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Show THE RICH COUNTY ERECT FENCES TO PUSH OCEAN BACK Graveyard of the Atlantic Scene of Big Fight. Mother of Our First President .Birthdays (Continued From Page One) up upon this graveyard of the Atlantic and thereby struck the banks a blow that left them shuddering ever since. Because of that ship, great dunes have rolled over 'TVHE girl who was to become the and devoured mighty forests, of George Washington storms have opened new inlets from was mother of a belle in her something ocean to sound, and have closed old native colony, Virginia. Mary Ball, inlets to navigation and the natural descended from a good English famof fish. migration ily, was called the rose of Epping The thin line of outer banks which Forest girlhood. Epping create North Carolinas numerous Forest in her being the name of the Ball sounds were built up by the ocean, homestead. Orphaned early, she had and engineers think the slow build- as her George Eskridge, guardian ing process would have continued a wealthy Virginia planter. except for that shipwreck and othAt twenty-twMary Ball marers which followed. Horses from the shipwrecks reached shore, bred ried (on March 6, 1730) Augustine then a widower with into great droves of wiid ponies Washington, which overran the banks', and two little boys. Her first child she named after her old family pawed up the vegetation. When friend. George Five other children were considerable areas of the land born of this marriage, four of whom thus exposed to wind and wa- survived. When Augustine Washingter, the erosion now threatening the ton died, she was left with a brood geography of North Carolina be- oi youngsters to care for. George gan. It gained acceleration as it was then only eleven. Fortunately, progressed, until Hatteras and the however, states a writer in the Inother serpentine islands became the the husband had News, easy prey of every whim of the ele-- dianapolis for their, amply. provided ments. George Washington was still a Now the government is attemptwhen he became posing to preserve the mile upon mile young boy of a sessed wreck-strewn great desire to be a of lovely, beach for a National Coastal park aurhorized midshipman. His mother had been about this plan at all "by congress, and to anchor the bhnks down so that they will be times, but finally iso the story goes) was being carmore habitable for the fishermen when his who live there and the sportsmen ried down to the wharf by a porter, she refused to let him go. He acwho. visit the region. cepted her decision with good grace, Battle Is Under Way. For more than 150 miles, .upon the and devoted himself to surveying activities in the next stormy side of five thin islands, the instead. Histook him far away from battle against the waves and wind years often her and gradually prepared him for is under way, and for the first time role he was to play in the great see a chance for victory. engineers Great mountains of loose sand American history. which for years have drifted willy-nill- y Mary Ball Washington was sixty-eigwhen the revolution began. blotand down banks the up ting out forests and freshwater Since communication was then so lakes sanctuaries of waterfowl primitive, she often did not know for have been halted by plantings of months at a time whether her son beach grass or by sand feqpes which check short the momentum of windblown sand. Roundups have rid the 'islands of most of the wild ponies. The battle has been carried right into the teeth of the Atlantic which is so turbulent in the region of dreaded Diamond shoals. For years the storms have wasted the beach, and the ocean has advanced so far that several years ago the government abandoned old Hatteras lighthouse, highest in the East, to the waves. Once it stood a mile from water, but recently high tides Happed the base of the tower. Engineers of the beach erosion project, carried on by 800 CCC boys under the direction of the park service, have found a way to make the ocean give back the stolen land. At the top of the beach, at the crest of tides, they built fences some of stakes and brush, some of jute. Where the fences were, the waves built up ridges of sand miniature dunes. The. ridge became higher and higher, at last covering the fence completely. Another fence Mary Ball at 22, When She Wed was built upon this new dune, forc- Augustine Washington. ing the beach bulwark on up. Forces Atlantic Back. was alive or dead. Yet she mainNow a new fence is built several tained outward calm and courage, yards in front of the old one, be- One of her sayings was, The mothtween the new dune and the water. ers and wives of brave men must be A second ridge is thus formed, and, brave women. The members o:! as the beach shelf is built higher, her household knew, though, that the sea is forced back and dry land every day she went off by hersel1 extended on out into the Atlantic. with her Bible to a quiet spot callec A particularly successful fence Meditation Rock. was driven between menaced HatAt last Cornwallis surrendered in teras lighthouse and the tides and 1781 and the revolution was won now a great levee, but Ever mindful of his mother's anocean - built, protects the tower xiety for him, Washington sent of from water. a courier at once to bear her the Beach sand fixation was first suc- news. cessful when Kill Devil hill, a great Mary Ball Washington lived to be mountain of sand,' was anchored over eighty, mentally keen and undown after an expensive and difficheerful. She died in 1789 cult experiment. Constructors of failingly the year her son was elected firsi; the Wright aviation memorial tower President of the United States. 