THE YANCEY RECORD Established Jtily, 1936 ARNEY and THEN A POX C&PvSLISHXRS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY . ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By 1 YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership ' Second Class Mall Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, N. C. Indian Summer Brings Glorious Colors Os Fall Season V In the mountains of Western North Carolina, the change of sea sons is a glorious thing! Spring comes tripping gently in, a blossom at a time and swings slowly into summer, but the fall bursts forth with a suddeness and brilliance that over-night (It seems) flings color in a dozen different hues from the peaks to the valley floor. In mid-October, when the lush green of the trees is just beginning to fade and summer is pausing briefly to catch its filial breath, the .forests become a tapestry of reds, yellows, and deep mahogany. Set against a background of ever-green are the flame red of the sourwood and.maples, the yellow of the tulip poplars, the gold of the beechwoods, and the scarlet and bronze of the oaks. Intermingled are the brilliant sparkling reds of the ash berry bushes. At ground level are asters, goldenrods, and other fall flowers. RANDOM THOUGHTS by Doris Burton I’ve heard so many people use the phrase, “It’s only human na ture,’ in reference to an act or deed, and I’ve often wondered just what is meant by that phrase. I suppose It would be impossible to give a complete definition, just as it is impossible to measure how high is “up” and how low is “down”. Don’t you think that “human nature” is applicable only to the individual, We aM know that no two people are identical; therefore, each nature is different. So, act ually, we are capable of judging only ourselves. And in many cases, we’re not capable of that, so it be hooves us to take care when we form an opinion of another. Snap judgments are the bane of our modern civilization. It requires a person of high intelligence to re serve his opinions, to keep them to V •* himself no matter what the urge to speak them may be, until he is sure; and even then to take care and do much thinking about what harm he may do by speaking. Human nature is greatly in fluenced by what people think of us, or by what we think of our selves. Anxiety over that can change us into people we definitely never were before we became con fused; It can make us shy, retiring beings who were always extroverts, or it can work the other way and change the Dr. Jekylls into Mr. Hydes. But in neither case is the change natural behavior. A leopard cannot change its spots, so they say. Neither does a person's basic character ever change. Fear, anxiety, loss of self confidence, or even becoming slightly confused about our own| ■ “Stj-r o° 'S'Cf - helmet! - Q 7®j)t N y OLDS FOR ’S7 -V- has new . COUNTER-DIVE I - j , Even-keel slop* start with Oldtmobile’s new Counter *"*• ... a naw front-end suspension feature that reduces stopping "dip"! Wait till you fry itl It’s is always a product of the specific culture in which we live. There are ’ many cultures in which it is con -1 sidered perfectly normal for a man to have many wives, and a 1 few in which women have more ! than one husband. There are in -1 numerable ways of courting in dif > ferent countries of the world. ' There are different forms of ' government which seem to work • just fine. There are different ideas of the ideal way to live, and man seems to adjust to all of these pro vided he remains in the spot where his first education in such matters took place. To him, it is human nature to do those things just the way he knows them to be. Remove him, and his entire concept of human ature will change. It is practice that makes perfect, and that remains as true as truth can ever be, whether it be in stringing beads or in the study of human behavior. Therefore, to a man reared in the belief that a man can and should have many ’ wives, our ideas of one wife for one ■ man would be entirely unbelievable ; to him. He would probably think , we do not- behave normally and feel I very sorrj* for us, when all the while we are singly conforming to our own ideas bf human nature, Again I use the wfrds "moralistic thinking”, but this lime I refer to the reason our ideas are what they are. A group of ryles have been set before us by former generations. We must follow those rules or we ' are accused of not behaving accord- i, ' mmHwuwm if' ft Oroteok Qn Life > By WARREN S. MBKVE ]. Note: The Idea of “Overlook” Is taken from the Overlooks provided for viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge 1 1 Parkway. r From the Overlooks on the Blue Ridge Parkway you can see many things. And if you had a telescope, \ yoy could see many more sights than are visible to the naked eye. Two or three weeks ago you might, with the aid of powerful bino culars, have observed from some overlooks on the section between Craggy Gardens and Buck Creek Gap a strange congestion on Route 70 between Old Fort and Marion, r A line of cars found passing dis -1 ficult. Yes, Chas. McCartney and his caravan of goats were "cruis , ing” eastward along the highway. > Half a dozen stout animals were r pulling the wagon and its “Pullman t'Car” (!) trailer! Two or three r other goats traveled on the roof! Some were inside. They must have , been