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■ << ■ > **" I - f; r ' PAGE SIX' the Clinton chronicle, cunton, s. c. THURSDAY, AUGUST 25,1927. CHURCH NEWS ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRES- BYTERIAN CHURCH , C. Bynum Betts, Pastor 10:00 a. m,. Sabbath School. P. S. Jeanes, Superintendent. 10 a. m.. Men’s Bible Class, taught by Dr. J. B. Kennedy. \ 11 a. m., Morning Worship, mon by the pastor. 4:30 p. m., Junior Y. P. C S^r- DR. VINES FLAYS COLE BLEASE Baptist Minister Says Senator’s Pro hibition Talk Is a Low Contend p- - tible Form of Demagogy. Greenville, Aug. 22.—Terming pro hibition in this country as the “moral miracle of the modem World,” and re ferring to reparks of Senator Cole L. Blease of South Carolina, on the pro- U Miss-1 question as es Mattie BJakcly and Julia Patrick, tible Jtorm^of demagogy,” Dr 6:30 p. m„ Senior Y. P. CC. U. Miss Alee Todd, president. 8:00 p. m.. Evening Worship mon by the pastor Ser- low “contemp- W.' M. Vines, of the Southern Bapptist con vention home missions work yesterday morning delivered a powerful message at the First Baptist church in defense of the 18th amendment and against ijlllll!l!lllll!!!lilliirtl!!!l!!l[lilt!!!!!!il!l!llll!1!l!l!l|||!|||||||||!i!|f!llll!ll!lllllllllllltlllllli!llllll!llllillll!!tl![!!!!li!l!!!!llll!iltiU: Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.. Prayer Moet- j Senator Blease and others who speak ing. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Rev. D. J. Woods, D. D- Pastor ' 10:00 a. m., Sunday school. D. W. A. Neville, Superintendent. 11:15 a. m., Morning Worship. E of prohibition in derogatory terms Doctor Vines, now a resident of Greer \ille, and a widely known Bap tist minister and missionary worker, use<: as his text “Faith without works i]< ad.” The major portion of his The Chronicle does not necessarily, endorse or commend all of Mr. Bris bane’s views and conclusions. His ed itorials are published as expressions of opinions of the world’s highest sal aried editor. * is SOME DRINKING FIGURES EGYPT CONTROLS BOLL WEEVIL FARM LONELINESS BANISHED SCIENCE AND RELIGION - 3:30 p. m., Junior Christian , , . ^ , ,, America’s millions, who imagine .. . sermon was in interest of evangelism, ^ are t jji rs ty f er light wine, beer h. s defense of prolntation erne inj or somelhin strongeri wm be inter- vor. th::t connection. 'ested in this 6: 4 5 p. m. Intei-medmte and aenmr . j dosing his message, Doctor Vines j United Suteg capital has reCent , y Chnst-n Endeavor Societies meet. ^ said: lent nearly $300,000,000 to help for- P e/” ’ if nn ^ Praver Meet L United States ^‘ na ^ieign countries develop their liquor and Wednesday s 8:00 p.m., Prayer Meet- froin South Carolina, Cole L. Blease, beer busines8> Even in the Far Ea8t M 'mm 4 V% a Kao Ivaam air ing. THORNWELL MEMORIAL CHURCH (Presbyterian) Rev. L. Ross Lynn, D. D., Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday School: F. M. Stutts, Superintendent. 11:00 a. m.. Morning Worship. 4:00 p. m., Afternoon Worship. 7:00 p. m., Senior Christian Endea vor. as reported by the press has been mak ing deliverances on the subject of pro hibition which should be resented and repudiated with righteous indignation by the citizenship of the common wealth. Senator Blease occupies his exalted position on account of a tragic accident in the exigencies of South Carolina politics. His position seems this country has financed liquor pro duction to the tune of more than $5,- 1000,000. Mr. Hayward Kendall, who repre sents unorganized drinkers that ought to be saved from themselves, says: “The Eighteenth Amendment is sav- , „ ing America (in cash expenditures and to have gone to his head with a rush. . r t> , increased efficiency) from six fo eight Wednesday, 7:30 p, m., Prayer M-.et- ing. Reading from a press dispatch, the speaker .quoted the following: “ ‘There is no prohibition in this state or na tion except for the man who is unable billion dollars a year. BROAD STREET METHODIST CHURCH O. M. Abney, B. D., Pastor Sunday School, 10 a. m., Gilbert B. Blakely, Superintendent. 11:15 a. m., Morning Worship. 3:30 p. m., Junior Epworth League Herman Rosenthal, advertising man ager for Sears, Roebuck & Co., recent ly said: % meets. 7:00 p meets. 