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MAKE IT SHORT From the Writings of Dr. Frank Crane I think it is D. L. Moody who tells of a man who when he died, said: "I may have done many a wrong thing, but I have never done a long one." Brevity is the soul of wit and it is also the soul of common sense. Don't use two adjectives to describe a thing. One is enough. Don't say a thing and then exer cise your ingenuity by saying it over again. Writing conduces to brevity be cause, as someone has said, writ ing is like shooting at a mark with a rifle, while speaking is like trying to hit the same mark with a stream of water from a nozzle. The world is MI the run. Most people are and always will be in a hurry. The fate of the third verse is something for those who seek the public ear to ponder on. A lengthy article with long, solid-appearing paragraphs has as much chance of being widely read as have the words of the third verse of the closing hymn when the minister has run past a dozen fine terminal sentences. If a short article turns out to be a "dud" it at least isn't a long-winded "dud." A short, pointed article, if it contains a thought, is more like ly to set you thinking than a long one. It gives you time in the present. A long article requires your leisure to read and then something else requires attention by the time you finish it. There is a charm about ram bling writers like Charles Lamb Elkin's T? ¥ Superior Newest Ej J_j JRk. Sound THEATRE I SPECIAL! Thursday, Nov. 30— MATINEE AND NIGHT "FIVE CAME BACK" With Chester Morris - Lucille Ball r \ Forced to land in a jungle! Twelve marooned. Only five can escape. What a climax! Wait until you see this thriller! Cartoon - Dave Appollon's Orchestra Admission 10c-25c Friday-Saturday, Matinee and Night— GENE AUTRY In "COLORADO SUNSET" New Serial - Comedy - Disney Cartoon Admission 10c-25c Free! Giant Spiral Balloons to All Children Attending Monday-Tuesday—Matinee Monday— jflMH 5 MCN TRltt with Mmok 'THF '"(ISEKIEPER'S DAUGHTER LUT KEEPING HOUSE WAS NOT IN HER LINE! M- * PH.. .lit What Ski Cii Mit Do With A Mai! Special—Latest Issue "March of Time"—Admission 10c-25c Wednesday, Matinee and Night— "IRISH LUCK" FRANKIE DARRO Mickey Mouse Cartoon - Serial Admission 10c to All when you have an evening to spend under a reading lamp on a winter's night. An American magazine editor pays an English woman writer a dollar for each word of her short stories. A literary model many writers might study with profit is the telegram. The telegram attracts in the first place because it is short. It gives the idea a chance to be heard. But if the article l?as nothing to say, mere briefness is to no purpose. WEST YADKIN SCHOOL ADDITION COMPLETE The addition to the West Yad kin school building is completed and is now occupied by the four sections of the first grade. The addition is located between the main building and the Agricul ture building. It consists of four large rooms, equipped with small tables and chairs. Private lock ers are provided for the teachers in the building. Open house will be held within a short time and all parents ol the community- and the general public will be invited to attend. First grade teachers for the school are: Mesdames Lawrence Todd, Prank Dough, Hal Bell and Will Holcomb. "Leatherneck," a nickname for Marines, was given them during the Revolutionary War when they wore leather stiffening in their collars. THE ELKIN TRIBUNE. ELKIN. NORTH CAROLINA « . How Other Lands Mark Christmas A melting pot of the world, Amer ica has created its Christmas traditions from countless customs brought across the seas from foreign lands. In these far-away places the Yuletide symbols of bygone ages still endure. Here are a few of them: ENGLAND: Christmas to rural Englishmen means not only the observance of Christ's birth, but also a parting of the ways between the old year and the new. Preparations are started for the next year's farm work, which begins right after Christmas. Throughout the island such trap pings as the holly and mistletoe re main undying traditions, nor is any Christmas complete without the Yule log burning. On clear frosty nights the carol singers raise their voices over the countryside. To many Englishmen's despair, such American customs as the turkey din ner are gaining a foothold. GERMANY: Two years ago storm troopers in Berlin lit bonfires in the public squares as a revival of the pagan custom of celebrating the winter solstice. But this distraction will not stop the Christmas-loving Ger mans from decorating their trees in every town and village, and joining in the famed Christmas hymn, "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht." ITALY: Most Italian families celebrate Christmas eve and spend the follow ing day quietly in their homes. Here it is a feast more for grown-ups than for children, whose merry making day comes 12 days later, on January 6. On Christmas eve fami- ytFjuri^ IN ITALY—Children of the Italian Alps at Christmas Time, praying before a wayside shrine. lies gather around the "ceppo" or Christmas log blazes. At nine p. m. beg ; ns the "cenone," or big supper, at which no meat may be served. Gilts tor children, which come on Epiphany, are brought not by Santa 'Claus but by an