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Bible-Reading
Project
By WILSON J. CULPEPPER
A nation-wide Bible-reading proj
ect, running from Thanksgiving
day to Christmas, is announced un
der the sponsorship of a national
committee, led by the American
Bible society.
The passages to be read were se
lected from a collection submitted
by 120,000 Protestant clergymen
from the major denominations of
the United States as most helpful
in these days of crises. They have
been made available to the public
and they will be listed below.
News reports by press and radio
repeatedly give evidence that men
and women of our Armed Forces
are reading their pocket New Testa
ments w’ith an interest that is noth
ing short of remarkable. The in
terest that reading of the New
Testament has developed has led
so many in the Armed Forces to
ask for copies of the entire Bible
that chaplains requested the Bible
society to furnish them with 400,-
000 Bibles.
Recognizing this interest and be
ing convinced that a concerted
reading of the Bible would do much
toward the creation of a spiritual
background on the homefront, the
Bible society is launching this plan
of Bible reading with the feeling
that a nation founded on the Bible
can again become aware of this
Book, on whose precepts perma
nent peace can be built.
The selected passages for each
day, beginning with Thanksgiving
and continuing through Christmas,
in this nation-wide Bible reading
project, is indicated here:
Thanksgiving, Nov. 23, Psalm 103.
Friday, Nov. 24, John 14.
Saturday, Nov. 25, Psalm 23.
Sunday, Nov. 26. Psalm 1.
Monday, Matthew 5.
Tuesday, Romans 8.
Wednesday, 1 Cor. 13.
Thursday, Psalm 91.
Saturday, John 3.
Sunday, Dec. 3. Isaiah 40.
Monday, Psalm 46.
Tuesday, Romans 12.
Wednesday, Heb. 11.
Thursday, Matthew 7.
Friday, John 15.
Saturday, Psalm 27.
Sunday, Dec. 10. Isaiah 55.
Monday, Psalm 121.
Tuesday, Phil. 4.
Wednesday, Rev. 21.
Thursday, Luke 15.
Friday, Eph. 6.
Saturday, John 17.
Sunday, Dec. 17. Isaiah 53.
Monday, 1 Cor. 15.
Tuesday, John 10.
Wednesday, Psalm 51.
Thursday, Psalm 37.
Friday, John 1.
Saturday, Rev. 22.
Sunday, Dec. 24, Psalm 90.
Christmas, Dec. 25, Luke 2.
The American Bible Society gives
seven suggestions as to how to read
the Bible, and they are as follows:
z(l) Read thoughtfully and rever
ently.
(2) Read seeking a helpful mes-:
sage for the day.
(3) Underline passages that im
press you as you read.
(4) Pick out one short verse for
the day’s mentation.
(5) Set aside a definite daily time
for reading and keep it faithfully.
(6) Let your reading guide your
living.
(7) Enter the new year as a
daily reader of the Bible.
When you join the Bible-reading
group, you may know that you are :
thus in fellowship with a mighty ;
host throughout tthe world. That |
fact in itself should give you in
spiration and strength.
WE’RE FOR THE ELLIS HEALTH
LAW, MR. MONTGOMERY
C. C. Brooks, D. T. Espy and wife,
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Weems, J. G.
Allen, J. A. Scoggins, H. G. Ramey,
B. E. Pogue, B. H. McSpadden, A.
B. Bloodworth, H. A. Ross, John S.
Jones, Mrs. Agnes Hammond, Mrs.
J. W. Flannagan, Miss Florence
Powell, Johnny Nelson, B. F. Logan,
R. S. Thomas, J. E. Baker, Mr. and
Mrs. C. C. Cleghorn, Mrs. Harry
Marks, H. T. Barron, J. D. Taylor
and hundreds more of our Chat
tooga far-seeing citizens.
JAPS USE RED INK
FOR LAST REPORTS ■
ON GUAM CAMPAIGN
BY SGT. BILL ALLEN,
Marine Corns Combat Correspondent.
GUAM (Delayed).—When bomb
weary and shell-shocked Japanese
defenders of Guam wrote their fi
nal military reports and letters,
their pens were dipped into wells
of red ink—symbolic, in the United
States, of a losing business.
Souvenir-hunting Marines found
numerous fountain pens among the
effects of dead Japs. Nine times
out of ten the pens were filled with
red ink.
“The Japs knew they had less
chance than a snowball in a turk
ish bath,” commented Marine Sgt.
Philip J. Bentzel, of Kohler’s Hill,
York, Penn., as he examined a Jap
pen. “Hence their choice of color
in ink.”
ONLY BENEFICIARY
Nitt —Being big-headed never got
anybody anywhere.
Witt—How about the guy who
passes the hat?
Last Flight of “Thunder Mug”
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OFFICIAL U. S. NAVY PHOTOGRAPH
This is the end of the last flight of the “’Thunder Mug,” the
famed Consolidated Liberator piloted by Comdr. Norman M.
