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. * 1 .J —5 ; PAGE SIT 1 / THE CLINTON CHRipNICLE, CLIXTOX. S^ C. LET CONSCIENCE BE YOUR GUIDE” WHENENLJGHTENED Is Your Life Helpful or Hurtful To Those With \nioin You Associate? a (By Geo. R. Koester) I “The proper study of mankind man.” So wrote Alexander Pope his wonderful “Essay on Man.” is the greatest study in th.e world, includes the study of (rod, for IS in It It man And then the' Eynchhurg reporter pointed out another man, walking the ,benches and earnestly pleading with people to accept Christ. ^ “That man.” .said my newspaper friend, “until about the .second week of this meeting was the most noto-' P' rarRSDAY, DECEMBER 7. 1933/ 1 Teachers Hear Greenville Man ^i!d. W.sahington, There i; ing at the Laurens high school ing. ~ Mr. Leppard, who is a native .of Laurens county, .spoke on school leg- T» ‘ rr. , . .islation, and Mr. Wright outlined the Hon. Ben T. Leppard Makes Ad- policies of the state association for dress At Monthly Meeting jthe coming year, particularly apper- 1 Held In Laurens * taining to plans for getting .school n u n governmental authorities. TY.. « . The, devotional for the general , aurens, c. 1. Addresses by meeting was conducted by the Rev, Hon. Ben T. Leppard, 'member of the E. D. Patton. Pupils-from the Clinton . legislature from G»eenville county^ high school presented a pageant de- and G. K. Wright, cf Laurens, presi- picting in song and story America’s New and L. Series No. 32 Opens Dec. 1|5 We wish to announce that rious bootlegger in Lynchburg. His s ^ .i, .uto life was .such that his n.ckname was strong belief in administration circles dent of the South Carolina Teacher.s’ history from the time of the Indians ' No. 32 Will opcn on llllS ‘Black.’ He has quit bootlegging and that the latest set of initial.s—CWA—! featured the mpnthly to the present. The beautiful costumes: date, is working as a colporteur. A few . ^ i meeting of the Laurens County Teach- and the evidences of excellent train ers’ association held Saturday mom- days after he profe.ssed, religion and about failed inAiis conception of God, even ,juit his old life, he was eating break- immediate relief than anything else in his understanding of God as re- fj^^t m a cafe. A nian came up to that has been tried .so far. It is ohly'^° agricultural problem, that any. vealed in the Old Testament, until he him and .said: t ' ' • . - reservation for could study (jkxI a.s set forth in His incarnation as the Man Christ .lesus. The nature of their work compels lawyers, preachers and new.siiajiei men to study man. 1 do noi include teachers, for their study i.< laigely confined to study of mail ('nly in his early years. Ministers, lawyers and newspaper men are not only compelled to study man but the very natuie of their professions gi\o them unusual opptirtunities fur,studying man. Wh".t a fascinaitng study it Ls. Shakc!^- peare wrote of ('leopatra; “Age cannot wiLher her, nor cus tom .stale Her infinite variety.” Nothing stales the “infinite va riety" of the study of man. That is one of il.s chief fa.-icinations. One of the most interesting phii.ses of study of man is in(|uiry into his. dealings with his conscience and his conscience’s liealings wTnrOum. conscience be your guide." How many times have you said th:it? How many t-juw'S ,*v said—vu..ya>u,. - 4t..y good a l'cu ? Sunday schools are sup posed on DeeenilK! 10 to study six e*:a))‘.( of \c‘ , inelu.sive of bi»th. It would take tin or twelve Sun lay < j ally do ju'^tiee to all the teacning pissihli* from those, crowded chapter.-. The jKirlion itnnt- Cvi in tipi l* -s(>n lu Ijis is; ,\ct.s 24:10-j 2'!. Th'Se \e>s'S' tlefy adeijuate dis co.-'.or: II' tl.e sioal! space allotted for a new-paiKT arli»!e on the lesson. So I vdl try to stick to what 1 regard as the heart of the les.son. Paul’s as- se't.en in his (itdense of himself in his trial hef »ie I'elix, a Homan [iros- ee i 1. ps contained ly the Hith verse of tlu' 24th chapter of .\cts, as fol-^ low ••.And herein do I exrocise niy- IL tti haV e ajwaycgjiscumce ypjd, of offence toward (Tod, and lowunr man." ' .Stutiy of th** of Ta’sus and th y w*-re the same man. is suflicient to convince one tiiut one’s conscience is an un.-afe guide unless it he an en- ii^htiiu'd conseience. A compass is a gUole. hut a vessel will lie wrecked if .-H'ered by a compa.