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THE YANCEY RECORD Established jfcly, 1936 ABNEY mi TtfSNA tVX CO-PtftifiSSE&S <£ EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY - ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. SHOWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, N. C. RANDOM THOUGHTS by Doris Burton Those of us who have children quite often ask ourselves why they do not behave toward us as we behaved toward our parents, and what we have done all along that possibly could have been influen tial in their development along the wrong lines. I can’t recall my mother ever having to tell me more than once to do a thing; and as for saying “Wait a minute", I knew better. I can’t remember ever having had a spanking as a child. All my mother had to do was LOOK at me. With all the child psychology books available now, and all the past experiences with one’s own children to refer to, some of us still think we may never reach the goal for which we strive so hard. That goal usually is to have a perfectly managed home filled with peace and quiet, but can it be that we are wrong and that this should not be our goal at all? Everything I’ve read on child psychology emphasizes the fact that from the very beginning of a child’s mental development, he should be provided with some out let for bis excess energy. Repress ion of any natural, healthy in stinct or impulse is a wrong; and any parent who attempts to main tain quiet in the home for the sake of his or her nerves, pays doubly at the expense of those same nerves with restless, irri table children. If the parent is successful in the effort for quiet, he or she may have as their reward an even worse state of affairs: children thoroughly repressed, lifeless, in- Westall & Riddle Longview Service Station Banks-Taylor Motor Co- Blue Ridge Hardware Co. Anglin & Westall Burnsville Department Store Burnsville Furniture & Hardware Co. Th * Northwestern Bank B- B. Penland & Son Lumber Co. Griffith & Hilliard Deyton Farm Supply Yancey Department Store: Royal Tire Service attentive, and wholly without in terest or enthusiasm. There is, of course, a limit to the noisy exuberance to be allaw ed them. One doesn’t necessarily have to “take it” every minute of the day. A child, who has been reared properly, knows instincti vely when a mother, or father has | had enough and, us a rule, will . cease the disturbance of it’s own accord. If the cnild does go past the limit, then it becomes the par ent’s duty to the eritire family to demand cooperation from the child. One can demand things of cer tain children; but with others, particularly the self - assertive child or the selfish child, it some times pays off in the long run to compromise. Self-assertiveness in a child can be channelled into paths that will lead him through the years to great things. > For the selfish child, nothing is better than play with other child ren, particularly in groups to help him lose that trait. He must then learn to share what he has with other children or suffer the conse quence, and children can some, times be very cruel, For the child who is slow, a sluggard in everything he at tempts, the same rule applys. He will learn through play with oth er children to think and move much faster. The blessed result will be an intellectual awakening which will be noticable to one only when mental activity, such as school work involving much thought, becomes easier for him. Be very careful about saying, “Oh well, he’ll outgrow it”. Ignor ing a child’s need for help is un- OPEN HOUSE NEW TOWN HALL AND FIRE DEPARTMENT SUNDAY, SEPT. 30, From 2 to 5 p. m. £ ' *JO" . I fy Our Most Hearty Congratulations To The Town Os Burnsville and Volunteer Fire Department - wlrlbek On Life - Note: The Idea of “Overlook” is taken from the Overlooks . provided for viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway. In the days when there were few cars and lots of horses around, I was walking down the street of •a certain, town one. day with a bunch of other men; and I was on the edge of the sidewalk, nearest the street. Here and there, horses were tied up to hitching posts. As I passed a horse, and without pay ing much attention to him, I sud denly felt a snapping at my arm, and found that I had by the bar est margin escaped being bitten by the animal. I suppose that this poor horse had had bad treatment ever since he was a colt. Maybe his owner gave him whacks over the nose every time he came up to him. With such memories, the horse was bound to feel suspicious of everybody, and quite understand ably snapped at anybody coming too near his face. I wonder whether there are boys and girls in our community who for one reason or another are getting the idea that the whole world is against them and who as they get older are going to have dispositions like that horse. The problem of human relations cannot be solved simply by shield ing our children from painful col lisions and frustrations. To some extent, we can and should shield them. But more important than merely quarantining them from the evil and brutality that lurks forgivable. The duty of directing all the activities of our children, until we know they are on solid ground, is of utmost importance. We must learn to accept the fact that