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W. C. MANNING
Editor ? 1908-1958
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Disciplinarians
Aside from the merits of the case, it would
appear that the CongresS is stepping out of
its bounds when it goes in for disciplining the
Army as a result of the General Lear case out
in Tennessee It is approxirrfSting a farce when
the Congress undertakes the role of disciplin
arians. If the Army can't handle that problem,
then it would be just as well for the Army to
disband and go home. If the young men acted
improperly, then the general was right 111 his
action: If the general acted improperly then the
general should he made to answer to the Army's
code. But save the situa""" beep'"|| ?
of the stinking political halls in Washington.
From this distance it appears the trouble is
traceable to lax morals in society. If the mothers
had kept their daughters properly attired, the
youthful soldiers would in all probability yoo
hooed with reservations and saved an embar
rassing situation.
And personally it is a critical time for an old
foggev general to . be playing around when
there is so much work to be done, remembering
that many of us would be ready to shoot a work
er if he pulled off his overalls and donned a gold
uniform
The little incident, multiplied from a mole
hill to a mountain in size, just goes to help
show us what a mess we are in.?,
"Democracy If orth D"
"I'm mighty glad I'm living in a country
where there is still freedom apd W'hpre I C3H
pay taxes . . "
"Everything considered, the proposed in
creases are pretty low lower than I expected
ihev'd be . .
"Nobody likes to pay taxes, but in an emer
gency such as this no one should complain
"I can still leave my home without fear that
'luring niV absence ft will be bombed ami my
family destroyed That's worth paying for ."
From all parts of the country and from all
walks of life, American citizens are voicing
their willingness to pay the new inconfe tax
schedules proposed by the House Ways and
Means Committee. Most of the people, picked at
random for questioning in a recent survey,
made by the Philadelphia Record, are well sat
isfied to foot the bill as the price of freedom and
security in this land.
The tax load is a tremendous one, but coun
terbalancing are benefits which are many and
substantial. A strong national defense, good
government, schools and libraries, police and
fire protection, fine streets and highways, parks
and playgrounds?all these are the children of
taxpayers. While it cannot be deniedTHat taxes
have advanced in recent years, and are mount
ing at a speedy rate now, neither may it be re
futed that Americans today are receiving more
for their tax dollar than ever before.
The people of the United States of all the
world should be the last to complain of taxes
in this dark hour in history for a twinfold rea
son. The first is because we receive more in re
turn and enjoy a greater degree of liberty and
security in this country from our tax dollar
than do any other people under the sun. The
other reason lies in the fact that while our
taxes are high, they are small in comparison
with the levies of foreign lands. In England and
Germany, for example, taxes now exceed fifty
per cent of all income.
So, pay that tax bill cheerfully. Aid Uncle
Sam in every way in the gigantic effort he is
making to preserve the American way of life.
Put your dollars to work building a strong and
militant and impregnable nation. How much
better it is to spend millions now than lose bil
lions?or everything?later. Freedom and lib
erty come cheap in America. Protect and main
tain them. Pay your taxes with a smile.
Let your slogan be: "Let's Go. U. S. A. Keep
'Em Flying." Democratic National Committee.
Oil for I In- Shifts of Ja/Hin
Christian Science Monitor.
At the moment when the conflict of policy
between the United States and Japan threat
ens to become a conflict of forcfc-Americans are
permitting the loading of Japanese tankers with
hundreds of thousands of gallons of that essen
tial of modern warfare?oil. Here ? the picture
of the developing conflict as reported from
Washington: ?1
At his pryi? ' ""flili'lll l1 lodnrlTr did
not hesitate to predict a new Japanese move
nor to add. in answer to a question, that the
United States Navy was ready to back up Am
erica'sTar Eastern policy . . . Under German
pressure for action to restore the momentum
of world Axis advance, the Island Empire is
believed on the verge of new adventures.
Mr. Knox's reference to a new Japanese move
takes cognizance of threats to Russian terri
tory and the apparently more immediate men
ace to Indo-China. Any such Japanese move
would imperil American interests in the Far
East Yet it is possible for the Associated Press
to report from San Pedro, Calif.:
The Japanese tanker Tonan Maru II arrived
yesterday, tenth such vessel within 11 days to
-obtain oil cargoes for the Island Empire.
