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The Alleghany Tithes n 7.hrUlcie . Editor and Publisher .Editor slished Every Thursday at Sparta, Nor* Carolina, I entered at the Sparta, N. C, Poet Office as ond Class Matter. Subscription Rate: N One Dollar a Year, Strictly in Advance Thursday, July 25, 1935. • . - “W# Miss You Daddy, When Are You Coming Home? The following editorial was printed m the Rockville, Connecticut, Journal, about a year ago. Thereafter, to the editor’s surprise, it was reprint ed by most of the other papers of the state, and was used by highway safety officials, insurance companies, accident prevention organizations,^mo torists’ publications and by others who are fighting the great war against the toll of automobile deat s. Here it is—and any motorist will surely think twice about taking chances after reading it: “Tuesday morning there was a fatal accident on the Minterburn Hill and *hen the medical examiner was going through the pockets of the dead man ... a telegram was found. It was not very long, just the ordinary ten-word length, but it was a message that would make any father happy. It ?eaT: WE MISS YOU DADDY. WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME? “That was all. It was a message sent by one of the children of the man who was killed He had received the message and was homeward bou^d. The clothes were minus money but in his pocket he carried that message. “Those who have little children, and those who were once little children, can think of the great blow to the child when the father did return home— DEAD. “ ‘Daddy’ will be missed by those children in the very long years ahead. No longer will they have his support, his earnings, and, more important, his companionship. “If ever there was a: reason for people driving more carefully on the road, it is that they might get in an accident and deprive their own child or some other child of their ‘Daddy’. “More might be written, but just let us repeat those words: ‘We miss you, Daddy. When are you coming home?’ ” I Just A Little Comparison Of IRuuian And American “Freedom” Twenty-eight years ago a Russian by the name of William Feldman came to this country and set tled at Charleston, S. C. A few months ago he made --a "return trip to his native land. Upon his return he discussed with a reporter of the Charleston News and Courier some of his impressions. “Wherever I went, people told me they were just like in America; they were free,” Mr. Feld man said. “I told them that over here, I could take a box and put it on a street corner and get up and shout that I didn’t like the president or the mayor or the governor, and that if I did that over . there I would be dead in the morning. I told them that if I said anything good about the people who had been put out of office I would be dead in the morning, too. “They said this to me: ‘That’s right, but you see there is nothing to say against the people in office and there is nothing good to say about people out of office. So why should we want to get up, on a box and say those things that were not true?’ ” That is typical of suppressed peoples dominat ed by dictatorships, which keep them in ignorance of comparisons which might be odious. 1,000 Species Of Insects More Being Discovered Every Year The wonderful progress made in the line of preventive medicine in the last few decades points the way to those of us in many other lines of human endeavor. Most of us like to read about the great discoveries of scientists who save millions of dollars annually for others by discovering some way to prevent something from happening. Farm boys and girls who read this will be aterested to learn that there are estimated to be )0,000 species of insects, and - more are being discovered every year. Many of them, like the boll weevil, the com borer, the coddling moth, the potato beetle, the clothes moth and others, levy inormoua toll upon the profits of superior man, rho, it seems, is unable, with all his intelligence, to ombat their ravages. There is hardly a home in this country but lere some of these insects have levied a tax on the -money. Besides, there are the mice and the which are to be found nearly everywhere, and activities cost us huge sums each year. Any school child in this section has plenty of mity to study the habits of these pests and, jr, to f\nd out some way to destroy them, rendering great service to the human race a discovery the enhancement of the family rould be immense. is Too many automobiles with only one headlight operated on the highways at night. Count i some night when you take a drive. * * * # More and more auto operators are deflecting teir headlights when passing other cars at night, an appreciated courtesy and helps to make driving safer. But if you want the other r to do it you'll probably have to deflect your first. Try deflecting yours and see how others will respond. The girl who a house a job. _>ui, Knowing how be wed to a man who ^gKUGC*«AKTUN An Important Translation On March 24, 1844, a German scholar, Lobegott Friedrich Kon stantin Tichendorf, arrived at St. Catherine’s monastery on the Sin aitio peninsula. His name, Lobe gott, meaning, “Praise God.’’ On this particular trip he had been through the libraries of Alexan dria and Cairo, as well as the con. vents of the Greek and Armenian churches, without success. His visit to St. Catherine’s monastery was In the nature of a last hope. Lobegott was given free access to the library, but he did not at first discover anything of value. In the evening however, a strange thing occurred. There was sent up to his room as kindling for the fire a basket containing some leaves of an old manuscript, which he examined. To his amaze ment he found a number of bits of the Old Testament in Greek. With great difficulty Lobegott secured permission to take back to Leipsic forty-seven leaves. They proved to be part of one of the oldest Greek manuscripts of the Old Testament in exist ence. Immediately, the eager scholar set to work through an influential friend to secure the rest of the volume, but the monks had learned its value and would not give it up. In 1853, he went back to the convent and was wel comed, but could not find a trace of the lost parchment. But in 1859, he returned for a third time, having now the authority of the Caar of Russia. Many valu able manuscripts were placed in his hands, some of which he had not seen on either of his previous visits, but the chief treasure had disappeared. On his last evening he walked with the steward of the convent in the garden and the steward said casually, "I too, have a copy of the Septuagint,” and took down and untied a par cel. Imagine the almost delirous joy Df Lobegott when he saw not only the Old Testament pages he had glimpsed in 1844, but the New Testament complete! It was one of the most thrilling moments in the history of patient, scientific research. It gave us one of the oldest, finest and most accurate of all Biblical manuscripts, yntil the revolution in Russia this so called Sinaitic had been in the library of Petrograd for a half century, the chief literary treas ure of the Greek Church There are only a few of these extremely old manuscripts, and the three most precious of them are this Sinaitic, the Vatican at Rome, and the Alexandrine, pre sented to Charles I of England in 1628 and placed in the British Museum upon its establishment in 1753. It is interesting that of the three finest Bible records one is in the possession of Pro testants, one of Roman Catholics, and one of the Greek Church. Each sect is most generous in permitting their use by scholars. The Family Doctor By John Joseph Gaines, M. D. MANAGEMENT OF FEVERS Probably four-fifths of our hu man ailments exhibit at one time or another a rising temperature above the-normal. It is called 5BUNG 'RPUND NEWYOQK <m^4«U6H KEMMV The commencement of Hobo College may have only five gradu ates instead of six this year, be cause Bozo Clarke might not get out of Bellevue in time to take his diploma. That’s the state ment of Prexy Dalton, who out lined his commencement address as he carefully folded mortar boards out of newspapers. A five day week, a four hour day, and six months vacation for every man will be called for by Dal ton, who will preside over the thirteen day convention of the Hobo Fellowship of America. * * * Supposedly sophisticated Broad way stared wide-eyed recently when about a score of liveried waiters ran a race carrying a tray, a bottle of whisky (genu ine) o<r & champagne bottle (wa ter) and two glasses each. The question of “on the palm” or "with the thumb” was never set tled, but the winner took the prize just as though he were in Paris where tray racing is a tradition. • * * Reports have it that New York this year is supporting more young men with no more to recommend them than affable manners and tail coats than for years. The “spongers” pride themselves on “getting around” to the gay haunts of the night with somebody else always footing the bills. And, like hoboes, they tell each other of hosts who are easy marks. Down in New York’s lower east side, many tenement dwellers have more love for goat’s milk than they have for the law which makes keeping live animals with out a permit an offense. One of ficer (reports having discovered a goat quartered in the family bath tub! * * * 1 wo thousand five hundred and seventy six! That’s the number of officially reported accidents from fireworks in New York on the “safe and sane” Fourth. The city boomed and sizzled with bootleg ged fireworks all day, In spite of the efforts of police to prevent it. * * * On thet sidewalk eight feet from the gutter and the exhausts of hundreds of taxicabs are tables in a “sidewalk cafe” on 42nd Street in Times Square. Strange ly enough, it seems to be well pationized. '-'"ii fiit Tltfrli'iiftr' n ‘ - i '-'i “fever.” “The elevation may vary from a barely detectable in crease to a raging flame that menaces life itself. There are certain principles here that most of us should know. To attempt to demolish every fever the moment we encounter it must never be attempted. We have remedies for reducing tem perature, but they must be used with the utmost care and watch fulness. The fever may he kept within safe limits, but just that, while the CAUSE of the disturb ance is being eradicated. Take the case of measles, scar let fever, small-pox, or any other self-limited disease. To rush the temperature to normal at my first visit would be utterly stupid and maybe cost a life! These erup tive diseases must have fever, if they are to pursue a safe course to recovery. They are “self-limit ed” diseases that run a definite course. They must be managed and nursed to recovery. The protracted fevers, pneu monia, typhoid, and the like, have a temperature which is an index to the amount of infection. To attempt to maintain anything like a normal temperature from drugs may bring about a