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Show A COAL MINING CAREER Did you ever think of coal-mluing your way to wealth and happiness? I did once. I was taken whizzing Into a long West Virginia mine "head" on an electric car. I saw little sticks of dynamite dy-namite loosen a whole wall of black diamonds, watched a great undercutting undercut-ting saw rip the wall loose at the bottom bot-tom and send it tumbling down almost al-most luto the shovel of the miner. Somehow It was the power thus released re-leased with so little effort, not the fearsoineness of being a mile under ground, that I carried away with me. But our state laws have definite Ideas against women as mine workers. So the only chance is to make good as an owner. And Leila B. Gunn of Mid-dlesboro, Mid-dlesboro, Ky lias done just that. Not because she wunted a spectacular career. ca-reer. Far from It. It Is because her husband needed help to acquire full ownership of a good mine that Mrs. Gunn is now president of the Lower Lignite Mining company. He had married mar-ried without capital or expectation of the Inheritance that so often determines deter-mines ownership of the great underground under-ground wealth. So the two of them buckled dowu to a long systematic struggle that lasted more than twelve years. Meanwhile there were children. The three of them have all graduated at high school, each with the highest standing in the class, thus setting a record for the Gunn family. And there's the home Itself. Mrs. Gunn planned the inside of the residence, resi-dence, and won a newspaper prize for its arrangement. Then there's the world about them Physically. It's wonderful. "We sit on our porch," reports Mrs. Gunn. "urn" iook out on a .uillioii-doiiur sunset every evening. We gaze at mountain scenery sm li as city people travel him lreds of miles to see. We have one of the purest water supplies that can he had an where." But mentally and emotionally ? Wpl, 1 asked Mrs. Gunn about that. "I've won a college education for my chil dren." she answered first. Then shr went on, "1 do not come in co.ltiul Willi an unassimila ted foreign popu ialiou. and my children's friends m pure-bred Americans, I've many desirable de-sirable friends. 1 have a good deal ol iiilliienre ovir the .Micidleslioru schools I'm a member of the Democratic .Mali co:.i:aittt-e. And I've been asked to '!,. a good deal of newspaper writing or home economic and politics. P.es;res The human animal has been used t( .mt-door life arid lo ramify life throng! hundreds of generations. City life i: aniagouisi ic to the entire hisiory o" :he race " |