The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-11-16
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty Of Room
At The Top
BY
NANCY J. MIDGET

passed me Dy or passed IL by
Sometimes / feel that time stands
still and that we do the moving
from our frs. squall to our last
which would seem to infer from
the way that one years end runs
into another these days that I'm
doing some pretty speedy travel
ling across time.
Now, though the above stated
impression of what is and is not ir
the plan of things, pops in and out
of my mind at times, I cannot rec
oncile myself yet to the fact that
the broadening of the posterior
portion of my anatomy does not
seem to fit in with anyone speed
ing across anywhere; it seems
rather, to be a very evident physi-
cal sign of too much slow motion
and sitting around. This must be
one Of these places where our
physical and spiritual selves show
themselves more obviously as be-
ing separate and apart.
The news of the past two weeks,
wars and rumour of wars, made
me do some thinking back as we'll
as a lot of thought and self ques-
tioning on the present situation.
On the present, that / do not
agree with the declaring of war
as an aggressor; in self protec-
ton, yes; or even in the protection
of others who I feel would look to
me for that protection. don't
agree with the declaration of war
by Britain but l would not have
voted for, or been a member of the
political party to which the pres
ent Prime Minister belongs, for in
such situation, the action they
took is what / would have expected
of the party.
On the other hand, / can under
stand the action they took, and
even on the facts that have been
given to the world, and / am quite
sure that as in any international
situation lal the facts are never
made known to all the world, they
acted in good faith as they saw the
right thing to do. 1 think it would
come under the second of the rea-
sons l gave above, in the protec-
ton of others! AS l see it, they
considered a situation existed that
needed more forceful action than
words and many words that SEEM
ed to have done nothing but in
flame the situation more, have
been uttered. There also comes a
time as with children, when words
have no effect; even those same
words are turned back on the
speakers as weapon. Then some
thing else has to be done and / can
only presume that Britain and
France with them, having perhaps
information either unknown or dis
regarded as Of lesser Importance
by other nations, felt that they
must "do something, even if it's
wrong, as my late husband used
to say.
That saying reminds me of an
other used by a supervisor of mine
in the past before World War II;
we used to be timed for all our
days work and an average per
hour was worked out on all jobs
done from authorizing new claims,
to writing up and auditing cases,
summarizing weekly payments in
our divisions by the agents, and
on and on. When we presented our
weekly work sheets we were also
supposed to show the number Of
errors made, both those found by
our seniors auditing our work and
those found by ourselves. Eventu-
ally of course, being regrettably
human and in a situation where
hard competition produced by this
system brought out the BE top at
any price instinct in some, much
cooking of time sheets was found.
say found and it was mostly
on our division, because this SUI
pervisor was a wise old bird. She
had been through the office from a
youngster up like all of US in those
days and knew the amount of mis-
takes even a good clerk made at
the pace we worked at, therefore
when a time sheet was presented
loaded down with quantities of
work and practically no errors, or
even none at all shown, she imne-
diately smelt a rat. She would an
nounce with the air Of a judge
passing sentence but in quiet,
sad voice., "you know, I've always
found that people who make no
mistakes, do no work." A rounda-
bout way of saying it but when
your mind had chewed it over, you
knew what she meant.
And when you think about it, ma
tions are a collection of you and
me. The individual, without the
mass training of schools, govern
ments, and family life would differ
very little world wide, under SINH
lar living conditions. But, Lord