Newspapers / The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, … / Dec. 13, 1956, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
theyakcey record I Established July, 1936 ARNEY and TRENA POX CO-PVBLISHERS & EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR * T. L. BROWN 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 Today, in our typing class, which consists of members of the Junior class only, we were given a very rough examination; not a speed test but all written. There were only ten questions but nearly every student in the class needed the full hour period to complete, it. As the teacher sat to grade the papers, I saw her'glance up at one boy and then*, continue writing. Her tenth question, after all the tough ones, was this: "Why do you take typing?” And I later learned that the boy at whom she had glanced had written, “For the lack of sense.’j One of the girls had asked her. with amazement when the ques- j tion was written on the blackboard what on earth she meant. And she replied that she had spent half a year trying to put this subject across, and she was really curious to know just why the majority of the students were taking it. Most of them are very inattentive, they play with the typewriters con stantly as if they were some toy which they owned and would like to take apart to see what’s inside. The answer written by that one boy might have a double meaning if one stops to think about it. He might have meant that he took the typing course because he knew how much he needed to learn. Os course, no one interpreted it that way. But isn’t it so true that our choice of words so frequently makes our point obscure? We are misunderstood simply because we »*^^^^^^^^^*****®* < **********J • Shop Early Use Our Lay-A-Away Plan £ FOOTBALL 0 OTTO GRAHAM $1.93 A White striped pebble-grain A cover. Valve-type bladder. Graham’s signature. 0 OFFICIAL SIZE £ BASKETBALL $3.95 Waterproof laminated rub -0 ber cover, rough ’n ready A pebble grain finish. • ALL-METAL IRONING BOARD .. SI.BB Heavy-ga, steel perforated white enamel metal top. A Folds for storage. £•*•- 1 a TABLE AND '*“■ CHAIR SET .... ... $10.50 W All-steel red and white fold £ ing table and chairs. Attrac- A *• five seat design. iSa 1 ' 0 Gift Wrappings-All Tree Decorations • either can’t find or don’t know the correct word we need to use at the moment. Words have always fas i cinated me; I can’t find enough s time to read all the great and ■ beautifully written literary works] I’d like, but when I do come across one I’ve never seen or heard hefore, out comes the old dictionary, and I try to get it’s pronunciation and meaning clearly before dismissing it from my mind. I firmly believe that good gram mar and a fairly good vocabulary are indesgensible to a young man i jdr woman beginning their lives;! j does one have to be twenty years I 1 older than high school age before they can realize that? It's true ; enough that I’ve known business ■ executives who are on the top of ; the ladder because, fortunately, * they were able to memorize cer : tain speeches and deliver them t beautifully; but I’ve never known ' one of those men (those who were ■ not highly educated) who didn’t ’ slip sooner or later, and let the 5 smallness of their actual know ledge show through tKe veneer. ; Vocabulary and grammar and % correct diction can be taught in s our schoolls until Hades freezes, s but family influence means more v than. all the “book-laming" our >, children can get if they go to school for twenty years. You must r have known people who attended f college for four years and are now e earning splendid salaries at some e job who can't carry on a decent MONOPOLY DELUXE GAME .... $3.98 Complete in detail. Remov uDble bank, golden hotels, double money supply. ble & tackle’ 25”xllVi” lithographed board. ELEC. ‘FOOT BALL GAME $6.89 Players run, kick, pass, sum -34” WESTERN FLYER. WAGON .... $7.19 Streamlined, full size! 8” double-disc wheels. # SPRING HORS I? .... $8.99 Colorful plastic body and head w-4 springs. Mounted on sturdy oak base. conversation. It isn’t because chose people aren’t intelligent aM super find at their particular jobs. It’s probably because they are smart enough to know that if they did talk much, their waste of ail the years, when they should have been losing that old homely manner of speech which they acquired in their childhood, would be too evident. And they’ve probably been too busy cimbing a certain ladder to pay much attention to their grammati- ’ cal shortcomings. 1 I wish there were some way to get across to our younger genera tion the importance of cooperating with their teachers. Those men and women are there to teach them, and for no other reason. And if the Children would only listen throughput the twelve years 1 of schooling that is all most of them will ever get, then that would be all they’d ever need. Because they waste so much of what their teach- ers are tryin to instil in them, be cause they just aren’t interested in certain subjects, some times don’t like the teacher, or just aren’t given enough incentive by their parents. And believe me, that is the most important thing! It’s the responsibility of every 1 parent to insist that his child co operate with his teacher. And to teach him good behavior at home. If this is done, there will be a re markable change in the child, your home, and even in ..the community in which you live. Children may seem to want complete independ ence, but they do not, really. They, want guidance and a fair under standing of their problems from . their parents until such a time when they, of their own accord, . feel truly capable of handling ■ thejr own lives. There are about 8,760 hours in I each year; 2,788 of them are spent i sleeping, as the general rule, and . 1,440 are spent in school. Do you : see now why I say home influence ' is vital in the education of your > children? Remember, the teachers : have them such a little while com- I pared to the time they spend under ' your teachings. Help them, while * you have them, to learn how to ; learn. DALE EVANS WRIST WATCH $4.9$ W Young cowgirl's favorite! Movie character on the face! A Genuine leather strap. a Z v'-“- V w s‘/i” ELECTRIC # MODEL IRON 98 A Underwriter approved! Low heat element actually warms up. ' Plastic handle. A NFVKVi.n,nr 0 OUTDOOR SET ...... $2.33 0 Clip to trees, over doors, around house! Parallel bulbs A burn Independently. WESTERN AUTO ASSOCIATE STORE Nmm Owned and Operated Q Lloyd Owens, BURNSVILLE, N. C. Jl THE YANCBST RECORD i. if m r "1.'