JAKE F. NEWELL SCORES
ENEMIES OF NATION IN
FOURTH OF JULY SPEECH
Charlotte Lawyer in Brilliant Address
to Junior Order Members Points to
Dangers Threatening Established
Government in United States
(Following i? if
sWfti1 - B?" 1
more High School, July 4.)
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ideal? the formation ^ and {ree COn
ereign sh,ou*v. ?iti,enship o f that nation,
science of the citizens p monarchs
Prior to tha t time g? revtn ? ^
and tyrants, with absolute * bc?n the
authority over their subjccw, n d f
rule. Constitutional law had
but never accomplished, and^ ^ an ideaJ
haytedyin?an of the capitols of the nations of
thC IrT'the formation and embodiment of^the
ideals held by these ^ Declara.
?fter:rlmSc?adn ' IndependencT ' X have, I
tion of American . credit to
:r ?.? =?pnrt?tih?, ss
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was subject in conscience and in lea
an ecclesiastical potentate w.^ aLl0nging
SU.ti.rn, "'S oSSS.
to an empire of intelligence anu
It was through this ' du^19Sethpr0vidence of
S iU pl.gu?i?? govornm.nl. of that
d*7i, wa. Martin Luther, lh.O?. monk,
tps s%~J?g t
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sa." -Sis
and intelligence, and of the < :hat tte
veiening tyrant of the nation. In otaei
"TU", J&J-aSrtJ So, catching ..in
spiration from Luther, and being J?"?! J
the strength of a high and noble ideal, beg
to nreach and teach the sovereignty of God as
contrasted with the sovereignty of tyrants
and kines and monarchs, and popes ^
totes His doctrines were, in Bome ^rt^
lars harsh, but it was necessary that they
should be in order to wring the minds of men
tal and religious slaves from ??rthly
and set them in devotion to the Aimigniy
FatIhtewas John Wesley who, educated and
irreat confusion, and great turmoil, began xo
preach and teach the loving kindness of God,
and the Divine gift of the power and right to
choose between good and evil.
It was Thomas Payne who, catchmg a vis
ion of a world released from fear, and free in
its own right, though often
and maligned, taught the ideal of the etern.i
separation of church and state. ,
It was Thomas Jefferson who, though an
aristocrat himself, taughttheideatsofde
mocraey, and claimed, as his highest achieve
ment, that he wrote the Declaration of Inde
nt was' Alexander Hamilton, a monarchist in
theorv. but a man of superb courage and
strength, intellectually and otherwise, who
taught the necessity of sufficient strength!
a republic to maintain its own dignity, de
mand its own rights, and redress its own
Wr?Alf 'of these patriots recognized, whether j
consciously or unconsciously, the doctrine
taught by the great Galilean that ^ should
"render unto Caesar the things that are Cae 1
Bar's, and unto God the things that are
God's." These ideals, culminating in the Con- 1
tinental Congress which, on July 4th, *776?
one hundred and fifty-five years ago today-- |
wrote the document which is known as our <
Declaration of Independence, and which w ;
treasured by the Amencan people as their ?.
most precious inheritance. This document n t
only set forth the rights of all men, but s?v
ered all relations with Great Britain, and se
up, in a hostile wilderness, a government d^
ioated to the right of the individual and the
protection of the, individual s right s.
Such an unheard of and unprecedented and
audacious act could but result in war, blood
shed, and sacrifice, and there then appeared
upon the horizon, as there has always ap
peared when a people are beset with tyranny
and wrongs, and are determined to establish;
themselves in their own rights by doing no
wrong to others, the man who was acclaimed
bv Frederick the Great as the greatest Gen |
eral in the world-George Washington,^-,
jfectionately known as the Father of ,
Country. He was an aristocrat, but he haa (
been conquered and enthralled by the idea o t
freedom He was given the strength to lea |
the Continental Armies to vlct?ryRUfferinr i
through great privation and great suffering, j
It is not that he was Cofflmander-in-^chief
the Continental Armies, nor that he was Pre
ident of the United States, that causes us to
have the affection for GeorgeWashin^cnthat.
we have, that has caused the people of the
parth to love and respect him as they do, but
It iKau^ he refused to take an easier way,
andckse to suffer with his peopleratherthan
to enioy the luxuries of Great Britain for a
season, and, in performance of his devoUon t
his country, wa ked across the ice of the iJeie .
ware and over the snows of Valley ^ Forge,
leaving the stain of his army s blood as i a per
petual sign of the covenant that freedom shall
'^There have been many great battles
fought in the history of 1 the world, : and' o
manv battles civilization has turned as on a
hinge. But one of the most important, if not
most significant, military achievcmentsever
recorded was that in whieh Washington re
ceived the sword of Cornwallis at Yorktown.
