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THE YANCEY RECORD | Est&blighed July, 19lS> n ARNEY and THEN A EOT C&PtfcilSffEßS 4 EDITORS ' MISS HOPE BAILEY ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. BROWN & SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY i_ * J ...... A Partnership Second Class Mail Privileges Authorised at Burnsville, n. ft » -- Overlook On {Life By WARREN S. REEVE ' . The idea of “Overlook” is taken from the Overlooks provMeo Mr I viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway, . • '* • ' ’ _ - I M --r* ■ ■ , j-fiSStr My thoughts today are on our need for a sense of proportion; and, as there are too many points to take up adequately in the space that is available to me, I will car ry over the discussion into next week’s columns, hoping that you who read today’s Overlook will not fail to read the sequel and conclusion next week; for much of the point that I wish to make will come out most forcibly at the end. Keeping things in proper pro portion is one of the important things that our civilization learn ed from the ancient-Greeks. There are many evidences today, how ever, that we are forgetting the lesson, and that we overbalance the load in one direction or ano ther. Let me explain what I mean in more detail. It is plain that for the sake of good health our bodies require rest and activity, food and sleep, in proper proportions. Likewise,, the ingredients of our diet must consist of starches and proteins, minerals and vitamins, calories and bulk, each in the amount that experience and science show we require, if we are to keep well and strong. With a moment of thought, we easily recognize and assent that they ar e in error who make the diet too rich in one or mor’ e of these elements, and deficient in I Take A Look T“ —■— —= ■ At What’s New . f. ' t ao „ | I » Lawn Mowers Tillers I ' • s m • i Gardening tools and equip- } , | ment to help you produce f *■ a ■ better results. «aaHMnaußiißMSi(enaiisiieiunisite'isi , »'i«* i *i | *> IS,l * <1 * 11 * | Set the scene , for spring and JHHB summer out door living .. -WjjjjjLhJl Aluminum • /f t yz\ > Chairs and %' Gliders I — —: __l BURNSVILLE FURNIIURE & HARDWARE CO i _‘, > ' I “Your Spring Headquarters £o* Home & Garden Needs" MUrray *-2521 BURNSVILLE, N. C< —am—nenaneeei’etranaManjnaiimainneirwf itsutiienaneaeae^aana—gHmewnamaaaeiHWwe—a—ae* | others.' I once heard a person aay that if a little of such and such a thing is good fo r one, then a lot la, too. He talked noti»2nse. It is sim ply not true, as a general princi ple, that because a little of some thing is good, more is better. A great weakness in the char acter and behavior of many peo ple is a going to extremes. And in deed in the American character in general I. see a tendency to go to extremes. For example, we do it in our attitude towards promin ent people. If we like them and admire them, w e are apt to go head-over-heels in worshipping them as if they heroes. If they are unpopular and we dislike them, we will probably speak of them in most uncomplimentary terms. We will be Quite blind to such good points as they may have. Sometimes, extreme adulation will suddenly switch around and give way to extreme disapproba tion. I well remember being in New York City, looking out from the window of a high office build ing and seeing the deluge of pa per streamers and confetti that were being poured out in wild acclaim as Charles Lindbergh, just back from his solo non-top flight to Paris in 1927, rode up Fifth Av enue in a triumphal procession. New York City, and the whole country, were moved with pro found admiration at Lindbergh's if"-4fcvsaKs#n that he was judg ed the ’grwabsat American at that particular time. But terf> years or so Utter, "when he, with undoubt edly sincere motives, advocated a somewhat softer policy toward Hitler, gthe country repudiated him, and'ever since then he has lived metre or less In obscurity. On* may Well query whether we didn’t iSfrerdo our commendcticn of his brave Teat in 1927, and then overdo our disparagement of hia character In the late 1930’5. In our own local community L expect that there are numerous instances of some one’s getting a “crush" on another person and overdoing it; and, conversely, there will be many cases of viru 'lent animosity against some one who is disliked. It would appear that we lack within ourselves the power of restraint. We seem as if it is hard to do anything without doing it to excess! Let us consider some further examples. To be a normal person, ones lif e should include a happy combination of solitude and ‘‘so cializing’’. We- can think of those who, incessantly in the company of others, become shallow in character because their daily pro gram has too little place for any ANNOUNCING — , ’ . _, ~ / ... THE 18th ANNUAL MEETING - • * e OF THE FRENCH BROAD ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION