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JAN. 16-31
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THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR
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JOIN
THE MARCH OF
DIMES
Meditation
"Human love .needs seasoning and
tempering, refining and broadening, by
the higher, deeper original love, the love
human love, like a mother's the truer
human love, like a mother's, thet ruer
this is. So it gets the clearer vision, the
stronger purpose, the finer sacrificial
traits of the God-love. And so whatever
selfishness may have crept in, some
times unconsciously, is burned out, and
the Icrce is sweeter yet when it gives
instead of asking."
Honest Endeavor Achieves Success \
An idea seems to be spreading throughout the
land that men and women achieve success through
the operation of government rather than by their
own patient persistence in honest endeavor.
The readers of The Scout especially young
men and women, should not be misled in this
respect. They should realize that worthwhile
success in life is achieved almost exclusively
through personal endeavor.
After all is said and done, the vast majority
of business successes owe their growth to one or
more rare individuals who give to the enterprise
a contribution that includes, not only physical
effort, but superior intelligence and the wisdom
that arises from the intangible thing that we call
"character." ,
Advertising Is Not Charity
Organizations, societies and associations which
make a practice of selling space on programs and
other announcements to local merchants should
be fair and give their trade to the local mer
chants who so charitably assist them.
Every once in a while, merchants will tell of
the descent upon them by a committee represent
ing a certain group staging some public affair
and asking for the purchase of a space at a price
fixed at any amount which, it is thought, the
merchant will pay.
The Scout would not criticize those who sell
these spaces nor does it suggest any impropriety
in the matter. However, very often the sale of
such spaces is the work of an outside agent who
labors for individual profit and the money that
the merchants expends does little, if any, good
to the cause that he thinks he is assisting.
Those who go around to sell such advertising
spaces very often adopt tactless methods. This
is especially true when the salesman is a profes
sional promoter, interested solely in his own
profits. In such cases, it is not unusual for the
representatives of an otherwise laudable enter
prise, to use what amounts to blackmail tactics
in an effort to get an advertising donation from
a local merchant. _ -
Let all advertising be sold on a basis of adver
tising merit and, in the event that a buyer of
advertising space honestly doubts the possibility
of fair returns for his money, accord him the
privilege of spending his money as he thinks best
without making a veiled threat to "talk about his
store" or to boycott him for his action.
ScOUting With The Editor
THE FOLLOWING poem is published for
those who in recent weeks have lost loved ones:
SHALL WE?
By Nora Cobb Spencer
Because there is a vacant chair,
Because there is a silence deep, *
Because there is a voice that's hushed,
Shall we fail our watch to keep?
*
Because a new mound is on the hill
Where the stars watch all the night
While the moon's rays soften the scene
Shall we dim our inward light?
Because the road ahead looks dim,
And clouds of gloom hang low
While hope glimmers on the. mountain top
Shall we not see life's sunset glow?
Because our hands are worn and Trail.
And there's emptiness in our days,
And we miss the joy of faithful toil,
Shall we not lift our.hearts in praise?
THIS IS A STORY about an agricultural
worker and a State highway patrolman which is
going tlie rounds in Raleigh. ? - -c ?
It seems the agricultural worker had a small
cotton gin which he used in variogs demonstra
tions about the State. He carried the gin in the
back of his car, along with other paraphernalia
which weighed the back end of the vehicle down
considerably. ir
An alert patrolmen, who spotted the car,
thought to himself: "Oh-oh- Bootlegger."
Stopping the agricultural worker, he asked,
"What you got back there?" ,D?
"A little gin," replied the man.
The patrolman, thinking he had' him some
thing this time, began digging into, the articles
in the back seat.
Net results of the search: a little gin?for
cotton! *? ?
WHAT IS A
Between the ioMeaaot at babyhood and the
aity of manhood, we Qpd a delightful creature
' a boy. Boy* pone i^agorted sixes.