-.s whose mag netic noodle has been turned from pointing to the north liy jiroximity of a piece of .steel.- Saul of rurt-us. ing. asjw^ell a.s the acting of the play-1- Make VOUr ers. Were liberally applauded. , stock early—books now open. - - Profe.ssional magazines were dis- thre^ or four we^ks old, but already nature of distress and cussed in the departmental meetings. I ‘Hlnck.’ bring two '() n y office today.” “The repiv was: ‘I no o/)0,]og. Thave a new job.’ work actually under way. "- 1 -neanume, tne cml.an Cpnserva- Gambrell discu.ssed “The Use of Pro- • •l or w hom are you working?’ GM A* is the Civil Works .Adminis-1 extended, more fe.ssional Magazines in Faculty Meet- ked the would-he jiurchaser (if b has nothing to^ do with the^_ ^ established, and several h’Jir- ifigs.” In the intermediate -department, ootleg. Citizens quarts of rye money is flowing into the pockets of. among ‘he farmers will In the high school department Miss hundreds of thou.^iand.^ in fhanv parts'^ave vanished before another harvest Azilo Wofford discussed “Writing for I « « * • longer .sell country, in payment for reai;''^^^" around. , iProfessional Magazines,” and S. C. D. ancl L. ASSOCiatlOll work actually under way. 1 Meantime, the Civilian Cpnserva- Gambrell tToa o,..,. i " ‘For .Jesus Christ,’ was the quiet |,!y. ‘ ^ “ ‘.And does he pay y<'u well?’ neeringly a.-ked the man. •‘ •The best in the world. Every night when I kn( el by , my bedside and nrav to Him, I am more than repaid when 1 can sincerely .thank Him because thru iliin I fully say that no nia/TAirW^^qman is any the wor.se for anything did or said during thc d^’.’ ” .Study thjit over- and you will get a strong light on what Paul meant when he told Felix he exerci.sed j i himself to have a conscience void of offeriee to God ami man. summed up the law and the projihets in the golden rule and any man or huge program of public works admin istered by the PWA under Secretarj' Ickes. Nor ha.s it ary relation to CCC, dred thou.sand more y6ung men put Mrs. W. R. Anderson, of Clinton, and at forestry work. This is more than Mr.s. H. S. Blackwell, of Laurens; dis- . A temporary expedient, for it is a cussed ‘•The Use of Professional -Mag- the Civilian Con.-ervation camps. It isjP^^^ ^be vision of .America’s agri- azlnes.” The same topic was discu.s- - the administration s quick way of put- cvltuial future,which ^secretary Wal- sed in the primary department by ting four million men and women atj!^^^ dreamed that ev^nr acre of Mrs. B. L. Jones of Laurens, and .Mrs. work in a hurir>*, at real wages, on 1 **^^®*'*®^ and marginal land on which Alma C. “Curry, of Gray Court-Ow- real work. the returns from cultivation do not To do this, a lot of red tape had to i^be cost, is to he returned to mgs. “Tvho lives according to that able to thank God that is wor.-e Ix-cau.-.e uf^ his if he really live ac- woman rule will he no one" «-Ise life; in fact, cording to that rule, he will he able to say others are better Ix'cause of Joanna Mill'News coiitra-st between .Saul Paul the apostle, tho Goldville, Dec. 1. — Misses Lavinia Armstrong and Margie .\ew, Ernest Pennell and .Mrs. Ruby .Aimstrong, all of .Al>he\ille. sfient the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. Hezzie Dudley. Mrs. Ruth Feltman is s|H'nding the week With her si.iter in l.,aurens. r^LvMrs. I>cr(sre :Bry^t-visited rfriends^ worlct^ in .Newberry Sunday. Irvin Kiggs spent the week-end with his parents m (Columbia. Little .Miss Jessie Mae Fox has been (juite ill with scarlet fever for the past week. Friends will l>e glad to know that she is improving. Friends of Willis Phiilip.s will he can truth- b‘‘'t:ut, .so the champion red-tape cut ter, Harry Hopkin.s. was called in to 1m)ss the job. It takes a long time to get men at work on public works, be cause after the money has been allot ted the plans have to be drawn, the bids for contracts have to be adver tised for, and it may. and usually Vake T m^’'’'bs^ perhap.s a | year or moi-e, btfore there is mucli To i do for which wages can l>e paid. The ! udmini^t ration has ThTTts- public works program a.