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THE YANCEY RECORD ~ | Established July, 1966 AJ&EY and THEN A FOE CO-PVBLISHERS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L, BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership \ SacofM Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, N, C. J * i ' i-i " . ■ - ■ , EDITORIAL COMMENT I < (AN EDITORIAL .FROM THE SOUTHERN PINES PILOT) The head Os the news bureau at the University of North Carolina, the personable Pete Ivey, who also has a good many as a working newspaperman behind him, under took recently to give the N. C. Council of Women’s Organizations, some advice on how to present their club publicity to newspaper editors. The advice has been widely re printed oVer the state. Editors were happy to yublidze information that might help club leaders —not to mention the editors themselves —in their own tones. At least one newspaper jumped on Mr. Ivey because he had re ferredato the hypothetical editor used in his illustrations as” the man in the baggy pants.” From personal experience, we’d say that Pete is more often right than wrong in this respect. Any body who stuffs his legs under a typewriter table and slips in and out of this position 50 times or so a day. often with no time to think of the matter of carefully hoisting pants legs like gentlemen do in the movies and sometimes in real life, too, will affirm that this is no life to foster sharp trouser creases. BEST TO BE PEST The same newspaper that didn’t like the “baggy pants" designation also disagreed with the conclusion that persons approaching an editor should be considerate in their de mands. In effect, the dissenting newspaper’s suggestion was that persona seeking publicity make themselves so disagreeable and such a peat that finally an editor would give in to their demands Just to get rid of them.' . With this point of view, too, we disagree, believing, with Mr. Ivey, that a vast amount of wasted time, j* . '•) • '0 Less than ! 200 • . i hours away! The car that breaks the patterns of fche past..« V CHEVROLET Y It’ll be on hand bright and early — , FRIDAY, ACT. 19 1 jMy franchised Chevrolet dealers display this famous trademark ROBERTS AUTO SALES, Inc FRANCHISED DEALER NO. 1019 PHONE tU or 270 BURNSVILLE, N. a - misunderstanding and hurt feel ings could be‘avoided if the public 1 knew more about an editor’s pro blems and how to approach him so that news material would get the best possible treatment. HEART OF ADVICE Here is the heart of Mr. Ivey's advice to the ladies —and of course I it applies every bit as well to men who have to deal with editors: “Don’t argue with the newspaper editor and try to insist on - his printing your club news or print ing it exactly as you have written it. Don’t be insistent. Don’t talk back. w 1 “The editor knows his own news- i paper needs, and the best thing to I do is write the news briefly, ac- < curafeely, and fully and let him be the judge of whether it’s news and what space it will get. Study the needs of the newspaper and find out what best suits the new^Jj&pers. “Bethe kind of press agent who is so helpful and nondemanding that when the editor sees you com ing he will greet you with a cor [ dial smile and seem genuinely glad i you have brought something to the newspaper.” Then came The Chapel Hill Weekly, picked up Mr. Ivey’s re commendations, approved them and added some more of their own, all of which we commend to the attention of persons bringing news to The Pilot or any other news paper. The Weekly’s advice listed seven good points: 1. Take the publicity or news of the meeting to the editor the next morning, early, Don’t wait. Yours is not the only story he has to pre pare or get in the paper. You’ll get a better story if your copy is In * vOfniok OS W? By WARREN 8. REEVE Note: The idea of “Overlook" Is taken from thb Overlooks provided for viewing panoramas along the .Blue Ridge Parkway. ■ ■ ■- ....... ... • i' ' ' " ' ' ===iSr A group of young people were en gaged in an animated discussion 1 the other day as to the way a con- | scientious representative or senator ought to vote when his own con. victlons were on one side of the question but the majority of his constituency favored the other. Was 1 he not in duty bound to vote the way the people he represented wished? Some of the group thought emphatically that this was his first obligation arid that if our govern ment is to be reckoned a represen tative form of government, he ought to vte the way the majority in his district would have him vote, insofar as it was possible for him to know what their prevailing senti ment was. Personal opinion should be laid aside, it was suggested, and the opinion of the people made the standard by which he should judge a measure. Others in the group were not so sure that this was invariably the right' policy for a law-maker to follow. Especially if the law bad to do with a moral issue, ought not a conscientious man to vote the way