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SPIRITUAL BLUES UNNECESSARY, IS LUTHERAN'S VIEW Looking at the Cheerful Side of Things Is Easy, Declares the Rev. Dr. Paul E. Scherer News and Courier, 1st. There are approximately '.G^O churces, missions, chapels anc places of worship in the five bor .si.s of New York. Their estimated membership is more than 2,000,000. What message are these churches bringing' to the people ea?h week? To answer this question The World will send a reporter to some church each Sunday morning and will print on Monday a report of the sermon. Churches of all denominations, of all sizes and in all parts of the city will be visited. Yesterday the reporter attended Holy Trinity Lutheran church, 65th street and Central Park west. "Spiritual blues^" the essential difference between an optimist and - -?onri rwvscihilitv of learn a ucjajjuiot auu c. ing to see the cheerful side of things, were the topics of the Rev. Dr. Paul E. Scherer at HoI\* Trinity Lutheran church yesterday morning. It is as simple as crossing from tPfe shady to the sunny side of a sireet, Dr. Scherer told his congregation. One cause of pessimism just now, he added, is that people keep their noses too close to 1922 and fail ; > remember right has triumphed rhe past over wrongs a* firmly fatrenchei as those of the present. Spiritual Blues "Nothing in human experience," said he, "tends to give a downward slant to every thought like repeated private failure to clinch the mastery of the best in ourselves over the worst. All ox u? have some notion of what we ought to be and moat of us are at swords' points with what we are. We have lost so long we are by no mems as confident as we used to be of what we can be. hThe measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ" seems impossible. 'Give us a goal we can reach!' we cry. And +Kptp vou have the beginning of a chronic case of spiritual blues: "We like to ^read of the life of Christ in Palestine, but at the idea of making any remote approach to it here in New York we smiie and shake our heads. % "Imagine thinking of others more than of ourselves in the rush hours on the subway! Things that seem not unnatural when we read of their happening in Judea hundreds of years ago seem utterly foolish when we think of their happening on Broadway today. Actually we have come to take many of Christ's commands with a grain of salt. We think they are beautiful but not workable. Even His great promises seem hardly possible. 'Whatsoever ye ask in My name, that I will do.' Is there anybody here who really believes that? The theory we accept but thy practice we deny. "I think it is really all because this private warfare of ours has gone so poorly with us. When a man is baten back day by day, he begins to lose faith in the ideals that befckon him. "That is just the point where Christ comes in. He tells us with perfect assurance we can win. If you have to fight, my friend, at least step over where the Master is, and fight in the junshi.ie. Evil on Every Hand "The conference at Washington is followed by war in China. The conference in Genoa almost goes on the rocks. We read of crime waves and the loosening of morals and preachers w 10-babble treasonable nonsense about the uselessness and immorality oi* creeds. It ;s pretty hard to keep our good cheer in the face of all that. "When Christ was driven out of Judea to die He said: "Be of good cheer, I Have overcome the world.' "Paul just escaped death at Damascus, and his* road after that lay through suspicion, persecution and death. "When we count up . ictories the unanimous vote goes * Jesus and Paul. I have never yet ; v:. ;; ballot \ for Pilate or Caesar." The Rev. Paul E. Scherer, pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran church, was born in 1892 and was graduated from the College of Charleston in 1911. He completed his theological course at Mount Airy 12. 1917 and began his ministry as assistant pastor in a church in Buffalo, returning to Mount Airy for a year as associate professor ?>i chur^i history. In 1:^20 he succe .cd the Rev. Charles J. Smith, now president of Roanoke college, as pastor at Holy Trinity. A man claims to hav?- a family of seven children on $65 a month. He must have had a rich wife. The world still has many i.K to worry a^out, but the Hapsbui v nasty is not one ?f them. A Sad Plight The County Record. j "There will be a meeting of all the trustees of Williamsburg county at : the court house, Kingstreet, S. C., on (Saturday, April 15. at 12:00 o'clock, i This meeting is called for the purpose of discussing plans for he next school year. It will be *h- ^uty of every trustee to be pre: The above is a cai1 vsiu-d >y Su| perintendent of Ediu. .