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MARION PROGRESS. MARION, N. C-, THURSDAY, JAN. 18, 194« MARION PROGRESS PUBUSHED EVERY THURSDAY BY THE McDOWELL PUBLISHING CO., MARION, N. C. TELEPHONE 64 S. E. WHITTEN, Editor and Prop. Entered at the Postoffice at Marion, N. C., as second class matter. GOOD HEALTH AND A “DISGRACE" The health of the people of the United States in 1938 was very good,! apparently, because the death rate; for the year was 10.6 per 1,000 per-j sons, as compared with 11.2 in 19371 and X0.7 in 1933, heretofore the j lowest on record. '4.1, ^ ^ a i tne most senous problems of Amer-! While this IS encouraging Dr.'. ... ■. 1 „ 1 I lean life, was the assertion made by Thomas Pa^a^, surgeon general, President of WEEKLY MEDITATION By Rev. Paul A. Boriack, B. D., Pastor St. Matthew's Luth eran Church, Marion. N. C. Lawlessness has become one of SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Six Months .75 Strictly in Advance. warns that the public should not be ! lulled into false security because the j figures do not reflect the great lo^- es incident to protracted disability from certain diseases nor the “shock ing increments of sickness and suf fering resultant from lack of med ical care and the thousands of non- fatal cases or preventable illness. Dr. Parran calls attention to the 14,939 cases of smallpox in 1938 and the 8,273 cases in the first half of 1939, terming them “a national MARION, N. C., JAN. 18, 1940 State Teachers College at Winona, Minn., in a recent address. In sup port of his claim he quoted these pertinent statistics. There are an es timated four million criminals in our country today. One-third of these are under 25 years of age at 700,000 under 21 years of age. At present the average age of the crim inal is 23 years, nine years ago it was 26 years, and 24 years ago it was 34. The largest age group of DRUNKEN DRIVERS DANGEROUS Thousands of good people will be killed on the highways of the United States before the year 1940 ends. There seems to be little public in dignation over the slaughter. The average automobile driver, acquaint-, , 1 „ ^ ed with the natural hazards of the |“P f' !/* road, hesitates to incite j^astic I''*‘- penalties through the fear that some I unavoidable catastrophe will landj^,^ !’’ ^ ® hini in the hoose-gow. J. „ u u . .criminals is 19 and the second larg- disgrace.” Since 1930, when about ^ ^ _ . . est 18. What a horrible story that 5,000 cases were reported, the inci-;. „ v + *1. i. 1 j -x , X XU J- I. • ,:tells about the natural depravity of dence of the disease has increased' „ , • , . .1 ^ , 4. • 0.1, i mankind even from youth on up. The until today only one country m the .u • x- j? > ,, T /• 1- • -J 'Bible says: the imagination of man’s world, India, has a higher incidence, u + • -i 4. t ic fV,. yo^th, Lifej proves it. Why does the above situ-1 jation among the youth of our land prevail ? In his Lutheran Hour Dr. Walter A. Maier of January 14th remarked :| Encouraging is the fact that, 1938 | infant mortality, 50.9 per 1,000, is termed probably the lowest in the nation’s history. VISION OF SPRING Just when the mercury, in north- seed merchants send out j their gorgeous announcements, promising spring and summer. In , ,, , „ . yellow, red and purple, we are told speeds were blamed for most of the u x -jr x- j * ., , , , , what awaits us if we are patient and accidents but the years have pro- J 1 , Isy our plans well, duced better cars and higher speeds. What would have Three out of four American children i 1 are growing up without adequate!] religious instruction. The conse quence of this lack of spiritual guid-}| ance has brought to the third gener ation in the United States, the Lu theran tjieologian declared, “a dwin dling sense of moral responsibility, 11 an unmistakable growth in Juvenile! delinquency, and the tragic failure N Orders for been criminal I ideal attend church regularly.” | , . , c 1 n I country where frost never comes, I m, 1 i ' carelessness ,n the twenties is con-' enemies I, eloquent speaker most force-1 sidered reasonably safe in the for-!y„„^ producing per-^ out that “educafon m ties and twenty years from now the » . ^ v,- v, +1, v. morals rather than , in mechanics. , , p , ,1 tect flowers on which the worm has ., ,, . 1 dangerous speeds of today may be;^„j cor-if^’’” ’ should be Irupted, untouched by blight. In the |our American people. | There are certain recognized jead of winter they present us with : “^omphsh this religion is | criminal acts in connection with mo-,|-jiggg visions tor vehicles, however, that will con * and inform us that for small sums, and with vtry little the supreme subject. However, in| this choice of religion the American! tinue to be condemned. Driving an eare on our part, we can ourselves)“■■■='“'• automobile under the influence of [possess these wonders of nature and! ‘he best in man, alcohol is an example. It is danger-,^rt. And we like to belieVe it he the worst thing he|| ous, not only to the driver but to all | though in past springs and summers,!