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Psge TwtJ Beasley’s Farm and Home Weekly, Charlotte, N. C. October 2, 1941, Page i'wo BEASLEY’S FARM and HOME WEEKLY - ■> ■■ > Published each Thursday in Char lotte by The Weekly Publishing Company, R. F. Beasley, President. Entered in the post office as mail of the second class, on Oct. 3, 1928. Office 219 Law Building, East Trade Street. Phone 6204, Subscription Price, $1.00 year The Weekly goes to press on Thursday and is delivered in the Charlotte pos.t office Thursday af ternoon. Advertisements to be in serted in current issue should be received not later than Wednesday, Devoted to the upbuilding of the farms and homes erf Mecklenburg and oontigruous counties, of which' Charlotte is the naturad centeT. It bclieyt's this is to be accomplis-hed through the ancient American \ir- tuea of. honesty, thrift, imagination, and independence, and by growing cows, hegs, poultry and the feed stuffs to be marketed through them. THE MIASMA BEGINS TO BLOW AWAY STARTS ON PAGE ONE tions, and talked of them in an objective way. But nobody dreamed that the time would come when they would be estab lished upon society by force, ei ther in the name of the proleta riat in Russia or by the hood lums which have seized power in Germany. In thinking of these possible changes in our owJ? country and even in the world at large, we ex pected them to come, if at all, by democratic processes, in which they would then have been only another example of the working of democracy through the trial and eri’or process. They would not have been the annihilation of democracy as they have been in Germany and Russia and Japan, What ha,s blinded Americans is not the danger of these changes should they come about by nat ural processes as the greatest good to the greatest number, but that they were made the excuse for setting up regimes which are nothing less than the old tyran nies and injlistices of the past. In setting up his theory of col lectivism, Carl Marx assumed, as the shallow pates of the present assume, that it was bound to be the ultimate development in so cial organization and therefore the best, and it then became nec essary to establish it by the an nihilation of ail freedom and de mocracy. All this gabbing which we hear about the failure of de mocracy is based upon the as sumption that certain things were * the best for the human race and because democracy had not resulted in their establish ment, democracy had failed and must be’discarded. Derhocracy in America is sim ply what we have done in Amer ica because we have done it in the democratic way. Can any one suppose that what has been done in Russia or Germany or what ever will be done through the present course, is better than what has been done in America ? In America the things that we complain of are mostly trifling in comparison to what has been done and is being done in Eur ope, Democracy has failed in lEngland arid America, we are told, because there are poor peo ple here. These people have blandly assumed that there have been no poor people elsewhere. Americans have been in a mud dle for many years. The apers of Europe, the rattle brains of all descriptions, innocent and crim inal, have spreaS a miasma which caught the American people with their'defenses down. The terri ble business collapse, partly the result of our own stupidity, knocked us silly and we have not got over it. That silliness was partly the explanation of our orgie of is6lationism. One of the obsessions was that to pre serve bur democracy and free dom, we must forsake it in order to get things done. Now the mi asma is beginning to blow away and Americans are beginning again to feel that! their destiny is in their own hands, that the democratic process is the only guarantee of progress and civi lization. The result of this con fusion on the American psy chology .is well, set forth by Mr. Walter Lipprhan in the following paragraphs: | “After 20 y«ars the American people are emerging from what is undoubtedly the most un-Amer ican period in the history of the nation. For the first time Ameri cans have doubted themselves, have disbelieved in their own fu ture, have felt themselves de-| feated, inadequate, and small, j In 1917 America was victorious,' secure, and predominant in the world, rich, strong and free at home. Twenty-two years later, ’ by the disastrous spring of 1940, the nation had'been reduced to a position of the greatest danger in the outer world and at home , it had been divided and bedevill ed to a point where the simplest and ipost obvious measure of self-defense could be adopted only after prolonged and nerve- racking dispute. ' “These were the bitter fruits of these 20 years during which, as by some terrible blight, Ameri cans because obsessed with the things they feared and felt they could not do. The young men who have known America only in the years from 1920 to 1940 have seen little in public life that they admire. No wonder. They shrink from the responsibility of main taining the peace it had helped to win. They have seen it shrink from the task of rebuilding the world. They have seen it plunge from a reckless boom into an in soluble depression. They