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THURSDAY, DEC. 16, 1937
Th^ held another eleeti^ in Bossia
«nd no doubt any who oppoa^ the pres
ent dictator will be visited about mid
night Dead men tell no tales, and do
no more voting against
Christmas LinhlinH
Soon the shortest days and longest
nights of the year will be upon us. But
they promise to be the brightest, cheer
iest, and most colorful nights of this or
any other year.
Galaxies of star-like incandescent
lamps will again sparkle from windows,
doorways, house roofs, and shrubbery.
It is the modern word’s way of carrying
the Christmas spirit outdoors—through
a most appropriate medium, light—and
for all the world to share.
Each succeeding year over the past
two decades has seen this modern vogue
—of illuminating one’s “Peace on
Earth ...” with gem-like lights—grow
into a custom almost as far-reaching
and beautiful as the Christmas spirit it
self.
This year, new thousands of homes
will doubtless swell the countless mil
lions of outdoor lighting displays and
so enhance the beauty of the magnificent
spectacle that is America at Yuletide.
A veritable fairyland of multi-colored
lights!
Weeks before Christmas, shoppers ev
erywhere find a wide variety of new
decorative lighting equipment in local
stores which carry electri(;al merchap-
^.dise, . Among the ornamental eq^p-
ments available, one finds al] sorts' of
lamp-studded wreathes, bells, stars and
“flaming” candles—designed for win
dow and doorway decoration—and also
light-bejeweled festoons—^for edging or
to be strung among evergreen sprigs or
along the garden hedge. Not only are
these new ornamental pieces inexpens
ive, but they’re in better taste and more
practical than ever before.
Of course, greater dependability may
be expected from these electrical Christ
mas decorations offered by reputable
American manufacturers. True, this
merchandise may cost a few cents more
than similar appearing equipment of
foreign make, but repeated experience
has shown that a few pennies more buys
a considerable saving in time, effort and
inconvenience.
A fetching outdoor display may be
installed these days in less than half an
hour. All it takes is a small cash outlay
and a little ingenuity. The “fairyland”
is fun to create; it’s a genuine satisfac
tion to own: and it’s a .source of joy for
all passersby.
Firecrackers
There is a peculiar complex in this
makeup we call human nature that
makes people w’ant to make a lot of
no se at Christmas time. If noise were
all, it would not be so bad.
Mayor McNeil has issued a warning
about firing firecrackers. Firecrackers
in theniselves are just implements of
noise, but when used carelessly can be
implements of death. We read only a
few days ago of a boy who lost one eye
in a firecracker explosion. Better that
there were no firecrackers in the coun
try than that any person should lose an
eye and be maimed for life.
The odds are 1,000 to 1 against no
one being killed because of firecrack
ers before January 1. Why play with
anything so dangerous?
Of course, firecrackers can be handled
in ^ safe manner, but "they never have,
Kfid for that reason should be prohibit
ed.
Dorothy Dix deplores the scarcity of
lafe husbands'*. Somewhere we h^rd
rolling pine hetog veed adep^
r,i9ie «h: sex,
boat by Japanese planes^,
other incidents itf the Orient could easily
start a war. In ages pas^^ suck hap-.,
penings would have already started the
intematipnai fracas. "
But in this age when we realize the
futility of war, calmness is neWed ^D'
dealing with the desperat? ,
'Ike sinking ot the ship was due to the
zeal, carelessness, and indifferMce of
Japanese fliers. We haVe lost a gun
boat, one or more lives, sweral injured,
and what Japan offers is her “profound
regrets.”
How America can protect the inter
ests of its citizens and the citizens tiiem-
selves in the war torn area is a problem
yet to be solved. One should consider
that Americans do not have to stay in
the war zone. In fact, they have been
warned to move.
We do not know whether or not it is
absolutely necessary for the soldiers to
remain in China. But it does look as if
civilians whose citizenship belong in the
United States might get out and refrain
from being the possible cause of inter
national calamity. War is nothing less
than General Sherman said it was, and
we may expect other happenings to
arouse indignation against Japan.
We could go over and give Japan a
good licking, but in so doing we might
lo.se a million lives, billions in money,
and with suffering and loss inestimable.
