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pi ,ra»v iyaa ■'r-a.T., gpin w* TOE YANCEY RECORD Esta Wished July, 1336 ARNET and THEN A FOX CO-PVBUSHSRS A EDITORS MISS HOPE BAILEY r, ASSOCIATE EDITOR T. L. BROWN SHOP MANAGER Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING COMPANY A Partnership Second Class Mail Privileges Authorized at Burnsville, H. C. THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1938 NUMBER FORTY-FOUR SUB. RATE $2.00 PER YEAR - Overlook On .Life - ] By WARREN S. REEVE ' . The idea of "Overlook” is taken from the Overlooks provided icr 1 viewing panoramas along the Blue Ridge Parkway. ' ’ When different peoples and dif ferent cultures have intermingled, they have usually stimulated one another until there would ensue a new era of creative or pioneer artivity. With the advent of easy, rapid travel snd superior devices for inter-communication the peo ple of our world have been inter mingling during the last three or four decades in an unprecedented degree. The war and the require ments of strategic troop place ments have given thousands of young men opportunities to see the world. If precedent again pre vails, we may confidently expect that we are entering upon a per iod. of amazing innovations set only in the realm of material "things, but in powers of. analysis and synthesis. It would appear that there is good prospect of an astonishing newness in the world. But outbreaks of newness are not easily predicted in advance. They will often occur where least ex pected, and watchers in a zone where it was thought brilliant new things would be evolved.'may iind themselves unrewarded and dis appointed. What and whither the mind may pursue, or .may range in thought, is an elusive subject. For generations the people of our Western North Carolina coun ties lived self-contained lives. Cut off by the mountains, and lack ing roads on which they could travel smoothly, they stayed at home, learning incidentally the wonderful virtues of patience and quietness and poise. Today, many of these people, or their children, are no longer here. They are in Detroit or Bal timore, perhaps in South America, or in Asia. Some are in Canada or Alaska. Others of them are to be found not so far away, perhaps in adjacent states, or in nearby counties. On the other hand, we have liv ing today in our community peo ple from all over everywhere. Some have come from the eastern part of the state. South Carolinians have decided they like our moun tains and have made our town .their home. We have a few Yan kees from the north even some "real Yankees” from the greater Boston area. The nativity of a few of our citizens is European. Thus, our town and county’ like many other rural counties thro- LAFF OF THE WEEK* H IPJ Lfe ■■im. i fmm Tm “You mpst be the ‘great-blg-daddy’ who can lick anybody on Magfe Street! ” ughout the length and breadth of' this land, have been “cosmopoK- j tanized”. While being residents of, Yancey County and citizens of the United States of America, we all feel more than before that in a real sense we are also citizens of the world. I conjecture that few if any of us begin to imagine how. great a potentiality of new creativity we people of Yancey County have. If this creativity should find expres sion ■ — and, let me hasten to say that that “if" is important, for there is no guarantee that just l potential creativity will become actual it might result in a big industrial or technological expan sion. We might become pioneers in the evoloving of some new and unique social relationships . Again, we may say, there is nothing in herently inferior in the mental capacities of the rank and file of our people to p delude our send ing forth into the wbrld men of truly great intellectual capacity who can grasp the problems of hu man existence and probe the com plexities and contradictions of our concepts' about things, and per haps lay down new great princi ples of philosophic thought Our creative impulses might move also in tne field of the fine arts or of music. We might have rise from among us some -with exquisitely delicate • sensitivity to beauty and with a corresponding skill in expression; or execution. It could be that we would produce men of singular competence in the fields of law or medicine. How proud the generations ahead of us would feel if we could be the mo . ther county of a diplomat who in the service of our country might conceive and negotiate some splen did instrument of truth and of international relationship which all the nations of the world would accept and be grateful for! Creativity in church and religi ous life is definitely within the scope of the powers that God