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The Farmville Herald
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THE HERALB. FarmviUe. Virginia
Entered n* second-clas* matter at the postoffice at FarmviUe.
Virginia, under Art of Congress of March 3 1S79
' 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
Dr. Foreman
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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mixed to your order. Prompt
delivery.
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Company
Formville, Va.
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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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