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MUCH TO LOOK FORWARD TO
What can a .seventeen-year-old
youth look forward to? A letter
brought me this question and 1
wanted to wire in reply a counter
question, “What cant he look for
ward to?”
Perhaps the writer had in mind
the interrupted schooling caused
by military seivice which for the
last few years has been the next
stop for seventeen-year-olds.
Whether or not this will continue
is a question to be decided by Con
gress, so we won’t consider it here.
.Nor will we go into the opportunit
ies for earning a living winch an
uheud for youth, for in a ravaged
and depleted world productivity is
rich an obvious nerd tlm.t run
our possible blunders can’t on ate
a serious job scarcity, for some
years at least,.
Instead le ’.; look at what today’s
youth can look forward to which
yesterday's youth was uiu.v . re 1,1. 1
hirst, he has a new (inaension
for his thinking. With all our -nsy
acceptance of lahels so that mere
children are already calling tins j
the atomic age, it isn’t likely that j
our way of living will b, gieatlv ]
nfteeted by this miraculous re
lease of energy for at least :i
nother genetation. Seveal genera
tions continue to see by candle
and lamplight after the discovery
of electricity opened the way for
the incandescent light. But during
those years thousands of human
brains were thinking about the pos
sibility of harnessing electricity.
In those days most scientists had
to furnish their own laboratories
for experiment. Today there are
limitless opportunities for young
people interested in developing
constructive uses for atomic ener-1
gy to work in well-equipped lab
oratories. But it isn’t only the
thinking of scientists which shapes
an era - all of us contribute throug
our inteiest and readiness to' ac
cept its marvels. Anyone possess
ing an imagination is shirking if
he doen’t turn it toward helping
direct mankind to thc beneficient
use of this terrifyingo pwer. Isn’t
this something for seventeen-year
oids toponder?
Second, youth has a new dimen
sion in which to live. For the Air
Age means literally that much of
he time of present-day youth will
be spent in tht. air. Why shouldn't
this be as liberating to thought and
growth as any other great widen
ing of horizons, such as the di6
•o\ery of America?
Third, never have there been
op ortunit ies for a lifetime
of rovh and learning. Again, it
used to be that the man or woman
who wanted to keep on studying
ft - i school yeais had to burn
the lonely midnight oil. Now he
0 ects f i companionable study
in tin1 thousands of a.lult eduen
1 on proj ,'ts which flourish today,
a othe. words, today’s youth isn't
<‘ed Willi that spectre of age,
ti • p U oil the shelf as our
•i.arudf i': nt-: were at sixty or so.
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t REV. ROBERT H. HARPER t
Fellowship in the Church ’
Lesion for November 4: Romans
12: 3-18.
[•olden Text: Romans 12: 10.
Paul stresses the unity of spirit
;hut was so essential to the early
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Soil Conservation
I Edward Gollner located near
Stanley, on the Spencer Mt. road,
has been doing a fine job of im
proving the fertility on what once
was the poorest farm in the com
munity. After following an in
tensive soil improvement program
for the past five years, he har
vested better than 20 bushels of
wheat per acre, one of the best
oat crops in the community, for
nay, and last year sowed 8-4 of
an acre of alfalfa, which he cut
five times. This summer, harvest
ing, a little over two tons of hay.
Mr. Gollner hasn’t stepped with
that; he sowed 10 acres of crim
son clover and another acre of al
falfa recently and plans to put ev
ery acre he can spare in summer
levunies, to be turned for soil im
provement. Another example of
conservation farming paying oil'.
Terrace lines wer<. staked re
cently to be built by the county
terracing units and by farm trac
tors on the following farms: H. F.
Ilankin, Ed Moton, Chas. Moton,
Willie Wilson, Route 3, Gastonia;
Carl Mauney and Barbee Bros.,
Route 4, Lincolnton.
