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D OWN in the well, with no way of
getting out and with little hope
of rescue, Chris Thornton remem
bered the line he had written over
•nd over in his copybook some 40
years before. "NEVER PUT OFF
TILL TOMORROW WHAT YOU
CAN DO TODAY.” He could fairly
*ee the large round letters he had
so laboriously formed with pen held
stiffly in ink-smeared fingers.
Toe line had had little meaning
for him then—just some words that
he must write over and over until
Miss Curry was satisfied. And Miss
Curry had been hard to satisfy. Its
meaning was brought home sharply
to him now—when perhaps it was
too late.
However, the former owner of the
farm had let so many things about
the place run down that he had time
only to take care of what seemed
most necessary. Undoubtedly, he
thought ruefully, it would have been
wiser to replace the rotten boards
that covered the abandoned well,
even though his cows might have
stepped over a fallen wire to tram
ple his promising corn.
All day he had been fixing fences,
and coming home he had forgotten
about the well which he could not
see in the darkness. An ankle had
been hurt in the fall — perhaps
sprained or broken. It was swollen
and painful, and probably would be
worse by morning.
He struck a match and looked at
his watch. Twenty to nine. Surely it
must be later than that, for it
seemed like hours since he had
fallen. He held the watch to his ear;
it was running now anyway.
Never before had a night been
so unending. Snatches of sleep
came at intervals, sleep broken
by torturous dreams in which he
was forever climbing, yet never
quite reaching the top.
How long, he wondered, could a
man live without water? And how
soon would anyone miss him? Not
soon enough, he was certain.
The farm lay in a lonely place and
a car seldom passed over the grass-
grown road. He had had few visitors
during the months he had lived
here. Lou Edwards, his nearest
neighbor, had stopped in several
times, but it was unlikely that Ed
wards would come again soon for he
had little time for visiting since his
last boy had left.
Thornton knew that a man could
climb out of a well without a ladder
by bracing his back against one side
and getting a toehold between the
stones on the opposite side. He had
seen it done though he had never
tried it himself. To try it now, when
his foot was so painful he could not
stand on it, was out of the question.
“Should’ve busted my neck in
stead,” he muttered bitterly. "That
would have ended the misery
sooner.”
The stars faded from the small
circle of sky that he could see.
Gradually light entered the well.
Whining softly, his dog looked down
at him; probably she had been sit
ting there all night, waiting for him
to come up. If only there were a
way to have the dog summon help.
He might as well forget that. There
wasn't any way.
He wished it would rain, for
enough water might run down into
the well to satisfy his growing thirst.
Then too, Edwards might find time
to come; his other visits had been
made on rainy days. Might as well
forget that too. It wouldn’t rain.
Why did that copybook line keep
looming before his eyes? Otherwise
he never thought of things that hap
pened so long ago. Of course, other
wise he had other things to think
about—like worrying about the crops
or planning something else. Such
worries looked pretty inconsequen
tial now. And unless he could get
out of the well, there wouldn’t be
any more planning.
Thinking of the line made him
think of the boys who had been
his schoolmates and playmates in
those long-past days — Tom,
George, Cecil, Jimmy, Fred and
many others whose names he
could not even recall. Where were
they now? He hadn’t seen one of
them for years.
Dimly their faces appeared out of
the past, and then the line came
bobbing back, blotting them out.
"NEVER PUT OFF TILL TOMOR
ROW WHAT YOU CAN DO TO
DAY.” Why couldn’t the line stay
away, he thought angrily. It couldn’t
do him any good now.
His dog began barking—at a
squirrel maybe. Or was somebody
coming? He shouted for help, hope
fully at first, but as the minutes
went by, despairingly.
The dog continued to bark. Prob
ably at a squirrel, for there were
many of them about.
Why Be a Negative?
There are some persons — too
many, I am forced to declare—who
live under the handicap of a per
sonality that has a negative tinge.
