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Page Two STANLY NEWS -HERALD- Tuesday, Mav Published Every Tuesday and Friday. Published by THE HERALD COMPANY, Inc A. C. HUNEYCUTT, Editor. Subscription Price: (Payable in Advance) One Year $2.00 Six Months 100 Three Months .50 Entered as second class matter in the post office at Albemarle, M. C. TUESDAY, MAY 17th, 1921 Foreign Advertising Representative THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION Fear the Lord and serve Him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things He hath done for you. 1 Sam. 12:24. BADIN BAPTIST CHURCH The action of the Baptists, and others not Baptists, who joined in the night work, free of charge to complete the new building, is attracting state-wide attention. This is because it is an entirely new idea, fostered by Dr. Walter N. Johnson,, the pastor, and his-live-wire workers. Among the editorial comments we quote the following from the Gastonia Ga zette: Recently the Baptists of Bad in started a handsome new IDLENESS. ' Idleness leads to bad habits, and bad habits to a general low trirg pi the moral standards, and finally into the ways of crime. Man is a sort of dynamo of energy, and cannot shut himself up in an easy berth of do-nothing for long at a time. He must have an outlet for that supply of energy which his very nature lis continually generating. When our hrst parents were dismiss ed from the garden, under the sentence ot isolation, n seems, the tendency for construction became a part of human nature, and that the command to work sank so deep that it has remained a part of us to this day. The fellow who retires with the fowls at nightfall and rises with them in the early dawn, to a clean-cut program of duty for the day, is about the last fellow to get his feet enmeshed in the net of the law. He is not apt to fall into crime, because life to him is too sweet, too beautiful and too use ful. His very nature is healthy, clean, sympathetic and sweet. He is content, and even happy, in the pursuit of a definite aim. But cut him loose from constructive employment, and definite purpose, and a day or two of idleness will take away the sweet ness of his night's rest, because he has not earned it, and nature, therefore, denies it. He is. as a ship sailing without a definite harbor ahead. He falls int oseeking satisfaction in a way that nature denies, and in a way that God never meant he should have it. The midnight carousal, and questionable associates are his next resources, followed by a general blurring of the once clear vumn an A a lowprinc of the standards of morality. The intel- lectual and the spiritual man is losing ground, and even the ani "Irnal in him is becoming debased and unclean. There is no re- i voking God's law. We may set it aside for a season, but bread ' eaten without the sweat of the brow soon reacts in a general poi- Zoning of the system physically, while pleasures derived from ' any other source than that which is in accord with the purity of : Heaven, react in misery that gives the stamp of hell. ' WW we a Monarch of a realm, and with the best interests 'of our subjects at heart, we think we should write on the statute Sit Rural Song and Comment (By Arch Huneycutt) FOR SAT if o ruKU W good crmHiri UAt Badin, N. C l 50gpofJ cigarettes for 10c from one sack of GENUINE n n n n 77 DURHAM TOBACCO n mil books a single law which would read To bed at nine, up with the dawn, and a definite program in mind lor tne aay, SERVED US RIGHT. We are all too prone to think that no one at home can do the things we want done. We go away from home to trade be cause of this very feeling. We are all filled with this idea, and truly "a prophet is not without year," said a farmer of Lane Creek township. He then went on to ex plain that, as a rule, farmers in that secton had always made their farms practically self-feeding and self-supporting, and there had been no excess acreage in cotton. And that is true of a good portion of East Union county. Under these conditions a campaign for everybody to make the same percentage of reduction in acre age is inequtable and unjust. A Sou- honor save in his own country We have argued that home folks them farmer who makes a living for are as capable as anybody, and j himself and family and plants only auj. mnlinnt. nnn noil as a few nci'ps of cotton as a surplus eron church, the equal of any clt7 i up-to-date goods and sell them Mi " asked to reduce .sac church in North Carolina, it is ; , u. nt i league further. And yet it is often 1 nt it was not finished, as cheaply as merchants o other the live.at.home.faniier who mMt ' - frtn'n.-. hut ncr wnair itq nin T1MT .... . . .... n .1. I luvwi.