The Cost of Relief
In the first nine months of 1937 the
payments to needy persons from Feder
al, state and local tax funds was $152,-
416,000 less than in the corresponding
period of 1936, the Social Security Board
reports. The total of such payments is
still high enough, running to a bit more
than a billion and a half dollars, or over
$17,000,000 a month. The lowest
month in two years was September,
1937, when the relief outlay was 159
millions.
Those figures include wages paid to
W. P. A. workers, subsistence grants
under the Farm Security Administration,
old-age assistance to the blind, aid to
dependent children, old age pensions to
nearly a million and a half aged men
and women, and state ^ud local relief
payment^' to everyone udhble to earn a
1 living. The total for the year, at that
rate, w;ll run above two thousand mil
lion dollars.
Uncle Sam certainly takes good care
of his dependent nephews and nieces.
The question in everybody’s mind is how
long can he keep it up on the present
scale. Nobody wants anybody in Am
erica to starve. We have never lei any
body starve, if we knew it. Long before
the Federal government went into the
philanthrop’c enterprises in which it is
now engaged, private and public indi
viduals and organized charities saw to
it that nobody in their respective com
munities was allowed to suffer for the
necess ties of life, and nearly all the
.states had taken upon themselves re
sponsibility for maintaining the needy
old people in comfort.
THE BIRTH OF JESUS
Lesson for December 19th. Luke 2:8-20
GOLDEN TEXT: LUKE 2:11
“She laid Him in a manger because there was
no room, for them in the inn.’’ We can picture
to o-jrselves the various sorts of folk in that inn,
stout Jewish farmers a couple of petty govern
ors, a half-dozen brutal Roman soldiers, some
priests, a rabbi, and idicirs hanging about the
door or lounging by the fire. All were unmind
ful of Mary and her divine treasure about to be
born.
This is typical of that coldness of heart Jesus
encountered. ‘‘He came unto His own, and His
own received him not.” Today this drama of
the renunciation of the Master is being repeated.
The world is full of its own interests, and there
is no room for the Master. Even at Christmas
time, when the whole world is reminded of His
blessed coming, He is crowded out. There is al
ways danger of a Christmas without Christ.
When one thinks about our Christmas shopping,
the pushing crowds, the commercialized Santa
Clauses, the tired nerves of store and postal
clerks, and the conventional artificiality of so
much Christmas giving one wonders what Jesus
thinks of it all. It is often hard to find the real
Christmas spirit in all this hurly-burly.
Ph ilips Brooks gives two reasons for this
pushing aside of Jesus. First of all, he says,
the world does not feel in need of Him. Second
ly, the world is conscious of shame and sin.- It
finds no space in its evil Atmosphere for the
high, majestic Christ.
Both of these explanations are famdiar to us
all. We feel t’neir force. We know how indif
ferent men and nations are to the message of
incarnation. And we understand full well
the
how sin crowds out the Savioua, making its vic
tims deaf to the call of Jesus. But thank God
for the passionate who give oar Lord
all t^ room he wimts^ who taln» the manger and
make it a throne in their hearts.
IMt hart for afamer to adopt
the kia^ of emmn eontrol prao-
ttew tha^" would be most affeo-
tive os his land unless be knows
#hnt type of sou» covert his
fidlds, said Dean I. O. Schaum,
of State CoHege.
He njMte 1# eonsider the tbiek-
iiest and texture of the tpps^
and al^ the subsoil underneath.
He nmds to eonsider the slope df
thd land over'each field, how
badly the soil tends to erode,
snd how much soil has been
washed amy already.
.. In.parts^of the State, the dean
continue, so much topsoil has
been' washed away that the farm
ers on it have to eke ont a living
as beet they can hy virtually till
ing the subsoil. j
There are soils now being cul-'
tivated that are better suited to
making brick than to producing j
crops. _ I
Within a single field there
may be big differences in the
type of soil found in various
places. Or differences in the sl(H>e
over a field cause it to he badly
eroded In some places while in
others there is still a fairly good i
layer of topsoil. 1
The badly eroded places should
be retired to thick-growing cov
er crops, but the more level
places may still be good for care
ful farming.