(Bus) Miller, U. S. N., of Winston-Salem, N. C. With its
hydraulic braking system wrecked by Japanese flak in a raid
on Puluwat, the plane ran over the landing strip on its return
to base and nosed into the ocean. In this plane Commander
Miller had sunk or damaged 66 Jap ships and made 55 low
level attacks on Jap bases. OWI
HIGHER EDUCATION
FOR THE MASSES PLAN
OF COLLEGE HEADS
Declaring that unless adequate
funds are made available for its
state colleges, Georgia will “follow
a policy that leads eventually to
intellectual sui ci d e,” Chairman
Marion Smith, of the Board of Re
gents, has reported to Gov. Arnall
that the state should add more than
a million dollars to its appropria
tions for the university system.
Only thus, he said, can higher edu
cation in Georgia find progress
during the postwar era.
Chancellor S. V. Sanford joined
him in the plea, asserting that
whereas in the stringent depres
sion years the state was able to
provide $1,919,468 to the university
system, certainly it could furnish
at least $3,400,000 during lush times
such as today. The appropriation
at this time is $2,158,707, or an in
crease of only 12.5 per cent, in 12
years, he pointed out. On the other
hand, state funds for public schools
have leaped forward to increase 151
per cent.
Chairman Smith is authority for
the statement that Georgia spends
less per capita of public funds on
its college students than any other
southeastern state, and urged an
allotment of the $3,400,000 suggest
ed to place Georgia on a par with
the other states of the southeast.
In this way, better education would
be provided for Georgia students,
but at a reduced cost to them, he
said.
Dr. Sanford called for “greater
funds with which to build up our
engineering, agricultural, teacher
training. medical, graduate and re
search work. The cost to the stu
dent,” he continued, “should be as
small as possible. To the extent
fees are increased from year to
year, to that extent will higher edu
cation slip from the masses. There
is only one correction for this tend
ency, and that is for the state to
assume the responsibility for pre
serving to our youth the hope, on
fair terms, to secure the advan
tages of the state’s institutions.
“In other words, the larger the
state’s appropriation, the smaller
the fees of the students.”
Commenting, Gov. Arnall said:
“I am very much interested in in
creasing all appropriations for edu
cation, to the limit of our ability.
Education is a paramount duty of
the state, but it must be financed
with a realistic appraisal of money
in hand. I am not going to run the
state into debt, but pay it out.
“It is my hope we shall do more
in the future for the university
system. My belief is the legisla
ture will be interested in the pro
gress and development of higher
education, but giving preference to
the common schools. I am hope
ful that we shall steadily develop
a greater university system by its
having more financial support.”
MARINE PATIENTS
LEAVE HOSPITAL
TO ELIMINATE JAP
SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC
(Delayed). The Marines weren’t
too sick to get off their hospital
cots and go hunt for a Jap.
On Guam, a native ran to a hos
pital not far from the forward lines
\nd excitedly told of seeing a Jap
try to hide in a rubbish pile nearby.
A dozen Leathernecks leaped from
their cots, secured rifles and then
-an to the rubbish heap and killed
he Jap.
The hospitalized Marines, most
of them ill from dengue fever, went
back to their cots, rolled over and
'aught some badly needed sleep, re
oorts S/Sgt. Gordon D. Marston
Marine Corps combat correspond
ent.
CHRISTMAS TOYS
~Some increase in the production
of Christmas toys is expected for
the approaching holiday season.
While some steel has been released
for toy making, trains continue to
be made of wood.
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944.
ONE-THIRD OF DRAFTEES
ARE FOUND DEFECTIVE
Revealing that one-third of the
men examined for military service
are found to have mental or physi
cal defects, witnesses before the
senate subcommittee on wartime
health and education emphasized
the necessity for concerted effort
to improve the health situation of
the country through education, pre
vention and treatment, according
to a bulletin received at the State
Department of Health.
In accounts of the committee pro
ceedings, tuberculosis was named
with mental and veneral diseases as
among the principal health prob
lems of rejectees.
In commenting upon these find
ings, Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, state
health director, said: “This should
remove any false complacency we
might have had about our coun
try’s health.”
The purpose of the hearing, the
bulletin indicates, was to survey in
broad outline the nation’s wartime
health program and to point the
way for future health planning.
“One of the best ways to raise
the standard of living of our peo
ple is to improve health condi
tions,” the health director added.
Extension of hospital, medical and
health services in regions in Geor
gia which do not now have them
is an opportunity which the recon
version period will afford, he said.
GIVE ’EM A BLANKET
A man was complaining of the
lack of warmth in the boarding
house in which he was staying.
“In daytime it is bad enough,”
he said, “but at night I frequently
wake up and hear my teeth chat
tering on the dressing table.”
CLIMBED THE LADDER
“Murphy got rich quick, didn’t
he?”
