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At the change of the year we often think
in terms of the saving. “Ring out the Old,
ring in the New.' The phrase implies more
than that one year is past and another is
about to bigin. The suggestion is that the
change is in the nature 01 character of the
year as well as in time The New is to lie a
different and a better year.
Many Christian individuals do indeed in
tend that the New Year shall be an improve
ment over the Old. Life shall be more in
conformitv wdh the will of God. There shall j
bo tmnr. .I'pryii nl in lt-w> n *!1 w\n in In nlhni'
persons—less selfishness, increased useful
ness, more thought for others.
All this is laudable and to be commended.
In some instances the New Year does show
improvement. But if we think in general
terms it is sadly true that all too often the j
New is essentially like the Old. Accepted at
titudes remain, and well established habits
continue Old faults and weaknesses persist.
The/Struggle against sin and temptation has I
nut become easier Progress in godliness is
slow and is achieved onh at the price of irk
some self discipline. The Mew is pretty much
a continuation of the Old.
On the other hand the change of the year j
is to ihe Christian a welcome opportunity
for reflection, for self-evaluation Especially
is he interested in questions like these: Has
there been any spiritual growth the past
year? Any progress in sanctification? Anv
increase in my knowledge of God’s Word9
Any deepening of my spiritual insight9 Any
increase in power to resist evil? Any pro
gress in the exercise oi Christian virtues
such as patience, forbearance, kindness, pur
ity. generosity, loyalty to our Lord and Sav
ior?
Perhaps uppermost in the mind of a Chris
tian at the turn oi the year is the conscious
ness ot the need of God's m« rev and forgive
ness on the one hand and God’s strengthen
ing giace on tlu other. Borne b\ thai spii it
the prayer for spiritual growth will not re
main unansv ... :. Church Bullet:"
t< h<>stm <iml Jlic Sniprrs
Secretary of State Dean Aeheson has done
a distinguished job in trying to help keep
this old world near a balance, but the snip
ers have tormented him no end. They have
bleated and keep bleating. "rl hrow him (Hit,
throw him out.” to the perfect satisfaction
of the Communists.
The old China policy gang, many of which
expected the Marines to go in and protect
their properties on foreign soil, would have
us believe that Secretary Aoheson with >ne
hand defeated Chiang Kaishek and turned
China over to the Communists.
The snipers forget that Chiang by his
ruthless poln-iet invited Communism, mat
the Communists defeated Chiang. All the
weaknesses of Kaishek’s regime, the corrup
tion that surrounded him, the eagerness with
which his men deserted by the millions to
tlw enemy tamp, lit endless demands fui
more money from this country and Ins mis
erable failure to help Joe Stiiweli in World
War II—all that is forgotten or- ignored.
And some of the snipers are allegedly as
sociated with the China propaganda agency.
They are being paid to plead for aid for
Chiang, meaning they have a job to do even
if it is or isn’t advantageous to this country.
Then there are those snipers who would
have this country send Chiang goods, know
ing they would get a commission.
There is a future life, and our acts and
their consequences will follow us into it, ev
ery one of them.—R. A. Tony
The stranger rode in silence for a time,
and then said “Prettv long wav from home j
isn't he?” !
Too l,on■ 4n Estimate Of Polities
There is to much loose talk about depravi
ty in polities. Like this: '“If he isn’t a crook
now, he will be very soon after he Rets into
office." which remark was made l;v a man in
Palis while a candidate for United States
Senator was speaking during the recent cam
paign. This is hut a sample of things people
suv. wtmu.JLiilkioau-dsyul p-olitn-v-m thw .-miv-.
try. A stranger would think our Congress
and legislatures were composed of theives
true, of course, that 'CongresST?
not measuring up to old-hrne
. II I .....
remains that 'an overwhelming majority <>?
them are atove reproach so far as common
honesty is concerned. As for the general run
of officeholders, the ones with whom we
come in contact in our post offices and LOT!* P**
houses art1 fair samples of the whole. They
most always are valuable in church and com
munity, men whose credit is good in bank
and store.
In destroying the' confidence of young
people m everybody who engages in politics
we destroy confidence in our form of govern
ment. It is a Government of parties, and
parties must have offices and palmnage of
other sorts in order to survive. Besides, how
could a party enact its principles and policies
into laws without electing men to law-mak
ing bodies? Instead of denouncing politics as
a crooked game, and officeholders as men
unworthy of confidence, a better policy
would be to improve the type of men we
elect to make our laws. While the average
Congressman, Senator, and State legislator
is an honest man, not many of them are out
standing for ability. Most of them should
be replaced with men who rise above pre
sent levels. St. Louis Globe - Democrat.
