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\ matter under act of Mar. 11. 1870
Letters From The
I \ People
Cherokee Scout:
?\11 you allow me space in your
fljffiflgp V, for a few lines in reply t
.i'\ers which you recently pub'
r V regard to cur chocl at
\ \eek? The writers were.
\\ Ware of the fact that o'i?*
HDRM^^L \ y.k.,- W D \t?..:n
III?* \ V*"" " "
Kj^A. JL\ \blood to trickle down
\>re than one instance,
.nkly say that this has
gg^B ^ an our other good for...T?
ever did. I have been
^patron of this school f?-r fourteen
wears and I heartily ajrree with Miss
[Odom that this is too harsh punishrnent
to resort to unless the deed is,
m most worthy cne and no Cv her pun-1
Ishment found to answer instead.;
Perhaps the teacher thought this was '
the best method. As to the primary!
teacher. Miss Fannie Odom, she has
given entire satisiucticn n:I the way!
through. She certainly did have |
^at success with the little ones and ,
L iservcs all the credit which has been j
bestowed upon her. Also Mr. Mar-;
tin's work was very good except the
harsh punishment that he gave several
of the boys and we patrons do
not feel that the whip or lash was
teeded that severe, although we know
at our children have t~- be correct-1
of their mistakes, but love will
in most esses where hatred fails. !
l^nBm wholly in favor of good educa-'
QE^^Bm and fully believe in our schools
B^^Blng governed by the very best
HBH methods and do not wish to throw
slur on onyone but want the <
^^^^Biblic to know the facts.
Hfl^B A PATRON.
RHB^ar Editor:
com: tgain with a littlej i
HJ^^Bat regarding our school successful.
BB taught by Mr. W. R. Martin and
^H^^Biss Fannie Odom?
HH^UThere toucher- a; -_^0 h0 conprat
?* " "jbr^fnenuui wor1 iney
^^^^^Ujga^glad folks- are getting real
^H^Hpinested in school affairs. PerH^^w***Ps
when we all get interested we
will be more co-operative than we
have in the past, especially when
folks in other districts take an interest
in oar school.
We all know that we have had
good teachers at Grape Creek, and
well qualified, and teachers that were
loved by all of the students, but th?y
did not govern the school as Mr.
Martin has. I do not mean that children
ought to be punished out of
reason, and I don't think the._ has
been any punished out of reason
during this school, but I do say when
a child will not obey on good terms
the teacher should use the rod of
correction.
The scripture teaches us that if
we spare the rod we spoil the child
and I think the rod has been spared
too much among some.
In regard to demerits. They are
all right for those who are governed
thereby, but I was once a boy and
have gone through school and I know
demerit's don't work in all cases,
sprae children appreciate a demerit
as a head mark. Indeed Mrs. Bertha
Odom taught a good school as ait assistant
and had no trouble whatever
with her pupils, but the assistant
teachers never have as much responsibility
as the principals do.
Mrs. Odom will remember the firouWe
that occurred with the principal
teacher and some of her pupils dur>l>?
MA alia nraa taaakinff of
Grape Creek. It ia true, that we
afconld boost oar community and for
my part I do all in my power for the
pbuilding of the tame.
r
Hly intention in sending these few 1
Jraes to The Scout is that it may en-1
courage all parents to be more loyal'
and co-operative than they have been j
in the past. I do not mean to offend |
anyone, but what I have said are!
facts and other parents know the |
same.
We have two Baptist Churches
and one M. E. Church and good peo-1
pie in our settlement, and among the |
number that Mrs. Odom mentioned
being baptized, I am sorry to say
that I fear some of them have gone
astray. We are commanded to judge
a tree by its fruits. 1 am not a mem.
ber of any church, but 1 think n i
church member should be a light to;
the sinner for the scripture says. "Let '
your light so shine that others may
see your good works and glorify your
father which is in heaven."
Do all church members let their
lights shine? I leave the question,
unanswered, vet ro one should let (
this stand between them and heaven, i
as "every tub must stand on its own
bottom.
Christianity stands above ail, but
simply having one's name on the
church book doesn't make him a
, Christian. If we have our : ?nies
I w ritten in the Lamb's Book of Life,
we are Christians. The scripture'
j teaches us "if a man bt overtaken in
ja fault ye which are spiritual restore
1 such a one ir. the spirit v f meekness
considering thyself lest thou also be
tempted." So here's hoping hear
s^xne more good letters boosting our
community.
