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The Alleghany Times HL B. Zabriskie . . Editor and Publisher Mrs. Sidney Gambill .. .. Local News Editor 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, October 3, 1935. A Better Plan Should Be Evolved Which Would Eliminate the “Buncombe” From Radio Programs Baseball fans of Sparta and Alleghany county and all of the United States will again have the opportunity of hearing the world series over the air. A combined network will give play-by-play accounts of the annual spectacle and bring home to every listener the wonder of science, combined with industry and credit. The use of the radio in this instance illustrates, we think, the real worth of the networks although the fact that Henry Ford has to pay $100,000 for the right to broadcast the g^mes, in addition to the charges of the broadcasting companies for time used, emphasizes how dependent the public is upon advertisers to obtain the benefits that should come with the radio. We have believed for years that some other method should be found to provide programs for radio stations and chains. A government owned and operated chain of stations, serving the entire nation, might be one solution. A tax on receiving sets, with the money used to operate and maintain stations and programs, might be another. A com bination of these suggestions, with a partial con tinuance of the present system, might be the best. Anyway, the problem of the radio is bound to grow in the future. Certainly, the listening public is somewhat sick of the tiresome pronouncements and absurb “buncombe” that comes through the air as the paid agents of the “sponsors” earn their salaries by boosting whatever might happen to be on sale. That the people of the nation, as a whole, are obtaining maximum results from the relatively miraculous invention of Marconi and others, is not to be believed. The future must evolve some better system for the radio if it is to be what it could and should be in the lives of the people of this country. They Are Brave Men, and Strong, Who Answer This Strange Call Of The Sea By John Edwin Price Stevenson once wrote: “The streets are full of human toys Wound up for three score years; Their springs are hungers, hopes and joys And jealousies and fears.” The above lines came to mind as we read the heart-wrenching account of the seven surviving seamen of the ill-fated “Huiry On.” All were un conscious but one when their water-filled, oarless life-boat bumped ashore. He alone could crawl to a fisherman's cottage for help. The sea has always held a certain fascination for some men. As John Masefield has so well put it: “I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.” They are brave men, and strong, who answer this strange call of the sea. But these seamen of the “Hurry On” whose life boat twice upset had their courage strained to the uttermost. Their hungers of body ancf heart, their hopes and fears of mind and soul must have been stretched out to wildest bounds. But of this we feel sure, the “jealousies” of which Stevenson wrote, the petty human weaknesses of character, were thrust aside by the sturdier characteristics which their harsh plight forced into action. The strength of these men to endure was great indeed. Yet what was there in the life and habits of one which gave him the stamina to be able to crawl for help when the others were exhausted. It would be interesting to know what he had that they did not. Possibly nothing more • than a sturdier set of grandparents. Seven were saved. But what of those who went below the gray waves—and the loved ones left behind ? Of these no doubt Tennyson was thinking when he wrote: “And the stately ships go on To the haven under the hill; But O, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still.” Any person who compliments other poisons will get along in life. People absorb flattery like kittens lick up cream. ■ * * * The civilization of this nation can be gauged by the fact that people spent around a million dollars last week to see Messrs. Baer and Louis p fight it out. * * * When the five dollar bills begin to stick over the edge of the church collect’on plate you may iet it down that America is above normal, again. * * * If Joe Louis can whip a Baer, oughtn’t the Tigers to be able to take the Cubs? * * * Looks like the weather man is more effective than the League of Nations when it comes to holding up Mussolini’s African picnic. * * * Bucky Harris is to manage the Washington again next year. The Senators finished this season, consequently there are only five between them and the 1936 pennant. (on^ftutio •A' Caub Johnson• XI—THE GROWTH OF NATIONALISM For many years, after the rati fication of the Constitution, states men and men of affairs were di vided as to the exact character of the Government set up under it. To one school of thought, of which Thomas Jefferson was the foremost exponent, the Constitu tion was little more than a treaty between sovereign states. In the eyes of the other group, led by Alexander Hamilton, it was the foundation of a Nation. Ulti mately the Hamiltonian point of view was to become generally ac