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Newspaper
Roanoke Rapids Herald
Location
Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1921
Page
6
A nostalgic portrait recalls a colonial era farmhouse with red walls, white front, and green blinds. The speaker describes low eaves, a busy orchard and beehives, family rituals, and a life rich with herbs, birds, and simple neighborly visits on New Year’s Day, contrasting past simplicity with modern gadgets.
A fragment from a 'Grit' quote urges clear thinking and warns that muttered doubt spreads doubt. It contrasts politics with horse racing as a spectator sport and notes candidates lack the rigorous scrutiny given turf entries.
A poem reflects farewell to the year with lines about time and memory attributed to Ruth Raymond. The text then notes a brief historical distinction: Martin Van Buren as the eighth president born after independence and John Tyler as the first born after the formation of the United States.
A 1921 Sunday School lesson discusses the Wise Men from the East seeking Jesus, Herod’s fear, and the star guiding them to Bethlehem. It notes their faith, gifts, and prophecy fulfillment, with reflections on divine providence and the proper response to Jesus.
The passage blends Jeremy Taylor on joy and sorrow with Bacons view that God’s first creation was light and that the last was the light of reason. It frames the Sabbath as the illumination of the Spirit guiding virtue and wisdom through nature and thought.
Col. R. P. Dickerson, founder and national commander of the National Loyalty League, told the American Legion convention in Kansas City he invites Legionnaires to his Vive Bar Mule ranch near Springfield Missouri. He described the ranch as a playground for ex service men offering riding, hunting and relaxation facilities with cottages for veterans. Dickerson, a Spanish American War veteran, organized a World War I regiment of cowboys and prizefighters and later formed the loyalty league to promote patriotic education.
The American Legion Weekly warns that future war will likely be at sea and in the air. It laments Congress for abolishing paid naval reserve pay, disenrolling thousands, and shifting to a nonpay class. The piece urges renewed funding and training for reserve sailors to protect national defense.
James M. Hanley of Mandan North Dakota has served as speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives Morton County state attorney senator and district court judge He spent four years in the military serving at the Mexican border in 1916 World War I France with the first division and later with the tenth He has been a long time American Legion member delegate to the St Louis caucus and chaired North Dakota’s first department convention
An eastern college graduate applied for work in a Michigan lumber camp and was set to one end of a crow law, with an old lumberman at the other. After an hour the veteran stopped towing and told the weary partner, sonny, I don’t mind your riding on this man, but if it’s just the name to you, I wish you’d quit scraping your feet of the ground.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch became a member of the American Legion on arrival in America and signed his membership as officials of George Washington Post No 1 welcomed him at Union Station in Washington D C He was escorted to the President's Room and presented with the ceremonial insigne by Lieutenant Howard S Fisk U S N post commander.
The Fifth Avenue Coach Company in New York, famed for its congested route, relies largely on ex service men for driving. President John A. Ritchie says returning soldiers performed well and the firm rehired all who went to war. A new campaign to improve patron relations reduced passenger complaints significantly.
Harrison Fuller, first department commander of the American Legion in Minnesota, urges citizens to maximize their opportunities and help neighbors. He notes the Legion’s mission to educate all residents in American government and rights, and cites his role editing the St Paul Dispatch and Pioneer Press while organizing 472 Legion posts statewide.
American Legion posts may obtain obsolete rifles and blank ammunition for funeral ceremonies from corps ordnance officers under federal act. Up to ten rifles per post, with endorsement by state commanders, a bond for penal value, and transportation paid by the post. Ordnance offices listed in Boston, Governor's Island, Fort Howard, Fort McPherson, Fort Benjamin Harrison, Fort Sheridan, Fort Crook, Fort Sam Houston, San Francisco.
A dialogue from American Legion Weekly features a needy inventor pleading for money and a wary businessman hoping for sunrise. The exchange turns dark as the inventor recalls a quarrel with his sweetheart, hinting at violence with a remark about knocking her flat.
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