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MARSHALL MINISTERS
FAVOR HOSPITAL
WRITE OTHER MINISTERS
COUNTY TO 3 T R E S S
IMPORTANCE OF
HOSPITAL
IN
The following communica
tion .from the ministers of Mar
shall to other ministers in the
county shows how the ministers
feel about the proposed hos
pital :
As you are aware, that the Duke
Foundation makes it possible for
Madison County to have a great hos
pital on a BO-BO basis, and that this
very important matter will come be
fore the people for their decision A
pril 9th, we, the ministers of Marsh
all, feel that everv minister of the
Gospel in this County should use his
influence and his pulpit, if neces
sary, to inform the people concerning
the great and urgent nature of this
proposition in a word, to place the
facts squarely before the people. We
surely cannot afford to let so wonder
ful an opportunity pass.
The 8mall cost to the taxpayers of
30 cents to every taxable $1,000.00
is almost nothing and that the hos
pital will be Belf-supporting is almost
a certainty. What such a Hospital
will mean to this- and coming gen
erations is beyond calculation; that
it will prove a veritable God-send to
the people and a blessing to human
ity, there is no question.
To be, or not to be, is now the su
preme question: Shall we pass it
up? or avail ourselves of it? We
face a real challenge. How shall we
dispose of it? This is the duty and
privilege of every registered voter to
answer.
We feel so stronely on this mat
ter that is whv we are addressing
our brethren in the ministry to do
all they can to broadcast the real
situation as it is to all the people
free rom bias or prejudice. '
If this is done, as we are hoping
and praying it will be, there can be
but one result a Great Hospital to
answer a great need in a Great
County, of our . beloved Nprtb Caror
J. T. M. KNOX, faator .
Presbyterian Church.
HORACE L. SMITH, pastor
Marshall Baptist Church.
J. C. UMBERGER, pastor
M. E. Church, South, Mar
shall and Hot Springs, N. C.
Hospitals For
Neglected People
A correspondent asks for in
formation concerning the Duke
Foundation's offer to aid coun
ties and municipalities in build
ing hospitals.
The Foundation has entered
this field especially for the pur
pose of aiding in providing the
isolated rural people hospital
facilities which they do not
have under prevailing condi
tions. The Foundation matches
local money dollar for dollar,
for the construction and often
proposes also to grant a dollar
a day for the care of charity
patients in the hospitals thus
reaching a class sorely in need
of medical ministration. .
This paper is not, of course,
,in position to advise any coun
ty or .municipal corporation as
to issuing bonds, for hospitals.
This much' can be said, howev
er: hospitalization for the peo
ple of rural districts, especially
. those unable to pay for ade
quate medical and surgical
treatment, is one of the great
est social needs of rural North
Carolina
- , There are .many ' welfare
projects worthy of praise and
support. None is more vital, to
the masses of the people, es
pecially in remote sections,
, than that in which the Duke
Foundation is contributing to
the building and maintenance
of hospitals.
In 1928 the Foundation
spent in the CaroHnas- more .
than a half million' dollars for
hospitals and orphanages.
Editorial in Asheville Times.
A CORRECTION
In our issue of March 22, a report
was sent in from Upper Brush Creek,
mentioning "Austin Falkner, Jr.1 We
understand there is no such person
over -there and the one who' sent m
the report deceived this paper with
a fictitious name and deserves the
ebntempt - of the public. A reward
trill be given for the real name of
the. writer. ; v.; I,'; 'yj?.
Pasture seed, mixtures are being
slanted on small grain in Burke
A - :i:r. J- A a i. ! 1.1 - - 2
' WaJ r W ss bsm w www n'sj
1 moro .permanent pastures. . .. 4
-.';.' -ji ;.v " ' "
Top-dressing small grain - with
i ,.it -qicketjnr nitrogen is a sure way
to increase yields of grain and hay,
aay agronomists. ; ?...'-
From LAKE ONTARIO, CAN.
