«i ]§easley*s Farm and Home Weekly, Charlotte, N. C., Sptember 25, 1931. BEASLEY’S FARM and HOME WEEKLY Publifthed each Thursday in Char lotte by The Weekly Publishing Company, R. F. Beasley, President. Hntered in the post office as mail of the second ctass, on Oct. 3, 1928. Office 219 Law Building, East Trade Street. Plufte 6204. Subscription Price, $1.00 per year Th« Weekly goes to press on Thursday and is delivered in the Charlotte past office 'fhursiay af ternoon. Advertisements to be in- aofted in current issue should be Eeceived not later than Wednesday. Devoted to the upbuilding of the l^rma and homes erf Mecklenburg ^Rd oeii’tigHeug Munties, of which Ch«rl*tt« is tiie natural centeT. It fcfelteyWS this is to aecoBiplig^hed thi^utfk the ancient A'lneric^n %ir- taee of honesiir, thrift, imagination, and indl^pendeBse, a»d by growing cews, feeg*, peultrjr and the feed vtMffs to be marketed through them. HITLER MUST BE DESTROY ED. STARTS ON PAGE ONE no ship of our* registry or flag should enter any belligerent port ©r cTen any zone of combat or danger, to be defined by the Pres ident. Taking our lesson from the events that involved us in. the World War, we solemnly resolv ed upon a course calculated to save us from a second sUch ex perience. “Iij June, 1940—ten months after the war began-rrthe Presi dent solenwily warned the Con gress and the country that the »ec\irity of the New World, of this country and its people, was in peril, and we began with all possible haste the preparation of €*ur delfcnse upon the greatest scale in our history—the building of a two-ocean naw, the acqui sition and fortification of island al^ coastal ramparts, the con- yersioti of our industrial institu- jI tiolii into, munitions factories, the trrfiiling of arm^d forces and tlie building df merchant ships. This was the second phase of our reaction k) Hitler’s proposed world-revolution, and to the amazing progress he had made. “Sixteen months after the war began, that is in March 1941, we liuthorized, again under the Pres- i^nt’s leadership, and instituted the program of all-out aid to Britain and other nations resist ing the Axis powers, under the Lease-Lend Act—a plain policy of intervention, but not war. “Although we have set up a program calling for the expendi- tisre o(f $50,000,000,000.00, about ©ne-seventh of the total wealth of thig country, for home defense and foreign aid. “And now, just two years after tlie war began, the PrsMent has alinounced his orders to ‘he Navj' to fire upon craft pf the Axis ’ powers operatiHg in waters con sidered strategic to our defense —not a shooting war, if the Axis keeps ofl", but a shooting war oth- wise. This he solemnly declares to be necessary to the defense of the security of our country. “Our policy of October 1939 "vi^as a policy of strict neutrality. Our policy of 1940 was strictly a hbme defense policy. ^Our policy ©f March 1941 was a policy of interventio'n for defense. Our policy 0^ September 1941 is a pol icy of,conditional action on our own part as necessary to our de fense, let the consequence^ be ' whatever the Axis powers by ac- , . tien may determine. “A review of the fadts of the history of these two years is nec- ' eSsary to explain, first, ^e re versal of the policy of neutrality, •then adoption of tke policy of intense preparation for defense, thereafter intervention l^r defense, |ind now active skooting defeise in strategic zones—four progressive phases of one policy—the policy of pre serving the security ctf the Amer ican people, their homes, th'eif personal safety, their Republic,! their standards of life. “There was excellenk prospect that the United States would be a^le to escape responsibility in the war until the German army ov’er-ran Morway, Denmark and liolland, took control of the Bal tic Sea, conquered Belgium, and | ciacupied the eastern coasts of ! 'the Englisk Channel, less than! 30 miles from the ports of Eng land, took ^he Maginot line and •i^ushed France and her great arr^. But those events not only gave the A^, at that time in league with Russia, the control of Europe; they not Only placed the Axis in position^to conquer England and control tlw .