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FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1052 Good Idea

JJi in Clarke ( ountv, V irginia, citizens are planting 1.135 (logwood seedlings to beautify the county. Sponsored by the < ham her of Commerce, the dogwood seed lings were obtained at a special price. In a lew years the plantings will enrich the present beauty of Clarke County. 1 his activity is along- the line- suggested lor Prince Edward several times in the past.

With two main highways bisecting the county a few dollars and some effort spent in landscaping scenic spots would give the county a face-lifting. A start on such a project could be made on the highways within the corporate limits of Farmville. } II is a thought well worth considering for 1953.

Left Undone

,^S WE ASSESS the past year we can say that "we have left undone those things we should have done, and done thosi/things which we should not have done.” Regard loss of our good resolutions and regardless of our efforts and good intentions we can never get around to doing all of the things we should do. It is equally true that we will do those things we should not do. So when it is time for New Year’s resolutions we can consider only the most important things we should do and the most import ant things we should not do. To attempt a blanket, .resolution covering all of our frail ties is to be swamped to the point that Now Year’s resolutions far exceed our ability to cope. It is not so it we choose our principal deficiencies and concentrate on them, re lying for help upon One stronger than we are. In our own strength we are unable to cope with strongly entrenched habits, and we must call upon God for help, which means daily contacts through prayer. Tift* greater number of human frailties are those of omission. Possibly the great est crime against ourselves is the wastage of time. Time moves on incessantly, a min ute lost or squandered can not be recover ed. it is gone forever. Therefore, the sys tematic use of time is one of life's most.im portant problems. The people* we know who things done are thosje who appropriate their time* to the various activities. Some how they get around to do the majority of the things they have planned to do. It is an art. gained through training and wise plan ning. Tin ideal would be eight hours for labor, eight hours for refreshment, and eight hours for rest, but we know of few who are abbs to maintain such a schedule. We don’t know that progress could, have been made under this schedule. Thomas Edison i- -aid to have used only four hours in rest, and other men and women who have contributed greatly to the progress of mankind have.* exceeded the ideal schedule.

Nevertheless, there is no evidence that Mr. Edison wasted his time and we can be fairly certain that he appropriated it wisely. Of all the New Year’s resolutions one can make, we believe, the most important is a wise appropriation of one’s time. At the enp of the year we will find ourselves less critical of the “things we have left un done.’’ What applies to the individual also ap plies to organizations. There are those who think the nation and the community are over-organized. There may be some logic in the idea, but it must be remembered that the population of the United States has greatly increased and there must be some organization in which every one should have a part. One man said to us recently that all organizations should be dissolved for a per iod of one year and everybody attend to his own business. Of course, this is an over statement, but we do agree that commu nity organizations should assess their work for the past year and examine their pro grams for the coming year, set a goal which is a possibility and bend every effort toward reaching it. In some cases, new ideas, new enthusi asm, new faces are needed. Too many of the same people belong to and assume respon sibilities in community organizations prin cipally because they will take the lead where others hesitate. Development of ad ditional talent is always helpful. We do not think the community over-organized, on the contrary, there are too few people car ryiiig their part of the responsibility, or contributing their ability and enthusiasm toward reaching the goals set. New hori zons, new enthusiasm, new w o r k e r s can increase the value of worthwhile com munity, social and religious organizations. Why not make the New Year’s resolu tion one which can be kept and determine now to appropriate valuable time, to assume a share of the responsibility in whatever oiganization you choose for the year 10537

Canada Faces Facts W/iTHOl'T in any way getting into parti sail polities we wish to commend the courage of the Canadian Government, hi an effort to counter a Soviet cold-war of fensive the administration in Ottowa is risking defeat in next year's election. This is the picture. Stalin has frankly announced that Communist strategy hinges on an attempt to pull .Japan and Germany into the Rus sian orbit with what might he called ‘'eco nomic magnets." The plan is to take ad vantage of the tendency of tin anti-Com munist nations to raise tariffs against .Jap anese and German goods. Moscow will try to make trade with the Soviet so attractive for the two countries that they will he drawn away from the West. Canada’s answer is to send a special • mission to Tokyo to negotiate a trade agree mnt designed to give .Japan a better mar ket in Canada. This makes a lot of sense. Such action is vastly more effective than bushels of anti-Comnjunist propaganda. But it can tie very unpopular with certain Canadians. All who feel that Japanese im ports would endanger their own business will react unfavorably. Enough ol tins sentiment' could tip the. balance of an elec tion. Here is the political risk the Ottowa government is taking it) its economic plans for chocking the Reds. The same problem faces the Ended States. American expenditures in Japan for the Korean war are temporarily hiding the “impossible" economic position of Japan. But this is an artificial arrangement. It should be supplemented and gradually re placed with long-rangy- measures to help Japan maintain a healthy economic life within the free world. W'e hope Washing ton will match Ottawa’s courage in shap

