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1 ■ '4: THE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN. SELMA. N. C. - THURSDAY, MARCH 12. 1942. PAGE THREE Baptist Convention To Meet At Wendell In Two-Day Session — — First Bomb Shelter Luncheon in U. S. Interesting Program For Two- Oay Session of Annual Con vention of Region Four Bap tist Training Union—Promin- ! ent Speakers Coming. Starting Friday, March 20, and continuing through Saturday, the An nual Convention of Region Four Bap tist Training Union 'will be held in Wendell, with 369 churches, 9 Associ ations and fifteen counties represent ed, which is expected to bring togeth er more .than five hundred delegates. It -will be by far the largest meeting ever held in Wendell, and one of the important meetings in the state this year. Featuring a program, which has been mailed to the churches already, are three of the denomination’s ablest speakers—Rev. Albert E. Simms, of Littleton; Dr. J. Levering Evans- of Richmond, and Rev. Charles B. 11 ard, of Buie’s Creek. All three i men intensely interested in .the tram ing of the youth of the state and c ich ■will have a vital message for young folks of this troubled day. In coming here for this Convention , Rev. Albert E. Simms is in a sense coming back home. He is the son o Mr. and Mrs. R. N. Simms of Raluirh, I and held his first pastorate in W i dell. A graduate of the Raleigh pub lic schools, he took his college train ing at Wake Forest, later going to the Southern Theological Seminary at Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. Simms has been marked for his eloquence since his high school days, and has always been deeply interested m -the prob lems of youth. To his abilities as a minister Mr. Simms adds .those of an accomplished musician and singer. A featured song on the program w^ written, words and music, by mm while in Wendell and dedicated to the Wendell Baptist church. The second of the featured speak ers Dr. J. Levering Evans, of Kich- moU, Va., who has been pastor of the Weatherford Memorial Baptist Church in Richmond since 1932, has had a most eventful life, though still a young man. He is the son o Dr. and Mrs. Phillip S. Evans for many years missionaries m China, r grandson of the late Joshua Lev ering, of Baltimore, who served tor Homl .time as president of Boutin ern Baptist Convention, ms youHi was spent in China, to which he re turned as instructor in the University of Shanghai after from Yale University m 1923. In 1921 h”was awarded a Ph. D. m Econom ics by his Alma Mater, and was for a time before entering the Seminary in Louisville, advistor for a large indus trial concern. Shortly after hi® g - uation at Louisville he went to his Sesent pastorate. Dr. Evans is we 1 known in Wendell where he conduct ed a revival last summer. Perhaps few ministers of any de nomination have so deeply and con sistently stirred .their hearers to the f^PTiths as Rev. Charles Barrett How arl now teacher of the ^ible at Campbell College »nd pastor of the Buie’s Creek Baptist church. He was horn in Sampson County. His died in his early boyhood and he was reared in the home of his grandpar ents until 15. Largely on his own ef Lts he has attained a th-^^ar; ucation, being a graduate Cary High School, Wake Fores.t College and the Louisville Theological Sem- W. He also attended State College Raleigh, for two years. Rev. Mr. Howard delivered the convention ser mon for the State Convention m ^40 an address .that is still referred to as one of the most powerful ever heard by this body. He is a magnetic and winning speaker. ^ Certainly no less a headliner than the three mentioned will he the Rev. E Norfleet Gardner, of Henderson. Always interested in young peop -work Mr. Gardner has been very closely connected with Region ^0™ siMe its formation. He was Pastor Advisor for the Region last and has given invaluable aid m the plans for the convention this year. He i worthy fourth to make a quartette of the three preachers already mention ed on the program. Space alone prevents the mention , of many others' who will appear on the program. With a wide choice and an atafst hnlimi.ted wealth of talent from which to choose the program ■ committee has prepared a program, every nupiber of which is a feature. ' In spite of the unsettled conditions i.- ■ is cOTfidently predicted that this wi 1 . be one of the largest and most enthu- Sastic conventions -ever held m this ■ region • * A feature to which most of the . - boys and girls look forward will be » , thLsonfire Goodnight serwee W be ‘ ■ held around a large bonfire Friday ' night at the end of the formal ser- ■■ ' -■ vices This has- been planned and ar- ,1' : ranged by the Wendell Internaediate I -Union with Miss Hilda O’N^l as ^ chXman, and 4Rev.^ Mark Osborne, Band Director. AVERyTlYNOIBURG Plows 'and Castings for all lands of / ; Sows. See Henry & Nordan, / - Selin^ N, C. Alertness Fays 1 1 oik 1.1 Wose warn ing, nau 11 bco. 1 -1 ky his su periors, might have saved Pearl Harbor, is shown as he passed through Chicago en route to officers training school at Camp Monmouth, N. J. It was Lockard who, at a listening device, heard planes on De cember 7 which proved to be Japs. GOVERNOR ISSUES PROOAMATION WHEREAS, for the defense and protection of those liberties which we as citizens of North Carolina and the United States of America enjoy and are pledged to defend, a perman ent reservoir of natural resources is essential; and WHEREAS, the forests of North Carolina constitute one of our most valuable resources, from which ma terials for the construction of bar racks, ships, planes, wharves and other military and