‘\tiantic and Mediterranean Seas: they' alsp placed the Germans in posi-| k) take over Africa find to Die Japan to take O.'na andj them Asia and the Pacific n from Hawaii west. There t the same time amazing^ stration g£ might of| the German armies. All that stood between the Germans and this conquest without parallel in human hifrtory was the British Isles, the British Commonwealth of Nations and the British fleet. And Britain was in no condition to defend or prolong the war without material aid from us. Hitler had declared that such conquest was his purpose; he aimed at nothing less than world dominion; and under world do minion, a world-slavery under the German conception of the State as everything, the individual nothing and amongst States the German State over all by force. “The United States could not take the risk of such circumstan ces. The odds were that, without our aid Hitler would triumph over Britain within five months., and that we would be left to re sist him and the allies alone, un ready and probably unaable to resist. “It may be granted for the ar ■ gument’s sake that we could even uilder the circumstances of a year ago, have successfullly re sisted invasion; but it cannot be argued that without Britain and the British, fleet we could have prevented Germany and Japan from taking Over all the world other than our North American continent. Nor may it be con- tended that in this event the se curity of the United States and every man and woman here would not be gravely involved. For neither the United States nor its people could hope to exist encircled by Totalitarian powers. Under such conditions national aisintegration would be inevita ble, and the threat of invasion would: hang over us day and night, not for months, but for unnumbered decades. We would deal with the rest of the world on Axis terms. We would inevit ably becoine a subordinate na tion. Nor may it be contended that any sort of peace could be THIS IS WHAT IS CALLED MSTICS What Quartermaster Corps Does to Feed, House and Move the Soldiers The army has a name for the vast, intricate and vital quartermaster corps activity now^ under way in prep aration for the First Army maneuv ers which Lieutenant General Hugh Drum will conduct in the Carolinas during the next two months. The army calls it logistics. For the man on the street the term is readily understandable when trans lated as a design for living. How soldiers live, are quartered, supplied and, in this day of mechan ized warfare, how they are trans ported is something every citizen can comprehend when he puts it on the same plane which he designs for his own comfoi't and ability to move about. What the quartermaster corps does for more than a million and a half soldiers the citizen must do for him self. His design for living is only mul tiplied by the army, but somewhere in the multiplication the army tacked on the term logistics, which the dic tionary defines as “that branch of military art which embraces the de tails of transport, quartering and supply of troops.” So the citizen'begins to understand logistics when he compares it to the possession and operation of his motor car; tenting and furnishing of his home, supplying his family with clothing, groceries, meats, vegetables and other necessities ■- of, life, eVen down to the ice box in summer and filling the coal bin for the winter. Not many citizens who maintain and own their own automobiles could orient their daily lives in these times to a new design for living which did not include control, of their motor cars. The housewife, to whom the quartermaster corps often has been compared, recognizes the necessity of having the automobile ready for in stant. use when it comes time to meet the 4:15 bringing hubby home from the Office. She ish’t at all in favor of calling her neighbor on the telephone and asking use of the neighbor’s car to fulfill a responsibility which she has long recognized as her own. The army in its plan of logistics calls for a simplified system on the T^''l service of supply to the front lines macie, lor botn (jrermany ana Ja quartermaster corps not only pan had not only given notice ot responsible for assembly of supplies, their design to divide the world but to insure their arrival, responsi- between themselves, but had, ble also for transportation. demonstrated that their treaties , To meet this motor transport prob- ' , 1 j. J.I, . 