The following clipping from
a newspaper published! in Can
ada is sent usv by Mrs. E. P.
Reed, former)yMiss Zola Free
man, of Barnard., N. C. Mrs.
Ree(d is betftfm&ffa subscriber
to the Newa-Kpora ana sne
though following item
would be of jnferest. We think
so too:
DIED AS HE TOOK A
STEP
One of the most mysterious deaths
that has every been reported from
the inland reaches of Northern On
tario, says a report emanating from
Toronto, has sifted down from the
far outposts.. .Trappert and prospect
ors who have experienced the biting
life-wasting cold of that section, do
not scoff at its possibility.
According to the report, an Indian
party engaged in running trap-lines
in the region of the headwaters of the
Attawapiska river, discovered the
body of a white man standing bolt
upright, with one foot slightly ad
vanced as if he was about to take a
step when suddenly stricken. The
(body was hard as a board and was
ifrrm in its unusual position. The In
dians found the man's snowshoes
were firmly anchored in slusn ice.
There were neither marks on the
clothing nor anything in the pros
pector's sack that would indicate his
identity, according to the report.
Recovery of the body, cannot be
made until summer, it was stated.
FAVORSJOSPITAL
PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER OF
MARSHALL WRITES
Marshall, N. C.
April 2, 1929
The News-Record.
Dear Mr. Story: ,
i l am pleased to note the interest
now being manifested. jconcermngjthe
proposed Duke Hospital for. Madison
County. ..'
I wish to add just a few words a
long with the many that are being
said and written in its favor.
First of all, in the event this hu
manitarian proposition is voted down,
I honestly believe that every voter
against it will wake up to see his mis
take before many moons have passed.
There is surely no one who questions
the motive of the Duke Foundation
in donating $37,600.00 to establish a
hospital in Madison County on a 50
50 .baais. Then.What is wrong a
bout accepnyMVir)ft? There is
absolutely ribtveing withheld
from the public,'? far as any one can
see. There Is nothing underhand a
bout it. All Is open and aboveboard;
and the fact,vAl the facts that can
be obtained, are being placed before
the voter. These facts and figures
all point one way, And that is to vote
yes. i am connaent tne nosprcai win
never prove. W.vheviUDuraen, out in
every way a blefsing1 tovthe people of
Maaison county. ' .v -1'
. ir-'WMtT. M. KNOX.
FELLOWSHIP
CONFERENCE
A Fellowship' Conference has been
called to meet With the Bantist church
of Mars Hill on Friday, April 12, at
11 A. M. All the pastors and leading
laymen and women of the French
Broad 'Association have been invited
to-this meeting, the purpose of which
is to foster fellowship and to inereas
interest in the denominational pro
gram. -
This is one of a series of such con
ferences that Dr. Charles E. Maddry,
Raleigh, general secretary, and Rev.
Walter M. Gilmore, Raleigh, mission
secretary of the Baptist State Con
vention, ' are' s holding at this time
throughout; the state. '.
"These conferences", says Mr. Gil-
TUSCULUM STUDENT LOSES
. PURSE IN MARSHALL
Mr. Drake, a crippled student
at Tnsenlum College, lost a parse
in Marshall Wednesday, near
leven o'clock. He had about $12
in the parse, ' representing- his
savings : for some time. ,- Finder
woald show the right heart by
returning ' to '-'. ., j
THE NEWS-RECORD OFFICE
y- ; Marshall, N. C. v -
Mrs.' Housewife What makes you
t x 1Ja it. . n . m
aw v W 114, yiie UIUII WVBV UlViUIUfBi
f iMilkman rWell.' you see, the pure
food law don't allow- Us more than
25 million bacteria to the gallon, and
you wouldn't believe how long it takes
te-tount the littWSon-of-agUns. The
tFftthiliidr J:.'y.'h.'.-
more, "have been well attended, thus
far and considerable stimulus has
been given to the work of the denom
ination." Continuing Mr. Gilmotie
says: "The Baptist denomination in
the South is now confronting serious
problems, the solution of which will
determine very largely the future of
the .denomination. At these confer
ences, these problems are freely dis
cussed and every one given the privi
lege of expressing his or her opinion
or of asking any question in regard
to the work. The meeting will last
about two hours."
