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' ?1 Uses Frangless Snake To Whip Crowd Into Frenzy < Birmingham, Ala., Aug, 19.?Hand ling of- a 1 angles* rattlesnake by three men and a woman stiired.a "Holy Roller" revival Into a frenzy here tonight. Of the four who handled tne snake only the Rev Dewey L. Dot son knew that he fangs had been removed a few hours earlier to make It harmless. "AHT~bf you who have the faith on you can expose himself to this snake without getting hurt," Dotson yelled to the crowd of 1.500 or more persons that overflowed the vacant lot on which he is holding a revival. The Rev. H. A Krykendall. dis trict overseer of the Church of God for which Dotson is an evangelist, took up the snake and wrapped it arcund his neck to demonstrate his faith in the immunity of the "faithful" to harm from serpents. "Glory be to God! Glory halle lujah!" rang out the frenzied shouts from the crowd of white and black, scores of whom climbed to nearby tree tops and store roofs for a yet ter view of the performance. Kuykendall didn't know that a newsreel man had paid George Lumpkin, the snake's captor. $10 this afternoon to remove its poison cus fangs before Dotson would agree that it was sufficiently "blessed" for him to dare It to bite him. Fred Lovelock and his wife also handled the five-foot rattler and brought a renewed frenzy of shout ing and dancing from the crowd. Many of the "followers" started talking incoherently in the "Un known Tongue," clapping their hands and dancing about in wild, abandon in celebration of the "tri umph of faith" over the impotent! snake, which they unwittingly! thought still in possession of its deadlv fangs. Snake Looks Sick. The snake Itself looked sick about it all It was listless and made no attempt to strike at its handlers. Its rattles were stilled. The gory operation in which its four-fangs I were pulled out with pliers this.af ternoon left it too weak to struggle. Two performances were put on tonight, one for the benefit of the* newsreel man who engineered the, ? "show" and missed it the first time. He was at dinner when the services started half an hour ahead of schedule. When he returned, the lights went out. Apparently the circuit from which the string of unshaded electric bulbs that lighted the scene and the newsreel apparatus drew their current was overloaded. After the lights came back on, Kuykendall led another session of "daring" the snake to harm the "faithful." He boasted amid the confused shouting that no member of the "faith" could be hurt by a serpent. The district overseer vir tually "stole the show" from Dotson, who kept to the background. I - Confusion reigned as the services went on. Banjoes played as Uie crowd sang "Holy, Holy, Holy, "Come and Follow Me" and other hymns. When the "power' moved anyone in the audience, he or she arose to glorify the "faith" in in coherent ravings. When Albert Teester, North Caro lina mountain preacher, gained widespread notoriety by letting a ? rattlesnake bite him two weeks ago and surviving a week of pain. Dot son announced that he, too, was willing to handle rattlesnakes "if the spirit so directs." t j I Teester apparently wEsndficere in his efforts to prove the "healing power of divine love." Such Interest. Dotson's announcement nearly a week ago renewed interest in the revival he Is conducting in a vacant lot on the west side of Birmingham. It attracted so much attcntion that a newsreel company sent a ebund truck here from New York to make sound pictures of the evangelist s rattlesnake performance tonight. In the meantime, Dotson began to "back water" and indicated a def inite doubt that the "spirit" would direct him to handle any snakes tonight. Then the evangelist and the news man got together with George Lumpkin, young mattress factory worker who caught a five-foot rat tler here Friday and rudely called "a devil in man's clothes" when he took it to a revival being conducted by the Rev. Charles Herren Friday night. Lumpkin agreed for a $10 fee to operate on his snake .so that it could be handled harmlessly to nlght. Dotson. apparently wanting to be sure there would-be no slip-ups in his "faith-test." insisted on witness ing the operation personally. Other wise there wouldn't be any news reel pictures of him handling a_ rattlesnake. The gory operation was perform ed this afternoon hi the bedroom of cf Julius Lumpkin, a brother of George, who has named his snake P?t? George turned the glass bread case in which Pete was cage? on itU side and let the snake wriggle out. Dotson backed away apprehensively. George and Julius Lumpkin snared Ute srake firmly to the floor with 10 Its " rattles blurred viciously. It A Rattle ? Not Corn WASHINGTON . . . After twenty years of exhibition by the Smithsonian Institute as the "old | est ear of corn on earth" it has been found that the ear was moulded from clay, baked in a slow fire and is a rattle. .V. It is valuable nevertheless, showing the art of the ancients years ago.. struck out with its head and a clear liquid spurted over the floor: Then George grabbed the snake behind, its head and thrust a silk sock into its mouth and jerked it out. Pet's fangs were