In psychology we recognize them
as a definite and an unpleasant
group. We classify them. We name
them. We call them negatives, and
the disease from which they suffer
—for it is really a chronic mental
state of unhealth—we call negativ
ism.
A person with a negativistic per
sonality always is ready to argue
the other side of the question. You
make a statement. He says: "Oh, I
don’t know about that. Listen." And
then the battle is on. For an exhibi
tion of downright contrariness, the
negativistics always are on hand.
They do not really know that they
handicap themselves by this trait.
To the contrary. They are proud of
their bold, contrary attitude. They
will tell you it is a sign of courage
and strong ••dll. All of which is piffle.
A negati< istic tendency, far from
being a sign of strong will and in-
"Where are you?” some one rfalled
faintly.
• • *
After the stranger had found a
ladder and helped him out, Thorn
ton said, “I should have fixed that
long ago. ’Way back when I was
in the second grade I wrote in my
copybook about Teven hundred
times, ‘NEVER PUT OFF TILL
TOMORROW WHAT YOU CAN DO
TODAY,’ and I’ve certainly found
out now how wise that is.”
"I suppose that makes good sense
always," agreed the other, “unless
there’s an exception to prove the
rule.”
"Well, if every rule has an excep
tion, this was no exception, any
way,” Thornton said, adding sud
denly, "Say, how did you happen to
come?”
"I represent the Valley Farmer.
Your subscription has run out.”
Thornton laughed. "There’s the ex
ception we were talking about. I got
a letter from your paper a month
ago asking me to renew. I’ve put
off sending the money again and
again, but if I hadn’t put it off, you
wouldn’t have come today.”
Intelligent children exhibit negativ
ism less than dull children. Wherever
it persists, it is a sign of deficient
intelligence and a mind that won’t
grow up. And to have negativism is
not a thing of which to be proud.
Closely akin to negativism is a
commoner trait. We call it stubborn
ness. One-third of us are born stub
born, grow up stubborn, die stub
born—to the everlasting damage of
our personalities. For like negativ
ism, stubbornness is a sign of mental
deficiency and inadequacy. The stub
born person isn’t strong; he is mere
ly weak; he is afraid that if he gives
in, yields a point, he never again
will be able to climb back to the
same degree of vantage. Therefore
he sits tight.
If you have negativistic or stub
born tendencies, don’t give up heart.
You can get over both. Just examine
your own mental outlook. Do you
find yourself taking the opposite side
of questions? Do you find yourself
holding your ground when there is
no reason for it, no need of it?
Then guard against both these
tendencies of yours. Watchfulness
you must exercise. But you can win
if you try. And you must win, be
cause no negative, no stubborn per
sonality was ever a successful, a
likeable or a charming personality.
Job Injuries Increase
In Postwar Industry
U. S. economy is expanding under
the pressure of postwar necessity,
but that almost frantic expansion is
taking a high toll in deaths and in
juries of workers.
Last year, the bureau of labor
statistics reports, was the seventh in
a row in which more than two mil
lion workers suffered disabling in
juries on the job. Time lost during
the year because of injuries amount
ed to 44.7 million man-days—the
equivalent of a year’s full-time em
ployment for about 150,000 persons.
Giving even greater pause was
the fact that 17,000 persons were
killed in job accidents during 1947.
Bureau of labor statistics puts
the blame, to a large extent, on
rising employment. Another factor
last year, however, were two ma
jor industrial disasters—the Texas
City explosion and the Centralia,
111., mine disaster—both of which
took heavy tolls.
Job injuries in 1947 increased 1
per cent over 1946. job injury deaths
jumped 3 per cent. The year’s toll
Included 1,800 employees who will be
totally disabled for the rest of their
lives and another 90,000 who will
suffer some permanent impairment
as long as they live.
Increases in injuries and deaths
occurred in construction, mining and
quarrying, public utilities and trade.
Agriculture and railroading injuries
were fewer than in 1946.
t | 1HROUGHOUT the ages men have
I ever clung
^ To the everlasting promises of God.