his conscience would direct? Sup posing 90 per cent of the constitu ency were In favor of some Bort of a law that would legalize gambling devices but the legislator himself deplored such a measure, how should he vote? Here Indeed was an arguable point. Whichever side he might take, hs would violate a principle (which suggested the in ference that in practical political life, some degree of compromising may be inevitable, distasteful though such a thought is to men of Integrity). Another instance of a good poli. tical man’s plight would be when a bill would come up which Would definitely commit the state or the nation to a program of enlighted advance and when the constituency would strongly oppose it, being conservative, perhaps being even too Ignorant and blind to know what was for their own good. Mgiy Instances could undoubtedly be cited when deplorable prejudice wrecked a projected program that could have done marvellous good to early. 2. Make certain all names are correct. Give both first and last names, and, in the case of married women, use the husband’s initials or first name. Don't write only “Miss Jones;” there are hundreds of them. Make Miss Jones happy by giving her first name. B.*-Don’t ask the editor to run a story of a forthcoming evsnt or benefit in every issue of the paper between the time you bring it in an<T the dsy of the affair. Buy some advertising—ls you want it plugged that often. N 4. If you want to promote a cause or benefit, discuss the complete publicity campaign with the editor. He can help you think of possible stories; then, get them to him. 5. Don't tell the editor If he doesn’t give you a long story, you’ll take it to the other paper, He knows you've already been there or are going anyway. 6. Don’t ask the editor when the story will appear. He’ll try to get it in the very next issue. Again 1 , yours is not the only story he has to think about and although his judgment is not infallible, the editor makes a sincere effort to put in the paper first the hottest news he has. 7. Don’t ask him to put your story on the front page. If you don’t be lieve the inside pages, specially of the Weekly, are avidly read, just let us make one little tenny, weeny error on one, and we’ll refer the calls to you. ? NEWS, NOT OPINIONS All this advice assumes that the edßor is a reasonable and con. scientious person. And, strange to say, he or she most usually is. Most news, in most newspapers, gets about the treatment it deserves. And we mean news, toot expressions ] of ldeas or opinions. These are often accepted or rejected accord to the editor’s particular con-1 vietlns or policy. If persons fail to get their ideas or opinions into a certain news paper, they should try another, be cause they may find an editor sym pathetic to their way of thinking This is altogether different from * news, however.! News has its own values, apart from ideas or opin ions. And real news, well presented to the editor, always gets printed. i , THE YANCEY RECODE all the people. In such an event, how should the conscientious legis lator vote? Were he to vote in favor of the enlighted program would he not show himself a for ward lookin leader? Would not the influence of his stand help to break j down prejudice and be a directive to the people's thinking that he also had a responsibility to give? But then, he would run the risk of not being re-elected! : C :i , It was thus obvious that these are matters where delicate dis tinctions enter in and where all the right may not be on one side. Cer tainly tolerance Is called for, and we do well to appreciate the per plexities and dilemmas that will sometimes be tormenting the good man who has gone into political life. This discussion was heartening evidence that our young people are alert and interested in public af fairs. When our schools succeed in bringing them to understand the responsibility that every citizen has to be informed on matters of public Interest and to do clear thinking about them, we may feel that the democratic atmosphere of America is indeed a living thing. RANDOM THOUGHTS by Doris Burton It is less than a century since Darwin drew the veil from the fact that we are of common origin with all other animals. The human race is inclined tj» consider itself sep arate and apart, and % might a4d, above any other form of life on this planet, simply because we have the power of reason. But that reason is a tool that we ourselves use only part of the time,- We have not yet accepted the fact that an immense amount of our daily behavior, like that of all living things, iswotTree action but ag expression of our pattern of living or the pattern of the group to which one belongs. W* pjyst take into our calculations that It is almost impossible for any indivi dual 0 break away from their routine, but thgjt to do so often disturbs them to the point of dis traction. “Pattern Jiving' 1 - that is the point I am trying |u> JX)ske. Why do we do everything we do Just pgr