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PAGE FOUR Easter Customs Trace Back To Pagan Days Many of our present-day Easter traditions, such as the exchange of colored eggs and gay greeting cards at Easter time, have their origin in ancient customs that' reach hack to the down of civilization. The Word “Easter” itself comes from Eostra, the Anglo-Saxon goddess of Spring and pagan symbol of fer tility. The snows melted and flow ers bloomed when, she touched the earth, the Teutonic tribes believed. According to legend, Eostra trans formed her pet bird into a rabbit who later developed into our familiar Eas ter Bunny. That’s why the elusive, generous hare still builds nests like a bird and fills them with colored eggs for children. Our custom of donning new clothes for Easter springs from the age-old desire to “spruce up” at a time when all nature is blooming with new life. The Chinese and North American Indians always cast off their old apparel in the Spring, and the Roman Emperor Constantine introduced the custom to his royal court in the fourth century. Easter, which is celebrated this year on March 28, can fall anywhere between March 22 and April 26. The Church’s Council of Nice decided in 325 A.D. that Easter should hence forth fall on the Sunday following the first full moon after the vernal equinox, March 21. This was believed to be the time when the Easter lilies, symbolic of Christ’s resurrection, bloomed in Egypt Today’s Easter morning sunrise services are curiously similar to solemn pagan religions rites held long before the time of Christ. • Every year, on March 21, tribes gathered on mountain tops at dawn to celebrate the “'Festival of the Sun,” hailing the lengthening days and the beginning of Spring. Persian sun - worshippers began their New Year on this day, and gave each other colored eggs, dyed with herbs. Early Christians consecrated eggs and continued to exchange them at Easter, staining them a deep red w w Don’t Neglect Them l Nature designed the kidneys to do 1 marvelous job. Their task is to keep the flowing blood stream free of an excess of toxic impurities. The act of living —lift itself —is constantly producing waste matter the kidneys must remove from the blood if good heath Is to endure. When the kidneys fail to function as Nature intended, there is retention of waste that may cause body-wide dis tress. One may suffer nagging backache, persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, puffin ess j under the eyes —feel tired, nervous, all worn out. Frequent, scanty 01 Durning passages are sometimes further evidence of kid ney or bladder disturbance. The recognized and proper treatment is a diuretic medicine to help the kidneys get rid of excess poisonous body waste. Use Doan's Pills. They have had more than forty years of public approval. 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An Easter gift of colored eggs came to denote affection during the Middle Ages, and elaborately gilded eggs—often adorned with jewels— were exchanged among royal families. Colored eggs proved rather im practical to send any distance as Eas ter greetings, and in the middle of the nineteenth century the people of Northern Germany began sending Easter cards in their place. These early cards were religious scenes mounted on vividly-colored velvets and silks, often with a silk cord and tassel so they could be hung on the wall. Gradually flowers were introduced i into the designs. Then came the fa miliar chicks, bunnies and ducks that lend such a delightfully humorous note to the gay present-day greetings. Today Easter cards have almost com pletely replaced colored eggs as mes sengers of affection at Easter time, although many of the other ancient customs remain. Employment Office Will Gose Monday Mrs. Corie White announced early this week that the offise of the N. C. State Employment Service will be closed all day Easter Monday. Any person having important business to transact should, therefore, attend to it accordingly. 1 Vets* Question Box ] Q. Can my son, a disabled war vet eran, who is being rehabilitated un der Public Law 16, continue his train ing for more than four (4) years? A. Training in excess of four (4) years may be approved for your son if his disability is such that no course of training which does not exceed four (4) years will restore him to employability, or if circumstances be yond his control necessitate the exten sion beyond the prescribed four (4) year period. No course in excess of four (4) years may be authorized ex cept with the approval of the Ad ministrator. Q. If-1 decide to give up the course of training I am taking under the G1 Bill, do I have to notify Vet erans Administration of my action? A. You should not quit your course of education or training with out notifying or obtaining approval of the VA regional office handling your cjaim. This is necessary so that if you have not exhausted your en titlement, you may qualify for further training. Q. May a veteran receive full sub sistence payments from Veterans Administration if he works while at tending school under the GI Bill? A. He may work part-time or full-time and still draw his full sub -1 sistence allowance, provided that the I wages he earns for such employment, ! plus his subsistence allowance while attending school, does not total more fhan $175 a month if he has no de -1 pendent or dependents or S2OO a CKOWAH mBAU. BPEHTON. N. O. TBBHSDAYJtABCH g, IMS. K- IF INTRODUCES 1948 MODELS I ►, ■ » * -«q» *<. \ mEBr I Jig 1 ■ ■H J '** >; > fe. WilloW Run, Mich.