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THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1935 THE FRANKLIN PRESS and THE HIGHLANDS MACON IAN PAGE FIVE me mm unc or wnicn reus, in natj mm, MidwMdioootiimPwgQiMtTjwwwi ........ wuoBamiun RUTH Now it came . to pass in the days when the judges ruled. READING those first words of the book of Ruth you are tempted to skip to some other part of the Bible that gives promise of more pleasant reading. For the "days when the judges ruled" were terrible days, days of anarchy and bloodshed, of sag and reaction after a cruel war, of disorganization and uncensored living. The story has only four chap ters; you can read it in fifteen .. minutes. It starts with a good citizen named Elimelech, a resourceful man and a loving hus band and father. Because a famine had visited his own country he migrat ed with his wife, 1 mil Naomi, who, like Eve, was a pioneer wife, and his two boys, Mahlon and Chilian. The new Bruce Barton land offered food enough, but its climate was some how unkind to the visitors, for the father died and afterward the sons also, leaving Naomi and two beau tiful voung daughters-in-law, Orpah and Ruth. Naomi's only hope was to return to her own country, but she urged the girls to stay behind among their friends and relatives who would look after them and doubtless provide other husbands. Orpah consented. Ruth replied in those magnificent words: Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D, "WILD GREENS" Spring of the year. Such a relief to get away from the routine drugs and chemicals; the smelly box of pills; the musty powders; the ter rible throat gargles; let's go to the country for the afternoon. When we reach the creek valley we dismount to gather a basket of wild greens; no better food ob tainable nor more refreshing or healthgiving. Growing in abundance, the wild greens invite us to come and gather as we choose what we want. Perhaps the first friend we run across is the dandelion; his little crispy circlets invite us every where. One of my patrons, an old lady, made a most charming relish from crispy young dandelions; she never cooked them "at all. She gathered them, cut them with a mincing knife and put young rad ishes with them, seasoning the whole with salt and pepper ; I know TODAY l KING and jubilee I get the very distinct impres sion, from what my English friends tell me and what I have been reading about the Silver Jubilee of King George V., that the monarch who has reigned over the British Empire for the past twenty-five years is the most widely popular ruler that great nation has ever had. His grandmother, Queen Vic toria, was greatly respected but the people didn't ' really love he-. His father, King Edward VII., wus an aristocrat, whom the common people felt had little understand ing of or sympathy with them selves. King George, on the other hand, is the most democratic mon arch who ever sat on the throne, and under his rule Great Britain has developed into a more complete democracy than any other najiom la i i after thee : for whither thou go est, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge : thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; Where thou diest, will I die, and there will I be buried: the Lord do so to me, and more also, if ought but death part thee and me. So Naomi went back to Bethle hem, her old home town, and the news soon spread about that she had brought a lovely young widow with her. They were very poor, and Ruth spent her days following the reapers in the fields. Ruth gleaned, and Moaz, the most desir able bachelor in Bethlehem, saw her, and the romance took place as Naomi, the shrewd old matchmak er, had hoped it would. Have you by any chance read the genealogy of Jesus as it is given in the first chapter of Mat thew? There are four women whose names will live forever as having passed down through their veins the blood of our Lord. First of all, Tamar, whose tragic story is in the thirty-eighth chap ter of Genesis. Rahab the harlot is second. Bathsheba is third, that brilliant woman who abandoned Uriah the Hittite to become the favorite wife of . David and the mother of Solomon. These are the first three of the quartet. And the fourth ancestress of Jesus? She is Ruth, the maiden of Moab, who said, 'VThy people shall be my people and thy God my God." (Next week: The Bible Call. Her Great) - Copyright, Bobbs-Merrill Co. THE FAMILY DOCTOR no better or more healthful relish with meats or more substantial ar ticles which grace our tables. And, oh, the ladies slipper and lambs tongue, and tender nettle 