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Another Opportunity
On Saturday we begin a new year—
1938!
And as we recall the old year now be-
Ag led out by Father Time, we can
easily understand that it has been not
much different from many others. There
have been many of the usual happen
ings that bring joy, success, prosperity
and happiness. And these have been in
termingled with grief, disappointment
and the other circumstances that go to
round out a full year of roses and
thorns.
But the new year is a clean sheet.
Saturday we begin writing there the his
tory of the year. The year 1938 is one
big opportunity just ahead. It is time
given for accomplishment. The new
year brings hopes, new joys and above
all a new opportunity to live a more
abundant life.
How shall We treat this opportunity?
If we could imagine a millenium we
could foresee a great brotherhood of
humanity with a firm determination to
make the old world a better place in
which to live. But with human nature
being what it is, we could not predict
such a state of affairs. Yet we have
bright hopes and an optimistic view to
ward 1938.
And while on the subject, let us wish
«ach and every one a Happy New Year!
If He Is Wise
" In this day and age when successful
men are so very much in the spotlight,
the secret of them success is often the
subject of much comment. All too often
we attribute their success to the ‘breaks’
or just plain good luck.
In the current issue of the Duke Pow
er Magazine we find the following ar
ticle entitled “Getting Along”. It is well
worth more than a casual glance, and
we pass it along:
Sooner or later, a man, if he is wise,
discovers that life is a mixture of good
days and bad, victory and defeat, give
and take.
He learns that it doesn’t pay to be a
sensitive soul—that he should let some
things go over his head like water off a
duck's back.
He learns that he who loses his tem
per, usually loses.
He learns that all men have burnt
totist for breakfast now and then, and
that he shouldn’t take the other fellow’s
grouch too seriously.
He learns that carrying a chip on his
shoulder is the easiest way to get into
a fight.
He learns that the quickest way to
become unpopular is to carry tales and
gossip about others.
He learns that even the janitor is hu
man, and that it doesn’t do any harm to
smile and say, “Good Morning,’’ even if
it is raining .
He learns that most of the other fel
lows are as ambitious as he is, that they
have brains that are as good or better,
and that hard work and not cleverness
is the secret of abiding successs.
* He learns that it doesn’t matter so
* *=-much who gets the credit so long as the
^ deed is done right.
" He comes to realize that the world
J would run along perfectly well without
Jdm.
He learns to sympathize with the
young people, because he remembers
J^libw bewildered he was when he
_ out “on his ovm.”
learns not to worry when he
ecause experience has shown that if he
A Lot of People
Unless some great catastrophe kills
off a lot of people, the population of the
United SAtes will reach Ae 180 milKon
mark some time next May. That has
been figured out by the Census Bureau
on Ae basis of the average number of
births and deaths, and is probably ac
curate.
By 1938 there will be, then, nearly
fifty times as many Americans as there
were at the begmning of the Revolution,
four times as many as when the Civil
War began. This country has grown
fast. When William McKinley became
President, in 1896, only about 40 years
ago, there were barely half as many
American people as there are now.
If the United States keeps on doubl
ing its population every forty years, we
shall soon become as crowded as ChAa
or the thickly-populated nations of Eu
rope. But that is not in the cards, ac
cording to the experts who make the
study of population statistics their busi
ness. Immigration has slowed down al
most to the stoppAg point, and the
death-rate is overtaking the birth-rate.
The annual rate of increase by new
births is less than half what it was in
the 1870’s. The outlook now, accord
ing to the statisticians, is that in anoth
er 32 years, by 1970, the American pop
ulation will number 148 million, and
that from then on it will diminish, as
fewer babies are bom than the number
of old people who die.
The average age of the whole popu
lation will be higher. It is already ten
years higher than it was in 1900. This
wil] doubtless affect us in many ways.
The important question is, however,
whether as our average age increases
our collective wisdom will increase in
proportion.
The New Year
(By Bruce Catton)
Why greet the New Year if it is to be
A copy of the years that went before—
A tale of wrongs unrighted, golden ore
Unmined and songs unsung, of victory
That infirm hands let slip, of children’s
tears
That no one tried to dry. How dare we
write
Another page, unless it set alight
A beacon for the marchers down the
years?
Now by our vision of a brighter day.
Our hope of dawn in everlasting night.
Let this year see us farther on the way
That winds through darkness to the sun-
crowned height
Where gleams a shining city. Ah, be
hold—
And make the new year better than the
old.
