The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1959-05-15
OUR FUTURE WILL BE AS BIG AS WE WISH 1T.

We are convinced that in spite all the effort and
e that has been reckessy squandered in Walter Ra
leigh Coasand during the past decade the occasion has
come now offering the opportunity to offset the great
losses and cost we have endured ana tore anead TOWARD
worthy goals yet profitable than we have ever
We are convinced with the new spirit of new citizens
and the vgor energy of the younger generation offer
ing enlist in behalf of rescue that will find out
of the lessons of tragic past avenues whereby most
wholesome program of progress toward great profits
betterment of our people may be happily pursued.
We forget that there have been differences in the
mast and we must write the mistakes off the books while
we intellectually in any and all causes that offer
us opportunity to go forward with hope of success
Never has this coastand been offered greater
opportunities the time been faced with greater
challenges We must remember that when the family be
remember too that when the family out on the road
touring the countryside and enjoying the thrill of travel for
days at the time lot of work at home that used to be done
with efficiency and dispatch will be neglected
We have dreams of building big schoolhouses, and we
derive no benefits the school, but too often we
look the vital that lot of money needed to equip the
school Then what the good Of great temple OF learning
We promise young people a lot in the way OF edu-
cation and like ostriches convince ourselves we are do
ing duty by them when we make our prop
erty pay off the bonds, to build big buildings yet
continue to give pupils mediocre classroom guidance
and do nothing to improve the standard OF administrator
In short it's darn little that we doing We follow the
old of holding out the hand We love mamma from
heaven We love too well to be on the receiving end
It is encouraging to of us that in the past few
months have noted In the attitude OF our
people There instances these days of willingness
to stand on and to carry ones part of the
load that is the responsibility of all good citizens
We hope this, attitude will manifest ntsef among
those people, who being comparatively weoff have long
been throwing their aged to the ercies of charity
Gin this welfare and allowing them to end their days
often lonely and almost. forgotten in Boarding homes
subsidized by funds contributed by worthy people who
gladly retaining their ia responsibilities and who
happy in the ability to provide comfort for their own loved
ones, to whom they everything
The time here for sfening of spine for men to be
men, and to continue to be the great people they
have always been with the returning support of those who
have long claimed to be lord and MASTER yet who have been
continually surrendering their responsibilities and their
character to a paternaistc government.
Let get busy in this coastand and be great people
Let prove Let go forward for economic
beement for cultural advantage for stimulation of per-
sonal pride, and desire for achievement.
Let us add here comment from outside source
the growing tendency through the nation to chse
credit for receiving this thought from Bob Taylor of the
u. S. Press Association of Washington:
How Much Federal Aid Did The Pilgrims Get?
"They were in Depressed Area. No guaranteed
them high price for anything Their only roads and schools
were built by themselves For security they did their
saving, starved
"Al they had was Character. All they did Work
All they wanted was Self Respect.
"The sum of those three traits became America.
But what's going to be the of the traits you see
todate traits of character rather lack of it, that de-
mand money for less work put security above self
them give away desperately need protect
ourselves listen to weangs that want to take
of them when they should take of themselves
'Long years of earyAmerican self-respect and hard
work built America, but the traits you today de-
stroy it in half the time.'
STAND FOUR SQUARE; FACE THE WORLD.