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-V. DON'T MISS THIS TRUTH THE SPICE OF THE PROGRAM Monthly 25 CENTS A YEAR. IN CLUBS OF FIVE OR MORE AT ONE TIME, 15 CENTS A XEUVR VOL. XIII. WILKESBORO, NORTHT CAROLINA, DEC. 1925 NO. 12 The FoolKiller JESUS AT HOME They'd seen him working with his pap, And met him on the road, And he was just a neighbor chap That everybody knewed. They'd always seen him come and go Since he was very small, And he was just the son of Joe He wasn't God at all. If he had come from distant parts And spoke a foreign tongue, They might have took him to their hearts And on his sayings hung. But he was born in Bethlehem And neverwent to school, And so his preaching seemed to them The ravings, of a fool. They listened to him down the line A hundred miles or so; But back at home he didn't shine His preaching wouldn't go. You just as well to mark it down And wonder at it less: A prophet in his native town Is never a success. KM I I I 1 I I I " B 1 Folks shortened it to "Je," Their poor opinion to express, Just like they do with me. It must have been an humble place Where little Jesus dwelt, And I can -understand his case I know just how he felt. If I'd been born away back there, And had my humble home In Bethelehem of Judah, where Young Jesus used to room If I had been a little Jim When he was little Je, I'm sure I would have played with him, And "he'd have played with me. We would have been the best pt pals For many a happy day, And courted all the little gals. And wallowed in the hay. And folks who saw us playing 'round, Or wading in the streams, Would not have known our thoughts profound, Nor guessed bur mighty dreams. But when at last the power stirred With inspiration's might Wheuhe began to preach the Word, And I began to writ'e We would have shocked , the people some; I say it on my oath: Our friends and neighbors would have come And crucified us both. James Larkin Pearson. THE POPE'S CANDI DATE S3 Since sdlnany of the Southern Democrats have been wearing night gowns in public and trying so hard to look just like the Pope of Rome, I reckon the old humbug in the Vati can is feeling purty good about it. He has good reason to think that if they are so anxious to look just like him they will vote for his can didate for president. And maybe they will, Kluckers and all. Anyhow, it now seems certain that Al Smith is Democracy's Big Tin Jesus, both North and South. You remember that Al sent his man Jim my down into Dixie not long ago to spy out the land, and Jimmy just unrolled his Irish smile, and wrapped up Dixie in It and took it back to New York. If there was any opposi tion to Jimmy and Al and-the Pope, it . wasn't among the Democratic bosses. Strange as it may seem, Jimmy wasn't tarred and feathered nary time, but he was feasted and foundered every Say. And so it just looks like the Demo- are going to be silly enough to nominate Al Smith for president, and L suppose they think he stands a chance to be elected;. Well, let 'enj) try it. The millions of plain honest voters in this country, who have no use for the Pope nor the Pillow-Slip, would march to the polls and bury the Pope's candidate so ieep that he would have to crawl up hill to get into the orthodox hell. A WORD TO BIBLE STUDENTS The idea of calling France a Chris tian" nation ! Just a-buot such a "Christian" as Judas was. Prejudice is the halter by which the devjr leads the jgnorant. I just want to give you the "secret grip" and hand you a few of the pass-words. Since everybody else are having their "secret orders" we might as well have ours. 'We have a bigger and better secret than any of the others. I have many readers who are nbt Bible Students, and they will not know what this means, but you will understand. Rest easy. Everything is all right. A, B, C, D, B, F, G. To you these letters mean volumes, but to other people they don't mean a thing ex cept part of the alphabet. But may be this will get their curiosity arous ed and they wiH want to learn some thing. Now you know what to do. ' Go to it. NANCY HAS SXARTEP SOMETHING 1 The League of Nations has laid another peace egg and has now be gun to "set on it with the intention xtt hatching out another disarmament conference. Go to it, boys! Every one that toils will briDS us that much nearer to the one that will succeed. Pennsylvania is partial to P's. For instance, there is Philadelphia, and Penrose, and Pepper, and Pinchot, Lady Astor seems to have started something. Lady Astor, you know, is the "purty girl" from Virginia who married anv English lord and went over there and got herself elected to Parliament. WellXm be sarn-taked if Nancy ain't kept them no-account English dudes awake ever since she got there. And now she has calmly riz up in her old Virginia majesty and solemnly proposed thai the Subma rine be declared an outlaw among the nations. And she thinks England might, as Well start it. - Well, sir, the idea seems to have struck home. It has "took," as the doctors say about vaccination. May be it was because Nancy proposed it, or maybe they would have done it anyway, but the fact is that just lots of the swell guys all over the world have tumbled to it like pour ing shelled beans into a tin pan. People that younever would have suspected "of being in sympathy with such ideas are now coming out bold ly in favor of outlawing not only the Submarine but all other machi nery of war It won't be done just yet,, at least, not very much of it, but the start, has been made. The "very fact that such a proposition has been made, and that it has received unexpected support from people in high places, shows the direction in which world thought is moving, and' the actual abolishment of war in the near future it is just as certain as that God lives. The "due time' r has now arrived, and all the devils in perdition can't change God's plan nor cheat the human race out of its promisedbless-ing. FOX AND MAN Straight Ahead . The Pope wants to "make Ameri ca Catholic." No doubt about that. And there are lots of people who seem bent on helping him to do it. On the other hand, the Krazy Kat' Klub wants to tie up America in a . bed sheet, and choke it to death on flapdoodle, and there are a few mil lions who want to help do that. But in between these two factions, and not in sympathy with either of them, stands the great American citizen who wants to keep America united and free. If you are a true American citizen you belong to the middle group, and The Fool-Killer Is here to champion' your cause. If you want a real Wide-awake and hard-hitting paper that will fight off all the side-shows and stand for plain, honest, open-faced, free and fearless American citizenship, here it is. Get busy among your friends and let us1 have one or two big cltfbs from you every week. I read in a local paper nc4 long ago about a great gathering of "sportsmen'' and the organization of a Fox Huntetrs' Association, "The main object of the meeting," as reported in the paper, is to pro pogate the fox in Western North Carolina." The president of the as sociation made a "fine speech" and told the hunters that he was pleas ed to see so many present, and that it "showed that the hunters still had a heart the interest of the fox.' There you have it. Read that again. And then laugh. Haw-haw-haw! Laugh some more. "The hunters still have at heart the interest of the fox." That is rich. Just like the cat has at heart the interest of the mouse. Just like the hawk has at heart the interest of the chicken. No diff erencl at alL And just Uke the war-gods have at heart the interest of the common soldier. To have a big "game" that they can enjoy at the expense of their victim is the only "Interest" and of them have. The hunter eares for nothing except the fun he gets out of running the fox, and he never one time thinks about the terror "of fright, the heart-ache and the deadly exhaustion that the poor hunted creature suffers. That is all taken as a matter of course as a part el the "game." So with the cat and the hawk) their only interest in their victims is the fun of eating them. . Men are just big nasty cruel brutes. I would like to see the devil get after a .gang of fox hunters and run them about 500 miles oyer mountain and wilderness. In every community there are num bers of people who would enjoy The Fool-Killer, but do not know about it. Send us their names and addres ses and we'll hit 'em with a sample. The old earth is getting lined up for the new age, and the old govern ments of men are about ready tP croak. The plutes at Washington thought they would be rid of senator La Follette. But they Were mistaken. Senator La Follette is right there yet, and he is going to be a flea in their breeches leg for many a day to come. Please take notice that you can get your own Fool-Killer a year free by sending in a club of five at 15c a year each 75 cents in all. Read "Let'sHaHs it Over" on page and then get busy.
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