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.
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I SEASONS
GREETINGS
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Macon Motor Company
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Angel's Drug Store
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West's Florist
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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.
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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?<?.
The Bank Of Franklin
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation