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jif- BEASLEY’S and HOME WEBKLY ublished each Thursday in Char- tte by 'yie Weekly Publishing pmpany, R. F. Beasley, Pres^ldent. ntered in the post office as mail E the second ^ss, on Oct. 3, 1928. Office 219 Law Building, test Trade Street. Phone 6204. ubscription Price, $Sfeo per year The Wsekly goes to press on Tjursdafr and is delivered in the iHarlotfea post offic« Thursday af- »moon. Advertisements to be in- ip aurrent issue should be eceived not later flhan Wednesday. D9v«ted to the ufbuilding of the irwiS and homaa erf Mecklenburg ■d ^j^ntfguoua efluntiies, *f which tasBrtt* i« tht natural center. It elW euwm tfaiic ig to ]»« accon|ilis.hed jrou9k 1th« i^i«nt fiin«ri»en \ir- ^8 of h*i3es%, tfeaifi, imagination, rtd iSiadepeodeiic*, au3 by si’O’^nnj '■W3, h«ffs, poultry ^nd the feed Ai/fe to b« mao^cerod thuouig^ them. THE SHOWDOWN NOW Beginning last Tuesday morn- saye the New York Times, le American Navy will provide )tectio.n as adequate as we can ke it for s4iips of every flag rying lend-aid supplies be- sen tke Ameirican continent i the watery adjacent to Ice- d.” Thi-s annOiUMcement, made SecretiR-y Knox in an address 'ore the national convention of American L^ion, is a plain •ternent ©f the policy on which ‘^United States has now em- 'ked. A^e have every right under in* national law to pursue this icy. That Germany is at- iptirvg to Blockade Britain 'g not disturb this right. In er to be binding upon non- ligerents, a blockade must be active in the sense of being intainad by a force sufficient ually to prevent access to the st of the blockaded nation. ’ from a British coast “block- :d” only by submarines, air abers and occasional surface iers, we have every right to tect our commerce on the ^ highways “between the Jrtcan continent and the wa- ( adjacent to I«eland.” ^e have eyery right to pro- ; our ©ommerce. And we e every reason to do so. For proteetion of our commerce he waters described by Sec- ry Knox wiU greatly simpli- :he problem of maintaining of supplies to Britain; and jr^s, speaking in the name ;he American people, and ily with the approval of a t majority of the American le, has recognized that the ii'se of Britain is essential to eer.rity ®f the United States, lave not ciiosen to wait until ay be too late to help Brit- destroy Hitler. We have jn t^have our showdown whi*it is still possible for have it at our own immense ntage. f DBRENSE CAN NO LONGER BE PASSIVE STARlkS ON PAGB ONE Spanish-American conflict, h turned down the German ositlon and said keep hands It was British commanders ilparaiso and the Manila Bay stcod r»a'dy to intercept Ger. interference with our own I vessels. It has been the ish policy in the Far East has stood with our own for Open Door. t^e change of circumstance the rng^ner and means of kig w^ISL passive defense is mger 'possible. We can’t up- th@ Monroe doctrine Iw wait- :iM Germany has teken over k America or planted the 18 by which to do so when ii ready and choses to act. :annot maintain the freedom tt seas in the future by wait- fcill Germany has conquered and and is in a position to truct air a^d sea navies ?r than we can ever hope to \T8 aannot maintain the open in China nor our rights of e and commerce anywhere e permit Japan to close the c seas, complete the con- of China and drive both and and Anierica out of is argued that the d'octrinei le freedom of the seas does varrant ps in demanding the t to deliv^ goods to the iie« of GerrE^ny. It does if ydu forget all about what war is, who made it, and ]tee purpose of the makers But if ydti remember that ve defense is no longer pos- and that the only defense lit international outlaws recognize the rights of no- is* a-n offense against them. ,ilk aboMt the d^iger of get- int@ war and the waging of glared war. Cold facts and reditaes are that war has already long been waged against us; that our getting ^ into the war is no option of our own but that we are in it from the time that Hitler is ready to strike fur ther our one and only true de fense is to help' kill the rattle snake before he has time ’ to strike us harder, as Mr. Roose velt says. ' It is not the first time that men have cried peace when there was no peace. America,ns should not forget for a moment that America is asking nothing ex cept that the grasp of a gang of thugs be taken from the throats of an oppressed world and that we demand this primarily as a ^uar§ntee that their clutch shall not in time be closed upon our own throats. They should not forget again, as the President says, that we'caniaot go our way in peace if these unspeakable thugg get command of further portions of the world, and that our supreme right, and the right of the other people of the world, is to be freed from that menace. That our whole effort is defen sive, but the only defense now possible is a quick and powerful offensive. Germany will not, and indeed cannot, ever stop tl]^is war until she, is beaten to the ground. She cannot make peace in Europe be cause the conquered nations will not colaborate with her on the only terms which