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THE SAINT JO TRIBUNE, frRID^Y, DECEMBER 7, 192k
THE SAINT JO T RI B U N By | t'MH M I Ml >M 11II 111 * H 1111 MM M M 1111 111
fcntered at the Poatofflce at. Saint Jo,
Texas as Second Class Matter, 1898.
'ublished every Friday.
L. J. REYNOLDS
Editor and Proprietor.
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THE WORD OF GOD.
The following passages of scripture
and prayer are furnished the Tribune
each week by the Press Radio Bible
HeI Vice' of Cincinnati, Ohio. It also
furnishes the same or a similar serv-
ice to hundreds of other papers over
the country, both daily and weekly,
tlie object being to give to all man-
kind, at, least weekly, a message from
the Word of God with a Brief prayer,
through the press and by radio.
REMEMBER THIS POOR: — If I
have withheld the poor from their de-
sire, or have caused the eyes of the
widow to fail; or have eaten my mor-
sel myself alone, and the fatherless
have l ot eaten thereof; if I have seen
uny perish for want of clothing, or
any poor without covering: then let
mine aim fall from my shoulder
blade, and mine arm be broken from
the bone.—Job 31: 1(5, 17, 10, 21.
—o—
PRAYER:—Lord, may we never
forget that thou hast said, "Inas-
much as ye did it unto one of these,
my brethren, even the least, ye did it
unto me."
A Short Sermon
By Rev. S. L. Ball, Whitewright, Texas
Text: "And he said unto them all,
If any man will come after me, let him
deny himself, and take up his cross
and follow me. For whosoever shall
save his life shall lose it: but whoso-
ever shall lose his life for my sake,
the same shall save it." Luke 9:23, 24.
It was Jesus the great Teacher and
the world's great Redeemer who ut-
tered the words of my text. "And
he said unto them all"—including all
men through all the ages. Hence he
is speaking to you and to me. If any
man would like to be a Christian and
get to heaven, he will have to curb
his natural tendencies ani disposi-
tions. Human nature is fallen and
naturally inclined to evil. Men in
their natural condition are very self-
ish and stubborn. They went to do
as they please, md it ivquWs civil
and divine law ,u.d pub'ic opinion to
halfway control them. Man need?
el'gion, not merely a form of rel'ff-
ion, but he needs the Chris'.'aa le-
ligion, which is a great change
wrought in the penitent soul as it
urrenders to Jesus and trusts in
iiim for mercy, grace, pardon and
salvation; at least, this is the begin-
ning of a religious or Christian life.
This work of grace wrought in the
heart by the Holy Spirit is what Je-
sus, in his conversation with Nicode-
mus, meant when he said, "Ye must
be born again." And it takes this
ment of righteousness in his com-
munity. "For whosoever shall save
his life shall lose it." This certainly
means that if a Christian tries to save
himself from his Christian duties, and
allows himself to drift along without
caring for his Christian service, he
naturally loses interest. He saves
himself to a life of worldlines and
wickedijess in this world, but loses
it in the world to come. Yet there is
a sense, a great and good sense, in
which the Christian saves his life in
this world and in the world to come.
But he lives the true Christian life,
denying himself, taking up his cross
every day and following Jesus in a
life of usefulness, a life of doing
2ood. Indeed, this is the true Christ-
ian life. "Godliness is profitable to
all things, having promise of the life
that now is, and of that which is to
come." 1st Tim. 4:8. "But whoso-
ever will lose his life for my sake,
the same shall save it." The Christ-
ian life is certainly to be separate
from the ordinary life of worldly
minded people who pay no attention
to the church, nor to Jesus, nor to
religion and righteousness. They
drift with the current of the world
without any regard for the ten com
mandments, the Sermon on the
Mount, or any other part of the Holy
Bible. They do as they please,
and care not whether their doings are
work of grace to prepare one toj pleasing to God or not. They do not
"come after me." Nevertheless, the, fear God nor regard man. And the
sinner must come to Jesus with peni- j righteous man who gives up all these
tence and faith in order to receive and wicked things and gives due atten-
realize this work of grace. Having I tion to the church and its great work
been born again, he is now a babe in | in making the world better will come
Christ, and is to grow in grace and into the more abundant life here in
in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus this world, and then into the more ex-
Christ. Now, he must "deny himself" oeedingly abundant life in the world
many things that he would naturally to come. There is nothing more de-
like to have and do. True, the new- [ sirable to an intelligent, thoughtful
born soul loves God and his fellow man than to be able to exactly fill
SUGAR AND CIGARETTES.