1 4-1, 1.' lem the Quartermaster corps is m.ov- mean nothmg to them, and that with tremendous speed In est^b- the only power they recognize is the power of superior force. “It was necessary, therefore, not only that the United States should arm and prepare her de fenses but also that she should intervene with material aid be fore it was too late—that she should arm and intervene even lishing regional motor liiaintenance districts throughout the country. Fa cilities are being installed at a cen tral point in interlocking hundred riiile circles to keep each motor ve hicle in first class condition and up hold the (quartermasjter corps slo gan, “Keep ’em Rolling.” Like the housewife who demands her automobile be ready when she wants it, the quartermaster corps has though the Axis powers should pledged that no motor vehicle shall . ^ ■ r\n+ Ar aovviPo hppnilRP OT nflTVl- in good spirits.” Rise of Farmers’ Alliance The year 1888 saw the beginning of the Farmers’ Alliance. February 10: “Captain Liles with us; he organized our Alliance with 14 members.” March 13: “Jimmie Blakney work ing the road; he is the best road su pervisor I have ever seen.” May 25: “Bobbie Bell and I went to Monroe to the Sunday School Confer ence. May 26: “Having a good Con ference. All the preachers and del- gates in good spiritual mood.” June 1: “Had a storm. Miss Lelia Smith was killed by lightning.” I went to school with that attractive young girl; her death wras very sad. It was said, that, with a crochet needle in her hand, she rose in the living room to close a window, and was struck. July 25: “Having water melons in great abundance; plenty of company.” August 13: “I went to Raleigh to attend State Alliance meeting. Met many of my old friends and had a good time.” Christmas Day, 1888: “Thank the good Lord for all the blessings He has bestowed upon us this year. We have all enjoyed good health. Made good ci'ops and everything has been favor able. We have made over and above our running expenses about $1,000. We have spent about $500 on Bud (his son William) and paid $500 on my debts. May the Lord continue to bless us and keep us. Mr. Howie and family, Bud and Jennie, Walter Elliott and Sammie Rone with us—a turkey din ner.” Sam Jones in Charlotte Bud, William M. Ardrey, and Miss Jennie Rone, of Marvin, had married on the 6th of December; the first mar riage . in the family, involving the children, and his father gave him a house. September 7: “Mr. James Hawfield arid I went to Wesley Chapel Alliance meeting picnic. I addressed the mem bers.” In 1890 the Farmers’ Alliance was quite active, and Captain Ardrey at tended various meetings. But, none of his activities kept hini away from church. April 25 he wrote: “The Rev. Sam Jones holding a'meeting in Char lotte; having big crowds. April 26 and 27: I was at his meetings. He is a gredt man,” December 27: “Dr. H. B. Battle and Prof., Epiery of the State Agricultur al Experiment Station spent the day with us, and we introdiiced them to the Alliance. The year has been good for crops.” The height of cotton stalks June 20 and the dates of the first blooms were features of the Ardrey diary. Hei’e are records for several seasons: Height, 1883, 15 inches; 1884, 13; 1885i 20; 1886, 16; 1887, 20; 1889, 14; 1890, 22; 1891, 12; 1892, 16. Blooms first appeard: On the Ard rey farm,'1883, June 23; papers report ed, 1884, June 30, and 1885, June 25; Ardrey farm, 1886, July 4 arid 1887, June 25; J. T. Downs’ farm, 1888, June 21; Ardrey farm, 1890, June 22; Thomas 0. Parks'''farfflj‘1891;"JuTie 18; ;and'Atdr^ faj^, 1892, June 29. ■; Captain Ardrey was a friend to ev erybody, and won easily in political make war upon us. The new pol icy was nothing more nor less than the policy of prudence, of necessity, of defending and pre serving the security of our coun try and its people, dictated by events. Critics of the Presideht have not deterred him, and not withstanding a general American aversion to war and love of peace, he has the support and gratitude of the vast majority of the peo ple—and richly does he deserve it. A weaker ladership would have put this country in jeopardy of the gravest degree. “We have come in recent weeks to a new phase of the war and a new stage in our policy. Since Hitler has invaded Russia there is new hope that he may be de feated on the continent, for to avoid defeat he must crush the great Russian army within a year. For him a stalemate is defeat. That Russia may have every encouragement and every advantage we may give ought to go without question. The Rus sian resistence is a determent to Japan and an encouragement to the invaded peoples. It holds the possibility of ending the men ace of our involvement as a bel ligerent for unless Hitler shall destroy the Russian army there will be no need of armed inter vention by the United States; there will be no chance of inva sion of England—he will have ei ther on his front or at his back the innumerable army of a great continental country. Assistance to Russia with planes, guns, tanks and explosives is likely to be worth ten times all it may cost whatever the price.” 