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TUESDAY, JANUARY i:’., ,. Century and Quarter

CONGRATULATIONS to the Religious ^ Herald upon completion of 125 years qT service to the Baptist denomination of Vir ginia. The weekly publication devoted to extension of Christianity has effected a pro found influence upon the people of Vir ginia. especially those of the Baptist faith

who consider it the official spokesman of the Baptist Associations. It is well edited and an influential organ of which not only mem bers of the Baptist faith but every Virgin ian can be proud. May its notable past be exceeded by its future service in extending Christian principles.

Long, Long Week

I AST week was the longest we remember. ^ It appeared that Sunday with its period of rest would never come around. There is no wonder. It followed two weeks in which there were tnid-week rest days—Christmas and New Year. Six rest days in the preced ing two weeks—December 21. 25, 28, Janu ary 1 and 4—spoiled us considerably and made the first full week in the New Year a long, long one. Did it affect you that way, too ? Christmas Day seems ages ago, when in fact it was celebrated only 17 days ago.

Hardly seems possible, does it? And we bet every New Year's resolution lias been brok en already. Easter comes early this year. April 5, which presages an early Spring. Already the days are getting longer, particularly noticeable in tin* lengthening evenings. We will await February 2, Groundhog Day, with interest, in the hope that the contro versial little weather prophet will indicate good weather until the Ides ol March. Time marches on—our opportunity is to make the best use of it.

Silence Is Golden

CHE NATIONAL ARTS FOUNDATION recently urped juke-box distributors t<> include one blank disc in music boxes which would allow any patron to buy five minutes of silence. The idea is that silence is worth more than some of the records used in juke boxes these days and it has its merits. The director of the Foundation. Carle ton Smith, believes that silence is one of the most expensive luxuries in the l nited States today and both pood for the nerves

and necessary to enjoy music. We could add to this observation by noting that silence is seldom observed when juke-box music is beinjr played, though we are not ready to say it is necessary it the music is to be enjoyed. If the Foundation’s surestions lor a! live-minute’s silence purchase is followed,] we surest that juke-box owners also have! one slot, which would take quarters, which would guarantee a half-hour’s quiet.

Russian Neutrality

MARSHAL RODANY MALINOVSKY. Supreme Commander of the Soviet Forces in the Far East has reportedly com pleted a recent inspection of the Korean battlefront. This report came from the London Times. It was interesting to note that the So viet commander’s visit to the front follow ed by only a short t;-ne General Eisenhow er’s visit. Evidently the Russians are sensi tive about the Eisenhower visit and perhaps feel that it may indicate a U. N. otFensive. In fact, there have been reports that Chinese forces both in Korea and in China were beinp heavily reinforced. The visit ot‘ the Soviet commander shows just how thoroughly Soviet Union is involved in the Korean conflict. The U. S. President-elect

visited the Korean front as the President of the country which was hearing the brunt ot the war there. The Soviet commander visits the front, shortly afterward, even though' the Soviet Union is technically not suppos ed to be involved. This incident serves to highlight the farce which is played out often in U. X. and other international circles, when it is assumed that the Soviet Union is neutral. The Soviet Union is the force behind the Korean War, represents the prod that initiated the attack on South Korea and represents the force which is continuing the war while talking peace. To refuse to admit these facts is nothing less than a case of appeasement blindness.

Warning Crosses

rpHE NATIONAL SAFETY COUNCIL recently announced that the four-day Christmas week-end exacted a highway death toll of 556. This is an all-time record, surpassing the previous record of 555 fatal ities in the Christmas holiday of 19%. When considering the 556 deaths, due to highway accidents during the recent Christ mas week-end, one must also take into ac count the thousands temporarily or perm anently injured in these and other accident s. It occurs to us that the offering of some 500 lives each Christmas is a sacrifice which is almost as unappreciated as it is unneces

sary. At least one state has attempted to re mind motorists of the death threat which always hovers above the highway by erect ing crosses along the highway where deaths have occurred. It is a sobering sight to see three or four crosses in a spot on the side of the road as one speeds along to his des tination. The sight, and resulting medita tion. have caused more than one driver to slow down. The method has been tried by the State of Florida, and it is worth the consideration of all states who have not tried it.

