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OC-t>~.NSBURG JOUR NAT THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935 PAGE THRE& ' ' i^^Bf'&* f \*\*** ^Bi •1 ^ J m[S frZm History of the Waddingfon Presbyterian Church As taken verbatim from the original manuscript of the late James Reding. • ton by permission. J, Redington PART SEVEN It was during the fall of 1841 and before the meetings were dis- continued that an effort was made In the direction of building a church. We had ever since the organization of the church, in 1928. up to* this period, used a small stone school house of which men- tion is made 'so often for religious worship, a period of 13 years. The room was quite small and the seats so arranged that it was difficult for men or women to crowd into them. All hailed with joy and sign that portended a church. The first subscription started was dated Sept. 21, 1841. The heading of the subscription was in the handwriting of .George Redington, and the amount he subscribed was DAILY MERRY- 50 ROUND Washington, Oct. 3 — An un- recorded sensation was sprung be- hind the closed'doors of the Re- publican Executive Committee last week. Those who dropped the bomb- shell were a group of eastern party leaders' — chiefly National Committeemen Charles D. Hilles, of New York; J. Henry Roi'aback, of Connecticut'; and Daniel E. Pomerpy, of New Jersey. What they reposed was a coup similar to that of\ the present Na- tional Government in Great Britain when it swept the- I*abor Party out of office in 1931. The GOP would select a \National\ ticket, with a Republican as the Standard bear- er and a prominent Democrat' as MB running- matei But this is not ail. To give the slate a real National flavor, GOP Strategists \proposed' writing a.' specific pledge into the ticket's platform, for a National Cabinet made-up of both. Republicans and Democrats. The proposal was excitedly dis- cussed by Executive Committee members, and although no formal vote was taken, an informal poll revealed 13 of the 19 members present to be enthusiastically • for it. A lot. more will be heard pf the plan. Its backers' are pushing it vigorously. Their- latest move was to dispatch a confidential letter to a number of key State and local GOP leaders strongly recommend- ing the maneuver and asking their support. TRYING CIRCUMSTANCES—On the. surface all was harmony at the meeting of the water power moguls with the Securities and Exchange Commission. But \underneath there was an at- mosphere of tension among the •utility executives. Obviously they, were still nursing wounds from their battle to kill the Holding Company Act.\ Before the deliberations began, the power men sat for a photo- graph with members pf the Com- mission. Noting a dour expression on the visitors* faces, one l of the cameramen asked them to \please look a little more pleasant.\- To which. Sam W. Murphy, of Electric Bond & Sharei retorted sadly:' ' - \We'll dp the best we can — under the circumstances.\ RELIEF WORKERS' SCHOOL — \When Hilda, Smith was Dean of Women at Bryn Mawr College, lis- tening to the tribulations of young - girls, she.thought she had a probV lem on her hands. But now she has traded that for the immense job of teaching 1200 teachers how to teach. 50,000 workers. Dr. Smith is a mild mannered woman of fifty with greying hair and soft, kindly blue eyes. Some- times she is*called Harry Hopkin's \Professor of Communism.\ \We don't teach Communism,\ she says, with a faint smile. \But Ve -allow discussion of ifer-pro- vided the other- side is presented as well.\ Her.job is to take teachers off Relief rolls to teach workers, who axe on. Relief rolls. They call it the program for \Workers' Educar tion, now two years old. Some 1 , cities don't like the idea of having workers discuss political and economic questions. But Hilda Smith's staff ignores this. They have the 100 percent packing of Harry Hopkins. In. one Southern town, permis- sion t o use the iocal school house: was denied. So the FERA teacher got his workers, together, piled them, plus a blackboard; into his ear, and drove out into the woods. Here he hung the blackboard on \the car and lectured ^ to a class sitting on tree\ stumps.\ * The big problem, however, is not finding: a class room, but keep- ing the class in it. The pupils in this, case are adults, and if they don't like school, they walk out. $500, the amount of the whole sub-! scription being $1,278. About $300' of the same to be paid in work or ! goods. A memorandum was made ' on the right hand of those that subscribed in the handwriting of Mrs. George Redington, like this: \Subscribers to have the amount of the subscriptions allowed upon bids for pews and the church, to he built that shall not at most cost from $1,500 to $2,000.