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mi UIUHUI ar HoLIb *IV M.M.BIIB hfln combat juvenile dehn ... by providing leisure time ies for boys and girls of confirmation age, to help pro. Bible study, and to give op mitv for practical acts of stian helpfulness, the Araer Lutheran Church is orga.m ‘The Lutheran Boys and Girls Lmerica" throughout its local The headquarters is at Lutheran Center, 4106 Frank toulevanl, Cleveland, Ohio. order to “call attention to need f°r uiore general know of the great resources in country for the improving of ,1 relations and for the aclnev. of a better practice of dem ... fellowship between ra groups,” an award of $1.0 )0 be made next February i irtment <> » Federal t ouncii oi me tnui of Christ ill America. It will made to the person “whose in the removal of racial ten and conflicts has been out ling.” The award is being by Edward L. Bernays, pub it is announced by Dr. Geor I, Haynes, secretary. ati-Semitism, "akin to the practiced by Hitler’s Gel-in i' is growing in America even today, and must be dealt with frankly, especially by church peo ple, according to Dr. Charming H. Tobias, of the National Council of the Y. M. C. A. “Even children accepting whispered charges at their face value, are organizing and directing gangs to desecrate synagogues and cemetery, and do violenece to unoffending Jewish children,” says Dr. Tobias. “Silver shifters and Christian frontiers who a short time ago worked under cover are now op erating openly and brazenly, and prejudiced individuals who have no organizational medium through which to express their hatred ami contempt are becoming more and more bold in public expressions of anti-Semitism. Surely such beha vior' cannot go unchallenged by < ’b i*i 11.. i • " 1 ne Kev. Walter G. Griffiths of Berkeley, Cal., missionary of the Methodist Church in Calcutta, In dia, is head of the relief committee which has been set up by the Ben gal (India) Christian Council to administer missionary and othei funds for the assistance of famine victims in that area. This famine, the worst in India this century, hastaken thousands of lives and has left in its wake malnutrition, epidemics and economic losses ■ Square Dance EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT, 9 UNTIL Sponsored By Volunteer Firemen, Roanoke Rapid* Fire Department OLD TOWN HALL MUSIC BY JAY SANDERS’ BAND A 1 FIGURE CALLER WILL BE ON HAND AT ALL DANCES ADMISSION: 50c Proceeds will go to the Volunteer Firemen's Fund of the Roanoke Rapids Fire Department that effect many millions of peo ple who are normally among the poorest m the world. The Bengal and the Indian governments are endeavoring to lift this burden livin the people, and American aid ,s. helnK sent by the churches and administered by Mr. Griffith's and his committee of missionary and Indian Christians. Mr. Gri'fliths, graduate of the University of Cal ifornia, has been in India since l‘J20; recently he has been in char ge of the Lee Memorial Mission i in Calcutta. j “Much of the Nazi attack has j been against ,h. ,,, st the Jews they nave vented c. peeial hate,” says Dr. Leslie B ' Moss, in charge of relief under the Federal Council of the Chur ches of Christ. “The Nazis have tried by every means to defraud people of the spiritual teachings of the churches. Now, in the per iod of rehabilitation the churches in every community shall be cent ers of lresit and reviving life. The i churches are, of cpurse, composed 1 of the local people. War weary 1 people turning again to peace will tind in the churches almost the only organization or institution that has survived the storm of hate and destruction. Their build ings of worship may be gone, but centers can be rebuilt for wor ship, with our help. Training will be started for new and younger leaders in the church. Refugees and displaced people far from home can be brought back to their homes and helped to start in gain ful occupations once more. The churches may well become in many places the first focus for new community life. This is the place where the church can rend er its peculiar ministry in the world—the biulding ol brother hood.” “A Canadian missionary tells of an evening meal in Chungking in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek‘s home which was interrupted by an air raid. When the meal was fi nally finished, the Generalissimo asked the missionary to stay and join in evening devotion. “The Generalissimo began by reading some scripture, then prayed,” he says. “I never expect to hear such a prayer again in all my life. First he gave a simple expression of thanks for our personal safety then lie added thanks for the cour age of the nation under fire. He prayed for sterngth for the men j in the field and along the firing; lines. He prayed for strength tori himself. The most amazing thing in his prayer was a plea that God would help him and help China not to hate the Japanese people He prayed for the Japanese I Never let up till they’re home Pr' '^44 by Th« $«v*n-Up Company Buy more war bonds Can we...their mothers, fathers and waives...actually bring 0ur fighting men home sooner? Yes, we truly can...by hatching their measure of devotion... doing all we s ou ^ and nothing we shouldn’t do. And, real fighter^ bac ers •••real Americans.. .we’ll never let up till they re home. McPUERSON BOTTLING COMPANY. Littleton. N. Carolina Christians and for all the suffer ing multitudes of Japan whosi impoverishment was making th war on China possible. He m-iyci for the people who were immu.d for forgiveness for those win dropped the bombs.” California Hurting State Early Potato Market Raleigh. August 9th-Shipment of early commercial Irish potatoe: •‘■I'lal to 5,890 <.ars have movei uii of Eastern North Carolina this year, Harry Westcott report ed in a review of the season. Westcott, marketing specialist with the N. C. Department o Agriculture, said that the Wa ■ Food Administration purchased a ■ total of 1,138 cars in its eiions ■ to bolster prices which dropped to I the floor during the second week . of June. i Westcott erpressed the opnion that the acut drop in th potato in come following high prices during earldy season, could not be attri buted to volume, since the crop was relatively very small this year. He said that this season showed that Cadifornit Irish potato pro . duction has become “serious com . petition” ofr the North- Carolina I early crop. “California potatoes this year not only moved into Eastern ' markets which had been using oui product, hut they came right into this State, being offered for sale in retail stores in this area at the same time that we were i .xI.- i•.t: :ng ,ur heaviest shipp-|i mg iUys," declared Westcott. He add edthat “although it has not proven profitable to wash, dry, I and pre-cool potatoes in North Carolina, it seemes thit must he I done in the futore if we are to ; 1 stay in the early commercial i I market.” The marketing specialist con ceded that the California potato as now prepared for market ordi narily presents a more attractive ' appearance to the consumer than 1 dots the North Carolina variety. Due to the extremely heavy yields ! Westcott said, California produc ers are able to aosorb the freight rate deferential. Consequently the California potatoes are no higher than the home grown va riety. Westcott expressed the opinion that “entirely new” methods of narketing must be employed next lummer, and hereafter, if this State is to meet California com petition. Grazing hogs on soybeans and espedeza saves 15 to 40 per cent if grain and protein supplements. C. D. Keen of Johnston County practices a 3 year rotation of orn and soybeans, cotton and to. iacco. 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