7:30 p m.. Senior Epworth League m. Evening W’orship. Wednesday, 7:30 p. m., Prayer Meet ing. , FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Edward Long, Pastor Sunday School, 10 a. m., W. R. An derson, Jr., Superintendent. Preaching Service, 11 a. m. Junior B. Y. P. U., 6:30 p. m., Mrs. Edward Long, leader, J. A. Owens, president. Senior B. Y. P. U., 7:15 p. ■»., W. R .Anderson, President. Evening Worship, 8:00 p. m. Wednesday, 8:00 p. mV, PrsyW Meet ing. • ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH Rev. M. R. Wingard, Pastor Preaching services every Sunday af ternoon at 4 o’clock except the second Sunday of each month at 11 o’clock in the morning. Sunday School one hour before each preaching service. , CYRUS BAILEY MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH. A. J. Bowling, Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday School. G. W. Meadors, Superintendent. Prayer Meeting each Wednesday at 7:30 o’clock. Schedule of Preaching Services First Sunday at 11:00 a.m. First Sunday at 7:45 p. m. Second Sunday at 11:00 a. m. Third Sunday at 11:00 a. m. Third Sunday at 7:45 p. m. Fourth Sunday at 11:00 a. m. Fifth Sunday at 7:45 p. m. All are welcome to these services. The nation’s purchasing power has to pay a high price for bootleg liquor,’ | certainly increased amazingly since" = the Senator asserted. He said he has prohibition came, voted dfy and will as long as thejgeo- • In 1919 there were in America 6,- ple of the state ‘drink wet an<T vote'^00,000 automobiles. Now there are dry.* »* 20,000,000, and not enough. The ccun- In comment, Doctor Vines declared: try spends half a billion a year on ra- This statement is an assault upon the dio, many millions for washing ina- organized morality of the state and of chines, vacuum cleaners, electric re- the nation. It is a grave misrepre- frigerators. Workers in America spend sentation o*f the facts. It is a deliber- more lavishly than the rich in Europe, ate and wilful slander of the people of j Mr. Kendall thinks it would be a the good state of South Carolina”, jnatidnal calamity if the outpouring of Doctor Vines read further press re- money were diverted from automo- ports of Senator Blease’s remarks on biles and radio to wine and beer. prohibition as follows: j " He is not a prohibitionist, he said j while the boll * weevil continues up in Newberry county, ‘because it is spreading in the United States Jairo hypocrisy.’ Pointing to the sheriff of telegraphs that: Greenville county and the sheriff of j “Thanks to vigorous government Newberry county, who were in his au- measures,the areaj affected,by the boll dience and the latter of whom is his wo rm has been considerably circum- brother, he said: ‘There stands the scribed.” sheriff of Greenville county; there | * Egyptian acreage affected by the stands your own sheriff; and any hon- pest has been reduced from 89,000 to est sheriff in South Carolina will tell 5,000 acres. What Egypt can do »his you today that we have no prohibition , country ought to do. We have the in this country. Thousands of men are | scientists, the money and the bell wee being killed in the endeavor to enforce vijg. what is the matter with us? it; your courts are crowded with what I they call violations of the prohibition: . , ,. , i This news will not sell extra papers, law, and the onlv man, from the pres- ... .. ,, , , Went of the United Stole, down, that 1,ke * De-P^-Tmney f.ght, but will be important. Pennsylvania State col- ha, got prohibition today i, the poor ^ djK0VCTed that the devil that haan t got the money to buy B * !0 imponant t0 lif( , ,, mamifactur . the liquor. They are making it all over South Carolina. There are peo-, -.--a.;*- . pie drinking liquor today that before 1 1 e prohibition never touched a drop. “ ‘But I vote for prohibition on the floor of the United States Senate he ed by the cow in her stomach in great LYDIA METHODIST CHUURCH * A. J. Bowling, Pastor 10:00 a. m., Sunday School. Bolt Bobo, acting superintendent. Schedule of Preaching Services Second Sunday at 7:30 p. m. Third Sunday at 11:00 a. m. Fourth Sunday at 7:30 p. m. jFifth Sunday at 11:00 a. m. Scientists cut a little door into the 1 — rumen,” or second stomach of the cause I am your servant and do not cow » an< l deprived her of all food con- seek to be the boss of the people, taining vitamin B. Nevertheless, in a j = South Carolina has gone to her ballot! little incubator in that second stomach == boxes and has said: ‘We are for pro- the cow produced the precious vitamin == hibition,’ and if the people are satis- B i n profusion. EE fied with it, I am, because it doesn’t Tha t may mean to child life as much = take very much to do me, and I can as the admirable fight against impure = surely get the best.’ ” 1 milk made by Nathan Straus. These remarks drew temperatured j replies from Doctor Vines, who cried: 1 j n c ^i es people go crazy more fre- ‘If there is a lower and a more con- q Uen tly than* they once did. ' Excite- CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. J. A. Marler, Pastor 10:00*a. m., Sunday school, L. W. King, superintendent. 11:00 a. m., Morning Worship. 