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THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN THURSDAY, KOV; PAGE TWO pestilence in the nij.',ht. ! "Temperance forces S.t Published every Thursday by The Franklin Tress At Franklin, jS'orth Carolina Telephone No, 24 , VOL, XLVHI Number 11 BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON. .EDITOR AN 1 J PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office, Franklin, N. C. as second class matter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .. Six Months Single Copy $1.50 .75 .Q5 mperance i or.ee s saw tneir cherished ambition achieved in the enactment of the l.Sth amendment. Then they settled down to ease and rest. But they have found out now that -evil' docs not retreat. While the temperance people have been sleeping at the post and tak ing their ease, the repeal move ment has been steadily naming in power all along. Lawlessness has been taking on most alarming pro portions. - "Liberty without law is anarchy ; liberty against law is rebellion; iberty limited by law is the for mula for" a lasting civilization." Js our present civilization to emerge by virtue of . a renaissance of the forces of education, or will cataclysm be complete ? WEEKLY BIBLE THOUGHT "Let ut not therefore judge one another any more; but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way." Rom.ins 14:13. The Prohibition Forum The Debate Ends THIS is the last installment of "The Prohibition : Forum," as the causus Belli will have been settled 'before the next issue of The Press-Maconiaii is pub lished. , . ' The editor, who has conducted the "For Repeal column, and his mother, who has led the "Against Repeal" department, .join in an expression of hope that, their efforts have-helped to stir a hvelv interest and frank discussion of the issue without arousing any-personal animosi ties., I L neither t L i a-has-pro veil "ImvtfiintTto our readers, that ina tiers"' 'lit tie,. '"so long- as' we have convinced ihem that there is no use to Di1. y" evcr a prohibitionist .,, ..... , . . in. iposmg as a wet? Not once. But tall out over an nonest mnerence 01 opinions. . vvethe wet C0l,ntcrfeits the prohi will feel Well compensated lOT Olir etfortS if Wt' havefbitionist. .Why? Because the pro inspired a few people to serious consideration of the . issue. 1 ' VOTING DRY AND DRINKING WET , How often do we hear this phrase uttered by repealists. They seem i) think they have said a mouth ful when they get this off. , True, there have been, many wets posing as prohibitionists. To car ry out their hypocritical- purpose thev even vole dry. These char acters are just a sorry , class of wets. Should real prohibitionists be blamed because hypocritical "wets" try to steal the honor of being "drys?" Shall the re Christian be blamed because there are hypocrites in the church ? Shall Christianity be condemned because there are those who profess to be Christians and are only wolves in sheep's clothing? Good money is often . counterfeited. Worthless money, never. Who ever heard o a Christian posing as an infidel? On the other hand you often find the ' un-godly ma-, counterfeiting the Christ .ian,Wh v.? """Because the Christian is worih counterfeiting Against Repeal BY MRS. J. W. C. JOHNSON WE are indebted to the Kev. J. A. Flanagan's letter in last .week's forum for convincing and authentic facts showing im-. proveme.nt under national prohi bition in spite of lax and dishonest enforcement. Among these is the significance of the comparison-between states having cooperation in 'Enforcement by state officials and thofc -4kft-"3o -ttorr-'The -United - - States - Census Report showed deaths f rom-alcoholism to be-1 16 per cent greater Lin-lhe non-cJoo.pi,ativ. states!" . Further, if government figures show liiatjdeath.s, from alcuhaLlfe .Some Prohibition Leaders ' Amimg those who are standing for prohibition in this state are the' presidents rf our two great universities, Dr. Frank- Graham of the University ,of North Carolina, and Dr. Few of Duke University. None know better; than the heads of these institutions that their task of guiding the youth who must be the leaders of tomorrow will be made Jiarder when the. .government sanctions the sale of liquor. Col lege boys .drink now,-' but they know that it is unlawful. The niak hibitionist is worth counterfeiting Our repealist friends tell us we are' waging a hopeless fight, that prohibition is doomed. It has been said that a woman's voice against repeal is "futile." It may be well to remember that when John came preaching the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand, the idea was very popular at first. Jfe was thronged by the multitudes who wished to be baptized and have a part in the coming kingdom. By some means this kingdom did not take the worhl by storm as many ambitious . ones expected. Three years later, notwithstanding the sick had been healed, the dead had been raised, the gospel had been preached among men, wc find senti ment had veered in the opposite direction. John had been imprison ed and 