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The Alleghany Times H. B. Zabriskie .. Editor and Publisher Mrs. Sidney Gambill . Local News EdiUn published Every Thursday at Sparta, North Carolina, and entered at the Sparta, N. C., Post Office as Second Class Matter. Subscription Rate: One Dollar a Year, Strictly in Advance Thursday, December 20, 1934 The Time* Extends Christmas Greetings To All Of Its Readers And Advertisers The TIMES is pleased to extend holiday greetings to all of those with whom it comes in contact and especially to the good people who reside in Alleghany County, where it derives its support and serves its people. Christmas is undoubtedly one of the most de lightful occasions of the year, with opportunities for all to exhibit appreciation for friendliness and affection. Expressed very often by the giving of gifts the Christmas season furnishes us with an excuse to show regard for those we love and admire. For the boys and girls of Alleghany County who expect the coming of Santa Claus to biing them happiness and joy, we have high hopes that their anticipations will be completely realized and that cheer and delight will be with them for many days. For the older folks, including the parents of the aforesaid boys and girls, may we not hope that Christmas will present an occasion for joy that comes from making others happy. Surely, on this day of the year, every grown-up will want to brighten the life of some child, or carry bundled happiness into the home of some unfortunate, with the result that there will come back upon the giver more joy and contentment than can be expected. As a community, we hope that Christmas, 1934, will find the whole of Alleghany County filled with the Christmas spirit, exemplified in the words and deeds of its citizens and that, for the day, we shall set aside all worldly considera tions in order to take part in the glad celebration. Ten Thousand People Try To Crowd Into A Hall That Holds But Three Thousand—And For What? Ten thousand people tried to crowd into a hall that holds only three thousand, the other night in New York, to see—what? A marvel of science, a freak of nature, a great musician or a famous ex plorer? Nothing like that drew that great throng to Carnegie Hall. Nothing but a country doctor! The greatest medical specialists of America, the heads of the great hospitals and medical schools, and thousands of ordinary folk turned out to see a simple, unpretentious, untravelled rural practitioner from Canada. It was such a tribute as few country doctors ever get, but which most of them, we think, d6SC!TVG. Dr. Dafoe sprang to unexpected fame because of the Dionne quintuplets. To his skill and devotion the whole medical world attributes the survival of those five little French-Canadian sisters, the only set of quintuplets that is known to have lived more than a few hours after birth. Now six months old, although we might say four months, as they were born prematurely, they are reported to be as strong and as healthy as any normal infants of that age, due to Dr. Dafoe’s intelligent care. Not every country doctor has a chance to prove his skill by bringing up quintuplets, but the country towns and villages of America and Canada contain thousands of medical men who are just as devoted, just as self-sacrificing, just as able, on the average, as Dr. Dafoe. We are glad to see this homage paid to him, since he has shown no signs of swelling of the head, because to us it seems a deserved tribute to the country general practitioner, who too seldom gets public credit for what he does for his com munity. , ...... We venture that, deep down in their hearts, the great specialists who went to that meeting in Carnegie Hall envied this country doctor. If he is like most country doctors he occupies a place in the life and the hearts of his community that no city practitioner, however skillful, can hope to attain. They make more money, but they lose the more im portant and valuable considerations of life. The good country doctor occupies a position of security and contentment which the greatest may envy. He deserves and generally has the respect and the love of his people to a degree that few men in any othei calling ever command. It makes little difference to him whether his patients can pay their bills prompt ly or not; no difference insofar as his duty to them in time of illness or accident goes. They come to him with their troubles and their secrets, and often it is his wise advice and counsel, far inore than his medicines, that helps to keep them going. We do not believe that any scheme of socializ ed” medicine will ever become so useful as the “humanized” influence of the individualistic country doctor. One of the troubles with our economic order is