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.THURSDAY APRIL 8, 1948.
GOLDEN GLEAMS
A pleasant face is a silent re
commendation. ? Publilius Syrus.l
God has given you one face,
and you make yourself another.|
?Shakespeare, Hamlet.
The face is often only a smooth]
imposter. ? Pierre Corneille.
If it was the fashion to go'
naked, the face would be .hardly
observed. ? Mary Wortlet Mon
tagu.
A man of fifty is responsible
for his face. ? Edwin M. Stanton.
She was a lady of incisive
features bound in a stale parch
ment. ? George Meredith.
KING STREET
(Continued from page 1)
?uch prodigious propensities
that they regularly fwturi the
np*r deluxe model eggs . . .
She uyi the geii one of them
on an average of every other
day and had an even doxen laid
back for us. when some trends
came by and persuaded her to
part with eight of them . . .
We thank her for the four big
two-in-one, double-barrelled
cackle berries . . . and if the fu
ture is to be Judged by the past,
she has plenty more by now.
We have had a number of stor
iaa this year of super-duper eggs
bat it's the first time that we've
known of a hen. who produced
item as a regular pastime, with
out even an extra cackle . . .
That fowl is definitely doing
something about the high cost
of living, and seems to be lined
up with the "little man" in his
efforts to keep on eating, in the
face of ever-rising prices of fod
der.
GOVERNMENT SURPLUS
The Government's budget sur
plus climbed above $6,000,000,
000 on March 22, for the first
time in history. The flood of in
come tax payments sent the sur
plus up almost $1,100,000,000 in
three days. At $6,121,193,617.36,
the surplus was rapidly moving
toward the $7,500,000,000 figure
which President Truman has pre
dicted by the end of this fiscal
year, June 30. The largest full
jreir surplus in history was $1,
158,000,000 attained under the
Coolidge Administration 21 years
ago.
CONFLICT
,The Republican Party has de
clined to accommodate the sche
dule of its national convention
to a world championship prize
fight. Inquiries as to whether or
not the schedule of the national
convention would be arranged
SO that broadcasting of the con
vention proceedings woyld avoid
possible conflict with the broad
casting of the return boxing en
gagement between Joe Louia
and Joe Walcott, scheduled for
the night of June 23rd, brought
the answer, "No."
RESERVE PAY
President Truman has signed a
bill which provides for training
pay for all civilian components
of the armed forces. The bill will
give Army and Air Force re
serves training pay on ipactive
duty on the same basis as tY*
authorized for many yesrs for
members of the National Guard,
the Naval reserve and the Marine
Corps reserve. It will give in
activp-duty pay to participants
at the rate of one-thirtieth of one
month's base and longevity pay
for each training period of two
hours or more.
DRAFT
Tha flnl draft call would laka
b?t?Nn >00.600 and om million
man. according to a atatamant of
Chairman W altar G. Andraws ab
ora. of tha houaa arm ad sarricas
committaa. Andraws. flap. If. Y_
?aid that first Inductions would
bagin by July 1.
DALE CARNEGIE
| Do you realize that if we had
the gilt of true understanding,
we would never criticize anyone?
Can you not recall someone of <
whom you once were critical, 1
and, later, when you understood <
all conditions, your point of view 1
toward him changed completely. <
Most of us have had such an ex
perience. The most learned men
are the most tolerant; the best
educated people are the kindest
in their Judgment.
The trouble with most people
is that they judge ? and often
condemn ? on very little know
ledge of the facts. The average
person judges others by his own
limitations. Perhaps teachers are
the most frequently, since their
job is to instruct and criticize. I
mean teachers with book learn
ing and little knowledge of hu
man nature.
I recall a Latin teacher of my
youth who made me throughly
dislike both her and the study
of Latin. How? By reading my
errors in Latin grammer before
the entire class, emphasizing my
mistakes, my stupidity. This
teacher was employed by the
state of Missouri; my taxes help
ed to pay he?- salary; her job
was to help me; yet all she ever
did was to hurt me. She killed
in me the desire to learn a
foreign languarge, and I am
ashamed to confess that I lived
many years in foreign countries
with resentment toward learn
ing the language of the country
in which I resided.
"Ridicule of children is well
nigh criminal," said* Dr. Alfred
Adler. "Ridicule retains its effect
upon the soul of a child, and is
transferred into the habits and
actions of his adulthood."
The ' young daughter of a
friend of mine has just complet
ed her first novel. Whether or
not it is a good novel, I am not
prepared to say; I have not read
it. The reason I am mentioning
it to you is that this girl, at the
age of 13, was chided by her
French teacher in a large private
school in New York City (the
school is now defunct, which
does not surprise me). The
French teacher called the girl
stupid before the entire class, be
cause her work was not as well
prepared as that of her class
mates. That girl says that for
years she looked upon herself as
stupid, and when later she
tackled any foreign language, she
was ready at the first difficulty
to tell herself it was no use, she
was stupid about languages.
