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THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1938
BIBLE THOUGHT
NATURE TEACHES WISDOM: Go to the ant,
thou sluggard; consider her way, and be wise: Which
having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provide her meat
in the summer, and gathereth her food in the har
vest. Proverbs 6:6-8.
STARTING FROM THE BOTTOM
Pennsylvania has opened a series of state
operated driver schools where new drivers will
receive an intensive 40-hour training course be
fore they are licensed to drive. Twenty hours of
class-room and 30 of actual road driving will
be required. This method is calculated to over
come hit-or-miss methods of learning whereby
drivers who, perhaps, were far from expert
themselves. Heretofore, these novices have in
herited the Weakness of their instructors and
have graduated to high speed cars badly train
ed. With approximately 300,000 new drivers
being added to the state's roster every year,
Pennsylvania's insistence upon uniform train
ing is the best approach yet to a difficult situation.
POLITICAL HOT AIR
Those credulous and unsophisticated souls
who take the speeches of their Senators and
Congressmen seriously may have been rudely
jarred if they read a statement once made by
Senator Glass of Virginia, who said:
"In all my experience of more than 30 years
in Congress, I have never known a speech to
change a vote,"
While this is a rather broad assertion, it
is practically true. A large percentage of the
speeches printed in the Congressional Record
are just so much hot air. Many of them are
never delivered at all but are written out and
printed for distribution "back home," for the
purpose of impressing the voters with the great
statesmanship of their authors.
Aside from a few notable exceptions, the
sole aim in life of Senators and Congressmen is
to get re-elected. Every utterance and every
vote is directed to that end.
Therefore, oratory of colleagues does not
influence them very much. They are thinking
always about.' what their -'constituents will say,
and they vote accordingly, regardless of any
body's speech. Exchange.
ABSENTEE EPIDEMIC
Columnist Eost allows that there was a
lot of sickeness in Lexington around the day
of the primary and that other sections were all
visited by illness in an alarming way. He
bases his observation upon the number of ab
sentee ballots attested by reputable physicians,
730 such ballots having been cast in Lexington
alone. '.
The absentee ballot has been in disrepute
for some time, and the 1938 primaries have not
helped its refutation. The next legislature will
have plenty of evidence to convict voting "in
absentia" and we hope the penalty will be aboli
tion of the practice. Smithfield Herald.
PERHAPS ALMOST CONTENTED
News coming out of Washington says that
Brevard is to get $75,000 for a post office. The
people in the county seat of -Transylvania have
been Wailing and lamenting a long time over the
fact that had no suitable post office.
Since work has started on their two million
dollar paper mill, and the new post office assured
it seems that our neighbor to the south should
be about contented for 1938 or should we add,
the completion of Highway No. 284 would com
plete the contentment?
Punishment for kidnapers will not be ade
quate until fie law devises some means of in
flicting upon kidnapers suffering and mental
anguish equal in every way to that suffered by
parents of kidnaped children. The electric chair
is an easy escape for a captured kidnaper.
SEEK EASIEST METHOD
Governor Clyde R. Hoey has intimated that
he will ask the next General Assembly to adopt
the electric chair as a means of taking life on
the part of the state, when that is to be done.
The electric chair was used for many years fol
lowing the old system of hanging those senten
ced to death in payment for crime committed.
Those who witnessed the electrocution of
criminals thought that too cruel and that
brought about the change a few years ago to
the lethal gas chamber. New tlrse who have
witnessed killings both ways arj inclined to
think that electrocution is the quickest and ea -iest
manner of taking life by tne state. .
While all we know of the manner of killing
by either method is from what we read in the
papers, we are inclined to agree with the Gov
ernor. One day recently when two white men
Bill Payne and Wash Turner were killed in
the gas chamber and a Negro was electrocuted
in the electric-chair, it was noted that the "end"
came for the man electrocuted much quicker
than for the two men who were "gassed" to
death.
It goes without saying that no easy or
painless means for taking life can be devised by
man, and yet if life is to be taken on the part
of the state, the least cruel method possible
should be employed. Sampson Independent.
AN UNNECESSARY WASTE
Duiing the last two years, when employ
ment was one of the things most desired, a
total of 42,000,000 days' work was left undone
by those engaged to do it, by reasons of strikes
and lockouts.
That's a lot of time lost. It adds up to 115,
000 years of 365 days each. It represents not
only unemployment, but actual employment
to be had, thrown away by those supposed to do
the work, or by those who wanted work done.
AH this represents work and wages lost.
Neither can ever be reclaimed. It further repre
sents a considerable shrinkage in the productive
output of our industrial system.
As far advanced as we as a nation are in
most things, we should be able to devise some
way whereby capital and labor could settle their
differences without so many wasted days, so
much loss in production. We are too progres
sive to be caught in such a backwash of medie
valism. Here is challenge for both capital and
labor to bring themselves up to date in this im
portant matter. Reidsville Review.
BIBLE KISSING NOT NECESSARY
The state association of Superior Court
Clerks took a sensible stand last week in Char
lotte when they voted to request the legislature
to repeal the law whidh calls for witnesses to
"kiss the Book" when taking an oath.
Kissing of the Bible is useless in sealing
an oath. A man who will swear "to tell the
truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth" will do so as readily after holding his
hand up as he will after kissing a Bible.
The Times believes that the Holy Writ
should be regarded something above reproach,
and desecration of the Symbol of Truth is repul
sive to those who have witnessed people place
their hands on the Bible, then go on the stand
and tell a tale that is unfounded, without ves
tige of truth and wrongfully injurious to anoth
er person on trial.