Midgret Sports

Cthe lust two years an interesting con troversy has arisen over the growth of midget sports in the United States. By midget sports, we mean all organized sports for youngsters twelve years of age and un iter. In 1950, thp National Recreation Asso ciation Congress set up a committee from the recreation field to formulate principles of guidance to be followed by community recreation leaders. This committee of twenty-three mem bers met the next year and, in 1952, the committee released a number of conclusions and suggested principles concerning highly organized, competitive sports for young sters twelve and under. The committee found that sports for those under twelve years of age should not be “highly organized, competitive athletics.” The committee considers any athletic ac tivity which involves a considerable amount of leisure time, of the youngsters, spent in formalized practice; or encourages large scale attendance by adults; or is limited to the best players, and involves a selection of winners on state, regional or national sche dules, highly crganized.

Thus intra-mural competition in foot ball, basketball, tennis or other sport is not considered highly organized. The committee felt that the failure of many midget sports programs, in the highly competitive field, was that they did not provide every boy with a chance to compete to the best of his ability, even though he was not one of the best players in his particular community. The committee also felt that the fun damental goal in all midget recreational programs should be the development of the qualities of good citizenship, and the satis faction of basic human needs, such as ac ceptance, adventure and recognition, and also happiness. Further, the committee feels that com petitive athletics should be only a part of the total community recreation program, which should include activities like outdoor living, games, music, drama and the arts and crafts. This field is too often neglect ed in favor of some highlv organized and I highly competitive midget sport. It also suggests that equal funds be allowed for the recreation opportunities of girls, compared with those of the Hoys.

When Winter Comes Now I used to dread, some years ago, When winter time brought ice and snow. ■Cause folks were always calling me (tut to this farms, some stock lb see Kill since my practice I have quit. When winter comes, I laugh at jit. Now 1 can tell all folks by gee To please no longer call on me To he a granny to a cow Or help to take pigs from a sow*, Now 1 can loaf and just relax. And say “to heck u ith income tape.”

Or with a hound and my old gun. Hunt for rabbits and have som(‘ fun. If folks call up and say to conic To see their stock that’s on the bum. 1 say "please call the other-dop Who’s mighty good at treating stock." It's said that he can put the bee On pigs that need new A to Z. It’s right good stuff, 1 have heard say, And makes a pig crop better pay. Just feeding corn will make a pig Hut it takes a lot to make him big. This doc just adds this A to Z And soon quite large your pigs will be. There's talk about this chloropthyil That takes the order our of swi111. Hut claims ‘bout this just make me think That goats eat greens, but they still stink.

New docs arc up on X disease. While 1 just know why horses wheeze. 1 sometimes feel that I'm abused These new dopes pet me so confused. Now and then 1 jret riled and store lake kids whose jrum drops on tin* floor. Oft I think of the {rood old davs With just their {food old fashioned way: With lots of corn, and hay in mow— We did rijrht well with them soijnehow. I did not have a T. \r. set Or yearning for a speedy jet. In which to make a hurty call because some farmer's calf <li<| bawl. Now I find Vetirement is nice When all outdoors is snow and ice. To write some verse or doze a bit And to forjret mv old vet kit. Your old boss doctor friend. "Doc" Whitaker

