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BIBLE THOUGHT
. The Battle t the Gate
In that day shall the Lord of hosts be for a crown of glory, and
for a diadem of 'beauty, unto the residue of his: people, and for a
spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength
to them that turn back the battle at the gate. Isaiah 28: 56.
''.
"Life today is a battle at the gate.
"Our problem tpday is not how to achieve universal ideals, but
how to face- realities; not how to make a warles world, but how
to keep war from destroying the world; not how to build perfect
social order, but how to escape .economic chaos; not what the ideal
Church would do, but how shall we escape religious breakdown.'
WAITING FOR THE GREEN pGHT
"The Urgency Is Now"
THOSE who listened to President Roosevelt's
history-making speech last Saturday night
could not help being conscious of the unseen audi
ence of every nation and every race who listened
with the privileged citizens of this democracy. '
In his momentous words, not once did the speak
er forget that he was speaking for the liberation
of all those enslaved by dictatorship and crushed
in' spirit and body by the torments of war and
' conquest!;.! ; .. ;' '
The President's speech, counted by many as his
greatest certainly a message that carried the
most far-reaching portent expressed the will of
an overwhelming majority of the people of the
United States; "total effort for total victory."
For in whatever other direction "wishful think
ing" may have carried any group, the inevitability
of the present course and purpose of this nation
has united many opposing factions of Americans.
In 14 languages this purpose was broadcast
through the President's words, that carried one
clear note of urgency. Some of these are quoted
below
"The decisions of our democracy may be slowly
arrived at. But when that decision is made, it is
proclaimed not with the voice of any one man but
with the voice of one hundred and thirty millions.
It is binding on all of us. And the world is no
longer left in doubt.
"This decision is the end of any attempts at
appeasement in our land; the end of urging us to
get along with the dictators; the end of com
promise with tyranny and the forces of oppression. .
"The urgency is now.
"The great task of this day, the deep duty
which rests upon us is to move products from the
assembly lines of our factories to the battle lines
of democracy now ! 1
"We shall have1 to make sacrifices every one
of us. The final extent of those sacrifices will de
pend upon the speed with which we act now!
"The !light'vof democracy must be kept burning.
To the .perpetuation of this light, each rfiusl do
,his owif shafe. The single effort of one individual
may. s'eefm very small. But diere -are: 130-miIlion
individuals. ,Over here. There "are many more, mil
lions in- Britain and elsewhere bravely shielding
the great flame of democracy from theblackout
of barbarism. It is not enough for us tnerely to
trim th wick, or polish the glass. The time has
come when-we must provide the fuel in ever
increasing amounts to keep the flame alight.
"This will of the American people will not be
frustrated, either by threats .&orri powerful ene
mies abroad or by small, s&fishroups or indi
viduals at home., ' '
"Our country is going to be what our people
have proclaimed it must be the arsenal of de
mocracy. .
"Our country is going to play its full part.
"We believe that the rallying cry of the dic
tators, their boasting about a master-race, will
prove to be pure stuff and nonsense. There never
has been, there isn't now, and there never will 'be
any race of people fit to serve as masters over
their fellow men. . . . We believe that any na
tioralality, no matter how smallhas the inherent
right to its own nationhood.
"Never, in all our history, have Americans faced
a job so well worthwhile. May it be said of us in
the days to come that our children and our chil
dren's chldren rise up and call us blessed."
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Press Comment
ISOLATIONISTS' NEW WORK
Now that the British Lend-Lease
bill has passed, despite all the ef
forts of the isolationists in Con
gress, those isolationists are now
turning their attentions to block
ing the effectiveness of. the bill.
They are now rallying their forces
to fight against the $7,000,000,000
appropriation needed if the bill does
any real good, to Britain.
Although the isolationists call the
appropriation indorsed by the cab
inet a "blank check", the figure
was arrived at after a careful
study of the. cost of effective aid
for Britain and our own personal
defense program. There has; been
no guess wor-k in figuring the cost,
the figure was arrived at after a
deliberate examination .by the army
and Slavy departments.
The isolationists will probably
get no, ; further irr blocking ' the
appropriation; thai! hpsdid . in
killing: the aid bill, ; JSeqause' -.i$q
great-tfjiajority of cong;reaie'
fully bejimd effeictivcyaid
land, and without money tfte,"LerKl-
Lease bill would be (of absolutely
no effectiveness. .
