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Friday, March H, IV U).
May'ie. It's Niil So Hail After All
Many of those who have been holding up their
hands in holy horror because the national debt
has about gone out of bounds will live to see
the time when they will eralize that the spend
ing program or orgy, if you like, has not been
in vain.
Attacking the budget for the next fiscal year,
the House Appropriations committee has done
some deep carving with a big butcher knife,
proving that it could be possibly even more
heartless and short-sighted than The budget^
makers themselves. The committee pared the
farm program, cutting adrift the tenant farm
er who would re-establish himself and his warn
dering brood in some little spot and call it home.
The surplus-crop stamp plan apparently is
doomed, and those who have paid the freight
are being sacrificed while a Democratic group,
playing the-same role that Hoover played eight
sears ago, is edging to return the country to
Wall Street. How vividly it is recalled hero
when Mr. Hoover denied help to exactly the
same people who are most in need of it today.
Mr. Hoover's economic squeeze did not help
the country. In factr it has taken all those bil
luins now recognized as debt to get the country
back on its feet.
We have glued our eyes on the debt figures
and torgotten what the cost would have been
in human misery had no debt been accumulat
ed
At some time along the way maybe we will
realize that a big debt is not so bad after all
especially when the debt is set up on the ledger
of human advancement.
//??/?? lii The Machine For The Future
While many well-known figures charge the
machine with, unemployment, others sec in the
machine a certain hope for the future. The lat
ter group points out thai once thnro is a hniie
adjustment of all forces as they pertain to so
cial, economic and general welfare the march
of civilization will advance into a new era, leav
ing behind much of the unemployment, hun
ger and want that have plagued the nations
these past years.
Possibly the inventor has led the way too fast
for us to keep up. and where a machine offered
to lighten the burdens and lessen the suffering
of the common lot we failed to make the neces
sary adjustments and as a result our troubles
were only aggravated.
We welcomed the sewing machine when it
released the feminine members of the house
hold from long hours of needlework after the
little tots were carefully tucked away for the
night. The invention paved the way for a few
hours of enjoyment to be found in a good book
or beside the radio. Surely we would not want
to destroy the sewing machine. Then why would
we want to destroy other machines that lighten
man's burdens? We have sat idly by as the ma
chine supplanted man in the production of ec
onomic necessities, forgetting that the world of
fers golden opportunities in other fields as yet
hardly touched. The lot of mankind is far from
perfect, and to better that lot and to improve
the outlook of mankind all known inventions
and new ones, too, are needed. Full-time opera
tion and the employment of all employables
are necessary right now if we would build for
better ideals and a better World. To abolish the
machines and restore workers to the drudgery
tasks would place civilization on the downward
trail.
But there is hope even in our present state
of apparent chaos. It is far better to have the
means of producing our wants, than to be in a
position where we could not produce our wants.
Platform And Tuiisled Timbers
It was a striking comparison the daily press
offered, possibly unintentionally, a short time
ago when it offered a gruesome picture of Al
bany, Ga., after a storm had twisted timbers
and made houses into splinters and two columns
removed offered a story on platforms as adopt
ed by the various candidates for governor in this
9tate.
The Albany (Ga.) picture showed timbers
piled in an haphazard fashion, an end protrud
tin hiding parts of planks The story about the
mg here and there with an occasional piece of
candidates' platforms maintained that the
planks therein were all about alike. *
One sometimes wonders if it would not be ap
propriate to shift the article and picture cap
tions.
Robbing The Future
Brrtir Ledger-Advance.
Whether farmers in this section are receiving
a fair price for their timber sold as pulp wood
or not. we are unable to say. but the?recent
charges in Congress that the practices of pulp
mills should be investigated deserve attention.