-i, uui iciou ..v. v... wniing to maKe sun iurtner reauc- practice what we preached. Our tion of acreage. The absentee land- savs the information. The walls are up and the roof is on it. But when the present depres sion struck Badin and almost closed down the aluminum plant, press got in bad shape. We had j lords who farm the tenant are and the always have been most responsible tiro for the economic slavery that has cur- no idea we had a man in shop who could repair it. ganization moved out of town and work on the new building had to stop. But now it has started up again. Hare times could not stop a determined people. Ev ery night the lights are on. All over the lower floors from seven to nine in the evening somebody is at work. And nobody is paid ceived a bill for $25. The press worked a little better for two hours, then went to the bad once more, and finally resulted in the breaking of the star ' gear and wheel. We had to order new ones from the factory at New London, Conn., at a cost of $65. We were wondering where we could get a man to repair the corl tVio SnutVi TVio t Vlnll Eaioil nf "sn. i efltif frvi n man f mm nnntVipr ... , . ' .. .... .... mnKow nf tnio nr " cauea planters ' witn large noiaings, many of the members of this or-, . , , sites that have brought economic ruin to the South. By requiring the ten ant to plant practically all his lands. in cotton while he "financed" the ten ant, at excessive time prices, and thereby kept the tenant under indus trial slavery. The effect is far-reaching. In places the real fanner in competition with slave labor" in the production and sale of cotton and for ces himself and family to work at "nigger" wages in the cotton fields. It is true that the big planters and others who farm the farmer under the all-cotton methods are now tempora rily bankrupt, and when "liquidation" period arrives next fall many of them may "hit the greased trail" and have to suspend operations. Whether it will be possible to build a more endu ring economic structure upon the ruins will be a question that will be decid ed by future developments. r A 1 ' 1 - . I A. n 11 Jam VT I jot mis w, iw m wc , and the new whee, volunteers. Workers unskilled'. . . , ... anu gear wucii ij aim ucuuiu Mr. Babb, a man right here in our sho passured us he could do e work. We told him to go to are under the direction of skill-i ed workers. Members of the church and those who are not members work together in joy ous fellowship. The most digni fled man in the force is the "wa- j ter boy." ' Occasionally the workers stop for breath. During the rest pe riods they either crack jokes, 1 drink lemonade or have a pray er meeting. The fellowship ofj these working gangs is contagi- j ous. The force is growing ev-1 it, and he and Mr. Shaw put in the new parts, made a few sim ple adjustments, started up the press and she runs like a Singer Sewing Machine. It runs better than it has for two years. We had dicsredited "home folks." We did not know that we had a mechanic such as Mr. Babb, we thought we had to "send out of ery week. They do more work ... , -,nn . . , . . n and it cost us nearly $100 cold in two hours at night than some i . . . . - . constructive forces during the. . T. nB , . war did in two days. The likelihood is that this bu ilding when finished is to be come historic. It will perhaps be the domicile of a new type of institution a Part-Time School of Applied Stewardship or Chris tian Industry. The Sunday school equipment of the church, instead of being idle all except! thirty minutes a week, is to be used in providing facilities for teaching those industries and pression. it served us ngnt. Let's believe in the ability and competency of "home folks." Let us patronize home folks. Press Comment SLACKER LISTS. Winston-Salem Journal. Criticism of the army authorities will inevitably follow the news that within 24 hours of the publication of the first of the official "slacker" lists in New York, one man included in the commercial courses that will in-i roll of delinquents was able to prove crease the earning capacity of i served OT' na trouh- JUl me wax, auu auuwjci uiaL uc select young men and women ga thered from all over North Caro lina and adjoining states who ac cept the principles of Christian stewardship as their earnings. The greatest benefits coming to Badin because of this move is not the early finishing of the new Badin Baptist church with out cost of labor, but the great est benefit to Badin as a com munity and to the church as such is the development of a spirit of co-operation, and the growth of a feeling of fellowship. Both the town and the church mem bers will see a concrete example of what team work can accom plish under wise and enthusias tic leadership. - , continuous service in a Canadian re giment. TSurely, the public will think it should be possible to avoid errors that do injustice to honorable young men to such an extent as this. But another published instance, clearly shows that the difficultes are great. Benjamin Kaufman, of Brooklyn, who wears a well-earned medal, was out raged to find his name on a slacker list. Investigation showed that there was a Brooklyn draft evader of the same name, and that there were six teen Benjamin Kaufmans in the ar my, several of them from Greater New York. Obviously the most tho rough investigation should precede the publication of these lists. MAKING OUROWN LIVING. Marshville Home. "We are planting