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ROAD HOGS
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Any motor vehicle that attempts to use
more than half the highway is called a “road
hog.” The little hogs of this type do little more
than annoy. But the big, broad, high, ten-ton
trucks that race everywhere over our roads are
hogs, the worst sort. They not only hog the
road but take lives along with them. Recent
deaths by collisions with these monsters bring
anew the realization that something must be
done about it.
There is as much reason for the aeroplanes
to land and take off on our highways and for
long freight trains to put on rubber tires and
race over our roads as for these trucks
to use the people’s property for private pur
poses. If the State Highway Department has
any authority to regulate this menace to other
private business and life, we hope they will
speedily exercise it. If they do not, then they
should work out a plan to offer to the next Gen
eral Assembly for laws to banish these* road hogs
forever from our highways.
“SPARE THE ROD, SPOIL THE CHILI)’’
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Perhaps Solomon did not know what he
was talking about. Anyway, there are a lot of
folks who think otherwise today. We believe
Solomon was right.
Being the father of five children and hav
ing been head of an orphanage for a number of
years ought to qualify us to speak with some
certainty if not authority as to the value of cor
poral punishment in the family. At times it is
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LETTER FROM GEORGIA
I enjoyed reading Mr. R. L. Is
aacs’ trip to Warrenton in the
Record last week. South Green Hill,
where the first Methodist Confer
ence in the South was held was the
Mathew Davis place near Louis
burg. At a sale there a long time
ago my daddy bought a flat top
piano made of rosewood and it is
at home now and has about as
much tune as a tin pan but the
case is fine. I have tried to think
what could be made of it.
If the road hasn’t been changed
(a lot of them have been in late
years, I suppose) Mr. Isaacs went
by Trinity Baptist Church and on
by the Devil’s Cradle that w r as a
little branch across the road with
big rocks on each side; then over
Pugh’s hill across Sandy Creek;
then Big Shocker Creek and Little
Shocker; then on by Sulphur
Springs and where you turn, there
was what looked like a small school
house with a billiard table sitting
out in the yard. I did hate to see it
out in the weather. Daddy said
wealthy people used to have them
in their homes.
I forgot to say that is the way I
went to my Grandmother’s. It was
called 25 miles and we usually
made the trip in a day. There were
no paved roads and cars in those
days. It was horse and buggy and
• very bad roads so we would get
there in time enough to go to the
spring before supper. I would stay
a month or more every year with
her and have carried many a big
cooler of buttermilk to set below
the spring to get cool. I guess it
has been 40 years since I was along
that road, nevertheless I would
like to go over it one more time.
MRS. G. B. CLARK,
Lyons, Georgia.
WE SEE SIGNS OF THE COM
ING OF OUR LORD
By Mrs. Myrtie Braswell
We see the signs of our Lord’s
coming back to earth again; and it
it sad to see so many people just
take it as an idle tale and don’t
seem to think that He will come
any time soon. Luke 12:40—8e ye
therefore ready also; for the son
of man cometh at an hour when ye
think not. You will not have time
to get ready after he comes. If you
are not ready you will be left. It
will mean much to be ready. Matt.
24:36—8ut of that day and hour
knoweth no man, no, not the angels
of heaven but my Father only.
Matt. 24:37-38-39—But as the days
of Noah were, so shall also the
coming of the son of man be. For
as in the days that were before the
flood they were eating and drink
ing, marrying and giving in mar
riage until the day that Noah en
tered into the ark, and knew not
until the flood came and took them
all away, so shall also the coming
of the son of man be. We are liv
ing in a day now when people are
eating and drinking as we have
never seen before, marrying and
giving in marriage. There is more
marrying and divorces today than
we have ever seen before. And ye
proper and necessary. In our experience after
trying “kind words,” confinement, and other
ways of discipline, we found it necessary to re
sort to the old-fashioned switch.
Should the Baptist folks “lay down the law
to our orphanage heads against corporal punish
ment, it would, in our opinion, be next to impos
sible to control some of the children. There are
few homes of a half dozen where it is not found
necessary. Take 150 children from the average
N. C. home and put them in one big family, and
imagine ruling this aggregation without occa
sionally resorting to the rod.
Some good people who have never raised a
large family nor been Superintendent of an or
phanage will rise up in righteous indignation
when they hear of a boy or girl being punished
with a switch or strap. They will protest and
object and criticise, but if they cannot offer a
more effective and less physical means of disci
pline, then it seems to us that they have failed
to make their case. Then, too, the other side
should be heard before they publicly protest on
the statement of the offender.
Even in our modern day and way some
children may be saved by using the rod.
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THE REYNOLDS GIFT
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The State Board of Health has come into
possession of millions with which to fight a dis
ease propagated in shame and immorality. Th : s
gift can be used for great good. It may be used
to pay big salaries to experts and specialists.
