Editor's Note: For years, Floyd County Times founder and former publisher Norman Allen wrote a weekly column that looked at Floyd County through his eyes. His columns are being reprinted due to request.

If this man Kennedy isn't a candidate, he should be. He draws the crowds, endures all the pushing and pulling, keeps smiling and comes up with the right word. That requires talent, my friends. And stamina.

THE ITEM

Lenna Moore is concerned about our reputation for veracity. House-bound after an operation, he sends word, “Don't print it. They'll never believe you.”

It's an innocent, litle item, and we're going to print it, anyhow. It simply says that Bill May visited Lenna Moore, Monday.

But the invalid is still arguing. “Do you think anybody will believe a Democrat went to see me?”

ON THE OTHER HAND...

An item, I read reminds us men that if we let our wives have their own way to easily, they will think we don't love them. The trouble with that thesis is this; what they will say if we don't surrender, dear, may cause us to think they don't love us.

GUILTY-AS CHARGED

Somewhere out West, the other day, a court action was instituted which meets with my approval, if my approval amounts to anything, and I am sure it doesn't in this case, at this distance.

The parents of a teen-age girl were charged with manslaughter, voluntary or involuntary, I forget-should be voluntary-because they had caught the girl in a compromising situation with a boy. To punish her, they drove her, with her dog, out into the desert, gave her a gun and told her she must punish herself by killing her pet. The poor girl killed herself.

THE NECESSARY

INGREDIENTS

Nichols Murray Butler, who for many years was president of Columbia University, had some rather striking ideas about education and culture and the like. Once he summed up his impressions to this effect:

“I have boiled down the importance of education to just two things-character and good manners. A man or a woman who can develop good character with good manners, is educated, because everything else will come. Without these two things, there is no use of having schoolhouses and teachers, because you cannot do anything with people who have not developed these two important things.

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If I had any ideas approaching the profundity of Dr. Butler, I would add them. That's why this column ends right here.