American sugar refiners are enti-
tled to credit, even though they are
acting in defense of their industry,
for nailing the lie that appears in
cigarette advertising, that it is better
for ii woman or a girl to smoke a
cig'a ette than to yield to the tempta
tion of getting too fat by consuming
sugared sweets. The Sugar institute
contends that the public has ben cut-
ting sugar out of its diet to a dan-
gerous extent as a result of publicity
tRpt has been sent through all parts o
.the country, advising those who seek
"TFie" "Boyish figure" to avoid sugai
and sweets. Undoubtedly, if they try
hard enongh, the Sugar Institute wil
b'e abb to convince the public thai
sugar i". more essential to the human
system ihan cigarettes, and that sugai
is still an important article of food
while cig£y-ettes are still "coffir
nails."
MIGRATORY BIRD CONSERVA-
TION.
There was a great hullabaloo last
winter in Congress over the question
of protij2t;rg migratory game birds
but J'Ion? toward the close of the ses-
sion the Senate passed the "Norbeck
Bill," and there is every reason to
belisve that the House will follow the
same course this winter and pa; s th'j
bill. The Norbeck bill strengthen.1
the position of the United States un
der the migratory bird treaty with
Great Britain, and gathers up the
loose ends of the situation and pro-
vides ways and means to lessen "the
dangers threatening migratory gamr
birds from drainage and other causes
by the nequisition of areas of land
and of water to furnish in perpetuity
reservations for the adequate pro-
tection of such birds; and authoriz
ing api'i ipriations for the establish-
ment of such areas, their maintenance
and improvement," etc.
In present form the proposed leg
islation has been stripped of features
which ippea ed in previous bills
whereby provision was made for fed
eral hurting license, for public shoot
ing grounds and for a large increase
in federal game wardens.
The Noi-beck bill is reported to
have th? backing of numerous sports
men's o ranizations, while many in-
dividual i portsmen nre urging theii
Congr* men to vote for the meas-
ure HS'Tr liow stands an'd without fur-
ther amendment.
Reqm ts for copies of the bill have
beep sent in from all parts of the
country. *
man, and if he would, by grace divine,
pursue the proper, righteous course
in following Jesus the self denial
might not be difficult. But as iniqu-
ity abounds everywhere, he is liable
to be led astray, especially if he runs
with a worldly, wicked crowd. Hence
it is very important to "watch his
step." He must "deny himself and
take up his cross daily." "And fol-
low me" certainly means a correct
and useful life, going about doing
good. All this means a great deal
more than just joining a church and
drifting along with the currents of
worldliness and wickedness that play
about us. It certainly requires the
resisting of temptation and the per-
formance of daily Christian duties.
Eveiy Christian should carefully
study the scriptures and the circum-
stances under which he lives and
worships and works for the advance- their reward.
the noble place in the church here be-
low that God the Father has design-
ed for him to fill in his service, and
when his task is finished to take his
place in his father's house above. Joy
like a river will flow through his
faithful soul forever. The pity is
that so few people fall into their di-
vinely appo:nted places and live th<
beautiful life of righteousness and
usefulness from their youth up. It
seems that a great many people slip
away from the paths of rectitude and
peace and waste a part of their lives
in sin and folly, even to their own
sorrow and regret. If they do not
lose all of life they at least lose a
part of it.
I call upon all who may chance to
read this short sermon to see to it
that they lose just as little as pos-
sible of their great opportunities, and
HARD KNOCKS AND LOVE •
LICKS. •
It seems that the world is teeming
wit^i a larger proportion of youthful
murt'erera and other destructive
criminal:' now than was ever known
before. No doubt this is caused or
at lmst such a course is payed for
the youthful transgressors by the
lack of parental trainnig at home.
"Tram a ch;ld in the way he should
go, imd when he is old he will not de-
part? from it/'' is as true today as it
wasfthrei thousand years ago. There
mnyftbe exceptions, but it is a safe
rulej^to follow.
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hands with your neighbor,
and't 11 him how happ£ ypu are that
Christmas is coming,
the prohibition laws. If this organi-
zation materializes to amount to any
thing, it will finally put all the moon-
shiners and bootleggers out of busi-
ness and into the penitentiary.
