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MEDITATION
"Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?
It is the generous spirit, who, when brought
Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought
Upon the plan that pleased his boyish thought
Whose high endeavors are an inward light
That makes the path before him alwayj bright:
Who, with a natural instinct to discern
What knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn:
Abides by this resolve, and stops not there.
But makes his moral being his prime care;
Who. doomed to go in company with pain.
And fear, and bloodshed, miserable train!
Turns his neccessity to glorious gain.
? Wordsworth
A Living Memorial
More striking than any monument that may
be erected to the memory of Franklin D. Roose
velt is the organized fight against infantile para
lysis which he inaugurated, personally symboliz
ed in his lifetife, and unified by founding the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
The battle which he relinquished at his death
was bequeathed to the American public which
so generously, during the past I 3 years, support
ed the war against the Great Crippler.
When the war against infantile paralysis is
finally won and the disease wiped out, history
will record the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt
at the top of the list of those responsible.
We can help bring that victory nearer.
Every American has the opportunity to join the
March of Dimes. Dime by dime, we are build
ing a living monument to one of the greatest
humanitarians of all time, and speeding the con
quest of that insidious disease ? infantile paraly
sis.
Sampling The Headlines
With the beginning of each New Year it is |
the custom of American business leaders to ana- [
lyze their prospects for the coming year and to
publicly predict their conclusions.
Thus, within these first few days of I 946,
there has appeared in the financial sections of
newspapers many thoughtful statements which, i
when taken together, give a pretty good picture
of the nation's chances for prosperity during the
coming year.
All in all our prospects in I 946 look bright
according to the concensus of these industry re- ;
ports. Here, for example, are a few typical
headlines taken from the pages of recent news
papers :
Full Production Of Radio Sets Due In First
Quarter"
"Electric Goods Output Is Due To Exceed!
'40"
"Plan Billion Dollar Plastics Output"
"Food Production Seen Likely To Approach j
War-Time High"
"Drug Industry Ready To Expand Plants
And Outlets"
"$1,500,000,000 Rubber Output Expected
In '46"
If these and other similar forecasts are real
ized it will mean greater prosperity for more
American people in every walk of life than we,
as a people, have ever enjoyed before.
Yet, if prosperity this year does become a
fact, it will depend in large measure on more
paper, paperboard and other pulpwood products
being produced in 1 946 than ever before.
Enough paper has to be produced to wrap and
package the staggering flow of radios, washing
machines, foodstuffs and other products plan
ned for production in 1946; enough newsprint
and printing papers to advertise and sell these
products, and enough paper for stationery,
books, business records and hundreds of other
OUR DEMOCRACY
by Ray
Progress Through Research
Inventive genius has always been highly
VALUED IN AMERICA, BUT IN THE EARLY DAYS OF
OUR COUNTRY THE SCIENTIST AND INVENTOR- ?
WHILE ACCOMPLISHING GREAT TH I NGS --OFTEN
WORKED AGAiNST GREAT OBSTACLE 5 - -POVERTY
LACK OF EQUIPMENT AND TECHNICAL LIBRARY
FACILITIES
Today --through or.g-aniz.ed research --
WORKING- TOGETHER IN MODERN LABOR. ATOR.I E 5 -
OUR MEN OF GENIUS HAVE THEIR OPPORTUN ITlES
MULTIPLIED MANY FOLD CONTRIB UTI Nfr IN
EVER INCREASING MEASURE TO THE
ADVANCEMENT OF OU? DEMOCRACY.
vital uses without which business could never
hope to prosper.
Viewed as part of our national economic
planning for 1 946, there is little wonder that
mills in this area are so urgent in need of more
top quality pulpwood NOW. And it also be
comes increasingly clear why the pulp and paper
industry, through the United States Employ
ment Service, is enlisting new workers in woods
and mill jobs here as well as in other pulpwood
producing areas.
Our Farmers
One hundred twenty and a half billion
pounds of milk are officially recommended as
the I 946 aim for American dairy farmers.
A total American farm acreage of 365 mill
ion acres has been set as the I 946 goal. This is
5/2 million acres more than the area actually
planted for 1 945 crops. The largest percent
age increase in goal acreage is suggested for sug
arbeets ? 31 'c over last year. Eight percent
more sugarcane output has also been okeved.
Goals for feed grains including corn, barley,
oats and grain sorghums are all at or slightly
above I 945 indications.
The Secretary of Agriculture states that
"the end of the war has not brought an end to
the almost unlimited need for American food."