A person who will tell the truth after plac
ing his hand on the Bible and promising so to
do, will tell the truth when he stands before his
fellowman and promises. Transylvania Times,
When a young man proposes to a girl and
then acts like a fish out of the water he knows
he has been caught. ;
We note where one of the movie stars gets
her bending exercise by throwing a deck of
cards into the air and picking them up one at
a time. A local woman with three daughters
and a husband at home tells us that she gets
the same results picking up after her family.
TWO. MINUTE SERMON
BY "THOMAS HASTWELL
EVERY MAN'S INHERITANCE
In the book of Joshua is found the story of Caleb
and Joshua who brought back to Moses at Kadesh
barnea the true report of the land of Canaan. Caleb
patiently bided his time for forty years and at the ape .
of 85 came before Joshua with the request that he be
permitted to take the country about Hebron that the
Lord had promised him as an inheritance. Joshua
blessed him and pave his permission, and Caleb and
his tribe possessed the land. I like the lesson that the
dauntless Caleb brings. I like his courage, his persis
tence, and above all his faith that God's promise to
him would be fulfilled, if he but kept the faith and did
his part. I like to think that God has promised to every
man a heritage in this life, a heritage rich in oppor
tunity and blessings, if he will but claim it. The
heritage can only be possessed by those who have the
courage, the persistence and faith in God and them
selves, that, if they but do their part, God will do his
part. Caleb's courage, and faith, and patience, and
persistence won for him his inheritance in that day,
and the same courage, and faith, and patience, and per
sistence will just as surely win for man today the in
heritance that God has promised him.
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GLANCES
By W. Curtis Russ
Truck drivers are taking pride in
the careful manner in which they
drive huge loaded trucks over the
highways. Trucking companies are
inaugurating campaigns to inform
the public that their drivers are not
only careful, but extend every cour
tesy of the highways to others.
Passing big trucks nearly always
sends shivers up one's spine, yet
when you know that the driver you
are passing is not going to speed up
just as you start to pass, it gives a
degree of comfort and satisfaction.
If, you will notice u competent
truck driver always gives the prop
er signals when making turns or
stopping, and most of the time is
aware of motorists back of them.
The same can be said of the aver
age bus driver. They know the rules
of the highway, and obey the laws of
common sense along with them.
Talking to a bus driver recently,
we learned that very few people give
proper signals when stopping or
turning. Often this means a crash;
This same driver says that drunken
drivers are so few as compared With
common careless type, who takes
every unnecessary chance, and es
pecially the speed fiend.
This driver passes thousands of
cars a week. Covers hundreds of
miles a month, and has come to the
conclusion that the highways them
selves are safe enough. But that the
state is too lax in issuing driver's
license. "Too many people are be
hind the steering wheels that don't
know the first rule about highway
safety and driving," this driver said.
Upon his suggestion j we watched
passing cars for about 100 miles,
and we came to the same conclusion.
People driving today are just not
safety conscious. Their . -fiole aim
seems to be to get there, regardless
of the damage done en route.
Less than one person in ten dim their
lights.
Entirely too many drive along with
their arm outside the car, thus keep
ing the drivers back of them in sus
pense of what to expect.
At one point on the highway, a
group of children were playing on
the sidewalk, and as a truck with a
large t-ailen approached the chil
dren, the driver slowed down to a
snail's pace, and lucky that he did.
because a small child ran out into
the highway in front of the truck,
but the driver had it under control,
and was expecting almost anything
from a group of children. He stopped
ten feet from the child, while others
in the group turned their faces' fear
ing a tragedy.
While we dp not cherish the idea
of passing large trucks, or busses, we
do feel safer than when we pass much
smaller vehicles, because we know
that the driver of the trucks and
busses are on the job.
And Nobody Came
ASTORIA, ORE. Through the col
umns of the newspapers in this terri
tory the Public Works Administra
tion advertised an open meeting for
municipalities, school districts, coun
ty government officers, or other offi
cial divisions of the territory to file
requests for funds. Funds' requested
were to be used in the construction
of public projects.
Your Horoscope
July 24 Cooking is your specialty,
and you are an expert in this line.
You go to the extreme in whatever
you do, whether it is love or hate, and
cannot stand unkindness or neglect on
the part of one near and dear to you.
July 25 Though close in money
matters you are generous and just in
a certain way. You are quick temper
ed, intensively sensitive, but you are
kind, loving and sympathetic.
July 26 It is impossible for you to
do anything in a cheap way, conse
quently, though you try to invent a
way to lower the cost of things you
wish to improve, you do not succeed
and your inventions are not put to
general use. If a woman you are a
splendid cook, but do not know the
meaning of economy.
July 27 You make a most enter
taining companion as you are cheer
ful, bright and attractive in your
calmer moods, but you are very fiery,
excitable and sometimes lost your
THIS WEEK
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HISTORY
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sacred by natives,
of Liberty Tree a'
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manently successful -.:j"
graph cable by Cyij. V. f ,'','
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rendered to Gen, Mil,,-,
ginning of World War, n
July 29 Benito Mussolini, Die-
born,
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when you insist on your ideas
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very anectionate to those you 10I.
ana courteous to all.
July JO You have much curiosin-
and inclined to be somewhat suspi
cious. You like travel and mate i
guuu li avenue companion as you ar;
refined and intelligent. , Your iovt fjr
your family knows no bounds.
The 1937 cash farm income t
North L-arolina farmers was exceed?-:
four times since 1924, reports Chit
Staticians W. H. Rhodes, of tht- Sx,
Department of Agriculture.
Japanese beetles, enemies of mot-
than 200 plants, prefer white flowers
to colored flowers, said C. 11. Biannot
chief of of the State Department j:
Agriculture entomology division.
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