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THE LEONARD GRAPHIC - Friday, July 23,1954
Dogs - Cats Still
Tops As U. S. Pets
WASHINGTON. — A lot of
people have hamsters, skunks,)
alligators monkeys and parakeets
for pets. But a survey shows
that the old standbys—the dog
and the cat—still are the favorit-
es.
The National Geographic Soc-
iety reports that the U. S. dog
population is about 23 million.
I Estimates on the number of cats
run to 27 million.
An acre in an average vine-
yard contains 500 to 800 vines.
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THANKS FROM TIBBY WRIGHT
As this election year is drawing to an end I want io
take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you
for the nice way that you have received me where ever I
have found you.
I have worked very hard for the last six months in an
effort to be your next County Attorney. During my cam-
paign, I have driven my automobile over six thousand miles
in an effort to contact each and every one of you in regard
to my race for County Attorney.
I surely hope that you will remember me on election
day, and help me become your next County Attorney. The
following poem expresses my position at this time:
I’ve Been Up And Down Most Every Road
And In Your Fields Of Cotton
I’ve Tried My Best To Get Your Vote
I Hope You’ve Not Forgotten.
Chickens Need
Lots Of Drinking
Wafer
College Station. — Chickens be-
come extra lazy during hot wea-
ther and they, like humans, seek
summertime comfort.
A chicken not only wants plen-
ty of cool, fresh drinking water,
but it wants it convenient. If a
watering fountian is more than
10 feet away, a bird may go thir-
sty rather than make the trip
says E. D. Parnell, prifessor of
poultry husbantry at Texas A.
and M. College.
Parnall advises poultrymen to
survey their equipment and its
placement to make certain it is
ample for summer weather.
“Water is a cheap item around
the farm, but when not provided
in sufficient quality, chickens
just don’t do well,” he says.
Sometimes it’s necessary to
igive medicine in the drinking
water. Some drugs do not taste
good to the birds and may cause
them to go off water. If it af-
fects their drinking habits, bet-
ter find another way of giving
the dose.
■ The professor sums it up this
way. Unless they drink plenty
of water this summer, there will
be fewer eggs layed or less meat
produced.
Death took a holiday on the
July 4th weekend this year and
the wire service were at a loss
for a top story on the 5th.
The nation’s farmers are a-
bout to see whether flexible price
supports increase the economic
squeeze or lessen it.
Most of the human race’s cow-
ardice comes on street corners
and in social gatherings when
tongues are held and frankness
and truth get little play.
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Scripture: Psalm 46:10; Isaiah 40:30-
31; Luke 11:1-13; Phillppians 4:6, 7;
Hebrews 4:14-16.
Devotional Reading: Psalm 4.
Growing by Prayer
Lesson for July 25, 1954
TT IS TRUE that we can grow
A spiritually through prayer; but
it is not true that we can grow by
just any prayers. Out in Tibet and
other parts of the
Orient they have
these, prayer-
wheels or prayer
flags. A prayer
has been inscribed
on the wheel or the
flag, and every
time the flag flaps
in the breeze, or
every time the
wheel turns over Dr. Foreman
under the waterfall, the prayer
is supposed to rise. Is a Tibetan
who puts out one of those things
the most spiritually mature person
in any religion? Of course he is
not. Jesus told a story about a
Pharisee and a tax-collector, both
of whom prayed in the same tem-
ple to the same God. But the tax-
collector grew by his prayer, while
the Pharisee certainly did not.
When God said to the Israelites,
“Though you make many prayers
I will not listen,” they were sure-
ly not growing by the prayers they
had made.
Be Still and Wait
The trouble is that so many
prayers are just variations on the
one tl^eme, “Gimme.” They are
selfish through and through, and
selfishness never fails to shrink the
soul. Then some people in praying
do all the talking and never listen
to see if God is saying anything
to them. “They that wait on the
Lord shall renew their strength,”
the prophet says,—not those who
talk loudest and longest. “Be still
and know” is as true as it ever
was. For the laws of prayer have
not changed since man and God
first spoke with each other. The
prayer by which we grow is not
just a one-way thing, a kind of
telephone line on which we have
only a transmitter and God only
a receiver. There is such a thing
as being too noisy with our desires
and demands.
‘In Everything—’
There is another side to this. We
ought never to feel shy about ask-
ing God’s help at any time. Paul
says to his friends at Philippi, no
doubt from his own experience,
“have no anxiety about anything,
but in everything ... let your re-
quests be made known to God.”
Paul knew very well that God does
not say “Yes” to all our requests.
He was in jail at the time he wrote
those words. Is it likely he had
never prayed to get out? We do
know that before this time he had
prayed to God earnestly to have
a “thorn in the flesh” removed. We
do not know what that “thorn”
was, perhaps a pain or a disease
that could not be cured. Perhaps
Paul hoped for some miracle to
cure him. But God did not send
the miracle; he sent something
much better. Paul learned that
God’s strength is made perfect in
weakness, something he would not
have known had he not been weak.
So while we have every right to
offer God our desires in prayer,
we have to remember that he
knows what is best, and not we
ourselves.
‘The Throne of Grace’
In conversation, one of the best
simple rules is: "Remember to
whom you are speaking." This is
just as true when we are talking
with God as when we are talking
with other people. That great
phrase in Hebrews, the "throne of
grace,” expresses two vital truths.
One is that our prayers are going
to a Throne. God is the sovereign
of this universe; his throne is
Power itself. There is nothing too
hard for the God of the Throne.
It is a throne of judgment too; and
God knows very well whether we
ought to have our prayers an-
swered the way we want them, or
not. We have access through
Christ to come before God with
boldness; but it is to a throne we
come, and we must not forget that.
We can never dictate to the throne.
But it is the throne of Grace. More
than mere power sits in control of
all things. The true God is a God
of love and grace and mercy. "He
knoweth our frame, he remember-
eth that we are dust.” God is ac-
tually more interested in our wel-
fare than we are in our own. God
is more eager to help us than we
are to be helped. Our prayers do
not so much-change God’s mind
and induce him to do something for
us, as they release the divine pur-
pose on our behalf. This is why it
is so important to grow, as Chris-
tians, into the stature of Christ;
for only as we grow Christlike can
we become aware of what God’s
gracious will is, and so be able to
pray as Christ himself would pray.
(Based on outlines copyrighted by the
Division of Christian Education, Na-
tional Council of the Churches of Christ
in the U. S. A. Released by Community
Press Service.)
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Far By Frituit Allan Sbivtrt
the candidate who would let
the radical out-of-state CIO-PAC,
ADA and NAACP leaders run
Texas.
^0 with Allan Shivers who be-
lieves Texas should be run by
Texans for Texans.
W the candidate who would
hand Duval County back to
George Parr.
XiF the candidate who, as an ex-
judg e, puts judges9 pensions
ahead of old age pensions.
Mr with Allah Shivers who will
continue to fight Parrism and all
other types of bossism, including
Communism.
with Allan Shivers who won
the tidelands fight and who will
keep segregation in our public
schools.
with Allan Shivers who has
a constructive program for all
Texans and who takes a solid
stand on all issues.
with Allan Shivers who
favors a full parity for farmers
and. adequate pensions for all
eligible aged citizens.
the twice-beaten, mud-sling-
ing candidate who has no pro-
gram and refuses to come out in
the open and answer questions
about the issues.
WF the candidate who will end
segregation in our Texas public
schools, and who was willing to
give the Texas tidelands away.
ALLAN SHIVERS
VOTERS
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