Sunday School Lesson
By REV. CHi»jaLES E. DUNN
first
hia best, his average will break
well.
^ He leaAs that no man ever got to first
alone, and that it is only through
re rffort Aat we move on to
THE GOSPEL OF MARK
L«sson For January 2nd. Mark 10:35-45.
Golden Text: Mark 10:44.
Mark is not only the shortest but the oldest
of the four gospels. It was probably written very
soon after 70 A. D. Inaismuch as it antedates
Matthew, Luk4, and John, it is of the greatest
value and authority from the historical point of
\iew. But its author is one of the minor char
acters in the New Testament. The son of Mary,
in whose house in Jerusalem the early church
held its meetings, Mark was associated with Paul
and Barnabas on their first missionary tour, but
deserted ^em halfway. Paul was so incensed
at this evident faint-heartedness on Mark’s part
that he refused to take him on his second tour.
Mark unquestionably wrote his gospel for a
Gentile public for he often translates Aramaic
words, and is careful to explain Jewish customs.
"Riere is ground for believing that Rome was the
community he had in mind. Certainly there is
a close connection between this gospel and Peter,
the foremost disciple. Its most prominent char
acter, after Jesus, is Peter, and Peter, according
to a well established tradition, was the first
bishop of the Roman Church. The phrase, “Mark
“y son” in Peter 6:13 may mean that Mark had
fellowship with Peter in Rome. At any rate we
are safe in saying that Mark’s narrative was
P^, Irwa iaforauktiim stqiplied-to
him by Peter in the form of relnJIl£Bcelllees^
The gospel is simple, straightforward, compact,
^k lack^ literary skiU, bat ha is nonathetess
the graphic, vivid and dramatic. The pace rf
his dwtion is worthy of note. Mark’s ehaptera
march forward with unusuid speed A ia^ite
CTpr^ion is “straightway”, or
The Greek word so transhsted
The gospel might be entitled, “The
Jesus.” There are only 19
^ packed fnU of action. df ttvj
Itb latk; perfect
Uf all Effects of m«awa
Kftnement Is the havoc It has
made among the hearty old holi
day customs our fathers told
bout. It has coinpletely taken off
the sharp touchings and spirited
reliefs of many embellishments
of life, and hw worn down soci
ety into a more smooth and pol
Ished, but certainly a less charac
teristic surface. Many of the
games and ceremonials of Christ'
mas. In my early days, have dis
appeared. They flourished in
times full of spirit and lustlhood,
when folks enjoyed life roughly,
but heartily and vigorously;
times wild and picturesque; times
when the very crowing of the
cock, heard many times In the
profound repose of our country
side, “Telling the night watches
to his feathery dames,” was
thought by our neighbors to an
nounce the approach of this sac
red festival.
Christmas! Was there ever
men, women or children who re
sisted it? The voice of a thous
and generations, right back to
the cave-man reaches us and re
minds us of the childish, simple,
holy first fathers of mankind.
The giving of presents, the use
of holly, mistletoe. Yule logs,
the wassail bowl, have all de
scended from the days of pagan
ism, but they are things which
set the day distinctly apart from
all other holidays. Without the
Christmas tree and Santa Claus
for Peggy, John and Abe the day
would be Incomplete and lose
much! of its deeper meaning to
mother and me.
A city hammers and polishes
its denizens into a defined model;
It worships standardization; but
the country encourages differen
tiation, it creates new types.
Thus it is that so many great and
original men have lived their
youth upon the land, and spent
their Christmases hy the ruddy
blaze which diffused an artificial
summer and sunshine through
the room, and lit up the counten
ance in a kindly welcome.
Love la Heaven
“At Christmas-time the open
hand scatters its bounty o’er sea
and land, and none are left to
grieve alone, for love is heaven
and^ claims It# “own.”
Let a man study the world as
much as he pleases; let him de
scend Into the minutest details;
dissect the vilest of animals;
narrowly consider the least grain
of corn sown In the ground, and
the manner In which it germi
nates and multiplies; attentively
observe v.'ith what precautions a
rose-bud blows and opens in the
sun, and close again at night;
and-be will find in all these
more design, conduct, and indus
try than in all the works of man.
Yet, it cannot be said that man
gives himself the thoughts of
Christmas, ha had not before.
