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Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-02-07

q JaK JSell Spal, all sc Pc
psat medal. Avenir Vasilevii
opet spraskl ruce = "Musfn
rici pravdu, costa je hanebna
dokonce ne takova, jak jste m.
sliboval."
"To zavinily ty deste u.
vad1 mne to v zoufalstv1
ale tim vice mus1me VAN byt.
povdecni, hovoril Lutovicin
"Jste zajiste unaven a hladov
i a snad jste ami nesnidal?
Zinecko, bud tax laskava, O.
hledni Sc pc necem pro drahe-
no hosta."
"Pros1m vas, PAM, nenama.
hejte se," odvetil host zvedaje
Sc.
"Jen dovolte, AlexandTe I.
vanici, je to povinnostf hospo-
dyne," zertovne prohodil Ave
mir Vasilevic, o~dvraceje Sc, "a
by Sc vyhnul zraku odchazej1-
CT zeny.
"Ostatne, rad Sc vyznam.
re by mi sn1dane byla vhod,'
vyslovil Sc host, jejz rozmluva
IS mladou zenstinou ucinila
mnohem pffvetivejsfm; Vi
tell, Avenire Vasilevici, mac
jsem Sc nejvfce tesil pc celou
cestu z posledn1 stanice?"
"A-nac?"
Aveniru Vasilevici sevrelo
sc srdce desnou pTedtuchou.
"Tesil jsem .se," pokracova]
host Sc sladkym vyrazem v
tvari, "jak jen dojedu k Ave.
niru Vasilevici, re nekde v pa.
villonu nebo besfdce Sc vykou-
pam"
"Ano, ano, hahaha!" rozpa.
cite small Sc Avenir Vasilevic
"Ano," hovofil host uplne
obmekceny, "vzdyt jsem clio.
vek z mesta, ma vesnici jsen
nikdy NEIL, mne tedy vse te
marianne zajlma. Nemohli by.
chom jfti nynf jeste pred snf
DAM? Nam kalose, a IDA Sc
re dest pTestava. Pravil jste
mi, re .je besldka u sameho do.
mu a re v nj vzdy mate koupe.
pTichystanou NJ, pojdme
tedy," skoncil vstavaje.
"Poslyste mne, Alexandra
Ivaniei," pTesvedeujfcfm hla-
sem pronesl Avenir Vasilevi6
a meme wal hosta "a ruku.
"poslyste : pokud = tam -
machl neurcite rukou, "pokud
tam - ale Wy m1zete zde -
Tu ukazal zcela urcite ma po-
koj, nabldnutf koupele v salo.
ne, zdalo Sc, re hosta velice
prekvapilo.
"Jak re = zde?" tazal Sc.
"Ano," pocal domaci, zne-
nahla nabyvaje mysli, "tam
vse Sc predelava; ocekavaje
vas, vydal jsem nektera mari
zen1, nedalo Sc to ukoncit, CO
nevid6t Dude vse pTipraveno.
Jakoby schvalne stihaji mne
melody, povazte 81, starosta sc
mi opil. Pc celem dome SANG
speech a zmatek = vse Sc pc.
rada, opravuje - zena je chu-
rava, bydlfm S nj v jedne kom.
nate. Sasa ma zadusny kasel,
Peta Sc pohmozdil, jsme v zou
falstvf."
Host vyslechl vse Sc sklope.
nou hlavou, stahl obocf, stisk]
rty a pravil:
"A proc jste tedy = kdy5
tomu tax, mel jste mne v cas- c
tom zpraviti."
Tu pomohl Aveniru Vasile.
vici z rozpad1 stepan, jenz sc
objevil S kufrem a vakem
Hned "a MIN vesla Nadezda
Nikitisina nesouc ma tact sni.
DAM.
"Sem dejte kufr = semi
vesele akTikl Avenir Vasilevie
ma Stepana.
"A tn mate snfdani, Alexan.
Dire Ivanici, prijmete "a vdel
Sc sv1tkem z cerstvych vajec-
pc vesnicku - pros1m, racte
Sc posadit."
Alexandr Ivanic, pocinaje
byt velmi nespokojen s priv
tanfm, jakeho Sc mu dostalo
powell hlavu pfi zmince O sn.
DAM. Pohled ma svftek jej oh.
mekcil okamzite, nebot Scope.
tilnikov byl milovnikem snfda
nj a krone toho vyhladovel pc
ceste. Skoro laskave odpove.
del Lutovicinu:
"Dfky, je to velmi dobre il
do. Mou kazdodenni snidan
jsou cerstva vejce a salek ka
Wy. Lide mne pomlouvajf, Il
jsem mlsny, a ia zatfm velm
dObre mOhu sc Obeiit beZ Wv
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-02-07