It meant not only a new nation but a new na
tional ideal and new hope to the oppiessea
Ses o? the earth. It meant even more
it meant a new race that should have a large
part for centuries to come in the leadership o
the world. Our race is neither English, nor
German, nor Scandinavian, nor Latin. OfJ
firct three we have our blood, but the Amen
an peopTe are not English nor German nor
<?cnmli-navian They are the product and tne
' embodiment of the best that _ is in al I three,
because those who came to these sho"? ?
those nations were people who weie yearning
for freedom and for opportunity.
The Government of the United States,
though passing through m?ny vicissitudes,
soon became the pole star for theshipsofstate
of all nations. It was to America that
down-trodden peoples looked for help. and it
was to her statesmen and her ideals that the
most enlightened of all nations looked for in
spiration. . , .
The results that America achieved in
striking from the wrists and ankles of slaves,
mental, religious and chattel, have been wr -
ten in the accomplishment of science and in
ventive genius. In no age has human suffei
:n p- been so generally prevented or lelieve .
Hospitals "dot the earth, and for almost every
ill there has been found a remedy. Th?
nt" tho nations of the earth are no longer the
unchan^nglawsof the Medes and Persians,
but are rules of conduct prescnbing the man
ner in which the people behave under their
larger and ever expanding problems and op
nnrtunities. Genius has sent ships racing
across all the oceans, and has literally bound
the shores of all the continents together by it
cables for communication. It has allowed the
humblest citizen to hitch his chariot to an
electric star. And in an almost uncanny w j
has enabled the foundering ship in the dark
est night, in mid-ocean, to flash its distre s
to other ships. It has gone further and .n a
mysterious way has sent the human voice,
without visible means, to the uttermost parts
of the earth. Genius, too, has lightened the
labor of man and woman by machines tha
work almost with human intelligence; and
has thereby set in motion the elements of a
svstem of industry that sooner or later will
free the bodies from the exacting toil that ha
worn races out. Man stands today in the
of his greatest accomplishment for hu?a?.
lief and capacity for the enjoyment of all of
the beauties and glories of this beautiful and
glorious world. Everywhere the song of free
dom is heard; and today anyone may walk
amidst dust and ashes of ancient empires that
have crumbled within the recollection of this
generation; and in the palaces of tangs and
monarchs and potentates have been set up the
parliaments of democracy. .
This great march in the accomplishment
and attainment of the ideal of freedom 1 has
been lead by our own country. It has stood as
a beacon to guide the barques of ^ nations
around the rocks 01 shipwreckWithoutthe
! freedom taught by the United States of
1 America there could never have been the ac
complishment of science and statesmanship
j and genius that the last century and a half
has witnessed, because it was necesaary to
j free the minds of men before they could in
terest themselves in the welfare of man.
I But we should remember that the adoption
I of our constitution farmed a nation, but did
not guarantee certain inalienable rights be
longing to the individual; and immediately
i enemies from within began their w<jrk o
1 destruction. The whole fabric of freedom
! would have been torn down and destroyed had
, it not been for the persisting ideal of the
American people in writing and adopting tne
first ten amendments to that constitution.
The creation and founding of the republic
on the 4th day of July, 1776, can not be re
garded in any other light than as a divine
step in securing the protection of the unpro
tected; and the enemies that crept within so
soon after the surrender at Yorktown, claim
ing special privileges, and ignoring inalien
able rights, can not be regarded other than as
a warning to us of the fact that we are still
beset by enemies within.
The" wprld is so knit together by commun
ication, by transportation, by mutual inter
ests, and by the constantly unfolding ideal of
freedom that it is truer today than ever be
fore that we do not live alone. We no longer
toast of our victory over Great Britain? it
is a heritage, and a precious one. Great
Britain herself has seen the Divine Hand in
tjnvei o? Suiraoo eiu 9 m ing "uotiujwdas sip
that the world, if governed decently, must be
governed by people with common ideals and
common hopes. In my opinion, the hope of the
world today depends upon three nations? the
United States, England, and Germany. Be
cause it is known by all historians that no
race except a race descended from the Teu
tonic stock and speaking a language rooted )
the Teutonic tongue, has originated an idea
of personal liberty. The peoples who have
created that ideal must be the peoples who
will preserve it, and, notwithstanding the
fact that we were lately at war with Ge
many, it is a high and a noble ideal of the
American people that we take the hand of
Germany at this time when she is staggering
under a financial burden that she can no
longer carry? when she is becoming emaci
ated under the stress of poverty? when she
is wellnigh friendless among the nations
and pledge ourselves to lift her out of her
despair. Nothing will so convince the other
nations of the world of our desire to be fair
and generous and honorable to a late foe as
this act of helpfulness extended to Germany
at this time. For we must remember that the
world is not ruled for long by sword and
shock and shell, but by spirit. The day of the
conqueror is past, if the ideal that we a
showing now to Germany can last, for it is as
true now as it was in olden time that he that
ruleth his own spirit is greater than he that
taketh a city."