SAM M. CAPPS.
THE COMING OF CHRIST.
The coming of Christ or the end of
: time %'c read about ir. the papers,
, two or three weeks age. the I- rd did
:not seem to recognize or hnr.or the
: writer's prediction. Another writer!
i to the Asheville Times last week
< said in October 1S25 the Lord would
; turn his favor to the Jew and that j
[ would be the end of the Gentile race.:
The first thing I want you to notice
1 i-1 this: Read St. Mark 13th chapiter.
32nd and 33rd verses. "Hut of
that day and that hour kneweth no'
man, no not the angels which a:e in
! heaven, neither the son, but the father."
So if the created angels and j
the Son of God shall not know the
time thereof, why should man in his
weakness ever attempt to ascertain
the coming of the Son of Man?
One writer said the end of time'
r.ns already passed tour years ago.
and the Lord was setting up his new
Kingdi ni here on earth. Please read
Second Peter 3rd chapter 10th verse.
"But the day of the Lord will comW
as a thief in the night, in the whrfch
the heavers shall pass away wfth n
great noise, and the elometyfe shall
melt with fervent heat, theynrth and
also the works that are UKerein shall
be burned up" So we j^ad in St Matthew
13th chapter U$ 42nd verse of
the sower and tly*' seed as therefore
the tares are flfathered and burned
;n tut* lire; my shall it be in the end
uf the worto; the Son of Man shall
send i<^0'his angels and they shall
gather of his kingdom ail things
that o'ffenl, and them which do iniquity,
and shall cast them into a furnace
of fire.
Again the Acts 2nd chapter 19tli
verse, "And I will show wonders in
the heaven above, and signs in the
earth beneath, blood and fire and
vapor of smoke: the sun shall be turned
into darkness and the moon into
blood, before that great and QOtub.le
day of the Lord's coming."
So I ask the reader if any of these
things haa come to pass. I don't
thing we should worry about the coming
of Christ or the end of the world
as we haven't got ore thing to do
with that for that is God's plan and
we can't change it.
Let us read St. Mark 13:22: "For
false Christs and false prophets shall
rise and shall show signs and wonders,
to seduce if it were posible, even
the elect," and other scripture
roads like this: "All false prophets
and whosoever maketh a lie shall
have their part in a lake that burns
with fire and brimstone/' So let us
not prophecy or tr yto change the
livino plan.
I believe that if men with brains,
culture and refinement would devote
their time in trying to make the
world better in place of trying to unload
such erroneous teaching on the
minds of children, and weak and infirm.
they would be worth a great
deal more to their country, and community
in which they live. Lucifer
was once a shining angel in heaven
and he became proud of his beauty
and wanted the heavenly host to worship
him. so he was cast out; and it
seems that some men of today have
become Lufifers; proud of their education,
proud of wealth until they
want to entangle the minds of the
oeople with thir curious doctrine that
they might be looked to as prophet or
divine healer; nnd I believe the good
editors of our CJ. S. would do themselves
a justice and the people at
large, if they would refuse to put in
type some of these strange doctrines
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THE CHEROKEE SCOUT. M
that are continually pouring into our 1
churches and sundny schools. If the
scholarship of the world has conso- f
lid&ted and acknowledged that the t
Bible is the only true book and it has
stood the test for over 1900 years,
and the way of salvation is made so *
plain that a fool or wayfaring man
could not err therein.
So let us build up that faith, n firm
foundation so that when winds blow
and rains descend and heat upon that
house it will not fall because it is j
founded up* n a rock which is Christ. ;
O. How careful ought I to live
Who so strict account must give
For my behaviour here.
Ana shall 1 to the judgment be
brought
And answer in that day.
For every vain and idle thought
And every word I say.
J. C. MOSS.
Editor The Scout:
Au rr?ini..'m??*nt I ant called over!
the telephone at night, slopped in the
ro-d and on tht streets in Hayesville.
and asked this question: "When are
I you g<.-irg to ship veal?" Unless 7!
| get further co-operation I cannot
! >hip veal until the roads pet better;
so trucks can go to Atlanta, I-ast
spring- it took the closest co-opera-1
tion of the Cherokee and Clay County
agents to pet a carload of veal forj
the Cincinnati market.