Babson Discusses Transportation Babson Park, Mass — Going back millions of years, tlie Evolu tionists ’laim that our earliest ancestors transported themselves by wiggling their tails in the wa ter: and finally developed legs from their fins so as to walk on dry land. Assuming these Scien tists are right although they may not be then these lizards finally developed into human beings. Hence. \u> will start our essay on Transportation by be ginning it with'WALKING. CHANGES ALWAYS OCCUR As our ancestors became tired if always walking, they used SLEDS hauled by various tamed animals—from oxen to horses. At the same time, they made CA NOES out of holloweo logs, which they finally developed into SAIL ING VESSELS. This was the state of the art when North America was settled, although CARTS with WHEELS were soon used to take the place of sleds. When 1 was a boy the only means of transportation was HORSES and BUGGIES, wagons, barges and ' hacks' which took people to weddings and funerals. RAILROAD lines were rapidly being constructed and STEAM BOATS performed an important 1 unction. Fares were cheap and Height rates low on all these inodes of transportation. Al though changes and improve ments were very gradual, yet they were continallv taking place.

STREETCARS AND BESSES I saw the first horse CAR LINE constructed in Gloucester, and later one of m.v first jobs was to work on changing that horse car line into an electric line. I lemember being greatly thrilled by taking my wedding trip on electric street cars with various changes. Fifty years ago the en tire country was honeycombed by ELECTRIC CAR lines, most of which have been discarded. The early promoters of these electric lines made a lot of money: but v hen automobiles came most of them lost their money. This change brought about the development of BUS TRANS PORTATION botli within the cities and between the cities. The only way most electiic car lines could compete with automobiles was by ripping up their rails and opertaing on rubber tires. As a resutl, the public is now getting better service from these busses than they ever had from street cars or horse-drawn hacks which developed into motor-driven taxis. In the meantime, RAILROADS were forced to greatly improve their service with faster and air conditioned trains. TRANSPORTATION CONDI TIONS TODAY 'I ansportation is no longer a luxury. I cannoj understand why the Interstate Commerce and various State Regulatory Com missions are kept alive, except to give political jobs. Not only are all the means above competing with themselves, but the TRUCKS and PRIVATE AUTO MOBILES are competing with all of these other different branches of transportation. Furthermore, the airplane is constantly carry ing more passengers and more freight. The next step will be to the helicopter. In fact. I have re cently bought a high, flat-roofed

Double Check The big news for the youth or Aineriri is the frozen land of Alaska v here homesteading open to iteople of all walk- of life Alaska a fabulous frontier or a future fl p. While it is a cold world tip there it's not the all time ice box or deep freeze you might chink it is. There are still miles up there that man lias never set food on Why bofher with the Planets: when you have so much on Earth to explore upon'.' The united States Government has rl lie a lot of pump priming" to begin the beginning It must always be defended and when you come bjiek home there .just, ain't nobody to dispute what you say about it. Just straws in the Alaskan wind We Americans are so list'd to taking things easy we have a hard time getting interesteuin any kind of hardships in new found lands— relieving the congested area i most wanted. With all the vacant spots stall, we are constantly con fronted with a housing shortage —just jin spots. It’s your move now to set stakes or some wide open s [pace. Timber is getting scarce. Even with present day conservation it will not grow fast enough. Thanks for ’fending Yours, J Marvin Brown JOBLESS AID The amount of money available for jobless benefits to workers covered by the state unemploy ment insurance laws has readied a record $8,400,000,000. according to the Labor Department. Tin fund has grown by $500,000,000 this year, mainly because of high employment and an increase in the nujnber of workers covered by state laws.

building in Boston, with direct subway connections, to serve as a landing place for helicopters. Have ,we reached an end of radical changes In the transpor tation of persons and goods? I say “No." What the next step will be none of us can tell. Some think it. will come through a new engine using atomic power in some form. Others believe that we will return to running our busses and motor cars byi electric storage batteries instead of gasoline. The electricity might be made very cheaply from the ray* of the sun shinning on the roofs of our garages. <In Miami the hot water used in homes is heated by the sun on the roofs of the houses.'