they are individuals, each with a distinct and different set of characteristics; and then make a special effort, in away that is not obvious to the child, to cor rect any flaws we may discover in his character. Then, and only then, will we have earned the right as parents to say, "Well done”. THE YANCEY RECORD in many places is to help them to “take it” and yet keep their dis positions sweet. .: Go to a large hospital for crip pled and disabled people, and you will find there some of the saint liest persons in the world too noble to be resentful against God or fate. And perhaps in the next room or bed will lie a patient v/Ivj is like our “horse", feeling sorry for ..himself, squealing about the hard luck he has had, indulging in bitter jibes at the doctors and nurses. In the time of depression when many people were thrown out of work, hundreds had a grudge against “capitalists”. And those were days when communistic thoughts found fertile soil in the minds of even Americans. Tkip characteristic of getting mad at others when* things don’t go the way you want them to may be seen also in the attitude of lar ger social groups. Have labor un ions ever acted in that way? Have racial groups ever gone out to “beat”' or to "kill”? Reader- Friends, think this over! Let Burnsville be a community that, on the One hand, will not tol erate treatment such as our “horse” had when he was a. colt, and that, on the other hand, will produce people with characters too noble to bite and blame even if they have been treated unjustly. ■ EVERY STICK AND STONE Almost every stick and stone In more than 25 counties is being covered in one of the most com plete geological surveys ever made of the state. The purpose of the survey is to bring the geological map of the state up to date. The “slate belt” is perhaps the most poorly map ped part of the state and the geologists are concentrating on it. The survey, a Governor’s pro ject, will serve as a basis for the later economic exploitation of the Obituaries RANSOM M. RIDDLE ' # Ransom M. Riddle, aged 67, a retired Yancey County farmer, passed away Monday morning, Sept. 17, in an Asheville hospital after a long illness. Funeral services were hald Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 18, in the Concord Church near Burns wille. The Rev. Elzie Ray officiat ed assisted by the Rev. Bascomb Hensley and the Rev. W. J. Baker. Burial was in the Penland Ceme tery. Mr. Riddle was a member of the Baptist Church for many years. Surviving arc the widow and four daughters, Mrs. Monroe Thacker of Star Rt., Burnsville, Mrs. Roy Waycaster of Fletcher, Mrs. Jim Erooks of Mooresville, and Miss Alma Riddle of the home; also three sons, Plato and Claude Riddle of Asheville, and William O. Riddle of Burnsville; one sister, Mrs. Jennie Riddle of Pensacol i; and fifteen grand children. JOHN LETTERMAN John Letterman, aged 75, of Route 9, Greenville, Tenn., a for mer resident of Yancey County, -passed away Sept. 3, in a Greens ville hospital, fcdlowing injuries suffered in a farm accident. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Alice Jones Letterman, and one daughter, Mrs. Ray Crum, boui of- Greenville; two brothers, Joe W. Letterman .of Celo, and Nelson F. Letterman of Knoxville; and also by three nieces and three nephews. Funeral services were conduct ed at Zion U. P. Church, of which he was a faithful member, on Wednesday afternoon, September 5, by the Rev. John E. Powers as sisted by the Rev. Richard Waddle Mr. Letterman _ was the son of the late David A. Letterman and Ruth Peak Letterman. He was born on May 13, 1881, at Pig-Pen community of Yancey County. He moved with his family to Greene County, Tennessee, in 1908. rocks and minerals in the state. So, if you see a group of rnen. walking around and picking up all in your neighborhood, don’t call the paddy wagon. They're just geologists. I Roberts Chevrolet, Inc. Burnsville Shell Service > French Broad Electric Membership Corp. Burnsville Super Market & Pete’s Snack Bar Ruby’s Flowers and Gift Shop Ray Bros. Grocery Pollards Drug Store Western Auto Associate Store Main Street Service Station Town & Country Shoe Store The Yancey Pharmacy Vint & Lee’s Esso Service CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation to our friends and neighbors for the many kind and thoughtful remembrances shown us during our recent sorrow, and also for the beautiful flowers. Sira. Ransom Riddle and family. SUBSCRIBE TO THE kECOSO i * ~ * I FIRST CLASS ! A ¥■ * * * * i l ★ Describes Perfectly The New l * * ) Town Hall & Fire Deptf | i | We Installed All Plumbing 1 * ' | i And Heating Equipment I j Stanley Riddle S 1 * l PLUMBING & HEATING 1 * * | ; BURNSVILLE, N. C. i t : ——- $ * - i i Dealer In | i I | Plumbing & Heating Supplies f ★ * i Phone 15 l * * i i * s THURSDAY, SEPT. 27,19*4 Plywood manufacturing started in Oregon. In 1904 a box and bar ’s! factory in St. Johns made the first panel*. ■ i • • • Alamos in southern Sonora, Mex ico derives its prosperity from the Mexican jumping bean. Each July and August residents pick and package the world’a supply of brincadores (jumpers). Joawuin Hernandez, a native of Alamos known as the Jumping Bean King, buys almost the entire crop for export.
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