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| Columbus ... His Day
m- Wonder what Christopher Co
lumbus, now safe In hit heavenly
villa on the Via St Peter, thinks
of having (Uncovered America?
Wonder, too, aa he bobs in his
celestial rocker, if ha doesn't get
the fidgets looking down oo hula
hoops, endurance talkers, drag rac
iiers, and the chemiaeT
Of coume, historians sax the
Vikings were the first to reach the
North American mainland, which
actually was named for another
IWlinn, Amerigo Vespucci, who ar
irived on it four year* after Co
lumbus did.
As they stroll in the Elytian
meadows, Amerigo and Christo
pber probably are sore In spirit
at the outcome of their ao-called
fleshly triumph. Doubtless they're
thinking about the success of still
another Italian who came along
years later and discovered Ingrld
Bergman.
8urely Columbus must feel bad
dy about seeing 40,000 and 90,000
people joyously shouting in stad
iums because some young lay fig
are has batted or carried a leather
sphere 300 feet. In 1402 there
wasn't a soul on the beach to
shake Columbus' hand, Interview
him, take his picture and carry
him off on shoulders.
And another pointed out that
Columbus' discovering America
coat him only a few bucks, but he
didn't have to live in it after
ward. *
North Carolina's poet laureate,
James Larkin Pearson, pointed out.
however, that if "Christopher had
not discovered America, somebody
else would .As big a thing as
America couldn't have remained
lost forever. It made no effort
to get away.
"Columbus haa been given too
much honor, juat aa if he had done
aomethlng very hard to do, like
finding a needle in a haystack. or
a Democrat that didn't want office.
What he did waa nothing like
that. He atarted aailing west, and
all he had to do waa juat ait ateady
in the boat and come on. Here waa
America atretched out right
across his path for five or six
thousands miles, and even if he
had come with his eyes shut, he
was bound to hit it someplace. He
couldn't have missed It. Anybody
could have done that."
In 1492 everybody wanted to
find a short route to the East In
dies for gold, gema, drugs and
spices Nobody suspected that
America existed and had them.
And H may have been better if
they'd never found ua.
Columbus likqd to travel. In
the summer of 1492 he arrived in
Spain both oo hit feet tad poe
t trior But be politicked ole Queen
Isabella and ahe put him on the
government payroll (o be could
travel all he wanted to. Like John
Foster Dulles
Back then, however, not many
people dared venture far from
the tight of land. They believed
the world wat flat and if they
went far enough they'd fall off.
Columbut believed the world wat
round. Little did he know how
flat it would be almost 900 yean
later.
He laid the way to get to the
eatt wat to tall weft. Everybody
else taid he thould tee a ptychi
atritt. That, they aaid, wat like
telling people to buy more thingt
and tpend more money, and that
way everybody would pro* per.
Didn't make tente to them either.
When he finally ditembarked on
the New World, be brought greet
ing* from Queen Isabella. And
that's the last thing we ever got
free from Europe.
For hundreds of years the ship
ping lanes became one way streets
west ? till we started asking for
interest on our money.
Columbus made several trips
over. On the first he left some
Spanish colonists. On the second
be found the colonists fighting the
Indians. On the third he found
true American progress wat being
made ? the colonists were fighting
among themaelves.
After Columbus snd the Span
iards came the English. Then the
Scotch-Irish came over and put the
country on a paying basis.
But it's lucky Columbus discov
ered America when he did. Had he
waited until 1966, he would have
been ao besieged with chamber
of commerce lnvitationa to discov
er it at Boston, New York, Phila
delphia, Norfolk, Wilmington,
Charleston, and Miami that the
chances are he would have become
perplexed and turned back with
out discovering it at all.
THIS MECHANICAL AGE
Cody, Wyo. ? The hone is los
ing out in its last domain? pack
trips into the wilderness.
The Wyoming Gsme and Fish
Department wanted to move a
game warden patrol station from
an area west of Meeteetse to a
new site high in the hills on Jack
Creek. The department estimated
it would take 100 pack horses four
days to move the cabin, board by
board, its stove and other equip
ment.
A helicopter made 27 aerial
sweep* and moved it in one day.
He's the picture of
because he romps on
WARM FLOORSL
Employment
Workers Needed
The Employment Security Com
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interested in interviewing otic or
two applicant* who would be arail
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N. C, a* Intermittent Interviewer
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Applicant! would have to paaa
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Garden Notes
By M. E. GARDNER
If you are Interested In the pres
ervation of flowerj and taring
"everything except the scent," you
should read an article In the Sep
tember issue of the National Geo
net administration, vocational edu
cation, accounting or in a related
field, may be substituted for the
required college training on a year
for year basis).
Applicants Interested in this
work should contact Troy L. Perry,
Manager, Employment Security
Commission, P. O. Box 380, North
Wilkesboro, N. C.
graphic Magaiine. The article waa
written by Mra. General Condon
and la entitled "Blossom That
Defy the Season*. " Mra. Condon
Uvea in Utah and hai conducted
expert menta for aiz years uaing
sand from the ahorea of the Great
Salt Lake
Of course, my wife read the
story and wanted to know right
away about using our beach aand
for this purpose. I told her I didn't
think it would work becauae the
character of the aanda were so dis
tinctly different. Really my motive
waa completely ulterior becauae I
had reports that the fiahing was
good (ad I hopod that. U I resisted
? little, ihc would be more deter
mined to go down and f*t some
Mod. It worked. We brought bock
a goodly supply of wind blown
aaad so she can do soma experi
menting of b?r own. The fishing
waa tolerably good.
Watch out for the cabbage web
worm because it can be a serious
pest on such fall vegetables as cab
bage, collar ds, turnips, mustard,
beets and radish. The damage la
done by the caterpillars. They are
about M of an inch in length and
a dull grayish-yellow color, marked
along the back with five brownish
purple longitudinal stripes.
For control, use Texaphene on
cabbage but be careful not to ap
ply within wvm days of harvMt.
Do not use Toxaphene on collar ds
after any of the edible leaves have
formed. Methoxychter may be used
ob cabbage up to seven days before
harvest and on collards and tur
nip greens up to 14 days before
harvest. W
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