ing such measures— and that public opinion in both countries will support these efforts to defeat Kremlin strategy. — Christian Science Monitor.

Penalize Weatherman 4 ( 'hiucse Nationalist weather man was recently accused by an agency of the Nationalist Government of "losing a ty phoon." The weatherman was charged with tailing to chart properly the course of the disastrous typhoon. Instead of going where the weatherman predicted, the typhoon struck Formosa on November 1 1th. without warning. The storm left over 150 dead an*l missing and injured about lot*. It also destroyed almost 10.000 homes and damaged an even larger number. In the Chinese- view, the weatherman, had he acted properly, could have accurate ly predicted the course of the typhoon. 11 is failure is being considered grounds for punitive action. We have sometimes wondered if this policy would not improve our own weather prediction system and regret that the sci ence of weather is not that simple. One of the marvels of our age is that the Cnited States continues to go its wav wit hunt any form of universal military training, while depending on a draft and its veterans to supply armed services man power. After thinking it over, we have eon eluded that Santa Claus has the easier time "f it, compared to the housewife who must buy thirty or forty presents and send hun dreds of cards, plus tending to a family and tiie annual Christmas cookery.

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New Years Greeting

The lathe of Time spins swiftly on And none its speed can stay. The old year’s gone beyond recall, A new one’s born today. And so we now bid vou goodbye Old Nineteen Fifty Two, And with high hopes within our hearts, With faith we greet the new. We know not what the new year holds Or what its fruits may be, But let’s all hope for happiness In N in teen Fifty Three. Years are formed in the womb of Time As fast our earth spins on; Each one in life a milestone is Until our lives are gone. So when a new year comes to us From Him who rules our earth, Let’s greet it with a smiling face And thank Him for its birth. To each and every one of you Wherever you may be, 1 wish you joy and happiness In Nineteen Fifty Three. Hopefully yours, L. I). Whitaker

CMUBIID AH]i By Ted Resting There is a good choice of bolt action shotguns on the market this year and they offer the op portunity of getting off on the right side of the cash register. Pete Brown, our arms expert, re ports : "I have made a survey of the bolt-actions on the market this year and have done some shoot ing with them. I am not a bolt action fan where shotguns are concerned, but I will say this. If a better shotgun was going to stand between me and the chance to get out in the field. I would get a bolt-action. Where ballistic performance is concerned, the bolt-action will shoot just as hard i an dfar as any other shotgun." When it comes to' functioning, the bolt-actions arc in a class by themselves. As repeaters, any of them are rather clumsy and not as fast as the other types of repeaters. In the first place, the bolts are of necessity long. la’"'e in diameter and heavy. The bolt handles are far forward—shotgun butt stocks (from butt to trigger* are about one inch longer than rifle stocks and the oolt handles are pretty well forward as it is. When loading a second shot, it is necessary — unless you are a long-arined guy — to do some leaching for the bolt handle. Therefore, you wont get that second well-directed shot off as quickly as you will with other types of repeaters. The bolt action shotguns are not w hat you would call smooth operating and. generally speaking, they arc not a beautiful gun. Still, they're excc.lent for the beginner. You get a lot of gun in one of these bolt-actions and they are guns you can use safely —you can also bag game and en joy shooting them. If I wasn't going to do a lot of shooting and wasn't sure that I would stay in the sport, I would be tempted by the bolt-actions. They are a good proposition for a young fellow starting out. He can find out whether he wants to stick with the sport and at the same time come to a better decision on what to get when he decides to buy a more expensive gun. If you have the opportunity1 of looking at various models i before making a selection, by all means do so. There is no substi tute for seeing and feeling. Chicago. Ill—The busiest per son seen around the lobby of the Cook County Courthouse recently was arrested by police. The man. identified as Joseph Iriedman, 84. j was "busy" — selling bets on horse races.

