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p The Everyday Counselor Rev. Herbert Spkugh, D. D. Why learn everything the hard way, when there is an easier one. Many say that the school of hard knocks is . the best, but it is cer tainly the . most expensive. The earlier a man learns that the bet ter. The • sooner, he learns that this world and his personal af fairs are governed by divine law, the fewer hard knocks he is-going to have. • The rising rate of juvenile de linquency is an indication of the increasing ignorance among our young people of those fundamen tal laws of God which must be recognized. The law of cause and affect is just as certain as the law of gravity. The Bible puts it, “Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” There is the law of right and wrong. It is summed up in the Ten Com mandments. Men do not sucess iully break the Ten Command ments; instead they are broken by them. There is a law of pro perty right included in the Ten Commandments—the law against theft, adultery, murder. When we take that which belongs to ethers, we inevitably suffer. Fortunate is the boy or girl who learns early in life how to find God’s will for his daily life through prayer. God has a plan for his life, just as He has a plan by which tjie earth rotates on its axis, producing day and night. The boy or girl who starts out in life trying to follow his own desires without regarding the law of God and the rights of others, soon finds himself in trouble, sometimes serious trou ble. We can’t live sucessfully with out God. God has made it pos sible for us to learn His plan for living—and His plan for dying. He gave us the Bible and the Church to teach us. Yet ah in creasing number treat religion as a kind of optional luxury. They are “too busy” to do any Bible study, “too tired” to go to church snj take their children to Sun day School, yet the ‘day inevit t Jy comes when they will need those things which the-Bible and the Church teach. They will run afoul of the police. They will need character reference for em ployment or a character witness in court. Then they call on the Church and the minister whose services they have treated so carelessly in the past. I have seen a it happen time after time. Why wait until you get into a jam to call on God? Why wait until you have to be driven to your knees? Why take the hard knocks when you don’t have to? The Bible pleads, “Remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth.” The most important event in the life of a boy or girl is when he learns to know his Lord. Social Security Positions Open Field and claims assistants are now needed by the Social Se curity Administration for proba tional appointment in the offices of the Bureau of Old-age and Survivors Insurance and Social Security Administration, it was announced this week through the U. S. Civil Service Commission. Applications must be filed with the U. S. Civil Service Board of Examiners, Social Security Ad ministration, 1523 L. Street, N. W., Washington 25, D. C., not later than April 17, it was point ed out, Application cards, form 5000-AB may be obtained either from the address given above or from the post office here. Applicants will be notified at the exact time and place to re port for examination, it was stat ed. Both men and women, citizens of the United States, may apply for these positions although ap pointing officers have the legal right to specify the sex desired in requesting certification of eligibles. JrW vlsv/^'T AUCTION SALE Saturday, April 5 10:00 O’clock At My Home 4 Miles East Of Glade Valley One Mile North Of Rich Hill Will Sell Or Rent 73i Acres Of Land j» Good dwelling house. With good outside buildings. Running water in the back yard. Three cows. Three heifers, two fresh and one to be fresh soon. One good team horses and harness. One buggy and buggy harness. One mowing machine, hay rake, grain drill, plows, cultivator harrows and other farming tools. O bushels of potatoes, hay and corn. r good kitchen range and kitchen cabinet. 1' bedroom suit, 4 beds, springs and matresses. 1 living room suit and 1 battery radio. ' ^ Other household and kitchen furniture, also, Known On Day Of Sale 8TALIN’S LATEST... This strik ing naw portrait of Jooeph Stalls, nld to bo the last to be made be fore he garo ap —»n of the *ed war machine. The straetaro hi the backgroaad la the (aaow Spaaake tower of the ancient KraMUa wall. ANNOUNCEMENT There will be an “All After noon Song Service,” at the home of Elder C. B. Kilby, next Sun day. We expect some good singers. The Rural Electrification Ad ministration has approved loans totaling $449,000 to five rural electric co-operatives in Arizona, Virginia, New Mexico, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania. Chaplain Praises Work Of Red Cross To Servicemen After three and a half years in the army as a chaplain, I feel justified in expressing to the American Red Cross the appre ciation for thousands of men with whom I have served. During the confused and hec tic days of Redeployment and early occupation of Germany, the facilities of the Red