Sunday School Lesson
I International Sunday School Lemon for Jnh zj
DEBORAH?A LEADER IN A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Judges 4:1-10
Rev. Samuel D. Price, DX>.
Early mistakes can cause many calamities in later years. It was
mat this way in the history of the Israelites during their conquest oi the
Promised Land. When Joshua was commissioned to cross the Jordan
and possess the land he was told to drive out all the natives, who were
gross in their idolatries. All too soon the Hebrews were content with
the limited area they had allotted to the various tribes, whereas the
promise was that they would be victors wherever their feet would
tread as they went forward in conquest. Because they stopped short of
the command of God almost continuous problems resulted.
Soon the various peoples that were permitted to remain in the
land sought to intermarry and then to interest the Jebovahites in taking
up the forms of licentious worship which were indigenous. These made
a strong appeal to the flesh and this made them attractive. Further,
tribute was levied for the sake of non-lnack, or marauding took place
after the crops had been garnered. Only when the new inhabitants
were all but re-enslaved dtd they remember from whence God had
delivered them in freeing them from the burdens they had to bear in
the land of Egypt. Then, though late, they would turn to the Lord and
enr out for His divine help. God's way was to raise up some deliverer
who is called a judge. There are at least a doxen of these judges,
beginning with Othniel and reaching to the time of Samson and Samuel
Though there were many good men in Israel, this time God will
act through Deborah. She was a woman worthy in her own home.
Sobn her influence extended to the community and the people sought
her advice as she held a kind of court under the conveniently located
palm tree. Being attentive to the voice of God she understood that
through her leadership Israel would be delivered from the oppression of
Jabin, who often terrorized the colonists by his display of those one
thousand chariots of iron. A good leader assigns work to others and
Barak was commissioned to assemble ten thousand from the tribes of
Israel at Mount Tabor.
When the enemy came forward for attack a God sent storm broke
in their midst and the one thousand chariots of iron at once became a
great liability and the dead were piled up in utmost confusion at the
crossing of the swollen Kishon river. It remained for another woman
to destroy the enemy's general. Jael drove a tent tun through the
temples of Sisera while he slept after a hearty meal Thus Israel was
again freed from the oppression of a neighboring people.
This is designated as the Quarterly Temperance Lesson and a sig
nificant application comes from the habits of the Israelites during this
period of the Judges. They seemed to forget that the facts of the past
must be taught to each new generation. The children in every age are
the men and women of each to-morrow. These growing youth should
have been instructed in the commands of God and further reminded
that disobedience would bring oppression from the surrounding peoples.
Experience is too costly when each age learns matters anew. There has
bees unbelievable progress in freeing the nation from the curse of
the organized liquor traffic. To-day the law that relates to the Eight
eenth Amendment is being sixty per cent enforced. Prohibition is about
the livest news in the daily press. One of the greatest needs to-day is
that there shall be more teaching to youth that alcohol is a poison
and its use as a beverage is detrimental to life, society and morals.
Dangerous Business
Our etosnach and digestive i_
an bed with membrane which ii
delicate, sensitive and easily injured.
It ia dangerous taniiwae, then, to use
drop,
atipated. In addition to the possibility
at injuring the Knmga at our iligastiis
system, these madicnw give only tem
posMT rebel and msy prove habit form
ing. lite safe way to relieve constipation
is with Hrth^ the cathartic that is
tram herbs, and acts in the way
nature intended. You can get Herbtne at
P. R. Pleasants. Druggist?Adv.
NOTICE
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Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Lonnie W. Marks, de
ceased late of Franklin County, N.
C? notice is hereby given all parties
holding claims against the said estate
to present them to the undersigned
on or before the 18th day of July,
1931, or this notice Will be plead in
bar of their recovery. All persons
vi ill please come forward and make
immediate settlement
This July 17th, 1930.
D. E. CONE,
7-iS-6t Adin'r.
? A. G. Spaulding?