'Contests because of his popularity. He failed in an effort for the Democratic nomination one year in a contest with Billy Griffith, but by a small majority. The Ardreys were Scotch-Irish set tlers in the Carolinas, coming through Charleston. William settled in South Carolina, and John went to Kentucky. The name is not a common one, and is spelled Ardrey or Ardery. A list of the names of Captain Ard- rey’s neighbors reads like the roster of a Northern Ireland military organ ization—that being the section where the Scotch who went to Ireland prior to, during and after Cromwell’s time, resided. Here are a few of them: Dr. James T. Kell, Dr. William Mcll- waine. Captain James Robinson, Wil iam P. Robinson, David Hyatt, James A. Kerr, Samuel Kerr, John H. White, William Wolfe, John Wolfe, James Hawfield, Hugh M. Parks, Joseph Ross, T. O. Ross, James Dunn, Samuel H. Elliott, James Warwick, James -Cun ningham, W. E. Cunningham, Turner Barber, James Davis, James Barnett, W. S. Rone, Gib Culp, Ed Russell, June Russell, William Downs, James Rea, H. G. L. Rea, J. S Grier, L. Shir ley,- Lum Morris, James A. Blakney, John G. Potts, Robert M. Miller, W. S. Staith, John N. Howie, Mack M. Matthews, John Squires, Robert C. Bell, and the Houstons, Hennegans, McKinneys, Walkups, Coltharps, Felts, Garrisons, Masseys, DeLaneys, How ards, Pierces, Coffings, Stitts, Sharps, Moitows, and many others. The Vails, Bryants, Donaldsons, Rollers, and Oldhams were interlopers. The names here, with one or t\^o exceptions, oc cur in the Ardrey diary. Many of the persons mentioned in the Audrey Diary were acquaintances of mine. Dr. Thomas J. Kell helped to usher me into the world. Dr. William Mcllwaine or his wife was related to ,my mother and I used to see him at church at Marvin. Mrs. Pollie Pierce was first to put a dress bn me to hide my nakedness. Captain Jimmy Rob inson owned’Harry and Echo, the first setters I ever saw, and he and my grandfather, Moses Allen Parks, hunt ed together. ' . ^ Mr. Coltharp, a near neighbor, was a tall, thin man. My pet story on him is one- about a pain in the back. Mrs. Coltharp put a porus plaster on the ailing part, and her industrious hus band went to work in his sweet po tato patch, hoeing. Up in the day, after he had warmed up he called to his wife to come to his aid, that a f'.nake had crawled up his leg. He was holding it thi'ough his trousers. On investigation his wife found that the plaster had slipped down, and it, and not the snake, was in his breeches. Mrs. Kell, who Was a Morrow, beg ged her lord and master to try a “la- zy man's potato patch.” She said her ntighbors spoke highly of theirs. Now, as I recall it, such a patch does not have to be worked, but' the potatoes are planted, and then covered with leaves or straw several inches deep, making an ideal place for a snake. Thinking the potatoes were I’eady for use Mrs. Kell took a table fork and'a pan and went forth to dig some. About the first thing she did was to land a black snake in her lap, and she ran towards the house yelling. Among the things she said was that “nobody but an idiot would plant such a patch.” THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSOR By REV. H. C. PENINGER (Sept. 28, 1941—Rev. 21:1-22) With this lesson we finish our studies in the Book of Revelation. ■ And truly with me it has been a most wonderful study. It has been a bless ing to me and I have enjoyed it, and I hope that all who read these lessons feel the same way. The prer.ent lesson is a long one, climaxing all the others. John has all the way through given us short glimpsefi of that heavenly land which he saw in his vision. It is not a good idea for us to be too hasty in our interpretation of many of the things we have seen in these lessons because of the fact that many or most of them are symbolisms, but just how much S') it is difficult for us to know. However, there is this that we can accept as a fact, they reveal to us the glory and grandeur of that which awaits those