'beheaded, Jesus was arrest ed as a criminal, Judas had betray en Him, Peter had denied Him, other followers had generally sought safety in flight. When He was dying on the Cross certain good women reinaihcd to the end. They were last at the cross, first at-the tomb," and brought the first news of His resurrection.' Was the cause lost? Wa's the abiding faith of these good women "futile?" Let the churches throughout the civil ized world that lift their spires toward heaven answer the question. The consecrated Christian wom en, who are veritable pillars of the church, are in the main, supporters of prohibition. Mistakes have been made bv leaders. Traitors have bored from within. Judases have betrayed the cause with a kiss. A temporary reverse is being un dergone. But stfanding on the side with the vast majority of the Chris tian mothers, we may rest assured the cause is not dead. Let . us stand firm to the end, and, if pos sible,, retain North Carolina as a "Gold Star" state. Let us retain the" Good Old -North- State- as a refuge and" recruiting station' for the cause that, by and by, .must prevail, ff, for the time, we are defeated, let us say in the words of a great, good and wise man, "It is better to be beaten in right than to succeed in wrong."- LUTHER ANDERSON. For Repeal BY BLACKBURN W. JOHNSON i fication. We quote from an article I iiigoI-thc ,s;de oi -Tiqiujr legal does ' "not "make ifright, and we cannot qiHit N a futile effort to stem Un mounting tide of public, opinion against the Eighteenth Amendment, repealists have raised, a hue and cry that if North Carolina votes for repeal it will .mean the return of the saloon in this state. They have painted a dire picture, but one which is utterly : fictitious, of saloons on every street corner. They have attempted to frighten the people into believing that if they vote for repeal they will bring Thick conditions which existed prior to the enactment of state prohibition in-1908. ,- creased from' 52 per 100,(X)0 to 1 person per 100,000 population, - and : Keely institutes ..decreased -from ...98 to ... 12,1 what morereliable., index can. be cited to prove that con ditions have been better under pro hibition than in ."the 'old days?". If ; repeal is to bring us better conditions, upon what do we base our hopes? Some Pertinent Questions We ask those who are hesitating which way to vote to face square ly the following questions: . If you vote to legalize an evil traffic that has been outlawed by the nation, what will you substi tutegovernment .liquor traffic or private liquor traffic? If the gov ernment goes into the liquor busi-J is sold like groceries. . While all good citizens hope. .that there "may be increasing temper ance and self control " in ' tliis na tion, present conditions do not promise that this will be achieved by repeal. Someone has observed that "civi lization is - a race between educa tion and cataclysm:"' Is this senti ment to bring back legalized liquor a part -of the cataclysm that has overtaken us? Can the forces of education build a bulwark strong enough to de fend what we- are pleased to call our civilization ? Recently a speaker defending the IKth amendment said "We must shift our ' emphasis nesv-it - means-that -you atid-d----1 -"a-Torrscrcnrc against drink into the liquor business." One oT the strong points' of the repealists crioha'llwe-n-the m vernhieht 1 se-a lot of profit in not bt inu in this j - "A machine age, with multiplied ... flourishing .biiihici.sL-.n prival jn-ltliousands of ...airplanes ami 25,000, flivKJuals and corporations, are to enjoy government protection and license, can we hope for a reduc tion in the amount of liquor con sumed? It is only natural that eery private business should use every means to secure as large -a' sale of its wares as possible. A study of the Canadian system of govern ment control reveals that the gov ernment is controlled by -the liquor "interests. We who remember the hisory. of the. short-lived dispensary system in 'South Carolina know that it degraded many citizens who were involved in the scandals that ."'""" cropped up as thick as weeds" in connection with the taking of pri vate commissions from wholesale liquor houses by those who han dled the' purchase of liquor fry the state. In 1908 North , Carolina voted to outlaw liquor after every method of conrol had been tried and found wanting. Governor Aveock. who won the victory for-a- higher-standard of public schools for the state, also fought to outlaw liquor as the enemy of the child, the home f and the school. Josephus Daniels, as seeretary of the Navy, during the World!' War,- not only ordered 'prohibition for the Navy but ef fectively enforced it. A period of prosperity followed these progres sive steps; we-can remember when the prohibition laws were much better enforced than they are to-1 day. Can we hope for better con ; ditions when liquor is easier to obtain ? TTmrl uctaTid rrratr and an intelligence nig". 