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^ ABORS VTTITl'DE TOWARD THE CHURCH
^L; U'illian: Creen, of the American Federation of LaHit
ly was ..ut^iH)ken in his opinions of the spiritual and
Hues of the Church as regards the institution of Labor.
Hpeful .?ig nthat Labor recognizes the power of the
Ho regenerate the lives of those who toil. And this
^H more than 3.000,000 tradesmen and tradeswomen ii*
Hi States has struck a responsive chord in the hearts
Hneriean people when he, in effect, insists that without
Hual factors predominant in the life of the workers there
Hope of material benefit.
Hnt Croon is not alone in circles of Labor in sponsoring
recognition of the Church's influence, or of matters
Hie narrower quest of wages and hours. During the
Hr such prominent leaders as Vice President Matthew
|the Federation, and Hugh Frayne were outstanding
||en for greater panicipation 01 tne workers in things
L to t}:? community life such as recreation and social
L present trend of thought is also of the Church's attiLard
I-aoor. A correct statement is sought for the guid|ail
church workers in their important task of serving
L of Lalv.r geerally. And without an understanding of
Iplikm.- there can be no great accomplishment in bringlorors
of the spirit and the ambitions of the toiles onto
groumi.
SAFETY IN AIRCRAFT
[the element of safety is greatly increased the people
take up flying as a common means of transportationletul
outlook is that airplanes are becoming safer, and
ch revolutionary changes that hundreds of the "latest
my planes are now obsolete. Auxiliary motors, paraiturdier
construction and stricter regulations regarding
lan element are contributing to the near success of air
jr commerce and pleasure.
i
ig one s communitiy back beacuse of fear of more comnever
built a city, nor a nation , nor a business, nor a
haracter out of the man who practises the false logic.
udying the questions that come before the community*
rviliricni ijnrial nr economic, one learns to better his |
Bdition and enhance his welfare along the lines of the
B measures of progress and development.
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^ THE POLK COUNTY NEWt
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WHY AMERICA WINS OVER EUROPE
France w in HiffipnWoa Jo ?1 ? A
? ? ? ?*??v?.v.vo cviivi 10 larviiig it uul un .ttjnerican
tourists and Americans generally. In a half critical, half envious,
and half humorous manner Uncle Sam is being called a
Shylock.
What France needs is to clean her own household. Nearly
all of the European countries are held back by restrictive laws,
tariff walls, customs and red tape. If Europe would throw
down its bars trade and commerce would not be held back. If
Europeans would get bickerings out of their systems and jealousLses
out of their hearts they would come nearer relieving
themselves of financial disaster.
In the United States and Canada things are different. A
man can raise potatoes in Idaho and sell them in Georgia; or
manufacture shoes in Massachusetts and dispose of them in
California. It is nobody's business but HIS business He is not
confronted with restrictive or prohibitive laws so far as interstate
traffic is concerned. The United States and Canada constitute
the largest free trade area in the world. Hence the prosperity
of these North American countries.
The word "protection" in Europe becomes a misnomer. If
Sweden can make good shoes cheaply those shoes ought to be
cheap enough so that the Italians would not save to go barefooted.
If Switzerland can make good cheese and better cheese
than Spain she should be allowed to furnish the Spaniards with
this wholesome food at non-prohibitive prices. In other words, I
commerce, as such, should have no common lot with traditions, I
languages and racial distinctions that rightly hold nations'
apart. When it comes to BUSINESS, the greatest "protec- j
tion" is often the lack of it, when protection is translated as
restriction of the natural flow of commerce and the supplying
of the world's needs with the world's products.
There are, of course, certain fundamentals of protection un-,
derlying all local prosperity. The United States can well afford
to protect from low standards of living and cheap labor and j
chea pvroducts of foreign countries- because this country is
large and is practically self-supporting. But in a group of small
countries as in Europe, where to us another nation is like another
county or another state, there is every reason why national
prejudices adn mistrusts should give way to the necessities
of business intercourse. This, however, is not done, and Europe
suffers Unfortunately, she is more concerned about who
guards the banks of the Rhine than about how and at what
price her people are to be fed.
