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PAGE FOUR THE CONCORD TIMES PUBLISHED MONDAYS AND THURSDAYS Entered an second class mail matter at the fleet office it Concord. N. C., under th* Act <rf March J, 1879. J B. SHERRILL, Editor and Publisher W. M. SHERRILL, Associate Editor Special Representative; FROST. LANDIS A KOHN New York. Atlanta, St. liOnis. Kansas City, San Francisco. Los Angelee *ad Se«*tU* ENEMIES' OF THE BIBLE IN THE PULPIT. We hasten to add a hearty “amen” to in editorial appearing in Sunday’s News ind Observer in which a warning was is sued to Christians to beware of pulpit or ators, many of them wearing the garb of the ministrv, who would break down the world’s faith in The Bible. - “The most serious and insidious at tacks upon the Bible once came from un believers, atheists and men who loved to create a sensation by attacking the cita dels of truth.’’ says The News and Obser ver, but “today the most danger to the Bible and Religion docs not come from its open foes. It can meet and van quish all such. The enemies to be dread id are sometimes found in the pulpit, preachers who still minister at holy al tars,-giving the people who are hungry for the bread of life nothing but stones/’ In this class, thinks the Raleigh con temporary is Rev. John Haynes Holmes, preacher in the Community Church on Park Avenue. New York, who recently told his congregation that “the Bible is useless except for a few pages of the New Testament, an*d the religion of the future will have nothing to do with Jes us, no use for the Bible or for any Church.” He declared that “Jesus nev er rose from the dead,” and that “all the sum and substance of Christian belief has been destroyed by science.” and “we don’t need the Bible, every man can write his own Bible.” That’s dangerous preaching, and a man with such views should not be in the pulpit. Here are a few more of his statements: “Why should we he satisfied with the damaged goods of the New Testament? After you have rescued a few pages from it the New r Testament is useless,. Its psychology is hopeless, its morals are outworn. Today we need another such genius as Paul to do the work that he did, but there is no such man. There is not a first-class man in the church today; the first-class men go into science, busi ness and the arts. ' K ***-‘ T Tithe minds of many Christianity and hAfc identical, but that is not here are true and beautiful re ligions in portions of the world where the name of Jesus is never mentioned. Re - ligion in the real sense of the word springs from the hearts of men, from the ages of human experience. We don’t need the Bible; every man can w'rite his own Bible.” Discussing the man and his theories the News and Observer says: “Dr. Holmes outlined the religion of the future. Negatively, he said, it will have nothing to do with the Bible, but will look to the heart of man; it will have nothing to do with Jesus or any other in dividual prophet, and it will have noth ing to do with any church or creed, but will be as free as the air. “Positively, he continuel the new re ligion must bear in mind that truth is ever changing and never final, and that truth is found by man and not revealed by God. “He compared the Christian minister of today with a man who replaces the stones of his house one by one until not m stone of the religious edifice remains, the original house Jbeing Christian doc trine, and added: 44 ‘The preacher should take the raw material of science and, laying it on his altar, mould it into a thing of beauty. Then, after it has served its temporary purpose as a of art, he should smash it, throw it away and go again to the laboratory of the scientist for new raw material/ “If such profanation had been uttered outside the pulpit, it would not have been quite so shocking. It shows that in a cult of present day unbelievers, not honest enough to give up ‘the livery of heaven’ the Bible is no longer a guide and a light. Such preachers no longer believe in the Way, the Truth and ' the Life, and they are seeking to destroy the of those who listen to their attempt to remove the ancient landmarks. “Let us contrast the wiser and better conception of the Bible by the utter ances of a great scholar who had dipped into science and all learning, and still held fast to faith in the Bible. Woodrow Wilson, writing to the young men enter ing the World War, said: “ ‘The Bible is the word of life. I beg that you will read it and find this out for yourselves—read, not little snatches here and there, but long passages that will really be the road to the heart of it. You will find it full of real men and women not only, but also of the things you have wondered about and been troubled about all your life as men have been always; and the more you read the more it will become plain to you what things are worth while