When loss and grief and suffering have
wrung
Their hearts, the pilgrims journeying on
earth’s sod
Have turned their faces skyward, and will
turn
Forever toward the arching starlit skies.
Where steadfastly his silver fires bum
Like words of flame before their seeking
Omen, behold! Lift up your eyes and see
Who hath created them. He brings them
out.
He names each one—he knbws their
destiny.
Not one will fail! Oh, we so prone to
doubt.
Can we not trust the One through life’s
brief hour.
Who has such infinite, unfailing power?
How long, be wondered, conld a man live without water? And how soon
would anyone miss him? Not soon enough, he was certain.
LETS TALK
ABOUT you,
BY CHARLES B. ROTH —
telligence, is definite evidence of
an adult who hasn’t grown up and
who is dumb in the bargain!
Dr. M. M. Reynolds, careful ob
server of human traits, made a study
of negativism in babies. It begins to
appear at the age of six months, he
found. Then it gradually subsides.
ZECHARIAH 1:1-6; 4; 7—8.
DEVOTIONAL READING: Psalms 24:
1-6.
Zechariah Pleads For
Righteousness
Lesson for April ZS, 1948
Z ECHARIAH almost certainly
was born and reared in or
near Babylon, and was trained for
the priesthood and ordained of the
Lord as a prophet.
His father, Bere-
chiah, was the son
of Iddo, the proph
et. Though much
younger than Hag-
gai, about whom
we studied last
Sunday, Zechariah
began his minis
try only two
months later than
Haggai—a minis
try which was to
summon the peo
ple to righteousness as a condi
tion essential in the rebuilding of
the temple and in cleansing them
selves of idolatry, if they were to
throw off the yoke of their foes.
The student will need to read the
entire Book pf Zechariah to have
the background for this lesson.
Also Psalm 24:1-6.
* * *
LIVING TOGETHER IN GOD’S
WAY
U'T’URN ye unto me, saith the
1 Lord of hosts, and J will
turn unto you,” Zechariah 1:3. Peo
ple cannot live together in peace
and harmony until first they are on
speaking terms with God. The in
sidious onslaught of secularism
was weakening the Jews at the
very moment when they needed to
be strong and united for the task of
rebuilding the temple and restor
ing their life in Jerusalem.
Read further into the prophecy
of Zechariah and note the admoni
tions of the Lord for kindness one
toward another—kindness and un
derstanding and sincerity, which
are the indispensable qualities of
community life.
Dr. Newton
WHAT MAKES A PEOPLE
GREAT?
Z ECHARIAH reminds the people
that the downfall of their
fathers had been due to their for
getfulness of God. He calls them
now to repentance of their owf/'
sins, that they become truly a great
people. "Fear not, but let your
hands be strong,” Zechariah 8:13.
"What makes a nation great
and strong?
Not brick, nor stone, nor wood,
But Justice, love and brother
hood."
Boys and girls will do well to look
again at what this old prophet was
saying. We long to see the United
States a truly great nation. Then
let us be strong in the Lord.
. • *
GOD HAS A STANDARD
R EAD chapter seven, verses
8-14, and 8:16-17, for some of
the standards which God sets up
for his people. “Execute true judg
ment, and show kindness and com
passion every man to his brother.
Oppress not the widow, the orphan,
the foreigner, or the poor, and
never plot evil in your hearts
against one another.”
Zechariah is here epitomizing
the Ten Commandments and the
Sermon on the Mount. All of which
is to remind us today that we do
not need new standards. We simply
need to conform to God’s eternal
standards.
GOD IS TO BE SOUGHT UNTO
T HE first eight chapters of Zec
hariah have to do with the as-
sential qualities of life if the people
are to rebuild the temple. The last
six chapters deal with the general
standards of life which we must
accept and strive to attain if we
are to be well-pleasing unto him.
I like the phrase of the fathers.
"God is to be sought unto.” And
how are we to come into the pres
ence of the Lord? “He that hath
clean hands, and a pure heart; who
hath not lifted up his soul unto van
ity, nor sworn deceitfully,” Psalms
24:4.