>:i, M. F. | Montgomery. Last Saturday there i was a meeting, in response to a sim: ilar call, for trustees and teachers. The object of the meeting last week, as we understand it, was chiefly to inform the teachers, many of them at j least, that Williamsburg county was unable to pay them for their services; 1 I to tell them that they would be ob! liged to wait (we don't know how j long, but perhaps indefinitely) for : their pay. j* The meeting called for next Satur| day does not include the teachers. | The deplorable condition of affairs j has alrady been made plain to them. : The trustees are called to this meet ing, however, to discuss, and perhaps ; endeavor to prevent a recurrence of ;a similar situation next year. We I hope they will succeed. It seems that a number of the school districts in Williamsburg are "broke" when it comes to a matter ! of dollars and cents, with which to ; pay the teachers their salaries. 'i'Mv 'condition is nothing more than va- . to be expepcted when a law was pus.-ed granting an extension of time i " : ! the payment of taxes. Usually there lis only a sufficient amount levied to j j defray, meagerly in many instances,' ; the running of the district school : for a few months. Unless this tax | levy is paid promptly there are no ! ! funds with which to pay the teachers ; and keep the school going. It is a fact that there are these ' in some of the districts who don't i care a whit whether the ^school runs ~ ?v - ? v. vvrUs\-f -f ^"1 O "f n / h ? V O" ?> ; OI' siups, UI nucuici i/.iv , ! her pay or not. This is rather a ifd : plight when we call to mind th? hun-; i dreds of children in this county who 1 , are being deprived of th? fundamen-1 i tal training that a chantry school af-j | fords. It is a condition to which may j be attributed the large number of: . grown-ups who, when '.-ailed upon to : write their names hav* to do so by, ; "touching the per" or making ''his j mark." The registration books of ; Williamsburg prove this condition' of j ' ignorance. Are we, never going to get away; ; from this humiliating scourge ? -Aj | condition that belongs to the dark i ages. The only safe and sure way! j to do it is to prov:de yo -.r d.'Strctj 'with the best to be had in the way! . of schools and to do this i;'requires; cooperation on the part of every man, j woman and child in the district. Fur-j ther it requires tnat unselfish r.nd .'liberal spirit which should pLice; ^oro'.il tmof ItS ' i d^auui auu cuv w j ,'progeny above dollars :>nd cents, or, the levying of a sufficient amount of; taxes for the exclusive purpose of conducting a well equipped school for a term-of seven to r-ine months. J I in the year, each succeeding year,: 1 without ever having to face the humiliating necessity of calling your teachers together merely to inform them that they will have to wait for , their pay or close the schools, for, there is poor incentive to service as? a teacher or any other class of lai bor when the matter of compensation i is an indefinite quantity. i It should be borne in mind that 'it takes money to successfully conduct any business; that* the schools of Williamsburg county are her biggest business, her greatest asset. Educate your children, at .least see to it that they have the^ advantages of a good public school. The price of an ordinary pig or calf each year ; will provide the means under the urc-ent system of levying school tax es. Don't ulace the pip: or the year! lin^r above your child's education. 1 ? In Memoriam 0? the 14th of April, 1S22, God j called our precious mother away ;-nd | made that day a day of sorrov ;ind mourning, until we be permittci abide with her again, and in memo-, of Mrs. Amos D. Berley, our departed ! mother, these lines are written. i . Dear mother, thou art gone, j Gone 10 thy ^weet and previous rest, i Where you can be at home. iAnd where disease doth not molest. i i Thou didst suffer so lon?. i But yet now we know it was best, Because without a ?roan Thou didst become heaven's guest, i ' j , If we could we would not i Call thee hack to this weary land. For here trials are our lot, But there thy rest must be so grand. jAnd we hop-* to .neet-thee In thy prec^us ami heavenly home.1 i Where we can always A blue hen's c -ns never show .the white feather. ? * * ! With thee and from thee never roam i I True, lonely is the house That was brightened by thy face. But thou only left us ! To reap the glory of God's grace. So, too, v? hope to be j When God so wills our time and day j]n God's glory with thee, i To serve our Lord and with thee stay j , Mother, thou hast left us:, And thine absence we deeply feel. 