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PAGE FOUR Tyrrell County Tribune MISS CORA M. BARKSDALE Editor PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAV -i. LULUAaBIA, k. u. BY 11 »ES i RIMING CM, Inc. ONE V „AK si.:,o i EK.IIT ...O.Wfu., _ ... i T*l »v .., . i ...i .;-,n | Application lor entry ns Stcjiid Class \ mau.r at me Post Office at Columbia, N. C. i'c.LU.ISH..iCS Nt.TIV £ This uev» spaper ut,,c> its , t i.tis to send in news in-in.. au u: .nailin'. ~ tf' i.uti *..■ | terest. Ltu.-rs mu.-'. be sigi.ee> iioaevcr, a ! evidence a. good ia.fr. a t. ..rg.- of one- • hu.l a cent a wurj is made 1 'publishing ' obituaries, cards of tnanks, r oluuoas o. I respect, etc. Your subscription money c it lies you to I receive e.try cop> ot the pp r y..u pat- i fir, and we want you to not. j us, n you! fail to get it. \>'e want you t rece.ve it { Promptly. Send renew als piaiiptly, and i help us both. j AIiENTS \S ANT.vD as well ns correspon- > dents, in all communities tn which this! paper circulates, to sell me p,.pcr on uucia. I commission basis and to scad us news, j Write for details. VOL. I DEC. 29. 1939 NO. 4 1 Mora Industries Needed On the threshold of a new j year, it is well to review our| {accomplishments in tne past, and to consider those things we should seek to obtain in 1940. The three great Coastland counties of Dare, Hyde and! Tyrrell in the Southern Albe marle, are woefully lacking in small industries. We need more of them. The need has suddenly grown; for at one time our fields and streams i and forests proved ample to! all needs. The growth in pop-! -illation, and the competition ! with localities favored with! better roads and other advan tages have brought about more stringent conditions. We need more employment, more payrolls. A weekly payroll in a com munity does more to bring trade to the stores, to vitalize l business, to stabilize economic conditions and to keep in cir culation the life giving stream of cash without which any email community is stagnant. A payroll, however little, be cause of its regularity, and its j ready cash gives a feeling of ’ranee. It enables the j 1 earner to plan for the J mrchases h> . •lake. I in uent j A,re small in the! thrt . ..l counties of the Southern Albemarle. At one time this feature might have been looked upon as a detri ment to small industries be cause labor might have been j small in quantity. But this is i not a detriment any longer, for workers can travel by au tomobiles from their homes many miles distant, and re turn at night. You might take a circle with a diameter of 50 miles, with the town of either Columbia, Manteo Swan Quarter or Engelhard in the center, and find within that area hundreds of capa- j Jble, intelligent people anxious j for steady employment, who, could worit in town, but re tain the benefits of living in the country, or a small com munity, by driving home each night. In each of the three coun ties a committee should be formed at once, to consider what industries would be best suited to their particular lo cality; to consider means of bringing them about, and to plan for the guarantee of lo cal cooperation and good will, once investors had decided to cast their lot with the people who need work, and the com munities that need industries. There should be factories calculated to manufacture wood products; small hosiery mills, fish nocking and can ning plants: vegetable and pa rt: to man ufacture souvenirs of native materials and many other industries. One eoose will not continue to lay all the eegs for this great section, leaders who do nothing P,br”+ the situation will soon - arr-eat drains upon our lead ■'"■shin as It seeks op s pThcr places, and wi’l. sec a dwindling of the on which we all now depend for a living. We all owe it to ourselves to do something for the young people who are coming on at ter us. Now is the tune to plan for the establishment of industries. Recipe For Prosperity One doesn’t get ahead in j life by taking everything_be has at home « i Away to some nel S h ‘ bor. Likewise is the man do ing himsdf the greatest wrong of all, when he sends away for things he could get at home. He is cheating him - self, and his neighbor out of a job, and adding to his own j burdens on every hand. ; If every person could see it. !he would profit, if first be - would spend all he can as near jhome as he can; next going to 'the nearest neighboring larg ier town to buy what is not ! readily available at home. We i must remember that the m >r j chant at home, and next t>e j merchant in our neighboring j larger towns and trade cen i ters are our really best ! friends. Thev serve us the ! year round; they give employ j ment to us, buv of us, support ! churches and schools, and pay home taxes. If they went j out of business we would be jin dire straits, but the send ing away of monev in great ! quantities tends to drive them | out of business. Money se away doesn’t readily come back to us; the only money we can figure on getting an other whack at, is what we spend among our homefolks and neighbors. FAIRFIELD NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Minter r d children I have returned to their home in j Winston, N. C., after spending sev jeral days with Mrs. Minter’s sister, • Mrs. R. L. Jones. i Members of the high school fa>’- 1 julty have gone to their respective ■homes for the holidays. Miss Martha O’Neal of Greens boro, N. C., is spending the holidays at home with her mother, Mrs. Willie O’Neal. ! Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Jones and chil dren left Friday for uranite Falls, |N. C., to spend the holidays with Mrs. Jones’ mother. ! Miss Inez Swindell of Raleigh i? spending the week end here with relatives. Miss Camille Swindell of i/ouis burg is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr and Mrs. P. E. ! Swindell. ( Miss Virginia Seegars of E. C. T. |C. and Neal Seegar of State are at jhome with their mother, Mrs. J. L. I Simmons. j Miss Dorothy Jones of Cerro j Gordo arrived home Friday to .-jp=nd the holidays with her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Jones. j Woman’s Club | Mrs. Hertford Jones was hostess to Fairfield Woman’s Club Thurs- 1 day afternoon, Dec. 21st. The Christmas program having been given the evening before, no program was planned for the regu lar meeting other than the singing iof Christmas carols, j Plans to buy new books for the 'library were discussed. Mrs. Jones served fruit cake and ale. Christmas Program A community tree and Christmas program were held at the high school auditorium, Wednesday evening, Dec. 20, under the spon sorship of Fairfield Woman’s Club jand the Fairfield Methodist, Bap jtist and Christian churches, j Mrs. E. R. Stewart, chairman of {the program committee, and Miss jAda Tunnel! director, planned the program. I Christmas packages were given to children. The Rev. E. R. Stew art read the scripture lesson, and the Rev. R. L. Harris pronounced the benediction. Mrs. O’Neal Hostess I Mrs. Harry O’Neal was hostess • to the Fairfield Book Club and the ! Christmas “Pollyanna” party Tues jday evening, Dec. 19. The recep -1 tion room was decorated with blue land silver, and the hall banked with , I red and green shrubs and berries, i! A Mr. and Mrs. Contest, appro priate to Christmas was a feature .I of entertainment. Mrs. Robert iLittrell, Mrs. John L. Mann, Mrs. '! Holden Cuthrell, Miss Ada Tun '! nell and Miss Flora Reid tied for *|the prize, answering seventeen of r jthe twenty questions. A lovely ■ j picture of a Christmas scene was l . presented Miss Reid who drew the ■ I lucky number. i Officers elected for the new year - are as follows: Mrs. A. G. Harris, , chaplain; Mrs. Harry O’Neal, presi dent (reelected); Mrs. R. L. Jones, New books for 1940 will be pre r sented at the January meeting. l when Mrs. R. G. Roebuck will be at l home to the club. decline ! A marked decline in farms lost through foreclosures in the last five years as well as a continuance, in the decline of farm-mortgage debt have been reported by the L. S. Department of Agriculture* PHOSPHATE Where he used phosphate on his {pastures, S. E. Wilson, a unit dem oistration fanner of Speedwell m ! Jackson County, has been abla-a* graze his cattle 20 days more****; formerly. “THE TWO CENSUS BOOKS” Bv REV. ALFRED L. CHAPLIN, M. A. Th. M. Os one census book it is written by Luke: “And .t came to pass in those days, there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.” Os the other census book it is written by Jonn: “And there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, nether worketh abomination, or a he, but they which are written in the Lamb’s booK of life.” In these two texts our attention is directed to two census books. Upon the pages, of these two books is in scribed the accurate and official roil of the inhabitants of two dif ferent worlds. this Christmas time as we look the lids of these two books we oug*it to see the difference between the temporal and the eternal. For the first of these two census books we look to Rome where Caesar Augustus, the Emperor, has issued an imperial decree that the entire Roman world must be en rolled as a census. The inhebitants had to go and register, and to reg ister they must return to their an cestral villages. At least as far as the Jewish province of Judea is con cerned the inhabitants were to re-, turn to the villages of their ances- 1 tors to register in the census. Like! a host of others, Mary and Joseph of Nazareth return to their ances tral town of Bethlehem where Jesus is born. And