that corporations have all the rights of individuals without any of the responsibilities of human con science. and which con tains Four Great Treasures VvVUua ® HAUI ON A MISUNDERSTOOD BOOK There remains the last book in the Bible, the book of Revela tion. It is a much abused book. The first thing necessary is to forget most that you have heard about it. It. is not a program of coming events. It has in it noth ing about the next presidential election in the United States. Its chief character is Nero. Indeed, the book is so simple it is hard to make readers believe its true explanation. ■ Remember, first, that in the interval between the Old and the New Testaments apocalyptic literature became enormously popular. There was a flood of books with dragons and gro tesque animals representing people or nations or events. The Jewish imagination reveled in this style, which is illustrated in a part of Daniel, a very late book of the Maccabaean period, and much more dramatically in Revela tion. At one time it seemed that all other literature in the Christian church might be drowned out by the flood of this florid material. Just after Paul and Peter were killed, John, the apostle, was banished to the island of Patmos. He was not yet the aged apostle of love; he was a hot-headed “son of thunder” and he wanted to write letters of encouragement to the churches in Asia Minor. The letters are in the opening chapters of Revela tion. But John wanted to say something else and to say it in a way that would not get the people who had the letter in their possession into trouble. So he adopted the popular cryptic form which makes up the balance of the book. It should be studied through an opera-glass and not a microscope. There is no use asking what is the meaning of every hair on the tail of each fantastic beast. But the three ideas are plain as a pike staff. Those ideas are; First: Do not be afraid of the persecutions that originate in Jerusalem. That city will soon be in trouble with Rome and not able to persecute Christians. Second: Do not be afraid of the emperor of the mighty city on the seven hills that now is ruling the world; that city has trouble of its own coming, and it is not far off. Third; Hold to your faith, for it will survive. Jesus Christ is greater than Nero, and His re ligion will last longer than the Roman government. How amazingly his great dream came true! The Roman Empire fell, and the one power that could avail to save it, not from the pagans but to the future through the pagans, was not the political or judicial power of Rome of the culture of Athens. That which s,aved civilization when Jerusalem was destroyed and Rome sacked by the vandals was nothing more or less than the Church of Chi'ist. SHARE HAPPINESS DURING CHRISTMAS SEASON Dear Girls It is hard for those of us who are comfortably situated to realize the desperation and suffering of others who are not only hungry but cold and sick. It makes one ill to hear some fat, sleek indi vidual who probably eats meat twice a day, declare prompously that he doesn’t approve of giving to the poor, that most of this starvation talk is imaginary, etc., etc. Well, it may be imaginary to him, but to those who are without food and fuel during these bitter cold days of December, I dare say, the situation is very real, indeed. Children with red, numb fingers in bare rooms without the nourishment to create bodily heat are anything but theories to des titute mothers and fathers. And, to get away from talk of necessities, what is more pathetic than a child whom Santa Claus has forgotten, at Christmas time? There are very few of us who could bear to see the disappoint ment of such a child if he were close enough fpr us. to see him, but hearing about such cases doesn’t impress us as coming in contact with them would do. We feel happier to put them out of our minds. The world has a peculiar way of leveling and building up a so cial strata, however, and I often think of a remark made to me by a dear old woman who lived in the country. She used to say, “Dear me, the bottom rail certain ly has gotten to the top,’1 and she might have added that the top had fallen to ,the bottom. So, before we put these unfor tunate people out of our minds, let us take thought of tomorrow, and ponder the fact that “top rails” may be “bottom rails” at some future time, through force of circumstance. There are people in bread lines today who never knew before what a bread line was. But supposing we are always fortunate and never are irr need of help? Nevertheless, we, in common with the rest of the world, are in search of happiness. The surest way to find it is by making others happy. It is deJ lightful to be remembered by others, but is any feeling com parable to the inner glow