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MONDAY! OCTOBER 10, 19S8
BIBLE THOUGHT
GOD THE PROVIDER
"The Lord is my Shepherd I shall not want."—
Ps. 23:1-6.
» ♦ •
Confidence in God befits all who share His Shep
herd care. For ten who can say, "The Lord is my
Shepherd," there is scarcely one found who can
boldly say, "I shall not want." Yet sostentation is
as divinely pledged as salvation.—Ernest M. Wads
worth in S. S. Tiitoes. ' :
THE TOP OF THE WORLD GETS A
LITTLE CLUTTERED
(By BRUCE GATTON)
It would be interesting to find out just
how Benito Mussolini is feeling right now.
He seems to be sitting on top of the
world, his people are hailing him as a
world-saving peace-maker (which is cer
tainly a new role for him), as he has just
taken a major part in a history-making:
event. But it is a safe bet that if you could j
get a look at his inmost thoughts you would
find that he is far from happy.
For what has been happening in the last
few months is obvious enough, when you
stop to think about it. Benito has been
slowly but steadily deflated. He still rolls
as ominous an eye and throws out as big
a chest as ever, but he is strictly the Num
ber Two dictator now. and the Number
One man is growing so fast that there is
neither,glory nor nourishment in the Num
ber Two spot any more.
Hitler's Germany is the dominant power
in Europe today, and there is every indi-j
cation that it will become more dominant
in the next year or so. And alt of the
boastful talk from Rome about the beau
ties the Rome-Berlin axis cannot hide
the fact that it is not at all to Mussolini's
interests to have Hitler advancing so fast.
Look at what has happened already. A
year or two ago, it was a cardinal point in
Italian policy to keep Germany out of Aus
tria. Today Austria is part of Germany,
and a German army occupies one end of
the Brenner pass—looking down contem-;
platively on the Tyrol, where some hun-1
dreds of thousands of Germans live under |
an Italian rule which is far more oppres
sive than anything the Czechs ever put on.
Jugoslavia and the neighboring country
were likewise marked down as a sphere
for Italian penetration and expansion.
That dream also has exploded. A great
deal of penetration and expansion will
take place in that part of Europe in the
near future, but it won't be Italian; it will
be German4, and the Rome end of the axis
stands to get precious little sustenance out
of it
The Near Last has also been a goal of
Mussolini's foreign policy. But the famous
old German "drive to the east" is going
ahead now faster than ever before, and it
would be a hopeful soul indeed who sup
posed that Hitler was going to revise his
plans there to make room for the junior
^partner.
, What is left? An and empire in Africa
and a half-conquered, poverty-stricken do
wain in Ethiopia.
; There may yet be a few pickings in
Spain—but even there, it is the German
.agent rather than the Italian who has been
gobbling up the choicest commercial con
cessions.
( So Mussolini can hardly be happy about
Jthe way things are shaping.up. Already he
begins to look suspiciously like the tail to
Hitler's kite. The pupil to whom he taught
Fascism is in a fair way to muscle teacher
clear out of the schoolroom.
• On the heels of the news that a Cali
fornia farmer grew three lemons as big as
pumpkins comes the remark from the di
rection of Florida that those California
pumpkins were never much on size.
' From the town of Algoma, Ore., comes
a story of a toad who is believed to have
lived for 12 years in concrete. On th*e
other hand, many professors spend their
entire lives in the abstract.
Hail to the California boy who has in
vented an alarm clock that turns itself off,
starts the radio, and make the -breakfast
toast Now if it'll only go to work!
j NEWSPAPERS'OPINIONS |
——•
WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL
Historic old Charleston was visited last week by
a tornado which wrecked some of its oldest struc
tures of which its citizens are so proud for their
j traditional value. The hurricane was fatal to sonic
and did serious injury to others. About fifty ^cars
ago, Charleston was the center of a great earth
' quake which wrecked many of its buildings.
The week preceding, a hurricane terrified people
along the coasts from Florida through the Middle
Atlantic states and finally landing with terrific
force on the Long Island and New England coasts
killing hundreds of people and doing millions of
dollars worth of property damage.
Within the past couple of years the Middle Wes
tern states have suffered terribly from the effects
of flood waters along the great rivers of that sec
tion. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was wrecked for
I the second time by a great flood.
