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TRYON DAILY BULLETIN
The World’s Smallest daily Newspaper.Seth M. Vining, Editor
Vol. 24—No. 329 TRYON, N. C., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1951
lH This is Christmas. Let us make
t&e most of it by giving the best
of ourselves to others, for the
;‘Jgift without the giver is bare.”
Often a kind word or a smile is
worth more than gold or other
Mjaterial wealth. At times we all
Eeed that something within, that
something that gives comfort and
Encouragement: it lightens our load
End enables us to carry on with
Enthusiasm. The little child, the
lpnely adult and the busy business
Eian are helped by a smile or kind
Word. No one is so tough that he
is immune to the effects of kind
And that is a gift within the
P'jJL of each of us to give to
evtsyone we meet. Strange to say,
‘we lose nothing by the giving,
|#ather we are made richer . . .This
m Christmas Day, and it calls
^for Santa Claus and presents, and
jfood and entertainment and lots
of company. It is a time when
'jfriends like to get together; a
;|time when they travel hundreds of
jmiles just to be with friends.
§But across the street or walking
|beside you is a stranger or some
«ne you barely know; it is a good
’;time to give him a word of cheer.
fTo some degree we act as mirrors
fn one another. That sour old puss
light look better if we gave him
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Honored for Lord’s Acre
Birmingham.—The Rev. Dumont
Clarke, religious director of the
Farmers Federation in Asheville,
N. C., has been named “Man of
the Year in Service to Southern
Agriculture ’ by The Progressive
Farmer magazine.
I he award is announced in the
January issue of The Progressive
Farmer in an article by Dr. Clar
ence Poe, President and Editor.
Chief reason ior honoring the
Rev. Mr. Clarke is his work in
promoting the Lord’s Acre move
ment in the rural South. The Lord’s
Acre plan provides that each
church member plant one acre of
some crop, tend it, and harvest it,
and give the proceeds to the
church. Or, if more convenient, the
member can -aise an animal and
sell it for the church.
“It is our hope that this Man
of the Year recognition of the in
calcuable values of the Lord’s Acre
movement, so long promoted by the
man we now delight to honor,”
said Dr. Poe, “will cause many
another Southern church to start
a successful Lord’s Acre plan in
1952.”
The Rev. Mr. Clarke was named
Rural Minister of the Year in
North Carolina by The Progressive
Farmer earlier in 1951.
Born in 1883, the Rev. Mr. Clarke
was raised on a New Jersey farm.
He attended Princeton University
and McCormick Presbyterian Sem.
inarv in Chicago.
He was pastor of a Presbyterian
church in Mount Vernon, N. Y.,
and later i missionary to India
for the YMCA.
For 22 years, however, he has
been religious director of the Farm
ers Federation, a cooperative farm
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