But note this: three girls in
that class, who were honor stud
ents in high school and graduat
ed from college are now teaching
dancing, while the girl branded
as stupid has just completed her
first book, and is aiming at
more. I hope the French teacher
knows these facts. Let me make
myself clear: I don't decry teach
ing the beautiful and delightful
art of dancing, but am compar
ing the work of those girls with
what that French teacher thought
they were aiming at? mental
I achievement
A CLOSE CALL
Magog, Quebec ? Seeing a train
approaching, Mrs. J. Connors, 30,
hurried to cross the railroad
tracks ahead of it. Slipping im
the icy rails, she fell, breaking
her right leg in two places. With
the train almost upon her, she
managed to roll out of danger,
the locomotive passing so close
that the hem of her coat was
caught beneath the wheels.
ROBS ?-YEAR- OLD GIRL
Los Angeles ? Mary Elizabeth
Hunter, B, had just been given
her very first $1 bill by her
grandmother, Mrs. Gu.'wie Tyson,
and they were on their way to
the shopping district when a
purse-snatcher tore the little
girl's purse from her hand and
ripped her dress as he fled.
Navy the weakest of Soviet
forces, military analyst declares.
SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
- GOD'S MESSAGE TO A
PEOPLE IN EXILE
International Sunday School
Laaaoa Tor April II. 1M*
GOLDEN TEXT: "A new heart
also will I give you, and a new
spirit will I rut within you
Ezekiel 38 : 28.
Eaaklal It: 1-4} 34: 11- IS; 3?:
25-24.
As pointed out in the lesson
for last week, the Kingdom of
Israel perished at the fall of
Samaria and the people who
were carried into captivity be
came Assyrians and the North
ern Kingdom was heard of .no
more. The Southern Kingdom
? the Kingdom of Judah ? per
ished at the fall of Jerusalem
and never became again an in
dependent nation. The Jews,
however, who were carried in
to exile by the Chaldeans were
settled in one place, kept their
old customs and religion and,
while they ceased to be a king
dom, they became a church.
The change from the kingdom
of Judah to the Jewish Church
was made during the exile, un
der the leadership of Ezekiel.
Ezekiel and Jeremiah were con
temporary prophets, although
Jeremiah was much the older of
the two. During the eleven years !
>f Zedekiahs reign, both werei
Jusy, the one in Jerusalem and i
the other in Babylonia, proclaim
ing practically the same truths?
the sins and coming punishment 1
of Judah, the folly of opposing
Babylon and seeking help from
Egypt and the certainty of the
destruction of Jerusalem. Both
foretold the ultimate restoration
of the exiles.
The message which God gave
to Ezekiel to deliver to the peo
ple at this time was that if they
would avoid the consequences of
their sin, if they would escape
eternal spiritual death, then the
wicked must turn fronj their
wickedness and turn back to the
Lord and they would live.
This is the message which
Christians must give to the world
today. The only way that one
can hope to live eternally is to
turn frdm his wickedness and
turn to the Lord. If we fail to
give this message to the unsav
ed, then their blood is on our
hands. If we faithfully deliver
the message of salvation to the
lost we come in contact with and
they refuse to accept the salva
tion offered, then we will not be
held responsible for that soul's'
damnation.
Since the people had come to
realize that their condition was
due to their own sins, they began
to pity themselves and to con
clude that they were a lost gen
eration and that there was noth
ing they could do about it. They
blamed their disaster upon their
forefathers and refused to accept
any responsibility in their exile.
Ezekiel rebuked them for the
attitude and reminded them that
God deals with individuals one
by one, that the individual is the
object of God's care and reward,
and that everyone receives the
just recompense of his deeds.
Too often today we are prone to
hl*n>e conditions and customs
on our fathers and forefathers
when we, if not entirely respon
sible, could do much to better
the state of affairs.
The religion of Jesus empha
sizes individual responsibility
and personal accountability be
fore God. He who tries to live
up to the Christian ideals of life
tries his best to keep his life and
conduct on the highest ? plane
possible. Regardless of what the
crowd does, he will do what he
believes is right. He also has a
deep concden for the spiritual
welfare of those he comes in
contact with. We must shoulder
the responsibility for our own
conduct and use our influence to
help guide others into this way.
An article in The Youth's Com
panion emphasizes this truth. It
says: "We each have our march
to make in life, often through
dark and cold ways, and we must
render in our account to the
great Commander alone. It will
not help the worldly old man
on that day that he has a child
with God's angels in heaven, nor
the vicious young man that he
has a praying, loving mother.