and what are not, what things make men happy— loyalty, right dealing, speaking the truth, readiness to i give everything fc*r what they think their duty., and most of all, the wish that they may have the real approval of the Christ, who gave everything for them —and the things that are guaranteed to make men unhappy—selfishness, cowardice, greed and everything that is low and mean. When you have read the Bible you will know that it is the word of God, be cause you will have found it the key to your heart, your own happiness and your own duty/ “When Mr. Wilson was inaugurated president of Princeton, in his inaugural address he warned young men, while alert for what was new or true in sci ence. against giving up 'old drill, the old memory of things gone by, the old school ing in precedent and tradition, the old keeping of the faith as a preparation for leadership in the days of social change,’ and he declared, 'We must make the old humanities human again/ He’was no foe to science. He welcomed ’its instruc tion. but he stood against its monopoly in college life. ‘Science,’ he said, ‘has giv en us agnosticism in the realm of philos ophy and scientific anarchy in the field of politics/ “When a preacher says ‘every man can write his own Bible,’ and ‘we don’t need the Bible/ he may have a place in the world. But it is not in the pulpit.” HOW NORTH CAROLINA RANKS WITH SOUTHERN STATES. How North Carolina ranks among 16 Southern States in various lines is shown in the following table based on figures recently published in the Blue Book of Southern Progress: Item Rank Area, 52.426 sq. mil. 7th Population, 2,858,000 4th Farms, 283,492 2nd Value of farm property, $1,050,- 000,000 4th Value of crops $327,860,000 2nnd Value of all agricultural products, $412,000,000 4th Value of corn crop $46,000,000 sth \ alue of tobacco crop, $103,802,000 _ Ist Value of cotton crop, $72,000,000 Ist Value of peanuts, $7,895,000 Ist Value of Sweet Potatoes $7,560,000. 2nd Value of Irish Potatoes, $11,840,000 2nd Value of Soybeans, $2,296,000 Ist Value Cattle, $18,243,000 9th Value hogs, $10,867,000 6th Value of mues, $29,981,000 3rd Value of factory products. $1,050,- 000,000, Missouri and Texas ahead 3rd Furniture, $51,208,000 Ist Lumber, $38,080,932 Bth Value textiles, $316,068,931 Ist Active Spindles, 5,943,208 Ist Active looms 84,279 2nd Cotton consumed, 1,417,710 bales Ist Value manufactured tobacco, ap proximately $400,000,000 Ist Developed water-power 538,289 hp Ist Mineral production, $9,501000 14th Highway expenditures 1926, $47,- 216,147 4 st Motor Cars, 1926, 385,047 sth Bank resources, $50,891,000 10th Public school expenditures, $30,- 980,000 4th Federal tax payments, $192,404,000. Ist Assessed value of all property, 1923, $2,746,916,000 4 t h Estimated true value of all proper ty, 1922, $4,543,110,000 sth LAW SUIT OVER MANNER OF NE GRO’S DEATH. Commodore Burleson, who killed the outlaw, Broadus Miller, doesn’t like some remarks credited to two men of western North Carolina, and he is suing them for $60,000. Burleson, it will be remember ed, said he killed the negro after a bat tle of guns whereas the two men made defendants in the suit, were quoted as saying Burleson shot the negro while the latter was asleep, or at least while he was sitting down. Furthermore, they charg ed that the negro did not have a gun, as alleged by Burleson, and that he was not given a chance to defend himself after Burleson walked upon him. In most instances everybody would be satisfied to know that the negro was dead but that doesn’t seem to be the case in this instance. Does the charge of the two white men indicate that North Caro lina has reached that position where it doesn’t want even the slayer of a white girl killed without a chance? Surely, if that be the case, this State is far different from others in the South land. In most of the States there is lit tle said or asked about the fate of a ne gro who attacks a white person. Mobs in some States are not even dealt with, to say nothing of individuals who go out and kill outlaws. Without discussing whether or not Burleson killed in defense or while the negro was asleep, the charges themselves indicate that North Carolinians are deter mined to have justice in all cases. MORE USES FQR COTTON. Mr. Edwin Fornham Greene, of the Pacific Mills, a big chain operating in New England and in South Carolina, has just returned from a trip of inspection in the interest of the textile industry. The trip was more especially to observe the increased use of cotton and cotton goods by the women of the country. He covered some 8,600 miles through the far west on his trip, and The Colum- bia Record gives these impressions as gained from him in an interview on the cotton mill situation; Mr. Greene’s trip was for the express purpose of obtaining a clbse-up of the business