1 And the "dock" and wild lettuce. Then there is a variety of wild mustard. Most wild greens may be had fresher than commercial varie ties, and then we have the pleas ure and out of door exercise of gathering them. The wild plants cook well with cured bacon and is not bacon a staff of life? Few dinners of greens will escape the quota of bacon and the family vinegar bottle with the beautiful brown squares of home baked corn bread. I know of no healthier dish than that of boiled wild greens, they are healthgiving to the highest de gree and put drug store "vitamines" outside and over the fence. Three cheers for the country out ing to gather wild greens. except our own. And I am not sure but what, in many essential respects, it is more of a democracy than America is. Certainlv the ordinary man in England has greater freedom of thought, speech and action than he ever had before, and his govern ment is more efficient in protect ing those liberties than is ours. ALASKA challenge 1 have been greatly interested in reading about the Federal Govern ment's experiment of moving a lot of American farmers into that ter ritory. I hope they fare well, but I cannot help haying my doubts. As I write I have before me the "Progress Edition" of Alaska's leading newspaper, the "Daily Alas ka Empire" published at Juneau. And in the leading editorial on the front page I read: "Alaska is only for strong men and women. Those who are will ing to withstand hardship and shoulder all the burdens of the pioneer. It is no land for the ad venturer and job-hunter who does not come prepared with a certain amount of capital. . . . Alaska beckons as every frontier land has done, but it holds forth no false hope." I hope the Federal Government has not held forth false hopes to the poor farmers and their families whom it is setting up ifl ready made farms in Alaska. COLONISTS .... the type. We are accustomed to think of America as having been entirely settled by daring, adventurous per sons who left their European homes for the sake of liberty, and whose blood and spirit pervades all of us today. I wish that were literally true, but when you stop to think of it, there were a num ber of other kinds of people who came to America in Colonial days. I have been reading the bound copies of a newspaper published in England from 1716 to 1735, and have noted the immense number of men and women, convicted of capital crimes, who were sentenced to be transported to America in stead of going to the gallows. Some of them got back to Eng land, where-upon they were prompt ly hanged. The rest were sold as slaves to the land-owners already in the American colonies. Transportation as punishment for crime was shifted to Australia lat er, and the American colonists satisfied their demand for cheap labor by trapping African natives and bringing them over to slavery. Probably the Africans were better off here than they had been in Africa, but they, like the English convicts, certainly didn't come here because they were imbued with the spirit of liberty. The descendants of these Co lonial slaves, black and white, are no minor factor in American life today. Add to them the hordes from southern and eastern Europe j and from Asia who came here for "easy money" after our national de velopment and prosperity had be come assured, and a good many of the departures from the old Ameri can tradition are explained. STEAM still in race Steam isn't sitting quietly and letting gas get away with it. A few days ago the New Haven rail road started its Diesel-engined "Comet" train between New York and Boston, hitting 110 miles an hour, but a day or two later a stream-lined steam locomotive cap able of sustained speed of 120 miles an hour rolled out of the works at Schenectady, for the Milwaukee railroad, to run between Chicago and St. Paul. The railroad contest now in pro gress fascinates me, for I think I see m it one of the important moves toward economic recovery. All the railroads are trying to com pete with air travel on one hand and with bus and motor travel on the other. This is bound to mean rebuilding roadbeds, eliminating grade crossings, building new mo tive power arid equipment, on a scale which is only faintly suggest ed by what has been done so far. ROBOT on the job I sailed all the way across the Atlantic and back, not long ago, in ships which were steered through out their courses by "Metal Mike," the gyroscopic steering gear which every important ship now uses, and which laid their courses not by the old-fashioned magnetic compass but by the gyroscopic compass, which points to true North instead