IN THE SWIM
After Gertrude Edrele made her spectacular splash across
the English Channel several others tried. But what is most
needed in swimming line is the ability to get thru the water at
shorter distances. To be able to swim a few feet or yards well
is more desirable than the endurance tests of miles.
,That when the Constitution was signed this country was in a
condition of bankruptcy, chaos and anarchy.
That within five years thereafter came about one of the
most hopeful conditions for orderly progress in all history.
I Why's and Other Why's
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I V NEWSY
TOPICS 1
Physicians have quit advis-j
ing strolls along country roads
for rest and quiet.
Next to politics there's nothing
that makes strange bedfellows
like sudden riches.
The prettiest thing about a
sunset on a hot day is the fact
| that the sun is setting.
That nation is doomed whose
women no longer regard being
a good cook a distinction. ,
Public office is a public trust '
so long as the officeholder ]
doesn't ruin his credit.
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Some club women know more <
about conditions in China than .
the condition of their china j
closet.
There's hope for the coun- j
ties in this country: political11
and petting. Both need watch- ,
in*-# ;
The grocery stores quit sell- j
ing gasoline because their customers
didn't have the nerve j
to charge for fuel while owing f
for food.
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Deep literature is appreciat- |
ed after the author dies. May- j
be popular songs would be bet- .
ter received after their writers
were hung.
About the time a young man
gets himself loose from his ^
mother's apron strings some
sweet young thing ties herself .
to his purse strings.
r
. Therere's hope for the coun- g
try in the fact that even if you t
violate a different law every r
day in the year there are still ^
8,4429,651 of which your con- j,
science is clear. ^
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They used to say that when r
the old topers died off there c
wouldn't be any thirst for j
whisky among the younger gen- j,
eration. Right: it will be a 0
craving for wood alcohol and j
hair tonic.
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There is enough clothing in 0
the attics of this country to u
keep it warm for five years, t
says an economist. And there's I
enough booze in the basements F
of this country to keep it drunk a
for Kfe. o
?Badd (Tex.) News.
Golf is the poor man's game ?
if the poor man's game to try ,
it. ^ "
What the modern girl needs
is to be sewing cloth instead of
wild oats.
Whether business is good de- a
pends on how long it has been r
since the last cash customer. 1j
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This is an ungrateful world, j
Can any of you name a single c
thing you got last Christmas? j
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Many a woman who fills the 0
vase in the sedan with pretty t
flowers has left the sink full ?
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A famous Indian scientist has i
demonstrated that trees brea- t
the. Our forest rangers al- v
ready knew that they smoke. c
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In fifty years from now t
there will be not only one air- 8
plane for every home but one c
smashed on the roof of every ?
house. f
Coolidge has done one thing !
for the country. He has proven 1
that you don't always have to c
eat canned fish when camping ^
out- t
e
Hereafter, the Mexicans will \
have to worship God according 8
to the dictates of their Consti- r
tution instead of their consci- c
ence. v i
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.. To some Senatorial aspirants c
G. 0. P. stands for Get Out the (
Pocketbooks^but their nomina- c
tions at least' disprove the the- g
ory that rich men are stingy. ^
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"A monument to a hen will (
be erected in Rhode Island and ]
will probably be placed in the 1
middele of the road."?Detroit \
News. But wouldn't that be a J
monument to a Henry? *
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It is a wise administration 1
that provides for elections be- 1
fore the income tax falls due; i
but still wiser is the govern- ]
ment that makes incomes large 1
enough to be taxable. <
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Now since the country has ]
had time to reflect on Joyce 1
Hawley's champagne bath, we ]
expect some expert in high fin- ]
ance to come forward with the j
figures on how much it would 1
cost her to take one every Sat- ]
urday night for a year.
