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."?
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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.
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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?
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Women won't buy the chemise styles
next spring, because no one wants to make
the same mistake twice.
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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.
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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.
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If money talks, why doesn't our say
where it goes?
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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-~<ar
ftr*n It! ? hot why?
lie Governments Glare
jSkaim
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Stretch's Sketches
, By "STRETCH" ROLUNS
Three Riddlet, But Only Turn Atutcert
THE FAIRY TALE dwarf, Rumplestiltskin,
must have started the riddle business, when he
told the queen ihe would have to guess his nam
before he would grant her wish.
Hs And riddle* have continued
to confound, confuse, and
fascinate people ever since.
A feature in i daily paper
asks, "Who has the most
money problems, men or wo
men?" The answer says both,
and gives the obvious rea
sons, but 1 contend women
have the most money pro
blems; first, because they
' have the moat money (statis
tics), and second, well . . .
You remember the Two Black Crow* phono
graph records, or are you still lying a boot youi
age? In one of them the first fellow says his folks
had a lot of horses on thetr farm and they notic
ed that the black hones always ate more than the
white ones.
"Why was that?" asked his friend.
"Well, we tried every way to figure It out, and
we finally decided it muat be because we had
more black horses than white horses."
LeA face H, men, the women have us out
numbered. (But Is that bad?)
KIDDLE NUMBER TWO was revived by Jake
Wade in hia Sunday column in tl)f Charlotte Ob
served. Three traveling salesmen checked Into a
hotel and the clerk said he would put them in the
same room and charge them $30 for it.
After the men had gone up to their room, the
c erk's conscience began hurting him and he de
c ded he had overcharged them and would knock
the prioe down to 186. So he handed the bellhop
U and told him to give it to "the men aa a refund.
Not being bothered by a conscience, the bell
hop decided he would keep two bucka and give
the salesmen only three. This he did, so the room
actually cost the gents $0 each, or $27 in all. The
bellhop only kept $2, leaving one dollar unac
counted for, says the riddle.
The trick here la in the way it'* stated, which
assumes that you add the $2 to the $27. It should,
of course, be subtracted ? aa should the bellhop
from his Job.
Which proves that figures don't lie, but liars
often figure.
THE THIRD ONE is propounded by Carl
Goerch In The State magaiine. A detective died
and went to heaven. Sty Peter loked at hia cre
dentials and said, "So you're a detective. Are you
ageodoae?" 'ft' '
"The best in ,$>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
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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.
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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.
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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
<M git in. you'd git thro wad out
i
if you caused any undue commo
tion.
And it wai a mighty big relief
to the farmer needing help when
we descended from the "high
plateau" to the middle one. I'll
never fergit when we made that
change-over. I stopped s feller I
knowed and asked him if he'd lika
to do some work fcr me.' He stood
still until I got plum through talk
ing to him afore be said "no" and
walked oft Back ia the "high
plateau" days he wouldn't even
have stopped to listen.
So I ain't too shore. Mister Edi
tor, ^f this "slight recession" is
going to be bad or good fer us.
1 see where a feller from Chi
cago la so disgusted with the way
Congress is running the country
that he aim ta try to cross Laka
Superior over to Canada in a bar
ret. Somebody ought ta gtra this
feller a good talking to, appeal tq
his patriotism. Ia (he first place,
we're short on barrels in thi*
country, and in the second place,
he ought to atay here and take
his medicine with the rest of us.
The beta writers in the coun
try, Mister Editor, ain't working
aa asaspap*"- They is working
a* proas agents fer resort town*
ia Florida. 1 saw a picture of a
bathing beauty in the paper Sun
day. and under the picture they
was Jast theae words "Brown,
Bare, and Beautiful " Now that'#
what I call sharp-shooting with a
typewriter.
Yours, truly,
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