Germany could offer—submission. She cannot withdraw her armies and stop the war because all the submerg ed countries would immediately tlirow off her yoke. Being com pelled to keep her armies mobil ized and on the go all the time she is bound, after the subjuga tion of Europe,' to carry on new aggressions- with all countries within her reach. And with Eur ope and England down, her ship and aircraft building would sur pass ours and the American con- Wnent would be her next attack. Talk of making peace with Ger many is childish. Germany is compelled by her own circum stances to carry on war, and any peace made with a Hitler regime would not be worth a scrap of paper. The circumstance of mod ern war is that it has become so widespread that no peace can be made. Hitler triumphs and rules the world or he goes down and the peaceful nations of the world survive and attack the problems of peace and rebuilding. Mr; Roosevelt’s foreign policy is not’ only the historic policy of this country but it is the only policy whereby peace can ever be established in the world. When Americans talk of negoti ated peace they are speaking of something as impossible to at tain as one of the moon beams of centwiries gone by. America Seems To Have Its Ear To the' Ground STARTS ON PAGE ONE sidering that, too; not excitedly, but earnestly. I have asked dozens of peo ple what they think will happen when the defense emergency ends and the “peace emergency” take^'its place. Will . unemployment come; will the Government step in? People Not Alarmed “I just don’t dare think about it!” one editor confessed to me. “I distrust this man Roosevelt,” said the wife^of a prominent business executive, and by her husband’s si lence I knew she reflected his views. On the other hand, most people are not alarmed. Mr. Roosevelt has a strong ally in the man in the bus. I talked to a college professor who p«oh-poohed tlie idea of danger. The, government has been taking power gradually from the States for a cen tury, he said, and he argued that the trend is inevitable. Others maintain ed ,that Washington extends its pow ers ‘only after business or monopolies have first extended theirs, and made control necessary. Many people shrug their shoulders over doniestic matters. “Our problem just now is Gennany,” they say. “One thing at a time !” It is a reasonable answer. Only I wonder if, while their attention is attracted across the street,, unprece dented things ar enot going on in th|ir own back yard? Most Americans want to talk about such things. Most Americans, it seems to me are extraordinarily open-minded right now. It is the mood of the hour. Maybe it springs from certain shocks to old faiths that have oc curred since 1918. I think of three of them, particularly. 1. The faith in rugged individual ism has been re-examined in the light of the 1929 slump. Politically, for better or worse, it has been follow ed by three thumping victories for Roosevelt. 2. The confidence in inexhaustible natural resources as a single key to prosperity has required attention also, with floods and dust-storms an*d erosion, while the Nation watch ed people move from farm to city knd read figures about decline in birthrate. 3. Finally, the faith of many Americans in isolationism exploded in their faces. With Britain threat ened, a good many,, Americans who scoffed at Wilson are now seriously wonde^ring for the first time, whether America can live apart from the rest of the world. Vital Questions These three cardinal beliefs have all been ^questioned in the past 23 years. Despite all this, the mood to day, I think, is not one of skepticism or discouragement, but of . realism. Youthful selfsatisaction is gone, per haps, but the detennination and vig or is there, waiting to be called. Without the noisy intoxication of 1917, the biggest economic war in his tory is actually under way. It is not an easy thing to sustain. The hero is not the soldier in the front line trenches but the everyday citizen who keeps his head, and goes about his job. I had a long talk with one of the construction officials who is putting up the Magnolia low-rent housing proji^ct in New Orleans. We found ourselves interested in each other be cause we were both pondering the same problern*; he showed me about these new brick buildings where rents are subsidized by the Federal Government, he told me about his own boyhood. His father was a Baptist minister in the Mid west. They were poor, of course. But what good times they had! The fath er would take the children out for .walks across the pastures, telling them stories, and when they got tired he would describe gleefully just how thick the apple pie would be at the end of the hike. He conjured up an apple-pie so luscious that' tiiey kept on walking harder than ever. My friend couldn’t take his thoughts off that apple pie, even now. It was still, if you want to put it that way, leading him on. “We made our own pleasures in those days,” he said^ “we stood on our own feet; we didn’t depend on the Government.” He said he was suspicious of some of the families in these low-rent apartments. Did