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THE YANCEY RECORD TT_ l Established July, 1936 ' ABNEY and TRENA BOX CO-PUBLISHERS & EDITORS UtSB HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. BROWN t SHOP MANAGER I Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership .• Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, N. C. | EDITORIAL COMMENT 1 The second annual appeal of thej Yancey United Fund is getting under way. This fund raising drive represents a once-a-year oppor tunity for the citizens of the County to unite in a broad community undertaking to make Yancey 1 County a better place to live, a better place to" raise a family, a community with a genuine con-' cern for our fellow men. United appeals have proved them- ! selves everywhere the best means of achieving these civic goals. The united way of giving has grown very rapidly in the past few years. . All the larger cities in North Car- and a large part ot the >v smaller communities in the State are having their United Appeals this year. This is because our communities have come to realize that a unified well planned fund raising campaign best serves the local needs. United funds are all community enter prises, locally controlled. The bud get is drawn up locally by thought ful, civic minded citizens who- know the local needs. There is no dicta tion from any state or national or ganization. The expense of collect ing the funds, both in dollars and the time put in by volunteer wor kers, is much less than under the old haphazard method of separate campaigns. The second year’s goal of $9,200 is an impressive sum. It is, however, little if any more than was raised in Yancey County in 1954, the last V ■■■■» ■ ' ' ■ III." 111 ■" ~~ RANDOM THOUGHTS by Doris Burton Maybe you know who first said that “Ignorance is bliss.” I don’t. But I do know that the person who said it must have been awfully blissful. Can you imagine anything more asinine? Perhaps if one were born an idot without the ability to ever learn, one might be completely happy. Any other human being, with normal physical and mental capabilities would be miserable. In fact, he couldn’t help learning! Instinct would demand knowledge of a few basic needs and desires, and the body and brain would find ways of survival under any cir cumstances. Any man with the least trace of Intelligence must realize that know ledge Is the most precious of all abstract things. To have the oppor tunity to learn is the greatest pri vilege one can have. It has been said that money is the root of all evil. That I don’t believe, either. Ignorance is the root. If you read your newspapers, then you knqw that it isn’t the intelligent, learned person who commits the serious crimes in this country; it’s the man or woman who would never go to school regularly or those-who never had a chance at a good education. You find a few instances when that is untrue, but they are merely the exceptions to the rule. TET ignorant man, whose"mind I was never devoloped beyond a cer tain stage (which automatically left him without the ability to reason a thing through to a sensible point) is the man who will lie, cheat, steal or kill for what he wants. He hasn’t enough sense to know that the material things can make living a little more pleasant, but they aren’t the things that make it worth living. He wants everything that other people have but hasn't the knowledge or men tality to acquire them by any other than the dog-eat-dog method. That is why I wish those two old adages had never been written or uttered. I’ve heard' people say so many times that they wished they didn't know anything: that travel travel and reading and knowing about all things they might have or do or be is what made them unhappy; that people they knew who couldn't read or write were so much happier than they; —“ - I don’t believe any of those.people really meaAt that. If so, then why the constant struggle by every parent to see their children through school? Why all the sacrifices In year of separate fund rasing drives. .. The goal would, of course,- be a heavy burden if only a few people in the County were expected to give. But Yancey County has 16,000 population. That means that if every man, woman and child gave 57 cents, the goal would be reached. Wh?n looked at in this way, the goal does not seem so very high. Actually, nobody expects ■ the money to be raised by everybody giving just 57 cents. That would not. be a fairway of collecting it. Some of us are in a better position To give than others. Some of us will pledge sums many times the 57 cent figure. . The point for us to keep in mind is that if we give in accordance with our ability, the'goal will be raised without difficulty and with out havdshipijipn the givers. It is now up to the_ volunteer workers in the County to .contact every potential giver. In cases where the giver is not contracted, it will not be difficult for him to, find a worker-who will accept his contribution; nr it may be sent to the Unted Fund, Burnsville. Each of vo should make the size of our contribution a matter of conscience, Last year, many regularly employed people gave one day's pay. campaign reflect credit on the communities which conduct them, and upon all those who participate as workers or givers. They deserve the maximum support from all I of us. . 