While there is need to relieve those who are
suffering from venereal diseases, we believe
there is a greater need for our people. This is on
ly one disease. There are others equally and
even more pressing. Malnutrition is one of
them. In our state there are thousands of child
ren who, if something is not done about it, will
go through life with weak bodies and undevel
oped minds. The curse of drink which develops
into a disease more awful than venereal, tuber
culosis, cancer and many others are as import
ant in our program for making our people heal
thy as the one we have been given millions to
eradicate. We hope some way may be devised
by which this immense sum of money may be
used by our State Board of Health in caring for
our people from every standpoint of a healthy,
wholesome existence.
shall hear of wars and rumors of
wars. For nation shall rise against
nation, Kingdom against Kingdom
and there shall be famine, pesti
lence and earthquakes in divers
places. And because iniquity shall
abound the love of many shall wax
cold. So many people that used to
go to church don’t go now; they
care nothing about God and His
goodness. Those who used to love
you are proud, high minded. They
meet you on the street and not ev
en speak. Fathers are killing their
wives and children; wives are kill
ing their husbands and children.
Love has waxed cold. They are lov
ers of themselves more than lovers
of God. Nah. 2:3—Chariots shall
be with flaming torches in the day
of his preparation. The chariots
shall rage in the streets. They
shall jostle one against another in
the broad ways; they shall seem
like the lightning. Surely we see
the automobiles today when they
look just like flaming torches.
There are so many in the streets
it is oftimes hard to get a place
to park; so many jostle one against
another in tht broad ways until
thousands of people are killed ev
ery year. We can see their light as
it runs like lightning. This world
is full of sorrow, sadness, sickness,
pain, death; surely He is making
preparation to come back to this
earth against and catch his bride
away. Now learn a parable of the
fig tree. When his branches are
yet tender, and putteth forth
leaves, ye know that summer is
night; so likewise ye when ye shall
see all these things, know that it
is nigh. Even at the door. Matt. 24:
22-23—Wach theerfore for ye know
not what hour your Lord doth
STAR OF HOPE
IB PEACE ON EARTH —GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN l
Both beautiful and tragic is the Christmas Spirit that \
steals over mankind this time of the year, causing men to j
forget their petty grudges, to make new friends out of old ,
enemies and cloaking the world in the spirit of true bro- ,
therhood. The beauty of the Christmas Spirit lies in the ,
peace that descends on the world as a result. The tragedy •.
is that the spirit is all too shortlived.
Never, perhaps, in the history of the nation has there >
been a greater need for the literal application of the Christ- ‘
mas admonition —“Pace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men. j
In this, the Christmas season, let us seek lasting peace
between all groups in our society; the substitution of the
council table for strife, discord and suspicion. Let us seek j
lasting peace between labor, management and
that the whole nation may go forward. jj
come. Mat. 24:42 —No is is time
for people to get ready for his com
ing. We see the signs with our own
eyes. There will be no excuse so"
you if you are not ready. It will be
your own fault. How would it be
with you should He come just now?
Are you so charmed with the
things of this world until you just
think the Lord delayeth His com
ing. He shall come in a day when
you look not for Him and in an
hour that you are not aware of.
In that day there’ll be singing.
There'll be shouting, there’ll be
sorrow, there’ll be pain, there’ll be
weeping, there’ll be praying—when
our Lord shall come again. Matt.
24:44 —Therefore be ye also ready,
for in such an hour as ye think not,
the son of man cometh.
There is no death, the stars go
down
To rise upon some fairer shore;
And bright in heaven’s jeweled
crown
They shine forevermore.
JAPANESE TENSION GROWS
Shanghai, China—Both Japanese
Long Distance Rates
Reduced on Christmas
and New Years Day!
Long Distance rates for calls made between
points within the United States, on both Christ
mas and New Year's days, will be reduced.
The low night rates that arc now in effect every
night after seven and on Sundays will apply on
both person-to-person and station-to-station calls
made Christmas day and New Year’s day.
If you can t be with out-of-town relatives and
friends you can “voice visit” with them by lone
distance telephone at little cost.
Since these holidays arc Saturdays, you can place
calls any time from 7 P. M. Friday until 4:30 A. M.
Monday, on both the Christmas and New Year
week-ends, and obtain the low rates.
Take advantage of this opportunity to make
both Christmas day and New Year’s day this year a
time of greater happiness for your loved ones and
friends as well as yourself. With these special low
rates in effect you can talk a distance of 100 miles
for 40c; 500 miles $1.10; 1,000 miles $1.85, and
greater or less distances at a correspondingly low
cost when using station-to-station service. Penoo
to-Person service is slightly higher.
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co
incorporated
and American officials realize the
serious situation arising from Ja
pan’s admission that the bombing
of the U. S. Gunboat Panay was
ordered by Colonel Hashimoto, ap
parently with a full knowledge of
its consequences. Although the in
cident has been placed directly be
for Emperor Hirohito, it is believ
ed that Hashimoto’s political fol
lowing is too strong to permit of
his punishment. The fall of Nan
king, ancient capitol of China, was
followed by scenes of indescrib
able barbarity on the part of the
Japanese invaders. Military observ
ers of civilized nations in the war
zone were frank in their expres
sions of horror at the savagery ex
hibited by Japanese soldiers, who
dashed out the brains of innocent
children before the eyes of moth
ers subsequently ravished and de
voted themselves to a reign of pil
lag and devastation unprecedented
in modem warfare. The indemnity
for wanton destruction of life and
property of neutral nations in the
war zone will paralyze Japan as an
industrial nation for generations.
Throughout England and this coun
try merchants are publicly burning
their stocks of Japanese goods.