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' FRIDAY. MAY 3, 1957 Merry Month of May

It I AY, which probably derives its name '* from Maia, the mother of Mercury, is the last Spring month. It is a particularly pleasant month in the United States, and most countries, and signities the end of school for millions of students. The belief that May is an unlucky month for marriage is a hangover Irom the old Roman belief that the good goddess Fauna was a prophetic divinity, who revealed her knowledge only to females. And the festi val of the goddess was celebrated in May. Also, the festival of the unhappy dead was also celebrated in that month. The month was not supposed to be lucky for marriages because of these two festivals. Probably then, June became a popular month for marriages, since it followed May and since marriages postponed prob ably took place the following month, or in June. Likewise, May Day — observed on

the first day of May — traces back to the days of the Romans and to the annual Floralia. Floralia took its name from Flora, the goddess of flowers. It is thought that the Greeks might have observed the day even earlier, but it is generally ac knowledged that the Romans, who occu pied Great Britain for four or five centur ies, introduced the festival in that country. One theory holds that May Day festivals originated in India and Egypt, and this theory is supported by the use of the May Pole, which is said to be a phaillic symbol. The Anglo-Saxons called May Thrimilee, because in that month the cows could be milked three times a day again. In all countries, for many centuries, it seems that May has been a welcome month, since it j brings flowers and warm weather and an end to the lingering danger of bitter cold, which is always present in April.

Jordon vs Communism

I/INK Hussein of Jordan has apparently won his fight to rid his country of pro Egyptian and pro-Oommunist elements. In spite of the fact that the experts in the Western countries were so busy predicting his failure they could not envision victory, the young King purged the left-wingers successfully. Clashes between army units and pro Egyptian army elements were held to a minimum, and the King succeeded in term ing a new government, which is thought to be pro-Western. If the King’s triumph is not overturned, it is a major achievement

and a significant victory for the United States in the Middle East. It means that the tide in this area might be at last turn ing in favor of the United States. Now, if Jordan falls into line, it will mean that Jordan and Iraq, also considered pro-Western, will form sort of a buttress between the Soviet Union and Syria, and Communist influence seeking to move South. It also affords some sort of isola tion of Egypt, which is the sorce of most of the Communist trouble in the Middle East today.

A Life For-A-Life

nrilKRK is one remedy which might cur * tail the amount of drunken driving on V. s. Highways. It was used recently in Russia and il certainly eliminates the pos sibility of a recurrence of this offense bv the same party. Not long ago a driver in Russia was hur rying along on an icy road, attempted to pass another vehicle, skidded and struck four pedestrians. One of the pedestrians was killed. The driver was held and tried by a So viet court and found guilty of reckless driving and homicide, and sentenced to death. A death for a death, so to speak, was the Russian justice dispensed. Although we do not propose such a pen alty in the United States, the fact that one unintentionally kills, rather than inten

t ion ally, nevertheless fails to be of any value to the victim, death being a pretty permanent affair. It might be that a suit able penalty for reckless driving, under the influence, which takes a life, should in clude a bar from possession of a driver s license for a number of years — if and when the court’s punishment is served. And, while we do not favor the death penalty for accidents, even if they are the result of negligence or driving under the infulence, the taking of other lives on the highways, because of excesses by the driv er, is perhaps as reprehensible as killing another person in a fit of rage in any un premeditated manner. And since one’s conscience is a harder judge than the courts, thought along this line is certainly in order.

Professional Baseball

/ |NK of the nation's leading weekly ncws ”papers, Grit, recently commented editor ially on the promise of professional base ball as a career. We agree with the senti ments expressed in this newspaper. It was pointed out that those who made the Major Leagues receive a minimum sal ary of $7,000 a year. This is pretty good money for lads IS or It*, or even 22 or 23 years old. Then, those who become stars in the Majors can increase their earnings rap idly. and many youngsters in their twenties are now earning $20,000 or much more. Eventually, the stars — in their heyday earn as much as $30,000, $40,000 or maybe even $60,000 cm $70,000. It s true that these top salaries are only for the

greatest stars in the country, but then there are many who are earning $20,000 at relatively young ages. Even better than the pay, while they are active, is the promise of a pension at the age of fifty if the Major League baseball player stays in the big time for at least five years. In conclusion, if a youngster likes to play baseball and if he enjoys having three or four months free each year, and has the ability to make the grade, baseball is cer tainly a promising career. No wonder so many youngsters thrill at the sound. “Play ball," and prefer to enter professional baseball — among all professional sports.