I notice that the children had bicycles? How ccould they aford them; wasn’t the Govern ment weakening their moral fibre? • Well, we walked about the build ing. Finally we came to a group of boys and girls playing in the big green space left between the new homes. They were good-looking Amei'ican kids. Across the way were shacks. They were particularly spual- All sorts of filth and degradation flourished there. These children would have been growing up in those slums across the streets but for this new ■development. As it w^s, plenty of children were left ovfer three. The slum children were going to be the citizens of tomorrow, like these chil- . r ■ Urn Slums Are Real ^My friend and I sighed, and look- ed at each other. We had the same thought. We liked the idea of the Baptist minister and his apple pie. We disliked the idea of Federal sub sidies. But here these slums were. They were real. You couldn’t argue that a,way. I have seen slums like them in city after city. Real estate men generally say that it doesn’t pay p'lvate enterprise to build new homes for the low'est income group. _ I- suppose that’s the answer,” sighed my friend. I knew just how he felt; I felt that way, too.. And so in this field of disturbing domestic problems I think there is an open-mindedness, and a willingness to try to get both sides today, just as tJ^re IS m the field of international affairs. It is a willingness to face the problems realistically,' and to try to get at the bottom of them; but above all, to face them. Maybe these random observations do not fit in together very neatly. Maybe some of them are contradic tory. People in cars and buses are contradictory, too, and I am trying to interpret what I heard. There is a grudging acceptance, I think, of certain new proposals. Maybe it is best described in'the comment of R. H, Tawney, characterizing Europe’s middle-class after the French Revo lution, with which the Lynds close their book, “Middletown in Transi- Uon.” “ . . . They walked reluctantly backwards intio the future, lest a worse fate should befall them.” Group Conference At Heath Springs At this season of the year the Wo man s Auxiliaries of the Presbyter ian church look forward to the g'roup conferences. The Presbytery is divid ed into four groups or districts. The Lancaster-K^rshaw district is com posed of air'‘churches in Lancaster county, Kershaw and Beaver Creek in Kershaw county and Tirzah church in Union county. This district will hold its conference at Heath Springs on Sept. 18th, at 10:30 eastern daylight time, registrations beginning at 10. A very interesting and helpful pro gram has been arranged. We are very fortunate in having Mrs. S. H. Askey for the Bible Hour. Mrs. Askew is field , secretary of woman’s work in the Presbyterian church U. S., and is an outstanding Bible teacher, very popular with the women of her church. The conference will also have the iprivilege of having Miss Sophie Peck Graham, recently returned from China, with many interesting things to tell concerning. conditions and work there. Also Presbyterial secre taries and officers will bring helpful plans and suggestions for the win ter’s work. Every officer and secre tary in every auxiliary will want to attend this meeting. The goal is 100 precent attendance. Mrs. T, F. Grier is district chairman. AS ONE EDITOR SEES IT By R. F. BEASLEY BUY UNITED STATES ^VINGS BONDS ANDST^P§ r' ON >SALE ATTOUR POSTOFfFCE OR RANK America on guard! Above is a reproduction of the Treasury Department’s Defense Savings Poster, showing an exact duplication of the original “Minut« Man” statue by famed 'Sculptor Daniel Chester French. Defensa Bonds and Stamps, on sale at your bank or post office, are a vital part of .America’s defense prepafatioasfe The navy Department is going to advertise for naval volunteers. T he call will bcfor both the regular navy and the naval resei’ves. The campaign is to be put on in North and South Carolina and Georgia at once The applicants for enlistment in the n£.vy must be between the ages of 17 and 31. If under 21 applicant must have the consent of his parents. In the naval reserves the ages run from 17 to 50. .In the regular navy the period of enlistment is for six years and after that you may stay if you wish, for many other years and retire on a pen sion. In the naval reserve the en listment is for not more than four years, but men are guaranteed the right to retire sooner if the emergency is past. In the naval reserve the ben efits and the right to stay if desired is the same as in the regular enlistments. The navy will need 150,000 new men this year in order to man the two- ocean navy now being constructed. Men who are in the draft may volun teer for the naval service at any time before they receive their call. No draftees will be taken unless they vol unteer, for the navy wants willing men to go into this, the most desirable arm of the service. In Raleigh Satur day newspaper men in all towns in the State of under 50,000 population were called to meet to talk over the advertising campaign, which will be gin next week. Secretary Knox wants the