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THE CLINTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, December 22. 1949
Joanna Young People
To Present Play
On Christmas Day ,
The young people of Joanna Bap
tist church will present the play,
“They That Sit in Darkness,” ^ by
Borothy Clarke Wilson, on Sunday,
December 25, at 7:30 o’clock.
Characters of the play are as fol
lows: Miriam, the outcast, Betty
Anne Thomas; Ruth, daughter of the
innkeeper, Dorothy Carr; Mary, the
mother of Jesus, Norma Whelchel;
Joash, the innkeeper, Wallace (Bud)
Carr; Joseph, the carpenter. Barron
O’Shields; Amon, a servant, Horace
Kammi Jr.; Esther, girl of Bethle
hem, Myrtle Murphy; Rachel, girl of
Bethlehem, Claudette Parrish; Re
becca, woman of Bethlehem, Betty
Rowe; Sarah, woman of Bethlehem,
Audrey O'Shields: Ramah. woman
of Bethlehem. Carolyn Thomas; Na
than, a shepherd, Johnny Buchanan;
Homar, a shepherd, Gene Floyd;
Jonathan, a shepherd, Jimmie
Clarke; Abel, a shepherd, Bobby
Hair; the First Ki,ng, J. D. Johnson;
the Second King, Mackie Templeton;
the Third King. Harold Willingham.
The play is under the direction of
Mrs. James B. Mitchell. The stage
arrangements and decorations will
be planned by LeGrande Shealy.
Mrs. Carson Nabors of the Joanna
schools will serve as pianist. The
public is cordially invited.
Joanna Mills To
Be Accepted In
Central League
BABSON’S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE
At a meeting held in Ware Shoals
during the past week the four old
members of the Central Carolina
textile baseball league voted to ac
cept Joanna as a fifth club for the
1950 season. The action was taken
provided a sixth team can be ob-
, tained to join the league.
Members of the loop last year
were Watts, Ware Shoals, Riverdale
and Clinton. Another meeting of the
league officials will be held in Jan
uary, Dr. R. H. Parks, president, has
,announced.
Babson Park, Mass., Dec. 16—I
have just returned from a day spent
walking the streets of Boston look
ing for Christmas
presents.I suppose
that the store dec
orations and exhi
bits are worthwhile
but somehow they
make me a little
sad. Perhaps it is
just because I am
getting old. Cert
ainly, today’s ex
citement does not
give as much joy
to i my grandchildren as the much
simpler Christmas gave to me when
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1 1 was a boy. When I talk about San-
jta Claus to them, they say,—"Now,
; Grandpa, you know that there really
\ isn’t any Santa Claus!” Perhaps this
| feeling indicates a sign of prog;ess;
: but I wonder.
What Would Je^us Say?
i I wish Jesus could have accom
panied me on this trip around the
; big department stores: and this I
say in a respectful manne*. Of
course, I do not know what He
would say,—'Whether He would be
sad and -critical, or whether He
would enthu c e with the cr°wd.
Probably He would not object to our
people having expensive presents if
, it were not for His children who
are starving to death in Europe and
Asia. He surely would be thinking
! of them and wishing that money
being spent here for so many useless
gifts could be spent on food and
clothing for His children abroad.
When I was a bov, the leading
store window would have a man?er
with a representation of little Jesus
with His mother-, Mary, leaning ov
er Him. The department stores es
pecially made an effort to connect
Jesus’ birth with the Christmas Hol
idays. As I became older, there was
less about Jesus’ humble birth; San
ta Claus was featured in place of
Jesus. His mother and the three wise
men. But this year some large de
partment stores are forgetting both
'esus and Santa Claus. They have in
their wondows wild animals which
wag their heads, shake their paws
and talk,—animals which have been
Matured in the comic strips. I won
der what this trend will lead to!
Danger Of Expensive Toys
Illustrating the inflation that is
creeping over the nation, are the
toys being exhibited in the store
windows. It was not many years ago
when five dollars would be the max
imum which one would pay for a
child’s toy. To my great surprise
11 find today many toys being sold
for twenty dollars. In fact, I fear
that the main difference between a
man and a boy is the amouunt which
he pays for his toys!
We should not forget, however,
that “as the twig is bent, so the tree
groves’’. This means that when the
child is started with such expensive
toys he will later demand propor-
ticnately expensive things in cloth
es. motor cars, college education,
etc., as he grows up.
Some Hopeful Si^ns
A vicious inflationary circle which
could get beyond control may be
started by these expensive Christ
mas toys which we now give our
children. When a boy, I was per
fectly satisfied with an orange in
the toe of my Christmas stocking,
with a few fifty cent toys and a bag
of hard candy. Furthermore, there
simple gi f ts may have meant as
much sacrifice tp m y parents as the
expensive gifts of today’mean to the
modem parents.
We now have bumper crops, and
almost full employment. When 1
think of the wonderful research
work now being freely done through
out the nation, I feel that we all
should have a merry, merry Christ
mas. Let us sh6w our gratitude by
giving a big Christmas present to
our charities and to our Church.
MY PURPOSE
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To be a little kindlier
With the passing of each day;
To leave but happy memories
As I go along my way;
i To use possessions that are mine
In service full and free;
To sacrifice the trivial things
For larger good to be;
To give of love in lavish way
That friendship true may live;
i To be less quick to criticize,
More ready to forgive; 1 '
To use such talents as I have
That happiness may grow;
To take the bitter with the sweet.
Assured ’tis better so;
To be quite free from self-intent
Whate’er the task I do;
To help the world’s faith stronger
grow,'
In all that’s good and true.
God grant to me the strength of
neart.
Of motives and-of will.
To do my part and falter not
Thy purpose to fulfill.
—Author Unknown.
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A CHRISTMAS STORY
Many years ago there lived a country boy who learned that
there uas more joy in giving his Christmas money than in spend
ing it. His name was Eben Holden, and this is the story as he
told it.
"I ’member one year, the day before Christmas, my father
gin me two shillin’. I walked all the way t’ Salem with it. I
went into a big store when I come t’ the city. I see so many
things I couldn't make up my mind t’ buy nothin’. I stud there
feelin’ uv a pair o' skates. They wus grand, all shiny with new
straps an* buckles. I did want ’em awful, but I didn't have
enough money. Purty soon I see a leetle bit of a gal in a red
jacket lookin’ at a lot of dolls. She wus ragged, an’ there were
holes in her shoes, an' she did look awful poor and sickly. She'd
go up an put her hand on one o’ them dolls’ dresses and whis
per, “Some day,” she’d say, “iome day.” Then she’d go to an
other an’ luss a minnit with its clothes an’ whisper, “Some day.”
Purty soon she ask if they had any doll with a blue dress on for
three pennies. “No,” says a woman, says she, “the lowest price
for a doll with a dress on is one shillin.” The little gal looked as
if she wus goin’ to cry. “Some day, I’m going to hev one,” said
she.
I couldn't stan’ it. and so I slipped up an’ bought one an’ put
it in her arms. I never’U fergit the look that come into her face
then. Wall, she went away and set down all by herself. It was
cold an' that night they found her asleep in a dark alley. She
wus holdin’ the little doll with the blue dress on. Hie leetle gal
was half dead with the cold and there wus one thing about it
that made her famous. She hed took off her little red jacket and
wrapped it with tender care ’round the little doll. “Did she die
and go to heaven?” Do you ask? “No,” said he quickly. “She
lived an’ went there. Ye don’t hev to die to go to heaven. Ye’ve
crossed the boundary when you begin to love somebody more'n
ye do yerself. If it ain’t nobody better’n a rag doll."
—Irving Bacheller in “Printopics.”
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