-^ a means of getting mont'v into w.de circulation, but it tuin.s out to hv too slow. .Mil-j li(>ns of unemployed are facing a win ter of'distress, with welfare and relief funds harder and harder to get. More over, as Harry Hopkins and others pointed out. keeping people on the dole for any length of time gets them out of the habit of workj ' So the CW.A plans to taLe 2,(){K),0()0' men and women off the dole and put them on wages for which they will have to work, and to add another 2,0(H>,<XM) who have not yet been fore-j to to apply for relief, but proba.bIy. would have to liefore spring. j •A Quirk Start i .And they aiv already starling to! forest. And that will require the work of hundreds of thousands of young foresters, who will be rccruite j from among the boys now in the CCC. I B. H. Boyd, Secty.-Treas. Phone No. 6 Room No. 6, Second Floor National Bank Bld^. WHAT DO P. S. Jeanes 1 DO? HAT DO ^ P. S. Jeanes DO? • Take one state. Massachusetts, for example. The ginemor and the may ors of -several cities left Washington on a Thursday night, where th(?y came to get their instructions how to start the ball ndling in the old Bay .State. IJxactly one week later the first of and Ijandford and Mrs. E. L. at .Narnee Mrs. R. L. even when c(>usenting to the death of daughter. .Mary, and Stephen, the first Christian martyr. fThomas visited fi lemls was obeying his conscience just as Sunday. much as Paul was when h«' was being , stoned, put <n • sitK'k-,'' imp i;»oncd^ Mulhvr-Daughler Ban({ue( M-ou'ired and f.rialjy Iteheaded fof The .Mo;her-Daughter banquet, fait ill ulnes- to the ( hrist he m<*1 in annual affair at which th( Sony to ktMiw that he is confined to new work prob-ct.-; had In'cn an- his home by injuries received when he. proved, and in less than a week pay- ft'll from a motorcycle' Saturday I'.'e- roll- checks were rolling fr<>m Wash ing. Mr. 'ington to Boston for the first payoff.! In the meantime the governor and thej state emergency finance Txiaed had on called a meeting of city and town of- tn Dau'.'iseus and to w !iom e\er t lieii af.. r 'faithful, lold the .lews: "Ye shall know and tile irutli .^huli make the road he wa> t'hrjst th»- *. util you free.” .“^aul of Tar.sus was a slave to ?>reimiie»-s and wrong notions until hi' rt-alizeil that Jesus was. as He had claimed, ‘•ih*- truth.” There after his e- em-e. enlightened by “tb» ti u!h'’ \vj(- a safe guitle. Gr of ih( gitale.-l W'.ivaJji Hax- ti r .Mcla-ndon. the e\ angt list l»ettei » I ficials at the Slate Hoii.'-e to tell them how to go about getting their people loff the relief rolls and on the new an CW.A payroll. moth<*rs All that anv citv or town ha<l to of.l(>anna Girls’ (-lub are honor gue.sts. took place Sat unlay evening. do was to offer some sort <1f a p ,-;:i ever Va.. known as "( yciorie -Mack,” T'ppd^etctl was -n Cyiichburg, a r.aiidier of years ago. I there for the closing meeting of that revi\al and sat in tlu* ji'a-ss box with a l.ynchoarg in-porter. who was a student of human nature. He nv.' that reporting that ii'vival ore the most fa>einating assign- nierts he had e\er had in his life. He gram of puldic improvement, get the N’ovt-mber 2;>lh. .A delightful turkey approval of the lioard, and go ahead, dinner. wiUi “frills to match,” was The programs have only to Ik* appfov- scived to ninety happy folk. Miss l-oui.se Piitriam, incsident of the Girls’ club, presided and ex|)ressed thi* (-lull’s pleasure at having the motlu'rs and friends |>re.-.ent. The in vocation was offered by .Miss Eugenia Brazd. A toast, “To the Mothers.” was de li viq-ed by .Miss .'surah I’lark. .Mrs. J. E. Hamm responded with a loa.-l to vva.s j ihe dauglilers. ‘.Miss to the also lold WHS gave a toa.st and friends. •An uddeti feature of was humorous readings Millie Cole, Naomi Hall, Tutnam. Elizahet h Ross Ioanna ()fficia.ls / tht said: " “I atn different from most news-. pa|>er men. I nevei ha<l any ‘wild days.'” I nevei d'-ank. gambled‘or ;CAtiI have ru-v«*r 4V**n^smok(’d. I was a Sunday school schidaf whi'n I Tiecame a cub reporter and have le- nriined a Sunday .school scholar ever since. 1 thought I had religion hut. this meeting hasjopeqed my eyes toj the fact that 1 never riailly knew what religion was until 1 got that know ledge in this meeting.” He lold itie ojLjmany of the dents of tlie meeting. He out a beetled who woman to go to the front, to hit the Mwdu.st trail, and shake hands the evangelist as an open sign of ac. ed once, not referrt*d and re-referred until thty get back lo Washington, i They must provide regular work at regular wages for unemployed people able and willing to woi-k. .All projects are to l^e done by day labor, not by . contract. The working week is to be! .