A striking example of differ
ences in soil may be gained by
examining the thin top soil on a
place where row crops have been
grown for a long time, then com
pare It with the thick, spongy
soil in a wooded area nearby.
A careful study of the soil on
each' farm has proved one of the
most itportant steps in the
“whole-farm” method of controll
ing erosion now being demon
strated In erosion control areas
over the state. Dean Schaub add
ed.
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Madison, Wis., Dec. 10.—Dis
covery that a University of Wis
consin co-ed had been posing in
the nude before students in the
university’s “Life’’ art classes
created a hubbub today on the
campus.
Professor William H. Varnum,
director of the art department,
instructed Prof. Roland S. Steb-
bins, head of the “Lite’’ class, to
cease using the girl as a model.
Shf had been posing to help earn
he^.i^ay, tl^ough school^
present th3m to the undersignec'
on or beforevte IsK day of Decern'
her, 1938, or Tito notice will be
plead in bar of ^P^^ent. All per
sons indebted , to smA estate will
make immedfete payirragt to the
undersigned.
’This l«t day of Dec., 1981.
W. D. HALFACRE,
Administrator of the estate of J.
A. Johnston, Deceased, with the
will annexed. l-2-6t-(T)
Whicker & Whicker. Attorneys.
NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina, Wilkes County,
Under pursuant to and by ■virtue
of the povrer of sale contained in
a certain jileed of ^rust executed
on the 22nd day af September,
1936 by A. L. Griming, and wife
Mrs. A. L. Sriffilte to the under
signed trusty, the said deed of
trust being to secure the
payment of edk^n notes of even
date therewith^Smd default having
been made in payn^nt of the
notes under t]^ Vrms tnereof, the
undersigned tiru8« will therefore
offer for sale, at Vablic auction to
the highest hiddee for cash on
Thursday, the 23rdfe>,day of Decem
ber, 1937, dk 12 o’cI)|k noon at the
courthouse* door Wilkesboro,
North Carolina, the'following de
scribed lands or lota,%o-'wit:
Being j^t No. One a Block No.
Two as Aown on the %ap at the
T. B. I^ey Park AddM^ to the
••own or North Wilkesb^, .North
Carolina, recorded in B(^ No.
132, at Page 164. /
Done this the 23rd dajr> of No
vember, 1987,
W. H. McEL^E,
i2-16-4t-(T) jTnistee.
thence south S deg. west '■V'-inr, to a stake, north 19 deg. 30
withTHjtohell’s line 63.26 chains to minutes west 2.60 chains to a £
a posra^ (dead), on the north stake, north 3 deg. east 20.62, X
bank of Hm^ng Creek; thence 'ipjchains to a stone; thence S
said creek Dlrdtoina to the mouth]87 deg. west 3.12 chains Jjgdw C. j %
of a branch, theiw^p said branch j Myers line; thence wM^ms line'g
north 63 deg.' eastT|Q^,^hmns to j north 3 deg. east^^tRTchains to a | fi
stone in Gregfli^^ line; thence] ”
crook of branch, north
east 4.76 chains to a p
thence north 89 deg. east 3.f
chains to a stake, &becca Couch
comer; thence with her line north
17 deg. east 13.90 chains to
stake, north 16 deg. east 6.
chains to a stake; north 3 Akz-
east 8.10 chains to a stak^i^orto
16 deg. west 11.65 cha|ra to a
stake; north 10 dejuf^ minutes
west 3 chains to &make; north 24
deg. cast 1.48,,a(rain3 to a stake;
north 44 3.43 chains to a
stake, nonh 49 deg. east 2.95
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south 81 des^K minutes east with ! B
_ 29.60 chains to the I j
containing 330' B
»"^"**Xt„]ess. This convey-1 J
is made^^MtoiM,.^ B
greement of sale enUnlBii|jtjg;^by |
the grantor with the gran'
the 21st day of June, 1917, record-. ^
ed in the Register of Deeds of- 5
ficc, Yadkin County, Book 6, page 1
668.
This 7th day of December, 1937,
FRED S. HUTCHINS,
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