II ronfi In TJie H roiifi 1*1 ure
T p'ininn' nvor ’»■-» >t! i: In !(\'>{j |hr MlK‘
Arthur hero worshippers, the widely circu
lated Reader’s Digest, had to admit the error
of its ways recently, but not until its brazen
assumptions were exposed by the tragic j
events in Korea.
Jumping all over itself to put MacArthur
on a pedestal along with the immortals, the
Digest inflated the Inchon landing, which,
iii time was charged to MacArthur, who
was saturated with self-esteem all along,
b.v the New York Herald-Tribune as being a
“colossal military blunder”.
The Digest’, after printing several billion
copies of the MacArthur issue', stopped the
presses when its i ,o apparently blundered,
and substituted a different story.
To add to all the confusion, the Herald
Tribune went on to say about MacAi tbur’s
fancy work in Korea: “It is impossible to
put confidence in the military capacity of a
headquarters which has so gravely com
pounded blunder by confusion of facts and
intelligence." In the same issue the Herald
Tribune declared that criticism of MacAr
thur was part of the party line.
And there you have it: a digest magazine
with a vast circulation bedding over back
ward to advance its questionable opinion,
and a great newspapei pulling a McCarthy
stunt but claiming immunity for itself.
MacArthur blundered and there are those
who would kick Secretary Acheson out.
So many have been wrong in the wrong
place, that few know what the score is, and
il is about time that those in responsible
places stop coloring things in an effort to
make them appear differently because they
would have them appear that way.
Krotutiii y Move
As an economy move, some are suggest
ing that county and city governments be
consolidated. Whether a merger of the two
political subdivisions is feasible or desirable
cannot be determined easily, but it must be
admitted that there is overlapping and
where there is overlapping there are addi
tional costs. Most of the merger talks comes
bom tiie big population areas where the
cities take- in one two and on up to five
counties. But there is overlapping in the
smaller areas, too.
The property owner in the towns’pays a
tax to support law enforcement on the coun
ty level, and then is required, on the other
nano, to pay a tax for the support oi a police
department The property owner in town
pays gasoline tax for roads and then, in
turns, is straddled with an advalorem tax.
for streets. The town property owners goes
to one tax collector to pay his county tax
and then goes to another tax collector to pay
his town tax. Some towns maintain their
own jails and courts; yet they are taxed to
support county jails and courts or are billed
for keeping prisoners
No one iias complained a lot about the
overlapping, but the condition*is worthy of
study, looking toward economy in local gov
ernment.
No company is preferable to bad, because
we are more apt to catch the vices of others
than their virture, as disease is far more con
tagious than health. Ex.
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NOTICE OF SALE
North Carolina. Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the au
thority conferred upon me by law
as Administratrix of the estate of
Lula .1 Mi/.vlle, deceased, the un
dersigned Administratrix will, on
Saturday, the 13th day of Janu
ary, Ilia!, at 2 o'clock I’. M m
front of the residence of the late
. uL
u'eiv.-t .svii'a ! • tv.
highest biddt; tot cash the
tne
Vi
1 bit-, threr
Dining room
porch tumid
and all of thi
belonging to
J. Mizelh
rsonal property J
estate of Lula
el December,
1950.
Maltha J. Sexton, Administratrix
I’oel & I’eel, A11 > .
Williamston, N. C
ja 2-9
NOTIC K. Ol SALK
dorlh Can>lina. Martin County.
Under and by virtue of the
power of rale contained in a cer
tain deed of trust executed by C
C. Rawls and wife. Martha M.
Rawls, on the 31st day of .Jan- I
uar.v. 1950, said deed of trust be-:
ing of record in the Public Regis- 1
try of Martin County in Book L-4,
page 590, said deed of trust hav
ing been given for the purpose of!
securing a certain note of even
date and tenor, herewith, default
having been made in the payment
of said note, and the stipulations:
contained in said deed of trust !
not having been complied with,
and at the request of the owner!
of the said note, the undersigned
Trustee will, on Fridas , the 12th j
das’ of .January, 1951, at 121
o'clock noon
in front of the
court -1
house door in the Town of Wil
lian.ston, offer for safe to the
highest bidder for cash, the fol
lowing described real estate, to
wn.:
A certain house and lot lying
and being in the Town of Hamil
ton. beginning at the corner of
Mam and i niun street?;, and run
ning along Union St. llil 1-2 ft to
Mrs .1 M. Edmondson's corner,
thence along her line parallel to
Main St. to Lizzie Feel’s line,
St., thence along Main Si.
to the beginning, being
Septan -
in Book
H D. BATEMAN, Trustee
Peel & Peel. Attorni vs at I,aw,
Wi!!larr-ton. N C
dec 1 !l-2ii ja 2-1)
NOTICE OF RE-SALK
North Carolina, Martin County.
