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THE NEWBERRY SUN
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1955
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COMMENTS ON MEN AND THINGS
The story of Bethlehem is ages old, but ever fresh, for
it is the story of God’s love for humanity: for God so loved
the world that he gave his only son that through Him
all might inherit eternal life.
The son of God, entering this world and this life as the
son of Mary was the son of the Highest and began his
fruitful ministry as one specially born, conceived by the
Holy Ghost, as The Apostle’s creed so clearly and succinct
ly tells us; and, of course, as we read in Luke.
The story begins with Zacharias, the priest, to whom
the angel appeared, announcing the birth of a son, “who
shall be great in the sight of the Lord . . . and many of
the children shall be turned to the Lord their God ... to
make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” This son was
to prepare the way fo£ the visit and ministry of Jesus
Some time after the foretelling of the coming of John the
Baptist the angel Gabriel appeared to Mary, a virgin, and
greeted her, “Hail, thou art favored; the Lord is with thee
blessed art thou among women.” “Thou shalt bring forth
a son; he shall be called the son of the Highest.” Mary
asked - how this could be; and Gabriel answered “ . . . with
. God nothing shall be impossible.”
Mary then went to see'Elizabeth who was, to have a son
—John—who, in turn, was to be the Messenger of Jesus.
When Elizabeth greeted her as the mother of her Lord
Mary said: “My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spiri
bath rejoiced in God, my Saviour . . . henceforth all ge’ner
ations shall call me blessed.”
Zacharias, who recovered his speech when John was
born said: “Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for He hath
visited and redeemed his people.
And thou, child, shall be called the prophet of the *High-
est; for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to pre
pare his ways; to give knowledge of salvation unto his
people by the remission of their sins; to give light to them
that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide
our feet into the way of peace.”
And now we enter upon the familiar Christmas story:
“And it came to pass in those days, that there went out
a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should
be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius
was governor of Syria.
And all went to be taxed, everyone into his own city.
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city
of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is
called Bethlehem; (because he was of the house and lineage
of David; to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, being
great with child.
And so it was that while they were there, the days were
accomplished that she should be delivered.
And she brought forth her first bom son, and wrapped
him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; be
cause there was no room for them in the inn.
And there were in the same country shepherds abiding
in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the
glory of the Lord shone round about them, and they were
sore afraid.
And the angel said unto them, Fear not; for behold, I
bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
people. For unto you this day in the city of David, a
Savior, which is Christ the Lord.
An this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe
wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
* And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of
heavenly host praising God, and saying,
Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good
will toward men.
And it-came to pass, as the angels were gone away from
them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let
us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is
come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph
and the babe lying in a manger.
And when they had see it, they made known abroad the
saying which was told them concerning this child. ‘
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name
was Simeon; and the same was just and devout, waiting
for the consolation of Israel; and the Holy Ghost was upon
him. .
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And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost that he
should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
And he came by the Spirit into the temple: and when
the parents brought in the child Jesus, to do for him after
the custom of the law,
Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and
said, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, ac
cording to thy word:
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation.
Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people;
A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy peo
ple Israel.”
■if AUTHOR OF “HOW TO STOP WORRYING AND START LIVING" ^
XITTLIJAM O. PRATHER. 466 N. Garland. Memphis, Tennessee, says
y y that a few years ago he became so worried that he could not sleep;
he lost his appetite and got behind in his work. This was a few month*
after he was advanced to the job he now holds. One assistant manager
resigned to keep from having a nervous breakdown, the next one had a
nervous breakdown and the manger died from a heart attack before he
had been his assistant a month
Not having had any office experience, he was told
that the quickest way to learn the work was to have
all the mail come to his desk. He was out of town
most of the time and the mail would pile up. Then
he would get so worried he would not know what to
do first. Nothing he tried helped him with his wor
ries until one Sunday night at church the mfah»t+r
was preaching from Dr. Norman Vincent Peale’s
book The Power of Positive Thinking. One of the
verses in the scripture he quoted was “Come unto
me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden. X will CARNEGIE
give you rest." He followed that advice and took his troubles to the
Lord, asking to be helped in his many daily problems.
The next morning when he went to hi* office, he assigned the mnfi to
various ones. What they could not take care of he had put on hi* own
desk. This he sorteg as to the most important and then took care of it
in that order. The assigned mail he kept 19 with through the reading
file. Now the work is being taken care of and he has no fear of a nervous
breakdown.
“A good example of what abundant capital and the ef
ficiency developed in American industry will do for the
public may be seen by comparing the prices of gasoline with
wages during the past 50 years.
As compared with 1903, the tank wagon price of gasoline
has actually fallen about 10 per cei\t while during the same
period of time, wages of common laborers, first class me
chanics and oil refinery workers have arisen from about
1100 per cent to 1250 per cent. The price of gasoline has
not risen because vast amounts of capital under very able
management have been invested in continuous research
and more efficient equipment.
