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Meditation
God of the hills, grant ns thy strength
to go back into the cities without faltering,
strength to Jo our daily task without to
ing and with enthusiasm, strength to heirs
our neighbors who haze no hills to remem
ber
God of the wilderness, with thy pure
winds from the iiorthtanJ blow away our
pettiness; with the haisher winds of winter
drive away our selfishness and hypocrisy;
fill us with the breadth and the depth and
the heightb of thy wilderness. May we live
out the truths which thou hast taught ns. :n
every thought and word and deed. Amen.
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\our Right To Know
In 1787 when the fathers of the Constitution
picse.iied the results of four months of efforts
to the states for ratitoation, a cry went up
throughout the land (fiar the Constitution lack
ed something. The rights of the ??,<ernment were
there, but many maintslned to some of the
rights of the people were omitted. Thus the Bill
of Rights, the first ten amendments, was drawn
up and added to the Constitution.
The first amendmenf goes like this: "Con
gress shall make no law respecting an establish
ment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
thereof: or abridging the freedom of speech or
of the press; or the right of-the people peaceable
to assemble, and to petition the government for
a redress of grievances."
This first amendment protects "Our Right
to Know", the theme of National Newspaper
Week, October 1-8.
This does not mean that the right to know
is the special privilege of the press, rather it is
the right of the press to present to sou. the read
er, the facts you have a right to know.
Robert A. \ ogeler. prisoner of the Reds for
17 months says, "It is extremely important for
the American people to realiA' that freedom of
the press is a principle placed in the Constitution
for their benefit, rather than for the benefit of
the newspaper." '
We are inclined to take this freedom for
granted along with other freedoms won for us
since the Declaration of Independence.
We shouldn't say "It can't happen here.
We'll always have a free press." It can happen
here and does, in big cities and small towns, as
Charles Clayton pointed out in an address at the
l'Diversity of Missouri. He says "It does happen
in every city where committees of the Board of
Aldermen or the school board insist on secret
meetings. It is happening right now in Washing
ton, despite all denials to the contrary. "
1 he permanent slogan of National News
paper Week is "Your Newspaper Lights the Way
of Freedom".
You, the man-in-the-street. must be on the
alert to preserve this freedom which belongs to
veu.
Scouting
With 7he Publisher
MURPHY looked good to nve when I had an
opportunity to go back for a week-end two week?
ago. However, in less than three weeks' of being
away, the town had changed so much I hardly
knew my way around I imagine by now the stop
light and completion of the street work are making
driving easier.
TODAY (Tuesdayi I imagine has been a big
day in our county, with ths Democratic nominees
and other party leaders coming in large numbers
for the rally. While I ate barbecue at dinner here
at Chowan College tonight, I still would like to
have had some of that served at the fairgrounds.
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COLLEGE life, though different and interest
ing every hour of the day. is just as busy as that of
editing a newspaper. In fact, I still do some news
paper work, preparing news stories for the college,
teaching journalism, visiting newspaper plants with
the journalism class, and yesterday we had several
newspaper publishers from Eastern North Carolina
and Tidewater Virginia here for a meeting of an
advisory committee for the new Graphic Arts de
partment of the college.
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THE 16TH DISTRICT of Women's Clubs held
its annual meeting Friday in Gatesville, and Mrs.
J. H. Bunn. state president, and others that Mur
phy and Andrews club women know were speakers.
Dorothy Brown (Mrs E. P i who lives n Murfrees
boro and was one of my college mates is state
treasurer. Among other activities in recent days
have been: Attending revival services in Powells
ville w hen Dr. F. O. Mixon, our president, was
preaching and having dinner there with relatives:
attending revival in Eure when the Rev Oscar
Creech, associate to the president, was preaching;
attending the Chowan hour radio broadcast at sta
tion WRCA in Ahoskie; attending services at Au
lander when the Dean of Men Henry Reeves preach
ed; visiting two of our students who were in the
hospital in Ahoskie?one with asthma and one with
a broken leg from playing football. Tonight I at
tended the meeting of our Sundav School class, the
Fidelis. and there were about 30 young women,
around the same age of my Esther Class in Mur
phy. present.