loosened. George went to work with pliers j and pulled out four fangs. "Be sure you've got 'em all," Dot-1 son warned as he looked on. Dis infectant was squirted into Pete's' torn mouth. He was taken into the kitchen and put under a hydrant to' wash off the blood. The snake struggled weakly as he was put back into the glass cage, i Once it appeared as if he would get. loose. Dotson apprehensively grabb ed an axe standing against the j wall. Then George Lumpkin picked Pete up by his tail and the fangless rattler coiled his body in futile de fense. Dotson ran out of the room. Finally, the now listless rattle snake was put safely back in his cage and Dotson carried it away with him, promising to take it him self to his meeting tonight. > Thus, the stage was set for to night's performance. Wooden bench es. backless, are set up about a table on the vacant lot where Dot son is conducting his revival. About 300 people can be seated on the benches and others crowd around standing. Unshaded electric lights,, strung from wires stretched: between poles, lighted the scene. Lumpkin was disillusioned, any way. He took his snake to Herren's revival Friday night, only to be told by the preacher that he wouldn't handle his snake "because it hasn't been blessed by God; you're a devil in man's clothes and that's one of your demons." Lumpkin withdrew from that, meeting after assuring the crowd, that he wasn't a devil and his snake wasn't a devil either, "but if you stick your hand in his cage, he'll bite the devil out of you." I o COMMITTEE FOR REVISED CONSTITUTION *1 Dr. Frank Graham Announces Eh ringhaus, Frazier, Battle, Joyner, Pace, Elliott As Leaders The opening gun in a real cam paign for the adoption of the Re vised Constitution of North Carolina hag Just been fired. Dr. Frank P.j Graham, chairman of a citizens committee on the subject, has vig orously announced his own support and at the same time has announc ed the officials of a Statewide non partisan "Committee for the Re- j vised Constitution." Governor Ehranghaus will be hon orary chairman of the organization, while his Republican opponent in' the last campaign, Hon. Clifford Frazler, will be honorary vice-chair man. Kemp D. Battle, of Rocky Mount, a former president of the State Bar Association will be active! chairman, and Dr. J. Y. --Joyner, noted farmer and educational lead er. active vice-chairman. Frank Page, noted read builder and bank er, will serve as treasurer and Miss Harriett W. Elliott, of the Greens-j boro Woman's College, chairman of the Woman's Division. The letter asking Governor Eh ringhaus to serve as Honorky Chair man declared: "It will be the aim of the proposed organization to unite in one effec-j tlve group all those who approve the Revised Constitution Just submitted and also all those pa triotic citizens who recognize that no human document is perfect and will wish to see the Revised Con stitution amended in some details but frankly recognise that Its ad vantages far outweigh any inciden tal shortcomings and that the full right of amendment remains open to the people." Signing the letter, as members of the Preliminary Committee on Or ganisation, are: Dr. Frank Graham. Dr. J. Y. Joyner. Dr. Clarence Poe, L. V. Morrill, Jr., Mrs. Jane S. Mc Kimmon, W. Ken- Scott, A. J. Max well. Rev. E. McNeill Poteat, Mrs. J. Henry Highsmlth, Major George E. Butler. I. M. Bailey, D. W. Bail ey, Rev. J. Edward Kirbye, L. H. Kltchin, U B. Blalock, B. P. Brown, Dr. H. A. Royster. T. L. Bland, R. L. McMillan. Will is Smith. J. L, Cokersham. Frank Page, W. B. Duncan, Mrs. Chas. G. Doak, Mrs. Locke Cralge, Dr. R. T. Vann, B. M. Nicholson, and E. V. Webb. The Revised Constitution is the work of a special Constitution Com mission named by authority of the General Assembly of 1931?Chief Justice W. P. Stacy, Judge Michael fjchenck, Judge John J. Parker. Congressman Lindsay Warren, and Messrs. A. J. Maxwell, J. O. Carr. Geo. E. Butler, Burton Craige, and Clarence Poe?assisted by the law faculties cf the University of North Carolina, Duke University, and j Wake Forest College and other au-1 thorities. The 1933 General Assem bly, after making a few changes, submitted hie Revised Constitution' by the required three-fifths vote of each House. The Revised Constitution has al- : ready baen specifically endorsed by 1 the North Carolina Press Assoela- j ticri, the North Carolina Bar Asso ciation. and has had favorable ac tion from the State Grange, the 1 State Farmers Convention, the State 1 Conference for Social Service and : other influential organizations. In 1 his appeal for the measure Dr. 1 Graham says: "The non-partisan committee pro poses to make known the provisions of the Revised Constitution boldly and clearly to the people in every county in North Carolina. The lead- 1 er of the majority party, the leader of the minority party, the Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court and the Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals have all I I I joined hands in the movement to.' adept the Revised Constitution. Cit izens in all walks of life, in all parts of the State, are beginning to rally, to the side of the movement to j adapt the