COUNTY BUSINESS
TRANSACTED
MONDAY
BOARD OF EDUCATION
REORGANIZED
Committee Appointed and Other
Matters of. Business Attended To
Monday was an important day in
Marshall. The Board of Education
as constituted by the last legislature
met and the two new members, Dr.
R. L. Moore and Mr. Calvin H.
Reeves, were sworn in. Dr. Moore
was made chairman of the Board
and many petitions and requests
were heard before the Board went
into executive session. Committees
for the schools of the County were
named, very few changes being
made. In Marshall Mr. P. V. Rec
tor was put in the place of Mr. Natt
Holcombe, who has moved from
Marshall to Mars Hill. Quite a
number of people were in town and
some one remarked that grindstones
were needed, as nearly every one
had an axe to grind. The election
of a county superintendent will take
place the first Monday in May.
What the commissioners did we
hope to be able to give next week.
:THE PUBLISHER'S
: ABOUT
. THE ELECTION TUESD A Y.i APRtX 9 V -
A y
called upon to go to the polls and
hospital for Madison County." Many
is all about anyway, and they wish
from start to-finish. This we would be glad to do if we could. T-hatM v. , l a -n i i c i.
u i. v m . . , - . . ,. Tlviv1 states will lock in fierce stnf e,
best this writer sees it, the doctors of Madison County, as well as 6t J And seek to takp each other's life
other counties, seeing the need of such a hospital, have looked around
to see haw one may be built and have learned that in recent years,
Mr. Duke in his will provides that a certain sum be set aside every,
year from the income from certain
any with which to aid in the building and maintaining hospitals in
communities which saw the need of such hospitals to the extent of
helping to raise the amount necessary. It was a benevolent spirit
which prompted the gift and a very worthy cause for which it was do-
nated. Doctors perhaps rmore than all others are VP a position to know
how urgent is the need for hospitals. They see patient after patient
die who might have been saved if the proper treatment could have
been administered. The patient often would rather die than subject
the family to the expense of a hospital bill. If they could know that
the county would help defray the expense when necessary, doubtless
man cases would consent to go to the hospital who otherwise would
not. No one knows quite so well as a doctor the many handicaps a
patient undergoes in many of the homes such as are to be found in
Madison as well as other counties. Lack of conveniences, cleanliness,
and even ordinary judgment in administering drugs or other treat-
ment by members of the family, make home treatment not only ineffec-
tive, but also very expensive, as it becomes necessary for the doctor in
many cases would consent to go to the hospital who otherwise would
which a nurse would do at a hospital. No matter how we look at it,
sickness is expensive; whether we have hospitals or not and re can .
rest well assured that it is coming to all of us sooner' or" later. ' Those
who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and thishos-
tion.
Taxes and bonds are words that
some sections, and yet we cannot suggest aIy method of raising mon- iT
ey for the common good which distributes the burden so justly on all.
It is true, no doubt, that some classes of neoule are taxed more than -
they ought to be, and the burden
to another to some extent. The
es is a problem hard to solve, but those, who work hard and deny them- A
selves comforts and many good things 4n life in order to get ahead and.?;
live independently through life should not bear all the burden for the ;1fn nineteen hundred twenty-six,
nnnr. thriftless f nllnte whn mnVnn
are two classes of poor, one class which makes no effort to do any bet-
ter and the other class who does tho best he knows and in spite of; ail'.
his efforts remains poor, due to circumstances, sometimes what is call-.
