THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1934
THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACONIAN
PAGE FIVE
the tint line oi which reads, The Holy Dibit,
and which coo tuns Four Great
PAUL VISITS ATHENS
PAUL was a doughtly fighter
and he had good need to be.
He and Barnabas were now ready
to start on another missionary
journey and a longer one. But
they had a quarrel.
Paul would not go
if Mark went along,
and Barnabas would
fnot leave Mark be
hind. And the con
tention was so
sharp between
them, that they
departed asun
der one from
the other: and
so Barnabas
took Mark, and
sailed unto Cy
all
Brtice Barton
prus;
And Paul chose Silas, and de
parted, being recommended by
the brethren unto the grace of
God.
Paul did .not get on very well.
He met a series of hindrances and
changed his route several times.
At length he came to Troas, the
site of ancient Troy, where he fell
ill and saw in a vision a man of
Macedonia, saying, "Come over in
to Macedonia and help us :" Read
carefully the next sentence (Acts
16:10); it is notable for its pro
nouns :
And after he had seen the
vision, immediately we endeavor
ed to go into Macedonia
Where do we get this we? Who
is it that comes into the narrative
just at this point, under the shelter
rf this lirle wnrrl W" ? T i the ,
phvsician-author, Doctor Luke.
From here on the book of Acts
TODAY and
LOTTERIES
and morali
l he whole subject of lotteries has
been opened afresh by the action
of the New York Municipal Assem
bly in adopting a plan for a city
lottery to raise funds for the re
lief of the destitute.
That is an ancient and still popu
lar way to raise money for public
or charitable purposes. It seems
to me that there is a decided dif
ference between a commercial lot-
tery operated, for private profit and
li' : ilia Knit-
of the money paid for tickets goei
to a worthy purpose.
The outcry against any form of
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in the laws of every state and Hamty But that doesn t mean
1 f co i. Wd that all "margin trading' is foolish
upon the supposed debasing effect
upon the winners, and the tempta
tion to the poor to waste their
scanty resources in the hope of
winning a big prize.
I am not prepared to subscribe
to the doctrine that it is a function
of government to regulate any in
dividual's private morals.
GAMBLING . . large Mid mall
Where one should draw the line
between the lotteries, gambling,
speculation and the taking of risks
in business is a matter that I have
never been able to determine to
my own satisfaction.
In a sense we are all gamblers.
We use the term ordinarily to ap
ply to games of chance, in which
skill may or may not have a domi
nant part. The golfer who bets a
ball a hole on his game is as much
a gambler as the lady, who plays
bridge for a prize; no more and
no less.
It seems to me that most betting
is foolish, because the betters have
no control over the outcome of the
thing they are betting on.
But most people are foolish, any
way, and so long as that is so there
will always be plenty to bet on the
outcome of ihe World's Series or
the chance of throwing seven in
a crap gamer
SPECULATION . . its
The Federal Government has im-
Tressutei
is made up of two kinds of ma
terial, that which says "we" and
that which says "he" or "they."
The "we" sections show the times
when Luke was present; the rest of
the story he got from others.
And now the good news took on
a new character. Paul had crossed
into Europe ,and found a fresh
field. He preached in Philippi, in
Thessalonica, which is modern Sa
lonica, in Berea, and even in proud
Athens. That sophisticated city
was the capital of the smart world.
For all the Athenians and
strangers which, were there
spent their time in nothing else,
but either to tell, or to hear
some new thing.
Partly out of curiosity, partly from
genuine intellectual interest, the
Athenians allowed Paul to make his
way up to Mars Hill and there set
forth this new religion of which He
was the representative. It was a
keen test of his mental agility
and he met it nobly.
Ye men of Athens (he began),
I perceive that in all things ye
are very religious. (Nothing in
that to give offense.)
For as I passed by, and be-,
held your devotions, 1 found an
altar with this inscription, TO
THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom
therefore ye ignorantly worship,
him declare I unto you.
A magnificent flank attack. Sophis
ticated and cynical as they were,
he had piqued their curiosity. They
must hear about this unknown God
or run the risk of missing some
important "new thing," so they
stood quietly and allowed him to
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posed upon the Stock Exchange
and the other public markets for
securities and commodities, regula
tions intended to curb speculation
About one million persons, con
siderably less than one per cent of
the population of the country, were
engaged in speculation when the
big crash of 1929 came. Many got
out with profits; those who lost1
made a lot of noise about it,
The ones who lost had nobody to
blame but themselves. They were
the "easy marks" who think money
can be made by people who don't
know how to make it. No sane
person would go into the grocery
or hardware business without know
ing something about it, or expect
to make money out of it without
jrivinc it all of his attention, day
and night. Yet folks who had been
successful enough in their own
businesses to accumulate a surplus
went into stock market operations
without knowing the first thing
out the market, and risked their
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they could exercise no control
That sort of speculation is pure
or speculative.
LAND .... and
I was in Iowa in 1917 when
the big farm land boom was rising
to its height. Farmers were pay
ing from $300 to $600 an acre for
ordinary farm land. Sensible men
knew that there wasn't an acre in
Iowa that could earn interest on
such prices, but that wasn't what
these buyers were thinking of.
They were thinking of selling the
land next week at a profit. By and
by the crop of suckers failed, and
the last buyers were left holding
the land.
Much of the distress among farm
ers has its root in land purchases
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at exorbitant prices, on partial pay
ments with a mortgage on which
the land can never earn interest.
1 was in Florida all through the
great land boom there. It was the
western farm boom pver again in a
different setting. People bought
lots, not because they had any use
for them or because they were
worth what they contracted to pay,
but in the hope of selling them to
morrow at a huge profit. For a
while it worked. Then, again, the
crop of suckers failed.
Iowa land and Florida land and
corporation stocks and all the other
commodities in which men have
speculated and lost have real value,
readily determined. I think that
anything to prevent free trading in
such things is contrary to the pub
lic interest and runs against the
American tradition.
What is needed is wider educa
tion in what constitutes real value
LUCK . . . always a factor
There is no question that the ele
ment of luck plays an important
part in all human affairs. Turn to
the right instead of to the left and
you may meet the man or the
situation which will determine your
whole future, which you would not
have met had you turned to the
left
But luck is accidental, and those
who stake anything of material
value on it are taking unnecessary
chances. Nobody can foresee the
future. In a minute anything can
happen which will change the whole
course of human events.
I know a man who had just
opened a restaurant on Market
Street when the San Francisco
earthquake occurred and ruined him.
A cousin of mine cancelled his pas
sage on the Titanic, only to be
killed five days later in an airplane
crash at Hendon.
The only safe rule of life is to
earn your money by the methods
of which you are a master, spend
less than you earn, and put your
surplus into commodities of endur
ing value at prices no higher than
their permanent worth.
Blossomtown
Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Mann, of
Georgia, have moved in their newi
home, which was recently com
pleted.
The Rev. Bloxham, rector of the
St. Agnes Episcopal church, Frank
lin, preached at the County Home
last Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Pearl Stiles, of Franklin,
spent a few nights last week with
her sister, Mrs. Irene Southard.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Holbrooks
and children and Jerry Holbrooks
were visiting in South Carolina
Sunday.
Alex Southard made a business
trip to Cartoogechaye one day last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dock Stockton and
son, Furman and Mr. and Mrs.
Thad Dowdle attended the singing
convention at Franklin Sunday.
Bertie Nell Southard, of Car
toogechaye, spent Sunday with Dor
othy Southard.
Mr. and Mrs. Thad Dowdle were
in Clayton, Ga., shopping last Friday.
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