\ The subscriptions were made payable to the trustees of the church. But it was ap- parent from the poverty of most all of the members that there must be some respon- sible head, ; some one to bear the brunt of the labor, someone who must be personally responsible for work done and materials furnish- ed. How fortunate for those who are now in the 1889, worshipping in a temple which has hardly its superior in the Presbytery, that there was. a man willing to occupy this position, and that man was George Redington. The amount-of the subscriptions were not ade- quate even to build a church that would cost $2,000, nor nothing like it as the above statement shows without reference to what the lot would cost upon which to erect it. I should not fall to state > what simple justice requires that the subscribers who were many 'of them poor men, paid their sub- scriptions generally with a willing mind and were anxious for the success of the undertaking. There was some difficulty about the plot upon which to build. An attempt was made to procure the ground upon Which the Methodist Chapel now stands, but something seemed to prevent. Mr. Redington finally purchased the rear part of the Judge Fenton front lot and paid for the same the sum-of $200. The lot was somewhat elevated -and quite appropriate for the object for which it was bought. Mr; Rem- ington was one of the trustees and took the entire matter in his hands. ; (To Be Continued) REAL HERO—The real hero of the coal strike settlement .was Ed- ward F. McGrady. The hard-working Assistant Sec- retary of Labor, acting as the President's mediator, got all the brickbat* and none of the credit. The operators, particularly, were sore at him. What riled them most was McGrady's statement to the- press that the strike occurred only.be- cause the operators ha* held out on a difference of 1-% cents a ton in the proposed increase in pay for loaders. Adding further fuel to their anger was McGrady's. plaln- talkinr criticism of their tactics. Just before the deadline for the strike call, McGrady went after the operators hammer and tongs. \You can't win this strike,\ he barked; \And..I'll tell you why. Them was a- time when, If miners auit work and their \credit was- cut off in your\ company stores, 'they and their.wives and children faced starvation. After -a--few weeks the miners' morale was broken-.and they went back to- the diggings. , \But that won't, happen . this time. Every man, woman and child will he fed- by • the Government. Those old strike-hreaking methods won't work.\ -Ndte--McGraay was -making So idle threat. Harry Hopkins: secret- ly had promised that the, FERA would supply food.and other neces- sities in the'event of a protract- IWERRY^GO-ROUND __ WIthovt mentioning names, K. P. AJdrich, chief postal inspector, recently took to task the crime-wave out- cries of Attorney General Cum- mings and his No. 1 G-man, J. Ed- gar Hoover. Speaking before the National Association of Postmas- ters, Aldrich said: \The experi- ence of the inspection service is that there has been no unusual wave of crime, notwithstanding the general idea to the contrary. The abler criminologists report and the more reliable criminal in- dexes show no such wave.\ . , . . The American mule Will be well represented in Mussolini's Ethio- pian operations. Since last Decem- ber, Italy has purchased 192,815 mules, chiefly from Texas, Arkan- sas and Missouri, Another unex- pected-export to Italy is a con- siderably quantity of spaghetti and macaroni *• • . . The NBA has de- vised a novel method of finding work for its Idle, employes. They are being \lent\ to other govern- ment agencies, though, paid by* the NRA ^ . . . Within a few feet, of a street entrance in the Bureau* of Engraving ; is a display case con- taining an exhibit of $1,400,498 in paper currency and- $92,826 in stamps. Armed guards are o watch day and night, , . . The, past ses- sion of Congress was a, heavy drain on White House pens. The President gave away more than 200 pens, used in signing bills. Most of the souvenirs w : ent to Con- gressmen who had ' a hand in • en- acting the measures. , (Copyright; 1935, by. United' Feature Syndicate, Inc.) DIXIE SPECIAL The All-Veg All-American TWO DATS ONLY Friday and Saturday LBS. 35 c V You Know Dixie \ ^^ i Delicious Flavor Now Try It As \u Guaranteed to Please or Your Money Back Frank L Baleman