REMEMBER POWER OF GRAVITY I believe that the power of Gravity will be used to transport people and freight, i he Gravity 'Research Foundation, with head quarters at New Boston. New Hampshire, already each year of fers rewards, for essays on "HOW TO HARNESS GRAVITY.” The 1952 awards were just made. They are very suggestive of great changes ahead. Sureiy the future is very bright for ail of us. if other industries are developing as rapidly as the Transportation In dustry

rTHE• . /\ I WASHINGTON \Yhyti President-Hi*-ct T-.; s.: ■ ! or heard what President 'i run an Said about dr-mag uirry and h trip to Korea. hr'not oi.iy hit the | reding, but sat down and v.rote out a .statement for the press. If that statement had beep pub lishi. d it would have . :::/ird round (lie work!. It would have made e re headlines than some of the President s own torrid letters tiial pro? s statement'. Roughly, here is what Eisen unwer wrote out in longhand, and planned to say: 1! President Truman had gone to Korea it would have been polit ical demagoguery, since Mr Tru man is a politician and doesn't have the military background to assess such a situation. However. Jim Hagertv. press-re lations adviser to the President Elect, tactfully talked him out of it. in the end, the statement was labeled: "file and forget. Pacific Pipeline Backstage with Ike—Atniard the cruiser Helena. Ike played a lot of bridge and rend we-tern lie. .. hen he wnsn t confi mi.. 11 partner at bridge was Herbert Brownell, the new attorney '■.corral and patronage boss; al o iwo sub ordinate naval of ficer-:. Al ,\ ATI t Ike used to play hnd with (leg Al Gruenthci. eiin at,■red Hr i t bridge player in the army soiling at Kam la, 1! .■ ..: ! < was eomplelely olf hi. name That was the reason lie rrfu oil I ■ rive his score to newsmen aftoirwjard Not once did lie make tin- n indr under 100. though ha ruefully i marked that at Ai uista he !... I : hot 86 and hi . . T1 Elect didn't seem partook ■■ y t turbed by the Km ■ an vi it ;:■ I there wa i ■ 1 lus game was off , . I!a f d in red baseball cap hi : i t yep shoes, and pink - sp. i ts I i t Arriving at Pearl I lari ■< (Ih n. ■ , Slid Pi the crowd and ren a la ’It nice to see so n any Pa, ■ - pc, , without worry in;.- her they li- v later " Military strategy \\. • Mag. Arthut .,: , t tS a plan to end the K, :V,a i i « ielaj -i to E ■ Helena, he t i , ■ didn't yvant t' i ■■ ■.-,■ ,l,o, impressti n h n't oj , • and all ic as i ■ K> i of the p, ’pie a a,.;:’al hell v.s. , much hat ■: ■ . in ti e:r n . ,;p.-n t y yv a i- d MaeArth::r, c:i k-d him ' childish. V . . At the .Si < m n.... tary talk-, na t ma,.-ian:■; v. ing came from the air foiee, Na ture of the warnings , , pint i revealed f.g- security res on-: 1m they yy i-is Mich that K: or:!, ■■.■.. i proi ably ha-.n t made : p la r a id even r.oyv iveardim: fppr.ro Km an strategy ... It look ; ,lt;:r : i er tain that Eisenhotver wi"; a I, thi U. N. to brit two Chita tionafist divisions into the K nan war, one to be kept at thi front, the ,her belli? d the front. and ro taied Gen Mark C'lat has wanted to use troops f oil. Fomins,:. argued that it wat a p, , d idea to test the Nationalists under fire . . Chief objection to using Chiang's troops, it was agreed, is the British, tint it was also be lieved the British yvnuld c along if the idea is liar lied diplomati cally.

Navy Ambassador It looks like fiery, redheaded Aden. Arthur Radford enu pander < f the U. S fleet in the pacific, lias talked himself into a potent position with the Presidedl-Kleet. Must navy men have been du bious about Kisenhower's attitude toward the navy figured that as a lifelong army man he would favor his own branch of the service. However, persuasive Admiral Radford, scheduled to sec Kncn howor for exactly one hour a I wo Jima. stayed on for the entire trip Kisenhower's stop at Xwn was to refuel and give the President elect a chance to stretch Ins legs There Admiral Radford met him. and at the end, of one hong's talk with Radford. Ike came hack to his plane and asked the pilot: "Can't we make room for the Admiral'.''’