Cross were often the only sources of enter tainment, and for men traveling between bases theirs was the only food available. The warmth and “Inn by the Roadside” at mosphere in numerous instances have been so very welcome to soldiers traveling on mercy mis-1 sions and long winter trips. Red Cross is a sacred term to; some of the former German con-1 centration camp inmates, for upon being released by the Al lied Armies they had been given nourishment, personal interest and care by Red Cross girls after their liberation. The present service club type | entertainment with its many services for military personnel has been utilized to its fullest j by our soldiers. There is no' place in the occupation which can take that of the Red Cross club, just as there is no place in the States like “home.’’ The Red Cross girls and field directors I have known have, been outstanding in their under-1 standing of the men, their needs! and problems. In the club it has ‘ been the atmosphere; in counsel it has been attitude. Many a man in' Europe today has been true to his heritage because of the influences of the American Red Cross through their servants in the field. Again I say. in behalf of the men I have served and myself as well, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.” As long as there is an Occupation Army in Germany, there must be Red Cross units on the job. James K. Riley, Chaplain (Capt) USA. At Home On The farm With The City Cousin • “What about this rat control campaign you had down here in Gates county a couple of weeks ago?” I asked John Artz, genial Extension Service farm agent, the other day. “Well, I’ll tell you Cousin,” he says, inviting me into his in ner office decorated with assort ed photoghaphs of livestock champs and out-standing 4-H Club' boys and girls. “This was our first county-wide effort, and i you might say it met with vary- I ing degrees of sucess— and some' With tills my friend proceeded to explain that the Farm Bureau and the county’s home demon stration clubs were the big guns in this war to make the county safe for feed bags. He said that fourteen store keepers took or ders from the farmers in their territory, and that nineteen 4-H Club boys of the Gates high school spent half a day mixing the bait. Unaccustomed as I am to going around knocking off rats, I was nevertheless keenly interested in the recipe for this gentle, tasty, if slightly murderous rat snack. It seems that Brother Rat, who has been known to sharpen his teeth on such common, every day fare as corn cobs, stable walls, and an occasional morsel of as phalt roofing is—for all his coarsness—a lover of life’s finer, things. Ground fish, for instance! “Yes sir!” John was telling me, "No self-respecting rat will stick up his nose at good old ground fish, That’s why we used four hundred and eighty pounds of it in more than nine hundred pounds of bait. And oat meal— you should see 'em go for oat meal!” he says. So, as we put our recipe to gether, we find that 120 pounds of oat meal is a very necessary item. Throw in thirty-four pounds of nice yellow corn meal, and you have a rat’s breakfast, din ner and supper all rolled into a quite welcome dish, I assure you. a OendUh roU of his “Now we add the poisoi just the right amount fied Red Squill, and they drop like flies!” I don’t know if I can explain the rat’s reaction to a feast of this stuff, but I imagine that he feels like something of a fool for having been so neatly taken it. Just about the time this realiza tion hits him, his respiratory sys tems starts giving him trouble and he begins a brief tour of the farm in search of water. Some go to their burrows to die like rats, while some just give up the ghost right out in front of everybody. And some, jays John, looking over a handful of reports from the campaign, won’t even touch the preparation. It makes John very bitter. I guess rats are a whole lot like human beings in that respect,” I says. “ Some know what’s good for ’em, and some don’t.” READING THE ADS JUST OVER THE HORIZON..* the first caravan of fine new Greyhound coaches is coming— to bring the luxury you’ve wajted for in highway travel One. day in the not-distant future, the initial shipment of new Super-Coaches will be rolling this way to join the Greyhound fleet... bracing promise of more seats, more comfort, better service when you travel the highways. This is on|y one step toward finer transportation. But Mum atep—one of the many to be taken in Greyhound’s nationwide campaign of returning to the high travel standards you haven't known since Pearl Harbor. And Greyhound u not only returning to high etmndmrde, but is developing such new luxuries as you have never known in bus transportation . . . great new terminals, inviting wayside stations, picturesque Poet Houses, still better highway coaches. ' Meanwhile, you’ll find that—by arranging your trips well in advance and by traveling, if possible, during mid-week days—you can enjoy good, dependable Greyhound service today along with the promise at luxury tomorrow. - - - them
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