cepted, though only after a long and bitter struggle. Hamilton, as Secretary of the Treasury under President Wash ington. brought about the accept ance by the owners of wealth of his viewpoint of Federal suprem acy. Under his leadership, the new federal Government assumed the debts of the states, thereby taking its stand as something big ger and better than the states. This was followed by other bold and rapid strokes of financial policy, all tending to the same end of national supremacy. He established a tariff on imports, an excise tax and an internal revenue service and, as a crown ing stroke, a national bank. It was Hamilton’s purpose to estab lish a government in which wealth should stand at the helm, guiding and steadying the ship of state. Under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson, whose faith was in the masses .rather than in the classes, the doctrine of states’ rights, as opposed to Federal rights under the Constitution, began to take shape. As early as 1798 the General Assembly of Virginia adopted resolutions protesting against encroachment upon state rights by the Federal Government! and asserting the right of each state to decide for itself the con stitutionality of Federal laws af fecting state interests. In the same year the new state of Ken tucky went further, and implied the right of a .state to withdraw from the Union. Thus were, sown the seeds of the political parties which have struggled against each other for 185 years for control of the Federal Government. And the first important amendment to the Constitution, after the Bill of Rights, was one which recognized the existence of the partisan spirit. The twelfth amendment chang ed the previous method of elect ing the President to the method which is still followed. Under the original system, the candidate receiving the largest number of electoral votes became President and the one receiving the second largest number became Vice President. The effect of that today, if it Were still the Con stitutional rule, would be that Mr. Roosevelt would be Presi dent and Mr. Hoover would be Vice President! With the division of public sentiment into two diametrically opposing camps, such a situation was not to be tolerated, so the Constitution was amended, in 1798, to provide for the elector’s choosing both President and Vice President at the same time, with the further provision that the President and Vice President shall not both be residents of the same state, and that in case no candidate has a majority of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives shall elect one of the three leading candidates, in its discretion. Thus, on the eve of the 19th century, the ne^ nation was not only well launched upon its career but was embarked upon the stormy voyage of partisan poli-, tics. Next Installment,: “Federal Supremacy Established.” ******* 1^*80^ V* by Henry Radcliffe THE SUFFERING SERVANT international Sunday School Lea son for October 6, 1935 Golden Text: “With his stripes we are healed.”—Isaiah 53:5. (Lesson Text: Isaiah 53:1-12) Our lesson today is based on a selection from the Old Testament very often quoted and applied to Jesus himself. It includes the passage the ennuch asked Philip to interpret to him years later upon which occasion Philip used it to explain the Christ. There is, as we mentioned re cently, a difference of opinion between the conservative and radi cal interpretators as bo when this passage the ennuch asked Philip attribute it to Isaiah near the close of his life, about 685 B. C., whereas the latter ascribe it to a prophet who lived a century and a half or two centuries later. If the latter assumption is correct, it was written while the Jews were in exile near Babylon. The allusions bo the servant of Jehovah are often met in the lat ter part of Isaiah. At first, it is used as a reference to the whole nation apparently as by Jeremiah and Ezekiel, but, later, it seems to personify the better portion of Israel, the possible remnant. In some places, it is very difficult to determine whether the reference is bo an actual person or not but in our lesson text, there are stronger reasons than in other places to suppose .that the picture of an individual is intended. This does not necessarily mean a speci fic person, although it might, but in later years, this passage has been resorted to as the likeness of Jesus, who excelled the prop het’s highest ideal and became to subsequent millions an inspiration for the fulfillment thereof. Ancient peoples very often iden tified the power of their gods with the prosperity and success of themselves. Judah had met with great reverses, and yet, notwith standing, we find the prophet still proclaiming the supremacy and omnipotence of Jehovah and acknowledging the supremacy of Jehovah over all nations. This fact so impressed Foakes-Jackson that he considers it strong proof that the true God had revealed himself to his people, saying: “It iswabsolutely unthinkable that a mere tribal god should have been spontaneously raised to the rank of a ruler of ;, the Universe by a nation when it had touched the nadir of its degradation, whose holy city had been