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D. S. Rhyne of the Rhyne Dairy
successful faimer and dairyman
and a supervisor of the Lower
Catawba district, has done an
outstanding job in providing tem
porary grazing and winter pas
ture for at least part of his dairy
herd: Last fall, he planted a large
acreage of Italian rye grass and
crimson clover, the land being
well prepared, fertilized and lim
ed, and had stable manure ap
plied. He then followed this field
with Sudan grass for sulnmer
grazing and this fall sowing back
in winter grazing mixture of
small grain, with winter legumes.
Always experimenting to find new
and more combinations of grazing
crops, Mr. Rhyne sowed a trial
strip of “rescue grass” with la
dino clover as a late winter graz
ing crop. Rescue grass will fur
nish grazing during the late win
ter and early spring and reseeds
itself without further disturbance
of the land, with the ladino clover
lengthening the grazing into the
suummer. If this trial is success
ful he plans to increase the ac
reage with the idea of trying to
provide as near year-around
glazing as possible.
G. D. Herndon Kings Mountain
Route 1, in the Long Creek
Church community, recently sow
ed several acres, after excellent!
preparation and fertilization ol
feed bed, to a mixture of small
grain and rye grass, for winter
and late- spring grazing. lie also
sowed several acres for perma
nent pasture in a mixture of or- j
chard grass and white top clover I
this fall, with a spring supple
ment to be sown on it of lesperto
za and Dallis grass. He too i
planning and working towards
year-around grazing crop® for his
cows.
Interesting things observed o\
er the county recently: C. O. Car
penter Route 4, Lincolnton, drain
ing his three-acre fish pond and
making necessary repairs and im
provements preparatory to restock
ing with fish next spring; 0. I).
Cloninger, Stanley, getting an ex
cellent stand of alfalfa sowed be
fore the last shower - J. A. Rhyne,
Jr., Dallas, locating and plowing
out V-type drainage ditches in his
bottom land, before sowing- grain
—Farmers over the county show
ing interest in the newly organ
ized County Wildlife Club in the
interest of increasing our game,
population - J. E. Brewer, Willis
School section, with a good field
border of sericea lespedeza estab
lished for erosion control and
wildlife - N. M. Carson setting a
few kudzu plants on the high
way cut, for load-bank control -
Harry Falls, Pisgah Church sec
tion, with prospects of an excel
lent crop oi lespedeza seed.
disciples — he likened them to the
members of the body. All would
dwell in harmony and labor well
together when they were one body
in Christ.
Differing gifts, like the talents,
bring differing responsibilities.
The important thing is to use what
one has. Thus Paul urges that
every Christian fully exercise his
ow'n gift.
Only Christian love can har
monize the efforts of many men
of differing gifts. Men can feign
love for selfish reasons. Lova
must be “without hypocrisy.” True
Christian love, its cleansing ef
fects in thj^ life, the helpful ser
vice to which it leads, the hum
ble spirit it makes possible, re
turning good for evil, setting the
thoughts on high things but con
descending to the lowly, as Paul
writes of them, present the essen
tials of an ideal church.
Love is greatly needed in
churches today. Discord, bickering
and strife sometimes hinder the
work of a church and make it a
poor place tc find God and grow'
in Christiaji living.
The exhortation to “be at i
peace with all men’’ should be i
read throughout the distressed
world today. Let Chritsians set
the example in their own rela
tions and altogether bring the
impact of their spirits to bear,
through prayer to God and ap
peal to men, that the nations may
be united in a just and lasting
peace.
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Back In The
SERVICE STATION
Business
I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE \ HAVE ASSUMED
THE MANAGERSHIP OF THE
Service Station
WHICH CHANGED HANDS LAST WEEK
I HAVE SECURED THE HELP OF BILL COST
NER WHO HAS RETURNED FROM OVER SEAS
AND HAS HIS HONORABLE DISCHARGE
WE WASH AND GREASE AND GIVE YOUR
CAR THE GENERAL SERVICE OF THE
FIRST CLASS STATION
WILL APPRECIATE YOUR PATRONAGE
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