. ' \ . - * V ; ? ? L * * |. t . . THE JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL Published Weekly By y DAN TOMPKINS DAN TOMPKINS, Editor ri'mwHT CT yXworth Carolina vA /PtHi ASSOCIAlXff^) Entered as second class matter at the Post Office Sylva, N. C. It seldom occurs to us-that this may be true; bui it is entirely possible that what the other fellows - ~-e " ?? imnnrtont fljS what Wt tnillK Ul us iiicty uc juoi ao v??t*v mw think of him. 1 i'' i i * "FOOLS RUSH IN. . . " "More than 300 women members of the Methodist Missionary Societies, at Lake Junaluska, from Twelve States in the Southeastern Jurisdiction oi the Methodist church, attending a Missionary Conference, went on record protesting universal military conscription in peace time." The discussion was led by Miss Thelma Stephens, of Nashville, when Christian Social Relations in the new Methodist church ivere under consideration. The resolution was aimed directly at the military conscription bill now pending in congress, as a part of the National Defense program, and wires were ordered sent to President Roosevelt and Senator Key Pittman, advising them of the action of the Methodist women. Air mail letters were directed to Senators Wheeler, Taft, Bennett Clark ' and Walsh. As for us, though Miss Stevens is a personal A ***** wp nnt.hinjy that these women 11 iCi.AU. Ui UUlo, r*\, vuii ...?-0 , can accomplish, that is of any service to their church or their country, by such tactics. We can not understand how they can presume to speak for the thousands of women who compose the Methodist Mission. ary Societies in the South, who are as loyal Americans as ever trod the earth, and many of whom are as consecrated to their Christianity and their church as any Women anywhere have ever been. We didn't think much, in the first place, of this union of the Methodist churches. As time goes on we think even less of it. The South has sacrificec much to the preachers' insistance upon having a denomination with greater membership than any othei Protestant church.. We had enough un-American thought and teaching, coming down from the higherups, before the union of the Methodist branches Now, that sort of thing may grow worse. The action of the 300 women at Lake Junaluska would tend tc prove that such is the case. The only things that these women can hope tc accomplish, by such resolutions and such telegrams, is to give aidJand comfort to Hitler and his gang, who, if they had the power ,would overthrow every iHpciI fnr whieh the Christian church, for whom these women assay to speak, stands for, and has stood for through the ages. Their action tends to hinder the work of their government in preparing to defend the sacred principles for which the American government and the American churches stand. It gives encouragement to the Isolationists and Pacifists, whose fallacious thinking have helped to bring upon the world a disaster unparalled in history, since the barbarian ancestors of the present Gei; no overthrew the Roman civilization and plunged the worlc into centuries of darkness and misery, from which we had to slowly emerge by tortuous suffering anc seeking after the light. It helps every Communist every fifth columnist, every subversive agency in America to gain a step nearer its goal, the final overthrow of American democracy and American Christi. ATI it. V This kind of teaching, this kind of thinking, this kind of action has been all too prevalent in the Methodist church for the past quarter of a century, As a Methodist, as a World War Veteran, as an American, we have resented it repeatedly in the past. We believed that the unprovoked attacks upon peaceloving, God-fearing, and helpless countries by the ' Beast of Berlin, had shocked even the most dense oi our people into sanity along those lines. But it appears that some of them still prefer to hold to fallacious theories, instead of facing facts as they are. Should Britain fall before the monster of force and the British fleet either cease to be a bulwark of defense of the Americas, or actually be turned against us; anc should penetration of Totalitarianism in Americs \ begin, either by force or by subtle means, then these misguided women would see that either Americs must fight, or see every ideal in which they have be\ lieved trodden under foot of the Totalitarians. If we i shnnlH hnvp t.n ficrht. tn onvp mir iHpals wp wmilH hft ir | position to do so, if we had trained men. We are wisely f) preparing the equipment; but the equipment woulc be worthless without trained men. If we should come to war, which God forbid, our young men would be ir better position to preserve the country and its ideals and to save their own lives, if they had been properly trained in military ways. We wonder if these women ever read the incideni where the Master asked his close desciples whethe] they had a sword, and advised that, if not, they shoulc buy one? , We think that passage in the Gospels is wel . y* worth perusal in these parlous times. Hf * '.->* i i*. % l ? j I , *5ljpp ' ; 1 ; v . : X::;' r ?-n A\ IV. . i . - . . j . i Tta JACKSON COUNTY JOURNAL, SYLVA, N. IMM??a?^ ADMINISTRATORS MRS. SUTTON PASSES TO CREDITORS |? Just as we go to press, we learn NORTH CAROLINA, of the death,this afternoon, at JACKSON COUNTY. Community hospital, of Mrs. N. We, R. C. Coggins and G. L. L. Sutton, relict of Former Coggins having qualified as Ad-? Sheriff Nelson L. Sutton, ministrators of the Estate of M. Mrs. Sutton had been critically r o H?.po yoU nee^ *8 SORETONE. 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