situation, from the standpoint of textile fabric sales and consumption, and he says the complex is quite satisfac tory for his cofnpany, witn prospects fav orable for expansion of business day by day. This information is not only of vi tal interest to the great Pacific Mills cor poration, but to all the textile mills in Dixie. The tour includes Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Colorado Spring 3 * and Chicago and St. Louis, where Mr. Greene says he found all the ear-marks of pros perity, development and morale that are to be seen in the East. In other words, new hotels, new office buildings, fine apartment houses and large numbers of attractive, modern but modest-priced homes are everywhere’going up. The general hustle in streets and stores con vinced him of stability and thriving times. Particularly interesting from the stand point of textile interests is the size and attractiveness of the department stores and the very considerable spaces that most of them devote- to cotton textile goods where the customers are more and more being converted to the consump tion of cotton goods by a recognition of natural facts, for example the mildness of the far coast climate, where lightness of fabric is the natural clothing. These fac tors disclose that the Far West is not only a present market for Eastern fab rics, but a growing market for same. It is from all standpoints a pleasing picture that this conservative and highly practical business man brings back from that vast empire we know as the Far West. Two big industries in the South west, of course, have their problems. The lumber and the oil industries are face to face with over-production, which in itself is of interest to the textile peo ple, for it shows that any highly develop ed industry, whether *it be textiles, oil, lumber, peanuts or cotton must face that problem in the cycle of events as they oc cur. SEES FRIENDS FOR RUSSOS. The Raleigh News and Observer thinks we did not understand the majority sen timent in the Hayes-Barton section when we expressed the fear that should Augus tus Rossos huild a home there at the protest of certain residents he would live a friendless existence. “There are some hundreds of people who live in the residence section of Ral eigh known as Hayes-Barton,” says The News and Observer. “Some weeks ago 40 of the large number held a meeting and went on record as saying they did not want Augustus Rossos as a neighbor. That action did not represent the atti tude of the whole people of Hayes-Bar-’ ton.” The Raleigh contemporary not only thinks we were wrong in predicting a lonely life for the Greeks in the fashion able development. It goes so far as to argue that even those people who oppos ed them will in time learn to be friendly. “As a matter of fact,” predicts the Ral eigh newspaper, “if Mr. Russos chooses to build on the lot he has obtained, he 'will find it a friendly and neighborly sec tion, and so will his wife and children. Even the people who, in a moment of er ror, expressed objection woud be neigh borly and friendly. They would cross his threshold, his children would find agreeable playmates at the school and practically everybody in Hayes-Barton would regret the incident and wish for it to be forgotten/’ We hope The News and Observer is right but we are still of the opinion that Mr. Russos and his family will find life more enjoyable somewhere else, where it will not be necessary to overcome preju dices. Nor do we mean that Raleigh peo ple are less hospitable than people else where. We have often visited in the State capital and have found there a most friendly atmosphere but human nature is not much different the world over and when people stir up trouble such as has been stirred up over the Russos matter, it takes time for it to quiet down. A DESCRIPTION OF THE REAL 1 ARTICLE. How many times have you been driv en off the road by 'the devil-take-care driver? How many times have you halt ed on the edge of the highway at night as you were blinded by some speeding driver who didn’t seem to care what hap pened to you or to himself either? Have you ever been caught in a traffic jam so dense you didn’t know what to do, and while you were pondering on the safest method to follow were brushed by some fool in a roadster? Have you ever stopped alongside a ditch or fill to avoid jtrouble only to have some ill-mannered driver dash in be tween your car and the-one you were trying to miss? You have had these experiences if you have ever driven far from home and the following description of the real, genuine road hog from the Asheville Cit izen will interest you: “Consider the road hog; how he thrives on a crowded highway; No nine-banded armadillo’s back is tougher than his sear- THE CONCORD TIMES 2d conscience as he roots others off the pavement. "Day and night he ranges along