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MARION PROGRESS. MARION, N. C., THURSDAY, OCT. 24, 1940 MARION PROGRESS PUBLISHED 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year $1.50 Strictly In Advanco. North Carolina ^ MESS ASSOCIATIOTT MARION, N. C., OCT. 24, 1940 NO SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY Every once in a while some divine, j The Oldtimer 10 SHUCKS, V/HtM I AKID,TMEV USED TO HAVt TOecH-U&HT PAfZADBS AMD ON ELECTlOM NlG>HT V/E VJOULO PUILD AGIZeAT PONFIRE. IN THE. CENTER OF AAAlN STREET WRS USED TO STARr COUECTINO 0ARREL6. AND SOAP BOXES VA/EEKS V,^TOR^, e>OT NOW- his character good, he is eager to learn to render the best service, for his responsibilities at that age are heavy. He is triyng to support and educate a g^rowing family and yet the doors of industry are shut in his face because he has reached the age of forty. “A famous journalist who made a great name as a war reporter was turned down because he was forty- eight, by a newspaper old enough to know better. Now he is ‘tops’ on the war front.” (To Be Continued) DYSARTSVILLE P - T. A. MEETING; OTHER NEWS The regular meeting of P.T.A. of Dysartsville school was held on. last i Thursday night with good attend- |ance. An interesting program was [rendered by the fourth and fifth, grades under the direction of Miss Inez Daves. The fourth and fifth grade room won the prize for best attendance. A brief business session Dr. K. W. Ramsey Dr. P. N. DeVere A Complete Optomelric Service Eye. Examined Gla»«. Fitted Corrective Treatments Lense* Duplicated Lenses ground in our own Laboratory Hours 9 to 5 Daily Phone 214 205-6 Blanton Building not, the history of the woild i living in PEACE More than twelve years ago fif-1 of some church or another, comes out I renounced | with a solemn warning that the Uni-!^^*" instrument of policy and, ted States is “spiritually bankrupt.” irepresentatives to sign These declarations are easily made i ^ and sometimes received as forty-eight nations, of moral degradation. As a matter pledge of fact they represent nothing but the half-baked conclusion of a man without much optimism and, we sus pect, little faith. The argument is advanced that this “spiritua'l bankruptcy” is to be eeen in the failure of millions of peo ple to belong to any “organized re ligion,” which means a church. The critics of humanity in general do not imagine that it might be pos sible for the churches to improve their services to mankind and thus; gain greater support. They calmly assume that the churches are above THE ONLY WAY TO WORLD j held. A Halloween program will be giv- • ' en Saturday night, October 26th, at • ! 7:30 in Dysartsville school auditori- Z um. “The Haunted House,” a 30- • * minute play by sixth and seventh • grades, songs, stunts and Halloween J exercises by the first-fifth grades • I will make up the program. A small Some'of the'natiMs »ere sincere IWASTAGE OF EXPERIENCE admission will be charged. A bean- in their renunciation. Othei’S were; Youth today like the rest of us is ty contest will be held ^ an inter- Health and "Reatity ... Dr. Sophia Brunson LOWEST PRICED SEDANS IN AMERICA IN ANY 6 OR 8 CYUNDER CAR smk rou I0%T0 , vnu more WHBn r strange, bewildering, Everyone is i since that day, has demonstrated. | world. In America they are being This does not mean that there is no i given too much freedom for their way to outlaw war but it demon- j own good; time and conditions will strates that another Pact of Paris ^ve them discipline for which they would be useless. j are wholly unprepared. They will be Some day in the future the na-1 rebellious and resentful, which will tions of the earth will have a new | only add to their hardships, pact of peace but it will undoubted-i Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, ly contain clauses designed to pun-1 Communistic Russia, Hitler, ish the outlaw nation that resorts to i Mussolini and Stalin regiment the j war. ! children and train them to become The United States as the most * drained and accomplished killers, reproof and that any YndivSuar whomodern' They are bred to slaughter and to fails to support a church organiza- assume its “e slaughtered for the glory of their tion is bound for hell-fire share of the responsibility for main- masters. Their physical training; The Progress certainly believes in! receiwe has only one ob-i organized religion and readily advis- ^ past|Ject, to produce enduring, hardened es its readers to join and support the|^^® protected us from the danger j soWiers. church of their choice. At the same country a very curious time, we cannot condemn, offhand, , I T“T.f!. v every man and woman who, for rea-! y””*. The idea is to shield eons of their own, fail to follow our' world, ready to use j them, and not permit them Co work Edvice. force for national aggrandizement,:they are eighteen years old, The'contest between various faiths' ^ polite term for ordinary ! and then, alas, to push them all un is not without effect upon people outlaw governments! Prepared into the places of men and who often, and unfortunately, con- promises but,women who are still fairly young. | elude that church leaders are more attention to superior! A very fallacious idea has taken; interested in church success than in Snn-pov^er. -possession of many of the American: the advancement of religious ideals peace-lov-! People; business and industry for They think, and sometimes with cor^'"^ unaccountable reason have rectness, that the message of God collectively, sufficient' come to think that a man of forty or would reach more men if some of >««aws. By work-; above should be thrown out of his the churches were less interested in together, the peace-loving