who have been washed in Jesus’ blood. Iri John’s vision the great judgment day has just passed. And he relates the awful pimishment that awaits the wicked. He aescribes to us the mar velous wonders that God has for his Saints in that blessed land. It is mere ly an attempt at the impossible for there is no human language which icould begin to tell one millionth part :of that which Christ has gone to pre pare for them that love Him. I want you to especially notice the magni tude of John’s description of that 'great city. If we figure a little we will find it to be 1400 miles long, •1400 miles wide and 1400 miles high. Its construction is the most costly that one can think or imagine. John says that the walls are of jasper. The gates of pearl and the streets are of transparent gold. How beauti ful heaven must be! John does not stop there.. He has a word to say about those who dwell there. But first he mentions the tabernacle of God as belonging among meny And then that God himself dwells with .them. This of course includes the ■saved and redeemed of all ages. He also describes the condition under ■which the people are to live for he -says that God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. He further says that there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor c*rying, neither shall there be any more pairi. For the former things are passed away. A few nights ago the Rev. Earl Armstrong of Gastonia ■preached' on the beauties of heaven. But he never can and neVer.will be ’able to tell all about heaven. John reveals the most wonderful of all re wards, the fellowship of God, the Son,, the Holy Ghost, and His saints. Ti-ue -fellowship is the sweetest relation ship yoH and I have here on this earth. It is impossible to even think or imagine what it will be when we g.et to that holy city, the new Jerus alem. Yet it is the reward that God •offers to you and me for a few years faithfulness’here in this world’of sin and sorrow. For, Says he, all who overcome shall inherit all things. So you see it is min^ and yours by the right of inheritance. According' to . John, it is not to be a new place but a renewed place. This is symbolic of the new birth, for, as Christ told Nico- demus, every man and woman must be born again. And that means to be renewed. The first or old heaven and earth will all pass away, or rather be ren ovated. This is symbolic of cleanli ness. And that means that every per son must clean up his life. This act of a man or woman’s life must pre cede conversion or being born again. In heaven there will be nothing un clean to contaminate it. All will be pure and holy and lifted up by the presence of God and the Lamb and they that are saved shall walk in the presence and light of God. John concludes his description by speaking of the river of the water of life of which all will partake free ly. This is symbolic of that fountain of grace which will satisfy all of the 'soul’s spiritual thirst and desires. It is also a symbol of the daily refresh ings the redeemed of God will receive from the holy spirit. . .. In conclusion let me say that there is no way for you or me to know what heaven is like. As for myself, I am taking comfort from the assurance that it is like I think it is. My deep est intellect, my best language fails me now. I am trying each day to so live that when my latest sun has set for the last time that I too will be like John On the Isle of Patmos, will be surprised to find that heaven was more beautiful than I had ‘ ever thought. And now as I close this last lesson let me say to each one of you; Let’s you and me sO live that when in the evening of life the golden' clouds gather sweetly and invitingly- upon the mountains and the light of heav en streams down through the, gath ering mists of death, may each one of us have a peaceful and joyful en trance into that great world of bles sedness where the, great riddles of life will then be unfolded to us in the quick consciousness pf our soul’s re demption by the blood of the lamb. STATE OF MECKLENBUR® STARTS ON fAGR ONE luggage indicated he was in affluept circumstances! No arrests had been reported. FIRE AT DAljRY BARN Fire originating in the machinery house at the Harvey Morris an.d Son dairy farm at Hickory GroVe did about $15,OOO damage to the $5p,000 dairy barn Saturday, but tbe valuable p'ure bred Guernsey herd was djriven out of the barn in time to escape in jury from