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MONDIAY, AUGUST 6,1986
Afaaoat anj march toward war is a goose-step.
; ”~Jad^nvflle Journal.
^meatioB without limitation is tyranny.—Buf-
fhlo Courier-lbcpEess,
Lea^fue Ineffective
The League of Nations, which the Unit
ed States has persistently refused to ent
er, has proven to be very ineffective in
its efforts to settle international differ
ences.
With war brewing between Abyssinia
and Italy the African nation has called on
the League to help and a meeting is to be
held to discuss the situation. Italy threat
ens to quit the League if anything is dis
cussed that Italy does not want discussed.
Japan and Germany have already quit
that body, which has never in its several
years of existence rendered a real service
in settling disputes between nations.
League, World Courts, peace pacts, trea
ties and disarmament agreements work
just fine as long as there is no trouble a-
^Dot between any nations but when two
nations get on the warpath the agree
ments and pacts go for naught and nation
rises up again.st nation and become as
bloodthirsty animals.
There can be but little doubt that this
nation has acted wisely in staying opt of
the League and President Roosevelt’s
declaration of a hands off policy toward
Italy and Abyssinia will meet with the
approval of the majority of the people of
the nation.
As a preventative measure the United
States will order all its peoide out of any
nation at war in the future. Why should
any of our thrill seekers go into a fight
ing country and form the nucleus of trou
ble that might involve their native land?
It is foolish to say the least. We believe
in the nation protecting its people at any
{tlaee they may be if it is positively neces-
; aary that they be there but there is no
iustificatkm ^ anyone p^ng the nation
^ '' iy heeause hawtinaw.
Tul^rcuiosit -Clinic
Short for share-the-wealt|i program: “Stick
i Vm up.”_Toledo Blade.
^ ♦
W " Trouble with an income is to g^et it to come
^ V in.—Florida Times-Union.
China invented the firecracker, and now look
" at her!—Cincinnati Times-Star.
Secondary Roads
A big slice of the four, billion dollars
works-relief fund will be used to improve
aecondary roads, according t(> news dis
patches from Washington.
It is true that the United States has
. ■ a vast system of hardsurfaced highways
that can be traveled in any kind of weath
er, but it is just as true that millions of
people still live on dirt roads that fre
quently become impassable and often cut
many fanners off from markets.
A highway traversing a section of the
coimtry does not do its full measure of
•ervice unless the secondary roads lead-
from it to nearby communities are in
passable condition at all times. Perhaps
no better investment could be made of a
big sum of public funds than improving
secondary roads.
Wilkes county has its full share of dirt
roads that serve a vast number of j)eople.
Many of the dirt roads lead out from our
hardsurfaced highways and some lead
straight to the Wilkesboros, the natural
-sssnicet center. Many enterprising citi
zens who live on these dirt roads have
shown an aggressive and commendable
spirit in efforts to get their roads im
proved.
It is not very often that a person gets
something for w'hich he did not ask and
show cause why he should have it. Peo
ple in the outlying communities not on
the main arteries of travel would do well
to investigate the possibilities of getting
their roads improved during the next
year. *
The county and state health depiurt-
meshts most certainly are good to the peo
ple of Wilkes county. The subject we
vdsh to discuss is whether or not the peo-
"ple of the county ar5* appreciative of the
public service rendered,
On Mood^, August 19, the state de
partment of health wffl^Wd a tubercu-
' iosia specialist to Wilkes county for two
; weeks and he will make free examination
mul diagnosis of aB persons who have rea
son to suspect that they have contracted
tuberculosis. . This is truly a great service
to the pe(^le, many of whom pass it up
lisd^tly and do not give one thought of
appreciation.
No doubt Jhere will be some who have
symptisns of the disease who will not
take advantage of the clinic opportunities
and may go straight to their doom with
the disease and not know it until it is too
late.
We do not mean that everybody can be
exaniined in the T. B. clinic. That would
be impossible. Unless a person has good
reason to suspect that he or she has tu
berculosis an appointment should not be
made for examination in the clinic because
the time of the specialist should be taken
up with those who really need the exami
nation.
Yet there are some who will pass the
clinic by who should make appointment
for examination, just as many have pass
ed up opportunities for free immuniza
tion against typhoid already this sum
mer. In one community Dr. Eller and
Mrs. Bell went to vaccinate and very few
came out. Soon afterwards a case of ty
phoid was reported there and people ask
ed that the health officer go back there
for another appointment; but he had other
work to do in other parts of the county
where he had not been. When you neg
lect symptoms of tuberculosis until you
are b^fast and desperately ill, there is
little hope.
It begins to look now as tho the famous
‘‘must’’ list of laws ought to he headed "Must
—If Possible.”—Memphis Commercial Appeal.
This might be the spot in the build-up an
announcement by II Duce that he hurt his
hand in an exhibition fight.—Detroit News.
Adolph Hitler has decreed that foreigners will
be enlisted in the German army. What has be
come of Aryan supremacy?—Louisville Courier-
Journal.
THE BOOK
the first line of which reads, "The Holy Bible,”
and which contains four great treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
MoveanMt to
COUXM M
Taken Diii'i
Members of the.NortST Wllkee-
boro Kiwanls Club In meeting
Friday noon listened to an In-
tei>68ting'’^'jprogfam and discnseed
a&ttwe of miblic interest.