civilian essentials can be obtained; and WHEREAS, .the forests products industries of our state rank third m importance, being exceeded on y y | tobacco and textiles; and the foresy land represents about 60 per cent ot our State’s total land area, our state ranking first among all the states in the American Union in the number ot operating saw mills and fourth in a total lumber production; and WHEREAS, during the year 1941, 728 947 acres of privately owned forest land in North Carolina was burned, over by fire; and WHEREAS, only 1 per cent of the state’s forest fires are caused by lightning and the remaining 99 per cent resulting from the acts of man and classified as preventable; and the interest and welfare of the citizens of this state and the cause of national defense are involved in the reduction of fire losses and the preservation oi our national resources: j NOW, THEREFORE, I J. MEL VILLE BROUGHAON, for the pur pose of bringing the matters above mentioned to the attention of the people of North Carolina, and for the purpose of stimulating more interest in the efforts to protect and preserve the forest resources of our state, do hereby designate and proclaim the week of March 15.th-21st, 1942, which includes Arbor Day on Fridaj^ March 20th, as FOREST PROTECTION WEEK, and call upon all public of ficials, agencies of the press and radio, the State’s various law en forcement agencies, the schools, the American Legion and auxiliaries, the civic clubs, woman’s clubs, and all other organized groups, to lend their efforts during this designated week and throughout the ensuing year to the protection and preservation ot North Carolina’s forest resources. Done at the City of Raleigh, this seventh day of March, J®/’’ our Lord nineteen hundred and torty- two, and in the one hundred and six ty-sixth year of American Indepen- J. M. BROUGHTON, Governor. S'^JameS Preston The Administration and the farm bloc are having a .tug-of-war. It came to the fore at the time of the enactment of the Price Control Bill. The question then was the ex tent of the power of the Price Ad ministrator to fix maximum prices for agricultural commodities. Kouna one ended in a victory for the farm bloc. Rigid standards set by the Price Control Act must be met before ceilings can be fixed for the products of farmers. n^i The farm bloc is now trying to bol ster its position by supporting an amendment introduced into the Sen ate which prohibits the use of certain funds by the Government to buy farm products below a given price, ihis amendment is designed to plug a loophole in the Price Control Law which .the President intended using to stabilize farm prices, according to its sponsor. , n ■ President Roosevelt and Price Ad ministrator Henderson are b^teg opposed to this amendment They ta vor .the present set-up, under which the President can, for example, in struct Federal crop agencies to turn over thousands of bales of cotton to the War Department. The War Department could then sell the cotton to a manufacturer for use in Army supplies at a price which for the most part, would be below the designated price level. This proced ure Administration experts point out will have the effect of decreas ing the demand for cotton, or what ever commodity may be involved, on Reopen market and thus serve to keep cotton prices stable. There is another angle to this bat tle in which both sides are adamant. The Senate farm bloc has in passing a hill forbidding the Gov ernment to sell below parity its huge stocks of cotton, corn and wheat, de spite a direct appeal by the President for its defeat. _ There is much conjecture in th corridors of Capitol Hill as to wheth er the President will veto the bill i it gets through the House. Congressmen who disapprove of ..he efforts of farm Senators and Repre sentatives to jockey farmers mto a favored position cite official Depart ment of Agriculture figures .to show that in 1941 the cash income of farm ers totaled almost 12 billion dollars, and represents an increase of 29 per cent over .the agricultural income for They insist that such Senators and Representatives are not indicative ot the spirit of the nation’s farmers. They point to 50 Indiana farmers who resolved, at a meeting, that they will permit no interest of their own to in- Iterfere with their war .time duty to 1 their country. ' A good deal of discussion among businessmen here is centered around a bill introduced by Representative Boland of Pennsylvania. The hill at tempts to modify the present capital- gains tax, which has long been re garded with disfavor in business and financial circles. The present tax is levied on the transfer or sale of all assets, with enumerated exceptions. Mos. of the revenue comes from security trans actions. ^ . It is felt that the Government should follow the lead of other coun- ,tries and abolish this type of tax en tirely, because experience has shown that'it discourages the investment o capital in business enterprises, ihe 1 Boland Bill, by setting a flat rate ot 10 per cen.t on the net capital gains of both individuals and corporations, is hailed as a step in the right direc- Proponents point out that the lo-w- er rate of .taxation together with other corrective provisions of the Diu will encourage transfers. This means that, although the rate is lower, there will he more taxable transactions. The result will he, according to ex- nerts an estimated increase in reve nue from $80,000,000 to $300,000,000 ^7rSditional $220,000,000 of tax , revenues isn’t any.thing to be sneezed i at these days, say Mr. Boland s hac - ers. ■ '4^ ' ■ A luncheon served on air line trays publicly opened