Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-08-04

would keep the attention of most any
crowd of listeners. He can attend NO
church out in the country without be-
| ing called on to pray, and ever after
wards folks will be telling me,
Moses, if your Father misses Heaven
there is little chance for the rest of
u.s." ~
If my Daddy had gone to college
and had learned. lathe ways of the
word, he would never have been the
man he is today and has been all
his life. Again IYask, Who is there
that doesn't have the idle dream of
some day owningia nice home with a
few acres of groGnd out in the coun-
try?-
How many folks right there in
Henderson, who are thirty five or
forty years old, but what were raised
on the farm? NOT many. Why does
Henry White come to town every day
to his business and then ride back
home every night? It is because he
still has enough of that poor, ignor-
anti farmer" blood in him to know
where the best place on earth to live
is, and he still lives therein the
country. "a.
Ask lie Mitchell whether or not
he still believes that the poor ignor-
ant farmers are the. salt of the earth
and the backbone of the nation. Ask
his wife, Miss Pearl, if she doesn't
sometimes wish she were back out
in the country. helping with handling
leaves canning fruits and vegetables,
working among the gardens and flow
Eers, getting her hands stained, cook
fling big supper for the threshing
machine force, or the orn-shucking
crowd, or the many other thousand
things to be done. on the farm. And
then to ride to good old. Tabs Creek
Church to Sunday School on Sunday
for preaching
1 would put both their Daddys in
the class with my own Daddy. There
is no more sincere handShake in the
wor d than when Mr.. Will Brummitt
holds out his hand and grabs mine
and says, How are you,. boy?" And
no sweeter woman lives than Mrs.
Brummitt unless, it is my own dear
Mother. And Mrs. Brummitt used to
give me ginger cake cookies when
1 was hardly more than baby, when
they lived next door to US. And that
same heart is. still in her, as she
CAYENNE a cone of ice cream the other
Saturday, that real hot day.
POOR, IGNORANT. FARMERS!
Ask Cousins Tom and Ola Hester
who on all this great earth they
would swap places with. With their
children and home and their Flat
Rock Church, and their farm, and
horses and COWS and chickens and
20 d-fish. With their work to do, so
hat when mealtime comes they will
have a hearty appetite, and when
;light time cc,..ss they will be enough
weary to lie down and sleep all night.
And Ne.son Spain, whom 1 men
toned on V yes.s":ay, ask him TO
What kings crown would he swap
lis wife. two rak''s, and farm. He
could answer mighty quick.
Now lets run over he~e in Gran
vi ,e few minutes. ASK -1rs. Matte
Critcher (Mrs. Notman) Barker where
he had rather live than right there
on their firm. Is she dissatisfied?
For many years Mrs Luther Hart
has been a farmers wife. She knows
what it means, but would she changer
Mrs. G. B. Beale has been in bad
health for some time. but I would
make guess that she loves her homo
"ather than anywhere in town she
could be. sfse
If A. L. Parh7m ever moved to
own, he would keep a sandpile in
lis back yard so he could put grits
n both his shoes every morning. He
would not want to forget the pleas
ant memories of the country.
|. Mrs. j. B.. Ellis had rather be out
here pnear Dexter around her chill
'ren and grandchildren than any
where else. If she hadn't she would
have moved elsewhere long ago.
T 1 don't believe M. F. Self would
move to Oxford if he were given "The
-ov TO the City, as well as the whole
city.
charlie Jones 1oloves to stand in
front Of the warehouse al. winter and