American anti-Axis efforts already include
broad-scale economic warfare, as implement
ed by the blacklist of Axis-favored firms- in
South America. If the United States is so close
to possible naval collision with Japan, it is ri
diculous and dangerous to let American com
panies continue fueling her ships.
i Slur In lis Crown
The critics can start slowing up in their de
nunciation and condemnation of the WPA, for
the "undisputed facts clearly offer in bold,relief
a star shining in the organization's crown.
Word comes from Massachusetts stating that
the hew and big airport at Kort Devens was
completed by the WPA far ahead of schedule.
Maybe the WPA is not so bad after all, and
certainly not as bad as the critics have led us
to believe
lh' who reforms himself, has done more
toward reforming the public, than a crowd of
noisy, impotent patriots.?Lavater.
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AugiiHi -f-ili. Slli ami 6th
It'ith hit Fall tUt/tlay of Suit* and Overcoatt.
(Rather hot to talk (Vcoati.)
In face of the riting market, our advice to
our cuilomert who prefer a cutlom-tailored suit,
it to drop in and let Mr. Sloman take
care of your requiremenlt.
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The Source
Of Power....
By REV. JOHN HARDY
Church Of The Advent
THE CHCRCH S MISSION
IS CHRIST'S MISSION
"There are two familiar ways in
which the sense of mission comes to
ordinary people. It may come from
finding something very good that we
wartt to share. When we see a fine
movie or read a good book or see a
lovely view or meet a charming per
son we want to share them with our
neighbors. Or the sense of mission
may come to us from being faced
with an urgent need. There are few
who would not run to help a hurt
child or give a cup of water to a
thirsty man. The sense of mission is
most up-us-when these two ways
meet, when we know something very |
good that meets a need vividly seen.
"Nothing is more marked in the
life of our Lord than His sense of a
mission. His whole life was shaped
and energized by the constraint to
bring the good He possessed to the
need He saw with unclouded vision.
His communion with His Father and
the perfection of the Divine Charity
constrained Him. The citizenship of
the kingdom was a pearl of great
price that men must not be allowed
to miss. In a father welcoming a
prodigal son, in a shepherd searching
for a lost sheep, in the lilies of the
field He saw truth that must be told.
And equally in the tragedy of unfor
given and unforgiving lives, in lives
too busy for adoration, in the empty
[folly of self-righteousness, in the.
aimless 'Justness' of shepherdless
men He saw need that must be met.
The Father guided and energized the
Son by the good He revealed to Him
and by the need He disclosed to Him.
"Christ communicated His own
sense of a mission to His friends. If
He had not done so we should not be
in the company of those who hear
again His words_anjLseek coftunun
iftb With lllsSpirii and the fuller
penetration of our live? by His life.
Th<i.Mission of tlit? Church is at be>t
torn simply Christ's Mission carried
on through the lives He draws into
His service.
"The Mission of the Church arose
and gains its renewal from man's
grateful discovery of the goodness of
Christ and the need of men every
where for what Christ has to teach
and to give. As long as Christ opens
men's eyes to all that He saw and
loved and revealed; as long as He
kindles love for Himself and for His
brethren in the hearts of men; as
long as the needs of men cry out to
us, that Mission will go on. The Mis
sion of the Church is the Mission of
Christ. What we call 'missions' are
simply the farthest outreach, the
most heroic and daring and 'foolish'
expression of Christ's Mission.
To ask whether missions should go
on is to ask whether the Mission of
Christ should go on; whether the
Church should go on. It is like asking
whether good will should go on. How
far should good will reach? It is the
glory of Christ that He has stretch- i
ed the imaginations of His people to 1
look beyond-the-reach of Hheir own
families, their own race and nation,!
to the needs of outcastes in India and
of Chinese farmers in remote vil
lages and of brown men in the hills
of the Philippines. It is the glory of
the Church that with all its tawdri
ness and failures it has had the vi
tality to be a light to the Gentiles
and to those who sit in darkness.