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Raleigh, July 31.?The heat ware of
unusual duration and Intensity hare
and elsewhere In the State gave way
during the week to a falling mercury
following the approach of clouds ac
companied by refreshing showers.
The very welcome showers appear to
have been general over a wide ex
panse and farmers are greatly heart
ened over crop prospects. Border
eounttee along the Virginia line had
been reported dry for several weeks,
a condition which prevailed In other
sections, and growing crops were
menaced by tbe absence of moisture.
"A million-dollar rain" is the esti
mate placed upon the showers ex
perienced in the "dry sections" on
Thursday, and Governor Gardner's
live-at-home program advanced an
other step forward. ?
To a conference of teachers of vo
cational agriculture at State College
the Governor spoke encouragingly of
the part they are playing in carrying
out the program and urged them to
cooperate with all organised agen
cies and groups of the county and
community by taking the lead in the
movement for a full utilisation of
foods being produced through their
leadership. Other addresses to the
conference were by Roger D. Maltby,
agent of the Federal Board for Vo
cational Education, and Roy H. Thom
cs. State Supervisor of Vocational Ed
ucation, who were in complete agree
ment with the suggestions advanced
in the address of the Governor. Dur
ing the last year, according to the
speakers, vocational agricultural de
partments were in operation in 128
white schools, located in 70 counties
of the State, and nearly #.000 persons
were enrolled in the agricultural
classes in these departments.
Commenting on the 1930 census,
which gives North Carolina a popu
lation of 3,165,146. Governor Gard
ner says he considers the 23 per cent
increase made by the State during
the last decade as "a complete vin
dication of the progress started by
Morrison and sustained by McLean,"
end congratulates the people on "liv
ing at home and boarding at the
same place." The increase in the
population of the State is six per cent
more than the average for the Coun
try as a whole which, the Governor
considers, rather remarkable in view
of the fact that fnom I860 to 1890
rather small Increases were reported
from one ten-year period to another.
Tl)e Governor appointed a long list
oi delegates recently to represent
the State at the Fourth Session of
the Institute of Public Affairs to be
held at the University of Virginia.
Charlottesville, August 3 to 16. He
has himself accepted an invitation to
be present at the meeting and deliv
er an address in the round table dta
< ussions on "Reorganisation of State
Government. Number of governors
and ex-governors of various states
are to participate at the meeting over
which former Governor Harry Flood
Byrd, at Virginia, will preside.
During the week representations
were made to Governor Gardner by
C. W. Bollck, organiser for the Unit
ed Textile Workers Union, and Earl
R. Massey, Leaksllle attorney, that
men bad been discharged from the
Cone mills, at Greensboro, lor no
other reason than that they had join
ed the union and requested that some
action be taken relative thereto. No
Illegality was charged, but tbe situa
tion described as "very strained and
imminent of almost anything," be
cause of ejectments of discharged
employees from their mlllowned
homes. The "complainants" were
advised by .His Excellency that there
was nothing he cotfld do shout It, in
tbe absence of sufficient reason for
State action. Mill authorities refuse
to treat with representatives of the
union and there is apprehension that
the Gastonia-Marlon troubles between
the mills and employees may be en
acted In Greensboro.
At a meeting of State Prison direc
tors recently held here a resolution
In respect to the memory of the late
chairman, Walter D- LaRoqnc era#
adopted and routine matters trans
acted. Aproposal for the removal of
the plant of the Carolina Cnlvert
Company from Salisbury to Raleigh
In order that State convicts might be
utilised In the manufacture of corru
gated culvert pipes, which are ufeed
to a great extent In road building,
was seriously considered. And Chair
man J. Wilbur Bunn. appointed by
the Governor as the temporary suc
cessor of Mr. LaRopue announced
that he.wants to see the day when
Instead of a S.MO-acre prison farm
in Caledonia the State will work Its
prisoners on a 15,000-acre farm some
where In Eastern North Carolina but
that none of It will ba planted In cot
ton. The Caledonia prison farm la
Halifax connty. It was pointed out,
produced 10,500 bushels of wheat this
year, an average of about twenty
bushels to the acre. He nrould grow
tobacco, corn, and truck crops, to
gether with the raising of hogs, cat
tle 8heep and goats would, R Is sug
gested. go a long way tomard soil
ing the prison problem of the future.