have been told that the country was too stupid not to be outwitted by foreigners, too incompetent to compete with them in the open market, too weak to assert its rights and maintain them. “They have been told by old dealers that they must live be- hild a Chinese wall of protection and that if they moved to cor rect obvious social evils . they ; would plunge the country into anarchy or into Communism. They have been told by new dealers that the way to get out of the depression they inherited I froni the old dealers was to pro- jduce less and less and to spend . more and more. They have been j told that th^ 'country was com- jpleted, in fact over-developed, j and that there was no more op- 1 portunity for enterprise, arid I that men would get richer if they I did less work and the nation I would be better off if only it I could manage to waste its sur pluses. “They were told there was too much of everything; too many workers, too many fac tories, too many machines, too many farms, and that by reduc ing, restricting and contracting energy and enterprise they might hope some day to arrive at a tepid, boring, Hstless thing called security in which, risking nothing, they might hope for a cheap car and an electric ice-box to improve their souls.” Possible Slow Down on Army STARTS ON PAGE ONE woTider also how much help new bat tleships will be four years hence. The British leaders believe that the U. S. could aid most by concentrating on equipment to be used against Hit ler this year and next, and on building ships to carry and to protect that equipment. Decision to take the offensive in the struggle against Hitler was reached by President Roosevelt and Prime Ministec Churchill in their meeting at sea in August. The Presi dent came back to Washington and immediately began a series of moves intended to put more punch into this country’s efforts. He streamlined the defense organization. He speeded up help to Russia. He asked Congress for added lend-lease funds of nearly $6,000,000,000. AS ONE EDITOR SEES IT By R. F. BEASLEY THE DUKE OF WINDSOR and his ersartz duchess were in the country last week, passing from Florida to Canada. They were to have been en tertained at the White House except that the death of Mrs. Roosevelt’s brother prevented it. The Duke call ed at the state department and the Duchess waited in the car. Only a few years ag’o we were all up in the air of hot discussion about these peo ple. Now. they are of no consequence whatever. So far as the English are concerned they are forgotten. The attitude over there is, “Today we fought at Crillon and you were not there.” A weak man, the former king, deserted his obligation to the Empire. Nothing can better illus trate the bewilderment and let-down of American and English sentiment than this episode just before the Eng lish people, if not the Americans, were about to be called upon for the most heroic and dangerous struggle in their history. A weak man and a climbing, selfish woman, did great harm, yet there were people on both sides the water so bewildered that they could never see it all in its true light and Condemned the British for not taking; to their 'hearts and th^r thpone this combination of masculine . weakness and feminine selfishness. There are no bombs in Bermuda and we may be sure that the people at home who are living and dying under them will here after pay scant attention to any claims; that may hereafter be rJ^ade in the name of the second-hand king and an ersartiz duchess. SINCE THE ABOVE paragraph was written I notice a statement made in Washington by the Duke. It is one which challenges our sympathy for the man. The press dispatch says that there was a trace of wistfulness in his voice as he told members of the National Press Club that when Lon don was bombed “I could not help wishing, like every Briton in every part of the world, to share the for tunes of my countrymen at home. In war time, however, one serves wher ever one is told and although it is a very different post to the ones I held in the first World War, I have, applied myself to the administration of the Bahamas to the best of my ability.” I HAVE JUST BEEN reading General Henry Lee’s (Light Horse Harry, the father of General Robert E. Lee) memoirs of the Southern Campaign, of the British during the American Rev olution. General'Lee is not a histo rian in the strict sense of the word. His work does in fact give considera ble and accurate history, but it is more the comment and observation of the author than a Careful history. The war in those days was a far dif ferent thing from those of the pres ent. Gen. Lee commends the bravery and the consideration of the British almost as frequently as he does the Americans. And he sees correctly that the struggle was in fact a civil war in which the allegiance of the people was divided between the'testab- lished government and the new one which had been set up. The author even saw that when the fratricidal’con flict was over the two—British and Americans—-must establish a lasting bond of friendship and co-operatibn. He a,lmost foreshadowed the present teituation. The General’s comr^nts on the war of which he himself was a part, must have first been published