Our County
Farm and Home Agents
The Slow Creek club turned in
a beautiful lap robe which they
had completed for Moore General
Hospital. This robe was made from
4 inch square woolen scraps and
blanket stitched in bright woolen
threads.
Mrs. J. F. Wood reported to the
Postell club her use of a Christmas
suggestion given in the December
meeting. "I used my feed sacks
lor making pretty hand towels for
my Christmas gifts. I made ap
proximately 20 towels during the
HELL'S KITCHEN
Pleasant Hill
The Rev. W. A. Hedden filled
his regular appointment here Sun
day.
J. P. Baine and son Earl spent
the week-end in Bryson City.
Misses Helen and Geneva Deaver
spent Thursday night with their
grandmother, Mrs. Clara Morrow
;>t Unaka.
Ben and George Morrow were
the Saturday guests of their sister,
Airs. Vella Deaver.
Junior Hukill left here last Tues
day for the Navy.
Mrs. Bertha Baine and children
uere the Sunday guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Deaver.
Martin's Creek
Mrs. Wade Gibson is spending
some time with her mother. Mrs.
Carter.
Mrs. George Chastain is ill at
(Ins writing.
M?\ and Mrs. Howard Martin
spent Saturday with Mr. Martin's
parents.
Bob Dockery made a business
trip from Gastonia to Martin's
Creek
Mrs. Willie Phillips and Mrs.
Josie Phillips visited Mrs. Frank
Ingram one day last week.
Mr. Tommy and Mr Willie Phil
lips' children have the whooping
cough.
Mr. and Mrs. John O'Dell visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ingram one
day last week.
Shady Grove
Charlie Bryant has recently been
discharged from the Army.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Arp and
children of Copperhill. Tenn.. spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. L
! Arp.
Maria Arp visited Mrs. Fred Gar
land Sunday.
Mr and Mrs. Wayne Roberson
j spent Saturday night with Mr. and
j Mrs. Clemson Mason.
Daphne and Endless Mason visit
ed Mrs. Lena Arp Sunday.
Mrs. Clyde Johnson and chil
j dren are visiting her parents, Mr.
j and Mrs. Lon Culberson.
Chickens should be dressed and
| chilled thoroughly to prevent dis
coloration and off-flavor from de
veloping in storage, says T. T.
Brown, Extension Service poultry
I man.
I month of December," says Mrs.
Wood.
* * *
Mrs. E. Roach showed the Sun
i>y Point club her interpretation of
the hand towels. She had used a
single Italian hemstitch design on
I a coarsely woven crash and had
I made a beautiful towel.
Mrs. Carroll, also a member of
the Sunny Point club showed the
group a beautiful white apron made
l.y the club's pattern.
? * ?
Planning our 1946 Food Supply
has been our general theme of the
months program. Club women in
all the clubs have resolved to raise
two or more vegetables that have
not formerly been grown in their
gardens this year so as to offer
variety in their daily family menus.
* * *
Mrs. Jeff Dalrymple, Bellview
Home Demonstration club member
is learning the art of weaving un
der the capable superrvision of
Mrs. Ben Warner. During the fall,
Mrs. Dalrymple secured a new
loom, handmade by J. V. A. Moore
of Clay county. She has already
vvoven approximately three dozen
towels, and tells of how much she
enjoys this handicraft which is
proving to be an additional source
of income.
* * ?
New Home Demonstration Club
officers for 1946 - 1947 are being
elected at the January meetings.
The Peachtree Club selected:
President, Mrs. Noah Hembree;
\ ice-president, Mrs. C. M. Hendrix;
secretary, Mrs. Dock Sudderth;
tieasurer. Miss Vonah Lunsford.
Violet Club: President, Mrs. Lot
tie Payne; vice-president. Miss Lo
rene Allen; secretary and treasur
er, Mrs. Gay Murphy.
Bellview: President. Mrs. Maude
Hatchett; vice-president, Mrs. Guy
Hill; secretary and treasurer, Mrs
Jeff Dalrymple.
Slow Creek: President, Mrs.
Ranse Queen; vice-president, Mrs.
Gus Johnson; secretary and treas
urer. Mrs. Velma Parker.
Sunny Point: President, Mrs.
Homer Bryant; vice-president. Miss
Julia Rice; secretary and treasurer,
Mrs. Hoyt Bryant.
? ? ?
Hostesses, devotional leaders and
project leaders for the year have
also been named. 'The use of elec
tricity and water toward better
housing and stronger people" is
the theme of the lessons for 1946.