Px pressing gratification with the
wheat production. Governor Gardner
said some of the wheat will be used
to feed prisoners of the Bute and
some of It Is to be tested for germin
ation. sacked and sold to farmers of
the State at reasonable prices In fur'
therance of hla program of using
State-owned farms to further agricul
tural progress, all of the wheat of
fered to the farmers to be "pure bred
seed." The Idea advanced Is to do
away with the "scrub" seed that has
been planted from year to year and
develop the cereal from . pure-bred
seed. The Prison farms last year
rroduced around 1,700 bales of cotton.
Aocordiag to authorities, a million
pounds of mast should be prodoced
Atthotfeh bis batting average la said
to ba good, when It comae to answer
ing Senate roll calls. Senator Lea 8.
Why Not Now?
Tke late John Vaaaaate, a patron
of tkh Caapu;, who started with a
teniaaMNlar pallcj while working
oa a taall salary and at death was
iaaarei* for lUMyN^ oaee said:
"I would tako a journey to San Fran
cisco just to shake hands with the
man who started me in life insurance
if be were living. ? ? ? My five
reasons for the <2 lite insurance poli
cies I bare taken are these:
1. Afraid I might become uninsurable;
2. Beet form of investment;
?. A savings fund;
i. From the standpoint of fixed de
termination, more profitable than
any other investment I could make;
5. Enables a man to give away all he
wishes, and still make such an
estate as he cares to leave."
His sea, the lade ls*sin Waaamaker,
was also a patron of this Company,
and net only follow** his tether's
example, bat went far beyond it, build
ing a# his total life tnswranee protec
tion to over Hjmjm, making him
one of the most heavily insnred men
in the world.
This is a good Company
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AGENT LOCISBURG, N. ?.
Overman* may have a tight on hU
hands tor re-nomination two years
hence. It is a "foregone conclusion"
that the Senator will fight to stay
where he has been "batting" for the
past twenty-eight years. It is also
practically certain that Robert R.
Reynolds, "Our Bob", will be pitted
against him again. The State-wide
campaign he made against Senator
Overman in 1926 extended his circle
ct acquaintances to every section of
the State and "netted" him over 90,
000 votes. Former Governor Morri
son is also expected to get into the
race and ex-congreesaan Clyde R.
Hoey may finally yield to the solici
tations of friends and make it a
"quadruplicate" affair. Senator Over
man ia seventy-six years old and has
served as the jnnlor Senator from
North Carolina since 1903.
On Wednesday evening of this
week, in the Hall of the House of
Representatives, there will be a meet
ing of the Democratic State Execu
tive Committee, called for the purpose
cf electing a chairman, a vice- chair
man and a secretary, to direct the fall
campaign. No opposition to the re
election of Chairman Mull has devel
oped and it is said that Miss Mary
Henderson, who has served as dc?
chalrman for some years, has indi
cated the wish to retire. Secretary
Thos. L. Johnson has been promoted
to the Superior Court bench and the
Committee will be called upon to se
lect a new one for this position, or
authorize Chairman Mull to pick the
man be wants. The State campaign
is expected to get started arcngid the
first of September.
On the basis of the-present popula
tion of the State, according to the
Associated Press, the counties of
Guilford. Mecklenburg, and Buncombe
trill each gain a representative in
the lower house of the General As
sembly, while New Hanover, Rocking
ham and Nash will each lose one.