Under and by virtue of an ord
er of re-sale made by 1- jj.
Wynne, Clerk of Superior C«*i t
ol Martin County on the 23rd day .
<>f December, 1950, in the above!
entitled proceedings, the under
signed Commissioner will, on
Thursday, the 11th day of Janu-1
ary, 1951. at 12 o’clock noon in ■
front of the courthouse door in '
the Tewn of Williamston, N. C\,
offer for sale to the highest bid- j
der for cash, the following de
scribed real estate, to-wit:
First Tract: Situate in the Town
of Jamesvdie. Martin County, and !
being lots Nos. 3, 2, 3, 4. 5, ti, and :
7 in Block B in the Kemp Land i
Division, on the East side of St.;
Andrews Strict and bounded as
follows, as shown in plat of re
lord in Land Division Book in the
Public la risti y of Martin Coun
tv, bounded on the North ’by
Jackson Street and on the East by
Maple Branch, and on the South
by line of lot No. 8 in said map
or plat, and along line of stone to
Maple Street, thence back along
Maple Street to point of begin
ning. This deed of conveyance
is made to convey one-half undi
vided interest in said lots, the
part formerly owned by J. D. I,ii
ley and conveyed to Bank of
Jamesville, C A Askew now
owning the other one-half inter
est.
in Jamesvillt
County, N. C
ownship, Martin
beginning at a
men.
in :
.vJtygPMiVff
down sa.d branch 40.4 perches
measured at right angler.' to the
first line to a point, thence N. 7
1-2 W. 45.2 perches to the road,
thence .along said road N. 85 E.
40.4 perches to the beginning,
cot 11 ai li in c 10,
land (lef'riepliiCmsn^zene
by J. W. Ange arid wife by deed
of record in the Public Registry
of Martin County in Book D-2,
pace 513.
Third Tract: Bounded on the
West by St. Anrlrews Street, on
East b\ lands of E. II. Ange and
W. W. Waters, on North by Maple
Street, on the South by Roberson
Street and lends of Ransom Rob
erson to beginning, on St. An
drews Street, containing 2 acres,
more or less, and better known as
the Kemp land.
Fourth Tract: Beginning at a
post, a corner of Grover W. Har
dison and Dolly Hardison lots,
thence a West course along a
fence, Doll;, Hardison’s line, 105
feet to a post, a corner of Dolly
Hardison lot, thence South a
straight line 105 feet to a street,
thence East course along said
course a straight line 105 feet to i
th ’ — < *4
Gi
m .
to
record in Book E-4, page 5K4
Fifth Tract: A tract of 'and in
the Town of Jamesville, N C.,
adjoining the Williamston & Ply-:
mouth Highway and colored j
Methodist Church lot on the:
North, Mrs. F S. Dawes on the i
St. Andrews Street on the West, j
being L. W. Mizelle and school
house lots.
Sixth Tract: That certain wood
store, house and lot situate in the j
Town of Jamesville, on the South |
side of Waters Street, and bound
ed on the North by Waters Street,
e Deginning, cuniaiiung i-t
tn.vu
61 i? - •
J v ir 'ifci
Minnie Hardison by deed V
on the East b.v J. G. Long, on the
South b.v J. G. Long and on the
West by J. L. Davenport, and be
ing the same lot conveyed to C. A.
Harrisrn and G. H. Harrison by
W, W. Waters, Trustee, in deed of
record in Book F-3, page 407 of
the Martin Countv Public Regis
try.
Said fifth tract was sold in I wo
parts, the school house lot and the
home place of Lula Mizelle. Said
fifth tract will again be sold in
two lots, the bid on the school
house tyact starring at .$385.00,
and • he harw}. rdar
s t a 1'
The terms of this sale are cash
HPop .confirmation of tr
r,,: ft. oi St-pt.-.-t.'tfejBpM
Couj?4y..«nd the Successful te. idcf
-LtJ S5•‘it! V>T» 'f‘f
niakv & J , ,,
the sale, pending confirmation of
the sale.
This the 23rd day of December
1950.
Elbert S. Peel, Comirussioiiei
Peel & Peel, Attvs.,
Williamston, N. C
ja 2-9
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