has endowed us with. Today we need prophets, do we not who can first i themselves venture somewhat in to the vast recesses of the Sil i ence that * envelopes our noisy • little world. Supremely blessed i will we be, if there should arise in our midst many who could de ! servedly be called “God’s men” or • “God’s women” people with pure Open Letter To H. B. I feel like a man who has writ . tefi a love letter and received a. I < tongue-lashing in reply. The letter ’ in question is my article in the ] June National Geographic- Maga- < zine in which I tried to draw an < affectionate picture of the moun tain craftsmen in and around Burnsville. The reply wat your comment on the article in the June 3th issue of the Yancey Re r cord. Ypu.refer to me as “the con descending Mr. Ross” who comes from the “outside world”, and you lambast my treatment of the very people whose qualities and craftsmen skills I was attempting to praise, 7 I do not relish being called “con descending” to my friends and ac quaintances in Burnsville, and re quest an opportunity in print to • defend myself. . I First let me clear up why I did ('not mention the Nu-Wray Inn, the Penland School, the Burnsville Painting Classes and the Burns | ville libraries, all of which you , suppose I should have included. I like and admire all those places but my article was not a brochure on Burnsville; it concerned, only those people whose skills and Svay of life are survivals from an old er mountain era, an era which I, greatly admire. I tried to present their virtues of self-reliance and courtesy, qualities which they are carrying forward from the past Into this industrialized world. To me that is "culture” in the best * sense of the word. For the same reason I also ** # * i National story the Intracoastal Waterway (aquat- - 1 ic thoroughfare across Eastern j ’ North Carolina) appeared in the' January issue with fine descrip- ! 1 tions and pictures of North Caro lina points. It is recommended reading for those who nlan to cruise the Waterway. i » « • hearts who have that holy wisdom . that comes from a true fear of . the Lord. Thus, fragmentary I have set ; down a few hints that, occur to . me of what our Yancey people . might do or might produce or i might become in future days and > generations. What will in. fact be ; actualized I cannot know. A cur : tain screens off the future era : in mystery. But I do believe i and I rejoice to believe that ’ there inheres within our people i potentiality for new creative ser • I vice to our neighbors and to the l whole world. t IBW - mWBOES : Sti IT’ |Y...... HELEN HALE A good garnish for a slice o! ** ham Includes peach halve! - nestling on lettuce or parsley. Fit y the peaches with a small spoonful of creamy horseradish sauce. Orange-flavored gelatin, grape -fruit segments, plump raisins an d celery make a good salad combi r nation for sun-washed summei e days. ' Spoon a tablespoonful of instant THIS WEEK’S RECIPE | Golden Crust Sandwiches (Serves 6) j % cup chopped green olives IV4 cups chopped cooked ham ' or bologna 1 cup grated American cheese j 2 tablespoons mayonnaise 1 teaspoon chill powder 12 slices bread 2 eggs Vi cup milk Combine olives, meat, cheese, mayonnaise and chili powder. Spread 6 slices bread with mix ture. Cover with remaining bread and cut Into triangles. < Combine eggs and milk. Dip, each triangle into egg mix ture. Place on cookie sheet and toast under broiler until brown OD. one side, turn and brown other side. minced onion into a can of- eon somme. Use this as a liquid foi cooking rice, braising veal or shorl ribs. It has wonderful flavor. Here’s a good cold plate com bination for supper: tomato aspic, mounds of halibut or salmon sal ad, curried mayonnaise, crisp wa tercress and ripe olives. Peeled small tomatoes, arranged In a casserole, then seasoned wKfc •alt, onion and dried dill, are good baked until tender. Serve with but ter and mix with parsley chopped very fine. Peeled, finely-chopped cucumber mixed with whipped cream, soured cream or mayonnaise makes a de lightful dressing tor fish salads. ANCKY RECORD brought in two projects, the Yan cey- Railroad and tho Parkway Theatre, praising both as examp les of how the old mountain habit of helping neighbors had survived to save both the Railroad and the Theatre, from extinction. Burns ville can lift its head high for having done that, and Biynsville can be equally proud that it stem med from the cooperative spirit its ancestors showed in helping to raise ridge-pole. You write that the word “back woodsmen” infem to you, “an illiterate and generally crude class of people”. To me it implies a peo -ple- blest- by independent living, on