It was not enough to rebuild the
temple. God wanted his people to
become living stones of integrity
and fidelity in the city of God.
This we shall attain only as we
seek first the Kingdom of God' and
his righteousness—constantly seek
this daily walk with the Lord, in
the light of his word.
“Righteousness exalteth a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.”
* * *
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By the Bible
If we abide by the principles
taught in the Bible, our country will
go on prospering and to prosper;
but if we and our posterity neglect
its instructions and authority, no
man can tell how sudden a catas
trophe may overwhelm us and bury
all our glory in profound obscurity.
—Daniel Webster.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Solution In Next Issue.
No. 14
HORIZONTAL
1 To recede
4 A call to ex
cite attention
6 To pilfer, a*
game
11 Gushed
13 Yearly
15 Toward
16 More mature
18 Gait of a
horse
19 A pigpen
21 Russian
river
22 Plural
ending
23 A division of
corals
26 To consume
29 Harden into
a mass
31 To cull
33 International
language
34 Symbol for
oleum
35 Part of a
circle
38 Confederate
general
39 A pronoun
40 Note of scale
41 New Zealand
tree with
reddish wood
43 Utters
45 Beast of
burden
47 Missiles
50 Symbol for
tantalum
52 A species ef
dolphihlike
cetaceans
53 Knave of
clubs in Lu
56 Predatory
incursion
58 Seasons
60 A linguistic
stock of
Gold Coast
Negroes
61 To assert to
be true
63 Tantalizer
65 Spanish title
68 Senior
(abbr.)
67 A worm
VERTICAL
1 Newts
2 A stain
3 Buddhist
•> priest
4 Greeting
5 Queerer
6 A sunshade
7 Upon
8 Poker stake
9 To swear
10 A Chinese
weight
12 Grief
14 Commis
sioned officer
(abbr.)
17 Man’s name
20 Tibetan ox
24 A kind of
fuel
25 Measure of
land
27 Military
force
28 Pedal digits
29 Genus of
African
trees
30 Word of
sorrow
32 Examination
36 To steal
37 Armed
vessel
42 Bone of
the forearm
44 A poisonous
snake
46 Fence steps
48 Sings in a
lively man
ner
49 One who
consumes
food
51 British
colony in.
southwestern
Arabia
54 Grows older
55 A planet
56 Sun god
57 Indian mul
berry (pi.)
59 Symbol for
samarium
62 To depai t
64 A compass
point
Answer t. Purzle No. IS.
WHO
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Detective Makes Crime
Sleuthing a Work of Art
CHICAGO.—Detective Adolph Va-
lanis has made crime detection a
fine art.
He listens to witnesses, fits the
pieces of description together and
draws a picture. Copies arejchecked
against photographs in the police
department’s rogues gallery and
sent to officers working on the case.
The detective’s sketches have led
to the solution of three slayings and
a string of robberies.
He was accused of taking tlas
money from a drugstore where me
was doing a paint job.
This Tax Payer Believes that
U.S. Has Him by the Collar
HARTFORD, CONN.—Federal
tax officials here told of a man
•who enclosed a collar in a letter
asking for a copy of his 1946
tax return.
"This doesn’t make sense,”
the man wrote, “but if that is
the rule, then that is the rule.”
Investigation proved that the
taxpayer was right.
He had written previously ask
ing for a copy of his return and
had been told it would cost him
"one collar.”
Embarrassed bureau officials
said such typographical errors
— “collar” for “dollar” — were
rare but they did happen.
The Meteorologist’s Job
Predicting the weather if
plicated task. In a large city, (for
instance, a substantial crew ) of
trained men and women get
ports each hour from sta
throughout the particular
The reports include temper;
changes, the kind of clouds In
heavens at the time, the direc
and speed of the wind, vlsib:
and other celestial data. Pres:
change maps then are drawn she
ing in which direction the
masses are traveling. When
has been done the meteorologist
equipped to predict with a fair
gree of accuracy what kind
weather can be expected for 24 or
36 hours. The velocity and direC'
tion of the wind is recorded by the]
triple register, which also inter
prets how much sunshine or rain
la in the air.
