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IT WAS downright silly, after
* fourteen years, for Laura to
break down and cry. That’s what
her husband Joe pointed out to her
as he stood at the window with her
looking out at the cause of her
tears — their fourteen - year -old
daughter, Rosalie. Not that anyone
ever called her that. Ever since
Rosalie was three and kicked the
minister behind his pink clerical
ear, she had been known to all and
sundry as Butch.
“Butch.” Laura took one more
hopeless look at the jeansclad fig
ure hanging upside down from the
tree branch and groaned. “When
I think how much I dreamed of
having a girl!”
After three boys, it had seemed
like a miracle that-morning in the
hospital when the nurse brought
her the joyous news—“lt’s a girl!”
And such a pretty little girl.
Lying there in bed, Laura had
dreamed happily. Os pink pina
fores, of dancing school and piano
lessons, of fairy costumes for
school plays.
When Butch was four, Laura had
given the last of the ragged, grass
stained pinafores to the Good Will
and bought six pairs of blue jeans
with reinforced knees.
When Butch was eight, after the
fist fight at the tap dance recital,
Laura took her out of dancing
■school and let her take the swim
ming lessons she begged for.
And at eleven, in the sixth grade
play, while the other little girls
flittered daintily in gilt-splashed
white crepe paper, Butch had been
the Hairy Ogre in a black wig, a
foot-long beard and a mouthful of
horrible snaggle teeth.
“I kept hoping and hoping,”
Laura said almost to herself,
“that she’d grow out of it.” *
"I don’t see why you’re so up
set all of a sudden,” Joe said.
“She’s always been this way. What
set you off right now?”
“Don’t laugh, but I guess it was
seeing that boy—the one who moved
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I idea* from other'editors |
From The Firelands Farmer,
Berlin Heights. Ohio: Farm ma
chinery manufacturers report that,
since farm prices dropped, the sale
of farm machinery has slumped
as much as 29 per cent under the
same period last year.
It is poor economy to operate a
farm with broken-down equipment,
and more than ever in the face of a
falling market when the farm must
be operated at peak efficiency to
show a profit. Aside from this, the
money hoarded further depresses
the income of the farm equipment
worker who in turn curtails his
purchases of farm products.
• • •
From the Newcastle News, New
castle, Pa.: It takes guts to write
local editorials in a town of less
than 10,000.
• • •
From the Catskill Mountain Star.
Saugerties, New York: “Our pur
pose is to manage the govern
ment’s finances so as to help and
not hinder each family in balancing
its own budget,” said President
Eisenhower in his State of the
Union address.
And now comes the first signifi
cant indications that American
business was listening . . . may be
taking these Presidential words as
a golden text.
The manufacturer we have in
mind decided that it's about time
the purchasing power of the five
cent piece was restored. The com
pany takes issue with the late Tom
Marshall, believing apparently, that
what the nation needs mostest and
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It's a Girl
By Hannah Smith
in next door yesterday. He’s an
awfully good looking kid. In a cou
ple of years—well, she could go to
dances and—” She broke off, mop
ping fresh tears.
“Oh, well,” Joe said, comfort
ingly if not convincingly. “Two
years is a long time. She can
change, I guess.”
“Not Butch. When the other girls
are dancing, she’ll probably be
under a car fixing a plugged gas
line or—”
“This the new boy?” Joe asked,
as a tall, black-haired boy in grey
flannels and a yellow sweater
strolled toward the noisy group
around the tree. Laura groaned
and nodded. Just as the newcomer
approached, Butch swung her legs
above her head and did a neat
double flip over the tree branch.
Laura’s groan stretched to a wail.
“Look at her! Just look! Blonde
hair a witch mop. Plaid shirt tail
flying. Dirty jeans. And barefoot.
Barefoot!”
“Watch out belowwww!” yelled
Butch, letting go of the branch.
Laura shut her eyes. She turned
her back to the window. “Butch, ’
she whispered in tones of undiluted
tragedy.
Joe was still watching. “Guess
that flop shook her up a little,”
he said. “She’s coming in.”
The deor opened. Ollie Williams
was ahead. He was looking back
over his shoulder, round-eyed.
Over Butch's head, Laura saw that
the other boys were staring at the
pair in the doorway with the same
round-eyed bewilderment. Laura
stared, too.
The girl was leaning hard on the
yellow shoulder. Her blue eyes
looked wide, sweet, limpid. She
seemed frail, small, even ethereal.
“Does it hurt much?” Ollie was
asking, in a strange new voice.
“How many times do I have to
tell you. Ollie Williams,” said
Laura’s daughter, as the tall, dark
haired boy led her gently toward a
chair, “that my name is Rosalie?”
firstest is not "a good five-cent
Cigar,” but a good five-cent toilet
soap. The psychological fact of
introducing a quality, nationally
known item of merchandise for five
cents is all but over-powering.
Maybe this soap will help us wash
away our economic sins, though
the people recommend it for skin,
not sin.
Our new leaders in Washington
are convinced the laws of supply
and demand were never repealed
but merely smothered. They are
taking the wraps off. It’s hoped
that other businesses will accept
the soap-makers’ challenge and
that the humble nickel will be
money again.
• • •
From the'Barbourville Advocate,
Barbourville, Kentucky: We ad
mire any man who will speak out
. . . and in every case we whole
heartedly give way to his opinion
as one of his own, not necessarily
one that this paper might endorse.
I but as an individual opinion. These
: individual opinions can rule this
■ country, just as effectively as any
' ruling or government body ever as
sembled. There is no better way
. in America, under the American
i way of freedom, for a group nf
. citizens to express themselves than
; through the columns of the local
newspaper.