However, this is not to take place
until the meeting of the General As
sembly of 1933. The next session of
Art ^ou
Ready,
When your
Children Ciy
for It
Baky ha* UtUa upaata at thaaa. An
l?i??! than. Bat tw
Then Ton eu do what
would tall too to do?
gtTO a few drop* of plain daetori*. Wo
aoeuar doo* than Baby 1* *ooth*d| relief
ia juat a matter of momenta. Yet you hare
aaaad romr child without ua* ad a *l*U
daubtfal drag; Gudorin ia rageUbla.
Be if a aafo to uaa aa often a* an infant
haa^anj tittle pain you cannot pat away.
alwaya randy, far the cruater
paama of aalln. or oauatfpatiou, or dlar
rfeaai adhatlia, to^ fir older children.
CASTORI A
This Woman in 4 Weeks
lost 19 Pounds of Fat
Here's a letter written October 21,
li2?. by Mrs. Fred Barringer of
Lew Is ton, Montana, that ought to be
read by every overweight woman In
America.
"Gentlemen: I first saw yonr ad
vertisement in a Billings, Montana,
paper and decided to try Kruschen
Salts.
I started taking tfiem every morn
ing as directed as 1 was much over
weight and wanted to reduce.
I had tried going on a diet but
would get so hungry that my diet
would not last long, so I decided to
give "Kruschen Salts" a fair trial.
The day I started to take them I
neighed 2S6 lba and at present,
which has been lust four weeks, I
weigh 238 lbe. And I muit sax, I (eel
better In every way, besides looking
ranch better. Kruschen Salts bad a
deqlded effect upon the quantity of
food I took and rtlmnlated my de
sire to greater activity.
I have recommended Kruschen
Salts to many of my friends, in fact,
hare a number of them taking Kru
schen Salts.
May all large people, both men and
women, who want to reduce in an
easy way, give Kruschen Salts a fair
trial. I am sure It will convince any
one."
A bottle of Kruschen Salts that
lasts four weeks costs but SSc at
Boddle's Drug Store or any drugstore
In America.?Adv.
the Assembly will be called Upon to
re-arrange the State senatorial dis
tricts. The State will also be en
titled to another congressman, mak
ing eleven Representatives and two
Senators. In the re-apportionment
of members of the State General As
sembly Mecklenburg and Guilford
will have four each and Buncombe
three. New Hanover, Rockingham
end Nash, which have two each at
present will have only one under the
re-arrangement There may also be
changes In the congressional districts
so that the papulation could be more
excitable distributed. The Fifth D:s
tiict now has a population of 567,275,
or double the number of people found
in either the First Second, Third,
Sixth or Eighth districts and this is
considered "excessive."
The 1930 census will not only cause
changes in the membership of the
North Carolina General Assembly and
give the state an additional congress
man. It will also increase the share
of the State Highway road funds go
ing to the piedmont section which is
to have greater representation in the
Legislature, the sum of highway
funds being allocated in proportion
to the districts on the basis of their
aea, mileage and population of the
State as a whole. Inter-district di
vision is handled pretty much the
same way. The central part of the
State has been receiving the "lion's
share" cf highway funds, it is said,
because of greater mileage, the fact
that it Is more thickly populated and
correspondingly more traffic. Tho
mountains in the west and bridges re
quired in the east makes the cost of
road construction heavier than
throubh the Piedmont section, but the
highway equalization fnnd of $500,
000, set up by the General Assembly
of 1928 enables the Commission to
supply the needs of the two "ex
tremes."
Six or eight prisoners were either
pardoned or paroled by Governor
Gardner during the week, one of
those liberated being Wash Bryant, at
one time a well-to-do farmer of Har
nett county, who has been serving a
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BLACK FLAG
FUES? MOSQUITOES
ROACHES?MOTHS
FLEAS?ANTS
BEDBUGS
Kills Quicker-Costs Less
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tatu
CENSUS
BY COUNTIES
Franklin
-39,464
26,667
2,797
Granville
28,721
26,846
1,875
Warren
23,364
21,593 \
1,771
Vance '
* ? ? . ' _
27,294
22,799
* ' ?
4,495 ;
Totala
108,843
97,905
10,938
MOBS THAN ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
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