If it is true that timber i6 being cut recklessly
from the farms, we agree with the editorial from
the News and Observer, which we reprint be
low, that it is not only the farmers who are be
ing robbed, but all of us are being robbed of a
heritage of timber wealth that belongs to all
the people and neither farmer nor private cor
poration.-. should he permitted to waste or ex
ploit it to the disadvantage of all:
"The recent charges of Congressman Fulmer,
of South Carolina, that farmers are 'being rob
bed in the sale of wood to pulp mills deserve
the investigation which, it is understood, is be
ing made in the Southern states. But the im
portant matter in this business is not whether
one farmer or several thousand farmers are be
ing 'robbed' by the purchase of two cords of
wood for $1.00 which will make a ton of paper
selling for $00 00 The significant question is
whether the timber resources of all the South
ern people are being destroyed while the South
ern people are paid a pittance for that resource.
"Paper mills are very welcome in the South
along with other industries furnishing greatly
needed jobs. But if the South in the long run is
to be served by this industrial development it
must guard the wood resources of tomorrow as
well as secure a fair price to farmers today.
"As some old lumber and paper towns have
discovered, there will be no industry or jobs
if the forests are not preserved. And beyond
industry no happy land is pussihle where ruth
less cutting has been permitted to waste and
destroy the heritage of trees."
I Much Needed Spirit
* '
Chowan llerald
Confidence and trust should be synonymous
words. Unfortunately they are not always so.
Unless they go hand in hand neither is of any
value. Without one the other is useless. And be
tween individuals, industries or other businesses
ves, even between the press and the public,
there can be no true cooperation or mutual in
terest unless those involved have confidence
and trust in each other, and give their confi
dence and trust as well.
The other night at Windsor a group of North
eastern North Carolina newspaper folk met in
monthly session. Mayor Pritchett, of the Ber
tie county seat, addressed them briefly. His
talk was friendly and kind, and he hit the nail
on the head, and did so sharply. He spoke of the
difficulties newspaper people labored under ga
thering the news correctly, and of the criticism
that comes their way when they unintention
ally err from factual relations by not knowing
all they should about the subject they are han
dling. ??? :?
The criticism would be without merit, May
or Pritchett said,?if those?disseminating the
news and those relating it would work in a spir
it of harmony and confidence and trust. This
should be, he declared. In many years of asso
ciation with newspapers he had never found
one to violate a confidence. Because of this he
had always spoken freely to reporters and edi
tors, warning them of information not yet ripe
for publication, but in every instance giving
them tl)e complete story. The facts, of course,
came out correctly in what was told in the
press.
The Mayoij is right. Often, oh very often, edi
tors get but a clue on a story. It is the nucleus
of what should be a complete tale. Those ap
proached for full details feel, however, some
thing must be held back, and it is this very lit
tle thing that so often causes the trouble and
results in a garbled recitation of the facts. If
the public, communal or otherwise, would be
lieve in newsmen as does Mayor Pritchett and
would tell the whole story, asking, if desired,
that certain essentials be withheld for the time,
they would find in print stories that are stories.
Trust and confide in full in the press. A bet
ter spirit of cooperation and helpfulness to city,
town, county .and person will result. Newspa
pers respect the confidence of those with whom
they come in contact. They prize this trust and
honor it always.
Armies And Navies
Charlotte Newa.
A great deal of thought recently as to why
nations go to war and kill human beings by the
thousands or millions, waste millions and bil
lions of dollars, bankrupt themselves and win
nothing but hardship and misery, has produced
wonder and amazement in the mind of this
publisher.
Men of peace and high ideals, moral stan
dards of excellence, as heads of governments go
into war when a personal encounter between
such men would be impossible. There is some
thing about war that seems to turn men of
high ideals into ruthless brutes. We spend bil
lions of dollars building up our armies and
prove we were correct in providing such fight
ing equipment.
When will all this waste of human lives and
of money cease?
Four Pillars
ofChristianty
By REV. JOHN L. GOFF
Pastor Christian Church
The basis for our four discussions
under this general theme are the
words found in the Acts of the Apos
tles, second chapter, verse forty-two.
which reads, "And they continued
steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine
and fellowship, and in breaking of
bread, and in prayers.' The four
functions that are here enumerated
concerning the early disciples, does
not state all that they did. but ra-1
ther emphasizes the most important,
and implies other functions growing
out of this relationship.
