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Curnming, Georgia
The Country Preacher
—By—
Rev. -Newton Wise
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Or. Charles M. Sheldon has written
one of the finest little books in recent
years. It is “In His Steps” Although
it has been years since I read it, The
theme of the book is briefly this. A
preacher called in his study one night
after Church all the members of his
congregation who were willing to try
to walk as near in the steps of Christ
as they possibly could. Among this
group were some of his leading busi
ness men.
• There was one man in the group of
was editor of a newspaper. After that
night he determined not to let any
thing go in his newspaper except
those things which w'ere absolutely
Christian. He refused to advertise
beer, wine etc. He decided to let the
affairs of the kingdom of God be up
permost in his paper.
As I recall it, there was another
man w ho was a bankker. He began to
realize that he was charging too much
interest on money and began to make
it more ethical.
By following "In His Steps”, men of
all walks of life had to change their
way of living and working. People
who had begun to use the sabbath as
a regular work day gave it back to
the lord. People who had charge of
large industrial plants began to con
sider their workers as they would
themselves.
My, what a difference it would make
if all of us in all w-alks of life would
try to follow “In His Steps”. Some
say, it would be impossible and im
practical. Some say that it would not
be a happy life but I am inclined to
believe that it would be the only real
happy life.
What a difference it would make in
the way we treated our enemies. In
stead of harboring hatred and envy,
we would forgive and try to help them
We would love everyone and everyone
would love us.
What a difference it would make in
our church. We would put it first. We
would become so concerned about the
lost in our community that we would
become fishers of men.
Mr. LeTournau of Toccoa says that
he has found if you let Jesus become
your partner in business that it not
only brings you satisfaction and hap
piness but it also brings you good
business.
Let us examine our life and see just
how far we can go in His steps. Then
when we find out where our steps
leave those of Christ’s lets try again
and see what a diffemece it would
make with us.
Observations
P. D. Houston, president of the
Americans Bankers Association, ob
serves that "the current military
effort of the government cannot be
successful without the help of free
enterprise.”
We might add that it cannot be
successful without the help of Ameri
can youth, now going into military
thaining at s2l a month to help pro
tect “free enterprise.”
It is a fair obesrvation, along this
line, to point out that the military
effort now underway is not “of the
government” but of the nation, which
includes laborers, soliers, capital, and
also those who like to boast about
free enterprise as if it was the special
possession of a chosen few in the
United States
New Device To
Beat U-Boat* , *****
Some hope springs from the recent
statement of Mr. Charles F. Kettering
forecasting anew device to master
the submarine.
Mr. Kettering is not an idle dream
er. What he says can hardly he dis
missed as trivial conversation, design
ed to catch the headlines. There must
be something behind his prediction
that U-boats will be detected, even at
night on the high seas.
Naturally, it would be asking too
much to expect the great industrial
scientist to tell us the whohj secret
about the work that has been going
on, in cooperation with the Navy for
the past six years.
A device to apprehend submarines
upon the surface of the ocean at night
would do much toward meeting the
CHILDREN WHO SEE WELL
CAN ALWAYS LEARN MORE
COOD EYES MEAN GOOD GRADES!
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FOR A CAREFUL EXAMINATION I
I AND A CORRECT FITTING, S lE" ' I
Dr. W. R. Hughes
Gainesville, Ga.
peril of the U-boat. It might be based
upon the detection sound, the lo
cation of engines with delicate appara
tus to measure heat, or some radio
invention that works marvels.
It is idle to speculate but the de
velopment of such a detector would
mean much in the Battle of the At
lantic. Let’s hope that before long
the sinkings at sea will be reduced
and furnish us with visible evidence
that new anti-submarine methods are
in practice.
The “Iron Man”
Of Tennis
It’s about time that we give a hand
to William Tilden, 48 year-old veter
an of the tennis courts, who is setting
some kind of a record as the "Iron
Man of tennis.”
The other day, in the professional
round-robin tournament, the veteran
Tilden gave spectators a matchless
exhibition of his great skill. For two
sets, he had Frederick A. Perry, for
mer world’s amateur champion from
Great Britain, very much worried as
he chopped, sliced and lobbed to dis
concert his younger antagonist.
After the second set, Perry, who
won the amature championship in
1936, swept forward to victory, win
ning the last three sets decisively.
Nevertheless, it is a bit comforting,
in this time of international stress, to
know that Big Bill Tilden is still able
to get on the course and play a game
of tennis that is almost the best in
the world.