their own soil and to nature. But no need to quibble over defini tions. If the word offended you or anyone else, I apologize for its one appearance. That should not, however, cloud the apparent re spect I paid to the individual worth of James H. Hutchins, V. L. Edwards. Floyd Wheeler, the Whetstines, Bill Blevens and the others, with each of whom I spent long and pleasantly remembered hours. It may be that my use of old time words has thrown you .off Sorry, my ear catches thqjn that way. I like salty speech, as a var iation from prissy correctness; but in order to be fair t sent all people quoted in the article, ex cepting one, a copy of exactly what they would be made to say, and with the opportunity to make changes if they desired. Some ob jections to particular phrases were made and the language was changed. ' . Not all Burnsville people feel that I have misrepresented them. One of your townsmen writes me: “The National geographic arti cle was vtry gc-d, and of im-- measurable value to this entire area.” Another (and one you men tioned as beirig misrepresented) wrote me: “You have dealt fairly with us." .Bipartisan Support For NATQ iHi i l I % .jJR, HI mj mfmm mmm miiH M GBP ; 1111 President Eisenhower confers with Frank Pace Jr.| (center), chairman and president of the American Council on NATO, and Nelson i.ancione, chairman pf the Young Democratic Clubs of America, on plans to send delegates to an international conference of young political leaders in Paris this summer. Representatives from 45 political parties in 15 NATO nations will attend, including a group of Young Republicans and Young Democrats. The U. S. delegation is sponsored by the American Council on NATO, with the purpose of helping develop the solidarity of the Atlantic Alli ance by promoting mutual understanding, friendship and coopera tion among young political leaders. “This kind-of friendship can be a real contribution to NATO,” said Mr. Pace, a former Secretary of the Army and now president of General Dynamics Corporation * Jk tops l Record Albums ■A From Classics To ‘Tops” m Our Selection Is Tops! ||| r nlll HERE ARE J4JST A FEW; I : Cole Porter-Irving Berlin Favorites, Square |n Dance Party, Kiddie Favorites, Lana Horne |fl Sings, For Men Only, Classic Favorites, || Favorite Hymns, Eddie Truman & Beverly I Laine Organ Favorites, and many more, I Western Auto Associate Store 1 ■ - , _ BURNSVILLE, N. C.f _ __ || J -l Another ijfP\Bunv*viiJe write*: “It’s a good ifeture of the amae ing combination of past and pre sent that is the mountain area J today” j There have been other letters. One from Maine i 3 reminded by * the article of his own visit in the North Carolina mountains, saying: 1 “They are real sincere people and 1 I loved them and I’m looking for- 1 ( ward to making another visit to that region someday.” Whether my article pleased some t 1 readers -and displeased others is not important. What really mat ters to Burnsville is whether (as ( you predict): the article “will at tract a few curiosity seekers, but , certainly it was not designed to attract permanent residWts or to encourage retired couples to build here.” 7** '• ' ( This is a matter of opinion, and I give mine: that the article is likely to attraet exactly that kind of people who appreciate Daniel Boone’s ironwork and Roby Buch anan’s jewelry, people who will stay at the Nu-Wray l —lnn, the Penland School, attend the Burnsville Painting Classes and - borrow books from its libraries. If & , 1 they come, and I hope they will please remembei that' people from the "outside world” are also sen- | sitive. When they stop being tour- ■ ists, when they buy land and build j houses and get to know some of the Burnsville people, they will want to feel in som# u. gree ac- , cepted, no longer frpm the “out side world” but just Burnsville peo ple who happened to be late in discovering its natural beauties and its friendly inhabitants. MALCOLM ROSS * \ (Editor’s Note: Next week we reprint the comments of a popu lar South Florida columnist; Or ville Reveile, in his colomn in the Fort Lauderdale Daily News. His article begins with: “Want to start a feud in the hills of North Carolina?’’ H. B.) Y r-•■- . . ■ - - Aftermath r Here are some of the results of the article, “My Neighbors Hold To Mountain Ways”, published hi the June editioh of the National Geographic Magazine: 1 An inquiry has been as to whether there woul<| be any place-in Burnsville to stqy a day or two if one came to pick- up gem stones; two boys away ‘»t college reported they were “razzed” by their classngites about their town; one group of tourists, coming up on the Nu-Wray Inn, expressed extreme surprise at finding a place to stay in Burnsville. They said they had planned to go on to the “Old English Inn” (They were told that the “Old English Inn” had not operated as an inn for many years. It is now being used as a dwelling.) =sr We have always welcomed the people who hav # come to Bur nsville and to other communities in the county from other parts of the United States, built or bought lovely homes, joined our churches and our civic clubs, and have en deared themselves to our hearts. Several of these people have sent copies of the editorial, “Moun taineers? Yes Backwoodsmen? No!”, to their* friends and rela tives in as effort to correct the impression that they are now liv ing in back of beyond. Ail this reminds me or an event which happened several years ago after an article, similar to the recent article in the National Geo graphic, was published in another national magazine. A tourist <*,•* <a:*«ng with a local woman and said exuberant ly, “But where are the natives? I want to see some of the back woodsmen.” "You are speaking to one. Madam,” the local woman an swered, with a twinkle in her eyes, "But we prefer to be called ’mountaineers’.” Another sto.-y in the same vein: A graduate student at Yale Uni versity was assigned to come to this area to gather material for his thesis. He was advised by one of his instructors rto take all the personal conveniences he could carry, for he really was going to the “sticks”. So the man pack ing among his belongings such items as soap, tooth paste, bath towels and candles headed for Burnsville. Upon his arrival, he received the excellent conveniences and heart-warming hospitality of one of our private homes, traveled ov-[ er the county and met many of our people, breathed our invigor-1 ating air, drank our pure, spark | ling water and reveled in our j magnificent scenery. He was invited, to be guest speaker at the Woman’s Club, | where he gave his impression of this area. Among his remarks, he told of writing a letter to his instructor at Yale, asking “Where in the name of . . . did you get your information about this area? There are more graduates in Burnsville, accord ing to the population, than there are in New Haven.” This event occurred several years I ) * 1 after the book, “Cabin In The Laurels”, was published. ) There is much truth and beauty in the books and articles of ts>i.<i type in that they have, as pirifr 7 of , their subject . matter, people who are the very salt Os this earth. / However, the cold, hard fact remains that the over-all impres sion left by these writings is that this region is an area of poverty and ignorance; - .; 1 We are fed up to the gills with this kind of publicity: ' A Subscriber Services Held For C. M. Bailey, Former Mayor Services for Clyde M. Bailey, 64 a retired Yancey County business man and former Burnsville mayor, who died here Wednesday, were held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the First Bapitst Church. The Rev. Charles B. Trammel and the Rev. H. M. Alley officiated and burial was in the Bailey ceme tery. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Ray Hilliard of Oklahoma City, Okla.; a son Stanley Bailey of Burnsville; four sisters, Mrs. Sam J. Huskins, Mrs. J. Frank' Hus kins and Mrs. W. O. Brings, all of Bt&nsville, and Mrs. Russell Day of Greensboro, N. C.; three brothers, Vernon of Asheville, and Reece and Ray of Burnsville; and two grandchildren. Active pallbearers were R. L. Bailey, Steve Briggs, Bill Husk ins, Ivan Peterson. O. K. Masters, Kenneth Hilliard, Roy Randolph and Royce Masters. Honorary pallbearers were Rob ert Presnell, B. R. Penland, Reece, t_ Mclntosh, Joe Young, Arney FV>x, P. B. Young, H. S. Edge, Wm. A. Banks, Ashton Ramsey, R. W. Wilson, C. P. Randolph, D. R. Fouts, Bill Atkips, W. E. Anglin, Garrett D. Bailey, Jr., Tom Mclntosh, R. I’ Wicker, G’ C. Hunter, J. E. Huskins, G. C. Huskins, Ray Hylemon, Ben Ran dolph, Page Hunter, Fred Ayers, Tom Jones, M. D. Bailey, Carl Carter, Yates Bennett. Pahiel Boone, Edgar Hensley, Love -Fox, Troy Ray, G. L. Hensley, L. V. Pollard, Warren Franklin, Don Burhoe, T; M. Tyner, J. H. Coop , er, Bill Silver, Flavil McCurry, Harold Artglin, Dr. C. M. Whis nant. Dr. W. L. Bennett, Dr. E. j R. Ohle, Dr. W. A. y. Sargent, Dr. M. W. Webb, Jqy Edge, A. |F. Bryson, G.” B. Woody, Lacy . Johnson, Ben Banks, Fred Prof [ fitt, Jess Autrey, Norman Bar nett, E. N. Stamey, Wilkes Beeler, Jake F. Buckner, Longs Butner, Charles Brown, I. E. Clevenger, Oscar Fender, Lester Byrd, Arthur Jarrett, Clarence Burton, George Roberts, Dawson Briggs, John Robinson, Willard Fox, Ralph Laubhrun SUBSCRIBE TO THE RECORD
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