cooperation of the country press in helping in the campaign and such co operation was pledged by the large number of newspapers represented. In, addition to the advertising the newspapers will aid in giving infor mation and bringing applicants in contact with the recruiting officers. In explaining why so many newspaper men were present in the meeting in Raleigh Saturday one speaker said it was like the art of calling hogs as explained by a champion caller. He said in calling hogs you not only had to make the hogs hear but make them think you had something for them. The editors heard the call and as there was some paid advertising in store for them, they turned out. The navy wants gOod country and small town boys of good character and it offers them a life time career if they wish it, or training in a hundred lines of work which they may use in private life if they decide not to stay wit3%+jhe naval service. All thes^ points will ?be explained in the advertising. * * j ' >■ The writer has a weakness \for cemeteries, especially very old ones. Being in Raleigh Saturday, Mrs. Beasley and I decided we would run out to Wake Forest College and there visit the cemetery where are buried many of the men and w omen connected with the college in the past years, both she and I having known many of them in the years gone by. It was the first time I had been there in about fifty years. The last occasion was one night when I was a student there and some of the boys pulled off a' prank which we all thought was hazing. Some of the boys engaged in it have become famous as men and leaders and no one would now call any n^mes. The little Wake Forest cemetery is a very modest aiid retiring spot, and the only person we encountered was a nice old colored woman living nearby whose husband had been a grave digger. She said that she was 92 years old but she was very spry and polite. We had been unable to find the graves of Dr. Charles E. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, and the kind old woman directed us to them. In years gone by she had been a ser vant in the homes of many of these great and good families who had lived' there. She referred to Dr. and Mrs Taylor as Mr. Charles and ^Miss Mary She said that she had been fortunate in her life, for though she had received no education she had always been with the best of white people and had learned all she needed from them Her hair was white and as carefully combed as if she had just been to a beauty parlor. She had nursed two generations of childx’en in. these fam ilies. IT IS SAID that Thomas Gray spent many years in writing the “Elegy in a Country Churchyard.” He must have done so for it has been claimed that this poem is the most perfect one in the English language. It is an el egy on the humble and unknown peo ple who sleep in a cemetery, but evens off their unknown lives and unknown deeds by showing that the end of all mankind is the same: “The boast of heraldry, the pomp df power, Ai^t^all that beauty, all that wealth e’r gave. Await alike the inevitable hour, The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” But it is that other picture given by Gray w'hich is the most api)ealing, the place of rest: “Hark! how the holy calm that breathes around Bids every fierce, tumukuous pas sion cease; In still small accents whispering from the ground ‘ The grateful earnest of eternal peace.” Henry W. Longfellow calls the cem etery “God’s Acre.” and tells why: “I like that ancient S'axon phrase which calls The Burial Ground God’s Aci-e! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its A#lls, And breathes a benison o’er the . sleeping dust.” 545 ^ ^ There in the little Wake Forest cemetery, secluded, calm and peace ful, lie the remains of great teachers who taught and influenced genei'ations. Dr. William Gaston Simmons, Dr. Waite, Dr. Wingate, and the older ones whom I never knew. But these I did know, and they are all there: Dr. Charles E. Taylor, Dr. WiUiam B. Royall, Prof. Luther R. Mills, Dr. William L. Poteat, Dr. Benjamin F. Sledd,and Dr. J.^^B. Carlyle. While I did not know Dr. Simmons . I had the great opportunity of knowing Mrs. Simmons, the wisest, most/kindly and tactful woman I ever knew, and her brilliant ^daughter. Miss Evabelle S'im- mo’ns, the first woman to graduate at the college, and who before her un timely death at the age of 29, had w'on wide reputation a.s a student, teacher and poet. When she took the college course thetfe were no back doors to ' college degrees. She made the same or better marks in Latin, Greek, ab stract and applied mathematics and other studies that her brilliant broth ers made. S'o modest, so sincere, so learned and so kindly in life, these peo ple now lie in the modest little ceme tery without adornment or display, their work done and its fruits entrust ed in faith and without murmer to the God whom they loved and served and to the memory of the students they taught. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By REV. H. C. PENINGER For Sunda\', September 21. 