Jesus’ name was writ ten in Caesar’s census book. For the second of these two cen sus books we look to the Isle of Patinos, where the sainted Apostle ; John lives an exiled life in the days of persecution. On the Isle of Pat- j mos Johr. catches a vision of the ; heavenly city, New Jerusalem; a city of dazzling splendor and of matchless beauty; a city where peo ple will want to live forever. But a census has been taken and an accurate roll of the names of those who can live in that city has been made. For the census the inhab itants of the heavenly city have 1 registered in the Lamb’s book of j life. j On this Sunday just before Christmas, I want first to open Cae- j sar’s census book and study its contents for a few moments. “And I it came to pass in those days a de-1 cree went out from Caesar Augus-; tus that all the world should bo i taxed.” And they went up to be i taxed, every one to his own city.” j The people were already groaning j under the burden of heavy taxes,; and so when this enrollment was j tarten there were many expressions : of dissatisfaction and many demon- 1 strations of discontent. They felt | they were already paying ail thej taxes they were able to pay. 1 But in obedience to the powers j that be, and in accord with the imperial decree, Mary and Joseph come to Bethlehem from Nazareth. : Nearly a hundred miles they travel , and at the end of the journey ini- j medatiely the baby Jesus is born of ■ Mary. And his name was recorded > in the census book. It was the first 1 , book his name was ever written in : j | “Jesus, the son of Mary and Joseph . of Nazareth.” And that was about j ' all that was said and that was say- j ing a lot. The one bright spot in all this dark and gloomy taxation business of Rome was THE hum ble birth of the unknown Jesus. The one Alpine peak that towers in ma jesty and glory over that low-lying ' plain of imperialism and slavery was the birth of Christ. Ai: I look further into the con tents of Caesar’s census book I | would like so much to know if the notation was entered in it that Jesus was bom in a stable because business cares had crowded him out of the inn. Had Joseph been a I man of wealth, so they could af j ford the necessary comforts, Jesus I would have been spared the glori ous humility of being born in a stable. I would like to know if a single word was entered in that book about the discomforts Mary suffered on that long journey and while her babe was born and wrap ped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger because they were poor people. Surely we can not despise the poor nor fail to respond to the appeals that look to their happi ness at this time of the year that marks the birthday of a poor babe of a poor mother. It would be interesting to know if a line was written in that book telling us God had done all he could do to give sinful man a Sa vior. Heaven emptied itself, and the best gift God has in glory is ’ freely given for sinful man in the gifts of Christ. It would be good • to know if anything was recorded about the fact here is the source of all uplifting influences that would • ever come in ali age 3. It is a pity we are so ungrateful for the multi plied blessings. When I open Cae sar’s census book and look for any description of the conditions under which Christ was bom, the bless ings he brings and t£e gift of God he is, I do not see anything. Not a i thing do I see. All I see are these i words: “Jesus, son of Mary and Joseph of Nazareth.” j Now Caesar’s census book was! something material; something as. a visible object; something you could handle and see. It was writ- j ten by the hand of man, with ink, j upon a piece of parchment, and when it was completed it was filed, away, in the archives of Imperial i Rome,. But western civilization was . mnawraed then in the cares of xna~ terialism, and western civilization THE TVRRri.L COUNTY TRIBUNE is still immersed in the cares of things material. We are not by na ture and by experience a mystical people and we have difficulty in maintaining an interest in realities that are unseen. We are enthusias tic in our search for the things we can see and the things we can handle. Unless it is something that has a money value we don’t want . it and we are not seeking fur it. But Jesus said, “life consisteth not of the abundance of things a man possesseth.” Life consists of a whole lot more than pay checks, bank accounts, money and visible things that are material. But Caesar’s census book was something material and because it was material it was temporal. Veri ly it was of but passing value that served a purpose only a few years and then it perished. That piece o r parchment, filed ! n the archives o Rose with Jesus’ name in it ha never been discovered and there 1 no hope that it