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VISITS to some of the lovely old homes in Mur
freesboro also have been on my schedule; The
present Wynn home, built 180 years ago and first
occupied by the Murfree family for whom the town
was named. A son of this family later moved to
Murfreesboro. Tenn.. and became the namesake of
that city. The four huge white pillars on the front
of this home were hand-turned by slave labor. Also
there was an evening in the Old Vaughn home, part
of which was built 175 years ago, and contains some
of the most beautiful hand carved wood work and
antique furniture I've ever seen. (I know Avis Hoo
ver will be down to see me . . . no. the homes and
antiques, soon.)
Best wishes to alL
Looking
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Over
A Four-H
Clover
By FRANCES POTT Aad M. B. WRIGHT
LETTER FROM HOLLAND
September*!
Dear Mrs. Puett:
I have been quite busy since the
last time I wrote to you; juidt?'
have seen quite a lot ot the Pro
vie noe of Gelderland now. I think
that I forgot to tell you that this
Provience looks very 'muctf' like
some sections of North Carolina,
(it doesn't have any mountains,
but it has plenty of trees and
beautiful vegetation.kit looks good
to me, for I was beginning to grow
tired of nothing but flat land with
only a few trees near the houses.
The soil here is sandy apd they do
not do fanning od. & lat?T scale
as they did In the northern pro
viences Moat of the farms here
are small and a great number of
them ant poultry farms, with some
wf them dwek farms. Ike farm
that I am thrlng od inmost
? general term with poultry, about
I is strictly a tud farm, there
to aonaewhare orar<LfOO <toc*s.
You should Juat hear them all
?sir imrm k p***"
toM? ^
i faetaal (tola. TO
i is one of personal demonstration;
I forking side by side, offering a
j friendly handshake or grinning
through an embarassing situation.
These things give for better proof
of the personality we are and the
people we represent than could a
hundred well organized oratory ex
amples.
This is a typical Dutch village
and not all "above average". It la
very interesting to be a part of
it and really see how the people
live. The daughter and I ride our
bicycles to the village about 10
a. m. in the mornings to do the
family business. It b a usual sight
now to see the milk being deliver
ed from a wagon drawn by a horse
or the bread delivered from a bi
cycle cart. Of course It Is not all
this way. at the same time you can
see quite tuudei n and recent coss
venlsnces that show the pi ogress
which is being made.
-^ >Ust weak I had. * nice vieit la
Kaaiiesn which was quite a dif
fram this small viHage. I
a lovely visit with the family
of Mr. Arnold Boerkens, who b
now living in Miupigr, North Car
olina. They were very gentium to
It was especially alaa to
well; evwa the lptle
torical places of Interest in their
city which is one of the oldest
cities in Holland. I saw a very old
ket place and town hall (and when
I say old?some of the dates go
back as early as 1100). They even
took me to see the statute of the
little boy who olaced his finger in
the hole of the dike and
Holland! The visit with the Beer
kens' was so much like being with
American people I almost wanted
to confess to someone else besides
myself that I had often been look
ing at the calendar to see how far
away November looked!!
The van de Pol family has been
very Interested in my seeing their
Provience. One day the daughter,
son and- I went to Apeldoorn, a
city some miles away, to a young
farmer's meeting. Even though I
couldn't understand all it was nice
to see how they carried on their
meetings. We have also had a visit,
to tern of their old fishing villages.'
Morken and Volendam; this was a (
boat trip and very nice. Here ere
saw many of the acenes and old
customs as are often seen In books.
Use moot interesting thing of the
day for me was traveling out
through the sea where they were
working on a new East Polder. I
bringing dirt up from
of the sea to make a
new dike. By 1966 they hope to
have land where the sea now
It' to realty
quite
. This week I was the guest of a
Since egg prices are highest at
this time of year. It may pay poa
tryroen to use electric lights to
stimulate production of fall as
Honey has
the U. Si Department ef
tare as a "plentiful food"
October.
BLOOD PROGRAM?Children and adults, both p< ssible victims
of accident and disease, share benefits of Red Cross National Blood
Program. Participation will eventually include every community now
having no blood supply or whose supply is inadequate to meet the
community need.
mThiSu^I
newyorkI
At the Manhattan entrance of
the Hudson River tunnel, a huge
truck got wedged against the tojj
because it was too high to get into
the tunnel. Emergency crews
worked for hours trying to get it
out. and in the meantime, traf
fic was stalled for a mile on each
side. Finally a small boy who had
watched the proceedings with in
terest walked over to tne foreman
of the crew ana askea if he want
ed a suggestion. Yes, he did.