the "elite” of the tribe, I , think. Or, maybe that was their , way of being “hospitalized.” The 'rest of the twenty-four trotted . along behind, some of them not too , willingly, I think. , At last McCartney and his men . age found a convenient resting . place in an open lot,, where they j could bivouac for a couple of days, Chas. was ready Jot. visitors, of 3 whom there were plenty. We . bought some postcards, views of j him and his family, and of course ! his earavan. For more than twenty years he has been travelling around the country, in many different states and in Canada. He estimates that they have covered over 80,000 miles. t Chas. is a preacher; perhaps he might even call himself a prophet of the Lord. It is recorded, he pointed out, that John the Baptist , was clothed in goat skins, and so ( he too —Chas. McCartney—lives I . amid goats, calling upon men to re pent and believe the Gospel. There are not a few people in this world who live in fear of being thought peculiar. Chas. McCartney is apparently not one of them. Rather it would appear 1 ; that he is of the other extreme, choosing deliberately to be differ ent. We may say that he capita lizes on the unconventional. We have noticed how blind men will sometimes make pioney on tljeir blindness. A grotesquely fat person will make money by joining a circus, Jn various ways, people HARDSCRABBLE HD CLUB MEETS " The Hardscrabble Home De. monstration Club met on October 12, at the home of Mrs. Wintze Mclntosh. The following officers were elected; Mrs. Wintze Mclntosh, president; i Mrs. Dewey Bailey, Jr., vice pres : ident; Mrs. Ernest Buckner, secre tary and treasurer; Mrs. Vina co-secretary and treasurer; and Mrs. Otis Proffitt, publicity chairman. Mrs. Ralph Proffitt gave an in teresting talk on praft work, and Miss Sue spoke on needle work, which was of interest to all present. Thirteen members and two vis itors attended the meeting. We would like for all women in our community to meet with us next month at the home of Mrs. Clyde Phillips on November 16, at 1:30. ing to "human nature”. It's nat ural to do certain things and very unatural if we vary even slightly in our methods. We are considered fine, upstanding citizens If we follow the rules, but heaven help us if we don't! Before the eyes of all those who work with people, there passes an endless parade of the different phases of -human nature—and no one can put a finger on the reason any one of them is of the nature he is. Perhaps what we need is a ohange in our ideas of what hu man nature really is and not from what we believe it to be; changes that do not come from living based on assertions which were valid in the far off times and places where they first originated, but changes based on the needs of today. It will be quite a struggle and take many years to bring about this change, but someday It will name and people will forever bless that day when they no longer ex pected to behave according to the present coscepts of "human gature”. ■ ■ i ; > THE YANCEY RECORD ■ -- —*—— l ■— utilize oddities to attract atten tion, earning money thereby or gaining a hearing for their message. Chas. McCartney, through the unusualness of his outfit and appearance, essays to make men heed the Word of God. I hope many will. I would be terribly upset, though, if all my church members deserted my preaching and v - be came his desciples and followed him on foot, or with their goats along the highways of North Car olina and on down as far as Florida. Even by buying and rais ing some goats myself, I couldn’t compete with him! But don’t worry I’m not going into the goat busi ness! Obituaries CREED McD. WILSON W Creed McDaniel Wilson, 78, of Burnsville RFD 2 died Oct. 9, at his home after a short illness. Funeral services were held in Young’s Chapel Baptist Church Thursday, Oct. 11. , The Rev, Jeff Willis officiated and burial was Ui'the Young ceme tery. Wilson was a member of the Young’s Chapel church. He married Miss Harriett Mc- Mahan 55 jye&ra ago. She died in 1951. Later he married Miss Gladys Pendley, who survives. Also surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Gilbert Cannon and Miss Romae Wilson of Burnsville RFD 2; three sons, Ransom and Horace Wilson of Spruce Pine, and Beeler of Burnsville RFD 2; a step-dau ghter, Mrs. Lydia Wyatt of Burns ville RFD 2; a step-son, Buddy Pendley of Burnsville RFD 2; a brother, Bud Wilson of Burnsville 1 RFD 2; 19 grandchildren and 15 ( great-grandchildren. »»»»»»»»»**»»**»*» * ** *** poffßr mm Conducted By Edftk Dp»derick Erskine THROUGH MEMORY Through Memory A host of friends Return to me. I know them now Eternally Througlwnemory Through memory Elizabeth Field, Asheville fsafa iTRUCK'TIRE SERVICE We know your tires best! 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She is survived by two other dau ghters, Mrs. Burgin Robinson of Asheville and Mrs. James Folkson of Bowels Hill, Va.; two sons, Roy of Asheville and Troy of Burns ville; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Mat thews of Asheville; a brother, Tom Elkins of New York City; 12 grand children and five great-grand children. - _ *•" - ■ MRS. PANSY FRANKLIN At ® Funeral siilitices for Mrs. Pansy Honeycutt Franklin, 60, of Burns ville RFD 1, who died Friday night, were held Monday at 2 p. m. at Jack’s Creek Baptist Church. The Rev.