ehadfte of it It important to mention the OLD, i^mnia vw e J "Tho baaia of oar government being flic opinioa of tho people, the very tint elective should bo fij to keep that right, and wore It Ml to ma to decide whether we sMeuld have a gnu i mi wW without or newspaper* w*lwt garsrawsat, I should not hesitate a moment to dwoM the latter. Mold rflcnlw the*e paper* and be capable of reading tkem."? , BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, /UNI 5, 1958 S&i Opposed To Primaries L Adlai Stevenson, who hit the mat twice In his efforts to occupy the White House, cones out against the presidential primary, which he describes as almost a useless in stitution. ? Former Governor Stevenson, many be lieve ? is still hankering after the chief magistracy, and if he is, doubtless could feel that his tyirposes on the dubious third term try could beet be served through the traditional convention system, and we , could easily share that belief. ? in the broader aspect of the political situation, however, we've tended to the no tioa tint the presidential primary is one of the most democratic of the democratic pro cesses and maybe fhouM be in vogue the country over. The primary system, by and large, ha% worked well in the State of North Carolina, and despite the charges by some that the machine picked candidates always win, we'd point to the fact that the regulars have been successfully challenged time and again. Without the primary, Josiah William Bailey wouldn't have been in the running against Senator F. M. Simmons, Bob Rey nolds would have gone down at first in his try against Cameron Morriaon, and Kerr Scott would never have been Commissioner of Agriculture, much leas Governor and United States Senator. In each instance mentioned the choice of the people got the nod. It would have been different without the primary. Usually the fellow who wants to be rid of primaries finds the other system to his advantage. Might not be the ease with Adlai, whose peerir* rhetoric has been heard across the Uau without overwhelm ing acceptance. At any rate, he shouldn't mind being voted on In the primaries, if he's yet of a notion to go to the post again. We hope he c lunges his mind. It aeema un likely that he'd get the nod, anyway. ? Ancient Justice Court reform turn come to be somewhat of an issue in North Carolina, ?u>d since it has, information that in early days a Jury in England might spend several weeks reaching a verdiet, is of interest to us. An article in World Book Encyclopedia says that jurors in old England were shut up without food and drink until they reach ed a verdict. If they still failed to agree within a specified time, they were carted to a distant spot and flung into a ditch. Such procedure resulted in some fast verdicts in the daya when one could be hanged for any one of a hundred or ao of fenses. But often people called for jury duty became ill, Claimed deafness or just disappeared. In a case where the jurors had haggled, without food or ale for a couple of weeks, we'd say the scales of justice would be heavily weighed against the guy who'd ap peared before the gray-wigged jurists. May be accounting for why so many dangled on the end of the string in those days of ruth leu enforcement. Farley Speaks Out James A. Farley, noted for his political sagacity, and his uncanny ability in the crystal ball of party politics, and who's pre sently said to be eyeing the United States Senate, said this the other day at a Demo ? cratic audience in New York: "As certainly as I reported to Goteraor Roosevelt In 1930, I report to yon tonight that the call to our party is coming again from the nation." And coming from Farley, of course this Aint It So? * * Women won't buy the chemise styles next spring, because no one wants to make the same mistake twice. ? ? ? ? ? There's a pen on the market now that'll write through butter. We'd like to know who can afford both the pen and butter. ? ? ? ? One difficulty about the French-Tuniaian situation is that it's hard for men, especial ly Pflmlin and Bourguiba, to understand each other when they can't pronounce each other's names. * ? ? ? x . If money talks, why doesn't our say where it goes? ? ? ? ? Two wrongs don't make a right, but they're usually fun. is good for newspaper copy across the coun try. Many of ua remember that noontyme on election day in 1936 when the Postmast er General broadcast the