about 18X2 or sooner, for General Joseph Gra^iam commented on them in 1820 and submitted many corrections con cerning the campaign in this immedi ate section, in which he himself had taken part, and which took place be fore General Lee..himself had come feouth. In offering hig corrections Gen eral Graham said that he offered none regarding the battle of fWahub’s Mill (where the marker was unveiled last week) because he thought Lee’s ac count was correct and understood that the General had received it from Col. Davie himself. The Lee account says that sixty dead and wounded were left on the field and that Davie carried off 96 horses and their equipment and 120 stands of arms. * * The GERMANS have ordered the people of Norway to strip their beds of blankets and send them in to be sent for use by the German armies in Russia this winter. The Norwegi ans never did a thing to Hitler, only trusted in his promises that neutral nations were not to be molested. Yet he moved in on them, robbed and mur dered them and will now let them fi’eeze this winter. Similar things he has done and is doing to all the other countries which he has overrun. The robbing and looting goes on systemat ically. Now the Germans claim to have taken Russian land on which seventy million people subsisted. The Russians, robbed of everything that they have not been compelled to des troy before the German invasion, will starve and freeze this winter. Hitler says it is not up to him to feed them. His argument is that they started the war by not getting out of his way and must take the consequences. And that is what some people in this country so admire that they say it should not be opposed. The silly Lindbergh blames England, Roosevelt and the Jews for it all. He never blames Hitler for anything and so far as any argurtient he has ever made is con cerned, Hitler is a fine fellow and should never be opposed, for after he has robbed and murdered all opposi tion he will then set up a nice new order. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESS0I5 By REV. H. C. PENINGER WILL WEEK-END HERE ' The efforts being made: to prepare for soldiers oh week-ends goes" on, ^With not a great deal yet accomplish ed. The first effort on a large scale will be the preparation of a temporary camp at Griffith stadium to accom modate 4,000 men from the 28th di vision on every week-end during the maneuvers. Army officers have been here making the arrangements in conjunction with the Civilian Defense Council, of which Mr. J. A. Burnside, Jr., is chairman. These men will be brought in by army trucks, but they are only a fraction of the men ex pected to ‘ come in for week-end recreation: Our lesson for October 5th is fouiwl in Genesis and the Gospel of Mat thew. In this quarter we are begin ning a series of studies in the great teachings of the Bible as they come to us from the Christian church. I think this is a study that shuold be welcomed by every member of our great church. It seems to me that there has never been a time in the world when doctrine was more sore ly needed or more shamefully neglect ed than at this present day. It has been a long j.time since I heard a sermon on any of the essential doc trines of our Holy Church. It cer tainly does look to me like doctrinal preaching is out of date in the church at large and in its place the sacred pulpit has given itself largely to a discussion of worldly things. If I re member correctly every sermon that I have heard this year except one was in some way mixed up with Hitler and the war in Europe. A short while ago I heard a cer tain well known minister make a strong appeal to mothers, telling them that it wouldn’t be long till their sons would be bleednig and dying on battlefields. Whether this is tnie or not, one thing I do know, it is not gospel. Such preaching tends to ex cite rather than to edify. Well, as I study the creation of man it seems to me that he is the most wonderful of all Gad’s creations. If my good brother Henry Byrum will study verse 26 closely he will find that the creation of man was the result'of a serious deliberation on the part of the Almighty. Listen to the words, “Let me make man.” This is the divine record. It suggests to my mind that the trinity was active in the whole creative process of man. This fact is further revealed to us by the holj^ spirit in the opening verses of the gospel of John. I think it also suggests that the creation of man was an answer to the insistence ;pf a deep necessity in the great heart of our Goid. I do not believe it is too much to say that there was in the heart of the Almighty a craving for fellowship which could only be met by the creation of man. G'ehesis 2 and 7 gives us more in- form'atioh about this' amazing work of God. In that chapter we are told that God formed man from the dust of the ground and that He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul. This one. scripture is enough to forever settle all argument that the body and soul are two distinct and separate units. According to this scripture and many others, we are taught that the > body is the soul. How impoj'tant, then, tha we keep our bodies clean and un soiled by the things of the wrold so that we keep our bodies clean and un indwelling of the Holy Ghost. This is to all my fellow preachers: It ' , seems to me that this is the Tnost striking and wonderful fact in all creation. The fact that a supreme and superlative, good and perfect God Uj would .make or create a man in his own image. Gentlemen, I^ submit to you one fact: When God was through' with that man he was a perfect man. , Man came from the moulding hand of God in the fuH bloom of christiaii manhood and Christian perfectioi).. There was nothing wrong with him.