucky newspaper
publisher: "The general objective of our effort! in
the Far East is to see the myriad peoples of Asia
emerge some day to full independence."
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL, U. S. Senator
from Massachusetts: "We must maintain sure and
? friendly ties with the other free nations of the
world."
J. D. HULLINGER, 92-year-old Iowa doctor:
"I hope to live to see the year 2000."
FRANK JARECKI, Polish aviator, escaped
from Poland: "The best cure against Communism
is to live in the world it creates."
SYNGMAN RHEE, President, South Korean
Republic: "Peace here is up to ourselves."
ALEXANDER WILEY, U. S. Senator from
Wisconsin: "We did not 'go it alone' in the Nine
teen-Forties and we are not going to 'go it alone'
in the Nineteen-Fiftie*."
D. KENNEDY, medical officer. Fort Napier
Hospital, South Africa: "Women in state affairs
are like monkeys in a china ahop."
HARRY S TRUMAN, speaking on Memorial
Day: "The men now fighting for liberty and free
dom in the armed forces are just as great heroes
as the men who fought with Washington at Valley
Forge."
OMAR N. BRADLEY, General of the Army:
"We need each other and we need all the honorable
allies we can find."
Borrowed Views
AMERICAN PLACE NAMES
Presenting: Riddle. Ind.; Right Answer, Ark.
DESCRIBED
Deecription of a cow followed by a couple of
duck*: Milk and Quackera. ? Log and Dope Sheet.
THEY ARE
The time* are out of joint, not joint*. ? Louis
ville Times.
HE IS
A bachelor if a man who nerer Mr*, anything.
? U. S. Coast Guard Magazine.
IT DOES
Socially speaking, bridge helps many te
get across? Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
WHERE IT IS FOUND
Tobacco is found throughout the Southern
United States and in an occasional store. ? Rich
mond (Va.) Times- Dispatch.
Letter To The
Editor
Says Farmer Took .
Bribe
Mr. Editor: Would appreciate
your publishing the enclosed
which was written by Rasi Val
entine and appeared in the Rich
mond. Va.. Time*- Dispatch re
cently.
J. N. ATKINS
Shulb Mills, N. C.
, (Enclosure)
"Why shouldn't the govern
ment supply the farmer with
lime, phosphate and other soil
conaerving necessities free of
charge?
"Isn't It the duty of the gov
ernment to conserve the soil on
which 110,000,000 Americana de
pend for indispensable food and
fiber?"
The farmers, or most of them at
any rate, do not find it hard to
swallow this sugar-coated pro
paganda.
It has a pleasant taste.
It makes the farmer see him
self in the role of the neglected
benefactor, who, by accepting
money or its equivalent from the
public purse, is after all, only
"taking what is, coming to him."
But, as always, in cases where
one receives "something for no
thing," there's a catch in it.
True, the barb of the hook is
skillfully concealed by the bait.
But it's there, as the fanner
would have found out to his sor
row if the Fair Deal administra
tion had continued in office to
accelerate Truman-Socialism.
The barbed hook can be de
tected only by putting the bait
under the X-ray of common logic.
Let's do that.
What is the basic premise be
hind the reasoning of those who
preach tax-financed soil conser
vation?
The SOCIALIST PREMISE IS
that the "soil" to which the farm
el holds title (or in which he has
an e<juity ) is, ia reality not Wa.
but land ia which "we Utt p to
pic" (i. C. the government) hold
a prior proprietafy inteaest Ac
ceptance of UMt premise it pre
supposed by those who justify soil
conservation payments lor it*
preservation
That, in case the farmer does
not know it, or knowing, has net
understood, a the opening wedge
of communism.
The reasoning of the Marxists
is that the soil, being essential to
the |#oduetion of the food, cloth
ing and shelter indispensable to
the millions, should be and, in
effect is# the property of all the
people, i. e. the state.
But this theory, in practice,
means that "the government" .