The great abilities of a comparatively few industrial man
agers backed by the savings of the people are responsible
for this enormous increase in well-being.
This story would never have been written had not
another group of extraordinary men working with the
savings of people been developing the automobile industry.
Without the freedom that existed up to the early years of
this^century, the enormous progress of the gasoline, auto
mobile and countless other industries would not have been
made. Inflation, the x suppression of initiative, the substitu
tion of government control for freedom or any interfer
ence with the urge of constructive men to think, to dream,
to dare and to do will destroy it. It might be more accurate
to say, have already destroyed it, to a far greater degree
than we realize.
Those who advocate more political spending and more
government and who foment ill will toward the men who
have been outstandingly successful in developing large en
terprises, are performing great disservice to the American
people. If their philosophy prevails—if they are able, by the
coercive power of government, -to bring about a redistri
bution of wealth to the point where saving is discouraged
and our ablest men are unable to function freely, the stand
ard of living will decline.
We need more capital, and the only way to get it is to
practice economy and protect the saver in the right to enjoy
the fruits of his frugality. We need to develop able man
agers who can think out better and cheaper ways of getting
things done. To do this we must allow them to enjoy sub
stantial rewards for the great effort, skill, application and
dedication necessary to perform this essential work. If they
earn fortunes themselves, it Will be because the benefits
conferred upon the rest of us are at least a hundred times
greater.
The electrical energy producing industry’s record is even
far better than the oil industry in reducing its production
costs and prices to the people.
D EBATES in school districts all
over the land are now prob
ably going on as delegates to the
White House Conference on Edu
cation spread the word of the
discussions which led to the adop
tion of the resolutions, mandat
ing the Congress, insofar as the
2,000 delegates were concerned,
for a program of increased fed
eral aid to the public schools, the
majority favoring grants-in-aid.
While this form of federal par
ticipation is directly in conflict
with recommendations of the Hoo
ver Report and of the President’s
Commission on Intergovernmental
Relations, the delegate vote for
federal participation in grants to
the states for education was on a
basis of more than two to one.
It will be remembered that dur
ing the last, session of the Con
gress, President Eisenhower*« edu
cational program called for setting
up a state school building agency
with an appropriation of $6 bil
lions to build schools for lease-
purchase to local public school
units, together with $200 million
in grants to be matched by the
states where school districts were
too poor to qualify for loans. How
ever, this bill did not get out of
the committee.
It now remains to be seen wha
the taxpayers think of the pro
posals contained in the resolutipn
adopted by the delegates to the
educational conference, which in
cluded such points as:
1 Reorganization of school dis
tricts, 69,000 of them, on the basis
of modern means of communica
tion and geographical manageabil
ity, instead of the present horse-
and-buggy concept;
2—Reexamination of the state
local taxing powers for school pur-
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And now to the readers of my Spectator letters; to the
officials of the State, County and Municipalities, our Sen
ators and Representatives in Congress; and to those fine
men and women who encourage me to write and speak over
the radio; and to all my brethren of the press and of the
radio and of the TV, I express my best wishes for a Joyful
Christmas, full of good cheer and full of remembrance of
all the mercies and blessings which have attended our way.
This great occasion of song brings to us a deep sense of
fellowship with all mankind and inspires our kindly thought
and helping hand for our brethren in distress.
w This an" That
Argentina’s last -minute
brought to S3 the nm her of na
tions participating in the 1956 Win
ter Olympic games at Cortina
D’Ampezzo, Italy, January 26 to
February 5 • . . Ellsworth Vines,
former National Amateur Tennis
champion who became a pro at
the age of 31, la now professional
at the Inwood Country Club at
Cedarhnrst, on Long Island . , . A
committee of civic and business
leaders in Cleveland has been
appointed to make a study of the
(acilities needed for the Paa-
American games there hi 1959. The
committee will review existing
sports facilities offered for the
femes and recommend which
should be used and where new
structures should be built . . . The
most lopsided score in profession
al football came in a 1946 cham
pionship playoff game In which
the Chicago Bears walloped the
Washington Redskins 73-6 ... In
♦he four-game World Series of 1928,
Babe Ruth got 19 hits In 16 trips
to the plate, chalking up the rec
ord batting average for the World
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TRIPLE CHAMP . . . “Sugar**
Ray Robinson, 35, came back
from 31-month retirement to
again become middleweight
champion by knocking out fa
vored Carl “Bobo” Olson, 27, in
round two in Chicago’s Stadium.