one has in giving joy to others, to know that by one’s own generosity a whole family or a pathetic child is happy, even for a day? As we plan for our own dear families, particularly our little ones, at this joyous season, let us not forget those other little ones who have no one to plan for them. Yours, LOUISA The Family Doctor by John Joseph Gaines, M. D. A PRIVATE TALK A notorious advertiser makes the rather broad assertion that, “probably nine-tenths of our people have rectal troubles and don’t know it.” This is a warn ing note, of course. The' 'nine tenths would be wise to rush in for immediate examination and treatment! Well, be it far from me to be opposing good advice. . ., but, my Irish strain, ever present, bobs up with “Oi don’t moind _ the troubles that Oi don’t lcnow Oi’ve got,” let’s parley together before we rush into any measures tinctured with commercialism. My object in this little talk, is to arouse reflection. You may, possibly, have a slight rectal irritation, due to errors in. diet, you may be eating too many spices, peppers, bran, or other substances, such as berries with many small seeds—all of. which contribute to rectal irritation. Be sure and consult your family doctor about your colon, with especial reference to your diet*' before rushing to the rectal manin pulator; the troubles “that don’t trouble you” are not very far advanced, as a rule. It is true that rectal conditions 1BUNG \0UNO NEW YORK •M4M6UKBMV Decidedly regal in a full length genyine ■ mink coat, she walked down Fifth Avenue holding the leash of a straining little Boston Bull, important as a race horse in his little red sweater. Many a head turned as she passed, for on each side of the royal red sweater were signs that read, “For sale.” ♦ * * Among the attention getters used by a street' vendor in New York is just another that doesn't make sense. He holds a paper ablaze under the necktie and with appropriate hokum an nounces that it’s fireproof. The watchers gather 'round. But, I ask, who wants to buy a necktie that’s fireproof, anyway? * * * Sentry-go and New York sand wich man with his billboard front and back, we never con nected until we saw one emaciated human billboard standing in the middle of the sidewalk, his head nodding, eyes .closed. He was, in spite of the traffic’s din, fast asleep! * * * Riders of the Subway Rage expect to get off the train be fore letting people on, ordinarily. But pity the New Yorker who | hesitates. Like football, you see an opening, and run for it. But look out for little men such as I saw coming out of the subway the other day. Three people were in the line of fire, waiting to get in. And out shot the little man, shoulders squared for the impact. He carommed from one to the next and the next in his reformer’s zeal to teach them where and how not to stand. . . I thanked him inwardly for do ing something I’ve -wanted to do myself, not once but a hundred times. * * * New York gazed recently at the Union Pacific’s new record breaking streamline train. Air-commuting service from Long Island to Manhattan was instituted this summer. . . An autogiro landed on a narrow Hudson River pier. . . A new and faster plane service, New York to Miami in eight hours, has just commenced. . . New York is destined to see a new train of the New Haven line soon, with ,a skin as smooth as a dirigible and not a single protrusion—not even exhaust pipes. . . New York is looking for speed. * * * Mechanical gadgets always at tract onlookers in New York. I never cease to marvel at auto matic elevators. Push the button for the 31st floor. The door closes. Up goes the car. The door opens and there you are. i Another little wonder is a radio [the maker calls the magic brain. I It virtually thinks for you. I’d like to have it think up some better programs. * * * There’s a New York firm nam ed the Surprise Cleaning and Dyeing Company. Of course, you can taka it the way they mean it, if you like. * * * New York is famous for specialties. Add the company that does nothing but clean gloves! are often neglected. But, most of them are easily corrected, if your family doctor will do his duty. Over thirty-five years acquaintance with rectal ailments leads me to write as I do. The “injection treatment” of siihple- hemorrhoids is almost ideal in simplicity and effectiveness. It is not “new” in point of years; I learned the method over forty years ago, under a now revered teacher, who still lives in New York. But the injection treat ment has undergone much im provement, with time; we never cause any sloughs any more, or destroy any tissues as formerly; arid, the treatment need not take This talk is off-hand; please accept it as such, from a friend. 