A ikOTement is now on foot in
the JUvaOia Club to^'seek approv-
al of construction of golf
course in Wilkes eonnty* as a
works relief project.* Tbe niatter
was placed in the hands of the
public affairs'committee.
C. 0. McNeill, Inter-club chair
man, announced that* the local
club will meet with Lenoir Ki-
wanlans at Lenoir on A.ngnst 80.
Lenoir members came here re
cently for an inter club meeting.
The program Friday was in
charge of Dr. F. C. Hubbard.
Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Olive ssng
two numbers, “I Would That My
Love" and "Long, Long Ago.” E.
O. Finley was the speaker and he
gave a very interesting account
of bis recent western trip, and
more especially his visit to na
tional parks. He related that the
creation of the Great Smoky
Mountains park and the construc
tion of the scenic parkway
should be a great drawing card
for Western North Carolina and
increase tourist traffic through
this immediate section. The pro
gram closed with a solo, “In The
Time Of Roses,” by Rev. Eugene
Olive.
Ira T. Johnston, of West Jef
ferson, was a guest of J. B. Mc
Coy, Mr. Pennington and Mr.
Yates, of Jefferson, were guests
of R. G. T^inley, D. E. Poole, of
Mars Hill, was a guest of W. K.
Sturdivant, and Robert More
house was a guest of his father,
H. H. Morehouse.
JAMES H. POU DIES;
FUNERAL TUESDAY
Raleigh, July 29.—James H.
Pou, one of tbe outstanding law
yers of North Carolina, died at
his home here this morning at
9:40 after being in poor health
for several months.
Mr. Pou, 74 years old, cele
brated his birthday on July 21.
He was born in Tuskegee, Ala.,
in 1861 but in bis early child
hood his father moved to Smith-
field.
In 1885 Mr. Pou was admitted
to the bar and started practice of
law at Smithfleld. He moved to
Raleigh in 1898 and since 1924
has been a member of the firm
of Pou and Pou, with his son
James Hinton Pou, Jr., as his as
sociate.
BIBLE CRITICS MISUNDERSTOOD
There are, of course, thousands of fragments
of the Bible or parts of it of more or less value.
Among these are certain “palimpsests,” or
manuscripts, which later fell into the hands of
those who wanted the parchment for other pur
poses and erased the Bible text and wrote other
books instead. Chemical processes have been
used to restore the Bible text, and in some in
stances valuable readings have been discovered.
This recital of the way in which manuscripts
have been found brings to the mention of a class
of men of whom the average layman knows ver*
little, and most of that little is wrong. These
are the Biblical critics. “Criticizing the Bible!”
What columns of rhetoric have been printed,
what floods of oratory have been poured out by
those who could not have told, to save their
souls, what a Biblical critic is or does.
There are two kinds of Biblical critics: the
lower or textural critics, and 'the higher or lit
erary critics. The terms lower and higher do
not mean that one gn^oup claims or is admitted to
be more important than the other, much less
that there is an assumption of arrogance on .the
part of those that are “higher,” but whose kind
of study follows the other.
The lower critic is a man of technical skill in
the deciphering of ancient texts and manuscripts.
He has critical ability, that is, the ability to
judge critically, for criticism is nothing more or
less than the science of correct judgment.
To the average layman a manuscript of the
fourteenth century may seem as ancient as one
of the fourth. It may be more soiled and show
greater sign of age. But the critic does not
look simply at the wear and stain. He is a
judge of parchments, of methods of tanning
skins, of kinds of ink, of styles of making let
ters. He distinguishes between “uncu.l” and
"cursive” Greek; between “pointed” and “un
pointed” Hebrew. These lower critics are not
widely known; they are not highly paid. Tlieir
work is a strain on the eyes and a tax on the
mind, and they dread publicity. So mainly they
bleed within their armor and are silent, W all
the time their patient work is clearing up the
obscurities in translation and giving us a bet
ter knowledge of the Bible.
The other group of searchers'^are the literary
or historical or hi^er critica. Who wrote these
sacred books? Ezekiel claims to have written
his own, and Baruch is declared to have been
Jeremiah’s scribe. iWe may.infer that most of
the books of the prophets were written by the
men whose names they bear. But all the net of
the Old Testament ia anonymooa. Pepjde have
rushed in to declare that'Strtain books were
written by certain men.. Most of their goessM
tl^ake Forest, Aug. 8.—^. AUle
HsyeS, of North Wilkeeboro, is
numbered amoqg those who will
obtain the bMhelor of laws de--
gree. here on August • at com-;
meaeement exereiess of tbe Wake
Forest-Meredith summer school.
He is a son of Mrs. C. B. Hsyes,
of Furlear,
Mr. Hayes has studied at Wake
For^ for the past five ytors. He
has made an ontatandlniL record
both' in hie studies and ti^he so
cial and athletic realm. He was
president of the Wilkes County
club, a member of the PhilOma-
thesian Literary society, clerk of
the moot court, official In’ the
Barrister’s club and was one of
the smartest drum majors ever
to twirl a baton before an Old
Gold and Black band. /
He played football his fresh
man year and did the sprints in
track.
Mr. Hayes has a host of
friends among Wake Forest’s
students and alumni, who predict
for him a successful career in bis
chosen profession.
RHEUMATISM
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