ed luck. The fellow who tries earnestly. to get ahead, who is willingA
to work and work to the best of his ability, always faithful and bolty'
est, never losing time, using his brain as well as his hands, such A man
deserves to be helped when in trouble, and distress. But the fellow
who sits around half, two-thirds,
fault and never trying to do for himself deserves no help, and perhaps
ought not to be helped by a hospitalor any other benevolent institu-
that kind of a fellow has to be helped when it comes to a matter of J,:?Ujdtb-newspapers) Don't all those
life and death. The Duke 'Foundation comes in to help all the needyr'$PPrs make you tired, my boy?
whether deserving or not, as individuals, if the community meets the 1, ?No Jon't r?ad them
''requirements. : e-
Madison County has a wonderful proposition, the offer of $37,600
if the county "will duplicate that amount, and in addition to that theH
Foundation agrees to pay one dollar
.........
pense pi every ' cnanty. patieni. nave you uougnt mis maner -
throughT Can you afford to vote against it? ; It so, you do not have
,tn$o and vote. . All you need do is stay at home and your vote count
'against the hospital;! If, however, you think we ought to seize-this ft
offer of help While preparing to help others, vote YES, and let's set an
example in caring for our sick. j " ( V
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DRUG PLANTS IN WESTERN
ll NORTH CAROLINA
i'at ) nnt eronsrnllv known that 76
percent of all the drug plants cottfCf,'
ted hi the United states are gauiw
mI in a radius of 100 miles around
Asheville. N. C. A famous botanist,
Asa' Grav. found more varietie,q(,Umproved it if she had written it this
plants on a au-miie eiurouuiwir.iinonin. jieiore renuing it, jiicbdc uw
the North Carolina mountains than
he found across the northern part of
the United States from Massachu
setts to the Rocky Mountains.
Of the drug materials handled by
Asheville dealers, 225 are indigenous
to that region, and their sale is the
principal source of income of many
mountain families. Starting in the
early spring, the first to be gathered
are Balm of Gilead and Black Willovv
buds, followed by early roots, which
must be gathered before the sap be
gins to flow. Then come a variety of
barks and late in the summer, other
varieties of roots for medicinal
leaves. In the winter these families
supplement their incomes by gather
ing and selling Galax, Laurel, ferns
and other ornamental plants.
Formerly only wild plants came
into the market, but latterly some va
rieties, such as Ginseng and Golden
Seal, have been planted and cultiva
ted. Some of these plantings.; hya
been highly profitable. Ginseng has
sold at prices ranging from $6 to $10
or more per pound, and at Bryson
City, N. C, R. L. Snelson has report
ed yields from Ginseng beds ujM
$2,000 per acre per year duringVfc
period of five years from planting the
seed. In the same region about 250
farmes are growing Golden Seal,
their-plantings ranging from a quar
teE"6f an acre to four acres each. Re
turns over a three-year period have
amounted to as much as $5,000 per
Rtl Gs ,
THe success of these plantings sug-v
gest - opportunities for further ex
pansion and for the cultivation, of
other varieties of drug plants.-rThe
Southern Field.
COLUMN
VARIOUS MATTERS
special-election Taw
vote for tne" bonds: td help
of them wish to know, what this
us to tell them everything about it I
stock in the Southern Power CompA,
,
" ' .
are becoming very unpopular
should be shifted from one shoulder rlvcease,
matter of proper distribution of tax-'
nn effort tn Viavb nnvtbino'. Thnrp
and .nine-tenths of his time finding ft
a day toward defraying the ex-.I?Paren- , ; .
v . .7' Nurse -What ni do voa nav?
W 1
A
Woman's Prophesy
500 Years Old
Some people seem to believe the
fpWphetic age passed with the Apos-
ues. xiere is a. jjiuyueaj muinai iv
years ago by a woman. Read and see
if you can suggest how she could have
dertake to transport yourself back
across five centuries and live when
there were no steamships, no steam
railways, no sewing machines, no
cook stoves, no radios, no automobiles
no flying machines, bo submarines
and none of the many other inven
tions so common today.
