Verhovayak Lapja, 1940. július-december (23. évfolyam, 27-52. szám)
1940-12-26 / 52. szám
December 26, 1940 Verhovayak Lapja Page 5 CHILDREN’S PAGE Sally Ann spent most of her time in the barnyard. She would sit quietly and watch the hen on a nest. She had been allowed to place the eggs in the soft, straw nest and was quite excited. After days of watching and waiting, the shells began to crack. Tiny chicks raised their heads out of the shells and feebly cheeped. Sally Ann was overjoyed. Soon they grew stronger. Soft silky yellow feathers covered their little bodies. Sally Ann loved to hold them against her cheek. They were very noisy, cheeping while hunting in the grass for insects and worms. How they ran for shelter beneath the mother’s protective wings at the least sign of alarm! Sally Ann has one favorite chicken in the barn lot. There are a number of others. See if you can find them. BUT DON'T COUNT THE ONE SALLY ANN’S HOLDING IN HER ARMS! Little prizes will be avmrded to ten children sending in the correct number of chickens to be found in the picture. Cut out the picture, put x’s or check marks on, or circles around, the chickens, or shade them with pencil, pen or crayon, or use any other easy mark of identification, and tell us how many there are; then send in the answer in a letter or paste it on a penny postal card. In order to give all Verhovay children living in the various parts of the country equal chance to become winners, we are now using a different way to pick the winners. Here it is: Tivo weeks after the Children’s Page comes out we will gather together all the answers, mix them up, and from anywhere in the pile pick out the answers until we get ten correct ones, and by that method find the winners. This gives a child living far away, like in New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Omaha, etc., just as much chance of winning as one living in Pittsburgh, Cleveland or Detroit. In sending in your answers be SURE to include your complete address and state your age. Address your answers to: CHILDREN’S PAGE, THE VERHOVAY JOURNAL, 345 FOURTH AVENUE, PITTSBURGH, PA.--------------O-------------WHEN ONE HAS AN 8-DAY WEEK By Michael Wace Officer on a British Merchant Ship When traveling long distances, East or West for the first time, one wonders why the clocks are always changing. Going East they are put ahead. Going West retarded. For time’s sake the world is divided into 24 zones, each zone being one hour different from the next and, as one moves from zone to zone, the clocks are changed accordingly. When crossing the Pacific going to the Orient, a ship travels with the sun, so lengthens her day, but traveling East a ship advances towards the sun and so shortens her day. If a ship were to travel V2 way round the world, westbound, by the time she got to the Date line (in the middle of the Pacific) she would have put her clock back 24 hours and missed a whole day. Similarly, going East she would put her clock back 24 hours and have an extra day. This may seem unimportant but failure to do so + + + Conducted by AMELIA NYERS TRAILS FOR CLIMBING YOUTH By Louis C. Wright 123 pages Abingdon Press, New York Price $1.00 Trails for Climbing Youth is a book that was written for the boys and girls seekirfg the higher trail of life. There are thirteen chapters. Each chapter clearly points the way to the better life through choosing the right career. In order to know where they are going young people must be shown a path leading to the goal of success and happiness. Choosing a career is difficult for anyone, but with the help and guidance of parents and teachers the boy or girl just out of school will more easily adapt to the rapidly changing world of today. Life is built on character and character must be strengthened to meet the many problems and temptations that beset youth. Friends are necessary to the art of living; therefore, only those friends who are sincere and eager to “climb the higher trail” should be cultivated. The youth who fails is the one who has not learned the true value of his inner powers. When he faces failure, the blame is placed upon everyone except himself. He does not recognize the fact that perhaps he has chosen the wrong career, selected a type of work entirely unsuited to him; or, perhaps, he has become lax and let the finer things of life drift by him. The youth who succeeds is one who “puts his shoulder to the wheel” and, no would cause endless annoyances, as ships would sail “before” they had arrived and arrive at place “before” they had left others. CHILDREN: This is your part of the Verhovay Journal. We invite you to send us your writings so that we can publish them on this page. We are more interested in what you send us than in what we pick for you. It will be nice to see your names under the writings and other Verhovay children will enjoy reading the articles. So let’s get started! Be sure to give us your names, your addresses, and tell us how old you are. matter how hard or narrow is the road, keeps on going, doing his everyday tasks with a smile. He never forgets that his success depended solely upon himself. Trails for Climbing Youth points the way to success. The book shows youth how to become adjusted to life after school days are over. It tells concisely the type of friends to seek, the kind of career to choose and reveals the way to happiness and success. Louis C. Wright, the author, was born in Virgil, New York. Degree of LL. D. was bestowed upon him by Ohio Wesleyan University. For a while he was Y.M.C.A. director of American work in the British Zone of Northern France. Trails for Climbing Youth is a book for every boy and girl who is resolved to find the path that leads to real success and happiness.--------------O-------------ANSWER TO LASTS MONTH’S PUZZLER CHRISTMAS Christmas ahvays comes— so, here it is again. Christmas never delays—be there sorroio, death or pain. We are reminded of our Savior’s birth in Bethlehem When we hear, sung \ in a carol, “Peace, Good Will to Men.” 4s we hear these words, our thoughts suddenly turn across the sea For we know how different, from these words Europe’s Christmas will be. In Europe, the children won’t be ct all happy While in America, we will all be filled with glee. Christmas always comes— it’ll be here again in twelve months more, And let us pray that by that time there will be no ivar. IRENE VARGO, Age 12 Idamay, W. Va. --------------O--------------One of the customers would get two two-pound boxes of sugar, five onepound boxes of sugar and two empty boxes. The second would get three two-pound boxes of sugar, three onepound boxes of sugar and three empty boxes. The other customer would get four two-pound boxes of sugar, one one-pound box of sugar and four empty boxes. WINTER NIGHT Still is the Winter night, Mantled in slumber deep— No lonely bird in flight Stirs through her peaceful sleep. Snow-wrapped, the countryside Dreams in the hitsh profound; And where the stars abide, Frost-miisic notes resound. From Jasmine Petals A Book of Verse By Hasmick Vartäbedian ■■MM
