THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1935
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MARY OF MAGDALA
THE name Mary was immensely
popular in the time of Jesus
because of the love of the Jewish
people for Mariamne, the Jewish
wife of Herod, who was murdered
by him. Hence
there are so many
women in the New
Testament named
Mary that we
sometimes find it
difficult to keep
track of them.
Foremost, of course,
is Mary, the moth
er of Jesus. Next
in order of her im
portance is Mary of
Magdala. Of her
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Brace Barton n,!"V,y w
know nothing ex
cept that she suffered with some
nervous or mental complaint.
And it came to pass after
ward, that he went throughout
every city and village, preach
ing and shewing the glad tid
ings of the kingdom of God;
and the twelve were with him.
And certain women, which
had been healed of evil spirits
and infirmities, Mary called
Magdalene, out of whom went
seven devils.
We know the names of a few
of the women who followed Jesus
on that last journey from Galilee
to Jerusalem and "ministered to
him of their substance." Three of
them were Marys. Some appre
hension of expectation of crisis,
some woman's instinct caused them
to leave their homes and be His
companions in this last stage of
His public work.
"Crucified, dead and buried 1"
Terrible words. The apostolic group
was stunned aftd paralyzed. How
the eleven disciples spent the
hours from nightfall of Friday till
dawn of Sunday, we do not know.
But on Easter morning, "while it
was yet dark" (John 20:1) these
women who had seen Jesus cruci
fied came with spices to anoint
His body. They did not know that
Joseph of Admiahaea and Nico
demus had already performed that
melancholy service.
They reached the tomb, wonder
ing who would roll away the stone j
for them, and behold, it was al
ready rolled away. And the angel
said, "He is not here; He is risen.".
The others hurried back to tell the
disciples, but Mary "stood without,
weeping." , She it was who first
saw the Lord.
No wonder Renan, skeptic as he
was, marveled at the faith which!
caused her to see that vision of a!
living Christ and to proclaim it!
He had a skeptic's easy explana
tion, but he said that no sane
person ever saw anything that gave
to the world such comfort as the
vision of love that the Magdalene
beheld. Peter and John ran to the
sepulchre and found the empty
tomb; the whole city knew of it
before night.
But Mary's eyes first beheld
Him and her glad voice first told
the incredulous disciples. In the
power of her faith and the bless
ing of her good tidings only Mary
the mother of Jesus deserves to
stand before this other beautiful
and devoted follower of Jesus,
Mary of Magdala.
(Next Week: The Bethany Sisters)
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THE FAMILY
flOrTOR
JOHN JOSEPH GAINES, M.D.
ACUTE INDIGESTION J
About half the deaths in Our:
community this year have been as
cribed to acute indigestion. This,
I must confess, is strange to me;
for, in all of my more than 40
years' experience, I have never lost
a patient in that way.
I have treated acute indigestion
at times, all of my life, from little
William's case of green apples, to
the old Soak's debauch of the night
before; severe "cases they might
have been and I have never been
boastful of superior skill; but, I
have been a firm stickler for cor
rect diagnosis.
There is no question in my mind
that, all deaths from supposed
acute indigestion, had some well-
grounded case of heart or lung or
stomach disease back of them, and
that, these had not been recognized
as they should have been.
Recently an acquaintance was
stricken, and died in a few mo
ments; the cause was given as
"acute indigestion." I am sure that
he had chronic heart disease! An
other died suddenly, which shocked
a great circle of friends; he pos
sibly died of carbon monoxide pois
oning, although his death was re
ported due to acute indigestion.
There are just two problems to
acute indigestion: first, the acquir
ing of a poison, and second, the
getting rid of it ; but don't nurse a
serious, chronic disease until acute
indigestion comes along.
TODAY and
FPANK PARKER DflPf
PROPAGANDA .... tainted
The good old word "propaganda"
is being tossed about pretty loose
ly. People use it as if it denoted
something wicked, whereas it real
ly means only an effort to convert
other people to the propagandist's
point of view, which is entirely
legitimate, so long as the facts
and arguments used are truthful.
Undobutedly there has been more
lying and misleading propaganda in
circulation these past two years
than ever before in America. Most
of it has been political, some of it
attacking the Administration at
Washington, some 'of it emanating
from the Administration. The truth
about any controversial question
has never been so difficult to ar
rive at.
Most of the misleading propa
ganda does not deceive any intelli
gent person who knows anything
about the realities of human af
fairs and understands human na
ture. Men who ought to know better
tells us that business and industry
have always been based on the in
human exploitation of wage work
ers and of children. That sort of
talk is pure propaganda.
EDUCATION . . . long process
The great mass of mankind has
always believed that there are mali
cious enemies lying in wait for
human beings at every corner.
Primitive races still believe in a
multitude of evil spirits; even to-j
day in so-called civilized countries
the belief persists in a personal
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wary.
People who have discarded those
superstitions seem to find it neces
sary to believe in some other kind
of evil spirits. They have to have
something to hate. That is why
so many people listen credulously
to demagogues who tell them that
all employers are rascals and every
body who owns anything is the
enemy of every man who owns less.
Owen D. Young put his finger on
the only remedy for such mass de
lusions, the other day at St. Law
rence University. . Education, free
to everybody, is the only answer,
he pointed out. It is a slow pro
cess, because education seldom
"takes" in one generation.
