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IntariMtMnai Undent lf"?..r"hoo'-rqrt. Something for Love Lesson for December 24, 1880 -SCRIPTURE: tuk 111-20; PbllippiaM :DEVOTIONAL READING: Matthew It l-ia. ( . THIS Is a true story but it also Is a parable for Christmas. , ' Once upon a time there lived a lady who had everything. As Christ mas time came on, hw mnnv friends racked their brains to think what they could give her. It would . have '. been absurd to send her a check, for though she was- not "rich she did not, really need money. There Dr. Foreman was notning 10 speak of that she seemed to need for her house, for she had lived in one place for some time and she had collected about au tne rumiiuro vu bric-a-brac that her house would hold. There was" not much use In giving her something like candy be cause she was on a diet and could not eat fancy foods. She had more pictures than she could hang at one tune, and as for books, she had a taste above best-sellers and what she could not get from the public library she could buy for herself, . A Lovable Person HOWEVER, her friends were de termined to give her some thing, for she was a lovable per son; so when Christmas time came her table was piled with gay parcels from near and far. Some of the -gifts may have been expensive and some not. but aU were beautiful. So she appreciated them, bat because . she conld have bought any of them herself, she did not appreciate any of them quite so much as she did one present that when Christmas . . . . .morning came couiu.ua 1 seen at all. One conld not call It beautiful present to look at; Indeed It was seen only once. : Bat the memory of It lingered. '.' for long time. ' 1 a very good cook when first she 'went to work, because she was ' young and no one had trained-tier and she did not like to be trained. She was suspicious of any one who tried to show her how to do anything, and sue oore a grudge against. any one wbothad more in this world than she hack But the kdy was patient, Jn 4 th -fcirt 'learned about a home (from her; indeed the most and the best she learned was not about cooking at . all, as you shall see. The Invisible Gift ON the day before Christmas the girl went home early to spend : the day with her family. But before dark 0:1 Christmas day, in the same hour the kitchen stove went out of order , and visitors cams to spend the night, and the lady full ill. Not knowing what to do, she called up ' the girl, Christmas tnougn 11 was, and asked her if she could come " back and help out for a few hours - to get things straight Hn iha clrl came and niade . the stove behave and cooked a meal and took. care of her; friend and made everything as It should be on that day. When -It was late and time to go, the ' ladr offered the girl more. than f' her usual pay. But the girl would ' not take even one coin. She said to her friend: "I like to do something, for love." , ' So when the presents lay opened, on the very top of the pile, visible t to the Inward eye alone, were the hours of work given because the glyer wanted to do something for " love. ' 'ii' "iKi-C' '.::s The True-Gift vnifc.' GIFTS that are sold in the stores, 'gifts that crowd the post , of fices, carloads of gifts that pass - each other in the night on roaring wheels, the little gifts and the great: which of these are given for love? Some are sent to return a favor; 'some because it Is the thing to be done; some are sent out of old habit, or in hope of favors to come. Where is the true Christmas gift? , It can never be seen, for It cannot be sold tn the store and . ' the post office does not know the rates on It. It comes silently, and ;' sometimes only the giver and God know about it, and the one who receive It does not suspect. ' But' It shines above all the On : eel and the stars upon the Christ mas tree; when the lights are oat It glows tn the dark. It keeps the night bright for the lonely .' : heart.. It la the something done :. for low1 -4 '''.., ' That Is : what Christmas means.. On the first Christmas Eve,. Marj the blessed Mother, was in pain, but It was pain borne in love. You ould not have paid heritor it Yes, snd the Child that lay in the manger thflt night was there because God wanted to do something for love. CnjiyHrM tr tli IMaraatlnst Ca fit K4flflatlaa a bafcatf 1 it ) .i...iit tfaomlnUBa. .StlMHi I . ' I I - .tiri. ' -t L& -i m..m w f Publication CciivCiaLi County Soil Cc::2lion . j ; Gene Goldston of the North Caro lina Agricultural. Experiment sta tion and bead of a soil survey party operating tn Duplin County, asserts that some farmers arc unknowing ly using their poorest soils for growing crops, while large areas of fine soil more suitable for crop raising go uncultivated. Some of the Duplin farmers, he adds, have acres of Norfolk fine sandy loam at their disposal but fall to realize the worth of these acres in pro ducing money crops. : E;'?fi: in n n c Ell Raleigh, N. C. The Hackney Brothers' firm of Wilson is happy. The outfit was clipped $8,500 for failing to live up to a contract with the State, and has powerful friends