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FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1957 Town Speed Limits

rT'OW\ of farmville police will install in * the near future electric timing devices to indicate driving speeds within the '1 own. Used with discretion the device may have some good effect upon the drivers of cars on the town’s streets!. Speed limits are violated on certain [streets more than others. First and Second avenues, High street. Second street are a few of the streets where we have observed excessive speeds, no doubt there are others. Before the timing device is installed, we .suggest that speed limits be well posted showing the legal speeds on the various streets. Where lower limits are advisable, plain, well defined signs should be posted. Another suggestion. A study should be made on the approaching roads and high ways to be certain that the speed limits now posted are reasonable and practical. We make these suggestions because we were hauled into police court in Petersburg several years ago, and fined for exceeding the speed limit in a 25 mile zone. This zone was in a sparsely settled area, on Route 460, (a four lane roadway), approaching the city’s corporate limits, beside Bland ford cemetery. The speed limit was not

conspicously posted, and practically no one paid any attention to the low limit. Wte were unfortunate enough to be one of the few to be hauled in. Since that time we have noticed how many places in the towns ' and cities requiring speeds unrealistic to the area. Many drivers, careful drivers become “speeders" on account of unrealistic speed limits or from ignorance. The Superintend ent of Richmond schools was picked up re cently for “speeding” in a 25 mile zone. We do not believe he was a speeder, certainly not at heart. Naturally there are the habitual fast drivers, who are a menace on the the Town's streets. They should be checked, apprehended and fined. Police and citizens know most of them. Under Virginia law, a second offense within a year, requires loss of license to drive for 60 days, a very salutary effect upon habitual speeders. V e do not intend to defend speeding in towns, but we do want to recommend ju dicious use of timing devices and realistic ordinances to control safe use of the streets for everyone, pedestrains as well as motor ists.

I'd Like To Be A Boy Scout

I'D like to bo a Boy Scout just for this * week end. I'd like to make that trek with the Explorer Scouts fijom Saylor's Creek to Appomattox, following the route of a portion of General Lee's on the retreat of April 1865. The Scout leaders who have ar ranged this feature are (to lie commended. Wilmer R. Turner, df Blaekstone, Ya., has studied for some years and labored to ha\e marked and memorialized the retreat of Lee's Army from Petersburg to Appo mattox. His sustained interest and the co operation of a number of co-workers led U> the restoration of the Hillsman House, which is a focal point iit the Sayler’s Creek battlefield. A few relics have been placed there and possibly in thje near future a per

manent hostess may be placed in charge. Mr. Turner will lecture the Scouts at points on the week end trek. Sayler’s Creek Battlefield is the only im portant battlefield of the War Between the States, which has not been fully developed and made a national shrine. It is one of the few battlefields on which the Yankees were victorious over the Army of Northern Vir ginia, Lee's Army. We have often wonder ed why the federal government has not shown more interest in this historic place. The Explorer scout trek may be the be ginning of several such hikes to follow. It may become a tourist attraction for the future. We place more than ordinary im portance upon it.

Checkmating Nasser

OlNCE the blockage of the Suez Canal k iluring the fighting between Israel, Great Britain and France against Egypt last fall, the question of reducing to a minimum the danger of a transportation bottleneck has been receiving increased thought by the governments affected and the oil industry. The problem was discussed at a recent meeting of top representatives of eight in ternational oil companies in London, and consideration also was given to the matter by President Eisenhower and Prime Min ister Macmillan at their meeting in Ber muda. Proposals have been made to expand and improve the network Of pipelines in the Middle East with the aim of by-passing the Suez Canal entirely. Under considera tion, it is said, is the construction of a large pipeline fmnv near the head of the Persian Gulf through Iraq and Turkey to the Bay of I kemleruni on the Mediterranean. This line would completely fry-pass Syria, since the uncertain political situation in that country causes some doubt as to the advis abilLv of traversing that area at this time.