1 1 order to give them a good college education, when just neglecting to , do so could make the child so much j . happier ? Actually, what we all wdnt for our children is a little better life,! a little easier one, than we had for ourselves. And we know that every j grain of knowledge implanted in > their minds is that much more in- 1 ' surance against a life of poverty. I and heart-breaking toil. The trou-i bles that will come to them through - out their lives, they’ll be prepared or. Nothing can take away the con fidence and assurance that they ac quire from learning. Our children are the hope of a chaotic world. Every day that passes brings a greater, more evi dent need of men and women of high intelligence; clear-thinking, decisive, trained minds are more in demand than ever before in history. We all know this, I think, but we don’t always take an acfiye part . in the educational activities of our ’ communities. We should. The fu ture of every single one of us de pends upon education, and perhaps the future of the world. If we per mit ourselves to live in ignorance, j : we are committing not only-.a, sin i against ourselves but against all 1 who come into contact with us. Give knowledge and learning to' any people or any race and-they will rise to a higher plane of civil ization. Take the paths of know ledge away from-them-and you’ll find them, in one generation, as head-hunters. Who wants to live in a world that’s gone back to the “survival of-the-fitlest" way of life? Who wants to become an animal again? It could happen to all of us if we close our minds to the educational needs of our communities and our country. Use your talents and cap- , abilities in every way you can to make our schools better -for your own sake, and for the good of all ' man-kind. Let your conscience be your guide and if anyone tells you that ignorance is bliss, avoid him in the future. He’s too ignorant to know! THANKS EXTENDED TO HOSPITAL STAFF ' We wish le extend our heartfelt ] thank* to Dr. Webb and the en- j tire hospital staff for the acts of love and kindness shotvn to j Mona Lee during her recent con finement'at the Yancey Hospital, The Henry Lee Robinson family i * ■ ■. -—=-n -Overlook On Life •... r By WARREN S. REEVE | ( Note: The idea of “Overlook” is taken front the Overlooks - provided for viewing panora mas along the Blue Ridge * narkway. ' * ' i —.—, - ~ - ■ i 'J i While I was sitting in-the barber shop one day, waiting my turn to get a haircut, I heard the others talking about'Chas. McCartney and his caravan of goats. That morning I had not yet read the Asheville Citizen and I had never heard of r this Chas. McCartney before. The •conversation aroused my curiosity, and I took pains to get a paper and see the photograph and read the article about Chas. and his unique outfit, The. story interested me be cause I once kept a goat, and there by hangs a tale! When. I was a youngster in rural New Jersey, boy friends of mine who lived on a had a billy goaf that they could hitch up to a wagon and drive as they would j a pony or horse. What fun I thought that must be!-How I en vied them! I remeyiber vividly the stout Wagon with' its bright red paint and the harness for the goat jtjse-Hke a- horse's- harness! I sup pose that there were tiAies when I had a ride myself in the wagon, al though I cannot actually remember such occasions. I only TrrcfS-mSeir glluring the thought was' of having a goat- that you cord'd' hitch up so splendidly and that you could make pull you wherever you wanted ! Many years later when we lived in Japan and found that masses of the population could ‘not afford | cow’s milk, and that if they could, there were not enough milk cows a'nd not enough pasturage for milk! to be provided even for all the) babies; and when we knew from the experience of our daily i:.