The flat country of some of the Western states i
has suffered from dust storms which 'ay waste to
farm lands and drove people from their homes.
People living in cities along the Pacific coast
live in constant dread of earthquakes which are I
Tnore or less frequent in that region.
This beautiful section of North Carolina from
the Piedmont through the Allegheny, Blue Ridge,
and Great Smoky Mountains seems to have the
blessings of the Supreme Architect of the Universe.
It seems to be free from any of the great disasters
which visit other sections from time to time. Here
there are no hurricanes, no floods, no earthquakes,
no volcanoes, and the climate never reaches ex
treme temperatures of heat nor cold, wet nor dry.
Our mountain streams rise fast when much rain
falls, and a bridge or two washes away in the tor-1
rent. We call that a flood. Several weeks pass j
sometimes without rainfall. That is the extent of 1
what we call our droughts. If a high wind blows j
down a tall pine or unroofs a chicken coop, that
constitutes our hurricanes. The fact is that we
never experience any of the real extremities of the
elements. We should be very appreciative of our!
homeland and its blessings.—Marion Progress.
THERE ARE OTHER MINORITIES
Asserting that he wanted to "free" the Sudeten
Germans from "undesired" citizenship in the re- i
public of Czechoslovakia. Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hit-1
ler declared he was taking them into the Greater
German nation through the principle of "self-de
termination." (The Sudetens wanted to be part of
Germany.)
Repeatedly, the German Chancellor has express
ed in strong terms his belief in "self-determina
tion" for persons of an alien character living in
any country. He favors the right of the people to
determine under which national state they shall
live. He would give the minorities a voice.
It is all the more strange, then, that five distinct
minority groups in Herr Hitler's Germany are as
mute as Harpo Mane.
Why doesn't this great advocate of "self-deter
mintion" apply the principle at home? Or is he
using that high-sounding democratic term as an
excuse for territorial demands that he knows could
never be gained through war?
How about a few plebiscites in certain parts of
the German nation to gee how well the Magyars
and Croats and Austrians and other minority groups
like the regime imposed upon them by the divine
Herr Hitler?—Concord Tribune.
24,000 TEACHERS
The number of public school teachers in North
Carolina has increased in a few short years from
20,000 to 24,000.
As the News and Observer well says "this makes
a great army that may become either an adjunct
to the formidable bureaucracy or an active legion
that may raise North Carolina citizenship to the
top rank.
This increase in the number of school teachers
required to man the schools of North Carolina in
dicates how rapidly our population is growing and
how eager the youngsters are for an education. It !
presents at the same time a real problem. The !
teachers have never had their salary cuts fully re- j
stored and the contemplated increase fades as the'
number of pupils multiplies.
The next General Assembly will consider Gover
nor Hoey's recommendations for a twelfth grade
to all high schools. This will cost an estimated
$750,000 annually. In North Carolina, which ranks
high in the percentage of children and low in the
total taxable wealth to bear the burden of an edu
cation, a real problem of supplying additional
teachers *nd a twelfth grade at. the same time,
presents itself to the educational leaders.—Shelby
Star.
A TRAGIC TALE
Signora Virginia Venturola, an Italian woman,
arrived in the United States with two gold bricks, i
These represented her life savings, which had heen |
converted into gold in order to get her assets out!
of Italy.
She took the bricks to the federal reserve bank
in Buffalo to convert them back into money. Fed-j
eral officers seized them and a federal judge or
dered them forfeited to the United States govern- j
ment.
The federal attorney who handled the case said !
that it was "pitiful," but that under the law was |
no other course than confiscation of the gold.
The federal treasury is richer by $1,250 in gold i
and the Italian woman is poorer by the same I
amount. There would be a name for an individual
who did this sort of thing. It would be an unpleas-:
ant name. The man would be branded with it.
It is a crime for an individual to own gold in the j
United States. It ha» been a crime ever since the
Roosevelt administration' caused congress to pass a
statute saying it would be a crime. Does it not
seem a crime in practice to strip a poor woman ol
her life savings?—Charleston News and Courier.
Japan has had no less than"22,000 earthquakes
during the last 10 years.
Spectacles tested by dropping a steel ball on
them from a height of six feet have been on ex
hibition in London.
.
