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ing about how good they were as players. Now, circumstances being as they are, yre do very little talking, but every time we see one of those “good sports," there arises’ in the mind the splendid picture they presented. They were licked, but they didn't complain. They had met defeat, but they didn’t scream behind alibis of “the game wasn't fair" and such cheap exhibitionism. They1 lost, but they proved that they1 werfe made of good material, and though they had had little experience with defeat (the championship game is the only one they lost " all season)'* they rose to the occasion and conducted themselves with a display of good manners. V- The county is proud of that team. It has a right to be, for the team earned the county’s respect with their display of good ' sportsmanship.
As long as the young people of the county can go out from Rappahannock-High School, -carrying the county’s name with them, and show to all other schools that they knoiw the full meaning of good - sportsmanship, the county will remain proud of them.
Winning a championship is fine —we all like to win—but there are times when it’s more important to be a lady, or a gentleman, than it is to win a game. Our high school students seemed to have learned this, and because of this lesson they have learned, we are proud of them, proud of the school, and proud of our county’s name being held in esteem as the location of good sports.
Letter To The Editor
I agree with Bystander that we don’t want to return to the horse and buggy days, memorialised by F. D. R. But let us too remember that Mr. R’s grandiose schemes have carried us to the brink of bankruptcy. He also has me postdated, for my school days, it was Shank’s Mare that conveyed us back and forth as much as 5 or 6 miles to'the little school house in the sticks.
1 would also have him know that we are not ashamed of our trans- , portation whose blood lines are recorded much farther back than those of the Arab, the chariot, ‘ the tin-lizzie or the New Deal. I also agree with him that our teachers should have all comforts and pleasures possible, even those, of urban society. I feel, however, that we should think too of the little tqts, standing by the wayside' in the cold rain and snow, waiting for the bus. I also agree with Breathless in “keeping up with the Jones,’*, if you have the hay, but think he should have given us our proposed tax. rate, not the ' present one, and also compared the taxable assets of the two counties.
We can’t understand why our school authoritiei have not used some of the effort they put forth for buildinges in behalf of better roads over which to haul country children. Ride over them or ask the bus drivers and you will find that they are not only uneconomical, because of bus upkeep, but actually unsafe. Why do we have money to spend and waste manicuring the Lee Highway for the benefit of tourists and .overloaded' out-of-state trucks and for building auditoriums, athletic fields, etc., .and cant find the pittance deeded to make 'these bus routes decent? '
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