The following reports are taken from
The Calhoun Chronicle archives:
There will be a meeting of Victor
Hamilton Post No. 82 of the American Legion on
Saturday night. Guest Commander A.P. Hoy of the 4th
District said he has a very important message for
all ex-service men.
From National Headquarters comes the
flashing news that all World War veterans must arise
to combat false propaganda being spoken and
circulated against disabled veterans. According to
W.O. Umstead, Commander, the Legion adheres to the
truth, but when misrepresentation is given, it is
ready to fight for the veterans.
A prominent educator has warned that
the television craze, if it continues “with the
present level of programs,” will make us “a nation
of morons.”
The educator deplores the lazy
shortcuts that fool a student into thinking he is
learning when he is not, referring particularly to
television. “The habit of reading is something
indispensable to intelligence,” declares the doctor,
who thinks that too much dependence on television
will make impossible the formation of good reading
habits by young people.
It is quite possible for a man or
woman to pick up a smattering collection of
information on television, through the movies or
elsewhere, but it is important that young people
understand that a collection of scattered
information can be practically useless.
An encyclopedia, or a book of facts,
contains many interesting statistics and other
things of interest. Nevertheless, no one would call
either book “edu-cated” and the same observation
applies to the mind that is burdened with the trivia
that often passes for learning in circles that are
uneducated.
An odd but true incident happened
near the Vilas Marsh home on Pine Creek. A daughter,
Debbie, being the only one at home at the time,
heard the dog barking and went outside to see what
it was all about. She noticed some strange looking
animal in a tree and called her grandfather, Cleo
Gainer, to come and see what it was.
When he got there, he saw a big
groundhog on a limb on one side of the tree, and on
the other side, higher up, was the Marsh’s cat. He
shot the groundhog and it fell out of the tree. The
dog, being gun shy, ran, but came back later to
inspect the game. The cat? It decided there was too
much activity going on around there and decided to
stay in the tree a while longer.