000 automobiles, 'demands a steady nerve and a clear' brain and wiil have' them or give us the conse quences. "Hereafter we should urge the findings of science that alcohol is a habit-formmg narcotic drug an that it should be treated like Other narcotics which ci ilization has weeded out and which all intelli gent people avoid. The schools nmst be made to obey the law in teaching t he-effect of narcotics ;an opiates on the human system. "We must show that only a doc tor s prescription justifies the drink-, itui of intoxicants and that no heal thy human-boilv needs an alcoholic stimulant "We must show that- it is the height of social . folly to organize temptation for' men and women and collect, revenue out of their de bauchery." " Dr. George V. Trnett, in the .course of aii address on the sub jeel -t.f i"rt-iHt-i':Hnet-ri delivered -at Ridgixrcsi .last, i.i.nnner,,s.iuns'.tip recent trends' .as. follows : 'o wonder ii has been diffirnlt (o enforce the INt'h amendment, since everything has , hern in a mealstrnm of perplexity. America has been faced -with the greatest slump- in moral ' idealism this coun try has 'cut known.' Seen and felt on every hand is , the deflection from , high ideals and standards, causing the wavering of ,the mor als of fieoplc everywhere. Stalking forth ino recent years, has been law lessness of .all kinds, which has been a scourge in the day time and by State Senator Roy Francis which appeared in a recent issue of The Waynesville Mountaineer: .."The measure of enforcement has grown less as' the years have passed, evwi though we have had many changes in the personnel of the executive branches of both the federal ami slate governments, from county sheriff to 'president each sworn to uphold the law since its adoption. Assuming for the sake of argument that as many as thir teen states will not vote for re peal, who can predict future suc cess "for"" the" Eighteenth " , mend- failure of prohibition, but on the determination of an overwhelming majority of the people to erase the eighteenth amendment from the constitution. Surrounded by a wet regime so immense and powerful, what Jiope could our state have of enforcing her own prohibitory laws? About as much as a snow ball would have , to survive an ad venture into the torrid zone. "The nation could not endure half slave and half free." .Much less could a single slate maintain a system of prohibitory laws that arouses so antagonistic feeling against a com bination of states of forty-odd to to one. "The experiment noble in motive," is now seen to be "a zeal for' righteousness, but not according to knowledge." For North Carolina to vote to retain the eighteenth amendment would De a secession from the sisterhood of states, to which she would, by the logic of events,, be compelled without force and arms to return at an early date. The strenuous ballyhoo , to defeat repeal confirms the adage: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." Judge E. Yates Webb has been telling his audiences that North (Carolina has built her school sys tem, goon roads, manufacturing, and religious institutions under She beneficent influence of prohibition. He did not mention that the worst slump in both the economic and moral sphere since the Civil War has occurred during the last four years . of the blessed prohibition erar The judge also called the tax on legalized whiskev "a mere pit tance" in defraying the 'expense of the liquor traffic. Again h'e failed to mention that even that "pit tance" is missing from the expense account of- legal - enforcement -of prohibition". Sif "William" Er Glad stone said : "People can not be made good by law, but wholesome laws can make ,the practise of vir tue easier and the practise of evil more difficult." Guided by that standard, the people have decided that the eighteenth amendment is notoriously., unwholesome. To say that drunkenness is a fer tile source of crime, poverty and pauperism is a mere platitude. The addict , to strong drink is as much a slacker as he who evades military service. Since we are all under the equal protection of the law, the only way to make the debauchee pay for his protection and his prob able correction is to tax hisdiquor. Everybody's business is, iif some measure, everybody else's business. "I am a "man ; therefore, whatever concerns mankind Concerns me." Some inveterate drinkers will go to the poor house and finally to the potters' field. A good stiff tax on the booze that " sent " them there will compel them to pay for their fimeraHnI3dvafice:z; ed over what is happening to the church as portions of it align themselves definitely and officially with political propaganda. It is quite right for the church member as an individual to express his po litical influence through legal chan nels, but when the church lines up officially in politics she is bound to offend many of her own chil dren and lose her influence in the world. It is the fuinction of the church to create the life, spirit, ideals. which will find themselves in an ordered and just social order. We have trusted too much to laws. We must make good citizens and trust them to make good laws. The church's work is from within, out; not from without to