old Constitution to the needs of a new age." A State-wide committee is now being formed and all who are will ing to volunteer for any service to the cause are asked to write Dr. Graham. JEREMIAH 6:15-16 C. J. Ward, In Biblical Recorder Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush; therefore they ' shall fall among them that fall; at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls, but they said, we will not walk therein. This message from God through His prophet, though ,spoken long ago to God's black-slidden people; is no less needed today by the church in its back-siidden or wild, careless, sinful way of living. So many have drifted so far from the good old way, and like Israel are not ashamed when they commit abomination. Nay, not at all ashamed, modesty all gone, nothing left to cause a blush. We know it is true today even as in Jeremiah's day when God told him to declare this message to a race who once knew Him. but now had back slidden. Who is to take old Jere miah's place today, and step out boldly against the shameful living of our church members whose lives we know are an abomination in God's, sight. No church can live with such" corruption existing there in. God has never allowed it so to be, even before Jesus came to open the new way which His children must walk in. No longer can he wink at sin, as we have the light that never fails us today, if we want to wfclk in it. So there Is no excuse whatever. Hie mother of fifty years ago would blush with- shame, could she see some mothers of today,' drinking, smoking, cursing, gamb ling, and other things too black to mention. Is this being done by the Chris tian? No, but sad to say it is al lowed by the church member. The writer has such to face many times in asking some outside person to become a Christian?Why you have members doing things I would not dare to do! Should such things knowingly be allowed. In the church of today without being looked after? If so, where is the starting place, it is getting worse year by year. We know it. The world has such hold inside the church that many times the preacher's hands are tied. Oh, -he will preach against some of the evils that are so open he can't help It. but will stop right, -the**. Ood can't bless His people with open, nor hidden sin In the camp. Going too fast we have left the good old way, and must come back or perish A call Jeremiah makes to God's peo ple. the same is made to the church today. Thus saith the Lord, 8tand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good Poultrymen Acclaim Sexing of Baby Chicks CLEVELAND . . . Poultrymen are acclaiming: the research work of the U. S. Department of Agriculture which now enables students to determine the sex of baby chicks on the day of hatching, thus revolutionizing chicken raising for the market.. .. Photo shows H. L. Shrader of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, instructing three students on how to grade the chicks./ \ way, and walk therein, and ye shall Bnd res for your souls. God's grace aud mercy are still ex tended. The call still was made to Israel to come back and walk In the good old way, where the soul can rest from the awful burden that Is so heavy, but they said we will not walk therein. That is just what the lover of sinful pleasure Is say ing today, In the church. Yes. A Christian. Paul seemed to . think not. Rom. 8:9. If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he Is none of His. Sad to think abou/t. The names on some church rolls, living In known sin, keeping some other poor soul out. Can that soul have any rest whose life Is cut off by sin, and no fellowship with Jesus, but the devil leading the way in still darker paths? Who then ought to be the Samuel saying thou art the man? And like Samuel's message to his man who repented and got right with God, so some today In some church who is lost and loving sin, might be saved where such the case. But It is not so today. Let them alone, some will say. God will do the separating at the Judgment. Let all grow In the church together. He that is without sin cast the first stone, and so on. We have no Scripture for these things. They are man-made and will not stand at the Judgment, we are commanded to take care of the church of which Jesus Himself is the head. Are we doing it? If not. why? We have drifted away from ihe good paths. Will we drift back? No, never. We must repent and come back in God's appointed way, saying as the lost sinner, Lord I have sinned. LOST OPPORTUNITIES Daniel, Chapter 5 By J. R. SLAUGHTER In the ages long ago there lived in Babylon a very rich and wicked j | old King whose name was Beltshaz- 1 zar. He posessed a lot of gold and other wealth and as the records show he did not like for anything in the material world. He was a man who kept servants and concu bines and had everything up to date 1 and in order, as a lot of kings and rulers do in our day. But the sa fest thing of all he had no respect for God and his ways, just as there 1 are people in dur time who do not respect the great Creator. We learn that one day Beltshazzar made a feast to a thousand of his lords and he drank wine before them using the golden