As this organization will be more
pov M'ful than the Ku-Klux ever was,
it wo;ild be a mighty good thing for
all violators of the law to "take time
by the forelock" and give up every
lawless business and become law
abiding citizens, live at home with
their mothers and fathers, or rwith
their wives and children, as the case
mav be, make an honest living, at-
noon, and that if he should go away tend Sunday School and church, be
3he would certainly give him a good God-fearing righteous good men
hreshing, he would say, "Yes, mama, ™ake ^eir fa™l,e8 happy alul he
I will." But as soon as she turned her ^PP^' honorable, good men.
back upon him he was out and gone A1, h bootleR°er8 and all other
somewhere. . . , , ?.? ..
o ! criminals who will or can smell the
No doubt that boy had receved too ')at^le afar ofT, and who will take ref-
nany "suspended sentences" already u^e; not in bottoms, nor in
and he was not afrad. When the; the,r stol"m houses, but out in the
noon hour came and he could smell °Pen by becoming law abiding citi
the fryng ham and his little stom- ^enf- save themselves a great
ich said it was about time he should dLea.' °,f. and distress; also save
return he would slip around and come ^heir llttle. b°y,s from Allowing dad s
to the dining room, and when mother footsteps in the way of crime and
^aid,-"Where have you been?" he lnto trouble, regret, distress, and may
A mother of three child en recently
said, "This is the best eh:ld I ever
••a\ This is not Strang: for a
r.other to say. But she went on to
say: "But I have one I can't do any-
hing' in the world with." The fuither
.•onversation indicated that that boy
vould promise anything but would
lot keep his promises. When she
,old him to play in the back yard till
W ;■ V
Nrw is the time tb lay 6ur plans
and itetfin to work for that good road
to % oil field. ^ *.
would say, "Billie called me and I ran
over there just a minute," and he re-
vived another "suspended sentence,"
ind got his dinner all right, and an
>ther promise and a threat.
God bless the sweet mothers. I am
for them. I wish I could help them
to control their rolicking, romping,
playing children, but I guess I can't,
except with a little advice, which
they are not likely to take. Howev-
er, some mothers have learned that
some other mothers who do not con-
trol their children in righteousness,
are furnishing bandits, robbers and
criminals for the house of correction,
the penitentiary and the electric
chair.
—o—
It is frequently said that this is an
age*in which th# children control
their parents, instead of the parents
contt oiling the children. There may
be more truth than fiction in this
statement, but it seems that the in-
creasing number of criminals, to-
gether with the increasing amount of
distress, would wake up quite a few
mothers and fathers who have been
asleep.
It is reported that there is in every
state ip the union a vigorous move-
inAit in theJ organization of an en-
forcement league, whose business it
will be to assist the officers % the
■enforcement of all lays,., especially
b(. premature death.
—o—
And would it not be wise and well
to lemember the bootleggers' " littl
girls, and how sad and ashamed they
are or will be a little later on as they
grow into womanhood with the handi
cap that dad was a bootlegger, and
not an honorable, law abiding citi
zen ? Or worse, maybe some of them
will become tough and lawless and
learn to help daddy in his bootlegging
business. See that beautiful girl just
gone wrong, donning a man's over-
alls, slipping out into the darkness
to help dad.
OUR CHINESE LETTER.
C. P. O. Box No. 1234, Shanghai,
China, Oct. 26th, 1928.
DEAR EDITOR:
Your excellent paper received and
read with interest. You do well to
take pride in it. You have a big
work. An editor is not only a serv-
ant of the people, but can bo a good
servant. By pains and effort he can
serve up to the community not only
local news, but news of all the world,
and ao keep his readers posted in
everything worth while, be it science,
invention, literature, politics or relig-
ion. Would that every editor desir-
ed to niake his influence felt arou
the world for good. The. locality with-
out a live, helpful newspaper is jjn
deed unfortunate'. The communij
that ha vone such as your own has
reason to be thankful and to support .
it with subscriptions and with tell-1 j
ing, true advertisements.