"Well, let tne air out ot the tires,"
he said They did. The truck came
out easily.
There's sadness along Broadway
and much of the talk among the
stage people is rather hushed. For
Gertrude Lawrence is gone She
was "more than just a bright star.
She was Broadway personified in
a lovely woman. It was not her
acting or singing or looks, but a
rare combination of all, an inner
radiance which all of us who knew
her felt. If any quality about her
stands out, it was gaiety? and
?everyone loves to be gay. An un
derstudy is trying to take her
place. But it will be a long time
before anyone really does, if ever.
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A local politician running for
office has just told the following
story about how Governor Giles
of Virginia came out in a name
calling incident with Patrick Hen
ry. It seems that he had heard that
Patrick had called him a "bob
tail politician" and wanted to
know if this was true, and- M so,
what was it's meaning. Henry re
plied, "Sir, I do not recollect hav
ing called you a "bob-taL politi
cian' at any time, but think it
probable I. have. Nor recollecting
the time or Occasion, I can't say
what I did mean, but if you will
teJl me what you think I meant.1
I will say whether or not you are 1
correct"
The young couple aat on the
beneh In Central Park and looked
the picture of young romance/1
Slowly their heads moved toward
each other, hi* arm slipped about'
her shoulders, his hand tipped her
chin upward and his anxious Bps!
mowed surely toward hers. Then
hi* aye caught right of an old lady '
eoimty agent for two days One'
?>ay we traveled seeing different
p"rt? ?* the Provianee. the next]
day we vtsMed a Home Betaomks'
whool You aw I have been very
here on the term,
weak la psteg to be a Am
one; ail five af the America
W" In Holland aw
bar Golden Carrt
apa. They have told me it loa
Itee a fairy tale; ) am
to aw ft.
Appeal
A. hero will fall in battle one day,
His wounds fast draining his life
blood away.
You shrug and say, "But what
could I do?"
Brother, his life might depend
upon you!
Perhaps that boy lies there in your
stead.
Dying, while you lie safely abed.
Your blood might revive him, re
lieve him of pain,
Restore him to wife, mother, chil
dren again.
Yon may not be burdened with
this world's wealth,
But if you are blessed with abun
dant health,
I-ore is a gift that won't cost you a
nickle.
You're scarcely aware of the
steady trickle.
That, rising in reservoirs such as
we,
Like rivers flowing down to the
sea.
Unite to form the much-needed
flood.
Of merciful, llfegiving, war-winp
ing blood.
So hasten, contribute your drip to
the ocean.
Help keep the healing streams in
motion
Then go youf way in satisfaction.
This boy s not listed "Killed in
Action."
?T. W. E. McKew, L. U. No. 101.
standing not far behind them and
he raised himself abruptly, ready
to rebuke her for spying. But the
old one was now moving away,
waving her old-fashioned parasol.
"Don't fuss at me, young man,"
she implored. "I Just couldn't help
looking at you two. You are so
happy. Once I too knew young
love. Now he is gone these many
years. So don't spoil my borrowed
moment of happiness. You can
spare it"
Raccoon
Raccoon Survives
Despite Enemies
Raccoon, pirate, pet. predat
or, prize or peat. So varied are the
relationships between men and
raccoons that you may take your
choice for a single designation, j
TV'ddy Roosevelt built his Bull
Moose party about a wild animal.
This being an election year we
found Senator Kefauver following
Ms example and using the coon
skin cap as campaign symbol The
'ate of the Senator's ambitions
matters little to the coon who
??ems able to survive dogs, traps,
civilization, fire, hunters and al
most anything. Even the rage of
college boys for coon skin coats
did not wipe the animals out of
their range over our whole coun
try. j
When a country boy in his early
spring wanderings finds what look 1
like the prints mady by little 2 s
t inch hands in the mud along the
creek he has a hunch that the
coons have come out of hiberna
tion. If he is a careful observer he
looks for one track with four toes
instead of five and If be finds
one he knows he has found a track
of a woodchuck rather than a coon, i
Raccoons breed In February just
after coming out of their hlberna
tion. In 63 days two to six young ;
are born of the union and both |
parents take part in the suocess of {
the little family which may re-.
main as a group through the first ?
winter. By the first winter a young
coon may have reached a weight
of 12 pounds. Two hundred acres
of suitable woodland should yield '
an annual crop of one raccoon in
spite of the normal accidents of
nature. A full meal may be about1
pounds of fish but it may be an
equivalent In crayfish, insects,
sweet corn or vegetables We
hope this clown of our neighbor
hood never vanishes off our home
range. If he does we will move to
his just for the fun of it.