12; 'M2 I am in a puzzle to know just how to pi'csent tliis great lesson. Here in chajiter 12 liave an account of ! two gi'eat wonders in heaven. One is a woman cloth(>d with the sun. As I see, tliis is a symlioHc description of the church clotlied in the bri.u'htne.'s? of Christ’s glory. The sectnci fear ful wonder opposing her off.'^pring is the great ^’ed dragon which as I see symbolic of the devil. If I under stand these scriptures or any otiier pait of God’s wci'd, it seems to me that the kingdom of evil as set fortli in God’s v/crt; always comes up into a personality of some kind. In this lesson this personality is (U'agon and satan. In studying ilie scriptures, I find that all of these names have different meanings. And when applied to the kingdom of » righteousness or to the kingdom of i evil all are symbolic or a type of something which is to take place in ; the future. It is becoming custom- ^ ary for some modern theological scholars, (the kind that think your daddy and mine were monkeys) to i'idic*ile and out-mode'. But experi ence and observation fail to reveal any better likeness of the kingdom of darkness than is revealed in God’s 1 word. So far as I am concerned I I believe that there is and always has j been a personal devil. This is ])lainly \ the teaching of God’s word. I think it is the most satisfactory definition ever found of the power of moral and spiritual evil as they enter into the lives of men. From the seventli to the ninth verse we find that there, is wai- in heaven. This is a most violent contradiction, Heaven is a place of perfect peace, joy and satisfaction. But here w^e find it torn and wicked with war. It can be understood only as an ex- 'treme example of tlie brazen effront ery of Satan in lifting up against God in heaven. This is still his busi- \ ness in the world to w^reck and ruin. This war in heaven must have been a fearful and excitirg scene as Michael and his angels fought with the drag on and his host. But as the battle goes “on we see that the dragon is losing out for he has been overcome and cast out. The whole thing as I see it is an unveiling of Christ in all his conquering power. As 1 look on this scene it is made plain and clear to me that God has put his only Son up against the forces of darkness, sin, death and hell.' And nowhere in the, holy writ do we ever see any instance where Clirist has ever failed to win the victory. How long the war lasted we are not told. But just about the time it is ended John hears a shout of triumph and the final end ings are proclaimed. After so great a victory it was fitting that tliere should be a ])ublic shout and procla- nmtion because of the overcoming tiiid easiino- out of God’s enemy. Just at this time John heard a voice in lieaven sa>’ing now is come salvati'n and strengtli and the king dom of our Goil and the power of his Christ. * ‘ Before we close we wish to notice a few things alKuit the secret of this great victory. \Vhat was the secret? By what device did the forces of righteousness prevail? ; Hjow (have ag( S of tlie Woi ld, how does tlie Chris tian prevail toda\’? The answer is tiiree fold. First they overcome by tlie blood of the Lamb. You remem ber I told you several weeks ago how God requires the shedding of blood to seal the plan of salvation. Once a man asked me this question: What became of the people who died be fore the coming of Christ? My an swer to the question, they met the requireinents of the law looking by faith to the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of sin. Here ji.gain in this vision is reference made t6 the impoi-tance of the shed blood of Christ. It is the atoning blood and there is no limit to its power. This blood has made provis ion for trusting souls in every nook and cornc'r of the world. Reader, is your life sad and full of gloom ? Does your lieart ache and bleed because of some past sin of your life ? If so you have a complete remedy in the blood of Jesus Christ. Thei'c is nothing in the way of over coming grace that is not yours and mine. Second, they overcame by the word of their testimony. That means that they were faitful in their witnessing for their Lord. Some of we Christ ians are too slow to sliow our colors for Him who died and shed his pre cious blood for our sins. If types- mean anything, then the type here is mine and your faithfulness and fiideli- ty in testimony and witnessing for Christ without which we can not over come. I cannot finish the lesson. But let me say, the time is now on us. Yes, right now amidst all this world, wreck and disturbance when we really need to witness for Christ. COUNTRY SCHOOL DAY The country day school which is being opened in Charlotte for teach ing i.rivately students who wish to attend, has arranged for a site on which buildings will later be con structed. The contract is for 98 acres owned by Judge Clarkson on Sharon road. The price was $10,000. The tract was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. W. Irving Bullard for the school and will in due time be transfered to the incorporated school, of which Dr. Thomas Burton is the principal. 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