The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-05-24
This CHANGING REGION AND our CHANGING LIFE.


past you and win find yourself in the of the pro-
cesson which amounts to the thing getting be-
hind in the race
There is no time for rest More and you hear peo
pie saying we've got to be doing something Not everyone
clear definite about just what ought to be DONE or
to do it. but most people these days action Of sorts
They every day all about them is contagious there
is spirit about others in motion that calls for action that
sts the blood quckens the Senses and calls for change
Words have lost their meaning: for long time the barng
of the radio suced and satisfied with nothing
less than teversh action on the screen and on the ana
it is before all day. We it in color and won't
be satisfied until we get it.
It is hard day for placid people who completely
satisfied with the old order Conservatism back number
in todays thinking and planning maybe lack of planning
It is world of great change of new things of distant places
brought close time when the incon-
sequenta people among become intensely interested in
the globe.
They concerned with only that which their
soil would produce for susenance and what animals it
would nurture in the for BARE but competent and
contented existence They never thought supply of
ural would diminish They had chid[ke faith
that the bounty of nature would always provide
sential that when complemened with native energy
sourcefuness and love of home and family meant complete
sufcency for the whole family They lacked nothing they
needed nothing they shared with each other They lived
mand and opportunities of their day. They concerned
not at all with anything which might lie beneath their soil
They had knowledge of and for the dongs
of the welfare of distant peoples who might be far
away the for all they knew They knew that
in short time time is counted change and circumstance
would combine to make helpless pawns of fortune to
change entire mode of e to recreate conditions of
toward polygot and counties nations tribes and peoples
who share equally, and sometimes largely
ponents of todays demanding demanding and more
cruelty exacting world.
Change Change CHANGE! It is the new and memorable
order In the rubbe and rubbish that follows any great cat
acysmc upheaval there much for depore and
with despair But the other hand change wipes much
that Is decadent detrimental and out-moded And the
cruelty torn and lacerated earth behind the farmers pow
or huge machines the roadsides give way
grass greenery and that which is fruitful beautiful do
often to view the results of change with pleasure
and with pride We suffer- of course great mental stress
deprivation ofttmes dispensing with numerous things
once called precious and priceless We speak nostalgia
ing only the best of the good old for time has Of
washing away the litter and the misery that lived
makes more dim the memory of that which is dark and
dreary In yesterdays Sober contemplation ap
prasa OF the hardshps and the privatons the scomfo
and the dscoragements of those days show them UP as
things to which wish return Clearly then we
must face the future must live with it, and with
the past Our happiness, progress and welfare will
depend on how we accept this challenge and live up its
responsibilities.
We live today not with what comes up on top of the
so but with what is far beneath it. and the skies
above US We no longer fish by walking along the
shore but plumb the depths in our endless
search for seafood We rely upon the bounty of
ture of mamma from heaven but assist our soils
with nvgorang products of scientific and distant
laboratories Our young people home college
with strange new knowledge not required by ancestors
families becomes blended with the blood strange races
mated to returning from the defense peoples and
nations ms. unknown X 10Y to us generation ago.
ward as in the dim and distant ages life first CROPPED
upward through the slime learned through epochs and
centuries first to crawl and then to walk and finally
press meaning 1t is long long time since humanity scraw
60 on chHsde the first crude pictures which said some
Lnng TO It's fellows When review the thousands of
fu steps that have interviewed during the progress Of
human race and compare them with todays achievements
fully realize that mankind did not get anv
where by standing stll.
To get back to todays world let above our dis
and bear witness to what is going about
us as proof that of going ahead Some young
people are looking to the future they investing
ton ana tner planning in the community where they expect
for their grandchildren They realize the only way
repay society for what they enjoy of the fruits of toll
and sacrifice of those have gone before is to leave
thing for those who follow after We get nowhere by merely
living IN the past and the past We have achieved no
saving nothing to sappng todays of every
nobody but ourselves $3.50 -
We find much comfort and insnratinn in tle