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THURSDAY, FEB. 21, 1935 THE FRANKLIN PRESS fd THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN PAGE FIVE , . . . . the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible," ndwhirhron tains Four Great Treasures 'yWUaAHIUN jm feat V DAVID A3 LONG as the nature of hoys remains what it always has been David will have a fresh army of admirers with each new. genera tion, for he' Is the original of all Jack - the - giant killer stories and has been the hero of boyhood for three thousand years. With the excep tion of St. Paul no human character oc cupies so large a place in the Bible; of none are we giv en so vivid and compelling a pic ture. The most BlUc0 BartOB minute traits and characteristics are set forth in such a way as to make certain that the portrait was drawn from life. What a portrait and what a life ! A red headed shepherd boy, tending his flocks and playing his tunes in the lonesome fields, he , is sent up to the army at the critical moment when its forces are paralyzed by the menace of the giant Goliath. What the swords of the stoutest warriors have been powerless to accomplish, he achieves by a well directed shot from his shepherd's sling and becomes immediately a national idol. Triumphantly he is carried to the court while the bands play and the pretty girls sing and dance. And the women answered one . another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thous ands, and David his ten thousands. Small wonder that Michal, the king's daughter, loved him and became his wife; small wonder that ' Jonathan, the king's son formed a friendship with him which is one of the most beau tiful in all history. Small won der cither that the king him self was jealous and resentful. And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed un to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: arid what can he have more but the kingdorii? And Saul eyed David from that day and forward. The jealous eyes, of Saul, who was in a place too big for him and finally went mad trying to fill it, drove David out of the court and Linto the wilderness where soldiers of fortune rallied to him from various motives, and built up a lusty young army which, to his credit, he kept well disciplined and free from the grosser crimes of guerrilla warfare. Neither the 'king's forces nor his plots could' prevail against the young man's destiny. In a previous chapter we have referred to his conquests, his I qualities as , an administrator, the ' sin which forms the one black I spot upon his reputation, a sin, by the way, which was not so extra ordinary in a king of that period and would perhaps have been for gotten but for the magnificent humility of his repentance, and the Psalms that are his eternal claim to remembrance. (Next week: The Heart of David) THE FAMILY norTOD JOHN JOSEPH GAINES. M.& ARE YOURS ARTIFICIAL SOMETIMES 1 get to thinking that, almost halt the people are equipped with manufactured molars So many millions of the natural teeth arc taken away because of those pesky germs; they cause rheumatism arid "sinus trouble," as well as dozens of other evils.. And, tooth building. has reached the pin nacle of perfection, I imagine. New, straight, perfectly-tinted teeth take the place of old, yellow, trouble some snags. I know several people who wear their artificial teeth all the time, with perfect comfort; they sleep with them in, and seem to enjoy life fully as well as if they grew there. These people seldom men tion their teeth, except to praise them. Now and then, however, I must give advice that belongs to the dentist. I find "partial plates," that get filled underneath with positive ly decaying remnants of food, lend ing victim a most unholy breathy often causing ulcerated, infected gums and lips; these customers more frequently come to the fam ily doctor with mouth troubles than they go s to their dentists ; I sus pect the fee has something to do with the problem they think the doctor has no right to charge for dental advice! My object in writing this letter is to tell you to keep the artificial set of teeth CLEAN; they should be taken out, and scrubbed daily, to keep the mouth sweet and free from disgusting matter. A prominent doctor recently told me of a case a man with a hor rible condition of the mouth ulders and infection; he wore a partial plate that never had been remov ed since he bought it. The doctor in cleaning up, found several water melon seeds under that plate they had been there since August the year before, and was now Feb ruary! Reader, keep your teefh CLEAN. today" FPANK PARKER kjfliV IjL $rOCKDRlDOErkZ j STATESMAN . . . Elihu Root Elihu Root was 90 years old on February 15th. I cannot help thinking of him as the "Grand Old Man" of America. Seven Presi dents have looked to Mr. Root for advice and counsel. Not once has his influence been cast in any di rection except for the lasting wel fare of his country. I think of few other living men anywhere in the world who can so truly be called statesmen. It was Elihu Root who, as chair man of the New York Constitution al Convention of 1915, first direct ed public attention to a young dele gate named Alfred E. Smith. Al though of opposite political parties, Mr. Root took occasion to say pub licly that Mr. Smith understood the rinciples of government and that f New York particularly, better than any other man in the con vention. Mr. Root distrusts people who tre in a hurry. They usually go n the wrong direction, he thinks. 