The north Mississippi herald. (Water Valley, Yalobusha Co., Miss.) 1888-1929, 1923-04-27
SELECT SOUND
TIMBER FOR THE
LEGISLATIVE ARK

Barber is Legislative Timhs,.
Says Yalobusha COUNT
compares .m Favorably with
All Others. WIN
l. c. BARBER,
rel.or Of the North Miss. w.,
water Valley, Miss. iaio'
Dear SIR
thinking folks say that - ~ ;,
pvn,lcal W. history Of our great co,,rt,.,' ,ne
conasa ase never before had Just such
sonuieions confronting our "nod,.a .'
operandi" for adjusting tha ouus
s.0Im that seems to have taken La. ho,s
- 'ne whole world. OF late Ie.ra oau ~.
lave neard much about tho NJ. "e
doctrine foreign entanglements ,D'foe ot
n-, - al TO the hill-billy element tb;s
eposieion IS rather disconcert;no
ana we feel somewhat l;ka 49,
.ow tnat the bull calf ran over tha.
s 70 say, we know that sore+h;.s
mas happened but can't evaa.,s.
locate the cause. ''iy
The writer of this "scrou,,.
cogitated and ruminated over s .a
a'.er Tor a correct deduction nm
VI the hairs of his Uranium arc ha
ginning to slip from their soctots.
also notice that in the an;rsa,
kingdom their coating is perforn;n, :.
s'iniiar functions, so to speak as :
nave often heard some wiseacro.
say IN expoundng the gospel truth
from the pulupit-so the writer has
taken this as good omen fo,. h.
manity to follow, for human fo,,,a
are only the higher grade. at l.st
OF the animal creation-and nav
ado' the hardest to control IN aw
emplary habits, this statement :.
rather severe on the Christian c;v;l;
zation of which we so mpcb hosst
as Wen as the intent and nrrno.e
now In the second era of probation
ior which we were created .nd
just here let me say that I feel s,r.
when Noah built the Ark for s,,as
caravan of tonnage It had to carry
IN that forty-day voyage, that every
SUCK OF timber used was se,act.d
from the forest by an inspector ca
paoie OF Judging good material for
sucn a structure. Evidently this 4.
20 ana the ark withstood every shock
TWIST and turn of the turbulent md
destructive surging billows which onlv
deep waters can enforce.
In this paragraph, let me ask what
would have become of that ark ~
snoddy material had been used9 A
wreck, of course, would have bo.r ~ /.
result But to the point of this scrawl
we hear much said about good leoi,,
iative timber in this campaipn ard
all over our state, in every county
newspapers the slogan is for the
inspectors, voters, to be careful and
let no bastard or decomposed material
De seated in our next legislative
oody. To say that our county hasn't
IN her forest, solid, sound. clear %
wind shakes, knots or splits, il a mis-
homer. The writer has been all thru
.ne state and has had an opportunity
IN other ways Of knowing the intellec.
tual caliber of every county In the
state and Yalobusha will comnare
1avorably with the best at least, in n
pieoian sense, and they are the in
spectors for selecting the right kind
OF timber for the legislative fabric.
Concluding this erratic effusion.
may, with propiety refer to the
raw recruits that have enrolled for
political warfare recently, and, the
threshold of their "debut" in the
new field of pursuit granted them.
they will yet cling to that philosophi-
cal maxim of 'never being able to
tell whom they are likely to marry. -
or, as Byron puts II, "their VOWS are
traced in sand" AS reformers, they
certainly win have a load to
carry. But. Mr.. Editor, havn't many
more years to tarry in this realm,
and have made up my mind rather
than cross swords with them in polit-
ical controversy, to step down and
out allowing them all the rope they
want, which. in all matters with
my own sex, gives better results than
drawing blood.
But let me say, as you are factor
In the contest for preferment and
honor, it behooves you to bow and
scrape the pedestrian highway with
the Chesterfieldian ease and grace
when meeting or passing them. o,
nvf DO vou recIxon that there evar