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THE MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE McDOWtLL PUBLISHING CO. MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 S. E. WHITTEN, Editor and Publisher Elizabeth WHITTEN, Nev. Editor Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class rnktter SUBSCRIPTION RATE One year $2.00 Strictly in Advance CHRISTMAS GREETINGS It's Christmas time again. Smiles and tears are nearer the surface, and nostalgia of child hood joys somehow renews within us a child like faith and hope and love for all the world. Perhaps the reason the Wise Men were wise was that they had this strangely reassur ing belief. For theirs was a day of taxes and terrors and tribulations, of pestilence and tyr anny and war. Yet their welcome'to the Prince of Peace reflected an eternal conviction that Darkness cannot last forever. And so this Season, as we forget worries and deprivations and—if only for a little—lose ourselves in the happiness of others, may-we reaffirm their faith. THOUGHTS ABOUT PEACE As the Christmas season approaches, the minds of our people naturally turn to thoughts of peace—"Peace on earth and goodwill to ward men." And yet, thoughtful people real ize that there is no peace in the world. Three or four hundred years ago, there j might have been some excuse for a nation toi isolate itself from the rest of the world and at- ] tempt to insulate itself from the troubles which beset other peoples. However, the de-! velopment of modern civilization, and par- < tieularly, the rapid strides made in communi cations and transportation, have altered thei conditions under which men live. We must ac-j: cept the fact that we cannot live, prosper or' develop apart from the other people in the world. Even in the face of the present crisis in world affairs, the people of the United States look forward to a day when wars shall cease. Becognizing warfare as an evil to humanity,! they resolutely determine that, as far as we', as a nation are concerned, we will do nothing! to plunge the world into another disastrous! conflict. Just as it takes two to make a quarrel, it requires the cooperation of all to maintain peace. Regardless of the peaceful intentions of any people, the continuance of peace de pends upon neighbor-nations. We are very anxious for peace in the world. We will pass any number of resolutions af firming our love of peace. We want peace, we hope for peace and we are ready to pray for peace. But, in general, the people of this coun try are Hot ready to pay the price for peace. What is the price that we must pay for world peace? In part, it involves the surrend er of extreme nationalism, a willingness to cooperate with other peoples, a tolerant un derstanding of the problems of others &nd a desire to help other people by sharing with them the fruits and biessings of civilization. *"IT WON'T HAPPEN TO ME" In reading about accidents that kill other people, we are apt to dismiss the matter with a careless, "It won't happen to me." Maybe not, but just the same, it might be a good idea to remember that the victim of the fatal accident was just as confident before the accident and as irrevocably dead after ward. Not so long ago, a young* woman, Using a health #lamp, took a sun bath in her bathtub. Somehow, there was a contact and she was shocked. Later she was found dead. This illustrates the danger of using electrical appliances in and aroUnd the bathtub. There is danger that the cord will become wet, thus charging the water, or that the individual touching the cord will receive a serious shock. The moral is to be extremely careful how you handle the cord that comes with your electrical appliances. Be off guard when water is around. Do not handle electrical plugs, etc., with wet hands or While standing on wet floors or wet ground. Watch yourself and you may live longer! There is no law against giving your son or daughter, away from home, a Christmas pre sent in the form of a year's subscription to ^The Marion Progress. DON'T LET DEATH TAKE YOUR HOLIDAY! The wreath is a traditional symbol of Christmas. In windows and <^n front doors of homes all over America, the bright red and green of holly will signify the joyous festiv ities of the holiday season. For Christmas should be a time of happi ness. Every family looks forward to the joy and celebration that the holiday period should bring. But every year thousands of families in our country see Christmas turned into suf fering and tragedy because of needless and preventable accidents. The National Safety Council points out that hundreds of persons are killed and thousands more inured by accidents during the Christ mas-New Year's holiday season—the year's peak accident period. The No. 1 killer is traf fic, and its death toll on Christmas Day is two or three times the annual daily average. To keep death from taking your holiday— or the holiday of your loved ones—is a simple thing. It costs nothing, takes no time and re quires only a little effort. It only means being aware of the extra holiday hazards and of the extra caution, common sense and courtesy needed to overcome them. Refuse to drink if you are driving. Wait for the light to change. Yield the right-of-way. Discard a string of Christmas tree lights with worn insulation. Throw away gift wrappings as soon as presents are opened. These are little things—but they pay off big in holiday happiness. These little extras ^o a long way toward keeping the lights on in your home and the red and green Jiolly wreath on your door. They will preserve for you and your loved ones the joy and delight that is America at Christmas. SALE OF SEALS FINANCES WAR ON T. B. The continued sale of Christmas Seals means the waging of incessant warfare again st the scourge of tuberculosis. It ought to be comforting to every buyer of these stickers n McDowell