Swimming Pool Good Health Investment! ; BY K. J. EYER District Sanatarian A swimming pool is an investment in Health and Happiness. Swimming has long been considered one of the «st healthful and beneficial sports. |reation centers and public parks i considered incomplete without pools. Most towns and cities over 5,-1 000 population are providing swim ming pools for adults and children. The swimming pool is a gpod exam-) pie of an institution devised to im prove hygenic conditions. Swimming is one of the best forms of exercise and about the only violent form of exercise that can be practiced in hot weather without danger of overheat ing the body. Swimming possesses the added hygenic advantage of pro moting cleanliness. The danger of disease transmissal is minimized with modem design and sanitary control and there is no reason for the public fearing to patronize the swimming pool at which available san- j itary precautions are applied. Per-: Weekly Devotional] Column By James Mackenzie ' “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil” (Exodus 23-9). In a recent sermon on the abcve verse, Dr. Lee Roberson, dynamic pas tor of the Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, listed four dangers of the all too hu man practice of following the crowd: 1. Crowds have away of making men lose sight of God, for multitudes usually follow in the way of evil. 2. Crowds make men ignore the voice of conscience. Within every man is placed an inner voice which speaks regarding right and wrong, but! crowds stifle the voice until it is ig nored. 3. Crowds cause men to neglect the Word of God. Multitudes will never follow the Word because it is against | the flesh. Devoted and dedicated ( Christians will always be in the mi nority. The number of Bible-loving, Bible-reading, Bible-following believ ers will always be small. The crowds S'! 2 *gfgs*gy / 4^B^^?~""~ **""•■ !"SSSSIS^,jF. r __ I* s S -, JEWELERS /%£/ “THE DIAMOND STORE OF ED ENT ON" 1 / iodic checks for the purity of the wa- ] ter will be made by the health de- ; partment, since it must meet health ] standards. The design, construction and opera tion of swimming pools is being recog- i nized more and more as a very impor tant part of sanitation and protection of public health. The public has been educated to the importance of proper [protection for drinking water and where years ago almost any kind of ) water was accepted from the faucet, now the water system must supply a 1 commodity attractive to the eye, pleas- J ant to the taste and entirely free from, dangerous bacteria. These qualities have spread to the swimming pool and water meeting potable standards must be maintained if the general health of I a community is to be protected and its j popularity to continue. The increas ing use of pools, for health, recrea tional and athletic purposes by a sani tary-minded public has brought about the realization that swimming pool (Control must take its place with other ; sanitation problems. will not follow the Word of God. I 4. Crowds take the line of least re sistance. Jesus said, “Enter ye in at the strait gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat. Because strait is the gate and narrow is the way that lead eth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:13, 14). We dare not be guilty ot taking a certain coarse of action just because it seems to be the way of the crowd. The broad way is not the better way, though it is crowded. The plea, “Ev erybody’s doing it,” is not a valid one for the Christian. It was following the crowd that caused the drunken sot to take his first drink, and it is fol lowing the crowd that causes people to curse, and lie, and cheat, and live un faithfully. While the crowd may pro fess some interest in religion as such, and even condescend to speak well of the Church, it has nothing but con tempt for sacrificial Christianity, and I treats consecrated children of God with ridicule and scorn. The crowd is on its way to hell, and he who fol lows the crowd will follow it to its (destination. Our Lord Jesus walked a lonely pathway. He prayed alone in the gar den. He died alone on the cross. | The world has been shaken and THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1964. moved by men who walked alone. When