destroyed, whose sanctuary had been ruin ed.” The prophet viewed the suffer ings of Judah as penalty for transgressions and explained them as designed .tO.Mpvect and save the chosen people so that they might become agents to redeem the world. Our lesson today is divided into several parts. The last three verses of the Fifty-second chap ter tells of the exaltation of the servant. The first three verses of Chapter Fifty-three describes him as a man of sorrows, who was misunderstood and despised. The next three verses picture the vicarious suffering of the servant, misunderstood by his contempor aries as for his own sin but fin ally recognized as bestring the sin of all. The next three verses relate the continued sorrow and final death of the servant, an innocent martyr at the hands of oppression and false judgment. The final three verses of our les son picture the eventual triumph and glory of the servant and his recognition of the purpose in volved in the process and his own satisfaction with it. For that his rewaird shall be great. To illustrate the application of this passage to Jesus, we quote Rev. Hugh MacMillan on that part of verse two which refers to him “as the root out of a dry ground”: “Antecedently, Judah would have never been singled out as the birthplace of the great Benefactor of mankind. Long years of formality in re ligion, anarchy in government, and corruption and bribery in the administration of law, had exhausted all the good qualities of the people, drained their vir tues dry, and left behind a mis erable sediment of meanness and hypocrisy. They were proverbial for their moroseness and avarice; they were contracted in all their views, and bigoted and fanatical in their maintenance of them. That from such a worldly hypo critical, and exclusive people the Saviour of mankind could spring by the natural laws of gener ation, is simply impossible. And to me it is one of the clearest and most convincing proofs that the scheme of salvation is di vine. . . ” “Practically all scholars agree,” says Rev. Charles C. Albertson, “that Isaiah’s picture of a soli tary Sufferer purchasing redemp tion for many has its only per fect historic counterpart in Jesus Christ. We do not use terms loosely when we say this is his portrait. It is true, he was not the only man in history to be despised and rejected. There have been innumerable men and RPUND N£W YORK New York’s Board of Trans portation has announced that they will receive bids for the first sec tion of the Sixth Avenue subway early next Month. Terms of the contnact call for light charges of dynamite in all blasting so as to avoid injury to the Catskill water tunnel which lies 220 feet be low the surface. The subway will form another link in New York City’s independent system. • * * If you’re a sand hog, tunnel ing beneath rivers at high air pressures, you don’t do what a journalist did under the Hudson in the 39th Street tube. Took a bottle along, a drink down under, and pull the cork back. Getting to the surface, he had 25 pounds per square inch more inside than outside the bottle. Result—an exploding bottle in the hip pocket. * * * In two months New York po lice and the Health Department have harvested 170 tons of the narcotic weed, marijuana, grow ing in 260 plots in three of the city’s boroughs. Smokers of the weed are said to turn into dope fiends, and criminals. Many ar rests are made by the narcotic squad for selling marijuana ciga rettes known as “reefers” and “good butts.” * * * On the roof seventeen stories up, 50 stalks of corn grew in Manhattan this summer—in soil that probably cost about a dol lar a bushel. The yield? Thirty ears. . . The game gardener had a crop of strawberries and a rose garden on bar penthouse terrace. • * * There are thirty thousand square feet of gardens on the terraces of the eleventh floor of Rockefeller Center known as the international gardens. . . Wonder how long it will be before Man hattanites are growing their plants in- water and plant food without the use of soil at all? It’s being done in Europe. * • * Speaking of noises, the sound of riveting hammers on the steel work of the new theater being constructed at 42nd and Broad way, Times Square, is a wel coming sound to real estaters, for long awaiting the signs of a building revival. Hm-m ! Small boy (excitedly): "Teach er. tell us about the end of the world.” * While the teacher paused a mo ment for» the wise answer, an other boy said: "I can tell him. The world is round; and a thing that is rpund ain’t got no end.” Not Evon Money Will Magnate (to hard-up suitor): "Young man, do you know how I made my money?” Young Man; “Yes, but I can’t permit that to stand in the way of Muriel’s happiness.”