—The graceful styling of the 1948 Frazer ' Manhattan, style leader of Kaiser-Frazeris four new models, ii graphically portrayed in this tropical setting. Now on the floor Os ♦very Kaiser-Frazer dealer, the 1948 automobiles embody 36 new; mechanical and body design improvements at no increase in price. All models are factory equipped with super cushion tires. month if he has dependents. Q. My father is supporting a large I family arid I would like to know if I I can claim him as a depeni&nt while I in training under the GI Bill? A. Dependency will be held to I exist if your father does not have an I income sufficient to (provide reason-111 able maintenance for himself and I members of his family under legal I age, or members of his family other- I wise dependent by reason of mental I or physical incapacity.’ Lee E. Gark Dies As Result Os Heart Attack Lee E. Clark, 33, a carpenter em- I ployed by J. L. Batton &’ Bro., died I suddenly at his home in North Eden- I ton Thursday afternoon as the result I of a heart attack. Deceased was I found dead by his wife when she re- I turned from work as a clerk in H. T. II Layton’s grocery store, but Dr. L. P. I Williams and Clerk of Court E. W. I Spires decided a coroner’s inquest I was unnecessary. Mr. Clark, who had been in ill 11 health for several years, worked dur- I ing the morning, but went home about I 2:30, and evidently died shortly after I arriving home. He was a native of Rockingham | County and, besides his wife, he is I survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I Sam Clark of Rockingham County; I five brothers, Reuben and Lynn Clark 1 1 of Stoneville, Harry of Leaksville, I Harvey of Rocky Mount, Va., and I Lewis of Price, N. C., and a sister, I Mrs. Lucy Hassell of Summerfield, I N. C. Funeral services were held at the | Quinn Funeral Home Saturday after- I noon at 2:30, with the Rev. R. N. II Carroll, pastor of the Baptist Church, I officiating. Interment was made in I Bertie County. HOLY THURSDAY, GOOD FRIDAY EASTER CATHOLIC SERVICES j Maundy Thursday, March 25, Holy I Communion will be given at 8 A. M. I in St. Ann’s Catholic Church, Eden- I ton, stated Father F. J. McCourt, I rector. Good Friday, March 26, the Devo- I tions of the Seven Last Words and I Meditation on Christ’s Crucifixion will | be held from 2:45 to 3:15 P. M. and I Rosary, .Stations of the Cross and | sermon on “Christ’s Death” will start I at 8 P. M. Easter Sunday, March 28, the most I holy sacrifice of the mass will begin I at 8 and 11 A. M. in Edenton, each I including sermon on “The Resurrec- I tion Proves Jesus’ Divinity,” Holy I Communion, the pastor inviting every- I body to all services. Confessions Thursday 7:30 to 7:55 I A. M., Friday after both services, I Saturday 4:30 to 5:30 and -7:30 to 10 I P. M., Sunday 7 to 7:55 and 10 to I 10:55 A. M. . | \ AiU«-A-Minul*Mc.ntu Bu T.W. JONES^J ll tfOST HAD iOAR I [AH n LOOK AT TrtEj * SE-R V l CMT/P MOTOR CO j — . »iIBr«IIMrM rfl ~lli rVI j ' i I'M Ti “fir ~ ir'" V • <3*, ••#**.»•?. 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CRAWFORD OHIROPRAOTIO PHYSICIAN ABOUT MUMPS MUMPS is an inflammation of the parotid glands and is known as parotitis. The parotid glands are the chief organs for the manu facture of saliva. In the condition of mumps, these glands become swollen and tender, and the surrounding tis sues are also involved. The onset is quite rapid with slight fever, and sometimes earache, headache, loss of apuetite and vomiting. Mastication is very difficult. Swallowing, speaking and hearing are often impaired. The glands in this disease are the seat of an inflammatory process which exists because of a toxic condition of the body. Toxins in the blood are apt to set up inflammation at any point , when they accumulate beyond the point of tolerance of the body. When this point is reached, inflammatory processes brftak out and are localized at the center of lowest resistance. In health, toxics, which are always pres ent to some extent, are eliminated rIF HAD mK^i Albemarle Motor Co. SERVICC. YOUR CAR . ThiS would*T ’ own «»*•*»*; from the body by the skin, lurfga, kid neys and bowels. If anything should' interfere with the operation of these organs, so that their -activity is not continued, toxins accumulate in the blood stream and Nature adopts some unusual channel of elimination to rid the system of the substances which are clogging the blood. To restore normal function in the' organs of elimination is the aim of the Chiropractor in this disease. He does not seek to treat the local effect of the disorder, but rather to remove its cause, knowing that when the cause of disease no longer exists, the disease itself Will quickly disappear. Stimulation by natural nieatis is what Chiropractic accomplishes through spinal manipulations. Tn£s promotes normal elimination through the right channels. Whets the biOOd stream is thus purified, the inflammatory pro cess subsides. 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