'Twas God that bereft us, . And he can all our sorrows heal. All we knew, that we did To keep thee with us here below, But thou left us at God's bid, For heaven, thy sweet home, to go. i ; So, too, we all must go ! When God sees fit to call us home, But sorely we miss you, Knowing thou art forever gone. t ." V" Yet your life we bcj - - - -- ? - J And while God saw !:: r " aemea, i And home your sou! he cued, Still bright the thought, "In pe?c< ; you died/' [ But we know Go^l knows b??t, And thou no longer pains must bear: Heaven's of more interest since thou Hast made the "sweet home" there. New life hast begun, Ar.d in heaven do thy feet tread, our work below is done A; d this is why we call thee dead. While we see thee no more Here below on this earthly sod, "There remaineth therefore A rest to the people of God." Yea, from us thou hast goi.e. And a voice we all loved is stilled, A vacant place is in our home That can't and never will be filled. t ? Now, sleep or* dear mother, And take thy much desired rest, No longer here suffer, God called you home. He thought it oest. * So we bid you adieu, -.k Where we hope to meet you In His kingdom forever blest. Written by a daughter-in-law, * Mrs. Sam Berley. ^'T A Teachery Abbeville Press and Banner. - -- 1 3 - i* Maw W 6 nave, or riau, a vjiccAcj,y. why not have a Teacher,y? There is no reacon why We should' not; in fact we have one. Why not put it intc operation.,, Speaking more to .the point, if not more seriously, we all knoyfr that the matter of securing proper-accommodations for. the teachers who come to Abbeville to teach in the city schools from one year to another has been, and still is, a matter of'^serious import, though in the last year or twc it has been less difficult to find places for the young ladies. A good man3 young women in other towns whc are situated as are the yoting ladies here have been accustomed to having a home together in their school terms We believe that is the solution oi our troubles in Abbeville, and thai we should adopt the solution withou more ado. With the building of the new higii school there will be no need, cer 'tainly for a few years, for the pres VniilHino1 on Green Ciil ill^Xi OV14WA ville street. That building has a number of large rooms, and with 2 little work, it could be made an idea * place for a home for the teachers The basement could be easily arrang ed for bath-room-. bath-room: might be installed Uj>s.:airs on the first and second stories. The building :s already heated, and .it can be made, most comfortable. Of course it would be well to take ofi the mag Inif.cent dome now on the building and make a plainer rofo, but we be lieve we could do without the dome It has cost enough already to get ric 'of it. And there need be no trouble abou i-i the management, iwo or tnree le^u ':rs could be appointed as an execu I LIv'e committee to have charge of th< running of the home, and a suitabli house keeper might be provided, o other places," take it ironth abou' looking after the business affairs o1 the undertaking. If the executive committee could not apree, Majoi Fulp, who is soon to become a res! dent of Greenville street, would b< handy fo: consultation. If he couldn'' givt- *right kind of advice, w( i kr. J Mrs. Fulp could. ? : -it? building either a nomina' ireni-t. or no rental at all need be I . charged. In this way the expenses 01 | the teachers could be reduced while they were being made to feel tha' ! tr e in their ova home and nol ; :v- evils about the premises o] oth^i t eople. i Of course there would be rules about the running of the Teachery. i The present high school teachers, i 1 i they are with us again, would not be J allowed to have company more than : seven nights in a week, and if one of Ithe callers happened to be from out ; of town and came in a new car, he | would not be allowed to put it in ithe garage without paying rent. If | any two teachers fell in love with , Amos Morse they could be kept on {'different floors and be made to take .; their meals at different tables. Other j matters of equal moment could be worked out, we feel sure, and we j hope to see the plan in operation. If the teachers for any reason do j not want to take the responsibility ! of running the Teac-hery the building : might be rented to some refined busI in ess woman at a small rental, with ; the understanding that the amount of J board was to bo limited to a certain | amount. TVinr> no-air if the teachers are not ; v>v, -- : prepared to furnish their own rooms, ! it will jse remembered that Korp. ! Kerr, one of the trustees of the ' schools is in the furniture business ;and is a candidate for reelection, j Of course the greatest advantage j of all to he gained by adopting this ? scheme would be the fact that all the j teachers > would reside on Greenvills j street, where, if they did not already know everything, they would soon ; jlearn. The Only Way to Know ; Greenwood Index-Journal. ! When you ariTreading a newspapei | or a book and conjsxo word, a name : or a reference aboutv which you know ! little or nothing, what do you do ' pass on or get uo and find the dictionary or reference