GUjp (Hhmikrr irmtt Published every Thursday at Murphy. N. C. ADD1E MAE C'OOKK Editor and Owner ROY A. COOK Production Manager MRS. C. W. SAVAGE Astute Editor SUBSCRIPTION' RATES Cherokee and surrounding counties: One Year $2 00 Six Months $1.0C Four Months 75c Outside above territory One Year $2 50 Six months $1.25 Entered in the Post Office at Murphy, North Carolina, as second class matter under the Act of March 3. 1879. MEDITATION >lu(h that preplexes us in our Christian experience is but the answer to our prayers. We pray for patience, and our Father sends those who tax us to the utmost. "We pray for submission, and Clod sends sufferings. "We pray for unselfishness, and tlod Rives us opportunities to sarrifiee ourselves by thinking on the things of others, and b> laying down our lives for the brethren. "We pray for strength and humility, and some messenger of Satan torments us until we lie in the dust frying for its removal. "We praj. 'Lord, inerease oar faith.' and money takes wings; or the children are alarmingly ill; or a servant comes who is careless extravagant, untidy or slow, or some hitherto unknown trial calls for an increase of faith along a line where we have not needed to exercise much faith before. "We pray for gentleness, and there comes a perfect storm of temptation to harshness and irritability. We pray for quiet ness. and every nerve is strung ta the utmost tension, so that looking to Him we may learn that when lie giveth quietness, no one can make trouble. "We pray for love, and C?od sends peculiar suffering and puts us with apparently unlovely people, and lets them say things which rasp the nerves and lacerate the heart; for love suffereth long and is kind, love is not impolite, love is not pro voked. Love beareth all things, believeth. hopeth and en dureth. love never faileth. "The way to peace and victory is to accept every circum stance. every trial, straight from the hand of a loving Father: and to live up in the heavenly places, above the clouds, in the very presence of the Throne, and to look down from the Glory upon our environment as lovingly and divinely appointed." Home Gardens and Famine Despite the irritation caused by rationing "the boys who know their figures in Washing ton, report to the press that the average amount of food eaten by every individual in the United States at the present time is I 2 percent more than before the war, including more meat. And if there are as many people in propor tion to their population who are putting in home gardens as there are in the District of Columbia there will be an abundance of edibles when it ;s time to harvest the crops this Fall. In the mean time millions of people are starving. It is famine that demands our attention today. Millions of hungry people in Europe, in India and in China look to us for deliverance. The immediate task ahead of every Ameri can is to cooperate with the President s Famine Emergency Committee. One person who saves a slice of bread a meal may not be able to see just hew that saving will help feed people in Europe. But the h amine Emergency Commit tee gives assurance that such savings, multiplied in millions of American homes each day will most certainly enable this country to load the ships with more of the food that is needed to pre vent famine overseas. Lifeline I he production of food and its movement from the farms of the nation into the country's homes is so vital that it has been called the life- j line ol America. i This phrase is no idle exaggeration. Imagine what disaster would befall us if ? even for a short while ? the flow of food from farm to town and city should be interrupted! The fact is that the bulk of our nation's I 40, 000,000 citizens are absolutely dependent on the farmer and on the transportation system that has been developed to guarantee that these foods will arrive before spoilage can set in. Probably the most complex phase of Ameri ca's food business is this distribution system. Many factors enter into it. There is the question of speed, and this is settled by employing airplanes and fast freight trains to move many unusually perishable pro ducts. Then there is the question of tempera ture, and this is gotten around by using special refrigerated cars fitted with thermostatic temp erature control. And finally there is the problem of packag ing because food producers long ago discovered that different foods needs different types ol specialized containers to guard against the par t ticular hazards that threaten each individual AH, SWEET MYSTERY OF LIFE! WONDERFUL1. BUT WHERE DO THEY Au GO PROFESSOR m - I type of food. It is interesting to note that this community plays a dual role in the operation of America's lifeline. Not only do we help to produce the foodstuffs of the nation on our nearby farms, but from our forests and our farm woodlands comes an annual harvest of peeled top quality pulpwood which is made into the paper, paper board and other pulpwood products used to package this nation's food. YOU'RE TELLING ME! By WIUIAM MTT Central Presi Writer IN BRITAIN, we