CLASSIFIED
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SPECIALOFFER—Big Broiler Chicks $2 50-
100. Mixed assortment $4.50-100. Quick COD
shipments. RAUCHS CHICKS, Kleinfelters-
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SURPLUS U. S. CERTIFIED CHICKS, $3 per
hundred, plus postage. Park Poultry Farm,
New Lqfdngton, Ohio.
BUSINESS & INVEST. "OPPOR7
A REAL OPPORTUNITY
AN OPPORTUNITY like this only comes
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of lumber on the yard and a new 6-room
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Men and Women wanted to place self-sell
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BEAUTIFUL restaurant, oldest city in Unit
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clientele, for sale; right price. History House
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CAFE AND SERVI/E STATION—One mile
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FOR SALE
ESTABLISHED radio shop In Tennille, Ga.
Also 6-room house with all conveniences In
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HELP WANTED—MEN, WOMEN
ATTENTION ALL: Get set for good jobs,
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er countries, islands, east, west coast com
panies hiring. $1 postpaid brings several
latest spring listings. Alaska—some general
labor. Foreign and Domestic Emp. Direc
tory, P. O. Box 145, Dept. 44, Spokane 2,
Wash.
AUTOS, TRUCKS & ACCESS.
FOR SALE or trade—IHC KS-6 with 28 ft.
Freuhauf cattle body trailer; 1946 model,
low mileage, good rubber, looks new. Mav
be bought at half price. Ideal for vegetable,
produce, or livestock hauling. Call or write
ATKINSON PROCTOR COMPANY, Millen,
Georgia.
TO RENT OR LEASE
BEACH COTTAGES for rent. Choice lots
and cottages for sale. Jordan Realty Co.,
Crescent Beach, S. C.
MISCELLANEOUS
STOKER—For sale, combustloneer, new
gears and worm. Hopper capacity 700
pounds. For 50 horsepower boiler. We have
had to install larger boiler and stoker.
Apply Martin at Hosiery Mills, Inc., Valdese,
N. C. Phone 36.
THEATRE SEATS. 90C folding plywood. Ex
cellent condition, $2.50 each. A. J. Penley,
c/o Henrico Furniture Co., Sandston, Va. f
Phon* Fairfield. Va. 2835.
PAINT—Surplus, Tltaneum formula, outside
white; 10,000 gallons, ones, fives, $1.60 gal.
f.o.b. Toledo. Household Co., 419 Dorr, To
ledo, Ohio.
INVISIBLE TOE RUBBERS—For Open Shoes.
Fits inside. Cannot tear stockings; hurt
feet. Protection from water, sand, dirt. Pair,
50c pp. RELIABLE SALES CO.. 8 So. Dear
born, Chicago 3, 111
PERSONALIZED books, magazines, station
ery, belongings. Your name and address (3
lines) on individual gummed labels, 500 for
$1.00. PINEWOOD PRESS, FAIRHOPK (10),
ALA.
TREE DEATH—Kills trees never to sprout
again. Write Carolina Commercial Company,
Sanford, N. C.
ICE CREAM and FROZEN CUSTARD MA
CHINES. Write Ragan Refrigeration Co..
Box 1806, Charlotte, N. C.
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roofers by pc. or bundle. Price $1.00. R. C.
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SEEDS, PLANTS, ETC.
PALMETTO Palm trees, 4 years old, $4.78
each; 1 year old 75c. Shipped prepaid ready
to plant. Send check or money order. V.
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Tomato Plants. Rutgers, Marglobe. Full
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$3.00 thousand. Rains Plants, P. O. Box
141, Stuart, Fla.
LIVESTOCK
HEREFORD BOARS for sale, ready for light
service. Pigs, either sex, registered in buy
er’s name. H. L. Williams, Beaverdam, Va.
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