" We have had, and have, our enemies with
in, and like the canker worm, they destroy all
that they touch. We have in our country to
day the agents and propogandists of the
and menace of Soviet Russia? that mis-guided
neople who have bade themselves an outlaw
among the nations, and have undertaken to
set up a rule of coercion and Godlessnes. .
They speak in all our cities; they organize
under cover of night; they boldly proclaim
themselves the enemies of our constitution ana
the haters of our flag. They have just now,
under their leaders, taken a step which they
believe will enable them to overthrow the
peace and order of the world. By a system
of enforced labor, they are undertaking to
destroy the markets of the world, and to dis
organize the productiveness and -production ol
the labor of all nations. Their scheme is not
economic. It is not for profit. It is for power.
They have conceived the hideous idea that it
! thev control the bread of the world, and the
! meat of the world, their millions in that un
known North, together with their unknown
minions in the other nations of the earth, can
! conquer the world through starvation. Yet we
'have people in our own country who would
defend the system, and flout the idea that it
contains a menace, forgetful of the fact that
? every single thing done by the government at
i Moscow is done in violation of individual
: freedom.
J We have in our own country, -too, and
? among our own citizenship, men who openly
i and flagrantly violate and connive at the viol
iation of our laws, and hold our constitution
in contempt. They boldly proclaim that this
I republic does not have the power to enforce
| its own laws; and, therefore, that the laws
must be repealed. In order to give some
color to their assertions, they and their kind
I have corrupted by bribery and otherwise, law
enforcement officers through the length and
i breadth of this nation. They and their kind
refuse to help the government which protects
them to protect itself by the enforcement of
its laws, and they demand that they shall be
given the right to repeal and re-write the laws
of this republic. The time will never come
when America will permit those who despise
her laws to repeal her laws, nor those who
| hate all law prescribing proper conduct to
write the law.
Our progress industrially has been so great
and our achievements commercially so out
standing that there has grown up among us
a cult that believes the chief end of man is
to get money. We find them in many walks
of life, and they have pursued their purpose
to such an extent that in many instances they
barter away their souls and the rights of
those who trusted them for ill-gotten gain.
We find them leading dual lives? that of res
pectability in the community, and of secret
dishonesty in their - business. They have
' brought untold want and suffering to millions
of people in our own land. But the people of
America still rule, and they will say in no un
certain language to this cult of dishonest
business that we are not against honest bus
iness, that we are not against big business,
that we are not against profitable business,
but that by the living God all business shall
be honest, or shall cease to be. , ,
We have within our country another brand
of enemy. Sometimes he is a politician ; some
times he is in office; sometimes he hopes to
gain either money or position by his acts;
but he believes that it is perfectly proper to
raid the treasuries of the nation, the states,
the counties, and the municipalities. His idea
of taxing the people to pay for his waste, ex
travagance, and debauchery has seized him
with frenzied madness. The people have been
taxed to death; they have been robbed of
| their living; they have been made to have less
respect for their government; they have lost
confidence in their public servants, through
the conduct of this cla6s of politicians and
servants of politicians who live by graft; that
care nothing for a free people; that .'<now
nothing of the ideals of freedom; that care
only for their selfish grain and their lust for
power. But again I say, the people still rule
America and the time will speedily come
when every grafter, corruptor, mis-appropri
ator, and embezzler, whether in h:gh or low
place, will be driven from every seat of
?0,The people of this republic have avoided
socialistic tendencies as far as possible in
their government by granting certain fran
chises to various institutions, such as public
utilities, and have permitted the establish
ment and operation of certain financial insti
tutions, such as banks. All of this has been
done for the greater service and convenience
of the people, and they have been willing that
such institutions should reap a fair profit.
But it was never intended by the people that
the shares in public service corporations
should be treated as a commodity, bartered
and sold in the market, and the prosperity of
the nation thereby be jeopardized by frenzied
speculation. Neither was it ever intended by
the people that banks entrusted with the
money of the people should go into the busi
ness of promoting the sale of stocks and bonds
in any stock-market, and particularly was it
never intended that banks all over the coun
try should be permitted to send the people s ,
money to Wall Street to be loaned out at a ;
high rate of interest to those who desired to ]
use it in speculation. Such a business policy ;
by banks will destroy the prosperity of a na- !
tion by allowing its legitimate interests and
earnings by toil and industry to languish
while great profits are piled up in the way of
interest. Of course, the profits can not last
longer than the date of the discovery that in
dustry and labor have died from malignant
anemia.