the within. We must teach more. The" church is to leaven the lump of society. The state must act the policeman. Someone has said,' "Let me write the songs of a nation and I care not who" make her laws." He was quite right. Let the church go about the business of writing law in the hearts and the- minds of the people and she will have no need to write them in books. Many thoughtful men and women are turning away from the church es todav because the churches are seeking to coerce thought and ac tion, and , so to narrow and limit the range of liberties that they cannot accept the church. , If a, few of us will live out our Christian profession, it will have far more power than all the laws we can enact. REV. NORV1N C. DUNCAN POOLISH FANCIES BY ROY L. GRIFFIN 11 ft Y brother' and I are so much 1V1 alike that our own mother can't tell us apart.. In school my brother would throw spitballs, and the teacher would whip me. Of course, she didn't know any bet ter; but I did. My brother got into a fight and the judge fined me five dollars. Of course, didn't know any better; but 1-did I was supposed to get married last week but my brother got there first and married . the girl. Of course, she didn't know the dif ference; but 1 did. However, cot even with mv brother. I died last Mondav and thev buried him Thinking voters will not be scared by I h i s -tJju g a-bootf i tr t h e v,k uuw the issue before them now is a question of national, not state, pol icy. Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment" by " no i" means ' can be interpreted as authorization for sa loons to resume business in North Carolina. This state has a pro hibition law of its own, the Turl ington Act, which has even more teeth in it than the national pro hibition statutes. All the brewers and distillers in the country can not invalidate this law if the peo ple of the state wish to retain it. Unless we are a mighty sorry judge of public opinion, the North Carolina legislature would not dare abolish the Turlington Act. ;s It might submit it to a refreinlum; but that is another question. Frank l.v.. by the farthest ' tretch of imag ination,"" wc-cannot see the people of Jhis state voting in favor,.of saloons It .is. possible. ..they migln approve a substitute for . thc Tur ling-ton-law ; -but - if --they -should signify such a desire in a legal election, then their wishes' should .prevail. The writer strongly be lieves that if the .democratic form of government is to survive, the people shall not be deprived of the right of referendum on any issue of major importance. But that is getting beside our point. Let no one be mised into believing that' - the election, on No vember 7 has' anything lo do with oiir state prohibition- law s. " The only question at issue is repeal of t lie Eighteenth. Amendment. To say that a repeal' vote, in' NorihCaroj 1 ilia .means return of the saloons is a " figment of an- over-zealous mind, a misconstruction of the facts and the , probabilities. ment? If it cannot ., be . enforced, is it.iiot,. oiily..Jinwise,..but..alsu a waste of public funds to retain the amendment as a part of our constitution ? " "A "" verv positive and - decided sentiment for repeal means "non enforcement, because no law can be enforced without-the support' of strong, healthy public' sentiment The American people now recog- iue in.il mey are presented wun the question ot repeal or nullifica tion. Every good citizen .desires to see the provision of the constitu tion of the United States carried out in full. The people of Ameri ca infinitely prefer repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment rather than have it nullified. If an overwhelm ing majority of the American peo ple are opposed to the Eighteenth Amendment, it follows that the in terests of good government v de niand its repeal." That, we submit, is' straight logic based on circumstances as they ex ist , J The trouble with the anti-rcpeal-ists is that they refuse to face the facts. They are always basing false hopes - on imaginary condi tions, hoping against realities for attainment of .Utopian conditions. Nullification Prohibitionists have talked much i f nullification. Somehow, they jail to reali.e' the meaning of this word, or certainly they fail to rcc og n i t h e e xis-t euee t if t h'e s t a t e iLjIcseribes, F r iiiilli ficut ion has been ramjiant most of the time : ince the , Eighteenth Amendment became effective. The .amendment Itself lias had-a nullifying influence on temperance and it has nullified stale as will .as personal rights Furthermore, . it has nullified the ;ood effect which local prohibition laws, supported by public opinion, were beginning. to have.. Do we want to continue this nullification? Thirty-three states already have voted in the nega I ive. . Af fc7"Nbah "entereOhe r"ark and the rain poured and the flood roar- A N old farmer living far back Ain the hills of North Carolina was -walking along -a -road -one-day and found a mirror. Now, this aforesaid old man had never seen armirr or before; an d Avh en he ed, a maTTTHpe'rtiaps"' a