Each soul must pass into the un
seen world, not simply alone but
molded and ingrained by the
acts and habits, and preferences
of the life it has left behind?
What will follow? Each of us
must know, sooner or later, for
ourselves."
Tobacco Exports To
Be At 1947 Levels
Washington ? Senator William
Umstead of North Carolina said
last night that, under the Mar
shall plan the nation's tobacco
exports "probably" will be about
1452,000,000 pounds a year ? or
the same as the average for 1946
and 1947.
"If the European recovery
program is carried out as now in
dicated," Umstead said, "the
movement of this quantity of to
bacco will be of tremendous as
sistance to the tobacco farmers
of North Carolina and of the
United States."
He emphasized, however, that
enactment of the Marshall plan,
in itself, does not take care of
Ihe tobacco export program.
Shipment under the plan, he
stressed, depend upon:
1. Appropriation of money by
Congress to carry out the provi
sions of the act.
2. Recognition of the countries
included in the program of the
need of tobacco.
3. Ultimate decisions of those
charged with the administration
of the program.
The plan as enacted, according
to Umstead, contemplates export
of about 500,000,000 pounds of all
kinds of tobacco, 400,000,000 of
which will go to European coun
tries. Four-fifths of the total is
expected to be flue-cured tobacco,
he said.
The Tar Heel Senator said that
"tobacco products have a high
value to people in all countries
in the European recovery pro
gram and in China. Taxes on to
bacco provide large revenue for
many of these governments as it
does for ours. Its inclusion in the
program is nothing more than a
recognition of the part which it
can b? expected to contribute to
the over-all objective of the pro
gram. To tobacco growers in the
United States, it means the open
ing up of foreign markets and a
continuation of substantial ex
ports of tobacco."
Marlboro, Mass. ? Sister trip
lets, all widows, celebrated their
80th birthday on March 27th. The
triplets are Mrs. Annie Faith
MacDonnell, -Mrs. Nellie Hope
Daniels and Mrs. Nora Charity
Murphy. They were given those
middle names at birth to make
identification easier.
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BRIEF NEWS
Noted fighting ship* form
"zipper fleet" at Bayonne, N. J.
Clayton, in speech at Detroit,
says U. S. must remain strong.
Puerto Rico is rapidly winning
war against disease.
Italy's Communists intensify
campaign against U. S.
Easter worshippers in Jeru
lalem check weapons at church
door, v .
Bias in news broadcasts bar
red in revised radio code.
Speaker Martin says U. S.
must hall Russian "madmen."
Airplane manufacturers ready
tor actioh
Peak is forecast in labor need
;ven without a draft.
All "surface" mail to Palestine
>nds; only air letters allowed.
Truman sets rise in Panama
Canal tolls, effective Oct., 1.
Wherry asks military forces
resume control of atomic energy.
Arms cost will not bar tax re
duction, say Congress leaders.
Ball presents bill to raise the
minimum wage to 80 cents an
hour.
Puerto Rico sets up curbs on
migrants to the States.
CAT FROZE TO TREE
Colorado Springs, Colo. ? Chas
?d by a dog, a kitten belonging
o Dr. George C. Shivers, climb
d to a tree limb '15 feet above
he ground. There its tail became
rozen to the limb and the cat
>egan to howl. Firemen couldn't
;et the cat loose, so they chopped
iff the limb and turned it, com
pete with unhappy kitten, over
o Dr. Shivers.
SAVES CHILD FROM WELL
Atlanta, Ga. ? Glenn Houze
ound his 20-month-old daughter
loating in a deep well. The
:hild, who had tumbled 30 feet,
emained afloat until her father
jould be lowered on a rope and
>ring her to safety. Taken to a
lospital, she was found to be un
njured.
i
Farm marketings b r ought
farmers about 6.4 bi^Ubit dollars
luring the first quarter of this
fear, 6 per cent more than during
he same period last year.
There were 1,191,000 hogs and
?igs on .North Carolina farms on
lanuary 1. This was 8 per cent
nore than a year earlier but
J bout 1 per cent less than the
10-year average.
X
Cash receipts from the sale of
wool amounted to $85,000 in
North Carolina during 1947. This
figure represents a drop of 6 per
cent from the previous year and
about 16 per cent from 1945. Pro
duction of wool in the state to
taled 180,000 pounds, an average
of 5.3 pounds per sheep shorn.
The value of honey and bees
wax produced in the Tar Heel
state during 1947 amounted to
about $2,421,000, compared with
only $1,253,000 in 1946. The aver
age price for all methods of sale
was 38 cents per pound, second
highest state average in the na
tion.
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