'Foot over foot, the dog went to Dover," is one of his familiar pro verbs. , I hope Mr. Root lives to advise his country for many years to come. HEAVEN ami hade Not only those of simple faith in the hereafter promised to good men and women in the Bible,' but almost everybody who has ever giv en serious thought to the hope of a life beyond the grave, has read or listened to the tale told by John Puckering, the English gardener who came back to 'life from death. His heart had stopped beating for five minutes or more, after an op eration. Skillful surgical massage started it going again; but for those five minutes Puckering was actually dead, to all intents and purposes. He is sorry, he says, that they called him back from the beautiful world in which he saw his dead wife and many old friends, all look ing supremely happy. Once he fear ed death; now it has hp terrors for him. The world will talk about Puck ering and his experience for a long time. If the net result is to lift the fear of death from human hearts, he will have accomplished a great mission: I do not know the answer to the question of what comes after this life, but I do believe that none who has done His best to help oth ers and injure nobody in this world needs to have any apprehension about the next world. REWARD . . ... for honesty I don't recall a ' newspaper story in a long time that struck me as containing such pleasing elements as that of Frank Greges, who found a wallet full of securities in the snow in Wall Street, turned the treasaure-trove over to the police and went back to his dollar-a-day job as "sandwich man" carrying a sign through the financial district. Now this man of 67, who came to America from Lithuania 47 years ago, has cash in the bank, a new suit of clothes and a steady job as a reward for his honesty. The "Cinderella" theme is always appealing. Everybody likes to hear of somebody rising from poverty to sudden riches. But to me the most appealing part of this story was Frank Greges' remark that "there's! always work in America for any man who isn't particular about what he does." That is everlastingly true. I be lieve that it is true today, even in the 'face of all the talk of unem ployment. The greatest handicap any man can put on himself is the burden of pride, of unwillingness to work at something which he re gards as degrading. MAGIC . . . . . . of surgery What medical science has learned about the mechanics of the human body in the past 25 years or so, is far more than was learned in all the time past. Few knew anything about the ductless glands; now every physician knows that they control growth, emotions, mental development and many other bodily functions. The nearest approach to magic that I have heard about lately is the result obtained by a Russian surgeon in grafting the pituitary gland of a young man who had been killed in an automobile acci dent into the body of a girl midget. At fifteen, the girl was only three feet tall. Within six months after the operation she had grown three inches. Then another opportunity came to obtain a fresh pituitary gland, from the brain cavity of a girl who had just died. This also was grafted into the midget, who has grown another 2l2 inches and is still growing. I haven't the slightest doubt that in another . half-century, or even sooner, it will be common practice to interchange human glands by grafting, and so bring back to nor mal thousands who would otherwise live abnormal lives., RELIGION and Hitler I do not believe the Hitler gov ernment in Germany is goinig to get very' far intrying" to set up a Nazi religion. The Roman Catholic rhiircfiVnd tnp Protestant rhnrrhes of Germanyfmost of them of one) denomination have started a vig orous warfare upon the "new Pag anism" as they term it. The only large-scale attempt to change a people's religion that I recall in history was that of the Emperor Constantine in the 4th Century. Constantine, a convert to Christianity, tried to make it the state religion of the Roman Em pire. He found the opposition of the pagans of Rome too powerful in their resistance, and abandoned Rome to its fate, building a new capital for the empire at Constan tinople. It took nearly a thousand yeafs to bring the whole Holy Roman Empire under the domination of Christianity. I don't believe Hitler will change a religion which has held so many millions of German people for so many hundreds of years, over night. SENDING ONE TO COVENTRY To send one to Coventry is to take no notice of him; to make him feel that he is in disgrace by having no dealings with him. It is said that citizens of Coventry had at one time so great a dislike to soldiers that a woman seen speak ing to one was instantly taboo; hence, when a soldier was sent to Coventry he was cut off from all social intercourse. A different version is that Coventry was a stronghold of the parliamentary party in the civil wars, and that troublesome refractory royalist pris oners were sent there for safe custody. LEGAL ADVERTISING EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of Will S. Slagle, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 6th day of Feb., 1936, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 6th day of February, 1935. GEORGE L. SLAGLE, Executor. F14-6tp-M21 3 WRITE for Free copy of Wood'. Catalog offering I New Varieties, OU Favorite., I Planting Table, etc. T. W. I Wood & Sow, Richmond, Va. La When you are away from home at night, do your wife and children have the protection of a TELEPHONE? WESTERN CAROLINA TELEPHONE CO. ANDREWS, N. C. Bristol'. Market BRYSON CITY, N. C. R. G. 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