Ready To Trade
Power For Peace
General Omar Bradly. speaking
before 500 members of the Asso
ciated Press, Managing Editors
Association, meeting in Atlanta
recently, offered to trade atomic
power foi “a genuine course of
righteousness in the world." He
also offered to swap “all military
power for a century of peace.’1
However, General Bradley said
such easy trades are not on the
open market. "We must earn the
world righteousness we seek, and
the peace we so earnestly desire,"
he said.
In calling for a strong United
States, he asked for three things:
That the nation become a center
of freedom: an increase in in
dustry and productivity; and an
extension of the way of freedom
to the rest of the world through
the skill of diplomacy.
General Bradlv indicated that
to attain these goals, ?: “endur
! ng military strength must be
i guaranteed.” In calling for a
|quick drenthening of our fight
ing forces. General Bradley said,
'“We must continue a fight for
freedom and against aggression.
1 We must seek every means pos
sible to avoid war and to prolong
peace. The doors of negotiation
must alwavs remain open."
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On Siar Gazing
By ERIC SLOANE
In the Slratosphere the temper
ature is far below zero and stars
appeal arm's length away because
. I the thin atmosphere. Wiley
i Post, who spent many of his last
hours in high altitude research
jllight. lemarked: "It's Christmas
all year round up there, and eve
ry star looks like the Star of Beth
i lehem!”
i Somehow you can't look at a
BY-PASSING'
SANTA
(Pete Ivey,
Twin City Sentinel)
A 4-year-old Winston-Salem
! girl named a list of 14 things she
| wanted Santa Claus to bring. She
j was about to name additional
! items when her mother explained
that Santa Claus not only has to
bring things to all of the child
| ren in the neighborhood, but m
other towns in North Carolina, too
-also to the thousands and thou
sands of children in Utah, Texas,
California, France and Afghanis
; tan.
“Maybe you’d better name just
one or two things for Santa Claus
to bring," said her mother.
"Well, can’t Santa Claus just
go ahead and wish it, just like
God can?" asked the little girt.
' “Not quite," said the mother.
I “Santa Claus doesn't have (hat
I much authority,"
j "Then, let’s just not fool with
him," said the girl. “Let's just
ask God for these things
bright star in the sky without
thinking of Christmas. Since the
i first Wise Men beheld the Star,
! Christmas us been a season for
looking upward, and whether he is
looking for Santa through the tail
ing snow or in admiration of a tall
' Christmas tree, chidren seem to
look heavenward most during this
season.
When the tree decorations have
long been packed away and win
ter is gone, there is still a retnind
j er ol Christmas in the starlight
I roof- if we but look. And if we I
' glance upward more often we will
find contentment, for there is
something about looking away
I from tho earth that symbolizes I
I faith.
Perhaps people from another
planet look upward to he hold our
j earth like a gigantic star in their I
heaven. How could they know that
the brightest thing about this
star is the faith of the people who
live on it?
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Kmily Post might object, but Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston
seem to be enjoying themselves in this scene from Piframount’s ae
lion drama. "The Furies," which comes next Tuesday to the Marco
Theatre.
Author Ashamed
Oi 'Night Before'
Everyone knows and loves the
poem which begins
'Twns the night before Christ
mas, when all through the
house
Not a creature was stirring, not
even a mouse;
but the man who wrote it, Dr
Clement Clarke Moore, was a
shamed of it and would not allow
it to he published under Ins name
for more than 20 years
Dr Moore, an aloof professor of
Greek and Oriental literature in
the Episcopal Seminary in New
York, wrote the poem on Christ
mas eve 1022 and read it to his
seven children.
He had planned for the poem
to go further than Ins own family,
but a relative who was visiting
the Moores put a copy in hot
diary The next year the relative’s
father sent it to a newspaper.
Other newspapers printed tin
jingles and they quickly became
known all over the country. Tin
dignified Dr Moore was smbar
rassed and considered it beneath
a man id1 his scholastic standing
to be the author of children’s
jingles
Twenty-two years later, how
ever, he finally publicly admitted
authorship of the jingles and it
was published in book form under
his name for the first lime
CHAUTAUQUA DAYS
(Lauringburg Exchange)
How many years has it boon
since Laurinhurg, like so many
other towns, counted its annual
“Chautauqua a. an indispensable
In the Hood old summertime the
chautauqua entertainers made the
circuits and they usually put up
here for the better part ol a week,
Adh a tent and seating arrange
mints Months ahead of the pro
‘gram advance agents and public
ity men were getting thi engage
ment fixed and looking after the
necessary financial backing. Many
of us thought that to miss a chau
tauqua, or do without it, would
be sort of calamity for the cul
tural interests of the community
ANOTHER ONE
(Zebulon Record)
Vance Brown was circulating
the story about the undertaker
that was fired because he em
balmed a corpse with Hadacol and
it got up jt>ff the table and walk
ed out of the place
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Road Death Toll
Darkens Outlook
For The Holiday
Everybody looks forward to the
.Christmas-New Year's holiday
season, with the possible cxecp
lion of Ihe National Stifety Coun
! ei 1.
The Council, istru^Mlinto hold '
in check a rising accident toll |
Ihis year, knows that the rear
end holiday period includes the |
most dangerous dates on the cal
cndai .
Traffic deaths alone this vein j
are running more than 10 per
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cent ahead of 1949, according to ,
the Council. A final death toll of'
about 35,000 is in prospect the
highest since 1941.
"The Christmas New Year's
holiday season is the peak aeei
dent pel iod of the year," said j
Ned II Dearborn, Council presi
dent "Heavier travel and the
festive spirit of the season al
ways add to the normal winter
hazards of had weather, slippery
roads and more hours of dark- •
ness,
"Members of the armed forms
, cnming heme for Christmas, and
families going to visit military
camps of those who can't come
home, will boost travel this year,"
he said
A little extra time, thought and
ionite \ will prevent holiday
tragedies, the Cottle d believes
Motorists were advised to tart
trips earlv and set an easy pace
Sliced should be cut down if
weather or road conditions art
bad Hurry and speed are at (he
root of most serious accidents
Pedestrians should remember
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that it is much harder for drivers
to see them in darker winter visi
bility, especially at. dusk. Don't
obscure your view with umbrel
las or Christmas parcels
Both driver and pedestrians
hoidd remember that accidents
dm- to drink me; are much more
prevalent during the holidays.
Watch out for erratic behavior by
both drivers anil pedestrians, and
if you take a bit of holiday cheer
yourself, stay away from your
car and be wary crossing streets
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