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“Overlook On Life--
By WARREN S. REEVE
Note: The Idea of “Overlook” Is taken from the Overlooks
provided for viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge
Parkway.
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It has been said that imagina
tion was given to a man to cotn
pensate him for what he is not
and a sense of humor to console
him for what he is. Imagination,
however, does much more for us
than just the compensating for
our lacks and losses. Let us
think for a minute where the
word comes from. It is, as we
can see, a close relative of the
noun, “image”. Now, what is an
image? In the realms of the pure
ly physical, it is a copy of some
person or object. It is the equiva
lent of a photograph or of an im
pression made in clay or metal.
It may be a piece of sculpture!
fashioned to appear exactly
the original from which it was
copied. It is, in other words, a
likeness. We therefore may speak
of a child as being the “very
image” of her mother.
There is another kind of image
them that which is drawn or
sketched or sculptured by a hu
man hand (or by a machine). It
is an image that the mind’s eye
alone beholds. It is not some
thing that has its existence on
paper or canvas or brass. It ex
ists only in some one’s mind. In
fact, the person’s mind created
it.
How marvelous is the mind of
man, able as it is, to create all
manner of pictures and sights and
scenes and ideas; then to store
them away in hidden vaults, and
again to bring them out to scruti
nize- them, -perhaps re-arranging
them or improving them. Is it
not astonishing that every human
being can have, arrayed before
his inner eyes, something analog
ous to a great exhibition of goods?
One can move among these things,
as if he were a visitor at a
World Exposition, going from
booth to booth, from counter to
counter, from show to show! All
this anybody can do with his
mind! Thus, anybody is at once
an artist, an architect, a builder,
a sculptor, a photographer, an
engineer, -a producer! How seld
om we realize- the richness of our
mental gifts!
Now this power to ereata inner
images is imagination. Having
seen something with the physical
eye, we immediately construct an
image of it inside the mind, and
in so doing, we think imagina
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tively. Our minds have also the
power to produce images in
quantity, and ah|a 4o set them in
motion, so that inside our minds
there is a whole big world buzzing
with activity like the real world
outside.
When the Bible says that God
created man in His own image,
we can realize how tru% it is just.
in this one sense only, namely, |
that; as God created the heaven ,
and the earjj/'so inside our minds,
we can create whole worlds, and
a heaven too! In the pnddoction
of ideas and of mental pictures
and of lovely paintings on the
I walls of our hearts, our minds
■ show their resemblance to their
Creator. Shakespeare wrote:
"The poet’s eye *—
Doth glance from heaven to
earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown,
thS poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives
A local habitation and a name”.
(From Midsummer Night's
Dream V. l.(
When we project images on the
screen of the mind, they may re
semble something we have seen
in the world, or they may be
merely imaginary and not real.
Notice how in the strange history
of words “imaginary” has .-come
to signify ONLY those mental
pictures that do not have their
counterpart in the physical world.
Even “imagination”, which is the
power to - throw images on the
screen of the mind is sometimes
limited to the unreal. For exam
ple, some one says he hears a
noise. His friend comments, “O
that is your imagination!” A lit
tle girl, going along a grassy path
with, her mother said, “O Moth
er, there goes a rabbit!" “No,
No”, replied the mother, “That is
'just your imagination!” ■ “Moth
er”, plaintively sighed the child,
“Do imaginations have white
tails?’.
Fortunately our usage and un
derstanding of this word is not
limited to the merely “imagin
ary”. In fact, it is frequently used
■ to denote a power to see some
; thing that is the very clue to an
Ii important secret the natural
world has always possessed but
never before disclosed. I ami
thinking of the part that imagi
CONSERVATION NEtEf
Breece Morrow of Banks Creek
is planning to stop erosion losses
on his farm by putting all hTs
farming operations on the con
tour. Soil Conservation Service
personnel recently assisted him
In laying out contour strip lines
for pasture re-seeding. •
Other conservation practices
Mr. Morrow has planned for his
farm are seeding alfalfa on the
steeper areas of cropland and
using the more level land for ro
tated crops.
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Tom Melton of Cattail Commun
ity has embarked on a soil con
servation program that should al
so be very profitable as well as
hold his soil in place. Mr. Melton
has recently set 19 acres to fraz
ier balsam fir seedlings. It is
anticipated that 5-10% of these
seedlings will be large enough
for the nursery market in 5 to 6
years, with the percentage ready
for market increasing each year
thereafter until 10 per cent are
market size each year—
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Many Yancey farmers are plan
ning to provide year round food
i and cover game birds and small
I game animals. To date approxi
' jnately 40,000 shrub lespedeza
1 seedlings and 40,000 multiflora
1 rose plants have been ordered
1 from the.N. C. Wildlife Resources
Commission for this purpose.
The shrub lespedeza plants pro
vide food and cover for game
birds, while the multiflora rose
will make a living fence and pro
vide cover and traveling lanes
for beta game birds and game
animals.
These seedlings are furnished
free of charge by the Wildlife
Resources Commission. Farmers
interested in receiving these
sellings, should contact the Soil
; Conservation Service Office in
the Briggs Bldg., or see glarence
Murphy of Newdale.
nation plays in scientific resear
ch. Not a few new drugs have
been discovered because a chem
ist had the Imagination to try out
in his experiments new combina
tions of elements, or of electric
■ charges. Imagination lured the
1 early explorers of our western
hemisphere. ImaginatiAn enabled
the founders of our republic to
erect a political and social
structure that in many respects
had no precedent in historical
record.