7:30 p. m., Evening Worship. Prayer meeting every Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. temptible form of .demagogy than this men ^ bootleg liquor and other things utterance, I cannot think what it is.. help. In New York state one person Instead of appealing for the enforce- in every twenty-five has been in the ment of law and the uplift of the peo- i nsane asylum, according to the Amef- ple whom he so disgracefully misrep- ican p sych i at ric association, resents, he goes about arraying class ! There is legs in8anity than formerly against class and capitalizing ignor- among women on farms Loneliness, anoe, prejudice and lawlessness for his that used to drive them ingane by the j = own self aggrandizement. ! thousands, has been softened by tele- Continutng, Doctor Vines protest- phone, radio, parcel po*L and, above ed: “We are so horrified and disgust- all, the automobile. ed and outraged with such a scene % and at such a crime as that committed t. . , ... x „ , by thi, notorious individual. The Prudent Vmson tolls young people LYDIA BAPTISi CHURCH R. W. JUSTICE, Pastor ■ 10:00 a. m., Sunday Schl>ol. V/. E Johnson, Supt. 11:00 a. m., Morning Worship (e%- ery Sunday.) 6:30 p. m., B. Y. P. U. meets. 7:3((p. m.. Evening Worship (every Sunday.) Mid-week prayer meeting every Wednesday evening at 7:3U.’ mouthing, of Senator Blease tend to of " e8 * e ? 1 “>»vennty that no = unleash the restraint, of law and re- “^1“* <*■*»• between science and 1 = lease the vicious dogs of the liquor 1'f-on; they occupy different fields. He ; = traffic to bring back the debauching remark, that science, without = of our homes and of human society, r ? l, ,? M>n ' . w ” dW ho P^“ ? na !*- = and the wreck of human lives and the wheri 1 de- = destruction of human souls which so " ,e ; th * P Um tr f h8 of 8c ' ence ' lead! = * : ;,_j j to fanaticism and superstition. j = Religion and science are like astrol-' SS ogy and astronomy, or like alchemy' ~ and chemistry. EE Astronomy started in astrology, == notoriously prevailed under the reign of the saloon. How long, O Lord, how long will sjuch a man be permitted to misrepresent the overwhelming ma- ( jority of the people of South Carolina! • , . a . The prohibition of the liquor traffic is chem,8t> 7 start ‘d m alchemy, with ex- not absolute in the United States, and P'nmenters «eekmg to make gold, no law enforcement is perfect nor can Science started in religion. Men, it be in the very nature of things, questioning the origin of things, first i However, the change for good gave a religious answer, everything wrought by prohibition, especially in based on miracles. Then they studied the South and largely in the whole more closely and began giving scien- SSt United States, so far as my knowledge Ufic answers, goes, is without a parallel in the his- j * EPISCOPAL The Epiphany Laurens, S. C. Rev. E. N. Joyner, Pastor Services on the first an<T third Sun days, each month, at a. m tory of the world. In the last 15' All told 24,000,000 automobiles are years I have traveled from Florida to j n U8e i n fifty-nine countries of the California and from Texas to Canada, earth. The United States owns 20,000,- and I have had occasion to observe oqo of the 24,000,000. The United carefully conditions on railway trains states Commerce department gives , M 0 and in rural sections as well as in the figures. We have one automobile Clinton Episcopal members cordially' ^°y ,rns an d cities in this vast territory, for every six persons. Hawaii one to invited. v and I have not seen over a half-dozen eleven, Canjwia one to thirteen Af- = intoxicated men. It is not too much ghanistan has one to 1,200,000. Poor I = to say that the triumph of prohibition AfghanisUn, happy America. To have i = of the liqudr traffic in this nation is. a motor is to defy the law of gravita- i the moral miracle of the modern tion, and be a free man — world!” If yotl want to buy a TTAlffT 1 If you want to sell a ||||JfH^ If you want to rent a See GEO, H. ELLIS Real Estate and Insurance SUBSCRIBE TO THE CHRONICLE $1.50 A YEAR WHAT DO f*. 8. JZ^NS “We have a bureau whose duty it is to read each week, the home newspapers from all over the country. There is not a paper of any con sequence in our trade territory that our. firm does not get. This bureau looks over these pa- -WW pers, and when we find a town where the mer chants are not advertising in the local papers, we immediatoly flood that territory with our lit erature. It always brings results far in excess of the same effort put forth in territory where the local merchants all the time use their local pa- I * = pers 99 Here is one case where the antidote to the mail order evil is evident The lo cal merchant should keep the home fires burning by liberal and incessant a use of his advertising mediums. The lo cal community is sure to read some ad- i . s vertisements and they might as well be yours. What Herman Rosenthal says is as true as Gospel. The house that doesn’t advertise is losing business. It is not alone losing business locally, but it per mits the mail order houses to step in and take business away. The man who is getting the business is the one who has the goods, who gives the service and who advertise^, tie is- winning success because he deserves it. % . zJhrT i The successful merchant advertises^ 0+* as many weeks in the year as he wants business. -r Are you a real merchant or an ordi- 4 * nary store-keeper? s e Paper Everybody Reads”