and silver vessels which were taking out of the house of God at jeresalum and that caused God to be" more displeased with the king. What happened then in the jime hour there came a manVs j hand upon the wal' writing some thing that was a puzzle and a mys try to the King, and it troubled him so much that he could not rest, and too his countance was changed. He had the astrologers, the Chal deans. and all his wise men called ? in to interpret and tell the meaning of this strange writing on the wall , but there was not a man he had ' called that could give him any sa tisfactory . reply to the thing he wanted to know so bad. The queene | took note of the change that had j taken place with the King and try ed to comfort him by saying, King let not your thoughts trouble thee hor your counta.ioe be changed, but that did not comfort or give any consolation to the King at all, this strange writing was troubling him greatly and was all he could think of. Some one Informed him of Daniel the wise man of God. And the King had him brought in and Daniel made known to Beltshazzar the writing on the wall, which made his heart so sad and burdened. The appo nted time came to the King as Daniel had told him, he was slain and his kingdom taken by the median. Are we going to let the writing on the wall_trouble us and have our kingdom vacant by not applying to the call of the master, or will we apply tc his call and let him destroy those things (sins) that do so easily cause us to go astray and wander in ways that is contr ary to the way's of rlghtousness? Man only travels this way but once, and while he Is here he has an opportunity Just as Beltshazzar did which'he can accept or reject. But if he refuses to come up to Chrlsts plans and ways there is likely to be some great trouble for him to face whdn his mission Is ended and he har to hear his de nunciation with no more chance to get right and no Christ to hear his petitions. As someone has said' Procrastination is a thief of time. bad a chance; he reluaed it and In the end he was sorrow and could not correct it opportunity was gone. Gain 80 Per Cent in Passengers % A ;ain of more than 80 per cent in the number of passengers moved by the Norfolk and Western Railway during the first five months of the year over the same period of 1933, is announced by the railroad's pas senger department. New luxurious, air-conditioned equipment, new low fares, and an effective campaign by the* railway* employees to en courage their friends and neighbors to travel on N. & W. trains, are given by the August issue of the Norfolk and Western Magazine as the chief reasons for the increase.' A total of 536.030 passengers were moved by the railway during the five months ending May 31, as com pared with 291,481 for a like period of last year?an increase of 234, 539 passengers revenues increased from $517,000 to $664,000, or a gain of more than $47,800. T. S. Neal of Ruffln, Caswell County, reports a production of 811 bushels of wheat this season on his former all-tobacco farm. o ADVERTISE IN THE COURIER LABOR DAY Monday, September 3 Spend the Week End and Labor Day in the Country? the Mountains?at the Seashore, or visiting Friends and Rela tives Back Home. Our Very Low Fares make a Short Vacation extremely economical. Tickets On Sale Daily One Way and Round Trip per Mil* Coach Tickets ll CCIltS Traveled ?Round Trip Tickets _ P.r m;|* Return Limit 15 Days * CCIltS Traveled ?Round Trip Tickets ' P.r Mile Return Limit 6 Months .. *! CCIltS Traveled ?One Way Tickets 3 CCIltS Per Mil* * Good in Sleeping and Parlor Cars on payment of proper charges for space occupied. No Surcharge. ? Compartment, Drawing Room and Open Section Sleeping Cars Modern Coaches?Convenient Schedules Be Comfortable in the Safety ot Train Travel For full information consult TOUR LOCAL TICKET AGENT OR COMMUNICATE WITH J. S. BLOODWORTH, D.P.A, RALEIGH, N. C. PHONE 621 Southern Railway System Heart To Heart i We want-to have a little heart-to-heart talk with our good farmer friends of this County. If the farmer could realize what it really means to the entire County if every pound of tobacco raised in Person county was sold on the Rox boro market we would see a different market here. When you sell your to bacco on this market you are keeping your money at home, and it works all of the time in building up the County, as well as the town. ? All companies will be represented on the market this year. Four warehouses run by experienced men. Honestly, we would not advise the farmer to sell here if we did not believe he would get as much far his tobacco when 3old here as he will get if he sells on some foreign market. We do believe it, and the figures published by the State departments month after month verifies this belief.' Of course, occasionally there is a dull day and prices decline, but the same thing is true of every mar ket, but take it day by day and the average is just about the same. These are \ the facts; then why not sell with your home folks, your friends. Begin Bight, Sell Your First Load In Roxboro (This advertisement is contributed by friends of the Roxboro Market)
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