When I came here there were a .
number o4 English papers published I
in China's coast t#wns; but there |
were only two or three Chinese news- |
papers and they were small indeed,
both in size and circulation, and had
no advertisementsn. About twenty-
six years ago I began to publish my
Chinese Christian Almanac. I need-
no advertisements. About twenty,
pay its way, as does every publica-
tion worth while that must be sold
cheaply. I went to Shanghai import-
ers to get them to advertisei in Chi-
nese in my Almanac. They looked at
me as if I had gone daft. Advertise
in Chinese! Silly! They did not
think it would do any good, chiefly
because they could not readl the ad
in Chinese characters. So I had to
cany on a continued argumentative
campaign of edcuation. They adver
tised in English papers. But few
Chinese could read English. They
could read the "chicken tracks."
urged that there was much more ad-
vantage in advertising for the Chi-
nese. There were not 40,000 foreign-
ers in China. There were 400 million
Chinese. They were here for the Chi-
nese, and but for the Chinese trade
they would not be here. At first they
gave me ads for fellowship's sake
Sometimes they gave them to get rid
of me! But to their surprise letters
began to come in from the interior
asking for goods advertised in "Zeh
Yong Ts Ming"—my Almanac. The
ice was broken. Ads came in more
freely. The few Chinese newspapers
seeing the ads in my Almanac began
to get wise and solicited ads and
reaped fruit from my sowing. Those
papers began to prosper, growing in
size and circulation. Not only did
foreigners advertise, but the Chinese
merchants took to advertising and
found it paid well. Soon many other
papers were started to reap the ad-
vertising harvest and other profits,
and now the papers in the Chinese
language are numbered by the hun-
dreds. Some few have circulation of
from 20,000 to 30,000, while many
run from a few hundred up. They all
exist largely on advertising. So I
lay a little claim to be the father of
Chinese advertising.
Newspapers have played a big part,
in the present Nationalist movement.
They were simply forced to take
sides and to write what the leaders
wished them to say. Where and
while Noitheners were in power they
had to talk "North," or die, and some
did die. When the Southerners came
nto power the papers had to talk
"South."
Newspapers have proved to be a
power in China, as in every other
newspaper country, and I feel a little
pride in being a pioneer in this line
here. But I am not proud of many
of the things papers in China print
I would not, however, have China to
go back to pre-newspaper days when
only one in a million knew anything
about affairs five miles from his vil
Iage or town; but I wish the editors
would weigh their words more care-
fully and keep well-balanced, level
heads when writing, so as to lead the
people wisely. Newspapers in China
are a power for evil as well as good
A newspaper editor, as well as an of-
ficial, a preacher or a missionary,
should be sane. But editors must be
heroes to be sane in China. Where
the editor is sane, the community is
pretty sure to be sane—and possibly
vice versa!
With very best wishes, yours in
Christ's glad service,
(Rev.) H. G. C. HALLOCK.
FOR SALE OK RENT.
160-acre farm, 60 acres in culti-
vation, four miles from Saint Jo, on
Bonita road. MRS. D. P. WILSON,
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Hard to Sell.
"Oh, splendid!" exclaimed the wife.
"You finally got the baby to sleep."
"Yes," answered the young father,
a salesman; "But I had an awful timo
selling him on the idea."—Detroit
News.
Education No Longer Necra-ary.
Truant Officer—"Why haven't you
sent your son Johnny to school? Don't
you want him to learn to read?"
Proud Father—"It hain't necessa- •
y, now thet we have the talking
novies."—Texas Outlook.
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James Ozine Reeves, 43, died at his
home eight miles north of Saint Jo
Thursday morning, December 6, at
5:30.
Funeral services will be held Fri-
day afternoon, and interment will be
n Mountain Creek cemetery by C. H
Dunbar, funeral director.
Survivors are his wife, three sons.
Jesse Lewis, 14, James Anderson, 12,
and Eddie, 9 one daughter, Qessie.
10. Also his mother, Mrs. Susan
Reeves, five brothers, Ezekiel of Hall
county, Elijah and Brown of Lubbock
and Lent and Mark, who live with
their mother on the farm north of
town, and one sister, Mrs. Vina Hut-
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eleven month?, there !<•> no
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of up-kcep.
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of the service facilities of
the Ford dealer organiza-
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economieal motoring.
The point is this. You
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Ford. It is simple in design,
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well-made, in fact,
that it requires sur-
pr isin gly little
i.Uention. let that doesn't
r:e:.n it should he neglected.
I.ike every other tine p'cce
of machinery, it will serve
you better and longer if
given proper care.
One of the best ways to
do this is to lake your car
to the Ford dealer every 500
miles for oiling and greas-
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the little things that Lave
such a great hearing on long
life and continuously good
performance.
Such an inspection may
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car. To you it means thou-
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miles of motoring without
a care—without ever lifting
the hood.
Ford dealers everywhere
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new Fold. You will find
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in their work, fair in their
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minimum of trouble and
expense. That is the
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