“He got rich so quick that he
can’t swing a golf club without
spitting on his hands.”
HANDICAPPED
judge—And why do you think I
should be lenient with you? Is
this your first offense?
Prisoner —No, your honor, but it’s
my lawyer’s first case.
THEY DID
Teacher—Jimmy, what happened
when the cow jumped over the
moon?
Jimmy—Somebody got an idea
for vanishing cream.
KNOWS HER CONSTITUENTS
Canvasser —Madame, I am tak
ing data for the new political di
rectory. What party does your hus
band belong to?
Mrs. Peck—Take a good look,
mister—l’m the party!
PHYSICIANS
While the Army has discontinued
the recruitment of physicians, the
Navy is seeking to secure 3,000 ad
ditional medical officers from the
civilian population.
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POSTWAR PLANNERS
MUST NOT NEGLECT
ASSETS THEY HAVE
Old- Established Industries Must
Not Be Overlooked in Planning,
Georgia Paper Declares
ATLANTA, Nov. 22 (GPS).—Wide
awake communities in Georgia and
throughout the country are getting
set for the peace to come. Many
are blueprinting their postwar proj
ects; projects designed to encourage
new industrial developments, im
prove retail outlets, meet competi
tion of other communities, and to
develop homes, schools, churches,
libraries, recreational facilities,
traffic arteries and general commu
nity well-being. In short, they are
getting their house in order to do
business in the postwar period. And
that is as it should be.
In laying these plans, however,
there is one all-important factor to
be considered. Get all the new en
terprises and make all the improve
ments possible, but do not lose sight
of the old-established industries
that have served your community
and helped it prosper through the
years, both in peacetime and in
war. Warning communities not to
pin their hopes too strongly on the
dreams of rainbow chasers, but to
look with new appreciation upon
the old-established industries, the
Monroe Advertiser at Forsyth, Ga.,
had this to say editorially:
“The railroads are an example of
such an industry. A few decades
ago a successful effort to secure a
railroad through town was the ulti
mate victory for any community.
Today most communities have rail
road service. Railroads are among
the nation’s heaviest employers.
Their tax payments, local and na
tional, are among the largest. They
are a magnet for other industries.
Wherever they reach, commerce ex
pands. Their personal needs are
great. They require a wide variety
of items, including ice, laundry,
food, fuel and heavy equipment,
the production of which helps
maintain countless local industries.
The railroad is almost literally a
community’s life insurance.
“And the best part is that the
railroads are no dream. They are
as real as the thundering locomo
tives that have worked overtime for
many long months hauling the hell
of war to the Axis. When again the
battlefields are quiet, they will be
come the lifeblood of peace. No
community, no nation can afford
to neglect its railroads in planning
for the future.”
Ninth Air Force urges wider use
of airborne rockets.
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MERCHANT MARINE
The future of the American flag
on the high seas of the world de
pends largely upon decisions to be
made by congress and our high of
ficials. At present, the U. S. Navy
probably equals the combined na
vies of the world and our 40,000,000-
ton merchant marine almost equals
the shipping of other powers. Many
of these ships, however, will not be
suitable for postwar service and, if
the United States is to maintain
an adequate merchant marine, new
and improved passenger and cargo
ships must be constructed.
LIVING COSTS
In mid-October, the general level
of living costs was estimated to be
28.3 per cent, above August 15, 1939,
and 25.3 per cent, higher than on
Jan. 15, 1941.
Fifteen million and five hundred
thousand dollars were spent by two
parties for four networks’ broad
casts.
Palmer & Worsham
Grocery Co.
Home Owned, and Operated
Fancy Fruit Cakes $2.25
Pumpkin, No. 2 Can 20c
White Tulip Flour, 25 lbs. $1.50
Yukon Best Flour, 25 lbs. $1.50
Pure Gold Flour, 25 lbs $1.45
Cosby Rose Flour, 25 lbs. $1.35
Pecans, lb. 50c
Walnuts 40c
Mixed Nuts, lb. 35c
We carry a full line of
FRESH FRUITS and VEGETABLES
Visit our Market... see our full line of Meat.
If we please you, tell others; if not, tell us.
PHONE 172 WE DELIVER
TOO MUCH EXCITEMENT
KANSAS ClTY.—Excitement in
duced by the prospect of seeing hec
daughter, Lieut. Elizabeth Jane H»-
gins, an Army nurse stationed «
Belgium, in a film of Red Cross
activities, is believed to nave
brought on a heart attack from
which Mrs. Bessie Ruth Hagins, SI,
died just before the film started.
CONFERENCE
With the election out of the way,
there is a general expectation that
the president will soon confer wita
Prime Minister Churchill and Pre
mier Stalin and that the leaders
of the three United Nations will at
tempt to reach an agreement oa
outstanding problems.
Dr. E. E. Chambers
Veterinarian
At home near Pennville school.
Phone 721