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JANUARY 14-31
THE OLD HOME TOWN
By STANLEY
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The Laws of a People
HIGHLIGHTS ON THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON
By NEWMAN CAMPBELL i
iT'.ie International Uniform
7 n on the above topic for Jan
i VO is Exodus 19-23, the Mem
i .Yrse being Psalm 119 47, "I
\ Vlight myself an Thy com
i uents, winch I have loved."
IN THE third month after the
r' -en of Israel had left Egypt
I i arted their wanderings to
\ the promised land, they en
? I in the wilderness of
i before Mount Sinai.
oes went up into the moun
t to commune with God, and
t l/>rd called to him out of the
r intain and told him what to
t i the children of Israel. He
v t e< i them to be reminded that
1 ? a I brought them safely out
c .e land of Egypt, "Now, there
f . e. if ye will obey My voice in
d< ? I. and keep My covenant, then
y?* si all be a peculiar treasure
unto Me above all people: for all
th ? e irth is Mine."
Tl >y were to be a "kingdom of
pr ts and an holy nation" if they
would but obey their Lord who
hr ! done so much for them.
Moses came down from the
mount and called the elderrf of the
people together and gave them the
Lord's message. "And all the peo
ple answered together, and said,
All that the Lord hath spoken we
will do." And Moses told the Lord
of their promise. They were per
fectly sincere, apparently, in their
promise to obey. They undoubted
ly underestimated the temptations
to which they would be subjected,
or overestimated their strength to
withstand such temptations. The
record of their lives following this
promise is surely one of frequent
disobedience and backslidings.
Moses Told to Sanctify the People
r The Lord then directed Moses
to prepare the people to hear Him
speak. They were to sanctify
themselves, and on the third day
"the Lord will come down in the
sight of all the people upon Mt.
Sinai."
Bounds were to be set so that
the people, even the priests, could
not come too near, for they were
warned that if they even "touched
the border" of the mount they
would die. Moses went down and
sanctified the people and "it came
;to pass on the third day in the
morning, that there were thun
ders and lightnings, and a thick
douJ upon the mount, and the
voice of the trumpet exceeding
loud, so that all the people that
kwere in the camp trembled."
"And Mount Sinai was altogeth
er on a smoke, because the Lord
descended upon it in fire; and the
?moke thereof ascended as the
?moke of a furnace, and the whole
aaount quaked greatly.
"And when the trumpet eound
DUtrt beted fey Dae !
ed long, and waxed louder and
louder, Moses spake, and God an
swered him by a voice."
Moses and Aaron were the only
ones who were permitted to come
up to the mount, and God "spake
all these words, saying:" ? and
then follow what we call the Ten
Commandments.
The first four have to do with
man's attitude to his God; the last
with his human relations. "Thou
shalt have no other god before
Me," then "Thou shalt not make
unto thee any graven image," and
shall not worship such.
Command Against Sugaring
"Thou shalt not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain, for
the Lord will not hold him guilt
less that taketh His name in
vain." Men ? and women, too ?
surely have forgotten this com
mandment. as you can hear any
day by listening to almost any
casual conversation on the street
or public conveyance or even in
our homes.
The fourth commandment is
about keeping the Sabbath holy,
because the Lord made heaven and
earth in six days and rested on
the seventh and blessed it.
Then follow the six rules of
conduct to others: honor thy fa
ther and mother; thou shalt not
kill; thou shalt not commit adul
tery; thou shalt not steal; thou
shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor; and, finally,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's
possessions. Over three thousand
years have passed since that time,
but If these laws were obeyed in
their entirety today, the world
would be a very much better place
in which to live. Wars would
cease, and intolerance, envy, mal
ice and all uncharitableness would
be no more.
Next the people were told the
type of altar which would be ac
ceptable to the Lord. It should be
of stone, but not of hewn atone,
for putting a tool to it would be
to pollute It. And there were to be
no steps for fear the priest as
cending them would disarrange
his garment and expose his limbs.
The laws laid down for the con
duct of the chosen people in all
their dealings with their fellow
men and women follow in chapters
22 and 23. Many apply to modern
living; many do not, for the He
brew society was founded upon
slavery. Both natives and foreign
ers could be slaves'. A Hebrew
could become a slave through
crime or indebtedness or through
his father's right to sell him. n?
could not be retained In slavery
more than six years, however. W
have no time to comment on thei
and It will be Impossible for th
teacher to do more than mentio
some of them, although their at
most Interesting.
rtetuTM IraiUaUt toe.