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THE EXCHANGE
J. P. WIGGINS. Editor and Proprietor.
MAC CAMKKON. Associate Editor.
Established in 1882.
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RANDOM THOUGHTS.
(By a Crossroads Philosopher.)
Buy it at home this Christmas!
Keep prosperity in this town! What
better slogan could we have for a
progressive community spirit? Every
body wants to see this town prosper,
and we all want to share in the fruits
Billy Simdayisms.
of that prosperity. Even the fellow
who habitually sends out of town for ( but in doing all things in a special j
(Rev. Wm. A. Sunday, the noted
evangelist, recently held a series of
revival meetings in Omaha, Neb. Be
low are a few of the bright sayings
in which his sermons abound.)
I want to strike a death blow at the
idea that being a Christian takes a
man out of the busy whirl of the
world's life and activity and makes
him a spineless and effeminate prop
osition. Running away from the world in
order to be good makes religion a
matter of place and observance.
Religion does not consist in doing
a lot of special things, even though
these special things be good things,
Safety of the Nation.
his own goods wants his full quota
of the riches that are accumulated
through the thrift and husbandry of
his fellow citizens. Producing and
selling the surplus abroad and then
way.
Men will gladly draw their checks
i for $10,000 to establish a children's
hospital and see nothing in the fact
that the money came out of $200,000
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Keeping our money at. nome oy ouying made from & system of chiid labor
from home dealers will add many , wh5ch crusheg more chiIdren in one
thousands ot dollars to the money m j than th h ital will heal in
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circulation in tnis community, it is
the sure way of meeting prosperity
with open arms and gathering in our
share and a little more for good luck.
Let other communities support them
selves. Our interests and our duty
are at home. Let's keep prosperity
in this town.
sou young ieuows who have your
ten.
We have a type of man who will
not sell you poison while you are
looking at him, but will sell adulter
ated food that will kill people 2,000
miles away.
Somebody needs to say it so loudly
that it will be heard around the world
eyes focused upon the bright lights ! that Christianity is a religion, not on-
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and the gaities of the big cities should
get out your stub pencils and do a
little sum in addition. If you go the
way of others and drift to the city
you will naturally annex a "best
girl." She will want you to take her
to the theatre once a week, and that
will cost $4.00 for the tickets, $5.00
or so for the taxi and $3.00 or $4.00
for the supper after the performance.
Then frequently she will want an au
tomobile ride on Sunday and the car
and chauffeur will touch you up to the
tune of $2.00 to $4.00 an hour. A box
of candy and a few sodas and Sun
daes and a bouquet will eat up an
other $3.00. Your dancing lessons
will cost you $30.00 a season, and a
spiked tail suit will wipe out another
$40.00, with your dancing pumps ab
sorbing at least a V. Of course it's
great sport while it lasts, but the first
thing you know you'll be yelling your
head off for the old man to send you
car fare home and the price of a full
stomach before you start. Yep, city
life is great in more ways than one.
We presume there is not a business
or professional man in this town who
is not an ardent advocate of home
trading. v5o are we. And in this
connectioiflwe want to suggest that
i'might 111 in keeping
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this paper
nting 'plant
kinds of
ast, it is
us to urge
lr goods at
jfross a piece of
local business
e'en ordered from out
"'T towiuVM citizen who makes a
practice of buying his goods from
outside sources is injuring the busi
ness interests of this town. And the
business man who has his stationery
printed in other cities is taking a slap
at the newspaper that speaks up in
his behalf. Consistency? Yes, of a
kind!
When a politician commences to in
quire solicitously alter your health,
and how the children are progressing
in their studies, and sends his regards
to your wife, and wants to know what
you have named the baby, just take
to your heels and scoot. You know
why.
With Stanford White dead, and
Harry Thaw forgotten, and Jack John
son and his white wife in other climes
we quite fondly hoped that the mantle
of American charity would not be
further stretched for a season of time.