—Tit-Bits. Better drinking at a bar than in the home. transgressors; but of One and One' alone can it be truly said th#t he bore the sins of many, and that ‘Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all’.” “We fail to appreciate the glory of Christ,” says Rev. Wil liam L. Watkinson, “(1) If we approach him in the carnal mood. His appeal is not to the senses. (2) If we approach him in the intellectual spirit. • His great ness belonged to another and in finitely higher sphere. (2) If we approach him in the secular temper. The Jews were irritated by him and put him to death because he did not attempt to satisfy their desires for political independence, material wealth, and social consequence.' (4) If we approach him in the spirit of religious formality. The Pharisees most completely missed the greatness of Christ.” "This is a true symbol of a Christian experience. Because Jesus Christ has come into life,” says Dr. Lyman Abbott, "and shared with humanity its exper iences of trial, temptation, and suffering; because he has known the handicap qf poverty, the bit terness of misunderstanding by his pupils, desertion by his friends, and execration by his enemies; because he has experi enced the disappointment of a noble ambition, the physical pains of a lingering and torturing death, and the more awful pangs of a looker heart; and because we, his pupils and followers, be Hero that he is still here, an unseen though not unrealised Presence, we wish to stay as long as are may and do what little we can do to bring about some of the reforms he has in mind.” 'jL v The Family Doctor By John Joseph Gaines, M. D. GUNSHOT WOUNDS There are no more nasty and deceptive wonndB of the human being' than gunshot wounds of the liver. The assassin usually hits his victim in a prominent part of the body. The profession al gunman may shoot through the head or the heart, but the crazy amateur killer usually shoots low er down. At least I have notic ed. that in my experience in such unfortunate cases. I once saw a perfect Hercules of a young, man shot by a small pistol just to the right of the stomach. The hall passed through the margin of the liver. The bul let did not go through as it was a cheap variety of gun. Within three days the victim was using his pillow for a football and wanting to get up and dress. People laughed about the trivial wound in one so strong. It had scarcely disabled him. In less than ten days he was dead! It took that period of time for the liver-wound to begin to “slough” in the path of the bullet. Surgery is helpless in these cases. I have never seen a gun-shot wound of the liver get well. All die in about the same number of days. Mayor Cermak of Chicago was reported shot through the liver. Within three or four days he was reported doing fine, no shock, no serious alterations of temperature or respiration. The doctors were watching for pneu monia. Newspaper reports all were favorable. From my experience 1 could not see a dark outlook. I told my friends Mayor Cermak would not live fifteen days, if he had been hit in the liver. Older citizens will recall the assassination of President Mc Kinley. I predicted his death within an hour after the fatal ball struck. Liver tissue is un like any other. The Woman’s Angle Mrs. Clarence . Darrow was secretary to the famous lawyer until their marriage in 1903, and she has worked with him con stantly through 32 years. Many details of famous criminal cases she remembers more clearly than he does. * * * i New on the market is a little roller that may be filled and put in the ice box until you are ready to use it—it’s an ice face mas sages. • * * Red and green hose of silk, lisle or wool are slated for the extremists in sports wear. And there will even be some two and three thread silk stockings in red and green on the market. But evening tones are more likely to be in golds and silvers to match the evening shoes. * * * The period influence in gowns continues to be noticed in styles coming out of Paris. Both stiff and soft silks are being used increasingly in fall and winter styles, square, low-cut decollet tages for evening, huge sleeves and brilliant jewel trimmings. • • * Authorities on the subject of diets maintain that in the later years of life, the results of care less eating are most noticeable. An insufficient number of fruits and vegetables and not enough milk in the diet are the usual failings in our everyday diet. * * * Infant clinics, according to a famous woman physician, have offered the greatest chance to women in medicine of any de velopments in recent years. A mother bringing her infant to a clinic, in many cases for the first time, sees a woman physician performing her professional task as competently as men. Femi nine prejudice is broken down, and confidence built up. DBr. Edith Shannon, of England, urges young women in medicine to be come pediatricians. Don’t be ashamed of the par ents that are wearing shabby clothes for your sake. Nuts and Kernels Trey Iwitk Jones Usually when a man starts out bull-headed like Mussolini, he ends up sorter cowed. Boston culture began with a Tea Party and gradually rose until it ended in beans baked in molasses. A nudist is a sorehead who failed in the skin game. Politicians should be nudists. They like the -skin game so well. You can learn more studying MINERALology about the human mind than you can studying psy chology. Jimmy Braddock can pound the ivory, but not the sort that makes music. A man planted three pounds of potatoes and gathered fifty three pounds in harvesting. 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