SUI tCHy Jdhy IOSIvd-
il umelci. Zahalen byl v plast
S bobrovym lfmcem slime molly
prozranym.
"Jedu k tobe," opakoval 30
dasov, tail Lutovicina Ike scho-
dun a spustil ma stupen cesto-
vn1 yak a vrchnf kalose.
"Tesf mne -"
"Jsi sam?" ptal sc host sn1-
zenym hlasem a S vyznamny-
mi posunuky.
"Ne."
MAS hosty?"
Toto pronesl S patrnym ne
pokojem.
"Ano, Scepetilnikova."
alexandra Ivanice?" S hr1
you ptal Sc Bodasov.
"Ano, toho.'
Neco neobycejneho delo Sc
S Bodasovem pfi teto Zprave,
on V mziknut1 powell sve veci
a chvejlcim Sc hlasem pravil
Lutovicinu:
"Zaved mne nekam, ale spe-
she, ia ami sekundu nemohu
zGstati S MIN v jednom DOME"
"a proc to-"
"Rozumis, ia schvalne, zkrat-
ka ia prave pred MIN utfkam
z Petrohradu."
~ jake pffciny?"
"Jsem mu dluzen, pc Ger
tech dluzen, pronasleduje
mne."
"Kdoz tomu neni dluzen!"
Sc vzdechem pronesl Avenir
Vasilevic.
"Vsichni ne v takove mlTe-
ale mne pronasleduje, je roz-
vteklen - jsem ztracen, sci
dull sc S n1m."
Avenir Vasilevic chtel navr-
hnouti hostu, ably znova usedl
do vozu a odejel, ale to okaza-
10 Sc byti nemoznym; Bodasov
objevil, re nema ami kopejky,
re vozkovi z Petrohradu AMI
nezaplatil.
"Doufam, re mne zalozis,"
dodal host a tail druha sveho
pres dvGr, sam nevedel, kan.
ga proto k tobe pfijel, pekel-
ne jsem Sc We hire zasekal, vse
prasklo!"
"Pffsaham ii, re ami kopej-
ky nemam," pravil Avenir Va
silevic, "nemohu tt nicfm po-
moci. Ale kan mne to We
des?"
"Kamkoliv, vse jedno, nej-
sem-li S MIN pod jednou sire
chou. Nezadam mnoho = ma
tie sennfk?"
MAINE"
"Tak mne tam doveR,- pos
pes, jen kdyz Sc S MIN neset-
kan! A drozkaTi zaplat, ko-
pejky nemam, vse prasklo!'
Avenir Vasilevic Sci "a hos
tenn, mfsto ably no vedl, a tax
nahodou dostali Sc k sennlku,
kde Avenir Vasilevic ~z1stavil
Bodasova We stale vzrnstaj1-
elm nepokoji.
Prikazav starostovi, ably droz-
kafe ovsem vyplatili (casty to
zpGsob vyplaty ma vesnici) F,
pospfsil domG.
Pr vzpom1nce ma Scepetil-
nikova a podany mu svftek o.
kamzite zapomnel ma Bodaso-
va a S nevolnou, sklfcenou my
slf pfikradl Sc Ike dveTfm salo-
nu a jail Sc naslouchati. Alex
andr Ivanie jen jen Sc rozply-
val pred Zinaidou Lvovnou.
Dospeli jiz k hovoru O krase
pTfrody a v1ni kvetI.
Gnu, chvala Bohu, IDA Sc,
re je vse urovnano, tot veru
genialnf zenstina," pomyslil 81
Avenir Vasilevic.
Otevrel dveTe a Sc starostli-
YOU tvaff pTistoupil k sed1c1-
mu.
"Prave dekovala jsem Alex
andru Ivanici "a cest, kterou
nam prokazal, a prosila jsem
jej "a odpustenf," pravila Ii
Nadia Lvovna, obracejfc Sc k
muzi.
"Prosfm vas, PAM, nemam
co odpoustet; jsem velmi stas-
ten, re jsem k vam pfijel," W.
slovil Sc host, sklaneje a usmi-
vale se."
"Vefte, Alexandre Ivanici,"
lchvatne zahovoril Avenir Va
silevic, "postaram Sc o to, a.
bych YAM nahradil nepffjem-
nosti dnesnfho dine. Jake to O.
sudne melody! Ale zejtra vse
sc zmenf: budeme delati vyle-
ty, name zde m1sta neobycej-
ne malebna, ktera krasou svou
slynOu 30 celem Rusku, maly
Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1936-02-07

