r The Yancey Record Established July, 1936 Truia P. Fox, Editor & Publisher Miss. Zoo Young Associoto Editor Titormao L. Brown, Shop Managor Archie H. Bollew, Photographer & Pressman Published Every Thursday By YANCEY PUBLISHING Company Second Class Postage Paid At Burnsville, N. C. > THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1967 NUMBER 7 WENTY-OSJ*!f Subscription Rates $2.50 Per Year Scene From Top 0’ The Hill By: Jack Kelly Some bright gentleman on ce remarked “Nothing is cer tain but dearth aud ia A ea. * I'uat Bia-tane.u is not qu.te exav-t, he suuuid have auded tne lack that tuaMiy repea.a iue&. I.ooa at us ana our Country toduy. Compare our position and feelings and newspaper accounts with the h.story of a century a o o. We had a War. We had a iresi dent who did his best* to suit everyone and ended up suiting no one. History has recorded, and we all accept it now, that Lincoln had a double handful of trouble wivh the Civil War, the leaders, the people, and the newspapers. Today, we all accept the fact that he was a much maligned man who did his best. We know he stood friendless and alone while he d'd what he had to do. That War was brewed before Lincoln ever came on tthe scene. Yet, it was dump ed in,his lap. As President, he had to handle it. To ,;v. ve have a too simi lar set ' fa-’ts No President, before or since Lincoln, ever stood more alone than does President Johnson to day. The present War, un popular with everyone, doubt less including the President himself, is a "must." Lyndon Johnson didn’t start it, it was just banded to him. Ha couldn’t drop it. He is thd Pres dent of the United Stat es of America. He is the lead er of the people of the most powerful Nation that History has ever seen. If you want some f gures, this War start ed back In the Eisenhower administrat'on. That fact doesn’t prove anything either. - Ike d : d what he had to do. In a Coun*rv as ereat as ours, certain things come about and the Nation takes a stand. Onre that atend is made, sue c*ed:n» leaders must follow the Hoe laid down. In the nre ■ent c°se. we declared oursel ves to ’-rohe'-t, the world the Communist invasion. Th*§ way before Lyndon Johnson. Harry Truman, handled the hot, TK>t >*tj handed h'm by H'V'acvelt hv coming nn w : th th» Marshall Plan. Truman Enron* from eolng Oom imtnlst. and History reeorda b«a er*»*n-aa for that act Johnam has it . a bit more difficult in Asia, with the hpuutio pad*«M to n.m oy lae a,ia rfjv. „o:majna job is a Pit tougner u*a.i Harry Truman’s Iruir *n dealt with ft people wnoee badegrou-td was cnrist.au. He dealt with a people wno has iueas con eerui..g government and rig hts oc people. By and large, he dealt wuh, in the mam, a 0 pulation. Lyndon Johnson, on the other hand, presently deals with an un-reasoning, Illiterate, non-Christian, raul ti-m.llioned mass of peoples who have no background of rights of man or sensible civil government. Johnson deals with leaders who are not, according to your light* and mine, true leaders. Un fortunately. they are the ones he must deal with, and I feel that History will re cord h's actions as proper and right. J hnson cannot pull out and lea#~these people alone, because our Country pm-oom mitted him to the actions he must take. Johnson Is in the posit on of a hunter stalking a bear when he is attacked by a swarm of be s. The emerging new nation?, in Afri ca and Asia may appear ridi culous to us. They may turn out to be rid ; culous in feet. Os course, our own Country was considered ridiculous at the start. The Empreee Os Russia refused to accept our Ambassador because, in effect, he waa declared to be the Representative of an evil nothing. Since President Johnson must wage away, not of hi* own making, lie must stand the abuse of all of ue and the Press. He must spend his harrowing days and nights. I ke Lincoln, lonesome end alone. Without changing your views, whatever they may be, you ran still make a little Prayer for Divine help for President Johnson and, who knows, you may change the course of jnstory, so gray hard and often. serves as Money im SMAU- CHWOrf is mot oi MBMV INSTANCES OF P> SINGLF knawimg. pno FILUN© THres £ FT. tN CUfitoETFf? /