For the last three years, the cash
farm income from livestock and live
stock products in Georgia has aver
aged over 24 percent of the total cash
farm income.
Exports of corn as grain from the
United States ordinarily average
about 1 percent of a normal crop.
[Traffic Accidents Hi?
Peak During Weekends
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Beware of Sunday! It is an un-
holy day, a day of sinister hap
penings, a day when Death reaps
its heaviest harvest, according to
“Here Today—,” ele ith annual
booklet published by The Travel
ers Insurance Company in the in
terests of street and highway
safety.
From an analysis of Arfierica’s
highway accident record for 1940
can be drawn the following con
clusions: Saturday and Sunday
vie for dishonor as the most dan
gerous days for automobile driv
ers. Of 35,000 people who met
their death in traffic accidents,
13,860 or nearly 40 per cent were
killed on weekends. When the
days were divided into hours, it
was discovered that the evening
hours from six to midnight ac
counted for 14,180 or 40.5 per
cent of those who died in auto
mobile accidents last year.
Thus the booklet reveals to the
layman unacquainted with acci
dent facts that the worst driving
hours and the most dangerous
driving days are the very hours
and days he most frequently
chooses for pleasure trips. *■
Sunday has long been consid
ered the most dangerous day of
the week, but last year Saturday
crept up until the two are run
ning almost neck and neck as
to fatalities. Most dangerous sin-
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The Forsyth County News
How Close Are
We To War?
How close is war to the United
States?
No one can answer this question
unless he is able to read the mind of
Adolph Hitler, leader ofthe German
Reich
It is admitted that the policies of
the United States are hostile to the
continuance of Hitler in power as a
world dictator and that acts of this
country in sending supplies to the
British provide him with ample ex
cuse for declaring war.
Will Hitler choose to declare war
upon us? The answer is, according to
most experts, "No.”
'This does not mean that Hitler is
afraid of the United States. It mere
ly means that, at this stage of his
career, it is more profitable for him
not to have a war with the United
States.
To engage this country in actual
warfare would undoubtedly unite the
American people, as nothing else
could, and cause them to redouble
their assistance to the British. It
would cause the United States to take
direct naval and, possibly, areal act
ion against Germany. In dime, it
mean soldiers armed, equipped and
machined by American industry,
which is without a par in the world.
Hitler will make war upon the
United States when it suits his pur
pose. He will not, very likely, precipi
tate a crisis unless he becomes con
vinced that this action is necessary
to prevent the delivery of supplies to
the British. If this becomes evident,
he may risk an attack upon us, especi
ally if Japan plays her appointed
role and attacks us in the Pacific at
the same time.
Chickens are raised on 85 out of
every 100 farms in the country.
DAILY DISTRIBUTION
OF FATAL ACCIDENTS
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. distribution
OF FATAL ACCIDENTS
gle hour of the 24 is between
7 and 8 p.m., according to the
booklet. Fewest accidents oc
curred on Tuesday last year, al
though the year before (1939);
Wednesday was statistically saf
er. Unexplainable is the fact that
although there are more persons
killed on Sundays, there are
more persons injured on Satur
days. *
Fatal accidents rise steadily all
afternoon, reaching a peak be
tween 7 and 8 p.m., then tapei
off, only to jump sharply about
midnight—the hour when parties
break up. _ O
WE TRADE
AT HOME
BECAUSE
BECAUSE - Our Interests Are Here!
BECAUSE—The Community That Is Good
Enough For Us To Live In Is Good Enough
To Buy In.
BECAUSE—We Want To See The Actual Goods
Before We Order.
BECAUSE-We Want To Get What We Want
When We Pay For It.
BECAUSE—Every Dollar Spent At Home Works
For The Community In Which We Live.
BECAUSE-The Man We Buy From Stands Back
Of His Goods.
BECAUSE-Here We Live, And Here We Hope
To Remain.
BECAUSE-The Man We Buy From Pays His
Part Of City, County And State Taxes.
BECAUSE-The Man We Buy From Helps To
Support Our Schools, Our Lodge, Our Church,
And Our Home.
BECAUSE-When 111 Luck, Misfortune Or Be
reavement Come, The Man We Buy From Is
Here With His Kindly Greeting, His Words
Of Cheer And His Pocketbook, If Need Be.
We In Turn Are Always Glad To Help Those
Who Help Us.
The Forsyth
County News
Thursday, June 26, 1941.