In the development of a great industrial
population in this nation it is inevitable that
there will be great combinations of capital ana
credit. But it was never intended by the peo
Ele who wrote our Constitution that such com
inations should ever be made for the purpose
of restricting credit, either to individuals or
to the government, nor that they should be
able to control the money issued by the gov
ernment to the people.
We have other tendencies which, if per
mitted to go along unchecked, will eat out the
heart of the (deal of freedom. The tendency to
centralize governmental power and to create
political machines easily handled -from a cen
tral base is a denial of local government. We
find this tendency in the political partizanry
and control of many governmental institu
tions. That, too, is a denial of local g?*e'n"
ment, and, if permitted to continue, will de
stroy the freedom of the people and will set
up the rule of dictators and tyrants.
We should remember that the ideals of this
government were conceived and put in motion
by people who had a profound respect for the
Scriptures, and believed in the guidance of
the Great Book. Many of the greatest minds
of the early years of the republic were
preachers of the gospel, and they had as much
to do with laying the foundations of freedom
and building our structures thereon as any
other class of men. It was because they were
patriots and imbued with the spirit of helpful
ness to all people that they were able to plant
the civilization that they did plant in this
land. But we have a tendency now that, if
continued, will lead us into the mazes of athe
ism and disorder. In some respects we have
lost the ardor and the heroic faith of the men
of that day. And in some respects we are
settling down in an attempt to live solely on
a sort of philosophic teaching, and with the
hope that we shall be kept together by inten
sive organization. In my opinion, we are mis
taken. The church must teach not mental de
velopment alone, but mental and spiritual
development combined. No presumptuous in
tellectual can ever become a heroic patroit.
The true patriot must always realize the
necessity of aid from forces that he can pos
sess only by invocation. Through faitnless
leadership we may be able to establish for a
time what we may call a reign of reason ; but
it will speedily become a reign of unreason.
These are things that seem to me proper
to consider on this natal day of the republic.
I know of no better way to preserve the
heritages that are ours than to re-dedicate
ourselves to the patriotic principles taught
by the Junior Order United American
Mechanics. We ought to preserve America in
its pristine purity and spirit-filled loyalty. To
do so, we must teach the universal necessity
of love-not an emotionalism, not a lustful
ness, but the love that takes the interest of
thy neighbor into thy heart as it takes thine
own interest into thy heart. We must teach
and re-dedicate ourselves to the necessity of
virtue, and, in doing so, we shall cultivate
and re-enact as rules for patriotic action,
courses that will result in the building of the
greatest social civilization the world ever
saw. We must re-dedicate ourselves to love
for, and protection cf, the flag of our coun
try as the emblem of freedom. To do these
things we should hold fast to the principles
that there shall be forever a separation of
church and state ? that there shall be no dual
authority in this republic. We should under
take to so restrict foreign immigration that
the blood streams of our people shall not be
come polluted. We should re-dedicate our
selves to the principles of local government
and so undertake to educate and inspire our
people that they will not only love their
country but have the heart-impulse for its
support. I believe that over the dome of ev
ery institution in this larid there should
float from the mast above, the stars and
stripes; and thut in its places of congrega
tion, there should be a copy of the Sacred
Book, not for purposes of governmental, or
ecclesiastical, or denominational interperta
tion, but as the Ark cf the Covenant of this
country wi'h right as against wrong; with
good as against evil; with the individual and
the masses as against tyranny.
When we shall have done these things, we
will guarantee unto ourselves a government
that is indestructible. We shall, I believe, win
and merit the favor of the Almighty, who is
able to lead His people, though slaves they
may be, out of every darkness, and from un
der every tyranny, through a leadership that
He shall choose. We will do more? we will
jteep the ir.inds of men ever free in order that
they may unravel the mysteries of nature,
and bring about the time when all the
hills snail sirg together; when the lightnings
of the clouds and the mysterious forces
of the earth shall all combine to serve
man; and when he shali walk as he was
intended to walk before his Creator, ana
before all men everywhere, perfect? perfect
in stature; perfect in thinking; perfect in
action; perfect in love; perfect in virtue; per
fect in patriotism; holding his life merely as
a gift for the use of others, and able and wil
ling to surrender it for the principles that
will allow his people and the people of the |
earth to live. I
COUNTY LOSES 210
AUTOS DURING YEAR
Fewer Trucks by 20 Than
Were In County Year Ago
? State Loss Nearly 50,000
Raleigh, July 8.? North Carolin
ians had 47,113 fewer automobiles
this July 1 than they had a year ago,
but had 3,000 more motor trucks this
year than they had a year ago, and
354 fewer motorcycles, the quarterly
report made by Sprague Silver, di
r?ctor of the Motor Vehicle Bureau
shows.