Another proposal would divert the term inal of two Iraq pipelines from Haifa, Is rael, to Saida, Lebonon. The Kirkuk (Iraq) H'aifa line has not been used since the Is raeli war in 1948. If an agreement can be worked out with Jordan and Lebanon, it is planned to re-lay the sixteen-inch line and probably the twelve-inch line from a point in Jordan and roughly parallel the Trans-Arabian pipeline to Saida-Lebanon. 1 he division of these lines would result in an increase] of 100,000 to 150,000 barrels a day in the flow of Iraqi oil to the Mediter ranean. ^hiie the construction of huge pipelines over such great distances will cost hun dreds ol millions of dollars, such an outlay would be justified if it assured an ample supply ol Middle East oil to Europe, thus lorestalling drastic interruptions in the How ol oil as a result of the whims of rul ers of nations in positions to block tin1 ship ment of such a vital commodity by the simple expedient of blockading a water ways

Installment Buying

'I'll!'. Federal Reserv'd Hoard recently looked into the ques.ion of installment buying in the United .States and reported on the current situation. One of the high lights of the report wajs the fact that the installment debt ot the United States is now ">1.5 billion dollars land, of course, this is one ot the less stable signs of credit. Researchers of the Federal Reserve l"''an! say that installment debt does not necessarily bring on a depression although it a depression comes along, or even a se vere recession, an excessive load of install ment debt can aggravate the situation ser iously. ,I ust what is u be considered an excessive load’of instal nient debt is a de batable question. However, there is mi denying the fact teat installment deb: has inert ased very rapidly in recent year.-j. although savings and incomes nave also increased. There is

also no doubt that installment buying has come into vogue and becomes accepted even among many in the upper middle and high er income classes. Americans seem to be going on trips to Europe, by air. on the in stallment plan, and buying homes, auto mobiles. appliances and doing just about e\erything else on the installment plan. Installment buying can he overdone, es pecially for the nonessentials. In all cases, carrying charges and interest must be add ed, making the article or services cost more than it money had been saved and cash purchases made. \\ hile installment buying plays an important part in American bus iness. the individual is wise not to let his desires outdistance his income. "hen the truth hurts an enterprise, there is something wrong with the enter prise. ]

r~. “ra Background Scripture: 1, 2 .. j —27:10 Devotional Heading. Isaiah 5’’ 1-9 He Took the Cup Lesson for April 7. 1057 'T'HE dark shadows of Gethsem * ane have never fully lifted If even the closest friends of Jesus did not watch with him through that hour, we cannot at this great distance hope to penetrate where no light is Some have found it hard to believe that Jesus actual ly knew' d.stress. This is to deny

Jesus own woi'ds, "My soul is very s « r - rowfui, even to death," Mark's report that he was "greatly dis tressed and trou bled,'' and Luke's story of the sweat like drops of blood. It

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could nardiy nave oecn iear m death that disturbed him Lesser men have met it. without a tremor, and he himself had faced it more than once without fear It was : something deeper that broke up the fountains of his soul that night

Cup of Suffering There are gleams in the dark ness. Jesus refers to his expert- i ence as a "cup.” He had been speaking of a cup not two hours before, in the uppe. room, the cup of his blond Was it this cup I he prayed might pass from him'' I We make a mistake when we think of this in ill' : ely physical terms. In many a hospital there are patients who ha\e already suffered longer and more severe ly than Jesus could have, physical- i ly speaking, ail of Good Friday. It was his soul that was troubled, not his nerves, in Gethsemane The cup of suffering which he dreads d w.as mori than ing and nails. He was being ..re jected . . . rejected. Not a friend would stand by him All his work would come to an end. He had fought for time, but time was running out. He had come to his own, and his own people had not received*him. He was God s last word to men. and men had no re sponse but thorns and a cross. Other men have known rejection, but none have known it as he knew it. foi not anpthei man in history came to this each svo full of heaven as lie. Cup of Sacrifice The cup which ne dreaded was also the cup of sacrifice From earliest times, the Christian church has read the story of Geth semane and Calvary in the light of the prophecy in Isaiah 5.1: "He was wounded for our transgres sions. he was bruised for our in iquities." The weight of human sin lay darkly on his so il. It was not that in Gethsemane for the first time this had occurred to i him. Long ago he had spoken of giving his life a ransom for many The rejection of love is a sore thing to bear: but to . feel the weight of the sins of the world is something of which we do not even dare to think. He had always identified himself with sinners and with sufferers; but now he was going the last mile appointed to the suffering and the sinning. All the pain and all the perverseness of mankind fell upon him, a smothering cloud which in a few hours would even hide the face of God.