Of cour.se' the Amiricany people
realize that such a hug appropria
tion will increase the tax-burden
greatly, but the sound-thinking
Americans have arrived at the con
clusion that it would be better to
pay high taxes for a short while
than live forever under the heel
of a totalitarian government.
Richmond Co. Journal
Library Aid
THE good news that the General Assembly passed,
: .: u u:n
uy pracuvauy unaiiimuus aiuuu, uic uin iu
extend aid to libraries, is gratifying throughout
the state.
vc can uniie wun ine rurtsi uiv v.uunei mi iuc
following:
"We congratulate the Library Commission and
all those who have worked toward this forward
step. . . . We do not know the details of the dis-
II lUUllUII Ui IMC ClUL1 JIJI lailUll, LUl V it U31 UiOl
some of it finds its way to our local library.
Even the worst war cannot go j
on forever. Even the "best" war
ends in a crop of hatreds which
hitherto have been the seeds of
future conflict. Hence. ... we
should be giving immediate atten
tion to the; peace which rs to fol
low the present war. Millions I've
buried in Europe with their hope
that such a war should not .be
again. . We who lived to see Ver
sailles should consecrate ourselves
with the vow that such a peace
shall not be again.
Now is the tune to start on the
problems of reconstruction and
organization for peace. And tbe
local church is the place to begin.
The local parish is to the peace
program what the . training camp
is to military movements. It is in
the local church that we learn the
squad movements which fit us for
the front line peace action. Inter
national justice is but a projection
of those principles which prove
workable in community contacts.
Ralph W. Sockman
In the Biblical Recorder.
Bryant Furniture Co.
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(Business Week)
Congress willing, the Tennessee
Valley Authority may take over
the job of building the $37,000,000
Fonbaria power plant on the Little
Tennessee as' a result of a stale
mate between Aluminum Company
of America and the Federal I'ower
Commission.
New Dealers charge that the
company's refusal to build the big
dam subject to a federal license
flouts the urgent needs of national
defense. The company counters
that the project is not properly
subject to license, that it can't ex
pose stockholders' money ""to the
vagaries of federal regulation, but
that it is willing to cooperate witli
any government agency.
The Power Commission admits
that the company can't be forced
to build the dam but is making a
record supporting the license re
quirement to haunt the company
if it tries again.
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'Riverside
Miss Georgia Dowdle, who has
been employed in Atlanta for the
past year, returned home last week
for the sumrrwrr. "
Mr. and Mrs. Ellard Shook and
small daughter, Nancy, of Brevard,
vwited their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Donaldson of ' Prentiss, and
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shook, dur
ing the week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wilkie and
children, of Franklin, visited Mrs.
Wilkie's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T.
A. Bateman, last week.
Miss Blanche Leadbetter return
ed home last week after a visit
with her brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs, W. C. Leadbetter,
Jr., of Greenville, S. C.
Miss Ellen Dowdle, who is em
ployed in Atlanta, last week visit
ed her mother, Mrs. G. C. Dowdle,
who has been very ill.
Zeb Bradley, of Oak Grove, spent
Sunday with Harold Cook.
Mrs. T. A. Bateman is viiiting
her sons, Claude and Theo and
their families at Kyle. They are
isk-k with measles.
Leatherman
A miscellaneous shower was giv
en Saturday night at the home of
Mrs. D. N. Allen in honor of Mrs,
Paul Hurst, the former Miss Ollie
Mac Allen. The bride received
many useful gifts. '
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ialton
and family have, returned home to
Leatherman after; spending some
time at Fort Bragg.
Zackie Leatherman visited at
Clyde Shcperd's Sunday.
Mrs. Albert Stevens and chil
dren from Macon, Ga., arc visiting
Mrs. Stevens' mother, Mrs. Walter
Dalton at Leatherman.
Mrsi Sarah Amnions of Sylva,
and Mrs. Nannie Alien of West's
Mill ispent Saturday night with
Mrs. Nancy Garden. .
Dover Hurst and family have
moved to Kobbinsville.
