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Show A COAL MINING CAREER Did ou ever think of coil-mlulng your wsy to wealth and happiness? I did once. I was taken whizzing Into a long West Virginia mine "head" on aa electric car. I saw little sticks of dynamite dy-namite loosen a whole wall of black diamonds, watched a great undercutting undercut-ting sew rip the wall loose at the bottom bot-tom and send It tumbling down almost al-most Into the shovel of the miner. Somehow It was the power thus released re-leased with so tittle effort, not tha I fearsomeness 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 la to make good as an owner. And Leila B. Gunn of Mid-' Mid-' dlesboro, Ky, has done just that Not ', because she wanted 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. Ounn Is now president of the Lower ; Lignite Mining company. He had msr-', msr-', rled without capital or expectation of ) the Inheritance that so often deter- mines ownership of the great under-; under-; ground wealth. So the two of them I buckled down to long systematic ' struggle that lasted more than twelve . years. J Meanwhile there were children. The three of thera have all graduated at ; high school, each with the highest . standing In the class, thus setting a ' record for the Ounn family. r And there's the home Itself. Mrs. Gunn planned the Inside of the resl- dence, and won a newspaper prize for j Its arrangement. Then there's the world about them. y Physically, It's wonderful. "We sit on out porch," reports Mrs. Gunn, "and loot out on a million-dollar sunset r every evening. We gaze at mountain t scenery such as city people travel hun-r hun-r Jretls of miles to se& We have one I ol the purest water supplies that can be had anywhere." ! But mentally nod emotionally J Well, r I asked Mrs. Gunn about that "I've t won a college' education for my chll- dren," she answered first Then sh L went on, "I do not come In contact e with an unasBlmilated foreign popu-L popu-L lation, and my children's friends are r pure-bred Americans. I've many de-i de-i slrahle friends. I have a good deal of I Influence over the Mlddlesboro schools. t I'm a member of the Democratic slate J committee. And I've bew naked to do X a good donl of new-spHppr writing oo home economics and politics. rSi'tililea, . the liutnnn nnlnml has bpn used to out-door life and to family life through hundreds of generations. I'lty life U antiiKonlstlc to the entire history ot the rare." |