Thursday, December 6, 1945
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
The Black Mountain News urges our readers to either mail, phone
or bring in all news for this column you may have. We want all
social events and visitors to your home published in this column
Mrs. W. C. Greene is a patient
at Mission Hospital, Asheville.
Latest news from the hospital is
that she is doing nicely.
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Mrs. Richard C. Bryson and
children, June and Sandra, from
Fort Dix, N. J., are spending sev
eral weeks with Mrs. Bryson’s
mother, Mrs. Jesse Burnett on the
Montreat Road.
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Dr. L. C. Jumper is improving
after having undergone an opera-i
tion at the Mission Hospital, in
Asheville a few days ago. His
many friends wish for him a
speedy recovery.
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Mr. Charlie Starnes of Ashe-i
ville, who has recently been dis-j
charged from the Seabees, was
dinner guest Monday of Mr. and
Mrs. F. S. Cunningham.
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Miss Lois Ralston^Bedford, Ky.,
and Miss Margaret Ann Duncan,
LaGrange, Ky. left Monday eve
ning for their homes after spend
ing two weeks with Mr. and Mrs.
F. S- Cunningham in Black Moun
tain.
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The monthly meeting of the Wo
man’s Missionary Society of the
Baptist Church met Tuesday eve
ning in the Burnett Memorial
Room of the Sunday School build
ing. Mrs. Worth Cook, president,
had charge of the meeting. The
program was given by the Lucy
Wright Circle, with Mrs. H. W.|
Baucom leading. The others tak
ing part in the discussion were: 1
Mrs. Pauline Arnold, Mrs. J. A.
Marshbum and Mrs. N. E. Ver-
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Imagination will help win the peace too. For winning
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prosperity for all and probity means jobs. Who makes
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non. Mrs. Heber Peacock gave
an inspiring devotion. The socie
ty decided to hold special meet
ings in observance of the Lottie
Moon Day of Prayer in December,
the dates to be announced later.
Designated Assistant ,
Registrar At Moore
Captain George C. Hickman of
3501 Old Frederick Road, Balti
more, Md., son of Mrs. George W.
Hickman of the same address, has
been designated assistant regis
trar set Moore General Hospital,
tropical disease center in Swan
nanoa, N. C., Col. Frank W. Wil
son, commanding officer, an
nounces-
Captain Hickman reported to
Moore General from Camp Sei
bert, Ala., after two and a half
years overseas as registrar and
adjutant of the 60th Station Hos
pital in the Mediterranean Thea
ter of Operation.
He enlisted December 5, 1939,
and graduated from Medical Ad
ministrative School at Camp
Barkeley, Tex., September 18,
1942.
He wears one battle star for the
Rome-Arno campaign on his Med
iterranean Theater ribbon; the
American Theater Ribbon, Pre-
Pearl Harbor Defense Ribbon;
Good Conduct Ribbon; and Vic
tory Medal.
Captain Hickman is an alumnus
of Southern High School in Bal
timore. In civilian life he was a
painter.
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NATURE STUDY
POTTER WASP
By MRS. THOS. S. SHARP
Do you know why these wasps
with the long, slender waists
from which the “wasp-like waist
gets its name, are called “pot
i ter-wasps” Visit the “Pot and
Jug Shop” and look at the clay
| jugs. These wasps were the first
pottery makers.
| Where do these wasps get their
damp clay In the country they
i find it around pumps and kitchen
drains, and often by streams.
They roll balls of mud with their
fore-feet, seige them with their
jaws, and fly away.
Next spring look for the bee
ginning of these clay nests. No
tice what a wasp does with its
wings while it is working with
the mud. Also how long it takes
for one to roll a lump as big as
it can carry. Now, you may be
able to find under the eaves of,
or in, the garage or wood-house
nests like a jug and about as
large as the end of your little
finger, possibly several of these
built together. There are sev
eral kinds of mud-building wasps
Another makes a nest about the
size and shape of a hen’s egg, and
builds on twigs and plant stems.
The cells look like pencil holes
drilled through the nests. Look
for these deserted nests on twigs
of trees and stalks of golden-rod.
Still another kind makes long
holes in some plant stems by eat
ing out the peth. (They like to
use the small sumac and the eld
er limbs). They divide the hole
into cells by cross walls of mud
or chips, and an egg is laid in
each. Look for these now. If you
should find pollen and honey in
any of these cells it is probably
the nest of a bee- If there are
spiders and other insects, or if
empty, it is a wasps nets.
