a Y. Belk ? ? ? AND HIS NEWS OF NEBO VALLEY Mr. Charles Gantt and young wife from Sarifofd, N. visited his father and mother in the Val ley last week. ' i It rained In the Valley last week. We are tfUu looking ior more. We always try to look up. If we can't have much faith ? that's the most powerful word ijt the English language. By faith we can move a stone mountain, but where would you put it? One thing Noah could not do: create two hills without a hol low. Can't you see? Mr. Truman gone over to stop the war. Did he go by Moscow and take Joe? We can't keep up with that fighting pair. When Mr. Roosevelt left these lolling climes he left his foot prints down on the sand with Harry Truman guide the ship of state. MacArthur he did bring down because he was a greater man. I'll vote lor Truman Just like I'd vote for Joe Stalin. Why? 'Cause my daddy was a Demo crat. Hain't I right. My daddy couldn't of been wrong. An old darkey who read the Bible a lot asked me If Moses was a Demo crat. I said, I don't know. Why? Well, didn't he go to the Promise Land? I said, yes, he did, but not all Moses go to the Promise Land. Let me remind all Demo crats don't find v the Promise land. It depends on how many votes one can huy. Who feeds the world? Is it not the Truman hand? If Truman only knew how he stands with the ladies of this land, he'd change his plans. He is building on the sand. His frail craft will not stand. Why don't he quit and 'be a man,' and let MacArthur take his hand, whilel they play the band? I've been working for the Herald 30 years. I've not reached the top. I'm not retiring. They g^t to fire him. S h o u Id the war end its like the Itch, It breaks out in a new spot. Bow old is the earth? A mil lion years is only as yesterday when its passed. The earth is new to you and I. The earth re mains forever. Don't get scared about the world coming to an end. You will come to an end long 'before the world ends. We had nothing to do with the com ing of the earth. Didn't come in a plane. When you take your flight you won't ride * . plane. This man-made stuff won't stand the fire. What do we care? Mama: asked little Lynne, who brought me? The stork brought you, my darling, said the moth ?r. Ah, how did you come mama? was found on a rosebush. O* oh! How did grandmother come? Why, your grandmother was found in a cabbage patch. Mother, said the little miss, with a puzzled frown, has there been any childbirrhs in our family for three generations? Jack went over to see his 'best girl. They turned on the radio and started to dance. Her father came in and without saying a word, threw Jack out the window. Next day Jack' was on crutches. He called the girl and asked what was the big idea. She said Father is deaf and he couldn't Job Printing ? Phones 167 and 283 First National Bank ^ PRESENTS INTERESTI^FACTS ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA ' r NATIONAL THE STATE SONG The author of the words of "The Old North State" was Judge William Gaston, who was born at New Bern in 1778. Although sung by the people of North Carolina since 1835, it was not made the official State Song until 1927. The tune was first heard in Raleigh at a program given by* a group of "Swiss Bell-Ringers." ~ One of the most economical way* to bank It by mail. Nine cents can sore you three trips. XI you are too far away from us to call or make a trip in person to the bank, do it by mail. We assure you that your letter will be given prompt and courteous attention. OU can have fun flgurlng out your m?iui? from the Orient T by use of this pleasant little letter punle. It the number of lettere In your Bret tame U 5 or lew, subtract from ?. If more than 5 lettere In yo-ir first name, subtract from 11. Now take this result and flnd your k*y letter In the word ORIENT at the top of this punle. Then., starting at the upper left corner, checkr each one of your large key letters as It appears from left to right. Below the key letters U a code message for you. TOOK I ENTOR1EO P u s c p sfea h 1 1 c EON.T I RONETI R I g o 1 r e en n n s a c s R E E T O N I R E NTT N It I f.oe d a y 1 y n a o ORET I NRlOT E NZ 1 o c lnuutdlarn NERO I TOREN I TO p t r ? t t r t m l o y 'a I TJ5 R I OONETERR k P ? e n t 1 a s 1 s m p T.REN I OTORIENE u I a e o os n r w,. g ? ? hear the radio. Poor Jack. Right now further political dis unity faces unhappy France. In other words, she's still confront ed with normality. Meat-hungry Britain is ban ning cream and may haVe to ra tion milk. Socialism seems to provide only food for thought. Van Fleet is bound to get in hot water with the U. N. Come to think of it, everybody does say he's a good general. Now highway experts urge au to driving lessons in all high Schools. Are they sure that's ear ly enough? Rather late, Inflation puffing Washington waistlines. It also seems to have put some fat on our economic thinking. What I started to say. How high is the moon? Oh, just a lit tle lower than iprices. The high est beefsteak ever got was when the old cow jumped over the moon. When I was coming up every body lived On the farm. We all got our living out of Gda's good earth. The preacher looked to the farmer and God for his sup port. If the farmer made little, the preaeher got little. They looked closely after the farmer's growing crops, hoping and pray ing that God's blessings would give the farmers a bountiful har vest. Everybody went to church, and God from His bountiful Heaven rained down from the clouds his blessed showers. Then the people rejoiced and were made glad. Then they ga thered this worth while crop and divded with the man of God. Not so today. We, lots (of us, have left God out of the picture. We go fishing on that Holy day, and to and fro all over the earth. No Sabath any more. Just a day of vain frolic. The preacher don't fool with the old farmers any ?more. He gets his pay from pub lic men, $4000 and five. The little man stands no hand with the bigger part of the preachers of this land. Now most all the churches are empty. Gone to the beach to see them naked gals. Gone to the .mountains to fish. Gone to the races. Gone to the Drive-ins. A few go to church In town to show their fine cloth ,es "on a rack. The other few go to sing and praise the Lord. Few go to/church in the country any more. Oh, Lord, why don't they consolidate and flee from the de vil? PHILADELPHIA, the .City of | Brotherly Love ? Religious