The Price of Freedom

IJONORABLK Krvin L. IV.erson. assist *■* ant Secretary of Agriculture, in a re cent address, made the following state ment : "If citizens continuously press for ever increasing public responsibility in the many facets of our national life, only in creased public spending and increased tax es can result. 1 do not believe such a course i et her necessary or desirable. If we be hove that opportunity is more valuable than security; if we believe that we as in dividuals have the capacity, the intelli gence, the industriousness, and the crea tiveness to develop our resources to pro vide greater opportunities for all of us. then we will resist as individuals and as a people passing our future to the keeping

of Government. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Economic freedom is im portant too.” Just for today I will be happy. This as sumes to be true what Abraham Lincoln said. that. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” Government exists for the benefit of peo ple and when they fail to serve the people, they should be replaced. The best friend is the person who tells you the truth, not the one who tells you what you want him to.

1 Ba.kground Scripture: pcs sis 1.27 28. 3 3 Devotional Reading: Psalm 90:1-12. Resourceful God Lesson for May 5, 1P57 THE BIBLE has a plot, take it ^ as a whole, as much as any thriller you ever read. In fact the Bible is more thrilling, because it directly concerns each one of the human race. It is the story of age long conflict between Good and Evil, portrayed as a personal con flict between God and Satan, a

struggle tor tne \ control of the earth and of man. The story begins in a sunny, hope ful way. God makes a world, an unfinished world but never theless beautiful, and he calls into existence Man

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ana w oman, 10 live on mis em m, to beautify and complete it further They are to be God's friends and fellow-workers. But before the ! reader quite knows how it hap- ! pens, the Serpent appears on the ; scene and persuades man that God ; is not his friend but his enemy, j So the man rebels against his Maker, is faithless to his divine Friend. Philosophers and theolo- ; gians have other ways of telling it; but from the simple picture-stories j . f Genesis shines the same double truth and tragedy; Man is made , for fellowship with God and other human beings, but he has broken the fellowship, he has turned against his truest Friend.

God Planning Mysteries darken our knowledge here. But of some things we can be sure One is that God does not deal with his world and his crea tures haphazard. He is a planning God. Another thing that seems clear is that man has freedom to : obey God or to disobey; to fit in with the Plan or to reject it and the Planner God could, no doubt, have made a race of beings who could not possibly do anything but right, a race of perfect robots; but "or some reason God chose to make man free. One suspects that the reason is that God would ra ther be loved by persons who would love him freely, than to be loved by erttatures "wound up.” j so to speak—bound to love him whether or no. 'Would that be real love?) Another thing that stands out is that God is resourceful; in - one sense his Plan can be broken, when men go contrary to his will. In another sense men do not break his Plan, for God appears in Gene sis like a wise general who has more than one plan of strategy— all pointing to victory. God Rejected Man is not free unless he is free to do wrong as well as to do right. And if he is free to do wrong, which is a short way of saying free to go against the will and plan of God, then he is free to destroy himself. For the Plan of God for man, born as it is infinite Wisdom and infinite Love, is always for man's best. For man to resist God, to ignore him. scorn him, live by man-made plans, is to choose the way of death. Genesis shows dra matically how the sin of man grows worse as a snowball grows larger—the farther it goes the more rapidly it grows. Adam's sin seemed a rather slight thing—then his son is a murderer, and his descendants so bad that God could scarcely find one good family among them. The story in Genesis is the story of mankind; men pre fer their own way to God's way— the way of hate and conflict rather than the way of fellowship and love; and they suffer the judgment of God; namely that those who take their own way must accept the inevitable disaster.