"Co to znamena?" tazala Sc
Zinaida Lvovna vstavaj1c, "kdo
to ma byt?"
ia veru nevim, Zinicko, an
dilku mGj, opravdu nevlm.
Ach, Alexandr Ivanic!" vzkri-
XII nahle speculate vstT1c vcha-
zejfcfmu hostu. "Boze muj,
jak jsem blazen!" A rozev1ra-
.je naruc1, dolozil v unesenl:
"Mohu T1ci, tot nejkrasnejsi
den meho zivota!"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26
HUSK NEWS

MIR. C. o. Perry returned home
from Pocohontas, Va, Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rohie Wiles, w. c.
Wiles, Ed Miller and Walter Carter
left Monday for Norton, Va.
Julia Dolinger spent the weekend
visiting her sick uncle Mr.. Noah
Blevins in Taylors Valley, Va.
Mr.. L. P. Osborne made a business
trip to the Jeffersons Monday.
Reba Hart left last week for West
Jefferson where she expects to work
at Hotel Tucker for while. She was
accompanied by Ethel Hart who also
works there.
Ruby Dolinger spent few days
last week with friends in Virginia.
Charles, Gorden and Carl Tedder
spent the week end at Konnarock,
Virginia.
Howard Little made a trip Sun
day to investigate a job offered him
on the Park-to-Park highway.
Mrs. B. O. Dolinger visited Mr..
and Mrs. L. B. Ham Sunday.
George Davis who has been seri-
ously ill for several months con-
tinues to grow worse, we are sorry
to say.
Several ladies in the community
enjoyed a quilting party Monday
and Tuesday, given by Ruby
Dolinger.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26
Ashe Boys and Girls
Defeated in Tourney
Held in Twin CITY
W.Jefferson, Lansing
and Fleetwood
Win HOnOrs

Ashe county boys and girls went
down in defeat in the Winston-Sal-
EN- Journal and Sentinel basketball
tournament held last week, but they
gathered honors unto themselves
even in defeat for they won enough
games to let the public know that
they were top-notch players. Of the
SO who entered the tournament,
Lansing and West Jefferson were
among the last twelve to play.
West jefferson boys won steadily
only to lose in the finals when they
had defeated all but the champions.
Lansing girls won until they reach
ed the quarter-finals, and Fleetwood
was defeated by the Methodist Chill
dren's Home team by only one point.
, Side-ights on the home teams
were carried in an article from the
Journal:
The story was told in Fridays
Journal concerning the determine
ton of young girl member of the
Lansing (Ashe county, team to
reach the tournament after she had
been cut off from her mates by a
severe snowstorm in the mountains.
When the bus on which she and
several other school children was
riding was unable to proceed furth-
er through the snow, she braved the
blizzard to take off her coat and flag
down an approaching train, which
carried her and the other children
home.
Later she emerged from two car
wrecks to ride horse ten miles
through two feet of snow to Lam
sing, where she was able to make
connection for Winston Salem.
Another incident revolves about
the plucky boys team from West
Jefferson. A part of the squad arriv-
ed here Tuesday morning, the coach,
two regulars and a substitute stay
ing behind to come later in the day.
The latter became snowbound in
consequence of the storm, and the
crippled squad faced the prospect of
playing an unusually strong team
minus the services of their coach
and two of their best players.
Undaunted, they entered the fray
and emerged victorious by a single
point. Again on Thursday the coach
and two players were still missing
and the crippled five was paired to
battle the powerful Balls Creek
team at 1870 p. m. But at the elev-
enth hour the coach and the missing
players appeared and the team went
on to win another victory.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26
Fine Progam for
Y.P.U. Here Mon.
Rev. M. S. Kincheloe of Emery and
Henry College to Be the
Principal Speaker