ugly witch whose name is "Befana." FRANCE: Exchange of gifts comes not on Christmas but mostly on New Year's day, which in France is the big family day for reunions of cousins, aunts and uncles. Santa Claus Is "Pere Noel," who leaves his gifts in wooden shoes. Christmas eve is not spent at home but in revelry and feasting. BELGIUM: Neither Santa Claus nor Pere Noel visit children here—but St. Nicholas makes the rounds, surprisingly, on December 61 A quaint Belgian cus tom is the putting up the chimney of a few carrots for the little donkey on which St Nicholas makes his visits. RUSSIA: This anti-Christian nation forbids celebration of the Yuletide but no longer compels foreign residents to import their own Christmas trees Making an about-face, the Soviet government uses this emblem of childhood for its New Year's cele brations when Dadja Moroz, or Un cle Frost, appears with gifts for good children. POLAND: This Christmas celebration lasts until February 2 and is preceded by fasting which is not broken until the first star appears on Christmas eve. In all homes the tablecloth is placed over a layer of fragrant hay In commemoration of the manger. HUNGARY: St. Nicholas leaves boxes of candy for children early in December, aft er which the youngsters must be on their good behavior. They write let ters to the angels, who, they be lieve, bring the presents. If they find bits of tinsel on the floor, they claim this is angel's hair and proof that the angels are everywhere, ob serving which boys and girls are good. HOLY LAND: Where it all began nearly 20 cen turies ago, worshipers reverently bail eacb Christmas at the church of Nativity which U built over Christ's traditional birthplace. It has remained unchanged more than 1,500 years. There pilgrims gather from all over the world to Intone "Glory to the New-Born King." SMALL NUMBER HAVE DISEASE, NURSES FIND Out of Large Number Ex amined the Percentage Is Unusually Small TOTAL OF 169 EXAMINED The big feature of the health work in Yadkin county this month was the fluoroscopic clinic held in the Yadkinville Baptist church November 13 through the 17th. At this clinic adults from the families of the 225 children who reacted to the tuberculin tests were given a free examina tion, including several adults sent by practicing physicians. Very little tuberculosis was discovered in an active form, only two school children being referred for constant supervision of phy sicians, and X-ray and observa It's "Easy Sledding" — REDDY As Your Santa Claus! Don't let this "Christmas Problem" u&X a P ro^'em ' Get ou * y° ur s'ft list \ mMITk Ik* today ... put opposite your very special names one of Reddy's gifts, something electrical! There is no ] problem then! You have given some \L - —_ thing which is a delight all through iF M \ the years . . . and one which you vir- P \ may be sure will be enthusiastically N'l ~ \ received. 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One child was taken to the clinic for observation by Dr. Ruth Henley, and 78 home calls were made by nurses in behalf of in fants and pre-school children. County nurses inspected 339 school children, made 27 home calls, and 190 office visits. Mrs. Messick taught 3 first aid classes with an attendance of 62. Dr. E. H. Grady examined the basket ball girls from Courtney high school and all children in the first, third and fifth grades of the Yadkinville school who were not free of defects. Sixty-three visits were made by nurses to homes where there was sickness, five to crippled chil dren. One child was serit to the crippled children hospital in Gas tonia. The usual Monday clinics will be held by Dr. E. H. Grady at Boonville mornings from 9:30 to 11:30 and Yadkinville, afternoons at 1:00 to 3:00, except on Christ mas day when the office will be closed. At these clinics examina tions are conducted for health certificates, babies vaccinated for diphtheria, and blood tests are given. • Dr. Henley will hold the ma ternity clinic at Boonville Wed nesday morning, December 13. There will be no clinic held in Yadkinvlle December 27. Mrs. Bertice Holden Smith is relieving Mrs. Jamie Leak Mes sick temporarily on account of Mrs. Messick's illness. Miss Bertha Vestal, Gertie Wllhelm Thursday. November 30. 1939 and Virginia Wright are assist ing in the offices under the N. Y. A. program. This additional of fice help releases nurses for more work in the homes and schools. On account of the outbreak of typhoid fever at East Bend, a clinic is being held there every Wednesday morning for the ben efit of those not vaccinated this past summer. GREEN HAND DEGREE IS CONFERRED ON 13 Thirteen boys of the Mountain Park school were raised to the degree of Green Hand at a re cent meeting of the Mountain Park Chapter of the P. P. A. Requirements for the degree include the regtilar enrollment in a class of vocational agriculture, witii a satisfactory and accept able plan for a program of su pervised farming; familiarity with the purposes of the P. F. A., and the program work of the chapter in which you are enroll ed; the ability to recite from memory the creed of the P. F. A., and a majority vote of the mem bers present at a regular meeting of the chapter.
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