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It isaccurate to say that the national debt has
reached a new peak at $29,000,000,000. Peak
nothing; it’s a new stratosphere.—Indianapolis
Star.
Author Btdliburton is crossing the Alps on an
elephant to see how Hanibal did it. Our earlier
suggestion, that the elephant ride Halliburton, is
ignored.—Detroit News.
:What the government should do to make the
taxpayer feel happy is to drug him with a slo
gan. Our suggestion is “Pay Until It No Longer
Hurts.”—New York Herald-Tribune.
No man before Hitler has undertaken on so
large a scale the experiment of being loved for
the enemies he has made.—Washington Star.
The nazis have banned dime-novel thrillers.
iWe suppose they really are a bit superfluous
over there.—^Boston Evening Transcript.
Radicals in colleg^e aren’t new. Sophomores in
dad’s time argued against God and women and
the Republican party.—Richmond News-Leader.
A good many lean to the view that if Sena
tor Borah were elected President it would
serve him right.—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Stom)iiiir An AStemobile
Memphis dty officials, in an effort to
promote safety? sent out a. questionnaire
>' nabiBy motoiists in what distances they
could/stop at various speeds. s®
, It is*fetereting to note that the average
driver has a podr conofiption of how
quickly he can stcq> an autwnoblle at’*an
average spe^. “ —
MONI>AY, AUGUST 19, 1986
Evidently ttie emperor of Ethic^ia does not get
armmd much. All our best govemnsent now chi*
aider it a eoci^ error to mention the Kellogg
Pact.—New Yorker.
The Fruit Growers
Brushy Mountain oyhardists are
known far and wide for their products. It
is hard to get far enough away that you
cannot hear of fruit from the Brushies.
•In this connection we pause to say a
word about the Brushy Mountain Fruit
Growers’ association. The orchardists are
organized into a compact group and work
in unity. Needless to say that they are
reaping benefits by co-operation.
They make co-operative purchases of
fertilizers and sprays, thus saving much
hard cash. The association furnishes a
means by which the advice of the best
specialists can be provided for all without
expense. A representative of the exten
sion service may come to Wilkas and
through the medium of the organization
he can contact all the orchardists.
Producers of other products would do
well to observe the methods of organiza
tion and co-operation. Agriculture has
suffered more than anything else because
of haphazard methods.
Grand Jury Report
The semi-annual report of the grand
jury is the one official way of letting the
public know the status of county affairs,
particularly the condition of county prop
erty and management of public offices.
It is interesting to study the reports of
grand juries. For instance, the Iasi one
examined 116 bills of indictment and out
of that number 72 were true bills and 54
not true bills. This seems to indicate that
there was quite a bit of indictment under
way that was either not comprehensive
enough to go before the court or was of a
frivilous and malicious nature. Apparent
ly the grand jury did a good job of culling
out and keeping many frivilous indict
ments from reaching the stage of trial.
The report of the county home is also
interesting in that it denotes that things
are in good condition at that institution.
The 25 inmates in the county home are
well fed and cared for and the only recom
mendation in regard to inmates’ care
was that they should be fed whole millk
instead of skim milk. The recommenda
tion that more fruit trees be planted is a
timely ona An abundance of fruit for
the inmates would be quite an asset, "^e
I recommendations in regard to enlarging
the vaults in the courthouse are not ^iss.
Personally we know that the vaults are
badly crowded.
The grand jury, althou^ not specific,
recommended that the jail be placed in
safe condition. By this we presume they
. mes" escape-proof and jodging from pre-
. vioiis experience of jailfceepers. It must be
** jn esoi9>e*proof jropf that ia so badly need-
W£EI> ^eilOF iiiRT
BY HOT WEATHER
Hot. dry wMther hu Miioaaly
damagod a largo part the flue-
eared Miaeeo cr^ in Nokft Caro
lina .this year..
The heaviert damage haa been
4a the middle belt and^e iipgiiS
part of the new^ belt'll^ Some oee-
done have lo«t aa much as jOne-
_ . , j u of-the crop. rf
For example, driyera were asked how. Much of the^^tobacco that has
been harvested In these areas is
thin and light in weight, nl‘
though the color is good, shys S.
Y. Ffoyd. extension tobacco
dalist at State college.
We^ in the old belt has been
8uff«iM from tile hot, dry weath
er dunng late Jinly and early Ao-
gust and indications an ti^ in
this area the tobacco will not pro
duce the yields which were an-
ticfyated 20 days ago. -
In the border counties, where
harvesting was a little farther
advanced, the growers were bet
ter aUe to take care of their
crop, and they suffered less dam
age than growers^ in other -sec
tions.
The weather tiiis year haa been
about the most variable ever ex
perienced by flue-cured tobacco
growers in the state, he added.
In June the extremely hot, dry
weather hurt the older tobacco a
great deal, although it did not
seriously affect the younger leaf.
In the rainy period that followed,
the young plants made rapid
gains.
The wet weather in July caus
ed about as big a change in leaf
spread as has ever been witness
ed in this state, Floyd said, and a
large growth was put out.
Had the weather been favorable
during the latter part of July and
the early part of August, he
commented, some of the yields
would have been exceptionally
heavy this year.
Ford Reconditions
Automobile Motors
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^ttumy f«6t would be needed to atop a car
witii four-wheel brakes moving at'a speed
of 40 miles per hour on an ordinary high-
■ way. Two per cent of the drivers answer
ed ten feet or less; 15.9 per cent answer
ed 11 to 20 feet; the heaviest majority,
2S.2 per cen.t, answered 21 to 80 feet, and
14.1 per cent answered 61 to 60 feet.