So Radford went along. Farther more. he had .such a way with Eis enhower that he persuaded1 him to revamp ins schedule and stop oil at Radford s guest house rn Hawaii. The cruise on the Helena had been arranged well before Eisen hower left the U S. A., but the stop over in Hawaii was not ion the schedule Original plans called for Eisenhower's departure by ait from Hawaii immediately after the Helena docked. Huwev -r, Admiral Radford has so ingratiated him self with the President-Elect by this time that arrangements were changed. Actually, no military Strategy was discussed at Hawaii. The President - Elect golfed and re laxed. There were no conferences, except for sessions held by Her bert Brownell and Secretary of the Interlor-to-be McKay, who inter viewed candidates for governor of Hawaii. __ . Traditional Eaters, Mice,, Like Variety, Specialists Report The traditional cheese eater, the mouse, is a glutton for some other foods.

Star! Tree Planting Programs Now. t c Foresters l rge Farmers Landowners V

11 if tei.-.i Inf |A,ui-in-, pm « !'.. rt 1 II li-„S ■' lir'l Vil • already under .-..if 'lit >u- nut "! wedlm"-- 111 \ e i moll O! " i oire ha \ e boon dell?, cued ’■> ' e buyers, who are planting t am a: this time. This prop:am will con tine until early j>■ in . Now is the time for farmer and timberland mviiers t> take ■ tork of lan i that ■> !.■ ■ .trr and unproductive Flirnu ~s know ihat all land ■ not .smiled ' > cannot be used > >fit bl permtincntlv as cultivated Ii"Ws pasture, or meadows: mat suc cess in farm ng depend on ins all Molds produce to their maximum capaon \ ■ a In c r ■ •! . inc) fields on farms nmJd be at! the proof needed that Mia: merit plans need imme:'"...*r 1 c \ m on

The idle land if !":.■>! > productive woodland, can add much to the farm ineorr ' It true that tree plun(in .. ' n contribute directly to me. me for a period. . f y. t ■ ■ but think of d in terror ol the in cur: ■ cri cat it ;d v. y-ci • arm. A farm with all . • . rl 'v slopes end miprodocici- , add in trees will i'll at a much ire! ■ ■ price It :- up to farmer-; and landowners ,11 decide it ’ i , feasible to have * a.1 I'sat w.!’ brink h ■ ■ ' •i baie 1 nil in slopj- or , bras’; Pilteii "rod Old'. '.('1' ".> V.l, II is in • uni. • rien follow me arc' >.e ;•'« ■ .I “edhir 1 Idle or a'":!.' oni ' iic! which are mo: • siutli de , :han for crop' <■ ■ : 2 L.u '* | c;: TV s naturally in wo id! mb ,:.h ir: e! 1 • - ’ ' ecd lit : i i 1 . prope.ly too fe ‘ ■ • •• • a to > v, tlie ’ rca net nr "... 4 Farmer p no a: {v ' • re nn • R 'nii-'.' c ’.i '\ ! •:ici'ia!'. ! - at VPI say for ir • .nee. a inuui piece of nut men i .k ■ - an -\ i elktht mi ise jl will be « to rid the house or basement of mice bv setting h ur to six tin mo . t rap • bail -<| ",!. up. us m. M .ce 11" little and u the nut . i • | to Um . you can often ca'.cij t o < ■ •'. . - 'mice With the sans- pare of bait. Ms <> ids'll hire peanut bn tor Mix it in a !itti ■ colton for easier handlin':. Be sure to set the 1 ups in run ways where tin e are ... liropniui or n.her .s. , of • uipse activity. Mice <v up' m.yrfi|tc far i unless they're huny.r..

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