1 the patient. from his work. AMAZE A MINUTE SCIENTIFACTS BY ARNOLD 'The blood's cells There are more red CELLS IN ONE DROP OF BLOOD] THAN THERE ARE PEOPLE IN, the British Isles. X All the planets together have a mass equal to but 1/7 OF 1% OF THE SUN. , Soaring / hydrogen — , Hydrogen is 144 times lighter TMA.N AIR. by Thy Bnl iyndtcaic. Uc ) Through State Capital Keyholes (continued from front page) living bounding upward the chances are that a somewhat fatter pay check will greet all the State hired help during the coming biennium although the increase may not be enough to buy a house and lot or even a Rolls-Royce. HOT SPOT—Watch for a double-barrelled attack on the electric ' chair during the next Legislature. A bill to abolish capital punishment in North Carolina would not occasion any great surprise at the capital and Dr. Charles Augustus Peterson, Republican, who will represent Mitchell county in the House of Representatives is all set to toss a measure into the hopper that fact that the Congressman, also a close personal friend of Mr. Bowie’s, is planning to do that little thing. What Mr. Bowie does will depend largely upon what Mr. Doughton decides to do, in the opinion of mutual friends of both these political big-wigs. WANT THli'MUlNfcl — limes being what they are everybody and his brother working for the State of North Carolina is going to ask for increased appropria tions from the next General Assembly. And by the same token they stand a much better chance of getting at least part of what they want than they did two years ago. The members of the General Assembly and the State Treasury are all in much better condition and with the cost of would substitute lethal gas for the electric chair. The Doctor has made a study of the gas He Sued for a Million "Look here,” the poet gasped to the editor. "I wrote a-poem to my litle boy and began the first verse with these words, "My son, mv pigmy counterpart.’ ” “Yes?” “Red!” he exploded. “See what your compositor did to my opening line.” The editor read, ‘My son, my pig, my counterpart.’ —Christian Science Monitor. Put Him In Hit Place! ‘.‘Thomas, what is the matter witii your brother?” asked the mother of the boys. “He’s crying,” replied Thomas, “because I’m eating my cake and won’t give him any.” “Is his own cake finished?” asked the mother. "Yes, and he cried while I was eating that, too.”—Nashville Ban ner. executions now used in a fev States and has all the dope read; with which to back his proposal CRIMINAL LAW — Recen executions have been followed b; vociferous discontent with Stat statutes which permit a persoi who beyond all doubt hire another to do a murder to eseap the death sentence while th man who committed the dee< often pays with his life. Anothe law sent four men to the deat chair for the murder of one il the Taylorsville bank robber case. Still another case recentl sent three negroes to the chai for killing Howard Jernigan Sampson county white man. It i not at all unlikely that effort will be made to revise these law to make all parties in a hire* killing equally guilty while paradoxical effort m,ay be mad to confine the death punishmen to the party committing murdei Prospects for revision of thes laws are not bright although an move in that direction will be o interest to every citizen. JOBS—Lieutenant Governor A H. (Sandy) Graham and Secre tary of State Stacey W. Wad< have long been beseiged witl applicatants for jobs during thi Legislature. Over on the Hous< side of the Capitol the Speake: will have jobs to dish out bu since there is a three-cornere< battle between Representative Robert Grady Johnson, of Pender Laurie McEachern, of Hoke, an< Willie Lee Lumpkin, of Franklin the applicants can’t tell jus which way to turn at this time But when one of them is elected—woe be unto him. Le Roy Martin and Thad Eure, un opposed for Chief Clerks of th« Senate and House respectively are also hearing from the job hunters. Somebody is due to re ceive a big disappointment since in these days of economy legislative jobs no longer grow or trees. SURPRISE—Persons engaged here in collecting advance in formation on views of members of the next Legislature express surprise at sentiment recorded in favor of a change in the State’s prohibition laws. They will tell you that more than the expected number of solOns would legalize liquor sales under strict supervision and taxation. Old political heads around the capitol shake their grey locks, however, and opine that this is not the time to attempt revision of the dry laws. From all indications this situation is likely to result in a clash of considerable pro portions but the odds still appear to be with Drys. “KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES” Tessie Seems To Be The Loser_-By POP MOMANP
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