prediction by radio that Landon would not carry a state west of the Hudson River. Farley's fame as a political prophet zoomed when the G. 0. P. limped out of the fray with two states ? Maine and Vermont. So Big Jim's words carry weight today. But with a situation considerably different from that whieh existed in 1032 and again in 1936, Farley couched his prediction in less positive words than he did when Frank lin Roosevelt was spearheading Democratic victories in every level of party activity. He gained his first reputation as a prophet In predicting the landslide of 1932. And while we'd agree that the tide seems to be running toward the Democrats, who're solid favorites to retain hold on the National legislature this fall, the Farley statement ia a mite mild. While there's re cession in some sectors of the economy a record number of folks are at work, and most of the economists see an end to the business dip by the end of the year. Political progno8ticator> have a different sort of situation to reckon with, but even so Farley's willingness to get back into the running and the predicting, Is good news for the Democrats, many of whom *11! argue he's right, right down to the finish line. Why? (New York Timet) These are fine days for asking question*, whether ye get anawera or not Questions about dandelions, for instance. Why is a dandelion? There is no answer, really. A dandelion just is, persistent, determined, ubiquitous. Livestock won't cat dandelions, few insects trouble them. Birds don't con sume them. One would think we could get vj along very weir without dandelions. In stead, we have more and more and more of them. Why? ??? Why aren't there more strawberries? There used to be. Any? a who ew spent a childhood Summer te the oountry remein t&jbertf tow many wild sfrtwbetrles there were, and bow sweat their taste. Now ene has to hpr* for then. Daisies and butter cups grow in every meadow, and so does [_?>/. hawkweek, but thens are only a fta* wild Why aren't bluets really blue? They are i white tinged with lilac or pole violet, and sometimes not even tinged. They are beau tiful hi an old pasture, but they aren't blue. And why doesftltplantain have a flower worth looking at? BotanicaQy, of course, they don't need colorful flowers because they need no outside help with fertilization. But dandattons don't need outside help either, and look at the color they manage to display. Why are flowers colorful at all? Insects are color-blind Man isn't, and for that we am thankful. But most llooors depend on the Insects for pollination, and the petals are supposed to help the insects in this sais sion. Why are violets purple, and why is mustard yellow, and why are apple blos soms pink ind white? No one ob)eeta-~e world," replied the detective. (How lie get there?)' "Well," said St. Peter, "If you're so good, take > look at all these millions of people here and see if you can pick out Adam and Eve." The detective looked around and Immediately Identified Adam and Eve. How did he do it? Mr. Goerch does qot give the answer, but says it la perfectly logical, and does not concern the type of clothing worn. You know how? Personally, I suspect It has something to do with the questionable inference that there are milliona of people up there. From Early Democrat Files Sixty Ymti Ago Aw t um The pipe factory here ii now in operation, aad la giving employment to a number of hands. Miss Lula Squires, of Lenoir, 1a visiting her sister, Mrs. W. L. Nicholson, in Boone. Attorney J. B. Council], of Jefferson, passed through town Sunday on his way to his father's at VUas. Rev. Murieoa Farthing preached a good ser mon in the Baptist church in Boone last Sunday night. John F. Hardin and J. C. Horton are off on a trip to Michell county In the interest of the Elkin Woolen Mills. Miss Mary Cole Baydsn, who has been attend ing Claremont College, at Hickory, N. C? haa re turned to her home is Boom. \ Lumber is now being delivered with which to 'repair our side-walks, and we hope ere many days, the people can travel on them with tome degree .of safety On Monday evening this vicinity was visited by ? most teiTiflc storm of rain and hail. The ground waa covered with halt stonea, many of wMelt were as large aa marbles. The growing vegetation was badly cut by the stones. There is said to be a discussion going on at Beech Creek church between Robertson and Mil ler on one