God Undefeated Many religions know of just and righteous gods who have been re jected by wicked or careless or ignorant men. But the God re vealed in the Bible does not act as the “gods of the gentiles" are said to act. For man's sin. other gods may have resentment, venge ance, punishment. But these things leave man as he was, an enemy— a conquered enemy perhaps, but with rebellion still smoldering in his soul. Other religions provide elaborate methods by which men may pay for their sins—going long pilgrimages, undergoing self-im posed tortures. But the true God is quite different from the gods whom men imagine—a god unde feated, infinitely resourceful He never gives up his Plan for a peo ple in fellowship with him. Men are changed, saved, made fit to be God's- friends, only by stead fast undiscouraged love. (Based nn outlines copvrljrhted hv th* Division of Christian Fdocatlnn. Na tional Council of the Churrh-v r»f Christ in the I S A Released by Community Press Service ) Under the International Farm Youth Exchange program, which is sponsored by 4-H, a total of 125 boys and girls from this country have visited farms in European countries. At the same time, 185 boys and girls from fifty foreign countries have visited families on farms in tlte United States.

KEEP SMILING When life seems dark and dreary And the days seem over-long. Your heart and soul aweary For laughter, love and song, Do you ever pause to wonder If others just like you Can push dark clouds asunder Til the sun comes shining through? When your heart is sad and lonely And the smiles you get are few, There are many others only Waiting for a smile from you Why not cease your mournful dreaming, Change the skies of gray to blue; Let love go outward streaming From the heart that beats in you All acts of God have meaning, And our fields of corn and grain Would ne'er grow ripe for gleaning If He did not send some ram So smiling greet each friend you meet With heart sincere and true; For when with smiles you others greet, With smiles they will greet you. P S. “Laugh, and the world laughs with you, Weep, and you weep alone." •—L. D. WHITAKER

Double Check There was a time that what America needed was said to be just a good five cent cigar but today things are different. What America needs now is much more and bigger, most seem to just want a place on which to retire and raise whoopee. There are only fourteen million Americans over sixty five . . . that’s nowhere near the age of retirement. Ail ages like a good laugh, it's the same in any country. Laugh and smile is the only free allround language . . and as Charles Lamb said A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market." So. let's laugh. This is the season when most married men get left at home to enjoy their vacation . . and get cussed out and mortally destroyed when the madam returns. Some how we never accumulate enough -o's all can so to once. We might get wised up. This is also the season when di vorce is at its lowest. ^ have to tell you when the season ends Just watch the ' papers, prices of eggs will be generally higher (it’s about the only thing a husband can think to cook' any other time he never touches them. Politics her in America have took a down slide . . too much investigation. They may even In vestigate the investigators. I was visited by Mr. and Mrs. John Arndt, and daughter. Mrs. Grace Smith, and Mrs. Arndt's sister from New Jersey, also the Nelsons from Long Island, won derful people and wonderful visit. Went fishing and missed a lot Friday. Thanks for the visits, thanks for reading. Yours, J. Marvin Brown

Three N & W Train Schedules Changed Timetable changes involving three Norfolk and Western pass enger trains became effective Sunday. April 28, a N & W an nouncement today states. Train No, 25. the westbound Powhatan Arrow, which former ly left Farmville at 10:01 a. tn . has been moved up to 9:43 a. nr. Train No. 26. the eastbound Ar row. which left, at 8:34 p. m . now pulls out at 9:07 p. m. Tra n No. 16. the eastbound Cavalier, will leave at 3:17 a. m. The westbound Cavalier schedule is unchanged.

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Charlotte To Vote On Bond Issue For Two New Schools A referendum will be voted on by the eitirons of Charlotte coun ty Tuesday. May 14. The vote will be taken on whether or not to bond the county in an amount not to exceed S500.000 for con struction of two new elementary , schools. The action v.vs taken at a re cent meeting of the Charlotte county board of supervisors. The supervisors had been a.-k d by the school board to take the legal steps necessary to arrange funds tu build two new schools. Tire two new schools are pro posed to be located near Phenix and Wylliesburg. All persons who were qua'ified to vote in the general election of Movember 1956 wdl be eligible to vote in the referendum.

James town Tour Planned at Powhatan Reservations may be made at the Bank of Powhatan for a bus tour to the Jamestown Festival Tues day. June 18. The bus will leave at 7 a.m.. allowing at least six hours at Jamestown, and will return by 7 p.m. Round trip, including transporta tion, admission and guide, will be M.50 per person It is recommended that the party take picnic lunches, although lunch may be purchased there. In order to make the neces s a r y arrangements, reservations must be made not later than June 10. The same facilities will be pro vided for colored citizens desiring to make the trip. Reservations may be made with Mrs. Rosa Lewis Mar tin or G. A. Ransone at Pocahontas High School More than one bus will be operated if necessary.

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