our busiest thoroughfares. He stalks as tride the white or black mid-way lines as if daring passersby to scratch his sides. Lousy thing! He knows that we will pull into the ruts and mud rather than touch him. He runs on the downgrade, passing the car in front of him, iofC'tftg us to slow down and shift gears as we pull a hill. On slippery paving at night the glare of his eyes blinds the oncom ing motorist, who must stop until he passes. " , "He is no pig, shoat or hogget, this wild boar of the highways; he is no raz orback, but the fattest hog in swinedom; and he should have been taken to the slaughter ago.” JUDICIOUS COLLECTIONS MIOHT HELP. ' Secretary Mellon, of tile Treasury, is planning now to make a fight in the next Congress for a reduction of taxes on large corporations. * He has fought any other plan, and is determined to make the fight in the interest of “big business” when Congress meets again. While he is making the*e plans the Asheville Citizen suggests that he should be reminded that "more judicious collections in other sections would make possible a full measure Os relief through out the country.” This complaint is bas ed on figures t recently carried in the Manufacturers Record, indicating that North Carolina, and the whole South for that matter, has been discriminated against in the matter of taxes and tax col lections. Pointing to the tax collections for the fiscal year 1927, The Record says: "North Carolina led the South with a total payment to the Federal Government of $205,648,000, as compared with a com bined total for all of the New England States of $181,346,000 and a, combined to tal for the Pacific Coast States of $160,- 231,000. Ohio with its vast wealth, paid into the Federal government $147,428,- or less than North Carolina by $58,- 000,000. -The North Carolina payments to the Federal Government exceeded those of New Jersey by $92,000,000. Michigan by $92,000,000. Michigan, with its enormous autamobile business, paid $197,993,000, but even that was less by $8,000,000 than North Carolina’s contri bution to the federal treasury. "From the Southern States alone the Federal Government collected during the fiscal year 1927 $638,284,000, of which $340,852,000 was from income taxes. This was an increase compared with 1926 of $51,928,000 in total federal tax receipts, $45,168,000 of which was from income tax collections in the South. Os striking significance is the fact that while the South paid nearly $52,000,000 more into the federal treasury in total taxes in 1927 than in 1926 federal tax collections in the rest of the country outside of the South during this period were approximately $22,000,000 less. "Os course, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania stand out conspicuously for the heavy payments they made to the government, but it should always be borne in mind that a very large percent age of the income taxes paid by New York are based on earnings of properties —railroads, mining and manufacturing— where not one dollar is made in New York of all the properties being located elsewhere but having their main offices in New York and, therefore, their profits are credited to that State. If credit could be given to the States in which the wealth is creally created, rather than to New York to which the money flows' be cause of the headquarters being located there, the South would show up to an enormously better extent even than it now does and New York’s federal tax payments would be cut to the quick.” . Read these figures again carefully and see if you don’t find support for the fol lowing protest from The Citizen: "Can it be possible that North Caro lina should pay more than Ohio, a State with large cities like Cleveland, Cincin nati, Toledo, Columbus, Akron, Dayton and others where wealthy men live and operate large industrial enterprises? Why do the federal tax collectors operate more efficiently in North Carolina than in Mas sachusetts, with so much wealth center ed around Boston? Or on the Pacific Coast, where riches of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Ore., and many smaller cities are acclaimed? "North Carolina is wealthy and proud of it. Nor does this State object to pay ing a full share of federal taxes. When such rank discrimination is apparent, however, one wonders if a State’s politi cal status has anything to do with the vigilance or lack of vigilance in federal tax collections.” SEE ONLY ONE SIDE. Wayne B. Wheeler, head of the Anti- Saloon League, recently challenged Gov ernor Ritchie, of Maryland, to a debate on the prohibition question and the Gov ernor wisely declined. Nothing could have been gained by such a debate except more publicity per haps for the dry leader, and the public feels already that the Anti-Saloon head craves publicity about as much as any thing else. Governor Ritehie, it