about the same amount of cotton that we planted last ON THE WAY TO GENEVA. New York World. Mr. Harding has gone out of the rubber-stamp business, and is now in charge of the foreign policies of his administration. Nobody can put him back in the rubber-stamp business ex cept Warren G. Harding. Having been a Senator for nearly six years, the President knows how much importance to attach to the mut tered reproaches of the bitter-enders who are grieving over his eager ac ceptance of the Allies .to designate 'American representatives on the Su preme Council, the Council of Am bassadors and the Allied Reparation Commission.' It will not have escap ed his attention that the only irrec oncilable Senator Who has ventured to protest publicly is James A. Reed of Missouri, who calls himself a Demo crat, who cannot be re-elected any way and who therefore feels free to give voice to the woes of his esteem ed associates niuzzled by party regu larity. It may be taken for granted that Mr. Harding is not following the Sen ate in this matter so closely as he is following public opinion, and public opinion is practically unanimous in its support. A few Republican news papers, in order to square themselves with their records, find it expedient to tell their readers that the President has not done what he obviously has done and that he has done what he obviously has not done, but these con cessions need not be taken seriously. The .country is genuinely glad to find itself emerging from the false posi tion into which it had been led by senate partisanship. It is blad to be on the way to a man's part in the world again. Mr. Harding's action makes an end to the pretense that the American people voted to have noth ing to do with Europe and to assume no obligations for international peace and security. Nobody knows what thp American people voted for last fall. They themselves did not know. They had an attack of nerves, and they carried all their doubts and sus picions and resentments to the ballot box. Whatever they thought then, they have been steadily learning from events, and the process of education will continue. The policy that Mr. Harding has adopted leads straight to the League of (Nations, but he need have no mis givings about that, either, in spite of anything he has said about it. The responsibilities of a president differ considerably from the responsibilities of a candidate, and President Harding can make no mistake by repudiating Candidate Harding, who was engaged in ardently defending an international myth invented by the Senate major ity. President Harding has serious work of his own to do, and he is cer tain to find that it is no more possible for the United States to keep outside the deliberations of the League of Nations than to keep outside the de libei'ations of the Supreme Council and the Reparation Commission. Circumstances have made it such that nothing that happens-in the world is foreign to the United States. The British and French newspapers, after their experience with the Sen ate, are halting and hesitating in their comments on Mr. Harding's accept ance of the Allied invitations. They do not quite understand it, and they cannot reconcile it with all the isola tion speeches that tore the air dur ing the campaign, hut there is nothing mysterious about it. The United Sta tes is back in the family of nations, "unofficially," to be sure, but it is backj and is not likely to quit again. Mr. Harding is on the right track, the intelligent sympathy of the coun try is with him, and while he may pro ceed circumspectly and cautiously we shall be astonished if he stops this side of Geneva. This is his logical desti nation. A VIEW OF COUNTRY LIFE. Marshville Home. Both the Charlotte dailies have been taking issue with a country correspon dent who contributed an article telling why country boys and girls are mov ing to the already over-crowded cities and seem to like the change. After en editor has look through pkte glass windows upon paved streets and brick and mortar for a few decades it is interesting, and sometimes amus ing to read his prognostications on rural life conditions. Mr. H. K Reid is the correspondent who presen ted a vivid and striking contrast be tween farm life and city life, in which he concluded that it was difficult for a country boy to make a net profit of $100 a year, while the city boy often makes as much as $1000 a year. The writer is inclined to believe that under present conditions and high-pressure standards, neither the country boy or the city boy makes any net savings at all, tarring a few exceptional cases. But the city boy makes more money to spend than the country boy, and he spends it joyfully and gladly and free so freely that he often has to make draft upon his parents to pay deficits. Under these after-the-war inflation standards, you rarely ever find a boy or girl either in town or country who isn't a tragic failure financially. They are natural products of an in sanely high-pressured standard that has already brought the country to the breaking point, financially. There