In order to ascertain the real
strength of anything the most natur
al process is to examine the founda
tion, to find out what it primarily
rests upon, and the nature of that
basis. In the instance of any mater
ial structure that examination in
cludes the soil upon which the struc
ture stands and the first part of its
foundation. In the case of a religious
or benevolent institution, that ex
amination extends back to the au
thority upon which the structure
rests and to its fundamental princi- I
pies before its claim to moral and re
ligious safety can be established.
In the days following the revival i
j of Pentecost, we find some very i
1 strong words recording the prat- I
1 tices of the converts of the Christian
church. We therefore suggest a care
ful consideration of this religious
j structure founded nineteen hundred
! years ago and the foundation upon
| which this building rests, "that it is
j become so great." What stones com
post- its foundation? What tablets j
i mark its corners? This Church of
! Christ, this building of God, can only
i reveal to us its safety and satisfy us
i as to its permanence in the propor- j
tion that we are convinced of its sub
jstantial foundational character and
its workmanship. The Christian
church is as strong today as it was^
on tne Day of Pentecost because it
rests upon the same principles. May
we therefore examine the pillar prin
ciples, rather than its age, to satisfy
ourselves of the strength of the
Uhitrch of Jesus the Christ.
The four pillars are: "Steadfast
ness in doctrine", "The Fellowship",
The breaking of bread", and "The
Prayers." The pillar chosen for our
consideration is "They (disciples) |
continued steadfastly in the apostles'
doctrine." The old adage, "a rolling
stone gathers no moss," is particular
ly true with regard to the religious i
department, it is also true that per
sons who have been unstable in their
doctrinal position have experienced
tha most unrelieved discmnfuit tn
themselves. They do not gain in
strength nor joy. but rather have a
growing sense of uneasiness and an
xiety. One explanation given for sea
sickness is the recurrent sensation of
non-support-along-continued sense of
falling It is very evident that some
sort of spiritual seasickness manifests
itself in the life of men and women
who are tossed about by every wave
of doctrine.
Christianity in moving out among
pagan peoples, many of whom had
absorbed some Greek culture and a
speaking acquaintance with lan
guage heard the apostles speak the
teachings of Jesus the Christ. Less
than a century was to pass however,
before the church in the presence of
her extending program among the
Gentiles undertook to interpret the
doctrines of our Lord, which creat
ed confusion then, and has continued
until this hour. In a world that is
crying out for the realities of relig
ion, made manifest in the character
of her devotees, it is high time for
the church to cease speaking on in
terpretations of Christ's doctrines,
but rather give major emphasis to
the promulgation of His doctrines.
This w ill tend to clarify the meaning
of Christianity and its place in hu
man society.
The early disciples when scattered
by reason of prosecution, remained
steadfast in the apostles' doctrine.
" 'Continued steadfastly' is the un
folding of the Greek word for
strength, and when this word is used
of men it implies a strength that
comes by reason of giving constant
attention to a thing. Such were the
converts of the early Christian
church; they were steadfast because
they were strong; they were strong
bec ause of continued application."
The Christian needs to search the
Scriptures for in them is the "word
of life" and Jesus says that they tes
tify of Him. Here is the foundation
that has withstood the ground-swells
of all antis without, and gross indif
ference within. Surely today, we
will heed the words of the Lord Jes
us when He says: "Every one there
fore that heareth these words of
?Mine, and ctoeth them, shall be lik
ened unto a wise man, who built his
house upon the rock; and the rain
descended, and he floods came, and
the winds blew, and heat upon that |
house; and it fell not; for it was
founded upon a rock. And every one
that heareth these words of Mine,
and doeth them not, shall be likened
unto a foolish man who built his
house upon the sand; and the rain
descended, and the floods came, and
the wind blew, and smote upon that
house, and it fell; and great was the
fall thereof." Matt. 7:24-27.
CHRISTIAN
Bible school, 9:45 a. m
Morning worship, 11 a m. Sub
ject, "Christ Demands Righteous
ness."