SATURDAY, APRIL 26 MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL Free Prizes Big Displays - Co-ep Reports -• Discussions Election of Board of Directors » ' • ft i Displays Open at 11:00 A. M. c « •* Registration Begins at 12:30 P. M. •-t • • • % Speaker - Dr. Robert L. Holt Vice Pres. Mars Hill College \e * * # '’ 1 ' » . To be eligible for prizes you must receive electric *' •_ ’ service from co-operative, be registered, be present at the Meeting. ; „ / .. . • I . * # # * *' REA aaa • / The Biggest Day Os The Year fTO TANGET BBOOBD , solitude, in contrast, wo know ■of those are ifclusg* *nd wbi» . become Aliaest'queer because they : are tew little with, other people. ■ We have, genuine sympathy with those who because of age or dis . ability or the demands of work have to be all by themselves hour after hour and day after day, and who wish that they could enjoy tile company of others. But I have in mind, now, those who could live closer to the society around them who deliberately do not want to. . * people have failed to se „ cure a wholesome balance between 1 the time they spend in work and , the time they spend in loafing, i Among the people I know, I can , think of those who do not work enough. Perhaps they are lazy. « Perhaps they lack ambition. At • the other extreme, there are many • splendid people who overwork : themselves. Probably not a few : parents feel they hav e an almost daily struggle to keep their child ’ ren from looking at TV for too ■ much of a chunk of their daily ’ time. Should not doing hom e work occupy a larger period in the ! daily time schedule? And in the allocation of time spent on this job as compared with what we 1 spent on that job, are we not of-j ten annoyed with ourselves at ***** one gobble up morel time than it dei|*ved? The deceits auwiy had it right when they urged that we should think things through, and do a little planning, and see to it that everything in life should be put in its proper place and that we should guard against having more than enough of this and corres pondingly too little of that. The tragic Tact about human nature is that most "of us are lopsided. We have not managed to make the picture of our lives symmetri cal. The Greeks reckoned that har mony and symmetry were to be attained by „ reflection and by contemplation. Plato, then whom perhaps there was no a one among all his illustrious con temporaries, aimed to look * at life and the world from the van tage-point of eternity. For, if you look at life from the particular spot where 1 you happen to be, you are bound to get a distorted view, 1 which means that some things will loom too large and others be compressed into an obscurity-they do not merit. —■— r —■ - This may be illustrated by the way we get engrossed in work 1 sometimes. This fault we can see - j better in others than in oursel ves. We notice how So-and-So - I Obituaries ROBERT V ANGEL Robert V. Angel, 79, - retired 1 farmer and Spanish-American War veteran, died at his home in Burnsville Thursday morning, April 17, after a brief illness. Services were held at 2 p. m. Saturday in West Burnsville Bap tist Church with the Rev. Eulas Adkins officiating. Burial was in Mclntosh Cemetery, BGurnsville, under the direction cf -Holcombe Brothers Funeral Home. Mr. Angel is survived by his takes his work too seriously. He thinks that nobody can do it as well as himself. He gives the im pression of thinking that thej world will go to the dogs except for him. We smile to ourselves at the preposterousness of such con ceit. It is really more pitiable than preposterous, for the man is probably quite sincere. Only he is blind to his fault. He has allow- 1 ed his particular work to be- ’ come so exagerated in his view of life that he cannot see any other point-of-vlew. Well, I must stop at this point. Please keep with us in the think ing over of this subject by read ing next week’s Overlook. - -, *v -1 TffTfhflfUV Ifnr 41 MM wife, the former AJUbhibii^el; * daughter, .Mrs. 2uJa Satjigjooi of ’- PaicimtJre, Md.; Swc cf- Burnsville and L. D. of Plain field, N. J.; a brother," Willard,* of Leicester; four sisters, Mrs/ Jasper Roland of 'Leicester, Mrs.’ Haiti? Briars of Los Angeles, Mrs. Sam Mclntosh and Mrs. George’ Green, both of Burnsville; eigtalj grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. k , MBS JULIA YOUNG Mrs. Julia Young, 76, of Celo ‘ died at a Burnsville nursing home Tuesday afternoon, April 15, after a long illness. Services were held at the New dale Presbyterian Church at 11 a. m. Thursday of last week. [ The Rev. Mr. Dawkins and the Rev. John Young officiated and burial was lin the church cemetery Surviving are the husband, Wil ton Ydung; a daughter, Mrs. Vas ter McKinney of Old Fort RFD'I; and" a sister, Mrs. Mary McNeil of Celo. *■£ * - ■ ■ 1— .
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