fore the country boys and girls are attracted to the cities because the opportunities for making andv spend ing money under high-pressure and fast-living standards are better in the cities. The question of net savings does not appeal to the average boy or girl, and should be eliminated from the discussion. The contention of the Charlotte News that lights, running water and other conveniences in the country homes will stop the drift to cities is a fancied dream that comes from a plate-glass view and from theoretical "uplifters" and is not borne out by facts. People who own automobiles, live on hard-surface HEART ASSOCIATION Come gentle Muse, we must not try A flight etherially high Lest all the sweetness of our note Among the snowy peaks remote Be lost on cold and senseless stone Or drift unanswered on the lone Cold pinion of the icy blast Through way etherial and vast While here upon the common plaine A thousand hearts sigh for the strain That sweetens ordinary things No, let us deftly twang the strings That find an echo rn the soul, And leave the chilly mists to roll, And twine like wreaths of thistle down About the mountain's granite crown. Deep drinks the soul at wisdom's fount Then silver-winged it learns to mount The eitiinence of things sublime In thoughts that mock the blight of time And deeds that savor not of self, Make paltery all shining pelf, Count time and age and space as naught But in the end the deed and thought Adrift on blind and helpless wings Find on the pkne of common things The olive branch on which to light And rest awhile from weary flight. The simple scenes of home and mart Lie warm against the human heart. Sweet memories of long ago Like winds of Summer wake to blow From childhood's hazy far away Across the fields of yesterday Sweet with a message from the dell Or mellow clanging of the bell Where cattle wonder down the lane, A bobwhite's call where ripened grain Waves like a sea of liquid gold, Love's first impassioned story told Across the rustic desk at school, The ripple of a limpid pool, A faded song, a withered rose Such fragrance sweet memory blows From out the hazy past to bring Again, at twanging of the string That echoes through the (human soul No, leave the chilly mists to roll Alone in sullen solitude Where snowy peaks ore ice-fields brood. Sweet Muse, let ns attempt no flight To such lone, airy, frozen height f The lifeless stone heeds not our song, The frowning storms that roll along Obscuring, all the vale below, The fields of ice, the drifts of snow Imbued with death's eternal chill Hold no responsive cords to thrill; Here safe within our sunny vale With hearts that echo passions tale Come let us deftly touch' the strings And sing of ordinary things. 'LOST ON top t. A n I I J 11 e-.xi.-. wiu KKTnr-J tainimr about i, PWKet H " five, some change and "e.r 01 cent stamp,. uice ana receive rew.w. uWU.lUIlY BEYftVrT par.son,we have the be5t pJ ever made. nA ""I one manors FT Very little capital J'J bury, N. G The Wrist Wa A Modern Ne Wrist watches must bepm witn care. Many are gotten iuuks, incy taunoi D6 Qt! upon to keep good time. We have specialized h watches. We know what in time keepers. And we cu you to invest your money i really worth-while watch. Whether it's for the .ot girl for wife, sister or joJ come in ana let us show yog carefully selected assortment will be surprised to see it moderate expense you can a really good time keeper. W-W-W Ringj With rings, as with witcls and, indeed, with all our tins our policy is to sell only im able goods and to give out tomers maximum value, m W-W-W Rings because wt their quality. ml II i F. E. STARNES roads, whose homes are equipped with all modern conveniences and ser ved by daily delivery of mail and connected by rural telephone, find that these conveniences do not tend to keep the young people on the farm and in many instances the whole fam ily decides to leave the ideal country home and move to town or city. They ) want to move to town or city because 1 they want to leave the farm. They leave the farm because the life and business of a farmer is not satisfactory. FOR SALE ONE NEW PERFECT ION 4-burner Oil Stove with Boss oven. In excellent condition. Mrs. H. C. 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I would get a bucket of water and would fed so weak I would have to set it down before I felt like I could lift it to the shelf, la this condition, of course, to do even my housework was a task almost im possible to accom plish. "I was . . . nervous and easily upset ct of a Texas Ut t3 Deck TW11, AW CM Iky ffW Maca Sickaat aJ Worry. . 1 i "i r.'i'v. I eouldat rest weO at nigM jcjded I bad some fcm" mj, .nh... wn antra. I decided was puling at down. mm. SLA i . mw that while Uw,Ti Cttdul Home Treatment piOvemCBt and ft wasai I it I aw CarAB" an right-good appetite. and much Stfonger housework. , .ri it -i i tk hottle of , un ww lydOfOfif would save a great deal j sickness." ,fwaJi The enthusiastic P0 other women "J htm J&J woffktrying, Andw, I
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