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By Arthur W. Arundel
Publisher
While assuming this week ownership of The Rappahannock News, founded just a century ago in 1877, my arrival will make no difference to the central purpose of this newspaper, which is its essential trust to provide the people of Rappahanh&ck Cbutttf with a clear printed mirror of our times.
It will be my aim to see that this newspaper presents in a concise and truthful way the news of which our history is finally made. History is reilly only masses of day-to-day gossip, but what people cannot read and hear they are likely to fear and misunderstand. We will report the news without prejudice on the news pages and attack it where a constructive, purpose can be served on the editorial page. Significant change is underway here. The wide highway corridor, not the plowshare, has become our locomotive of history as urban eastern America pushes out from Washington and into Rappahannock County. Everyone will not like this, but it is the fact of outside forces at work. Growth in our times here will probably be greater than in all the combined history of Rappahannock County. It has the promise of creating opportunity for work and careers for young people here which have not always been present. This change must , not and shall not happen at the price of destroying this county’s beauty, natural heritage and its farm industry. It is a future which may lie beyond our vision, but it does not lie entirely bevond our control.
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