In magnifying tTie ChurchV Mis
sion and in calling men to share in
it we must not lose our perspective
and falsify the balance of God's
truth. That we are tempted to do just
because we are Churchmen and our
own success is bound up with the
Church's success. We are even tempt
ed to press those who are not really
believers at all to give to our parish
| or to the msision we have founded
iso that we may make a good show
ing. To do that is to try to build
God's house on sand. To speak as
though the one or even the chief
way to give to God is to give to the
Church or missions or as if the chief
service is to do some church work is
to endanger the sanctity of the com
mon life and to. narrow the largeness .
of God's purpose Our membership in
the Church is our highest member-1
BAPTIST
Bible school, 9:45 a. m. Daylight
Saving Time.
Morning worship, 11 a. m. D.S.T.
B. T. U., 7 p. m., D.S.T.
Sermon Sunday morning: "Jesus
at the Table with His Disciples."
Evening worship in union service
at Methodist Church, 8 p. m. D.S.T.
Mr. Claude Roebuck, a graduate o(
Wake Forest College and student last
year at the Southern Seminary in
Louisville, Ky. will have charge of
the prayer service next Wednesday
night and all of the services of wor
ship until the pastor returns. Mr.
Roebuck was a member of the Gold
en Bough at Wake Forest. This is one
of the highest honors that is bestow
ed on a student there. Membership
is given on the basis of scholarship,
character and college activities. For
three years Mr. Roebuck has been a
member of the Summer Workers'
Group, a group of young people do
ing state missionary work. In Louis
ville last year he dedicated himself
for foreign missionary work and will
return to Wake Forest this fall to
study medicine. His presence in Wil
liamston will be a blessing. He is
staying at the Baptist Parsonage on
Church Street.
4>
CKDAH BRANCH
Regular services at Cedar Branch
Baptist Church Sunday. Subject for1
11 o'clock service, "Are We Really
Christians?" Let's all be at church
Sunday, and study the scriptures!
along with our lives and see how wp
measure up. The public is invited.
ship, but we are members, too, of
family ahd nation and the commun
ity of common labor. The Church's
Mission and the mission of all its
members is to be a reconciling, heal-1
ing leaven in the life of every hu- [
man lutgl.buj IumuI. The Church is!
summoned to bo in its own life that
fellowship which binds men togeth
er in their common dependence on
God and overleaps all barriers of
social status and race and national
ity. '
The doom of conflict which threat
ens to destroy the whole world will
not be conquered by the idea of love
or the notion of brotherhood. It is
only as the Church is truly the school
and home of living faith and worship
and charity that it can serve God's
saving purpose for mankind. Only
those who have known Christ's pow
er to humble and reconcile and set
us free from the service of ourselves
know how much He has to give to
China and India and Germany and
England. There can be no reality in
missions without reality in the
sending Church, though God may
well cast away the sending Churches
for their unreality and raise up a
new ihsirumeni lor His puipose
among black men or yellow men or
brown men.
? The best that fhe church-receives
from God and offers t^he world is
not something external to its own
life. The best that the Church re
ceives is the restored fellowship of
men with God and of men with men
in Him. The Church can only be the
salt of the earth and the light of the
world if her own life is indeed a fel
lowship. That is why we may well
fearfully expect that God will shake
the Church as we know it to its
foundations if .we do not passionate
ly seek that unity among Christ's
people which is His will.
TKe Church is not required to be"
successful, but to be faithful. God's
people of old had to learn in the bit
terness of exile that it was not chos
en for its own sake only, but that
through suffering and death it was
to have its part in the world's re
demption. If it ijjust be, in the days
ahead, that the witness to mankind's
unity in God can be preserved only
by a faithful remnant and that His
people as of old are called to be His
Suffering Servant, then, too, be
cause the Church's mission is Christ's
Mission, our prayer must be, "Thy
will be done." That is no prayer of
defeatist resignation."
CHRISTIAN
Bible school, 9 45 a. m.
Morning worship, 11 a. m.
Young People's meeting, 7 p. m.
Union Service, Methodist Church,
8 p. m Rev. James Smith, speaker.
At the morning hour. Rev. R. V
Hope, of Washington, N. C, will be
guest speaker.
Woman's Council meets at the
church on Monday afternoon at four
o'clock.
Prayer service will be on Thurs
day evening at 8 o'clock.
The Senior Philathea class of the
Christian Church will meet with
Mrs. G. G. Woolard at her home on
Hassell Street, this evening at eight
o'clock.