The horned toad is not a toad, and is not
horned; it is a lizard, and the horns are mere
tubercles.
Southampton dealt with 19 liners—an unusally
large number—and several cross channel steamers
in two days during a recent week.
The l-Power Peace Plan at Home
LIFE DAY BY DAY
By WICKES WAMBOLDT
Back of I he Czechoslovakia!)
situation is a tragic story of long,
unwavering struggle of a brave
people for freedom.
Wamboldt
(he indomitable
courage of the
Czechs or Bohe
mians, whose an
c i e n t c r o w 11
lands of Bohe
mia comprise the
major part of
Czechoslova k i a.
have kept alive
tho spirit of d<>
terminat i o n t o
cast off the for
eign yoke in spite
of stern repres
sion arid persecu
tion by the Aus
trian mifttdry-au
cnoruies ami pomr.
The war of 1914 raised to th<i
highest pitch the hopes of the
Czechs and the Slovaks for free
dom. And they sent a military
contingent half way round the
world to join the Allied forces.
Early in 1918 the Czech-Slovaks
proclaimed their freedom from
the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Thoir independence was recogniz
ed in the same year by Italy, Ja
pan, F^neland, France and the
United States. The boundaries of
Czechoslovakia were officially des
ignated and recognized by the
Peace Treaty of 1910.
The Czechoslovaks immediately
proceeded to set up a progressive
republic fashioned after the* gov
ernment. of the United States. The
racial minorities were recognized
and protected by giving them pro
portional representation in the
Czcch parliament. Though the of
ficial language adopted for the
new republic was Czecho slovak,
it was provided that, a minority
111 any nisinci numocriug mure
tlmn 20 per cent of the popula
tion could choose its own official
language and have its own
schools.
The constitution provided ab
solute separation of church and
state, and guaranteed freedom of
speech, of religion and of the
press. Universal suffrage was
granted regardless of sex, and
any citizen over SO years of age
was eligible to hold office.
Since gaining independence,
Czechoslovakia, one of the richest,
regions in natural resources, in
Europe, has made substantial in
dustrial and agricultural head
way. It. has developed its chief
waterway, the state-owned Dan
ube river; and has improved and
extended its railroads (neglected
and restricted by the old empire
to keep Slovakia separated from
Bohemia and Moravia); it has es
tablished a complete system of
popular and secondary* education
and universities. Illiteracy is less
than two per cent.
The new republic assumed its
share of the war debt of the for
mer Austro-Hungarian empire and
of the Austro-Hungarian war
bonds in possession of Czechoslo
vaks at the time of the armistice.
(This commendable action is sig
nificantly compared with the ac
tion of Mr. Hitler in denying Ger
many's responsibility for the debts
of Austria after he seized that
country.)
Such is the delightful, well
managed little republic which
faces destruction at the hands of
Mr. Hitler.
The Germanic nations have al
ways menaced the peace and
safety of their neighbors. Some
day they and similarly inclined
peoples must be taught that that
sort of thing will no longer be
BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON
RY RODNEY DUTCHER—
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n I IWU11D1
Service Staff rorrfnponrion(
W/ASHINGTON.—The A. F. of L.
and the C. I. O. are agreed on
>ne thing anyway:
They don't like Chairman Jesse
Jones of the Reconstruction Fi
nance Corporation.
A resolution prepared at the A.
F. of L. convention in Houston
charges that RFC has been lend
ng money to corporations employ
ing non-union labor at low wages.
C. I. O. has made similar com
plaints.
This doesn't do Jesse's presiden
tial aspirations any good, but ac
rordinK to some of the chairman's
aest friends nothing could. Jones,
A'ho is as able as he is busi
ness-like, appears to be the only
one who takes thBse aspirations
seriously any more! Although he
is highly regarded by most con
servative Democrats who think the
Roosevelt administration is spend
thrift, it is generally conceded that
the Texas delegation al the 1940
convention will be y>r Garner.
Friends of Jones say it wasn't
nice of the A. F.*of L. to talk
about him in his o\Vn town, espe
cially since he had built so many
buildings there and paid out s^
much money to union labor which
worked on them.
C. I. O. has had still another
complaint against RFC. When one
of RFC's debtor corporations
failed awhile ago it owed quite a
sum in wages to its workers. RFC
has first lien on assets in such
cases. John L. r^ewis protested in
effect that human rights should
precede property rights and that
the workers should be paid first.