(meaning the politicians and their
bureaucrats) have the right to
tall the farmer what to raise, how
much to raise, and how to run
his business. Being "the owners"
of the lahd (or the owners' ag
ents) the neo-New Dealers de
voutly believed that this is sound
ethics as well as sound eojnomics.
Anyone who has read the
"Brannan Surrey" literature of
1951 (and I have), and who can
read between the lines, must
have realized that this "family
farm surrey" was intended to
condition the farmer to accept
ance of gradual, systematic con
trol of agriculture by the Fair
Deal bureaucrats.
THOSE WHO POOH-POOH
THIS as a wild assumption must
have forgotten that Mr. Truman
actually did take over "the means
of production" when he seized the
steel mills, to force their owners
and shareholders to pay the wage
increases which he, Harry Tru
man, considered equitable. For
tunately, the Supreme Court
slapped him down.
The nation's farms are more
widely scattered, but they, too,
could, over a period of time, have
been virtually taken over under
the cover of convenient emer
gencies.
I don't mean to say that the
farms would actually have been
seized. That would have meant
revolution. But by placing the
WHAT BETTER WAY TO SHOW HIM THE DEtTH
Or YOUR LOVE FOR HIM THAN WITH A FINE GIFT?
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Elgin ? Hamilton Wads worth
Bulova Gruen ? Faith
MEN'S RINGS, diamond
birthstone or initial.
CUFF LINKS to
match hi* every suit.
Finely finished.
CIGARETTE
LIGHTERS
with richly emboss
er appearance. Sure
working.
PEN AND PENCIL"'
SETS made by fam
e d manufacturers.
Alao ball point pens
STALLtNGS
JEWELERS
arnwr tn their debt. through t
atamalistic terse** fa? ei on the
?lion's proprietary Interest, the a
avernment could, in time, hare t
lietated to the farmer hew to (
isnatf? hit land.
The individual fanner would
till have held title, or tequity, in 1
i ? land, but the real owners, "the '
eople" who would have told I
hti how to run hit farm, would |
ave been "the government," I. e. 1
he politicians and their bureau- |
rata. I
In the Socialist lexicon this is t
nown as "gradualism" ? the
low, steady, almost imperceptible j
roeess by which th? farm own- 1
rs (who are a minority) would
lave been bribed into yielding 1
heir managerial rights.
In the eyas of the Communists
ind the Marxist*, that would have
>een self -evident, irrefutable lo
[ic.
But once this tad been eon
all A|l|Ag ?
lummiiN, au wnvr iMusmfb
rould tare fallowed wit You
nay wnnlw the CJO"* and
IDA'j (Brijpajfn. at some years
igo, to "nationaUA" the steel in
lustry, the railroad*. and other
ley industries as "essential ts na
lonal security "
Now that you look back on It,
rou may realise how eloae we
vers to the end of freedom
Is that what the fanner wuits?
doubt it.
SPIRIT CONTAGIOUS
Williamson, W. Va. ? Whrn all
40 employes of a Williamson su
permarket left their job* and
marched to the Red Cross center
to donate a pint of blood, fifteen
customers caught their spirit and
joined the parade. It Waf led by
a navy recruiting unit sound
truck and two fire trucks.
PUTS SELF IN DOGHOUSE
Marian. Mass.? Fearing punish
ment for staying out late, August
Correia, Jr., 6, crawled into the
doghouse in his back yard, while
Marion's police force ?nd fifteen
fire-fighters joined in a search
for him. He explained he was
"afraid to go home."
?
We Hare AU the Right Gifts for That All-Right Guy: Father!
HE CAN WEAR!
Your Winning Selections for
Father's Day 1
Sunday, June 21?t
From stacks to sweaters .
from shirts to shorts ... we
have exactly "what it takes"
to score a smash hit with Dad
when he opens his Father's
Day package*. Gifts to com
pliment your good judgment
as welt as his good taste.
Gifts hell warmly welcome
and wear with pride and
pleasure. Play these favorites
to win ... on Father's Day!
?HUNT'S Dept. Srore
King Street Boone, N. C.