county to know that he, or she, is making a definite contribution to a great cause. Some of the money that is given locally may mean the saving of human lives in this community. At this time of the year when everybody !s looking forward to the happy Christmas season, it should be easy to make a purchase | list so convenient and useful. If you have not already bought your supply of Christmas Seals for 1949, buy them today. The organization that promotes the sales of Christmas Seals and Bonds throughout the United States is doing a great work, made pos sible by the men and women who conduct the sales campaign and those who carry out the routine, but important, battle against the dis ease that has threatened man for many years. You can show your appreciation of their ef forts by making a purchase of particular use-' fulness at Christmas time, with the knowledge' ;hat you are participating in a worthy cam paign for health. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED When one thinks of veterans finishing their education under the GI Bill of i ,Rights he probably thinks almost entirely of returned soldiers, sailors, or marines studying in col lege. . There is a feeling, then, of bumping into a yery solid fact on reading that, according to the Veterans Administration, nearly 500,000 veterans of World War II h^ve used their ben efits to obtain not a college education or to go to high school but rather to complete their elementary education. The figures are a reminder that, not-with standing the immense spread of education in America, there still are millions of persons in the country for whom completion of the eighth grade is an unattained goal. It speaks; well for these men arid wo men. that they have been willing, even in maturity, to go back to learn some of the lessons of the pre-high school grades. Through them the benefit to the nation is likely to be fully proportionate to the gains made by others in high schools, universities, or, graduate studies.—Christian Science Mon itor. "The statistics of every state show a great er amount of crime and misery attributable to the use of ardent spirits than to any mother source." Who said this? The Supreme Court of the* United States—none other. Many a man who boasts of his < intelligence and culture is scared to death by a new idea. Life is short, but there is always time en ough for courtesy.—Emerson. The best way to subscribe to The Progress is to send a check to the office today. Support the hospital drive. OUR DEMOCRACY -by Mat J ^fekjfjkeffs.tfje sin^in^ of*carols, a ffqfifced tree, u ufe foqs kurninq. e J r t rJ/7it . «£ J ,, sumkofs of Christmas are manti* Jism ..i,..? 1 J a c3ut bUrouxjhouk tfie wor fid t(ve spirit- of (Bfirishnos is kite same — a spirit of peace, oj jvef ou>s(i.ip and of' 0ocxl uuff ROSES - ALL AMERICAN ROSES THROUGH THE YEARS By Mr*. Annie Miller Pleas j The rose has been a favorite in, art and poetry from ancient times, j The rose is a favorite flower in j our own country. The rose was probably a native of Persia, whence it was introduced to Europe by Al- i exander the Great. The oldest cul- j tivated species of the rose comes from Persia and Northern India. ■ Persia has for its national flower• the Cherokee rose. j In Rome, rose petals were used, in the manufacture of medicines.! In modem times they are used for perfume. Attar, an essential oil, is j pressed from the petals of the rose; I commonly known as attar of roses, j The rose was imported to Eng- j land from the Orient. It is the of-' ficial flower of the houses of Lan- j caster and York in England; and; the states of New York, Iowa, the! j District of Columbia, and Georgia., The rose grows wild in practical-! ly all emperate regions and on the j mountain heights in the tropics, j Roses flourish particularly well in | mild climates like those of Southern j France and the Pacific-coast reg- ' ions of the United States. In Port-} land, Oregon, which is preeminent ly a "Rose City," a day in June is set aside each year for the celebra tion of the carnival of roses, and this custom is followed in other cities of the West. The rose belongs to the family, Roseceae. In this family of plants are about 2,000 species of trees, shrubs, and herbs, and it is repre sented by some of our most valu able fruits and loveliest flowers. To the rose family belongs a large pro portion of the commercial fruits of the temperate regions, notably, the apple, pear, and quince; the berries, and the peach, apricot plum and cherry. Its numerous ornamen tal plants include, besides the rose, the meadowsweet, the mountain ash, and the hawthorn. Centuries of floriculture have de veloped an immense number of va rieties of the rose which are widely i grown in temperate regions. Some j twenty species of wild roses grow in North America. i America has contributed few ros-1 es to the great list of varieties pop ularly known today. Yet two impor tant groups are credited to us. A bout the year 1814 the first of the Noisette class was raised—a class that has in it some of the mostj pleasing of all cluster roses. j John Champney of Charleston, j South Carolina, fertilized the White [ Musk with pollen from the Blush China, which was named Champ-! ney's Pink Cluster. A Charleston j florist raised a ^seedling from this' which he sent to his brpther in j France—Louis Noisette — about j 1817. From this beginning the j charming class of Noisettes (which: properly, however, should have 1 been called Champney Roses) was! raised and distributed. The modern i members of this group having a! arge admixture of Tea in them are lot quite hardy. Some of the great st of the yellow roses are of this ection, including Marechal Niel nd Chromatelle. Fr&m that one notable beginning ittle was done until quite recently, irhen the immense possibilities of he multiflora group (as exempli ied in Crimson Rambler) and