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Most significant news of the <
month, to the poor, is the Ger- <
man vote upon whether the na- c
;ion of Geramn shall seize the s
Kaiser's property. i
Is it the Kaiser's property? (
^on Hiqdenburg, President of ^
jermany, and once dreadful
varrior of blood and iron, says
t is. The Socialists and Com- c
nunists say it is not. ; r
From the time the first duke f
n the Hohenzollern line seized
;hat is, stole, the land that lay t
iround his castle, the Hohen- t
:ollern family has held, and ad- 1
led to, estates, in the name of t
he nation. These estates have r
)roduced revenue. To this re- 1
renue the nation has added m
rom time, to time. Kaisers c
ind kings, said to represent e
heir people, have always re- o
:eived and spent money lavis- d
y. There was plenty left when c
he Kaiser fled to Holland.
Now the question is: Whose f
>roperty is it? e
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We celebrate on July 4, 1926 V
he one .hundred and (fiftieth ^
inniversary of the signing of a J
locument that says whose e
troperty it is. That document n
s the Declaration of Independ- P
nee. It has fewer than six- h
een hundred words, and can be e
ead in less than ten minutes, il
"he Queen of the Types, who P
s responsible for all errors in V
his office, read it in Six:. It 1
an be found in the World Al- P
nanac, or in any good Ameri- 1
an Encyclopedia or historyCvery
American ought to read c
t once a year on the Fourth r
if July. jrl
If the airplane had been in!
ixistence in 1776, no amount;,'
if patriotism would have freed n
is from the British. We were a
oo few in number. Too weak. I
lut we were. far away, trans- . e
ortation was slow and expen-!
ive, and we were scattered t
iver a wide territory.
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One of the amazing features jt
f our revolution was that most |
if our so-called "respectable" id
LIGHT DIET PUNISHMENT I
I
(Greensboro Daily News,
Sentence to jail on a bread*c
,nd water diet is a popular t
emedy prescribed for liquor p
aw violators by County Judge t
"hatt' of Burt county, Nebras- t
:a. According to the sheriff ii
he remedy has "materially de- h
reased liquor law violations" "
n Judge Chatt's jurisdiction, li
.Tie usual sentence is for five j f
ir ten days "on bread and wa-[s
er." Recently two men were a
entenced to 60 days in jail, g
the first and last 20 days"? t
0 of the 60 days?"to be ser- p
ed on a bread and water diet." f
" he defendants appealed, after n
hey had tried the diet for a t
reek. The complaint was on ac- 1;
ount of the feed and it is pre- r
umed that its basis was that f
he punishment was unusual e
md cruel. But the Supreme e
ourt held in effect that the t
liet was good for them and the i
>enalty stands. p
If this form of punishment p
s found effective in Nebraska s
t might, with justice, be tried a
?ut on prisoners in chain gang''
amps who are alleged to be ]
ying down on the job because
he women have "messed in" p
ind removed the fear of the \
ash. Whether our judges have a
iny authority in prescribing p
nenus for persons they senten- \
e to prison is a question. But c
t might help the helpless pris- i
in camp superintendents whose t
inly remedy for rebellious pris- e
iners us a club, if thev court ]
:ould add to each sentence pre- t
icribing imprisonment with la- \
)or that in case of refusal to I
>bey orders prisoners should be e
- - i j
:onfined to a diet of bread ana c
vater. Of course the prison re- s
'ormers whose consideration r
'or convicts exceeds sound j
judgement might cry out at i
;he cruelty. But it is a sound c
ixiom, and reasonable withal,
;hat if one is physically able
X) work and will nr!. hbor, nei:her
should he eat. Of course i
lobody would approve capital j
punishment by starvation, but j
the rebellious would no doubt j
:ome around before it reached i
that point; or at least that i
problem could be dealt with <
when it was reached. It is improbable
that many of our
prisoners would attempt to I
stage martyrdom by putting on
hunger strikes- That is self- j
punishment that few of them
would stand for long.