trying to. get its money refunded. The story -. first reported in this column -- goes like this: On. April 1 Hackney Brothers got a contract to build bodies for 450 badly needed school buses. Un der the contract, the Wilson firm was to deliver the buses at the rate of seven percent (32) buses) a week, starting one month after the chas sis were delivered to them. -The 450 ohasis went to the.Wilson firm on May 10, so the first 32 buses were to have been delivered by June 0 and the contract completed by September 1. By July 27 not one single bus had been delivered. Hackney pleaded wartime difficulty in getting steel - - but the contract was given him April 7, two and one half months before the Korean war started and while he still could have ordered the steel. , On July 27, Contract and Fur chase Division Director Charles Williams sent a registered letter to Hackney Brothers calling for de livery or else. The "or' else" "was covered by a -clause In the contract which says; "In case of default of the contractor, the State may pro cure the articles or services from other sources and hold the con tractor responsible for .any excess cost occasioned thereby." . . - Williams pulled 100 buses from firm to have bus bodies put on llhem. That cost S45, per Bus above the Hackney bid of $1,110 per bus, plus some $40 per bus . extra in transportation and inspection char ges. In other words, each of those 100 buses cost the State" approxi mately $89 more than the Hackney bid. It wasn't until August 12 that Hackney delivered the first bus. By October 18 -- a month and a month and a half late -- the last of the original 450 buses contracted for had been delivered, with Hack ney actually building only 850 of them. " When Hackney submitted his in voice, calling for full payment for the 350 buses, Williams deducted the approximately $8,500 extra It bad cost for the 100 buses built by. the Georgia firm. Hackney was un happy, he felt he should have the full amount, despite the fact he had not lived up to his contract Williams refused. It wasn't long until Larry Moore of Wilson, chairman of, the finance committee In the House In the 1949 session and thereby a member of the -Advisory Budget Commission, was "suggesting" - that Hackney couldn't help bis inability to get steel ..and "shouldn't be made to suffer" because of an unforeseen war, " More enlisted the aid of fellow Advisory Budget Commission mem ber Frank Taylor of Wayne. Taylor was chairman of the 1949 House appropriations committee -- a post he is reportedly slated to hand Moore if Taylor is named speaker of the 1951 House.:. fei-1...". Recently Hackney was allowed to argue his case before a secret -- as always session of the- Advisory Budget Commission, which also is the board which awards contracts. What happened at that session has not been reported, but reliable sources say no action was taken on the Hackney matter despite efforts of Moore and Taylor, i V r P. S. This isn't the first time the Hackney 'outfit has been, a little slow delivering school buses it had contracted to build. The firm was given similar contract on April 9, 1946. By June 13, 1947 --.more than a year later -- the, firm still had not delivered. A letter from then-Contract and Purchase Direct or W. Zrfietta said In part: "Your lack of cooperation in fulfilling any part of your contract has given us serious concern." Former Director Betts also gave a "deliver or else" ultimatum. - . ." , The new buses are used to re place, old school buses. Failure to deliver them on time could mean a serious accident, killing or maim ing school children who had to ride in rickety school buses that were scheduled for replacement v - Goldston's report on the Duplin survey is contained in the new autumn issue of "Research and Farming," quarterly publication of the Experiment Station. , ' The-report also reveals results of hybrid breeding tests with cotton. In an article describing the devel opment of a "triple hybrid," . Dr. Gladys F. West, who Is carrying on cotton breeding work at the Sta tion, says fifth generation strains are now being tested. The new plants have excellent fiber strength, (P8 CWH its 1951 legislative Campaign, It's going to ask the General As sembly to grant 10 days sick leave a year -- cumulative -- with full pay for teachers. This is in addition to the sick leave setup they have now. whereby the teacher is al lowed to stay out while sick as long as necessary, making up the differ ence between state pay and local pay to substitute.. . NCEA claims it is a professional organization and not a union. How ever, the organization has recently taken in a "Department of Trans portation," made up of the people who maintain school buses and can by no stretch of the imagination be classified as "professional" peo ple. NCEA's main function seems to be holler "gimme" to the legis lature. t , ' , Few people realize the enormous job that John-Gold undertook when he took over as prisons director, He says he's , learning as he goes along. , His. ideas are sound. Rehabilita tion of the prisoner should be the primary aim