former dry, came wading up, tiptoeing to keep the water out of his nose, and begged Noah to take him aboard. Noah told him the boat was load ed.. He waded off, muttering that he didn't care a raj), for it was going to be a light, shower any- tion in the. barrel 'was. Now, the wife qad never seen a mirror eith tooked into it "he "said,-"Whvrlhis is a picture of grandpa," He took Tthome-andhil--it4na- barrel. Ever so often he would go to the barrel and . look, at the picture of "grandpa." His wife saw him go ing to the ' barrel and became sus picious. One daV she decided to find out what the strange attrac way. To an uncompromising pro hibitionist a vote of thirty-three to nothing is a mere sprinkle. B. M ANGEL. Woodrow Wilson, with his sound judgment and keen vision,, realized the folly of national prohibition and foresaw the ill effect it -would have on the nation. With determi nation characteristic: of strongcoi vie! ion, he vetoed a prohibition act passed by congress. But the na tional legislature, more interested in politics than the future of the nation, enacted the law over his veto. Now, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the greatest .leader we have had since the days of the immortal Wil son, is trying to lead us tint of the error of the-past twelve years. Is "North Carolina going . to bolt this leadership to follow the adwee oLuiu-.easuning--fanatics --and -nm-guided idealists?. We hope not. We think not,, Editor of The. Press: '. ' . I am a pacifist when onlv the 'shedding of blood, will repulse ihe enemy, bul when it is only a war of words I like 'to - hear' my naiue when Ihe roll is called. The' situation in North Carolina in regard to, prohibition can be ex pressed in a brief well-known aphorism": "It is a condition and not a theory that confronts us." That condition is not based on the Here is another angle on nulji-j right ' or wrong, the success or A MINISTER SPEAKS I wish to commend your- articles on repeal: They are sane, fair, constructive. The issue has been confused by putting it as a matter between "wets" and "drys." It is no such thingc!i is....xe.iieal..,..or.Jiulxe4jeal,. of an tinwise and nrrmrrnrarrrrircc of... legislation..!.,.. L: I agree in the main with what prohibitionists say about alcoholic drinks, but not w ith their -method of controlling it. Nor do 1 feci that they have furnished . a good example in temperance. They have injured their cause by unfair criti cism of their opponents. It is ab surd to class the ''majorities in 33 states with drunkards and crimi nals. Thousands of repeal voters are. holiest, sincere, thinking men and women. v Nor is it fair or honest to say that the newspapers are subsidized by the liquor interests. It is as absurd to' say that " the churches are in league with the j bootleggers ami racketeers. Yet the 'same reas oning could be thus applied'. As a clergyman I have often. felt humiliated by the silence of the ministers over such outrages upon Christian ideals as lynching, po litical graft, robbery in high fi nancial and industrial circles, while the newspapers rang out clearly in l.,.rotVll('!lYi',.nar'iC'L the stand whicir newspapers take upon public questions nn(l"Tiie)St":a1w-ays7he"y are-oH the -side iff -decency, justice and .righteousness:. ! I have seen ihe terrible things of the old regime and I ' do not wish their return. But neither am I pleased with this "noble experi ment." Surely the wisdom of America is not 'exhausted in this Eighteenth Amendment. If , so, may heaven help our country. It is time that all of us began working on 'a better scheme, some thing, which will have its roots in fundamental principles. I am only mildly interested in the present election, but I am deeply concern ed so when she looked into the barrel and saw her own reflection in the mirror, she jumped back and said, "So that's the picture of the hussv he's been running around with." St. Asnci Episcopal Church , FRANKLIN, N. C Rev. Norvin C. Duncan, Rector SUNDAY, NOV. 5 10 a. m. Church school and Bible class, Thomas Johnston, Supt. 7:30 p. m Evening prayer and sermon. The Key. George L. Granger, rector of bt. An drew's church, Canton, N. C, will officiate, BY REV. N. C. DUNCAN THERE are a .number ot impos sible events recorded in the Bible, impossible from the numan standpoint. Under the inspiration and guidance of the Holy Spirit these events were recorded to strengthen and increase man's faith in things spiritual and to lead him to seek for values which are not found in material things. We call these things the miraculous; and I believe in miracles. One of these stories is found in the sixth chapter of the book of second Kings. Elijah bad taken a group of young men to train for the prophetic office and ministry-, and they decided to Dtiuu a nousc in which they would live and study together. They were cutting logs by the river side when the axe of one young man flew off the handle and landed in the river. While he was lamenting his loss the prophet appeared, and, throwing a stick in to the river where the axe fell, the axe rose to the top, and the young man reachd out and took it.