-.'ng. how watery the milk we bought! was, we followed with interest the! pioneering efforts of some mission | (tries-and. of some progressive Jap-1 anese to introduce milk goats into Hie land. I recall that on one of my last train trips through the mountains of Japan in 1939 or 1940 I noted here and there goats tethered opt to graze -a sight one could m>t have seen a few-years previously. The farmers were discovering that they could keep a goat and have its nourishing milk myeh more in expensively than would be possible*, by maintenance of a cow. Since the ! war I have heard that quite a few Angoras, Toggenbwrgs and probably ' ! other breeds as well have been sent to Japan. • j ! We here in America have perhaps ' - not realized wka.t. impoverished lives the farmers of other cotmtries ~ A ; have had to live. We have gem.r --l ally thought that hard though the . I'” . I I f****************v***4A» | POETRY CORKER Conducted By Edith Deaderick Erskine DAWN Dawn is a strangely quiet and solemn Hime When Heaven seems the nearest, and the Earth, Refreshed with rain or dew or . winter’s rime, Awaits the opening hymn of Day's rebirth. A bird choir greets the Dawn with joyous song, j And from the sward the dew has lately kist, The changing grandeur sweeps the j soul along , | As lightly as the disappearing mist.! An aura of sheer beauty girds the 1 Dawn As Sunrise gilds a mountain crest with gold And scatters beams upon the jew eled lawn While vistas like a flowering rose unfold. | Omnipotence relates the scheme of ; things, The oratory gives the morning j wings. j Wm. L. Rathburn PURPLE PULPIT Violet -words . . above a purple--- pulpit E>r old people In the twilight? ,No: Let there be fire Let therebe sunrise Lighting \he world. I Manfred Career i THEYANGEYSEGQ^tD ■-• ' \ farmer’s lot may be, he has as , least had enough to eat Tor himself , and his .-family. Not so in many parts of the world-. In many places; the farmer, growing food -for the .nation, starves himself; his family are thin from malnutrition.. Goat husbandry is one new (or, more -dorrectly, not so new) mode of operation by which poor families* may enrich their subsistence at a , minimum expense. , Wo have learned, too. the super ior qualities of goat’s milk. In the first place, it is rarely'a carrier of ; tubtrcular infection, as cow’s milk may readily be. In lands like Japan where tuberculosis has smittpn j large numbers of the youth of the ! nation, this is a most important consideration. Secondly, goat’s milk ismoreeasiiy digesiible than cow’s milk. It comes from the goat nat urally homogenized. Some babies whose little, stomachs cannot take cow*s milk will thrive on goat’s milk. I met a country preacher by the roadside in Pennyslvania once V.ho tjgclared that it was by goat’s milk he got over an extremely case of stomach ulcers and ser ious general debilitation. He became so enthusiastic over goat culture that though he hadn’t given up |P reaching the Gospel, he was spend ing a lot of time ‘‘preaching goats” to anybody who would listen, and caring for the excellent herd that ie had acquired.' i You say you don’t like goat's I milk? Have you ever tried it? If i not, perhaps it is just the idea that j is repulsive. I confess that if goat’s |miTk offered to me tasted like the i smells Issuing from some billy goats i 1 have gone near. I wouldn’t want j to have anything to do with goat's mifk either! -iy- ' But. actually, let me assure yon, if female goats are kept clean, and if accepted methods of sanitary dairying are followed, there is neither hot’ sfhell-about the mjjk that could distinguish it from the cow’s milk. You could drink from unmarked samples inter changeably and you probably wouldn’t know which was which. Try It some time, if you ever get a chance - especially if you are af flicted with any kind of stomach -trouble. Well, I started to tell about my encounter with Chas. McCartney, 1 ut my space «s goge. So vou’ll have to wait till next week for that story, toklTiirthr toliQMnggSHSfeTgrthg; tale about my goat! 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Thursday evening, October 25, at 7:30 at the' church, an inquirer’s! class ' will bagin. _ Anyone who wishes to learn..more about the 'Episcopal Church is cordially., in vited to attend these classes. Plans are also being made to begin a Boy’s choir about which a later announcement will be made. ■ It was reported that" Trinity Church, now only a! little over a • ' LOOK what happens to' of tire troubles oe- ; new set of U. S. Royal //\ ’'fry.*'** A ' c '.;r in the lost 10% of Tires. / . Jl-’jyi' ? t 2 mileage. Why not sell —1 ns that 10% before your begins? We ° ,?ow a y o«f '•'nwsen ' (JLy # • jyT /* \ \ milecgeon a brand- *■ 6 RES-BETTER I£S- ACC Rises c. -i~- ■iirp wmar'i, - > — V - -- WE RE S7!!,T WAITING ... J •'(j’T l®6u>^your^inu£edfir^mi!eag^^J^ ■ ...and waiting for you is a FREE AWARD * Don't miss out! Trade in, ride out on U. S. Royal 8 Tires to.l ~ aay ~ —***•— '* -— — —— * * - . ' ■ ■- I TIR^ajggRTES-ACCESSORIES Royal Tire Service ■ PIIOM? 135 BURNSVILLE, N. C. 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Attending the. supper from Bur nsville were Mrs. John G. .Low and Wfr. and Mrs. Howard Simp . so iv - - V " ■ THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1956 movie to be shown Jut SOUTH TOE SCHOOL The South Toe P. T. A. will present a moving picture show at South Toe. School on { Saturday, Oct. 20, at 8 p. m. The picture will be “Beyond Tomorrow.” " This is the first of a series of movies shown to raise money to put pavement on the school playground. | USRBTAir L .-;TBaES I \mmT TIRES I
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