If the Cherokee County people feci
; about their calves as the Clay Coun-1
! ty peopl feel that thy would like to
pet rid of their oalves at any price
(really Clay County can't give their1
i calves away) it seems to me that the i
calves could be gathered at Murphy!
in some way. If this cannot be done
| in any other way the Cherokee Coun!
ty people can notify me that they
have one or more calves to ship and |
will deliver them to Murphy when the
car can be made up and I will in turn
notify them of the shipment until an
apent is placed in Cherokee County, i
At this writing prime veal calves
are quoted at 16c per pound with the
lowest grade of calves going at 6c.
If anyone can suggest how to get rid
of these worthless calves without using
the hammer. 1 would like to hearj
the suggestion. Further, I-would like
to ask if there is anything more "ur.-'
humane" than to starv* the poor little
things to death. Why not make a j
little "pin moj?ey" bv venling these
calves as nice common and good 1
veal? T
I feel that an outstanding oppor- j (
tpTnty has come to Clay and Chero-j
kee Counties in the offer to place a
canning factory in Murphy if a guarantee
of three hundred acres of tomatoes
as a source of supply to operate
this factory, the guarantee of 40c
per bushel should net the producer a
good profit on his crop. Growers
are making money producing tomatoes
at 35c per bushes for canning
factories.
Cay County would like to grow
100 acres of these tomatoes in case
Cherokee County would guarantee j
production of 200 acres. Isn't there
someone who ought to get up this
guarantee of 200 acres in Cherokee*
County? This would be a start to
make this a trucking section and
nothing would bring prosperity to
this section as much as the dairy cow
and trucking for money crop.
R. ANDERSON,
'Agent Clay County. ]
Hayesville.
Dear Mr. Editor:
Will you allow me to say just a
few words in regard to our school at
Grape Creek. Hurrah for Bertha
Odom.
This teacher has whipped the blood
out of children unnecessarily and the
ones who need whipping he let go.
We all want our children controlled
in school. We pay our taxes to
run the schools and we want our children
to have the benefit of the school.
This teacher expelled children from i
school under fourteen years oldwhich
was in the limit of the compulsoxy
school law, and drove them away
from school unjustly. This is true,
and the ones who praise a such a
teacher are not to be called citizens
for they want our people treated
worse than dumb brutes should be
treated.
I am thirty-nine years old. I have
driven teams a lot of my time. I have
driven two to five yokes of oxen bRRinR
in the wods, and I have my first
one to whip or beat the blood out of
yet. It is unnecesary to be so cruel:
to poor dum brutes, much loss our
dear little children, and if a teacher
is good and kind to his students and
will teach them friendship and love,
they will learn to love their teachers
and their studies. Then they will
have a Rood school and if a teacher is ,
;U and treats his students like a beast .
they will soon learn to hate him and
their studies, because they are afraid
of him and the school will not be so
Rood.
Yoars truly,
GAY J0HNS0*
?
URPHV, N. C.
Pear Editor:
Will you allow me space in your
lapcr to say a few words in regard
;o the Grape Creek School? I know
:he readers are like myself?tired
?? this mud slinging, hut I feel it my
luty to treat everybody square.
As 1 see it, too much slang has
:een thrown on the pupils, parents
uni one of the teachers. I notice in
:he letters from this place that the
renter spoke ol us as tnough we were
x uen oi heathens and >ir. Martin
rnd Miss Odom were tiie first teach- i
;rs we had ever had worth while. 1
ivas glad to see Mrs. Odoni's letter!
in the last issue. She told u> of'
aer experience as pupil and teacher!
it this place. I witness that for her
.i-.ti want to tell you she was one ot !
the best Sunday school workers we
nave ever had. She told you we had !
four churches and about 200 baptized
believers which is as near correct
as 1 can get it.
Now 1 want to tell you some
things about our people ami
We, the parents, are not brawlers.
fuult-Cndcrs. hunters of trouble, as
we a:e slanderously reported and
falsely accused. Upon my honor. 1
nuvor hoait >Min u-nrit pnranlnint .
against Miss Fannie Odom until I
saw it in The Scout. Any reader
ccii.c . ce from the impression cf the
letters there was some cause for discord
kept back and not made known j
Well, here is what it is: Mr. Martin
beat some of the boys so unmercifully
we quit the school and I have
never had any notice of absence or
inquiry from that day until this why
1 did not send to school. Other fathers
1 oi-. me they stopped their children
because Mr. Martin kept thein
driven away from the fire.