seems to us, strengthened himself when he de- clined to enter into debate over this sub ject. Governor Ritchie characterized Wheel er as a "paid protagonist of a cause, a professional , propagandist, a special pleader pure and simple.” As to Wheel er’s tactics, Ritehie says: "So far as I know he never debates. He proclaims, dictates, abuses, threatens and collects.” That,, is seems to us, is characteristic of all reformers. They have no toler ance ; they can see only one side of a question. Everybody opposed to them are "tools” of the opposition or an "ene my of society.” The rank prohibitionist will argue that no one honestly opposes prohibition. That’s the thing that has led many people to the side of the wets. They do not give credit of honesty to any oppon ent. Everybody opposing them is some sort of "tool.” Charges of this kind do nothing but weaken the cause of prohi bition. There are honest people who oppose prohibition just as there are honest peo ple who approve of prohibition. That’s the reason Wheeler and others who go about denouncing everybody opposed to them don’t get more done. They make more enemies than converts. HOME CONVENIENCES FOR THE FARMS. Farm Home Conveniences is the title of Farmers’ Bulletin 927, United States Department of Agriculture. This bulle tin ought to be in every farm home in the state. Also city and small town homes could get a number of good ideas for making home comforts and conven iences from this bulletin. Conservation of time and energy is ob viously one of the problems of the house keeper. Time and strength may be sav ed in two ways, first by taking thought as to the way one uses strength, and sec ond by making use of labor-saving equip ment. This may easily make the differ ence between a tired overworked house keeper and one who has some time and energy left for reading and recreation after the day’s work is done. Home conveniences have already been installed in several thousand country homes under the direction of state and county demonstration agents. This phase of demonstration has not only ef fected a real saving in the work of the home, but it is helping the farm woman to get a greater amount of happiness out of her daily tasks. The household convenience described in this bulletin have been selected be cause they may be made at a moderate cost and by anybody who has a few sim ple tools and the ability to use them. Their use also yields a large return in comfort, economy, and sanitation. Full descriptions are offered for making a large number of practical and useful home conveniences. Census reports and field studies show that North Carolina farm homes are the most deficient in home conveniences of almost any state. Labor conditions in our farm homes are hard, and largely un necessarily so. The lot of the farm wife could be made much easier by the instal lation of more home conveniences. With officials about ready to begin the work on the new part of Duke Univer sity the public is beginning to take more notice of what bids fair to become one of the greatest educational projects in the history of the United States. More than $20,000,000 will be spent on the plant, with an additional $4,000,000 on the hos pital plant alone. Persons in close touch with plans for the mammoth educational institution say the people of North Caro lina have no real* conception yet of what the completed plant will mean to the State. An educational center attracting the interest of the world is what North Carolina will have in the Durham sector, with Duke University on the one hand and the University of North Carolina on the other. Practically all of the work done so far has been at the site that will be occupied hereafter by the woman’s department, and North Carolinians soon will see begun construction work that will bring to the State one of the finest and most complete universities in the world. Durham bids fair to become soon the cultural center of the South. The man Needleman who was muti lated by a mob back in 1925, is trying to recover damages. .We do not know how much money the assailers have, but from this distance it looks like the man is en titled to something. It is true that the attackers were sentenced to the chain gang or prison and most of them have either served time or are now serving time, but Needleman evidently feels that such service does not repay him. The crime was one of the most revolting in the history of North Carolina, and no doubt will be hard fought from every an gle. The man was taken from jail and treated in such fashion as would' have aroused protest had he been a beast in stead of a human being. He is entitled to something, but that does not mean he will get it. _ W. G. Brown, county highway engi neer, plans now to get the roads of the county in shape for the approaching win ter. He should start the work at once for there are several summer and fall months left that always invite motor traf- Thursd ay. Aw sic and the peon), ln t!le UnH ' i " ui<i *" •'■■nr,; Statesville „ . -"2^l . lak >ng the nr<t , H ' SSI,e ° f f h,s ■ ,r K an,i ~' ; ,Uor ,*•»*« ; r Pd Wlth th “ 'ho U 2 'VM vprv ulivp. T hp that U two days and thp dT wh “* h Mn-i-.i d rin ,. Sem-e. adds J’ turbine factor. lt aip nbating J* up the *eenn,4. tkJ infractions i„ Sfa * the number of ' 1 ..SbM £ Un,lpm -*1 that thJ?