Movie Guide By the Motion Picture commit tee. Farmville Woman's Club. STATE THEATRE ‘ The Quiet Man ’—Technicolor photography of Ireland, so beau tiful that it transports you into a world of quaint customs, impish humor and homespun charm, marks this film as one of the most successful Hollywood has made on foreign soil. A special award film. Excellent. Adults and young people. "Somebody Loves Me"—Betty Hutton puts a lot of zestful per sonality into her role of Blossom Seely, famous vaudeville star of the twenties. This film may fall as biography but Miss Hutton does a first; rate job with the music. Good. \ Adults and young people “Pony ‘Soldier'' — (20th Fox' Based on a Saturday Evening Post serial "Mounted Patrol." Adults and young people. LEE THEATRE Horizons West" — Except for its excellent technicolor there is little about this Robert Ryan starrer that is different from other post-Civil War Westerns. Rock Hudson. Julia Adams and John Mclntire head the compe tent supporting cast. Good. Adults and young people. "Glory Alley"—A psychological study of a prizefighter. Interest ing New Orleans background. Ralph Meekers acting and Leslie Caron's dancing arc better'than the story. Fair. Adults and young people.

January Plentiful Will Help Budgets Headlines on the U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture's plentiful foods list for January are: Pork and pork pr&iurts: oranges; tan gerines and raisins. Thus, New Year's dinner might feature a baked ham with raisin and orange sauce, as both festive and thrifty. Tangerines are tailored by nature for lunch boxes or between-meal snacks because they are so con venient to peel and separate into segments for eating out of hand. Also expected in plenty for the first month of the new year arc: Domestic dried figs: grapefruits: almonds: filberts; walnuts; and honey for sweeting. Eggs will be more plentiful and lower in price than in recent months. Also plentiful will be heavy turkeys and frozen fish. Dairy (oods that will continue in good supply are: dry skimmilk (nonfat dry milk solids', butter milk and cottage cheese. Finally, there will be plenty of Kirri at very reasonable prices, vegetable shortening, salad oils and 'table fat.

Sc retire Matthew 15. Devotion..1 Heading Psalm 51 6-11. 15-17 *Sw** Living From Heart Lesson for January 4. 1033 WHEN YOU are studying a for eign language for the first time, one of the Lug "humps" is learning the vocabulary. It's dull but necessary. You can know the rules of grammar down to the last footnote; you can pronounce the words "like a native;" but if you don't know what the words mean, you are sunk. All this is just as true in trying to understand the Bible as it is in understanding any thing else. ♦ * •

“Heart" Means Many Things The Bible word 'heart'' is one of those that can be easily misun derstood. It speaks often of the heart. “Out of it

are the issues of life." says the Proverb (Prov. 4:23). "These peo ple honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me," says the prophet Isaiah. Jesus says that it

15 what comes ,rom Dr. Foreman a man's heart that makes him unclean. What, exact ly. does ' heart " mean, in the Bible'.’ It could mean a number of things that it does not mean. It is seldom used, in the Bible, in the literal sense of the physical organ that pushes the blood around. No ancient peoples knew the tine physiology of the heart. Also, the Bible writers seldom, if ever, use the word in our common figurative sense of emotion, or the emotional life. If we today say that a certain person's heart rules his head, we mean by that, that his intellect is not as strong as }iis. feelings. A smart and unscrupulous lawyer, in addressing a jury, will ias he might say1! "go for their hearts, not for their heads." That is. he expects them to be swayed by prejudice and emotion, not by the facts in the case. But this too is not the Bible meaning of heart Certainly it is never balanced off