.""-1a 1 -Ovwlook On life- By WARREN S. REEVE Note: The Idee of "Overtook” 1> taken from the Overlooks provided for viewing penormmes along the Blue Ridge J Parkway. j I ' ■' — •* As we near the 21st of December, ; do we feel like the climber who has got to the highest point in the mountain pass through which he must travel and now is about to start on the downward grade to ward the valley that lies on the other side? Here we are coming up to the shortest day of the yar l And though it will be a couple of weeks or more before any lengthen ing will begin, at least the days won’t get any shorter from now on! When summer begins to fade, there are always some who feel sad. And when Nature makes a last fling of a few warm days such as we had last week, we feel like a mother whose boy is about to leave for" overseas duty and Who when she supposes he had gone finds him turning up again unex pectedly for another three or four days leave before he must embark for other shores. Precious days, but tantalizing, perhaps! Even though winter is still ahead of us, there is just a bit of com fort in the thought that at least the process of having each day be shorter than the preceding is over. I, too, don’t like winter very well. And yet the year that I spent in Puerto Rico where the climate was like that of Florida, I had to admit that I missed something. The rhy thm of the northern changes was] missing. Nature, while beautiful and comforting, was slightly mono tonous. There was no break in the work or in the production of the fields. We grew tomatoes all year round, The red hibiscus never stopped blooming. Fields were rarely bare. The swing of the seasons that we in the nqrth temperate zone are noticing especially at this time of LETTER TO THE EDITOR .... Dear Sir: I am always glad to get TijG Record. It has followed me around for several years and I always appreciate getting'it, especially the news on the Y. C. I. annual re union of old school days. Happy Christmas and New Year to all, i _ Charles L. Bailey Plattsburg, N. Y, es '■ —i i ■' - ; _• % • PLENTY OF FLOOR SPACE .'• * ‘ i , . For Monday, Tuesday, Wed., > And Thurs. Sales ■ Independent Tobacco Warehouse GREENVILLE, TENN. I / * s *•' | * RAY W. HANEY WALTER G. BASSETT - ■ if... -■ . ■ year is part of the law t>f our world. There isn’t always a moon in our sky at night. And even when there is, it isn’t always full. Day fol lows night, and night follows day. The movement of the moon es tablishes our time, it fixes our months, and accounts also for the ebb and flow of the tides. Our bodies, too, exercise their functions'in a rhythm. The heart taps out pulsations that are felt all over the body. Nerves and mus cles do their work by alternate contraction and relaxation. Breath ing is likewise an alternation of expiration and inspiration. I am neither an expert in science nor in art, but as an amateur ob server, I would venture to say that even in the ultimate reaches of scientific exploration, rhythmic motion is to be observed. These motions get reduced to mathe matical formulae; and sometimes we are tempted to think that the ancient Pythagoreans who sought for an esoteric meaning in num bers may not have been so far off the track after all. The place of rhythm in many of the arts must be obvious to all. Can one be artistic without rhy thmical? To live our i!veg healthfully and effectively, we must cooperate with t Nature in its rhythmic motion. We must, as it were, get in step with our enviorment. Times of tension are to be pun ctuated with rest. Acute stimula tion cannot be tolerated without break. I once watched a young athlete getting ready for the poie vault. When it was his turn to vault, there was nothing impetuous in his motion. He took his time. He danced gently up and down so as to get his legs and their musdes perfectly supple. He put his arms into an easy, gentle, swinging movement. The whole purpose of these physical maneuvers, I could see, was to attain a perfect balance, Without complete poise of mind and body, he could not utilize every last punce of his strength and every strategem of his skill for making a good vault. When, finally he felt himself set for the effort, he took off wjth a dash of speed hoards the bar in a rhythm] ‘ that at the same time a per- j feet harihpny of every part of him, ‘ mind as Well as body. Tp get the most out of himself, whether it be In pole vaulting or in batting at the plate, intelligent athlete studies his forn), practising to eliminate all i impeding motions and training * himself for quick and powerful. thrusts at the timely moment All this I see to be a parable of j life. We must find put how to live with ourselves as well as with others. We must learn adjustment to the circumstances in which we are placed. Through daily habit and routine we can build a pattern that has a rhythm to It and by keeping in that rhythm we can live successfully. Hostile blows can be taken if we can avoid being thrown off our balance. On balance we can conquer powers far superior to our own, especially if we can strike them when they are out of balance. This is the secret of Japanese Judo. Many a weaker man has won be cause he made the powers around' him, the powers of nature and the powers of God cooperates with him I I '8 is the Trade Mark of the World's Finest Candies! UTH) MM ■J JpHONIS m BURNSVILLE, N. p, " ' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1856 "Nothing bars a man who goes the wav he should so,. . ._ .'that way pchwj all the trees along,” wrote a very knowing poet]. ljU — 1 The coming of winter and the swing of the season remind us thus of the rhythmic law that governs the universe. Let therefore winter bring its blessing. Let the festlvi i ties of the Christmas season pour I their brightness into our lives. The | Lord who made all things beheld His creation and “saw that it was very good.” ROBINSON ON LEES-McRAE DEANS LIST Ralph Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thes Robinson of Burnsville, was named on the Dean’s List of Lees-Mcßae College for the first quarter, it was announced this week by E. L. Lafferty, Dean, of the college. Robinson was one of nine sopho m mores who qualified for the Dean’s List which requires a student to average B or better in each course taken, ——-
The Yancey Journal (Burnsville, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Dec. 13, 1956, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75