of to the magnetic pole. From, land to landfall no human hand touched the steering gear of either ship. The "robot" airplane, which has been flying pilotless around the country recently, is merely an ap plication to air navigation of the gyroscope compass and steering de vice which has been in use on ships for many years. The pilot handles the controls only in start ing and landing and in setting the course in the first instance. The machine does the rest. These are wonderful things, hut nobody has yet made a machine that will think. Rainbow Springs Born to Mr. and Mrs. Duke Hol combe, a son, on May 10. Howard Bateman and family, of Swannona, are spending a few days visiting friends and relatives here. Mrs. Clarence Cole and children spent the week-end visiting friends and relatives at West's Mill. They returned home Sunday evening. Rainbow Springs played Marble at Marble last Saturday afternoon. The score was in favor of Marble by 2 to 1. Mrs. Jess Brooks and daughter, of Asheville, have arrived here to spend the summer at their home on Black street. An old automobile and three or four gallons off moonshine liquor were siezed by Sheriff Bert Slagle Constable Stone Quits lutW''w',S mmF COLUMBUS . . . S. E. Stone (above), constable at New Lexing ton, O., has quit his job and turned in his badge. He says he's as poor as a church mouse himself but he would rather quit as constable than evict poor families from their homes because they are behind in their rents. and Deputy Sheriff Dills on Fri day, May 3, near the mill site above the lumber yard hill at Rainbow Springs. Two men in the car escaped as the officers ap proached. Rev. Joe Bishop, of Sylva, filled an appointment here last Saturday night and Sunday. Cullasaja Everybody in this community seems to be busy at present. Those that are not busy on their farms are busy fishing. A revival meeting has just closed at Bethel. Rev. Mr. Sitten, of Bryson City, did the preaching and did it well. Much good was ac complished. Bethel church now has electric lights, paid for by the Fulton brothers. The Fulton boys are al ways doing something they think will help their community. May their tribe increase. George Scott has bought the old Scott homestead and built a house where the old house was burned. Glad to report "Aunt Lassie" Mashburn much improved. Mrs. John McDowell was buried at the Sugarfork cemetery Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Bersulon, of Avery county, were visiting at the homes of the Fulton brothers and Mrs. J. D. McConnell recently. Mrs. Bersulon will be remembered as Miss Bida Penland. Mrs. N. J. Rush is still very ill. The all-day singing at SugarfoTk Sunday drew a large congregation. They had some fine singing. R. M. Shook had the misfortune 1U1 HYSTALS . lYavel anywhere., any day 41 a on the SOUTHERN Kg Afarejbr every purse. . . tomhi ONE WAY and ROUND TRIP COACH TICKETS for Each Mile Traveled mJm ROUND TRIP TICKETS Return Limit 15 Days for Each Mile Traveled lMtm ROUND TRIP TICKETS Return Limit 6 Months JjmS for Each Mile Traveled mW 0N WAY TICKETS for Each Mile Traveled Good in Sleeping and Parlor Cars on payment of proper charges for space occupied. No surcharge. Economize by leaving your Automobile at homo and using the Southern Excellent Dining Car Service Be Comfortable in the Safety of Train Travel R. H. DEBUTTS, ASST. GEN. PASSENGER AGT. Southern Railway System to get his barn burned one day last week. He had a cow and a horse burned. We -don't know how it caught. LEGAL ADVERTISING ADMINISTRATRIX C. T. A. NOTICE Having qualified as administratrix C. T. A. of Theodore S. Munday, deceased, late of Macon County, N. G, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 18th day of April, 1936, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All persons indebted to said estate will please make im mediate settlement. This 18th day of April, 1935. MARIETTA MUNDAY, Administratrix C. T. A. A25-6tp M30 EXECUTOR'S NOTICE Having qualified as executor of Mamie Slagle Patton, deceased, late of Macon County, N. C, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said deceased to exhibit them to the undersigned on or before the 8th day of April, 1936, or this notice will be plead in bar of their recovery. All per sons indebted to said estate will please make immediate settlement. This 8th day of April, 1935. R. A. PATTON, Executor. M9-6tp J13 r0 you suffer V too frequent wtmttkm, UdudM, headache, dizziness, swollen feet and ankles? Art you tired, nmow fsoJ all unstrung and don't know what is wrong? 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