The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1956-10-05
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty of Room
At The Top
By
NANCY J. MIDGET

an the days when Knights were
bold
And Barons held their sway,
If the wife,, she dared to disobey
You put her on the rack three
times day,
And the nna-in-law, when she
commenced to scold,
You simply took battle axe
And busted her bazooka,
In the days when knights were
bold"
Having read the Sunday papers,
/ have coAle to the conclusion that
the above verse more than a little,
reflects the conduct of many men
Of the present day. In fact, nearly
every day of the week, there is
news of murder, rape, kidnapping,
assault and robbery, of the froth-
ing up of all the baser animal
instincts in man, until one won
ders if it is safe to go out on the
street or if one should perhaps
live behind bolted doors.
After putting down the news
paper and doing little calm
thinking, remembering the history
books and the facts given in them
regarding murders that happened
even behind barred doors in the
never ceasing lust for power in
the governing classes and the
never ceasing fight for existence
in the lives of many of the gov
erned, l decided that there are
perhaps even less acts of violence
now but those that do occur are
more quickly made known, and
because certain types of newspa-
pers find that such news, with all
the personal and CORY details will
jump up their sales, that is the
news that gets prominent position.
Above l have said "the conduct
of many men,. l was using the
term generally and should have
said mankind, for the female is
not above doing her share of blood
and thunder. There was Lucrezia
Borgia, beautiful, moneyed, born
into the fifteenth century with
about the best living surrounding
her that money could buy but for
her it was not enough and with
out better guidance, the trail of
her life left plottings, poisoning
and death for many who came in
contact with her or some members
of her family.
The Bible tells us that it is not
merely the physical act of harm
to another that is sin but the
thought itself, the mental spark
let loose for evil, so to speak, by
our lack of control and basic urge
to use the old law of a tooth for
tooth; a way of living that
harms not only the object of our
wrath but ourselves as well.
From my own experience, l
know that getting mad with peo-
pie and so often about things that
won't matter a boot in a day or
two, harms me physically as well
as any unknown harm to my spirit.
Having by mature an acidy in
terror, wrath or as my sister once
called paddy of hers, righteous
indignation" will certainly not help
me.
An example that comes to my
mind is story l once heard about
small boy who had been sent
upstairs without supper for pun
ishment, as was the way in my
young days. The mother, as is
often the case, after an interval
of ten minutes or so went upstairs
to see if sonny was alright and
found an empty bedroom. In ans
wer to her call came a voice from
the wardrobe. I've spat on your
dwesses and I've spat on your coat
and when I've got some more spit,
Sonny boy not only had to go with
out supper but had a second pun
ishment to take to balance the
budget.
Maybe. man is balancing his good
and evil and coming out ahead on
the good side as the years and
centuries go by. At least we know
J that to knock someone on the head
because we disagree with him is
wrong. At one time it was the
expected thing and could be done
without fear of anyone objecting
too much though the family might