The automobiles now number 319,
032, as compared with 366,145 a y elf*
ago; motor trucks number 54,242 now
as compared with 51,242 a year ago,
and motorcycles 765 now, as com
pared with 1,119 a year ago. Auto
mobiles owned by non-residents, but
registered here, numbered 2,525 and
trucks 895 last year, as compared
with 2,450 automobiles and 970 trucks
this year. t
The count is made by counting a ? A
given number of cards in the file and ^
measuring them, then measuring the
cards for each county and the State,
and figuring the number, which is not
absolutely accurate, but gives the
number within a dozen of what the
actual count would show.
Few counties show an increase in
numbers of automobiles this year
'over last, most of them reflecting the
I economic depression with a drop in
| numbers. The average of automo
j biles per county is about 3,190, of
'trucks about 542 and of motorcycles
? less than eight to the county.
Transylvania county, the records
show, had 580 automobiles and 90
trucks on July 1 this year, as com
pared with 790 automobiles and 110
trucks on July 1, 1930.
| NOTICE OF TRUSTEE'S SA LE
I Under the power of sale contained
in that certain deed in trust executed
by W. W. Reid and wife, Leeus Reid,
to Lewis Hamlin, trustee, dated the
22nd day of June, 1929, and recorded
in the office of the register of deeds
for Transylvania county, North Caro
lina, in book 24 on page 220, et seq.,
and default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness thereby
secured and demand havng been made
for sale, the undersigned trustee will
sell at public auction to the highest
bidder for cash, at 12 o'clock M., on
the 27th day of July, 1931, at the
courthouse door in the town of Bre
vard, N. C., the following described
piece or parcel of land, lying and be
ing in Hogback township, and more
particularly described as follows:
] First Tract: On the waters of Flat
creek, beginning on the creek at the
mouth of a small ditch and runs up
said ditch south 38 east 36 poles to a
f Sksmall white oak at corner of the
fence; thence with the same south
1 15 east 8 poles to a stone crossing
the branch; thence south 75 east 14
poles to a stone ; thence south 50 east
8 poles to a stake ; thence east 8 poles
t to a stake at wire fence; thence with
| wire fence south 50 east 14 poles to
i a stake at a gate; thence north 51
east 10 feet to a stake at the W. E.
iReed corner; thence north 48 east 24
poles to a stake ir. the R. E. Wood
j line on top of the Blue Ridge; thence
north 34 west 27 poles to a stone on
;top of the Blue Ridge, passing W. W.
| Reed at 4 poles passing another cor
?ner at 18 poles to a chestnut stump,
[old corner; thence north 60 west 32
'poles to a stake in the creek and in
ithe line that divides the land between
jG. J. Whitmire and T. V. Smith,
thence up and with the creek south 14
1-2 west 17 poles to the beginning,
I containing all the land enclosed in
I deed from G. J. Whitmire and wife,
i Cora Whitmire, dated the 30th day;
of August, 1920, recorded in the of
[ fice of the register of deeds for Tran
sylvania county in book 45 at page
1 102 and containing nine acres, more
or less.
I Second Tract: Beginning on a stone
and pine stump, Johnny C. Whitmire
jand W. W. Reid's corner, and runs
j south 41 1-2 east 54 poles to a black
pine in Norton line; then with his
line north 27 1-2 east 92 poles to a
locust in a small hollow, Norton's cor- I
ner; thence north 62 1-2 west 6 poles
to a small maple in Johnny Whit
mire line of his home tract; thence
south 84 west 37 poles to a Spanish
oak on top of Blue Ridge and in own
line; thence south 10 west 11 poles
to the beginning. Containing twenty
one acres, more or less, and being the
same land deeded to W. E. Reed and
wife, Lecus Reid, by Johnny Whit
mire and wife, T. E. Whitmire, by
deed dated February 22nd, 1923, said
deed recorded in the office of the reg- ^
ister of deeds for Transylvania coun- fli
ty, N. C., in deed book No. 45, at page ^
167.
Said sale being made for the pur
pose of satisfying said debt, interest,
costs and expenses of said sale.
This 26th day of June, 1931.
LEWIS P. HAMLIN, Trustee.
July 2-9-18-23.
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