"Not as i Will" We must not accuse the Master nf cowardice, not even of weak ness. Horror there was indeed, but a strong man may be filled with j horror without being any the less strong. Jesus did not turn to flee. Yet it is quite plain, and we must i not pretend it was otherwise, that Jesus wished for some other cup than this "Nevertheless." he said, "not, as I will but as Thou wilt." | We do not. know what other occa sions there may have been when Jesus knew that his own will was | not as his Father’s will Yet if there had been other occasi >ns his pray er must have been ever the same: Not as I will! Above all other de sires, above even the desire to | to fulfill his own will—a desire ! all the stronger, the stronger the character is — was the overarch ing desire 1o do the Father's will. There were elements of Jesus’ suffering in Gethsemane which set that, night off from all other nights, and that strong soul apart from all other souls. And yet 1 even in the mystery there is some- ' thing for us to learn. If the mas terwish of our life is that our own will be done, we shall come to \ frustration in the end But if the overmastering wish is that our Father's will be done, then whatever our first desires may be, our highest prayer shall still be answered . Bavftj on outlines ropy righted b\ the Division of ( hristian Fduration Na tional Count il of the Churches of ( hrist m I hr I s \ Released by Community P r e - s S e* r \ t» e*. * BALLOON RECORD Rapid City, S. Dak.—Two Navy commanders, Malcolm D. Ross. 37. and Morton 1. Lewis. 43, both of Washington d. Cl. recently soared to the record height of 78,000 feet in a gondola attached to a big gas fdied balloon. The earlier record of 72.3SJ5 feet was set in a flight form here in *'i?”

Alone With My Conscience "I sat alone with my conscience, In a place where time had ceased, And we talked of my former living In the land where the years increased, And I felt I should have to answer, ~ The questions it put to me, And to face the answer and questions Through all eternity. The ghosts of forgotten actions Came floating before my sight, And things that I thought were dead things Were alive with a terrible might. And the vision of all my’past life Was an awful thing to face, Alone with my conscience sitting In that solemnly silent place. And I thought of a far-away warning, of a sorrow that was to be mine, In a land that then was the future, But now is the present time And I thought of my former thinking Of the ]udement day to be, But sitting alone with my conscience Seemed judgment enough for me The above lines have always impressed me, and think some Herald readers might appreciate them, I publish them here. L D. WHITAKER

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Dr. Robey Blasts Teachers C ollege (From The Times-Register, Salem. Va.)

It has been said by more than one observer that Teachers Col lege at Columbia University has tentacles which reach into the school divisions of every state in the Union. The alumni of Teach ers College who now hold policy making positions in our school systems are legion Roanoke College's Dr. Ashley R took a well-aimed pm-shot ■ at the Teachers College products 'and then disciples' in his apear ance before the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council in Richmond last month. We were delighted to see his testimony received such a prominent display in a recent is sue of the Roanoke Times. The, essence of Dr. Robey's re commendation is: Throw the pro fessional educators out and put the schools back in the hands of the educated. Wo are impressed by m'H$ of what lie says In fact, wc have been of similar opinion on the subject for a number of years.

ii is saa Dm true mat college freshmen these days just can't •read, write, and figure." Not so long ago Roanoke College found it necessary to furnish a course in "remedial reading" for those ilaving difficulty along tiuil Ime. Such a course back in the early days of Roanoke would have been preposterous. Dr. Robey bluntly confirms: "There has been a progressive de terioration in the reading ability of students over the past 15 years." For a number of years now the college has also offered non-credit course in basic algebra, simply because a lot of the high school graduates couldn't do simple mul tiplication and division. Why can’t these students read, write, and figure? Dr. Robey says its because the schools arc full of teachers who are loaded with "education courses but who know nothing to teach." One professor aptly put it thusly: They teach you how to teach, but not what to teach. Why do our public teachers get loaded down w i t h education courses? Because the State De partment of Education says a certified teacher must have not less than 18 hours of these sub jects. Roughly, that is a total of six education courses. Ironically, our big colleges and universities require absolutely no education courses. Some of the nation's finest teachers would be unemployable in our public schools because of this require ment:. Obviously something is wrong.

