Daddy is known more for his conservation efforts than anything else, clear back into the early 1900’s.  He knew Pinchot [Gifford Pinchot, a pioneering forester, was President Theodore Roosevelt’s chief conservation aide and later governor of Pennsylvania] and those others, and he went to Washington and testified on starting the national forests and the parks.  He was very much for publicly-owned hunting lands, conservation of all kinds.  He had a saying that he owned his land from here down to where he met the Chinese coming through from the other side, that it was his responsibility.  I say, now, he could tell things very effectively!

About ‘39 he was picked as a typical country editor and was invited to be on radio with the editor of the New York Journal, I believe it was.  So he went to New York and was on “We The People,” a national radio show at that time.  Daddy said he’d bet the other man didn’t know all his subscribers by their first names!  He said that the best people in the world lived on the Greenbrier River, and the farther up the river you went the better the people were, and he lived among the people at the head of the Greenbrier.