tose Wischui-aiana gave a new im etus of rose production in Ameri a. We are today only beginning to ealize the development in this ■roup, which bids fair to be one haracteristically American. These arieties answer the requirements he average American garden bet er than many other plants, and bough not roses of the older type, irhich will always be grown for cut lowers, still they are roses and fill . place in the garden and about he porch that no other plants have lone so far. Four roses of spectacular beauty ave now the coveted All-American elections for 1950 — Capistrano, "ashion, Mission Bells, and Sutter's lold. These "Oscar" winners of the orticultural world were chosen by he National Rose Jury on the basis f impartial tests covering a two ear period in eighteen test gar ens throughout the country. Capistrano is a vigorously sturdy ybrid, deep rose pink, on extra jng stems. The open flowers reach full six inches across. It was nam d for the famous old California lission, San Juan Capistrano, foun d during the Revolution and fam d in song and story. The plants of Fashion are full, ushy and generous, reaching a eighth of two and one-half feet, n England this rose was given the Jold Medal for the best new vari ty shown in the National Rose So iety's exhibition. The buds are ori ntal red and open slowly into flow rs of about 3% inches across. Sutter's Gold features long-point d bright yellow buds, shaded with range and red. The buds open into ligh-centered flowers with twenty our to thirty petals. It was named n commeration of ihe 100th anni ersary of the discovery of gold at lutter's Mill in California. This man ron the Foreign Gold Medal at the nternational Bagatelle Contest in 'aris. Mission Bells is a beautiful deep almon pink that opens to a clear hrimp color. The buds are long and tointed and the fully centered lowers sometimes measure a full inches across. The canes have ew thorns. In the words of Elizabeth Bar ett Browning: For the rose, Lo the rose! is the grace of the earth, Is the light of the plants that are growing upon it! "or the rose, Lo the rose! ife the eye of the flowers, Is the blush of the meadows that feel themselves fair." Library Notes BY ALICE BRYAN County Librarian I *■ | When Christmas comes—there is so much rejoicing With voices raised in song, the happy smiles of children When Santa comes along. The wreathes within the win dwns and trees transformed with light As families gather closely upon a winter night. There's something very peaceful there's something in the air, That brings us close to Heaven and lifts our hearts from care When Christmas comes. —by Hilda R. Farr. fjew members who have register ed at the library during this Christ mas Season: Dorothy Jean Brown, Johnnie Franklin Burgin, Rita Bur nette, Frankie Dysart, Emily El liott, Betty Jo Frisbee, Betty Jean Hollifield, Michael Lewis, Charles R. Lowery, Virgie Mae Miller, Wil liam Franklin Ward, and Jack Win go. Among the new books: "Deep In My Heart" by Elliott Arnold—Thomas who enjoy Sig mund Romberg's music will want | to read this story of his life and | his recent triumphs. The author [takes the reader behind the scenes I in the world of music and tells a ihost of memorable stories about the great and near-great. "Global Mission" by General H. H. Arnold—"The story of the Com i mander-in-Chief of the AAF be S ; gins with his boyhood in Montgom | ery county, Pennsylvania, and car ries through to his retirement after the end of World War II. It tells about the earliest pioneers of flight, the air lessons of World War I, how America invented the buzz bomb in 1917, Billy Mitchell's court martial, "Hap's" own exile, the years between and, how the Army Air Forces of World War II were forged out of nothing into great est military power in history." "Chips Off the Old Benchley" by Robert Benchley—Collection of Benchley's writings that have not been published hefore in * book form. "I Married a Redhead" by M. M. Musselman—Milly wasn't only a redhead, she was an actress to boot, and her ability to earn a living more than made up for the fact that she rarely stayed in one place long enough to set up housekeep ing. And so it went, either in the lean years or stock companies and pulp magazines or the fatter ones of radio, Broadway, and Holly wood. The nostalg history of a mildly explosive marriage between an aspiring actress and a struggling writer, by the author of "Wheels in His Head." (For children): "The Little Auto" by Lois Len ski—Another story of Mr. Small; this one about Mr. Small's little red auto. "Read Me Another Story" com piled by Child Study Association of America—Stories for both the pre school listened and also for the be ginning reader. "Tell About Tales" illustrated by Jill Johnson—A big picture book chock full of ssories for the little ones. "A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett—A beautiful new edition of the old-fashioned story of Sara Crews, a kind of Cinderel la story. "Stories to Grow On" by Ger trude McKelvey—Applying five well-known parables to everyday living for boys and girls in the younger age group. ; EARLY RELIGIOUS PROGRESS Ecclesiastically, North Carolina was not very active in its early days. The first church in the colony was built in 1701-2 by the vestry of Chowan Parish, afterwards St. Paul's. In 1715 a colonial law re cognized the Church of England as the established church in North Carolina. Other Protestant denomi nations developed slowly but by the end of the colonial period most of the Protestant sects were well re presented. The practice of placing burning candles in the windows on Christ mas eve is tied up with an Irish custom which holds the thought of the Christ child alone in the dark, needing light for his way. To reach the most people for the least money use Progress advertis
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