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my stem scrutiny, convince me on the chance that sometime I that my theme song should be, might find them useful. If you “Any rags, any bones, any bot see a heavy pall of smoke hover RONA MORRIS WORKMAN, ing over tms valley tor the next tles today?” ROCKING W RANCH Why on earth does a reasonably week, don t be alarmed. It lot If any one, a week ago, had ac cused me of being a junk col good housewife hoard such a lot anomer luianiooa burn; it is of useless junk? Why do we put merely that i urn snll working on lector I would have indignantly away magazines that mo one will Uie closets and cupboards and denied the accusation, but the ever look at again, store in boxes boxes ana trunxa in tins house, last day or two has convinced and cupboards clothes that we brother, 1 am going to O' some me that such a statement would wouldn’t be found 'dead in, and leal burning, ana how. be perfectly true. You see the dust and care for a thousand and zxt a ume i.ae tins 1 cannot Big Boss has heard the call of one objects that are worthless heip but think tuat it would ue a "Timber” again and has returned from both a monetary and senti good idea if, every live or ten to the logging woods, and I plan mental standpoint? About two years, we simply set tire to out to follow him as soon as I can more days of this digging-out of houses and burned everything up get all our impedimenta ready things and I will be convinced clean, then start all over again. for moving. The boys will carry that I am nothing but a human It can’t be good for folks to clut on with the Rocking W, but per pack-rat. haps my Boss and I have tree Yesterday I emptied out the ter up their lives and houses with sap in our veins instead of blood, small-sized Fibber McGee closet such quantities of stuff earned for when the call came we did not that we have nicknamed “the hell over through the years. That resist, so once more I pack and hole” and as I looked at the very may seem a bit drastic, and it is move. small pile of keepable stuff and entirely possible that I would rush I haven’t really begun to pack the huge box of trash destined into the flames and rescue sonm things yet; I am merely in the for Sullivan’s Gulch (the little cherished object, since I am just first stage of digging into “glory swale near the garden where 1 an average person with quite a holes” and closets and cupboards, have a. burning pit) I swore by few sentimental attachments. and the things I am bringing my ancestors that never again forth to the light of day, and would I put things away just However, it is an interesting idea, and one that I have been playing with the last few days. It also occured to me, as I sat sorting and discarding, and the pile of junk grew higher and higher, that it would, be a good thing for most of us if we would, every few years, go through the attics and closets and boxes of our minds and throw out the ac cumulated junk. .What a house cleaning that would be! Hoarded in one cobwebbed corner would be a whole clutter of opinions so moth-eaten, so dusty and old- fa ihioned, that we should be ashamed of giving them mind room. Perhaps these opinions were never really our own in the first place, but were collected from the attics of our ancestors, INVITES YOU TO BANK BY MAIL IF pushed on to us by loud-voiced propaganda, or merely bought INCONVENIENT TO COME IN PERSON from some persuasive “book agent,” yet we have kept them tucked away all these years with out ever taking them out and de ciding whether we really wanted to keep them or not. And over in another corner would be a jum bled mass of odds and ends of gossip, hatred, hurt feelings and silly out-moded prejudices that no self - respecting person would hoard if he would ever take the time to do a bit of cleaning. And there in another old box is the A Locally-Owned, Independent Bank most peculiar assortment of ideas so old-fashioned, so dusty an-i moldy, that when you take them out and give them a good shake, they fly into a hundred pieces and are good for nothing but starting a fire in the kitchen stove. Then, after we had sorted and considered, and burned the trash, and at last look around and find that we had a* lot of room for new stuff, clean new ideas, wholesome thoughts. Of course, in another ten years or so, we should make another cleaning and burning, because our minds can become junk-holes just as quickly .as our closets and cup boards. I am inclined to believe that mo3t of us have no “bats in our belfrys” merely because we have no room, for them. There ¡3 too much junk. We human beings are a bit queer. We spend our lives ac quiring more things; we hoard and pack away and save, and bind ourselves more and more close ly with material possessions, with out ever stopping to think whether we really need such things or not, or whether they contribute to our real happiness. Sometimes, for the good of my soul, I read Thoreau’s ‘Walden’.' He was a man who sought freedom, and found it. He say3, “We always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be contented with less,” gnd in an other place, “I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they re quired to be dusted daily, wh-n the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust.” May be he went to extremes in his Precision built gas ranges with many new time-saving and effort toward freedom, but right step-saving exclusive features. 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'Thoreau says, “The neighbors eagerly col lected to view them, bought them all and carefully transported them to their own garrets and dust- holes, to lie there till their es tates were settled, when they will start again,” and among these “effects” was a dried tapeworm in a jar. Well, I haven’t as yet run across a dried tapeworm in a jar, but there is no telling. I may find even tuat before I get through, but I ain’t havin’ no auction; I’m havin’ a burnin’. This junk of mine isn’t going to clut ter up any more closets, not if the matches hold out. At the Churches CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST (Colored) Elder J. C. Foster, Minister. Services every Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30. k ASSEMBLY OF GOD —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 6:30—C. A. service. 7:30—Evangelistic service. 7:30 Tuesday—Prayer meeting. EVANGELICAL UNITED BRETHREN —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 —- Sunday school 11:00—Morning worship. 6:30 p.m.—Young People's service. 7:30—Evening service. Wed. Eve., 7:30—Bible study and prayer meeting. For Christ I NAZARFNE CHAPEL The church that cares. —H. L. Russell, Pastor 1208 Bridge St. 9:45 a.m.—Sunday school. 11:00 a.m.—Morning worship. 7:45 p.m.—Evangelistic services. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday—Praise and prayer. FIRST CHRISTIAN —Ernest P. Baker, Ministei 9:45—Bible school led by M. L Herrin. 11:00—Morning worship and Jun ior church. 1:30—Sunday evening service. 7:30 Wednesday—Prayer meeting. SEVENTH izAX ADVENTIST Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. A cordial invitation is extendef to visitors. Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at 925 Rose Ave und- er the direction of Charles Long, Branch ' President. Polly H. Lynch, Superintendent. 7:00 P.M. — Evening Sacrament ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. 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