The Washington times., 1936-12-25

lions of human beings.
Nineteen hundred and thirty-six
years ago a beautiful child came
into the world; a few sad years
late, the three crosses were
erected on the bare hill called
Golgotha, meaning, THE Skull"
From the divine smile on the
face Of that child and from the
sacred life sacrificed on that hill
. better world has come.
It is still world of war, cruelty
and sorrow, but progress has been
steady, peace on earth and good
will toward men" will surely come
Happy he who, today, can bring
smiles to the faces of other chill
dren, and to the faces of care worn
mothers.
This writer raises alfalfa on
the Mojave Desert; horses, hay,
corn, wheat and oats in New Jer-
sey, sometimes imagines himself
q farmer, and mentioned raShly
that his field corn grown in Mon
mouth county, N. j., this year
was praiseworthy, running $50 big
grains to the ear.
Immediately C. M. Morrison,
another newspaper-farmer-editor
on the able EDening Public Ledger
OF Philadelphia, telegraphs:
This writer and editor, also
farmer, reports one ear of yellow
corn 16 inches long, Ito grains,
grown on his Bucks county, Pa,
farm this year. Representative
ears approximate $50 grains
average"
E. o. Gayle, writes from 825
Wilkinson St., Shreveport, La;
''I give you the following as an
average ear of corn grown by me:
white dent corn, averaged
so bushels per acre; ear length
10A inches; 18 rows of grains 50
grains to the row, tcCal Lis
grains, weight one pound. I have
$50 such ears, all grown on regu-
lar farm land, Bullard, Smith
county, Tex, with a very dry farm
year."
Man does not appreciate ma
lures bounty, from one grain Of
corn, an ear with ITO grains
and grown by an editor, whose
mind, necessarily, is not all on
farming.
Two thousand to 5000 wild
horses, too fleet to be overtaken
by cowboys on tame horses, will
be rounded up by airplane.
Planes roaring over their heads
will frighten the poor creatures,
driving them until they are ex-
hausted: then they will be caught,
in corralS.
Some, the mildest, will be sold
as work horses for about $40
each: the majority untamable,
refusing to eat, sold for one cent
and a half a pound, and made
into chicken feed. That does not
remind you of Rosa Bonheur's
romantic painting of the wild
horse, captured for her long ago
by the big coffee man, Mr.. Ar
buckle. He kept men, in relays,
walking on foot, after the wild
horse. until he tired and was
1assoed.
The Russian government pro
fesses to consider all human
beings equal, white, black, brown
or yellow; Paul Robson, we'll
known Negro singer, has put his
9-year-old son, Paul, jr., in a Mos
COW school, and says he will leave
him in Russia that he may
escape the prejudices and Strug-
giles" that his father faced as
boy in the United States. He
may face other struggles in
Soviet land, time will tell about
that.
Russian history includes one
colored boy who did remarkably
well after he had been bought and
brought to Saint Petersburg as
o page by Count Tolstoi, Car
Peters ambassador.
The colored youth became a
general, with magnificent uni
forms, great wealth, and is the
direct ancestor of one of the most
famous writer's in Russian liter
ature; many white strains mixed
up in the ancestry, however.
Colored people must find salts
faction in the knowledge that
Alexandra Dumas and his son,
authors of so many brilliant books,
were descended from a colored
woman of Santo Domingo named
Marie Cessette Dumas, and
French Marquis de la Pailleterie.
He and his famous son and
grandson chose to take the name
of their colored mother Marie
Dumas, from whom, doubtless
they got much of their power of
imagination.
A competent German engineer
came over, examined our war
tanks, and remarked that the
speedy little ones would roll over
in actual use, and go out of COM
mission, while the big powerful
ones embodied all the defects
that Europe had eliminated long
since"
Nobody in our army will pay
much attention to the German
engineer: we may continue build
ing tanks that would roll over, and
we built airships that wouldn't fly
and ships that never went to sea
In the big war.
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