A very interesting program and
attractive menu have been arranged
for the banquet of thes Ashe County
Young Peoples Union which will
be held at the West Jefferson Meth
odist Church at seven o'clock Mon
day night, March 80. Since it is the
second anniversary of the Union the
birthday theme will be carried out
in speeches and stunts of humor-
GUS nature contributed by the vari-
GUS groups of young people. The
speaker of the evening, Rev. M. S.
Kincheloe, college pastor at Emory
and Henry College and professor of
Bible, will be introduced by the
Union president, John Rackley, of
MIR. Kincheloe's subject will be
"Soul Flight" Professor Joe Martin
of Lansing, has been asked to serve
as POSTMASTER for the occasion.
The elaborate menu will be serv-
ed by the Woman Missionary Socie-
ty of the church. Tickets are on sale
at Grassy Creek Lansing, Warrens-
vile, Jefferson, West Jefferson, and
Baldwin and a large crowd is ex-
pected to use them Monday night.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26

Mems and boys suits, hats, shoes,
OxfOrds, and other accessories for
the Easter parade are now being
sold at mOney-saving prices at
McNEILL'S STORE in West Jeffer-
SON. If it is style you want at a price
you can afford to pay, stop in and
look at our line. McNEILL'S STORE.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26

The Warrensville school building
was burned Saturday about one
o'clock in the afternoon. The origin
of the fire was unknown.
Avery Ashley, city night police, is
out again after having been ill with
influenza.
Messrs. George Reeves and r. G..
Gentry, of Sparta, were in town
Wednesday.
Messrs. Horton Doughton, of
Statesville, and John Higgins, of
Sparta, were in the city on business
this week.
Professors Francis and Moody, of
Grassy Creek, were in town We'd
nesday afternoon.
The Virginia Carolina High School
will present the Twilight Ministries
at the Lansing High School audi
forum on Saturday night, April 3rd.
The minstrel includes the best home
talent ever presented in Ashe
county and the public is cordially
invited to attend.
Mrs. Jake Church manager of the
Mayflower Beauty Shop of this city,
spent Wednesday in town helping
with the opening of the shop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Jenerette, of
Dulah, N c., were seriously injured
n an automobile wreck Saturday.
Mrs. Jenerette is reported to have
suffered a broken back. Mrs. Jener-
cite, formerly Miss Ethel Capps, has
visited Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Tulbert
in the city on several occasions.
Mr.. Preston Koontz has returned
from visiting his brother, Mr.. G. C..
Koontz, in Bristol. He reports that
Mr.. Koontz is much improved from
his illness which was thought would
prove fatal during the winter. Hope
is held out for at least a partial re-
covery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Miller spent
Saturday night with relatives in
Boone.
Messrs. r. c. Barr and E. D. Barr
attended the funeral of Mr.. Marshall
Baker, Saturday.
Mrs. Grant Bauguess and Mr.. Bry-
an Pennington visited their sister,
Mrs. Smith, in Lexington, last week.
Miss Ruth Bauguess spent the
week end in Winston-Salem visiting
friends.
DR.. ]. o. Tucker, of Tuckerdale,
was a visitor here Monday.
Mrs. J. L. Farnsworth was carried
to the Wilkes Hospital this week
where she may have to undergo an
operation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26
MRS. D. A. SELLS WINS DISHES

Mrs. D. A. Sells won the set Of
dishes offered as a prize at the re-
cent sales contest carried on at
Miller's Five and Ten Cent Store.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26
L o c A L S

