MISSIONARY IN CHINA
WRITES OF CHINESE HOLIDAY
Missionary Describes The
f Chinese Moon-Feast, An
t Annual Holiday in
China
C. P. O. Box No. 1234, Shanghai,
China, Nov. 20th, 1928. Dear Editor:
Here comes another letter from the
"bottom of side the world." It may
be of interest to the readers of your
Inost excellent paper. „
We have recently had one of
China's chief holidays. For more than
a week I noticed signs of its com
ing. Great stacks of "mooncakes" in
brightly colored packets were shown
in many stores. Beautiful lanterns
were seen along the streets. Every
thing was in such gay style it made
one think of a coming Christmas. It
was the Chinese Moo'n-feast and Mid
Autumn Festival. In their feasting it
recalled our Thanksgiving Day.
The Chinese 15th of the Bth
month is called "Tsoong Tsiu"—Mid-
die Autumn. On that day they have %
theatricals before all the gods in the
temple and burn the "Shaung-toe"-
incense bushel. This bushel-like meas
ure is made of incense sticks. The
largest "bushels" sometimes meas-,
ure as much as 20 feet in diameter.
In the middle of the "bushel" is a
long, large stick of incense made up
of thousands of thin incense sticks
the size of vermicelli. On the after
noon and night of this day each fam
ily also burns an incense bushel at (
home. These are smaller than the,
ones burned in the temple. On this
day they who can so afford eat j
moon-cakes and all kinds of nice (
things. The incense bushel is dec- 1
orated with flags and many-colored
dragon-gates something as children at
home put candles on their birthday I
cakes; but the children in China take ;
the flags and dragon-gate decora-'
tions from the bushel before it is!
burnt, and have great delight in j
playing with these, marching up and;
down the streets.
I asked the Chinese why they burn
the incense bushel and eat the moon
cake, and worship the moon with
candles, incense and food on this
It is with pleasure
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that we take this space
to congratulate
Mr. W. H. Haynes
upon the opening
of the
handsome new
ROMINA THEATRE
It is a great forward step in the
development of our city, and an
enterprise of which we are all
proud.
Harrill & King
REAL ESTATE .
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Forest City, N. C.
day. They answered that there are
many reasons for it and many stor
ies are told about it. One of the reas
ons is because there is a lady-god in
the moon. Her name is Zaung-noo.
She is said to be exceedingly beauti
ful. From the beginning of time to
the end there never was nor will be
one as beautiful as she. She was once
upon a time a woman of this world;
but became displeased with her hus
band and all the world and fled to the
mbdft. On this 15th the real story of
why she fled is acted out in the long
theatrical plays attended by throngs
of people. In ancient times on the
15th of the Bth month when they
burned the incense bushel the sweet
fragrance would go high up to the
moon goddess. She took pleasure in
it and manifested her approval by
coming near earth riding on a cloud
and people could see her beautiful
face. But now men's hearts have
become wicked, and the world is full
of sin, so the incense is not so pure
as formerly and it does not rise so
high as to reach the goddess in her
palace and so, not enjoying its frag
rance, she comes no more on the
clouds; but people still offer incense
and hope she will appear sometime.
They say that in the moon this
goddess has a most beautiful castle.
It is called the "Yuih-Koong"-Moon
Palace. Only one human has ever
seen its glories. Once, during the
Dong Dynasty, a Chinese king, call
ed Ming Wong, by the Magic of a
holy monk, was enabled to mount up
from the earth to the Moon Castle to
hear the music and see its beauty.
He was allowed to stand outside for
only a very few minutes. By that time
the goddess knew, that the king of
man was there. She was very angry
at the monk for leading the. king to
her holy land. Soon from the Castle
came most unpleasant sounds. The
monk understood that it was the
queen's giving vent to her wrath and
he quickly led the king back to
earth.
You can thus see how full of
superstition the Chinese are and
how much they need the Gospel and
Jesus Christ that they may see the
THE FOREST CITY COURIER, TH URSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929 .
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real King in His beauty and live for
ever in His glorious palace on High.
It's a joy to teach Chinese children
of Jesus and His salvation while
young.
A Merry Christmas and a Blessed
New Year to you and loved ones.
(REV) H. G. C. HALLOCK.
P. S.—Picture, "The goddess arrives
at the moon," can be seen at this
office.
FOUR THINGS PREVENT
HIGHER PROFITS
Raleigh, N. C., Jan. 31.—The be
ginning of the New Year finds a
universal interest in agriculture. In
general, this industry has not shared
in the nation-wide economic prosper
ity which the United States is ex
periencing and there are four main
reasons why this is true.
"The first of these is a maladjust
ment in production," says Dr. G. W.