book and fine j out, or do -you juit say, as did a fine old man who once lived in this coun : try. "Big word/' and go on? A different practice and the correct one, is thus described by the .''Kansas City Star: | One night recently an old lady was ! found with hef newspaper, an encyclopedia, an atlas and two maps I spread out before her. The inquiry j of a visitor revealed that she hac : to do with an unfamiliar section "of | Europe and a former ruler whosf relationships were not well known. "You don't havftytime for that kind [ of thing in reading a paper, do you?' i-the visitor asked, looking at the sources of information on display. "How else may I find out .what I 1 * 1 x-i.. e.01-/q don't Know; trie uiu i?u\ d?m. r There w^is only <^e answer to hei j question. The onlt*- way to get the "knowledge desired involved some ini convenience, some time also. A great many persons don't^x-sre to be troubled by such matted In reading a (; book or paper tKe^follow the easj course of parsing over names, words -1 and references about which they ,-know little or noting. It requires ^an effort to get up and pull down the , distionary, a map or some reference , book; so the matter is allowed tc to pass. . A vast fund of information, useJful knowledge, is lfuilt up through .'steadv efforts of years. The efforts ? j may become a habit, a habit as useJful as th'j regular saving of money .(Many men have advanced steadily /through the practice of such habits. - - ? ? .1 '! while others have lost, as sreaany r through the feeling, "Oh. well, ii . doesn't amount to much, anyway." t As a general rule, it doesn't paj, : to roast the cook. , 11 ? The man who bought German marks : is now bearing a cross. 1 raBBBBBBaaSBBB : mm sb >B ? ,, ,, D g Indigestion g Kan 7 persons, otherwise 1 ' ?* J 1 T*T.?. ?,.o Ej&t <LUU . -JLiCwiluj'* mo ra< B bothered occasionally wtth g| ' | gjj Indigestion. The effects of a na '1 ?h disordered stomach on the g? > | |5 system are dangerous, and "j -1 prompt treatment of indiges- H . ^ tier: is important '"The only g] j j jag medicine I have needed has ? j been something to aid diges tion and clean the liver," gg 11 taa writes Mr. Fred Ashby, a era - ga McKinney, Texas, farmer. _ j 11 "My medicine is IS ?l Ihsdford's I : ri mjtmm > Ej&nrssjjst s ?3 for indigestion and stomach HHj -: 52 trouble of any kind. I have ? M never found anything that Kfl [ touches the spot, like Black- gf H Draught. I take it in broken doses after meals. For a long H { g|| time I tried pills, which grip- jg Bed and didn't give the good ?r results. Black-Draught liver &S ! i ES meciic*&e is easy to take, easy H *? kee?' inesPens^ve-" 1 Si s package from your ? t druggist today?Ask for and j t ?1 insist upon Thedford's?the u t\ Q only genuine. Get it today. : i US! E 84 9Q ; qsbbbssbsbbbbb I I BOND ELECTION NOTICE f A special election will he held at c the town hall, in the town of Whit- mire, S. C.. between eight a. m. and four p. m. on June 7. 1922. at which ' election there will be submitted to ^ the qualified registered electors of ] the town of Whitmire the question of c whether said town shall issue $50,- \ 1 300 bonds for enlarging and extend--.. ing the- town water works, and the t . further question of whether said * , town shall issue $">0,000 oonds for z enlarging and extending the town ? sewerage system. . t On May 18, 1922. the twentieth t day before said election, the Super- s ; visor of Registration wili open the ;books of registration at the town hall ; in the town of Whitmire, and will keep the same open, except Sundays j until May 27. 1922, the tenth day (J before said election, for the regis- , tration of the names of qualified electors. < By order of the Mayor and Alder- ' i men of the town of Whitmire. . ; S. A. JETER, rT^i,r?? riovl- ! J. uv>;i Vium , NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR t CHARTER } Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned, for themselves and their ^ i associates, intend to apply to the '; > secretary of state of South Carolina for a charter of a corporation to be ; known as Wise Hardware Company; i such corporation to have its principal . , place of business in the town of Pros- 1 perity, South Carolina; that the gen- | eral nature of the business which it proposes to do is a general mercantile (business; that the amount of capital . itock of such corporation is to be i $3,000, payable at such times and in | such manner as the board of directors jmay require; such capital stock to be . divided into 30 shares of the par value of .