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READING YULETIDE STORIES
ADDS TO FAMILY
CHRISTMAS
The Cairo Public Library has
prepared a list of Christmas
stories and poems as a means of
recapturing the spirit of Christ
mas and as a service for families
who read aloud during the
son. A few possibilities for a
literary menu are included.
The reading of literature’s most
loved Christmas stories, includ¬
ing the Gospels, is one of the best
ways for a family to start the
Christmas season. Often family
reading can knit closer family
ties and help relieve the before
Christmas tension. Since Christ¬
mas, is, first of all, religious, the
New Testament accounts of the
birth of Jesus would head the
list. Both the Christmas tales of
Matthew and Luke are beautiful
poetry and literature.
Perhaps the most famous
Christmas book in the world,
after the Gospels, is Dickens “A
Christmas Carol” written in 1843.
It is a tale which will be retold
as long as there is Christmas. It
has an appeal that reaches the
hearts of adults and lives in the
memories of little children. Henry
Van Dyke’s “The Other Wise
Man” is another such loved story
which has become a Christmas
classic. It tells the story of a
fourth wise man who saw the star
rising and set out to follow it.
The great desire of this pilgram
was denied, yet fulfilled in the
denial.
Perhaps the most famous Am¬
erican Christmas story is Kate
Douglas Wiggin’s “The Birds’
Christmas Carol.” There are
other stories to add to this list
and none would be complete
without the naming of Elizabeth
Goudge “Well of the Star”. An¬
other modern American story
with a Christmas meaning is the
story of Bess Streeter Aldrich
“The Drum Goes Dead.”
The Christmas annuals and the
books relating the Christmas
legends of other lands and the
origins of many of our Christmas
customs are other books to be
read at this season.
Seminole Farmer
Produces Corn For
35 cts., Bushel
Donalsonville. — A Seminole
county farmer produced corn this
year at a cost of only 35 cents a
bushel.
Tht 80 bushels an acre produced
on the farm of Dr. A. B. Davis
cost oniy $30 an acre. County
Agent H. E. Ragan attributes the
economical crop to cheap fertili¬
zer applied in the form of an ex¬
perimental heavy crop of blue
lupine turned under last spring.
Mr. Ragan is urging southwest
Georgia farmers to fertilize corn
in the fall by planting blue lu¬
pine. Dr. Davis’ corn cost less
than the 68-,bushel yield on the
top 4-H club plot in the county.
Highest-yielding corn is the
cheapest, the farmer finds.
Dr. Davis’ Dixie 18 corn had
400 pounds of complete fertilizer
and 100 pounds of nitrate of soda
applied during the year. It was
planted in 42-inch rows 24 inches
in the drill.
Messenger Ads I ell
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Every spring, Handy Peterson
and Easy Roberts patch up the
stone wall that separates their
farms. They walk along talking—
Easy on one side, Handy on the
other—picking up the fallen stones
and putting them back.
Afterwards, over a friendly
glass of beer, Easy says, “You
know, wall-mending is a nice neigh¬
borly custom, but we really don’t
need that wall. We keep it up just
because it happens to be there.”
“Yes,” says Handy, “a lot of
walls and fences and boundaries
keep on separating people for no
Copyright, 1949, United States Brewers Foundation
Penicillin (s Protector
I Of Unborn Babies
| "‘Expectant mothers should
have a blood test for syphilis at
; the eighth month of pregnancy
as well as during the early
months,” Dr. C. D. Bow'doin, Di¬
rector of the Division of Venere¬
al Disease Control, Georgia De¬
partment of Public Health, said
today.
“Many mothers who were found
to be free of syphilis the first
month of pregnancy have in¬
nocently acquired the disease
later on with the result that their
babies were stillborn, crippled or
I deformed, he went on to say.
“ When s yP hilis is discovered
late m pregnancy there is still a
good chance that the baby will
be born normal and healthy if
the proper penicilin treatment]
is started immediately. Even if
the unborn child has become in
fected, penecillin will be effective!
in arresting the disease in the
child as in the mother.”
Congenital syphilis is the same
as acquired syphilis, and if left
untreated it can lead to blindness, i
insanity, paralysis and other dis
abilities. To prevent a baby be
ing born with congenial syphilis,
a blood test early in preg¬
nancy is fost desirable and
again in the latter stages. Pre¬
vention is better than cure, but
in the event the baby is born
with the dread disease cure is
still possible.
“About 7 per cent of the pat¬
ients at Alto Medical Center had!
congenital rather than acquired j
syphilis. If the parents will take
the proper precaution there is no
reason for innocent little child¬
ren to be born with this crippling
disease,” Dr. Bowdoin concluded.
Okefenokee Swamp
Featured In Dec.