HAYSEED
By Uncle Sam
A SMILE
A smile costs nothing.
A smile may be of great value.
A smile does not Impoverish
those who give it.
A smile happens In a flash.
A smile may change a life.
A smile may help the rich.
A smile may enrich the poor.
A smile may create happiness.
A smile may foster good will.
A smile may drive away the
gloom.
A smile may give hope to the
hopeless.
A smile may encourage the dis
couraged.
A smile may rest the weary.
A smile may lift a burden.
A smile may dispel darkness.
A smile takes away nothing of
value.
A smile may live In the memory
forever.
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In 1940, North Carolina was ex
ceeded by 42 state* In the propor
tion of college trained people
among rural-farm populations.
Pill!
BV OR KENNETH i. FOREMAN
SCRIPTURE: Mi(%? ,
DEVOTIONAL READING
HB
Dedicating Life
tor October t. IMS
There are tvo cIuni of per
aoos in thli world: the drifter*
and the dedicated. Drifter* become
driftwood, cumbering a barren
shore, or they float, waterlogged
and helnles*. a
menace t o more
important traffic.
The dedicated, on
the other hand, hare
purpose in their
minds, they have a
course and a com
pass. They have
somewhere to go.
lnf then. But not
?11 the dedicated
?re alike. The vital question la: To
what is a man dedicated?
Stalin is a dedicated man; so are
Christian missionaries; so are pol
iticians food and bad. The big ques
tion remains: Dedicated to what?
to whom?
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Dedicated It God
HIGHEST object of an dedication
Is God; this always Includes de
votion to his cause. To be dedicated
to God means to be devoted. In pur- '
pose and In action, in every way
that is possible, to making this
world?be (Inning with one's own
self?come Into line with the pray
er. "Thy will be doo?.''
Je
1
the
Gospel by Matthew fer the nest
six months, was ef aD paresne
the topmost cTtmpto ef a He
dedicated to Ged. Inn did net
drift Into this. Dedication was
net automatic, Inevitable.
Jesus, not less than those be
calls his brothers and sisters, had
to make up his mind to the ancient
demand: Choose this day whom you
will serve.
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The Power
JESUS WAS not a late comer to his
decision. Once or more it has
happened that a young man who de
cides to enter the ministry will sur
prise and even startle family and
friends by this decision. But when
Jesus "entered the ministry" (as
we may rightly say he did. after
his baptism), it could have sur
prised none who had lutown him He
had always been aware of being
"about his Father's business." He
did not pass from drifting to dedica
tion, as most men must; he passed
from one stage of dedication to an
other.
Whatever questions the story
of Jesus' baptism raises, one
thing Is certain: from and after
that even Jesus knew himself to
be God's special Representative,
endowed with the Holy Spirit
for the work be waa to do.
Over and over In the New Testa
ment we hear of the "power of the
Spirit," for the divine Spirit both
brings power and la Power. Only the
life dedicated to God has the power
of God.
The Problem
r' IS a mistake to think that the
dedicated life U free from prob
lems. God will not weaken us by
making our choices for us. Every
temptation is an opportunity to
choose, between God's tray and
some tray that la not God's. Temp
tation may also present a choice not
so much between black and white,
wrong and right, as balwoau good
right and more-right
of 4aana* temp
il k them he
a hew e(
But the question was. How? By
turning stones Into bread? By as
tonishing people with miracles such
as Jumping unharmed off (be Tem
ple top? No; these were not God's
way. The last temptation was not
as aboard as It sounds. Whenever
man have said. "Let us do dvll that
good may come," whenever they
have said that a noble purpose glori
fies any method used to attain It.
they have done what Jesus was
tempted to do,---worship Satan,
e e e
The Practice
DEDICATION dees not tree
N?l
la put at God's dls
to avoid, wrong chaise, to
he right one. Tot again there
la a condition: God will not resist
our temptations In our place. There
Is something we have to do tor our
Lucky You by Dick Shaw
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