Robinson regained title be lost
to Randy Turpin In July, 1951,
and took back two months later.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
PUZZLE No. S74
LABOR MEETS NAM . . George Meany (left)
ly merged AFL-CIO shakes hands with Charles R.
chairman of National Association of
of
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ACROSS
1 Animal
6 Mutilate
10 Part of church
14 Rugged crest
of mountain
range
15 Wine measure
of Trieste
16 Duck
17 Has ascended
18 Narrate
19 Covers with
pitch
90 Geometric
figure
S3 Ancient
country of
Italy
•4 Persian title
25 Blotch
26 Kind of well
30 A fray
34 Scorch
S5 Stinging
Insect
86 Kind of car
87 Socky
nlnnacle
88 Tobuild
40 Cask
41 Goes la
44 fish eggs
45 Simple
46 Village
community
In Java
417 Deletion*
40 Sedate
52 ... Vegas
53 Made glad
60 WeU venti
lated
61 Sliver coin
of Morocco
64 Fruit of oak
65 Girl’s name
66 9th hurricane
of 1955
67 Mother of
Perseus
68 Tall marsh
g rass
eating vessel
70 Feminine
name
DOWN
1 Prohibits
2 Great Lake
3 Armed galley
of old North
men
4 Kind of boat
5 Game
6 Bright saying
7 Form of
“to be”
8 Recess in
shore
9 Island In Med
iterranean
10 Was in har
mony with
11 Fruit
12 Hindu
woman’s
garment
13 Bride of
Lohengrin
81 Division of
clan
83 Hoar frost
23 Scoffed
27
29
31
River ot
Europe
Kind of pastry
(pi.)
Combining
form: aircraft
After awhile
32 To harden
33 Anglo-Saxon
slaves
36 Purloins
39 The heart
(anat.)
42 Attempted
43 Rodents
45 Melodious
48 Salt-covered
plain where
lake has
evaporated
50 Eagle’s nest
51 Simpleton
53 Mass of sand
cemented on
sea bottom
54 Cord
55 Sea eagle
57 India fishing
boat
58 Family name
of the
E rani tea
(Bib.)
59 To cut. after
snick
62 Feminine
name
63 Meadow
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loses, and removal of legal and
even state constitutional restric-
ions on borrowing or bonding for
school purposes; {
3— ’That each state should base
its tnving power for schools on
property through an equalized as
sessed valuation on basis of state
wide uniform standards, and adop
tion of more scientific methods to
insure fairness in assessment pro
cedures;
4— That federal aid should be
granted only on demonstrated
need, and that such aid should
never become a deterrent to,state
and local initiative, or in any
way provide for federal control
over educational use of the funds
in the school districts;
5— That no funds be provided
fbr non-public educational inatitup
tions, although there was some
sentiment expressed for federal aid;,
to private schools along health
and safety lines;.
6— That problem of financing is
not lack of capacity to support
education adequately, but a lack of
national determination to apply
enough of our available resources
to do the job;
7 That there is a need to re
examine, and do it periodically,
the allocation of tax funds at all
levels of government;
It was pointed out that In re
cent years there has been a great
er trend toward state, rather than
local support for public schools,
which now ranges from 86% In
one state to only 6% in another,
but that as state support has in
creased, the local share of the
total cost of education has de
clined from 80% in 1934 to 56%
in 1954, but the dollar amount has
increased.
Can yon tell me what It ooete to nm the United Nations annually?
a—The 1956 budget (or UN total 846,278,000. about $600,000 less than in
1955. Included is $3,000,000. the sixth Installment on the interest-free
loan of $65,000,000 advanced by the United States toward constric
tion of the UN building,
l -How many war
are there in the US?
"■p>-
-Veterans Administrations says as of October 1955 there were 22,05L*
000 veterans of all wars. •
What is the new brake regnlatisn adopted by Interstate Commerce
Commission on Interstate tracks to prevent accidents?
Essentially the regulation is designed to provide a braking system on
tractors and trailer combinations which would limit the failure of any
part of the brake system to a single axle and would permit the driver
to retain control of the vehicle.
•Can yon give a comparison an farm prioes and retail food prices?
In November farm prices were 7% below a year ago. Retail prices
in food tor third quarter of 1955 were 1% below the same period last
year.
If Alaska or Hawaii are admitted te the aMon as states win they be
on an equal basis with all other states?
a—Yea. The constitution does not recognize any inequalities in state
hood.
q—What was the size of the original U. 8.
A—A chief justice and four associate justices. v
Q—Has any justice declined appointment as chief justice of the
Court?
A—Yes. William Cushing in 1796,
Q—How many acres of public lands are there in- the United States?
A—As of a recent date there were 169,506,842 acres of vacant
lands in the U.' S. proper. In addition there were 250,000,000 acres i
Alaska.
From the Seville Chronicle, Se
ville, Ohio: A cold war which
we sometimes seem to be losing
stretches into its tenth year . .
the cost of living still appears to
outstrip income . . . it , looks like
insurance, taxes, and Christmas
bills will an come due at the «*mc
time this yea^ Life hardly
worth the struggle any more, does
it?
