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GEORGE W. DOUGHERTY . . . Mech. Supt.
G. H. Greenwood and G. W. Dougherty — Co-Owners
Entered as Second Class Matter September 13, 1945, at
the Post Office at Black Mountain, North Carolina, under
the Act of March 3, 1879. _
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“...MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE...”
Matters of the spirit should carry greater weight
with us in our everyday lives. “ . . .Man shall not
live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth
out of the mouth of God.” — Matthew 4:4.
In times of stress man ever has turned to spiritual
standards for guidance- In such times the material
strengths he may have developed always seem in
adequate to disentangle him from the entrapment of
the moment.
Why is this? It is, we believe, because spiritual
values are synonymous with attributes of the soul.
And the soul is the source of spiritual power, handed
down by our Father in Heaven to be the great main
spring of civilization- Our souls also were given to
us to mold a world based upon the supremacy of the
spirit over the impermanent values of material things.
It is paradoxical that victory by spiritual measure
ment is sustaining and comforting, though it be fail
ure by material standards.
So it thus comes about that we should see the great
advantage to wholesome living in nurturing and in
tensifying our capacity to employ our spiritual
powers.
We can strengthen them by employing them more
often, just as a muscle is strengthened by regular
and intelligent use.
We can strengthen them by education just as we
strengthen our intellectual capacity by attention to
regulated study, training and observation.
More regular and frequent employment of our
spiritual powers and application of them to problems
of daily living are obviously a matter of ordering
oneself to do so.
As to spiritual education, Spiritual Emphasis Week
is the immediate medium for this purpose. Daily for
a week we can listen to masters of spiritual inter
pretation and exposition in an atmosphere in which
spiritual values are reverently paramount. Spiritual
education may thus be absorbed in concentrated form.
We should be able to sharpen our spiritual side very
substantially and enrich our faith in its potencv for
wholesome living.
The ministers are worthy of the deep appreciation
of the community. They are offering us all this week
long an opportunity to concentrate on the values of
the spirit and to experience for many of us a re
surgence of spiritual strength.
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Strained Relation — Gov. Kerr
Scott is regarded as being genu
inely miffed at his wife’s cousin,
Everett Jordan of Saxapahaw.
Jordan, chairman of the State
Democratic executive committee,
won’t stay in harness. Scott’s
trace chains have been wearing
against his political ankles since
1950 when the governor wanted
him to go along on Frank Gra
ham for the U. S. Senate.
Now Jordan is said to be for
William Umstead. Scott is all-out
for Hubert Olive; and has report
edly told friends that he is going
to see to it that Olive is elected
governor.
So, that row last week between
Jordan and Elections Board Chair
man Charles Britt of Asheville
was nothing new. Consensus here
was that Britt, showing a strong
friendship for the man who ap
pointed him, went over the heads
of about 30 county election boards
and refused to follow their re
commendations.
Jordan feels sure Scott had a
hand in it. Things like that don’t
just happen. And it isn’t the first
time that Brother Britt has added
fuel to the fires which already
burn brightly in the ranks of the
Democratic Party in North Caro
lina.
Feeling here is that Kerr Scott
is already running for the U. S.
Senate two years hence and that
the recent Britt occurrence is mere
ly part of the developing picture.
More Agile — Friends of Will
iam Umstead voiced fears last
week that many of his supporters
out in the counties—and here in
Raleigh, for that matter—are too
smug and complacent.
It is recognized here that
Olive’s strength is building up
fast among people who have not
been participating a great deal
in politics.
He wouldn’t allow himself to
be quoted, but an Umstead cam
paigner, in Raleigh last week to
pick up campaign literature, said
that Olive’s followers seem to be
more agile “and are getting
around more and doing more talk
ing than our folks are.”
“We have with us a lot of the
people who were with Mr. Scott
four years ago, but they aren t
working like they did in 194k,
said this Umstead supporter in re
porting that “Olive may carry our
county—mainly because our people
think that we can win without
working.”
Umstead himself—and his two
chief assistants, Carlisle Higgins
and young J. M. Broughton ad
mit that their greatest enemy is
Over Confidence.
Methodist — From throughout
the state we have received cor
rections on the error we fell into
with regard to the church with
which Senator Willis Smith is af
filiated.
We said he is an Episcopalian.
He is not. He is a Methodist.
Senator Smith says he went to
a lot of trouble during his cam
paign to keep the folks straight
ened out and informed as to his
church affiliation. They had al
most got it straight when we
flubbed-the-dub.
