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BY CUVD KWI L.KON BILL YARDLEY poked a tentative eye outside his blanket. It was daylight, at last. Across the tiny cabin Jim was snoozing quietly, his measured breath almost drowned by the roaring wind outside. Bill's eyes surveyed the cabin with its old stove and rickety furniture. Cozy enough, perhaps, but this was no way to spend an entire winter, even for the sake of geo graphical accuracy. Several hun dred miles to the south, in Winnipeg, Ithe government office was waiting for early spring when Bill and Jim could finish their surveying assign ment and bring back a report The pilot dumped overboard a huge bundle. Ahead, meanwhile, were two months ■at this maddening snowbound al ienee. Bill's glance drifted to the calen dar. Suddenly he caught his breath— "Jim!" he shrieked. "Wake up! Wake up! Do you know what day this is?" Jim groaned, stirred a bit, and answered sleepily. "Tuesday, ain't it? And so what?" "Jim! It's Christmas Eve!" A few minutes later they found themselves staring blankly out the window, almost wishing they'd nev er discovered it was Christmas. It was kind of childish to let on that you cared, Bill thought So he on his parka and headed for the door. "Let's forget it, Jim," he advised. "I'm going to look at our traps and get some fresh air. Be back soon!" It was no picnic, trudging through Jcnee-deep drifts for two hours. To make it worse, the traps were all empty. Even the animate were stay ing inside in this weather. "Wonder if they'll miss Christmas, too?" he mused as he neared the cabin. Suddenly he heard a faint hum in the sky. It grew nearer. Unmis takably a motor—an airplane! Bill raced for the cabin door. "A plane, Jim!" he cried. "Get tome black smoke going up the chimney!" Then he raced out to the clearing. The pilot saw him gesticulating wildly, or else he saw the fresh black smoke over the cabin. The big ship circled, flew off to the north, turned and came back, flying low. Over the clearing It almost stalled as the pilot dumped overboard a huge bundle that plummeted into the snow almost at Bill's feet. Then he waved and sped away. They got it inside, somehow, (though they wanted to open the bun dle right where it landed. Once the rope was torn loose an oilskin pouch flew out A note was inside. From the boss: "In case you boys have forgot ten," it read, "tomorrow's Christ mas. Herewith the makings, includ ing some presents your families asked us to send along." Bill and Jim looked at each oth er, then they cheered. "Merry Christmas?" asked Bill. "Why, it's the best ever! Wait'll you taste this turkey!!" 53 Sundays in Tear According to the Gregorian cal endar, every year has 53 days of the one it begins on. Generally speak ing, the.year contains 53 Sundays every five or six years. This oc curred in 1928, 1933, 1939, and again in 1944, 1950, 1956, 1901, 1967, etc. The United States naval ob servatory points out that in any con tinuous series of 28 years, five have 53 Sundays, unless the series in cludes a year whose number ends in two ciphers without its being a leap year, as in 1700, 1800, 1900. When leap year begins on Saturday, two of the six-year periods fall con secutively.—Philadelphia Inquirer. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Old-Time New Tear Serious Oldtime New England was serious on New Year's, as witness the title of a book published there in the year of 1702 by one Richard Standfast: "A New Year's Gift for Fainting Souls, or, a little handful of cordial comforts scattered through several answers to 16 questions and objec tions: As also doubting Christians ,invited to Christ" miansr New Tear's Greeting The Chinese New Tear's greeting la "Sai-W," or "May jejr be yours." Ua&Catoteqie—. Author of "Hour to Wb» Frletmb and Influence People." HEADS TO DARKNESS V A high school boy wants to know how he can learn to think straight. I can't answer that in a few hundred words; it is a very complicated question, but I can tell him some things NOT to be lieve in. For instance, no one who wants to think straight be lieves in— 1. Ghosts. 2. Astrology. 3. Palmistry. 4. Phrenology. 5. Numerology. 6. Tea leaves. 7. Clairvoyance. 8. Ouija boards. If you had lived a hundred years ago today you might have believed in Phrenology, which was the so-called "science" of finger ing the bumps of the head and telling what kind of a brain re posed beneath. Henry Ward Beecher, one of the most famous preachers in America, fell for it hook, line and sinker. He not only fell for it but lectured on the subject with words of fire. So firmly did he believe that he read his sweet heart's head before he would marry her. Evidently he found the bumps to his liking, for he married her, and six children came to bless their home. They all had the right kind of bumps. Not only did Henry Ward Beecher fall, but the great Hor ace Greeley wrote an editorial praising the new science that was doing so much for mankind. But the end was not yet, for Horace Mann, the educator, wrote a pamphlet telling the wonders of Phrenology. Swept along by this same amazing current of popular be lief was Ralph Waldo Emerson who had nothing but praise. So widespread was the belief in Phrenology that some employers, before they would consider an applicant for a job, required him to have his head read and submit the report. If they didn't like the looks of the report, he had to take his head and go. Yet today there is not one trained thinker in all America who believes in Phreno logy. We must be tolerant of those who believe in these so-called "sciences," for one of your neigh bors probably believes in palm istry, and guides some part of his life by it. In the United States, there is more than two million dollars invested in palmistry. Far, far more people believe in astrology, and as I write this there are two magazines in this country devoted exclusively to astrology. I hope the time will come when all states will prohibit the sale of this silly, misleading literature. Astrology deals with the stars and their influence on man and his ways. Astronomers spend their lives peering through great telescopes to study the stars; not one astronomer of standing in 'J It! it with cars of any Price, " a " CC ° r the A/em 1941 Elkin, N. THE HLKIN TRIBUNE, ELKIN/NORTH CAROLINA the United States believes in as trology, and, so far as I know, not one reputable college or univer sity on this earth gives a course in astrology. So if you want to learn to think straight, don't be influenced by the Eight Roads to Darkness. ROARING RIVER MAN GETS LONG SENTENCE North Wilkesboro Longest prison sentence meted out in fed eral court by Judge Johnson J. Hayes in Wiljcesboro this week was for Hamp Sparks, of Roaring River, who was sent to the fed eral penitentiary in Atlanta, Ga., for 3 years after he submitted a plea of nolo contendere on a charge of using the mails to de fraud. Sparks, according to the evi dence, had used the mails to send false statements concerning his financial worth to Speigel & Company, a Chicago credit mail order firm, and had received a high credit rating enabling him to purchase $450 worth of mer chandise, for which he did not pay and the company was unable to collect. Court records showed that he had a record in that type of transactions for the past 29 years. Mrs. Sparks, who was indicted with him, was placed on proba tion for three years. NOTICE Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a cer tain deed of trust executed on the 2nd day of March, 1938, by J. M. Wolfe (Widower) to W. M. Allen, Trustee, recorded in Book 133, page 220, in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Surry Coun ty, North Carolina, and default having been made in payment of said note and deed of trust, and at the request of the holder of the note and deed of trust, the under signed trustee will on the 21st day of December, 1940, at 11 o'clock A. M., offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash in front of the Post Office, in Elkin, N. C., the following de scribed property, to-wit: Beginning in the line where it crosses the Dobson Road, near the branch; thence West with the old line to the Widow Craige's corner (now F. M. Nixon's corn er); thence with F. M. Nixon's line to the Nellie Branch; thence down said branch as it meanders to the mouth of a little branch Will Nixon's corner; thence up said branch Nixon's line to his corner, a post oak at the Dobson Road; thence with the Dobson Road to the beginning, contain ing Seventy-Five (75) acres more or less. 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