actly the way we do it? Because that Is the way we have always done it and the way fevpyypße else does it! We don't do a thing cer tain way because it's more effect, ive or reasonable that way, or even more pleasant, but simply be, cause it is sanctioned. Why do men go around sweatily and sloppily in the summer heat, clad in a long twin cylinder gar ment with all possible ventilation closed off by means of a strip of Colored cloth tied around their necks a* though they were laundry bags? There is no reason whatever. Men have dressed that way fop longer than anyonee&m remember, and although Bermuda shorts and cooler shirts have been seen re cently, changes are coming very slowly. In the lives of each Individual, there is evidence of the terrible re sults that can«be found from the mere effort of trying to break away from this pattern of living. And at some time In each life, these comes the desire to change things, to Hve a different sort of life, to be a different person. It is always so much easier to simply conform, to adapt oneself, to be exactly what everyone expects one to be. The person who cannot conform, becomes one of the pack or the herd, is the most unfortunate per son I know, He might just as well have been born with two heads and antlers on each, because be is an outcast, a freak of nature; and until the reasoning power of the human race reaches a much greater height ofunderstandlng than It now possesses, he will always be an out. cast. Insecurity and anxiety are l part of the price one has to pay l for any attempt to shake free from the pattern. The garage mechanic, the farmer's wife, the school, teacher, has to get away from home, from familiar surroundings occasionally, or they'll find them selves in a doctor’s office with a prescription In their hands for an equalizer and. an earful of advice Obituaries MBA, MARGARET WRIGHT Mrs, Margaret Wright, M, a former Burnsville resident, died Sunday in a Winston-Salem hos pital after a long illness. Funeral " services were held Tuesday at 11 a. m. in Pleasant View Baptist Church in King sport, Tenn. The Rev. Ralph Cook officiated assisted by the Rev. Harley Doty, and burial was in West Burns ville Cemetery. J Surviving are four daughters, , jvlrs. Myrtle Thornton of Alexan dria, Va„ Mrs. Amos Pellerln, Joe of the U. S. Army stationed in France and Willie of Lexing- ton; three sisters, Mrs v Ada Massey Misses Cynthia and Barbara Wright of Kingsport; four sons, W. J. and Warren of Kingsport, of Mohawk, Tenn., Mrs. Minnie Murphy of Huntdale, and Mrs. Amanda Brooks of Concord; a brother, Charlie Buchanan of the state of Washington; half-broth ers, Lonnie Edwards of Burns ville and Luther Edwards of John son City, Tenn.; and 17 grand children. ” N NOTICE There will be a Republican Rally at the Courthouse qj* Oct ober 12th at 7:80 p. m., according ; to Pick Bailey, Yancey County Republican obftlrWan. t about “take a long vacation some t where; you need a change.” Why? 1 Simply because never to break i away from the deadly routine of - pattern living can make one edgy, , jittery, frightened and sleepless, i The pattern living process can be > seen clearly in the slowly en folding dram F . of old age. Though i the aged person may have fipanr ,• cial security and the support of a family, complete breakdowns are quite common, because as the per son ages, the rules and patterns ; of living which he has always fol- I lowed are no longer practicable, i The tragedy of pattern living i lies in the fact that once a person i has bgen mastered by it, his crea • tive abilities are cojnpletely de • stroyed. Nothing new will ever i spring forth from the mind or the works of such a person. The few qf us who refuse to ! stagnate, and I use as ft i symbol for the whole human race, r I are those who can and will break I : that chauf qf patfcej-fl Jiving aijd 3 go on to lead the rest. Fjrotn thyxy » . —_i.ii . . r — | —t—i a for Good Values | Come To I BLUE RIDGE HARDWARE On The Square ■ / * ’ .. .. '*■ Yes, you’ll find values when you visit us-and fine quality merchan dise for which we have (been known for years. 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JFG Ccffee Company, Inc., Knoxville, -s - ipURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1960 MRS. i. C. PETERSON Funeral services for Mrs. J. -C. Peterson, 83, who died Tuesday morning at Cane River at the home of a son, W. H. Peterson, following a long illness will be held today (Thursday) at 2 p. m. in Cane River Baptist Church. The Rev. A. Z. Jamerson will offi ciate and burial will be In the Peterson Cemetery. __ Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Rose McCurry of Day Book; two sons, W. H. Peterson of Cane Riv er, and Nealle Peterson of 31. 1, Weavervllle; 16 grandchildren, and several great grandchildren. SUBSCRIBE TO THE HE CORD LADIES You should . see our new dishes and enamel kitch enware- house hold items and Gifts of all kinds, ‘lift . Your Hardware Number Is 217 I