of the prison, Gold says. Every effort should be made to turn him out as a good citizen, able to live and work with his fel lowmen. Being in prison is,; of course, punishmenTf or law viola tion. But Gold believes the prisoner should be taught discipline, through 1 obeying prison rules and regulat-9 ions; a trade, so that he will be able to care for himself when he gets out -Gold is taking everything in stride. He's investigating every re port of mistreatment of prisoners, misfeasance in office. Te's "keeping the boys On their toes, and be lieves he is cutting out graft - petty or otherwise. He pays for his own meals at prisons. Apparently, the former Winston Salem police chief is the man for the job. ... , ' vk. ".r'f:: Drafting of doctorein North Car olina apparently is hitting hardest where doctors are most needed. The first call seemed to hit the rural sections or small towns where they had only one or two doctors. Any doctor who got his training at, government expense should be ready and willing to repay his country by entering ; the service. I But there has been a dearth of "country doctors" for a long time. It seems ironical that the young men who entered general practice where they were most needed should b the first to get the nod. While on the medical subject let's toss a .few orchids to the doc tors for the plan to give a half million dollars to aid in training more doctors. It's a shame they didn't use their million-dollar anti socialized';: medicine propaganda campaign money for the same pur pose. ,,'," -''..'," , The telephone companies are do ing all right in the raise-getting field. Recently the Utilities Com mission has granted a number of boosts. Week before last for ex ample, the,Westem Carolina Tele phone Company of Franklin was allowed ' an $8,000-a-year host in gross income. The Norfolk and Car olina Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Elizabeth City gor a raise of $52,000 gross Income, which will add $25,000 a year to its net take-l and raise rates in-Elizabeth City, Hertford, Edenton and Manteo.j , ' The boosts are being granted on the basis of added investments in the companies. They are justified on the basis of the company getting a certain -percentage return on its total Investment , It seems to me that if you're get ting a return of one dollar each per telephone that you'll get the same rate of return no matter whether you add to your investment by adding 1,000 more phones or not : In other words, if the company is valued at $1,000,000 and has 10,- 000 phones the rate Is set so that these bring in a return of around six and one-half percent If you spend another $100,000 and add an other 1,000 phones, it would seem that the same rate on these edai- tional phones would bring la the same t f'"nt."". iu;. 41 she says, and yields show definite improvement. Bound in an attractive photo cover and written in non-technical language, .the autumn "Research and Farming' makes available to the public Information on some of the latest discoveries in agricultur al science. Single eopies .-are free on request Write Agricultural Ed Iter, State College Station, Raleigh, and ask for a copy of the autumn, 1050, issue of "Research and Farm ing." the customers. i, The road-building com itracHi ors are claiming they've been insulted - that they don't try to dictate to the Highway Commission t in its policy and operation. ' Then why is it that they're using every pressure trick they can think of to get the commission to lower.! the specifications for a 24.4-mlle strip of U. S. Highway 301, for which the contract for resurfacing and widening will be let Dec. 19? It seems that the boys think the standards are too .high. They'd like to seem the mlowered, because then they could" make a bigger profit And they're doing everything short of bribery to have their way. - incidentally, the strip In question i is from Whi takers to Weldon, via Enfield and Halifax. And 301 has become the most widely used north south route In the State, particular ly for the New .York-'Florida traf fic. If there ever was a highway that needed to be top grade, that's it-!. " ' One contractor got caught trying to put down a road that didn't meet specifications.; He wasjresur facing a atrip on one of the more widely-traveled east-west highways. He didnt see fit to put as thick a coating on it as he was supposed to, but a sharp-eyed Highway De partment inspector caught him, He had to go back and put down .an other layer. Estimated cost --out of his own pocket -- because he dldnV do It right the first time varies from $60,000 to $100.000. ; This same contractor Was report ed as saying that he had "been get ting by with it" for the past ten years. - Big corporations are expecting the excess profits tax and are do ing something about It There's a flood of applications for new cor porations going through Secretary of State Thad Eure'a office these days. Many of them have Identical names on them. In other words, one big corporation would have to pay a big' excess tax. But if it di vides Into three mall onST split ting profits, it will pay smaller ex cess taxes - -If any. The Individual taxpayer still is hooked though. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE , TO CREDITORS Having qualified as executor, of the estate of D. B. Johnsoa.'de- ceased,v late ' of , Duplin1: . County,' North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against' the estate of said deceased to ex hibit them to the undersigned at Chinquapin, N. C., or, Grady-. Mer cer, Beulavlll'e, N..C. on or before the 14th day of November, 1951, or this notice will be pleaded in bar Of their recovery. All persons in debted to said estate will please make immediate payment , This 14th day of December, 1950. I George Frank Landen, Exe ' ' cutor. of D. B. Johnson, v.., Grady Mercer, - , . Attorney at Law . l-26Vfit GM ' The Ledyard Vault . , Precision proof --Built 'j .Age ..AIR-SEAL v - Manufactured by . SMITII VAULT CO." kinston . Consult Your Local ' Funeral Director "7 .-- : FLUKING and .. HEATING ATrnrmoN . , IIOMSOWNESS 10 down - 2 years to pay Installation of Water Systems, Ba'Jirooms, Hot Water Heaters, Kitchen Stoves and Central Keat ing F'f' L riVT ISO Ar. :.a cc::tactcs '::. ..I , AM EDITORIAL. HUW.N .BEING can love an 1 4 other whom he has never known, tove iT0W O"11 mate contact What i true between human beings Is true also between human beings and God. The more truly we know God, the more deep ly Is love for Him embedded out hearts. , - To, know God Is Wt mere privl. lege; it is a duty .enjoined by reli gious faith. God expects men to p, proach Him without fear or hesita tion. It is only through knowledge of God and the cultivation of, "Kl friendship that men can be moved to practice those virtues that, make them dealing in ms is. -v"' familiarity with .God "can prompv the unselfish service' wniqn genuijn love demands. . - Somoma ask: How Is it possible lS riuir.Wo discover ai'.d X " ' iHI JhMWW - - ' ., . God through- religious maoi-inm tion, through the study of the Scrip ,. Oirouirh the guidance and in l.nir.tinn ftf srdrftual ltade Not 'only that: all around us are nature's I.tMImm manifest rns Of the glory. Iwl.dom and l-er, of the 'infinite irnnurfnu God w must'of necc it. rv Him. and in so' doing terit the eternal rewara w ""-' e were created. But again qu on may be asked: ; What, is mean Asmrlnu QodT :".. The answer h sunw - Ice to God means. rs oi n loyalty to His commanamems. means recognizing toa in our i:b" bars. We please God-by our prayers, !our firm dedication, to His - laws. But most of all we nonor turn doing good to others, without re servation or aiscrurunauon. ; - . Men look for God in the Heavens; but He Is also In every human heart. That is one ' of .."the s profoundert truths of rallglonl Every word of Undness, every deed of unselfish charity; every gesture of encourage meht to another is an offering laid at the feet of the Creator Himself. To recognize and live by this truth is to walk by His rid all through our lives.' . . UtUA Mini n mm, wm StrrU. srf m ky UlM Xw ANCESTORS' COSTUMES . . . Dressed. In eostnnie,'of their " Quaker t ancestors, Walter C. ., Borton and Mrs. Lester Collin -of Moorestown, N. J., chat with ,. Gov. Alfred DrlsooU. , . ; ' Religion ' t " - Question Box lj! What was -the Scots Confesslenl ! . Ai A Calvinistic confession ' drawn- up' by John Knpx and five other ministers and adopted - by othe Scottish Estates in 1530. . It served as the creedal basis ;of Scottish Presbyterianism un- f -' til it was replaced by the West- :' Q: What w -the leaven used bj the Ancient JewsT- - .A: The leaven' spokr of in the Bible is -a simple form of ' yeast probably-made from the J;. : wild yeast common in hot coun tries. It Is in no way different ' in Hi action from the commer- . elal yeast of today. " Q: What la the AngelusT A: A Roman Catholic prayer ?) said three times day in honor of the Incarnation. 1 Q: What Is the subtitle sometime! applied to the Book of ProverbsT . A: The Poetical Bdbk of Prae- tical Piety. It includes maxims, fables, riddles, ; satires, pro- verbs and poems.. ' Qt What la the meaning of the wore Deuteronomy f , . . . ,A: The Greek word means re ' petition of the law. Supposedly the book was written by Moses who received the law direct, : from God and repeated it to the ' . people. . - Arc .a: i hOyVCi T e Curch of Eng land has always Lmioted the Blessed Virgin . as the ' mother of Jesus .Christ but cannot accept the dogma of her bodily aswmption into heaven shortly after her death, Dr. Cyril Forster Garbett Archbishop of York, declared In a presidential address to the Convocation of York. Dr. Garbett's repudiation of the Assumption doprrna came after he clniin-1 ft 1 t i" 1 tiding. ... IVilIn James Thomas and Vy oma Quinn; Carl Fuson Savage and Eyble Ellen Vernon; .Woods Eholar and Madeline Henderson; Jerald Harper and Virgittia Jones;- Earl Rav Williams and MUdrea riatn- erine Brown; Rayford Franklin Gurley and .Mae Anderson; John William Bryan and Nell Gynn Mit chell; Allen Quinn and catnerine EJwards; Norwood Lanier and Han nah K. 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