- This was contrary to ' all known law and principle.'-.. By the law of gravity it sank, and there it should have remained. However, the im possible happened ; it rose to the surface. I offer no conjectures. I believe it happened. There may be natural explanations, but we cannot go into that here. As far as we know it is supernatural. The Christian life is' one of faith. All material values change, dis appoint and, at best, . are tem porary. All around tis is change and decay. Yet the Christian be lieves in permanent things, in val ues beyond the seen. "Faith is the substance of things hoped "for." Without the faith which would remove mountains one cannot live on the ordinary plane of life. One cannot go on seeing decay, help lessness and death in everything, and have heart for anything unless he has some sense -of. spiritual values, some insight into eternal things. One knows human nature and how. depraved it may become, but one must believe in regenera tion; must see a redeemed hu manity. One must see into the I CAN remember the time when Dewey Dent, one of the boys in camp, was in school. Dent, as some of you know, is pretty good aIligufi:s,-eveii.if-iie. doesn't look it Oh! I beg- your pardon. Well, to get back on the subject, 1 will refer you to a little incident which happened back in school. "Dewey," the teacher laTd,"ITow many do mother and father and baby make ?" "That's easy," boasted Dewey, "Two and one to carry." ,lf .1 remember correctly, the teacher was unable to teach for a couple of days, on account of a nervous breakdown. Simple sayings'. of a simple sap All are not girls that giggle . . , Life, is butter passing dream . , . Many are called, but most of them are wrong numbers . . . . A tack on a chair has pul many a man back on his feet . , ... . He who hesitates loses his . parking' space . ; . If at first you do not' win dale, date again . . : . A good man keeps hitting the bulls-eye without shooting the bull .... Many a woman loves a man for all he is Worth .... The L'ills of trw1:i never go out for athletics; iVyl arc out... for. athletes . , . Married women wear wedding rings to dis linguish themselves from single women:- Married men wear wor ried looks . .. ... There is many ;i pocket flask near the scat of the government. . , . Stockings were- inVenled in , the eleventh cen tury, but not seen until the twen tieth ... . Laugh and the world laughs with you, smile and you are just a. flirt . , , . The fellow with the largest' ears isn't always the best listener .... The chap who marries a 'phone operator is more than apt to get a wrong number But after all, there is noth- nTitwrendaluerciFrifth"iopbe lievc. in .its enduring quality, when it is so often crushed before his eves. Some wiTfsav, " WtTTiave always had war and we . always ' will." Rut the Christian must see a triumphant Prince of Peace, in a -warless world. Again : "Folks have' 'always acted that way and always will." But wc must believe in changed men. The axe of good ness must come up straight' out of the waters of human depravity. Wc arc always seeing death ; but we must believe in life. If failure confronts me today, I must see success ahead. I must believe that in spite of my sins, weakness, ten dencies to evil, faults, failures, un worthincss, that the Son- of God may live triumphantly in me," I cannot see with my small human sight how these things may be (Ion e ."B u t . .. wi th God ..... all .. . things are possible." -a : : Cartoogechaye rsjQarles-Noleti-and.itrsVL II. Wilhide took their babies to Franklin last Saturday to take the last of the toxin-anti-toxin treat ment for diphtheria. This is the time of year diphtheria takes its toll ,and we are all thankful for the feeling, of security wc have to know our children are immune. Mr. and Mrs.. Al Williams at tended the singing convention at the courthouse' Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. David Led ford are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bud Led ford. The fourth quarterly meeting for Macon circuit was held at Maiden's Chapel Sunday. The Rev. J. L. Teague delivered an able and time ly sermon in the morning, follow ed by a basket dinner which show ed that even though money may be scarce the people around Maid en's are in no danger of starving. The Rev. L. B. Hayes preached at 2 :30i At the1 business meeting" which Jolknved,iionie otihe. church--es reported paid out in full, al though the circuit as a whole is behind in conference--collections ' and pastor's salary. Wc hope the accounts 'may be balanced before annual conference. Mrs. J. II. Slagle and' Mrs. H. C. Arthur went to Rainbow .Springs Sunday night to a "dry" meeting. They reported a large and atten tive crowd. i ; . Jesse Slagle has a fig tree grow ing in his chimney corner with ripe figs on it,.; This is the first year the fruit lias ripened, in fart ing lso pathetic as to see a horse the first we have known to ripen fly perched on an automobile. in Macon county. V y;
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