The true answer is 80 feet—and it was^
given by less than 6 per cent of the
drivers. Only a minority of motorists
realize that, no matter how good a car’s
brakes, it is impossible to stop witiiin 5(1
feet—that a car going 40 miles an hour
will skid farther than that with locked
wheels.
'This shows the need of “schooling”
drivers and teaching them something
about the powerful machines they operate.
In many states the ownership and use of
firearms are strictly regulat^ by law
while a motor car can be driven in almost
any manner by even the most irrespon
sible persons.
An intelligent driver that cares for his
own safety and the welfare of others will
learn ^bout his machine. Adequate knowl
edge of the limitations and capabilities of
the motor car is a fundamental accident
prevention. The person who drives care
fully enough that he knows he will be
able to stop should something unforeseen
get in the way is truly a good river.
We hereby put an idea Into Secretary Hull’s
head. Tell Mussolini that if he will call off
the war with Ethiopia, he can have the Virgin
Islands.—New Yorker.
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Detlove Sigmon . of Catawba
•county is building a new hay bam
to take care of his increased har
vest of alfalfa and lespedeza hay.
Twenty-six farmers in Stanly
county are raising colts as a part
of the county-wide program of
producing workstock at home.
It is estimated that the farm
ers’ reduced purchasing power
has cost 4,0OOJK)O city men their
jobs.
If Germany keeps on this way, It can hold
the next Olympics In a telephone booth, as far
as attendance is concerned.—Knickerbocker
Press.
Maybe there isn’t going to be any war. Floyd
Gibbons hasn’t left for the front yeat.—Toledo
Blade. _
THE BOOK
the first line of which reads, “The Holy Bible,
and which contains four great treasures.
By BRUCE BARTON
WICLIPF AND TYNDAMl
So the Bible passed Into Latin and finally
into English. There had been partial transla
tions from the Latin from the time of the Ven
erable Bede and King Alfred, but the name of
the great English pioneer translator is John
Wiclif, who lived from 1324 to 1384.
As a translation his work was of secondary
value, for he, too, used the Latin and not the
original tongues, but he put the Bible into the
hands of the reading public of England, which
was small but potent, and made it what it Is
today, the Book of the common people.
One hundred and fifty years after Wiclif
came William Tyndale, who undertook a trans
lation of the New Testament from the original
Greek. People were horror-stricken by the
impiety of the Idea. He had to flee to Ham
burg, and never again set foot on his native
shore. Against fierce opposition he continued
his work. Printing had been invented, and
Tyndale determined to "make every plow-boy in
England know th© New Testament.” His book,
printed by Caxton, had to be smuggled Into
England and was read by stealth. With such
asinine drivel as the following, written by the
pious Friar Buckingham, Us circulation was
obstructed.
Where Scriptures salth, ‘‘No man that
layeth his hand to the plow and looketh
back is fit for the kingdom of God’’; will
not the plowman when he readeth these
words apt forthwith to cease from his plow,
and then where will be the sowing and,the
harvest? Likewise also whereas the baker
readeth, “A little leaven leaveneth the
whole lump,” will he not be forthwith too
sparing in the use of leaven, to the great
Injury of our herlth? And so also when the
simple man reads the words, “If thine eye
offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from
thee,” incontient he will pluck out his
eyes, and so the whole realm will he fall
of blind men, to the great decay of the na
tion and the manifest loss of the king’s
grace. And thus by reading of the holy
Scriptures will the whole realm come into
confusion.
Tyndall himself was treacherously dealt with
and arrested, and lay for eighteen months in
Antwerp for no crime other than that of giv
ing to the people a truer version of the Scrip
tures. On October 6, 1536, he was strangled
and his body was burned. Thus have Christian
folk welcomed the better and more accurate
translations of thi Book which teaches kind
ness, tolerance, forbearance and the open mind
and thus do they still denounce those men of
learning.
King James 1 of England and VI of Scotland
saw that he could not prevent the reading of
the Bible by the^people, and he determined to
get credit for what his scholars told him was
much needed, a reliable translation into good
English, for all the previons versions had been
made under- condiUons that rendered,
'echoiarlT: tTMtaent imposalblel^ i j"
Application of scientific pro
duction methods to engine recon
ditioning A? practiced 'by the
Ford Motor company, is consid
ered by experts the post notable
advance in service twhnique of
this decade. It produces some
fling new in the automotive
world—a reconditioned motor in
every respect the equal of a new
one. And it is done with the
very hearty co-operation of the
dealer, who is relieved of heavy
investments for service equip
ment and obtains a potent argu
ment to assist in sales of new
cars and trucks. : .
In brief, the operation m^ly be
described as complete disassembly
of the motor and its components,
followed by replacement or refin-
ishing of all worn parts of sur-
face."The operation is exactly the
same as the building of a new
motor. Elvery bearing surface is
fitted to precisely the same limit
of tolerance as a pew motor. In
part the assembly operation is
done on the new motor line, al-
J’tough natilally most of it is
conducted on a special disassem
bly and assembly line.
To provide sure control of the
policy that every part must fit to
the original tolerance limit, those
parts which are to be used again
are returned to the factory de
partment in which they were first
made, for gauging, either acept-
ing or rejecting. There is thus
no pressure on the reconditioning
line to attempt a d.ingerously
high level of parts recovery.
What is new in the Ford V-8
reconditioned engine ? Pistons,
'>iston rings, cylinder head
studs, nuts valves, valve as-
semblira (except spring, many of
which^re 0. K.L main bearings,
connecting rod bearings, camshaft
bearings, cam gears. In almost
any given dxample a great many
other parts will be new, as all
those which fail to meet gauge
and other tests are replaced.
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