Fortunately. In Roanoke Coun ty schools at least, we are blessed with many fine instructors who are doing first rate jobs. And Su perintendent Horn is doing won derfully well in replacing vacan cies with qualified material. Like so much of our school ciif PLANNOW for Summer Cooling •nd Winter Heating u4 aSouC e*m£vit PUTNEY PLUMBING & HEATING E. Third St. Phone 48S Formville, Vo. ..- " . -'.

ficulty, the answer lies in Rich mond. The hands of the local school boards are securely tied by rulings from the state capitol. Naturally, since the state dispers es the funds it should say how they're spent. Vet, since we pay the taxes, we should also see that they're being properly adminis tered. We do hope that the entire em phasis of "education courses" shali soon undergo thorough ex amination. It may be one way to root out an answer. Franklin Recognizes John Spears Maxey, Powhatan Native A Powhatan native, the Rev. John Spears Maxey. a 76-year old retired minister, has been se lected Franklin First iCitizen of 1956. ' Maxey’s sister. Mrs M. B Har lan, still lives in Powhatan, where Maxey was born Nov. 29, 1880. He went to Randolph-Macon 1 Aca demy and Randolph-Macon Col lege. and has served as pastor of churches in KeysvlUe, Cartersville, Skipwnrth Mon tress. Danville. Orange, Whaleyville and Norfolk. The Ret. and Mrs. Maxey and iheir daughter. Mary, went to Franklin in 19*29. following his retirement. Maxey was honored at a ban quet given March 29 The award which he won is sponsored an nually by the Business anu Pro fessional Women's club to recog nize distinguished and continued service to the community. The first message over the first telegraph line was sent from the U. S. Supreme Court room in the Capitol lo Baltimore May 24, 1844.'

Double Check With the opening of the James town Exposition and the Oregon Teamster case, along comes the Democratic idea to run GOP poli tics into Virginia >ubematorial campaign mak.ng this a regular Spring opening for everything and everybody. This is a free country, even the President is free to go when he feels like it and even exceeds tin speed limit without "official no tice". We have a bunch of scientists that want to "Emancipate" Pop ers. It's the first time old baldig's been in the program for a long time. They may go back to help ing their aged Mother across the street All this stuff ever wets is a mere mention, with youth, wo-/ men and delinquents aiming to run the country we ain't 'auoiltg to get far. but it's worth i try. Anything to give humanity a up lift now will be appreciated. Despite tin- protests from the lapanes people and a f; w others the British will make their H Bomb test this month. Nobody’s business but their own It makes no difference now where or when they drop them . . . we will get by somehow. A slash in the budget of six billion is asked by the Democrats and one and a half billions is •xpected by the Republicans, ac cording to Noland and McCor mick Sommrrfield says he will get his or cut mail service. Any

cut could start with him . . have to fire 'em thy won't Quit Mine friend and reader of the Herald bought a farm near here. Thanks for reading. Yours, J. Marvin Brown CAT IN < KIUN(< Monroe. La.—A few weeks ago, a contractor added a room to the Cliff Ferguson home and unwittingly closed a strange cat in the ceiling. The cat sleeps during the day and meows ail night, showing no inclina tion to try to get out. Ferguson finally chopped a hole in the ceiling, but the cat refused to emerge. DRIVE-IN Cumberland Va. Route 60 SHOW TIME 8:00 I*. M Eri.-Sat.—April 5-6 THE LONE RANGER In Warner Color. Starring. Clayton Moore Sun.-Mon.-Tues—April 7-8-9 MISTER ROBERTS In Cinemascope and Color Starring. Henry Fonda and James Cagney Wed.-Thurs.—April 10-11 THE CATERED AFFAIR Starring, Betty Davis and Debbie Reynolds

VALUABLE BUSINESS CORNER IN CREWE, VIRGINIA To Be Sold AT AUCTION Saturday, April 13, 1:00 P. M. (RAIN OR SHINE) LOCATED AT 201 WEST CAROLINA AVENUE at the corner of Powell Street and adjacent to business houses of Crewe |ust across the street from Jennings Furniture Store ZONED FOR BUSINESS This va uabie corner is now improved with a large house which is tented to a tenant who operates a room ing house for railroaa men. Witn me improvements, it could be easily converted int - offices, doctors' clime, funeral home.-or many other uses. Or with this choice location, the bunding could be razed r. make way for the construction of a new. m fern -.tore building. The lot is 50' v 1 50' and hes ready for business de velopment Carolina Avenue, up to this property is fully developed in business and the one block of Powell Street from Carolina Avenue t. U S. Route 460 is also in busi ness. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A CHOICE BUSINESS LOCATION OR A REAL INVESTMENT, it will Day ved to investiaate this prooertv and attend this sale PRO PERTY WILL BE SOLD ON GOOD TERMS Sales bro chure w ith views and more details available upon request See, Coll or Write Now!

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