sha ll ever be found It was material and being materia it was temporal. In so far as w< are immersed in the material w are immersed in the temporal. Thi: j material civilization of ours is lik i that of which Jesus prophesied ! “Not one stone shall be left upor another.” Heaven and earth sha! pass away, saith the Lord, but nr word sha". stand forever and ther. shall be a new heaven and a new earth. The grass withereth and tin flower fadeth and we are like th withering gra s and the, fading flower and a" there is material o i us shall perish. i And now 1 look again for Cae sar’s census book and it has disap peared forever because it is ma terial and a voice within proclaims so shall all things that are just material. On this Sunday, just before Christmas, I want next to opei . the Lamb of oGd’s census book and study its contents for a few moments. John is speaking ! about those who are to live for ! ever in the heavenly city of New i Jerusalem. “And there shall in no I wise enter into it anything that de fileth, or whatsoever maketh abom j ination or a lie but they which are ! written in the Lamb’s book of life.” j Os the many titles used in the New Testament to designate cm 'Savior none is more fitting than i the “Lamb of God.” Arid so, on the ! outer leaves of this census book is written the name that is above | every name, the name of the Lamb ,of God And 1 turn to the inside of i the Lamb’s bcok of eternal life to ! see whose name is enrolled there. *£ best wishks r Sb** TRIBUNE Virginia Electric & Power Company WILLIAMSTON NORTH CAROLINA I look to see if Caesar’s name is ; n there. Jesus’ name was written in Caesar’s book and now is Caesar’s name written in Jesus’ book ? I wonder has the magnificent and im per'al Caesar Augustus failed to have his name inscribed on the im perishable pages of the Lamb’s book of life? Well, if it is not there he has missed the most significant census enrollment he has ever faced. And yet it is none of my business whether Caesar’s name can be found in there or no. But this is the vital question and this is the personal question: Is my name' found in the Lamb’s census book of heaven? 1 hear Jesus say to his disciples: “Rejoice that your names are written in heaven,” and I take comfort in the knowledge that the name of every sincere Christian is! written in the Lamb’s book of life. 1 The certainty of this fact rests upon the truth the Lamb of Cod’s census book is a thing that is spir itual. It is not something that can be handled with hands and seen with eyes, but it exists only in the lind of God. It is something that intangible and invisible and aides in heaven with God. It is spiritual and because it is piritual it is eternal. I hear Paul ay, “The things that are seen are emporal but the things that are ot seen are eternal.” Life on earth - but a training school for heaven nd as we turn towards heaven we urn toward that which shall last hile the endless ages roll. And I look again for the Lamb’s >ook of life and I see it; I see it .biding and enduring forever and •ternal, because it is spiritual and livine. Such is the message of Jhristmas. NECK NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Henry Meekins and I children, Phyllis and Dudley, of! Elizabeth City spent the Christmas i holidays with relatives here. Leroy Tarkington of Hopewell, i Virginia, spent Christmas with his; parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Tark ington. Rosalie Parisher of Washington, D. C., is spending the holideys with , her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Par isher. rio.vd Patrick of Hopewell, Vir- , ginia, is spending the holidays with his family here. Irving Tarkington, who has been spending the last few weeks here anci at Creswe’l, left this week fori Fort Penning. Georgia, having re- : Cfcived a transfer from Fort George Meade. Maryland. ] .•i'"-' Ik elywh' BrlLmce. who teaches in Gum Neck high soli 101, is spending the holidays at her heme at Lake Landing. ; Ii). 0. S twyer has returned from Raleigh ana Durham where Iv spent several days with relatives. j ! Mr. and Mrs. Belvin Everton and little daughter, Shirley Kay, of Martinsville, Virginia, spent the Chrismas holidays with relatives here. Miss Hazel Owens is spending the holidays with her parents at Elizabeth City. . The Tobacco Tags, who broadcast over WRVA Richmond, presented their third show of the year at Gum Neck high school auditorium Friday night. They are very popu lar in Gum Neck. I ] upils of Mrs. L. L. Combs and Miss Hazel Owens presented an in i teresting Christmas entertainment ■T. t the high school auditorium Thursday evening. After the pro gram Santa Claus distributed it hristmas gi ts from the large tree iin the auditorium. 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