^®®' religion, that degrades; who use the highway. It should bei^ue to too much heat, moisture or'^ Nigerian. It isj severely punished and yet, in many!fertilizer, we have missed the idealreligion that makes the Hindu! instances, convictions are hard to | gj-op which the catalog displays. i ”^®ther throw her child into the “ho- { secure and punishment is avoided. | Be ye blessed, seed merchants who ‘ Ganges and the Nigerian The drunks are public enemies |have made the lowly zinnia blossom' murder her twins. All the ;| when operating automobiles andjijke chrysanthemum, magnified the,degradation, and the daily j shcJuld be “persuaded” to let others j jy,Qjjgj.n sweet pea to giant size, re terror that haunt the pagan are the' drive in peace. Just because “nice|doubled the nasturtiunT and given it!result of his religion. Religion may' people” sometimes commit this of-!^ ndnr: wbn. «« wp watch ' ;the worst; it may be a source of pleasant odor; who, fense is no reason to encourage the,the coal pile dwindle habit. It is a crime and should be as we and the ash; pile grow, send us these harbingers heavenly blessings, it may be a curse. promptly punished as a crime. To doi^f ^ season when even the lightest | American people never for-| this will save some lives in 1940. | underwear is a torment. Yes, we j shall try again to make our gardens FARM BENEFITS. TO CONTINUE like unto the covers of your book- The President’s budget message I lets. Hope springs eternal, and in does not recommend continuation of these dead days ye have given ours the present benefits being paid to a wonderful fillip, the farmers of the nation. This has; aroused some of the congressmen' from farm areas, who insist that ■ agricultural benefits be maintained; at their present level. i get: “The Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all sins” and “the Gospel of Christ is the power of God unto salvation unto every one that believeth in Him.” CHURCH APPOINTMENTS Rev. J. C. Story announces third WHAT IS A BOY What is a boy? He is the person' Sunday apointments as follows: who is going to carry on what you' 11 a. m. West Marion Presbyte- have started. He is to sit right where ^ rian church. This brings to mind the insistent; y^u are sitting and attend to those' 3 agitation of Secretary Wallace that things you think are so important; SPEED'S FINE IN HOCKEY BUT NOT IN CIGARETTES. I LIKE SLOW-BURNING CAMELS...THE/’RE Milder AND COOLER ! p. m. Landis Chapel. ^ 4- ^ - - - i "^^SO p. m. Conley Memorial Pres- some method be adopted to provide I ^hen you are gone. You may adopt i^ terian church funds for farm payments outside of jan the policies you please, but howj the Federal treasury. Whether there:they will be carried on depends onl ~ will be a form of the abandoned | him. Even if you make leagues and j processing taxes, or some other; treaties, he will have to manage] method of raising runds, is uncer-; them. He is going to sit at your tain. No new taxes are expected this, ^esk in the Senate and occupy yourj year but farm benefits will continue pj^ce on the Supreme Bench. He is and new taxes will come later if; going to move in and take over your! necessary. j prisons, churches and corporations, j I When you get done, all your work! FACTS ON LABELS j to be judged and praised or! Since the first of the New Year | condemned by him. | all foods, dnigs and cosmetics, mov-j Your reputation and your fortune! ing in interstate commerce, have ’ are in his hands. He will read the j been required to bear labels listing; books you write and sell them to the all the ingredients they contain. isecond-hand man. He will assume! “The “contents” must be stated in | control of youi* cities. Right now the | plain English that the average house-; future President is playing marbles, wife can understand. If any habit-'and the most famous actor of his I forming drug is included a warning|(jay is complaining because he does' must be printed on the package. 1 j^Qt want to go to bed. Not your The revised regulations as to foods | contemporaries and fellow citizens, and drugs are necessary in the in-1 but the boys out there in the school terest of the public. They may lead yard, are going to say whether after to wiser buying and they should re- all you were a grand and noble hero suit in the purchaser getting more or blathersake. for his, or her, money. Jt is the boy who will amend your There will be those to denounce rules, after your creeds laugh at the regulations as an infraction | your mistakes. He may think kijidly upon the individual right of every Lf you and say you did the best you American to buy what he pleases. Lould, or he may not. Watch your The real objection will come fromjstep. All your work is fot him and those who want to sell cheap stuff at!the fate of the nation and of human- a fancy price and under a different | ity is in his hands. So it might be I well to pay him some attention.— I Dr. Frank Crane, Watchman Exam- We foresee a great era for Marion, | iner. but it will come through the coope-j rative efforts of our people and not! from outside sources. Roy Conacher, bigb-scoring forward of the Boston Bruins Why not make up your mind to do something every day to improve yourself; it will pay dividends. Is there no other ambition for a community than to aspire to^ be the largest in population. Marion has its faults, no doubt, but why not look out for the good jioints. THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER “The Foremost Newspaper^ of The Carolinas” , Jas. M. Miller, Agent In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slotver than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested —slower than any oi them. 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