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From the Brownsville Telegraph,
. Brownsville, Pa.: The Eisenhower
. administration is removing the
i burden of wage and price controls
: from us ... We will be expected
I to exert some self-control.
HOLLAND NEWS
Mrs. Joe Andrews and Mr. and
Mrs. Dewey Clark, of Atlanta,
spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. Claud Ratliff.
Mrs. Inez Greer spent several
days last week with Mrs. Minnie
Holland and family. On Thurs
day they visited Mrs. T. H.
Strawn, Mrs. Lula Clark and
Mrs. R. P. Brison.
Mrs. G. S. Holland went Tues
day to have an eye operation at
Isabels’ Clinic in Chattanooga.
She expects to remain there a
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Blake Cofer, of
Rome, spent Sunday night with
Mr. and Mrs. Alf Strawn.
Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Kaylor
and family, of Carrollton, were
guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs.
Maxwell White.
Mrs. Jenille Hardy and Mr.
and Mrs. Ed Worsham visited
Mrs. Minnie Holland Friday
night.
Mrs. Gordon Green and chil
dren spent Wednesday night
with Mrs. Mattie Worsham while
Gordon was in Atlanta for a'
physical checkup.
Mrs. Jeannie Powell, of Rome,
visited her parents last week.
Mrs. Clyde Johnson, Mrs. J. H.
Thomas and Mrs. O. H. Rogers,
of Rome, visited Mr. and Mrs.
Dan Smith Saturday.
Mr.- and Mrs. Gordon Green
and family spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bullard. The
occasion was the birthday of
their father, John Marion Green,
who resides with Bullards.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Stephen
son and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ben
nett visited Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Strawn Sunday.
Mrs. T. H. Holland, Mrs. Inez
Greer and Mrs. Minnie Holland
visited Mrs. Daisy Bell near
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Summerville, Georgia
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS
Gaylesville, on Friday.
Miss Emmadean Brison, of
Carrollton, spent the week-end
with homefolks.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Latham and
Karron, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas
Bass and Judy, Miss Helen Jack
son, Gene and Quinton Gayler,
of Atlanta, were guests Sunday
of Mr. and Mrs. Will Gayler and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Nather Hender
son, of Gaylesville, are spending
this week with Mr. and Mrs.
Elisha Henderson and family.
J. T. Ratliff, of South Bend,
Ind., is visiting his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Luke Ratliff, and
Rondy.
Mrs. Harley Bandy and Jose
phine spent Monday night with
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Strawn.
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Buttram,
of Cedartown, were supper
guests Friday night of Mr. and
Mrs. Luke Ratliff, T. J. and
Randy.
Mrs. Luke Ratliff visited Mrs.
Sam Ratliff in Rome Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Gaylor,
Jewel and Bobby visited Mr. and
Mrs. Will Gayler Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. Lula Clark spent the
week-end with Miss Mayme
Smith.
New Kind of Graduates
MIAMI, Fla. — Diplomas were
awarded recently to 13 aged per
sons at the Jewish Home for the
Aged, who have “graduated”
from chronic illness into new
lives of usefulness. Joseph Mel
nick, 73, received a degree of doc
tor of horticulture because of his
landscaping and gardening at
the home. Another received a
doctor of business administra
degree for refurbishing clothing,
furniture and toys.
FINSTER SPEAKING
GOSPEL POWER
Romans 1:16: “For I am not
ashamed of the Gospel of Christ:
for it is the power of God unto
salvation to every one that be
lieveth.” When we think of Gos
pel power we think of what it
will do to them that believe. We
realize that money will not hire
a drunkard from drinking,
neither can the law break him
from drinking. But if a drunkard
will believe the Gospel of Christ,
it is the power that will lead
him to safe security.
We think of Saul who perse
cuted the early Christians. Yet
when he was striken down and
heard the voice of the Lord he
said, Lord, what wilt thou have
me to do? Saul believed in the
Lord and His Gospel so it was he
became a great minister through
the power of the Gospel of the
words of Christ. For as much as
we do to Christ’s Church, so we
do unto Christ.
If the Gospel be hid, it is hid
to them that believe not, for to
them which believe the Gospel
it is the power of God unto sal
vation. Yes, the great treasure
chest is filled with the power of
God, and the key to this chest is
belief, for without faith it is im
possible to please God.
Just think what the Gospel of
Christ means to them that be-
I’eve. The eunuch in the chario*’
believed and Philip baptized
him; the jailors at prison be
lieved and were baptized. There
were even hundreds of people
who believed the Gospel and
were added unto the church.
Remember the Gospel of
Christ, he that believeth and is
baptized shall be saved, he that
believeth not shall be damned.
Just think, the faith in believing
is the channel to the power of
God, and only God’s power can
carry a man through.
Come to Chelsea Baptist
Church. Address all mail: How
ard Finster, Trion, Ga.
Draft Unites Twins
DETROIT, Mich.—lt took Un
cle Sam to unite twin brothers,
Jimmy and Jerry Bantain, who
had not seen each other for 15
years. The 19-year-old twins, who
were inducted into service re
cently, had been separated when
their parents were divorced. Jim
my went to live with his mother
and Jerry with his father. They
hope they can stay together
while in service.
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Thursday, April 30, 1953
Prime Minister Churchill pledg
ed “resolute support” to what he
termed the “massive and magni
ficent proposals of President Ei
senhower.
If You Have
Broken Plaster
or a new house to be
plastered ... phone
JACK CRIDER
Phone 2-0787
ROME, GA.