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LENOIR, N. C. . LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1919 Page Thirteen PENNIES ARE IN DEMAND Speaking of the present demand for the penny, a banker said : "Everything in the world has its value and its use. Time was when the penny was almost looked upon with financial contempt. This was especially true - in the south, but times have changed. Everybody wants a penny. Every mint in the United States is working day and night in turning out pennies, trying to keep pace with the demand for the 'brownies.' The output has - been pushed to 90,000,000 cents a month. There have been 8,500,000,000 one cent pieces coined in this country, according to mint directors, but no one can say where they have gone. The sub-treasuries are flooded with orders from banks. The copper coins are used for -paying extra taxes, street car fares and other things where exact payment hangs upon the penny. Nickels are also in large de mand. All o fthe pennies being made are of the Lincoln design." A HOPELESS CASE A doctor caie up to a patient in a lunatic asylum, slapped him on the back, and said: "Well, old man, you're all right . You can run along and write your folks that you'll be back home in two weeks as good as new." The patient went off gaily to write his letter. He had it finished and sealed, but as he was about to affix the stan.p the latter slipped through his fingers to the floor, alighted on the back' of a cockroach that was passing, and stuck. The patient had not seen .the cockroach. What he did see was his escaped postage stamp zigzagging aimlessly across .the floor and following a crooked trail up the wall and across the ceiling. In depressed silence ha tore up the letter tnat he bad just written and dropped the pieces on the floor. "Two weks!" he said. "I won't be out of here in three years." "It says here that rubbing corn meal through the hair will clean it," said the Old Fogy, as he looked up from the newspaper he was reading. "Huh!" grunted the Grouch. "That's a darn poor way to clean corn meal." BACK TO SCHOOL TEACHING (Harper's Magazine) An Ohio man whose son was an applicant for a position in the Fed eral civil service, but who had been repeatedly turned down, said: "It's sure hard luck, but Bill has missed that civil service again. It looks like they just won't have him, that's all." "Well, he was kinder short on spellin' an' geoggraphy, an' he missed a good deal in arithmetic. What's he going to do about it?" "I don't know," said the father. "Times are not so good tor us, an' I reckon he'll have to go back to teachin' school for a livin'." Bolshevism Greatest Menace uTo Christianity, Says Teusler DirectAttackUpon All Religion and Church Must Do Real Fighting to Crush It. Bolshevism is a direct attack upon Christianity and civilization and must be fought tmjongh Chris tianity, declares CoL R. B. Teusler, director of St John's Episcopal Hospital in Tokio and Red Cross Commissioner to Siberia. CoL Teusler. recently made a flying trip to the United States for consultation with leaders of the Epis copal Nation-Wide Cam paign of Church expansion ejid with officials of the Red Cross. ! "Bolshevism must bei fought through Christian ity said he, "because Bolshevism is a direct at tack upon Christianity and civilization. It may be an economic theory here, but1 I have seen h in actual practice. I have seen the looting oi cathedrals, the burning of libraries, and the dosing of schools. I have concrete evidence of the desecration of cathe dral altars, where phono graphs were installed by the Bolshevists for the playing of 'rag time' music to the. tun? o( which the mobs danced. And I nave rescripts formally issued by the Soviet governments Director St Luke's Episcopal Hospital Tokio liuuuinf iok use oi tM Ked Cross Comnusslouaj women among the soldiers to Siberia after the so-called 'nation alization of women was accom- describe certain theories. They olUhed, also bj Soviet orders. were theorieJ ;n Rus8ia, also, until .aw? uft r rtf.emn5 Lete and Trotzkygot into power, to the Nation-Wide Campaign of . . . . ' . 1 ... ' the Episcopal Church, iTgreatly "ce wh.ch they have become stern needed for right here in America reanoea. Bolshevism as practiced these Bolshevist theories are flour- thr 11 " Poached here, are as ishing to an amazing extent. In far apart as b'.ick aod white. Bol- the United States you use the term shevisrn is murder, robbery, loot, Bolshevism in an academic sense to tvranny. chaos." 1 ? ft y U ' 14 I Colonal R. B. Teusler "Why do you hate the minister?" asked Brown. "What did he ever do to you?" "What did he ever do to me?" replied Smith. "Why, he mar ried mel" ICELANDERS ARE HONEST I Honesty among Icelanders is so se vere a faith that thefts are un sown, thoueh lock, bolts and bars are never used. 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