We may conclude „by asking
whether this power of imagina
*
tion within us is not the shadow
l j of the-mind of God?
TEDS YANCEY RECORD
THIS WEEK
-in Washington
Ii | Clinton Davidson
Wt Z when President :
Eisenhower, in his
state of the Ua *? n i
[ message called for
■ • • “vigilant guard i
against inflationary
tendencies ” he put a large part
of the responsibility on the House
Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Committee.
To get as exclusive report on
what the Committee plans to do,
we visit this week with Chairman
Oren Harris, a Democrat from El
Dorado, Arkansas. How much or
how little inflation we have could
hinge, in part, at least on the ac
tions of that Committee, and on
its Chairman.
All laws on transportation—by
.ilr, rail, water, or highway, the
atock and bond markets, exports
and Imports, all communications by
radio and TV, the Federal Power
Commission, the Federal Trade
Commission, and all activities of
the Commerce Department, includ
ing the Weather Bureau, are han
dled by the Committee.
The Commerce Committee is the
oldest committee in Congress. It
came into being in 1796 as the
Committee on Commerce and
Manufactures, Chairmen in recent
years have included the late Alben
Barkley, Texas’ Sam Rayburn,
and Percy Priest of Tennessee.
Harris, although new as Chairman,
has been a member since he came
into Congress in 1941. •
Harris, to put it modestly, is a
busy man—perhaps one of the
busiest in Congress. •In addition
to representing his district, he
heads a Commitles staff of 15
and a Committee membership of
31, His associates describe him as
“easy to work with, but a man
who knows how to get things done.”
Having spent all of his 53 years
in a small town, it is natural that
one of his main concerns in Con
gress Is legislation that would help
small business and farmers. They,
more than big business, need the
protection of laws that will assure
them equality of opportunity, he
says. (
“The best way of combatting in
flation while keeping our economy
strong,” Harris told us, “is to keep
the channels of commerce open and
unobstructed. ...
“The trend in recent year* has
been more and more toward big
business. . . Our job in Congress
is not to hinder the growth of
business, big or small. But it is
our Job tq see that small business,
and that Includes farmery have
full opportunity to develop.
Rep. Harris does not favor at r
tempting t-< regulate business
through tax legislation. “My idea,”
he said, “is not to attempt to help
tittle business through lower cor*
poration taxes. Only 15% of small
business are Incorporated.
“The real way to help pmall busir
ness, including farmers, is to pro
vide adequate funds through loans
for operation and expansion. This
should be done partly, at least
through the States."
He suggested that the States es>.
tablish agencies, either privately
or publicly pianaged, which would
make funds available £0 assist In
the development of local industries
wherever private capital is un
available.
We asked about the programs for
promot .ig the sale of farm sur
pluses in foreign countries.
“I favor expansion of our trade
in any way that would be helpful
to us, that would help the people
of those countries, but not in such
away as to strengthen the regimes
in those countries under com
munist domination,” he said. *'
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Obituaries
EVlflfF RAY. _
Everett Ray, Y7, of Micaville
died in a veterans hospital near
Asheville Monday after a long
illness.
Funeral services were held in
the Bowditch Union Church at 2
p. m. Tuesday. The Rev. Francis
Bradford and the Rev. T. E.
Woody officiated, and burial was
in the church cemetery.
Surviving are the wife; a dau
ghter, Miss Connie Lynn Ray;
i four sons, Duane, Stanley, Jen
nings and Ronnie, all of the home;
the parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
Ray of Micaville; three sisters,
Mrs. Biss Robinson of Burnsville,
Mrs. George Anderson of Marion,
Mrs. Paul Gardner of Micaville;
and six brothers, James, Carl and
Roy of Asheville, Frank of Burns- ,
ville, Arthur of Celo and Paul of
Oteen.
Pallbearers were Bill and Hugh
Anderson, and Lloyd, Leo, Alden,
Charles and Leonard Ray.
MBS. ELIZABETH- YOUNG
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ASHEVILLE Mrs. Elizabeth
Penland Young, 78,
churchwoman of Emma Schofcl
Road, died Tuesday, Jan. 29, in an
Asheville hospital after a year’s
illness. Funeral services were held
Thursday, Jan. 31, in the Emma
Methodist Church.
The Rev. Earl Hansell, the
Rev. J. R. Dawkins, the Rev.
Vernon Hall and the Rev. W.
Perry Crouch officiated. Burial
was in the Riverside Cemetery.
Mrs. Young was a native of
Burnsville and was the daughter
of Dr. Absolm Penland and Lu
cinda Penland Fox. She was the
widow of S. K, Young.
She had been an active member
... of Emma Methodist Church”) for
the past 85 years.
Surviving are three sens, T,
Ralph, Zena P. and Jess D.
Young, all of Asheville; three
daughters, Mrs. Ralph C. Hinsey
and Mrs. Henry A. Miller of Den
ver, Colo., and Mrs. Halbert
Winkler of Asheville; one broth
er, Zenas Penland of Clearwater,
Fla.; one sister, Mrs. O. B. White
hurst of Burnsville; 15 grand
children and 10 great grand
children.
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