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Entei'ed March 25, 1946, at the Post Office at
Harris, Noi'th Carolina, as Second Class Matter
Under the Act of Congre.ss of March 8, 1879.
NEURO PRESS CREED
4'he Negro Press believes that America can be.st lead
(he world awa\ Irom racial and national antagonisms when
it accords to every man regardless of lace, color or creed
his human and equal rights. Hating no man, fearing no
man, the Negro Piess strives to help every man in this
firm belief that all are hin t so long as anyone is held back.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
The death of Mohandas K.
Gandhi by an assassin’s bullel,
removed from our midst one
of the greatest humans evei'
to live. His teachings and
practices of non-violence ami
kindness to all including his
enemies and his brotherly
approach to the many pi'^b-
lems that confronted him dur
ing his life of 78 yeai's will in
spire humanity tor centuries
to come.
What was the soui’ce of
Gandhi’s strength’.' “Lif
Magazine” gives the answei'
editorially when it stated “He
changed world history, yet his
power was not of this world.”
Gandhi, like the late, lamen
ted George W. Carver, trusted
in Gqd, hence he found great
strength and power.
Mr. Gandhi was ti-ained to
he a lawyer and there is no
doui)t but that he would have
rsade one of the greatest legal
minds known in this century.
Early in life he saw that he
could render greater service
to humanity liy living not
al)ove them, but with them.
He renounced wealth, social
position and worldly honor’s in
order that he might help in ;
common way his fellowmen
with their many pi’oblems.
How well he did is attested by
the fact that his itrfluence had
a great deal to do with the de
cision of Gr’eat I’r-itairr to give
fr-eedom and independerree to
India, after- sapping the life
out of that great nation for
almost two centur’ies.
Finally, wor’ds ar’e inade-
(prate to describe this unusual
man, one of w.hich is born
once in a thousand years. He
dwelt among men, but walked
and talked vidth God.
REV. HERBERT SPAUGH, D. D.
With initiation of investigations
on tobacco, the USDA now has
under way first-hand, intensive
studies of opportunities to enlarge
or to open new outlets for exports
of cotton, tobacco, fruits and tree
nuts.
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TIIE^E DAYS
By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY
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Hull Pottei’v
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Novelties — Drugs
Dry Goods — Notions
(iroceries — Gandies
‘A Little Hit of Every thing’
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Rev. Nifong Speaks
One of the best messages
ever deliver’ed in North Caro
lina in behalf of Negroes of
this state and also of - the
South was delivered Sunday,
Febr-uar-y 1, 1948. This mes
sage was in the form of a
Race Relation sermon arrd was
deliver'od by Rev. Moody Ni
fong, pastor of the Main St.
Methodist church, Ruther-
fordton, from his own pulpit.
The speaker called for the
ballot for all citizens of this
county and state regdrdless of
)'ace or coloi’. He also stated
that equal justice should be
given in our courts to all peo
ple alike, and not have one
kind of justice for Negroes
and another foi’ white people.
It was heartening to hear
the popular minister state
that the Negro ward of the
Rutherford hospital should be
enlarged if need be, so that
there will be sufficient space
and room thei-e for Negro pa
tients and none will have to
be turned away or suffer for
lack of space or needed com
forts while a patient there.
The minister also stated
that a majority of the mem
ber nations of the United Na
tions are dark-skinned people.
It is a pity that many of the
leaders of the South have fail
ed to speak out for justice and
faii’iiess for all people regard
less of race or color or creed.
The Harris Herald salutes
Rev. Nifong for his masterly
sermon, foi’ his facing the is
sue sipiarely and for the cour
age and upright manhood that
he exhibited in standing in his
pulpit and .speaking for just
ice and fairness as he did. It
is hoped that other persons in
position of power and influ
ence wdll not only speak out in
behalf of equal justice for all.
but The Herald hopes that
they will also yvork toward
that end.
. INDIA — A TINDERBOX
The assassination of Gandhi only
emphasizes the astounding histor
ic fact that independence must be
won, not given. The withdrawal of
the British and the partition of
India into two states. Hindustan
and Pakistan, really solves no prob
lem, for what the peoples of both
require is a capacity for self-gov
ernment, a social revolution and
a modern economy. For these, the
people of India are not ready, no
matter what American liberals
may have to say on the subject.
Nor has the high moral quality of
Gandhi’s personality, his self-sac
rifice, and his Tolstoyan negation
of material progress altered the
outlook of this people who have
for so many centuries been held
at peace by the force of an extern
al power.
This is no country oi one people.
