PAGE TWO Open Forum COLUMN FOR THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE JNOW IS THE TIME TO BUILD ‘ ROADS • - We have read the newpapers •sand listened to our good friend, t remembered that the farther 'west the smaller the amount '-spent. We believe that when this money is to be allocated that our road authorities will consider that in the mountains (and we -have no apologies for living in •the -mountains), that they will ■realize lhat in addition to the wud—which is “universal” —the Chills add to the transportation . troubles in the west. We -resent the epithet that is ‘ □ften -used to describe the moun /Jtams as being -the “Lost Prov ince.” But IF i this were true, it would be only -Scriptural for -some means- to toe used to “find” Mhis lost -arsa. Many actually Sigood- folks- have the same opin ion of the mouritains and the Presidents 'of -the same as a Northern lady who moved from - Pennsylvania to-our section told ’ me relative to what many folks 'ptfho, like in the North, think of * the South. She -said that she had that the Southerners tare “back numbers” and were non-progressive. She said that •'she was never more surprised in 3ier life to find it to be totally ’untrue. -As a further evidence of mis understandings even among well informed men, when I was su jperantendent of Schools of Ashe .County (please pardon reference ''Hum^yself—J want no glory nor *• utfiebtaar tho time that the con- - acuxdaxidr program of schools be- - gaiunip-a'meeting of school offi- • -cials, our then State Superin tendent (now gone to his reward) mnade the statement that any • county superintendent who does not put *ras many as ten schools together as “sleeping on his job.” L. merely asked the question if had ever been to Ashe Coun ty. '“No,” was his reply. I sta ted further that until the good SPECIAL NOTICE—To all G. L Joes, Sailors, Marines, Seabees * and Merchant Marines: We will «*tiy your ■surplus clothing, shoes, LSuns or anything of value. CJ. & J. Store. 2-14-3tpd II— 1 THE i Parkway ■ : THEATER West’Jefferson, N. C. ———^^^ol——— I ■■ ■ FRI.-SAT. FEB. 22-23 Matinee Every Sat. 12:30 I TRAIL OF KIT CARSON ; starring i i Allan Lane Chapter 11 \ "Federal Operator No. 99” ; Also Comedy ■ i MON. ONLY FEB. 25 THE SPIDER i starring a Richard Conte, Faye Mar lowe, Kurt Kreuger Also Short Subjects | TUES. ONLY FEB. 26 | ON A RAINBOW starring ICtene Frazee and 3 ’Brad Taylor Chapter 1 * BB Wh Chestnut Hill: Ralph Marsh, Glendale Springs: L. F. Wood- Jefferson: David Burkett, J. M. Lester Jones, Glenn Baldwin. wtb erS ° n le Y Harless, Wm. Phipps, Robert Murry. ie, Delmar Rose, Robert Woodie. Little, Oscar Badger. Oy 1 ers P° on » C. J. Calio- Clifton: R. C. Hartsoe, B. F. Grassy Creek: E. H. Handy, R. Laurel: C. G. Robinson, Q. E. T V ?Jtherland Little, Edd H. Little. L. Hanes, Garvey Blevins. Osborne, L. H. Perry. ’ White Oak: ? E. W Stansberry Creston: Joe Robinson, W. M. Helton: Bradford Waddell, R. Nathan’s Creek: R. C. Rich- Silas Creek: Roscoe Oliver, E. R. Stansberry, J. W. Stans- Lewis, John Knox. M. Sexton, Vinson McClure. ardson, Rex Jones, Wiley Blevins. Roscoe Neaves, W. E. Denny. berry. Sponsored By The Following In The Interest Os Better Farming: Todd Drug Co. Ashe Hardware Co. Ray Hardware Co. \ ■ AAA OFFICE SOIL CONSERVATION DISTRICT Kraft Foods Co. ashe county farm agents Carolina Briar Corp. FARM SECURITY ADMINISTRATION should be done fairly and equit- from 45 degrees on down, ably. I would not attempt to Within the memory of the suggest, to road men, but it is present generation, this winter common knowledge that many has been “unique” for rain and miles of expensive. roads have mud, but it is no uncommon been torn up and “paralleled” thing in the past for school buses with more expensive roads to to stand for a week; for mails to take out a little crook when have to stop, or carry it into the numbers of farmers in the office part of the time, and for mountains have had to push and doctors to have to be pulled out pull their “Tin Lizzies” through of the mud at night in this sec mud to the axle and at a slant of tion. But let’s revert to Grady fHE SKYLAND POST. WEST JEFFERSON, N. C. Cole's suggestion ( that the farm ers aid in the construction of these roads. A good road through any section is an invest ment and not a liability. As an incentive to those who may think this is a burden, I will say that I distinctly remember (and I am by no means claiming to be old) when beginning at 18 years old, all able-bodied men had to put in 10 days “free” la- bor on the road, and in cases where a new road had to be built they, had to walk as far as five miles to do a part of this. We are all proud that North Carolina was first at Bethel; farthest at Gettysburg; last at Appomattox, and that she gave the first hero in the Spanish- American War. Now, let’s forget about war and pursue this road-building THURSDAY, FEB. 21. 1946 program until Ashe shakes hands with Brunswick; Cherokee with Currituck and connect all the main highways so that we may all march into “Mudling burg” County and give Grady Cole such a serenade that it will make him feel young again. C. M. DICKSON, Silas Creek, N. C. Ashe County. February 14, 1946.