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Thursday, January 1, 1959
NEW YEAR
We near the end of the old year and the beginning of
the new. It is an appropriate time to extend best wishes,
and also an appropriate time to relate our debt' of grati-
tude for favors extended in the past. Our advertisers and
readers have been patient with us in the year now drawing
to a close; when we have made mistakes they have been
met with understanding. We are grateful. Here aL the
offices of this paper we are conscious of a soberingre- -
sponsibility: a responsibility to use this medium of com-
munication to recount accurately the local events of the
week and to make any comment we may choose to make
fair and objective. If in responding to this responsibility
we at times fall short of the mark we beg indulgence,
always entertaining the hope that our readers will under-
stand that our failures are never motivated by any ulterior
design, but only the result of the imperfections of all men.
Thousands of people read the by-product of our work each
week. They have a right to a fair, objective and accu-
rate recounting of the facts that go to make up what we
call "stories. It has been our endeavor the past to
give such a recounting, and it will be our aim in the fu-
ture. We have no desire "to get", so to speak, anyone.
Sometimes the facts that we are obliged to report reflect
unfavorably on the principals involved in a given s ory.
But they must be reported, without fear or favor. We
do not make the news. But it is our duty to report it,
and to the limits of our ability we will endeavor to do that
in the year ahead.
We wish for one and all a Happy and Prosperous New
Year. in many respects the horizon of the future seems
clouded. But when hope seems to fail and despair sets
in may each gain some measure of assurance in the know-
ledge that always strengthens us, even in the darkest
hours: God is still in His heaven; all will yet be right
with the world.
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NEWS HAPPENINGS IN
KABLETOWN
By Mrs Clarence Smallwood Phone 20.F-024
W. S. C. S. Meets Jan. 7 Gerrardstown. ' "
The local W• S. C. S. will meet Miss Margaret Johnson spent
Christmas Day with her ,brother-.
Wednesday nitht, January 7 a~
7:30 with Mrs. Oral B. Hughes at in-law and sister Mr..and Mrs.
~'mr home, Avon Hill• HOmer Kees of Gerrardst~e~vn.
Regular worship service will be Mrs. Kees is convalescing swtisfac
held Stinday;Jan. 4 at 11:15 with torlly from a case o£ double pneu
Ray. S. F. Butcher in charge, monia.
Ray. and Mrs. Henry H. Smith We are sorry to report that Mrs.
Jr .and two sons Harrison and Edna Hill and Newt ThBmpson
Dale of Buchannon, Va. spent sev are on the sick list•
opal days of the Christmas holm- Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sowers and
days with her mother .Mrs. Elmer son Ronny were Christmas Day
Roderick. visitors wl,th her parents Mr. and
Pour local children namely Mrs. John Russell o~ near Char-
Mary Arm and Joyce Mercer, dau- los Town• On Saturday they were
ghters of Mr. and Mrs. C. D. (Bill) su,pper guests with Mr .and Mrs.
Mercer, Taylor and Shirley Russell Arnold Jenkins and sons of Bol-
children of Mr. and Mrs. Page ivar. Sunday ahoy were dinner
Russell were ~#onsilectomy patients guests with Mr. and Mrs. Cletus
Monday and Tuesday in .the Char
los Town General Hospital.
Mrs. Thomas MerSer h,as been
con, fined ~o her home due to un
injured ankle.
Mr .and Mrs. C. D. Bill Mer-
v.er and daughters spent Sunday
~i~h his brother and sister-In-law
Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Mercer of
Y~tll~ton. Md.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Frye of
ObJarles Town were callers Sunday
a~ternoon with Mrs. Thomas Mar-
~nson's Family Dinner
Those wttending the family din
ner ~ the home of Miss Margaret
Johnson on Sunday were Mr. and
~rsl Ka;ble Johnson Charles oTwn
Janice Bosley and son Step-
]~of FinksbUrg, Md., Mr. and
• Abner Johnson, Calvin. IAn-
da ~tnd Cecil A~shby of ~uffolk,
Va,, Mr• Homer Kees, ~VIr .and
MrS: Leonard Ruble, children Tim
othy ~tnd Kimberly of Gerrards-
~aWn, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Wol-
~ord and Laura Ann of Winches-
ter, Ca., Mrs. Lewis Rissler, dau-
gl~ers, Patsy, Jane and Susan of
Vi~he~tland, Mr.a and Mrs. Grady
Owens and Donny of Summit
l~in~, Mr. and Mrs. Rein.hart
Johnson, Cheri ,and Jacque of
JPl~nt Royal, Mr. ,and. Mrs, Clar-
enoe Smallwood. Durfng ~he after
rloon Mr .and Mrs. Garland Kelly
children l~ary Ann and David of
F~lls ChurOh, Va.. Mr. and Mrs.
Marshall Frye of Charles Town,
,Mr. Marc Oass of Tacoma Park.
~. were cullers.
