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SECTION TWO- NEW LIGHT ON HORSEPOWER By BILL CROWELL * Horsepower or horsesense which will it be? The auto manufacturers don’t market both in their products and the rage seems to be toward high er and higher horsepower. But are galloping horses the real! menace to traffic safety? _ j Not altogether say engineers includ ing safety experts of the State De- ( partment of Motor Vehicles. “Con trolled” horsepower and sensible driv-, ing speeds are largely the key to pre venting motor tragedies. With the ’55 models breaking out! over the country at least one North Carolina newspaper bemoans the fact, that engines in the new models are! climbing higher and higher in the horsepower range. Editorially it says, “It’s rather iron ic that so many people . . . continu ously moan and cry about the grue-j some fatality records of our state, yetj voice no objection when cars are made more powerful arid dangerous,” But a high powered car isn’t neces- j sarily dangerous. Quite the contrary, it is much safer than the cars of sev eral years ago snorting maximum rat-. ings of 85-100 horsepower. Auto engineers know that accelera tion, hill climbing ability, gas mile age and reduced Wear are desirable factors in engines. They achieve this performnee and durability by building' Weekly Devotional' Column By James Mackenzie j “Chronologically, faith precedes in-1 telligence; in order to understand a| thing \ve must first believe it” Au gustine: (453-430 A.D). Do you agree with Augustine? At your first glance I imagine you will' not. Because of human pride we like to kid ourselves into thinking that all our views are reasonable, and that we accept and believe nothing on the j basis of faith alone. But think for a > moment oh what Augustine says, and ; you will see he speaks the truth. “In order to understand a thing we must first believe it,” Certainly this is true in the realm of history. Lot us assume, for example, that you know a good deal about the Civil War, and understand quite, well just why it was fought. Upon what do you base your knowledge and understanding? Upon contemporary documents and eye-wit ness accounts ? But how do you know . that these documents and eye-witness accounts are authentic? Only because you accept them by faith—in this case, i faith in the persons who have passed them on to us. This is also true in the realm of philosophical speculation. There is no one so unreasonable as the person who says, “I believe only that which my mind tells me is reasonable, and accept nothing by faith alone.” Some, PM | STRAIGHT U B O LJRB WHISKEY®! M Hi $2.15 $3.40 I .National Distillers Products Corporation, New York, N. Y,* 86 Proof Page Six engines of higher compression and in creased horsepower. Additional speed is only a superfluous “benefit” un avoidable, of course, as horsepower ratings climb. J They point to improved acceleration, ias a definite safety factor. And hcre| 1 motor vehicle safety authorities agree. | The ability to pass slower moving • cars rapidly is a safety factor. George j Koether, automotive editor of LOOK, describes it this way, “One 1953 model |of 125 horsepower required 18 seconds ;to accelerate from oto 60 mph. This 1 year, that same car, with a new en- i ' gine of 161 horsepower, accelerates lover the same range in 15 seconds.' Those saved seconds can make the difference betwpen life and death in a tight squeeze on the highway.” “ So high-stepping engines of savage :power, while the delight of the hot rod . I set. arenlt the menace to safe navi-, cation they’ve been painted, j “A motor scooter, of five of so horsepower, is a dangerous vehicle in I the hands of an irresponsible opera j tor.” says Motor Vehicles Commission er Edward Scheidt. The real safety I factor in safe driving is still the dri er. In all of our fatal accidents last year a driver violation was reported in 87 per cent of the eases. That means someone was disobeying a traffic law I when death struck.” |in their blind pride, have even gone' so far as to deny the existence of God.. 1 since they can form no conception of ; Him through reason alone. But if i there is no God, and we came into existence merely as the result of chance and circumstance, how may we, be certain that our minds are trust worthy? So we see that once again SALESLADY WANTED FOR Permanent Work With Good Working Conditions Good Starting Salary Vacation With Pay Hospitalization and Insurance Included WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR THE RIGHT PERSON! The Betty Shoppe EDENTON, X. C. THE CHOWAN HERALD, EDENTON. N. r ""'URSDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1954. faith comes first—in this case, faith in the human mind. But a study of the history of philosophy will reveal how vain it is to trust in human rea son alone. Gorgias, for example, was one of the greatest of the Greek phi losophers. He proved, by human rea son, that nothing exists, and even if it did exist it would be impossible for us 'to know about it. Further, we all know that two different persons, both exercising reason, both starting from I the same set of facts, will often find 'themselves in hopeless disagreement as to what those facts moan. There fore, we may conclude that nothing is I so unreaosnable as reason (and even this conclusion is unreasonable, since I have used human reason to prove that nothing can be proved by human reason). “Th order to understand a thing we I must first believe it.” This is a foun dation truth in the realm of theology. The Bible says, “ . . . without faith it jis impossible to please Him : for he that cometh to God must believe that He l's . . . ” (Hebrews 11:6), First of | all, the existence of God cannot be proved, it must be accepted by faith. We may advance all kinds of argu ments for the existence of God, but they are only arguments, not abso lute proof. Further, one must place faith in something as an authorita tive revelation, or “Word” of God. To some, this authoritative revelation is their church: to others it is some person, such as Mary Baker Eddy, Father Divine, or their preacher; to | most who read this column it is the Bible. Beginning with faith in the | Bible we are now free to gain un derstanding by exercise of the rea son: but we must begin with faith. As I write this column I have on my desk an excellent little book by a Lutheran scholar entitled “Why I Be lieve the Bible is God’s Word.” He advances several good reasons for ac cepting the Bible as the Word of God —but they are not his reasons for be- j lieving the Bible. He accepted the i Bible first of all by faith, and having accepted it, compiled proofs to j , strengthen and confirm his faith. If \ you will examine your own religious faith you will find you have done the same—you believe what you wish to !i believe, not what seems reasonable to you. But mere intellectual faith is of no i value until it is acted upon. You may | believe that God speaks to men through the Bible—but He will not speak to you until you open your Bible | The 'SB FOROS k expansion AMO* IMtMf F!«Wl UU COflUMt jnvtur um mthstomc com. act ,iga«etti uohiu ’’j.lvMV.A.I CAMPEN’S JEWELERS {SB Edenton, N. C. ! and read it You may believe that | “the gift of God is eternal life through ! , Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6:23) (but that gift does not become yours j , until you accept it Thus we see that faith and reason cannot be divorced, for one confirms the other. And Augustine was right when he said that faith comes first. Back Next Year, Too “Hey, you! What’s the idea of hunting with last year’s license?” “Oh, I’m only shooting at the birds I missed last year.” I OFFICES CLOSED NOV. 11 Both town and county offices will be closed all day Thursday of next week, November 11 in order to observe 'Armistice Day. Important business should, therefore, be transacted ac cordingly. Mathematical Problem Ella—-When are you to be mar ried? Stella Whenever the man Ue case gets His salary raised to adroit where he will not find the alimony I j expect prohibitive.
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