Young People's meeting. 6:30 p
m. Subject, "Hearing the Still. Small
Voice."
Evening service, 7:30 p. m. Sub
ject, "The Unfinished Task."
The women of the cnurch will at
tend their special annual sermon as
a part of Woman's Day
The first in a series of prayer ser
vices before the pre-Easter series of
services will begin Monday at 3:30
Junior Phjlathea meets Monday at
8 p. m.
The men's Bible class and the
church board will be in charge of
the mid-week service, Wednesday,
7:30.
The location of the remaining cot
tage prayer services will be releas
ed in Tuesday's Enterprise.
BAPTIST
Bible school, 9:45 a m.
Morning worship, 11 a- m.
Young People's meeting, (i:30 p. m.
Evening worship. 7:30 p. ni.
The sermon subjects for morning
and evening respectively are: "Jesus
the Rabbi," and "Jesus Beyond the
Jordon." This evening message is
the first of a series of four on "Jesus
Finishing His Earthly Ministry." The
j purpose of the morning sermon is to
present Him as the teacher of teach
; ers.
CHURCH OF THE ADVENT
Passion Sunday.
Church school, 9:45 a. m.
Morning prayer and sermon, 11
| a. m.
Evening prayer and sermon, 7:30
i p m.
Monday and Tuesday afternoons
at 3:15, the study course for the Wo
man's Auxiliary and St. Elizabeth's
Auxiliary will be conducted in the
church. The subject this year is,
"Through Tragedy to Triumph,"
which is the findings of the Christian
leaders who met at the Madras, In
dia, in 1938. This is a very searching
and challenging accumulation of the
experiences of the ablest religious
leaders of all Christian churches. Ev
eryone is urged to attend.
Wednesday, Litany and address at
7:30 p. m.
Thursday, celebration of the Holy
| Communion at 10:90 a- m.
Friday, Litany with Junior
at 5:15 p. m
Holy Trinity, Bear Graaa
Semce with sermon at 9 p. Hi. fi*'
eryone is cordially invited to wor
ship with us.
St Martin's, Himilton
Tuesday. 7:30 p. m., Litany and ad
dress on the Christian Sacraments
Piney Grove Baptist
Regular services will be held at
Piney Grove Baptist church Satur
day and Sunday at 11 a. m. Subject
fut Sunday?service, "What b a
Christian'" Come and worship with
- N .
PRESBYTERIAN
Regular services will be held at all
churches this Sunday. There will be
a change in form at some places. The
Poplar Point Church School will
give way to the regular monthly ser
mon and at Roberson's Chapel, there
will be a preaching service at 3:90
P m
The monthly preaching service will
be held in the Woman's Club at Rob
ersonville at 7:30 p. m.
HASSELL CHRISTIAN
Rev. J. M. Perry will preach at
Hassell Christian church Sunday at
! 11 o'clock and at 7:30 p. m. The ser
vices and the sermons arc designed
for the entire community and all peo
ple of all religious beliefs are cor
dially invited to be present.
Mr. George Ayers, the Bible school
superintendent, is inviting the en
tire community to attend the Bible
School at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Tlu sermon theme for the morn
ing service will be: "Why Go To
Church Anyway." And at 7:30 the
theme will be, "Doctrine in Three
Directions." Take your family to
church Sunday.
METHODIST
Church school, 9:45 a. m
Morning worship, 11a m. Preach
ing by the pastor. Subject: "Finding
Life by Losing It.
Evening worship, 7:30. Subject:
"The Great Example."
Young people'a meeting, 6:45. Ail
the young people are urged to be
present for this service, since the re
gional union meeting will be held
with the young people of this church
next Wednesday at 7:30-p m. A good
program will he presented and young
people are urged to be present and
help entertain our visitors from Bel
haven. Washington, Plymouth and
other churches.
Messrs. Wheeler Martin Ward and
Wigg Watts returned Tuesday from
a visit to Miami and other points in
Florida.
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