We knew that Smith was a
Methodist, but somehow got it in
to our mind that he had joined
the Episcopal church. Upon check
ing our notes we find it was two
other fellows: Jonathan Daniels,
editor of the News and Observer,
and Willie Richardson of the State
Board of Health.
Head Of Hair — Women don’t
look at candidates for office the
same way men do. For instance,
they say Tom Dewey’s mustache
beat hirp. In the fall of 1948, when
President Truman spoke on Cap
itol Square here, a woman in the
audience stood looking at him in
tently. She seemed to be listening
to every word he was saying—“in
rapt attention", as they say, or
hanging on to his every word.
Suddenly she turned to the lady
standing next to her and whisp
ered: “Doesn’t he have nice
teeth?”
We note that Abie Upchurch,
Olive’s publicity man, has put his
candidate’s likeness on his cam
paign letterheads. He also has in
the lobby of the Sir Walter a
painting of him just exactly as
big as a barn door—a dairy barn
door, that is.
A lady stood in the lobby last
week and remarked a propos of
nothing, “Doesn’t Mr. Olive have
a nice head of hair?” This sweet
little statement seemed to irritate
her husband no end.
But it set us to thinking. Bill
Umstead is a long way from be
ing bald-headed. Kerr Scott has a
regular John L. Lewis mane, Gov
ernor Cherry had plenty of hair;
and Gov. Broughton was also
wonderfully blessed in this regard.
Then there was the master, Gov.
Clyde R. Hoey. J. C. B. Ehringhaus
had it in waves, O. Max Gardner
had plenty. Although no roacher,
Gov. A. W. McLean had hair
enough when he became governor.
This applies also to Cameron
Morrison. This carries us back
30 years.
In fact, we just don t seem to
have bald-headed governors in
North Carolina. So, dear reader, if
you are losing your hair you
might aspire to be congressman
(Ed. Note: C. B. Deane and Robt,.
L. Doughton) but better forget
any gubernatorial ambitions. Un
less you are the type which likes
to fly squarely into the face of
precedent.
Mountains To Coast — North
Carolina’s mountains and sea
shore, rugged gorges and lazy
swamplands, are pictured in Sat
urday Evening Post and Life
magazines.
The mountain feature, concerned
with the work of Veteran High
way Engineer Getty Browning, is
carried in the Post, while the Life
treatment consists of five pages
of Wilmington azaleas in natural
colors. Combined circulation of
the two publications is around 12
million.
Breakdowm ? — Reports we have
received since state employees
were placed on a five-day week
is that the system has worked
well, with some minor exceptions.
Now, some of the school per
sonnel out over the state are com
plaining that it is extremely diffi
cult to get their problems settled
by letter or telephone. They say
conferences and conversation are
needed—Saturday conferences —
with officials of the State Depart
ment of Education. School people
want the offices kept open on
Saturday from September through
May.
Of course, school teachers are
the original Saturday-off people.
Mother And Daughter
Visit In Eastern N C.
Mrs. Thomas Sharp and Mrs.
Anne S. Harrison have returned
from the eastern part of the state.
Mrs. Harrison was a delegate
from the Ruth Davidson Chapter
D.A.R., Asheville, to the state con
vention in Greensboro.
At New Hern they visited the
plantation across the Neuse river
of their great-great-great-grand
father and the home of their aunts
of the Custis family. While there
Mrs. Charles Hollister and daugh
ters invited 50 tea guests, des
cendents from old families, foun
ders of New Bern and people Mrs.
Sharp’s family knew in the 1700’s,
to meet them. The Hollister home
is one of the historic show places
of New Bern as is that of Mrs.
Our understanding, however, is
that they have a good case.
The 40-hour week is nice, but
it doesn’t always work out in
practical application. Nevertheless,
it is to be hoped that the school
brethren and sisters can work out
their troubles without resorting
to the beginning of a breakdown
of the five-day work week begun
only two years ago.
To Russell — Decision of Pres
ident Truman not to permit him
self to be a candidate for re
election will throw North Caro
lina’s Democrats solidly in the lap
of Senator Richard Russell. Even
before Truman made his announce
ment last Saturday night, a ma
jority of the Democrats was in
Russell’s camp. Since 1945 it has
been HST—or preferably HT—and
before that, FDR. Now if Robert
A. Taft were to become the next
president, wonder if the news
papermen would continue to deal
in initials.
Hugh Swan, who entertain , .
them at a luncheon. ei M
Miss Ethel Hughes had a , I
>r them, inviting onK- a !dl
for them, inviting only a te*
ble for membership in'the v
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Mrs. Sharp then organs
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At Salisbury they w.„
guests Saturday and" Sima "e
Mrs. Frank Wilson and M
Church, formerly of Montr^
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