And now up bobs Frank Lloyd Wright
again!
We are a great country. We are a
great people. But we are unable to
protect either our greatness or ourselves.
ly for the private life of a man, but a
religion to be translated into every
nook and corner of his life, public as
well as private.
Trying not to be bad is about the
most difficult and trying job in the
world.
Jesus did run around with a very
common sort, but when He left them
they were not quite so common as
they were before He met them and
that is the acid test of your religion.
When once a man's soul has been
saved it is a good thing for him to
say, "What shall it profit a man if
he save his soul but the whole world
is lost?"
A midget in mind and a midget in
character is like a carbuncle.
God likes to see a man leave the
cellar and go to the roof garden of
life.
Those who borrow trouble never
get a chance to pay it back.
Manhood and womanhood does not
depend on muscle. Apparent size is
one thing, real size is another. If
you don't believe it, try to stop a
hornet with the end of your nose
when he is going a mile a minute.
One hundred years from tonight
what difference. wilt
makenYher
nether learn-
x church than
the bunch at
Scripture for Defence Plan.
President Wilson finds support in
the Scriptures for his policy of na
tional defence Ezekiel 33:2-3-4-5-6:
"2. Son of man speak to the chil
dren of thy people, and say unto
them, when I bring the sword upon
a land, if the people of the land take
a man of their coasts and set him for
their watchman;
"3. If when he seeth the sword
come upon ' the land he blow the
trumpet, and warn the people:
"4. Then whosoever heareth the
sound of the trumpet and taketh jiot
warning, if the sword come, and take
llood shall be upon his
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ed or illiterate!
It is bigger to sit m
it is to line up with
some bar with a French plate glass
in front.
It is a serious mistake for parents
to want their children to be repro
ductions of themselves. Don't think
they have to be like you; one of you
is enough.
You can keep a cow alive on potato
peelings but she won't give any milk,
and when a cow stops giving milk
her mission in life is at an end. You
don't keep cows for company. -
Wish I could sentence fifty of the
popular writers of today to the peni
tentiary for the stuff they write.
Many young people are good in the
beginning, but they are like the fel
low that was killed by falling off a
skyscraper they stop too quick.
The newspaper today is a better
college than Abraham Lincoln had
just the newspaper.
After all has been said religion is
the measure of concern of men it's
the real base line of character. Many
may revile it, but in their hearts men
feel that in religion life finds its
highest expression.
Beauty may please us, truth may
strengthen us, but goodness com
mands us. A genius charms us, a
philosopher instructs us, but a saint
feeds us.
Christianity has always been a per
sonal religion. Jesus was no organ
izer like Caesar or Mohammed. He
formulated no plans. He founded no
ecclesiastical system.
Men may dent the historical Christ
I or the metaphysical Christ and leave
only the ideal, and they still have to
reckon with a power of the first mag
nitude.
There are multitudes of people who
select from the Bible what they per
sonally like; they can codify God and
eliminate what they don't like.
The element of failure is not con
fined to religion. Ninety-five per cent
of the business men fail; 75 per cent
of the lawyers abandon their profes
sion; GO per cent of the doctors fail
to make good. I think it is due, as
in religion, to lack of systematic
work and no personal application.
The fellow that tells me that he
can live a Christian life outside a'
church I have no use for. I have no
faith in him. He can't. Ex.
In a stirring address to a private
party of newspaper men, J. Stuart
Blackton, author and producer of the
great preparedness film "The Battle
Cry of Peace" said that the final sal
vation of the country would be up to
the country newspaper. "If the rural
newspaper the country weekly and
the small town daily get behind the
preparedness movement and demand
action by Congress," Blackton said,
"then we will see an appropriation
during this session that will be a good
starter. Of course to get anywhere
we will need a series of appropria
tions a program for navy and army
which, spread over a period of years,
will give us eventually what protec
tion we need. But if the small town
newspaper refuses to call, for pre
paredness, and prefers "pork" instead
the movement will fall. The protec
tion of America is in the hands of the
country editor."
