Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1950-07-05
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RY "DOC BLODGETT

In last Sundays Greensboro
Daily News, there's thought
provoking headline: Religious
Talks Replace the Sound of Guns
as Baptist Gather at Old Fort
Caswell." With no disrespect fol-
the Baptists, and speaking from
an academic viewpoint, it's a
good thing to have such change.
however, while anybody knows
that while the sound of guns
can SO easily indicate, Il Jus
like you at ALL" still is lets
a follow know where he sta:lG;
These talks, however can be cor
%;rilrd in the light of so many
differing and controversial in
&c. prctations that if a person
ui:es en- too much to heart he's
likely TO lose a lot of sleep
ius, .,rnderin'. Still in all. wei!
take the talk. AS Father Divine
SAYS, Lace" while it laSiS
its wonderful"
The nameless, fiagless, anG
generally unidentified craft that
wandered into a Coamunist-con
trolled Chinese port, the othel
day, and breezed out again with
out harm after having disrupted
a lot of odd and-end shipping
we'll, somehow the thing gets our
respect. Sounds like a modern
version of one of the old Count
Won Luckner deals. 1t took cold
nerve to pull this off. Not that
we're in any special mood to in
cite anything land riots are in
cluded) we still keep thinking
what a beautiful circus a few o!
our old PIT boats second
hand, if you must, and undel
anyone's command could dc
under similar circumstance. II
would he something to report.
Heard a good one about {
Northerner who thought he'c
take nip at Southern ways
He'd been told that the old
fashioned saloon "a la Yankee
land) was simply a non.eXistcnt
here in Dixie, but that the smart
thing to do was to tote his OWE
bottle and kick it around under
sundry tables. "Ah," said he
Just like Prohibition; here VIC
20. This ought to be fun" He
came through Virginia; it wa
Lees birthday; the package
stores were in holiday. He hi
North Carolina; it was First
Run Primary day; the packag;
stores were locked. He hit destln'
alton with his tongue hanging
out. Some of his Southern
friends, of course, came to his
rescue, but he says the next time
he tries a thing like this, he'll,
bring along the Order of the st
BernardS.
At the moment, your Q. D. Is
writing from the city room o
the Greensboro Daily News anc
it's an interesting but personally
dishcartening time. The second
primary returns have been pour
ng in right and left, and your re
porter has just seen the streamer
written that acclaims Smiths
sictory. If you have read this
Queer Duck tripe before, you've
noted a strong personal feeling
for Frank Porter Graham. 1t
stemmed from having been a
neighbor-and a friend. The Old
North State has crossed it's Ruoi.
on. and Smith takes off fol-
Washington. Your Q. D. retracts
not a single word he said il
iraham's favor, but as citizen
he will try to go along with
Smith. cat least he'll "try him or
tor size.") This is how things
should be. 1t is only natural that
your Q. D. will fare forth int
the night, submit a feeble minors
ty report to God, and then se"i'
5olace in a bag of peanuts. What
S to be will be.
To keep out of the sun, we've
lately been wandering around in
old books; musty things such as
the Murray Dictionary. which
puts more stress than others on
back country. or colloquial.
words. Have you ever been in
reduced to a "fly-up.the-creek"
Murray puts it down as a small
green heron; adds a hint that
the Century Dictionary has fur
;her ideas still. Out of sheer pre-
verseness, we wandered far in
the sun to find a Century, which
says that the same critter (posSi.
bly, in line with green herons)
is Cd nickname for an inhabit-
ant of Florida, or (2) a giddy
capricious person. Letting Muir
ray and Century stand as they
will, we'd somehow advise ar
easy hand to the gun before pre-
5uming to call the average Flori-
dian, today, (even a niCe) fly
up-the-creek.