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rink!
ian Eugene fiead
IE KAISER'S PROPERTY (
1DEPEND5NCE KINGS
dement were Tories. Even aftir
the hostilities began, many
)f our leaders regarded themselves
as English-men, protestng
against wrongs. In the
syes of the world our soldiers
vere rebels?until they won.
July 4, 1776, is the greaest of
lays in the struggle for democacy.
When our embattered
armers fierd the shot heard
round the world they thought
hey were fighting only in proection
of their own home state
)ut that shot dethroned the
hroned the monarchs of Euope.
A century and a half
ater at the end of the great
var. the following was the list
if kings still remaining on the
arth. Read it and laugh. Most
if the kings were Mohammelans,
Asiatics and African
hiefsAlbert,
Boris III, Christian X
Ferdinand IX Constantine, Petr
It Alfonso XIII, Victor Enanuel
III, John II, Charlotte,
Vilhelmina, George V, Haakon
HI, Gustaf V. Waizeru Zauditu
Johamed VI, Bey Sidi Mohamd,
Ahmed Fuad, Amir Amalullah
Khan, Husein, Abd-el^ziz,
Abdullah ibn Mitah, Molamed
ibn Ali, Yahya Mohamd,
Seyhid Taimur, Ahmend
bn Jobar, Emir Abdullah. Said
tsfendiar, Maharaja Ugyen
Vangchug, Emir Said Mir Alim
than, Khai-Dinh, Yoshihito,
ihmed, P'Yi, The Dalai Lama,
Tie Hutuktu, Rama VI.
That is the complete list exept
for the king of Nepal. His
lame was Maharapadhirapa
Yibhubana Bir Bikram Jung
ihumshere Jung.
3ne is reminded by these
lames of the story of the Arknsas
judge before whom a
lungarian was brought chargd
with vagarancy.
"What is your name?" asked
he pudge.
"Wladislaus Zsitvaork Gyuaehervar
Istvan Illeshazy," said
he vagrant.
The judge replied, "Thirty
lays."
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THE PREACHER GOT GAY
(jGreesboro Daily News.
The Presbyterian Standard
ontains the official report of
he trial and deposing of a
reacher in Virginia, which is
0 this effect. Near a year ago
he plreacher was given a hearng
before the official body of
lis church and found guilty of
being drunk and driving reckessly."
He was suspended
rom the ministry "until he
1 'J ----- -J wAnAn^
nouia give eviueutc uj. xc^uir
nee." Officials of his congre ation
asked that he be permited
to preach to them while, on
irobafion, from which it is inerred
that the congregation
nust have had much faith in
he preacher. Some months
ater the preacher asked to be
einstated "without ever conessing
his sin or showing any
ividence of repentance." The
scclesiastical coiirt thought
here should be another hearng
before his request was
granted and they cited the
>reacher to appear.. He was
;low to respond but he finally
appeared and pleaded guilty
'to all the charges," - "includuding
lying and perjury."
Whereupon the church court
iroceeded formally and officialyto
cast him withou the pale,
ind you got to admit that
readier man had it coming to
lim. There are more than eniugh
of the unregenerate drivng
on .the highways while
anked up- and if the preachirs
join the procession the
imit will be crowded. The
hing has got to stop somevhere
Admitted that it is
lardly fair to deny the preacht
the same privilege members
? ii
>f his flock may taKe to tnemlelves,
but it's the custom to
equire a straighter walk of the
jarson and he will have to live
lp to expectations or take the
:onsequences.
R. R. CLARK.
Farmers of McDowell County
ire realizing that livestock and
poultry offer the best mediums
for bringing about permanent
form prosperity and they are
rapidly adopting this new
method of {farmjpg .reports
:ounty agent W. L. Smarr.
A field of cowpeas on a Durham
County farm still shows
the beneficial effects of lime
applied five years ago.
READ POLK COUNTY NEW8