Palmer Shepherd who is work
ing at Canton, spent a few days
with; his father, Clyde Shepherd,
last we,ek.
Floyd Garden, Jr.,' of Sylva Was
visiting his grandmother, Mrs.
' Nancy Carden last Sunday.
Mrs. Pratt Dalton and Miss Ce-
j cilc "Gibson ..visited'- Mrs. Elsie
! Hurst Wednesday.
Troy Hurst who has been work
ing at Fort Bragg, has : returned
to his home here. '
Omer Elmore, who has been ill
for a week with flu, is improving.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
NOTICE OF RESALE UNDER
DEED OF TRUST
North Carolina
Macon County
Whereas the undersigned Trus
tee, by. virtue of the power of .-sale
in a Deed of Trust executed on
the 7th day of September, 1937 by
H. G. Cbe, E. V. Amnions and
John Corbin, Trustees of .Mill
shoal Township No. 2M J. O. U.
A. M., has heretofore sold the
hereinafter described land in the
manner prescribed by law; and
whereas the last and highest bid
received at said sale has within
ten days thereafter been raised ;
Now, therefore, 1 will at 12 o'clock
noon on Monday, March 31, 1941,
at the Courthouse dir in Franklin,
North ; Carolina, sell at public auc
tion to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described tract
or parcel of land.
All the land described in a deed
from J. S. Henry and wife'.'Elmira
Henry, to E. C. Kinsland, et al,
Trustees of the Jr. O. U. A. M.
Council No. 246, said deed bear'
ing date of January 26, 1910, and
being recorded in the Office of the
Register Of Deeds for Macon
County, North Carolina in Book
F-3 of Deeds, Page 573, to which
deed, as so recorded reference is
hereby made for a more complete
and definite description of the
land and property herein conveyed.
A deposit of 5 per cent of the
bid will be reqmired of the last
and highest bidder at said sale.
This the 15th day of March,
1941. '(
GEORGE B. PATTON,
Trustee ;
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Midway News
We are sorry to . report lots of
sickness in Midway.
Kate Sanders has been real sick
with mea&les but is improving.
Mrs. Fritz Henderson is reported
sick at her home in Midway.
Marion Sanders who is employ
ed at Fort Bragg as carpenter
foreman spent the week-end with
home folks in Midway.
John and Brownlow Shope who
are employed at Fort Bragg spent
the week-end at home.
Mr. and Mrs. John Sprinkle vis
ited Midway the past week-end.
Brownlow Addington of Brevard
is spending a few days at home.
Men applaud your good judgment
I every tima you agree with them.
LEGAL ADVERTISING
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as executor of
Arthur K. Woodman, deceased,
late of Macon couhty, N. C this
is to notify all persons having
claims against the estate 6f said
deceased , to exhibit them to the
undersigned on or before the 11th
day of February, 1942, or this
notice will be plead in bar of their
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will, please make im
mediate settlement.
This 11th day of February, 1941.
JOSEPH I). PARISH,
Executor.
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified as administrator
of Geo. V. Stepp, deceased, late
of Macon county, N. C, this is to
notify all persons having claims
against the eMate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 10th day of Feb
ruary, 1942, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This 10th day of February. 1941.
CHARLES HIGDON,
Administrator
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EXECUTRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as executrix of
W. T. McDonnell, deceased, late
of Macon county, N. C, this is t
notify all persons having claims
against the estate of said deceased
to exhibit them to the undersigned
on or before the 6th day of Febru
ary, 1942, or this notice will be
i. i i .1 ah
pie.au in uar 01 ineir recovery, jvii
persons indebted to said estate- will
please make immediate settlement.
This 6th day of February, 1941.
ticia McDonnell
Executrix
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ADMINISTRATRIX NOTICE
Having qualified as administratrix
of John May," deceased, late of
acon 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 Feb
ruary, 1942, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery.' All
persons indebted to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This 7th . day of February, 1911.
LOLA C. MAY,
' Administratrix
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ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Having qualified a.s administrator
of Fred Montony, 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 11th day of Feb
ruary, 1942, or this notice will be
plead in bar of their recovery. All
persons indebted- to said estate will
please make immediate settlement.
This 11th day of February, 1941.
MORRIS BUSH,
Administrator.
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