$100.00 per share. Notice is further given that the r subscribers to the "capital Ltock of the said.corporation will meet in the office of the Wise Hardware Company at Prosperity, S. C., on Monday, May ' 15, 1922, at 11 o'clock a. m. for the ; purpose of organizing said corpora-! . tion, the election of the board of di-; ; rectors and for the ^transaction of 'such other business as may come be fore said meeting. ! AJjLEN GARL1NGTON WISE. L WILHELMINA HUSSING WISE, j Declarants. . CITATION OF LETTERS OF AD MINISTRATION ! The State of South Carolina, County! of ' Newberry, by W. F. Ewart, j 1 Probate Judge: Whereas, J. M. Felker and J. A. | , Felker hath made suit to me to grant i them Letters of Administration of I the estate and effects of Sarah k. j Felker. deceased. I ? These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all5; arid, singular the Kin-'.dred and Creditors of the said Sarah : E. Felker, deceased, that they be and ; appear before me. in the Court of , Probate, to be. held at Newberry, S. JC.jjjjn Saturday. May 20th. next, aftejp publicati^rLfhereof, at 10 o'clock*,1 : in 'the forenoon, to show cause, if? J . Jany they have, why the said Adminjs- j itration should not be granted. ' | Given under my hand, this 2r<c j " day1 of May. Anno Domini, 1922. "? w. f. ewart, * r i! f. j. x: c. r: r i mggsss : I . , ' y >! ' I l ) i 1 I . ' :j 2 ' ' " I < '| ? , Maxv. 'j to th' | s - super 1 i! sisterr s Cord fires *> ut hub; drvn unuauelly ! ' Hjil vuc-1 doors; clvff ;iev/ fype >v addsd: 2'CL Carolir i I i i I ! "" ^" I 47 1 N t ^ . t, - n, rri ii I Wintlirop College 5CHOLARSHIP AND ENTRANCE " EXAMINATION c< The examination for the award of acant scholarships in Winthrop col- b ege and for admission of new stulents will be heid at the county court louse 011 Friday, July 7, at 9 a. m. a: applicants must not be less than six- it een years of age. When scholarships li ire vacant after July 1 they will be g iwarded tc those making the highest li iverage at this examination, provided st hey meet the conditions governing he award. Applicants for schola7-ihips should write to President John- a: :on before the examination for schol- a irrhip examination blanks. : ic Scholarships are worth $100 and n ?ree tuition. The next -session will >pen September 20th. 1922. For fur- ri ;her information and catalogue, adiress Pres. D. B. Johnson, Ruck Hill, 3. C. - 4-28-tf c; TEACHERS' EXAMINATION t] The State Board of Education at ^ r= mppfinw ordered that the re?T- ... alar spring teachers' examination be ^ lc-hl at Newberry court-house Friday, VTay l?th, and Saturday, May l^th. P.-::i- examinations will begin,4 i v at 9^)0 o'clock a. m. ' L i?i- c;. animation will "cover pri- : 4 i 1? 11 im 11 min IIM biiii limine m nm\ I Cariessness ' ' ' r 19 Causes Fires / There is nothing iriore e / open fierplace, but watch it. snapping" embers. Use every fine open hearth fires. \ I .sure and Be Sure | i?2 mi re that vour house" j j i. :.xil in this agency. If ; I * "J [ this matter, do not delay ions I- ... i . A !" - James a I t Insurance?R 1 203 Caldwell St. .f Member Newberry Cha f r V-\- ? ? ii ^ / [E steadily incre emaiid for the /ell is definitely e recognition c b qualities and t performance. >v;-! > rV front and rear; disc steei v.hscls. demountable : , r" J*mps; Alcinite lubr:catior>; motor driven eiti :*s; deep, wide, roomy seats; real leather i . t- cj.a /.f.'i / j clotod car's; open car tide curtains t find bra:ie to. liot:, steering and gear shifting, remark T-i v;//u?i'ijcW. Price s F O. i?. De troit, rever.d rinj Roadster, $i>S5; C >.;p<*. $1385; Ssc ia Aoto Con \ Hhe Good ft lary licenses?first, second and third The examination for high school it ?rtificates will be held later. ; The subjects that the teachers will fl | e examined on are as follows: Primary English grammar and > language, 1 rithmetic, playground and commun:y activities, history, South Caro- - J na, United States, and general, / eographv, civics and current events, / terature, pedagogy, health, nature , :udy," school law, manual training General Elementary English grammar?and composition, I rithmetic, history, United States nd South Carolina, geography, civ:s and current events, spelling, ?ading, including literature, pedagoy, nature study and elementary agiculture, physiology and hygiene, :hool law, algebra (alg'ebra required 3r first and second grade certifiites). A primary certificate will entitle / le holder to teach in ,the first five , rades. \ , A general elementary certificate 'ill entitle the holder to teach in the k * I rst nine grades. N I Applicants will bfing their own \ ens and examination paper. , E. H. AULL, Supt. of Education. -25-td nmwinin-'-irm MCP it *_?. J , - , v \ / x ? : '*. ' i heerful than a fire in an Many bad fires start from safety apppliance Jio con- - ' M MS 'and household goods are . M / .if j/on have not attended to RHH . Burton V eal Estate. Newberry, S. C. ,'mbcr of Commerce I ' 'j\ asing flj due ^nl >f its n con- / 11 >at rim and . J Uric horn; ipholatery open with ably easy; i tax tc, be ' .A, % !!|!r ipany a i. ?iJ inn if, 1 >M . * i ' I' i