weakened heart-muscle from which the vic tim cannot rally. To keep the temperature within SAFE limits is the art of the good physician and nurse. Too many drugs lower tem perature at the expense of the heart. How careful we must be! To lay low on the acetanelide or the conite the heart must be saved at all haoards. Bathing re duces temperature without harm to the vital organs in the protract ed struggle. A good “fever-doc tor” is worth his weight in gold. Mm. Webster Patsy was still a vary little girl, but quite interested in new words. After hearing a conver sation between two elders, she said, “Mother, what is tempera ment?” Mother (absently): “Oh, just a temper with a ruffle on it.” New Features Billers: “This typewriter will revolutionize the industry.” Sellers: “How?” Billers: “Look at the adjust able mirror, powder compartment, manicure set built in, and a hide iway for chewing gum.”—Mon real Star. Hew To Carve A loin of mutton was on th$ The Woman** Angle If you are coaching young chil. dren in reading, this summer, give them the primary requisite—con fidence—by making up short sen tences of words of one syllable for sight reading. Then very gradually lengthen the sentences. And later still, add a- word of two syllables to a short sentence. And if the child stumbles badly, go back to words of one syllable, and add a word of praise for any valiant attempt though the results may be mediocre. Confidence is the prime requisite. * * * Private beaches don’t even raise an eyebrow at the one-piece bath ing suits for women this summer, and the halters that leave, the entire back exposed to the sun are the order of the day. Printed jersey, crinkled and ribbed rub ber halters and trunks, and even silk taffeta as well as the heavy, full-fashioned silk suits are be ing shown. * * * Summer shoes in light, cool, open fabrics are included in the mode this year. White and navy checked fabric with white kid yoke and heel; sackcloth with russet calf trim in an English ghillie; oxfords of brown ealfskin with an open cotton mesh in the vamp and side inset. All these are being shown. * * * The abbreviated shorts recently shown for men have been in sudh demand for women that one manufacturer, at least, has produc ed a special design in this brief underwear, shorter than any pan ties you’ve ever geen, and made of a porous, cool, woven yarn. * * * An aluminum ball, generously perforated, is a new gadget that works beautifully for cooking rice. It hinges at its diameter. Fill it partly with rice. Drop it into boiling water. When done, hang it up by its chain fo dry. You’ll find the rice fluffy, separate kernels and free, from starchy coating. ♦ * * A biochemist has announced that spinach tends to curb irri tability. * * * Advancing meat prices have doubled the sales of fish in one small community we know quite well. And, we might add, to the great benefit of the teeth of both adults and children, who need a good supply of phosphorus and calcium—which are the good as sets of fish in the diet. Nuts and Kernels Troy Isaiah Jonas “Bandits flee with payroll after holdup.” That is not news. If they had stood around a while that would have been news. “Skunk kept in car by negroes to conceal the odor of liquor; the liquor gave them away.” Such are the modem brands. Some people claim that all they know was knocked into them. I think that the teacher missed more than he hit. There is a new plant discovered that when given to a person he will do exactly as you say. It would be nice if some of it could be given to students.' An honest man carries his sign in his eyes and not on his tongue. When a person tells you he will swear on a stack of Bibles, you just as well get them a jnail order catalogue and make it easy for them. Huey Long is not much of a Democrat. But he can sure re present the emblem! A young person has memory of laps and an old person lapse of memory. A goose can hear farther than any other animal. So can a gander. But the old goose makes most of the fuss about it As meek as we all have become in the depression we seem slow in inheriting the earth. table, and the gentleman opposite took the carver in hand. “Shall I cut it saddlewise?” quoth he “You had better cut it bridle wise," said his friend. “For then we shall stand a chance of get ting a bit in our mouths.” Shrewd The shoe dealer was hiring a clerk. “Suppose,” he said, “a lady customer were to remark while you were trying to fit her7 ‘Don’t you think one of my feet is bigger than the other!’ What would you say?” “I should aay, ‘On the contrary, >//\A/0RLD “/GROCERIES l*' ”▼ ALICE LOUISE KEOGH ' : RUTTER IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST rooos' An IT WAS MAOE.Bf HMD\ in bAb/iot™ about 4000 PICTURED HERE ARE OUR. TWO GREATEST Efifi PRODUCING ■ rWIrMWillw /^STATES. IMPORTATIONS of major FOOD PRODUCTS INTO TUB UNITED-STATES LAST pMffk*J9\MN0 160 MILLION DOZHN! Sunday School Lesson by Henry Radcliffe THE PR0PHET OF JUSTICE International Sunday School Lot son for July 28, 1935. Golden Text: “Let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.”