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Abbeville, S. C.
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Monday, April 19, 1920
MAN AND THE SABBATH
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Your grandmother will tell yoU|
how the Sabbath began at sundown
Saturday and ended at sundown
Sunday; how all the household work
stopped at the former hour, and, ati
the latter, the women of the family
gathered around to wash the dishes
and make up the beds; how the whole
family, one by one, Saturday night,
tnnk their turn in the zinc tub, then I
mother laid out father's and the chil-1
? dren's clean clothes against their
early rising Sunday morning ready
for go-to-meeting; no games to be
played no books to be read except the
Bible; no riding, no pleasuring of any
sort. In some of the families of certain
denominations catechism recita-j
tion and psalm singing were the onlyj
relaxations from the monotony on|
Sunday afternoon.
Some of these things are not so farj
from the memory of the Sabbaths of |
our own childhood?memories of long .
hours in a straight-back, cushionlesst
pew, staring at carpet patterns, (
fidgeting, playing with a hymn book (
until one of the elders gave us a,
pinch on the leg, then pretending to,
listen to the rhetorical periods ofj
ministerial discourse, not one word in
ten of which we even remotely com- j
prehended, marveling secretly the j
while at the vagaries of our elders;
who would sit so placidly under sermonizing.
After church home to the
usual good, cold Sunday dinner, always
prepared the day before and
generally ended up with chocolate
cake or cold egg custard. Sunday
school was always is the mornings in
those days so we were left a long afternoon
to while away by using the(
only permited means?the Bible story t
book, Pilgrim's Progress or that(
square edition of Dante's Inferno illustrated
most hideously by Dore.
The Puritans had a reason. The (
Sabbath which they found in the!
seventeenth century England had,
been plentifully profaned by the,
cavaliers. We are wont to blame our,
Puritan forefathers for the gloomy |
Sabbath. The people ye ought to
blame were the dissolute English up-1
per classes, who had so degraded the
name of pleasure that they made the,
Puritans think it was pleasure and,:
not the misuse of it which was evil. t'
It is true that the Puritans were 1
radicals in many respects but to
overcome the wanton dissoluteness of
the degraded and licentious cavaliers
may be the Puritan roundheads had
to go to the other limit to obtain a
medium good average Sabbath ot> I1
servance. Those Puritans who re- j'
fused to eat an egg for Monday's^
breakfast which the hen had worked ,5
to lay on Sabbath certainly did go to^
the last extreme. But Sabbath had'1
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been given over to a misuse of^
legitimate pleasure and every shady j1
exhibition, bear baiting, cock fight- ,<
ing the presentation of the newest 1
lewd play of the Jacobean dramatists
was given on Sabbath.
Even today Continental Europeans
view what survives, in both England
and this country, her progeny, of the
Puritan Sabbath with a mixture of.
amazement and derision. With the/nit;
is a day to enjoy. And it must be ad- '
mitted that they excel in ingenious I
and innocent ways of doing so.
Their influence is making itself
? felt among us. Our foreign populations,
given half chance, can teach us
t.Vip art of havine a good time for |
very little money, a plat of green |
grass, a lunch basket, the shade of a
tree, a running brook, with no sacrifice
of piety or deistical respect.
The automobile has pried the old-]
fashioned Sabbath much wider open.1
We began by using the machine for a
Sunday visit to grandmother. We
have ended by taking grandmother
on an all-day trip.
RAILWAY STRIKE jjj
ABOUT TO CLOSE jg
Washington, April 16.?Outwiard jjjj
indications point to an eaarly end oi ?B
the nationwide railroad strike. The Wk
frst big break in the strikers ranks S
n the East, their last remaining Mj
stonghold, came yester<lay when 500 ?j|
nwr) Ar?ffir>omon ;
x~miiisyiv<tnm iiiuucu awu wi^mviuvi.
t Baltimore voted to go back to =
work.
Eeastern railroads continued to re- jjj
ort increasing defections in the ^
trikers ranks, but these were dis- jjj
uted by strike leaders who declared
he main body of their men was still |}g
olding firm. Continued improve-1 ||j
nent also was reported by the roads jgf
f the middle and Far West.
Switchmen at Toleda, Ohio, voted g
o return to work pending a settle- gg
ment of their grievances by the gi
labor board.
Railroads in all sections of the jj
country reported that passenger ser- Jfl
vice was nearly normal while freight H
service, virtually abandoned since the H
strike began, v<as rapidly being re- g|g
sumed. Thousands of volunteer work- gp
ers bore the brunt of the work in mov fH
ing trains in and around New York,
Attoney General Palmer's allega- g
tions that the strike was planned and &
is being directed by radical agitators g
ithw questionable motives were chal- j?|
lenged yesterday from two separate ||
ources. |J
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Frank Morrison, secretary of the ?j
American Federation of Labo issued B
a statement in Washington that an E
independant investigation of strike |S
"just a plain ordinary strike for more IB
pay."
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood, com- gg
manding the central department, U. =
S. A., who has just returned to his =
duties at Chicago after a short leave |j[
asserted he failed to find "any evi- S
dence of connection between the rail- H
way men's strike and Industrial j
Workers of the World activities."
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COLLEGE CONTEST
WON BY PIGODSKY jj
Greenwood, S. C., April 16.?First J
honors in the annual contest of the II
South Carolina Intercollegiate Ora- g
torical Association, held here tonight j
were w<on by Joe Pigodsky of New-) Jj
berry college, speaking on "For a |j
Mess of Pottage." Second place went tj
to J. C. Reid of Erskine college, H
whose oration was on "America'* gf
Debt to the World' and third award ?g
was captured by G. A. Byrd of the g
College of Charleston, whose subject I||
was "The Workshop of America." ||j
The auditorium of Lander college B
was crowded for the contest, many S
visitor coming to Greenwood frm all gg
sections, especially the Piedmont for ^
the contest, the baseball games and g
the dance.
For the first time in the history of ?B
the contest the program did not bear
he names of the speakers, the re- 3
presentatives being introduced as the Q
the next orator and not as the man HI
from any particular college. While 9j
the judges were making their de- jjg
cision, the speakers wtere made known i|||
o the audience.
Aside from the three winning ora- jg
ions, the others, which are not given jgj
n order of rank, were: Democracy ^
" Vrflnk FitzSimmons, Hf
iiu UC1 * iWy *
fVofford college; "The Unfinished (i
tVar," W. M. Blackburn, Furman Jj
iniversity; "The New Era," C. B. jUl
Seaborn, University of South Caro- SB
ina; "Back to the Path of Duty," P. | B
fVt Wilson, Presbyterian college of jlf
South Carolina; "The Idealist and the i|J
/alue of His Ideals," F. U. Wolf, S
31emson college; "Youth's Ideals," igj
B. L. Austin, the Citadel.
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CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF |g
> I heijeby.^niiounce myself a candi- 111
date for Sheriff of Abbeville County Jl?
n the Democratic Primary, and I *=*
ledge myself to be governed by the Jj
rules and to abide the resuh of the IS
rimary.
J. N. BLUM.
We ae authorized to announce R. J
B. Cheatham as a candidate for Clerk j||
of Court, subject to the rules of the jjj
democratic party and he pledges fff
himself to abide the result of the p|
primaries. J
~*fe: iron production in the Uni- l||
ted States in 1919 was 31,015,3641 ?
tons, as compared with 39,434,797 j
tons in the preceding year. I |
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