Now, if you are back there sitting
alone, in your quaint old-fashioned
dwelling, read this poem and see if
you do not think she had a real vision
of the future happenings of the world
!-J$Iother Shipton was born in Nor
folk, England, and died in Clifton,
Yorkshire, 1449. Thus you see she
died 43 years before Columbus dis
covered America. J. H. Phillips,
Ashdown, Ark.
A WOMAN'S PROPHESY 500
YEARS OLD
(Original Mother Shipton Prophesy)
"A carriage without horses shall go ;
vjftUsters fill the world with woe.
i i;n 1 .11 i
AOljonaon, rrimrose nui snau oe,
Its center hold, a bishop's see.
Around the world men's thoughts
shall fly
Quicker than the twinkling of an eye.
And waters shall great wonders do
How strange, and yet it shall come
true.
'Then upside down the world shall be,
And gold found at the root ot tree;
Through towering hill proud men
tf: shall ride,
Nor horse nor ass move by his side.
Beneath the waters men shall walk;
Shall ride, shall sleep and even talk.
And in the air men shall be seen,
In white, in black, as well as green.
A great man then shall come and go,
For prophesy declares it 80.
In water iron then shall float
As easy as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found in stream or stone
Inland that is as -vet unknown.
Water and fire shall wonders do,
And England shall admit (TftWi
The Jew that pnee Was held in acorn,
born.
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A war win foiib with the work:
Where dwells the pagan and the Turk
And seek to take each other's life.
When North shall thus divide the
South,
The eagle build in lion's mouth,
.hen tax and blood and cruel war
Shall come to every humble door.
Three times shall sunny, lovely
France,
Be led to play a bloody dance;
Before the people shall be free,
The tyrant rulers shall she see.
Three rulers in succession be
Each sprangjfrom different dynasty.
Then, when the fiercest fight is done,
England and France shall be as one.
The British olive next shall twine
IH marriage with the German vine.
Men walk beneath and over streams
Fulfilled shall be our strangest dreams
All England's sons shall plow the
land
Shall oft be seen with book in hand.
The poor shall now most wisdom know
And waters, wind, where corn did
grow.
Great houses stand in far-flung vale,
All covered o er with snow and hail,
And now a word i nuncouth rhyme
Of. what shall be in future time,
For in those wondrous, far-off days.
ifM women shall adopt a craze
X0; aress nice men ana trousers wear,
'Aiid cut off their lovely locks of hair.
They'll ride astride with brazen brow,
A witches ail a broomstick now:
Then lovt shall die- and marriages
And nations warin as babies decrease.
The wives shall fondle cats and dogs,
$JaA men live much the same as hogs.
"iff'
Build houses light of straw and sticks
For then shall mighty war be planned,
And fire and sword sweep the land.
But those who live the century
through
In fear and trembling, this will do.
Flee to the mountains and the dens
To, bog and forest and wild fens,
Fojtorms shall rage and oceans roar
Wiben Gabriel stands on sea and shore
r as he blows his wondrous horn,
4wlla atinll Hid nt haw Htt Kami .
'Old Gent (observing boy burdened
. .. , " :
jjind Lady (to applicant) I am
sre you would learn . to love my
Nurse What wages. do' you pay
Ldy Thirty dollars a month.
!NAirse Well, I Could only be gen
Ue,'with . them at that price. The
pathfinder. .vJ .
Lee went to a spiritualist's yes-j
k
lAoir iri, i snmi ci a Christian : then, be
build tfSi4,
V. Ss I A 1. . .1 ,,...(. 41 ...X,.-
teraay.. -
: Paul Any good? .
Oh, modtumC I'Z.
-it. '
FROM CHAIRMAN
BOARD OF
EDUCATION
Dr. R. L. Moore, who wa
made chairman of the Madison
County Board of Education
Monday, says:
I have mistaken the mettle and
temper of those who make up the
Board of Education of Madison
Countv if they are not united in pur
pose and desire to secure the utmost
efficiency and economy in the manage
ment of the schools and to unite all
our people in their hearty support.