aide and Sherwood and Rarman on the the other on the question that the CsmpbefKe church ia a church according to the New Testa ment. We have no reports. Sheriff Boyd, of Cakjwvll, gave Watauga as other call last week, and, as usual, deposited a bird in the county cage. This time he brought one Watson, who is wanted by our authorities for abandonment. It doea aeem that our refugees from, justice would learn to aeek a safer and more genial clime than Caldwell, for Boyd will catch them every tine. I Thirty-Nine T ear * Ago June 5, 111# Dr Anders toak Miss Theftaa Mary la Mnean Ct*y, to he spsiated ss far appeodletMe. Msaiay, returning in the afternoon. Work on the depot is near moving oa nicely, and, the weather perm tiling, its completion will oni|r he a matter at a veey Aw wsaka Private Tom Taylor who far the paat 18 Ullii hat been stationed In China, returned to his bone In Valle Cruets last Sunday. He waa a pleasant i caller at thii office Monday. The opening of the Summer Term of tha Ap palachian Traill in f School yesterday morning wai very good indeed. 128,' registering, with others arriving almost hourly. Young Max^ Hodges, a public school student, had the misfortune to get an arm broken while playing ball last Friday. A bat slipping from the hand of a boy causing tha painful accident Dr. Anders set the limb and the boy is improving nicely. Mr. W. E. Shipley was demonstrating a tractor propelled road machine on tile streets of Boons Monday, and it does its work to a nicety aad with a dispatch that is indeed hard to beat If withia the power of our Boad Commiaaion, it would bo ? grand idea to purcha* one of theao and put it oa the fearfully neglected turn pike rood loading from Boone to Blowing Rock, and other roads ia county, to say nothing of the great anouat of work it is capable of doing oa the highway. A money-savor it appears to bo ia road construction. Mr. Curdle Barnes, a returning aoldief, left Tuesday morning for West Virginia, hi quest of employment, and just what he wants la what ho oaght to have, aa he richly deaervea It Quite a number of the young people of the town attended a social function gtvea at the homo of Supt. T_ W. Hampton, at Shulla Mills Monday Bight, aad the "best time of the season" is how they express it when referring to the happy oc casion. Fifteen Yeart Ago Awe S, IMS Jo Ann, daughter of Mr .and Mrs. G. D. Brink* ley, spent Isst week with her sant, Mrs. Oscar Chappell in Mountain City, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Brown Jr., aad children, Orlando and John Edgar, left Wedaeaday mori> ing for a two week's visit to Myrtle Beach, S. G Mrs. A. P. Van Duaen, her sons, Albert, Harold and daughter CaMly* of Durham, arrived here Tuesday evening and have aati Wished their homo ftr the steamer ia Daniel Boone Pat. Mrs. J. C. Goodnight and son Jlmmie hare re turned home after spending two weeks visiting with her parents, Mr. aad Mrs E. J. MWer. at Lakeview, S. C. Oa their retarn to Booae they were accompanied by Mm Geodnigtr> brother. Mr. Ernest Miller. ' Misses Frances aad Mamilowe Teams spent Wednesday of last week visiting at the haaae of their grandmother. Mrs. Botqr Gragg of Lenoir. KING STREET gf| ^ r ^ By ROB RIVERS Flaking PeU? . . , Bamboo Still The Rett The plastics, the glass fibre, synthetic resins and the like have all but taken over the fishing pole business, according to a surrey by an AP staff writer, who's quick to agree that despite the change in the materials which make for happiness along the mountain brooks, the bamboo poles are sOlI the best. ( The custom-crafted split bamboo rod was not only a work of art but an expert fly caster could swish a fly with greater ac curacy with one of these feather weight roads than with any oth er kind . . . Fashioned in three or four joints, normally, with a couple of extra tips, they were made of numerous strips of bom boo, fitted together perfectly and wrapped with fine thread at in tervals, with ferrules to guide the silken line ... A painstaking man, like the late J. W. Bryan, could spent a day or so redoing one of these handsome rods, wrapping and tying the jointed bamboo with fine silk thread in red and green, shellacking and varnishing the whole until it looked like a brand new pole . . . One of these overhaul jobs was essential every few years when the dampness and the summerlong swishing had broken down the varnish and the