society has been rotting, and nations have given away to sin, men have arisen with courage to stand alone and call the people back to God. Men like Savonarola, Wycliffe, Hubs, Luther and Wesley, turned the tide of history, as they called men back to the primitive and true faith of the New Testament, because, in the face of danger, torture, and even death, they were not afraid to stand alone in the courage of their convictions. Since the dawn of history some thir ty billion people have walked upon the face of the earth, but a scant five thousand are remembered to this day and time. Their names are recorded 'in your encyclopedias, and your his tory books. Who are they? They are the men and women who stood alone for their convictions. If they feared the crowd they showed it not. Discipline yourself to walk alone. Stand by your convictions. Stand by the Word of God, and the God of the Word will stand T>y you. When Paul was tried before Nero, he said, “No men stood with me, but all men for sook me.” Ah, but notice the next verse, “Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me.” (Much of the material in this col umn is taken from a sermon by Dr. Lee Roberson). 125 Receive Old Age Assistance In April According to the monthly report of Mrs. J. H. McMullan, superintendent of public welfare, 125 persons receiv ed old age assistance during April, with $3,159 being distributed. Twelve cases of aid to dependent children re ceived $473, with $451 going to 12 blind aid cases and $391 to 11 aid to permanently and totally disabled per ' sons. General assistance was given in nine . cases amounting to $79.14. Other fi , nancial assistance included three cases . hospitalized in the county, $225 and . two cases hospitalized outside the county, $197.74. ' Service cases included two parolees under supervision, two persons receiv lled veterans rehabilitation in coopera- I tion with the Department of Public I Welfare, three received free eye ex ■ animations through the N. C. State i Commission for the blind and 19 chil dren received individual service. r - Beware of him who hates the laugh |ter of a child. —John Caspar Lavater. New Construction Hits Record Os $35 Billion Total new construction, one of the mainstays of the nation’s economic ac tivity, hit a new record high in 1953 of just under $35 billions, according to figures made public by the U. S. Housing and Home Finance Agency. Preliminary data indicate that this trend was maintained in the first quar- His <: INSURANCE < A four-letter word—and crops ruined, the work of years lost) But Farm Bureau protects you. At low cost, your crop and home can be safeguarded. Non-assessable, full coverage. No fears, no tears, ne debts for yean when covered by Farm Bureau. PARKER HELMS 204 Bank of Eden ton Building PHONE EDENTON 671-J-5 ; LONNIE HARRELL Route S PHONE ROCKY HOCK 114 I FARM BUREAU .1. mutual fire insurance co. - T. r . V\AAAAAAAAAA«’ fWOMPWFUuiS?I mfi* V GRADUATION / V WEDDING I ,/«V V ANNIVERSARY I l«Pl\ V' BIRTHDAY \\ v ”* ' ENGA^IBMENT^jI £gpjgpyijgjjg3PߣW’° MW LANE CEDAR ' chests 1*49- EASY WEEKLY PAYMENTS her precious pos >nv chest. m Chest upon proper applicttion. owr gaimiht savid no* moths cam pay roe a umi Quinn Furniture Company EDENTON, N. C. ter of this year. i Residential building was the big- 1 gest single item in overall construc tion activity, amounting to more than a third of the total. Private home building in 1953 added up to $11.9 bil lions. This (vadonly S7OO millions J under the dollar peak set in 1950 even though the number of homes started j last year was nearly 300,000 fewer | than in 1950. The difference lies in j the fact that the average construc jtion cost per dwelling unit was esti —— - ■ ' —, i — m*mm j GLENAIORE ! BSNTWCKV STRAIGHT BOUR •• M j ' t 86 PROOF $3- /*» $ 2~ / fUftore / \ / u olf Vn f/T / ( GLENMORE / \ IS DISTIUID AND BOTTIfD US I GIINMORI DISTILIIBIIS COMPANY . IQUISVILIf, KENTUCKY SECTION TWO- mated at a record $9,500 for 1953, ap proximately SI,OOO higher than in I°so. Wouldn’t “I’ll tel! you, Pat, my boy,” the big I man of the town confided, laying a ! patronizing hand on the young Irish ! man’s shoulder, “I wish I had your | tongue.” - “Sure, sor,” grinned Pat; “but it would do yez no good without my brains.” Page Five