Jesse said nothing doing and col
lected.
,i
V-/IV iiVA'lUfV W*
>5 Washington, running in a Dem
ocratic primary, received 50,000
more votes than all opposing can
didates in both parties. But he
reported to the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee:
No contributions. No disburse
ments. Only one radio speech.
Details arc lacking as to how he
did it. Many other candidates,
winners and losers, would like to
know.
♦ * 9
THE last Congress provided In
the work relief appropriations
act that no rates lower than the
minimum provided in the wage
hour act (25 cents an hour) should
be paid WPA workers in "similar
occupations."
In southern states a minimum
WPA wage of $26 a month pre
vails. This means about 18 cents
an hour.
Objection has been raised thai
WPA workers aren't in inter-state
commerce and, furthermore, that
WPA jobs and work in private in
dustry aren't "similar."
Then why, demands the Work
ers' Alliance, did Congress put
such a provision in the act?
Deputy Administrator Aubrey •
Williams of WPA is trying to fig
ure it out. .
Y^HARLES POLETTI, Democratic
candidate for lieutenant-gov
ernor of New York who is expect
ed to bear most of the burden of
the governorship if Gov. Herbert
"Lehman—who didn't want the
job again—is re-elected, is another
of the pupils of Harvard's Felix
Frankfurter, so common in New
Deal ranks.
(Copyright. 1938. NEA Service. Ipc.)
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tolerated in a civilized world.
If the world owes any nation
anything;, it should give that na
tion what it owes it; and should
set up an agency powerful enough
to prevent any nation from taking
what does not belong to it.
Wait a Minute
By NOAH HOLLOWELL
FOLLOWING HOBBIES: Some
times a hobby becomes a business
and the owner enjoys the pleas
ure of an enterprise as well as the
thrills of a hobby. Worth K. Ly
erly a few years ago took a fancy
to makinjr motion pictures. The
fascination grew upon him until
he has opened Lycrly's Auto &
CamerA Exchange to care ftfr the
requirements of others who have
some phase of photography as a
hobby.
Mr. Lyerly has taken many pic
tures this summer to represent
the life and activities in Hender
son county with the view to hav
ing these shown under the aus
pices of the Chamber of Com
merce in Florida next winter.
COURT AGAIN: Superior court
opened today for the semi-annual
grind on criminal cases. The crim
inal court has a depressing influ
ence, reflecting many types of the
grief? of our people. It reflects
life on its lowest plane and in
volves not only the unlawful but
the elements of our best citizen
ship who are required to come in
and serve as jurors or witnesses.
It's a pretty sordid business at its
best.
APPLES MOVING WELL: H.
('. Ballard of the Ednesyville sec
tion, president of the Blue Ridge
Apple Growers, reports that the
apple market has been good and
that he has experienced no diffi
culty in selling- his crop in the or
chard. This condition seems to be
typical of that of most of the
growers who are expecting a kill
ing frost about any night and are
now gathering their late fall and
winter apples.
A WEAVER
Nature is a weaver:
Her tapestry begun,
We see before our very eyes
Just how the scenes are spun.
First she dyes each tiny leaf
To a different shade;
They're the many colored threads
From which the cloth is made.
We cannot see her every move
But when the winds turn cool
We know that nature then pre
pares
To weave her first great spool.
She spins the leaves of scarlet
And then the leaves of gold
And brings out every color
Each single leaf withholds.
She Weaves and works her wond
ers,
Designs are plain but rare. j
And every stitch within the piece j
« Receives the utmost care. I
And when, at last her tapestry !
Is taken from the frame
We see a thing of beauty
In color and in fame.
True-nature is a weaver
She copies no decoy
She merely weaves her master
piece
For our souls to enjoy.
—Mary Rickman, Druid Hills, j
The male angler fish is many
hundred times smaller than his
mate.
i FLETCHER W.M.U. IS
ACTIVELY AT WORK
FLETCHER, Oct. 10. (Special)
At the October meeting of the
Baptist Woman's Missionary so
ciety held last, week at the hpme
of Mrs. Reuben Peakc an unusual
ly interesting program on "The
Missionary Work in the Near
East" was given. Mrs. W. E? Bald
win prave the devotions' and Mrs.