To this end it will be their policy to
make all appointments as far as pos
sible from among those who are not
actively identified with any faction
or political or 'business group; to
reach all decisions as a body and not
as individuals privately solicited,
though giving in open meeting all
sides a hearing; to consider every
school in its relation to a county
wide system toward which they will
continue to work as rapidly as pos
sible; and to impress upon teachers
their obligation and privilege to pro
mote the social, moral, and religious
interests of the communities in which
thev teach, for the example and life
of the teacher- mean far more than
the things they teach.
It will not be easy to live up to
this standard, and blunders and mis
takes will be made; some will be
pleased, some displeased; but let all
know that they will be dealt with
frankly, openlyt with kindness and
"firmness in the right a8 God gives
us to see the right." Criticism that
is sincere and open and constructive
will at all times be welcomed. Co
operation is craved in an effort to
promote confidence one in another,
progress in spiritual as well as ma
terial development, and a feeling of
common interest and obligation, for
"we be brethren" twenty thousand
strong. '
"All your strength is in your union;
All your danger is in discord."
R. L. MOORE.
April 2? 1929.
MARSHALL CHURCHES GIVE
SERVICE HOUR TO HOSPITAL
..,DISC.USS1QNt-:-,,;
Tteiwd-W0fck. service of the Mar-
i ?cr,r?Zr.": z JzrMZ .: ve-& ,
at the school building to hear Dr.
Rankin discuss the hospital proposi
tion. Rev. Mr. Umberger had charge
of the service, reading, talking, and
praying, and the speaker was intro
duced by Mr. John McElroy. Dr.
Rankin discussed very forcefully
the need of such hospitals, the cost
and operation. After his speech
several quesltions were asked. It
was regretted that a greater number
of people did not hear his. fine dis
cussion. Rev. H. L. Smith and Dr.
Knox were in other parts of the
county discussing the same matter
to other congregations. As adver
tised before, Dr. Rankin spoke at
several points in the county Wed
nesday and Thursday.
My Old Gray Coat
Out of the legends of Russia comes
the story of the old gray coat. Out
side the walls of Moscow paced to
and fro a sturdy, stalwart soldier of
the Czar's guard. He was set to pro
tect the life of the Czar from every
possible attack. The time was night.
Through the lonely hours he kept his
faithful "vigil. The night was bitter
cold. Then the storm broke. First the
rain,' thenthe sleet, then the swift
falling snow. He was not fully prepar
ed for such exposure.
Out of the darkness appeared the
form of a Russian peasant. He wore
a heavy, gray coat. As he approached
the Czar's guard he discovered that
.'the guard was without a warm coat.
The peasant insisted that the guard
take the srrav coat for nrotection dur
ing the storm. The guard protested a-
(gainst it; tne peasant insistea upon r
it. Over the protests of the guard tne , ,
peasant took off his warm, gray coat .'4
and flung it over the shoulders of the J
guard, who paced around the walls of i
Moscow unharmed by the wild sleet
and snow. , j
Just a few rods away was the peas-
ant's cottage. He would hurry to his
own fireside, and also escape the v
storm. But the old gray coat had o t--
warmed his flesh that the cold, cut-, :A
ting winds pierced his lungs, and laid ,
him low with fatal fever. For days he,.,
raved in dehrum, but just before he
passed the portals to his eternal home "
he returned to consciousness and said ,-
to his wife:"You do not know whom -;;
I have seen 1 1 have seen Jesus. And :
wonderful to tell, He had on my old
gray coat" Then the Russian peas
ant went to his immortal home to find
Jesus and his old gray coat Certain
ly Christ had on the peasant's old '
gray coat, lor it was He who said: :
"Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these My brethren,
ye have done it unto me." The War '
Cry. j : ,
Quidnunce What became of that
play you wrote five years ago?
Obfusca The managers decided it
was too daring to introduce.
Quidnunce Send it on again.
Obfusca I did. Now they say it b
too tame. The Pathfinder.
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