Mr .and Mrs. Wm. Lancaster of
neltr Front
Royal, Va. were visi-
~r~ Christmas Eve with her bro-
thor and sls~er-ln-luw Mr. and
Mrs. Melvin Rlssler and Diane.
rMr .and Mrs. Melvin Risslex
~md Diane were guests on Sunday
at the Lancaster home near Front
Royal. Va:
Mr. and' Mrs. Oral B. Hughes
cr~d family spent Sunday with her
,br~ther-in-iew and sister Mr. and
Mrs, rJ• W. Oloott of Berryville,
Vl~. w~ere they joined other mem
b¢rs of their,~family for a holiday
dinner.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Small-
wood enjoyed dinner on Christmas
~rsy ~vi,t~h her cousins Mr. and
. Mervil Rowland of near Get
rardstown. In the afternoon they
visited with Mrs• Smallwood's sis
tar, Mrs. Homer Kees and lamily
Russell and sons of near Downs-
villa, Md., Mr. and Mrs. Nelson
Whi,te and daughter Kathy were
dinner guests also.
Sunday visitors with Mr. and
Mrs. Alec Carroll and sons were
Mr. ~nd Mrs. Virgil Unger and
son Keith of In, wood• They brou-
ght the news of the death of Mrs.
Carroll's aun~ Mrs. Nellie McCarty
of Inwood.
Mrs. J. Edgar Ware. son Eddie
Mr. and Mrs. Burwell Ware and
dauthter Becky of Woodbyrne
Farm were dinner guests Christ-
mas Day ~t the home of the for-
mers son-in-l~aw and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Turner Ramey of
Walnut Hill Farm near Charles
Town.
Mr. and Mxs• Alvin C. Bush and
son Steve of Avon Wood Farm
spent the Christmas week in Orlan
do, Fla. visiting Mrs. 'Bush's mo-
ther Mrs. Arch Carroll and her
brother and sister .Mr. and Mrs.
Archie with whom Mrs. Carroll is
spending the winter•
Mr .and Mrs. Fred Nelson and
family of Winchester were holiday
vlsi,tors at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Bush, Avan Dale.
Holiday visitors wit.h Mr. and
Mrs. Homer Newcomb were his
parents Mr. and Mrs• Charles New
comb, daughter, Virginia New-
comb. of Leesburg, Va., Mrs. Wal-
~er Byrne of Hamilton, Va,
Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Zombro and
niece Mary Jane Dillow were din
ner guests on Christmas Day with
her sister, Mrs• Elmer Dillow and
family. Did St. Nick have a trick
played on Ollie's cap?
Mrs. Myrtle Furr of Hall town
was a visitor with her mother Mrs.
James B. Clipp during the holm-
dMrs.ay. John Moulton was hostess
to the Kabletown Farm Womans
Club Thursday -afternoon when
their Christmas meeting was held
~t Shannon Park the home of
Mrs. C. D. Boyer. Mrs. Charles
Langdon was in charge of the re-
creation period which proved to be
unique and in~eresting and in
keeping with the Christmas Spirit.
She chose for her theme "The
Light of Christmas" using a light
ed candle as the symbol of "Christ
the Light of ~he World". After
reading a very appropria%e article
each member was asked ¢o recall
an unlorgeta01e person or persons
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S, H.r,/ W. Mot,m,.Z
The Right of Dissent
The gre~ philosopher, Voltaire,
is credited .wiffn origin@ring the
classic stateqnent, so frequently re
lied on by advocates of free speech
namely, "1 do not agree with what
you say, but I will defend unto
death your right to say it." So Car
as I have been able to determine
no citizen of 'a free society has
ever questioned the noble senti-
merits be'hind this statement, nor
do 1. But the close of an old year
and the advent of a new strikes
me as being a good a time us ever
to scrutinize the philophophy a
libtle more closely than is done by
the average person who speaks
~he thought• For I am prompted
~o thec onclusion thwt this par-
tlculax freedom, like all ~reedoms
I know, is also subject ¢o reason-
able restrair~t and limitation. We
tend ~to Chink of freedom of speech
,as being absolute, although Mr.
THIS WEEK'S NEWS IN
By Mrs. Stuart "" Phone 47-F-032
Attend Hyatt-Athey Wedding 'Mrs. Jenkins were honored that
I
The wedding of Miss 'Rebecca!evening at a ,party held at the
Justice Holmes succinctly woirtted
ou~ Cha)t such freedom gave no
person a right to shout '.'Fire" in
,a crowded theater; we tend to
'think of ireedom of religion as
being absolute, but we know, that
it, too, is subjeot ¢o reasonable re
str~int. And while Voltaire cannot
rise to defend himsel:f, I take ¢he
liberty of assuming that if he ~ere
alive he would place some lim~at-
ions on his classic dictum.
• Since VolO~ire cannot rise to de
fend himsel.f I am taking *the lib-
erty of interpreting his• classic
st~temen:t. ~ seems inconceivable
to me ¢ha~ the gre~t philosopher's
reqnarks should be construed as
attthority for ,the proposition that
n,aked dissent is an absolute right.
I, for one, am led ~o the view that
Voltaire did not mean thls a~ all;
I lean to ~he view ~that Voltaire
meant that the right of dissent is
predicated upon reason and, to go
a Step Iurther, dissen~ without
reason borders on the llne of stu Front Royal, Va•, Mrs. Frank
pidity. The right to disagree, it Owens of Bardane, Mr. Marshall
seems to me, should never be ex- VCare of Charles Town, Mr. and
eroised unless one