‘to hours, and the pay at the rate of bO cents an hour for unskilled labor, $1.20 an hour fur skilled labiVr. W’ork-1 erTf to be ^leleeleti t»y lh*v heads of wel fare departments in each community, wh«) are appo'nted t'ivil Works admin-1 istrators in each case. • i While Collar Jobs The woik undertaken under CWA includes such employment for the ‘‘ white collar” <;lass of unemployed as.^ Mothers’ t tub Elects Qfftcers— - w-oiVl Tn j-tnte Labr. -At a recent meeting of the Joanaa ^oratories and luanicipal hospitals, em- Motliers’ club officers for the coming ployment oh the stiaffs of museuins, year were «*Ieeted as follows: Presi- art galleries and other public centers, dent, .Mrs. J.^.M. Ro.ss; vice-president,-cj*fiui^m4: 4:iJlimunifies in bt'half of Ml'S. E. .1. Willint^am; sec letary. “cieaii-up and raint-up” mov«‘mcat.s, Mis. Troy kjllis; trea.surer, .Mrs. K. L. sponsored by business assiKMations, Landford. ' and in the direction and supervision of projects mainly employing manuj^I.^ laboY. j ( Such w'ork includes jiest control,! No-' ural sanitation projects, nKrlamation evening by .Misses and t'iillie Honor Roll for November for Jognna School First grade: Warren Kelley, Vella McGurry. Juanita Rowland, Sy- and reimir of parks and playgrounds, inci- bil Farmer, Harold Thomas,^ Ed repair of sewers and sanitation equip- pointed Thomas. ,m ment, road^work that does not conflict a lieet.ed browed burly man, .Second grade: B^ibby Boyce, Fred with major slate and federal road- wa.s earnestly pleading with a Bragg, Jr., Hazel Fllis, Mary Francis,.building programs, clearing and pre- Berfie Morris. Marcie O'Shields, Vir- paring of land for reservoirs and with ginia Sorrow, Eunice Whelchel, Edna, watersheds. j Those are examples of the sort of ^ Earle Workman. ceplance of the Chrisit whom he had . Third grade:-Bobbie Jean Gan', V’i-|work for which' the federa.1 govern-f proclaimed. He said: • ** ola Hall. William Poag, Letha Crapps, ment is.prepared to pay wages be- *That man has been reganled as Juanita Franks, Fay Frapeis,; Bruce ginning at once. It ought not to be the most dangeriius man in Lynch- Abrams. Edna—Potnam, Vivian Grow- difficult for any town to find plenty burg. That is his wife and she hds der, W. L. Moates, Juanita-J.ehmsn, of such things to be done, and so re- been dragged down by her marriage Mnry Evans, Evelyn Gardner. lieve the calls upon its' people for to him. He professed religion early Fourth grade: Maurice Davenport, unemployed relief, besides getting the in this meeting and his ctinscience Curtis Morris, Hazel .Adam Ellon unemployed back into the habit of has made life a hell for him since, Boyce, Miriam Daveni>ort, L •-e El- work. , because of his realization of what Hs, Willetle • Evans, Mary Landford,t ^ ' TawanI .Actual Recovery ' aacociation with him has done lo his Dorothy Sulton, Ella Mae Sulton, I> - By the time the funds available for inice Whelchel, Ethel Owens. the CW.A are exhausted, it is firmly _.^bile we were looking at them and| Fifth gradtt:tJEIdwai'd Lehman, Har- believed here that the public works the Lynchburg reporter was talk-,old Lewis, Jtianita^^AdamsTTxpt-ogram on a grand scale will have ing, the woman suddenly mUde the‘Farmer, Jeanette Ga<(kin.s, Eu.;ua got into full swipg, providing employ:; dccisjon and came to the altar with Kate Oxiter, Ruth Starnes. Vient for millionsi'^ It is also the firm l»r husband. His face wa.s bathed. Sixth grade; Harvey Dodg-.i, Ivol- conviction that by next spring busi- with tears, tears of joy,'and I_ have ley Waites, Charles Franks, Glaqdia ness and industry in ^neral will have never eeen a happier, sweeter smile .Mae ^oyce, Mildred Bozard. i.ic t'nc! gained such momeiitum that most of on any faa than therone which il-'jFrhg^r., Sabry Smith, Evelcna Whci-.ihe unemployment slack will be taken taminated his rugged lineaments when chel. ‘ , up by the end of next summer. And feia wife him 'in acceptanpi; of j ^venth grade: Floyd Abrams,' there b a belief which amounts to a - lEihiil ti. «,ind« clnaanli (lur tables are now loaded with hi.i>:hly allractive Greetinj;: ('ards that reflect the true S|)irit of ( hristmas. They are artistic in design, beautiful in sentiment, and of the highest t|uality workmanship. Prices are the low est in years. Come in today—broVse over our tables where selections are easy. I Big Values in Boxed Cards IN I'ASTEI. 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