Wasps visit flowers, but this is
to secure food for themselves, not
to provide for their young. Their
babies, like ours, must have a
special kind of food.
Have you ever noticed on your
lawn heaps of dirt beside holes
about the size of a little finger
Those holes were dug by the dig
ger-wasp to be homes for their
young. This wasp digs with its
front feet like a dog. It goes
down and brings up eacl\ piece of)
dirt. When the hole is deep
enough the wasp closes it and
flies off to get food for its baby,
after the egg lays it there and
“hatches out.” The digger-wasp
is steel blue with yellow legs. It
is among the largest of all wasps.
The potter-wasp is a fine ma
son. Some are careless. They
try to work too fast, and so their
cells are not neatly made. They
build one cell at a time, taking
more than a day for each when
well-built.
Would you like to know what
goes on inside these cells? The
babies must have food. They like
best the pretty black and yellow
field spider that has its web-trap
set near the The" mother
wasp will sit nearby, flirting its
wings,—a habit common to all
wasps and hornets. Wasps must
be near-sighted or have poor vis
ion for a motionless object is hard
for them to distinguish. When
the spider moves, the wasp at
tacks suddenly, landing on the
spider’s back and stinging it
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probably before it is aware of
danger. A wasp sting carries with
it a very powerful anaesthetic
that stupefies spiders and other
prey, almost immediatley.
(Have you ever been stung by
a wasp? If so, I know that you
are glad that you are not a spid
i er, a cricket or a caterpillar—
wasp food.) This comabose stage
(stupor or sleep without feeling
losts for several days. (Has a
surgeon ever had to “put you to
sleep for an hour? You just feel
sleepy, and then “before you
know it,” you wake up well!)
Next, the wasp closely holds the
spider against her body by the
middle and last pair of legs. She
hurries with it to her cell and then
flies off for another and another,
usually three. Then she lays an
egg on the last spider, closes her
nest (cell) with clay, and flies
away. She never has to think
; about that cell again. She has
done all that a wasp-mother can
do. The digger-wasp provides a
cicado (cricket), a caterpillar, or
spider for her baby, lay her egg
closer the hole with dirt and
a day or two the egg hatches, and
leaves all to mother nature. In
the little larva (grub, worm-like)
starts working on the large store
of provender provided by its
thoughtful mother. It eats the
legs of the spider first and the
body last, so as to keep its food
alive and fresh as long as pos
sible. Don’t forget that the spid
er has no feeling. The baby wasp
grows rapidly. Then it spins a
cocoon about itself and becomes
a chrysalid or a pupa. (Learn
all these words for you’ll hear
them later when we talk about
butterflies and_ moths.) The
change to the wasp stage may
come in a few weeks or a few
months, depending upon the sea
son. Then the wasp bites its
wagorit.
Wasps are friends of the farm
ers, the gardener and the home,
and—the fisherman!
Have you ever wondered how
bees and wasps select certain
flowers? Their color-vision helps.
Lord Avebury has told us that
bees can distinguish all the col
ors and so can tell one flower
from another; and that wasps are
inferior to bees in color discrim
ination. That is a big word!
Many of our soldiers envied bees.
I am sure, when they were tak
ing their “color tests.”
Bees and ants can see two col
ors that we can not see—infrared
and ultraviolet.
God, in His wonderful wisdom
and presight, has given to each
of his creatures just the instinct
or the intelligence that he needs.
Shouldn’t we love .Him, thank
Him daily, praise Him and follow
and obey Him, in gratitude for
His Fatherly care?
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MONTREAT NEWS
Mrs. J. K. Coit returned from
Mission Hospital Saturday where
she had been for a week under
treatment. Rev. and Mrs. Arm
istead assisted in bringing her
home.
Dr. Claud Steen, wife and
small son, Tad, have spent his
furlough time in the Sloan cottage
near the gate- Dr. Steen has
been connected with Moore Gen
eral Hospital, but has recently
been convelescing from a case
of pneumonia. They are now go
ing to Los Angeles, Calif.
Mrs. Pierre Boy, who has been
the guest of the Misses Rankin,
has gone to be with Col. Boy, at
Ft. Bragg, since he is definitely
there.
Mrs- Hattie McMinn of Rich
mond, Va., is making her annual
visit to Montreat and will spend
a month in the Reynolds home.
Miss Lois Ellis, spent the past
week-end in Due West, S. C.