the bomb shelter by a large rubber concern at Akron, Ohio. This is ^ ® f strong structure of the type tested by the war department. corrugated plates forming a gas and water-tight cylinder, and is large enough to accommodate 50 people. Smithfield Attorney Speaker at Meeting Woman^s Club Here The following excerpts are taken from an address delivered before the Woman’s Club of Selma Wednesday afternoon by Mr. James R. Pool, Smithfield attorney, and chairman ot the Johnston County Council of Na tional Defense. The speaker was introduced by t^ program chairman, Mrs. George D. Vick. “In this big hour of .the World’s History, when practically the entire world 'is bathed in the blood-red dra ma of war, we who live in America should thank God for our beloved country and for the ideals and princi ples of free government upon which she was founded and upon which m a little more than 150 years she has grown into the great nation which we all love and call the United States of America . . . .Our proudest fortune is the legacy of American citizenship and our proudest achievement should be to hand down that inheritance to our children untarnished and undi- minished And today as I think about our great country, of her glo- rious history, of how she has grown from 13 scattered colonies along the Atlantic Seaboard until today when her borders stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the land ot perpetual snow in the North to the land of unending Summer m ®*''® South I say when I think on these things ' I know that though she may have her moment of indecision and apparent unconcern on vital_ mat ters, 1 know, nevertheless, that in ev- ery great crisis which she has faced, her people have united .to meet the common danger and from each dark vale through which she has passed she has emerged united and free - 'Today we face the greatest crisis in our history and today we are unit ed as we have never been before.-.-, united to meet this grave situation,! and we will meet it and win through to absolute victory. “I know that each one here will do her part in .the defense and preserva tion of our beloved country. The wom en of America always have and al ways will And you will do your part to the extent that you are able to lose yourself in the unselfish ser vice of your country in small yet im portant ways as you go about your daily work Yes, f ® 'vojd Un selfish’ is the keynote of this hour. Ot all the virtues, I think that .the great est is the virtue of unselfishness. By way of illustration of the vir tue of unselfishness, Mr. Pool relat ed the myth concerning the origin ot the City of Athens, telling how the people refused to follow Neptune who offered them wealth and power and glory and followed the God, Athene, who tendered them wisdom, virtue the unselfish spirit to serve; and then Mr. Pool said; “They named their vil lage Athens and her learning culture became the glory of .the ancient world Yes. today the same Gods stand and ■ bid for the allegiance of all Americans in this supreme hour ot our history. Let us follow Athene and Greyhound Bus Drivers Awarded Defense Bonds In recognition of seven consecutive years of safe driving, 56 Atlantic Greyhound Bus drivers were each awarded this week a $50 United States defense bond, and a handsome safe-driving pin. According .to Arthur M. Hill, pres ident of the Atlantic Greyhound Cor poration, a considerable amount of money has been expended by the company for defense bonds and stamps. The bonds and stamps are being awarded to drivers, and main tenance men throughout .the entire territory served by the company, as prizes in regional safety contests sponsored during the past year. This new policy of safety awards, which has been enthusiastically ac cepted by all employees, was recently adopted by the transportation compa ny to supplant the former practice ot awarding cash prizes and sponsoring safety banquets for winners of re gional safety contests. Each individ ual winner, under the new plan, re ceives defense stamps in amounts to taling the pro rata share of the cost of a banquet plus his earned cash award. in every way possible render to our country unselfish and devoted ser vice.” , , Mr Pool cited how our peole have always unselfishly responded in ev ery great emergency and at the same time pointed out some of the short comings as a nation, emphasizing that when Peace comes we should all, peo ple of all parties, all faiths and all creeds should he united in one deter mined purpose to aid in every possi ble way in the establishment of a just and lasting peace, a peace which would he fair and just to he small and weak as well as to the large and strong. Navy recruiting offices were so flooded with applicants after war was declared that they had to close temporarily. ‘MYSTERY OF NAMELESS LADY’—DETECTIVE STORY Ano.ther in the series of famous American crimes—the story ® ^ city’s half-century-old enigma of the “unknown giant” and the strangely murdered beauty. Dont miss this thrilling tale in .the March 22nd issue The American Weekly The big magazine distributed wi>th the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sale At All Newsstands , THIS QUICK DPIIFF foq ~ ^UE TO COLDS , a • lUontVift-MiiIsion. In minutes this Take one do» of Mmth(jMul5 on 5„„thes Itri- tcientific. l^'Mentho-Mulsion sends nine tated Uiroat meinbMnM. MCI helping nature medicinal mgredimts quiet nerrouj expel tiohllng rklegin xrpntho-Mulsiou’t Ingre- tension snow rour doctor eatlstled Oflieve stuify nose due to , ^ ?old with nose and throat drops and r K>» \ brtalhe more your druggist. 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