'refused to proceed until they had assurance that the errant dune Cites Oar Negligence would not be blown completely from We all hope to dwell in a better under their monument. After using said Hi Ho, the sage of various plants, government experts world, In order to deserve finally succeeded in . covering Kill Chinatown. Devil with a protective mat of so much we must strive to show grass, shrubs and trees. Kill Devil that we can take h.ore intelligent :now is fixed at about a quarter of care of it than we have taken o:1 a mile from its location at the time this one. of the Wrights flight, while denuded dunes ' nearby move majestically Many Deaths Preventable About 1,300,000 die in the United around it. States each year, and of these deaths it is said that almost 600,000 of Much Ocean Bed Revealed be classed as preventable 6y may A hundred square miles of ocean medical treatment. proper bed is revealed when the tide goes 1 out at Mont Saint Michel, France. for Imprisoned Using Glider When the tide comes, it comes in In the Eleventh century Elmerus, rapidly. t an English monk, was imprisoned 1 for soaring an eighth of a mile in a Habits of the Lion glider. The black mane of the lion, which t is hot so noticeable as he lies at Knot, or Sea Mile ease, bristles out conspicuously A knot, or sea mile, is 6,082.66 when hes mad. He also waves his feet, or little more than one and tail over his back, showing its black land mile. The statute mile tip. is 5,280 feet. , , o, be-ica- half-heart- ed sea-che- st ht . ; I armlets ' and Headbands had blazoned forth the name and often the lineaments of Washington. In 1791, the Society of the Cincinnati held its first Washingtons birthday celebration in New York, having followed Tammanys example by resolving to mark the date each year. The President and the congress (and also the capital of the United States), had meanwhile removed temporarily to Philadelphia. But even New Yorks disappointment did not prevent Tammany from vying with the exclusive organization of Revolutionary officer to do honor to the day. Alas, the good feeling did not endure. By 1796, after John Jay had come back from England with his hated treaty, Tammany was fiercely for revolutionary France ; Jefferson was its god; George Washington was actually being dubbed, in public, a aristocrat ; and those who celebrated his birthday were coldly accused of being (among other things) bootlickers, idolators, Royalists and birthsycophants. The country-wid- e even of honors that though year, day more lavish and vociferous than usual, presented for the first time the ogre of party, grinning at the feast. By 1797, however, the Jay treaty was being regarded much more tolerantly, and certain French proceedings were being looked at a little askance. Those who refused to salute Washington on February 22, to honor a glorious record for its own sake, and to tread measure at the evenings gala now a rather conspicuous minority. George Washington became a prihis Alexandria neighbors at their birthright ball of February 22, 1798 an onlooker, though In his younger days he had excelled in the minuet. There was to be only one more birthday for a living Washington to adorn. He spent that one at home at Mount Vernon, presiding over a particularly His adopted daugh joyous occasion. ter, his pet, Nelly Custis, was being married to his favorite nephew, Maj. Lawrence Lewis. The radiance went out of Mount Vernon in December of 1799 and the birthday festivities the country over were turned into mourning processions when 1800 brought the anniversary around once more. This February 22 s was a universal requiem. The and headbands with Washingtons picture were black where once they had been gayly hued. Throughout the country business was suspended for 24 hours. Theaters, taverns, public halls, schoolrooms and college auditoriums, village greens and parks as well as churches were given over to exercises meetings and processions expressive of the deepest General Merchandise. We Carry the best brands of Groceries and Dry Goods the market affords. You will find our prices reasonable and our service prompt and efficient. You can buy the famous Monarch Ranges, on time easy payments, also Philco Radios, Speed Queen Washers. arm-let- We have some nice Rugs and Furniture on hand. Prices are very reasonable. Let us furnish your home or equip your ranch. 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