%S~o~o~o~os~o~os
DR.. w. j. Robinson, of Creston,
and Mr.. r. P. Baker, also of Creston,
were in the city Monday.
Mr.. E. D. Barr visited Mrs. Barr
Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. F. P. Cooke attend
ed a meeting in Knoxville, Tenn,
this week.
Mrs. Jack Rhodes of Warrensville,
was in the city Monday. She and Mr..
Arthur Lewis had just returned
from Asheville where they took Mr..
Rhodes to enter Oteen. Mr.. Rhodes
is a popular merchant in the city
and his many friends will wish him
speedy recoery. Returning with
Mrs. Rhodes for visit was Mrs.
Herman Wilson, of Asheville.
Mesdames R. c., r. c., and Rus
sell Barr spent several hours Mon
day in North Wilkesboro.
Prof. John Donnelley, Mrs. Ruth
Roland, and Dr. J. H. Hunter attend
ed the basketball games in Winston
Salem Saturday.
County Superintendent J. Ivan
Miller and Mrs. Miller made trip
to Winston-Salem Monday to visit a
specialist for their small son who
continues very ill at their home in
the city. The child was too ill to car
ny. to the hospital, according to re-
port.
Mrs. Glen B. GRAPHICAL is spending
a few days with members of her
family in New York City.
Rev. and Mrs. John Luke and lit
tie daughter visited in Charlestown,
w. Va, last week. Mr.. Luke reports
that they were water bound two
days there and that one had to act
ually see the wreckage of the flood
ing rivers to appreciate the predica-
ment the country and the people
are in.
c. S. Eastridge, of Clifton, vet
eran of the Spanish-American War,
is in the Veterans Hospital in John
son City for treatment. His condition
is not improved.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Johnson and
family, of Clifton, have moved to
Asheville recently where they ex-
pect to make their home for some
! time. When in town the other day,
Mr.. johnson said that he never ex-
pected to permanently leave Ashe
county.
Miss Virginia Ashley, of Lansing,
left the latter part of the week for
Nashville, Tenn, where she will
do further study along the lines of
her chosen profession. Miss Ashley
is a popular nurse in the county.
Mr.. r. c. Woodruff, who has been
in Idaho for the past thirty-two
years, is visiting in the county.
Mr.. J. F. Neal agent for the Occi-
dental Life Insurance Company, has
returned to his home in Jefferson,
much improved, after spending
three weeks in hospital in johnson
City, Tenn.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION
North Carolina
AShe County

Having qualified as Administrator
of Marilda Sturgills, deceased this is
to notify all persons having claims
against said estate to present them
to the undersigned for payment at
Sturgills, North Carolina, on or be-
fore March %, 1887, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their re-
covery. All persons indebted to said
estate will please make immediate
payment.
This March %, 1886.
F. L. STURGILL, Administrator
Of Marilda Sturgills, deco. 4-30
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26

Capitol punishment is what sena-
tors and representatives have to 60
through in shaking hands with
daily visitors.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1936-03-26

Say: Il saw the ad in The Post"
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-20
NEWSPAPERS OPINIONS
YOUTHS PROSPECTS GOOD

The prospect for young Americans to obtain en-
ployment and adequate incomes, to rear families
and enjoy the fruits of their labors is good today
despite current economic conditions in this country
and the obstacle that is placed in the way of those
coming of age by reason of the unemployment pro-
gram in the nation today. These the statements
of Dr. Louis Dublin famous statistician of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company He has re-
Gently conducted survey throughout the nation,
taking into consideration the cases of millions of
persons and this survey is reported in the Ameri.
can Magazine.
''The average white man of twenty years. he
said, now has an even chance to live to be sixty
nine His chances of getting job are excellent,
so long as he continues to train himself in some
particular field. 1t is true that there is great
deal of unemployment. The figures run into mil
lions Actually however, the figures represent less
than cne-6fth of the employabe population. His
chances, then, are four out of fve even during
the depression period. 1t is almost impossible to
have talent, training and energy mad not come out
on top, even in era of depression"
DR.. Dublin reports todays average youth will
attain what is considered an income adequate to
fairly good standard of life-$2, 000." He adds
that % youngsters in 1000 will reach $4,000,
while II per cent of all people living and working
in cities will make $4,000 year. Thrty-one per
cent of the urban families will have $4,000.
"Only about one in three at present is decently
provided for in his latter years About II per cent
of the people over IS are still earning their own
living About five per cent are maintaining them
selves on the income from property, investments,
insurance and other such things, while 40.4 per
cent are dependent on CHEERS for support. An
derson, s. c., Record.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-20

