The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1954-04-09
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty of Room
AT The Top
By
NANCY ]. MIDGET


even a civilization and MAN
| from Mars" who will resemble
what this old Earth has to offer
Cor stone the crows! Here am ]
not even seen real life size red
Indian yet or man from the
hills of Tibet and it looks as il
they intended to bypass the
ocket-to-the-moon trip and take
a fast plane to Mars instead. ]
must definitely have been born
into the wrong generation for ]
like to take time to view, con-
slider and stand on one spot (men-
tally) for long enough to get used
to it anyway. Perhaps just take
a long time to get acclimatized.
Although there must be some
'getup and go in me to bring me
over the Atlantic. I would have
to make myself right over again
to step into an outer space
vehicle and take off. I have cous-
ms and friends in the States and
Canada, an aunt and cousin and
a very good friend in Africa and
my correspondence goes also to
Ireland, England and Scotland
but by the way the postal rates
are going up I fear no one would
be able to afford corresponding
with Mars until mental telepathy
can be controlled and come into
general use.
People have always been want
ing to see the world and what
is on the other side of the hill.
Some are just made that way. 1t
isn't that they don't like where
they are or who they are with
it is an urge inside them. / always
think the poet John Masefield hit
the nail on the head with his
lines,
Adventure ON, companion, for
this
Is Gods most greatest gift, the
thing that is.
Take it, -. Go forth to seek: &.
The skyline is a promise, not
a bound"
Sometimes we start out very
much against our will; it wasn't
so in my case. I just felt that time
was a passing by and if ] wanted
to see any more of mother earth
than was within our treasured
Isle l had better be up and 60
ing, so I gave myself a good kick
in the pants and started making
arrangements. l won't say I didn't
have some bad moments when
nearly called the whole thing of
but I am very, very glad didn't
A week after left for the States
my friend Joan sailed for Cape
Province, South Africa but she
was very sad about going, for she
| Just loved London and the city
I life but her sister was already
out there and her father, who
was house-surgeon in a London
hospital, was due to retire and fol
several reasons wished to move
his home there.
SO Joan went along but after
our parting celebrations mea
out and London show-she wa!
very sad woman as we finally
parted in the Underground of al
places; I disappeared down ont
tunnel while she went down an
other to her train, like a couple
of rabbits scurrying down oul
burrows: that was the last time
1 saw her but we still write re
gularly.
l have an idea that one day i
time and tide don't run out OF
me, I'll end up by going over t.
visit her. I know there will b.
some terrific 'yocking' going OF
if ever we do get together. AS j
is her letters are most interesting
Some of the Afrikans terms anc
expressions, habits and wha
; have you are so different bu
when you stop to think abou
them, very much to the point AMI
merely another way of express
ing the same thing from a differ
ent view point.
We seem to have covered
great deal of ground in new dis
: coveries or new uses for the oil
: discoveries in the past forty year
since / have been conscious o
semi-conscious of what has beef
: going ON in this old world. An,
1 have only noticed and taken il
what doesn't even scratch tn
surface. I have great admiration
for those who can deal with tn
atom on even the machinery tina
deals with the atom. Each to hi
own and all effort and skill o
, each should put us somewhere j
: first we stop to consider that it
the right ground we are explor
ing. The admonition BE Still
and remember that I am God
. should keep us from harmful &C
ton if we act upon it, but-tryinl
. to be still in this present time