W. W. Worle.v and Mrs. N'. Ji.
i Baldwin presented the proglam.
After the program, a business ses
sion was held.
The society is doing a splendid
work. A generous offering1 has
| been sent to the State Mission
Board and a special pledge raised
to be applied on the church debt,
i This month the members will send
i a large collection of vegetables,
j canned fruits and jellies to the
1 Baptist hospital at Winston-Salem.
Those present at the meeting
iwere: Mrs. \V W. Worlev. Mrs.
J. E. Davis, Mrs. H. T. Conner,
Mrs. N. I!. Baldwin, Mrs. W. E.
Baldwin, Mrs. M. T. Pressley, Mrs.
; Ed Crook. Mrs. B. L. Cunningham,
i Mrs. W. B. Moore, Mrs. Ethel Tay
lor, Mrs. Emma Cook. Mrs. Mar
garet McFalls, Mrs. Hal Lance,
Miss Jerusha Lance, Mrs. Mary
Frisbie, and Mrs. Reuben Peakc.
TO HOLD FLETCHER
GRANGE MEET 7:30
I FLETCHER. Oct. 10. (Special)
The Fletcher Grange will meet at
the high school un Monday eve
ning. Oct. 10. at 7:30 o'clock.
This will be a closed meeting.
Learning that Cairo has 40,000
wandering street peddlers, scarce
ly any of whom ever attended
j school, Egypt will reduce the num
ber.
-—^
Mrs-R. Thompsi
New Present I
Saluda's P -T.I
Instructive < H«u|
Plans ior H IWe'J
Festival Rc«Mn
SALUDA, Oct
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minister, opened , , ' r, J
devotional ex -'J
president rosu't.
of Mrs. Richard
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for the usual I!
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THIS CURIOUS WORLD B>'Will«
By William 1
Ferguson I
WE CAN
SEE FARTHER.
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tNJ THE
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AT NIC2.HT
WE SEE THE
STARS
WHICH ARE
772/jLL/OA/S
OF AMI ES AWAY,
i while: durjni<3
THE DAY WE
CAN SEE rslO
FARTHET2. THAN
THE S(JN„.
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fHAT HAPPENS IF A
HORSE HAfR.
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IN WATER
COPR 193e BY N'EA SEf •
MNte-TENTt>!S
OF ALL
DRUGS
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today that horse hairs, if left in water, will turn to >n »i*.r L"
hair-like worms sometimes seen in water probably jinvf i< tot
imnression
KNIGHT OF OLD
I
■
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured
legendary
knight.
8 He was King
| : Arthur's
knight.
13 To h<x)t.
14 Life-giving.
15 Tooth tissue.
16 T<> stupefy.
17 New.
19 Musical note..
20 Platform.
51 Ten cents.
12 Measure of
area.
13 To cringe.
VA Optical glass.
!5 Greek letter.
16 Spikes.
*8 Ladder part.
!9 Black.
10 Not occupied.
II Harbor.
12 Rude persons,
13 To emulate.
14 To search for,
15 Wings.
16 And.
Answer to Previous Puzzle
37 Mitten.
38 Form of "a."
39 South
Carolina.
40 Kind of
rubber.
41 Re«ted on a
chair.
42 One that
earns.
44 Heathen gods.
46 He sat at the
Table.
47 Mode!.
48 Creel?.
49 He failed to
get the Holy
vertical
2 To border or
3 Name.
4 Company.
5 Classical
language.
6 Burden.
7 Baking di$h.
8 Happening.
9 Ncwspifff
p.-irngraphi.
10 F .^tidiottS.
11 Ni.cht befitt
12 M ■' 1 • • |
senate.
15 He loved
Queer.
16 Serrated toe.
18 rr rform.'.
20 Dell.
21 Notdl.
23 Rasp.
24 T>i slisfc
25 Tree.
27 Entrar.ec.
28 Kpg? of ^
29 Pertain:^ »
dawn.
21 Kind of _
firecracker.
It 32 Trumpeting.
' 34 Vampirf&
37 V/ili est.
3S Raftout of
game. I
40 How of a "f
41 Fail (birf)
4o ConrtclIatioQ
4? Drone bee.