Probably nowhere on earth, not
even in the United States with its
complex of peoples of some 50
nations, but most of them of one
major type, do so many different
peoples try to live together in
one area. Languages are numerous
— 147 distinct languages grouped
under nine differentiated families.
These linguistic differences are
largely due to the different racial
and geographic origin of the var
ious peoples who form the 300.000.-
000 and more fnillions of individ
uals who compose what wo lightly
call India. Tagore once said: “In
dia is many countries packed into
one geographical receptacle.” In
dia remains many countries, each
containing many peoples who dis
like each other. The British gained
their authority by supreseding
that of the Mongols, the descend
ants of Genghis Khan who con
quered much of the country, fol
lowing Persian, Arab, Afghan and
Turkish conquerors.
Gandhi served India, as Sun
Vat-sen served China, as Kemal
Pasha served Turkey. But his
problem was more complex than
theirs, for the varieties of reli
gions, castes and conquests had
left to India a legacy of hatred
not equaled even in the Balkans.
His task was to overcome hatred
which had become a political wea
pon in the hands of native rules
and politicians. Just as Confucius
countered the spirit of war by em
phasizing peace as a moral idea,
so Gandhi made love the pivot of
his political system. Non-resistande,
in his lifetime, won independence
from Great Britain, but it did not
lessen the hate of Hindu for Mos
lem, nor of caste. Gandhi suc
ceeded in the least important of
his objectives: He ended Great
Britain’s tenure; but he did not
prepare his people to assume re
sponsibility.
It is not difficult in the hind
sight of the Twentieth Century
to inveigh against Great Britain’s
accomplishments in India during
the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries. The story from Warren
Hastings to Stafford Cripps is a
long travail. But this can be said:
[Great Britain kept the peace; she
gave the subcontinent more years
of peace continuously than it had
ever known before. Without de
stroying traditional forms, the
British brought into India western
forms and ideas.
After all, Gandhi was wholly
a product of British education;
he studied in British schools; was
admitted to the British bar; func
tioned for years as a British law
yer. His mind was formed in a
British environment and there was
more in his philosophy of the New
Testament than of the ideas and
beliefs current in present-day In
dia. He was the flowering of the
British training of an Indian per
sonality.
It is unfortunate that at such a
time as this, India is left without
British guidance and without the
moral suasion of Gandhi. India will
fall into hands of politicians, in
the Hindu area, in the Moslem
area, in every area. And not the
least evil of these will be the
ubiquitous Communists who every
where act as agents of a wicked,
ruthless and utterly amoral for
eign power W'ho conquers by fom
enting dissension as other conquer
ors have used military force. Al
ready in Kashmir, Soviet Russia is
stirring all the political evils of
hate as she has stimulated them in
North China and Manchuria, in
Northern Iran, in Afghanistan, in
every weak spot on the surface
ot the earth.
Great Britain’s most significant
historical contribution to India
has been her abiiity to keep Russia
out. Great Britain no longer stands
at the gate. And no one stands
at the gate. No one at all.
(Copyright, 1948, King Features
Syndicate. Inc.)
Too many people mistake ^kurch-
anity for Christianity, religious •
teaehing and ritual for lovable
Christian living. A letter is before
me from a correspondent, a hus
band who is greatly plagued at i
home by a nagging wife. He says
she is active in the work of her
church, nags at him to attend, nags
at him about everything else. He
says she leaves her Christian pro
fession at the church, and never
practices it at home. He writes,
“I know that I need help, but
she nags at me instead of trying to
help me. I have been praying for
guidance as to whether I should ;
stay on with her for the children’s ;
sake or leave her and try to estab
lish a home for myseR and the ^
children elsewhere. This may
sound like I'm crazy, but I’m not;
I just want some peace and happi
ness in my home and in my heart.”
Such cases are pitiful, and there
are many of them. Sometimes it
is the husband and sometimes it
is the wife. The tragedy in such
cases is that some times these nag
gers and railers are active church
members; active in the forms and
work of the church. They have
forgotten, if they ever knew, that
the best definition of the God,
w'hom they profess to worship and
serve, is love. No man or woman
can be a real Christian without
love in his heart for God and his
fellow men.
Unselfish love is the most power
ful force in the world. It is strong
er than any other force, than
hate, bitterness, railing, nagging.
The wife in this case is evident
ly suffering from some mental or
emotional illness. She may need
competent, psychiatric, or medical
treatment. She may be fighting in
her, own way for something which
she does not possess. She may
need spiritual conversion.
Saint Paul wrote, “Be not over
come of evil, but overcome evil
v/ith good.” Let that method be
tried here. He also wrote that an
unbelieving wife could be sancti
fied by her believing husband.