read, they have established snail watching clubs. Watching a snail, we Imagine, is no different than staring at the same spot for an hour at a time. i i f The snail carries his house with him wherever he goes so he's staying at home even when he is out for a stroll. f ! ! Snails are noted for their lack of speed but then no one has ever seen a snail faint from ex* haustion. ! ! ! A snail could never, of course, escape from an atomic bomb. However, the snail never does anything which would cause an atomic bomb to be tossed In Its direction. ! ! ! The smil bis but one toot, to it couldn't kick it its ststion in life, even if it wished to. I i t In Franc*, mailt are consid ered quit* a delicacy. The first man to eat on* was certainly a great, though unsung, hero. i t t Snails wear their eyes at the end of horns sticking out of their heads. This enables the snail to remain locked up In his house and at the same time keep a sharp lookout for any possible visiting relatives. By STANLEY THE OLD HOME TOWN 6EE,JOHN,I WAS HOP/A4 ifA-fES Vfi ! Pf. omlY RiPRiswfX Ifc. *??* ; Wjlo WoM OAH'',WCAIBE OF-this MEVJSP)kPe?- CUJICK. LIKE / DMAbaUd by tuag FMfcwi ?j ? ' PILLOW CASES LUNCHEON SETS NOVELTIES AT ROADSIDE MARKET SATURDAY MORNING, 9:00 NOTICE Voters in the North Ward ot Murphy township will take notice that the voting place will be moved to the grammar school building for the primary to be held May 25. P. A. ARROWOOD, Chairman County Board 42-3tc of Elections. CARD OF THANKS To thank the many friends foi their interest expressed In variou: ways while I was In Murphy Gen eral Hospital last week. "Friend is a word of royal tone. Friend is a poem all alone." Like Tiny Tim we say, "God bles us all." ltc Mrs. Thomas Spencer. irmiting MOTHER .Mrs. Julia Cooke Blanchard A PRAYER FOR HER ? " 'May t lie? Lord bless and keep our Moth ers. the Seulptors who chiseled the characters of the Children. May His face shine upon the artists of the race whose ministeries color the characters of every communi ty.. May the peace of the Lord and His abiding grace be with our Mothers whose music in lullaby and litany reveal to all 'the hidden soul of harmony'." ? ? ? ? She traveled the Journey before you. She has known all the cost of the way: She paid out the price to its fullness. That motherhood only can pay. She loved when the world was against you. She hoped ? when your hope sank and died; She clung to your hand when the clinging Left scars in her heart deep and wide. She labored ? and loved ? and was happy. For deep in her kind heart she knew Your kindness and love would repay her, For all that she did ? just for you. ? ? ? ? BEGINNING OF MOTHERS DAY ? Since the time of the Pagans, long before Christ, men started to worship that blessed force in Nature that renews the growing things of the earth. This force was recognized as feminine: it was called "Mother of the Uni verse" or "Mother Goddess". With Christianity men no longer thought of "Mother Goddess", but of "Mother Church" and the Ma donna. On her day all women were idealized, all that was beautiful in motherhood, and all of woman's eternal patience and suffering. IQitlj (Elje ^SiJitor But as always, men could not think of a heavenly mother with out thinking of an earthly mother as well, and late in the 17th cen tury England set aside one Sunday in the year as Mothering Sunday, the day to visit Mother and brin;; her a remembrance or a trinket. The suggestion for the American observance of "Mother's Day'' is credited to Miss Anna Jarvis. who realized the universal beauty in the idea. Philadelphia first observed this American Mother's Day in 1908, and in 1914 Mother's Day was made a day of official observance by a joint resolution of Congress. Presidential proclamation sets the particular day on which it is to be observed each year, second Sunday in May. Even though we today do not ob serve the day in the same manner as did our forefather, the thought and feeling behind are the same. THE MOTHER'S HYMN Lord who ordanist for mankind Benignant toils and tender cares. We thank thee for the ties that bind The mother to the child she bears. We thank thee for the hopes that rise Within her heart, as. day by day, The dawning soul, from those young eyes. Looks with a clearer, steadier ray. And grateful for the blessing given With that dear infant on her knee. She trains the eye to look to heaven. The voice to lisp a prayer to Thee. Such thanks the blessed Mary gave When from her lap the Holy Child. Sent from on high to seek and save The lost of earth, looked up and smiled. All-Gracious! grant to those who bear A mother's charge, the strength and light To guide the feet that own their care In ways of Love and Truth and Right. ? William Cullen Bryant POST-WAR 20-lb Caslon bond paper, 816 x II, box of 500 sheets. $1.25, or in smaller quantities, for office, home, and school use. Also, Certificate Bond, 8'2 x 14. fine quality for legal work. Cherokee Scout, Hickory Street. Murphy, N. C. 35-tf I I Stationery Is A I Wonderful Gift Y *!? 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