Now, back to the boys they say arcso
wicked, ready for a road sentence.
Deai readers, 1 have been in this
schol district over 44 years. 1 know
these boys from the cradle up. One
of Ihc boys will use profanity a little
but not so bad as the man that
sounded the alarm so long and loud.
These boys have never been guilty
Of getting drunk and prowling over
the settlement at the dead hours of
the night, hollering for Uncle Jim
to bring them a light, and the writer
of that first letter tells you how
aur boys will hardly escape the penitentiary.
Let me tell the truth,
some of these boys are Christians,
enlisted in the great army to help
save the world. Are they getting en.
:ouragement? Let us take this home
to ourselves. Christian friends, if
ive had had such as this to encounter
with when we were only babes
n Christ, where would we have been?
Let us think for one moment what
Kniinir ennvortfi finvo tn pnCAUTltor
vith: Stripes put on them that they
will carry to the grave for minor offences
or siigni mistakes. Then to
idd insult to injury or to hide the
jrutish deeds of some school teach- |
?r, old moss-backed church members ,
nrill L<sp such scandil on innocent
reads! .
With best wishes'.
Respectfully yours,
T A TTMPSON.
Can Murder Be
Legalized?
(Letter to Greensboro Daily News)
Editor of The Daily Neurs:
Sooner or later Christian people
ire going to rise up en masse' and
out an end to capital punishment,
raking the life of a poor creature
*l?y law" may make it all right in the
yts of the state, but I doubt if God
looks at it that way and his church,
which is the "body of Christ," whose
whole nature would seem to be opposed
to this form of punishment for
. rime, will one day be aroused to the
:ruclty, the barbarity, the diabolism
>f the whole process.
People quote scripture on the subiect
and say with great unction that
the Bible recommends and enjoins
capital punishment?but people used
ilso to quote scripture to justify the
burning of witches. (Thou shalt not
suffer a witch to live.?Exodus
22:18) and to bolster up the idea
chat the earth is flat and square?
but we have outgrown those primitive
ideas!
The Bible does say, "Whoso shedieth
man's blood by man shall his
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the Bible also enjoins death for the
man who "gathered sticks" on the
Sabbath (Numbers 15:35?"The man
shall surely be put to death"?and
they "stoned him with stones" and he
lied). The Bible calls for the death
penalty for idolatry (Exodus 22:20)
snd three thousand persons are reported
killed in a single day for this
crime (Exodus 33:26) and for "defiling
the Sabbath (Exodus 31:14)?
for working on the Sabbath (Exodus
31:15)?and for violating the Day of
Atonement (Leviticus 23:30). Rebels,
false prophets and dreamers of
dreams, the stranger coming near the
tabernacle when it was being pitcht
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to death."
"Whosoever would not seek the
Lord of Israel," was ordered to be
put to death, as shown by Second
Chronicals The same Biblical
authority that warrants the death
penalty for murder also warrants
capital punishment in these numerous
cases. If it appertains today in respect
to murder. Biblically, it shJliK!
appertain today for idolatry. f^A- rebellion,
for Sabbath breaking. ?If ail
were "legally murdered" who do not
"seek the Lord" the state would indeed
be doing sonic wholesale murdering!
An ove-witness to a recent state
electrocution describes the Satanic
process in a paragraph, "One of the
attendants turned the wrong screw,
(was this also 'legal'?) connecting
the helmet wire. Blank's lips moved
rapidly. Suddenly his body contracted,
lifted and strained against the
heavy straps?his neck bulged and
bubbles came from his mouth. When
ine current had raced through his
body for a minute, beginning to
crack and smoke and smell, it was
cut off. But blank was not dead.
Twice more his body was lifted and
let down by an alternating current
before a doctor ordered him removed."
A woman who was present "was
as little affected as anyone and smiled
during most of the time."
This was not a pleasant meditation.
It is not intended to be pleasant. It
is intended to be true. It is intended
to arouse the indifferent and to
conuemn the murderous. If anyone
doubts the existence of a real hell,
let mm visii One o> cur state prisons
during one of these orgies of the
devil called "capital punishment."
Can murder ever be "legalized" in
the sight of God? Are we still living
in the primitive days of Hebrew law,
or are we living in a modern Christian
civilization?
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