—Amos 5r24. (Lesson Text: Amos 7:7-17.) We suggest that every reader of this column turn to the Book of Amos and read it oarefully. It is very short and there are so many utterances of this ancient prophet which apply with full ef fectiveness to the political, social snd religious life of today. Spoken in regard to customs and prac tices of another day, these cour ageous denunciations of- iniquity and injustice can be very readily applied to our own twentieth cen tury life. One of the four grand divisions of the Bible is that of the pro phetical writings, consisting of the four major and twelve minor prophets. This classification ap plies to the length rather than the importance of the message contained in the books. Amos is the most ancient <of these pro phetic writings. It emphasizes four points, namely, first, the evil life of Israel at the time; second, the righteousness and indignation of Jehovah; third, the certainty of judgment and punishment without repentance; and fourth, that As syria would be the agency of this chastisement. Amos has been very properly teimed an “inspired farmer.” He was a herdsmen, in charge of sheep, and a dresser of sycamore trees, which produced an inferior fig. He was a product of simple living and honest thinking, and he became a champion of these two desirable characteristics. While his written message which has been left to us is- very brief, Amos ranks as one of the four great prophets of the Hebrew peo. pie. Ames was under no doubt of his divine mission. As he- said "Jehovah took me,” and he wil lingly abandoned his life and fol lowed the impulses of tha divine Uw which likewise has driven other men to accomplish great tasks. As Jesus said on one oc casion, if his disciples did not tes tify, “the very stones would cry out.” So, Paul realized his com pulsion. “Woe is unto me if I preach not.” Subsequently, Luth er proclaimed his conviction {hat, “I can do no other.” Great prophets were all of these men, for the word prophet origi nally, carried the significance of one who proclaimed the truths of God rather than foretold events. Amos was a pioneer reformer, de nouncing the fashionable abuses of his day, but preaching an un popular and unpleasant doctrine to those who were blissfully at peace and content with their un real and unfit lives. Although Amos was a resident of Judah, his mission was to preach to Israel^ for with time had come the division of the king doms. Uaxiah, a very able ruler, governed the lower kingdom, while the second Jeroboam ruled in the North? Both of these reigns were apparently successful, Jero boam having been successful in military campaigns, in the up building of trade and bringing madam, one is smaller than the other'.” “Hie job i« yours.”—Montreal Star. outward prosperity and security to his country. However, there were evils unde>meath and Amos criticized the false ideas of wor ship and the prevalence of social injustices which existed. The people were forgetful of Jehovah’s requirements of right eousness^ they were contented with an outward conformity to the foams and ceremonies of wor ship, and had allowed their reli gious practices to be contaminated by following the immoral and wicked habits of pagans. Socially, it was a day of wealth and splen dor but Amos realized the vice and corruption which lay beneath the surface, he saw the dangers which accompany indulgence and ease, and recognized the funda mental wickedness which allowed the oppression of the poor and needy to go unchecked. ~ While the people had gathered for a great festival"'at the sanc tuary of Bethel, Amos delivered one of his messages of doom, pre dicting the punishment of various nations, including Israel, for trans gressions. Amaziah, the priest, re buked the prophet for speaking blasphemy and sedition, which, by the way, were the same charges made against Jesus centuries la ter. The priest suggested that Amos abandon his mission and take the easier course of con demning Israel in Judah, which Amos repudiated by proclaiming the divine compulsion under which he acted. The Book of Amos is well worth reading today. Some of the expressions have passed into the general literature of the world, for example: “They have sold the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes.” “Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?” “Let justice roll down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.” “Make the ephah small and the shekel great.” Al though twenty-six centuries have passed since the day of. this out spoken preacher of righteousness, human nature hasn't' changed so very much, therefore, the modern world can well apply to itself the message ,of divine revelation which Amos brought to ancient Israel. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF LAND North Carolina, Alleghany County. By virtue of authority ratted in a certain deed of trust execut ed by Alvin C. Edwards, deceased, and wife, Etta Edwards, to the undersigned trustee, dated April 6, 1931, recorded in Book 18, Page 188, Allegheny County Reg istry, securing to The Bank of Sparta, the sum of $410.00, where, in default lies been made and de mand for foreclosure having been made, 1 will on Tuesday, August 6, 1935, at 1 o'clock P. M.. at the Court House door in Sparta, county and state aforesaid, sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described real es tates In Whitehead Township, ad joining the lands of Asa Caudill, E. E. Caudill, T. A. Edwards and others, and specifically described in deed from J. M. Brown and wife, to the grantors, dated Feb ruary 20, 1931, and recorded in Book 39, Page 383, Allegheny County Registry, containing 42 9i acres, excepting from said boun dary about 10 asres, since con veyed to Charley Woo ton and Thi. July 8, 1935. R. A. DOUGHTON, ,tolAT Tr '
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