r? hbblin1 About How To Lose A Case Of 'Blues' J P. Biddy JUST A SMALL GESTURE CAN TURN THE TRICK You know, it Just takes one small, but all-Important, ges ture to pull you out of a bad case of the "blues" and snap the world back into proper per spective. For some reason or another ? Just one of those things that's hard to figure the whys and wherefores ? Sunday night I had a large helping of the "blues" and an accompanying case of restlessness, a Joint condition not unheard of in the newspaper game. It's called the end of the week "let down". I tried to shake It off, first by trying to get Interest ed In a good book, and finally by prowling around town In the snow. I took a ride with ' state highway foreman George Byrd to look over the highway ' conditions over parts of the county. Even this didn't help much, 1 so back toward home I headed with the time approaching mid night. I had just settled down in my living room when it hap pened ? one of those small, but all-Important gestures. A group of carolers, seeing my lights burning, took time out to sing several Christmas carols. And almost immediately the "blues" disappeared, and I sus pect, so did a little bit of cyn icism about the present ten dency toward a "commercial ized Christmas." This spontaneous gesture, which conveyed to me the real spirit of Christmas, worked wooden and I want to warmly thank thoae student* who took the time, unknowingly to re lieve me of my "blues" and wrap me up In a cloak of un selfishness and understanding that after all holds the real key to the celebration of the birth of the Christ Child. Thank you ? Bobby Blddle, Ann Hays, Emory Crawford, Julia Moody, Herbert McKelvey, Jane Zickgraf, Mary Ann Johns ton, Max Holland, Bill Zickgraf, Pattl Lou Phillips, Audrey Hays, Richard Dryman, Bud Siler, Holland McSwain, and Frank lin McSwain. GOOD THING THE LIGHT BILL HAD BEEN PAID Mr. and Mrs. Jay Houston are our candidates this week lor "the most human people in Macon County." Sunday evening, alter church, they invited the Rev. and Mrs. B. B. Littleton and their chil dren, Vanard and Patricia, over to their house lor colfee and pumpkin pie. This gesture, however, al most turned Into Mrs. Houston's undoing when, to her horror, she remembered that son Mitchell had devoured roughly three-lourths ol the pumpkin pie in question lor supper. And It was the only pie In the house. "What else could we do," Mrs. I Houston explained at work i Monday morning, "we laughed about it and drank colle*." THAT COURTHOUSE CLOCK IS HERE ONCE AGAIN "Looks like we're going to have to 'lick our call all over again'," Walter Steele com mented in a letter to this col umn this week, "Three weeks have passed without a trace ol attention to our ellort to get the clock atop the courthouse talking." And brother Steele concluded: . . we didn't even get a nib ble!" Now the thing that really hurts is, he is right; nary a nibble was received. So, broth er Steele and yours truly still stand alone as the Citizens Committee ol Two to Get the Clock Atop the Courthouse Running Again. Alone though we may be, we still think something should be done about that clock. Either lix It or jack it up and put a new courthouse under It. We'll settle for that! A new record of 16 pounds ol aluminum lor each man, woman and child in the United States will be produced this yea;, the per person ? was produced m previous U. S. h.!?h ? 13 ? <*? 1943. ? : *? Rgr I SEASONS GREETINGS At tfafe cbettjr tine o? year . . .?? ? |^. old-fashioned ?11 the joy and Ml Macon Motor Company l(^hittv Ik>W aloaa (4b day, raaMa?Wiaf hmrtr awl fain Ji. May your* (w * vary payout H*Uiy, wwiwlil W al whan Im ami iriandAip you clwbli. Angel's Drug Store ;?n& West's Florist 7 J? gain it's time for us 1/ to wish all our friends and # neighbors a lull and overflowing measure of the Season's good cheer and happiness. ? Shock's Shell Service E. C. Shook Greetings ; JNJow . al the happieit lime of the year. we take the apportunlty to expreu aur d?ap?*l appreclatian of yaur loyalty and friendship and extend oar wameil withe* for your kaahh and happ(n?