ing. He seized the paper before II
reached the sidewalk. He eXamin-
ed it. 1t consisted of a five dol
lar bill and three one dollar bills
clinging together.
A woman standing near, who
had seen the stranger pluck the
banknotes out of the air, opened
her handbag and stepped forward.
"My money! she shrilled harsh
ly. at fell out of my handbag
here Give it to me-"
She was a quick thinker. The
stranger stared at the woman
amazed by her brazen lying.
at couldn't have come out OF
your handbag he expostulated.
This money blew out of some of.
flee window, high up. | watched
it float down and caught it before
it hit the sidewalk"
The woman laughed unpleas-
antly. "Do you think you could
make anybody believe that
story" she retorted. Give me that
money" She held out her hand.
The stranger stepped back hold.
ing the money behind him out OF
the woman's reach. She looked al
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-20
"IF IT AMT IN MeGUFFEY'S-"

memorial to William Holmes McGuffey, the
work of the sculptor dorado Taft, is to be unveiled
July Is in the presence of a notable gathering at
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. And, incredible
as it would have seemed to Americans who got
their schooling in the nineties, generation is upon
us who knew not those, then, Incompatible elemen-
tary Readers.
For century has passed since the simple, I'M
pretentious professor of Miami University, later
aided by his brother Alexander, gave to young
America the Primer, the Speller and six Readers
which for millions of children the only sign
posts pointing to ParnasSus. Reading held top place
in the three RS in the little red schoohouse and
parents proudly put Tommy and Mabel through
their PAGES when company was in the parlor by
having them "elocute' the poetry of Cowper and
Scott and Mrs Hemans, cued from the rich selec-
ton assembled by McGuffey. IF It amt in Nc
Guffey's It amt no good" held many father as
the family gathered close round the amplit table.
Other times, other manners The McGufey Read
ers have stepped back to let larger anthoogies of
wider scope enter the classroom door; the text
books have been displaced by more modern man.
uals. 1t is right and fitting that it should be so.
McGuffey himself would have rallied to the bugle
call of progress.-Christian Science Monitor.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-20
GREAT VACATION SEASON

The resorts of North Carolina showing the
effects of improved busnesrs conditions.
They are being generously patronized this sum-
mer not only by natives, but visitors from afar in
increasingly larger volume. Both the mountains
and the strands of the state are having fine
season.
This is creditabe barometer of returning good
times. People have more money they can spend
for their summer restings and to get themselves
rehabtas led for their everyday engagements.
Everybody ought to have the OPPORTUNITY thus
to benefit themselves.
Vacations are not only essential for those in the
higher brackets in the social scale and those who
do the greater part of the mental ministries in our
complex industriasm, but those as well who con-
tribute with the labor of their hands and stay by
the stuff in the heat of the day.
Intelligent self-interest on the part of the en-
blowing world will suggest that such breaks in the
consistent gait of modern strenuosity on the part
of all involved represent not losses but gains and
nav dividends in greater efficiency and improved
loyalties- Charlotte Observer.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-07-20
THOUGHTS OF
A FISHERMAN
By IKE WALTON

Some politicians use the wrong
bait; some fish in the wrong holes;
some do not conceal their hooks;
some fish in water that's too mud
dy, some when it's too clear, and
some think all fish are fools.
Well, they are not. They do not
all think a worm is better than
liberty. They do not all snap at
any sort of fly. They often see
fisherman as soon as'he reaches
the bank and they scoot. They are
foolish in many ways, of course,
and they get caught all the time,
but enough of them escape to pro-
ducc more fish, and they have
managed to do this since Noah
and Jonah and before their time,
too.
The northumberland cannot
catch us all, gracias a Dlo. We
shall be doing business at the same
old stand long after they have
hung up their poles and rods and
seincs and nets and gone to where
the wood-bine twineth and the
wood-thrush singeth in the Happy
Fishing Grounds. They may get
up new sorts of bait-Townsend
Plans, and Birth Control, and Fas-
cism and Communism and New
Deals and Square Deals and
Crooked Deals and Ideals and
ideals and all the rest of the jar
gon but we little fish and you big
fish Eat least some of you) will
keep on lodging and ducking and
swimming and reproducing and
keeping the Great Stream stocked.
Maybe some day a Master-Politlco
will rise and give us some better
rearing pools and enforce the
rules of the game and our tribe
may increase and multiply and re-
plenish the earth, but until then
we shall just keep up the fight,
for we cannot keep from believ-