of every hour of every day and to protest with
noise (their only weapon) when their last minute
is finished and the adult males pack them off to
bed at night. Boys are found everywhere?on
top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swing
ing from, running around, or jumping to. Moth
ers love them, little girls hate them, older sis
ters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore
them, and Heaven protects them. A boy is
Truth with dirt on its face; Beauty with a cut
on its finger. When you are busy, a boy is an
inconsiderate, bothersome, intruding jangle of
noise. When you want him to make a good im
pression, his brain turns to jelly or else he be
comes a savage, sadistic, jungle creature bent on
destroying the world and himself with it. A boy
is a composite?he has the appetite of a horse,
the digestion of a sword swallower, the energy
of a pocket-size atomic bomb, the curiosity of
a cat, the lungs of a dictator, the imagination
of a Paul Bunyan, the shyness of a violet, the
audacity of a steel-trap, the enthusiasm of a fire
cracker, and when he makes something he has
five thumbs on each hand. He likes ice cream,
knives, saws, Christmas, comic books, the boy
across the street, woods, water (in its natural
habitat) large animal. Dad, trains, Saturday
mornings, and fire engines. He is not much for
Sunday School, company, schools, books without
pictures, music lessons, neckties, barbers, girls,
overcoat, adults or bedtime. Nobody else is so
early to rise, or so late to supper. Nobody else
gets so much fun out of trees, dogs and breezes.
Nobody else can cram into one pocket - a rusty
knife, a half-eaten apple, 3 ft. of string, an
empty Bull Durham sack, 2 gum drops, 6 cents,
a sling shot, a chunk of unknown sustance, and
a genuine supersonic code ring with a secret
compartment. A boy is a magical creature?you
can lock him out of your work shop, but you
can't kick him out of your heart. You can get
him out of your study but you can't get him out
of your mind?Might as well give up he's
your captor, your jailor your boas, and your
master?a freckled-face, pint-sized, car-chasing;
bundle of noise. But, when you come home at
..wight with only the shattered pieces of your hopes
and dreams, he-can mend them just lifeiUw
with two magx. words?"Hi, Dad!" -
Polio Epidomle Ovor BUT No t for Hhntl
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Will He Be Forgotten?
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rOUBLE IN THE CHURCH e?
?tart anywhere. Sometimes R
starts with the women. That was
the way the early church found It
The experiment in fellowship wiii?
they tried ran into snags, for not
even the first Christians \
perfect The
church In Jerus
alem was In a
sense inter-racial.
Some were born
and bred in Pales
tine, and* there
were others from
the outside, with
Greek names.
speaking Greek as T
their native tongue roremaa
?Hellenists they were called.?here
was argument: Were the Hellenist
widows getting their share ot the
church's help?
Committee Chairman
THE APOSTLES, being called on.
refused to straighten the tangle
themselves. Let the church elect a
committee, they said. First on the
list was a man named Stephen. He
turned out to be most famous tor
being the first Christian martyr,
but when he tell unconscious be
neath that shower of stones, thers
died no ordinary man.
Te begin with, he filled the
bill as chairman of that Com
mittee on Grievances. Not
many men, then or now, could
fill all three qualifications the
Apostles required: reputation,
spirituality, and wisdom.
It takes a very tactful man to
settle a difficulty in which women
are concerned; it takes tact to
handle any committee; it takes
tact to manage an inter-racial sit
uation; it calls for wisdom to handle
funds.
Debater
SOME MEN THINK themselves
bigger than their Jobs. Some
Tien really are bigger, and Stephen
vas one of these. He spilled over,
io to speak; he had even more en
ergy and ability than the Job called
for. We hear of him dcbatini
around the synagogue circuit par
ticularly in the synagogues whicl
were' used by Jews from otha
parts of the world.
We have at details of those
debates, bat ire know how they
.always came, oat: Stephen got
the decision. We can gness,
from Ms great speech In the
hoar ef his death, what his gen
eral line mnst have been.
Many Christians In Jerusalem at
that time had little or no idea thai
Christianity was actually a new re
ligionj* even the name "Christian"
had not been thought of. Thev con
sidered it a form of the Jewish
religion.
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Scholar
STEPHEN'S SPEECH at his trial
(Acts T) may sound dull to
some now, but it was not dull to
the audience. No man makes t
dull speech on the brink of death.
Further, it was that speech that
got him killed. Hlk.UtteDers may
not have liked it, but they certain
ly did not think it dull I The beauty
of the speech is that it reveals
Stephen's keen insight into the re
ligious history of his people.
Speaking witbent Bates, be
reviews the history ef close is
la a lg-mlnote
No institutions and no place Is
indispensable to O&j. The same
God who bad wrought new things
in the past had now wrought a new
thing in Christ And the religion of
thing in Christ -
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Martyr
OTEPHEtTS AUDIENCE ill not
" convinced. Seainf murder in
their eyas, Stephen knew hlf time
wee short. In a tew (tinging left
worda he reminded them that mur
der waa an old etory In that Tem
ple. They had killed prophets, they
had killed Jaeua the "Just One."
And now?. Now they dragged
Stephen out and stoned him till bs ,
but you
When the
bar, the Church
, tat now as then,
"the DM at (he martyrs la the
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