intolerance in a gen eral term. It takes - something more than a general term to per suade a man and his family to abandon the soil of fathers and journey several thosuand miles to a New World. Wherever the chuflch remained a power, the strife 'between Protestant and Catholic folks was a more speci fic thing. The suffering . of all classes below nobility meant not only the choice between hated forms of worship on one side and punishment on the other, but al i so such worldly troubles' as heavy taxes, lack of privileges, inability to hold title, chaotic economic conditions and gener ally bad times for generations. That caused thousands of fami lies who emigrated from Wer ttemburg to seek escape. With all this there was the constant threat of military conscription for church folks who were op posed to wars. It was hardships of this kind lasting for years and sometimes for generations. After decades of strife and suf fering in Europe from which there was little refuge. New hop es were founded by the founding of colonies at Jamestown in 1601. At Williamsburg a little later on and at Plymouth in 1623, lent avenues of escape and encourage ment to these emigrants-^ from Teutonic countries. You know the rest of the story. Two thousand years ago, the only be gotten Son of God came down from Heaven, as He him self said, in order that all hu manity might have life. All His teachings shows that He meant not only the priceless gift of ev erlasting Ufe on the spiritual plane, hut also more abundant life here and now in this mad mad existence. He came to save the bodies of men, as well as their souls from all the suffer ings and miseries which they are bound to bring upon oursel ves. If we persist In defying those fundamental principles which God established for all time and all people, as the Law of His created universe, the code of this law wus expressly design ed to insure the largest possible measure of human hapiness It was entrusted to the people" of Israel for a demonstration to all the nations of the earth, for this purpose we were createid, and redeemed at the Cross of Calva ry. And for this purpose we have been preserved to thep resent moment. Now at this very time when the fate of all humanity hangs so precariously an the bal ance, that task becomes more urgent, more vital, and more im portant than ever before. Never was the 'World In greater need of a Saviour than it is today. I'm no public speaker, but can't we read between the lines. PROTECTION GIVE Mid the crash and crush of Kingdoms, Keep our native land free from war. Let our liberty endure forever, God of ^armies, Lord of battles, While they blaze along Korean shores, Shall the Stars and Sripes, Be crushed to earth, - Will we bow in mutg Obedience to this demon, Lord of battles, God of armies, Korea, what a midnight hell, While Red 'midnight hawks Spread death from the skies. From bombs protect our Capitol, God of armies. Lord of battles, Help us send the tyrants chains, Before Its piled in heaps of ruins Hide us from that hell bomb. Lord of armies, God of battles. These are my sentiments. H. Y. B. r Garden Time j Robert Schmidt 1 1 What Is causing your tomatoes to rot on the blossom end of the small green fruits? A good ques tion, and one that is easily an swered. The trouble is known as blossom-end-rot. and is not caused by a disease organism but by dry weather and lack of moisture. I have seen as much as 50 pei-cent of a crop lost because of it. Pre vent blossom-end rot by timely ir rigation and mulching?but do it before you lose your crop. Have you planted your collard seed yet? It is time now to plant collard, cabbage^ broccoli and Chinese cabbage seed for fall crop. In the Piedmont and Cost al Plain areas there is still time tQ set tomato plants for a late crop. The early crop usually does not last until October. Plantings of snapbeans, butterbeans, and sweet corn can also be made now, since we h?.ve had a little rain. About this time of the year a few gardeners like to plant late Irish potatoes, using small po tatoes of their spring crop for seed. The difficulty comes in get ting the early crqp potatoes to sprout .since their rest period has not been broken. Sometimes they may be induced to sprout by spreading them out in the shade and letting them green up. An other way is to break the rest period by treating flie seed with a chemical-Ethylene Chlorhdrin. ? * / This treatment is not successful if the weather is very hot. Ethy lene Chlorhydrin may be obtain ed from some of the large seed firms in the South, and your county agent should be able to get you information concerning its use. Wedge Takes Work From Log-Splitting It won't bp long before North Carolina farmers start splitting logs for fencing, home use and j other purposes. and John L. Gray, State College Extension Service Forester, has just the tool to take the sweat out of the Job. | Gray says that a small number of farmers In North Carolina have been using the explosive wedge for a number of years, but its use is not common In the Tar Heel St?U. The wedge 13 especially help ful in splitting tough hickory, gum, oak, other hardwoods, and pine, according to Gray. The wedge looks like a short length of truck axle with one end hollowed cut and tapered down. There are several different types on the market. All types make use of a small charge of powder to split the log. Farmers who are interested in getting more information on the explosive Wedge should contact the district forestry extension specialist. Breeder Beats State Pig Litter Average Joe Moye, Jr. is a great believ er in both permanent pasture, such as Ladino clover and tem porary grazing, such as crimson clover, rye grass, and small grain, according to Jack Keiley, animal husbandry specialist for the State College Extension Ser vice. Moye, Duroc hog breeder of Farmville, raised an average of eight pigs from 17 sows with spring litters of pigs. The state average is 6.5. Experts have esti mated that it takes at least four pigs to pay the cost of keeping the sow, which means that Moye's sows are paying for themselves twice. How Secure Can You Get? If you are a man who has his home and other property In sured, you are in the best possible shape as far as security is concerned. If you do not own this security, you are taking an unnecessary risk that we can eliminate. ? 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