Free education for the masses is
a peculiarly American institution,
but we have only had it for a lit
tle more than a hundred years.
While we have achieved a higher
average level of intelligence than
any other nation, we probably have
two or three hundred years to go
befofe the general run of people
will be intelligent enough to dis
criminate between the plain truth
and glittering falsehoods.
STUNG! .... modern bee
I am always interested when
somebody discovers that people
knew about as much many years
ago as they do now. In my boy
hood it was a common belief that
bee stings would cure rheumatism,
and many .stories were told of el
derly people who bumped into a
bee hive and discovered, after the
pain of the sting had disappeared,
that their rheumatism had vanished
also.
The other day my wife went to
our family doctor to see what he
could do for a rheumatic knee-joint.
What she needed, he told her, was
to be stung by a bee. Modern
science has proved that" the old
folk remedy was based upon sound
experience, and now an extract of
bee venom injected with a hypo
dermic produces the same result
that upsetting the bee-hive would
in grandfather's day.
At least, the doctor gave my wife
an artificial bee sting and her rheu
matism stopped.
EFFECTIVE .... speed law
The most ingenious plan for
checking reckless motor driving
that I have heard of is the one
which has been adopted by the
highway police in Serbia. When a
motorcycle cop orders a speedster
to pull to the side of the road, in
stead of handing him a ticket, he
orders him to get out of the car
and let the air out of all of his
tires. :
This is said to have a much more
powerful effect upon the offend
ing driver than a summons. He
either has to pump up his tires
before going on, or hire somebody
to do it for him, perhaps after
walking a few miles before he can
find a mechanic to do the job.
After one experience of this sort,
it is reported, Serbian motorists
pay a great deal more attention
to the traffice regulations.
TRAVEL .... "dollar day."
The latest scheme to stimulate
railway travel, which is being seri
ously discussed by railroad men
and the Interstate Commerce Com
mission, is to charge flat-rate fares
for any distance. The principle is
the same as that of letter postage.
A three cent stamp carries the let
ter five miles or three thousand
miles. The post office loses money
on the long hauls but makes it up
on the near-by deliveries.
Under this new railway scheme
anyone could buy a ticket for a
dollar which would entitle him to
travel the entire length of the par
ticular railroad that issued it. But
if he were only going to the next
station the fare would also be a
dollar.
Perhaps that won't be the exact
figure, and doubtless exceptions
would be made for high-speed
trains, but the principle, which
works successfully on the New
York Subways, might result in giv
ing the railroads more passenger
revenue than they have ever had,
and in starting more people travel
ing than have ever traveled before.
I don't know whether anything
will come of it or not but it will
be interesting to watch.
France Now Leads Race
To Rule the Atlantic
In 1840, Samuel Cunard, founder
of the British shipping-line, began
regular ocean-sailings with the
building of the first group of sister
ships, Britannia, Acadia, Columbia,
and Caledonia. The latest ocean
greyhound, the French Line's Nor
mandie, has just docked at the new
Hudson River pier after her maid
en voyage.
The Queen Mary, the British bid
for Atlantic supremacy, will come
a year later. The Literary Digest
reports that enormous first-class
dining-salon of either of these su
perliners easily could hold the
Brittania, which made a record
ocean-crossing in 1840 from Liver
pool to New York of fourteen days
and eight hours.
Financed, in part; by government
banks, work was begun on the
French Normandie and the British
Queen Mary to win for one or the
other the tourist and luxury pas
sengers to Europe.
Simple in line, an honest, sturdy,
sea-worthy ship, the 1,018-foot
Queen Mary, now a mere hull, will
dock in the Hudson River some
time in 1936. But the sleek, pert,
smart Normandie, with all the chic
of the latest creation by a Paris
dressmaker, has taken the lead.
Her predecessor in the French Line
docked in New York from Havre
in 1864, a mere 340 feet long, and
3,400 tons.
Eleven Stories High
Approximately 1,028 feet long, of
79,280 gross tons, eleven stories
high, 125 feet from keel .to top of
-1 i . I T
cnan-room, tne JNormandie is
equipped to carry 2,000 passengers
and a crew of 1,339.
Her beam of 119 feet and six
inches will not permit her fo pass
through the Panama Canal.
Needed New Docks
To dock such an immense float
ing mass, New York City, through
a PWA grant of $1,193,000, has
erected a three-story steel and con
crete shed at Dock No. 88 in the
Hudson at a total cost of $4,275,
500. i
Dredging operations to assure a
depth of forty feet the Normandie
draws thirty-eight feet and sup
planting the present twenty-three
piers by thirteen larger of steel
and concrete will cost $19,200,000.
Stomach Gas
One eose of ADLERIKA quickly re
lieves gas bloating, cleans out BOTH
upper and lower bowels, allows you to
eat and sleep good. Quick, thorough
action, yet entirely gentle and safe.
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FRANKLIN SHOE SHOP SAYS
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SHOES
When your toes roll,
And your heels rock
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And part of your sock.
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Box 212 Troy F. Horn
LEGAL ADVERTISING
ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administra
trix of Annie Ledford, 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 7th
day of May, 1936, or this notice
will be plead in bar of their re
covery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make im
mediate,, settlement. This 7th day
of May, 1935.
LUCILLE SILER, Administratrix.
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