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Six Fitms Offered At County Library Six new fitms. ait with sound and three of them in coior. have been received at Oranviiie County Li brary for free use of teachers and others having occasion to use them for instruction apt) entertainment prior to Jan. 14. Here is a brief summary of each of the fiims: ATOM AND AGRICULTURE. 12 minutes, sound. Mack and white. Heveais the iegitimate areas in which radioactivity can be expect ed to produce practical results lor agricuitpre. Teiis the important story of the use of radioactive tra cers with phosphate fertilizers; the effect of the fertilizers on a varie ty of crops grown under a variety of condition. Experiments with plants, soils, and animais May this Hoiiday Season be a joyous and heaithfu! one for our many friends. J TaMey Furn. Co. HiUsboro Street /Ait g/o^ teoton we witA you every /oy. <4: we /oof oAeoc/ /o /Ae coming o/ /Ae N^w Yeor, we won/ /o toy — "/AonAyew" /or /An potronoge given nt in /Ae pot/. /fncf oor A/ew Yeor t w/tA /t /Ao/ /AroegA epAo/e/ing /Ae A/gA t/ont/orc/t o/ our pro/ettion we moy Ae o/ increoting tervice /o you one/ /o onr communi/y. "We FiH Any Doctors' Prescriptions" WtLUAMS DRUG CO. Phone 4141 Oxford, N. C. HOMESPUN 22 minutes, sound. ' coior. ^ Re-enacts n) color the story of Mandciiita Cherg, fartnwife. moth er. and immigrant to Minnesota. In iatcr life Mandeiina re-discovered an art site first teamed in Sweden —the foik art o! spinning and weaving wooi. She demonstrates , each step as site does it by hand. TRIO (WORLD'ARTISTS). 30 min utes, sound, coior. Life Magazines famous photo graphic story on the great soioists Rubenstein. Heifetz and Piattgor sky. when in rehearsal. inspired this intimate photographic study of genius at work. The trio coiiaborate in the First Movement of Schu berts Trio in B-Fiat and the First. Second and Third Movements of the Trio in D-Minor by Mendeis i sohn. :LIFE IN THE SAHARA. 14 min utes. sound, coior. Reviews the important aspects of the iife. habits and customs of peo pie iiving in the great Sahara. NORTHERN RAMPARTS. 18 min utes. sound, biack and white. The complete and timeiy story of Americas iast frontier—Alaska, a keystone of national defense and a storehouse of natural resources. Today, ut the age of jet plane and the atom bomb, hardy persons are carving farms out of Alaska's wil derness. Fishermen, trappers, lum bermen are wresting fortunes from its waters and forests. PREHISTORIC TIMES: WORLD BEFORE MAN. 10 min. sound, biack and white. Colorful dioramas, actual fossil temams, examples of terrain, and realistic models of prehistoric ani mals and plants are interwoven skillfully to establish the broad im pression of the earth's transforma tion and the accompanying changes in iife. C!VH, SERVICE FOSfTfONS , OPEN WITH GOVERNMENT The United States Civii Service Commission has announced a new examination for the following posi tions in rurai telephony: Electron ics engineer (wire communications) $4,205 to $7,040 a year; telephone specialist. $4.20$ a year; and fieid ifpresentative (telephone opera tions and loans! $4,205 to $5,940 a year. Most of the positions are in the Rurai Electrification Adminis tration of the U. S. Department df Agriculture iocated throughout the country. No written test is required. Appli cants must have had appropriate experience or a combination of ed ucation and experience. Appropri ate education aione may be qual ifying for electronics engineer posi I tions paying $4,205 a year. Further information and appli ! cation forms may be obtained at ' many post offices throughout the [country, or from the U.S. Civil i Service Commission. Washington )25. D. C. Appiica tions will be ac ! cepted by the Board of U. S. Civii .Service Examiners. U. S. Depart I meat of Agriculture. Washington 125, D. C.. untii further notice. ! —*** [ ** . ihai 346$ when you nave news. I May we wtsh you a ^ and thank you for the privilege of serving you. GranviMe !ce & Fua! Co. EychMdve Patsy. Deafer PHONE 5627 24-Hour Stoker Service .&pents for PATSY COAL "The Lazy Man's Fue!" U. S. DOLLAR TOPIC OF BABSON'S DISCUSSION I By MGER W BABSOM BAB80N PARK. Mass. Dec. 23. —Three specialists, just back from , Europe.' discussed the effect of our jdoiiar-atd program abroad Since this was a smalt, closed meeting, f 'shall hot identify these mtti. What ' they said was that the millions of doiiars spent in Europe have not., as had been hoped, won very many of our European neighbors to our way of thinking I Why Aid Europeans ' ' The thinking behind our ntuiti biition dollar aid protram was that we couid raise the iiving standards of Europeans by increasinfg their productivity. This means showing them how to develop mass markets for their manufactures. We hoped to win converts with refrigerators, shoes, radios and many other items. What we seem to have overlook ed is the fundamental European desire for security. The American economy is dynamic. Competitive ness is inbred; risk-taking and venture capital are common deno