Mr. Blackton's speech for prepared
ness followed the viewing by news
paper men of the film "The Battle Cry
of Peace," in which the author shows
how helpless the United States would
be in case of attack by a foreign foe.
New York streets are bombarded,
homes are attacked, women and chil
dren terrified and fathers taken out,
lined up against a wall and shot. The
handful of American soldiers are a
joke to the invaders and enemy ships
stand off our shores, out of range of
our guns, and batter to pieces our
coast defenses. "These possibilities
are not without the basis of fact,"
said Mr. Blackton, in his address."
Instead of being a sleeping giant, we
are a helpless babe. The dream of
universal peace has been shattered by
the European nations and will again
be shattered. We have learned that
nations will break solemn treaties
when they think it to their advantage
to do so. The world is but little dif
ferent from what it was a thousand
years ago. But we, in the democracy
of the United States, are full partners.
The responsibility of government and
the salvation of the nation is on every
citizen. Every citizen should be able
to transfer himself into a soldier for
the defense of his country. This is
not imperialistic; it is the very es
sence of a democracy that would live."
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FOUL TIPS.
By R. E. Morse.
And still we are a nation of peace
today.
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aid to loV-.
The fellow vrho ifags most is the
one who "almost succeeds,"
"Back to the farm" is good, but
"stay there" is. some better.
A peaceful calm still pervades the
peace palace at The Hague.
To insure a welcome, take your bank
account along with you.
This is a day of work, but many
a cuss doesn't know it is today.
That widespread plot to blow up
American ships seems to have hoisted
the plotters instead. .
No, the real heroes of today are not
the ones of shot and shell. They are
the movie stars.
No, indeed, a giggling girl and a
cackling hen are not akin. The hen
is of practical value in this world.
Let's hope it has been a prosper
ous week for you and the same for
the next, and the others to follow.
Even the most procrastinating man
on earth can lower himself into a
dining room chair right on the dot.
If the European governments want
to recoup their losses rapidly we
humbly suggest a monopoly on the
movies. .
Don't toss a nickel into the collec
tion box and then expect St. Peter to
pass you through the pearly gates.
Peter is no cheap guy.
In California a young man held his
breath for ten minutes and is still
telling the story. We note, however,
that the hero is a man.
To Aid Law Enforcement.
Mrs. Belva Lockwood celebrated her
85th birthday at her home in Wash
ington, D. C, a few days ago. Mrs.
Lockwood was a candidate for the
presidency in 1884. She is still hale
and hearty.
A minister of the gospel was as
sassinated in the vicinity of Hamlet
a few days ago and it is intimated
that he was murdered because of his
fight for law and order in his com
munity. A few years ago a minister
was murdered in Surry county by the
lawless element who resented his in
terference. We've made much prog
ress in North Carolina i many direc
tions, but crime is mure than keep
ing pace with our progress. In the
multiplicity of societies organized in
the State, .it might be vc-J to organ
ize one to aid in law enforcement
to encourage respect I'm- the law. '
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sity football player, was so seriously
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Ninety-four young Belgians in
Brussels have been sentenced to terms
lof two months to five years for refus
ing to work for the Germans. - A re
port from Hazebrouck says the Ger-
Wans have cut off the food supply of
the town of ilarlebeke because the
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he ha3 but little chance of recovery, iomen there rdfused to perform tasks
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After a long investigation by the
committee on hospitals of the New
York State Charities Aid association,
it is reported that illness costs the
residents of the state not less than
$40,000,000 a year. Every year, says
the report, physicians get about $5
from each human, being in the state.
Jack Hughes, a prominent young
man of Washington Parish, La., who
was being held in jail at Columbus,
Miss., for the murder of Laure Hal-
loway, was taken from the jail by a
mob Sunday and lynched.
That San Francisco quake tried to
"shake"' exposition visitors.