Abstract

Courage in Action: On a Florida Newspaper

This article presents experiences of the author's life in Madison County, Florida. While the author is crossing a bridge in the region, he is thinking of his life's past events in the County. The author thought of the year, he taught in Madison county, and of the stile over which he climbed into the schoolyard, and of the soup that bubbled on the wood-burning stove in the schoolroom. At the office of the newspaper "Madison Enterprise-Recorder," the author found T.C. Merchant, Jr., and his father, publishers and editors of the sixteen-page weekly newspaper. Job printing and an office-supply business had pushed the editorial work into a dusty corner of the small shop. No one ever looked less like a crusader than the affable, heavy-set younger Merchant Father and son insisted they were not losing business because of the paper's stand.