Lt. ’Carlton Scott from Camp
Croft, Spartanburg, S. C., spent
Sunday here- He is a friend of
Frances Walker, Senior College
student.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Francis Grif
fith of Asheville, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Ennett Sunday. Mr.
Griffith is director of the choir
at the Central Methodist Church;
in Asheville.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Wingate,
from Gastonia, came Saturday
and brought with them Mr. and
Mrs. John Neely, who wished to
see the beauties of Montreat.
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International 1 SCHOOL
LESSON
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Os The MooHy Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for December 9
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
THE CHRISTIAN’S PLACE IN
THE LIFE OF HIS NATION
(Temperance Lesson)
LESSON TEXT: Matt. 5:13-16, 43-48;
I Peter 2:13-17.
GOLDEN TEXT: Blessed is the nation
whose God Is the Lord.—Psalm 33:12.
Men make up nations. Human be
ings In a land like ours determine
by their interests and attitudes the
direction in which the entire social
order moves. That in turn deter
mines what kind of government we
have.
If the totalitarian philosophies
have colored our thinking and
caused us to forget the importance
of the individual in the life of our
nation, let us turn at once to the
right view.
Particularly important is the bear
ing which individual Christians can
and should have on our national life.
We have tended to draw back and
fail to use the power and position
which we have by God’s grace.
Nowhere does that show more
than in our failure (perhaps one
should say shameful failure!) to
bring Christian principles to bear
upon the appalling liquor problem.
This Is temperance Sunday. Do not
fail to stress that phase of Christian
citizenship today.
How should Christians make their
Influence felt in the nation? By be
ing what they ought to be and con
tributing to Its life. Note these
things in our lesson—the Christian
gives:
I. Salt (Matt. 9:13).
We are the salt of the earth, and
the pungent savor of Christ is to be
evident in us as we touch life round
about us—in the church. In the
home, and in the nation.
True salt is antiseptic and purify
ing. It fights corruption wherever
lt is found. How effective the spir
itually salty Christian and church
should be against the corrupt polit
ical system, the liquor industry, vice
and sin of all kinds. Have we lost
our savor (v. 13)?
11. Light (Matt. 5:14-16).
A light is intended to give illumi
nation to all round about it. It al
ways does unless someone hides it
under a cover, and then it becomes
not only useless but dangerous.
A life lighted by faith in Christ
will shine to the very ends of the
earth and, as a missionary once
said, “The light that shines farthest
shines brightest at home.’’
We are the light of the world, but
If we cover our light we deny the
very essence of our natures. Here
is no thought of proud or selfish dis
play. Light does not shout about
itself, it just shines.
Who will deny that there Is need
of some real spiritual light in some
of the dark corners of our national
life? Who is to shine in such places
but you and me, fellow-believer?
Then, too, let us not forget that
God has sent us out to light other
lights. We can best serve our na
tion, and best meet the challenge
of Uqnor by turning men to Christ.
That doesn't mean that we should
neglect other “good works,” but it
is well to keep “first things first*’
in. Lave (Matt. 9:43-48).
“Love your enemies" (v. 44); that
is the standard which Christ has
established for His followers. While
the love one has for the brethren Is
without doubt s more intimate re
lationship than the love one may
have for an enemy, we must not
seek to minimize the real love we
should have even for those who
curse and revile us.
It la to move us so deeply that we
not only treat them kindly, but also
pray for them. Humanly speaking
such a thing is impossible, but in
Christ lt is not only possible, it has
actually been demonstrated in life.
It is so easy for Christians to
speak with derision that borders on
hatred about “the devil’s gang,” and
to lose all love for the crowd that
hangs around the tavern and the
gambling house. Let us hate their
sin, but may God help us to show
that we really love them.
Love will do more to reach the
world for Christ, and more to direct
our national life into right channels
than any other influence we can
bring to bear. Let us do all we can,
but let us do it all in love.
IV. Loyalty (I Pet. 2:13-17).
The loyalty of the Christian to
right authority should be glad and
free, not by necessity or by co
ercion.
The believer will see in ail men
the image of God and will honor
them even though he may not be
able to respect or approve their way
of life. The dignity and position of
the individual is always recognized
by Christianity.
The brotherhood of true believers
should call forth a peculiar love. We
need to renew that brotherly affec
tion between believers.
Fear of God, that is, the desire to
do His blessed will, shows itself In
the best kind of citizenship. Govern
ment would serve itself well if it
encouraged every effort to win its
citizens to Christ
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