the blaze. Captain Henry C. Severs and a squad of county policemen, Chief Hendrix Palmer and tank trucks from the city fire department, aiid hundreds of neighbors of Mr. Mori- ris in the Hickory Grove section, ral- lied to the scene of the fire to help put it out. .a.:..,!, ,i„’i t.pi I ^ ^ Th«- U.. s. Si- Siliy«rside3 is submarine to be built under the new defense program. Worse than death are the tortures of the dope victim deprived of' his drug. Read this' reveahng second in stallment of “My Battle Against Our Deadly Dope Racket,” by Arthur La: Roe, M.D., president of the American Narcotic Defense Association, Inc., in The American Weekly with Sunday’s Washington Times-Herald, now oh sale. remain out of service because of dam aged or worn out equipment. Instead the quartermaster will remove the damaged part and install in its place a new one, sending the damaged equipment to the regional depot for repair but keeping the motor truck in service for the troops and live up to the demand to “keep ’em rolling.” The quartermaster not. only is the ice and coal man, but he is the hab erdasher, the restaurant man and the hotel keeper. He runs the taxi ser vice and operates the trucking, trans fer and storage business as well. He is the garage man and the operator of the gasoline filling station; the railroad ticket agent in addition to being the train dispatcher. He is the garbage collector and the second hand salvage dealer. He operates the laun dry in addition to conducting the clothing store and managing all the five aftd tens. , All of a city’s public utility facili ties the quartermaster corps furnish es for the soldier much in the inanner which a citv manager, or the mayor and board of al,d.ermen of a city con duct these functions In a community. He provides the . watgj: . supply and the sewage' disposal; he runs the electric light plant, paves the streets in camp, ljuilds parkways and oper ates the fire department. , . Earthquake and Sam Jones Noted in Ardrey Diary STARTS ON PAGE ONE WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT YOUR EARS? Eminent psychologist explains that nearly everybody past fifty-five lacks perfect hearing; that snoring is tough on our own ears as well as other people’s, and scrubbing is bad for the hearing. Be sure to read' this helpful article in the October 5th issue of The American Weekly The Big Magazine distributed with the BALTIMORE SUNDAY AMERICAN On Sal& All Newsstands,. / but cotton, and that brings only 8 1-2 cents.” February 15: “I taught school 'for Mrs. Hood.” He referred to Mrs. James Hood, w^ho, before her marriage, was Miss Lizette Bemheim, of Wil- hiington. February 17: “Mr. Bell and I went to Charlotte to hear the Rev. Mr, Pearson, the evangelist; the greatest religious feeling, ever known in Char lotte—Everybody talking religion and paying very little attention to busi ness.” . ' , Mr. Pearson was not a sensational preacher but popular and powerful. He stuck pretty close to the bible, gen erally stood in the pulpit with it in his hand. May, 25: “I went to Monroe. Took Mollie to Mr. Wolfe’s; spent the night there.” Year Closes Well Mr. Wolfe was Mr. Billie Wolf®* father of Mrs. lone Wolfe Stewart, the mother of distinguished sons; He lived in Mecklenburg county for years,” but later moved to Union. June .26: “Weather very fine and I. never have seen crop prospects better. The chintz bug is injuring some corn. Our crop is fine ahd clean.” July 22: “Rev. Mr, Robey preached as good sermon as I ever heard; he is a povsferful preacher.” July 29: “Our picnic and barbecue, large crowd — 1,500 persons. Mr. A. A. McLees, General Rufus Barrin ger, and Captain S. B. Alexander, the speakers. Rained and spoiled the din ner, and the crowd dispersed. Mr.; John W. Wadsworth, Brother Robert M. Miller, General Barringer arid Cap tain Alexander with us.” Closing 1887 Captain Ardrey said: “The year has been one of great health, happiness and prosperity; the best crops since 18.^ and everybody is I ■ buy :: ☆ tJnited States W DEFENSE ^ ATI G ^ BONDS and STAMPS Think, too, how YOU can help. Let the Minute Man remirid you to do your part. ~ Save and buy Defense Savings Bonds. They will help protect your homes arid your families today. ~ They wi.U help make the future secure. Every time you see the Minute MWn emblem of America arming for defense—think how good it is to live in the land where there still is liberty to defend. ■i m