Ford Magazine
One of America’s last frontiers
of untamed, untouched wilder¬
ness, the primitive Okefenokee
Swamp in southeasterif Georgia,
is depicted in word, photograph!
and painting in the December
edition of Ford Times, nationally
circulated travel magazine pub¬
lished by the Ford Motor Com¬
pany.
Six full pages of the pocket
size publication, plus the cover,
are devoted t oa comprehensive
account of the natural beauty of
the 700-square-mile area which
is now reserved by the govern¬
ment as a National Wildlife Re¬
fuge.
In her story of a boat trip
through the Okefenokee accom¬
panied by a veteran guide, Ruth
Hammond describes the swamp
as a “Never-Never land, a sphere
of shimmering silver, eerily
quiet except for the put-put of
our tiny motor.” Six of her
paintings of the scenic wilder¬
ness are reproduced in full-color.
The cover for the December
issue of Ford Times, which looks
like an abstract, impressionistic
Christmas design, is an unre¬
touched photograph of Okefe¬
nokee Swarmp Park. Lily pads,
trees, moss and gnarled bushes
form a wintery pattern in tints
of silver, green, gold and blue.
The cover photo was taken by
Harry Borgman from the lookout
tower on Cowhouse Island.
Copies of the December edition
of. Ford Times are being dis¬
tributed locally by Cairo Motor
Company.
ELECTRICAL WIRING
When a fuse “blows,” some¬
thing is wrong. Either the cir¬
cuit is overloaded or there is a
short circuit somewhere. Locate
and remove the source of trouble
before inserting a new fuse.
good reason. Maybe we’d all be
better off if some of them were torn
down, instead of kept standing.”
From where I sit, Handy said £>
mouthful. Take the “walls of in¬
tolerance” that people build up
against each other. I like a tem-j
perate glass of beer now and then,
you may prefer buttermilk—but
that’s no reason for me to criticize
you, or you, me. Let’s live and let*
live together —making more friends
and fewer “walls.”
THE CAIRO MESSENGER. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1949
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1950 Aufo Tags
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January 3rd.
Georgia _ s 1950 automobile li
cense tags, which will go on sale
Jan - 3 > 'have black numerals
on an aluminum background a
change form 1949 red numerals
on aluminum.
Applications for the new tags
should be made to the Georgia
Department of Revenue, Motor
Vehicle Unit, 109 State Capitol,
Atlanta.
Application blanks will be made
available Dec. 21 at filling sta
tions, automobile agencies, State
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car of its field. For Ford brings you an power, delivered by the type of engine
even smoother “Mid Ship” Ride on wide featured in America’s costliest cars (yet
new foam rubber front seat cushion with a ’50 Ford V-8 costs hundreds less than
new non-sag seat springs a new silent any other Eight, hundreds less than most
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ride in Ford’s 13 ways safer, “Lifeguard” “Sixes”). It’s silent power-so quiet you
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Phone 92 1st Ave. N. E. Cairo, Georgia
H’ghway Patrol offices, sheriffs
offices and other locations.
j. E. Briscoe, Director of the
Motor Vehicle Unit, cautions ap
plicants that the blanks must be
s ig ned i n th e presence of nataries
0 j> p U bij c> The apprications
s h ou ld be typewritten, if possible,
or i eas ^ printed not written in
longhand .
T he applications should be ac
companied by either post office
money order, certified check, pos
tal money note or express
order, Currency should not be
used.
Briscoe urged automobile own
ers to make application early, be
cause the deadline is March 31,
1950, but asked them to give the
Motor Vehicle Unit time to pro
cess the applications before call
ing about them,
He warned that last year more
than 5,000 applications had to be
returned because they were in¬
complete,
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„!.?/* Fair Prices . ° £ On
TIlGir Products
Washington. —For the first
time in eight years American
farmers are getting less than the
legally “fair” price for their pro
ducts.
This fact, disclosed in an Agri¬
culture Department price survey,
added new fuel to the congres
sional investigation into consum
er food bills.
No Better Breaks
Oris V. Welles, chief of the
Government’s Bureau of Agri
cultural Economics, was sum
moned to explain why consum
ers aren’t getting a better break
on price.
The Senators want Welles to
give an over-all review of recent
trends in the amount of “mark
et:ng and processing charges”
tacked onto food after it leaves
the farm.
Under present law, a “fair” or
so-called “parity” price level is
reached when the ratio betw<
the prices farmers
their crops and / eceive fr °i
nav sameVs^i
they buy is the
ed Welles’ durin S bureau the 1910-14 reported' per?
day ber dropped farm prices slightly in mid-iTf j
level for time* b fc • , ^
the first
before the war. S1IN
KITCHEN CLEANLINESS
1 ^ handy shelf for cleaning surj
P^es will help inspire kitchei
cleanliness. Stock the shelf with
mild neutral soap such as
use * or ^ fabrics yo
ne and a ver
f * ne scour ing powder that wi
not scratch.