thread ... Mr. Bryan later gave way to a steel rod, and the line ran inside the slender cylinder, but it ijps heavy, and not nearly so adaptable to fly casting. But turning again to the statement that wooden poles are the best, most jA the mountain lads know that to be true from way back ... A long willow switch, about the size and length for merly used by drivers of exen, four or five feet of cotton string, a piece of hammered-out lead for a sinker, and a bent pin or a snelled hook fixed on* for a job of trolling amongst the suckers in the springtime . . . And a sprout from the old dootsie bush, a line twisted from fine sewing thread and a hook trimmed with a bit of rooster feather, apt as not would work when a brook trout was lurking in the swift waters, and the lure was properly float ed. Which reminds that more folks spefid more money trying to land a fresh water fish than in any other sporting category . . . Unhappily, we've long since become too busy to spend time by the mountain J>rooks which used to shelter the sporty little fish . . . But everyone ought to go fishing once in a while, make a fly dance on the surface of the limpid waters, or have a session still fishing where the pool is deep and the hornyheads tug mightily at the red-wormed hook . . . There's something about the time spent in the willows, the sun-warmed rocks or on the fallen log which overhangs the creek . . . it's there that sermons may be found, mature judgments formed, and a strong link with nature cemented . . . Sessions by the running waters may not make the skillet splutter, and fill the stomach of the fisherman, but they often bring solace to the soul of the man who's playing hookey from his business. ? * ? * For Human III* . . . Ask Those Waiting A doctor's waiting room is about the best place in town to find out about all the miseries of the flesh and oftentiiAes to get a correct diagnosis. We've marveled how some folks can sit hours on end, waiting for the physician and listening to the endless tales of woe . . One woman however didn't want to spend too much time in line and when the frtendfy man who entered the room told her her baby looked like it had measles, her face lighted. "That I know iiow to treat," she beamed, as she Headed toward home. ? ? * * Long Handing ... By Pen And Pencil Lots of times the fellow with the smallest business carries the most writing equipment ? his pocket sometimes bulges with ballpoints, ordinary fountain pens, mechanical pencils and the old-time wooden versions, which supply such good whittling material ... On the other band the guy with a lot of business on his mind has no pen showing and reaches deep into a trousers pocket for a pencil stub, with which he calculates his financial statu . . . There's no substitute for the sharpened cedar, so far as we're concerned when there's big business going on . . . Speaker Sam Rayburn knows this, and is said to give his immedi ate and personal attention to pencil-written letters ... "I figure," said Mr. Sam, "that if a man writes me with a pencil, his pro blem is pretty important to him." Uncle Pinkney ... . HIS PALAV ERIN'S DEAR MISTER EDITOR: * We used to have just three kinds of business. It was good, or it was bad, or we was having a peak. How we got recessions, depres sions, booms, high plateaus, low plateaus, and middle plateaus, just to name a few. It's hard fer ? country feller to know exactly what kind of fix he's in with all that going on. Eight now, far instant, the pa pers is saying we're having a alight recession. I reckon that means things ia gifting more plentiful and money fitting more ain't Unless it gits too ain't, the sitaation might not be as bad as we think. Sack during the war when w? was having one of them booms, whan things was acafee and money plentiful, things waa pret ty bad. O remember going to tawn one day with Ed DooUttle ta buy hisself a pair of parts. I'll newer fergit seeing him coming down the street in his underwear. He not only didnt git po pants, hut they was so scarce the feller i* the stare traded him out of the pair ha had on. Whan things waant aa good, the one-pants feller coold drive * to i pmiiiag place, toot Ma horn and anmahfldp would aaaaa out ia4 git kii panto* pran 'cn sod be back in a Jiffy. Right after tfca war, when we was having one of them "high plataau" things, the same pressing place had a imuflcer, and when yon finally