-; Since the creation man ’has falleti' from his high estate of perfection.1 ;■ I 'submit'“1jo you one other fact': ' Man will hS^e to ' ^et back tO whtefe ’ ’** he was when he left God before he can be saved. Now if some of ybu Bible critics and backboneless theo logians will convince me that I am wrong then I will quit writing aboUt it. Another thing I,notice, in th^ crea tion God ordained that like shall pro duce like in a world where all living things are self-propagating. This, is what God meant when he said to man: Be fruitful and multiply and replen ish the earth. It is absolutely neces sary and fundamental to human so ciety that there be a sound, decent and healthy rise of the birth rate in this country. All good men and' w6- men recognize the fact that a declin ing birth rate is a sure sign of sociar and moral decay of society and'break down of the home. I tell you .wh&.t , we need to have is some old tiihW - schooling along this lirle. This nibd-- ern age has produced a bunch of soda’ fountain idlers, cigaret-smokihg, s6^ ‘ cial moonlight riders. > ■ I As I close this lesson I am sounds ing a warning note to the rnothers of this land. These are serious times in which we live. There are itiaiiy kinds of devils loose in the country. '. They are handsome and look fine. We should know where our daughters' are when the’sun sets. We parents should keep in mind that from the fair'youtK of this country -are to come the stated- men of this country, 25, 30 or 40 ' years from today. What can you feii-■ pect fo a child When it comes into the world handicapped to start with ? Why is it that 'a person who ha^ nothing to do always wants a busy person help him do it ? THE GREATEST Donovan Builds Secret Weapon STARTS ON PAGE ONE I Michigan, and James P. Baxter, pres ident of HVilliams College, who for- ' merly was professor of diplomatic history at Harvard. I Robert E. Sherwood, famed play- i wright, is on the staff. Thomas Wild er, the author, and Stephen Vincent J Benet, poet, are two others. Then ' there are the foreign correspondents, I Wallace Deuel, of the Chicago Daily News and Joseph Barnes, of the New York Herald Tribune. There are oth ers On this new “brain trust” and the list is' grovnng steadily. Not only that. Colonel Donovan is calling on , other agencies of Government for help , in providing information and access j to information that can be “co-Ordi- ’ nated” for use in doing the job that I is to be done. STATE OF MECKLENBURG STARTS ON PAGE ONE Joyner, “but the law must be en forced.” Recently, it was explained, officers have simply been calling attention to the anti-jaywalking ordinance and .di-" recting pedestrians to refrain from infraction of the law. However, the summons stage is now reached, and people are warned that strict en forcement has been decreed. With the no-jaywalking area cen tering at the intersection of Tryon and' Trade streets, it extends a block north on Tryon to include the Fifth street intersection, a block south • on Tryon to include the Fourth street intersection, also a block east on Trade as inclusive of the College street corner, and a block west of Trade to embrace the Church street corner. Jaywalking, as contemplated in the ordinance, includes walking against the traffic lights as well as walking across streets between intersections. In other words, in the district men tioned, walking on the streets may be done only under the benign in fluence of green lights in the regular pedestrian lanes. 7o Relieve Misery of UQUiP.tABt|TS.»l.yi, N05t r Ttiirteenth Annual Union r 14'18 FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY The midway is the “fun” section of any fair and the direc tors of the Union County Fair Association are fortunate in getting an entirely nfew carnival for the* midway at the 13th annual Union County Fair. Every visitor to the fair will find a ride or show that will give them the fun and amusement they are seeking. We know you won’t be disappointed with this year's midway attraction. Ji^ORLD’S FAIR SHOWS NEW RIDES — NEW SHOWS Free Acts Twice UNION COUNTY ON PARADE , ' 1 You’ll see the best products in Union county, from the fields, gardens, and kitchens, on display in the exhibit . halls. The livestock and poultry exhibit halls will be filled. Union county citizens take pride in the quality of their products and it will be worth your while to spend; several hours visiting these booths and see what is being done in your county. . ADMISSION Adults 25c — Children lOc — Cars 25c Fireworks Every Night COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION I ih ■ % I?- I 'i I: >■ i I
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