minators of our success. The Euro pean. on the other hand, is a sta tic. protected economy. Production is stabilized; prices are controlled; ^MRSSTMAS GREETINGS Alny Clirntmas taring goo J c!ieer to you .. that fills yourlieart OXFORD MAS & REAE ESTAH CoMege Street A nn MEMI ' CBtBIMM, ^ your rosiest ^ dreams of Christmas ail come true and may you and yours enjoy the P* happiest New Year ever. CURMM ELKTRK COMPANY Watkins Street , Oxford, N. C. F SEASON'S GREETINGS you journey through the coming year, we wish you and your ioved ones a fult measure of aii the very beat things in life. Merry Christmas! HMMtKK'S ESSO SERVSCE Oxford, N. C G!aJnJing*toa!! our frienJ* anJ patron*. Va wi*h for tLe fuMiHment of your hope* anJ prayer*, ^ now #nJ a!way*. ROSE'S 5, 10 & 25c STORE the worker is protected; competi tion' is discouraged; the common denominator is security. People are interested in working harder for security, but not in selling mor** units at less profit per unit. A Cynic s Reaction One cynic in the group said. All right, them why do we try to force the American ways on Europe? These Europeans are happy; why should we unload a dose of Ameri can ulcers on them?" A comment from another went something like this. "Austria s productive capacity has been sharply increased since World War II. We were not con cerned about them before the war; why should we be concerned now?" A reputable economist in the group raised another issue: Europe knew it had ^ threat from the East, an enemy in Communist Russia. Might not Europeans now believe that they have two enemies seeking to intil I trate or absorb them—Russia and America?" My own belief is that we must fight poor economics with good ec I ononnes. We cannot hope to sell I democracy to people w ho are ec onomically enslaved by their insti tutions. If we do not act construct ively. we shall lose Europe to Com munism by default. Our Spiritual Value Beiow far I have a pet notion which I know Will shock some of you. but think about it a while. Our dollar bill is a good measure of our spiritual val ues. A paper dollar isn t worth any thing of itself: but as a medium oi exchange, it is a measure of values. It reflects such spiritual values as honesty, wisdom, couraga. and in tegrity. From 1939 to 1953. the val ue of our dollar declined from 100 , cents to abuut 55 cents. Does this j decline in dollar value mirror our decline in character? ! uohar depreciation is largely a result of war. But why? Instead oi : paying as we went, we were taught I to borrow against the future. This could be perfectly O.K.. because we 'owed hebodv but ourselves. But it gave us the illusion of prosperity It sidestepped self-sacrifice while increasing our national debt five :uici ouinig these war years. Importance of Sacrifice We have given young Americans the noticn that they can charge their present happiness against some future date of accounting. We have developed the materialistic belief that money will buy every thing, including the way Europeans MniiK! The present value of the dollar reflects this belief. Ferhaps it will take defeat in Europe to bring us to the realization that freedom cannot be bought with dollars without sacrifice. We should have learned that lesson 175 years ago. The practical cure for Commu nism is not material, it is spiritual. It is not the amount of dollars you pour into a situation: it is the ideals. It ^is not security and pen sions and comfort; it is ideals and ethics ind character. It is those principles that make our dollar worth something. Right now our dollar is below par; I have faith, j however, that as more Americans I come to realize this great truth, we jwiil put our own house in order. < Then maybe what we have to say ' will make more sense to Euro peans. We most practice and teacn sacrifice. Mrs. BuMock Hosiess For Hesfer r!. D. C!ub Mrs. J. Harold Bullock <cas hos ^ tess to the Hester Home Demon : stration Club for its December I meeting. The devotional given by ] Mrs. Bullock asked the question. "What Wili Christmas Mean In . Your Home This Year?" Routine business was transacted and reports were made. Mrs. Wii kinson gave the demonstration on ' Simple Entertaining for Christ mas" and it was enjoyed by aH and especially by the iucky ones who tasted. The games, appropriate to the season, were led by Mrs. Algen Cla^. recreation leader. Mrs. Bullock served fruits to the , ten memoers and two visitors pres ;ent. Ihe January meeting wil be with Mrs. Lawrence Fleming In general meats, dairy products Mag the jogous tidings of the first Christmas re-echo in (jour heart todag and ilft (jour spirit utith that glorious promise of peace and good mill for a!!. I. C. PENNEY CO. Oxford, N. C. Main Street ^7^ this festive time of year ; we want to pause for a moment to say: Thank You for your patronage—and may you have! amerry,happy Hotiday! GEO. E. DANIEL, Agency CoHege Street gift! that Chrbtma! wi!) of happy mamori*! tha paoca of raa! contantmant and tha happina!! of a bright h
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