na-j Position and his place given to some material thing's. i reduce the cost of the job,} younger man. | ... I Walter Pitkin’s best seller, “Life Begins at Forty,” is packed with ar guments, for the contention that a invited. Mrs. L. G. Redding is a patient in the Marion General Hospital. j but if they want to insure peace, ithey must be prepared for war. PESTROYERS AID BRITISH Early this month a fourth group} person’s best work is done after that of overage destroyers entered a Ca-j OCTOBER NOON ! period. nadian poi-t, where they were taken | . the secret darkness of the j He says that the largest majority' over by British seamen, who had vineyards spill the splendid jewels,'of those who enjoy positions of just arrived from Britain. | translucent in the late sun of Octo-; trust are past fifty or sixty. Cicero The first batch of American de-;^®^’ and beautiful, filled with tells us that, “it is not by muscle, etroyers went September 6th and the fragrance of autumn. The wind’s speed, or physical dexterity that are now in service overseas. Since ^®^t cloak billows over the hills and great things are done, but by reflec- then other over-age ships have' been the quiet lakes, stirring the last tion and ripened judgment.” i taken to England, where they were Iof summer, waking the slow' He illustrates this by a sailing refitted for immediate service. j music of autumn. Each day the sun! ship. “If you look at it, you. v/ill see The assistance that the United ; reluctantly a little later to the ! the sailors hurrying across the deck. States is rendering the British is im-; garden. Soon even the stone wall will I pulling ropes, climbing masts, and portant and will probably become'^e in shadow. The late flowers;will think that they are managing more vital as the war continues. It blooming bear the seal of autumn on j the ship, but a closer look will re- «hould be remembered by Ameri- their petals; — the red of autumn I veal that the important persons are 'cans that the aid h being dispatched, the mellow glow of the Indian | the more aged captain standing on as a means of defending the United: summer sun. i the bridge and the pilot at the States, rather than as an act of! More piquant than spring’s pale | wheel.” generosity to a brave people. | glimmer is the bright sting of the j It is a stupid law that forbids chil- The first line of our defense is ‘ maple and the birch lifting their | dren under sixteen and eighteen now located in the waters that lap swift torches. The earth, in a last | years of age from engagring in some the coasts of Europe. It is being gesture of bounty, lifts to the wind j kind of work that is not harmful.' manned by British ships, which have the scent of the apple and the grape- j By having a certain amount of work isolated the Axis navies, rendering round, yellow pumpkins lie like j “they learn lessons of industry and them impotent so far as we are con- hoarders of the sun. The wine of 1 the discipline of close application to cemed. As long as they continue to! autumn bubbles to the brim. And i duty while they are still young.”; be confined in their own waters the! summer becomes a song remember-1 Children are debarred from whole- gecuricy of our shores is guaranteed.' ed» a fragrance lost, but to be found i some and useful work for fear that It is our business to see that the ^^ain.—Christian Science Monitor. | adults will be displaced *=nd -f British fleet is always strong enough i i forty and above are being refused to assure this. j TEACHER’S PRAYER ’the privilege of workin" and .«un- j I ask Thee for a sure and certain Idependents because Farmers in McDowell county' skill, younger men roost have should live off the products of their | A patient and consecrated will, j their jobs. Jo Fort Newttin wrote an | land, as nearly as possible; what you I ask Thee for a white and perfect: heading of “Wast-j raise ought to be cheaper than what' dream, j which he said that a splen- you have to buy. I A vision of the deep and wide un-1 equipped, well trained compe- j gggn I tent man with a clean record applied I What every community needs is | Dear Lord I need these things so i ^ position. He was forty-two unselfish leadership; what have you,' much, so much, to offer Marion? Too many congressmen have the idea that everything is accomplished when they appropriate money. being hired. “Sorry,” said the exec-| A little child is plastic to my i touch. I ask Thee for a love that under-j””’’ /»rty-two such a stands man as has been described has set- When it should reach and when!^^®^* j«d&rtieht is matured. withdraw its hands: | jutive, “ we do not employ any one Maybe Hitler wants to give the! A selfishness that flings ttie locked | Germans an opportunity to be thank- j door wide ful for Turkey on Thanksgiving Day. | For youth to enter while I aside. step I American women may favor the Dear Lord I need th^se ^tHirigs so: Chinese but they still wear Japanese j much, so much, j «ilk stockings. j A human soul lies pliistic to niy | I touch. j Many a patriot is giving his time! to the nation—at twice what he was: making before service began. 1 —Authoir Unknown. j The Axis powers will compromise i I their differences ' with smaller na-| Hitler, it seems, is offering Ger- tions provided the smaller hatiotfs' mans Rumania instead of England, do the compromising. j THE ASHE'VIIL'E TIMfS “GETS TH'tRE PiirST” Both AP and UP News Servtee Delivered to Your 'Door J. G. PRICE, Representative Phone 2^-Y Evening hours are reading hours DO YOU KNOW— .. 5^5?* 1 ‘^hat the almost extinct buffalo or bison was the only native homed cattle found in America, but has never been domesticated. 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