-t
CHURCII OF THE ADVfeN'I
8th Sunday after Trinity.
Church school, 9:45 a. m.
Celebration of the Holy Commun
ion and sermon, 11 a. m.
St. Elizabeth's Auxiliary will meet
Monday afternoon at 4 p. m.
ST. MARTIN'S, Hamilton
Evening prayer and sermon, 8 p.
J
METHODIST
Church school, 9:45 a. m.
Epworth League, 7 p. m.
Union evening service, 8 p. m.
Rev. James H. Smith, pastor of the
Baptist Church, will preach. This is |
a fine opportunity to manifest the i
spirit of Christian fellowship by i
worshipping together. The commun- :
ity is cordially invited to be with
us. I
There will be no morning service
on account of the pastor being out of
town for a few days.
The Woman's Circle will meet
with Mrs. Jack Daniels at her home
Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
The above schedules are according
to Daylight Saving Time.
H
HOLLY SPRINGS METHODIST
There will be no preaching service
at Holly Springs Sunday afternoon
on account of the pastor being away
on a short vacation.
NOTICE OF SALE
Under and by virtue of the author
ity contained in that certain Deed of
Trust recorded in the Public Regis
try of Martin County in Book H-3
at page 327, said Deed of Trust hav
ing been given to secure a certain
note of even date and tenor there
with, and the stipulations therein
contained not having been complied
with, at the request of the parties in
terested. the undersigned Trustee
will, on Monday, the 18th day of Au
gust, 1941, at 12:00 o'clock M., in
front of the Court House door in the
Town of Williamston, N. C., offer for
sale at Public Auction to the high
est bidder for cash, the following de
scribed real estate:
A house and lot in the Town of
Williamston, N. C? on the West side
of Haughton Street, adjoining the
lands of H. D. and G. A. Peele, on
the North. Haughton Street on the
East, and the lands of W. J. Hodges
on the South and West and being the
same premises now occupied by H.
D. Peele and family, and being the
land conveyed to H. D. Peele by C.
H. Godwin, said Deed recorded in
Book OOO, at Page 249 of the Mar
tin County Public Registry.
This the 16th day of July, 1941,
WHEELER MARTIN.
jlyl8_4t
NOTICE!
1)iio to tho inereusetl cost of ('.leaning
Supplier, we are forced to raise the
prices of DRY CLEANING EFFECTIVE
AUGUST 1st.
Suits and Plain Dresses
65c
LILLEY'S LAUNDRY &
DRY CLEANERS
PITTMAN'S CLEANERS
ALPHA CLEANERS
Ileita Theatre?Washington
Sunday-Monday August 3-4
"ROOKIES ON PARADE"
ir/l/i Hob i.ronby and Ruth Terry
Tuesday DOl'BLE FEATURE August 5
"Tiie Richest Man in Town," F. Craven, E. O'Hearn
"Redhead" Willi JtitkeTaiu# and Johnny Downs
Wednesday-Thursday August 6-7
"THAT GANG OF MINE"
irilh Hobby Jordan and Lee Horcey
Friday-Saturday August 8-9
"THE SINGING HIELS"
?il/i Gene Autry
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Pineapple 22 27c
1 J. ran
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Tomatoji?? 6 25c
Neie Treat Salatl
Dressing qt. 21c
Roil Mill Delieiout
PeanutButterib. 15c
Southern Manor
Shoe Peg CORN, No. 2 can .... 10c
Cam pbell't
TOMATO SOUP, 3 cans 25c
Aunt Betty ^ .
Black Eye PEAS, 2 No. 2 cans . 23c
Dry Sal! FAT BACKS, 2 lbs. .. 23c
l.and o' lAiket J
BUTTER, roll lb. 43c cube lb. 45c
I High Mark Flour
12-lh. bag 2 Mb. bag ttt-lh. bag
| 42 c 83c $1.62
Triple Freth Sandirich
BREAD, 2 loaves 15c
Double Freth Golden Blend
COFFEE, 2 pounds 31c
IN OUR MARKET
ROUND STEAK lb.. 30c
NECK BONES . 2 lbs,. 15c
Home Killed FRYERS ... each.. 60c
SM1THFIELD SAUSAGE . lb.. 29c
Lean PICNIC HAMS lb.. 23c