Our hearts bleed as we look at
the plight of the average
in this community. Only a 2i
over 90 per cent of them own or
are buying the home in which they
live; there is only slightly
than one automobile per family
here. Some men must work such
long hours that they have no time
to garden, and are forced to buy
I * quarter of 4-H beef to put in
that new deep-freeze so that their
famflies may survive the winter.
And what of our children (more
commonly referred to as “juvenile
delinquents)? Despite the fact that
in Medina ~
M««« from othw «JII
join us today, ti
real pity In their eyes tor
Average American.
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vs
year we
pita
County last yc
spent almost aa much per cap!
tor schools as we did tor whisky
(beer Is extra), the little buggers
can’t spell. Us parints ain’t gittin
no retera at all for are good mooy;
why don’t they teech them kids
sumtiling usful?
Yes, things have come to a
pretty peas, and we suppose that
if our Pilgrim forefathers could
nal. Extra, Iowa: A box
ceries representing
housewife’s weekly fc
might not at first glance
particularly representative
rest. (But a comparison of a
lar selection of groceries of
vintage would quickly
changes and advances lit __ _
of revolutionary. Fresh fruits
vegetables once obtainable <.
in season from local growers
now universally available the ‘
’round at reasonable
high speed distribution
the use of refrigi
but eliminated s<
on food supplies.
In addition to
ety and quality,
can buy another
modity at her local
that is time. In 1925,
hours to prepare a day’s food
family of tour. Using the great
variety of highly processed mod
em foods now available, the same
job can be done in 1
One of the newer
frozen food line are
dinners with all the
prepared and ready to
heat and serve.
HOMOOMNItOR
By Fran Pochter
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I
G REAT preparations were afoot
to honor Pastor Lane, a de
sire to pay homage to the gentle-
naan who had taken over their
unall parish when they had been
ieft bereft. They were well aware
that their church had little to of
fer in the way of a comfortable
living or monetary gain, so were
overwhelmed to learn that the
well known Rev. Lane bad agreed
to come. Many wondered why
had left the large wealthy
to service them?
Upon their arrival, it was
that his wife was stylishly
and his fine tailored clothes spoke
for the fact that they had hem
used to luxuries. Many felt that
their poor ways might be distaste
ful to the Pastor and' his lady. At
their first social meeting, Mrs.
Lane dispelled their fears saying
graciously, “It was like coming
home, as she had grown up in a
parish such as theirs and her Dad
had been the Town Pastor.**
Pastor Lane bad also won their
hearts by his praise of their work
and their evident faith, judged by
the number in attendance at their
first meeting. They had thought
the Pastor and his wife to- be
childless, but he in one of his ser
mons had touched on the willful
ness of children and his outward
show of emotion as he had talked
had made them feel that some
tragedy had occurred in his path,
and that at one time they had a
child.
The first year anniversary of his
arrival was near and out of grat
itude for his ever constant vigil
when their needs were great, felt
that they wanted to make this a
memorable occasion. They had
planned a large dinner and had
purchased tor him a television.
They delegated Mary Brown who
had become fast friends with El
len, the Pastor’s wife.
7Tlen appeared startled but
vtl that it would give her bus*
id pleasure^ Their daughter had
entered the entertainment world
and the Reverend
He had Immediately
hasty words but she
out of sight and they
where she was.
Mary armed with tfc
Melody, promised to gd to
City and try and locate her.
was thrilled to learn by
of ttie girl’s name her
dress. She was
that she recorded
Mel.Lane. Her meeting
lady went off very weU.
brought her up to date, teU-i
of her father's change ofi
:es. pointing out that he ’•
had left town shortly after she;
had and that in their small town,;
they had no sets. j
The night of tike dinner.
Lane sat down to a turkey
that rivaled that of any hotel.
Mrs. Lane’s eyes twinkled as she
awaited the big surprise of the
evening, but both experienced a ;
warm feeling of tenderness to
ward these kindly people. The din
ner over. Rev. Lane got up, pre
paring to thank them. 'They waved;
him down, informing him there
was more to come. It was time-
for the unveiling of the set and noti
a whisper had reached the pastor i
and his wile that it must be turned
on exactly at eight.
The curtains were drawn back,!
Yhe hall darkened and the set lit
up. On the screen appeared a ;
lovely young lady whose startling
resemblance to her mother startled
the watchers as much aS it did!
the pastor. Her voice rang out,
singing her dad’s favorite piece,
“Moonlight Maddonna.”
He rose chokingly crying, “Mel
ody” only to sit down suddenly
feeling weak as he saw a spot
light appear next to the set and
Melody standing there in person,,
singing with herself.
Sobs were heard as the last;
notes filled the air
to i
it a dry eye to
the room as the pianist tbs
sacred by playing, “Lord,
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