Forester, agricultural economist at
State College. "Farmers, for various
reasons, have not been able to adjust
their production to market demands
jin such a way as to obtain satisfac
tory returns. Then, too, our market
J system is cumbersome and inflexible
jto such an extent that it is prac-
Itically useless in periods of economic
distress. Third, the credit mechanism
is not being engineered either by
private or governmental agencies in
a fashion that will be of most bene
fit to farmers. Fourth, railway rates
and taxes are important factors. Rail
way rates are seldom adjusted to
correspond to the price movement of
farm produce and when the pride
of agricultural products are low,
freight rates take an unusually large
percent of the income. Tax rates
either remain constant or are in-
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creased. There is no attempt to ad
just taxes to the income producing
power of the farmer."
Dr. Forster says that maladjust
ment is practically always the prin
cipal cause of distress in any in
dustry. On the farm, "it is brought
about because farmers do not have
adequate information upon which to
base the choice of enterprises. As a
result many choose the wrong enter
prise or fail to obtain a proper bal
ance among the varied things being
produced on the farm. Sometimes
land, labor, fertilizer is not used to
best advantage and some men are
encouraged to expand production by
using the sub marginal land that had
best remain in timber or be allowed
;to stand idle.
Dr. Forster sees the need of more
economic surveys to be made over
the State similar to the one which he
helped to make for the State Tax
Commission recently. *
We take this opportunity
to wish
Mr. Walter H. Haynes
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success on the opening
of his new theatre
The Romina
* Forest City Motor Co.
Forest City, N. C.
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EXPERIMENTS SHOW I
HOW TO REDUCE 1
FARMING COSTS
Scientific Utilisation of Corn
Fodder Tested by Agricul
tural College of Colorado
Agriculturists have taken Secre
tary Jardine at his word when he
said that the farmer would have to
adopt modern industrial methods be
fore the farm relief problem will be
completely solved.
The most scientific utilization of
corn fodder has recently been tested
at the College of Col
orado. Practical cattle feeders are
aware that corn fodder was not con
sidered entirely satisfactory as the
only roughage, and have not been j
feeding it when fattening baby
beeves. Yet these tests have demon
strated that with proper balancing of
the ration it can be fed for the most
profitable gains.
Two lots of baby beeves were
selected for the tests, one lot fed
corn fodder and the other corn silage.
In addition both lots received barley,
linseed meal, and alfalfa hay. The
linseed meal played an essential
part in helping the animals assimilate
the other feed, and also to produce
the fine finish necessary to reach
the best market price.
In order that cattle feeders may
figure the cost of grains at their own
prices, the amount of feed required
for 100 pounds of gain are given
here. The calves receiving corn fod
der required 345.9 pounds of bar
ley, 205.5 pounds of corn fodder,
51.6 pounds of linseed meal and 236
pounds of alfalfa hay for 100 pounds
of gain. The corn silage calves re
quired for 100 pounds of gain 350.7
pounds barley, 52 pounds linseed
meal, 462.9 pounds of silage and
246.7 pounds of alfalfa hay. At pre
vailing prices when this test was
made, cheaper gains were put on by
the corn fodder fed calves.
This test indicates that corn fod
der will put on greater and cheaper
gains than corn silage in a ration of
barley, linseed meal and alfalfa hay
for baby beeves.
PATTON WINS PRIZE
Rutherfordton, Dec. 31.—County
Agent, F. E. Patton won second
prize, a ribbon, in a publicity con
test sponsored by the Raleigh News
and Observer at the recent agents
conference at State College. Each
county agent displayed photos of
their work. Mr. Patton displayed a
photo of a fertilizer demonstration
at the farm of Mr. J. O. Ledbetter,
two miles west of Rutherfordton. Mr.
Patton is one of the best county
agents in the state.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to.thank our many-friends
and neighbors for the many acts of
kindness and love shown us during
the illness and death of our beloved
husband and father, Mr. C. M. Rob
ertson. May God's richest blessings be
yours.
A Long Islander over a hundred
years old attributes his longevity to
poultry farming. Others claim that
"the chickens arc cutting short their
lives.
THE FAMILY.
A Hearty Welcome
to Forest City
and i
Best wishes for the Success of
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The Romina Theatre
from the
Kiwanis Club
Forest City, N. C.
We wish you complete \
success
Mr. Haynes
In the operation of your handsome
new theatre
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Farmers Hardware Co.
Forest City, N. C.
We furnished hardware for the Romina
Complete Designing
and
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Engineering Services ' .
on the new
ROMINA THEATRE
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STRUCTURAL ENGINEER *
Plans and Supervision of Buildings,
Bridges, and Industrial Plants
Phone 533 Cliffside, N. C.