Here is a home which desperately
needs God. Bitterness and anger
need to be prayed out. Let the
husband commit himself and his
home to his Lord for salvation and
guidance. If all of his efforts fail,
after seeking competent guidance
from his minister and doctor,
there is nothing in the
Bible which compels him to rear
his chiidren in a home which is
a constant battlefield. Let him
separate himself and his children
and establish a home where there
can be peace.
State College
Farm Hints
•
By RUTH CURRENT,
N. C. State College
Try this taste tickler with spare-
ribs, backbone, and pork chops —
prepared mustard and horseradish.
Blend proportions according to in
dividual taste.
To prepare citrus for salads,
the outside and underskin of cit-
lus fruits will come off very easily
if such fruits are placed in hot
water a few minutes before peel
ing. Segments separate more easi
ly too.
Results of experiments in chem- S
ical drying of seed grain, using'
calcium chloride as the drying j
agent, conducted this last year |
justify further investigations of j
this method, according to the;
USDA.
There is little or no advantage
in grinding corn for beef calves
as the added cost usually more
than offsets any advantage. Then
too, calves do their own grinding
more efficiently than older ani-1
mals.
Prescription Druggists ^
Phone 3527 \
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Rutherrordlon, N. G.
.\ GOMl’EETE RANKINT; SERVICE
Rirtherlord Dairies, Inc.
SPINDALE, N. C.
SWEET MILK CHOCOLATE MILK
BUTTER MILK ICE CREAM
FOUNTAIN SERVICE
DIAL RUTHERFORDTON, 460G
Mrs. A. C. Jones, Florist
Dial 3491
Fore.st (’ity, N. G.
Farmers Eqiiipmeiil & Truek Co., Iiie.
International Harvester Quality. Products
INTERNATIONAL TRUCKS—FARMALL TRACT
ORS McCORMICK — DEERING FARM
MACHINERY
PARTS — SALES — SERVICE
333 W. Main St. Forest City, N. C.
For folks who like the flavor
ot bananas try adding one fully
ripe banana to one cup of mayon
naise dressing and blend with an
egg beater. This is a good dressing
for fruit salad.
Eye appeal is important in
rousing the appetite. White foods,
such as mashed potatoes, rice or
macaroni may be given a gay and
festive look by sprinkling lightly
with paprika, chopped parsley, or
chives.
Grow garnish greens—parsley,
chives, and endive can be grown in
kitchen window boxes or in herb
garden. Everyday foods look bet
ter and taste better with a fresh,
crisp appeai’ance when served
with these garnishes.
If milk is heated first and then
beaten into mashed potatoes, the
potatoes will be fluffy and light.
Fire is the worst enemy of the
woodlot. It not only destroys the
protective layer of leaf mold but
kills all the seedlings and spal-
ings above ground, and, if severe
enough, causes serious damage to
the butts of mature trees.
Rutherford Drug Co.
The Rexall Store
Rutherfordton, N. C.
E. L. WALKED
INSURANCE — NOTHING ELSE
Phone 3402 Fore.st City, N. G,
WAKEFIELD’S FLOWER SHOP
Flowers For All Occasions
Day Phone 3472—Night Phone 3409
FOREST CITY, N. C.
Long & Orders
Fiiriiillire Co.
Complete line home furnishings, Maytag
Washing Machines, and Home Freezer
Units, Leonard Refrigerators, Colman
Oil Heaters and Floor Furnaces.
PHONE 6481
SPINDALE, N, C.
TALLENT &JUST1CE
HEADQUARTERS FOR
PHILCO RADIOS AND RECORD PLAYERS
All kinds of Phonograph Records—We
have all Records that are available
Phone 6541
Rutherfordton, N. C.
HENRY C. GILES, Mhr.
INSURANCE of all Kinds!
FOREST CITY, N. C.
G. E. and CROSLEY RADIOS
Flat Plate and Rotary Ironers
Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Water
Heaters, Cabinet Sinks and all small
appliances.
Spindale Home
Appliante
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Dial 4534
Spindale, N. G.
MEMO TO HOUSEWIFE:
To remind you that I can help you in practically
every one of those 70 tasks” that you will per
form doily during 1948 to keep your family
well nourished and well physically, your home
and furnishings clean, and your clothes
laundered.
Any hours that suit your convenience are all
right with me, too. •
* A recent survey revealed that the
overoge wife performs 70 tasks a day
in the regular routine of her house
keeping and homemaking.
DURE POWER COMPANY
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Peace Is Not The Absence Of War: Peace Is The Presence Of Justice” -Herbert Agar