** than appears. „ lth >' U sometimes d,s ( „ f the success of , h , 2J? t,on <>f the li'iuor fraction of the l iqu !f' ri 1 Drinkers who , ;tn * c " v r ml ' I' i- :m, with a drag net. There is no „ Urn . M , H Attention is simply calk"”,!?*’® proh ihi r r*" "ouPinJ 1 "" are condemned. R ut isl arrests and the recorder's cun-, NIM J caught. So long ;) s lin,i Something that will be ! supply which T** 1 ® making and pH.ilers „ f h temptation that the purr the price he is willing t, / rpat, itH no means so much drinkirT'JSS was n, the barroom dav< J N® or not the number One is compelled to be]iev e t LVB more b„l,| „bo,„ h. tali,, £">■ drunks constantly appearing and adding the number the la w. Sa,nr,ilv thf t£>a as it is excused, passed a< J long as it is e W „*d », of youths who are disposed i,?! sipation to increase, seeing them and the example nm SP rJ?9 It is not surprising that the constantly and more boldly vinuJß ment is weakening and It is vocal in condemning the trtitS at the violation or turns its h.T’J it. H HI MANE PRISON [AM Winston-Salem Journal. I “There are still prison camp ejjJ North Carolina who believe the if you keep prisoners in dirty, ed places they will work better"’M penal inspector for the Sure Both I and Public Welfare, told maria« Welfare Institute in session at Chafl week. He added that one conmaZJ dent had told him recently that t»9 handle prisoners is to use the tab u 9 “and he quoted the Bible to me u J This “superstition” is not repal county in the State, as a report of tkll of Charities and Public Welfare counties have shown that brutalityai sary in prison discipline," says tht against the Brushy Mountaim, Alaj for a year or more, has been ing experiment in prison deedpuie. j herself with a small group of prjoa had difficulty in finding places for um as had been her custom. It votilU for the county to run a chain pip 1 Mayberry, Chairman of the Board si Cl missioners, decided that by establishai' personal contacts with the mki them ’without guards. He detenaril his plan. Two men escaped aoon at was started. One was recaptured■ Rowan County. The other, aa old • not able to work much and could l employed, has not been recaptured, there has been no trouble. Wbai months ago by a representative of ti*l of Charities and Public Welfare, lb expressed the opinion that 75 per i prisoners of this county could beta* without guards, provided he couM■ hour’s talk with each before he results show that Mr. Mayberry in his estimate. A considerably M* have made good.” Most prisoner! lH cency and a sincere desire on the officials and camp tions as bearable as possible. RESULT OF LOOSE fN# Greensboro Record. The mysterious disappearance county and of the Board °f EdidW*, ty, aggregating SIOO,OOO or followed by the arrest and Wrenn, president of Bank ot i ty went into liquidation aod ? ‘ had been the depository of warrant for the arrest charged him with embezz^o^ 1 county note of $25,000. Bon , amount, despite the or^ina^ e Jjd high as SIOO,OOO. He made bound pending action on the charge*- likely consider it and in t e . which seems a foregone m the charges in court and nn In one sense the develop® * % ing impetus to the S r0 * n “J organization of county l safeguards of the public fus long delayed. Here we J and indeed a whole coUQ L talbM loss and injury, all as a re* k greater safeguards aboU " s?e rjo* funds. Just how long ’ bezzlements had been * oin * at the trial. The money embezzled was deri to the re-payment of although it has had no W large sums borrowed on tion should nut be P j o f tK county. The general as the school fund wa-- worse still a bankjeasj^ “UNLOAD Twin City Sentinel bu Another “unloaded „ pcA results. It is too *la f the Burlington youth p^ with his boy c°m pan “T thinking it was not J eJ tJL that he ought not to b now. The companion tn r^ although interred six . very audibie term*. b ; s It is too late l ® a w would permit loade ?.‘ TS trunks where playt ;l ■ gut**; -A be they didn’t kno ", ll ' no f & j# now that guns 1 house. They hear • , whose lips are dumb. c This is not the V kind. “Unloaded S their reverberations h gß d mothers, fathers >' ' 4 grave has received It is too late, we about this case taught. But P erba P? her p*^ls , l heed from it ; some oit what these parents » J “unloaded” guns are noi
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