I against the mind nr the intellect. • • • Bible Meaning of "Heart'’ Even in modern times, with all our passion for scientifically ac curate terms, there is no one word which means just what this word "heart" means in the Bible. There the heart stands for the center of the personality as a whole. If we used such words as "core" or "root" or "mainspring" of life, we should be getting at the idea. It is not emotional, though it af fects the emotions. It is not in tellectual, though it lies back of thinking. It does not quite mean character, rather it means the tap root of character. Let us try to illustrate it. Tell the same piece of news to several peo ple—say the report of some acci dent or disaster, and see how they react. One will be quite indifferent, one will burst into tears, another will laugh, another will say, "Can't we do something to help?" Now' what makes the difference? All have heard the same words, but the words have different ef fects. In Bible language, the rea son is that they have different hearts. The inner makeup is some thing deeper than what the eyes see or the ears hear, it is deeper than the brain, it lies at the bot tom of the feelings. When the Bible speaks of a person's heart, it is not speaking of the way he acts or talks or feels or thinks; it means the way the man is. * * *

God Sees Through Paint If there was one sort of per son for whom Jesus had no use whatever, it was a hypocrite. A hypocrite is a person who has learned the fatal trick of short circuiting his heart from his out ward actions. The hypocrite turns a smile on and off as he would turn a water faucet, not because he feels like smiling or frowning, tout because he thinks a smile is called for: he will say one thing and think another His apparent emo tions, language, actions, have no more relation to his real inner self than the actions of a clown in a circus A clown can act very funny with his painted smile, though inwardly full of bitterness or grief He acts comical because he is paid for it. not necessarily because he feels gay. Jesus liked people who live from within, who have no short-circuit , bet ween what they arc on the out ' side and what they are on the in ode. He did not care much for a ! fig-tree which was really nothing 1 out tigs stuck on a thorn bush. Tins is why the Bible has so much to say ibout the heart. If God has a . man's hen ft. he has the man. P.a*>ed on outlines copyrighted by the Division of Christian (duration. Na 'Innal C'nunrll of the ( hurche* of C hrist n the 1 S. \. Released by WNU fhturfs.i

Just Who Is Babson? Herald Readers W ill Hear Much of Him During 1933

American business lias an in spiring personality in Roger W. Babscn, internationally - known business commentator and invest ment adviser. An outstanding fea ture of his philosophy has been his lifelong insistence on the im portance of religion in business. Born and reared in an old fashioned atmosphere of hard work and hustle on a farm in Gloucester, Mr. Babson went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduating, he

turned instinctively to financial and business activities. His exertions, however, under mined his health: he contracted tuberculosis and he was sent West "as good as dead"' It was while he was convalescing from this dread malady that he worked out some of the possibilities and problems of business forecasting. His weekly releases are used by over 400 newspapers and his fi nancial reports by 20.000 corpora tion sand estates. His research

Double Check Just slipping along with a Happy New Year that is predicted to be the best ever. At least, the last one was full of disappoint ment* for a lot of us fellers but we stuck to it just the same. They are doing our laundry in the front yard these days. The wash don't look none too good but were furnishing the clothsline— just a tigering that if we give 'efri enough rope they will hang themselves. This will be the year the seven teen year locust rAurn—course some of 'em got back ahead of time. There will be a big change in everything. The Northern lights will be visible in January— that is if you be alooking. There will also be a lot of visitors of great prominence coming over to the U. S. A.—not wanting anyt thing but just curious to know whats cooking. It ain't hot dawgs this time. This Nation is aiming to get on the receiving end for once. If it succeeds we can have a depresT sion next year and put out some more money and jobs again. Cumberland County may even have Telephone service this year. The Willis River Hunt Club in creased its holdings and the out look over the year for work and sport appears worth looking for ward to. Making it a better year is our job. Thanks for reading. J. Marvin Brown

work is carried on by a large staff of workers. Mr. Babson founded Babson In stitute for men: and, in co-opera tion and estates. His research Webber College for Women,— both nationally-known education al institutions. Here young men and women may concentrate on the fundamentals of business ad ministration. Later, he founded Utopia Col lege, located in Eureka, Kansas, the center of the United States. Recently, he has been active in the establishment of another medium of service to the public., the Gravity Research Foundation, located at New Boston, New Hampshire. Mr. Babson has probably done more than any other man to cre ate among his 'millions of news paper readers an interest in sim ple business problems, and to in still a broader vision in business men. enabling them to meet the ups-and-downs of the business cycle. NEWMAN CHEVROLET SALES CO. Second & South Streets FARMVILLE, VA.

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