Neither can it be said that he
receives them from other men,
since it is certain he neither
does nor can admit anything
from without, unless he finds it
In his own home. There must be
an inward school wherein we re
ceive at Christmas what we
nSther can give ourselves, nor
expect from others who live up
on trust as well as themselves.
Christmas must throw open
every door and unlock every
bearf. It must, this ye^ Mng Dq not vaito yoar tiiB^ob
tbs W>onf and ligiftovner, ‘koetat QaagtlonB. What W tho
tOnant and polittelaW togethor. It
blend au ranks . .in^ fifd
nuittwr with th« poor is poverty.
What is the matt« with the
warm, smo^s flow joy anid: rieh to nsetessnees,—Oeoege Ber-
in the '"nitons
and'^tiMi^ to dnsv*. men
r(iaiA^dttC
friendly
two, three or 4000 yeaito
did tbinge so marv^nsty-gri^^
and great In the prince 6('tl»^
broken fragments of their inork.
stood silent, and bowed ' Hie^
heads dnrlng a b^ef ’ seasMi ^
happiness add edjoyment.
Gall# Back The Puniljr Otae^
^ The seen of early -love again
risee to my green memory beyond
the sterile waste of yean. . IW
idea of home, frougbt with the
fragrance of that home-dwelling
joy, reanimating the drooping
spirit in a beautiful arrange
ment, derived from the days of
yore, that this festival which
commemorates the announcement
of the religion of peace and love
and made the season for gather
ing together of my sisters and
me, and drawing close again our
bands of kindred hearts, which
the cares and pleasures and sor
rows of the world were contin
ually operating to cut loose; of
calling back we children of
(Asii'it'-'
AKOS.Gsii«&iMri4
Priees a#,
Dbt VvaMmi C«» N«cA
a
family who had launched worth
in life and wandered widely as
under, once more to assemble a-
bout our parental hearth, that
rallying place of the affections,
where we grew young and lov
ing again among the endearing
mementos of our childhood.
How many families whose
members have dispersed and scat
tered far and wide. In the rest
less struggle of life, will now be
reunited? How many will meet
once again in that happy state of
companionship and mutual good
will, which Is a source of such
pure and unalloyed delight? How
many old recollections, and how
many dormant sympathieii this
Christmas-time will awaken?
Though for me no sister’s
hearth to blaze,. no father’s roof
to throw open its doors, not the
warm grasp of a mother’s hand
to welcome me at the threshold,
—yet I feel the Influence of the
season beaming into my soul
from the happy looks of these
around -me, and wish the world
a merry Christmas.
There’S a DIFFERENCE
in ECO PROFITS
when you feed PURINA/
There's a Ditference in Profits, Tool
M OBE eggs mean moto profits,.. espcdally in the foil and
wintec when ogq prices are high. The way to get more eggs
is to feed the kind of faying mosh that makes moie eggs.
Purina Laying Chows are boilt to give yon every advontaae
during the horveet seoson. Stei^)ed up in vitamin A . . . made
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bolonced . . . teetod under actnal laying honse conditions
befen Ihe/re i^ the Che^erboard Bag ... Purina Laying
Cbows insure yon of stejqwd-np profits. Moke no mistake this
faB — see os today, ttart yoar laying htna on Purina this fatit
Die when -I may, I want It said
of me by those who knew me
best, that I always plucked a this
tle and planted a flower where I
thought a flower would grow.—
Abraham Lincoln.
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FOR SALE BY
Fanners Supply & Livestock Co.
BETWEEN THE WILKESBOROS
New Year’s
GREETINGS!
Again, we pause at the beginning of a New Year to
summarize the many kind favors extended our firm dur
ing the year that is now coming A a close, and the loyal
cooperation of so many of our friends in this section of
the State. To one and all, we wish to take this means of
expressing our most sincere appreciation for your confi
dence and wish each of you an abundance of—
GOOD HEALTH AND GOOD FORTUNE
DURING 1938
WBTZXMTB
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For the past 30 years, in season and out of season, farm
ers and poultrymen in Wilkes and adjoining counties,
have found our produce house the best place to self their
products ... getting at all times the highest cash market
prices. During the New Year, and the years to follow,
we hope to continue to give our patrons the best outlet
for their products, and hope that our dealings with ail
will merit your continued patronage. When you"" have
produce to sell, think of Eller’s—the Old Reliable Pro
duce Dealers.
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